The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 2/22/22

Good morning, kids. Tuesday and it's official. Justin Castreau-cescu has called for his "temporary" post-Reichstag Fire "enabling act" to become permanent and the Canadian Parliament is one step closer to obliging.

Trudeau invoked the Act, an unprecedented move, last week claiming it necessary to dispel peaceful protests linked to the Freedom Convoy movement, which is demanding an end to civil rights violations by the Trudeau government allegedly necessary to fight the Chinese coronavirus. At press time on Monday, no active Freedom Convoy protests exist anywhere in Canada . . .
. . . The passing of the measure in the House of Commons is the first step toward confirming the use of the act, which allows the government significant powers. . .
. . . The invocation of the Emergencies Act has been widely criticised by civil liberties groups, such as the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) and the Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA). . .
. . . In order for the act to be fully passed, it must also face a vote in the Canadian Senate, according to the text of the act. A debate in the Canadian Senate is expected to begin on Tuesday morning, the Toronto Star newspaper reports.

It's absolutely staggering to me. Canada. Cana-fucking-duh. Land of Molson, lumberjacks, Vietnam -dodgers, hosers, Expo '67, Paulina Gretzky and Red Green. On the latest episode of the award-winning Cut Jib Newsletter Speaks! podcast I was left stammering and stuttering, trying to wrap my head around the fact that what once was one of the freest nations on the planet has almost overnight degenerated into a cartoon banana republic police state. Even without the pressure of speaking extemporaneously with the time to compose my thoughts, I'm just dumbfounded at this.

But, as the saying goes, I think what is happening to the north of us is a prime example of slowly, then all at once. Beyond the past "two weeks," Canada has been rotting itself out from within for a long time now, right along with us down below the 49th parallel. Either we didn't see it or we didn't want to see it. Once again, real journalist Julie Kelly brings it.

As freedom-lovers justifiably recoil at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's crackdown on vaccine mandate protesters, Americans worry the same sort of political retribution could happen here. I'm sorry to report, it already has.
The scenes from Ottawa are matched or surpassed by the images here, including thuggish cops attacking January 6 protesters with mace and explosive devices. The difference? Instead of mounted police trampling a woman, ours merely shot and killed one woman and beat up a few more.
What the Trudeau regime is now unleashing against the truckers and their supporters has been underway in America for more than a year. Using January 6 as a pretext, the Biden regime is brandishing its authority to crush political dissent. Now, it appears Trudeau and his apparatchiks are stealing the U.S. Justice Department's playbook of power and pain.
The comparisons are stark. Take, for example, the words of Steve Bell, acting chief of the Ottawa police department. He told a reporter over the weekend how the government will hunt down those who stood in defiance of Trudeau's vaccine mandates.
"If you were involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges, absolutely," Bell said during a press briefing on February 19. "This investigation will go on for months to come. It has many many different streams from a federal level from a financial level from a provincial licensing level to a criminal code level from a municipal breach of . . . court order level. It will be a time consuming and complicated investigation that will go on for a period of time. . . "
. . . Rewind to January 12, 2021 and a press conference in our nation's capital featuring Steven D'Antuono, chief of the D.C. FBI field office, who detailed how federal, state, and local law enforcement planned to capture and charge anyone involved in the four-hour disturbance. After noting that the FBI "doesn't do easy," D'Antuono -- fresh off executing the apparently FBI-concocted kidnapping plot of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer to generate bad pre-election headlines for Donald Trump -- warned Americans what was to come.
"This is a 24/7, full bore extensive investigation into what happened that day," D'Antuono said. "I want to stress that the FBI has a long memory and a broad reach. So even if you've left D.C., agents from our local field offices will be knocking on your door if we find out you were part of the criminal activity at the Capitol."
Except the FBI didn't knock on doors -- it kicked them in. Hundreds of Americans have been awakened before dawn by dozens of armed FBI agents and military-style vehicles to capture even nonviolent protesters. FBI Director Christopher Wray declared January 6 an act of "domestic terrorism" and, as I explain in my new book, aimed government tools reserved to fight foreign terror threats against Americans on the political Right.
After January 6 defendants were hauled off to jail post-arrest, the Justice Department demanded pre-trial detention for at least 100 citizens based on the premise that any participation in January 6 rendered the accused a "domestic terrorist." Some have languished for over a year in a political prison set aside for January 6 defendants as they await trials that the Justice Department repeatedly delays while it conceals evidence and fabricates certain charges to support the "insurrection" narrative.

And why are they doing all this? Because of the epic collapse and failure of every Leftist policy and more crucially every Leftist narrative that has polluted the discourse now for decades. Yes, certain segments of our society will always believe that America as founded is illegitimate, racist, repressive and the greatest evil ever unleashed upon Gaia since time immemorial, with the Jews right behind in second place.

The reason for the narrative collapse, despite both the immense and almost overpowering propaganda machine not only from the media but, more alarmingly, from far too many brainwashed drones where you work, in your neighborhood and even in your own home, is the comparison to life in the first three years of Donald Trump's first term and the contrast with everything that came afterwards. So, okay, they got rid of Trump and then they went to work. The result? An economy in ruins, mass migration of third world peasants as well as dark age Islamic imperialists, a crime wave so violent and massive it rivals anything Putin may or more likely may not do in Ukraine, cultural rot, a non-existent education system that indoctrinates and does not educate, foreign policy disasters that have taken a wrecking ball to 75 years of pax Americana and on and on and on. Everyone sees it. Complete and utter disaster as a direct result of the Democrat Party and its minions in and out of government. But now, as the late Hollywood producer Don Simpson used to say about failure, "It's not how you play the game, it's how you place the blame."

In 1980, Jimmy Carter, having lain waste to America, albeit nowhere near as mind bogglingly catastrophic to what we are experiencing 40 years on, was soundly defeated at the polls by Ronald Reagan. As execrable a character as Carter has proven to be in the intervening years, back then he graciously accepted his defeat and generally left us the hell alone. A few horrendous incidents of America- and Jew-hate notwithstanding. I'm not saying that the Democrats or the media did not do their damndest to sabotage Reagan at every turn. The most horrendous example was a near act of treason by Teddy Kennedy when he secretly went to Moscow to assure the Soviets that he would do everything he could to sabotage SDI. But at the end of the day, they licked their wounds and moved on. So, in the cold light of day, knowing full well that as the Reagan revolution moved from victory to victory on every domestic and foreign policy issue, perhaps this is when the plotting and finagling got ramped into high gear. It should also be noted that it was Teddy Kennedy who in 1965 put the first massive hole in our southern border which led to the flood of both legal and illegal immigration from the third world for the purpose of swelling the Democrats' shrinking voter rolls. It should also be noted that the GOP itself hated Reagan and his own VP, Pappy Bush, when handed the presidency on a silver platter after eight glorious years of American ascendancy didn't just squander it; he sabotaged it.

Meh, I'm going off on a tangent. What I'm trying to say is, back then at least the Democrats gave the appearance of accepting defeat, which did not of course mean they would not resist a GOP administration by every means at their disposal and at constant, maximum volume. Today? Fuck that. If a Democrat should fail to "fortify" (i.e. rig) an election and a Republican wins, it means the election was illegitimate. More to the point, any objection to any Democrat politician or leftist policy is not only illegitimate but racist and now treasonous.

So, the massive failures of the past 12 months you see are not Biden's fault. They're YOUR fault. And to make you realize it's all your fault, we have the threat of a war in Ukraine that has nothing at all to do with our own vested national security (aside from the fact that it was Bill Clinton who assured the Ukrainians we would defend them if they gave up their nuclear weapons that were on their territory after the collapse of the Soviet Union) which - unless a stupid "Bedford Incident" incident should happen - which is about as real a crisis as the General Tso's Sickness is an extinction-level plague. They ain't.

All of this is aimed at the midterms which on some level the Democrats are scared shitless about. But there is such a paradigm shift in government and society that elections, while maybe as a barometer, don't necessarily change the game nor the trajectory. Adam Mill wrote a decent essay about November at American Greatness but my analysis is this:

"While I agree in principle with the gravamen of Mr. Mill's discourse, American government has moved far beyond the point of where elections truly make a difference, at least on the federal level and on the solidly blue state/local level.

We are in the main ruled by an unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy and to a slightly lesser extent a fairly corrupt/unreliable judiciary that acts as a rubber stamp of the latter 99.9% of the time. Even after electing Donald Trump, he was sabotaged at every turn and only by a force of will was he able to get a fraction of what he - and we - wanted. Even then, that bureaucracy as well as most of his inner circle literally was insubordinate in executing the agenda.

I still believe you should vote, if only to reveal the barometer of the electorate. But that said, we are so far gone from what the original intention was of the Founders that a revolution (peacefully if at all possible) is required at this stage to restore our freedom as well as institute safeguards so that we can try to prevent the use of our freedom as a weapon to enslave us.

All that said, it's not the laws and firewalls and all that that's the problem. The problem is the lack of morality, ethics and character and the concomitant will to power of people in and out of government who seek our enslavement or destruction.

Same as it ever was."

And so now, we have a Trucker Convoy making its way to DC. Given what happened up in Canada and what happened in DC January 6th, 2021, I'm wondering perhaps if this is the best course of action? I'm not saying they shouldn't protest, or we shouldn't protest, but maybe a better course of action is a trucker strike or slowdown. As CBD pointed out on the podcast, not even a national strike. Just stop delivering to DC, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and every blue city.

It's too late to play it safe now. Damn the consequences, come what may.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Contrary to popular belief, government provides more aid to the poor in the U.S. than in Europe."
America's Redistributive Welfare State
"Mike Pence isn't fooling anyone and will be neither president nor Donald Trump's running mate in 2024."
Judas Pence
Daniel Greenfield: "Diversity was supposed to improve military readiness. It didn't."
The Air Force Went Woke, Its Planes Won't Fly

JUSTIN CASTREAU-CESCU PROTEST CRACKDOWN

"This state of emergency is not over. There continue to be real concerns about the coming days," Trudeau said on Monday, claiming there were signs the Freedom Convoy truckers could regroup and return to Ottawa. (coming days = "two weeks" - jjs)
Canada: Justin Castreau-cescu Insists on Emergency Powers Despite No Active Protests
"The motion to uphold the invocation of emergency powers by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau passed in a vote in the Canadian House of Commons on Monday, with the Liberal Party and the NDP and other allies garnering 181 votes for the motion. The motion was opposed by the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) and the separatist Bloc Quebecois (BQ) and their allies, who voted against it with 151 votes, broadcaster CBC reports."
Tyranny: Canadian Parliament Votes for Emergencies Act Motion
"Mayor Jim Watson said that he is directing his city's solicitor and manager to begin the process of selling the confiscated vehicles so they don't end up in the hands of the protestors again, in an interview with the CBC. He said Canada's Emergencies Act gives the city the power to do so." (piece of shit rat bastard - jjs)
Mayor of Ottawa Says He's Trying to Sell The Trucks They Confiscated From Protesters
"Time for the protesters to hear our jackboots on the ground," Nixon allegedly said in a separate message, Rebel News reported. One member of the group chat reportedly criticized Nixon for his statements, prompting him to apparently sarcastically offer "free hugs and unicorn stickers" to the protesters. (be a real tragedy if this guy's address were doxxed and he came home to a burned down house - jjs)
"Awesome": Canadian Police Reportedly Celebrated Injuring Protesters, Investigation Launched
In his statement pledging support for the Trudeau government's invocation of the Emergencies Act, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh stated that while he was happy for these extraordinary powers to be used against the truckers protesting in Ottawa, they must never be used against "Indigenous land defenders, climate change activists, workers fighting for fairness."
Tyranny for Thee, Not for Me
"'My parents escaped from Germany under the Nazis and Communists. I've seen real terrorism. Our freedoms are at stake here,' military chaplain and decorated veteran Harold Ristau told The Federalist."
Decorated Canadian Veteran And Pastor: Trudeau Has Declared War On His Own People
"I don't have any assets in Canadian financial institutions or subsidiaries, but if I did, I'd transfer them out right away. For the same reason I wouldn't hold assets in any other lawless country run by a tinpot dictator who weaponizes the private sector to carry out his political purge."
If You Have Assets at Canadian Financial Institutions, You're Nuts
"Canadian MP silenced and accused of 'disinformation' for suggesting WEF has infiltrated governments. Yet Klaus Schwab himself admitted it!"
Well, This is Awkward.
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Julie Kelly: "As freedom-lovers justifiably recoil at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's crackdown, Americans worry it could happen here. They're too late. It already has."
Trudeau Style Tyranny Is Already Here
Lloyd Billingsley: "The porcine politburo of George Orwell's Animal Farm now prevails in North America."
From 1945 to 2022
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"The data are 'not yet ready for prime time.'"
Report: CDC Has Withheld Chinese COVID Data From Americans to "Prevent Vaccine Hesitency"
Scott Sturman, M.D.: "We humans are social creatures that communicate through complex languages and facial gestures. Our personalities are ingrained in these unique expressions, which impart visual messages that words alone cannot convey. Depriving children of these signals impoverishes their development."
Masking Facial Expression in Children
"These unearthed links exacerbate the fact that the company is subject to Article 7 of China's National Intelligence Law, which mandates that 'any [Chinese] organization or citizen shall support, assist, and cooperate with state intelligence work.'"
Pfizer Partnered With Wuhan-Linked Chinese Company Supplying "Military Combat" Efforts
"The consensus has been pretty frozen on that, actually."
Will We Learn the Right Lesson in Our Recent Failed Social Experiment with Mask Mandates?
"What if Lowe's lifts the requirement and Home Depot does not? What if grocery retailer Fred Meyer keeps the mask requirement and Safeway lifts it? Under the new paradigm, it will be every business for itself. . . Imagine: Spring has sprung. You need a new leaf blower and some potting soil for the garden. Where you gonna go, a Portlandia neighborhood hardware store where Stasi-style door checks are part of the experience and masked zombification continues its lurch through life? Or, will you opt for the spiffy, mask-free big-box in the Trump-leaning suburb of Happy Valley?"
Fantasy Retail: The Great Unmasking
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Margot Cleveland: "Americans can expect the reveal of more evidence connecting the Hillary Clinton campaign to the Russia collusion hoax."
4 Special Counsel Revelations Tying Spygate To Hillary Clinton's Campaign
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The Biden [junta] has been pressing U.S. allies in the Arab world to increase production in hopes of holding down fuel prices and perhaps tempering inflation. The price of oil is up more than 24 percent since the start of the year."
Oil Soars After Arab Oil Ministers Turn Biden Down Again, Refusing to Open Oil Taps
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"My WSJ op-ed with Andrew Gutmann "Inside the Woke Indoctrination Machine" continues to generate enormous attention. Watch three more excerpts from the training sessions cited in the article, including critical analysis of the claims they make, and how these ideas influence children in NAIS schools."
More Video from "Inside the Woke Indoctrination Machine" of National Association of Independent Schools
Robert Spencer: "It was predictable that a fake hate crime would lead the apostles of race hate and division not to confess that their hysteria was unfounded and destructive, but to double down and claim that racism was a big problem anyway. And one day, by golly, they'll find a hate crime to prove it. A real one. You'll see."
Jim Crow Returned in Sacramento, Leftists Went Wild, But Yes, It Was Yet Another Fake Hate Crime
"[Chinese] Covid lockdowns and restrictions, coupled with a newfound awareness by parents of woke indoctrination in many public schools, have families embracing private educational options."
Nearly 2 Million Kids Left Public Schools From 2020 to 2021
"If I was a parent in Loudoun County, I would not care one iota that this mask mandate has been voided. Instead, I would be terrified of putting my children under the control of these tyrants, with or without a mask mandate. The vicious and dishonest behavior in the past two years by the administrators and teachers in these schools against little children is beyond the pale. All of them still work there. None have been fired or replaced."
Pushback: Why Are Any Parents Sending Their Kids Back to Loudon County Schools?
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Agreed.
JD Vance: "Don't Care What Happens to Ukraine," I "Care About" Mexican Fentanyl Crossing Our Border, Killing Americans
"She ought to be thanking ICE for keeping her district safe and New York safe and this country safer by all the things I just said, but she doesn't understand what ICE does. She just thinks they are just an immigration agency. They're a lot bigger and do a lot more important national security work for this nation," Homan said.
Former Acting ICE Director: Titty Caca AOC "Once Again Proves She's the Least Smart Congresswoman in the History of the United States Congress"
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"'Eric Holder paid six figures to elect Earls so she could decide this case,' said Galey, who added that Earls should have recused herself from the redistricting case. Earls rejected calls last month to recuse herself from the litigation."
How Eric Holder Tipped the Scales in North Carolina's Redistricting Fight
Okay, everybody convoy to Vermont, learn the phrase "no habla Ingles" and demand a ballot. Problem solved.
Vermont Towns Open Voting to Foreign Nationals, Offering Ballots in Foreign Languages
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"'I proud to join my Democratic colleagues in meeting with Israeli leadership and affirming, in no uncertain terms, our commitment to not only sustaining but also strengthening the American-Israeli relationship,' Torres said in a text from the 'Land of Milk and Honey.' Torres blasted the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel." (I guess Jew-hate doesn't poll well, at least the in-your-face Jew-hate - jjs)
House Democrats Visit Israel After Titty Caca AOC Claimed Jewish State "Cages" Palestinian Kids
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"She allegedly called one girl an 'acne fucker,' which prompted the girl to leave the room in tears. Broyles allegedly called another girl a 'Hispanic fucker' and another a 'judgy fucker.'"
Oklahoma Democrat U.S. House Candidate Blames Meds for Profanity-Laced Rant at Pre-Teen Party
POLITICS
"The voters know the difference between specious talking points and effective policies."
Sorry Democrats, Your Problem Isn't Messaging
"Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, went live early Monday morning with approximately 150,000 users waitlisted to register. The new app has reportedly reached the top of the Apple app store."
Crowd Cheers On Trump for Presidents' Day Outside His Florida Golf Course
Rabbi Dov Fischer: "They've set America back terribly. In nine months we'll see if any of the damage can be reversed."
Biden-Pelosi Democrats' Seven Deadly Sins: D.R.E.A.M.E.R.
Happy to volunteer to hold her head in that position for maximum de-stressing.
Titty Caca AOC Dunks Her Face in Bowl of Ice Water on Instagram Live to De-Stress
"Our Potato State correspondent knows who he won't be voting for this fall."
Idaho's Two Mikes -- One Pro-January 6th Commission, the Other Pro-Infrastructure Bill
"Politicians seeking to capitalize on the white-hot fury of the American electorate had better get with the program or be crushed by the rising movement." (agree in the main with the essay, though it does not address the real problem of the entrenched bureaucracy and lack of morality of leaders in and out of government - jjs) 
Never Again!
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Can Americans' dissatisfaction with the media get any worse? It just did."
I&I/TIPP Poll: Media Goes Failing Grades Once Again for Coverage of Major Issues, Divisiveness
"Did you get that? Fox has so many viewers because CNN (which Fox has been trouncing for years) sent them there. I guess nobody watches CNN anymore because it's too popular. That sounded funnier in the original Berra."
CNN Stopped Reporting On Its Favorite Boogeyman and the Reason Is Hilarious
Even fellow idiot David French called out Tribe for that stupidity.
Left-Wing Imbecile Lawrence Tribe Suggests Tucker Carlson, "Trump Wing" of GOP Are Committing Treason For Opposing Ukraine Conflict
"It's tricky for left-wing propagandists to keep pushing their narrative of concerned parents as domestic terrorists and racists when recall results reveal that parents won't tolerate harmful progressive pushes in even the deepest blue Democrat strongholds -- so CNN has changed its tune."
After Slandering Loudon Parents, CNN Is Trapped By San Francisco Recalls
"Yup, just a puny ~3,700,000 MW (w/ 4 hrs) of batteries and ~390,000 MW of HVDC and ~5,900,000 MW of generation," wrote Dr. Christopher Clack, an environmental researcher who published a paper in 2017 refuting a previous paper by Jacobson on the same topic.
Washington Post Blasted Online For Story Claiming Wind and Solar Would Solve Blackouts
"The list included Joe Biden who called him a white supremacist in a campaign ad. The ad is still posted on Joe Biden's Twitter page."
Kyle Rittenhouse Announces Intention to Sue Leftwing Media Personalities and Outlets Who Repeatedly Lied About Him -- Whoopi "Fat Albert Speer," Cenk Uygur, and Others Make the List
ABORTION
"The Democrat-controlled Virginia Senate has proven a tough battle ground for pro-lifers, with losses and wins in the session's first 30 days."
Virginia Democrats Vote For Allowing Babies Who Survive Abortions To Die Without Care
SECOND AMENDMENT
"This year in June, it will be ten years since Venezuela banned private gun ownership. The new law banned all commercial sales of firearms and ammunition to private gun owners."
The Democrats Are Turning America into the New Venezuela
BIDEN-CREATED UKRAINE CRISIS
"Putin declared Russia-led breakout areas of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as people's republics and independent regions on Monday. In his order, released shortly after announcing the move, Putin ordered Russian troops into the areas." 
Putin Orders Troops Into Ukraine Separatist Regions on "Peacekeeping" Mission
"Putin delivered nearly an hour-long speech lobbing allegations of foreign meddling in Ukraine against the west and reiterating accusations of oppression of ethnic Russians by the government of Ukraine. He called Ukraine a puppet state of the United States and officially recognized two separatist groups in eastern Ukraine as independent states."
Putin Gives His Most Fiery Speech Yet; Here Are the Key Points
Jeez, why don't you quit your bitching, turn the tables, and go invade Russia first?!
Volodymyr Zelensky Warns West of "Karma" for Ignoring 8-Year-Old Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Richard Fernandez: ". . . it is not only the Kremlin's behavior that has a bizarre feel to it. Despite decrying the seriousness of the situation, Western governments aren't obviously readying for a European conflict. Instead they are focusing on masks, mandates and invoking war powers to force truckers to comply with soon to be abolished Covid vaccine requirements. One would think the southern border would be secured, oil stockpiled, and STEM not CRT taught in reopened schools. But none of this is happening."
Slow Boiling the Western Alliance Like a Frog
Maybe if you stopped persecuting your own Christian citizens, I could take you seriously.
Finnish President: We Are in a Colder Situation Than We Were During the Traditional Cold War
"If Putin and Biden meet, what cards does Biden hold, other than deuces?" (liquified ass deuces - jjs)
Putin is Playing Biden like a Fiddle
"Mississippi GOP Senator Roger Wicker is at it again, urging the Biden [junta] to 'protect our democratic friends' in Ukraine, and invoking the domino theory."
Roger Wicker Plays Dominoes
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"There were no injury reports immediately following the blast, according to the Associated Press. Additionally, there were no reports of property damage to the towns and homes on Etna's slopes as the volcano erupted, the outlet reported."
Mount Etna Erupts, Massive Ash Cloud Looms Over Eastern Sicily
Thad McCotter: "America's self-anointed elite is addicted to genocidal communist China's money; and, consequently, beholden to that malevolent government's influence in order to get their fix. The Beijing regime has weaponized the greed of our nation's self-anointed elites, who have rationalized and/or lied away any qualms about their self-destructive behavior and its continuing damage to our American family."
Time for a "Fearless Introspection" of Communist Chinese Influence
"Some questions for the 'Supreme Leader.'"
Khamenei: What's All This "Nonsense" About Iran Wanting a Nuclear Weapon?
"Our leaders are fixated on subverting nations with values they find inconvenient, but are willing to tolerate bad actors they find useful."
The False Promise of Promoting American Values Abroad
"Nigeria's Vice President recently pointed out, 'Efforts to restrict fossil fuel investments in Africa are even harder to stomach because many of the wealthy countries behind them -- including Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States -- include natural gas in their own multi-decade plans to transition to clean energy.'"
Starved for Energy, Africans Tap Fossil Fuels
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"A must-read, essential book."
Robert Spencer's The Critical Qur'an
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
"Drawing parallels with former German Chancellor Angela Merkel's disastrous open borders policies enacted during Europe's 2015 migrant crisis, the statement lays out a series of concerning policies which have scarcely been approved by local stakeholders." (local stakeholders; how cute - jjs)
Biden Relocates 2000 Afghans PER MONTH to Virginia Conference Center Near Two Local Schools
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"No biometric data -- including facial recognition -- will be required if taxpayers choose to authenticate their identity through a virtual interview," the IRS said in a statement.
IRS Will Allow Taxpayers to Opt Out of Facial Recognition Scan to Access Taxes Online
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"While our prior databases on higher education and elite private schools served as educational tools for students and parents making application decisions, the medical school database serves as a wake-up call for the public to pay attention to the damaging racialization of medical education."
Almost All of Top 25 Medical Schools Mandate Race-Based Training and Study, New CriticalRace.org Database Shows
"We need to end [Chinese] Covid measures that have provoked the kinds of social and economic dysphoria that contributed to the surge of overdose deaths."
Drug Spike From Lockdowns and Open Borders is Killing and Maiming Millions of Americans
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"An anti-development lawsuit targeting UC–Berkeley exposes the absurdity of California's environmental laws."
Not in Our Backyard
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The parents learned from their daughters that the male counselors used "they/them" pronouns and stayed with them in their cabins for three nights at Camp Pali." (Pali. "Stinian" or pocket-palm? - jjs)
California Science Camp Allows "Non-Binary" Men to Be Housed with Fifth-Grade Girl Campers
"William Tubbs, who molested a ten-year-old girl two weeks shy of turning 18, began identifying as a transgender woman and asked to be called "Hannah" after being arrested, according to Fox."
Child Molester Boasted About Light Penalties Before Being Sentenced To Girls' Juvenile Detention Facility: REPORT
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"The presidency itself, like so many aspects of American culture, is now in the middle of ideological crossfire between left and right. Is there a way that the center can find its voice in arguments about the presidency?" Harris asked. "Yes, there is. A good way to start would be to cancel the day we mark today: 'Presidents Day.'" (go to hell - jjs)
Politico Magazine ~~Columnist~~ Communist: Presidents' Day "Mythologizing History," Time to Cancel Holiday
"The real ones libs would shut down in a flash."
Creating Safe Spaces
"Currently, ideologues who seek division in America control how our racial history is taught, but we can change that by teaching the complicated and interesting truth."
Black History Month Is Appropriate Time For The Truth
Christian Toto: "Veteran colorist Gabe Eltaeb's Truth. Justice. American Way offers old-school thrills."
DC Artist Bounces Back by Defying Woke Mob
Salena Zito: "There are thousands of Tracy Wilsons out there attending community colleges, trade schools, and apprenticeship programs, eager to show their value, even when so many do not acknowledge it."
Mike Rowe Scholarship Highlights the Lost Virtues of Hard Work and Sweat
HITHER & YON
"The Democrat strategist was a founding co-host of the long-running Fox News show."
Bob Beckel, Former Co-Host of The Five, Dead at 73

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1 Happy Twosday

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Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 07:24 AM (yrol0)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 22, 2022 07:24 AM (vqc+k)

3 that's a lot of links...

thanks JJ. now on to the content.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 22, 2022 07:25 AM (8D42x)

4 I've got covid. Not a fan.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 22, 2022 07:25 AM (vqc+k)

5 Did everything improve overnight? I hope so.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 22, 2022 07:25 AM (4nH0q)

6 Yo

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2022 07:26 AM (BFigT)

7
"If you were involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges, absolutely," Bell said during a press briefing on February 19. "This investigation will go on for months to come. It has many many different streams from a federal level from a financial level from a provincial licensing level to a criminal code level from a municipal breach of . . . court order level. It will be a time consuming and complicated investigation that will go on for a period of time. . . "

The Cheka Never Sleeps!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2022 07:27 AM (/U27+)

8 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 22, 2022 07:27 AM (3D/fK)

9 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at February 22, 2022 07:27 AM (u7pQw)

10 Very dissapointed in the canadians

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 22, 2022 07:30 AM (GPwVZ)

11 ""If Putin and Biden meet, what cards does Biden hold, other than deuces?"

He will threaten to hire a dozen more writers to come up with some new and exciting rhetoric on democracy and peace.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 22, 2022 07:30 AM (4thlk)

12 Speaking of minions:

"Minyon Moore, 63, a Black Lives Matter board member and critical race theory promoter will help President Biden pick the first black woman to the Supreme Court. "

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2022 07:31 AM (vrz2I)

13 I'm sure a lot of Canadians believe that this is for their own good because they were bad and need to be punished.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 22, 2022 07:31 AM (4olE8)

14 "If you were involved in this protest, we will actively look to identify you and follow up with financial sanctions and criminal charges, absolutely," Bell said during a press briefing on February 19.

No due process, ex post facto laws. Apparently if you don't like the government raping you and you whine about it, that justifies a blanket crushing and destroying.

To me that means a declaration of War. The government clearly stating that people who peacefully assembled or contributed will be thrown into the Lubyanka.

The virus didn't kill enough people - now the ~~police~~ mercenaries will thin out the crowd.

And the disturbing part is, that Ukraine is better off with Putin than Canada is with Castreau - yet the Biden junta celebrates Canada becoming a banana republic while trying to cause a war.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 07:31 AM (lD3vL)

15
Strange that the Canadian secret police are going after a small band of truckers, but whenever the Bloc Quebecois makes noises about seceding, it's always concession time by Ottawa.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2022 07:31 AM (/U27+)

16 11 ""If Putin and Biden meet, what cards does Biden hold, other than deuces?"
_____________

The Old Maid.

Or maybe the Joker.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2022 07:32 AM (k4dH2)

17 I'm sure a lot of Canadians believe that this is for their own good because they were bad and need to be punished.

Their ancestors who fought the Cold War would spit on this generation and hold them at the highest level of contempt.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 07:32 AM (lD3vL)

18 So...Beckle kicked the bucket. Sorry to hear that, as I imagine he was a supporter of free speech in his lefty pundit career. His personal life, as I vaguely recall, was sort of a mess (thanks to addiction problems). I sympathize with those issues and I hope now, God will grant him peace.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 22, 2022 07:32 AM (BC2YK)

19 Everyday I get up and the world unravels a little bit more

Posted by: Eisenhorn at February 22, 2022 07:32 AM (79FgF)

20 RIP Bob Beckel

Don't think I ever agreed with him political, but seemed like a good guy to out to dinner with and have a few drinks, although I guessing drinking and other chemicals were a problem for him. Although a leftie, he never seemed mean and did not appear to hate America

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 22, 2022 07:33 AM (GPwVZ)

21 12 Speaking of minions:

"Minyon Moore, 63, a Black Lives Matter board member and critical race theory promoter will help President Biden pick the first black woman to the Supreme Court. "
Posted by: fd at February 22, 2022 07:31 AM (vrz2I)

Joanne "Assata Shakur" Chesimard.

She'll be nominated after getting a full Presidential and DOJ pardon and exoneration, plus expunging of he criminal record.

All things considered, that is actually within the realm of possibility.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 07:33 AM (s2VJv)

22 Mornin', all! Thanks for the newz, JJ.

Welcome to the twosiest twosday that ever twosdayed.

Praying for all of the truckers and for their safety. We need them. And I think the idiots trying to run things into the ground know how much we need them, which is why I pray for their safety.

Posted by: Catherine at February 22, 2022 07:33 AM (ZSsrh)

23 The lesson of Ottawa and Jan 6 is don't do what they did.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2022 07:33 AM (vrz2I)

24 Given what happened up in Canada and what happened in DC January 6th, 2021, I'm wondering perhaps if this is the best course of action? I'm not saying they shouldn't protest, or we shouldn't protest, but maybe a better course of action is a trucker strike or slowdown.

There is absolutely no reason to make the tyrants job easier, by outing ourselves and massing up in DC. Absolutely none. That's not how effective Irish Democracy works.

Posted by: Stayin' Alive at February 22, 2022 07:33 AM (CE78+)

25 All things considered, that is actually within the realm of possibility.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 07:33 AM (s2VJv)

Ain't dat da Truth

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 22, 2022 07:33 AM (GPwVZ)

26
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 22, 2022 07:34 AM (DUIap)

27
I thought Beckel died a few years ago and then I realized it was the flaming asshole from MSLSD, I forgot his name.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 07:34 AM (s2VJv)

28 Present.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at February 22, 2022 07:34 AM (MkuC5)

29 Canuckistan Parliament votes for tyranny. "Just the tip" they were promised.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 22, 2022 07:34 AM (BC2YK)

30 So I have to go back down to HQ in DC one of these days and I have to monitor the possible trucking demo on and near the Beltway. LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 22, 2022 07:35 AM (GPwVZ)

31 Putin claims that Ukraine has always been a part of Russia stealing the commie China script on Taiwan.

Posted by: 7man at February 22, 2022 07:35 AM (qwO6y)

32
~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 22, 2022 07:35 AM (K2SnJ)

33
"The Democrat strategist was a founding co-host of the long-running Fox News show."
Bob Beckel, Former Co-Host of The Five, Dead at 73

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 22, 2022 07:35 AM (DUIap)

34 The most horrendous example was a near act of treason by Teddy Kennedy when he secretly went to Moscow to assure the Soviets that he would do everything he could to sabotage SDI.

FTK

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 07:35 AM (yrol0)

35 Everybody sing!!

Eh-Cana-duh, blah blah blah blah blah...

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at February 22, 2022 07:36 AM (MkuC5)

36 We've spent too much time looking at Hitler and not enough time looking at the Germans who followed him. It's a psychology we need to understand now. If this can happen in Canada, it can happen anywhere.

Posted by: IanDeal at February 22, 2022 07:36 AM (MGjjz)

37 Joanne "Assata Shakur" Chesimard.

She'll be nominated after getting a full Presidential and DOJ pardon and exoneration, plus expunging of he criminal record.

All things considered, that is actually within the realm of possibility.
______________

A presidential pardon won't help her. She was convicted of state crimes. She'd need a pardon from the governor.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2022 07:37 AM (k4dH2)

38 Ukraine threatens to break off diplomatic contact with Russia
Ukraine's president says he is considering ending diplomatic relations with Russia over recognition of its territories as independent.

LOL, that's pretty funny. As if putin cares

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 22, 2022 07:37 AM (GPwVZ)

39 Anyone else notice the voracious denouncements of the actions taken by the Canadian government by the GOP?

Even Canuck Cruz?

Yea, about that...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2022 07:37 AM (BFigT)

40 A presidential pardon won't help her. She was convicted of state crimes. She'd need a pardon from the governor.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2022 07:37 AM (k4dH2)

What State? NY or was it NJ? Neither would be a problem

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 22, 2022 07:38 AM (GPwVZ)

41 We've spent too much time looking at Hitler and not enough time looking at the Germans who followed him. It's a psychology we need to understand now.

Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer. Read that gem well over twenty years ago. And figured out right after the last page - yep, it can absolutely happen here. Then I watched it, a little bit at a time. The Patriot Act was a big step in that direction.

Posted by: Stayin' Alive at February 22, 2022 07:38 AM (CE78+)

42 "Anyone else notice the voracious denouncements of the actions taken by the Canadian government by the GOP?"

I noticed the distinct lack of any fucking word.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2022 07:39 AM (vrz2I)

43 37 A presidential pardon won't help her. She was convicted of state crimes. She'd need a pardon from the governor.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2022 07:37 AM (k4dH2)

Phil Murphy. Tell me he won't do it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 07:39 AM (s2VJv)

44 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 22, 2022 07:40 AM (arJlL)

45 "Anyone else notice the voracious denouncements of the actions taken by the Canadian government by the GOP?"

I noticed the distinct lack of any fucking word.
Posted by: fd at February 22, 2022 07:39 AM (vrz2I)

Agreed. You have to look to find it. The entire affair is being embargoed. I'd say maybe a third of the country knows it's even happening.

Posted by: Stayin' Alive at February 22, 2022 07:40 AM (CE78+)

46 Happy Twosday

2 22 22
Posted by: rhennigantx

Drop a deuce !

at 2 PM !

Posted by: JT at February 22, 2022 07:40 AM (arJlL)

47 n 2017, after adjusting for differences in the cost of living, only 19 percent of Americans lived in households with disposable incomes less than $20,000, compared with 22 percent in Germany, 27 percent in the United Kingdom, and 53 percent in Italy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 07:41 AM (yrol0)

48 Mike Pence lacks the character of Judas.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 07:41 AM (H8QX8)

49 Eh-Cana-duh, blah blah blah blah blah...
Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at February 22, 2022 07:36 AM (MkuC5)

Ach, Kanada, mein' liber Blut und Erde...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 07:41 AM (6FeV1)

50 Fucks sakes, I'm even making typos in German...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 07:41 AM (6FeV1)

51 By contrast, while 32 percent of Americans enjoyed disposable incomes greater than $50,000, only 12 percent of Germans, 12 percent of Britons, and 4 percent of Italians did so.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 07:42 AM (yrol0)

52 trying to wrap my head around the fact that what once was one of the freest nations on the planet has almost overnight degenerated into a cartoon banana republic

Without the bananas !

"Yes ! We have no bananas !"

Posted by: JT at February 22, 2022 07:42 AM (arJlL)

53 Phil Murphy. Tell me he won't do it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 07:39 AM (s2VJv)
============
For killing a Trooper? Never happen.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 22, 2022 07:42 AM (BC2YK)

54 48 Mike Pence lacks the character of Judas.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 07:41 AM (H8QX

he might be a good guy but I really dont like him!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 07:42 AM (yrol0)

55 45 "Anyone else notice the voracious denouncements of the actions taken by the Canadian government by the GOP?"

I noticed the distinct lack of any fucking word.
Posted by: fd at February 22, 2022 07:39 AM (vrz2I)

Nor a word about the Great Covid Scam. Our severely conservative Senator Graham however has been very busy talking up war with Russia. Priorities.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 07:43 AM (H8QX8)

56 What State? NY or was it NJ? Neither would be a problem
____________

New Jersey. She was convicted for murdering the cop there.

She had a bunch of federal charges lodged against her at various times, for bank robbery and other types of federal crimes, but she was able to skate on most of those. It was the NJ convictions that she ran from.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2022 07:43 AM (k4dH2)

57 I worked for a Canadian company for a year, went to Montreal numerous times during that, went out to many of the provinces. This result does not surprise me.

All you have to do is give Canadians poutine, Hockey Night and unfettered access to Tim Hortons and they'll let Castros Bastard Son invoke Prima Nocta.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 22, 2022 07:43 AM (i0NwO)

58 53 Phil Murphy. Tell me he won't do it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 07:39 AM (s2VJv)
============
For killing a Trooper? Never happen.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 22, 2022 07:42 AM (BC2YK)

Never say never. Considering the Democrat Party, BLM etc. etc.

That said, there has been considerable backlash from the Trotskyites vs the Maoists. If Murphy was walking out the door via term limits (if they have them in NJ), he'd do it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 07:44 AM (s2VJv)

59 Willowed

224 219 "Greenland's Ice Sheet is melting from the bottom UP - and is now the largest single contributor to global sea level rise, study warns"

So there is global warming under the ice? We're doomed?
Posted by: fd

I'll believe it's a crisis when those who tell me it's a crisis start acting like it's a crisis. (h/t Instapundit). Obama and Pelosi have built beach front properties. They don't seem to concern about rising oceans.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 22, 2022 07:44 AM (sAmhv)

60 54 48 Mike Pence lacks the character of Judas.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 07:41 AM (H8QX

he might be a good guy but I really dont like him!
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 07:42 AM (yrol0)

I am sick to fucking death of "good guys." I want someone who will reverse course by every means necessary. Mean tweets and all.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 07:45 AM (s2VJv)

61 More than 730 people have been arrested so far amounting to more than three times the number of federal arrests related to the 2020 BL(really dont)M mostly peaceful riots that lasted for months and resulted in far more death and destruction.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 07:45 AM (yrol0)

62 The American Left dreams of our unserious country becoming Canada. Canada is a country ruled by three cities in the east - much as they dream of the NYC/DC axis ruling us. The remaining population centers would stun most Americans with their overall urban liberal bent - even Calgary is far to the left of say, Denver. The remaining scattered population in the countryside likely doesn't even know who is the PM, or care. There is a lot of ruin in a great nation, Canada was only ever, just good.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 22, 2022 07:47 AM (oWBc3)

63 Have the people writing about Greenland ever thought, let alone said, that ice always melts from the bottom? The incompetence of this age is absolutely staggering.

Posted by: Catherine at February 22, 2022 07:47 AM (ZSsrh)

64 While the visuals of the Freedom convoy are impressive, to the degree the public actually sees them, a trucker strike/blockade/slowdown would be much more effective at this point. NYC can't last a week. I'm sure other blue cities are in similar situations.
The left only understands raw power/force. It's time they felt what happens when they can't get the Amazon ordered arugula

Posted by: Iblis at February 22, 2022 07:49 AM (abOpZ)

65 "Minyon Moore, 63, a Black Lives Matter board member and critical race theory promoter will help President Biden pick the first black woman to the Supreme Court. "

==

Oh, so those polls showing 2/3rds of Americans flatly stating we do not want a race-based, gender-based pick for SCOTUS mean absolutely nothing to the Resident Retard. That's nice. Good to know it resonated. IOW, Biden's reply is "screw you, Americans."

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 22, 2022 07:49 AM (sVtYq)

66 both Napoleon and Pilkington each try to play the ace of spades.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 07:49 AM (yrol0)

67 Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 22, 2022 07:50 AM (TJjzf)

68 "Minyon Moore, 63, a Black Lives Matter board member and critical race theory promoter will help President Biden pick the first black woman to the Supreme Court. "

Minyon. As my Italian friends might say "moulinyan."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 07:51 AM (s2VJv)

69 Taxes are racist because they disproportionately affect white people.

Posted by: PoliticalMcGuffin at February 22, 2022 07:51 AM (md5vd)

70 Biden's reply is "screw you, Americans."
Posted by: Lady

Once his new Scotus is confirmed he will pivot to making the working class think he cares.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 07:51 AM (QaN7Q)

71 Happy Twosday y'all.

My understanding of the American truckers plan is they intend to not go into DC.

They plan to ride around the Beltway. Brave souls. The Beltway area was the worst gig I ever had as a trucker.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at February 22, 2022 07:52 AM (Adlwz)

72 New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Canada...

The anglosphere has forgotten its English.

Posted by: Brett at February 22, 2022 07:52 AM (psBxM)

73 Upon graduation, Moore was hired as an assistant to Operation PUSHs co-founder, Reverend Willie Barrow. In 1988, she served as the deputy field director for Reverend Jesse Jacksons Presidential Campaign and in 1989, she became development director for Jacksons National Rainbow Coalition.

So which one be her daddy??

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 07:52 AM (yrol0)

74 The anglosphere has forgotten its English.
Posted by: Brett at February 22, 2022 07:52 AM (psBxM

England went squishy-fascist long before the rest of the commonwealth.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 07:53 AM (6FeV1)

75 It is a false hope to think that a "leader" will come along to change things for us. We are going to have to do the hard work of changing this culture, and society, ourselves.

And politics is downstream from all of that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 07:53 AM (9uM86)

76 "They plan to ride around the Beltway."

I'm wondering if we are going to need to take some 5 gallon diesel cans up there.

Posted by: fd at February 22, 2022 07:53 AM (vrz2I)

77 Mike Pence lacks the character of Judas.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 07:41 AM (H8QX

he might be a good guy but I really dont like him!
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 07:42 AM (yrol0)

I am sick to fucking death of "good guys." I want someone who will reverse course by every means necessary. Mean tweets and all.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 07:45 AM (s2VJv)

In what alternative universe is Mike Pence a good guy? The Vote Harder mindset has to fuck off except for party rebels. More DJTs and JD Vances and fewer Pences and Josh Mandels.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 22, 2022 07:54 AM (y7DUB)

78 "I am sick to fucking death of "good guys."

We've actually not had one. Pence wasn't a "good guy" at all, not in any full-bodied and brave way (a way one would associate with American virtue). He was a pale counterfeit. The fact he didn't sleep around or steal from the coffers doesn't make him good, just pious, moderately disciplined and highly politically self-conscious.

Ironically, Trump was more of the "good guy."

But I concur with respect to the need for a certain political savagery in the recovery and defense of our nation. And Trump wasn't capable of that. I wished he'd traded the mean tweets for mean and righteous actions.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 07:54 AM (H8QX8)

79 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

Realizing I will probably never visit Canada again gives me a very deep dark feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2022 07:54 AM (EZebt)

80 George Orwell always foresaw the potential for fascism inherent in the English system. So did our founders.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 07:55 AM (9uM86)

81 Good morning, Hordelings. Happy Birthday, JJ.

Deuces all around today -- 2/22/22

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2022 07:55 AM (mZUr4)

82 Canada: Justin Castreau-cescu Insists on Emergency Powers Despite No Active Protests

#TwoWeeks to flatten The People.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 07:55 AM (lD3vL)

83
"The parents said they're hoping others will be informed of the camp's lodging policy so that they can make decisions for their own families," the Post Millennial reported.

You can decide to deny your daughter science camp, or decide to house her with a male sexual deviant. Your choice! You have the freedom!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 07:55 AM (PanGo)

84 They plan to ride around the Beltway. Brave souls. The Beltway area was the worst gig I ever had as a trucker.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated

It's just a terrible gig overall.

Posted by: Puddleglum lives in NoVA at February 22, 2022 07:55 AM (sAmhv)

85 Free Buffalo Guy!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 22, 2022 07:50 AM (TJjzf)

I thought Buffalo Guy had pled out and was on 4 years probation. Specifically 4 years, mind you, to prevent him from voting in the next two elections.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 22, 2022 07:56 AM (vqc+k)

86 In what alternative universe is Mike Pence a good guy? The Vote Harder mindset has to fuck off except for party rebels. More DJTs and JD Vances and fewer Pences and Josh Mandels.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 22, 2022 07:54 AM (y7DUB)

Howdy, Captain. Continued prayers for you, brother.

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2022 07:56 AM (mZUr4)

87 "The American Left dreams of our unserious country becoming Canada. Canada is a country ruled by three cities in the east - much as they dream of the NYC/DC axis ruling us."
Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 22, 2022 07:47 AM (oWBc3)

That's why I have almost no hope for us. Conservative pundit's keep telling me that we're winning the culture war and that today's youth will soon be mugged by reality when all I see is us losing on all fronts. Nobody is outraged over Canada or Ukraine except the same old people like us.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 22, 2022 07:56 AM (4thlk)

88 Justin Castro's powerful little "Crush All Dissent Act" has really bothered me a lot more than I would've imagined. They're getting away with it all and it's a bleak outlook in wondering if it's even reversible at this stage of the tyrannical game. They now have legal power to steal your money, your possessions, your freedoms. They have all tech and media outlets who will forbid any organizing by other citizens. They have the power to crush all dissent, and they're using it under the phony guise of "emergency" threats. Yes, it's affecting me because I know we are a millimeter away from the exact same thing happening here (with parts already happening). They are pulling the rope of the noose tighter with each act of defiance by The People. It's a worldwide push and we're all at varying stages perhaps. But the one world gov't has decided now is the time to hit the activate button. I think things are going to accelerate very quickly from here.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 22, 2022 07:57 AM (sVtYq)

89 Your choice! You have the freedom!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 07:55 AM (PanGo)

Our you buy some basic household supplies, invite her school friends over, and have your own Science Camp.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 07:57 AM (6FeV1)

90 Howdy back atcha, Doof. You and your children are constantly on my mind.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 22, 2022 07:58 AM (y7DUB)

91 "Just stop delivering to DC, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and every blue city"

X1000

Now. Right now. Just stop delivering.
They are building a bullshit fence around the Capitol. When the deliveries stop lets see what happens to that fence. Crush the despots.

Posted by: Voter theater. at February 22, 2022 07:58 AM (FCPbW)

92 The price of Brent, the global standard, rose by nearly 3.91 percent on Monday to $97.20, the highest price since 2014. Many traders believe is very likely to push above $100 a barrel soon.

Progressives try to stick their dicks in the rich but it always ends up in the middle class and poor peoples asses!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 07:58 AM (yrol0)

93 And so now, we have a Trucker Convoy making its way to DC. Given what happened up in Canada and what happened in DC January 6th, 2021, I'm wondering perhaps if this is the best course of action?

I think it's incredibly dumb, to the point that it feels like another eff bee eye concoction. A general strike would have made much more sense.

Posted by: Bert G at February 22, 2022 07:58 AM (aCgRi)

94 Canada is a string of blue cities along the border, and Fwench and Newfies mixed in.

Could anything better have been expected?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2022 07:59 AM (EZebt)

95 it has been almost 12 years since the dims have had to defrnd a SCOTUS nomination

probably a bit rusty but with the feckless GOP attack machine (haha) the dims should have no problemos

Posted by: REDACTED at February 22, 2022 07:59 AM (us2H3)

96 Posted by: Lady in Black at February 22, 2022 07:57 AM (sVtYq)

I thoroughly agree. He has, in a sense, released their own kraken.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 07:59 AM (H8QX8)

97 I just heard on the radio that the Crowdstrike co-founder - the same one who pushed all the fake RUSSIA!!! bullsh*t and insisted that the DNC servers were hacked (the ones that the FBI apparently were somehow never "allowed" to look at) - is now insisting that Russia is going to shoot down our satellites and destroy our banking infrastructure if we don't go to war with them, except maybe unless Biden can save us. He's our only hope. His foreign policy expertise is the slim chance to pull us out of this dangerous territory.

I'd love to know what from the last 30 years has been real.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 22, 2022 08:00 AM (cUuEU)

98 78 I wished he'd traded the mean tweets for mean and righteous actions.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 07:54 AM (H8QX

I think he tried. He literally had maybe a handful of loyal allies. Everyone else was an overt enemy or sneaky double-crossing traitor.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:00 AM (s2VJv)

99 Oh, so those polls showing 2/3rds of Americans flatly stating we do not want a race-based, gender-based pick for SCOTUS mean absolutely nothing to the Resident Retard. That's nice. Good to know it resonated. IOW, Biden's reply is "screw you, Americans."

They know it. We know it. They know we know it. We know that they know that we know it. They will continue to do it because everyone knows that we will continue to allow it.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:00 AM (lD3vL)

100 @92

>>Progressives try to stick their dicks in the rich but it always ends up in the middle class and poor peoples asses!

This is simply the realization of the Obama era, "Energy Prices Will Necessarily Have To SkyRocket," stratagem.

Essentially we are living Obama's third term and it's as horrible as we all knew it would be.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 22, 2022 08:01 AM (i0NwO)

101 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 22, 2022 08:01 AM (gfLJK)

102 I think he tried. He literally had maybe a handful of loyal allies. Everyone else was an overt enemy or sneaky double-crossing traitor.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:00 AM (s2VJv)

He tried to limit the internal conflict of politics to politicians. To me, Trump seemed utterly terrified of the nation flipping the switch on a hot civil war. Every flashpoint issue seemed to be handled with that in mind.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 08:02 AM (6FeV1)

103 As previously stated, we all know where this is headed. . . . . so why wait and curl our hair and fiddle? Let's just get to it, and prepare to make cold steel hot. First step is to simply make your "representatives" lives miserable with clogging their lines/offices with awareness messages. And fuck the GOPe.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & Castro's son at February 22, 2022 08:02 AM (8m/Xb)

104 Howdy back atcha, Doof. You and your children are constantly on my mind.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 22, 2022 07:58 AM (y7DUB)

Thank you. They're actually pretty much grown-ups now. Ages 22 and 18. Have certainly been forced to become even more grown up now. 1 month today date-wise since they lost their mom. We're all 3 navigating these waters together.

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2022 08:02 AM (mZUr4)

105 Does Sandy from da Bronx have to use the White or Colored water fountain?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 08:04 AM (yrol0)

106 The fact he didn't sleep around or steal from the coffers doesn't make him good, just pious, moderately disciplined and highly politically self-conscious.

**

Yep. It's the same way people celebrate John McCain doing something "good" once, when in reality the only reason it was recognized as "good" was because he was a son of privilege. What he did was the same thing that was expected from every farm boy from Mobile, Alabama to Camden, Maine to do in that situation.

It was only "good" because people have always had sh*tty expectations of our betters.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 22, 2022 08:04 AM (cUuEU)

107 He tried to limit the internal conflict of politics to politicians. To me, Trump seemed utterly terrified of the nation flipping the switch on a hot civil war. Every flashpoint issue seemed to be handled with that in mind.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 08:02 AM (6FeV1)

Good point.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 08:04 AM (H8QX8)

108 I thought Buffalo Guy had pled out and was on 4 years probation. Specifically 4 years, mind you, to prevent him from voting in the next two elections.

I wager no one will ever see Buffalo Guy again. The Lubyanka has him for four years. He will be dead long before the alleged release date.

I'm not even sure that there will be a nation four years from now.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:04 AM (lD3vL)

109 A narco state to the south, a socialist state to our north and CA/OR/WA on the west. If the rot from on the east spreads south of DC we're surrounded in flyover country. Crap!

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 22, 2022 08:05 AM (2NHgQ)

110 Phil Murphy. Tell me he won't do it.
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I wouldn't put anything past a Dim, but it probably wouldn't be a popular move. NJ's LE community doesn't want her pardoned. She basically executed a state trooper who'd pulled her gang over for speeding and a broken tail light. The trooper's widow was very sympathetic, and used to appear on t.v. on the anniversaries of his death. I don't know if she still does, but that wound was very raw, for a very long time, in NJ. Chesimard was a nasty, vicious criminal who was willing to kill anybody who got in her way. She deserved to be convicted, and she does not deserve to be pardoned. She's been able to live a free life in Cuba for the past almost 50 years, unlike the people she murdered.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2022 08:05 AM (k4dH2)

111 Morning, Horde...How goes it? I am currently attempting to transfer materials from an old iPhone 8 onto a brand new iPhone 12...As expected, it's always a struggle when you buy new technology.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2022 08:05 AM (YIVH2)

112 100 Absolutely correct. And the "enemies within" will simply not forgive us for not letting the election of the murderous skank Hildabeast become the 3rd term of Barack Insane Odildo.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & Castro's son at February 22, 2022 08:05 AM (8m/Xb)

113 First step is to simply make your "representatives" lives miserable with clogging their lines/offices with awareness messages. And fuck the GOPe.

Yes. That always works. Antagonize the hell out of someone who allegedly represents you.

Go try that strategy on the spouse first then report back if you can.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:07 AM (lD3vL)

114 113 The key word is allegedly.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & Castro's son at February 22, 2022 08:08 AM (8m/Xb)

115 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

116 Go try that strategy on the spouse first then report back if you can.
Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:07 AM (lD3vL)

Go have a spouse that treats you the way the GOPe treats the people they allegedly represent.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 08:08 AM (6FeV1)

117 Thank you. They're actually pretty much grown-ups now. Ages 22 and 18. Have certainly been forced to become even more grown up now. 1 month today date-wise since they lost their mom. We're all 3 navigating these waters together.
Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2022 08:02 AM (mZUr4)

For whatever mistaken reason I had them pictured as much younger. Still it's a big loss for you all to come to grips with.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 22, 2022 08:09 AM (y7DUB)

118 Canada's parliament voted to approve the emergency powers for Trudeau.

Canada's fucked.

Elections have consequences. They didn't pay attention. Neither do we.

No more free earth.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

119 Morning all, and thanks for the news J.J.
The amount of time and energy you put in to give us this great morning report each and every day is very much appreciated.

Posted by: spypeach at February 22, 2022 08:10 AM (wAxm0)

120 In all honesty the only argument for the defense of Ukraine is the outright effing LIE of third party protection to remove nukes.

Ukraine, as it's defined, NEVER existed other than under Russian protections, so I don't care. Ukraine suffered the betrayal of democrats, like every "agreement" democrats make; however, Ukraine never had indiipendance. Putin is Right. The Ukrainian history is tied directly to Russia.

UNLIKE Hong Kong, which was NEVER China, or Taiwan, which was NEVER China. Russia has a right to the Ukraine. China has no right to Hong Kong, or Taiwan.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 08:10 AM (kOTP9)

121 Thank you. They're actually pretty much grown-ups now. Ages 22 and 18. Have certainly been forced to become even more grown up now. 1 month today date-wise since they lost their mom. We're all 3 navigating these waters together.
Posted by: Doof

**

Oh no, sorry Doof. I missed this.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 22, 2022 08:11 AM (cUuEU)

122 DCCC chair Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) is encouraging House Democrats to forcefully rebut Republican charges that they support defunding the police, open borders, critical race theory, and unnecessarily draconian COVID-19 mitigation measures.

LIE THROUGH YO MUTHAFUCKIN TEEFS

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 08:11 AM (yrol0)

123 I don't know the answer to turning things around but I do know it won't be the useless Republican Party which makes me think we will never 'vote' our way out of it.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 22, 2022 08:12 AM (4thlk)

124 Russia has a right to the Ukraine.

Wrong.

Just plain wrong.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 22, 2022 08:13 AM (2graF)

125 LIE THROUGH YO MUTHAFUCKIN TEEFS
________

IOW, business as usual for the GOPe.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2022 08:13 AM (k4dH2)

126
UNLIKE Hong Kong, which was NEVER China, or Taiwan, which was NEVER China. Russia has a right to the Ukraine. China has no right to Hong Kong, or Taiwan.
Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 08:10 AM (kOTP9)
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The same could be said of other independent countries not just Ukraine.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2022 08:14 AM (EZebt)

127 For whatever mistaken reason I had them pictured as much younger. Still it's a big loss for you all to come to grips with.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 22, 2022 08:09 AM (y7DUB)

God will see us through. He has given us wonderful family and friends to help. He has also placed me among this group of misfits here at the HQ -- proving He has a great sense of humor and knows what I need!

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2022 08:14 AM (mZUr4)

128 Ukrane was so unstable as a "republic" they couldn't be trusted with nukes, so we STOLE those nukes that were the actual CENTER of nuke maintenance, and then given to Russia when russia was a nothing nation in '93, they had a fucking putsh in '93, and we still trusted russia more an Ukrain, that's how fucked up the place is.

All of these analysts are dumber than me, and while I'm rather smart, I'd rather drive to my job driving a forklift than worry about this shit, but "our" "leaders" are so bad I have to make this comment.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 08:14 AM (kOTP9)

129 Canada's parliament voted to approve the emergency powers for Trudeau.

Over what amounts to traffic violations.

History will show that there was ~~no war, no existential emergency, no invasion, not even a burning building or bounce house, just overuse of some legally required signaling devices and parking violations.~~ domestic terrorists threatening life on earth. (The Official Revisionists)

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:15 AM (lD3vL)

130
Oh, so those polls showing 2/3rds of Americans flatly stating we do not want a race-based, gender-based pick for SCOTUS mean absolutely nothing to the Resident Retard. That's nice. Good to know it resonated. IOW, Biden's reply is "screw you, Americans."
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 22, 2022 07:49 AM (sVtYq)

They don't care. They never do. When the Democrats get into power, they push a radical agenda and don't care if they get wiped out in the midterms. The electoral setback is temporary but the judges and legislation are permanent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2022 08:16 AM (/U27+)

131 I see the fight between Russia and Ukraine as a fight between two big crime families. I don't see why I have to pick a side.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 08:16 AM (9uM86)

132 First step is to simply make your "representatives" lives miserable with clogging their lines/offices with awareness messages. And fuck the GOPe.

Yes. That always works. Antagonize the hell out of someone who allegedly represents you.

==

Most importantly though, it won't work because they don't care what you or I think. Once in, most of them do not consider themselves representatives of the people who sent them there. They do as they want or as they are told by the real people they represent.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 22, 2022 08:16 AM (sVtYq)

133 119 Morning all, and thanks for the news J.J.
The amount of time and energy you put in to give us this great morning report each and every day is very much appreciated.
Posted by: spypeach at February 22, 2022 08:10 AM (wAxm0)

Thank you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:16 AM (s2VJv)

134 124 Russia has a right to the Ukraine.

Wrong.

Just plain wrong.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 22, 2022 08:13 AM (2graF)

How so? Ukraine had not existed as an independent nation for a longer period than it was a soviet or russian nation.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 08:17 AM (kOTP9)

135 Canada's parliament voted to approve the emergency powers for Trudeau.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

The trouble with parliamentary systems is that the executive has a built-in majority. In Trudeau's case, his party was never going to cross him and the party he's in coalition with thinks he's too centrist.

The voters in Canada want to be a socialist dictatorship because they've all been told that it's super cool and not to worry their pretty little heads about things.

They're in for a surprise.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 22, 2022 08:17 AM (vqc+k)

136 No country ever has a "right" to land, anywhere, ever. Even the land it currently occupies. Land has to be fought for or purchased. Everything else is just inertia.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 08:17 AM (6FeV1)

137 Canada's parliament voted to approve the emergency powers for Trudeau.

Canada's fucked.

Elections have consequences. They didn't pay attention. Neither do we.

No more free earth.
Posted by: Sponge

Next step? Irish democracy. Park the rigs wherever they are & walk away.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2022 08:17 AM (Hica+)

138 Oh no, sorry Doof. I missed this.
Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 22, 2022 08:11 AM (cUuEU)

Thanks, Robbie.

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2022 08:17 AM (mZUr4)

139 I don't know the answer to turning things around but I do know it won't be the useless Republican Party which makes me think we will never 'vote' our way out of it.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 22, 2022 08:12 AM (4thlk)

The only somewhat peaceful way this changes is when a super-majority of the public has had enough. And that doesn't happen without much suffering and want. A whole, whole lot more than what's happening now. Silver lining - the current regime seems dead set on making that happen.

Posted by: Stayin' Alive at February 22, 2022 08:17 AM (8JmLF)

140 "The Democrat strategist was a founding co-host of the long-running Fox News show."
Bob Beckel, Former Co-Host of The Five, Dead at 73

If he's the guy I'm thinking of, he became a raging joke at the end of his career. He'd completely given up on everything and brought nothing to the table.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

141 Ukrane was so unstable as a "republic" they couldn't be trusted with nukes, so we STOLE those nukes that were the actual CENTER of nuke maintenance, and then given to Russia when russia was a nothing nation in '93, they had a fucking putsh in '93, and we still trusted russia more an Ukrain, that's how fucked up the place is.

Man, I don't know who you are, but you are on the Kurt level of trollness.

It wasn't a case of trusting or not trusting Ukraine with the nukes. The nukes were on Ukrainian soil, but the Russians held the codes. The Russians were not going to give the codes to the Ukrainians.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 22, 2022 08:18 AM (2graF)

142 I don't know the answer to turning things around but I do know it won't be the useless Republican Party which makes me think we will never 'vote' our way out of it.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 22, 2022 08:12 AM (4thlk)

I think the relatively bloodless fall of the Iron Curtain fooled a lot of us, or at least me, into badly underestimating the cost of freedom.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 22, 2022 08:19 AM (y7DUB)

143 Ukraine is the poster child for why we don't allow new, unstable, corrupt nations have nukes. Even Jessie Walters jumped on the crazy train last night saying this is Clinton's fault for taking away Ukraine's nukes. Idiot.

Posted by: lowandslow at February 22, 2022 08:19 AM (4thlk)

144 Pinto definitely ain't a troll. Just coming out of a long hiatus with a contrary opinion

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 08:19 AM (6FeV1)

145 131 I see the fight between Russia and Ukraine as a fight between two big crime families. I don't see why I have to pick a side.

You are right. Ukrane used the "promise" of protection as blackmail between the two for personal proffit, it's commonly know that it's the most corrupt nation on earth.

I could give a fuck, other than the EMBARASSMENT created by Clinton, initiated by Bush the first.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 08:19 AM (kOTP9)

146 Thank you. They're actually pretty much grown-ups now. Ages 22 and 18. Have certainly been forced to become even more grown up now. 1 month today date-wise since they lost their mom. We're all 3 navigating these waters together.
Posted by: Doof

And Godspeed in that journey, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

147 This preposterous study by Stanford assumes a 57%, FIFTY SEVEN PERCENT, reduction in end-use energy demand.

This is easy. Just cut power off to 188 million poeple.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 08:20 AM (yrol0)

148
They're actually pretty much grown-ups now. Ages 22 and 18. Have certainly been forced to become even more grown up now. 1 month today date-wise since they lost their mom. We're all 3 navigating these waters together.
Posted by: Doof

You and they will do fine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2022 08:20 AM (/U27+)

149 144 Pinto definitely ain't a troll. Just coming out of a long hiatus with a contrary opinion

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 08:19 AM (6FeV1)

I never called you a troll, and I don't think you are. I think we just disagree.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 08:20 AM (kOTP9)

150 well, I saw pictures of a UN air transport, and people talked of the unmarked, strange colored uniform, german speaking shock troops on the ground in canada - no wonder they beat the living crap out of peaceful protesters alongside the only ones evil and dark enough to stay with the current canadian police force and act against their own people

whether this is true or not, the UN flew in violent troops, this is where it is going

that is why they waited - to get reinforcements in - to be sure the canadian officers would comply, or if they didn't there was back up - and to make sure they could confiscate money and assets to cover the absolute failure of the regime

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 22, 2022 08:21 AM (Dyjy2)

151 If he's the guy I'm thinking of, he became a raging joke at the end of his career. He'd completely given up on everything and brought nothing to the table.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

Yeah he would be missing for 3 or 4 days on benders.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 08:21 AM (yrol0)

152 I am sorry for your loss Doof... may her memory be a blessing.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 22, 2022 08:21 AM (flINI)

153
The issue of Ukraine being or not being a part of Russia is irrelevant.

The issue is, is Ukraine worth our going to war to defend their independence?

I for one say "n'yet." That's not a contraction of "not yet" either.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:21 AM (s2VJv)

154 First step is to simply make your "representatives" lives miserable with clogging their lines/offices with awareness messages. And fuck the GOPe.

Yes. That always works. Antagonize the hell out of someone who allegedly represents you.

I see the flaw in your plan. You still think they work for us.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2022 08:21 AM (Hica+)

155 132 Agreed as to the bigger issue. But it's all about the messaging. The clogging of the lines is only Step 1. Think through what happened with the messaging sent by the Canada truckers. Scared the Left enough that they were forced to take off their masking early and strongly.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & Castro's son at February 22, 2022 08:21 AM (8m/Xb)

156 I have a right to Canarsie. I've got people there and they speak my language.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2022 08:22 AM (EZebt)

157
Next step? Irish democracy. Park the rigs wherever they are & walk away.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2022 08:17 AM (Hica+)

It's definitely what the Canadians should do as they're fucked anyway. The government will run registrations and retaliate, of course, but that makes the government look even worse. Doesn't seem the people will have a leg to stand on going forward.

I worry about our truckers if they're actually heading to DC to cause disruption. We've already proven the Capitol Police are the gestapo for Pelosi and have MURDRED Americans. Now they've branched out to other cities in America.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

158 If he's the guy I'm thinking of, he became a raging joke at the end of his career. He'd completely given up on everything and brought nothing to the table.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

Yes...he was the fat, sweaty shithead in suspenders who always tried to play the tough, blue collar democrat type.

Fuck him.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 22, 2022 08:22 AM (TJjzf)

159 Oh, Warai, is saying that I'm thoughtful, sorry for my aggressive response.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 08:22 AM (kOTP9)

160 150 well, I saw pictures of a UN air transport, and people talked of the unmarked, strange colored uniform, german speaking shock troops on the ground in canada - no wonder they beat the living crap out of peaceful protesters alongside the only ones evil and dark enough to stay with the current canadian police force and act against their own people

whether this is true or not, the UN flew in violent troops, this is where it is going

that is why they waited - to get reinforcements in - to be sure the canadian officers would comply, or if they didn't there was back up - and to make sure they could confiscate money and assets to cover the absolute failure of the regime
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 22, 2022 08:21 AM (Dyjy2)

This is why the Romans marched in people from other countries to rule, beat, and kill the locals.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 08:22 AM (yrol0)

161 Really don't give a rat's ass about Russia/Ukraine except for the fact that it showed our government and our preezy rutabaga to be totally inept and a joke to the rest of the world. I'm sure they suspected the ineptitude but now it's confirmed.
Thought Beckel died a couple years ago. Who was I thinking of if not Beckel?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 22, 2022 08:22 AM (2NHgQ)

162 156 I have a right to Canarsie. I've got people there and they speak my language.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2022 08:22 AM (EZebt)

Every girl I ever knew named Marcy invariably came from Canarsie.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:22 AM (s2VJv)

163 I miss hanging out at the hq. Sefton does magnificent work everyday to keep us talking about the issues. Stupid job thing...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 22, 2022 08:22 AM (flINI)

164
Russia taking over Ukraine is like tying a brick to a rock to try to make a battleship.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2022 08:23 AM (/U27+)

165 lol...

WP came here to chew bubble gum and break a bitch....and he's all out of bubble gum!

Posted by: Oedipus at February 22, 2022 08:23 AM (Ezt1G)

166
Yeah he would be missing for 3 or 4 days on benders.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 08:21 AM (yrol0)

Ok. So it is the same guy. He just sat there throwing out contrarian opinions to be a contrarian and had nothing of substance.

Didn't they finally ask him to leave?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

167 They don't care. They never do. When the Democrats get into power, they push a radical agenda and don't care if they get wiped out in the midterms. The electoral setback is temporary but the judges and legislation are permanent.

Don't forget that they change hiring policies too during that time that brings in whole categories of horrible life-tenured people into the Regulatory Branch of government.

I remember some dude was recalling the first year of the Obama reign of terror when the appointees went to work right away treating the civil service branch as a way to pay spoils to the politically connected people. There were massive numbers of hirings at the G14 and G15 level. Many had no duties, just no-show sinecures. The activists hired at the level instantly went to work to entrench Communist ideals throughout the institution.

This is what the Left does, they bring on the sociopaths, psychopath, saboteurs, parasites and destroyers, give them salary and title and then let them work unrestricted to metastasize the cancer.

You have to burn down the institution to get them out.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:23 AM (lD3vL)

168 I am celebrating beckel taking the Big L. Fuck all these leftists and i hope they all rot in hell.

Posted by: Eli Cash at February 22, 2022 08:23 AM (zqBvu)

169 I have to get back to work, but.... found this. And literally laughed out loud this morning.

Donald Trump's media group released its TRUTH Social iOS app today in the U.S., but a scan of the app's API using publicly available tools revealed that it already closed itself to registrations (also, the scan showed that its "proprietary account registration microservice" is named "Pepe," which is also the name of a meme with racist connotations).

LOL, Pepe.
They are trying so hard to taint this app already. Yahoo has gone nuts on it. They are so afraid. I cannot believe it is allowed in the app store, but it's crushing it. Sadly if you reside outside the US you cannot get an account. At least not now.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 22, 2022 08:23 AM (Dyjy2)

170 Pinto definitely ain't a troll. Just coming out of a long hiatus

I thought that was a wickedpinto sighting.
Just like AllenG.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2022 08:24 AM (Hica+)

171 The image on top tells you all you need to know about who's side the Canadian police are on.

Same side as the Capitol police.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

172 161 Thought Beckel died a couple years ago. Who was I thinking of if not Beckel?
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 22, 2022 08:22 AM (2NHgQ)

Thick-neck troglodyte from MSLSD Ed Schultz.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:24 AM (s2VJv)

173 163 I miss hanging out at the hq. Sefton does magnificent work everyday to keep us talking about the issues. Stupid job thing...
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 22, 2022 08:22 AM (flINI)

Listen to the podcast!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:25 AM (s2VJv)

174 Most importantly though, it won't work because they don't care what you or I think. Once in, most of them do not consider themselves representatives of the people who sent them there. They do as they want or as they are told by the real people they represent.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 22, 2022 08:16 AM (sVtYq)

This is why Trump made a point of frequently reminding people that he worked for us.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 22, 2022 08:25 AM (y7DUB)

175 I see the flaw in your plan. You still think they work for us.

That's a bitter pill, still, for many to swallow. Yet it best be done quickly. You're right - politicians work for the party. They just go through the motions of getting our approval once in a while. When we give the wrong answers, they simply change the results.

And they do a pretty good job of limiting our choices to only a couple that the ruling class approve. As Trump showed - when we get too uppity and go off the approved menu - they don't mind bowing up and putting us back in our place.

All that said to say this, I still don't see how routinely picking one of the two choices on the approved menu changes a damn thing.

Posted by: Stayin' Alive at February 22, 2022 08:25 AM (8JmLF)

176 It is me.

I could give a fuck about Ukraine. Or russia at this time. I'm FURIOUS at the weakness and the oppression that is happening in "free society's" within one year of eachother.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 08:25 AM (kOTP9)

177 Good morning. I was reading (maybe here) that WEF has infiltrated Canada's government as I'm sure they have done everywhere including here.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 22, 2022 08:25 AM (nxdel)

178 As to the question of how many American lives should be sacrificed to defend Ukraine, Ill paraphrase Bismarck about the Balkans:

Ukraine is not worth the healthy bones of a single American soldier.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 08:26 AM (yrol0)

179 Happy Tuesday!

Why is Canada doing this? Recently saw another clue: Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland also happens to currently be WEF Director. Really, she serves both Canada AND WEF. And until 2021 she was also on the board of the Aspen Institute Kyiv. WTF, right? Aspen Institute is Soros.

But the last one -- she's neck deep in Ukraine -- again, Ukraine. She is a longtime activist for Ukraine against Russia.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2022 08:26 AM (Izr3o)

180 147 This preposterous study by Stanford assumes a 57%, FIFTY SEVEN PERCENT, reduction in end-use energy demand.

This is easy. Just cut power off to 188 million poeple.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Will Stanford University lead the way and cut their own power first?

Posted by: Puddleglum lives in NoVA at February 22, 2022 08:26 AM (sAmhv)

181 Russia taking over Ukraine is like tying a brick to a rock to try to make a battleship.

Who here had the analogy of Ukraine as a burlap sack with a flag painted on the side filled with gangsters?

That was just a beautiful description. Should have kept a copy of it.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:26 AM (lD3vL)

182 I'm kinda worried about my Minnesota Wild. They're in Ottawa tonight, and Ottawa has Tkachuk, Stutzele, and horses used to trample people. Could be a tough game.

And if we win, they might just seize our chartered jet and sell it off. The NHL really does need to reconsider playing in a 3rd World dictatorship.

Posted by: Wally at February 22, 2022 08:26 AM (FJYfm)

183 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 22, 2022 08:26 AM (tcZnS)

184 tell me we aint gonna get a wave of nuck refugees cuz of Mooselini's actions

Posted by: REDACTED at February 22, 2022 08:27 AM (us2H3)

185 Thanks JJ. Must have been thinking that Beckel leaving Fox was due to death but most likely personal issues.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 22, 2022 08:27 AM (2NHgQ)

186 My wife, not American, tells her friends when they get offended by me. "I don't care, He's an American, and he's a Marine, he carries his freedom with him, you carry surf boards."

I have a great wife

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 08:27 AM (kOTP9)

187 that is why they waited - to get reinforcements in - to be sure the canadian officers would comply, or if they didn't there was back up - and to make sure they could confiscate money and assets to cover the absolute failure of the regime
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 22, 2022 08:21 AM (Dyjy2)

This is why the Romans marched in people from other countries to rule, beat, and kill the locals.
Posted by: rhennigantx

History may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2022 08:27 AM (Hica+)

188
tell me we aint gonna get a wave of nuck refugees cuz of Mooselini's actions
Posted by: REDACTED at February 22, 2022 08:27 AM (us2H3)

Who will tell you how much better they do things in Canada.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2022 08:28 AM (/U27+)

189
And if we win, they might just seize our chartered jet and sell it off. The NHL really does need to reconsider playing in a 3rd World dictatorship.
Posted by: Wally at February 22, 2022 08:26 AM (FJYfm)

Canada requires vaccination before being allowed in country as an athlete. They're already guilty of attempted murder with that rule. We'll just have to wait and see how many NHLers die from the demand.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

190 Scared the Left enough that they were forced to take off their masking early and strongly.

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And now, there is no more need for their masks. They've achieved, by law, unbridled power to crush the people. For authoritarianism, it's just getting started and they will no longer hide what they are. Why would they need to??? These are such dangerous times. So very dangerous. I wonder if a majority of Canadians will look up from their phones, their Facebooks, their Instagrams, their TikToks long enough to understand the grave danger they're in. Only time will tell if they want what's getting shoved down their throats...I guess.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 22, 2022 08:28 AM (sVtYq)

191 Sadly perhaps, but I couldn't care less about Ukraine.

The reality that this issue of all issues in these parlous times occupies the primary attention of my senator appalls me.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 08:28 AM (H8QX8)

192 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2022 08:29 AM (DU+/6)

193 My wife, not American, tells her friends when they get offended by me. "I don't care, He's an American, and he's a Marine, he carries his freedom with him, you carry surf boards."

I have a great wife
Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 08:27 AM (kOTP9)

That's actually pretty awesome.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

194 I'm from Chicago, you think I don't worry about my brother who has to commute into daily BLM container raids, and teenage Carjackings, or my sister who does the same? Or my mother who has to rely on drivers to get to doctors appointmens?

It was this just as I moved here away from that, but I think about it every day.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 08:29 AM (kOTP9)

195 Had a banned url, turned off and on phone and worked

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 22, 2022 08:29 AM (TRIdr)

196 Thought Beckel died a couple years ago. Who was I thinking of if not Beckel?
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 22, 2022 08:22 AM (2NHgQ)

Ed Schultz's fat ass died a few years ago....Bob's twin.

Fuck him too.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 22, 2022 08:29 AM (TJjzf)

197 So dunking your head in cold water to de-stress is science? Why not the whole body in the bathtub?

I thought cold water was one way to help you you wake up since, like forever. But now all leftist stupidly is science.

Posted by: Ripley at February 22, 2022 08:29 AM (MxEKc)

198 Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 22, 2022 08:25 AM (nxdel)

How you feeling?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

199 I'm not sure it's a particularly good idea to announce your intention to "drive around the DC Beltway" ahead of time. The nutters in the Capitol City are already putting up fencing and beefing up security for perceived insurrectionist activity ahead of the turnip's SotU address. Seems to me this is just playing into the junta's narrative that there's a need for continuing the National Emergency Act.

Plus, anyone who participates will be exposing themselves, family and friends to the J6 treatment on steroids. And least we forget this; the area is concentrated with intelligence agency employees, leftist law enforcement, a wacko military and an unfriendly media. Not to mention the locals. Who by and large are not on the protester's side.

A national strike would be a better choice to get attention.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2022 08:30 AM (BFigT)

200 186 My wife, not American, tells her friends when they get offended by me. "I don't care, He's an American, and he's a Marine, he carries his freedom with him, you carry surf boards."

I have a great wife
Posted by: Wickedpinto

Keeper!

Posted by: 7man at February 22, 2022 08:30 AM (qwO6y)

201 While all this is going on, John Durham is being ignored. Coincidence?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 22, 2022 08:30 AM (PiwSw)

202 Two weeks to flatten the emergency just turned into at least 2 years.
Have fun Canadians.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 22, 2022 08:30 AM (TRIdr)

203 @sponge, she does it constantly, I think my wife believes in me more than I do.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 08:30 AM (kOTP9)

204 Good morning. I was reading (maybe here) that WEF has infiltrated Canada's government as I'm sure they have done everywhere including here.

Its all a racket. All of it. The West sent millions to their deaths to fight Nazis and an expanding Japanese empire. Spent trillions to fight a prolonged Cold War against the Soviet Union.

Will nationwide suspend Rule of Law and end all Civil Rights just to get some trucks off of a bridge. Will lock down billions of people and wreak trillions of dollars of economic damage, hundreds of thousands of additional unnecessary deaths over a flu virus.

But won't drop a fucking bomb on the Davos convention center wiping out the WEF leadership and saving the world from Communism, trillions of dollars in losses, alleviating human misery and impeding genocide.

We wouldn't be down this road if someone stood up and did this One Simple Trick.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:30 AM (lD3vL)

205 The reality that this issue of all issues in these parlous times occupies the primary attention of my senator appalls me.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 08:28 AM (H8QX

===

Your interests do not interest him. Or her.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2022 08:30 AM (EZebt)

206 The collapse of Canada as a free country was apparent when freedom of speech stopped meaning anything. The idea that you could be prosecuted for "hate speech" was not the top of the slippery slope, but near the bottom.

And, like the Founding Fathers sending Ben Franklin to Europe, I'll make every reasonable effort to maintain peace, but my liberty is more important to me than what some hand-wringer in the (supposed) intelligencia thinks.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 22, 2022 08:31 AM (tcZnS)

207 And Godspeed in that journey, sir.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

You and they will do fine.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2022 08:20 AM (/U27+)

I am sorry for your loss Doof... may her memory be a blessing.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 22, 2022 08:21 AM (flINI)

I thank you all very much

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2022 08:31 AM (mZUr4)

208 All that said, it's not the laws and firewalls and all that that's the problem. The problem is the lack of morality, ethics and character and the concomitant will to power of people in and out of government who seek our enslavement or destruction.
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This is true, but they're not independent. We have many laws that are quite awful - FISA, for example, or the various executive enabling acts that moved legislation to the regulatory agency ("administrative law"), or the various emergency laws to help defeat "terrorism" and so much more. These laws were written by scoundrels to provide a veneer of legitimacy to their oppression. All laws are asymmetrically applied.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2022 08:31 AM (DU+/6)

209 To paraphrase Glen Reynolds, we know who funded the Canadian truckers, but we do not know who is in Ghislane Maxwell's black book?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 22, 2022 08:31 AM (mdjgu)

210 I wonder if a majority of Canadians will look up from their phones, their Facebooks, their Instagrams, their TikToks long enough to understand the grave danger they're in.

The majority of Canadians live in the cities - and they simply want everyone that brings them all their daily necessities to shut up, do as their told, and continue to bring them their daily necessities. Preferably on time and with a smile.

Posted by: Stayin' Alive at February 22, 2022 08:31 AM (8JmLF)

211
Her Majesty is a New Zealander (from the Deep South, I say when someone asks about her accent). She's not a citizen, but you'd be hard pressed to find someone more patriotic.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2022 08:31 AM (/U27+)

212 The Canadian riot police were brought in from remote areas and paid $4000 per day just to Crack heads. A literal brute squad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 08:31 AM (9uM86)

213 I cannot believe it is allowed in the app store, but it's crushing it.

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I haven't checked into it because I don't have an iPhone, and even when I added my name to the wait list, I got a 405 (not 404) error and I have no idea what that means.

And I fully believe the app store will yank it soon enough. It's for dangerous insurrectionists, and that simply will not be allowed...

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 22, 2022 08:32 AM (sVtYq)

214 This preposterous study by Stanford assumes a 57%, FIFTY SEVEN PERCENT, reduction in end-use energy demand.

*

hahaha.

Okay Sheila, here's your upcoming week. Now pick the four days you don't want electricity.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 22, 2022 08:32 AM (cUuEU)

215 Sadly perhaps, but I couldn't care less about Ukraine.

The reality that this issue of all issues in these parlous times occupies the primary attention of my senator appalls me.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 08:28 AM (H8QX

I used to lament the need to have us as the world's policeman. I wondered why these other countries saw these injustices around the world, but ultimately didn't do anything.
Now I think I get it. If your own country is a totally effed up mess, you really don't have the time, resources, or concern to get involved somewhere else. That's where we are now as Americans. Honestly, if Britain was under attack, I couldn't even support sending troops there.

Posted by: Wally at February 22, 2022 08:32 AM (FJYfm)

216 Sponge.. haven't been up long enough to really know. So far so good though! Thanks

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 22, 2022 08:32 AM (nxdel)

217 To paraphrase Glen Reynolds, we know who funded the Canadian truckers, but we do not know who is in Ghislane Maxwell's black book?
Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 22, 2022 08:31 AM (mdjgu)

The powers that be do, of course. But because their names are in it, we will never know.

We WILL know our place, however.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

218 211
Her Majesty is a New Zealander (from the Deep South, I say when someone asks about her accent). She's not a citizen, but you'd be hard pressed to find someone more patriotic.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2022 08:31 AM (/U27+)

Dunedin? That's South Deep South

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 22, 2022 08:33 AM (PiwSw)

219 >>I have a great wife

Indeed you do!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2022 08:33 AM (Izr3o)

220 Honestly, if Britain was under attack, I couldn't even support sending troops there.

Britain is under attack. By Britain.

Posted by: Stayin' Alive at February 22, 2022 08:33 AM (8JmLF)

221 Sponge.. haven't been up long enough to really know. So far so good though! Thanks
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 22, 2022 08:32 AM (nxdel)

Glad to hear it.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

222 [By] all means lets keep a day off to reflect on lessons of the American past

Progressives really really hate working!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 08:33 AM (yrol0)

223 158 If he's the guy I'm thinking of, he became a raging joke at the end of his career. He'd completely given up on everything and brought nothing to the table.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

Yes...he was the fat, sweaty shithead in suspenders who always tried to play the tough, blue collar democrat type.
____________

Beckel was married to (and divorced from) that woman who refused to give false testimony in the Kavanaugh kangaroo trial in the senate. Beckel's ex Leland Keyser was the woman that Dr. Ballsy-Fraud identified as being her friend who had also attended the house party where Dr. Fraud was supposedly groped by a teenage Kavanaugh.

Keyser refused to testify falsely for her friend Dr. Fraud, despite being relentlessly hounded by Dim operatives who threatened to destroy her if she didn't back up Dr. Fraud's bullshit story about the party that never happened. Keyser insisted that she had no recollection of ever attending any such party, and that she'd never even met Kavanaugh.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2022 08:34 AM (k4dH2)

224 Will We Learn the Right Lesson in Our Recent Failed Social Experiment with Mask Mandates?

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Out: Vote harder, rubes!
In: Mask harder, rubes!

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 22, 2022 08:34 AM (743lG)

225 A national strike would be a better choice to get attention.

I'm not sure that works either. Did you read JJ's opening monologue?

But now, as the late Hollywood producer Don Simpson used to say about failure, "It's not how you play the game, it's how you place the blame."

A National Strike will end up being the scapegoat for the next round of planned catastrophic failures. Bank on it while you still have an unfrozen account.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:34 AM (lD3vL)

226 "You have to burn down the institution to get them out."

How you doin'?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 22, 2022 08:34 AM (tcZnS)

227 Wickedpinto AND AllenG in the same morning!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2022 08:34 AM (Hica+)

228 Listen to the podcast!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:25 AM (s2VJv)

I've tried, JJ. Gotta be honest -- it's a bit too new-fangled. Part of the allure of the HQ is the feeling of being eternally held at the 1997 internet technology level.

I kid -- you all do an outstanding job with the podcast!!

Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2022 08:34 AM (mZUr4)

229 The collapse of Canada as a free country was apparent when freedom of speech stopped meaning anything. The idea that you could be prosecuted for ~~"hate speech"~~ speaking in English was not the top of the slippery slope, but near the bottom.
...
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 22, 2022 08:31 AM (tcZnS)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2022 08:34 AM (EZebt)

230 This preposterous study by Stanford assumes a 57%, FIFTY SEVEN PERCENT, reduction in end-use energy demand.

They'll demand solar panels on every house and wind turbines where solar isn't feasible.

Solar panels cause global warming. Have you seen how hot the surface of those things get in the direct sun?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

231 >>This preposterous study by Stanford assumes a 57%, FIFTY SEVEN PERCENT, reduction in end-use energy demand.

. . . while our government is hellbent on making everyone dump their regular cars for electric ones!!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 22, 2022 08:35 AM (Izr3o)

232 Thought Beckel died a couple years ago. Who was I thinking of if not Beckel?
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 22, 2022 08:22 AM (2NHgQ)

Ed Schultz's fat ass died a few years ago....Bob's twin.

Fuck him too.

==

I thought his brother was actor Graham Beckel (from The Paper Chase, Jennifer

, and he's a conservative.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 22, 2022 08:35 AM (sVtYq)

233 I would stay away from DC. It is a deep state ghetto where you have no protection provided by any State laws.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 08:36 AM (9uM86)

234 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

Haven't gone full Victor Klemperer yet, but after a quick trawl through Ace's headlines from yesterday and JJ's Report, am pretty damn close.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 22, 2022 08:36 AM (2JVJo)

235 A National Strike will end up being the scapegoat for the next round of planned catastrophic failures. Bank on it while you still have an unfrozen account.
Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:34 AM (lD3vL)

We're caught in the largest and most pernicious Kafka-trap in history. No one has an answer how to get out of it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 08:36 AM (H8QX8)

236 so for all you yiddish experts

my granny used to call an unpleasnat food after tatse a "nooftum"

like "this lox has a nooftum"

that's the phonetic, what's the acual spelling ?

Posted by: REDACTED at February 22, 2022 08:37 AM (us2H3)

237 I'm not sure it's a particularly good idea to announce your intention to "drive around the DC Beltway" ahead of time. The nutters in the Capitol City are already putting up fencing and beefing up security for perceived insurrectionist activity ahead of the turnip's SotU address. Seems to me this is just playing into the junta's narrative that there's a need for continuing the National Emergency Act.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2022 08:30 AM (BFigT)

Pick an Interstate. Drive side-by-side. Stop. Remain stationary for 15 minutes. Leave. Repeat.

Chaos.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 22, 2022 08:37 AM (vqc+k)

238 . . . while our government is hellbent on making everyone dump their regular cars for electric ones!!
Posted by: Lizzy

**

People need to start waking up to the reality that the batteries in their cars is where the solar / wind storage is going to be occurring.

You can't go to Walmart right now because Walmart needs to keep their coolers running, and your battery is supplying some of that energy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 22, 2022 08:37 AM (cUuEU)

239 Well it's -1. Just flipped over from -0.4. Going to be a long day of cold and wind chills of -20 to -30. Soup day and fresh bread. And alcohol, just a bit.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 22, 2022 08:37 AM (2NHgQ)

240 "I think the relatively bloodless fall of the Iron Curtain fooled a lot of us, or at least me, into badly underestimating the cost of freedom.

Posted by: Captain Hate"

I think our current techno-fascists/leftists are much more power hungry and ruthless than the European/Soviet communists at the end of the 80's, who seemed to lack the will, discipline and ruthlessness of the earlier versions. They will be more difficult to dislodge, especially since they think they are ruling us for our own good.

Posted by: Ripley at February 22, 2022 08:37 AM (MxEKc)

241
Pick an Interstate. Drive side-by-side. Stop. Remain stationary for 15 minutes. Leave. Repeat.

Chaos.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 22, 2022 08:37 AM (vqc+k)

This will create violence with the wrong people.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

242
In general, we're diminished by anyone's death, but somehow I can't seem to work up a lot of anguish over some political operative shuffling off this mortal coil.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2022 08:38 AM (/U27+)

243 Mike Pence should do a Judas off the 30 meter board.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at February 22, 2022 08:38 AM (MkuC5)

244
Haven't gone full Victor Klemperer yet, but after a quick trawl through Ace's headlines from yesterday and JJ's Report, am pretty damn close.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 22, 2022 08:36 AM (2JVJo)

HOGAN!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

245 This is why the Romans marched in people from other countries to rule, beat, and kill the locals.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Visigoths, right? And these are UN troops, if this is true. If this is true, it will be found out soon.

Posted by: Clutch at February 22, 2022 08:39 AM (9UmRs)

246 I think our current techno-fascists/leftists are much more power hungry and ruthless than the European/Soviet communists at the end of the 80's
Posted by: Ripley at February 22, 2022 08:37 AM (MxEKc)

They absolutely are. Look at how the Polish communists treated Solidarity compared to what Trudeau has done.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 08:39 AM (H8QX8)

247 I think our current techno-fascists/leftists are much more power hungry and ruthless than the European/Soviet communists at the end of the 80's, who seemed to lack the will, discipline and ruthlessness of the earlier versions. They will be more difficult to dislodge, especially since they think they are ruling us for our own good.

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This effort, their end game, is truly global. And they are fully committed to seeing it happen.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 22, 2022 08:39 AM (sVtYq)

248 212 The Canadian riot police were brought in from remote areas and paid $4000 per day just to Crack heads. A literal brute squad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 08:31 AM (9uM86)

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Like foreign mercenaries. Same as it ever was ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 22, 2022 08:40 AM (743lG)

249 Anyone else notice the voracious denouncements of the actions taken by the Canadian government by the GOP?

Oh, they're just holding fire until after the midterms. Then you'll see investigations, condemnations and impeachment proceedings the like of which have never happened before!

And I also have a bridge in Manhattan for sale.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 22, 2022 08:41 AM (2JVJo)

250 215 Sadly perhaps, but I couldn't care less about Ukraine.
The reality that this issue of all issues in these parlous times occupies the primary attention of my senator appalls me.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 08:28 AM (H8QX
....

Nor I, but I'm not sad about. I'm sad that this is where we are in our own country.

Posted by: Ziba at February 22, 2022 08:41 AM (S1hrL)

251
They absolutely are. Look at how the Polish communists treated Solidarity compared to what Trudeau has done.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 08:39 AM (H8QX

The Catholic Church was the great unifying force for the Poles, the foundation on which the resistance stood. The United States doesn't have anything like that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 22, 2022 08:41 AM (/U27+)

252 I honestly think the only peaceful way out of our current mess (that had any chance of working) is for everyone who can to opt out of basically everything.

That's a hard thing to do, because you're tied to so much (for instance, if I want to sell books, I'm kind of required to do business with Fuckerburg and Even-More-Progressive-Than-Bezos), but everywhere you can cut ties with the filth and evil, you should.

Meanwhile, focus on becoming as self-sufficient as possible so that when the music stops (and, one way or another, it will) you have a nice chair with plenty of ammunition and clear lines of fire.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 22, 2022 08:41 AM (tcZnS)

253 I think our current techno-fascists/leftists are much more power hungry and ruthless than the European/Soviet communists at the end of the 80's
Posted by: Ripley at February 22, 2022 08:37 AM (MxEKc)

The $22 Trillion dollar economy of the USA is one big fuckin hammer to wield!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 08:42 AM (yrol0)

254 Sadly perhaps, but I couldn't care less about Ukraine.

*

No one does. No one except the people in DC who have been laundering money through the country for the last couple of decades. That's why they're willing to send our children to die.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 22, 2022 08:43 AM (cUuEU)

255 This preposterous study by Stanford assumes a 57%, FIFTY SEVEN PERCENT, reduction in end-use energy demand.

. . . while our government is hellbent on making everyone dump their regular cars for electric ones!!

So I rooted around for the article. The so-called 57% reduction in energy use is simply referring to thermal energy. Yet another stupid article written by stupid people on the take for government money to justify destroying a reliable grid for an unreliable and profoundly expensive one.

I consider each and every pro renewables article to be underwritten either by gas companies, Chinese propaganda (to sabotage competing countries), ESG portfolio evangelists, and those gaming the lucrative "Carbon Credit" schemes.

Every single one of these articles is about disbursed costs and concentrated benefits. Those who intend to benefit expect a huge ROI on their funding of these propaganda pieces.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:43 AM (lD3vL)

256 Prayers for the officers in the George Floyd case-

George Floyd death: Defense rests in trial against ex-Minneapolis police officers after all 3 cops take stand
https://tinyurl.com/y2b8n684

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2022 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

257 So, what's Pence's long term goal?

1. Believes he is actually liked and wants to run in 2024?
2. Wants to hurt Trump to land a CNN consultant gig
3. Wants to hurt Trump to land a Bulwark/NRO gig
4. Has a deal with GOPe leadership been made: Pence hurts Trump, and GOPe gives Pence some sinecure, or honorary position in return?

He's a relatively young politician, so you'd think he'd want to run again, but he's got to know that's not an option. Does he want money, political power, or publicity?

Posted by: Pence Predictions at February 22, 2022 08:44 AM (NCgXW)

258 Ok so I thought this "Russian invasion was to take the Russian parts of Ukraine. But that happened today.

It would be new and surprising to me that Putin would attempt to seize or take more than that.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2022 08:44 AM (EZebt)

259 And I fully believe the app store will yank it soon enough. It's for dangerous insurrectionists, and that simply will not be allowed...
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 22, 2022 08:32 AM (sVtYq)
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More than possible. Or it will be plastered with warnings and be crippled, have updates work unreliably, etc.

Walled gardens are great for compatibility, but awful for personal decision-making - especially when the sentries patrolling the walls view themselves as prison guards at best or as farmers at worst.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2022 08:45 AM (DU+/6)

260 29 Canuckistan Parliament

I see what you did there.

Rating: *****

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at February 22, 2022 08:45 AM (MkuC5)

261 I worry about our truckers if they're actually heading to DC to cause disruption. We've already proven the Capitol Police are the gestapo for Pelosi and have MURDRED Americans.

And conservative stalwarts like Cruz and Paul will be first in line to award medals to the bastards for their bravery.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 22, 2022 08:45 AM (2JVJo)

262 228 Listen to the podcast!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:25 AM (s2VJv)

I've tried, JJ. Gotta be honest -- it's a bit too new-fangled. Part of the allure of the HQ is the feeling of being eternally held at the 1997 internet technology level.

I kid -- you all do an outstanding job with the podcast!!
Posted by: Doof at February 22, 2022 08:34 AM (mZUr4)

Umm, all you have to do is push the play button...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:46 AM (s2VJv)

263 Lots of housing available in northern VT in the abandoned dairy barns for the non-habla-Inlges crowd. Let em have at it.

Posted by: Ziba at February 22, 2022 08:46 AM (S1hrL)

264 Prayers for the officers in the George Floyd case-

George Floyd death: Defense rests in trial against ex-Minneapolis police officers after all 3 cops take stand
https://tinyurl.com/y2b8n684
Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2022 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

Yep. They'll need all the prayers they can get because they're fucked.

They can't get a fair trial. George Floyd was a criminal piece of shit that OD'd on an illegal drug. And four men's lives will be utterly destroyed because of it.

Did they fuck up? Yes. Their BIGGEST mistake was letting him back out of the car when he started complaining he couldn't breathe.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

265 Every single one of these articles is about disbursed costs and concentrated benefits. Those who intend to benefit expect a huge ROI on their funding of these propaganda pieces.
Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:43 AM (lD3vL)

FOLLOW THE MONEY

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 08:46 AM (yrol0)

266 Good morning. I think I have an addiction regarding coffee and chocolate glazed donuts. Should I go to a clinic or should I ride it out?

Posted by: dantesed at February 22, 2022 08:46 AM (88xKn)

267 DC is going to be the last city we take back, not the first. Now I understand why, throughout history, so many Great capitol cities have ended up being burnt to the ground.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 08:46 AM (9uM86)

268 Meanwhile, focus on becoming as self-sufficient as possible so that when the music stops (and, one way or another, it will) you have a nice chair with plenty of ammunition and clear lines of fire.

That is actually very bad advice. What you are recommending is a return to the life style that kept generations of people in perpetual poverty and misery.

Specialization and industrialization is responsible for food on the table and lights in the home.

If you insist on going Gault, do it with a tribe of specialists. Make sure that someone has the tools and skills for plumbing, or electrical work, or machining. This Lone Wolf crap gets you dead.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:47 AM (lD3vL)

269 Umm, all you have to do is push the play button...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:46 AM (s2VJv)
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What's next, JJ? Pause? Stop? Fast Forward? *Rewind?* Madness.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2022 08:47 AM (DU+/6)

270 Ok so I thought this "Russian invasion was to take the Russian parts of Ukraine. But that happened today.

It would be new and surprising to me that Putin would attempt to seize or take more than that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2022 08:44 AM (EZebt)

Well yeah, but when it was that easy, do you expect me to stop?

Posted by: Vladimir Putin at February 22, 2022 08:47 AM (FJYfm)

271 Umm, all you have to do is push the play button...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:46 AM (s2VJv)
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For some of the people I've had to help with technology over the years, that is the equivalent of piloting the space shuttle. (For the record, they are perfectly nice people, capable in their fields, just not used to technology).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 22, 2022 08:48 AM (YIVH2)

272 "Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:43 AM (lD3vL)"

Solar and wind work really well at the individual level. They mostly don't scale up because we don't have a way to store power on the grid (talked to my nuclear engineer uncle about that once, don't look for it to change any time in the next 100 years or more). I can't decide how many of these "we must shift to renewables!" folks are just stupid versus how many are actually grifters/con-men.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 22, 2022 08:49 AM (tcZnS)

273 War sucks. It really does. We don't want that - having young men and women suffer and bleed and die is a terrible thing. It's necessary in certain situations but should only be considered with a great deal of solemnity and purpose, not for trivial reasons.

Do I give a shit about one slavic country invading another? No, not enough to want to ask someone to die over it (and make no mistake, those are the "costs" that Harris alluded to in her speech...the costs are the lives of soldiers, sailors, and Marines).

Do I give a shit about Canada? Absolutely - this is a country that shares common cultural attributes with us. That something like Trudeau happened there is a serious wakeup call and I daresay an existentialist threat to the U.S. I'm not saying we send bombers, but we do need to be honest about the battlefield here, of ideas if nothing else.

Sorry, I'm all over the place this morning. Work sucks too.

Posted by: Witchdoktor at February 22, 2022 08:49 AM (2Avjq)

274 CBS assured me this morning that a Russian invasion of Ukraine was imminent. I know the Left hates Russia for the double heresy of ending the USSR and blowing a crater into our elite's child sex trafficking schemes (and the dossiers Putin certain developed), but trying to gin up a war with Russia is remarkably reckless.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2022 08:49 AM (DU+/6)

275 Pence, Haley, Christie. I will not vote for any of them in the general.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at February 22, 2022 08:50 AM (Ie9ru)

276 AOC going to show us what she does with her finger to de-stress next?

Posted by: Ziba at February 22, 2022 08:50 AM (S1hrL)

277 HOGAN!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

I needed that laugh, thank you!

Victor Klemperer was not related to the Klemperers who were Klink's parents.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 22, 2022 08:50 AM (2JVJo)

278 269 Umm, all you have to do is push the play button...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:46 AM (s2VJv)
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What's next, JJ? Pause? Stop? Fast Forward? *Rewind?* Madness.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2022 08:47 AM (DU+/6)

*scribbles furiously*

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:50 AM (s2VJv)

279 I can't decide how many of these "we must shift to renewables!" folks are just stupid versus how many are actually grifters/con-men.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

They all are.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2022 08:51 AM (Hica+)

280
I needed that laugh, thank you!

Victor Klemperer was not related to the Klemperers who were Klink's parents.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 22, 2022 08:50 AM (2JVJo)

I know, but the laugh is what I was going for.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

281 Ok so I thought this "Russian invasion was to take the Russian parts of Ukraine. But that happened today.

It would be new and surprising to me that Putin would attempt to seize or take more than that.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 22, 2022 08:44 AM (EZebt)

Subscribe to the Babylon Bee, even in its satire, it is far more on focus and prophetic than the MSM. That is how bad the propaganda has gotten. They are so far from the truth that mockery and jokes are more likely to be correct.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:51 AM (lD3vL)

282 For some reason, I'm getting a lot of sponsored messages in my LinkedIn feed telling me it's a great time to invest in Canada.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 22, 2022 08:51 AM (a3Q+t)

283 AOC going to show us what she does with her finger to de-stress next?
Posted by: Ziba at February 22, 2022 08:50 AM (S1hrL)

It will likely be much like the Wynona Rider ping pong ball trick from South Park.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

284
Parliament Funkadelic > Parliament cigarettes > Canadian Parliament

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 08:52 AM (s2VJv)

285 Joe #274 that French guy Epstein's pimp? His moving agency was the one who first brought Melania into the USA under a bogus tourist visa.

[This is a completely debunked lie. Kurt, you'll never get the taste of your mother's penis out of your mouth by spouting this garbage. Back to your glory hole you go. Those dicks don't suck themselves - jjs]

Posted by: Kurt at February 22, 2022 08:52 AM (5NAtE)

286 Hey again, all,

Gassed up the big Buick this morning at a local Exxon convenience store that offers E0 gas. My Exxon card gives me .10/gal. off on *their* 87 E10 fuel, but not on the E0. On the other hand, the price differential between E10 and E0 has narrowed to about .40/gal, instead of the .70 it was 2 weeks ago.

Monday, when I'm off, I can stop at the local service station (yes, real service like oil changes and brake work) that offers E0 at about .30 less than the Exxon E0.

Does it make a difference in my gas mileage? Yes. Does it make enough to offset the price difference? No. But I fondly believe it makes the car run a hair better overall.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 22, 2022 08:52 AM (txdEq)

287 257 So, what's Pence's long term goal?

1. Believes he is actually liked and wants to run in 2024?
2. Wants to hurt Trump to land a CNN consultant gig
3. Wants to hurt Trump to land a Bulwark/NRO gig
4. Has a deal with GOPe leadership been made: Pence hurts Trump, and GOPe gives Pence some sinecure, or honorary position in return?

He's a relatively young politician, so you'd think he'd want to run again, but he's got to know that's not an option. Does he want money, political power, or publicity?

Posted by: Pence Predictions at February 22, 2022 08:44 AM (NCgXW)
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He doesn't want the Epstein blackmail video to come out.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 22, 2022 08:52 AM (743lG)

288 Posted by: Kurt at February 22, 2022 08:52 AM (5NAtE)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at February 22, 2022 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

289 They'll demand solar panels on every house and wind turbines where solar isn't feasible.

Solar panels cause global warming. Have you seen how hot the surface of those things get in the direct sun?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:35 AM

naw, solar is so 2009. The new grift is electric vehicles. In the past year, I've worked on parts for at least half a dozen new start-up EV manufacturers. Everyone knows Tesla, and has probably head of Rivian and maybe Karma. The start-ups in the past year all have mad fundz (just like Solyndra "magically" came out of nowhere with almost a billion dollar bank back in 2009 / 10).

Ever heard of EV manufacturers Canoe or Lucid or Bollinger or Nikola? Your tax dollars at "work", IMHO

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 22, 2022 08:54 AM (DUIap)

290 Pence wants money, so does his karen, named Karen. $4M book deal is not enough for what they want.

Posted by: CN The First at February 22, 2022 08:54 AM (ONvIw)

291 I can't decide how many of these "we must shift to renewables!" folks are just stupid versus how many are actually grifters/con-men.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

Walk into a room and announce "we must shift to renewables". Now walk into another room and say "we must build more fossil fuel and nuclear plants".

Wildly different reaction. If your job is to sell yourself and make people like you, then you will never advocate any policy that is outside the Established Narrative.

Your audience is very likely unsophisticated in terms of energy, economics and basic science. The depth of their knowledge on any subject outside of their career or hobby is as deep as a Tweet.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 08:54 AM (lD3vL)

292
Does it make a difference in my gas mileage? Yes. Does it make enough to offset the price difference? No. But I fondly believe it makes the car run a hair better overall.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 22, 2022 08:52 AM (txdEq)

It does. They knew 100 years ago Ethanol sucks and was extremely limited in useful purpose.

It's all just money laundering. BIG CORN is fucking you.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

293 Pence?

No one serious is talking about Pence. He's going nowhere.

But everyone here knew that.

Posted by: Witchdoktor at February 22, 2022 08:56 AM (2Avjq)

294 So, what's Pence's long term goal?

There's a phrase the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper used about Hitler: 'convinced of his own rectitude' to explain that yes, he really did think he was doing what was right in launching the Holocaust.

I'm wondering if Pence is the same; convinced that Teh Donald was such an existential threat to the country that he had to be thrown out of office by any means necessary.

I can't imagine Pence is stupid enough to believe the GOP line that Trump is hated by the base and by America. Or perhaps he is that stupid.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 22, 2022 08:56 AM (2JVJo)

295 Whatever Trudeau did, Biden did first and under Wray's leadership. Wray is just as bad as Pence and Barr.

Posted by: CN The First at February 22, 2022 08:57 AM (ONvIw)

296 I don't fault Pence for his official actions on 6-Jan, but I do fault him for trying, like a number of others (Haley, Christy etc) of trying to pivot too quickly from Trump.

Posted by: Neo at February 22, 2022 08:57 AM (RHGPo)

297 My Mother is part Ukrainian and part Russian. Most of her family fled after 1919. Those who remained had been killed off by 1944. The whole place is soaked in blood.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at February 22, 2022 08:57 AM (Adlwz)

298 I don't fault Pence for his official actions on 6-Jan, but I do fault him for trying, like a number of others (Haley, Christy etc) of trying to pivot too quickly from away Trump, while yelling aloud .. "The King is Dead"

Posted by: Neo at February 22, 2022 08:58 AM (RHGPo)

299 They can't get a fair trial. George Floyd was a criminal piece of shit that OD'd on an illegal drug. And four men's lives will be utterly destroyed because of it.

Did they fuck up? Yes. Their BIGGEST mistake was letting him back out of the car when he started complaining he couldn't breathe.
______________

Yep, I watched the tapes of that arrest. The cops were bending over backwards to accommodate Floyd. And of course we know from the evidence in Chauvin's trial that putting his knee on Floyd's neck was what cops were trained to do with an unruly suspect who was under the influence of drugs and behaving erratically.

The cops did everything by the book, literally. And now they'll spend the rest of their lives in prison, because globalists and our criminally irresponsible media stirred up an international shit-show out of a career criminal and drug abuser with a severely-diseased heart dying of heart failure during a lawful arrest.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2022 08:58 AM (k4dH2)

300 Maybe best thing is for the DC convoy to just be head fake to get the regime panic, over-react, waste resources and look stupid. Start with a some small convoys and disperse before even close to DC and don't anything remotely illegal. Keep those tyrants on edge and awake at night.

Posted by: Ripley at February 22, 2022 08:59 AM (MxEKc)

301 "This Lone Wolf crap gets you dead."

Everything gets you dead eventually, but, yes. Part of "self-sufficiency" is realizing you can't do it all, so you need to have people you can trust. However, knowing how to do things for yourself makes you less reliant on others, making you less of a victim of (when) things go all pear-shaped.

And the point isn't for everyone to go back to 1845, it's for a big chunk of people to do everything they can to say "no, we don't support this, and you can't make us play your rigged game." IF we're going to have a peaceful solution, the so-called elites must be made to realize they speaking to an increasingly empty room.

Don't check our of your community, though. Go to church. Join the Lions Club. Who cares what happened on last night's episode of This Is Us (is that still a thing?), it's much more important that the seeds are sprouting and will need to be transplanted in a few weeks, and that Preacher John's car died and he needs some help until he can get it fixed.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 22, 2022 08:59 AM (tcZnS)

302 It's too late to play it safe now. Damn the consequences, come what may.
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This is about power-- they mean to have it, use it and keep it.

You don't fight that evil with votes and lawsuits ...

Posted by: Well at February 22, 2022 08:59 AM (wkC12)

303 293

Apparently not.

Posted by: Ziba at February 22, 2022 08:59 AM (S1hrL)

304 I like today's palindromic date 2/22/22.

I don't like the fascist governments of Canada or the US.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 22, 2022 08:59 AM (II3Gr)

305
I can't imagine Pence is stupid enough to believe the GOP line that Trump is hated by the base and by America. Or perhaps he is that stupid.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 22, 2022 08:56 AM (2JVJo

No, he was a poor man as pols go, and wanted in on the take. Does anybody want to read his book. I doubt it, but he announced a bid deal after J6. Good little soldier of the uniparty.

Posted by: CN The First at February 22, 2022 08:59 AM (ONvIw)

306 "And why are they doing all this?"

because Klaus Schwab wants them to

Posted by: Shoey77 at February 22, 2022 08:59 AM (fcWVN)

307 JJ love the podcasts though they pop up and don't hear them until the weekend.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 22, 2022 08:59 AM (7UOCc)

308 Does it make a difference in my gas mileage? Yes. Does it make enough to offset the price difference? No. But I fondly believe it makes the car run a hair better overall.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 22, 2022 08:52 AM (txdEq)
*
It does. They knew 100 years ago Ethanol sucks and was extremely limited in useful purpose.

It's all just money laundering. BIG CORN is fucking you.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022

***
Then Big Corn is going to miss out. I fill up 50/50 with E0 and E10, and all E0 where I can find it for close to reasonable prices. You might say Big Corn is getting the tease, but no Happy Ending.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 22, 2022 09:00 AM (txdEq)

309 Now the Washington Post reports that another Democratic strategist group has sent up red flares not over the 2022 midterms but the 2024 election as well, warning that the party has deluded itself into believing its own spin about an "emerging progressive majority" that simply doesn't exist. At all.

Posted by: Neo at February 22, 2022 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

310 Market crashes on fears as oil nears $90!

Market booms as oil nears $100!

Financial people are idiots.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:00 AM (qnVBz)

311 I can't imagine Pence is stupid enough to believe the GOP line that Trump is hated by the base and by America. Or perhaps he is that stupid.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 22, 2022 08:56 AM (2JVJo
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No, he wants in on the "I got rich by campaigning" scheme. Why should Bernie have beach houses and a wife who owns a "media company" that sucks down campaign dollars but Pence shouldn't?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2022 09:01 AM (DU+/6)

312 Well, time actually to work.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 22, 2022 09:01 AM (txdEq)

313 Sebastian Gorka DrG
@SebGorka

Do you really want to know why Putin is invading Ukraine?

Because President Trump isn't President, and Biden is weak and senile.

END

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2022 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

314 Apparently, as I predicted yesterday, Putin is going to annex the Donbas region of the Ukraine. Reports are that Russian soldiers have entered the Donbas near the city of Donetsk where there has been heavy fighting between Russian separatists and Ukrainian nationals.

The Russians won't be leaving.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2022 09:01 AM (BFigT)

315 177 Good morning. I was reading (maybe here) that WEF has infiltrated Canada's government as I'm sure they have done everywhere including here.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 22, 2022 08:25 AM (nxdel)

13 of the 39 Cabinet Ministers in the Canadian Federal government have bio pages at the World Economic Forum (WEF). That includes the Prime Minister, the Deputy PM/Finance Minister, and the Associate Finance Minister. So does the leader of the NDP.

Oh yeah, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has a page too.

Fully. Compromised.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 22, 2022 09:01 AM (nRMeC)

316 Wolfus posted a great tweet by the WEF, something like " I own nothing, I have no privacy, and I've never been happier" The billionaires want it all.

Posted by: CN The First at February 22, 2022 09:01 AM (ONvIw)

317 The Queen has the right to strip the tyrant of all powers. I hope she does that.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 09:02 AM (kOTP9)

318 Solar and wind work really well at the individual level. They mostly don't scale up because we don't have a way to store power on the grid (talked to my nuclear engineer uncle about that once, don't look for it to change any time in the next 100 years or more). I can't decide how many of these "we must shift to renewables!" folks are just stupid versus how many are actually grifters/con-men.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 22, 2022 08:49 AM (tcZnS)

Pumping water uphill with the extra electricity for use a hydro at night is the best we have today.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 09:02 AM (yrol0)

319 296 I don't fault Pence for his official actions on 6-Jan, but I do fault him for trying, like a number of others (Haley, Christy etc) of trying to pivot too quickly from Trump.
Posted by: Neo at February 22, 2022 08:57 AM (RHGPo)

I absolutely fault him for that, as well as the entire GOP especially at the state level where GOP controlled legislatures in the 6 crucial states should never have certified the EC delegates. And before that, when they voted to destroy election integrity with mail-in ballots.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 09:02 AM (s2VJv)

320 Because President Trump isn't President, and Biden is weak and senile.

END
Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2022 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

And he has enough dirt on our pols to sink them.

Posted by: CN The First at February 22, 2022 09:02 AM (ONvIw)

321 "Well, time actually to work."

Me, too. Back to today's lurking.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at February 22, 2022 09:03 AM (tcZnS)

322 Truck convoy on the Beltway. A dangerous game.
Are the optics worth it?

Posted by: Ziba at February 22, 2022 09:03 AM (S1hrL)

323 A shot so safe and effective that you have to trample people with horses to force them to take it.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2022 09:03 AM (ESjRY)

324 296 I don't fault Pence for his official actions on 6-Jan, but I do fault him for trying, like a number of others (Haley, Christy etc) of trying to pivot too quickly from Trump.
Posted by: Neo at February 22, 2022 08:57 AM (RHGPo

I do.

Posted by: CN The First at February 22, 2022 09:03 AM (ONvIw)

325 No, he wants in on the "I got rich by campaigning" scheme. Why should Bernie have beach houses and a wife who owns a "media company" that sucks down campaign dollars but Pence shouldn't?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2022 09:01 AM (DU+/6)

And wifey poo also had a big grifting gig at a college that went broke.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 09:03 AM (yrol0)

326 311 No, he wants in on the "I got rich by campaigning" scheme. Why should Bernie have beach houses and a wife who owns a "media company" that sucks down campaign dollars but Pence shouldn't?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 22, 2022 09:01 AM (DU+/6)

========

This is 95% of people who run for president now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 22, 2022 09:04 AM (LvTSG)

327 For some of the people I've had to help with technology over the years, that is the equivalent of piloting the space shuttle. (For the record, they are perfectly nice people, capable in their fields, just not used to technology).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Have we met

Posted by: 7man at February 22, 2022 09:04 AM (qwO6y)

328 The powers that tyrant is using are based on laws of the queen, redifined in 1988, but his power is ONLY through the crown. I would like the only respectable crown to say "FUCK YOU CASTREAU! YOU are INSULTING THE CROWN" which he is.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 09:04 AM (kOTP9)

329 *reads MR headlines and JJ's monologue*

You guys are fucked!

Posted by: Cloud William at February 22, 2022 09:04 AM (4I/2K)

330 Well, time actually to work.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I do not understand those words in that order.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2022 09:04 AM (Hica+)

331 Question for Donbass - how Russian is it?

People *should* have the right to self determination. Are the people there actually in favor of independence or union with Russia?

Because if they are - why the hell does anyone care?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2022 09:05 AM (ESjRY)

332 Now the Washington Post reports that another Democratic strategist group has sent up red flares not over the 2022 midterms but the 2024 election as well, warning that the party has deluded itself into believing its own spin about an "emerging progressive majority" that simply doesn't exist. At all.

They don't need a 'progressive majority.' Not when the GOP is led by a McConnell and Graham who spent four years stabbing President Trump in the back, and populated by disloyal scumbags like Romney and Collins and aided and abetted by collaborators like Cruz and Paul.

The GOP is going to do nothing come November but be supine and recoil in fear every time the MFM snarls at them. Why anyone thinks voting for some 'Red Wave' is going to stop the junta from establishing its own Enabling Act is beyond me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 22, 2022 09:05 AM (2JVJo)

333 Something will knock you out of your stride today but being the resilient sort you wont be down for long. As one of the zodiacs cardinal signs you enjoy being challenged, so pick yourself up, dust yourself down and get back into the fight.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 09:05 AM (yrol0)

334 My understanding of the American truckers plan is they intend to not go into DC.

They plan to ride around the Beltway. Brave souls. The Beltway area was the worst gig I ever had as a trucker.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at February 22, 2022 07:52 AM (Adlwz)

boy is THAT going to make the mixing bowl fun...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 22, 2022 09:06 AM (8D42x)

335 Report: Santa Fe D.A. Says It's Possible Alec Baldwin Didn't Pull Trigger in Fatal 'Rust' Set Shooting

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2022 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

336 257 So, what's Pence's long term goal?

He's not that bright, in my opinion. A conventional thinker who operates mostly from calculation, opportunism and fear. He saw the VP as a glide path to the presidency (who wouldn't?) but rather than throw all-in for Trump didn't have the guts. Probably at this point not fully aware how much he is despised by the base (typical deluded politician) and still thinks he can, with GOPe help, con the rubes.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 09:06 AM (H8QX8)

337 Shut up and obey
For there's no other way
To avoid being trampled
Than shut up and obey

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 22, 2022 09:07 AM (II3Gr)

338 Solar and wind work really well at the individual level.
*

So long as you don't need to do much of anything like use electricity.

My daughter's class was studying the International Space Station last year and she accidentally discovered that the bleeding-edge technology, with no clouds and directional panels that are always maximizing light collection, couldn't power five regular homes in the U.S. for one day.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 22, 2022 09:07 AM (cUuEU)

339 politcally, Pence is even more finished than Shamala

Shamala could possibly replace Dii in 2024

Posted by: REDACTED at February 22, 2022 09:07 AM (us2H3)

340 335 Report: Santa Fe D.A. Says It's Possible Alec Baldwin Didn't Pull Trigger in Fatal 'Rust' Set Shooting
Posted by: SMOD

Possible translation: waiting for the check to possibly clear.

Posted by: Puddleglum lives in NoVA at February 22, 2022 09:07 AM (sAmhv)

341 J Peterson
Canadians, you have no idea what was done today in the name of what? Safety? Punishment? Whats the rationale, even hypothetically?
The Emergency Act was reserved for events that threatened the very existence of the state. If you think that current events qualify, think again.

PS You are fucked and far from home!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 09:07 AM (yrol0)

342 Trump's own party wanted him out and Pence is a party man.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 22, 2022 09:07 AM (KFhLj)

343
The tell about Mike Pence. If he had any character, principles or backbone, he would've defended the Indiana RFRA law to his dying breath.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 09:07 AM (s2VJv)

344 I like today's palindromic date 2/22/22.

I don't like the fascist governments of Canada or the US.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 22, 2022 08:59 AM (II3Gr
*******
Happy Palindrome and Ambigram Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2022 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

345 The Governor General of Canada- who represents the Queen, could put the kibosh on Adolf Trudont. She has the power to do so.

Posted by: Archer at February 22, 2022 09:08 AM (gmo/4)

346 337 Shut up and obey
For there's no other way
To avoid being trampled
Than shut up and obey
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 22, 2022 09:07 AM (II3Gr)

Jesus likes this one!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 09:08 AM (yrol0)

347 335 Report: Santa Fe D.A. Says It's Possible Alec Baldwin Didn't Pull Trigger in Fatal 'Rust' Set Shooting
Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2022 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

saw that, dumb report. They're saying that since it was a single action pistol, he could have pulled the hammer back partway and it could have slipped back and hit the firing pin without him pulling the actual trigger. But he still would have had to thumb the hammer back.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 09:08 AM (evAgx)

348 335 Report: Santa Fe D.A. Says It's Possible Alec Baldwin Didn't Pull Trigger in Fatal 'Rust' Set Shooting
Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2022 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

It's possible an SUV all by itself drove into a Waukesha Christmas parade. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 09:09 AM (s2VJv)

349 Report: Santa Fe D.A. Says It's Possible Alec Baldwin Didn't Pull Trigger in Fatal 'Rust' Set Shooting

No reasonable prosecutor! Right on cue.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 22, 2022 09:09 AM (KFhLj)

350 314 Apparently, as I predicted yesterday, Putin is going to annex the Donbas region of the Ukraine. Reports are that Russian soldiers have entered the Donbas near the city of Donetsk where there has been heavy fighting between Russian separatists and Ukrainian nationals.

The Russians won't be leaving.

the "news" will try to paint this as a dire and grave development.

I'm glad I don't watch the "news" anymore

Posted by: Shoey77 at February 22, 2022 09:10 AM (fcWVN)

351 what's the odds on Kevin Mc keeps his vow to strip Shifty, Spyfucker and towelheadette of their committee assignments ?

Posted by: REDACTED at February 22, 2022 09:10 AM (us2H3)

352 Because if they are - why the hell does anyone care?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2022 09:05 AM (ESjRY)

Now have Mexico try to take California back.

Please.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 09:10 AM (6FeV1)

353 So the officers kilt George Floyd, but Alec Baldwin didn't shoot that woman.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 22, 2022 09:10 AM (cUuEU)

354 She has the power to do so.

The Queen also has the COVID. And is still alive. As old as she is.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 22, 2022 09:10 AM (KY22T)

355 The Emergency Act was reserved for events that threatened the very existence of the state. If you think that current events qualify, think again.

He's not wrong. The whole idea here is the government wants to starve to death people that won't get the clot shot, which doesn't stop transmission of COVID, for people that mostly work by themselves, for a disease that most of the Western World is now declaring over.

The only real rational is they are challenging Castro's power and he will not abide that.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2022 09:10 AM (ESjRY)

356 336 257 So, what's Pence's long term goal?"

To get on some corporate and Davos supported boards and haul in nice fat checks for doing nothing for the rest of his life. That's what he is auditioning for.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 09:11 AM (evAgx)

357 It's not hard to see how this happened. Democrats constantly put their party agenda ahead of the concerns of average voters. You tell a Democrat that you're concerned about the rising cost of gas and food, and they start talking about the dangers of climate change. You tell them you're worried about the economy, and they respond by promising you free childcare.

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2022 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

358 saw that, dumb report. They're saying that since it was a single action pistol, he could have pulled the hammer back partway and it could have slipped back and hit the firing pin

So baldwin went off half cocked?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:11 AM (qnVBz)

359 addendum:

While literally holding the gun and pointing it at her head when it went off

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 22, 2022 09:11 AM (cUuEU)

360 Pumping water uphill with the extra electricity for use a hydro at night is the best we have today.

Change that to desalination for the flat country bordering oceans. (but that doesn't store energy, it just converts wind into something more valuable other than crypto)

Nuclear is the answer for base load, with surplus going into pumping water and desalination. I would be tempted to say that maybe charging EVs would be a good off-peak time, but electricity demand is very dependent on weather conditions, and EV charging isn't something that is as elastic.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 09:11 AM (lD3vL)

361 I thought that particular model of revolver had a catch to prevent that very thing from happening.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:12 AM (qnVBz)

362 You know, I just realized the 'Sussex' could be interpreted as Pig sex. Please don't tell anyone.

Posted by: Duchess of Sussex at February 22, 2022 09:12 AM (a3Q+t)

363
So baldwin went off half cocked?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:11 AM (qnVBz)

------

Cocking's for closers.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 22, 2022 09:12 AM (743lG)

364 Picture a horseshoe, stamping on a human face, forever.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (6FeV1)

365 While literally holding the gun and pointing it at her head when it went off
Posted by: Moron Robbie

What? Was he supposed to point it at the camera? That is a very expensive camera.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (qnVBz)

366 I don't fault Pence for his official actions on 6-Jan....
Posted by: Neo at February 22, 2022 08:57 AM (RHGPo

It completely disqualifies him from ever holding a leadership position in anything again (that along with his bang-up job heading the Covid task force). His pathetic nonfeasance was an insult to every American who voted for Trump and to the nation itself.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (H8QX8)

367 Report: Santa Fe D.A. Says It's Possible Alec Baldwin Didn't Pull Trigger in Fatal 'Rust' Set Shooting

It's possible that the bullet jumped out of the gun all by itself.

Posted by: dantesed at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (88xKn)

368 Going out early on a call

Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be the first female President of the US

Posted by: REDACTED at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (us2H3)

369 364 Picture a horseshoe, stamping on a human face, forever.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (6FeV1)

I read that as "whore's shoe."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (s2VJv)

370 367 Report: Santa Fe D.A. Says It's Possible Alec Baldwin Didn't Pull Trigger in Fatal 'Rust' Set Shooting

It's possible that the bullet jumped out of the gun all by itself.
Posted by: dantesed at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (88xKn)

========

Was there a second shooter?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

371 Just thought
I could see some bull shit reason that happens and Democrats pulling a Fidel Jr stunt declare a emergency just before the mid terms or more 2024

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (7UOCc)

372 Canadian Senate proceedings "live":

https://tinyurl.com/43d9bmcz

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 22, 2022 09:14 AM (UHVv4)

373 Was on a phone call with a business friend this morning. Before we hung up he asked my view of Ukraine issue, and was unsatisfied when I said I really didn't much care. But the time is in the rear view mirror when we could have prevented this problem, and now (unless you are willing to start shooting at Russian troops, which I am not) the die is cast. Only active strong engagement over the last year projecting strength to Putin could have stopped this. Removing Nordstream sanctions and personal sanctions against Russian leaders was a bizarre mistake, but totally typical of the Biden Junta approach to international bad actors.

Ukraine was lost months ago, and the lefties should be more concerned with Taiwan now, Vietnam, India, and some of the Philippine Islands. And, for Putin, the Baltic states. Maybe even Gotland.

What are the limits of ambition for Xi and Putin?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 22, 2022 09:14 AM (NRqwE)

374 Anyone ask Candace Bergen why she and her fellow cowards didn't go join the truckers when Castro decided to attack them?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2022 09:14 AM (ESjRY)

375 I read that as "whore's shoe."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (s2VJv)

25 bucks same as downtown!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 09:15 AM (yrol0)

376 334

Assuming the truckers make it that far. If they succeed it will be fantastic; if they fail it will be catastrophic.

Posted by: Ziba at February 22, 2022 09:15 AM (S1hrL)

377 So baldwin went off half cocked?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:11 AM (qnVBz)

my #1 complaint about Alec

Posted by: Hilaria at February 22, 2022 09:15 AM (us2H3)

378 The only real rational is they are challenging Castro's power and he will not abide that.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2022 09:10 AM (ESjRY)

they are challenging the powers that support the WEF, ie the international oligarchy. Remember that Lil' Castro's first response was to run away and hide for a week, because he had no idea what to do. Then his orders came down, from Brussels and Beijing and DC, and he obeyed them. That's why he has no fear, he knows that every police force and army in the developed world has his back right now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 09:15 AM (evAgx)

379 You tell a Democrat that you're concerned about the rising cost of gas and food, and they start talking about the dangers of climate change.

Climate Change™ is the rhetorical retreat of despots. By stating the magic words Climate Change™ you effectively have them attempting to perform a Jedi Mindtrick.

Its no different when they accuse something of "racism". They don't know what racism is, just as much as they can't tell you what Climate Change™ is. They use those words no differently than "These are not the droids you are after". Its a lie. (those were the droids) and they expect the mere uttering of them to subdue their opponents.

But Jedi mindtricks only work on the weak of mind. Make them define Climate Change™ make them define Racism.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 09:15 AM (lD3vL)

380 The tell about Mike Pence. If he had any character, principles or backbone, he would've defended the Indiana RFRA law to his dying breath.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 09:07 AM (s2VJv)

Exactly. People have forgotten that episode. Trump shouldn't have. Another horrible hiring decision.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 09:15 AM (H8QX8)

381 376 334

Assuming the truckers make it that far. If they succeed it will be fantastic; if they fail it will be catastrophic.

Posted by: Ziba at February 22, 2022 09:15 AM (S1hrL)

Like Marlon Perkins. she was in the trailer mixing martinis while Jock wrestled the saber tooth tiger . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 09:15 AM (s2VJv)

382 It's possible that the bullet jumped out of the gun all by itself.
Posted by: dantesed at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (88xKn)

========

Was there a second shooter?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 22, 2022 09:15 AM (II3Gr)

383 From The Hill:
"The Republican National Committee's official GOP Twitter handle marked Presidents Day with an attack on President Biden.

The GOP tweeted a collage of images of past Republican presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon and Donald Trump, and wished them a happy Presidents Day.

The GOP also included a masked photo of Biden with the words "NOT YOU" in red capital letters."

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2022 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

384 02/22/22

Posted by: runner at February 22, 2022 09:16 AM (MKLBv)

385 Report: Santa Fe D.A. Says It's Possible Alec Baldwin Didn't Pull Trigger in Fatal 'Rust' Set Shooting
Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2022 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

Possibility: 0.0000000135%

Probability:0.0000000000000000000000000000926%

Baldwin acquitted of all responsibility by Math, h8erz!!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 22, 2022 09:16 AM (5NkmN)

386 saw that, dumb report. They're saying that since it was a single action pistol, he could have pulled the hammer back partway and it could have slipped back and hit the firing pin without him pulling the actual trigger. But he still would have had to thumb the hammer back.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Transfer bar should have stopped it. Only way for that to happen is if the trigger was depressed. Unless it was truly an 1873 SAA and not a copy.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2022 09:16 AM (Hica+)

387 With the UK declaring that Thursday is the end of legal measures about the Covid pandemic, what's the point, Canada? This thing is over. The fire is out and the coals are dampened. There's just some heat and lingering smoke.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 22, 2022 09:16 AM (4I/2K)

388 Sara Huckaber sexually assaulted me in high school.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:16 AM (qnVBz)

389 That would confirm the data Sussmann and Joffe passed to the CIA was from the Trump transition period. While Washington and the press focus on January 6, the more dangerous and anti-democratic acts occurred in the shadows in 2016 and 2017. They didnt seize the Capitol because they didnt have to. The FBI and the CIA were willing to do their bidding, operating in secret to spy on and undermine the President.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 09:17 AM (yrol0)

390 "...Jagmeet Singh stated that while he was happy for these extraordinary powers to be used against the truckers protesting in Ottawa, they must never be used against "Indigenous land defenders, climate change activists, workers fighting for fairness."

Huh.
So truckers are not "workers gihting for fairness."
Well, Singh has not been known for deep, non-hypocritical thinking.

Posted by: Flyover, further disgusted by 2022. at February 22, 2022 09:17 AM (Rbu5d)

391 382 Was there a second shooter?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 22, 2022 09:15 AM (II3Gr)

=========

That is one magic loogie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 22, 2022 09:17 AM (LvTSG)

392 Picture a horseshoe, stamping on a human face, forever.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (6FeV1)

I read that as "whore's shoe."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (s2VJv)

That is only true if Biden vapor locks within his term.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 09:18 AM (lD3vL)

393 Report: Santa Fe D.A. Says It's Possible Alec Baldwin Didn't Pull Trigger in Fatal 'Rust' Set Shooting
Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2022 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

Did the pistol confess? Or have they been paid enough to blame the gun wrangler for negligence?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 22, 2022 09:18 AM (vqc+k)

394 The Queen also has the COVID. And is still alive. As old as she is.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 22, 2022 09:10 AM (KY22T)

Another ivermectin success story.

Posted by: WeBoned! at February 22, 2022 09:18 AM (8k7U7)

395 What are the limits of ambition for Xi and Putin?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 22, 2022 09:14 AM (NRqwE)

Xi is the one to fear. Remember that Xi is much more closely aligned with Bezos, and Gates, and the other tech oligarchs than Putin is. Putin is a sideshow in his little corner of the world, Xi is the one who will be at the forefront of controlling all of it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 09:18 AM (evAgx)

396 387 With the UK declaring that Thursday is the end of legal measures about the Covid pandemic, what's the point, Canada? This thing is over. The fire is out and the coals are dampened. There's just some heat and lingering smoke.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 22, 2022 09:16 AM (4I/2K)

========

The point is power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 22, 2022 09:18 AM (LvTSG)

397 The most shocking thing about Castro's seizure of power in CA isn't that he's got his party lined up behind him, its that the nominal opposition is treating this like a tax rate dispute or a minor modification to some law.

This isn't something where you have a vote, you lose, and you say "we'll get 'em next time".

This is a coup - you respond with literally everything you can do in response. Governors of provinces should be declaring themselves independent of the central government NOW.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2022 09:18 AM (ESjRY)

398 #372 BTW, whenever you see a Senator described as being "Unaffiliated", it means he's a Liberal.

When Shithead first became P.M. he pretended he was reforming the PM-appointed Senate by claiming he'd only appoint nonpartisans to the vacant seats so they'd no longer be called "Liberals" because they would all be nonpartisans!! so they'd be "Unaffiliated" instead and not Party based!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 22, 2022 09:18 AM (UHVv4)

399 I don't fault Pence for his official actions on 6-Jan....
---
As others have pointed out, AFTER the vote he--by voluntary choice--gave a grinning fist-bump to Pelosi.

That tells you all you need to know about him BEFORE the vote as well ....

He had been sold to hell, let him stew in his rot

Posted by: Well at February 22, 2022 09:18 AM (wkC12)

400 Report: Santa Fe D.A. Says It's Possible Alec Baldwin Didn't Pull Trigger in Fatal 'Rust' Set Shooting
Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2022 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

It's not the sentient guns I'm worried about,

it's the sentient knives!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 22, 2022 09:18 AM (5NkmN)

401 388 Sara Huckaber sexually assaulted me in high school.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:16 AM (qnVBz)

She grabbed your tit though a swimsuit top, tshirt, and hoodie?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 09:18 AM (yrol0)

402 The GOP also included a masked photo of Biden with the words "NOT YOU" in red capital letters."
Posted by: redridinghood

Oh no! Muh normz! Irresponsible to violently attack the sitting president when we are at the brink of war!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:19 AM (qnVBz)

403 With the UK declaring that Thursday is the end of legal measures about the Covid pandemic, what's the point, Canada?

The optics of overwhelming force. The 'point' is to frighten you by arrests, seizure of assets, seizure of your children and killing you.

You are not a citizen. You are a slave. THAT is the point.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 22, 2022 09:19 AM (2JVJo)

404 Bill Clinton and Janet Reno set the standard for this.

Remember Elian Gonzalez? Remember that photo of the FBI stormtrooper pointing an assault rifle at little Elian and his grandfather?

Posted by: deti at February 22, 2022 09:19 AM (C7e3k)

405 368 Kind of strange thing here in AR. Sarah and AG Rutledge are competing for the Republican nomination (that means automatically winning the general election). Both were carpet bombing the airwaves with ads, and then, both stopped at the same time. Almost like they ran out of money at the same time (doubtful) or there's some sort of deal being made.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 22, 2022 09:19 AM (lz5hY)

406 In Canada, the perplexing thing is that Canadians think the Emergencies Act is necessary in this instance. It clearly isn't, since the truckers are entirely peaceful and only needed some dialogue to be dispersed.

Instead Trudeau gave free rein to his inner Chrystia Freeland, and joyfully embraced tyranny. And Canadians didn't object.

Are they just that fat, dumb and happy? Or do they not take it seriously?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 22, 2022 09:19 AM (NRqwE)

407 Baldwin's got problems and he's gonna fight the civil side of this

he aint wooried about the criminal side but he and and company
are on the hook on the civil

Baldwin aint that rich, maube 50-60 million and my guess, being the fuck that he is, he skimped on the liability insurance for his company

Posted by: REDACTED at February 22, 2022 09:19 AM (us2H3)

408 Imagine that. Spend years telling your neighbors that everything they think, believe, say, support, care about and want is evil, and suddenly FOR NO REASON they don't like you.

Posted by: SMOD at February 22, 2022 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

409 371 Just thought
I could see some bull shit reason that happens and Democrats pulling a Fidel Jr stunt declare a emergency just before the mid terms or more 2024

....

Hard to separate a Turdeau from a Bidet, yes.

Posted by: Ziba at February 22, 2022 09:19 AM (S1hrL)

410 402 The GOP also included a masked photo of Biden with the words "NOT YOU" in red capital letters."
Posted by: redridinghood

Oh no! Muh normz! Irresponsible to violently attack the sitting president when we are at the brink of war!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:19 AM (qnVBz)

========

"No Democrat would ever attack a sitting president. It would be uncouth."
-Mitch McConnell, after four years of Trump

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 22, 2022 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

411 Pence was there to screw trump over from the beginning.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:20 AM (qnVBz)

412 388 Sara Huckaber sexually assaulted me in high school.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:16 AM (qnVBz)

brag or complaint ?

Posted by: REDACTED at February 22, 2022 09:21 AM (us2H3)

413 If Pence truly believes he had no power to stop the steal he should have gone up there said that he can't validate the results of the election and they are almost certainly fraudulent but that he has no choice but to rubber stamp them by law.

But he didn't do that did he?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2022 09:21 AM (ESjRY)

414 01 388 Sara Huckaber sexually assaulted me in high school.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:16 AM (qnVBz)

She grabbed your tit though a swimsuit top, tshirt, and hoodie?
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 22, 2022 09:18 AM (yrol0)

Built a second front door to his house, man.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 22, 2022 09:21 AM (II3Gr)

415 Former Acting ICE Director: Titty Caca AOC "Once Again Proves She's the Least Smart Congresswoman in the History of the United States Congress"

-
I don't know. She's got some pretty stiff competition. Maxine Waters, for example.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 22, 2022 09:21 AM (FVME7)

416 Are they just that fat, dumb and happy? Or do they not take it seriously?

Like Australia, I think the truth is that a majority support this; they are perfectly happy to crush opponents by force (so long as that means state goons kicking in heads). America is not really all that different. We are in the minority. A pretty small minority at that.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 22, 2022 09:22 AM (KFhLj)

417 Well, time actually to work.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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I do not understand those words in that order.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2022

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Well, I *tried* not to split the infinitive.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 22, 2022 09:22 AM (txdEq)

418 The farce of the emergency act was revealed when the commie lite NDP leader said it was okay for the basket of deplorables but not enviro terrorists or "real" workers. And yet the proles will continue to dance their master's tune.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 22, 2022 09:22 AM (oWBc3)

419 Mike Pence? Mike Pence? Who the fuck is Mike Pence?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 22, 2022 09:23 AM (o2MD2)

420
Pence was there to screw trump over from the beginning.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022 09:20 AM

This.

Pence was "assigned" to Trump by the GOPe, just as GHWBush was "assigned" to Ronald Reagan

the establishment always has to have an inside man

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 22, 2022 09:23 AM (DUIap)

421 Former Acting ICE Director: Titty Caca AOC "Once Again Proves She's the Least Smart Congresswoman in the History of the United States Congress"

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I don't know. She's got some pretty stiff competition. Maxine Waters, for example.
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He probably meant in her age group...,

Posted by: runner at February 22, 2022 09:23 AM (MKLBv)

422 371 Just thought
I could see some bull shit reason that happens and Democrats pulling a Fidel Jr stunt declare a emergency just before the mid terms or more 2024
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (7UOCc)

Our saving grace is that their truly is such a thing as American Exceptionalism, it is not an empty phrase. There have always been protections built into *our* law that no other English speaking country in the world has, even though they pretend that they do. George Orwell always foresaw how easy it would be for England to slip into Fascism, that powered a lot of his writing. The weaknesses that allowed Trudeau to make his move were built into the Canadian system long ago - it was really only a matter of time before they were used like this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 09:23 AM (evAgx)

423
Are they just that fat, dumb and happy? Or do they not take it seriously?

The people supporting Castro seem to believe that anyone disagreeing with the government is a criminal and deserve what they get up to an including death.

I've seen a couple of Liberal/NDP MPs argue they disagree with the Enabling Act, but don't want a no confidence vote (because presumably they believe Castro and friends would lose an election which is...interesting).

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2022 09:23 AM (ESjRY)

424 Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2�
50m
DOJ just changed the official name of its J6 investigation from "Capitol breach" to "Capitol siege."

This new stunt, just like January 6 itself, is an orchestrated effort btw Democrats and Capitol police to demonize foes of the Biden regime and silence criminal dissent:

Posted by: redridinghood at February 22, 2022 09:25 AM (NpAcC)

425 And so now, we have a Trucker Convoy making its way to DC. ... As CBD pointed out on the podcast, not even a national strike. Just stop delivering to DC, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and every blue city.

I understand they've announce they're not going into DC, but outside it.

Posted by: Flyover, further disgusted by 2022. at February 22, 2022 09:25 AM (Rbu5d)

426 bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 22, 2022 09:25 AM (vuisn)

427 > I could see some bull shit reason that happens and Democrats pulling a Fidel Jr stunt declare a emergency just before the mid terms or more 2024
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Pulling a stunt like some are discussing and clogging the Beltway around DC might set the junta off. Honestly they don't need an actual reason. They've made bullshit excuses up since day one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 22, 2022 09:26 AM (BFigT)

428 In Canada, the perplexing thing is that Canadians think the Emergencies Act is necessary in this instance. It clearly isn't, since the truckers are entirely peaceful and only needed some dialogue to be dispersed.

There should never exist in any Western nation even the concept of "Emergencies Act".

Inalienable Rights are just that. No one but God (who doesn't change) has the authority to define Rights, nor no human being has the authority to void them whenever - especially when it is just politically convenient.

It isn't just Consent of the Governed (it is), but that how one person can unilaterally declare that any human right is void during a time of chaos and uncertainty is absolutely insane. Very few people make good decisions when in a highly fluid, volatile and life/death situations when there is very little information, time for soul searching, analysis and sober reflection.

The Emergency Act is putting liquid oxygen on a fire. The concept alone is profane and an enemy of reason and experience.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 09:26 AM (lD3vL)

429 So baldwin went off half cocked?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 22, 2022
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my #1 complaint about Alec
Posted by: Hilaria at February 22, 2022

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Join the club, dearie.

Posted by: Kim Basinger at February 22, 2022 09:26 AM (txdEq)

430 The point is power.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 22, 2022 09:18 AM (LvTSG)

The optics of overwhelming force. The 'point' is to frighten you by arrests, seizure of assets, seizure of your children and killing you.

You are not a citizen. You are a slave. THAT is the point.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 22, 2022 09:19 AM (2JVJo)

You both are correct. The effects are working. Peaceably expressing dissent with your gubmint is now a criminal act and subjects you to harsh and deadly sanctions and retributions.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 22, 2022 09:27 AM (4I/2K)

431 Another ivermectin success story.
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The Australian [I think and not UK] news show that revealed H.M. was probably being treated with an Ivermectin knockoff pulled the story offline in less than 24 hours.

https://nitter.net/CaldronPool/status/1495887108619345925

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 22, 2022 09:27 AM (UHVv4)

432 Like Australia, I think the truth is that a majority support this; they are perfectly happy to crush opponents by force (so long as that means state goons kicking in heads). America is not really all that different. We are in the minority. A pretty small minority at that.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 22, 2022 09:22 AM (KFhLj)

I should refind a link I posted yesterday; we have entered the societal war between the Physicals and the Virtuals. (the Virtuals include most big city dwellers, most of the Professional classes and all of the Ruling Classes) Castreau has volunteered to become the Enforcer for the Virtual classes, and they are all cheering him on.

This is not an ideological war, it is a Societal War, and must be fought on those terms.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 09:27 AM (evAgx)

433 Julie Kelly @julie_kelly2
50m
DOJ just changed the official name of its J6 investigation from "Capitol breach" to "Capitol siege."

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Neither being true.

Again, those doors have electronic magnetic locks. Nuclear facility level locks. Locks that require heavy machinery to get through when closed and locked.

Some federal employees with a key card opened them. Federal employees allowed them to remain open. The doors could have been closed and locked at any point in the day, but they weren't.

If we had any representatives one might ask about that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 22, 2022 09:28 AM (cUuEU)

434 Energy prices are rising in the markets this morning and everything else is dropping. Biden has seriously screwed the pooch with this feckless naive international posturing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 22, 2022 09:28 AM (NRqwE)

435 I understand they've announce they're not going into DC, but outside it.

They will be met with tanks and people highly motivated to get some trigger time.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 09:28 AM (lD3vL)

436 Jag meat?

Seriously?

"Jag meat"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 22, 2022 09:28 AM (6FeV1)

437 There's a theme going around NeverTrump circles (the circle not presently 100% in the tank for Dems/Biden) about how everything would have been different if the press hadn't been so mean to Romney in 2012 and let Romney win.

There's something to it for sure, but since Romney is pretty clearly shown himself to be a RINO, I'd guess the main difference if any would have been a consolidation of the Establishment consensus. Instead of the Obama's Dreamers executive order amnesty, we would have gotten CoC Dream Act permanent amnesty bill plus massive "guest worker" program, a RomneyCare slight modification to Obamacare, and probably full-on troops in Libya and Syria. But otherwise mostly the same up to 2016. Likely no Trump run in 2016, so non-zero chance a dispirited GOP base lets Hillary beat incumbent Romney.

Posted by: Match Checksout at February 22, 2022 09:28 AM (dYe5S)

438 Are they just that fat, dumb and happy? Or do they not take it seriously?

Like Australia, I think the truth is that a majority support this; they are perfectly happy to crush opponents by force (so long as that means state goons kicking in heads). America is not really all that different. We are in the minority. A pretty small minority at that.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 22, 2022 09:22 AM (KFhLj)

It's not that.

It's simply that the Middle and Working classes by their very nature make piss-poor revolutionaries or counter-revolutionaries. Esp. the Middle Class.

Not a surprise for the largest group of people who just want to work and raise their families. It isn't the booster or the mask, which is proving the killer for Democrats, it's the out of control inflation and piss-poor economy which is killing the M and W classes ability to provide.

They'll be halfway down the alligator's gullet before people finally twig to what's going on.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 22, 2022 09:28 AM (5NkmN)

439 368 Going out early on a call

Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be the first female President of the US

Posted by: REDACTED at February 22, 2022 09:13 AM (us2H3)

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She's gonna marry Bernie?

/Briefly forgot that was her married name ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at February 22, 2022 09:28 AM (743lG)

440 419

Amen!

Posted by: Ziba at February 22, 2022 09:28 AM (S1hrL)

441 I understand they've announce they're not going into DC, but outside it.

They will be met with tanks and people highly motivated to get some trigger time.
Posted by: Rueben Hick

Unlike Canadian truckers, US truckers are armed.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 22, 2022 09:29 AM (Hica+)

442 Putin Orders Troops Into Ukraine Separatist Regions on "Peacekeeping"�Mission

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We're gonna have us some peace or we're gonna ~~start~~ continue busting heads. We call it the Trudeau method.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 22, 2022 09:29 AM (FVME7)

443 Oklahoma Democrat U.S. House Candidate Blames Meds for Profanity-Laced Rant at Pre-Teen Party

See, here's the thing.
Just like with dementia, if it isn't in you, it wouldn't come out when the reins are off. That is who she is. Period.

Posted by: Flyover, further disgusted by 2022. at February 22, 2022 09:29 AM (Rbu5d)

444 437 There's a theme going around NeverTrump circles (the circle not presently 100% in the tank for Dems/Biden) about how everything would have been different if the press hadn't been so mean to Romney in 2012 and let Romney win.

Posted by: Match Checksout at February 22, 2022 09:28 AM (dYe5S)

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"It was unfair when the press made up stuff about Romney, but it was totally fair when the press made up stuff about Trump."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at February 22, 2022 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

445 I find it gratifying that Alec Baldwin is finished in the entertainment industry. He has demonstrated beyond all doubt that he is a characterless slime ball with an ego and an attitude. He has all the charm of a crocodile, and its on full public display.
Adios dirt bag.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 22, 2022 09:29 AM (o2MD2)

446 Under the Canadian founding documents, all "Rights" are granted by the Government. That which is granted can always be taken away. The United States is the only nation in the world that has the concept of "Inalienable Rights" written into its founding documents. That is the source of American Exceptionalism.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 22, 2022 09:30 AM (evAgx)

447 Ugh.

...it isn't the booster or the mask.

What is proving the killer for the Democrats is the out of control inflation...

MOAR KAWFEE!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 22, 2022 09:30 AM (5NkmN)

448 It is interesting that we have moved on to more and more "rightwing" civil disobedience.

Will it work? I don't think so. MLK jr and Gandhi succeeded because they were forcing a much more moral people to choose between the way things were and the way they claimed they should be.

Castro and Biden don't care. Their voters don't care. They want power and that's it.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2022 09:30 AM (ESjRY)

449 DOJ just changed the official name of its J6 investigation from "Capitol breach" to "Capitol siege."

Clearly they don't know the meaning of the word "siege" or how it has been deployed over the vast expanse of human history.

They only focus grouped various words to find the most triggering one today. Expect "siege" to be the new "gravitas".

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 09:30 AM (lD3vL)

450 NOOD.

Dood.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at February 22, 2022 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

451 Is anything the Biden junta has done going well? Other than real estate prices in Wilmington, I mean. What a massive fuckup the Resident and his cabal have turned out to be. Jake Sullivan may be a good political criminal dirty trickster, but he is the dumbest cadaver-like idiot I've ever seen in foreign policy, and his little friends in the State Dept., Winken, Blinken and Nod, are just plain dumb. And the economy! Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to raise inflation and energy prices? Recession is never fun, but this Biden Recession is going to be ugly. Holy shit, only the fact that Harris belongs at a truck stop glory hole is keeping Biden in office.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 22, 2022 09:32 AM (NRqwE)

452 California Science Camp Allows "Non-Binary" Men to Be Housed with Fifth-Grade Girl Campers

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Well, that's science for ya.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 22, 2022 09:32 AM (FVME7)

453 Naturalflake, our military comes from working class and middle class, our vererans know what tyrany is. They also know what fidelity is and they know how to fight.

Posted by: Eromero at February 22, 2022 09:33 AM (tnbBp)

454 >So baldwin went off half cocked?

You joke, but that phrase comes from people doing exactly what Baldwin did. His appeal to the public was aimed at people who know nothing about guns. His thumb was on the hammer, and he knows what hammers do.

The scene may not have called for blanks at all, so talking about them would be beside the point.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 22, 2022 09:33 AM (44ww/)

455 about how everything would have been different if the press hadn't been so mean to Romney in 2012 and let Romney win.

From a leftwing perspective, Romney is almost the perfect president. A competent transnational technocrat? Sure he's from the rightwing of the uniparty, but he's shown he'll do what he's told and stay in his lane.

But they were in love, literally with Obama. if Biden dies...a "unity ticket" with Romney and some black Democrat is probably their best pick in 2024.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 22, 2022 09:33 AM (ESjRY)

456 Siege this, honkus!

Posted by: Josephus at February 22, 2022 09:33 AM (4I/2K)

457 Under the Canadian founding documents, all "Rights" are granted by the Government.

I understand that. Which makes it particularly difficult to understand any moral reason for non US nations to fight despots. Putin only has a set of "Rights" that differ in a few ways from the highly fluid and arguably amorphous "Rights" of the Canadian dictator.

Yet we don't set up troops on the northern border or even evacuate the embassy, or even compose a strongly worded tweet.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 09:34 AM (lD3vL)

458 317 The Queen has the right to strip the tyrant of all powers. I hope she does that.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 09:02 AM (kOTP9)

Highly unlikely; it's a residual power used only in the most dire of circumstances. Queen Elizabeth has reigned for 68 years and in all that time she has strenuously avoided meddling in the affairs of the elected governments she is the Sovereign of. She must be seen as being neutral and not favouring any specific party.

She's 95 (her mother made it to 101 years of age.) However, her husband passed away last year, and she's recently caught covid (as someone pointed out above.) The deck's starting to be stacked against her. Next in line is Prince Charles, and he won't be worth spit. Remember, when the "Great Reset" meeting was held by the WEF in 2020, it was Prince Charles who convened it.

Once again: Fully. Compromised.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 22, 2022 09:34 AM (nRMeC)

459 our military comes from working class and middle class, our vererans know what tyrany is. They also know what fidelity is and they know how to fight.
Posted by: Eromero at February 22, 2022 09:33 AM (tnbBp)

They also know how to get distracted by the TV and to take a nap.

Posted by: Rueben Hick at February 22, 2022 09:35 AM (lD3vL)

460 317 The Queen has the right to strip the tyrant of all powers. I hope she does that.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 22, 2022 09:02 AM (kOTP9)

As much chance as the earth changing its orbit.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 22, 2022 09:36 AM (H8QX8)

461 Her eyes are too close together. I find it bothersome.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 22, 2022 09:36 AM (vuisn)

462 Washington Post Blasted Online For Story Claiming Wind and Solar Would Solve Blackouts

I know an electrical engineer. We have discussed this, at length, several times. there is no way that these "renewables" can power the US to the same level it is powered now. Yet, I do think solar, and a small windmill, are acceptable means of power generation/storage on small holdings, like an off-grid stead, or as supplemental or back up power for when the grid goes down. I can see that --> in the right circumstances <-- a windmill-powered pump in the well is a good thing. Or a bank of charged batteries is a good idea to keep the heat on and the freezer running until the power comes back on. there is no way, with the technology currently available, that these things are a viable replacement for coal and nuclear power generation. Then, if you add e-cars? Pffft. nope.

Posted by: Flyover, further disgusted by 2022. at February 22, 2022 09:38 AM (Rbu5d)

463 bonk bonk on the head
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Beil Bitler!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 22, 2022 09:38 AM (UHVv4)

464 You guys know you locked up your Japs during WW2, don't you?

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 22, 2022 09:39 AM (UHVv4)

465 Mr Sefton, thank you for the link-a-palooza. I don't thank you often enough...it's just that some days I have difficulty stomaching news.

Posted by: Flyover, further disgusted by 2022. at February 22, 2022 09:40 AM (Rbu5d)

466 464 You guys know you locked up your Japs during WW2, don't you?
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 22, 2022 09:39 AM (UHVv4)

FDR did that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 09:40 AM (s2VJv)

467 >>>Jake Sullivan may be a good political criminal dirty trickster, but he is the dumbest cadaver-like idiot I've ever seen in foreign policy, and his little friends in the State Dept., Winken, Blinken and Nod, are just plain dumb. [...]

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions

Dems tend to suck at diplomacy because they assume everyone else in the world is just like them/us. It's the Mark Steyn "multi-culturalism is a type of provincialism" rule but transposed to "Globalism is a type of provincialism" with a dash of Dems never forgetting about their main enemy, who must be crushed no matter what ... conservative Republicans.

Posted by: Match Checksout at February 22, 2022 09:40 AM (dYe5S)

468 CDC won't release the vaccine data it has been accumulating for over a year now because the data might be "misinterpreted" by anti-vaxxers.

IOW, the data prove what the anti-vaxxers have been saying all along.

But shut up peons! The CDC is smarter and better than you! Just do what they tell you and take the jabs! You don't need to see any stinkin' evidence! Just trust your betters!!!!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at February 22, 2022 09:41 AM (k4dH2)

469 it'd be a shame if someone id'd that brute in the top photo, wouldn't it?

Posted by: Flyover, further disgusted by 2022. at February 22, 2022 09:41 AM (Rbu5d)

470 462 Posted by: Flyover, further disgusted by 2022. at February 22, 2022 09:38 AM (Rbu5d)

One aspect of the fossil fuel debate that I am kicking myself for not discussing on the podcast is that aside from fuel, virtually everything we eat, wear, consume or is otherwise vital for our existence is made in part or completely by some form of petrochemical.

Gasoline and fuel is important, but doesn't come close to what oil and gas are used for.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 09:43 AM (s2VJv)

471 445 I find it gratifying that Alec Baldwin is finished in the entertainment industry. He has demonstrated beyond all doubt that he is a characterless slime ball with an ego and an attitude. He has all the charm of a crocodile, and its on full public display.
Adios dirt bag.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 22, 2022 09:29 AM (o2MD2)

Finished? Really? And here I thought those were the character traits Hollywood was courting and rewarding these days.

Never underestimate just how low Hollywood can dip on the morality scale.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 22, 2022 09:43 AM (nRMeC)

472 "Yes, there is. A good way to start would be to cancel the day we mark today: 'Presidents Day.'" (go to hell - jjs)
Politico Magazine Columnist Communist: Presidents' Day "Mythologizing History," Time to Cancel Holiday

Actually, I agree.
Let's go back to celebrating Washington's birthday, and Lincoln's birthday.
Like when I was a kid...er, I mean, like I was told about.

Posted by: Flyover, further disgusted by 2022. at February 22, 2022 09:44 AM (Rbu5d)

473 CDC won't release the vaccine data it has been accumulating for over a year now because the data might be "misinterpreted" by anti-vaxxers.

IOW, the data prove what the anti-vaxxers have been saying all along.

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Yep.

Posted by: Moron Robbie -get involved locally, dammit at February 22, 2022 09:44 AM (cUuEU)

474 "Currently, ideologues who seek division in America control how our racial history is taught, but we can change that by teaching the complicated and interesting truth."

History IS complicated and interesting.
I remember in music school a brilliant professor integrated politics and societal mores in to the study of the music of the times. His specialty was medieval and renaissance. It was the best class. We danced, learned about the wars, looked at instruments from the period, food, clothes...you name it. THAT is teaching.

Posted by: Flyover, further disgusted by 2022. at February 22, 2022 09:49 AM (Rbu5d)

475 4 I've got covid. Not a fan.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 22, 2022 07:25 AM (vqc+k)

Sorry to hear this. It is survivable. We used the FLCCC at-home protocol.
Benedryl is good for the long coof, too.

Posted by: Flyover, further disgusted by 2022. at February 22, 2022 09:51 AM (Rbu5d)

476 Realizing I will probably never visit Canada again gives me a very deep dark feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Me too. I enjoyed fishing in northern Saskatchewan.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 22, 2022 09:51 AM (rz+/y)

477 22...which is why I pray for their safety.

Posted by: Catherine at February 22, 2022 07:33 AM (ZSsrh)

I do, too.

Posted by: Flyover, further disgusted by 2022. at February 22, 2022 09:53 AM (Rbu5d)

478 Of the dozen or so Canadians I have known for the last 20 years or so, to a person they all vacation in Cuba and believe it to be a paradise. There have been a few heated discussions over the years between myself and several of them, during which I am amazed at their view of Castro as a benevolent leader, one whose people want for nothing. It is a land of wealth and riches, they say.

What human rights violations, I am asked. Or I am told - "Americans have such a skewed view of what Cuba is really like but Canadians go there to vacation and we know the truth of the glorious Cuba." And: "You as an American are fed nothing but lies about Cuba."

So knowing what I know based on these admittedly few interactions, which may or not be representative of the mindset there, I am not surprised at what is happening in Canada now. Ironic that it is the bastard son of said benevolent leader who is leading them to their own "paradise". "Human rights violations? What are you talking about!?"

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at February 22, 2022 10:01 AM (T823z)

479 466 464 You guys know you locked up your Japs during WW2, don't you?
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 22, 2022 09:39 AM (UHVv4)

FDR did that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 22, 2022 09:40 AM (s2VJv)

William Lyon Mackenzie King did that too.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 22, 2022 10:02 AM (nRMeC)

480 I'm not so sure the democRats are scared shitless; what do they have to fear? They can blatantly cheat and no one will do anything to stop them because the corruption runs deep and wide.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at February 22, 2022 10:14 AM (hlxe7)

481 "CDC won't release the vaccine data it has been accumulating for over a year now because the data might be "misinterpreted" by anti-vaxxers."

Dr Paul Elias Alexander has listed a truck load of studies done regarding adverse reactions following the mRNA experimental jab, including those in the military, where numbers have reached hundreds of percent increases since 2021.

Another Dr speculates that when the tens of thousands 'jab injured' adults and children have reached red-line, there will be hell to pay.

Posted by: Ju at February 22, 2022 10:18 AM (aTmM/)

482 "Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, went live early Monday morning with approximately 150,000 users waitlisted to register. The new app has reportedly reached the top of the Apple app store."

If it's in the APPLE STORE, doesn't that mean they had to agree to Apple's "terms of spying" I mean service?

I will not get this app.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at February 22, 2022 10:25 AM (hlxe7)

483 Ironic that it is the bastard son of said benevolent leader who is leading them to their own "paradise". "Human rights violations? What are you talking about!?"
Posted by: one of the quiet ones at February 22, 2022 10:01 AM (T823z)

This should definitely be interesting to watch.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at February 22, 2022 10:30 AM (hlxe7)

484 William Lyon Mackenzie King did that too.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 22, 2022 10:02 AM (nRMeC)
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Walking along a little path from Jasper Lodge into the town of Jasper (Alberta) one afternoon I stumbled upon the ruins of a Canadian internment camp from WW2.

Descendants of the Japanese-Canadian internees had a little sign up, explaining what happened (and appealing for donations so they could renovate the camp and make a museum out of it).

Not much difference in those days between Canadian authorities and American. Maybe that's still true.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 22, 2022 10:32 AM (ZzmRV)

485 "And so now, we have a Trucker Convoy making its way to DC. Given what happened up in Canada and what happened in DC January 6th, 2021, I'm wondering perhaps if this is the best course of action?"

No more mass protests. We've been told on both sides of 49 how that ends. Only the stupid who can't learn from other people's mistakes (and the FBI) will be participating in non-Leftist protests for the future.

The proper action is to "work to rule", especially if you are in a union. Make the bosses deal with the rules they impose when those rules actually get followed.

Posted by: raoul ortega at February 22, 2022 10:36 AM (OafoN)

486 "And why are they doing all this? Because of the epic collapse and failure of every Leftist policy and more crucially every Leftist narrative that has polluted the discourse now for decades."

You still don't get it; the policies didn't fail, they did EXACTLY what they were intended to do.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at February 22, 2022 11:26 AM (lulXR)

487 Ugh. Stop saying "leftist policies fail."

They generally do what they are meant to do: gain and maintain power.

Stop giving credence to their marketing.

Posted by: Two Weeks at February 22, 2022 11:39 AM (ELnqd)

488 478 Of the dozen or so Canadians I have known for the last 20 years or so, to a person they all vacation in Cuba and believe it to be a paradise. There have been a few heated discussions over the years between myself and several of them, during which I am amazed at their view of Castro as a benevolent leader, one whose people want for nothing. It is a land of wealth and riches, they say.
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Posted by: one of the quiet ones at February 22, 2022 10:01 AM (T823z)

There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

Take heart, not all of us are so.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 22, 2022 12:14 PM (nRMeC)

489 I remember when I participated in occupying Nuke and war industry sites to protest expecting and preparing to be arrested, I was breaking the law to get in the way of something I greatly opposed. It appears that you all think that you should be able to occupy and break the law without repercussions. And you call us snowflakes.

Posted by: vonKreedon at February 22, 2022 12:23 PM (rtWap)

490 lol . . . does anybody really believe that "diversity was supposed to improve readiness?" Unambiguously, everything these people do is done to weaken America. I can't imagine being dumb enough to believe otherwise.

Posted by: Anotheranon at February 22, 2022 01:14 PM (8Ze5j)

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