The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 4/14/22

Good morning, kids. Thursday and in the wake of the past several days, one thing is abundantly clear. The FBI along with its mother, the Department of Justice should be disbanded. Or in the words of commenter Allen G. burned to the ground, its ashes scattered and the ground salted where it stood. A racialist kamikaze, amped up on 60-years of Jive Kampf Democrat-Leftist brainwashing went on a violent rampage that miraculously only wounded about 10 people. You might be thinking that those two sentences are a non sequitur. Oh, no no no, my friends.

Frank James was on their terror watch list, but it appears nobody was watching the terrorist.
The Daily Mail reports that federal investigators saw Frank James’s three-week-old video in which he reportedly vowed he wouldn’t return alive to his Wisconsin home after the self described “prophet of doom” planned a mass attack on Americans.
The video shows James driving out of Wisconsin, saying “and as I leave the state of Wisconsin … all I can say is good riddance and [laughs] I will never be back alive in that motherf*****.” He complained that “a ghetto is a fu**ing ghetto. You seen one you’ve seen em all. Doesn’t matter.”
He hated white people and, in his videos, espoused the separation of the races by geography.

Stop the tape. Did I say "kamikaze?" Correction: "Islam-ikaze."

He was an apparent adherent to the Nation of Islam, according to his Twitter account.
James’s final video, in which he vowed not to return alive to Wisconsin, combined with others can be seen as a martyr video similar to those issued by Islamic terrorists before their suicide missions.
And the FBI was aware of it all, reportedly.

“It has now emerged that he was known to the FBI and was questioned in 2019 in New Mexico though it is not yet clear why. He was cleared but was entered into the state’s ‘Guardian Lead’ system. The Guardian Program is the bureau’s terrorist threat and suspicious incident tracking system. Despite being on that list, James was unimpeded as he relentlessly uploaded hate-speech-filled clips on YouTube about how oppressed black people were and how black and white people should have ‘no contact’, for weeks before Tuesday’s attack.”
While the FBI was busy rolling up imaginary “domestic terrorists,” it was letting a real one slip through its fingers.

Questioned in New Mexico? I seem to recall a kerfuflle over a supposed Islamic terrorism training camp in the Land of IKeelYou, er, Enchantment. Hmm. Anyway, the thing of it is, the "terrorists" aren't just "imaginary," the FBI manufactures them out of whole cloth as has been confirmed - yet again - by this supposed plot to kidnap Michigan's glassy-eyed Zohra-impersonator Wretched Whitmer.

Michigan was a swing state in the 2020 election. When the arrests were announced, Whitmer speedily denounced Trump for inciting “domestic terrorism.”
Biden won the 2020 election because of the early voting, and the Michigan kidnapping plot was one of the biggest stories in October 2020. Prior to the presidential election, Attorney General Bill Barr assured that news did not leak about multiple federal investigations into Hunter Biden. But the FBI felt no such constraints and trumpeted a ludicrous scheme that was shot down even by a jury that a federal judge had largely blindfolded. . .
. . . Whitmer was denounced at protests and on the Facebook page of the “Wolverine Watchmen,” where angry anti-government bluster poured forth. Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg testified to Congress in October 2020 that Facebook had “identified” the Whitmer kidnap plot “as a signal to the FBI about six months ago” regarding “suspicious activity on our platform.”
But the plot didn’t exist at that point.
That is, until multiple government-paid newcomers joined the group. Stephen Robeson, an FBI informant with a list of felonies and other crimes, organized key events to build the movement.
Dan Chapel, another FBI informant who was paid $54,000, became second-in-command and masterminded the military training for the group, even as he helped the feds wiretape their messages.
Though several militia members explicitly opposed kidnapping the governor, Chapel and Robeson helped hosta a ludicrous plot to snatch Whitmer from her vacation home and take her away for trial. FBI operatives took the participants, who prattled idiotically about stealing a Blackhawk helicopter, for drives near Whitmer’s vacation home, which supposedly proved they were going to nab the governor and unleash havoc.
It was all a setup. Shortly before that excursion, an FBI agent texted instructions to Chapel: “Mission is to kill the governor specifically.” There were as many FBI informants and undercover agents as there were purported plotters in this case.

And not three months later, on January 6th, 2021 came the so-called "riot" at the Capitol that was described as "the worst attack on our precious democracy [*vomits*] since the Civil War, Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined." Turns out the only violence and mayhem that did occur was caused by Capitol Cops and Antifa/BLM goons dressed in MAGA gear, resulting in the cold blooded murder of Ashli Babbitt and Roseanne Boyland, as well as the continued imprisonment of innocent dupes who were let into the building by the police themselves.

And as they continue to rot in the Garland Archipelago or cop to some sort of plea before they are ruined financially and otherwise, or are driven to suicide like Matthew Perna, the Klain Kalorama Komintern has been exposed as ordering its enforcers in the DOJ to go after parents who committed the second worst attack on "our precious democracy" (*vomits*) by having the audacity to challenge and criticize the rape of mind, body and soul of their children at school board meetings. In another part of the filthy sewer that is DC, the DoD is attempting to purge anyone who visits social media sites that object or challenge the official party line on everything from the Chinese COVID orthodoxy to transgender psychosis to the illegitimacy of the 2020 election.

But Frank James? Nidal Hassan? Djokar Tsarnayev? Omar Mateen? The damned 9/11 hijackers? What about Dick Durbin and Bernie Sanders adjacent James Hodgkinson? Or Stephen Paddock? And so on and so on and scoobie doobie doobie? Crickets.

Will there be any introspection let alone a mea culpa or will they bitch and moan the usual tripe that, even if we knew about Frank James we can't really do anything until he commits an actual crime. I remember getting and to this day being enraged at Jamie Gorelick for erecting that so-called "wall" that prevented the FBI and local law enforcement from sharing the intelligence that would have or at least could have prevented 9/11 from happening. Given that we now fully realize how these agencies operate, I tend to seriously doubt it. As to that introspection, evidently they are going to try and prevent crimes. But it depends on how the word "crime" is defined; who gets to be Daniel Webster and who's the Devil?

Rep. Thomas Massie, one of the three who voted against the [Emmett Till Antilynching Act], expressed a handful of concerns, including that there are a limited number of constitutionally specified federal crimes, that lynching is already criminalized, and that “Adding enhanced penalties for ‘hate’ [on top of existing criminal punishments] tends to endanger other liberties such as freedom of speech.”
He also highlighted another potential pitfall of the legislation: “The bill creates another federal crime of ‘conspiracy,’ which I’m concerned could be enforced overbroadly on people who are not perpetrators of a crime” . . .
. . . With this new law, the U.S. government has further expanded into the realm of policing thought crimes. Ominously, this law comes on the heels of the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to broaden the “domestic terrorism” category and expand methods for identifying “threats". . .
. . . It’s a mountain-out-of-a-molehill on par with the “Don’t Say Gay” hysteria. But this one may have far greater consequences down the road as texts, emails, social media posts, and everyday speech are monitored and analyzed by various three-letter agencies to establish the intent of our discourse. The Emmett Till Act may become a key piece in the arsenal for U.S. intelligence agencies’ war on free speech.

UPDATE: Commenter Muldoon has this to say about a story out of California regarding doctors and so-called medical misinformation:

Here is the cudgel: "The Board shall consider . . . Whether the misinformation or disinformation was contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus to an extent where its dissemination constitutes gross negligence by the licensee.
This is an extension of the notion of "best practice", which has morphed from being a set of guidelines to being a hard and fast rule for any given specialty. It has been the case for nearly 20 years that if you deviate from 'best practice' you risk censure, loss of hospital privileges, or loss of license.
'Contemporary scientific consensus' is a nebulous euphemism that will be subject to frequent change at the whim of State Medical Board, and wielded capriciously and arbitrarily as a political weapon.

Now put this together with the conspiracy angle of this "anti-lynching" law, insofar as who gets to define not so much what a conspiracy is but to declare political opposition and anything against the official orthodoxy as treason, and we are getting into nightmare territory.

Psaki-psircling back, do you really think that the DOJ is going to use these laws to grab the likes of Frank James (although he was that so-called "lone wolf") or are they going to go after Michigander militiamen, i.e. a handful of drunk braggarts at a dive bar shooting off nothing more than their mouths? Or Project Veritas, or True the Vote, or me, Ace and the co-bloggers right here at the HQ? The very words that we write every day, that I actually had published into a book, could in theory be used as evidence against us at a conspiracy trial if G-d forbid it ever gets to that point. And the way things are going, that possibility grows day by day.

As for the FBI, these bastards. These evil, fucking bastards who care about one thing and one thing only. Their pensions and perks. I'm really sick and tired of apologists like Andy McCarthy, Sean Hannity and others who keep praising the agency and excusing away the behavior of a few rotten apples at the top. Sorry, the whole damned agency is rotten top to bottom.

There is at least one lurker here who I believe still works for the government that I have gotten to know via e-mail and I'm sure my rant is not going to make him happy. Yes, like he, there are I'm sure decent people working at the DOJ and FBI. But given what I am saying and what we know their mission is - political hitmen and enforcers of the Deep State and institutional left - how can anyone, in good conscience, continue to draw a paycheck from them? They're the Stasi. And the rest of the government and bureaucracy backs them to the hilt. You're not going to change anything there except Biden's Depends if you're unlucky enough to be in his Secret Service detail. Unless the dog bites you.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

David Horowitz: "Understanding the Progressive Mind, Part III. . . The cry for an impossible dream of “social justice” – a world of equals –is a crime against humanity and its diversity."
The Unbearable Lightness of Bernie
"My first thought was to wonder if Colin Ferguson were out of prison and had reprised his 1993 shooting rampage on the Long Island Railroad, in which he shot 25 people, six of them fatally."
Subway Shootings Echo an Earlier Railway Rampage
"Last June, the Biden [junta] revealed that guys who can’t get laid may be terrorist threats due to 'involuntary celibate–violent extremism.' That terrorist watch list is expanding faster than the list of White House “clarifications” after Biden’s verbal blunders. Who entitled the FBI to entrap anyone whose ideas they disapprove? Will the Michigan debacle derail Biden’s campaign to portray government critics as dangerous extremists who must be hounded and suppressed?"
Inside the FBI's Probe and Entrapment of a Michigan Militia Crew
Daniel Greenfield: "The plot against Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination are no coincidence. . . As long as Thomas remains on the bench, he ruins the perfect legal race war they wanted."
The Identity Politicization of the Supreme Court
"What is abundantly clear is that this bill represents a chilling interference with the practice of medicine. The bill itself is full of misinformation and a demonstration of what a disaster it would be to have the legislature dictate the practice of medicine."
California Bill Would Allow Doctors to Lose Licenses Over Chinese COVID "Misinformation or Disinformation"

RACIST, LEFTIST-PERPETRATED NYC SUBWAY TERROR ATTACK

They were way too busy fabricating entrapment plots against enemies of the Left to be bothered with this guy.
FBI Blows It Again: Knew About Subway Terrorist's Racist Videos and Had Him on Watch List
Heather Mac Donald: "The New York subway massacre has roots in mental illness, but the shooter’s delusions were likely fed by the relentless cultivation of racial resentment."
Averting Our Eyes
Miranda Devine: "James, a fan of CNN, in many of his videos appeared in front of a large TV tuned to the left-wing cable channel. His grievances against “whitey” could be ripped from the teleprompters of any of the race-baiting hosts of CNN. . . Maybe if the FBI didn’t waste so much effort chasing down white-supremacy hoaxes, entrapping Trump supporters and investigating bogus reports of nooses in NASCAR garages, it might have been better placed to notice James’ hate-filled rants on social media for years."
Suspect Frank James Was Spewing Racist Hate Years Before Brooklyn Subway Shooting
"Frank James, 62, was apprehended by law enforcement following a Crime Stoppers tip, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said. James was apprehended at the corner of St. Marks Place and First Avenue." (went to McDonalds for the Eric Adams McRib - jjs)
Alleged Brooklyn Shooter Nabbed Just Miles Away From Where He Opened Fire On Crowd
He called 911 to complain McDonald's was out of McRibs . . .
REPORT: Subway Shooting Suspect Allegedly Called Cops On Himself
"He black."
The Brooklyn Subway Attack
"Don’t be surprised when bad things happen in New York, or in any other corrupt, big-government town or state. Bad things need to happen."
Bad Things Must Happen
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
The latest military assistance brings the total aid money given to Ukraine since the invasion began to over $2.4 billion, according to Reuters. Tuesday’s package will provide “weapons, ammunitions, and other security assistance,” as well as “new capabilities” not previously given by the [junta], Biden said in a statement.
Biden Authorizes $800 Million More in Military Assistance for Ukraine
Yikes, dude. French President Macron said, “Ukrainians and Russians are brotherly peoples.”
Ukraine Updates: Russia Ticked at Biden’s Genocide Comment, Fighters Defending Mariupol
Victor Davis Hanson: "The world has become obsessed with nuclear weapons. Is there a danger in daily normalizing the abnormal and casually thinking the unthinkable?"
Loose Nuke Talk
"Russia claimed that ammunition on the ship exploded during a fire while Ukraine claimed that it had hit the ship with two shore-based anti-ship missiles." (either way, it's not a good look for the Russkies - jjs)
Russian Navy’s Flagship In Black Sea Badly Damaged, Ukraine Claims They Hit It With Missiles: Report
DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL, THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"It doesn’t matter what label you put on the invaders’ horrific slaughter of innocents, only what you do to stop it, to reverse Putin’s gains and to make him pay. And Biden isn’t doing any of that. Nope, he’s doing one thing only: cynically using Putin to distract from his colossal domestic failures."
Biden Uses Putin "Genocide" as Distraction for Inflation Woes (that he himself caused - jjs)
"Psaki slammed [Greg] Abbott’s attempt to secure Texas’ border with Mexico, something that the Biden [junta] has largely failed to do as evidenced by the overwhelming surge of illegal immigration that has occurred under Biden, releasing a statement on Tuesday morning that blamed Abbott for rising prices across the U.S."
Peppermint Piss-Hockey Now Blames a Republican Governor for "Raising Prices" on Americans
"Since January 2021, Biden has largely opened the nation’s borders to a wave of roughly 2 million migrant workers and families. That huge inflow of legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, quasi-legal asylum seekers, and visa workers inflates the U.S. economy for investors, CEOs, and tax collectors. That policy will re-inflate the two-decade-long cheap labor bubble that was burst in 2020 by President Donald Trump’s policies."
Biden’s High-Migration Economy: Wages Crash by Almost 3 Percent
"Senate majority leader says [so-called quote-unquote "president"] is 'more open' to forgiving student debt 'than ever before.'"
Politically Weak Biden Considers Fiscal Suicide
"More than half of the overall wholesale increase in March is a result of a 5.7 percent jump in energy prices, with a 20 percent jump in the price of diesel fuel. Gasoline, vegetables [except Biden], jet fuel, iron and steel scrap metal and electric power also saw a jump."
Annual Wholesale Inflation Hits Record Level
“The PPI is a wholesale inflation number, meaning that it looks at inflation related to the inputs that go into finished goods and services. So, what you are seeing from producers and manufacturers now has not been passed on yet in full to the companies who act as intermediaries or consumers. This indicates that at least at the core level of inflation could very well rise again next month.”
Why Inflation Could Still Get Much Worse
"Monetary and fiscal policymakers have not adapted well to the [Chinese] Covid-19 recession and subsequent recovery."
The Costs of Wishful Thinking on Inflation
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Despite Hunter’s attempts to conduct business with Chinese energy companies in the aftermath of an official Trump administration state visit to China, his father has cracked down on U.S. natural gas production in his time in the White House. [So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden issued a natural gas lease moratorium on federal lands in his first week in office." Before Joe Biden Cracked Down on Natural Gas, Hunter Biden Pushed It on China
“DC Solar had instead become a fraud scheme that took new investor money to pay older investors, using circular transactions that were fraudulently disguised to look like real third-party lease revenue,” the Department of Justice explained.
Exec of Defunct Green Energy Company Gets 6 Years in Prison for Role in Billion Dollar Ponzi Scheme
Richard Fernandez: "The nearly comic irony of progressives being in the 'drill baby drill' situation is hardly ever pointed out, it being considered bad form to do so. But it may be useful to recall that Germany's delegation at the U.N. General Assembly once laughed during then-President Trump's speech when he suggested that Germany was becoming 'totally dependent' upon Russian energy."
Germany's "Renewable Energy" Policy: Who's Laughing Now?
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"What should remain evident is the double standard system of justice meted out against the leftists who have caused billions of dollars in damage, killed people, and injured cops in their hundreds of riots versus the right-leaning people at one riot at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021. Some of the people in jail for that Jan. 6 riot still await charges or are locked up for misdemeanors. They would like the Justice Department to remember that the U.S. Constitution applies to them too. Will Vanita Gupta and Attorney General Merrick Garland apply the law equally to them? Ever?" (the "riot" on 1/6 was a DOJ false flag - jjs)
Feds Apologize to Violent BLM and Antifa Rioters for Not Being Nicer to Them as They Set Fires in Front of White House
"It's, like, triggering." (you should only be in front of 12 triggers, blindfolded and with a cigarette in your mouth - jjs)
Watch BLM Leader Break Down Over Laws Requiring Disclosure of How She Spent Donor Money
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“This historic memorandum of understanding between Texas and Nuevo León is a major step in the Lone Star State’s efforts to secure the border in the federal government’s absence,” Abbott added. (whatever you think about Abbott or if this just a kabuki move, it's going to enrage the DC junta - jjs)
GOP Gov. Abbott, Mexican Gov. Strike Agreement to Secure Part of Texas-Mexico Border
"The last thing we should be doing is implementing more fringe ideas from the same progressive pundit class that has led us into the ditch where we currently reside." (more like a mass grave than a ditch - jjs)
The Cure for Inflation Is . . . More Immigration?
"The Biden [junta] will not enforce immigration laws or secure the border. But states like Texas have the power to act on their own."
To Secure the Border, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Should Shut It Down
“We hope that the United States is very clear about how it will receive all those asylum applications once Title 42 is eliminated because it is not clear whether they will do it in person at the border or if they will do it online. If they do it in person, there will be chaos at the border because everyone will want leave the shelters and arrive at the border and stand in line. So that’s going to create chaos for them and us.”
Mexican Official Warns That Revoking Title 42 Will Mean "Chaos" for U.S. and Mexico
He'll "evolve" in a nano-second if, G-d forbid, he wins.
Wisconsin Democratic Senate Candidate One of Many Who Oppose Rolling Back Title 42
"When you've lost Beto. . ."
Even Beto "Irish Mickey" O'Rourke is Starting to Demand "A Plan" From Biden With His Coming Border Surge
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"The Centers for Disease[d] Control [Freaks] and Prevention (CDC) will continue to force passengers to mask on airplanes, trains, and at transportation hubs while the agency monitors the Chinese coronavirus."
Biden Junta Extends Federal Transportation Mask Mandate Again
"Pushes global emergency-response health squad under the acronym GERM."
Bill Gates Says “Crazy” Protests Against His Vaccines Are “Kind Of Weird”
He should only get vaccinated right in the head. Figuratively.
Fauci: "You Use Lockdowns to Get People Vaccinated"
John Dale Dunn, M.D.: "Dr. Paul Elias Alexander, Medical Scientist Victimized by the Fauci Swamp Predators."
The Doctor Who Exposed Fauci’s Fallacies and Got Harassed and Fired From HHS for Telling the Truth
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Say the word. Scare the establishment."
Groomergate
Baad is one of several administrators and teachers pushing an ideology on students and online. ESD’s Rev. Nate Bostian authored a blog on the cohesion of the Episcopal Church and controversial 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' ideology. Bostian encouraged readers to look at the work of Cornel West and Ibram X. [Krement] Kendi — two race-essentialism ideologues — for more information."
The Head of a Christian Texas School Told Kids the Church is "Normalizing Same-Sex Relationships"
". . . You better believe it. For proof, look no further than UC Santa Cruz (Then keep looking).
Is STEM Being Politicized?
“'Getting Ready to Get Ready: How to Implement a PreK-5 Sexuality Curriculum' seminar in 2018 illustrates the philosophy that is driving the sex education of the youngest private school students."
VIDEO: “Children Are Sexual Beings From the Moment of Birth” – Seminar at National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference
"A New York Times columnist has again confirmed that social conservatives were right: educators are pushing LGBT ideology on students."
NYT Columnist Admits Schools Are Grooming Children Into LGBT Identities
"A conference on elite cowardice is denounced by the university that hosted it."
Proving the Point at Saint Vincent College
"In a sense, this story out of Seattle is not news. I have repeatedly reported stories of Seattle government and corporate officials discriminating illegally against whites while unfairly providing their favorite minorities special privileges."
Today's Blacklisted American: Seattle's Public Schools to Hold Listening Tours That Exclude Whites
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
“While Sussmann is correct that certain statements might be so peripheral or unimportant to a relevant agency decision or function to be immaterial under § 1001 as matter of law, the Court is unable to make that determination as to this alleged statement before hearing the government’s evidence. Any such decision must therefore wait until trial,” Cooper ruled.
Judge Rules Case Against Former Clinton Campaign Lawyer Will Proceed
OTHER DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Corruption should be an important issue in the upcoming election. Misbehaving politicians and those who abet them should not get a pass. Unless voters insist on leaders willing to aggressively address the issue of ethics in government, New York will retain its dubious distinction as a national leader in the production of sleazy politicians."
Brian Benjamin is Just the Latest in a Long Line of Sleazy NY Pols
Don't hold your breath for someone to pull an Obama move and get the proceedings unsealed.
"Warlock" Warnock Asks Court To Seal Child Custody Proceedings, Citing Reelection Bid
POLITICS
"Former Trump Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Wednesday that Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott and Dwyane 'The Rock' Johnson could give Trump a run for his money in 2024." (DeSantis as of now destroys both - jjs)
Mick Mulvaney Names Three People He Thinks Could Give Trump a Run for His Money
Robert Spencer: "We do not, in sum, need a coward as president. We already have a puppet socialist. We need a courageous free person. Dwayne Johnson is not the one."
Wait, What? Who Was It That Trump’s Chief of Staff Said Could Beat His Old Boss in 2024?
"Even in the deep-blue Bay Area, where Harris grew up and served as the district attorney of San Francisco, just 38 percent of voters rate her favorably."
Veep Throat in Free Fall: Even California Voters Souring on Kamala Harris
"We've done fucking horrible." (it's not the message; it's the 100-year "Sicilian message" they've inflicted on America - jjs)
Democrats Blame "Messaging" for Failures
"All of this is thanks to the man who promised he would ‘lower the temperature,’ ‘bring the country together,’ and ‘restore the soul of America.’"
Biden Wanted to "Restore the Soul of America." Here’s How Much That Cost You (So Far)
“'Wednesday’s move is a signal of the power DeSantis wields in the now-Republican-dominated state. Redistricting in Florida may help shape the composition of the U.S. House for at least the next decade.' The new map effectively targets seats held by Rep. Al Lawson (D-FL), Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL),Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), and potentially Rep. Val Demings (D-FL)."
DeSantis Makes Major Move To Bring Big GOP Gains: "Entirely Wiping Out" All Democrat Gains Nationally
"The poll’s findings are significant in that Kemp could potentially avoid a runoff election, which would occur if a candidate does not attain 50 percent of the vote in the primary."
Georgia Poll: Brian Kemp Has Wide Lead over David Perdue in Governor’s Primary
"A lot of conservatives have been very disappointed with that endorsement but Ned Ryan argues that it was a decent decision, all things considered." Maybe Donald Trump Wasn't Crazy to Endorse Dr. Oz
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Phony anger. All during 2020 and well before, Adams was taking a knee right along with them. He's always been an upstart and grievance monger during his career on the force.
Eric Adams Rips BLM, Anti-Cop Activists After Night of NYC Shootings
Robert Spencer: "Malik Sanchez hopes to join the military - and he will likely have no trouble getting in."
No Jail for NYC Prankster Who Told Diners He Had a Bomb and Would Kill Them for Allah
“There are other approaches to respond to mental health crises so someone doesn’t end up dead when they shouldn’t end up dead." (like stopping the brainwashing of blacks into lives of desperation, anger and crime - jjs)
Dem Rep. Bowman Refuses to Walk Back Prior Calls for Police Reductions, Says "There Are Other Ways to Respond" to Issues
"New York City’s return to 'Broken Windows' policing is a window into the politics of public safety."
Broken Windows Redux
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Elon Musk’s potential hostile takeover of Twitter is only one data point in a growing trend."
Has the Right’s March Through the Institutions Begun?
As reported by the Post Millennial, the owner of Libs of Tik Tok has recently expressed concern about being banned or censored from Twitter. Just a few weeks ago, the account told its followers, “It’s a matter of time before I get suspended. Never know which post will be my last. If you want to make sure you keep receiving my content, go to the link under my bio and sign up for my email list. I’ll publish some exclusive stuff for email subs, too. Thanks for your support!”
Twitter Suspends Popular Account That Exposes Radical Gender Theories for "Hateful Conduct"
"The tech giant has outrageously slurred not just I&I but also the highly-regarded TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics."
Google Just Declared War on the Most Accurate Pollster in America -- And on Most Americans
"What was the pitch? The network of sex scandals, the Cuomo boys, pedophiliacs, and low-budget partisan propaganda wants your money! You can almost picture McKinsey running to the bank to deposit CNN’s consulting check before CNN woke up to the scam. A quarter of a billion dollars on a streaming service so iffy that it would take a moron — or a high-priced consulting firm — to rate its chances any better than 'You’ve got to be kidding me.'”
What's Really Going on With CNN+?
"The former Washington Post editorial board member and globalist bigwig found herself on the "groomer" side of the Polanski case."
Atlantic Mag’s Anne Applebaum – "Uninterested" in Hunter Biden’s Hard Drive – Argued AGAINST Arresting a Convicted Child Rapist
"Free Beacon analysis shows how homicide coverage downplays the race of minority offenders." (this needs analysis like water needs analysis to see if it's wet - jjs)
Yes, the Media Bury the Race of Murderers—If They’re Not White
ABORTION
“It is unconscionable that DC authorities refuse to investigate the gruesome deaths of five late term aborted babies discovered in our nation’s capital. Their deaths, which have garnered national media attention, may well have involved the commission of federal crimes. Conducting an immediate, thorough autopsy is the least we can do to honor these children and the law.”
DC Authorities Fail to Address Calls for Autopsies of Preemie-Sized Babies
"‘This should not be controversial, but the abortion industry opposes it, and therefore the Democratic Party opposes it,’ said Freitas."
Democrat Leadership Killed a Virginia Bill That Would Have Banned Post-Abortion Infanticide
Terry Jeffrey: "When Romney ran for the Senate against Kennedy in 1994, he said he believed it should be "safe and legal" to do so. When he ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, he said he would "preserve and protect a woman's right to choose" to do so. When he ran for president five years later, he took the exact opposite position, saying he would be delighted to sign a bill completely banning abortion. Now, he says he does not oppose abortion in cases of rape and incest."
Mitt Romney on Protecting the Innocent
SECOND AMENDMENT
"It allows residents to carry a concealed firearm without a license, with the exception of convicted felons or those who have been treated for certain mental health issues in the last five years."
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Signs Constitutional Carry Bill Into Law
Steve Dettelbach is a former U.S. attorney who also ran for Ohio attorney general in 2018. His campaign was, in a word, 'colorful.'”
Biden's Choice for ATF Chief Once Claimed Ohio "Rigged" Elections
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"China warns of imminent ‘disaster’ after US approves arms package."
Hawley: US Must Arm Taiwan "As Quickly as Possible"
"Biden changed 'maximum pressure' on Iran to 'maximum concessions.'"
The Biden-Obama Junta's "Rebalancing" in the Middle East
"Three reasons why the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps should remain designated as a foreign terrorist organization."
Yes, Iran's IRGC is a Terrorist Organization
"An image that shatters the propaganda of perennial Muslim victimhood." (wait, I thought blacks were the perpetual victims? - jjs)
India: Policeman Rescues Infant From Flames After Muslim Mob Attacks Hindus Celebrating Hindu New Year
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Reflections on why 'Lady al-Qaeda' is a cause célèbre in the terrorist world." ('Lady al-Qaeda' was a freedom rider, she didn't care if the whole world looked . . . - jjs)
Aafia Siddiqui: Pakistan’s "Daughter of the Nation"
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"The problem fueling the overdoses apparently is fentanyl, according to the study, in the form of counterfeit prescription drugs. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid."
Report: Fatal Drug Overdoses Among Teens Up 94%
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Creating a new rocket company is not something anyone can do. Nor is it something that even smart people can do, nonchalantly. The history of rocketry is littered with hundreds of attempts, almost all of which failed."
A Tour at Rocket Startup Phantom Space
"The comet itself has an orbit 3 million years long, which means it has zipped into the inner solar system many many times. The reason its nucleus remains so large is because its orbit never gets that close to the Sun, so its material does not get burned off so much with each perihelion. That it exists suggests there could be many such large comets which never dip close to the Sun."
Astronomers Confirm Comet With Largest Nucleus Ever Found
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"If you want free speech for the voices of sexual liberation, you must tolerate it for more traditional, sexually temperate voices."
The Left Did This to Itself
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Gatt was subsequently arrested for an outstanding felony warrant for 'Contact with a Minor for Sexual Offense,' according to the police statement. The actor was then reportedly released the same day he was taken into custody, on $5,000 bail." ("When 'love is love,' it fits like a glove!" sez Johnny Cockring - jjs)
‘Game of Thrones Actor Arrested for Allegedly Attempting to Solicit a Minor
"The latest campaign serves as part of a six-figure ad buy focused on how Levi’s has pushed progressive politics, attacked voter integrity laws while furloughing thousands of workers to reward their rich shareholders."
Consumers’ Research Targets American Express, Levi’s in Latest Attack Against "Woke" Capital
“Disney is about to learn that attempting to ideologically and sexually groom our children is a recipe for brand destruction, costing the company massively in both customers and revenue. Who in the hell is in charge at Disney?”
Concerned Parents Are Ready to Ditch Disney When Alternatives Become Available
"What happens when a legendary entertainment enterprise abandons its legacy and its audience for an ideology?"
The Disney Dilemma
"Dungy appeared alongside Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to support the governor’s ‘Responsible Fatherhood Initiative.’"
Tony Dungy Responds Unapologetically to Leftist Outrage Over His Fatherhood Comments: "Obama Said the Same Things"
"Tony Dungy, the first black coach ever to win a Super Bowl, might have escaped notice this week had he merely supported Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s 'Responsible Fatherhood Initiative.' His real sin was to explain why."
Unapologetic Tony Dungy Smokes Out Obama’s Betrayal of Black America
"People 'compared it to a swastika.'”
Swedish Folk Band Cancelled Because They Play a Russian Musical Instrument
HITHER & YON
"Conservatives admire him for limiting government spending. How can we apply lessons from his presidency today?"
The Coolness of Calvin Coolidge
Christian Toto: "That humor, that voice isn't the most powerful part of his comic legacy."
Why Gilbert Gottfried Is Irreplaceable
"Gilbert Gottfried was a fearless comic who understood the scope of his craft. RIP."
Farewell, Gilbert Gottfried

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

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

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 06:40 AM (yrol0)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 14, 2022 06:40 AM (T7iTv)

3 Mornin'

Posted by: AnnaS at April 14, 2022 06:41 AM (l4l/z)

4 morning. is it friday yet?

Posted by: IanDeal at April 14, 2022 06:41 AM (MGjjz)

5 Elon wants it all. 100% offer.

Posted by: Squid at April 14, 2022 06:41 AM (6C+Gj)

6 And a top ten!

Posted by: Squid at April 14, 2022 06:42 AM (6C+Gj)

7 Good morning.

News out of Russia is that the Ukrainians shelled some small town over the border into RU that had no military significance:

"Confirmed: AFU hit the village of Klimovo in the Bryansk region - shells hit residential buildings, 7 people (among them one child and one pregnant woman) were injured.

Locals talk about three explosions at 12.08. The injured are in the hospital, three of them are in serious condition, one leg was torn off. Schools have been closed and children have been sent home."

I think the gloves are going to come off in this war in a big way.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 14, 2022 06:43 AM (700n7)

8 Squid!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 06:44 AM (UHVv4)

9 Morning Horde, good morning.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2022 06:44 AM (FduHe)

10 Good morning! Now it's time to read the articles.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 14, 2022 06:44 AM (4olE8)

11 Fresh thread scent. What is that, Musk?

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2022 06:45 AM (vrz2I)

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

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 06:46 AM (WNPel)

13 Coming soon to you guys: Canada's Big Five banks raise their prime interest rate to 3.2% after yesterday's 0.5% hike by the Bank of Canada.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 06:46 AM (UHVv4)

14 Abolish The FBI!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 14, 2022 06:46 AM (/1l9x)

15 words of commenter Alan G. burned to the ground, its ashes scattered and the ground salted where it stood.

Despite the misspelling, does this mean I'm officially A Contributor now?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 06:46 AM (WNPel)

16 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 14, 2022 06:46 AM (arJlL)

17 Levis. Another great American brand corroded and destroyed from the inside.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2022 06:47 AM (vrz2I)

18 "Conservatives admire him for limiting government spending. How can we apply lessons from his presidency today?"

Well, and I'm just spit-balling here, maybe we could limit government spending?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 06:47 AM (WNPel)

19 Old: SMOD
New: SCOD

The new megacomet won't come close enough, but one can dream.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9fz387

Posted by: Pepper Brooks at April 14, 2022 06:48 AM (dbdgv)

20 15 words of commenter Alan G. burned to the ground, its ashes scattered and the ground salted where it stood.

Despite the misspelling, does this mean I'm officially A Contributor now?
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 06:46 AM (WNPel)

Let's just say "influencer."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 06:48 AM (s2VJv)

21 But Frank James? Nidal Hassan? Djokar Tsarnayev? Omar Mateen? Nidal Hassan? The damned 9/11 hijackers? What about Dick Durbin and Bernie Sanders adjacent James Hodgkinson? Or Stephen Paddock? And so on and so on and scoobie doobie doobie? Crickets.

I'm going to point out that you listed Nidal Hassan twice as evidence that I read more than just the comments. I'll avoid the Blazing Saddles reference.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 14, 2022 06:48 AM (T7iTv)

22 I love Tony Dungy.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 14, 2022 06:49 AM (45fpk)

23 "Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Signs Constitutional Carry Bill Into Law"

It only took him about 4 years. Now he can get on loading all those illegal aliens onto his truck and taking them back to Mexico like he promised when he was running last time.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2022 06:49 AM (vrz2I)

24 Also... is this the part where I point out that we, on this here Smart Military Blog (TM), have been saying the Constitution does not give the Federal Government any police powers - and there's a reason for that! - for at least the last 14 years?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 06:49 AM (WNPel)

25 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at April 14, 2022 06:50 AM (u7pQw)

26 Let's just say "influencer."

I'll allow it.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 06:50 AM (WNPel)

27 A Swedish folk band was banned from performing at a benefit concert to support Ukraine because they play a Russian musical instrument, with outraged critics claiming the balalaika was as bad as displaying a Nazi swastika.

oh for the love of pete

Posted by: grammie winger at April 14, 2022 06:51 AM (45fpk)

28 Thanks, J.J.!

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 14, 2022 06:51 AM (OssQ4)

29 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2022 06:52 AM (laioL)

30 Musk is willing to buy Twatter offering $54.20/share, saying "Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company." [It sounded like the news reader read that as a literal quote, to my ears.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 06:52 AM (UHVv4)

31 oh for the love of pete
Posted by: grammie winger

pete who ?

Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at April 14, 2022 06:53 AM (arJlL)

32 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger at April 14, 2022 06:53 AM (45fpk)

33 O'Hiya !

Posted by: JT at April 14, 2022 06:53 AM (arJlL)

34 FBI Blows It Again: Knew About Subway Terrorist's Racist Videos and Had Him on Watch List

I'm conflicted on this one. My general thoughts on policing (the Feds aren't supposed to have Police powers anyway...) is that we kind of have to wait until someone has done something illegal to punish them. Headlines like these are born from a logical foundation that says we should have a "Pre-Crime division."

Right up until the first punch is thrown, or the money actually demanded/taken, or whatever, the bad guy in question has the opportunity to not be a bad guy.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 06:53 AM (WNPel)

35 A Swedish folk band was banned from performing at a benefit concert to support Ukraine because they play a Russian musical instrument, with outraged critics claiming the balalaika was as bad as displaying a Nazi swastika.

oh for the love of pete
Posted by: grammie winger

We are such an unserious world. We really do need a world war and a depression all at the same time to show these idiots what is truly important.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2022 06:54 AM (laioL)

36 Note: thesaker.is should be read, daily, for clear information on Russia vs NATO in Ukraine.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 14, 2022 06:54 AM (OssQ4)

37 24 Also... is this the part where I point out that we, on this here Smart Military Blog (TM), have been saying the Constitution does not give the Federal Government any police powers - and there's a reason for that! - for at least the last 14 years?
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 06:49 AM (WNPel)

We do, and also where we point out that the Left, starting with Wilson and then amplified under FDR, decided that the "necessary and proper" clause was a sweeping statement of empowerment allowing them to do anything they could get a Congress to vote for.

Now they're pushing to do away with the Congressional authorization, and just let Dear Leader rule like an Emperor by "executive orders".

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 06:54 AM (trdmm)

38 "Shut that bloody balalaika up!!"

"Told you, Sir."

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 14, 2022 06:54 AM (906pl)

39 The FBI organized the kidnapping plot in order to distract attention away from the production of fake ballots.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 14, 2022 06:55 AM (5kI0z)

40 Politically Weak Biden Considers Fiscal Suicide
________

Bad link.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 14, 2022 06:55 AM (R0Tis)

41 Right up until the first punch is thrown, or the money actually demanded/taken, or whatever, the bad guy in question has the opportunity to not be a bad guy.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 06:53 AM (WNPel)

I'm pretty sure openly threatening to murder people is a crime. (Not a sarcastic "pretty sure", i may very well be wrong)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 06:55 AM (6FeV1)

42 Good men who stand by and do nothing as they watch their cohorts do evil are not "good men."

Posted by: Bete at April 14, 2022 06:55 AM (eqyIS)

43 Musk is willing to buy Twatter offering $54.20/share, saying

So, someone more familiar tell me, I guess:
1. Is that more or less than the stock price at the time of his offering?

2. If the Blue Bird says "no," what are the chances the stock price climbs versus sinks?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 06:55 AM (WNPel)

44 JJ

A link for the Fiscal Suicide:

https://tinyurl.com/479d2vh5

PS Thanks and when do you start Passover?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 06:57 AM (yrol0)

45 Bringing this over from the last thread.

I'm not so sure. Any lefty alternative would have the same problems the righty ones do: the vast majority of Twitter usage is non-political, and the non-Twitter sites by and large are almost 100% political. So you'd have to get those users to move.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 14, 2022 06:45 AM (haMNq)

Well the same problems, except they won't get banned from webservice providers, won't have their servers shut down by the providers. Won't have search engines throttle their results. So you know, not actually the same problems.

Posted by: buzzion at April 14, 2022 06:57 AM (vMCab)

46 The AT&T news/homepage story on Musk and twitter couches his goals for free speech as troubling indeed. His "absolutist free speech," as they couch it, is the exclusive desideratum of "Trump supporters and the far right." No one else.

We now have a operative Cold War-era eastern bloc government with a media cohort whose Pravda mindset is even more fanatic than Pravda straining against the fraying constraints of a moribund Constitutional Republic.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 14, 2022 06:57 AM (H8QX8)

47 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 06:57 AM (DU+/6)

48 Now they're pushing to do away with the Congressional authorization, and just let Dear Leader rule like an Emperor by "executive orders".

Yeah, well, I'm so old I remember when that was cool for Obama, but TEH TYRANNY! under Trump. So I'm guessing that when Biden leaves office (assuming the Uniparty ever lets there be fair elections again), it will suddenly be horribly tyrannical again.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 06:58 AM (WNPel)

49 News chyron here not covering up James's motives but... "James has railed in online videos about racism and violence in the U.S. and his own struggles with mental health care."

So get ready for several MFM spins on the attack: racism made him do it; American violence made him violent; and free healthcare would have stopped this.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 06:58 AM (UHVv4)

50 Right up until the first punch is thrown, or the money actually demanded/taken, or whatever, the bad guy in question has the opportunity to not be a bad guy.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

True. But that doesn't mean I'm going to stop eye-fucking the guy who said he was going to kill me and mine every time he walks into the room.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2022 06:58 AM (laioL)

51 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Idi Amin called his henchmen the State Research Bureau.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2022 06:58 AM (EZebt)

52 free healthcare would have stopped this.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 06:58 AM (UHVv4)

He should have gotten a shot, alright.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 06:58 AM (6FeV1)

53 Balalaikas aren't uniquely Russian.
You can find similar instruments all over the Asian continent, and Scandinavia.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 14, 2022 06:58 AM (jTmQV)

54 I think the gloves are going to come off in this war in a big way.
Posted by: Serious Cat at April 14, 2022 06:43 AM (700n7

In this war, that reminds me of "Stop saying that, you're only making it worse for yourself!"

"Worse? How could it get worse, you're about to stone me to death! Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 06:59 AM (trdmm)

55 I'm pretty sure openly threatening to murder people is a crime. (Not a sarcastic "pretty sure", i may very well be wrong)

It is, technically, but I've been told (not sure how accurate my source is, though) that it's rarely prosecuted because juries tend be sympathetic to the "yeah, I'm sorry, I lost my temper" excuse.

If you had enough videos all saying the same thing, maybe, and if there was evidence of action along with the videos (say, purchase of firearms or tracked substances: but I don't think any of those should be tracked), it would be easier.

In general, I'm not a fan of making speech a crime. Even hateful, threatening speech.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:00 AM (WNPel)

56 If Musk gave twiter to the Ukranians would the Abbot-Putin price increases cause transgendered kindergarteners to have to manufacture guns from plant-based meats using only stone knives and bearskins?

Posted by: Senseless Ponderings at April 14, 2022 07:00 AM (vrz2I)

57 Federal transfer payments both through direct payments and enhanced social-insurance benefits, like unemployment insurance spiked, with transfers accounting for 21.6 percent of income in 2020 and 21.8 percent in 2021.

So therefore we need about 40% inflation, give or take, to make prices match goods and services.

Or a big thorn stick up the ass!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 07:00 AM (yrol0)

58 Thing of it is, the "terrorists" aren't just imaginary, the FBI manufactures them out of whole cloth as has been confirmed - yet again - by this supposed plot to kidnap Michigan's glassy-eyed Zohra-impersonator Wretched Whitmer.
++++
Yup, exactly. Pulse nightclub was an FBI job gone sideways. The California shooters a couple of years ago (San Bernadino, I think) was an FBI job gone sideways. The Vegas shooter was *probably* an FBI job gone sideways, based on the cleanup job that followed. The terror training compound in New Mexico was also *probably* and FBI op, again based on the cleanup job afterward.

The FBI playbook appears to be pretty clear. They recruit targets, radicalize them into actual terrorists, arm them, help them with planning, then disrupt those plans to chalk up counterterrorism victories. When they lose control and people died because of the targets they recruited, trained and armed, they loosely cover it up and get the press to carry water for them and then they use it to argue that they need more counterterrorism funding to avoid future attacks.

It's as diabolical as it is disgusting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:00 AM (DU+/6)

59 We seem to have reached the point at which the first working hypothesis should be that all such shooters have not been overlooked, but activated, by the "Eye see."

Posted by: Slow Learner at April 14, 2022 07:00 AM (klu5V)

60 "The plot against Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination are no coincidence. . . As long as Thomas remains on the bench, he ruins the perfect legal race war they wanted."

--

Pretty (extremely) unsettling that he's as old as he is. They're so very close. I try not to think about it, but we're so far down the rabbit hole of destruction in so many ways, we're doomed unless a complete upheaval happens.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 14, 2022 07:01 AM (sVtYq)

61
He was an apparent adherent to the Nation of Islam, according to his Twitter account.

I believe I've read that on one of his YouTube videos he brags about how 9/11 was the greatest day of his life, or some such.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 14, 2022 07:01 AM (dQvv7)

62 FBI Blows It Again: Knew About Subway Terrorist's Racist Videos and Had Him on Watch List

-

I have never been a "crisis actor" believer until I saw the video SMH posted.

There is no blood on the floor of the train station for 30 seconds or so after the shooting victims come out and look around for instructions on where to lie down. One lady is literally caught on video pouring blood out of some type of container onto the floor. Another lady in brown shoes and with a huge tacky purse was taking video underground, perfectly fine, and then grievously injured and put in an ambulance above ground.

I don't think this happened like we were told it did.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:01 AM (/ZMaL)

63 As for the FBI, these bastards. These evil, fucking bastards who care about one thing and one thing only. Their pensions and perks. I'm really sick and tired of apologists like Andy McCarthy, Sean Hannity and others who keep praising the agency and excusing away the behavior of a few rotten apples at the top. Sorry, the whole damned agency is rotten top to bottom.
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Oh, I dunno. Some of 'em are probably in it for the love of the game. The game of abusing citizens and whooping it up as ubermenschen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:01 AM (DU+/6)

64 True. But that doesn't mean I'm going to stop eye-fucking the guy who said he was going to kill me and mine every time he walks into the room.

Oh, absolutely. But we're talking about the government here, and the implication in the headline was that the FBI should have "done something" about James to prevent the shooting.

I'm not actually okay with pre-emptive policing.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:02 AM (WNPel)

65 Another known Wolf attack, heck of a job FIB, Heckuva job.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2022 07:02 AM (/FfhO)

66 The FBI is actually obsolete. Today, we have instant communications, satellite information, travel by air, computer databases shared from State to State.

When the fbi was formed, we had bank robbers terrorizing the countryside in souped up automobiles and crossing state lines meant they could avoid capture, etc. 1930's bullshit.

It's 2022....time for the FBI to go and leave American citizens alone.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 14, 2022 07:03 AM (/1l9x)

67 DC Authorities Fail to Address Calls for Autopsies of Preemie-Sized Babies

Democrats applaud the slaughter of the innocents. Why would they waste time and money "investigating" something of which they approve?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 14, 2022 07:03 AM (T7iTv)

68 There will be more Fed Set Ups because even if they don't work, they work for the narrative.

Posted by: Anchorman at April 14, 2022 07:03 AM (Mk/8o)

69 Musk is offering a 50% premium over current price. The shareholders are saying "no" because twitter was trading at $70 last year. Going to get interesting.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:04 AM (qnVBz)

70 Oh, oh.

"Grand Rapids police video shows officer kneeling on back of a Black [sic] man during traffic stop before shooting him."

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 07:04 AM (UHVv4)

71 How long until Elon Musk is a Russian?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:04 AM (/ZMaL)

72
Right up until the first punch is thrown, or the money actually demanded/taken, or whatever, the bad guy in question has the opportunity to not be a bad guy.
Posted by: AllenG

He had weapons and entered N.Y. If the Feds (spit) had notified NYPD they could have arrested him.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2022 07:04 AM (FduHe)

73 Cullors: "It is such a trip now to hear the term '[IRS Form] 990.' I'm, like, ugh. It's, like, triggering."

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 07:04 AM (yrol0)

74 Musk offers $43,000,000,000,00 for remaining twatter stock.

Posted by: massideas at April 14, 2022 07:04 AM (7EE+n)

75 Robbie, what video? Can you link it again?

I saw a frame grab from a video last night with what appeared to be two "wounded" people literally stopping to pose for a guy in a red hoodie taking pics.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 14, 2022 07:05 AM (OssQ4)

76
If some of you think this was an FBI false flag of some kind, the shooter would've been a white guy in a MAGA hat. Or a Russian expat. I hate that agency with a vengeance, but making him black makes no sense.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:05 AM (s2VJv)

77 I don't think this happened like we were told it did.

I find it highly likely you're right, even if we'll never know the specifics. It's also odd that so few people (relatively speaking) were injured in the New York Subway.

I haven't been following closely, but were there even any panic injuries?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:05 AM (WNPel)

78 The latest military assistance brings the total aid money given to Ukraine since the invasion began to over $2.4 billion...will provide "weapons, ammunitions, and other security assistance," as well as "new capabilities" not previously given...Biden said in a statement.

--

How is this different than jumping feet first into the "war" over there, surreptitious as it may be? And why does the Senate not need to be involved here?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 14, 2022 07:05 AM (sVtYq)

79 I guess the mask on flights nonsense continues until we finally get the cojones to rebel!

Posted by: AnnaS at April 14, 2022 07:05 AM (l4l/z)

80 71 How long until Elon Musk is a Russian?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:04 AM (/ZMaL)

A few billion, same as in town.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:05 AM (s2VJv)

81 I have never been a "crisis actor" believer until I saw the video SMH posted.

Say what? What video?

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 14, 2022 07:06 AM (nxdel)

82 So, someone more familiar tell me, I guess:
1. Is that more or less than the stock price at the time of his offering?

2. If the Blue Bird says "no," what are the chances the stock price climbs versus sinks?
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 06:55 AM (WNPel)
++++
1. No on the price. He probably bought most of his shares between $30 and $40 based on timing. The price now - after the most-Musk runup - is only around $46. If he's really all-in at $54 and change, that's a *lot* higher than his current stake.

2. They can't run up the stock necessarily, or prevent him from buying it. What they can do is get their current shareholders - major ones, who are aligned with them - to hold and not sell. The float (number of shares being traded) will fall and the price will rise. To make this happen, the current owners have to be willing to *not* take the money and so withhold their shares from Musk. This will probably drive the price up, but then the risk is that one of those big shareholders - or more than one - blink and take the cash on the barrel.

If Musk really wants it and they want to block him, they just have to *not* sell him the shares.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:06 AM (DU+/6)

83 "Grand Rapids police video shows officer kneeling on back of a Black [sic] man during traffic stop before shooting him."

I saw that video.
Perp had the cop's taser, was trying to tase the cop.
How long is a cop supposed to wrestle a non-compliant perp? A minute? 5 minutes?
How long could you wrestle a bigger person?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 14, 2022 07:06 AM (jTmQV)

84 Who in the hell is in charge at Disney?

Someone who has a golden parachute written into their contract. They don't have to care if Disney goes under so they can use it to advance their agenda of evil.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 14, 2022 07:07 AM (T7iTv)

85 Yeah, but think about all of the terrorist acts that don't happen because of those straight shooter FIBBIES! Frank is just a small sampling of what will happen if the FIB is disbanded. We guarantee it.

-Proud Straight Shooters

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:07 AM (qnVBz)

86 saw a frame grab from a video last night with what appeared to be two "wounded" people literally stopping to pose for a guy in a red hoodie taking pics.

*

Yeah, he's a "director" according to the guy narrating the video. It's almost comical because the injured shooting victim lies down and begins bleeding when the guy tells him to.

I'll find the link. Don't get distracted by the narrators belief in God, the Devil, and the significance of numbers. Some people believe in stuff. Watch for things that you can learn from in this post COVID-19 op world.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:07 AM (/ZMaL)

87 71 How long until Elon Musk is a Russian?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:04 AM (/ZMaL)

A Russian racist. Actually he's half South African and was raised in South Africa so I'm surprised they haven't concocted some story of his ancestral connections to apartheid.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 14, 2022 07:08 AM (H8QX8)

88 Who in the hell is in charge at Disney?

Someone who has a golden parachute written into their contract. They don't have to care if Disney goes under so they can use it to advance their agenda of evil.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 14, 2022 07:07 AM (T7iTv)
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I think that's pretty much par for the course in the upper echelons of executives these days. Sign on for a few years, engage in terrible evil acts, destroying the company and lower-tier workers, then move on to another company to do the same thing all over again. Happens in higher ed a lot, too.,

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2022 07:09 AM (YIVH2)

89 The AT&T news/homepage story on Musk and twitter couches his goals for free speech as troubling indeed. His "absolutist free speech," as they couch it, is the exclusive desideratum of "Trump supporters and the far right." No one else.

We now have a operative Cold War-era eastern bloc government with a media cohort whose Pravda mindset is even more fanatic than Pravda straining against the fraying constraints of a moribund Constitutional Republic.
Posted by: Ordinary American at April 14, 2022 06:57 AM (H8QX

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Yup. Free speech and freedom of the press are dead in this country, at least officially. If you want free speech, you're a radical right-wing fascist if not also a terrorist and a Russian agent.

And our press is far worse than Pravda and Izvestia. At those outfits, there was *somebody* who didn't want to work there but did so at the point of a gun or the threat of hard labor in the gulag if they didn't. Someone, somewhere - a press operator, a copy editor, whatever - was there because he was a slave who was forced to be there. Not so in our press outfits. Every single person at every single one of them is there by his own volition and choice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:09 AM (DU+/6)

90 Musk is more African American than BHO.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:09 AM (qnVBz)

91 @86

>>I'll find the link.

Here's your link from yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/y6ez8mbv

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2022 07:09 AM (/FfhO)

92 Here

bitchute.com/video/NPDG2YKIZ3mr/
Posted by: SMH

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:10 AM (/ZMaL)

93 Last June, the Biden [junta] revealed that guys who can't get laid may be terrorist threats due to 'involuntary celibate--violent extremism'.

Frankie says Relax! Don't Do It. When You Want To Get To It.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 14, 2022 07:10 AM (4I/2K)

94 Thanks, gourmand; I was wondering what the arrest's report was clearly missing besides the reason for the traffic stop.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 07:11 AM (UHVv4)

95 Thanks Thomas Bender

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:11 AM (/ZMaL)

96 79 I guess the mask on flights nonsense continues until we finally get the cojones to rebel!
Posted by: AnnaS at April 14, 2022 07:05 AM (l4l/z)

Well they can fine you $75k and ban you from flying forever. So those cojones better come with private jet money.

Posted by: blaster at April 14, 2022 07:11 AM (9otr5)

97 CNN radicalized Frank James.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 07:11 AM (NpAcC)

98 93 Last June, the Biden [junta] revealed that guys who can't get laid may be terrorist threats due to 'involuntary celibate--violent extremism'.

Frankie says Relax! Don't Do It. When You Want To Get To It.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 14, 2022 07:10 AM (4I/2K)

"Look, Fat. You'll collapse a lung doing that!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:11 AM (s2VJv)

99 Don't worry about the science- following is what's important!

Posted by: Follow The Science! at April 14, 2022 07:12 AM (8DRUP)

100 You have freedom of speech as long as you speak only facts as determined by the consensus. Anything else is dangerous disinformation akin to yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:12 AM (qnVBz)

101 He had weapons and entered N.Y. If the Feds (spit) had notified NYPD they could have arrested him.

Which are also things I don't think should be illegal.

Remember that my definition of the 2nd Amendment is I should be able to park a howitzer and an M1-A1 Abrams in my back yard if I want.

What the guy did was evil, and he harmed far more than just the people he shot, but one of the prices of freedom is (supposed to be) that we only punish bad deeds after they're done - policing in our (formerly) Federal Republic is *supposed* to be reactive.

I hate the FBI's existence and think (as above) it needs to be burned to the ground. Same with the ATF. But that doesn't change that - from a legal perspective - I'm actually in favor of the government not "taking action" until an actual crime (that should be a crime, not a bullshit "pre-crime" crime) had been committed.

I realize I may be in the minority there. Nevertheless.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:12 AM (WNPel)

102 If Musk gave twiter to the Ukranians would the Abbot-Putin price increases cause transgendered kindergarteners to have to manufacture guns from plant-based meats using only stone knives and bearskins?
Posted by: Senseless Ponderings at April 14, 2022 07:00 AM (vrz2I)
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Not quite. The transgendered kindergartners chained to the Dickensian mill of Abbot-Putin's war production machine will be forced to violate their innate veganism by eating starvation rations of actual meat while the are compelled to wear leather to protect themselves from the machinery.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:12 AM (DU+/6)

103 Disney is about to learn that attempting to ideologically and sexually groom our children is a recipe for brand destruction, costing the company massively in both customers and revenue. Who in the hell is in charge at Disney?
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Red China.

And even without Red China, when will people figure out that, for the time being, companies aren't all that concerned about revenue or customer alienation?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:14 AM (DU+/6)

104 James was a Don Lemon follower on social media. I guess no one told Frank about the white 'husband'.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 07:14 AM (UHVv4)

105 We have to monitor and suppress speech in order to protect the stupid people (who are not me, obvs) who are unable to separate fact from satire and make rational conclusions from an array of data.

-Our Betters

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:14 AM (qnVBz)

106 18
Well, and I'm just spit-balling here, maybe we could limit government spending?

No...that won't work. We need something effective.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 14, 2022 07:14 AM (4olE8)

107 Todays FOAD List:

The new map effectively targets seats held by Rep. Al Lawson (D-FL), Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL),Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-FL), and potentially Rep. Val Demings (D-FL).

Fuck Crist especially!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 07:15 AM (yrol0)

108 I'm actually in favor of the government not "taking action" until an actual crime (that should be a crime, not a bullshit "pre-crime" crime) had been committed.

I realize I may be in the minority there. Nevertheless.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:12 AM (WNPel)

The problem is the government changing the laws and definition of what crime is. A crime that challenges and/or defames the junta? See the problem?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:15 AM (s2VJv)

109 I realize I may be in the minority there. Nevertheless.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:12 AM (WNPel)
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Maybe so, but I'm right there with you. This whole thing is a canard. The problem wasn't that he had a gun, the problem is that he had a rap sheet a mile long and should have been in jail - or even that he should have been in a mental institution because he was barking mad and his madness was well documented.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:15 AM (DU+/6)

110 No...that won't work. We need something effective.

Yeah, well, I gave *that* option at #12, I think.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:16 AM (WNPel)

111 "No...that won't work. We need something effective"

Weekly allowance. If you don't get your chores done, no $$s.

Posted by: fd at April 14, 2022 07:16 AM (vrz2I)

112 Is there a mask mandate on busses and trains?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:16 AM (qnVBz)

113 Which are also things I don't think should be illegal.

Posted by: AllenG

I didn't say N.Y. law as just.
The FBI (spit) knew and could have made a difference.
It is important to make them play by their own rules.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2022 07:16 AM (FduHe)

114 The problem is the government changing the laws and definition of what crime is. A crime that challenges and/or defames the junta? See the problem?

I think that's my point. Be careful what "government action" you wish for - you may get it.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:17 AM (WNPel)

115 112: yes

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 14, 2022 07:17 AM (WdiOz)

116 It's glorious to watch the Neo RMVP, their Vichy supporters and fat, dishonest loafs like Goldberg and French freak out over losing their propaganda engine. Yeah, perish the thought of free speech and protecting the First Amendment. We need the liberals to control Twitter and decide what the truth is. Like Hunter's laptop, Russia, Ukraine and everything else. ROFL

Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2022 07:18 AM (TbpGr)

117 112 Is there a mask mandate on busses and trains?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:16 AM (qnVBz)

Dee Cee Metro is still in full virtue-signal mode with their teevee ads.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 14, 2022 07:18 AM (906pl)

118 The problem wasn't that he had a gun, the problem is that he had a rap sheet a mile long and should have been in jail

There I'll agree.

I guess I forgot that I'd seen yesterday - no felonies, right? Probably because of Prog-Tard prosecutors?

And that's a different issue (even if it would have prevented this entire event from happening).

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:19 AM (WNPel)

119 Hey JJ: Thanks for all you do every day. As for it "... makes no sense," I would agree but for the fact that this gives the media another obvious fact to ignore, gloss over, etc., in order to enrage the opposition. They seem to have two agendas: (1) to feed the narrative, (2) to bait the opposition by blatantly ignoring that which undercuts the narrative. Analogous to (is it Treacher's?) rule that when Republicans screw up, that's the story; when Dems screw up, Republicans pounce is the story.

Posted by: Slow Learner at April 14, 2022 07:19 AM (klu5V)

120 America. Robbed, raped, and murdered. No clues. APB and BOLO put out for white people.

Posted by: Eromero at April 14, 2022 07:19 AM (gktX6)

121 this move by Musk is fascinating - my guess is that some other Oligarch, with backing, will move to block him. But you never know, that's what makes this fun to watch.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 07:19 AM (trdmm)

122 California Misinformation Billl -

Here is the cudgel:
"The Board shall consider...Whether the misinformation or disinformation was contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus to an extent where its dissemination constitutes gross negligence by the licensee.

This is an extension of the notion of "best practice", which has morphed from being a set of guidelines to being a hard and fast rule for any given specialty. It has been the case for nearly 20 years that if you deviate from 'best practice' you risk censure, loss of hospital privileges, or loss of license.

'Contemporary scientific consensus' is a nebulous euphemism that will be subject to frequent change at the whim of State Medical Board, and wielded capriciously and arbitrarily as a political weapon.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 14, 2022 07:19 AM (m45I2)

123 The Post Millennial @TPostMillennial
Biden: "I've set a goal of 0 carbon for aviation sectors by 2050 ... To bring that future within reach, I've proposed a sustainable aviation fuel tax..."

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 07:20 AM (UHVv4)

124 @95

>>Thanks Thomas Bender

Not a problem, it's a compelling piece of video.

I mean, what are the odds of the Meat Puppet talking about guns and the next day a known wolf nut ball goes on a rampage with a "ghost gun?"

These types of coincidences seem to happen quite a lot.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2022 07:20 AM (/FfhO)

125 Egard Watch CEO Ilan Srulovicz, was on television earlier talking about combating the woke culture with his ads.

Here's the the latest Egard Watch ad-
What Is A Woman

https://tinyurl.com/4vm95f48

Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 07:20 AM (NpAcC)

126 Biden Junta Extends Federal Transportation Mask Mandate Again

Not unexpected, but got dammit.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 07:20 AM (HsAzN)

127 I'm actually in favor of the government not "taking action" until an actual crime

*

I'm very much an advocate of this. I think that's the problem. He clearly had done something significant enough to be deemed a terrorist threat (not a "keep off the grass" January 6th type one, either), and had violated multiple laws in the past.

He was let off easy multiple times apparently (comically, probably because of the racism he rails against in his videos) and nothing stopped him from continuing his best life.

Enforce the law equally. That's all I ask.

That day is done, though. We're living in a new America.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:21 AM (/ZMaL)

128 The AT&T news/homepage story on Musk and twitter couches his goals for free speech as troubling indeed. His "absolutist free speech," as they couch it, is the exclusive desideratum of "Trump supporters and the far right." No one else.

Freedom of speech is dangerous when you are a totalitarian. Their entire ethos is based on gaslighting. What is troubling is that some of the proles they are speaking to will actually believe this. The Stasi wish they had this technology.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 14, 2022 07:21 AM (5kI0z)

129 Musk is offering a 50% premium over current price. The shareholders are saying "no" because twitter was trading at $70 last year. Going to get interesting.

That's hilarious because there's no chance of it going that high again and everyone knows it.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 14, 2022 07:21 AM (haMNq)

130 The Board shall consider...Whether the misinformation or disinformation was contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus to an extent where its dissemination constitutes gross negligence by the licensee.

Oh, I see no way that could *possibly* go wrong or be weaponized.

Nope. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zero ways this could be a bad idea.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:21 AM (WNPel)

131 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 07:22 AM (Zz0t1)

132 The primary difference between the Gestapo and the FBI is one speaks English, the other spoke German. Tell your local and state law enforcement not only to cease cooperation with FBI/DOJ but to actively monitor their agents.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 14, 2022 07:22 AM (nMx88)

133 Criminals that get away with crimes will try more and more crimes until they get stopped. No one is stopping the federal government.

We're kinda fucked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 07:22 AM (Zz0t1)

134 @121

>>my guess is that some other Oligarch, with backing, will move to block him.

Similar to how Rush Limbaugh was blocked from buying into a football team, Musk will never be allowed to purchase Twitter.

Twitter is far to valuable as a Democrat Propaganda tool and narrative generator to ever let it go.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2022 07:22 AM (/FfhO)

135 'Contemporary scientific consensus' is a nebulous euphemism that will be subject to frequent change at the whim of State Medical Board, and wielded capriciously and arbitrarily as a political weapon.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 14, 2022 07:19 AM (m45I2)
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No kidding. That phrase, "contemporary scientific consensus" can mean whatever The Powers That Be want it to mean.

Remember that Einstein and Newton both redefined the scientific knowledge of their respective eras (against the "contemporary scientific consensus" of the day). Would they be rounded up and locked away for their thought crimes in today's political climate?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2022 07:23 AM (YIVH2)

136 122 Posted by: Muldoon at April 14, 2022 07:19 AM (m45I2)

Goes hand in hand with the Anti-Lynching conspiracy law.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:23 AM (s2VJv)

137 Great great post by JJ
Lots of folks talking about ending FIB, and rightly so. FIB is secret police.
But DOJ is just as bad. Fire all of them start over.
Gubmint lurker get a real job

Posted by: Dusky Pissflaps at April 14, 2022 07:23 AM (Rz7ER)

138 ... 'Contemporary scientific consensus' is a nebulous euphemism that will be subject to frequent change at the whim of State Medical Board, and wielded capriciously and arbitrarily as a political weapon.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 14, 2022 07:19 AM (m45I2)
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And even worse, it goes *way* beyond that. The state controls vast amounts of the scientific establishment and infrastructure (the thing Eisenhower warned about in his Military-Industrial Complex speech, but the part everyone forgets because the MIC part was so catchy), which means that the state controls the "contemporary scientific consensus." The science is what the state says it is, and acts like this one go a step further and redefine the truth as what the science says - and therefore the truth is what the state says.

In medicine, surely. Also in everything else. If the state dictates that the "contemporary scientific consensus" is that pi is equal to 3, then you'll be spreading dangerous disinformation if you insist that it;s 3.14159.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:23 AM (DU+/6)

139 I suspect he had a half dozen felonies, except they weren't charged. We'll talk this burglary and sex crime down to a misdemeanor. He's black, after all, and the prison is overcrowded. It would look bad if we charge another one with this same sh*t as the other fifty thousand.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:24 AM (/ZMaL)

140 Is there a mask mandate on busses and trains?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:16 AM (qnVBz)

In Houston, masks are still required to ride Metro buses and the boondoggle light rail.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 14, 2022 07:24 AM (4I/2K)

141 Would they be rounded up and locked away for their thought crimes in today's political climate?

That would depend entirely on who they supported for President in 2016 and 2020.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:24 AM (WNPel)

142 Amazon adding a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to fees it charges third-party sellers who use its fulfillment services.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 07:24 AM (UHVv4)

143 112 Is there a mask mandate on busses and trains?

a-yep.

I frequently use a local bus line that gets you in and out of the downtown area without the hassles and costs of parking downtown. Only damn time I have to wear a tard rag. And you have to listen to loud, non-stop covid propaganda while you ride. They recently started announcing that masks will no longer be provided and if you don't have your own, you don't ride. Since they are not mandated anywhere else here, a lot of infrequent riders don't know or just forget to bring one, so they were providing them.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 07:24 AM (HsAzN)

144 All you need to know about the Anti-Lynching bill is that they needed to go back to 1955 to find someone to name it after.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at April 14, 2022 07:25 AM (Spr0s)

145 I find it absolutely hilarious that CNN + had so quickly become CNN - . It's not just failing; it's turning into one of the greatest mass media failures of all time. They've already spent $300 million ? And they've got a smaller audience than most podcasts? ROFL!!! They would have been better off throwing all of that money into a dumpster and setting it on fire.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 07:26 AM (trdmm)

146 I wonder if Musk could buy New York? I'll sell him my shares.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2022 07:26 AM (TbpGr)

147 Women inmates fall pregnant after having sex with trannys in prison with them. Who saw this coming?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 14, 2022 07:26 AM (9Bb+p)

148 54 I think the gloves are going to come off in this war in a big way.
Posted by: Serious Cat at April 14, 2022 06:43 AM (700n7

In this war, that reminds me of "Stop saying that, you're only making it worse for yourself!"

"Worse? How could it get worse, you're about to stone me to death! Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah!!!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 06:59 AM (trdmm)

For one, Russia could start targeting Ukraine's military leadership. Remember, in the Iraq war anyone in the government who was even tangentially in the military command was targeted for death or capture.

Also, they have yet to use any heavy bombers in this war, being limited to strategic strikes and ground support.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 14, 2022 07:27 AM (700n7)

149 Remember that my definition of the 2nd Amendment is I should be able to park a howitzer and an M1-A1 Abrams in my back yard if I want.

I agree with you. The problem is, you can't do measures half assed. Either convict for felonies when committed, so background checks catch them when trying to buy a weapon, or stop the shit all together and trash Sullivan and let New Yorkers carry. The second you say, you can't carry, we've taken steps to make sure the bad guys can't get weapons, and then you don't follow thru makes you illegitimate as a governing agency.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2022 07:27 AM (laioL)

150 I hate that agency with a vengeance, but making him black makes no sense.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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No, it doesn't.
Doesn't mean it's not a setup.
Check it out for yourself:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/NPDG2YKIZ3mr/

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 14, 2022 07:27 AM (S8ear)

151 In medicine, surely. Also in everything else. If the state dictates that the "contemporary scientific consensus" is that pi is equal to 3, then you'll be spreading dangerous disinformation if you insist that it;s 3.14159.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:23 AM (DU+/6)
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If you want to engage in real heresy, say that pi and e are both irrational numbers and that i is imaginary.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2022 07:27 AM (YIVH2)

152 Remember that Einstein and Newton both redefined the scientific knowledge of their respective eras (against the "contemporary scientific consensus" of the day). Would they be rounded up and locked away for their thought crimes in today's political climate?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2022 07:23 AM (YIVH2)

It happens.

Posted by: Copernicus and Galileo at April 14, 2022 07:27 AM (4I/2K)

153 The Columbia Bugle
@ColumbiaBugle

@libsoftiktok
an account that documents the insanity of the Left, is locked out of their Twitter account for "hateful conduct."

Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 07:28 AM (NpAcC)

154 Federal transfer payments both through direct payments and enhanced social-insurance benefits, like unemployment insurance spiked, with transfers accounting for 21.6 percent of income in 2020 and 21.8 percent in 2021.

How did payments go up in 2021, when we were told it was all fixed?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 14, 2022 07:28 AM (5kI0z)

155 Amazon adding a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to fees it charges third-party sellers who use its fulfillment services.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 07:24 AM (UHVv4)

Sounds like a good time to check out using Mike Lindell's storefront.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 07:28 AM (Zz0t1)

156 Jimmy Dore, the lefty populist, has been enjoying needling CNN+ on his podcasts. "I'm just a pothead comedian with a youtube channel and I have more viewers than CNN+"

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 07:28 AM (HsAzN)

157 If you want to engage in real heresy, say that pi and e are both irrational numbers and that i is imaginary.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2022 07:27 AM (YIVH2)
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Oh, I dunno. Insisting the pi is female might score you points with the woke folk...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:28 AM (DU+/6)

158 No kidding. That phrase, "contemporary scientific consensus" can mean whatever The Powers That Be want it to mean.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Or whatever the PTB believe at that moment i.e.: See Galileo.
It doesn't have to be pernicious in and of itself to be detrimental to society.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2022 07:29 AM (FduHe)

159 "All you need to know about the Anti-Lynching bill is that they needed to go back to 1955 to find someone to name it after."

They should have rightly called it "The Antonio Bagnetto Act".

Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2022 07:29 AM (TbpGr)

160 The Board shall consider...Whether the misinformation or disinformation was contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus

This is ridiculous. You don't vote on science.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 14, 2022 07:29 AM (5kI0z)

161 @libsoftiktok
an account that documents the insanity of the Left, is locked out of their Twitter account for "hateful conduct."
___

I'm surprised it took them this long.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 14, 2022 07:30 AM (S8ear)

162 The Fed had more ways to control the economy more thoroughly and insidiously than explicit controls, regulations and taxes alone.

If a company does business with them, they set a floor on prices for all goods and services offered by that enterprise. When you have a GSA price list, no one else can purchase that good or service at a lower price, no matter what the market dictates.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2022 07:30 AM (EZebt)

163 Oh, I dunno. Insisting the pi is female might score you points with the woke folk...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:28 AM (DU+/6)
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Oh, good Lord...Now we are going to start gendering numbers? Are evens male and odds female? Or vice versa? Where does pi fall on that spectrum?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2022 07:30 AM (YIVH2)

164 They've already spent $300 million ?

Dude. They got scammed.

Let's see: cloud infrastructure (so you pay for processing), a mobile client and web client (probably with independent servicing portals, because that's the New Hotness in web dev these days), but you just provide the content you're already creating (at least until you actually have subscribers).

My team and I could do that in 6 months or so for a cost (to the client) of about 1/3 of a million dollars + infrastructure costs (which would not be that high, initially, because cloud-based infrastructure). By the time you have enough subscribers that cloud-based becomes a liability, you have enough subscribers that moving to a private (on-prem) server farm isn't that big a deal.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:30 AM (WNPel)

165 I was reading the story on Saint Vincent College and there was a mention of mandates in relation to Trump. Did President Trump ever issue any type of mandate?

Posted by: Brunnhilde at April 14, 2022 07:30 AM (aW5/6)

166 I saw Exclusive Desideratum open for the Spice Girls at a By Invitation Only Charity Concert in London in '95.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 14, 2022 07:30 AM (5NkmN)

167 Had they not been FBI agents, they would actually have been guilty of conspiracy to commit kidnapping.

All hate crimes and all plots against the government are hoaxes perpetrated by the pretend victims.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 14, 2022 07:31 AM (Chz54)

168 Oh, good Lord...Now we are going to start gendering numbers? Are evens male and odds female? Or vice versa? Where does pi fall on that spectrum?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2022 07:30 AM (YIVH2)
++++
It was a "women are irrational" joke that clearly didn't land.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:31 AM (DU+/6)

169 'Contemporary scientific consensus' is a nebulous euphemism that will be subject to frequent change at the whim of State Medical Board, and wielded capriciously and arbitrarily as a political weapon.
Posted by: Muldoon

"Contemporary scientific consensus" is leeches, bleeding, trepanning and inducing orgasms in women to control hysteria.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2022 07:32 AM (laioL)

170 Hmm, new Battle of the Narratives in Ukraine. Did the Ukes destroy Russia's flagship Moskva, a guided missile cruiser currently burning, adrift, and abandoned in the Black Sea, as they say? Or did it simply have an "unfortunate accident, these things happen, nothing to see here" as Putin's governments outlets are saying?

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 07:32 AM (trdmm)

171 Oh, good Lord...Now we are going to start gendering numbers? Are evens male and odds female? Or vice versa? Where does pi fall on that spectrum?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2022 07:30 AM (YIVH2)
++++
It was a "women are irrational" joke that clearly didn't land.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:31 AM (DU+/6)
---
I still wouldn't put it past the "woke" crowd to start gendering numbers, though. They are that stupid.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2022 07:33 AM (YIVH2)

172 They've already spent $300 million?

Krystal and Sagaar at Breaking Points were having fun with this the other day. They have more viewers than CNN+ so they toted up what it cost to launch their show and it was about 70K tops. The most expensive item was the desk. Those TV show-hosting desks are damn expensive!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 07:33 AM (HsAzN)

173 My team and I could do that in 6 months or so for a cost (to the client) of about 1/3 of a million dollars + infrastructure costs (which would not be that high, initially, because cloud-based infrastructure). By the time you have enough subscribers that cloud-based becomes a liability, you have enough subscribers that moving to a private (on-prem) server farm isn't that big a deal.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:30 AM (WNPel)
++++
Probably a bit more than that, but a damn sight less than $300 million. I strongly suspect that most of that money was *not* related to the technology or platform. Most of it probably went to the "talent" (like the big-shot name Chris Wallace) and to cross-licensing agreements and other rights.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:33 AM (DU+/6)

174 Hmm, new Battle of the Narratives in Ukraine. Did the Ukes destroy Russia's flagship Moskva, a guided missile cruiser currently burning, adrift, and abandoned in the Black Sea, as they say? Or did it simply have an "unfortunate accident, these things happen, nothing to see here" as Putin's governments outlets are saying?
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 07:32 AM (trdmm)

GENOCIDE!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 07:33 AM (Zz0t1)

175 Contemporary scientific consensus

*

That's one of the most anti scientific things I've ever heard.

It is perfect for modern America and Americans.

Stop questioning science. That's not how science works.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:33 AM (/ZMaL)

176 @libsoftiktok
an account that documents the insanity of the Left, is locked out of their Twitter account for "hateful conduct."

Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 07:28 AM (NpAcC)

Also, Gateway Pundit (yeah, yeah, I get it) is down.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 14, 2022 07:34 AM (SH2Zi)

177 110 No...that won't work. We need something effective.

Yeah, well, I gave *that* option at #12, I think.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:16 AM (WNPel)

You did indeed. I always appreciate your simple solution that gets to the heart of the matter. And other organs.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 14, 2022 07:34 AM (4olE8)

178 Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2022 07:27 AM (laioL)

Agreed. If you're going to do it, really do it.

As it is, the law is merely a weapon to be wielded against those with undesirable political opinions. Any actual justice done is little more than happy coincidence.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2022 07:30 AM (YIVH2)

pi is obviously a Gay Trans-man Lesbian Otherkin.

You bigot.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:35 AM (WNPel)

179 In Houston, masks are still required to ride Metro buses and the boondoggle light rail.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 14, 2022 07:24 AM (4I/2K)

Level 3: Stay Vigilant Unless Fully

Vaccinated (Moderate)

Huck Fildago

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 07:35 AM (yrol0)

180 Also, they have yet to use any heavy bombers in this war, being limited to strategic strikes and ground support.
Posted by: Serious Cat at April 14, 2022 07:27 AM (700n7)

One could argue that the Russians targeted Ukrainian leadership from the start (hence the landings the first couple of nights of the war at Kiev's airport) and also, that the only reason heavy bombers aren't being used is that the Russians have never been able to neutralize Kiev's air defenses. They don't have stealth bombers, and they are big easy targets for any working missile system.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 07:36 AM (trdmm)

181 Stop questioning science. That's not how science works.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:33 AM (/ZMaL)

Is not all science at question?

I wonder if...

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 07:36 AM (yrol0)

182 Contemporary scientific consensus

*

It's hard to swallow, but Lenin and Stalin won, didn't they?

Sure we can choose between a Ford and a Chevy, and there are occasionally crackers on the shelves right now, but America has embraced "contemporary scientific consensus"

I can't wrap my head around it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:36 AM (/ZMaL)

183 J.J. --
Two days in a row you've linked articles explaining why Trump's endorsement of Oz was a good move. Have you been swayed by them?

Posted by: IrishEi at April 14, 2022 07:37 AM (VhE0u)

184
When you're not dodging smoke bombs and bullets from a black racist Islamikaze, who may or may not be an FBI plant, masks are still required on the NYC transit system.

Was on the other day and half the car did not comply, myself included.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:37 AM (s2VJv)

185 Contemporary scientific consensus

******

The science is settled...

...for now.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 14, 2022 07:37 AM (m45I2)

186 Morning peeps. J.J.'s comment up top about a current government employee who lurks here gave me pause. I think there are several, perhaps over a dozen commenters here (including myself) who are current or former state/federal government employees. If you include current/former military that number is significantly higher.

Anyway, the issues with the DoJ and their subservient agencies are a big problem. Policy is made at the top and enforced throughout an agency. So, not unlike the city traffic cop who relishes passing out more speeding tickets a month than anyone else in the department you have agents in the FBI that are more than eager to enforce whatever policy their specific department is responsible for. Many times it seems those policies are in direct violation of the constitution and/or law as we know it.

The consequences however are vastly different for the public when the feds do it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 14, 2022 07:37 AM (BFigT)

187 I strongly suspect that most of that money was *not* related to the technology or platform. Most of it probably went to the "talent" (like the big-shot name Chris Wallace) and to cross-licensing agreements and other rights.

That may be.

But, again, that's why you *start* with content you already have. Sure, you bump what you're paying a little bit, but $300 Million is just insane.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:37 AM (WNPel)

188 183 J.J. --
Two days in a row you've linked articles explaining why Trump's endorsement of Oz was a good move. Have you been swayed by them?
Posted by: IrishEi at April 14, 2022 07:37 AM (VhE0u)

No. See my disclaimer at the bottom of the links.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:37 AM (s2VJv)

189 "Contemporary scientific consensus" is leeches, bleeding, trepanning and inducing orgasms in women to control hysteria.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2022 07:32 AM (laioL)

Yeah, the long arc of medical consensus has a lot of blemishes on it. The Dark Ages, indeed, are still with us.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 14, 2022 07:37 AM (4I/2K)

190 Thankfully, much of this decadence and degeneracy does not work its' way down to our local level.

Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2022 07:37 AM (Vr12I)

191 Biden: "I've set a goal of 0 carbon for aviation sectors by 2050 ... To bring that future within reach, I've proposed a sustainable aviation fuel tax..."

--

Book your next 0 Carb flight on Pterodactyl Airlines! Each bird comes equipped with a special tie so you'll be strapped in for safety.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 14, 2022 07:38 AM (sVtYq)

192 Sepsis guidelines: The contemporary scientific consensus forced on doctors by the government in spite of current knowledge.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:38 AM (qnVBz)

193 The Science is Unsettled.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 07:38 AM (yrol0)

194 Out of curiosity, did Lenin and Stalin believe that the black race was incapable of performing at the same academic and social level as other races?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:38 AM (/ZMaL)

195 Amazon adding a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to fees it charges third-party sellers who use its fulfillment services.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 07:24

And I suggest it be called the "Biden Surcharge Tax".

Yesterday I asked the manager of the County Market meat division if he would have any lamb. He said they were being shorted and doubted he would get any in today's delivery.

I seldom discuss politics w/ folks I don't know, but I threw my hand in the air and said...Well, that's Biden's economy. He replied...yeah, exactly.

Posted by: Farmer at April 14, 2022 07:39 AM (55Qr6)

196 186
The consequences however are vastly different for the public when the feds do it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 14, 2022 07:37 AM (BFigT)

It's why I hate hurling invective willy nilly, especially when I know people to one extent or another. But this cannot go on.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:39 AM (s2VJv)

197 Endorsing Oz, is another bad pick by Trump. Worst part is it makes me question his judgement and ability to really get things done should he run again.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2022 07:39 AM (TbpGr)

198 sustainable aviation fuel tax..."

What is sustainable aviation fuel and how much are they going to tax it?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:39 AM (qnVBz)

199 Is not all science at question?

I wonder if...
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 07:36 AM (yrol0)
++++
That is science. It is not The Science.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:39 AM (DU+/6)

200 When it comes to Uber/Lyft I take my cue from the drivers. Technically, you have to wear a mask, and click the little box swearing you will do so when you book the ride. But I don't wear one when the ride pulls up, and if the driver isn't wearing one, I don't put one on. I get the feeling the non-masker drivers are watching me the same as I'm watching them. Like "is this guy cool with it?"

Quite a number of them openly flaunt their company's mask rule, but I imagine this is less so in big cities.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 07:40 AM (HsAzN)

201 But, again, that's why you *start* with content you already have. Sure, you bump what you're paying a little bit, but $300 Million is just insane.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:37 AM (WNPel)
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Yup, it definitely is. But lavishly-funded corporate "startups" aren't new.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:40 AM (DU+/6)

202 Worst part is it makes me question his judgement and ability to really get things done should he run again.
Posted by: Marcus T

You are just getting there now? Welcome to the Trump has extraordinarily bad judgement club.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:40 AM (qnVBz)

203 I missed this morning's good news?

Posted by: runner at April 14, 2022 07:40 AM (NxtrT)

204 Alright, y'all.
Off to work at work.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:40 AM (WNPel)

205 So Darwin had 2 ideas.

Natural Selection or random traits being successful

Accepted and used today as common knowledge

Sexual Selection Picking mates and traits that advance your gene pool

Totally ignored for about 150 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 07:40 AM (yrol0)

206 Hmm, new Battle of the Narratives in Ukraine. Did the Ukes destroy Russia's flagship Moskva, a guided missile cruiser currently burning, adrift, and abandoned in the Black Sea, as they say? Or did it simply have an "unfortunate accident, these things happen, nothing to see here" as Putin's governments outlets are saying?
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 07:32 AM (trdmm)

I believe Russia's MOD. I have seen no untruths in any of their official statements. While Ukraine's government have been caught making fantastical bullshit story's time and again.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 14, 2022 07:41 AM (700n7)

207 196

It's why I hate hurling invective willy nilly, especially when I know people to one extent or another. But this cannot go on.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:39 AM (s2VJv)

That is like Flinging Poo, right? No one flings poo anymore.

Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2022 07:41 AM (Vr12I)

208 201 But, again, that's why you *start* with content you already have. Sure, you bump what you're paying a little bit, but $300 Million is just insane.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 14, 2022 07:37 AM (WNPel)
++++
Yup, it definitely is. But lavishly-funded corporate "startups" aren't new.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:40 AM (DU+/6)

"Please send all money via Western Union to tip jar to cover all modalities. And remain blessed!"

- - Mugu Tip Jar

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:41 AM (s2VJv)

209 You can't spell 'contemporary' without 'temporary'...

...or 'con'

Posted by: Muldoon at April 14, 2022 07:41 AM (m45I2)

210 Women inmates fall pregnant after having sex with trannys in prison with them. Who saw this coming?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

" Help ! I've fallen and I can't get up !"

Posted by: JT at April 14, 2022 07:41 AM (arJlL)

211 That is science. It is not The Science.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:39 AM (DU+/6)

The Science is bullshit!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 07:42 AM (yrol0)

212 Endorsing Oz, is another bad pick by Trump. Worst part is it makes me question his judgement and ability to really get things done should he run again.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2022 07:39 AM (TbpGr)

I'm teetering on the edge with him coming out and calling the Russia/Ukraine thing GENOCIDE!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 07:42 AM (Zz0t1)

213 Trump could have done worse than endorse Oz.
For those looking for an excuse, hey you got it.

Posted by: Ziba at April 14, 2022 07:42 AM (S1hrL)

214 "I declare to you brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. "

1 Corinthians 15:50.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2022 07:42 AM (TbpGr)

215 In Houston, masks are still required to ride Metro buses and the boondoggle light rail.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 14, 2022 07:24 AM (4I/2K)

Level 3: Stay Vigilant Unless Fully

Vaccinated (Moderate)

Huck Fildago
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 07:35 AM (yrol0)
*******
I hope Hidalgo gets ousted from office, but sadly the stupid people keep electing stupid people.

And yes, the Houston light rail is a BOONDOGGLE.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 07:42 AM (NpAcC)

216 The fact that CNN+ has already blown $300 million and produced only disaster is, I think, closely related to the question, "How can Democrats keep making such disastrous political mistakes with an election coming this year? Do they know something we don't?"

I think this shows that at least some of the time, supposedly "intelligent" people with a LOT of money to throw around follow catastrophically idiotic and self destructive paths. They think they're right and everyone else is wrong, and they can't see how it's going wrong until its too late. And when there's a group of them acting together it's even worse than when there's just one, because no one wants to stand up to the group.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 07:42 AM (trdmm)

217
" Help ! I've fallen and I can't get up !"
Posted by: JT at April 14, 2022 07:41 AM (arJlL)

"I've FALLEN! And he knocked me up!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 07:42 AM (Zz0t1)

218 No. See my disclaimer at the bottom of the links.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:37 AM (s2VJv)
~~~~~

Alrighty then.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 14, 2022 07:43 AM (VhE0u)

219 193 The Science is Unsettled.

Hah! Stealing that.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 07:43 AM (HsAzN)

220 Oh, good Lord...Now we are going to start gendering numbers? Are evens male and odds female? Or vice versa? Where does pi fall on that spectrum?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2022 07:30 AM (YIVH2)
++++
It was a "women are irrational" joke that clearly didn't land.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:31 AM (DU+/6)
---
I still wouldn't put it past the "woke" crowd to start gendering numbers, though. They are that stupid.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2022 07:33 AM (YIVH2)

Metric Time would have worked, eventually. With stronger enforcement measures next time, it will!

Posted by: French Revolutionaries at April 14, 2022 07:43 AM (4I/2K)

221 That is like Flinging Poo, right? No one flings poo anymore.
Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2022 07:41 AM (Vr12I)

I saw Flinging Poo open for the Foo Fighters at the TCCC in 1994.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 07:43 AM (yrol0)

222 Do we get a flaming skull for Elon laying the wood to Twitter this morning?

Posted by: Garyfl at April 14, 2022 07:43 AM (qdl59)

223
That is like Flinging Poo, right? No one flings poo anymore.
Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2022 07:41 AM (Vr12I)

You should see me just after nap time!

- - Joe Biden

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 07:43 AM (Zz0t1)

224 Do female-to-male trannies who are imprisoned get to choose which jail they go to? By the left's standards, they most definitely should. Get in there, you 110lb "guy" and play some cards with Bubba.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 14, 2022 07:44 AM (sVtYq)

225 As another moron pointed out, imagine if the Republicans were already making noise about taking the culture back from the mutilation craziness, and saving women's sports, and jailing adults who are grooming little ones. They'd sweep the nation this November.

And yet there's not a peep.

Yeah, Trump has poor judgment. At least he tries, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:44 AM (/ZMaL)

226 It would surely have been deeply ironic if gravity-deniers had sentenced Isaac Newton to di by guillotine.

Mob:n "How does this damned thing work again?"

Newton: "I'm sure as hell not going to tell you!"

Posted by: Muldoon at April 14, 2022 07:44 AM (m45I2)

227 I believe Russia's MOD. I have seen no untruths in any of their official statements. While Ukraine's government have been caught making fantastical bullshit story's time and again.
Posted by: Serious Cat at April 14, 2022 07:41 AM (700n7)

The Arizona in Pearl Harbor was just a Technical Glitch, there were no Japanese planes. That was just evil US propaganda.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 07:45 AM (trdmm)

228 I meant shouldn't... geez

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 14, 2022 07:45 AM (sVtYq)

229 216 I think this shows that at least some of the time, supposedly "intelligent" people with a LOT of money to throw around follow catastrophically idiotic and self destructive paths. They think they're right and everyone else is wrong, and they can't see how it's going wrong until its too late. And when there's a group of them acting together it's even worse than when there's just one, because no one wants to stand up to the group.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 07:42 AM (trdmm)

=========

"Yes, Mr. Zucker. This is a great idea. Please don't threaten to make me watch your sex tape again."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 14, 2022 07:45 AM (LvTSG)

230 I think the babylon bee , tucker, libs of tiktok, should be immediately reinstated to twittersphere. Trump? I don't know, kids, right now I am going with "no, please don't ". Facebook is another story.

Posted by: runner at April 14, 2022 07:45 AM (NxtrT)

231 "I'm teetering on the edge with him coming out and calling the Russia/Ukraine thing GENOCIDE!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 07:42 AM (Zz0t1)"

Weird thing is, what I've seen it is genocide. It's a deliberate attack on the population and indiscriminate killing of civilians by an army and their proxies. That doesn't change my view on whether we should be involved. But the actual evidence is very convincing and it's the sine qua non of the contractors and proxies Russia brought in, some would say mainly for that purpose.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2022 07:45 AM (TbpGr)

232 Numbers are a racist construct of the white patriarchy.

I propose everyone be mandated to speak in Click Click Talk like those Africans in The Gods Must be Crazy

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 07:45 AM (HsAzN)

233 I also like

The science is scuttled

(although that requires a bit of an education and broad enough knowledge and vocabulary to understand why it's such a perfect statement)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:46 AM (/ZMaL)

234 Most doctors are like most corporations - Leftwing ass hats who WANT to have the excuse to put the socialist screws to you. I would not trust any doctor or nurse who won't take cash and keep you off their books.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at April 14, 2022 07:47 AM (FsO6n)

235 232 Numbers are a racist construct of the white patriarchy.

I propose everyone be mandated to speak in Click Click Talk like those Africans in The Gods Must be Crazy
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 07:45 AM (HsAzN)

I saw Click Click Talk open for Talk Talk, Mister Mister, Duran Duran, Sylvain Sylvain and The The at Triplets Restaurant in '85.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:47 AM (s2VJv)

236 illegals get free tuition

The law extends to illegal immigrants, The New York Times reports, in addition to prison inmates and students from "tribal nations" that extend beyond state borders.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 07:48 AM (yrol0)

237 230 I think the babylon bee , tucker, libs of tiktok, should be immediately reinstated to twittersphere. Trump? I don't know, kids, right now I am going with "no, please don't ". Facebook is another story.
Posted by: runner at April 14, 2022 07:45 AM (NxtrT)

Trump should absolutely be reinstated as well. No question there. Now whether he should actually decide to start tweeting again is up to him.

Posted by: buzzion at April 14, 2022 07:48 AM (vMCab)

238 I propose everyone be mandated to speak in Click Click Talk like those Africans in The Gods Must be Crazy
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 07:45 AM (HsAzN)

My Glottis, My Xhoisan.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 07:48 AM (6FeV1)

239 Or did it simply have an "unfortunate accident, these things happen, nothing to see here"
----------------
And your best defence is that we're incompetent not beaten.

It's their own fault anyway, letting Uzbeks smoke in the ship's magazine like that.

CCP1 TV was right -- Uzbeks are the weak link in the Great Chain of Socialism. Don't give them booze; and don't give them matches!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 07:48 AM (UHVv4)

240
Wasn't there a sci-fi movie from the 50s where they called androids "the clickers?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:48 AM (s2VJv)

241 Genocide is a loaded word with a very specific definition.
What's happening in Ukraine are certainly war crimes, but genocide?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 14, 2022 07:48 AM (jTmQV)

242 This entire Frank James episode is indicative of the poor targets that terrorist seems to choose.

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2022 07:49 AM (RHGPo)

243 I have shelved Ukraine over next to Covid in the " things the government promotes while the country is dismantled " section. Because they want us to obsess over these items, I will pay attention elsewhere.

Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2022 07:49 AM (Vr12I)

244 Metric Time would have worked, eventually. With stronger enforcement measures next time, it will!
Posted by: French Revolutionaries at April 14, 2022 07:43 AM (4I/2K)
---
There's nothing inherently "wrong" with metric time units. Science has been using metric units for just about everything else for centuries by this point. Time is just one of the last holdouts because the current system works pretty darned efficiently.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 14, 2022 07:49 AM (YIVH2)

245 Weird thing is, what I've seen it is genocide. It's a deliberate attack on the population and indiscriminate killing of civilians by an army and their proxies

*

I'm indifferent.

Didn't Ukraine call on their civilians to get kilt? Aren't military aged Ukrainian men expected to die for Joe Biden's opportunity to casually discuss NATO membership and start the war?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:49 AM (/ZMaL)

246 Best Practices always seemed to me a scheme to get around that pesky MD education and the Art (cuz it is an art) of Diagnosis.

So Obamacare could get around the high cost of using real docs by using less qualified PAs etc. That isdou catch most of the "horses" with a computer program could for say 90% of those with particular set of symptoms.

And ignore the 10% of mules, donkeys, zebras, and unicorns.

IMO, it's one of the main reasons, we're likely seeing the current fall in longevity.

That Best Practices could be used as a means of control and vendetta. Well, just look at Obamacare's Death Panels.

Not a shock.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 14, 2022 07:49 AM (5NkmN)

247 I mean, what are the odds of the Meat Puppet talking about guns and the next day a known wolf nut ball goes on a rampage with a "ghost gun?"

These types of coincidences seem to happen quite a lot.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 14, 2022 07:20 AM (/FfhO)

Well it wasn't a ghost gun it was a serialized Glock purchased legally from a legal dealer.

But perhaps that was the point. To say, we can't stop at ghost guns!

Posted by: blaster at April 14, 2022 07:49 AM (9otr5)

248 saw Click Click Talk open for Talk Talk, Mister Mister, Duran Duran, Sylvain Sylvain and The The at Triplets Restaurant in '85.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:47 AM (s2VJv)

Danger Danger was there, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 14, 2022 07:49 AM (WdiOz)

249
Weird thing is, what I've seen it is genocide. It's a deliberate attack on the population and indiscriminate killing of civilians by an army and their proxies. That doesn't change my view on whether we should be involved. But the actual evidence is very convincing and it's the sine qua non of the contractors and proxies Russia brought in, some would say mainly for that purpose.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2022 07:45 AM (TbpGr)

Then every war, terrorist attack, mass shooting or event causing multiple deaths is genocide.

How many Ukrainians have died? Millions? What number is sufficient to say they're en route for extinction?

I think we're a LONG way from that, but I guess I'm missing something, which wouldn't be surprising.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 07:49 AM (Zz0t1)

250 I would not trust any doctor or nurse who won't take cash and keep you off their books.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at April 14, 2022 07:47 AM (FsO6n)

If you had gall bladder surgery, where would you find a doctor, an anesthetist, and nurses who would take cash instead of putting you in the system?

Posted by: grammie winger at April 14, 2022 07:49 AM (45fpk)

251 Nobody cared about Ukrainian genociding Russian population in Dombas for 8 years, and now its a cool word to use? Give me a break.

Posted by: runner at April 14, 2022 07:50 AM (NxtrT)

252 Gateway Pundit

Web server is down
The web server is not returning a connection. As a result, the web page is not displaying.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 07:50 AM (yrol0)

253 Didn't Ukraine call on their civilians to get kilt?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:49 AM (/ZMaL)

"Aye, laddie!"

- - Bill Millin

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:50 AM (s2VJv)

254 The Science Is Settled!

Only Siths Deal In Absolutes!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 14, 2022 07:50 AM (4I/2K)

255 Taking a momentary break from all the fresh hell...This 8-minute "flyover" of Ancient Rome is about the coolest freakin' thing ever:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8267wa

The last couple minutes, where it looks like you're looking out the window of an airplane taking off, is absolutely spellbinding. First time I watched it, I had goosebumps. The bigger the screen, the better. This ain't no phone vid.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 07:51 AM (HsAzN)

256 Most doctors are like most corporations - Leftwing ass hats who WANT to have the excuse to put the socialist screws to you.

Most doctors just want to go to work, treat patients, and get paid. The leftist shitheads are mostly nurses and non clinical staff who take positions of authority and relish being able to tell doctors what to do.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:51 AM (qnVBz)

257 I'm indifferent. ...
Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:49 AM (/ZMaL)
++++
I hope you're not on Google AdSense. They will "pause monetization of content that exploits, dismisses or condones the war."

You *will* hate Russia or you will not get paid.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 07:53 AM (DU+/6)

258 Also, Gateway Pundit (yeah, yeah, I get it) is down.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur

Damn. Now where am I going to get news about Gateway Pundit, and about what Gateway Pundit also covered?

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 14, 2022 07:53 AM (OssQ4)

259 248 saw Click Click Talk open for Talk Talk, Mister Mister, Duran Duran, Sylvain Sylvain and The The at Triplets Restaurant in '85.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:47 AM (s2VJv)

Danger Danger was there, too.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 14, 2022 07:49 AM (WdiOz)

Heck, I saw And And Fookin' And at the Crown, North Dublin, back in '89.

Tossers, the lot of 'em.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 14, 2022 07:53 AM (906pl)

260 I loled at this meme in reply to Elon's tweet "I made an offer"

https://twitter.com/nobodyweb3/status/
1514565059674050567

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 14, 2022 07:54 AM (kf6Ak)

261 hope you're not on Google AdSense. They will "pause monetization of content that exploits, dismisses or condones the war."

You *will* hate Russia or you will not get paid.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
*

Huh. I'd never considered that Google was involved in the money laundering, but it makes sense. Why wouldn't they be?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:54 AM (/ZMaL)

262 Weird thing is, what I've seen it is genocide. It's a deliberate attack on the population and indiscriminate killing of civilians by an army and their proxies. That doesn't change my view on whether we should be involved. But the actual evidence is very convincing and it's the sine qua non of the contractors and proxies Russia brought in, some would say mainly for that purpose.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2022 07:45 AM (TbpGr)

What is one example of Russian forces targeting civilians? Every claim I've seen either turns out to be ambiguous as to who's responsible or to be an actual legitimate military target.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 14, 2022 07:55 AM (700n7)

263 I loled at this meme in reply to Elon's tweet "I made an offer"

https://twitter.com/nobodyweb3/status/
1514565059674050567
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 14, 2022 07:54 AM (kf6Ak)

As you should.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 07:55 AM (Zz0t1)

264 I would not trust any doctor or nurse who won't take cash and keep you off their books.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at April 14, 2022 07:47 AM (FsO6n)

If you had gall bladder surgery, where would you find a doctor, an anesthetist, and nurses who would take cash instead of putting you in the system?
Posted by: grammie winger

At that point, you'd have to, because you are going into a third party. (The hospital)
But for routine office visits? The clot shot/saline substitute? Yeah. Cash should be king.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2022 07:55 AM (laioL)

265 There is a subset of nurses who "practice at the top of their license"

Which means, they strive for a certification or job, then push the limits of authority of that job whether they have the foundation of knowledge to support their actions or not. The fact that they have the job, must mean they have the ability to do the job, and they will do as much as that job allows them to do no matter what.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:55 AM (qnVBz)

266 Attacking civilians isn't "Genocide". It isn't good, certainly, but it's not a clear objective to eliminate a particular ethnic group from existence. It's just pounding your enemy until they surrender.

If Big Z tries to surrender, and PootyPoot keeps pounding the shit out of Ukrainian population centers, *then* there might be a case to be made.

This right now is just an ugly, ridiculous shitfest of a war. It doesn't need "sentence enhancers" to make the brutality of war play better on TV.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 07:55 AM (6FeV1)

267 Zelensky called up all civilians ages 18 to 60, essentially told them that they are now combatants.
Passed out weapons.
Then you had Ukrainian grannies go on Tik-Tok tok with their rifles saying they would shoot at Russians from their 3rd floor balconies.
In Vietnam US troops often fought farmers with rifles.
Spare me the hand wringing about civilian casualties.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 14, 2022 07:55 AM (jTmQV)

268 Well it wasn't a ghost gun it was a serialized Glock purchased legally from a legal dealer.

But perhaps that was the point. To say, we can't stop at ghost guns!

Posted by: blaster at April 14, 2022 07:49 AM (9otr5)

They've got people "thinking" that there are 57 "genders," that we are all dead from Net Neutrality AND living under water from global warming simultaneously, and that grooming kindergartners is not promoting pedophilia. I don't think a technical difference between the nebulous term, "ghost gun," and a 4473 firearm is going to penetrate into the dumbed down populace's consciousness to any appreciable degree.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 14, 2022 07:56 AM (SH2Zi)

269 You know, I've been wondering about the disastrous fall in support for Biden and the Dims among the young.

And I think part of it* has to do with the Ukraine situation, and the-

Draft. Yep, the Dims have been making noises about the draft again and guess who that falls on?

That may be the reason for Punchy's ever escalating language about Putin. The Dims want a war with a large contingent of college-educated draftees for fairness(?).
Only they never considered the effect of having a Senile Prezzy who's goofy ramblings undercut everything he says.

*The other thing is the sucktastic Biden?Democrat economy. The poor little dears voted away their chance to have a return of the Optimistic Reagan Roaring Eighties under Trump[. Sad

Posted by: naturalfake at April 14, 2022 07:57 AM (5NkmN)

270 Egard Watch CEO Ilan Srulovicz, was on television earlier talking about combating the woke culture with his ads.

Here's the the latest Egard Watch ad-
What Is A Woman

https://tinyurl.com/4vm95f48
Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 07:20 AM (NpAcC)

This is wonderful, thank you so much!

Posted by: Pony Tail at April 14, 2022 07:57 AM (tzZq2)

271 If airlines are to be 'carbon neutral' in the future, doesn't that mean that they have to pay someone to plant a bunch of trees in some 3rd world shithole country in Africa?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)

272 hope you're not on Google AdSense. They will "pause monetization of content that exploits, dismisses or condones the war."

You *will* hate Russia or you will not get paid.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Unless you exploit it like they want you to, then you're okay. Also unless you condone endless war against Russia.

The wording in this policy is very strange, because they really do want exploitation and condoning of the war.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 14, 2022 07:58 AM (OssQ4)

273 This right now is just an ugly, ridiculous shitfest of a war. It doesn't need "sentence enhancers" to make the brutality of war play better on TV.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 07:55 AM (6FeV1)

Well said.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 14, 2022 07:58 AM (SH2Zi)

274
Russia - hey Ukraine, look, we're cool, just don't make any moves towards NATO, okay?
Joe Biden, POTATOES - UKRAINE IS JOINING NATO, also we're going to put our bioweapons labs right here on your borders

And now here we are.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:58 AM (/ZMaL)

275 Weird thing is, what I've seen it is genocide. It's a deliberate attack on the population and indiscriminate killing of civilians by an army and their proxies. That doesn't change my view on whether we should be involved. But the actual evidence is very convincing and it's the sine qua non of the contractors and proxies Russia brought in, some would say mainly for that purpose.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2022 07:45 AM (TbpGr)

So, yeah, I'm gonna have to sort of disagree with you on that.

Where have you "seen" indiscriminate killing of civilians equating to genocide? We live in a world where everyone has a high def camera in their pocket. Seems like it would be easy to produce the evidence.

The Russians are quite capable of leveling a town with artillery and killing tens of thousands of people - they did it in Syria, they did it in Chechnya. Without making a moral equivalence play, the US (and Allies) did that throughout WWII. It wasn't "genocide" then. Why is it now?

Russia Ukraine is still a long, long way off on casualties from the various wars of separation in the former Yugoslavia, where they did actually "ethnically cleanse"

Posted by: blaster at April 14, 2022 07:58 AM (9otr5)

276 The fact that they have the job, must mean they have the ability to do the job, and they will do as much as that job allows them to do no matter what.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:55 AM (qnVBz)

I don't get your argument. Are you saying that qualified nurses should not perform at their highest level?

Posted by: grammie winger at April 14, 2022 07:58 AM (45fpk)

277 Kathy Barnette is the best choice, but doubt she has a chance for the PA Senate race.

I think it's between Oz and McCormick.

I'm on the fence about McCormick and Oz and go back and forth on both. My concern Is McCormick another Mitt Romney that would be more pro-China as opposed to Oz.

From McCormick's Wiki page-

When Donald Trump was president-elect, he considered naming McCormick the U.S. Secretary of Treasury, but instead offered him the position of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense.[26] However, he declined this position because he was happy with his role at Bridgewater. In early 2019, McCormick was under consideration for U.S. Secretary of Defense by the Trump administration.[27]

In 2017, McCormick was named by James Mattis as a member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Department of Defense.***** He was removed from this position by President Donald Trump in 2020 along with 11 other members with ties to the foreign policy establishment.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 07:58 AM (NpAcC)

278 They floated the "Russians used chemical agents" trial balloon, but it didn't gain any traction. So they are beating the genocide drum for a bit before circling back to chemical weapons.

What am I gonna have to do to get you into a full scale ground war in Russia today?

-Used Car Salesman FJB.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:58 AM (qnVBz)

279 I propose everyone be mandated to speak in Click Click Talk like those Africans in The Gods Must be Crazy
------------------
Like Stewie Griffin in his multicult rainbow daycare centre! [Back when Family Guy was funny.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 14, 2022 07:58 AM (UHVv4)

280 264 I would not trust any doctor or nurse who won't take cash and keep you off their books.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at April 14, 2022 07:47 AM (FsO6n)

Ummm, I wouldn't trust any who would do that, b/c that's like back alley abortion stuff...illegal.

If you keep folks off the books, you open them and you to all sorts of future legal troubles if the relationship falls apart...just like back alley abortions did...

Posted by: Nova local at April 14, 2022 07:58 AM (exHjb)

281 I think it's downright funny that the Russians are saying that the Ukes didn't destroy the Moskva, it only blew up because their own troops are so sloppy and incompetent.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 07:58 AM (trdmm)

282 269 You know, I've been wondering about the disastrous fall in support for Biden and the Dims among the young.
And I think part of it* has to do with the Ukraine situation, and the-
*The other thing is the sucktastic Biden?Democrat economy. The poor little dears voted away their chance to have a return of the Optimistic Reagan Roaring Eighties under Trump[. Sad
Posted by: naturalfake at April 14, 2022 07:57 AM (5NkmN)

==========

I think they were sold on the idea that getting rid of the Orange Devil would lead to socialist utopia. Instead, they got messy politics headed by a decrepit old man with a politburo out to get theirs above anything else.

This is going to turn off a lot of the youth to politics. It could create quite a few violent revolutionaries for the arc of history towards socialist utopia, as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 14, 2022 07:59 AM (LvTSG)

283 I'd like to see spongebrain shitpants re-segregate the Military.

For "Justice".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 07:59 AM (6FeV1)

284 Let me tell you about henocide, anybody have the figures for Dombas / Donetsk people killed? Let me tell you "From April 2014 to the end of 2018, some 12,800 to 13,000 people were killed in Donbas hostilities, according to the UN Monitoring Mission on Human Rights."

So spare the propaganda about "unprovoked attack" and all the rest.

Posted by: runner at April 14, 2022 07:59 AM (NxtrT)

285 Zelensky called up all civilians ages 18 to 60, essentially told them that they are now combatants.
Passed out weapons.

*

Genocides!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 07:59 AM (/ZMaL)

286 I don't think a technical difference between the nebulous term, "ghost gun," and a 4473 firearm is going to penetrate into the dumbed down populace's consciousness to any appreciable degree.
Posted by: flounder

It never does. Hence the intentional conflation between assault rifle (definite definition) and assault weapon (totally ambiguous & made up).

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2022 07:59 AM (laioL)

287 I saw Click Click Talk open for Talk Talk, Mister Mister, Duran Duran, Sylvain Sylvain and The The at Triplets Restaurant in '85.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 07:47 AM (s2VJv)
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*golfclap*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2022 08:00 AM (EZebt)

288 276 I don't get your argument. Are you saying that qualified nurses should not perform at their highest level?
Posted by: grammie winger at April 14, 2022 07:58 AM (45fpk)

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$5 says that CAT has extensive experience with nurses who think they're doctors and do more harm than good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 14, 2022 08:00 AM (LvTSG)

289 What is one example of Russian forces targeting civilians? Every claim I've seen either turns out to be ambiguous as to who's responsible or to be an actual legitimate military target.
Posted by: Serious Cat at April 14, 2022 07:55 AM (700n7)
===

Are you serious? Or blind?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2022 08:02 AM (EZebt)

290 The wording in this policy is very strange, because they really do want exploitation and condoning of the war.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 14, 2022 07:58 AM (OssQ4)
++++
They want anti-Russian sentiment. You can condone the war, so long as you condone the Ukrainian side of it. You can exploit the war, so long as your exploitation supports Ukraine.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 08:02 AM (DU+/6)

291 This is going to turn off a lot of the youth to politics. It could create quite a few violent revolutionaries for the arc of history towards socialist utopia, as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 14, 2022 07:59 AM (LvTSG)

I suspect that not long before the election, Biden will announce that All Student Debt is canceled, even though he does not have the legal authority to do so. If he does it just before the election, there won't be time to overturn it before they vote.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 08:02 AM (trdmm)

292 I have to go to the grocery store for my weekly stuff. I already missed the 8AM price increases, so I better get there before the 10AM.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 14, 2022 08:03 AM (lz5hY)

293 291 I suspect that not long before the election, Biden will announce that All Student Debt is canceled, even though he does not have the legal authority to do so. If he does it just before the election, there won't be time to overturn it before they vote.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 08:02 AM (trdmm)

==========

Medical students on track to being the 1% and baristas with gender studies degrees are gonna be so happy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 14, 2022 08:03 AM (LvTSG)

294 I think it's downright funny that the Russians are saying that the Ukes didn't destroy the Moskva, it only blew up because their own troops are so sloppy and incompetent.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 07:58 AM (trdmm)

Does the USS Bonhomme Richard ring a bell?

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 14, 2022 08:04 AM (700n7)

295 I don't get your argument. Are you saying that qualified nurses should not perform at their highest level?
Posted by: grammie winger

I am saying that unqualified, inexperienced nurses take positions beyond their experience level, but assume that they have the ability to do all of the things the job allows them to do, simply by virtue of them having the job. Like the nurse who charms her way into a director of nursing position, which allows her to set policy for all departments in the hospital, and begins unilaterally implementing policies well outside of her knowledge base because that is what her job allows her to do, and that is how she feels things should be done.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 08:04 AM (qnVBz)

296 Nobody cared about Ukrainian genociding Russian population in Dombas for 8 years, and now its a cool word to use? Give me a break.
Posted by: runner at April 14, 2022 07:50 AM (NxtrT)

Dombas doesn't matter because Ukraine is where we launder our money.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 14, 2022 08:04 AM (T7iTv)

297 It wasn't that long ago Ukraine helmed by the "Z-man" was kicking the shit outta' Putin's army. Or so we were told.

The longer that conflict drags on the more we see how much bullshit the American media acting as Ukraine's propaganda arm pushed on us. Given the last couple decades you'd think the American public would have wised up to the media's M.O.

You'd be wrong.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 14, 2022 08:04 AM (BFigT)

298 have to go to the grocery store for my weekly stuff. I already missed the 8AM price increases, so I better get there before the 10AM.

*

Don't forget your little expanding mesh bag in case they have something unexpected in stock today.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 08:04 AM (/ZMaL)

299 267

Funny how war today means not killing people unless they have a sign on their back that says "shoot me."

Posted by: Ziba at April 14, 2022 08:04 AM (S1hrL)

300 I have to go to the grocery store for my weekly stuff. I already missed the 8AM price increases, so I better get there before the 10AM.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 14, 2022 08:03 AM (lz5hY)

***

Don't forget your wheelbarrow

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 14, 2022 08:04 AM (flINI)

301 . Are you saying that qualified nurses should not perform at their highest level?
Posted by: grammie winger

******

More like the notion that giving a nurse a few months of training, a book of treatment algorithms and a certificate does not make them a doctor, but the current system allows them to "practice" as if they are, and many nurse practitioners take full advantage of that, beyond their actual capabilities.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 14, 2022 08:05 AM (m45I2)

302 This is wonderful, thank you so much!
Posted by: Pony Tail at April 14, 2022 07:57 AM (tzZq2)
********
You're welcome.
I thought it was wonderful too.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 08:05 AM (NpAcC)

303 290

They want anti-Russian sentiment. You can condone the war, so long as you condone the Ukrainian side of it. You can exploit the war, so long as your exploitation supports Ukraine.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 08:02 AM (DU+/6)

The authoritarian censorship going on around the world over this conflict should cause alarm on our side, I would think.

Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2022 08:06 AM (Vr12I)

304 Like the nurse who charms her way into a director of nursing position, which allows her to set policy for all departments in the hospital, and begins unilaterally implementing policies well outside of her knowledge base because that is what her job allows her to do, and that is how she feels things should be done.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 08:04 AM (qnVBz)

Gotcha. I'm guessing you've had real-world experience with this one

Posted by: grammie winger at April 14, 2022 08:06 AM (45fpk)

305 "Genocide" -- The most important meaningless word since "new", as used re: laundry soap. Or laundry detergent if you want to be sciency.

Posted by: klaftern at April 14, 2022 08:06 AM (taPSh)

306 298 You have to fight the babushkas.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 14, 2022 08:06 AM (lz5hY)

307 In my experience, ignoring the overpaid aloof asshole in the lab coat and listening to the nurses and PAs is the way to go. Apparently most do not have the same body of anecdote as I....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 08:06 AM (6FeV1)

308 "Then every war, terrorist attack, mass shooting or event causing multiple deaths is genocide. "

Not really. If you're familiar with the conventions of war, very few are. Civilian casualties almost always happen in war. They are to be expected in a European land war. But many of the groups involved are notorious for their genocidal intent, proven in places like Syria and Georgia. By genocidal, I mean deliberately intended to kill, wipe out or intimidate the civilian population. Anyone familiar with the history of Ukraine and wars in that region realizes this isn't the first time that's happened. In fact Russia has announced their intent to basically wipe out the native Ukrainian population with a Russian speaking proxy. They've been doing this for ages and the current war simply gives them license to carry it out. Now I understand in war there is propaganda. It's demonstrably so in this conflict now. But the deliberate targeting and murder of civilians in places like Bucha and Mariupol pretty clear seems to be (and with each passing day probably) the work of the Russians and their proxies.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2022 08:06 AM (TbpGr)

309 If airlines are to be 'carbon neutral' in the future, doesn't that mean that they have to pay someone to plant a bunch of trees in some 3rd world shithole country in Africa?
Posted by: Sponge

That'll be a $50 surcharge to every ticket to fund the American Airlines Tree Planting Department.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2022 08:06 AM (laioL)

310 Best care I ever got was an ARNP

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 08:06 AM (yrol0)

311 I suspect that not long before the election, Biden will announce that All Student Debt is canceled, even though he does not have the legal authority to do so. If he does it just before the election, there won't be time to overturn it before they vote.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 08:02 AM (trdmm)
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They're going to do something with student loans, in a naked attempt to buy votes, before the midterms.

The easiest thing to do though would be to kick out the forbearance period until January. If the GOP wins, well, "the evil GOP is making you pay your debts again" will be the DNC message.

If the Dems are going to try literally anything to hold Congress, then, yeah, I could see some form of forgiveness.

Posted by: Revenant at April 14, 2022 08:08 AM (Gcdtg)

312 In Vietnam US troops often fought farmers with rifles.
Spare me the hand wringing about civilian casualties.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 14, 2022 07:55 AM (jTmQV)

We just exited a 20 year war in Afghanistan, in which there were many civilians casualties. I don't think we want to be recklessly throwing around charges of genocide for political brownie points.

Before people start getting their panties in a wad, I am in no way criticizing the level of civilian casualties in Afghanistan. It is an inevitable byproduct of war, and if we are going to war, that should be part of the consideration, but it should not dominate the goal of winning with the least possible military losses.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 14, 2022 08:08 AM (SH2Zi)

313 We have a police state that can't stop some random black/islamic radical from shooting a bunch of Americans.

But...we've still lost most of our freedoms.

That's just wonderful

Posted by: 18-1 at April 14, 2022 08:08 AM (ESjRY)

314 Musk offering to buy the rest of Twitter for 43 billion

Posted by: Fox2! at April 14, 2022 08:08 AM (vpT5O)

315 311 The easiest thing to do though would be to kick out the forbearance period until January. If the GOP wins, well, "the evil GOP is making you pay your debts again" will be the DNC message.

If the Dems are going to try literally anything to hold Congress, then, yeah, I could see some form of forgiveness.
Posted by: Revenant at April 14, 2022 08:08 AM (Gcdtg)

==========

"Interest rates are now tripled because of the delay. I hope you've been smart with your money over the last two years."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 14, 2022 08:09 AM (LvTSG)

316 @295

My husband says the same thing but not as nicely as you do.

Posted by: Ziba at April 14, 2022 08:09 AM (S1hrL)

317 As Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget shows,
medical doctors have received $48,500 in relief versus $29,500 for people with law degrees,
$4,500 for people with bachelors degrees, and a measly $2,000 for those who didnt finish their degree and are objectively most in need of help.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 08:09 AM (yrol0)

318 The idea that Russia can choose who gets to join NATO is so backward that it boggles the mind.

Posted by: BPT at April 14, 2022 08:09 AM (KYesC)

319 "I guess the mask on flights nonsense continues until we finally get the cojones to rebel!
Posted by: AnnaS "

Airline execs are desperate to get it dropped. Maybe they shouldn't have gone along with the hysteria so willingly and threatening their employees.

Posted by: Ripley at April 14, 2022 08:10 AM (MxEKc)

320 They said that the memory lapses do not appear to be constant and that some days she is nearly as sharp as she used to be.

Sen DIFI be walking dead it appears.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 08:10 AM (yrol0)

321 Just released 2 hours ago:
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter, saying the social media platform he has criticized for not living up to free speech principles needs to be transformed as a private company.

Twitter Inc. said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that Musk, currently the company's biggest shareholder, has proposed buying the remaining shares of Twitter that he doesn't already own at $54.20 per share, an offer worth more than $43 billion.

Musk called that price his best and final offer.

All I can say is Go Elon!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 14, 2022 08:10 AM (sy5kK)

322 CAT, don't you remember the " Heroes Work Here" signs posted in front of all the hospitals? I don't think such propaganda instills humility in the ones being lauded.

Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2022 08:10 AM (Vr12I)

323 Sean Davis
@seanmdav 30m

The "but muh markets and private business crowd" sure is upset this morning about a proposed market transaction to take a business private. It's almost like their only real principle is saying whatever corrupt Big Tech pays them to say.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

324 The authoritarian censorship going on around the world over this conflict should cause alarm on our side, I would think.
Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2022 08:06 AM (Vr12I)
++++
Plenty of real people are alarmed. Real people, however, are silenced.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 08:10 AM (DU+/6)

325 We have a police state that can't stop some random black/islamic radical from shooting a bunch of Americans.

But...

Posted by: 18-1

you will be held without trial if you walk into the people's house invited.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2022 08:11 AM (laioL)

326 323 Sean Davis
@seanmdav 30m

The "but muh markets and private business crowd" sure is upset this morning about a proposed market transaction to take a business private. It's almost like their only real principle is saying whatever corrupt Big Tech pays them to say.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

=========

"Oligarchy is good. Attacking the oligarchy is bad."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 14, 2022 08:11 AM (LvTSG)

327 321 Just released 2 hours ago:
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter, saying the social media platform he has criticized for not living up to free speech principles needs to be transformed as a private company.

Twitter Inc. said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that Musk, currently the company's biggest shareholder, has proposed buying the remaining shares of Twitter that he doesn't already own at $54.20 per share, an offer worth more than $43 billion.

Musk called that price his best and final offer.

All I can say is Go Elon!
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 14, 2022 08:10 AM (sy5kK)

Wow, he's actually doing it. And that's a significant amount of money, even for him.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 14, 2022 08:11 AM (z5Vrg)

328
I suspect that not long before the election, Biden will announce that All Student Debt is canceled, even though he does not have the legal authority to do so. If he does it just before the election, there won't be time to overturn it before they vote.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 08:02 AM (trdmm)

When a dem is in charge, the President has ALL THE AUTHORITY!

All your authority are belong to Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

329 324 The authoritarian censorship going on around the world over this conflict should cause alarm on our side, I would think.
Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2022 08:06 AM (Vr12I)
++++
Plenty of real people are alarmed. Real people, however, are silenced.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 08:10 AM (DU+/6)

========

If voting matters later this year, though...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 14, 2022 08:11 AM (LvTSG)

330 310 When I go to the VA I always ask for an ARNP. Easier to talk to. Like most places, the VA relies more and more on lab work in primary care. If the patient is uncomfortable with the provider, a complaint might not be voiced, and the lab order doesn't specify needed tests. You get some MDs and DOs who like to sit in judgement, and when you give them a specific complaint you get an ass chewing.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 14, 2022 08:12 AM (lz5hY)

331 314 Musk offering to buy the rest of Twitter for 43 billion
Posted by: Fox2! at April 14, 2022 08:08 AM (vpT5O)

It will be a sight to see the entire regulatory apparatus of the federal government mobilize to stop him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 14, 2022 08:12 AM (H8QX8)

332 B uying
L arge
M cmansions

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 08:12 AM (yrol0)

333 I was just looking at some op/ed about Democrats in DC panicking about how bad the midterms are going to be, and the experienced ones are now settling on admitting that the only way they can get votes is to "Bribe 'em". The Jan 6 hooha isn't working, even they see that, and so all they have left is trying to buy as many votes as they can. And since Congress won't pass it, they'll to get it done using EO's from Biden.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 08:12 AM (trdmm)

334 Uninvited

*

About that...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 14, 2022 08:12 AM (JIyza)

335 Das Butt is frightened.

Max Boot
@MaxBoot
� 1h
I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (HsAzN)

336
Wow, he's actually doing it. And that's a significant amount of money, even for him.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 14, 2022 08:11 AM (z5Vrg)

Beginning of this month, he was worth $273 billion.

I guess 6% would be significant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

337 Draft. Yep, the Dims have been making noises about the draft again and guess who that falls on?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 14, 2022 07:57 AM (5NkmN)

I very much think it's this more than student loans. The loan thing affects a bunch of idiots who got useless degrees from overpriced schools but that's a distinct minority of the young. Like pretty much any other group in America these days, though, most people think that group is bigger than it is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (T7iTv)

338 For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (HsAzN)

That makes less than zero sense.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (45fpk)

339 Are you serious? Or blind?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 14, 2022 08:02 AM (EZebt)

Yes, I'm serious. Everything I've seem on Fox News, etc repeated from the Ukrainian government unquestionably has tuned out to be bogus or unknowable while in fog of war. I'm telling you, the war propaganda on this conflict is unabashed and everywhere. You have to go view the other side, pro Russian accounts on Telegram, to get a clearer picture.

You can tell me Russians are targeting civilians in Mariupol, but I find it hard to believe it's not the Azov creeps who are guilty when I see video after video of civilians warmly embracing Russian forces for freeing them after being held captive as human shields.

Just one example:

https://tinyurl.com/4wkykzj5

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 14, 2022 08:14 AM (700n7)

340 Max Boot
@MaxBoot
1h
I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (HsAzN)

We're not a "majority rules" asshole, and you're not the majority. The silent majority will rise up, maybe, one of these days........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

341 For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.

That's some authentic frontier gibberish.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 08:14 AM (HsAzN)

342 When I go to the doctor's office, I always request the doctor, even if it takes a little longer for an appointment. He's really that good and worth the wait.

Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2022 08:14 AM (Vr12I)

343 I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (HsAzN)

As if we needed any more proof that the Conservative, Inc. NeverTrumpers are all just authoritarian leftists, and always have been.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 08:14 AM (trdmm)

344
That makes less than zero sense.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (45fpk)

Well, he's a blithering idiot, so.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

345 If airlines are to be 'carbon neutral' in the future, doesn't that mean that they have to pay someone to plant a bunch of trees in some 3rd world shithole country in Africa?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 07:57 AM (Zz0t1)

I'm guessing that it isn't so much that they'll be carbon neutral as unimportant people will not be permitted to fly. For Gaia.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 14, 2022 08:15 AM (T7iTv)

346 310 Best care I ever got was an ARNP

ARNP, that a new dog breed? My dog takes care of me, too.

Posted by: Ziba at April 14, 2022 08:15 AM (S1hrL)

347 @MaxBoot
I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (HsAzN)
++++
Hey, Boot! Blow me!

It's called freedom of speech, you shitheel. That's an actual, real, G-d-given natural right for all men. You want "moderation" because you're too much of a duplicitous pussy to say you want censorship of ideas you find distasteful or that question your vision of expert technocracy - and you have the audacity to call it "democracy."

Fuck you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 08:15 AM (DU+/6)

348
Sen DIFI be walking dead it appears.
Posted by: rhennigantx

What are they using for a base line?
Obviously they are not comparing her to all the rest of Libs in Congress or she'd be acknowledged as one of their leading thinkers.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2022 08:15 AM (FduHe)

349 335 Max Boot
@MaxBoot
1h
I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (HsAzN)

=========

"The rich should determine who gets to say what."
-Federalist 193

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 14, 2022 08:15 AM (LvTSG)

350 Seriously, what in the seven seas of FUCK is a "Max Boot"? This name keeps popping up like some kind of Keyser Soze of inane, shiftless stupidity. This can't possibly be a real person.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 08:15 AM (6FeV1)

351 >>The idea that Russia can choose who gets to join NATO is so backward that it boggles the mind.

The belief that they haven't from day 1 is the reason we are in this mess.

NATO is an organization that was formed to deter the spread of the Soviet Union, an entity that no longer exists. NATO should have met the same fate or at the very least been repurposed to work with Russia to bring it into the world order instead of treating it like the Soviet threat it never was.

I don't remember a lot of conservatives being all that upset about the US fighting back on communist expansion in Latin and South America and other spots in the world despite the fact we didn't have a vote.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 14, 2022 08:15 AM (ZLI7S)

352 All of the senior law enforcement officials Ive spoken to from Florida to Washington State say ghost guns arent a concern. Most havent seen any

not one.

Several had their staff check their property rooms for homemade firearms recovered from crime scenes. None were found.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 08:16 AM (yrol0)

353 347 Fuck you.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 08:15 AM (DU+/6)

========

CANCELED!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 14, 2022 08:16 AM (LvTSG)

354 Musk moved too soon IMO.

Had he sat on his 9% and continued to torture the Twitter drones many would have left, taking their stock options with them and cashing out.

He might have saved himself a couple billion in the process.

He seems.... thrifty.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 14, 2022 08:16 AM (BFigT)

355 346 310 Best care I ever got was an ARNP

ARNP, that a new dog breed? My dog takes care of me, too.
Posted by: Ziba at April 14, 2022 08:15 AM (S1hrL)

Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 08:17 AM (yrol0)

356 Seriously, what in the seven seas of FUCK is a "Max Boot"? This name keeps popping up like some kind of Keyser Soze of inane, shiftless stupidity. This can't possibly be a real person.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 08:15 AM (6FeV1)
++++
Oh, he's real. He ain't spectacular, though. He's a self-styled "military expert" who never met a war he didn't like and who's first inclination is send to American soldiers to their deaths in any policy disagreement.

He's the ultimate warmongering neocon hypercuck.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 08:17 AM (DU+/6)

357 CANCELED!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 14, 2022 08:16 AM (LvTSG)
++++
Yup. I'm clearly a Russian disinformation bot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 08:17 AM (DU+/6)

358 GP back online!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 08:17 AM (yrol0)

359 356 Oh, he's real. He ain't spectacular, though. He's a self-styled "military expert" who never met a war he didn't like and who's first inclination is send to American soldiers to their deaths in any policy disagreement.

He's the ultimate warmongering neocon hypercuck.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 08:17 AM (DU+/6)

========

Just don't call him a chickenhawk.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 14, 2022 08:18 AM (LvTSG)

360 For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.

Unregulated censorship is FREEDOM!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

361 335. Some financial guy on CNBC this am was going on and on about how Musks free speech on Twitter will be the beginning of constant chaos. Just like how FB was used to organize the J6 insurrection. The false premises and lies in that statement was amazing.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 14, 2022 08:18 AM (VqwQt)

362 361 335. Some financial guy on CNBC this am was going on and on about how Musks free speech on Twitter will be the beginning of constant chaos. Just like how FB was used to organize the J6 insurrection. The false premises and lies in that statement was amazing.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 14, 2022 08:18 AM (VqwQt)

========

To be fair, the FBI did use Facebook.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 14, 2022 08:19 AM (LvTSG)

363 Das Butt is frightened.

Max Boot
@MaxBoot
1h
I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (HsAzN)
******
They can't have the truth or other opinions be exposed to their indoctrinated cult they've created.
That just might hurt their grift.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

364 213 Trump could have done worse than endorse Oz.
For those looking for an excuse, hey you got it.
Posted by: Ziba at April 14, 2022 07:42 AM (S1hrL)
--
Trump will need as much support as possible in 2024.
If he wants Oz, then it's fine by me. I saw some old clips mentioning liberal views on specific issues, but go look at DJT comments from a decade ago, they weren't perfect for conservatives, either. But I would argue Trump was consistently conservative, at least in comparison to the Senate or any other president since Reagan.

If that is who he wants, I don't have a problem with it. Winning is the point here.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 14, 2022 08:19 AM (sy5kK)

365 363 They can't have the truth or other opinions be exposed to their indoctrinated cult they've created.
That just might hurt their grift.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

=========

Boot is probably able to get smaller accounts deleted if they say mean things to him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 14, 2022 08:20 AM (LvTSG)

366 307 In my experience, ignoring the overpaid aloof asshole in the lab coat and listening to the nurses and PAs is the way to go. Apparently most do not have the same body of anecdote as I....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 08:06 AM (6FeV1)

I'm sure you can find examples in both directions.

Posted by: buzzion at April 14, 2022 08:20 AM (vMCab)

367 When talking about life force, Dianne Feinstein is the Madeline Albright's of Ruth Bader Ginsberg's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

368 367 When talking about life force, Dianne Feinstein is the Madeline Albright's of Ruth Bader Ginsberg's.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

========

They're space vampires?!

It suddenly all makes sense...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 14, 2022 08:21 AM (LvTSG)

369 Lemme guess, "Boot" is another one of these lawyers with a pay grade in the middling O neighborhood, strutting around in flags and eagles like the illicit love-child ofJames Brown and Audie Murphy?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 08:21 AM (6FeV1)

370 JackStraw, you might want to tell Putin that the Soviet Union no longer exists, he seems to have missed that memo.

Posted by: BPT at April 14, 2022 08:21 AM (KYesC)

371 352 Ghost Guns are another threat cooked up by the left, something easy to remember like a brand name. 99.9% of the knuckleheads involved in armed crime don't have the smarts to get an 80% lower finished. Some here might remember the sale of MAC 10 flats after the original MAC was banned. You order one (step 1) and then buy or lease a machine shop with welding equipment (step 2). Caused a big panic among those who know nothing.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 14, 2022 08:21 AM (lz5hY)

372 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2022 08:21 AM (Msys3)

373 Airline execs are desperate to get it dropped. Maybe they shouldn't have gone along with the hysteria so willingly and threatening their employees.

Posted by: Ripley at April 14, 2022 08:10 AM (MxEKc)

Airline execs (wailing): We had a deal!

Darth Fauci: Pray I don't alter it further.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 14, 2022 08:21 AM (4I/2K)

374 362. That was my first thought LOL

Posted by: Jen the original at April 14, 2022 08:21 AM (VqwQt)

375 He's the ultimate warmongering neocon hypercuck.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 08:17 AM (DU+/6)

And a mediocre military historian.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 14, 2022 08:21 AM (XIJ/X)

376
Just don't call him a chickenhawk.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And don't knock his hat.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2022 08:22 AM (FduHe)

377 Joe Mannix is on a roll this morning and I like it.

GO JOE!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

378 I'm sure you can find examples in both directions.
Posted by: buzzion at April 14, 2022 08:20 AM (vMCab)

I'm perfectly happy to accept that I'm probably an outlier here.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 08:22 AM (6FeV1)

379 "Trump will need as much support as possible in 2024."

And watch Oz stab him in the back. Or front.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 14, 2022 08:23 AM (H8QX8)

380 @351

Exactly.

And Trump bashing NATO is just another example of his "poor judgment." /s

Posted by: Ziba at April 14, 2022 08:23 AM (S1hrL)

381 House Judiciary GOP
@JudiciaryGOP
Dems reading the Elon Musk news this morning:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8vdv2d

Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

382
What the world needs now is more Wally Cox.

Posted by: Auspex at April 14, 2022 08:24 AM (Xo3T0)

383
https://tinyurl.com/2p8vdv2d
Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

Has that person cashed in on their being one of the most famous memes on earth?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

384 If Putin and some of his generals are guilty of genocide for actions to-date, we, the Brits, the Germans, the Russians, and the Japanese need to dig up the remains of a whole lot of WW2 general officers and hang them for their crimes. Add Churchill to the list.

Maybe we should do that. I can make a case for it if Biden's /spit/ un-defined definition is now the operative one. But I do not consider either the WW2 officers or Putin and several of his commanders guilty of genocide. YMMV.

Posted by: Gref at April 14, 2022 08:25 AM (AMIL/)

385 Trump could have done worse than endorse Oz.
For those looking for an excuse, hey you got it.
Posted by: Ziba
. . . .

If that is who he wants, I don't have a problem with it. Winning is the point here.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

If the man puts ketchup on his steak there would be those that would reject him out of hand, no matter what else he tried to accomplish or how much he loves our America.

You go with the man you've got.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2022 08:25 AM (Msys3)

386 Max Boot
@MaxBoot
I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (HsAzN)

Day 1 - Musk bans Max Boot, tweets about it and explains that he's moderating the content.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 14, 2022 08:25 AM (T7iTv)

387 You realize of course that the area referred to as Donbas was first really populated by the Ukrainian Cossack Hetmanate and I believe the Turkish Crimean Khanate. That is until the Russians "conquered" it. Even up until the 19th century is was still about 60% Ukrainian. It was re conquered by the Ukrainians prior to WW I, then eventually taken back by the Soviets and Stalin who tried to starve and drive out the Ukrainians and then for the last few decades has tried to load it up with Russians, and stoke conflict in order to reoccupy and takeover the region. Last I looked it was still a majority Ukrainian but the Russians are now trying to change that under the cover of war. That's just history.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2022 08:26 AM (TbpGr)

388 One of the more popular generics eye drop ,fml, for post op eye surgery no longer carried by CVS.

They cannot find a supplier.

WTFO

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 08:26 AM (yrol0)

389 378 I'm sure you can find examples in both directions.
Posted by: buzzion at April 14, 2022 08:20 AM (vMCab)

I'm perfectly happy to accept that I'm probably an outlier here.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 08:22 AM (6FeV1)

I would guess that it IS a pretty situational thing. My Doc is great, his PAs not so much. I would never ever paint with a broad brush over my one experience though, I am sure the situation is reversed elsewhere.

Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2022 08:26 AM (Vr12I)

390 What the world needs now is more Wally Cox.
Posted by: Auspex

Not bird nor plane nor even frog.
Just little old me, Underdog.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 14, 2022 08:26 AM (Msys3)

391 388 One of the more popular generics eye drop ,fml, for post op eye surgery no longer carried by CVS.

They cannot find a supplier.

WTFO
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 08:26 AM (yrol0)

=========

Shutting down the nation for a bad cold to defeat Trump sure was a good idea.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 14, 2022 08:26 AM (LvTSG)

392
=========

Shutting down the nation for a bad cold to defeat Trump sure was a good idea.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 14, 2022 08:26 AM (LvTSG)

You misspelled 'world.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 14, 2022 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

393 "Oligarchy is good. Attacking the oligarchy is bad."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 14, 2022 08:11 AM (LvTSG)

Pretty much, in a nutshell. And why I've stopped with the "we have in a Constitutional Republic" fairy tale.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 14, 2022 08:27 AM (SH2Zi)

394 That's just history.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 14, 2022 08:26 AM (TbpGr)

Put some blanks in there and you got yourself a great Mad Lib for all of human history.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 08:27 AM (6FeV1)

395 Memo

From: Elon Musk
To: Twitter Executive Management
CC: Board of Directors

Subj: Going forward.

Msg: Don't send out your laundry.

Cordially,
E

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2022 08:27 AM (RHGPo)

396 I am positive The Right Rev. David French will weigh in against Musk buying Twitter. That would not be a Blessing of Liberty.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 08:27 AM (HsAzN)

397 Hollywood Squares.

Posted by: Infidel at April 14, 2022 08:28 AM (AhBAQ)

398 Pt. 1 The laws of war were first a matter of practice based on Catholic Just Wars doctrine after the Napoleonic Wars. In Western Europe, it was agreed that targeting civilians in general was a bad thing. Eventually through a series of international treaties, it became that civilians that took up arms were fair game but those that did not were protected. Mass artillery and aerial bombing soon around WWI made that difficult if not impossible because a) the ability to target specifically was impossible with the tech at the time, and b) war targets now included industrial plants, transportation, and utilities to support the war effort. These were more or less close to masses of civilians or used by them.

However, the laws of war are still consistent in that they require proportionality and avoidance of civilian casualties if at all possible. Direct targeting of civilians and their housing is a war crime. Dual use is iffy. And any targeting of illegal combatants has to be on an individual, not group basis.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2022 08:28 AM (Iq9dF)

399 For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.

Wait. Wait!

I'm stealing that.

Posted by: Zombie George Orwell at April 14, 2022 08:28 AM (5NkmN)

400 >>Exactly.

>>And Trump bashing NATO is just another example of his "poor judgment." /s

Aside from continuing to use Ukraine as a place for western government to launder billions in "aid" I like to know exactly what benefit there is to having Ukraine in NATO. Or Georgia for that matter which met Ukraine's fate when Bush made an ill advised offer to bring them into NATO.

Since we are spending billions of our tax dollars and obviously the entire establishment thinks this is a super good idea worth risking an expanding war over surely they have a good reason.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 14, 2022 08:28 AM (ZLI7S)

401 What the world needs now is more Wally Cox.
Posted by: Auspex

You want Wally Cox
You'll settle for Wally Cleaver
You'll get Wall E.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 14, 2022 08:28 AM (laioL)

402 Lol.
Employees of Twitter had already planned a staged walkout before Musk had announced his offer to buy Twitter.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

403 352 All of the senior law enforcement officials Ive spoken to from Florida to Washington State say ghost guns arent a concern. Most havent seen any
not one.
Several had their staff check their property rooms for homemade firearms recovered from crime scenes. None were found.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 08:16 AM (yrol0)
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A "ghost gun" is a one-off hand made gun. You can't sell it or give it away unless you get a serial # from the ATF.
One must have machinery and skillz to build one. It isn't an assembled gun made of premade parts, as the lower has a serial # on it already.
Now listen to the leftist media drone on about "ghost guns" and not once will they say what they actually are.

FCUK the media.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 14, 2022 08:29 AM (sy5kK)

404 Hospital DON set a policy that all nurses are to immediately initiate the sepsis order set for any patient flagged as potential sepsis by the EMR.

The Electronic Medical Record has an AI system which monitors patient data and will set an alert if the patient meets certain criteria. It is meant to alert the doc to re-evaluate the patient and consider they might be septic. It alerts the nurses so they can inform the doc. Most of the time the alert is false, or the patient is already receiving appropriate treatment.
What the DON has directed is for the nurses to inform the doc, but also immediately draw a bunch of labs, flood the patient wit 3L of IV fluids and start 3 IV antibiotics. This is pushing her authority and the intent of the sepsis alert and protocol orders. But she is operating at the top of her license.
So I had a patient pushed into heart failure because of this. Patient survived, but had a much more complicated course. I refuse to sign the protocol orders the nurse initiated. So there is a big impasse. I am required to sign protocol orders, but the protocol orders were initiated improperly. Poor floor nurse is stuck in the middle.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 08:29 AM (qnVBz)

405 388. The FDA has a real time public list of medications that are unavailable or limited in supply right now . It is extremely lengthy and growing every week.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 14, 2022 08:29 AM (VqwQt)

406 Max Boot
@MaxBoot
I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (HsAzN)

So the douche admits that social media companies are not neutral content conduits. I am unimpressed.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 14, 2022 08:30 AM (SH2Zi)

407 If Putin and some of his generals are guilty of genocide for actions to-date, we, the Brits, the Germans, the Russians, and the Japanese need to dig up the remains of a whole lot of WW2 general officers and hang them for their crimes. Add Churchill to the list.
Posted by: Gref

Not real clever equating a declared war equal to an invasion (odd that you include the Axis and leave out China).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2022 08:30 AM (FduHe)

408 Old and Busted: The war in Iraq was a bad war, the war with 'Stan is the good war. Oh and Russia is our friend!

New Hotness: The war in A'Stan was a bad war, the war with Russia is the good war. Oh and Russia is a bunch of genocidal maniacs!

Posted by: The Left at April 14, 2022 08:30 AM (ESjRY)

409 402 Lol.
Employees of Twitter had already planned a staged walkout before Musk had announced his offer to buy Twitter.

What do they think they're going to accomplish? It's fait accompli. Musk owns 9% of their asses.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 08:31 AM (HsAzN)

410 407 If Putin and some of his generals are guilty of genocide for actions to-date, we, the Brits, the Germans, the Russians, and the Japanese need to dig up the remains of a whole lot of WW2 general officers and hang them for their crimes. Add Churchill to the list.
Posted by: Gref

Not real clever equating a declared war equal to an invasion (odd that you include the Axis and leave out China).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2022 08:30 AM (FduHe)

We don't declare war anymore either.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 14, 2022 08:31 AM (z5Vrg)

411 We don't declare war anymore either.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 14, 2022 08:31 AM (z5Vrg)

Who the hell does?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 14, 2022 08:32 AM (6FeV1)

412 Nood painting

Posted by: fluffy at April 14, 2022 08:32 AM (x1mUR)

413 Lol.
Employees of Twitter had already planned a staged walkout before Musk had announced his offer to buy Twitter.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 14, 2022 08:29 AM (NpAcC)
++++
Those employees are the ones you do not want. If any of them are critical (e.g., you might not want them but you do *need* them), then they need to be replaced with competent new hires as quickly as possible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 14, 2022 08:33 AM (DU+/6)

414 405 I went to a local CRNP for a scrip on my BP and heart meds even though I get them from the VA. Very inexpensive stuff. This way, I always have at least a 90 day reserve supply on hand, just rotate the stock.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 14, 2022 08:33 AM (lz5hY)

415 I have read that China has a stranglehold on the pharmaceutical industry. That should be at least as disturbing as some other issues that the propaganda machine gets everyone worked up over. Well, there's probably many other issues as well. But we will care only about what we are told to care about, I suppose.

Posted by: kraken at April 14, 2022 08:33 AM (Vr12I)

416 407 If Putin and some of his generals are guilty of genocide for actions to-date, we, the Brits, the Germans, the Russians, and the Japanese need to dig up the remains of a whole lot of WW2 general officers and hang them for their crimes. Add Churchill to the list.
Posted by: Gref

Not real clever equating a declared war equal to an invasion (odd that you include the Axis and leave out China).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 14, 2022 08:30 AM (FduHe)

If I declare war then I can legally kill every enemy civilian?

Posted by: Gref at April 14, 2022 08:33 AM (AMIL/)

417
For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.

- Julia's cri de coeur in the new fymynyst 1984-manque novel.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 14, 2022 08:33 AM (5NkmN)

418 Store check out clerks asking "do you want to make a donation to support Ukraine?"

My response "No, thanks, my tax dollars are already doing that."

Posted by: Ziba at April 14, 2022 08:33 AM (S1hrL)

419 I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.

The ignorance is breathtaking.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 14, 2022 08:33 AM (5kI0z)

420 Max Boot
@MaxBoot
I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter. He seems to believe that on social media anything goes. For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 14, 2022 08:13 AM (HsAzN)

.. Account Suspened

Posted by: SMOD at April 14, 2022 08:34 AM (RHGPo)

421 Hospital DON set a policy that all nurses are to immediately initiate the sepsis order set for any patient flagged as potential sepsis by the EMR.
....

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14,

*facepalm*

Posted by: Hippocrates at April 14, 2022 08:34 AM (4I/2K)

422 All of the senior law enforcement officials Ive spoken to from Florida to Washington State say ghost guns arent a concern. Most havent seen any

not one.

Several had their staff check their property rooms for homemade firearms recovered from crime scenes. None were found.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 14, 2022 08:16 AM (yrol0)

Of course not. It is a move toward universal background checks and registration. Registration precedes confiscation. Confiscation precedes genocide.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 14, 2022 08:34 AM (SH2Zi)

423 So, a fair number of people insist that groups should be punished for individual actions which is not consistent with the laws of war and what got those involved in My Lai charged with violating them.If you have granny as a sniper in an apartment building, you can take out granny but not blow up the entire apartment building killing innocents to get her. Your response has to be proportional to the attack. Same as targeting transportation hubs, you can inadvertently miss the target hitting civilians but not observe a mass of people on a train platform and thus bomb it on the rationale that some of those people work in defense industries or are illegal combatants.

If you mine an area, you are supposed to remove those mines when you withdraw, and so on. Booby traps are indiscriminate weapons and thus improperly aimed at civilians as well as military targets. And so on. The principle is that armies can attack legitimate military targets but must avoid civilian casualties if at all possible. WWII was an aberration in that the destructiveness of devices improved but targeting of these weapons was woefully deficient. So tit for tat happened in Europe regarding aerial bombings.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2022 08:35 AM (Iq9dF)

424 If only Putin had declared it was "war." Everything would be different.

Posted by: Ziba at April 14, 2022 08:36 AM (S1hrL)

425 >>The ignorance is breathtaking.

I don't think it's ignorance, not in this instance anyway.

They want complete control of the information flow, it's how they keep power.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 14, 2022 08:37 AM (ZLI7S)

426 If you are going to declare a "general mobilization" of civilians and even go so far as to arm them, as Zelensky did, you can't gripe about civilian casualties, since you have declared that everyone is now a combatant.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 14, 2022 08:38 AM (jTmQV)

427 426 If you are going to declare a "general mobilization" of civilians and even go so far as to arm them, as Zelensky did, you can't gripe about civilian casualties, since you have declared that everyone is now a combatant.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 14, 2022 08:38 AM (jTmQV)

He literally signaled to Putin that his entire population is a legitimate target. Brilliant move.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 08:40 AM (s2VJv)

428 If you mine an area, you are supposed to remove those mines when you withdraw, and so on. Booby traps are indiscriminate weapons and thus improperly aimed at civilians as well as military targets. And so on. The principle is that armies can attack legitimate military targets but must avoid civilian casualties if at all possible. WWII was an aberration in that the destructiveness of devices improved but targeting of these weapons was woefully deficient. So tit for tat happened in Europe regarding aerial bombings.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2022 08:35 AM (Iq9dF)

Armed forces killing civilians intentionally or indiscriminately without a military purpose justification is getting confused with genocide here and by clowns like Biden and the Media Talking Heads.

Posted by: Gref at April 14, 2022 08:41 AM (AMIL/)

429 Since we are spending billions of our tax dollars and obviously the entire establishment thinks this is a super good idea worth risking an expanding war over surely they have a good reason.

Posted by: JackStraw
------------------
To some extent, Russia and more directly Putin has only himself to blame. He has provoked Finland and Sweden for years with border incursions and threats over NATO. Even 6 month ago, Sweden absolutely refused to consider joining. Now, with the invasion of Ukraine, Sweden and Finland want in. Not surprising. Ditto with Germany now rearming.

So, you act like the neighborhood bully, you get treated as one. And that is one reason that Mexico insists on going its own way in politics is because of past incursions by the US and a war or two.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2022 08:43 AM (Iq9dF)

430 Abbott's an insider of the Perry sort and only doing what he is doing to present a public face of conservatism. When the election is over, he and the rest of the neocon Texas lege will keep up the shit work. I wouldn't trust him or them to run a hot dog cart, and we have seen the result, which is a flood of poors and the exodus from west Texas into cities looking for work. They dry up every hole until you are desperate, then put the squeeze to you and turn you into a $15-an-hour beggar.

Fuck that guy, and his fake deal. He'll sell Texas out again ten times this week and you won't even know it because Texas' wholly owned neo papers and TV won't tell you.

Posted by: Anti Abbott at April 14, 2022 08:45 AM (43hFc)

431 You are just getting there now? Welcome to the Trump has extraordinarily bad judgement club.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 07:40

And Biden has better judgement? Hell he doesn't know what day it is most of the time.

Then in succession we get the great judgement of Kamala, followed by Nancy. Yikes!

Posted by: Farmer at April 14, 2022 08:45 AM (55Qr6)

432 ------------------
To some extent, Russia and more directly Putin has only himself to blame. He has provoked Finland and Sweden for years with border incursions and threats over NATO. Even 6 month ago, Sweden absolutely refused to consider joining. Now, with the invasion of Ukraine, Sweden and Finland want in. Not surprising. Ditto with Germany now rearming.

So, you act like the neighborhood bully, you get treated as one. And that is one reason that Mexico insists on going its own way in politics is because of past incursions by the US and a war or two.
Posted by: whig at April 14, 2022 08:43 AM (Iq9dF)

Of course at the same time how many of those countries have essentially funded their own opponent by gutting their energy sectors in favor of "green" energy while getting more and more from Russia.

Posted by: buzzion at April 14, 2022 08:47 AM (vMCab)

433 Armed forces killing civilians intentionally or indiscriminately without a military purpose justification is getting confused with genocide here and by clowns like Biden and the Media Talking Heads.

Posted by: Gref
----------------
Genocide is a ridiculous charge made by a decrepit puppet. Much like FDR's ridiculous Unconditional Surrender demand.

War crimes is a more murky area and the Ukrainians have done themselves no favors by their propaganda which makes people doubt whether or not mass killings of civilians and burials occurred via Russians or their allies. Here, though, Russian bluster and their use of auxiliaries known for atrocities weigh against them. The Wagner group, enlisting Arabs from war crime ridden Syria, and the use of Chechen units that have committed past war crimes, into Ukraine is a black mark that Putin is trying to put deniability on any war crimes committed against civilians. Won't wash with me any more than the British could escape blame for their Hessian hires.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2022 08:48 AM (Iq9dF)

434 >>So, you act like the neighborhood bully, you get treated as one. And that is one reason that Mexico insists on going its own way in politics is because of past incursions by the US and a war or two.

True. But that also ignores the year of NATO eastward expansion toward Russia and assume that wasn't seen as a provocative move by Russia. It was and was stated as such many times throughout the years.

It's not taking Putin's side by trying to understand his mindset and understand that every action will cause a reaction.

Starting in 2008 with the move by NATO to begin the discussion of allowing Georgia and Ukraine into NATO Putin made it very clear that he considered that a provocation and he would react in turn. When we took further steps in Georgia Putin invaded.

Fast forward to Ukraine where the west ran a coup and took down a duly elected president favorable to Russia and replaced him with a corrupt, western allied puppet and the match was lit. Biden's hints last fall that NATO was "open to Ukraine" lit the fuse and he did nothing to stop it.

If you keep poking the bear you can't be surprised when he takes a swipe.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 14, 2022 08:49 AM (ZLI7S)

435 Of course at the same time how many of those countries have essentially funded their own opponent by gutting their energy sectors in favor of "green" energy while getting more and more from Russia.

Posted by: buzzion
-------------------
Corruption of the West's politics also has come from Arab and Russia itself via covert financing of 'green' groups in the West. Ukraine was somewhat heavy handed in its approaches to Western politicians but the Gulf States, Russia, and China have all bought and sold Western politicians and influence peddling lobbyists. Fusion made bucks by carrying water via planting propaganda for regimes like Venezuela among other odious regimes in the US.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2022 08:51 AM (Iq9dF)

436 And Biden has better judgement? Hell he doesn't know what day it is most of the time.

Just because I think Trump has bad judgment does not mean I think FJB has good judgement.

Trump seems to do whatever he is told to do, as long as he trusts the person who tells him to do it. And he places his trust in the wrong people.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 08:54 AM (qnVBz)

437 43 Musk is willing to buy Twatter offering $54.20/share, saying

So, someone more familiar tell me, I guess:
1. Is that more or less than the stock price at the time of his offering?

2. If the Blue Bird says "no," what are the chances the stock price climbs versus sinks?
____________

Current Twitter (TWTR) price is around $47.

It'll probably go up if the board declines, since Musk's offer indicates that he thinks the current market price is below the actual value of the shares.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 14, 2022 08:54 AM (k4dH2)

438 Russia will be the sole exporter of Green Oil. CPUSA will be the sole US importer of Green Oil.

Posted by: klaftern at April 14, 2022 08:56 AM (taPSh)

439 Musk will Tesla Twitter.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 14, 2022 08:57 AM (qnVBz)

440 If you keep poking the bear you can't be surprised when he takes a swipe.

Posted by: JackStraw

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I can go on about provocations that the Russians did in that time. It is a tiresome defense that poor Russia was forced to do what it did via Abkhazia etc. on some vague notions of protecting ethnic Russians everywhere. That has no basis in international law nor sovereignty which the Russians are so prone to spout. Under that idea, Germany was justified in invading France because Russia started mobilizing before WWI started because France was an ally of Russia and stated German policy was not to let Germany fight a two front war.

Wilson's incursions after Pancho Villa had the shred of at least chasing a criminal that attacked the US from Mexico. He also informed the Mexican government and tried to avoid any conflict with the Mexican army. Wilson's Veracruz adventure after something happened with a US Navy ship was unjustified.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2022 08:57 AM (Iq9dF)

441 He literally signaled to Putin that his entire population is a legitimate target. Brilliant move.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton
-------------------------
JJ, it does not work that way via international law. You still have to have proportionality in your attack and must avoid attacking civilians unless they are carrying arms, wearing a uniform, etc.

The laws of war are convoluted but mass callups of males happened in WWI in Belgium for example and that did not permit Germans to kill male civilians lawfully on the grounds that they were of a certain age and male and might be subject to the callup.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2022 09:03 AM (Iq9dF)

442 Sorry, the whole damned agency is rotten top to bottom.

That the fish rots from the head down always seems to imply that if we could replace the head, the rest of the fish could be un-rotted. No - replacing the head does not prevent the fish from rotting in its entirety.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at April 14, 2022 09:04 AM (K58O6)

443 >>I can go on about provocations that the Russians did in that time. It is a tiresome defense that poor Russia was forced to do what it did via Abkhazia etc. on some vague notions of protecting ethnic Russians everywhere. That has no basis in international law nor sovereignty which the Russians are so prone to spout. Under that idea, Germany was justified in invading France because Russia started mobilizing before WWI started because France was an ally of Russia and stated German policy was not to let Germany fight a two front war.

The only international law that matters in the real world is what you can do. There's a reason the US has never become a member of the ICC.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 14, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

444 441 Posted by: whig at April 14, 2022 09:03 AM (Iq9dF)

Points taken. Putin might not agree, though.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 09:29 AM (s2VJv)

445 Ukraine was somewhat heavy handed in its approaches to Western politicians but the Gulf States, Russia, and China have all bought and sold Western politicians and influence peddling lobbyists.."

It's not hard to buy someone who's out there advertising that they're for sale. The only question is the price - and as we know from people like John Bolton, it's surprisingly low.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 14, 2022 09:31 AM (trdmm)

446 The only international law that matters in the real world is what you can do. There's a reason the US has never become a member of the ICC. Posted by: JackStraw
----------------------
Guess what, that argument can be used in domestic law as well. If a government does not enforce it; is it a law. The truth is that Putin has damaged Russia for decades with his stupid invasion just like the US damaged itself via its invasion of Iraq the second time.

The US case for war was WMDs and when by and large they did not appear, it damaged the US in blood and treasure. Ditto for the Libyan and Syrian adventures. Best policy is to avoid needless wars that do not involve something like Israel's pre-emptive strike in the Six Days War. But that itself spurred the later Yom Kippur war where Israel itself was surprised this time and could have easily lost that war.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2022 09:34 AM (Iq9dF)

447 Points taken. Putin might not agree, though.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton
-----------------
Victors always get the last say in what is a war crime. However, being considered such and if Putin does indeed have a lot of wealth squirreled away in under the names of his inner circle, that might cause that wealth to be seized. Putin made an uncharacteristic mistake by not simply going for the contested provinces but trying and missing his decapitation strike on the Ukrainian government.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2022 09:37 AM (Iq9dF)

448 It's not hard to buy someone who's out there advertising that they're for sale. The only question is the price - and as we know from people like John Bolton, it's surprisingly low. Posted by: Tom Servo
---------------------------
Gulf War I was such an occasion with Kuwait buying support. Imperial countries are always at risk for bribery and subversion by other countries because that is where power exists for their country's benefit.

Posted by: whig at April 14, 2022 10:39 AM (Iq9dF)

449 "US Senate votes 10 billion to keep Covid crisis going"

https://tinyurl.com/tt5eybem

That means they're *very* serious about "Never let a crisis go to waste."

After all, the November elections need drop boxes and mail in votes for Dime-O-Rats to win.

Posted by: Ju at April 14, 2022 10:44 AM (aTmM/)

450 Current Twitter (TWTR) price is around $47.

It'll probably go up if the board declines, since Musk's offer indicates that he thinks the current market price is below the actual value of the shares.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB

They have a legal fiduciary duty to their shareholders to sell to the highest offer. My family went through this and won in court when making an the highest offer to buy a major public corporation traded on the NYSE.

But then again we had laws enforced back then so who knows.

Posted by: Been there done that at April 14, 2022 11:03 AM (UhON+)

451 Uh, on the Dept. of Just-Us and their armed proxy fbi, I offer me concurrence. X100 would be about right.

Posted by: moe grimm at April 14, 2022 11:39 AM (48/oJ)

452 When the BS is stripped away, twatter's bus model is weak though it has been for them profitable. A proprietary algorithm run on open source s/w and commonly available h/w that collects personal info for sale. Among others lending them credence is the audience of morons complaining about getting "banned" and who seem unable to live without the largest forum EVER established for those with mostly nothing to say. See how they land in say two years...

Posted by: moe grimm at April 14, 2022 11:52 AM (48/oJ)

453 Sure, JJ, politically you're correct, but can I just add...nice Joe Jackson p-shop!

Posted by: Lexistexas at April 14, 2022 12:01 PM (gknF1)

454 453 Sure, JJ, politically you're correct, but can I just add...nice Joe Jackson p-shop!
Posted by: Lexistexas at April 14, 2022 12:01 PM (gknF1)

Gratifying that I'm not the lone alta-cocker that recognizes "I'm the Man."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 14, 2022 12:21 PM (s2VJv)

455 Basically, if a company has a major presence on the SF peninsula, you can predict that they have been taken over by the woke, usually through a fifth-column attack via the HR department.

Levi Strauss was an early victim of the gay mafia that controls SF culture. They cut ties with the BSA in the '80s over the policy that rejected gay scoutmasters. Ironically, the Scouts were destroyed later by accusations that they didn't do enough vetting, and then they committed suicide by going woke and recruiting girls.

BSA, RIP. And fuck Levis.

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