The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 2/7/23

Good morning kids. If you want to know just how low this junta will stoop to deceive and to demean us, here's a prime example.

In preparation for President Joe Biden’s 2023 State of the Union (SOTU) address, security fences have been erected around the perimeter of the U.S. Capitol building, a practice that has become commonplace since the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021.
On Sunday, Feb. 5, at the request of the Secret Service, security fences were erected around the perimeter of the Capitol.
Acting House Sergeant at Arms William McFarland told a CSPAN reporter that the fencing will be removed on Wednesday, Feb. 8, the day after Biden’s speech. . .
. . . Since the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, security fencing has been constructed around the Capitol on numerous occasions, such as Biden’s 2022 SOTU.

This is, of course, pure optics. That is to project a false image that some threat to "our precious democracy" (*vomit*) still exists. The only threat to our republic is the junta in power. It should also be noted that the Capitol Police are supposed to be under the leadership of the Speaker of the House. The last time I checked, it was not Malig-Nancy Pelosi but Kevin McCarthy. That he allows this farcical charade to go on speaks directly to his character.

And while we're chasing the mythical existential threats of "white supremacy" and "climate change," the real existential threats to global peace and security continue unimpeded. Worse, it is evident that those who control the instrumentalities of government, less and less the original three branches of our government but the unelected and unconstitutional Deep State bureaucracy, are aiding and abetting China in achieving their goal of global hegemony. The latest info coming out about this spy balloon is truly disturbing and infuriating, if sadly no longer surprising.

Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Northern Command (NORTHCOM), admitted Monday that the joint U.S.-Canada organization missed previous incursions of Chinese spy balloons, including during the Trump administration.
When asked during a press briefing whether NORTHCOM was involved in tracking previous Chinese spy balloon that flew into the U.S. airspace during the Biden and Trump administrations, VanHerck responded:
So those balloons, so every day as a NORAD commander it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats. And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. But I don’t want to go in further detail.
. . . VanHerck’s disclosure also raised questions as to how NORAD missed the previous incursions.
He said that the Chinese spy balloon that entered U.S. airspace on January 28 was more than 200 feet tall. He said the “payload” that the balloon was carrying was the size of a regional jet liner and probably weighed in excess of a couple thousand pounds. . .
. . . VanHerck said that the military did have time to shoot it down over the Aleutian Islands, but that since the balloon did not present a “physical military threat” to North America, “I could not take immediate action because it was not demonstrating hostile act or hostile intent.”

So, it was a "mostly peaceful" spy balloon that could have contained "mostly peaceful explosives." For those who are wholly unaware due to being blessed with an American education, the Aleutian Islands are part of Alaska, which is one of the 50 states. 57 if you're Obama. What I don't get it is that on the one hand, this guy is stating that the balloon went undetected, and yet it was spotted over the Aleutians? Funny how NORAD can track Santa Claus with pinpoint accuracy year after year, but not a 200-foot multi-ton Chi-Com spy balloon. Hmm . . .

Note that the propagandists and their handlers in the junta have tried to blame Trump, or at least claim that these balloons appeared over America during his first term, that he knew about them and did nothing. All of that is complete bullshit as this general has admitted.

What it does indicate, if you read between the lines is something more insidious: INSUBORDINATION.

Mark Esper was a top Trump administration official, serving as Secretary of the Army from November 2017 to July 2019 and Secretary of Defense from July 2019 to November 2020. He recounts: “I don’t ever recall somebody coming into my office or reading anything that the Chinese had a surveillance balloon above the United States. I would remember that for sure.” That raises several possibilities. Esper himself may not be telling the truth, in an attempt to cover for his old boss. The second possibility is that there were no Chinese spy balloons flying over the U.S. during the Trump administration, and the Defense Department is the one that’s lying, in an attempt to cover for President Dementia and his China-linked son.
A third possibility is that three Chinese spy balloons did indeed conduct high-altitude surveillance over the United States during the Trump administration, and the Defense Department knew about it but didn’t alert Esper or Trump. Inconceivable? Not in the slightest degree. DefenseOne reported back in November 2020 that Jim Jeffrey, who had served as Trump’s special envoy for Syria, boasted that he circumvented Trump’s orders to withdraw American troops from Syria by lying to the President. . .
. . . Jeffrey decided to thwart the will of the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces because, he said, the order to withdraw from Syria was “the most controversial thing in my fifty years in government.” Jeffrey even boasted about his defiance: “What Syria withdrawal? There was never a Syria withdrawal. When the situation in northeast Syria had been fairly stable after we defeated ISIS, [Trump] was inclined to pull out. In each case, we then decided to come up with five better arguments for why we needed to stay. And we succeeded both times. That’s the story.” Cool story, bro. And not in the least implausible. We discovered the existence of the Deep State during the Trump administration because of its boasts about thwarting his agenda while inside the government. Jeffrey was just another Deep Stater.

A few things here: First, Joe Biden is now at the stage where half the time he has no idea where he is, what he is saying, the time of day, or even the meaning of the words dog, cat or potato. Someone or some group of people are directing him and are the de facto rulers of this country. For lack of a better name, America, on paper anyway.

Second, you can and many do blame Trump for a number of things that can be described as unforced errors. The biggest one was in the realm of personnel. For sure he surrounded himself with top level advisors and cabinet secretaries who were traitorous. That said, it was the next level down, the unelected lifers in the bureaucracy at almost every level who did the most damage. I'm not sure if Jim Jeffrey was directly appointed by Trump or if he falls into the lifer category. I imagine it's the latter since there are tens of thousands of bureaucrats in DC and Trump cannot appoint every single one of them. Trump intended to drain the swamp. The problem is he had no idea it was the size and depth of the Pacific Ocean and not merely an above-ground 6-foot-deep pool.

Should he have known better? I will say, even I could not conceive of anyone in the military actually working against the Commander-in-Chief like this, nor really against the people and national security of this nation, irrespective of one's personal political views. And yet, as Buck Throckmorton reminded us yesterday, look at the words and deeds of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs himself, Mark "Vanilli" Milley:

Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley secretly promised to warn the head of the Chinese People's Liberation Army before the United States would carry out any "attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you."
The shocking anecdote is described in a new book by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, which discloses the extent to which the Pentagon worked to subvert former president Donald Trump's foreign policy goals. Trump's rhetoric toward China, according to a Washington Post summary, increasingly alarmed Milley, who suspected the president might order a surprise strike.
"I want to assure you that the American government is stable and everything is going to be okay," Milley reportedly told Gen. Li Zoucheng, on Oct. 30, 2020. Milley went on to highlight the close relationship between the two men, saying, "If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise."
Milley never informed the president of the conversation. He called Li again on Jan. 8, 2021 to "address Chinese fears about the events of Jan. 6," according to the Washington Post.

For that alone, Milley should be tried for treason and hanged. But of course, look who's running the country:

After Trump became president in January 2017 the Chinese witnessed a dramatic reversal. Within about a month of taking office Trump unleashed American power that decimated ISIS within weeks. A month later Trump ordered a strike of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles that took out Syria’s air force. And in early 2020 Trump authorized a drone strike in Iraq that killed Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and the number two leader Iran.
Everything changed with the 2020 election—characterized by massive voting irregularities—that displaced Trump and delivered Joe Biden as U.S. President. What most voters didn’t know, but Xi Jinping did know, was that Biden was a compromised president. The Biden family had received—in prior years leading up to the election—tens of millions of dollars from Chinese business deals, and the Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania had received $70 million from sources in China.
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, a brilliant lawyer and the most successful prosecutor of the Mafia who conducted a forensic analysis of the Hunter Biden laptop and its contents, described the Biden Family as being “owned by the Chinese Communist Party,” and Joe Biden himself as being “in partnership with the Chinese Communist Party.”
The weakness Biden signaled as President, characterized by his inexplicable decision to abruptly withdraw from Afghanistan, leaving behind some $80 billion of advanced U.S. military equipment and abandoning the strategically located Bagram Air Base was naturally encouraging for Xi. Biden’s top military generals, Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chief General Mark Milley, who were involved in the Afghanistan decision-making fiasco, have also originated other harmful leadership initiatives, such as universal mandatory Covid-19 vaccination requirements and obligatory Critical Race Theory indoctrination for the officer corps and the enlistees in all military branches—both of which policies significantly added to the demoralization of the military—resulting in recruiting shortfalls—with all of it being observed and digested by the Chinese leadership. . .
. . . Beijing could see Biden’s weakness and willingness to defer power to subordinates in the response to his order to shoot the spy satellite down three days later, February 1st, when it entered Montana airspace. After giving the order, Biden passed the buck to military advisors who said “wait till the balloon crosses the country and gets to the Atlantic”—all of which prolonged the nation’s humiliation and demonstrated a fundamentally flawed decision-making process, which Beijing was no doubt testing. Said another way, Xi wanted to reconfirm Milley’s deference to China, which Milley had previously demonstrated twice in communicating critical national security information to Chinese leaders in December and January 2020-2021, without President Trump’s knowledge or consent.

Did I say hanged for treason? Milley deserves to be hung, drawn and quartered. And the gibbets and gallows should be constructed to accommodate a few thousand of his fellow travelers. Should be, but sadly won't.

While all of the author's analysis from that excerpt is of course horribly and frighteningly true, one still has to also look at the internal conditions in China right now. Crashing birth rate, economy on a huge bubble, vast corruption that no doubt has an impact on the military’s capability and weapons systems (among other things), and most importantly, a citizenry that is increasingly angry at the regime might be the “unknown known” that all together has the potential to be a game-changer.

For sure the 21st Century is NOT going to be the Chinese Century. Sadly, the fact that we have to rely on China collapsing before we do is cold comfort. And even if they collapse first, given the road we’re on, we’re not far behind.

That leaves Global Islam to enter the scene and pick up the pieces. And Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants is aiding and abetting that cause con gusto.

Can't wait for the SOTU address tonight. Gevalt.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

David Horowitz: "Distrust of government, love of freedom are ingrained in the American people. We can win this battle, but only if we fight it." (hat tip to commenter MTF - jjs)
Fascism and Betrayl
"Forcing compliance with government messaging."
Canada: Senate Passes Liberals’ "Stalinesque Internet Censorship Bill"
Lloyd Billingsley: "Black motorist runs down doctor - then stabs him in the back while screaming about 'white privilege.'”
Death of a Doctor

BIDEN BEIJING BALLOON-ACY

They can track Santa Claus with pinpoint accuracy every year, but they miss this thing? Seriously, did they not see it or did the top brass intentionally look the other way because they wanted to ding Trump?
General Says NORAD Missed Previous Chinese Spy Balloon Incursions During the Trump Administration
"Democrats seized on the Pentagon's disclosure to defend [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden amid outcry that China's balloon was allowed to travel unimpeded for several days across the continental United States, only to see the claim fizzle less than 24 hours later when other anonymous officials said the balloons were discovered only after former president Donald Trump left office."
Pentagon Won't Explain Misleading Statements About Trump-Era Chinese Spy Balloons
"The military’s latest revelation about that Chinese spy balloon does nothing to quell concern."
The Spy Balloon Was Set to Blow Up?!
"[James] Clapper was among the 51 intelligence agents who signed a letter erroneously stating that the Hunter Biden information was Russian misinformation back in 2020, lending his title, reputation, and security clearance as cover for Joe Biden prior to the 2020 presidential election."
Russiagate Hoaxer Says U.S. Shouldn't Be 'Hyperventilating' Over Chinese Spy Balloon
"The motives and the significance – and why it's happening now."
The Disturbing Truth Behind China’s Spy Balloon Penetration
"Our feckless [illegitimate] Commander-in-Chief continues to embolden our enemies.
Biden’s Ballooning Foreign-Policy Blunders
"Instead of uniting Americans around the threat of China’s military provocations, the spy balloon episode produced a fog of misinformation and partisan finger-pointing."
How Biden and His Media Allies Turned a Threatening Chinese Spy Balloon Into a Political Feud
Robert Spencer: "There is abundant reason to doubt this face-saving statement."
Defense Department’s Statement on Biden’s Bodacious Balloon Boondoggle is Baloney
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
They planned on “conducting critical infrastructure attacks, including statements about sniper attacks against substations, and how conducting a small number of attacks on electrical substations could cause a ‘cascading failure.'” (can we really believe anything the FBI says anymore? - jjs)
FBI Charges Baltimore Woman, Florida Man in Connection With Plot to Attack Maryland’s Power Grid
Julie Kelly: "Overclassification ensures the public won’t get a full view into the government’s behind-the-scenes machinations leading up to the events of January 6."
Missing Documents and Files in Ongoing J6 Cover-Ups
"Acting House Sergeant at Arms William McFarland told a CSPAN reporter that the fencing will be removed on Wednesday, Feb. 8, the day after Biden’s speech."
Security Fences Erected Around U.S. Capitol for Biden’s 2023 State of the Union Address
"We are asking fellow patriots to donate money, airline miles, hotel points, or other travel resources to aid us in this mission," said Shane Jenkins, the founder of The Real J6 and an inmate in the D.C. jail since March. “It’s been almost two years for most of us."
'Operation Love Wins' Seeks to Reunite J6 Defendants With Families
Pfft. Go lock yourself in your Bel-Air mansion with the white folks.
BLM Cofounder Blasts Biden: Politicians ‘Decided to Abandon’ Movement
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"The Associated Press’ misleading headline leads to an nontroversy adeptly handled by the FL Gov. Ron DeSanits’ team."
AP Fact Check on Florida Requesting Menstrual Cycle Data Goes Horribly Wrong – For DeSantis Haters
Robert Spencer: "In the final analysis, neither the government of Pakistan nor the top dogs at Wikipedia are really interested in sharing knowledge with the world. They’re both in the propaganda business, with competing but ultimately contradictory products."
Woke Fail: Pakistan Bans Hard-Left Wikipedia as ‘Anti-Islam’
"The term ‘conspiracy theorist’ is used to halt thoughtfulness and conversation, often under the guise of protecting you from ‘disinformation.’"
‘Conspiracy Theorist’ is a Slur Meant to Silence Us
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
[William Jacobson on the Tony Katz Show]: “this was a cleansing operation” to make it harder for Republicans to subpoena documents regarding Biden’s China and Ukraine dealings for his son. “And in the course of that cleansing operation, the Biden lawyers were like, oh crap, we’ve got classified documents in here. What do we do now? … I’d like to know what were in the documents that weren’t classified that .. are the real scandal here.”
Joe Biden Lawyers Likely Conducting Cleansing Operation Of Hunter-Related Material When Stumbled On Classified Docs
"Hunter Biden discussed 'confidential' plans with dad's talent agent."
Hunter Biden Wanted Office at Think Tank Where President Stashed Classified Docs
"Since the Biden Institute was established in 2017, the University of Delaware has received $6,704,250 in funding from China, $23,610,996 from Saudi Arabia, $2,513,646 from Oman and $1,673,847 from Turkey, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education."
Foreign Nations Poured Millions Into University That Houses Biden Institute
"And Hunter sure isn't helping."
The Biden Family Problems are Converging
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
“The Inflation Reduction Act can help with all this—but only if you choose to take advantage of it,” Schumer said.
Senate Majority Leader Schemer: "Gas Stoves Contribute to Climate Change"
"Naturally, China has an interest in finding ways to hamstring the U.S. economy. And if it can do so with our cooperation, so much the better. Yes, we should be watching the skies for Chinese spy balloons. But while we crane our necks skyward, we also need to keep an eye on our waterline."
China's Role in the Gas Stove Debate
"Republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee concerned that Kerry’s activities could undermine American interests."
House Republicans to Probe Climate Czar John Kerry’s Negotiations with China
"German grocery giant Lidl is scaling back meat sales to ~~weaken the world’s population~~ save the planet from bursting into a fireball of cow flatulence."
German Globalist Domination: Major Grocer Scaling Back Meat Sales
"Nuclear power mounts a comeback, but obstacles remain."
Delayed Reaction
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Will the Feds' current policies cause another Great Recession?"
Recession, Inflation, and Yield Curves
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"According to sources and migrants who spoke to the New York Post, border crossers who arrived in the sanctuary city on buses mostly from Texas are fleeing the city for Canada where they hope to permanently resettle."
Migrants Fleeing Crime-Ridden NYC for ‘Better Quality of Life’ in Canada
Harris announced her latest efforts to address the “root causes” of migration from Northern Central America on Monday, nearly eight months after the last public event she held on the issue.
Biden Says Kamala Harris is Doing a ‘Good Job’ With the Border After She Was Missing for Seven Months
“We’ve provided $20 million in care to the migrants that are crossing the border and we just don’t have a payer source for those individuals. It’s not a sustainable model to have these continued rising expenses without a revenue source to offset that.”
Lone Hospital in Yuma, AZ, Crumbling After Spending $20 Million Taking Care of Migrants
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"In New York and elsewhere, the illegal pot market is crowding out the legal one."
Where the Grass Is Grayer
"Seven years ago, Business Insider published, '14 reasons why Denver is the best place to live in America.' That was then. Crime in the Mile High City is now worse than New York City or Chicago, and growing increasingly dangerous."
Denver – Rocky Mountain High to Rocky Mountain Hellhole
"Who's inflicted the most damage on the black underclass?"
Who Guards the Race Guardians?
"To turn that issue into a vehicle to vent your spleen about Donald Trump is arrogant and thoughtless. But at the same time, scroll back up and watch that exchange at the farmer’s market in California . . . it is also worth noting that we have yet to see who was on the flight manifests for Epstein’s jet trips."
Was an Anti-Trafficking Protest in L.A. Legit or Political Theater?
“It’s a roadmap leading to the people guilty of trafficking children among Epstein’s friends and benefactors, such as Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and other prominent but culpable perpetrators.”
The Feds Have All the Evidence They Need to Go After Jeffrey Epstein’s Buddies. Here’s Why They Still Roam Free
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Walker, who leads research and development for mRNA projects at Pfizer, told an undercover Project Veritas reporter that the company’s [Chinese] COVID vaccines are impacting women’s menstrual cycles and said that the company uses “directed evolution” to mutate coronaviruses for the creation of more potent variants and vaccines.
Leaked Pfizer Document Shows Embattled Employee From Project Veritas Videos Is Still Employed, Warns Against More ‘Anti-Science’ Stings
"The state’s [Chinese] covid emergency order will also be allowed to expire on Feb. 28th."
California Halts Plans to Force Children to Get the Chinese Coronavirus Vaccine to Attend Schools
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Twenty-five states have constitutional carry, and Republicans in Florida and South Carolina are now racing to see which state will be number 26, but Newtown Action Alliance says it does not really exist."
Newtown Gun Controllers: There Is No Such Thing as ‘Constitutional Carry’
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"The next time someone warns me that homeschooled kids will never learn social skills, I’m going to bring up this story."
Is Your Child Being Forced to Sit Through 'Silent Lunch' at School? You'd Better Find Out!
"In just the last year, it’s taken three steps that are problems for national security, academic liberty, and women’s rights."
The University of Pennsylvania has become the poster child for ‘woke’
"An example of one who was not."
University Leaders Should be Consistent, Evenhanded, and Accurate
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
" . . . it’s evident to anyone who’s followed the election integrity fights of the past two years that the states will have to do more to shore up their elections before the professional activists come knocking."
With Attempted Repeal Of ‘Zuckbucks’ Ban, Virginia Dems Aim To Flood Elections With Billionaire Cash
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Persistently biased. Can you guess the angle?"
How the New York Times Covered Terrorism in Jerusalem and Counter-Terrorism In Jenin
"For our culture to heal itself and become more tolerant again, not only do all these lawsuits have be victories, resulting in significant payments to the victims, the individuals who actually instituted these oppressive policies have to somehow come to the realization that they have been acting like Nazi thugs. Until that happens, creating an actual cultural change, no number of victorious lawsuits will change anything."
Today’s blacklisted American: CVS fires nurse for refusing to violate her religious beliefs
"Ilhan Omar’s indiscretions will not become a game changer for liberal, more affluent Jews. Republicans are wasting their time hoping otherwise."
Republicans Miss the Problem With Bro-Fo Omar
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Several experts on Chinese intelligence operations confirmed that the Forums for Peaceful Reunification of China is a Chinese intelligence influence operation connected to the UFWD after reviewing Chinese government websites, USCC’s report and Chinese-language news sources."
Rep. Judy Chu Was Named ‘Honorary Chairwoman’ of Alleged Chinese Intel Front Group
"Some 143 lawmakers did not provide a comment to Coindesk, marking nearly three-quarters of the individual politicians who received donations from Bankman-Fried and his affiliates."
Sam Bankman-Fried And Allies Gave Money To One In Three Congress Members. Here’s What They Did With It.
POLITICS
"Biden has done nothing but subject Americans to more crippling crises that prompt historic levels of disapproval."
Here’s Everything Biden Won’t Tell You About the Disastrous State of Our Union
"With voters suffering financially, is a second term for [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden in jeopardy?"
Nearly Two-Thirds Say They’re Worse Off Than Two Years Ago: I&I/TIPP Poll
"Biden, the oldest [so-called quote-unquote "president"] in U.S. history, would be 86 by the end of a second term. Few respondents believe the octogenarian president is fit to serve four more years."
Poll: Majority of Dems Don't Want Biden To Run in 2024
"Like so many commonplaces one finds on the lips of talking heads, 'electability' may prove to be a confection of partisans blinded by their own preferences."
DeSantis, Inc. Underestimates Donald Trump
Meh. Steve Daines.
Senate Republican Campaign Chief Details Path Back to Majority: "Democrats Start Off on Their Heels with This Map"
"Progressives are no match for Gov. Ron DeSantis. Donald Trump may not be either."
Living in a Right-Wing Fantasy Land
"In the old days of the USSR, Kremlinologists used to figure out who was in and who was out in the power struggles at the top by looking at the reviewing stand for the May Day military parades. Today, major articles in the NY Times serve a similar signaling function."
NY Times Signals Kamala That Her White House Ambitions are Hopeless
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Biden [junta] is allowing Iran to develop its nuclear program while enriching Russia, critics say."
Biden Gives Iran and Russia Green Light To Continue Nuclear Work
"The U.S. should be doing everything in its power to draw Russia away from China." (you mean like not siding with Ukraine and pushing Putin to use nukes? - jjs)
Threats of a Sino-Russian Partnership
"Hate, terror, violence, and intolerance stand in the way."
"Palestinians" Should Strive to be Like Singapore Not Like Afghanistan
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Even a single, solitary square inch would be totally unacceptable.
Here’s How Much US Farmland Has Been Bought Up By China
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
“The attack left bodies lying among shattered debris and wrecked cars in the street.”
Daniel Greenfield: Biden Frees Al Qaeda Terrorist Involved in Marriott Bombing
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"You are going to be the person that took Newport cigarettes from black people. You would never get reelected again."
Up in Smoke: Black Activists Slam Kathy Hochul for Proposed Menthol Cigarette Ban
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Capitalism in space: Voyager Space, one of three companies that NASA has provided funds to build a private space station, has now raised $80 million in private investment capital."
Space station builder Voyager raises $80 million in private investment capital
"Since we at present don’t know the process that forms them, it is difficult to then theorize about the specific event that generates them."
A Martian slope streak caused by a dust devil?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Says hormone levels alone don’t determine what a woman is."
Surfing Icon Says She’ll Boycott Professional Tour Over Transgender Competitors
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
" The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder aired an episode last week that featured children discovering that their town was founded by a slave owner and then concluding that Abraham Lincoln had no desire to end slavery."
Videos: Disney Cartoon Declares U.S. “Built on Slavery” Pushes ‘Reparations’ Propaganda
The episode, titled “One Angry Lisa,” aired in October 2022 and showed the instructor of Marge Simpson’s virtual bike class state, “Behold the wonders of China. Bitcoin mines, forced labor camps where children make smartphones.” Another episode of the show that broadcast in 2005 mentioned the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the Chinese government’s efforts to suppress knowledge of it; it was cut in 2021.
Disney Cuts ‘Simpsons’ Episode That Mentions Forced Labor Camps From Chinese Platform
"The only reason the entertainment media can spin this 12.4 million debacle into something other than a debacle is due to the 8.8 million who watched in 2021 and the 8.9 million who watched in 2022."
Fat Satan Grammys Deliver Ratings Catastrophe of Just 12.4 MIllion Viewers
"My boredom with Hollywood has officially become stronger than my disgust."
The Grammys’ Embrace of LGBT Politics and Satanism Isn’t Just Gross, It’s Boring
Christian Toto: "Pink Floyd co-founders battle on social media over chronic allegations."
David Gilmour Calls Roger Waters "Anti-Semitic to the Core"
HITHER & YON
"The great choreographer was, to his credit, reactionary on gender and much else."
Brilliant Balanchine
Lloyd Billingsley: "The underrated Melinda Dillon starred in the best film about the damage of fake news." (She passed away on January 9 at the age of 83 - jjs)
Absence of Actress

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:42 AM

Comments

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2023 07:42 AM (BRHaw)

2 SOTU is crap

Posted by: IanDeal at February 07, 2023 07:42 AM (MGjjz)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 07, 2023 07:42 AM (ljj0K)

4 I yelled yo JJ at the The Tech thread.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2023 07:42 AM (BRHaw)

5 Fifth!

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2023 07:43 AM (4h9M3)

6 Somebody has a nice fat fence contract.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 07:44 AM (iayUP)

7 THE THREAT TO DEMOCRACY IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 07, 2023 07:45 AM (flINI)

8 SOTU = WGAF.

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2023 07:45 AM (4h9M3)

9 What it does indicate, if you read between the lines is something more insidious: INSUBORDINATION.

Spot on. As much as we all dislike Biden, this isn't even a Biden thing. We're seeing, in real time, that the Pentagon no longer considers itself to be subordinate to civilian government - regardless of party. This is not good.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 07:47 AM (bHvPK)

10 "We can win this battle, but only if we fight it."

Therein lies the rub.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 07:47 AM (H8QX8)

11 From the Tech Thread...

>>More likely, the previous ones transited U.S. airspace over the Aleutian Islands. Or maybe Guam.

I mean, they literally will say anything, no matter how patently ridiculous it sounds and count on their stenographers in the MSM to simply carry their water.

I do enjoy Tucker not so subtly taking shots at Jennifer Griffin for being a MIC C**kholster.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2023 07:47 AM (up/3i)

12 I heard that Harly Davidson is going to make an electric menstrual cycle.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 07:47 AM (iayUP)

13 Speaking of Kevin McCarthy and lack of character… he was recently asked about the shooting of Ashli Babbitt and he answered that Michael Byrd was simply “doing his job.” He’s not on our side despite all the sideshows like kicking garbage off certain committees

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 07, 2023 07:48 AM (D2j2d)

14 Did I say hanged for treason? Milley deserves to be hung, drawn and quartered. And the gibbets and gallows should be constructed to accommodate a few thousand of his fellow travelers. Should be, but sadly won't.
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Absolutely. And don't let the 8th Amendment stop us. It bars punishments that are cruel AND unusual, not "cruel OR..." As any logician can tell you, that means both or nothing.

If we do it enough, it passes muster.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2023 07:48 AM (TgBWG)

15 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2023 07:50 AM (uvymP)

16 12 electric menstrual cycle.
Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 07:47 AM (iayUP)

I saw Electric Menstrual Cycle open for E.L.O at Earl's Court in '74.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 07, 2023 07:50 AM (x0n13)

17 Morning Report is pretty darn girthy for this early in the day.

Posted by: Miklos is Impressed at February 07, 2023 07:50 AM (t+1OS)

18 The Left has become so accustomed to telling outright in-your-face-screaming-while-smiling lies, in such a brazen fashion, with such a "ok, so what are you going to do about it?" way, and with the full support of the increasingly evil MSM InfoSluts, that they've reached the point of the "Goebbels insanity line." It's Biblical. . . . . calling evil good and good evil. For those who would "keep" our country, we just might have to turn things Medieval for a time as a cure. I don't like it, but it may be the Spoonful of Sugar needed to go down.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & SpokesHarlots at February 07, 2023 07:50 AM (5uy7A)

19 Supply chain problems, trucker jam ups, congested rail yards, exploding trains carrying vinyl chloride, near misses on commercial passenger aircraft, pilot shortages.

And failed South Bend mayor, and now Transportation Secretary Pete Butt-plug goes on Meet the Press with cheerleader Chuck Todd. Looking like a dandy in his pretty blue sport coat.

Maybe he should be behind the scene, working and solving problems. Classic fail-up.

Posted by: Redenzo at February 07, 2023 07:51 AM (E7vND)

20 "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."

Posted by: Honest Abe at February 07, 2023 07:51 AM (iayUP)

21 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at February 07, 2023 07:52 AM (u7pQw)

22 Good morning again dear morons and thanks JJ

Hitler saying Jews are a threat to Germany = Biden saying MAGA is a threat to democracy

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 07, 2023 07:52 AM (EZebt)

23 "Instead of uniting Americans around the threat of China’s military provocations, the spy balloon episode produced a fog of misinformation and partisan finger-pointing."
_______

Say what you will about Biden, he is giving the ChiComs what they paid for.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2023 07:52 AM (TgBWG)

24 @12

>>I heard that Harly Davidson is going to make an electric menstrual cycle.

Harley Davidson's are overpriced pieces of junk now.

You could get three Royal Enfields for the price of a single Harley and have more fun riding them than a Harley.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2023 07:52 AM (up/3i)

25 FBI Charges Baltimore Woman, Florida Man in Connection With Plot to Attack Maryland’s Power Grid

They met online while both in jail. She was a manchette wielding C-store robber. He was a loner bomb-maker Ted Kazensky wannabe.
Together they would bring white people back to their rightful place in the world with a race war that would make Helter Skelter look like a Neighborhood Night Out block Party.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2023 07:52 AM (BRHaw)

26 Professor Jacobson puts forth the best explanation I've heard on why the Biden lawyers did the original document search and why they acted as they did.

Hunter is the key, apparently. Understand his influence-peddling operation and you understand who owns Joe Biden, but you will also be able to understand the who/what/where/why of all these classified documents.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2023 07:53 AM (DT85R)

27 >>(can we really believe anything the FBI says anymore? - jjs)

How many times have we heard "they were on our radar" after some deadly attack?
Yet the FBI managed to thwart this couples plans. I have no doubt we'll learn, possibly years down the road, it was in fact the FBI making these plans.

As someone mentioned yesterday "they got their unicorn" just in time for the SotU.

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 07, 2023 07:53 AM (DB16e)

28 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2023 07:53 AM (T4tVD)

29 The only suitable response to the SOTU tonight:

"Everything FJB just said is bullshit. Good night and God bless America!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2023 07:53 AM (YIVH2)

30 I think the FBI probably tracks insane people so they can use them to justify their phony baloney jobs.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 07:54 AM (iayUP)

31 A commander general who begins every phrase with 'so'?

*facepalm* WASTF

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 07, 2023 07:55 AM (4I/2K)

32 And failed South Bend mayor, and now Transportation Secretary Pete Butt-plug goes on Meet the Press with cheerleader Chuck Todd. Looking like a dandy in his pretty blue sport coat. Maybe he should be behind the scene, working and solving problems. Classic fail-up.

That's the big lie. NO ONE in DC - filling the position of Transportation Secretary - has the talent to fix this. The position should not exist. Just like most of the positions in DC.

In a free Republic, practicing capitalism, no one in their right mind would want something as critical as the construction, maintenance, and regulation of the infrastructure supporting the free trade of goods and services entrusted to one Federal department. You'd want that shit spread out over fifty states at least - preferably over the individual decisions of 350 million or so people wherever possible.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 07:56 AM (bHvPK)

33 Morning Report is pretty darn girthy for this early in the day.
Posted by: Miklos is Impressed

But, not fat.

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2023 07:56 AM (T4tVD)

34 20 "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."
Posted by: Honest Abe at February 07, 2023 07:51 AM (iayUP)

Which would make saying it wasn't his top priority true. It's transparently false to say he had no interest in it.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 07:56 AM (eYoxG)

35 It's National Fettuccine Alfredo Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 07:56 AM (NpAcC)

36 Biden Says Kamala Harris is Doing a ‘Good Job’ With the Border After She Was Missing for Seven Months
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Given her capacity for fcuking things up, I'd say doing nothing was a "good job" for Kamala.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2023 07:56 AM (TgBWG)

37 I heard that Harly Davidson is going to make an electric menstrual cycle.
Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 07:47 AM (iayUP)

One week out of every month you can't ride it?

(denounces self)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 07, 2023 07:57 AM (tkR6S)

38 I was thinking about Sam Smith satan worship brought to you by Pfizer at the Grammy’s; in particular, because Tucker Carlson talked about it last night with a guest (forgot his name). Their take was lighthearted and included chuckling at what a big joke it was. Guest made references to past examples of rock ‘n roll artists and their intention to shock. Yes, I remember Van Halen and “Runnin’ With the Devil” from my yute along with AC/DC’s “Hells Bells”… lots of other examples. The lighthearted tone from Tucker didn’t hit for me, though… this latest incarnation of shocking just seems too dark and too in-your-face. Van Halen and AC/DC (and Ozzy Osbourne and Alice Cooper) did it as an obvious schtick… with a wink and a nod. Sam Smith seems captured by demons….. maybe I’m just an old curmudgeon….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 07, 2023 07:57 AM (D2j2d)

39 Well JJ, the morning essay sure is a bummer.

Based on its description, I believe the Chinese Spy Balloon was a dry run at floating an EMP weapon over the US.

Posted by: DB at February 07, 2023 07:57 AM (geLO8)

40 And National Periodic Table Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 07:58 AM (NpAcC)

41 36 Biden Says Kamala Harris is Doing a ‘Good Job’ With the Border After She Was Missing for Seven Months
_______

Given her capacity for fcuking things up, I'd say doing nothing was a "good job" for Kamala.

***&&***

I'll bet Willie Brown would disagree as he was watching that horse face bob up and down on that "office staff"

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & SpokesHarlots at February 07, 2023 07:58 AM (5uy7A)

42 @30

>>I think the FBI probably tracks insane people so they can use them to justify their phony baloney jobs.

The FBI/CIA runs the largest child p**n distribution network in the world.

It's why they have people like Epstein, Halper, Carter Page on their pay roles.

It's why the majority of "plotters" in the Michigan Governor kidnap case were government assets.

Everything is an Op.
Everything is Bullshit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2023 07:59 AM (up/3i)

43 You can't charge people with stealing your stuff if it's not your stuff -- it's a legal thing. And just like that, the Russian disinformation plausible deniability went poof.

That's a big problem for President "10 percent for the big guy." The congressional investigators aren't going to care much if some "Obama judge" rules the evidence inadmissible. As the Trump impeachments demonstrated, congressional investigations aren't bound by such legal technicalities.

Impeaching Biden would get the forces of good a little revenge and sure would taste good going down. But the ultimate thing is to figure out how to beat Democrats over the head with this club, because Biden isn't the only guy who takes big bucks from the Chinese, the Ukrainians, and the Russkies.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2023 07:59 AM (DT85R)

44 Based on its description, I believe the Chinese Spy Balloon was a dry run at floating an EMP weapon over the US.

Posted by: DB at February 07, 2023 07:57 AM (geLO

Bio-weapon. And based upon how we shot down the last one, they've got it correct. Nothing we did to that balloon would stop it from delivering a bio-weapon payload.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 07:59 AM (bHvPK)

45 Instead of a SOTU response, we need to hire the Eagle's coach Nick Sirianni's cute kid to do a hand gestures & face interpreting during the SOTU

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 07, 2023 07:59 AM (BtmcP)

46 Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & SpokesHarlots at February 07, 2023 07:50 AM (5uy7A)

The more brazen they get, the worse their depredations get, it seems that any commensurate political response becomes more difficult and less likely. The egregious corruption becomes harder to popularly comprehend or rhetorically encompass. It's a perverse equation, and they seem to understand this, almost with a primal, animal sense.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 08:00 AM (H8QX8)

47 You could get three Royal Enfields for the price of a single Harley and have more fun riding them than a Harley.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2023 07:52 AM (up/3i)

Might even be able to get a Diesel Enfield.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 07, 2023 08:00 AM (tkR6S)

48
We need a United States Balloon Corps to defend us from these incursions!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 07, 2023 08:00 AM (MoZTd)

49 38 No, you are right. . . . .this was a Darker Shade of Pale

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & SpokesHarlots at February 07, 2023 08:00 AM (5uy7A)

50 It's National Fettuccine Alfredo Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

was Alfredo Fettucine an opera singer ?

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2023 08:00 AM (T4tVD)

51 Reflecting on Buttigieg’s question, she suggested in the interview that he could “lead a conversation” about using “federal dollars” to “fund programs to remove law enforcement from traffic stops.”

I have know idea what that even means. So no traffic laws? Or cops not allowed to stop vehicles?

She could make the point that safety inspections and stickers are really just taxation and have almost zero to do with road safety.

The Effectiveness of Vehicle Safety Inspections: An Analysis Using Panel Data
David Merrell, Marc Poitras and Daniel Sutter
Southern Economic Journal
Vol. 65, No. 3 (Jan., 1999),

This is 20 years old but in 13 pages states about 35 that is zero proof helmets, or seatbelts, or basic safety inspections laws save lives.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2023 08:01 AM (BRHaw)

52 So what was our vaunted 'Space Force' doing while the red zeppelin was floating overhead?

Posted by: DB at February 07, 2023 08:01 AM (geLO8)

53 And National Periodic Table Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Of the elephants ?

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2023 08:01 AM (T4tVD)

54 "It's transparently false to say he had no interest in it.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy"

He thought slavery was wrong. It is wrong. Of course he wanted it to go away. He also understood that forcing the issue was going to get a lot of people killed and the nation severely wounded.

The Constitution's fatal flaw was not dealing with slavery. They couldn't do it and get it passed though, so the issue was put off and we are still dealing with it. Some want to string it out and milk it for all they can.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:02 AM (iayUP)

55 They met online while both in jail. She was a manchette wielding C-store robber. He was a loner bomb-maker Ted Kazensky wannabe.
Together they would bring white people back to their rightful place in the world with a race war that would make Helter Skelter look like a Neighborhood Night Out block Party.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2023 07:52 AM (BRHaw)
----
When is Netflix going to buy the rights to this story?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2023 08:02 AM (YIVH2)

56 "Poll: Majority of Dems Don't Want Biden To Run in 2024"
Maybe, but I don't think they'll abandon him.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 08:03 AM (NpAcC)

57
So what was our vaunted 'Space Force' doing while the red zeppelin was floating overhead?
Posted by: DB at February 07, 2023 08:01 AM (geLO

____________

"Nothing below 300,000 feet is our responsibility."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 07, 2023 08:03 AM (MoZTd)

58 Leaked Pfizer Document Shows Embattled Employee From Project Veritas Videos Is Still Employed, Warns Against More ‘Anti-Science’ Stings

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The employee that isn't an employee and isn't employed there and was never employed there is still employed there.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 08:03 AM (Oto6+)

59 "Did I say hanged for treason? Milley deserves to be hung, drawn and quartered..."

If Trump has not learned enough to know he must hang at least one traitor if he( Trump) can overcome the 2024 cheat then we Deplorables will all hang literally and figuratively after 24.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at February 07, 2023 08:03 AM (JLoad)

60 In 2018, the former Ambassador of the Office of Religious Freedom, Dr. Andrew Bennett, stated presciently that “the Trudeau government is displaying ‘totalitarian’ tendencies.”

Like father, like son.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2023 08:03 AM (uvymP)

61 The FBI statement reads in part: “It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency.”

Agency? I thought it was a Bureau!

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2023 08:03 AM (BRHaw)

62 "Awareness gap" just another way of saying NORAD is incompetent like all the other agencies and asleep at the switch.

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2023 08:03 AM (4h9M3)

63 He said that the Chinese spy balloon that entered U.S. airspace on January 28 was more than 200 feet tall. He said the “payload” that the balloon was carrying was the size of a regional jet liner and probably weighed in excess of a couple thousand pounds. . .

. . . VanHerck said that the military did have time to shoot it down over the Aleutian Islands, but that since the balloon did not present a “physical military threat” to North America, “I could not take immediate action

And you knew that how?

Kids, guess how to get a bio weapon into a country? Don't present a physical military threat.

Print on side of barroon:
"No physical military threat"

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 08:03 AM (FOWWv)

64 "And National Periodic Table Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

Now that sounds like it will have an element of fun!

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:03 AM (iayUP)

65 Roger Waters is such a sicko that it's completely put me off Pink Floyd.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2023 08:05 AM (DT85R)

66 Thank you, JJ.

Off to the linkage.

Posted by: democrats, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Cannot Kill, Since 1973 at February 07, 2023 08:05 AM (jV+aN)

67 43 You can't charge people with stealing your stuff if it's not your stuff -- it's a legal thing. And just like that, the Russian disinformation plausible deniability went poof.

That's a big problem for President "10 percent for the big guy." The congressional investigators aren't going to care much if some "Obama judge" rules the evidence inadmissible. As the Trump impeachments demonstrated, congressional investigations aren't bound by such legal technicalities.

Impeaching Biden would get the forces of good a little revenge and sure would taste good going down. But the ultimate thing is to figure out how to beat Democrats over the head with this club, because Biden isn't the only guy who takes big bucks from the Chinese, the Ukrainians, and the Russkies.

****&&****

Yeah, there's a long list of names there, and some are GOPe. I would STILL like to see what the ilk of the McConnell household and the Romney clan and brat spawn have been up to in Ukraine and the land of the Chinese Lung Rot. But the low-hanging fruit are those Marxist Rat cucksuckers at the Univ of Penn

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & SpokesHarlots at February 07, 2023 08:05 AM (5uy7A)

68 The employee that isn't an employee and isn't employed there and was never employed there is still employed there.
Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 08:03 AM (Oto6+)

What I wonder about is how the name he used changes at different schools and workplaces. Make Bary Soteoro look sane.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2023 08:05 AM (BRHaw)

69 "Poll: Majority of Dems Don't Want Biden To Run in 2024". Maybe, but I don't think they'll abandon him.

That's the elephant in the room. They'll back him against Trump. Some of them, however, will stay home against DeSantis. Won't change the result, but it might change the margin of fraud to even more ridiculous levels.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:05 AM (bHvPK)

70 The guests at the SOTU are Paul Pelosi, Bono, and the family of Tyre Nichols.

Good grief. More coffee...

Posted by: dantesed at February 07, 2023 08:05 AM (88xKn)

71 63 Print on side of barroon:
"No physical military threat"
Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 08:03 AM (FOWWv)

That is the kissing cousin to "Gun Free Zone."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 07, 2023 08:06 AM (x0n13)

72 Yonder Horde. Got a field fire out back... likely someone burning trash. Weird. It's windy and folks out here are smarter than that.

Cat's up a tree (again) but in sight. Supposed to rain later. Sucks to be her.

SotU = bad performance art.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 07, 2023 08:06 AM (Q4IgG)

73 "He said that the Chinese spy balloon that entered U.S. airspace on January 28 was more than 200 feet tall. He said the “payload” that the balloon was carrying was the size of a regional jet liner and probably weighed in excess of a couple thousand pounds. . ."

I will say again, what would happen if I were to put up a balloon like that?

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:06 AM (iayUP)

74 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:06 AM (Zz0t1)

75 Did I say hanged for treason? Milley deserves to be hung, drawn and quartered. And the gibbets and gallows should be constructed to accommodate a few thousand of his fellow travelers. Should be, but sadly won't.

And less than a year ago, I recall being lectured on this very blog that I was a fool for believing that, at some future point, the US military will receive orders to gun down American citizens and, what is more, will obey those orders to the letter.

Still think I'm a fool?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2023 08:06 AM (AW0uW)

76 Kevin McCarthy is the Brian Kemp of Evan McMullin's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:06 AM (Zz0t1)

77 @63

>>And you knew that how?

He didn't and doesn't, they're all f**king lying.

The Junta put out the word to all of their apparatchiks that some stray voltage was needed and voila, Operation BUTTTT TRUMMMMMPPP, was launched.

I fully expect our vicious, decrepit meat sack of an illegitimate President continue peddling the lie at the SOTU.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2023 08:06 AM (up/3i)

78 This is, of course, pure optics. That is to project a false image that some threat to "our precious democracy" (*vomit*) still exists.
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It isn't pure optics, I don't think. That's a big part of it. Never miss the chance to produce some propaganda. But the government probably is actually worried about some kind of demonstration or other problem. Probably not at the SOTU, but at some point. These are new procedures for any large event and I would bet it's because the government types are actually worried about something happening.

Look at what they do. Look at how they behave. Look at how they treat their subjects who were once citizens. Some of those subjects might remember, at some point, that they are men rather than little lead castings moved around a board for the amusement of the Washington rulers. Not today, but someday. After all the rhetoric and noise, the rulers know what they're doing and are afraid. Existentially afraid. Hiding behind battlements isn't a surprising development. They're building a kind of weird modern feudal world, and they will need defenses against the peasants just like their predecessors did.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 08:06 AM (t0OGg)

79 Bio-weapon. And based upon how we shot down the last one, they've got it correct. Nothing we did to that balloon would stop it from delivering a bio-weapon payload.
Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 07:59 AM (bHvPK)

Sprint missile, or the modern equivalent, with a small nuke warhead. Incinerate the balloon and its EMP/bio payload in a nuclear fireball at 120000 feet. Pretty much harmless to anyone on the ground, and doubly so if the intercept happens over Caribou Butt, Alaska.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 07, 2023 08:06 AM (tkR6S)

80 65 Roger Waters is such a sicko that it's completely put me off Pink Floyd.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2023 08:05 AM (DT85R)

At least the majority of tunes have Gilmour on lead vocal.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 07, 2023 08:07 AM (x0n13)

81 We need a United States Balloon Corps to defend us from these incursions!

--

I hadn't thought about it, but I bet there's another $300B added to the military budget.

It's funny that there was a time when I wouldn't have been cynical about that expenditure. Back when I assumed the goal was protection of the U.S.A. and that, while we disagreed about some of the stuff between the 40 yard lines, we were all on the same pages in the playbook regarding our country.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 08:07 AM (Oto6+)

82 Biden isn't the only guy who takes big bucks from the Chinese, the Ukrainians, and the Russkies.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2023 07:59 AM (DT85R)

What have you heard?

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at February 07, 2023 08:07 AM (yQpMk)

83 So those balloons, so every day as a NORAD commander it’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America. I will tell you that we did not detect those threats. And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. But I don’t want to go in further detail.
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So NORAD is taking the fall. Okay. Maybe it's even true. What I wonder, though, is what the evidence is for prior incursions that were missed. How do we know? After-the-fact pictures from satellites? Suddenly explicable gaps in radio coverage? I am a bit curious about the methodology.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 08:08 AM (t0OGg)

84
And National Periodic Table Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

Now that sounds like it will have an element of fun!
Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:03 AM (iayUP)

No, it's boron.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 07, 2023 08:08 AM (MoZTd)

85 75 Still think I'm a fool?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2023 08:06 AM (AW0uW)

Nope. And CBD and I, among others, are openly critical of police and military personnel whose main mission is to protect their pensions.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 07, 2023 08:08 AM (x0n13)

86 You don't need to be that flashy to deliver a bioweapon.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 08:08 AM (eYoxG)

87 Biden isn't the only guy who takes big bucks from the Chinese, the Ukrainians, and the Russkies.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

-

It's crazy how many representatives have visited Ukraine and China.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 08:08 AM (Oto6+)

88 Balloonforce?

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:09 AM (iayUP)

89 They won't have to gun us down. Enough will comply, and the recalcitrant ones can just be jailed in indefinite detainment without a word or act of protest by our alleged political leaders.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 08:09 AM (H8QX8)

90 The People's Liberation Army stands ready to ignite the skies over the capitalist running dogs of America with our new People's Red Scrotum Balloons! Surrender now before the might of our floating scrotes!

Posted by: Xi Jinping, Head Red Chinaman at February 07, 2023 08:09 AM (EIIsz)

91 Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley secretly promised to warn the head of the Chinese People's Liberation Army before the United States would carry out any "attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you."

For this he should be hanged by the neck until dead for treason.

This fucker is a detriment and a threat to national security. Bury him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

92
Speciousforce

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 08:09 AM (Oto6+)

93 @83

>>I am a bit curious about the methodology.

They'll never tell you and you'll never know because anytime they are challanged on their lies they simply default to, Sorry, love to tell you, but can't, sources and methods and all.... Buyeeee.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2023 08:10 AM (up/3i)

94 It's probably easier just to have some people come in thru the southern border carrying packages to be dropped off in the center of major cities.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:10 AM (iayUP)

95 You don't need to be that flashy to deliver a bioweapon.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 08:08 AM (eYoxG)
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Nope. Infecting travelers to your country and letting them travel home before the infection fully incubates works pretty well.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2023 08:10 AM (YIVH2)

96 Next to Bruce Springsteen, I find Pink Floyd to be one of the most overrated bands in the history of anything band.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

97 Sprint missile, or the modern equivalent, with a small nuke warhead. Incinerate the balloon and its EMP/bio payload in a nuclear fireball at 120000 feet. Pretty much harmless to anyone on the ground, and doubly so if the intercept happens over Caribou Butt, Alaska.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 07, 2023 08:06 AM (tkR6S)

Think we would do it ? I don't. Nothing the US has done, to this point, shows that we would do it.

Am I the only person that remembers two sitting US Presidents (Carter, Obama) making public statements that the United States could absorb a single city nuclear strike, in the interests of preserving world peace ? Am I the only one that remembers our response to two dozen muslims knocking down a couple skyscrapers being the lockdown of the American citizenry ? Ditto for a biological attack on the the globe.

For decades now, all branches of the the US government - military included - have demonstrated not only the will, but an eagerness, to sacrifice the collective wealth and freedom of the United States. I don't expect anything to change.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:11 AM (bHvPK)

98 You don't need to be that flashy to deliver a bioweapon.
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Just ask Joe's Depends.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 08:11 AM (Vwz3I)

99 For sure the 21st Century is NOT going to be the Chinese Century. Sadly, the fact that we have to rely on China collapsing before we do is cold comfort. And even if they collapse first, given the road we’re on, we’re not far behind.
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Hopefully just far enough. Collapse takes many forms, and can be survivable. Our government is making no effort whatsoever at staving it off or mediating its effects, but that *could* change. I am not hopeful, but the future isn't written yet. The 21st is not going to be an American century, either, but we might - with a bit of luck and yet-unseen competence - live through it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

100 The Junta owns McCarthy. If they can tell the President "No.", they own them all. McCarthy isn't in charge of squat, let alone the U.S. Capitol Police.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 07, 2023 08:12 AM (iKBwy)

101 Ha. Did you see where someone merged Xi and Biden's faces?

https://tinyurl.com/24a9sgdz

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 08:12 AM (Oto6+)

102 DeSantis, Inc. Underestimates Donald Trump

Living in a Right-Wing Fantasy Land
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I'm already sick of these. If there's a "DeSantis, Inc", isn't there a "Trump, Inc"? Are DeSantis fans claiming Trump's win didn't help him?

I will vote for either, and lose respect for anyone who claims either is unacceptable.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2023 08:12 AM (TgBWG)

103 Thx for the Report JJ.
The article "The Grass is Grayer" is a brilliant description of leftist government idiocy. I commented on this back in Nov - Dec , noting that our new ly elected county executive had been on NYS marijuana control board. Last Aug I had heard her on a local radio station WDST saying that the legalization would be done with equity, social justice and giving licenses to those who had been negatively impacted by the drug war . I knew right then that this rollout was going to be a cluster -f, leading to bankruptcy and chaos. It had happened in Cali and leftists never learn. NYC OTB went bankrupt, the only bookie ever to go belly up. Same thing is occuring here. And our new county executive is a dolt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 07, 2023 08:12 AM (StQQf)

104 And National Periodic Table Day.
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Doesn't that happen once a month??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 08:12 AM (Vwz3I)

105 was Alfredo Fettucine an opera singer ?
Posted by: JT at February 07, 2023 08:00 AM (T4tVD)
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"Legend has it that after the birth of his first child in 1908, Alfredo di Lelio cooked up a batch of fettuccine noodles, crumbly Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, and plenty of butter to tempt his wife Ines, as she was suffering from loss of appetite. The resulting dish was so delicious that di Lelio's family put it on the menu at Alfredo alla Scrofa, the restaurant they opened in Rome several years later."

Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

106 Balloonforce?
Posted by: fd

1st barroon commissioned? USS UNSERIOUS

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 08:13 AM (FOWWv)

107 The headline we'll never see:

What Did Milley Know, When Did He Know It and Who Did He Call?

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2023 08:13 AM (4h9M3)

108 The Ohio train derailment is still a disaster.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 07, 2023 08:14 AM (v+hV+)

109 For decades now, all branches of the the US government - military included - have demonstrated not only the will, but an eagerness, to sacrifice the collective wealth and freedom of the United States. I don't expect anything to change.
Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:11 AM (bHvPK)

Well, I wouldn't expect a government comprised of craven cowards, faggots, trannies, and traitors to do it, but it's technically feasible.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 07, 2023 08:15 AM (tkR6S)

110 Anecdotal anecdote: A person whom I know has a single mom daughter who has moved to Colorado from a surrounding state in order to collect welfare and get stoned, stay stoned, and continue this way so long as it lasts.

Posted by: Gibson Rickenbacker at February 07, 2023 08:15 AM (g8BSP)

111 Ownership of U.S. farmland by Chinese nationals has risen significantly in the last decade and amounted to 338,000 acres as of 2020, according to U.S. Agriculture Department data.

Half of all U.S. agricultural land owned by Chinese nationals is reportedly located in Texas, according to the WSJ.
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turns out Chinese investors want to live in Red states, I guess.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2023 08:15 AM (mZBka)

112 The Daily Mail has a story up saying they were monitoring the balloon with a U-2 spy plane. The story just gets stupider the deeper they dig the hole.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 07, 2023 08:16 AM (WNfWI)

113 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 07, 2023 08:16 AM (ju2Fy)

114 Will there be Bullshit bingo tonight during Brandon's speech like when Obama did his State of the Union speeches?

Posted by: Jaimo at February 07, 2023 08:16 AM (DBrN4)

115 @102

>>I will vote for either, and lose respect for anyone who claims either is unacceptable.

I'm still perplexed at what DeSantis pitch is going to be over Donald Trump?

DeSantis: I'm going to do everything this guy did except better, because I've got a keen Harvard/Yale MIC trained mind that I will use to bend Washington to my will.

DeSantis: You hear that Mitch? You hear that Schumer? I'll tell you what's what and how it's going to be.

Trump: ** Blinks **

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2023 08:16 AM (up/3i)

116 "Legend has it that after the birth of his first child in 1908, Alfredo di Lelio cooked up a batch of fettuccine noodles, crumbly Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, and plenty of butter to tempt his wife Ines, as she was suffering from loss of appetite. The resulting dish was so delicious that di Lelio's family put it on the menu at Alfredo alla Scrofa, the restaurant they opened in Rome several years later."
Posted by: redridinghood

Thank you.

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2023 08:17 AM (T4tVD)

117 PSA

There was a tiny, completely missable, entirely harmless sentence in the AI article on Pixy's thread this morning.

https://tinyurl.com/29xeyu2u

Everyone should see it because it is maybe the most important thing you'll read concerning the next ten years of "AI" and how "AI" will influence you, affect you, and rule over your lives. And it will. You're fooling yourself if you think it won't be used to justify decisions about your life.

Ready?

"Many AI tools are moderated by underpaid workers in the developing world. "

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 08:17 AM (Oto6+)

118 Well, I wouldn't expect a government comprised of craven cowards, faggots, trannies, and traitors to do it, but it's technically feasible.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 07, 2023 08:15 AM (tkR6S)

Its why we'd be better off with a DC populated by the first names picked at random out of the phone book. You can see the obvious solution, as can I, as can most here. It's not a matter of they can't - it's a matter of they won't.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:17 AM (bHvPK)

119 Can't wait for the SOTU address tonight. Gevalt.
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השם ירחם

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 08:17 AM (gugbE)

120 The Daily Mail has a story up saying they were monitoring the balloon with a U-2 spy plane.
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Gary Power Rangers!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 08:17 AM (Vwz3I)

121 Its why we'd be better off with a DC populated by the first names picked at random out of the phone book. ...
Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:17 AM (bHvPK)
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Do they make phone books anymore?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 08:18 AM (t0OGg)

122 Trump authorized a drone strike in Iraq that killed Qasem Soleimani

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My understanding is that he was an auster religious leader, practically a saint.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 07, 2023 08:19 AM (FVME7)

123 So the official word, over time, from various officials, current and former is:

• This happens frequently | This is the first time
• This is a weather balloon | This is not a weather baloon
• We knew about this | We didn't know about this
• Its a threat | Its not a threat
• We saw it right away | We never saw it until sighted by civies
• We could shoot it down | we can't shoot it down
• We can recover the payload | We can't recover the payload

And they wonder why we don't trust them.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 07, 2023 08:19 AM (l7lsb)

124 Anti-science activists are becoming increasingly brazen in their drive to gain and manipulate information, fueling the spread of baseless claims and endangering public health.

Anti-science def. To question a moral, religious, government, educational institution, or business about their rules or policies and the enforcement of same. See The Inquisition.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2023 08:19 AM (BRHaw)

125 Will there be Bullshit bingo tonight during Brandon's speech like when Obama did his State of the Union speeches?
Posted by: Jaimo

No drinking games allowed.

Risk of alcohol poisoning is too high.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 08:19 AM (FOWWv)

126 We're seeing, in real time, that the Pentagon no longer considers itself to be subordinate to civilian government - regardless of party. This is not good.
Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 07:47 AM (bHvPK)

Has anyone been jailed? Fired? Has their budget been cut? No? Then can we say that they're wrong?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2023 08:20 AM (uvymP)

127 The Daily Mail has a story up saying they were monitoring the balloon with a U-2 spy plane. The story just gets stupider the deeper they dig the hole.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 07, 2023 08:16 AM (WNfWI)

I don't believe the U-2 has ever been taken out of service, has it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 07, 2023 08:20 AM (tkR6S)

128 The U-2 is still flying. They support is out of the base near here.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:20 AM (iayUP)

129 The only reason i think that American troops won't be firing on citizens is that i do not believe that any group of citizens will ever get together and provide any actual "resistance". 90% of the public will always do whatever they're told.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 07, 2023 08:20 AM (l+VUX)

130 "I'm still perplexed at what DeSantis pitch is going to be over Donald Trump?"

There won't be one, not explicitly or directly. DeSantis is too smart to campaign against Trump. DeSantis will simultaneously embrace and ignore Trump and focus on a proactive message and strategy which will confound Trump to distraction.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 08:20 AM (H8QX8)

131 85 75 Still think I'm a fool?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2023 08:06 AM (AW0uW)

Nope. And CBD and I, among others, are openly critical of police and military personnel whose main mission is to protect their pensions.

***&&***

And the TELL in that is how policemen have allowed azzwipes to murder school children like fish in a bucket instead of doing their jobs and entering to stop the foe.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & SpokesHarlots at February 07, 2023 08:20 AM (5uy7A)

132 Anti-science activists are becoming increasingly brazen in their drive to gain and manipulate information, fueling the spread of baseless claims and endangering public health.

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Anti-science meaning people who believe in the scientific method.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 08:21 AM (Oto6+)

133 California Halts Plans to Force Children to Get the Chinese Coronavirus Vaccine to Attend Schools

They have thousands of illegal aliens kids with ZERO healthcare records of any accepted vaccines.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2023 08:21 AM (BRHaw)

134 President Joe Biden is expected to visit Poland towards the end of February to commemorate the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The trip has not been officially confirmed.

Daily Mail
https://tinyurl.com/27s8yhr8

Posted by: DB at February 07, 2023 08:21 AM (geLO8)

135 96 - Sponge… be it far from a nobody like me to disagree, but I was just listening to Dark Side of the Moon in the last week (after not having listened for a long while) and my thought was “it’s genius”…. I even like Springsteen occasionally (Born in the USA)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 07, 2023 08:21 AM (D2j2d)

136 Did I say hanged for treason? Milley deserves to be hung, drawn and quartered. And the gibbets and gallows should be constructed to accommodate a few thousand of his fellow travelers.

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Say what you will about Stalin, he knew how to handle his officer corps.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 07, 2023 08:21 AM (FVME7)

137 The Daily Mail has a story up saying they were monitoring the balloon with a U-2 spy plane. The story just gets stupider the deeper they dig the hole.

Would have been more effective if they actually had a plane with U2 on board following it around. The Chinese would have hit the self-destruct button just to shut Bono up.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:22 AM (bHvPK)

138 I'm still perplexed at what DeSantis pitch is going to be over Donald Trump?
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Start with actually attacking the left on its own ground, as with New College and the SATs. Trump talked a lot about fixing DC, but didn't really do much.

What no one ever says, but all should, is that Trump actually came through on the promises establishment Republicans have been making and breaking for ages. He gave us decent judges. (Maybe no Thomas, but no Souter, either.) He did deregulate and cut taxes; generally giving us strong economy.

All of which I applaud. But he didn't pardon the 1/6 victims, and Fauci got to retire, instead of getting tossed.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2023 08:22 AM (TgBWG)

139 Bono is going to be at the SOTU speech. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:23 AM (iayUP)

140 I get that Trump is a win at any cost guy, but the Trump / DeSantis feud is MEDIA CREATED. Trump should relax on trashing the guy all the time. DeSantis is pretty laid back when it comes to Trump. Trump should do the same.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

141 @130

>>DeSantis is too smart to campaign against Trump.

I get it, you don't like Trump, fair enough, but what do you think DeSanis is going to go to Washington to accomplish that Trump was unable to?

Also...

DeSantis to Florida: You're on your own, I got bigger aspirations than leading this state, I hear Gillum and Christ are tanned and rested, you'll be ok.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2023 08:23 AM (up/3i)

142 "The letter U, and the numeral 2. These guys are from England and who gives a shit?!!!" -- Casey Kasem

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 07, 2023 08:23 AM (iKBwy)

143 OT: 1st reactions out of last night's Ant Man premiere - the movie isn't very good (again), and Ant Man gets sidelined/overshadowed in his own movie by Michelle Pfeiffer.

So, if you were considering theatrical tickets, even with Disney on the label, wait for your free D+ viewing (if you have D+)...

Now, to see if I can convince my son on that point...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 07, 2023 08:23 AM (exHjb)

144 "Disney Cartoon Declares U.S. “Built on Slavery” Pushes ‘Reparations’ Propaganda"

One thing the Left knows is that they have to grift off the narrative that black people in this country are oppressed victims.

Even if black people were given reparations the Democrats will never let the narrative go.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

145 I even like Springsteen occasionally (Born in the USA)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 07, 2023 08:21 AM (D2j2d)

Dark Side of the Moon was meh to me. Born in the USA is communist clap trap. Listen to the lyrics. F*ck that guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

146 What's the over/under on Biden saying something about Kamala Harris in tonight's SOTU?

Posted by: dantesed at February 07, 2023 08:24 AM (88xKn)

147 Say what you will about Stalin, he knew how to handle his officer corps.
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And an airbrush.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 08:24 AM (Vwz3I)

148 Good news, everyone! Dick "Dick" Blumenthal is going to fix air travel!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 07, 2023 08:24 AM (FVME7)

149 California Halts Plans to Force Children to Get the Chinese Coronavirus Vaccine to Attend Schools

They have thousands of illegal aliens kids with ZERO healthcare records of any accepted vaccines.
Posted by: rhennigantx

They don't want to have to go into court and try to defend that.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 08:24 AM (FOWWv)

150 130 "I'm still perplexed at what DeSantis pitch is going to be over Donald Trump?"

There won't be one, not explicitly or directly. DeSantis is too smart to campaign against Trump. DeSantis will simultaneously embrace and ignore Trump and focus on a proactive message and strategy which will confound Trump to distraction.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 08:20 AM (H8QX

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True dat. DeSantis's biggest vulnerability, IMO, is that surrogates will say things that he's too smart to utter. The recent pledge that Koch money will go to any non-Trump Republican is like that; a pure gift to Trump.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2023 08:25 AM (TgBWG)

151 DeSantis to Florida: You're on your own, I got bigger aspirations than leading this state, I hear Gillum and Christ are tanned and rested, you'll be ok.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2023 08:23 AM (up/3i)

I am skeptical that the Repub party of FL would fall apart instantly if DeSantis isn't there...if so, then it's no better than GA's R party with Kemp...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 07, 2023 08:25 AM (exHjb)

152 Wish You Were Here is a very enjoyable album.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 07, 2023 08:25 AM (yQpMk)

153 The guests at the SOTU are Paul Pelosi, Bono, and the family of Tyre Nichols.

I'm not watching the bread and circuses, but I predict that when Nichols' family get a shout-out from Stinkfinger, every single one of the GOP attendees will join the Dems in an orgy of applause that will make a Stalin Politburo meeting look like a tea party.

Anyone care to bet against me?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2023 08:25 AM (AW0uW)

154 I don't remember if I saw it here or not, but if not:

Most Important First Amendment Case You’ve Never Heard Of: Biden Regime Tries to Toss a Young Man in Jail for 10 Years for Anti-Hillary Memes

https://tinyurl.com/24tkmm7q

Posted by: If we had signed, we would have opened our borders and killed our own manufacturers - Ukraine, 2013 at February 07, 2023 08:25 AM (o/smN)

155 Bono is going to be at the SOTU speech. Coincidence? I don't think so.
Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:23 AM (iayUP)

I've been out on Bono since his Irish ass attended the DNC and told me I needed to vote for Kerry for 'reasons.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

156 Say what you will about Stalin, he knew how to handle his officer corps.
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And an airbrush.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 08:24 AM (Vwz3I)

Not to mention Agricultural allocations.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:25 AM (bHvPK)

157 140 I get that Trump is a win at any cost guy, but the Trump / DeSantis feud is MEDIA CREATED. Trump should relax on trashing the guy all the time. DeSantis is pretty laid back when it comes to Trump. Trump should do the same.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

Aren't surrogates pretty active? At any rate it's free shots. Not like this window will come around again.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 08:26 AM (eYoxG)

158 Alfredo de Lelio was well familiar with the fettuccine, having grown up on a fettuccine farm in Italy, where he would go out each morning with his brothers and harvest the noodles from the rich Fettucine trees growing on the hillside.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 07, 2023 08:26 AM (l+VUX)

159 Mornin’, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 07, 2023 08:26 AM (+rTCi)

160 I get it, you don't like Trump, fair enough, but what do you think DeSanis is going to go to Washington to accomplish that Trump was unable to?
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Wrong. I love Trump. Don't confuse prediction with partiality.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 08:26 AM (H8QX8)

161 See, I always think of Michelle Pfeiffer in that red dress on the piano thing in that movie

Posted by: DB at February 07, 2023 08:27 AM (geLO8)

162 Macaroni is a New World fruit.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 07, 2023 08:27 AM (yQpMk)

163 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 07, 2023 08:27 AM (R4xvm)

164 BTW, one of the most evil parts of the 10 years in jail for a meme article?

The trial is in Eastern District New York. They said that the jury had to be vaccinated. Clever, eh?

Posted by: If we had signed, we would have opened our borders and killed our own manufacturers - Ukraine, 2013 at February 07, 2023 08:28 AM (o/smN)

165 I get it, you don't like Trump, fair enough, but what do you think DeSanis is going to go to Washington to accomplish that Trump was unable to?

Retain Steve Bannon, even though he looks awful in a suit and doesn't shave every day ?

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:28 AM (bHvPK)

166 "Disney Cartoon Declares U.S. “Built on Slavery” Pushes ‘Reparations’ Propaganda"

Reparations were paid via the deaths of 360,222 Union troops.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 08:28 AM (FOWWv)

167 See, I always think of Michelle Pfeiffer in that red dress on the piano thing in that movie
Posted by: DB at February 07, 2023 08:27 AM (geLO8

She was proof that you don't need big fake tits or inflated lips to be sexy as hell.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

168 138 - Eeyore: Trump didn’t have time to pardon the 1/6 victims. He was an ex-president 2 weeks later and hardly any (if any at all) had been charged at that time. He doesn’t have a time machine. As for Fauci…. Yes, he gave that guy too much attention. It wouldn’t have been politically viable to fire him, but he should’ve been shunted aside. Trump mistake there…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 07, 2023 08:29 AM (D2j2d)

169 The Ohio train derailment is still a disaster.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 07, 2023 08:14 AM (v+hV+)

New York Mining Disaster 1941 > The Ohio Train Derailment Disaster 2023

Posted by: The Bee Gees, 2 down, 1 To Go at February 07, 2023 08:29 AM (EIIsz)

170
Reparations were paid via the deaths of 360,222 Union troops.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 08:28 AM (FOWWv)

Living in the only truly free country on Earth was your reparations. Now, go live your life and be thankful.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

171 > The U-2 is still flying. They support is out of the base near here.
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Is it the NASA ER-2? NASA uses it to conduct high altitude weather research. It's flying out of Pope AB in Georgia right now. The other, black U-2's are out at Beale AFB in CA.

As of 2015 there were about 35 of them still in operation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 07, 2023 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

172 DeSantis is the Never Trumper dream.

Posted by: pawn at February 07, 2023 08:30 AM (wsHtO)

173 I've been out on Bono since his Irish ass attended the DNC and told me I needed to vote for Kerry for 'reasons.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

People like that are worse than villains. They're stooges who amplify and support the ravings of the villains, thinking they're doing the world a favor.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 08:30 AM (9UlRk)

174 Reparations were paid via the deaths of 360,222 Union troops.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 08:28 AM (FOWWv)

Living in the only truly free country on Earth was your reparations. Now, go live your life and be thankful.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

Seriously, what was their alternative ? Remain in Africa, the prisoner of whatever tribe captured and sold them ?

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:30 AM (bHvPK)

175 110 Anecdotal anecdote: A person whom I know has a single mom daughter who has moved to Colorado from a surrounding state in order to collect welfare and get stoned, stay stoned, and continue this way so long as it lasts.

Posted by: Gibson Rickenbacker at February 07, 2023 08:15 AM (g8BSP)

***&&***

For we Rocky Mountain Westerners, the ongoing crumbling and ruination of Colorado is an ever enlarging enigma. And it's proof again that Liberalism taints and wrecks everything/everyone it touches. The state is full of bums and losers (think Portland). . . . you are really taking your life in your own hands when you get behind the wheel due to the blue wave of stoners and miscreants on the road. . . . and there's a new criminal pulse in the Denver-ColoSprings corridor. . . .and the general malaise and lower-2%-scum-element-of-society vibe (as described in your mention of this wasted woman) that's put the zap on the heads of the state's urban residents is stunning. I thinking it started with the "Caribou Ranch studio mystique."

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & SpokesHarlots at February 07, 2023 08:31 AM (5uy7A)

176
Aren't surrogates pretty active? At any rate it's free shots. Not like this window will come around again.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 08:26 AM (eYoxG)

DeSantis isn't polling well across the country. It's punching WAY down for Trump. I'd rather see him destroy DEMOCRATS and take care of the RINO's and the party AFTER he's re-elected.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

177 Senate Majority Leader Schemer: "Gas Stoves Contribute to Climate Change"

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I see NH broke American all time low temperature record with a -108F so banning gas stoves is clearly a must!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 07, 2023 08:31 AM (FVME7)

178 145 - you’re right, Sponge. I didn’t figure out the lyrics to Born in the USA until years later, but it brings me College nostalgia… I think Reagan used it in his 1984 reelection campaign

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 07, 2023 08:31 AM (D2j2d)

179 What would DeSantis do different? I'll guarantee that he won't spend the first two years completely neutraluzed by the absolute idiot he appointed as attorney general.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 07, 2023 08:31 AM (l+VUX)

180 The only reason i think that American troops won't be firing on citizens is that i do not believe that any group of citizens will ever get together and provide any actual "resistance". 90% of the public will always do whatever they're told.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 07, 2023 08:20 AM (l+VUX)

I'll agree with you on that, Tom. It's why I also predict that when the next "health emergency" fake crisis is vomited out, just about every person, business and church who swear they'll never mask up, shut down and socially distance will do it all over again without a peep of protest.

My cynicism curdled into fatalism so long ago, I don't even know the difference anymore.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2023 08:32 AM (AW0uW)

181 Reparations were paid via the deaths of 360,222 Union troops.

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Not to mention the $30T+ in actual money to intentionally keep the black population getting *just* enough to not starve or freeze to death and to keep generation after generation from bettering themselves.

"We'll have them n*****s voting Democrat for 200 years!"
- President Lyndon B. Johnson

Posted by: If we had signed, we would have opened our borders and killed our own manufacturers - Ukraine, 2013 at February 07, 2023 08:32 AM (o/smN)

182 Saw a headline that "only" 17,000 out of a million (or some biggish number) of new Florida residents have registered Democrat.

So, "only" 17,000 potential new poll workers, ballot harvesters, and blatant cheaters for our inner-est cities and most "vibrant" communities. We'll be fine, I'm sure, if Desantis leaves.

(Narrator: They wouldn't be fine, they lost Florida's governorship, and Desantis' presidential election was also stolen.)

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 07, 2023 08:33 AM (iKBwy)

183
People like that are worse than villains. They're stooges who amplify and support the ravings of the villains, thinking they're doing the world a favor.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 08:30 AM (9UlRk)

A man, part of a band worth a billion dollars, who moved his recording studios out of Ireland, his home country, because the TAXES were too high, told me I needed to vote for John F'ing Kerry, who would raise my taxes exponentially.

F*ck Bono. AND his entire band.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

184 Springsteen is a leftist tool, but I try to separate politics from a song or album which I like. IMHO Darkness on the Edge of Town was his best album. Seen him twice in concert ,he does put on a great show

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 07, 2023 08:33 AM (StQQf)

185 I'll guarantee that he won't spend the first two years completely neutraluzed by the absolute idiot he appointed as attorney general.

Man, I haven't been neutraluzed since college. Makes my head hurt just thinking about it.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:34 AM (bHvPK)

186 The Trump v DeSantis fight has yet to really begin. Trump is going to ramp it up (this is not personal and not some attack on Trump himself - DeSantis is the biggest "threat" to Trump's run for the nomination in 2024.) At some point, there will be a point where DeSantis can't just ignore it.

DeSantis has not announced. He may not announce. The warning shots now are intended to keep him from doing so.

Posted by: blaster at February 07, 2023 08:34 AM (pwExq)

187 >For we Rocky Mountain Westerners, the ongoing crumbling and ruination of Colorado is an ever enlarging enigma.

I moved here 23 years ago, and have watched the collapse in real time. It's very depressing.

Posted by: DB at February 07, 2023 08:34 AM (geLO8)

188 "Reparations" have nothing to do with slavery. It's a demand that white people pay for the privilege of being white, and therefore fundamentally amd unfairly better than everyone else.

It's pretty much the most blatantly White Supremacist political position going in the development world right now, and as such deserves nothing but scorn and contempt.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 08:34 AM (9UlRk)

189 >>There won't be one, not explicitly or directly. DeSantis is too smart to campaign against Trump. DeSantis will simultaneously embrace and ignore Trump and focus on a proactive message and strategy which will confound Trump to distraction.

Don't forget the small army of paid media "influencers" who are already busy swarming the internet with stories about why Trump can't win and just look at how shiny and wonderful DeSantis is.

John Cardillo is a perfect example. A year ago he hated DeSantis and let everyone know on Twitter on a daily basis. Now magically he has pulled a 180 and DeSantis can do no wrong.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 07, 2023 08:34 AM (ZLI7S)

190 I am skeptical that the Repub party of FL would fall apart instantly if DeSantis isn't there...if so, then it's no better than GA's R party with Kemp...

And who is DeSantis' protege?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 07, 2023 08:34 AM (l7lsb)

191 Gevalt indeed, JJ ... indeed.

I will look to you and the Horde to relate the substance of his remarks tomorrow.

and MP4, I certainly never said anything like that.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at February 07, 2023 08:35 AM (XzIdt)

192 House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said they will refuse to meet with the Chamber of Commerce after it previously endorsed Democrats running for office.

https://tinyurl.com/5xke2hee

Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

193 Retain Steve Bannon, even though he looks awful in a suit and doesn't shave every day ?
Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:28 AM (bHvPK)

Why did he dump Bannon to begin with? Probably because insider advisors told him to. This was a Trump problem from the beginning, i.e., picking and retaining good people committed to him and to the cause. I don't believe DeSantis suffers this shortcoming.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 08:35 AM (H8QX8)

194 > Eeyore: Trump didn’t have time to pardon the 1/6 victims.

Nope, not buying it. There's no requirement for someone having been charged in order to pardon them. You don't have to even know their names.

Precedent: in 1868, Andrew Johnson issued a blanket pardon for all former Confederate soldiers, without listing them by name. This was on top of previous pardons by Johnson (and, earlier, Lincoln) that had pardoned specific individuals.

https://tinyurl.com/y3u94vnz

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 08:36 AM (bW8dp)

195 And the TELL in that is how policemen have allowed azzwipes to murder school children like fish in a bucket instead of doing their jobs and entering to stop the foe.
Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & SpokesHarlots at February 07, 2023 08:20 AM (5uy7A)
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On that I think I disagree. That is just old-fashioned institutional and personal cowardice. It is far easier to stand around and do nothing than to do something.

For me, the tell was during COVID. That was the opposite. They could have chosen to stand around and do nothing, to decline to enforce the awful diktats being handed down by tyrants. No arrests, no enforcement of COVID control measures, etc. They didn't. They waded right in and did it. Many did it with glee. This was the "tell" in my eyes. They were willing to increase their level of personal danger - however modestly - when it came to cracking down on the people in the name of the rulers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 08:36 AM (t0OGg)

196 This is a weather balloon | This is not a weather baloon

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It was a whether balloon.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 07, 2023 08:36 AM (FVME7)

197 "Note that the propagandists and their handlers in the junta have tried to blame Trump,..."

Don't forget that at the same time he totally knew about them, he was also not told about them by the Pentagon- which is so cool or something.

This is something I have noticed for as long as I have politically cognizant: the Left fetishizes direct short circuiting of the Republic/Democratic process. Edith(?) Wilson's shadow presidency is one such example.
-So Wilson had a stroke.
Me: Ok, so why didn't his VP take over?
-No, it is so cool. So he is a vegetable right?
Me: So he was incapacitated. Why didn't his VP take over?
-No man, you are missing the point! So his wife made all the decisions of his presidency for the remainder of his term!
Me: Wait, she wasn't elected! The people did not vote for her! She is not answerable in the government because she had no place within it! This is a crime!
-I know man- Isn't it great!

And this is repeated over and over again. They love 'our democracy' all right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 08:36 AM (CsVWE)

198 @179

>>What would DeSantis do different? I'll guarantee that he won't spend the first two years completely neutraluzed by the absolute idiot he appointed as attorney general.

I wouldn't be so sure of that, he's got to get an AG past China Mitch and his puppet master Chuck Schumer.

And the revisionist history at play here is astounding, literally no one questioned Jeff Sessions as AG pick at the time.

Trump was forced to retain Sessions by Mitch because he told Trump that they would not allow a vote on anyone else if he fired Sessions.

Again, I get it that people don't like Trump and think that DeSantis is a Cool Conservative Cat, that's going to go to Washington, AND GET SHIT DONE SON!!, but that's simply not going happen.

Certainly not the way they think it is.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2023 08:36 AM (up/3i)

199 Elon Musk slams CISA censorship network as 'propaganda platform'
This DHS-backed censorship network used 120 analysts to censor millions of social media posts on elections and covid-19.
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Details on the Deep State's GEC:

https://tinyurl.com/sas6ruwp

(Substack)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 08:37 AM (gugbE)

200 You don't need to be that flashy to deliver a bioweapon.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 08:08 AM (eYoxG)

You don't even need a bioweapon. Just wait a month or so before "cold and flu season" and release video of people collapsing in the street from an "uber deadly virus" and wait for the sheeple to surrender to their domestic totalitarians whom you've previously co-opted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2023 08:37 AM (uvymP)

201 196 This is a weather balloon | This is not a weather baloon

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It was a whether balloon.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 07, 2023 08:36 AM (FVME7)

Schrodinger's Balloon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 08:37 AM (CsVWE)

202 194 > Eeyore: Trump didn’t have time to pardon the 1/6 victims.

Nope, not buying it. There's no requirement for someone having been charged in order to pardon them. You don't have to even know their names.

Precedent: in 1868, Andrew Johnson issued a blanket pardon for all former Confederate soldiers, without listing them by name. This was on top of previous pardons by Johnson (and, earlier, Lincoln) that had pardoned specific individuals.

https://tinyurl.com/y3u94vnz

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 08:36 AM (bW8dp)

The crime in question though is identifying. This pardon doesn't extend to all residents of the CSA.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 08:37 AM (eYoxG)

203 172 DeSantis is the Never Trumper dream.
Posted by: pawn at February 07, 2023 08:30 AM (wsHtO)

Why? What about his record in Florida suggests he will fulfill Never-Trumpers' dreams?

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 08:37 AM (H8QX8)

204 > It's a demand that white people pay for the privilege of being white

Indeed. Virtually all American "blacks" have a significant portion of white blood in them, but no one is asking them to pay reparations.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 08:37 AM (bW8dp)

205 "but I try to separate politics from a song or album which I like."

Me too, but sometimes it's like eating the best steak in the world, but it smells like shit.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:38 AM (iayUP)

206 > This pardon doesn't extend to all residents of the CSA.

I'm not sure what you're going for here. It didn't have to extend to all residents, just those who actually took up arms against the United States.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 08:38 AM (bW8dp)

207 Carter pardoned all the Vietnam draft dodgers.

Ford pardoned Nixon.

Posted by: blaster at February 07, 2023 08:38 AM (pwExq)

208 183 Yes. .. . .jam it right up there ass. . . . with a red hot poker. . . .all the way

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & SpokesHarlots at February 07, 2023 08:39 AM (5uy7A)

209 And the revisionist history at play here is astounding, literally no one questioned Jeff Sessions as AG pick at the time.

*raises hand*

You don't "drain the swamp" by surrounding yourself with people who live in the swamp. Ray Charles could see what happened next coming a mile away.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:39 AM (bHvPK)

210 The contrast between 9/11 and 1/6 is interesting, and not just because one was a real attack and the other was a farce.

But after 1/6, "both" Parties have remained united in their resolve for years - not a month or two. And all of official DC is willing to categorically condemn all involved as living demons, monsters who must be put down in the name of the Flag, Mom, and Apple Pie. There is no loose talk asking why MAGA is mad at America, or about it being a Movement of Peace, hijacked by extremists.

There can no longer be any doubt about the thing many of us suspected all along: our ruling class hates us in a way they never could muster up for our foreign enemies.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 07, 2023 08:39 AM (oINRc)

211 The fact that van Herck and Milley are still drawing paychecks (and in the latter case, still drawing breath) says all that needs saying about the state of civilian control of the military, and indeed of civilian or military character.

Posted by: Rowsdower Believes Ray Epps is a Fed and Ashli Bennett is Crispus Attucks at February 07, 2023 08:39 AM (gDNV7)

212 Bono is a citizen now? He can fuck right off.

Posted by: Awkward davies at February 07, 2023 08:39 AM (nnAZk)

213 So, I have a Mississippi Pot Roast going in the crock pot. First time I have used this crock pot, so I hope it works. I guess I will see in about 8 hours.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 08:39 AM (CsVWE)

214 Sounds like Quincy M.E. missed something at the first autopsy...

@Breaking911 · 11h
Woman Pronounced Dead At NY Nursing Home Is Found Breathing At Funeral Home Hours Later
New York Funeral Home Finds Woman Breathing Hours After She Was Declared Dead — Just Days After A Similar Incident In Iowa
MILLER PLACE, N.Y. – An 82-year-old woman was wrongly declared dead at the Water’s Edge Rehab and Nursing Center in Port Jefferson, New York, on Saturday. Three hours later, she was found to be breathing at the O.B. Davis Funeral Home in Miller Place, according to authorities.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 08:40 AM (Vwz3I)

215 The problem I have with Springsteen is when he sings. Can't understand a word he's saying.

Posted by: dantesed at February 07, 2023 08:40 AM (88xKn)

216 I don't see some massive wave of support among the never-Trumpers for DeSantis. Sure, there are some, but it is not unanimous. There is still a lot of "DeSantis is worse than Trump!" out there in the world.

Posted by: blaster at February 07, 2023 08:40 AM (pwExq)

217 Schrodinger's Balloon.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 08:37 AM (CsVWE)
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Cat Ballou(n)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 08:40 AM (gugbE)

218 190 I am skeptical that the Repub party of FL would fall apart instantly if DeSantis isn't there...if so, then it's no better than GA's R party with Kemp...

And who is DeSantis' protege?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 07, 2023 08:34 AM (l7lsb)

I'd hope in FL, Floridians would know. I mean, in VA, Youngkin has already set up Sears and Miyares as proteges..you can't tell me FL doesn't have any ready since it's WAY more red...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 07, 2023 08:40 AM (exHjb)

219

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 07, 2023 08:41 AM (vwCZJ)

220 Senate Majority Leader Schemer: "Gas Stoves Contribute to Climate Change"

And this all started when some fraudulent study claimed that 17% of asthmatic children could maybe be harmed by fumes from a gas stove.

Now it has transmogrified into climate change vectors. I also note that the Climate Hoaxers always view Climate Change™ as always bad, never good, and there is absolutely no way that man can adapt to a 1C change in temperature over three generations.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 07, 2023 08:41 AM (l7lsb)

221 194 - Rodrigo: So Trump was supposed to anticipate 1/6 prosecutions and issue blanket pardons for what seemed at the time like a minor disturbance? Did you anticipate indefinite detentions and solitary confinement and countrywide sweeps for granny taking selfies? No one did yet Trump is supposed to use his Time Machine and anticipate all that truly unprecedented crap? The civil war was entirely different and not a fair comparison…. Everyone at that time knew of the loud public calls for punishment of confederate soldiers

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 07, 2023 08:41 AM (D2j2d)

222 > Springsteen is a leftist tool, but I try to separate politics from a song or album which I like.

It would be nice to get back to the era when no one gave a shit about the political opinions of singers, or actors, or athletes.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 08:41 AM (bW8dp)

223 Half of all U.S. agricultural land owned by Chinese nationals is reportedly located in Texas, according to the WSJ.
=====================
turns out Chinese investors want to live in Red states, I guess.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2023 08:15 AM (mZBka)

There are no "L"s in Yippi Kai Yay.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 07, 2023 08:41 AM (4I/2K)

224 @Breaking911 · 11h
Woman Pronounced Dead At NY Nursing Home Is Found Breathing At Funeral Home Hours Later
New York Funeral Home Finds Woman Breathing Hours After She Was Declared Dead — Just Days After A Similar Incident In Iowa
MILLER PLACE, N.Y. – An 82-year-old woman was wrongly declared dead at the Water’s Edge Rehab and Nursing Center in Port Jefferson, New York, on Saturday. Three hours later, she was found to be breathing at the O.B. Davis Funeral Home in Miller Place, according to authorities.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 08:40 AM (Vwz3I)

So, what you're telling me is, the medical community isn't taking it's job seriously and doesn't care about actual medicine practice?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

225 Eeyore: Trump didn’t have time to pardon the 1/6 victims.
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Everything - EVERYTHING - that day was an op, up to and including the Babbitt shoot.

There is no reason to believe that the plan wasn't to have an antifa member charged and pardoned so he could go and murder someone important. Then it would be Trump's fault etc. etc.

FWIW, someone just posted a couple of days ago that the masked insurrectionist that had breached the capital and was right beside Babbitt in the small hallway was given a couple of years probation. It was dangerous enough that someone needed to be shot but he wasn't a threat.

https://tinyurl.com/253b97eh

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 08:42 AM (Oto6+)

226 The problem I have with Springsteen is when he sings. Can't understand a word he's saying.
Posted by: dantesed at February 07, 2023 08:40 AM (88xKn)
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https://youtu.be/XqyegIAGlmk

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 08:42 AM (gugbE)

227 195 On that I think I disagree. That is just old-fashioned institutional and personal cowardice. It is far easier to stand around and do nothing than to do something.

For me, the tell was during COVID. That was the opposite. They could have chosen to stand around and do nothing, to decline to enforce the awful diktats being handed down by tyrants. No arrests, no enforcement of COVID control measures, etc. They didn't. They waded right in and did it. Many did it with glee. This was the "tell" in my eyes. They were willing to increase their level of personal danger - however modestly - when it came to cracking down on the people in the name of the rulers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 08:36 AM (t0OGg)

***&&***

And you, sir, just raised the level of the game. And sadly, you are right.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & SpokesHarlots at February 07, 2023 08:42 AM (5uy7A)

228
It would be nice to get back to the era when no one gave a shit about the political opinions of singers, or actors, or athletes.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 08:41 AM (bW8dp)

And we would gladly do that if they would stop injecting their politics in everything they do.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

229 Elon Musk slams CISA censorship network as 'propaganda platform'
This DHS-backed censorship network used 120 analysts to censor millions of social media posts on elections and covid-19. ...
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 08:37 AM (gugbE)
++++
CISA invented the "MDM" scheme (Mis/Dis/Malinformation) and outsourced the work to aligned NGOs until DHS could take it over officially. The DHS piece has been "suspended" following backlash (if you believe that, pull the other one) but the definitions and scope were set by CISA.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 08:42 AM (t0OGg)

230 > So Trump was supposed to anticipate 1/6 prosecutions and issue blanket pardons for what seemed at the time like a minor disturbance?

If he didn't foresee that the Democrats would use this as an excuse for show trials, that's on him, especially after the two ginned-up "impeachments".

Don't get me wrong, I still like Trump, and will vote for him if he runs again. Nevertheless, he dropped the ball on this one. Big time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 08:42 AM (bW8dp)

231 I don't see some massive wave of support among the never-Trumpers for DeSantis.

I would much prefer Desantis, but can see that nationally he has no shot. I don't know that he can even pull a majority of Republicans in the northeast or west coast. He needs to stay in Florida, in a state that has demonstrated an appetite for a fight.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:43 AM (bHvPK)

232 The problem I have with Springsteen is when he sings. Can't understand a word he's saying.
Posted by: dantesed at February 07, 2023 08:40 AM (88xKn)

***

Yeah it's weird.

Posted by: Bob Dylan at February 07, 2023 08:43 AM (flINI)

233 Woman Pronounced Dead At NY Nursing Home Is Found Breathing At Funeral Home Hours Later

Dammit! Almost got another!

Posted by: Andrew Cuomo at February 07, 2023 08:43 AM (FJYfm)

234 > There can no longer be any doubt about the thing many of us suspected all along: our ruling class hates us in a way they never could muster up for our foreign enemies.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
_____________
They're also afraid of us. There was palpable fear inside the Capital on 1/6. Many politicos honestly thought they were going to be killed that day.

Now... why would they think that? (Rhetorical)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 07, 2023 08:44 AM (Q4IgG)

235 And the revisionist history at play here is astounding, literally no one questioned Jeff Sessions as AG pick at the time.

Trump was forced to retain Sessions by Mitch because he told Trump that they would not allow a vote on anyone else if he fired Sessions.

Again, I get it that people don't like Trump and think that DeSantis is a Cool Conservative Cat, that's going to go to Washington, AND GET SHIT DONE SON!!, but that's simply not going happen.

Certainly not the way they think it is.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2023 08:36 AM (up/3i)

I seem to recall (and this is hazy because it feels like a lifetime ago) that some people raised concerns, but at the same time, the belief that everyone was compromised had not taken hold yet. People raised concerns about Mitch, Miss Lindsey, and maybe Ryan, but most seemed optimistic as Trump got to work cutting regulations and actually trying to do the things he was elected for. I think neither He nor Us knew how deep the rot ran/runs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 08:44 AM (CsVWE)

236 Start with actually attacking the left on its own ground, as with New College and the SATs. Trump talked a lot about fixing DC, but didn't really do much.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2023 08:22 AM (TgBWG)

I'll happily vote for DeSantis if he is the nominee but the idea that he's going to accomplish so much more than Trump did is, I suspect, naive.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 07, 2023 08:44 AM (uvymP)

237 FWIW, someone just posted a couple of days ago that the masked insurrectionist that had breached the capital and was right beside Babbitt in the small hallway was given a couple of years probation. It was dangerous enough that someone needed to be shot but he wasn't a threat.

https://tinyurl.com/253b97eh
Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 08:42 AM (Oto6+)

I now do not think she was even shot and the whole thing was an op. She's now in 'witness protection' and her identity was changed. Funny how she was cremated IMMEDIATLY after she was 'pronounced dead.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

238 > Cat Ballou(n)

She's mean, and evil through and through...

The songwriter was prescient. That was years before Hanoi Jane gave aid and comfort to our enemies.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 08:44 AM (bW8dp)

239 And this all started when some fraudulent study claimed that 17% of asthmatic children could maybe be harmed by fumes from a gas stove.

Now it has transmogrified into climate change vectors. I also note that the Climate Hoaxers always view Climate Change™ as always bad, never good, and there is absolutely no way that man can adapt to a 1C change in temperature over three generations.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 07, 2023 08:41 AM (l7lsb)

Is that the same 17% that get asthma from second hand smoke? Or pet dander? Or roaches and filth? Or diesel?

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2023 08:44 AM (BRHaw)

240 >>Nope, not buying it. There's no requirement for someone having been charged in order to pardon them. You don't have to even know their names.

Should Trump have pardoned himself? Because despite them not being successful Trump was the ultimate target of the Jan 6th illegitimate committee mob and had he pardoned anyone there is little doubt they would have used that as more evidence of his guilt in a criminal conspiracy.

A lot easier in hindsight to see what might have been done or how over the top the response has been against the Jan 6th protestors but I don't think anyone thought they would be this vindictive or egregious in their response to a bunch of grannies and grandpas who basically trespassed. Trump had only a few days in mid January to make that call and that was before the shit really hit the fan.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 07, 2023 08:45 AM (ZLI7S)

241 -

https://youtu.be/XqyegIAGlmk
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 08:42 AM (gugbE)

Greatness.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

242 On that I think I disagree. That is just old-fashioned institutional and personal cowardice. It is far easier to stand around and do nothing than to do something.

For me, the tell was during COVID. That was the opposite. They could have chosen to stand around and do nothing, to decline to enforce the awful diktats being handed down by tyrants. No arrests, no enforcement of COVID control measures, etc. They didn't. They waded right in and did it. Many did it with glee. This was the "tell" in my eyes. They were willing to increase their level of personal danger - however modestly - when it came to cracking down on the people in the name of the rulers.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 08:36 AM (t0OGg)

There was resistance in some localities, including in blue states. Sheriffs in LA, Orange, and Riverside counties for instance. I think in Michigan as well. What you really get is a patchwork of enforcement depending on various conditions.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 08:45 AM (eYoxG)

243 > Now... why would they think that? (Rhetorical)

"The wicked flee when no man pursueth"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 08:45 AM (bW8dp)

244 You don't "drain the swamp" by surrounding yourself with people who live in the swamp. Ray Charles could see what happened next coming a mile away.

But when you have back-stabbers in your party that will refuse to allow the nomination of someone not from The Party, and that same knucklehead prevents the Senate from ever being out of session to stymie recess appointments then you get the garbage that was Trump's cabinet.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 07, 2023 08:45 AM (l7lsb)

245 Surfing Icon Says She’ll Boycott Professional Tour Over Transgender Competitors

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I see that a shark killed a 16 year old girl swimming in an Australian river.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 07, 2023 08:45 AM (FVME7)

246 "Reparations" have nothing to do with slavery. It's a demand that white people pay for the privilege of being white, and therefore fundamentally amd unfairly better than everyone else.

Think back on Dan Cathy's whine that whites should "shine blacks' shoes." In a sane world, that racist vomitus should have run him out of the company and turned Chik-Fil-A outlets into tumbleweed-infested deserts.

But no, "good Christian folk" still prop up that bastard's overrated chicken because it's a "good Christian company."

Things like that are why I say we here - and conservatives in general - are not the majority and never will be.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2023 08:46 AM (AW0uW)

247 The problem I have with Springsteen is when he sings. Can't understand a word he's saying.
Posted by: dantesed at February 07, 2023 08:40 AM (88xKn)

Because that's not singing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

248 I seem to recall (and this is hazy because it feels like a lifetime ago) that some people raised concerns, but at the same time, the belief that everyone was compromised had not taken hold yet. People raised concerns about Mitch, Miss Lindsey, and maybe Ryan, but most seemed optimistic as Trump got to work cutting regulations and actually trying to do the things he was elected for. I think neither He nor Us knew how deep the rot ran/runs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 08:44 AM (CsVWE)

Who would've thought they wouldn't get a simple Obamacare repeal to his desk?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 08:46 AM (eYoxG)

249 Without Ashli Babbitt,

I caught that. It was cited as the least amount of punishment given to any of the arrested. I figure the guy was an operative but they needed to keep him quiet.

Posted by: pawn at February 07, 2023 08:46 AM (wsHtO)

250 Cat Ballou(n)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 08:40 AM (gugbE)

A perfect example of a movie you sort of enjoyed getting tainted by a single actress. Nat King Cole and the other guy (Stubby Kaye- nee Bernard Katzin, had to look him up), Lee Marvin.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 08:47 AM (CsVWE)

251 And this all started when some fraudulent study claimed that 17% of asthmatic children could maybe be harmed by fumes from a gas stove.

Now it has transmogrified into climate change vectors. I also note that the Climate Hoaxers always view Climate Change™ as always bad, never good, and there is absolutely no way that man can adapt to a 1C change in temperature over three generations.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at February 07, 2023 08:41 AM (l7lsb)
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It started as a climate change argument. It was in the name of climate change - not health - that NYC and San Francisco and other places banned natural gas in all new construction. The pivot was to reframe the argument as a public health issue due to the findings in an absurd paper that was likely deliberately engineered to achieve the desired outcome. That pivot failed because too many people called the obvious bullshit.

So now they're *back* to doing this "for the climate." That has been test-run in various blue hives already and the messaging already exists. I don't know why they tried the "health" angle instead, but they tried it and it failed so it's back to the well.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 08:47 AM (t0OGg)

252 @222 yup , but the problem is that actors, singers,athletes and celebrities as a rule aren't that bright. They vare very good at entertaining, but they don't realize that what they are pushing politically would stop them from doing what they do. I don't recall who it was (Greek or Roman) but they said never follow entertainers in politics or how to lead your life, their job is to make you believe in unbelievable things. Spot on

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 07, 2023 08:47 AM (StQQf)

253 Woman Pronounced Dead At NY Nursing Home Is Found Breathing At Funeral Home Hours Later
Posted by: Andrew Cuomo at February 07, 2023 08:43 AM (FJYfm)
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I'm happy! I'm happy!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 08:48 AM (gugbE)

254 Don't get me wrong, I still like Trump, and will vote for him if he runs again. Nevertheless, he dropped the ball on this one. Big time.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 08:42 AM (bW8dp)

I feel the same. I will full-throatedly support him if he wins the nomination. But we had four years to observe his executive style, and it is true and fair to say that he missed many of the Left's stratagems and allowed himself to get played in important ways.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 08:48 AM (H8QX8)

255 A lot easier in hindsight to see what might have been done or how over the top the response has been against the Jan 6th protestors but I don't think anyone thought they would be this vindictive or egregious in their response to a bunch of grannies and grandpas who basically trespassed. Trump had only a few days in mid January to make that call and that was before the shit really hit the fan.

There is a circular logic that Trump defenders always use. On one hand, Trump was a God Emperor playing Nth dimensional chess. Except for all the times he didn't. Then its simply Monday morning quarterbacking to note all the things he got wrong.

So, which is it ? Was he no smarter than the rest of us, or what ?

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:48 AM (bHvPK)

256 242 On that I think I disagree. That is just old-fashioned institutional and personal cowardice. It is far easier to stand around and do nothing than to do something.

For me, the tell was during COVID. That was the opposite. They could have chosen to stand around and do nothing, to decline to enforce the awful diktats being handed down by tyrants. No arrests, no enforcement of COVID control measures, etc. They didn't. They waded right in and did it. Many did it with glee. This was the "tell" in my eyes. They were willing to increase their level of personal danger - however modestly - when it came to cracking down on the people in the name of the rulers.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 08:36 AM (t0OGg)

There was resistance in some localities, including in blue states. Sheriffs in LA, Orange, and Riverside counties for instance. I think in Michigan as well. What you really get is a patchwork of enforcement depending on various conditions.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 08:45 AM (eYoxG)

They had the fire dept here checking on bars. Really? The Harris Cty sheriff refused to do the checks.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2023 08:48 AM (BRHaw)

257 194 - Rodrigo: So Trump was supposed to anticipate 1/6 prosecutions and issue blanket pardons for what seemed at the time like a minor disturbance?

Speaking of revisionist history...To me it seemed like a minor disturbance, but to the nightly news and the Democrats, it was a 24/7 screamfest. Everyone knew within a couple of days that the Dems were going to ride this ride as far as it would go.

Posted by: Wally at February 07, 2023 08:48 AM (FJYfm)

258 If Trump had pardoned the J6 protestors, the Dems would have just said "nuh uh" and then proceeded in the same way. Who would have stopped them?

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:49 AM (iayUP)

259 > . I don't recall who it was (Greek or Roman) but they said never follow entertainers in politics or how to lead your life

I'm thinking of the class system in feudal Japan

1: Samurai
2: Peasants
3: Merchants
...
(Roughly 5000 or so): Actors, people who empty feces buckets and haul off dead animals, etc.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 08:50 AM (bW8dp)

260 There was resistance in some localities, including in blue states. Sheriffs in LA, Orange, and Riverside counties for instance. I think in Michigan as well. What you really get is a patchwork of enforcement depending on various conditions.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 08:45 AM (eYoxG)
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All are minority cases and definitely not the norm. The norm was total and enthusiastic enforcement. Those that refused were replaced by or bypassed with those who obeyed. Yes, those who refused did the right thing. No question. There were damned few of them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 08:50 AM (t0OGg)

261 People still watch the Simpsons??

@TheInsiderPaper · 2h
Disney+ in Hong Kong drops ‘Simpsons’ episode with ‘forced labour’ mention

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 08:50 AM (Vwz3I)

262 So, I have a Mississippi Pot Roast going in the crock pot. First time I have used this crock pot, so I hope it works. I guess I will see in about 8 hours.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Coon? Possum? Squirrel?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 08:51 AM (FOWWv)

263 257 194 - Rodrigo: So Trump was supposed to anticipate 1/6 prosecutions and issue blanket pardons for what seemed at the time like a minor disturbance?

Speaking of revisionist history...To me it seemed like a minor disturbance, but to the nightly news and the Democrats, it was a 24/7 screamfest. Everyone knew within a couple of days that the Dems were going to ride this ride as far as it would go.
Posted by: Wally at February 07, 2023 08:48 AM (FJYfm)

Agreed - ESPECIALLY if you were in the DC/MD/VA area. It was obvious this was gonna be attempted to be made big. At the time, I said blanket pardons were gonna be needed. Anyone with functioning brain cells here knew the play that was coming...just like they saw the play before it happened and tried to keep everyone home...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 07, 2023 08:51 AM (exHjb)

264
There is a circular logic that Trump defenders always use. On one hand, Trump was a God Emperor playing Nth dimensional chess. Except for all the times he didn't. Then its simply Monday morning quarterbacking to note all the things he got wrong.

So, which is it ? Was he no smarter than the rest of us, or what ?
Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:48 AM (bHvPK)

Examples of nth dimensional chess pleading? There's a thread to pick from.

It's not unreasonable to observe that a hypothetical DeSantis would face the same obstacles. Neither Trump nor DeSantis is magic.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 08:51 AM (eYoxG)

265 258 If Trump had pardoned the J6 protestors, the Dems would have just said "nuh uh" and then proceeded in the same way. Who would have stopped them?
Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:49 AM (iayUP)

The Supreme Court.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 07, 2023 08:51 AM (exHjb)

266 Disney+ in Hong Kong drops ‘Simpsons’ episode with ‘forced labour’ mention
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 08:50 AM (Vwz3I)

Man, you have gotta be completely running on fumes when you're reaching for a bit on oxytocin.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 08:51 AM (9UlRk)

267 I don't like him personally but, Trump was the best President since Reagan. But that is a low bar.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 07, 2023 08:51 AM (yQpMk)

268 Woman Pronounced Dead At NY Nursing Home Is Found Breathing At Funeral Home Hours Later
Posted by: Andrew Cuomo at February 07, 2023 08:43 AM (FJYfm)

I don't want to go on the cart. I'm feeling better!

Posted by: Old Woman at February 07, 2023 08:52 AM (4I/2K)

269 230
>>If he didn't foresee that the Democrats would use this as an excuse for show trials, that's on him, especially after the two ginned-up "impeachments".

That's asking a bit much, isn't it?

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2023 08:52 AM (4h9M3)

270 "The Supreme Court. /s
Posted by: Nova Local "

Fify

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:52 AM (iayUP)

271 So, I have a Mississippi Pot Roast going in the crock pot. First time I have used this crock pot, so I hope it works. I guess I will see in about 8 hours.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

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FWIW, if the peppers are too spicy for certain family members you can use pickles and pickle juice to achieve essentially the same effect without the bite.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 08:52 AM (Oto6+)

272 If they didn't know about the balloons then, how do they know about them now?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 07, 2023 08:53 AM (UuD2k)

273

Goodnight, everybody!

Posted by: John Fetterman at February 07, 2023 08:53 AM (vwCZJ)

274 "literally no one questioned Jeff Sessions as AG pick at the time."

I wanted Rudy and felt that Sessions' appointment was mostly a political reward for his early and brave endorsement of Trump. I did not think that Sessions was the sort of warrior required for the AG job. And for Trump to think so, after what he'd been through in the campaign and what he should have learned about the Left by this time, was startling.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 08:53 AM (H8QX8)

275 > Mississippi Pot Roast

Mississippi Pot Roast
Louisiana Pan
We get together any time we can
The Mississippi River can't keep us apart
Gonna get together and clog up our hearts

Posted by: Conway and Loretta at February 07, 2023 08:53 AM (bW8dp)

276 Global Islam???
Did they influence Trump by giving him billions for that new political golf championship? Or BILLIONS to son in law and white house employee Kushner?
Don't they own Trump ?

Posted by: Paul at February 07, 2023 08:53 AM (PJmOH)

277 >>There is a circular logic that Trump defenders always use. On one hand, Trump was a God Emperor playing Nth dimensional chess. Except for all the times he didn't. Then its simply Monday morning quarterbacking to note all the things he got wrong.

>>So, which is it ? Was he no smarter than the rest of us, or what ?

No Scogg, it isn't circular logic and I don't think Trump is a God Emperor or playing any level of dimensional chess. Those things exist only in your made up scenarios. I think he is smart and tough and was tossed into the middle of a pit of vipers that none, not even you, really understand the depth and breadth.

I will say again that it is very easy to sit on the sidelines and make brilliant calls on what Trump or another person should have done after all of the pieces have been exposed but it is something entirely different to try and navigate it in real time when the arrows are flying and the knives are at your back.

On balance, Trump was incredibly successful and exposed a huge amount of what has become of DC. And I think he is the best person to continue the fight. It really isn't that hard to understand.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 07, 2023 08:53 AM (ZLI7S)

278 You could get three Royal Enfields for the price of a single Harley and have more fun riding them than a Harley.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Not really

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 07, 2023 08:53 AM (NW9xb)

279 (Roughly 5000 or so): Actors, people who empty feces buckets and haul off dead animals, etc.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 08:50 AM (bW8dp)

Well, actors (and any 'entertainer' really) were at the bottom of pretty much any ancient societies' social spectrum. I think it probably was because they did not actually contribute to society's survival like a Soldier, or a Farmer, or a brick maker. They instead chose to dance. Life was on the ragged edge and these guys chose to dance. And sing. We just lost 80,000 men at Cannae. Where were you, Jester? Singing and getting drunk of a night? That will show Hannibal!

Yeah, it makes sense.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 08:54 AM (CsVWE)

280 It's not unreasonable to observe that a hypothetical DeSantis would face the same obstacles. Neither Trump nor DeSantis is magic.

We're dealing with a UniParty. No duly elected President is going to change that. Period.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:54 AM (bHvPK)

281 Posted by: Paul at February 07, 2023 08:53 AM (PJmOH)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at February 07, 2023 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

282 Shut up, Dunce.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 07, 2023 08:54 AM (yQpMk)

283 The guests at the SOTU are Paul Pelosi, Bono, and the family of Tyre Nichols.

Posted by: dantesed

They should ask Bono about his tax philosophy.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 07, 2023 08:55 AM (NW9xb)

284 272 If they didn't know about the balloons then, how do they know about them now?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 07, 2023 08:53 AM (UuD2k)

The Party needs Ballons to have happened. Therefore, they happened.

Why do you suck so hard at Science, Comrade?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 08:55 AM (9UlRk)

285 Woman Pronounced Dead At NY Nursing Home Is Found Breathing At Funeral Home Hours Later
Posted by: Andrew Cuomo

You're not fooling anyone!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 07, 2023 08:55 AM (FVME7)

286 Paul.

You're lying. Stop it. Come with facts and we'll listen. Fling poo like a monkey in a cage and we'll fart in your general direction.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

287 Coon? Possum? Squirrel?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 08:51 AM (FOWWv)

Solid gold beef, by the price. To be fair, it was cheaper at walmart grocery than it was at Kroger.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 08:55 AM (CsVWE)

288 @259 I was therefore once on the same level as actors. I , in college, worked on a county road crew and one of our jobs : remove dead animals, usually deer.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 07, 2023 08:56 AM (StQQf)

289 274 "literally no one questioned Jeff Sessions as AG pick at the time."

I wanted Rudy and felt that Sessions' appointment was mostly a political reward for his early and brave endorsement of Trump. I did not think that Sessions was the sort of warrior required for the AG job. And for Trump to think so, after what he'd been through in the campaign and what he should have learned about the Left by this time, was startling.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 08:53 AM (H8QX

Iirc Giuliani wanted a different position, SoS or something, that he didn't end up getting.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 08:56 AM (eYoxG)

290
They should ask Bono about his tax philosophy.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 07, 2023 08:55 AM (NW9xb)

And hand every republican a blow up hammer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

291 More than 100 chanting 'Trans Lives Matter' protesters descended on Oklahoma's State Capitol building yesterday, occupying the interior rotunda, to protest against new bills that would ban gender-affirming surgery for young people.

https://tinyurl.com/bddhajef

Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

292 Coon? Possum? Squirrel?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 08:51 AM (FOWWv)

Yes

Posted by: Mississippi Man at February 07, 2023 08:56 AM (BRHaw)

293 > Paul Pelosi, Bono, and the family of Tyre Nichols.

Maybe Bono will sing that old spiritual "If I Had A Hammer".

I always liked that one.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 08:56 AM (bW8dp)

294 Here is an idea, show us the evidence that Chinese soy balloons were floating above the US during Trump's administration.

Posted by: runner at February 07, 2023 08:57 AM (6F7eb)

295 291 More than 100 chanting 'Trans Lives Matter' protesters descended on Oklahoma's State Capitol building yesterday, occupying the interior rotunda, to protest against new bills that would ban gender-affirming surgery for young people.

https://tinyurl.com/bddhajef
Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

'Children.' Not 'young people' which covers a LOT of ground. Tweens.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 08:57 AM (CsVWE)

296 Trump needed to be a Revolutionary. He tried to be a TV Dad instead. That's all it all boils down to.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 08:58 AM (9UlRk)

297 Here is an idea, show us the evidence that Chinese soy balloons were floating above the US during Trump's administration.

We have a policy of not sharing evidence nor giving comment during an investigation.

Posted by: FBI at February 07, 2023 08:58 AM (l7lsb)

298 Its so nice to see Nancy standing beside her mentally ill fag of a husband like that. What an honorable woman.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

299 More than 100 chanting 'Trans Lives Matter' protesters descended on Oklahoma's State Capitol building yesterday, occupying the interior rotunda, to protest against new bills that would ban gender-affirming surgery for young people.
https://tinyurl.com/bddhajef
Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

Nothing worse than chanting sodomites.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 07, 2023 08:59 AM (EIIsz)

300 296 Trump needed to be a Revolutionary. He tried to be a TV Dad instead. That's all it all boils down to.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 08:58 AM (9UlRk)

He's still not a revolutionary, we don't have one waiting in the wings, and I don't think we were originally aware of how badly we needed one.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 08:59 AM (eYoxG)

301 Trump needed to be a Revolutionary. He tried to be a TV Dad instead. That's all it all boils down to.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 08:58 AM (9UlRk)

But he never once tried to sell me car insurance.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

302 Here is an idea, show us the evidence that Chinese soy balloons were floating above the US during Trump's administration.

Posted by: runner at February 07, 2023 08:57 AM

Already been asked and the answer was......sorry, can't show you the proof because it would compromise our intelligence gathering assets. Wish we could, but nah you are just going to have to believe us.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 07, 2023 08:59 AM (uNylN)

303 Wrong. I love Trump. Don't confuse prediction with partiality.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 08:26 AM (H8QX

~~~~~

Sorry, not buying it. Maybe I'm wrong, so be it. But I've read all 10 of your comments here, and you sound exactly like John Cardillo and all the other nouveau NeverTrumpers on Twitter: "Don't get me wrong, I love Trump. BUT..."

Posted by: IrishEi at February 07, 2023 08:59 AM (3ImbR)

304 Nothing worse than chanting sodomites.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 07, 2023 08:59 AM (EIIsz)

Remember when they were singing about coming for our children? Good times.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 09:00 AM (CsVWE)

305 Mississippi Pot Roast
Louisiana Pan
We get together any time we can
The Mississippi River can't keep us apart
Gonna get together and clog up our hearts
Posted by: Conway and Loretta

*golf clap

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 09:00 AM (FOWWv)

306 By his own admission, Trump is a counter-puncher. DeSantis is, more or less, a puncher. It's a difference that seems to matter now more than ever.

Trump came into office with an honest openness to making deals for the good of the country. The Left obviously had no interest, and were after blood from day one.

Has Trump learned, and would another four years be different, and if so, how?

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 09:00 AM (H8QX8)

307 291 More than 100 chanting 'Trans Lives Matter' protesters descended on Oklahoma's State Capitol building yesterday,

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By copying the Black.Lives Matter slogan they are being white supremacists. That's the rules.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 07, 2023 09:00 AM (fUnHJ)

308 Louisiana Pot Roast - Nutria

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 09:00 AM (FOWWv)

309 You could get three Royal Enfields for the price of a single Harley and have more fun riding them than a Harley.

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You'd be attracting completely different types of other guys with the Royal Enfields, though, and that might not be appealing. That has to be taken into account.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 09:00 AM (Oto6+)

310 Maybe Bono can play 'Maxwell Silver Hammer' for Paul Pelosi??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 09:01 AM (Vwz3I)

311 More than 100 chanting 'Trans Lives Matter' protesters descended on Oklahoma's State Capitol building yesterday, occupying the interior rotunda, to protest against new bills that would ban gender-affirming surgery for young people.
https://tinyurl.com/bddhajef
Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

Surgery? No. Psychiatric evaluation? Absolutely.

NO MORE DRUGS. Big pharma already destroyed them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

312
I will tell you that we did not detect those threats. And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. But I don’t want to go in further detail.

And just HOW EXACTLY do you claim to know these facts now? Osmosis? Bullshit. General, you are a lying piece of shit and we all know it. Had a Red Zepplin been evident, you and you rworthless shit assed peers would have shouted it to the world to show how OrangeManBad had phucked up.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 07, 2023 09:01 AM (3CCua)

313 291 More than 100 chanting 'Trans Lives Matter' protesters descended on Oklahoma's State Capitol building yesterday, occupying the interior rotunda, to protest against new bills that would ban gender-affirming surgery for young people.

https://tinyurl.com/bddhajef
Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

This is plan old pure fucking crazy. I know a guy that has to get the lupron shot so he can have prostate radiation. He is supposed to call in weekly to his doc and report on thoughts of suicide and if any depression. And your are going to give that to kids going through puberty?

IN FUCKING SANE

Posted by: Mississippi Man at February 07, 2023 09:02 AM (BRHaw)

314 We're supposed to believe they went over hours of radar data during the Trump administration. 35,040 hours over 4 years and found 3 balloons that they just happened to have missed.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 07, 2023 09:02 AM (UuD2k)

315 Cat Ballou(n)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 08:40 AM (gugbE)

A perfect example of a movie you sort of enjoyed getting tainted by a single actress. Nat King Cole and the other guy (Stubby Kaye- nee Bernard Katzin, had to look him up), Lee Marvin.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

You fergot Lee Marvin's drunken horse....

Posted by: JT at February 07, 2023 09:03 AM (T4tVD)

316 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2023 09:03 AM (BRHaw)

317 >>Has Trump learned, and would another four years be different, and if so, how?

DeSantis barely beat a gay crackhead for governor in the red state of FL and he did it largely with Trump's help.

Has DeSantis proven that he can win nationally without Trump's support and if so how?

Time for DeSantis supporters to start answering some questions for a change.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 07, 2023 09:03 AM (ZLI7S)

318 Trump needed to be a Revolutionary. He tried to be a TV Dad instead. That's all it all boils down to.

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I think he, like us, assumed most people (and especially people in government) still loved America and Americans, and he, like us, worked under that misguided assumption during his time in office and right up until the plandemic.

If nothing else Trump deserves our thanks for exposing that so that we can work on whatever the remedy is.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 09:03 AM (Oto6+)

319 Maybe Bono can play 'Maxwell Silver Hammer' for Paul Pelosi??
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 09:01 AM (Vwz3I)
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Does he do pro Bono performances?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 09:03 AM (gugbE)

320 You could get three Royal Enfields for the price of a single Harley and have more fun riding them than a Harley.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I truly have no idea what Harley is doing anymore. First they discontinue the Dyna - only their best selling full sized motorcycle family of all time. Then they thought they'd pretty much sell Sportsters to everyone. Now they've scrapped that idea as well, turning the Sportster into something resembling a chrome crotch rocket.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 09:03 AM (bHvPK)

321 Trump needed to be a Revolutionary. He tried to be a TV Dad instead. That's all it all boils down to.

Trump's greatest gift was the tearing off of masks across the country and the world. His great failing was that he believed there were good, honest, uncompromised people who could carry out his agenda.

We know better now. I don't think Trump does.

I don't believe it is hyperbole to say that the next GOP president (if there is one, which I doubt) needs to have a loyal and armed cadre ready to arrest and, if necessary, execute the traitors of both parties. Short of a national divorce or outright revolution.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2023 09:03 AM (AW0uW)

322 > 'Children.' Not 'young people' which covers a LOT of ground. Tweens.

Yeah, the terminology is pretty fluid.

Notice how when T-Bone and Jamaal, 24-year-old "aspiring rappers", ventilate Antwaan and Ja'Lon'Kay, 22-year-olds who were "getting their lives together", for "selling crack on they corner, beyotch", it's "gun violence against children".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 09:03 AM (bW8dp)

323 Has Trump learned, and would another four years be different, and if so, how?

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 09:00 AM (H8QX

Well he pretty clearly understands the need to both alter the makeup of the legislature(within the bounds of the GOP) as well as the need to compromise (since there's no way we get 100% people on our side). That's what he's been up to the last couple of years.

Had he more time it might work, but I don't think the legislative makeup has become sufficiently more favorable to give a rightwing President much support. Right moves, but the hour is just very late to be attempting a reform of the party.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 09:03 AM (eYoxG)

324 Good morning, all, and thank you, JJ. They feed us crap, & I don't recall H howling, "China, China!"

Past presidents are provided intelligence briefings, partly for when a sitting president may need advice. NYT, 2/5/21, Biden Bars Trump From Receiving Intelligence Briefings, Citing 'Erratic Behavior. In part, "Currently, the briefings are offered on a regular basis to Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama." "What value is giving him an intelligence briefing?" Mr. Biden added. "What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?" There's also the obligatory comments by then Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam B. Shiff.

5/22, Trump & the then Labor Sec directed the federal pension fund, Thrift Savings, to haul investments in Chinese stock. Stwserve dot com, 8/2/22: The TSP’s board responded by extenuating the fact that these mutual funds are available, and legal, for the American public to invest in, and arguing that it should be legal for TSP participants to have the same choice. (Read more about % of investments in weighted Chinese securities at that time.)

Posted by: Lola at February 07, 2023 09:04 AM (Wxlzw)

325 Trump needed to be a Revolutionary. He tried to be a TV Dad instead. That's all it all boils down to.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 08:58 AM (9UlRk)
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I think that's a bit unfair, or perhaps not quite right.

Trump was a reformer, and aggressive one. That's who he is. He is *not* a revolutionary, and a revolutionary action would not occur to him and, if recommended, he would not act on it. That is *not* who he is.

He made a real effort at reform and failed fairly completely. The institutions he was technically in charge of were not interested in being reformed. So the question in mind is, "did Trump fail at his reform efforts because he was unable to accomplish the goal, or did he fail at his reform efforts because reform is impossible?" I tend toward the latter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 09:04 AM (t0OGg)

326 Don't Royal Enfields have like 25 hp or something? There just nostalgia run abouts.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 07, 2023 09:04 AM (UuD2k)

327 That settles it. I'm all in for Hypothetical DeSantis.

A new factor in modern poli-sci: fewer and fewer claims that a super-genius Biden is actually playing nth-dimensional chess. Is this a thing?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 07, 2023 09:04 AM (jYCXf)

328 262 So, I have a Mississippi Pot Roast going in the crock pot. First time I have used this crock pot, so I hope it works. I guess I will see in about 8 hours.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Coon? Possum? Squirrel?
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Whistle Pig and Armadillos are good too.

Posted by: Puddihead at February 07, 2023 09:05 AM (g/54t)

329 halt v. haul

Posted by: Lola at February 07, 2023 09:05 AM (Wxlzw)

330 Biden plays one dimensional Connect 4. And loses.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

331 277 - JackStraw: Spot on. You said it better than I

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 07, 2023 09:06 AM (D2j2d)

332 So there was a "domain awareness gap"--kinda' like the mine-shaft gap in Dr. Strangelove? Asking for a friend. . .

Posted by: FIIGMO at February 07, 2023 09:06 AM (5Xtai)

333 Trump needed to be a Revolutionary. He tried to be a TV Dad instead. That's all it all boils down to.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 08:58 AM (9UlRk)

But he never once tried to sell me car insurance.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

Progressive's ads have been circling the drain for a long time, but these stupid "TV Dad" ones are complete shit. Does Reginald Veljohnson need work that badly?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2023 09:06 AM (AW0uW)

334 @326 The late-run Rickman Enfields were probably the most advanced "cafe racer" ever offered on the market. The Interceptor 750 had massive lower-end bearings, and about twice the normal TBOH of other vertical twins. You're sneering about the wrong motor cycle.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 07, 2023 09:06 AM (jYCXf)

335 The graphic is very funny. "NORAD Track Santa" is a great story from a prior era.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 09:06 AM (t0OGg)

336 326 Don't Royal Enfields have like 25 hp or something? There just nostalgia run abouts.
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They are made in India to, pretty much, the old 1910 specs. They also are the only motorcycle manufacturer to offer a diesel bike.

Posted by: Puddihead at February 07, 2023 09:06 AM (g/54t)

337 I don't believe it is hyperbole to say that the next GOP president (if there is one, which I doubt) needs to have a loyal and armed cadre ready to arrest and, if necessary, execute the traitors of both parties. Short of a national divorce or outright revolution.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

On the floor of Congress live during a SOTU speech.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 09:06 AM (FOWWv)

338
but that since the balloon did not present a “physical military threat” to North America, “I could not take immediate action because it was not demonstrating hostile act or hostile intent.”

This too is bullshit. If you don't know it's intent, you whack it before it encroaches sovereign airspace to protect civilians. Oh, and another fact...the sheer physical size of that payload gives it a radar cross section of fuck near +50dB to radars. Making it detectable by the 1940s version of Perl Harbor's radar that actually did see the Japanese flying in. So your shit is broke, and you are a failure at your job, general.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 07, 2023 09:06 AM (3CCua)

339 So no one's ripping Biden up and down for the Balloon? The government and elected officials are defending him all the way?

I mean if Obama and "Deep State" was getting rid of him, wouldn't this be a prime pile on moment?

No one's getting rid of him. The classified doc op was a timed release for later cover in case anyone unsavory wants to bring it up.

Posted by: ... at February 07, 2023 09:07 AM (U72BO)

340 Biden plays one dimensional Connect 4. And loses.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)
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I was thinking more like Barrel of Monkeys or Don't Slip On the Ice.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 09:07 AM (gugbE)

341 > A new factor in modern poli-sci: fewer and fewer claims that a super-genius Biden is actually playing nth-dimensional chess. Is this a thing?

You should see the wailing and gnashing of teeth on Teh Twatters about the new poll that shows a majority of DEMOCRATS want Dopey kicked to the curb.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 09:07 AM (bW8dp)

342
Progressive's ads have been circling the drain for a long time, but these stupid "TV Dad" ones are complete shit. Does Reginald Veljohnson need work that badly?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2023 09:06 AM (AW0uW)

Agreed. Guess he's bored.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

343 VanHerck said that the military did have time to shoot it down over the Aleutian Islands, but that since the balloon did not present a “physical military threat” to North America, “I could not take immediate action because it was not demonstrating hostile act or hostile intent.”
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Yes, you could have. There was a time when this was actually true, if I understand the "Open Skies" treaty properly. But we're no longer signatory to that treaty. Trump withdrew us from it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 09:08 AM (t0OGg)

344 340 Biden plays one dimensional Connect 4. And loses.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)
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I was thinking more like Barrel of Monkeys or Don't Slip On the Ice.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 09:07 AM (gugbE)

Biden - Go to the Head of the Class
Kamala - Give Head to the Class

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 07, 2023 09:08 AM (x0n13)

345 @Project_Veritas · 16h
BREAKING: Leaked document shows @pfizer admitting Dr. Jordon Walker works at the company and warns staff to beware of Project Veritas

https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/
1622705879362555906

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 09:08 AM (Vwz3I)

346 By copying the Black.Lives Matter slogan they are being white supremacists. That's the rules.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 07, 2023 09:00 AM (fUnHJ)
****
Looks like an INSURRECTION to me.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

347 Trump needed to be a Revolutionary. He tried to be a TV Dad instead. That's all it all boils down to.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 08:58 AM (9UlRk)

Honestly, I don't think a revolutionary president has a chance in Hell, without at least twenty governors like DeSantis backing his play. Yes, as the Trump supporters constantly state - his task was impossible, so he can't be blamed for failing. But that ignores the basic premise - the task is friggin' impossible, so who cares if Trump gets another shot at failure or not. He's doomed to failure, without support that currently doesn't exist.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 09:08 AM (bHvPK)

348 Busy today, didn't start well but what can you do.
Hope everyone day is going better

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2023 09:08 AM (ko6LH)

349 pɐǝp sᴉ lnɐd

Koo koo achoo.

Posted by: John at February 07, 2023 09:08 AM (g8BSP)

350 I mean if Obama and "Deep State" was getting rid of him, wouldn't this be a prime pile on moment?
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Not when it involves the ChiComs. The Chink Spy Balloon was a test to see how loyal to the NWO Deep State is. Deep State passed the test.

Posted by: Puddihead at February 07, 2023 09:08 AM (g/54t)

351 >>Crime in the Mile High City is now worse than New York City or Chicago, and growing increasingly dangerous."

Aaaaand CO just voted to legalize mushrooms!
45k cars were stolen here last year

In recent months there have been 3 reported carjackings in the posh Cherry Creek neighborhood where a black Mercedes pulls up, 4 people with guns jump out, the owner of an expensive car is pistol-whipped and their car taken. And apparently 4 *minors* were arrested.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2023 09:09 AM (mqu1M)

352 but that since the balloon did not present a “physical military threat” to North America, “I could not take immediate action because it was not demonstrating hostile act or hostile intent.”

ANYTHING flying unannounced over US airspace should be considered and likely IS hostile in nature.

We're the ones that just got buttf*cked on national TV, Dwayne.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

353 More than 100 chanting 'Trans Lives Matter' protesters descended on Oklahoma's State Capitol building yesterday, occupying the interior rotunda, to protest against new bills that would ban ~~gender-affirming~~ sexual mutilation surgery for young people.

https://tinyurl.com/bddhajef
Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

Fixed it for them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 07, 2023 09:10 AM (tkR6S)

354 They are made in India to, pretty much, the old 1910 specs. They also are the only motorcycle manufacturer to offer a diesel bike.
Posted by: Puddihead at February 07, 2023 09:06 AM (g/54t)

Really, does the diesel get like 100 mpg? Can I get one in the US?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 07, 2023 09:10 AM (Y5qcH)

355 Been doing some on-line shopping looking for a quality leather jacket want because most brick-and-mortar clothing stores don't carry much variety anymore. From what I gather looking at the adds I estimate white men are about 3% of the population. Even less at some major retailers, approaching zero in some cases.

Well, good luck with that,. I guess they don't want my money.

Posted by: Ripley at February 07, 2023 09:10 AM (cUYo/)

356 347 Trump needed to be a Revolutionary. He tried to be a TV Dad instead. That's all it all boils down to.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 08:58 AM (9UlRk)

Honestly, I don't think a revolutionary president has a chance in Hell, without at least twenty governors like DeSantis backing his play. Yes, as the Trump supporters constantly state - his task was impossible, so he can't be blamed for failing. But that ignores the basic premise - the task is friggin' impossible, so who cares if Trump gets another shot at failure or not. He's doomed to failure, without support that currently doesn't exist.
Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 09:08 AM (bHvPK)

1. Trump has a working class support base that we very much don't want to alienate. So letting him have the run(that we expect to lose anyways) makes sense on that grounds.
2. No point in burning other younger candidates who might be important leaders in the future on a futile run.
3. For fun since he freaks out the left. Lives in their heads rent-free. A campaign season of dread ain't nothing.

But if you're asking if we're terribly super-invested in Trump as the candidate? Probably not.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 09:11 AM (eYoxG)

357 DoD should release the sitreps or AAR for the balloon incursions during the Trump Administration.

Let's look at the meta data and date stamp on them.

I call bullshit.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 07, 2023 09:11 AM (lf83v)

358 There was resistance in some localities, including in blue states. Sheriffs in LA, Orange, and Riverside counties for instance. I think in Michigan as well.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy -

This is part of the Defund the Police. Also part of Obama "civilian " force.

The Ds want a national law enforcement entity. The FBI not withstanding.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 07, 2023 09:12 AM (NW9xb)

359 Other candidates would somehow need to demonstrate viability on multiple grounds (both electorally and some theory on how to enact dramatic reform if not revolution) to warrant support.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 09:12 AM (eYoxG)

360 Project_Veritas
BREAKING: Leaked document shows @pfizer admitting Dr. Jordon Walker works at the company and warns staff to beware of Project Veritas
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 09:08 AM (Vwz3I)
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That opening paragraph is a doozy:
Fact-based information rooted in sound science is vitally important to preserving Pfizer's scientific innovations, reputation, and trust with business partners, and ultimately enables us to deliver breakthroughs for patients. Anti-science activists are becoming increasingly brazen in their drive to gain and manipulate information, fueling the spread of baseless claims and endangering public health.

That's a hell of a statement. To question Pfizer is to endanger public health. A mere attempt even to acquire information - if you are engaging in wrongthink - is a danger to public health an "anti-science."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 09:12 AM (t0OGg)

361 @Project_Veritas · 16h
BREAKING: Leaked document shows @pfizer admitting Dr. Jordon Walker works at the company and warns staff to beware of Project Veritas

https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/
1622705879362555906
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 07, 2023 09:08 AM (Vwz3I)

Propaganda like this would make Baghdad Bob proud.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

362 Department of Non-Defense.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 07, 2023 09:13 AM (lf83v)

363 Still think we are stupid? Our blue hair and ear gauges are signs of intelligent compassion, bigots!

Posted by: Satans Retards at February 07, 2023 09:13 AM (HN+UP)

364 But we're no longer signatory to that treaty. Trump withdrew us from it.

Trump and Mike Pompeo withdrew us from it, and if a national security voter bloc still exists, this is Pompey the Great's ticket to the White House.
I'm sure we can think of some barrack-room shit to fling at him too, though. It's what we do after all.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 07, 2023 09:13 AM (jYCXf)

365 I'm working at the food pantry. There was some young lady dropping off some used walkers for social services to use. Beautiful young lady in n her late 20's. Both of her parents in their fifties died within two months of each other in the Fall of cancer. I didn't ask if they had the Covid shots, because it's not my place to do that, but that's the first thing I think now. Poor dear.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2023 09:14 AM (XN5Xn)

366 360 That's a hell of a statement. To question Pfizer is to endanger public health. A mere attempt even to acquire information - if you are engaging in wrongthink - is a danger to public health an "anti-science."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 09:12 AM (t0OGg)

Pfizer makes Carter's Little Liver Pills look like Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 07, 2023 09:14 AM (x0n13)

367 pɐǝp sᴉ lnɐd

Koo koo achoo.
Posted by: John at February 07, 2023 09:08 AM (g8BSP)

Meh.....close enough.....

https://youtu.be/8nvpRkn_R5g

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

368 Time for DeSantis supporters to start answering some questions for a change.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 07, 2023 09:03 AM (ZLI7S)

DeSantis has done some good stuff at the state level. He cleaned up voter rolls (and notice that the perennially problematic counties were not as much of a problem this last time?), gone after Disney. At least at the state level, this is all stuff we would like to see repeated at a National Level for an executive.

I try not to get drug into the Trump v DeSantis contests, because it feels like it devolves into rank homerism at it's worst. Like Trying to argue that Joe Montana was the greatest QB of all time with a guy who thought Dan Marino was the greatest (or later, John Elway- remember him?)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 09:15 AM (CsVWE)

369 domain awareness gap
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Military-speak for "dumb as dogshit"

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 07, 2023 09:15 AM (lf83v)

370 @363 Perhaps the less said about blue hair here, the better?

Taking a step back off the balloon (!), if you look at it objectively, there is a very real concern that this

may be the end for the NORAD Santa Tracker project.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 07, 2023 09:15 AM (jYCXf)

371 354 They are made in India to, pretty much, the old 1910 specs. They also are the only motorcycle manufacturer to offer a diesel bike.
Posted by: Puddihead at February 07, 2023 09:06 AM (g/54t)

Really, does the diesel get like 100 mpg? Can I get one in the US?
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While working for the Marines we were looking for a diesel motorcycle to make the Navy happy about not having to supply gasoline for our LAV scout motorcycles. Enfield was the only one available. As I recall, it was mainly used by Indians as local transport in a three wheeled variant. It was insufficient for the proposed task as a cavalry mount for LAV reconnaissance. Ultimately, the Marines shit canned the idea of motorcycle outriders for LAV missions recognizing the inherrent injury rates to Marines.

Posted by: Puddihead at February 07, 2023 09:16 AM (g/54t)

372 Sorry, not buying it. Maybe I'm wrong, so be it. But I've read all 10 of your comments here, and you sound exactly like John Cardillo and all the other nouveau NeverTrumpers on Twitter: "Don't get me wrong, I love Trump. BUT..."
Posted by: IrishEi at February 07, 2023 08:59 AM (3ImbR)

I'm sure this is a result of my own communication failings. I have great admiration for Trump, his love of country, his work ethic, and his heroic accomplishments with such scant support. At the same time I became frustrated at his seeming gentility and gullibility in confronting the Left. Is that really the position of a Never-Trumper?

I've noticed the effort to be objectively critical on forums without being tied to some allegiance is difficult.

In any case, I am four-square behind Trump if he wins the nomination. I also think a spirited battle with DeSantis would be fascinating, welcome and good for the party and country.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 09:16 AM (H8QX8)

373 Department of Non-Defense.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 07, 2023 09:13 AM (lf83v)

Yup....we need to change the name back to The War Department.

democrats and marxists would holla and scream.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 07, 2023 09:16 AM (EIIsz)

374 Pfizer makes Carter's Little Liver Pills look like Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet.

If we get a do-over ... one thing we have got to re-think is the nature of corporations, for no other reason than the shield of anonymity it provides. Most of us here will agree that "Pfizer" is up to no good. But "Pfizer" is just a concept - we need something more concrete. Who, exactly, is to blame ? We don't know, precisely, because of that shield of anonymity that corporate structures provide.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 09:16 AM (bHvPK)

375 The left will never give up:

Federal judge says constitutional right to abortion may still exist, despite Dobbs A federal judge in Washington, D.C., suggested Monday that there may be a constitutional right to abortion baked into the 13th Amendment — an area she said went unexplored by the Supreme Court in its momentous decision last year overturning Roe v. Wade.

...the 13th Amendment — which was ratified at the end of the Civil War and sought to ban slavery and “involuntary servitude” — provides just such a right. She is asking the parties in the criminal case, which involves charges of blocking access to abortion clinics, to present arguments by mid-March.

When the State forces a woman to bear a child she does not want & cannot care for, that is the very definition of involuntary servitude!!!

I believe that is the absolute truth. Problem is, that's exactly what they want to make of us... a servant caste.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at February 07, 2023 09:17 AM (JCZqz)

376 >>More than 100 chanting 'Trans Lives Matter' protesters descended on Oklahoma's State Capitol building yesterday. . .

Ah yes, the "it's not happening, but it's a good thing that it is" argument for trans surgery on kids.

Interesting analogy re: trans movement: When I was working on my Jonestown series, it occurred to me that the internet might facilitate cults of unprecedented proportions, that rather than 1,000 people committing mass suicide, it could be millions. It’s increasingly clear that that’s exactly what the trans movement is. . .
https://tinyurl.com/3acc64ze

Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2023 09:17 AM (mqu1M)

377
In any case, I am four-square behind Trump if he wins the nomination. I also think a spirited battle with DeSantis would be fascinating, welcome and good for the party and country.
Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 09:16 AM (H8QX

Well if DeSantis were to somehow win it'd demonstrate quite some skill at politics. Not sure if that'd make for good odds in the general, maybe just slightly less terrible odds.

I think he's pretty disfavored though, if I were to bet.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 09:18 AM (eYoxG)

378 rank homerism at it's worst.

Well the danger on the rocks is surely past
Still I remain tied to the mast
Can it be that I have found my home at last?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 07, 2023 09:18 AM (jYCXf)

379 374 Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 09:16 AM (bHvPK)

"Corporations Are Not People!" is yet another leftist slogan that needs to have a second look at.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 07, 2023 09:18 AM (x0n13)

380 Pfizer is a Satanic beast that's allowed to wreak havoc on society around the globe. They'll never be investigated or punished for the evils they've spilled upon the world.

If they haven't got you yet with the 'vaxx,' they'll get us eventually with something else. And will profit handsomely from it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

381 >>That's a hell of a statement. To question Pfizer is to endanger public health. A mere attempt even to acquire information - if you are engaging in wrongthink - is a danger to public health an "anti-science."

A guy on Twitter who goes by the nic NameRedacted published a very interesting thread yesterday showing all the links between the intel community and social media that were established in the years prior to the 2020 election. It went well beyond the FBI and Twitter to include agencies some have probably never heard of and virtually all social media. And issues relating to the virus were part of that but it included everything from the election to Hunter and beyond.

And their reasoning was similar. If you don't agree with the deep state reasoning then you are a threat to the US. We've been basically living in a form of the Matrix and unless and until that is torn down we are always going to be at a massive disadvantage.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 07, 2023 09:18 AM (ZLI7S)

382 More than 100 chanting 'Trans Lives Matter' protesters descended on Oklahoma's State Capitol building yesterday, occupying the interior rotunda, to protest against new bills that would ban gender-affirming surgery for young people.

https://tinyurl.com/bddhajef
Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2023 08:56 AM

Hmm...sounds kind of insurrectiony.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 07, 2023 09:18 AM (Wnv9h)

383 My take on Trump and the J6 prisoners is that he didn’t want to make things worse for them by sticking his nose in. Not that they haven’t been treated abysmally anyway.

And the Deep State would have ignored any pardon anyway.

Just my personal take, with no evidence to back it up, fwiw.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 07, 2023 09:19 AM (+rTCi)

384 Woman Pronounced Dead At NY Nursing Home Is Found Breathing At Funeral Home Hours Later
Posted by: Andrew Cuomo
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Thank you for this scientific breakthrough. Clearly, nursing home residents get well when they go to funeral homes.

That's why I am issuing an executive order that all nursing home patient be sent to funeral homes.

You're welcome.

Go Bills!

Posted by: Kathy Hochul at February 07, 2023 09:19 AM (lf83v)

385 When the State forces a woman to bear a child she does not want & cannot care for, that is...

...an argument for adoption.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2023 09:19 AM (45fpk)

386 Case in point: The woman who murdered her young children was on 23 different psychiatric prescription drugs.

NO brain can survive that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

387 376 Interesting analogy re: trans movement: When I was working on my Jonestown series, it occurred to me that the internet might facilitate cults of unprecedented proportions, that rather than 1,000 people committing mass suicide, it could be millions. It’s increasingly clear that that’s exactly what the trans movement is. . .
https://tinyurl.com/3acc64ze
Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2023 09:17 AM (mqu1M)

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The climate movement is probably just as accurate.

Literally millions of people think that the end of the world is just around the corner in some number of years, and these people are the loudest talking about how bringing children into the world is evil.

It's not mass suicide in either case, but it is, effectively, mass castration.

I wonder how this will affect the gene pool when the easily susceptible turn themselves into mules and refuse to breed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 07, 2023 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

388 When the State forces a woman to bear a child she does not want & cannot care for, that is the very definition of involuntary servitude!!!

Mater familias is apparently their goal.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 07, 2023 09:20 AM (yQpMk)

389 383 My take on Trump and the J6 prisoners is that he didn’t want to make things worse for them by sticking his nose in. Not that they haven’t been treated abysmally anyway.

And the Deep State would have ignored any pardon anyway.

Just my personal take, with no evidence to back it up, fwiw.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 07, 2023 09:19 AM (+rTCi)

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There was no one to pardon at the time, and blanket pardons would be seriously questioned since it's not like there exists a detailed list of people where he could say, "These people are pardoned specifically."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 07, 2023 09:21 AM (LvTSG)

390 I wonder how this will affect the gene pool when the easily susceptible turn themselves into mules and refuse to breed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 07, 2023 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

Eeeee-aw.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 09:21 AM (9UlRk)

391 When the State forces a woman to bear a child she does not want & cannot care for, that is the very definition of involuntary servitude!!!

I believe that is the absolute truth. Problem is, that's exactly what they want to make of us... a servant caste.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at February 07, 2023 09:17 AM (JCZqz)
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Just to be clear -- Motherhood = slavery?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2023 09:21 AM (YIVH2)

392 The problem with detecting a balloon with radar is the balloon is moving too slow to detect. There is a predominance of doppler radar these days because it works so well in tracking stuff.

I'm not an expert at this but I do know some who have told me this many times.

Posted by: pawn at February 07, 2023 09:21 AM (wsHtO)

393 NO brain can survive that.
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Hold my adderol. . .

Posted by: Ozzie Osbourne at February 07, 2023 09:21 AM (lf83v)

394 I'm going to type this slowly so you can understand it. Trump will never be allowed to be the President again, by any means necessary.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at February 07, 2023 09:22 AM (WNfWI)

395 When the State forces a woman to bear a child she does not want & cannot care for, that is...

...an argument for adoption.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2023 09:19 AM (45fpk)

They don't want adoption, grammie. They want murder.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2023 09:22 AM (AW0uW)

396
I wonder how this will affect the gene pool when the easily susceptible turn themselves into mules and refuse to breed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 07, 2023 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

I recommend watching Idiocracy. However, in your scenario, it seems the opposite would eventually be achieved.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

397 Just to be clear -- Motherhood = slavery?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2023 09:21 AM (YIVH2)

The wages suck.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2023 09:22 AM (45fpk)

398 "Corporations Are Not People!" is yet another leftist slogan that needs to have a second look at.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 07, 2023 09:18 AM (x0n13)

I continue to be amazed at all the things certain segments of the Left screamed - that I agreed with - not that long ago. It wasn't that far back that they were Occupying Wall Street, and distrusting all corporations. Now ? They've shit-canned all that, and are corporate fascists.

A political cartoon was posted here, some time back, of a typical VW van, driven by a hippy, with "distrust authority" on the license plate - next to a huge SUV, driven by a Karen, with "obey authority" on the plate. Just about says it all.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 09:22 AM (bHvPK)

399 Just to be clear -- Motherhood = slavery?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2023 09:21 AM (YIVH2)

I refuse to live like a slave to uncle Sam any more, being told who i can and can't kill. Where's my reparations?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 09:22 AM (9UlRk)

400 You can bet there is a factory in China currently building dozens of balloons and cargo systems for weapons delivery and surveillance.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 07, 2023 09:22 AM (lf83v)

401 I wonder how this will affect the gene pool when the easily susceptible turn themselves into mules and refuse to breed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 07, 2023 09:19 AM (LvTSG)
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They've already got that figured out. Why do you think they are so gung-ho about indoctrinating kids in school? They won't breed themselves, and they are determined to keep your kids from breeding as well. Sex is perfectly fine as long as it doesn't result in any more filthy, destructive humans.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2023 09:23 AM (YIVH2)

402 379 374 Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 09:16 AM (bHvPK)

"Corporations Are Not People!" is yet another leftist slogan that needs to have a second look at.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 07, 2023 09:18 AM (x0n13)

Rights of an individual vs 'organizations'. I think one thing- and the place that we have fucked up royally- is that we have empowered organizations at the expense of the individual. This goes from the bureaucrat vs the elected official. Organizations already have inherently more power than a group of individual because they have the inherent pooling of at least a part of those members resources, therefore it can already do more than the individuals can on their own. Giving them the complete exact same rights as an individual seems to be wrong and a granting of power.

I think our guiding watchword should always be to constrain any organization's power, and leave the rights of the individual untouched. Instead, we have done the opposite.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 09:23 AM (CsVWE)

403 Nobody buying the idea we let the Chinese spy on us and they allow us to spy on them? Within certain parameters of course. Almost like "an agreement." Perhaps made with/without the executive branch's knowledge. Run by bureaucrats in the Military and/or Intelligence Community.

I find it plausible.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 07, 2023 09:24 AM (Q4IgG)

404 401 They've already got that figured out. Why do you think they are so gung-ho about indoctrinating kids in school? They won't breed themselves, and they are determined to keep your kids from breeding as well. Sex is perfectly fine as long as it doesn't result in any more filthy, destructive humans.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2023 09:23 AM (YIVH2)

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I dunno. Seems like we're in the early stages of the tide turning on public education.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 07, 2023 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

405 >>My take on Trump and the J6 prisoners is that he didn’t want to make things worse for them by sticking his nose in. Not that they haven’t been treated abysmally anyway.

He was also being impeached.

Why are we fighting about Trump when he's been out of office for 2 years and Biden's team is so dang busy destroying this country?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2023 09:24 AM (mqu1M)

406 ... When the State forces a woman to bear a child she does not want & cannot care for, that is the very definition of involuntary servitude!!! ...
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at February 07, 2023 09:17 AM (JCZqz)
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No, not really. The argument is incredibly twisted but could - if you twist hard enough - be articulable in the case of rape. It is not a sensible argument since that isn't what slavery means, but you could perform enough gymnastics to make the argument. Absent rape, however, a merely unwanted pregnancy is impossible to frame as "involuntary." The woman consented to the sex and pregnancy is a possible consequence of sex. It is not involuntary.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 09:25 AM (t0OGg)

407 Why are we fighting about Trump when he's been out of office for 2 years and Biden's team is so dang busy destroying this country?!?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2023 09:24 AM (mqu1M)

Amen.

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2023 09:25 AM (4h9M3)

408 They don't want adoption, grammie. They want murder.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I'm willing to give them that.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 09:25 AM (SZVQq)

409 Already been asked and the answer was......sorry, can't show you the proof because it would compromise our intelligence gathering assets. Wish we could, but nah you are just going to have to believe us.
Posted by: Mister Scott (

Of course. I know that.

Posted by: runner at February 07, 2023 09:25 AM (6F7eb)

410 >>When the State forces a woman to bear a child she does not want & cannot care for, that is...

And who forced her to have unprotected sex?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2023 09:26 AM (mqu1M)

411 406 The woman consented to the sex and pregnancy is a possible consequence of sex. It is not involuntary.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 09:25 AM (t0OGg)

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"That's not natural."
-A thing my gf in Italy (American) told me when I said I was one of five kids

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 07, 2023 09:26 AM (LvTSG)

412
I'm willing to give them that.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2023 09:25 AM (SZVQq)

It says so right there in the name.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

413 407 Why are we fighting about Trump when he's been out of office for 2 years and Biden's team is so dang busy destroying this country?!?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2023 09:24 AM (mqu1M)
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Because Cuckboy Gopers just want to get along.

Posted by: Puddihead at February 07, 2023 09:26 AM (g/54t)

414 I dunno. Seems like we're in the early stages of the tide turning on public education.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 07, 2023 09:24 AM (LvTSG)
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Maybe. Though an argument could easily be made that the Left has made their worst miscalculation by going after children. Even people like me without our own children are repulsed by what they are doing to kids.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2023 09:26 AM (YIVH2)

415 While working for the Marines we were looking for a diesel motorcycle to make the Navy happy about not having to supply gasoline for our LAV scout motorcycles. Enfield was the only one available. As I recall, it was mainly used by Indians as local transport in a three wheeled variant. It was insufficient for the proposed task as a cavalry mount for LAV reconnaissance. Ultimately, the Marines shit canned the idea of motorcycle outriders for LAV missions recognizing the inherrent injury rates to Marines.
Posted by: Puddihead at February 07, 2023 09:16 AM (g/54t)

There were other Diesel motorcycles made. The U.S. Military had one, IIRC. Enfield might have been the one most available to the public, though.

U.S. Marines Diesel motorcycle:

https://tinyurl.com/2rvuhx5n

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 07, 2023 09:27 AM (tkR6S)

416 Rights of an individual vs 'organizations'. I think one thing- and the place that we have fucked up royally- is that we have empowered organizations at the expense of the individual. This goes from the bureaucrat vs the elected official. Organizations already have inherently more power than a group of individual because they have the inherent pooling of at least a part of those members resources, therefore it can already do more than the individuals can on their own. Giving them the complete exact same rights as an individual seems to be wrong and a granting of power.

I think our guiding watchword should always be to constrain any organization's power, and leave the rights of the individual untouched. Instead, we have done the opposite.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 09:23 AM (CsVWE)

Scaling based on power, whether individual or organizational, seems to make sense to me.

It is not the freedom of speech of that average Joe that represents a threat, it is the preaching of academics. Not the rage of the street thug but the calm and insidious machinations of the ruling class.

So structurally, I think status should come with chains.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 07, 2023 09:27 AM (eYoxG)

417 The woman consented to the sex and pregnancy is a possible consequence of sex. It is not involuntary.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 07, 2023 09:25 AM (t0OGg)

But the liberal belief system revolves around the mindset that actions should have NO consequence. Ever. Under any circumstance.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

418 A child isn't precious unless it's lived for at least half a century and gotten shoehorned into the board of an Eastern European shell corporation.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 09:27 AM (9UlRk)

419 For decades now, all branches of the the US government - military included - have demonstrated not only the will, but an eagerness, to sacrifice the collective wealth and freedom of the United States. I don't expect anything to change.
Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 08:11 AM (bHvPK)

Look, pal, don't get out of your plebian lane about the peaceful Chinese Balloon. It did not require warlike actions that would make Xi stop my annual bonus, because it was not an existential threat to the United States. Unlike human-caused climate change!

Posted by: Joe the Balloon Popper at February 07, 2023 09:27 AM (AMIL/)

420 Speaking of trials, when the hell is Biden to have a trial for Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and the USS Cole bombers?

They're sitting down in GTMO and there is NO PROGRESS in those cases.

They are are more intent on convicting Americans for J6 than terrorists who have killed Americans.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 07, 2023 09:27 AM (lf83v)

421 There was no one to pardon at the time, and blanket pardons would be seriously questioned since it's not like there exists a detailed list of people where he could say, "These people are pardoned specifically."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 07, 2023 09:21 AM (LvTSG)

Most of these guys have been held without charge for 2+ years now. I think Trump was naïve (as we all were) on how far into the tyranny they would go. This, I think, is something that cannot be laid solely at the feet of Trump- at least up until the time he became a private citizen. The same charge however that can be laid at his feet after, can be laid at ours and the fucksticks in the GOPe: What have we done SINCE?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 09:28 AM (CsVWE)

422 418 A child isn't precious unless it's lived for at least half a century and gotten shoehorned into the board of an Eastern European shell corporation.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2023 09:27 AM (9UlRk)

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"Hunter Biden is the purest, most amazing person I've ever heard of. I'd clean his crackpipe for him."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some Best Pictures at February 07, 2023 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

423 NO brain can survive that.--Posted by: Sponge

I'm old-fashioned about that stuff. It's not as bad here as on some other prominent sites, but -- when people get chatty and chummy, they'll often list out the multiple psychoactive compounds they depend on to get through each day, just like they're comparing appendectomy scars. Ka-razier than Thou!

Then they come back the next morning and expect their opinions and insights to be valued equally with the sane. If you're that far out, and admit it, act like a convalescent, because you're not part of society.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 07, 2023 09:28 AM (jYCXf)

424 My take on Trump and the J6 prisoners is that he didn’t want to make things worse for them by sticking his nose in. Not that they haven’t been treated abysmally anyway.

My take is simpler - things happened faster than Trump, or most other people, could process. And it had happened before. His reaction to the election steal was slow, by about two weeks. I noticed, at the same time, that exactly three of the people around me - in the physical world - were willing to call it a steal by that first weekend, when action was the most critical.

His J6 reaction was similar. I just don't think the old man had it in him to recognize what was going down. And that's not a knock on him, he simply trusts his country when he should not. Most of the people around me are the same. Most of the people around me still won't speak of the J6 prisoners. They simply refuse to process it. It's too horrible for them to contemplate. Same goes for Trump.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 09:29 AM (bHvPK)

425 >domain awareness gap

gibberish
has no meaning I can decipher
maybe that's the point

Posted by: DB at February 07, 2023 09:29 AM (geLO8)

426 And who forced her to have unprotected sex?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2023 09:26 AM (mqu1M)

Come, Lizzy, you know all of these abortions are ONLY in the case of rape and incest, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2023 09:30 AM (CsVWE)

427 Maybe. Though an argument could easily be made that the Left has made their worst miscalculation by going after children. Even people like me without our own children are repulsed by what they are doing to kids.
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The Waffen SS in every Blue Shithole is the Public Teachers Union. See Randi Weingarten for the details. Also, the Waffen SS has a Cabinet Post in DC called the Department of Education. The Waffen SS decides who will be on a city council and who will be mayor of said Shithole.

Posted by: Puddihead at February 07, 2023 09:30 AM (g/54t)

428 51
This is 20 years old but in 13 pages states about 35 that is zero proof helmets, or seatbelts, or basic safety inspections laws save lives.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 07, 2023 08:01 AM (BRHaw)
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Well seatbelts have prevented my family from serious injury at least twice. It is obvious that striking a hard surface with a properly designed crash helmet will prevent lethal injuries. No argument really. Now the safety inspections? Brakes checked? Lights checked? That should be enough.
Now I do agree that we shouldn't legislate and fine people for their choice. We let people race cars? What, that's not dangerous? Who gave them permission? No one? Then why come after me for not wearing a seatbelt?
(note: in my car everyone wears a seatbelt before we go anywhere).

Posted by: Ciampino - If you want to ride a bike without safe gear go ahead. at February 07, 2023 09:31 AM (qfLjt)

429 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 07, 2023 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

430 "When the State forces a woman to bear a child she does not want & cannot care for, that is the very definition of involuntary servitude!!!

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground"

I find it amusing and mind boggling that in this day and age the left is unaware women have access to many forms of contraception and the choice of, (gasp!) refraining from having sex.

Posted by: Ripley at February 07, 2023 09:31 AM (cUYo/)

431 Thanks JackStraw.

This was said here in regards to twitter, facebook, etc. having FBI agents on staff. It's neat to see the FBI confirm it:

"17. On May 9, 2017, Evanina spoke, alongside FBI agent Charles McGonigal (familiar name?)

Evanina spoke about recruiting employees to Intel Community. He emphatically stated, regarding hiring by the CIA, NSA & FBI:

“ONCE WE GET THEM IN, WE OWN THEM FOR LIFE”

https://tinyurl.com/2dacj7od

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 09:31 AM (Oto6+)

432 The same charge however that can be laid at his feet after, can be laid at ours and the fucksticks in the GOPe: What have we done SINCE?

We continue to support Cruz and Paul, who call J6 an insurrection and award medals of bravery to the capitol police.

Why aren't we running those assholes out of town on a rail? To ask the question is to answer it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at February 07, 2023 09:31 AM (AW0uW)

433 Then they come back the next morning and expect their opinions and insights to be valued equally with the sane. If you're that far out, and admit it, act like a convalescent, because you're not part of society.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 07, 2023 09:28 AM (jYCXf)

I'm sitting right here, you know.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2023 09:31 AM (45fpk)

434 FBI whistleblower post on TS
https://tinyurl.com/mwb8nkkz

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 07, 2023 09:32 AM (DB16e)

435 >domain awareness gap
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When Biden shakes hands with nobody. Domain awareness gap.

When Biden wanders off stage and has to be directed where to go. Domain awareness gap.

When Biden says that more than half the women in his administration are women. Domain awareness gap.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 07, 2023 09:33 AM (lf83v)

436 recognizing the inherrent injury rates to Marines.

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I like this statement in regards to motorcycles so much.

Posted by: Without Ashli Babbitt shot it's just people walking respectfully between velvet ropes at February 07, 2023 09:33 AM (Oto6+)

437 I'm sitting right here, you know.

Posted by: grammie winger at February 07, 2023 09:31 AM (45fpk)

You're different. Anybody with a white couch is OK in my book.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 09:33 AM (bHvPK)

438 >>>Case in point: The woman who murdered her young children was on 23 different psychiatric prescription drugs.

The psychiatrist was crazy himself.

Posted by: Ziba at February 07, 2023 09:33 AM (4h9M3)

439 > "Corporations Are Not People!" is yet another leftist slogan that needs to have a second look at.

"And that's why we voted for the guy who was Senator For Life from the state that's been so thoroughly captured by corporate interests that it has more registered corporations than actual human residents!"

Leftism is an evil religion that requires forcing one to pretend to believe things contrary to fact. The self-humiliation is part of the kink.

See also: "Down with old white men! That's why we voted for the oldest white man EVER!"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 07, 2023 09:34 AM (bW8dp)

440 Most of the people around me still won't speak of the J6 prisoners. They simply refuse to process it. It's too horrible for them to contemplate. Same goes for Trump.
Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 09:29 AM (bHvPK)

Exactly. The secret weapon of the Left is their egregious audacity in a culture unaccustomed to such actions and behavior. Andrew Klavan wrote a piece many years ago about this, what he called the people's "the scope of sensitivity."

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 07, 2023 09:34 AM (H8QX8)

441 What the freaking Hell?

Hulu advertising a four night event called History of the World Part II.

But there is no Viking funeral nor Hitler on ice or Jews in space... plus not even a cameo of Mel Brooks.

Hard pass.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 07, 2023 09:35 AM (Uf9wt)

442 AoSHQ headlines 3 years ago today, 1 month prior to The Plandemic and Great Reset executed on the world:

Gallup: 59% of Americans Say They Are Better Off Than They Were Last Year (And Last Year Was Pretty Good Too).
This Is the Highest Level Ever Recorded for This Measure.

http://bit.ly/3I2h44K

Nine in 10 Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in their personal life, a new high in Gallup's four-decade trend. The latest figure bests the previous high of 88% recorded in 2003.
...

Gallup has asked a follow-up question since 2001 to measure the extent to which Americans are satisfied or dissatisfied with their personal life. The 65% of U.S. adults who are currently "very satisfied" marks a new high in the two-decade trend.

More Great Economic News – Low Gasoline Prices – A Situation That Democrats and Never Trump Vow To Reverse -- [BUCK THROCKMORTON]

http://bit.ly/3REEzE4

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 07, 2023 09:37 AM (Do5/p)

443 "recognizing the inherent injury rates to Marines."

Hold my crayons > hold my beer.

Posted by: PabloD at February 07, 2023 09:42 AM (56oEv)

444 Now I do agree that we shouldn't legislate and fine people for their choice. We let people race cars? What, that's not dangerous? Who gave them permission? No one? Then why come after me for not wearing a seatbelt?
(note: in my car everyone wears a seatbelt before we go anywhere).
Posted by: Ciampino - If you want to ride a bike without safe gear go ahead. at February 07, 2023 09:31 AM (qfLjt)
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Dunno about government fining but insurance companies should be able to say that you're not covered if you disregarded standard safety procedures. Insurance companies should also be free to make choices.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 09:43 AM (gugbE)

445 AoSHQ headline on February 09, 2020:

How To Beat President Trump... And Don't Worry, The Democrats Are Far Too Dysfuncional And Insane To Do The Smart Thing

http://bit.ly/3RC4dtj

So much for not needing to worry...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 07, 2023 09:50 AM (Do5/p)

446 Regardless of who runs against Trump they start with a big advantage, which they will beat like a drum in debates: Trump got beat by Joe Fricking Biden, and they didn't. Losing to Biden is hard to comprehend, even with the Democrats fraud machine in full support. How can you lose to Biden, the idiot? The guy who never left his basement. *SMH*

Anyway, age is another disqualifying factor IMO. Trump is too old to be president.

His personal qualities are debatable, but unlike many, I think he had to be as tough and argumentative as he was because he was facing the combined onslaught of a united Propaganda Press. If I had my way, those criminals would all be unemployed and living in their earthly paradise of North Korea. I would also send the RINO's and the Deep Staters, all of whom actively conspired to defeat the policy changes being implemented by the duly elected President of the United States. "Treason" is the word that comes to mind...

So I am by no means against Trump but I truly hope not to have him run, and in fact see him endorse another candidate in his mold arises who is younger.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2023 09:56 AM (35OEr)

447 84
And National Periodic Table Day.
Posted by: redridinghood"

Now that sounds like it will have an element of fun!
Posted by: fd at February 07, 2023 08:03 AM (iayUP)

No, it's boron.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 07, 2023 08:08 AM (MoZTd)

hey Bro it's mine.
Nope, they Argon and we Barium instead of Curium.

Posted by: Ciampino - Illegal who illegally crossed then was never here at February 07, 2023 09:57 AM (qfLjt)

448 444 Now I do agree that we shouldn't legislate and fine people for their choice. We let people race cars? What, that's not dangerous? Who gave them permission? No one? Then why come after me for not wearing a seatbelt?
(note: in my car everyone wears a seatbelt before we go anywhere).
Posted by: Ciampino - If you want to ride a bike without safe gear go ahead. at February 07, 2023 09:31 AM (qfLjt)
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Dunno about government fining but insurance companies should be able to say that you're not covered if you disregarded standard safety procedures. Insurance companies should also be free to make choices.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 07, 2023 09:43 AM (gugbE)
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I agree entirely but one is a business decision and the customer can go elsewhere, the other has the force of the Law and can put the citizen in jail.

Posted by: Ciampino - The Illegal who illegally crossed then was never here at February 07, 2023 10:01 AM (qfLjt)

449 So the Biden Admin went back through tapes and now reveals to the Chicoms that we didn't see their prior incursions, or that we did see them but our chain of command was too fractured to get it to the CIC help our national security --to try to establish a "Trump too" false equivalence.

Giving this type of free info to our adversaries is IMO much worse/ so much more actionable to the Chicoms than holding onto some mid-level analyst's "classified" memo on Ukraine. Yet the fact that the Admin just casually revealed so much about our strategic capabilities and command structure is covered by no one.

Posted by: Zek at February 07, 2023 10:15 AM (5FPX4)

450 Delete "help our national security." But you get the point.

Posted by: Zek at February 07, 2023 10:16 AM (5FPX4)

451 JJ, I think you and Ace are massive idiots because you both idiotically parroted the Biden Regime’s propaganda on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.

Putin and the Russian Military are losers, and all that BS.

Meanwhile, on the worldwide battlefield, it is increasingly obvious that based on current trends the USA (and the incredibly weak UK and EU; with the exception of Poland, the Baltic States, along with Ukraine, who are willing to send their military age population into the meat grinder) is heading into a two-front war against Russia and China it is ill equipped to handle (especially with the dementia case in chief as its figurehead).

Honestly, self-identified morons (real morons, not those who joke about it but who don’t mean it) have significantly higher IQ and reasoning abilities than you.

You twit.

Posted by: Dummy #43 at February 07, 2023 10:21 AM (FkMTW)

452 374 Pfizer makes Carter's Little Liver Pills look like Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet.

If we get a do-over ... one thing we have got to re-think is the nature of corporations, for no other reason than the shield of anonymity it provides. Most of us here will agree that "Pfizer" is up to no good. But "Pfizer" is just a concept - we need something more concrete. Who, exactly, is to blame ? We don't know, precisely, because of that shield of anonymity that corporate structures provide.

Posted by: Tell It Like It Is at February 07, 2023 09:16 AM (bHvPK)
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Well I maintain that this applies to almost all structured entities. When we sue an entity we should have laws that allow us to target the individual(s) in the entity and not the faceless entity. When losing means a hole in your pocket then we may have better HR departments, better schools and universities, and so on.

Posted by: Ciampino - Between blather and farts ....! at February 07, 2023 10:34 AM (qfLjt)

453 You gotta learn how the FBI works, bro.

If McCarthy doesn't put the fence up, they'll organize another J6 again and put the blame on him.

Why he continues to fund the domestic enemies of this country is the mystery.

Posted by: JamesTCarville at February 07, 2023 10:50 AM (wrDSd)

454 Rock and Roll is truly dead. Jeff Beck passes away and some gay fat dude is the new big thing.

Posted by: Ron at February 07, 2023 10:55 AM (AtKtr)

455 Just as it was during, and for months after, Bidens inauguration, the Nations Capitol has become a locked down, Martial Law, armed, militaristic, No-Go zone...guaranteeing there will be no walk-outs/protests/demonstration 'events' such as those that took place at Trumps inauguration and every single one of his SOTU addresses to congress...demonstrations planned and led by Democrat members of congress. Some of which turned violent.

Posted by: birddog at February 07, 2023 11:29 AM (uAI4S)

456 It seems to me that this is just the junta manipulating us, playing with our emotions, trying to get us to hate China, just as it did with Russophobia since the Cold War, as the neocons in Washington begin to understand they are losing the war in Ukraine, and now needs a new enemy to focus our hatred upon. But how gullible and stupid is the American public to believe that China would use a BALLOON to drop a nuke or to spy on us, when they have satellites and ICBMs that could do the job more effectively. Wake up, people. They're lying to us--about absolutely everything.

Posted by: Kimo Loka at February 07, 2023 01:26 PM (ZO1EW)

457 A lot of the security around the capital is just pure drama, but you could tell from the way many of the politicians acted after January 6 that they really were (and still are) scared to death. To understand what they felt that day, you have to put yourself in their shoes. If you were attacking a country’s food and energy supply, while simultaneously unleashing a horrific crime wave on their cities, and you knew that the citizens collectively owned about half a billion guns, you would be horrified at the thought of them getting at you.

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