Company That Rents Books By the Foot For Decor Purposes Sees Business Boom As Washington DC Talking Heads Call Them Up to Rent Books for the Backgrounds of Their Zoom Calls

The Smartest People in America (TM) don't have real books for the background of their Zoom calls. They have to rent them as props.

In a place like Washington--small, interconnected, erudite, gossipy--being well-read can create certain advantages. So, too, can seeming well-read. The "Washington bookshelf" is almost a phenomenon in itself, whether in a hotel library, at a think tank office or on the walls behind the cocktail bar at a Georgetown house.
And, as with nearly any other demand of busy people and organizations, it can be conjured up wholesale, for a fee.
Books by the Foot, a service run by the Maryland-based bookseller Wonder Book, has become a go-to curator of Washington bookshelves, offering precisely what its name sounds like it does. As retro as a shelf of books might seem in an era of flat-panel screens, Books by the Foot has thrived through Democratic and Republican administrations, including that of the book-averse Donald Trump. And this year, the company has seen a twist: When the coronavirus pandemic arrived, Books by the Foot had to adapt to a downturn in office- and hotel-decor business--and an uptick in home-office Zoom backdrops for the talking-head class.
The Wonder Book staff doesn't pry too much into which objective a particular client is after. If an order were to come in for, say, 12 feet of books about politics, specifically with a progressive or liberal tilt--as one did in August--Wonder Book's manager, Jessica Bowman, would simply send one of her more politics-savvy staffers to the enormous box labeled "Politically Incorrect" (the name of Books by the Foot's politics package) to select about 120 books by authors like Hillary Clinton, Bill Maher, Al Franken and Bob Woodward. The books would then be "staged," or arranged with the same care a florist might extend to a bouquet of flowers, on a library cart; double-checked by a second staffer; and then shipped off to the residence or commercial space where they would eventually be shelved and displayed (or shelved and taken down to read).
Only sometimes do Bowman and Wonder Book President Chuck Roberts know the real identity of the person whose home or project they've outfitted: "When we work with certain designers, I pretty much already know it's going to be either an A-list movie or an A-list client. They always order under some code name," Bowman says. "They're very secretive."

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1 Potemkin offices!

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2020 12:24 PM (O+I8R)

2 Joe Biden may want to rethink the library stocked with coloring books - especially since they aren't colored within the lines.

Posted by: pep at December 28, 2020 12:24 PM (v16oJ)

3 So shelves of Something, Something for Dummies.

Posted by: Old Doc Beartooth at December 28, 2020 12:25 PM (vgGvZ)

4 I suppose when posing is your whole life, there's no reason your library should be different.

Posted by: pep at December 28, 2020 12:25 PM (v16oJ)

5 Holy crap is that funny.. and I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it!

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 28, 2020 12:26 PM (zTThE)

6 Semi-literate elites with fancy book covers, we must follow them!

Posted by: Libnuts at December 28, 2020 12:26 PM (ONvIw)

7 Can they please pay me to take pictures of my books and send it to them?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2020 12:26 PM (VP4Cd)

8 Ah jeez, the Pee Wee Herman video phone backgrounds have come to pass.

I prefer Shea Stadium.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:26 PM (L8ADy)

9 My books most assuredly do not provide an attractive background for Zoom calls. My bookshelves are messy and overloaded.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:26 PM (lgiXo)

10 (looks behind me, thinks about Rubbermaids in the garage, thinks about boxes under the bed)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Pro-mask study again accidentally confirms that masks are just magic talismans at December 28, 2020 12:26 PM (k1L5r)

11 Burrito coverings.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 28, 2020 12:26 PM (3P/5p)

12 The books would then be "staged," or arranged with the same care a
florist might extend to a bouquet of flowers, on a library cart;
double-checked by a second staffer; and then shipped off to the
residence or commercial space where they would eventually be shelved and
displayed (or shelved and taken down to read).

Protip: if the books look like they've been arranged by a decorator, they haven't been read, and the putative owner is a fraud.

Posted by: pep at December 28, 2020 12:27 PM (v16oJ)

13 It's not that they don't have books. The problem is that they have all the wrong books.

It's like when you have guests over, so you "casually" leave out tSergio Mendez vinyl record on the coffee table, while hiding your "Third Eye Blind's Greatest Hits" CD.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2020 12:27 PM (jOcSX)

14 Sure, the books can make you look smarter, but they don't cover up everything.

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at December 28, 2020 12:27 PM (FJYfm)

15 Books By The BTU is just waiting to take off.

Posted by: t-bird at December 28, 2020 12:27 PM (WLHrn)

16 So... the throw in line about book adverse Trump?
Is he?

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 28, 2020 12:27 PM (zTThE)

17 Can I rent a Jeffrey Toobin?

Posted by: ShainS at December 28, 2020 12:27 PM (vVZVb)

18 Doesn't Zoom provide background screens?

Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:27 PM (lgiXo)

19 Potemkin offices!
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 28, 2020 12:24 PM (O+I8R)

That is the perfect description!

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Si Vis Pacam, Pac Bellum) at December 28, 2020 12:27 PM (AH9Ku)

20 In Real Estate they have home stagers, I haven't thought to ask any here in Silicon Valley if they've gotten calls to stage any offices with something besides exercise bicycles and motivational posters.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:28 PM (L8ADy)

21 Protip: if the books look like they've been arranged by a decorator, they haven't been read, and the putative owner is a fraud.
Posted by: pep at December 28, 2020 12:27 PM (v16oJ)

If they're organized by color then the police are automatically justified in searching the house for dead bodies.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2020 12:28 PM (jOcSX)

22 Awaiting the compilation photos of all the same book shelves in the background from the smart set.

Posted by: Old Doc Beartooth at December 28, 2020 12:28 PM (vgGvZ)

23 I understand the AoSHQ Book Thread will now be selling texts by the foot to make one's browser look more professional.

Posted by: stumck at December 28, 2020 12:28 PM (w9Wax)

24 I understand the AoSHQ Book Thread will now be selling texts by the foot to make one's browser look more professional.
Posted by: stumck at December 28, 2020 12:28 PM (w9Wax)

Ace will make a fortune from his movie reviews!

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2020 12:29 PM (jOcSX)

25 I'm told there are interior decorators who select books based on their color. Apparently the titles and subjects don't matter so long as the books look old.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at December 28, 2020 12:29 PM (sWM8x)

26 Sure, the books can make you look smarter, but they don't cover up everything.
Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at December 28, 2020 12:27 PM (FJYfm)

They need to have snapchat filters that recognize the ol' Willie. King cobra, weasel, hot dog with extra mustard, frightened cat...

Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:29 PM (L8ADy)

27 I understand the AoSHQ Book Thread will now be selling texts by the foot to make one's browser look more professional.
Outrageous pants are extra.

Posted by: pep at December 28, 2020 12:29 PM (v16oJ)

28 It's not that they don't have books. The problem is that they have all the wrong books.

Juggs.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 12:29 PM (LwB8i)

29 Since Zoom supports virtual backgrounds, they should just sell a *picture* of the rows of books to be used as a virtual background. That's what I do, though mine in an authentic pic of my actual library. I get a lot of positive comments.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at December 28, 2020 12:30 PM (hQrcu)

30 There is an even lazier way to obtain books.
If you ever go to a model home furniture sale, you can usually get some books thrown in for free when purchasing one or more of the furnishing-related items.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 28, 2020 12:30 PM (ch6++)

31 20 In Real Estate they have home stagers, I haven't thought to ask any here in Silicon Valley if they've gotten calls to stage any offices with something besides exercise bicycles and motivational posters.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:28 PM (L8ADy)

I thought home stagers try to remove every trace of personality from your house because what you like might turn a potential buyer off.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:30 PM (lgiXo)

32 The fake books compliment the fake glasses.

Posted by: Dark Helmet at December 28, 2020 12:30 PM (G9vZE)

33 9 My books most assuredly do not provide an attractive background for Zoom calls. My bookshelves are messy and overloaded.
Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:26 PM (lgiXo)

Yesterday on the Book Thread:

359 353 You can tell the difference between someone who is a book reader and who has books around to seem well read and smart.

The reader's house is haphazardly piled with books and the shelves look almost randomly stocked, with books shoved in sideways on top of others on the shelf because they ran out of room...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 27, 2020 11:34 AM (KZzsI)

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 28, 2020 12:30 PM (PiwSw)

34 There are companies that do this with LPs, too.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2020 12:30 PM (93LO+)

35 I thought home stagers try to remove every trace of personality from your house because what you like might turn a potential buyer off.
Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:30 PM (lgiXo)

Which is the same reason that these jackwagons buy Books by the Foot.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2020 12:30 PM (jOcSX)

36 Weak men. Bad times.

Posted by: Biggus Dickus at December 28, 2020 12:30 PM (ntg4m)

37 Heh. No surprise. I assumed those were either fake or if real had never been read. Hell of a good business idea though.

Posted by: Asshoes at December 28, 2020 12:30 PM (kRraM)

38 Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:26 PM (lgiXo)

You know you have a problem when you have books in every room of the house including the bathroom. I think I shared the story of the professor who shared an office with my mother-also a professor. He was a single man and when some friends found out he had died they went over to his apartment. There were huge piles of books everywhere-so high it was like some kind of book maze.

To whom can one send books to that you no longer want?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2020 12:30 PM (VP4Cd)

39 Plastic People with fake libraries. They don't need to actually read anything when they already have "their truth".

Posted by: Doctor Toad-O, Boomer Rube at December 28, 2020 12:31 PM (cct0t)

40 Didn't the Hilton chick or one of her hangers on cause a stir a few years back because she had a craft video showing how to use those strange book things no one understands to make shelf art? She's just a reflection of, or more precisely a system feedback indicator of our managed decline into a servile caste.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 28, 2020 12:31 PM (l6b3d)

41 Books by the Foot has thrived through Democratic and Republican administrations, including that of the book-averse Donald Trump.

_______

On the flip side though, Gorilla TV now outperforms Netflix in every category except pedo programming.

Posted by: ShainS at December 28, 2020 12:31 PM (vVZVb)

42 If they're organized by color then the police are automatically justified in searching the house for dead bodies.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2020 12:28 PM (jOcSX)

Or with the spines turned inward...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 28, 2020 12:31 PM (PiwSw)

43 My library smells of leather bound books and mahogany.

Posted by: Ron Burgundy at December 28, 2020 12:31 PM (0QYMt)

44 The reader's house is haphazardly piled with books and the shelves look
almost randomly stocked, with books shoved in sideways on top of others
on the shelf because they ran out of room...

I'm currently confronting the problem that the sideways space atop my library books is now full. I'm considering raising the ceiling.

Posted by: pep at December 28, 2020 12:31 PM (v16oJ)

45 Every piece of journalism must include some reference to how Trump is "book averse", "science averse", or "intelligence averse" until he is forcibly removed from office on Biden's Inauguration Day.

Posted by: champed at December 28, 2020 12:32 PM (9Aon7)

46 39 Plastic People with fake libraries. They don't need to actually read anything when they already have "their truth".

Posted by: Doctor Toad-O, Boomer Rube at December 28, 2020 12:31 PM (cct0t)

=========

Thomas Aquinas didn't even acknowledge the plight of native peoples under British colonial rule or the troubles of transgendered people trying to be accepted.

What could he possible say that would relate to me?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:32 PM (NWM+b)

47 **Looks at bookshelf**

I guess the Whiskey and Cigar books gotta go, as well as the IEDs for Fun and Profit.

I'll leave the one on Management Information Systems. That'll make me look smart.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 28, 2020 12:32 PM (axyOa)

48 I understand the AoSHQ Book Thread will now be selling texts by the foot to make one's browser look more professional.
Outrageous pants are extra.
Posted by: pep

All hail plaid pants and white shoes!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 12:32 PM (LwB8i)

49 for a zoom call, maybe a green screen and a fake wall of books would work?

I'd guess one can order books that lean one political way or another, depending on how Woke the person is trying to appear.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 28, 2020 12:32 PM (Cus5s)

50 Every Lawyers Office, ever. Also...fake books.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2020 12:32 PM (93LO+)

51 43 My library smells of leather bound books and mahogany.
Posted by: Ron Burgundy at December 28, 2020 12:31 PM (0QYMt)

==========

At least it doesn't smell like a dirty diaper filled with Indian food.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:33 PM (NWM+b)

52 Protip: if the books look like they've been arranged by a decorator, they haven't been read, and the putative owner is a fraud.
Posted by: pep

A stager I know has had folks ask her to arrange books such that the spines are towards the back of bookcase.

This has the effect of identifying the owner as an imbecile.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2020 12:33 PM (Rvt88)

53 Just think of the spike in demand for book shelvers, Ace!

Posted by: ShainS at December 28, 2020 12:33 PM (vVZVb)

54 45 Every piece of journalism must include some reference to how Trump is "book averse", "science averse", or "intelligence averse" until he is forcibly removed from office on Biden's Inauguration Day.
Posted by: champed at December 28, 2020 12:32 PM (9Aon7)

I don't think there's a lot of evidence Obama is a reader. The dumb George W. Bush read a lot more than Obama.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:33 PM (lgiXo)

55 I thought home stagers try to remove every trace of personality from your house because what you like might turn a potential buyer off.
Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:30 PM (lgiXo)

Yes, they do, but most have a literal warehouse full of furniture to replace the crap people have. Also, right now here in Silicon Valley, most homes are vacant - so they need to put furniture in at least the living room, kitchen, dining and ~~Master Bedroom~~ Owner's Suite. People have a hard time envisioning scale in empty places, so SOMETHING needs to be in there.

For an occupied house, a stager will go in and help - but often the realtor takes care of the "take down all these pics, autographed baseballs" etc. A LOT of people fight this, but people need to be able to see themselves in a house, if it's too personal they can't get around that.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:33 PM (L8ADy)

56 Stupid.

I bought a photo backdrop for $20.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at December 28, 2020 12:34 PM (wGxSf)

57 This is not new. My mother inherited a ton of leather bound hardback books from my great grandfather. We all thought they were valuable. But when we went to sell them, the only way they could be sold was by the foot. This happened some time in the '70s.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at December 28, 2020 12:34 PM (hfuUh)

58 Oh the golden scalp weasel is book-averse. Of course, that is why he authored a book called "art of the deal" or sumptin. But he is averse to lying so I suspect he has never used a service such as books by the foot.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 28, 2020 12:34 PM (Aashi)

59 31

No need to pay anyone to do that. When selling a house remove all photos And any personal stuff off the walls, diplomas, your favorite sportsball team memorabilia, etc. And then declutter as much as you can. Remove everything from kitchen counters. Remove any furniture that makes a room look small. Get rid of all the shit in your bathrooms other than a towel or two and a toothbrush.

Rent a storage unit if you have to for a month or two.

It blows my mind how much shit some people have in their homes when selling.

Posted by: Asshoes at December 28, 2020 12:34 PM (kRraM)

60 55 For an occupied house, a stager will go in and help - but often the realtor takes care of the "take down all these pics, autographed baseballs" etc. A LOT of people fight this, but people need to be able to see themselves in a house, if it's too personal they can't get around that.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:33 PM (L8ADy)

========

Yeah, we had to take down a whole lot when we sold our house.

Our realtor said, "You'll just have to take down a bit." The stager said, "You have to take down just about everything."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:35 PM (NWM+b)

61 Wouldn't it be easier to just use a bookshelf fa�ade? Or the digital backgrounds?

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 28, 2020 12:35 PM (ftFVW)

62 I've been working from home since September of last year, I've been using a 25 year old picture as an avatar.

When I have need to turn on the camera the view is of my gun case which has a very prominent view of my dangerous black guns and my Mets memorabilia.

This way people know I'm out of my mind and have guns.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 28, 2020 12:35 PM (ikm0a)

63 Had a collection of Adelle Davis' most important books.
Now, all I can find is, 'Let's Cook it Right'.

Posted by: Braenyard looking for the AT&T bomber manifesto at December 28, 2020 12:35 PM (CZm2G)

64 >> Get rid of all the shit in your bathrooms other than a towel or two and a fake toothbrush.

Pro Tip : Don't leave your real toothbrush in your bathroom.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2020 12:35 PM (93LO+)

65 This has the effect of identifying the owner as an imbecile.

I'm guessing the secret had already been revealed.

Posted by: pep at December 28, 2020 12:35 PM (v16oJ)

66 Superficial fakery. Your learned class.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2020 12:36 PM (hYcqw)

67 Have an outer space background with stars and planets.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 28, 2020 12:36 PM (63Dwl)

68
I, for one, find it surprising that Our Washington Elite aren't proud of their shelves filled with dildos and child porn.

And instead fake literacy.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 28, 2020 12:36 PM (EERbD)

69 Willowed.

But a Gentleman will pull the recruits aside and demonstrate the proper method of calling for Artillery. The King of Battle, bringing decorum to what otherwise might be an unruly brawl.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 28, 2020 12:15 PM (axyOa)

For some reason, this scares the crap out of me. I assume most recruits are as inept as i am in reading a map to find out where they are, then correctly determining on that same map where the target is.

Posted by: BifBewalski AOS Moron at December 28, 2020 12:36 PM (VcFUs)

70 LOL, so believable. The exception being those who've written a book or two and uses all of theit=r own books for their zoom call background.

Related: Remember MTV's "Cribs" show? Fun show to see the celebrity homes. The episode w/Moby he noted that no one ever shows off their books shelves (because they;re all stupid rockers and athletes you guyz), and then he showed off his first editions and favorite books. Pretentious, but Moby had a point.

What was much more common was a mancave/tv den with a yuuuge dvd collection and always - always! - a framed "Scarface" movie poster.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 28, 2020 12:36 PM (bDqIh)

71 That's why I hate zoom. The whole meeting becomes a sort of arms race over who can have the most attractive or controversial setting.

Posted by: navybrat, quarantined at December 28, 2020 12:36 PM (w7KSn)

72 Conversely, you could buy yourself a Pinball machine or two to park behind you...

I know what I would choose.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2020 12:37 PM (93LO+)

73
Superficial fakery. Your learned class.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Uncle Joe is the perfect representative.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 28, 2020 12:37 PM (63Dwl)

74 That's why I hate zoom. The whole meeting becomes a sort of arms race over who can have the most attractive or controversial setting.
Posted by: navybrat, quarantined at December 28, 2020 12:36 PM (w7KSn)
+++++++++++
Rebel like I do. My background in Zoom is real. It is a futon and plain, unadorned wall. People can marvel or be horrified or whatever at my surroundings. That's on them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2020 12:37 PM (hYcqw)

75 Meanwhile my spare room is starting to have issues with Floor The Largest Shelf. I finally boxed up my manga just to clear out a bookshelf to move books into.

Now to move the books into it. *sloths*

I bet those books are also all arranged by color too.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 28, 2020 12:37 PM (GbPPJ)

76 17 Can I rent a Jeffrey Toobin?
Posted by: ShainS at December 28, 2020 12:27 PM (vVZVb)

If your purpose is to confirm that the book people only rented you 4" of books you may wish to spend a little more and go with purchasing a "tape measure," as it is effective for sizing things beyond your standard Toobin. But I do admire your thrift and desire to help the unemployed.

Posted by: Turnout Man at December 28, 2020 12:37 PM (7CyhL)

77 67 Have an outer space background with stars and planets.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 28, 2020 12:36 PM (63Dwl)

Have a replica Oval Office!

Posted by: Frank Luntz, who's totally not weird at December 28, 2020 12:37 PM (PiwSw)

78 My Zoom/webex background is a gray wall in my home office. No art work or bookshelves.

Posted by: Asshoes at December 28, 2020 12:37 PM (kRraM)

79 71 That's why I hate zoom. The whole meeting becomes a sort of arms race over who can have the most attractive or controversial setting.
Posted by: navybrat, quarantined at December 28, 2020 12:36 PM (w7KSn)

I confess my office is messy but that's what people see when I'm on a Zoom call. I need to figure out the virtual backgrounds.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:38 PM (lgiXo)

80 Our realtor said, "You'll just have to take down a bit." The stager said, "You have to take down just about everything."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:35 PM (NWM+b)

Often it's easier to get somebody else to come in and be the bad guy. After doing this for almost 17 years, I've seen pretty much everything. De-clutter, then de-clutter. It's better to have the garage or a spare room full of boxes. Every house I've seen where people can't quite do this also means they're not quite ready to leave.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:38 PM (L8ADy)

81 "book-averse Donald Trump"

Translation: Don't hate us for bashing leftists buying display books!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:38 PM (KZzsI)

82 I'm thinking of pulling that old Farrah Fawcett poster out and tacking it up. Ought to go well on the next Zoom with our HR rep.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 28, 2020 12:38 PM (axyOa)

83 75 Meanwhile my spare room is starting to have issues with Floor The Largest Shelf. I finally boxed up my manga just to clear out a bookshelf to move books into.

Now to move the books into it. *sloths*

I bet those books are also all arranged by color too.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 28, 2020 12:37 PM (GbPPJ)

==========

All my movies are on a series of shelves I built (still standing) in our media room closet. Arranged alphabetically, the different heights of DVDs and Blu-rays is beginning to get to me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:38 PM (NWM+b)

84 Do they actually sell books, or hollowed-out facsimile representations of books? Because it seems like the latter would be cheaper

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at December 28, 2020 12:39 PM (xj85G)

85 OT: Has anyone had problems with USPS not providing tracking info, returning errors instead?

Did their vote fraud ballot hiding AI go rampant, lock down the building, and is right now subjecting the surviving employees to increasingly difficult obstacle courses in return for non-existent cake?

Posted by: banana Dream at December 28, 2020 12:39 PM (l6b3d)

86 Go to a new model home and see how it is staged. As minimalist as possible. That is how you need to have your home when selling it.

Posted by: Asshoes at December 28, 2020 12:39 PM (kRraM)

87 Rent them! I thought they bought them. Just like the scene in Gatsby. The dude checks out the other dude's library. All new books. He removes one. It's never been cracked. He scans all the covers, none have been cracked. And we readers go, "Aw man, that guy was just expensively showing presumed enlightenment when he's actually vacuous."

Posted by: bour3 at December 28, 2020 12:39 PM (IQzyi)

88 One of my favorite questions to ask liberals is which president watched about 40 hours of TV a week and which one read about 80 books a year.

They always think Obama was a reader and Bush was the TV addict.

Posted by: MJ at December 28, 2020 12:39 PM (gAMkn)

89 Do they guarantee any visible book titles will meet the approval of SJWs?

Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:40 PM (lgiXo)

90 87 Rent them! I thought they bought them. Just like the scene in Gatsby. The dude checks out the other dude's library. All new books. He removes one. It's never been cracked. He scans all the covers, none have been cracked. And we readers go, "Aw man, that guy was just expensively showing presumed enlightenment when he's actually vacuous."
Posted by: bour3 at December 28, 2020 12:39 PM (IQzyi)

========

I thought it was just about books.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:40 PM (NWM+b)

91 I Agree with # 67. You could Green screen a modest library wall and be just as pompous. I wonder what the rented books are? If they are actual literary great works or just cooking books with the paper facade removed?

Posted by: Picric at December 28, 2020 12:40 PM (C1cHg)

92 Nobody can see bookshelves when I have Zoom calls. For one thing, I don't have an office. My computer is at a desk in the dining room which doesn't have book shelves. Also, there's not enough light, except for the light on my face because the other Zoom people tend to have bookshelves that I think are all real while I look like I'm calling from the Bastille.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2020 12:40 PM (VP4Cd)

93 That's why I hate zoom. The whole meeting becomes a sort of arms race over who can have the most attractive or controversial setting.
Posted by: navybrat, quarantined at December 28, 2020 12:36 PM (w7KSn)

I'd have fun with it TBH. Just like the old Pee Wee show. Wear a scuba mask and have fish swimming around in the background...

Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:40 PM (L8ADy)

94 Trust me.
The first time you take a swig of beer at the 11:00 AM Zoom meeting, no one will be paying attention to the background.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 28, 2020 12:40 PM (axyOa)

95
85 OT: Has anyone had problems with USPS not providing tracking info, returning errors instead?

Did their vote fraud ballot hiding AI go rampant, lock down the building, and is right now subjecting the surviving employees to increasingly difficult obstacle courses in return for non-existent cake?

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Yep. In my self-imposed sequestration I've been relying on mail order/delivery. USPS tracking is unreliable at best. Delivery times are also drawn out. A 2 day priority shipment took over a week.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at December 28, 2020 12:40 PM (wGxSf)

96 I'm told there are interior decorators who select books based on their color. Apparently the titles and subjects don't matter so long as the books look old.

HGTV show actually stage houses so books have the spines inward for intellectual property reasons, which looks extremely dumb.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 28, 2020 12:41 PM (6XLoz)

97 As someone who has been trying to sell books (my own, as used) I can tell you the value of said books is close to zero. I just do it because I can't bring myself to throw them in the landfill.

Posted by: navybrat, quarantined at December 28, 2020 12:41 PM (w7KSn)

98 You can fill up several shelves just with all the autobiographies Obama has written. That should get most of Washington started.

Posted by: Wally at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (FJYfm)

99 Potemkin offices!
Posted by: Lady in Black
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*?*

I have no idea what that means.

Posted by: A Millennial at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (AytXr)

100 Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:38 PM (L8ADy)

The clutter in my house indicates I won't be ready to leave until the year 3000.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (VP4Cd)

101 Don't they need to at least have some idea of the height and size of the person so they can make sure that the most important books aren't obscured by their position.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (Xb4PZ)

102

guys, guys, guys

that lady the FBI sent to jail for trying to get her kid into a better college is now outa jail

people in jail for election fraud = zero

Posted by: will choose a nic later at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (r4bSV)

103 All my movies are on a series of shelves I built (still standing) in our media room closet. Arranged alphabetically, the different heights of DVDs and Blu-rays is beginning to get to me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:38 PM (NWM+b)

Drives. Me. Battier than I am now.

I have the X Files on dvd but I started buying it when I was up in Canada and so the boxes were in English and French and I had to finish buying the series in Canada because the very thought that the boxes wouldn't match made my skin crawl.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (GbPPJ)

104 Lawyers always have books bound in red leather.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (lgiXo)

105 Last couple houses I sold were empty, both sold in less than a week.
I suppose if you have trouble moving one getting it staged would help, but they do virtural staging now too.. so people can look at how it might be.
The one thing I never skimped on was giving the place a complete deep cleaning before anyone came to look.

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (zTThE)

106 When we have our 'zoom' meetings for work I may show my face for a minute, and then I switch to my avatar with the excuse that I have limited bandwidth out here in the boonies. What I hate are the fake backgrounds. Using them blurs the edges of the person and that bugs me. I wouldn't mind the fake tropical beach or whatever otherwise.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (Aashi)

107 Lies on top of lies.

Posted by: f'd at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (+y8uL)

108 For some reason, this scares the crap out of me. I assume most recruits are as inept as i am in reading a map to find out where they are, then correctly determining on that same map where the target is.

Posted by: BifBewalski AOS Moron at December 28, 2020 12:36 PM

See how I waiting until after 100 comments?
**bonus points**

Heh. I never had problems with map reading. But now, with GPS, it is a lost skill.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 28, 2020 12:43 PM (axyOa)

109 The Official Truth is that Gromald Blumpf doesn't read books, except for a copy of Hitler's speeches, which he keeps on his nightstand and studies before going to sleep.

Posted by: Takashi Sheffield at December 28, 2020 12:43 PM (180ZP)

110 I have real bookshelves....and their fabulous.

Posted by: WOPR - Tactically Dramatic is Failue at December 28, 2020 12:43 PM (WVeiZ)

111 >>>It blows my mind how much shit some people have in their homes when selling.
Posted by: Asshoes at December 28, 2020 12:34 PM (kRraM)
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Cleared the clutter, had new carpet installed, walls painted, and lived in the travel trailer parked in front of the detached garage.

House was ready for a showing anytime.

Posted by: Braenyard looking for the AT&T bomber manifesto at December 28, 2020 12:43 PM (CZm2G)

112 One of my favorite questions to ask liberals is which president watched about 40 hours of TV a week and which one read about 80 books a year.

They always think Obama was a reader and Bush was the TV addict.

Posted by: MJ at December 28, 2020 12:39 PM (gAMkn)

I bet they then try to insist that Obama must have watched "intellectual" shows, when in fact that dipshit was watching ESPN and Game of Thrones.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2020 12:43 PM (jOcSX)

113
92 Nobody can see bookshelves when I have Zoom calls. For one thing, I don't have an office. My computer is at a desk in the dining room which doesn't have book shelves. Also, there's not enough light, except for the light on my face because the other Zoom people tend to have bookshelves that I think are all real while I look like I'm calling from the Bastille.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2020 12:40 PM (VP4Cd)

I love dining rooms that double as libraries. I think I might do that in my next house.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 28, 2020 12:43 PM (TdMsT)

114 >>Go to a new model home and see how it is staged. As minimalist as possible. That is how you need to have your home when selling it.

Right now, if I thought about selling my home I would have 3 offers before I was done thinking about it...

crazy how many paople are buying home sight unseen in this market.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2020 12:43 PM (93LO+)

115 Prince Potemkin's fake villiages to impress Czarina Catherine the Great during her float tour of rural Russia.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at December 28, 2020 12:43 PM (mmU7u)

116 Book averse Donald Trump
has sold more books than Joey the Cadaver and Chairman Maobama combined.

Posted by: Some dope in PA at December 28, 2020 12:44 PM (YTBIQ)

117 HGTV show actually stage houses so books have the spines inward for intellectual property reasons, which looks extremely dumb.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 28, 2020 12:41 PM (6XLoz)

Wouldn't it look better to just get a bunch of blank dust covers and use those?

Posted by: Buzzion at December 28, 2020 12:44 PM (Xb4PZ)

118 TBH, displaying your eReader, containinng its hundreds of books, is not altogether impressive.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 28, 2020 12:44 PM (YPZzQ)

119 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 12:44 PM (Zz0t1)

120 I Agree with # 67. You could Green screen a modest library wall and be just as pompous. I wonder what the rented books are? If they are actual literary great works or just cooking books with the paper facade removed?
Posted by: Picric at December 28, 2020 12:40 PM (C1cHg)

A lot of stagers have old books with no discernable markings, or things like Keates or Shakespear etc. that are big and generic. You can tell the difference between a printed or green screen vs. real. So I'm sure they're also supplying things like globes or sculpting to go on the shelf as well.

I think if you're trying to convey you've got a big corner office, then you'd have books that had to do with your business. Like here in the valley, a bunch of O'Reilly technical manuals, along with the obligatory Marxist and global warming BS books.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:44 PM (L8ADy)

121 They're all fake news.

How quaint.

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 12:44 PM (Zz0t1)

122 I'd be very surprised to learn Senile Joe has done a lot of reading in his life.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:44 PM (lgiXo)

123 Book averse Donald Trump
has sold more books than Joey the Cadaver and Chairman Maobama combined.
Posted by: Some dope in PA at December 28, 2020 12:44 PM (YTBIQ)

In fairness to Joe, his coloring books are way underrated.

Posted by: Wally at December 28, 2020 12:45 PM (FJYfm)

124 103
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:38 PM (NWM+b)

Drives. Me. Battier than I am now.I have the X Files on dvd but I started buying it when I was up in Canada and so the boxes were in English and French and I had to finish buying the series in Canada because the very thought that the boxes wouldn't match made my skin crawl.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (GbPPJ)

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Heh. I've started doing upgrades of DVDs to Blu-rays amidst my other regular purchases. I should have it done in a few years. However, there are some DVDs that I won't or can't upgrade. A Time to Kill was my very first DVD purchase. I'll never replace that.

I have Armageddon and The Rock Criterion editions on DVD that will never get Criterion Blu-ray versions. I actually made fake Blu-ray covers for them and will buy empty Blu-ray Cases to house them when I've made enough covers for other movies to justify the exorbitant shipping costs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:45 PM (NWM+b)

125 On the rare occasions I bother to turn on my camera for our weekly office meetings, what they'll see is my Gadsden flag and some nice pictures of Donald Trump and Pope John Paul II.

Mostly they just see my avatar, which is me as a toddler.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 28, 2020 12:45 PM (x8Wzq)

126 I have the X Files on dvd but I started buying it when I was up in Canada and so the boxes were in English and French and I had to finish buying the series in Canada because the very thought that the boxes wouldn't match made my skin crawl.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (GbPPJ)

I bought the first two books of the LotR trilogy this year (my old copies disappeared during a move at some point), and refuse to buy the third because I can't find the same published version of the final book.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2020 12:45 PM (jOcSX)

127 101
Did you notice how the Shit writer for Politico managed to awkwardly shoe-horn a dig at President Trump even though a) President Trump has nothing at all to do with renting books, and b) the claim that President Trump is "book-averse" is 100% pure bullshit not based in fact.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (8PrS9)

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Which is amusing because it reminds me that Obama loves to walk around carrying books so he looks all smart n' stuff, but he never seems to actually read them. On the other hand, he watches a shitload of TV, but it's ok because it's *prestige* TV.

Posted by: radar at December 28, 2020 12:46 PM (3Zp/H)

128 I don't know how much a reader Trump is or not. I just know the left always asserts and presumes that Republicans do not and barely know how to read.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:46 PM (KZzsI)

129 Posted by: navybrat, quarantined at December 28, 2020 12:41 PM (w7KSn)

Real estate agents often buy those old "complete works of" collections, preferably in red or a nice bright beige according to the antique wholesaler I buy from. He has several people he calls in 10+ volumes of just about anything come in if the condition is good and the bindings pretty

Posted by: Libnuts at December 28, 2020 12:46 PM (ONvIw)

130 Were I to have a camera on my PC at my home office, you'd see Elanor (the Chip Foose edition) and a neon beer sign.

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 12:46 PM (Zz0t1)

131 As someone who has been trying to sell books (my own, as used) I can tell you the value of said books is close to zero. I just do it because I can't bring myself to throw them in the landfill.
Posted by: navybrat
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I am confronting that problem now. If I had the energy and patience, Ebay would be an option for selling, but that's rather tedious. Our local used bookstore will not even take a hardback unless it is still in the dust jacket, and they outrightly reject many fine pre-WWII novels.

Biographies? Forget it.

Posted by: A Millennial at December 28, 2020 12:46 PM (CTJwJ)

132 128 I don't know how much a reader Trump is or not. I just know the left always asserts and presumes that Republicans do not and barely know how to read.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:46 PM (KZzsI)

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Personally, I'm completely illiterate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:46 PM (NWM+b)

133 I use MS meetings at work, which I hate because it is overly complicated, and it allows all that AR background stuff. I just have the back of my home office which has messy overstuffed bookshelves amidst a CASIO keyboard, a Celestron scope on top of one of the shelves and a twerking llama on the other. I think a 70s era spirograph box and some various camera equipment is piled in there too. The new thing is people get their cats involved in online meetings.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 28, 2020 12:46 PM (l6b3d)

134 We should thank our lucky stars that Barack Obama was a lazy stupid fuck.

Think of how much damage that monster could have caused if he was actually *trying*....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 28, 2020 12:46 PM (/EuRN)

135 Wouldn't it look better to just get a bunch of blank dust covers and use those?
Posted by: Buzzion at December 28, 2020 12:44 PM (Xb4PZ)

Why antique books are so popular. I'm sorry I sold a shitload when I thought I was downsizing, some were quite old. I still have a bunch that are well out of copyright, and things like the classics are fine. It's when you've got current fiction or non fiction you run into trouble. Or even the yellow "dummy's guide to" can get you in hot water even if you can't read the damned thing.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:47 PM (L8ADy)

136 128 I don't know how much a reader Trump is or not. I just know the left always asserts and presumes that Republicans do not and barely know how to read.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:46 PM (KZzsI)

Yeah, that trope, among the countless others is getting real old for me.

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 28, 2020 12:47 PM (zTThE)

137 Lawyers always have books bound in red leather.
Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (lgiXo)

*picks up red leather bound book*

There might be a legal precedent. Land snatching. L-l-land. See snatch.

Posted by: Hedley Lamarr at December 28, 2020 12:47 PM (AiZBA)

138 I tend to leave the video off on Zoom calls if it is possible. I have a face made for radio plus that allows me to leave the room if I need to.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:47 PM (lgiXo)

139 On the rare occasions I bother to turn on my camera for our weekly office meetings, what they'll see is my Gadsden flag and some nice pictures of Donald Trump and Pope John Paul II.

Mostly they just see my avatar, which is me as a toddler.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 28, 2020 12:45 PM

***

That gives me an idea. I have an old Soviet Union flag...
And I consult with a Defense/IC company.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 28, 2020 12:47 PM (axyOa)

140 MS Teams I guess is their official name.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 28, 2020 12:47 PM (l6b3d)

141 OT: Has anyone had problems with USPS not providing tracking info, returning errors instead? ...
Posted by: banana Dream at December 28, 2020 12:39 PM (l6b3d)
+++++++++++++
Don't get me started. I am trying to get some work scheduled on my new house in another state. I had to return a contract and 50% of the cost. Then they'll book me, then they'll do the work, then I'll pay the other half.

I sent the contract and the check via Priority Mail. Two weeks ago. It is stuck with no tracking information and "arriving late." A week after I mailed it, I printed off the contract again, signed it again, wrote a second check, then sent it USPS Priority. Same story.

A week in, I have two contracts and two checks ... somewhere and I'm still not on the books to get the damn work done.

I am *furious.*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2020 12:47 PM (hYcqw)

142 Wouldn't it look better to just get a bunch of blank dust covers and use those?

Book pages are a neutral sort of tan/beige color, and that's what they are going for. Book covers are all sorts of colors and clash with their design concept.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:47 PM (KZzsI)

143 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at December 28, 2020 12:48 PM (TdMsT)

144 Bye lib sock!

There is a large market for attractive classics and non-fiction best sellers collections with good DJs

Posted by: CN at December 28, 2020 12:48 PM (ONvIw)

145 If the room is not full of clutter I feel like I'm in a dentist's office.

Posted by: Braenyard looking for the AT&T bomber manifesto at December 28, 2020 12:48 PM (CZm2G)

146 I don't know how much a reader Trump is or not. I just know the left always asserts and presumes that Republicans do not and barely know how to read.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:46 PM (KZzsI)

At least he doesn't pretend to be reading some sort of deep, intellectual or political subject matter like the Lightbringer did, always having some sort of book in his hand for the media to fawn over.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:48 PM (L8ADy)

147 Book averse Donald Trump? The guy who has written several NYT best selling books?

Posted by: Jen the original at December 28, 2020 12:49 PM (gcNWh)

148 Well to be honest having an iPad behind ya ain't a great picture, allthough since I own a shit load of Apple Stock.....

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 28, 2020 12:49 PM (tsZQ+)

149 We should thank our lucky stars that Barack Obama was a lazy stupid fuck.

Think of how much damage that monster could have caused if he was actually *trying*....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 28, 2020 12:46 PM (/EuRN)

*Waves vigorously*

HI!!!!

Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at December 28, 2020 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

150 Joe - couldn't you FedEx it instead?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2020 12:49 PM (Rvt88)

151 144 Bye lib sock!

There is a large market for attractive classics and non-fiction best sellers collections with good DJs
Posted by: CN at December 28, 2020 12:48 PM (ONvIw)

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Good disc jockeys are just so hard to find these days, though. iTunes has ruined their profession.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:49 PM (NWM+b)

152 If the room is not full of clutter I feel like I'm in a dentist's office.

Posted by: Braenyard looking for the AT&T bomber manifesto at December 28, 2020 12:48 PM (CZm2G)

Hey fuck you LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 28, 2020 12:49 PM (tsZQ+)

153 I'd be very surprised to learn Senile Joe has done a lot of reading in his life.

Jokes on you, horse-faced chump. I've read every Garfield strip ever written. My favorite characters are Odie and Lasagna. C'mon, man.

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 28, 2020 12:49 PM (H5knJ)

154 Book averse Donald Trump? The guy who has written several NYT best selling books?
Posted by: Jen the original at December 28, 2020 12:49 PM (gcNWh)

That doesn't mean he actually READ them.

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

155 If you were intelligent and well read, you'd be a progressive marxist. If you're not a progressive marxist, well, you must just be stupid and hate reading.

Duh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 28, 2020 12:49 PM (/EuRN)

156 Potemkin Intelligentsia

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (/4heu)

157 We should thank our lucky stars that Barack Obama was a lazy stupid fuck.

He did tremendous damage, and he got a lot done, just almost none of it the work of the president. He was either disinterested in, incompetent with, or so arrogant he just decided he didn't have to do the work of the actual job, and instead simply focused on being a community organizer writ large. Maybe all three.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (KZzsI)

158 for a zoom call, maybe a green screen and a fake wall of books would work?

I'd guess one can order books that lean one political way or another, depending on how Woke the person is trying to appear.
Posted by: illiniwek

My background is looking out of an ISS window into space.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (LwB8i)

159 Someone pointed out how LeBron only is pictured reading the first page of books, One reporter actually ask him about a "book" he was reading and he no clue on how to answer the question.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (dKiJG)

160 So... the throw in line about book adverse Trump?
Is he?
Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 28, 2020 12:27 PM (zTThE)

Well, it's Politico, so you know they are homos. Trump actually wrote a book.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (mzC78)

161 I have a cousin who is an interior designer.
Mostly A-list clients.
He's been doing the books-as-decor thing for ages now.

Being mischievous, he loves to slip in titles that do not fit the client at all. Being a few steps to the right of Pinochet, he especially likes to load lefties' shelves with subversive texts. It amuses him and they never catch on.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (M/9m0)

162 My new company sells pron VHS tapes by the foot.

Posted by: Dr. Dirks Strewn at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (LBiyC)

163 {{{{Ladyl}}}}

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (Zz0t1)

164 I bet they then try to insist that Obama must have watched "intellectual" shows, when in fact that dipshit was watching ESPN and Game of Thrones.
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Yup, but truth is he's a boring guy with boring tastes and always has been.

Figuring out which group of guys threw more balls into a hoop than the other group of guys was about as high brow as Obama could muster on any given day.

Posted by: MJ at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (gAMkn)

165 Obama did a lot of reading to prep for his NCAA brackets.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (lgiXo)

166 If the room is not full of clutter I feel like I'm in a dentist's office.

Posted by: Braenyard looking for the AT&T bomber manifesto at December 28, 2020 12:48 PM (CZm2G)

Hey fuck you LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Snort

Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (LwB8i)

167 off sock

Posted by: DR.WTF at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (AiZBA)

168 I wonder if any company does the gun vault background like in the movies.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (1ISKN)

169 First thing I do when I get a hardbound book is throw away the dustjacket, they're annoying to read with. Sometimes I'll keep one and put it back on after reading but I hate the things.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (KZzsI)

170 My new company sells pron VHS tapes by the foot.
Posted by: Dr. Dirks Strewn at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (LBiyC)

They don't make VHS tape anymore, so better get it while you can.

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (Zz0t1)

171 Well there's a reason the blue-checks only ever reference/rave about books that just happen to have been made into movies/tv series.

Posted by: Ktgreat at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (AD3JT)

172 Joe - couldn't you FedEx it instead?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2020 12:49 PM (Rvt8

+++++++++++++
If they don't have it in their hands on Wednesday, that is the next step.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (hYcqw)

173 On the rare occasions I bother to turn on my camera for our weekly office meetings, what they'll see is my Gadsden flag and some nice pictures of Donald Trump and Pope John Paul II.

Mostly they just see my avatar, which is me as a toddler.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Confuzzled at December 28, 2020 12:45 PM

Sitting on a throne of skulls while being fanned and fed grapes by a couple of topless babes would be a nice touch.

Better than an my old MC Escher poster, lava lamp and farting dog.

Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (L8ADy)

174 @allanmalina

So the FBI can solve a bombing in under a day, but give them Hunter's laptop, Hillary's emails, Epstein's black book, and proof of play for pay in Ukraine, years later they don't even know they have it?

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (3P/5p)

175 When asked what he had read about China, PDT was able to rattle off a long list of works. Goodreads has a list of Trump's best 20 books on China. Actually there are more than 20, but that's the title of the list. Trump is well read.

Posted by: CN at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (ONvIw)

176 159 Someone pointed out how LeBron only is pictured reading the first page of books, One reporter actually ask him about a "book" he was reading and he no clue on how to answer the question.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (dKiJG)

That reporter was then arrested and moved to a NIKE facility to make shoes and be reeducated... but mostly make shoes.

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (zTThE)

177 Obama did a lot of reading to prep for his NCAA brackets.

Apparently none of it was about college basketball, judging by how well he did.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (KZzsI)

178 >>Being mischievous, he loves to slip in titles that do not fit the client at all. Being a few steps to the right of Pinochet, he especially likes to load lefties' shelves with subversive texts. It amuses him and they never catch on.

Heh.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (bDqIh)

179 Ever notice the MSM seems to often put a hallo around sundown's head

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (tsZQ+)

180 85 OT: Has anyone had problems with USPS not providing tracking info, returning errors instead?

***

As someone who is now on day 18 of waiting for a package to arrive via USPS from a vendor two states away from me.... Yeah USPS is f***** all to hell.

I received a package last week that took 15 days to arrive from a location I could drive to in about 10 hours. The USPS business model apparently directed them to ship it to a postal center an hour from my house and then to send it further south about 300 miles away for a couple of days until it came back to that same location and then was delivered to my little podunk post office for delivery to me.

Everyone involved with the USPS could drop dead of a brain aneurysm at the same time and it would improve their productivity and efficiency by 50%.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2020 12:52 PM (DP5uF)

181 I have the X Files on dvd but I started buying it when I was up in
Canada and so the boxes were in English and French and I had to finish
buying the series in Canada because the very thought that the boxes
wouldn't match made my skin crawl.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (GbPPJ)

Oh my goodness, I do that too! I had to replace my old seasons of South Park a few years back because they changed the format (and size) of the boxes and it was driving me nuts looking at the unmatchiness on the shelf.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 28, 2020 12:52 PM (946rW)

182 179 Ever notice the MSM seems to often put a hallo around sundown's head
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (tsZQ+)

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They try to avoid it, but he's just in God's good graces so well that it's really hard to prevent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:52 PM (NWM+b)

183 179 Ever notice the MSM seems to often put a hallo around sundown's head
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (tsZQ+)

reviving the Obama halo and the cult of St Hillary

Posted by: CN at December 28, 2020 12:52 PM (ONvIw)

184 Trump is well read.

Like Bush, who read more books in a month than Obama did in his term of office. How many years did he carry around that hard left radical book as a prop when going to the airplane?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:52 PM (KZzsI)

185 At least he doesn't pretend to be reading some sort of deep, intellectual or political subject matter like the Lightbringer did, always having some sort of book in his hand for the media to fawn over.
Posted by: clutch cargo now with extra America is DOOMED! at December 28, 2020 12:48 PM (L8ADy)

Ha!

And it was always some sort of Hot 100 schlock-of-the-day garbage he was carrying around! Like people who subscribe to the WaPo or NYT just so that their neighbors can see it on their doorstep.... "ooooh, I'm so cosmopolitan! I'm reading what the SmartPeople are reading!"

And was there ever a dog-ear or bookmark in his "walkin' around" book? I highly doubt it.

Freakin' dipshit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 28, 2020 12:53 PM (/EuRN)

186 John Payne barechested in bathing suit with gun:https://tinyurl.com/yadasfeu

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 12:53 PM (DJFLF)

187 https://tinyurl.com/yadasfeu

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 12:53 PM (DJFLF)

188 I would call this place to see about selecting my own books to display, and turn it into the bookstore sketch from Monty Python

Do you have Grate Expectations by Edmund Wells? How about A Sale of Two Titties? Perhaps The Amazing Adventure of Gladys Stout-Pamphlet and Her Intrepid Spaniel Stig Among the Giant Pygmies of Beccles Volume 8?

Funny, you have a lot of books here.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 28, 2020 12:53 PM (1/FyW)

189 182 179 Ever notice the MSM seems to often put a hallo around sundown's head
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (tsZQ+)

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They try to avoid it, but he's just in God's good graces so well that it's really hard to prevent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:52 PM (NWM+b)

That's just the radioactive lice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 28, 2020 12:54 PM (/EuRN)

190 To whom can one send books to that you no longer want?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2020 12:30 PM (VP4Cd)

Working in the Middle East Oil Gas I'd accumulated several hundreds of books that were going to cost me a fortune to ship in my repatriation transfer. A guy from the Czech Embassy came around and bought the whole batch for $1.00 a pop because they wanted English language books for their schools. I understood he was going to ship them back to Prague.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at December 28, 2020 12:54 PM (YPZzQ)

191 I don't care what DVD/Blueray boxes look like, but I do like my books to be one consistent printing when I can. That way moving from one to another is a consistent feel instead of a different binding size and layout.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:54 PM (KZzsI)

192 181 Oh my goodness, I do that too! I had to replace my old seasons of South Park a few years back because they changed the format (and size) of the boxes and it was driving me nuts looking at the unmatchiness on the shelf.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 28, 2020 12:52 PM (946rW)

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This is honestly one of the appeals of the Criterion Collection.

Ever since the dawn of the Blu-ray era, they've had a consistent and handsome design aesthetic that is present on every release, creating a uniformity across their library that's really appealing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:54 PM (NWM+b)

193 I'll bet the dust jacket of every book Obama carried around had the word courageous on there somewhere.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:54 PM (lgiXo)

194 Don Lemon and Rick Wilson hardest hit.

Posted by: Rex B at December 28, 2020 12:54 PM (F7dSF)

195 garrett at 114,Right now, if I thought about selling my home I would have 3 offers before I was done thinking about it...

same here, I've had unsolicited offers multiple times this year.Out of state plates all the time. Crazy

Posted by: wyoming lurker at December 28, 2020 12:54 PM (fT38Y)

196 My new company sells pron VHS tapes by the foot.
Posted by: Dr. Dirks Strewn

Pron going to video was the beginning of the fall of Western Civilization.

Back in the day, with film pron you could not rewind from the previous showing and THEN show it again. The entire movie would then be backwards.

It started out with everyone nekkid and um, doing stuff, and progressed to them putting their clothes on.

We were bored - what can I tell you?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2020 12:54 PM (Rvt88)

197 Shelf art at Ace's???
Posted by: andycanuck

I'll take "What is on the floor" for $200 Alex.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 12:54 PM (LwB8i)

198 How about books that Lebron can read the first page of for a photo op?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 28, 2020 12:55 PM (BMmaB)

199 Readers don't carry around a prop book for the cameras. They're either reading or the book is put away. Its a huge tell.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:55 PM (KZzsI)

200 114

True. In this market you dont need to do much. But even in a hot market you can get more by making the house look better. 5-10% over asking is kinda the norm now. If you want that vs just asking price you need to do some work.

Posted by: Asshoes at December 28, 2020 12:55 PM (kRraM)

201 oops wrong thread

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 12:55 PM (DJFLF)

202 One is reminded of comparisons of John Kerry and George W. Bush circa 2004.

Both tested around the same on standardized officer tests, Bush slightly higher. But Kerry was the sort of guy who ordered Books By the Foot under a psuedonym. As the article notes, "being well-read can create certain advantages. So, too, can seeming well-read."

Posted by: Funkotron at December 28, 2020 12:55 PM (nNv6v)

203 I ripped all my DVDs into MP4s and put them on a NAS drive played via iTunes to my AppleTV.

Now I have a lot of empty shelf space.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at December 28, 2020 12:55 PM (C+We0)

204 The funny part is the books they mention in the article are usually short and so lacking in substance that they can be read in a few hours.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 28, 2020 12:55 PM (1ISKN)

205 Think of all the shelves Ace has been selling these fools.

Posted by: Gilded at December 28, 2020 12:55 PM (BRkq2)

206 Good morning y'all!

Just barely.

Posted by: tbodie at December 28, 2020 12:55 PM (LkzOc)

207 couple years ago I gave all my books to Goodwill. I kept the Audubon nature series and some Delorme state atlases. And a bible and a book of Poe stories.

Posted by: DB- just DB at December 28, 2020 12:55 PM (iTXRQ)

208 My collection is very valuable to me but it will be worthless when I depart this mortal coil.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 12:56 PM (lgiXo)

209 I used to love shopping at Wonder Books when I was stationed in the DC area. I believe they have 3 locations.

Second Story Books in Rockville MD was amazing.
McKay's in Manassas was pretty good too.
Prosepero's in Manassas was a favorite due to the huge military history section. Apparently they won't be reopening after the Covid shutdown scam.
Probably should've saved this for the Sunday book thread

Posted by: Stacy0311 at December 28, 2020 12:56 PM (SqpTW)

210
And was there ever a dog-ear or bookmark in his "walkin' around" book? I highly doubt it.

Freakin' dipshit.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 28, 2020 12:53 PM (/EuRN)

It's like all of the media images of Lebron James "reading" in the locker room. He's always on page 10.

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 12:56 PM (Zz0t1)

211 205 I ripped all my DVDs into MP4s and put them on a NAS drive played via iTunes to my AppleTV.

Now I have a lot of empty shelf space.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at December 28, 2020 12:55 PM (C+We0)

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I like having the cases out.

I have digital footlockers that house a few hundred of my movies, but it's just not the same.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 12:56 PM (NWM+b)

212 I would be almost anything that Obama thought he'd look smart by carrying around books on his vacations but that someone conned him into it as product placement.

The Pinkerty book comes to mind.

Posted by: MJ at December 28, 2020 12:57 PM (gAMkn)

213 Ace,
If you haven't read about the uproar over Alec Baldwins wife faking her Spanish heritage, you must get caught up via NY Post.
It's blue on blue at its peak.

Posted by: Ktgreat at December 28, 2020 12:57 PM (AD3JT)

214 Re: Morning Rant

Some time back I coined the term Fact Rape (having things proved to you with indisputable evidence but which you'd still prefer not be true). Now that I think about it, I wouldn't be surprised that it's already a thing among leftist snowflakes and other hiveminds.

Posted by: Citizen, a fact rapist I guess at December 28, 2020 12:57 PM (ldmQR)

215 same here, I've had unsolicited offers multiple times this year.Out of state plates all the time. Crazy
Posted by: wyoming lurker

Twice in the past year folks walking by stopped and asked if I was ready to sell 'cause they were buying. It's a bit weird.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2020 12:57 PM (Rvt88)

216 Shelf art at Ace's???
Posted by: andycanuck

I read this as "shart."

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

217 189 I would call this place to see about selecting my own books to display, and turn it into the bookstore sketch from Monty Python

Do you have Grate Expectations by Edmund Wells? How about A Sale of Two Titties? Perhaps The Amazing Adventure of Gladys Stout-Pamphlet and Her Intrepid Spaniel Stig Among the Giant Pygmies of Beccles Volume 8?

Funny, you have a lot of books here.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 28, 2020 12:53 PM (1/FyW)

I was reading last night that Jean Shepherd on his radio show invented a fake book and had his listeners go to bookstores and request it.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 28, 2020 12:57 PM (BMmaB)

218 When I get around to sorting the multi-foot stacks of books I have on the floor, I'm going to organize them initially by "have read", "have read part", "not read". By far, most are "have read" and by far, most of those are WW2. It is actually a somewhat varied collection of books -- it's not ALL WW2.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 28, 2020 12:57 PM (KAi1n)

219 In Blackadder the Third (the Georgian period with Hugh Lauire as Prince Regent) each episode starts with Blackadder standing in front of a bookshelf, choosing a book which will be the episode title. Although they're only flashed on the screen for a brief time, the titles on his shelf are hilarious - The Blackobite Rebellion and the Encyclopedia Blackaddica, for example.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 28, 2020 12:57 PM (trdmm)

220 That's pretty funny when you think about it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 12:57 PM (UPoLF)

221 No one in DC reads any of this b******* they publish on politics or their "look at me!" biography books.

Remember how everyone on the Left was standing around with a big anime eyes when conservatives started pointing out that Obama ate a dog and referenced his...ahem...book?

You know, the one everybody wrote articles on for months on end and yet somehow magically never got to that part of the book?

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2020 12:58 PM (DP5uF)

222 Of course.

Posted by: steevy at December 28, 2020 12:58 PM (wgghp)

223 Best book store in Oregon is still Shorey Book store in Lincoln City, right by the Pacific Ocean. Its not as great as it once was because it has, like all book stores (and especially these days small shops) but its still a terrific old maze of shelves jammed with all manner of books.

Back in the 90s he had original art from thousands of paperback books in the past on the ends of the shelves. He had to sell most of them, sadly

He has a huge original art page from a Sunday Pogo comic still, and a massive map from the 1700s.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:59 PM (KZzsI)

224 Shelf art at Ace's???
Posted by: andycanuck

I'll take "What is on the floor" for $200 Alex.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 12:54 PM

Snort!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 28, 2020 12:59 PM (axyOa)

225 If anyone needs it for Zoom meetings, I rent Hustler Beaver Hunt by the foot.

Posted by: Judge Holden at December 28, 2020 12:59 PM (QUHf8)

226 Top. Men.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 28, 2020 12:59 PM (CjO2G)

227 On zoom calls, I like to randomly yell "Shut up, you!" and hit something offscreen with a stick.

Posted by: irright at December 28, 2020 12:59 PM (BB7pQ)

228 Nobody can see bookshelves when I have Zoom calls. For one thing, I don't have an office. My computer is at a desk in the dining room which doesn't have book shelves. Also, there's not enough light, except for the light on my face because the other Zoom people tend to have bookshelves that I think are all real while I look like I'm calling from the Bastille.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2020 12:40 PM (VP4Cd)

Fortunately my company has almost no need for those calls. The one time we had one I made sure to turn the laptop around. "I don't need to see you and I don't want you to see me."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (2JVJo)

229 Once again, image defeats substance.
Also, "...the book-averse Donald Trump." The leftarded image insists that PDT be a dummy all the time, in all ways.

Progressives' lives are nothing but lies. #WASTF

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BlockadeDC at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (HaL55)

230 Even liberals dont actually read the pc dreck they pretend to love. *sigh* ive been waiting in my car for an hour in line to get tested for the wuflu.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&& v at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (qxGKb)

231 >>>books, and b) the claim that President Trump is "book-averse" is 100% pure bullshit not based in fact.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (8PrS9)
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There are Trump interviews published years before he ran for president where his current reading was brought up.

He noted a list of about thirteen books and and elaborated on their content.

Posted by: Braenyard looking for the AT&T bomber manifesto at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (CZm2G)

232 Twice in the past year folks walking by stopped and asked if I was ready to sell 'cause they were buying. It's a bit weird.

My brother keeps getting offers on our house. Postcards, letters, fliers jammed in the door, etc. It is truly odd.

He has taken none of them, because they're from flippers who would lowball the crap out of the value.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (KZzsI)

233 I keep the sound off on Zoom calls until I have to speak. The dog gets barky when she hears noise.

Posted by: N.L. Urker at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (lgiXo)

234 157 We should thank our lucky stars that Barack Obama was a lazy stupid fuck.

He did tremendous damage, and he got a lot done, just almost none of it the work of the president. He was either disinterested in, incompetent with, or so arrogant he just decided he didn't have to do the work of the actual job, and instead simply focused on being a community organizer writ large. Maybe all three.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 12:50 PM (KZzsI)

That, and golf. But mostly golf.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (BMmaB)

235 Someone busted the statue of Breonna Taylor they had in Oakland.

Apparently this is big news, but I thought we'd decided as a society that it was ok to smash statues you didn't like....didn't we?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (qlFIA)

236 Ace could do Shelves By the Foot and piggyback on to this obvious gold mine!

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (zAgUm)

237 My collection is very valuable to me but it will be worthless when I depart this mortal coil.
Posted by: N.L. Urker

Oh, that's not so. There is a market for old copies of 'Eager Beavers' and 'Cherry Pop'.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (Rvt88)

238 231 Once again, image defeats substance.
Also, "...the book-averse Donald Trump." The leftarded image insists that PDT be a dummy all the time, in all ways.

Progressives' lives are nothing but lies. #WASTF
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BlockadeDC at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (HaL55)

Yeah, I was going to let that go, because we all know that nobody loves books more then Trump. In fact, he wrote the second best book of all time, The Art of the Deal.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (UPoLF)

239
LOL.

I am, at this moment surrounded by real books I've read. Weighty books. In my cramped proletarian housing unit that I blur out altogether for my Zoom meetings, to provide my brood some privacy.

I can't wait to move somewhere bigger and have a separate room for them. Many are still in boxes in my utility closet, blocking access to panels and so forth.

Also - not to dog on the boss, but one shelf of them was built from pine I cut myself and planed and assembled, in the Amish way. In high school. Back when that was still taught. In the early 2000s.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (Bvn1K)

240 I'm surprised they are using real books instead of plastic.

Posted by: x at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (0tE/i)

241 My collection is very valuable to me but it will be worthless when I depart this mortal coil.
Posted by: N.L. Urker

Oh, that's not so. There is a market for old copies of 'Eager Beavers' and 'Cherry Pop'.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (Rvt8

Jugs

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (89T5c)

242 The book that Obama carried several times was The Post -American World by Fareed Zakaria.

Posted by: jeannebodine at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (QWHnR)

243 OT: Regarding the Nashville explosion, have investigators yet revealed the type of bomb, or whether bomb making materials were found at the suspect's house, or whether records of his obtaining the materials have been found?

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (qpX6U)

244
"Hustler in Spanish. El Hustlero."

- - Dr. Sheldon Kornpet DDS

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (s2VJv)

245
I love dining rooms that double as libraries. I think I might do that in my next house.
Posted by: Ladyl
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I had dinner once with about 10 other people at a large old Victorian house in Indiana. It was unique, in that the owners served dinners for small groups by arrangement. It was a very nice experience.
The owners had been in the used book business, and the house's many old somewhat ornate bookshelves were filled with items from their shop. I wandered about looking them over, and found several very nice late 1800's books. The real score however, was this:
https://tinyurl.com/ybazbabo

The last that I have seen sold, was for $1000.00

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (l0Lgi)

246 That, and golf. But mostly golf.

Yeah I'm guessing he played the 1st and 9th hole, then spent the rest of the time with Jussie Smollet in the clubhouse steam room.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (KZzsI)

247 If you put things ebay, watch out for "buyers" who "have a few questions" and want you to either call or text them. They are scammers collecting phone numbers.

Posted by: navybrat, quarantined at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (w7KSn)

248 They don't make VHS tape anymore, so better get it while you can.

We have boxes and boxes of VHS tapes but I could never convince the wife to get rid of them. It took a professional guy repairing a rare Disney cassette tape to convince her. So come next month out go hundreds of VHS tapes!

Posted by: Old Doc Beartooth at December 28, 2020 01:02 PM (vgGvZ)

249 216 Re: Morning Rant

Some time back I coined the term Fact Rape (having things proved to you with indisputable evidence but which you'd still prefer not be true). Now that I think about it, I wouldn't be surprised that it's already a thing among leftist snowflakes and other hiveminds.
Posted by: Citizen, a fact rapist I guess at December 28, 2020 12:57 PM (ldmQR)

I usually encounter it the other way around. Some neo-marxist world changer is trying to "prove" that capitalism is evil. "Facts and logic, man! You're brainwashed!".

Yes, crazy person at the bar, you may have cobbled together a list of facts that in isolation are true, which some Smart Person wrote in a Smart Book, but your logic is atrocious and I don't have the time, interest, or sobriety to point out the myriad ways in which you are wrong.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 28, 2020 01:02 PM (/EuRN)

250 I sold a rental a few months ago. It was pretty used up as rentals tend to be. I could have sold it as is and got it sold in a day or two easily to another investor. But I decided to invest some money into it and spent $20k. Paint, new floors where needed, a deep deep clean, refurbished cabinets, freshened up landscaping. I had 6 offers in 48 hours and sold for $45k above what the as is price would have been.

Posted by: Asshoes at December 28, 2020 01:02 PM (kRraM)

251 Print is dead.

Posted by: Egon Spengler at December 28, 2020 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

252 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (Bvn1K)

I've always thought that an organized bookshelf shows the person really doesn't READ said books.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2020 01:02 PM (oHd/0)

253 234 Twice in the past year folks walking by stopped and asked if I was ready to sell 'cause they were buying. It's a bit weird.
My brother keeps getting offers on our house. Postcards, letters, fliers jammed in the door, etc. It is truly odd.

He has taken none of them, because they're from flippers who would lowball the crap out of the value.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (KZzsI)

This is all a "tell" on where big investment money is flowing. 4 years ago, it was going into fracking outfits, billions of dollars. That's been turned off, now its going into red state residential real estate.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 28, 2020 01:02 PM (trdmm)

254 101
Did you notice how the Shit writer for Politico managed to awkwardly shoe-horn a dig at President Trump even though a) President Trump has nothing at all to do with renting books, and b) the claim that President Trump is "book-averse" is 100% pure bullshit not based in fact.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at December 28, 2020 12:42 PM (8PrS9)

Yep. A gratuitous and unsubstantiated smear, much in the spirit of cheap-shotting an opposing player out of bounds.

In short, on-brand for Democrats. Who are "heterosexually averse," and "common sense-averse."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:02 PM (vBvJV)

255 A creative person would simply have several Kindles on their bookshelves. You need several because they get overheated from all the reading you're doing, and need a chance to cool down and recharge.

Posted by: pep at December 28, 2020 01:03 PM (v16oJ)

256
The last that I have seen sold, was for $1000.00

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (l0Lgi)

I would love to own that!

Posted by: Ladyl at December 28, 2020 01:03 PM (TdMsT)

257 A 2 day priority shipment took over a week.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Hubbymayhem had to send his weekly paperwork to the finance office of the trucking company. He sends it 2day priority. He didn't get a paycheck last week because the fucking post office has been taking that package for a tour of Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri for two weeks. I have no idea if he will get a paycheck this week or not.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 28, 2020 01:03 PM (Vxu+H)

258 246 OT: Regarding the Nashville explosion, have investigators yet revealed the type of bomb, or whether bomb making materials were found at the suspect's house, or whether records of his obtaining the materials have been found?
Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (qpX6U)

No, and I doubt they will.

Because from the looks of it, he somehow got his hands on some pretty explodey stuff, which is not supposed to be possible in a post- Oklahoma city bombing era.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:03 PM (UPoLF)

259 Anybody know where I can get a nice first edition of the Necronomicon for my Zoom background bookshelf?

Posted by: PabloD, booking agent for Aero Pinochet at December 28, 2020 01:04 PM (risNt)

260 Print is dead.
Posted by: Egon Spengler

Yeah, I read that somewhere also.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 28, 2020 01:04 PM (Rvt88)

261 One of the "benefits" of the leftist cocoon is that you can just bathe is fake news since no alternative voices are allowed.

Russia modified vote totals in 2016, but anyone that believes that that could happen in 2020 by Americans counting the votes is a racist.

and crap like that.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2020 01:04 PM (qlFIA)

262 On zoom calls, I like to randomly yell "Shut up, you!" and hit something offscreen with a stick.
Posted by: irright
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I'm thinking about lighting a cigar and holding a glass of whiskey.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2020 01:06 PM (l0Lgi)

263 254 Print is dead.
Posted by: Egon Spengler at December 28, 2020 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

I've been gravitating back to print. E-texts can be more readily censored or altered, even post purchase, a print book would have to be confiscated and burned.

Posted by: CN at December 28, 2020 01:06 PM (ONvIw)

264 246 OT: Regarding the Nashville explosion, have investigators yet revealed the type of bomb, or whether bomb making materials were found at the suspect's house, or whether records of his obtaining the materials have been found?

***

"Sorry, the Stephen Paddock memory hole isn't finished yet."

- the FBI

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2020 01:06 PM (DP5uF)

265 266 254 Print is dead.
Posted by: Egon Spengler at December 28, 2020 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

I've been gravitating back to print. E-texts can be more readily censored or altered, even post purchase, a print book would have to be confiscated and burned.
Posted by: CN at December 28, 2020 01:06 PM (ONvIw)

=========

When Microsoft's ebook store went belly up, every single book they had sold vanished overnight.

No, I don't trust licensed material more than owned material. Not in the least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 01:06 PM (NWM+b)

266
Yeah I'm guessing he played the 1st and 9th hole, then spent the rest of the time with Jussie Smollet in the clubhouse steam room.

So, the 19th hole....

Posted by: DOCTOR! IllTemperedCur at December 28, 2020 01:06 PM (EGyGV)

267 My hunch is that Trump will announce his 2024 election bid on January 6th. Mainly as a means to protect himself and his family. Staying in the public eye gives him more leverage.

Posted by: Max Power at December 28, 2020 01:07 PM (QCc6B)

268 Because from the looks of it, he somehow got his hands on some pretty explodey stuff, which is not supposed to be possible in a post- Oklahoma city bombing era.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:03 PM (UPoLF)

Yeah, the FBI tracks all that stuff and....

I think I see the problem.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 28, 2020 01:07 PM (1ISKN)

269 a print book would have to be confiscated and burned.
Posted by: CN at December 28, 2020 01:06 PM (ONvIw)

We're on it!

- pAntifa Lives Matter

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)

270 @255
Nope. Mine are organized by fiction and nonfiction, then by author for the fiction, and subject matter or time period for the nonfiction. However, there is no attempt at color coding or other silliness.

Posted by: pep at December 28, 2020 01:07 PM (v16oJ)

271 I got rid of 95% of my books three years ago. Almost everything is on the internet now, and for whatever isn't, I get it from the library or from AbeBooks if I really need it.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at December 28, 2020 01:07 PM (qpX6U)

272 245 The book that Obama carried several times was The Post -American World by Fareed Zakaria.
Posted by: jeannebodine at December 28, 2020 01:01 PM (QWHnR)
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They love to rub our noses in it.
And they are winning.

Posted by: Braenyard looking for the AT&T bomber manifesto at December 28, 2020 01:07 PM (CZm2G)

273 If you haven't read about the uproar over Alec Baldwins wife faking her Spanish heritage, you must get caught up via NY Post.
It's blue on blue at its peak.
_____________

Why are lefties so self-loathing? It is because they're so very loathsome? The men pretend to be women, the white ones pretend they're black or Native or some other minority, Obama pretended for decades that he was Kenyan, now this Baldwin woman pretends to be Spanish.

You'd think they'd do some self-examination to try and learn why they are so uncomfortable or dissatisfied in their own skin. But instead, they want everybody else to play along with their fantasies. They are deeply disturbed people.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 28, 2020 01:07 PM (k4dH2)

274 253 I sold a rental a few months ago. It was pretty used up as rentals tend to be. I could have sold it as is and got it sold in a day or two easily to another investor. But I decided to invest some money into it and spent $20k. Paint, new floors where needed, a deep deep clean, refurbished cabinets, freshened up landscaping. I had 6 offers in 48 hours and sold for $45k above what the as is price would have been.

Posted by: Asshoes at December 28, 2020 01:02 PM (kRraM)

My aunt and uncle had a nice house in a nice area that they just ... totally neglected. Lived there for 20 years and only did the minimum maintenance. And I mean, they aren't right, but they definitely had the money to powerwash and stain the deck, upgrade appliances over the years, paint the house, etc.

Anyways, they sold the house for $425k, which is probably about what they owed on the house. A month or two later, it was back on the market with cosmetic updates, new hardware on the cabinets, and new appliances for $700k.

It's unbelievable to me that people wouldn't invest the money up front and get as much money as possible out of the house.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:08 PM (UPoLF)

275 277
You'd think they'd do some self-examination to try and learn why they are so uncomfortable or dissatisfied in their own skin. But instead, they want everybody else to play along with their fantasies. They are deeply disturbed people.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 28, 2020 01:07 PM (k4dH2)

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Oikophobia is a hell of a drug.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 01:08 PM (NWM+b)

276 267
"Sorry, the Stephen Paddock memory hole isn't finished yet."

- the FBI

The Stephen Paddock Memorial Memory Hole is exactly what they're going to name that big hole on Second Ave in Nashville that just randomly happened to have all of AT&T's data running under it.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 28, 2020 01:08 PM (zAgUm)

277 This reminds me of when heavy metal acts used to license the logo of Marshall to put cardboard Marshall "stacks" behind their bands. They were using PA systems but wanted to look rock and roll-y

Posted by: Penn State Marine at December 28, 2020 01:08 PM (fl+V3)

278 ------------
You beat up some Mennonites and forced them to make them for you??
Posted by: andycanuck at December 28, 2020 01:07 PM (ab0zp)

Mafia style....

Posted by: Lebanon Levi at December 28, 2020 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

279 Baldwin woman pretends to be Spanish.

You'd think they'd do some self-examination to try and learn why they are so uncomfortable or dissatisfied in their own skin. But instead, they want everybody else to play along with their fantasies. They are deeply disturbed people.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 28, 2020 01:07 PM (k4dH2)

As I understand it, she changed her name from Hillary to the Spanish spelling, and claimed to have grown up in Spain.

When the real story is she grew up in MA.

That's a pretty big lie.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:09 PM (UPoLF)

280 Print is dead.
Posted by: Egon Spengler

So are Paul and the penguin?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 28, 2020 01:09 PM (tsZQ+)

281 No, I don't trust licensed material more than owned material. Not in the least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 01:06 PM (NWM+b)

I have noted alterations in books I've bought on kindle. So, I buy more printed books. It is better when they're used from Thrift books or a library sale, but print is my go to for everything but samples. I love getting the amazon sample before I buy.

Posted by: CN at December 28, 2020 01:09 PM (ONvIw)

282 I would love to own that!
Posted by: Ladyl
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I think I paid $20 for it. I really should sell it, it's a very interesting book, lots of photos. It's also interesting to read over the list of Club members. A Who's Who of American industrialists.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2020 01:09 PM (CTJwJ)

283 I used to sell books to outfits like that, they didn't care what the books were, just what they looked like

Posted by: Josephistan at December 28, 2020 01:09 PM (XZ0Sn)

284 I've always thought that an organized bookshelf shows the person really doesn't READ said books.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2020 01:02 PM (oHd/0)

I used to work in a bookstore. My books are all organized by subject matter - ancient history, English history, the American Revolution, Christianity and so on. It makes it easier to remember where a book is if I want to read it.

I did throw one out yesterday - a little pamphlet called Keep Calm and Seek God which I was given on Saturday. I opened it up to the chapter on depression and read, "Do you know you can choose not to be depressed?"

BOOM. Out the door and into the trash.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:09 PM (2JVJo)

285 I wouldn't read anything at all on my kindle if I could afford to buy print versions of it all but I can get e-books for 99 cents or less, and tons of classics for free so...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:09 PM (KZzsI)

286 That, and golf. But mostly golf.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (BMmaB)

If you want to call this golf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6-e-pxc7gY

Quite possibly the least athletic swing I've ever seen.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:10 PM (vBvJV)

287 Have you noticed all the Twisted Tea memes hitting the Internet? It all started with this viral video of a guy encountering an aggressive drunk in a convenience store and knocking him down with a tall (16 oz.?) Twisted Tea. Now, they are saying that when you get stopped by a cop, he is going to say, "Got any knives, guns, Twisted Teas?" LOL!

Posted by: SMOD at December 28, 2020 01:10 PM (3aI0K)

288 "No, and I doubt they will. Because from the looks of it, he somehow got his hands on some pretty explodey stuff, which is not supposed to be possible in a post- Oklahoma city bombing era."

I just don't see how they can close the book on this one without identifying the type of bomb, or at least say that they know but won't reveal it. Certainly they can't get away with "the bomb type remains undetermined despite our investigators' best efforts."

It had to be at least dozens or hundreds of pounds of explosive, I would guess.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at December 28, 2020 01:10 PM (qpX6U)

289 It's unbelievable to me that people wouldn't invest the money up front and get as much money as possible out of the house.

Woman in my neighborhood is spending buckets of money prior to selling her house. This always baffles me. Why wait until you're ready to leave to do the things that make your house more enjoyable?

Posted by: pep at December 28, 2020 01:10 PM (v16oJ)

290 Seven contested states clearly violated their own laws. Rather than list the facts, which have been detailed in multiple articles, we must consider the following: An election is a process of counting votes for candidates. Only valid, lawful votes may be counted. A valid lawful vote is:
Cast by an eligible, properly registered elector as prescribed by laws enacted by the state Legislature.
Cast in a timely manner, as prescribed by laws enacted by the state Legislature.
Cast in a proper form as prescribed by laws enacted by the state Legislature.
Any process that does not follow these rules is not an election. Anything that proceeds from it cannot be regarded as having any lawful import.

Including any bullshit fake-ass Senate "runoff".

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 28, 2020 01:11 PM (3P/5p)

291 The Stephen "Pussy hat shooter" Paddock Memory Hole? Try the Jeffrey Epstein memory hole.

The pedo to the stars was caught red handed with girls willing to testify against powerful figures like Sen George Mitchell and Gov Richardson and the FBI has done...nothing. Well outside of destroying the evidence they collected.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2020 01:11 PM (qlFIA)

292 Yeah, the FBI tracks all that stuff and....

I think I see the problem.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 28, 2020 01:07 PM (1ISKN)

Well I'm pretty sure it's like a whole thing to try to buy ammonium nitrate in bulk for fertilizer.

And you would need a lottt of ammonium nitrate to make a bomb.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:11 PM (UPoLF)

293 Nope. Mine are organized by fiction and nonfiction, then by author for the fiction, and subject matter or time period for the nonfiction.

Well there's organized, and then there's ORGANIZED. Putting your books in ways that you can get at them easier is normal. Putting them on the shelf by color and shape, and neatly in each shelf without any stacked on top because you ran out of space is a good sign you have read few if any of them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:11 PM (KZzsI)

294 Because from the looks of it, he somehow got his hands on some pretty explodey stuff, which is not supposed to be possible in a post- Oklahoma city bombing era.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:03 PM (UPoLF)

from the security cam videos, I think it's going to be mostly gas containers, maybe gunpowder and other explosive things, but nothing capable of detonation. (that being C4, RDX, or Ammonium Nitrate) That would be why there's not much of a crater, and windows were blown out but no walls or buildings were knocked down.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 28, 2020 01:11 PM (trdmm)

295 283
Not a particularly well kept secret either. She went to high school here. She spent years as a yoga instructor with no accent.

Posted by: Ktgreat at December 28, 2020 01:11 PM (AD3JT)

296 My hunch is that Trump will announce his 2024 election bid on January 6th. Mainly as a means to protect himself and his family. Staying in the public eye gives him more leverage.
Posted by: Max Power

Trump will turn out 80 million voters.
The dems will manufacture 90 million.

Checkmate.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 01:11 PM (LwB8i)

297 I'm about to order some standards and brackets to put up bookshelves so I can take books I already have out of boxes and put them on shelves. I've decided that I don't like the single-slot standards and I'm going to use dual-slot from now on.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at December 28, 2020 01:12 PM (qDSku)

298 You'd think they'd do some self-examination to try and learn why they are so uncomfortable or dissatisfied in their own skin.
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Self-examination is not their strong point. In fact, they are incapable of it. Damaged psyches, the lot of them.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2020 01:13 PM (pbStR)

299 Either Trump does something while still President, or the left will select every president moving forward. There is no possibility that Trump or any Trump like person runs in 2024 and will be allowed to win.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2020 01:13 PM (qlFIA)

300
If you want to call this golf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6-e-pxc7gY

Quite possibly the least athletic swing I've ever seen.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:10 PM (vBvJV)

"Whoa, he sucks!"

I love it.

Because he does. Everyone portrayed him as "dreamy" and he's literally a fucking Urkle.

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)

301 Woman in my neighborhood is spending buckets of money prior to selling her house. This always baffles me. Why wait until you're ready to leave to do the things that make your house more enjoyable?

Having done this multiple times, the answer is "because most of those things are best done when you and your possessions aren't in the house". It's a big hassle to effectively move out and in again.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 28, 2020 01:13 PM (6XLoz)

302 For those who've been in a cave for a year or so, Zoom is a *very* intrusive app. To the extent that if I have to use it, I do no other thing on that computer ever. Zoom wants to copy everything in your downloads folder, can record your conferences without you knowing it, and many other things. It was so bad when it came out The FBI put out a warning on it.

Posted by: navybrat, quarantined at December 28, 2020 01:13 PM (w7KSn)

303 The pedo to the stars was caught red handed with girls willing to testify against powerful figures like Sen George Mitchell and Gov Richardson and the FBI has done...nothing

Hey, they had to scramble that elite squad to check out the door pulls at NASCAR

Quite possibly the least athletic swing I've ever seen.

Yeah and he never got better, which tells me he spent almost none of that "golf" time actually golfing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:13 PM (KZzsI)

304
As I understand it, she changed her name from Hillary to the Spanish spelling, and claimed to have grown up in Spain.

When the real story is she grew up in MA.

***

She would have gotten away with it except she sent them her family's traditional recipe for gazpacho using baked beans and cod.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 28, 2020 01:14 PM (DP5uF)

305 The feign in Spain lie mainly on their brains.
Posted by: andycanuck
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I'm telling Muldoon...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2020 01:14 PM (pbStR)

306 For past 8 months I've been using a camping table as a desk for work from home, so today I took the plunge and bought a desk.

Snowblower theory equates to me being back at my office in a couple months

Posted by: Astronaut Achmed at December 28, 2020 01:14 PM (E1b7r)

307 289 I wouldn't read anything at all on my kindle if I could afford to buy print versions of it all but I can get e-books for 99 cents or less, and tons of classics for free so...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:09 PM (KZzsI)

Free is always good. Even better than the free samples, but some things I just have to have in print as I fear they'll vanish. Solzhenitsyn, Conquest, and the classics I've bought the grandsons.

Posted by: CN at December 28, 2020 01:14 PM (ONvIw)

308 My hunch is that Trump will announce his 2024 election bid on January 6th. Mainly as a means to protect himself and his family. Staying in the public eye gives him more leverage.
Posted by: Max Power

Trump will turn out 80 million voters.
The dems will manufacture 90 million.

Checkmate.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 01:11 PM (LwB8i)

I find it darkly amusing to see people thinking Trump will ever breathe free air again after January 20.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:14 PM (2JVJo)

309 Because he does. Everyone portrayed him as "dreamy" and he's literally a fucking Urkle.

And the hilarious thing is that the guy who played Urkle was a really good ball player. Obama was just incompetent. Not because he couldn't learn, but because he was so arrogant he just assumed he knew everything and didn't have to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:14 PM (KZzsI)

310 304 Either Trump does something while still President, or the left will select every president moving forward. There is no possibility that Trump or any Trump like person runs in 2024 and will be allowed to win.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2020 01:13 PM (qlFIA)

Correct. He acts now or the country is lost.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 28, 2020 01:15 PM (H8QX8)

311 Trump will turn out 80 million voters.
.......

Not after signing that crappy bill yesterday.

Posted by: wth at December 28, 2020 01:15 PM (v0R5T)

312 Not surprised people would rent books to impress others. Our intellectual fauxlite.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com was dead, but it's getting better at December 28, 2020 01:16 PM (SchxB)

313 Baldwin woman pretends to be Spanish.

You'd think they'd do some self-examination to try and learn why they are so uncomfortable or dissatisfied in their own skin. But instead, they want everybody else to play along with their fantasies. They are deeply disturbed people.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at December 28, 2020 01:07 PM (k4dH2)

Proof positive that the minorities are not in fact "oppressed:" whites pretend to be minorities.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:16 PM (vBvJV)

314 Correct. He acts now or the country is lost.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 28, 2020 01:15 PM (H8QX

He did act. He signed the COVID bill. But he made Mitch promise to think about making it better. In two weeks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 28, 2020 01:16 PM (trdmm)

315
And the hilarious thing is that the guy who played Urkle was a really good ball player. Obama was just incompetent. Not because he couldn't learn, but because he was so arrogant he just assumed he knew everything and didn't have to.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:14 PM (KZzsI)

GWB: "Watch this drive..." And pipes one.

Owebama: "Basketball is my life...." Misses 12 3-pointers in a row.

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:16 PM (Zz0t1)

316 The Stephen Paddock Memorial Memory Hole is exactly what they're going to name that big hole on Second Ave in Nashville that just randomly happened to have all of AT&T's data running under it.
Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at December 28, 2020 01:08 PM (zAgUm)

Damn right. I'm convinced this is bigger than we're being told.

Posted by: Tangerine Lacroix is Better, but Limoncello Sucks at December 28, 2020 01:16 PM (ONvIw)

317 My hunch is that Trump will announce his 2024 election bid on January 6th.

Why do people keep saying this? It is patently ridiculous.

If someone steals your car do you tell them that you can't challenge them over it right now but "I'll be back in four years and THEN we'll see who the true owner is!"
We win or lose in January. This is the hill to die on whether we like it or want it.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 28, 2020 01:16 PM (3P/5p)

318 When I have need to turn on the camera the view is of my gun case which has a very prominent view of my dangerous black guns and my Mets memorabilia.

My desk is opposite of my reloading bench so I tried to keep the camera off but I outted myself a few weeks ago. I still have a job so I guess it's ok. Being a Mets fan though? Well, some lines are just not meant to be crossed.

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at December 28, 2020 01:17 PM (qc+VF)

319 from the security cam videos, I think it's going to be mostly gas containers, maybe gunpowder and other explosive things, but nothing capable of detonation. (that being C4, RDX, or Ammonium Nitrate) That would be why there's not much of a crater, and windows were blown out but no walls or buildings were knocked down.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 28, 2020 01:11 PM (trdmm)

Hmmm... Makes sense I guess.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:17 PM (UPoLF)

320 He did act. He signed the COVID bill. But he made Mitch promise to think about making it better. In two weeks.

Posted by: Tom Servo

So you would prefer that he let them override his veto?

Brilliant strategy.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 28, 2020 01:17 PM (3P/5p)

321 Imagine that. People in Washington pretending to be and presenting themselves as people that they are not, with paid help from others.

Posted by: Doctor Denny Crane! at December 28, 2020 01:17 PM (uc+oy)

322
Not after signing that crappy bill yesterday.
Posted by: wth at December 28, 2020 01:15 PM (v0R5T)

Yes. This was a HUGE mistake.

We don't have the Line Item Veto, Mr. Trump........

You just got buttfucked on national television, Dwayne.

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)

323 GWB: "Watch this drive..." And pipes one.

Yeah Bush was genuinely athletic, he was one of the few presidents who threw a strike for MLB. Hell of a pitch.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:18 PM (KZzsI)

324 Notice they keep calling it the Nashville Bomb. Takes all the emotion out of it. Why? Because if it was MAGA (yeah right) they'd be calling it the Christmas Bombing.

Posted by: ... at December 28, 2020 01:18 PM (JIxk0)

325 Ukrainian Pariamentarian Andriy Derkach (pictured) held a much publicized press conference last October in Ukraine.

In his press conference Derkach revealed that Joe Biden was paid $900,000 for lobbying efforts from Burisma Holdings in Ukraine.

Posted by: SMOD at December 28, 2020 01:18 PM (3aI0K)

326 >>> This always baffles me. Why wait until you're ready to leave to do the things that make your house more enjoyable?
Posted by: pep at December 28, 2020 01:10 PM (v16oJ)
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Those things are not enjoyable to clutter people.

Posted by: Braenyard looking for the AT&T bomber manifesto at December 28, 2020 01:18 PM (CZm2G)

327 328 GWB: "Watch this drive..." And pipes one.

Yeah Bush was genuinely athletic, he was one of the few presidents who threw a strike for MLB. Hell of a pitch.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:18 PM (KZzsI)

============

"Pfft..."
-Dr. Fauci

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 01:19 PM (NWM+b)

328 So you would prefer that he let them override his veto?

Yes. Both have the same result, but one means he stood on principle and did the right thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:19 PM (KZzsI)

329 ============

"Pfft..."
-Dr. Fauci
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 01:19 PM (NWM+b)

Piker.
- Baroke Hussein Owebama

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)

330 lol. Baldwin got out-acted in his own home.

Posted by: x at December 28, 2020 01:19 PM (0tE/i)

331
He did act. He signed the COVID bill. But he made Mitch promise to think about making it better. In two weeks.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 28, 2020 01:16 PM (trdmm)

Yeah, that was a bitch move.

But this is what our politicians have been cooking up for months. They know that if they call it a "covid relief bill," any one who votes against it can be accused of "playing politics while the nation was broke and stuck at home due to a global pandemic" or whatever.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:19 PM (UPoLF)

332
In his press conference Derkach revealed that Joe Biden was paid $900,000 for lobbying efforts from Burisma Holdings in Ukraine.
Posted by: SMOD at December 28, 2020 01:18 PM (3aI0K)

Being a donk is the best vaccine ever, you are immune to prosecution.

Posted by: Tangerine Lacroix is Better, but Limoncello Sucks at December 28, 2020 01:19 PM (ONvIw)

333 >>So you would prefer that he let them override his veto?

Yes.

Make them go the long way around.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2020 01:19 PM (yp9Ck)

334 I did throw one out yesterday - a little pamphlet called Keep Calm and Seek God which I was given on Saturday. I opened it up to the chapter on depression and read, "Do you know you can choose not to be depressed?"

BOOM. Out the door and into the trash.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:09 PM (2JVJo)

I would have done the same thing.

One of the reasons I rarely darken the door of a church anymore is the "too blessed to be depressed" mindset.

Haven't any of you read Job? David's Psalms?

Posted by: Captain Whitebread's Stealth Account at December 28, 2020 01:20 PM (IA8/d)

335 >>> 304 Either Trump does something while still President, or the left will select every president moving forward. There is no possibility that Trump or any Trump like person runs in 2024 and will be allowed to win.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2020 01:13 PM (qlFIA)

I'm ready for my turn!

Posted by: Pierre Delecto at December 28, 2020 01:20 PM (02b6n)

336 As I understand it, she changed her name from Hillary to the Spanish spelling, and claimed to have grown up in Spain.

When the real story is she grew up in MA.

This is so funny on many levels. Spaniards aren't even politically correct according to the #Woke#Bible

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:20 PM (DJFLF)

337 I've always thought that an organized bookshelf shows the person really doesn't READ said books.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 28, 2020 01:02 PM (oHd/0)

That's not necessarily true. After working in the library in college, plus a slight OCD manner, I have to have nice looking bookshelves.

Posted by: WOPR - Tactically Dramatic is Failue at December 28, 2020 01:20 PM (WVeiZ)

338 Yes. Both have the same result, but one means he stood on principle and did the right thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:19 PM (KZzsI)

ANd he'd have made them own it

Posted by: CN at December 28, 2020 01:21 PM (ONvIw)

339
@allanmalina

So the FBI can solve a bombing in under a day, but
give them Hunter's laptop, Hillary's emails, Epstein's black book, and
proof of play for pay in Ukraine, years later they don't even know they
have it?

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 28, 2020 12:51 PM (3P/5p)

They're all over garage door rope pulls too. Why it's like the FBI has a political agenda or something.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 28, 2020 01:21 PM (UnQ9z)

340 >>I've always thought that an organized bookshelf shows the person really doesn't READ said books.

Not the case. Certain tyes can't live with clutter.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2020 01:21 PM (yp9Ck)

341 So you would prefer that he let them override his veto?

Brilliant strategy.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 28, 2020 01:17 PM (3P/5p)

Ummm.... nearly everyone who voted for it pretended to be outraged that they didn't have time to read it and and that the final bill wasn't what they wanted, but they had to do something....

So call them out on it. "You're right, you should have more time to read it before you vote on it. I'm vetoing it, if you want to override my veto, no problem. you have plenty of time to read the entire 5,500 pages before you have that vote."

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:21 PM (UPoLF)

342 They know that if they call it a "covid relief bill," any one who votes against it can be accused of "playing politics while the nation was broke and stuck at home due to a global pandemic" or whatever.

Yeah if he didn't sign it, he wouldn't be re-elected.

Oh wait.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:21 PM (KZzsI)

343
I'm currently confronting the problem that the sideways space atop my library books is now full. I'm considering raising the ceiling.
Posted by: pep at December 28, 2020 12:31 PM (v16oJ)

_________

Need a bigger house.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 28, 2020 01:22 PM (mht8P)

344 My hunch is that Trump will announce his 2024 election bid on January 6th. Mainly as a means to protect himself and his family. Staying in the public eye gives him more leverage.
Posted by: Max Power

I will be supremely disappointed if this is the case. Not particularly surprised, but disappointed.

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 28, 2020 01:22 PM (zTThE)

345 All I know is that I am not getting a ring doorbell. Those people seem to get robbed all the time.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 28, 2020 01:22 PM (r+sAi)

346 Correct. He acts now or the country is lost.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 28, 2020 01:15 PM (H8QX

There's been a number of hints that military intelligence is working hard at ... something ... that's supposed to save the day. Shouldn't whatever it is already be happening?

SCOTUS has shown itself to be illegitimate. Both political establishments have shown themselves to be traitors. What's left to do?

Qanon has been talking about rounding up thousands of Deep Staters for years - never happened.

All I could ever figure would help was a whole bunch of folks - including high profile ones - finding themselves in military tribunals. But even THAT takes a little time. This is looking like a dud.

Posted by: President-Elect Optimizer at December 28, 2020 01:22 PM (hOOi9)

347 I think Trump will try to protect his own interests. Running for office checks that box, in my opinion. I'm not saying he's going to win. This is merely a way to buy time and keep what little leverage he will have left.

Posted by: Max Power at December 28, 2020 01:22 PM (QCc6B)

348 If the Rapist Elect ever calls to rent a few feet of books, it'll be a mad scramble for them to come up with a bunch of Cliff Notes and Archie comics.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 28, 2020 01:22 PM (I58tH)

349 What would I put on a bookshelf to impress a stranger? All types of fun could be had, I'd think.

Human AnatomyTo Serve Man
Swords, Knives, and Maces IllustratedMedieval Torture Devices Illustrated
ChemistryBackhoe repairWoodchipping for Fun and Profit
Quicklime and How to Use ItHow to Sharpen Every Tool Known

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BlockadeDC at December 28, 2020 01:22 PM (HaL55)

350 And he'd have made them own it

Evidently not.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

351 Baldwin's wife could at least have faked being from Nicaragua like Jagger's first wife was.

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:23 PM (DJFLF)

352 Gonna be hard for Trump to run for president when he's dead, sorry, in jail.

Don't worry we'll find a crime since we already have the man.

Posted by: SDNY Prosecutors at December 28, 2020 01:23 PM (qlFIA)

353 Yes. Both have the same result, but one means he stood on principle and did the right thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

ANd he'd have made them own it
Posted by: CN

Don't think that much matters to people anymore. Except those of us here.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 01:23 PM (LwB8i)

354 I've always thought that an organized bookshelf shows the person really doesn't READ said books.
--------------------------

What about no shelves at all?

Posted by: ... at December 28, 2020 01:23 PM (JIxk0)

355 At the airport.

Marine son drove us here. I'm sad. Don't know when I will see him again and hug him.

Dammit.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at December 28, 2020 01:23 PM (K5ht4)

356 There's been a number of hints that military intelligence is working hard at ... something ... that's supposed to save the day. Shouldn't whatever it is already be happening?

That ship has sailed. Its too late, its over.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

357 322 My hunch is that Trump will announce his 2024 election bid on January 6th.

Why do people keep saying this? It is patently ridiculous.

^^^This^^^
There won't be a next time. If the Commie-Crats, CCP, Blamtifa, and other assorted doers of evil succeed in this blatant theft of the presidential election, there won't be a next time. Ever.

The entire country will become the S-hole that the big dem cities already are. The little enclaves of walled/armed to the teeth for the elites will exist, the rest of us will be on our own, and punished the way Kyle Rittenhouse is being punished for trying to defend himself against an armed attacker.

January 6th is more important than I want to contemplate.

Posted by: Doctor President-Elect Boots at December 28, 2020 01:23 PM (oGBso)

358 "Whoa, he sucks!"

I love it.

Because he does. Everyone portrayed him as "dreamy" and he's literally a fucking Urkle.
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)

The funny part is that it's apparent he sucks before he ever hits the ball. Look at the way he jerks upward on the back swing. He's dead right there. He'll never find the right height again to hit the ball squarely. He's incredibly unathletic.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:24 PM (vBvJV)

359 Pixy hates spaces now, apparently. All those BB bookshelf titles had spaces after them, I swear.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BlockadeDC at December 28, 2020 01:24 PM (HaL55)

360 My hunch is that Trump will announce his 2024 election bid on January
6th. Mainly as a means to protect himself and his family. Staying in the
public eye gives him more leverage.

Posted by: Max Power

That's a worthless move. He'll be lucky if they aren't filing charges the moment he is out of office. Trump is finished.

Posted by: WOPR - Tactically Dramatic is Failue at December 28, 2020 01:24 PM (WVeiZ)

361 Funny how PDT has said NOTHING about the FBI Christmas Miracle of the Nashville suicide bomber with a heart of gold or how the "heroes of law enforcement" that can't seem to find any felonies on Hunter's laptop, managed to "solve" the Case of the Flying RV Bomber/Shooter/Electronic Countdown Designer ( ignoring the shooting part and that pesky FAA DOD no fly zone thing) over the course of 3 commercial breaks.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 28, 2020 01:24 PM (3P/5p)

362 BackwardsBoy - #BlockadeDC

Brace Yerself, Bridgit: An Irish Sex Manual ...

Posted by: Adriane the Practical Critic ... at December 28, 2020 01:24 PM (LPnfS)

363 Don't think that much matters to people anymore. Except those of us here.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 01:23 PM (LwB8i)

Most people just worry about staying current on TV shows and hiding from wuflu.

Posted by: CN at December 28, 2020 01:24 PM (ONvIw)

364 What about no shelves at all?
That they tried to install them, but were less than successful.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com was dead, but it's getting better at December 28, 2020 01:25 PM (SchxB)

365 This is so funny on many levels. Spaniards aren't even politically correct according to the #Woke#Bible
Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:20 PM (DJFLF)

If I had to guess, it was one of those situations that snowballed. She thought it made her sound cool and sophisticated in college to claim to be European, and one thing led to another, and here we are.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:25 PM (UPoLF)

366 At the airport.

Marine son drove us here. I'm sad. Don't know when I will see him again and hug him.

Dammit.
Posted by: Nurse ratched at December 28, 2020 01:23 PM (K5ht4)

At least you did get to see and hug him, nurse.

I realize coming from me, that sounds like sophistry, but try to remember that happiness.

Have a safe trip, dear lady.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:26 PM (2JVJo)

367 My dreams of mass political arrests and perp walks
are fading away.

Posted by: Braenyard looking for the AT&T bomber manifesto at December 28, 2020 01:26 PM (CZm2G)

368 If you haven't read about the uproar over Alec Baldwins wife faking her Spanish heritage, you must get caught up via NY Post.

It's blue on blue at its peak.

Posted by: Ktgreat at December 28, 2020 12:57 PM (AD3JT)

Do something Arec Bardwin!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 28, 2020 01:26 PM (UnQ9z)

369 The funny part is that it's apparent he sucks before he ever hits the ball. Look at the way he jerks upward on the back swing. He's dead right there. He'll never find the right height again to hit the ball squarely. He's incredibly unathletic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:24 PM (vBvJV)

I'm like ... medium athletic. Played sports in high school, was never great at any of them, but wasn't terrible either.

Anyways, I could definitely, definitely, throw an opening pitch baseball better then Obama, who appears to have never thrown a baseball before that day he did it on national TV.

But if I WERE worried about it, I probably would have found someone in the white house who played baseball at any time in their lives to show me how to throw a base ball.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:27 PM (UPoLF)

370 That ship has sailed. Its too late, its over.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

There never was a ship. Qanon is someone getting off on riling up the alt-right conspiracy nuts. Trump is what Trump always was. He's a CivNat Boomer who loves his country. He's not ruthless. He's not Pinochet. And he has never quite grasped that the country he loves doesn't exist anymore. The old rules are gone.

Posted by: WOPR - Tactically Dramatic is Failue at December 28, 2020 01:28 PM (WVeiZ)

371 >>I probably would have found someone in the white house who played baseball at any time in their lives to show me how to throw a base ball.

not to mention how to spell one.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2020 01:28 PM (DjpWl)

372 373 My dreams of mass political arrests and perp walks
are fading away.

Posted by: Braenyard looking for the AT&T bomber manifesto at December 28, 2020 01:26 PM (CZm2G)

Nonsense, the political arrests and perp walks will be Trump supporters, courtesy of Fey Wray

Posted by: Bill Barr School of Cosmetic Justice at December 28, 2020 01:28 PM (ONvIw)

373 I've always thought that an organized bookshelf shows the person really doesn't READ said books.

True bibliophiles have their bookshelves double stacked - that is, there are books in front of books, and then some left flat filling the gap on top of books.

Posted by: Doctor 🐧, President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:28 PM (C+evo)

374 If you haven't read about the uproar over Alec Baldwins wife faking her Spanish heritage, you must get caught up via NY Post.

It's blue on blue at its peak.

Posted by: Ktgreat at December 28, 2020 12:57 PM (AD3JT)

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN Madonna's not British?!?!?"

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

375 I have two shelves of books. They're both visible behind me on my webcam. It's mostly manga, graphic novels, comic strip collections, cheesy novels, language textbooks, drawing instruction and reference books, and roleplaying games, but my coworkers have remarked during virtual meetings on my impressive-looking book collection. I'm guessing they can't read the text on the spines of those books; they just see those full shelves.

It made me chuckle a bit.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, GED at December 28, 2020 01:29 PM (H3MF8)

376 I read the bill was the Omnibus budget bill with relief attached to it.. and the president can sit that money in a deep dark hole never to be spent, or even allocated elsewhere.
I know none of that matters if he doesn't win, but that is not a small matter. In fact, it's how the wall was funded.

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 28, 2020 01:29 PM (zTThE)

377 332 Yeah Bush was genuinely athletic, he was one of the few presidents who threw a strike for MLB. Hell of a pitch.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:18 PM (KZzsI)

============

"Pfft..."
-Dr. Fauci
---------

"Hold my umbrella"
Preznit Mom Jeans

Posted by: Doctor President-Elect Boots at December 28, 2020 01:29 PM (oGBso)

378 And he has never quite grasped that the country he loves doesn't exist anymore. The old rules are gone.

Yeah that is a flaw of his. I think it might be generational, he can't quite grasp that things are not the same as they were. He actually thought the press was his friend and got mad at them for being jerks.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:29 PM (KZzsI)

379 My dreams of mass political arrests and perp walks
are fading away.

There never were going to be any.

And today should be proof positive that January 6 will be a national wet fart. If Trump can't even be assed to veto that ridiculous pork "Covid" bill, he sure as hell doesn't have the stones to invoke an Insurrection Act.

He'll be lucky if the Secret Service doesn't cuff him on his way out of the WH.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:29 PM (2JVJo)

380 I rent out my cock for $50/foot.

That will be $4.25 my good sir. !Tiro de borde!

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at December 28, 2020 01:30 PM (pYQR/)

381 Someone busted the statue of Breonna Taylor they had in Oakland.

Apparently
this is big news, but I thought we'd decided as a society that it was
ok to smash statues you didn't like....didn't we?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2020 01:00 PM (qlFIA)

Breonna Taylor was an example of play stupid drug dealer games, win stupid drug dealer prizes. It is sad for her family that she is dead but who put up a statue?

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 28, 2020 01:30 PM (946rW)

382 There never was a ship. Qanon is someone getting off on riling up the alt-right conspiracy nuts. Trump is what Trump always was. He's a CivNat Boomer who loves his country. He's not ruthless. He's not Pinochet. And he has never quite grasped that the country he loves doesn't exist anymore. The old rules are gone.
Posted by: WOPR - Tactically Dramatic is Failue at December 28, 2020 01:28 PM (WVeiZ)

I'm having trouble understanding how Trump, who is definitely not an idiot, didn't realize what DC was like and the shit storm he was walking in to.

He picked a bunch of DC swamp retreads to work for him, and tried to negotiate with Mitch and Pelosi (at least in the beginning) for everything. As if they were going to help him in any way.

It's mystifying that he didn't have a better grasp of the situation.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:30 PM (UPoLF)

383 The hilarious (!) thing about Hillary/Hilaria is that the Left has decided that Spaniards are no longer to be designated as "Hispanics." Yes!

You have to be from a Western Hemisphere country now.

And Portuguese from Portugal don't count as "latinos" as Brazilians do.

So, even if the Baldwin chick really were from Spain, she would not be Oppressed. Y'no, like Giselle Bundchen.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 28, 2020 01:31 PM (M/9m0)

384 He'll be lucky if the Secret Service doesn't cuff him on his way out of the WH.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:29 PM (2JVJo)
OK Maxine!

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:31 PM (DJFLF)

385 385: Signing the indictment was my final act of valor. Barbara Bush, I love you forever.

Posted by: Bill Barr School of Cosmetic Justice at December 28, 2020 01:31 PM (ONvIw)

386 {{{Nurse}}}

We will keep your Marine son and you in our prayers.

I hope you had a wonderful time togerher.

Posted by: Ladyl at December 28, 2020 01:31 PM (TdMsT)

387 "Hold my umbrella"

Preznit Mom Jeans

Posted by: Doctor President-Elect Boots at December 28, 2020 01:29 PM (oGBso)

Barry was so bad that at one game they cut away from him throwing out the first pitch that was wildly off the mark.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 28, 2020 01:31 PM (UnQ9z)

388 Multiple books by the foot = books by the feet.
Books by the feet = Big feet.
Big feet, as we learned on today's Art Thread = Big manhood.

Our betters are very well endowed.

It's science!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 28, 2020 01:31 PM (DMUuz)

389 I remember this from a Peter Devries story:

"When i opened one of his books, its spine gave a report like a gunshot."

Posted by: Desultory joe at December 28, 2020 01:31 PM (L9P9s)

390 It is interesting watching two delusional sides on the right. You have the Qanon types thinking the massive arrests are #twoweeks. Meanwhile, you have the believers in the system telling why it won't be #twoweeks, but some indefinite time in the future. Both believe the same nonsense from different viewpoints. They believe the system still works.

Posted by: WOPR - Tactically Dramatic is Failue at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (WVeiZ)

391 342 As I understand it, she changed her name from Hillary to the Spanish spelling, and claimed to have grown up in Spain.
This is so funny on many levels. Spaniards aren't even politically correct according to the #Woke#BiblePosted by: kallisto

All the glamour of being Latina, but without being mistaken for a one of those swarthy filthy stupid people who get hired as nannies or gardeners.

Posted by: Downcast at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (Z12fZ)

392 He's not ruthless. He's not Pinochet. And he has never quite grasped that the country he loves doesn't exist anymore. The old rules are gone.
Posted by: WOPR - Tactically Dramatic is Failue at December 28, 2020 01:28 PM (WVeiZ)

Yes, I'm afraid so. And every shred of his legacy will be gone in six months.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (H8QX8)

393 The Horde has come not to praise The Donald, but to bury him. Sunshine patriots indeed.

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (DJFLF)

394 The good thing about these books is the Washington Elite can use the for kindling when all the renewable sources fail to keep the lights and heat on.

Posted by: jim at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (ynpvh)

395 PDT On January 6. "A lot of people depict me as some callous, cruel dictator. Actually, I'm a real nice guy and that is the reason we let a lot of people spend what may be their last Holidays with family. Even as we speak, arrest warrants are being served for the following people, and bear with me, the list is quite long. First and foremost....".

Hey, when all you have left is dreams.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (I58tH)

396 But if I WERE worried about it, I probably would have found someone in the white house who played baseball at any time in their lives to show me how to throw a base ball.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:27 PM (UPoLF)

I think it's quite a bit of time to learn how to throw a baseball. Just screwing around during practice I've tried throwing with the wrong hand, and it comes out kind of girly. Throwing smoothly with good mechanics takes a lot of practice.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (vBvJV)

397 Trump is not naive. The forces aligned against him are simply too strong. In fact Trump got elected purely because he was the only one talking about the the type and strength of evil the country was facing from within.

As I see it Trump's main problem is that he makes what he accomplishes look so easy. I am hard pressed to name a single man that could have done 5% of what Trump did, virtually alone in that pressure cooker.

And that's *besides* actually beating The Hag and the fraud machine in 2016, no small miracle in itself.

Posted by: ... at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (JIxk0)

398 Breonna Taylor was an example of play stupid drug dealer games, win stupid drug dealer prizes. It is sad for her family that she is dead but who put up a statue?
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 28, 2020 01:30 PM (946rW)

Yeah, originally the story was it was a no knock raid on the wrong apartment. Which is fucked up.

Now we find out she handled a drug dealers money and potentially helped him hide some of her drugs, and her current boyfriend responded to cops knocking on the door by hiding in the hallway and shooting at the cops as soon as they broke down the door.

Which is... well, what the fuck do you expect?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (UPoLF)

399 The Horde has come not to praise The Donald, but to bury him. Sunshine patriots indeed.

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (DJFLF)

Honestly.

Posted by: ... at December 28, 2020 01:33 PM (JIxk0)

400 It's mystifying that he didn't have a better grasp of the situation.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:30 PM (UPoLF)

Many people do not fully understand what Obama did with the bureaucracy. A lot of the civil service careerist jobs have "sets public policy" in the description, so that a GOP president or someone like Tulsi, a less crazy donk, cannot set policy or will have it overridden instantly.

Posted by: Bill Barr School of Cosmetic Justice at December 28, 2020 01:33 PM (ONvIw)

401 I love reading books and I'm pretty sure most of the books I read are serious. Mostly history and biography and some older novels. No Hannity or O'Reilly books--or celeb bios.
That said, reading is NOT a marker of intelligence or success in this day and age. I know some highly intelligent and successful people who NEVER crack open a book to read for pleasure. These people only read business-related stuff--and their bank statements.

Only in Washington where status-obsessed and anxious third-rate brains, would renting books by the foot be a success.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 28, 2020 01:33 PM (HrMC1)

402 Madonna: Benton Harbor Michigan was at one time part of the British Empire. Or not. She did say at one time that "...it smells like fish".

Posted by: klaftern at December 28, 2020 01:33 PM (RuIsu)

403 Mr Poppins, Ladyl,

Thank you. I'm a sap.
The three of us had a lovely visit. We went to the beach and cooked together and ate together and the boys played mariocart and smash bros for hours.

And I enjoyed hearing them laugh together.

Posted by: Nurse ratched at December 28, 2020 01:34 PM (K5ht4)

404 >> Breonna Taylor was an example of play stupid drug dealer games, win stupid drug dealer prizes. It is sad for her family that she is dead but who put up a statue?

She was watching too much of those Made for Television Afro-Dramas...

that Black Dallas type stuff.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2020 01:34 PM (DjpWl)

405 Barry was so bad that at one game they cut away from him throwing out the first pitch that was wildly off the mark.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 28, 2020 01:31 PM (UnQ9z)

"The catcher called for a pitch out! Or to low-bridge the on-deck hitter!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:34 PM (vBvJV)

406 388 "He picked a bunch of DC swamp retreads to work for him..."

I give him a pass on the personnel disasters. Who else was he going to get? The DC bureaucrat gene pool he had to choose from is damaged beyond repair, as is the Republican party "professionals" he was counting on giving him, a DC outsider, advice.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey, Brooklyn Gun Nut at December 28, 2020 01:34 PM (GlmxK)

407 Madonna: Benton Harbor Michigan was at one time part of the British Empire. Or not.

She did say at one time that "...it smells like fish".
Posted by: klaftern

That was her cootch.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 01:34 PM (LwB8i)

408 The Horde has come not to praise The Donald, but to bury him. Sunshine patriots indeed.
Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (DJFLF)

To be fair, with all the shit we've had shoveled upon us since November (virus notwithstanding), it's hard not to be Glum from Gulliver's Travels.

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)

409 I think it's quite a bit of time to learn how to throw a baseball. Just screwing around during practice I've tried throwing with the wrong hand, and it comes out kind of girly. Throwing smoothly with good mechanics takes a lot of practice.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (vBvJV)

To be good, sure. To throw a ball from the pitchers mound to home plate? Eh... I don't know.

But then, again, I learned how to play baseball when I was a kid and went to batting cages and had a tutor coach guy (whatever you'd call him) for a while, so... maybe I'm forgetting how hard it was to learn.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:34 PM (UPoLF)

410 Posted by: Harry Paratestes

Trump is invoking the ICA to defer spending on the bill for a year.

But you knew that.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 28, 2020 01:34 PM (3P/5p)

411 405 Which is... well, what the fuck do you expect?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (UPoLF)

===========

That we enter the leftist fantasyland where cops are only at the gates of really expensive communities, protecting the rich while the poor masses fight amongst themselves without turning their ire on the wealthy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 01:35 PM (NWM+b)

412 Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 28, 2020 01:31 PM (M/9m0)
just goes to show you the complete inanity of the hollyweird set. Bianca Jagger at least came from an approved spanish speaking nation, and that was way before the Tyranny of the #Woke appeared.

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:35 PM (DJFLF)

413
The COVID/Pork bill had the votes in Congress to override a presidential veto. They had him. In signing, Trump invoked a law that allows him to redline items for removal by Congress, which he did. I don't think the law matters as a practical thing -- apparently no law does anymore. But Trump didn't simply cave -- this was calculated as least bad option.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 28, 2020 01:35 PM (YrDxW)

414
That was her cootch.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 01:34 PM (LwB8i)

He's not lyin.....

Posted by: Dennis Rodman at December 28, 2020 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

415 Posted by: Nurse ratched at December 28, 2020 01:34 PM (K5ht4)

Family is a wonderful thing. Glad you got to have it.

Your boys have fine taste in games as well.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at December 28, 2020 01:35 PM (Q/cgF)

416 The Horde has come not to praise The Donald, but to bury him. Sunshine patriots indeed.
Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (DJFLF)

All right, then. Give me one piece of evidence - not supposition, not pointing to some nebulous, not-been-enacted EO or other obscure legislative bumf, but actual evidence - that Trump is going to do anything but let Stinkfinger profane the oath of office on January 20.

Not, "he can" or "he might" or "he could."

"He HAS -"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:35 PM (2JVJo)

417 I'm having trouble understanding how Trump, who is definitely not an
idiot, didn't realize what DC was like and the shit storm he was walking
in to.

He picked a bunch of DC swamp retreads to work for him, and tried to
negotiate with Mitch and Pelosi (at least in the beginning) for
everything. As if they were going to help him in any way.

It's mystifying that he didn't have a better grasp of the situation.

IIRC, he said to someone right before he descended the stairs to declare his candidacy, "Now we'll find out who our real friends are." or something similar. I think even he was gobsmacked at the level of outright hatred towards him, all for no real reason. If anybody had any illusions about the MSM being anything more than radical, leftwing propaganda outlets, these past 5 years should've dispelled them 4 years ago.
I never thought we'd see a real, live Emmanuel Goldstein, but damned if PROGDA didn't create one right before our eyes.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BlockadeDC at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (HaL55)

418 Honestly.

Posted by: ... at December 28, 2020 01:33 PM (JIxk0)
*shoulder shrug*
whatcha gonna do?

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (DJFLF)

419 Breonna Taylor was an example of play stupid drug dealer games, win stupid drug dealer prizes. It is sad for her family that she is dead but who put up a statue?

Why in God's name does BLM sanctify these thugs and criminals? Every single one of their "martyrs" was a criminal. Do they not realize that by showcasing these people, they're only reinforcing the image of blacks having a criminality problem?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (vBvJV)

420 I give him a pass on the personnel disasters. Who else was he going to get? The DC bureaucrat gene pool he had to choose from is damaged beyond repair, as is the Republican party "professionals" he was counting on giving him, a DC outsider, advice.
Posted by: Marcus Gravey, Brooklyn Gun Nut at December 28, 2020 01:34 PM (GlmxK)

There is no law that everyone who works in Washington must be of the DC peerage, with connected families who sent them to ivy league schools and got them jobs in DC right out of college.

He could have hired plenty of capable people from all over the country.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (UPoLF)

421 It's mystifying that he didn't have a better grasp of the situation.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:30 PM (UPoLF)

A combination of the generation he belongs to, an extreme self-confidence in his management and persuasion skills, and an abiding faith in a latent and renewable patriotism in the political class.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (H8QX8)

422 jeezus, this place needs a Midol

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (3P/5p)

423 I did throw one out yesterday - a little pamphlet called Keep Calm and Seek God which I was given on Saturday. I opened it up to the chapter on depression and read, "Do you know you can choose not to be depressed?"
-------

Ah. You need one of these, actually saw a TV ad for it:
https://tinyurl.com/ydxczvjr

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (WZ5i4)

424 The Horde has come not to praise The Donald, but to bury him.
........

He lost me yesterday.

Posted by: wth at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (v0R5T)

425 The COVID/Pork bill had the votes in Congress to override a presidential veto. They had him. In signing, Trump invoked a law that allows him to redline items for removal by Congress, which he did. I don't think the law matters as a practical thing -- apparently no law does anymore. But Trump didn't simply cave -- this was calculated as least bad option.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 28, 2020 01:35 PM (YrDxW)

I thought the line item veto wasn't a thing......

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)

426 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:35 PM (2JVJo)

Why so defensive?

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (DJFLF)

427 I'm having trouble understanding how Trump, who is definitely not an idiot, didn't realize what DC was like and the shit storm he was walking in to.

He picked a bunch of DC swamp retreads to work for him, and tried to negotiate with Mitch and Pelosi (at least in the beginning) for everything. As if they were going to help him in any way.

It's mystifying that he didn't have a better grasp of the situation.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:30 PM (UPoLF)

Trump was highly-successful in his business career in getting people who probably hated his guts to make deals with him.
He probably thought he could do the same thing in Washington.

I don't blame him.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (HrMC1)

428 426 Breonna Taylor was an example of play stupid drug dealer games, win stupid drug dealer prizes. It is sad for her family that she is dead but who put up a statue?

Why in God's name does BLM sanctify these thugs and criminals? Every single one of their "martyrs" was a criminal. Do they not realize that by showcasing these people, they're only reinforcing the image of blacks having a criminality problem?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (vBvJV)

========

Is their goal to make black people's lives better or to tear down the system?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 01:37 PM (NWM+b)

429 Breonna Taylor probably helped her drug dealer boyfriend kill someone (no not the guy in the shootout). The actual drug dealer boyfriend was wanted for murder over a body found in *Breonna's car*. Note - they continued to be a couple after this.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2020 01:37 PM (qlFIA)

430 That ship has sailed. Its too late, its over.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

How do we know that?

Posted by: President-Elect Optimizer at December 28, 2020 01:37 PM (hOOi9)

431 People also forget that a lot of jobs you need to fill only get filled if the Legislative Branch approves.

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2020 01:37 PM (DjpWl)

432 I did throw one out yesterday - a little pamphlet called Keep Calm and Seek God which I was given on Saturday. I opened it up to the chapter on depression and read, "Do you know you can choose not to be depressed?"

How about "Great Jewish Sports Legends?"

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

433 Interesting how we get posts about the President not having any allies, then posts saying he should veto the bill.

You get allies by giving them a bit of what they want. If he vetoed this bill, he goes down as the person that cut off unemployment benefits during the holidays. He did what he could to get that part through and to redline the pork part of it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 28, 2020 01:37 PM (JKNZq)

434 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:35 PM (2JVJo)

I don't think kallisto was referring to whether Trump takes the oath on Jan 20. Merely the Monday Morning QB'ing is a little sickening when it regards someone who put EVERYTHING on the line for this country and never sold his voters, or his countrymen for that matter, out.

Posted by: ... at December 28, 2020 01:37 PM (JIxk0)

435 Why in God's name does BLM sanctify these thugs and criminals? Every single one of their "martyrs" was a criminal. Do they not realize that by showcasing these people, they're only reinforcing the image of blacks having a criminality problem?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (vBvJV)

I think they know exactly what they're doing.

Because if they made a bigger deal about that situation with Charleston where a white cop clearly shot a black dude in the back then tried to plant his taser on him, there would be no arguing. EVERYONE agrees that that cop was wrong, lied in his report, and fabricated evidence, and if not for a standerby recording it with his cell phone, would have gotten away with it.

But it's much more divisive (which is their ultimate goal) to use situations where half the country says "oh come on, thats bullshit"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:37 PM (UPoLF)

436
But if I WERE worried about it, I probably would have found someone in the white house who played baseball at any time in their lives to show me how to throw a base ball.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:27 PM (UPoLF)

To be fair... if you were that bad at it at his age there is no amount of practice that is going to make up for it in a short time period. He should have had Moochelle gun one in there...

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 28, 2020 01:37 PM (zTThE)

437 Fakeness is eating the world. I don't know how else to explain it, but it's something elemental about our overculture. I have a crazy-rich acquaintance whose life is turning increasingly strange and sad because she lives in a fantasy world on many levels. Glad she has her money to insulate her from reality.

Posted by: anonymous at December 28, 2020 01:38 PM (hRoyQ)

438 My late brother used to cut the spines off book covers, & then glue them to his bookshelf frames, so that the line of books would appear continuous, & not be interrupted by posts & railings.

He was a bit anal retentive in this regard.

Posted by: mnw at December 28, 2020 01:38 PM (Cssks)

439 Trump is not naive. The forces aligned against him are simply too strong.
I concur. Even I who think everyone in DC is all part of the corruption and evil was shocked at how everyone in DC is all part of the corruption and evil.

You can only assume that most of the gop was in on the election steal at this point. They did nothing to help.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 28, 2020 01:38 PM (r+sAi)

440 ========

Is their goal to make black people's lives better or to tear down the system?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, marching in the Felliniesque circus at December 28, 2020 01:37 PM (NWM+b)

The organization BLM has over 10 BILLION dollars.

What is it doing to improve things in the black community?

NOT A FUCKING THING.

None of it has anything to do with 'black lives.'

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)

441 The Horde has come not to praise The Donald, but to bury him.

Not me. I'm still on board.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2020 01:38 PM (VP4Cd)

442
He was a bit anal retentive in this regard.
Posted by: mnw at December 28, 2020 01:38 PM (Cssks)

Anal? I'm listening.....

Posted by: SHEP!!! at December 28, 2020 01:39 PM (Zz0t1)

443 431 The Horde has come not to praise The Donald, but to bury him.

........

He lost me yesterday.

Posted by: wth at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (v0R5T)

The bill was a no-win situation. Don't sign, and people get hurt. Sign and we the people get hurt. So he signed and added redlines for Congress to fix (which they never will). Was it the right thing to do? I don't believe so, but either way you look at it, trillions of dollars of more debt are not good.

Posted by: jim at December 28, 2020 01:39 PM (ynpvh)

444 Why wait to do home improvements until trying to sell? Because I have pets, am not a clean freak and live with my 81 year old dad. New carpeting, maybe even hardwood flooring would need redone again to be fresh enough for selling. In a few years when its just me and sell and flee the locusts I foresee myself having to live in my horsetrailer weekender quarters while getting the house ready to sell to keep things fresh enough as it is. Plus I mostly have peasant tastes. I'll wait and either sell cheaply to someone who will flip the place or get someone to advise on what rich people want.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 28, 2020 01:39 PM (Aashi)

445 It's mystifying that he didn't have a better grasp of the situation.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:30 PM (UPoLF)

It's a couple of things. Trump is an old guy. He has a view of America that is stuck in the past. It is hard for older people to recognize the change that has happened around them once they get to a certain age.

Next, Trump isn't a politician. He had little to no support from any of the existing apparatus of state. Most of the time it was working against him. Mitch made sure anyone Trump nominated was vetted by the Deep State. And even if someone decent wanted to work for Trump, they had to know it was career suicide. No one who has worked honestly for him will see a job in the Imperial Capital again. Honestly, I'm surprised he accomplished as much as he did.

Look at how many people have been unmasked by Trump winning. Even a lot of his "supporters" are happy to move on after a stolen election.

Posted by: WOPR - Tactically Dramatic is Failue at December 28, 2020 01:39 PM (WVeiZ)

446 Why so defensive?
Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (DJFLF)

So you've got nothing, then?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:39 PM (2JVJo)

447 384 And he has never quite grasped that the country he loves doesn't exist anymore. The old rules are gone.

Yeah that is a flaw of his. I think it might be generational, he can't quite grasp that things are not the same as they were. He actually thought the press was his friend and got mad at them for being jerks.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:29 PM (KZzsI)

I fully admit to not wanting this to be true.

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 28, 2020 01:39 PM (zTThE)

448 LOL. I read about 50 books a year. Mostly kindle these days. I owned 100s of Hardback books. I would NOT have this problem. I did recently donate a vast majority of my books. I wasn't going to read them again.

Posted by: Joseph Dagostino at December 28, 2020 01:39 PM (3w9Fm)

449 For the next 3.5 years Democrats will suffer from the usual BLaMnesia. Then in the summer of 2024, we'll do it all again. Like they really give a fuck.

Posted by: ... at December 28, 2020 01:39 PM (JIxk0)

450 399---....every shred of his legacy will be gone in six months.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (H8QX

-----------------------------------------
Not every shred.
I truly believe there are far more people out there who see things more clearly now.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 28, 2020 01:39 PM (M/9m0)

451 Kamala is getting scorched on her twitter after posting her memories of being raised celebrating the Kwanzaa tradition with several generations of her family.
Not only is none of her family from Africa... Kwanzaa didn't exist when she was born.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 28, 2020 01:39 PM (IbxQb)

452 Jake Tapper ordered a few feet on veterans and war.

David French ordered a few feet on erectile disfunction. Also another few feet on foreign child adoption.

Posted by: Marcus at at December 28, 2020 01:40 PM (wHKGv)

453 I believe Trump will leave office on January 20th.

I don't believe he will "concede' and certainly not "congratulate" Biden on his "win" because Trump knows--not "thinks"--- KNOWS --the election was stolen from him and he's not going to play that game.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 28, 2020 01:40 PM (HrMC1)

454 Not me. I'm still on board.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2020 01:38 PM (VP4Cd)

Well it's nice to see *someone* still has a fighting spirit, and the testosterone still sparks a moment of contention or advocacy at least....

wait

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:40 PM (DJFLF)

455 January 6th: Trump is gauging the level of support he can count on should he decide to "do something." It's also a bit of ego stroking, IMO.

4000 people show up... meh.

4 million people show up...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2020 01:41 PM (3H9h1)

456 450: meh it is all funny money already. If the deep-state had not destroyed the Republic with the election fraud we might have had economic growth enough to get out of the hole. Now, may as well collapse sooner rather than later.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 28, 2020 01:41 PM (Aashi)

457 Yeah that is a flaw of his. I think it might be generational, he can't quite grasp that things are not the same as they were. He actually thought the press was his friend and got mad at them for being jerks.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:29 PM (KZzsI)

Many of those jerks WERE his friends--before he descended the escalator....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 28, 2020 01:41 PM (HrMC1)

458
Instead of actual books, maybe they could provide just the spines of great books, 1/2 inch thick and glued to a board. Aspiring fake intellectuals could hide useful things behind the board -- liquor, a small safe for bribes and drugs, etc.

With all the classic books being thrown out by libraries to make room for "My Two Mommies" etc., there should be plenty of volumes available to run through the band saw.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 28, 2020 01:41 PM (YrDxW)

459 To be fair... if you were that bad at it at his age there is no amount of practice that is going to make up for it in a short time period. He should have had Moochelle gun one in there...
Posted by: Inogame

Why do people step forward to throw with the same side of their body? Left foot/left arm or right foot/right arm?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 01:42 PM (LwB8i)

460 January 6th: Trump is gauging the level of support he can count on should he decide to "do something." It's also a bit of ego stroking, IMO.

4000 people show up... meh.

4 million people show up...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2020 01:41 PM (3H9h1)

4 million are NOT showing up

Posted by: JoeF. at December 28, 2020 01:42 PM (HrMC1)

461 >>Instead of actual books, maybe they could provide just the spines of great books, 1/2 inch thick and glued to a board.

They have these for furniture stores and movie / tv sets/

Posted by: garrett at December 28, 2020 01:42 PM (DjpWl)

462 Trump is not naive. The forces aligned against him are simply too
strong. In fact Trump got elected purely because he was the only one
talking about the the type and strength of evil the country was facing
from within.

---------

America does not let the enemy win because they are "too strong". If we allowed that to sway us, we would still be British (or German at this point since Hitler was in the process of beating the breaks off Great Britain before we became involved in WWII).

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 28, 2020 01:42 PM (946rW)

463 439 Sponge

Sandy Koufax? Hank Greenberg? Dr. Mark Spitz?

"Great Jewish Sports Legends" is NOT a null set!

Posted by: mnw at December 28, 2020 01:42 PM (Cssks)

464 Why in God's name does BLM sanctify these thugs and criminals?
---------

This is not about the well-being of society, it is about divisive (and successful) Marxist techniques to introduce chaos and instability into the system. It's working.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2020 01:42 PM (L47aO)

465 Ted Cruz had a great idea for making something more permanent: submit the Paris and Iran deals to the Senate so they are real, actual treaties that fall under the actual rules of treaties and the next president can't simply reenact the illegal pieces of crap.

Neither one would make it through the Senate and that would kill them until someone came up with a new one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (KZzsI)

466
So you've got nothing, then?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:39 PM (2JVJo)]Who decided I have to provide you or anyone else with *anything*? did ace decide this over the weekend? New board rules?
I speak my piece, and you speak yours. I'm not demanding anything from you. You just don't like what I said. Was it 'cause I called you Maxine? She's the only one who has mentioned Trump being marched out by the Secret Service, which is NOT gonna happen by the way.

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (DJFLF)

467 Dwayne Haskins fired from Redskins. Never seen this before.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (/MiCL)

468 458 Kamala is getting scorched on her twitter after posting her memories of being raised celebrating the Kwanzaa tradition with several generations of her family.
Not only is none of her family from Africa... Kwanzaa didn't exist when she was born.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 28, 2020 01:39 PM (IbxQb)

As if that matters, comrade.

Obama famously claimed that his parents first met on the bridge at Selma ... when he was four years old.

It's a miracle, I tell ya!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (vBvJV)

469 463 450: meh it is all funny money already. If the deep-state had not
destroyed the Republic with the election fraud we might have had
economic growth enough to get out of the hole. Now, may as well
collapse sooner rather than later.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 28, 2020 01:41 PM (Aashi)

That's always been part of the plan; run the country into so much debt that it becomes crushing forcing "radical" solutions, e.g. a reorganization of the country. This hasn't been a fight on one front, but many, as spelled out many years ago.

Posted by: jim at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (ynpvh)

470
Well it's nice to see *someone* still has a fighting spirit, and the testosterone still sparks a moment of contention or advocacy at least....

wait
Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:40 PM (DJFLF)

So, you're looking for the professional athlete "keep the positivity going" mantra?

Where, in the mountains of evidence that's been presented and simultaneously dismissed, do you see ANYTHING other than a Biden administration?

I'm being serious. Short of conservatives taking up arms and blowing this whole fucking thing up, how does Trump NOT get ousted January 20th?

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

471

It's mystifying that he didn't have a better grasp of the situation.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:30 PM (UPoLF)

Trump was highly-successful in his business career in getting people who probably hated his guts to make deals with him.
He probably thought he could do the same thing in Washington.

I don't blame him.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (HrMC1)

He was also limited in his ability to find people to work for him. Remember that the bureaucracy is entrenched and unfireable. They could sabotage him every day. Anyone he hired risked their lives being destroyed by the media, as well as becoming a social outcast (my understanding is that if you're a Trump guy in DC your social circle is basically nil). Plus, guys like Priebus and Sessions backed him, so Trump likely felt some obligation to reward them.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (jOcSX)

472 He could have hired plenty of capable people from all over the country.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (UPoLF)

Granted. But a large part of the Good Trump is the swaggering confidence... which of course has its downside, and which I think led him to believe he could deal with the swamp on his own terms.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey, Brooklyn Gun Nut at December 28, 2020 01:44 PM (GlmxK)

473 4000 people show up... meh.

4 million people show up...

"Meh"
--Every legacy media outfit showing none of the crowd unless there's violence

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:44 PM (KZzsI)

474
4 million are NOT showing up

Posted by: JoeF. at December 28, 2020 01:42 PM (HrMC1)

A million or 4, we will be there. Are you coming?

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 28, 2020 01:44 PM (946rW)

475 74 Dwayne Haskins fired from Redskins. Never seen this before.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (/MiCL)

You mean the "Washington No Names," don't you?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:44 PM (vBvJV)

476
Neither one would make it through the Senate and that would kill them until someone came up with a new one.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (KZzsI)

Congress won't even pass a real budget, you expect them to take responsibility for stuff?

Posted by: Bill Barr School of Cosmetic Justice at December 28, 2020 01:44 PM (ONvIw)

477 NOOD KAREN

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 28, 2020 01:44 PM (hYcqw)

478 This is a client list that needs to be leaked

Posted by: MikeD at December 28, 2020 01:44 PM (rS5vj)

479 Dwayne Haskins fired from Redskins. Never seen this before.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (/MiCL)

What's a 'Redskins?'

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)

480 470 439 Sponge

Sandy Koufax? Hank Greenberg? Dr. Mark Spitz?

"Great Jewish Sports Legends" is NOT a null set!
----------------
You forgot Bernie Kosar.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 28, 2020 01:45 PM (/MiCL)

481 Not me. I'm still on board.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2020 01:38 PM (VP4Cd)

Well it's nice to see *someone* still has a fighting spirit, and the testosterone still sparks a moment of contention or advocacy at least....

wait
Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:40 PM (DJFLF)

Well, what are we supposed to be fighting for?

As soon as the cheating was done, that was it. Biden is now president, there is not a whole lot we could realistically expect anyone to do about it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:45 PM (UPoLF)

482 Ted Cruz had a great idea for making something more permanent: submit the Paris and Iran deals to the Senate so they are real, actual treaties that fall under the actual rules of treaties and the next president can't simply reenact the illegal pieces of crap.

Neither one would make it through the Senate and that would kill them until someone came up with a new one.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (KZzsI)

It wouldn't matter. If Trump submits them and the Senate refuses to ratify them, Biden will simply declare that he's going to act according to them anyways. SCOTUS won't step in to that fight.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2020 01:45 PM (jOcSX)

483 397 It is interesting watching two delusional sides on the right. You have the Qanon types thinking the massive arrests are #twoweeks. Meanwhile, you have the believers in the system telling why it won't be #twoweeks, but some indefinite time in the future. Both believe the same nonsense from different viewpoints. They believe the system still works.
Posted by: WOPR - Tactically Dramatic is Failue at December 28, 2020 01:32 PM (WVeiZ)

There's another delusional group on the right; the ones saying that there was no fraud at all and Biden won fair and square.

I would've thought these folks were just swamp creatures, but Peter Boyles is in this category and he hates the Republican Party for being too wimpy and not conservative enough and not even caring about winning.

It's funny to hear him appeal to the authority of people he's ranted at length that he can't stand. "(Repugnican X) says there was no fraud! Don't you believe him? He's a Republican, you know!"

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, GED at December 28, 2020 01:45 PM (H3MF8)

484 So, you're looking for the professional athlete "keep the positivity going" mantra?

Where, in the mountains of evidence that's been presented and
simultaneously dismissed, do you see ANYTHING other than a Biden
administration?

I'm being serious. Short of conservatives taking up arms and
blowing this whole fucking thing up, how does Trump NOT get ousted
January 20th?

Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

If that is what it takes...

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 28, 2020 01:46 PM (946rW)

485 America does not let the enemy win because they are "too strong".
***

The America that was, not the America that is. We've let a bogus virus reduce us to cowering idiots tossing away our liberties with both hands.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 28, 2020 01:46 PM (H8QX8)

486 Anything is possible with Mail In Ballots.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 28, 2020 01:46 PM (/MiCL)

487 I have been affected by clinical depression for 30 years and have been on numerous anti depressants. I'm not on any currently Do I think depression can be "cured" by ones thinking? No, but I do think ones thinking can feed into depression and I do think right now-anti depressants can be prescribed too easily:

Thinking and depression:

https://tinyurl.com/yd5hrj43

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 28, 2020 01:46 PM (VP4Cd)

488 "raised celebrating the Kwanzaa tradition"

The only people who celebrate Kwanzaa are white public schoolteachers and librarians. I've never seen evidence that it ever gained any real traction among blacks.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at December 28, 2020 01:46 PM (qpX6U)

489 Kids around here start learning how to catch and throw when they can walk. Nephew could fire a ball at you so hard we had to make him stop in the house. Something is wrong if you can't throw a ball by the time you start school.

Posted by: dartist at December 28, 2020 01:47 PM (+ya+t)

490 Who decided I have to provide you or anyone else with *anything*? did ace decide this over the weekend? New board rules?
I speak my piece, and you speak yours. I'm not demanding anything from you. You just don't like what I said. Was it 'cause I called you Maxine? She's the only one who has mentioned Trump being marched out by the Secret Service, which is NOT gonna happen by the way.
Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (DJFLF)

You called me a sunshine patriot for opining that Trump is finished. I asked you for an example of something Trump has done that will fight back against the election fraud; something to hang a hope on that he will do anything other than leave the WH on January 20.

And you can't or won't give me a single example. Not that you have to, but if you're going to live in hope, I'd like to know what the basis for that hope is.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:47 PM (2JVJo)

491 It wouldn't matter. If Trump submits them and the Senate refuses to ratify them, Biden will simply declare that he's going to act according to them anyways. SCOTUS won't step in to that fight.

Yeah true, I was thinking by old rules, back when our institutions worked and people pretended to heed the constitution. That's all out the window.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:47 PM (KZzsI)

492 "4 million people show up...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2020 01:41 PM (3H9h1) "

We never go to these things.

But a bunch of us are going. F it. We are all off and the drive or Amtrak is an easy call.

This is perfect for all those people who talk a lot, and do little.

Posted by: Marcus at at December 28, 2020 01:47 PM (wHKGv)

493 >>> He lost me yesterday.

How convenient.

Posted by: Gilded at December 28, 2020 01:48 PM (BRkq2)

494 Well, what are we supposed to be fighting for?

As soon as the cheating was done, that was it. Biden is now
president, there is not a whole lot we could realistically expect anyone
to do about it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:45 PM (UPoLF)

Biden is not president yet. Not being willing to surrender... actually fighting this illegality... is what we expect.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 28, 2020 01:48 PM (946rW)

495 All right, then. Give me one piece of evidence - not supposition, not pointing to some nebulous, not-been-enacted EO or other obscure legislative bumf, but actual evidence - that Trump is going to do anything but let Stinkfinger profane the oath of office on January 20.

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Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:35 PM (2JVJo)

Mostly all we have is the acting SecDef making mention of the largest and most complex military operation in history going on. He looked quite shaken as he said it. Last I heard we didn't have a shooting WWIII going on do this has to refer to some sort of black ops and/or cyberwarfare.

Unless you believe in coincidences, Nashville is part of that secret war going on. I've heard a claim that it was the white hats, but it sounds more like the black hats to me.

The fighters in this secret war are in Special Ops - which was put directly under the control of SecDef in NOV. The SecDef himself was installed shortly after the election - he was the head of counterterrorism in the military.

There have been a lot of changes in top leadership since NOV. Why do that, if you plan on packing up your desk soon?

Posted by: President-Elect Optimizer at December 28, 2020 01:48 PM (hOOi9)

496 If Trump submits them and the Senate refuses to ratify them, Biden will simply declare that he's going to act according to them anyways. SCOTUS won't step in to that fight.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 28, 2020 01:45 PM (jOcSX)

Exactly. Does anybody really think Biden is going to pay attention to any protocol, or even law? It's all Calvinball now.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 28, 2020 01:49 PM (H8QX8)

497 497 486 Dwayne Haskins fired from Redskins. Never seen this before.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 28, 2020 01:43 PM (/MiCL)

What's a 'Redskins?'
Posted by: Sponge - Office of the Mr. Dr. President Elect at December 28, 2020 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)

What's a 'Dwayne Haskins'?
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Redskins are the Penappe Indians known to you white folks as the Delaware Indians. They were called Redskins cuz they painted themselves red. Dwayne Haskins is a 15th first round pick who has the maturity of a 13 year old.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 28, 2020 01:49 PM (/MiCL)

498 The only people who celebrate Kwanzaa are white public schoolteachers and librarians. I've never seen evidence that it ever gained any real traction among blacks.

That crappy Boondocks comic strip sure pushed it hardcore for years.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:49 PM (KZzsI)

499 You submit to this fraud, there is nothing else they won't do to you.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 28, 2020 01:49 PM (wHKGv)

500 He could have hired plenty of capable people from all over the country.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 28, 2020 01:36 PM (UPoLF)

I don't think this is true at all. Who is coming out of no where to be doxxed and family threatened? List is not as long as we are pretending it is.

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 28, 2020 01:49 PM (zTThE)

501 I had to add a 25 x 25 ft library with 16 ft high bookcases to my home to house all the books I have at home, and it looks better than anything these folks are renting.

Posted by: SMOD at December 28, 2020 01:50 PM (3aI0K)

502 As soon as the cheating was done, that was it. Biden is now
president, there is not a whole lot we could realistically expect anyone
to do about it.

Yeah this isn't an action movie, I can't take a sledge to the concrete in my basement and pull out a buncha guns to fight the bad guys with. I can do nothing, nothing about this. Its far better for my sanity and ulcers to recognize this and move on with my life than live in burning fury and frustration trying to find a way to "fight"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:50 PM (KZzsI)

503 Why do people step forward to throw with the same side of their body? Left foot/left arm or right foot/right arm?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 28, 2020 01:42 PM (LwB8i)

Because they don't understand throwing mechanics. Same thing with people who stand facing toward the target throughout their throw. They think that throwing is primarily an arm motion, and do not realize that the power comes from the legs, which drive rotation of the hips and then torso (i.e., the big muscles of the body). The arm mostly just adds a little oomph, just like the wrist snap. Same thing with the swing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 28, 2020 01:50 PM (vBvJV)

504 There's another delusional group on the right; the ones saying that there was no fraud at all and Biden won fair and square.

I would've thought these folks were just swamp creatures, but Peter
Boyles is in this category and he hates the Republican Party for being
too wimpy and not conservative enough and not even caring about winning.

It's funny to hear him appeal to the authority of people he's ranted
at length that he can't stand. "(Repugnican X) says there was no fraud!
Don't you believe him? He's a Republican, you know!"

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler, GED at December 28, 2020 01:45 PM (H3MF

That's because "voting fraud" is now synonomous with secret servers controlling the election and machines reprogrammed to change people's votes. That's why I fought so hard against that crap.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 28, 2020 01:51 PM (IbxQb)

505 I'm going to try to be in DC on the 6th.

Does any one know how to get in touch with Sharon or Iris?

Posted by: Ladyl at December 28, 2020 01:52 PM (TdMsT)

506 I think everyone here is living in the desperate hope that something comes out at 1 second on the timer and saves the nation but we know its not going to happen.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 28, 2020 01:52 PM (KZzsI)

507 One of my friends calls It Cons-za. Says it's a bunch of made up commie garbage.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 28, 2020 01:53 PM (wHKGv)

508
nood

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 28, 2020 01:53 PM (DUIap)

509 I asked you for an example of something Trump has done that will fight back against the election fraud;
deploying teams of attorneys in the stolen states is one thing that he's done.

And I can't tell you why I have hope, because if I did, I'd have to kill you.

Posted by: kallisto at December 28, 2020 01:54 PM (DJFLF)

510 You called me a sunshine patriot for opining that
Trump is finished. I asked you for an example of something Trump has
done that will fight back against the election fraud; something to hang a
hope on that he will do anything other than leave the WH on January 20.

And you can't or won't give me a single example. Not that you have
to, but if you're going to live in hope, I'd like to know what the
basis for that hope is.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:47 PM (2JVJo)

This is a remarkably stupid take. Trump has been doing nothing but fighting back.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at December 28, 2020 01:57 PM (946rW)

511 The GOP ran the coup, ended the republic, and installed Harris-Biden.

If you want to run home to the plantation and give GOP a big wet BJ, go ahead.

Posted by: Gilded at December 28, 2020 01:58 PM (BRkq2)

512 I'm not looking for SCOTUS to change the results. I am looking for them to fulfill their constitutional role. That ain't sitting on your ass and saying states can do whatever they want, including rampant cheating, and then pretending like it doesn't disenfranchise any citizen or other state. The constitution says the "time and manner". It further states it is the legislatures job. That is clearly not the case on places like Pennsylvania or Michigan.

Meanwhile SCOTUS has completely abandoned the country. They are useless as an institution and I fear any future decisions they make. They are not for the republic. They are for themselves and despotism.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 28, 2020 01:58 PM (wHKGv)

513 All right, then. Give me one piece of evidence
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Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 28, 2020 01:35 PM (2JVJo)

What we're hearing about the WH is so not-Trumpish it's laughable. According to Byrne, they throw throw around ideas, and the Deep State staffers whine about how it can't be done, and Trump apparently says, "OK, then, I guess it can't be done!"

By one theory, this is PsyOps to make the enemy overconfident.

It's all good, but there's only like 9 days left - if we're going to have some big dramatic announcement of Roberts, various Senators and Congressmen, and a thousand other Deep Staters having been rounded up for treason, or some such thing - something that would instigate action - it seems like time is just about up.

Still, WTH was acting SecDef Miller talking about? What good is hearing from military intelligence that Trump won, and the Chinese were heavily involved, if they don't actually DO anything about it?

Posted by: President-Elect Optimizer at December 28, 2020 02:02 PM (hOOi9)

514 Trump, "book-averse"?

Via US News, 2016. Trump's 10 favorite books, starting with Sun Tzu. Most are about China.

https://tinyurl.com/ydhsjetx

Posted by: Taqiyyologist (bofa/deez) at December 28, 2020 02:02 PM (OssQ4)

515 With all the classic books being thrown out by libraries to make room for "My Two Mommies" etc., there should be plenty of volumes available to run through the band saw.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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I occasionally seek out a desired book online. I am appalled by the number of significant books that I have found which have stamped in them something like 'Surplused By Des Moines Public Library'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2020 02:02 PM (bk3Sg)

516 The GOP ran the coup, ended the republic, and installed Harris-Biden.

If you want to run home to the plantation and give GOP a big wet BJ, go ahead.

Posted by: Gilded at December 28, 2020 01:58 PM (BRkq2)

No, the Dems (plus Kemp) RAN the Coup. The GOP "rode shotgun".

Posted by: President-Elect Optimizer at December 28, 2020 02:04 PM (hOOi9)

517 That's because "voting fraud" is now synonomous with secret servers controlling the election and machines reprogrammed to change people's votes. That's why I fought so hard against that crap.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 28, 2020 01:51 PM (IbxQb)

Maybe sit this one out dominion man.

Posted by: Inogame - Trump Won at December 28, 2020 02:05 PM (zTThE)

518 "4 million people show up...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 28, 2020 01:41 PM (3H9h1) "

We never go to these things.
But a bunch of us are going. F it. We are all off and the drive or Amtrak is an easy call.
This is perfect for all those people who talk a lot, and do little.
Posted by: Marcus at at December 28, 2020 01:47 PM (wHKGv)

I'm going. I've never gone to a political rally ever, not one of Trump's or anyone else's. Everyone who is able bodied and not responsible for taking care of someone else full time needs to be there as well.
If the fraud succeeds we will look back on our days of bitching on blogs as the golden age.

Posted by: Doctor President-Elect Boots at December 28, 2020 02:07 PM (oGBso)

519 Meanwhile SCOTUS has completely abandoned the country. They are useless as an institution and I fear any future decisions they make. They are not for the republic. They are for themselves and despotism.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 28, 2020 01:58 PM (wHKGv)

The word is "illegitimate". The Constitution REQUIRED them to take the TX case - they refused.

Lin Wood claims they have Chief Justice Roberts conspiring with Justice Breyer to oust Trump. Military intelligence has clearly given intel to Sidney Powell, who is working with Wood, so believe it. It's not legitimate for either to weigh in on a Trump election case.

In the past, the courts have acted swiftly on POTUS election cases. For 2020, they have almost unanimously dealt with the overwhelming evidence by refusing to hear it.

If even ONE aspect of election fraud were addressed reasonably, in just a few states, that would turn this around. They all refused to hear it, because they know what it would prove.

That's NOT a legitimate court system.

Posted by: President-Elect Optimizer at December 28, 2020 02:12 PM (hOOi9)

520 I'm going. I've never gone to a political rally ever, not one of Trump's or anyone else's. Everyone who is able bodied and not responsible for taking care of someone else full time needs to be there as well.
If the fraud succeeds we will look back on our days of bitching on blogs as the golden age.

Posted by: Doctor President-Elect Boots at December 28, 2020 02:07 PM (oGBso)

All I can figure is that they want to intimidate the Republican Senators - and maybe Pence - into doing the right thing. Maybe they'll be afraid of not getting out of the Capitol in one piece.

Trump rallies are truly "the happiest places on Earth" - nothing but brotherhood and patriotism, by the most decent people you'll ever meet.

But these are decent folks that "get it". They know this is the end of the road for America if the right things aren't done by that very day. All that's left if the government turns it's back on the governed is George Washington stuff.

Posted by: President-Elect Optimizer at December 28, 2020 02:18 PM (hOOi9)

521 the mentality of So. Cal. has engulfed the entire country: "you are what you seem"

Posted by: Robert Kendall at December 28, 2020 02:27 PM (+UGno)

522 Stupids, they can download a library .gif or an office .gif for practically free and use that.....no wonder we are so messed up.

Posted by: jeff at December 28, 2020 03:12 PM (J2JqR)

523 Years ago, on a now defunct(?) blog, I was trying to ridicule the author of a particular book. I suggested that his book could only be found in restaurants and such where books were bought by the foot as decor and/or insulation (paper is a very good thermal insulator). Lo and behold...

Posted by: timactual at December 28, 2020 06:25 PM (+oSfl)

524 SEX ONLINE

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