Biden Needs 65 Days and Friendly Reporters Sharing Questions In Advance -- To Embarrass Himself by Losing His Train of Thought and Babbling Like a Baby

Before getting to his gaffes and Senior Moments, click on the individual photos in this tweet.

And yet he needs... a picture book to tell him who each of the Scary Strangers in the press room are?

Those are real. And he used cheat sheets to answer questions, as photos show, and repeatedly flipped through his briefing book to read incoherent non-answers.

What can you say about this first clip? Certainly Russia, China, and North Korea are watching this and gloating. And planning to conquer Taiwan.

What can this decrepit invalid do about it?

Leader of the free world
pic.twitter.com/3FrchEQGK9
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) March 25, 2021

Is there anyone claiming that Biden is in full command besides those, like Max Boot, who would starve to death if they did not repeat leftist talking points?

Biden declared, seriously -- not as a wry joke -- that he came to the Senate "one hundred and twenty years ago:"

A few days before that, Biden really sucked up to Wealthy White Woman feminist Karens by declaring that there is literally nothing a man can do better than a woman.

I think there are a few things men can do better than women.

For one thing, men are better than women at being Biden's Deputy Secretary of Health, for example.

Got 'im!

For another thing:

Such patronising bullshit. Women can do plenty of things better than men but there’s no denying biological reality that men are stronger & faster.
How many women want this job?
pic.twitter.com/yNiEstHS7g https://t.co/m8MpSIxhCH
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) March 24, 2021

Posted by: Ace at 12:18 PM

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1 Yikes.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 12:23 PM (vS7Dx)

2 What press conference was crisp?

Posted by: Joltin Joe Biden at March 26, 2021 12:24 PM (vS7Dx)

3 Read the content. Rookie mistake.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2021 12:25 PM (16vTQ)

4 Go Biden Go!

Posted by: Doof at March 26, 2021 12:26 PM (mZUr4)

5 Is that Boot fellow speaking on behalf of dementia patients?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at March 26, 2021 12:26 PM (lgiXo)

6 Oh, all right. I'll get The Others.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2021 12:26 PM (16vTQ)

7 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at March 26, 2021 12:26 PM (dbkIH)

8 Max probably sent that tweet 90 seconds into the press conference.

Posted by: The Ghost of Pandemic Present at March 26, 2021 12:26 PM (dYe5S)

9 Wow

Posted by: Max Power at March 26, 2021 12:26 PM (Hucnr)

10 "I can find a single extraordinary woman who could do that thing that some random guy is doing, therefore the idea of men doing anything better than women is false. Science, bitches."
-Feminist

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 26, 2021 12:26 PM (LvTSG)

11 holy crap, i saw the picture cheat sheet this morning and thought it was a fake. he ACTUALLY had to have pictures and STILL couldn't locate who he was "calling" on to ask their pre-approved questions...

WASTF

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 26, 2021 12:26 PM (8D42x)

12 Max Boot is bald.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 26, 2021 12:27 PM (yQpMk)

13 Max "Das" Boot is insane. That presser was "crisp?"

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at March 26, 2021 12:27 PM (ptqGC)

14 Crisp press conference? Hahahahahahahaha

Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2021 12:27 PM (Zmnko)

15 That crispy smell is from the last remaining neurons desperately firing in vain trying to form a coherent thought

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 26, 2021 12:27 PM (+OZts)

16 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 26, 2021 12:27 PM (16vTQ)

17 I'm more convinced every day that Biden is really Max Headroom

Posted by: Doof at March 26, 2021 12:27 PM (mZUr4)

18 "To be fair, I couldn't do it because I've eaten nothing but twinkies since the start of the pandemic and I haven't been outside away from my cats for a full year more, but I bet I could find a woman who could do that."
-Feminists

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 26, 2021 12:27 PM (LvTSG)

19 Max probably sent that tweet 90 seconds into the press conference.

Max was supplied the questions and answers in advance.

Just like Joe.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 26, 2021 12:27 PM (yQpMk)

20 They're never content just to lie a little.

"He did fine".

"He was a little sludgy in places but overall okay."

No it's gotta be "He is the press conference grand master, in full rich command of every single important issue. He could press conference Churchill in his prime under the table."

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 12:28 PM (vS7Dx)

21 Crisp, as in lettuce.

Posted by: spindrift at March 26, 2021 12:28 PM (h5TKJ)

22 "Right Wing Industrial Complex"??

Lotta cognitive impairment going around apparently.

Posted by: McLurkerson at March 26, 2021 12:28 PM (wNDOJ)

23 Who knew the terms of the neverTrumpers contract included fellating Biden?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at March 26, 2021 12:28 PM (lgiXo)

24 Crisp, as in lettuce.

Burned toast?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2021 12:28 PM (Zmnko)

25 Nah, man, women want to work construction and be roughnecks, the man is just keeping them out.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 26, 2021 12:28 PM (H5knJ)

26 Whom do I send? Not joe Biden. The mere sight of him would only encourage an enemy to invade further.

Posted by: Edward the Longshanks at March 26, 2021 12:28 PM (kTF2Z)

27 Women definitely make better sammiches.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 12:28 PM (2DOZq)

28 I guess Boot doesn't have any real friends to point out just how fucking stupid that hat makes him look.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (y7DUB)

29
Is there anyone claiming that Biden is in full command besides those, like Max Boot, who would starve to death if they did not repeat leftist talking points?

Drudge Report said Biden did well too. Must be the goofy hats.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (63Dwl)

30 Has Max Boot announced that he's leaving the Republican Party again this year?

Posted by: Buzzion at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (G2zl5)

31 Potatus will save us!
Potatus is Greatest!

Posted by: Three Cheers for the Cultists at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (uhPTO)

32 so Joe Biden has dementia, and it is pretty obvious....

Max Boot is mentally ill and that is just as obvious.

I am ashamed I was on his side.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (Lzpvj)

33 > That crispy smell is from the last remaining neurons desperately firing in vain trying to form a coherent thought

Right. Like the smell of charred insulation from an overloaded circuit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (JZT2F)

34 We are truly not worthy of Biden's press conferencing.

Posted by: Max Boot at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (vS7Dx)

35 Max, your hat is on too tight.

And Joey needs his See-n-Say back

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (wcgf+)

36 How many women want that job, Rita?

I won't even attempt a vehicle oil change. I know few women who do

Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (DJFLF)

37 Don't listen to them, Max.

Posted by: Boot's Fedora at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (yQpMk)

38 I truly don't even think feminists believe all woman can do things just as well as men; It's just a talking point in standing up for the sisterhood. They know they're not as strong as men, for one thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (VP4Cd)

39 "crisp"

like a vegetable?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2021 12:30 PM (bDqIh)

40 Professional soccer.
Professional soldier.

And so forth.

Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2021 12:30 PM (0HpOW)

41 The cheat sheet must be a pshop...I know he had his script at hand but I can't believe they'd let a photo escape.

Posted by: BignJames at March 26, 2021 12:30 PM (AwYPR)

42 Boot bringing the gaslighting real hard. What a pathetic pissbaby, to carry water for this broken-brain child groper.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 26, 2021 12:30 PM (DXFDM)

43 I guess Boot doesn't have any real friends to point out just how fucking stupid that hat makes him look.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (y7DUB)

A check cures many ills, including ones of pride and vanity.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 12:30 PM (vS7Dx)

44 I liked the "Silver Alert" moment when he just wandered away from the podium.

Posted by: pahound at March 26, 2021 12:30 PM (KIWeW)

45 A woman did win the 1976 Men's Decathlon! Suck it, bitches!

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at March 26, 2021 12:30 PM (FJYfm)

46 What can you say about this first clip? Certainly Russia, China, and North Korea are watching this and gloating. And planning to conquer Taiwan.

What can this decrepit invalid do about it?
.
Whatever Valerie Jarret tells him to do!

I wonder who is really pulling the strings in the White House these days.. certainly Obama admin officials have some say.. but who is there running things and making the decisions?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 26, 2021 12:30 PM (CjFDo)

47 @NautPoso

Worst press conference ever

https://tinyurl.com/yhyjlj6y

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2021 12:31 PM (cF8AT)

48 It was a walk in the Park

inson's.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 26, 2021 12:31 PM (Ndje9)

49 If that "crisp" performance defines doing well, I'm ready for prime time politicking!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 26, 2021 12:31 PM (hOUT3)

50 To be honest, the cheat sheet is the least of my concerns. I'd want a cheat sheet since none of those jackasses are worth the time to learn their names and faces.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 26, 2021 12:31 PM (jOcSX)

51 Joe Biden has never been crisp ever in his 120 years in the Senate much less now as a dementia laded old man.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 12:31 PM (2DOZq)

52 Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2021 12:30 PM (bDqIh)

Shut her down.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 12:31 PM (vS7Dx)

53 13 Max "Das" Boot is insane. That presser was "crisp?"
Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at March 26, 2021 12:27 PM (ptqGC)

Like a Grandma Utz potato chip!!

Kettle style!

Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2021 12:31 PM (DJFLF)

54 I'd be more worried if I didn't figure that the leadership of other countries is in on the gag, and know perfectly well that Biden isn't actually in control of anything.

I think that's what Putin's been snickering about behind his hand.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 26, 2021 12:31 PM (JZT2F)

55 I was amused when he said his administration would tackle the other items on his agenda (guns, global warming, voter rights and health care) "one at a time" and "simultaneously".

I think someone got word salad in his pudding.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 26, 2021 12:31 PM (m45I2)

56 Did you notice some of the pictures of the press corps have numbers in circles next to them?

I bet those were the pre-screened questions and the order in which he took them.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (CjFDo)

57 Turning and turning in the widening gyre

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (ifmtJ)

58 The narrative must win at all costs. There's nothing wrong with *biden. He's sharp as a tack and killing it.

This is all you're going to hear until he's out. Then it will be excuses and how he did so much in so little time it just took a toll on him.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (3H9h1)

59 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (arJlL)

60 Max Boot is mentally ill and that is just as obvious.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (Lzpvj)

Neocons gonna neocon.

Would you be a soldier to spread pedophilia and usury- sorry, "democracy"- around the world?

Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (0HpOW)

61 > but who is there running things and making the decisions?

Hunter with a meth pipe and a Ouija board.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (JZT2F)

62 Joey Bidet is about as crisp as that ten day old head of lettuce in the 'fridge.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (wcgf+)

63 My husband missed the presser because work, so I described the worst parts to him in vivid detail.

He responded, "Please don't be shocked and dismayed when your crazy sister and my crazy siblings believe he was brilliant and a breath of fresh air because Orange Man Bad was the worst ever."

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (ptqGC)

64 Man who drives a corvette scolding me about global warming.

Posted by: redenzo at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (E7vND)

65 hmm, there's a few salient points in that roughneck vid that escaped my attention, methinks to go back and have another look...

Posted by: kallisto, who now has the roughneck vid on a loop at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (DJFLF)

66 Crisp press conference? Hahahahahahahaha
Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2021 12:27 PM (Zmnko)

crisp as in electric cables once the smoke is let out

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (8D42x)

67 As Steyn pointed out yesterday on Tucker's show, the sycophantic "press" totally went along with Biden's assertion that roads were going to have be raised three feet because of the climate apocalypse.

There is no claim too stupid for them to agree with. Nothing too absurd for them to ever challenge this fucking imbecile on. Hence the presser went super-smoothly, in their minds.

Posted by: spindrift at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (h5TKJ)

68 I have a question : if China does invade Taiwan, aren't they gonna take out The Three Stooges Dam ?

Posted by: JT at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (arJlL)

69 Max Boot can't sustain an erection unless brown people somewhere are being droned.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (aAbfS)

70 Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (ifmtJ)
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I can't heeeeear you!

Posted by: The Falcon at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (WGara)

71 This is all you're going to hear until he's out. Then it will be excuses and how he did so much in so little time it just took a toll on him.
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (3H9h1)

He sacrificed his health to save us.

Posted by: Boot's Fedora at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (yQpMk)

72 Boot is just playing along hoping he can slip some declarations of war into the stack of bills and orders Biden blindly signs each morning between 9:30AM and 10:00AM before calling a lid.

Posted by: The Ghost of Pandemic Present at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (dYe5S)

73 @10

Here's some grist for the mill.

Has a women ever directed a truly great film?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (v5NfP)

74 How many women want that job, Rita?

I won't even attempt a vehicle oil change. I know few women who do
Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (DJFLF)

I was actually at a rig that had a woman roughneck. She did OK, but she was very determined, and an exceptional person. It is physically very demanding work, and dangerous, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (mzC78)

75

Jimmy Eagle was a rebel
He roamed through the West

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (63Dwl)

76 Ace, Raheem and National Pulse is releasing some really juicy (dirty) emails from Hunter's Hard Drive From Hell. He read a couple this morning on War Room and they were even worse than I imagined. {{{shudder}}}

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (ptqGC)

77 60 Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (0HpOW)

That is a pointed question and one I am reflecting on deeply.

Walking while republican is going to be EVERYTHING "driving while black" is made out to be for clearance holders.

Lad and I had to have "the talk."

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (Lzpvj)

78 When I was a feminist years ago I didn't even believe women could do everything just as well as men do; I just felt that they should be paid the same amount of money if they did the same work, but work pay is often related to taking time out fo child care which places the woman on a lower pay increase schedule because you've been out of the workplace, which is understandable.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (VP4Cd)

79 Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (ifmtJ)
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I can't heeeeear you!
Posted by: The Falcon at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (WGara)

That's for sure

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (ifmtJ)

80 The only things that've ever been "crisp" about Biden are the stacks of crisp $100 bills he collects from his "donors".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (JZT2F)

81 The issue with the seating chart isn't who's listed but the order in which each name was called. Not just first question, but every question went in order, matched to a scripted answer just as everyone suspected yesterday.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (uhPTO)

82 I did that job. Fuck you for reminding me.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (ruftb)

83 Is there anyone claiming that Biden is in full command besides those, like Max Boot, who would starve to death if they did not repeat leftist talking points?
++++
Everyone who lies for a living or who's living is derived from lying and compulsion. This makes people inadvertently self-identify. If they are making excuses for Biden or rationalizing his performance, they depend on deceit and coercion in order to live.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (Jsjd7)

84 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (2DmgO)

85 The best of men do nothing while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (ifmtJ)

86 I bet quite a few women would like to be that Well Site.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (yXzmN)

87 Puddin's cheat sheet also had reporters' pictures numbered so he'd know the order in which to call on them. This "press conference" was as unscripted as professional wrestling.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (sWM8x)

88 Wasn't PDT going to do one of the talking head shows last evening and offer a critique? Did anybody catch that?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (dfRN6)

89 Max probably sent that tweet 90 seconds into the press conference.
Scheduled tweets, friend. Takes all of the real-time labor out of the job.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (SjE8n)

90 Rita Panahi is absolutely correct. As a thinking woman, his pandering was total "patronizing bullshit." Too bad there are millions of The View and Oprah women who fall for that crap.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (O+I8R)

91 64 Man who drives a corvette scolding me about global warming.
Posted by: redenzo at March 26, 2021 12:32 PM (E7vND)

Not just a Corvette, an OLD Corvette. One built before technology made cars MUCH cleaner.

Posted by: Grue, in the attic at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (oHd/0)

92 Perhaps Biden would be better off using a Speak n' Spell rather than notes that are hard to read or pronounce.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (cwI4U)

93 Hunter? Never heard of him.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (kTF2Z)

94 So, Max Boot has become a satirist.
Glad he decided to make an honest living.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (oFUlW)

95 How many women want this job?
pic.twitter.com/yNiEstHS7g
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Not I.

But it's nice to see Oil Rig Guy again.

Posted by: SMH at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (wparq)

96 Joe had to call on the press whores in a certain order because his answers were in that order.

Unreal.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (ptqGC)

97 I have a question : if China does invade Taiwan, aren't they gonna take out The Three Stooges Dam ?
Posted by: JT at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (arJlL)

No one knows what will happen. That's the problem: the Chinese may gamble that the Taiwanese don't have the capability, or that they can handle it.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (jOcSX)

98 88 Wasn't PDT going to do one of the talking head shows last evening and offer a critique? Did anybody catch that?

He called into Laura Ingraham show

Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (Zmnko)

99 Look at Jim Eagle just drilling Mother Earth.

You go Jim.

She's a squirter, buddy.

But be careful of those gas pockets!

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (yXzmN)

100 Granpa Meth

Posted by: x4 at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (oA+QO)

101 What is this "right wing industrual complex?" Who are its members, and can anyone join? Is Qanon included or excluded? Is that different from the "vast rightwing conspiracy" group?

Max, that terminology is a bit 'try hard' -- actually, the whole tweet it. I am assuming your sponsors want you to be believeable. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (bDqIh)

102 Jennifer Rubin actually managed to get into it with YAMICHE ALCINDOR because Jen felt Yamiche was too hard on Biden. It's a scrapfest to see who can kiss-ass with the least shame.

Posted by: Ktgreat at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (AD3JT)

103 I know a bunch of ex-roughnecks....many are nic-named "Lefty".

Posted by: BignJames at March 26, 2021 12:36 PM (AwYPR)

104 That Max Boot gal is a real ditz.

She probably cannot parallel park, either.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 26, 2021 12:36 PM (ufFY8)

105 82 I did that job. Fuck you for reminding me.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (ruftb)

*raised eyebrow*

Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2021 12:36 PM (DJFLF)

106 Joey Bidet is about as crisp as a $100 bill in a pimp's hand.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 26, 2021 12:36 PM (wcgf+)

107 >Don't listen to them, Max.
Posted by: Boot's Fedora at March 26, 2021 12:29 PM (yQpMk)

haha!

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 26, 2021 12:36 PM (DXFDM)

108 @therecount

Boulder Police Chief Herold says shooting suspect used a semi-automatic Ruger pistol, which was legally purchased in a gun store in Arvada, Colorado.

Journalists everywhere: Damnit! ~~"Weapons of War"~~

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2021 12:36 PM (cF8AT)

109 Off raptorial sock.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 26, 2021 12:36 PM (WGara)

110 41 The cheat sheet must be a pshop...I know he had his script at hand but I can't believe they'd let a photo escape.
Posted by: BignJames at March 26, 2021 12:30 PM (AwYPR)

They don't care if you know. They're rubbing our faces in it. The Soviet Union wishes they had as much control over Pravda as the Dems do our media.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 26, 2021 12:36 PM (G2zl5)

111 I also have a cheat sheet with the numbers beside each name.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 12:36 PM (2DOZq)

112 The women comment is a prelude to Pres Kamala

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 12:36 PM (ONvIw)

113 If Max Boot didn't exist we'd need to create him due the specific service he provides . . . It's as if he created his own twitter-like social media platform for propagandists whose function is to prop up an administration with verbal blow jobs. It can be called Flufter!

Posted by: 🤡 Boot at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM (vGJY7)

114
How many chick could play 3 downs in the NFL?

Or 5 minutes on the ice in NHL?

Posted by: Yo! at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM (2DmgO)

115 I won't even attempt a vehicle oil change. I know few women who do
Posted by: kallisto

I taught my 16 year old daughter and a couple of friends how to change car oil a couple years back. I've also had both my daughters help me change my tractor's oil. I don't know why, but I've always thought it was an important thing they know how to do.

Posted by: 496 at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM (U1eOr)

116 I think resignation imminent

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM (ONvIw)

117
Wasn't PDT going to do one of the talking head shows last evening and offer a critique? Did anybody catch that?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (dfRN6)

He was on Laura Ingraham last night. She had to cut him off when he started talking about the Steal, and Fox was handed a billion dollar lawsuit by Dominion this morning.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM (ptqGC)

118 @RitaPanahi
Such patronising bullshit. Women can do plenty of things better than men but there's no denying biological reality that men are stronger & faster.
How many women want this job?
++++
More to the point, Rita, how many *men* want that job? Not many. There are relatively few men who can do that job, and of those few fewer still actually want to do it. There is a reason that roughnecks earn so much money. The job is unpleasant, extremely difficult and extremely dangerous. Most men would rather do something else, but can be convinced to do that thing if the sums of money involved are great enough.

Same thing with C-level executives. Not many men want those jobs, either, because most people don't want to work 100+ hours every week forever and the money is inadequate compensation after a certain point for most people.

Ability is only the start of the story.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM (Jsjd7)

119 >> I have a question : if China does invade Taiwan, aren't they gonna take out The Three Stooges Dam ?

Think that would be considers a valid target Formosa the Taiwanese citizens.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM (bDqIh)

120 >>Or 5 minutes on the ice in NHL?

Dude. Shifts are 40 seconds.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM (yXzmN)

121 Walking while republican is going to be EVERYTHING "driving while black" is made out to be for clearance holders.

Lad and I had to have "the talk."
Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (Lzpvj)

As we see in Oakland, whites are firmly at the bottom of the intersectionality totem pole.

But good for you. White parents who don't have the Derby talk are unfit to have children. They might as well hand the poor tots over to the Epstein types straight away.

Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM (0HpOW)

122 >>I won't even attempt a vehicle oil change.

Step One : Park the Car.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:38 PM (yXzmN)

123 I taught my 16 year old daughter and a couple of friends how to change car oil a couple years back.

My Daughter also .. And change tires but that's not exactly the same as a oil rig worker

Posted by: It's me donna at March 26, 2021 12:38 PM (Zmnko)

124 Not a single thing, eh....

How about "pee through a straw."

Posted by: Noam Sayen at March 26, 2021 12:38 PM (WJcbb)

125 Let's start with a woman becoming world chess champ and go from there.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 26, 2021 12:38 PM (aAbfS)

126 Too many white girls in the B Bee pic.

Posted by: SamIam at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (oasF3)

127 They don't care if you know. They're rubbing our faces in it. The Soviet Union wishes they had as much control over Pravda as the Dems do our media.
Posted by: Buzzion at March 26, 2021 12:36 PM (G2zl5)

Shaming you is part of the kink!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (hOUT3)

128 Here's some grist for the mill.

Has a women ever directed a truly great film?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (v5NfP)

Near Dark is a great vampire film....but that's the best I can offer. Oh and the chick who directed Wayne's World...not 'great' but one of my favorites.

Then there's Leni Riefenstahl but we're supposed to forget about her...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (ifmtJ)

129 >>Not a single thing, eh....

Make a choice. Now.

The most fundamental difference.
Right there.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (yXzmN)

130 Boy bands from each country will square off. They will performed each other to death.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (ruftb)

131 If women can do everything just as good as a man, then why can't I get the pickle jar open?

Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (45fpk)

132 With all due respect relatively few MEN can do what those guys are doing in that video--without getting killed or losing a limb.

I am physically strong, but no way would i want that job.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (HrMC1)

133 Is there any doubt Jen Rubin is both dimwitted and nuts?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (lgiXo)

134 There is an upshot to "that's dirty men's work" that I - like so many - discovered when I was in high school. Being able to quickly change a tire, siphon gas, clear a fouled distributor, knowing how to jam a bic lighter into a carburetor on a cold morning, etc. makes ladies notice you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (Jsjd7)

135 121 Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM (0HpOW)

All we can do is endure, pray, and live in reality.

The new reality is we are third or fourth class citizens now.

Thanks GOP go-along gang

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (Lzpvj)

136 OMG did you forget that Sarah Fuller did the bestest pooch kick evearrrrr? Wahmen can do it all.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 26, 2021 12:40 PM (aAbfS)

137 Even when Biden had his 92 IQ hitting on all cylinders

no one called him "crisp"

Posted by: REDACTED at March 26, 2021 12:40 PM (6iURM)

138 114 How many chick could play 3 downs in the NFL?
Posted by: Yo!

Big Mike would get 3 sacks and a fumble recovery.

Posted by: x4 at March 26, 2021 12:40 PM (oA+QO)

139 That dude on the drill rig. Holy. Crap. Just casually flipping that chain around as it gets tightened and would up and not getting his arm taken off... I am impressed.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at March 26, 2021 12:40 PM (XeEyo)

140 I taught my 16 year old daughter and a couple of friends how to change car oil a couple years back. I've also had both my daughters help me change my tractor's oil. I don't know why, but I've always thought it was an important thing they know how to do.
Posted by: 496 at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM (U1eOr)

There's value in knowing how to do the basic tasks, even if you can afford to pay someone else to do them. It builds confidence, and gives you options. Knowing how to cook means you aren't reliant on restaurants and stores. Knowing how to perform basic car and home maintenance means you aren't dependent on someone else who can charge you an arm and a leg.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 26, 2021 12:40 PM (jOcSX)

141 Here ya go. Hunter's emails: https://tinyurl.com/32v6kn33

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at March 26, 2021 12:40 PM (ptqGC)

142 68 I have a question : if China does invade Taiwan, aren't they gonna take out The Three Stooges Dam ?
Posted by: JT at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (arJlL)

There was a story yesterday from Newsmax, posted on ZeroHedge, about the Taiwanese admitting they are developing and manufacturing their own long-range missiles.

https://tinyurl.com/ykzzy2bh

In the off-chance they don't have a secret nuke program, threatening that dam might be an alternative means of deterrence if the Chi-Coms want to take the island by force.

But destroying that dam would condemn millions to death and destroy more land than a few nukes (possibly). Would they have the fortitude to do it though?

Posted by: Thrawn at March 26, 2021 12:40 PM (a+Mub)

143 128 Near Dark is a great vampire film....but that's the best I can offer. Oh and the chick who directed Wayne's World...not 'great' but one of my favorites.

Then there's Leni Riefenstahl but we're supposed to forget about her...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (ifmtJ)

=========

Strange Days is really good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (LvTSG)

144
Think that would be considers a valid target Formosa the Taiwanese citizens.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM

well played

golf clap

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (J/8zy)

145 knowing how to jam a bic lighter into a carburetor on a cold morning, etc. makes ladies notice you.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (Jsjd7)

Unfortunately not too many carburetors out there anymore.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (XeEyo)

146 I don't think women have been directing films all that long really. Ida Lupino was directing in the 60's but she was unusual.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (VP4Cd)

147 97 I have a question : if China does invade Taiwan, aren't they gonna take out The Three Stooges Dam ?
Posted by: JT at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (arJlL)

No one knows what will happen. That's the problem: the Chinese may gamble that the Taiwanese don't have the capability, or that they can handle it.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (jOcSX)

Taiwan has been equipped pretty well by the United States. I think if any invasion takes place it will be preceded by mass assassinations of political and military leaders by Chinese moles.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (2DOZq)

148 There's one thing for sure men can do better than women: steal athletic scholarships away from women by competing in women's sports.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (enXj9)

149 Is there anyone claiming that Biden is in full command besides those, like Max Boot, who would starve to death if they did not repeat leftist talking points?

Yes, every democrat who viscerally hated President Trump.
The left is truly a cult.
I showed a vehement leftist some videos of Biden molesting little girls in front of their parents and said leftist, a self-proclaimed feminist!, poo-poohed every frame of video. She insisted those vids were doctored.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma - 4 months later and still feel like I got hit with a 2x4 at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (8/7u2)

150 I'm gonna have to take a few moments to think of someone whose thoughts I could care less about than Max Boot...

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (O+I8R)

151 We occasionally had women try to work at UPS during sorting, unloading, and loading package semi-trailers. They would only last a few days and would quit. Little did they know about half of the guys would only last a few days too. The first week was brutal. You were covered in bloody sores and bruises and your muscles were strained and in complete exhaustion mode. It was a month or so before your body acclimated. Still had dudes occasionally pass out some times though from not watching their electrolyte intake.

But women normally couldn't hack it. Trying to get guys to do the work for them also didn't work as it made everyone else's job harder. This lasted until one chick got a few wrapped around her finger and she stayed on but didn't do jack. Unloading one trailer she tipped a row of boxes over and broke my hand. That was my last week at UPS because I had just graduated and was going to start at Boeing the following week. Still pisses me off.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (J8bDE)

152 If women can do everything just as good as a man, then why can't I get the pickle jar open?
Posted by: grammie winger

***

Dear lord please tell me that is NOT a euphemism.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (m45I2)

153 @128

I came up with Penny Marshall and I will watch Lost In Translation whenever it's on but that's about it.

Interesting.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (v5NfP)

154 131 If women can do everything just as good as a man, then why can't I get the pickle jar open?
Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (45fpk)

That's easy. Cozy up to your husband and then hand him the pickle jar while he's distracted.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (Zm+LZ)

155 He was on Laura Ingraham last night. She had to cut him off when he started talking about the Steal, and Fox was handed a billion dollar lawsuit by Dominion this morning.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM (ptqGC)

If that cumsock tries to cut off the real President of the United States, fuck her and fuck Fox News.

Though I was firmly against the latter anyways.

Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (0HpOW)

156 I was just informed we need to prepare many military installations to accept and house many illegals.

Posted by: Montesquieu's Big Idea at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (EaINm)

157 129 >>Not a single thing, eh....

Make a choice. Now.

The most fundamental difference.
Right there.
Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (yXzmN)

Pick a restaurant for dinner.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (G2zl5)

158 There is an upshot to "that's dirty men's work" that I - like so many - discovered when I was in high school. Being able to quickly change a tire, siphon gas, clear a fouled distributor, knowing how to jam a bic lighter into a carburetor on a cold morning, etc. makes ladies notice you.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (Jsjd7)

One bit of advice I gave the Boy when he left home was to always, no matter what, have gleaming porcelain in the bathroom. Girls are a lot happier to come back to your place if the bathroom is spotless.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (yQpMk)

159 "Russia, China, and North Korea are watching this and gloating. And planning to conquer Taiwan."

China will take Taiwan whenever it wishes. We likely can't stop them, no matter who is president. I certainly do not want America to pay the terrible price of defending Taiwan, no matter how much I sympathize with their plight.

As far as Biden's competence is concerned, every single person who voted for Biden knew his decrepit condition when they cast their ballot. They got what they voted for.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (qpX6U)

160 Taiwan has been equipped pretty well by the United States. I think if any invasion takes place it will be preceded by mass assassinations of political and military leaders by Chinese moles.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (2DOZq)

That's a given. I would expect massive unrest fomented by CCP agents as well, in order to distract the military and police.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (jOcSX)

161 153 @128

I came up with Penny Marshall and I will watch Lost In Translation whenever it's on but that's about it.

Interesting.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (v5NfP)

========

Sophia hasn't made a movie nearly as interesting since.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (LvTSG)

162 148 Posted by: Elric Blade at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (enXj9)

I make a living teaching second, third, and fourth tier order of effects in a controlled environment.

This is the gynocracy getting its reward for going all in on intersectionality.

I am beyond caring.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:43 PM (Lzpvj)

163 156 I was just informed we need to prepare many military installations to accept and house many illegals.
Posted by: Montesquieu's Big Idea at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (EaINm)

Not a crisis because no mean tweets. The long national nightmare is OVER.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at March 26, 2021 12:43 PM (XeEyo)

164 There's value in knowing how to do the basic tasks, even if you can afford to pay someone else to do them. It builds confidence, and gives you options. Knowing how to cook means you aren't reliant on restaurants and stores. Knowing how to perform basic car and home maintenance means you aren't dependent on someone else who can charge you an arm and a leg.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 26, 2021 12:40 PM (jOcSX)
++++
Yup. I did all of my own car maintenance for a long time because I was broke and it is far cheaper to do it yourself if you can. One day in July I had hauled out my jack, stands, pan and everything else to do an oil change. I saw the heat radiating up off of the ground and thought to myself, "I'm not broke anymore. Fuck this. I'm paying someone else to do it."

I rarely work on my car now. I don't miss it. I know how to do oil and plugs and brakes and tune-ups, but I just really don't want to. But if I need to, I can.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2021 12:43 PM (Jsjd7)

165 We occasionally had women try to work at UPS during sorting, unloading, and loading package semi-trailers. They would only last a few days and would quit. Little did they know about half of the guys would only last a few days too. The first week was brutal. You were covered in bloody sores and bruises and your muscles were strained and in complete exhaustion mode. It was a month or so before your body acclimated. Still had dudes occasionally pass out some times though from not watching their electrolyte intake.

But women normally couldn't hack it. Trying to get guys to do the work for them also didn't work as it made everyone else's job harder. This lasted until one chick got a few wrapped around her finger and she stayed on but didn't do jack. Unloading one trailer she tipped a row of boxes over and broke my hand. That was my last week at UPS because I had just graduated and was going to start at Boeing the following week. Still pisses me off.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (J8bDE)

I did that job for 3 years...

We had one woman who worked the belt. One. She did ok.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 12:43 PM (ifmtJ)

166 Agnes Varda had more than one great film. Cleo from 5 to 7 is one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 26, 2021 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

167 The new reality is we are third or fourth class citizens now.
Thanks GOP go-along gang
Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (Lzpvj)

Best part is that the GOP go-along gang remain 2nd class citizens!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 26, 2021 12:43 PM (hOUT3)

168 Certainly Russia, China, and North Korea are watching this and gloating. And planning to conquer Taiwan.

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Even I and my world can help laughing our asses off. YASTF and give new meaning to Patterns of Force!

Posted by: Fuhrer John Gill at March 26, 2021 12:43 PM (WqPYg)

169 2 What press conference was crisp?
Posted by: Joltin Joe Biden at March 26, 2021 12:24 PM (vS7Dx)
---------------

A euphemism for fried.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (oFUlW)

170 Has a women ever directed a truly great film?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 26, 2021 12:33 PM (v5NfP)

I liked Big although I haven't seen it in a long time.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (vS7Dx)

171 159 Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (qpX6U)

We most assuredly can keep Taiwan away from China.

That requires will and ruthlessness and resolve.

Those are what we lack not the means.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (Lzpvj)

172 Anyone who has had to take care of a loved one with dementia can clearly see that Biden is afflicted beyond a shadow of doubt. Max Boot trying to convince people otherwise would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic.

Posted by: Wicklow at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (uH65w)

173 Video of the man working is awesome. I could not do that at my best. At present, I'd be dead in less than 30 seconds.

Posted by: bour3 at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (nrPUh)

174 There's value in knowing how to do the basic tasks, even if you can afford to pay someone else to do them. It builds confidence, and gives you options. Knowing how to cook means you aren't reliant on restaurants and stores. Knowing how to perform basic car and home maintenance means you aren't dependent on someone else who can charge you an arm and a leg.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 26, 2021 12:40 PM (jOcSX)

It's one of those things that should be learned, just so the learner knows what the job entails, and why it needs to be done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (mzC78)

175 I'll take crowbars to pry Max's lips off the Dem's ass.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (axyOa)

176 Posted by: 496 at March 26, 2021 12:37 PM (U1eOr)

My church organist's husband taught his daughter to change a tire and do oil changes , but considering that if you take your car in for a service they screw the lug nuts on by machine so tightly it can be hard for some men-much less women -to get the tires off.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (VP4Cd)

177 Amy Heckerling directed Fast Times. I mean it's not Citizen Kane or anything but it's a damn funny movie.

Posted by: Broseidon at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (aAbfS)

178 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 26, 2021 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

179 Unfortunately not too many carburetors out there anymore.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (XeEyo)
++++
Nope, nor were there when I was doing it (I was made in the 80s, so by the time I was driving EFI was pretty much standard even on cars we could afford), but it's a neat trick if you need it

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2021 12:45 PM (Jsjd7)

180 I love having women on my rig, IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 26, 2021 12:45 PM (+OZts)

181 Strange Days is really good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (LvTSG)

The trailer is better than the movie.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 12:45 PM (ifmtJ)

182 163 Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at March 26, 2021 12:43 PM (XeEyo)

"crisis" implies it is an unforeseen or unwelcome event....

you can't call something you planned to happen a crisis.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:45 PM (Lzpvj)

183 Truth over Facts!!!

Posted by: navybrat, proudly in plaid. at March 26, 2021 12:45 PM (w7KSn)

184 Max Boot should be ashamed he's actually something people view on the internet.

That dude is fucking embarrassing to mankind.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 26, 2021 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

185 I won't even attempt a vehicle oil change.

stop driving it when the Genie Lamp light comes on.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (DjiZK)

186 Well, men can certainly fuck me better than women. How about that for starters?

Posted by: kathysaysso at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (vkS2Z)

187 I'll take crowbars...

OK. I give up.
"It'll" as in It will take crowbars.
I ain't doing it.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (axyOa)

188 Taiwan has been equipped pretty well by the United States. I think if any invasion takes place it will be preceded by mass assassinations of political and military leaders by Chinese moles.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (2DOZq)

In a democracy, purging leaders matters only so much. And Taiwan doubtless has a disciplined military. Few nations are a soft touch like America is.

I think it's more likely that a country with so much advanced engineering is going to have nukes...

Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (0HpOW)

189
China will take Taiwan whenever it wishes.

They're doing it right now. Hearts and minds.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (63Dwl)

190 I rarely work on my car now. I don't miss it. I know how to do oil and plugs and brakes and tune-ups, but I just really don't want to. But if I need to, I can.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2021 12:43 PM (Jsjd7)

Yup. Having the option is nice, but having the option not to is nice as well.

I had to make a bunch of repairs to my truck to get it to pass inspection in VA, and saved a bit of money since replacing the brakes and such I could do myself. But when it's raining outside and I'm sore from the gym? Fuck it, I'll take it down to Jiffy Lube.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (jOcSX)

191 >>Such patronising bullshit. Women can do plenty of things better than men but there's no denying biological reality that men are stronger and faster.

Biden's statement was no different from the old joke about confusing a woman and her daughter for sisters. It's hyperbole, obvious to both the speaker and the audience, intended only to flatter.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (bDqIh)

192 They screw the lug nuts on by machine so tightly it can be hard for some men-much less women -to get the tires off.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (VP4Cd)

Jump on the tire iron if you need to. Better yet, buy one of the plus shaped irons. Now you can push and pull at the same time.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (XeEyo)

193 167 The new reality is we are third or fourth class citizens now.
Thanks GOP go-along gang
Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:39 PM (Lzpvj)

Best part is that the GOP go-along gang remain 2nd class citizens!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 26, 2021 12:43 PM (hOUT3)

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Not only to the 2nd class citizens get eaten 1st ... they're tastier AND less filling!

Posted by: The Alligator, currently drinking Miller Lite at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (WqPYg)

194 Girl928 once called me with a question from under her Forester where she was doing her first brake job.

I think her husband was baking bread.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (yQpMk)

195 172 Posted by: Wicklow at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (uH65w)

The saddest part of the disease in decent people (which Biden never was) is that it gives you one day out of "x" "good days" where they seem their best.

It is soul crushing, luckily Biden sold his soul a few decades ago.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:47 PM (Lzpvj)

196 I do find it funny that the Continue Reading link on the front page is fubar.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 26, 2021 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

197 What are the political parties policies on China in Taiwan. Both sides have agents galore, even one called Slanted Pussy Galore.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 26, 2021 12:47 PM (ruftb)

198 Well, men can certainly fuck me better than women. How about that for starters?
Posted by: kathysaysso at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (vkS2Z)
++++
Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.

Posted by: Chicks with strap-on equipment harnesses at March 26, 2021 12:47 PM (Jsjd7)

199 >>Unfortunately not too many carburetors out there anymore.

And a Pro uses a Pencil...because, you carry one for Testing anyway.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:47 PM (yXzmN)

200 Evil does not exist. Other than conservatives and Trump supporters, the world just wants to be friends!

Posted by: Satans Retards at March 26, 2021 12:47 PM (rxR5g)

201 >>Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.
Posted by: Chicks with strap-on equipment harnesses at March 26, 2021 12:47 PM (Jsjd7)

I don't care how hot the chicks are, those vids are always awkwardly hysterical.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:48 PM (yXzmN)

202 Well, men can certainly fuck me better than women. How about that for starters?
Posted by: kathysaysso at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (vkS2Z)

How YOU doin?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 26, 2021 12:48 PM (Zz0t1)

203 Has a women ever directed a truly great film?

I dunno, is Fast Times at Ridgemont High a great film? There's one scene that's pretty fantastic, anyway.

Posted by: spindrift at March 26, 2021 12:48 PM (h5TKJ)

204 Video of the man working is awesome. I could not do that at my best. At present, I'd be dead in less than 30 seconds.
Posted by: bour3 at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (nrPUh)

Me too.
Probably from blood loss after having my arm ripped off.
On top of all that, how do these guys not fall with that slickness beneath them?

Posted by: JoeF. at March 26, 2021 12:48 PM (HrMC1)

205 I don't care how hot the chicks are, those vids are always awkwardly hysterical.
Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:48 PM (yXzmN)
++++
Then consider us next time.

Posted by: "Chicks" with opposite natural equipment at March 26, 2021 12:48 PM (Jsjd7)

206 Amy Heckerling directed Fast Times. I mean it's not Citizen Kane or anything but it's a damn funny movie.
Posted by: Broseidon at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (aAbfS)

Good call. Didnt she do Johnny Dangerously too?

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 12:49 PM (vS7Dx)

207 One bit of advice I gave the Boy when he left home was to always, no matter what, have gleaming porcelain in the bathroom. Girls are a lot happier to come back to your place if the bathroom is spotless.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 26, 2021 12:42 PM (yQpMk)

Well, they do tend to spend a lot of time there.

Posted by: BignJames at March 26, 2021 12:49 PM (AwYPR)

208 Sudetenland > Taiwan

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 26, 2021 12:49 PM (K4QvT)

209
I don't care how hot the chicks are, those vids are always awkwardly hysterical.
Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:48 PM (yXzmN)

Especially when they put on their "man getting things done feels great" face.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at March 26, 2021 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)

210 I wonder who is really pulling the strings in the White House these days.. certainly Obama admin officials have some say.. but who is there running things and making the decisions?
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 26, 2021

***

"Doctor" Jill, I'd guess. Not that it matters. The whole admin looks, as I said yesterday, like a bunch of baboons trying to open a puzzle box.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 26, 2021 12:49 PM (/XOcP)

211 >>> I did that job for 3 years...

We had one woman who worked the belt. One. She did ok.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 12:43 PM (ifmtJ)

The belt was the easiest. But the deal was guys unloading tried to kill me to get back at me when I was unloading and they were sorting. But I was the best at all of it. So they couldn't hurt me, just made me walk a few paces down the belt and I was fine. But they backed up the loaders so the boss would make them leave unloading so they could load for a while. It was kind of a sport. All you needed for sorting was a good memory for zips and the ability to juggle.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 26, 2021 12:49 PM (J8bDE)

212 >>>No one knows what will happen. That's the problem: the Chinese may gamble that the Taiwanese don't have the capability, or that they can handle it.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (jOcSX)
--------------------------

Xi has some considerations:

_1. In 592 days Republicans will be in charge of the Senate and the House, that will make things more difficult for him.
_2. Taiwan's arms are American and they work well.
His arms are Chinese made and may or may not work at all.
_3. The Taiwanese are not surrender monkeys.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 26, 2021 12:49 PM (oFUlW)

213 Well, men can certainly fuck me better than women. How about that for starters?
Posted by: kathysaysso at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (vkS2Z)

Go on....

Posted by: JoeF. at March 26, 2021 12:49 PM (HrMC1)

214 164 Yup. I did all of my own car maintenance for a long time because I was
broke and it is far cheaper to do it yourself if you can.
the most important thing i learned from taking auto mechanics in high school is that i should not be allowed anywhere near a vehicle with a tool in my hand. there are reasons i'm a software guy, not a hardware guy, despite having designed my own vax.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at March 26, 2021 12:49 PM (v3pYe)

215 >>Me too.
Probably from blood loss after having my arm ripped off.
On top of all that, how do these guys not fall with that slickness beneath them?

After a while, you get used to working under these conditions.

Posted by: The Paolo at March 26, 2021 12:50 PM (yXzmN)

216 Stuntmen play bitches falling down stairs all the time.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 26, 2021 12:50 PM (ruftb)

217 139 That dude on the drill rig. Holy. Crap. Just casually flipping that chain around as it gets tightened and would up and not getting his arm taken off... I am impressed.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
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It's like a dance.

A very dangerous dance.

Posted by: SMH at March 26, 2021 12:50 PM (wparq)

218 Rita was on Sky News decrying some Aussie law demanding a quota system for internal government hires (more women, not sure on the minority part). ... But she and another woman on said women want jobs based on merit. ... Then Rita said "there are two women on this panel, and one man, we didn't need a quota system, this is merit based" ...

My first thought was ... "not really, BigCorp is Woke, and they seek 'diversity' without law". (And in some jobs the merit is measured by sex appeal.) There are Lots of jobs where diversity has displaced real merit, without a law ... but more law is coming anyway, to remove "whiteness".

Posted by: illiniwek at March 26, 2021 12:50 PM (Cus5s)

219
"right wing industrial complex"? How ... jangling. "Industrial" has got nothing to do with it.

This Boot feller claims to be a wordsmith?

Try the "fevered right wing conspiracy swamps", or "delusional and stalwart right wingers".

You are pathetic, Mr. "My Rakishly Tilted Hat Avatar COMPLETELY Disguises the Fact That I A Getting Bald"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2021 12:50 PM (pNxlR)

220 I started out at the brass foundry back in the day, it was 40 men starting out for 2 jobs. When you weren't shoveling brass ingots you were sledge hammering cooling brass. The temperature at the workstation was high enough to blow up a bic lighter in your pocket. On day 60 it was down to me and another guy to fill the two jobs, and they fired him. Not only didn't I work with women, I never even saw one.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at March 26, 2021 12:50 PM (buTO7)

221 mmm Cheerleaders. Lose the shirts bitches.

Posted by: wth at March 26, 2021 12:50 PM (v0R5T)

222 Oil rig guy...now that is one nice physique. Daggum.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 26, 2021 12:51 PM (O+I8R)

223 219 This Boot feller claims to be a wordsmith?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2021 12:50 PM (pNxlR)

=======

Pretend that words don't mean anything, and it sounds great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 26, 2021 12:51 PM (LvTSG)

224 >>Girl928 once called me with a question from under her Forester where she was doing her first brake job.

Well, I'm impressed!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2021 12:51 PM (bDqIh)

225 592 days Republicans will be in charge of the Senate and the House
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LOLOL!!!

*wanders off*

Posted by: SMH at March 26, 2021 12:51 PM (wparq)

226 I think her husband was baking bread.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

I taught the same daughter how to bake bread. She makes a mean parker house roll.

One reason I change my own oil is because it takes me less time than setting up the appointment, driving over to the appointment (or jiffy lube w/no appointment), waiting around for it to get done, paying twice what it would cost me, and driving home again. It's just easier and quicker for me.

Posted by: 496 at March 26, 2021 12:51 PM (U1eOr)

227 DOCTOR Jill is *biden's crypt keeper. Only certain people are permitted to actually see and talk to him, IMO.

As to who's running the show. Obama, the Ferret, Rice and whomever is pulling Comma La's strings if it's not one or more of those.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 26, 2021 12:51 PM (3H9h1)

228 Was Zero Dark Thirty good?

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 12:51 PM (vS7Dx)

229 @DailyCaller 4m

Elon Musk Must Delete Anti-Union Tweet, Rehire Fired Employee, Labor Board Rules

https://tinyurl.com/yds6snd5

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2021 12:51 PM (cF8AT)

230 >>One reason I change my own oil is because

Those assholes always over-tighten the Filter!

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:52 PM (yXzmN)

231 Max Boot can apply any day now for the Iraq ministry of information job. He makes Saddams guy look like a piker.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 26, 2021 12:52 PM (MPYg9)

232 "We most assuredly can keep Taiwan away from China.
That requires will and ruthlessness and resolve.
Those are what we lack not the means."

Are you willing to risk nuclear strikes on US carrier groups to defend Taiwan? How about nuclear attacks on US soil? I believe the Chinese are willing to escalate to that level if they choose to invade Taiwan. Is their defense worth the price?

Ace has repeatedly expressed his recent regret over his support of the war in Iraq. That war arose because WE were attacked here in CONUS. Taiwan is not CONUS. Will the Horde, fifteen years from now, express their regret over beating drums for a war against China that is not even in defense of our own homeland?

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at March 26, 2021 12:52 PM (qpX6U)

233 It is getting really hard to parody these guys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at March 26, 2021 12:52 PM (7OrCI)

234

"And planning to conquer Taiwan."

if i lived in taiwan...i would plan on moving out of taiwan
and that right soon

Posted by: sound awake at March 26, 2021 12:52 PM (fgLyj)

235 Girl928 once called me with a question from under her Forester where she was doing her first brake job.

I think her husband was baking bread.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM

Cool!
Daughters of Diogenes can do the basics, including drive a stick.
Funny thing the other day. Grandson was in the garage with me and I was going through the tool box. He grabs my set of feeler gauges and asks me what they are. I tell him and he is totally lost. "What gap? What's a spark plug."
Sigh...

Posted by: Diogenes at March 26, 2021 12:53 PM (axyOa)

236 They planted the "I don't know if there will be a R party" for mass persuasion (high ground maneuver) and hoping it would outrage us and provide some fodder Little do they know we don't GAF.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 12:53 PM (vS7Dx)

237 175 I'll take crowbars to pry Max's lips off the Dem's ass.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (axyOa)

still a nogo

Posted by: Archimedes at March 26, 2021 12:53 PM (6iURM)

238 225 592 days Republicans will be in charge of the Senate and the House
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LOLOL!!!

*wanders off*

Posted by: SMH at March 26, 2021 12:51 PM (wparq)
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Your vote will be counted whether or not you vote, comrade!

Posted by: Dominion Voting Systems at March 26, 2021 12:53 PM (WqPYg)

239
That dude on the drill rig. Holy. Crap. Just casually flipping that chain around as it gets tightened and would up and not getting his arm taken off... I am impressed.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric

That is a guy on top of his (dangerous) game -- competent and expeditious. There's not a soiboi or femnyst around fit to tie his boots. Equally capable, my ass. He is awesome.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2021 12:53 PM (pNxlR)

240 229 Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2021 12:51 PM (cF8AT)

LOLGF

//E-Lawn

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:53 PM (Lzpvj)

241 Fuck you.

Posted by: Baboon trying to open a puzzle box at March 26, 2021 12:53 PM (kTF2Z)

242 >>> They screw the lug nuts on by machine so tightly it can be hard for some men-much less women -to get the tires off.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (VP4Cd)

I agree with that. And for me, it's always some bruce banner situation where I'm in the mud and rain and slipping around screwing up my nuckles. Never hulk out though. Unfortunately. Just there jumping up and down on the tire iron.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 26, 2021 12:53 PM (J8bDE)

243 I live by the beach, so it makes it really easy to get rid of the used oil.
Same with cleaning paint brushes.

Posted by: navybrat, proudly in plaid. at March 26, 2021 12:53 PM (w7KSn)

244 I worked on a road crew repaving an asphalt highway during a summer in South Louisiana. We had a woman on the crew. Eventually she was the designated flag person.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (2DOZq)

245 Theory:

The anti-Asian narrative is being built because China is going to invade Taiwan, Biden is going to do nothing about it, and Democrats are afraid that it'll turn a large block of Asians against the party forever.

Because voting doesn't matter anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (LvTSG)

246 222 Oil rig guy...now that is one nice physique. Daggum.

Yes it appears he is anatomically correct. His coworker that pops into the frame for a couple seconds is a little thinner but nice definition in the arms

Posted by: kallisto at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (DJFLF)

247 DOCTOR Jill is *biden's crypt keeper. Only certain people are permitted to actually see and talk to him, IMO.

As to who's running the show. Obama, the Ferret, Rice and whomever is pulling Comma La's strings if it's not one or more of those.
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag

So do you still read Erie and Creep magazines?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (ruftb)

248 Great movies directed by women? I admit I had to look this up, but how about Children of a Lesser God with Wm. Hurt and Marlee Matlin?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (/XOcP)

249 >>f i lived in taiwan...i would plan on moving out of taiwan

and make sure the contents of the national palace museum are moved into a secret, secured place!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (bDqIh)

250 244 I worked on a road crew repaving an asphalt highway during a summer in South Louisiana. We had a woman on the crew. Eventually she was the designated flag person.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (2DOZq)

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How "eventually"?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (LvTSG)

251 Greetings:

Me, I', wondering what size cheerleading uniform Yamachi Alcindor took ???

Posted by: 11B40 at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (evgyj)

252 236 Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 12:53 PM (vS7Dx)

Civil "servants" elected and otherwise have a confused understanding of "service."

A GOP that refuses to attack the media and donkey subversion of the civil service is not worth my vote.

Period.

I will not be a democrat, but I am not part of the farce anymore.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:55 PM (Lzpvj)

253 I had to jump on a tire iron like a mental patient on the side of the highway. I was not best pleased.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 12:55 PM (vS7Dx)

254 Watching that man control that machinery is just grand. It's magnificent, actually. Quick mind/strong masculine body working in concert.

Male and female created HE them. Each with their own specialities.

Posted by: lizabth at March 26, 2021 12:55 PM (L3Rsz)

255 Women directors: Also Big and You've Got Mail (one of my all-time favorites).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 26, 2021 12:55 PM (/XOcP)

256 Before defending democracy and freedom in Taiwan with war, we might want to think about ensuring it here at home.

I am not saying the one is not a valid thing. The other must be however, or else the rest does not matter worth squat anyway.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at March 26, 2021 12:55 PM (7OrCI)

257 236 They planted the "I don't know if there will be a R party" for mass persuasion (high ground maneuver) and hoping it would outrage us and provide some fodder Little do they know we don't GAF.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 12:53 PM (vS7Dx)

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Just more humiliation and rubbing our noses in the fact that THEY know that WE know that there's nothing WE can do now to stop THEM now.

Posted by: ShainS at March 26, 2021 12:55 PM (WqPYg)

258 Was Zero Dark Thirty good?
Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 12:51 PM (vS7Dx)

Nope.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 12:55 PM (ifmtJ)

259 Well, men can certainly fuck me better than women. How about that for starters?
Posted by: kathysaysso at March 26, 2021 12:46 PM (vkS2Z)

Somebody is getting some this weekend.

Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 12:56 PM (xpJpI)

260 Are you willing to risk nuclear strikes on US carrier groups to defend Taiwan? How about nuclear attacks on US soil? I believe the Chinese are willing to escalate to that level if they choose to invade Taiwan. Is their defense worth the price?

Ace has repeatedly expressed his recent regret over his support of the war in Iraq. That war arose because WE were attacked here in CONUS. Taiwan is not CONUS. Will the Horde, fifteen years from now, express their regret over beating drums for a war against China that is not even in defense of our own homeland?
Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at March 26, 2021 12:52 PM (qpX6U)

China is unlikely to escalate to that level. The amount they'd need to throw at us to hit anything would invite a retaliatory strike that would destroy their country.

The power struggle with China is over at this point though. If we were to ever have a war with China to maintain superpower status it should've been sooner rather than later. It is now later. Not completely later in the sense that we're guaranteed a loss at this very moment in time, but that we aren't in a position to resist nor will we be in the coming few decades.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at March 26, 2021 12:56 PM (Zm+LZ)

261
Best of Breed for Miss Delilah at today's Lone Star Borzoi Club specialty. It's Lila's fourth Best in Specialty Show win.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 26, 2021 12:56 PM (cJDez)

262 @DailyCaller 4m
Elon Musk Must Delete Anti-Union Tweet, Rehire Fired Employee, Labor Board Rules

https://tinyurl.com/yds6snd5
Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2021 12:51 PM (cF8AT)
++++
The First Amendment! How does it work?!

Shut 'er down, Elon. I'm not kidding. I love what you're doing with SpaceX and Starlink, but shut it down. Liquidate, cash out and quit. Don't work for these people on their terms. Tell them to pound sand, then take your ball and go home.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2021 12:56 PM (Jsjd7)

263 I guess they finally jumped the shark on Rush's program. I just tuned in and thought I was listening to small town radio with Aunt Mable sharing her carrot cake recipe.

This is not national broadcast worthy material.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 26, 2021 12:56 PM (CPxG5)

264
Girl928 once called me with a question from under her Forester where she was doing her first brake job.

I think her husband was baking bread.

My daughter learned to drive on a standard one ton diesel. Changed spares on her first car and could change the oil/battery. Her fiancee can't even drive a standard.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at March 26, 2021 12:56 PM (DjiZK)

265 More like Max Bootlicker.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 26, 2021 12:56 PM (3TihK)

266 f i lived in taiwan...i would plan on moving out of taiwan

and make sure the contents of the national palace museum are moved into a secret, secured place!
Posted by: Lizzy a

Use to live there. Seems like i heard that they have the largest gold reserves in the World. That was more than 20 years ago.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 26, 2021 12:56 PM (ruftb)

267 You couldn't have literal cheerleaders for Biden - he'd never stop smelling their hair.
And more importantly those little cheerleader skirts aren't going to stop Biden from giving each one a two finger salute IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: 18-1 at March 26, 2021 12:56 PM (qlFIA)

268 As much I hate what they do

you have to hand it to the dims

when they get power, they use it

Posted by: REDACTED at March 26, 2021 12:57 PM (6iURM)

269 % of men who can bench press their body weight vs. women. Uh huh.

Posted by: Nature is Sexist at March 26, 2021 12:57 PM (XIrWl)

270 218 Rita was on Sky News decrying some Aussie law demanding a quota system for internal government hires (more women, not sure on the minority part). ... But she and another woman on said women want jobs based on merit. ... Then Rita said "there are two women on this panel, and one man, we didn't need a quota system, this is merit based" ...

My first thought was ... "not really, BigCorp is Woke, and they seek 'diversity' without law". (And in some jobs the merit is measured by sex appeal.) There are Lots of jobs where diversity has displaced real merit, without a law ... but more law is coming anyway, to remove "whiteness".
Posted by: illiniwek

SkyNewsAustralia is truly conservative. the other woman was probably Peta Credlin. Peta and Rita are both the real deal and formidable.

Posted by: x4 at March 26, 2021 12:57 PM (oA+QO)

271 >>Girl928 once called me with a question from under her Forester where she was doing her first brake job.

Forrester?

Was she looking for Cunnilingus Pointers?

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:57 PM (yXzmN)

272 592 days Republicans will be in charge of the Senate and the House
........

only if you Send Money now.

Posted by: wth at March 26, 2021 12:57 PM (v0R5T)

273 My church organist's husband taught his daughter to change a tire and do oil changes , but considering that if you take your car in for a service they screw the lug nuts on by machine so tightly it can be hard for some men-much less women -to get the tires off.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (VP4Cd)

Fen, this is a canard. Air impact wrenches cannot tighten fasteners any tighter than a human can do with a socket on a long breaker bar. And if the tire shop is doing their job right, they use a torque wrench to ensure that each lug nut is tightened to the manufacturer's specified value.

Wheel nuts are hard to remove for three reasons: One, you want them tight. Wheels falling off is bad juju. Two: rust and corrosion set in, and the torque required to remove the nuts becomes much greater than that used to seat them. Three: the wheel wrenches normally supplied with the vehicle are barely adequate to do the job under ideal conditions.

Buy a 24" flex handle, and an impact socket sized to fit the wheel nuts on each vehicle you own. Keep it under the driver's seat. Makes tire change a piece of cake, and also serves as an effective club.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2021 12:58 PM (mzC78)

274
Yeah, Taiwan is toast. That said, the Taiwanese are not going to just roll over. As a result, the Chi-Coms are going to nuke it.

And that said, Iran is going to miscalculate against Israel and the GCC. They might go under even with a Biden junta hot and horny to give them nukes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 26, 2021 12:58 PM (s2VJv)

275 Well, men can certainly fuck me better than women. How about that for starters?
So...was this a double blind study? Because I think to make that claim you need one..

Posted by: Obligatory at March 26, 2021 12:58 PM (qlFIA)

276
There's not a soiboi or femnyst around fit to tie his boots

Send the soibois and femnysts out to pick up bird carcasses from around the bases of their beloved wind turbines.

Better yet, send them out with spray bottles of Windex and cleaning rags to clean their equally beloved solar panels.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 26, 2021 12:58 PM (pNxlR)

277 "After you replace the Cotter Pins, traditionally you finish with a Counterclockwise Swirl."

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:58 PM (yXzmN)

278 250 244 I worked on a road crew repaving an asphalt highway during a summer in South Louisiana. We had a woman on the crew. Eventually she was the designated flag person.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (2DOZq)

========

How "eventually"?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (LvTSG)

Shoveling hot asphalt out of the back of a dump truck was determine not to be her forte pretty quickly.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 12:58 PM (2DOZq)

279 Girl928 once called me with a question from under her Forester where she was doing her first brake job.

The Question: "Dad, how high is up?"

Posted by: Diogenes at March 26, 2021 12:58 PM (axyOa)

280 No go
Posted by: Archimedes

Screw you!

Posted by: Max Bootigeeg at March 26, 2021 12:59 PM (+OZts)

281 You know the rules, Kathy.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 12:59 PM (vS7Dx)

282 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (LvTSG)

I would give the Asians whom I know more credit that to believe the "anti Asian" by whites bs. The ones I know think either AA criminals are largely responsible for the crime against Asians, or they're progressives and decided to buy it because they're progressives and they chose not to analyze sex addict weirdo's motives.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2021 12:59 PM (VP4Cd)

283 232 Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at March 26, 2021 12:52 PM (qpX6U)

Yes, I am.

I am a cold war Reagan baby, I am willing to risk everything for liberty my own as well as our sacred allies.

Taiwan is an ally, I understand my way of thinking, my resolve, and my dedication is dying out societally.

You let them take Taiwan the day will come they take here, period.

I would tell China tacitly that in the event Taiwan needs to use nuclear weaponry to protect its sovereignty I would support them vociferously and in the event China retaliated against the United States I would make it my mission to eradicate their entire population.

I *love* China, I respect their culture immensely, I am not a thrall to Chinese ambitions unlike our elected class.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:59 PM (Lzpvj)

284 >>Use to live there. Seems like i heard that they have the largest gold reserves in the World. That was more than 20 years ago.

Oh, interesting! I visited for work, and loved that museum -- IIRC, it has more Chinese artifacts than in China, as these were the treasures smuggled out when Mao's goons were destroying every object from the past.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2021 12:59 PM (bDqIh)

285 278 250 244 I worked on a road crew repaving an asphalt highway during a summer in South Louisiana. We had a woman on the crew. Eventually she was the designated flag person.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (2DOZq)

========

How "eventually"?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 26, 2021 12:54 PM (LvTSG)

Shoveling hot asphalt out of the back of a dump truck was determine not to be her forte pretty quickly.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 12:58 PM (2DOZq)

One criticism I've heard of this particular trend is that it prevents the crews from being able to rest men who are a bit worn and torn.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at March 26, 2021 01:00 PM (Zm+LZ)

286 272 they'll only say they need the senate and the Presidency...then they'll do fuck all except maybe investigate a conservative pres

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:00 PM (ONvIw)

287 Garrett, what about the pinch?

Posted by: Broseidon at March 26, 2021 01:00 PM (aAbfS)

288 Egalitarian vs Complimentarian. Why do we have to be the same? Being different or having different roles does not make one superior or the other inferior. Men and women complete one another. That's how we're meant to function. If we all have to be the same, there's something missing in the equation.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2021 01:00 PM (45fpk)

289 261. Hadrian that is wonderful congratulations!

Posted by: Jen the original at March 26, 2021 01:00 PM (MPYg9)

290 So...was this a double blind study? Because I think to make that claim you need one..
Posted by: Obligatory at March 26, 2021 12:58 PM (qlFIA)
++++
Is that when you're both blindfolded during coitus?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2021 01:00 PM (Jsjd7)

291 27 Women definitely make better sammiches.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
___________

Ain't that the truth? Especially waitresses.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy and Christopher Dodd at March 26, 2021 01:00 PM (9vQJW)

292 'Was that a knuckle?'

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 01:00 PM (yXzmN)

293 You let them take Taiwan the day will come they take here, period.
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Feels really like it's been the other way around.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 01:01 PM (vS7Dx)

294 Wheel nuts are hard to remove for three reasons: One, you want them tight. Wheels falling off is bad juju. Two: rust and corrosion set in, and the torque required to remove the nuts becomes much greater than that used to seat them.

and number 3, the most important

we don't like having our junk fucked with

Posted by: WHEELS at March 26, 2021 01:01 PM (6iURM)

295 Well, men can certainly fuck me better than women. How about that for starters?
Posted by: kathysaysso

Bahaha...you know by 'men' we are now supposed to include wide-hipped, narrow-shouldered girls with delusions.

I am come to the point where I am not playing their games anymore. I have no 'gender'. I have a sex. And it is woman, XX, from birth.

Posted by: lizabth at March 26, 2021 01:01 PM (L3Rsz)

296 Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2021 01:00 PM (45fpk)

Exactly.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 01:01 PM (2DOZq)

297 181 Strange Days is really good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, paying for my sins on the Scorsese streets at March 26, 2021 12:41 PM (LvTSG)

The trailer is better than the movie.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 12:45 PM (ifmtJ)

I liked it better the first time I saw it... when it was called, "Brainstorm."

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 26, 2021 01:01 PM (DTX3h)

298 I think that's my move!

Posted by: Broseidon at March 26, 2021 01:01 PM (aAbfS)

299 274 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 26, 2021 12:58 PM (s2VJv)

I agree, a near or far Asian nuclear exchange is a real possibility in my lifetime I wager it is a near certainty in my son's.

My one hope is to watch the left twist itself in knots logically trying to justify their hatred of America's use of the device while not being critical of the new user.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:01 PM (Lzpvj)

300 Boy I can't wait to vote harder so we can get rid of this geebo.

Posted by: blaster at March 26, 2021 01:01 PM (Rf71G)

301 Fantastic comment at the twitter "leader of the free world" link:

He's having a vowel movement.

Posted by: Lysenko -Official dot gov Wyoming COVID vaccination card link, should be 4.25x3.5 at March 26, 2021 01:01 PM (bm04m)

302 If Taiwan happened to nuke a few dams in China, it might change the Chinese calculus greatly. Hypothetically.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at March 26, 2021 01:02 PM (7OrCI)

303 And planning to conquer Taiwan.

What can this decrepit invalid do about it?

Enable it. How the hell do you think I got chosen, fat?

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 26, 2021 01:02 PM (jacU8)

304 298 I think that's my move!
Posted by: Broseidon

I'm over here rubbing two sticks together, and you've got a move?!

Posted by: 496 at March 26, 2021 01:02 PM (U1eOr)

305 Best of Breed for Miss Delilah at today's Lone Star Borzoi Club specialty. It's Lila's fourth Best in Specialty Show win.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 26, 2021 12:56 PM (cJDez)

Congratulations!!!

Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2021 01:02 PM (45fpk)

306 Has a women ever directed a truly great film?

Sophia Coppola directed Lost in Translation.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 26, 2021 01:03 PM (H5knJ)

307 "I am willing to risk everything for liberty my own as well as our sacred allies."

I understand your position. Here's mine: I am not willing to "risk everything" for our allies. I am not.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at March 26, 2021 01:03 PM (qpX6U)

308 To be honest, the cheat sheet is the least of my concerns. I'd want a
cheat sheet since none of those jackasses are worth the time to learn
their names and faces.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 26, 2021 12:31 PM (jOcSX)

--
He's the first person to ever need a cheat sheet. These are also reporters that he already knows. In other words, people who he has talked to before, in some cases over the last 30 years, he cant remember who they are.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 26, 2021 01:03 PM (h1jJh)

309 If Taiwan happened to nuke a few dams in China, it might change the Chinese calculus greatly. Hypothetically.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at March 26, 2021 01:02 PM

China is one moderate earthquake away form losing a damn that will kill millions of people.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at March 26, 2021 01:03 PM (JUOKG)

310 As much as I love many other sitcoms, you just can't beat Seinfeld for situational quotations.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 01:03 PM (yXzmN)

311 283: I don't, their current culture is vicious. We can pretend that everyone there are really perfect angels, but they are not a nation of dissidents. As long as China is moving toward prosperity, the majority will approve

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:03 PM (ONvIw)

312 And world-class female mathematicians come to mind?

I mean in a league with Newton, Liebnitz, Fermat, Euler...

Posted by: Noam Sayen at March 26, 2021 01:04 PM (WJcbb)

313 So, Max Boot has become a satirist.
Glad he decided to make an honest living.
Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM (oFUlW)

Someone elsewhere told me he made his bones as a military historian. I hope his books were more interestingly narrated than his Weakly Substandard articles which were as tedious as being painted into a corner.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at March 26, 2021 01:04 PM (y7DUB)

314 As much as I love many other sitcoms, you just can't beat Seinfeld for situational quotations.
Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 01:03 PM (yXzmN)

South Park is up there. And you only need the first three seasons.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 01:04 PM (vS7Dx)

315 My one hope is to watch the left twist itself in knots logically trying to justify their hatred of America's use of the device while not being critical of the new user.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:01 PM (Lzpvj)

100 Quatloos Biden announces a unilateral nuclear weapons cut in the next two years.
Behind the scenes threat is a second wave of a more virulent covid.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 26, 2021 01:04 PM (axyOa)

316 Shoveling hot asphalt out of the back of a dump truck was determine not to be her forte pretty quickly.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 12:58 PM (2DOZq)

One criticism I've heard of this particular trend is that it prevents the crews from being able to rest men who are a bit worn and torn.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at March 26, 2021 01:00 PM (Zm+LZ)

I actually hated flag duty so I was glad she took a rotation spot. Of course I was a younger man at the time.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 01:04 PM (2DOZq)

317 I don't have svens admiration for China. A country that runs concentration camps and rape gangs is not one that gets the 'but their history and art' treatment. That is also leaving out the Cultural Revolution.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at March 26, 2021 01:04 PM (7OrCI)

318 That's how we're meant to function. If we all have to be the same, there's something missing in the equation.
Posted by: grammie winger

^^^ Truth.

Posted by: lizabth at March 26, 2021 01:04 PM (L3Rsz)

319 69- Bro- that sentence was likely complete and accurate without the predicate.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 26, 2021 01:05 PM (7o4Oo)

320 313 boot is the meeting Jen Rubin

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:05 PM (ONvIw)

321 "SkyNewsAustralia is truly conservative. the other woman was probably
Peta Credlin. Peta and Rita are both the real deal and formidable."

yeah, I did not mean to belittle these two women, but in general, Woke Corp is already down with the diversity struggle. (and yes, SkyNews has been boldly conservative on many issues)

Posted by: illiniwek at March 26, 2021 01:05 PM (Cus5s)

322 >>South Park is up there. And you only need the first three seasons.

South Park doesn't have the quotes, though. Certainly they have the situations down...but, 'OMG You Killed Kenny' isn't the same as 'Mulva?'.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 01:05 PM (yXzmN)

323 307 Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at March 26, 2021 01:03 PM (qpX6U)

Those checks were already written, you have to keep the funds in the bank.

Sorry, but don't worry you are gonna win and we are gonna collapse as a global power.

I am strangely unbothered by the sequence given what we are attempting to export to the world these days.

You are gonna love the new Chinese global cop.

I promise you.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:05 PM (Lzpvj)

324 You let them take Taiwan the day will come they take here, period.

I would tell China tacitly that in the event Taiwan needs to use nuclear weaponry to protect its sovereignty I would support them vociferously

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 12:59 PM (Lzpvj)

Mmhmm. Taiwan and South Korea are two countries who could effortlessly develop their own nukes. Especially if they had four years of Donald Trump to wink at them. But China's ultimate nightmare is a nuclear armed Japan. Even I don't want that, and I'm a right wing psychopath.

There is a great deal to like about China. In every respect, from social credit to culture, they are miles ahead of the pedophile Satanists who own American law and finance. But if it's us or them- sorry, they gotta go.

Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2021 01:06 PM (0HpOW)

325 I can smell the Unity. I think Joe needs a diaper change.

Posted by: wth at March 26, 2021 01:06 PM (v0R5T)

326 South Park doesn't have the quotes, though. Certainly they have the situations down...but, 'OMG You Killed Kenny' isn't the same as 'Mulva?'.
Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 01:05 PM (yXzmN)

Yeah I guess it's more situation. There is not a situation in existence you can't apply to a South Park episode.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 01:07 PM (vS7Dx)

327 China is one moderate earthquake away form losing a damn that will kill millions of people.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at March 26, 2021 01:03 PM (JUOKG)

Statistical noise in their actuarials.

Posted by: blaster at March 26, 2021 01:07 PM (Rf71G)

328 China has likely infiltrated the Taiwanese government, so that won't be a problem. Pretty much like here in the US. The Taiwanese people however are probably made of more sturdy stuff than us and will fight.

They'll ultimately lose, but they'll fight.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 26, 2021 01:07 PM (3H9h1)

329 317 Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at March 26, 2021 01:04 PM (7OrCI)

It is the historian in me, I admire a lot of the first 4,000 years of Chinese endeavor.

How did we do in our last 4,000 years?

I do not have a lot of use for the current monstrosity the place is, but I like many of the Chinese I know.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:07 PM (Lzpvj)

330 Biden promises that in his first 100 days this country will have 49 states.

We already have 50?

Ahead of schedule!

Posted by: Broseidon at March 26, 2021 01:07 PM (aAbfS)

331 And you want to be my latex salesman!

Posted by: 496 at March 26, 2021 01:07 PM (U1eOr)

332 324 mo pedophiles enabling in China? ROFL

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:07 PM (ONvIw)

333 Oh, interesting! I visited for work, and loved that museum -- IIRC, it has more Chinese artifacts than in China, as these were the treasures smuggled out when Mao's goons were destroying every object from the past.
Posted by: Lizzy

I was at the museum around 1994. I saw a tortoise shell with ancient writing that was 5 or 10,000 years old.

I lived there for 9 years. Fell in Love with Taiwan which is a renegade province. Yea

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 26, 2021 01:07 PM (ruftb)

334 Best of Breed for Miss Delilah at today's Lone Star Borzoi Club specialty. It's Lila's fourth Best in Specialty Show win.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at March 26, 2021 12:56 PM (cJDez)

Congrats!

How did the shot go?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 01:08 PM (ifmtJ)

335 The President has no idea what he's doing; the Vice President is a communist; The Speaker of the House has dementia; and the GOP doesn't understand the question.

Kimchee Status: deep and rising

Rum status: empty

Posted by: Do not monkey with this valve without notifying DC Central at March 26, 2021 01:08 PM (9X60i)

336 @joelpollak

.@PressSec tries to evade a question by @pdoocy on the exclusion of @FoxNews from @JoeBiden's cheat sheet by commenting on his socks.

A male spokesman commenting on a woman's clothing or appearance to evade questions would be fired before the end of the day. #WhiteHouseBriefing

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2021 01:08 PM (cF8AT)

337 I understand your position. Here's mine: I am not willing to "risk everything" for our allies. I am not.
Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at March 26, 2021 01:03 PM (qpX6U)

Reasonable, but since South Africa and Libya gave up their nuke programs, no other American "ally" is ever going to rely 100% on America if they have other options.

Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2021 01:08 PM (0HpOW)

338 Congrats to Lila, Hadrian!

Posted by: navybrat, proudly in plaid. at March 26, 2021 01:08 PM (w7KSn)

339 >> There is not a situation in existence you can't apply to a South Park episode

You would be hard pressed to find one and if you did it would likely be because the Simpson's had done it so well.

Seinfeld takes those common denominators of everyone's life and then reduces their impact down to a word or sentence.

Not a fan of Larry David the person...but the guy gets comedy and satire.

Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 01:08 PM (yXzmN)

340 Anyone remember the name of the HotAir poster that was a Sino fetishist?

Posted by: Broseidon at March 26, 2021 01:09 PM (aAbfS)

341 314 As much as I love many other sitcoms, you just can't beat Seinfeld for situational quotations.
Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 01:03 PM (yXzmN)

I agree but you reminded me of OT observation that It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is Seinfeld turned up past 11. Just started watching the sitcom.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 01:09 PM (2DOZq)

342 Way back in the past, it was revealed that South Africa, Israel, and Taiwan among other countries had collaborated with South Africa's nuclear weapons program.

South Africa built and tested an atomic bomb which was detonated out at sea in 1979. Apparently developed a small arsenal which upon the impending end of apartheid, disassembled and destroyed S. Africa's nuclear capability.

ROC aka Taiwan built and tested a small scale nuke about 1980. Taiwan supposedly gave up its program upon pressure by US.

Posted by: whig at March 26, 2021 01:09 PM (pO7gM)

343 Our "allies" have done one hell of a job protecting America and Americans.... said nobody ever.
We are all alone. We have zero allies. They are all in direct opposition to America and Americans.
If we had allies, we would still have a functioning legitimate nation, country, society, and government.

Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:09 PM (xpJpI)

344 This being at work stuff is for the birds. I miss all the fun. That being said, Biden is a poo head.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (XklWu)

345 @abigailmarone

"The president said he thinks the filibuster is a legacy of the Jim Crow era, did he think that... when he defended the filibuster...?z" asks @pdoocy

Peter is way better than his dad....

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (cF8AT)

346 China is one moderate earthquake away form losing a damn that will kill millions of people.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at March 26, 2021 01:03 PM (JUOKG)
........

Joe will hire them for his $3 trillion infrastructure project.
Hunter will be project manager.

Posted by: wth at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (v0R5T)

347 The time machine that ace totally doesn't have is really working overtime today.

Hadrian, that's awesome!

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (GbPPJ)

348 332 324 mo pedophiles enabling in China? ROFL
Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:07 PM (ONvIw)

I meant more the Epstein types, who have a weird symbiosis with China.

Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (0HpOW)

349 In many years of playing co-ed sand volleyball, there was only one woman that could spike the ball down (8' net). And she didn't have a lot of power, but impressive she got over the net. ... Indoor rules in co-ed, men not allowed to jump to spike, had to be flat footed even. ... It is rather obvious of course, and the women were good players ... wonder what their rules are on trannies in the co-ed leagues there now ... (New Orleans, coconut beach)

Posted by: illiniwek at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (Cus5s)

350 32 so Joe Biden has dementia, and it is pretty obvious....
______________

I didn't watch the whole thing, but from the clips I saw it appears that Biden has a lot of trouble maintaining his train of thought. He seems to forget what he was trying to say when he's speaking, and then he starts to ramble to try and cover for the fact that he has forgotten (mid-sentence) what he was trying to say.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (k4dH2)

351 For Japan, it would be even more effortless to develop a nuke.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (7OrCI)

352 339 >> There is not a situation in existence you can't apply to a South Park episode

I've been posting for years that I think the same about King of the Hill.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (2DOZq)

353 Biden doesn't think oil rig workers are legitimate because fossil fuels are icky and evil.

Posted by: zmdavid at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (xqRaG)

354 We are all alone. We have zero allies. They are all in direct opposition to America and Americans.

-- And that's just the White House.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2021 01:11 PM (45fpk)

355 Slowjoe is a national security nightmare. He never should have run. Elder abuse then abuse to the country now.

Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at March 26, 2021 01:11 PM (0OmEj)

356 Taiwan supposedly gave up its program upon pressure by US.
Posted by: whig at March 26, 2021 01:09 PM (pO7gM)

Even better. Then I am certain Taiwan used the Trump Administration to arm up.

Posted by: trev006 at March 26, 2021 01:11 PM (0HpOW)

357 Peter is way better than his dad....
Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (cF8AT)

His dad was funny on the old Drew Carey Show.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 26, 2021 01:11 PM (yQpMk)

358 340 Posted by: Broseidon at March 26, 2021 01:09 PM (aAbfS)

Which one there have been several?

As a Sinophile to the degree I am you have to understand that the Chinese documentary record is near unique as a well of knowledge on whole millennia.

At the end of the day the Chinese can read crop reports from 3,000 years ago.

Western Civ cannot.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:11 PM (Lzpvj)

359 The NeoCon is still strong with conservatives. Fuck that shit.
Have a blessed weekend.

Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:11 PM (xpJpI)

360 And my phone hash looks like the name of the next virus to come along that will cause a REAL pandemic.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2021 01:11 PM (XklWu)

361 He's the first person to ever need a cheat sheet. These are also reporters that he already knows. In other words, people who he has talked to before, in some cases over the last 30 years, he cant remember who they are.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 26, 2021 01:03 PM (h1jJh)

Maybe that elaborate of a cheat sheet but we know Obama used cheat sheets too. He had several "press conferences" where he had a list of reporters to call on. Meaning they had likely done the question submission crap for him too and only approved questions could be asked.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 26, 2021 01:12 PM (zd+V8)

362 99 Look at Jim Eagle just drilling Mother Earth.

You go Jim.

She's a squirter, buddy.

But be careful of those gas pockets!
Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 12:35 PM

Hahaha, I needed a good laugh today. Wow. Love it.

Posted by: Mishdog at March 26, 2021 01:12 PM (cqAUI)

363 My husband hated his tour of China. He food sucked, the people were largely in support of the govt and they wanted more outsourcing coupled with increased immigration here to take corporate positions and academic spots. They were very upfront about it. He spoke with many students and faculty

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:12 PM (ONvIw)

364
Has a women ever directed a truly great film?

Sophia Coppola directed Lost in Translation.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Good film, certainly. Great film... eh. It'll be largely forgotten within 10 years, which if you think about it is kinda the definition of a non-Great film.

The only Great film directed by a woman that I can think of is Triumph of the Will. Probably Olympia as well, but I've never seen that one in its entirety.

Funny thing, the dearth of Great films by women is probably due to Hollywood's long history of refusing to hire women directors. So the patriarchy that they caterwaul about is largely a matter of projection.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 26, 2021 01:13 PM (n+4am)

365 348 weren't hunter's little girl pix from China?

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:13 PM (ONvIw)

366 Nuke Peking
Jdam their caves
Destroy their runways, barracks, and fuel facilities,

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 26, 2021 01:13 PM (oFUlW)

367 President Joseph Biden is so incompetent, he couldn't even beat Trump in an election. Oh, wait...

Posted by: No at March 26, 2021 01:13 PM (HNTBA)

368 Peter is way better than his dad....
Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (cF8AT)

The canned answer is always "he evolved".

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 01:14 PM (vS7Dx)

369 President Joseph Biden is so incompetent, he couldn't even beat Trump in an election.

*touches nose*

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 26, 2021 01:14 PM (yQpMk)

370 Not a fan of Larry David the person...but the guy gets comedy and satire.
Posted by: garrett at March 26, 2021 01:08 PM (yXzmN)

A friend of mine I grew up with married him recently.

Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:14 PM (xpJpI)

371 They screw the lug nuts on by machine so tightly it can be hard for some men-much less women -to get the tires off.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2021 12:44 PM (VP4Cd)

I agree with that. And for me, it's always some bruce banner situation where I'm in the mud and rain and slipping around screwing up my nuckles. Never hulk out though. Unfortunately. Just there jumping up and down on the tire iron.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 26, 2021 12:53 PM (J8bDE)

I had a flat recently had needed to call my roadside number - for my driveway. Even the guy who showed up commented on it because the chrome caps broke off and he had to get the "fancy" toolset.

I had to remind the nephews that I'm not a great person to ask for helping them move furniture. I can't lift it up as high and can't be the front person when we carry it downstairs.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 26, 2021 01:14 PM (fxCK2)

372 People are commodity to China and the donks

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:14 PM (ONvIw)

373 359 Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:11 PM (xpJpI)

You have a great day, and I am not a neocon.

America gets about 25% of its economic power because it is the petrol dollar. Our global power base is why that is. You cannot maintain that power base without alliances.

Look I get it, "baa-baa baad!"

You are going to get your way, of course all it is going to cost is a borderline communist dystopia here.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:14 PM (Lzpvj)

374 I think a woman directed Johnny Dangerously, Vacation, and Fast Times. Maybe even the same one. Amy Heckerling? I don't know.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 26, 2021 01:14 PM (7o4Oo)

375 345 @abigailmarone

"The president said he thinks the filibuster is a legacy of the Jim Crow era, did he think that... when he defended the filibuster...?z" asks @pdoocy

Peter is way better than his dad....
Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (cF8AT)

What party used the filibuster to try to stop the Civil Rights Act? I know Biden knows since his best buddy was Byrd.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 01:14 PM (2DOZq)

376 I have no problem with Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan acquiring nuclear weapons in their own defense if they so choose.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at March 26, 2021 01:14 PM (qpX6U)

377
Who is this Philip Buster?

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 26, 2021 01:15 PM (t6XCL)

378 "filibuster is a legacy of the Jim Crow era"

oh, thanks, I thought it was about voter ID, or maybe it is both. ... Warren just said voter ID law is returning to Jim Crow law ... she must think all blacks are incompetent and need special handling .... which is racist.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 26, 2021 01:15 PM (Cus5s)

379 BIDEN: "There's not a single thing a man can do that a woman can't do as well or better. Not a single thing."

What an incredibly stupid statement. It pretends that if you pick one male out of a crowd and one female out of a crowd, that each one chosen is 100% representative of that particular sex. Absolutely no consideration of the fact that people have different talents, strengths, capabilities, experiences.

Nope. Its like pretending there is only Adam & Eve.

Under any arbitrary demographic distinction you will have those members fall somewhere under the bell curve. In this particular case, the bell curve for men have longer tails than for females, so in cases where there aren't physical limitations (e.g. birthing children), the brightest men in any particular field will perform and execute better than a woman in the top of her demographic. On the other end of the curve, some of the stupidest are males.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 26, 2021 01:15 PM (CPxG5)

380 ROC aka Taiwan built and tested a small scale nuke about 1980. Taiwan supposedly gave up its program upon pressure by US.
Posted by: whig at March 26, 2021 01:09 PM (pO7gM)
---------
Voluntarily giving up their nuclear program has not worked out for any country I know of.

Posted by: zmdavid at March 26, 2021 01:15 PM (xqRaG)

381 What on earth does Boot mean by the rightwing industrial complex? He and his buddies represent the corporate/industrial wing of the right.

Posted by: Northern lurker at March 26, 2021 01:15 PM (lgiXo)

382 Oh yes of course. Little things like democracy and the inherent rights of Man. Attempts to actually end slavery. Mere trivialities next to crop reports.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at March 26, 2021 01:16 PM (7OrCI)

383 363 Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:12 PM (ONvIw)

You have a nation of a billion people who embrace industry as the source of national power that love their ethnicity and their nation taking on....

a nation of self-loathing slackards who are raised to hate industry and think personal economic gain can be gotten by votes.

We are so totally fucked it is hard to put into words.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:16 PM (Lzpvj)

384 Voluntarily giving up their nuclear program has not worked out for any country I know of.
Posted by: zmdavid at March 26, 2021 01:15 PM (xqRaG)

South Africa.

Probably a really good thing they don't have nucs now.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 26, 2021 01:16 PM (oHd/0)

385 Comma La won't be any different than *biden when it comes to press conferences. She's not very bright and will need the answers to any preplanned questions up front. She'll have a cheat sheet too. I expect her to be fawned over by the press even more than *biden.

But history will show they were the bestest prezzy's evah.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 26, 2021 01:16 PM (3H9h1)

386 Regarding Taiwan fighting mainland, one major issue is that China has no demonstrable ability to launch a massive amphibious assault (or airborne for that matter) sufficient to overwhelm defenses.

So, mainland would have to use all sorts of missiles and perhaps aircraft bombings to create a shock and awe situation necessary to overcome resistance BEFORE sending occupational troops.

We also do not know exactly how Taiwan would resist--Taiwan has capable submarines, missiles, aircraft, etc. itself.

We also know that China's military has performed poorly in the recent border clashes with India and when they invaded Vietnam in the late seventies.

Thus, unless you are a defense analyst with access to classified intelligence, pointless speculation rests with whether Taiwan or China would 'win' such a war. China would most prefer a peaceable surrender but we do not know that will happen either nor do we know the reactions of other Asian nations in response. China through its own efforts has basically pissed off every surrounding nation to the extent that traditional enemies now cooperate under the table. What would happen in such an event, no one really knows.

Posted by: whig at March 26, 2021 01:17 PM (pO7gM)

387 It's interesting because back when women did more physical labor, everyone understood that they weren't as strong as men. Now that they do almost no physical labor, everyone pretends they are the same.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 26, 2021 01:17 PM (5HBd1)

388 President Joseph Biden is so incompetent, he couldn't even beat Trump in an election. Oh, wait...

Posted by: No at March 26, 2021 01:13 PM (HNTBA)

I know, right? I particularly enjoyed his campaign rallies. The sight of all those people, overflowing the stands, was inspiring. And you should have seen the turn-out here in Kenosha when he toured the BLM burned out businesses. My gosh, there had to be thousands along the sidewalks. Don't let them tell you there were only eleven. That was a photoshop.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2021 01:17 PM (45fpk)

389 Peter is way better than his dad....

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2021 01:10 PM (cF8AT)---------------No kidding. Steve Doocy has been heading down Biden territory for a while. He can barely mumble a coherent sentence. And thanks, Pixy.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at March 26, 2021 01:17 PM (ptqGC)

390 @Breaking911 45s

NEW: Trump to visit the Mexico-U.S. border "soon" to review the ongoing crisis -Newsweek

*SNORT*

Posted by: Tami at March 26, 2021 01:17 PM (cF8AT)

391 382 Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at March 26, 2021 01:16 PM (7OrCI)

My favorite figure from Chinese antiquity is Cao Cao.

He essentially went from a Cavalry Captain to regent in a mad dash for meritocracy being the path to a better China.

I love this nation as founded on what it was allegedly founded for.

A healthy nation does not hate its founders, you have one is your spare pocket?

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:17 PM (Lzpvj)

392 I have been listening to too many limey podcasts. I read It got a flat recently' as Oh he got a new apartment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at March 26, 2021 01:18 PM (7OrCI)

393 364 Seven Beauties

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:18 PM (ONvIw)

394 Good film, certainly. Great film... eh. It'll be largely forgotten within 10 years, which if you think about it is kinda the definition of a non-Great film.

The problems with defining great cinema this way is:

1. women haven't been directing nearly as long in the numbers men have, so it's just a numbers game more than it is an assessment of women's capabilities.

2. great ends up meaning highly praised films that virtually no contemporary movie viewers have actually watched, which is a peculiar definition of great.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 26, 2021 01:18 PM (H5knJ)

395 I guess Jim Crow is the term of the day. It will be repeated approximately 8 million times.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 26, 2021 01:18 PM (kTF2Z)

396 ROC aka Taiwan built and tested a small scale nuke about 1980. Taiwan supposedly gave up its program upon pressure by US.

I'm guessing that was more a "mouse that roared" thing than an actual nuclear weapons program

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 26, 2021 01:18 PM (KZzsI)

397 380 zmdavid, I would agree but we do not know if the Taiwanese , upon already demonstrated duplicity by the US reneging on its treaty with ROC, basically said screw it, we will disassemble the components but keep them in storage for future use.

Posted by: whig at March 26, 2021 01:18 PM (pO7gM)

398 You are going to get your way, of course all it is going to cost is a borderline communist dystopia here.
Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:14 PM (Lzpvj)

We have had that since at least the 60's. We are used for our blood and treasure and get literally nothing in return. We are merely cattle for our "allies" to use as they wish.

Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:18 PM (xpJpI)

399 Turn the pickle jar upside down and whack it firmly on the counter.
Now open it.
Works with all jars.

Posted by: creeper at March 26, 2021 01:19 PM (XxJt1)

400 Corn Pop > Jim Eagle > Jim Crow

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at March 26, 2021 01:19 PM (ptqGC)

401 >>>I agree with that. And for me, it's always some bruce banner situation where I'm in the mud and rain and slipping around screwing up my nuckles. Never hulk out though. Unfortunately. Just there jumping up and down on the tire iron.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 26, 2021 12:53 PM (J8bDE)
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Cheater pipe: Two foot galvanized pipe just large enough to fit over the end of your lug wrench.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 26, 2021 01:19 PM (oFUlW)

402 > Regarding Taiwan fighting mainland, one major issue is that China has no demonstrable ability to launch a massive amphibious assault (or airborne for that matter) sufficient to overwhelm defenses.
_____________
China is building a massive helicopter base right across the strait from Taiwan. They also have about as many, or more amphibs than our own Navy. They train constantly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 26, 2021 01:19 PM (3H9h1)

403 Jim Crow. Teh KKK. Slavery.

Boy do the Democrats adore ACCUSING with all their own past crimes against humanity.

You wouldn't believe it if it was in a cartoon.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 01:19 PM (vS7Dx)

404 ROC aka Taiwan built and tested a small scale nuke about 1980. Taiwan supposedly gave up its program upon pressure by US.

I'm guessing that was more a "mouse that roared" thing than an actual nuclear weapons program

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 26, 2021 01:18 PM

They did it because of jimmy carter. They thought he was going to abandon them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at March 26, 2021 01:20 PM (JUOKG)

405 Max, go back to Russia. And take that stupid chamber pot on your head with you.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2021 01:20 PM (uJ7Pe)

406 Bonus points if you work "our democracy" into your Jim Crow comment.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 26, 2021 01:20 PM (kTF2Z)

407 women haven't been directing nearly as long in the numbers men have, so it's just a numbers game more than it is an assessment of women's capabilities.

Its possible that what makes a great director is like what it takes to be a great CEO or leader: caustic and damaging personality traits which in this context find a constructive and useful outlet.

In other words, these are terrible things that men tend to be more than women, but are actually useful when channeled in specific directions.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 26, 2021 01:20 PM (KZzsI)

408 Yeah, Taiwan is toast. That said, the Taiwanese are not going to just roll over. As a result, the Chi-Coms are going to nuke it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

The chicoms will want the tech there, and won't be willing to nuke it for spite.

If Taiwan goes down, worldwide silicon manufacture basically stops.

TSMC is Apple and nVidia and AMD... UMC is in Taiwan also. Samsung is in South Korea; they're next if Taiwan goes. That just leaves Intel making anything in quantity at a remotely-modern technology node.

Posted by: mikeski at March 26, 2021 01:20 PM (P1f+c)

409 395. The term must have tested well.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 26, 2021 01:20 PM (MPYg9)

410 In the future they will blame the current day conservatives for 100 million dead from abortion. Book it. They will say the parties "switched".

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (vS7Dx)

411 I'm sure Taiwan knows darn well that neither demented Biden, Commie La or anybody in the Obama Third Term administration will do anything to help them if (when) they are invaded by mainland China, and I trust they are preparing in advance as much as they can.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (VP4Cd)

412 399 Turn the pickle jar upside down and whack it firmly on the counter.
Now open it.
Works with all jars.
Posted by: creeper at March 26, 2021 01:19 PM (XxJt1)
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I tried that.
It worked but there was so much broken glass to pull out of the pickles.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (oFUlW)

413 They did it because of jimmy carter. They thought he was going to abandon them.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at March 26, 2021 01:20 PM (JUOKG)

It's only a matter of time before some Democrat abandons them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (uJ7Pe)

414 So...was this a double blind study? Because I think to make that claim you need one..
Posted by: Obligatory at March 26, 2021 12:58 PM (qlFIA)
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This is one study where you'd be REALLY disappointed if you were assigned to the placebo group.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (sWM8x)

415 383 don't put wings on them, please.

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (ONvIw)

416 390 -

Hopefully he dresses in all white. Brings a bottle of artificial tears.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (XklWu)

417 BERETTA APX 9mm Semi Automatic Pistol 2- 17 Round Magazines; $399; https://bit.ly/39j7NDE

Posted by: bonhomme at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (UW2ZS)

418 I doubt that a genetic human female has ever fertilized a human ovum.

Posted by: Fox2!! at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (9oKed)

419 398 Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:18 PM (xpJpI)

I challenge you to look at America circa 1932 and America 1962 and make the statement that America did not gain from our policies.

We got stupid and we elected stupid people.

Stupidity is its own reward.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (Lzpvj)

420 Max Boot, the embarrassing buffoon who claimed Trump was worse than Stalin. How he shows his face anywhere is a mystery.

Posted by: Cory C at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (neZJ7)

421 402 > Regarding Taiwan fighting mainland, one major issue is that China has no demonstrable ability to launch a massive amphibious assault (or airborne for that matter) sufficient to overwhelm defenses.
_____________
China is building a massive helicopter base right across the strait from Taiwan. They also have about as many, or more amphibs than our own Navy. They train constantly.
Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 26, 2021 01:19 PM (3H9h1)

Taiwan is pretty fortified and is ready for them. Amphibious assault would be a bloodbath. Makes much more sense to just put Taiwan under blockade if they can be assured the US won't intervene.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at March 26, 2021 01:22 PM (Zm+LZ)

422 Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 26, 2021 01:16 PM (3H9h1)

Did you say Kamala? Or Barack?

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 01:22 PM (vS7Dx)

423 Cocoa Pebbles > Corn Pop > Jim Eagle > Jim Crow

Posted by: wth at March 26, 2021 01:22 PM (v0R5T)

424
President Joseph Biden is so incompetent, he couldn't even beat Trump in an election. Oh, wait...
Posted by: No at March 26, 2021 01:13 PM (HNTBA)

Joseph Biden?
Never heard of him.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 26, 2021 01:22 PM (t6XCL)

425 Cheater pipe: Two foot galvanized pipe just large enough to fit over the end of your lug wrench.
Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast

Can confirm. It's also helpful for getting the blade off your lawn mower.

Posted by: mikeski at March 26, 2021 01:22 PM (P1f+c)

426 Taiwan is doomed but not because of nukes. I outlined the way to do it a few days ago, its an island. You just lock out all their trade and contact with the outside world and besiege them until they're eating each other.

As Taiwan starves and dies into submission, the world will post on twitter with sad hashtags and talk about how terrible it is. There might even be a UN resolution.

But nobody will fight or die to save Taiwan any more than they did Hong Kong. Or any other nation that China decides to take over.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 26, 2021 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

427 No, but it does not change the fact that they are a monstrous government. Saying our is no better does not change that. That we can argue that here, freely, while we could not in that communist history rich paradise says we still have one or two things going for us.

Hey, I can also say: remember the Tiananmen Square massacre. Those communist thugs were pretty ducking brutal towards those freedom loving dissidents. Boy did they kill a lot of their own people for simply wanting a say in their own governance.

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at March 26, 2021 01:23 PM (7OrCI)

428 This is one study where you'd be REALLY disappointed if you were assigned to the placebo group.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (sWM8x)

Or as I call it, Friday Night.

Posted by: ... at March 26, 2021 01:23 PM (vS7Dx)

429 Lina Wertmuller is a great director

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:23 PM (ONvIw)

430 Joe Biden is so smart and handsome and tough!

Posted by: Totally Not Joe Biden at March 26, 2021 01:24 PM (vS7Dx)

431 You are going to get your way, of course all it is going to cost is a borderline communist dystopia here.
Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:14 PM (Lzpvj)
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We're getting that anyway, regardless of geopolitical developments. The communist dystopia is not a result of international failures or fracturing alliances. It may be the cause of those things, but it is not the outcome.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 26, 2021 01:24 PM (Jsjd7)

432
You have a nation of a billion people who embrace industry as the source of national power that love their ethnicity and their nation taking on....

a nation of self-loathing slackards who are raised to hate industry and think personal economic gain can be gotten by votes.

We are so totally fucked it is hard to put into words.
Posted by: sven

Actually, China is a nation of about 400 million rapacious industrial workers and ruthless Han supremacists... and a billion illiterate peasants who shit in ditches and still farm using beasts of burden.

Your description of the US is spot on though.

We're still massively fucked, but not quite as badly as one might think.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 26, 2021 01:24 PM (n+4am)

433 Why don't idiots like Boot and Rubin take a shot at rationality--just for shits and giggles?

Posted by: Northern lurker at March 26, 2021 01:24 PM (lgiXo)

434 what's worse ?

favoritism or racism

Posted by: REDACTED at March 26, 2021 01:24 PM (6iURM)

435 BERETTA APX 9mm Semi Automatic Pistol 2- 17 Round Magazines; $399; https://bit.ly/39j7NDE
Posted by: bonhomme at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (UW2ZS)

That's a really good deal.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Marcus Brasswang at March 26, 2021 01:24 PM (ifmtJ)

436 Dementia Joe had as much to do with winning the election as he did with writing up his notebook of cheat sheets. He had all those pictures ... they should have given him just the people in the room, and had it mapped out according to where they were sitting. All those faces on the sheet shown ... seemed like more than were in the room ... maybe they want him to look confused, so they can move along to Kamala.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 26, 2021 01:24 PM (Cus5s)

437 420. He can't help it,his inner tikun olam socialist need to be free.

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:25 PM (ONvIw)

438 426 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 26, 2021 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

Which applies just as assuredly to cities.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:25 PM (Lzpvj)

439 Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 26, 2021 01:16 PM (3H9h1)

Did you say Kamala? Or Barack?
__________

Holding a press conference...? Comma La. She'll need the same prep as *biden.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at March 26, 2021 01:25 PM (3H9h1)

440 Good film, certainly. Great film... eh. It'll be largely forgotten within 10 years, which if you think about it is kinda the definition of a non-Great film.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 26, 2021 01:13 PM (n+4am)

Lost in Translation came out in 2003.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at March 26, 2021 01:25 PM (GbPPJ)

441 When I was a feminist years ago I didn't even believe women could do everything just as well as men do; I just felt that they should be paid the same amount of money if they did the same work, but work pay is often related to taking time out fo child care which places the woman on a lower pay increase schedule because you've been out of the workplace, which is understandable.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2021 12:34 PM (VP4Cd)

Thomas Sowell's "Basic Economics" should be taught in every high school. But, we all know why it hasn't and won't happen.

Posted by: Mainah at March 26, 2021 01:25 PM (B+qrE)

442 Taiwanese, identify themselves as Taiwanese not Chinese.

They are like Texas where they had many different influences in the past like Texas had six different flags.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 26, 2021 01:25 PM (ruftb)

443 But nobody will fight or die to save Taiwan any more than one they did Hong Kong. Or any other nation that China decides to take over.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 26, 2021 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

Don't necessarily disagree about Taiwan but Hong Kong was handed over by treaty.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 26, 2021 01:25 PM (2DOZq)

444 434 they are related

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:25 PM (ONvIw)

445 CRT, Nuclear weapons are not particularly difficult to make if you have the engineering talent that Taiwan does, it is the necessity for the material to do so. Taiwan had and has its own nuclear reactors so has multiple ways to achieve it.

South Africa used a unique vortex nuclear enrichment to make theirs, most use either breeder reactions to make plutonium or use centrifuges to separate the fissionable U235 from the non fissionable uranium isotopes. There is some evidence that Taiwan and South Africa exchanged technical knowledge as well as perhaps materials. South Africa also had exchanged materials with Israel and knowledge back to S. Africa was part of the exchange.

So we get into the murky world where there is clandestine assistance among the smaller nuclear powers that have reason to doubt the nuclear umbrella of the US. Japan is also thought able to make nuclear weapons, perhaps in as few as a couple of months if not weeks.

3-5 nuclear weapons does not sound like much, but are probably very easy for any country with fissionables and working reactors to make in short order. That number of nukes could easily destroy a major part of China's economy if deployed.

Posted by: whig at March 26, 2021 01:25 PM (pO7gM)

446 425 Cheater pipe: Two foot galvanized pipe just large enough to fit over the end of your lug wrench.
Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast

why galvy ??

Posted by: REDACTED at March 26, 2021 01:25 PM (6iURM)

447 I tried that.
It worked but there was so much broken glass to pull out of the pickles.
Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (oFUlW)
It's a fine line between cracking the seal and breaking the jar. It's best to sneak up on it.

Posted by: creeper at March 26, 2021 01:26 PM (XxJt1)

448 and a billion illiterate peasants who shit in ditches and still farm using beasts of burden.
........

Sounds like the Green New Deal.

Posted by: wth at March 26, 2021 01:26 PM (v0R5T)

449 Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:16 PM (Lzpvj)

My dad speaks 6 languages, made rank of Major in the Army, 1st 5th 9th Special Forced for almost a decade, One-Zero of his team, served fighting in SE Asia and South and Central America. He has a plot reserved at Arlington and and was put up for the Medal of Honor among countless other decorations.
He says the Chinese are animals without souls. He hates them.
I'll take his word over anybody because he dealt with them face to face for almost 7 years. Also, openly run concentration camps and organ harvest and eat fetuses as a delicacy.
Fuck China. The World would be better off if they vanished without a trace.

Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:26 PM (xpJpI)

450 Have I been entirely deprived of line spacing?
Test.

Posted by: creeper at March 26, 2021 01:27 PM (XxJt1)

451 Yup.

Posted by: creeper at March 26, 2021 01:27 PM (XxJt1)

452 I don't have svens admiration for China. A country that runs concentration camps and rape gangs is not one that gets the 'but their history and art' treatment. That is also leaving out the Cultural Revolution.

Some people jerk-off to slaughtering 120-200 million people over an ideology, then butchering babies for generations with a one-child policy.

Everyone has their kink. sven loves death, slavery and misery.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 26, 2021 01:27 PM (CPxG5)

453 men were a sure lot better than girls at building America. Girls pretty good tho at turning America into a shithole

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 26, 2021 01:27 PM (SoQh3)

454 Lonesome Dove author Larry McMurtry dead at age 84

Posted by: Jen the original at March 26, 2021 01:27 PM (MPYg9)

455 449 a vicious culture

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:27 PM (ONvIw)

456 Turn the pickle jar upside down and whack it firmly on the counter.
Now open it.
Works with all jars.
Posted by: creeper at March 26, 2021

***

Bang the edge of the lid with a strong metal implement, like an old butter knife, all around -- maybe 10 strikes. It breaks the vacuum seal up and allows you to get the lid off.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 26, 2021 01:27 PM (/XOcP)

457 There's long distance swimming you bunch of misogynistic h8rs.

(runs away sobbing when shown that long distance swimming records are held by men)

Posted by: Lysenko -Official dot gov Wyoming COVID vaccination card link, should be 4.25x3.5 at March 26, 2021 01:27 PM (bm04m)

458 His family name is Boot because that much shit don't fit in a slipper. He beats Orcaberg by fucking kilometers.

Posted by: America at March 26, 2021 01:27 PM (FISVQ)

459 The cheat sheet Biden used reminds me of when I was playing in an orchestra and we had a visiting conductor. During rehearsal, the visiting conductor would address us all by first name and we were all suitably impressed at his ability to memorize us by name, since there were about forty of us.
Then I saw the seating chart, "Trumpet 1, Bob", "Clarinet 2, Janet", etc.

Posted by: navybrat, proudly in plaid. at March 26, 2021 01:28 PM (w7KSn)

460 352 339 >> There is not a situation in existence you can't apply to a South Park episode

I've been posting for years that I think the same about King of the Hill.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

And Monty Python.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 26, 2021 01:28 PM (2OsU/)

461 nood taters

Posted by: Lysenko -Official dot gov Wyoming COVID vaccination card link, should be 4.25x3.5 at March 26, 2021 01:28 PM (bm04m)

462 The Biden cabal is not going to let President Trump visit the border.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 26, 2021 01:28 PM (VP4Cd)

463 Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:26 PM (xpJpI)

Your father sounds like a wonderful man. And I agree with your sentiments regarding the utter depravity of the Chinese regime.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 26, 2021 01:29 PM (45fpk)

464 I challenge you to look at America circa 1932 and America 1962 and make the statement that America did not gain from our policies.

We got stupid and we elected stupid people.

Stupidity is its own reward.
Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:21 PM (Lzpvj)

I have and we haven't. Nothing but knives in the back and the front.

Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:29 PM (xpJpI)

465 263 I guess they finally jumped the shark on Rush's program. I just tuned
in and thought I was listening to small town radio with Aunt Mable
sharing her carrot cake recipe.

This is not national broadcast worthy material.
have i told you about my favorite meatballs?

Posted by: Michael Savage at March 26, 2021 01:30 PM (sGtp+)

466 My dad speaks 6 languages,
Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:26 PM (xpJpI)

your dad is a polyglot

Posted by: REDACTED at March 26, 2021 01:30 PM (6iURM)

467 427 Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at March 26, 2021 01:23 PM (7OrCI)

You are attempting to corner me into the defense of a regime I hate and have little use for-"No."

Our nation is "worse" in the sense that as founded and when cleaving to the mission of the spread of individual liberty we are making insane decisions at home and abroad-We are a good person doing bad metaphorically.

The modern Chinese state is a loathsome cabal of authoritarians that are cleaving to their mission of Han and Marxist supremacy using the capitalist economic engine as a mechanism to gain political hegemony-They are an evil person making "good" decisions on some topics.

That I cannot honestly envision a scenario where America as now rendered can offer any resistance or alternative to Chinese hegemony does not mean I am thrilled or desirous of that outcome.

The Chinese may use our military as cannon fodder to engage in unpopular policy that will be the limit of our power, I hate that with every fiber of my being.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:30 PM (Lzpvj)

468 why galvy ??
Posted by: REDACTED at March 26, 2021 01:25 PM (6iURM)
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Clean.
No Rust.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 26, 2021 01:30 PM (oFUlW)

469 If you wanna talk nukes, don't forget the electric magnetic shock wave for the whole family.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 26, 2021 01:30 PM (ruftb)

470 If women can do everything better, then they've been a complete disappointment.

Posted by: Fedup at March 26, 2021 01:31 PM (68ya+)

471 458 his dad is the satirist

Posted by: CN at March 26, 2021 01:31 PM (ONvIw)

472 Have I been entirely deprived of line spacing?

Posted by: creeper at March 26, 2021 01:27 PM (XxJt1)

Three carriage returns should do it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 26, 2021 01:31 PM (Q9lwr)

473 CRT, That supposes that China does not cut its own throat. Remember Taiwan does have very capable submarines that will essentially make the S. China Sea a no go area for commercial traffic. Ditto as being an unsinkable aircraft and missile base.

China is very reliant on imports for oil, food, and in order to export. Taiwan starves, China will starve, no oil for Taiwan, no oil for China.

Simply put, strategies that look good on paper rarely work out in the real world and that is because of second and third order effects.

My personal guess if China plans to take Taiwan, it would be through a shock and awe massive missile attack perhaps augmented by aircraft designed to destroy the Taiwanese military bases and assets. Then China would threaten Taiwanese civilians with massive deaths unless Taiwan capitulates immediately. Same strategy as Hitler used against Great Britain--Hitler, nor the German Navy really wanted anything to do with actually amphibious invasions. Sea Lion was mainly more useful as a threat than an actuality.

Posted by: whig at March 26, 2021 01:32 PM (pO7gM)

474 464 Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:29 PM (xpJpI)

That is what being "world cop" is comrade.

You think the UK if we anthropomorphized nations was not chuckling after WW2 when we looked at her eagerly and said "Mommy I am gonna do your job better than you I promise!" did not chuckle wryly as they ceded their top dog status?

We made gain through our hurts, and we will hurt because of our losses that are coming.

Life is pain.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:32 PM (Lzpvj)

475 But nobody will fight or die to save Taiwan any more than they did Hong Kong. Or any other nation that China decides to take over.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 26, 2021 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

Even a starving Taiwanese general can probably muster up enough energy to press the "Launch All" button on the nuclear missile console.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2021 01:33 PM (mzC78)

476 Immigrants want to come here because Slow Joe is "nice."

What is Yamiche smoking I wonder.

Honestly that's your question?

Posted by: blaster at March 26, 2021 01:33 PM (w2z2p)

477 454 Posted by: Jen the original at March 26, 2021 01:27 PM (MPYg9)

Yeah after him sh*tting on Woodrow Call in Streets of Laredo I quit reading....

Rest in Peace naytheless

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:34 PM (Lzpvj)

478 Jim Eagle to the rescue, Jim Eagle to the rescue. Go Jim Eagle! Go Jim Eagle!

Posted by: Archer at March 26, 2021 01:34 PM (gmo/4)

479 Taiwan is pretty fortified and is ready for them. Amphibious assault would be a bloodbath. Makes much more sense to just put Taiwan under blockade if they can be assured the US won't intervene.

What US? There is no US. It went away January 6th.

Who in Hell is going to make the order to do anything with Taiwan? Which bureaucrat has an unchallenged open check book to the Treasury and authority over the Democratic Party Military?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 26, 2021 01:34 PM (CPxG5)

480 I am not trying to corner you at all. I am not trying to tell you how to argue, I am merely arguing my side (good naturedly, for my part.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD personal phone at March 26, 2021 01:36 PM (7OrCI)

481 452 Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 26, 2021 01:27 PM (CPxG5)

Yeah that is me.

I was not the one raging about the Uighurs back in 2015 when the idiocy ramped up, pointing out that Cheng Jianbin was in a horrid position being an ethnic Uighur.

You got me.

Let's all rage on Assyria a while.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:36 PM (Lzpvj)

482 Don't necessarily disagree about Taiwan but Hong Kong was handed over by treaty.

Remember "China is asshoe"? That was when Communist China decided to break its deal and just take over Hong Kong to end its basically autonomous, capitalist status.

Even the Trump administration crossed its arms and watched.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 26, 2021 01:36 PM (KZzsI)

483 It would be necessary for the Russians to assist the Chinese hunting Taiwanese Subs. Without that happening Taiwan could lay siege on China.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 26, 2021 01:37 PM (oFUlW)

484 BTW, Hong Kong was indefensible when the Japanese took in WWII and became more indefensible when all its new water supply was controlled by Mainland China. Not the same situation as islands in the middle of a sea.
Singapore was also indefensible once the Japanese took the Malay peninsula. Big difference between a short hop with artillery coverage to an island off an peninsula compared with open ocean operations.

The US with all its sea and air might at the time hammering the Japanese, had a very nasty time taking Okinawa. The Brits did not have an easy time retaking the Falklands versus an inferior Argentinian force. Amphibious assaults are difficult things and require both land and air supremacy along with sufficient logistics and EXPERIENCE in doing so.

Posted by: whig at March 26, 2021 01:38 PM (pO7gM)

485 449 Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:26 PM (xpJpI)

Hats off to your dad, you do understand that the people he and I both work for have made up their minds to empower and allow what those animals do?

I live in reality, I hate this reality but it is the one I have been dealt.

Everything you hate about China is likely coming here in the next 50 years bank on it.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:39 PM (Lzpvj)

486 Even the Trump administration crossed its arms and watched.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 26, 2021 01:36 PM (KZzsI)
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When the Pentagram's Chiefs of Staff are lying to you and disobeying orders it's difficult to depend on them.

Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast at March 26, 2021 01:40 PM (oFUlW)

487 Even a starving Taiwanese general can probably muster up enough energy to press the "Launch All" button on the nuclear missile console.

Assuming they have any. And besides, China can afford to lose a billion people and still outnumber every nation on earth but India.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 26, 2021 01:40 PM (KZzsI)

488 Ill know shit is bad when they open Ft Indiantown Gap agsin.

Posted by: America at March 26, 2021 01:40 PM (FISVQ)

489 425 Cheater pipe: Two foot galvanized pipe just large enough to fit over the end of your lug wrench.
Posted by: Braenyard, starving the beast

why galvy ??
Posted by: REDACTED at March 26, 2021 01:25 PM (6iURM)

If you are dealing with the typical factory-supplied lug wrench that has the "handle" set at about a 110 degree angle to the stub with the socket, a cheater bar only helps a little, mainly by rounding off the nut. Unless your particular car has exceptionally jack and tire tools provided, you are better off buying real tools to replace them. Because flat tires usually happen at inopportune times and places. and Emergency Road Service may already have a queue...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2021 01:41 PM (mzC78)

490 Even a starving Taiwanese general can probably muster up enough energy to press the "Launch All" button on the nuclear missile console.

And then we'd be treated to 50 movies and books and TV shows about the sad, nuked Chinese and how they were attacked mercilessly by the evil capitalists of Taipei.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 26, 2021 01:41 PM (KZzsI)

491 My God the NYT article I read this morning on the Biden drool-conference bore no resemblance to the video of the reality. It could have been written from his crib-sheets dropped on the floor when he walked off, and probably was!

We need to start raising hell about the Democrats' criminal negligence and fraud in posing this fool as our President! GOP elected officials wake up and do your damn phoney-baloney jobs!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 26, 2021 01:42 PM (hV/eT)

492 We made gain through our hurts, and we will hurt because of our losses that are coming.

Life is pain.
Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:32 PM (Lzpvj)

What gains? Who gained the most. Not America or Americans that's for sure. Now if our "allies" had repaid us for our sacrifices as a nation that would be different, but they have not and only continue to rob, steal, betray, and think of America as one large farm of cattle for wars and profit and resources to use for themsleves and sell to our enemies like China.
You never cut off your nose despite for sure.
But please continue about how awesome the trade off has been.

Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:42 PM (xpJpI)

493 JIM CROW SHIT MY PANTS.

Posted by: JIM EAGLE at March 26, 2021 01:43 PM (Uh2oA)

494 My God the NYT article I read this morning on the Biden drool-conference bore no resemblance to the video of the reality. It could have been written from his crib-sheets dropped on the floor when he walked off, and probably was!

Yeah, between this and the election steal, the elites have gone into full "who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes" mode. They're ordering everyone to not heed what they can clearly see for themselves.

Sign this loyalty pledge, businesses. Wouldn't want banks to stop doing business with you, or people to stop carrying your advertising, or social media to block you, would you? It would be a real shame if you got audited every year.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 26, 2021 01:44 PM (KZzsI)

495 492 Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:42 PM (xpJpI)

We are or were the largest most robust economy in the world from ~ 1939 to 2009.

That is not "nothing."

Like I said, relax your isolationism is winning.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:44 PM (Lzpvj)

496 Everything you hate about China is likely coming here in the next 50 years bank on it.
Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:39 PM (Lzpvj)

It's been here since Nixon normalized relations with China while we fought a proxy war against China via Vietnam.

Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:44 PM (xpJpI)

497 And then we'd be treated to 50 movies and books and TV shows about the sad, nuked Chinese and how they were attacked mercilessly by the evil capitalists of Taipei.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 26, 2021 01:41 PM (KZzsI)

So the Taiwanese should just roll over, and let China march in? How about Israel?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 26, 2021 01:45 PM (mzC78)

498 Remember the Alamo ,is not just a vindictive statement, it is revenge lead revenge more lead.

The End.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at March 26, 2021 01:46 PM (ruftb)

499 496 Posted by: Based Billy Ocean at March 26, 2021 01:44 PM (xpJpI)

I must have missed out on the slave labor camps, and the organ harvesting farms. That said I was 2 years old when Nixon left office, maybe I did miss them. You think you are grim faced about China comrade?

I am grim faced about China, I can foresee a day when every bit of their insanity is here and vouched as "the only sensible way to be" having been indoctrinated into the next generation of students by the bought American educrat establishment.

We are heading to Huxley's trappings with Orwell's morals.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:48 PM (Lzpvj)

500 CRT, the question is what does China gain from launching an assault versus the risks. That is where it becomes opaque to outsiders. Effectively taking Taiwan by military force will make China an immediate adversary of surrounding nations. It will definitely make it very difficult for MNC's to continue doing business with China plus the ancillary decay of trade, etc.

China has also now passed its demographic peak and estimates of TFR of 1.4 to even 1.0 are being bandied about which will cause a historic depopulation of China versus its neighbors.

So, the answer is what can China gain from actually taking Taiwan. To some extent it would be technology but that would be a short term gain. It won't gain much in any resources other than perhaps fishing. It would gain a military base in the ocean to push out its defensive perimeter (shades of Japanese strategy in WWII) but at a Pyrrhic cost most probably to its economy.
However, as a uniting patriotic theme, insisting that Taiwan is part of China works to distract Chinese from increasing problems on the ground, it also works in keeping the West and other Asian countries guessing about strategy while building its military.

Posted by: whig at March 26, 2021 01:48 PM (pO7gM)

501 Atlanta wannabe armed to the teeth mass shooter is guess what color.

See my shocked face.

And when are women gonna be better at being lone mass shooter gunmen than men. Or political assasins...Waiting....

Posted by: torabora at March 26, 2021 01:49 PM (IC04I)

502
Great films are over-rated.

Posted by: Ida Lupino at March 26, 2021 01:52 PM (LilNs)

503 Without Lonesome Dove could we ever have had a Brokeback Mountain?

Posted by: torabora at March 26, 2021 01:52 PM (IC04I)

504 500 Posted by: whig at March 26, 2021 01:48 PM (pO7gM)

China's demographic hole strikes me as being a motive to "take back" Formosa and exert more control over the NorKos in some thinking.

They would likely literally take the women, it is not like they did not tip their hand on it with the Uighurs.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:52 PM (Lzpvj)

505 The US isn't competitive with China, in realistic terms. Shit, Zimbabwe could probably pose a realistic threat to us, if they wanted. This is a zombie Republic shambling along in no particular direction, and as an imperial power, nobody takes us seriously, and they're right not to.

But I think China will have some bad problems dealing with all those real countries who surround them, hate them, and aren't weak, unserious laughingstocks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 26, 2021 01:52 PM (Uh2oA)

506 503 Posted by: torabora at March 26, 2021 01:52 PM (IC04I)

That is a charming thought.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:52 PM (Lzpvj)

507 In 20 years that huge Chi nese military is all going to want its retirement and they will have produced nothing.

Posted by: torabora at March 26, 2021 01:54 PM (IC04I)

508 507 Posted by: torabora at March 26, 2021 01:54 PM (IC04I)

Their retirement bennies are being increased as they reduce the size of their force. They are reducing the size of their force because they are focused on motorizing it and building a better combined arms doctrine. The military produces global power and deterrence.

Those things do not just magically happen.

Posted by: sven at March 26, 2021 01:57 PM (Lzpvj)

509 Willowed, I know, but it would be relatively easy to blockade oil and LNG imports to China. Russia could make up most of the difference, but it would cost.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 26, 2021 02:02 PM (olbr4)

510 sven,
It is always difficult to predict exactly what a single decisionmaker will do, worse if it is a committee. Xi could simply want Taiwan as a marker of his regime's success and it appears that he has become a virtual emperor instead of rule by committee. That also has its downside, a failure would probably have Xi dead in a ditch. The Chinese military has not been in a prolonged conflict since Vietnam so it is unclear how it would perform in action. The US had numbers in WWII, but still performed rather poorly in North Africa and only somewhat better in Sicily. China has no blue water experience as a Navy and often very well equipped navies, like Germany or Russia, that lacked the experience of open water conflicts do poorly as well. Japan and Britain did well because their islands and people depended on shipping and trade. Germany and Russia (and China for that matter) are traditional land powers, not sea, and thus lack the incentive and motivation that land forces possess in those countries.
5 G war is even more difficult to project as it includes the economy, scientific advancement, finances, effects on world public opinion, etc. as up for grabs in a conflict.

Posted by: whig at March 26, 2021 02:09 PM (pO7gM)

511 The press conference was as crisp as the crease on O's trousers.

Just the kind of thing that preoccupies the Boots.

Posted by: Harlock at March 26, 2021 02:57 PM (QsydA)

512 No wonder those guys from Odessa Permian beat us like rented red-haired step dogs every single time we played them...

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at March 26, 2021 04:04 PM (MkuC5)

513 I don't know what the guy in that video is doing, but I could watch him do it all day long.

Posted by: NavyMom at March 26, 2021 05:27 PM (EYMQq)

514 Looking at the oil worker video, I wouldn't want that job. Even if I was young enough to apply, I wouldn't.

I wonder what the work place injury rate is, and how many digits some of them don't have anymore.

Posted by: Dwayne at March 26, 2021 05:36 PM (gtu/X)

515 Zhou Bai-Dan: Our first Disney Animatronics president.

Posted by: Ennis at March 26, 2021 08:52 PM (kvuJr)

516 In my youth I did some very rough jobs, digging ditches, manning a paint mask washing station, unloading Bumpers for a bumper line and running a paint anodizing line.
I unloaded and loaded trucks with everything from rigid conduit to frozen hams.

I never worked along side a woman doing the same job, because they wouldn't and couldn't.

Posted by: obsidian at March 27, 2021 10:34 AM (7+yqP)

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