The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 6/7/21

Good morning kids. Monday and first up is Joe Manchin's coming out yesterday and declaring his opposition to both nuking the filibuster and this H.R. 1 "For the People" Act that would effectively let Democrats rig our elections forever. At best, Joe Manchin's ethics are situational. Remember that SOTU speech a few years back when he rose to applaud Trump, then quickly sat down on his hands after catching a death-stare from Pelosi or Schumer or some other Commie toilet attendant. Way to be strong and independent, Joe. I get it that he's a Democrat from a red state, which in and of itself makes no sense at all especially with the changes to our culture and politics over the past 10-20 years. But something else is afoot that I don't quite understand. And that goes for the senator from Kinky Boots, Kyrsten Sinema, who seems to be of the same mindset as Manchin.

Meh, maybe it's just kabuki-bukkake theater; they'll take a principled stand while Pee Air Defecto and the Alaskan Snow Blower do the cross-the-aisle reach-around and take their place to pass the bills. Still, attempting to throw a pretty big monkey wrench into the dreams and schemes of the Kalorama Klown Konsortium could put a figurative target (and even a literal one, all things considered) on Manchin's and Sinema's heads courtesy of the Maoists now seizing control of the party. Then again, AZ and WV are not as far-left perhaps as NY and CA. It's why Cuck Schemer Schumer nodded along with Titty Caca AOC as she declared fewer prisons would decrease crime. As one commenter noted late Friday morning, by that logic, we should build fewer hospitals and maybe kill off all the doctors in order to cure all disease. Winning.

Anyway, there are a couple of other things that jumped out at me as I was wading through the sewage yesterday and this morning. While the Democrat Propaganda Complex attempts to both protect the image of Dr. Sigmoid Fraud, aka Anthony Fauci and thereby protect whatever credibility it has with the low-information crowd, and at the same time let him exit the scene quietly, the implications of the Chinese Coronavirus and its origins specifically from that Wuhan biological research lab are looming dangerously large.

In an exclusive story at RedState, Jen Van Laar reports that sources inside the intelligence community say a high-ranking defector from China has been working for months with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). According to Van Laar's confidential sources, that high-ranking defector claims to have knowledge of special weapons programs in China -- that include bioweapons...
..."In DIA's assessment, the information provided by the defector is legitimate," wrote Van Laar. "Sources say the level of confidence in the defector's information is what has led to a sudden crisis of confidence in Dr. Anthony Fauci, adding that U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) personnel detailed to DIA have corroborated very technical details of information provided by the defector."
All of this raises many questions. Why, "suddenly," did the U.S. legacy media en masse turn-tail and start pointing fingers at China and doubting Fauci? Why did left-wing outlets like the Washington Post and BuzzFeed "suddenly" decide it was the right time to drop Fauci's emails -- just days after the lab-leak story was "suddenly" no longer verboten on social media? Fauci's emails revealed what we've been reporting here at PJ Media for months (mostly behind the paywall for our VIP subscribers to avoid the Gestapo social-media censors): that Fauci was working with a Chinese scientist from the Wuhan lab; that he asked Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg to help with COVID messaging; and that he signed off on funding for dangerous gain-of-function research in Wuhan...
...If any of this turns out to be true -- particularly the suggestion that China may have intentionally unleashed the most deadly bioweapon in world history -- you might want to begin thinking about where you're going to spend the U.S.-Sino War. If, as Housley claims, the FBI, CIA, and other federal agencies are swarming with Chinese spies, it would constitute the biggest national security failure in U.S. history -- and the most deadly.
The implications are terrifying.

Forget "the FBI, CIA, and other federal agencies are swarming with Chinese spies" as "the biggest national security failure in U.S. history." That distinction belongs to the individual currently and fraudulently occupying the Oval Office, Joe Biden. You can throw in for sure Clinton and probably Obama. The Bushies giving the Mongoloids most favored nation trading status and a seat at the WTO surely did not help matters either. It is now readily apparent to those who have removed the face diaper from their eyes that not only did this virus originate in China, as was known on day 1, but that it did not occur naturally in some medieval wet market trading in pangolins, lemurs, dogs and Lord knows what else, but was intentionally manufactured in a biological research laboratory in Wuhan. And the nature of that laboratory was and is weapons research.

Given all of that, the big question is was this virus accidentally released or was it released on purpose? And if the latter, why? By the fall of 2019 when news of a pandemic in China started making the news, President-in-Exile Trump despite all the slings and arrows of obstruction and sabotage thrown at him had achieved the greatest economic boom in American history, had put a serious dent in the Chi-Com economy vis a vis ending suicidal trade and tariff regimes and was effectively confronting them on their imperialist designs on the South China Seas and elsewhere. Meanwhile, Hong Kong and other provinces less well-covered in the media were seriously defying Peking, and the Chinese economy itself had serious problems. Meanwhile the Democrat Party, the PRC's political soul-mates, was parading around an anti-American freak show of 20 candidates vying to see who would draw the short straw to get his/her/xer ass kicked in a landslide by Trump, who looked unstoppable especially after the New Year's present of taking out Iran's #1 terrorist mastermind. And then, as if by magic...

In purely biological terms, the virus itself is marginally more deadly than common flu especially in people most vulnerable to viral infections of the lungs. But, there were and are numerous therapeutic treatments available to alleviate symptoms obviating the need for a vaccine. Yet it was the fear of this that was weaponized by the Left, here and abroad, to grind to a halt the great reversal that Globalism had suffered because of Trump and those who believe in national sovereignty and independence elsewhere.

Cui bono? If this was deliberate, it was an act of war. The problem here, as this article illustrates is that those who are supposed to be in charge of our defense have acted and are acting in league with the aggressor nation that perpetrated this attack. You can go off on all sorts of tangents from here most notably the fate of Taiwan as well as the ramping up of repression of political opposition here at home. This is why Fauci has got to have his reputation preserved while at the same time having him depart the scene as quickly and quietly as possible, if possible. "I'm not saying it's aliens, but" don't be surprised to see more stories about alien encounters or, more likely, yet another shooting of an innocent black youth at the hands of white supremacist cops. Even better, another staged Reichstag Fire to distract the masses. Oh look: Trump has dementia because Tom Friedman claims he wore his pants backwards!!!

And that brings me to something I had wanted to not let slip by. Yesterday was the 77th anniversary of the D-Day landings, the start of "the great crusade" to liberate Europe from Nazi tyranny. And yet...

While Hitler lost, America didn't necessarily win. Socialism survived in the Soviet Union, China, Latin America, Africa, and Europe (in a soft form), and it is aggressively alive on American college campuses. Because the battle rages un, let us remember what it was that our Greatest Generation fought and died for, from the deserts of North Africa and the beaches of Normandy to the gates of Berlin:
The freedom of Jews to live their lives in peace without fear of persecution or violence in the streets.
The freedom from violence by Brownshirts who would terrorize and beat our citizens into submission.
Peace and freedom from the pillaging and blitzkrieg of our great American cities by evil forces...
...A government that does not politically weaponize its many institutions against We The People.
A government that does not seek to disarm its law-abiding citizens and make fighting tyranny infeasible.
A government that does not seek to turn our Armed Forces into a politicized paramilitary wing.
In 1945, we Americans believed that we had established those principles. Now, in 2021, we must ask ourselves, how has all that been working out so far? It was a nice run, anyway. Who saves us from tyranny?

After Veep Throat Harris tweeted "enjoy the long weekend!" without thinking the cost in lives, blood and treasure and the significance of that "long weekend," Joe Biden said nothing - not one fucking word - about the significance of what happened on June 6th 77 years ago.

What did Biden do? Make a speech about Tulsa and spit out bile about how racist and evil America is. I can't even...

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Roger Kimball: "The Chinese are keen to brush the historical reality of what happened in 1989 under the rug. Don't let them."
Remember Tiananmen Square
"One gets the sense that a dam the size of Three Gorges on the Yangtze River is about to blow. The question will be, as it almost is when political figures are caught in a coverup: What did they know and when did they know it? And who knew what was really going on? If any of this turns out to be true -- particularly the suggestion that China may have intentionally unleashed the most deadly bioweapon in world history -- you might want to begin thinking about where you're going to spend the U.S.-Sino War."
REPORT: High-Ranking Chinese Defector Working With DIA Has "Direct Knowledge" of China's Bioweapons Program -- And It's Very Bad
"How the left is trying to criminalize conservatism."
An Invented Insurrection
Victor Davis Hanson: "In their uncontrolled aversion and detestation, Trump haters suspended all the rules of empiricism, logic, and rationality -- and people died as a result."
The Lethal Wages of Trump Derangement Madness
Lloyd Billingsley: "As the anniversary approaches, nonsense and danger are surging."
Countdown to 9/11 Plus 20

CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

A false narrative was carefully crafted by the press to humanize a man who was, at the time, committing crimes against humanity for the apparent purpose of helping Democrats win an election."
A Serious Country Would Jail Anthony Fauci
"You don't have to think Fauci is evil to believe that he made some glaring errors that now need to be corrected. He was constantly on TV, frequently contradicting himself and often causing confusion. It isn't some conspiracy theory to say so. This is what happened: He is a poor communicator and a control freak, and a fawning media magnified his flaws. The lack of real questions was a problem throughout the pandemic. Now that we are almost on the other side, it's fair to demand real answers."
Was Mask-Wearing Pointless After All? Fauci Must Be Forced to Answer
"They had suspicions."
Former FDA Commissioner Says Fauci Briefed World Leaders on Potential Lab Leak -- A Year Ago
"A sad and infuriating story that must be told."
How Chinese COVID Led to My Parents' Deaths
"Anyone notice that no one is calling critics of Fauci "unbelievably idiotic" anymore?"
Looks Like Trump Was Right About Fauci After All
"Top doc urged reporters to cover flu, not [Chinese] COVID, in early days of pandemic."
As Virus Spread, Fauci Compared Chinese COVID-19 to Seasonal Flu"
"Well, I'm concerned about that more because it's really very much an attack on science, " Dr. Fauci told Rachel Maddow Friday when she asked if he was "worried about this new sort of re-upping of attacks on you."
Fauci Spin: Criticism of #FauciEmails Revelations "Very Much an Attack on Science"
"It's not only that the emails prove what we all knew -- Dr. Fauci is a phony -- it's the enormous national security failure and coverup that should concern us."
The End of the Wuhan Scamarama
"According to models created by simulation technology company Epistemix, outdoor fairs operating at full capacity would cause zero increase in the spread of coronavirus if the local population has at least 70 percent immunity. With many states on pace to reach the 70 percent benchmark within months, fairgoers should be set to safely enjoy events without restrictions by mid-summer, the company found."
Scientific Model Shows State Fairs Can Occur at Full Capacity With No Chinese COVID Risk
"The Emperor is now exposed as wearing no clothes. This dam is about to break."
The Unmasking of Dr. Anthony Fauci
"Not since the glove in the O.J. Simpson murder case has a piece of fabric received more notoriety and discussion."
How Much Longer Must We Endure the Mask?
Quite the contrary; it marked the ramping up to eleventy-leven.
Chinese COVID Marked the Twilight of Ameica's Arrogant "Expert" Class
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Roberts alleges that the officer who killed Babbitt didn't give her a verbal warning before fatally shooting her with one shot to the neck."
Ashli Babbitt's Family Sues D.C. Cops to Learn the Identity of Her Killer
"Psychiatrist Dr. Aruna Khilanani should probably take the advice, 'Physician, Heal Thyself.'"
Yale Lecturer "Had Fantasies of Unloading a Revolver Into the Head of Any White Person" Who Got in Her Way
This is just the latest attack on an elderly white person. In the past year, we've seen numerous acts of aggression committed, largely in New York City, one involving actor Rick Moranis."
VIDEO: Amazon Driver Arrested in Racist Attack on Elderly White Woman
"You're only supposed to worry about white people with guns, even if black criminals with guns are a far greater threat to black lives."
When Mass Shootings Don't Matter
"Prosecutors estimated the cost of damages to the U.S. Capitol building at $1.5 million in court documents reviewed by the Washington Post."
After Ignoring BLM Riots, Federal Prosecutors Demand Capitol "Riot "Defendants Pay For Damages
"As his speech on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa massacre makes clear, Joe Biden is far more dangerous than Franklin Roosevelt, who made partisan hatred the basis of the modern Democrat Party."
How Biden Breeds Equity Scams
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"As Jews were beaten and harassed in broad daylight in the United States of America, Biden urged Americans to resist hate in their minds."
It Only Took 120 Days Of Leftism Before Jews Were Being Beaten In Broad Daylight In America
"Unless this menace somehow passes quickly, this new reality is a game-changer for America's Jews."
America's Jews face a New Reality
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, AND OTHER CORRUPTION
"The investigation comes as the Justice Department increases skepticism about foreign governments and their efforts to influence American politics."
Democrat Lobbying Group Under Criminal Investigation for Ties to Hunter Biden's Burisma
"The new ban 'solidifies and strengthens' a Trump-era Executive Order restricting securities investments in firms that work alongside China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) and provide technology to facilitate the repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang."
Joe Biden Just Banned Investment In CCP Military Firms His Son Hunter Profited From
ANGEL OF DEATH CUOMO NURSING HOME SCANDAL, SEXUAL ASSAULT & OTHER DEM GOV SCANDALS
"When asked why, he said, 'Because we're still in a state of emergency. This disease is still in effect. It is not taking the summer off.'"
Newsom Reneges on Promise to Surrender His Emergency Chinese COVID-19 Powers
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy, and for that reason, I will vote against the For the People Act. Furthermore, I will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster."
Joe Manchin Reaffirms Opposition to Democrat Election Takeover Legislation, Any Changes to Filibuster
"Sisolak also wrote on Twitter that the new law makes Nevada 'the sixth state to adopt a permanent vote-by-mail system.'"
Nevada Takes Step Toward Making Election Fraud Part of the Normal Process
"Democrats push legislation to nationalize presidential races and keep advantageous provisions active after the pandemic."
Bad Election Rules and Stupid Media Tricks
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"Cyrus Vance's office could end up screaming at the sky alongside other frustrated #NeverTrumpers."
New York Prosecutors are Screaming at the Sky
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS
"Socialism has become a more popular political ideology in recent years in the U.S., particularly among young people. One reason may be the advocacy of major celebrities and public officials. Here's how comfortably some of them are living..."
Here's How Wealthy Some Of America's Most Prominent Socialists Are
"New Mexico Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham called protesters at the launch of her re-election campaign 'QAnon Lizard People' on Thursday." (the Gorn says "meh, poor man's Anita Dunn" - jjs)
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham Calls Voters "QAnon Lizard People"
"This is the second part in Frontpage Mag's new series on Racist Mayors."
Racist Mayor: Eric Garcetti
"A report by Axios revealed the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations, chaired and founded by Neil Bush in 2017, is raking in a $5 million grant from 2019 to 2023 from the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), which has ties to China's communist government."
Report: Bush Foundation Bankrolled by Chinese Communist Party-Linked Firm
POLITICS
"Since taking office, Biden has emphasized the flaws in American history over the successes." (the Democrat Party today considers America itself the flaw - jjs)
Joe Biden Neglects D-Day; Tweets About Tulsa Race Massacre
"I think they're going to be very happy."
Trump Gives Updates On Potential 2024 Run, Won't Say Whether Pence Would Be His Running Mate
You mean, started by Democrats, made worse by Democrats and totally fucked up by Democrats, Joe?
WATCH: Biden Tells College Graduates That "Systemic Racism," Climate Change Like Vietnam War
"You don't reverse discrimination [with] more discrimination."
Sen. Tim Scott Says America Needs More Opportunity Not Retaliation
"In the end, Republicans won the day, but it was a close call."
Dems Thought They Could Win Texas, But They Can't Even Win Fort Worth
"Those who insist we're all racist have fallen prey to the very thing they claim to fight."
Democrats' Racism Obsession Is an Affront to Liberty
"Today, that 'but' is the biggest elephant in the room."
Stop Saying "Of Course, Racism Still Exists, But..."
"The confusion that seems to cloud Sen. Chuck Schumer's thinking starts to clear up if you understand classic Soviet principles."
Schumer's Confusion
"In the Obamaverse, all of Trump's accomplishments belong to Barack, and all of his administration's failures have magically disappeared."
Obama's Delusional Revisionist History
"A House run would be an 'outside the box' play. But if Donald Trump has proved anything over the last six years, it's that the old political rules no longer apply."
Trump vs. Pelosi: A Marquee Matchup for the Speakership?
"Mike Hough, who serves as U.S. Rep. Alex Mooney's chief of staff, is hamstringing the constituents of West Virginia's 2nd District."
A Triple-Dipping, Carpetbagging, Goldbricking RINO
"America needs more chutzpah like Sliwa's, which is grounded in love for this country and its people, its families, and communities." (not a fan of Sliwa at all, but that's what I said about Trump when he came down the escalator - jjs)
Populism Finds a Model in Curtis Sliwa's Run for NYC Mayor
"In the past few weeks, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former House Speaker Paul Ryan have given competing visions for the future of the Republican Party. My money is on DeSantis winning this round, given the hard left turn the Democrats have made on cultural and social issues. Ryan is cautioning the party to shy away from those fights and focus on the economy. It's almost as if he still doesn't understand why Trump won."
Ron DeSantis Versus Paul Ryan: The Ultimate Winner Is Not the One Saying Abandon the Culture War
"Paul Ryan, trying to revive his influence, is still missing how massive the Trump meteor has been."
The Time of Romney-Ryan Republicanism Is Over
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Smith claimed that since Biden became [so-called quote-unquote 'president'] on Jan 20, 'more people have illegally crossed the southern border than the entire population of Kansas City, Missouri.'"
"It's Crazy": Republican Rep. Jason Smith Says Biden's $6 Trillion Budge Has a "Zero Percent Increase" for Homeland Security
"The horrifying increase comes months after Biden cancelled "Operation Talon" a Trump administration plan that deported illegal immigrants convicted of sex crimes."
Just How Many Sex Offenders Have Crossed the Border Under Biden?
"The true impetuses behind the elites' courtship of Latin America's poor are money and power most of all."
The Vital Question Before America's Working Class
"US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents recently arrested multiple illegal migrants involved in human smuggling and seized millions of dollars worth of counterfeit products shipped from China."
US CBP Arrests Over 100 For People Smuggling Crimes Enabled By Biden's White House
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Clegg said that the decision to suspend Trump for two years came following criticism from Facebook's oversight board about suspending Trump indefinitely from the platform over comments he made on January 6 about the Capitol riot."
Facebook VP of Global Affairs Says Two-Year Trump Ban Was "Fair, Transparent, and Proportionate"
"'Access to the free and #OpenInternet is an essential human right in modern society' -- Unless you're Trump, apparently."
Twitter Calls Open Internet an "Essential Human Right" After Being Blocked in Nigeria, Forgets Its Own Censorship
"Many of the dead terrorist operatives... presented on social media and by Arab media outlets as 'civilians.'"
As Mainstream Media Continues to Peddle Hamas' Narrative, New Evidence Shows Most Gaza Casualties Were Terrorists
Irksome, tedious, phony turd whose only talent is being in the lucky sperm club. FOAD, Wallace.
FNC's Wallace to Lewandowski: "Come On Corey" You Are Blaming Trump's Chinese COVID Inaction on Fauci
"The New York Times revealed on Friday that both the Trump [administration] and Biden [junta] attempted to subpoena its reporters' emails to identify sources. The DOJ introduced a gag order on March 3 to prevent the Times and Google, which operates the Times' email servers, from publicly discussing the subpoena attempts."
White House Denies Knowledge of New York Times Gag Order
"His book, Divided We Fall, fails to grasp why the conservative movement has left him behind."
David French Attempts to Revive the Dead Consensus
"Elites in academia, media, and business want more debates over equity. The rest of us just want to feed our families and get along. Those two goals are not compatible in this fraught cultural climate."
How The New York Times Botched Its Dispatch on a Local Culture War Blow-Up
"'Backwards pants' means "dementia." (so, does that make Joe Biden the uncredited third member of rap duo Kris Kross? - jjs)
Establishment Media Float Another Anti-Trump Conspiracy Theory
"A prominent foreign policy journal boosted its advertising deal with a Chinese state-controlled media outlet in recent months, even as other news organizations have ended similar partnerships due to concerns about publishing propaganda."
Foreign Policy Ramps Up Advertising Deal With Chinese Propaganda Outlet
"Persecution is now cool! Last year, the University of Pittsburgh fired cardiologist Norman Wang because he wrote and published a peer-reviewed paper calling for race-neutral policies in medicine. In addition, he was publicly denounced by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the journal retracted his paper, even though no one could cite any errors in his work."
Today's Blacklisted American: Doctors Fire and Blackballed for Calling for Race-Neutral Policies in Medicine
SECOND AMENDMENT
"We're not backing down from this fight, and we'll continue pushing for common sense gun laws that will save lives." (potentially a huge win if Roberts ultimately doesn't stab us in the face - jjs)
Gavin Newsom Rages, Makes False Claims After Federal Judge Strikes Down California's "Unconstitutional" Gun Ban
ABORTION
"The horrors of experimentation on aborted babies are too easily purged from our thoughts, but they should stoke our national conscience." (note: some might find descriptions in this article disturbing - jjs)
Is Grafting Dead Babies' Scalps Onto Lab Rats Any Better Than Child Sacrifice?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"E-Mails reveal employees should refer to historic Israel peace deals as 'normalization agreements.'"
State Department Shuns Term "Abraham Accords"
"The Chinese president embarks on the most far-fetched rebrand of the century."
Xi Jinping: When Will I Be Loved?
"When called for today, the two-state solution is in fact a euphemism for the one path sure to terminate the nation of Israel once and for all."
What Do Advocates of a Two-State Solution Actually Advocate?
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas): "It is unconscionable the Biden [junta] tacitly approved Belarus and Syria's election to the World Health Organization's executive board by not formally calling for a vote and objecting to their candidacy."
Biden Junta Has "Grave Concerns"About Election of Syria, Belarus to WHO Board, But Made No Attempt to Prevent It
"We keep hearing from them that Gaza is occupied, that Gaza is an open-air prison, that Gaza is a 'penal colony.' Gazans are oppressed, the theory goes, and Israel is the oppressor."
Who -- or What -- Occupies Gaza?
Horrible as this is, Pratasevich is not an American citizen. There are a lot of other things to potentially go to the mattresses with Putin over, but this isn't it. And killing Keystone and approving Nordstream doesn't show strength either.
Biden Twiddles His Thumbs as Journalist Tortured in Belarus
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Aside from bending over and spreading for the Mongoloids, Russkies and Farsis, what are you actually doing?
Commerce Secretary Raimondo: Cyberattacks "Are Here to Stay," "Will Intensify"
"Budget proposal could force Navy to cut 11 battle-ready boats."
Biden Defense Budget Gives China Upper Hand, Republican Hawks Say
"The Chinese Communist Party-linked company was emboldened by the successful efforts in Washington, D.C. to resist President Trump's attempts to ban the data-mining app in 2020."
China's TikTok App Will Collect "Biometric" Data Including "Faceprints and Voiceprints" of Western Users
"Considering how the military has embraced social justice this is a pleasant surprise."
The Pentagon Puts a Halt to Pride Flags
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"A pandemic of 'holy' hate."
Muslim Anti-Semitism by the Numbers
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"'This bill concerns me... because it involves an attempt by the United States of America to compete with China, but on terms that don't favor us,' said Sen. Mike Lee."
Republicans Grow Wary of China Bill as Democrats Sap It With Special Interests and Lofty Price Tag
"How progressive reforms helped level a historic part of black Detroit."
Rock Bottom
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The Biden [junta] is not concerned with diversifying my community as much as they are with the way we vote. In 2020, my county voted for President Trump by nearly a 40% margin. This pattern is consistent for all the counties surrounding the metro Atlanta area. [So-called quote-unquote 'president'] Biden won Fulton County, which includes Atlanta, by almost 50 points. This percentage equates to a lot of wasted margin in Georgia's most populous county for Democrats. They can engineer policy to export Fulton County residents to counties like mine, reduce their wasted margin by a significant amount, and remain comfortable. This policy could swing districts around them from purple and red to blue, affecting races at the local level, state legislature, and House of Representatives."
Trump Was Right: The Biden Junta Is Intent on Destroying the Suburbs
"Now, with the pandemic finally easing, some companies want their workers back in the office. But that may be easier said than done."
POLL: 86% of Workers Don't Want to Return to the Office Full-Time
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Progressive policies have time and again been proven to be misguided, even inimical to public safety."
Putting an End to "Reimagining" the Criminal Justice System
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Nikole Hannah-Jones confuses education with propaganda."
Author of "1619 Project" Hails Stalinist Cuba's "Education"
"The state of Virginia's plans for 'mathematics equity' reform is woke utopianism masquerading as education."
Sorry, Virginia, There's No Math-Equity Claus
"A new book argues that many urban universities have their cities over a barrel."
Town v. Gown
"How an ever-growing incompetent, ideologically driven expert class keeps us servile, stunted, confused, and ignorant."
Peritus Parasitus Wants Its Host Alive But Not Healthy
Robert Spencer: "[Rancida Taliban's] friend and associate is a quintessential example of how the Left has corrupted academia."
Hatem Bazian: Professor of Hate
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"North Face has two faces."
Smackdown: Big Oil Exposes Oil-Hating North Face Clothing Company as Buck-Naked Hypocrites
"Republican Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen made the announcement on behalf of Florida and Alaska Thursday, as more states file suit against Biden."
Florida and Alaska Join Keystone XL Pipeline Lawsuit Against Biden
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"China has declared a space race, aiming to surpass the West by the end of the decade. How American responds is of monumental importance."
Will America Rise To China's New Space Challenge?
Our intrepid science reporter with two for Monday. First, "Cool image time! In the coming weeks and months the view from Curiosity is going to give us the most spectacular views of another world since the Apollo astronauts walked on the Moon."
Curiosity's Dramatic Path Forward
Next up, "Lower cost to orbit feeds more satellites which feeds more rocket companies which feeds more satellite and service companies which feeds more rocket companies which feeds a drop in the launch costs which feeds more satellite companies, and so forth on and on, until the human race is establishing colonies on Mars, the asteroids, and beyond.And all achieved by encouraging freedom and capitalism while limiting the power of government."
New Investment Capital Pours Into Commercial Space
"In September, then-NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine declared, 'It's time to prioritize Venus,' after scientists discovered compelling evidence for life there."
NASA Plans Return To Venus For First Time In Three Decades To Probe Microbial Life
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"As Pride Month begins, the Left's predatory designs on our kids accelerate."
The Left's Urgent Mission to Sexualize Children
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"...his proposal is indeed a deeply serious one because if what he describes is ever actually implemented in this country, America will be locked in a totalitarianism every bit as terrifying as the Soviet Union on its worst day. Where the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the unquestioned highest authority in that suffering nation, [Ibram X. Crement] Kendi's Department of Antiracism (DOA) would be no less destructive."
What the Critical Race Theory Left Seeks Is the "Dictatorship of the DOA"
"I'm not fucking paying for that."
Bill Maher Has Some Savage Words For Liberals Who Want To Make College Free
"A real heart-warmer."
Video: Father & Daughter Destroy Critical Race Theory
"'Karen is a pejorative term used in the United States and other English-speaking countries for a woman perceived as entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is appropriate or necessary,' says Urban Dictionary."
Baby Name "Karen" Plunges In 2020, Hits Lowest Ranking Since 1927
"At the time of the banning, Del Arroz was under serious mob attack from social justice warriors trying to drive him out of the sci-fi community."
Worldcon Ordered to Apologize and Pay Conservative Author Jon Del Arroz for Banning Him and Calling Him  Racist"
"The disgraced comedy is as grotesque as ever, but there's a method to the madness."
Do We Owe Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered an Apology?
"Despite a pretense of originality, HBO's four-episode miniseries regurgitates the same, tired, anti-white and anti-American blood libels common in far-left discourse for nearly half a century."
REVIEW: HBO's Exterminate All the Brutes is Riddled With Revisionist Marxist Falsehoods
"Mark Bittman's latest book, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal, is a dyspeptic rant that buries some good observations under layers of radical politics."
Meet the Cookbook Author Who Hates Food
Judith Miller: "On Roman Polanski, J'accuse, and cancel culture."
Where Does It End?
HITHER & YON
"Josephine Baker and Walter Duranty can be regarded as contrasting illustrations of the good and the bad of human beings."
Homage and Shame: Josephine Baker and Walter Duranty
"The economic mind and policies of Abraham Lincoln."
Lincolnomics
"As America seems on the cusp of profound change, it's worthwhile looking back at what the Greatest Generation fought for."
Looking at What We Thought We Won in 1945
77th ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY
"Almighty G-d: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity..."
FDR's D-Day Prayer: "A Struggle to Preserve Our Republic, Our Religion, and Our Civilization
And now, we have to liberate America itself from the progeny of the same evil that enslaved Europe and Russia for decades.
Americans Commemorate D-Day 77 Years Ago: "Led to Liberation of Western Europe" and "Rid World of Evil"
"It's estimated that only about 2,500 survivors of the D-Day assault are still alive. Will anyone remember them and what they did after they're gone?" (as long as I draw breath, I will never forget them - jjs)
Only One D-Day Survivor Took Part in the Annual Commemorations This Year
"Bless 'em all, bless 'em all, the long and the short and the tall... "
Remembering D-Day: June 6, 1944
"In our current state of self-hating America, where will we ever get such men, and now women, again?"
Great Generations
FINALLY...
The Red Army soldier "was right on the front lines when the National Socialists' machinery of murder was destroyed," said Charlotte Knobloch, a former head of Germany's Central Council of Jews. "Every witness to history who passes on is a loss, but saying farewell to David Dushman is particularly painful," said Knobloch.
David Dushman, Last of Soviet Soldiers Who Liberated Auschwitz, Dead at 98

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 06:26 AM (yrol0)

2 Happy Monday one and all. Now to read the articles.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 07, 2021 06:26 AM (3bIOh)

3 Thank you, J.J.

AAA

HB-Day!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 06:27 AM (3D/fK)

4 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 07, 2021 06:28 AM (U7wke)

5 Present

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2021 06:28 AM (3H9h1)

6 How can America take itself back?

Posted by: Biden's Dog at June 07, 2021 06:28 AM (PGH8R)

7 machin is in it for manchin. He barely won his reelection bid in 2018 and that was a mid term election. He is in trouble in 2024 and he knows it, especially if Trump is on the ticket. He is not going to do anything to advance the democrats agenda.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 07, 2021 06:31 AM (JUOKG)

8 Mornin', Mo-rons!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 07, 2021 06:33 AM (CP6co)

9 In the land of the Hatfields and McCoys, Joe Manchin knows what he will have a target on his back if he screws over the gun toting citizens of West Virginia.

And they do not miss what they shoot at in that part of the country. The threat to his life is visceral and not rhetorical. and he knows it.

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at June 07, 2021 06:34 AM (EMi53)

10 Happy Birthday JJS and let's take NaCly Dog's admonition to heart....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 07, 2021 06:34 AM (PiwSw)

11 Calling shrinks doctors is as bad as Jill Biden. Some are professionals but many are there to self diagnose.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 06:35 AM (y7DUB)

12 How can America take itself back?
Posted by: Biden's Dog at June 07, 2021 06:28 AM (PGH8

Hold my Boston Lager.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at June 07, 2021 06:37 AM (6FeV1)

13 11 Calling shrinks doctors is as bad as Jill Biden. Some are professionals but many are there to self diagnose.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 06:35 AM (y7DUB)

Similarly, I think the most evil people in academia are the "ethicists." See Singer, Peter.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 07, 2021 06:37 AM (PiwSw)

14 I didn't think it was JJ because I didn't see a picture.

Posted by: grammie winger at June 07, 2021 06:38 AM (45fpk)

15 "How can America take itself back?"

Aha! That's EXACTLY what a Paid Provocateur Troll would ask! And you're from Turkey too, I KNOW because I saw your bio on a your twitter account (that belongs to someone else).

You're just trying to provoke the readers into making some radical statement that MSNBC can use to shut this place down. Burn the witch! BURN HER!

/sarcasm off

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 06:38 AM (83lwH)

16 14 I didn't think it was JJ because I didn't see a picture.
Posted by: grammie winger at June 07, 2021 06:38 AM (45fpk)

I'm working on it. I post the links first otherwise it takes me too long to come up with something.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 07, 2021 06:39 AM (s2VJv)

17 Sefton, how much time do you spend prepping this post? And you do it EVERY day? I don't know how you do it.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 06:40 AM (83lwH)

18 Thinking Shecky Schumer is "confused" is why we lose. That malignant piece of shit knows exactly what he's doing.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 06:41 AM (y7DUB)

19 I'm working on it. I post the links first otherwise it takes me too long to come up with something.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 07, 2021 06:39 AM (s2VJv)

No rush.

*taps toe. looks at watch.*

Posted by: grammie winger at June 07, 2021 06:42 AM (45fpk)

20 "Unless this menace somehow passes quickly, this new reality is a game-changer for America's Jews."
*****

We have to some extent done this to ourselves. In my neck of the woods, members of my former synagogue were falling over each other trying to be the loudest to declare that Trump was evil for not allowing people from hostile muslim nations to move here. The logic was if we stop Iranians or Somalis from immigrating, Jews will be the next victims and be forced out. They decried the police even as the patrol cars sat outside protecting them (from blonds?) on the holidays. It's going to take more than a "menace passing quickly" to turn this around.
I passed Rabbi Spero's article about the lunacy coming out of rabbinical schools to many people, since you linked it. The response has been tepid to frigid. The BLM crap is pretty fixed in many lib minds, but this is the menace that needs to pass.
Yesterday I mentioned "Hebrews to Negroes" a book insisting that blacks are the chosen people (I think we choose and are not chosen). It had over 1K reviews, so I suspect this theory is gaining strength. All connected

Posted by: CN at June 07, 2021 06:43 AM (ONvIw)

21 As an aside,
Little VIA has discovered that the blog has an actual article on wikipedia.

Now he thinks we're famous...and shit.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 06:43 AM (3D/fK)

22 I'ma go out on a limb here and speculate:

DoD in conjunction with NIH under Fauci initially teamed together to use gain of function research to 'explore the development of vaccinations' that would mitigate biowarfare agents.

Sometime after that, funding was suspended or terminated. Fauci did what every institution does and found a way to use 'contractors' to subvert that restriction and funneled monies to his buddy who in turn funneled that money to the Wuhan lab.

Simultaneously, China did what China does and kicked back some of that cash to grease the skids of the body politic. Lots of very high level people would need to be bought off including the Sate department, the DoD, congress and the Preznit. Those who could not be bought off were extorted or blackmailed to gain their cooperation.

The level of effort to conduct the research was not on par with the risk. The virus infected someone or several someones in the facility. The cat is out of the bag at this point, so China says fuck it, let's go with it and exports it across the globe. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain because the US has been working with them all the way and hey, shit happens.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 07, 2021 06:45 AM (AL0d+)

23 What did Biden do? Make a speech about Tulsa and spit out bile about how racist and evil America is. I can't even...
___

JJ,

Take heart that you will see justice served by God.

He will not be mocked.

Posted by: SMH at June 07, 2021 06:45 AM (d62+N)

24 A serious country would have never allowed Fauci to become Fauci.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 06:45 AM (sX1BW)

25 Attn; N.J Jersey voters in the 16th legislative district:

Tomorrow are the primaries. If you are a registered Republican please consider voting for Jeff Grant, He is not an establishment candidate and has been a Tea Partier and head of the Central Jersey Conservative Union for 10 years. I have known him since Obama was running the first time. Jeff is a fine ethical man and wants the power to be given back to the people and transparency in government. Also wants to stop illegal immigration and supports gun ownership, and is against Critical race training:

jeffreygrant4statesenate.org

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2021 06:45 AM (k39e/)

26 18 Thinking Shecky Schumer is "confused" is why we lose. That malignant piece of shit knows exactly what he's doing.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 06:41 AM (y7DUB)

That's right. And the unelected Kalorama gang is not a clown show, they are controlling a lot right now and are dangerous.

Posted by: CN at June 07, 2021 06:46 AM (ONvIw)

27 As an aside,
Little VIA has discovered that the blog has an actual article on wikipedia.

Now he thinks we're famous...and shit.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
___

Yeah, I especially love:

"One center-right devout Catholic blogger has described the blog and its commenters as "smart but very very vulgar."

This being a smart military blog and all, vulgarity kinda comes with the territory.

Posted by: SMH at June 07, 2021 06:48 AM (d62+N)

28 CrotchetyOldJarhead that sounds about right to me

the truly vicious crimes are what the FedGov and state governors (five in particular) did AFTERWARDS

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 07, 2021 06:49 AM (j9HX3)

29 This is not the Country I was raised in. Scares the crap out of me. I pray a lot. Wish I didn't have to work.

Posted by: Infidel at June 07, 2021 06:49 AM (E0OEG)

30 Given all of that, the big question is was this virus accidentally released or was it released on purpose?

--

In the most simplistic logic I can conjure, it goes back to this: If this was accidental, why did China institute its own travel restrictions within the country, while keeping totally mum and allowing travel of potential virus spreaders all over the world???

There's no other way for me to process that than bioweapons terrorism...and intentional.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 06:50 AM (O+I8R)

31 Amen, Infidel.

It's not.

Posted by: SMH at June 07, 2021 06:50 AM (d62+N)

32 The Defense Intelligence Agency won't share intel with the FBI and CIA because it is understood that those agencies now work for China and against patriotic Americans. Holy crap.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 07, 2021 06:51 AM (d9Cw3)

33 "Yeah, I especially love: "

Yup...

Kinda defines us.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 06:51 AM (3D/fK)

34
24 A serious country would have never allowed Fauci to become Fauci.
Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 06:45 AM (sX1BW)

The people who propped him up are very serious. And Obama's last minute order, allowing shit like Wuhan funding, was done with malintent, too. To say these people are not serious is wrong. And where were the sane voices who should have been advising Trump to stop this? Probably cheering it on from both sides of the aisle. Obama and the Kalorama gang are up to their eyeballs in evil intent.

Posted by: CN at June 07, 2021 06:51 AM (ONvIw)

35
Good morning, Hordians.

Let's get out there and enrage the lunatics by living a good life today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2021 06:51 AM (0Vn05)

36 There's no other way for me to process that than bioweapons terrorism...and intentional.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 06:50 AM (O+I8R)

There may be a "face saving" aspect to it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2021 06:52 AM (6FeV1)

37 unleashed the most deadly bioweapon in world history

Are we still going with this?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 07, 2021 06:52 AM (U7wke)

38 Newsom Reneges on Promise to Surrender His Emergency Chinese COVID-19 Powers

GOOD AND HARDERER!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 06:52 AM (yrol0)

39 lol rhennigantx

Posted by: SMH at June 07, 2021 06:53 AM (d62+N)

40 37 unleashed the most deadly bioweapon in world history

Are we still going with this?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 07, 2021 06:52 AM (U7wke)

How many other bioweapons have been unleashed?

Posted by: CN at June 07, 2021 06:53 AM (ONvIw)

41 Any wikitards reading this: fuck you and your dogshit propaganda site.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 06:54 AM (y7DUB)

42 38 Newsom Reneges on Promise to Surrender His Emergency Chinese COVID-19 Powers

GOOD AND HARDERER!
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 06:52 AM (yrol0)

=========

"Well, at least he's not a Republican."
-Whine mom, stuck with the kids she hates all day and drunk before 10 am

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 06:54 AM (LvTSG)

43 The Defense Intelligence Agency won't share intel with the FBI and CIA because it is understood that those agencies now work for China and against patriotic Americans. Holy crap.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton
___

Considering that's Mike Flynn's old stomping grounds, infofar he ran it, not all that surprised that DIA is looking side-eyed at the other alphabet agencies.

Including the five-sided nuthouse.

Posted by: SMH at June 07, 2021 06:55 AM (d62+N)

44 The US and the west are vassals of the CCP.

There's really nothing we can do to China.

Trump was trying to alter this reality, which is why there is a CCP Meat Puppet.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 07, 2021 06:56 AM (OZvoA)

45
Newsom Reneges on Promise to Surrender His Emergency Chinese COVID-19 Powers

____________

Too soon to let up. The next two weeks will be crucial. Flatten the curve. Stay safe, stay home. It's the new normal. We're all in this together.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2021 06:56 AM (0Vn05)

46 Judging by spending most of yesterday in stores shopping for bedding...

The great de-masking is firmly in progress.

Getting harder and harder to find someone who is wearing one.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 06:56 AM (3D/fK)

47 "Well, at least he's not a Republican."
-Whine mom, stuck with the kids she hates all day and drunk before 10 am
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 06:54 AM (LvTSG)

"Well, at least he's not a Republican."
*steps in pile of human shit*
Well fuck! I am voting Independent next time.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 06:57 AM (yrol0)

48 Well...so today is here.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 06:57 AM (gjvx9)

49 just saw a thing that Bezos and his brother are going up to space this summer(?)

I sure do hope they stay safe *whistles innocently*

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 07, 2021 06:57 AM (oEn12)

50 "Now, with the pandemic finally easing, some companies want their workers back in the office. But that may be easier said than done."
POLL: 86% of Workers Don't Want to Return to the Office Full-Time

--

And kids want to go on that all-sugar diet. How about companies telling their employees that they resume their office locales or they find another job? This isn't hard!

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 06:58 AM (O+I8R)

51 47 "Well, at least he's not a Republican."
*steps in pile of human shit*
Well fuck! I am voting Independent next time.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 06:57 AM (yrol0)

=========

*Election Day*

"I don't even know anybody's name on this ballot. I guess I'll vote for Newsome."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 06:58 AM (LvTSG)

52 Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 06:38 AM (83lwH)
-
OK, I confess that in my youth I had an affinity for Turkish Taffy, Spartan dog that I am.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at June 07, 2021 06:58 AM (PGH8R)

53 The fact that the DIA wouldn't share information with the FBI and the CIA speaks strongly to the loyalties of those institutions. State, the FBI and the CIA need to be cleansed with fire.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 07, 2021 06:58 AM (AL0d+)

54 Sometime after that, funding was suspended or terminated. Fauci did what every institution does and found a way to use 'contractors' to subvert that restriction and funneled monies to his buddy who in turn funneled that money to the Wuhan lab.

Simultaneously, China did what China does and kicked back some of that cash to grease the skids of the body politic. Lots of very high level people would need to be bought off including the Sate department, the DoD, congress and the Preznit. Those who could not be bought off were extorted or blackmailed to gain their cooperation.

The level of effort to conduct the research was not on par with the risk. The virus infected someone or several someones in the facility. The cat is out of the bag at this point, so China says fuck it, let's go with it and exports it across the globe. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain because the US has been working with them all the way and hey, shit happens.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 07, 2021 06:45 AM

I think that's very good speculation, and fits all known facts.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2021 07:00 AM (bxPTJ)

55 Joe Manchin had very little, if anything to do with West Virginia's turn-around after Trump's election. The overwhelmingly pro-union state saw perhaps the single greatest influx of jobs, money and more importantly to Mountaineers, respect.

Joe Manchin didn't build that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2021 07:00 AM (3H9h1)

56 Fewer people masked up in grocery store; it's still not 50/50 though. And a biker out on the trail, alone, had his mask on....

Some people actually enjoy wearing the diapers, it appears.

Posted by: Ziba at June 07, 2021 07:00 AM (S1hrL)

57 Ace!
The Wuhan wet market sells bats!
They tried to get the bats sick with Kung Flu but can't get it to jump the zoological gap. So no way to pin it on the bats either.

Posted by: torabora at June 07, 2021 07:01 AM (9tV0B)

58 Ryan is cautioning the party to shy away from those fights and focus on the economy. It's almost as if he still doesn't understand why Trump won.

It's obvious that Ryan's using his Faux News support to keep his name front and center despite being a complete failure at anything other than self promotion. What part of his never producing a real budget or cutting spending does he call a "focus on the economy"?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 07:01 AM (y7DUB)

59 Dr. Fauci told Rachel Maddow ...

It's unbelievable to me that this doesn't cause outrage. No serious scientist goes on shows like Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid and Nicolle Wallace etc. etc. etc. These are not serious people, let alone serious journalists.

These people are deranged conspiracy theorists and hardcore partisan hacks.

Imagine the shrieking if a Trump pick went on the right-wing equivalents.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 07, 2021 07:01 AM (Bmy3R)

60 >What did Biden do? Make a speech about Tulsa and spit out bile about how racist and evil America is. I can't even...

yeah, it's Biden's lips that are moving, but it's 0bama/Jarrett who are talking

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 07, 2021 07:02 AM (iTXRQ)

61 Good morning, horde. Today is the anniversary of the last day of the battle of Midway.

Posted by: Grog at June 07, 2021 07:02 AM (YFj/0)

62 So little attention paid to the anniversary of D-Day.
Shameful but it's what we've become -- comparing January 6 to September 11 and so on.

Posted by: Ziba at June 07, 2021 07:02 AM (S1hrL)

63 Fewer people masked up in grocery store; it's still not 50/50 though. And a biker out on the trail, alone, had his mask on.... -------------------------------- Just a personal observation. It seems like young people (middle schoolers and adolescents) are some of the biggest residual wearers. Could be that they have just been conditioned by schools, could be because they have not received a vaccine. Either way, doesn't bode well for our future methinks.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 07:02 AM (sX1BW)

64 I see that Harry Sparkes brought forth another kid, a daughter, into the world. What I found ironic was that they named her based on Harry's roots. I thought he hated his royal life in England, hated being a part of such a racist family and wanted to disassociate from it and be "on his own." Mixed messages Harry ole boy, mixed messages.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 07:03 AM (O+I8R)

65 The DIA distrust goes way back, they have always hated being the ugly step kid.

Posted by: Jean at June 07, 2021 07:03 AM (lBV3l)

66 The story about the defector had this line that needs more attention: DIA leadership believes there are Chinese spies or sources inside the FBI, CIA, and several other federal agencies

So, basically what we all assumed was true is considered true by DIA. Nice to know.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 07, 2021 07:03 AM (6XLoz)

67 Anymore on the status on the Indian nukes

Posted by: Jean at June 07, 2021 07:03 AM (lBV3l)

68 66 The story about the defector had this line that needs more attention: DIA leadership believes there are Chinese spies or sources inside the FBI, CIA, and several other federal agencies

So, basically what we all assumed was true is considered true by DIA. Nice to know.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 07, 2021 07:03 AM (6XLoz)

==========

"The FBI has denied this, so it's a conspiracy theory."
-CNN

"On it..."
-Facebook

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 07:04 AM (LvTSG)

69 The Junta's desire to put multi family housing (let's face it, "the projects") in the 'burbs is, of course, a form of gerrymandering without Congressional approval. Like everything else they do it has the added feature of sticking it to Americans. Years ago, there was some nutbag eco group that didn't want housing to go up in what they deemed pristine areas. so they would burn it down as soon as it was framed. I see some people, highly pissed that there lifelong dream and investment is going down the tubes considering like action.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at June 07, 2021 07:04 AM (I58tH)

70 Getting harder and harder to find someone who is wearing one.Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 06:56 AM (3D/fK)

There are still a ton of them in Central Jersey as well as signs saying (not on the door but at the customer service desk) "N.J. law requires that if you are not vaccinated you wear a mask." or "We respectfully ask our non vaccinated customers to wear a mask."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2021 07:04 AM (k39e/)

71 Mixed messages Harry ole boy, mixed messages.---------------------------------Not mixed at all. What Harry hates is the obligations of royalty, but he loves the benefits of royalty - namely the fame, fortune, and influence part.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 07:05 AM (sX1BW)

72 I think that's very good speculation, and fits all known facts.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 07, 2021 07:00 AM (bxPTJ)

And threatened, Redfield says he was threatened.

Posted by: CN at June 07, 2021 07:05 AM (ONvIw)

73 Here in my corner of NoCO I'm seeing maybe 25% at most still wearing tard rags indoors. Outdoors is down to almost none. Just a tiny scold of Karens.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 07, 2021 07:05 AM (Bmy3R)

74 "-- particularly the suggestion that China may have intentionally unleashed the most deadly bioweapon in world history --"

Weapons, even bioweapons, are designed primarily to hurt the enemy. Covid-19 was the exact opposite. This was a virus intended to use on the Chinese (and perhaps the U.S., based on the source of funding) population. No country "weaponizes" a virus that eliminates the oldest, weakest and most spectacularly expensive sector of their adversary's people.

Covid was made to improve the economy of countries in a socially acceptable way. Just like in New York and Michigan, old people dying in nursing homes is OK compared to loading them into box cars and hauling them to gas chambers.

This virus obviously leaked from the lab prior to it being perfected. Both China and the U.S. had reason to spend money working on it.

Posted by: jwest at June 07, 2021 07:05 AM (/BlEx)

75 I translated the Bible into the vulgar language.

Nothing wrong with vulgar.

Posted by: Saint Jerome at June 07, 2021 07:05 AM (xopIz)

76 "So, basically what we all assumed was true is considered true by DIA. Nice to know."

Only if this reporting is factually accurate.

We seem to all be taking it as gospel.
But somewhere in the back of my mind is that little alarm bell.
When the story seems to confirm all your beliefs....be cautious in accepting it as fact.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 07:05 AM (3D/fK)

77 >Good morning, horde. Today is the anniversary of the last day of the battle of Midway.

this is the part where Charlton Heston is tasked to fly a plane back to the ship, and crashes

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 07, 2021 07:05 AM (iTXRQ)

78 "Yesterday I mentioned "Hebrews to Negroes" a book insisting that blacks are the chosen people (I think we choose and are not chosen). It had over 1K reviews, so I suspect this theory is gaining strength."

Is the book that claims there was an African Atlantis-Wakanda paradise of civilization that the White Man erased from the history books?

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:05 AM (83lwH)

79 I can understand the middle school mask wearing, but because of my petit vandalism at that age would have been facilitated.

Posted by: Jean at June 07, 2021 07:06 AM (lBV3l)

80 73 Just a tiny scold of Karens.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 07, 2021 07:05 AM (Bmy3R)

I saw A Scold of Karens open for A Flock of Seagulls at Max's Kansas City in '82.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 07, 2021 07:07 AM (s2VJv)

81 The great de-masking is firmly in progress.

Getting harder and harder to find someone who is wearing one.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 06:56 AM (3D/fK)

Not in NJ. Virtue signally is hard to kill

Posted by: CN at June 07, 2021 07:07 AM (ONvIw)

82 63 It seems like young people (middle schoolers and adolescents) are some of the biggest residual wearers.

I've been seeing families with unmuzzled adults and muzzled kids. I figure it's because the kids didn't get the vaxx yet.

Still pointless, of course, but I think that's the thinking.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 07, 2021 07:07 AM (Bmy3R)

83 >Here in my corner of NoCO I'm seeing maybe 25% at most still wearing tard rags indoors.

I'm in west metro Denver. Still seeing people wearing them OUTdoors

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 07, 2021 07:07 AM (iTXRQ)

84 "No country "weaponizes" a virus that eliminates the oldest, weakest and most spectacularly expensive sector of their adversary's people"

I like the outside the box thinking, but isn't it coincidental? I thought all viruses disproportionately affected the oldest and weakest?

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:07 AM (83lwH)

85 I thought that piece of fabric Stormy Daniels wore caused quite a stir four years ago.

Posted by: torabora at June 07, 2021 07:07 AM (9tV0B)

86 LOL. Naming her Lilibet sure sucks up to the Queen.

Posted by: Saint Jerome at June 07, 2021 07:07 AM (xopIz)

87 "this is the part where Charlton Heston is tasked to fly a plane back to the ship, and crashes"

I thought that was his son, Tom?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 07:07 AM (3D/fK)

88 Manchin's (and Sinema's) stance is still very precarious. Such immense power grabs by the Communists hanging by one, tiny thread. Both will either fall into line after some bribing, or as JJ says, the slack will be taken up by the pure scum on the R's side (notice I didn't say "our side")...Romney, Collins, Merkow. When that happens, and I have no reason to doubt it won't, can we start splitting apart the country then?

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 07:07 AM (O+I8R)

89 The Defense Intelligence Agency won't share intel with the FBI and CIA because it is understood that those agencies now work for China and against patriotic Americans. Holy crap.

I kind of feel sorry for whatever ChiCom handlers got assigned to the FBI, in the same way that FangFang got a raw deal having to bone Swalwell.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 07, 2021 07:08 AM (6XLoz)

90 "Here in my corner of NoCO I'm seeing maybe 25% at most still wearing tard rags indoors."

Germantown Maryland still at 100%

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:08 AM (83lwH)

91 Off prickly saint sock.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at June 07, 2021 07:08 AM (xopIz)

92 But somewhere in the back of my mind is that little alarm bell.
When the story seems to confirm all your beliefs....be cautious in accepting it as fact.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
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Good reminder.

If Biden completely cleaned house at the DIA, trust but verify indeed.

Posted by: SMH at June 07, 2021 07:09 AM (d62+N)

93 So I watched a little of the F1 from Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijan GDP is $48 Billion. The GDP of Houston Tx is $520 Billion. XOM Market Cap is 260,150,966,450.

The Azerbaijan GDP is $48 Billion. Per person is $5800. Ticket start at about 400 bucks!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 07:09 AM (yrol0)

94 I'm in west metro Denver. Still seeing people wearing them OUTdoors
Posted by: DB- just DB at June 07, 2021 07:07 AM (iTXRQ)

Oh, no doubt in Denver LOL! and I'm sure in Boulder too.

You can always c'mon up to FoCo and go free-face. Things are getting pretty normal-ish in Larimer.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 07, 2021 07:09 AM (Bmy3R)

95 Germantown Maryland still at 100%
Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:08 AM (83lwH)

NJ stores largely demand masks.

Posted by: CN at June 07, 2021 07:10 AM (ONvIw)

96 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at June 07, 2021 07:10 AM (6Pqz7)

97 >I thought that was his son, Tom?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice.

No, Tom was seriously injured in a cockpit fire; Heston crash-landed

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 07, 2021 07:10 AM (iTXRQ)

98 Baby Name "Karen" Plunges In 2020, Hits Lowest Ranking Since 1927

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That's funny, but I am surprised a bit. I haven't heard reference to any young girl being named Karen for a long, long time. It's a name that was popular, probably at its zenith, in the 60s. It hasn't been a "hip" name for eons. At least, that's my general feeling.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 07:11 AM (O+I8R)

99 86 LOL. Naming her Lilibet sure sucks up to the Queen.
Posted by: Saint Jerome at June 07, 2021 07:07 AM (xopIz)

Insults the queen. Using a nickname as a real name is juvenile.

Posted by: CN at June 07, 2021 07:11 AM (ONvIw)

100 seconded, VIA; these days I think it best to believe little or nothing in mass media, flat rate.
not to mention, so what ? if it was true, what would the consequences be, to the perps ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 07, 2021 07:12 AM (VnT7U)

101 But somewhere in the back of my mind is that little alarm bell.
When the story seems to confirm all your beliefs....be cautious in accepting it as fact.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

What's the fun in that

Posted by: Jean at June 07, 2021 07:12 AM (lBV3l)

102 >You can always c'mon up to FoCo and go free-face. Things are getting pretty normal-ish in Larimer.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

oh, I'm free-facing it now; just saying there are a lot of hold-outs locally

like those jap soldiers hiding in caves, long after the battle is over

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 07, 2021 07:12 AM (iTXRQ)

103 "NJ stores largely demand masks."

We were standing outside of a Dollar store yesterday, reading the sign that said that we were required to wear the mask regardless of vaccine status.

A large black woman was going in, and paused to read the sign with us.

She then walked right in, sans mask, and walked straight to the first employee and said 'We don't need to wear that damn thing, right?'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 07:13 AM (3D/fK)

104 Is there a difference between "migration" and "infestation"? Because I don't see one.

Posted by: Case at June 07, 2021 07:13 AM (jDaP6)

105 So I watched a little of the F1 from Azerbaijan.

I did too. Did you notice how few people were around?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2021 07:13 AM (3H9h1)

106 "we'll continue pushing for common sense gun laws that will save lives."

Note the dishonesty, they assertion by adjective, the No True Scotsman.

"No, we won't just push for gun laws that will save lives, we will push for common sense gun laws. No True Scotsman would vote against common sense. You're not against common sense are you?"

This, from people who confuse semi with auto and magazine with clip. How in the world could they have common sense re guns when they remain so ignorant ?

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:13 AM (83lwH)

107 I want a "SHUT UP, KAREN" bumper sticker

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 07, 2021 07:13 AM (iTXRQ)

108 I want to see Doctor Fauxchi emails from the fall of '19 when people were saying the only way to stop President Trump was to crash the economy. When the Dems were rushing through an impeachment that was suddenly sat upon until the first cases of Kungflu hit our shores. I know she is as untouchable as a Clinton but I want to know what did Pelosi know and when did she know it?

Posted by: Scott at June 07, 2021 07:14 AM (9xv4A)

109 Good morning Horde and JJS on his BD. JJ writes, in part

...Given all of that, the big question is was this virus accidentally released or was it released on purpose?...

I think this doesn't matter. I have my suspicions (accident), but the provable fact is that China locked down internal travel from Wuhan while allowing travel to other countries.

Thusly and presto, they intended for this shit to spread to the rest of the world. They are mass murdering motherfuckers, and it ain't their first rodeo.

Amen.

Posted by: GnuBreed, journalizin' at June 07, 2021 07:14 AM (F0YaR)

110 103 She then walked right in, sans mask, and walked straight to the first employee and said 'We don't need to wear that damn thing, right?'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 07:13 AM (3D/fK)

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I have yet to walk into a store in Mount Pleasant within the past month where anyone said anything about a mask, no matter the sign.

There are just too many people not wearing it for hourly waged employees to care.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 07:14 AM (LvTSG)

111 "No, Tom was seriously injured in a cockpit fire; Heston crash-landed"

Thanks.

They say that memory is the second thing to fail with age.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 07:14 AM (3D/fK)

112 "N.J. law requires that if you are not vaccinated you wear a mask." or "We respectfully ask our non vaccinated customers to wear a mask."

Law? More like King Phildo's Executive Order.

Posted by: Clark Westfield at June 07, 2021 07:14 AM (OvTHW)

113 This being a smart military blog and all, vulgarity kinda comes with the territory.
Posted by: SMH

Poop on that !

Posted by: JT at June 07, 2021 07:15 AM (arJlL)

114 Passed through one of our metroparks yesterday whilst on the motorpickle. Saw at least a dozen diaper devotees - all young. Just wanted to stop and berate them for their irrationality but decided I need to let it go.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 07, 2021 07:15 AM (W4eKo)

115 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 07, 2021 07:15 AM (arJlL)

116
At Whole Paycheck and at my wine merchant you can go unmasked if you have the shot. But it's an honor system as they have no way to check.

Suckers!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 07, 2021 07:16 AM (s2VJv)

117 Germantown Maryland still at 100%

About 80/20 in Hunt Valley MD (the signs just went down this week requiring masks, I didn't even know they were down until I got to the store), and closer to 50/50 in more rural Jacksonville MD. Also the aisle arrows nobody ever followed are gone.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 07, 2021 07:16 AM (6XLoz)

118 I like the outside the box thinking, but isn't it coincidental? I thought all viruses disproportionately affected the oldest and weakest?
Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:07 AM (83lwH)

When it approaches 99.5% for the oldest and weakest, it stretches the meaning of "coincidental".

Posted by: jwest at June 07, 2021 07:16 AM (/BlEx)

119 "I have yet to walk into a store in Mount Pleasant within the past month where anyone said anything about a mask, no matter the sign. "

I can attest to the Mt Pleasant Belks, HomeGoods and Home Depot being almost completely mask free yesterday.

Same with Jack's.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 07:16 AM (3D/fK)

120 They say that memory is the second thing to fail with age.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 07:14 AM (3D/fK)

***

The first is... ummm... let's see... ahhhh

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 07, 2021 07:16 AM (flINI)

121 >They say that memory is the second thing to fail with age.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice.

my experience is that a bunch of things start to unravel at the same time
hair, teeth, joint flexibility- stop me if you've heard this...

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 07, 2021 07:17 AM (iTXRQ)

122 out here in rural WI, masking is below 10%, in or outdoors. some places, like Menard's, still have the signs up, but they are mostly ignored.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 07, 2021 07:17 AM (VnT7U)

123 I have yet to walk into a store in Mount Pleasant
within the past month where anyone said anything about a mask, no matter
the sign.

There are just too many people not wearing it for hourly waged employees to care.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 07:14 AM

T J Maxx in Sherman Texas still has a lady at the front telling every customer that walks in that masks are mandatory in the store. Only saw about 1 in 25 wearing a mask when I was last there. Everyone pretty much ignores her.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 07, 2021 07:18 AM (JUOKG)

124 "stop me if you've heard this..."

Heard what?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 07:18 AM (3D/fK)

125 123 T J Maxx in Sherman Texas still has a lady at the front telling every customer that walks in that masks are mandatory in the store. Only saw about 1 in 25 wearing a mask when I was last there. Everyone pretty much ignores her.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 07, 2021 07:18 AM (JUOKG)

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That poor lady is going to commit suicide.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 07:18 AM (LvTSG)

126 Good Monday morning horde!

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 07, 2021 07:18 AM (bSk6g)

127 Had a few stores in my 'hood that tried to hold out ("You STILL need to wear a mask to enter...") but they quickly gave it up.

One thing I was saddened by, being out and about shopping yesterday, was all the store closures. I was out to some shopping areas I haven't visited in over a year. I knew it was bad in the parts of town I have frequented, but seeing it everywhere... Stopped at Famous Footwear and half the formerly-filled plaza was empty storefronts.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 07, 2021 07:18 AM (Bmy3R)

128 "Some people actually enjoy wearing the diapers, it appears."

Hmmm "when are you gonna take that diaper off your mouth" could be a good shaming line. OTOH maybe it's better to let them identify. Like the guy in the Che Shirt who wait tables at my fav restaurant.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:19 AM (83lwH)

129 128 "Some people actually enjoy wearing the diapers, it appears."

Hmmm "when are you gonna take that diaper off your mouth" could be a good shaming line. OTOH maybe it's better to let them identify. Like the guy in the Che Shirt who wait tables at my fav restaurant.
Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:19 AM (83lwH)

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These people are asking for respiratory problems. Let them have it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 07:20 AM (LvTSG)

130 "About 80/20 in Hunt Valley MD (the signs just went down this week requiring masks,"

I was in the liquor store there by Wegmans the other day, and I think I was one of maybe three people who were going commando.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 07:20 AM (3D/fK)

131 125 123 T J Maxx in Sherman Texas still has a lady at the front telling every customer that walks in that masks are mandatory in the store. Only saw about 1 in 25 wearing a mask when I was last there. Everyone pretty much ignores her.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 07, 2021 07:18 AM (JUOKG)

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That poor lady is going to commit suicide.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 07:18 AM (LvTSG)

I'm picturing her as Kevin Bacon during the parade scene in Animal House!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 07, 2021 07:20 AM (Bmy3R)

132 Here in the Bluegrass mask compliance is still running around 50 percent-ish. The rural area I'm in it's probably more like 30 percent, but fewer and fewer are wearing the snot rag.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2021 07:20 AM (3H9h1)

133 Having to drive into seattlistan on occasion, not by choice, there are still people wearing the face diaper inside and outside and a lot of them wear it while driving, sometimes with a face shield. *Insert rude comment here* Natural selection will be vigorously applied when the ruckus kicks off.

Posted by: Grog at June 07, 2021 07:20 AM (YFj/0)

134 Here in my section Frederick County MD it's maybe 10% wearing face diapers 90% free people. I just assume the 10% are leaking up here from The Peoples Republic of Montgomery County.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 07, 2021 07:20 AM (flINI)

135 I see on Insty that Kamel-Toe went to Guatemala for a "foreign policy trip" and the locals were ready with signs reading "Trump won!". LOLOLOLOLOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 07, 2021 07:21 AM (6XLoz)

136 Manchin is just opening his negotiating position, saying "bid me!"

I take nothing he says at face value.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 07:21 AM (gjvx9)

137 I see on Insty that Kamel-Toe went to Guatemala for a "foreign policy trip" and the locals were ready with signs reading "Trump won!". LOLOLOLOLOL.
Posted by: Ian S.

Nice !

Posted by: JT at June 07, 2021 07:22 AM (arJlL)

138 "There are just too many people not wearing it for hourly waged employees to care."

I certainly don't support the last year of hysteria, but I have noticed almost everyone learning bad habits re masking and quarantine. If a Capt Trips every comes, a lot of people who think they know better will die.

(press Open Elevator Door for latecomer, press 4 for her, reach up and scratch eyelid... sigh)

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:23 AM (83lwH)

139 "I take nothing he says at face value."

Now if he gets banned by Twitter, then I might reconsider his degree of integrity.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 07:23 AM (3D/fK)

140 I started observing ages of the few people who are wearing masks. It's almost entirely young people. Either those under 18 who can't get the vaccine (and also wouldn't be all that bothered by covid, natch) or young adults who surely have had the vaccine.

COVID is going to have damaged a large swath of this population, and they're going to be suffering with cognitive dissonance about it for the rest of their lives.

"It was the most dangerous virus ever. It killed 600,000. My best friend's uncle died of it after a lifetime of diabetes brought on by obesity. It was super dangerous, the virus not the obesity which was his choice and beautiful."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 07:23 AM (LvTSG)

141 And when she gets to be a teen or a little younger, Harry and Megan Markle's daughter will absolutely HATE the name "Lilibet" and if she doesn't go by whatever her middle name is she will go by "Elizabeth" or "Liz"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 07, 2021 07:23 AM (k39e/)

142 Mixed messages Harry ole boy, mixed messages.---------------------------------Not mixed at all. What Harry hates is the obligations of royalty, but he loves the benefits of royalty - namely the fame, fortune, and influence part.
Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 07:05 AM (sX1BW)

Every photo I see of that dimwit he has an uncomprehending look on his face, just like his whore mother.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 07:23 AM (y7DUB)

143 Re masks.. pretty much disappeared here. Only people I see wearing them are old people and blacks. Did covid hit the black population particularly hard? I honestly don't remember.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 07, 2021 07:24 AM (bSk6g)

144 The grocery store in my NJ town tried to give up on masks, but the Karen Scolds went batshit. Now the mask sign is back, this time as a "request" and not a command. Interesting to see the surprisingly large number of people who refuse to wear the Mark Of Wuhan and are going proudly maskless.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 07:24 AM (gjvx9)

145 " I just assume the 10% are leaking up here from The Peoples Republic of Montgomery County."

Hey! We're not all bad. Native Texan here just trying to sell so we can get our tails back to Dallas.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:24 AM (83lwH)

146 141 And when she gets to be a teen or a little younger, Harry and Megan Markle's daughter will absolutely HATE the name "Lilibet" and if she doesn't go by whatever her middle name is she will go by "Elizabeth" or "Liz"

no she will go by Lily, probably they already call her that. Lily and variants are hugely popular nowadays

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 07, 2021 07:25 AM (j9HX3)

147 Hey! We're not all bad. Native Texan here just trying to sell so we can get our tails back to Dallas.
Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:24 AM (83lwH)

***

You're behind enemy lines.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 07, 2021 07:25 AM (flINI)

148 Mask wearers down here are late 20 to 40ish overweight women. People mostly scared of their own shadow.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 07:26 AM (yrol0)

149 Thank you and good morning, JJ.

Posted by: President Orange Man Bad (Rheees Be Upon Him) at June 07, 2021 07:26 AM (jV+aN)

150 Well, Insty likes to exaggerate things. The headline says Kamaltoe was geeted by "signs" (plural) but if you click on the actual link it says:

"One sign simply stated, "Kamala, TRUMP WON," another told the vice president that "Guatemala as pro-life," and another want to her to go home."

So, 3 signs in a crowd of hundreds.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 07, 2021 07:26 AM (Bmy3R)

151 141 And when she gets to be a teen or a little younger, Harry and Megan Markle's daughter will absolutely HATE the name "Lilibet" and if she doesn't go by whatever her middle name is she will go by "Elizabeth" or "Liz"

no she will go by Lily, probably they already call her that. Lily and variants are hugely popular nowadays
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Lilliput !

Lilliput yer dishes in the sink !

Posted by: JT at June 07, 2021 07:26 AM (arJlL)

152 and if she doesn't go by whatever her middle name is she will go by "Elizabeth" or "Liz"

I'm so sick of those two. Their stupid mugs are everywhere. I didn't think I could ever despise anyone more than the Kardashians but those two idiots managed.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 07, 2021 07:26 AM (bSk6g)

153 Did covid hit the black population particularly hard?

Well, there was the vitamin D deficiency blitz scare tactic posited by our "experts".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 07, 2021 07:27 AM (W4eKo)

154 Well, Insty likes to exaggerate things.---------------------------------So no different than CNN

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 07, 2021 07:27 AM (sX1BW)

155 "Lily and variants are hugely popular nowadays"

Speaking of Lily, what is up with the AT&T Lily in the new commercials?

She has gone from a cute kid to almost unrecognizable.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 07:27 AM (3D/fK)

156 152 and if she doesn't go by whatever her middle name is she will go by "Elizabeth" or "Liz"

I'm so sick of those two. Their stupid mugs are everywhere. I didn't think I could ever despise anyone more than the Kardashians but those two idiots managed.
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 07, 2021 07:26 AM (bSk6g)

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Celebrity culture is manufactured by New York and Los Angeles publicity agents and promulgated by fashion magazine editors and television news producers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 07:28 AM (LvTSG)

157 84 "No country "weaponizes" a virus that eliminates the oldest, weakest and most spectacularly expensive sector of their adversary's people"

I like the outside the box thinking, but isn't it coincidental? I thought all viruses disproportionately affected the oldest and weakest?

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:07 AM (83lwH)

If all you have is lemons, you make lemonade.
The best is the enemy of good enough.

So perhaps: A good killer virus today is better than a perfect killer virus tomorrow? Or next month? Or next year?

Posted by: Gref at June 07, 2021 07:28 AM (AMIL/)

158 Moar Please!

Im not going to go treat that white guy, Im going to treat the person of color instead because whatever happened to the white guy, he probably deserves it.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 07:28 AM (yrol0)

159 Yesterday I mentioned "Hebrews to Negroes" a book insisting that blacks are the chosen people (I think we choose and are not chosen). It had over 1K reviews, so I suspect this theory is gaining strength."
Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:05 AM (83lwH)

I have seen those guys dressed up as Egyptians and bad mouthing Y-T in Times Square. Claimed to be the "real" Jews.

They were better than a Broadway show and for free.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 07, 2021 07:29 AM (YxVzA)

160 https://tinyurl.com/yyadkuph

lol. Guatamala

Posted by: Infidel at June 07, 2021 07:29 AM (E0OEG)

161 no she will go by Lily

Did you just presume gender? "It" might go by "Larry."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2021 07:30 AM (3H9h1)

162 I'm so sick of those two. Their stupid mugs are everywhere. I didn't think I could ever despise anyone more than the Kardashians but those two idiots managed.

--

There's a glaringly obvious push by entertainment/news outlets to make them "happen." If they weren't SJW zealots with the ability to tarnish the Royal Family (while keeping all the perks, might I add), they'd be nothing. Of no use. It's as plain as day.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 07:30 AM (O+I8R)

163 I'm surprised that the Sparklles have presumed to assign their child's gender
tsk tsk

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 07, 2021 07:30 AM (oEn12)

164 "You're behind enemy lines."

Yah, no choice, we moved here to work for Congress Critter. But I've had it with Maryland. Northern VA was once a possible hatch but door is now closed too.

Even Frederick has gotten infected over the last 20 years. Surely you've noticed the encroaching sprawl.

Although I can't figure out why the "sophisticated" folk in Montgomery County never got an Olive Garden. That's why the wife brings me north.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:30 AM (83lwH)

165 Good morning all. Thanks JJ. Truman was in a bad spot at the end of WW2 after the Japanese Surrendered . Stalin was moving on Greece and Berlin. Was worried that Japan might fall also. America was sick of war at this point, the same as the time before Pearl Harbor. churchill predicted that Stalin would be our enemy after the war, but FDR was a socialist himself and shrugged

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:31 AM (WY8d2)

166 President Xi Jinping would like to foster a more trustworthy, respectable and loveable image for the Peoples Republic of China, while killing and raping the minorities in China.

But mostly killing and raping.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 07:31 AM (yrol0)

167 TJM, Oh I know and there are plenty of people who lap this shit up. I can't go anywhere without seeing their faces! Drives me nuts.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 07, 2021 07:31 AM (bSk6g)

168 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 07:32 AM (Zz0t1)

169 Happy Monday, Horde.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 07:32 AM (Zz0t1)

170 Hiya Sponge !

Posted by: JT at June 07, 2021 07:33 AM (arJlL)

171 "FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt "

We rate this statement as 'Mostly True'

Posted by: sNopes at June 07, 2021 07:33 AM (3D/fK)

172 Here in south MS, masks are becoming rare. However, I have noticed something and I don't think it is confirmation bias --

Blacks are more likely than whites to still be wearing one. Now, my guess for this phenomena is that
A, Blacks here are less likely to have taken the jab(s) due to memories of the Tuskagee Experiment and
B, they think the mask is their last line of defense.

I'm not being critical at all, those are both valid responses.

Someday, I might see some vindication of my observations. Or Not. Oh well.

Posted by: GnuBreed, journalizin' at June 07, 2021 07:33 AM (F0YaR)

173 Amazing on how most in Illinois now spend their weekends. They all drive to Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and Indiana for all their shopping. The only product doing well here, is a Infanticide Abortion

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:34 AM (WY8d2)

174 what is wrong with Illinois

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 07, 2021 07:35 AM (iTXRQ)

175 It should concern, but not surprise every American the FBI, CIA (and I would add DoJ) have been infiltrated by people spying for the Chinese. Use that context for every situation since Trump was elected and it all makes sense. Every single one of these people should be uncovered, shot and have their houses burned to the ground.

We don't have a "two-tiered" system of justice. We have one for the Chinese spies and supporters, and one for Americans.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 07, 2021 07:35 AM (UkAUe)

176 Blacks seem to wear the mask in disproportionate numbers over all.

But like you said...

That whole Tuskegee thing.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 07:35 AM (3D/fK)

177 No country "weaponizes" a virus that eliminates the oldest, weakest and most spectacularly expensive sector of their adversary's people"

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Since I don't know of any parallel where a bioweapon has been released into the world intentionally, I'm thinking they had no idea what the fallout would be, or who exactly would be hit the hardest. Old people? Young people? Mix of everyone? Throw it out there and see what stuck. Then, rehone and refine for the next time.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 07:36 AM (O+I8R)

178 morning horde.

nothing like an 8 am meeting to describe something for the 4th time to your boss. who just doesn't listen or comprehend what you told him the previous 3 times...

anyway, coffee is ready. now to the content.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 07, 2021 07:36 AM (8D42x)

179 >161, 163
Horde Mind

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 07, 2021 07:36 AM (3H9h1)

180 "Well, Insty likes to exaggerate things."

"So no different than CNN"

Insty is now putting critics of Driscoll's Daily Treacheround into moderation purgatory, which is the same as a ban considering the thread is cold by the time your remarks get released from jail. Guess it was getting bad and they couldn't handle it anymore, as it appears their business model is to challenge Hot Air...

So much for those libertarian principles re free speech. They were always situational.

"You're just like CNN, only smaller" - The Hound, GoT

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:36 AM (83lwH)

181 Second Junior completely destroyed Dolley's iPad yesterday.

He shoved it down the side of our media room chairs and immediately pushed the button to recline it. The iPad got caught in the metal underneath and got bent pretty badly, shattering the screen and bending the lithium ion battery.

She was not happy, especially because we're spending a lot of money on trips she wants to take in the next couple of months, all her idea, and now she wants to spend another $1000 to replace it. She's holding off, gonna wait for some sale day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 07:37 AM (LvTSG)

182 46 Judging by spending most of yesterday in stores shopping for bedding...

The great de-masking is firmly in progress.

Getting harder and harder to find someone who is wearing one.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 06:56 AM

The pace at which masks are being dropped around here has actually surprised me. The huge signs on doors re: mask requirements have either disappeared or been replaced by tiny ones "requesting" mask usage in certain circumstances. Some are completely gone. The grocery stores have taken down their one-way aisle traffic signs and separate entry and exit doors. Stanley Cup is being played before live crowds, complete with parking lot tailgating parties. I still see some use of masks but mostly by elderly and African American customers. Virtually no one is using them outdoors. All of the local pools are open with no mask requirements.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 07, 2021 07:38 AM (qe5CM)

183 what is wrong with Illinois
Posted by: DB- just DB at June 07, 2021 07:35 AM (iTXRQ)

Liberal shithole with a LONG history of corruption in government.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 07:38 AM (Zz0t1)

184 " We have one for the Chinese spies and supporters, and one for Americans."

Inner Party and the Deplorables.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:38 AM (83lwH)

185
It should concern, but not surprise every American the FBI, CIA (and I
would add DoJ) have been infiltrated by people spying for the Chinese.
Use that context for every situation since Trump was elected and it all
makes sense. Every single one of these people should be uncovered, shot
and have their houses burned to the ground.

We don't have a "two-tiered" system of justice. We have one for the Chinese spies and supporters, and one for Americans.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 07, 2021 07:35 AM

Pretty sure the defector told his handlers not to hand him over to the fib or anyone else because he would wind up shooting himself in the back of the head twice. And if he really is a high level guy he might actually have names.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 07, 2021 07:39 AM (JUOKG)

186 Why is Trump endorsing Senate candidates so early?

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:39 AM (WY8d2)

187 Insty is now putting critics of Driscoll's Daily Treacheround into moderation purgatory, which is the same as a ban considering the thread is cold by the time your remarks get released from jail. Guess it was getting bad and they couldn't handle it anymore, as it appears their business model is to challenge Hot Air...

Or Patterico.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 07:39 AM (y7DUB)

188 I can't wait for November and flu season.

It's gonna be fascinating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 07:40 AM (LvTSG)

189 All of the local pools are open with no mask requirements.
Posted by: Moonbeam

Who swims with a mask on ?

Hiya Moonbeam !

Posted by: JT at June 07, 2021 07:40 AM (arJlL)

190 They were better than a Broadway show and for free.

More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 07, 2021 07:29 AM (YxVzA)

"We didn't land on the pyramids, the pyramids landed on us!"

-Ancient Black Astronaut Theorists

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2021 07:40 AM (/EuRN)

191 Mask wearing was way, way down this weekend in upstate SC. The lowest since this entire sh*tshow started.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 07:41 AM (O+I8R)

192 I can't wait for November and flu season.

It's gonna be fascinating.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 07:40 AM (LvTSG)

There is no flu anymore.

Chink out front should've told ya.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 07:41 AM (Zz0t1)

193 186 Why is Trump endorsing Senate candidates so early?
Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:39 AM (WY8d2)

OODA loop? Make the bastards have to respond?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 07, 2021 07:41 AM (/EuRN)

194 Why is Trump endorsing Senate candidates so early?
Posted by: Jonah

looking for worms.

Posted by: JT at June 07, 2021 07:41 AM (arJlL)

195 180- Insty is now putting critics of Driscoll's Daily Treacheround into moderation purgatory, which is the same as a ban considering the thread is cold by the time your remarks get released from jail. Guess it was getting bad and they couldn't handle it anymore, as it appears their business model is to challenge Hot Air...
Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:36 AM

Hot Air is actually in the PJ Media family.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 07, 2021 07:41 AM (qe5CM)

196 Who swims with a mask on ?

The same people who put them back on between bites.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 07, 2021 07:42 AM (bSk6g)

197 I saw Tianmen Square open for Wuhan Lab Leak circa 2003 at the Fox Theater.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 07:42 AM (DlG3S)

198 Why is Trump endorsing Senate candidates so early?

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:39 AM

Why not?

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 07, 2021 07:42 AM (JUOKG)

199
nsty is now putting critics of Driscoll's Daily Treacheround into moderation purgatory, which is the same as a ban considering the thread is cold by the time your remarks get released from jail.

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Makes you wonder about the sellout Reynolds committed when he went with PJMedia. Insty used to be among the best. Now it has losers like Driscoll and Bernstein with their links to reliable NeverTrumpers. Apart from Hoyt and, occasionally, Steven Green, it's not much worth reading any more.

Treacher is the special-needs kid at PJMedia.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2021 07:43 AM (mht8P)

200 Illinois is a example of how important family is in your life. Most would not live here if not for aging parents, siblings etc..
We are trapped. If i lived near Iowa border, I would live there and travel. I love the people of Southern Wisconsin, and Northwest Indiana is a dump, just cannot live there.

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:43 AM (WY8d2)

201 At church, the honor system too. No mask if you have been vaccinated.

I can fib about it everywhere else, but not before the Lord of Lords.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at June 07, 2021 07:43 AM (xopIz)

202 This weekend I crossed the border into a state where the masks are still a thing. I didnt wear one, got a lot of looks, gave no fucks.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 07:43 AM (DlG3S)

203 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

Hot and humid here in NE MA. Stuck inside in the attic at Stately Poppins Manor, counting down the days until I can retire.

I'd rather be here:

tuxburytinyhouse.com

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 07:43 AM (2JVJo)

204 There was a video I saw a couple days ago that someone took with their cellphone at a public pool. They filmed some dork swimming with a mask on. Staged or not, who knows. But after what I've seen over the past 15 months, nothing would surprise me anymore.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 07:43 AM (O+I8R)

205 32 The Defense Intelligence Agency won't share intel with the FBI and CIA because it is understood that those agencies now work for China and against patriotic Americans. Holy crap.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 07, 2021 06:51 AM (d9Cw3)

Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier is the head of the DIA, and was confirmed last June. Biden isn't getting rid of him anytime soon, thank goodness.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 07, 2021 07:44 AM (mdjgu)

206 198. let things play out? a lot of times early candidates have shit in the closet. Let there be vetting

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:45 AM (WY8d2)

207 11 Calling shrinks doctors is as bad as Jill Biden. Some are professionals but many are there to self diagnose.
____________

That lunatic Iranian bitch from Yale is the perfect example of what CRT does to the mind.

She has been indoctrinated in leftist, race-obsessed garbage her entire academic career, and we've now seen what it did to her mind. She fantasizes about murdering random white people on the street for no reason other than the color of their skin.

And people wonder why parents are fighting to get CRT brain-washing out of their schools. This Yale psychiatrist should be known as Exhibit "A" to their argument that CRT is destructive, divisive, and dangerous. She is a great example of how being marinated for years in the toxic stew of race-hate known as CRT and "anti-racism" corrupts and destroys a person's mind.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 07, 2021 07:45 AM (k4dH2)

208 Makes you wonder about the sellout Reynolds committed when he went with PJMedia. Insty used to be among the best. Now it has losers like Driscoll and Bernstein with their links to reliable NeverTrumpers. Apart from Hoyt and, occasionally, Steven Green, it's not much worth reading any more.

--

I used to go to Insty several times a day, every day. I got fed up with all but a few writers. I haven't gone there for months.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 07:45 AM (O+I8R)

209 "Or Patterico."

Forgot he existed.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:45 AM (83lwH)

210 The problem here, as this article illustrates is that those who are supposed to be in charge of our defense have acted and are acting in league with the aggressor nation that perpetrated this attack.

RawDog Mattis' first job after leaving the DOD was as a paid lobbyist for the ChiComs. You would be a fool to believe he was not in contact with them long before he left as SecDef.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 07, 2021 07:45 AM (C2hDV)

211 I'd rather be here:

That's looks interesting and fun! I love how they name them. lol!

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 07, 2021 07:47 AM (bSk6g)

212 The Curiosity rover has been working away on Mars for almost nine full years, so damage to its wheels are no surprise. It's photos, though, are still amazing!

Thanks for that link, JJS.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 07:47 AM (gjvx9)

213 "The Defense Intelligence Agency won't share intel with the FBI and CIA because it is understood that those agencies now work for China and against patriotic Americans. Holy crap. "

Pretty big chink in our national defense armor, yes?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 07:47 AM (3D/fK)

214 Hard to believe than Manchin is out fire wall. Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 07, 2021 07:48 AM (GPwVZ)

215 Did Megan and Harry have that baby? And since it was born in the US ( I assume) it can be prezzy some day.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 07:48 AM (DlG3S)

216 If it was engineered it doesn't matter if the release was accidental or not. It was either done with purpose or covered up to the same effect. And China could give two fucks in any case as no one is going to do anything about it. But keep suing people who sold talcum powder sheeple.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 07, 2021 07:48 AM (xEIoY)

217 214

Ahem.

Posted by: Mitt at June 07, 2021 07:48 AM (DlG3S)

218 Prosecutors estimated the cost of damages to the U.S. Capitol building at $1.5 million in court documents reviewed by the Washington Post."

I am going to need to see an itemized list. Likely includes the pay and benefits cost of every capitol police officer on duty during the 6 hours.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 07, 2021 07:48 AM (C2hDV)

219 the 2010 Senate races were a disaster, even though ironically we gained 7 seats. We should have 10 to 12 and taken the Senate. Tea party endorsed too many wackos early that year, but were good on the ones they vetted

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:48 AM (WY8d2)

220 Did Megan and Harry have that baby? And since it was born in the US ( I assume) it can be prezzy some day.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 07:48 AM (DlG3S)

I care about that as much as whether they each took a crap or even less

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 07, 2021 07:49 AM (GPwVZ)

221 218. did that include all the vibrators from the Squad?

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:49 AM (WY8d2)

222 219 the 2010 Senate races were a disaster, even though ironically we gained 7 seats. We should have 10 to 12 and taken the Senate. Tea party endorsed too many wackos early that year, but were good on the ones they vetted
Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:48 AM (WY8d2)

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This happens a lot. Not necessarily the wackos, but over the last decade the GOP always underperforms in the Senate races. Makes you think...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 07:50 AM (LvTSG)

223 "Since I don't know of any parallel where a bioweapon has been released into the world intentionally, I'm thinking they had no idea what the fallout would be, or who exactly would be hit the hardest. Old people? Young people? Mix of everyone? Throw it out there and see what stuck. Then, rehone and refine for the next time."Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 07:36 AM (O+I8R)

It appears they started with a known virus that hit the old and weak disproportionately before using "gain of function" techniques to perfect it. In the U.S., studies have estimated that 5% of patients account for half of all health care costs (3.65 trillion/year), while the top 1% of spenders account for over 27% of costs.

If you eliminate a good portion of that 5%, or even just the top 1%, it solves all your budget problems. This could pay for the universal health care that Obama was looking for. So, I can envision members of the deep state enthusiastically approving the funding for this.

Posted by: jwest at June 07, 2021 07:50 AM (/BlEx)

224 Trump will be on Stuart Varney's show on FBC this morning.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 07, 2021 07:51 AM (NpAcC)

225 214. Manchin and Synema see the winds for 2022 and 2024. They know Kameltoe is a disaster. Eliminate the buster, and the GOP will take huge advantage down the road

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:51 AM (WY8d2)

226 219

But look at it this way. Harry Reid won his seat because of a TP crazy. But him winning also led to him nuking the filibuster for judges. Which gave way to Trump appointing a ton of judges.

Unintended consequences are cool like that.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 07:52 AM (DlG3S)

227 40 I started observing ages of the few people who are wearing masks. It's almost entirely young people....

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Yes. Many, many young people. Sad.

Posted by: runner at June 07, 2021 07:52 AM (WP3Pq)

228 225 214. Manchin and Synema see the winds for 2022 and 2024. They know Kameltoe is a disaster. Eliminate the buster, and the GOP will take huge advantage down the road
Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:51 AM (WY8d2)

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Then the GOP should do it if and when they reclaim power. Shove through a bunch of reforms, especially around the administrative state and intelligence agencies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 07:52 AM (LvTSG)

229 222. Todd Akin and Murdoch were tough in 2012. Both good candidates who were right what they said on pro life issues, but the MSM destroyed them.

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:53 AM (WY8d2)

230
Prosecutors estimated the cost of damages to the U.S. Capitol building at $1.5 million in court documents reviewed by the Washington Post.

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$600,000 toilet seat, meet $1,000,000 glass door.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2021 07:53 AM (0Vn05)

231 Hot Air is actually in the PJ Media family.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 07, 2021 07:41 AM (qe5CM)

Mediocre Gas is actually a Salem property, like Townhall, Bearing Arms, Redstate, and a few others.

As to Insty, I noted last night that Glenn had to step in and dickslap Treacher (and by inference Driscoll) about NeverTrumpian lefty playbook spewings.

I guessed without checking that the comments on Driscoll's quote from Treacher triggered an Insta-commenterback-lash.

Posted by: GnuBreed, journalizin' at June 07, 2021 07:53 AM (F0YaR)

232 Makes you wonder about the sellout Reynolds committed when he went with PJMedia. Insty used to be among the best. Now it has losers like Driscoll and Bernstein with their links to reliable NeverTrumpers. Apart from Hoyt and, occasionally, Steven Green, it's not much worth reading any more.

PJM went down the shitter when Roger Simon left.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 07:53 AM (y7DUB)

233 222

No no no. Nothing to think about. Carry on.

Posted by: Dominion at June 07, 2021 07:53 AM (DlG3S)

234 Jwest, except that as a killing vector, the 'rona sucks. If you believe the 500k dead figure (bullshit), the number is insignificant to the population. And I'd wager the fallout to younger people's mental health far exceeds any elder mortality issues.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 07, 2021 07:53 AM (xEIoY)

235 Treacher is the special-needs kid at PJMedia.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2021 07:43 AM (mht8P)

His PTSD from the being run over is strong.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 07:54 AM (yrol0)

236 "Makes you wonder about the sellout Reynolds committed when he went with PJMedia. Insty used to be among the best. Now it has losers like Driscoll and Bernstein with their links to reliable NeverTrumpers. Apart from Hoyt and, occasionally, Steven Green, it's not much worth reading any more."

I think Hoyt's a fraud too, based on direct experience. And Correia by extension. I was a fan, but I think I wrongly assumed that because our enemies attacked them they were our people. That's not always true. I know they are both respected here, and I do hope I am wrong about them. But it's fitting a pattern I've seen before.

Good friend of mine (and love of my life) recently got her world set on fire, turns out her husband had been cheating, wanting a divorce after using up 20 years of her life. He has a boat, and all their friends would routinely go fishing with him (mostly the other husbands and only a few other wife). And he brought the mistress along every time. So... her female friends knew what was happening, for at least 2 years, and never said a damn thing.

Co-conspirators. Not good people.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:55 AM (83lwH)

237 Walked the dog on the beach earlier this morning (it;s gonna be a scorcher)m and NO MASKS. Also, no social distancing or people straining to not get close as their dog pulls them in for the meet 'n sniff between the dogs.

Totally forgot about covid. It was 100% normal - woohoo!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 07:55 AM (bDqIh)

238 231 Hot Air is actually in the PJ Media family.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 07, 2021 07:41 AM (qe5CM)

Mediocre Gas is actually a Salem property, like Townhall, Bearing Arms, Redstate, and a few others.

As to Insty, I noted last night that Glenn had to step in and dickslap Treacher (and by inference Driscoll) about NeverTrumpian lefty playbook spewings.

I guessed without checking that the comments on Driscoll's quote from Treacher triggered an Insta-commenterback-lash.
Posted by: GnuBreed, journalizin' at June 07, 2021 07:53 AM (F0YaR)

Mediocre Gas sounds like what you get from eating great mexican food!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 07:55 AM (yrol0)

239 2010 Iliinois governor race was just brutal. A redistricting year to boot. Bill Brady was the worst candidate for the GOP in the primary, but won with tea party support. IL state races are won in the Burbs, and Brady a month before the vote alienates GOP women by saying some radical things on womens rights. We lose, and the new map is brutal

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:55 AM (WY8d2)

240 What did Treacher say exactly?

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 07, 2021 07:56 AM (o25GB)

241 Mediocre Gas is actually a Salem property, like Townhall, Bearing Arms, Redstate, and a few others.

Posted by: GnuBreed, journalizin' at June 07, 2021 07:53 AM (F0YaR)
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Isn't PJ Media also owned by Salem, not that anyone gives a shit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 07:56 AM (gjvx9)

242 218 Prosecutors estimated the cost of damages to the U.S. Capitol building at $1.5 million in court documents reviewed by the Washington Post."
_________

I don't recall ever seeing any estimate of the cost of damages caused by the BLM and antifa rioters in D.C. who were setting fires and destroying shit on Trump's inauguration day in 2017.

But I do recall that they were all released quickly and the charges against them dropped, and I also recall that they were paid a settlement of over a million dollars for some imagined violation of their rights.

Meanwhile, 6 months later, the Capitol trespassers continue to be incarcerated, in terrible conditions, with no bail and no hope.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 07, 2021 07:57 AM (k4dH2)

243 Todd Akin and Murdoch were tough in 2012. Both good candidates who were right what they said on pro life issues, but the MSM destroyed them.
Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:53 AM (WY8d2)

I hate to say this but the GOP voters contain too many sheep who get tooled by the enemedia regularly.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 07:57 AM (y7DUB)

244 234 Jwest, except that as a killing vector, the 'rona sucks. If you believe the 500k dead figure (bullshit), the number is insignificant to the population. And I'd wager the fallout to younger people's mental health far exceeds any elder mortality issues.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 07, 2021 07:53 AM (xEIoY)

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Agree 100%

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 07, 2021 07:57 AM (o25GB)

245 Longhorns Baseball on to superregionals!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 07:57 AM (yrol0)

246 Hard to believe than Manchin is out fire wall. Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 07, 2021 07:48 AM (GPwVZ)

Actually, Angus King (I-but mostly D) also said he wouldn't support federalizin' elections. So HR-1 is mostly toast.

Posted by: GnuBreed, journalizin' at June 07, 2021 07:57 AM (F0YaR)

247 Cleveland Clinic Heath Services study finds ZERO C19 reinfections during 5 month follow up among 1359 previously infected employees who remained unvaccinated and concludes those employees are "unlikely to benefit from C19 vaccination."

- via Andrew Bostom MD MS

Cleveland Clinic you say? But, but, but the media has said we all need vaccination no matter what and has never heard of naturally occurring antibodies or herd immunity.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2021 07:57 AM (Rvt88)

248 228. That election bill is crippling for us. We can not let them eliminate the buster.

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:58 AM (WY8d2)

249 The global forces arrayed against Trump last year were mind-numbing. Still, it took a carefully planned domestic effort: election-rigging in swing states, a cover-up (yeah, you, Barr and Durham) of Intel agencies undermining the administration, and a first-ever national lockdown/quarantine -- to "defeat" Trump.

I'm looking forward to the books written on this.

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 07, 2021 07:58 AM (71FBG)

250 But I don't get Driscoll. He's not savy enough to follow Breitbart's Rule and check the comments? He's destroyed his rep with most there, and all so he could rub our noses in NeverTrumper Treacher drek.

I kept trying to explain it's not the viewpoint, it's the treachery. By rewarding Treacher they are ensuring we will get more treachery. But he doesn't listen to me, a loyal reader, every day since 9-11. SMH.

Only explanation I have is that Driscoll has some contractual obligation to promote Treacher. But if I was Treacher and saw what doing to my friend's reputation, I would release him from it, instead of being such a coward.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 07:58 AM (83lwH)

251 Clarence Williams III RIP Linc!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 07:58 AM (yrol0)

252 Todd Akin and Murdoch were tough in 2012

Lugar ran the op against Murdoch.

Didn't Akin say something stupid like "Women who are raped don't get pregnant because their bodies fight off the rapists sperm" Besides being stupid, a competent senator to be would not step on the rape landmine.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 07, 2021 07:58 AM (C2hDV)

253 231 Hot Air is actually in the PJ Media family.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 07, 2021 07:41 AM (qe5CM)

Mediocre Gas is actually a Salem property, like Townhall, Bearing Arms, Redstate, and a few others.

Posted by: GnuBreed, journalizin' at June 07, 2021 07:53 AM

I meant that they are all under the same umbrella. If you subscribe, you get access to all of their VIP content.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 07, 2021 07:58 AM (qe5CM)

254 Illinois is a example of how important family is in your life. Most would not live here if not for aging parents, siblings etc..
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Grandbabies.

Posted by: SMH at June 07, 2021 07:58 AM (d62+N)

255 Nobody is more in the pocket of the Chinese then the American media. They should be first to the gallows.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 07, 2021 07:58 AM (UkAUe)

256 I would love to know if McConnell has offered Manchin a Chairmanship to switch.

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:59 AM (WY8d2)

257 My Biden loving in-laws shocked me recently. They said all that extra unemployment is hurting the economy as people choose to stay at home and not work.

And Biden said that he does not want to extend the extra money post September.

This is why the Dems win ( well and fraud). They have a pulse on their voters and act accordingly. Compare that to the gop which just shits on their voters all day every day.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 07:59 AM (DlG3S)

258
Dropped off drycleaning this morning for Her Majesty. Unfortunatly on the way home, my car swerved suddenly and ran into a donut shop. A number of blueberry glazed donuts and plain kolaches fell into the car.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2021 07:59 AM (mht8P)

259 Chinese have massive investments in Hollywood and Corporate Marxist media

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 07:59 AM (WY8d2)

260 >>Since I don't know of any parallel where a bioweapon has been released into the world intentionally, I'm thinking they had no idea what the fallout would be, or who exactly would be hit the hardest.

FWIW, there are reports that China has been developing a db of US citizens' dna (probably other countries, too), so that viruses can be targeted at certain genetic groups.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 08:00 AM (bDqIh)

261 246 Hard to believe than Manchin is out fire wall. Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 07, 2021 07:48 AM (GPwVZ)

Actually, Angus King (I-but mostly D) also said he wouldn't support federalizin' elections. So HR-1 is mostly toast.
Posted by: GnuBreed, journalizin' at June 07, 2021 07:57 AM (F0YaR)

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I should say that I predicted that HR1 wouldn't become law in January.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 08:00 AM (LvTSG)

262 Mr Sefton, you are getting a raise and a self installing bookshelf.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 07, 2021 08:00 AM (VgIeo)

263 Actually, Angus King (I-but mostly D) also said he wouldn't support federalizin' elections. So HR-1 is mostly toast.
Posted by: GnuBreed, journalizin' at June 07, 2021 07:57 AM (F0YaR)

Good. It would have been to much easier and better for The America I love if we had just won GA or at least one of those seats

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 07, 2021 08:00 AM (GPwVZ)

264 Like Ricky Gervais said, If ISIS had a streaming service, most of Hollywood would call their agents

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 08:00 AM (WY8d2)

265 "Unfortunatly on the way home, my car swerved suddenly and ran into a donut shop. "

Eh.....it happens.

Even here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 08:00 AM (3D/fK)

266 I am not a China triumphalist. It has problems almost as bad as the United States, some perhaps worse. Both are deeply troubled nations although the rot within this country is more visible.

That written...

China is the most serious threat the American people have ever faced. The reason? It's Fifth Column controls the Imperial City. Its most dutiful whores, Biden and McConnell, are the ostensible leadership of the nation. The corporate police state that has seized power is subservient to the PRC.

I don't know whether Gen. Flynn was joking or not, but a military coup by the loyal remains of that decayed institution may be necessary to prevent mass murder. Whether such a horribly flawed, castrated military can pull it off is another question.

And, yes, the virus was intentionally released. That has been as equally obvious as its laboratory origins for a long time. The only question that remains unclear is whether the American intelligence services helped its spread. Again, the most likely answer is "yes" based on what we have seen.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 07, 2021 08:01 AM (puu6v)

267 Ashli Babbitt was murdered by a Capital Police Officer, presumably the BLM activist previously named on social media. The US Attorney investigated and decided not to name the officer or bring any charges. The investigation, oddly enough, was done for the US Attorney by the Washington DC Metro Police. Strange choice.

Anyway, the Babbitt family is suing to learn the killer's ID. Good luck to them.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 08:01 AM (gjvx9)

268 "As to Insty, I noted last night that Glenn had to step in and dickslap Treacher (and by inference Driscoll) about NeverTrumpian lefty playbook spewings."

How do you mean? Treacher doesn't show his face at Insty.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:01 AM (83lwH)

269 The GOP underperforms because it nominates the Akins and Moores too often.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 08:02 AM (DlG3S)

270 263. If Governor China Kemp and the SOS would have fought harder for the election fraud, Ga run off turnout would have been better

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 08:02 AM (WY8d2)

271 234 Jwest, except that as a killing vector, the 'rona sucks. If you believe the 500k dead figure (bullshit), the number is insignificant to the population. And I'd wager the fallout to younger people's mental health far exceeds any elder mortality issues.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at June 07, 2021 07:53 AM (xEIoY)

The overall number is insignificant, but who died makes a difference. The virus targeted not just the old, but the old with expensive comorbidities. It didn't care about an 85 year old active, healthy granny. It wanted the 80 year old diabetic who had a standing appointment at the hospital.

Posted by: jwest at June 07, 2021 08:02 AM (/BlEx)

272 I used to go to Insty several times a day, every day. I got fed up with all but a few writers. I haven't gone there for months.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 07:45 AM (O+I8R)

Yeah, that site is pretty much worthless now. Sarah Hoyt is about the only readable one there, and even she can do better just with her own blog.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 08:03 AM (2JVJo)

273 Good morning. If the Left can impose the fiction of the "1619 Project," as the founding date of the American experience, then I suggest that a "1865 Project" would be far more appropriate and accurate. Like it or not, the Civil War is the central event in our historical and cultural journey, and set the stage for modern America. The Income Tax, mass conscription, the end of chattel slavery, the entrenchment of the two party system. There's a very good case for the idea that the American that we live in started in 1865, and the Abolitionist Movement is front and center.

Posted by: No Longer Amused at June 07, 2021 08:03 AM (TTclr)

274 I met Angus King a couple of times. I knew his son back in the day. A very chill dude.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 08:03 AM (DlG3S)

275
How do you mean? Treacher doesn't show his face at Insty.
Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:01 AM (83lwH)

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https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/454110/

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2021 08:03 AM (mht8P)

276 Illinois is a example of how important family is in your life. Most would not live here if not for aging parents, siblings etc.
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Both of my sisters announced last week that they have sold up and are moving to FL for one, and GA/TN border for the other.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 07, 2021 08:04 AM (MIKMs)

277 GOP needs to get out there and tell the American people that we support a clean infrastructure bill, with no freebies to Blue State cities. Infra is popular with all voters

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 08:04 AM (WY8d2)

278 FWIW, there are reports that China has been developing a db of US citizens' dna (probably other countries, too), so that viruses can be targeted at certain genetic groups.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 08:00 AM (bDqIh)

It is even worse, according to early reports quickly squelched. That virus is race specific and targets Whites. We now know Fauci funneled money to China's bioweapons program. Given the current anti-White position of the United States government, is there any doubt it would like to eliminate that population? China and the Deep State would dance on the graves of the Whites it massacred in a genocide.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 07, 2021 08:05 AM (puu6v)

279 Isn't PJ Media also owned by Salem, not that anyone gives a shit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 07:56 AM (gjvx9)

Well, I just checked, and Yes, by Satan's Crack Ho, they are one of 'the few others'. Fuckity.

Posted by: GnuBreed, journalizin' at June 07, 2021 08:05 AM (F0YaR)

280 @40
I've always considered Madonna a bioweapon...

Posted by: AceOfPhrase at June 07, 2021 08:05 AM (ttAum)

281 276. Good for them.

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 08:05 AM (WY8d2)

282 What did Treacher say exactly?
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 07, 2021 07:56 AM (o25GB)

Trump "incited" a January 6 "insurrection."

Fucker needs to go play in traffic again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 08:06 AM (2JVJo)

283 Madonna, the Duchess of Coathanger?

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 08:06 AM (WY8d2)

284 at 275

Meh. I was expecting more. Because I am stupid LOL

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:06 AM (83lwH)

285 > just saw a thing that Bezos and his brother are going up to space this summer(?)

Yeah, Beef Jezos is going to be among the first passengers on his Blue Origin spacecraft. Either he really believes in his product, or the divorce has been nasty enough that he wants to end it all.

I wonder if that's what's behind his recent decision to step down as CEO. Possibly the board (or the insurers) wouldn't let him do that while he was in the CEO position.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:07 AM (G15ac)

286 "Fucker needs to go play in traffic again."

But that's grift - Reynolds/Driscoll/Treacher are all playing for traffic. Rubbing our nose in Treacher filth for the clicks.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:08 AM (83lwH)

287 Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos will be stepping down next month and plans to travel to space with his brother on the first crewed flight of the New Shepherd, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin. The flight is scheduled for July 20th.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 07, 2021 08:08 AM (NpAcC)

288 This is 2021 not 1821. You can live far away from family and still be in touch as often as you want. With FaceTime and Zoom even more so. And a round trip flight is $400 pretty much anywhere in the country.

I just dont buy the excuse of cant leave the family so I choose to stay in Illinois or Cali or NJ. Millions of people move out of state every year. If they can do it so can you.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 08:08 AM (DlG3S)

289 > I think Hoyt's a fraud too, based on direct experience.

What "direct experience" would that be?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:08 AM (G15ac)

290
Yeah, Beef Jezos is going to be among the first passengers on his Blue Origin spacecraft.

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Well, that's eating your own dog food, I suppose.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2021 08:09 AM (mht8P)

291 I just dont buy the excuse of cant leave the family so I choose to stay in Illinois or Cali or NJ. Millions of people move out of state every year. If they can do it so can you.

And if you have a spouse who doesn't want to leave and refuses to go? What then - divorce?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 08:10 AM (2JVJo)

292 Luap Nor > Beef Jezos

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 07, 2021 08:10 AM (YxVzA)

293 > I just dont buy the excuse of cant leave the family so I choose to stay in Illinois or Cali or NJ.

It's pretty hard to give your elderly aunt a ride to the doctor over Zoom, dude. Also pretty hard to go over and make dinner for her when she's feeling poorly.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:10 AM (G15ac)

294 "Beef Jezos is going to be among the first passengers on his Blue Origin spacecraft."

Poking Fate

Farpoint CEO's Rocket Explodes, Dies at 33. Elon Musk Inspired Character -- Billions S3:E4

https://tinyurl.com/ys3s8td6

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:10 AM (83lwH)

295 Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos will be stepping down next month and plans to travel to space with his brother on the first crewed flight of the New Shepherd, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin. The flight is scheduled for July 20th.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 07, 2021 08:08 AM (NpAcC)

Is it wrong to anticipate a Challenger-esque instance?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

296
Rubbing our nose in Treacher filth for the clicks.
Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:08 AM (83lwH)

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A short-term strategy with long-term effects. Quoting and linking Treacher brings a predictable and voluminouse response, thereby generating more clicks. However, over time people become sick of a blog that features him and go away.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 07, 2021 08:11 AM (mht8P)

297 287 Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos will be stepping down next month and plans to travel to space with his brother on the first crewed flight of the New Shepherd, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin. The flight is scheduled for July 20th.
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Hopefully Dr. Zachery Smith will be onboard.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 07, 2021 08:11 AM (/MaDp)

298 @283
And of the conical mammalian protuberances.

Posted by: AceOfPhrase at June 07, 2021 08:11 AM (ttAum)

299 On a totally different subject...

The wife decided we need a new look in the living room, so we went to look for a couch, loveseat and two wingback chairs.

Fuck.

When did furniture get so expensive?

Posted by: jwest at June 07, 2021 08:11 AM (/BlEx)

300 I just dont buy the excuse of cant leave the family so I choose to stay in Illinois or Cali or NJ. Millions of people move out of state every year. If they can do it so can you.

I drive elderly relatives to dr appts, to the cemetery, to the store. and we get together on sundays for dinner which is something we've done since we (unwisely) came over here.

capische? I can't Zoom em over to the cardiologist

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 07, 2021 08:11 AM (j9HX3)

301 "Is it wrong to anticipate a Challenger-esque instance?"

Hope for isn't spelled with an 'A'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 08:11 AM (3D/fK)

302 What did Treacher say exactly?
Posted by: Seems Legit at June 07, 2021 07:56 AM (o25GB)

Trump "incited" a January 6 "insurrection."

Fucker needs to go play in traffic again.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 08:06 AM (2JVJo)

****

I remember when he came here and was roundly trounced and mocked by the Morons. That was a few years ago.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 07, 2021 08:12 AM (flINI)

303 The GOP needs to come out in favor of a clean, fiscally responsible omnibus bill that slashes the projected increase in spending by 10% over the next 10 years.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 07, 2021 08:12 AM (C2hDV)

304 It's pretty hard to give your elderly aunt a ride to the doctor over Zoom, dude. Also pretty hard to go over and make dinner for her when she's feeling poorly.

see? this guy gets it!

and btw when I'm in a jam, they help me out (in person) too

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 07, 2021 08:12 AM (j9HX3)

305 But that's grift - Reynolds/Driscoll/Treacher are all playing for traffic. Rubbing our nose in Treacher filth for the clicks.
Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:08 AM (83lwH)

I used to think Reynolds was one of the good ones. But he's all "faster, please" and "this is my shocked face" and "look at these fabulous shots I took while diving in Aruba."

I'll give him props for jumping on the blogwagon early and pimping it out into one hell of a comfortable lifestyle. At a guess, I'll say that when he was threatened with loss of tenure for saying something the powers that be deemed "inflammatory" he's decided to throttle back and leave the flaming to other, lesser talents.

Frankly, Mike Hendrix' Cold Fury is an excellent blog. I know he lurks here and links to JJ every now and again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 08:13 AM (2JVJo)

306 Greetings fappers and fappees. What fresh hell awaits us this fine day?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 07, 2021 08:14 AM (HaL55)

307 Illinois is a example of how important family is in your life. Most would not live here if not for aging parents, siblings etc.""

Probably true of the big Illinois cities, but not so much in the countryside. It's a beautiful, rich land, in spite of Chicago.

And, after recently visiting a rapidly growing red state (the traffic, the sheer number of people, the cost), I am good with living in an area with a small population. I was happy to get home to Illinois.

NB: where we are, taxes are low, crime nil (countryside) and housing/COL pretty cheap.

Posted by: lizabth at June 07, 2021 08:14 AM (L3Rsz)

308 Good morning, JJ, good morning, Horde,

*scans headlines*

*drops Russian, switches to Chinese lessons*

What's Mandarin for "wolverines!"?

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 07, 2021 08:14 AM (+puPH)

309 288 I just dont buy the excuse of cant leave the family so I choose to stay in Illinois or Cali or NJ. Millions of people move out of state every year. If they can do it so can you.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 08:08 AM (DlG3S)

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My life would be a whole lot easier if either of our parents lived nearby.

They could come over and take care of the kids sometimes, which would be nice.

Life is harder away from family.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 08:14 AM (LvTSG)

310 Neither ManBallsOnChin nor Sineman Buns should be trusted, IMO.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:15 AM (G15ac)

311 GOP needs to get out there and tell the American people that we support a clean infrastructure bill, with no freebies to Blue State cities. Infra is popular with all voters
Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 08:04 AM (WY8d2)

The GOP needs to do a lot of things but can't spit donor's dicks out fast enough to say anything comprehensible.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 08:15 AM (y7DUB)

312 305 Frankly, Mike Hendrix' Cold Fury is an excellent blog. I know he lurks here and links to JJ every now and again.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 08:13 AM (2JVJo)

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He should buy our books.

And pimp them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 08:15 AM (LvTSG)

313 "What "direct experience" would that be?"

What's with the scare quotes?

I gave details to someone who asked a few days ago, not going into that every time, sorry, I don't want to annoy Ace.

Truth always outs. I don't need to convince you. But maybe having it in the back of your head now will make you recognize quicker, so you aren't blindsided like I was.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:16 AM (83lwH)

314 > It's a beautiful, rich land, in spite of Chicago.

Nothing against rural Illinois, but flat corn fields all the way to the horizon isn't my definition of beautiful.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:16 AM (G15ac)

315 >>I just dont buy the excuse of cant leave the family so I choose to stay in Illinois or Cali or NJ. Millions of people move out of state every year. If they can do it so can you.

Hey, if that's sufficent for you, that's great.

However, we have chosen to live near family so that we can have regular in-person interactions, such as a weekly 'Nana Fun Day' where my mom would pick up my son from school on Monday's and they'd spend the afternoon together, going on adventures, etc.. Also makes it easier to spend holidays and special days together with parents, siblings, other nearby family. I chose to move back to my home state after living across the country from them for 15+ years.

The other reason is: aging parents. I drove mom to the hospital when my dad had his most recent heart attack (he was fine). They were also a huge support when hubby went through cancer treatments.

That's why one my choose to be near family despite the location being blue state/less than ideal.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 08:16 AM (bDqIh)

316 He should buy our books.

And pimp them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 08:15 AM (LvTSG)

Roger that. How's your writing coming along?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 08:16 AM (2JVJo)

317 I read the article on Trump becoming speaker of the house, and while it is an Good Idea, I would not touch it, and here is why. Every Democrat would line up against him and approach a never trumper house member and back them for speaker. Now Trump is a freshman House Rep with little to no influence and taking flac from every press reporter in the world.

Posted by: Picric at June 07, 2021 08:17 AM (hUcKC)

318 > I gave details to someone who asked a few days ago, not going into that every time, sorry, I don't want to annoy Ace.

Uh-huh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:17 AM (G15ac)

319 I just dont buy the excuse of cant leave the family so I choose to stay in Illinois or Cali or NJ. Millions of people move out of state every year. If they can do it so can you.

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This kind if sentiment usually comes from individuals with no significant family ties, and who live only for themselves.; self centered, self indulgent, selfish.

Posted by: runner at June 07, 2021 08:18 AM (WP3Pq)

320 *What's Mandarin for "wolverines!"?*

Lang huan!

But I'm afraid English is the native tongue of most your targets, sorry.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:18 AM (83lwH)

321 316 Roger that. How's your writing coming along?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 08:16 AM (2JVJo)

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I hate my adventure book. I wrote it wrong and it'll need a rewrite at a pretty huge level.

A moron here offered to design my cover for The Sharp Kid, so once I get around to responding to his latest email, I should be able to start the move on getting that self-published.

I'm writing a screenplay now, hopefully it'll be cheap enough where I could make it myself if I decided to really jump at it. I like it, but we'll see how it plays out. It's hard finding the space to write while working at home with a toddler running around me all the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 08:18 AM (LvTSG)

322 Yep

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 08:19 AM (WY8d2)

323 Nothing against rural Illinois, but flat corn fields all the way to the horizon isn't my definition of beautiful.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Well, we're not in the true flatlands, but even there, the glory of the sky shines.

Not all can see simple beauty, that's for sure. Some of yous need to be whapped upside of the head with grandeur.

Not me...I get thrilled by a simple rose, or bird. One of the side-benefits of living stark.

Posted by: lizabth at June 07, 2021 08:19 AM (L3Rsz)

324 262 Mr Sefton, you are getting a raise and a self installing bookshelf.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 07, 2021 08:00 AM

This is not The Moron Way. From time immemorial, this has not been The Moron Way. Bookshelf installation is one of the existential challenges that define us.

Repent.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 07, 2021 08:19 AM (DMUuz)

325 288. what if a Parent is sick with Cancer. How does Zoom help you there?

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 08:20 AM (WY8d2)

326 I know that in our case, relocation could not take place until the passing of the Great-Aunt who raised my wife as a child, and my father remarrying, and being in a situation of family support without us being nearby.

Remember the old 'Your mileage may vary'?

Yeh....kinda like that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 08:20 AM (3D/fK)

327 Nothing against rural Illinois, but flat corn fields all the way to the horizon isn't my definition of beautiful.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:16 AM (G15ac)

It's more a rolling landscape than flat. I drove through it going to and returning from Texas and was impressed with how the scenery exceeded expectations.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 08:20 AM (y7DUB)

328 Now Trump is a freshman House Rep

Speaker does not need to be an elected member of the house. They could elect whoever.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 07, 2021 08:21 AM (C2hDV)

329 Nothing against rural Illinois, but flat corn fields all the way to the horizon isn't my definition of beautiful.

Just think about all that potential moonshine...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 07, 2021 08:21 AM (HaL55)

330 Hoyt's, gracias.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 07, 2021 08:21 AM (+puPH)

331 328 Now Trump is a freshman House Rep

Speaker does not need to be an elected member of the house. They could elect whoever.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 07, 2021 08:21 AM (C2hDV)

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That move would require a level of fight and unity that I think the GOP caucus in Congress could not muster.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 08:22 AM (LvTSG)

332 > It's more a rolling landscape than flat.

Nah, most of it is dead flat. There are some minor hills in extreme southern Illinois, but most of the state is flatter than a pancake.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:22 AM (G15ac)

333 Rodrigo: "Uh-huh."

Golly, how did I know you weren't asking in good faith LOL

Nothing I say will please you. You've heard criticism about someone you admire and your reflex is to punish that. Just like Correia.

Go away from me. I'm not responding to you re this again.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:22 AM (83lwH)

334 For those curious about the Treachery/Driscoll/Reynolds post involved, the timestamp on the post is 8:45 am; date uncertain as that isn't included in the stamp..

And I'm too fucking lazy to go grab the link, or enable the comments at Insty.

Posted by: GnuBreed, journalizin' at June 07, 2021 08:23 AM (F0YaR)

335 323. Yes, but you are still in Illinois, no matter what town. Abortion on demand at full term, thru the roof Motor Vehicle fees, highest gas tax in country

Posted by: Jonah at June 07, 2021 08:23 AM (WY8d2)

336 Given all of that, the big question is was this virus accidentally released or was it released on purpose?

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In the most simplistic logic I can conjure, it goes back to this: If this was accidental, why did China institute its own travel restrictions within the country, while keeping totally mum and allowing travel of potential virus spreaders all over the world???

There's no other way for me to process that than bioweapons terrorism...and intentional.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 06:50 AM (O+I8R)

I'm still thinking it was an accidental release that was then essentially weaponized by the travel policy the chinese put in place. how else to explain locking down INTERNAL travel only... they didn't mean for it to get out in the wild, but once it did they were going to take full advantage.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 07, 2021 08:23 AM (8D42x)

337 Jim Treacher is a weirdo. He virtue signaled with his Twitter handle telling us daily that he didn't vote for Trump in 2016 and not to worry because he wouldn't vote for him in 2020.
I don't want to hear anything from him because by not supporting Trump he was fine with giving us Biden.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 07, 2021 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

338 Speaking of simple pleasures, there have been a lot of goldfinches around lately.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 08:24 AM (y7DUB)

339 Neither ManBallsOnChin nor Sineman Buns should be trusted, IMO.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:15 AM

True dat. Only we few, we blessed few, rock-ribbed Conservative and staunch Republicans should be trusted.

Posted by: Mittens & Egg McMuffin at June 07, 2021 08:25 AM (DMUuz)

340 "Hoyt's, gracias."

Happy to help. I still say we should register as Dems and sabotage from the inside. Sans Trump, the GOP will not launch effective attacks. In fact, they are more likely to turn over lists of registered Republicans to the Gulag Cmte.

Think of how much damage you could do as VP of Planned Parenthood, or a block organizer for Antifa.

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:25 AM (83lwH)

341 COVID-19 has the genome sequencing 'CGG-CGG' - one of 36 sequencing patterns. That combination is commonly used by scientists in gain-of-function research, but is otherwise considered extremely 'rare'.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 08:25 AM (yrol0)

342
Go away from me. I'm not responding to you re this again.
Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:22 AM (83lwH)

Its why I don't read anything he posts.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

343 New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham Calls Voters "QAnon Lizard People"

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Boy, you could almost see that as hate speech! Thank God we don't have mean tweets anymore!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at June 07, 2021 08:25 AM (d9FiS)

344 COVID-19 has the genome sequencing 'CGG-CGG' - one of 36 sequencing patterns. That combination is commonly used by scientists in gain-of-function research, but is otherwise considered extremely 'rare'.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 08:25 AM (yrol0)

Because it comes from bats, ya know.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

345 Some of yous need to be whapped upside of the head with grandeur. Not me...I get thrilled by a simple rose, or bird. One of the side-benefits of living stark.
Posted by: lizabth

Yep. Beauty is everywhere if we look intently - in a ant walking around a blade of grass or a water droplet falling from a leaf.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 07, 2021 08:26 AM (Rvt88)

346 "Jim Treacher is a weirdo. He virtue signaled with his Twitter handle telling us daily that he didn't vote for Trump in 2016 and not to worry because he wouldn't vote for him in 2020.
I don't want to hear anything from him because - "

I still want to hear him beg that we support his GOP RINO nom "for the good of the party". I have $20 on "without any self-awareness"

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:26 AM (83lwH)

347 States in order of flatness:

Florida, Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota, Delaware, Kansas and Texas.

Kansas is, to scale, flatter than a typical pancake, so you can infer what that says about Illinois.

However, Florida, Louisiana and Minnesota have trees, which counts for a lot.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:26 AM (G15ac)

348 The hesitancy of state officials to follow the science presented by Epistemix puts fair organizers in a difficult position,

****

Quick Reminder: Computer Modeling is not science.

This article cites the model, including some of the assumptions included in the model (e.g. 70% 'immunity'), without pointing out that modeling includes not only assumptions about the data input, but conscious decision to eliminate variables that are not so easily modeled. They are cartoons at best.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 07, 2021 08:26 AM (m45I2)

349 299

Buy used. Get 80% off. Facebook marketplace is full of good used furniture.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 08:26 AM (DlG3S)

350 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 08:18 AM (LvTSG)

Nice. I wish you luck.

I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be touching mine until next month, when I go up to Maine for a long weekend. With no internet service and no TV, I hope to get a really good "first" draft out and ready for some beta readers. There's still a lot of research and "set dressing" I need to do, but that's not the important part; having a full book is.

And I thought I had an interested publisher, but that seems to have vanished. Not that I'm suprised, but I am a little sad.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 08:26 AM (2JVJo)

351 Nah, most of it is dead flat. There are some minor hills in extreme southern Illinois, but most of the state is flatter than a pancake.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Sure yer not thinking of Indiana, son? We're hilly and I am not down south.

Posted by: lizabth at June 07, 2021 08:27 AM (L3Rsz)

352 Treacher's drunken pill popping rant against EoJ years ago, and any 'ettes who tried talking sense to that loon, permanently changed the way I think of him. Fuck him in particular with extreme prejudice.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 08:27 AM (y7DUB)

353 317 I read the article on Trump becoming speaker of the house, and while it is an Good Idea, I would not touch it, and here is why. Every Democrat would line up against him and approach a never trumper house member and back them for speaker. Now Trump is a freshman House Rep with little to no influence and taking flac from every press reporter in the world.

Posted by: Picric at June 07, 2021 08:17 AM (hUcKC)

Iirc, the Speaker Of The House isn't required to be an actual member thereof. He wouldn't have to run for a House seat first.

Posted by: GnuBreed, journalizin' at June 07, 2021 08:27 AM (F0YaR)

354 but most of the state is flatter than a pancake.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:22 AM

Flatist!

Posted by: Brie Larson at June 07, 2021 08:28 AM (DMUuz)

355 350 And I thought I had an interested publisher, but that seems to have vanished. Not that I'm suprised, but I am a little sad.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 07, 2021 08:26 AM (2JVJo)

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Was that through the contact you found through the horde?

That's sad. It's hard to get publishers to send anything other than form letters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 08:28 AM (LvTSG)

356 Flatist!
Posted by: Brie Larson

Flatist AND fake news! I am looking at a hill right now, and am in Illinois.

Posted by: lizabth at June 07, 2021 08:29 AM (L3Rsz)

357 Ahem.
Posted by: Mitt

Do British people say A em ?

Posted by: JT at June 07, 2021 08:29 AM (arJlL)

358 Clarence Williams III RIP Linc!

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I honest to Pete had no idea it was him that played Prince's dad in Purple Rain. Without that Mod Squad afro, I didn't recognize him. Btw, love the movie or hate it, Clarence Williams was amazing in it, albeit his scenes were brief.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 07, 2021 08:29 AM (O+I8R)

359
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Was that through the contact you found through the horde?

That's sad. It's hard to get publishers to send anything other than form letters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 08:28 AM (LvTSG)

It's easy as pie and can get you multiple houses.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at June 07, 2021 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

360 ANother Iran explosion

https://tinyurl.com/2z2824cv

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 07, 2021 08:29 AM (yrol0)

361 This fauxi chynaise connection is gonna be lit AF.

Posted by: Archduke Franz Ferdinand at June 07, 2021 08:29 AM (9RbB8)

362 That move would require a level of fight and unity that I think the GOP caucus in Congress could not muster.

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Nevertheless, what an idea. The DC deep staters would go bonkers, and the level of anti-Trumpiness would rise well past eleventy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 08:29 AM (gjvx9)

363 362 That move would require a level of fight and unity that I think the GOP caucus in Congress could not muster.

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Nevertheless, what an idea. The DC deep staters would go bonkers, and the level of anti-Trumpiness would rise well past eleventy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 08:29 AM (gjvx9)

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It's certainly one way to ensure that nothing gets done in Congress for 2 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 08:30 AM (LvTSG)

364 You people are so stupid. If we just got rid of police, courts and jails, crime in America would end! It's common sense!

Posted by: Alexandria Occasion-Cortez at June 07, 2021 08:31 AM (+S1Fy)

365 Yeah, Beef Jezos is going to be among the first passengers on his Blue Origin spacecraft. Either he really believes in his product, or the divorce has been nasty enough that he wants to end it all.
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Bezos' wife could have taken 1/2 their wealth (they had no pre-nup and she had helped him start Amazon), yet she simply accepted his first offer, which was slightly less than 1/3. She didn't fight. And she recently re-married, to one of her kids' teachers.

If Bezos is having personal problems, I doubt his ex-wife is the one causing them. More likely his current GF, the over-stretched, gold-digging, much-married 'ho he dumped his loyal and decent wife for.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 07, 2021 08:31 AM (k4dH2)

366 > Nothing I say will please you.

Other than telling me what actually happened, rather than making veiled allusions? Yeah, I'm just weird that way.

> You've heard criticism about someone you admire

You didn't make any "criticisms". You made an unsupported allegation, which you then refused to support.

> Go away from me.

How about no?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:31 AM (G15ac)

367 364 You people are so stupid. If we just got rid of police, courts and jails, crime in America would end! It's common sense!
Posted by: Alexandria Occasion-Cortez at June 07, 2021 08:31 AM (+S1Fy)

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Also guns, except for private security for the rich and famous and connected, of course.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 07, 2021 08:31 AM (LvTSG)

368 > Its why I don't read anything he posts.
> Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt

How about bite me?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:31 AM (G15ac)

369 The Iranian Explosion-Of-The-Day is obviously Netanyahu doing as much as he can to protect Israel before handing over control to the Arab Apology Parties. The world is crazy, these days.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 08:32 AM (gjvx9)

370 Ok men, dear ladies. We are here for data war and regular war. If I'm curt, its because time is a critical matter and caffeine.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 07, 2021 08:32 AM (VgIeo)

371 "Frankly, Mike Hendrix' Cold Fury is an excellent blog. I know he lurks here and links to JJ every now and again."

Thanks, I'll check that out.

I've been a loyal fan of Reynold for 20 years now, so I'm feeling pretty much this

https://tinyurl.com/crkh88vt

with slightly less drama LOL

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:33 AM (83lwH)

372 Isn't Kansas kinda tilted up on the western end? My experience driving across it is, it's flat but not level

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 07, 2021 08:33 AM (iTXRQ)

373 > Sure yer not thinking of Indiana, son? We're hilly and I am not down south.

No, I'm thinking of Illinois.

https://tinyurl.com/flatstates

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:33 AM (G15ac)

374 So personal attacks are on the menu today? Do I get to play?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 08:33 AM (y7DUB)

375 >>I don't want to hear anything from him because by not supporting Trump he was fine with giving us Biden.

Yeah, like this bit of cognitive dissonnance from Rod Dreher:

https://tinyurl.com/9y769x7a

Posted by: Lizzy at June 07, 2021 08:34 AM (bDqIh)

376 Art

It has arrived

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at June 07, 2021 08:34 AM (3D/fK)

377 It's certainly one way to ensure that nothing gets done in Congress for 2 years.
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Something much wished for by all good Americans!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 07, 2021 08:34 AM (gjvx9)

378 I sense a disturbance in the Horde...

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at June 07, 2021 08:35 AM (+S1Fy)

379 > So personal attacks are on the menu today? Do I get to play?

Step right up, hoss. You fired the first round.

I though you weren't reading anything I posted?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:35 AM (G15ac)

380 https://tinyurl.com/flatstates
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Ahh, I see. Now I understand your perception. It's a silly one, but have at it.

Posted by: lizabth at June 07, 2021 08:36 AM (L3Rsz)

381 349 299

Buy used. Get 80% off. Facebook marketplace is full of good used furniture.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 07, 2021 08:26 AM (DlG3S)

80% off is nice, but there is a 180% chance that the wife would shoot me if I even suggested that. We actual have pretty nice furniture that just needs reupholstering in a new color scheme, but that's crazy expensive too. One wing back chair takes between 5 and 7 yards of fabric, costing about $150 - $300/yard. Then labor is equal to the fabric cost. Not cheap for the same chair in a different color.

Posted by: jwest at June 07, 2021 08:36 AM (/BlEx)

382 Isn't Kansas kinda tilted up on the western end? My experience driving across it is, it's flat but not level
Posted by: DB- just DB at June 07, 2021 08:33 AM (iTXRQ)

Once you cross the Mississippi river, all states seem to be angled upward to the west. The elevation before you get to the Rockies is pretty high.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 08:36 AM (y7DUB)

383 Step right up, hoss. You fired the first round.

I though you weren't reading anything I posted?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:35 AM (G15ac)

I think you have me confused with someone else.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 07, 2021 08:38 AM (y7DUB)

384 > Ahh, I see. Now I understand your perception.

It's not a "perception". It's actual measurement.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:39 AM (G15ac)

385 > I think you have me confused with someone else.

Correct. Too many Ashlis around here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:40 AM (G15ac)

386 It's not a "perception". It's actual measurement.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

LOL....you're silly. So are your 'actual measurements'.

Reading that article was akin to listening to certain sorts of men talking sex, without ever having experienced it.

Posted by: lizabth at June 07, 2021 08:42 AM (L3Rsz)

387 Like I said last week when I his article - Jim Treacher has no clue whether Trump won or lost. He just loves to say "Trump lost" a lot as a neener neener neener to people he hates. All Treacher really knows is that he got what he wanted. So he could really careless what happened in Nov 2020.

Posted by: Boswell at June 07, 2021 08:42 AM (5iUNf)

388 It's a beautiful, rich land, in spite of Chicago.

Nothing against rural Illinois, but flat corn fields all the way to the horizon isn't my definition of beautiful.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 07, 2021 08:16 AM (G15ac)

it's not just corn, there's soybeans. and cows

and the occasional oil well...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 07, 2021 08:45 AM (8D42x)

389 it's not just corn, there's soybeans. and cows

and the occasional oil well...
Posted by: SturmToddler

Goats and horses, too. And apple trees, and strawberry patches, and glorious peaches (from down the 'flatlands'). Don't forget, we also had the country's GREATEST embezzler of all time.

Posted by: lizabth at June 07, 2021 08:47 AM (L3Rsz)

390 "COVID-19 has the genome sequencing 'CGG-CGG' - one of 36 sequencing patterns"

If my scifi horror about Captain Trips opened with scientists deliberately engineering deadlier viruses "just to see"... would you call bs and move to the next book in your stack?

"Aw c'mon scientists aren't that dumb!"

Posted by: Hoyt's Turkish Troll Provocateur at June 07, 2021 08:47 AM (83lwH)

391

>>>Why, "suddenly," did the U.S. legacy media en masse turn tail and start pointing fingers at China and doubting Fauci?
It's a distraction from the resurrected 1918 influenza. They don't want us to be thinking about that.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess - #SuperStraight at June 07, 2021 08:48 AM (Mzdiz)

392 Gotta get to work. Rodrigo, you're cute as a button. I mean that most sincerely. Have a good one, all.

Posted by: lizabth at June 07, 2021 08:49 AM (L3Rsz)

393 it's not just corn, there's soybeans. and cows

and the occasional oil well...
Posted by: SturmToddler

Goats and horses, too. And apple trees, and strawberry patches, and glorious peaches (from down the 'flatlands'). Don't forget, we also had the country's GREATEST embezzler of all time.
Posted by: lizabth at June 07, 2021 08:47 AM (L3Rsz)

yeah, i do miss going picking at all the farms around in central IL. and that's before you get to the wild berries along every creek, stream, and river.

and i'd try and forget the embezzler, but luckily i was gone before any of that really took off.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 07, 2021 08:50 AM (8D42x)

394 Why, "suddenly," did the U.S. legacy media en masse turn tail and start pointing fingers at China and doubting Fauci?
I think they are trying to get ahead of the story so they can soon call it old news and say we all need to "move on".

This is dangerous ground though as the response of a non-Clown world would be at least a complete, world wide embargo of China, if not war.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 07, 2021 08:59 AM (DpkTQ)

395 We know there was an intentional SPREAD by China, after the initial release.

And they also, intentionally, withheld info on the nature of the virus from our scientists that delayed research and treatment.

And our own "scientists" /CDC intentionally refused to investigate or validate treatments with strong anecdotal evidence of benefit and hugely-proven safety.

There is so much blood on so many hands that, once again, we are in "scandal overload." So many wrongs of so many that it's difficult to even frame the events for the MSM-consuming, no-attention-span-iPhone-addicted sheeple.

Posted by: Zek at June 07, 2021 09:13 AM (5RTdG)

396 Is Kamala Harris's "Root Cause" mission to Guatemala and Mexico crashing and burning? She was greeted by protestors, waving signs saying "Kamala go home!" and "Trump won." That's for starters..

Posted by: SMOD at June 07, 2021 10:01 AM (RHGPo)

397 I don't care what you say; Slim Pickens has much better comedic timing than Biden's owner Xi Jinping.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at June 07, 2021 11:20 AM (Ndje9)

398 It's been tyrannical since they illegally voted in the Constitution, without a unanimous vote and not in public....per the requirements of the Articles of Confederation.

If we dig into the consent issue per the Declaration of Independence....and the failure to bring forth an opt out clause for those that do not consent....this government has never, not been tyrannical.

JJ... I'd love it if you or anyone else would address that.

The so called native Americans certainly didn't consent.

If the root is decayed....so is the tree.

It's all garbage and legalese double speak. Calling things by their proper names.

Posted by: Egg On Their Face at June 07, 2021 11:38 AM (eSsBS)

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