It Took 2,500 Years, But The West Is No Longer A Serious Place

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Our troops wear high heels, we celebrate deviancy, value emotion over rationality. We are teaching our children how to have anal sex while decrying the culture that has created the greatest advances in human history, and then wonder why buildings and bridges fall down, our college graduates can't find America on a map, our political class is a dangerous embarrassment, we are destroying modern life's advantages in favor of returning to a pre-industrial world, all in service to a nonsensical pseudo-scientific crusade against some mythical warming trend.

Is it any surprise that Western culture is rapidly devolving into a caricature of itself? 80 years ago Alan Turing and a few others broke the Nazi Enigma code, and they kept that secret to the Allies' great advantage for the next four years of World War II. But today?

BUS STOP DIPLOMACY Top secret Ministry of Defence documents on HMS Defender & British military found at BUS STOP after Black Sea stand-off

TOP secret MOD documents containing details about HMS Defender and the UK military were found at a BUS STOP in an embarrassing blunder.
The explosive papers were found in a "soggy heap" behind the bus stop in Kent on Tuesday morning, a day before Defender was involved in a stand-off with Russian boats in the Black Sea, a report says.

40 years ago the pope spoke forcefully and unequivocally against the monstrous evil of Soviet communism. John Paul II understood how totalitarianism destroys the human soul as it shrinks free will and freedom, and he wasn't afraid of the consequences. But today?

Vatican Foreign Minister to Epoch Times: Church Has No Positive Contribution to Make in Hong Kong

Since the renewal of the Sino-Vatican Deal last October, Pope Francis—who has been extremely outspoken on other human rights and ecological crises—has been silent on China and Hong Kong. The Chinese Communist Party’s brutality and human rights violations, both in mainland China and in Hong Kong, have caused world leaders—such as former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo—to call for the Vatican to end its “preliminary” deal with China.

Is there a greater evil on earth? According to the dissolute West? Plastic straws and incorrect pronouns and mean tweets are worse than the systematic destruction of freedom and autonomy in Hong Kong. That the Vatican is leading the capitulation to China is particularly vile, since China is particularly aggressive in its attacks on religion.

At its best, the papacy can be a moral lodestone, drawing like-minded people into a critical mass. Not every pope has the intellectual and moral force to do it, but actively pursuing the opposite is an insult to the great men who came before the current occupant of the Vatican.

It would be one thing if the entire world was descending into this insanity, but it is just the wealthy and lazy and unserious West that is becoming a mockery; its enemies to the east are quite willing to fill the void with their particular brand of evil.

Posted by: CBD at 12:10 PM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 27, 2021 11:10 AM (JUOKG)

2 This push for acceptance of trans weirdos is only going to lead to the decadence that was seen in the final days of the Roman Empire.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 27, 2021 11:11 AM (JUOKG)

3 Wow a coveted double tap!

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 27, 2021 11:12 AM (JUOKG)

4 Just reading the clowns are turning the Olympics into the clown show they want it to be.

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2021 11:12 AM (Cxk7w)

5 From The Bee:
"In historic first, WNBA player comes out as straight."

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 27, 2021 11:13 AM (7Fj9P)

6 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at June 27, 2021 11:13 AM (OdKIp)

7 I agree with all you say, but isn't it enough that we no longer have mean tweets? Seems like a good trade, doesn't it? Liberty or tweets, can you have both?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2021 11:14 AM (7bRMQ)

8 Rule Britannia delenda est

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2021 11:18 AM (aGqP6)

9 Good morning, good people. Had a nice grad party for youngest grandkid, there was about 40 for the core, and people wandered by all day. I received official dispensation to do nothing today from the Committee, and mean to do just that.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 27, 2021 11:18 AM (KATBx)

10 We are so screwed.. I see they drug out old Billy bagpipes to attack Trump and say the election was not stolen... Oh.. NYT's says charges will be brought against the Trump Corporation next week... Sounds like someone is scared of what the audits might find

Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2021 11:18 AM (Zmnko)

11 4 Just reading the clowns are turning the Olympics into the clown show they want it to be.
Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2021 11:12 AM (Cxk7w)

And Dr. Jill is going there to "represent" us

Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2021 11:20 AM (Zmnko)

12 Crap. That was intended for the OPEN thread. I'm sorry, CBD, lack of attention on my part.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 27, 2021 11:21 AM (KATBx)

13 SIgh, we're fucked 6 ways to Sunday

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 27, 2021 11:23 AM (Irn0L)

14 Those atrocities mentioned are forced upon us. Yeah, it's the royal "we", I suppose, but let's be clear in our writing.

"We" do no such things, no way no how, no sir.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 27, 2021 11:24 AM (JEx0Z)

15 It was great to see Trump last night and the difference between him and Biden couldn't be more stark.

Trump: This country is the greatest in history.

Biden: We suck.

Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 11:24 AM (kTF2Z)

16 Willowed but I think this is semi on topic.

Wimbledon starts next week. They did not have the tournament in 2020 because of the pandemic. Coincidentally they were the only tournament that purchased Pandemic insurance and were paid over 400 million because they had to cancel. You will never convince me someone with the highest of connections and intelligence sources was not a member of Wimbledon and had inside information.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 27, 2021 11:25 AM (2DOZq)

17 Oh.. NYT's says charges will be brought against the
Trump Corporation next week... Sounds like someone is scared of what the
audits might find

Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2021 11:18 AM

But they are not charging Trump with anything. Two guys who wrote off some stuff from their taxes. They are trying to get these two guys to roll with garbage tax laws to get them make up some dirt on Trump. No idea why they think that will work this time when it didn't work the 86th times they tried it in the past.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 27, 2021 11:27 AM (JUOKG)

18 SIgh, we're fucked 6 ways to Sunday

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 27, 2021 11:23 AM (Irn0L)

Buy guns and whiskey.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 27, 2021 11:28 AM (Q9lwr)

19 Being old don't seem so bad anymore.

Posted by: BignJames at June 27, 2021 11:28 AM (AwYPR)

20 Posted by: Mike Oxmaul at June 27, 2021 11:17 AM (OjTGt)

Ah...the CCP troll shows up to spew his bullshit. What do they pay you...a reach-around?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 27, 2021 11:29 AM (Q9lwr)

21 CBD, China is also very concerned about their lazy, spoiled, noodle-armed video game-addicted princelings. If you have only one child, you don't sacrifice him to the low-paying military where he might get hurt. That's why they're pushing the manly shit.

Don't believe the propaganda.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 27, 2021 11:29 AM (Dc2NZ)

22 SIgh, we're fucked 6 ways to Sunday

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 27, 2021 11:23 AM (Irn0L)

Never on Sunday.

Posted by: M Mercouri at June 27, 2021 11:30 AM (7bRMQ)

23 SIgh, we're fucked 6 ways to Sunday

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 27, 2021 11:23 AM (Irn0L)

Never on Sunday.
Posted by: M Mercouri at June 27, 2021 11:30 AM (7bRMQ)
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I'd say "...to Friday", which gives you Saturday to rest and rehydrate for Sunday mass.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 27, 2021 11:31 AM (Dc2NZ)

24 Anyone know the crowd size of the rally last night?

Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 11:32 AM (kTF2Z)

25 What we are suffering from is the disease of affluence. You have to have lots of time on your hands to worry about the fundamentally un-serious things the Left agitates about.

Posted by: LGoPs at June 27, 2021 11:33 AM (sCoor)

26 Anyone know the crowd size of the rally last night?

Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 11:32 AM (kTF2Z)

More people than the real number who voted for Biden?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2021 11:33 AM (7bRMQ)

27 25 Anyone know the crowd size of the rally last night?
Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 11:32 AM (kTF2Z)

"Overflowing"

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 27, 2021 11:33 AM (jvt6t)

28 Oh.. NYT's says charges will be brought against the
Trump Corporation next week... Sounds like someone is scared of what the
audits might find

Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2021 11:18 AM

But they are not charging Trump with anything. Two guys who wrote off some stuff from their taxes. They are trying to get these two guys to roll with garbage tax laws to get them make up some dirt on Trump. No idea why they think that will work this time when it didn't work the 86th times they tried it in the past.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 27, 2021 11:27 AM (JUOKG)

I suspect, if they bring criminal charges, they will be thrown out or otherwise...this is outrageous bullshit

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 27, 2021 11:34 AM (Irn0L)

29 China figured out that they can bribe the West into ignoring its evil.

Posted by: Eat The Eloi at June 27, 2021 11:34 AM (V3EEC)

30 We are a society that is vain, immoral and weak.

But, this was the plan all along.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 27, 2021 11:34 AM (jvt6t)

31 Oh, sure. This goose has been cooked for awhile. We've been watching these barbarians eat it down to the bones. Soon they'll shit it out all over our faces, and then that'll be that. The brilliant, meteoric trajectory of the West sputters out in front of our very eyes. Interesting times!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2021 11:35 AM (Zhwz2)

32 Eris,

They still got millions of conscripts who will never marry because of the One Child policy. I really wish that powder keg would detonate.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2021 11:35 AM (aGqP6)

33 Speaking of societal decay, I'm going to laugh my ass off when that NZ man wins gold in women's weight lifting. I feel sorry for the women though. Train your whole life for this moment only to realize that the best you can do is silver.

Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 11:35 AM (kTF2Z)

34 Not that it matters, but Dershowitz think the charges against Rudy and any criminal tax charges are bullshit, never seen anything like it before, and will be thrown out

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 27, 2021 11:35 AM (Irn0L)

35 I really wish that powder keg would detonate.
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Right under Three Gorges Dam!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 27, 2021 11:35 AM (Dc2NZ)

36 Don't believe the propaganda.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 27, 2021 11:29 AM (Dc2NZ)

That is a fair point, but their rulers are serious men, and have enough of a reserve of halfway decent soldiers to cause huge problems for the West.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 27, 2021 11:36 AM (Q9lwr)

37 was great to see Trump last night and the difference between him and Biden couldn't be more stark.

Trump: This country is the greatest in history.

Biden: We suck.
Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 11:24 AM

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My millennial children say that if anybody wanted a way to make everybody aware of what a great president Trump was, they couldn't have imagined a better vehicle than Biden.

Posted by: Chillin the most at June 27, 2021 11:36 AM (lonOK)

38
What we are suffering from is the disease of affluence.

What is the cure for affluenza?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2021 11:36 AM (63Dwl)

39 Anyone know the crowd size of the rally last night?

Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 11:32 AM (kTF2Z)

Insurrection sized.

Posted by: BignJames at June 27, 2021 11:37 AM (AwYPR)

40 I wonder if Pride Month celebrates that a very high percentage of serial killers are homosexual.

We're #1 !!!

Posted by: Just a side note at June 27, 2021 11:38 AM (2DOZq)

41 What is the cure for affluenza?

A good dose of hardship, for one. I don't say that lightly, but there it is.

Posted by: LGoPs at June 27, 2021 11:38 AM (sCoor)

42 21 Ah...the CCP troll shows up to spew his bullshit. What do they pay you...a reach-around?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 27, 2021 11:29 AM (Q9lwr)

He's basically right though...it was leased to the Brits, and the lease expired in 1997. If the Western world wanted to save Hong Kong the time to do it was in the early 90s when there was still time to renegotiate the treaty but everyone was so busy having a post Cold War party that they forgot, or something.

Posted by: CppThis at June 27, 2021 11:39 AM (8h1h1)

43 Not that it matters, but Dershowitz think the charges against Rudy and any criminal tax charges are bullshit, never seen anything like it before, and will be thrown out

The point was to get the headlines. Mission accomplished.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -(SchxB)- moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 27, 2021 11:40 AM (SchxB)

44 I have a big problem with the slap-on-the-wrist sentences (or complete lack of punishment) for revealing secrets or carelessness with same (lookin' at you, Hills!).

Knouts, just as an amuse bouche. Then, tumbrel to the guillotine.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 27, 2021 11:40 AM (Dc2NZ)

45 The brilliant, meteoric trajectory of the West sputters out in front of our very eyes. Interesting times!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2021 11:35 AM (Zhwz2)

We're ready to carry out your directives!!

Posted by: Zaporozhian Cossacks at June 27, 2021 11:40 AM (7bRMQ)

46 A good dose of hardship, for one. I don't say that lightly, but there it is.

Posted by: LGoPs at June 27, 2021 11:38 AM (sCoor)

Agreed. I don't see the West awakening to the threat, because it is coming from within.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 27, 2021 11:40 AM (Q9lwr)

47 Whatever is dug up on Trump it will be made to disqualify him from running for office again. A parking ticket will be grounds for disqualification. This is how they roll.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2021 11:40 AM (3H9h1)

48 Really need a Brony Pride Month.

Raise awareness that some are truly off their rockers. Stockpile popcorn while next pushing for Furry Pride Month.

Push the issue right over the cliff to abject disgust.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2021 11:41 AM (aGqP6)

49 I'm not a Catholic so it doesn't really matter but has the Pope and the Church said anything about the child body mutilation going on with this Trans movement?

Posted by: lowandslow at June 27, 2021 11:41 AM (qH6FZ)

50 China figured out that they can bribe the West into ignoring its evil.
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S'not a bribe 'f I give 'em one of these arts I just did. OOPS, oh shit!!

Posted by: Hunter, dropping the overheated crack pipe at June 27, 2021 11:41 AM (7Fj9P)

51 Whatever is dug up on Trump it will be made to disqualify him from running for office again. A parking ticket will be grounds for disqualification. This is how they roll.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2021 11:40 AM (3H9h1)

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There are two requirements to be president. Must be at least 35 and be a natural born citizen. That's it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 11:43 AM (kTF2Z)

52 He's basically right though...it was leased to the
Brits, and the lease expired in 1997.

Posted by: CppThis at June 27, 2021 11:39 AM (8h1h1)

And the Chinese have violated every bit of the agreement. Spare me your defense of China...a totalitarian state that has no qualms with genocide.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 27, 2021 11:43 AM (Q9lwr)

53 29 Look at dictionary under Biden Crime Syndicate

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2021 11:45 AM (Cxk7w)

54 What is the cure for affluenza?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 27, 2021 11:36 AM (63Dwl)

Deprivation, brought on by inflation and drought in the western U.S.

Posted by: clutch at June 27, 2021 11:45 AM (9UmRs)

55 The Gods of the Copybook Headings is, sadly, still relevant.

https://tinyurl.com/u9awt54e

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 27, 2021 11:45 AM (QFVV9)

56 Anyone know the crowd size of the rally last night?
Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 11:32 AM (kTF2Z)

Oh, we've got quite a list.

Posted by: The Fibbies at June 27, 2021 11:45 AM (OssQ4)

57 And the Chinese have violated every bit of the agreement. Spare me your defense of China...a totalitarian state that has no qualms with genocide.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 27, 2021 11:43 AM (Q9lwr)

I have a feeling we're on the same path.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 27, 2021 11:45 AM (jvt6t)

58 London screwed up, they trusted Beijing to keep their word.

As if the Middle Kingdom will be dictated to by foreign barbarians.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2021 11:45 AM (aGqP6)

59 Matt Labash's article from 2012 on BronyCon:

https://tinyurl.com/45d43t8y

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 27, 2021 11:46 AM (Dc2NZ)

60 Good afternoon dear Horde. May the Good Lord have mercy on our souls.

Posted by: Ladyl at June 27, 2021 11:46 AM (RWvXE)

61 The Trump crowd looked like maybe a few (3-5?) thousand ... it is on Rumble, has a scan of some of the crowd.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 27, 2021 11:47 AM (Cus5s)

62 I don't know who it was and can't do it justice, but some moron pointed out how Stalin or Lenin helped socialism conquer the US. I believe they'd pointed out how they ailed _____, and it was during that time that the socialist (Trotsky?) wrote the documents that we've embraced as a nation. The butterfly effect, and how the socialists won.

Someone else will need to elaborate, but that could be an interesting discussion.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Juneteenth, because America didn't have a holiday for being ignorant of the news at June 27, 2021 11:47 AM (E0OU8)

63 London screwed up, they trusted Beijing to keep their word.

Anyone who thought there was any long term future for Hong Kong was just whistling Dixie past a cemetery

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 27, 2021 11:48 AM (Irn0L)

64 We are so screwed.. I see they drug out old Billy bagpipes to attack
Trump and say the election was not stolen... Oh.. NYT's says charges
will be brought against the Trump Corporation next week... Sounds like
someone is scared of what the audits might find

Posted by: It's me donna at June 27, 2021 11:18 AM (Zmnko)

Sounds like they were waiting for Trump to pop his head out of the sand so they could "pounce".

Posted by: ... at June 27, 2021 11:48 AM (Sq5xa)

65 Ailed = jailed

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Juneteenth, because America didn't have a holiday for being ignorant of the news at June 27, 2021 11:48 AM (E0OU8)

66 If you want to understand how inept this admin. is, check out the Federalist article detailing how incredibly stupid the DoJ lawsuit is against GA. It reads like a middle school girl's diatribe against the unfairness of it all. One of the gems: "In 2018(??) a group placed robocalls referring to Secretary of State Stacy as 'the negress Stacy Abrams'". Ergo...overturn this 2021 law?
It's going to get tossed. It has to.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 27, 2021 11:48 AM (7Fj9P)

67 TOP secret MOD documents containing details about HMS Defender and the UK military were found at a BUS STOP in an embarrassing blunder.
The explosive papers were found in a "soggy heap" behind the bus stop in Kent on Tuesday morning, a day before Defender was involved in a stand-off with Russian boats in the Black Sea, a report says.

Hmmm. This story pegs my BS meter.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 11:48 AM (axyOa)

68 So the Manhattan DA thinks he's found something that the Mueller gang didn't? Good luck with that.

Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 11:50 AM (kTF2Z)

69 Anyone who thought there was any long term future for Hong Kong was just whistling Dixie past a cemetery
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It was known at the time of the handover. Chynah has ALWAYS been the land of duplicitous fuckery.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 27, 2021 11:50 AM (7Fj9P)

70 I was baptised catholic. Mom also too us to the Lutheran Church. The catholics went perv and Luth went woke. I quit in the early 70's. I pray and read the Bible.

Just my 0 cents.

Posted by: Infidel at June 27, 2021 11:50 AM (dYrVA)

71 Secret Nuclear Bunker >> https://tinyurl.com/3u3b97xm.

Posted by: Javems at June 27, 2021 11:51 AM (zk16/)

72 On the Brit intel failure, after reading my book on Guy Burgess and the Cambridge Six, nothing surprises me.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 27, 2021 11:51 AM (qe5CM)

73 If you want to understand how inept this admin. is, check out the Federalist article detailing how incredibly stupid the DoJ lawsuit is against GA. It reads like a middle school girl's diatribe against the unfairness of it all.

*

The key is to remember that they don't have to win. Like the Giuliani stuff, they only have to influence. Twenty years from now is when they'll win, and they're fine with that. Unlike the Republicans, they will continue until they succeed, and "success" to them is actually accomplishing what they say they'll do.

Plant the seed today, reap the fruits after kids who aren't even born learn it as the truth.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Juneteenth, because America didn't have a holiday for being ignorant of the news at June 27, 2021 11:51 AM (E0OU8)

74 Posted by: Puddleglum at June 27, 2021 11:45 AM (QFVV9)

Of course. Eternal truths are called that for a reason. Ignore them at your peril. Here we are. This too, shall pass. It's sad to watch, but it has to happen. If you can't change it, then just do the best you can with it. I guess it's what is sometimes namby-pambily called the "grieving process," but on a society-wide scale... I've accepted that it's over, and all you can do is cherish the memory and try to pick up the pieces.

Being in the last generation is always a real bitch.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 27, 2021 11:52 AM (Zhwz2)

75 Kim Philby shopped a lot of assets to Lubyanka and a Makarov pop.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2021 11:52 AM (aGqP6)

76 I dream of somehow removing social media from society. Would that be enough?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, #SuperStraight (Mzdiz) at June 27, 2021 11:52 AM (Mzdiz)

77 I don't know anyone that has ever used the word "negress". It's a Democrat word. Reminds me of when I got falsely accused of racism by a coworker. In her complaint she said I once told her she had "Latino features".

Other than the fact that nothing approaching that ever happened, or came close to ever happening to her or anybody I know - there is the small matter of the fact that to that point in my life I had never EVER used the word "Latino". I always said "Hispanic".

Posted by: ... at June 27, 2021 11:52 AM (Sq5xa)

78 To further illustrate the rot, as said previously, I had to return something at Khols, there was a prominent pride display as well as pride swag in the center of the store, the 4th of July swag was off in a corner of the store.

When a country prioritizes deviancy over over the celebration of it's founding, the sign post up ahead reads, dissolution.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 27, 2021 11:54 AM (P4KTL)

79 Yes, the Pope has spoken about against the LGBT agenda and trans mutilation, especially of children, and gay marriage. However, the gays "own" the Church now, so . . . . .

Posted by: Margaret at June 27, 2021 11:55 AM (l8gHZ)

80 I pray and read the Bible.
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I get it. We're on our second flavor of Presbyterian. At our last congregation PC-USA, they put a female seminarian on the alter to celebrate the Eucharist. She referred to the trinity as "Mother earth, Father sky and Holy sun" or some such b.s. We're in the PCA now, just kind of waiting for them to go woke-tard too.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 27, 2021 11:55 AM (7Fj9P)

81 Star Trek episode when the Excalibans, rock creatures, wanted to test which is stronger, good or evil they created Abraham Lincoln who referred to Uhura as a beautiful negress.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2021 11:56 AM (aGqP6)

82 However, the gays "own" the Church now, so . . . . .

Posted by: Margaret at June 27, 2021 11:55 AM (l8gHZ)

We'll see about that!!!

Posted by: I am at June 27, 2021 11:56 AM (7bRMQ)

83 67 TOP secret MOD documents containing details about HMS Defender and the UK military were found at a BUS STOP in an embarrassing blunder.
The explosive papers were found in a "soggy heap" behind the bus stop in Kent on Tuesday morning, a day before Defender was involved in a stand-off with Russian boats in the Black Sea, a report says.

Hmmm. This story pegs my BS meter.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 11:48 AM

The funny thing is, it reminds me of the old fashioned document drops that used to occur among spies in Washington DC.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 27, 2021 11:56 AM (qe5CM)

84 I was baptised catholic. Mom also too us to the Lutheran Church. The catholics went perv and Luth went woke. I quit in the early 70's. I pray and read the Bible.

Just my 0 cents.
Posted by: Infidel at June 27, 2021 11:50 AM (dYrVA)

I was raised in both the Catholic church (my mom) and Baptist church (my dad). I identify as protestant but if it gets too crazy i go out dancing and drinking.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 11:56 AM (axyOa)

85 I noticed Walgreens has gone rainbow. So it's good to know my prescriptions are gay.

Posted by: ... at June 27, 2021 11:56 AM (Sq5xa)

86
which church does not allow sex while standing because it may lead to dancing?

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 27, 2021 11:57 AM (bTQ72)

87 "No one expects the Gay Inquisition!"

One Monty Python missed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2021 11:58 AM (aGqP6)

88 So the Manhattan DA thinks he's found something that the Mueller gang didn't? Good luck with that.
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They're going to dredge up some accepted accounting practice, like devaluing assets, and attempt to criminalize it. CNN will drop in with lots of twisted graphics and "expert" testimony on why this is like clubbing baby seals, and getting the write off for it.
Watch.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at June 27, 2021 11:59 AM (7Fj9P)

89 The funny thing is, it reminds me of the old fashioned document drops that used to occur among spies in Washington DC.
Posted by: Moonbeam at June 27, 2021 11:56 AM (qe5CM),

I know right?
Thats one of the reasons i am suslicious.
Of course given the difficulty staying secure on line, the old ways are sometimes better.
Unless thats what they want us to think.
But if they know that we know...

Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 11:59 AM (axyOa)

90 "No one expects the Gay Inquisition!"

One Monty Python missed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 27, 2021 11:58 AM (aGqP6)

Hoping for it, though....

Posted by: Shep! at June 27, 2021 12:00 PM (7bRMQ)

91 Globalism flavors:

Gung Boa Slaves

Back in the USSR Slaves

Pussy Eirope Slaves

WTF American Slaves

Which cook shall have it's way?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 27, 2021 12:03 PM (eZwXS)

92 50 China figured out that they can bribe the West into ignoring its evil.
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S'not a bribe 'f I give 'em one of these arts I just did. OOPS, oh shit!!
Posted by: Hunter, dropping the overheated crack pipe at June 27, 2021 11:41 AM (7Fj9P)

Remember, the art sales are just for the a la carte menu. They outright disclosed that Hunter's company was given a billion dollars to manage by the CCP. Standard industry fees for that type of management run about $10 million per year.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 27, 2021 12:06 PM (Wm5SB)

93 it's = it is
its = belongs to or goes with

sorry, I know grammar nazism is not welcome, but- I take pills for it...

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 27, 2021 12:09 PM (iTXRQ)

94 I saw Pope Francis slapping cocks with Spiderman, so you know he's totally unserious. Like Whispering Joe.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 27, 2021 12:09 PM (HnNKD)

95 If you could do a Fund Me online to War China. Bitcoins would flow like the sexy wine from the Chinese.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 27, 2021 12:10 PM (eZwXS)

96 sorry, I know grammar nazism is not welcome, but- I take pills for it...
Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 27, 2021 12:09 PM (iTXRQ)

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Its there write to right whatever he wishes.

Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 12:11 PM (kTF2Z)

97 Its there write to right whatever he wishes.
Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 12:11 PM (kTF2Z)

here, here!!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 27, 2021 12:12 PM (jvt6t)

98 "Its there write to right whatever he wishes."

Your write.

Posted by: lowandslow at June 27, 2021 12:14 PM (qH6FZ)

99 Thanks DB. I stand erected.

My grammar sloppily like rhe haven't quite woken up sex.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 27, 2021 12:14 PM (eZwXS)

100 Government incompetence a nutshell: A government created virus required government to create a vaccine for their virus.

In other words, government, most likely, made a bad problem worse, through their intervention.

Our government can no longer restrain itself to the "do nothing" option.

Yay us.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at June 27, 2021 12:14 PM (2SdPm)

101 Look out for the Secret ' Police. They patrol the crux of the biscuit.

Posted by: klaftern at June 27, 2021 12:15 PM (r4sI4)

102 80 years ago Alan Turing and a few others broke the Nazi Enigma code, and they kept that secret to the Allies' great advantage for the next four years of World War II.

* shuffles notes regarding the Polish resistance cracking the code very, very loudly *

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2021 12:16 PM (M119n)

103 Ah yes a charming Negrinix.

Posted by: Woke Abe Lincoln at June 27, 2021 12:16 PM (Tnijr)

104 Does anyone think the Trump rally made some dems a little nervous? They know were aware of everything they've done and with the comparisons of Trump and Biden and the number of people at his rally, it might cause some nervous twitching.

Posted by: Megthered at June 27, 2021 12:17 PM (GWvAY)

105 89- I know right?
Thats one of the reasons i am suslicious.
Of course given the difficulty staying secure on line, the old ways are sometimes better.
Unless thats what they want us to think.
But if they know that we know...
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 11:59 AM

OK- I think we have the beginnings of a good spy novel. The papers were left there by Spy #1, but Spy #2, who was supposed to pick them up, was rubbed out by Spy #3 who didn't realize he was on his way to pick up the package. Now Spy #3 has been exfiltrated back to his home country and liquidated.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 27, 2021 12:18 PM (qe5CM)

106 There are two requirements to be president. Must be at least 35 and be a natural born citizen. That's it.

And those only both apply to Republicans.

Posted by: Methos at June 27, 2021 12:20 PM (kOpft)

107 And those only both apply to Republicans.
Posted by: Methos at June 27, 2021 12:20 PM (kOpft)
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Yeah, I don't believe Kamala qualifies.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at June 27, 2021 12:20 PM (2SdPm)

108 don't know who it was and can't do it justice, but some moron pointed out how Stalin or Lenin helped socialism conquer the US. I believe they'd pointed out how they ailed _____, and it was during that time that the socialist (Trotsky?) wrote the documents that we've embraced as a nation. The butterfly effect, and how the socialists won.

Driving wedges between the various demographics was their strategy, dating back to the Comintern of 1945. The Soviets knew only too well how ethnic diversity could pose a problem, and essentially stoked ethnic divisions here to weaken us.

That, and the appeal to greed and envy amongst the loser of society.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:21 PM (oCQkM)

109 Is America becoming like the Ottoman Empire (the 'sick man of Europe') ?
As the Ottoman Empire declined, war broke out. Other countries could see easy pickings, so they raced in to get them.
As American power and influence decline, the same seems to be happening now.

Posted by: I see Ottomans Everywhere at June 27, 2021 12:21 PM (e55in)

110 Our troops wear high heels, we celebrate deviancy, value emotion over rationality We are teaching our children how to have anal sex while decrying the culture that has created the greatest advances in human history, and then wonder why buildings and bridges fall down, our college graduates can't find America on a map, our political class is a dangerous embarrassment, we are destroying modern life's advantages in favor of returning to a pre-industrial world, all in service to a nonsensical pseudo-scientific crusade against some mythical warming trend.

That is as fine a statement of our current predicament as I have ever read.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 27, 2021 12:22 PM (yQpMk)

111 That, and the appeal to greed and envy amongst the loser of society.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:21 PM (oCQkM)
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Minor quibble: It was an appeal to those who wished to attain power who recognized how useful racism is as a tool.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at June 27, 2021 12:23 PM (2SdPm)

112 Yes, the Pope has spoken about against the LGBT agenda and trans mutilation, especially of children, and gay marriage. However, the gays "own" the Church now, so . . . . .
Posted by: Margaret at June 27, 2021 11:55 AM (l8gHZ)

Ban protease inhibitors. Let the virus do its work.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:23 PM (epy5m)

113 Yet I suspect that all this is in service to the Billionaires, who believe none of it.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 27, 2021 12:23 PM (yQpMk)

114 Uhura: But why should I object to that term, sir? In our century, we've learned not to fear words

Posted by: f'd at June 27, 2021 12:23 PM (Tnijr)

115 we celebrate deviancy

Of course. Deviancy, degeneracy, and perversion are what made America great!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:24 PM (epy5m)

116 Steam: Buy this game! Drill through the earth with a steampunk machine!
Me: Go on.
Steam: It's segmented like a train, but it makes submarine noises.
Me: I'm in.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 27, 2021 12:25 PM (ybIRR)

117 Hard times--->Hard men--->Good times--->Weak men--->Hard times

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 12:25 PM (kTF2Z)

118 I saw Crux of the Biscuit open for 6 Angry Samoans at the 777 Club in '92.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2021 12:25 PM (M119n)

119 Minor quibble: It was an appeal to those who wished to attain power who recognized how useful racism is as a tool.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at June 27, 2021 12:23 PM (2SdPm)

OK. I'd characterize that as an addition. The power-hungry realized that the utility of telling losers "it ain't your fault," channeling Kevin Trudeau, and saying that once the power-hungry ran things, the losers would become the winners.

And, of course, the losers were stupid enough to believe that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:26 PM (epy5m)

120 Our troops wear high heels, we celebrate deviancy, value emotion over rationality We are teaching our children how to have anal sex while decrying the culture that has created the greatest advances in human history, and then wonder why buildings and bridges fall down, our college graduates can't find America on a map, our political class is a dangerous embarrassment, we are destroying modern life's advantages in favor of returning to a pre-industrial world, all in service to a nonsensical pseudo-scientific crusade against some mythical warming trend.

CBD this is a very crisp summary of the current crisis, and also an Rx.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 27, 2021 12:26 PM (25wiQ)

121 Last night on the ONT C5 was arguing not much has changed since Biden was installed.

Dude?

Posted by: Da Fuq at June 27, 2021 12:27 PM (yKhxk)

122 I have always been catholic and really love my church and pastor. Our priest can't stand the Democrats and said if you vote for them you are supporting abortion and are just as guilty as someone that has one. As far as the pope goes, he won't be pope forever

Posted by: redridinghood at June 27, 2021 12:28 PM (NpAcC)

123 OK. I'd characterize that as an addition. The power-hungry realized that the utility of telling losers "it ain't your fault," channeling Kevin Trudeau, and saying that once the power-hungry ran things, the losers would become the winners.

And, of course, the losers were stupid enough to believe that.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:26 PM (epy5m)
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Meanwhile, the losers fail to realize the thing they think will get them what they want is used to keep them where they are.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at June 27, 2021 12:29 PM (2SdPm)

124 Wish i had a better discripter than Caucasian.

People never ask for Caucasian paint or crayon.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 27, 2021 12:29 PM (eZwXS)

125 As far as the pope goes, he won't be pope forever

He's not Pope now, any more than Biden is President. They just hold the office. Temporarily.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:30 PM (lfS+4)

126 People never ask for Caucasian paint or crayon.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 27, 2021 12:29 PM (eZwXS)
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Why to you think taupe exists?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at June 27, 2021 12:31 PM (2SdPm)

127 Nothing ever changes except the future. It's a vector.

Not like a rat, the mathy kind.

Posted by: klaftern at June 27, 2021 12:31 PM (r4sI4)

128 Our troops wear high heels, we celebrate deviancy, value emotion over rationality We are teaching our children how to have anal sex while decrying the culture that has created the greatest advances in human history, and then wonder why buildings and bridges fall down, our college graduates can't find America on a map, our political class is a dangerous embarrassment, we are destroying modern life's advantages in favor of returning to a pre-industrial world, all in service to a nonsensical pseudo-scientific crusade against some mythical warming trend.

This will be making the rounds among my colleagues. With appropriate attribution.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 12:32 PM (axyOa)

129 Caucasoid

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 27, 2021 12:33 PM (iTXRQ)

130 Everyone ready for lockdown 2 Boogaloo? A new variant!!! This is why my house goes on the market right after the fourth.

Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 12:33 PM (kTF2Z)

131 Nothing ever changes except the future.

...

Tee hee

Posted by: Public skrewel history teacher at June 27, 2021 12:33 PM (WonZ8)

132 And, of course, the losers were stupid enough to believe that.

"Obama will pay my bills from his stash!"

How stupid would you have to be to believe this for a nanosecond?

I don't even know where to start on that one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:33 PM (R2biG)

133 What the hell is a hammer thrower? I mean she didn't really throw hammers did she? Too bad she didn't bash herself in the head with one.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 27, 2021 12:34 PM (nxdel)

134 Betcha the new variant hits California right before the recall election.

Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 12:34 PM (kTF2Z)

135 He's basically right though...it was leased to the Brits, and the lease expired in 1997.

Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula was ceded to Britain in perpetuity. It was the "New Territories" on the mainland that were leased. The problem was that Hong Kong had no way to get fresh water for it's inhabitants without the New Territories so effectively to lose one was to lose the other without massive preparations.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 27, 2021 12:35 PM (yQpMk)

136 I see they drug out old Billy bagpipes to attack Trump and say the election was not stolen..

The persons identifying as ladies doth protest too much.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:35 PM (R2biG)

137 Crayola's "flesh" crayon was "Caucasian." Surprised they haven't been canceled yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2021 12:36 PM (3H9h1)

138 Only saw a snippet, but in it, Barr claims (or the author twists) that Barr made some specific point about Trump votes in Wayne County that countered the idea of large fraud. Even the point alleged doesn't mean what is implied (Trump did better than 2016 = no fraud), but the general implication is ridiculous. The vote patterns in several states, and between like demos in different states, are unprecedented, and cannot be seen without enormous suspicion.

This is leaving aside the eye-witness accounts of clearly unreliable practices at the counting center, or the ridiculous middle-of-night vote dumps, whose %s for either candidate were completely implausible.

But as before it's about impossible to find a detailed disassembly of the alleged points made by Barr, as almost all reaction is the standard empty stupid sloganeering and bumper-sticker-level invective.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at June 27, 2021 12:36 PM (OTzUX)

139 I saw Crux of the Biscuit open for 6 Angry Samoans at the 777 Club in '92.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 27, 2021 12:25 PM (M119n)

The King Biscuit Flour / SPAM US Tour?

Posted by: Count de Monet, checked in to the Heartbreak Hotel (4I/2K) at June 27, 2021 12:36 PM (4I/2K)

140 The past does not change. History never stays the same.

Posted by: klaftern at June 27, 2021 12:36 PM (r4sI4)

141 I'm opposed to this sort of thing!

Posted by: Professional Protester at June 27, 2021 12:36 PM (8SSHh)

142 It's the past that changes, the future is fixed where The Party is always right.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 27, 2021 12:37 PM (yQpMk)

143 Natural born citizen,

Well use to, now anchor babies qualify

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2021 12:37 PM (Cxk7w)

144 134 Betcha the new variant hits California right before the recall election.
Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 12:34 PM (kTF2Z)

Nah - right AFTER the recall election, if Governor Brylcream survives it.

He's dialed back a lot of the COVID shit because he's running scared of the recall. But if he survives, he'll re-institute all of that crap because he gets a chubby from ordering people around.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:37 PM (R2biG)

145 >Crayola's "flesh" crayon was "Caucasian." Surprised they haven't been canceled yet.

they changed it to 'peach'

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 27, 2021 12:38 PM (iTXRQ)

146 Betcha the new variant hits California right before the recall election.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

The corkwood will be stacked like my women.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 27, 2021 12:39 PM (eZwXS)

147 We've had the Cold War, this is the Soft War. Asymmetrical and non-violent.

Not targeting industrial centers or battleships, but instead infiltrating America's cultural institutions and destroying the people from within. Cultural Crack. You think it's coincidence that Luke Skywalker was degraded into a creepy old guy who sucks green milk from the teats of some space cow? They are bribing our leaders with the money we paid to Walmart.

Same with Covid. Whether or not it was released by accident, it was intended to be a weapon of mass destruction that America could not justify a retaliatory strike for. You're going to start global thermonuclear war over an accident?

Someone posted last week that the Marxist Left has been busted with a User Manual on how to disrupt and spike online discussion groups. If you were to infiltrate Antifa you would probably find their studies on how to turn the IKEA Customer Help Line into a propaganda arm for Post-Modern Neo-Marxism.

Whether it's Antifa at your local school board meeting, or China on the global stage, the tactics are the same. A soft war that we won't defend against with actual violence because "that's not who we are".

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 12:40 PM (83lwH)

148 Nah - right AFTER the recall election, if Governor Brylcream survives it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:37 PM (R2biG)

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But if he does it before, he's guaranteed to survive it. "Voting in person is too dangerous and we must go 100% mail in!"

Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 12:40 PM (kTF2Z)

149 Newsom survives easily.

Posted by: Just Saying at June 27, 2021 12:41 PM (CiSRQ)

150 It's pretty much all gone to crap. The government, law enforcement, the courts, the church, the schools, the culture...

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 27, 2021 12:41 PM (II3Gr)

151 > they changed it to 'peach'

I wouldn't know... the last time I used a crayon was when Nixon was president.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2021 12:41 PM (3H9h1)

152 Newsom survives easily.
Posted by: Just Saying at June 27, 2021 12:41 PM (CiSRQ)
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Yeah, because the stupid party will run Jenner, rather than someone who'll come out swinging against Newsom.

The way I see it, might as well go down fighting rather than meekly submitting. But, the lessons of PDT are lost in this state.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at June 27, 2021 12:42 PM (2SdPm)

153 This tweet from CasuallyGreg, posted to Revolver, really got my attention:

http://bitly.ws/eVaK

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 27, 2021 12:42 PM (sWM8x)

154 I agree with all you've said in this post, CBD.
I, for one, will continue to be happy, love my boys and friends, laugh uproariously at things I find funny and enjoy, with awe, the mountains and the water and the sunsets I have the privilege of witnessing every evening.

They cannot defeat my spirit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 27, 2021 12:43 PM (U2p+3)

155 149 Newsom survives easily.
Posted by: Just Saying at June 27, 2021 12:41 PM (CiSRQ)

Maybe. He doesn't seem very confident, and a LOT of people here hate his guts. I've never heard anyone speak well of him, but that could just be selection bias in my choice of friends!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:43 PM (tO55R)

156 "It's pretty much all gone to crap. The government, law enforcement, the courts, the church, the schools, the culture..."

But it didn't happen by accident, we knew what the Long March was and what it meant for us.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 12:44 PM (83lwH)

157
OK- I think we have the beginnings of a good spy novel. The papers were left there by Spy #1, but Spy #2, who was supposed to pick them up, was rubbed out by Spy #3 who didn't realize he was on his way to pick up the package. Now Spy #3 has been exfiltrated back to his home country and liquidated.
Posted by: Moonbeam at June 27, 2021 12:18 PM (qe5CM)

Needs a femme fatale. She was waiting for Spy #2 only to discover his body at the bus stop. She saw the papers laying there in the rain as she ran home in tears. She told her brother who was a song writer. Inspiration hits and he pens a hit tune MacArthur Bus Stop and has everyone singing to themselves "Someone left the plans out in the rain. I dont think that i can take them, cause it took so long to fake them..."

Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 12:44 PM (axyOa)

158 Everyone ready for lockdown 2 Boogaloo? A new variant!!!

We won't survive another lockdown.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 27, 2021 12:45 PM (nxdel)

159 Newsom and Cuomo are two peas in a pod. Nothing ill will ever happen to either of them. And that's a shame.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 27, 2021 12:45 PM (3H9h1)

160 We won't survive another lockdown.
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 27, 2021 12:45 PM

They or we?

Posted by: clutch at June 27, 2021 12:45 PM (9UmRs)

161 New crayon colors are "Fishbelly White", "Yellow Peril", "Ebonic", and "Burnt Hombre".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 27, 2021 12:45 PM (Dc2NZ)

162 And, of course, the losers were stupid enough to believe that.

"Obama will pay my bills from his stash!"

How stupid would you have to be to believe this for a nanosecond?

I don't even know where to start on that one.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:33 PM (R2biG)

My X should keep paying my bills.

Posted by: BluJasmine, Internet THOT at June 27, 2021 12:45 PM (4I/2K)

163 150: Everything is Broken

https://tinyurl.com/wktpk7b4

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 27, 2021 12:46 PM (QFVV9)

164 Commiserations are owed to the long suffering Mrs928. Today is our 40th Anniversary.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 27, 2021 12:46 PM (yQpMk)

165 There was no "widespread" fraud.
It was concentrated, focused in half a dozen cities.

Posted by: Billy Bagpipes at June 27, 2021 12:46 PM (aAP3z)

166 I've never heard anyone speak well of him, but that could just be selection bias in my choice of friends!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:43 PM (tO55R)

I have never met anyone who supports de Blasio!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 27, 2021 12:46 PM (Q9lwr)

167 So-

Spy vs Spy vs Spy

Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 27, 2021 12:46 PM (iTXRQ)

168 They or we?

Both?

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 27, 2021 12:46 PM (nxdel)

169 "This way to the negress!"- P.T Media

Posted by: azjaeger at June 27, 2021 12:47 PM (3/XaG)

170 Maybe. He doesn't seem very confident, and a LOT of people here hate his guts. I've never heard anyone speak well of him, but that could just be selection bias in my choice of friends!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:43 PM (tO55R)
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The problem is, and I've learned this with my lefty daughter, that, you can point to any number of problems created by government corruption and they'll never understand just how corrupt Newsom and this state has become under Democrat rule. They'll acknowledge there is a problem, think it is stupid, but never connect government with the problem.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at June 27, 2021 12:47 PM (2SdPm)

171 Congrats, Grump!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at June 27, 2021 12:47 PM (Dc2NZ)

172 But it didn't happen by accident, we knew what the Long March was and what it meant for us.
Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 12:44 PM (83lwH)

Absolutely right. This was intentional and calculated.

Posted by: Insomniac - Zhou Bai-Den Is Not My Chairman at June 27, 2021 12:47 PM (II3Gr)

173 152 Newsom survives easily.
Posted by: Just Saying at June 27, 2021 12:41 PM (CiSRQ)
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I worry about the unions, the zillionaires, and wholesale electoral fraud.

Absent these things - which unfortunately we are not - I think Newsom would be toast.

Not just COVID, but wildfires, brownouts over the summer, the vagrancy problem, water restrictions, and of course the French Laundry fiasco all make him unpopular.

The wildcard will be wildfires and brownouts. If the drought continues, and we get some brownouts/complete blackouts, Newsom got a serious problem on his hands.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:47 PM (I19v1)

174 I had a boss who loved catchy sayings/slogans. One of his favorites was, "When you're green you're growing, when you're ripe you're rotting."

Posted by: davidt at June 27, 2021 12:48 PM (3Bi4L)

175 155 149 Newsom survives easily.
Posted by: Just Saying at June 27, 2021 12:41 PM (CiSRQ)

Maybe. He doesn't seem very confident, and a LOT of people here hate his guts. I've never heard anyone speak well of him, but that could just be selection bias in my choice of friends!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:43 PM

I think he survives but his presidential ambitions are destroyed.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 27, 2021 12:48 PM (qe5CM)

176 Looking up Sundowner's American Families Plan, no not at WH.gov, NPR is my pick to decipher it.
$1 Trillion in spending, $800 Million in tax cuts al, paid by the Rich of course. The jobs portion will create millions of new jobs, the American Spending part will. Help people pay for expenses so many are struggling with.

Another government thousand dollar payout per person no doubt.

Posted by: Skip at June 27, 2021 12:49 PM (Cxk7w)

177 Tailgunner Joe was right!

Posted by: Count de Monet, checking out of the Heartbreak Hotel (4I/2K) at June 27, 2021 12:49 PM (4I/2K)

178 I don't even know where to start on that one.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:33 PM (R2biG)

OK, I'll give it a shot. To believe that nonsense, you'd have to believe:

1. That Obama had a "stash"
2. It was big enough to pay the bills of tens of millions of people
3. Obama would part with his "stash" out of the goodness of his heart
4. And he could continue doing this indefinitely, since bills will come in again next month, if my guess is correct.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:51 PM (XlpYx)

179 177 Tailgunner Joe was right!
Posted by: Count de Monet, checking out of the Heartbreak Hotel (4I/2K) at June 27, 2021 12:49 PM (4I/2K)

Tailgunner Joe was a Pollyanna. The situation was much worse than even he realized.

No wonder he drank heavily.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:51 PM (XlpYx)

180 What the hell is a hammer thrower? I mean she didn't really throw hammers did she? Too bad she didn't bash herself in the head with one.
Posted by: Jewells45 at June 27, 2021 12:34 PM (nxdel)

My younger sister was one of the first college female hammer throwers. It's an amazing physical feat. Since she's long since retired, I have zero desire to follow it at all.

Posted by: Catherine at June 27, 2021 12:52 PM (okyLH)

181 Commiserations are owed to the long suffering Mrs928. Today is our 40th Anniversary.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 27, 2021 12:46 PM (yQpMk)

Sincere congrats!I
Everyone knew she'd of never been happy with 927.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 12:52 PM (axyOa)

182 had a boss who loved catchy sayings/slogans. One of his favorites was, "When you're green you're growing, when you're ripe you're rotting."
Posted by: davidt at June 27, 2021 12:48 PM (3Bi4L)

I don't know what point he was trying to make but so much wrong with that saying.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 27, 2021 12:53 PM (2DOZq)

183 I may well have no idea what people think of Newsom, given my "news" blackout and fanatical avoidance of anything remotely "political" with the mostly clueless people I know. But I don't think there's even a tiny chance of him being booted. I have seen no evidence of any kind that the massive vote (real or fraudulent) centers of population are aware or, understand, or care about the decline and idiocy they have systematically *voted into existence*, for decades.

Not that much different than most of the country. A few jurisdictions have slight majorities of those who for whatever reason do not support the decline. But the collapse is systemic, institutional, and partly a result of trends long in existence.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at June 27, 2021 12:53 PM (OTzUX)

184 116 Steam: Buy this game! Drill through the earth with a steampunk machine!
Me: Go on.
Steam: It's segmented like a train, but it makes submarine noises.
Me: I'm in.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 27, 2021 12:25 PM (ybIRR)

One "Choo" only, Vasili

Posted by: Joey choo choo Biden at June 27, 2021 12:53 PM (Wm5SB)

185 $1 Trillion in spending, $800 Million in tax cuts all paid by the Rich of course.

And taxing corporations. Counting on people being too stupid to realize that corporations will merely prices to cover their costs, since they don't really pay taxes - they collect them for the government.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:53 PM (XlpYx)

186 157- I dont think that i can take them, cause it took so long to fake them..."
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 12:44 PM

Perfect!

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 27, 2021 12:53 PM (qe5CM)

187 So-

Spy vs Spy vs Spy
Posted by: DB- just DB (iTXRQ) at June 27, 2021 12:46 PM (iTXRQ)

Exactly. A white one, a black one, and a grey one!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 12:55 PM (axyOa)

188 182 had a boss who loved catchy sayings/slogans. One of his favorites was, "When you're green you're growing, when you're ripe you're rotting."
Posted by: davidt at June 27, 2021 12:48 PM (3Bi4L)

I don't know what point he was trying to make but so much wrong with that saying.
Posted by: Just a side note at June 27, 2021 12:53 PM

I think that anyone over 55 getting laid off due to "position elimination" after 20 years with their company knows what he meant.

Posted by: Moonbeam at June 27, 2021 12:56 PM (qe5CM)

189 Tailgunner Joe was right!
Posted by: Count de Monet, checking out of the Heartbreak Hotel (4I/2K) at June 27, 2021 12:49 PM (4I/2K)

You mean the Senator who headed up the House Un-American Activities Committee ? /s

Posted by: Just a side note at June 27, 2021 12:56 PM (2DOZq)

190 Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at June 27, 2021 12:53 PM (OTzUX)

You're bringing me down! A lot of small business owners up here in North County are seriously seriously pissed at Newsom.

How representative they are, I don't know. But I have hope that we'll boot his ass out in the recall.

The big wild card in the recall election: is whether the Dems let one of their number run. That might split the Newsom vote. OTOH, if they don't let any Dem run, they risk getting a non-Dem, maybe even a Republican, as governor.

What to do?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 12:56 PM (YqDXo)

191 7 I agree with all you say, but isn't it enough that we no longer have mean tweets? Seems like a good trade, doesn't it? Liberty or tweets, can you have both?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 27, 2021 11:14 AM (7bRMQ)
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You missed it last night
The Tweets are back, Rested, Tanned and Ready.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 27, 2021 12:57 PM (vPDt3)

192 Sincere congrats!I
Everyone knew she'd of never been happy with 927.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 12:52 PM (axyOa)

Congratulations! 929 never had a chance either.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 27, 2021 12:57 PM (jvt6t)

193
the olympic hammer is basically a shot put on a chain

Posted by: will choose a nic later at June 27, 2021 12:58 PM (bTQ72)

194 "Another government thousand dollar payout per person no doubt."

Nah, you've forgotten the New Math: American population is around 350 million people. If some billionaire would let go of $350 million dollar, we could give every American a $1 million check.

Something very close to that was actually posted on Twitter or someplace as "common sense" economics.

Dr Evil: "I'm just going to champion a $15 min wage because I care about people! And after it passes, head back to my penthouse apartment and assume it all went according to plan"

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 12:58 PM (83lwH)

195 Speaking of societal decay, I'm going to laugh my ass off when that NZ man wins gold in women's weight lifting. I feel sorry for the women though. Train your whole life for this moment only to realize that the best you can do is silver.
Posted by: Duke Lowell (kTF2Z) at June 27, 2021 11:35 AM (kTF2Z)

In all honesty, I'm very surprised these a-holes haven't received the Nancy Kerrigan Treatment by a group of their Real Female(TM) competitors.

Or the Olympic equivalent of a Blanket Party.

Not that I'm advocating such a thing, however these clowns are literally mocking and shitting all over all the hard training and sacrifice these ladies have had to do for, literally, years. That would be very anger making I would think.

Next Big Threat to the United States of America - Athletic Lady Rage!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 27, 2021 12:58 PM (EERbD)

196 Sincere congrats!I
Everyone knew she'd of never been happy with 927.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 12:52 PM (axyOa)

Congratulations! 929 never had a chance either.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 27, 2021 12:57 PM (jvt6t)

Shoot. *kicks dirt*

Posted by: 924 at June 27, 2021 01:00 PM (4I/2K)

197 1ST NOOD

Posted by: Skip guy who says NOOD at June 27, 2021 01:01 PM (Cxk7w)

198 Nah, you've forgotten the New Math: American population is around 350 million people. If some billionaire would let go of $350 million dollar, we could give every American a $1 million check.

Something very close to that was actually posted on Twitter or someplace as "common sense" economics.
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All we've got to do is figure how to get $20 bills to mate.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 27, 2021 01:02 PM (YqDXo)

199 You're bringing me down! A lot of small business owners up here in North County are seriously seriously pissed at Newsom.

I wonder if he goes up there at all? Just how safe would it be? How bad is it getting?

Posted by: Diogenes at June 27, 2021 01:02 PM (axyOa)

200 Waiting for the other Choo to drop...

Posted by: klaftern at June 27, 2021 01:02 PM (r4sI4)

201 Congratulations, Grump!

Posted by: Catherine at June 27, 2021 01:03 PM (okyLH)

202 We know what needs to be done. We can't win a soft war, it doesn't even apply to the enemy, we have to go hot and we have to eliminate the Marxists wherever we find them.

Our current strategy is akin to setting up No Kill Shelters for rats during the Black Death and giving them flea baths.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 01:05 PM (83lwH)

203 https://newtube.app/user/Marooned/ZEP8G9j

Posted by: Marooned at June 27, 2021 01:06 PM (5TnwH)

204 Ugh, just back from the pharmacy with my daughter. We had to wait a long time at the counter, and conversed with a WuFlu true believer. She was there for her WuFlu test - she told us proudly she gets tested 5 times a week, because she goes to visit her 92-year old mom in a care home. She's also had both shots, and her mom has had both shots. But she just doesn't want to take any risk. She was shocked when I flatly said I hadn't had the shot, as we're in the same age range (60s). This is why I don't like going into public anymore. At any moment you can be confronted by health lunatics like this.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at June 27, 2021 01:07 PM (sPnln)

205 guys if you want to watch some great international hockey (not ice!)

watch indoor final on youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdsusPsekgE

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 27, 2021 01:09 PM (j9HX3)

206 it's men's FH not women. women are at 3pm

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 27, 2021 01:09 PM (j9HX3)

207 > He's basically right though...it was leased to the Brits, and the lease expired in 1997.

That lease was made with the Qing Dynasty, whose lawful successor was the Republic of China (i.e., the current government of Taiwan). The Chinese Communist Party doesn't enter into it, in my opinion.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 27, 2021 01:10 PM (XGAZE)

208 I have never met anyone who supports de Blasio!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 27, 2021 12:46 PM (Q9lwr)

I know lots of people who voted for him because they thought it was "cool"

Posted by: CN at June 27, 2021 01:12 PM (ONvIw)

209 New weapon. Num hammers

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 27, 2021 01:53 PM (eZwXS)

210 I read what you wrote and now I'm so depressed I just need to ask: Does anyone have any heroin?

Posted by: Kimo Loka at June 27, 2021 01:55 PM (ZO1EW)

211 "she told us proudly she gets tested 5 times a week, because she goes to visit her 92-year old mom in a care home. She's also had both shots, and her mom has had both shots. But she just doesn't want to take any risk."

I would have asked her how she is covering that gap after she tests negative but before she visits the care home. Tsk tsk. Some of the cars on the road aren't staying 6ft apart.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at June 27, 2021 02:40 PM (83lwH)

212 Re-lapsed Catholic here. I look at Pope Frankie the Red, think of John Paul II, and weep.

Posted by: butch at June 27, 2021 03:48 PM (cHvOo)

213 Prosperity has ruined us.

Posted by: Thud Muffle at June 27, 2021 04:06 PM (0ITnC)

214 I'm of two minds about all this.

I really do and I really do not want to see what comes next.

Posted by: weirdflunky at June 27, 2021 04:12 PM (cknjq)

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