The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 7/19/21

Good morning kids. Start of a new week and as the situation in Cuba no doubt remains the same, i.e. squalor, misery, frustration and repression, the story has faded from the top of the headlines in both the propaganda house organs of that regime's cheerleaders and actual honest media in and around the blogosphere here in the former United States of America. Sadly, tragically, I don't think the Cuban people are going to throw off the yoke of their oppressors just yet. But it would be foolish for anyone to think that what we saw last week did not scare the hell out of that regime. Those protests were unprecedented and it was not because of Chinese COVID or because of the US embargo - which does not impede the over 150 other countries from trading with the regime, though that inconvenient truth is ignored in the usual quarers. For sure, had the Castro-ites allies and compadres in DC not succeeded in rigging last November's election, President-in-exile Trump would have done everything in his power to assist the Cuban people in breaking free from that Caribbean Kolyma. And whatever pressure he could have applied might have made all the difference. "For all sad words of tongue or pen. . ." etc.

Meanwhile, here in the land of the freebie and the home of the enslaved, people here have had it up to here (holds hand up to eyeballs) with the the bullshit being rammed down our throats, be it lockdowns and the vaccine Gestapo, Crackpot Disgrace Theory, decriminalization of real crime, criminalization, censoring and suppression of speech, thoughts and ideas counter to the Leftist narrative, the dismantling of the military, the erasure of our borders, the forced transformation of the free-market into a fascistic, crony government controlled economy, turning our children into catamites, cross-dressers and disfigured Frankenstein monsters, and worse - zombified pod people eager to denounce us to this evil entity that has its claws clamped on our throats, poised to drag us down to Hell.

Consider the last chapter of [Rules for Radicals], which was published in 1971. It is entitled "The Way Forward." Alinsky writes, "Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is[.] ... Large parts of the middle class, the 'silent majority,' must be activated[.]"
The left has been working on making the children of the middle class into radicals, turning them against their parents and their parents' values for fifty years now, in multiple generations. All the things we middle-class parents believed in and called good, our children now call bad and false, and more than bad and false, worthy of destruction, especially if we parents are Christian and conservative, and even more so if we are Trump-supporters. Our cancelation is the fruit of the left's strategy to remake America . . .
. . . It is not just we. This is happening to many middle-class families. For example, I met a friend the other day, and she told me she has several friends whose children are canceling them. One of them is a mother with whom my friend was close as their kids grew up. She said this person was an excellent mother, but now her son will have nothing to do with her and is calling her an abusive mother.
My friend's own son canceled her and her husband, too. The son told his mother that everything they taught him was a lie. Before he canceled them, he forbade his mother to talk to him about G-d anymore.
Years ago, my children also told me I was not allowed to talk to them about G-d anymore. Both of us told our children that we would not proselytize, but we could not promise never to mention G-d because we are people of faith; it is who we are.
When my husband posted on Facebook about our plight, more than a few friends responded that they were going through the same things. One mother said her three children will have nothing to do with her anymore and had recently left her out of a family wedding. She said she is also a person of faith.
What is going on is evil. Just evil.

How are we going to deprogram 150 million people? Actually, all things considered the question is how can we stop 150 million people from reprogramming us? And for sure, those of us who cannot or will not get our minds right are going to wind up dead in a ditch. The situation is very much in doubt.

Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months. The French abandoned their supposedly idealistic revolutionary project and turned it into a monstrous hell for a year between July 1793 and 1794. After the election of November 1860, in a matter of weeks, Americans went from thinking secession was taboo to visions of killing the greatest number of their fellow citizens on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Mao's China went from a failed communist state to the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno, when he unleashed the Cultural Revolution in 1966.
In the last six months, we have seen absurdities never quite witnessed in modern America. Madness, not politics, defines it. There are three characteristics of all these upheavals. One, the events are unsustainable. They will either cease or they will destroy the nation, at least as we know it. Two, the law has largely been rendered meaningless. Three, left-wing political agendas justify any means necessary to achieve them . . .
. . . America went from the freest country in the world in December 2019 to a repressive, and frightening place by July 2021. It went not so much hard-Left, as stark-raving mad.
That abrupt descent, too, is not workable and millions will collectively decide they have no choice but to push back and conclude, "In the 233rd year of our republic, we tens of millions are not going to cede freedom of thought and expression to thousands of Maoists. Sorry, no can do."

As my Momma of blessed memory always used to say, "evil flourishes." But as I always say, we cannot know the future. As Victor Davis Hanson suggests in the conclusion of yet another fine essay, we were riding high 18 months ago, seemingly poised not only to go from victory to victory in a political sense but perhaps on the verge of a sea change culturally and societally. And yet in an instant, the unleashing of a biological/psychological weapon by the Red Chinese and worse, the eager shredding of any sense of morality, ethics and propriety by the American Left and worse, the abrogation from those allegedly on our side of their duty to stop them, came as punch in the gut and then a stomp on the head. We didn't see that coming, or if we suspected it we couldn't accept it.

Of course, there's the flip side of that. We have had enough of this and people are speaking out and fighting back. Yet you don't have to look to Cuba to see that those who have the whip hand are not going to just give it up. Not without a fight, for all definitions of that word. But we cannot know the future. Even in our darkest moments. If our fellow citizens rotting in jail as political prisoners for the January 6th Democrat-staged "riot" can still sing "The Star Spangled Banner" every night, then surely there is hope? And just as nemesis always follow hubris, perhaps our would-be overlords are now or soon will be thinking the same things we were thinking and feeling at the end of 2019.

Hope so. Cuba Libre! America Libre!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Victor Davis Hanson: "America went from the freest country in the world in December 2019 to a repressive and frightening place by July 2021. How did that happen?"
The American Descent into Madness
"Fearmongering from journalists, scientists, and politicians did more harm than the virus."
The Panic Pandemic
"It's tragic that the free world has never held the lethal ideology of communism accountable for its crimes against humanity. Worse, the ideology is making a comeback."
Why Communism Should Be Tried For Its Crimes Against Humanity
"It was shocking to my husband and me that our children canceled us for being who and what we are."
Parents Canceled by Their Own Children
"In our time, the blood of patriots refreshes a tree not of liberty but of tyranny."
When the CIA Kills Americans

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

Julie Kelly: "Every night at 9 p.m., according to a relative of one of the detainees, they sing the national anthem. This is a way to keep spirits up among men who have been in jail for months and may not have their day in court until sometime next year."
Exclusive Audio: Listen to January 6 Detainees Sing the National Anthem
"Despite spending millions compiling evidence against the Capitol Riot defendants, Biden's DOJ is afraid to let Republicans onto the jury."
Change of Venue for January 6th Trials
"When a group of military officers gets together to conspire against the orders of the commander in chief, it is a real case of mutiny and treason."
The Military Plays No Part in the Constitution's "Checks and Balances"
Lloyd Billingsley: "Chief CRT instructor Gen. Mark Milley has conditions set for losing the next war."
Thoroughly Modern Milley
"The masked Sallies of Antifa are usually coddled by cops, but that wasn't happening this time."
L.A. Police Pummel Antifa, Finally
"The ability to terrify and intimidate local politicians into stifling free speech is extremely worrying."
Under Threats of Violence, Three California Venues Cancel Appearances by Reps. Gaetz and Taylor-Greene
"Something's got to give."
The "Silent Majority" Is Rapidly Becoming the "Angry Majority" (or the Silenced majority - jjs)
"Essentially, the judge is telling the Justice Department that there are no shortcuts to justice."
Federal Judge Throws a Monkey Wrench Into Capitol Riot Prosecutions
"Democrats embrace leftist mobs with one aim: power."
Democrats and the Tyranny of the Mob
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
Margot Cleveland: "The tangled web of voter reform laws, the Trump voter fraud accusations, and the Secretary of State Office's findings show why we need more digging on what happened in Georgia."
Georgia Secretary of State Explains Why He's Just Now Discovering More Than 10,000 Illegal Votes Cast In 2020
"Then they flew to DC on a private jet stocked with Miller Lite without masks, in violation of FAA rules, and now this farce turned into a super spreader event."
Texas GOP Chair Blasts Fleeing Democrats: "Farce Turned into Super Spreader Event"
"Additionally, nearly 60 percent of voters favor a ban on ballot harvesting."
New Poll Shows Voters Want Tighter Voting Restrictions After 2020 Election
"It is no substitute for putting the basic federal rights in place. What I'm saying is that you have to do all of these things at once."
Klobuchar: We Can Pass Voting Rights as "Election Infrastructure" with Reconciliation
Democrats' ideas "suck," Donalds said. "They're awful. They're terrible. And so to get you upset with conservatives, they bring up stuff like IDs. They bring up stuff like Jim Crow."
Rep. Byron Donalds Shreds Democrat Argument on Voter ID: I Had an ID at 13
"[Veep Throat] Harris met with the Texas House Democrats on Tuesday this week and praised them for refusing to participate in legitimate democratic processes in their home state, saying, 'You are doing this in support and defense of some of our nation's highest ideals.'"
More Texas Democrats Test Positive For Chinese Coronavirus After Fleeing State To Subvert Democracy
CUBA MASS ANTI-COMMUNIST PROTESTS
"That man killed a lot of people, you know what I'm saying? He killed a lot of motherfucking people. People in the world have a wrong impression of Che Guevara . . . He was in charge of killing people in Cuba."
Cuba Protesters Warn Americans Who Like Che Guevara: "He Was a Fucking Terrorist"
Humberto Fontova: "Those anti-government Cubans just don't appreciate their communist paradise!"
Cubans Erupt in Protest Against a Regime Hailed by Democrats
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"The Ethical Culture Fieldston School seems to have the same mission statement as BLM."
Indoctrination Begins Early: NYC Private Schools Only Hiring Lefties
"It seems the Biden [junta] will listen to the public when the rejection of their ideas is clear and loud." (somehow, this is all for show; the poison will be funded through the back door somehow when no one's paying attention - jjs)
VICTORY: Biden Caves on Critical Theories Grant After Parents Push Back
"Number of Asian students plummeted at Thomas Jefferson after district gutted merit-based admissions."
Superintendent Who Eliminated Entrance Exam at Nation's Top High School To Resign
"The Russell County School Board has voted unanimously to reject the Virginia Education Department's new transgender policy after outrage from their community."
Virginia School Board Rejects State's Radical Transgender Policies
"Government unions, government contractors, powerful nonprofits, monopolistic corporations, and Big Tech companies rely on a thoroughly indoctrinated electorate to support their dysfunction."
Fixing California, Part Eight of Nine: Restoring Quality Education
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Bill Veeck had nothing to do with this. . .
Pandemonium Breaks Out In D.C. Ballpark After Shooting; 3 Wounded, Stadium Emptied, Game Postponed
". . . Buy me some peanuts and crack. BANG! BANG!"
After Nationals Park Shooting, DC Police Union Blames "Elected Officials" For Explosion In Violent Crime
"Bush is the latest member of AOC's '[death] Squad' to take the'"security for me but not for thee' approach to defunding the police."
Campaign Filings Show Rep. Cori Bush Continues to Be a Defund the Police Hypocrite
"Gang activity has increased in Portland. It's unclear who the victims of the shooting were or what was the motive for the attack."
Eight People Shot in Downtown Portland Mass Shooting as City Gets More Dangerous by the Day
"Wokester Mayor Todd Gloria has joined the national blue-city derby for the title of America's worst mayor."
Homeless Assaults Ramp Up in San Diego; Leftist Mayor Offers Idiotic Solution
"He says he's for decriminalization, but he hasn't acted on that stance."
Biden Punts on Pot
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
"Trying to shame the holdouts has failed spectacularly. Insulting and degrading them as 'morons' or 'ignorant' has resulted in a vicious pushback and a hardening of positions on getting vaccinated. The [junta's] plan of sending people door to door to vaccinate them only feeds anti-vaccine skepticism. Trust in authority is at an all-time low, which makes a government-sponsored vaccine program suspect."
MIT Study: Vaccine Hesitancy Is "Highly Informed, Scientifically Literate," and "Sophisticated"
"Vaccine skeptics lack faith in the government's experimental drugs. So why trust its other experiments?"
On Trusting Government and Citizens as Test-Subjects
"Fauci must not have brushed up on his vaccine history before going on with Acosta. Both the smallpox vaccine and the polio vaccine faced loud opposition."
Dr. Fausti Embarrasses Himself While Trying to Mock Fox News
Accidentally on purpose.
WHO Chief: It Was "Premature" to Rule Out Lab-Leak Theory; "Lab Accidents Happen. It's Common"
"The prospect of a national at-your-front-door vaccination program represents a massive Fourth Amendment assault that threatens the future of the country's Constitutional republic."
Biden's Door to Door Plan to Inoculate Americans
"The merchants of mendacity must be resisted."
Toppling the Left's Tower of Lies
Michael Applebaum, MD: "Is the Biden [junta] committing overkill against [Chinese] 'COVID misinformation?'"
The Chinese "COVID Misinformation" Train Wreck
Katie Hopkins: ". . . But all is not as it seems."
Freedom Day Arrives in England
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Only a politicized faith is permitted in public life."
The Left's Manipulation of Religion
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, AND OTHER CORRUPTION
"Weiss allegedly postponed allowing prosecutors to obtain search warrants and issue grand jury subpoenas last summer, facing fears of election influence."
Federal Prosecutor Deliberately Delayed Hunter Biden Probe To Shield 2020 Election
"Something seems amiss."
The Strange New Career of Hunter Biden -- Artiste
ANGEL OF DEATH CUOMO NURSING HOME SCANDAL, SEXUAL ASSAULT & OTHER DEM GOV SCANDALS
"The state senate in Michigan yesterday approved a repeal of the emergency powers law that Democrat Party governor Gretchen Witmer used last year to assume the equivalent of total dictatorial powers.The repeal was instigated by a citizen petition, and is certain of full passage. The reign of witch Gretchen is coming to an end."
Dictatorship Overthrown in Michigan
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"If Congressional Republicans want to fight Big Tech, they need to stop taking tens of thousands of dollars from Big Tech."
It's High Time GOP Congressional Leaders Rejected Big Tech Dollars
POLITICS
"Joe Biden is even proving more of a master of disaster than Jimmy Carter, it's stunning how much success Biden has managed to reverse in just four months."
Is Joe Biden Reimagining the Jimmy Carter Presidency?
"By their fruits ye shall know them."
Ten (Plus One) Signs that the Age of Biden is Upon Us
"The Republican Party is changing, and voters should be encouraged by some of the people throwing their hats in the ring for 2022."
More Like This Please: A New Generation of Republican Candidates With the Right Stuff
Her asshole transplant rejected her . . .
Kamala Harris Visits Walter Reed For "Routine Appointment" Days After Meeting Chinese COVID-Positive Texas Dems
"Two Senate candidates -- J.D. Vance and Blake Masters -- offer one of the most promising signs yet that the Republican Party will take on the problems Trump recognized."
J.D. Vance and Blake Masters Promise to Shore Up US Workers and End Endless Wars
"[Thuggish lout John] Fetterman was the only Pennsylvania statewide official to endorse Sanders for president in 2016, and like the Vermont senator, he is 'a self-described democratic socialist.'"
Terry McAuliffe Fundraises For Self-Described Democratic Socialist
"Unions are not just alienating members like Laird when they step into the breach of politics. The recent attempt to organize an Alabama Amazon warehouse made blatant racial appeals to its largely African American workforce."
Unions' Focus on Woke Over Work Rankles Rank and File
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Success is still far from certain: Democrats don't know whether the measure can survive the Senate's obscure budget rules that would allow the bill to pass without GOP support."
Democrats Trying to Sneak Amnesty Into Massive Budget Bill Using Reconciliation
"Joe Biden responded to the federal ruling declaring the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program illegal, thus halting the program."
Biden Accidentally Admits Trump's Solution to DACA Was Always the Right One
"During what will almost certainly be a record-breaking year for apprehensions, Democrats are attempting to pass more left-wing immigration policies."
Border Apprehensions Pass 1 Million, On Track To Set New Record While Democrats Plan Amnesty
"Should the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] get his way and, say, 35 million people rather than the expected 11 million emerge from the shadows to apply for legal status, the political backlash could be considerable -- including from legal immigrants and naturalized citizens, who went to a great deal of bother to follow the rules."
11 Million? Try 35 Million! Joe Biden Wants Amnesty, But US Tally of Illegal Immigrants is Deeply Flawed
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Roger Kimball: "As tales of fake woe and calls to ban conservative books circulate among woke booksellers, the White House is flagging 'problematic posts for Facebook.'"
Are You Having a Free Speech Emergency?
"The board is made of elite academic and government employees who have demonstrated they give anything but an accurate and fair look at content moderation."
Facebook's Top Censorship Board Is Filled With Elite, Power-Loving Bureaucrats
"I'm taking off of social media for the rest of July. See you in August."
Shaun "Talcum X" King Deletes His Twitter Account, Takes Break From Social Media
"Maybe the news is bullshit the whole way down. How much time do you have for finding out?"
Digging Out the Bullshit
"In Michael Knowles' new book, Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, the popular Daily Wire commentator takes a deep dive into the history of political correctness and offers suggestions for how to combat it."
The Answer to Political Correctness Isn't More Free Speech, But Better Speech
"The Washington Post's Perry Bacon Jr. says the national press should be more upfront that their mission is less about relaying information and more about protecting voters from themselves."
Corporate Media's Belief In Themselves as "Democracy Defenders" is Exactly Why They Can't Be Trusted
"Don't talk so much."
Tater Stelter Gets Peeled and Roasted by Guest on His Own Show
"The horrible ironies of this story are beyond the pale. The American Booksellers Association (ABA), a non-profit trade organization founded in 1900 to represent independent bookstores while also defending freedom of speech, has now violently condemned the publication of a book that raised questions about the modern perverse sexual movement and its unbridled support of sex changes for young children."
Today's Blacklisted American: Booksellers Want to Burn a Book They Do Not Like
ABORTION
"The state senator did not specify why the bishop reportedly denied him communion, but his announcement comes amid discussion of whether bishops will deny [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden communion over his pro-abortion policies."
New Mexico Democrat Says Bishop Denied Him Communion Over "Political Office"
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"U.S. Treasury blacklists seven Chinese officials under Trump-era Hong Kong Autonomy Act."
China Threatens to Deal a "Head-on Blow" to U.S. Over Sanctions on Chinese Officials
"Why did Iran decide that now was the time to mount an audacious operation to kidnap Masih Alinejad, an Iranian dissident, in New York City and take her back to the Islamic Republic, where she would have faced imprisonment, torture, and possibly even judicial murder? The answer is clear, and it is sitting in the White House catching up on Matlock reruns until the next time he is needed to answer a few scripted softball questions from a sycophantic media."
Iran's Attempt to Kidnap a Dissident in the U.S. Highlights Biden's Extraordinary Weakness
"Connecting the immigration dots Biden ignores."
Alleged Iranian Kidnap Plot Targeted Iranian/American Dissident In Brooklyn
"Iran says that the U.S. and Great Britain's insistence on an immediate resumption of the talks is holding the prisoner deal 'hostage.'"
U.S. Denies Iran Claim of Prisoner Swap for Resumption of Nuke Talks as "Outrageous"
"The only reason the Biden regime is inviting the UN 'human rights officials in is to undermine and condemn America."
Bringing America to its Knees Courtesy of the Biden Junta
"The UN report will be used by the Leftists and the Democrat party, but I repeat myself, as proof that a massive transfer of wealth is needed from white Americans to Americans of color."
Secretary of State Blinken is Setting Us Up for Paying Reparations
"Trevor Reed has been imprisoned in Russia for more than one year."
Russia Sends U.S. Marine to Soviet-Era Gulag
Daniel Greenfield: "Father of murdered boy blasts Biden [junta] for standing with son's killer."
Biden Junta Goes After Israel Over a Jihadi Polygamist's Terror Mansion
"Their solutions are far worse than the problems they claim to be solving."
China, Hong Kong, and the Danger of Tyrannical Ideology
"Why would someone born, raised, and rearing children in America not want his own country prioritized?"
Why Would Any American Oppose America First?
"Who knows if these bureaucrats know anything about economics, but they clearly know nothing about creativity."
The UN's Crash Course in Creative Economics -- And Collective Stupidity
"The Church of England is acknowledging the country's sad history of persecution of Jews."
Anti-Semitism in England
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Daniel Greenfield: "White male military suicide rates show who's really suffering from systemic racism."
While Military Leaders Lie, White Men Die
"American professors are pushing for greater collaboration with Chinese Communist Party scientists even as experts explore the possibility that the deadly [Chinese] coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan virology lab." (oh hell no! - jjs)
US Scientists Call for Closer Research Ties With China
"Tencent -- a tech firm flagged as a 'tool' of the Chinese Communist Party -- is attempting to buy a German game developer used by Western countries to conduct military simulations."
Chinese Communist Tech Attempts To Buy US Army Simulation Developer
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: "Gee, what has changed since then?"
Al-Qaeda Calls For Murder of Americans In First Magazine Issue Since 2017
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"I'm not going to speculate on his retirement."
Klobuchar on Justice Breyer: Retirement His Decision, But "Sooner Rather Than Later" is Better
"Beginning in 2007, whistleblowers and advocates have convened an annual conference on Capitol Hill. For the first time, the 2021 National Whistleblower Day events will be an interactive virtual conference."
The Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival July 23 -- August 1
"To change hearts, facts are useless without the power of optimism, the belief that abundance is possible, and the suggestion that ideology matters, but sometimes practical solutions matter more."
Fixing California, Part Nine of Nine: The Prosperity Economy
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The government collects real resources via voluntary transactions with economic agents who are willing to trade real resources today for the promise of real resources in the future. Debt buyers, including U.S. households saving for retirement, view this debt as savings, which reduces their savings in private investment. This substitution is called the 'capital crowding-out effect' from government debt issuance."
Analysis: Deficit Spending Is Deeply Harmful To Long-Term Economic Growth
"The meme stock phenomenon worried federal regulators, who claimed that the collective decision to purchase assets constituted market manipulation."
GameStop Stopped? "Meme Stock" Trading Shows Signs of Decline
"The Biden [junta] has discovered a back door into raising the effective minimum wage."
How Our Leftist Government Gets Its Minimum Wage Hike Without Legislation
"Biden [fraudulently] came into office promising to save the economy. Instead, he's resurrected the specter of 1970s-style stagflation."
The Dreaded Misery Index is on the Rise Under Biden
"With prices skyrocketing on Wall Street, bond markets, and in the housing sector, the end of that cheap money could cause asset bubbles to burst."
Why You Should Blame the Federal Reserve's Easy Money for Today's Inflation
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"America's drug crisis saw its worst year ever -- again."
The Overdose Wave
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Electric cars have trouble maintaining momentum for very long, but at least when they run out of range, you just stop. In an electric airplane, you drop."
Electric Planes: Green That Doesn't Fly
"While no other 'carbon free' method of producing electricity comes even close to nuclear energy, climate change alarmists refuse to even consider the option."
Now is the Time to Get Serious About Nuclear Energy
"To meet 'green' mandates, Americans will be coerced to purchase Chinese-made solar panels, made with not only fossil fuels but likely forced labor as well."
How a "Green" America Would Fuel China's Growing Coal and Uyghur-Exploiting Solar Industries
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Capitalism in space: In a video released yesterday Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa provided an update on his Dear Moon competition for choosing the eight individuals who will join him on his private Starship mission around the Moon."
Maezawa Reveals Status of Competition to Join Him on a Private Starship Mission to Moon
"This is great news, but to bring everyone down to Earth, we must remember that Hubble no longer has any redundancy in this area. Should there be another similar computer failure, the telescope will then be dead in the water, with the only way to bring it back a manned or robotic mission -- something we presently do not have the capacity to do -- to replace these units."
Engineers Report Hubble Fix Appears Successful
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
In the immortal words of Kent "Flounder" Dorfman, "Oh boy, this is gonna be great!"
LGBT Activists Attack Left-Wing Muslim School Board Member For Not Being Pro-LGBT
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"The real sad part here is that the Suns/Bucks series has actually been a ton of fun. It's the most fun NBA Finals that I can remember over the past few years."
The Bucks Beating the Suns in Game Five of the NBA Finals Doesn't Get Great TV Ratings
"REVIEW: Nice Racism by Robin DiAngelo."
The Grift That Keeps on Grifting
"I cannot believe people watch that channel."
Bill Burr on XiNN: "They're Fucking Treasonous Un-American Pieces of Shit"
"This latest woke ideological project is especially pernicious."
Meet the Newest Woke Catchphrase: Anthropocentrism
"Without the participation of African Americans, the war to save the Union 'as it was' could not have been transformed into a war to save the Union 'as it should be.'"
On the Meaning of "Glory"
"Maybe the news is bullshit the whole way down. How much time do you have for finding out?"
Digging Out the Bullshit
HITHER & YON
"Petitioners push Court to clarify limits on regulatory authority."
Pit-Runners Press Supreme Court To Strike Down Ban on Puerto Rican Cockfighting
Christian Toto: "The Tonight Show alum's take on show business' ugly side is rare, refreshing."
Leno Dishes on Letterman, Late Night Wars and His Humble Roots
"Why do Americans gravitate to young-adult literature -- stories of heroes vanquishing the shadowy forces governing their dystopian worlds?"
Escaping Only So Far

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 19, 2021 06:26 AM (Cx4ts)

2 Others...summoned.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 19, 2021 06:26 AM (Cx4ts)

3 top 10...now for content.

Posted by: Latemarch (a member of the rabble in good standing) at July 19, 2021 06:27 AM (o+Qf/)

4 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 06:28 AM (yrol0)

5
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 19, 2021 06:29 AM (DUIap)

6 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2021 06:29 AM (D44eV)

7 Welcome to the dawn of American socialism, comrades!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 19, 2021 06:29 AM (23Gju)

8 "How are we going to deprogram 150 million people? Actually, all things considered the question is how can we stop 150 million people from reprogramming us?"

"The French abandoned their supposedly idealistic revolutionary project and turned it into a monstrous hell for a year between July 1793 and 1794."

That might work.

Posted by: f'd at July 19, 2021 06:30 AM (Tnijr)

9 Young people need to realize their elders want them fat, stupid, ignorant, and weak so they can be more easily controlled.

Posted by: iandeal at July 19, 2021 06:31 AM (MGjjz)

10 Prediction: Chyna Joe closes Guantanamo to Muslim Brotherhood residents and makes it an exclusively GOP conclave

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 19, 2021 06:32 AM (23Gju)

11 If the facts were on our side, we'd be honor-bound to switch sides.

Posted by: The Left at July 19, 2021 06:32 AM (sTOQ8)

12
Don't knock the Frogs -- they seem to have more testicular fortitude than most Americans, now. There have been mass protests against the Vaccine Passport system imposed by Macron. Mass protests.

And, I was just reading, protestors just set fire to a vaccine station.

The cheese-eating surrender monkeys have more balls than Americans, now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 19, 2021 06:32 AM (Mzdiz)

13 So it is looking like the marching orders from on high say put down riots now. Funny how that has changed since last summer.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at July 19, 2021 06:33 AM (6Pqz7)

14 The cheese-eating surrender monkeys have more balls than Americans, now.
Posted by: publius

How sad is that?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2021 06:34 AM (D44eV)

15 Fearmongering from journalists, scientists, and politicians did more harm than the virus.

Most likely has destroyed my family forever. I do not think my wife and daughter and I will ever get along again.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 06:34 AM (yrol0)

16 I do not think my wife and daughter and I will ever get along again.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I hear you but hopefully, that passes with time.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2021 06:35 AM (D44eV)

17

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 19, 2021 06:35 AM (YX5sd)

18 So according to Miss Lindsey, the US Sensate has to have a quorum to do ANY business, and he would consider fleeing DC to assure that the left can not ram anything thru with reconciliation?

Would love to see that, but doubt the RINOs have the character to do that? And a quorum is 51 votes so ALL the Fuckin RINOs would have to cooporate. Fat chance right

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2021 06:36 AM (GPwVZ)

19 Oh wow. JJS shoots, he scores! What a link...the January 6 political prisoners singing the National Anthem at night.

Kevin McCarthy, you shame yourself every day you sit silently, you gravy-sucking coward.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 19, 2021 06:36 AM (23Gju)

20 In 2009, at the Chicago Tea Party in February, I met a black guy who wore a T-shirt of Obama with the No Ghostbusters look or "Cancel Obama" if you prefer. He would not unzip his jacket the entire time, but lamented how he snuck out of his own home to protest as a conservative because he would be ostracized by them for not supporting BHO as a black man. He said they didn't understand that you don't support "black" you support policy. He said it. 2 months later, my son and husband went again to the tax day tea party and made a video. The close: "Think. It's not illegal. Yet. Saul Alinsky anyone?

Posted by: DefendUSA at July 19, 2021 06:36 AM (5ej0U)

21 I'm glad at least that the conversation is turning, however slowly and among limited quarters, into one of the social madness afflicting us rather than "policy differences" or the problems of "partisanship." I always winced when Trump's people would speak of "partisanship" and not the destructive pathology of Leftism. We missed this threat for so long. The Republican Party still doesn't understand (my two red state senators are so behind the curve it's beyond sad), and honestly it may never. This is up to the people now.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 19, 2021 06:36 AM (vhMB7)

22 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 19, 2021 06:37 AM (arJlL)

23
Vaccine failure is no undeniable from the Israeli data, and the UK. We're a little behind them, and the failure will soon be obvious here. The Texas fleebaggers illustrate that. 5 out of 5+ fully vaccinated fleebaggers. That's about 10%.

HMS Queen Elizabeth is another example. 100 people out of ship's complement of 700+ now infected. All military are fully vaccinated in the UK.

See Alex Berenson's twitter feed (and get it while you can -- Twitter is going to shut him down soon. They already sent a warning shot across his bow. He won't back down, and will be banned soon).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 19, 2021 06:38 AM (Mzdiz)

24 The Feds have been using that "11 million" lie for years.
It's probably at least 4 times that.

Posted by: f'd at July 19, 2021 06:38 AM (Tnijr)

25 Good morning morons and happy birthday JJ

Can't help but think the belief we will defeat the junta by voting is naive, cute almost.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 19, 2021 06:39 AM (EZebt)

26 Everything is broken and these people are assholes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 19, 2021 06:40 AM (6YYLe)

27 I am rather shocked by the abortion headline. I just wish it was the archdiocese of Santa Fe

Posted by: Corona-exile lost in spaces at July 19, 2021 06:41 AM (ErN6t)

28

Denninger has written another barn burner:

https://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker
/akcs-www?post=242992

It's well worth a read.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 19, 2021 06:41 AM (Mzdiz)

29 Morning JT.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2021 06:43 AM (D44eV)

30 How are we going to deprogram 150 million people? Actually, all things considered the question is how can we stop 150 million people from reprogramming us?

You won't. The only way out is divorce. Peaceful or otherwise. Before somebody gives me the typical "this is OUR land" tripe - save it. 1/3 can't pacify the other 1/3 while the rest sit in the middle waiting for the next episode of Dancing With the Stars. And our third doesn't have the will to put them in the camps.

Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 19, 2021 06:43 AM (/fp1w)

31
A vaccine skeptic may brush off a proponent by saying, “It’s approved for emergency use only; it’s not FDA-approved. I don’t think we should require it.” The skeptic is beginning with a fact that’s easily established and shareable. But when pressed, they might reveal that their line of thinking is elsewhere: “There are no long-term studies, and I’m worried about possible long-term effects.” Because the two objections aren't exactly logically connected, the proponent concludes it is irrationalism all the way down.

***

How the F*CK does anyone write that the two things "aren't exactly logically connected"? They are literally the exact same thing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 06:44 AM (RDD2k)

32 I don't see this all ending amicably. Pardon the understatement.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 19, 2021 06:44 AM (wymgv)

33 Biden releases a Gitmo prisoner into Moroccan custody; MFM upset that this innocent man who had been cleared for release four years ago (who was clearly an unfortunate tourist in Pakistan/Afghanistan) was held by the evil Trump. There are at least two more on this list for release.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 06:44 AM (UHVv4)

34 Fuck the CHICOMs, this "flu" is all their fault. They should pay for it. And by pay for it, I mean in every way possible. Sprechen Sie Deutsch

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2021 06:45 AM (GPwVZ)

35 Happy Monday!

>>How are we going to deprogram 150 million people? Actually, all things considered the question is how can we stop 150 million people from reprogramming us?

Good question. They are not just cancelling their parents, they are brainwashed into cancelling their culture, history, national heritage, their ancestors, and -- themselves!
They're too brainwashed and stupid to see they are helping others conquer them and us.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 19, 2021 06:45 AM (bDqIh)

36 "That man killed a lot of people, you know what I'm saying? He killed a lot of motherfucking people. People in the world have a wrong impression of Che Guevara . . . He was in charge of killing people in Cuba."

==

Whoa, somebody alert Johnny Depp the Dope. He'll have to make some tough decisions on whether or not to continue wearing his "Che" jewelry.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 19, 2021 06:46 AM (O+I8R)

37 Hiya Tonypete !

Do ya still have to hunt for coffee like Dan'l Boone did ?

Posted by: JT at July 19, 2021 06:46 AM (arJlL)

38
The "response" of our public health "experts" to the 'Rona is going to go down as the worst public health failure and disaster in history.

They have fucked up colossally. They put a gun to our heads and pulled the trigger to save us. Our elites have proven themselves, over the last two decades, hell three, to be utter idiots. This is just the latest.

They have destroyed public health with their stupidity. Their arrogance. "You arrogant fool, you've killed us all!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 19, 2021 06:46 AM (Mzdiz)

39 It's well worth a read.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 19, 2021 06:41 AM (Mzdiz)

Excellent, thanks.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 19, 2021 06:46 AM (vhMB7)

40 Re kids cancelling parents, the 5th Commandment is just behind the curve - we've shattered the rest.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 19, 2021 06:47 AM (oWBc3)

41 well duh! that is the plan

Welcome to Washington, D.C. Where violent crime permeates everything, the DC Police Union tweeted Sunday.
It is a tragedy that elected officials wont let us do our jobs.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 06:48 AM (yrol0)

42 Secession. It needs to begin with one brave state.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 19, 2021 06:48 AM (vhMB7)

43 >>"Should the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] get his way and, say, 35 million people rather than the expected 11 million emerge from the shadows to apply for legal status, the political backlash could be considerable -- including from legal immigrants and naturalized citizens, who went to a great deal of bother to follow the rules."

Oh, are we FINALLY aknowledging that the constant "11 million illegals" number cited for decades is wrong, and it's closed to 40 million?!

How can we let the give that many people amnesty -- it will fundamentally change elections and our country forever.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 19, 2021 06:49 AM (bDqIh)

44 15 Fearmongering from journalists, scientists, and politicians did more harm than the virus.

Most likely has destroyed my family forever. I do not think my wife and daughter and I will ever get along again.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 06:34 AM (yrol0)

It's a huge tragedy when your partner says "I do" in the trust that you will protect them for life, and then for that partner to say "I will trust any number of strangers more than you, simply because credentials, or 'it's on the news.'"

I'll send prayers your way, rhen.

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at July 19, 2021 06:49 AM (HK8/E)

45 Do ya still have to hunt for coffee like Dan'l Boone did ?
Posted by: JT

Found it! God is good.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2021 06:49 AM (D44eV)

46 How can we let the give that many people amnesty -- it will fundamentally change elections and our country forever.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 19, 2021 06:49 AM (bDqIh)

Too late.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 19, 2021 06:50 AM (6YYLe)

47 Suggesting there will be a pushback on amnesty for 35 million is a laugh. Let's say that's 10 million new votes at least - screwed ain't the word.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 19, 2021 06:50 AM (oWBc3)

48 That which cannot continue won't.

Posted by: vmom restituere verum papam at July 19, 2021 06:50 AM (BU+6J)

49 A chyron last week reported a South Korean naval vessel had had 70 WuFlued crewmen removed from shipboard at sea too. I don't know if all vaxxed or not but I'd suspect yes.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 06:51 AM (UHVv4)

50 The Venezuela-zation of California continues. Now the state power grid has become so unstable and unreliable that they have issued official guidance for citizens not to use appliances between 4-9 PM, every day, so that air conditioning can remain available for those who need it for health reasons

Turn off those lights, Californians! No dishwashers for you! Unplug the Teslas!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 19, 2021 06:51 AM (23Gju)

51 Secession. It needs to begin with one brave state.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 19, 2021 06:48 AM (vhMB7)

It begins with the idea that it is indeed the right of a State, or group of States, to leave a Republic when that Republic is no longer tolerable. Make no mistake - that's why the push to remove every Civil War monument. To erase the idea that it ever happened.

All those here who constantly bang the drum about "evil Southern democrats" do not help.

Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 19, 2021 06:52 AM (/fp1w)

52 Do ya still have to hunt for coffee like Dan'l Boone did ?
Posted by: JT

Found it! God is good.
Posted by: Tonypete

Tonypete was a man
yes a BIIIIIIG man
with an eye like an eagle
and a nose like a beagle....

Posted by: JT at July 19, 2021 06:52 AM (arJlL)

53 How'd amnesty work out for RR? Biggest mistake of his Admin and one I have a hard time forgiving him for

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2021 06:52 AM (GPwVZ)

54 My friend's own son canceled her and her husband, too. The son told his mother that everything they taught him was a lie. Before he canceled them, he forbade his mother to talk to him about G-d anymore.

If you are not strong in your convictions, your children will not see truth in them.

Most studies on why children leave the church reveal that children see parents that do not practice their faith and find it to be false.

And most church programs for youth are centered on entertaining kids, instead of seriously focusing on teaching the the Christian worldview as a discipline and serious study.

Juxtapose that against a collegiate environment in which professors mimic the pulpit (a common tool of the devil is imitation) with an air of authoritativeness and with the power of the grade book to coerce, and you can see how they triumph over Susie Sunday School teacher, who is mostly known for being nice.

The rebuke, reproof and instruction in righteousness. Do any of those things sound like hugs and smiles? If you want your children to practice the true faith, send them out the door as militant Christians with full expectation that the world is evil.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2021 06:52 AM (5We2S)

55 The reign of witch Gretchen is coming to an end.

I still say she is going to win re-election in a landslide.

I will be happy to eat crow here if I am wrong.

Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. Another lousy day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2021 06:52 AM (2JVJo)

56 And...life returns to normal.

Le sigh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 06:54 AM (LvTSG)

57 Morning, Horde...How goes it? Re: that article about popularity of YA literature. Much of it deals with young protagonists overthrowing a tyrannical dictatorship. Yet the readers don't seem to be able to connect to the real world. Politician who read them seem to think they are blueprints for how they should shape the world.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at July 19, 2021 06:54 AM (K5n5d)

58 38 The "response" of our public health "experts" to the 'Rona is going to go down as the worst public health failure and disaster in history.

They have fucked up colossally. They put a gun to our heads and pulled the trigger to save us. Our elites have proven themselves, over the last two decades, hell three, to be utter idiots. This is just the latest.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 19, 2021 06:46 AM (Mzdiz)

Why so? We've graciously removed millions of useless eaters off our balance sheets, gained progress on our goal of "climate lockdowns" forcing the people into their homes, and successfully branded anyone who doesn't agree with us as "bio-terrorists."

In our point-of-view, this has been nothing more than a rousing success. And guess what? We're writing the history books, and it will be nothing but pure praise for us.

-Our so-called "elites," who are playing a different game than we can possibly imagine.

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at July 19, 2021 06:54 AM (HK8/E)

59 Look, I fuggin hate Commies (Dad hates them and was on the ground for years in SE Asia and South Ameria running ops), but to ignore the largest and longest embargo hasn't had any effect is dishonest or ignorant. NO American Businesses or businesses with commercial activities in the US could do conduct trade with Cuba for 40 years until 2000 allowing food and humanitarian aid.

The United States embargo against Cuba prevents American businesses and businesses with commercial activities in the United States from conducting trade with Cuban interests. It is the most enduring trade embargo in modern history. The U.S. first imposed an embargo on the sale of arms to Cuba on March 14, 1958, during the Fulgencio Batista regime. Again on October 19, 1960, almost two years after the Cuban Revolution had led to the deposition of the Batista regime, the U.S. placed an embargo on exports to Cuba except for food and medicine after Cuba nationalized American-owned Cuban oil refineries without compensation. On February 7, 1962, the embargo was extended to include almost all exports. Since the year 2000, the embargo no longer prohibits the trade of food and humanitarian supplies.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 19, 2021 06:56 AM (owBzT)

60 Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months.
++++
Only sort of. This is nature of exponential functions and inflection points. Once you cross the knee of the curve, things happen *fast* though they don't start that way. Like the quote about how he went broke, often attributed to Hemingway, "slowly at first, then suddenly."

It is always this way. Exponential functions often look linear at the beginning, before they take off. The slow degradation over the course of a couple of generations has now been pushed and is flourishing. We're at or just past the knee of the curve now, so everything is moving radically fast. It hasn't happened in a couple of months, though. Those couple of months are riding on decades of change.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2021 06:58 AM (3p5uk)

61 Re: 35M illegals. I'll just leave this here:

That Dominion bullshit only had to work once. They might still use it here and there for Senate seats, but the presidency is in the bag with 100M votes as a baseline.

Posted by: Lysenkos Bagged Lettuce, 100% abortion free and only tested for safety using abortions at March 05, 2021

Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 06:59 AM (RDD2k)

62 U.S. Surgeon-General concerned about what lies ahead with cases of [WuFlu] increasing in every state.

Welcome to the Forever War coming.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 06:59 AM (UHVv4)

63 you don't cancel me, I cancel you

Posted by: REDACTED at July 19, 2021 06:59 AM (YK4Qh)

64 Read elsewhere (Michael Malice) that VP Harris has the swine flu.

(which made me LOL out loud)

Posted by: Arch Stanton at July 19, 2021 06:59 AM (fM2PW)

65 Re kids cancelling parents, the 5th Commandment is just behind the curve - we've shattered the rest.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 19, 2021 06:47 AM (oWBc3)

I'd advise those parents whose kids are "cancelling" them to get their financial assets in order and hidden from the kids and the courts as much as possible. Because the move from "cancelling" to "I was sexually abused by my parents" is inevitable.

Your kids cancelling you are ready to have you vaporized by the Thought Police. And believe me, that is NOT hyperbole.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2021 07:00 AM (2JVJo)

66 So doing the right thing as in the Cuba embargo is no the right thng because it has lasted so long and hurts American businesses who want in on the suffering of Cubans? Got it. Chamber of Commerce America baby!

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at July 19, 2021 07:00 AM (oWBc3)

67 As of 2018, the embargo is enforced mainly through the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the Cuban Assets Control Regulations of 1963, the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, the Helms-Burton Act of 1996, and the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000.[2] The stated purpose of the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 is to maintain sanctions on Cuba as long as the Cuban government refuses to move toward "democratization and greater respect for human rights."[3]The Helms-Burton Act further restricted United States citizens from doing commerce in or with Cuba, and mandated restrictions on giving public or private assistance to any successor government in Havana unless and until certain claims against the Cuban government were met. In 1999, President Bill Clinton expanded the trade embargo by also disallowing foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to trade with Cuba. In 2000, Clinton authorized the sale of food and humanitarian products to Cuba.

(ThE 60 YeAr EmBaRgO hAd No EfFeCt!)

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 19, 2021 07:00 AM (owBzT)

68 ....drag us down to the DEPTHS of hell...

Posted by: torabora at July 19, 2021 07:00 AM (J7Wmq)

69 That John Tierney article on the Covid panic is essential reading. Outrageous that Fauci is still on TV and not in prison.

Posted by: JBirks at July 19, 2021 07:01 AM (5Rlcc)

70 Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 19, 2021 06:56 AM (owBzT)

Well, that and it's f*cking retarded to have trade embargoes against the Communist Cuban government whilst simultaneously having nearly ever f*cking item we purchase produced by the f^cking Chi-Coms.

Senseless.

Though I don't share any belief at all that US businesses would export Democracy to Cuba. They only import despotism.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2021 07:01 AM (5We2S)

71 The American Booksellers Association (ABA), a non-profit trade organization founded in 1900 to represent independent bookstores now has a list of books that can be burned.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:01 AM (yrol0)

72 The Chyna Attack Flu seasonal cases are rising.

Thanks, Tony Fauci: Good job spending our money to fund your bioweapons program in Wuhan. Just like the opposing Russian Captain in the "The Hunt For Red Oktober", your misfired disease is killing us all.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 19, 2021 07:01 AM (23Gju)

73 making progress at local food market

removed the directional arrows from the floor

ended my fav way to be a rebel

shit

Posted by: REDACTED at July 19, 2021 07:01 AM (YK4Qh)

74
I have been reading a lot of shit about the 'Rona vaccines and the development thereof over the last couple of days. This is not my field, and I'm not qualified to get into the weedy details, but I can follow along.

What they did was stupid, arrogant, and reckless. Did you know there's never been a successful coronavirus vaccine for humans ever before? Why? It's damned hard. They tried for the first SARS. It failed miserably.

They threw out all the time-tested, well-known cautions and went YOLO. They will reap the whirlwind. The things they did were just Stupid. They've tried to play God. They don't have a fucking clue what they're doing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 19, 2021 07:02 AM (Mzdiz)

75 First, this idea of targeting the spike protein alone, which all the vaccines do. It doesn't target the whole virus. Cornoviruses mutate their spike proteins like crazy. This is known.

The vaccine failure here is due to the mutations, most likely (Delta anyone?).

Vaccinating into an active pandemic with a non-sterilizing vaccine is profoundly stupid. It changes the natural selection pressures on the virus, and you can get *more deadly* mutations that become fruitful and multiply because of it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 19, 2021 07:03 AM (Mzdiz)

76 Welcome to the Forever War coming.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 06:59 AM (UHVv4)

We were always door to door vaccinating for Monkey Pox.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:03 AM (yrol0)

77 I think the Karen's are going to win this next round. Delta Variant coming! Schools will be closed again this fall.

The haranguing to mask followed by the haranguing to vaccinate followed by the haranguing to mask is curious. I am amazed anyone is listening anymore. And yet they are.

Posted by: blaster at July 19, 2021 07:04 AM (xXwKS)

78 AOC says Cuban socialism is failing only because American capitalism won't give them things.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 19, 2021 07:04 AM (23Gju)

79 Young people need to realize their elders want them fat, stupid, ignorant, and weak so they can be more easily controlled.

You left out "on drugs" too, specifically, whether the wares sold illegally or the witches brew of prescription meds, and the more or less deviant or "alternative" lifestyles, that are almost guaranteed to cause regret.

The school systems leave them unable to process facts, and even facts themselves are considered taboo. Never been anything like it, not in America anyway.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2021 07:04 AM (IF7/S)

80 removed the directional arrows from the floor

ended my fav way to be a rebel

***

My kids and I had a LOT of fun with that.

If you need something on that wrong-way aisle, just walk in backwards.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:04 AM (RDD2k)

81 I'm rooting for the virus this time.

Posted by: torabora at July 19, 2021 07:04 AM (J7Wmq)

82 Before perusing the links, thank you JJ and Horde for all you do.
It is much appreciated here in the Real Democratic Workers Republic Of Illinois.
*hums along to the soundtrack of Les Mis playing in the background*

Posted by: (jV+aN) President Orange Man Bad (Rheees Be Upon Him) at July 19, 2021 07:04 AM (jV+aN)

83 Our Naval Facilities at Hampton Roads has returned to HPCON Brave, meaning back down to 50% capacity and some travel restrictions...coming to a base near you? Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2021 07:05 AM (GPwVZ)

84 Vaccinating into an active pandemic with a non-sterilizing vaccine is profoundly stupid. It changes the natural selection pressures on the virus, and you can get *more deadly* mutations that become fruitful and multiply because of it.

***

Nu-uh, only unvaccinated selfish people can cause variants, because that's Science.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:05 AM (RDD2k)

85 59 The United States embargo against Cuba prevents American businesses and businesses with commercial activities in the United States from conducting trade with Cuban interests. It is the most enduring trade embargo in modern history. The U.S. first imposed an embargo on the sale of arms to Cuba on March 14, 1958, during the Fulgencio Batista regime. Again on October 19, 1960, almost two years after the Cuban Revolution had led to the deposition of the Batista regime, the U.S. placed an embargo on exports to Cuba except for food and medicine after Cuba nationalized American-owned Cuban oil refineries without compensation. On February 7, 1962, the embargo was extended to include almost all exports. Since the year 2000, the embargo no longer prohibits the trade of food and humanitarian supplies.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at July 19, 2021 06:56 AM (owBzT)

=========

And yet, the rest of the world can trade with them while still being an abject failure of poverty and repression.

If Cuba needs to be propped up by America by this point, then the problem isn't America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:05 AM (LvTSG)

86 After the Berlin wall fell and the soviet criminal state collapsed, commies all over the should have been arrested and charged with crimes against humanity.

Nuremberg II: Hanging Commies Boogaloo would have been a huge hit.

And the criminal regimes in Red China, North Korea and Cuba should have been boycotted until they had a change of governments.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 19, 2021 07:06 AM (8xbM3)

87 So many Japanese are against holding the Games (because of WuFlu fear) that Toyota won't be airing any of its Games-themed TV ads in Japan despite being a sponsor; and the CEO is skipping the opening ceremony.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 07:06 AM (UHVv4)

88 Two Senate candidates -- J.D. Vance and Blake Masters -- offer one of the most promising signs yet that the Republican Party will take on the problems Trump recognized."

Vance endorsed and voted for Egg McMuffin. Egg. Fvcking. McMuffin.

Another lying grifter.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at July 19, 2021 07:06 AM (Bmy3R)

89 Romania showed us the way, Hairyback Guy.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 07:07 AM (UHVv4)

90 Is it wrong that my first thought I have when hearing "55 shot, 7 killed in Chicago" is: someone needs more range time?

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at July 19, 2021 07:07 AM (7Fj9P)

91 Though I don't share any belief at all that US businesses would export Democracy to Cuba. They only import despotism.

Exactly. I've worked the auto plants in Mexico - GM didn't raise living conditions there, they just used them to lower conditions here. Now combine Big Biz greed with the ready and willing hammer of Cuban government.

Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 19, 2021 07:08 AM (/fp1w)

92 Thanks J.J.

Posted by: artisanal ette at July 19, 2021 07:08 AM (9VFzC)

93 A court hearing will take place in Henry County Superior Court on Monday, July 19th at 1:30pm ET regarding the U.S. Senate runoff election in Georgia, certified in January of 2021.

The lawsuit, brought by Atlanta resident Mike Daugherty contests the certifications of Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock as the winners of the election for Georgia's U.S. Senate seats and seeks a new election conducted on paper ballots under Ga. Code 21-2-334.

Posted by: the turtles at July 19, 2021 07:08 AM (Tnijr)

94 88 Vance endorsed and voted for Egg McMuffin. Egg. Fvcking. McMuffin.

Another lying grifter.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at July 19, 2021 07:06 AM (Bmy3R)

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2016 was a lifetime ago. As a sole data point, I wouldn't hold that too firmly against anyone. It's what they've done since, since Trump proved to be as conservative as the GOPe has insisted it itself is, that's the real test.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:08 AM (LvTSG)

95 After the Berlin wall fell and the soviet criminal state collapsed, commies all over the should have been arrested and charged with crimes against humanity.

I assume you also mean Merkel?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2021 07:08 AM (GPwVZ)

96 The lawsuit alleges the results of this election do not accurately reflect the intent of eligible voters in Georgia and therefore should be overturned. The lawsuit points to significant misconduct, legal irregularities committed by election officials, procedural violations, and security breaches surrounding electronic voting equipment, among other things.

Posted by: f'd at July 19, 2021 07:08 AM (Tnijr)

97 I remember my dad seeing that Star Trek episode on TV (he was not a fan of that show) and looking confused saying "That guy sure looks a lot like Melvin Belli". I had no idea who he was. Belli was kind of a strange cat.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2021 07:08 AM (IF7/S)

98 I think the Karen's are going to win this next round. Delta Variant coming! Schools will be closed again this fall.

The haranguing to mask followed by the haranguing to vaccinate
followed by the haranguing to mask is curious. I am amazed anyone is
listening anymore. And yet they are.

Posted by: blaster at July 19, 2021 07:04 AM (xXwKS)

I am done with masks. Yes I don't care anymore. I have none on my person and if someone says i must leave because i don't have a mask, then i will leave. They will never get my business again.

Posted by: Quint at July 19, 2021 07:09 AM (F2/Ok)

99 "And most church programs for youth are centered on entertaining kids, instead of seriously focusing on teaching the the Christian worldview as a discipline and serious study."

This.

I was astonished at how quickly everything fell to the Woke Crusade until I realized: it's because we have lost faith in our institutions. We lack the will to act because "the best have lost all conviction"

Islam has it's problems, but this is not one of them. Their people are willing to blow themselves up to kill those that threaten their values.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 19, 2021 07:09 AM (49Exr)

100 How the F*CK does anyone write that the two things "aren't exactly logically connected"? They are literally the exact same thing.
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LOL, I read that piece over the weekend and had the same reaction as you. Obviously the writer doesn't understand the meaning of the term "logically connected." The reason that the FDA hasn't approved the covid vaccines, and has given only "emergency use" authorization for them, is because there have been no long-term studies. So the "vaccine skeptic's" stated concerns are as "logically connected" as anything could be.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 19, 2021 07:10 AM (k4dH2)

101 "55 shot, 7 killed THIS WEEKEND"

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at July 19, 2021 07:10 AM (7Fj9P)

102 I used to think that the way to fix Cuba was a Walmart Supercenter in Havana.

But that is wrong. Putting American firms in Communist countries just makes them Communists too. It doesn't work the other way.

Posted by: blaster at July 19, 2021 07:10 AM (xXwKS)

103 Raffensperger now is trying to claim he wasn't on MSDNC every day calling GOP claims of a fraudulent election a "Big Lie". Like we would forget.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 19, 2021 07:10 AM (23Gju)

104 I'm not sure if this was posted last week already. Busy in rl these days.

OANN Reporter Says Alito and Thomas Have Issued a "Public Warning" About ACB and Kavanaugh
This is bone-chilling, but are you surprised?
https://tinyurl.com/4uk48ee3

Emerald Robinson
SCOTUS Justices Alito & Thomas are already publicly warning conservatives that Barrett & Kavanaugh "lack fortitude" and are "unwilling to bear the criticism" that will come with making conservative decisions.

They are "Federalist Society judges."

Posted by: artisanal ette at July 19, 2021 07:11 AM (9VFzC)

105 Twenty-one American and 19 Chinese professors signed on to an article for the Environmental Science and Technology journal advocating for increased collaboration between American and Chinese scientists.

100% of any research or tech developed with the Chinese goes to the CCP and will be used against Americans.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:11 AM (yrol0)

106 77 I think the Karen's are going to win this next round. Delta Variant coming! Schools will be closed again this fall.

There was never a question about it. We're in a nightmare loop. I hear it said that what cannot continue doesn't, but I'm beginning to wonder.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 19, 2021 07:11 AM (vhMB7)

107 @publius "They threw out all the time-tested, well-known cautions and went YOLO. They will reap the whirlwind. The things they did were just Stupid. They've tried to play God. They don't have a fucking clue what they're doing."
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They know EXACTLY what they're doing. You said it yourself, reaping the whirlwind. Billions of dollars, in perpetuity.

Posted by: JBirks at July 19, 2021 07:13 AM (5Rlcc)

108 And the global internet wasn't used in say, China to open things up there, "freedom and democracy" and individual rights, it's been inverted, and used to repress everyone in the West. Disgusting.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2021 07:13 AM (IF7/S)

109 Yeah, I foolishly thought that the mask/virus silliness would be gone after they achieved the goal of removing Trump.

I never, ever imagined Americans would LIKE the masks and the Security Blanket feeling and the Karen-Power it gives so many people.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:13 AM (RDD2k)

110 So many Japanese are against holding the Games (because of WuFlu fear)

My favorite story is that the Japanese are equipping the Olympic Village with cardboard beds that fall apart easily in order to prevent the athletes from banging.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2021 07:13 AM (6XLoz)

111 So, interesting time in Orlando. Went to four theme parks. Masks are no longer required but "encourage" for those who are not fully vaccinated.

For the first couple of days, I made note of the kinds of people with masks still on, and the results weren't really what I expected.

The one group that had the masks most often was hispanics. Not young white people (especially women, like I had imagined). Interesting. They were also a vanishingly small percentage of the entire population there. Maybe 1-2% of every crowd was masked. Indoor facilities were being treated like before where you were forced to congregate a whole bunch together to fit as many people into a space as possible. The places were packed full. It was like we had returned to normal.

If any of the social distancing or masking stuff has any effect, I imagine Florida should see an explosion of cases.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:13 AM (LvTSG)

112 covid bs

Northern California county changes COVID-19 death reporting[/i
https://tinyurl.com]/y3mdt6x

Previously, the county had included any person who died while infected with the virus. For example, if someone had died in a car crash but had tested positive for COVID-19, they were counted as part of the county's virus deaths - though they would not be included in the state's figures, The Mercury News reported.

Posted by: artisanal ette at July 19, 2021 07:14 AM (9VFzC)

113 Islam has it's problems, but this is not one of them. Their people are willing to blow themselves up to kill those that threaten their values.
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They also organize themselves into pods when they colonize a new area. Just west of me, there is a high muzzie concentration, w/a mosque and dedicated daycare. They even have something resembling their own police. They are insulating their institutions from The Evil West.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at July 19, 2021 07:14 AM (7Fj9P)

114 And the global internet wasn't used in say, China to open things up there, "freedom and democracy" and individual rights, it's been inverted, and used to repress everyone in the West. Disgusting.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2021 07:13 AM (IF7/S)
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When my dad first got us the Internet back in 1994, he told us that it was the future. Once we started using it, a year or so later he said, "this will either be the greatest engine of human liberty ever conceived, or it will be the greatest engine of human oppression imaginable. There will be no in-between."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2021 07:14 AM (3p5uk)

115 103 Raffensperger now is trying to claim he wasn't on MSDNC every day calling GOP claims of a fraudulent election a "Big Lie". Like we would forget.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 19, 2021 07:10 AM (23Gju)

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Because he's not afraid of his own voters because of Dominion?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:14 AM (LvTSG)

116 >>>Outrageous that Fauci is still on TV and not in prison.<
>I can't understand why Fauci's peers don't have him swinging by the neck from beneath a trestle.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 19, 2021 07:14 AM (Va++g)

117 The emergency enabled the steal of the election. So the emergency must continue. No one should have to risk their lives in order to exercise their Constitutional right to vote!

Which will make it okay to just truck in all the preprinted ballots they need. And hey recounts are dangerous too!

Posted by: blaster at July 19, 2021 07:14 AM (xXwKS)

118 But that is wrong. Putting American firms in Communist countries just makes them Communists too. It doesn't work the other way.

Posted by: blaster at July 19, 2021 07:10 AM (xXwKS)

that is a good point. As Cubans are moving to the right, American companies are moving to the Left. One group wants freedom, and the other group consists of American corporations.

Posted by: Quint at July 19, 2021 07:14 AM (F2/Ok)

119 Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released an issue of Inspire magazine, its glossy, slickly produced online magazine that praises jihad murderers and calls on Muslims to commit more acts of jihad terrorism.

Hun, have you seen the latest copy of Inspire, it was in the shitter just yesterday!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:15 AM (yrol0)

120
Re masks. Some UK health official slipped up and let the cat out of the bag from something I was reading. The masks were only psychological. A feel good measure to make people thing they're in control.

They've known masks don't work for this kind of virus for a century. You know the Spanish Flu (WuFlu is only 1/20th of the impact of the Spanish Flu, BTW). They tried masks then. Laws mandating masks. It didn't work. They knew it then.

They know it now. Way back in early 2020, the Krauts (which can be damned efficient) had a outbreak in a fully masked meat packing plant (remember we had those). They did sophisticated and expensive testing that was able to determine who infected who. You can do this, via the viral mutations, but it takes a lot of effort and expense.

The results proved the virus was transmitted airborne via aerosols. People 100' away, fully masked infected others. This was proven by Science (TM).

They've known this. And known this for 100 years.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 19, 2021 07:15 AM (Mzdiz)

121 I think the Karen's are going to win this next round. Delta Variant coming! Schools will be closed again this fall.

The haranguing to mask followed by the haranguing to vaccinate
followed by the haranguing to mask is curious. I am amazed anyone is
listening anymore. And yet they are.

Posted by: blaster at July 19, 2021 07:04 AM

I said that was going to happen last year when all of this madness started. They are not going to let go of any of this new found power for anything.

Mask mandates every year because "it's going to be a bad flu season" or "the Lambda variant is more deadly and contagious than any other variant we have seen to date", blah, blah, blah....

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 19, 2021 07:16 AM (JUOKG)

122 I never, ever imagined Americans would LIKE the masks and the Security Blanket feeling and the Karen-Power it gives so many people.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:13 AM (RDD2k)

People LOVE LOVE LOVE the mask. My wife for one.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:16 AM (yrol0)

123 One group wants freedom, and the other group consists of American corporations.

The left bitched a lot about the Citizens United decision, but they are certainly enjoying the benefits of it now.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2021 07:16 AM (6XLoz)

124 I am done with masks. Yes I don't care anymore. I have none on my person and if someone says i must leave because i don't have a mask, then i will leave.

That was my perspective on the first round of masks.

On the second round of masks, I'll take what I want and leave.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2021 07:16 AM (5We2S)

125 Yeah, I foolishly thought that the mask/virus silliness would be gone after they achieved the goal of removing Trump.

I never, ever imagined Americans would LIKE the masks and the Security Blanket feeling and the Karen-Power it gives so many people.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:13 AM (RDD2k)

My prediction that President Trump would be in jail by now has not been borne out, but my prediction that masks are never going away seems to be holding water.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2021 07:16 AM (2JVJo)

126 comedian Burr is no friend of Trump but he calls out CNN for what they are

Bill Burr savages CNN as 'un-American pieces of s-t' who want Trump for ratings
New York Post

CNN have 'nothing to talk about' other than Trump because Biden is a 'bore'
The Australian

Bill Burr rips CNN for talking about Trump and says 'they want Darth Vader to come back'
Daily Mail

Posted by: artisanal ette at July 19, 2021 07:16 AM (9VFzC)

127 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:17 AM (Zz0t1)

128 Vance endorsed and voted for Egg McMuffin. Egg. Fvcking. McMuffin.
Another lying grifter.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at July 19, 2021 07:06 AM (Bmy3R)
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2016 was a lifetime ago. As a sole data point, I wouldn't hold that too firmly against anyone. It's what they've done since, since Trump proved to be as conservative as the GOPe has insisted it itself is, that's the real test.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:08 AM (LvTSG)
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Yeah, I know quite a few people that didn't vote for Trump in 2016 because they thought he wasn't a conservative and was a Democrat in sheep's clothing. All these people voted for Trump in 2020 and have admitted they were wrong.
Also, there were people like Dave Rubin, Brandon Straka and the walkway movement that became red-pilled and woke up to how dangerous and toxic the left is.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 19, 2021 07:18 AM (NpAcC)

129 CNN have 'nothing to talk about' other than Trump because Biden is a 'bore'

I guess they've never seen the "Fresh Prez of DC".

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2021 07:18 AM (6XLoz)

130 The one group that had the masks most often was hispanics.

**

Here in middle NC it's black people. Sadly, this pro-virus push has really done a number on their brains.

I have a neighbor who is a college professor and she and her husband both wear their masks exiting their home (on two acres), in the car, etc. Middle aged and doctor-level education.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:18 AM (RDD2k)

131 The other interesting thing about Orlando was Dolley.

She's been terrified of covid, and her becoming an effective shut in for the past year and a half because she's gotten a fully remote job with a new company has increased her underlying sense of anxiety. She's been on medication for anxiety in the past, but she refuses to take it anymore because it all makes her gain weight.

Anyway, she never once wore a mask, though she did remark from time to time how she felt kind of nervous. Those remarks fell away by the end, so that when we were sitting in line for the Velocicoaster at 9:45 at night, she wasn't talking about how there were so many people in the enclosed space with us, but just how the single rider line wasn't moving as fast as she had imagined.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:18 AM (LvTSG)

132 The bullshit about there only being 11 million illegals living in the U.S. will be exploded if the sneak-amnesty gets passed.

There are, by most estimates, closer to 30-40 million illegals living here. Or rather, that was the estimate prior to Biden's faux-election, after which he opened the floodgates and gave the cartels the green light.

Since January, the government admits to "apprehending" (which means catching, and then letting go into the U.S.) nearly a million illegals.

Border cameras in Arizona show that Border Patrol only "apprehends" about 10% of illegal border crossers. So 90% of illegal border crossers never get "apprehended" by the U.S. government, and are thus conveniently not being counted.

That means that instead of one million new illegals in the past six months, there have likely been closer to 10 million who have actually entered so far this year. If that pace keeps up, we'll be getting 20 million new illegals, per year, during the Biden mal-administration.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 19, 2021 07:19 AM (k4dH2)

133
Bill Burr rips CNN for talking about Trump and says 'they want Darth Vader to come back'
Daily Mail

Posted by: artisanal ette at July 19, 2021 07:16 AM (9VFzC)

Never found Bill Burr very funny when he's been linked here.

Now I know he's a prick who hates America being a powerful, united nation, so he can go eat a bag of dicks. I'll never give him a click again.

American prosperity, power and sovereignty is Darth Vader? Fuck you, prick.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:19 AM (Zz0t1)

134 if you haven't seen this map floating around, it's chilling too if it is correct. I have no doubt.

An important graph for your mental model of the world.
https://tinyurl.com/uz7pbevr

Posted by: artisanal ette at July 19, 2021 07:19 AM (9VFzC)

135 The Venezuela-zation of California continues. Now the state power grid has become so unstable and unreliable that they have issued official guidance for citizens not to use appliances between 4-9 PM, every day, so that air conditioning can remain available for those who need it for health reasons

Turn off those lights, Californians! No dishwashers for you! Unplug the Teslas!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 19, 2021 06:51 AM (23Gju)

sooooo, right at dinner time? eh, it's not like you have to cook dinner for the kids. i'm sure there's some kind of school dinner program in the works... Cali is so thoroughly fucked. glad i got to see it before they went over the bend.

and morning horde. shame when work gets in the way of reading. cofee is ready...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at July 19, 2021 07:20 AM (8D42x)

136 Yeah, George Floyd is the only WuFlu death not to be treated as a WuFlu death by the MFM.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 07:20 AM (UHVv4)

137 The one group that had the masks most often was hispanics.

Here (northernmost Baltimore suburbs) it's blacks wearing masks the most. For a minute I could actually go shopping and not see any customers wearing one, but then the Delta Delta Delta hype kicked up.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2021 07:20 AM (6XLoz)

138 Burr was interesting back in the day. he has a very weird fetish about killing people off. I think maybe he should leave the big cities and he will see things differently. Either way there is something off about that guy. He is loved on the net and particularly with reaction videos. But the thing is, almost all of those videos are seriously dated.
He was funny and incisive at one time, but that time was really a long time ago at this point.

Posted by: Quint at July 19, 2021 07:20 AM (F2/Ok)

139 "Something's got to give."
The "Silent Majority" Is Rapidly Becoming the "Angry Majority" (or the Silenced majority - jjs)

I hope so

Posted by: artisanal ette at July 19, 2021 07:20 AM (9VFzC)

140 The misery index has climbed each and every month that Joe Biden has been president. In February, it ticked up to 7.9, then rose to 8.6 in March. Last month, the misery index hit 11.3

I can promise you the Uncle Joe and his people LOVE this. The Misery Index falls mostly on the working middle class, the people Dems LOVE TO HATE!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:21 AM (yrol0)

141 Indoor face-diaper wearing is around 5% or less practically everywhere here, but I found a last bastion: Whole Foods. Stopped in for some produce and was shocked to see at least half the customers and staff still wearing tard rags.

1. Hippies tend to be both anti-vax and the type to wear masks since they are not vaxed
2. Lots of virtue-signalling Karens, male and female, fully vaxxed but wearing them to own the Cons.
3. People who are vaxxed but do not trust/believe in the vax.

Some combination of the 3 at work, I think.

(WF is right down the block, and for fresh produce, it's much more convenient for me than the farmer's market. Only reason I go there.)

Posted by: Guy Smiley at July 19, 2021 07:21 AM (Bmy3R)

142 "Vance endorsed and voted for Egg McMuffin. Egg. Fvcking. McMuffin.
Another lying grifter.
Posted by: Guy Smiley"

After I read the article where he bashed Trump he went on my shitlist.

Posted by: f'd at July 19, 2021 07:22 AM (Tnijr)

143 Speaking of the above pic and TOS And the Children Shall Lead, the kid who played Tommy (Craig Hundley) was a pianist and had his own jazz trio during the run of Star Trek.

Here's a cut, "Arrival," from his debut album, Arrival of A Young Giant:

https://tinyurl.com/2udjjy4j

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2021 07:22 AM (2JVJo)

144 They've known this. And known this for 100 years.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 19, 2021 07:15 AM (Mzdiz)

Anything written before the down of the Messiah Obama reeks of stale, Euro-centric, racist, transphobic hatred wrapped up in the blankets of "knowledge," and must be immediately discarded if we are ever going to reach a equitable society!

Or put in less post-modern gibberish, knowledge is only worth something if people are willing to see it for what it is instead of another tool in the hands of communists to further implement the party's agenda.

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at July 19, 2021 07:22 AM (HK8/E)

145 F*ck Bill Burr. The old saying goes that comedians are the best social barometers of the truth. Bullshit. They randomly strike truth when it is funny, but truth is not a virtue or goal to them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 19, 2021 07:22 AM (vhMB7)

146 In Northern Virginia my observation is that blacks are the most likely to wear their masks under their chin.

Posted by: blaster at July 19, 2021 07:22 AM (xXwKS)

147 I remember my dad seeing that Star Trek episode on TV (he was not a fan of that show) and looking confused saying "That guy sure looks a lot like Melvin Belli". I had no idea who he was. Belli was kind of a strange cat.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2021 07:08 AM (IF7/S)
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If I recall JJ had a personal encounter with him. ?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 19, 2021 07:23 AM (EZebt)

148 Bill Burr rips CNN for talking about Trump and says 'they want Darth Vader to come back'

**

So you were always on the side of the religious fanatics who groomed a young orphan to take down the duly elected leader of the government in a suicide mission and throw the republic into chaos and war?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:23 AM (RDD2k)

149 I liked Bill Burr once and only once. When him and that big fat black dude Hubbell made Skyler's boss Ted sign the IRS check on Breaking Bad. That was a classic scene.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at July 19, 2021 07:23 AM (Bmy3R)

150 I can promise you the Uncle Joe and his people LOVE this. The Misery Index falls mostly on the working middle class, the people Dems LOVE TO HATE!
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:21 AM (yrol0)

Exactly. They are reanimating Lenin's dream of annihilating the middle class.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 19, 2021 07:23 AM (vhMB7)

151 On the bright side, real oppression has never been tried. Maybe it'll work this time, with the right people in charge.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 19, 2021 07:23 AM (7X3UV)

152 Since the President is an idiot he is unable to see how his policies are going to destroy America.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 19, 2021 07:24 AM (23Gju)

153 Never been able to sit through more than a minute of Bill Burr.

Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 19, 2021 07:24 AM (/fp1w)

154 Romania showed us the way, Hairyback Guy.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 07:07 AM (UHVv4)

Yes they did! I watch the execution video now and then to warm me heart. Old lady Ceausescu was still barking orders and slapping the paratroopers who tied her up and led her out to be shot. She reminds me of Hillary...

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 19, 2021 07:25 AM (8xbM3)

155 Exclusive Audio: Listen to January 6 Detainees Sing the National Anthem
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Nowadays, that amounts to self-incrimination.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 19, 2021 07:25 AM (7X3UV)

156 MY anti-anxiety medicine makes me fat too -- chips, chocolate, samosas and Jamaican beef patties!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 07:25 AM (UHVv4)

157 American prosperity, power and sovereignty is Darth Vader? Fuck you, prick.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:19 AM (Zz0t1)

Burr has always been deep left. He always has to trash Catholics and Christians too.

Posted by: artisanal ette at July 19, 2021 07:25 AM (9VFzC)

158 In Northern Virginia my observation is that blacks are the most likely to wear their masks under their chin.

Posted by: blaster at July 19, 2021 07:22 AM (xXwKS)

i never understood that. People go their own way I guess. I won't wear a mask because it is stupid. But wearing one under your chin is just weird.

Posted by: Quint at July 19, 2021 07:26 AM (F2/Ok)

159 I'm from Philly and Burr's 10-minute rant on Philly sports teams is freaking epic.

Posted by: JBirks at July 19, 2021 07:26 AM (5Rlcc)

160 After I read the article where he bashed Trump he went on my shitlist.
Posted by: f'd at July 19, 2021 07:22 AM (Tnijr)
**********
He has admitted he was wrong way before he decided to ever run for office.
If you remember even ace bashed Trump and it wasn't until the very end that he jumped on the Trump train.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 19, 2021 07:26 AM (NpAcC)

161 Though I don't share any belief at all that US businesses would export Democracy to Cuba. They only import despotism.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2021 07:01 AM (5We2S)

this.

i mean, it's worked so well in china, didn't it...

*rolls eyes*

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at July 19, 2021 07:27 AM (8D42x)

162 I won't wear a mask because it is stupid. But wearing one under your chin is just weird.

Might as well go with a beard net at that point.

Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 19, 2021 07:27 AM (/fp1w)

163 Stop calling it a mask.

It is really a muzzle.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 19, 2021 07:27 AM (EZebt)

164 i never understood that. People go their own way I guess. I won't wear a mask because it is stupid. But wearing one under your chin is just weird.
Posted by: Quint at July 19, 2021 07:26 AM (F2/Ok)

My presumption is that they know that they can get away with it that way. Karen's will call out anyone for no mask, but would not dare try to instruct a POC.

Posted by: blaster at July 19, 2021 07:27 AM (xXwKS)

165 i never understood that. People go their own way I guess. I won't wear a mask because it is stupid. But wearing one under your chin is just weird.
Posted by: Quint at July 19, 2021 07:26 AM (F2/Ok)
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I do as a form of protest when some asshole makes me put one on.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2021 07:28 AM (3p5uk)

166 In Northern Virginia my observation is that blacks are the most likely to wear their masks under their chin.

Posted by: blaster at July 19, 2021 07:22 AM (xXwKS)

i never understood that. People go their own way I guess. I won't wear a mask because it is stupid. But wearing one under your chin is just weird.

Posted by: Quint at July 19, 2021 07:26 AM (F2/Ok)

Have you not seen how they wear their pants?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2021 07:28 AM (5We2S)

167 Stop calling it a mask.

It is really a muzzle.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 19, 2021 07:27 AM (EZebt)

I'm going to have to find a way to poke holes in them to breath correctly. I get sick within minutes of wearing them. Sore throat for days.

Posted by: artisanal ette at July 19, 2021 07:28 AM (9VFzC)

168 Damn fine country if you can keep it!

Puerto Rico estimates that cockfighting supports more than 11,000 jobs and accounts for about $65 million in economic activity annually.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:29 AM (yrol0)

169 Four shootings overnight in Portland including two fatalities.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 07:30 AM (UHVv4)

170 I don't give a rat's ass what Vance did in 2016; everyone makes sporadic errors when lacking enough data and he'll get my vote next year.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:30 AM (y7DUB)

171 We are right and properly fucked.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 19, 2021 07:30 AM (bVDei)

172 151 On the bright side, real oppression has never been tried. Maybe it'll work this time, with the right people in charge.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 19, 2021 07:23 AM (7X3UV)

Room 101 now have hot and cold running cruelty along with Mormon Fishingtackle Choir over the Muzak.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:31 AM (yrol0)

173 I'm going to have to find a way to poke holes in them to breath correctly. I get sick within minutes of wearing them. Sore throat for days.
Posted by: artisanal ette at July 19, 2021 07:28 AM (9VFzC)

Months ago some guy did a funny video in which he cut out the center of the mask exposing his mouth and nose and walked around Walmart making sheep bleats. It's all so degradingly stupid.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 19, 2021 07:31 AM (vhMB7)

174 The left has been working on making the children of the middle class into radicals, turning them against their parents and their parents' values for fifty years now, in multiple generations.

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The first rule of cults is to turn children against all authority figures (outside the cult) -- starting with the parents.

Posted by: ShainS at July 19, 2021 07:31 AM (Z7rbj)

175 At least 30 wounded in shootings in Philly over the weekend including a baby.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 07:31 AM (UHVv4)

176 Large noticed a lot more face diapers in the big box stores last few day. The panic porn is working. I think this meant as punishment on American's who refuse to get vaccinated.

Posted by: Ripley at July 19, 2021 07:32 AM (MxEKc)

177
Burr has always been deep left. He always has to trash Catholics and Christians too.
Posted by: artisanal ette at July 19, 2021 07:25 AM (9VFzC)

I'd never heard of him until he was linked here as "hysterical" or some sort of "funny." In watching the linked video, I never found either of those cases true.

I'm not your average consumer of comedy, however, so it may just not be my type.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:32 AM (Zz0t1)

178 175 At least 30 wounded in shootings in Philly over the weekend including a baby.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 07:31 AM (UHVv4)

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When will Indiana pay for this?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:32 AM (LvTSG)

179 Kevin McCarthy, you shame yourself every day you sit silently, you gravy-sucking coward.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

Yeah. Gonad gravy.

Posted by: Frank Luntz at July 19, 2021 07:32 AM (UUQUT)

180 I get sick within minutes of wearing them. Sore throat for days.
Posted by: artisanal ette at July 19, 2021 07:28 AM (9VFzC)

Yep, same on the first part. I can only go about 20 minutes. So, I can't fly, and I hate not being able to travel. Even with all the post-9/11 hoohah involving flying, I still loved to fly, pre-'Ro.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at July 19, 2021 07:33 AM (Bmy3R)

181 I'm going to have to find a way to poke holes in them to breath correctly. I get sick within minutes of wearing them. Sore throat for days.

***

I'll say it again:

I suspect we'll see a LOT of asbestos-style lung cancer in the next couple of decades from the cheapo little masks that aren't supposed to be worn constantly or more than once shedding fibers into peoples lungs.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:33 AM (RDD2k)

182 Large noticed a lot more face diapers in the big box stores last few day. The panic porn is working. I think this meant as punishment on American's who refuse to get vaccinated.
Posted by: Ripley at July 19, 2021 07:32 AM (MxEKc)
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I noticed the same thing. It's ridiculous.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at July 19, 2021 07:33 AM (K5n5d)

183 About that "reprogramming" mentioned above. The APA (American Psychiatric Assoc) has the answer!
Mental health EQUITY and the definitive definition of
structural racism. We must memorize the following multilevel nature of racism and do something about it:
Neighborhood,
Individual social disadvantage,
Everyday discrimination and
Collective trauma

What's NEW according to APA is that discrimination is linked to PSYCHOSIS. We racists are making POC psychotic...and this must stop! Mental health equity for all says their from womb to neighborhood "research."

Posted by: Ziba at July 19, 2021 07:34 AM (S1hrL)

184 136 Yeah, George Floyd is the only WuFlu death not to be treated as a WuFlu death by the MFM.
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And ironically, Floyd's may have been one of the cases where listing WuFlu as a contributing cause of death may have been accurate, since Floyd had had the WuFlu just before his encounter with the cops, may not have been fully recovered from it, and it may have contributed to the cardiac/lung failure that caused his death.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 19, 2021 07:34 AM (k4dH2)

185 Floyd had had the WuFlu just before his encounter with the cops, may not have been fully recovered from it, and it may have contributed to the cardiac/lung failure that caused his death.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 19, 2021 07:34 AM (k4dH2)

Yep that and enuf drugs to kill a bull elephant.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:35 AM (yrol0)

186 Yes they did! I watch the execution video now and then to warm me heart. Old lady Ceausescu was still barking orders and slapping the paratroopers who tied her up and led her out to be shot. She reminds me of Hillary...

More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 19, 2021 07:25 AM (8xbM3)

Nicolai was a cowering codger just like Slick so both sides of the trash family were covered.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:36 AM (y7DUB)

187 ____________

And ironically, Floyd's may have been one of the cases where listing WuFlu as a contributing cause of death may have been accurate, since Floyd had had the WuFlu just before his encounter with the cops, may not have been fully recovered from it, and it may have contributed to the cardiac/lung failure that caused his death.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 19, 2021 07:34 AM (k4dH2)

That and the 3.5 times the human tolerance level of Fentanyl in his system.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:36 AM (Zz0t1)

188 Among the audits findings so far:

11,326 people in the county who voted in the November 3 election were NOT on the voter rolls on November 7, but were added to the voter rolls by December 4.

This number is higher than Joe Bidens supposed statewide lead in Arizona of 10,457 votes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:36 AM (yrol0)

189 Just as people finally dropped their masks, they are quickly putting them back on. Will we ever get out of this?

Posted by: Ziba at July 19, 2021 07:37 AM (S1hrL)

190 That and the 3.5 times the human tolerance level of Fentanyl in his system.

.....

I heard that Trump was pushing Fentanyl as a COVID cure.

Damn that Trump!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2021 07:37 AM (5We2S)

191 Georgia Secretary of State Explains Why He's Just Now Discovering More Than 10,000 Illegal Votes Cast In 2020
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That's about the one thing that makes me laugh in all this. Raffensberger is like a little kid, trying to pretend he didn't do anything wrong.

Some of the bad guys are actually smart and dangerous. But not this guy. This is one of the biggest screw ups I can recall. He's turning into one of those guys everyone hates.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 19, 2021 07:37 AM (7X3UV)

192 191 Some of the bad guys are actually smart and dangerous. But not this guy. This is one of the biggest screw ups I can recall. He's turning into one of those guys everyone hates.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 19, 2021 07:37 AM (7X3UV)

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But Dominion will ensure we wins no matter what, so why is he acting scared?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:38 AM (LvTSG)

193 170 everyone makes sporadic errors when lacking enough data

Who is this "everyone"? Pretty much everyone here managed to not make a sporadic error and we managed to get the data. And we're just a bunch of 'rons on the internet, we're not running for Congress.

Actions, not words. Vance's actions were to reflexively bash Trump and his supporters and run to the Deep State. And not just any Deep State but one of the most loathsome Deep Staters of them all. It shant be forgotten.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at July 19, 2021 07:38 AM (Bmy3R)

194 Good p'shop, JJ. Of course, once the kids saw Melvin Belli for what he really was and how he'd brainwashed them, he rotted and then disintegrated. We can only hope our own brainwashed young people will open their eyes before it's too late. I'm not holding my breath, unfortunately.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 19, 2021 07:38 AM (O+I8R)

195 I am starting to think that the illegal votes cast (that are being acknowledged, oddly, this late in the game) will turn out - against all expectations - to have gone to Trump, so that the state can claim that while there was indeed malfeasance, it all went against Biden...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2021 07:39 AM (3p5uk)

196 Those cunts on Good Morning America think they can shame me into getting vaxed. They couldn't be more wrong.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:39 AM (y7DUB)

197 Yep that and enuf drugs to kill a bull elephant.
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The drugs certainly didn't help his situation, but the main cause of Floyd's death was his badly-diseased heart, according to the ME who did his autopsy (and who later changed his conclusions after being bullied and threatened).

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 19, 2021 07:39 AM (k4dH2)

198 Puerto Rico estimates that cockfighting supports more than 11,000 jobs and accounts for about $65 million in economic activity annually.

Seems like much ado about nothing for two guys standing eight inches apart and flailing blindly for five minutes. To each their own.

Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 19, 2021 07:39 AM (/fp1w)

199 195 I am starting to think that the illegal votes cast (that are being acknowledged, oddly, this late in the game) will turn out - against all expectations - to have gone to Trump, so that the state can claim that while there was indeed malfeasance, it all went against Biden...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2021 07:39 AM (3p5uk)

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"We still want to increase security around voting."
-Republicans

"Wait...what?"
-The Left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:39 AM (LvTSG)

200 Just as people finally dropped their masks, they are quickly putting them back on. Will we ever get out of this?

No.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2021 07:40 AM (2JVJo)

201 I don't understand why parents don't spend more time teaching kids about Rules for Radicals, The Naked Communist, 1984, Animal Farm etc. including the Cloward Piven strategy to prepare them for the indoctrination. Kids need to be told that they're going to be indoctrinated.
I have 2 family members that started teaching their kids early and all their kids turned out to be conservative.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 19, 2021 07:40 AM (NpAcC)

202 Good p'shop, JJ. Of course, once the kids saw Melvin Belli for what he really was and how he'd brainwashed them, he rotted and then disintegrated. We can only hope our own brainwashed young people will open their eyes before it's too late. I'm not holding my breath, unfortunately.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 19, 2021 07:38 AM (O+I8R)

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Don't forget Nurse Chapel bribed them with ice cream too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 19, 2021 07:41 AM (EZebt)

203 I heard people ran to the pet stores and bought up all the Cosequin because it sounded like Hydroxychloroquine when Trump said it worked against Covid.

But their JOINT health.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:41 AM (Zz0t1)

204 Well this is fun....

@JackPosobiec

Here are Democrats in 2018 saying everything Mike Lindell says about voting machines

https://tinyurl.com/yfx4ng8x

Posted by: Tami at July 19, 2021 07:41 AM (cF8AT)

205 It's been said that when one group or tribe of people subjugates another for a long enough time, and does so harshly, the subjugated eventually rise up with a fury unlike anything the former has ever seen. The tormentors typically don't survive.

This has been the tribal way of life for a millennia.

We're nothing but different tribes now. Best get our ju-ju on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 19, 2021 07:41 AM (BFigT)

206 don't understand why parents don't spend more time teaching kids about Rules for Radicals, The Naked Communist, 1984, Animal Farm etc. including the Cloward Piven strategy to prepare them for the indoctrination. Kids need to be told that they're going to be indoctrinated. ...
Posted by: redridinghood at July 19, 2021 07:40 AM (NpAcC)
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And once they're old enough to understand some of the philosophical underpinnings, the danger of utopianism. Anyone promising solutions to the overall problems is looking to enslave you. We can improve, but we cannot perfect. Any system with perfection as its goal is a slave system.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2021 07:42 AM (3p5uk)

207 Those cunts on Good Morning America think they can shame me into getting vaxed. They couldn't be more wrong.

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This is me. I am completely impervious to their, or anybody else's, shame game.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 19, 2021 07:42 AM (O+I8R)

208 Fear sells, unfortunately.

Posted by: Infidel at July 19, 2021 07:42 AM (dYrVA)

209
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Don't forget Nurse Chapel bribed them with ice cream too.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 19, 2021 07:41 AM (EZebt)

Happy National Ice Cream Day, peasants!!!!!

Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at July 19, 2021 07:42 AM (Zz0t1)

210 It's been said that when one group or tribe of people subjugates another for a long enough time, and does so harshly, the subjugated eventually rise up with a fury unlike anything the former has ever seen. The tormentors typically don't survive.

We may have to start taking Nat Turner as a role model.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2021 07:42 AM (2JVJo)

211 Those cunts on Good Morning America think they can shame me into getting vaxed. They couldn't be more wrong.

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This is me. I am completely impervious to their, or anybody else's, shame game.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 19, 2021 07:42 AM (O+I8R)

5 or 6 of the Flying Democrats from Texas, previously vaccinated, have tested positive for the WuFlu. Oh, did I mention their stunt is costing taxpayers $46,000 PER DAY?

Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at July 19, 2021 07:43 AM (Zz0t1)

212 "He has admitted he was wrong way before he decided to ever run for office.
If you remember even ace bashed Trump and it wasn't until the very end that he jumped on the Trump train.
Posted by: redridinghood "

I'm talking about the article he wrote after the 2020 election fraud.

Posted by: f'd at July 19, 2021 07:44 AM (Tnijr)

213 Upthread: Why would you even watch those bints on Good Morning America? You a masochist?

Posted by: Ziba at July 19, 2021 07:44 AM (S1hrL)

214 Good Monday morning! Had one of my better nights as far as sleep. I was so damn exhausted from yesterday I doubt anything would have woken me up.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 19, 2021 07:44 AM (nxdel)

215 Fear sells, unfortunately.
Posted by: Infidel at July 19, 2021 07:42 AM (dYrVA)

This seems close......

https://youtu.be/rdEupVsL07E

Posted by: Joey Fingerstick McShitpants at July 19, 2021 07:44 AM (Zz0t1)

216 OFF damn sock......

Happy Monday.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:45 AM (Zz0t1)

217 I have 2 family members that started teaching their kids early and all their kids turned out to be conservative.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 19, 2021 07:40 AM (NpAcC)

most don't give a shit or they are in denial.I know so called conservatives that are making a point of sending their kids into left wing indoctrination. I miss the America i grew up in . I enjoyed lefty teachers and profs, I would combat them and i truly don't believe they harmed me. I also learned from them, it is fun to get another perspective. But what is going on now is light years from those days.
At best a conservative parent can tell the kid they are being taught crap. But what they can't do is get back those days of learning.

Posted by: Quint at July 19, 2021 07:45 AM (F2/Ok)

218 Yet more blather on the radio about dead race biter John Lewis and ceremonies and honors of his many accomplishments, which I think are keeping his district in complete, utter poverty and ignorance (and voting Dem) for 40 years and renaming a street MLK. But Good Trouble! This idiot is going end up with his own federal holiday. .

Posted by: Ripley at July 19, 2021 07:47 AM (MxEKc)

219 I have a neighbor who is a college professor and she and her husband both wear their masks exiting their home (on two acres), in the car, etc. Middle aged and doctor-level education.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:18 AM (RDD2k)

They are so educated, they don't even know what they don't know.

Posted by: Roy at July 19, 2021 07:47 AM (DSGMf)

220 When vax documents are shown to employers, do they actually follow up on the info (test date/location)? Anyone know?

Posted by: Ziba at July 19, 2021 07:47 AM (S1hrL)

221 If my kids cancel me I would up my church donations. No inheritance dearies. It's dirty money.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 19, 2021 07:47 AM (/aiGx)

222 "My prediction that President Trump would be in jail by now has not been borne out, but my prediction that masks are never going away seems to be holding water."

They're going to kill him, Barron and Ivanka. Probably shoot down their plane when all three are on it. And just all the fail safes conveniently failing at the same time, there will be no black box, and the com traffic from the surface-to-air missile team will be wiped with a cloth.

And they will smugly taunt us: "what are you going to do about it?" It's our fault - Sandy Berger stole classified information out of the National Archives and we did nothing to him. Should have nipped that in the bud.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 19, 2021 07:48 AM (49Exr)

223
Totally anecdotal but here in Hymietown, I was on the subway yesterday and there were several people in the car NOT wearing masks. Me included.

And it is still mandatory on all buses and trains.

Not to jinx things but for whatever reason, New York seemingly from what I have seen did not go as nuts as California did with the mask mandates.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2021 07:48 AM (s2VJv)

224 I'm back!

Posted by: Doom at July 19, 2021 07:48 AM (yQpMk)

225 Who is this "everyone"? Pretty much everyone here managed to not make a sporadic error and we managed to get the data. And we're just a bunch of 'rons on the internet, we're not running for Congress.

Actions, not words. Vance's actions were to reflexively bash Trump and his supporters and run to the Deep State. And not just any Deep State but one of the most loathsome Deep Staters of them all. It shant be forgotten.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at July 19, 2021 07:38 AM (Bmy3R)

Everyone had their own come to the Scalpweasel moment. Mine was earlier than some and later than others. I still welcomed everyone who chose not to double down like the NTs.

Vote for that shithead Josh Mandel or Jane Timken if Vance bothers you so much.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:48 AM (y7DUB)

226 On another topic, here is a picture of Imogen Hassall, who was an English actress in the 1960s and 70s, known as the "Countess of Cleavage" for her impressive embonpoint:

https://tinyurl.com/4pjyrm78

I've seen one of her movies, 1970s Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly which is advertised as being "horror-comedy," but I found it distinctly disturbing.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2021 07:48 AM (2JVJo)

227 I have a neighbor who is a college professor and she and her husband both wear their masks exiting their home (on two acres), in the car, etc. Middle aged and doctor-level education.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:18 AM (RDD2k)
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That doesn't really surprise me. Extremely educated and credentialed experts tend to be experts in narrow fields. They are in the system of credentialed expertise, and defer to it. They know how much they know about their own subject, and how little they know otherwise, and so will often accept other credentialed experts at face value.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2021 07:48 AM (3p5uk)

228 So many Japanese are against holding the Games (because of WuFlu fear)

That and they also hate all Gaijin

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2021 07:48 AM (GPwVZ)

229 227 That doesn't really surprise me. Extremely educated and credentialed experts tend to be experts in narrow fields. They are in the system of credentialed expertise, and defer to it. They know how much they know about their own subject, and how little they know otherwise, and so will often accept other credentialed experts at face value.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2021 07:48 AM (3p5uk)

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They have faith in their class.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:49 AM (LvTSG)

230 Didn't MIT also do a study about people that were anti-mask and anti-lockdown and found they same thing about them being well informed. You just know they're pissed about these results.

Posted by: Buzzion at July 19, 2021 07:50 AM (G2zl5)

231 Not to jinx things but for whatever reason, New York seemingly from what I have seen did not go as nuts as California did with the mask mandates.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2021 07:48 AM (s2VJv)

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That's terrifying since NY - population 19.5M - has had seventy three (73) with-COVID fatalities over the last 14 days.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:50 AM (owNMS)

232 213 Upthread: Why would you even watch those bints on Good Morning America? You a masochist?
Posted by: Ziba at July 19, 2021 07:44 AM (S1hrL)

There are so many easier way to aggravate yourself to start your day.

Posted by: Roy at July 19, 2021 07:51 AM (DSGMf)

233 Danish Mo-with-bomb-turban cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, has died aged 86.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 07:51 AM (UHVv4)

234 Victor Davis Hanson: "How strange that the U.S. government is considering going door-to-door to bully the unvaccinated, even as it ignores the daily influx of thousands from Mexico and Latin America, without worrying whether they are carrying or vaccinated for COVID-19."

Joe Don Gorman (Intellectual Froglegs): "When government shuts down millions of private businesses, but doesn't lay off a single government employee ... it's not about your health."

Posted by: ShainS at July 19, 2021 07:51 AM (Z7rbj)

235 Didn't MIT also do a study about people that were anti-mask and anti-lockdown and found they same thing about them being well informed. You just know they're pissed about these results.
Posted by: Buzzion at July 19, 2021 07:50 AM (G2zl5)---

Yep. J.J. linked to it above, as a matter of fact.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at July 19, 2021 07:51 AM (K5n5d)

236 230 Didn't MIT also do a study about people that were anti-mask and anti-lockdown and found they same thing about them being well informed. You just know they're pissed about these results.
Posted by: Buzzion at July 19, 2021 07:50 AM (G2zl5)

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I have a feeling that these results have been happening to the left for decades, and it's the real epicenter of the "misinformation" movement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:52 AM (LvTSG)

237 Didn't MIT also do a study about people that were anti-mask and anti-lockdown and found they same thing about them being well informed. You just know they're pissed about these results.
Posted by: Buzzion at July 19, 2021 07:50 AM (G2zl5)

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And the military had a carefully controlled study where some cadets were constantly monitored, cleaned, housing meticulously cleaned, etc., and other cadets didn't do anything different.

Guess what they learned and quickly ignored?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:52 AM (owNMS)

238 237 And the military had a carefully controlled study where some cadets were constantly monitored, cleaned, housing meticulously cleaned, etc., and other cadets didn't do anything different.

Guess what they learned and quickly ignored?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:52 AM (owNMS)

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*nods sagaciously*

Stinky socks fight covid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:53 AM (LvTSG)

239
Yep. J.J. linked to it above, as a matter of fact.
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at July 19, 2021 07:51 AM (K5n5d)

Wait...... J.J. has links?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:53 AM (Zz0t1)

240 Didn't MIT also do a study about people that were anti-mask and anti-lockdown and found they same thing about them being well informed. You just know they're pissed about these results.
Posted by: Buzzion at July 19, 2021 07:50 AM (G2zl5)
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That MIT paper - which was written by undergrads but endorsed by their data science department - was far more disturbing than that. They concluded that the amateur data scientists organized well, assessed the data, showed their work and supported their conclusions. They found that the non-credentialed/non-academic statistical and data was extremely sophisticated and that the amateur group was more open and transparent than than their professional counterparts.

Then they concluded that this is bad from a social and policy standpoint, and that the problem wasn't inadequate data transparency from public health authorities, but too much - and that the glut of data resulted in some people going off the reservation and looking good doing it.

It was sickening.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2021 07:53 AM (3p5uk)

241 239
Yep. J.J. linked to it above, as a matter of fact.
Posted by: Lord Squirrel at July 19, 2021 07:51 AM (K5n5d)

Wait...... J.J. has links?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:53 AM (Zz0t1)

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The links are a lie. There is no content.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:53 AM (LvTSG)

242 I have a neighbor who is a college professor and she and her husband both wear their masks exiting their home (on two acres), in the car, etc. Middle aged and doctor-level education.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:18 AM (RDD2k)

Expecting a doctorate (not in epidemiology or anything related to viruses) to have working knowledge on the pandemic is like expecting your dentist to flawlessly operate on your prostate cancer.

That's what makes these people so dangerous: they've proven they can prepare and study hard on one particular topic, but then think they can get similar expertise with their Twitter MD's, Twitter Law Degrees, and Twitter International Degree of Climatology.

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at July 19, 2021 07:53 AM (HK8/E)

243 That and they also hate all Gaijin
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 19, 2021 07:48 AM (GPwVZ)

I thought the first Pacific Rimjob was pretty good.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:53 AM (yrol0)

244 "Just as people finally dropped their masks, they are quickly putting them back on. Will we ever get out of this?"

Airports are the worst . 100% masks from time you get out of your car to the time you exit at your destination and it is enforced (except for Dem fleabags) Let mine drop a few times and I was reminded within minutes to put it on. This is Fauci's vision for all America, forever.

Posted by: Ripley at July 19, 2021 07:53 AM (MxEKc)

245 "If you remember even ace bashed Trump and it wasn't until the very end that he jumped on the Trump train."

Don't care. Ace has been a daily staple for me for almost 20 years now, he's part of the reason I am who I am. And unlike Instapundit (who also held that honor) Ace hasn't Gone Wobbly or sold out to Salem Media.

If he doesn't like a candidate, I'll listen. He's the only one I will take Trump criticism from, because he's the only one I still trust after 20 years.

The Last Samurai LOL
https://tinyurl.com/4capmrb8

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 19, 2021 07:55 AM (49Exr)

246 I remember traveling through Tokyo during the 2009-2010 swine flu pandemic and seeing most of the Japanese wearing masks in the airport, along with getting a temp scan after getting off the plane. I thought it was strange then, since we were told by Chocolate Jesus that life was safe, the air was pure, and the oceans were already receding.

Posted by: Roy at July 19, 2021 07:55 AM (DSGMf)

247 =========

The links are a lie. There is no content.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:53 AM (LvTSG)

There is no content, only Zuul.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:55 AM (Zz0t1)

248 Damn headache subsiding. This 90%+ humidity every morning is killing me.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at July 19, 2021 07:55 AM (I58tH)

249 "The UN report will be used by the Leftists and the Democrat party, but I repeat myself, as proof that a massive transfer of wealth is needed from white Americans to Americans of color."

Time to make trans-racialism a thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 19, 2021 07:56 AM (Cx4ts)

250 Then they concluded that this is bad from a social and policy standpoint, and that the problem wasn't inadequate data transparency from public health authorities, but too much - and that the glut of data resulted in some people going off the reservation and looking good doing it.

It was sickening.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2021 07:53 AM (3p5uk)
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Yeah, when a group of amateurs can outshine professionals who are *paid* to do that work, that really doesn't make those professionals look good. Envy is a powerful emotional motivator, and not in a good way.

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at July 19, 2021 07:56 AM (K5n5d)

251 Scott Gottlieb (ex FDA chief) says the Delta variant is the most serious and most unvaccinated people are going to get it. Total opposite of everything my husband and I have seen and heard.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 19, 2021 07:56 AM (nxdel)

252 249 "The UN report will be used by the Leftists and the Democrat party, but I repeat myself, as proof that a massive transfer of wealth is needed from white Americans to Americans of color."

Time to make trans-racialism a thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 19, 2021 07:56 AM (Cx4ts)

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I love the occasional story of a white person deciding to become another race, like the recent one of the white guy who paid tens of thousands of dollars to "become" Korean.

I mean, it's literally no different than paying tens of thousands of dollars to "become" a woman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:57 AM (LvTSG)

253 I noted to some other patrons in the bar the other night as we watched the television that when a drug for toenail fungus is advertised, they go to great lengths to list every possible side effect and counter-indication for the drug.

But when it's the COVID shot, it's only "Just F*cking Take It. Don't ask questions,."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2021 07:58 AM (5We2S)

254 Scott Gottlieb (ex FDA chief) says the Delta variant is the most serious and most unvaccinated people are going to get it.

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Fine.

Speaking of, I wonder if the 85% of the population that is naturally immune to the original COVID will suddenly somehow get this one?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - how are the door to door vaccine injectors keeping the chemical at -70 Celsius? at July 19, 2021 07:58 AM (owNMS)

255 253 I noted to some other patrons in the bar the other night as we watched the television that when a drug for toenail fungus is advertised, they go to great lengths to list every possible side effect and counter-indication for the drug.

But when it's the COVID shot, it's only "Just F*cking Take It. Don't ask questions,."
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2021 07:58 AM (5We2S)

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And then they did the 70s Invasion of the Body Snatchers scream (coming soon to 4K from Kino!).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:58 AM (LvTSG)

256 220 When vax documents are shown to employers, do they actually follow up on the info (test date/location)? Anyone know?
_______________

The people giving the vaccinations can't disclose personal information about the patients without violating HIPAA -- unless the patients signed a waiver form.

So hypothetically speaking, if someone were to give a fake vaccine card to an employer or potential employer, they should be sure to mention that they didn't waive their HIPAA rights when they signed up for the vaccine.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at July 19, 2021 07:58 AM (k4dH2)

257 made me laugh ha!

https://tinyurl.com/yebjy8bv

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:58 AM (yrol0)

258 I watched the remake of The Beguiled last night, was it wrong when I cheered as they fucked up Colin Farrell?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 19, 2021 07:59 AM (O7b05)

259 The links are a lie. There is no content.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:53 AM (LvTSG)

There is no content, only Zuul.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 07:55 AM (Zz0t1)

There. Are. FOUR. Contents!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 19, 2021 07:59 AM (dfRN6)

260 Good morning, JJ, good morning, Horde,

Woke kids hating and rejecting their parents...woe unto them.

"Honor thy father and thy mother" isn't a suggestion. And it doesn't expire when you turn 18.

Posted by: callsign claymore at July 19, 2021 08:00 AM (dxI4P)

261 Enough with the constant drumbeat of doom and gloom, please. It turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Do a brief review of our history and you'll discover that we've met and prevailed over numerous issues, some that were more serious than the current mess. And our success ratio is unbroken.

I (and countless others) took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution and country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The oath has no expiration, we're bound in perpetuity. Fulfillment doesn't always mean using a weapon so I have quietly been pursuing political means at a local level. You could say this is our own "long march through the institutions."

So don't be discouraged, we're simply carrying on the task of those who came before that what they defended is still protected today. And we will prevail.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 19, 2021 08:00 AM (KATBx)

262 I'm really sick of the fearmongering.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 19, 2021 08:00 AM (nxdel)

263 258 I watched the remake of The Beguiled last night, was it wrong when I cheered as they fucked up Colin Farrell?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 19, 2021 07:59 AM (O7b05)

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The copy on HBO Max was so dark that Dolley and I could barely see what was going on. I ended up preferring the original in no small part because I could see what was going on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 08:01 AM (LvTSG)

264 That doesn't really surprise me. Extremely educated and credentialed experts tend to be experts in narrow fields. They are in the system of credentialed expertise, and defer to it. They know how much they know about their own subject, and how little they know otherwise, and so will often accept other credentialed experts at face value.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2021 07:48 AM (3p5uk)

I have medical doctors on both sides of me. I've never seen any of them wearing a mask going to/from their cars.

Posted by: Tami at July 19, 2021 08:01 AM (cF8AT)

265 The Last Samurai LOL

https://tinyurl.com/4capmrb8

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 19, 2021 07:55 AM (49Exr)

Ace is honest. I am not sure what else we can ask from someone. It is his blog, but when he goes off, I listen. Trump did make mistakes, I am not sure how anyone could deny it. He was certainly wrong about picking good people for his staff.
But Trump has also been mistreated more than any president. Sure it is is close with Abe Lincoln, but still Trump got the worst press. We all know that the next Repub will get it even worse. These people are truly nuts and they are on a heat check. They are all in and only getting slapped in the face will wake them up.

Posted by: Quint at July 19, 2021 08:02 AM (F2/Ok)

266 Why would you even watch those bints on Good Morning America? You a masochist?
Posted by: Ziba at July 19, 2021 07:44 AM (S1hrL)

On the idiot box when I walked in.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 08:02 AM (y7DUB)

267 CDC reports that in 2019 U.S. reached a new record for the sixth year in a row for STD cases incl. 2.5-million chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis cases!

BTW, any news on Kamala this morning??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 08:02 AM (UHVv4)

268 made me laugh ha!

https://tinyurl.com/yebjy8bv
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2021 07:58 AM (yrol0)

LOL! Ye olde tyme poundin, right there.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 08:02 AM (Zz0t1)

269 The copy on HBO Max was so dark that Dolley and I
could barely see what was going on. I ended up preferring the original
in no small part because I could see what was going on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 08:01 AM (LvTSG)

They remade The Beguiled? I watched it once and wondered why it was made in the first place.

Posted by: Quint at July 19, 2021 08:03 AM (F2/Ok)

270 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 19, 2021 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

271 To flood our country in one year with a number of illegal immigrants equivalent to a major city, is perhaps one of the most dastardly, pernicious, illegal and unconstitutional acts in the history of our nation. If Democrats want to have a discussion about that greatest challenge to our nation since the Civil War, it is their attempt to undermine the American Republic and subvert her people with their illegal immigration scheme. The numbers crossing the border have never been seen in our history. The burden being placed illegally on our nation in order to try and change the voting demographic to one they believe is more favorable to them is a scheme is malicious, nefarious, ruinous to our liberty and miasmatic for our country.

It's time to fight back, and if you don't have the stomach for it, step aside. Our future depends on it. We must take them on every front- and win.

Posted by: Marcus T, Libertad at July 19, 2021 08:03 AM (VpIIl)

272 Meshugas!!

Posted by: runner at July 19, 2021 08:04 AM (xL9OZ)

273 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 19, 2021 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

274 So don't be discouraged, we're simply carrying on the task of those who came before that what they defended is still protected today. And we will prevail.

Amen irongrampa.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 19, 2021 08:06 AM (nxdel)

275 I'm really sick of the fearmongering.
Posted by: Jewells45

BOO !

Posted by: JT at July 19, 2021 08:06 AM (arJlL)

276
I have medical doctors on both sides of me. I've never seen any of them wearing a mask going to/from their cars.
Posted by: Tami at July 19, 2021 08:01 AM (cF8AT)

A friend of mine was recently hospitalized overnight with the original SARS strain. He waited too long to go in, but in 2 different facilities, multiple Dr's and nurses all said the same thing.

If you feel symptoms, get tested. If you're positive, the treatment is simple. If you wait too long, the treatment is more difficult, but still treatable.

The fact that people are still dying from this is a crime against humanity.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 08:06 AM (Zz0t1)

277 I love the occasional story of a white person deciding to become another race, like the recent one of the white guy who paid tens of thousands of dollars to "become" Korean.

I mean, it's literally no different than paying tens of thousands of dollars to "become" a woman.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:57 AM (LvTSG)

I've decided that I'm race fluid. No surgery required.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 19, 2021 08:07 AM (Cx4ts)

278 Taking my car into for routine maintenance tomorrow morning. Only time I get to watch 'The View' if they have the TV on ABC. No one in the waiting room even looks at the TV unless they are playing a quiz show.

Posted by: Colin at July 19, 2021 08:07 AM (UF8gN)

279 If you remember even ace bashed Trump and it wasn't until the very end that he jumped on the Trump train.
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I believe it was when it became obvious that it's a Trump or Hill he made a decision. He's never been a huge Trump fan and still is not.

Posted by: runner at July 19, 2021 08:07 AM (xL9OZ)

280 I have medical doctors on both sides of me. I've never seen any of them wearing a mask going to/from their cars.
Posted by: Tami at July 19, 2021 08:01 AM (cF8AT)
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Well, that's because they're all driving no-fume Teslas.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 19, 2021 08:08 AM (wymgv)

281 {{{Jewells45}}}

How is your daughter doing?

And I will say a prayer for you. Yesterday, you had a drama filled day with hard seat time in addition.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 19, 2021 08:09 AM (u82oZ)

282 The fact that people are still dying from this is a crime against humanity.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 08:06 AM (Zz0t1)
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That expression - crime against humanity - gets tossed around a lot. It is perfectly valid in this case. It absolutely is. We have therapeutic and prophylactic treatments. HCQ+Zinc+VitD works reasonably well if you hit it early. Ivermectin, and especially Ivermectin+VitD, works with almost complete efficacy.

We can treat this. We could have obviated the need for a vaccine - even if the vaccines work well and perfectly - sometime around September of last year. Every death since then is on their hands, and it's a staggering toll.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2021 08:09 AM (3p5uk)

283 Rep. Thomas Massie
Just received this from someone in the military regarding possible compulsory COVID vaccines:

"Good evening, Congressman. Just thought I'd pass word that >15% of the officers at my command will either retire early or resign their commissions if the mandate is given."
1 of 3
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/
1417036229187678208

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 08:10 AM (UHVv4)

284 don't understand why parents don't spend more time teaching kids about Rules for Radicals, The Naked Communist, 1984, Animal Farm etc. including the Cloward Piven strategy to prepare them for the indoctrination. Kids need to be told that they're going to be indoctrinated. ...
Posted by: redridinghood at July 19, 2021 07:40 AM (NpAcC)

I'm slowly doing that, in my own way. Daughter (Soph) is pretty apolitical, but some of her friends are playing the rainbow unicorn game that's all the rage. Son (Frosh) is a little more aware, but tends toward being overly serious, introverted and anxious about the future - so I don't to drive him toward depression.

So my approach, thus far, has been:

1. Prompt them to believe what they see with their own eyes and NOT accept the narrative being pushed

2. At some point, I'll them "You're going to be lied to more than you ever thought possible (in school and elsewhere)

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 19, 2021 08:10 AM (sJHOI)

285 Meshugas!!
Posted by: runner

Bless you!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2021 08:10 AM (D44eV)

286 261. Thanks irongrampa.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 19, 2021 08:10 AM (edq12)

287 If you remember even ace bashed Trump and it wasn't until the very end that he jumped on the Trump train.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 19, 2021 07:26 AM (NpAcC)
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You don't have to agree with everything but the article has valid points and we all know it:

https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/06/what-is-trump-to-us/

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 19, 2021 08:11 AM (wymgv)

288 Thank you! Jj knows from his headlines.

Posted by: runner at July 19, 2021 08:11 AM (xL9OZ)

289 Hey NaCly.. she's doing fine. I haven't seen her yet this morning but I know she fed Moose and probably went back to bed. My back is much better after a good nights sleep on a good mattress!

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 19, 2021 08:11 AM (nxdel)

290 need moar proofreading

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 19, 2021 08:12 AM (sJHOI)

291 Irongrampa

Bless you. We need American reinforcing rods and leadership under this mass assault of insanity.

We will carry that torch for the new generation of Americans.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 19, 2021 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

292 269 They remade The Beguiled? I watched it once and wondered why it was made in the first place.
Posted by: Quint at July 19, 2021 08:03 AM (F2/Ok)

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The original is really good. Don Siegel going art house psychosexual, and it works.

The remake is because it's a "female" story and needed to be told by a woman, or something. Seriously, Siegel made it better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 08:13 AM (LvTSG)

293 "Good evening, Congressman. Just thought I'd pass word that >15% of the officers at my command will either retire early or resign their commissions if the mandate is given."

All good, from the ruling elites' POV. Fewer deplorable officers to resist the call to execute MAGA supporters.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2021 08:13 AM (2JVJo)

294 can we haz shadow ilitary-may?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 19, 2021 08:13 AM (sJHOI)

295 Bless you. We need American reinforcing rods and leadership under this mass assault of insanity.

We will carry that torch for the new generation of Americans.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

It's humbling to realize we are the old ones now carrying on the gift of Americanism.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2021 08:14 AM (D44eV)

296 Actions, not words.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at July 19, 2021 07:38 AM

Exactly what we used to say: "Acta non verba".

Oh, and "Kilroynius hic erat".

Posted by: Gaius Kilroynius at July 19, 2021 08:14 AM (a3Q+t)

297 283 Rep. Thomas Massie
Just received this from someone in the military regarding possible compulsory COVID vaccines:

"Good evening, Congressman. Just thought I'd pass word that >15% of the officers at my command will either retire early or resign their commissions if the mandate is given."
1 of 3
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/
1417036229187678208
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at July 19, 2021 08:10 AM (UHVv4)

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So, they're definitely going to mandate it to get rid of another 15% of less than true believers from the command structure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 08:14 AM (LvTSG)

298 294 can we haz shadow ilitary-may?
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 19, 2021 08:13 AM (sJHOI)

We do. But they're out of the shadows.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2021 08:15 AM (s2VJv)

299 redridinghood my son has read 1984 twice. While he may be apolitical he knows damn well what is going on. My daughter doesn't say much it's hard to get her to talk about any of it. They both hated Trump *sigh* but I think a lot of that was just their friends influence. I should have tried harder and engaged them more I suppose.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 19, 2021 08:15 AM (nxdel)

300 Oh - we're on the right side of history because we always have been; except for those times we were not. Whew - that's a relief.

Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 19, 2021 08:15 AM (/fp1w)

301 We had a young man at our church die yesterday from pneumonia. I don't know if he tested pos for the Vid, or if he got the vaccine.

It's sad. In the 30 years+ I've been a member of this church, this is the first person to die so unexpectedly. Everyone else who passed has been old and ill.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 19, 2021 08:16 AM (yQpMk)

302 But when it's the COVID shot, it's only "Just F*cking Take It. Don't ask questions,."
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2021 07:58 AM (5We2S)

****

Just take the shot... What's the big deal?...

Jeez

Posted by: Thalidomide Baby at July 19, 2021 08:16 AM (flINI)

303 And then they did the 70s Invasion of the Body Snatchers scream (coming soon to 4K from Kino!).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 07:58 AM (LvTSG)

Excellent on the 4K as it's my fave version.

Though it would probably be too much IotBS to bear,

it would be fun to compare the 4(?) remakes through the years and see how the underlying themes change:

The 1956 version, the 1978 version, the weirdo 1993 version starring Meg Tilly's nekkid boobs, the 2007 version starring jTom Cruise's ex and James Bond.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 19, 2021 08:16 AM (5NkmN)

304 JJ, I meant good guys

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 19, 2021 08:16 AM (sJHOI)

305 I do know that the actual cause of death was pulmonary embolism so, a blood clot.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 19, 2021 08:17 AM (yQpMk)

306 303 The 1956 version, the 1978 version, the weirdo 1993 version starring Meg Tilly's nekkid boobs, the 2007 version starring jTom Cruise's ex and James Bond.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 19, 2021 08:16 AM (5NkmN)

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It's a series of remakes that have been surprisingly good. Well, except The Invasion. That one was kind of boring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 08:17 AM (LvTSG)

307 The original is really good. Don Siegel going art house psychosexual, and it works.

The remake is because it's a "female" story and needed to be told by a woman, or something. Seriously, Siegel made it better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 08:13 AM (LvTSG)

I will check it out again. I recall not liking it but that was a long time ago.

Posted by: Quint at July 19, 2021 08:17 AM (F2/Ok)

308 I have medical doctors on both sides of me.
Posted by: Tami at July 19, 2021 08:01 AM

Medical doctors aren't the only doctors, you know!

Posted by: Dr. Jill B. at July 19, 2021 08:18 AM (a3Q+t)

309 307 I will check it out again. I recall not liking it but that was a long time ago.
Posted by: Quint at July 19, 2021 08:17 AM (F2/Ok)

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Mark Andrew Edwards didn't really like it either, but he hadn't seen it in a long time as well. He seemed to have been expecting a more traditional Clint Eastwood western instead of the closed up weird drama that it is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 08:19 AM (LvTSG)

310 Medical doctors aren't the only doctors, you know!

Posted by: Dr. Jill B. at July 19, 2021 08:18 AM (a3Q+t)

Oh piss off, fishnet.

Posted by: Tami at July 19, 2021 08:20 AM (cF8AT)

311 308 I have medical doctors on both sides of me.
Posted by: Tami at July 19, 2021 08:01 AM
Medical doctors aren't the only doctors, you know!
Posted by: Dr. Jill B. at July 19, 2021 08:18 AM (a3Q+t)

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What do you call a doctor who failed out of medical school?
A dentist.
What do you call a dentist who failed out of dental school?
A psychologist.
What do you call a psychologist who failed out of their psychology department?
A doctor of education.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 08:20 AM (LvTSG)

312 Medical doctors aren't the only doctors, you know!
Posted by: Dr. Jill B. at July 19, 2021 08:18 AM (a3Q+t)
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Don't worry, Dr. Jill! You're still my choice for Surgeon General!

Posted by: Whoopi Goldberg at July 19, 2021 08:22 AM (3p5uk)

313 251 Scott Gottlieb (ex FDA chief) says the Delta variant is the most serious and most unvaccinated people are going to get it. Total opposite of everything my husband and I have seen and heard.
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 19, 2021 07:56 AM (nxdel)

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On the other hand, if you're unvaccinated and get it so what? You're still 99.5% going to be fine.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 19, 2021 08:22 AM (izAec)

314 @ggreenwald

Today, Paul Hodgkins will be the first 1/6 defendant sentenced on a felony guilty plea. He engaged no violence. His crime: entered the Capitol wearing a Trump t-shirt, held a Trump flag, took a selfie with Q Shaman. Prosecutors want 18 months in prison:

https://tinyurl.com/ydslpjm2

Posted by: Tami at July 19, 2021 08:23 AM (cF8AT)

315 I'd tell you a Covid joke but 99.7% of you won't get it.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2021 08:23 AM (D44eV)

316 For any here feeling regret or remorse about their children or other family members going hard Left.... the deck was stacked against you in all elements of our society... there has been no escaping their influence for several generations.

Posted by: kraken at July 19, 2021 08:23 AM (6Je/Q)

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

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. (HaL55) at July 19, 2021 08:23 AM (HaL55)

318 315 I'd tell you a Covid joke but 99.7% of you won't get it.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2021 08:23 AM (D44eV)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 08:24 AM (LvTSG)

319 Going door to door is a typical government tactic.

Did some work for Census Bureau going door to door to nab the recalcitrants into providing info. If they didn't return the initial form, call a 1-800 number,
answer the door to census takers, or say "I already did," then they aren't going to do it, period. Out of over 30 households, I got one person to submit.

Same will happen with the vax intimidation program.

Posted by: Ziba at July 19, 2021 08:24 AM (S1hrL)

320 So my approach, thus far, has been:

1. Prompt them to believe what they see with their own eyes and NOT accept the narrative being pushed

2. At some point, I'll them "You're going to be lied to more than you ever thought possible (in school and elsewhere)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 19, 2021 08:10 AM (sJHOI)
************
Have them watch YouTube videos of people getting red-pilled Candace Owens, Matt Walsh, Turning Point USA, Prager U etc. Then discuss with them afterwards. Also, expose them to insane videos like "rainbow dildo butt monkey" to show them how the left is corrupting society.
That's what a few of my family members are doing and it is really working to open the eyes of their children.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 19, 2021 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

321 "Good evening, Congressman. Just thought I'd pass word that >15% of
the officers at my command will either retire early or resign their
commissions if the mandate is given."

That is exactly what the regime would like to happen. Most of them are probably conservative /norms that despise this regime and could not be counted on to follow order during the crackdown.

Posted by: Ripley at July 19, 2021 08:25 AM (MxEKc)

322 Saw "Black Widow" this weekend because the lively and surprisingly Mrs naturalfake surprisingly wanted to see it.

Basically, it's Marvel's version of a James Bond movie, specifically "Moonraker"(shares some plot points) which they tip at the beginning of the movie.

I'd say the movie is a success on that count and would rank as an upper midtier Bond flick - cuz there are a lot, a lot of iffy quality Bond flicks.

And yes, Marvel made a huge tactical and dramatic error putting out CM instead of this.

However....the best part of the movie was the "WTF? Oh, c'mon! Laughing at audience reaction to the after credits scene.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 19, 2021 08:25 AM (5NkmN)

323 While those of you are starting the long march through our institutions(again) and re-asserting your vigor for local politics(again) and taking over the Republican Party(again) the rest of us will be waiting for you to catch up to REALITY.

We go through this cyclical circle jerk every time we have a setback politically. A veritable brow beating for us dumb bastards that have been trying to do exactly what people are telling us to do now pimping it as a new idea or outside of the box thinking. You want to take over the Republican Party? Be my guest. Us conservatives have been running our heads into that wall repeatedly for decades only to hear the try harder you lazy good for nothing a-holes spiel.

It ain't doom and gloom pointing out the reality of our situation. Doom and gloom is propping up false hope so you can ignore that reality. We need to start taking this shit seriously instead of jerking ourselves off as if this country is still pre-Nov. 3, 2020. Get this through your thick skulls. The left is lawless. They are not going to recognize anything we do within the bounds of the law as legitimate. Seriously wake the F up.

Posted by: JROD at July 19, 2021 08:25 AM (0jZnq)

324 Going door to door is a typical government tactic.

Saw an interesting episode of Forensic Files II the other day. The dead man was a census taker in eastern Kentucky who was found strapped to a tree, cloth stuffed down his throad and the word "FED" scrawled on his chest.

Originally, it was thought he had either been killed by anti-government hillbillies or by his son for an inheritance.

As it turned out, the fellow committed suicide, and tried to make it look like murder so his son could collect insurance money.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2021 08:27 AM (2JVJo)

325 Did some work for Census Bureau going door to door to nab the recalcitrants into providing info. If they didn't return the initial form, call a 1-800 number,
answer the door to census takers, or say "I already did," then they aren't going to do it, period. Out of over 30 households, I got one person to submit.

Same will happen with the vax intimidation program.
Posted by: Ziba at July 19, 2021 08:24 AM (S1hrL)

****

They tried the door to door census crap with me. I was not pleasant. I embarrassed my poor wife with my language so much so that she now races me to the door when someone knocks.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 19, 2021 08:27 AM (flINI)

326 Posted by: JROD at July 19, 2021 08:25 AM (0jZnq)

Thank God we have people like you to maintain philosophical purity.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 19, 2021 08:27 AM (Q9lwr)

327 I think maybe the expression is something like "who is this 'we', kimosabe?" - in response to JJ saying "we" have had enough.

Of course many have had far more than "enough".

But that was true in November 2020. I didn't notice a 1980-style rejection of anything. Nothing even close.

And considering the provocation - the instant Brave New World pseudo-scientific totalitarian collapse in most of the country, the mass lawlessness and race-baiting and racism and related violence - all of this happening in the midst of the best economy in most people's lifetimes .... it should have been 1980-ish. Nothing close, whatever the actual final tally in 5 states.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 19, 2021 08:27 AM (OTzUX)

328 324 As it turned out, the fellow committed suicide, and tried to make it look like murder so his son could collect insurance money.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2021 08:27 AM (2JVJo)

=========

This only happened a few years ago, right? I seem to remember it when the news reports first hit the internets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 08:28 AM (LvTSG)

329 It seems to me that the 'Rona shot has evolved into a litmus test - a token of obedience to the current authority. Now - not all took it as a symbol of obedience - as some will calmly and others shrilly explain here. Thats why there will be more such trials in the future. Many, many more. This 'Rona shot - and specifically the mRNA therapy - is only the first.

Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 19, 2021 08:28 AM (/fp1w)

330 It ain't doom and gloom pointing out the reality of our situation. Doom and gloom is propping up false hope so you can ignore that reality. We need to start taking this shit seriously instead of jerking ourselves off as if this country is still pre-Nov. 3, 2020. Get this through your thick skulls. The left is lawless. They are not going to recognize anything we do within the bounds of the law as legitimate. Seriously wake the F up.
Posted by: JROD at July 19, 2021 08:25 AM (0jZnq)

But since everyone is now gay, jerking each other off is the norm and what we should be doing.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at July 19, 2021 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

331 Thank God we have people like you to maintain philosophical purity.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 19, 2021 08:27 AM (Q9lwr)

That's harsh. But I do wonder what we are supposed to do now if we embrace the everything is irreparably broken idea.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 19, 2021 08:29 AM (yQpMk)

332 This only happened a few years ago, right? I seem to remember it when the news reports first hit the internets.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, feeling very Danish at July 19, 2021 08:28 AM (LvTSG)

I believe so. It was broadcast on Saturday, and since I was (and am) extremely depressed, I didn't quite catch the date. As it turned out, the vital clue was that they were able to determine, by the thickness of the marker strokes, that the "FED" had been written upside down, soit was obvious the dead man had done it to himself.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2021 08:30 AM (2JVJo)

333 the best part of the movie was the "WTF? Oh, c'mon! Laughing at audience reaction to the after credits scene.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 19, 2021 08:25 AM (5NkmN)

yeah, could see that coming a mile away couldn't you...

and it's so obvious it's embarrassing...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at July 19, 2021 08:30 AM (8D42x)

334 Gottlieb is one of the worst buffoons, and probably the most "credentialed" one, on this whole C19 debacle. Has been wrong about everything at every turn - that is, firmly in the mainstream of 95% of what the public ever hears or reads.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at July 19, 2021 08:31 AM (OTzUX)

335 325 A census taker tried to test me once.

Posted by: Hannibal Lecter, M.D. at July 19, 2021 08:32 AM (dxI4P)

336 Nood.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2021 08:34 AM (2JVJo)

337 @326 CharlieBrown'sDildo-Your welcome and I'm glad I can bless you with my reason, rationale and logic, purity and other virtues.

I'm betting everyone here wants the same things I do. To be free and be left alone to live in a land with laws. If that's too pure then I don't know what to tell you.

Posted by: JROD at July 19, 2021 08:35 AM (0jZnq)

338 That's harsh. But I do wonder what we are supposed to do now if we embrace the everything is irreparably broken idea.

We're still self sorting. Those that insist we can and will vote our way out of this, those that don't believe it, and a whole bunch that still don't want to consider the question.

Posted by: Arrow Straight at July 19, 2021 08:35 AM (/fp1w)

339 It ain't doom and gloom pointing out the reality of our situation. Doom and gloom is propping up false hope so you can ignore that reality. We need to start taking this shit seriously instead of jerking ourselves off as if this country is still pre-Nov. 3, 2020. Get this through your thick skulls. The left is lawless. They are not going to recognize anything we do within the bounds of the law as legitimate. Seriously wake the F up.
Posted by: JROD at July 19, 2021 08:25 AM (0jZnq)

So what do we do? Republican party is dead. I'm all for a new party. But seriously what can we do when they have the schools, school board, local elections, the media, cops, military, social media and half the country on their side? I'm all ears, but I'm not finding a solution here.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel at July 19, 2021 08:37 AM (3yoZe)

340 OK, so I worked for the Census Bureau and made a little cash, but I gained a lot of insights into the people of my town and the neighborhoods to never go into again. People with dogs used them, yes.

Posted by: Ziba at July 19, 2021 08:37 AM (S1hrL)

341 @330 Sponge-No we should be organizing peaceful marches by the thousands. Upset about the 1/6 prisoners? Great, lets organize a march in protest of them being held.

Posted by: JROD at July 19, 2021 08:38 AM (0jZnq)

342 339:

Like M Levin said: we're not staring into the abyss. We are IN it. Anyone who doesn't get that, isn't paying attention...the Left controls EVERYTHING, or just about.

Posted by: Ziba at July 19, 2021 08:40 AM (S1hrL)

343 "You could say this is our own long march through the institutions."

This is not the way. Violence is the only solution. The reason we are losing is because we keep playing this passive Prevent Defense. More of what got us here is not going to lead us out.

We are like Ben Shapiro, thinking a stellar debate performance against Marxists is going to amount to anything other than getting us put on a List of Unpersons.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 19, 2021 08:44 AM (49Exr)

344 @339 Secret Squirrel-I've said it many times. Get off our asses and show a presence on the streets. We are not heard, we are not seen. If people are really as pissed off as we think then people will be drawn together. Peaceful protests in large numbers, in numbers comes some safety.
Vote at your local level city, state, county to preserve what you got. Thinking we are going to vote our way out of this through senate, congress or presidential elections more than likely is delusional at this point. The dems are not going to rest idle, I'm sure they have plenty of shenanigans planned between now, mid terms and 24'.

Posted by: JROD at July 19, 2021 08:44 AM (0jZnq)

345 Posted by: irongrampa at July 19, 2021 08:00 AM (KATBx)

It's hard to maintain optimism, but in its absence, you can still cultivate determination.

Surrender is not an option. Bending the knee is not an option. Compliance is not an option. None of these will save your life when the enemy is comfortably enthroned.

Figure out what options you still have and keep moving.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at July 19, 2021 08:46 AM (8LGIU)

346 Posted by: JROD at July 19, 2021 08:44 AM (0jZnq)

France had 110,000 protesters over the weekend.
Have we seen any protests of that size here? That's the problem.

And why talk of 2022 and 2024 is a joke.

Posted by: Ziba at July 19, 2021 08:47 AM (S1hrL)

347 If Manchin and Sinema sign on to any of this anti-American, anti-democratic garbage in the reconciliation bill, it should be our sincere, unending battle to make sure they are ridden out of Congress on a rail.

Posted by: Marcus T, Libertad at July 19, 2021 08:47 AM (VpIIl)

348 Optimism is inertia and a dead end.

Posted by: Ziba at July 19, 2021 08:52 AM (S1hrL)

349 The greatest threat to the liberties of the American people is the American government.
There I said it.

Posted by: Zek at July 19, 2021 09:03 AM (w/5KC)

350 "Get this through your thick skulls. The left is lawless. They are not going to recognize anything we do within the bounds of the law as legitimate. Seriously wake the F up."

Exactly

Us: The Republic isn't working

Them: Are you sure it's plugged in?

Us: ...

Them: Oh I know! Try turning it off and then on again!

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 19, 2021 09:10 AM (49Exr)

351
Us: Pretty sure it's the Marxist Virus. Again.

Them: The what?

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 19, 2021 09:11 AM (49Exr)

352 it should be our sincere, unending battle to make sure they are ridden out of Congress on a rail.
Posted by: Marcus T, Libertad at July 19, 2021 08:47 AM (VpIIl)

Momentarily satisfying, but to what end really? Some indistinguishable political protozoa will just take their place. We're not voting our way out of this.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 19, 2021 09:14 AM (vhMB7)

353 Psalm 20:7 and Hebrews 13:5-6 are important to read these days.

Posted by: setnaffa at July 19, 2021 09:28 AM (lrLl2)

354 "It was shocking to my husband and me that our children canceled us for being who and what we are"

We turn our kids over to leftist anti Christian indoctrination factories and are surprised when they turn out to be leftists and anti Christian.

Posted by: SkylerKat at July 19, 2021 09:39 AM (SXIn9)

355 Ziba - Out of curiosity, why are you here?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 19, 2021 09:40 AM (jLbBa)

356 Great, lets organize a march in protest of them being held.
----
There was one this weekend.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 19, 2021 09:42 AM (DlaLS)

357 342 339:

Like M Levin said: we're not staring into the abyss. We are IN it. Anyone who doesn't get that, isn't paying attention...the Left controls EVERYTHING, or just about.
Posted by: Ziba at July 19, 2021 08:40 AM (S1hrL)

Here's your opportunity to tell us exactly what we need to do right now.

Fire away.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2021 09:58 AM (s2VJv)

358 "Here's your opportunity to tell us exactly what we need to do right now."

And if he doesn't have The Solution to our problems, then what? Is he wrong? A doctor can diagnose a disease without knowing what cure to proscribe. Does that mean he shouldn't?

With respect, I get where you are coming for, but it feels like a rhetorical trap designed to shut down criticism. However he answers he'll get boxed in - as either a Rando Keyboard Commando (Correia) or an FBI Provocateur Mole (Hoyt).

Is it really so wrong to question our current tactics without having a better plan? For example, I don't know how to turn the power back on, but do I know that poking the electrical socket with a fork isn't working.

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 19, 2021 10:17 AM (49Exr)

359 Here's our plan (as I know it, because we can't even communicate in hypotheticals because everyone is a Stasi mole)

1) buy lots of guns and ammo and get range time
2) let the Marxists decide when the gun battle happens
3) make a last stand alone to be picked of one by one
4) in our homes, next to our kid's bedroom

I think that's a stupid plan, not only because it's tactically unsound, but also because I think the Marxists will grab the guns using non-violent means involving some kind of Social Credit (ie. hospice for mom denied, business license revoked, college admission declined... until you get yourself off that naughty Firearms Registration List)

Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 19, 2021 10:18 AM (49Exr)

360 "Chinese firms have expanded their presence in American agriculture over the last decade by snapping up farmland and purchasing major agribusinesses, like pork processing giant Smithfield Foods. By the start of 2020, Chinese owners controlled about 192,000 agricultural acres in the U.S., worth $1.9 billion, including land used for farming, ranching and forestry, according to the Agriculture Department."

This is the shit that truly piss's me right off. Fucking American's sell out the country. And the Government wack jobs are "considering" putting in place laws that will take away government subsidy's to foreigners. W T F They should not be allowed to buy anything company that is part of our food supply OR supply our medicines. PERIOD. Wonder where the freakin GOP is on this subject? Probably selling off anything they can to the effing com-chi's.

Posted by: sidney at July 19, 2021 10:19 AM (+fjIe)

361 Posted by: Hoyt's Paid Turkish Provocateur at July 19, 2021 10:17 AM (49Exr)

No, it's not a rhetorical trap to shut down criticism but to shut down people from pissing on our parade. Yeah things are catastrophic but there are rays of hope out there. No one says be Pollyanna, but at the same time, why not take comfort and be inspired where we can?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2021 10:21 AM (s2VJv)

362 Before she died, my mother was pretty conservative (although she never gave up her Dem affiliation). But I canceled her when she went ballistic of a Father's Day e-mail I sent her of a cute picture of Donald Trump with Barron. So it works both ways.

Posted by: nishdoogedacht at July 19, 2021 11:39 AM (UsbFe)

363 HAIL HAIL FIRE AND SNOW CALL THE ANGLE WE WILL GO FAR AWAY AND FAR TO SEA FRIENDLY ANGLE COME TO ME

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 19, 2021 05:52 PM (wGqjj)

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