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The Morning Report - 12/3/21

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Good morning, kids. The weekend is here and you'll all be thrilled to know that the GOP drew a line in the sand and said "enough!" by rejecting the raising of the debt ceiling and tying it to any potential vaccine mandates.

Psyche! Of course they caved, as if you expected anything but kabuki theater followed by a bukkake "happy ending." And of course, brave Joe Manchin flexed his man-chin to declare:

"In the midst of the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic and as the new Omicron variant emerges, I will not vote to shut down the government for purely political reasons. There is too much at stake for the American people. But let me be clear, I do not support any government vaccine mandate on private businesses."

In the immortal words of Henry Mancini, "where do I begin?" First, everything that is done in Washington DC IS politics. Second, we are already trillions upon trillions in debt with no way of ever paying it back, let alone the trillions in interest on the borrowing. Third, the government is NOT the economy. At least not yet despite the anti-American left driving us off that cliff. Fourth, Manchin just voted to give the government and its bureaucracies the blood money it requires to impose its will on the American people whether we like it or not. Fifth, the fact that Joe Manchin, despite being from West Virginia, is still a Democrat, and worse, he and not a Republican is the one making this statement, transparently and laughably phony as it may be, is just the bitter end.

And this segues perfectly to yet another infuriatingly clueless pundit supposedly on our side who rails against the GOP, phony conservatism and -- you guessed it -- Trump.

If Trump returns to the White House in 2024, and the Republicans regain power, this will be a rallying call for the Left as it was when Trump was elected in 2016 and as it continued to be throughout Trump's administration. The zealotry of #TheResistance succeeded in defeating Trump and his party. There can be no doubt that, had [Chinese] COVID happened in, say, Hillary Clinton's final year in office, we would've had a very different 2020 -- Democrats would've wanted to get reelected.

To those who will doubtless object that my case against Trump in 2024 and what's become of the conservative movement is defeatist and that I am an appeaser of the Left, I don't know what else to say. My entire point is that the defeatism and appeasement of the GOP and Conservatism, Inc. is what brought us here. Those of us who have supported them throughout the years should at long last abandon that support.

How many disappointments, betrayals, and failed promises do people need to endure before they say, "Never again?"

It is amazing how a smart man like Jack Kerwick makes absolutely zero sense whatsoever. He's blaming Trump for being surrounded on all sides by Deep State traitors, most notably from within his own alleged party as well as krony korporatist frauds who pretended to be outsiders, for their malfeasance, criminality and collusion (heh) with the globalist leftist enemy.

Look, Donald Trump for sure has his faults, his biggest one being the same as we all had: blindly trusting that certain crucial institutions were beyond being corrupted by the left. Seriously, as cynical as many of us are, could anyone have believed that the DOJ/FBI and CIA would actually work hand in hand with both the Democrat Party and actual foreign intelligence agencies both friend and foe alike to overthrow TWO separate elections? This is the same DOJ that still imprisons scores of innocent Americans on trumped up charges of insurrection and treason; the same DOJ that has labeled concerned parents as "terrorists" for opposing the mind- and body-rape of their children. The same law enforcement agencies and sadly individual police officers who protected their pensions and jobs rather than life, limb and property as scores of cities burned in an orgy of Democrat/local government sanctioned looting and arson as a means of political intimidation and terror. Same deal with the terrorist attack on Waukesha. Same deal with the persecution of Kyle Rittenhouse who tried defending himself and fellow citizens from same. And on and on and on.

And could anyone have believed that the CDC, NIH and the other seemingly non-political agencies were not first and foremost concerned with the health of Americans and not money and power as well as helping a sick, evil g-dless totalitarian empire in the PRC actually use our taxpayer dollars to create biological weapons? The same CDC and NIH that has used the mercifully relatively harmless Chinese COVID as the greatest psychological weapon in history to traumatize an entire population into surrendering its freedom and handing over a shattered economy to government control?

No, Mr. Kerwick. Trump is for all intents and purposes to my way of thinking blameless for what was done to him and in point of fact to all of us. Now that said, whether or not he is the ideal standard-bearer going forward is another matter and one that we are going to be debating more and more as 2022 and 2024 approach. For sure, the GOP is not only dead but is every bit the enemy of the people as the Democrat Party. America as founded is dead. I do not even think we can go on as we did before with regular order, elections and all that because one side (with both parties) is anti-American to the core and wants to destroy the last vestige of the old Republic and those of us who supported it.

It is time for a second American Republic. And while I revere the original Constitution as a truly Divinely inspired document, it's Achilles heel is that it required very flawed human beings to respect its proscriptions and practices. We all know what happened since its ratification, especially over the past 110 years or so. That is the Gordian knot if you will of a free society; how does one preserve a free society when truly evil human beings will use those very freedoms as the means by which to enslave us? If there is a second American republic, which no doubt will have to rise from a sea of ashes, we'll have to figure how to solve that in the next set of founding documents, lest we lather, rinse and repeat all over again.

And speaking of ashes, look at what the hell is happening in Germany and Australia.

Merkel announced the measures after a meeting with federal and state leaders, as the nation again topped 70,000 newly confirmed cases in a 24-hour period. She said the steps were necessary to address concerns that hospitals could become overloaded with patients suffering from COVID-19 infections, which are much more likely to be serious in people who have not been vaccinated. . .

. . .The country has an almost 70% vaccine rate. I don't know if Merkel will require the unvaccinated to wear anything for identification. But I have a feeling they'll have to show their papers.

You know, Germany. Yeah -- . . .

. . . Australia continues its overreaction to [Chinese] COVID. The police in Northern Territory (NT) arrested three teenagers for allegedly escaping a "voluntary" quarantine camp. Have you seen these camps? It looks like Jonestown.

The three teenagers will likely face more time in quarantine despite them posing a low risk and testing negative:

He said the escape could mean an extension of the time the teenagers were required to stay in quarantine. "Absconding from Howard Springs isn't just dangerous -- it is incredibly stupid," he said "Because we will catch you and there will be consequences."

Another man escaped a few days ago. They're investigating the incident because no one could want freedom, right? Now they're installing more CCTV cameras in the camp.

About those three teens who escaped from Stalag Woolamaloo? Get this:

All three teens tested negative for [Chinese] COVID the day before they bolted. They never actually HAD the China flu. They were locked up for coming into contact with someone who had it."

Kyle Rittenhouse is one thing, and it's a big one. But if you really want to know why we have a Second Amendment, look no further than the absolute abomination that is happening in Australia. G-d help this illegitimate junta and any of its enforcers if they try this shit here. And G-d help us.

In that light, I want to wish a very happy Hanukkah to you all of you, not just the members of the Tribe. A festival of light and of life - and of miracles - when all around is darkness, is something we can all use right now.

New CJN Speaks! podcast coming tomorrow or Sunday. Have a great weekend.

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1 first?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 07:38 AM (8D42x)

2 woah, a bold assumption puts me in the range of the italicans...

time to fetch the others i suppose. coffee isn't even ready yet...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 07:39 AM (8D42x)

3 Howdy!

Posted by: Brett at December 03, 2021 07:39 AM (uO9il)

4 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 03, 2021 07:39 AM (Do5/p)

5 Bold

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 03, 2021 07:39 AM (bVYXr)

6 corgis called

and happy birfday JJ

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 07:39 AM (8D42x)

7 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 03, 2021 07:39 AM (KfcsG)

8 Grempht

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2021 07:39 AM (AlkyK)

9 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at December 03, 2021 07:40 AM (Adlwz)

10 Amazeballs

Morning peeps

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2021 07:40 AM (BFigT)

11 You expect it from Germany, but for a country founded as a penile colony, you would hope for a little more resistance.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 03, 2021 07:40 AM (sX1BW)

12 normal comenting service is returned. now off to the content with coffee

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 07:40 AM (8D42x)

13 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at December 03, 2021 07:40 AM (u7pQw)

14 Good morning, J.J.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at December 03, 2021 07:40 AM (2SdPm)

15 TBH that bold new look ain't all bad!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at December 03, 2021 07:41 AM (u7pQw)

16 The creepiest thing I heard yesterday was Sotomayor going around touching dead people's feet.

Posted by: f'd at December 03, 2021 07:41 AM (Tnijr)

17 *looks through linkage*

The world is crazy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 07:42 AM (9ZHSu)

18 Happy Friday, JJ. Thanks for the posts!

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 03, 2021 07:42 AM (53oGX)

19 Mask today
Mask tomorrow
Mask forever

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 03, 2021 07:42 AM (yrol0)

20 If Washington DC was a person.... They would be the one always talking about how important they are, while being ignored by everyone else.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 07:43 AM (qi/+I)

21 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Quote of the Day:

"They will ask for your rifles. Retain two. Give one and keep the other. A single rifle will save a hundred souls."
-- St Kosmas Attolos

Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2021 07:43 AM (mD/uy)

22 The creepiest thing I heard yesterday was Sotomayor going around touching dead people's feet.
Posted by: f'd at December 03, 2021 07:41 AM (Tnijr)
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I meant to ask you about that. What the hell is that story? Does she visit the morgue, or something?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 07:43 AM (9ZHSu)

23 the reason not to elect PDT is that it will unify the left against PDT?

Alrighty then.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at December 03, 2021 07:43 AM (2SdPm)

24 So I was reading about the kid fuckers at the CIA. Then thinking, oh yeah there was a Law and Order SVU about the CIA protecting kid fuckers.

Makes me think this was known in Hollywood many years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 03, 2021 07:46 AM (yrol0)

25 SAINT OF THE DAY

St. Francis Xavier (1506--1552) was born in his family castle in Navarre in what is today Spain. While studying in Paris he met St. Ignatius of Loyola and joined him in the foundation of the Society of Jesus. Instead of devoting himself to academic pursuits as he had planned, and in which he enjoyed great success, he became the first Jesuit missionary priest. His missionary activity began in Goa, India and extended across the Orient. St. Francis Xavier was known throughout the Far East for his humility, care of the poor, and miracles including healings, speaking in tongues, and prophetic powers. His passion for Christ and zeal for souls won him many converts to the faith. It is said that during his missionary journeys he baptized over 40,000 people. He is considered by many to be one of the Church's greatest missionaries since St. Paul the Apostle. In his travels he left behind flourishing churches that were the foundations of the Catholic Church in Asia. He is the patron saint of navigators, missionaries, African missions, India, Japan, China, and New Zealand. St. Francis Xavier's feast day is December 3rd.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2021 07:46 AM (mD/uy)

26 I do not rever the Constitution. Never have. Never had needed a government to look after me. Especially when they're all crooks offering enslavement. F..k them.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 07:47 AM (qi/+I)

27 "Now that said, whether or not he is the ideal standard-bearer going forward is another matter and one that we are going to be debating more and more as 2022 and 2024 approach."

minor quible with this JJ, we KNOW PDJT isn't the ideal standard bearer for conservatism, but he seems to be the ONLY standard bearer for conservatism at the moment who is willing to make a presidental run.

does that change in the next 2-3 years? possibly, you've got MTG, Boebert, Darth Santis, and a few others. we might have options. but we might not.

and with that being the case, i'll take PSDJT of any fucking quisling milktoast the GOPe throws at us.

*please clap*

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 07:47 AM (8D42x)

28 Soto: "There's about 40 percent of dead people who, if you touch their feet, the foot will recoil"

How she knows this I'm not sure I want to know.

Posted by: f'd at December 03, 2021 07:47 AM (Tnijr)

29 its always about camps!!

Absconding from Howard Springs isn't just dangerous -- it is incredibly stupid," he said "Because we will catch you and there will be consequences."

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 03, 2021 07:48 AM (yrol0)

30 Top 30?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 03, 2021 07:49 AM (m+jkK)

31 I thought "Red Notice" was predictable and dumb, so I disagree with Elle Reynolds on this one. Gal Gadot was pretty good, but Ryan Reynolds was only there for the paycheck. Dialogue was OK, usual quippy stuff, but plot was ... meh.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 07:49 AM (9ZHSu)

32 Soto: "There's about 40 percent of dead people who, if you touch their feet, the foot will recoil"

How she knows this I'm not sure I want to know.
Posted by: f'd at December 03, 2021 07:47 AM (Tnijr)
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Sounds like Sotomayer is repeating a Twitter "factoid."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at December 03, 2021 07:49 AM (2SdPm)

33 Mock the left mercilessly. They have no defense.

Posted by: IanDeal at December 03, 2021 07:50 AM (MGjjz)

34 Re: Australia and Germany. I just can't even...

i mean, i'm sure the germans will come up with some simple system to prominently display someone's status in society and it's be a simple system that give it away at a glance. maybe a funny hat or something.

but really i can't wait for them to follow the australian model and build some camps. that always ends well...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 07:50 AM (8D42x)

35 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 03, 2021 07:50 AM (D0neX)

36 "A big piece of contention is the competitive landscape, specifically the rise of 'tanking,' a rebuilding strategy in which teams make their rosters worse to save money and gain draft picks for the future."


You're talking about us, aren't you.

Posted by: Pittsburgh Pirates at December 03, 2021 07:50 AM (sAmhv)

37 Sotomayor: " the literature is filled with episodes of people who are completely and utterly brain dead responding to stimuli"

Kinda thought she was talking about Joe didn't you?

Posted by: f'd at December 03, 2021 07:50 AM (Tnijr)

38 PDJT - "I like taking them early.....Take the guns first.... Due process second."

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 07:50 AM (qi/+I)

39 Go past the yellow line on the porch of your quarantine camp house and you will be fined $5,000. Government guy basically says "I'm just following orders."

Anonymous UK Citizen
at_AnonCitizenUK

Video footage of quarantine camp in Australia.

I guarantee that you will scream at the screen while watching these jumped up little Nazis just like I did


5:14 AM - Dec 3, 2021 - https://bit.ly/3GaFyov

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 03, 2021 07:50 AM (Do5/p)

40

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 03, 2021 07:51 AM (K2SnJ)

41
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 03, 2021 07:52 AM (DUIap)

42 Good morning.

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at December 03, 2021 07:53 AM (88xKn)

43 Good heavens, J.J.! Did you leave anything for the rest of the media? I had to scroll forever to reach the comments.

Oh, and Happy Birthday.

Posted by: creeper at December 03, 2021 07:53 AM (cTCuP)

44 The next Republican president needs to be the new broom!

Posted by: leber at December 03, 2021 07:53 AM (GFwQ7)

45 I still can't stand up.

Posted by: Chuck at December 03, 2021 07:54 AM (flINI)

46 33 Mock the left mercilessly. They have no defense.
Posted by: IanDeal at December 03, 2021 07:50 AM (MGjjz)


We're not permitted. And soon there will be laws that say so.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 07:54 AM (s2VJv)

47 44 The next Republican president needs to be the new broom!
Posted by: leber



Flame Thrower.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 03, 2021 07:54 AM (sAmhv)

48 I locked out MLB so long ago I forget exactly when.

Millionaires going on strike...only in America.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 03, 2021 07:55 AM (mDnRM)

49 Cuck Schemer Calls Rubio Amendment to Ban Uyghur Slave Labor-Made Imports from China a "Poison Pill"

Well, the Dems always have been the pro-slavery party, so...

Posted by: Ian S. at December 03, 2021 07:55 AM (NqGS/)

50 Ray Dalio is another evil billionaire. For years, he's had his employees to Maoist self-criticism and encourages lower level employees to bitterly call out their superiors. He loves authoritarian China. Hates America, except for Westport, Connecticut. Calls himself the World's Greatest Expert on everything, but then you get absolute horseshit, like this:

[i[Dalio seemed unbothered by communist China's authoritarian track record. "I can't be an expert in those types of things," Dalio said. "The guidance of the, you know, the government is the most important thing."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 07:57 AM (9ZHSu)

51 26 I do not rever the Constitution. Never have. Never had needed a government to look after me. Especially when they're all crooks offering enslavement. F..k them.
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 07:47 AM (qi/+I)


It's not about needing a government to look after you. It's about setting down guidelines so that the government doesn't lord OVER you and that you respect the rights of others like you.

Never a set of precepts before in history like it. It's only flaw, as stated, is it requires the morality of people like you and me to respect what it means and stands for. We do. Too many do not. And they are in power.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 07:57 AM (s2VJv)

52 Mornin', all! Autocucumber tried to turn that into Mormon. Hmm.

Thanks for the newz, JJ!

Posted by: Catherine--who generally doesn't curse. at December 03, 2021 07:57 AM (xQ19v)

53 43 Good heavens, J.J.! Did you leave anything for the rest of the media? I had to scroll forever to reach the comments.

Oh, and Happy Birthday.
Posted by: creeper at December 03, 2021 07:53 AM (cTCuP)


I AM the media.

(nervously scans sky for lightning bolt from Heaven aimed at my big head)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 07:58 AM (s2VJv)

54 Why do we bother shutting the government down if we're just going to bring it back?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 03, 2021 07:58 AM (4olE8)

55 Millionaires going on strike...only in America.

More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 03, 2021 07:55 AM (mDnRM)
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Max Scherzer leads the players side in the negotiations, a guy who just singed a contract that pays him $43 million next year.

Takes a really highly developed ignorance of self-awareness to bitch about pay when that's your number.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 08:00 AM (9ZHSu)

56 What sort of funny about government shutdown theater is that it's just that, theater.

Government doesn't dare shut itself down, because they can't allow the average American to find out they can get by without DC.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (2SdPm) at December 03, 2021 08:00 AM (2SdPm)

57 Why do we bother shutting the government down if we're just going to bring it back?

**

So the politicians can use it as a cudgel for re-election and the workers can get a vacation will full pay re-instated at their return to work for the time they didn't do anything.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FDA requests 2076 as release date for safety approval data on vax at December 03, 2021 08:00 AM (nMXLX)

58 "I AM the media."

(nervously scans sky for lightning bolt from Heaven aimed at my big head)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 07:58 AM (s2VJv)

You will get no argument from me on that. Go ahead...tempt the Fates. We've got your back.

Posted by: creeper at December 03, 2021 08:00 AM (cTCuP)

59 "You'd be in jail" - bever happened....
"Drain the swamp" - Never happened.... DJT

Bandy standing up for his cattle happened though.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:01 AM (qi/+I)

60 Rep. Chip Roy: The Vax Mandate "Is a Test for Republicans - Will They Stand Up and Fight for the American People or Roll Over?"

==

I'm going to bold this for a reason. Because I am screaming it from the top of my lungs:

We must recognize that Washington politicians aren't the ones to "stand up and fight for the American people." We must do so ourselves.

And we'd better darned well do it right now, because we are slipping very, very fast into total totalitarianism.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 03, 2021 08:02 AM (sVtYq)

61 It seems the week is ending on a downtrend, the winter at Valley Forge comes to mind - I suppose Spring will come but I also know that more than mockery or political device will need to come with it.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 03, 2021 08:02 AM (QZ/dC)

62 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 03, 2021 08:02 AM (arJlL)

63 Government doesn't dare shut itself down, because they can't allow the average American to find out they can get by without DC.

**

That was the entire point of Obama doing all the spiteful things he had done during his shutdown with blocking parking lots to unattended parking areas and the like.

Same as the COVIDs, if people aren't TOLD they there's a crisis, they wouldn't have any idea there's a crisis, because it's not a crisis to 99.94% of the population.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FDA requests 2076 as release date for safety approval data on vax at December 03, 2021 08:03 AM (nMXLX)

64 well duh!

The World Health Organization has questioned the UK governments decision to roll out hundreds of millions of booster jabs to its population, asserting there is no evidence they would offer greater protection to the healthy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 03, 2021 08:03 AM (yrol0)

65 And once again, the Shitt Rumneys and the Amnesty Grahamnestys put on their best Gucci black dress, wigs and pantyhose and did a lap dance and a rim job for the Barry Soweto Odildo cabal. Politics = poly ticks = many bloodsuckers.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & RINOs in wigs and pantyhose at December 03, 2021 08:03 AM (8m/Xb)

66 *Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 03, 2021 08:02 AM (QZ/dC)*

Nice nick.

Goliad's ghosts still haunt the Presidio. They're everywhere.

Posted by: creeper at December 03, 2021 08:04 AM (cTCuP)

67 I AM the media.

(This is what happens when you have a Honkin' Hannukah !)

Posted by: JT at December 03, 2021 08:04 AM (arJlL)

68
Red Notice
is so compelling that I twice have fallen asleep while trying to watch it. As much as I enjoy watching Ryan Reynolds, shackling him to The Rock and tossing him overboard guaranteed a snoozer would be the result.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 03, 2021 08:05 AM (3l5Yq)

69 Good morning, JJ.

Hiya, JT.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 08:05 AM (DU+/6)

70 Good job TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at December 03, 2021 08:05 AM (arJlL)

71 You expect it from Germany, but for a country founded as a penile colony, you would hope for a little more resistance.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 03, 2021 07:40 AM (sX1BW)\

honestly, i'm not surprised when you think about it. they're a penile colony, some are used to being in jail, some are used to being the jailers. they' just are moving back to their roots...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:06 AM (8D42x)

72 In the midst of the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic and as the new Omicron variant emerges, I will not vote to shut down the government for purely political reasons.
++++
Yeah, blow it your ass. Everything is political in your town, as JJ pointed out. Moreover, COVID is clearly political in every dimension. There is no element of COVID that is free from the stain of politics, from its financing, its origins, its release - accidental or otherwise - the response to it, etc. There has perhaps never been a more political event in modern history.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 08:06 AM (DU+/6)

73 Like him or hate him, PDJT is (in my opinion) too old to run for President in 2024. He will be 78 next election day.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 08:07 AM (9ZHSu)

74 67 I AM the media.

(This is what happens when you have a Honkin' Hannukah !)
Posted by: JT at December 03, 2021 08:04 AM (arJlL)

I swear, JT, he went back and added moar links to this one. It goes on till Tuesday.

Posted by: creeper at December 03, 2021 08:07 AM (cTCuP)

75 Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 08:07 AM (9ZHSu)

How old is DeSantis?

Posted by: dantesed at December 03, 2021 08:08 AM (88xKn)

76 "I AM the media."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

We know things are bad -- worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don't want you to protest, I don't want you to riot, I don't want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad! You've got to say: 'I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!' So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell: I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2021 08:08 AM (mD/uy)

77 I'm fully with JJ. It's time for a 2nd American Republic. We must admit something very painful. There is no saving what we have now. Just look at how half this country's citizens think. Just look at who we have in Washington driving us to absolute financial and social ruin. Just look at all the ground the hard left has captured. There is no rectifying it. There is no toothpaste going back in the tube. These people are not ever going to give up ground or come to their senses. This entire country is so FUBARd and we have to admit that. There's no going back. The only way out is to reestablish ourselves and our freedoms within a new republic.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 03, 2021 08:08 AM (sVtYq)

78 If Trump returns to the White House in 2024, and the Republicans regain power, this will be a rallying call for the Left as it was when Trump was elected in 2016 and as it continued to be throughout Trump's administration. The zealotry of #TheResistance succeeded in defeating Trump and his party.
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:: blinks rapidly in stupefaction ::

It's hard to believe someone was stupid, shallow and narrow-minded to pen and publish that. Let's translate, shall we?
"We should pick a leader that the Left doesn't hate too much, because if we don't then we will have to fight them."

What a gaping, wart-ridden maw of a whore's pussy this guy is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 08:09 AM (DU+/6)

79 How old is DeSantis?

Posted by: dantesed at December 03, 2021 08:08 AM

Just turned 43: September 14, 1978

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 03, 2021 08:09 AM (Do5/p)

80 The next Republican president needs to be the new broom!
Posted by: leber at December 03, 2021 07:53 AM (GFwQ7)

at this point, i'm honestly kind of hoping for Pinochet...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:10 AM (8D42x)

81 Literally every Debt ceiling fight ends up getting the Democrats something they want, almost as if it's all by design.

Or alternatively...

The GOP is a useless pile of dog shit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 03, 2021 08:10 AM (Ls9Kq)

82 76 Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2021 08:08 AM (mD/uy)


You do realize that Paddy Chayefsky a hero of mine, and a big reason why I wound up as a screenplay writer for 20 years.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:10 AM (s2VJv)

83 I locked out MLB so long ago I forget exactly when.

Millionaires going on strike...only in America.

More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 03, 2021 07:55 AM


Let me help with that.

Posted by: King Harv at December 03, 2021 08:10 AM (jYQlA)

84 DeSantis is 43, right now; 46 next election day.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 08:11 AM (9ZHSu)

85 It's not about needing a government to look after you. It's about setting down guidelines so that the government doesn't lord OVER you and that you respect the rights of others like you.

Never a set of precepts before in history like it. It's only flaw, as stated, is it requires the morality of people like you and me to respect what it means and stands for. We do. Too many do not. And they are in power.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 07:57 AM (s2VJv)

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Sorry JJ. Hard pass. That whole "consent of the governed" thing that predates their illegal constitution.
Consent.... Can be withdrawn at any time. It isn't assumed or implied....ever.

I do agree with breaking up their monopoly though.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:11 AM (qi/+I)

86 NYC's Tenement Museum Faces Backlash After It REPLACES Story Of White Irish Immigrants With Woke Tale Of Black New Jersey Family Who Never Even Lived In The Lower East Side Building

The Tenement Museum is facing backlash for scrubbing the history of the white immigrants who inhabited the building on Manhattan's Lower East Side with stories about black and other races that never stepped foot in its now-hallowed hallways.

Chief among the complaints is the museum replacing the story of an Irish family who resided at the building at 103 Orchard Street in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with that of a black man -- who worked near the building and lived in New Jersey for much of his life.

When the museum opened in 1988, it was devoted to re-creating the immigrant experience of the more than 7,000 people who inhabited the 22 apartments in the five-story building during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:12 AM (UHVv4)

87 You do realize that Paddy Chayefsky a hero of mine, and a big reason why I wound up as a screenplay writer for 20 years.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

I thought so. Posted in your honor my friend.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2021 08:13 AM (mD/uy)

88 Beijing has urged US business groups with interests in China to "speak out" and lobby the US government in its defence, warning that as bilateral relations deteriorate they cannot make money "in silence".

The vice-foreign minister Xie Feng, in charge of managing China's relationship with the US, also urged against political boycotts of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, saying it harms the interests of athletes and was "unpopular".

Key business groups including the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and the US-China Business Council, met Xie at a virtual forum on Tuesday, according to a transcript of his address.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:14 AM (UHVv4)

89 (nervously scans sky for lightning bolt from Heaven aimed at my big head)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 07:58 AM (s2VJv)


Can't you stop that with your weather machine? Or did CBD borrow it because his broke down again?

Posted by: Ian S. at December 03, 2021 08:14 AM (NqGS/)

90 m fully with JJ. It's time for a 2nd American Republic. We must admit something very painful. There is no saving what we have now. ...
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 03, 2021 08:08 AM (sVtYq)
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What we have *now* is doomed. It's too unstable and corrupt. What we had before - a republic based on rights, transparency, fairness, etc. - is already dead.

The past six years - and particularly the past two - have been the end of the world. This doesn't mean your cities fall to ash or the world stops turning or the sun blows up, but it does mean the world ended. Today is not like yesterday. The world hasn't ended since the late thirties and I have no idea what it will mean this time. But thoughts about "the world as we know it" are wrong. The tense is wrong. It's the "world as we knew it."

I don't think there's any point in things like "saving America" anymore. America is over, as is everything else. The real battle is over what comes next and what we turn into.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 08:15 AM (DU+/6)

91 Good Friday morning. A couple of brief points. It seems the WHO talks out of both sides of its mouth and how is it the surveillence videos are getting out now? (okay that's actually a question).

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 03, 2021 08:15 AM (nxdel)

92 "It's time for a 2nd American Republic. We must admit something very painful. There is no saving what we have now. Just look at how half this country's citizens think. Just look at who we have in Washington driving us to absolute financial and social ruin. "


I'm not against a 2nd republic or some other option but that does not get rid of the millions you point out are driving us to ruin. They would still exist and are spread out everywhere that makes it impossible to separate from them. That seems an intractable problem I have not heard any solution to.

Posted by: Ripley at December 03, 2021 08:15 AM (MxEKc)

93 Never a set of precepts before in history like it. It's only flaw, as stated, is it requires the morality of people like you and me to respect what it means and stands for. We do. Too many do not. And they are in power.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 07:57 AM (s2VJv)

it's not even a flaw. the ONLY thing it required was that people follow it. people don't even have to be moral. just a simple "is this covered" or not.

but noooooo, every single fuck nugget in dc has to carve out their little fiefdom and find penumbra or enumeration that allows then to wreck the rest of the country.

you want to fix this. there is a committee of randomly selected citizens, say 50, each from a different state, and for any proposed bill in either the house or senate, if the corresponding article and clause of the constitution can't be found in 24 hours, the person submitting the bill is hung from the neck on the nation al mall and the corpse is left until the crows pick the body clean...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:16 AM (8D42x)

94 85 Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:11 AM (qi/+I)

So, you're an anarchist?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:16 AM (s2VJv)

95 Sefton, where do you find time to run Hollywood and lord over the international banking system when you've committed to putting knowledge to us Morons on a daily basis? It's impressive... All this and the WEATHER too!

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 03, 2021 08:16 AM (flINI)

96 The Left = Commies
The Right = Boot Lickers
Libertarians = Promote Actual Freedom

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:16 AM (qi/+I)

97 I didn't bother reading the link because my bullshit vaxx hasn't had a booster shot yet but...

AP: US military explosives vanish, emerge in civilian world

The Marine Corps demolition specialist was worried -- about America, and about the civil war he feared would follow the presidential election.

And so, block by block, he stole 13 pounds (6 kilograms) of C4 plastic explosives from the training ranges of Camp Lejeune.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:16 AM (UHVv4)

98 you want to fix this. there is a committee of randomly selected citizens, say 50, each from a different state, and for any proposed bill in either the house or senate, if the corresponding article and clause of the constitution can't be found in 24 hours, the person submitting the bill is hung from the neck on the nation al mall and the corpse is left until the crows pick the body clean...
Posted by: SturmToddler

Newsletter details if you please kind Sir.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2021 08:16 AM (mD/uy)

99 "It is time for a second American Republic."

Agreed. It is tempting to write "burn it down" but this needs to be done in a more orderly way so our people do not suffer too greatly. It was good to see DeSantis starting to form an independent military in Florida, for example, and the first governor who builds a system of weapons of mass destruction has my support. Slowly, then suddenly. D.C. can be choked off gradually and made to want to separate. It is also a psychopathic garbage regime and the place most likely to harm you and your loved ones.

Kabuki theatre used to inspire anger. Now it causes laughter, which actually is a positive development.

Grifting pieces of shit like McConnell, McCarthy, Pelosi, Schumer, whatever, are symptoms rather than causes. It is the pimps who tell the Administrative State what to do, not its dutiful whores in front of the cameras and behind the cameras.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 03, 2021 08:17 AM (nMx88)

100 So the Tenement Museum will bite the dust. Who will go visit it, not even the POC who could give a damn. It used to be a field trip destination, a worthwhile one.

So goes NYC.

Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 08:17 AM (S1hrL)

101 So, you're an anarchist?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:16 AM (s2VJv)

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JJ.... Not consenting to a form of governance doesn't need to br defined. Does it?

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:18 AM (qi/+I)

102 Beijing has urged US business groups with interests in China to "speak out" and lobby the US government in its defence, warning that as bilateral relations deteriorate they cannot make money "in silence". ...
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:14 AM (UHVv4)
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Good. Then go broke in the noise.

Be strong, and shout at the Devil.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 08:18 AM (DU+/6)

103 Beijing has urged US business groups with interests in China to "speak out" and lobby the US government in its defence, warning that as bilateral relations deteriorate they cannot make money "in silence".

The vice-foreign minister Xie Feng, in charge of managing China's relationship with the US, also urged against political boycotts of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, saying it harms the interests of athletes and was "unpopular".

Key business groups including the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and the US-China Business Council, met Xie at a virtual forum on Tuesday, according to a transcript of his address.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:14 AM (UHVv4)

I fully support this, honestly. let the chinese put serious pressure on the business groups and force them to show their hands...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:19 AM (8D42x)

104 Boycott the Airlines till they drop the mask/COVID mandates...FJB!!

Posted by: qmark at December 03, 2021 08:19 AM (nGOuT)

105 Good Friday morning.
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OMG! How long did I sleep?!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:20 AM (UHVv4)

106 The Left = Commies
The Right = Boot Lickers
Libertarians = Promote Actual Freedom
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:16 AM (qi/+I)



oh wait, you're serious?

let me laugh harder

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:20 AM (8D42x)

107 101 So, you're an anarchist?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:16 AM (s2VJv)

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JJ.... Not consenting to a form of governance doesn't need to br defined. Does it?
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:18 AM (qi/+I)

I think we're at a point where we're talking past each other. We must have some form of government, evil that even the most benign form of government still is, in order to ensure the functioning of a civil society. The Constitution is or was damned good. It is the people that are flawed who trashed it.

We do not exist in a vacuum. If please G-d this tyranny is vanquished, we are going to have to figure out how to best organize ourselves so that the depredations of the Commies can be prevented as much as is possible.

That's all I'm saying.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:21 AM (s2VJv)

108 Like him or hate him, PDJT is (in my opinion) too old to run for President in 2024. He will be 78 next election day.
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I don't think that's going to be a problem. It's not his job to unlock the doors and turn the lights on every morning.

All I need to see from him is who he chooses for staff:
No GOPe. No one appointed by either Bush. Nor anyone who worked for or worked with someone who worked for McCain.
No one over the age of 50.
No one who hasn't personally fired at least 10 people.
No man who hasn't been in a fist-fight; no woman whose prior jobs depended on government funding directly or indirectly.
No one who chose to live on the east coast.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 03, 2021 08:21 AM (ATaz/)

109 America is over, as is everything else. The real battle is over what comes next and what we turn into.

*

This is truth.

We can still work to mold something workable out of it, thankfully, but the U.S. loved and remembered by so many of us is gone. Fundamentally transformed, if you will. Almost like it was planned and stated as such.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - FDA requests 2076 as release date for safety approval data on vax at December 03, 2021 08:22 AM (nMXLX)

110 But if you really want to know why we have a Second Amendment, look no further than the absolute abomination that is happening in Australia.


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Preach it ! Is there anydoubt that if it was not for 2a, we'd all be locked up in happy fun camps for one reason or another ?

Posted by: runner at December 03, 2021 08:22 AM (V13WU)

111 We know things are bad -- worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don't want you to protest, I don't want you to riot, I don't want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad! You've got to say: 'I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!' So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell: I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!


YOU HAVE MEDDLED IN THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE! https://youtu.be/V9XeyBd_IuA

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 03, 2021 08:22 AM (sAmhv)

112 . . . Australia continues its overreaction to [Chinese] COVID. The police in Northern Territory (NT) arrested three teenagers for allegedly escaping a "voluntary" quarantine camp. Have you seen these camps? It looks like Jonestown.

More like Leavenworth, from the video that Aussie couple filmed of one of the 'camps'.

Btw, I want to point out that Trump was cock-blocked on many of his EUs by various Hawaiian judge types, but he generally won at the SC. With ShitForBrains, it's the opposite so far.

Thanks for the week of roundups, JJS.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 03, 2021 08:22 AM (F0YaR)

113 100 So the Tenement Museum will bite the dust. Who will go visit it, not even the POC who could give a damn. It used to be a field trip destination, a worthwhile one.

So goes NYC.
Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 08:17 AM (S1hrL)


I am not far behind. Not death, but leaving NYC. Shame.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:23 AM (s2VJv)

114 you want to fix this. there is a committee of randomly selected citizens, say 50, each from a different state, and for any proposed bill in either the house or senate, if the corresponding article and clause of the constitution can't be found in 24 hours, the person submitting the bill is hung from the neck on the nation al mall and the corpse is left until the crows pick the body clean...
Posted by: SturmToddler

Newsletter details if you please kind Sir.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2021 08:16 AM (mD/uy)

while i'm honored by your praise Sir, I'm afraid i must decline. I'm no where near the wordsmith the like likes of our illustrious erudite COBs here.

and while i may have a few ideas and the nic to fit in around here, i'm sure i'd break something as bad as the boss on occasion...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:23 AM (8D42x)

115 Posted by: Lrrr at December 03, 2021 08:21 AM (ATaz/)

Dayum, those ageist rules will keep me out of my dream job, that is being the Presidential aide with the cattle-prod!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 03, 2021 08:24 AM (bqoJa)

116
I don't watch the news, don't frequent social media, don't text with anyone but Her Majesty, have no significant social life and work from home. I feel much more serene than ever.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 03, 2021 08:25 AM (0x8YM)

117 If you think you are having a bad day....
https://tinyurl.com/yc9d9t42
Not the Bee link.

Per all the infuriating stuff our gub'mint is doing or refusing to do: my last hope is in the '22 election results. If things are as messed up as '20, or remotely close to those kind of results and shenanigans then I'll accept this is never getting fixed by voting harder.

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 03, 2021 08:25 AM (DB16e)

118 Dude's not a libertarian.

Most libertarians are somewhat comfortable with some police power of the state. This guy is not.

Dude is an anarcho-capitalist, maybe an Objectivist.

So, not a serious person.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:25 AM (LvTSG)

119 let me laugh harder
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:20 AM (8D42x)
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Laugh all you want.... Just do it on your own dime, leaving others to themselves. No more extortion/civil asset forfeiture. Ok?

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:25 AM (qi/+I)

120 OMG! How long did I sleep?!

lol!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 03, 2021 08:26 AM (nxdel)

121 Taliban announces ban on forced marriages of women in Afghanistan. No mention of girls and goats, you'll notice.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:26 AM (UHVv4)

122 Happy Hanukkah JJ. Got to help light the candles at my daughter's house last night. May the spirit of Judah Maccabee be awakened in this country Lord!!

Posted by: Sock Monkey * jus a pohr wayfarin stranger at December 03, 2021 08:27 AM (vrYHn)

123 Gun grabs will not come in the form most expect - knock on the door, etc. They will come in the form of another Rittenhouse type trial , where one defending himself against a woke, drugged up and murderous mob will be found guilty of all kinds of sins.

Posted by: runner at December 03, 2021 08:28 AM (V13WU)

124 I watched a bit of the Dale ho nomination hearing yesterday. What a piece of stinky cheese this Ho is.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 08:28 AM (9ZHSu)

125 That's all I'm saying.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:21 AM (s2VJv)

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I love your column. I read it daily.

The only governance we need.... Is every human armed for themselves. We do not live in a vacuum. We live in nature. Government is brute force. Period. Let each Pete on be their own master.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:28 AM (qi/+I)

126 ha!

If she has campaign ambitions, I suggest she run for Mayor of Denver. Shes done much more to help the citizens there than anyone in Georgia.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 03, 2021 08:29 AM (yrol0)

127 116: Mostly the same, but I catch up on all the "news" here and the serenity is gone in a flash.

But the good news is, that despite the media's best efforts, I see wuflu as a bad cold (and apparently omicron is a mild one) and can't get on board with the panic and mask fever.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 08:29 AM (ONvIw)

128 Let each person on be their own master.
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:28 AM (qi/+I)

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:29 AM (qi/+I)

129 Hiya Mannix !

Posted by: JT at December 03, 2021 08:30 AM (arJlL)

130 lol!
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And worse yet, I didn't lose any weight.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:30 AM (UHVv4)

131 109

Amen

Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 08:30 AM (S1hrL)

132 I'm not against a 2nd republic or some other option but that does not get rid of the millions you point out are driving us to ruin. They would still exist and are spread out everywhere that makes it impossible to separate from them. That seems an intractable problem I have not heard any solution to.

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Oh, I agree Ripley. The most difficult task of all is figuring out how to accomplish a second American republic. How do we get out of this festering burned out cinder? It's a question I have no answer for. Rudimentary speaking, I've held hope that states are the key. Starting the full break with the federal gov't. All states have leftists polluting the citizenry. I get that, and without excising those people, it's a futile effort. My rose-colored glasses hope leftists, who clamor so hard for their ideals, will only want to live in states that reflect those (polluted) ideals. And vice versa. Again, I have no answer, but I do know that this cannot go on.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 03, 2021 08:30 AM (sVtYq)

133 I feel much more serene than ever.
Posted by: Hadrian

It's easy if you try! Amazing what beauty can be found in this world when you mute the white noise of the world.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * jus a pohr wayfarin stranger at December 03, 2021 08:31 AM (vrYHn)

134 ...a penile colony...
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So, no lesbians, then?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2021 08:31 AM (AlkyK)

135 Per all the infuriating stuff our gub'mint is doing or refusing to do: my last hope is in the '22 election results. If things are as messed up as '20, or remotely close to those kind of results and shenanigans then I'll accept this is never getting fixed by voting harder.
Posted by: Fool Otto at December 03, 2021 08:25 AM (DB16e)

The GOP is selling you out before the polls open. The United States is lost, and the Republican Party is little more than buzzards feasting on its carcass. Everyone arrives here in their own way, but the Republicans are showing you before the first vote is cast they are at best collaborators, at worst your mortal enemy.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 03, 2021 08:31 AM (nMx88)

136 Happy Birthday, JJ!

That is the Gordian knot if you will of a free society

******

This guy got it:

"If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself."

Posted by: Muldoon at December 03, 2021 08:32 AM (m45I2)

137 Dude is an anarcho-capitalist, maybe an Objectivist.

So, not a serious person.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:25 AM (LvTSG)

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Or.... Simply isn't interested in funding your "good" ideas and passes on them. Not asking anything from you.
You take issue with that?

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:32 AM (qi/+I)

138 88 Beijing has urged US business groups with interests in China to "speak out" and lobby the US government in its defence, warning that as bilateral relations deteriorate they cannot make money "in silence".


Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:14 AM (UHVv4)

Our richie rich are more concerned about keeping their millions and billions than keeping the nation's freedom. China could decide to nationalize their factories...then what? They sold us out and we're going to damn well stay sold if the oligarchs and acolytes have their way (and US pols are a dime a dozen)

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 08:32 AM (ONvIw)

139 It seems Dr. Oz will fit in quite comfortably, and by quite comfortably I mean like a dick in an ass, with the new Republican party.

I'm done with them.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 03, 2021 08:33 AM (GYllL)

140 Not death, but leaving NYC. Shame.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:23 AM (s2VJv)


To be fair, it is NYC that is dying, all due to a panoply of progressive actions that no one in a responsible position could have possibly foreseen would doom the city!

Glad you are getting out, JJS, stay safe!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 03, 2021 08:33 AM (bqoJa)

141 Posted by: Muldoon at December 03, 2021 08:32 AM (m45I2)
YES

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:33 AM (qi/+I)

142 So. 80 sorry mother fucking Rs in the House voted to fund a vaxxed person database. One of them is my Rep; well, on paper. I hope to change that in the 2021 primary. Palazzo, you are on MY list. These pricks understand nothing but power, and he needs to lose his. I'm tired of these sorry mofos and their 'work across the aisle' bullshit.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 03, 2021 08:33 AM (F0YaR)

143 210,000 jobs added. Less than expected

Posted by: redridinghood at December 03, 2021 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

144 crap

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 03, 2021 08:33 AM (bqoJa)

145 137 Or.... Simply isn't interested in funding your "good" ideas and passes on them. Not asking anything from you.
You take issue with that?
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:32 AM (qi/+I)

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Your ideals are nice but utopian and as unworkable as a communist's.

People will take you more seriously when you actually operate intellectually in a realm that somewhat reflects reality.

Government is an evil, but some government is a necessary evil considering the fallen state of man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:33 AM (LvTSG)

146 No more extortion/civil asset forfeiture. Ok?
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:25 AM (qi/+I)

I don't disagree in large part. however, i do believe there's a requirement for a minimum of government. how minimum? look back to the original constitution, it's got a good grasp.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:34 AM (8D42x)

147 Hiya No-cuss Catherine !

Posted by: JT at December 03, 2021 08:34 AM (arJlL)

148 "It's time for a 2nd American Republic. 
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36% approval of FJB.

That's 113 million people. There is the enemy that we will have to pacify.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 03, 2021 08:35 AM (ATaz/)

149 the Republicans are showing you before the first vote is cast they are at best collaborators, at worst your mortal enemy.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 03, 2021 08:31 AM (nMx8


Thus as it ever was!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 03, 2021 08:35 AM (bqoJa)

150 The GOP is selling you out before the polls open. The United States is lost, and the Republican Party is little more than buzzards feasting on its carcass. Everyone arrives here in their own way, but the Republicans are showing you before the first vote is cast they are at best collaborators, at worst your mortal enemy.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 03, 2021 08:31 AM (nMx8

I'd gladly put Rombley and Mitch in that category. And all the silent GOP, when it comes to fraud and China, will get no money or votes from me. I trusted them to fix things when they got the Presidency...they spat on us and their lofty promises.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 08:35 AM (ONvIw)

151 "A Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency, and therefore an emergency for the Japan-U.S. alliance. People in Beijing, President Xi Jinping in particular, should never have a misunderstanding in recognizing this," Abe said.

Retired and sick as he may be, the old Japanese militarist PM has his uses. Calling Xi out directly like this is very good. Somebody has to make sure the Chinese understand this, and Abe is the guy for the job.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 08:36 AM (9ZHSu)

152 Trump is gonna run

nobody except Edward VIII gives up power unless thye have too

Posted by: REDACTED at December 03, 2021 08:36 AM (us2H3)

153 210,000 jobs added. Less than expected
Posted by: redridinghood at December 03, 2021 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

unexpectedly...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:36 AM (8D42x)

154 The Federal Gov't must be banned from acquiring any "database" for any reason, because its only purpose is to ultimately strip freedom. Unfortunately, it's those very same vermin who are determining whether or not they're going to do so. The American subjects (because that's what we now are) have no say.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 03, 2021 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

155
I am not far behind. Not death, but leaving NYC. Shame.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:23 AM (s2VJv

Sadly, the libs who turned it to shit will evacuate too...and propagate their stupid ideas

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 08:38 AM (ONvIw)

156
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 03, 2021 08:33 AM (bqoJa)

i think autotags saved you.

but the barrel still hungers and is waiting...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:38 AM (8D42x)

157 Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Posted by: Dennis the Constitutional Peasant at December 03, 2021 08:39 AM (4I/2K)

158 Red Notice was all kinds of meh.

Reynolds was there to be Reynolds but his snark was off. And also there to make an Aviation Gin commercial.

The Rock got his tequila in there but did not get a shot of the label on screen.

And they made Gal Gadot look oddly unattractive.

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2021 08:39 AM (mbFEM)

159 Let each Pete on be their own master.
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:28 AM (qi/+I)

What about Paul or Patsy?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2021 08:39 AM (poMoX)

160 Or.... Simply isn't interested in funding your "good" ideas and passes on them. Not asking anything from you.
You take issue with that?
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:32 AM (qi/+I)
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No one takes issue with that. It's sort of a comic book idea of self-governance, and fundamentally not a serious idea.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 08:40 AM (9ZHSu)

161 The Federal Gov't must be banned from acquiring any "database" for any reason, because its only purpose is to ultimately strip freedom. Unfortunately, it's those very same vermin who are determining whether or not they're going to do so. The American subjects (because that's what we now are) have no say.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 03, 2021 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

see me at 93. it's a workable idea, but i'm sure someone would object.

which is why i'm pining for a Pinochet.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:40 AM (8D42x)

162
Our richie rich are more concerned about keeping their millions and billions than keeping the nation's freedom. China could decide to nationalize their factories...then what? They sold us out and we're going to damn well stay sold if the oligarchs and acolytes have their way (and US pols are a dime a dozen)
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 08:32 AM (ONvIw)

Even with all the horrific economic fallout, I truly hope the PRC seizes every Ruling Class asset on its soil and nationalizes their industries. Just the thought of spitting in their faces as they clutch their hearts and invoke patriotic duty from us is good enough for the deprivation. Do it, Xi.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 03, 2021 08:40 AM (nMx88)

163 160 No one takes issue with that. It's sort of a comic book idea of self-governance, and fundamentally not a serious idea.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 08:40 AM (9ZHSu)

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It's what an 18 year old gets from reading Atlas Shrugged for the first time.

The key is to then hand that 18 year old The Road to Serfdom lest they turn into either an anarchist or a communist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:40 AM (LvTSG)

164 I hold massive contempt for the Republican Party. They have never been more useless or more utterly worthless at any point in history than now. IMHO...

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 03, 2021 08:40 AM (sVtYq)

165 Alec Baldwin Says He's Been Told It's "Highly Unlikely" He'll Be Criminally Charged In "Rust" On-Set Shooting -- Update (Baldwin admits cocking the pistol, releasing the hammer)

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

166 Government should be minimized, but acts as a moderating force which is why all groups of men have one. And all men are, at least to some degree, social creatures. Some moreso than others, but every man has to find some way to work with other men.

This is why anarchy is a doomed system, just as doomed as other utopian ideals. Men *will* organize because they have to because they work together. Anarchy does happen from time to time, usually in the aftermath of a system failure. And what happens after anarchy surfaces? It vanishes. Something replaces it extremely quickly, usually by force. "Do as I say or you will die" is the crudest form of government, and usually the first. In a power vacuum, a strong man will fill it. Sometimes - rarely by historical standards, but it does happen - great men try something new that works better. We tend to call those periods "progress" or "golden ages."

But anarchy as a durable notion? No. It doesn't work and it can't work. The guy who can pick up the heaviest pig will become the forcible strong-man dictator. It happens every time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (DU+/6)

167 Good morning, JJ, Horde

Hanukkah...what a delightfully belligerent holiday. No dialogue or consensus for Judah the Hammer.

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (oUFht)

168 You're foolin' yourself! We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class...

Posted by: Dennis the Constitutional Peasant at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (4I/2K)

169 Powell, Yellen Say They Underestimated Inflation And Supply Snarls (M1 Money Grew At 369% With Rates Near Zero Since COVID And They Didn't See Inflation Coming???)

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

170 166 But anarchy as a durable notion? No. It doesn't work and it can't work. The guy who can pick up the heaviest pig will become the forcible strong-man dictator. It happens every time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (DU+/6)

=========

It's almost like you've read a single history book one time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:42 AM (LvTSG)

171 Even with all the horrific economic fallout, I truly hope the PRC seizes every Ruling Class asset on its soil and nationalizes their industries. Just the thought of spitting in their faces as they clutch their hearts and invoke patriotic duty from us is good enough for the deprivation. Do it, Xi.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 03, 2021 08:40 AM (nMx8
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Oh, I dunno. The only thing I could think of that might compel the US government to act against China would be if she nationalized all of our assets there. The shot-callers on these shores would be mighty pissed about it...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 08:42 AM (DU+/6)

172 I have always dreamed of a split, as a Texan I wish we could leave on our own. But the cold hard fact is, they won't let us leave. They will turn their hatred for us into a resolve to control us that will burn like a thousand suns. Neither side is up to the lift required.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 03, 2021 08:42 AM (QZ/dC)

173 169 Powell, Yellen Say They Underestimated Inflation And Supply Snarls (M1 Money Grew At 369% With Rates Near Zero Since COVID And They Didn't See Inflation Coming???)
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

==========

Modern Monetary Theory said it wouldn't happen, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:42 AM (LvTSG)

174 Jack Kerwick's article (I decided to read the whole thing) is pretty idiotic. It comes down to "Republicans suck, Trump sucks, Democrats suck, Everyone sucks, I don't support anybody!!!"

well that's a hell of a plan. Go live in a shack in the woods and spend the rest of your life sniffing your own farts, then.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2021 08:42 AM (evAgx)

175 Color us United-an organization for a color blind society and in support of freedoms. I surprised it originated out of Princeton, but one of the founders must teach there-surprisingly. Interesting group of men and women of all races. Sounds like a good group:

https://colorusunited.org/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2021 08:42 AM (poMoX)

176 MFM spin.

"Alec Baldwin raises question of who put live bullet in gun that killed cinematographer during ABC interview."

My money is on a Red Van. They've been pissed ever since white lorries and white Ford Broncos took over the plains. And I thought it was a movie not an ABC interview.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:42 AM (UHVv4)

177 161 The Federal Gov't must be banned from acquiring any "database" for any reason, because its only purpose is to ultimately strip freedom. Unfortunately, it's those very same vermin who are determining whether or not they're going to do so. The American subjects (because that's what we now are) have no say.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 03, 2021 08:37 AM (sVtYq)


We are in serious need of a new Amendment, at the very least. Privacy needs to be an unalterable right of every American.

And, I want a pony.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 03, 2021 08:43 AM (F0YaR)

178 They will come in the form of another Rittenhouse type trial , where one defending himself against a woke, drugged up and murderous mob will be found guilty of all kinds of sins.
Posted by: runner

So be it. They will have to take me alive to have their show trail.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * jus a pohr wayfarin stranger at December 03, 2021 08:43 AM (vrYHn)

179 Alec Baldwin Says He's Been Told It's "Highly Unlikely" He'll Be Criminally Charged In "Rust" On-Set Shooting -- Update (Baldwin admits cocking the pistol, releasing the hammer)
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

I like how he said he'd been trained to never pull the trigger, but freely admits to dropping the hammer, which is what makes the gun fire... smfh

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:43 AM (8D42x)

180 That's 113 million people. There is the enemy that we will have to pacify.
Posted by: Lrrr at December 03, 2021 08:35 AM (ATaz/

"Pacifiy" is the wrong word.

Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 08:43 AM (S1hrL)

181 I told you, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two thirds majority in the case of external affairs.

Posted by: Dennis the Constitutional Peasant at December 03, 2021 08:43 AM (4I/2K)

182 Do it, Xi.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 03, 2021 08:40 AM (nMx8

It's a big thing, but maybe it's the only way

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 08:44 AM (ONvIw)

183 see me at 93. it's a workable idea, but i'm sure someone would object.

--

I'm with you 100%. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Anything and everything is on the table with me. I'm at BAMN.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 03, 2021 08:44 AM (sVtYq)

184 181 I told you, we're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two thirds majority in the case of external affairs.
Posted by: Dennis the Constitutional Peasant at December 03, 2021 08:43 AM (4I/2K)

========

Will you be quiet?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:44 AM (LvTSG)

185 Taxpayer Funds Went to Democrat-Led Attempt to Overturn Iowa Election

Earlier this year, Democrats utilized the power of the Committee on House Administration to formally challenge the results of the close election. The Democratic majority on the committee paid law firm Jenner & Block approximately $699,294 to attempt to overturn the results of the election. In response, the Republican minority paid another law firm, Jones Day, around $126,942 to defend the results of the election. These totals were revealed by committee records that are freely available to the public.

In addition to the amounts spent on the services of the rival law firms, the committee's ranking Republican member says that additional costs of challenging the election were not taken into account in the congressional records.

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:44 AM (RHGPo)

186 165 Alec Baldwin Says He's Been Told It's "Highly Unlikely" He'll Be Criminally Charged In "Rust" On-Set Shooting -- Update (Baldwin admits cocking the pistol, releasing the hammer)
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

the gay piano music in the background while Alec was sobbing was a nice touch tho

Posted by: REDACTED at December 03, 2021 08:44 AM (us2H3)

187 The cash generating capacity of "US" interests in China would astound people - it's ridiculously small. The concept of money mobility is a Western one.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 03, 2021 08:44 AM (QZ/dC)

188 Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 03, 2021 08:31 AM

I don't doubt you. I should clarify I'm not voting GOPe because they are simply "not democrats." I want to see election integrity and many more Gaetz, Massie and MTG types elected to maintain what little faith I have.

Posted by: Fool Otto at December 03, 2021 08:44 AM (DB16e)

189 I'm slowly recovering from a bad bout of the flu. Actually I felt great until I got the boost shot. Within about 7 days I got chills, weakness, and went to bed. At least looking at the brightside I lost 3 pounds.

Posted by: Colin at December 03, 2021 08:45 AM (pxOB6)

190 Powell, Yellen Say They Underestimated Inflation And Supply Snarls (M1 Money Grew At 369% With Rates Near Zero Since COVID And They Didn't See Inflation Coming???)
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

unexpectedly

*it's getting so we need this as a hot key, it happens so often...*

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:45 AM (8D42x)

191 Powell, Yellen Say They Underestimated Inflation And Supply Snarls (M1 Money Grew At 369% With Rates Near Zero Since COVID And They Didn't See Inflation Coming???)
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (RHGPo)
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When the "stagflation" of the 70s happened, it was a surprise because it was impossible. Economic theory (largely but not exclusively Keynesian) didn't allow for it. It took everyone by surprise and they were left holding their dicks and unable to act until someone else fixed the problem.

Then we spent the 90s and beyond playing a different game of economic management. The new theories don't allow for this kind of inflation, either. It isn't supposed to happen. The Fed opens and closes sluice gates, the government directs capital and everything is fine. Debt and money are no different, all debts self-liquidate, trees grow to the sky and good times are here at last.

The current theories are wrong, too. They're learning that now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 08:45 AM (DU+/6)

192 But anarchy as a durable notion? No. It doesn't work and it can't work. The guy who can pick up the heaviest pig will become the forcible strong-man dictator. It happens every time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (DU+/6)


Yes, but that guy will far too often decide this will work great as long as I am able to pick up that pig...

Of course, the day always comes when that pig gets too heavy...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 03, 2021 08:45 AM (bqoJa)

193 AP - Taliban ban forced marriages of women in Afghanistan

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

194 #168 There you go bringing class into it again!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:45 AM (UHVv4)

195 169 Powell, Yellen Say They Underestimated Inflation And Supply Snarls (M1 Money Grew At 369% With Rates Near Zero Since COVID And They Didn't See Inflation Coming???)
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

Nope. They knew this and abetted it.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 08:46 AM (ONvIw)

196 I thought that this was a rather positive article from "American Thinker":

https://tinyurl.com/2p8rrbbb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2021 08:46 AM (poMoX)

197 193 AP - Taliban ban forced marriages of women in Afghanistan
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:45 AM (RHGPo)


They changed them to "suggested" marriages.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:47 AM (s2VJv)

198 Oh, I dunno. The only thing I could think of that might compel the US government to act against China would be if she nationalized all of our assets there. The shot-callers on these shores would be mighty pissed about it...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 08:42 AM (DU+/6)

Covid has shown otherwise. All the PRC has to do is threaten to lob a biological weapon or two and the Ruling Class will offer up their daughters, sons, and whatevers for gang anal rape in a Shanghai whorehouse.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 03, 2021 08:47 AM (nMx88)

199 That's 113 million people. There is the enemy that we will have to pacify.
Posted by: Lrrr at December 03, 2021 08:35 AM (ATaz/

"Pacifiy" is the wrong word.
Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 08:43 AM (S1hrL)

liquify?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:47 AM (8D42x)

200 Alec Baldwin Says He's Been Told It's "Highly Unlikely" He'll Be Criminally Charged In "Rust" On-Set Shooting -- Update (Baldwin admits cocking the pistol, releasing the hammer)
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

I like how he said he'd been trained to never pull the trigger, but freely admits to dropping the hammer, which is what makes the gun fire... smfh

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:43 AM


While he most likely wont face any criminal charges, he does need to keep his mouth shut because those Civil trials are already in the works and they have a ridiculously low burden of proof standard. His lawyer is probably pulling his hair out right now.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 03, 2021 08:47 AM (bVYXr)

201 Today's Logistics Problems Prove the Importance of Trump's America First Agenda

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

202 Hey kids! If you start prepping now, you can be ready for some afternoon delight!

IYKWIMAITYD.

Posted by: Bob Dole at December 03, 2021 08:48 AM (a3Q+t)

203 Yellen's a joke, right? I sense a pattern.

Posted by: klaftern at December 03, 2021 08:48 AM (taPSh)

204
Nope. They knew this and abetted it.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 08:46 AM (ONvIw)

Yep. Devaluing the dollars was the least painful strategy for the Ruling Class to pay for the bribes it took.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 03, 2021 08:48 AM (nMx88)

205 A new law, or any other document of Man's devising, will not prevent these things from recurring in time. Only God can hold Man accountable for our actions; only returning to Him will save us from ourselves.

The dream of a secular republic was never more than a mirage.

Posted by: Brother Tim at December 03, 2021 08:48 AM (Nv+9A)

206 Covid has shown otherwise. All the PRC has to do is threaten to lob a biological weapon or two and the Ruling Class will offer up their daughters, sons, and whatevers for gang anal rape in a Shanghai whorehouse.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 03, 2021 08:47 AM (nMx8
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Perhaps. I by no means discount the possibility and at this point I think I would like to see China make a move like that just so we can settle affairs and determine how we're going to proceed.

But COVID enriched the people who would be expropriated in such an action, and expanded those people's power.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 08:48 AM (DU+/6)

207 Point of order: Woolloomooloo is a real place in Sydney, which is in the process of lifting all restrictions.

The three youths who escaped from "voluntary" quarantine by climbing a barbed wire fence were in the Northern Territory, which was once sane and very laid back and down-to-earth but is now the wrong side of the tracks in CrazyTown.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (MqQvv)

208 Will you be quiet?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:44 AM (LvTSG)

Order, eh? Who does he think he is?

Posted by: Peasant Woman at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (4I/2K)

209 When Baldwin said he felt no guilt, his civil settlement went up by a factor of 100.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (QZ/dC)

210 Netflix will make a movie about poor Alex Baldwin's ordeal.
Who will star in the role of the villainous gun?

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (eGTCV)

211 I'm slowly recovering from a bad bout of the flu. Actually I felt great until I got the boost shot. Within about 7 days I got chills, weakness, and went to bed. At least looking at the brightside I lost 3 pounds.

Posted by: Colin at December 03, 2021 08:45 AM


Exactly the same thing that happened to my mother after she got the booster shot. Two days after getting the 3rd jab she got sick for a week with flu like symptoms.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (bVYXr)

212 208 Will you be quiet?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:44 AM (LvTSG)

Order, eh? Who does he think he is?
Posted by: Peasant Woman at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (4I/2K)

=========

I am Arthur, king of the Britons.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (LvTSG)

213 the Dallas high school incident - it's astounding that no one realized that if you send a few cops in to try and get control of a big crowd of angry teens, some of them are going to start some shit. Guaranteed.

also, the case that started the protests, a girl was molested and the boy who did it was given a pass by the administration; we don't need to know anything more than that to know that the girl was white, and the boy was black, which was why the school was terrified of saying anything to him about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (evAgx)

214 Not anarchy.

Free men.... Do NOT answer to anyone for defending themselves. Free men do not seek permission for violence. Free men do not have others act in their stead....because if they do.... They are not "free."

Let's just start by correctly defining what freedom is and is not. Shall we?

We're NOT free.

"There is only one basic principle to which an individual must consent if he wishes to live in a free, civilized society: the principle of renouncing the use of physical force and delegating to the government his right of physical self-defense, for the purpose of an orderly, objective, legally defined enforcement."
Ayn Rand

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (qi/+I)

215 "Alec Baldwin raises question of who put live bullet in gun that killed cinematographer during ABC interview."

OJ

Posted by: JT at December 03, 2021 08:50 AM (arJlL)

216 207
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (MqQvv)


Pixy: I learned my Australian, like most of us, from a Monty Python sketch.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:50 AM (s2VJv)

217 How many bans could the Talibab ban if the Taliban could ban bans?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2021 08:50 AM (AlkyK)

218 While he most likely wont face any criminal charges, he does need to keep his mouth shut because those Civil trials are already in the works and they have a ridiculously low burden of proof standard. His lawyer is probably pulling his hair out right now.
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 03, 2021 08:47 AM (bVYXr)

well, he's famously famous. nothing bad will actually happen to him. he's a good guy and it's not his fault and all. and all the people he knows tell him he's a great guy, so there's nothing that's going to come from any trial if something was to get to that point...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:50 AM (8D42x)

219 AP - Taliban ban forced marriages of women in Afghanistan
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Girls and goats not mentioned, however.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:50 AM (UHVv4)

220 NYC's Tenement Museum Faces Backlash After It REPLACES Story Of White Irish Immigrants With Woke Tale Of Black New Jersey Family Who Never Even Lived In The Lower East Side Building

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It's a full-on erasure of whites. Be it rewriting history, pulling down statues, renaming buildings and the like. It dovetails nicely with white discrimination and outright green light to hold outspoken, highly racist views against white people.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 03, 2021 08:51 AM (sVtYq)

221 214 Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (qi/+I)


So you do believe in some form of a government. Just like me.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:51 AM (s2VJv)

222 216 207
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (MqQvv)


Pixy: I learned my Australian, like most of us, from a Monty Python sketch.


It's even funnier if you live in Sydney and know where Woolloomooloo is.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 03, 2021 08:51 AM (MqQvv)

223 Will you be quiet?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:44 AM (LvTSG)

Order, eh? Who does he think he is?
Posted by: Peasant Woman at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (4I/2K)

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I am Arthur, king of the Britons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (LvTSG)

King, eh? Well I didn't vote for you.

Posted by: Peasant Woman at December 03, 2021 08:51 AM (4I/2K)

224 MSU is approximately 50,000; the staff consists of 5,500 academics and 7,400 administrators.

So 5000 people teach 7500 or about 50% more go to meetings.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 03, 2021 08:51 AM (yrol0)

225 Reading Burnham's letter invoking Dr. Eastman's 5th Amend against the J6 cmte, it is shocking how openly partisan this cmte is. It sort of remined me how my father once described how easily one can be destroyed by this type of Govt pursuit. How fragile one's reputation can be. Growing up (inside the Beltway) I always thought he was overstating this. Why would someone attack people who are acting lawfully? There are some sick mo-fos.

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at December 03, 2021 08:52 AM (fMhOl)

226 223 I am Arthur, king of the Britons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (LvTSG)

King, eh? Well I didn't vote for you.
Posted by: Peasant Woman at December 03, 2021 08:51 AM (4I/2K)

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You don't vote for kings.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:52 AM (LvTSG)

227 The dream of a secular republic was never more than a mirage.

Posted by: Brother Tim at December 03, 2021 08:48 AM


Benjamin Franklin knew that and warned us. Some of the other founding fathers also had grave misgivings about the survival of the new Republic but they were less vocal about it.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 03, 2021 08:52 AM (bVYXr)

228 Point of order: Woolloomooloo is a real place in Sydney, which is in the process of lifting all restrictions.

The three youths who escaped from "voluntary" quarantine by climbing a barbed wire fence were in the Northern Territory, which was once sane and very laid back and down-to-earth but is now the wrong side of the tracks in CrazyTown.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (MqQvv)

isn't the Northern Territories mostly outback, except along the coast? i mean, if they make it out of camp, how many people are around to potentially get infected, even though they were negative for kung flu...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:52 AM (8D42x)

229
The three youths who escaped from "voluntary" quarantine by climbing a barbed wire fence were in the Northern Territory, which was once sane and very laid back and down-to-earth but is now the wrong side of the tracks in CrazyTown.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (MqQvv)

Thanks. I assumed, wrongly, this happened in Victoria, which is a police state in the best of times. Sad to see the last vestige of liberty dying down there.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 03, 2021 08:52 AM (nMx88)

230 219 AP - Taliban ban forced marriages of women in Afghanistan
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Girls and goats not mentioned, however.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:50 AM (UHVv4)


"And boys!!!!"

- - Achmed Brennan and CIA (Calling Infant-fucking Acceptable)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:53 AM (s2VJv)

231 I am Arthur, king of the Britons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM


Will you make a Covenant with your people?

Posted by: Ridley Scott at December 03, 2021 08:53 AM (a3Q+t)

232 see the violence inherit in the system...!!!

Posted by: qmark at December 03, 2021 08:53 AM (nGOuT)

233 They are addicted to the power this " emergency" gives them. They will never give it up.

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2021 08:53 AM (CYnTg)

234 Government guy basically says "I'm just following orders."

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Never occurs to them to not follow orders. I'm sorry, I could never do that. But those of us who feel that way are in the minority. Many will say it, but when push comes to shove, they would say the same thing.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 03, 2021 08:53 AM (sX1BW)

235 Pixy: I learned my Australian, like most of us, from a Monty Python sketch.

It's even funnier if you live in Sydney and know where Woolloomooloo is.
Posted by: Pixy Misa


I learned my Australian from Mick Dundee and Olivia Newton John.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2021 08:54 AM (uXonU)

236 T G I F

Posted by: sidney at December 03, 2021 08:54 AM (LJJah)

237 You don't vote for kings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:52 AM (LvTSG)

Well how'd you become king then?

Posted by: Peasant Woman at December 03, 2021 08:55 AM (4I/2K)

238 I meant to post they were expecting 550,000 new jobs, but instead it was only 210,000 new jobs in November.
President Brandon Fauci is doing a heck of a job.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 03, 2021 08:55 AM (NpAcC)

239 Netflix will make a movie about poor Alex Baldwin's ordeal.
Who will star in the role of the villainous gun?
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM (eGTCV)

i'd suggest Brian Dennehy, but there's no way baldwin has the strength....

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:55 AM (8D42x)

240 Well how'd you become king then?
Posted by: Peasant Woman at December 03, 2021 08:55 AM (4I/2K)

Gotta join the golden sperm club

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2021 08:55 AM (GPwVZ)

241 Libertarians are like people who believe you can set an unwatched pot of chili on simmer low enough that it won't scorch but not so low the flame won't go out.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 03, 2021 08:56 AM (QZ/dC)

242 Libertarians are like people who believe you can set an unwatched pot of chili on simmer low enough that it won't scorch but not so low the flame won't go out.

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They flame out alright.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 03, 2021 08:56 AM (sX1BW)

243 If Trump wins again, he may have the chance to replace another 3, maybe four SCOTUS judges

heads would explode

Posted by: REDACTED at December 03, 2021 08:57 AM (us2H3)

244 231 I am Arthur, king of the Britons.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:49 AM

Will you make a Covenant with your people?
Posted by: Ridley Scott at December 03, 2021 08:53 AM (a3Q+t)

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Me and my queen, GI Jane, will cast the renegades Thelma and Louise over a cliff into the black rain falling on the pit of despair. The legend of it shall reverberate as Prometheus' tale did to the Greeks. This shall be my covenant with my people, both native and alien born, and any that do not accept it shall be forced into an exodus from my lands.

Pack up your kitbag, you gladiator of yore, and be ready to defend our lands from Hannibal, white squalls, and any duellists who come to challenge our rule. Even the martian we must be warry of.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:57 AM (LvTSG)

245 Libertarians are like people who believe you can set an unwatched pot of chili on simmer low enough that it won't scorch but not so low the flame won't go out.
Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 03, 2021 08:56 AM (QZ/dC)

easy, just line the bottom of the pot with carrots...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:57 AM (8D42x)

246 No one who chose to live on the east coast.
Posted by: Lrrr at December 03, 2021 08:21 AM (ATaz/)
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So a cabinet full of Californians is A-okay?

Posted by: IrishEi at December 03, 2021 08:57 AM (0TVNF)

247 237 You don't vote for kings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:52 AM (LvTSG)

Well how'd you become king then?
Posted by: Peasant Woman at December 03, 2021 08:55 AM (4I/2K)

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The Lady of the Lake - her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

248 195 169 Powell, Yellen Say They Underestimated Inflation And Supply Snarls (M1 Money Grew At 369% With Rates Near Zero Since COVID And They Didn't See Inflation Coming???)
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

Alternate Headline: "Powell and Yellen admit that Internet "Cranks" were all smarter than they were."

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2021 08:58 AM (evAgx)

249 "UN General Assembly urges all nations to observe truce during Beijing Winter Games in February."

I'm sure they will just like the Russians waited until the Games were over to attack Georgia the day after. [And, of course, the Handicapped Games don't count.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:58 AM (UHVv4)

250 You don't vote for kings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:52 AM (LvTSG)

Well how'd you become king then?
Posted by: Peasant Woman at December 03, 2021 08:55 AM (4I/2K)
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the usual way: a lady who lives underwater gave him a sword, and presto! King.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 08:58 AM (9ZHSu)

251 Most people, even here, would willingly go to the quarantine compounds.

Just threaten to take their job.

They'd actually full throat a horse penis for their job.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 03, 2021 08:58 AM (7F9te)

252 237 You don't vote for kings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:52 AM (LvTSG)


but we vote for President ?

now who's being naive ?

Posted by: Michael Corleone at December 03, 2021 08:59 AM (us2H3)

253 169 Powell, Yellen Say They Underestimated Inflation And Supply Snarls (M1 Money Grew At 369% With Rates Near Zero Since COVID And They Didn't See Inflation Coming???)
Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

Alternate Headline: "Powell and Yellen admit that Internet "Cranks" were all smarter than they were."

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They didn't underestimate it, they just ignored it until reality wouldn't let them.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 03, 2021 08:59 AM (sX1BW)

254 "Shrimp on the Klaus Barbie"

JJS is pretty damn great at this headline stuff.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 08:59 AM (9ZHSu)

255 248 Alternate Headline: "Powell and Yellen admit that Internet "Cranks" were all smarter than they were."
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2021 08:58 AM (evAgx)

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No, the internet cranks were wrong even though their predictions were right because they didn't have the correct economic theory to back them up. Unlike Powell and Yellen who used accepted economic theory to get it wrong, which makes them right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:59 AM (LvTSG)

256 Well how'd you become king then?
Posted by: Peasant Woman at December 03, 2021 08:55 AM (4I/2K)

Rape and pillage. Lotsa of rape.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 03, 2021 08:59 AM (1Lrz1)

257 The Lady of the Lake - her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

Beats this farcical 'voting' ceremony in the year 2020 . . .

Posted by: Peasant Woman at December 03, 2021 08:59 AM (4I/2K)

258 easy, just line the bottom of the pot with carrots...
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Freaking Anarchist!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 08:59 AM (UHVv4)

259 257 The Lady of the Lake - her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

Beats this farcical 'voting' ceremony in the year 2020 . . .
Posted by: Peasant Woman at December 03, 2021 08:59 AM (4I/2K)

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Hey, as long as the right is actually divine...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:00 AM (LvTSG)

260 Well how'd you become king then?
Posted by: Peasant Woman at December 03, 2021 08:55 AM (4I/2K)

Rape and pillage. Lotsa of rape.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 03, 2021 08:59 AM (1Lrz1)

you said rape twice...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 09:01 AM (8D42x)

261 227 The dream of a secular republic was never more than a mirage.

Posted by: Brother Tim at December 03, 2021 08:48 AM

Benjamin Franklin knew that and warned us. Some of the other founding fathers also had grave misgivings about the survival of the new Republic but they were less vocal about it.
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 03, 2021 08:52 AM (bVYXr)

The Roman Republic had a real good run, too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2021 09:01 AM (evAgx)

262 When did FedEx start delivering on Sundays?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 09:01 AM (DU+/6)

263 They didn't underestimate it, they just ignored it until reality wouldn't let them.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 03, 2021 08:59 AM (sX1BW)


Not even that. They knew that it had started, they knew it would continue and increase. They just lied about it to support the people they thought should be in power.

Posted by: blaster at December 03, 2021 09:01 AM (mbFEM)

264 Joe Mannix must be king. He's not covered in shit.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 09:01 AM (UHVv4)

265 One of the more cogent analyses of Hayek vs Keynes economic theory I've read relates to the future; Keynes was gay, with no progeny.

So. He was clearly in the YOLO camp. He had no future, his line was dead, and his theories reflected that. Party on, dudes.

No surprise that the Dems seized upon that; they don't give a fuck about the future either, only that they steal enough to last thru the Tough Times for them and theirs. See Pelosi as a prime example of this.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 03, 2021 09:02 AM (F0YaR)

266 Watching Alec Baldwin wriggle out of his responsibility is embarrassing to adult men. Stand up like a man, you turd, accept responsibility, and then take your medicine. Sheesh.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 09:03 AM (9ZHSu)

267 So you do believe in some form of a government. Just like me.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 08:51 AM (s2VJv)

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No.

Just not opening myself up to being attacked.

Correctly defining that people use the word "free," incorrectly....as a matter of routine.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 09:03 AM (qi/+I)

268 >>It's even funnier if you live in Sydney and know where Woolloomooloo is.

Isn't The Rocks section located there?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2021 09:04 AM (ZLI7S)

269 Australia is:
Sheilas and Bruces
Topless beaches
Fosters beer
Shrimp on the barbie
Kangaroos
Mad Max
Every lethal creepy crawly known to man
Mick Dundee
Oy!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Meatbag at December 03, 2021 09:04 AM (4I/2K)

270 well, he's famously famous. nothing bad will actually happen to him. he's a good guy and it's not his fault and all. and all the people he knows tell him he's a great guy, so there's nothing that's going to come from any trial if something was to get to that point...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:50 AM (8D42x)

not so sure, the civil negligence trials are gonna be a Blue on Blue fight, and juries usually love to give a lot of money to the Bereaved Family.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2021 09:04 AM (evAgx)

271 Joe Mannix must be king. He's not covered in shit.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 09:01 AM (UHVv4)

it's the babe of the thread that keeps him clean i bet...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 09:05 AM (8D42x)

272 "Like him or hate him, PDJT is (in my opinion) too old to run for President in 2024. He will be 78 next election day."

Isn't Biden that old right now?

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 03, 2021 09:05 AM (H8QX8)

273 The Roman Republic had a real good run, too.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2021 09:01 AM (evAgx)
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Imperial Rome beat the Republic something 4:1, right? Too lazy to check dates, but the Republic only lasted about 150 years, or so, right?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 09:05 AM (9ZHSu)

274 Trump wins 2024 he should start the entire Government, fire every bastard

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 03, 2021 09:05 AM (TeuoI)

275 Posted by: Count de Monet

.....

Koala bears.
Steve Irwin
Outback Steakhouse.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 03, 2021 09:05 AM (7F9te)

276 269 Australia is:
Sheilas and Bruces
Topless beaches
Fosters beer
Shrimp on the barbie
Kangaroos
Mad Max
Every lethal creepy crawly known to man
Mick Dundee
Oy!
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You missed Swan Lager

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 03, 2021 09:06 AM (NsE9F)

277 Soto: "There's about 40 percent of dead people who, if you touch their feet, the foot will recoil"

How she knows this I'm not sure I want to know.
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The fact that she's even talking about stuff like this shows you how wrongly decided Roe v. Wade was.

These debates about when life begins, and if recoiling from painful stimuli is a sign of conscious life or not, don't belong in the supreme court; these debates belong in legislatures. Legislatures are supposed to be the law-making organizations in our system, NOT courts.

If Sotomayor wants to run for the state legislature in her home state, or if she wants to run for congress, and make arguments about when life begins in the womb so that she can justify some abortion law she's proposing as a lawmaker, that's fine. But she has no damn business doing that as a judge on the supreme court.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 03, 2021 09:06 AM (k4dH2)

278 245 Libertarians are like people who believe you can set an unwatched pot of chili on simmer low enough that it won't scorch but not so low the flame won't go out.
Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 03, 2021 08:56 AM (QZ/dC)

easy, just line the bottom of the pot with carrots...
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 08:57 AM (8D42x)
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I dont care what they're like or what they do with their pot.
Im too busy minding my own.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 09:06 AM (qi/+I)

279 Where are the"conservative" DA's when they are needed to file charges including the kitchen sink against the likes of no talent lefty ass clowns like Ballic Baldwin?

The lefty DA's do this shit in their sleep.

Yeah....crickets.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 03, 2021 09:06 AM (mDnRM)

280 267 Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 09:03 AM (qi/+I)


Let's try it this way. How do you envision organizing society in such a way as to ensure personal liberty balanced with personal security as well as national security? What form of government - because there has to be some form of government and laws - do you propose?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 09:06 AM (s2VJv)

281 So some federal judge in Missouri, who I'm sure does not have a medical degree, opined the truths no "expert" or politician will dare say: the emperor is naked and the f*cking vaccine doesn't work.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 03, 2021 09:07 AM (H8QX8)

282 Gnu, good points on Keynes. You can also not underestimate the overall psyche of Britons post WWI - it destroyed the bulk of the country's young men for no reason and broke their national will outside of an existential threat (Hitler). They did forget about the future.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 03, 2021 09:07 AM (QZ/dC)

283 In a way, it makes sense that Australians go to their encampments willingly.

If I understand correctly, basically the whole country was started as a penal colony.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 03, 2021 09:07 AM (7F9te)

284 Jeez, if I wanted to have an Ayn Rand discussion, I would borrow Ace's wayback machine and go back to the high school years. Libertarianism ain't much different than communism. Leaky boat with a bunch of people all pulling the oars in different directions.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * jus a pohr wayfarin stranger at December 03, 2021 09:07 AM (vrYHn)

285 Genevieve Reaume
@GenevieveReaume

INDOOR MASKING IN OREGON -- It's likely here to STAY.

Today, @OHAOregon worked with stakeholders (like those in the restaurant industry, business assoc., etc.) to discuss making the current indoor mask mandate permanent.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 03, 2021 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

286 Soto: "There's about 40 percent of dead people who, if you touch their feet, the foot will recoil"

How she knows this I'm not sure I want to know.


How do you think she gets laid?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2021 09:08 AM (uXonU)

287 Three leopards at the Lincoln NE zoo have died of/with covid.
Other animals sickened but survived. There are reports of Chi nese killing pets of sick people.
Is something up?

Posted by: torabora at December 03, 2021 09:09 AM (U0p6D)

288 142 So. 80 sorry mother fucking Rs in the House voted to fund a vaxxed person database. One of them is my Rep; well, on paper. I hope to change that in the 2021 primary. Palazzo, you are on MY list. These pricks understand nothing but power, and he needs to lose his. I'm tired of these sorry mofos and their 'work across the aisle' bullshit.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 03, 2021 08:33 AM (F0YaR)


With this creation of a federal database of non-needle-raped citizens, I am now convinced that this is the hill upon which I will literally die.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 03, 2021 09:09 AM (DTX3h)

289 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 03, 2021 08:58 AM (7F9te)

Full throating a horse penis sounds distinctly unappealing, and yes, if the denomination requires that I be vaccinated to serve as pastor, I will refuse. I don't make enough to make it worth that although I'd probably refuse anyway even if I weren't a penurious pastor. On the other hand, they're not going to be sending in the clergy goons to vaccinate us because too many people would resign.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2021 09:09 AM (poMoX)

290 Sen. Shaheen to SCOTUS: "If You Want to See a Revolution, Go Ahead, Outlaw Roe v. Wade"

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That's a legal argument if I've ever seen one.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 03, 2021 09:09 AM (FVME7)

291 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 08:41 AM (DU+/6)

Yes, but that guy will far too often decide this will work great as long as I am able to pick up that pig...

Of course, the day always comes when that pig gets too heavy...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at December 03, 2021 08:45 AM (bqoJa)

and that's why divorce courts are so busy...

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2021 09:09 AM (evAgx)

292 @GenevieveReaume
INDOOR MASKING IN OREGON -- It's likely here to STAY.

Today, @OHAOregon worked with stakeholders (like those in the restaurant industry, business assoc., etc.) to discuss making the current indoor mask mandate permanent.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 03, 2021 09:07 AM (NpAcC)
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And now the restaurant and other industries will learn the true meaning of "stakeholder."

It doesn't mean what they think. To understand what "stakeholder" means, imagine a businessman on his back, bound to a conference table and riddled with wooden stakes like a human pincushion. That is a "stakeholder."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 09:09 AM (DU+/6)

293 Today, @OHAOregon worked with stakeholders (like those in the restaurant industry, business assoc., etc.) to discuss making the current indoor mask mandate permanent.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 03, 2021 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

Predicted more than a year ago. Masks are a permanent features of American life.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 03, 2021 09:10 AM (H8QX8)

294 293 Predicted more than a year ago. Masks are a permanent features of American life.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 03, 2021 09:10 AM (H8QX

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Some people should move to red states. Like...I never wear a mask. Ever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

295 Rep. Chip Roy: The Vax Mandate "Is a Test for Republicans - Will They Stand Up and Fight for the American People or Roll Over?"

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BWAHAHAHAHAHA. This is a Babylon Bee headline, amirite?

"The 2076 election will be the hill to die on -- SEND MOAR MONEY!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at December 03, 2021 09:11 AM (mZ3xv)

296 The current theories are wrong, too. They're learning that now.


cogent and concise, well done Mr Mannix

also there is a LOT of wishful thinking - let's say our elites believe in the power of positive thinking, or just using words the right way to create reality

I blame JJ Rowling lol

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 03, 2021 09:11 AM (j9HX3)

297 GM horde. Had a moderna booster wed afternoon.

I can now do more than get of bed and shuffle my way to the toilet. I have now spent more time sick in bed from the vaccine and booster aftereffects than I did from covid itself.

Even wit covid for 5 das I was mostly hiking 1-2 miles a day. The vaccines have knocked me out flat.

Posted by: JEM at December 03, 2021 09:11 AM (jCMs8)

298 Full throating a horse penis sounds distinctly unappealing


Speak for yourself!

Posted by: Catherine the Great at December 03, 2021 09:11 AM (1Lrz1)

299 Predicted more than a year ago. Masks are a permanent features of American life.

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Only for the servant class.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 03, 2021 09:11 AM (sX1BW)

300 Sen. Shaheen to SCOTUS: "If You Want to See a Revolution, Go Ahead, Outlaw Roe v. Wade"
That's a legal argument if I've ever seen one.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 03, 2021 09:09 AM (FVME7)

Hopefully overturning Roe v.Wade gets the fuse lit.

A man can dream.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 03, 2021 09:12 AM (mDnRM)

301 F those Republicans who voted for the vax database.
Braindead bastards.

No one in the media is talking about this. Why not?

Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 09:12 AM (S1hrL)

302 >>Some people should move to red states. Like...I never wear a mask. Ever.

I live in a blue state and haven't worn a mask in over a year and a half and the only times I wore it then were to go into a store.

Oregon is run by special stupid people.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2021 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

303 #279 you would think that especially a lefty DA would indict Baldwin because of the gun.

So tribal identity Trump's gun charges.

Posted by: torabora at December 03, 2021 09:13 AM (U0p6D)

304 302 I live in a blue state and haven't worn a mask in over a year and a half and the only times I wore it then were to go into a store.

Oregon is run by special stupid people.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2021 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

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To be completely fair, Rhode Island is not a real place.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

305 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2021 09:09 AM (poMoX)

....

That's because you serve a higher power and a higher set of principles.

Most Americans only work to preserve comfort and wealth. The thought of sacrifice in the name of freedom is an outdated concept.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 03, 2021 09:13 AM (7F9te)

306 That's a legal argument if I've ever seen one.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 03, 2021 09:09 AM (FVME7)


Absolutely no reason or motivation for him to make a legal argument. This is post-legal America.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 03, 2021 09:13 AM (H8QX8)

307 To be completely fair, Rhode Island is not a real place.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

It's only a model.

Posted by: Patsy at December 03, 2021 09:13 AM (4I/2K)

308 Even wit covid for 5 das I was mostly hiking 1-2 miles a day. The vaccines have knocked me out flat.
Posted by: JEM at December 03, 2021 09:11 AM (jCMs
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Was the booster worse, better, or no different from the original course? Looking at just me coworkers, the booster seems to have flatted a lot more folks than the first or second shots did back when they took the initial courses.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 09:14 AM (DU+/6)

309 Watching Alec Baldwin wriggle out of his responsibility is embarrassing to adult men.
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Kind of felt the same way about Alex Berenson this week. He should just have said, "Whoops, I got fooled by a statistical illusion. The vaccines didn't cause the British death rate to double." But no; he put up a 3000-word post trying to prove that he's still the smart one.

(I like Berenson, but that was embarrassing.)

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at December 03, 2021 09:14 AM (sGnvY)

310 Prosecutor in MI says HS killer's parents, who didn't do anything, may face charges but Alec is free as a bird

Posted by: Michael Corleone at December 03, 2021 09:14 AM (us2H3)

311 Vax Trax dbase will be hacked or leaked in about 13 minutes after starting.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 03, 2021 09:14 AM (yrol0)

312 Some people should move to red states. Like...I never wear a mask. Ever.


I never wear a mask here in PA either and haven't since I got my second moderna jab which almost put me in the hospital

I've paid the toll. no more masks for me.

I literally don't care if I'm the only person not wearing one, and I don't care if I get yelled at or have to leave places - and the ONLY time that happened was when I went to vote. in that case I made them get me a mask (I don't carry them, not ever) and I put it on my hand so I was technically wearing it. lol.

anyway the mask people want everyone to be the same as them. WE are not like that, so I don't care if I'm the only person unmasked. I tend to overall ignore the mask people. they have chosen to be less-than, so I don't need to worry about them.

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 03, 2021 09:14 AM (j9HX3)

313 Wow, I just read Fenelon Spoke say "Full throating a horse penis!" Now I know the world is coming to an end soon for sure.

Posted by: JROD at December 03, 2021 09:14 AM (0jZnq)

314 To be completely fair, Rhode Island is not a real place.

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It identifies as an island. Very lefty.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 03, 2021 09:15 AM (sX1BW)

315 >>To be completely fair, Rhode Island is not a real place.

You'd be surprised at how many SC plates I see around here. Lotta kids from around here go to College of Charleston and lots of snowbirds have winter places there.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 03, 2021 09:15 AM (ZLI7S)

316 So Susan Sarandon is trending, apparently because a bunch of left-wingers are blaming her support for Bernie Sanders for Hillary Clinton losing in 2016, Trump winning, appointing "conservative" Justices to SCOTUS and now Roe v Wade could be overturned.

Actor Susan Sarandon addresses debate that her support of Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign contributed to the current political landscape - https://bit.ly/3pndXKe

Ashton Pittman at_ashtonpittman

Six years ago this month, Hillary Clinton tweeted that "A Republican president could nominate as many as 4 Supreme Court justices" & linked a warning that it could lead to the end of Roe v. Wade.

Her replies were filled with left-wingers accusing her of "fear mongering."


1:21 PM - Dec 1, 2021 - https://bit.ly/3EmYrEo

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 03, 2021 09:15 AM (Do5/p)

317 You don't vote for kings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 08:52 AM (LvTSG)

2020 proved that you dont vite for presidents either.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 09:15 AM (qi/+I)

318 Vax Trax dbase will be hacked or leaked in about 13 minutes after starting.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 03, 2021 09:14 AM (yrol0)
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Surely you mean "months before it enters production," right?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 03, 2021 09:16 AM (DU+/6)

319 The totalitarian impulses of our government and corporate leaders is quite something to behold. It's almost as if they were taking instructions from an expert. *

* spoiler: they are.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2021 09:16 AM (BFigT)

320 290 Sen. Shaheen to SCOTUS: "If You Want to See a Revolution, Go Ahead, Outlaw Roe v. Wade"

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That's a legal argument if I've ever seen one.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 03, 2021 09:09 AM (FVME7)

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"Threats of -- and actual -- burning, looting, rioting, and murdering is a mere continuation of politics by other means."

/Wait, did I get that right?

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at December 03, 2021 09:16 AM (mZ3xv)

321 92 "It's time for a 2nd American Republic. We must admit something very painful. There is no saving what we have now. Just look at how half this country's citizens think. Just look at who we have in Washington driving us to absolute financial and social ruin. "

I'm not against a 2nd republic or some other option but that does not get rid of the millions you point out are driving us to ruin. They would still exist and are spread out everywhere that makes it impossible to separate from them. That seems an intractable problem I have not heard any solution to.
Posted by: Ripley at December 03, 2021 08:15 AM (MxEKc)

There is zero possibility of a 2nd "American" Republic, as this nation is currently constituted. I do think there's a very good chance of collapse of control at the Federal Level, and it's replacement by 5 or 6 successor states. This won't happen in my lifetime, but I think it's likely sometime in the next 40 years or so.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2021 09:16 AM (evAgx)

322 I don't know the blog long enough to know who "D-Lamp" is. But I know that people pour out drinks when some sort of prophecy comes to life.

We should do the same for MPPP, and I will pray for his long-term depression.

*Pours one out for MPPP*

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at December 03, 2021 09:16 AM (BCSAN)

323 Let it begin under the auspices of Roe v Wade.
Let it take off. Anything is better than doing nothing.

Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 09:16 AM (S1hrL)

324 Marco Rubio: NYT "Covered Up Proof" Xi Jinping Personally Ordered Uyghur Genocide

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Who you gonna believe, the NYT or a bunch of dead people?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 03, 2021 09:17 AM (FVME7)

325 Sen. Shaheen to SCOTUS: "If You Want to See a Revolution, Go Ahead, Outlaw Roe v. Wade"


It's people like you wot cause unrest!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2021 09:17 AM (mD/uy)

326 323 Let it begin under the auspices of Roe v Wade.
Let it take off. Anything is better than doing nothing.
Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 09:16 AM (S1hrL)

This Supreme Court isn't touching Roe. So we'll have to find another auspices.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 03, 2021 09:17 AM (H8QX8)

327 Not a lawyer, but is a sentence of two life sentences plus 412 years maybe overdoing it?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 03, 2021 09:17 AM (NsE9F)

328 There is zero possibility of a 2nd "American" Republic, as this nation is currently constituted. I do think there's a very good chance of collapse of control at the Federal Level, and it's replacement by 5 or 6 successor states. This won't happen in my lifetime, but I think it's likely sometime in the next 40 years or so.


I agree with all this Tom but I do think this is going to happen in our lifetimes

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 03, 2021 09:18 AM (j9HX3)

329 265 Yes re Keynes. He had no kids, and he may have preyed on them as well.

He was also a Marxist.

No wonder the Dems gravitate to him.





Posted by: callsign claymore at December 03, 2021 09:18 AM (oUFht)

330 318

So there is hope after all?

Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 09:18 AM (S1hrL)

331 The Neutron rocket's re-closeable fairing instantly reminded me of Blofeld's machine from You Only Live Twice, and that spacewalking astronaut whose umbilical got cut off ...

Posted by: spindrift at December 03, 2021 09:18 AM (h5TKJ)

332 >>> 287 Three leopards at the Lincoln NE zoo have died of/with covid.
Other animals sickened but survived. There are reports of Chi nese killing pets of sick people.
Is something up?
Posted by: torabora at December 03, 2021 09:09 AM (U0p6D)

Yes.

The fkcing cult freaks are lying, again, some more, so Karens around the world will piss themselves. Again. Some more.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 03, 2021 09:18 AM (llON8)

333 Well Alec Baldwin has impersonated Trump a lot, therefore Trump murdered that woman

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2021 09:18 AM (CYnTg)

334 Sen. Shaheen to SCOTUS: "If You Want to See a Revolution, Go Ahead, Outlaw Roe v. Wade"



Challenge accepted.
Let's get the booger hooking of the bang switch started!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2021 09:19 AM (uXonU)

335 From that Lies about America Frontpage article. Good summary, Western Civ' was more fair for the individual, but I'd note the current Junta is not fair at all.

"Tragically, it took conquest -- facilitated by the Europeans -- to transplant the indigene into the historical process by inserting him into the civilization crucibles of Judeo-Christendom, with its emancipatory moral narratives and an evolving political philosophy that discovered, recognized and protected the inalienable rights of man. These include freedom and liberty, the right to the pursuit of happiness, freedom of conscience and speech, the right to bodily integrity, and the right to property."

Posted by: illiniwek at December 03, 2021 09:19 AM (Cus5s)

336 " 287 Three leopards at the Lincoln NE zoo have died of/with covid."


Not buying it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 03, 2021 09:19 AM (H8QX8)

337 307 To be completely fair, Rhode Island is not a real place.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

It's only a model.
Posted by: Patsy at December 03, 2021 09:13 AM (4I/2K)

It is a Silly Place.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2021 09:19 AM (evAgx)

338 333 Well Alec Baldwin has impersonated Trump a lot, therefore Trump murdered that woman
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SNL Jurisprudence?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 03, 2021 09:19 AM (NsE9F)

339 Susan Sarandon is trending, apparently because a bunch of left-wingers are blaming her support for Bernie Sanders for Hillary Clinton losing in 2016, Trump winning, appointing "conservative" Justices to SCOTUS and now Roe v Wade could be overturned.

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Damn it, Janet!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 03, 2021 09:19 AM (FVME7)

340 How do you think she gets laid?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 03, 2021 09:08 AM


Wouldn't a Symbian be easier?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 03, 2021 09:19 AM (a3Q+t)

341 Three leopards at the Lincoln NE zoo have died of/with covid.
Other animals sickened but survived. There are reports of Chi nese killing pets of sick people.


Didn't they wear their masks properly?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2021 09:20 AM (mD/uy)

342 I don't know the blog long enough to know who "D-Lamp" is. But I know that people pour out drinks when some sort of prophecy comes to life.

D-Lamp's particularly virulent disdain for the media/"journolism" establishment was legendary. It led to his banning.

These days, he'd be considered a bleeding heart.

Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at December 03, 2021 09:20 AM (OUMaO)

343 "According to a cost-benefit analysis conducted by Toby Rogers, PhD in the 5 to 11 age range, 117 healthy kids will have to die of vaccine-related side effects in order to save one child from perishing of [Chinese] Covid 19."

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"Your terms are acceptable!" -- Marxist Satanic Death Cult

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at December 03, 2021 09:20 AM (mZ3xv)

344 Sen. Shaheen to SCOTUS: "If You Want to See a Revolution, Go Ahead, Outlaw Roe v. Wade"

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Wouldn't it be great if Justice Thomas ended his opinion overturning Roe with "Bring on the Revolution."

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 03, 2021 09:20 AM (sX1BW)

345 Uyghur please.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 03, 2021 09:20 AM (LtGlA)

346 Not doing so well on job creation or the economy but Joe has done a great job growing inflation and has increased the pants shitting from a sitting president 100%

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2021 09:20 AM (CYnTg)

347 >>> 319 The totalitarian impulses of our government and corporate leaders is quite something to behold. It's almost as if they were taking instructions from an expert. *

* spoiler: they are.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2021 09:16 AM (BFigT)

What are you talking about? Is this some kind of conspiracy theory?

Posted by: Stan at December 03, 2021 09:21 AM (llON8)

348 btw the zoo animals in particular felines have all be vaccinated

so, probably ADE is hitting them, like we knew from previous mRNA studies on animals, it would

take your vitamins! winter is going to SUCK

regular viruses are suddenly going to take people down flat. it will be called COVID of course. and all vacc/booster injuries are what? COVID. of course.

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 03, 2021 09:21 AM (j9HX3)

349 If roe gets adjusted by the SC protesting will be a good thing again. And the covid will stay away because the protests are righteous.

Do I have that right?

Posted by: MJ at December 03, 2021 09:21 AM (zwDuR)

350 Vax Trax dbase will be hacked or leaked in about 13 minutes after starting.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 03, 2021 09:14 AM (yrol0)


Optimist.

Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at December 03, 2021 09:22 AM (OUMaO)

351
There is zero possibility of a 2nd "American" Republic, as this nation is currently constituted. I do think there's a very good chance of collapse of control at the Federal Level, and it's replacement by 5 or 6 successor states. This won't happen in my lifetime, but I think it's likely sometime in the next 40 years or so.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2021 09:16 AM (evAgx)

A 2nd republic might well be founded on the termination of the Bill of Rights and built on the bill of entitlements. I don't trust this plan.

I also don't trust that "equal rights" group allegedly coming out of Princeton. I'm not buying the motives of most of their directors.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 09:22 AM (ONvIw)

352 D-Lamp's particularly virulent disdain for the media/"journolism" establishment was legendary. It led to his banning.


how foolish we were

he was probably EASY on them. and he probably worked in media.

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 03, 2021 09:22 AM (j9HX3)

353 If they repeal abortion, the children of moloch will revolt.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 03, 2021 09:22 AM (LtGlA)

354 Let's try it this way. How do you envision organizing society in such a way as to ensure personal liberty balanced with personal security as well as national security? What form of government - because there has to be some form of government and laws - do you propose?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 09:06 AM (s2VJv)

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I dont.
I worry about my family and myself.... Same as the first waves of people did when they came over the Bering isthmus.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 09:22 AM (qi/+I)

355 Overturning Roe v Wade. Cute! But a revolution would be nice.

Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 09:22 AM (S1hrL)

356 Not a lawyer, but is a sentence of two life sentences plus 412 years maybe overdoing it?
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He'll be out in 150 years!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 09:23 AM (UHVv4)

357 >>> 327 Not a lawyer, but is a sentence of two life sentences plus 412 years maybe overdoing it?
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 03, 2021 09:17 AM (NsE9F)

We need to send a message to terrorists who try to intimidate school boards!!

Posted by: Merrick Garland at December 03, 2021 09:23 AM (llON8)

358 354 I dont.
I worry about my family and myself.... Same as the first waves of people did when they came over the Bering isthmus.
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 09:22 AM (qi/+I)

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You should probably stop commenting on politics then. It doesn't seem to interest you at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:23 AM (LvTSG)

359 We must recognize that Washington politicians aren't the ones to "stand up and fight for the American people." We must do so ourselves.

And we'd better darned well do it right now, because we are slipping very, very fast into total totalitarianism.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 03, 2021 08:02 AM (sVtYq)

Exactly. I guess people are waiting for the yellow line on the quarantine porch to draw their own line in the sand. SMH

Are we really going to wait until we become Australia or Germany to say enough is enough?

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - says FU at December 03, 2021 09:23 AM (hlxe7)

360 346 Not doing so well on job creation or the economy but Joe has done a great job growing inflation and has increased the pants shitting from a sitting president 100%
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There are 68 countries whose currency is tied to the dollar. Most of these are small poor countries. By inflating the dollar Biden is merely incentivizing more offshore investments while encouraging more desperate immigrant invasions of the US. Invade the World, Invite the World. We are an empire. We could have been a Good Republic but we became the Dragon that we sought to slay.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 03, 2021 09:24 AM (NsE9F)

361 And JJ. Totally appreciate the dialogue.

Off for breakfast with the wife. Good morning to you.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 09:24 AM (qi/+I)

362 Full throating a horse penis sounds distinctly unappealing,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 03, 2021 09:09 AM (poMoX)

Please forgive me Fen, but reading this, even KNOWING were the line originated, has me laughing out loud. there are some things i'd never think i'd ever see you type, this being one of them.

even if you are disproving someone else's point... lolol

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 03, 2021 09:24 AM (8D42x)

363 354 Let's try it this way. How do you envision organizing society in such a way as to ensure personal liberty balanced with personal security as well as national security? What form of government - because there has to be some form of government and laws - do you propose?


JJ to your question - governments (of any type!!!!) simply must be SMALLER in scale. they are just way way way too large. and if only we break up, and China doesn't, that's also a problem b/c they will happily take over the planet.

but the trouble isn't with the systems - I honestly think a wide range of them are workable. it's with the scale. too big. way, way too big.

not sure the solution - hoping China collapses isn't really a plan, now is it? and we've been awaiting that for a long long long time. many two weeks have passed.

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 03, 2021 09:24 AM (j9HX3)

364 Didn't they wear their masks properly?
Posted by: Tonypete at December 03, 2021 09:20 AM (mD/uy)
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Didnt get the Boooostah

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at December 03, 2021 09:25 AM (rahKx)

365 Do I have that right?
Posted by: MJ at December 03, 2021 09:21 AM (zwDuR)

Of course, wuflu is a political tool. The camps in Australia give away the game, it's repression and totalitarianism. The idea that anyone can wipe out seasonal colds and flu is straight up stupid, but that seems to be the goal.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 09:25 AM (ONvIw)

366 Winter is coming. The D from sunlight is reduced. They are starting to diagnose those who took the mark as having hiv covid.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 03, 2021 09:25 AM (LtGlA)

367 You should probably stop commenting on politics then. It doesn't seem to interest you at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:23 AM (LvTSG)

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People like you ARE intrtested in my rax cook at and providing for my "security" though... Ill stop when you do.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 09:25 AM (qi/+I)

368 Let's try it this way. How do you envision organizing society in such a way as to ensure personal liberty balanced with personal security as well as national security? What form of government - because there has to be some form of government and laws - do you propose?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 09:06 AM (s2VJv)

We have the best system right now. Nothing needs to change. It's a moral issue. As Madison said.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 03, 2021 09:25 AM (H8QX8)

369 Wow Biden now at 25% strongly disapprove....from Democrats

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2021 09:26 AM (CYnTg)

370 367 People like you ARE intrtested in my rax cook at and providing for my "security" though... Ill stop when you do.
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 09:25 AM (qi/+I)

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You don't seem to have any grasp of what I believe.

Like...at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:26 AM (LvTSG)

371 My entire point is that the defeatism and appeasement of the GOP and Conservatism, Inc. is what brought us here.

Conservatism is a failed movement. Let it die, bury it, and move on.

Posted by: Find My Feet at December 03, 2021 09:26 AM (oo2tY)

372 367 You should probably stop commenting on politics then. It doesn't seem to interest you at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:23 AM (LvTSG)

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People like you ARE intrtested in my rax cook at and providing for my "security" though... Ill stop when you do.
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 09:25 AM (qi/+I)
.TAX DOLLAR.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 09:26 AM (qi/+I)

373 368 We have the best system right now. Nothing needs to change. It's a moral issue. As Madison said.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 03, 2021 09:25 AM (H8QX

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I said that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:26 AM (LvTSG)

374 The irony is that the elitists probably want Roe v Wade overturned. Because abortion is not their money-maker, unending "vaccines" are now. So they need that inconvenient "my body, my choice" "right to privacy" attitude to go away. And if the "vaccines" truly are messing up everyone's reproductive systems, there's no need for abortion anymore anyway. "Vaccines" will now take over as their new population-control.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 03, 2021 09:27 AM (Do5/p)

375 Are we really going to wait until we become Australia or Germany to say enough is enough?
Posted by: Bonnie Blue - says FU at December 03, 2021 09:23 AM (hlxe7)

Based on the last 20 months, I think the answer is "yes."

Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 09:27 AM (S1hrL)

376 not sure the solution - hoping China collapses isn't really a plan, now is it? and we've been awaiting that for a long long long time. many two weeks have passed.
Posted by: Black Orchid at December 03, 2021 09:24 AM (j9HX3)

And it's certainly not a plan when our oligarchs and many pols are playing on team Xi.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 09:27 AM (ONvIw)

377 Dear lord! Canada had to release a bunch of maple syrup from their maple syrup strategic reserve!

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 03, 2021 09:27 AM (bVYXr)

378 Interesting fight brewing between the Telecom 5G industry and the FAA. No doubt the Telecoms will ramp up their giving to Democrats asap, so the rational response is: Do Not Fly After January 5.

Airlines say the 5G rollout will interfere with aircraft fly-by-wire signals and planes are going to be ... ahem...."endangered".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 09:27 AM (9ZHSu)

379 You don't seem to have any grasp of what I believe.

Like...at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:26 AM (LvTSG)

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Cheers man. Off to breakfast.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 09:27 AM (qi/+I)

380 369 Wow Biden now at 25% strongly disapprove....from Democrats
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Slow kids take a lot more time to figure things out.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 03, 2021 09:27 AM (NsE9F)

381 "Vaccines" will now take over as their new population-control.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 03, 2021 09:27 AM (Do5/p)

Good point.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 03, 2021 09:28 AM (H8QX8)

382 377 The fact that they HAVE a strategic Maple syrup reserve is hilarious....

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2021 09:28 AM (CYnTg)

383 And I recall from March 2020 when people were worried about pets catching or spreading it, that cats get coronaviruses but dogs don't; and that cats spreading it to humans wasn't likely [or possible??] but I don't recall about the vice versa. I assume not as there wasn't a rush of Karens getting their cats gassed to save themselves from the WuFlu.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 09:28 AM (UHVv4)

384 290 Sen. Shaheen to SCOTUS: "If You Want to See a Revolution, Go Ahead, Outlaw Roe v. Wade"

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That's a legal argument if I've ever seen one.
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It's also a pretty good indication that she has no friggin' idea how the court system works, or even whose interests she represents.

If the supreme court decides to limit or reverse Roe and allow either the MS or TX abortion laws to stand, that will not "outlaw" Roe v. Wade, nor will it "outlaw" abortion rights. All it will do is allow the states to regulate abortion without the restrictions imposed by Roe. Some states will respond by imposing more restrictions, but most states won't. And lefty states like NH will certainly not.

So since Shaheen's constituents are New Hampshirites (or whatever they call themselves), why does she care if Texas or Mississippi women have to go out of state to get a later-term abortion? That's not her business. She does not represent those women, and if those women feel imposed upon by their states' abortion restrictions, then they can vote out the state legislators who imposed them.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 03, 2021 09:28 AM (k4dH2)

385 If Joe "creates" another 210K jobs, will gas go down another 2 cents?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 03, 2021 09:28 AM (I92iB)

386 Regarding Miranda Devine's book Laptop From Hell:
Rasmussen Reports
@Rasmussen_Poll
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Posted by: redridinghood at December 03, 2021 09:28 AM (NpAcC)

387 The Cannucks sold off half of the Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 03, 2021 09:29 AM (LtGlA)

388 Winter is coming.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 03, 2021 09:25 AM

I've been saying that for years.

Posted by: Ned Stark at December 03, 2021 09:29 AM (Do5/p)

389 384 It's also a pretty good indication that she has no friggin' idea how the court system works, or even whose interests she represents.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 03, 2021 09:28 AM (k4dH2)

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She's making a political argument, not a legal one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

390 353 If they repeal abortion, the children of moloch will revolt.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 03, 2021 09:22 AM (LtGlA)

All this will do is toss it to the states, NY and CA will still celebrate the goddesses who kill their children on the pursuit of anything at all.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 09:29 AM (ONvIw)

391 >>Pixy: I learned my Australian, like most of us, from a Monty Python sketch.

Ned Kelley's Last Stand - Kowloon 1986 - never met an Aussie before then

Posted by: Boswell at December 03, 2021 09:29 AM (5iUNf)

392 I had vanilla ice cream with maple syrup last night. It was delicious.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 03, 2021 09:30 AM (NsE9F)

393 A 2nd republic might well be founded on the termination of the Bill of Rights and built on the bill of entitlements. I don't trust this plan.

I also don't trust that "equal rights" group allegedly coming out of Princeton. I'm not buying the motives of most of their directors.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 09:22 AM (ONvIw)

any plan which would undo the Bill of Rights breaks all the bonds that tie the States together. That could easily be the move that leads to the breakup.

But some really interesting things could happen in the wake of such a thing - imagine the new Republic of Florida retaking Cuba as a province under direct military control, after launching a surprise invasion from their new military bases in Puerto Rico and Miami, with logistical support from their ally, the Greater Republic of Texas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 03, 2021 09:30 AM (evAgx)

394 Internet Cranks: I'M NOT YELLEN

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 09:30 AM (RHGPo)

395 390 353 If they repeal abortion, the children of moloch will revolt.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 03, 2021 09:22 AM (LtGlA)

All this will do is toss it to the states, NY and CA will still celebrate the goddesses who kill their children on the pursuit of anything at all.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 09:29 AM (ONvIw)

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The key is that it returns abortion to a typical political realm, unlike now where it is all but untouchable through the mechanisms of politics.

That's a recipe for frustration and anger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:30 AM (LvTSG)

396 This Supreme Court isn't touching Roe. So we'll have to find another auspices.
Posted by: Ordinary American

My money is still on Texas and the border. Patiently waiting for Vegas to set the line.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * jus a pohr wayfarin stranger at December 03, 2021 09:30 AM (vrYHn)

397 They're giving Joe testosterone supplements now.

Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 09:30 AM (S1hrL)

398 I forget but wasn't Mad Max released in the US dubbed because they thought people wouldn't understand them?

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2021 09:31 AM (CYnTg)

399 We have the best system right now. Nothing needs to change. It's a moral issue. As Madison said.

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I'm optimistic America's system is working ... to some extent. Our federalist system is so wonderfully unique and brilliant. Being subject to two governments will provide greater protections for liberty than just being subject to one. This is sort of playing out ... if slowly. It's easy to say move, but harder to actually do it. But if red states continue to be free and blue states get more draconian, we will see more flight to red states that are a bulwark against the national government. History doesn't happen in the blink of an eye. It takes time to play out. Its not perfect, but it is what we have. Our federalist system is maybe the most brilliant aspect of the founders Constitutional design.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 03, 2021 09:31 AM (sX1BW)

400 398 I forget but wasn't Mad Max released in the US dubbed because they thought people wouldn't understand them?
Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2021 09:31 AM (CYnTg)

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Correct.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

401 I can't spend $16 a quart for maple syrup.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 03, 2021 09:31 AM (LtGlA)

402 390 353 If they repeal abortion, the children of moloch will revolt.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 03, 2021 09:22 AM (LtGlA)

All this will do is toss it to the states, NY and CA will still celebrate the goddesses who kill their children on the pursuit of anything at all.
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Yep. 50 states governing themselves according to their own voters values. Sounds Confederate and raycist. Imma looking forward to States deciding their own immigration laws too.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 03, 2021 09:32 AM (NsE9F)

403 354 I dont.
I worry about my family and myself.... Same as the first waves of people did when they came over the Bering isthmus.
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 09:22 AM (qi/+I)


Well, okay then. Off you go to your hidey-hole somewhere in the mountains. Best you stay off the internet lest you suffer a coronary from having to read blogs like this'n.

Best of luck.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 03, 2021 09:32 AM (s2VJv)

404 I forget but wasn't Mad Max released in the US dubbed because they thought people wouldn't understand them?
Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2021 09:31 AM (CYnTg)
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Yep.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 03, 2021 09:32 AM (AlkyK)

405 369 Wow Biden now at 25% strongly disapprove....from Democrats
Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2021 09:26 AM (CYnTg)


They're likely pissed that Biden hasn't yet exterminated us.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 03, 2021 09:33 AM (DTX3h)

406 The Republic of Texas is building a wall out of international shipping containers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 03, 2021 09:34 AM (LtGlA)

407 Powell: "The U.S. Needs to Get Back on a Sustainable Fiscal Path"

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This guy gets is. If we can just roll that national debt back to when it was sustainable at an exponentially-increasing $250 trillion six years ago instead of the now over $300 trillion ... super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at December 03, 2021 09:34 AM (mZ3xv)

408 She's making a political argument, not a legal one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:29 AM (LvTSG)
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silly me, for thinking a judge uses legal analyses to arrive at decisions.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 09:34 AM (9ZHSu)

409 The key is that it returns abortion to a typical political realm, unlike now where it is all but untouchable through the mechanisms of politics.

That's a recipe for frustration and anger.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 03, 2021 09:30 AM (LvTSG)

I want them vocal and angry, that's when we see what they really are. Although if you look you can see how abortion is the litmus test for the "goddess" groups infiltrating mainstream religions, and they have. These groups do all they can to subvert their hosts.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 09:34 AM (ONvIw)

410 Winter this year will be bleaker than most.

Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 09:34 AM (S1hrL)

411 Canada had to release a bunch of maple syrup from their maple syrup strategic reserve!
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Then there would have been a REVOLUTION!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 09:34 AM (UHVv4)

412

The Republic of Texas is building a wall out of international shipping containers.



hopefully around Austin

Posted by: runner at December 03, 2021 09:34 AM (V13WU)

413 Biden has now passed the "Clinton line" .. the 41% who never left him even in the middle of impeachment

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 09:35 AM (RHGPo)

414 Historically speaking empires fall for many reasons and it's highly unlikely this one will collapse as did any other one.

They're all unique.

There's a struggle going on in the capitol city over control. There are inside and there are outside forces. None are "on our side." IMO there will not be any sort of revolution or other kinetic type action until that struggle is complete and we find out who/what we're facing. Right now it's a huge clusterfuck with way, way too many possible targets.
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When the enemy is fighting amongst themselves and all that jazz, chill and wait.

- Based Sun Tzu

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 03, 2021 09:35 AM (BFigT)

415 We have the best system right now. Nothing needs to change. It's a moral issue. As Madison said.

We have a Cold War era police state thats entirely too big to be constrained. This insistence that "our system is fine" is a big part of the problem.

This shit was all built under the guise of "safety and security". First from the Soviets. Then from domestic terrorism. And now from the plandemic. Our current system is anything but fine.

I don't give a damn how "moral" anyone is who is given the keys to this police state - the results will always be poor. I need much, much less of all this "good people doing good via government".

Posted by: Find Me Feet at December 03, 2021 09:35 AM (oo2tY)

416 BLACK oLIVES MATTER

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

417 If the supreme court decides to limit or reverse Roe and allow either the MS or TX abortion laws to stand, that will not "outlaw" Roe v. Wade, nor will it "outlaw" abortion rights.

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I'll give them credit. If the Court honestly takes abortion away from the federal government, they know it will be restricted ... even in the liberal states eventually. Abortion is a losing issue for them once laws start getting passed and enforced. That's a minority opinion, but true. Only a few lunatics actually support partial birth abortion. But many support Roe. Gut Roe and you start putting reasonable restrictions in place. Once you do that, it is only a matter of time before those restrictions make it to the liberal states.

Then you can start making the rational argument that the federal government should prohibit abortion all together. The pro-lifers will be on the offensive.

Roe is the bulwark holding this sea change back.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 03, 2021 09:37 AM (sX1BW)

418 --------------
Yep. 50 states governing themselves according to their own voters values. Sounds Confederate and raycist. Imma looking forward to States deciding their own immigration laws too.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 03, 2021 09:32 AM (NsE9F)

Except immigration laws, though incessantly broken by the federal government, do fall to the federal government. This will be a federal "hill to die on" and they'll exercise their authority.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 03, 2021 09:37 AM (ONvIw)

419 406 The Republic of Texas is building a wall out of international shipping containers.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 03, 2021 09:34 AM (LtGlA)

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"IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THEY'RE MADE IN CHINA." -- Obligatory Ben

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at December 03, 2021 09:37 AM (mZ3xv)

420 Abrams: I Did Not Challenge 2018 Election by Refusing to Concede -- I Challenged an Unfair System

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 09:37 AM (RHGPo)

421 She's making a political argument, not a legal one.
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I understand that, but it's still a stupid argument.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 03, 2021 09:37 AM (k4dH2)

422 I Challenged an Unfair System

And then I ate it
Stacy Abrams

Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2021 09:38 AM (CYnTg)

423 Stacy the Hutt.

Posted by: Boss Moss at December 03, 2021 09:39 AM (LtGlA)

424 369 Wow Biden now at 25% strongly disapprove....from Democrats
Posted by: steevy at December 03, 2021 09:26 AM (CYnTg)
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Time for a Morning Report poll on when the "Strongly Disapprove" among Democrats exceeds the total approval number for all voters. Right now, Trafalgar has him at 36 approve, so the comp is 36-25.

I predict January. Covid keeps rising, inflation starts to look rooted in, and China or Russia pulls some crazy stunt. Then Meat Puppet goes on TV and starts speaking in tongues, and the full extant of the election theft disaster becomes clear even to proto-fascists.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 09:39 AM (9ZHSu)

425 Nood horse art

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 03, 2021 09:39 AM (Do5/p)

426 Nood horse art
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Of course, of course!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 03, 2021 09:41 AM (UHVv4)

427 410 Winter this year will be bleaker than most.

Posted by: Ziba at December 03, 2021 09:34 AM (S1hrL)

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Far, far bleaker than every one of my 60 years, and a hell of a lot worse than last year -- the previous record-holder.

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at December 03, 2021 09:42 AM (mZ3xv)

428 She's making a political argument, not a legal one.
______________

I understand that, but it's still a stupid argument.


Its the perfect argument for Roberts. Above all - he fears the loss of the reputation of the court. She just let him know if he throws out Roe - he'll be ignored. Roberts won't risk being ignored.

Thats why he saw ObamaCare are as a tax. Because the Dems would have went ahead anyway - thus crushing the mystique of the courts.

Posted by: Find My Feet at December 03, 2021 09:42 AM (oo2tY)

429 nobody except Edward VIII gives up power unless thye have too

******

Geo. Washington

Posted by: Muldoon at December 03, 2021 09:42 AM (m45I2)

430 Stacey Abrams: I did not claim election was stolen. It was all rhetorical. The SUV did it. The trigger pulled itself. Racists!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 03, 2021 09:43 AM (9ZHSu)

431 287 Three leopards at the Lincoln NE zoo have died of/with covid.
Other animals sickened but survived. There are reports of Chi nese killing pets of sick people.
Is something up?
Posted by: torabora at December 03, 2021 09:09 AM (U0p6D)

They are likely injecting the animals with their "safe" "vaccines" to see if they kill and maim animals as well as people.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - says FU at December 03, 2021 09:44 AM (hlxe7)

432 Ultimately we just have to get it through our heads that, as the US grew and time went on, the nation itself--not just its government--became too large. It may have made sense for the original 13 colonies in 1789 to bind themselves together, but modern California, Florida, Texas, and New York? Let alone Alabama, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts?

The states--and the peoples in them--have simply grown apart. I do not believe they can, or should, co-exist in a single polity. The would-be hegemons will naturally refuse any loosening of the grip, and will not do so willingly--or peaceably.

It is not advocacy to acknowledge the inevitable.

Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at December 03, 2021 09:44 AM (OUMaO)

433 406 The Republic of Texas is building a wall out of international shipping containers.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 03, 2021 09:34 AM (LtGlA)

Is this for real?

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - says FU at December 03, 2021 09:45 AM (hlxe7)

434 In a parallel universe somewhere, Elon Musk developed cars that ran on maple syrup -- making Canada the world's richest and most dominant country.

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at December 03, 2021 09:49 AM (mZ3xv)

435 Yup it takes a philosopher to say, "you know we did not get much of what we hoped in power so let us cede power en perpetual to the lunatics we fight."

What is one muted insensate philosopher?

A good start.

Posted by: sven at December 03, 2021 09:50 AM (Lzpvj)

436 nobody except Edward VIII gives up power unless thye have too

******

Geo. Washington
Posted by: Muldoon at December 03, 2021 09:42 AM


Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 03, 2021 09:50 AM (a3Q+t)

437 Yep. 50 states governing themselves according to their own voters values. Sounds Confederate and raycist.
__________

Yeah, like-minded people coming together and deciding for themselves how they want to live. How very raaaacist and subversive! No way we can tolerate that!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at December 03, 2021 10:00 AM (k4dH2)

438 > If they repeal abortion, the children of moloch will revolt.

I have a cunning plan. First, we throw them a big abortion party, and invite all the pro-abortion folks. We give them special shirts that show just how much they like sacrificing their children to Baal. Then...

Posted by: Jehu at December 03, 2021 10:10 AM (9p+wn)

439 "Merkel announced the measures..."

Stechen mact frei!

Posted by: CalypsoFacto at December 03, 2021 10:16 AM (/LtUW)

440 My God that Kerwick piece is an absolute abomination. Problem #1, as stated here, is conflating the GOPe and Conservative Inc. with Trump is a failure beyond redemption. If you can't see that Trump had literally nothing to do with either of those entities, responsible for exactly the failure and betrayal the author complains of for 2 decades before Trump even ran, again, you're beyond redemption. Nevermind that the GOPe HELPED the Democrats and the #Resistance undermine Trump at every turn and not only did nothing to stop the steal, but actively participated in it.

Furthermore, I looked into Kerwick and he seems to have a bit too much David French in him. I'm not anti religion and have actually come to view religion in a new light where the benefits of religion help develope sense of morality that you don't owe to God, but to your own community. But the people who seem the most hell bent on telling everyone else how being as Godly as them is super important seem a bit on the fake side. Like, not actually conservative, but trying to fit in while they cover for their abject immorality by overcompensating. Think kiddie diddling priests.

Posted by: deadrody at December 03, 2021 10:29 AM (/jrmI)

441 The only governance we need.... Is every human armed for themselves. We do not live in a vacuum. We live in nature. Government is brute force. Period. Let each Pete on be their own master.
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:28 AM (qi/+I)

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Fucking hilarious. The idea that you think 8 billion people can all live in peace and harmony, if only everyone was armed is no less delusional than the Communists who think they can achieve utopia with no property rights and everyone doing their part for the community.

Posted by: deadrody at December 03, 2021 10:40 AM (/jrmI)

442 "If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself."

YES
Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 08:33 AM (qi/+I)

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Even better. Written by the man who WROTE the constitution you claim is illegal and for which you hold no reverence. Pick one.

Posted by: deadrody at December 03, 2021 10:47 AM (/jrmI)

443 I live on the MS GC; same climate, much less griping. It's a freakin' choice. Move, fer G_d's sake.
Posted by: GnuBreed
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That's like a half inch on the map. How do you all fit in there.

Posted by: From that time at December 03, 2021 11:03 AM (4780s)

444 Trumped up mostly peaceful tourists injured 126 police on Jan 6

[Ashley Babbit and Roseanne Boyland would like a word with you and the DC police, stooge - jjs]

Posted by: Kurt at December 03, 2021 11:03 AM (UBXRa)

445 "Trumped up" Iike that JJ I will use it more often

[Dear sweet Lord in Heaven, Kurt. Is your brain so hollowed out by syphilis that you don't understand the irony of the phrase "trumped up charges" in this context? Vis a vis, phony bullshit charges against an innocent man and those of his supporters? Ho Lee Fook, you are pathetic and unworthy to even be an assistant crack whore let alone a senior crack whore - jjs]

Posted by: Kurt at December 03, 2021 11:07 AM (UBXRa)

446 Report: Rand Paul wants Fauci in prison for five years.

As long as that's the appeal from his capital sentence.

Posted by: Fox2! at December 03, 2021 11:11 AM (qyH+l)

447 Momma's penis tastes like Jerry Nadler's anus. Oops, I spilled the beans.

Posted by: Kurt at December 03, 2021 11:12 AM (UBXRa)

448 23 the reason not to elect PDT is that it will unify the left against PDT?

I recommend an isolated island convention to kick off their campaign...

Posted by: SMOD at December 03, 2021 11:40 AM (9EsIa)

449 Democrats will demonize whoever the 24 Republican nominee is. They painted Romney - the guy who enacted the prototype for Obamacare in Massachusetts - as a far right animal torturing extremist. Bush derangement syndrome was a thing long before TDS. Democrats were apoplectic about Reagan. The left's reaction to any GOP nominee is as predictable as it is pathetic, so supposedly "smart" people like Kerwick should stop pretending that it should factor in to picking a candidate.

Posted by: Ricky Bobby at December 03, 2021 11:54 AM (ELyDO)

450 Even better. Written by the man who WROTE the constitution you claim is illegal and for which you hold no reverence. Pick one.
Posted by: deadrody at December 03, 2021 10:47 AM (/jrmI)

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Clearly he isn't taking his own advice.

Posted by: Hold My Montrachet, I'm Off To Make Some Truffled Porcini Risotto at December 03, 2021 01:55 PM (qi/+I)

451 is it ever possible to defend Trump without throwing out how you really don't like him, and he was wrong about X, and you don't support him for blah blah.

Cons have been writing "I disagree/don't like Trump BUT" crap for 6 years. Just stop.

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