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Peace In Our Time: Biden to Allow Germany, I Mean Russia, To Take Parts of Czechoslovakia, I Mean Ukraine, With Promise that Hitler, I Mean Putin, Will Stop All of His Territorial-Expansion Behavior Soon

Biden will press Ukraine to basically accept that the Donbas region, which Russia has troops in, has been successfully conquered by Russia and is now part of Russia.

But as a face-saving measure -- to save Biden's face and no one else's -- the Donbas will be called an "autonomous region" which is under no one's control.

Except, you know, the actual Russian troops that actually control it.

Again, this does nothing for the Ukraine, as it cedes their territory to Russia. It does nothing for Russia, as it pretends away their victory.

This would only be a "victory" for Joe Biden, and only a PR one at that.

In addition, while Biden will pretend to refuse Russia's demand that NATO never admit Ukraine into NATO, behind the scenes he's telling Ukraine... that NATO will never admit Ukraine into NATO.

Our foreign policy is down to Democrats begging Russia, "Please do not make this too humiliating for us, because we have midterms coming up and we're already going to lose a lot of seats. And you guys remember -- we were always your close ideological allies before we pretended to be your savage opposition starting January 20, 2017."

Administration officials have suggested that the U.S. will press Ukraine to formally cede a measure of autonomy to eastern Ukrainian lands now controlled by Russia-backed separatists who rose up against Kyiv in 2014. An undefined "special status" for those areas was laid out in an ambiguous, European-brokered peace deal in 2015, but it has never taken hold.

Biden also will have to finesse Ukraine's desire to join NATO. The U.S. and NATO reject Putin's demands that they guarantee Ukraine won't be admitted to the Western military alliance.

But senior State Department officials have told Ukraine that NATO membership is unlikely to be approved in the next decade, according to a person familiar with those private talks who spoke on condition of anonymity.

For Biden, the challenge will be encouraging Kyiv to accept some of the facts on the ground in eastern Ukraine, without appearing to cave to Putin -- a perception that could embolden the Russian leader and unleash a fresh line of condemnations by Republicans as Biden's popularity is already in decline.

Our "foreign" policy under Democrat presidents always, always devolves into a purely domestic policy psyops operation aimed at deceiving the American public for the political advantage of the Democrat Party, begging foreign regimes and the propaganda state media to pretend that everything's going just swell when things are falling apart and that America is winning when America is being humiliated.

Hey everybody --

Remember when any policy decision with respect to Russia short of declaring physical war on a nuclear-armed country was proof positive that the president was under the direct control of the KGB?

I remember, because I'm older than four years old.

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Meanwhile, delusionary neocon chickenhawks demand that we do go to war with Russia, with the hollowed-out, ineffectual #Woke military and the divided country-in-anarcharic-chaos which they helped bring into being:

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Tell you what, we can put boots on the ground in Russia so long as the first boots on the ground belong to PFC Noah Rothman and PFC Jim Swift and of course Generalissimo Bill Kristol.

I will totally, rabidly support war with those conditions.

Oh, and I want video. Draft the Young Turks team as war "journalists" (LOL) and have them report from the front lines.

Posted by: Ace at 01:22 PM




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1 Good afternoon everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2021 01:21 PM (mD/uy)

2 I nooded.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2021 01:22 PM (mD/uy)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at December 09, 2021 01:22 PM (tjClK)

4 Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at December 09, 2021 01:22 PM (tjClK)

5 Peace in our time with..you know, the thing.

Posted by: Stinkfinger Joe, President of The United...Thing at December 09, 2021 01:23 PM (lNHqD)

6 first

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 09, 2021 01:23 PM (BgMrQ)

7 Biden will press Ukraine to basically accept that the Donblas region, which Russia has troops in, has been successfully conquered by Russia and is now part of Russia.

If that's all it takes, when does Bia Den give California to Mexico?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2021 01:23 PM (cQZxO)

8 *Raises umbrella up*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 01:24 PM (V6f9+)

9 How will this impact my life? Not at all. So I kinda don't care.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 09, 2021 01:24 PM (OalnH)

10 This will be blamed on Trump. They will say, welp this is what we had to do because of all the stuff Trump did. Every media dipshit will repeat this. It will be accepted without question.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2021 01:24 PM (IN3jG)

11 Upcoming headline: "Biden Admin taps Wil Wheaton to be new Ambassador to the Ukraine."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 09, 2021 01:24 PM (PiwSw)

12 LOL. Stan Marsh made a funny.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at December 09, 2021 01:24 PM (tjClK)

13 Guess all that sweet, sweet Ukrainian money flowing into Hunter;s account for his "oil industry expertise" was misspent, eh?

Posted by: red speck at December 09, 2021 01:24 PM (gS3OW)

14 I never thought I would say this, but I prefer SCOAMF's "do nothing stupid" foreign policy.

Posted by: flounder at December 09, 2021 01:24 PM (SH2Zi)

15 You know, a homeless guy yelling at the clouds could proclaim the same thing. "I'm going to allow things to stay as they are!"

Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2021 01:24 PM (l0Lgi)

16 oh lord, and to think of the Left and their "trump was nice to putin by meeting with him" nonsense.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 09, 2021 01:24 PM (ZZK0E)

17 Brandon promised severe consequences, "The worst anyone has ever seen", and then he forgot the topic of conversation.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2021 01:24 PM (aWoBQ)

18 Ukrainians must be thoroughly sick of being screwed by JoeyB.

Posted by: creeper at December 09, 2021 01:25 PM (cTCuP)

19 Yeah, the way this is going, Russia will be taking back Kazanistan.

Hell, taking back Fort Ross on the California coast.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at December 09, 2021 01:25 PM (Vt5nn)

20 it makes sense though, since China owns Biden and China and Russia both agreed to support each other invading ukariane/taiwan so the fix is in

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 09, 2021 01:25 PM (ZZK0E)

21 Think Slow Joe could find Ukraine on map?

Posted by: Lumpkin at December 09, 2021 01:25 PM (JPtHE)

22 Corrupt mental deficients that are busybodies.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 09, 2021 01:25 PM (DgLeA)

23 LOL. Stan Marsh made a funny.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at December 09, 2021 01:24 PM (tjClK)

lol, the resemblance is striking.

Posted by: flounder at December 09, 2021 01:25 PM (SH2Zi)

24 I mean, do they not SEE the obvious parallels?

Posted by: pep at December 09, 2021 01:25 PM (ZsR3z)

25 Joe Chamberlin couldn't do any better

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 09, 2021 01:25 PM (tDjbJ)

26 > Our foreign policy is down to Democrats begging Russia, "Please do not make this too humiliating for us, because we have midterms coming up and we're already going to lose a lot of seats. And you guys remember -- we were always your close ideological allies before we pretended to be your savage opposition starting January 20, 2017."

Similar to how Biden dealt with OPEC. He begged them to produce more oil. When they said no, he whined to the American people that those mean OPEC people won't do what he wants. They're such bitches.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2021 01:25 PM (sG4Hj)

27 17 Brandon promised severe consequences, "The worst anyone has ever seen", and then he forgot the topic of conversation.

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remind me, I need to move about 30 miles further away from DC. oh boy.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (ZZK0E)

28 Brandon promised severe consequences, "The worst anyone has ever seen", and then he forgot the topic of conversation.

He was actually describing the mess he made in his pants.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (SchxB)

29 Well we're lucky that Putin will never think "Well I just got part of the Ukraine for free, maybe I can get ALL of it for free!"

no, he would never do that.

And Xi will think "well now I know that Biden will stand tough on Taiwan."

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (trdmm)

30 Just make Russia a NATO country and call it good.
FDR didn't have any problems sending billions in weapons food and supplies to Russia. Why should the junta?

Posted by: torabora at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (U0p6D)

31 No war for hot Ukrainian chicks?

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (CYnTg)

32 Putin wants the old USSR back, but this time just Russia. Then he wants to take over Europe.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (KZzsI)

33 Ukraine also won't go along with this. Their backs are to the wall, too much blood has been spilled for them to roll over and then the Russians fuck them up the Donbass.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (V6f9+)

34 Ukraine is weak

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (CYnTg)

35 Putin saw how thoroughly Biden punked everyone in Afghanistan and, fearing Russia could be next, he did....whatever he wanted to do.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (aWoBQ)

36 I wonder what conclusion China will draw from this vis a vis Taiwan. Wait, I don't.

Posted by: pep at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (ZsR3z)

37 This is likely the best Joey Poops-His-Pants can do.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (dgYAy)

38 I think it's more or less inevitable that Russia will reclaim Ukraine. And I don't know why we would involve ourselves in that mess one way or another. I can't see any American national interest at stake here.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (QU5/8)

39 And odds are good that Taiwan is next.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (4olE8)

40 F' ing POS.. I'm not sure we will be able to hold out till 2022 and there's no guarantee 2022 will be any better

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (Q1i0Y)

41 Shut up, Wesley!

(I missed the last thread.)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (dfRN6)

42 Has Hunter been consulted?

Posted by: BignJames at December 09, 2021 01:27 PM (AwYPR)

43 Poor Neville.

Posted by: aelfheld at December 09, 2021 01:27 PM (Zy9Yy)

44 Joe Chamberlin couldn't do any better

"This Ukraine deal, nobody could have done it better, hell I couldn't have done it better!"
--Bill Clinton on a walker drooling onto the mic

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:27 PM (KZzsI)

45 There's no real strategy here because we have no strategic options. This is a binary choice: do nothing, or launch a military campaign on another continent in winter against an adversary on home turf. Does an expansionist Russia justify the latter? Perhaps, but I sort of doubt it. Could we reasonably go down that road with a chance for success? I doubt that, too.

But those are the only choices because we've ceded any other strategic response. Russia holds Europe by the balls on energy, and we can't fill the gap. Last year, we could have made a credible claim to be able to do so (albeit at outlandish expense), but now we can't. We can't control enough of their economy and the deep state hates economic sanctions anyway. Economic responses are off the table. Ukraine has so much graft flowing through it that leadership on this side doesn't want to touch it, so we can't even use them as a pawn.

We have zero strategic options. Our own brain-dead and insane policies along with our corruption and ideological and operational rot has made this into a binary choice. Europe got its way: a strategically-stymied, weak America. They can now bask in it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:27 PM (DU+/6)

46 Has Hunter been consulted?
Posted by: BignJames at December 09, 2021 01:27 PM (AwYPR)


Passed out.

They'll circle back on that.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at December 09, 2021 01:27 PM (tjClK)

47 If that's all it takes, when does Bia Den give California to Mexico?
Posted by: rickb223


I think you meant "to the mexican drug cartels"?

Oh, wait, that is what you said.

Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2021 01:27 PM (P1f+c)

48 Think Slow Joe could find Ukraine on map?
Posted by: Lumpkin at December 09, 2021 01:25 PM (JPtHE)
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Minor Attracted People have rights too!

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden, My Diaper Runneth Over at December 09, 2021 01:27 PM (aWoBQ)

49 In a bit of a change of direction thought the camps now are going to be instituted on "our" side...practice run happening in Australia as we speak.



Posted by: H Badger at December 09, 2021 01:28 PM (n/0Nw)

50 Now would someone please tell Putin to take his dick out of my ass?

Posted by: F. Joe Biden at December 09, 2021 01:28 PM (guGkK)

51 Chamberlain was wildly popular when gave a piece of Czechoslovakia to the Nazis for peace in our time. A year later, not so much.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2021 01:28 PM (FVME7)

52 Joe Biden's foreign policy is absolute amazeballs.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at December 09, 2021 01:28 PM (tjClK)

53 Peas in our pie??

Posted by: J Biden at December 09, 2021 01:28 PM (0hbQ6)

54 By next week Joe will be reading off his teleprompter that Taiwan has always been part of China. Come on man

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 01:28 PM (CYnTg)

55 If that's all it takes, when does Bia Den give California to Mexico?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2021 01:23 PM (cQZxO)
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Why bother? They effectively own it already.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:28 PM (YqDXo)

56 As has been said, the NATO/Western/Anglosphere powers are dangerous children.

They desperately need a time out.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2021 01:28 PM (SO3EB)

57 42 Has Hunter been consulted?

---

what about lil' baby beau up in heaven, doesn't putin care?

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 09, 2021 01:28 PM (ZZK0E)

58 When the Soviet Union dissolved, the nuclear powers, including Russia and the US agreed to guarantee Ukraine's borders if they gave up their nukes.

Since the deal is not being kept by Russia and the US or any of the other signatories, we should give Ukraine their nukes bask, it's only fair.

Posted by: zmdavid at December 09, 2021 01:28 PM (xqRaG)

59 Ukrainians must be thoroughly sick of being screwed by JoeyB.
Posted by: creeper


Especially after paying him $150 million.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2021 01:28 PM (cQZxO)

60 Our government is debasing itself and our country at such a pace and with such thoroughness it is breathtaking.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (H8QX8)

61 I don't want the whole world, I just want your half.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (wAnMi)

62 Fauci is embracing his despotism.

We tried the nice way. We let you have your choice. Now that we are in special pleading times, I might have to recommend something unpopular that will supersede individual choices.

https://bit.ly/3dRskRL

Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (sG4Hj)

63 has Lt Col, jelly belly weighed in on this?

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (53oGX)

64 Neville Chamberpot

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (IN3jG)

65 58 Oopsie... we tossed them

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (CYnTg)

66 Just in time for Post-December 7th events honoring all of those brave fighters that fought in WW2....

It's like the Biden Admin. loves pissing on service member's sacrifice at a solemn moment.

Posted by: Scott_T at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (2waQ7)

67 13 Guess all that sweet, sweet Ukrainian money flowing into Hunter;s account for his "oil industry expertise" was misspent, eh?
Posted by: red speck at December 09, 2021 01:24 PM (gS3OW)

the fact that the Ukrainians were a party to all of this corruption makes me feel not very sorry for them. And they had a chance to release a lot of info that would have helped Trump, and they didn't. So I don't see any reason for anyone here to stick their necks out for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (trdmm)

68 Hey, its not in the news, but you can bet you ass that Putin got his 7 billion back. You know, the 7 billion that Obama froze the last time Putin invaded . . . Putin has had a sore ass about that for a long time.

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (6B5is)

69 Joe Biden's foreign policy is absolute amazeballs.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at December 09, 2021 01:28 PM (tjClK)



Just wait until you my trick on Taiwan!

Posted by: F. Joe Biden at December 09, 2021 01:30 PM (guGkK)

70 Old and Busted: America Is Back.
New Hotness: America is On It's Back.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 09, 2021 01:30 PM (SO3EB)

71 So I don't see any reason for anyone here to stick their necks out for them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (trdmm)

Me either

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2021 01:30 PM (Q1i0Y)

72 Is this that "true international pressure" he talked about?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:30 PM (DU+/6)

73
Biden will press Ukraine to basically accept that the Donblas region, which Russia has troops in, has been successfully conquered by Russia and is now part of Russia.

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Donbas, ace. No "l."

And I don't approve of the US making any statement of any kind here. We already made our abandonment of Ukraine abundantly clear during Obama's reign of error.

But, more importantly, the United States has no influence anywhere. Pretending we do makes us look ridiculous. Better to say nothing and be thought a fool, etc.

We need to stay out of this. And all things everywhere. There is no upside to any hostile foreign engagement, diplomatic or otherwise. At best, we embarrass ourselves when everyone laughs and walks away. At worst, G-d forbid, we end up in a war, that we will not and cannot win.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2021 01:30 PM (2ABQr)

74 "And odds are good that Taiwan is next."

Then the Marianas, then Midway, and Guam, then it's on to Oahu baby!

Partying like it's 1940!

Posted by: IP at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM (SDdI7)

75 >>>72 Is this that "true international pressure" he talked about?


was that was he was saying with "Trumpazinzaure?"

Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM (0G13K)

76 Fauci is embracing his despotism.

We tried the nice way. We let you have your choice. Now that we are in special pleading times, I might have to recommend something unpopular that will supersede individual choices.

https://bit.ly/3dRskRL
Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (sG4Hj)
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Fauci can use his tongue as my bidet. Fuck him.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM (DU+/6)

77 Ukraine obviously you had no choice in trusting the USSR when they gave you that territory for the unjust slaughter of Ukrainians. You didn't have to trust the US however when you disarmed. And you never should have.

We had no business making an agreement to defend your borders. You certainly shouldn't have disarmed. Sorry you trusted us. But our willingness to fight Russia for Ukraine should have always stood dubious in your mind as the changing winds of American politics have often struck in Eastern Europe with varying levels of interest.

Posted by: mikethemoose at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM (T/vhV)

78 There's no real strategy here because we have no strategic options.

Its funny how Russia paused 4 years in its aggression against Ukraine. Totally unrelated to who was in office though.

We tried the nice way. We let you have your choice.

If you demand everyone choose one way and punish them for not, then there's no actual choice is there?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM (KZzsI)

79 62 Fauci is embracing his despotism.


They all are. They have no fear of anything.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM (H8QX8)

80 Ukraine probably remembers the promises the international community made when it gave up its soviet nukes. I don't see it conceding the territory to Putin.

And I don't see Putin agreeing to this either. What's in it for him?

Posted by: Revenant at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM (C35Jn)

81 And they had a chance to release a lot of info that would have helped Trump, and they didn't.
==
Well, if you were them and you know the deep state was going to steal it, you'd be cutting your own throat if you did.

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM (zCU/K)

82 Russia just announced they will be opening ANWR for leasing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM (aWoBQ)

83 was that was he was saying with "Trumpazinzaure?"
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM (0G13K)
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I think that was the translation, yeah.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM (DU+/6)

84 Hey, its not in the news, but you can bet you ass that Putin got his 7 billion back. You know, the 7 billion that Obama froze the last time Putin invaded . . . Putin has had a sore ass about that for a long time.
Posted by: The other shoe will drop


Can you blame him? A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon it adds up.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM (cQZxO)

85 Alyssa isn't talking about her thigh high boots, is she?

Posted by: Let me guess at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (mXvII)

86 Donbas, ace. No "l."

He's been reading Elric a lot lately.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (KZzsI)

87
We tried the nice way. We let you have your choice. Now that we are in special pleading times, I might have to recommend something unpopular that will supersede individual choices.

https://bit.ly/3dRskRL
Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (sG4Hj)

"sometimes you have to do things that are unpopular" - like sending all of those pesky jews to the camps, right Fauci?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (trdmm)

88 Seriously, your nation is run by total pussies.

Posted by: Putin at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (SEkye)

89 Now would someone please tell Putin to take his dick out of my ass?
Posted by: F. Joe Biden

Umm, Dad, I have something to tell you. . .

Posted by: Hunter's diseased d*** at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (mD/uy)

90 Donbas, ace. No "l."


Don Blass heads up the Kansas City organization.

Posted by: Don Vito Corleone at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (guGkK)

91 >>>He's been reading Elric a lot lately.


hah! Not recently but yeah.

Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (0G13K)

92 America's "Deterrence factor" prior to Afghan/Iraq wasn't great either. It's how we fucking ended up in Afghanistan and Iraq: Al Qaeda and other groups figured that they could hit us with impunity and the most we'd do is a few ineffective airstrikes because that's what the Clinton Admin had done.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (wmDcS)

93 I hate that man Joe Biden. I really don't understand the whole obsession with Ukraine is though. Nearly half the country is Russian. 20 years ago people in Russia were asking why the Ukrainian border wasn't changed after the fall of the USSR. Basically russia had shit for power back then and the west wanted as much division as possible. And thst makes sense given the hell the soviets inflicted on the world. What the West didn't see was that the boundaries of the soviet republics were culturally meaningless. Russia seeded the republics, or colonized them, with Russians. They sent the native populations east.

Posted by: Mishdog at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (fyCTq)

94 My nasty suspicion: American Reds WANT to involve the U.S. in pointless and endless wars so they can agitate enough to ensure defeat and disaster, they better to bring down our country.

They are using opposition to the Vietnam War as a model.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (YqDXo)

95 huh, who would have guessed we're in about a time parallel to 1936...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 09, 2021 01:33 PM (8D42x)

96 Given all the dirt Ukraine likely has on the paste eater, allowing it to go up in flames is the preferred option.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 09, 2021 01:33 PM (oWBc3)

97 Just wait until you my trick on Taiwan!
Posted by: F. Joe Biden

Careful, Joe. An hour later, they'll be hungry again.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2021 01:33 PM (FVME7)

98 That part of the world has been a shit hole for ethnic clensing since before mongols learned to ride ponies.

What should happen: Let them shit the bed and be done with it. Nuke them if they give us any side eye.

What will happen: Roll over and present our ass for patting and fvcking to the russians.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 09, 2021 01:33 PM (IJES/)

99 Ukraine probably remembers the promises the international community made when it gave up its soviet nukes. I don't see it conceding the territory to Putin.

And I don't see Putin agreeing to this either. What's in it for him?
==
Half of the country, his 7 billion back, and whatever else he wants. You see, he's blackmailing them. Hunter, The stolen election, Ukraine, he's got the receipts and he showed his hand. Biden folded.

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:33 PM (VtB7b)

100 Fauci proclamations right before Christmas.

They ruin, or try to ruin, anything they can.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 09, 2021 01:34 PM (DgLeA)

101 As compensation, Ukraine will get Silesia and a first round draft pick.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 09, 2021 01:34 PM (guGkK)

102
We had no business making an agreement to defend your borders. You certainly shouldn't have disarmed. Sorry you trusted us. But our willingness to fight Russia for Ukraine should have always stood dubious in your mind as the changing winds of American politics have often struck in Eastern Europe with varying levels of interest.
Posted by: mikethemoose at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM (T/vhV)

Absolutely. Billy Jeff wanted to get some nice peace dividends by promising security guarantees he thought we'd never, ever have to honor. And here we are. And Ukraine is being challenged, and the United States is not just unwilling, but incapable of honoring those guarantees.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2021 01:34 PM (2ABQr)

103 We need to stay out of this. And all things everywhere. There is no upside to any hostile foreign engagement, diplomatic or otherwise. At best, we embarrass ourselves when everyone laughs and walks away. At worst, G-d forbid, we end up in a war, that we will not and cannot win.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2021 01:30 PM (2ABQr)


We're going to end up in a war whether we want it or not, because the idiots in this country elected the political class back into power.

Quite frankly, I look forward to laughing when they start burying their husbands and brothers and sons by the tens of thousands.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 09, 2021 01:34 PM (wmDcS)

104 On the downside, it's a blow to the prestige of the US and the West in general, but on the upside, there's probably lots of money in it for the big guy.

Posted by: zmdavid at December 09, 2021 01:34 PM (xqRaG)

105 Peace In Our Time: Biden to Allow Germany, I Mean Russia, To Take Parts of Czechoslovakia, I Mean Ukraine, With Promise that Hitler, I Mean Putin, Will Stop All of His Territorial-Expansion Behavior Soon

not just biden. tucker carlson was emitting "all russia wants is sevastopol" noises the other night, totally ignoring the whole crimean takeover thingie.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at December 09, 2021 01:34 PM (2uOKS)

106

One of the greatest thing about President Feculent is that although he plays with poop, he is not particular about who's poop he plays with!

Posted by: Rachet Madcow at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (amFZq)

107 Half of the country, his 7 billion back, and whatever else he wants. You see, he's blackmailing them. Hunter, The stolen election, Ukraine, he's got the receipts and he showed his hand. Biden folded.
Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:33 PM (VtB7b)
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"Give me what I want and keep playing and stealing in what's left of Ukraine, or challenge me and I expose everything you've done, dry up your cash pipeline and get you impeached with your entire cabal thrown out of power. Your choice."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (DU+/6)

108 They ruin, or try to ruin, anything they can.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 09, 2021 01:34 PM (DgLeA)

Too bad we have nobody on our side trying to ruin them. The clue to the tragedy, perhaps.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (H8QX8)

109 @7

Giving California to Mexico is different, because it would cause the Dems to lose the House, and upset the delicate balance in the Senate.

Posted by: junior at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (YqE1S)

110 kinda feel like Ukraine has actually Colluded to Subvert our elections and kinda feel like I could give a shit what happens to them

Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (0G13K)

111 If Putin is really interested in retaking the Ukraine now would be the best time. The US is in no position to stop it and NATO won't act unless the US leads. *biden has pretty much told Putin "take only what you need" which, if I'm Putin I take that to mean, "take it all."

It's so feckless I'd have thought the GOP was in on that phone call the other day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (BFigT)

112 Harris will not be sent out to claim the Donbas agreement is not Sudentenland II, mostly because she can't pronounce it

Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (ZMraq)

113 94 My nasty suspicion: American Reds WANT to involve the U.S. in pointless and endless wars so they can agitate enough to ensure defeat and disaster, they better to bring down our country.

They are using opposition to the Vietnam War as a model.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (YqDXo)

Possible. Honestly, everything as far as foreign policy is so disjointed, I do not think there is a coherent strategy aside from chaos. It seems to be tossed salad as far as policy on everything- not just foreign. Seems like you have multiple people all with their hands in the kitty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (csEWM)

114 86 Donbas, ace. No "l."

He's been reading Elric a lot lately.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (KZzsI)

Well its the Christmas Season, isn't it? Sing it:

"No L, No L, No L, No L"

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (trdmm)

115 The funny thing is though that the less you want war and show it to be the case the more likely you are to get it...

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (CYnTg)

116 Speaking of 1980's retreads...

I almost wish Biden had declared war on Russia instead. Months of weapons grade neoconnery followed by total capitulation implies that unrelenting disaster will be the theme of 2022.

Posted by: trev006 at December 09, 2021 01:36 PM (2usme)

117 If Canada agrees not to invade Ukraine, maybe Biden will approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

Posted by: zmdavid at December 09, 2021 01:36 PM (xqRaG)

118 What the West didn't see was that the boundaries of the soviet republics were culturally meaningless. Russia seeded the republics, or colonized them, with Russians.
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The Soviets also suppressed Ukrainian language and culture, as well as colonizing it with Russians.

The Russians and the Ukrainians have been at daggers drawn since forever. The Ukrainians - who in many respects are similar to our Texans - finally semi-succumbed about 300 years ago, and made a deal with Russia that left Ukraine sorta semi-autonomous, with the condition that Ukraine supply Russia with cavalry: the Cossacks.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:36 PM (YqDXo)

119 Giving California to Mexico is different, because it would cause the Dems to lose the House, and upset the delicate balance in the Senate.
Posted by: junior


It's called precedence. Bia Den made it.
Mexico now has a case.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2021 01:36 PM (cQZxO)

120 Man, that was some shitty return on their bribe money.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 09, 2021 01:36 PM (cSs/W)

121 Europe got its way: a strategically-stymied, weak America. They can now bask in it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:27 PM (DU+/6)

And odds are good that Taiwan is next.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (4olE

Yup. Yup.

Posted by: troyriser at December 09, 2021 01:36 PM (pYLCQ)

122 Wasn't Don Blass that pitcher with the Pirates who suddenly lost the ability to throw strikes?

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 01:36 PM (CYnTg)

123 I hope Joe asked for more than the usual 10% on the call with Putin.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (aghXp)

124 Why are all these non-Cishet Ukranian fags sucking my D-list actor cishet cock in this CisHet Russian Army encampment gay Ukrainian locker room?

Posted by: Vladimir "Wil Wheatmon" Putin on Twitter at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (LaNzR)

125 115 The funny thing is though that the less you want war and show it to be the case the more likely you are to get it...
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (CYnTg)
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If you want peace, prepare for war. Where the Latin expression "para bellum" comes from.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (YqDXo)

126 >>>115 The funny thing is though that the less you want war and show it to be the case the more likely you are to get it...


the notion that we can bluff that we're ready to go to war when we can't even fight antifa and blm when they're burning down our cities is too absurd to contemplate

Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (0G13K)

127 Russia is living on occupied land stolen from the indigenous peoples of Ukraine!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (r5BVk)

128 Our "foreign" policy under Democrat presidents always, always devolves into a purely domestic policy psyops operation aimed at deceiving the American public for the political advantage of the Democrat Party, begging foreign regimes and the propaganda state media to pretend that everything's going just swell when things are falling apart and that America is winning when America is being humiliated.

If this country actually had an opposition party that wanted not just to win, but crush the Dems, it would take this perfect distillation by Ace and make it front and center of every ad, political speech, platform, news conference or what have you.

But instead, we have a gaggle of preening, prancing, mincing clowns who think tweeting out a SIC BURNN makes them lineal descendants of Daniel Webster.

But let's cheer for that upcoming Red Wave, amirite?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (2JVJo)

129 Canada... ha!

They can even take back the little nipple of Minnesota we stole when they weren't looking.

Posted by: IP at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (SDdI7)

130 not just biden. tucker carlson was emitting "all russia wants is sevastopol" noises the other night, totally ignoring the whole crimean takeover thingie.
Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at December 09, 2021 01:34 PM (2uOKS)

Tucker is really weird about Russia, always has been. Really weird meaning that it sounds like he takes payoffs from them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (trdmm)

131 >I can't see any American national interest at stake here.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (QU5/

I've been told that because Billy Jeff snookered them out of their nukes, we owe them, or something.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (cSs/W)

132 And I don't see Putin agreeing to this either. What's in it for him?
Posted by: Revenant at December 09, 2021 01:31 PM


An opportunity to make Biden look like more of a doddering old fool when he takes the rest of Ukraine 1 month later?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (m+jkK)

133 america is effectively in a state of low-intensity civil war and the rest of the world understands this and knows any bluster is completely empty

Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:38 PM (0G13K)

134 Fauci: "Mandates!"

The Courts: "Unconstitutional!"

Fauci: "Double-secret Mandates, then!"

Posted by: mikeski at December 09, 2021 01:38 PM (P1f+c)

135 One of the downsides of the progs' rejection of objective reality is that everything to them is either a talking point or a magical talisman.
They believe the US and the west have unmatched military might, therefore it is so, and they will operate on that belief until those so believing get removed - either by foreign adversaries, or by ambitious domestic progs who have successfully "made" a new prog reality by consensus and displaced the previous orthodoxy.
This is why they consistently faceplant on what should be simple tasks in the real world. Unlike the CCP - which *knows* when they're creating "reality" by decree and does so deliberately - NOTHING is real to the progs. Their constant internal jousting over made-up realities and gaslighting of outsiders has created a political ideology that is amazingly effective at grabbing power - but then can't wield it competently.
What we are seeing is a complicated interplay between Obama factions ("US influence needs to be destroyed") and Clinton/neocon factions ("US influence must be used ham-handedly to line our pockets and fuck 7 year olds"). A lot of the latter group doesn't realize they're being set up here by the former.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at December 09, 2021 01:38 PM (HIzXx)

136
Quite frankly, I look forward to laughing when they start burying their husbands and brothers and sons by the tens of thousands.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 09, 2021 01:34 PM (wmDcS)

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It's highly likely that the US will end up losing horribly in a bad war.

But I'm not looking forward to it.

Karen and Ken don't send their sons to die for their frivolous bullshit. They send ours.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2021 01:38 PM (2ABQr)

137 110 kinda feel like Ukraine has actually Colluded to Subvert our elections and kinda feel like I could give a shit what happens to them
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (0G13K)

There are good guys and bad guys in Ukraine. There are Trump allies there and Bearclaw enablers, both.

I'd like to avoid a bigger war there, but I don't get what I want very often.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 01:38 PM (V6f9+)

138 86 He's been reading Elric a lot lately.

eric the manybones?

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at December 09, 2021 01:38 PM (2uOKS)

139 I may have made a reference so obscure not even the horde got it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:38 PM (KZzsI)

140 129 Canada... ha!

They can even take back the little nipple of Minnesota we stole when they weren't looking.
Posted by: IP at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (SDdI7)

talk about the proverbial Frozen Witches Tit...

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:38 PM (trdmm)

141 Europe got its way: a strategically-stymied, weak America. They can now bask in it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:27 PM (DU+/6)
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More proof, if any were needed, that Europeans are idiots. If America were strong, the Europeans could play off of that, gaining some of the power and influence that they so yearn for.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:38 PM (YqDXo)

142 Donbas, ace. No "l." ...
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2021 01:30 PM (2ABQr)
++++
This is the most roundabout, well-hidden, subtle way of saying "Noel" at Christmastime that I have ever seen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:38 PM (DU+/6)

143 Or maybe the idea is to get into a low grade conflict with Russia so they can say they can't defend Taiwan when China invades?

*looks at tinfoil* I don't need you any more.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 09, 2021 01:39 PM (csEWM)

144 BOING

Posted by: Mitch McConnel's Usually Flaccid Vienna Sausage at December 09, 2021 01:39 PM (GYllL)

145 Giving California to Mexico is different, because it would cause the Dems to lose the House, and upset the delicate balance in the Senate.
Posted by: junior


It's called precedence. Bia Den made it.
Mexico now has a case.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2021 01:36 PM (cQZxO)


Great, then the Chinese have as much claim to CA as they do Taiwan, probably more since they own half of it. Look forward to their invading Mexico. Go long on Lo Mein.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 09, 2021 01:39 PM (wAnMi)

146 There's a jury nullifier in Chicago. Or two. Must be hell in that room, with the two POCs wailing we love Jussie, and we don't trust the po-po.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 09, 2021 01:39 PM (KiBMU)

147 Scott Adams said that we need a word for situations that go terribly for two opposing sides.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 09, 2021 01:39 PM (aIVvv)

148 Our government is debasing itself and our country at such a pace and with such thoroughness it is breathtaking.
==
Aw Gee, all the other western civ countries are doing it too!!

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:40 PM (0sadA)

149 It's highly likely that the US will end up losing horribly in a bad war.

But I'm not looking forward to it.

Karen and Ken don't send their sons to die for their frivolous bullshit. They send ours.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 09, 2021 01:38 PM (2ABQr)
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Draft the feminists, antifa, and BLM. No matter what happens, we win.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:40 PM (YqDXo)

150 "Give me what I want and keep playing and stealing in what's left of Ukraine, or challenge me and I expose everything you've done, dry up your cash pipeline and get you impeached with your entire cabal thrown out of power. Your choice."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (DU+/6)

But I didn't have to blow him! Winning!

Posted by: Joey B at December 09, 2021 01:40 PM (5aWFq)

151 Ukraine should be telling Biden "Sure, we'll give up the Donbas as an autonomous region as soon as the US gives up SoCal to the hispanic invasion."

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 01:40 PM (axyOa)

152 Never underestimate Joe's ability to fuck shit up.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 09, 2021 01:40 PM (eJn7u)

153 I would be stunned if China invades Taiwan, it would be a horrible debacle. I mean, they'd win but its the worst possible way to take the place, and very un-Chinese.

They are sneaky and underhanded and manipulative, not conquerors. They've already got a bunch of pro-Red China people in power in Taiwan, they just need a few more and the place will open its doors to them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:40 PM (KZzsI)

154 The guys name was Steve Bass and he did fall apart in one season

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/blassst01.shtml

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 01:40 PM (CYnTg)

155 Remember when Obama actually gave US islands to Russia.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 09, 2021 01:40 PM (r5BVk)

156 Can he come back from Germany, smiling and holding up papers showing how brilliant his negotiations were to avoid war?

Posted by: Dave in Fla (fC3dn) at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (5p7BC)

157 Scott Adams said that we need a word for situations that go terribly for two opposing sides.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 09, 2021 01:39 PM (aIVvv)

Scott Adams is addicted to the smell of his own farts.

Posted by: flounder at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (SH2Zi)

158 >the fact that the Ukrainians were a party to all of this corruption makes me feel not very sorry for them. And they had a chance to release a lot of info that would have helped Trump, and they didn't. So I don't see any reason for anyone here to stick their necks out for them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (trdmm)

Yeah, I certainly wouldn't call Ukraine the "good guys" here. They can all go horsefuck, as far as I care.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (cSs/W)

159 After X takes Taiwan, can we give him Hawaii, so he has a nice bunch of boat docks?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (KiBMU)

160 Smollett is gonna walk isn't he

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (Q1i0Y)

161 Ace my good man,

Russia 2021 isn't Germany 1938. Russia is a 3rd world backwater that pretends is a superpower. After they take Ukraine, what do you think will happen? They'll invade Poland? No. They won't do shit because they can't do shit even if they want to. Putin has a hard on for Ukraine. Whatevs.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (OalnH)

162 Man, that was some shitty return on their bribe money.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 09, 2021 01:36 PM (cSs/W)


When you take a bribe, you expose yourself to more extortion based on exposure, and more offers for more bribes to compromise yourself more and lay yourself out for even more extortion that you have to smile and pretend was your idea.

I think Donny two-scoops sat with his dad behind the desk making real estate deals in a really dirty city and saw that young, which is why after 4 years of scrutiny nothing shady was found.

Biden screamed YOLO and dragged his whole family in

Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (ZMraq)

163 Does Mexico even want California? Maybe granting them independence is a better option.

Posted by: zmdavid at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (xqRaG)

164 I would be stunned if China invades Taiwan, it would be a horrible debacle. I mean, they'd win but its the worst possible way to take the place, and very un-Chinese.

They are sneaky and underhanded and manipulative, not conquerors. They've already got a bunch of pro-Red China people in power in Taiwan, they just need a few more and the place will open its doors to them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:40 PM (KZzsI)


They don't need to physically invade, they need the US and other regional powers to acknowledge Chinese hegemony over the island.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 09, 2021 01:42 PM (wmDcS)

165 I predicted this weeks ago.

I also predicted China will take Taiwan.

We are so screwed, and I don't even want to be in the same room with any Biden supporters during the Christmas holiday. Thankfully, we're staying home this year.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at December 09, 2021 01:42 PM (ptqGC)

166 and get you impeached with your entire cabal thrown out of power.

LOL the entire government and media buried everything that might have hurt Joe in the election. They even hid the laptop away and pretended they'd lost it. There's nothing Putin can do that would break that stonewall.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:42 PM (KZzsI)

167 Donbas!

https://youtu.be/6wCgZh-nczY

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at December 09, 2021 01:42 PM (7gEpo)

168 Scott Adams needs to STFU and STFD.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 09, 2021 01:42 PM (eJn7u)

169 OT: I'm sure the same is true for the U.S. times ten as is usual between U.S./Canada stats... 560,000 fewer hospital procedures performed in Canada since the beginning of the Pandemic [including surgeries declining by 35,000 per month led by cataract, and hip and knee replacements] due to Covid fear and lockdowns.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 09, 2021 01:42 PM (UHVv4)

170 Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at December 09, 2021 01:22 PM (tjClK)

(clap, clap, clap-clap-clap)

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 09, 2021 01:42 PM (wtvvX)

171 What we are seeing is a complicated interplay between Obama factions ("US influence needs to be destroyed") and Clinton/neocon factions ("US influence must be used ham-handedly to line our pockets and fuck 7 year olds"). A lot of the latter group doesn't realize they're being set up here by the former.
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at December 09, 2021 01:38 PM (HIzXx)

good summary, I agree. But because they don't understand the reality of what they're doing, if it ever comes down to a situation that calls for actual force to be used, they will always surrender without firing a shot. That's what unrealistic people do when they run face first into reality.

And this would be why the "smart" people in the Dem party are all about trying to negotiate some kind of face saving giveaway, because they realize that the only other option they have is unconditional surrender to whoever is challenging them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (trdmm)

172 Disclaimer: don't expect me to read the f-ing post carefully. it is 3:30AM here and I am too tired to make coffee yet.

This sounds like typical FJB policy nonsense.

The reason we have claimed Ukraine is not fit for NATO is because of their conflict with Russia. How can we invite them in when NATO is all about mutual defense against Russia - it would mean a commitment to war.

The reason for Ukraine to find a settlement would only be to get into NATO.

So FJB takes the bad stuff from column a, and the bad stuff from column b and build a policy that accomplishes nothing.

It's as if he does not understand the situation at all.....

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (k3oCU)

173 Someone else who wants boots on the ground is Mr. Meghan McCain.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (ptqGC)

174 Well its the Christmas Season, isn't it? Sing it:
"No L, No L, No L, No L"
Posted by: Tom Servo


"Born is the King of Is-rae-..."

Posted by: eight-year-old mikeski at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (P1f+c)

175 "Give me what I want and keep playing and stealing in what's left of Ukraine, or challenge me and I expose everything you've done, dry up your cash pipeline and get you impeached with your entire cabal thrown out of power. Your choice."

Posted by: Joe Mannix

Nailed it. Russia and China both have this power over Dems.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (OssQ4)

176 "Smollett is gonna walk isn't he"

I think so. Going for a walk started that whole shit show...

Posted by: IP at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (SDdI7)

177 kinda feel like Ukraine has actually Colluded to Subvert our elections and kinda feel like I could give a shit what happens to them
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (0G13K)

There are good guys and bad guys in Ukraine. There are Trump allies there and Bearclaw enablers, both.
==
Ukraine is a giant grift ATM. The only reason there would be a war would be to save the grift. If the Russian's leave half the Country in place, that keeps the ATM running. So no war. And also, provides incentive to sell that half more weapons which makes defense contractors happy. Plus, Putin agrees to not spill his info on Hunter and gets his 7 billion back etc etc. Its a win win. Unless you are an ethnic Ukraine living in the wrong half.

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (puJny)

178 Pax Americana is over, expect more and more global chaos.

Posted by: Guzalot says FJB at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (prSvo)

179 Donblas was the one god of Law that showed up in the Elric stories. There were supposedly others, but he's the only one revealed in the books.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (KZzsI)

180 Scott Adams needs to STFU and STFD.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 09, 2021 01:42 PM (eJn7u)


I've felt that way ever since I first saw a Dilbert strip.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (wAnMi)

181 Smollett is gonna walk isn't he
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (Q1i0Y)


Of course, he is famous, related to Angela Davis, is in with major media and was doing favors for the Dems.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (ZMraq)

182 LOL the entire government and media buried everything that might have hurt Joe in the election. They even hid the laptop away and pretended they'd lost it. There's nothing Putin can do that would break that stonewall.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:42 PM (KZzsI)
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I am not so sure about that. Putin publishing what he surely has on Biden would be intensely damaging. Maybe not resulting in impeachment - that is just wishcasting on my part - but very likely enough to cause a massive US domestic crisis.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (DU+/6)

183 now that everyone's down on Scot Adams can we all say that his admission that he was "interested in hypnotism" is super-creepy and was almost certainly intended as way to get women to sleep with him?

Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (0G13K)

184 160 Smollett is gonna walk isn't he
Posted by: It's me donna



It's 2021.

Yes.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (8Sqzu)

185 I'm going to go against the theme but I am OK with letting Russia have the part of Ukraine that is full of ethnic Russians.
If Ukraine took the long view they ought to be glad to see them go.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (vNbzm)

186 169 There is no doubt the COVID response killed more people than the virus. And the "vaccines"will push those numbers up for decades more

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (CYnTg)

187 Thank God no more mean tweets, and decency, honor and morals have returned to the WH. Right?

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (ptqGC)

188 >>>179 Donblas was the one god of Law that showed up in the Elric stories. There were supposedly others, but he's the only one revealed in the books.


i got it.

Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (0G13K)

189 I would be stunned if China invades Taiwan, it would be a horrible debacle. I mean, they'd win but its the worst possible way to take the place, and very un-Chinese.

They are sneaky and underhanded and manipulative, not conquerors. They've already got a bunch of pro-Red China people in power in Taiwan, they just need a few more and the place will open its doors to them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:40 PM (KZzsI)

They will fight for what they view as their territory. Tibet and Korea can attest to that.

I think they'll try for it, next year, year after, maybe.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (V6f9+)

190 Russia is living on occupied land stolen from the indigenous peoples of Ukraine!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM


Uh, actually it belongs to the Vikings, they were the first to settle there.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (bVYXr)

191 I see the guy who burned down the FOX Christmas tree has already been released

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (Q1i0Y)

192 "131 >I can't see any American national interest at stake here.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (QU5/

I've been told that because Billy Jeff snookered them out of their nukes, we owe them, or something.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (cSs/W)"

That's actually on point; we made the promise. The problem is nobody is going to trust us at this point anyways and the Russian ownership of Donbass, etc, is a done deal. We fucked up in failing to oppose it at the start, and - perhaps - in making the promise. It would have been much better for our (by our, I mean actual Americans, not Globalist cunts in DC) interests for Ukraine to retain their nukes.

The really sad thing here is that even with all the justified historical loathing of Russia on the part of Ukraine, they're likely better off being subsumed under the Russian umbrella. Better those oligarchs than the other two - incompetent kiddie diddling psychopaths (the west) or genocidal racists (the CCP)

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (HIzXx)

193 Give me what I want and keep playing and stealing in what's left of Ukraine, or challenge me and I expose everything you've done, dry up your cash pipeline and get you impeached with your entire cabal thrown out of power. Your choice."

Posted by: Joe Mannix

Nailed it. Russia and China both have this power over Dems.
==
Yep. Except Dems = Deep state. For example Romney's kid was sunk up to his nuts in the Ukraine.

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (mXUx3)

194 How many trillions of dollars did we spent keeping an army in Europe for 50 years post WW2? Enough with shit. I'm tired of being the world's policeman.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (OalnH)

195 Ace my good man,

Russia 2021 isn't Germany 1938. Russia is a 3rd world backwater that pretends is a superpower.


Oh really?

I'd like to show you my nuclear weapons. - Vlad

Posted by: Archer at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (gmo/4)

196 135 somedood,
Excellent comment.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (9hXN1)

197 Scott Adams is addicted to the smell of his own farts.
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You say that like it's a bad thing...

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (sWM8x)

198
Hey, its not in the news, but you can bet you ass that Putin got his 7 billion back. You know, the 7 billion that Obama froze the last time Putin invaded . . . Putin has had a sore ass about that for a long time.

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM


Doesn't the US government spend that much about every couple of seconds?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (dQvv7)

199 160 Smollett is gonna walk isn't he
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (Q1i0Y)

a hung jury is a strong possibility - all it takes is one black racist on that jury to do it.

The Jury system doesn't work in a tribalist society. Neither does democracy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (trdmm)

200 191 Bail " reform"

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (CYnTg)

201 They don't need to physically invade, they need the US and other regional powers to acknowledge Chinese hegemony over the island.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 09, 2021 01:42 PM (wmDcS)
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Finlandization.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (YqDXo)

202 now that everyone's down on Scot Adams can we all say that his admission that he was "interested in hypnotism" is super-creepy and was almost certainly intended as way to get women to sleep with him?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (0G13K)

Yes. Yes, we can.
He was into a lot of creepy pick up artist shit.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (V6f9+)

203 Half of the country, his 7 billion back, and whatever else he wants. You see, he's blackmailing them. Hunter, The stolen election, Ukraine, he's got the receipts and he showed his hand. Biden folded.
Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:33 PM (VtB7b)
++++
"Give me what I want and keep playing and stealing in what's left of Ukraine, or challenge me and I expose everything you've done, dry up your cash pipeline and get you impeached with your entire cabal thrown out of power. Your choice."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:35 PM (DU+/6)


Well, Son of Bitch... You got my backing.
Putin, I give you my word as a Biden. You speak my language.

Posted by: Creepy Uncle Joe at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (WFWNI)

204 183
If this really works for Scott Adams, he ought to get a Nobel prize for it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (vNbzm)

205 Smollett is gonna walk isn't he
Posted by: It's me donna

Well, it's a misdemeanor, so... Yeah.

Circus sideshow status notwithstanding.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (OssQ4)

206 Smollett is gonna walk isn't he
Posted by: It's me donna

More flounce.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (FVME7)

207 Scott Adams needs to STFU and STFD.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 09, 2021 01:42 PM (eJn7u)


Scott Adams has Anthony Fauci disease. Hopefully without a bodycount

Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (ZMraq)

208 How many trillions of dollars did we spent keeping an army in Europe for 50 years post WW2? Enough with shit. I'm tired of being the world's policeman.
Posted by: Joe XiDen
==
Way to channel Trump. You better stop before one of your co-workers notices. You know they probably monitor your work 'puter.

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (mXUx3)

209 the notion that we can bluff that we're ready to go to war when we can't even fight antifa and blm when they're burning down our cities is too absurd to contemplate

Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (0G13K)

The only rational choice is to arm the Ukranians, which we won't do in any meaningful way. So it half-measures and PR extravaganzas. You fucked up, Ukraine. You trusted us.

Posted by: flounder at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM (SH2Zi)

210 Oh really?

I'd like to show you my nuclear weapons. - Vlad
Posted by: Archer at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (gmo/4)

Also show him the Russian modernization of the last 10 years.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 01:46 PM (V6f9+)

211 a hung jury is a strong possibility - all it takes is one black racist on that jury to do it.
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Pretty tough to find one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:46 PM (YqDXo)

212 Turley says a Jizzy hanger will be jury nullification

It will be jury elimination

Posted by: REDACTED at December 09, 2021 01:46 PM (us2H3)

213 *military modernization

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 01:46 PM (V6f9+)

214 This ain't our problem, this is the EU's problem.

We have no dog in this fight.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2021 01:46 PM (oHd/0)

215 I see the guy who burned down the FOX Christmas tree has already been released

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (Q1i0Y)

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Heavens! I hope he doesn't burn down the Rockefeller Center tree next!



Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at December 09, 2021 01:46 PM (ptqGC)

216 Every week repost Women of the Worlds Armies on Chrss/Dress, lots of hotties from Ukrainian in them.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 09, 2021 01:46 PM (tDjbJ)

217 Oh really?

I'd like to show you my nuclear weapons. - Vlad
Posted by: Archer at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (gmo/4)

_____

Yeah because Vlad will nuke NYC and Chicago over Ukraine. Fuck man it's not 1974 anymore. Stop this shit.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 09, 2021 01:46 PM (OalnH)

218 >>not just biden. tucker carlson was emitting "all russia wants is sevastopol" noises the other night, totally ignoring the whole crimean takeover thingie.
Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at December 09, 2021 01:34 PM (2uOKS)

>Tucker is really weird about Russia, always has been. Really weird meaning that it sounds like he takes payoffs from them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (trdmm)

Yeah, his expose of the GOP getting on the war path was good, but it sounded like he was shilling for Russia in part of that monologue. Unsettling to say the least. He airs some good stuff, but I can never fully trust him.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (cSs/W)

219 Heavens! I hope he doesn't burn down the Rockefeller Center tree next!



Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at December 09, 2021 01:46 PM (ptqGC)

Would you miss it ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (Q1i0Y)

220 Uh, actually it belongs to the Vikings, they were the first to settle there.
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (bVYXr)

I thought they only settled there because Slav Girls were Easy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (trdmm)

221 And this would be why the "smart" people in the Dem party are all about trying to negotiate some kind of face saving giveaway, because they realize that the only other option they have is unconditional surrender to whoever is challenging them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (trdmm)
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Biden Warns Russia That If They Invade Ukraine, America Will Evacuate Haphazardly And Leave $86 Billion In Weapons Behind

https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-warns-russia-tha
t-if-they-invade-ukraine-america-will-evacuate
-haphazardly-and-leave-86
-billion-of-weapons-behind

Posted by: zmdavid at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (xqRaG)

222 Chamberlain, you son of a bitch, I read your book!

Posted by: President Poopy Pants at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (FVME7)

223 I am not so sure about that. Putin publishing what he surely has on Biden would be intensely damaging.

What on earth worse could he put out than Biden getting kickbacks from his son's corrupt deals, him molesting children on live TV, his constant lying and plagiarizing, his dementia on full display, his apparent molestation of his grand daughter, his son sexing up underaged relatives, on and on and on?

What would he publish that any US news source or DOJ guy would act on?

i got it.

I kinda figured you did. You're almost as big a hapless geek as I am.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (KZzsI)

224 I think this may be the best outcome we could expect from the Biden admin. I was worried those dumbasses were going to get us into a shooting war, and I don't want to be in a shooting war with Biden as CINC.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (Y5qcH)

225 Don Bass?


Good guy.

Posted by: Salmon Rushdie at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (tmNnT)

226 Wasn't Don Blass that pitcher with the Pirates who suddenly lost the ability to throw strikes?
Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 01:36 PM (CYnTg)


Steve Blass.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (DgLeA)

227 Russia 2021 isn't Germany 1938. Russia is a 3rd world backwater that pretends is a superpower.
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I've been to Russia (when it was the USSR). It was basically Mexico with nuclear weapons and a sorta space program.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (YqDXo)

228 Ukraine as a NATO member was effectively ruled out quite a while ago. It was never going to happen. However, privately saying it behind closed doors, and publicly announcing it, are two completely different things. While I don't endorse sending US troops to Ukraine if the Russians invade, there are plenty of tools that Biden has that don't involve our own military.

If the information in the post is correct, then it's an horrible mistake. We should be sending Ukraine more Javelins, and threatening to turn every soft power tool at our disposal against Russia instead of rewarding Putin for causing trouble in Donbas for the last decade (roughly). The Russians shot down a Malaysian airliner over this conflict, and now we're patting them on the back, and saying, "Great job, guys!"

A part of me wonders if this deal is an attempt to punish the current Ukrainian president (who is a former comedian elected in a populist surge) for attempting to investigate the corruption of his predecessors... and one Hunter Biden.

Posted by: junior at December 09, 2021 01:48 PM (YqE1S)

229 Smollett is gonna walk isn't he
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (Q1i0Y)


Either walk or get a slap on the wrist. You expected anything different?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 09, 2021 01:48 PM (2JVJo)

230 Here's my Ukraine fear:
Russia and Belorussia go for Ukraine.

Poland provides air support for Ukraine. Poland IS part of NATO so when the Russians hit the Poles in return, the music starts to play like August 1914.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 01:48 PM (V6f9+)

231 Would you miss it ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (Q1i0Y)

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Should have used a sarc tag.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at December 09, 2021 01:48 PM (ptqGC)

232 > I see the guy who burned down the FOX Christmas tree has already been released

A known firebug wandering around NYC just after he got away with setting a fire. What could go wrong?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2021 01:48 PM (sG4Hj)

233 Hey, its not in the news, but you can bet you ass that Putin got his 7 billion back. You know, the 7 billion that Obama froze the last time Putin invaded . . . Putin has had a sore ass about that for a long time.

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM

Doesn't the US government spend that much about every couple of seconds?
==
So technically it was some Russian gas companies money. In reality it is Putin's money. He gave the gas concession and made some guy a billionaire. That billionaire's money belongs in substantial part to Putin. In reality, Putin is one of the richest men in the world through such dealings.

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:48 PM (VtB7b)

234 >> Smollett is gonna walk isn't he


Like he just got off a horse. Yes.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 01:48 PM (tmNnT)

235 a hung jury is a strong possibility - all it takes is one black racist on that jury to do it.

The Jury system doesn't work in a tribalist society. Neither does democracy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:45 PM


Reporter: We're told the jury is hung!

Holdout Juror: You was told right!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2021 01:48 PM (m+jkK)

236 222 Chamberlain, you son of a bitch, I read your book!
Posted by: President Poopy Pants at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (FVME7)

lol

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (V6f9+)

237 160 Smollett is gonna walk isn't he
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (Q1i0Y)

More like sashay or mince.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (II3Gr)

238 Joe Biden really is a douche bag

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (RHGPo)

239 ... What would he publish that any US news source or DOJ guy would act on? ...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (KZzsI)
++++
Nothing. No official consequences would be likely, but it would end the game. All of this corruption has a counterparty and airing the dirty laundry, even if not one person here got prosecuted or ousted, would likely fuck up the game so catastrophically that all the rules would change overnight.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (DU+/6)

240
now that everyone's down on Scot Adams can we all say that his admission that he was "interested in hypnotism" is super-creepy and was almost certainly intended as way to get women to sleep with him?


More like rohypno-tism ... amirite?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (3l5Yq)

241 Smollett is gonna walk isn't he
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (Q1i0Y)

Either walk or get a slap on the wrist. You expected anything different?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 09, 2021 01:48 PM (2JVJo)
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Up is down.
Black is white.
Laurel is Hardy.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (AlkyK)

242 Wondering if I could sponsor a hot Ukrainian babe in the likeness of Mila Kunis. Strictly paternal, of course

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (eJn7u)

243 Russia = Germany.

Ukraine = Czechoslovakia.

And who will be our Winston Churchill?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (txdEq)

244 And odds are good that Taiwan is next.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 09, 2021 01:26 PM (4olE

Japan has said they will fight China if it moves against Taiwan. They have been building and deploying significant forces for the last 10+ years and is working on officially neutering the pacifist section of their constitution. India is also making noise about supporting Taiwan militarily.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (aghXp)

245 226 I know I made a joke from ace's misspelling. Linked his stats at 154 . Went from all star to out of baseball in short order.

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (CYnTg)

246 Scott Adams said that we need a word for situations that go terribly for two opposing sides.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 09, 2021 01:39 PM (aIVvv)



It's called a Pyrrhic Standoff.


. . . What?

Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (ZMraq)

247 This is when I miss Rush-he would be saying "See, I told you so!" and bringing up that he was right 99.98% of the time.

Posted by: pookysgirl, Rush Baby forever at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (XKZwp)

248 >>> now that everyone's down on Scot Adams can we all say that his admission that he was "interested in hypnotism" is super-creepy and was almost certainly intended as way to get women to sleep with him?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (0G13K)


Have you ever seen his new little wifey thott?

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (IN3jG)

249 >>More like rohypno-tism ... amirite?


Oh, I am gonna be stealing that.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (tmNnT)

250 "good summary, I agree. But because they don't understand the reality of what they're doing, if it ever comes down to a situation that calls for actual force to be used, they will always surrender without firing a shot. That's what unrealistic people do when they run face first into reality.

And this would be why the "smart" people in the Dem party are all about trying to negotiate some kind of face saving giveaway, because they realize that the only other option they have is unconditional surrender to whoever is challenging them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (trdmm)"

I think the smarter Progs are concerned about the potential to seriously get our ass kicked - that whoever is nominally calling the shots *won't* back down. Some want it kicked, but only moderately so, to put us in our "proper" place. The sort of one-sided wins we've had against Russian mercenaries in Syria are largely not in the offing in Ukraine against regular Russian troops, and not likely against the Chinese in their AO either.

This is not something super visible outside the military, but most of our combat arms formations have stagnated over the last 20 years.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (HIzXx)

251 How many trillions of dollars did we spent keeping an army in Europe for 50 years post WW2? Enough with shit. I'm tired of being the world's policeman.

Yean NATO is clearly trash and just a way to prop up Euro Socialist Democracies by footing the bill for their self defense. We should have closed it down under Trump and then moved to an Eastern European Treaty Organization to protect the world from Russian aggression. But no, like the UN its just a scam to siphon money out of US pockets to send it to Europe.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:50 PM (KZzsI)

252 Chamberlain, you son of a bitch, I read your book!
Posted by: President Poopy Pants at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (FVME7)


Chamberlain, at least, was dealing with a Britain completely unprepared for war and still reeling from WWI, and he ordered the continued rearmament of his country. It was the platonic idea of diplomacy as the art of "saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a stick."

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 09, 2021 01:50 PM (wmDcS)

253 Regarding Biden:

"Will no one rid me of this sundowning turnip?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 01:50 PM (txdEq)

254 Ukraine is a giant grift ATM.
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Oddly enough, both "at the moment" and "automatic teller machine" fit that sentence.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 09, 2021 01:50 PM (UHVv4)

255 a Jizzy hanger will tell all blacks

get one racist on the jury and you will walk

open season on crackers, like it already hasn't been going on

Posted by: REDACTED at December 09, 2021 01:50 PM (us2H3)

256 China is also building a military base on the Atlantic on the coast of Africa.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at December 09, 2021 01:50 PM (ptqGC)

257 >>>Wondering if I could sponsor a hot Ukrainian babe in the likeness of Mila Kunis.

never got that one.

Her and natalie portman. super-meh.

Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:50 PM (0G13K)

258 Smollett is gonna walk isn't he
Posted by: It's me donna

It's a Christmas miracle!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2021 01:50 PM (FVME7)

259 Perhaps, the US should "lend" Ukraine a few nukes to test over their "autonomous region"

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 01:50 PM (RHGPo)

260
My nasty suspicion: American Reds WANT to involve the U.S. in pointless and endless wars so they can agitate enough to ensure defeat and disaster, they better to bring down our country.

They are using opposition to the Vietnam War as a model.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (YqDXo)


Which is the same reason that Charlie Rangel used to submit a bill every session which abolished the volunteer military, going to all conscription. He didn't give a shit about military preparedness, he knew that most of the VN war opposition was about the draft, and bringing it back would create an anti-military wave within young adults. He was quite proud of the idea and talked about it in public all the time.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2021 01:51 PM (n+4am)

261 This blonde in white still has trouble believing that the cabal has only been in office for a mere 323 days:
https://is.gd/1w7Oc4

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:51 PM (DU+/6)

262 >>never got that one.

>Her and natalie portman. super-meh.


This is how I know you are gay.

\Well. This and the whole Messenger Bag thing.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 01:51 PM (tmNnT)

263 I thought they only settled there because Slav Girls were Easy.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM


Very easy.

Posted by: Aliens at December 09, 2021 01:51 PM (m+jkK)

264 Territorial integrity of nations is one of those things people will miss when its gone plus one does not quell ambition by feeding it.

Afghanistan has exposed the US as a paper tiger just like the failure to push That Man out of the Rhinelands for violating the Versailles Treaty did for England and France.

There will be consequences from that will affect the US and its interests and we are just seeing those consequences in the present. It will get worse.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2021 01:51 PM (9hXN1)

265
Like he just got off a horse. Yes.
Posted by: garrett


* mouths "juicy, call me!" *

Posted by: Wuhil Wuheaton's Wuhee Starfish at December 09, 2021 01:51 PM (3l5Yq)

266 Also show him the Russian modernization of the last 10 years.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 01:46 PM (V6f9+)

___

U-huh.

Russia's GDP per capita is $11K. The US is $60K.

Russia is a backwater relative to the west. And that GDP is almost all from natural resources, the hallmark of a poor country. Yeah Moscow has some shiny new buildings. Outside of that, it's a 3rd World shithole.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 09, 2021 01:51 PM (OalnH)

267 257 I shall fight you for Mila's honor sir!

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 01:51 PM (CYnTg)

268 When I was younger, I became very interested in hypnotism. And chloroform. And also, blackmail photos.

Posted by: Scott Adams at December 09, 2021 01:51 PM (0G13K)

269
Her and natalie portman. super-meh.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:50 PM (0G13K)

Legs, Ace. And lots of em.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 09, 2021 01:51 PM (eJn7u)

270 >>> Scott Adams said that we need a word for situations that go terribly for two opposing sides.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 09, 2021 01:39 PM (aIVvv)


I don't know it's a mystery.

Posted by: Mercutio at December 09, 2021 01:51 PM (IN3jG)

271 Good politicians stay bought. That's the incredible thing here - the speed with which Biden, whose family has raked in major cash from Ukraine (along with many other Democrat foreign policy types), simply turned his back on Ukraine. It really is amazing.

File under "no worse friend, no better enemy"?

Posted by: Milquetoast mortgage-paying neighbor in flyover country at December 09, 2021 01:51 PM (/4mWz)

272 Don Bass?


Invented the Bass-O-Matic

Posted by: Dan Akroyd at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (xSnmX)

273 163 Does Mexico even want California? Maybe granting them independence is a better option.
Posted by: zmdavid at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (xqRaG)

*******

The Mexican government simply would have to allow the drug cartels to have their way with the woke crowd for a month or two, then California would be sufficiently pacified to the Mexican government's liking.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (dgYAy)

274 67 13 Guess all that sweet, sweet Ukrainian money flowing into Hunter;s account for his "oil industry expertise" was misspent, eh?
Posted by: red speck at December 09, 2021 01:24 PM (gS3OW)

the fact that the Ukrainians were a party to all of this corruption makes me feel not very sorry for them. And they had a chance to release a lot of info that would have helped Trump, and they didn't. So I don't see any reason for anyone here to stick their necks out for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (trdmm)

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A fair point. As a certain connoisseur of canine cuisine quipped, elections have consequences. Ukraine chose...poorly.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (lNHqD)

275 I've been to Russia (when it was the USSR). It was basically Mexico with nuclear weapons and a sorta space program.

It hasn't gotten any more sophisticated, really. Even if it could have, the organized crime family that Putin runs won't let it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (KZzsI)

276 212 Turley says a Jizzy hanger will be jury nullification

It will be jury elimination
Posted by: REDACTED at December 09, 2021 01:46 PM (us2H3)

Yes, it will. That, along with the current crime rate, will be an unmistakable marker saying that the City of Chicago is no longer capable of self governance. Not that this will happen anytime soon, but I imagine that the only way to clean up Chicago would be to put it under Martial Law with direct military control. Fortified machine gun posts on every street corner.

Oh, I'm just kidding - Chicago's not worth that level of effort. Let it burn.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (trdmm)

277 "What would he publish that any US news source or DOJ guy would act on?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (KZzsI)"

I've said this a number of times; there is ample video of Hunter fucking minors, corroborated with still images and location metadata. These people are untouchable through conventional legal channels until the actual powers that be decide they aren't.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (HIzXx)

278 Our foreign policy is down to Democrats begging Russia, "Please do not make this too humiliating for us, because we have midterms coming up and we're already going to lose a lot of seats. And you guys remember -- we were always your close ideological allies before we pretended to be your savage opposition starting January 20, 2017."

With all the issues here in the USA -- CRT and sexualization in schools, parents being called domestic terrorists, border crisis, shipping crisis, economy crisis, gas prices/energy crisis, neverending COVID tyranny -- does the average American citizen/voter actually give a shit about Russia or the Ukraine?

I know I don't. All my focus is on right now is the fact that my company may terminate me in 4 weeks based on a bullshit Plandemic. I have no fucks to give about Russia or Ukraine or anyone at all outside of the USA for that matter and don't give a shit what any American politician says about anything other than the Plandemic. I have to believe I am not alone in that attitude.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (Do5/p)

279 You all are naive if you think the Ukraine is an important grift operation for the democrats. I bet it never cracked the top ten.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (k3oCU)

280 Russia = Germany.

Ukraine = Czechoslovakia.

And who will be our Winston Churchill?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (txdEq)
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Someone out of power who will make a scathing (and unpopular) speech in Congress.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (AlkyK)

281 Is Kerry going to land at Ronald Reagan airport in a Ford Trimotor and exit waving some paper in the air saying Peace in our time?

Cause we've seen that movie.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 09, 2021 01:53 PM (1hoTV)

282 Scott Adams is a douche.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 09, 2021 01:53 PM (GYllL)

283 This is a joke, right? I mean it cannot be serious, right>

All this does is embolden Russia, China, and every other tin-pot dictator to annex other countries. I guess it's official: America is dead.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 09, 2021 01:53 PM (VWp7G)

284 Mila Kunis used to be super cute but she's turning into a cigarettes and whiskey hag, the one that's always at the bar and you just settle on at close.

Natalie Portman is cute but she has the body of an 11 year old boy, its off-putting. Plus she's... weird, I can't put my finger on it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:53 PM (KZzsI)

285 Boots on the ground in the Ukraine is exactly what my son Chris Casey would have wanted. These insane Trump isolationist policies need to stop! Open the borders so other countries can establish theirs! Stop the wall street corporate greed! Thank God for people like Joe Biden and his visionary leadership.

Posted by: Cindy Sheehan 2.0 at December 09, 2021 01:53 PM (wAnMi)

286 19 Yeah, the way this is going, Russia will be taking back Kazanistan.

Hell, taking back Fort Ross on the California coast.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at December 09, 2021 01:25 PM (Vt5nn)

He'll probably given them back Alaska as long as they return the $7.2 million.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (VGRuw)

287 Do the gas pipelines from Russia to Europe run through Ukraine?

Posted by: Lrrr at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (Bi0s9)

288 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (trdmm)

think of the prosecutors trying to cut plea deal with black perp

Posted by: REDACTED at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (us2H3)

289
Obama and Biden (but I repeat myself) have a habit of issuing optional, unnecessary, line-in-the-sand tough-guy talk just before folding like a bitch. Of their own free will, they make it into a pointless public test of the Nation's resolve and credibility, a test which they then fail every time after they've set it up and drawn attention to it. I'd actually prefer it if this vandalism were intentional, rather than their whiny tough guy act being something they've genuinely deluded themselves into.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (fvbWk)

290 now that everyone's down on Scot Adams can we all say that his admission that he was "interested in hypnotism" is super-creepy and was almost certainly intended as way to get women to sleep with him?

Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (0G13K)

You mean that works!?

*orders pocket watch*

Posted by: Choo choo M*th*r F*ck*r at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (5aWFq)

291 I've been told that because Billy Jeff snookered them out of their nukes, we owe them, or something.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 09, 2021 01:37 PM (cSs/W)


Hmmm...when the dust settles, payback may be a real bitch.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (axyOa)

292 Late to the party, but is there anything more perfect than Wesley Crusher promoting mentally ill cross-dressers while criticizing black men?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Did you know the kids vaccine formula wasn't tested at all? at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (BGev3)

293 >> Scott Adams is a douche.


Ziggy > Dilbert

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (tmNnT)

294 Does Mexico even want California?


Not anymore. I mean, California has a serious drug problem.

Posted by: El Chapo at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (xSnmX)

295 What would he publish that any US news source or DOJ guy would act on? ...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:47 PM (KZzsI)
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Nothing. No official consequences would be likely, but it would end the game. All of this corruption has a counterparty and airing the dirty laundry, even if not one person here got prosecuted or ousted, would likely fuck up the game so catastrophically that all the rules would change overnight.
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FYI The british press will publish EVERY bit of it. Britain is very mad about Afghanistan. Biden is a dead man walking. Bet me.

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (pjso2)

296 Laurel is Hardy.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM


You are the abbott to my costello.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (bVYXr)

297 I can hear That Bastard Joe now:

"The United States has no vital strategic interests in Ukraine. Ukrainian sovereignty is not worth the life of a single American male, female, or other gender soldier, Marine or pilot. I have directed Secretary Blinken to lead an effort to rally all peace-loving nations to exert powerful world-wide diplomatic pressure on Putin to halt his military operations in Ukraine. Our primary concern at this time is getting humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine. Good bye. No, I will not answer any questions today."

/spits/

Posted by: Gref at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (AMIL/)

298 Heh, Biden and Harris seem to be having a falling out. Biden passes Kamala without any acknowledgment or even looking at her. After standing next to her for a little bit, he shuffles past DOCTOR Jill to put DOCTOR Jill between himself and Harris.

https://bit.ly/3y9bCX8

Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (sG4Hj)

299 230 Here's my Ukraine fear:
Russia and Belorussia go for Ukraine.

Poland provides air support for Ukraine. Poland IS part of NATO so when the Russians hit the Poles in return, the music starts to play like August 1914.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 01:48 PM (V6f9+)

____

I have a better chance of fucking Kate Upton tonight than this scenario happening.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (OalnH)

300 You all are naive if you think the Ukraine is an important grift operation for the democrats. I bet it never cracked the top ten.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (k3oCU)
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I think it was more important than that. Probably not much actual Ukrainian money was flowing into our coffers of corruption, but I suspect a whole shitload of money and influence from all over the place was being laundered there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (DU+/6)

301 As a certain connoisseur of canine cuisine quipped
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He's now writing a cookbook, "Bow Wow Chow."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (YqDXo)

302 >>> Wondering if I could sponsor a hot Ukrainian babe in the likeness of Mila Kunis.

never got that one.

Her and natalie portman. super-meh.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:50 PM (0G13K)


Where does Leeloo AKA Milla Jov-vavavoom-ovich play into all this?

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (IN3jG)

303 Most of Russia is empty wilderness. Some of the most inhospitable places on Earth are in Russia.

The Yamal and Kamchatka peninsulas are neck to neck contenders for the actual hell on Earth.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 09, 2021 01:55 PM (Y5qcH)

304 >>>Ziggy > Dilbert

Mary Worth > Dilbert

Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:55 PM (0G13K)

305 We offer a laurel (holds out wreath) and hardy handshake to our town's newest....

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:55 PM (KZzsI)

306 I don't think adding women's leagues into video-game sports is going to go so well.

Assuming these games are made accurately, where the players represented in-game have the same general performance as their real-world counterparts (skating speed, ability to change direction, shot power, liklihood of making a shot, liklihood of blocking a puck, etc...), then this is going to be a disaster.

EA will be putting front-and-center into the hands of everyone who buys the game an immediate method of directly comparing / contrasting male and female athletes. It may not be as pronounced in hockey, I have no idea, but it wlil be OBVIOUS when this is done to the soccer games.

MOMMY MOMMY LOOK I CAN NOW PLAY AS MEGAN RAPI....why is she slow Mommy? Is this lagging? Are my controller batteries dead? Run faster, Megan! No! You missed? *sobs*

Posted by: reason at December 09, 2021 01:55 PM (o0WIV)

307 America is dead.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 09, 2021 01:53 PM (VWp7G)

Get in the cart.

Posted by: Cart guy at December 09, 2021 01:55 PM (5aWFq)

308 How long before we get the Tawainomous Zone?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 09, 2021 01:55 PM (CHt6G)

309 one thing we have to look forward to

when the race war happens

it will be whitey's fault

100%

Posted by: REDACTED at December 09, 2021 01:55 PM (us2H3)

310 Do the gas pipelines from Russia to Europe run through Ukraine?

Posted by: Lrrr at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM


yes.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2021 01:55 PM (bVYXr)

311 >>>Poland provides air support for Ukraine. Poland IS part of NATO so when the Russians hit the Poles in return, the music starts to play like August 1914.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

If that happened, you better believe the U.S. would sit this one out.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 09, 2021 01:55 PM (VWp7G)

312 Scott Adams said that we need a word for situations that go terribly for two opposing sides.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 09, 2021 01:39 PM (aIVvv)
I don't know it's a mystery.
Posted by: Mercutio at December 09, 2021 01:51 PM (IN3jG)


I vote for "Dilbert/Dilberted/Dilbertized"

Bidenated is already taken.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (wAnMi)

313 Where does Leeloo AKA Milla Jov-vavavoom-ovich play into all this?

Top shelf yummy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (KZzsI)

314 These people are untouchable through conventional legal channels until the actual powers that be decide they aren't.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (HIzXx)

I blame Trump. He simultaneously ripped off the blinders and masks, and half the country collectively screeched ORANGEMANBAD.

Posted by: flounder at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (SH2Zi)

315 110 kinda feel like Ukraine has actually Colluded to Subvert our elections and kinda feel like I could give a shit what happens to them
Posted by: ace

---

vindmann almost was their defense secretary

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (ZZK0E)

316 Up is down.
Black is white.
Laurel is Hardy.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (AlkyK)


Not that it's interesting to anyone but me, but Stan Laurel, despite his character of a hapless, child-like boob, was actually the brains of the team. He came up with most of their routines, wrote scenarios and gave directions to Hardy, who was happy to just show up, do his bit and go home.

Kino International put out two collections of Laurel's solo work prior to teaming with Hardy. They're hit or miss, but some of them are very funny. I happen to be a fan of 1918s Just Rambling Along:

https://tinyurl.com/yhyb7fs2

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (2JVJo)

317 on Scot Adams can we all say that his admission that he was "interested in hypnotism" is super-creepy and was almost certainly intended as way to get women to sleep with him?
==
Dude views people as "meat puppets". Total sociopath.

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (zCU/K)

318 Why are they spelling Kiev, Kyiv? It's all so stupid.

Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (EpDzw)

319 "My nasty suspicion: American Reds WANT to involve the U.S. in pointless and endless wars so they can agitate enough to ensure defeat and disaster, they better to bring down our country.

They are using opposition to the Vietnam War as a model.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (YqDXo)"

True, but they couldn't organize a fuckup in a whorehouse. The foreign opposition means business.

I do not think we have enough components left of our ruling classes that are capable of going toe to toe with the Chinese and winning. Ironically this is the result of the Soviet-backed long march through the institutions, and the Russians are only hanging in because they bit the bullet and ejected the western hucksters and have a pile of nukes leftover to deter the Chinese.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (HIzXx)

320 Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at December 09, 2021 01:38 PM (HIzXx)

Worth repeating!

Posted by: ... at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (yl8CB)

321 BREAKING: Lattetia James drops out of race for NY Gov.

Second look at Suozzi as Gov?

Posted by: Boswell at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (5iUNf)

322 You are the abbott to my costello.
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (bVYXr)
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Third base!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (AlkyK)

323 'Chicago's not worth that level of effort. '
Don't do it for Chicago. Do it for the prospect of machine gunning bad guys.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (vNbzm)

324 Assuming these games are made accurately, where the players represented in-game have the same general performance as their real-world counterparts (skating speed, ability to change direction, shot power, liklihood of making a shot, liklihood of blocking a puck, etc...), then this is going to be a disaster.

You know for sure they will tweak the women to be faster, stronger, and more skilled. I guarantee it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (KZzsI)

325 Cathy > Dilbert

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (ptqGC)

326 When Juicy get the not guilty verdict, he'll rip off his pants and show his ass-less chaps, and walk out of the courtroom to the sounds of "We Are The Champions," his juicy butt wagging.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (KiBMU)

327 Why are they spelling Kiev, Kyiv? It's all so stupid.
Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (EpDzw)
++++
It's the "new spelling" that supposedly reflects how they would spell it themselves. Like when Peking became Beijing, essentially.

I think it's basically a virtue signal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (DU+/6)

328 Why are they spelling Kiev, Kyiv? It's all so stupid.
Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (EpDzw)

Oh are we back to Pockyschton too?

Posted by: ... at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (yl8CB)

329 >>>Top shelf yummy
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Seconded.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (VWp7G)

330 It hasn't gotten any more sophisticated, really. Even if it could have, the organized crime family that Putin runs won't let it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (KZzsI)

___

Putin gives no fucks about expanding Mother Russia. This his sop to the rubes. Hey look I got Ukraine back!! Yeay us!! It's a version of failure theater.

He cares about keeping the grift going. He's not going to start WW3 and fuck all that up for himself and his inner circle families.

As always, follow the money.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (OalnH)

331 Europe has a choice to defend themselves or not. Three times last century was enough.

Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (EpDzw)

332 The Russians and the Ukrainians have been at daggers drawn since forever. The Ukrainians - who in many respects are similar to our Texans - finally semi-succumbed about 300 years ago, and made a deal with Russia that left Ukraine sorta semi-autonomous, with the condition that Ukraine supply Russia with cavalry: the Cossacks.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:36 PM (YqDXo)

It's too bad Ukraine doesn't have that leverage now. The only thing they had was that pipeline they could shut off and or steal gas from. Hmm now Russia can sell Europe gas without any possibility of Ukraine cutting it off? I wonder who approved that....

Posted by: Mishdog at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (fyCTq)

333 China is also building a military base on the Atlantic on the coast of Africa.
Posted by: Jane D'Oh
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And a road around the outside of Jamaica; and 'invested' $500-million in the new Republic of Barbados.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (UHVv4)

334 Heh, Biden and Harris seem to be having a falling out. Biden passes Kamala without any acknowledgment or even looking at her. After standing next to her for a little bit, he shuffles past DOCTOR Jill to put DOCTOR Jill between himself and Harris.
-----------------

Putting those two next to each other is a great way to start a cat fight.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (YqDXo)

335 kinda feel like Ukraine has actually Colluded to Subvert our elections and kinda feel like I could give a shit what happens to them

There are no good guys but clearly one is preying on the other. Russia has lusted after an all-winter open port for its entire existence.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (KZzsI)

336 Laurel is Hardy.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM


You are the abbott to my costello.
Posted by: Mister Scot


You are Donald O'Conner to my Francis.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (cQZxO)

337 fuck Ukraine

when they coulda done something during impeachment, they chose to sit on their hands

fuck em

did I say fuck em

fuck em 20X

Posted by: REDACTED at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (us2H3)

338 Where does Leeloo AKA Milla Jov-vavavoom-ovich play into all this?




Where does Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub (a.k.a. Lily Adams from the AT&T commercials) play in all of this?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (xSnmX)

339 Not anymore. I mean, California has a serious drug problem.
Posted by: El Chapo at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM


Would you say it has a plethora of problems, El Chapo?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (m+jkK)

340 290 now that everyone's down on Scot Adams can we all say that his admission that he was "interested in hypnotism" is super-creepy and was almost certainly intended as way to get women to sleep with him?

Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (0G13K)

You mean that works!?

*orders pocket watch*
Posted by: Choo choo M*th*r F*ck*r at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (5aWFq)
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Not consistently. There are far better ways.

Posted by: Bill Cosby at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (o0WIV)

341 Pretty much everything I thought was going to happen in Obama's Administration ended up happening in Biden's

Posted by: Blago at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (PwNLq)

342 Assuming these games are made accurately, where the players represented in-game have the same general performance as their real-world counterparts (skating speed, ability to change direction, shot power, liklihood of making a shot, liklihood of blocking a puck, etc...), then this is going to be a disaster.
--
You think that's going to happen?

Nah. They'll scale the stats by weighing them against the rest of the league they play in, not based on some objective criteria.

If it allows play with a men's team against a women's team, the stats will be roughly equivalent.

Reality and video games really don't mix.

Posted by: Revenant at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (C35Jn)

343 Let's Go, Ne-ville
clap, clap, clap-clap-clap

Posted by: t-bird at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (KDCRD)

344 Someone out of power who will make a scathing (and unpopular) speech in Congress.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (AlkyK)
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Before WWII Churchill was famous for Gallipoli, which was a huge military screw up in WWI. So based on that unpopular + military screw-up, it'll be a neocon.

Posted by: zmdavid at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (xqRaG)

345 China is also building a military base on the Atlantic on the coast of Africa.
Posted by: Jane D'Oh
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And a road around the outside of Jamaica; and 'invested' $500-million in the new Republic of Barbados.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (UHVv4)

-------------------------

They pretty much own Sri Lanka now.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (ptqGC)

346 246 Scott Adams said that we need a word for situations that go terribly for two opposing sides.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 09, 2021 01:39 PM (aIVvv)

It's called a Pyrrhic Standoff.
. . . What?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 09, 2021 01:49 PM (ZMraq

Back in the WayBack times, when people still thought, there was a term "Wicked Problem" for some situations.

A "Wicked Problem" is one where every conceivable response leads to something bad, and all you can do is to Choose the Form of the Destructor.

ST fans probably know it as the Kobyashi Maru scenario.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (trdmm)

347 One of the problems with the neocon stance that we should defend Ukraine (and we promised them that exact thing) is that we would just fuck it up.

Our military couldn't even handle the retreat from Afghanistan. What makes these rocket surgeons confident that we could actually mount a defense of Ukraine?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (Q9lwr)

348 >>>Putin gives no fucks about expanding Mother Russia. This his sop to the rubes. Hey look I got Ukraine back!! Yeay us!! It's a version of failure theater.


You'd think the prick had enough land to rule over.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (VWp7G)

349 The New Yorker "I think I'm going to kill myself" Comic > Dilbert

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (OssQ4)

350 EA bans customer for having the username "Kyle Rittenhouse."

https://bit.ly/3pEVgSs

Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (sG4Hj)

351 185 I'm going to go against the theme but I am OK with letting Russia have the part of Ukraine that is full of ethnic Russians.
If Ukraine took the long view they ought to be glad to see them go.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2021 01:44 PM (vNbzm)

The industrialized western part of Ukraine is Russian speaking and sympathetic to Moscow. Russia should take over this portion and let the eastern half fend for themselves. Either way, this has absolutely nothing to do with U.S. interests and we should stay the fuck out of it.

Posted by: jwest at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (/BlEx)

352 Not consistently. There are far better ways.
Posted by: Bill Cosby at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (o0WIV)

Those x-ray vision glasses are useful if the watch thingy doesn't work...

Posted by: Boswell at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (5iUNf)

353 The United States has no vital strategic interests in Ukraine.

-
Chamberlain's words were "a quarrel in a faraway land between people of which we know nothing."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (FVME7)

354 BREAKING: Lattetia James drops out of race for NY Gov.



Clearly, she's racist.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (xSnmX)

355 Dondi > Ziggy > Dilbert

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 09, 2021 02:00 PM (GYllL)

356 Mary Elizabeth Winstead

And Atomic Blonde made me notice Charlize Theron.

Posted by: ... at December 09, 2021 02:00 PM (yl8CB)

357 318 Why are they spelling Kiev, Kyiv? It's all so stupid.
Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (EpDzw)

Keiv is the Russian name. Not really it's the English translation of the Russian spelling. For some reason the English translation of the Ukrainian spelling is Kyiv.

This is all incredible important to people in the State Dept and media.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 09, 2021 02:00 PM (Y5qcH)

358 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:53 PM (KZzsI)

I would guess she's never been a girl. She was oversexualized very young in an age that encouraged that both publicly and worse behind the scenes.

She doesn't know how to "act". Hah! Literally.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 09, 2021 02:00 PM (1hoTV)

359 Welp, off to Sam's Club. Thoughts and prayers would be appreciated.

Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six!(ptqGC) at December 09, 2021 02:00 PM (ptqGC)

360 Where does Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub (a.k.a. Lily Adams from the AT&T commercials) play in all of this?

Meh. Wait til you thrill to her as Squirrel Girl.

Nah. They'll scale the stats by weighing them against the rest of the league they play in, not based on some objective criteria.

Yeah. I mean there are fighting games where you can pit like Superman against Batman. Objectively that's going to be like Godzilla vs Bambi but to make it a game the de-power superman and power up Batman so CHALLENGE!

Its lame, but its just a game, so their goals are very different than accurate simulation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:00 PM (KZzsI)

361 can't wait for the SNL take on Cankle's crying jag

Posted by: REDACTED at December 09, 2021 02:00 PM (us2H3)

362 >>>And a road around the outside of Jamaica; and 'invested' $500-million in the new Republic of Barbados.

Posted by: andycanuck


They're buying a lot of property here in the states as well.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (VWp7G)

363 I blame Trump. He simultaneously ripped off the blinders and masks, and half the country collectively screeched ORANGEMANBAD.
==
An audience has expectations. When an actor comes on stage and points to the cue card guy then to the fake set, it upsets the audience's expectations. Unmet expectations lead to an emotional response. Why can't he just say his lines play the character he is supposed to play!!! Some in the audience dont like the play and want to see it get taken down a notch. Others love it. Others, wish for a different ending, but they don't want a different ending if for that to happen if it means the fourth wall is broken. Restore the norms!!!!

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (wAf2K)

364 It's too bad Ukraine doesn't have that leverage now. The only thing they had was that pipeline they could shut off and or steal gas from. Hmm now Russia can sell Europe gas without any possibility of Ukraine cutting it off? I wonder who approved that....
Posted by: Mishdog


Meh. Pipelines have been known to go boom!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (cQZxO)

365 308 How long before we get the Tawainomous Zone?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 09, 2021 01:55 PM (CHt6G)
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I want a Taiwanomous for Christmaaaas, only a Taiwanomous will dooooo....

Posted by: Joe's Buddy Xi at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (lNHqD)

366 now that everyone's down on Scot Adams can we all say that his admission that he was "interested in hypnotism" is super-creepy and was almost certainly intended as way to get women to sleep with him?
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:43 PM (0G13K)

Yeah you alluded to this but didn't say it in a post once and I thought it was a good observation.

Posted by: ... at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (yl8CB)

367 Would you say it has a plethora of problems, El Chapo?

Thanks for explaining 'plethora' to me. It means a lot.

Posted by: Wil Wheaton at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (ELgVT)

368 It'll be quite a rude awakening to find a Chinese Naval base in the Caribbean one day. Probably sooner rather than later.

You think we have supply chain issues now....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (BFigT)

369 Poland provides air support for Ukraine. Poland IS part of NATO so when the Russians hit the Poles in return, the music starts to play like August 1914.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

If that happened, you better believe the U.S. would sit this one out.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 09, 2021 01:55 PM (VWp7G)

That has always been the NATO trap. If one member country, like oh... TURKEY, goes off the reservation and attacks its neighbors, who respond, then WE are supposed to involve ourselves?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (oHd/0)

370 Either way, this has absolutely nothing to do with U.S. interests and we should stay the fuck out of it.
Posted by: jwest at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (/BlEx)

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But but but but but STUFF!!!
- right wing media

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (OalnH)

371 218 Re Tucker Carlson, I think that on the residual right in wealthier circles, there is a yearning for a strong man to break the new money types from tech and financials.

I see some of that here with commenters--expectations against Trump are in part because he followed the law and judicial rulings and thus was weak himself.

The unspoken assumption by those commenters is that any president elected from the right will have to operate outside the law, much as Lincoln did, in order to smash the left. This is essentially conceding Lincoln's argument was valid that he had to operate outside the Constitution's prohibitions because the Confederates were aiming at destroying the most important part of it--the Union itself.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (9hXN1)

372
Can he come back from Germany, smiling and holding up papers showing how brilliant his negotiations were to avoid war?
Posted by: Dave in Fla


I have these fifteen...oops, ten commandments!

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (63Dwl)

373 Smollett is gonna walk isn't he
Posted by: It's me donna at December 09, 2021 01:41 PM (Q1i0Y)

Chicago cops screwed up. They should have shot him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (P3gRi)

374 Why are they spelling Kiev, Kyiv? It's all so stupid.
Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (EpDzw)


Don't ask me

Posted by: Beijing at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (Z32m1)

375 China is also building a military base on the Atlantic on the coast of Africa.
Posted by: Jane D'Oh
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And a road around the outside of Jamaica; and 'invested' $500-million in the new Republic of Barbados.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (UHVv4)


Check the property tax records for Hawaii. The names sound like someone threw the silverware drawer up into the air and picked out what sounded best.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 02:02 PM (axyOa)

376 Putin gives no fucks about expanding Mother Russia.

Putin is a mobster, but he's a Russia Loving super patriot first. He loves Russia like Obama loves himself. He makes the most flag waving American look like a putz. The man worships Russia. The bigger and more powerful it is, the better.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:02 PM (KZzsI)

377 >>>Where does Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub (a.k.a. Lily Adams from the AT&T commercials) play in all of this?


She was on Twitter claiming how happy she was when she had her abortion. She's as left as Mika Scarborough.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 09, 2021 02:02 PM (VWp7G)

378 Donbas, ace. No "l."

He's been reading Elric a lot lately.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:32 PM (KZzsI)

Well its the Christmas Season, isn't it? Sing it:

"No L, No L, No L, No L"
Posted by: Tom Servo

Whatever ya so, don't read Beowulf.

Makes ya testy.

Posted by: JT at December 09, 2021 02:02 PM (arJlL)

379 What is with the name Alyssa and stupid?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 09, 2021 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)

380 Where does Leeloo AKA Milla Jov-vavavoom-ovich play into all this?

Where does Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub (a.k.a. Lily Adams from the AT&T commercials) play in all of this?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (xSnmX)
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Two words:
Olga.
Kurylenko.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021 02:02 PM (AlkyK)

381 And who will be our Winston Churchill?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021
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Someone out of power who will make a scathing (and unpopular) speech in Congress.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021


***
And -- just as important -- someone whose field of fucks is barren in regards to the screaming of the Wokesters on social media.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 02:02 PM (txdEq)

382 Finally, the defendant's [Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussmann] motion also ignores the Government's production of a memorandum that two employees of another agency (referred to in the Indictment as "Agency-2") drafted after their February 9, 2017 meeting with the defendant on a matter related to the allegations the defendant brought to the FBI. That memorandum similarly reflects that the defendant told these employees that he was not representing "a particular client." In sum, discovery produced to date reflects that the recollections and/or contemporaneous records of five separate government employees support the Indictment's allegations.

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:02 PM (RHGPo)

383 Do the gas pipelines from Russia to Europe run through Ukraine?
Posted by: Lrrr at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (Bi0s9)


I believe some do but with More Stream 2 which runs through the Baltic sea to Central Europe bypassing Ukraine it is probably moot.

Posted by: Beartooth at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (aghXp)

384 I find it interesting that Russia did not push this issue from 2017 to 2020, I wonder why?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (5kI0z)

385 Heh, Biden and Harris seem to be having a falling out. Biden passes Kamala without any acknowledgment or even looking at her. After standing next to her for a little bit, he shuffles past DOCTOR Jill to put DOCTOR Jill between himself and Harris.

https://bit.ly/3y9bCX8
Posted by: bonhomme at December 09, 2021 01:54 PM (sG4Hj)


hard to tell - he looks so out of it. I'm not sure he'd recognize anybody with a mask on. Could be that handler Jill thought he should be closer to the podium/center. I'll just write this off as more weird ass shit from an old man with dementia.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (wAnMi)

386 I'd like to see Kat Timpf naked, if she would shut up long enough to take her clothes off.

Posted by: ballistic at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (oXNqT)

387 374 Why are they spelling Kiev, Kyiv? It's all so stupid.
Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (EpDzw)

Don't ask me
Posted by: Beijing at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (Z32m1)

___

Right?

Posted by: Kolkata at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (OalnH)

388 Nah bro, the Vikings settled in Minnesota.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (r5BVk)

389 One of the problems with the neocon stance that we should defend Ukraine (and we promised them that exact thing) is that we would just fuck it up.

Our military couldn't even handle the retreat from Afghanistan. What makes these rocket surgeons confident that we could actually mount a defense of Ukraine?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Yep, I have ZERO confidence in our military even when someone I like is in the White House.

The Pentagon is an absolute joke, we're on our own if we ever have a "real" war.

Posted by: Blago at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (PwNLq)

390 More = Nord

Posted by: Beartooth at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (aghXp)

391 What is with the name Alyssa and stupid?


Alysyn.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (R8uWY)

392 368 It'll be quite a rude awakening to find a Chinese Naval base in the Caribbean one day. Probably sooner rather than later.

You think we have supply chain issues now....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (BFigT)

Zimmerman Telegram, where WW1 Germany tried to get U-boat bases in Mexico.

Now, do China.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (oHd/0)

393 I'm tanned, rested and ready to serve.

Posted by: Stacey Abrams at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (SYpwM)

394 Her and natalie portman. super-meh.
Posted by: ace at December 09, 2021 01:50 PM (0G13K)

Arguably, Natalie Portman's abs were about the only saving grace in Star Wars II.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (dfRN6)

395 Pretty much everything I thought was going to happen in Obama's Administration ended up happening in Biden's
Posted by: Blago at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (PwNLq)

Yeah me too. Was thinking this the other day. I don't believe that Hillary was supposed to win. I think they were trying for something else and then Trump slipped in. Obama did not like Hillary. Or Willie for that matter.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (1hoTV)

396 can't wait for the SNL take on Cankle's crying jag
Posted by: REDACTED

Oh, I know - they'll sing their version of cohen's "Hallelujah".

And everyone will cry.

*snif*

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (mD/uy)

397 242 Wondering if I could sponsor a hot Ukrainian babe in the likeness of Mila Kunis. Strictly paternal, of course
Posted by: Xipe Totec



Heh, I was thinking Olga Kurylenko.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (8Sqzu)

398 Why are they spelling Kiev, Kyiv? It's all so stupid.
Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (EpDzw)

Don't ask me
Posted by: Beijing


Me neither

Posted by: Mumbai at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (Z32m1)

399 Poland provides air support for Ukraine. Poland IS part of NATO so when the Russians hit the Poles in return, the music starts to play like August 1914.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

If that happened, you better believe the U.S. would sit this one out.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 09, 2021 01:55 PM (VWp7G)

I admire your optimism

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 02:04 PM (V6f9+)

400 Ziggy > Dilbert

***

Family Affair > Doonsberry > Ziggy > Dilbert

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 09, 2021 02:04 PM (flINI)

401 Where does Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub (a.k.a. Lily Adams from the AT&T commercials) play in all of this?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (xSnmX)

Her devout marxism renders her only two good qualities rather eh although I guess it's nothing a decent rag couldn't fix

Posted by: ... at December 09, 2021 02:04 PM (yl8CB)

402 Why are they spelling Kiev, Kyiv? It's all so stupid.
Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (EpDzw)

Don't ask me
Posted by: Beijing at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (Z32m1)
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Or me.

Posted by: Istanbul, not Constantinople at December 09, 2021 02:04 PM (AlkyK)

403 I want a Taiwanomous for Christmaaaas, only a Taiwanomous will dooooo....
Posted by: Joe's Buddy Xi at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (lNHqD)


Earworm!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 02:04 PM (axyOa)

404 Why are they spelling Kiev, Kyiv? It's all so stupid.
Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (EpDzw)


Can't these idiots read?

Posted by: Great Gates at December 09, 2021 02:04 PM (wAnMi)

405 Two words:
Olga.
Kurylenko.


When she's not wearing her body weight in mascara, she's not bad looking but she gives off a vibe like she's a walking STD.

And who will be our Winston Churchill?

Aborted in 1975

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:04 PM (KZzsI)

406 347 One of the problems with the neocon stance that we should defend Ukraine (and we promised them that exact thing) is that we would just fuck it up.Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (Q9lwr)


I remember when the U.S. vowed to support the duly elected leader of Ukraine as long as the election was fair and honest. Viktor Yanukovych was elected in what everyone from Jimmy Carter on down declared was the cleanest election of all time. It didn't take long for the U.S. to fuck him and depose his government for a CIA appointed stooge.

Posted by: jwest at December 09, 2021 02:04 PM (/BlEx)

407 Sorta related side note;

20 years ago we got caught out LARPing as the pre-eminent world military power. Sure, nobody could really compete, but we were going through the motions and doing cargo cult nonsense. You'd have things like MEU's out on ships that didn't have even a single days' worth of batteries for their night vision in supply - stuff like that. It was hollow.

Then a short ramp up with large scale ground ops, and then a decline again. A few lone voices in the wilderness in some combat arms units are seriously dealing with things like enemy drones and autonomous weapons, private snuffy carrying personal electronics, proper multispectral camo, not running around with active IR like you own that spectrum, etc, but largely speaking we are setting up for an amazing drubbing if we are not careful. Our troops are doing a lot of the things that got the Armenians and Ukrainians clobbered.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at December 09, 2021 02:04 PM (HIzXx)

408 I'm typically not into the skinny waif look. But there's something about Kat Timpf that makes her an exception.

Posted by: Kolkata at December 09, 2021 02:04 PM (OalnH)

409 374 Why are they spelling Kiev, Kyiv? It's all so stupid.
Posted by: WiNO - Now Fortified with Fraud at December 09, 2021 01:56 PM (EpDzw)

Don't ask me
Posted by: Beijing at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (Z32m1)
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Or me. - Mumbai

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:04 PM (YqDXo)

410 I want a Taiwanomous for Christmaaaas, only a Taiwanomous will dooooo....
Posted by: Joe's Buddy Xi at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM


Great. I'll have that ear worm for days.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2021 02:05 PM (m+jkK)

411 344 Someone out of power who will make a scathing (and unpopular) speech in Congress.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021 01:52 PM (AlkyK)
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Before WWII Churchill was famous for Gallipoli, which was a huge military screw up in WWI. So based on that unpopular + military screw-up, it'll be a neocon.
Posted by: zmdavid at December 09, 2021 01:59 PM (xqRaG)

This may sound counter-intuitive, but this is the kind of scenario that Mitch McConnell is pretty brilliant at. He's a master of milking as much as he can out of a situation where he knows deep down that he's never actually gonna do shit about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 02:05 PM (trdmm)

412 When she's not wearing her body weight in mascara, she's not bad looking but she gives off a vibe like she's a walking STD.

That's what I like about her.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 09, 2021 02:05 PM (QU5/8)

413 >> I'd like to see Kat Timpf naked, if she would shut up long enough to take her clothes off.


Last time I saw a carbunkle like that I was watching Morton Downey Junior!

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 02:05 PM (tmNnT)

414 I remember when the U.S. vowed to support the duly elected leader of Ukraine as long as the election was fair and honest.
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Their election, or ours?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:05 PM (YqDXo)

415 Cathy > Dilbert
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ACK!!

Posted by: amy schumer at December 09, 2021 02:05 PM (UHVv4)

416 Ukraine is not a place we should commit to defend. Sorry. Not worth one American life.

Putin is a dictator and Russia isn't free...but the Ukraine's record here isn't great either, and more to the point, I have a would be dictator in DC that wants to make sure I'm not free and this is rather more important to me.

Anyway aren't there a bunch of "democracies" in Europe that could take this on if they think it is important?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2021 02:05 PM (ESjRY)

417 Or me.
Posted by: Istanbul, not Constantinople


That's nobody's business but the Turks

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:05 PM (KZzsI)

418 Family Affair > Doonsberry > Ziggy > Dilbert
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 09, 2021 02:04 PM (flINI)


Marmaduke > Family Affair > Doonsberry > Ziggy > Dilbert

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (wAnMi)

419 Me neither

Posted by: Mumbai at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (Z32m1)

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I remember hearing Paul Harvey talking about this decades ago. I think he was saying Peking instead of Beijing. He acknowledged that "Yes, they say Beijing, but I say Peking. Over in France they say Pairee. But I'm American and I say Paris."

Posted by: 496 at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (VJsqe)

420 I just don't believe Russia is the menace the media wants it to be post Cold War. Almost everything it does is just something the US does as well.

Putin has people killed and so do our leaders.

China is the much bigger threat.

Posted by: Blago at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (PwNLq)

421 A top Israeli health official has warned that it will take at least 7 booster shots for people to be considered fully vaccinated and be able to live their lives without massive restrictions.

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (RHGPo)

422 I'm typically not into the skinny waif look. But there's something about Kat Timpf that makes her an exception.
Posted by: Kolkata at December 09, 2021 02:04 PM (OalnH)


She's smart and witty.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (AiZBA)

423 371 218 '... that any president elected from the right will have to operate outside the law, much as Lincoln did...'

The last 5 years demonstrate this to my satisfaction.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (vNbzm)

424 " Pretty much everything I thought was going to happen in Obama's Administration ended up happening in Biden's
Posted by: Blago at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (PwNLq)"

They didn't count on Obama being quite so vain and lazy.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (HIzXx)

425 Mitch McConnell is pretty brilliant at. He's a master of milking as much as he can out of a situation where he knows deep down that he's never actually gonna do shit about it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 02:05 PM (trdmm)

___

He promised to repeal me for 7 years and the rubes bought it.

Posted by: Obamacare at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (OalnH)

426 Man, if I was a black man, I still have my gig

Posted by: Fredo at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (us2H3)

427 Russia doesn't want NATO countries on its border. NATO has made it clear countries with border issues or internal strife won't be allowed to join NATO. Hence, Russia's desire to destabilize countries like Georgia and Ukraine with on-going, unresolved issues forever. You see the same thing in the Balkans, with Serbia (Russian ally) maintaining claims on parts of Kosovo, denying it full recognition and eligibility for NATO membership.

Posted by: Grimmy at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (JCZqz)

428 She's smart and witty.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (AiZBA)

Nah, that's not it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (Y5qcH)

429 But what does Will Wheaton think?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (aWoBQ)

430 169 OT: I'm sure the same is true for the U.S. times ten as is usual between U.S./Canada stats... 560,000 fewer hospital procedures performed in Canada since the beginning of the Pandemic [including surgeries declining by 35,000 per month led by cataract, and hip and knee replacements] due to Covid fear and lockdowns.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 09, 2021 01:42 PM (UHVv4)

Well it's not like Canada had a backlog of procedures or anything before COVID started... (sarc)

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (53oGX)

431 I remember when the U.S. vowed to support the duly elected leader of Ukraine as long as the election was fair and honest. Viktor Yanukovych was elected in what everyone from Jimmy Carter on down declared was the cleanest election of all time. It didn't take long for the U.S. to fuck him and depose his government for a CIA appointed stooge.
Posted by: jwest

Shemp ?

Posted by: JT at December 09, 2021 02:07 PM (arJlL)

432 So can we stop funding NATO completely? It's just a trillion dollar slush fund for Europe.

Posted by: Blago at December 09, 2021 02:07 PM (PwNLq)

433 Love Is > Ziggy > Dilbert

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 09, 2021 02:07 PM (2JVJo)

434 You know for sure they will tweak the women to be faster, stronger, and more skilled. I guarantee it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:57 PM (KZzsI)
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Help me play this out.

If they do...won't they get in trouble for it? Either because it is "condescending" to the wymyn's abilities, OR because it will start to make the real-world ahteletes look consistently worse than their fake-world characters?

Roid up Fake Megan to where she's even faster than real-world male players, and then when people watch real-world Megan always operating at half-capacity, her small fanbase will shrink even further.

Posted by: reason at December 09, 2021 02:07 PM (o0WIV)

435 A woman is suing the city of Portland, alleging that tear gas deployed by police during summer 2020 demonstrations caused lasting damage to her menstrual health

you can't make this stuff up

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:07 PM (RHGPo)

436 I remember hearing Paul Harvey talking about this decades ago. I think he was saying Peking instead of Beijing. He acknowledged that "Yes, they say Beijing, but I say Peking. Over in France they say Pairee. But I'm American and I say Paris."
Posted by: 496 at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (VJsqe)
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Munich/ Muenchen.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:07 PM (YqDXo)

437 ...I like Dilbert. Adams can be a tool but that doesn't turn funny into not funny.

If we knew for sure that Bill Watterson was a lefty would that make Calvin and Hobbes suddenly awful?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:07 PM (KZzsI)

438
You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.

Posted by: J. Peterman at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (SYpwM)

439 426 Mitch McConnell is pretty brilliant at. He's a master of milking as much as he can out of a situation where he knows deep down that he's never actually gonna do shit about it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 02:05 PM (trdmm)


that was the same thinking of Milli Vanilli

Posted by: Fredo at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (us2H3)

440 private snuffy carrying personal electronics,

But how am I supposed to flex the distance of my fitbit runs?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (R8uWY)

441 >>> A woman is suing the city of Portland, alleging that tear gas deployed by police during summer 2020 demonstrations caused lasting damage to her menstrual health

you can't make this stuff up
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:07 PM (RHGPo)


A one in a million shot Jerry!

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (IN3jG)

442 >>A woman is suing the city of Portland, alleging that tear gas deployed by police during summer 2020 demonstrations caused lasting damage to her menstrual health


Her Red Eye never recovered.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (tmNnT)

443 A woman is suing the city of Portland, alleging that tear gas deployed by police during summer 2020 demonstrations caused lasting damage to her menstrual health
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Did the tear gas canister bounce upwards or something?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (YqDXo)

444 Heh, Biden and Harris seem to be having a falling out. Biden passes Kamala without any acknowledgment or even looking at her. After standing next to her for a little bit, he shuffles past DOCTOR Jill to put DOCTOR Jill between himself and Harris.

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Mean girls mean girls, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (FVME7)

445 A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (RHGPo)

446 422 You know, I thought the Israelis were smart but something about this virus turns people into retards...

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (CYnTg)

447 So...you Americans are going to uh, "kick our asses".

Um...you have video of Afghanistan da?

Also, is true you only get promotion if you remove the testicles? No, like seriously I want to know!

Posted by: Some Russian soldier not trembling in fear at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (ESjRY)

448 Roid up Fake Megan to where she's even faster than real-world male players, and then when people watch real-world Megan always operating at half-capacity, her small fanbase will shrink even further.

I gotta figure the number of people who play computer soccer games has to be pretty small, so its not gonna matter either way.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (KZzsI)

449 A woman is suing the city of Portland, alleging that tear gas deployed by police during summer 2020 demonstrations caused lasting damage to her menstrual health

you can't make this stuff up
Posted by: SMOD

Watch.....now some guys are gonna claim the same thing.

Posted by: JT at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (arJlL)

450 Ceylon > Sri Lanka

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (DgLeA)

451 hard to tell - he looks so out of it. I'm not sure he'd recognize anybody with a mask on. Could be that handler Jill thought he should be closer to the podium/center. I'll just write this off as more weird ass shit from an old man with dementia.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (wAnMi)

I was thinking the same - he might have been mad because he forgot that he already had his pudding this morning. He has to wait to get another cup.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (trdmm)

452 I want a Taiwanomous for Christmaaaas, only a Taiwanomous will dooooo....
Posted by: Joe's Buddy Xi at December 09, 2021 02:01 PM (lNHqD)

Don't worry, the good ship Harvey Milk will protect Taiwan from those homo-hating Chi-Coms...

Yeah, put me on the "not my circus, not my monkeys" list for this one. Ukraine maybe losing some territory despite the US's protestations wasn't as bit a hit on US prestige than the Afghanistan fuck-up Biden presided over. It's going to get worse, as others have stated.

Maybe the post WWII order is unraveling slowly, then it will all at once.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (Rl7KJ)

453 Munich/ Muenchen.
====

My favorite one of these is "Leghorn" for Livorno. The Brits just didn't care about any of that foreign mumbo jumbo.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (sGnvY)

454 Pretty much everything I thought was going to happen in Obama's Administration ended up happening in Biden's
Posted by: Blago at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (PwNLq)


=================

Will Joe bumble us into Nuclear War?

Or will it be Pakistan and India?
Or Iran and Israel?

Posted by: rd at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (Z32m1)

455 >>> She's smart and witty.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (AiZBA)


She's a prog hipster bore.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (IN3jG)

456 Biden needs to send Hunter to talk to Putin.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (LQjWA)

457 I just don't believe Russia is the menace the media wants it to be post Cold War. Almost everything it does is just something the US does as well.

Putin has people killed and so do our leaders.

China is the much bigger threat.
Posted by: Blago at December 09, 2021 02:06 PM (PwNLq)

Yup, Russia today is not the Soviet Union... but then, we are not really the Old United States either.

We need to spend our energy fixing ourselves, not trying to fix the rest of the world... we tried that, and they have told us to F off.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (oHd/0)

458 433 So can we stop funding NATO completely? It's just a trillion dollar slush fund for Europe.
Posted by: Blago at December 09, 2021 02:07 PM (PwNLq)

___

Fuck no!!!

Posted by: CEOs of Lockheed, Raytheon and Boeing at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (OalnH)

459 Have all ya'll seen Scott Adams wife? Kristina Basham. Top SHELF trim. He is definately outdoing us in that category

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (flINI)

460 >...I like Dilbert. Adams can be a tool but that doesn't turn funny into not funny.


It is really only funny to people who have worked in Corporate America. And even then, it is not real funny.

Give me The Wizard of Id.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (tmNnT)

461 A woman is suing the city of Portland, alleging that tear gas deployed by police during summer 2020 demonstrations caused lasting damage to her menstrual health

By chance, does this woman have a penis?

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 09, 2021 02:10 PM (GYllL)

462 Don't those Americans know its spelled Ciudad Nuevo York?

Posted by: Pancho, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 09, 2021 02:10 PM (OssQ4)

463 444 One in a million shot!

Posted by: steevy at December 09, 2021 02:10 PM (CYnTg)

464 I'd like to see Kat Timpf naked, if she would shut up long enough to take her clothes off.
Posted by: ballistic at December 09, 2021


***
Cute. Nice hind paws, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 02:10 PM (txdEq)

465 So can we stop funding NATO completely? It's just a trillion dollar slush fund for Europe.
Posted by: Blago
==
You should probably stop channeling Trump. One of your neighbors might find out.

Posted by: The other shoe will drop at December 09, 2021 02:10 PM (bEVab)

466 Russia is a very big corrupting force in Europe and the world.
They must be confronted. They are building leverage with their energy business, and while they will not invade germany with tanks, they have already invaded half of Europe with corruption.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 09, 2021 02:11 PM (k3oCU)

467 And -- just as important -- someone whose field of fucks is barren in regards to the screaming of the Wokesters on social media.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 02:02 PM (txdEq)

So....

One. Of. Us. Here at the HQ?

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 09, 2021 02:11 PM (IJES/)

468 463 Don't those Americans know its spelled Ciudad Nuevo York?
Posted by: Pancho, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 09, 2021 02:10 PM (OssQ4)

-----
Cuidad Nuevx Yorkx, hater

Posted by: 496 at December 09, 2021 02:11 PM (VJsqe)

469 Cathy > Dilbert
--------------------------
ACK!!
Posted by: amy schumer at December 09, 2021 02:05 PM (UHVv4)



Daria > Cathy

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 09, 2021 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)

470 Have all ya'll seen Scott Adams wife? Kristina Basham.

She looks like a girl who leaves most of her face on the pillow.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:11 PM (KZzsI)

471 My favorite one of these is "Leghorn" for Livorno. The Brits just didn't care about any of that foreign mumbo jumbo.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (sGnvY)
---------------------

During WWI British Tommies pronounced Ypres as "Wipers."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:11 PM (YqDXo)

472 Doctor: Listen, John, I've got bad news and worse.

John: What's the bad news?

Doctor: You've only got 24 hours to live.

John: That's awful! What could be worse than that?

Doctor: Well, I've been trying to get ahold of you since yesterday.

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:12 PM (RHGPo)

473 This biggest gift Vlad could give us is a 10 megaton container of sunshine right to the heart of Dee Cee.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 09, 2021 02:12 PM (GYllL)

474 >>Russia is a very big corrupting force in Europe and the world.
They must be confronted.


I think we've had enough of Europe.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 02:12 PM (tmNnT)

475 >>> Have all ya'll seen Scott Adams wife? Kristina Basham. Top SHELF trim. He is definately outdoing us in that category
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (flINI)


She looks like jailbait. She's the kind of thott that as she aged she increasingly accentuated the, I'm your teenage neighbor girl, look.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2021 02:12 PM (IN3jG)

476 Does the Donbas Region include Kiev/Kyiv, and everything East of the Polish Border?

Posted by: rd at December 09, 2021 02:12 PM (Z32m1)

477 Have all ya'll seen Scott Adams wife? Kristina Basham. Top SHELF trim. He is definately outdoing us in that category
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 09, 2021


***
She looks like a pornstar. Or was she one?

(Not that there's anything wrong with that --)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 02:12 PM (txdEq)

478 Have all ya'll seen Scott Adams wife? Kristina Basham. Top SHELF trim. He is definately outdoing us in that category

I bet the waitress at the restaurants they go to tell her its really nice for her to bring her grandfather out.

Posted by: Some Catty Moron at December 09, 2021 02:12 PM (ESjRY)

479 but it will always be Burma to me.
Posted by: J. Peterman at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM


*Billy Joel piano riff*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2021 02:12 PM (m+jkK)

480 So can we stop funding NATO completely? It's just a trillion dollar slush fund for Europe.
Posted by: Blago
-----------------

Now do the UN.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:12 PM (YqDXo)

481 "Russia is a very big corrupting force in Europe and the world."

Just like they have been forever.

Posted by: CEOs of Lockheed, Raytheon and Boeing at December 09, 2021 02:13 PM (OalnH)

482 Also, is General Milley going to get a heads-up from his counterpart in Moscow if and when Putin makes a move? Or doesn't have that like he does with his Chinese counterpart b/c muh "white rage" or something equally as stupid?

Posted by: Thrawn at December 09, 2021 02:13 PM (Rl7KJ)

483 You should probably stop channeling Trump. One of your neighbors might find out.

Yet another new nick eh?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:13 PM (KZzsI)

484 .I like Dilbert. Adams can be a tool but that doesn't turn funny into not funny.


It is really only funny to people who have worked in Corporate America. And even then, it is not real funny.

Give me The Wizard of Id.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (tmNnT)

This is my wheelhouse.
Dilbert is ok, I do read it, but Scott Adams can't be sustainably funny. He can't do plot lines or even do comedy well.

His best Dilbert bits have been submitted by readers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 02:13 PM (V6f9+)

485 Zero fucks given for Ukraine's "territorial integrity" or their aspirations of joining NATO. Any nation foolish enough to believe American or European security guarantees deserves what it gets. Also If the Ukrainians truly want the Donbass back, THEY can fight for it.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at December 09, 2021 02:13 PM (Xt3H6)

486 Give me The Wizard of Id.
Posted by: garrett


The King is a fink!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2021 02:13 PM (cQZxO)

487 You can see many Kat Timpf"like" bodies at a Junior high boys swim meet.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 09, 2021 02:13 PM (flINI)

488 Russia is a big corrupting force? How about the US? Your third grader wants her worldview back.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 09, 2021 02:13 PM (oWBc3)

489 but it will always be Burma to me.
Posted by: J. Peterman at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM

*Billy Joel piano riff*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2021 02:12 PM (m+jkK)

No. Just no.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (DgLeA)

490 She looks like a pornstar. Or was she one?

She looks like an Instagram "influencer" who has 11 pounds of contouring makeup and careful camera angles to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (KZzsI)

491 A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (RHGPo)


This could add up to real trouble.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (axyOa)

492 Eh Scott Adams has fuck you money and he married a hot piece of ass who will divorce him in a few years and take 1/2 his money. He figured, still worth it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (OalnH)

493 467 Russia is a very big corrupting force in Europe and the world.
They must be confronted. They are building leverage with their energy business, and while they will not invade germany with tanks, they have already invaded half of Europe with corruption.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 09, 2021 02:11 PM (k3oCU)

And the other half is filled with home-grown corruption.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (trdmm)

494 A woman is suing the city of Portland, alleging that tear gas deployed by police during summer 2020 demonstrations caused lasting damage to her menstrual health


Uh, you attended a riot, dipshit. FOAD.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

495 Mary Worth! She's our woman!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (Bmy3R)

496 It is really only funny to people who have worked in Corporate America. And even then, it is not real funny.

Give me The Wizard of Id.
Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 02:09 PM (tmNnT)

the King is a FINK!

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (oHd/0)

497 Camels disqualified in beauty contest because of botox injections.
Those Saudi's, what will they do next

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (IIAOb)

498 Bottom line: The geography essentially precludes our helping Ukraine militarily even if we wanted to.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (YqDXo)

499 *sigh*

Everybody forgets me.

Posted by: The Republic of Upper Volta at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (dgYAy)

500 A woman is suing the city of Portland, alleging that tear gas deployed by police during summer 2020 demonstrations caused lasting damage to her menstrual health

you can't make this stuff up
Posted by: SMOD

She breathes through her hoohah? I'm so confused.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (mD/uy)

501 Putin is the same sort of paternal autocrat that America has dealt with for its whole existence - in Europe and Latin America.

He's an existential threat to nothing other then maybe European Union Bureaucrat-ism (HE DIDN'T EVEN FILL OUT THE SHORT FORM BEFORE HE POISONED HIS RIVAL!)

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (ESjRY)

502
They are building leverage with their energy business, and while they will not invade germany with tanks, they have already invaded half of Europe with corruption.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest


Europeans don't need much invading to be corrupt.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (/U27+)

503 Man we're seeing the Russian bots out today LOL.

"HOW DARE YOU SPEAK ILL OF MOTHER RUSS-- uh, I mean that nation Russia which I totally do not live in or work for!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (KZzsI)

504 Where do you even put a botox injection to make a camel more beautiful?

Posted by: 496 at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (VJsqe)

505 A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (RHGPo)

This could add up to real trouble.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM


I don't think we need another divisive topic today.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (dQvv7)

506 Camels disqualified in beauty contest because of botox injections.
=====

That's a crazy story. Total prize money for the camel contest: $66M.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (sGnvY)

507 I have more issues with Merkel than I do with Putin.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (tmNnT)

508 Camels disqualified in beauty contest because of botox injections.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (IIAOb)
---------------

That clears the path for Rancida Tlabia, or whatever her name is. The camels were better-looking.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (YqDXo)

509 A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (RHGPo)


This could add up to real trouble.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (axyOa)
-------------
And it will multiply over time.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (AlkyK)

510 Hmm, phone so can barely comment, post is a glorious mishmash of contradictory stuff but bottom line is Russian ethnic irredentism is not important in current context.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (HkcOx)

511 I like the Wizard of ID. BC was pretty good, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 09, 2021 02:16 PM (DgLeA)

512 I have a Nord (3 electro HP). Yeah, i need to upgrade.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 09, 2021 02:16 PM (KAi1n)

513 Mary Worth! She's our woman!
Posted by: Guy Smiley

Sluggo for the win.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2021 02:16 PM (mD/uy)

514 I think Arabs would be better served to avoid feeding camel-sexing jokes by having a camel beauty contest.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:16 PM (KZzsI)

515 Gary Larson for the win.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 02:16 PM (axyOa)

516
This could add up to real trouble.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (axyOa)

The wokesters will simply divide by zero, and throw the resulting core dump away wondering why it didn't work.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 09, 2021 02:16 PM (IJES/)

517 You want Kristina Basham

You'll settle for Kat Timpf

You'll get ADMIRAL Levine, Big Mike Obama, and Lena Dunham. All in bikini tops...and nothing else.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2021 02:16 PM (ESjRY)

518 The King is a fink!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 09, 2021


***
"Sire! The peasants are revolting!"
"I know. I've seen 'em."
*
And:
[Jailer brings bowl of swill to prisoner in cell. The swill has a single candle burning in it]
Prisoner: "Whose birthday is it?"
Jailer: "The swill's . . . it's one year old today."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 02:16 PM (txdEq)

519 Abyssinia > Ceylon

Posted by: amy schumer at December 09, 2021 02:16 PM (UHVv4)

520 This could add up to real trouble.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (axyOa)
-------------
And it will multiply over time.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (AlkyK)

New math is a bad product.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 09, 2021 02:16 PM (DgLeA)

521 I could muster up some concern for the corrupting force Russian represents, if we had not made Europe so corruptible. Paying for their defense for 75 years so that turned them into soft, weak, super-welfare states that have no idea what it means to have to think of their own survival or make hard choices about spending.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 09, 2021 02:16 PM (QU5/8)

522 A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (RHGPo)

What's a line?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (Y5qcH)

523 I don't think we need another divisive topic today.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (dQvv7)

Of course, division is a prime concern. But I don't think that this will be a factor.

Posted by: flounder at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (SH2Zi)

524 There was that video making the rounds a while back which showed the changing borders of Europe over 1000 years. It's always funny when Americans think somehow all this historical anger and grievances between countries/ethnicities suddenly went away.

Hint: it didn't. 1000 years from now Russians and Ukrainians will still be fighting.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (OalnH)

525
This could add up to real trouble.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (axyOa)
-------------
And it will multiply over time.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (AlkyK)

These guys sound like a bunch of squares.

Posted by: ... at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (yl8CB)

526 A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (RHGPo)


This could add up to real trouble.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (axyOa)
-------------
And it will multiply over time.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (AlkyK)


They will need to divide and conquer.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

527
And even then, it is not real funny.

"Grimly amusing" is the term I'd use.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (/U27+)

528 Where do you even put a botox injection to make a camel more beautiful?
Posted by: 496

You're not a camel humper, are you?

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (mD/uy)

529 Wisconsin Election Hearing Reveals 119,283 "Active Voters" Who Have Been Registered For Over 100 Years!

You would have to have been 21 yrs old a 100 years ago to register, so they would have to be 121+ yrs old now.

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (RHGPo)

530 Hey I would not have sex with that camel. I mean, she's way out of my league.

Posted by: Some Arab Camel F*cker at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (ESjRY)

531 total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (RHGPo)
++++
They could only get 746 math teachers and professors to sign on? That probably says more than the statement.

Of course, the entire thing is just a derivative problem anyway...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (DU+/6)

532 504 Man we're seeing the Russian bots out today LOL.

"HOW DARE YOU SPEAK ILL OF MOTHER RUSS-- uh, I mean that nation Russia which I totally do not live in or work for!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (KZzsI)

Yeah, and a lot of people still stuck in the Cold War as well.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (oHd/0)

533 Where do you even put a botox injection to make a camel more beautiful?
Posted by: 496 at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (VJsqe)

***

One is each of your eyeballs

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 09, 2021 02:18 PM (flINI)

534 If it wasn't for the barbed cock ass fucking we're all going to get out of this Administration I would find this complete shitshow in every level of life from our "betters" a fascinating time in history to be alive.


Its a fucking page turner every single day I'm just hoping that the final ending (post barbed cock ass fucking) will be worth it...

Posted by: H Badger at December 09, 2021 02:18 PM (n/0Nw)

535 A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09
*
This could add up to real trouble.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021
-------------
And it will multiply over time.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021


***
Subtract the hard parts, and what are you left with?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 02:18 PM (txdEq)

536
the King is a FINK!
Posted by: Romeo13

The peasants are revolting

Posted by: The King at December 09, 2021 02:18 PM (k3oCU)

537 They will need to divide and conquer.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

Nice - let me circle back on that.

Posted by: Boswell at December 09, 2021 02:18 PM (5iUNf)

538
Everybody forgets me.
Posted by: The Republic of Upper Volta at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (dgYAy)


If you were anywhere near the Upper Vulva, people would ignore you while rubbing your lips then ask if it was good for you.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 09, 2021 02:18 PM (IJES/)

539 The Four Lads - Istanbul (not Constantinople)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcze7EGorOk

They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlO39kCQ-8

Posted by: zmdavid at December 09, 2021 02:18 PM (xqRaG)

540 Spy vs. Spy

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 09, 2021 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

541 To compare the Bidet to Chamberlin is an insult to Neville

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 09, 2021 02:18 PM (toMMD)

542 'they'll sing their version of cohen's "Hallelujah".'

My older sister was one of those that cried from this.
Gahhhh. Just yuck.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 09, 2021 02:18 PM (vNbzm)

543 Have any of our intrepid and super-curious journalists asked why Putin didn't just roll in when his puppet was running the country for 4 years? Just wondering.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (wAnMi)

544 Dr. Peter McCullough: Vaccine-induced Myocarditis in Young People "Way More Serious" than COVID-Induced Myocarditis

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (RHGPo)

545 A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (RHGPo)
------------------
That doesn't add up.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (YqDXo)

546 Russians. For the most part... not Muslim and not woke.

I am cool with that.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (tmNnT)

547 We're supposed to have a no math rule and now we're doing math puns?

It's pure anarchy in here!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (dfRN6)

548 Subtract the hard parts, and what are you left with?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

A fraction of what you started with.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (mD/uy)

549 Russian Ethnic Irredentism used to tour with The Beastie Boys back in the day.

Posted by: Just sayin' at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (SYpwM)

550 Hey I would not have sex with that camel. I mean, she's way out of my league.

Posted by: Some Arab Camel F*cker at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (ESjRY)

You don't just come her for the humping, do you?

Posted by: flounder at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (SH2Zi)

551 Hint: it didn't. 1000 years from now Russians and Ukrainians will still be fighting.

Its like the sudden war in Yugoslavia that erupted when the Soviets collapsed. They have been at war for 1000 years or more, it just paused a while when a tyrant stomped on their faces. The bad blood never goes away.

Spain has had different factions fighting for independence for like 600 years, Basques and Catalans and so on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (KZzsI)

552 545 A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (RHGPo)
------------------
That doesn't add up.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (YqDXo)

It will only serve to divide us.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (II3Gr)

553
Is the 50 Cent Army occupying this thread?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (/U27+)

554 The saddest thing about Russia is that at one time, they had the potential to be a truly Great Country; and then they committed cultural suicide in 1917. everything since then has just been the actions of a big, shambling zombie nation shambling through history. Strong at first, but fading a little bit more every year. Even now, they're barely a shadow of what they were when Reagan took office.

And if Putin takes Ukraine, in the big picture, so what? It's just another decaying, backwards place with no viable industries and a dissatisfied, declining population, most of which is drunk on any given day. What a prize.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (trdmm)

555 General Vindman to the rescue..... The savior of the Ukraine that Trump wanted to destroy.....

What does Putin have on Biden should be the question ???

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (otFiP)

556 Everybody forgets me.
Posted by: The Republic of Upper Volta at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (dgYAy)
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Now known as Upper Ampera.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (YqDXo)

557 Greetings:

How many Prosecutors is Biden making Ukraine fire this time ???

Posted by: 11B40 at December 09, 2021 02:20 PM (uuklp)

558 This could add up to real trouble.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021
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And it will multiply over time.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 09, 2021
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These guys sound like a bunch of squares.
Posted by: ... at December 09, 2021 0


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You guys are going to protract-or this, aren't you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 02:20 PM (txdEq)

559 Of course, division is a prime concern. But I don't think that this will be a factor.
Posted by: flounder at December 09, 2021 02:17 PM (SH2Zi)

***

I don't get it...

Posted by: HBCU Grad School Graduate at December 09, 2021 02:20 PM (flINI)

560 A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.
Posted by: SMOD
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Don't be a square, man!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 09, 2021 02:20 PM (UHVv4)

561 Where do you even put a botox injection to make a camel more beautiful?
Posted by: 496 at December 09, 2021 02:15 PM (VJsqe)



In the Arab world?

*digs for George Takei impression*

Balloon Knot.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 09, 2021 02:20 PM (Zz0t1)

562 Jennifer 'pro-voting' Rubin
@JRubinBlogger
Trump, his handpicked candidates and most elected Rs spread the "big lie," having convinced a large maj of Rs the election was stolen. This is undemocratic, immoral and un-American. In America, we lose gracefully and transfer power peacefully.

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Yeah, can't we have a little fucking civility?



Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2021 02:20 PM (FVME7)

563 Everybody forgets me.
Posted by: The Republic of Upper Volta at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM


Nah. You'll always have my vote for funniest capital city name.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2021 02:20 PM (m+jkK)

564 That doesn't add up.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (YqDXo)

It will only serve to divide us.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (II3Gr)

Our problems will multiply

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, load and make ready at December 09, 2021 02:20 PM (V6f9+)

565 And if Putin takes Ukraine, in the big picture, so what? It's just another decaying, backwards place with no viable industries and a dissatisfied, declining population, most of which is drunk on any given day. What a prize.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (trdmm)
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It's the breadbasket of Russia.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:20 PM (YqDXo)

566 Now known as Upper Ampera.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Or -

Ohm on the range.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2021 02:20 PM (mD/uy)

567
That doesn't add up.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (YqDXo)

It will only serve to divide us.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (II3Gr)

__________

It's an integral part of us.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2021 02:20 PM (/U27+)

568 That doesn't add up.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (YqDXo)

That's a good summation.

Posted by: Boswell at December 09, 2021 02:20 PM (5iUNf)

569 A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.

If 23% of them rode the train west, how many pencils had erasers unused?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 09, 2021 02:20 PM (r5BVk)

570 No man, beast, or bear claw will stop be from saving Mother Ukraine, err, I mean the country of the Ukraine which it is totally in America's interest to save.

Rifle? Why would I need a rifle? I've got powerpoint.

Posted by: Col Vindman at December 09, 2021 02:21 PM (ESjRY)

571 We're supposed to have a no math rule and now we're doing math puns?

It's pure anarchy in here!


These numbers are getting irrational.

My older sister was one of those that cried from this.
Gahhhh. Just yuck.


Its a hymn for vaguely spiritual but not religious people. No God, no faith, just emotionally manipulative.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:21 PM (KZzsI)

572 Glad we've regained our standing on the world stage and the respect of the international community.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 09, 2021 02:21 PM (II3Gr)

573 Spy vs. Spy
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 09, 2021 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)


Loved it!!!

I'm convinced the writers of MAD grew up to create the Duffleblog and the Bee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 02:21 PM (axyOa)

574 PFC Noah Rothman and PFC Jim Swift and of course Generalissimo Bill Kristol
Don't forget to send the tubby schlubby Vindmans!

Posted by: Ronchris at December 09, 2021 02:21 PM (f2Yap)

575

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to turn away a challenge to Harvard University's admissions practices, which plaintiffs claim are discriminatory against Asian American applicants.

In a court filing, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar urged the justices to let stand a lower court ruling that sided against the challengers, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), in finding that Harvard's admissions practices were lawful.

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:21 PM (RHGPo)

576 Is the 50 Cent Army occupying this thread?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (/U27+)



Hey. Leave me outta dis, man.....

- Curtis Jackson

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 09, 2021 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

577 Subtract the hard parts, and what are you left with?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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A fraction of what you started with.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2021


***
Clearly this is all a function of Woke-ism.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 02:21 PM (txdEq)

578 Dr. Peter McCullough: Vaccine-induced Myocarditis in Young People "Way More Serious" than COVID-Induced Myocarditis
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*shot rings out*
Look we've been patient. But its time for special pleading and I'm going to have little patience for dissent. *Polices brass* Dr. McCullough's license is hereby revoked.

Posted by: Dr. Fauchi's Work is not yet done at December 09, 2021 02:21 PM (FO9aU)

579 Arthur Neville Chamberlain, I mean Joe Biden will bring peace at this tragic time in World History !!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 09, 2021 02:21 PM (otFiP)

580 Joe Biden is a self polishing turd.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 09, 2021 02:21 PM (/1l9x)

581 A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (RHGPo)
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At this point, what differential does it make?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:21 PM (YqDXo)

582
A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.
Posted by: SMOD

This could add up to real trouble.
Posted by: Diogenes


Division in the ranks.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2021 02:22 PM (63Dwl)

583 Poland and the Baltic States are apparently livid.

Posted by: mrp at December 09, 2021 02:22 PM (6eRlp)

584 In America, we lose gracefully and transfer power peacefully.

Just like Hillary Clinton and Stacy Abrams, amiright?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:22 PM (KZzsI)

585 MUHAHAHA soon I will have a monopoly on all the non-tattooed blonde hotties.

And then the world will be mine!

[Evil Laughing continues]

Posted by: Vlad Putin at December 09, 2021 02:22 PM (ESjRY)

586 Subtract the hard parts, and what are you left with?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
A fraction of what you started with.
Posted by: Tonypete

***
Clearly this is all a function of Woke-ism.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

That just doesn't compute WA.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2021 02:22 PM (mD/uy)

587 Puddinhead read a Bob Dole quote at Dole's funeral. At the end of the quote he read, "End of message."

http://bitly.ws/jVes

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 09, 2021 02:22 PM (sWM8x)

588 If we knew for sure that Bill Watterson was a lefty would that make Calvin and Hobbes suddenly awful?

No, because I like Watterson's humor in the strip. And he keeps his mouth shut.

Adams' humor is hit or miss, but he does himself no favors by declaring the unpleasant, sadistic, atheistic Dogbert as his cartoon avatar and shooting his mouth off on line about how only he has the brilliance to see the world as it is, unlike you impulse-addicted meat puppets.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 09, 2021 02:22 PM (2JVJo)

589 >>A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.


From the low number, most probably think them Irrational.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 02:22 PM (tmNnT)

590 Puns to the Horde are like laser lights to cats.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 02:22 PM (axyOa)

591 These numbers are getting irrational.
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Nah. Your concerns are imaginary.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:22 PM (YqDXo)

592 Russia gets its wheat from Kazakhstan these days.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 09, 2021 02:23 PM (oWBc3)

593 Relax, there is a limit to math puns.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 09, 2021 02:23 PM (r5BVk)

594 64 Neville Chamberpot
Posted by: banana Dream at December 09, 2021 01:29 PM (IN3jG)

Late to the thread, but I just have to say that this is funny.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2021 02:23 PM (C61w6)

595
And if Putin takes Ukraine, in the big picture, so what? It's just another decaying, backwards place with no viable industries and a dissatisfied, declining population, most of which is drunk on any given day. What a prize.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (trdmm)


He wants to stand and crow on the biggest pile of shit in the world.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2021 02:23 PM (/U27+)

596 Yep, I have ZERO confidence in our military even when someone I like is in the White House.

The Pentagon is an absolute joke, we're on our own if we ever have a "real" war.

Posted by: Blago at December 09, 2021 02:03 PM (PwNLq)

Military Fairy! I'll scratch your eyes out!

Posted by: Roy at December 09, 2021 02:23 PM (Ti+Tv)

597 Toss in PFC Max "Boots on the Ground" Boot among the first wave also...

Posted by: Blanco at December 09, 2021 02:23 PM (mgx4p)

598
Parents Defending Education
@DefendingEd
WATCH: Bigelow Middle School Principal in Newton, Mass. announces racially segregated "safe spaces" for students to "process" the Rittenhouse and Arbery verdicts. Admission to one of the spaces is solely based on students' skin color.

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I assume they're separate McDonalds Playlands.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2021 02:23 PM (FVME7)

599
Loved it!!!

I'm convinced the writers of MAD grew up to create the Duffleblog and the Bee.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 09, 2021 02:21 PM (axyOa)



I have multiple Sergio Aragonés books. Loved his work too.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 09, 2021 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)

600 Headlines from the 1930s: Poland deeply worried western allies are preparing to f*ck them over.

Headlines from the 2020s: Poland deeply worried western allies are preparing to f*ck them over.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2021 02:23 PM (ESjRY)

601 Sting - Russians (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs

Posted by: zmdavid at December 09, 2021 02:23 PM (xqRaG)

602 Oh, and I want video. Draft the Young Turks team as war "journalists" (LOL) and have them report from the front lines.

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"The US military cannot properly keep us fed to the extent we're used to ... and, worse, there's a crisis in their ability to supply us with the necessary number of tampons!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! (Non Compos Anus) at December 09, 2021 02:23 PM (uWz7/)

603 556 Everybody forgets me.
Posted by: The Republic of Upper Volta at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (dgYAy)
----------------

Now known as Upper Ampera.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (YqDXo)

Strong diplomatic ties to Coulombia.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2021 02:24 PM (6FeV1)

604 The story of Mad Magazine is amazing. Fawcett Comics created Captain Marvel as a Superman type and in a few years he was more popular than Superman. DC Comics sued because they thought they owned the entire concept of superheroes and besides this guy is too much like Superman.

For decades, literally, the lawsuit went on, and finally Fawcett said "you know what? Its 1950s and superhero comics are played, you can have him, you can have all our content." Then they founded Mad magazine and made even more money than ever.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:24 PM (KZzsI)

605 Did anybody snark on the typo/error WRT Donbass? Something using Bill Blass might work there

Posted by: rhomboid at December 09, 2021 02:24 PM (HkcOx)

606 The Ukraine from 6 years ago when Russia last invaded is not the Ukraine of today. I fully expect a full-on invasion by Russia to be a bloodbath, and Putin knows it.

Ukraine's military has been bolstered heavily with materiale from the US and NATO, and it is much larger than it was. Ukraine was not in a position to resist Russia 6 years ago. Today, that is not the case.

Additionally, the primarily Russian-speaking, Russian supporting areas like Donblas and so forth, are easy conquests to hold, since the populace is friendly to Russia. The remainder of Ukraine is not nearly so friendly, and I suspect that taking Ukraine, proper, will result in asymmetrical warfare that will bleed Russia white, just like Afghanistan did to them in the 70's.

Unless Putin is a complete moron, he's after Donblas, and that's it.

As much as I hate to say it, Biden is correct here: US troops should absolutely not be involved in that conflict. Donblas doesn't care if their Russian. Russia isn't going to invade Ukraine, outside of that specific region. This isn't a war worth fighting, and it's not a war worth a single drop of American blood.

Posted by: Goober at December 09, 2021 02:24 PM (Hgvgt)

607 These numbers are getting irrational.
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Nah. Your concerns are imaginary.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021


***
Eventually the series of puns will converge.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 02:25 PM (txdEq)

608 Parents Defending Education
@DefendingEd
WATCH: Bigelow Middle School Principal in Newton, Mass. announces racially segregated "safe spaces" for students to "process" the Rittenhouse and Arbery verdicts. Admission to one of the spaces is solely based on students' skin color.

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I assume they're separate McDonalds Playlands.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2021 02:23 PM


Surprising no one who knows Newton.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 09, 2021 02:25 PM (m+jkK)

609 Puddinhead read a Bob Dole quote at Dole's funeral. At the end of the quote he read, "End of message."

http://bitly.ws/jVes
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 09, 2021 02:22 PM (sWM8x)



They KNOW he's a walking vegetable. WHY do they continually do that? Just end the fucking sentence and be done.

We're being run by the dumbest fucking people in the WORLD.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 09, 2021 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

610 A total of 746 math teachers and professors across the country signed the new missive, warning that enfeebled math curriculums would have dire consequences down the line.
Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:08 PM (RHGPo)
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This is a fucking conspiracy.

746 has only four whole=number factors (746, 373, 2, 1), does not have a square factor, and is itself the sum of four consecutive numbers (185 through 18. That's it. 746 is not an interesting number and it has no special attributes. There is no way math teachers would pick such an uninteresting figure for the number of signatures on their petition.

This is clearly a false flag.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 02:25 PM (DU+/6)

611 How can you NOT like this... I mean, come on...

https://9gag.com/gag/aRK9bE2

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 09, 2021 02:26 PM (flINI)

612 Christopher R Taylor,

"Man we're seeing the Russia bots out today. LOL..."

Or your just seeing people that have gotten wise to the scam of Ukrainian slush funds being used to by off American politicians and then those politicians harping about how we have to use lethal force (including nuclear weapons!) to save poor bleeding Ukraine.

There is no vital American interest at stake in the Ukraine. Furthermore our military has been gutted to the point where I doubt we could even win a war against a regional power like Russia. We certainly couldn't take on Russia and China at the same time, which I suspect is what that conflict would devolve into.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at December 09, 2021 02:26 PM (Xt3H6)

613 Youth is the very best aphrodisiac.

But it's more expensive as you get older. You have to weigh the degree of boost to the loss of cash needed for oh so much other stuff when you're old.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 09, 2021 02:26 PM (1hoTV)

614 The media needs to do a better job of telling the Biden story. People inexplicably think he's a dementia addled piece of shit.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker at December 09, 2021 02:26 PM (hI6ly)

615 >>Something using Bill Blass might work there


We used to build the runways and the satge sets for Bill Blass We also did the renovation his Brownstone.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 02:26 PM (tmNnT)

616 We're being run by the dumbest fucking people in the WORLD.
==
Wait til Dr. Jill takes over.

Posted by: It can always be worse, and every year proves its true at December 09, 2021 02:26 PM (zCU/K)

617

746 math teachers equal one horsepower.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 09, 2021 02:26 PM (63Dwl)

618 So, in a court of law, in a legal filing, Facebook admits that its 'fact checks' are not really 'fact' checks at all, but merely 'opinion assertions.'

This strikes me as public relations disaster, and possibly a looming legal disaster for Facebook, PolitiFact, Climate Feedback and other left-leaning entities that engage in biased "fact checking."

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:26 PM (RHGPo)

619 Clearly this is all a function of Woke-ism.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I can see the parallels.

Posted by: flounder at December 09, 2021 02:26 PM (SH2Zi)

620 Everybody forgets me.
Posted by: The Republic of Upper Volta at December 09, 2021
----------------
Now known as Upper Ampera.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 *
Strong diplomatic ties to Coulombia.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2021


***
I expect there to be resistance to this.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 02:27 PM (txdEq)

621 Surprising no one who knows Newton.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Yep - even 35 years ago it was a liberal mess.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 09, 2021 02:27 PM (mD/uy)

622 Jen Rubin is alllll about the "lose gracefully" part of that equation.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 09, 2021 02:27 PM (cSs/W)

623 This strikes me as public relations disaster, and possibly a looming legal disaster for Facebook, PolitiFact, Climate Feedback and other left-leaning entities that engage in biased "fact checking."

Posted by: SMOD at December 09, 2021 02:26 PM (RHGPo)

You've seen the public, right?

Posted by: flounder at December 09, 2021 02:27 PM (SH2Zi)

624 Or your just seeing people that have gotten wise to the scam of Ukrainian slush funds being used to by off American politicians

Nah. The people who are upset at that are saying "they're both bad guys the hell with them." The Russian bots are the ones going "RUSSIA IS GREAT HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THEM???!?!?!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:27 PM (KZzsI)

625 Biden is not fucking correct even if you premise were true. it's none of his damn business to suggest what another sovereign nation should or shouldn't do.

Posted by: Goliad's Ghosts at December 09, 2021 02:27 PM (oWBc3)

626 607 These numbers are getting irrational.
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Nah. Your concerns are imaginary.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021

***
Eventually the series of puns will converge.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 02:25 PM (txdEq)
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Now we're just going around in circles.

exp(iwt) (can't do omega; I think it's a variant of Covid).

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:28 PM (YqDXo)

627 I expect there to be resistance to this.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 02:27 PM (txdEq)

That would erg me.

Posted by: flounder at December 09, 2021 02:28 PM (SH2Zi)

628 Jen Rubin did NOT lose gracefully in that beauty contest with the camel.

She's still pissed about it.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 09, 2021 02:28 PM (ESjRY)

629 These math puns are obtuse.

Posted by: Just sayin' at December 09, 2021 02:28 PM (SYpwM)

630 603 556 Everybody forgets me.
Posted by: The Republic of Upper Volta at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (dgYAy)
----------------

Now known as Upper Ampera.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (YqDXo)

Strong diplomatic ties to Coulombia.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2021 02:24 PM (6FeV1)

Next to Sohmalia.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2021 02:28 PM (C61w6)

631 NOOD TYRANNY

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 09, 2021 02:28 PM (DU+/6)

632 When we start math punning, it is prime time for a nood.

Posted by: garrett at December 09, 2021 02:28 PM (tmNnT)

633 The Russian bots are the ones going "RUSSIA IS GREAT HOW DARE YOU CRITICIZE THEM???!?!?!"
==
What wut? I missed that or maybe that was the sarcasm?

Posted by: It can always be worse, and every year proves its true at December 09, 2021 02:29 PM (ghsOg)

634 Puddinhead read a Bob Dole quote at Dole's funeral. At the end of the quote he read, "End of message."

http://bitly.ws/jVes
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 09, 2021 02:22 PM (sWM8x)


This is the second time in a week this demented fucktard has read that on his teleprompter/notes. He's definitely going into the next phase of dementia - things should start to get very entertaining, because next up he's not going to be able to read at all.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 09, 2021 02:29 PM (wAnMi)

635 NOOD TYRANNY
==
Stop that's a typo NOOD TRANNY is what he meant.

Posted by: It can always be worse, and every year proves its true at December 09, 2021 02:29 PM (ghsOg)

636
Strong diplomatic ties to Coulombia.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2021 02:24 PM (6FeV1)

_________

Ambassador Farad Fawcett

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 09, 2021 02:29 PM (/U27+)

637 Gee, I was hoping somebody would do a geometry pun or two. I guess, when a Nood is posted, everybody runs off to the new thread.

It's axiomatic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 09, 2021 02:29 PM (txdEq)

638 So, in a court of law, in a legal filing, Facebook admits that its 'fact checks' are not really 'fact' checks at all, but merely 'opinion assertions.'

Yeah well that's their attempt to avoid libel and lawsuits. They'll say whatever their lawyers tell them to in order to win the case. Clearly its opinion, there's no question about that. There's never been any question about that. But its a legal issue: you cannot be sued for an opinion. You can be sued for an assertion.

Which fact checks ALSO are.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 02:29 PM (KZzsI)

639 If you ask me, all of Europe is Dumbass.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 09, 2021 02:30 PM (FVME7)

640 The Russians waged a 400 year drive to gain a port on the Black Sea (at the expense of the Ottoman Turks). Did anybody with five working brain cells think the Russians would calmly accept the loss of Sevastopol (and it's possible inclusion into NATO) to a newly independent Ukraine? Yes, I know the hand of Soros / Obama was at work there, hence my previous point.

IMO, what Putin wants is A) permanent control / access to the Black Sea and B) a 'pledge' of neutrality by the Ukrainians (e.g. - NO NATO ALLIANCE) and things will (probably) calm down. Frankly, Putin has bigger fish to fry (like China muscling into the 'stans with the Belt & Road thing, not mention their noising around the edges of Afghanistan).

Russia's chief source of woes are to the south and (far) east; having a stable western region (European Russia) is a MUST. Given Russia's penetration into EU's energy infrastructure (thanks Biden / Obama / Merkle), Moscow is NOT worried that the EU is going to march on Moscow any time soon...FFS, the EU can't even manage the muzzie invaders they stupidly allowed in.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 09, 2021 02:30 PM (W+kMI)

641
Russia has lusted after an all-winter open port for its entire existence.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 09, 2021 01:58 PM (KZzsI)


True, but Sevastopol is kind of a shitty strategic port for military use. The port facilities are fine, but it's buried so deep in eastern Europe that it's kind of useless as a military base. The Russians would have to send their fleet through THREE straits (Bosporus, Dardanelles and Gibraltar) before getting into truly open sea. Hell of a gauntlet for their shitty navy to transit.

On the other hand, as a commercial port, it would be a serious asset. The location and straits that traffic would have to transit are less of a problem for commercial use.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 09, 2021 02:30 PM (n+4am)

642 If you want war...well then go. War.

I'm going to binge watch Sons of Anarchy for the 11th time.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 09, 2021 02:30 PM (TrkA3)

643 uddinhead read a Bob Dole quote at Dole's funeral. At the end of the quote he read, "End of message."

http://bitly.ws/jVes
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 09, 2021 02:22 PM (sWM8x)


They KNOW he's a walking vegetable. WHY do they continually do that? Just end the fucking sentence and be done.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 09, 2021 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)
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He said that because it's how the teleprompter ended his speech.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:31 PM (YqDXo)

644 " ... in a court of law, in a legal filing, Facebook admits that its 'fact checks' are not really 'fact' checks at all, but merely 'opinion assertions.'--"

Maybe not an admission so much as their lawyers "repositioning" them for any lawsuits where FB claimed to do fact checks but were really censoring conservative thought, which they knew to be factual.

"Opinion Assertions" (and insertions) are just "Free Speech", not slandering conservatives by calling their truths lies.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 09, 2021 02:31 PM (Cus5s)

645 There is no vital American interest at stake in the Ukraine. Furthermore our military has been gutted to the point where I doubt we could even win a war against a regional power like Russia. We certainly couldn't take on Russia and China at the same time, which I suspect is what that conflict would devolve into.
Posted by: Ernie McCracken at December 09, 2021 02:26 PM (Xt3H6)

Let me tell ya how this game works - we gotta scream "WE NEED TO ACT NOW!!! " and we gotta tell the Biden Admin "you are Betraying the Blood of all of our Patriots! You sir are betraying America unless you do something to stop it RIGHT NOW!!!'

Now we know Biden won't do shit, and we can hang this around his admin's neck like a flaming south african tire. Worst case - he's actually stupid enough to try something, and it fails miserably, and he looks even worse!!! We can't lose!!!

oh and when we take back over, our first line of business will be to point out "Well that ship has sailed, it's far too late to do anything about it now." Easy peasy, barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at December 09, 2021 02:32 PM (trdmm)

646 76
Fauci can use his tongue as my bidet.

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Ewww. A bidet is useful for cleansing, Fauci's lying filthy tongue, not so much.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 09, 2021 02:32 PM (fs1hN)

647 Gee, I was hoping somebody would do a geometry pun or two.
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Yeah, I was angling for that too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:32 PM (YqDXo)

648 He's definitely going into the next phase of dementia
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I think so too. People who say he'll finish his term are dumb or lying. He'll be making little dookie-birds long before the end of his term.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 09, 2021 02:33 PM (sWM8x)

649 647 Gee, I was hoping somebody would do a geometry pun or two.
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Yeah, I was angling for that too.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:32 PM (YqDXo)

Secant you just wait for it? You'll get it eventually.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2021 02:33 PM (C61w6)

650 649 647 Gee, I was hoping somebody would do a geometry pun or two.
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Yeah, I was angling for that too.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:32 PM (YqDXo)

Secant you just wait for it? You'll get it eventually.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 09, 2021 02:33 PM (C61w6)
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Let's not go off on a tangent.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:34 PM (YqDXo)

651 This is the second time in a week this demented fucktard has read that on his teleprompter/notes. He's definitely going into the next phase of dementia - things should start to get very entertaining, because next up he's not going to be able to read at all.

Posted by: clutch cargo

Watch for where they start dubbing his voice and his speaking facial motions does not match the words being said.

It will be like the badly dubbed English monster movies of yore from Japan.

Posted by: whig at December 09, 2021 02:35 PM (9hXN1)

652 Dirty Polish geometry.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 09, 2021 02:35 PM (TrkA3)

653 Has anyone mentioned the upside, being that as long as Biden is negotiating for Ukraine he isn't negotiating for US?

Posted by: Weasel at December 09, 2021 02:36 PM (0IeYL)

654 With Biden its seems the US has joined the Nursing Home known as the EU. Beware of Bio Bombs from China elderly.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 09, 2021 02:37 PM (LQjWA)

655 648 He's definitely going into the next phase of dementia
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I think so too. People who say he'll finish his term are dumb or lying. He'll be making little dookie-birds long before the end of his term.
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Remember Woody Wilson.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 09, 2021 02:38 PM (LQjWA)

656 'I expect there to be resistance to this.'
You can count on it.

Posted by: Ohm Liberation Front at December 09, 2021 02:38 PM (vNbzm)

657 603 556 Everybody forgets me.
Posted by: The Republic of Upper Volta at December 09, 2021 02:14 PM (dgYAy)
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Now known as Upper Ampera.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 09, 2021 02:19 PM (YqDXo)

Strong diplomatic ties to Coulombia.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 09, 2021 02:24 PM (6FeV1

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Upper Volta/Upper Ampera - Watta country!

Posted by: The Republic of Upper Volta at December 09, 2021 02:38 PM (dgYAy)

658 "Harmless as an enemy, treacherous as a friend."

Posted by: aelfheld at December 09, 2021 02:41 PM (Zy9Yy)

659 As to the Kiev / Kyiv thing, that's simple... Kyiv is the original name of that city (before the Russ 'incorporated' the Ukraine into 'Greater Russia'. Kiev is the Russian renaming of that city. And yeah, there's a LOT of bad blood between the Ukrainians & Russians...genocide, forced deportations, etc.

Folks in that part of the world have looooong memories, so don't expect anybody to 'hug it out' anytime soon. And as you might have guessed, the main troublemakers in the area are Russians who 'bussed in' to replace the Ukrainians that were deported / killed decades ago.

The whole region is an ethnic minefield that's best left alone... ProTip: tell the neocons to STFU and let the locals work it out. That'll keep the bloodshed to a minimum.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 09, 2021 02:42 PM (W+kMI)

660 We wouldn't have to put boots on thr ground if Obama didn't remove the missile systems were promised countries like the Ukraine and Poland, and Biden didn't stop any arms deals we had with them. We were setting countries up to protect themselves, but these idiots wanted to side with Russia instead.

I'm conflicted because i don't want to see US troops in Europe fighting for Europe, but i want to see dead commies. Too bad no European nation will do anything, since they are all indebted to Russia and they'll look the other way, just like when Russia blew up an airliner and no one did shit.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 09, 2021 03:15 PM (oozCc)

661 If Europe won't fight....they will morph into a gigantic Joy Division servicing The USSR troops and dog catchers.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 09, 2021 03:23 PM (TrkA3)

662 This is probably payback for helping Trump investigate the Bidens' corruption with Burisma and God only knows what else.

Posted by: SMFH at December 09, 2021 03:39 PM (u/7wY)

663 A virtual master stroke by 2 Scoops. Now he doesn't have to worry about finding a new country to launder his money through.

Posted by: John Juan at December 09, 2021 05:16 PM (klRPF)

664 It's called reality. There is absolutely nothing the U.S. can do to stop Russia if it decided to invade. Russia has the power to completely destroy any military resistance if it decided to invade.

The fact is that Russia doesn't want Ukraine. Its only concern is the rabid neocons who want to use Ukraine as proxy to attack Russia.

The only reason we're in the this mess is because of the neocon who supported a coup that overthrew Ukraine demcraitily elected government. If they want to start WW3 they they can grab their guns and go over there themselves as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: John galt at December 09, 2021 05:25 PM (kB+Uw)

665 Biden will soon become the all time Worst Presidents and more resented then Hitler

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 09, 2021 06:24 PM (wGqjj)

666 If you are not willing to go to war no matter what, what difference does it make how Biden capitulates, other than to score points political points just as he doing?

One thing though, if Russia is Germany, Ukraine is Czechoslovakia, and Biden is proclaiming peace in our time, remind me how that worked out afterwards.

Especially since China will be playing Japan with Taiwan playing, well, China, and this repeating itself when Xi sees how easy it is. Again, how did that work out for American interests when we had a weak military and pushed back with economic sanctions and demands to cease expanding?

Posted by: Sam at December 09, 2021 07:30 PM (ohyxL)

667 Want to put boots on the ground to defend Ukraine?

Look at a Map and figure out how to get there.

Posted by: obsidian at December 10, 2021 12:17 PM (vR0JI)

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