The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 12/20/21

Good morning, kids. Start of a new week and the last few days before Christmas. Let me begin with a quote from the great Milton Friedman:

"I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office."

While elections are now perhaps the least important aspect of how policy is enacted and enforced in topsy-turvy overthrown Amerika, every now and again they can and do throw a monkey wrench into the machine of State and the plans of those at the controls.

There's an old Appalachian Christmas tradition in which children throw their wish lists into a fireplace in hopes fairies will bring the embers to Santa Claus. [So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden may want to consider giving it a try after Senator Joe Manchin's Sunday morning announcement that he's gifting the White House a lump of West Virginia coal for Christmas: a "no" vote on the multitrillion-dollar "Build Back Better" plan. Not a year into his [so-called quote-unquote "presidency"], Biden's domestic agenda is dead.
. . .Biden's refusal to budge on the price tag of the bill means not only the demise of his domestic agenda, but the central appeal of his candidacy: that he's a moderate deal-maker who, thanks to his nearly half-century in the Senate, knows how to get things done.
Much of this was predictable. Despite beating former president Donald Trump by only 44,000 votes in three swing states that decided the election[*], Biden handed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) full control over budget legislation in a 50-50 Senate.
When moderate Democrats felt squeamish about rubber stamping the desires of an octogenarian socialist, party leadership countered with a litany of absurdities, such as labeling cash handouts to illegal immigrants "infrastructure" and promising that the largest expansion of the welfare state since President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society is actually deflationary. . .
. . . Rank-and-file Democrats with competitive races this cycle are now untethered from the failing [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] agenda. They no longer need to explain to voters how printing more money for a leftist wishlist made sense as prices continue to skyrocket in grocery stores across the country. They no longer have to explain why they voted to include massive tax cuts for the wealthy in their "human infrastructure" bill.
Who knows whether the lifeline will be enough to save vulnerable Democrats given Biden's other failures. Between the [junta's] utter failure in Afghanistan and Biden's failure to shut down [Chinese] COVID-19, the past year of Democrat leadership has been a political disaster. But with just under a year until the midterms, Manchin's bullet to the [junta's] disastrous spending bill may be just what they need to get back on track.

Yeah, he "beat"(*) Trump by 44,000 votes -- mostly by flooding a toilet in Atlanta and flooding 6 states with a few million fraudulent ballots to put him over the top, but I digress. Then again, not really. While the trajectory of this nation has been towards devolution/dissolution into a top down centralized big government bureaucracy starting around 1913, the only variable has been the speed at which that goal was achieved, never its inevitability. The closest we have ever come to slamming on the brakes and throwing it into reverse was with the election - and re-election - of Donald Trump. And by that I don't necessarily mean because of the man himself, though for sure, his reason for seeking the presidency in the first place was from a businessman's perspective (and dare I say despite his New York liberal pedigree, a patriot's perspective), in stopping the madness and destruction of big government bureaucracy.

Donald Trump represents tens of millions of Americans, perhaps at least half the country if not upwards of two thirds of the citizenry who, despite the concerted efforts to brainwash several generations of children to hate themselves, their heritage and the greatest nation that ever came into being, had woken (pun definitely intended) up to find a wolf at their throat. Too late that by hook and by crook, little by little, a distinct minority of individuals control the instrumentalities of power in and outside of government now have almost total control of society. Yet here we are, with Donald Trump ousted in a coup that installed a virtually dead corpse into the Oval Office with the slimmest of majorities in both chambers of Congress (also under the shadiest of circumstances) and ready to deal a death blow to a Constitution on life support and somehow, the wrong man stepped up and did the right thing.

Whenever I see Joe Manchin, I remember back a few years to a State of the Union address from President Trump. After Trump made a pronouncement that got a standing ovation, Manchin rose to his feet to join in the applause but within a nanosecond of being glared at by IIRC Malig-Nancy Pelosi, he sank back in his chair and sat on his hands. Not exactly a profile in courage. And yet, he just put a massive torpedo into the greatest expansion of government power since the Great Society and the New Deal, that would have completed the fundamental transformation of America into the moral equivalent of Rachel Levine with Obama's brain.

Let's face it, Joe Manchin understands full well what voting for a bill that would destroy the coal industry means; political suicide. Hence, Milton Friedman's observation of political profitability. In any case, he did the right thing despite what has to have been offers of massive payoffs by the Klain/Kalorama Klown Kouncil, if not the Yasser Arafat pistol in the hand not holding the olive branch. You know, I'm not going to be all that tough and cynical on Manchin. Recall a certain congressman from Michigan IIRC named Bart Stupak. Obama assured him over and over that he wouldn't com-- er, include abortion in the Obamacare bill and Stupak went along with it and voted for it. We all know how that turned out.

Certainly, like zombie radioactive projectile herpes, the Left will come back again and again, and do anything and everything to ram through this garbage any way they can. They don't necessarily care about elections anymore thinking or perhaps knowing that they can rig them like they did 2020. We'll see if this is true. Frankly, I'm kind of shocked Pee-Air Defecto or the Alaskan Snow Blower have not announced their intention to cross the aisle.

For now, a welcome reprieve from the next round of waterboarding.

The End of America: 100 Days That Shook the World available here.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Roger Kimball: "You still hear people talk about individual liberty and the rule of law, but the slogans are shot through with a brittle cynicism."
The Freedom Facade
"The bill gives the Governor of New York, his or her delegates -- including but not limited to the commissioner and heads of local health departments -- the right to remove and detain any individuals or groups of people through issuing a single order. The orders only have to include the individual's name(s) or 'reasonably specific descriptions of the individuals or groups.'"
New York Legislation Provides for Indefinite Detention of Unvaccinated at Governor's Whim
Robert Spencer: "Leftists cannot and do not tolerate dissent. . . It is striking how often Democrat officials turn out to be enemies of this most fundamental and important of freedoms, while establishment Republicans stand by indifferent as they work to destroy it."
Biden Junta, Big Tech, Leftist Hate Groups Step Up War on Free Speech
"[F]or two years now, a global coup has been carried out all over the world, planned for some time by an elite group of conspirators enslaved to the interests of international high finance."
Archbishop Vigano's Startling Warning to the American People

$1 TRILLION "INFRASTRUCTURE" SELLOUT, $3.5 TRILLION SOCIALIST TRANSFORMATION, DEBT CEILING/BUDGETARY INSANITY

"Perhaps this will move the Biden [junta] to focus less on pie in the sky and more of what people really need in 2022. Stop laughing." (the NY Post's editors still get in their digs at Trump and believe the myth that Biden actually won, but the rest is accurate - jjs)
Joe Manchin's Christmas Gift to America: Killing the Build Bolshevism Biggerer Horror
"If his comments on FOX and written statement indicate an end to that effort, they represent a sudden and inexplicable reversal in his position, and a breach of his commitments to the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] and the Senator's colleagues in the House and Senate," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement released on Sunday after Manchin appeared on Fox News to announce his final position.
White House Turns on Joe Manchin for Killing Joe Biden's Build Bolshevism Biggerer Bill
"Complete bullshit."
America- and Jew-Hating Immigration Criminal Bro-Fo Omar/Nur/Burqawitz/Ikeeelyou Launches Profane Tirade On Joe Manchin During MSLSD Interview
"[Bald-faced baldie imbecile Maoist] Pressley stated that if Manchin was serious about addressing issues like inflation and poverty, he would support the Build Back Better bill 'so we can, in fact, build back better.'"
LoPecia Pressley Accuses Manchin of Showing "Contempt" for the American People After Opposing Spending Bill (I'm shocked - SHOCKED - she didn't call him racist - jjs)
"Auchincloss suggested Democrats 'will be able to pass components' of the package or try another format for Biden's massive spending bill." (executive fiat and SCOTUS rubber stamp after months of litigation; same as it ever was - jjs)
Unknown Dem Backbencher Auchincloss on Build Bolshevism Biggerer: "It's Not Dead [it's resting!]"
"Between the administration's utter failure in Afghanistan and Biden's failure to shut down [Chinese] COVID-19, the past year of Democratic leadership has been a political disaster. But with just under a year until the midterms, Manchin's bullet to the [junta's] disastrous spending bill may be just what they need to get back on track."
Manchin Takes Dead Aim at Biden's Agenda
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"After over a year of watching many of the violent thugs walk away from justice, December 2021 is proving to be a nightmare for the Democrats' commie street urchins."
A Christmas Miracle! December Sees Antifa Thugs (Finally) Going to Prison!
"Democrats are coming up empty again."
Another January 6 Conspiracy Theory Debunked: GOP House Members Did Not Coordinate With Stop the Steal Organizer
"The fact that Antifa and BLM violence can be unleashed and put back in a bottle is itself worrisome, as the shot-callers are mysterious."
What Happened to the Riots?
"The California Democrat has a lifetime of failure as a credible writer of fiction.>"
Adam Schiff-for-Brains' Delusion
"Hint: It's not who the media say they are."
America's Real Authoritarians
"Placing political creatures in charge of a supposedly nonpartisan agency inevitably leads to partisan behavior."
How Did the FBI End Up in This Mess?
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Friday's 2-1 ruling by the U.S. Appeals Court for the Sixth Circuit allows for the Biden [junta] to enforce the requirement, though the battle is likely far from over."
Federal Appeals Court Says Biden's Vaccine Rule For Private Businesses Can Resume
"It's gone way, way too far, and that is a decision that people should make for themselves, but they should not have their rights, freedoms, or liberties restricted based on these boosters."
DeSantis: Americans "Should Not Have Their Rights, Freedoms, Or Liberties Restricted" Over Boosters
"Challenges mount after lower court clears way for employer mandate."
Legal Attacks On Biden's Vaccine Mandate Reach Supreme Court
J. Deane Waldman, M.D.: "[Chinese] COVID-19 is probably the greatest and most successful swindle in history. By comparison, Carlo Ponzi and Bernie Madoff were pikers."
The Chinese COVID Scam: The Progressive Path to Power, and Tyranny
"As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all -- including the vulnerable -- falls," the declaration continues. "We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity . . . Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity." This, it seems, was unacceptable to Collins and Fauci.
Fauci Orchestrated '"Quick and Devastating" Takedown of Anti-Lockdown Experts
"Does responsibility for the deaths of over 1 million Americans make Tony Fauci a mass murderer? It's actually worse than that."
Judging Fauci
"It appears that World Gym Greece is not the only business refusing to comply, and that makes it very difficult for the local government to play hardball. If it does, it will soon find itself punishing most of the businesses in the county, and that will be a disaster for the future of these petty dictator politicians."
Pushback: NY Gym Owners Will Not Comply with New Mask Mandates
The new guidance, known as the "test to stay" protocol will ease the burden on children who were previously expected to stay home if they come into contact with someone who tests positive."
Unvaccinated Kids No Longer Have to Quarantine if Exposed, Per CDC's 'Test to Stay' Protocol
If only this virus was as deadly as she and her ilk keep telling us.
Dishonest Injun Elizabeth Warren Tests Positive for Chinese Coronavirus
"A new think tank unmasks the left."
Return to Main Street

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So, wait a second. If this is such a threat to humanity, why wait until after Christmas and not order an immediate lockdown? That is, of course, a rhetorical question.
Boris Johnson Looking at Post-Christmas Lockdown for the UK
"It's time for the nation's leaders to fall back to simply offering advice in most cases: Issuing orders that won't be obeyed is worse than foolish."
American's Increasingly Refuse to Obey Mandates in the Name of Fighting Chinese COVID
"The response to [Chinese] COVID has effectively changed the meanings of previously accepted words or terms."
Orwell was Right: Control the Language, Control the World
"Crises often increase religious observance, but the pandemic has helped throttle it."
Religion in the Time of Chinese COVID
"When people who never subjugate their will to G-d invoke His name to promote an agenda."
A Gift From G-d?
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Benjamin Braddock: "One thing I can say with confidence is that the government will not act. It will do too little, too late."
The Dying Dollar
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden's unfavorability poll number, according to the Real Clear Politics average, is 52.6%. To be fair, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's ultra-easy monetary policy is directly responsible for part of that high unfavorability rating."
Our Incompetent Federal Reserve
"The Federal Reserve has announced a tighter monetary policy, but its stance remains accommodative."
Course Correction?
"What good will it do the American people for the government to get into semiconductor manufacturing?"
Joe Biden Wants to Regulate Your Computer Chips, Too
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
" . . . and much of the press still can't figure out why crime is surging in certain cities."
Roses are Red, Crime is Blue
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"When the next issue is distributed throughout the college, do not be surprised if the leftist thugs who run Harvard to have organized a plan to steal and destroy all copies. It is the left's playbook to silence all debate and opposition. The publishers of The Salient had better be prepared for such thuggery, and arrange the distribution in order to defeat it."
Pushback Against Blacklists: Harvard Students Relaunch Conservative Newspaper
"Parents say remote learning harms student performance, mental health."
Virginia Parents Move To Recall School Board Member Who Opposed Reopening
"Squad members demand relief -- for themselves."
Government-Mandated Student Loan Cancellations are Fundamentally Unfair
". . .don't brush off little rich kids being told their race is bad and has always been bad. These scam ideas, always accompanied by scam consultants and scam books, won't stay among the richest segment of the population. Those kids will be raised to push those insane ideas into the world. We can't let them." (50 years too late with this warning - jjs)
Private Preschools Are Teaching the Future Elite to Be Racist
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"If he is true to his word, this will finally put an end to efforts to abuse the process and pass the largest amnesty in American history," Hauman said. "If he is not, this is his last term."
Biden's Amnesty for Illegal Aliens, Limitless Immigration for Corporations in Tailspin with Manchin Opposition
"The State of Texas has taken comprehensive action to secure our southern border and address the border crisis while [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden has sat idly by," Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a border wall unveiling on Saturday. "In June, I promised Texans that we would step up in the federal government's absence and build our own border wall."
Texas Builds Border Wall in Sector Where 47,000 Migrants were Apprehended Last Month
"To Biden, Texas is just a doormat."
Joe Biden Would Rather Ket Birder Wall Materials Rot on the Ground Than Sell Them to Texas to Build Its Own
"Barletta, [now running for governor of Pennsylvania] once the mayor of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, told Breitbart News Saturday that he will take similar action to that of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in Florida, who last week announced six proposals and an emergency order to take on companies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) aiding in illegal immigration."
Lou Barletta: Like DeSantis, I'll Bus Illegal Aliens Out of Pennsylvania to Biden's Delaware
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Jewish clergy want DEI programs to be suspended pending review of rampant anti-Semitism."
Rabbis: College Diversity Officers Promoting "Irrational Hatred of Jews"
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, AND OTHER CORRUPTION
"[Miranda] Devine's gripping account of the Biden family's sleazy business dealings, gleaned from the contents of Hunter's hard drive, picks up where the New York Post's stellar pre-election reporting left off."
REVIEW: Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the [so-called quote-unquote] President Tried to Hide
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"GOP members want commerce secretary to brief Congress on 'deeply concerning' Free Beacon report."
House Republicans Probe Raimondo's Financial Ties to China
"UNITE HERE Local 11's nonprofit affiliate took PPP loans as it hired union staff."
California Union Uses Loophole To Pocket Chinese COVID Relief Funds, Labor Experts Say
"For Blumenthal to claim ignorance doesn't pass the smell test."
NVA Irregular Da Nang Dick Blumenthal Says He Didn't Know the People's World Awards Were Tied to the Communist Party
POLITICS
Discussing the candidates he has endorsed, Trump said, "Sometimes I'm going a little outside of the box with some because we have candidates that are not strong, they're RINOs, and they're not strong. They're Mitch McConnell-type guys, and he's a disaster."
Trump: McConnell Is a "Disaster" -- GOP Needs New Leadership
"Biden previously has joked that he'll get in trouble if he offers spontaneous answers to reporters' questions, and after speaking on serious issues, he often turns on his heel and walks away from the podium as frustrated reporters shout questions that go unanswered."
Biden: "Folks, I'm Not Going to Take Questions Today"
"Republicans are seeing improved prospects in eight states' gubernatorial contests next year, according to the Cook Political Report."
Republicans Favored to Make Gains in 2022 Governor Races
Victor Davis Hanson: "The bill for the arrogance and incompetence displayed by leftist elites is now coming due."
Why Would Hispanics Drop the Left?
"Voters know she doesn't have what it takes."
Kamala Harris Is a Liability
"West Virginia State Treasurer Riley Moore discusses how state treasurers are leveraging their power to fight woke capitalism."
A Powerful Campaign Against Woke Capitalism Is Unfolding Quietly In State Treasurer Races
"The long running campaign to paint Republicans as a threat to democracy has backfired."
Who Poses the Real Threat to Democracy?
Miranda Devine: "This year is ending in much the same way as it began, with furious readers flaming my e-mail inbox. . . "
A Long Year of Dem Disasters
Big time big government RINO. Condolences to the family.
Johnny Isakson, Longtime Georgia Senator, Dies at 76
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"And he did it at WaPo, leftists' safe space. Race card played: 'Will should've just written Hannah-Jones was 'uppity.'"
Fury From The Left After George Will Calls 1619 Project "Historical Illiteracy" and "Not Innocent Ignorance"
"That's what this is all about, of course: shattering yet more norms (which is 'historic' when Democrats do it but bad when Republicans do it) by indicting a sitting president. They want a mug shot of Donald Trump so bad, they can taste it."
Leftwing Journalists All Aflutter, Predict Trump Indictment Soon
"Racist people and parents in Florida are going to be suing every school."
MSLSD Race Baiters Declare DeSantis' Anti CRT Legislation Is "New Effort To Codify White Supremacy"
Robert Spencer: "The Left is more mendacious, hateful and paranoid than ever."
MSNBC and The Atlantic Claim 30 Million People Ready to Take Up Arms for Trump (if only, if only - jjs)
Margot Cleveland: "So Nunes had a choice: Stay in Congress and chair the House's most powerful committee as a Republican, limited by the Democrat-controlled executive branch, or surrender the cozy conclave and create an enterprise to counter the slant and censorship that over the last five years has grown exponentially. The left might not understand Nunes' decision, but here's hoping it learns his reason soon--and the hard way."
Right Responds to Cancel Culture By Building Its Own Infrastructure, and the Left Goes Nuts
ABORTION
"The goal should be to save life."
Follow a Practical Strategy to End Abortion
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
"GOP lawmakers want full accounting of failed vetting efforts."
Four Months After Withdrawal, Biden Junta Doesn't Know Identities of Afghan Refugees Resettled in US
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"No such wild sabre-rattling came from China during the Trump administration. They didn't dare. But with Biden and Harris at the helm for less than a year, the world is now witnessing a rush to exploit the power vacuum in both American politics and foreign policy."
WATCH: CCP Stuns Biden, Blasts U.S. Military 'War Crimes' In Middle East
Daniel Greenfield: "The Summit for Democracy shows how much Biden and Kamala hate the USA."
Biden Won't Stand Up to China or Russia, Only to America
"Forgetting geography and imagining that sanctions will contain Russia has much to do with why Ukraine is staring at a Russian invasion."
Ukraine, NATO, and the Most Fateful Error of American Policy
"Latest threat comes amid escalating proxy war between Tehran and Jewish state."
Iran Threatens to Light Israel on Fire
"Like Caligula, like the Roman relics . . . comparisons to ancient Roman civilization abound."
Bizarre and Sane: North Korea and Israel
"Grocery shopping will be banned on December 17."
North Koreans Banned From Laughing During Mourning Period For Kim Jong Il's Death
"What is difficult but unavoidable for Poland is proving to be crucially important for the future of Europe."
Will Poland Have to Defend Europe from Islam Again?
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Rice University sociology lecturer Craig Considine preaches a wide-screen, blockbuster -- and fictional -- view of Muhammed and Islam."
Craig Considine's Sci-Fi Islam
The price of tracking 'Islamophobia.'"
Bro-Fo Omar/Nur/Burqawitz/Ikeeelyou's Bill to Combat "Islamophobia" Passes the House
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"Potheads who thought government legalization of pot would lead to heaven on earth forgot about one tiny detail: getting the government involved in anything either makes it more expensive or ruins it completely. In the case of legal pot in California, it's both."
Pot Industry in California on Verge of Collapse
"Set in the lush foothills of the Appalachians, the Tennessee city has built a technology infrastructure for the twenty-first century."
How Chattanooga Reinvented Itself
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"You take a shower, the water doesn't come out."
LOW-FLOW JOE: Biden Reverses Trump-Era Shower Head Rule
"Even assuming for the sake of argument what cannot be proven -- that man can control the earth's climate -- California continues to enact legislation and regulations at cross purposes with this aim and at a perilous cost to its citizens and the world."
California's Fatal Energy Lysenkoism
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] green initiatives rely on biased data from interest groups to attack the U.S. oil and gas industry."
Biden Methane Rule Chokes On Climate Change Fallacies
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"If confirmed as ice, this discovery is ground-breaking, because it suggests that the underground layers of ice that have been detected on Mars down to 30 degrees latitude likely also exists at the equator, though much deeper underground. This discovery suggests that ice table is global, meaning that if you dig down almost anywhere on Mars you will uncover ice.'
Scientists Discover Underground Reservoir of Hydrogen, Likely Ice, Near Martian Equator
"Capitalism in space: SpaceX has submitted a new proposal for building several launchpads at the Kennedy Space Center for its Starship heavy lift rocket, including rebuilding one old pad (LC-39A) and building another at a new site (the never used LC-49)."
SpaceX Proposes New Launchpads for Starship at Kennedy
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Lloyd Billingsley: "The holiday that has nothing to do with Africa, but a lot to do with left-wing terrorism."
Kronicles of Kwanzaa
"Upon the statue's removal, workers reportedly discovered a time capsule from 1887." Report: Chinese COVID Vax Card and BLM Sticker Put In New Time Capsule Under Pedestal Of Removed Robert E. Lee Statue In Virginia
In the latest episode of "The Tim Dillon Show," the star comedian mocked the idea that the SUV allegedly being driven by Darrell Brooks just ran over and killed six people during a Christmas parade without any human role at all.
Tim Dillon Rips the Media for Ignoring and Distorting the Waukesha Massacre
Christian Toto: "Famously canceled comic saves the most incendiary trans material for last."
Louis C.K. Takes Cancel Culture Baton from Chappelle in Sorry
"Christianity is losing ground to the 'nones.'"
The Rise of the Religiously Unaffiliated
"I had serious reservations about the woke remake, but it turns out the film had some bright spots."
What Spielberg Gets (Surprisingly) Right in West Side Story
"The New York city council has evicted Thomas Jefferson from its chamber. Should Paris now follow suit?"
Two Statues of Jefferson
"In relying on the usage of 'unalienable' after Francis Hutcheson, the founders indicated an important difference between themselves and John Locke."
Lost in Translation

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 20, 2021 07:53 AM (j39Fc)

2 Good christmas week morning!

Posted by: Molly k. at December 20, 2021 07:54 AM (lRCH1)

3 Present

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2021 07:54 AM (BFigT)

4 For Lease Navidad to all

Posted by: IanDeal at December 20, 2021 07:54 AM (nzV7Y)

5 "I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office."

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Theory:

This quote is actually why Joe Biden hated Milton Friedman so much, not Friedman's economic theories.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 07:55 AM (LvTSG)

6 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 07:55 AM (DU+/6)

7
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 20, 2021 07:56 AM (DUIap)

8 Mornin', all! It's amazing just how much improved a mood can be with 7 hours of sleep instead of two nights of 5.

Thanks for the newz, JJ!

Posted by: Catherine--who generally doesn't curse. at December 20, 2021 07:56 AM (ZSsrh)

9 Good morning, one and all. May things start winding down and we get out of crisis mode if only for a short time.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2021 07:57 AM (4olE8)

10 Recall a certain congressman from Michigan IIRC named Bart Stupak. Obama assured him over and over that he wouldn't com-- er, include abortion in the Obamacare bill and Stupak went along with it and voted for it. We all know how that turned out.

Say, whatever happened to Bart Stupak? This (from Wiki):

Stupak chose not to seek re-election in 2010. He departed Congress in January 2011, and was succeeded by Dan Benishek, a Republican from the Upper Peninsula. Stupak is now a lobbyist with Venable LLP.

Hope he enjoys his 30 pieces of silver.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2021 07:58 AM (vESMU)

11 Theory:
This quote is actually why Joe Biden hated Milton Friedman so much, not Friedman's economic theories.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 07:55 AM (LvTSG)
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They're the same thing, essentially. The economy is among other things an expression of men in the system where they live. You cannot have a free economy without a free society. You cannot have an honest economy without an honest society. The economy is how we produce, consume and live but it is also a physical mirror of our broader philosophy.

You cannot have tyranny of the society and freedom of its production and consumption. If your system is comprised of rotters, you cannot have a lively economy. If crooks and liars, the economy cannot be honest. The two cannot be divorced, because one is the expression of the other.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 07:59 AM (DU+/6)

12 Morning

Posted by: Lrrr at December 20, 2021 07:59 AM (jIL4c)

13 The premise of Poopy pants remarks tomorrow will be that vaxxed do not contract nor transmit Covid. That is how I read Twitter and NFLs new policies.

Posted by: Jamaica Queens county juror pool at December 20, 2021 07:59 AM (Du8Yp)

14 At that State of the Union, Pelosi controlled Manchin's political future. I'd say the tide has turned on her. But that doesn't mean she won't set several fires on the way out. Magnesium fires. Which the Capitol Police will try to put out with water.

Posted by: Catherine--who generally doesn't curse. at December 20, 2021 08:00 AM (ZSsrh)

15 There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time.
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 20, 2021 08:01 AM (4I/2K)

16 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at December 20, 2021 08:01 AM (u8Zs6)

17 Not a year into his [so-called quote-unquote "presidency"], Biden's domestic agenda is dead.
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Not yet it isn't. If BBB is dead - and it appears to be - that was just the planned killing stroke. They're still all-in on the 'Rona nonsense, they're still strangling the economy, they're still crippling our prospects with their energy and environmental policies, they're still stifling expression with speech controls, they're still robbing us with inflation and they're still sexually corrupting our society and using children as the increasingly popular means to do so. The coup de grace might have been stymied for the time being, but domestic agenda otherwise is full steam ahead.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:02 AM (DU+/6)

18 Good morning horde
I think we need fighters against the Marxists, there isn't no crossing the isles anymore

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 20, 2021 08:02 AM (rhHuA)

19 Manchin wasn't the only one opposed to BBB:

BAIER: You're getting all the focus, Senator, but are there other Democratic senators --
MANCHIN: Yeah, and it's not right. Not right.
BAIER: -- who are concerned about this bill like you are? Have you talked to them?
MANCHIN: I'm not going to speak for any of my -- I respect -- they know where I'm -- they know the difficulties that I've been having with this. I've been very concerned about this.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2021 08:02 AM (vESMU)

20
Hey, Joe Biden - stolen elections have consequences you decrepit old pervert. I mean you can propose an agenda as if you won, but everyone knows you didn't.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 08:02 AM (dQvv7)

21 MANCHIN: I'm not going to speak for any of my -- I respect -- they know where I'm -- they know the difficulties that I've been having with this. I've been very concerned about this.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2021 08:02 AM (vESMU)
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Pro tip for Manchin, given for free in the spirit of the season:
Don't travel alone and under no circumstances be in a park after dark.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

22 Have hospitals become so addicted to federal money that they're admitting hypochondriacs with a glorified head cold?

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 20, 2021 08:04 AM (y7DUB)

23 Tomorrow's remarks may be the most dangerous the regime has made.
Simple logic dictates that a large percentage of the elderly, who would have died from Covid last year, are likely to find the Old Man's Friend this year.
They're going to blame the unvaccinated for that.

Every death from tomorrow forward is going to be blamed on white, conservatives because "everyone knows" they're the ones not vaccinated.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 20, 2021 08:04 AM (jIL4c)

24 "The bill gives the Governor of New York, his or her delegates -- including but not limited to the commissioner and heads of local health departments -- the right to remove and detain any individuals or groups of people through issuing a single order.

And we'll enforce it, without question. I assume we can still count on your support. Keep displaying those flags and window stickers.

Posted by: The Blue at December 20, 2021 08:05 AM (Wux4A)

25 Have hospitals become so addicted to federal money that they're admitting hypochondriacs with a glorified head cold?

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mmmmmmmmmmm..maybe ?

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 08:05 AM (V13WU)

26 There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time.
Do they know it's Christmas time at all?
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 20, 2021 08:01 AM (4I/2K)
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Happy Kwanzaa to you!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at December 20, 2021 08:05 AM (u8Zs6)

27 21 Pro tip for Manchin, given for free in the spirit of the season:
Don't travel alone and under no circumstances be in a park after dark.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

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"In the face of Senator Manchin's tragic suicide in the middle of a park with three gunshot wounds to his spine and four to the back of his head, and in the name of comity, I will be appointing Assata Shakur as the new senator from West Virginia. It would be unfair to take unfair political advantage of this tragedy by appointing a Republican."
-Jim Justice, WV governor

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:06 AM (LvTSG)

28 "Placing political creatures in charge of a supposedly nonpartisan agency inevitably leads to partisan behavior."
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Go further. "Non-partisan agencies are an aberration. Any and all government agencies, regardless of charter or initial behavior, will revert to the mean and become willing tools of political activism."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:06 AM (DU+/6)

29 Oh, and one more thing that won't be reported as the cause of the death of BBB: too much SALT.

There is no way that Democrat Red State senators were going to try to explain to their constituents why they voted for a tax break for wealthy Blue Staters. The House is in enough jeopardy, that would have ensured a red-wave in the Senate.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2021 08:06 AM (vESMU)

30 JIMMY KIMMEL LA BOWL
PRESENTED BY STIFEL
Oregon State vs. Utah State
December 18, 2021 - 4:30 pm PT

Kimmel has a bowl ?

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 08:06 AM (5ZRXN)

31
Good morning, one and all. May things start winding down and we get out of crisis mode if only for a short time.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2021 07:57 AM

As Annie Lennox once wrote in the song 'Why' -- 'this kinda troubles only just begun"

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 08:06 AM (dQvv7)

32 and...thanks for the roundup , JJ..

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 08:06 AM (V13WU)

33 22 Have hospitals become so addicted to federal money that they're admitting hypochondriacs with a glorified head cold?
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 20, 2021 08:04 AM (y7DUB)

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This is a question for Cat Ass Trophy and Muldoon, I believe. Maybe nurse ratched when she wakes up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:06 AM (LvTSG)

34 Good morning morons and happy birthday JJ

Pot industry is on the verge of collapse, they say?

Not bloody likely, I say.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2021 08:06 AM (EZebt)

35 From PJ Media's "Christmas Miracle" article:

Jacob Michael Gaines traveled from Texas to Oregon to play tough gal with federal law enforcement.

I thought Crossing State Lines was one of the most heinous crimes in the eyes of leftists. Why is this not getting the same attention? Oh wait. Figured it out.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2021 08:07 AM (4olE8)

36 That quote by uncle Milt never made sense to me. I mean, I get it in the abstract, but without some sort of concrete example or plan on how to do it, it lacks any real meaning.

At least to me, early in this cup of coffee.

Posted by: McLurkerson at December 20, 2021 08:07 AM (wNDOJ)

37 The media and the Democrats, stinging from the loss of the BBB, are hunting for a win.
Blaming the unvaccinated and ordering massive new enforcement will salve them.

I fear this is the Dark Winter.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 20, 2021 08:07 AM (jIL4c)

38 I do not think that manchin will change his mind on voting for the bbb like some on hear are fearing. He went on fox to make the announcement, there is a reason he went there instead of some friendly news outfit. He wanted to smack joe biden in the head with his no vote and going on fox to make his no vote announcement had to have pi$$ed biden off to no end.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2021 08:08 AM (bVYXr)

39 It's pretty hilarious that the Brooklyn Nets want the ban on unvaxed Kyrie Irving lifted because so many of their vaxed players have the Covid they can't field a competitive team.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 20, 2021 08:08 AM (y7DUB)

40 "Placing political creatures in charge of a supposedly nonpartisan agency inevitably leads to partisan behavior."

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Filed under the Duh Category.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 20, 2021 08:08 AM (sVtYq)

41 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

42 Voting isn't going to solve these issues. A complete change of public sentiment is the only way.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2021 08:09 AM (siJx+)

43 . . .Biden's refusal to budge on the price tag of the bill means not only the demise of his domestic agenda, but the central appeal of his candidacy: that he's a moderate deal-maker who, thanks to his nearly half-century in the Senate, knows how to get things done.

Well, they did cut the "price" of BBB by 1/2; but only through chicanery which the GAO easily saw through.

And so did Manchin. He's an unexpected ally in common sense, but very much welcomed.

But here's the thing -- the Dems will regroup, sooner or later; their goals still intact. Them corksoakers NeverGiveUp. *apologies to the esteemed commenter with that nic*

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 08:09 AM (F0YaR)

44 31
As Annie Lennox once wrote in the song 'Why' -- 'this kinda troubles only just begun"
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 08:06 AM (dQvv7)

Any peace we get is a short break in the chaos. I know that things are Getting Interesting but I won't stop hoping for some good times even if they are only for a few days.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 20, 2021 08:09 AM (4olE8)

45 crossing state lines....that kid in red hat who was maligned by MSM a few years back is now collecting hundreds of millions for his troubles...I do hope Kyle R. will do as well...

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 08:09 AM (V13WU)

46 The Lefts most powerful weapon is a Big Lie and the biggest lie they can tell is that the vaccines work. This is the off ramp, their last chance. BBB will be back in the spring as part of the victory dance.

Posted by: Jamaica Queens county juror pool at December 20, 2021 08:09 AM (hlc26)

47 Looks like we're back to buying shower heads out of some guy's car trunk. Get the Commando 400. That's the one the circus uses to wash the elephants.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2021 08:09 AM (lz5hY)

48 Al Sharpton says we're "going back to Jim Crow."

With the Dems being in full power, that tells you a lot.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

49 New York Legislation Provides for Indefinite Detention of Unvaccinated at Governor's Whim
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Talk about missing the forest for the trees, National Pulse. The lead damn paragraph shows this to not be true:
In the next legislative session beginning January 5th, 2022, the New York Senate and Assembly could vote on a bill that would grant permissions to remove and detain cases, contacts, carriers, or anyone suspected of presenting a "significant threat to public health" and remove them from public life on an indefinite basis.

The vaccine has nothing to do with it. It's far broader and far worse than. It is apparently a "significant threat to public health." And that will mean precisely whatever the hell they want it to mean. Do you question authority? Well then you're insane and we all know that the mad are a public health risk. It will be anything and everything they want.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:09 AM (DU+/6)

50 IMO Manchin didn't get any respect after toeing the line. He's been snubbed by the rank and file Olde Guard Democrats as a hick and demonized by the radicals as not communist enough.

I think he more or less said "fuck 'em" and pulled out the shiv.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2021 08:09 AM (BFigT)

51 Happy Kwanzaa to you!
Posted by: Biden's Dog at December 20, 2021 08:05 AM (u8Zs6)

Happy RamaHanaKwanzaMiss to you!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 20, 2021 08:10 AM (4I/2K)

52 But that doesn't mean she won't set several fires on the way out. Magnesium fires. Which the Capitol Police will try to put out with water.
Posted by: Catherine--who generally doesn't curse. at December 20, 2021 08:00 AM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: White Phosphorus at December 20, 2021 08:11 AM (a3Q+t)

53 Al Sharpton says ...

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You lost me at "Al Sharpton".

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 08:11 AM (V13WU)

54 >>Today more and more people are opening their eyes and beginning to understand that the emergency pandemic and the"ecological emergency" are part of a criminal plan hatched by the World Economic Forum, the UN, the WHO, and a galaxy of organizations and foundations that are ideologically characterized as clearly anti-human and - this needs to be said clearly - anti-Christian.

Archbishop Vigano is 100% correct. There's a reason Davos operates in a veil of secrecy with almost no real reporting but if you look at the website and see where these globalists are pushing things it's obvious that Democrats are just pushing their blueprint. And they are not alone. Socialists around the world are pushing the exact same agenda and they are using crisis' like the China virus, global warming and crime to push their rule by elite agenda.

A group of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world aren't meeting in secret to give us more freedom and wealth.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 08:11 AM (ZLI7S)

55 Looks like we're back to buying shower heads out of some guy's car trunk. Get the Commando 400. That's the one the circus uses to wash the elephants.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2021 08:09 AM

Pro tip...take a low flo shower head apart and pull the plastic restricter thingy out and presto! you have a functional shower head.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2021 08:11 AM (bVYXr)

56 The proposed "indefinite arrest" bill is patently unconstitutional, and even violates older common law from the times of Magna Carta. Whoever proposed it should be the trial victim and see how he/she/it likes the rule.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2021 08:11 AM (siJx+)

57 Not Socialists, Oligarchs.

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 08:13 AM (V13WU)

58 Kimmel has a bowl ?
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 08:06 AM (5ZRXN)

It was played Saturday night. The game was ok but Kimmel was as dumb as expected.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 20, 2021 08:13 AM (y7DUB)

59 48 Al Sharpton says we're "going back to Jim Crow."

With the Dems being in full power, that tells you a lot.......
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

The sick bastard is actually right. We are going back to Jim Crow. Except it's whites and anyone else not down with the overthrow of America that will be excluded and persecuted.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 08:13 AM (4Xm63)

60 56 The proposed "indefinite arrest" bill is patently unconstitutional, and even violates older common law from the times of Magna Carta. Whoever proposed it should be the trial victim and see how he/she/it likes the rule.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2021 08:11 AM (siJx+)

Catch me if you can, all the way to SCOTUS, where Roberts declares "it's a tax" and "no standing."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 08:14 AM (4Xm63)

61 bro-fo needs to be deported back to Somalia.

Posted by: Infidel at December 20, 2021 08:14 AM (qpolg)

62 61 bro-fo needs to be deported back to Somalia.
Posted by: Infidel at December 20, 2021 08:14 AM (qpolg)

I was going to suggest the lithosphere.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 08:15 AM (4Xm63)

63 A group of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world aren't meeting in secret to give us more freedom and wealth.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 08:11 AM (ZLI7S)
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Look, Jack. The WEF consists of the richest people in the world. Rich people are successful and successful people are smart. It is in our best interests to understand that they have our best interests in mind. We don't make progress by clinging to the old ways. It's time to kick back, relax, and listen to the experts with proven track records of success.

Posted by: People like Max Boot at December 20, 2021 08:15 AM (DU+/6)

64 BBB will be back in the spring as part of the victory dance.

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I make no illusions that this isn't true. The Left never stops. Their evil is absolutely relentless, and just like hopping over walls and climbing mountains for Obamacare, they will not stop until they get what they want.

I don't know if Manchin will cave. I don't know if disgusting POSs like Romney, Collins or the AK Cokehead will cross over to pass this horrific bill. Signs are good, for now. But I know the Left is relentless in the most literal of definitions. Maybe, just maybe, it'll stay dead long enough for the midterms to sweep these maggots out of office and hold off our demise for a bit longer. That's the ray of light I'm chasing at the moment...as sad as that sounds.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 20, 2021 08:15 AM (sVtYq)

65 ok.

Posted by: Infidel at December 20, 2021 08:15 AM (qpolg)

66 Coalition on Jewish Values basically saying that "diversity and inclusion" is code for joo hate.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2021 08:15 AM (EZebt)

67 The massive amounts of frozen hydrogen on Mars makes it the solar system's gasoline station. What a great find.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2021 08:16 AM (siJx+)

68 Joe Manchin just positioned himself as front-runner in the 2024 presidential primary.

Posted by: Chi-town Jerry at December 20, 2021 08:16 AM (CjFDo)

69
Kimmel has a bowl ?
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 08:06 AM (5ZRXN)

Yeah, and I hope it was the lowest rated bowl game in the history of ever.

Fuck that guy.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

70
Pot industry is on the verge of collapse, they say?

Not bloody likely, I say.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2021 08:06 AM

Read anything about 'delta eight' yet? I've read a ton and it could be very, very interesting situation in the future. We talk about 'Big Pharma' but 'Big Farm' is very much interested in continuing to grow legal hemp.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 08:17 AM (dQvv7)

71 I'm not quite ready to concede yet but my prediction that Joe would be gone by the end of the year is looking to be a bit optimistic.

Posted by: f'd at December 20, 2021 08:18 AM (Tnijr)

72 Joe Biden that is.

Posted by: f'd at December 20, 2021 08:18 AM (Tnijr)

73 JJ (main body of post): American's Increasingly Refuse to Obey Mandates in the Name of Fighting Chinese COVID

Correction: Americans not American's

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 20, 2021 08:19 AM (nRMeC)

74 36 That quote by uncle Milt never made sense to me. I mean, I get it in the abstract, but without some sort of concrete example or plan on how to do it, it lacks any real meaning.
At least to me, early in this cup of coffee.

Posted by: McLurkerson at December 20, 2021 08:07 AM (wNDOJ)

Let me try a different approach. The goal-list of a pol is as follows:
1. Get elected.
2. Collect donations to get reelected.
3. Get reelected.
4 Do the right thing.

4 is the desperation move of someone failing in any part of 1 to 3.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 08:19 AM (F0YaR)

75 Pot industry is on the verge of collapse, they say?

Not bloody likely, I say.

Posted by: San Franpsycho

The legal pot industry. It's a weed. It grows anywhere. Meaning, you put onerous taxes on it and people will grow it anywhere. Same with corn likker.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2021 08:20 AM (uXonU)

76 48 Al Sharpton says we're "going back to Jim Crow."

With the Dems being in full power, that tells you a lot.......
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

The sick bastard is actually right. We are going back to Jim Crow. Except it's whites and anyone else not down with the overthrow of America that will be excluded and persecuted.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 08:13 AM (4Xm63)

I misread that as Old Crow. Old Crow, the original sour mash bourbon distilled in Illinois and aged all of three years. 80 proof at about $17 for the economy-sized handle.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 20, 2021 08:20 AM (4I/2K)

77 BBB will resurface. I would not be surprised if there's some backroom dealing going on right now to force it through over the holidays... when nobody's looking, with GOP support.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2021 08:21 AM (BFigT)

78 Is it possible that he could make it to the end of 2022?

Posted by: f'd at December 20, 2021 08:21 AM (Tnijr)

79 "It's time for the nation's leaders to fall back to simply offering advice in most cases: Issuing orders that won't be obeyed is worse than foolish."
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Unless you're a tyrant. Then you need to *make* them obey if they won't do so out of the goodness of their hearts and civic virtue. Issue the order. If it isn't obeyed, starve the disobedient and fill the prisons until it is.

Bill DeBlasio said exactly this last week.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:21 AM (DU+/6)

80 Good Morning

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2021 08:21 AM (yrol0)

81 I'm not quite ready to concede yet but my prediction that Joe would be gone by the end of the year is looking to be a bit optimistic.

Posted by: f'd
..
Considering the hot mess of Kamala Harris taking over, they will keep Joey B propped up as long as he can read a teleprompter..

Reminds me of the movie "Dave"

Posted by: Chi-town Jerry at December 20, 2021 08:21 AM (CjFDo)

82 F'd, he's not going anywhere, imo. He's (and his junkyard wife) are far too cocky and arrogant to step down due to cognitive issues or what have you. Not unless he's taken out in a body bag. He'll "go" when he's damned good and ready, and I see zero sign of that. Plus, Jill's got a whole dresser drawer full of fishnet stockings and a closet full of go-go boots still to wear. They're relishing their illegitimate titles right now.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 20, 2021 08:22 AM (sVtYq)

83 Anyway I can't believe we already suffered almost a whole year with this fuckwit. It's a nightmare I can't wake up from. Golly I hate Mondays.

Posted by: f'd at December 20, 2021 08:23 AM (Tnijr)

84 That quote by uncle Milt never made sense to me. I mean, I get it in the abstract, but without some sort of concrete example or plan on how to do it, it lacks any real meaning.

==

It can be make for interesting thread. Discussion of what the quote means.

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 08:23 AM (V13WU)

85 >>That quote by uncle Milt never made sense to me. I mean, I get it in the abstract, but without some sort of concrete example or plan on how to do it, it lacks any real meaning.
At least to me, early in this cup of coffee.

Manchin is a Democrat in a state Trump won with the biggest margin of any state and that includes the ones always focused on like Texas. Polls show that BBB is as unpopular as Brandon in WVa.

It would be politically unprofitable for him to vote against 65% of his constituents which don't live on the Upper West Side.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 08:23 AM (ZLI7S)

86 The most devastating part of the Biden administration to me is that all of his promises and claims appeared to be so much fluff. It's shocking and demoralizing. Why did I even bother to allow my vote to be changed by Dominion from Trump to Stinkfingers?

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 20, 2021 08:23 AM (7MBHe)

87 Die Dollar Die!

This is what happens when the federales fuck strangers in the ass.

The sooner the better.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 20, 2021 08:24 AM (w9H27)

88 Diversity officers are preaching jew hate. Well ! How shocking !

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 08:24 AM (V13WU)

89 ... He's (and his junkyard wife) are far too cocky and arrogant to step down due to cognitive issues or what have you. ...
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 20, 2021 08:22 AM (sVtYq)
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"Junkyard Wife" is an evocative and brutal pejorative, LiB. Well done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:24 AM (DU+/6)

90 The lapdog media didn't notice, but Russia delivered an ultimatum to the United States last week, and demanded an immediate response to it.

Not only is the United States and NATO required to guarantee that no former part of the Soviet Union be admitted to NATO in the future (i.e. the Ukraine, Georgia), but NATO cannot carry out "military activity" near Russia's borders. The Russians have made it clear that this includes all of Eastern Europe, including the Baltic States, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.

There is no way NATO and the US are going to agree to this, of course, so Russia has deliberately presented an ultimatum that they know is going to be rejected.

Russia also just reduced gas shipments to Europe.

They are really and truly getting ready for military action - against Ukraine at a minimum, and perhaps other places.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 08:25 AM (I2/tG)

91 Imagine if, in December 2017, Trump's "Make America Great Again" Bill died in the Senate.

That's how huge a loss this is. And why the Dems are all pretending 'tis but a flesh wound.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 20, 2021 08:25 AM (jIL4c)

92 Speaking to a Jersey resident last night on the phone, I learned of a large-ish family (neighbors and friends of Resident) who have put all holiday plans on hold due to several of them "testing positive". They are all fully fuxxinated, as they are a bunch of panicky mask-wearing "do gooders" who do as they are told. I asked if they are sick, and actually, you know, "have it". No, the answer was. But they are taking no chances. (At having a normal life again.)

I'm sure that they are listed in the statistics as "cases" now.

Posted by: Burping Chili Man at December 20, 2021 08:25 AM (DxQbJ)

93 ~~Diversity~~ Political officers are preaching jew hate. Well ! How shocking !
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 08:24 AM (V13WU)
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It's what they are. There is a Russian word for "HR employee" and that word is, "commissar."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:25 AM (DU+/6)

94 Archbishop Vigano is pretty based. But...how do we get the revival we need?

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 20, 2021 08:25 AM (8548M)

95 Hey! She's badder than ol King Kong! I am not kidding.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at December 20, 2021 08:25 AM (Tnijr)

96
Biden is between a rock and a hard place now. If omicron has a r=4 reproduction rate then well over a million Americans could become infected in the next few weeks - that's a conservative estimate on my part. That's the bad news. The good news it has probably become little more then a nuisance cold.

So does he go full nazi as his base would certainly love, or punt with a 'wait and see' attitude?

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 08:26 AM (dQvv7)

97 Biden is between a rock and a hard place now. If omicron has a r=4 reproduction rate then well over a million Americans could become infected in the next few weeks - that's a conservative estimate on my part. That's the bad news. The good news it has probably become little more then a nuisance cold.

So does he go full nazi as his base would certainly love, or punt with a 'wait and see' attitude?
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 08:26 AM (dQvv7)
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If Omicron spreads that fast, then COVID is over. It makes me wonder if this is the reason for the "COVID is over" trial balloons in the press last week (two in the Atlantic, one in the NYT that I am aware of).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:28 AM (DU+/6)

98
The sick bastard is actually right. We are going back to Jim Crow. Except it's whites and anyone else not down with the overthrow of America that will be excluded and persecuted.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 08:13 AM (4Xm63)

I'm not arguing, but the fact that they're trying to convince people that we're going full racist against blacks in a time of full Dem control is VERY telling to me.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

99 So does he go full nazi as his base would certainly love

Biden will announce that you have to be vaccinated to fly, at a minimum.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 08:28 AM (I2/tG)

100 85 It would be politically unprofitable for him to vote against 65% of his constituents which don't live on the Upper West Side.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 08:23 AM (ZLI7S)

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And it seems to indicate that BBB won't guarantee Democratic electoral victories in perpetuity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:30 AM (LvTSG)

101 Someone is trying to change the narrative.

New lab study suggests those who survive breakthrough Covid-19 infection may have "super immunity".

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:30 AM (UHVv4)

102 Better not take effect until after January so my Vegas trip isn't affected.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

103 New lab study suggests those who survive breakthrough Covid-19 infection may have "super immunity".
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:30 AM (UHVv4)
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First: There are no breakthrough infections
Then: Breakthrough infections are rare
Then: Breakthrough infections are common, but it's the unvaxxed's fault
Now: Breakthrough infection is great!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:31 AM (DU+/6)

104 92 Speaking to a Jersey resident last night on the phone, I learned of a large-ish family (neighbors and friends of Resident) who have put all holiday plans on hold due to several of them "testing positive". They are all fully fuxxinated, as they are a bunch of panicky mask-wearing "do gooders" who do as they are told. I asked if they are sick, and actually, you know, "have it". No, the answer was. But they are taking no chances. (At having a normal life again.)

I'm sure that they are listed in the statistics as "cases" now.
Posted by: Burping Chili Man at December 20, 2021 08:25 AM (DxQbJ)

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"You'd better never move out of Jersey. People in less sane states allow their citizens to simply move about freely, spreading the most dangerous virus known to human history without punishment. Hunker down in Jersey, and you'll be the last to survive."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:31 AM (LvTSG)

105 So does he go full nazi as his base would certainly love

Biden will announce that you have to be vaccinated to fly, at a minimum.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 08:28 AM (I2/tG)

I'm already Not Flying Ever, so I guess I will have to double down and Not Fly Ever Never.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 20, 2021 08:31 AM (4I/2K)

106
New lab study suggests those who survive breakthrough Covid-19 infection may have "super immunity".
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:30 AM (UHVv4)

Not possible with the vaxx being present. It destroys the immune system, not enhance it.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

107 Biden will announce that you have to be vaccinated to fly, at a minimum.
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I thought you already had to do that?
Or is it just a negative test result?

Posted by: Lrrr at December 20, 2021 08:32 AM (jIL4c)

108 >>And it seems to indicate that BBB won't guarantee Democratic electoral victories in perpetuity.

That was always my biggest concern with BBB. The spending was ruinous and would've destroyed the economy for years but the federalizing of elections that was buried in the bill would have been the end of the Republic.

Pretty hard to overestimate how important Manchin's actions are and how much courage it took. The pressure on him behind the scenes must be intense.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 08:32 AM (ZLI7S)

109 Good morning everyone - Happy Monday. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 08:32 AM (mD/uy)

110 I thought you already had to do that?
Or is it just a negative test result?
Posted by: Lrrr at December 20, 2021 08:32 AM (jIL4c)
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To come into the country. Domestic travel is a different matter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:32 AM (DU+/6)

111 98 I'm not arguing, but the fact that they're trying to convince people that we're going full racist against blacks in a time of full Dem control is VERY telling to me.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

The race card works if and only if the person being hit with it allows it to work on them. Sadly, far too many have done that for far too long. Also, the brainwashing of whole swathes of the populace increases its effectiveness over time.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 08:33 AM (4Xm63)

112 Happy Monday!

>>Rank-and-file Democrats with competitive races this cycle are now untethered from the failing [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] agenda. . . They no longer have to explain why they voted to include massive tax cuts for the wealthy in their "human infrastructure" bill.

Yeah, they didn't want BBB but they were "hiding behind Sinema's skirt."

@gregorytangelo
Privately Senator Sinema has been telling people it's not just her and Manchin who are opposed to #BuildBackBetter --- many of their Democrat colleagues are opposed as well, but afraid to speak up. She tells them they're "hiding behind her skirt."

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2021 08:33 AM (URNdm)

113 I thought you already had to do that?
Or is it just a negative test result?

Not on domestic flights.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 08:33 AM (I2/tG)

114 The wild card is if Biden declares victory tomorrow and lifts all federal rules

Posted by: Jamaica Queens county juror pool at December 20, 2021 08:33 AM (UCpE4)

115
The race card works if and only if the person being hit with it allows it to work on them. Sadly, far too many have done that for far too long. Also, the brainwashing of whole swathes of the populace increases its effectiveness over time.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 08:33 AM (4Xm63)

Truedat.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

116 God rest their 208 souls and help their families and nation but I see that the media are using "Super Typhoon" to describe Rai hitting the Philippines.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:33 AM (UHVv4)

117 In 2017, Muller was appointed special counsel to lead the investigation into Trump/Russia collusion. Within two months of joining the investigation, Mueller learned that the whole thing was a hoax perpetrated by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.

ha! He knew on day 1. He open the folder with the dossier and thats all there was.

The fake Hillary doc and NOTHING ELSE.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2021 08:33 AM (yrol0)

118 Go Greyhound and leave the vaxxing behind!

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 20, 2021 08:33 AM (4I/2K)

119 Let's face it, Joe Manchin understands full well what voting for a bill that would destroy the coal industry means; political suicide.

.. really ? Manchin isn't like Pelosi with houses all over the country. He really intends to go back to West Virginia when he retires. Now, he will be a legend.

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 08:34 AM (RHGPo)

120 Someone is trying to change the narrative.

New lab study suggests those who survive breakthrough Covid-19 infection may have "super immunity".
Posted by: andycanuck

[eye roll emoji]

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 08:34 AM (V13WU)

121 101 Someone is trying to change the narrative.

New lab study suggests those who survive breakthrough Covid-19 infection may have "super immunity".
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:30 AM (UHVv4)

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Yeah, I was wondering about this months ago when we started hearing about so many vaxxed covid cases. I imagined it provided a stronger immunity, allowing for the guaranteed immunity to the spike protein the mRNA vaccine was designed for as well as any further mutations. Maybe not some kind of miracle cure, or anything, but just simply more robust resistance to further strains.

And the scientific community, at least as reported in the NYT, seemed incurious about the question. And now, in a time when the Biden administration has seen its political capital burn up in a blaze in no small part because it didn't shut down covid, it's starting to come out? Question the timing, sheeple!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:34 AM (LvTSG)

122 New lab study suggests those who survive breakthrough Covid-19 infection may have "super immunity".
Posted by: andycanuck

Not possible with the vaxx being present. It destroys the immune system, not enhance it.
Posted by: Sponge

Son in law came down with the 'Rona this weekend. Mild symptoms. He whined to me "How could this happen? I had the vaccine!"

J you ignorant slut!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 08:34 AM (mD/uy)

123 Go Greyhound and leave the vaxxing behind!

You think we don't have authority over Greyhound?

Posted by: The TSA! at December 20, 2021 08:34 AM (I2/tG)

124 Kamala claims that they didn't see COVID variants coming

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 08:35 AM (RHGPo)

125 delta omicron = media control

Posted by: Infidel at December 20, 2021 08:35 AM (qpolg)

126 118 Go Greyhound and leave the vaxxing behind!
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 20, 2021 08:33 AM (4I/2K)

Last 2 bus rides in my life:

1. 2 dudes were groping a blind girl and the driver and I kicked them off.

2. Bus broke down 2 miles from the station so I walked the rest of the way.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2021 08:36 AM (yrol0)

127 Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai "tells" a Singapore newspaper "she" never wrote of being sexually assaulted.

No further info about how the "interview" was conducted.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:36 AM (UHVv4)

128 Go Greyhound and leave the vaxxing behind!

You think we don't have authority over Greyhound?
Posted by: The TSA! at December 20, 2021 08:34 AM (I2/tG)

I've seen the bus terminals and their zombie-like inhabitants. The 'Rona virus would be the least of my concerns.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 20, 2021 08:36 AM (4I/2K)

129 108 Pretty hard to overestimate how important Manchin's actions are and how much courage it took. The pressure on him behind the scenes must be intense.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 08:32 AM (ZLI7S)

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If it were just Manchin, I'm fairly certain the Democratic leadership would have found a way to get his price. Manchin is no ideologue, as far as I can tell.

No, there had to have been at least three or four others, like Kelly and Masto, who didn't want to put their names in support with a vote with elections coming up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:36 AM (LvTSG)

130 If you ignore the bullshit you have super doubleplus gooderer immunity!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2021 08:36 AM (yrol0)

131
Son in law came down with the 'Rona this weekend. Mild symptoms. He whined to me "How could this happen? I had the vaccine!"

J you ignorant slut!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 08:34 AM (mD/uy)

*The moment you get hit with the clue brick*

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

132 112 @gregorytangelo
Privately Senator Sinema has been telling people it's not just her and Manchin who are opposed to #BuildBackBetter --- many of their Democrat colleagues are opposed as well, but afraid to speak up. She tells them they're "hiding behind her skirt."

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2021 08:33 AM (URNdm)

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This has been kind of obvious to me for a while. The two were offered up as scapegoats to protect the others from attacks from the left in upcoming primaries.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:37 AM (LvTSG)

133 Kamala claims that they didn't see COVID variants coming

Plausible in her case. She's doubtless learned to close her eyes at the slightest sign of coming.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 20, 2021 08:37 AM (QU5/8)

134 PSA....If you come down with an illness against which you were vaccinated , you have super immunity. Also, war is peace , freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.....end PSA.

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 08:38 AM (V13WU)

135 Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai "tells" a Singapore newspaper "she" never wrote of being sexually assaulted.

No further info about how the "interview" was conducted.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:36 AM (UHVv4)

Mother sat in a chair in the corner, bound, gagged and a rifle pointed at her head.

That's my guess anyway.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

136 MFM finally truthful about something... "Leftist Gabriel Boric wins Chile's presidential election." [Unless he an all-out Stalinist or Maoist and "Leftist" is trying to soft-pedal him.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:38 AM (UHVv4)

137 "We're getting to the point now where...it's about severity," said Xavier Becerra, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, in a meeting with reporters this week. "It's not about cases. It's about severity."

We are not "getting to the point" you rat-fcking retard. We've been at that point for nearly two years.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 20, 2021 08:38 AM (njfCw)

138 Someone is trying to change the narrative.

New lab study suggests those who survive breakthrough Covid-19 infection may have "super immunity".
Posted by: andycanuck

[eye roll emoji]
Posted by: runner

The left is so unserious it isn't even funny.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2021 08:38 AM (uXonU)

139 137 We are not "getting to the point" you rat-fcking retard. We've been at that point for nearly two years.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 20, 2021 08:38 AM (njfCw)

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These messages aren't for us.

They've started trying to deprogram a cult the left created over the past two years.

Good luck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

140 If you ignore the bullshit you have super doubleplus gooderer immunity!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2021 08:36 AM (yrol0)

I believe the scientific term is 'double secret immunity.'

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

141 114 The wild card is if Biden declares victory tomorrow and lifts all federal rules
Posted by: Jamaica Queens county juror pool at December 20, 2021 08:33 AM (UCpE4)

You know, if he did that, he'd actually gain real votes and his approval might even jump.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 08:39 AM (4Xm63)

142
As a pureblood unvaxxxed I'm willing to do my part and abandon the monogamous sexual relationship in order to re-populate the planet. Of course the women will need to be carefully selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 08:39 AM (dQvv7)

143 In 2017, Muller was appointed special counsel to lead the investigation into Trump/Russia collusion. Within two months of joining the investigation, Mueller learned that the whole thing was a hoax perpetrated by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.

ha! He knew on day 1. He open the folder with the dossier and thats all there was. ...
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2021 08:33 AM (yrol0)
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Probably. But folks like John Solomon have done the legwork and put the puzzle together far enough to demonstrate that while he *might* have known on day zero, there is no way he could not have known by fairly early on.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:40 AM (DU+/6)

144 BBB will resurface. I would not be surprised if there's some backroom dealing going on right now to force it through over the holidays... when nobody's looking, with GOP support.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2021 08:21 AM

If that were true manchin would not have gone on fox to smack joe biden down, he would have went to one of the friendlier networks if he didn't want to burn bridges. biden will refuse to deal with manchin now.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2021 08:40 AM (bVYXr)

145 So does he go full nazi as his base would certainly love, or punt with a 'wait and see' attitude?
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There's a link at Insty's about the White House trying to change the narrative to downplay "cases" in the lapdog media.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:40 AM (UHVv4)

146 Apparently being all juiced up with mRNA poison also makes you not want to question why you allowed yourself to be all juiced up with mRNA poison.

Posted by: Burping Chili Man at December 20, 2021 08:40 AM (DxQbJ)

147 Kamala claims that they didn't see COVID variants coming

That story is hard to swallow. Unlike some other. . ..

Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 08:40 AM (mD/uy)

148 141 You know, if he did that, he'd actually gain real votes and his approval might even jump.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 08:39 AM (4Xm63)

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The most onerous are at the state level.

The Democratic Party brand is now that of the surgical glove choking America because of a runny nose.

Biden suddenly doing something not incredibly stupid, totally against his character and something I would chastise a writer for the twist, would only change so much of that, and not nearly enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:41 AM (LvTSG)

149 It would be politically unprofitable for him to vote against 65% of his constituents which don't live on the Upper West Side.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 08:23 AM (ZLI7S)

__________________

That's descriptive, not predictive. Milt uses active language: "...Establish a climate..." Who established what climate in Manchin's case? And how much of that was just a pre-existing climate in WV?

Posted by: McLurkerson at December 20, 2021 08:41 AM (wNDOJ)

150
You know, if he did that, he'd actually gain real votes and his approval might even jump.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 08:39 AM (4Xm63)

Wife went shopping with the neighbor over the weekend. Said the malls and shopping centers were fucking packed to the gills. On Sunday.

People are sick of this shit and are ready to move forward.

Hope they stay that way come election days and don't put up with the bullshit they did in 2020.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

151 I am hearing report how omicron cases in the US have double in the past month or so. Or tripled. Or up 1000% or 10 fold or something. Anyway, really, really bad.

Odd since a month ago there were zero detected cases and, nobody was even looking for and testing for it and it was pretty much unheard of. Where have they gotten the base-line data?

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2021 08:42 AM (MxEKc)

152 Hahahaha.. Biden got Manchin-ed.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2021 08:42 AM (S1hrL)

153 As a pureblood unvaxxxed I'm willing to do my part and abandon the monogamous sexual relationship in order to re-populate the planet. Of course the women will need to be carefully selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 08:39 AM (dQvv7)

You magnificent selfless bastard. I salute your sacrifice. May you have many successful couplings without a single failure to fire or a negligent discharge.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 20, 2021 08:42 AM (4I/2K)

154 The long knives are out for Manchin (from HuffPo - https://tinyurl.com/4enpc42u):

"In recent months, Manchin has told several of his fellow Democrats that he thought parents would waste monthly child tax credit payments on drugs instead of providing for their children, according to two sources familiar with the senator's comments. Continuing the child tax credit for another year is a core part of the Build Back Better legislation that Democrats had hoped to pass by the end of the year. The policy has already cut child poverty by nearly 30%. Manchin's private comments shocked several senators, who saw it as an unfair assault on his own constituents and those struggling to raise children in poverty."

Considering that WV is one of the poorest states in the USA, this is a slur on him. I can't imagine that he would say that about his own constituents, especially to another senator. Biden really isn't happy with him, it seems.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2021 08:42 AM (vESMU)

155 >>If it were just Manchin, I'm fairly certain the Democratic leadership would have found a way to get his price. Manchin is no ideologue, as far as I can tell.

>>No, there had to have been at least three or four others, like Kelly and Masto, who didn't want to put their names in support with a vote with elections coming up.

I have no doubt there are and Manchin might not be a political ideologue but he's also not an idiot. His state has taken a beating with the anti-coal left's agenda and this would've been another giant torpedo to a state that is having real economic challenges.

Unless Democrats were planning on offering him a new electorate he still needs the votes of West Virginians to stay in office. And because he's not an ideologue he wasn't going to light his political career on fire for this far left agenda.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 08:42 AM (ZLI7S)

156 Kamala claims that they didn't see COVID variants coming

That story is hard to swallow. Unlike some other. . ..
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 08:40 AM (mD/uy)

Alexa says she's "in a romantic relationship with Willie Brown" so, she's swallowing alright.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

157 Seriously, Chile? WTH?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2021 08:43 AM (EZebt)

158 60 Catch me if you can, all the way to SCOTUS, where Roberts declares "it's a tax" and "no standing."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 08:14 AM (4Xm63)
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"John Roberts" was on the Epstein kiddie-diddler flights multiple times. Which John Roberts, you ask? Was it the one who suddenly started changing votes for no apparent reason at the SCOTUS level?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2021 08:43 AM (5o7rt)

159 148 The most onerous are at the state level.

CO is different in that Gov. Polesmoker will not impose mandates, but he will not stop counties from mandating. And mandating they are.

He's trying to have it both ways because (I assume) his internal polling is terrible. But, he only comes off as weak and ineffective.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 20, 2021 08:44 AM (njfCw)

160 Alexa says she's "in a romantic relationship with Willie Brown"

Nah, Kamala dumped Willie years ago, after he ceased to be of use to her.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 08:44 AM (I2/tG)

161 155 Unless Democrats were planning on offering him a new electorate he still needs the votes of West Virginians to stay in office. And because he's not an ideologue he wasn't going to light his political career on fire for this far left agenda.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 08:42 AM (ZLI7S)

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I'm honestly kind of surprised he's going to try and run again, but then again, this is the US Senate we're talking about.

He won last time with only 3% of the vote after having won his previous Senate elections with at least a 20% gap between him and his next opponent. He knows he's on thin ice if he wants to run again.

Honestly, the dude should probably just become a Republican.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:44 AM (LvTSG)

162 MSM is running the covid narrative and the country:

a "blizzard" of covid
a "grim new year"
hospitals to "overflow"
everyone get yer home tests kits

There are no home test kits to be had, btw.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2021 08:45 AM (S1hrL)

163 "Jewish clergy want DEI programs to be suspended pending review of rampant anti-Semitism."

On the other hand, as long as the DEI programs as they are just anti-white that will be OK. Which they all are.

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2021 08:45 AM (MxEKc)

164
Hahahaha.. Biden got Manchin-ed.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2021 08:42 AM

Perhaps I've viewed an excessive amount of videos of a highly erotic nature but I think:

Biden got Man-chined works better.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 08:45 AM (dQvv7)

165 If manchin voted for the bill he would have lost reelection in 2024, it's that simple and he knows it. He would have been destroyed in the general as a coal hating liberal. That's assuming he didn't get primaried out first.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 20, 2021 08:45 AM (bVYXr)

166 He won last time with only 3% of the vote after having won his previous Senate elections with at least a 20% gap between him and his next opponent. He knows he's on thin ice if he wants to run again.

Honestly, the dude should probably just become a Republican.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:44 AM (LvTSG)

It's almost like the graft is too alluring or something.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

167 Seriously, Chile? WTH?

It's a regional tradition.

Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot

https://www.amazon.com/
Guide-Perfect-Latin-American-Idiot/
dp/156833236X

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 08:46 AM (I2/tG)

168 Another reason you know there are more than just Joe Manchin is that if he was the only one, the pressure would be immense on Boneless Pork Rectum, Princess Alaska, and retiring GOP Senators from Ohio who shall go nameless (spit!).

They need Manchin, but there are more standing behind him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2021 08:46 AM (5o7rt)

169 MSNBC and The Atlantic Claim 30 Million People Ready to Take Up Arms for Trump (if only, if only - jjs)

Maybe...

I'm already Not Flying Ever, so I guess I will have to double down and Not Fly Ever Never.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 20, 2021 08:31 AM (4I/2K)

2005. My last air flight. Fuck the TSA, fuck invasive searches, Fuck 'Em All.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 08:47 AM (F0YaR)

170 157 Seriously, Chile? WTH?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2021 08:43 AM (EZebt)

Chile is about to run into its own strain of 'bad luck'.

Nice hash, SFP. It's also appropriate considering the subject of your comment.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2021 08:47 AM (vESMU)

171
Perhaps I've viewed an excessive amount of videos of a highly erotic nature but I think:

Biden got Man-chined works better.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 08:45 AM (dQvv7)

Joe Biden starring in the new action thriller karate flick "Bolls Chen."

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

172 168 Another reason you know there are more than just Joe Manchin is that if he was the only one, the pressure would be immense on Boneless Pork Rectum, Princess Alaska, and retiring GOP Senators from Ohio who shall go nameless (spit!).

They need Manchin, but there are more standing behind him.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2021 08:46 AM (5o7rt)

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It's failure theater for the Democratic rubes. Has been for months.

"We'll get a real progressive Congress in 2023, but only with your money! 5x match! Don't eat this week! Give us your money!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:47 AM (LvTSG)

173 CNN was suppose to be trying to turn things around at their station. Instead they hire Art Acevedo who was the former Houston police chief, who supported BLM, hated Trump and who was also fired 6 mos. after taking the police chief job in Miami.
I guess CNN is doubling down.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2021 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

174 Squad slams Sen Joe Manchin for killing Biden's progressive Build Back Better plan: AOC rages that 'our entire democracy is on the line' while Cori Bush blasts moderate Democrat's 'corporatist ego'

Progressive Democrats blasted Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia after he said he wouldn't support President Biden's spending bill
House Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that 'our democracy is on the line' and that Democratic leadership needed to bring the bill to a vote on Senate floor
Fellow progressive Cori Bush, the Democrat from Missouri, accused Manchin, the centrist Democrat, of having a 'corporatist ego'
The White House lashed out at Manchin on Sunday for finally definitively coming out against Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda
Jen Psaki said 'Manchin's comments.. are at odds with his discussions this week with the President, with White House staff, and with his own public utterances'
Manchin, a Democrat, said that he can't vote for BBB - even after the New Year
'I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation,' Manchin told Fox. 'I just can't,' he added. 'I've tried everything humanly possible. I can't get there'

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

175 $40 to fill up a Ford Focus this morning. Fuck Joe Biden. Merry Christmas to all.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 20, 2021 08:48 AM (tiR3O)

176 In 2017, the average Venezuelan lost 24 pounds.

Ha! In my Amerika the average citizen will lose 30 pounds!

Posted by: Bernie S at December 20, 2021 08:48 AM (yrol0)

177 Alexa says she's "in a romantic relationship with Willie Brown"

Nah, Kamala dumped Willie years ago, after he ceased to be of use to her.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 08:44 AM (I2/tG)

Once her prospective constituents were beyond the Bay area.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 20, 2021 08:48 AM (y7DUB)

178
2005. My last air flight. Fuck the TSA, fuck invasive searches, Fuck 'Em All.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 08:47 AM (F0YaR)

I haven't flown since before covid. Have a flight to Vegas at the end of January.

Not really looking all that forward to it.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

179 Japanese space tourists return safely to Earth after 12 days on the ISS.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:48 AM (UHVv4)

180 Big boss is saying we might have to get the vax after all. Since they own 3 different companies some of us thought that if they fired us under one company and hire us under one of the other companies we wouldn't have to get vaxed, correct?

Posted by: sidney at December 20, 2021 08:49 AM (LJJah)

181 BBB will resurface. I would not be surprised if there's some backroom dealing going on right now to force it through over the holidays... when nobody's looking, with GOP support.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2021 08:21 AM
===============

This. Demofascists never give up.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2021 08:49 AM (5o7rt)

182
Japanese space tourists return safely to Earth after 12 days on the ISS.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:48 AM

I thought I detected a nip in the air lately.

(Old, old punchline. I self condemn.)

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (dQvv7)

183 Buttered Butt Biden

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (RHGPo)

184 New York Legislation Provides for Indefinite Detention of Unvaccinated at Governor's Whim

So...they send a group of cops to someone's house and drag them to a detention camp.

Or the victims shoot back.

This is insanity.

We've gone from the left claiming ACAB to the left wanting to send cops house to house to round up undesirables.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (ESjRY)

185 Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 20, 2021 08:44 AM (njfCw)

Concur. And to make it more obvious, here in Adams county, most folks just ignore the county's mask requirement.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (fLri9)

186 181 BBB will resurface. I would not be surprised if there's some backroom dealing going on right now to force it through over the holidays... when nobody's looking, with GOP support.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2021 08:21 AM
===============

This. Demofascists never give up.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2021 08:49 AM (5o7rt)

The good guys need to be right all the time. The terrorists only need to be right once.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (vESMU)

187 >> Someone is trying to change the narrative.

New lab study suggests those who survive breakthrough Covid-19 infection may have "super immunity"

Doesn't sound like a change so much as a new spin for getting the vaccine. "See, the vaccine works, it just works differently than we told you -- it won't stop you from getting covid, but you'll be totally, super immune after you guys. So, GET THE JAB AND BOOSTERS!!!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (URNdm)

188 181 BBB will resurface. I would not be surprised if there's some backroom dealing going on right now to force it through over the holidays... when nobody's looking, with GOP support.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2021 08:21 AM
===============

This. Demofascists never give up.
--------------------------------
They will once they're dead.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (tiR3O)

189 >>That's descriptive, not predictive. Milt uses active language: "...Establish a climate..." Who established what climate in Manchin's case? And how much of that was just a pre-existing climate in WV?

No, it's predictive. Which is why Manchin has been saying for months that he was not onboard with BBB no matter how many times Schumer, Biden or the media said he would come around. He didn't just come up with this decision yesterday, he has literally been saying NO for months but people didn't want to listen and assured everyone it was just a matter of meeting his price.

Who established the climate? His constituents, the people who put him in office and can take him out.

Here is a poll from a month ago of WV voters on BBB. They were overwhelmingly against it. They created the climate where it was politically smart for Manchin to vote no despite the national pressure from the left and the media.

https://tinyurl.com/3jejv35j

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (ZLI7S)

190 *strong Austrian bodybuilder accent* I'll be back.

Posted by: BBB at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (4I/2K)

191 Brian Stetler apparently is questioning the idea of shutting down schools because of covid again.

COVID's over.

It's done.

The remaining cultists will shriek, but they're losing. They are in the bunker now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:51 AM (LvTSG)

192 "Voters know she doesn't have what it takes."
Kamala Harris Is a Liability
__________

Since when is not having what it takes (to be President) a liability for a Democrat?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 20, 2021 08:51 AM (7X3UV)

193 If Hillary had only been photographed licking an ice cream cone she'd would have been President!

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 20, 2021 08:51 AM (tiR3O)

194 I see Liz Warren and Corey Booker got COVID after both being vaxxed and Corey boosted.

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 08:51 AM (RHGPo)

195 178
I haven't flown since before covid. Have a flight to Vegas at the end of January.

Same. I honestly don't think I could wear a mask that long in the airports and flights. I could see myself getting arrested on landing. And I'll bet there is non-stop covid propaganda in the airports, which I can't stand.

I'm dying to travel though. Denver to Vegas is a very quick flight. I saw that Styx is playing Vegas soon and I really love their latest stuff, so I'm thinking about it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 20, 2021 08:52 AM (njfCw)

196
Put things in perspective, people!

December 1996: Penn's basketball team commits a pointless foul against Lehigh to gain possession so they can score 100 points and win fans free cheesesteaks, angering coach Fran Dunphy: "I don't ever want to get in a situation where you're forcing things to get culinary satisfaction."

A quarter century ago!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2021 08:52 AM (3l5Yq)

197 I see Liz Warren and Corey Booker got COVID after both being vaxxed and Corey boosted.
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 08:51 AM (RHGPo)
++++
But his "booster" was a hot beef injection and that has not been demonstrated to help protect against COVID-19...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:52 AM (DU+/6)

198 Saw MooCOWski in an interview over a week ago. She's all for BBB because Alaska doesn't have running water in every household. That's what she said.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2021 08:52 AM (S1hrL)

199 192 "Voters know she doesn't have what it takes."
Kamala Harris Is a Liability
__________

Since when is not having what it takes (to be President) a liability for a Democrat?
----------------------
You should see how Kamala Harris licks an ice cream cone. Puts Pete Buttigay to shame.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 20, 2021 08:53 AM (tiR3O)

200 I see Liz Warren and Corey Booker got COVID after both being vaxxed and Corey boosted.

Damn those evil unvaxed people for infecting them!

Posted by: Twitter! at December 20, 2021 08:53 AM (I2/tG)

201 We're getting to the point now where...it's about severity

So, no clot shot, apparently covid was not "severe". Now that more then half of the population have had the clot shot it is...much worse?

But remember you need to get the clot shot to protect yourself. From COVID? No. From the government.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2021 08:53 AM (ESjRY)

202 "John Roberts" was on the Epstein kiddie-diddler flights multiple times. Which John Roberts, you ask? Was it the one who suddenly started changing votes for no apparent reason at the SCOTUS level?
--------------------------------
The Canadian video-jockey who now does news reporting for someone has alibis for the dates of the flights so it's not him, the only other John Roberts anyone has ever heard of. [And if there was a multimillionaire or billionaire named that, I'm sure we'd all no his name already.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:53 AM (UHVv4)

203 it won't stop you from getting covid, but you'll be totally, super immune after you guys. So, GET THE JAB AND BOOSTERS!!!!"
Posted by: Lizzy

And then when they get it again???

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2021 08:53 AM (uXonU)

204 190 *strong Austrian bodybuilder accent* I'll be back.
Posted by: BBB at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (4I/2K)

"Screw your freedom!"

- - Arnold Schvartzeschvartze

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 08:54 AM (4Xm63)

205 Here's your measure of what will happen next year, including the BBB (for those of you who think it's not dead):

AZ - Kelly(D) is up for reelection; all challengers must declare by 4/4/22. So far, he only has 2; primary is 8/2/22.
GA - Ossoff is up. Challengers have until 3/7/22 to file; primary is 5/24/22
NV - declare by 3/7/22; primary is 6/14/22
PA - declare by 3/8/22; primary is 5/17/22
WI - declare by 6/2/22; primary is 8/9/22

Posted by: Lrrr at December 20, 2021 08:54 AM (jIL4c)

206 *strong Austrian bodybuilder accent* I'll be back.
Posted by: BBB at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM

You know who else had a strong Austrian accent.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2021 08:54 AM (a3Q+t)

207 >>House Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that 'our democracy is on the line' and that Democratic leadership needed to bring the bill to a vote on Senate floor
Fellow progressive Cori Bush, the Democrat from Missouri, accused Manchin, the centrist Democrat, of having a 'corporatist ego'

Who cares what lil' Miss Socialist and lil' Miss BLM think?
Junior Congresswomen who are idiots.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2021 08:54 AM (URNdm)

208 I see Liz Warren and Corey Booker got COVID after both being vaxxed and Corey boosted.

I thought Lizzie claimed to be boosted as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2021 08:54 AM (ESjRY)

209 191 Brian Stetler apparently is questioning the idea of shutting down schools because of covid again.

COVID's over.

It's done.

The remaining cultists will shriek, but they're losing. They are in the bunker now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:51 AM (LvTSG)

They might be losing, but there are a lot of them who stand to benefit from continuing the panic. They are like the post WWII last-gaspers in the Japanese Army.
We'll really see what the Left's marching orders really are on Tuesday, when POOTUS makes his big speech. I don't expect the message to change.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2021 08:54 AM (vESMU)

210 They will once they're dead.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (tiR3O)
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Tell that to the Chileans. Thanks to Pinochet and Milton Freidman they have more political and economic freedom than any other country in South America, and their standard of living is grown to the highest on the continent, but look who they are about to vote into office. Zombie Salvador Allende.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2021 08:54 AM (5o7rt)

211 185 Concur. And to make it more obvious, here in Adams county, most folks just ignore the county's mask requirement.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (fLri9)

Wish I could say the same in Larimer. Or "Karen-mer" as I've now dubbed it. I was one of maybe 6 unmasked in King Soopers yesterday. I found myself at the next self-checkout from a young father and his little girl, both unmasked. It was nice.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 20, 2021 08:54 AM (njfCw)

212 Great piece by Roger Kimball. Read the last sentence if nothing else.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2021 08:55 AM (S1hrL)

213 Saw MooCOWski in an interview over a week ago. She's all for BBB because Alaska doesn't have running water in every household. That's what she said.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2021 08:52 AM (S1hrL)

Alaska has more government handouts than any other state. Why the fuck do I have to pay for their household plumbing too?

Fuck off, you hideous coke whore cuunt.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

214 I see Liz Warren and Corey Booker got COVID after both being vaxxed and Corey boosted.
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 08:51 AM (RHGPo)

Do you see anything other than old already discussed news?

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 20, 2021 08:55 AM (y7DUB)

215 The Dems can't afford to have a single one of their red or purple state senators driven left by a primary challengers.

They are going to kill all the radical stuff but blame it on the R for the next year.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 20, 2021 08:55 AM (jIL4c)

216 The Canadian video-jockey who now does news reporting for someone has alibis for the dates of the flights

I presume SC justices have fairly busy schedules of giving speeches for cash and hob nobbing at DC cocktail parties, so it would be easy for Roberts to point to such if he wasn't banging tweens on Epstein island after all.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2021 08:56 AM (ESjRY)

217 >>And then when they get it again???

They'll have another spin.
We watched them tell obvious lies, suppress inconvenient information, and change their tune so many times in the last 20 months, I have doubt that whatever happens next, the solution will always be: Get the vaccine (including boosters)!

There is one script.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2021 08:56 AM (URNdm)

218 The only reason the last coworker, besides me, got the jab. To fly, less than 800 miles. My last flight was August 2019 and only to take dads ashes to the ocean.

Posted by: Infidel at December 20, 2021 08:56 AM (qpolg)

219 215 The Dems can't afford to have a single one of their red or purple state senators driven left by a primary challengers.

They are going to kill all the radical stuff but blame it on the R for the next year.
Posted by: Lrrr at December 20, 2021 08:55 AM (jIL4c)

=========

"We've found out how to counter this messaging, everyone. Say that we support BBB but not as much. It's gold!"
-McConnell

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:56 AM (LvTSG)

220 204 190 *strong Austrian bodybuilder accent* I'll be back.
Posted by: BBB at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (4I/2K)

"Screw your freedom!"

- - Arnold Schvartzeschvartze
-----------------
And now on Sprocket, we dance.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 20, 2021 08:56 AM (tiR3O)

221 I thought I detected a nip in the air lately.
------------------------
None were bereft.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:57 AM (UHVv4)

222 The darkly amusing thing about California's legal pot industry failing is that, by decriminalization, California removed all barriers to illegal sales, not to mention doing away with any enforcement. Are dealers who used to scoff at a narcotics trafficking charge now going to be scared of committing a minor tax violation? Ha!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 08:57 AM (q3gwH)

223
Saw MooCOWski in an interview over a week ago. She's all for BBB because Alaska doesn't have running water in every household. That's what she said.

Posted by: Ziba

... and the cast of "The Last Alaskans" guffawed

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2021 08:57 AM (3l5Yq)

224 Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 20, 2021 08:54 AM (njfCw)

Heh! I hear all about it from tha lil puddin head baby up at CSU.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 20, 2021 08:57 AM (fLri9)

225 A Leftist on Twitter, with the 'rona:

Our family's holiday is ruined. This sucks. We did everything right and variants are raging because some people have decided not to take minor precautions.

Guy's doubling down, isn't he?

Posted by: Twitter! at December 20, 2021 08:57 AM (I2/tG)

226 I want actual proof that Lieawatha and Booker actually had the vaxx.

I don't believe ANYONE in DC has had the shots.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

227 Local Classic Rock radio station sports update this morning talked about how the Red Wings will not be playing another game until after Christmas "due to COVID". Apparently the NHL has put 7 teams in "COVID protocol" due to "omicron cases" and something like 70 games have been postponed.

The NHL has shut down several teams through Christmas break because of COVID-19 concerns, including the Nashville Predators, Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and Calgary Flames.

The NHL also resumed "daily testing" and suspends all games with "border crossings".

Then there's this: "If you test positive... there is a chance a positive test result means that you have antibodies from an infection with a virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses), such as the one that causes the common cold." How many "COVID cases" are actually either common cold or seasonal influenza. Since they share almost all the same symptoms.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM (Do5/p)

228 The claims in that Atlantis article about the coming electoral fraud from the right/Trump in 2024 are delusional and a mirror reality of what happened in 2020. Bigger problem is the left actually believes this. And a still bigger problem is now nobody in this country trusts elections anymore or will accept the results. Al Gore set this in motion on 2020 and it has now reached the point we can no longer settle our differences at the ballot box.

We live in interesting times.

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM (MxEKc)

229 >>"In June, I promised Texans that we would step up in the federal government's absence and build our own border wall."

Saw him interviewed on Tucker -- good job, Abbott!!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM (URNdm)

230 I cannot lie, I taxed that underage ass, as is my right under Marbury.

Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM (QU5/8)

231 225 A Leftist on Twitter, with the 'rona:

Our family's holiday is ruined. This sucks. We did everything right and variants are raging because some people have decided not to take minor precautions.

Guy's doubling down, isn't he?
Posted by: Twitter! at December 20, 2021 08:57 AM (I2/tG)

=========

"I am a neurotic that you must design society around so I quiet down a little bit until I decide that something else is making me feel unsafe."
-Translation

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

232 What happens when we get to the Zeta Variant?

Alpha Alpha? Alpha Squared? Alpha 2: Covid Boogaloo?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM (njfCw)

233 strong Austrian bodybuilder accent I'll be back.
Posted by: BBB at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM
You know who else had a strong Austrian accent.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2021 08:54 AM (a3Q+t)

When I think of Arnold Schlongmaidbanger I think of him and the maid, who looked like Herve Villechaize, going at it like two cats in a burlap sack.

Pumping and a sweating...

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM (w9H27)

234 A Leftist on Twitter, with the 'rona:

Our family's holiday is ruined. This sucks. We did everything right and variants are raging because some people have decided not to take minor precautions.

Guy's doubling down, isn't he?
Posted by: Twitter! at December 20, 2021 08:57 AM (I2/tG)

The stupid is STRONG in this one.

If the vaxx worked, you wouldn't be sick, dipshit.

Why is that so hard to understand?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

235 The darkly amusing thing about California's legal pot industry failing is that

==

They are being robbed ?

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM (V13WU)

236 Are dealers who used to scoff at a narcotics trafficking charge now going to be scared of committing a minor tax violation? Ha!

Hi there!

Posted by: The Fascist California Franchise Tax Board! at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM (I2/tG)

237 Brian Stetler apparently is questioning the idea of shutting down schools because of covid again.

COVID's over.

It's done.

The remaining cultists will shriek, but they're losing. They are in the bunker now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:51 AM (LvTSG)
++++
The next 2-3 weeks will be the tell. They put up some tests on this when Delta hit and backed off of it. There are more stories in shorter time now. If they start flooding the zone in the next couple of weeks, then they're making a concerted effort to back it down and will sacrifice the 5%-10% of Karens who have permanently broken in favor of the masses who are sick of it. I think it's too early to call it right now, but the messaging volume will tell the story over the coming weeks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:59 AM (DU+/6)

238 230 I cannot lie, I taxed that underage ass, as is my right under Marbury.
Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM (QU5/

it's attacks?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 08:59 AM (/EuRN)

239 It should worry every person who loves our republic the only focus is on Manchin. There are other senators who are vulnerable that should be beaten with their vote for this like a club. Is this what Georgia voted for? Arizona or Montana? Has the GOP actually exposed the content of this disaster to those constituencies- or are they sitting on their asses again? Is McConnell and the swamp creatures at the NSCC

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2021 08:59 AM (QlhhC)

240 >>"Jewish clergy want DEI programs to be suspended pending review of rampant anti-Semitism."

Ya think?
You knew it wouldn't be the super-woke ADL pushing back, that's for sure.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2021 08:59 AM (URNdm)

241 237 The next 2-3 weeks will be the tell. They put up some tests on this when Delta hit and backed off of it. There are more stories in shorter time now. If they start flooding the zone in the next couple of weeks, then they're making a concerted effort to back it down and will sacrifice the 5%-10% of Karens who have permanently broken in favor of the masses who are sick of it. I think it's too early to call it right now, but the messaging volume will tell the story over the coming weeks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 08:59 AM (DU+/6)

=========

Stetler himself being the new vehicle of the message is a key to me. The guy's an idiot and just follows his orders. CNN is just as leftist as MSNBC.

The push has begun. We're past trial balloon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:00 AM (LvTSG)

242 Since I finally had a chance to stroll through jjs's links (thanks, jjs) I noticed he missed an essential must read link from Revolver News:

https://tinyurl.com/4ejzd7zy

Whereupon they blow some whale sized chunks of January 6 into a conspiracy laden sky. Many FBI provocateurs are identified and exposed from that day of setuppalooza.

Really. It's long, and worth every minute you put into it.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 09:00 AM (F0YaR)

243 239 It should worry every person who loves our republic the only focus is on Manchin. There are other senators who are vulnerable that should be beaten with their vote for this like a club. Is this what Georgia voted for? Arizona or Montana? Has the GOP actually exposed the content of this disaster to those constituencies- or are they sitting on their asses again? Is McConnell and the swamp creatures at the NSCC
Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2021 08:59 AM (QlhhC)

========

What vote?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:00 AM (LvTSG)

244 You knew it wouldn't be the super-woke ADL pushing back, that's for sure.

We're too busy denouncing Trump for being an anti-Semite!

Posted by: The ADL! at December 20, 2021 09:00 AM (I2/tG)

245 "Jewish clergy want DEI programs to be suspended pending review of rampant anti-Semitism."

I didn't know the Jewish were into NASCAR.....and I thought DEI devolved or was bought out and didn't exist anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

246 Just to think, none of this chaos and communism would be happening if Sessions, Rosenstein, and Barr had done their jobs with antifa and BLM and illegal aliens, if the GOP majority had legislated based on their promises to the people who elected them (including high fines and prison terms for those who abet illegals), and if the pig named Pence's "election integrity" commission had given us integrity instead of fraud on a third world scale.

Oddly, it's Manchin who's standing up while McConnell pretends he can "destroy" democrats by letting them destroy the country.

Do we see McConnell or Mittens going after the corruption known as the Bidens? No, we don't. They're just as corrupt and maybe have profited even more without the drug induced 50yo child.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:01 AM (ONvIw)

247 How many "COVID cases" are actually either common cold or seasonal influenza. Since they share almost all the same symptoms.

There was a study this summer from Japan that showed that exposure to Human Coronavirus OC43 (aka the common cold) gave resistance to COVID, and in fact prior exposure/antibodies to OC43 determined just how bad a bout of COVID would be.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2021 09:01 AM (ESjRY)

248 It is just bizarre that a vaxxed person gets covid and blames the unvaxxed, rather than the efficacy of vaccines.

How to explain such craziness?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2021 09:01 AM (5o7rt)

249 Has McConnell dropped dead yet because, when he does, I will celebrate like it's V day?

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 20, 2021 09:01 AM (GYllL)

250 Enchantment at_Enchant00492739

Insights from Ontario, Canada. China virus. Dec 19, 2021 article.

4177 new cases.
Vaxed: 2977 (71%).
Unvaxed: 905 (22%).

Ontario reports highest case count since April with 4,177 new infections.

https://bit.ly/3yQxAP1

11:47 PM - Dec 19, 2021 - https://bit.ly/33LFNIU

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2021 09:01 AM (Do5/p)

251 231
"I am a neurotic that you must design society around so I quiet down a little bit until I decide that something else is making me feel unsafe."
-Translation
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

And THIS is the story of America, version 2021.

Posted by: kraken at December 20, 2021 09:01 AM (6Je/Q)

252 we'd all no his name
-------------------------------
DOH! "know"!!

Coffee, you black-hearted bitch! You've betrayed me!

Time to break out the morning Valu-Rite!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 09:01 AM (UHVv4)

253 Yes, let's see what they will do since the largest theft of the US treasury has been avoided (for now). The reason for all Covid all the time is that they get BILLIONs regularly through emergency Covid relief funds. No Covid, no lifeline. Get it ?

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 09:01 AM (V13WU)

254 Fuck off, you hideous coke whore cuunt.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

I can't see her without thinking of Willem Dafoe in Boondock Saints....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 09:02 AM (/EuRN)

255 They'll have another spin.
We watched them tell obvious lies, suppress inconvenient information, and change their tune so many times in the last 20 months, I have doubt that whatever happens next, the solution will always be: Get the vaccine (including boosters)!

There is one script.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2021 08:56 AM (URNdm)

They may have to change if the courts, usually a reliable ally, keep ruling against them. Barnes said they're looking down the barrel of a lot of adverse covid rulings.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 20, 2021 09:02 AM (y7DUB)

256 We're forgetting why all of this stuff was piled into one big bill, which is also why it WON'T be back - reconciliation. Technical Senate rules, but dems only get one chance per session to pass a giant bill with only 50 votes, otherwise they need 60.

Nothing on their wish list gets 60 votes. Manchin has said he would go for the $1.5 trillion CTC as a standalone, but the progs might be so pissed off now that they turn down his offer.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 09:02 AM (q3gwH)

257 2005. My last air flight. Fuck the TSA, fuck invasive searches, Fuck 'Em All.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 08:47 AM (F0YaR)
I haven't flown since before covid. Have a flight to Vegas at the end of January.

Not really looking all that forward to it.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 08:48 A
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Fauci is saying that masks on airplanes will likely be here to stay FOREVER.
I'm sure it will be permanent at doctors offices and hospitals too.
There will be places where Masks are never going to go away.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2021 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

258 241>> So, XiNN has positioned Tater as the new face of the messenger of the regime?

Interesting.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 20, 2021 09:02 AM (fLri9)

259 Say a state gets 10 billion in Covid relief. Where do you think the money is going in blue states ??

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 09:02 AM (V13WU)

260 The guy's an idiot and just follows his orders.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:00 AM

But his thighs are dreamy!

Posted by: Don Lemon at December 20, 2021 09:02 AM (a3Q+t)

261
Really. It's long, and worth every minute you put into it.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 09:00 AM

Agree 100% - every one here should read it watch the videos and come to their own inevitable conclusion.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 09:03 AM (dQvv7)

262 260 The guy's an idiot and just follows his orders.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:00 AM

But his thighs are dreamy!
Posted by: Don Lemon at December 20, 2021 09:02 AM (a3Q+t)

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CNN's orgies must be just the worst.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:03 AM (LvTSG)

263 They will milk this Covid "emergency" for f'ing ever.

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 09:03 AM (V13WU)

264 Stetler himself being the new vehicle of the message is a key to me. The guy's an idiot and just follows his orders. CNN is just as leftist as MSNBC.

The push has begun. We're past trial balloon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:00 AM (LvTSG)
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He's still "asking questions." It's a development and likely an important one, but it isn't a full pivot yet (the Atlantic test articles were full pivots). I'm playing wait-and-see. It's a bit contradictory at the moment, and I don't think the junta is fully aligned. Some camps are going with "COVID is over" and yet we have things like the reversal of the nationwide mandate injunction (the Kentucky decision is still active). I don't know if they're trying to ease in the transition or if there's infighting, but it certainly hasn't pivoted yet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 09:03 AM (DU+/6)

265 Until there is no emergency and no disaster.

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 09:04 AM (V13WU)

266 Chile's economic output will unexpectedly decline 20% next year, accompanied by unexpectedly high double digit inflation and unemployment.

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2021 09:04 AM (MxEKc)

267 Has to come from the top, though. *sigh.

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 09:04 AM (V13WU)

268 >>We're forgetting why all of this stuff was piled into one big bill, which is also why it WON'T be back - reconciliation. Technical Senate rules, but dems only get one chance per session to pass a giant bill with only 50 votes, otherwise they need 60.

Not all of us are forgetting.

We are also entering an election year where realistically they have about 5 months to even try and get anything done before everyone starts focusing on reelection.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 09:04 AM (ZLI7S)

269 *********
Fauci is saying that masks on airplanes will likely be here to stay FOREVER.
I'm sure it will be permanent at doctors offices and hospitals too.
There will be places where Masks are never going to go away.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2021 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

The chinese have been wearing masks for decades, yet they still have disease, death and all the fun.

Masks don't to a fucking thing.

Fauci needs to be drug behind a truck.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

270 >>Since I finally had a chance to stroll through jjs's links (thanks, jjs) I noticed he missed an essential must read link from Revolver News: https://tinyurl.com/4ejzd7zy

Did you see that Politifact declares the Revolver News stories on January 6th the "Lie of the Year?"

Seems like every year the designated "Lie of the Year" is really the most inconvenient truth uttered by a non-progressive (see: Palin;s Death Panels).

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2021 09:04 AM (URNdm)

271
GA - Ossoff is up. Challengers have until 3/7/22 to file; primary is 5/24/22

I think it is Warnock's seat that is up for grabs, not Jagoff's. Hershel Walker is seeking the R nomination.

Or am I listening to the wrong newscasts?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2021 09:04 AM (3l5Yq)

272 There is nothing in this world that is worth getting on a plane for, especially if it means getting the jab.

If it's not within driving distance, oh well. Just wasn't meant to be.

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 09:04 AM (AxTbI)

273 Be nice to retail workers this holiday season. It's not their fault that you waited until Mary's water broke to go Christmas shopping.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2021 09:05 AM (uXonU)

274 Say a state gets 10 billion in Covid relief. Where do you think the money is going in blue states ??
Posted by: runner at December 20, 2021 09:02 AM (V13WU)

Hookers and blow.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

275 266 Chile's economic output will unexpectedly decline 20% next year, accompanied by unexpectedly high double digit inflation and unemployment.
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2021 09:04 AM (MxEKc)

The carrot pogroms are going to be absolutely grizzly.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 09:05 AM (/EuRN)

276 AOC is saying that they need to blow up the filibuster and that you can't go on Fox News and legislate from there, like Manchin did.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2021 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

277 Really. It's long, and worth every minute you put into it.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 09:00 AM (F0YaR)
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Julie Kelly endorses this article as authoritative. Seriously, everyone should read it. And the agency fallout should be smoldering piles of rubble, budget-wise. The Justice Department launched a successful coup against the Republic.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2021 09:05 AM (5o7rt)

278 Dr Moran has a YT video up discussing results of a study looking at reinfection rates of vaccinated vs natural immunity. The data shows that natural immunity is better. Way better. YT slapped it with a misinformation label and refers people to the CDC for vaccine information.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:05 AM (E8EsG)

279 COVID's over.

It's done.

The remaining cultists will shriek, but they're losing. They are in the bunker now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

A further data point - Father at Mass yesterday reinstituted the Sign of Peace for all Masses. For those unfamiliar, this is where Catholics greet surrounding congregants by the shaking of hands (or hugs if family). The church stopped that at the beginning of the insanity.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 09:05 AM (mD/uy)

280 Fauci needs to be drug behind a truck.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:04 AM

No! No more support for Big Pharma!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM (a3Q+t)

281 Another EQUITY hit: medical textbook illustrations.

Illustrations must show diversity. We want to see illustrations of brown fetuses, too!

Before or after the abortion?

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM (S1hrL)

282 Believe it or not, it appears some people in the Fed Government are getting realistic about COVID, including card-carrying progressive HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. See below from a Dec. 18 Daily Mail article. It's unlikely Stupid Joe will listen to reason, though. It also may be impossible get the public and media off their "Cases Rise Exponentially!" Fear Porn addiction.

"Health officials also met with Biden on Thursday to discuss Omicron, with some asking the president to shift the White Houses' message of 'freedom from the virus' to publicly discus how Americans can 'live alongside' COVID-19, CNN reported.

The health officials were advising the White House to switch optics and focus on the nation's fight against severe COVID rather than everyday infection, which has been the norm for government agencies and the media since the pandemic began.

'We're getting to the point now where ... it's about severity,' Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, told reporters this week. 'It's not about cases. It's about severity. I think that's where we're heading...to try to be able to tell the public that.' "

Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM (AMIL/)

283 Fauci is saying that masks on airplanes will likely be here to stay FOREVER.

Even Allahpundit was horrified by Fauci's statement.

It's too obvious a signal to the rubes that the end goal is permanent, intrusive, social controls, you see.

You're not supposed to tell the frogs that you are going to crank the temperature up to boiling.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM (I2/tG)

284 247 There was a study this summer from Japan that showed that exposure to Human Coronavirus OC43 (aka the common cold) gave resistance to COVID

I've suspected this from the start. There was evidence back then.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM (njfCw)

285 Here in SoCal I have found exactly zero enforcement of our commie govs mask mandate so far, no change in the number of lunatics self masking either.

Yup, its dead jim.

Posted by: Haywood at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM (D54j9)

286 264 He's still "asking questions." It's a development and likely an important one, but it isn't a full pivot yet (the Atlantic test articles were full pivots). I'm playing wait-and-see. It's a bit contradictory at the moment, and I don't think the junta is fully aligned. Some camps are going with "COVID is over" and yet we have things like the reversal of the nationwide mandate injunction (the Kentucky decision is still active). I don't know if they're trying to ease in the transition or if there's infighting, but it certainly hasn't pivoted yet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 09:03 AM (DU+/6)

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You're right. The Left isn't a monolith. Competing power centers and all.

However, one of those power centers has started turning COVID around. The right turned away from COVID as a thing at least a year ago. Now, the left is beginning their infighting as to ending COVID. COVID can't win because it's about killing people with everything but a spate of bad cold symptoms. All that's left is the bodies the left piles up on its own side.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM (LvTSG)

287 "Jewish clergy want DEI programs to be suspended pending review of rampant anti-Semitism."
Rabbis: College Diversity Officers Promoting "Irrational Hatred of Jews"

These programs promote a lot of irrational hatreds. Why keep voting for and contributing to ideas/implementation of irrational hatred? CRT promotes hatred, but I don't see a big takedown of Garland and I still see lots of "white fragility" and hatred of "whiteness" among people who are shocked when it's turned on them.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM (ONvIw)

288 Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 08:50 AM (ZLI7S)

It's not predictive at all. Manchin has been reflecting the will of his constituents (to a degree) for years now. The polls you cite simply prove that the climate was pre-existing, not that anyone actively "established" a climate. So the question remains, how do you actively establish a climate where it's politically profitable for a politician to do the right thing?

Carried farther, how do you define "the right thing"? By my estimation, the Left has this formulation down - establish (or re-establish) the definition of what "the right thing" is. What most people on this smart military blog think is The Right Thing is not shared by a significant number of voters, and certainly not by the people who control the institutions.

A more meaningful version of Milt's famous quote would be to change "the right thing" to "enact your political preferences", but then that gets into stating the obvious.

Posted by: McLurkerson at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM (wNDOJ)

289 Took me some time to get around to watching Robert Barnes take on the 6th circuit decision, but we can expect the injunction to go back into effect this week from the Enbanc review.

I think Whig might have already mentioned this.

Earlier last week the full 6th was evenly split 8-8 with doing an Enbanc review and confirming the injunction as a matter of law. Of the 8 who opposed, 3 were abstentions who were on the panel that just issued the ruling.

Since one of those on the panel dissented, that means there are 9 judges on the 6th circuit who will vote to reinstate the injunction.

Barnes thinks we will get a ruling to reinstate the injunction before Christmas.

Posted by: Dave in Fla (fC3dn) at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM (5p7BC)

290 >>I think it is Warnock's seat that is up for grabs, not Jagoff's. Hershel Walker is seeking the R nomination.

>>Or am I listening to the wrong newscasts?

No, you're right.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 09:07 AM (ZLI7S)

291 GA - Ossoff is up. Challengers have until 3/7/22 to file; primary is 5/24/22

I think it is Warnock's seat that is up for grabs, not Jagoff's. Hershel Walker is seeking the R nomination.

Or am I listening to the wrong newscasts?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2021 09:04 AM (3l5Yq)
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It's Warnock seat that's up.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2021 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

292 I can't see her without thinking of Willem Dafoe in Boondock Saints....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 09:02 AM (/EuRN)

"Then I'll just have a Coke."

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:07 AM (mZUr4)

293 The chinese have been wearing masks for decades, yet they still have disease, death and all the fun.

Masks don't to a fucking thing.

Fauci needs to be drug behind a truck.
Posted by: Sponge

To be honest, the only reason the --- wear masks is because they can chew their atmosphere.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2021 09:07 AM (uXonU)

294 AOC is saying that they need to blow up the filibuster and that you can't go on Fox News and legislate from there, like Manchin did.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2021 09:05 AM

Were her mammiform protuberances agitated whilst she was saying this?

If so, is there advice The Horde could offer her?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2021 09:08 AM (a3Q+t)

295 Our family's holiday is ruined. This sucks. We did everything right and variants are raging because some people have decided not to take minor precautions.

Guy's doubling down, isn't he?
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That's what the Dems' base believes. There will be no easy walkback for China Joe and Co.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 09:08 AM (UHVv4)

296 Researchers looked at symptoms reported between Oct. 3 and 10, when the delta variant was dominant, and compared those to the most recent period, Dec. 3-10, when omicron was spreading rapidly.

The top five symptoms reported in December were:

Runny nose
Headache
Fatigue (either mild or severe)
Sneezing
Sore throat

Is this what all the fuss is about?

Posted by: Chinaacid at December 20, 2021 09:08 AM (xT9ft)

297 279 A further data point - Father at Mass yesterday reinstituted the Sign of Peace for all Masses. For those unfamiliar, this is where Catholics greet surrounding congregants by the shaking of hands (or hugs if family). The church stopped that at the beginning of the insanity.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 20, 2021 09:05 AM (mD/uy)

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Monseigneur Based (I love this man) never stopped celebrating mass for everyone. The day everything shut down, he started his private masses in the cathedral's basement and just let out an open invitation.

He still hasn't restarted the sign of peace, and I'm happy. Always kind of hated it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

298 When I think of Arnold Schlongmaidbanger I think of him and the maid, who looked like Herve Villechaize, going at it like two cats in a burlap sack.

Pumping and a sweating...

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM (w9H27)

So much for breakfast. I may skip lunch as well.

GAINZZ.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 09:08 AM (F0YaR)

299 However, one of those power centers has started turning COVID around. The right turned away from COVID as a thing at least a year ago. Now, the left is beginning their infighting as to ending COVID. COVID can't win because it's about killing people with everything but a spate of bad cold symptoms. All that's left is the bodies the left piles up on its own side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM (LvTSG)
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Yup. Bloc-vs-Bloc, it can be maintained (the normals are already in "it's over" and have been for some time), but if their bloc is fracturing than things get much harder to maintain. They have to commit to full dictatorial power and arbitrary and brutal enforcement (DeBlasio's preference) or stand it down if they don't think they can get away with that (various factions).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 09:09 AM (DU+/6)

300 It's Warnock seat that's up.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2021 09:07 AM

That's gonna cost him some votes.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2021 09:09 AM (a3Q+t)

301 Among the Christmas songs you probably don't hear on your local "Christmas music" radio station.

The Kinks - Father Christmas
https://youtu.be/fPPCPqDINEk

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:09 AM (mZUr4)

302 Several people injured when a truck crashes into a U.S. military convoy in Bavaria.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 09:09 AM (UHVv4)

303 283 Even Allahpundit was horrified by Fauci's statement.

It's too obvious a signal to the rubes that the end goal is permanent, intrusive, social controls, you see.

You're not supposed to tell the frogs that you are going to crank the temperature up to boiling.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM (I2/tG)

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Was AP horrified because of the actual implications of the policy, the unending attack on liberty? Or was he horrified because of the optics.

I'd guess the optics, though I'm not checking it out to be sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:09 AM (LvTSG)

304 What really chaps my hide is that I know these same miscreants who are gung-ho for covid restrictions are just a few years away from claiming they knew all along covid wasn't dangerous and the shots were. But I will remember. So will Pepperidge Farm.

(hmm...I could go for some gingerman cookies right about now...)

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 20, 2021 09:10 AM (8548M)

305 The claims in that Atlantis article about the coming electoral fraud from the right/Trump in 2024 are delusional and a mirror reality of what happened in 2020. Bigger problem is the left actually believes this. And a still bigger problem is now nobody in this country trusts elections anymore or will accept the results.

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2021 08:58 AM

A still, still bigger problem is the Left has every intention of passing H.R.1 to nationalize election fraud. They have shelved BBB to now return focus to that. Which tells me that they have been working behind the scenes for months now to plan their strategy to get it passed, while everyone was focusing on the theater of BBB. BBB was nothing but a distraction. H.R.1 was the goal the entire time. And, as usual, the GOP will be completely flatfooted with regards to H.R.1 and will not have a plan to defeat it. (If they even care to defeat it).

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2021 09:10 AM (Do5/p)

306
To be honest, the only reason the chinks wear masks is because they can chew their atmosphere.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2021 09:07 AM (uXonU)

Yet they still have covid, lung issues, everything worse than we do.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

307 The health officials were advising the White House to switch optics and focus on the nation's fight against severe COVID rather than everyday infection, which has been the norm for government agencies and the media since the pandemic began.

'We're getting to the point now where ... it's about severity,' Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, told reporters this week. 'It's not about cases. It's about severity. I think that's where we're heading...to try to be able to tell the public that.' "
Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM (AMIL/)

Larry Hogan got the memo as well. When he was on Meet The Press yesterday, he mentioned that he's not focused on cases but hospitalizations and deaths.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2021 09:10 AM (vESMU)

308 >>It's not predictive at all. Manchin has been reflecting the will of his constituents (to a degree) for years now. The polls you cite simply prove that the climate was pre-existing, not that anyone actively "established" a climate. So the question remains, how do you actively establish a climate where it's politically profitable for a politician to do the right thing?

Yea, that's kind of exactly what predictive means which is why so many have been predicting for months this is exactly what Manchin would do. And he did. Just as predicted.

Friedman talked about creating a climate where even politicians who aren't on our side do what we want. That is exactly what Manchin's constituents have been doing for years.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 09:10 AM (ZLI7S)

309 It is racist to make the black man run again so soon. They should make Ossoff run on the equality, and cuziwanna principle.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:10 AM (E8EsG)

310 296

Based on those symptoms I had Omicron a couple of weeks ago and didn't even know it.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2021 09:10 AM (S1hrL)

311 To be honest, the only reason the chinks wear masks is because they can chew their atmosphere.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2021 09:07 AM (uXonU)
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I don't know if they're really effective against air pollution, but I can see how it could help. Industrial air pollution is pretty big as far as particulates go. Of the 70% of air that enters your mouth and nose through the mask, there may be some filtration. I haven't read anything on mask efficacy against "fine dust" (as they often call particulate pollution).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 09:11 AM (DU+/6)

312 266 Chile's economic output will unexpectedly decline 20% next year, accompanied by unexpectedly high double digit inflation and unemployment.
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Buy Bitcoin Better!

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 20, 2021 09:11 AM (tiR3O)

313 I'm sure it will be permanent at doctors offices and hospitals too.
There will be places where Masks are never going to go away.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2021 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

Never is a long time. Some obvious codger tools have been permanently broken so they're lost but most young people will bounce back once Fauci becomes a laughingstock. Hospitals have already pushed back on the mandates. A lot of individual doctors, maybe the majority, see through the propaganda.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 20, 2021 09:11 AM (y7DUB)

314 SpaceX rebuilding launch pads at Kennedy for Starship Heavy launches raises the intriguing possibility of multiple launches in short periods, like a week.

What an amazingly capable company.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2021 09:11 AM (5o7rt)

315 Among the Christmas songs you probably don't hear on your local "Christmas music" radio station.

The Kinks - Father Christmas
https://youtu.be/fPPCPqDINEk
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:09 AM (mZUr4)

This one neither.

https://youtu.be/aLLeQQBk2pk

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

316 I wish the GOP would take a hint from Manchin and do what they were hired/elected to do. For years they ran on reducing illegal immigration and stopping the fascist take over of medicine. Given the opportunity to do this, they investigated Trump, and some resigned rather than have any part in realizing their promises to the people. And I'll include Gowdy's ilk in this. They will likely do the same thing again if they get the chance.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:12 AM (ONvIw)

317 That's gonna cost him some votes.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2021 09:09 AM (a3Q+t)
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I am Georgia-adjacent, and I am getting direct mail (courtesy of the prior owner, who was a Dem in good standing) begging for money for Warnock. If they're casting a net that wide, they're worried about his seat.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 09:12 AM (DU+/6)

318 Square root variants will be amusing.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2021 09:12 AM (S1hrL)

319 305 H.R.1 was the goal the entire time. And, as usual, the GOP will be completely flatfooted with regards to H.R.1 and will not have a plan to defeat it. (If they even care to defeat it).
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2021 09:10 AM (Do5/p)

I don't think this is the case. They tried that first, remember, and it went nowhere. And then they pivoted to the Build Bolshie Bill from that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:12 AM (wxfcn)

320 You're not supposed to tell the frogs that you are going to crank the temperature up to boiling.

It would be interesting to take say a "normal" day from AUS - where they are putting people in concentration camps - and showing it to Americans in April of last year.

But...isn't this the story of everything the left does? Take whatever the left considers to be "normal" now and show people 20 years ago and they wouldn't believe you weren't putting them on - and I include run of the mill Dems here. Imagine, for example, showing ADMIRAL LEVINE to some Gore voter in 2001...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2021 09:12 AM (ESjRY)

321 The NHL also resumed "daily testing" and suspends all games with "border crossings".
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Yeah, it's only Canadian-based teams versus Canadian-based teams for the near future.

And some NBA players are refusing to cross the border for Raptors' home games because they don't want to put up with the border-crossing testing regime.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 09:12 AM (UHVv4)

322 Good morning y'all!

Posted by: tbodie at December 20, 2021 09:12 AM (UYkjZ)

323 306
To be honest, the only reason the chinks wear masks is because they can chew their atmosphere.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2021 09:07 AM (uXonU)

Yet they still have covid, lung issues, everything worse than we do.
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The smart ones smoke. Toughen up those lungs sweatpea.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 20, 2021 09:12 AM (tiR3O)

324 �Leftist on Twitter, with the 'rona:
Our family's holiday is ruined. This sucks. We did everything right and variants are raging because some people have decided not to take minor precautions.
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That's what, 60%+ of the Democrat base there, right?

How are they going to go against that? Especially when those people got so much pure pleasure from "going Nazi" on the Other.

They're addicted to the fear-high from the panic porn and the dopamine rush from lording over the Others.

Posted by: Lrrr at December 20, 2021 09:12 AM (jIL4c)

325 Yet they still have covid, lung issues, everything worse than we do.
Posted by: Sponge

Agree 100%. The only reason they wear masks, is so they don't get hit in the mouth with their air.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2021 09:13 AM (uXonU)

326 Cracker - Merry Christmas, Emily:
https://youtu.be/I9cRU5EcxtI

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 09:13 AM (DU+/6)

327 Clyde - H R 1 is already dead. The tag team of manchin and sinema have killed that one, too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 09:13 AM (q3gwH)

328 304
(hmm...I could go for some gingerman cookies right about now...)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 20, 2021 09:10 AM (8548M)

"???"

- - Cookie Milano

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:13 AM (wxfcn)

329 319 I don't think this is the case. They tried that first, remember, and it went nowhere. And then they pivoted to the Build Bolshie Bill from that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:12 AM (wxfcn)

=========

And the day after the new pivot, Sinema was saying that she doesn't support the procedural moves the Democrats would have to do to in order to pass it, leaving her stated support of the bill's actual aims clear.

Speaking out both sides of her mouth, she's killing the bill's new chances while providing rhetorical support to her left to help stave off any primary challenger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

330 I don't know if they're really effective against air pollution, but I can see how it could help.

If I wear a mask while moving the lawn I notice I get less allergy symptoms afterwards - so presumably it is filtering out grass dander.

You'd think the same would be true with at least some industrial pollution.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2021 09:14 AM (ESjRY)

331 The amnesty would cost American taxpayers about $500 billion over two decades.

DOUBLE THAT

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2021 09:14 AM (yrol0)

332 This one neither.

https://youtu.be/aLLeQQBk2pk
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

You win! Mine a least has a chance of airing on a classic rock station.

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:14 AM (mZUr4)

333 Be nice to retail workers this holiday season. It's not their fault that you waited until Mary's water broke to go Christmas shopping.
=====

My favorite part of holiday shopping was Christmas Eve morning (or afternoon if work kept me). No more dithering, just get it done. Shoppers and retail workers were happy, helpful, and full of the holiday spirit. The sales were nice too.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 20, 2021 09:14 AM (MIKMs)

334 You'd think the same would be true with at least some industrial pollution.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2021 09:14 AM (ESjRY)
++++
Right, depending on particulate size. I don't know how big "fine dust" is as compared to things like pollen (pollen tends to be really big).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 09:15 AM (DU+/6)

335 I'd guess the optics, though I'm not checking it out to be sure.

Optics, of course.

Remember, Fauci also said that handshaking should be abolished - a practice that dates back at least to the Ancient Greeks, which has obvious utility to social primates.

Guy's a megalomaniac.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 09:15 AM (I2/tG)

336 To be honest, the only reason the --- wear masks is because they can chew their atmosphere.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2021 09:07 AM (uXonU

Can we have an end to using rude slurs like this?

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:15 AM (ONvIw)

337
You win! Mine a least has a chance of airing on a classic rock station.
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:14 AM (mZUr4)

Mine only aired on The Howard Stern Show.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

338 >>A further data point - Father at Mass yesterday reinstituted the Sign of Peace for all Masses.

I am visiting family and went to the Episcopal church service yesterday with family. Masks, hand sanitizer upon entry, no touching when greeting others. Last week, I went to an Evangelical church with another family member, it was huge (hundreds, one of 4 services at that site), no masks, and happy people greeting each other with hugs and handshakes. What a contrast -- and I can see why the latter church is growing like crazy (more than doubled membership since covid hit). I can also see why the Left and the David Frenches of the so-called conservative press hate Evangelicals.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2021 09:16 AM (URNdm)

339 Did you see that Politifact declares the Revolver News stories on January 6th the "Lie of the Year?"

Seems like every year the designated "Lie of the Year" is really the most inconvenient truth uttered by a non-progressive (see: Palin;s Death Panels).

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2021 09:04 AM (URNdm)

Good. They are scared.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 09:16 AM (F0YaR)

340 What a contrast -- and I can see why the latter church is growing like crazy (more than doubled membership since covid hit). I can also see why the Left and the David Frenches of the so-called conservative press hate Evangelicals.
___

I'm honored to be hated by those that practice evil.

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 09:17 AM (AxTbI)

341 Cracker - Merry Christmas, Emily:
https://youtu.be/I9cRU5EcxtI
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 09:13 AM (DU+/6)

B+ effort from Cracker. C- execution.

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:17 AM (mZUr4)

342 So the question remains, how do you actively establish a climate where it's politically profitable for a politician to do the right thing?

You start by treating government - and all its associated trappings such as military and police as well as tax collectors and such - as a necessary evil, rather than an admirable good.

Start by viewing all things government - most especially the parts that enforce their will - from a default position of skepticism.

Posted by: Mr. Obvious at December 20, 2021 09:18 AM (Wux4A)

343 If they're casting a net that wide, they're worried about his seat.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
----------------
They should be. Herchel Walker has a significant lead to win the seat.

Honestly, unless they stick a serious scandal on the guy, he can't lose. He has the two biggest factors in Georgia going for him.

1) Football hero from UGA.
2) Trump's endorsement.

Posted by: Dave in Fla (fC3dn) at December 20, 2021 09:18 AM (5p7BC)

344 I'm honored to be hated by those that practice evil.
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 09:17 AM (AxTbI)

As well you should be!

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:18 AM (ONvIw)

345 B+ effort from Cracker. C- execution.
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:17 AM (mZUr4)
++++
It's middling on average, but there are some great lines in that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 09:18 AM (DU+/6)

346 You win! Mine a least has a chance of airing on a classic rock station.
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:14 AM (mZUr4)

Mine only aired on The Howard Stern Show.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

Best thing about his show was the old "Stump the Booey" thing

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:18 AM (mZUr4)

347 Hey CN!

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 09:18 AM (AxTbI)

348 Mighty peculiar that Fauxchi hasn't had covid. Or Pelosi. Or Schumer. Or AOC. etc etc etc .

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2021 09:18 AM (S1hrL)

349
My mask, which the wife washes for me did a really good job of capturing pollen - which is some multiple in size of the virus. It actually was yellow in both nose and mouth area. Now that pollen season is over it's actually back to white again.

So masks do some good for some things, but as far as the tiny little virus? Who knows.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 09:19 AM (dQvv7)

350 Posted by: Kurt at December 20, 2021 09:18 AM (26S8L)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 20, 2021 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

351 If it's not within driving distance, oh well. Just wasn't meant to be.
Posted by: SMH

*fist bump*

Posted by: Infidel at December 20, 2021 09:19 AM (qpolg)

352 And I'll include Gowdy's ilk in this.

Treytor and his latter day HeeHaw act got old as soon as you realized what a gutless sellout he was.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 20, 2021 09:19 AM (y7DUB)

353 Israel has now banned all flights coming from the USA because of high rates of omni covid

First time Israel's done that in the pandemic.

Thanks, Brandon!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 09:19 AM (I2/tG)

354 It is comforting to see that the dems have senators of their own who understand that the real rules of the game are to Talk a Big Game to keep your activists enthused, and then make sure that absolutely nothing ever gets done. Thank you senator kinky boots!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 09:20 AM (q3gwH)

355
Best thing about his show was the old "Stump the Booey" thing
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:18 AM (mZUr4)

But we wouldn't have this classic either:

https://youtu.be/uMsE6VszEFY

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

356 Buy Brandon Britches

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 09:20 AM (/EuRN)

357 This is Brandon's America. We are just stuck in it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:20 AM (E8EsG)

358

Please refrain from referring to Chinese as those things in the armor.

Thank you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:21 AM (wxfcn)

359 359

Please refrain from referring to Chinese as those things in the armor.

Thank you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:21 AM (wxfcn)

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Straps?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:21 AM (LvTSG)

360 Please refrain from referring to Chinese as those things in the armor.

Thank you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:21 AM (wxfcn)

Such language greaves me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 09:21 AM (/EuRN)

361 Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 09:10 AM (ZLI7S)

The context is Manchin and WV as an example of Milt's axiom. When we can predict behavior based on an already established pattern, that's not responsive to Milt's quote, which says "establish", not "state the plainly obvious based on existing political preferences".

In WV's case, the will against that policy already existed, so frankly it sucks as an example of Milt's axiom, because Milt's axiom frankly sucks as a useful analytical tool.

Do you have a better example?

Posted by: McLurkerson at December 20, 2021 09:21 AM (wNDOJ)

362 Mass yesterday was covid free. No one wearing masks, no hand sanitizer at the door, no empty pews, coffee and donuts afterwards!

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2021 09:21 AM (S1hrL)

363 My mask, which the wife washes for me did a really good job of capturing pollen - which is some multiple in size of the virus. It actually was yellow in both nose and mouth area. Now that pollen season is over it's actually back to white again.

So masks do some good for some things, but as far as the tiny little virus? Who knows.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 09:19 AM (dQvv7)

My mask does a great job of capturing the scent of spearmint - as it sits in my car's center console along side a pack of gum.

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:21 AM (mZUr4)

364 The health officials were advising the White House to switch optics and focus on the nation's fight against severe COVID rather than everyday infection, which has been the norm for government agencies and the media since the pandemic began.

'We're getting to the point now where ... it's about severity,' Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, told reporters this week. 'It's not about cases. It's about severity. I think that's where we're heading... to try to be able to tell the public that.' "

Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2021 09:06 AM

"Switch optics and focus". All political theater. This all could have been over last summer (and it was over based on actual science) had there been treatment protocols put in place for everyone infected to use HCQ, Ivermectin and monoclonal antibodies. And to recommend at-home treatment/prevention with Zinc, Vit A, Vit C, Vit D3, healthy diet and lifestyle to lose weight, spend more time outdoors to get natural Vit D, etc.

None of that is happening, so this is just more political theater.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2021 09:22 AM (Do5/p)

365 And let's have no talk about cuirasses, either, please.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at December 20, 2021 09:22 AM (/EuRN)

366
Ixnay on the inkschay.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:22 AM (wxfcn)

367 'We're getting to the point now where ... it's about severity,' Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, told reporters this week. 'It's not about cases. It's about severity"

Why the f*** was it ever about anything else? The entire testing and cases BS was never scientific or about anything but creating fear and panic.

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2021 09:22 AM (MxEKc)

368 136 MFM finally truthful about something... "Leftist Gabriel Boric wins Chile's presidential election." [Unless he an all-out Stalinist or Maoist and "Leftist" is trying to soft-pedal him.]
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 08:38 AM (UHVv4)

Lula's making a comeback in Brazil as well. Accused of corruption, the Left both there and here will be pulling for him to beat Brazil's OrangeManBad:

http://news.trust.org/item/20211220125748-sjqt6

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2021 09:22 AM (vESMU)

369 >>Honestly, unless they stick a serious scandal on the guy, he can't lose. He has the two biggest factors in Georgia going for him.

>>1) Football hero from UGA.
2) Trump's endorsement.

He also has the not insignificant fact that a lot of light has been shined on the corrupt election tactics used in 2020 and many Jim Eagle changes have been made. They didn't go through months of threatened boycotts and the loss of the all-star game for nothing.

Unless Democrats are able to create another climate of fear and force mass mail in voting then voting patterns should return to normal.

It never made any sense that a radical like Warnock would be elected in Georgia. The state may have trended more purple but it is not deep blue.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 09:22 AM (ZLI7S)

370 Broke. Busted. Bidened.

Posted by: Ziba at December 20, 2021 09:22 AM (S1hrL)

371 367
Ixnay on the inkschay.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:22 AM (wxfcn)

Otay.

Posted by: kraken at December 20, 2021 09:23 AM (6Je/Q)

372 Anyone who's been to Delhi has experienced wretched air pollution much worse than in the US. And urban China's is worse.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 20, 2021 09:23 AM (y7DUB)

373 Christmas comes this time each year.

-The Beach Boys

Sometimes i get confused as when Christmas is, but then the song reminds me.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:24 AM (E8EsG)

374 But we wouldn't have this classic either:

https://youtu.be/uMsE6VszEFY
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

LOL! How is that still on the pristine "airwaves" of Youtube???

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:24 AM (mZUr4)

375 373 Anyone who's been to Delhi has experienced wretched air pollution much worse than in the US. And urban China's is worse.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 20, 2021 09:23 AM (y7DUB)

If you watch the closing credits of "All In the Family," there's an aerial shot of Manhattan circa 1969-70 and you can almost get out of the plane and walk on the smog.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:24 AM (wxfcn)

376
LOL! How is that still on the pristine "airwaves" of Youtube???
Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:24 AM (mZUr4)

That's actually a good question.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

377 So masks do some good for some things, but as far as the tiny little virus? Who knows.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 09:19 AM

Per Anthony Fauci's own research paper regarding 1918 Influenza, masks do a great job of trapping and spreading bacteria. His published conclusion was that more people died of bacterial pneumonia than actual influenza due to the mask mandates.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2021 09:24 AM (Do5/p)

378 I think Herschel in Georgia is a lock. The "scandal" is already old news; his widely reported past issues with his wife and his mental health. But he talks openly about it, and has turned it into a story of Redemption that is quite powerful.

The real point is that he is going to dominate the black vote against any pasty white Chad or Karen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 09:25 AM (q3gwH)

379 Democrat 'style' of governance finally rattled something loose from the brain bucket that dates to the Vietnam War.

The Democrats had to destroy the country to save the country.

Yeah you ain't winning hearts and minds with this strategy. Now go bath in napalm.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2021 09:25 AM (vhc9+)

380 348 Hey CN!
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 09:18 AM (AxTbI)

Hello!
I have nothing but admiration for evangelicals who've stood up to the moral madness. Can't thank you enough.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:25 AM (ONvIw)

381 Can we have an end to using rude slurs like this?

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:15 AM (ONvIw)

Reasonable. Would it be okay to add an adjective such as "Communist"; would that still be 'rude'?

Dick "Commie" Blumenthal would like to know. Or so I guess, from his furious backpedaling on appearing at a CPUSA event as the keynote speaker.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 09:25 AM (F0YaR)

382 Ixnay on the inkschay.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Apologies JJ.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2021 09:25 AM (uXonU)

383 Walker is a racist white supremacist uncle tom who hates gays.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:26 AM (E8EsG)

384 COVID's over.

It's done.

The remaining cultists will shriek, but they're losing. They are in the bunker now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

If Omicron is so weak why have Warren and Booker both died of COVID ?

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

385 386 If Omicron is so weak why have Warren and Booker both died of COVID ?
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

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They got better...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:26 AM (LvTSG)

386 Walker is a racist white supremacist uncle tom who hates gays.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:26 AM (E8EsG)

How has he not been appointed a top position in the Biden Administration?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

387 Goldman Sachs cut its GDP forecast by a full percentage point based on the Joe Manchinn news. What I find interesting is that a major financial firm thought that one and a half trillion dollars of pork too far left enterprises would result in even a measurable change in GDP? I guess they believe think tanks drive the economy?

Posted by: Welcome to Wokistan Mutherfuckers at December 20, 2021 09:27 AM (iQWEY)

388 Posted by: Kurt at December 20, 2021 09:26 AM (26S8L)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 20, 2021 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

389
The Israeli government has been highly proactive when it comes to covid, but to little avail. They did the entire vax, vax, vax thing and not much difference.

Breakthrough infection = vaccine failure

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 09:27 AM (dQvv7)

390 For once, Kurt and I agree!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:27 AM (E8EsG)

391 381 348 Hey CN!
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 09:18 AM (AxTbI)

Hello!
I have nothing but admiration for evangelicals who've stood up to the moral madness. Can't thank you enough.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:25 AM (ONvIw)

Then you would have loved the sermon yesterday in my Baptist church, which pointed out, pointedly, that we as Christians answer to an authority far higher than the government.

Posted by: kraken at December 20, 2021 09:27 AM (6Je/Q)

392 389 Goldman Sachs cut its GDP forecast by a full percentage point based on the Joe Manchinn news. What I find interesting is that a major financial firm thought that one and a half trillion dollars of pork too far left enterprises would result in even a measurable change in GDP? I guess they believe think tanks drive the economy?
Posted by: Welcome to Wokistan Mutherfuckers at December 20, 2021 09:27 AM (iQWEY)

=========

Theory:

Those who create economic models are addicted to the idea that government spending is equal to, at least, of private sector spending to the point that they can't even conceive of the idea being wrong.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

393 If Omicron is so weak why have Warren and Booker both died of COVID?
Posted by: SMOD

Don't tease me like this, it just leads to heartbreak.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at December 20, 2021 09:28 AM (GZ/yK)

394 If Omicron is so weak why have Warren and Booker both died of COVID ?
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

They're newts now.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

395 One more for this thread. Gotta save some to sprinkle throughout other threads this week.

Cheap Trick - I Want You For Christmas
https://youtu.be/6xc2NcULOfk

They Christmased their own song!

Posted by: Doof at December 20, 2021 09:28 AM (mZUr4)

396 If you watch the closing credits of "All In the Family," there's an aerial shot of Manhattan circa 1969-70 and you can almost get out of the plane and walk on the smog.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:24 AM (wxfcn)

We rightly dunk on California for all the crazy things that come out of that state, but Prop 13 and taking the lead on emissions standards in the 70s are things we can thank them for.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 20, 2021 09:28 AM (vESMU)

397 Dude, "chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at December 20, 2021 09:28 AM (w9H27)

398 Fury From The Left After George Will Calls 1619 Project "Historical Illiteracy" and "Not Innocent Ignorance

He was most likely in a pair of denim dungarees and that set them off!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2021 09:28 AM (yrol0)

399 Reasonable. Would it be okay to add an adjective such as "Communist"; would that still be 'rude'?

Dick "Commie" Blumenthal would like to know. Or so I guess, from his furious backpedaling on appearing at a CPUSA event as the keynote speaker.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 09:25 AM (F0YaR)

Of course communist/commie are fine. They're not ethnic slurs and describe the reality. The other word is on par with the n word for blacks or the k word for Jews and we certainly don't use those here, do we? But ridicule all you like.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:28 AM (ONvIw)

400 Yes, they are scared: https://tinyurl.com/35mrzmfr

@DarrenJBeattie

Lie of the year, the Regime fact checkers say. . .

"This one took off thanks to a little-known, right-leaning website called Revolver News, run by Darren Beattie, a former Trump White House speechwriter. . ."

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2021 09:29 AM (URNdm)

401 385 Stop the seat belt mandate!
Posted by: Kurt at December 20, 2021 09:26 AM (26S8L)

Wow. Such logic.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:29 AM (qVlgd)

402 A legal source connected with the case claims that if Maxwell is found guilty of her charges, she plans to "start naming names" in order to try and secure a lesser sentence.

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 09:29 AM (RHGPo)

403 403 385 Stop the seat belt mandate!
Posted by: Kurt at December 20, 2021 09:26 AM (26S8L)

Wow. Such logic.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:29 AM (qVlgd)

=========

He was blinded by science.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

404 as those things in the armor.

Cobs throwing down the gauntlet

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2021 09:29 AM (ESjRY)

405 Booker also tested positive for testosterone.

Not his but he still has a high level of injected testosterone!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2021 09:30 AM (yrol0)

406
Wow. Such logic.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:29 AM (qVlgd)

=========

He was blinded by science.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

He's right, tho.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

407 Not wearing a seat belt probably got Octopus Boy his current room and bed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2021 09:30 AM (vhc9+)

408 391
The Israeli government has been highly proactive when it comes to covid, but to little avail. They did the entire vax, vax, vax thing and not much difference.

Breakthrough infection = vaccine failure
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 09:27 AM (dQvv7)

Sweden got it right from the very beginning. No mandates, no lockdowns. Natural immunity. Of course the one area they should've locked down, they didn't. Their border. And they will soon be 100% Islamic.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:30 AM (lESDR)

409 A better example of Milts axiom - Repeal of the Volstead act. You create a climate by getting rid of bad laws that promote criminal activity which will always be dominated by dangerous people.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 09:30 AM (q3gwH)

410 404 A legal source connected with the case claims that if Maxwell is found guilty of her charges, she plans to "start naming names" in order to try and secure a lesser sentence.
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 09:29 AM (RHGPo)

So the IC will see to it that she's acquitted, maybe call that Epps guy back in from the cold to agitate some anger toward the prosecutor and jury?

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:31 AM (ONvIw)

411 I think Chile fell victim to the DeBlasio effect - you get competent governance for long enough, and people (especially the young) start thinking that things will remain the same if you get rid of the competent governance.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 20, 2021 09:31 AM (I2/tG)

412 408 He's right, tho.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

==========

Yeah, he's been spouting the line for at least a week, and most of us have been saying "You're right!"

And he still doesn't seem to realize. So, he either is a dullard who doesn't know what he's doing, or he just drops his shit into the thread and goes away, happy to have stirred up a bit of shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

413 385 Stop the seat belt mandate!
Posted by: Kurt at December 20, 2021 09:26 AM (26S8L)

When they put the airbag switch to turn it off for passengers I knew then that they were dangerous!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2021 09:31 AM (yrol0)

414 270
Did you see that Politifact declares the Revolver News stories on January 6th the "Lie of the Year?"

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Politifact did some investigative reporting and discovered who Ray Epps really is and why he isn't being charged by the FBI? And all the innocent explanations for all his actions on the 5th and 6th? They refuted Revolver's reporting point by point with independently verified facts, like what reporters used to do in the days when men wore hats regularly in a masculine way (not like fey Max Boot today)?

Just curious.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2021 09:31 AM (fs1hN)

415 Ms. Sakamoto may have a few things to say to Kurt then, after she rearranges his CNN Kewpie doll collection.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2021 09:31 AM (vhc9+)

416 399 Dude, "chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
Posted by: Walter Sobchak at December 20, 2021 09:28 AM (w9H27)

We're not talking about the guys who built the railroads, Walter, this guy peed on my f***ing rug!

Posted by: The Dude at December 20, 2021 09:32 AM (/EuRN)

417 https://youtu.be/oMSdFM12hOw

Trailer for The Northman.

Looks awesome.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:32 AM (LvTSG)

418
And he still doesn't seem to realize. So, he either is a dullard who doesn't know what he's doing, or he just drops his shit into the thread and goes away, happy to have stirred up a bit of shit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

The latter.

It's usually why my next comment after I see he posted is "Who shit?!?"

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

419 417 Ms. Sakamoto may have a few things to say to Kurt then, after she rearranges his CNN Kewpie doll collection.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2021 09:31 AM (vhc9+)

"What you mean, 'wrong hole?'"

- - Just the Punchline

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:32 AM (lESDR)

420 I'd like to see the seatbelt mandate removed as well.

I'll wear it either way, especially because the seatbelt isn't going to give me a blood clot.

Though, this does seem to be an odd leftist fetish - if we don't FORCE people to do things they can't do them. Which is both obviously wrong and stupid.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2021 09:33 AM (ESjRY)

421 >>Politifact did some investigative reporting and discovered who Ray Epps really is and why he isn't being charged by the FBI?

Epps isn't even the most curious example to me. I'd like an explanation about blackskimask guy.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 09:33 AM (ZLI7S)

422 J6 could have been started by a #fedsurrection.

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

423 Four Months After Withdrawal, Biden Admin Doesn't Know Identities of Afghan Refugees Resettled in US

Hell we have no fucking clue who has crossed the Southern Border this year. Over 2 MILLION!!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2021 09:34 AM (yrol0)

424 It isn't the seatbelt mandate that pisses me off as much as the manufacturers who make the car ding and blank the speedometer display until the seatbelt is latched.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:34 AM (E8EsG)

425 424 J6 could have been started by a #fedsurrection.
Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

And I think we can be reasonably sure that the likes of Barr and Graham knew all about this, not to mention Wray.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:34 AM (ONvIw)

426 "I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either"

I guess there is wisdom there, but electing the right people is most important. If they get corrupted, elect different right people. ... Once we are down to hoping the bad people are forced to do a couple right things pre-election, while still mostly doing wrong things ... we are hoping for some scraps, and that they take over the country more slowly.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2021 09:34 AM (Cus5s)

427 I like the optimism here that the covid cult is in retreat but listening to the radio I hear nothing but more fear porn and no sign the panic is over. Maybe the leftist factions will start killing each other over this.

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2021 09:34 AM (MxEKc)

428 426 It isn't the seatbelt mandate that pisses me off as much as the manufacturers who make the car ding and blank the speedometer display until the seatbelt is latched.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:34 AM (E8EsG)

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For some reason, yelling "I'm just going to the mailbox" at my dashboard doesn't fix anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:34 AM (LvTSG)

429 I don't think this is the case. They tried that first, remember, and it went nowhere. And then they pivoted to the Build Bolshie Bill from that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 20, 2021 09:12 AM

Clyde - H R 1 is already dead. The tag team of manchin and sinema have killed that one, too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 09:13 AM

I hope you guys are right, but I am done letting my guard down and thinking positive about anything. I'll believe it when I see it. I've been reading people here say stuff about the Plandemic being over for the past 20 months. Still going strong. Saw DaveinFla say (not a shot at Dave, just a fact) he was not worried about anything regarding Trump's re-election. Wasn't true. So I am not taking comfort in anything regarding BBB or H.R.1 yet.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2021 09:35 AM (Do5/p)

430 Hello!
I have nothing but admiration for evangelicals who've stood up to the moral madness. Can't thank you enough.
Posted by: CN...FJB
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Then you would have loved the sermon yesterday in my Baptist church, which pointed out, pointedly, that we as Christians answer to an authority far higher than the government.
Posted by: kraken
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This^

And thank you CN for being just as steadfast, along with many others here.

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 09:35 AM (AxTbI)

431 We're not talking about the guys who built the railroads, Walter, this guy peed on my f***ing rug!
Posted by: The Dude at December 20, 2021 09:32 AM (/EuRN)

Dude, the chinaman is not the issue here!

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at December 20, 2021 09:35 AM (w9H27)

432 It isn't the seatbelt mandate that pisses me off as much as the manufacturers who make the car ding and blank the speedometer display until the seatbelt is latched.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:34 AM (E8EsG)
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One of my cars does the eterna-ding, but blanking the instruments is a reckless response to not using the seatbelt. It can only increase risks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 09:35 AM (DU+/6)

433 429 I like the optimism here that the covid cult is in retreat but listening to the radio I hear nothing but more fear porn and no sign the panic is over. Maybe the leftist factions will start killing each other over this.
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2021 09:34 AM (MxEKc)

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COVID overreaction is insanely popular with a sliver of the population.

Much less so outside of it.

The fight is on the left, and the different power centers are beginning a rhetorical fight that will have very interesting implications for next year's elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:36 AM (LvTSG)

434 ++++
One of my cars does the eterna-ding, but blanking the instruments is a reckless response to not using the seatbelt. It can only increase risks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2021 09:35 AM (DU+/6)

Most cars ding and throw up a warning sign on the dash reminding you to "Check for passengers in the back seat" so.............

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:36 AM (Zz0t1)

435 I guess there is wisdom there, but electing the right people is most important. If they get corrupted, elect different right people. ... Once we are down to hoping the bad people are forced to do a couple right things pre-election, while still mostly doing wrong things ... we are hoping for some scraps, and that they take over the country more slowly.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2021 09:34 AM (Cus5s)

The key point is that there is no such thing as "The Right People" when dealing with Power, so you have to rely on conditions in which it doesn't matter who gets into power, they're still politically constrained to at least try to do the right thing, whatever that may be.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 09:36 AM (/EuRN)

436
Epps isn't even the most curious example to me. I'd like an explanation about blackskimask guy.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 09:33 AM

The guy on the tower with the bullhorn incessantly urging people to 'move forward' had to be another plant. As were the people removing the fence with the warning signs. So much activity going on while Trump was still speaking. That's why everyone has to read it and pass it along to 10 others.

Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus at December 20, 2021 09:37 AM (dQvv7)

437 And you thought the Death Star was a planet killer!

Sam Stein
@samstein
A lot to process on the Manchin news but, from a substantive standpoint, it's just objectively devastating for the planet. The last best chance at climate change legislation is gone

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2021 09:37 AM (FVME7)

438 Apparently the NYT has confirmed that Ashley Biden's diary is legit. And then covered it with a pillow...

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at December 20, 2021 09:38 AM (y7DUB)

439 For some reason, yelling "I'm just going to the mailbox" at my dashboard doesn't fix anything.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:34 AM (LvTSG)

Yeah, well you'll be sorry when the Amazon guy swings around the corner at Mach 1.7 and smashes into you head on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 09:38 AM (/EuRN)

440 344
Posted by: Kurt at December 20, 2021 09:18 AM (26S8L)

Kurt, you ignorant slut. It's omicron, not "omni".

Stop telling your mom to be screaming 'omnicron' as her trick drops his payload.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 09:38 AM (F0YaR)

441 437 Sam Stein
@samstein
A lot to process on the Manchin news but, from a substantive standpoint, it's just objectively devastating for the planet. The last best chance at climate change legislation is gone
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 20, 2021 09:37 AM (FVME7)

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"We lost. We're all going to die. Get out and vote!"
-Curious messaging

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:38 AM (LvTSG)

442 If the Revolver story is true and Ray Epps is a central figure I'd put serious pressure on him to roll on who organized and funded that op. He and the other minions are small fish... I want to know who's behind it.

They all should do time at Gitmo regardless.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2021 09:39 AM (BFigT)

443 Art Thread's been kidnapped !

Posted by: JT at December 20, 2021 09:39 AM (arJlL)

444 It isn't the seatbelt mandate that pisses me off as much as the manufacturers who make the car ding and blank the speedometer display until the seatbelt is latched.

Most of that shit is put in the vehicle not because the auto companies want to, but because we are forced to due to stupid government regulations. Such as this new one in the Infrastructure Bill:

The 2,000-page infrastructure bill, signed into law a few weeks ago, includes a mandate that newly manufactured cars keep a digital eye on their drivers - and figure out whether or not they're in any condition to drive. This certainly sounds well-intentioned, but as lamentable as drunk-driving deaths are, mandating technology that has yet to be invented raises serious practical and privacy concerns.

Section 24220 of the law, titled Advanced Impaired Driving Technology, directs the secretary of transportation to issue a rule within three years requiring advanced impaired driving technology in all new vehicles, although the rule may be delayed if the technology is not ready for implementation. Automakers have up to three years after the rule is issued to comply.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2021 09:39 AM (Do5/p)

445
Then you would have loved the sermon yesterday in my Baptist church, which pointed out, pointedly, that we as Christians answer to an authority far higher than the government.
Posted by: kraken
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This^

And thank you CN for being just as steadfast, along with many others here.
Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 20, 2021 09:35 AM (AxTbI)

And yes, kraken, I am always pleased when clergy stand up for God's law being law and not antique suggestions. I am horrified by a lot of what's going on today and when a friend of mine said that "Satan doesn't even bother to hide these days", I agreed completely.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:39 AM (ONvIw)

446 So if the calculations are wrong and Apothis does impact the Earth, bet these Climate Cultists will still blame Humans.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2021 09:40 AM (vhc9+)

447 Apparently the NYT has confirmed that Ashley Biden's diary is legit. And then covered it with a pillow...

I saw there is a public chain of possession for the diary.

Ashley got out of rehab and stayed with a friend for a while. She left some of her things behind, with her friend, when she moved out.

Someone else moved in with the friend (I've seen the name but I'm not going to share it), who then found the diary and turned it over to Project Veritas after reading it.

Its real. And Joe Biden molested his own daughter.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2021 09:40 AM (ESjRY)

448 WaPo; A Watkins Elementary School staff member told third-graders in library class to reenact scenes from the Holocaust, directing them to dig their classmates' mass graves and simulate shooting the victims, according to an email from the school's principal. The instructor was placed on leave Friday.

She allegedly assigned specific roles to students. She cast one student as Adolf Hitler, according to an email from Watkins Elementary School Principal MScott Berkowitz to the third-graders' parents. He did not name the staff member. That student is Jewish, according to the parent of a student who was asked to participate. At the end of the exercise, the child was told to pretend to commit suicide, as Hitler did..

A different parent of a student who was a part of the reenactment said her son had to pretend to be on a train to a concentration camp, then act as if he were dying in a gas chamber. He also had to act as if he were shooting his peers, the parent said. The parent spoke on the condition of anonymity and declined to name the child.

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 09:40 AM (RHGPo)

449 446 So if the calculations are wrong and Apothis does impact the Earth, bet these Climate Cultists will still blame Humans.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2021 09:40 AM (vhc9+)

You toothless rubes all did the Science Dance wrong, and now we're all gonna die at the hands of an angry Universe.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 09:40 AM (/EuRN)

450 Illiniwek; the key to understanding uncle milteys axiom is realizing that you can *never* elect the "right people" - all your heroes will go corrupt sooner or later. So your only real hope is to create a system that makes it profitable for the corrupt people to do the right things.

That's free market capitalism.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 09:41 AM (q3gwH)

451 442 If the Revolver story is true and Ray Epps is a central figure I'd put serious pressure on him to roll on who organized and funded that op. He and the other minions are small fish... I want to know who's behind it.

They all should do time at Gitmo regardless.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 20, 2021 09:39 AM (BFigT)

Might just be the people who declared that white supremacists are the biggest threat to the nation..(the head of the FIB)

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:41 AM (ONvIw)

452 447 Its real. And Joe Biden molested his own daughter.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2021 09:40 AM (ESjRY)

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"That's nothing. Donald Trump said that his hot daughter was attractive. He's a monster!"
-The Left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:41 AM (LvTSG)

453 She allegedly assigned specific roles to students. She cast one student as Adolf Hitler, according to an email from Watkins Elementary School Principal MScott Berkowitz to the third-graders' parents

Totally jealous here!

Posted by: George Soros at December 20, 2021 09:41 AM (ESjRY)

454 The is Dow is dropping by allmost 600 points.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2021 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

455 My wife's van has an analog speedo, but the center display has a digital readout in big numbers. If the driver or passenger is not belted, the digital readout is replaced by a seatbelt sign and "Driver/ passenger not belted". Plus "Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding....."

You don't HAVE to buckle your belt. You will just have a miserable experience until you do. We bought "Buckle testers" on amazon.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:41 AM (E8EsG)

456 Canadian flights also banned due to the Moronic, moronic Kurt, despite higher vaxx rate than U.S.; leftist federal government; no DeSantis-type provincial premiers [look that word up, Kurt]; and [as for the U.S.] everyone on a flight having to vaxxed and all that despite Israel being massively vaxxed. What does that show, K??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 20, 2021 09:42 AM (UHVv4)

457 The fight is on the left, and the different power centers are beginning a rhetorical fight that will have very interesting implications for next year's elections.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:36 AM (LvTSG)

What I find interesting and quite fun is that the size of the "stimulus" is what is driving the fractures. Had the Biden junta kept it smaller, Manchin and Synema would have voted for it and all would be well in Prog-Land.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2021 09:42 AM (Q9lwr)

458 454 The is Dow is dropping by allmost 600 points.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2021 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

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So...less than 1%?

End of the world.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:42 AM (LvTSG)

459 440:It's omicron, not "omni".

Omni? Like Dodge Omni? I vaguely remember the Dodge Omni. They were crap.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 20, 2021 09:42 AM (sAmhv)

460 The is Dow is dropping by allmost 600 points.
Posted by: redridinghood

It will go up 1000 tomorrow.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:42 AM (E8EsG)

461 457 What I find interesting and quite fun is that the size of the "stimulus" is what is driving the fractures. Had the Biden junta kept it smaller, Manchin and Synema would have voted for it and all would be well in Prog-Land.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2021 09:42 AM (Q9lwr)

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Maybe. Could have just been rhetorical cover for opposition of more radical elements that they (and people like Kelly) couldn't assign real support to without guaranteeing loses in their next elections.

I'm no mind reader, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:43 AM (LvTSG)

462 =========

So...less than 1%?

End of the world.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:42 AM (LvTSG)

They have to do this so when it rises back up, they can point to Biden and say "THEY LOVE HIS POLICIES!!! THE DOW HIT RECORD HIGHS!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:43 AM (Zz0t1)

463 All people are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.

Adams would be a risk of being hanged today saying such a thing to most Dems and Progressives.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2021 09:43 AM (yrol0)

464 Kurt, you ignorant slut. It's omicron, not "omni".

Stop telling your mom to be screaming 'omnicron' as her trick drops his payload.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 20, 2021 09:38 AM

My first car was an '87 Dodge Omni. Summer before leaving for freshman year of college, neighbor sold it to me for $1 after her husband passed away. The irony is that it was also the car I drove in Driver's Ed when learning to drive. Hated that car, swore to never drive one again, even if someone gave one to me for free. Ended up driving it for 4 good years until I bought my first vehicle, 1997 Jeep Cherokee Sport.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 20, 2021 09:43 AM (Do5/p)

465 Omni? Like Dodge Omni? I vaguely remember the Dodge Omni. They were crap.
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 20, 2021 09:42 AM (sAmhv)

My buddy had a Horizon.

I called it the "High-class Hor".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 09:43 AM (/EuRN)

466 When the Dow drops about 5,000 let me know. The economy isn't the only thing inflated like Scrotum Guy

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2021 09:43 AM (vhc9+)

467 So...less than 1%?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:42 AM (LvTSG)

I see you embrace the whole "No Math" thing...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2021 09:44 AM (Q9lwr)

468 467 So...less than 1%?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:42 AM (LvTSG)

I see you embrace the whole "No Math" thing...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 20, 2021 09:44 AM (Q9lwr)

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Math is the tool of the devil.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:44 AM (LvTSG)

469 It will go up 1000 tomorrow.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:42 AM (E8EsG)
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Pelosi and her husband will make it happen.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 20, 2021 09:44 AM (NpAcC)

470 Suggestion for elementary school play acting : here, timmy , you play Joe Biden! And now your classmate over there is Joe's 9 year old daughter! Go at it!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 09:44 AM (q3gwH)

471 Are we sure these Sam Stein tweets aren't satire?

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 20, 2021 09:44 AM (sAmhv)

472 Omni? Like Dodge Omni? I vaguely remember the Dodge Omni. They were crap.
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 20, 2021 09:42 AM (sAmhv)

The GLH were hell on wheels. Unbelievably fast and dangerous!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 20, 2021 09:44 AM (yrol0)

473 470 Suggestion for elementary school play acting : here, timmy , you play Joe Biden! And now your classmate over there is Joe's 9 year old daughter! Go at it!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 09:44 AM (q3gwH)

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"We're going to document this with four cameras in different positions for...um...education purposes."
-School principal

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:45 AM (LvTSG)

474 Wow. Manchin destroyed democracy AND the planet with a single non vote.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:45 AM (E8EsG)

475 >>What I find interesting and quite fun is that the size of the "stimulus" is what is driving the fractures. Had the Biden junta kept it smaller, Manchin and Synema would have voted for it and all would be well in Prog-Land.

Yea but it wouldn't have gotten by the Squad in the House. Don't forget, this bill is smaller than the one they wanted, this was their compromise.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2021 09:45 AM (ZLI7S)

476 ART is NOOD.

and odd.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 20, 2021 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

477 474 Wow. Manchin destroyed democracy AND the planet with a single non vote.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2021 09:45 AM (E8EsG)

Quite heroic of him.

Posted by: CN...FJB at December 20, 2021 09:46 AM (ONvIw)

478 "We're going to document this with four cameras in different positions for...um...education purposes."
-School principal
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, John Ford goes to war at December 20, 2021 09:45 AM (LvTSG)

Teacher hands little Timmy a toy phone, a Chinese dictionary, a baggie full of powdered sugar, and a leopard print banana-hammock:

"Take a guess who you'll be playing, Timmy"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 20, 2021 09:47 AM (/EuRN)

479 Best thing is why manchin finally went public on Fox yesterday - apparently he was incredibly pissed off that Biden was publicly lying about their private talks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 20, 2021 09:47 AM (q3gwH)

480 The left: Why do you wingnuts think we are all a bunch of pedos

Also the left: Believe all women about sexual assault claims!

Also, Also the left: So Biden's daughter thinks he molested her. Women lie aboujt that shit all the time in their private diaries.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2021 09:49 AM (ESjRY)

481 Be funny as hell if Manchin sent Chuckie an email this morning: "Hey Chuck! Guess who is NO LONGER the 'majority leader'! Merry Christmas!"

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 09:53 AM (RHGPo)

482 " you can *never* elect the "right people" - all your heroes will go corrupt sooner or later."

sure, political pressure is fine. But I think Trump, MTG, a few others show that real change is the only hope, and that only comes by electing the right rebels, not playing the enemy's long game of establishment politics. (where they throw us a few crumbs and promises).

It has been a long slide into our current state, there may be more political pressure now than ever, yet borders are more open now than ever. Rich are made richer via bailouts for the rich, more than ever. "Gradualism" I think they called it.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2021 09:55 AM (Cus5s)

483 CNN has a brain dead article listing the top 10 senate seats most likely to flip in 2022. 6 of the 10 are Republican seats, which seems a bit odd with current national trends. Also, as much as I dislike him, I don't think their number 8 pick, Marco Rubio, is really at much risk.

Posted by: Intrepid CNN AoS Liaison at December 20, 2021 09:55 AM (JCZqz)

484 CNN has a brain dead article listing the top 10 senate seats most likely to flip in 2022.

They started out doing a piece on the Top 10 CNN anchors likely to lose their seats ..

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2021 10:01 AM (RHGPo)

485 Tami, I miss you. May you rest in peace.

Posted by: Gref at December 20, 2021 11:02 AM (AMIL/)

486 I really think this is a case of Manchin doing the right thing.

As far as his political future, he's as high as he's ever going to get. He's already been governor of West Virginia, and now he's a Senator. He's never going to be President, especially if he stays a Democrat. He'd be murdered in any Democrat primary. I doubt many Republicans would welcome him, either.

The Democrats could offer him any bribe he wanted, in terms of money, media adulation, sexual favors from Hollywood starlets, anything he could ask for. But he still sticks to his guns.

Posted by: Paul at December 20, 2021 11:11 AM (PMxE5)

487 Yes, trending toward centralized big government bureaucracy starting around 1913 with the left clearly able to do more damage when ascendant than we can fix during our turn. Which makes Trump the turning point no different than Midway, and the left's concomitant reaction in installing Biden perhaps best described as the end of the beginning. Changing the trend requires a shift in the electorate by aligning the under, working, and middle classes against the 1% to control legislation and the budget. Think vouchers instead of DOE, training/STEM instead of BAs, and short-term government employment instead of the permanent bureaucracy.

Posted by: Larry Dressler at December 20, 2021 02:51 PM (W0MsY)

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