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Axios: Republicans Don't Think About National Review Any More

Standing athwart the dustbin of history.

Axios spoke to Republican consultants and power-brokers about how power inside the party had shifted post-Trump.

Who used to have the power, per those Axios interviewed:


The U.S. Chamber of Commerce

The NRA

The Koch network

Heritage Action

The Drudge Report

National Review

Conservative movement groups such as Tea Party Express, FreedomWorks, and the Senate Conservatives Fund.

Who has the power now:


Donald Trump

Tucker Carlson

Family and former aides to Trump

Fox News

Club for Growth

Daily Wire

Breitbart News

Online influencers including Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino, Joe Rogan, Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk and Marjorie Taylor-Greene.

Steve Bannon

Susan B. Anthony List

The NRA lost power, I imagine, due purely to its internal political and legal struggles, not because of the party shifting its ideology on the Second Amendment.

Heritage, meanwhile, just became yet another corrupt corporate Woke Joke.

They discuss the various groups that lost power.


The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: In 2014, the Chamber was heavily involved in Republican primaries. "Chamber Republicans" competed against "Tea Party Republicans," claiming greater appeal to the business community than insurgent conservatives and better prospects in the general election.

A Chamber endorsement was the gold standard and came with an expectation of meaningful outside financial support. These days, most Republicans in primaries --including establishment figures -- want to stay as far away from the Chamber as possible.

...

[I]ts late-cycle political advertising -- broadcast buys in the pivotal weeks before voters go to the polls -- declined dramatically, from more than $35 million in the 2014 cycle to under $6 million six years later.

During the past year, the Republican Party has effectively banished the Chamber for its increased support of Democrats. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has said he wants nothing to do with the Chamber if the GOP flips the House. And even establishment GOP primary candidates are steering clear of them.

"If the U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls you and says 'we want to endorse', You're like, 'please don't'," said a GOP consultant who works for some of the country's highest-profile Republicans.

Good. Well, I guess I can stop talking about them. I guess even the idiots who run the party have this one figured out.

And the National Review?

Republicans used to covet the cover of National Review. But after the publication opposed Trump in 2016, every operative we asked told Axios it's become irrelevant in GOP primaries. "Courting the National Review doesn't matter at all," said one with several high-profile GOP primary candidates. "I would argue there's more people who'd be turned off by NR writing positive pieces...."

Yup.

But let's check in with Politico columnist Rich Lowry.

He must be really invested in National Review and the conservative movement to be a columnist for the leftwing groupthink media publication Politico.

"I don't know who said that," National Review editor Rich Lowry [squealed girlishly to] Axios, "but I guarantee you if we ran a negative item of any sort on one of his or her clients -- whether a 1,000-word article or a brief comment -- we would hear from that campaign pushing back almost immediately."

Lowry [impotently seethed that] he sees "an element of wish-fulfillment in some of these attacks" on National Review: "A fringe wants us gone, so they pretend it's so, when they actually read us as closely as anyone."

Oh, a "fringe?" Justin Trudeau was just talking about a fringe. Do you two chat?

On the come-up, meanwhile, are Breitbart and Bannon. And the Daily Wire. (Eh.)

And Tucker Carlson, of course, who one operative says might be the most influential right-wing pundit he's ever seen.

Like many of you, I was beside myself from around 2008 to 2014 as I kept screaming into the wind that the GOP establishment, and its Beta Orbiter grifter class, cannot continue giving the finger to the actual members of the GOP, the actual people who write the checks and cast the votes, every year, always telling us "we'll get around to immigration one day (of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform type only) but in the meantime here's some more favors for the Chamber of Commerce."

At some point, we kept saying, there is going to come a reckoning. There is going to be a revolt.

The same lies, the same cons, the same hustles, the same grifts, the same excuses, the same scripted failures, the same stage-managed defeats, the same bait-and-switches, the same shuck-and-jives, the same venomous betrayals, the same fulminous scoldings are just not going to work time after time, cycle after cycle, year after year.

But the Smart People in the GOP, the Cruise Ship Conservatives, were sure that they would keep working, for ever and ever, and that the long-promised revolt would not, could not, ever, ever happen.

Their stranglehold on the party was too tight, and besides, they were the Smart People of the party. What would all the rubes do without them?

The rubes wouldn't know what to even think on their own!

No, they were indispensable, and being indispensable, they had all the leverage and all the control.

As Charles DeGaulle is thought to have said (though it was said earlier), the graveyards are filled with indispensable men.

And all the Very Smart People we just couldn't possibly get along without, the ones who were sure that the public would never revolt, and that there would never come an avatar for their reckoning, continue babbling to each other in their every-shrinking huddles, always asking: "Will this month be the month when they all regain their senses and beg us to lead them again? Don't they realize that they need us, The Smart People, the people who have been wrong about literally everything for at least twenty fucking years, to tell them what to think?"


"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket."

-- Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time


Posted by: Ace at 02:08 PM




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1 Whoa, I'm first AND inside the content!

Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 02:09 PM (786Ro)

2 Be One With the Box

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 02:09 PM (etl9f)

3 Going to enjoy the gray while it's here.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 02:09 PM (Ez6QX)

4 Jive gray boxes!

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (QYPq3)

5 Many have gone by the way side

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (4oNyA)

6 National Review?
Aren't they on MySpace?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (5P6Lv)

7 Ooooo. Grey!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (W2Pud)

8 Club for Growth
Daily Wire

First one is a POS

Second one - Jury's out

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (DJFLF)

9 Good afternoon gray box friends

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 04, 2022 02:11 PM (4oNyA)

10 Fox News #3?

They have learned NOTHING

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:11 PM (DJFLF)

11 ...once you have the Power, then you get the Womens.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (WIpOf)

12
How the hell is AOSHQ NOT on the list and Fox is?

Bastards.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (s2VJv)

13 We've become more selective in our audience Mr. O'Spades.

Posted by: National Review at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (Ojki1)

14 "Courting the National Review doesn't matter at all," said one with several high-profile GOP primary candidates. "I would argue there's more people who'd be turned off by NR writing positive pieces"
++++
Yup. If the NR endorses someone I support, I am going to check my premises.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (DU+/6)

15 National Review died with William F. Buckley.

France died with Napoleon.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (XvPQV)

16 I used to check "The Corner" at NR several times a day.

Now I won't click on a link to National Google Review.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (I2/tG)

17 >>> 10 Fox News #3?

They have learned NOTHING
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:11 PM (DJFLF)

Yeah, that needs to drop waaaaay further down the list.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (llON8)

18 Ace should be on the list.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (lqNK8)

19 8 Club for Growth
Daily Wire

First one is a POS

Second one - Jury's out
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (DJFLF)

Disagree. Club for Growth has been pretty pro-Trump and has endorsed and funded a lot of Trump republicans running for federal office.

Posted by: Liberty at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (ZIEQl)

20 Republican "consultants and power-brokers" providing Axios with friends and enemies lists, I see. Buncha jive turkeys.

Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (786Ro)

21 And Tucker Carlson, of course, who one operative says might be the most influential right-wing pundit he's ever seen

and yet there are those who suspect him due to his CIA daddy

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (DJFLF)

22 If the NRA dies, GOA will replace them. And that's the best case outcome for liberals, because the alternative is "come for the guns, we come after you" becoming the only principle MAGA respects.

Posted by: trev006 at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (Eqkqm)

23 Axios: Republicans Don't Think About National Review Any More
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Not true. I'm sort of a Republican, maybe, in that I hate the hard-left side of the Uniparty more, still, but I think about the National Review twice a week. This happens when they send me their preposterous E-Mail spam.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (DU+/6)

24 France died with Napoleon.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (XvPQV)


Hey, I ain't dead yet.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (AiZBA)

25 The NRA lost power, I imagine, due purely to its internal political and legal struggles, not because of the party shifting its ideology on the Second Amendment.

Heritage, meanwhile, just became yet another corrupt corporate Woke Joke.


The NRAs behavior is of the same kind as the others, because it became infested by parasites who sought to benefit from the organization without actually committing anything.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (wmDcS)

26 Hahaha at Fox News being on the "who has power now" list.

There may be some elderly people who leave it on similar to the way CNN has viewers, but they slit their own throats to get rid of Trump on election night.

Texas is too close to call, everyone!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - holy men warn what happens if you play Rogan podcasts backwards at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (CnBTt)

27 Hmm. Looks like part of that shift is from corporate to populist.

Regarding the NRA, I don't know about their broader influence, but for me I just got tired of being hit up for money all the goddamn time. And Wayne LaPierre's bullshit.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at February 04, 2022 02:14 PM (II3Gr)

28 6 minute abs.
*stock rises 30% on this news*

Posted by: Zuckerberg at February 04, 2022 02:14 PM (WdQMQ)

29 Republicans used to covet the cover of National Review. But after the publication opposed Trump in 2016, every operative we asked told Axios it's become irrelevant in GOP primaries. "Courting the National Review doesn't matter at all," said one with several high-profile GOP primary candidates. "I would argue there's more people who'd be turned off by NR writing positive pieces"

=========

This kind of surprises me.

Not because I have some high minded view of NR or Republicans, but because the leading from behind conservative prevent defense that NR represents so fully fits with the Republican Party leadership that I didn't think they could ever be split asunder.

I imagined Mitch McConnell's staff eagerly awaiting their advanced copies of NR to read about how awesome they're doing and as solace to how, yes, they will retain leadership once the Trump fever passes one day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:14 PM (LvTSG)

30 Here's Why Tech Monopolies Are A Good Thing!

Posted by: National Google Review! at February 04, 2022 02:14 PM (I2/tG)

31 Interesting that not one from the first list carries to the second.

Posted by: davidt at February 04, 2022 02:14 PM (yDmyH)

32 During the past year, the Republican Party has effectively banished the Chamber for its increased support of Democrats.
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Oh, bullshit. The Chamber has been "banished" (such as it has been, which is only sort of) not because they support Dems but because they actively work *against* things the conservative base wants - things like a secure border and rational foreign trade policy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:14 PM (DU+/6)

33 Donald Trump
Tucker Carlson
Family and former aides to Trump
Fox News
Club for Growth
Daily Wire
Breitbart News
Online influencers including Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino, Joe Rogan, Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk and Marjorie Taylor-Greene.
Steve Bannon
Susan B. Anthony List
ACE OF SPADES HQ

Posted by: Just stating the obvious - Ask A. Weiner Y at February 04, 2022 02:14 PM (b9xr2)

34 >>>Standing athwart the dustbin of history.

Nice.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 02:14 PM (SH2Zi)

35 National Review died with William F. Buckley.

France died with Napoleon.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (XvPQV)


Both of these statements are true.

Posted by: Archer at February 04, 2022 02:14 PM (gmo/4)

36 How the hell is AOSHQ NOT on the list and Fox is?

Bastards.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (s2VJv)


Yeah, WTF?

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 02:14 PM (Ez6QX)

37 And all the Very Smart People we just couldn't possibly get along without, the ones who were sure that the public would never revolt,

___says the thought bubble above Justine Trudeau's head___

as he remains reflectively in his downward dog pose in his hideout

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:14 PM (DJFLF)

38 Oh, and Daily Wire is dogshit. I don't trust any source that doesn't permit user feedback. Althouse buckled and restored comments after her traffic nose dived. Non-binary Ben doesn't have to, because his money comes from cabal billionaires.

Posted by: trev006 at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (Eqkqm)

39 The hq is better than any "conservative" mag

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (lCui1)

40 >>>18 Ace should be on the list.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I didn't want to say it.

What jive turkeys.

Posted by: David French at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (0G13K)

41 Be One With the Box
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 02:09 PM (etl9f)

I miss being single...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (XvPQV)

42 21 And Tucker Carlson, of course, who one operative says might be the most influential right-wing pundit he's ever seen

and yet there are those who suspect him due to his CIA daddy
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (DJFLF)

Really ? I like Tucker... He and Gutfeld are the only ones I watch on FOX

Posted by: It's me donna at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (pZNr0)

43 Ace,
You're Right, You're Blood Well Right.

https://youtu.be/a4ys6YSfJDA

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (Iq9dF)

44 Federal Law Enforcement - Has There Ever Been A Braver, Nobler, More Selfless Group Of People In Human History?

Posted by: Andy McCarthy! at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (I2/tG)

45 That list of influencers is missing a certain website I know that is as indispensable as any.

Rhymes with MaceofBades.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (sh0fq)

46 That dad joke on the sidebar actually almost got me beat up at church several years ago.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (wAnMi)

47 thank you guys.

you are not jive turkeys.

Posted by: David French at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (0G13K)

48 Lowry is surly with a fringe on top.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (63Dwl)

49 And all the Very Smart People we just couldn't possibly get along without, the ones who were sure that the public would never revolt, and that there would never come an avatar for their reckoning, continue babbling to each other in their every-shrinking huddles, always asking: "Will this month be the month when they all regain their senses and beg us to lead them again? Don't they realize that they need us, The Smart People, the people who have been wrong about literally everything for at least twenty fucking years, to tell them what to think?"
++++
That's pure poetry.

And no, they don't acknowledge that they're over and dead and worse than useless and their betrayal will never forgiven or forgotten. I suspect they know it, but they don't acknowledge it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (DU+/6)

50 The NRA lost power, I imagine, due purely to its internal political and legal struggles, not because of the party shifting its ideology on the Second Amendment.
-----

Yeah, the internal palace intrigue is poor optics for sure, but the fact that the NRA hasn't done anything meaningful to drive forward a Pro-2A agenda in the last 20 years, while simultaneously being a shameless vessel for grift on the psuedoright drives more of the flight away from the NRA and toward orgs like GOA.

Posted by: ballistic at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (oXNqT)

51 Joe Rogan on the right, lolgf, puhleeze

Shows again that MSM (Axios ) and GOPe "consultants and power-brokers" are double circle jerk of reach-arounders

Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (786Ro)

52 Ace should be on the list.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (lqNK

No sucking up...he really should.

I suspect Ace is blackballed with the blueballed set.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (XvPQV)

53 Yeah, well, it still doesn't solve the problem of how to thwart and smash those of the Liz/GulpBushJizz Cheney and Schitt Rumney cabal who are brazenly aiding and abetting the enemy. . . .

Posted by: Toss another Globalist TechRat log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (5DfsO)

54 Sorry...am I supposed to feel pity? Because I'm not feeling any.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (4olE8)

55 I keep saying that 2020 might have been the worst outcome for the establishment. Trump was out of power, but he wasn't discredited. Trumpism wasn't repudiated. Meanwhile, the managerial class burned up the last of their social, political, and cultural capital to install Joe Biden, who is an utter disaster. At this rate Trump may very well waltz into the White House in 2024 as the savior sent to fix everything, while having avoided blame for a lot of the problems in the past four years which had been building up for decades prior.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (wmDcS)

56 "Lowry [impotently seethed that]"

hehehe, may him and Pharisee French get so mad at people roasting them that they cannot even derive pleasure from seeing their wives get plowed by their very "non-diverse" friends.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (hR5xa)

57 Political pundits have never held any influence for me other than a provider of information.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (Kz9dH)

58 52 No sucking up...he really should.

I suspect Ace is blackballed with the blueballed set.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (XvPQV)

=========

Ace is uncouth.

Like that dummie Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (LvTSG)

59 When ace doesn't change his jive nic.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (QYPq3)

60 >>>20 Republican "consultants and power-brokers" providing Axios with friends and enemies lists, I see. Buncha jive turkeys.


dude, advertisers!

try:

j!v3 tvrl<3y5

Posted by: David French at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (0G13K)

61 Online influencers including Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino, Joe Rogan, Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk and Marjorie Taylor-Greene.

That's right, I will DESTROY leftist baristas. DESTROY THEM! But with facts. Because I am civilized - unlike the other people on that list.

Posted by: Ben Shapiro at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (ESjRY)

62 They haven't fallen quite fast enough. Moar please, faster.

Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (qpolg)

63 There may be some elderly people who leave Fox News on similar to the way CNN has viewers, but they slit their own throats to get rid of Trump on election night.

Texas is too close to call, everyone!
Posted by: Moron Robbie - holy men warn what happens if you play Rogan podcasts backwards at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM


"We did it" -- Fox news wives or The Army of the Twelve Monkeys?

Posted by: Chuck C at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (EughT)

64 Rush was bigger than Tucker will get because he was independent. There was no way to push Rush off the air without radicalizing half the country. Tucker talks a good game, but he's not even as independent as Glenn Greenwald.

I can enjoy Tucker's segments, but I can also excoriate him when he obeys Fox.

Posted by: trev006 at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (Eqkqm)

65 thank you guys.

you are not jive turkeys.
Posted by: David French at February 04, 2022 02:15 PM (0G13K)
++++
I am pretty sure this is an Ace sock fail, and it's hilarious.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (DU+/6)

66 55 I keep saying that 2020 might have been the worst outcome for the establishment. Trump was out of power, but he wasn't discredited. Trumpism wasn't repudiated. Meanwhile, the managerial class burned up the last of their social, political, and cultural capital to install Joe Biden, who is an utter disaster. At this rate Trump may very well waltz into the White House in 2024 as the savior sent to fix everything, while having avoided blame for a lot of the problems in the past four years which had been building up for decades prior.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (wmDcS)

========

Some of which (like inflation) which he himself had a direct hand in.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (LvTSG)

67 Disagree. Club for Growth has been pretty pro-Trump and has endorsed and funded a lot of Trump republicans running for federal office.

Posted by: Liberty at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (ZIEQl)


well then my limpdikk cuckservative senator Toomey didn't get the memo. Toomey is a Club for Growth production. And was VERY vocal about the 2020 election being legit.

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (DJFLF)

68 If You Send Us Money, We'll Build The Wall And Abolish Obamacare!

Posted by: Establishment Republicans! at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (I2/tG)

69 I love Ace's parenthetical commentary on Lowry in the quote. Very funny.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:18 PM (DU+/6)

70 Joe Rogan is not Conservative...He just lets people talk which the "media" and the Dems don't

Posted by: It's me donna at February 04, 2022 02:18 PM (pZNr0)

71 Trump is the first national Republican leader since the 90s to deliver ANYTHING to the Republican base.

It shouldn't be a shock how popular he is with them.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 02:18 PM (ESjRY)

72 "Online influencer" Marjorie Taylor-Greene

*snort

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2022 02:18 PM (BFigT)

73 68 If You Send Us Money, We'll Build The Wall And Abolish Obamacare!
Posted by: Establishment Republicans! at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (I2/tG)

=========

John McCain is dead. The act should have died with him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:18 PM (LvTSG)

74 Tucker is a national treasure. I wish every American watched the first 15 minutes of his show every night, and our country would be a much better place.

As for Fox, Gutfeld is great, and Jesse Waters is going to be Tucker Jr. in a couple years. He's got the goods - the intellect, the personna, the sense of humor, and the legit belief in conservatism. He's damn good. And his ratings are demonstrating that.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at February 04, 2022 02:18 PM (sh0fq)

75 ow the hell is AOSHQ NOT on the list and Fox is?


I don't want AOSHQ to be on their radar. Security through obscurity. Like Fight Club but without the washboard abs.

Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 02:18 PM (786Ro)

76 No blah blah blah

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 04, 2022 02:18 PM (vuisn)

77 NR no longer influential!?

Jive Turkeys hardest hit.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 04, 2022 02:19 PM (QpS+V)

78 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The NRA, The Koch network, Heritage Action, The Drudge Report, National Review - Conservative movement groups such as Tea Party Express, FreedomWorks, and the Senate Conservatives Fund.

-----------

This reads as a who's-who of Conservative Inc. grift operations. People on our side are becoming "woke" to the fact that these organizations exist to feather the nests of their executive-level staff at the expense of the everyday Americans that (used to) send money to them in the hopes that someone would be their voice in DC.

Posted by: ballistic at February 04, 2022 02:19 PM (oXNqT)

79 Joe Rogan is not going to like being on that list, lol.

Posted by: bluebell at February 04, 2022 02:19 PM (wyw4S)

80 citizenfreepress.com anyone? ... anyone?
I'd argue that Steve Bannon should be higher on the list than Fox News - and also that Fox News should not be on the list at all apart from Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: Paul in Texas at February 04, 2022 02:19 PM (kYyDC)

81 Posted by: ballistic at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (oXNqT

The NRA endorsed Harry Reid against a viable opponent. They were dead to me at that second.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 02:19 PM (Kz9dH)

82 Some of which (like inflation) which he himself had a direct hand in.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (LvTSG)


True, but even there he was constrained by the establishment GOP and the decisions made after 2008 to keep the stock market afloat no matter what.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 04, 2022 02:19 PM (wmDcS)

83 I miss Rush.

Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 02:19 PM (qpolg)

84 Ace should be on the list.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Try to imagine every thread with 7,000+ comments, and all the trolls that come with that bargain.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 04, 2022 02:19 PM (OssQ4)

85 Good riddance to Toomey. What a loathsome piece of shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 04, 2022 02:19 PM (lqNK8)

86 And as I have repeatedly reported about the website Axios News, they are a creation that went live in January 2017 with the expressed purpose of taking out Trump.

So anything they 'report', I take with a Dead Sea sized grain of salt.

Fuck them asshoes, er, jive turkeys.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (F0YaR)

87 Joe Rogan on the right, lolgf, puhleeze

Shows again that MSM (Axios ) and GOPe "consultants and power-brokers" are double circle jerk of reach-arounders
Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (786Ro)
++++
Joe Rogan is on the Right. The Left establishment is entirely a "Left Pole" phenomenon now.

When you stand on the North Pole, any direction you walk is South. It doesn't matter which way you step, you're off the pole and heading south. The entire establishment of government, media, academia, corporations and other institutions is now on the Left Pole. Any deviation from their ideological purity means you are Literally Hitler and by definition non-Left and if you're non-Left you are therefore Right.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (DU+/6)

88 Some of which (like inflation) which he himself had a direct hand in.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Don't forget that GOPe Congress was involved and basically told Trump that like not repealing Obamacare; GOP had no intention of reducing federal spending for its corporate class.

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (Iq9dF)

89 64 Rush was bigger than Tucker will get because he was independent. There was no way to push Rush off the air without radicalizing half the country. Tucker talks a good game, but he's not even as independent as Glenn Greenwald.

I can enjoy Tucker's segments, but I can also excoriate him when he obeys Fox.

--- When has he 'obeyed Fox' to the detriment of conservatism?

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (sh0fq)

90 Santa Claus just walked down the street in Ottawa, waving at the camera.

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (DJFLF)

91 The Drudge Report is one I find to be a head scratcher. Hell, I'd even run a left-wing news aggregate site if it did that well. All they had to do (or whoever may have bought it) was just go with that status quo. Even at its best, it still leaned a little left on occasion. I guess they really do think they're taking the moral high ground.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (wAnMi)

92 A horrible anniversary is coming up soon.

Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (qpolg)

93 >>> Online influencers including Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino, Joe Rogan, Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk and Marjorie Taylor-Greene.

Soon.

Posted by: leatherface at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (WdQMQ)

94 Fox News should not be on the list at all apart from Tucker Carlson.

Tucker is FOX.. He and Gutfeld... Waters isn't bad either...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (pZNr0)

95 I think the NRA has lost a lot of influence simply because they've won. That O'Rourke guy got killed in the Democratic primaries by being a gun grabber. The recent Democrat-inspired crime wave has shown reasonable people that they need some way to protect themselves, as the police can't or won't.
You don't need a "special interest" group to represent your beliefs if 75% of the people already agree with you.

Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (FJYfm)

96 10 Fox News #3?

They have learned NOTHING
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:11 PM (DJFLF)

Yeah, that needs to drop waaaaay further down the list.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04,
*********
Probably because of all the new changes and new conservative hires that have happened over at FNC.
That's why people like Shep Smith, Stephen Hayes, Jonah Goldberg, Chris Stirewalt, Chris Wallace have all left.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (NpAcC)

97 Try to imagine every thread with 7,000+ comments, and all the trolls that come with that bargain.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 04, 2022 02:19 PM (OssQ4)
++++
We can control that with judicious requirements on the topic of green oranges.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (DU+/6)

98 AoSHQ is more about being under the influence.

Posted by: Hic at February 04, 2022 02:21 PM (yDmyH)

99 National Review on Joe Biden in 1987: This clown is running for president? Really? No really? this isn't a joke?

National Review on Joe Biden in 2020: Its not binary, just like we aren't. And really, have you considered the mean tweets? Because Biden has no mean tweets. Honest! And in the end, isn't that what REALLY matters?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 02:21 PM (ESjRY)

100 Axios is on the ball, just five years late to the game.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 04, 2022 02:21 PM (5kI0z)

101 At this rate Trump may very well waltz into the White House in 2024 as the savior sent to fix everything

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 04, 2022 02:16 PM (wmDcS)

If Trump isn't installed right after the midterms, I bet it all ends in blood. Which it might anyways, but the global economy can't take three years of cabal mobilizing for Bloomberg and the CCP.

Posted by: trev006 at February 04, 2022 02:21 PM (Eqkqm)

102 I'm not sure I *want* AoS on this list.... also where is the Babylon Bee?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 02:21 PM (llON8)

103 That is an "off to the camps" list

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 04, 2022 02:21 PM (lCui1)

104 horrible anniversary is coming up soon

*

The 13th month anniversary of January 6th?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - holy men warn what happens if you play Rogan podcasts backwards at February 04, 2022 02:21 PM (CnBTt)

105 It bears repeating:
Joe Rogan is a Liberal. He's just one with some balls and courtesy towards his guests.

Apart from the gun thing, which I do weigh highly, he isn't very Conservative.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:21 PM (XvPQV)

106 The NeverTrump remain convinced we will come back to them.

Not because they were right, because they are powerful.

They are wrong on both counts.

Posted by: Well at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (UAnW2)

107 Online influencers including Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino, Joe Rogan, Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk and Marjorie Taylor-Greene.
Steve Bannon
Susan B. Anthony List
ACE OF SPADES HQ
Posted by: Just stating the obvious - Ask A. Weiner Y
==
In truth, the long long shadow of Andrew Breitbart dwarfs them all. But, If Andrew were still around, he'd be in the comments RIGHT NOW saying that Ace of Spades HQ should be on the list.

Posted by: Just stating the obvious - Ask A. Weiner Y at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (HKdHD)

108 Axios is on the ball, just five years late to the game.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 04, 2022 02:21 PM (5kI0z)
++++
They all know it and knew it then, but they had to pretend because the Left money men were propping up these shit rags to act as a "conservative" opposition. The subtext in all this is, I suspect, that the meal ticket is being revoked.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (DU+/6)

109 Give me a congress full of MGTs and you'll see all that stuff the GOPe has been promising you for decades done in weeks...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (ESjRY)

110
I assume everything is a gift operation.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (/U27+)

111 I'm sad the Federalist Society wasn't on the first list, only to be dropped from the second. They are INCREDIBLY influential, but fly under the radar, and undermine much in conservative/Constitutional gains.

Posted by: Anonny Moronny at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (JCZqz)

112 NR's Never Trump edition was the biggest mistake the magazine ever made. I think Lowry and co. got the idea that they carried the same authority as Bill Buckley, who famously read the John Birch Society and Ayn Rand out of the conservative movement. But these idiots fundamentally miscalculated the effectiveness of their denunciation of Trump, and hugely failed to see the seismic shifts in politics that have been occurring for many years (the growth of populism, the lunacy of unlimited outsourcing of production, the destabilizing influence of illegal immigration, and on and on.

Posted by: Paco at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (njExo)

113 So far, no violence in Ottawa of any kind. How can there be? It's hella cold. I think all the truckers are in their rooms at the Marriott, throwing back a Molson's or ten.

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (DJFLF)

114 A horrible anniversary is coming up soon.
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (qpolg)


February 6, the 13-month anniversary? You're right. We better get the networks to make a big deal about it.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (FJYfm)

115 I guess Rogan is included because to the left, he gives airtime to voices that go against the narrative, and that must not be permitted on the left, therefore he's an enemy and thus, on the right.

Posted by: Mainah at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (B+qrE)

116 107 In truth, the long long shadow of Andrew Breitbart dwarfs them all. But, If Andrew were still around, he'd be in the comments RIGHT NOW saying that Ace of Spades HQ should be on the list.

Posted by: Just stating the obvious - Ask A. Weiner Y at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (HKdHD)

==============

How?

He wouldn't have read the comments.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (LvTSG)

117
Grift operation

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (/U27+)

118 >>>Who has the power now:

That is quite the upgrade. Common denominator? A conscious awakening that all those former power brokers were scammers, grifters, liars, and self-serving, unprincipled cheats.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (SH2Zi)

119 i ruined my own bad joke. ugh

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM (LvTSG)

120 I suspect that Tuca reads the AOS, as well as Mollie

I know Gutfeld does

he steals my material along with others on this blog

as well as other comment sections

his delivery could use some work

comes up a lil short

Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM (us2H3)

121 And poor Walmart Ace used to champion their low prices but is now seen as the retail arm of the Chinese commies.

Posted by: Kurt at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM (4+C5k)

122 I think the NRA has lost a lot of influence simply because they've won. That O'Rourke guy got killed in the Democratic primaries by being a gun grabber. The recent Democrat-inspired crime wave has shown reasonable people that they need some way to protect themselves, as the police can't or won't.
You don't need a "special interest" group to represent your beliefs if 75% of the people already agree with you.
Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (FJYfm)

The war ain't over. Oregon and WA are rolling back their previously-good gun laws. I don't trust the NRA but some sort of organization is needed to push back and influence lawmakers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM (XvPQV)

123 Who has the power now:


I have the power!!!!

Posted by: He Man at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM (gmo/4)

124 Wait, I'm irrelevant?! Then why am I sucking leftist dicks?!

Besides personal pleasure, I mean!

Posted by: The Real Man French at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM (7bRMQ)

125 They keep trying to make the Littlest Romulan a thing. Benji needs to go away.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM (EpDzw)

126 When you look at the lists of the favored and disfavored, it really strikes me as another description of what that bitch from the WEF said about the elites - that the good news is that the elites worldwide trust each other a lot and can work together, but the worthless rube wreckers don't trust their elites very much anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (DU+/6)

127 I know one of these "Republicans". He was a Democrat until Obama came along. And he HATED Obama and how he was systematically destroying the country he loved. We couldn't have agreed more on seemingly everything.

Then Trump came along. He personally hated Trump since the 1980s. So he now sits all day retweeting National Review and Allahpundit and funneling around his own ass trying to systematically fondle the square circle of his own stupid bullshit. He totes hates Biden and Kamala's agenda though! But don't you DARE say the election was stolen, that's crazy talk.

It's weird. I'm not sure I would have believed people like that exist without being paid. Oh - did I mention the keystone in all this? His wife is and has always been a flaming leftist.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (etl9f)

128 >>> ational Review died with William F. Buckley.

France died with Napoleon.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:12 PM (XvPQV)


I'm not sure if Buckley would be opposed to the current state of NR. Even with his platitudes towards the common man he was still every bit of an elitist as those currently running Conservative Inc. International.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (pnzcV)

129 i ruined my own bad joke. ugh
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM (LvTSG)


Well, you're under the weather and all.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (Ez6QX)

130 If Trump runs again he's not only the best, most conservative president I've ever seen in real life, but probably the bravest man, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - holy men warn what happens if you play Rogan podcasts backwards at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (CnBTt)

131 The NRA did lose influence from washing its dirty linen in public. According to a friend who is a member, they keep badgering the members for $$, which is not a good thing these days.

Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (W+kMI)

132 Heritage has been more actively pretending to be opposed to Big Tech of late. Pretending.

The Kochs and CoCs have been actively opposed to actual conservativism for at least a couple of decades at this point.

National Review can't keep itself from LARPing its own-supposed greatest moment (reading the John Birch Society out of the movement) over and over again with more and more tenuous analogues to the Birchers.

Posted by: Match Checksout at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (dYe5S)

133 FOA
FPC
2AF

Lapierre and his grifting cronies can DIAF. Not one more cent to the NRA. Fund-raise out of Wayne's bank accounts if your short on cash.

Posted by: Greyman27 at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (RKLPC)

134 comes up a lil short
Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM (us2H3)

That's called 'A Shapiro'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (XvPQV)

135 NRA isn't on that list because they rolled over on many causes (2A community is still pissed regarding their take on the bump stock issue) and padding their pay checks vs. actual fighting 2A fights.

GOA, SAF and FPC are getting most of the support.

Posted by: Aivanther at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (tzAg7)

136 Oakdale, CA puts all the unmasked kids into the gym, turns off the heat, and blocks the exits with tables.

it's fOR THe CHiLDrEn.

https://bit.ly/3IYFYQc

Yes, those tables can be moved, but if there was an emergency where the crowd rushed the doors (like a fire), people would be smashed against the tables and there would be deaths.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (VCz/u)

137 wtf was Ottawa PD spazzing about on the tw@tt this a.m.?

All I've seen so far is a hockey game, Santa Claus, a tailgate party in front of Parliament and lots and lots of snow/ice.

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (DJFLF)

138
That is quite the upgrade. Common denominator? A conscious awakening that all those former power brokers were scammers, grifters, liars, and self-serving, unprincipled cheats.


I think the reason we ended up with the leaders we had is that the left spent decades corrupting them - I've mentioned this before, but there is a reason that Denis Hastert ended up as the most powerful Republican...and after that point the GOPe stopped being an opposition party.

So expect this process to continue - but...is the Republican base smart enough to not fall for the smears and to pick up who is getting paid off moving forward? I guess we'll see.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (ESjRY)

139 126 When you look at the lists of the favored and disfavored, it really strikes me as another description of what that bitch from the WEF said about the elites - that the good news is that the elites worldwide trust each other a lot and can work together, but the worthless rube wreckers don't trust their elites very much anymore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (DU+/6)

=========

I think we should send all the elite to Mars to build their utopia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (LvTSG)

140 The war ain't over. Oregon and WA are rolling back their previously-good gun laws. I don't trust the NRA but some sort of organization is needed to push back and influence lawmakers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM (XvPQV)

Exactly. NJ is becoming even more insane. The feds are frothing at the mouth to change the definition of a gun.

The NRA is corrupt. There is no doubt about it. That's why I spend the minimum with them and give to other organizations.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (XIJ/X)

141 That is quite the upgrade. Common denominator? A conscious awakening that all those former power brokers were scammers, grifters, liars, and self-serving, unprincipled cheats.

Posted by: flounder
++++++++++++
Network effects--one person that has a negative take on those power brokers is multiplied by ten or so others listening to that person.

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (Iq9dF)

142 129 i ruined my own bad joke. ugh
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM (LvTSG)

Well, you're under the weather and all.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (Ez6QX)

========

Yes,...that's it. I'm not an idiot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (LvTSG)

143 I love that Tucker Carlson is on that list separate from, and higher than Fox News.

Posted by: Methos at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (kOpft)

144 Why you shouldn't carjack someone driving a big truck:

https://nitter.net/newsbanger/status/1488752391075905536

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (RU4sa)

145 I haven't been a paying NRA member for two or three years now. If Wayne LaPierre and his cronies actually cared about the organization and the cause they would all resign.

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (xPl2J)

146 Grift operation
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM


Smooth Operator > Grift Operation

Posted by: Chuck C at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (EughT)

147 How?

He wouldn't have read the comments.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (LvTSG)

He only read the comments

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (XvPQV)

148 >>>And Tucker Carlson, of course, who one operative says might be the most influential right-wing pundit he's ever seen.

-----
I'm grateful that you included Tucker's last name. For the last week or so (because there's been so much news on the subject) every time I see the word Tucker I think people are talking about Lia Thomas. I wish I was joking.

Posted by: 496 at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (U1eOr)

149 The Chamber of Commerce would rather hire illegals than American citizens. In the past two decades they've made it painfully obvious. At least the Commiecrat Activists are open and sincere in their dislike for Midwestern white male workers.

Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (W+kMI)

150 Who has the power now:

We, the People.

Posted by: t-bird at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (vOGqy)

151 He's not competition for Joe Rogan if you go by the number of subscribers on Youtube but Patrick Bet-David is a pretty good interviewer and alternative to Rogan.

Posted by: JROD at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (0jZnq)

152 95
I think the NRA has lost a lot of influence simply because they've won.

Won what? Any of the 2A victories we have seen were not spearheaded by the NRA, they just clung to the coattails of whoever was doing the yeoman's work.

The NRA can't get help but keep stepping on its own dick. With the massive BOD shakeup they had a couple years ago - all because of Wayne LaPierre and his outrageous spending. Exacerbated now because of their failed chapter 11 filing, the NYS going after them, and funds drying up.

Lapierre, a masterful grifter, supposedly needed protection because of threats against his life. So someone lent him their yacht where he and his family conveniently used to attend a wedding in the Carribean. Never declared any of that grift.

The only thing the NRA has won (deservedly so) is the unwanted attention and the abandonment of donors/supporters.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (N39Ws)

153 145 I haven't been a paying NRA member for two or three years now. If Wayne LaPierre and his cronies actually cared about the organization and the cause they would all resign.
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (xPl2J)

GRIFT GRIFT GRIFT GRIFT GRIFT!!!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (TDj17)

154 National Review? Are they still even around??

Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (W+kMI)

155 NR's Never Trump edition was the biggest mistake the magazine ever made. I think Lowry and co. got the idea that they carried the same authority as Bill Buckley, who famously read the John Birch Society and Ayn Rand out of the conservative movement. But these idiots fundamentally miscalculated the effectiveness of their denunciation of Trump, and hugely failed to see the seismic shifts in politics that have been occurring for many years (the growth of populism, the lunacy of unlimited outsourcing of production, the destabilizing influence of illegal immigration, and on and on.
==
NR was an op from the beginning.

Posted by: YMMV BUT . . . at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (ytGNE)

156 NR was drawing us a roadmap to somewhere nobody wanted to go.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (FVME7)

157 74 Tucker is a national treasure. I wish every American watched the first 15 minutes of his show every night, and our country would be a much better place.

As for Fox, Gutfeld is great, and Jesse Waters is going to be Tucker Jr. in a couple years. He's got the goods - the intellect, the personna, the sense of humor, and the legit belief in conservatism. He's damn good. And his ratings are demonstrating that.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at February 04, 2022 02:18 PM (sh0fq)


At one point I had the same respect for Glenn Beck. Heck, I even watched him on CNN, eons ago.

Then he got big, and went fuckin' jive turkey crazy. And now he's a nobody again. Oh, and yeah, handing out teddy bears to illegal aliens at the border went over like a lead zeppelin.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (F0YaR)

158 When I see "Club for Growth" I think "Minoxidil".

Posted by: SFGoth at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (KAi1n)

159 Who Runs Jive Turkey Town??

Posted by: Master Blaster at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (yDmyH)

160 I'm not sure if Buckley would be opposed to the current state of NR. Even with his platitudes towards the common man he was still every bit of an elitist as those currently running Conservative Inc. International.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (pnzcV)


Buckley might not have liked Trump, but he would have understood how we got Trump.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (wmDcS)

161 Oakdale, CA puts all the unmasked kids into the gym, turns off the heat, and blocks the exits with tables.

it's fOR THe CHiLDrEn.

https://bit.ly/3IYFYQc

Yes, those tables can be moved, but if there was an emergency where the crowd rushed the doors (like a fire), people would be smashed against the tables and there would be deaths.
Posted by: bonhomme

Want to see the principal leave in the back of an ambulance?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (Hica+)

162 Towards what I said about Buckly, right or wrong, I believe that Breitbart was the first new kind of Conservative, Man on the Right in generations. He got so many things right, understood so many things, pointed the way so well. He was a true watershed in history.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (pnzcV)

163 I'll never forget Lowry as a guest on " The View"
Joy Behar asked him "Isn't Michelle Obama gorgeous?"
the beta male Lowry hesitated and then concurred.
I'm sure Mohammed Ali would describe Big Mike the same way he did Joe Frazier

Posted by: avi at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (hMd9S)

164 MTG has an op-ed in the Washington Times 2/2/22.
Spicy!
Related to this piece, I think. Worth reading.

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (DB16e)

165 NR was drawing us a roadmap to somewhere nobody wanted to go.

One of the more interesting things to see about all the various controlled opposition groups is that roadmap for all of them ended in the same place.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (ESjRY)

166 tbh, some of these guys *do* look like the love spawn of Bob and Doug MacKenzie

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (DJFLF)

167 147 He only read the comments
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (XvPQV)

=========

I meant content. But, I'm sick, so the covids forced me to type the wrong thing.

COVIDS!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (LvTSG)

168 >>> 136 Oakdale, CA puts all the unmasked kids into the gym, turns off the heat, and blocks the exits with tables.

it's fOR THe CHiLDrEn.

https://bit.ly/3IYFYQc

Yes, those tables can be moved, but if there was an emergency where the crowd rushed the doors (like a fire), people would be smashed against the tables and there would be deaths.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (VCz/u)

WTF? Stan's Retards are getting more aggressive.... this looks like a psycho practice run....

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (llON8)

169 159 Who Runs Jive Turkey Town??
Posted by: Master Blaster at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (yDmyH)

Master Baster?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (XvPQV)

170 Oakdale, CA puts all the unmasked kids into the gym, turns off the heat, and blocks the exits with tables.



And their parents are paying property taxes out the wazoo for the privilege.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (5kI0z)

171 Why you shouldn't carjack someone driving a big truck:

https://nitter.net/newsbanger/status/1488752391075905536
Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (RU4sa)
++++
Plus the first rule of driving a secured or armored vehicle: never stop. Push through and shoot your way out if you need to, but do *not* stop and let them attack you while you're stationary.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (DU+/6)

172 154 National Review? Are they still even around??
Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (W+kMI)

They share an office with the Drudge Report.

Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (Rwq27)

173 Finally, somebody is doing something about crime!

https://bit.ly/3gtLm1u

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (FVME7)

174 MetaVerse is the Club for Grope.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (63Dwl)

175 Wait a minute. Where's Governor DeSantis in the "those with influence" list?

Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (W+kMI)

176 --- When has he 'obeyed Fox' to the detriment of conservatism?
Posted by: Forheremenaremen at February 04, 2022 02:20 PM (sh0fq)

For starters, the election fraud "package" from Fox should have been reason enough for Tucker to leave entirely. Don't get me wrong, Tucker has a lot of pressure to stay with Fox, and his original films might have the reach to be worthwhile. But it's nowhere near the courage Glenn Greenwald showed at The Intercept. He's not the enemy, but I'd rather get my news from people honest enough to stand up to the corporations.

Posted by: trev006 at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (Eqkqm)

177 I meant content. But, I'm sick, so the covids forced me to type the wrong thing.

COVIDS!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (LvTSG)

I'm going to blame the Wuhan Flu for your fondness for Mel Brook's depressing movies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (XvPQV)

178 Ace is an influencer other influencers read.

Posted by: runner at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (b+Fr8)

179 >>Gutfeld does

>he steals my material along with others on this blog


His writers are always ripping off the Comments / Chats.

Gutfeld was the editor of Men's Health. Men's Health. Which is the Jack Murphy of Magazines.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (WIpOf)

180 J.J. Sefton's 'The Morning Report', @ ace.mu.nu is #1 stop, in the morning. Followed by The Gateway Pundit. Followed by Gab home page. Followed by ZeroHedge.

Posted by: All the News That's Fit To Read at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (fUm2i)

181 I like Tuca but I believe he is in for a course correction

I just hope it's toward us and not them

in NYC, you never know

Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (us2H3)

182 Any NYC morons with a truck?

Some knucklehead put a 410 lb cube made out of gold in Central Park.

https://tinyurl.com/5t53uxm4

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (Y5qcH)

183 175 Wait a minute. Where's Governor DeSantis in the "those with influence" list?
Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (W+kMI)
You're starting to catch on why we don't think much of Axios.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (XvPQV)

184 When I see "Club for Growth" I think "Minoxidil".
Posted by: SFGoth


Sildenafil.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (Hica+)

185
Buckley might not have liked Trump, but he would have understood how we got Trump.


I've always been amused by the "like" part of the calculation - I want a political leader that will move forward my political agenda. If he's an asshole or nice doesn't matter (outside of his ability to get elected, of course).

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (ESjRY)

186 lolol

Protest organizer just told the crowd to hide their 40s in their coats because Ottawa PD no likey consuming alcohol bevs in public.

but spliffs are OK

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (DJFLF)

187 They should have included GOA and SAF on the second list.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (GYllL)

188 158 When I see "Club for Growth" I think "Minoxidil".
Posted by: SFGoth at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (KAi1n)


"I got blue-pilled!"

- - Zombie Bob Dole

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (s2VJv)

189 It's weird. I'm not sure I would have believed people like that exist without being paid. Oh - did I mention the keystone in all this? His wife is and has always been a flaming leftist.

Posted by: ...
------------------
He thought he was a thought leader and found out he was a garden variety schmuck is my guess and his leftist wife was probably taunting his manhood with all those fake MSM stories.

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (Iq9dF)

190 >>Joy Behar asked him "Isn't Michelle Obama gorgeous?"


Women would kill for her girthy penis.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (WIpOf)

191 Lowery's comment is an actual microcosm of ails NR and NT publications that, like CNN, existed off lefty funding and not popular support.

He doesn't need your ass, he says sniffingly, much like the fox in that Aesop fable - those grapes must be sour.

No one that actually doesn't need your ass, ever actually says they 'don't need your ass' - it's understood. Ergo, he needs your ass and he knows he needs your ass, but if there is one thing that we've learned about NTs lo these last 5 years, its NT ego is about the only thing that seems to remain as a concentrated personality trait on public display after you've sifted through all their other public BS posturing.

Posted by: Boswell at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (5iUNf)

192 Hurry, time is running out! America and the NRA needs you!

Send in your lifetime membership fees of $1500.00 and I'll send you this free gym bag, made in China. That's right, China! China makes good stuff!

Hurry while this offer lasts and don't miss out! Only you can help stop the gun grabbers and fund my next round of silk suits, high priced call girls and Brazilian wax jobs for 2022!
Don't delay, act now! America and the NRA needs you!

Posted by: Wayne LaPenis, NRA Moneychanger at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (R/m4+)

193 184 When I see "Club for Growth" I think "Minoxidil".
Posted by: SFGoth


Sildenafil.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (Hica+)

That's "Growth for Club"

Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (Rwq27)

194 177 I'm going to blame the Wuhan Flu for your fondness for Mel Brook's depressing movies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (XvPQV)

===========

No, that's just my bad taste.

Theory: Life Stinks is actually a satire of "important" movies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (LvTSG)

195 I love that Tucker Carlson is on that list separate from, and higher than Fox News.

I'm surprised that Fox is even there. Must be the Carlson Effect.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (Xrfse)

196 >> When I see "Club for Growth" I think


Truvada. For prep.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (WIpOf)

197 'the people who have been wrong about literally everything for at least twenty fucking years'

They have a lot in common with Joe Biden.

Posted by: soft white underbelly at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (6O0gM)

198 Plus the first rule of driving a secured or armored vehicle: never stop. Push through and shoot your way out if you need to, but do *not* stop and let them attack you while you're stationary.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (DU+/6)

FIDO is a thing

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (XvPQV)

199 Ace is an influencer other influencers read.
Posted by: runner at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (b+Fr


He's the mastermind at the center of the web. He's the one the heroes discover after working their way through multiple layers of front organizations and bad guys.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (wmDcS)

200 The NeverTrump remain convinced we will come back to them.

Not because they were right, because they are powerful.

They are wrong on both counts.
Posted by: Well at February 04, 2022 02:22 PM (UAnW2)


We kept speculating on this before the 2020 election and they turned out just as fucking stupid as our worst estimates.

Regarding Buckley, he was more my parent's generation than mine but he struck me as a snobbish tool who attracted a lot of people I hated because he used bigger words than they did.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (y7DUB)

201 and the honking has begun

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (DJFLF)

202 I quit Fox after their disastrous coverage of 2020 election, but it didn't stick. I missed getting Tucker Carlson's analysis of the news of the day. He hits the nail on the head nearly all the time, plus I love his use of mockery of those in desperate need of it. I do wish libs and swampy repubs would come on the show like they used to when his show first started. They need to be exposed by Tucker's questions that our propaganda media would never ask. I know, some people don't trust him, he was arguably part of the swamp and he wore a bow-tie. I put him in the camp of people whose eyes were finally opened to how thoroughly corrupt the GOP is. I'm in the same camp.

Posted by: ordinary republicans at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (fs1hN)

203 I got a new doctor last Spring. When I go, sometimes they ask me if I've had "the shot" and when I say no, they're like "okay".

Honestly probably the best doctor I've ever had.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (etl9f)

204 182 Any NYC morons with a truck?

Some knucklehead put a 410 lb cube made out of gold in Central Park.

https://tinyurl.com/5t53uxm4
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (Y5qcH)


Auric Goldfinger's Rolls Royce limo?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (s2VJv)

205 I'm not sure if Buckley would be opposed to the current state of NR. Even with his platitudes towards the common man he was still every bit of an elitist as those currently running Conservative Inc. International.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (pnzcV)

I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory, he said, than by the Harvard University faculty.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

-WFB

He believed that elites, people in leadership positions should be elite, that is capable. He also apparently believed in back in his day that they were decadent.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (z5Vrg)

206 What's the equivalent list for the Dems? Does the base even matter to them? They all seem like NPCs who just do as they're told.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (lCui1)

207 >>> Why you shouldn't carjack someone driving a big truck:

https://nitter.net/newsbanger/status/1488752391075905536
Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (RU4sa)


I've seen that and wondered where it is. Maybe South Africa or something like that armored car video of a few months back? Hopefully not the US yet.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM (pnzcV)

208 A little further, Kurt. You're almost there.

Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM (786Ro)

209 Fuck you, war.

Might be one of my top two or three all time political statements. A truly liberating battle cry.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM (ZLI7S)

210 If Trump runs again he's not only the best, most conservative president I've ever seen in real life, but probably the bravest man, too.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - holy men warn what happens if you play Rogan podcasts backwards at February 04, 2022 02:24 PM (CnBTt)

Yup. He's still in the game, and the fact of his fighting at the national level is why he remains the best choice for President. No one else comes close.

Posted by: trev006 at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM (Eqkqm)

211 Women would kill for her girthy penis.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (WIpOf)

This, in a nutshell, is AoSHQ.

Amusing and repellent at the same time.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM (XIJ/X)

212 I've always been amused by the "like" part of the calculation - I want a political leader that will move forward my political agenda. If he's an asshole or nice doesn't matter (outside of his ability to get elected, of course).
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (ESjRY)


That's my point: too many of the establishment don't like Trump, and let that dislike blind them. I think Buckley would have been smart enough to see that Trump reflected something deeper.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM (wmDcS)

213 I'm going to blame the Wuhan Flu for your fondness for Mel Brook's depressing movies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (XvPQV)

===========

No, that's just my bad taste.

Theory: Life Stinks is actually a satire of "important" movies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (LvTSG)

You actually might be right, there

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM (XvPQV)

214 73 How dare you speak ill of the greatest man ever while his funeral is going on!

Posted by: Mega MaCain at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM (Ojki1)

215 First rule: Get out of the kill zone.

Posted by: Archer at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM (gmo/4)

216 Posted by: ordinary republicans at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (fs1hN)

Sock for comment that was never sent, but typed/deleted instead

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM (fs1hN)

217 At this rate Trump may very well waltz into the White House in 2024 as the savior sent to fix everything

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

Think of the money, sold out venues, shoots, and crowd pops!

Posted by: Vince Russo's Mr.T's Starter Kit at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM (WdQMQ)

218 >>Some knucklehead put a 410 lb cube made out of gold in Central Park.


I could move that with a landscaper's bar and a wheelbarrow.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM (WIpOf)

219 NR first licked the shitter when they betrayed Mark Steyn and went downhill from there. Super steep slope.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at February 04, 2022 02:32 PM (ySQBZ)

220 'the people who have been wrong about literally everything for at least twenty fucking years'

This is a point that should be made again and again.

The NT/NRO/GOPe types have been running the GOP, and the country half of the time, for the last 20 years.

Are we better or worse off?

Now, if you've failed at that level, and you actually care about the country - wouldn't you step back and ask to follow someone else who hadn't abjectly failed?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2022 02:32 PM (ESjRY)

221 Bonus points for the Hoffer quote. That man is a sadly-unappreciated gem.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at February 04, 2022 02:32 PM (WoKVO)

222 213 Theory: Life Stinks is actually a satire of "important" movies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (LvTSG)

You actually might be right, there
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM (XvPQV)

==========

If it is, it doesn't work, but it may have been his intention. I'm just not sure because by the early 90s he may have completely forgotten how to make a movie that wasn't chaotically silly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:32 PM (LvTSG)

223 NR first licked the shitter when they betrayed Mark Steyn and went downhill from there. Super steep slope.
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at February 04, 2022 02:32 PM (ySQBZ)
++++
At what point does it become a cliff?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:32 PM (DU+/6)

224 Ace is an influencer other influencers read.
Posted by: runner at February 04, 2022 02:28 PM (b+Fr

He's the mastermind at the center of the web. He's the one the heroes discover after working their way through multiple layers of front organizations and bad guys.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile


All the yarn leads to ace.

Posted by: davidt at February 04, 2022 02:32 PM (yDmyH)

225 Finally, somebody else is doing something about crime!

https://bit.ly/3L80eB1

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 04, 2022 02:32 PM (FVME7)

226 I just got tired of being hit up for money all the goddamn time. And Wayne LaPierre's bullshit.

Posted by: Insomniac

---------------
[Narrator] These two facts are correlated.

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:32 PM (Iq9dF)

227 NR was an op from the beginning.
Posted by: YMMV BUT . . . at February 04, 2022 02:26 PM (ytGNE)

I've called them New Republic for as long as I can remember.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 02:32 PM (etl9f)

228 NRA has lost power?

*tears up the Sooper-Dooper Floopy-Doopy Enhanced Hyper-Eagle Freedom Endowment Life Membership (With Extra Patriotic Sparkles) application*

Who needs another dufffel anyway...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 04, 2022 02:32 PM (PiwSw)

229 I thought all those who had lost influence had left the conservative movement years ago.

I just love those guys, they are always leaving the conservative side, but they never actually get out the door.

They are the people at a party who go around for 3 hours telling everybody that they have to leave to take the babysitter home. You've said goodbye to everyone 3 times, just fucking leave now.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 04, 2022 02:33 PM (I8FKK)

230 Plus the first rule of driving a secured or armored vehicle: never stop. Push through and shoot your way out if you need to, but do *not* stop and let them attack you while you're stationary.
___

Yeah, I'm kinda familiar with that.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:33 PM (RU4sa)

231 Meanwhile, Oregon state government is busily implementing permanent masking requirements, as the local medical school forecasts that fewer than 100 people in Oregon will be hospitalized with Covid by late May (as opposed to 1100 people now).

But don't worry, the state bureaucracy will eliminate or revise the mandatory mask rules when it is appropriate!

You just have to trust them!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2022 02:33 PM (I2/tG)

232 This blonde cowgirl in leather chaps doesn't let the cuck brigade influence her decision-making:
https://is.gd/Q2dBbL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:33 PM (DU+/6)

233 Protest organizer just told the crowd to hide their 40s in their coats because Ottawa PD no likey consuming alcohol bevs in public.

but spliffs are OK
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (DJFLF).

Guys- hip flasks. C'mon!

Posted by: trev006 at February 04, 2022 02:33 PM (Eqkqm)

234 I could move that with a landscaper's bar and a wheelbarrow.
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:31 PM

spud bar and a handful of 4" ABS cut-offs.

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 04, 2022 02:34 PM (DB16e)

235 >>This blonde cowgirl in leather chaps doesn't let the cuck brigade influence her decision-making:


That couch is gonna have a snail trail on it.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:34 PM (WIpOf)

236 120 I suspect that Tuca reads the AOS, as well as Mollie. I know Gutfeld does...

...his delivery could use some work

comes up a lil short
Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM

HOW DARE YOU! You have unleashed a social-media shaming storm the liked of which you've never weathered before!

Posted by: Peter Dinklage at February 04, 2022 02:34 PM (JCZqz)

237 This blonde cowgirl in leather chaps doesn't let the cuck brigade influence her decision-making:
https://is.gd/Q2dBbL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:33 PM (DU+/6)


She seems nice. How much an hour?

Posted by: Archer at February 04, 2022 02:34 PM (gmo/4)

238 Protest organizer just told the crowd to hide their 40s in their coats because Ottawa PD no likey consuming alcohol bevs in public.

but spliffs are OK
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (DJFLF)
++++
40s are violence.

Posted by: Ottawa Police at February 04, 2022 02:34 PM (DU+/6)

239 223 NR first licked the shitter when they betrayed Mark Steyn and went downhill from there. Super steep slope.
Posted by: dagny

---------------------
They put Steyn out to pasture because wealthy donors wanted a carbon tax as it would generate oodles of grifting opportunities like the EU has. Note that Jonathan Adler (a prime legal commenter at NR at the time) abruptly changed from climate change opponent to carbon tax supporter.

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:35 PM (Iq9dF)

240 Truvada. For prep.
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (WIpOf)


But Truvada is 99% effective in preventing AIDS transmission!
Of course, there is a 100% effective method for preventing that. But now I'm being judgmental.

Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 02:35 PM (FJYfm)

241
I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory, he said, than by the Harvard University faculty.
===
To be totally accurate is was the NEW YORK CITY phone directory. So not exactly a cross section of America's Heartland.

He knew what he was saying.

Posted by: YMMV BUT . . . at February 04, 2022 02:35 PM (b9xr2)

242 Will the stupidity never stop?

Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 02:35 PM (qpolg)

243 She seems nice. How much an hour?
Posted by: Archer at February 04, 2022 02:34 PM (gmo/4)
++++
More 'en I've got, I reckon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:35 PM (DU+/6)

244 "I know one of these "Republicans"."

One of my best friends is like that. Always (for over 40 years) very conservative and rational in temperament and thought, intelligent, well spoken, successful, etc.

But for some reason he absolutely detests Trump. Voted for Biden and loathes Trump to the point that I avoid the subject because he goes off to the point it ruins the conversation.

There are a lot of those folks around.

Posted by: RM at February 04, 2022 02:35 PM (U3LtS)

245 I'm surprised that Fox is even there. Must be the Carlson Effect.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (Xrfse)


I was a subscriber to the WSJ since the mid 70s. When Rupert bought it lots of people thought he would ruin it. I thought otherwise and I was wrong. I wouldn't trust that cuck as far as I could kick him

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at February 04, 2022 02:35 PM (y7DUB)

246 128 I'm not sure if Buckley would be opposed to the current state of NR. Even with his platitudes towards the common man he was still every bit of an elitist as those currently running Conservative Inc. International.
====
I get it. But Buckley knew how the political game was played and wanted conservatives to win more often. He went for the high road instead of the low road and enjoyed some success. However, he and his successors forgot that direct appeals to We the People aren't low road, they're necessary to maintaining a base, keeping election results, and making the Left play defense. Trump appealed directly to the populace in general and won an election he was supposed to lose by 20%. So much for the NR's smart guys.

Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 02:35 PM (W+kMI)

247

She seems nice. How much an hour?
Posted by: Archer at February 04, 2022 02:34 PM (gmo/4)

An hour? That's one where you win for just riding for 8 seconds.

Posted by: Roy at February 04, 2022 02:35 PM (Rwq27)

248 At what point does it become a cliff?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:32 PM (DU+/6)

The cliff was Trump. I imagine them all just committing Hari Kari with that nevertrump issue and the horseshit that led up to it.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at February 04, 2022 02:35 PM (ySQBZ)

249 National Review: Standing athwart history yelling "Wrong hole!"

Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 02:36 PM (W3VUu)

250 The GOPe is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
It also covers the UniParty members from the Democratic caucus.

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 02:36 PM (RHGPo)

251 Women would kill for her girthy penis.

Posted by: garrett

And Stinky and Unwashed.

Posted by: coal burners vs mudsharks at February 04, 2022 02:36 PM (WdQMQ)

252 Brave McCarthy and teh GOPe have censured Cheney and Bitzinger. Censure, not fired but, censure. The GOP can go fuck themselves.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 02:36 PM (GYllL)

253 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was more than happy to offshore every job they could.

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 02:36 PM (RHGPo)

254 I want another one of those FenGirls. Alas I think it was merely a one time commentary.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 02:36 PM (etl9f)

255 182 Any NYC morons with a truck?

Some knucklehead put a 410 lb cube made out of gold in Central Park.

https://tinyurl.com/5t53uxm4
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 04, 2022 02:29 PM (Y5qcH)

-----
That's gold Jerry! Gold!

Posted by: 496 at February 04, 2022 02:37 PM (U1eOr)

256 She seems nice. How much an hour?
Posted by: Archer at February 04, 2022 02:34 PM (gmo/4)
++++
More 'en I've got, I reckon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:35 PM (DU+/6)


Me too! I'd go broke in fifteen minutes, but man -what a way to go!

Posted by: Archer at February 04, 2022 02:37 PM (gmo/4)

257 Some knucklehead put a 410 lb cube made out of gold in Central Park.

https://tinyurl.com/5t53uxm4


If you need to hone your twaddle for an Art Thread sock, read that article- it's got everything you need.

Posted by: t-bird at February 04, 2022 02:37 PM (AytXr)

258 National Review: Standing athwart history yelling "Wrong hole!"
Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 02:36 PM (W3VUu)

Wow

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 02:37 PM (etl9f)

259 144 Why you shouldn't carjack someone driving a big truck:

https://nitter.net/newsbanger/status/1488752391075905536

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (RU4sa)

Heh. If successful someone will have to be able to drive it.

Posted by: Javems at February 04, 2022 02:37 PM (AmoqO)

260 252 Brave McCarthy and teh GOPe have censured Cheney and Bitzinger. Censure, not fired but, censure. The GOP can go fuck themselves.
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 02:36 PM (GYllL)

=========

He's waiting for Wyoming to fire Cheney. Democrats in Illinois have already ensured that the other one is already gone.

He's walking a line between the base and the donors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:37 PM (LvTSG)

261 Protest organizer just told the crowd to hide their 40s in their coats


40's?
I immediately thought gats, not Labatt's.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2022 02:37 PM (Hica+)

262 >>> Finally, somebody is doing something about crime!
https://bit.ly/3gtLm1u


Here's a stupid off-topic pet peeve of mine. It's probably just me but if you go to that link there's a gif with some lady saying something and it has the text for what she's saying on the gif. But whenever I see that I sit there for seconds trying to read the persons lips to make out the thing that's written there. I do this for a solid 10-15 seconds before giving up and moving on. None of the gifs ever portray what they're saying and their lips never match up. But you see it all over the web. It drives me crazy!

Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 02:37 PM (pnzcV)

263 National Rolling Review Stone.

Posted by: klaftern at February 04, 2022 02:37 PM (taPSh)

264 > I could move that with a landscaper's bar and a wheelbarrow.

You need a plan to deal with the armed guards.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 02:37 PM (VCz/u)

265 We the People did. Never forget.

Posted by: Trump didn't do shit at February 04, 2022 02:38 PM (WdQMQ)

266 NR's problem wasn't not liking Trump....it was siding with fucking HILLARY CLINTON and the subsequent hoaxes and deep state and far leftism to get more $$$ from leftists. I hate them with the heat of 1000 sun's. They're traitors. Worse than the enemy.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at February 04, 2022 02:38 PM (ySQBZ)

267 I agree that the Contra Trump issue doomed NR. They painted themselves into a corner, and they still can't get out of it to this very day.

Posted by: Caliban at February 04, 2022 02:38 PM (HgGBT)

268 241
I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory, he said, than by the Harvard University faculty.

***

Which was always a joke because Buckley was a Connecticut Puritan and wouldn't be caught dead talking to the first 2,000 people in a telephone directory.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 02:38 PM (W3VUu)

269 On the come-up, meanwhile, are Breitbart and Bannon. And the Daily Wire. (Eh.)

And Tucker Carlson, of course, who one operative says might be the most influential right-wing pundit he's ever seen.
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Tucker has, IMO, taken over the leadership from the late, great Rush. He continues to double down, with class and intelligence, every time the corrupt media attacks him. I actually fear for his life, and not some random nutjob. After paying hundreds of millions of dollars and co-opting thousands of people to carry out this criminality, a simple assassination costs peanuts.

Steve Bannon - warroom.org - is also a leader, but a different type - he continues to push people to get involved at the local level to make real change. And he continues to piss on the CCP and the US Left (is there a difference, really?) every chance he gets.

Along with Gutfeld, who just makes fun of the left, late at night after all those clowns have gone home, are pretty much my political information sources after the Stolen Election and Coverup.

Notice I didn't mention FOX, er, FIX news. Until they get the AZ election call reversed, it's as dead as XiNN to me.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 02:38 PM (sy5kK)

270 This ain't no jive turkey

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 02:38 PM (W2Pud)

271 229 I thought all those who had lost influence had left the conservative movement years ago.

I just love those guys, they are always leaving the conservative side, but they never actually get out the door. Posted by: Ashley Judd
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Those guys are the stalker types. The lyrics of Every Breath You Take by the Police is appropriate description of their relationship with conservative rank and file.
https://youtu.be/OMOGaugKpzs

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:38 PM (Iq9dF)

272 National Review: Standing athwart history yelling "Wrong hole!"
Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 02:36 PM (W3VUu)

History: "Guess it's just not your day."

Posted by: Boswell at February 04, 2022 02:38 PM (5iUNf)

273 comes up a lil short
Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM

HOW DARE YOU! You have unleashed a social-media shaming storm the liked of which you've never weathered before!
Posted by: Peter Dinklage at February 04, 2022 02:34 PM (JCZqz)

wut, the bridges are all full, fucking rock humper

Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 02:38 PM (us2H3)

274 Some put me out of my misery now, please...in Project Manager Training, slide deck on Diversity and Inclusion. First slide..."Embrace Cognitive Diversity...antidote for groupthink..."

Irony so thick...

Posted by: Mike at February 04, 2022 02:39 PM (4ooIL)

275 244 "I know one of these "Republicans"."

One of my best friends is like that. Always (for over 40 years) very conservative and rational in temperament and thought, intelligent, well spoken, successful, etc.

But for some reason he absolutely detests Trump. Voted for Biden and loathes Trump to the point that I avoid the subject because he goes off to the point it ruins the conversation.

There are a lot of those folks around.
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There are some allegedly conservative Republicans who don't like Trump because of his personality, his lack of elitist gloss, and his gloves-off operating style, which I like to refer to as "Neo-Jacksonian". I guess they like losing elections.

Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 02:39 PM (W+kMI)

276 Heh. If successful someone will have to be able to drive it.
Posted by: Javems
___

I've watched it a half dozen times or so already, and I laugh every time.

Plus it brings back some fond memories of Iraq.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:39 PM (RU4sa)

277 The movement of these parties is a fascinating thing to watch. Infuriating, but fascinating.

It still remains as it's always been, first party to Nationalist Populist wins everything. The GOP seems to be getting dragged that way. The DNC desperately clings to a Corporatist notion that they can somehow keep everything under their control, if only they smartly control all the smart things.

They're fools. In the most well armed country in the world with this most access to information, sure, the minority will keep the majority locked down - forever - just by maximal application of minimal force at the key checkpoints.

It's the kind of bullshit plan only a room of Ivy League graduates could come up with.

Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 02:39 PM (oiGnp)

278 Nietzsche is quoted that one becomes the monster one fights. I figure the old-school conservativers just figured that becoming the monster they fought would get them a larger market share.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2022 02:39 PM (ZMraq)

279 Which was always a joke because Buckley was a Connecticut Puritan and wouldn't be caught dead talking to the first 2,000 people in a telephone directory.
==
Well, how about the Manhattan phone directory?

Not too much diversity there.

Posted by: YMMV BUT . . . at February 04, 2022 02:39 PM (vH51U)

280 dagny's back! *waves to dagny*

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 04, 2022 02:40 PM (PiwSw)

281
NR lost its importance with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Like Churchill, domestic policy bored Buckley.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 02:40 PM (/U27+)

282 The theme song for the NT/Bulwark/Dispatch types.
Warning: wildly NSFW lyrics:
https://youtu.be/qEbYaWJOPzo

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:40 PM (DU+/6)

283 I haven't heard the term, 'jive turkey' since the 70s.

Yet another thing being recycled.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:40 PM (RU4sa)

284 THIS AIN'T NO PICNIC

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=UDr25zjd4yM


RIP D. Boone

Posted by: THE MINUTEMEN at February 04, 2022 02:40 PM (WIpOf)

285 When he was in high school, Buckley was voted most likely to never ever carry a pocket knife.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 02:40 PM (W3VUu)

286 You need a plan to deal with the armed guards.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 02:37 PM (VCz/u)

If they are NYPD they won't do anything.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 04, 2022 02:40 PM (XIJ/X)

287 Some put me out of my misery now, please...in Project Manager Training, slide deck on Diversity and Inclusion. First slide..."Embrace Cognitive Diversity...antidote for groupthink..."

Irony so thick...
Posted by: Mike at February 04, 2022 02:39 PM (4ooIL)


Jeez, yesterday Archer and today you.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 02:40 PM (Ez6QX)

288
It's the kind of bullshit plan only a room of Ivy League graduates could come up with.
==
Well, to be fair, its been working since WWII was over.

Posted by: Zombie Ike at February 04, 2022 02:41 PM (g4mTX)

289 Don't hate me because of my $15K a month travelling secretary. Incel rubes.

Posted by: Wayne LaPierre at February 04, 2022 02:41 PM (sWM8x)

290 Some put me out of my misery now, please...in Project Manager Training, slide deck on Diversity and Inclusion. First slide..."Embrace Cognitive Diversity...antidote for groupthink..."

Irony so thick...

Posted by: Mike at February 04, 2022 02:39 PM (4ooIL)


hahahahahahahahahaha(gasping for air)hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Posted by: Archer at February 04, 2022 02:41 PM (gmo/4)

291 dagny's back! *waves to dagny*
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 04, 2022 02:40 PM (PiwSw)


*waves*

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at February 04, 2022 02:41 PM (ySQBZ)

292 I agree that the Contra Trump issue doomed NR.

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If you strike Trump down, he shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 04, 2022 02:41 PM (FVME7)

293 But the Smart People in the GOP, the Cruise Ship Conservatives

Not to be confused with Druid Philosophers wandering in the woods.


ace, you've got a special way with words, my man!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 02:41 PM (sy5kK)

294 If they are NYPD they won't do anything.
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Only if they're nine-year-olds with no vax pass, then they're Billy Bad Asses.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:42 PM (RU4sa)

295 268 241
I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory, he said, than by the Harvard University faculty.

***

Which was always a joke because Buckley was a Connecticut Puritan and wouldn't be caught dead talking to the first 2,000 people in a telephone directory.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 02:38 PM (W3VUu)

He's pretty clear on the point that he thought the elites of the 1960s were decadent. Remember the statement is a criticism, not an ode to having random people run the government.

He's not someone who believes CEOs shouldn't exist, he believes the CEO is an incompetent buffoon.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 02:42 PM (z5Vrg)

296 Don't trust that particular story by Axios at all.

Looks like Alt-Right, QAnon, etc. fables are beginning to resurface before spring primary and special elections.

Posted by: Lola at February 04, 2022 02:42 PM (xjz83)

297 Nietzsche is quoted that one becomes the monster one fights. I figure the old-school conservativers just figured that becoming the monster they fought would get them a larger market share.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2022 02:39 PM (ZMraq)

We should be so lucky. Instead they rolled over exposing their soft underbellies while making loud conservative noises and shunning any conservative who dared enter the fray.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 02:42 PM (SH2Zi)

298 Time was you had to read the Times and the Post to get what the leftist fucktards in this country were up to and the Economist and FT to get what the leftist fucktards in Europe and elsewhere were up to - this blog saves all that subscription graft going to the left.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 04, 2022 02:42 PM (oWBc3)

299 237 This blonde cowgirl in leather chaps doesn't let the cuck brigade influence her decision-making:
https://is.gd/Q2dBbL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:33 PM (DU+/6)


She seems nice. How much an hour?
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I think I tipped her $40 at a gentleman's club some years ago. Or was that her older sister?

Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 02:42 PM (W+kMI)

300 162 Towards what I said about Buckly, right or wrong, I believe that Breitbart was the first new kind of Conservative, Man on the Right in generations. He got so many things right, understood so many things, pointed the way so well. He was a true watershed in history.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (pnzcV)

Breitbart was a lefty before become a conservative. He knew how the left operated and what drove them crazy. What drives them crazy is to be Alinskyied and use their tactics on them.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 04, 2022 02:42 PM (I8FKK)

301 National Review hated Trump but they really amped up the hatred when he started keeping his campaign promises.

Republicans aren't supposed to do that. They're just supposed to be the old crusty guy who looks over the graveyard at night and walks around with a lantern.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 02:43 PM (W3VUu)

302 The NRA endorsed Harry Reid against a viable opponent. They were dead to me at that second.

I will take the opposite side of this argument. When the NRA endorsed Reid, they rationalized it by saying that they were a single issue organization and on that single issue, Reid had a pretty decent track record. Which was -- at the time -- true. Unfortunately for them, Reid chose pretty much that exact instant to turn his coat on the 2A. In response, the NRA ceased to be 2A focused and sold out body and soul to the GOPe. IMO, that was the beginning of the end for them as a holder of real political influence.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 04, 2022 02:43 PM (nfrXX)

303 This blonde cowgirl in leather chaps doesn't let the cuck brigade influence her decision-making:
https://is.gd/Q2dBbL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:33 PM (DU+/6)

I'm sure I could disappoint her for at least 8 seconds.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 02:43 PM (II3Gr)

304 NR: standing athwart history, shouting "get the buttah!"

Posted by: Hands at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (786Ro)

305 German artist Niclas Castello designed the cube

And here I remember drawing cubes as a child.

Posted by: spindrift at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (h5TKJ)

306 220
Now, if you've failed at that level, and you actually care about the country - wouldn't you step back and ask to follow someone else who hadn't abjectly failed?

Posted by: 18-1
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Turning a party around absent an existential crisis takes years. That is because most people justify their errors. You see the same behavior for substance abusers.

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (Iq9dF)

307 funny off topic: twitchy has a post with its title referring to "Garbage Person Brian Stelter"

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (Ynyl9)

308 First slide..."Embrace Cognitive Diversity...antidote for groupthink..."

Irony so thick...
Posted by: Mike at February 04, 2022 02:39 PM (4ooIL)

I think what leads to a lot of these incredibly stupid things being put to page is the fact that they patently REFUSE to say what they mean. Because they know deep down it's wrong and unacceptable.

If the slide said:

"Embrace Multicolored Thinkers... and Destroy Whiteness"

It would have more solidity. It's still fetid garbage but it wouldn't look so ridiculous.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (etl9f)

309 I think I tipped her $40 at a gentleman's club some years ago. Or was that her older sister?
Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 02:42 PM (W+kMI)


Prolly her mom.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (Ez6QX)

310 Secondly, Brietbart said politics is downstream from culture but if you look at what mao did as part of the cultural revolution....getting rid of "old" culture, ideas, traditions, habits to bring on a shift in allegiance, to cause a rift in generations, to be replaced with "new" stuff. This destruction of patriotism, borders, even definitions of men and women is about the New World Order.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (ySQBZ)

311 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (GYllL)

312 NYC Mayor Eric Adams, "Every day the police department, I kicked those crackers' ass, man. I was unbelievable."

https://bit.ly/3L3wDbM

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (VCz/u)

313 Do phonebooks even exist anymore?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (oWBc3)

314 NR lost its importance with the sellout to Google.

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (RHGPo)

315 Club for Growth
Daily Wire

First one is a POS

Second one - Jury's out
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:10 PM (DJFLF)

Club of Rome: a lot worse.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (P3gRi)

316 311 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (GYllL)

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Them tea leaves aren't tea, I don't think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:45 PM (LvTSG)

317 I'd be more interested in who exactly Axios talked to. "Republican insiders" doesn't instill confidence in their selection of movers and shakers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2022 02:45 PM (BFigT)

318 I will leave this here.
Been a long while since I read the lyrics.
It is really a prayer, fraught with conditionals that must be met to remain a great Nation:

https://youtu.be/ZXbbEA26Ec4

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 04, 2022 02:45 PM (ufFY8)

319 TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks


The older I get and the more easily the imbeciles get offended, the funnier Brooks movies get.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 04, 2022 02:45 PM (Vxu+H)

320 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (GYllL)
++++
Hope springs eternal for Solomon, I guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:45 PM (DU+/6)

321 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.
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Uh huh.

Whatevers.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:45 PM (RU4sa)

322 Gosh, Rick Lowry thinks it's bad thing when a campaign pushes back against hit pieces?

Or, has Lowry gotten used GOP candidates bending over and saying, "Pleas sir, may I have another!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 04, 2022 02:45 PM (5pTK/)

323 Heh, looks like victory over the grifter cons has been finalized and they have now become the kneepad class.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at February 04, 2022 02:46 PM (qZdIZ)

324 Baltimore Calls Tucker Carlson a 'Racist' for...Pointing Out Dems' Failures While Controlling the City

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 02:46 PM (RHGPo)

325 I for one would love to see Big Mike run in 2024

her comeuppance will be spectacular

but she wont dare run

Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 02:46 PM (us2H3)

326 It is really a prayer, fraught with conditionals that must be met to remain a great Nation:
___

Too late.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:46 PM (RU4sa)

327 What drives them crazy is to be Alinskyied and use their tactics on them.
==
This. I implied a plt lawyer was targeting my client because english was his second language and the plt lawyer became completely UNGLUED in rebuttal.

He lost bigly.

Posted by: sanctimonious applies to political religions also at February 04, 2022 02:46 PM (Vddis)

328 Thought when could see the link it was a top conservative site list, Ace does get in some lists every once in a while I go looking for something I never saw.

Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2022 02:46 PM (2JoB8)

329 The Gope Deep State sent Ollie North in to fix the NRA.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 02:46 PM (GYllL)

330 NR and their ilk are the right's pinched face scolds, except there is nothing "right" about them. In the end they are just leftist pinched face scolds.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 02:46 PM (VwHCD)

331 Real life intruded this morning. Did the rutabaga speechify this today?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 04, 2022 02:46 PM (2NHgQ)

332 Denise Richards?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 04, 2022 02:46 PM (oWBc3)

333 I'm sure I could disappoint her for at least 8 seconds.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 02:43 PM (II3Gr)

This reminds me of that time Don Draper asked Roger Sterling: "Roger, what do you think women want?"

Roger: "Who cares?"

Posted by: Boswell at February 04, 2022 02:47 PM (5iUNf)

334 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.


#2weeks

Posted by: davidt at February 04, 2022 02:47 PM (yDmyH)

335 So I was on GoFundMe, trying to find the $10MM fundraiser that was "paused" due to a commie Canucki MP discovering that some of the funding came from...horrors!...the USA.

I can't find the main fundraiser. However there are many other smaller fundraisers for families and such, linked to the convoy protest.

And soibois from Ottawa of course, who want to raise $100k to donate to city of Ottawa for stronger police presence. So far they have $255 in the kitty

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:47 PM (DJFLF)

336 Ottawa's Top Cop Intends To End Trucker Convoy Protest, Trudeau's Hand Seen In Crackdown

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 02:47 PM (RHGPo)

337 I was also disappointed in Charles. C.W. Cooke, who seemed to be initially solid.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 04, 2022 02:47 PM (PiwSw)

338 242 Will the stupidity never stop?

Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 02:35 PM (qpolg)


It's always nice to run into the occasional optimist.

With a forklift.

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2022 02:47 PM (F0YaR)

339 301 National Review hated Trump but they really amped up the hatred when he started keeping his campaign promises.

Republicans aren't supposed to do that. They're just supposed to be the old crusty guy who looks over the graveyard at night and walks around with a lantern.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 02:43 PM (W3VUu)

This is it, right here. I didn't like Trump at all...until he got elected. He won me over by doing what he said he would do. The only reason to resist a President Trump as opposed to a candidate Trump is that you were never a conservative to begin with.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 02:47 PM (KbCG3)

340 Rand Paul calls for "International convention of civilized countries" to look into origins of COVID-19

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 02:47 PM (RHGPo)

341 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (II3Gr)

342 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.
___

Uh huh.

Whatevers.
Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:45 PM (RU4sa)

Not "everyone". Jim Everyone. Friend of Hillary. He forgot to sign a feeb form correctly once.

Jim Everyone is the key. THE KEY I TELL YOU.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (etl9f)

343 The Daily Wire is kinda useful as a gateway drug. They're decent for baby conservatives. I don't watch/buy because they look down on people like me, but I can see their purpose. And I will always like Matt Walsh simply for his trolling ability.

Posted by: Catherine at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (ZSsrh)

344 "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket."
-- Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time


GOPe, how's my ass taste?

Posted by: DJT at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (Yr4Df)

345 That list is missing Instapundit and Ace...

Posted by: Nova local at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (exHjb)

346 Well, to be fair, its been working since WWII was over.

Sure - because convincing people to act against their own obvious, immediate best interests only works when you skew that evaluation - by showing them a "greater threat". You asked for a miracle ? I give you ... the Cold War (not the FBI).

That's what is going on, right now. The current dicks in charge do not, simply do not, have the physical means to lock down the country. So they've got to get us to lock down ourselves. How do they do that ?

Fear. Fear of a virus, or climate, or whatever the fear of the week is. And this shit is rolled out like clockwork, on a weekly basis.

Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (oiGnp)

347 I will take the opposite side of this argument. When the NRA endorsed Reid, they rationalized it by saying that they were a single issue organization and on that single issue, Reid had a pretty decent track record. Which was -- at the time -- true. Unfortunately for them, Reid chose pretty much that exact instant to turn his coat on the 2A. In response, the NRA ceased to be 2A focused and sold out body and soul to the GOPe. IMO, that was the beginning of the end for them as a holder of real political influence. Posted by: Oddbob
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Their political strategy was coming to an end anyway as the Dems party became concentrated in urban areas and among wealthy donors. Neither of those communities favor gun rights. The first group blame guns for the dead (ignoring the social pathologies that lead to gang bangers shooting each other); the wealthy have never liked gun rights for the masses because they view it as a potential threat to be squashed. They like things like NYC's very strict permitting laws which allows them guns but denies it to the unwashed.

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (Iq9dF)

348 There are some allegedly conservative Republicans who don't like Trump because of his personality, his lack of elitist gloss, and his gloves-off operating style, which I like to refer to as "Neo-Jacksonian". I guess they like losing elections.
Posted by: exdem13 at February 04, 2022 02:39 PM (W+kMI)


Trump was was feared and hated because he was not of their group, and could take influence away from them by letting people know they could stop supporting the traditional system because it clearly was not working.
The Ace's post above is proof they understood the problem from the beginning.
The fact that conservatism has been failure theater for 40 years is proof that they never really cared that it wasn't working

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (ZMraq)

349 161 Oakdale, CA puts all the unmasked kids into the gym, turns off the heat, and blocks the exits with tables.

it's fOR THe CHiLDrEn.
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Isn't this simply child abuse? Yep, teacher's unions are all about the kids (HAHAHAHA!)

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (sy5kK)

350 337 I was also disappointed in Charles. C.W. Cooke, who seemed to be initially solid.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 04, 2022 02:47 PM (PiwSw)

=======

Ace had him on his podcast more than once.

Then...things fell apart. Ace has told a story about how Cooke pretty much told him to fuck off with the idea of real conservatives getting hired by NRO.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (LvTSG)

351 NYC Mayor Eric Adams, "Every day in the police department, I kicked those crackers' ass, man. I was unbelievable."

https://bit.ly/3L3wDbM
Posted by: bonhomme

Feel the love. And I was happy to see Kaiser Wilhelm go.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (FVME7)

352 I like this:

The same lies, the same cons, the same hustles, the same grifts, the same excuses, the same scripted failures, the same stage-managed defeats, the same bait-and-switches, the same shuck-and-jives, the same venomous betrayals, the same fulminous scoldings are just not going to work time after time, cycle after cycle, year after year.



I now know that fulminous means lightning-like or thunderous or something, because it means lightning in Italian. Or thunder. Something in that ballpark.

I think it actually means lightning.

Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (0G13K)

353 341 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (II3Gr)

========

You said cometh twice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:49 PM (LvTSG)

354
Fox News
Club for Growth
Daily Wire
Ben Shapiro
Charlie Kirk
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Most of the list is "meh-to-good."

However, those five entries listed above show there's still a lot of untucking and uncucking to go.

But it's a start.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 02:49 PM (Cf/uA)

355 I think all the NTers should have to wear body cams

with live online transmission

Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 02:49 PM (us2H3)

356 They should have gone with give, send, go.

Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 02:49 PM (qpolg)

357 "A fringe wants us gone, so they pretend it's so, when they actually read us as closely as anyone."-Lowry

That there is shwishful thinking.

Posted by: mr tmz at February 04, 2022 02:49 PM (m/Gc2)

358 A Man Declared Dead by Three Doctors Woke Up Shortly Before His Autopsy

.. is his name Joe Biden ?

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 02:50 PM (RHGPo)

359 Oh boy, is this GREAT!!!!

Sincerely,

Flounder

Posted by: Biden Stercore in eius braccae at February 04, 2022 02:50 PM (0hHNz)

360 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC

***

And the Marshall of the Supreme Court will read them their rights.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 02:50 PM (W3VUu)

361 The NRA needs new leadership and a house cleaning. I haven't been a member in like 18 years.

I think though they were very effective in their day, they just have been phoning it in though the last 15 or so years.

Posted by: Blago at February 04, 2022 02:50 PM (yEz9I)

362 Jim Everyone is the key. THE KEY I TELL YOU.
Posted by: ...
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LOL

How are you doing?

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:50 PM (RU4sa)

363 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

364 340 Rand Paul calls for "International convention of civilized countries" to look into origins of COVID-19
Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 02:47 PM (RHGPo)

So that would be, what, a few former eastern bloc countries?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 02:50 PM (II3Gr)

365 Why you shouldn't carjack someone driving a big truck:

https://nitter.net/newsbanger/status/1488752391075905536

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:25 PM (RU4sa)

Excellent and excellent comment:

Remember. GET OFF THE X and fight through the ambush.

It's also an excellent illustration of getting inside the others OODA loop.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 02:50 PM (SH2Zi)

366 337 I was also disappointed in Charles. C.W. Cooke, who seemed to be initially solid.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

---------------
He is a British expat 'Tory'. Nuff said if you take a look at the normal run of the mill Tory over the pond. Class and Oxbridge should run things.

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:50 PM (Iq9dF)

367 357 "A fringe wants us gone, so they pretend it's so, when they actually read us as closely as anyone."-Lowry

That there is shwishful thinking.
Posted by: mr tmz at February 04, 2022 02:49 PM (m/Gc2)

Not if "anyone" doesn't read them.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (z5Vrg)

368 Oakdale, CA puts all the unmasked kids into the gym, turns off the heat, and blocks the exits with tables.

Which is weird, since Oakdale is California's Official Cowboy Town - it's in the Central Valley, not the Bay Area.

You'd think they'd get some pushback.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (I2/tG)

369 In other words, legacy media is shit.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

370 >>> This blonde cowgirl in leather chaps doesn't let the cuck brigade influence her decision-making:

*ahem *

Ass-less chaps, if you please. It's in the style guide.

Posted by: fluffy at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (UnQlg)

371 Don't be an animal

Posted by: Gomjabber at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (gx8aE)

372 the ones who were sure that the public would never revolt, and that there would never come an avatar for their reckoning, continue babbling to each other in their every-shrinking huddles, always asking: "Will this month be the month when they all regain their senses and beg us to lead them again? Don't they realize that they need us, The Smart People, the people who have been wrong about literally everything for at least twenty fucking years, to tell them what to think?"
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You summed up the Clinton's well

Posted by: kotter at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (wDRv7)

373 "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket."
-- Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time


We're a step beyond Hoffer now.

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, devolves into a racket, and finally degenerates into a cover for getting one's hands on those delicious, sexy children.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (3YVs3)

374
Rich Lowry looks like Butt-Head.

Don't read the "wisdom" of Butt-Head.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (Cf/uA)

375 I will take the opposite side of this argument. When the NRA endorsed Reid, they rationalized it by saying that they were a single issue organization and on that single issue, Reid had a pretty decent track record. Which was -- at the time -- true. Unfortunately for them, Reid chose pretty much that exact instant to turn his coat on the 2A. In response, the NRA ceased to be 2A focused and sold out body and soul to the GOPe. IMO, that was the beginning of the end for them as a holder of real political influence.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 04, 2022 02:43 PM (nfrXX)


When Reid trurned on the NRA, they realized they had no influence on Reid or the rest of the "Modern" Democrat Party. Knowing they had no other suitors, the Republicans coopted them.

I do not know if the NRA was corrupted by the Establishment Republicans, or by their internal people's own greed. But i believe the NRA was corrupted, and has not done enough to end the corruption.

Posted by: rd at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (Z32m1)

376 I now know that fulminous means lightning-like or thunderous or something, because it means lightning in Italian. Or thunder. Something in that ballpark.

I think it actually means lightning.
==
Fulminate of mercury.

Fulminates are a type of chemistry that is unstable. Violent explosions.

Posted by: You are correct as usual Mind if I Fulminate at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (vH51U)

377 A Man Declared Dead by Three Doctors Woke Up Shortly Before His Autopsy
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Gotta wonder about these doctors nowadays.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (RU4sa)

378 You said cometh twice.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:49 PM (LvTSG)

I liketh to cometh.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Wrecker. Hoarder. at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (II3Gr)

379 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)


Are you in a better mood today? You were mean to me yesterday.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (Ez6QX)

380 332 Denise Richards?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindicatorem at February 04, 2022 02:46 PM (oWBc3)

----
You drive a hard bargain, but ok!

Posted by: 496 at February 04, 2022 02:52 PM (U1eOr)

381 >>A Man Declared Dead by Three Doctors Woke Up Shortly Before His Autopsy


So. 1 less Covid death on the books?

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:52 PM (WIpOf)

382
Mercury fulminate is fun shit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 02:52 PM (Cf/uA)

383 It's true.
Unless it's his own White Base or when Ivanka has Teh Sadz.

Posted by: Trump is all bark and zero bite at February 04, 2022 02:52 PM (WdQMQ)

384 >>>Then...things fell apart. Ace has told a story about how Cooke pretty much told him to fuck off with the idea of real conservatives getting hired by NRO.

oh I don't know if he said that, really. I mean, I did mention to him he'd hired every NeverTrumper on Twitter in the lead up to 2016, but I don't think he said he would never hire a real conservative. I'm not sure he had any answer or what he said in reply.

what I would say to him, which I did not say, is that all of these corporate clowns hire off an approved list, and the approved list is all people who are Polite Company Conservatives who are pretty liberal. At least liberal in the big ways: liberal as regards race, sex, gender, sexual attraction. These guys can't hire anyone would dream of crossing the left on their Red Line issues.

I did not say that, and if I had said it, of course he would have denied it, it's not like he would have agreed and said 'you got me." but of course that's all true.

Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 02:52 PM (0G13K)

385 The funniest part is all Trump does that these people supposedly object to is use the Left's own tactics against them. "He's crass". Have you MET the mainstream Left? They brutalized Palins underage kids daily, and called the Tea Party "teabaggers". Obama called Palin a pig.

So they support the Left who have been using these tactics against America/conservatives all their lives. But not Trump who used the Left's tactics against them for a few years. Fuck them with Mike Obama's member.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 02:52 PM (etl9f)

386 The Daily Wire is kinda useful as a gateway drug. They're decent for baby conservatives. I don't watch/buy because they look down on people like me, but I can see their purpose. And I will always like Matt Walsh simply for his trolling ability.
Posted by: Catherine at February 04, 2022 02:48 PM (ZSsrh)
************
Love Matt Walsh. I know a few liberals that I introduced to the Daily Wire and Prager U as a starting point. They are now conservatives.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2022 02:52 PM (NpAcC)

387 Remember. GET OFF THE X and fight through the ambush.
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We called it, "get out of the kill zone".

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (RU4sa)

388 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.
====
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJK6yfx9AK4
Promises Promises

Posted by: Naked Eyes at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (KVS3s)

389 Crenshaw is defending Cheney and calling the censure, "dumb stuff."

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (VCz/u)

390 356 They should have gone with give, send, go.

Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 02:49 PM (qpolg)


I was stunned at the amt of money they were able to raise through GoFundMe, and that it didn't shut the fundraiser down prior.

I guess no one took the convoy seriously

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (DJFLF)

391
A Man Declared Dead by Three Doctors Woke Up Shortly Before His Autopsy

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Well, that's nice. Better than waking up just after they cut a fuckin' Y in your chest.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (Cf/uA)

392 384 I did not say that, and if I had said it, of course he would have denied it, it's not like he would have agreed and said 'you got me." but of course that's all true.

Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 02:52 PM (0G13K)

=========

He was always one of my favorite guests on your podcast.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (LvTSG)

393 Growing up in a small town, the local Chamber of Commerce was concerned with business development and actual local commerce. Apple pie America. The problem with the US Chamber of Commerce is they became uninterested in apple pie and grew to love burritos and kung pao chicken. Import workers from Mexico and export factories to China. American workers be d@mned.

Posted by: Paladin at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (rzEiT)

394 If Cooke didn't have the accent, he'd be serving Hot Fogs in Central Park, alongside Chris Hayes.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (WIpOf)

395 I've seen a few videos on how scared people were in the 1800s of being buried alive. And with good reason, because it did happen. One guy had a shaft with a glass window down to his coffin so you could see his face. Maybe we'll have to go back to that.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (5HBd1)

396 You don't need a "special interest" group to represent your beliefs if 75% of the people already agree with you.

Well, if those 75% understand that they’re in the majority. We owe a huge debt to those who led the member revolt in 1977. The then-leadership of the NRA seemed perfectly happy to manage the decline like orgs in other countries were.

The best time to fight is when you’re in the majority, and the NRA revolt meant we started fighting after we’d lost a lot of rights, but before we’d lost the majority.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 04, 2022 02:54 PM (CX3cf)

397 >>Oakdale, CA puts all the unmasked kids into the gym, turns off the heat, and blocks the exits with tables.

Isn't that kidnapping? Fire code breaking?

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 02:54 PM (GYllL)

398 How are you doing?
Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:50 PM (RU4sa)

I'm doing okay. Rough week but better today. Thanks. Hope you and family are well.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 02:54 PM (etl9f)

399 >>Crenshaw is defending Cheney and calling the censure, "dumb stuff."


He hath one eye, but can not see.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:54 PM (WIpOf)

400 Crenshaw is defending Cheney and calling the censure, "dumb stuff."
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Bless his one-eyed heart.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:54 PM (RU4sa)

401 A Man Declared Dead by Three Doctors Woke Up Shortly Before His Autopsy

Well, that's nice. Better than waking up just after they cut a fuckin' Y in your chest.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice


Can you imagine the screaming when they did?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2022 02:54 PM (Hica+)

402 *waves hand*
These aren't the jive turkeys you're looking for.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 04, 2022 02:55 PM (W2Pud)

403 The NRA lost power, I imagine, due purely to its internal political and legal struggles, not because of the party shifting its ideology on the Second Amendment.


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The NRA will literally sell out every other right.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2022 02:55 PM (517nA)

404 Growing up in a small town, the local Chamber of Commerce was concerned with business development and actual local commerce. Apple pie America. The problem with the US Chamber of Commerce is they became uninterested in apple pie and grew to love burritos and kung pao chicken. Import workers from Mexico and export factories to China. American workers be d@mned.
Posted by: Paladin at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (rzEiT)
++++
Your food metaphors are an example of the exoticism and otherization that is so typical of the cultural appropriation and ethnocentrism of the typical American.

Be better, Paladin.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:55 PM (DU+/6)

405 399 >>Crenshaw is defending Cheney and calling the censure, "dumb stuff."


He hath one eye, but can not see.
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:54 PM (WIpOf)

==========

Dear lord I hope he loses his primary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 04, 2022 02:55 PM (LvTSG)

406 How can they possibly defend Liz Cheney? The Republicans in WY have censored her. She doesn't represent them and she's sucking up to the Dems. Crenshaw needs to go.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 04, 2022 02:55 PM (5HBd1)

407 Video of Dutch journalist getting busted.

https://bit.ly/34vnp7s

Is it just me or are people who can't speak English stupid?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 04, 2022 02:55 PM (FVME7)

408 I've seen a few videos on how scared people were in the 1800s of being buried alive. And with good reason, because it did happen. One guy had a shaft with a glass window down to his coffin so you could see his face. Maybe we'll have to go back to that.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (5HBd1)


Coworker was telling me yesterday about how her mom was in a car accident and woke up in the morgue. This was about 40 years ago.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 02:55 PM (Ez6QX)

409 361 The NRA needs new leadership and a house cleaning. I haven't been a member in like 18 years.

I think though they were very effective in their day, they just have been phoning it in though the last 15 or so years.

Posted by: Blago
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Today's NRA is actually arguably better than the pre Knox rebellion in the late seventies that put LaPierre in the saddle. LaPierre's background btw was a rural Dem activist from Virginia. At the time of the rebellion, the NRA supported the GCA of 1968 among other disasters. So, a NRA meeting ended up with the board deposed and new leadership.

But that leadership more or less has drawn up the bridge over the moat and become an insular self dealing group because LaPierre and the board set it up where it would be difficult if not impossible to remove them by what Knox and others did (at Cincinnati?) at a convention business meeting.

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:55 PM (Iq9dF)

410 >>>I was also disappointed in Charles. C.W. Cooke, who seemed to be initially solid.


well he's a libertarian not a conservative, and I think that's fine, but you know, at some point, a magazine supposedly serving the conservative movement has to hire some actual conservatives. It can't all be libertarians and Yuppie corporatists and rightish-leaning liberals and angry obese contrarian nihilists like KDW and dissident liberals and "reformatarians" and whatever gay shit Ramesh Ponuru is.

Posted by: ace at February 04, 2022 02:55 PM (0G13K)

411 389 Crenshaw is defending Cheney and calling the censure, "dumb stuff."

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (VCz/u)

True Conservative (TM) Crenshaw says it is dumb? Well, consider my mind changed!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 02:55 PM (TDj17)

412 There are some allegedly conservative Republicans who don't like Trump because of his personality, his lack of elitist gloss, and his gloves-off operating style, which I like to refer to as "Neo-Jacksonian". I guess they like losing elections.

I don't know if you should call them conservative - that word doesn't mean anything to me, it's over used. But you can definitely call them Republicans.

There is a broad subset of that political space that insists - to this day - that everything will be all right if you just keep calm and grog on. They're fools. They never make it off the Titanic. But they'll sure as shit bitch to everyone around them about running in the hallways.

Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 02:55 PM (oiGnp)

413 Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at February 04, 2022 02:42 PM (I8FKK)

Another long missed nic appears. *waves*

Posted by: GnuBreed at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (F0YaR)

414 299 237 This blonde cowgirl in leather chaps doesn't let the cuck brigade influence her decision-making:
https://is.gd/Q2dBbL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:33 PM (DU+/6)

Big hands.

Posted by: Javems at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (AmoqO)

415 This lovely daughter of a rancher with a 700 acre ranch in NM
has heard of vaguely of National Review, but has never read it, and dislikes token conservatives who treat her badly:

tinyurl.com/fxwnde3u

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (dprVF)

416 Speaking of shitty websites, can someone ask the Daily Caller if they can run some more ads on their page?

Man, what a horrible website..

Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (W3VUu)

417 "Like many of you, I was beside myself from around 2008 to 2014 as I kept screaming into the wind that the GOP establishment, and its Beta Orbiter grifter class, cannot continue giving the finger to the actual members of the GOP, the actual people who write the checks and cast the votes...."

I can still remember that smug society-matron type with the troweled-on makeup from the 2012 primary season and her smug, "We know who it is who will be our nominee...." (referring to Slick Willard Rombley).

Posted by: Rowsdower Continues to Insist Ashli Babbitt is Crispus Attucks and Michael Byrd is Lon Horiuchi at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (P/ALc)

418 I'm doing okay. Rough week but better today. Thanks. Hope you and family are well.
Posted by: ...
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Doing fine.
Hub has a five-day weekend, courtesy of the weather, and the girls and g-babies are doing fine, though eldest daughter in CenTex isn't happy with the ice and cold there.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (RU4sa)

419 The nra turned into a racket for the benefit of the nra. The nra has been irrelevant for quite some time. Nobody serious sends money or listens to the nra. The 2a community will be better off when the nra is dead.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (0OmEj)

420 Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 02:52 PM (etl9f)

Trump used the same tactics because he's personally the same as them. We are just fortunate they went after him immediately.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (Kz9dH)

421 Posted by: Kurt at February 04, 2022 02:23 PM (4+C5k)

Just as you are the retail arm of the North American Man-Boy Love Association.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (P3gRi)

422 I have to chime in on Tucker. Not for me, but for the fact that my 22 year old marxist wannabe daughter watches him at the gym every night.

And then comes home and watches again so she can hear it too.

I don't know how much of it is getting through to her, or moving her off her marxist view of the world, but I see it as a tremendously good sign.

Posted by: deadrody at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (/jrmI)

423 I've seen a few videos on how scared people were in the 1800s of being buried alive. And with good reason, because it did happen. One guy had a shaft with a glass window down to his coffin so you could see his face. Maybe we'll have to go back to that.
==
nah. Just insist on an autopsy before they plant you.

Posted by: not to worry . . . at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (FjGa4)

424 I was also disappointed in Charles. C.W. Cooke, who seemed to be initially solid.

I didn’t even know Cooke was at National Review. I saw his name come up in regards to something really stupid he said or did several days ago (I don’t remember what), and only remembered that he writes often for the NRA mag America’s 1st Freedom.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (CX3cf)

425 83 You just had to do it, didn't you. . . . .rip our f-g throats out like a zipper. . . . . .yes. . . there are days. . . . . . . . .

Posted by: Toss another Globalist TechRat log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (5DfsO)

426 Crenshaw is defending Cheney and calling the censure, "dumb stuff."

And in return, Liz is going to do some "butt stuff" with me.

I hope she uses lube this time though.

Posted by: Dan "Can't Walk Straight" Crenshaw at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (ESjRY)

427 >>well he's a libertarian not a conservative,


Political Agnostics. Libertarianism is a joke.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (WIpOf)

428 Random: This just in, after complaints about old-fashioned Manchin calling female aides "Babe", Manchin will now refer to all female aides as "Beeyotch".

Posted by: Meremortal at February 04, 2022 02:57 PM (Bwqq4)

429
And while I generally like Owens, the Charlie Kirk connection makes me deeply suspicious of her, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 04, 2022 02:57 PM (Cf/uA)

430 Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (5HBd1)

"All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive." - Lord Chesterfield, 1769.

"Have me decently buried, but do not let my body be put into a vault in less than two days after I am dead." - deathbed request of George Washington.

"Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive."- Frederic Chopin's last words.

Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:57 PM (DJFLF)

431 >>700 acre ranch


Barely over one section, that's not a ranch.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2022 02:57 PM (WIpOf)

432
Are you in a better mood today? You were mean to me yesterday.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (Ez6QX)



Wait....what?

I didn't think I was mean.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

433 >>Crenshaw is defending Cheney and calling the censure, "dumb stuff."


Very short sighted

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 04, 2022 02:58 PM (M+Lyo)

434 415 This lovely daughter of a rancher with a 700 acre ranch in NM
has heard of vaguely of National Review, but has never read it, and dislikes token conservatives who treat her badly:

tinyurl.com/fxwnde3u
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (dprVF)

When asked the worst date she's ever been on, she said, "Must've been that time I gutshot that young man for not opening my car door."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 02:58 PM (KbCG3)

435 Ace,

Look at what the Ottawa Police are saying on Twitter and in Press Conferences.

They are going full KGB on the truckers "and their supporters." I think they are going to do a full January 6 FBI "Arrest and Detain" of the truckers after they disperse and go home.

https://twitter.com/Orwells_Ghost_/ status/1489614178797064192

Posted by: rd at February 04, 2022 02:58 PM (Z32m1)

436 Towards what I said about Buckly, right or wrong, I believe that Breitbart was the first new kind of Conservative, Man on the Right in generations. He got so many things right, understood so many things, pointed the way so well. He was a true watershed in history.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 02:27 PM (pnzcV)

I never was a big fan of Buckley because I always saw him as an elitist and hostile to 'flyover country' Republicans. I just note that he was hostile to the Goldwater campaign and his biggest claim to fame was going after the John Birch Society in lockstep with the mainstream who had concerns about Communists in government, Judicial overreach by the Warren commission like banning prayer in schools and allowing communists first protection rights. Was he right to do so? Perhaps, but I don't remember him toppling any left wing organization in his life.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 02:58 PM (eoQWY)

437 I will take the opposite side of this argument. When the NRA endorsed Reid, they rationalized it by saying that they were a single issue organization and on that single issue, Reid had a pretty decent track record. Which was -- at the time -- true. Unfortunately for them, Reid chose pretty much that exact instant to turn his coat on the 2A. In response, the NRA ceased to be 2A focused and sold out body and soul to the GOPe. IMO, that was the beginning of the end for them as a holder of real political influence.
Posted by: Oddbob
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The problem with that calculation is Reid was terrible on anti-2A judges. So it just doesn't hold water.

I had a hard time ever really supporting the NRA after that and I actually do think it's partly why he was able to hang on in Nevada. That and we had a shit candidate to run against him.

Posted by: Blago at February 04, 2022 02:58 PM (yEz9I)

438 > John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.

The self immolation of these people is truly astounding.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2022 02:58 PM (BFigT)

439 >>>>Crenshaw is defending Cheney and calling the censure, "dumb stuff."


He doesn't give two shits what anyone thinks. He's made his millions by insider trading and I'm sure a 'book deal." He knows he's out and again, could fucking care less.


Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 02:58 PM (GYllL)

440 388 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.


yeah yeah I know ... but ... things are really weird lately, aren't they?

at this point nothing would surprise me.

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 04, 2022 02:58 PM (j9HX3)

441 67 Disagree. Club for Growth has been pretty pro-Trump and has endorsed and funded a lot of Trump republicans running for federal office.

Posted by: Liberty at February 04, 2022 02:13 PM (ZIEQl)

well then my limpdikk cuckservative senator Toomey didn't get the memo. Toomey is a Club for Growth production. And was VERY vocal about the 2020 election being legit.
Posted by: kallisto at February 04, 2022 02:17 PM (DJFLF)

Well they also funded Scott Perry who objected to the steal.

Posted by: Liberty at February 04, 2022 02:58 PM (ZIEQl)

442
He's the mastermind at the center of the web. He's the one the heroes discover after working their way through multiple layers of front organizations and bad guys.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 04, 2022 02:30 PM (wmDcS)


I never knew that Keyser Soze was an Ewok. But it's an awesome cover identity for a ruthless crime lord.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 04, 2022 02:59 PM (n+4am)

443 This is good news. It's high time we jettisoned these grifters for good. They have no use for us, and we have no use for them.

They can post love articles to Crenshaw and Collins from here on out.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 02:59 PM (XSRBF)

444 419 The nra turned into a racket for the benefit of the nra. The nra has been irrelevant for quite some time. Nobody serious sends money or listens to the nra. The 2a community will be better off when the nra is dead.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (0OmEj)

Wish my local gun range would see this. To be a member of the range, NRA membership is mandatory.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 04, 2022 02:59 PM (N39Ws)

445 the elite cons must feel a lil like Merrick Garland

after a lifetime of posing and the ill begotten chalice of power within their reach

the righteous snatch it away

Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 02:59 PM (us2H3)

446 428 Random: This just in, after complaints about old-fashioned Manchin calling female aides "Babe", Manchin will now refer to all female aides as "Beeyotch".
Posted by: Meremortal at February 04, 2022 02:57 PM (Bwqq4)

Just learned it from Snoop D-O-Double G

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 02:59 PM (TDj17)

447 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.

Well, what if Steiner did come?

Posted by: Some Fuhrer at February 04, 2022 02:59 PM (ESjRY)

448 I didn't think I was mean.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)


You said I wasn't a nice person!

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 02:59 PM (Ez6QX)

449 Crenshaw is defending Cheney and calling the censure, "dumb stuff."
___

Bless his one-eyed heart.
Posted by: SMH

Much purging needs to be accomplished.

Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 03:00 PM (qpolg)

450 >>>well then my limpdikk cuckservative senator Toomey didn't get the memo. Toomey is a Club for Growth production. And was VERY vocal about the 2020 election being legit.
Posted by: kallisto


I wish he wasn't resigning, so I could see him get trounced in the primary. As worthless as Specter was.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:00 PM (XSRBF)

451 388 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.

Yeah, sure. If we see 5 arrests I'd be surprised.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 04, 2022 03:00 PM (N39Ws)

452 Trump used the same tactics because he's personally the same as them. We are just fortunate they went after him immediately.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (Kz9dH)

The Left are rabble rousers. He's been around them all his life and he understands their ways.

Once you see them for what they really are, it's easy. The whole veneer of moral scolding is essentially a giant joke to them. They use every technique imaginable to get an edge.

I think a lot of us are awake to it now but there's still some that don't quite understand how funny the Left thinks everything is, and how much pleasure they get from being vicious bullies.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:00 PM (etl9f)

453 >>> 389 World Economic Forum (aka commie shitbag aka "great" "resetter") Young Leader Crenshaw is defending Cheney and calling the censure, "dumb stuff."

Posted by: bonhomme at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (VCz/u)

Posted by: AoS Style Guide at February 04, 2022 03:00 PM (llON8)

454 And the Marshall of the Supreme Court will read them their rights.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 02:50 PM (W3VUu)



That reminds me...Who was that goofy woman, and what happened to her? I could never tell if she was serious or not about what the "Marshall of the Supreme Court" was going to do.

Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 03:00 PM (FJYfm)

455 Bless his one-eyed heart.

He is...no man.

Posted by: Some Odysseus at February 04, 2022 03:00 PM (ESjRY)

456 Wish my local gun range would see this. To be a member of the range, NRA membership is mandatory.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 04, 2022 02:59 PM (N39Ws)
------------

In order to shoot High Power matches, and then purchase an M1 Garand from CMP, I needed to be a member of the NRA.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 04, 2022 03:00 PM (5pTK/)

457 433 >>Crenshaw is defending Cheney and calling the censure, "dumb stuff."


Very short sighted
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 04, 2022 02:58 PM (M+Lyo)

later, he'll patch things over

Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 03:00 PM (us2H3)

458 415 This lovely daughter of a rancher with a 700 acre ranch in NM
has heard of vaguely of National Review, but has never read it, and dislikes token conservatives who treat her badly:

tinyurl.com/fxwnde3u
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Nicely done

Posted by: 7man at February 04, 2022 03:00 PM (qwO6y)

459 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJK6yfx9AK4
Promises Promises
Posted by: Naked Eyes

I like this better.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DpKAnp5Klzw

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 04, 2022 03:01 PM (FVME7)

460
You said I wasn't a nice person!
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 02:59 PM (Ez6QX)



No....I just asked "Who says" you're a nice person. I didn't say you weren't one.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

461 "If Trump runs again he's not only the best, most conservative president I've ever seen in real life, but probably the bravest man, too."

He has the momentum, and money, and strong base. That report that he supported Ivanka's friend (Democrat?) over the apparent MAGA choice in TN-5 is rather disturbing though. There have been so many times he picked people that were openly against his agenda ...

(yeah, he had limited choices, but often he had much better choices ... Trump was indeed the one to face up to DeepState and reveal their criminality, and I imagine he will be The One for 2024 ... long time away though)

Posted by: illiniwek at February 04, 2022 03:01 PM (Cus5s)

462 Yeah, sure. If we see 5 arrests I'd be surprised.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 04, 2022 03:00 PM (N39Ws)

Be lucky to get 1, and it will be lifetime civil servant middle management dude for failing to properly file a report correctly.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric (iPad) at February 04, 2022 03:01 PM (TDj17)

463 449 Crenshaw is defending Cheney and calling the censure, "dumb stuff."
___

Bless his one-eyed heart.
Posted by: SMH

Much purging needs to be accomplished.
Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 03:00 PM (qpolg)

The interesting part is, he's an unprincipled piece of shit who has made millions with his insider trading. He could basically take any position he wants and get re-elected. So why does he defend Cheney while scolding his supporters?

To ask is to answer. Fuck him, in particular.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 03:01 PM (KbCG3)

464 This lovely daughter of a rancher with a 700 acre ranch in NM
has heard of vaguely of National Review, but has never read it, and dislikes token conservatives who treat her badly:

tinyurl.com/fxwnde3u
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 04, 2022 02:56 PM (dprVF)

When asked the worst date she's ever been on, she said, "Must've been that time I gutshot that young man for not opening my car door."
==
Asked what turned her on she replied: correcting the manners of the ungentlemanly and commenting on the slovenly dress of other women.

Posted by: get real at February 04, 2022 03:01 PM (ytGNE)

465 >>>You said I wasn't a nice person!

Posted by: Jordan61


Never met you, but you don't seem like a bad person.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:01 PM (XSRBF)

466 well he's a libertarian not a conservative, and I think that's fine, but you know, at some point, a magazine supposedly serving the conservative movement has to hire some actual conservatives. It can't all be libertarians and Yuppie corporatists and rightish-leaning liberals and angry obese contrarian nihilists like KDW and dissident liberals and "reformatarians" and whatever gay shit Ramesh Ponuru is.

****

My favorite part of National Review during the Obama years was seeing every article from them concerning Obama always including the obligatory paragraph about how smart Obama was.

"He's completely off track with this socialized healthcare. It's weird that despite his giant brain and stunning intellect combined with his dapper manner he can't see that this is the wrong path."

Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 03:01 PM (W3VUu)

467 Yeah, sure. If we see 5 arrests I'd be surprised.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
___

One would leave me gobsmacked.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 03:01 PM (RU4sa)

468 Turning a party around absent an existential crisis takes years. That is because most people justify their errors. You see the same behavior for substance abusers.
Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (Iq9dF)


Excuses and justifications are a way of saying "I know I messed up, HOWEVER, this is why it was OK for me to mess up, so it really isn't a problem, right?"

I don't even like atonement, that is almost as bad. Sure, you are guilty, now stop wasting my time and FIX IT!!

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2022 03:02 PM (ZMraq)

469 Heritage can still put out some solid stuff but yeah its overall a disaster these days, and for what??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:02 PM (KZzsI)

470 No....I just asked "Who says" you're a nice person. I didn't say you weren't one.
Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)


It was implied. Jive turkey.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:02 PM (Ez6QX)

471 Step 1 of an autopsy should be setting off an alarm clock.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:02 PM (etl9f)

472 One would leave me gobsmacked.
Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 03:01 PM (RU4sa)
------------

You too?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 04, 2022 03:02 PM (5pTK/)

473 This lovely daughter of a rancher with a 700 acre ranch in NM
has heard of vaguely of National Review, but has never read it, and dislikes token conservatives who treat her badly:

tinyurl.com/fxwnde3u
Posted by: FenelonSpoke



Bringin' the heat!

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

474 Political Agnostics. Libertarianism is a joke.

On your side of the fence - I don't care what goes on. On my side of the fence - I don't care about your opinion on what goes on. The fence can't be strong enough.

I've always considered myself a republican and libertarian.

Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 03:02 PM (oiGnp)

475 377 A Man Declared Dead by Three Doctors Woke Up Shortly Before His Autopsy
___

Gotta wonder about these doctors nowadays.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:51 PM (RU4sa)

++++

LOL! That's about as bad as it gets, nightmare-wise.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 04, 2022 03:02 PM (pmhDC)

476
It was implied. Jive turkey.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:02 PM (Ez6QX)



Thou shalt not bring false implication.

Posted by: Sponge - Death Sucks at February 04, 2022 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

477 Never met you, but you don't seem like a bad person.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
___

She is.

Much nicer than me.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 03:02 PM (RU4sa)

478 415 This lovely daughter of a rancher with a 700 acre ranch in NM
has heard of vaguely of National Review, but has never read it, and dislikes token conservatives who treat her badly:

tinyurl.com/fxwnde3u
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Love the look of a woman in boots.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 04, 2022 03:03 PM (N39Ws)

479 >>>To ask is to answer. Fuck him, in particular.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer


I sincerely hope Texas dumps this clown, but Crenshaw will lull the voters into another term.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:03 PM (XSRBF)

480 I hate to say it, but I agree with Crenshaw. This censure stuff is political theater. You're not kicking them out? You're not throwing them off committees? But you want to be able to go back home for the primaries and brag about how you stood up to those bullies on the J6 Committee.

Yeah, bite me.

Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 03:03 PM (FJYfm)

481 Crenshaw's fav movie

Posted by: REDACTED at February 04, 2022 03:03 PM (us2H3)

482
The NRA has an agreement with the progressives to use opposition to each other for raising money but not actually do anything.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:03 PM (/U27+)

483 On your side of the fence - I don't care what goes on. On my side of the fence - I don't care about your opinion on what goes on. The fence can't be strong enough.

I've always considered myself a republican and libertarian.
Posted by: Nome de Plume

Them is fightin words

Posted by: Nome de guerre at February 04, 2022 03:03 PM (qwO6y)

484 Never met you, but you don't seem like a bad person.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:01 PM (XSRBF)


Thank you, Wyatt. And you seem like a good guy. For a cop.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:03 PM (Ez6QX)

485 The people in the Second Box have already lost their influence. The reason why is because they aspire to be in the First Box.

Posted by: Slapweasel at February 04, 2022 03:03 PM (Ckg4U)

486 Agree with most of the other comments that Rogan is hardly conservative.

His single drawback from an idealogical standpoint is that he'll basically agree with whoever he has on the show. One day he's nodding along with Jordan Peterson, the next he's agreeing with some pure leftist twit.

The best you can say about Rogan is that he seems to reflect REALITY. And reality trends to the right. So as things are going now, he can't help himself but to continue to be curious about the failures of every leftist institution in the country and why they never accept any responsibility and the media keeps covering for them.

He seems to have been minimally red pilled, but only a little

Posted by: deadrody at February 04, 2022 03:03 PM (/jrmI)

487 >>>She is.

Much nicer than me.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy


Not possible. You're 1 and Jordan is 1a.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:03 PM (XSRBF)

488 The White House Throws Fauci "Under the Bus":
Jen Psaki Claims The Biden Administration Has "Not Been Pro-Lockdown"

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (RHGPo)

489 >>>Thank you, Wyatt. And you seem like a good guy. For a cop.

Posted by: Jordan61


Once you ignore all the dead hookers, I'm pretty sweet.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (XSRBF)

490 480 I hate to say it, but I agree with Crenshaw. This censure stuff is political theater. You're not kicking them out? You're not throwing them off committees? But you want to be able to go back home for the primaries and brag about how you stood up to those bullies on the J6 Committee.

Yeah, bite me.
Posted by: Wally at February 04, 2022 03:03 PM (FJYfm)

Yes but he's saying it's dumb for the exact opposite reason you are.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (KbCG3)

491 32.
Yes, that was my feeling too. The GOP knows that they shouldn't follow the COC but they would do it if they thought they could get away with it.
Kind of like the dog won't drink out of the toilet only if you're there to yell 'bad dog!'

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (JTztk)

492 383 It's true.
Unless it's his own White Base or when Ivanka has Teh Sadz.
Posted by: Trump is all bark and zero bite at February 04, 2022 02:52 PM (WdQMQ)
--

So, is this one of the first leftie trolls for 2022, or is it one of those 2020 leftie trolls still waiting to get paid?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (sy5kK)

493 Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 03:01 PM (W3VUu)

You're on a roll today.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (etl9f)

494 USCC came out against Cap & Trade. They sent a black man to testify to Congress and he was called everything but Uncle Tom by black Democrats. San Fran Nan said USCC was funded by Russians. I think the first time Karl Rove used his white board was to write NADA on it, that being the amount of evidence Nan had of that. Rove and the USCC we're well liked and they pissed it all away.

Posted by: Hurricane567 at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (polxd)

495 I forgot about Small Dead Animals.

It's all about the truckers now. Duh.

Posted by: klaftern at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (taPSh)

496 what is this drudge report you refer to

Posted by: sound awake at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (Er0UY)

497 482
The NRA has an agreement with the progressives to use opposition to each other for raising money but not actually do anything.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:03 PM (/U27+)

Exactly. What ever possessed them to incorporate in NY State? A state so hostile to the 2A?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (N39Ws)

498 NOOD useless lockdowns.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 04, 2022 03:04 PM (Ez6QX)

499
tinyurl.com/fxwnde3u
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

________

Purty

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 04, 2022 03:05 PM (/U27+)

500 Some courts still work:

@BNONews
·
4m
BREAKING: Lawyer Michael Avenatti found guilty of defrauding porn star Stormy Daniels, faces up to 20 years in prison

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 04, 2022 03:05 PM (zWpOF)

501 That reminds me...Who was that goofy woman, and what happened to her? I could never tell if she was serious or not about what the "Marshall of the Supreme Court" was going to do.

****

Louise Mensch.

Her internal dialogue is a circus calliope being played backwards.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 04, 2022 03:05 PM (W3VUu)

502 I wish Boebert was more vocal.

Kari Lake is another up and comer, time will tell.

Posted by: Infidel at February 04, 2022 03:05 PM (qpolg)

503 Pentagon: Deadly Afghan airport attack was not preventable

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 03:05 PM (RHGPo)

504 Once you ignore all the dead hookers, I'm pretty sweet.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
__

LOL

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 03:05 PM (RU4sa)

505 I'm sure it got said upthread, but there's a depth to this here webzine that most of those "influential" folks don't have, but I think we all understand how this transition has occurred. And here's ol' ace summarizing it as clearly as anyone.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2022 03:05 PM (YV6PJ)

506 This blonde cowgirl in leather chaps doesn't let the cuck brigade influence her decision-making:
https://is.gd/Q2dBbL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:33 PM (DU+/6)

Fitting thats she's sitting on an Iron Horse ( Harley, for those in Rio Linda)

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2022 03:05 PM (VwHCD)

507 >>>BREAKING: Lawyer Michael Avenatti found guilty of defrauding porn star Stormy Daniels, faces up to 20 years in prison

Posted by: weft cut-loop


SPLOOSH!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 04, 2022 03:05 PM (XSRBF)

508 >>> 435 Ace,

Look at what the Ottawa Police are saying on Twitter and in Press Conferences.

They are going full KGB on the truckers "and their supporters." I think they are going to do a full January 6 FBI "Arrest and Detain" of the truckers after they disperse and go home.

https://twitter.com/Orwells_Ghost_/ status/1489614178797064192
Posted by: rd at February 04, 2022 02:58 PM (Z32m1)

Interesting. Ottowa is a *city*, not even a province, and the PD thinks they have universal jurisdiction? Not that laws matter there any more than here, now, but... "sporty time" might begin when some local PD decides to assert *their* authority by arresting the Ottowa PD for false arrest, general dickheadedness and anything else they can think of.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2022 03:06 PM (llON8)

509 On your side of the fence - I don't care what goes on. On my side of the fence - I don't care about your opinion on what goes on. The fence can't be strong enough.

I've always considered myself a republican and libertarian.
Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 03:02 PM (oiGnp)

By the time your neighbors are communists, it's too late to fight back.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 04, 2022 03:06 PM (z5Vrg)

510 I've always considered myself a republican and libertarian.
Posted by: Nome de Plume
===

Hate to tell you, libertarian is closer to a leftist than anything else.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (iDcra)

511 tinyurl.com/fxwnde3u
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

She seems nice.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (etl9f)

512 All y'all are free to pick on Jordan whereas I have to be careful, as she's made it abundantly clear she's got crazy relatives in the area where we live.

So, all hail Jordan61, one of the kindest, sweetest and nicest gals of the gray boxes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (5pTK/)

513 >>John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.

If Solomon is forced to move onto another publication again, he's going to be down to The WatchTower.

Not seeing a lot of panic that you'd be seeing out of the usual folks about anything coming out about Durham - particularly the hit pieces that the intel or justice dept would be migrating out to WAPO and the NYT.

Posted by: Boswell at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (5iUNf)

514 We called it, "get out of the kill zone".

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 02:53 PM (RU4sa)

I have fortunately not been in that exact situation, and it is videos like these that help enforce that mindset.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (SH2Zi)

515 >>> John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.

QAnon propagandist John Solomon.
Y'all do realize people like Solomon, Hannity, Tracy Beanz, Sara Carter, and a few others (Fox) massaged Q narratives to report as narratives and news.

Posted by: lol lel lulz lmao lmfao rotflmfao at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (WdQMQ)

516 I hate to say it, but I agree with Crenshaw. This censure stuff is political theater.

It is. But, it's too much to expect your naturally pussy son to just up and beat a bully's ass on the bus. You gotta' push him along in baby steps. Maybe just stand up in a threatening situation first. Perhaps not go along with the crowd on some insignificant thing. Then build on that.

Maybe this is a baby step for the GOP.

Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (oiGnp)

517 Pentagon: Deadly Afghan airport attack was not preventable
___

Bullshit.

Posted by: Every OIF/OEF vet who had to secure a perimeter at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (RU4sa)

518 Creepy Porn Lawyer (Michael Avenatti) found guilty of defrauding porn star Stormy Daniels, faces up to 20 years in prison

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 03:08 PM (RHGPo)

519 Conservative Legislation and Court Rulings Threaten Republican Mid-Term Elections

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 04, 2022 03:08 PM (YA914)

520
Pentagon: Deadly Afghan airport attack was not preventable
Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2022 03:05 PM (RHGPo)



So shooting the motherfucker in the face before he got within the blast radius of his bomb wouldn't have worked?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 04, 2022 03:08 PM (n+4am)

521 I hate to say it, but I agree with Crenshaw. This censure stuff is political theater.

Yeah but is that what he's criticizing or that they are punishing Cheney?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:09 PM (KZzsI)

522 One of the things they do if you've been in a bad auto accident and was knocked unconscious is to check inside your ears for any internal brain hemorrhaging. But first they clean them out with an ice-cold pressurised jet of water. The guy in the emergency-room explained this to me and said that if a person was anyway still alive and conscious they would react to this so it's a good way of checking a person's cognitive state.

"But I'm clearly conscious, I mean we're talking right now." He answers, "Yeah I know". And then hits the jet. I came to understand that he really enjoyed his job.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 04, 2022 03:09 PM (pnzcV)

523 461 "If Trump runs again he's not only the best, most conservative president I've ever seen in real life, but probably the bravest man, too."

He has the momentum, and money, and strong base. That report that he supported Ivanka's friend (Democrat?) over the apparent MAGA choice in TN-5 is rather disturbing though. There have been so many times he picked people that were openly against his agenda ...

(yeah, he had limited choices, but often he had much better choices ... Trump was indeed the one to face up to DeepState and reveal their criminality, and I imagine he will be The One for 2024 ... long time away though)

Posted by: illiniwek
-----------------
illniwek, I am not sure that the 'popular' candidate in TN5 is not someone like Crenshaw proved to be. You have 3 maybe 4 candidates so far. The Starbuck guy is a biz ness guy with no political experience, the Trump candidate is an inside beltway exec/lobby type that has Pompeo's blessing, the third candidate is former TN House speaker who failed as gub candidate, and the 4th a retired NatGuard senior officer type (maybe).

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 03:09 PM (Iq9dF)

524 By the time your neighbors are communists, it's too late to fight back.

By the time your neighbors are dictating where you plant your flowers - it's too late to fight back anyway. And I don't care if the flowers have to be blue or red at that point.

Plenty of folks, on both sides of the aisle, worry way too much about the color of flowers, or their uniformity, or when they were planted. That's just how people are.

Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (oiGnp)

525 Five-sided nuthouse is lying as usual.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (RU4sa)

526 John Solomon usually has good stuff but Durham has as much chance of arresting 1 person than Smod has destroying DC

Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2022 03:10 PM (2JoB8)

527
Hate to tell you, libertarian is closer to a leftist than anything else.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (iDcra)

Based on your vast reading of libertarian philosophy I assume?

Or maybe based on libertarians wanting to legalize behavior "conservatives" consider immoral and therefore their God-given right to ban using the full force of the state...

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (WoKVO)

528 Plenty of folks, on both sides of the aisle, worry way too much about the color of flowers, or their uniformity, or when they were planted. That's just how people are.
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Dear Lord, thank You for places that don't care what color your flowers are, or if you even have flowers or not.

Amen.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (RU4sa)

529 In order to shoot High Power matches, and then purchase an M1 Garand from CMP, I needed to be a member of the NRA.

The first part may be a rule of your local club but the CMP does not require NRA membership. They require membership in a CMP affiliated club and your NRA membership doesn't count. I believe many clubs require NRA membership because they buy their insurance through the NRA.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (nfrXX)

530 What ever possessed them to incorporate in NY State? A state so hostile to the 2A?

I don’t think New York was quite as hostile in 1871. Hell, Boss Tweed had only just consolidated power in NYC and the Sullivan Act was 40 years in the future.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (CX3cf)

531 Exactly. What ever possessed them to incorporate in NY State? A state so hostile to the 2A?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

In the post Civil War era, NY State was solidly behind firearms (Remington at Illion NY was one of the reasons) and had the best developed corporate law system. So, they incorporated in NY in 1877.

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (Iq9dF)

532 Based on your vast reading of libertarian philosophy I assume?

Or maybe based on libertarians wanting to legalize behavior "conservatives" consider immoral and therefore their God-given right to ban using the full force of the state...
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at February 04, 2022 03:11 PM (WoKVO)

I did read a lot of libertarian stuff, bought at libertarian catalogs. Gave up at 'Defending the Undefendable' which was exclusively dedicated to 'proving' that immoral and criminal activity was good by libertarian standards - counterfeiting, fraud, pimping, you name it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 04, 2022 03:13 PM (eoQWY)

533 Dear Lord, thank You for places that don't care what color your flowers are, or if you even have flowers or not. Amen.

Posted by: SMH At God's mercy at February 04, 2022 03:12 PM (RU4sa)


Hence, why I keep moving away from town. But its a never-ending proposition. No matter how far away you go, town eventually catches up.

Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 03:14 PM (oiGnp)

534 Hate to tell you, libertarian is closer to a leftist than anything else.

Well... if you mean the official party? Yeah. If you mean your average libertarian guy (small l)? Not so much. In my experience, most libertarians are primarily driven by personal issues (weed, or whatever) rather than a grander embrace of liberty and government philosophy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (KZzsI)

535 Hate to tell you, libertarian is closer to a leftist than anything else.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious

Depends on who's doing the defining. Naturally, a Republican can be defined as someone who wants to make sure your social and sexual practices are approved (by them), and that no moral filth (to be defined as broadly as possible) shall exist in society.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (KAi1n)

536 529 In order to shoot High Power matches, and then purchase an M1 Garand from CMP, I needed to be a member of the NRA.

The first part may be a rule of your local club but the CMP does not require NRA membership. They require membership in a CMP affiliated club and your NRA membership doesn't count. I believe many clubs require NRA membership because they buy their insurance through the NRA.

Posted by: Oddbob

You are correct. Furthermore, one of the more hidden functions of the NRA is not the political operations but the vital role of certifying trainers and ranges and providing them with a means for liability insurance. They also insure all members for a modest amount on their firearms $2500 and do not require serial numbers etc. You can also buy additional coverage through them.

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (Iq9dF)

537 Your food metaphors are an example of the exoticism and otherization that is so typical of the cultural appropriation and ethnocentrism of the typical American.

Be better, Paladin.
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I have a hard time thinking about things other than food on days when I am fasting, dammit.

Posted by: Paladin at February 04, 2022 03:16 PM (rzEiT)

538 I have a hard time thinking about things other than food on days when I am fasting, dammit.

Sending you a mental image of my mom's cooking. She was a fine woman. But not a fine cook.

As a little kid, the first time we saw a microwave dinner, I cried a little bit inside. Happy tears.

Posted by: Nome de Plume at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (oiGnp)

539 If the Republican party wanted to prohibit alcohol and tobacco, and criminalize sex out of wedlock (and enforce such bans), there'd be a whole lot more small-l libertarians. It's *not* really weed. It's that weed is the current symbol of government overreach. It could be bourbon.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 04, 2022 03:17 PM (KAi1n)

540 The censure motion is not from the House minority but the RNC. So more or less it is virtue signalling but it might help Cheney's opponent--Kinzinger is already on the way out.

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 03:18 PM (Iq9dF)

541 thx whig, I only know what that article said ... the "Ivanka's friend" part caught my attention.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 04, 2022 03:19 PM (Cus5s)

542 Hate to tell you, libertarian is closer to a leftist than anything else.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 04, 2022 03:07 PM (iDcra)


Do Mexicans, now.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 04, 2022 03:20 PM (ZMraq)

543 320 John Solomon (LOLGF) says Durham is on the brink of arresting everyone in DC.
Posted by: Capital Eff at February 04, 2022 02:44 PM (GYllL)
++++
Hope springs eternal for Solomon, I guess.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 04, 2022 02:45 PM (DU+/6)

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JackStraw is John Solomon?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2022 03:21 PM (517nA)

544 It's *not* really weed. It's that weed is the current symbol of government overreach.

Well, it is for some. You're more of the philosophical libertarian, but many are just one-issue or a few issues types, who are only libertarian because their vice is prohibited or limited (gambling, prostitution, drugs, whatever).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 04, 2022 03:23 PM (KZzsI)

545 529 In order to shoot High Power matches, and then purchase an M1 Garand from CMP, I needed to be a member of the NRA.

I joined with a membership in an approved club, and that was it. I think that if you are a veteran and perhaps a certain age, there are no other retirements.

Posted by: Javems at February 04, 2022 03:25 PM (AmoqO)

546 Somehow we need to bring up Hitler in this thread.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (sVfvf)

547 541 thx whig, I only know what that article said ... the "Ivanka's friend" part caught my attention.

Posted by: illiniwek

The original source for that was National Pulse which is run by NT'ers. I read the story then checked up on local sources in TN media that described the candidates. That made the Pulse's story more incomplete as to the 'right' candidate.

In this case, one would have to wait and see who is the better candidate rather than rejection. The Pulse story struck me in hindsight as more of a hit on Trump's endorsement strategy than any real discussion of who is the better candidate.

Posted by: whig at February 04, 2022 03:26 PM (Iq9dF)

548 Meh. I don't care what Axios thinks. That's some unbiased love, there. Also, someone who you agree with 80-90% of the time is your friend.

Posted by: Lucas at February 04, 2022 03:27 PM (5DTn7)

549 I joined with a membership in an approved club, and that was it. I think that if you are a veteran and perhaps a certain age, there are no other retirements.

It's vastly easier than when I bought my first M1 from the DCM. We could talk about it on the gun thread if anybody really cares to.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 04, 2022 03:28 PM (nfrXX)

550 Who were the top ten conservative think tanks 30 years ago.

Are any of them still influential.

Posted by: Goatweed at February 04, 2022 03:30 PM (0Q/6W)

551 506 We saw what you did there. . . . . . .

Posted by: Toss another Globalist TechRat log onto the Left's Funeral Pyre at February 04, 2022 03:32 PM (5DfsO)

552 Sulfurous Devil's Farts used to tour with The Dead back in the day, IIRC.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 04, 2022 03:40 PM (zQ6qQ)

553 Online (fake word) including Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino, Joe Rogan, Jack Posobiec, Charlie Kirk and Marjorie Taylor-Greene.

So they influence absolutely nobody.

If you HAVE to use that fake word to describe people, their influence is zero.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 04, 2022 03:48 PM (CdZ4i)

554 Hate to be "that guy," but the actual quote:

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

Slightly different tone, but Hoffer was famously skeptical about mass movements!

Posted by: Porc at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (sSrKq)

555 535 Hate to tell you, libertarian is closer to a leftist than anything else.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious

Depends on who's doing the defining. Naturally, a Republican can be defined as someone who wants to make sure your social and sexual practices are approved (by them), and that no moral filth (to be defined as broadly as possible) shall exist in society.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 04, 2022 03:15 PM (KAi1n)

Nope. Libertarians are embarrassed and ashamed of the military and America's superpower status. They want an America that is as weak and as whiny as possible. Libertarians also want completely open borders because just like Dems they find the idea of presenting a passport to a CBP official at a port of entry in order to enter the country to be VERY upsetting. For starters.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (CdZ4i)

556 "If you analyze it, I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism." -Ronald

Posted by: Meremortal at February 04, 2022 03:53 PM (Bwqq4)

557 I actually saw Goldberg on the UofM campus way back when. The last article I read of his had him saying that Trump was like a bull in a China shop. I thought that was a good thing. Jonah saw it as disastrous. Not sure where he is now. As for NRO, they ran no less than 21 articles in one day about why they were Never Trumpers. Trump won. They lost a daily reader.

Posted by: DanJ1 at February 04, 2022 03:54 PM (4kf97)

558 Reagan.

Posted by: Meremortal at February 04, 2022 03:54 PM (Bwqq4)

559 I suggest that readers check out Fearless with Jason Whitlock. He is taking it to the democrat-fascists and being in their face about it.

Anyone concerned about my Twitter absence, I was banned by Twitter for posting that Trans - whatever is a mental illness.

Posted by: Locke Common at February 04, 2022 03:56 PM (+6Nmi)

560 Club for Growth helped launch Louie Goemert. Gotta give 'em props for that.

Posted by: Never underestimate Joe's ability at February 04, 2022 04:03 PM (e/gaB)

561 The Drudge Report, lol, I had forgotten about that outfit completely. One of like two bookmarks that I've ever deleted.

Posted by: Stout at February 04, 2022 04:08 PM (EHSFD)

562 This is one of the best posts about politics I've seen anywhere!
The former "conservative" organizations have lost all credibility with actual conservatives, as the article makes clear.
I would add to Axios list: The Federalist and Ace of Spades.

Posted by: Roland F Hirsch at February 04, 2022 04:11 PM (oMkPq)

563 I'm a life member of the NRA. I'm working on instructor certification. But until Wayne's gone, I'm not giving them another dime.

Posted by: ChupaMe at February 04, 2022 11:40 PM (qFzth)

564 #431
Barely over a section, that's not a ranch.

True Garrett, in New Mexico, 700 acres runs about 5 to 10 grazing critters.

Maybe there are state lands as well. In which case it will all soon run nothing but solar panels in Lujan-Grisham's empire

Posted by: casey murph at February 07, 2022 04:46 PM (tHBTk)

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