The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 3/15/22

Good morning, kids. Tuesday, and appropriately enough, the Ides of March. Has it really been "two weeks?" Already? Time really flies when you're flattening society. While everyone is fretting over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and yes it is a serious issue, lest we forget that it, along with every other assault and abomination (you can spell it with a capital "O" for extra texture and meaning) on ourselves and what was our nation we have endured and for sure have yet to endure in the immediate future is a direct result of the actions taken "two weeks" ago:

In March 2020, once-free citizens around the world surrendered their liberty and livelihoods in a futile attempt to "stop" a virus. The most technologically advanced civilization in the history of mankind quickly adopted medieval fixes that bordered on quackery, sold by snake oil salesmen in the credentialied class and news media, codified through executive fiat by elected leaders of both parties.
"Just 15 days," we were told on March 16, 2020, "to slow the spread." Do your part to promote the "common good"—the historical rallying cry of every wannabe despot—or be branded a heartless heretic. And it worked, far better than the original architects probably anticipated. . .
. . . But having covered the climate change movement for years, I recognized a familiar approach to the spread of [Chinese] COVID-19 hysteria: use flawed data to whip up a public frenzy and shut down all debate in fealty to "science!"
Any disagreement over the data, no matter how unreliable or untested the data happened to be—and in the early months, the only available data came from China—made you a "science denier," or worse.
This time around, sadly, the hysteria wasn't pushed solely by lefty environmental activists but also by President Donald Trump, Republican governors, and "conservative" influencers throughout the media. Once that buy-in was made, all hope was lost.
Trump's catastrophic decision to acquiesce to the demands of Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx—the former a charlatan, the latter a dunce—and shut down the country two years ago this week was by far the worst moment in his presidency and rivals the worst moment in any presidency. As usual, however, Trump's first instinct (the one he suppressed to appease those demanding we honor The Science™ was the right one. The cure should not be worse than the disease, he fretted. He knew it, but he listened to the quacks anyway.
The decision sealed his electoral fate; the booming economy he helped build entered a death spiral.
Which is why the Left will try this again. Pandemic lockdowns produced all sorts of benefits for Democrats, including outcomes the environmental movement had been dreaming about for five decades: fossil fuel use plummeted as airline and vehicle traffic screeched to a halt; meat prices soared; commercial buildings in large energy-consuming cities sat vacant. . .
. . . Aside from advancing long-time climate goals, the lockdowns contributed to an even bigger score for Biden and the Democrats in 2020: stealing the presidential election. . .
. . . Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the only leader to express regret for authorizing shutdowns in his state—under pressure at the time by the Trump White House—questioned whether "the science [will] change because you have a midterm election coming up," noting that Democrats didn't reverse their [Chinese] COVID panic until they saw dismal polling results. . .
. . . Despite how rich or popular the lockdowns made [Pfizer CEO] Albert Bourla or how pleased millions of Americans were at the sight of mass misery, the reality is that lockdowns did immense damage across the globe that may never be fully calculated. The date of March 16, 2020 isn't just a day that will live in infamy—it marked the beginning of the largest crime against humanity since the last world war.
And the perpetrators aren't finished yet.

Once again, Julie Kelly nails it. One question she asks is will the American public fall for what she predicts will be another call for lockdowns, ostensibly to prevent the outbreak of whatever variant du jour of General Tso's Sickness the "scientists" discover, but which is in fact a completely different form of pathogen that attacks only Democrat politicians -- a pissed off electorate? She's not sanguine, and it's hard to argue her position. That said we can never really know the true feelings of the public at large because the agitprop media's job is to lie, obfuscate or otherwise embargo the facts in order to preserve the Leftist-Globalist enterprise that hijacked the country in 2020. One of the prime reasons the propagandists succeed in advancing the Leftist cause is because those politicians allegedly on our side - and many of us in general in our daily lives - either accept their premises or would rather not rock the boat and are otherwise uncomfortable in openly calling bullshit. America is racist, Republicans want to take food out of the mouths of children, love is love!, they're anti-science, they want to Tommy Udo granny off a cliff, etc. ad nauseam et infinitum.

It's more than just a sad state of affairs that we cannot openly and honestly debate issues in this country without fear of recrimination. It's dangerous. The reason we can't do so is that there is no longer a common ground between us and those with whom we disagree because they don't merely disagree with our position; they view it and us as an existential evil to be eradicated. That is why debate cannot be countenanced because the facts, when presented openly without interference or censorship can only result in the complete rhetorical and logical refutation of every position Democrats, Leftists and Globalists (BIRM) present. In any case, they reject the very founding of this nation, our society and Judeo-Christianity itself going back 2,000 years. So in the end, what's to debate? Mind you, this situation did not happen overnight. It took 50-60 years to get here via the slow, stealth brainwashing of two to three generations of American children, which is now out in the open. Parents to be targeted and labeled domestic terrorists by the DOJ at the behest of the Vegetable-in-Chief for merely showing up to protest the curriculum at a school board meeting? QED, but I digress.

You'll have noticed, I'm sure, that the names of Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis feature quite prominently in Julie Kelly's essay. As we approach both the midterms as well as the 2024 elections just over that horizon, those two names loom large. Donald Trump was outstanding in going after the media when it smeared him, which was almost on an hourly basis every day for over four years nonstop. Those "mean tweets" weren't mean. They were him unabashedly defending himself from the perpetual character assassinations and smear machine that the media not only felt was their right to do, but were shocked that for the first time ever, someone they targeted for termination actually fought back and won. Big time.

Ron DeSantis has taken that to heart and is firing back twice as hard with hard truths on everything from the now provable smears about his handling of the Chinese COVID both in health as well as economic terms that showed Florida outperforming the blue shit hole states, and now this smear about the alleged "Don't Say Gay" bill. As CBD, Michael Walsh and I discussed on the latest episode of Cut Jib Newsletter Speaks! podcast, this is the way forward. Some in the GOP get it; it's mostly the younger set like DeSantis as well as to greater or lesser extents folks like Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Louie Gohmert to name but a few.

But that said, as for 2024, to Trump or not to Trump. That is the question. CBD and Walsh are hot and horny for DeSantis, CBD thinking Trump would be fighting the right war for the wrong reason. That is, as revenge for what was done to him in 2020. While I disagree with Walsh in that I don't think the anti-Trump Biden vote, big as it was, would have been enough to overcome his re-election were it not for the overflowing Atlanta toilet that somehow delivered the margin of difference across six states, I agree with him and CBD that his age does disqualify him. While he's healthy and isn't suffering from Biden Spongiform Encephalopathy, he'll be 79 in January of 2025.

More crucially, his inability to understand DC as the nest of vipers out to sabotage him at every turn at every level when he was initially staffing up, and then going against his gut, as Julie Kelly notes, in not disregarding Fauci and Birx and pushing back against the media attacks on the therapeutics is what did him in, both in terms of tanking the economy as well as the evisceration of whatever fig leaf of election integrity existed before March of 2020. Look, if he does run and he does get the nomination, I will crawl over molten lava naked to vote for him. But I think it is time for him to step aside and do his thing as a public figure and champion of the MAGA agenda.

And speaking of Ron DeSantis . . .

"Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda," Romney tweeted. "Her treasonous lies may well cost lives."
It's not clear which specific comments from Gabbard to which Romney was referring, but she did claim in a video that she posted to social media over the weekend that there are "25 to 30 U.S.-funded bio labs in Ukraine" that are "conducting research on dangerous pathogens." In the video, Gabbard called for a ceasefire until the labs could be secured and the pathogens inside the labs destroyed.
Gabbard laid out her case for why what she said was true in a lengthy thread on Twitter, saying that Romney needed to provide evidence for calling her "treasonous."
"Senator Romney, please provide evidence that what I said is untrue and treasonous," Gabbard wrote. "If you cannot, you should do the honorable thing: apologize and resign from the Senate."

" . . . and go fuck yourself in the heart with a rusty steak knife."

No, she didn't actually say that but you can bet she was thinking it. As we all were. I bring up her name because she, as well as folks like Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema have done more to, if not advance the conservative cause, at least try to stop the Marxist-Globalist cause of delivering the head of the republic on a silver platter to the Chi-Coms as well as the Blofeld wannabes of Davos at the World Economic Forum. And Pee-Air Defecto is for sure one of them.

Interesting idea: DeSantis/Gabbard '24. Remember, as the great Milton Friedman said, you make things happen by "making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing." That to me is the nature of American electoral politics, for better or for worse. That said, given the complete control over our government and much of society by both the entrenched Deep State bureaucracy and an at best unreliable judiciary, not to mention the absolute lack of ethics and morality of virtually all of D.C., do elections going forward really mean anything?

Whatever the ultimate answer is to that, for sure it's not going to be with stooges, frauds and criminals like Romney, McConnell, and the rest. It's going to be with people who are not afraid to openly state their rejection and HATRED for everything leftist, globalist, anti-American and anti-G-d. That, and punching them dead in the face - rhetorically speaking - just to make sure. YMMV.

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

BONUS: Your March 15th "long distance def dedication." 1970, before you were born. Remember, kids?

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Julie Kelly: "The date of March 16, 2020 isn't just a day that will live in infamy—it marked the beginning of the largest crime against humanity since the last world war."
From 15 Days to Two Years
Heather Mac Donald: "US schools are eliminating gifted and talented programs in the name of racial equity and deemphasizing — if not eliminating — algebra instruction to conceal racially disparate performance in algebra classes. China is taking the opposite course. It identifies its top math talent early on and gives mathematically gifted students accelerated instruction. Its rigorous university entrance exams reward effort and achievement, not identity. Undergraduate math competitions provide a pipeline to the best graduate programs in STEM."
As China's Military Tech Dominates, Congress Demands Science Bow to "Racial Justice"
Robert Spencer: "With Old Joe Biden in the White House, the Islamic State sees a perfect time to act in the United States. And with the Southern border essentially fictional and our law enforcement and intelligence apparatus devoted to hunting for equally fictional 'white supremacists,' it's easy to see why they think this way."
Biden Is So Weak, Another Big Threat Is Organizing in the U.S.
"All the lessons we should have learned from the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl fell on deaf ears."
Chernobyl and the Lies of Chinese COVID

RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR

"Despite all of Biden's weakness, cowardice and incompetence, there is a path for him to end this strategy in Ukraine; without getting Americans snared in a gruesome and very bloody war," Trump said. "This could lead to World War III."
Poll: Majority Not Confident in Biden's Ability to Prevent Russia/Ukraine War from Spreading
"Whether or not you agree with the wisdom of these decisions, the Biden [junta] is openly continuing to treat Russia as a 'partner' on climate and Iran."
Maria Bartiromo's Sources Are Right: The Biden Junta is Actively Partnering With Putin on Climate and Iran
"They're lying to you."
Woman Runs Into Frame, Interrupts Live Russian Broadcast To Protest War In Ukraine
"AND it'll be nuclear war."
EU Head: If NATO Gets Involved In Russia-Ukraine Conflict, It's WORLD WAR THREE
"The answer may lie in his tactics in previous conflicts."
Will Putin Up the Ante?
Ben Hodges. Another anti-Trump, anti-Brexit, Globalist stooge.
General Says Putin Days Away From Critical Point Where War Could Turn
". . . for Russia to leave Vande Hei behind would be a public relations disaster that would only make worse the disaster of its invasion of the Ukraine. Russia might end its partnership at ISS in the near future, but it won't do it in a way that might threaten the lives of any astronauts, from any nation."
Russia Today Confirmed it Will Return NASA Astronaut as Planned
"U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, who is set to meet Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi this week, warned China on Sunday against providing any material support to Russia."
Russia Reportedly Seeking Military Equipment from China
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] of the United States isn't deterring Vladimir Putin; he's allowing Vladimir Putin to deter him."
Rep. Fallon: Joe Biden Continues to Set "Arbitrary Red Lines"; Situation "Demands Ambiguity"
"We believe that the sanctions will not resolve the problem."
Turkey Says It Will Not Impose Sanctions on Russia over Ukraine
Daniel Greenfield: "What does Israel owe Ukraine?"
Ukrainian Chutzpah

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"Senator Romney, please provide evidence that what I said is untrue and treasonous," Gabbard wrote. "If you cannot, you should do the honorable thing: apologize and resign from the Senate." ( . . .and go fuck yourself in the heart with a rusty steak knife - jjs)
Tulsi Gabbard Fires Back at Pee-Air Defecto Romney for Calling Her a "Treasonous" Russian Propagandist
"Romney's insistence that Tulsi Gabbard committed 'treason' is just the leading edge of a disturbing trend."
Leftists Dream of Interning Anyone Who Challenges Their Ukraine Narrative (substitute "them" for the last two words and bingo - jjs)
"It is also a fierce battle in the informational space." (if Zuckerberg is supporting Ukraine, it stinks - jjs)
Zelensky Thanks Zuckerberg For Helping Him Win the Propaganda War
"Support for the modish 'environmental, social, and governance' movement is mainly empty sloganeering—as multinational corporations have shown with their response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine."
ESG Goes to War
"It weighs action as Russian oligarchs flee to Israel."
In Possible Break From Its Policy of Noninterference, Israel Considers Stronger Response to Russian Oligarchs
Thad McCotter: "Let us pray we never see the day our nation is invaded. But, should it come, may history record that every American did their duty to defend 'and nobly save…the last best hope of earth.'"
Clashing With an Invader: "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?"
Judith Miller: "Will American companies' fervor for the Russian boycott last?"
Rushing for the Exits—for Now
DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL, THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Under the radar, EPA chief Michael Regan forces the country into adopting green energy policies that can't meet America's energy needs and most regular Americans don't want."
EPA Restores California's Authority to Set Auto Greenhouse Gas Emission Rules, Likely to Exacerbate Gas Price Increases
"With prices skyrocketing, it's time for Washington to suspend—and ultimately repeal—the Renewable Fuel Standard."
Food for the Table, Not for the Gas Tank
"But who and what really ignited the inflation?"
Biden Blames Putin for Soaring Prices
"Bloom Raskin, the wife of Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, is an advocate for using the Federal Reserve to promote green energy policy, which would mark a dramatic departure from the central banking system's dual mandate of maintaining maximum employment and keeping inflation in check."
Manchin Sinks Biden Federal Reserve Nominee Who Drew Republican Boycott
"The Biden [junta] has faced criticism in the last year for its handling of the supply chain crisis, which has delayed the delivery of everyday retail items, goods important to the production of automobiles, and oil. It has often attributed supply chain disruptions to the effects of the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic. But while resignations and job vacancies are at near record highs, unemployment rates remain low."
Chinese COVID CRUTCH: Buttigieg Says Supply Chain Crisis "Will Get a Lot Better" When Pandemic Ends
"The six states with the highest job growth in the country are run by Republicans, while the top ten are led by Republican legislatures, as states across the country continue to end the [Chinese] coronavirus restrictions as Americans get back to work."
Analysis: Republican-led States Ahead of Democrat-led States in Economic Recovery in January
"The container ship, Ever Forward, is listed on Marine Tracker as having run aground. This means the water is usually too shallow to float a vessel. WBAL TV reported several tugboats are trying to assist the massive ship."
Massive Cargo Ship Runs Aground In Baltimore
"Communist China has put the major trade city of Shanghai under new [Chinese] COVID-19 lockdown restrictions — and that means global supply chains just got tied into new knots."
SHANGHAI LOCKDOWN: Once Again, Xi Is Exporting China's Problems to the Rest of the World
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"After 68 years, the Barrington United Veterans Council was removed as organizer of the 2022 Memorial Day Parade, after it vigorously opposed the Town Council flying the BLM flag over the Veterans Memorial. The group's leader, a vocal opponent, was replaced as Master of Ceremonies by someone who publicly favored flying the BLM flag. Yet the Town Council says the BLM flag dispute had nothing to do with it."
Veterans Group Alleges Retaliation For Opposing Flying BLM Flag Over Barrington (RI) Veterans Memorial
"Conservatives are attacking America by weaponizing our favorite things."
Drop Your Weapons
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Meanwhile, blue cities, such as New York City, have also moved to lift requirements, halting the city's vaccine passport program, which forced businesses to discriminate against unvaccinated individuals. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) dropped similar rules in February."
Poll: Americans Say Coronavirus Restrictions Lifted Because of Politics, Not Science
"Even that may be understating the problem. As little as 23% of the $800 billion doled out by the Paycheck Protection Program actually found its way into workers' pockets. A Department of Labor study estimated that more than $87 billion in emergency unemployment benefits were improperly paid. The Small Business Administration has (among other blunders) disbursed more than $6.2 billion to loan applicants it now suspects of identity theft. Somehow, the Internal Revenue Service managed to issue 2.2 million stimulus checks — worth about $3.5 billion — to dead people."
Bloomberg: U.S. Doled Out Billions In Fraudulent Chinese COVID Aid. Where's the Accountability?
"The bill, dubbed the Countermeasure Injury Compensation Amendment Act, would amend the current vaccine injury statute to "improve responsiveness, create a commission to examine the injuries directly caused as a result of [Chinese] COVID-19 countermeasures, and allow those whose claims have been previously rejected to resubmit claims for new consideration," Johnson's office said in a press release, per Just the News."
GOP Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Help Victims of Adverse Vaccine Reactions
The removal of the measures marks the end of a controversial few months in French politics, which saw thousands take to the streets after the country's president, Emmanuel Macron, declared he wanted to "piss off" the nation's unvaccinated with restrictions.
"Return of Freedom" France Drops Chinese COVID Vaccination Pass and Forced Mask Wearing
"Destroyer can't deploy because CO won't get [Chinese] COVID vaccine as 1000 Marines separated because of decision not to get covid vaccine."
Ineffective Chinese COVID Policies Badly Affecting US Military Readiness
Can I get an "Amen"?
Fauci's Job Would Get Axed Under New Legislation Proposed by Sen. Rand Paul
"Only a third of Americans think [Chinese] COVID restrictions are being removed too rapidly."
I&I/TIPP Poll: 65% Say Recent Lifting of Chinese COVID Restrictions is Driven by Politics, Not Science
Henry F. Smith Jr, M.D.: "How the medical establishment lays down the law."
Chinese COVID Care Fiasco: The Hill-Lawrie Video
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Margot Cleveland: "Last week's cache of documents is not the first to confirm that Manos Antonakakis rejected the Alfa Bank-Trump secret communication theory before it was peddled to the FBI."
Researcher Tells Durham He Saw Holes in the Alfa Bank Hoax Before Democrats Shopped It to the FBI
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"It is unclear to which books the New Jersey Democrat is referring, but the two most prominent books targeted by parents for removal from classrooms contain pornographic and pedophilic material."
Watch: Democrat Tom Malinowski Goes on Anti-Parent Tirade, Says Education Concerns Are "Made-Up Cultural Bullshit"
"The law applies to K-12 public schools as well as Mississippi's public universities and community colleges."
Mississippi Governor Signs Critical Race Theory Ban, Responds to "Flat-Out Wrong" Criticism
"Democrats and the media have seized on language in the Parental Rights in Education bill that doesn't exist. But they have their narrative and that's all that matters."
Florida's Fictional "Don't Say Gay" Bill Doesn't Go Nearly Far Enough
Molly McCaughey: "Corporations should be serving their customers, not trying to override the democratic process, like thousand-pound gorillas undoing what the electorate — including their own customers — wants."
Woke CEOs' Battle for Transgender Indoctrination in Schools Will Backfire
"Though Ricard certainly should have the right to be exempt from this policy because of her religious beliefs, so should everyone else, and not because of religion. Liberty of conscious, the fundamental idea behind the First Amendment, means that each person has the right to do decide, for themselves, what they believe in, whether they be a Christian, Jew, Muslim, or atheist. No one else has the right to impose different beliefs upon them."
Pushback: Teacher Sues for Being Suspended for Defying Pronoun Demands
"David Banks's 'Four Pillars' educational reform policy is simply more of the same."
The Four Pillars of Vacuity
Christian Toto: "Producer Deborah Flora shares urgent need for her documentary's message."
Blistering Doc Whose Children Are TheyTakes on Teachers Unions
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"The environmentalist group Sierra Club has scrapped scheduled trips to Israel under pressure from left-wing anti-Israel organizations."
Environmentalists Give in to Anti-Semitic Pressure Campaign, Cancel Israel Trip
OTHER DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Corrigan Clay and Shelly Jean received visits from Bill Clinton, as well as support from the Clinton Foundation."
Clinton-Backed Haiti Pastor Indicted on Child Sex Charges
"Nikki Budzinski has promised to reduce America's 'dependence on foreign energy from unstable regimes.'"
An Illinois Dem Helped Biden Cancel Keystone. Now, She's Campaigning on US Energy Independence.
POLITICS
"Key caucus leaders ask him to issue executive orders to exhume dead legislation."
Democrats Urge Biden to Enact Agenda by Edict
"Florida governor takes a whack at the woke."
DeSantis Strikes Back
Trump's team responded to the complaint, saying it has "zero merit."
Democratic PAC Accuses Trump of Breaking Campaign Law by Not Formally Announcing 2024 Run
"In the face of their incompetence, today's situation requires emergency measures."
25th Amendment Disability: Can We Quickly Boot Joe-Kamala?
"Lindsey Graham and other warpath Republicans are sucking up all the oxygen."
Warmongering Risks GOP Gains this November
Robert Spencer: "A lying and pretend-president tries to cover his shame by deflection."
The Top Ten Scapegoats Biden Has Blamed for His Failures
You might be thinking, "Only three reasons? I have reasons for days to send the Democrat Party into the history books with the Whigs, the Know-Nothings, and the Dixiecrats." But rather than spend the next four hours listing 1,099 reasons — including the border and the economy — let's focus on the main justifications for why the Democrat Party must now end its inglorious run and settle its tab with Satan.
The Top Three Reasons the Democrat Party Needs to Die a Quick and Brutal Death
"Liz Cheney is now courting the same voters who toppled a statue of her vice president father 15 years ago."
Liz-ard Cheney Has Single-Handedly Destroyed Dick Cheney's Reputation In Wyoming
"According to the poll, which was conducted by John McLaughlin & Associates, Zeldin leads Hochul 45.5% to 44%, with the rest undecided. Zeldin's lead is within the margin of error, which means the race is a dead heat. Nevertheless, this is a remarkably strong position for a Republican in New York." (Dao-Min Yen will be pulling out all the stops - jjs_
This Year's Red Wave Puts New York Governorship in Play -- for Real
"A new book examines six American presidents and their war with The Swamp."
Deep State Slayers
SUPREME COURT VACANCY
"Arabella Advisors is the most powerful liberal lobbying force in Washington, but Glenn Kessler aims his fire at conservative groups." (big time WEF/Great Reset financier front group - jjs)
WaPo Fact Checker Carries Water For Leftist 'Dark Money' Group Behind Biden's SCOTUS Pick
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Rabbi Dov Fischer: "It's automatic to feel a bond with Italians and — especially — Armenians."
Media Manipulation: Putin's Ukraine Invasion Evil But Warring on Israel and Armenia OK
Funny coming from an agent of the forces that rigged a national election. That's only the latest on a rap sheet as long as my arm for high crimes and misdemeanors going back to Aaron Burr. Filthy, bloated slag.
Claire McCaskill: FNC's Tucker Carlson "Really, Really Close to Treason"
"Media outlets refuse to acknowledge historic GOP achievements."
Only Democrats Are Allowed To "Make History"
"Google is now targeting content for no other reason than that it doesn't like the facts being reported."
Google Attacks Us for Reporting on Our Own Poll; Calls it "Harmful Information"
"Harrison Kalodimos apologizes to Dr. Stanley Goldfarb for B.S. tweets besmirching top doc's reputation."
Woke Seattle Doc Kalodimos Eats His Words, Cops to Falsely Maligning Prominent Ivy League Professor
SECOND AMENDMENT
I'm actually shocked DeWine signed this.
Ohio Governor Signs Constitutional Carry Bill
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
So, if Tulsi Gabbard and Tucker Carlson are traitors for going against Biden, what does this make Biden?
New Iran Nuclear Deal Will Create "Sanctions Evasion Hub for Putin," Experts Say
"Agreement is dead on arrival, GOP warns Biden [junta]."
Senate Republicans Threaten To Block New Iran Nuclear Deal
"He's as determined to get it through as Putin is to repossess Ukraine."
Iran Deal II: Biden's Next Disaster
" . . . [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden is playing a pretty strong hand right now." (mostly undoing training bras - jjs)
SHOT: Huh? Dem Sen. Murphy Sez Biden's "Strong Hand" is Causing China to "Step Back"
The ministry said seven Chinese PLAAF aircraft, including a "J-10 and five J-16 fighters as well as one Y-8 electronic warfare aircraft. . . flew over an area to the northeast of the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands at the top end of the South China Sea" on March 14.
CHASER: Chinese PLAAF Orders 13 Aircraft to Penetrate Taiwan's ADIZ
"It turns out that it's not just fentanyl and infectious diseases that China's sending to America."
While All Eyes Are on Ukraine, China Continues Undermining America's Wellbeing
"The theocratic Saudi regime executed 81 people Saturday in the largest mass execution in the country's modern history. The kingdom said many of those executed were murderers and associated with terror groups like Al-Qaida and ISIS, but more detailed information about the trials and executions were not immediately available, CBS reported."
Biden Spokes-Flunky Ned "Ryerson" Ryan Clashes With Reporters After Refusing To Condemn Mass Execution By Saudi Arabia
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
"How could this happen?" (when you lose a Jew-hating globalist stooge like Chuck Hagel . . . - jjs)
Secretary Of Defense For Obama Admin Says Biden Fumbled Afghanistan Withdrawal
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"When Detroiters are laughing at your city, you know you've made a mistake. . . Hundreds of local Seattle businesses are leaving, and Seattle residents have no one to blame except voters and the communists they've elected."
Put a Fork in Seattle
"New York's upstate region should be an energy arsenal of democracy, not a pot plantation."
Up in Smoke
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Cool image time! In reviewing a December 2021 image of the Cartwheel Galaxy taken by the New Technology Telescope in Chile, astronomers noticed something that was not there in earlier images, a new supernovae."
Supernova Discovered in Cartwheel Galaxy
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"[People] get competitive about this business of being oppressed," he deadpanned. "We were oppressed, the English, by the Romans from about 0 to 400."
Monty Python Star John Cleese Silenced for Joking About Reparations
"[Jane] Campion laughed maniacally at what she presumed was a joke or statement she'd made, but was immediately hit with backlash online, according to IndieWire."
Director Goes From Criticizing Sam Elliott Straight To Putting Foot In Her Own Mouth
"Today, we have a new, modern beastly mark to beware. It is anything and everything with the prefix 'multi.'"
The Modern Mark of the Beast
Salena Zito: "America's present need is for 'normalcy.' Log off Twitter for a few minutes, and you might notice that people are turning to each other, their families, and their communities to achieve it."
In Pursuit of the Normal
HITHER & YON
"Fifty years after the Watergate break-in, the full story of the crusade to oust Richard Nixon still needs to be told."
Three Watergate Myths
"The more you know about this holiday, the more you realize its incomparable significance."
Prager U Video: Why You Should Care About Passover

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 07:27 AM (yrol0)

2 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 07:29 AM (NOXTJ)

3 Early morning! Good morning JJ!

Posted by: Rosasharn at March 15, 2022 07:30 AM (yEBFM)

4 My brain is still on standard time

Posted by: IanDeal at March 15, 2022 07:30 AM (MGjjz)

5 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 15, 2022 07:31 AM (nR2nR)

6
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 15, 2022 07:31 AM (DUIap)

7 Good morning one and all. Now to read the articles (Which is why I come here. Really.).

Posted by: NR Pax at March 15, 2022 07:31 AM (4olE8)

8 morning all.

coffee is ready. time to hit the content.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at March 15, 2022 07:32 AM (8D42x)

9 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2022 07:33 AM (3D/fK)

10 The official position of the State is that a global nuclear catastrophe is not possible in the Soviet Union.

Now do USA and COVID.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 07:34 AM (yrol0)

11 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

It wasn't about the virus it was about PDT and the globalist junta's thirst for power.

They committed unspeakable crimes. Don't talk to me about treason while there are Americans held as political prisoners in brazen violation of their Constitutional rights.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2022 07:34 AM (EZebt)

12 Well I typed all that and thengot willowed. To recap:

The state is spending $8 million in federal funding to determine the feasibility of a high-speed rail system from Atlanta to Savannah. Jon Ossoff is behind it. Everytime some damn dumb Dem gets some power in the state they do one of these studies and it goes nowhere.

Nobody is going to ride a train from Atlanta to Macon, much less Savannah. It's an idiotic pipe dream, but some consultant will get 8 million dollars to discover that again. There hasn't been any successful passenger trains in Georgia since the 50s when it started dying.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2022 07:36 AM (vrz2I)

13 What is worse is hospitals that still won't get rid of their mask mandates and restrictive visitor policies because the policies are set by HR karens and none of the doctors dare question them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 07:36 AM (qnVBz)

14 Good morning one and all. Now to read the articles (Which is why I come here. Really.).
Posted by: NR Pax

Come for the links. Stay for the snark.

Posted by: Rosasharn at March 15, 2022 07:37 AM (yEBFM)

15 I bet Tulsi could kick Mitt's butt.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2022 07:38 AM (vrz2I)

16 Nobody is going to ride a train from Atlanta to Macon, much less Savannah.

What about the Atlantaens who have beach houses on Hilton Head?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 07:39 AM (qnVBz)

17 It's the most amazing coincidence that the only 'science' that gets promoted by the government is that which calls for the diversion of more government money and power to the government.

Posted by: IanDeal at March 15, 2022 07:39 AM (MGjjz)

18 If a passel of nominal democrats is the only place I can find an elected official willing to face the Uniparty and say, "You know what? Fuck you", then I'll take it.

We are beyond politics, we are beyond policy. I don't give a flying f*ck off the top turnbuckle what claims you make about this or that policy if you're ultimately in bed with the illiberal, anti-populist, anti-small-r-republican junta that has seized every lever of power.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2022 07:40 AM (6FeV1)

19 "What about the Atlantaens who have beach houses on Hilton Head?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy "

Oh yeah they will load up their inflatable beach toys and paddle boards and head South to the beach.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2022 07:40 AM (vrz2I)

20 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 07:40 AM (1H0Qa)

21 Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 15, 2022 07:41 AM (wVHhX)

22 Everyone knows that big problems don't get solved with government money.

They are solved with a shit load of government money. Or two shitloads.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 07:41 AM (qnVBz)

23 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

It's always fun to come into the office to find out someone followed the directions you sent them in exactly the wrong order.

Now I get to try and fix it...Good times.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 15, 2022 07:42 AM (YIVH2)

24 Nobody is going to ride a train from Atlanta to Macon, much less Savannah.

But cronies get paid for "feasibility" studies.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 07:43 AM (NOXTJ)

25 snipped from the Julie Kelly: "...Emboldened by their success in forcing Trump to authorize the first 15-day shutdown, the then-adored Fauci and Birx took it a step further. With two dubious projection models in hand, the pair went to the White House at the end of March 2020 and convinced Trump to extend the lockdowns another month."

That was the beginning of the end, right about April 1st. I clearly remember that all of the sudden EVERY Fox News host changed their tone and went all-in on covid hysteria. It was all so clearly coordinated. I was posting here, that there had obviously been a company-wide meeting.

Trump went from calling for the churches to be filled at Easter to caving to Fraudci and The Scarf overnight. March 31-April 1, it was right there that my heart sank as I realized it wasn't just about tanking the economy to get rid of Trump. That was only the tip of the iceberg.

Posted by: Guy Smiley - I am here. Standing...here. at March 15, 2022 07:43 AM (HsAzN)

26 As little as 23% of the $800 billion doled out by the Paycheck Protection Program actually found its way into workers pockets. A Department of Labor study estimated that more than $87 billion in emergency unemployment benefits were improperly paid. The Small Business Administration has (among other blunders) disbursed more than $6.2 billion to loan applicants it now suspects of identity theft. Somehow, the Internal Revenue Service managed to issue 2.2 million stimulus checks worth about $3.5 billion to dead people.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 07:43 AM (yrol0)

27 Debating leftists is problematic because they are impervious to facts and reason. They cannot be persuaded with evidence. They are swayed by feelings and emotions, the feeling of belonging and the emotion of the mob.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2022 07:45 AM (EZebt)

28 Good morning 5

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 15, 2022 07:45 AM (P5xpS)

29 DC trucker protest guy is on radio now.

The story about the truckers going into DC. They have been circling the beltway, I 495. This does not cross into the District at all. Yesterday they changed the route and went on I 295 which does go through the District But that's all. Just on the interstate portion. They informed the authorities beforehand where they were going.

And they responded by closing all the exits on I 295.

Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter still has a square named for them in DC.

Posted by: blaster at March 15, 2022 07:45 AM (9otr5)

30 Dems love them some trains. Connecting Savannah to the residents of Atlanta via rail seems misguided.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 15, 2022 07:46 AM (oWBc3)

31 Cleese getting his mike taken away should have made him get up and walk out. Since he did not I will continue to consider him an upper class twit.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2022 07:46 AM (vrz2I)

32 The container ship, Ever Forward, is listed on Marine Tracker as having run aground. This means the water is usually too shallow to float a vessel.

No shit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 15, 2022 07:47 AM (nR2nR)

33 COVID gave the Ruling Class exactly the excuse they needed, and caused the necessary fear in the population, to absolutely destroy freedom in any real sense of the word.

Freedom of Speech and Assembly? "Misinformation" and "Super-Spreader Events"

Freedom of Religion? Churches were shut down, and pilloried as snake handlers if they refused.

Freedom of Movement/Mobility? Two week quarantines if you crossed state lines. Stores and restaurants closed. Near draconian measures at airports, bus terminals, and train stations.

And the VAST majority of Americans bought in because we've been conditioned that there should be no cost to our high lifestyle, so we must be afraid of everything.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 07:47 AM (1H0Qa)

34 Good morning and thanks for the news J.J.

I will have to disagree about Trump, I think we need him to win in 2024. He can only serve for 4 years, he's already been impeached, lied about, spied on etc... He doesn't have to worry about re-election, so he can go in there and start breaking shit, exposing more of the deep state, it doesn't matter what they do to him at this point.(because he is older, and has no F's to give) He needs to do all the ugly things that make people uncomfortable in order to clear the path for a DeSantis 8 year term.

Posted by: spypeach at March 15, 2022 07:48 AM (wAxm0)

35 We live in ridiculous times

Posted by: blaster at March 15, 2022 07:48 AM (9otr5)

36 I don't trust GA as far as I can throw it. They voted against Trump, and then for two clown Senators? I expect more from MI and WI.

Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 07:49 AM (FB3c2)

37 I've got "Vehicle" on my playlist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2022 07:49 AM (EZebt)

38 I bet the Junta cooks up a reason for a round of vote buying stimulus checks going out about mid October. Call it All the Stuff Is Expensive Because of Putin stimulus.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 15, 2022 07:49 AM (lz5hY)

39 14 Come for the links. Stay for the snark.
Posted by: Rosasharn

Absolutely. The snark gets me through the day.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 15, 2022 07:49 AM (4olE8)

40 "This means the water is usually too shallow to float a vessel.

No shit."

In other words, the bottom was too close to the top.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2022 07:49 AM (vrz2I)

41 Try again
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 15, 2022 07:50 AM (ysVpj)

42 Beware the Ides of March!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq95nZBbNHI

The ultimate one-hit wonder with Vehicle (1970). The lead singer was getting used by a hot chick who had him driving her to Chicago modeling gigs, you see. Horn-based, with a great guitar riff, it could have been done by the Chicago Transit Authority. Instead it was done by a bunch of high school kids. Happy ending -- he wound up marrying her.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 15, 2022 07:50 AM (i0slg)

43 I don't blame Trump for his initial reaction, I blame him for not saying around July 4th, "this is all bullshit", and moving on. He may as well have gone down swinging.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 15, 2022 07:50 AM (oWBc3)

44 Damn. This has been a depressing few years!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at March 15, 2022 07:51 AM (AiLSR)

45 Damn. This has been a depressing few years!
Posted by: Biden's Dog at March 15, 2022 07:51 AM (AiLSR)

What are you bitching about? You got a major league football team named after you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2022 07:52 AM (6FeV1)

46 "I bet the Junta cooks up a reason for a round of vote buying stimulus checks going out about mid October. Call it All the Stuff Is Expensive Because of Putin stimulus."

Inflation Compensation checks.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2022 07:53 AM (vrz2I)

47 On the oil front, the newest spin from the Prog-tards whose orbit I sometimes intersect is that we should be "grateful" that we even have cars and can get gasoline.

Oh yeah, Karen? What about all the people who can't afford to get to work today because they *can't* afford gas? Rising prices ALWAYS affect the poor worse than anyone else, and speaking in high-minded platitudes about being "thankful" for what you have is the epitome of that "privilege" you keep telling me to check.

Not to mention how many people I know apparently don't realize that oil is in f-ing EVERYTHING, and that the parts of oil we use for various plastics and chemical stabilizers and such are very different parts of the oil from the gasoline and other fuels we use.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 07:53 AM (1H0Qa)

48 From the Breitbart article on mandate liftings:

"While Americans remain divided on the pace of lifting restrictions - 29 percent said it is moving "too slowly," 32 percent said it is progressing "too rapidly," and 29 percent said it is happening at the "right time."

Now that is as statistically polarized as you're gonna get. (I know, polls. But this does feel close to correct.)

Posted by: Guy Smiley - I am here. Standing...here. at March 15, 2022 07:53 AM (HsAzN)

49 America will never be a train country. We love our freedom. Trains are fine for Europe. The Left wants Europe sans the good parts.

Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 07:53 AM (FB3c2)

50 42 Posted by: Ignoramus at March 15, 2022 07:50 AM (i0slg)

Jim Peterik, the lead guitar and vocals for Ides of March is a very well-traveled musician. Always thought his voice was very similar to David Clayton Thomas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Peterik

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2022 07:53 AM (s2VJv)

51 ""This means the water is usually too shallow to float a vessel.

No shit."

In other words, the bottom was too close to the top."

Most places, you gotta pay for deep analysis like this.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2022 07:53 AM (3D/fK)

52 I don't blame Trump for his initial reaction, I blame him for not saying around July 4th, "this is all bullshit", and moving on. He may as well have gone down swinging.

I don't know that "blame" is the right word, but it certainly baffles me as to why he didn't change course.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 07:54 AM (1H0Qa)

53 Happy Julius Caesar's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which is also JJ's Birthday!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 15, 2022 07:54 AM (PiwSw)

54 Tulsi is making the right enemies.

Posted by: Minuteman at March 15, 2022 07:54 AM (LaNzR)

55 51 ""This means the water is usually too shallow to float a vessel.

No shit."

In other words, the bottom was too close to the top."

Most places, you gotta pay for deep analysis like this.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2022 07:53 AM (3D/fK)

This is Kamala-level intellect.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2022 07:54 AM (s2VJv)

56 Trump has many blind spots. When the hospital ships remained empty and the Javits Center remained empty into May and June, he should have called b.s. and put a stop to this madness much sooner, possibly saving his reelection bid.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2022 07:54 AM (EZebt)

57 The recipe for graft

Politician identifies a target of potential interest to his wealthy donors. A high speed rail from Atl to Hilton Head.

Sells it to the donors as a potential way they can profit from the design and build, and possibly benefit from the end result.

Sells it to the voters as a way to benefit everyone

Billions in graft and cost overruns only result in a small partially built section in the cheapest, easiest to build section.

Or, it does get built and empty trains zip from Hartsfield to Savannah in record time.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 07:55 AM (p/oLD)

58 Claire McCaskill: FNC's Tucker Carlson "Really, Really Close to Treason"

fuck yo cvnt

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 07:55 AM (yrol0)

59 "Most places, you gotta pay for deep analysis like this."

It's the kind of thing that will draw people.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2022 07:55 AM (vrz2I)

60 "Tulsi is making the right enemies."

I trust Tulsi over Nancy Mace.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2022 07:55 AM (3D/fK)

61 Please, PDT, chalk up a victory in showing Repubs how to fight back -- but don't run in 2024.

Posted by: JM in Florida - Biden the Moscovian Candidate at March 15, 2022 07:56 AM (UW5Q0)

62 Inflation Compensation checks.
Posted by: fd at March 15, 2022 07:53 AM (vrz2I)
===

Minimum Wage increases here July 1 at the "rate of inflation."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2022 07:57 AM (EZebt)

63 59 "Most places, you gotta pay for deep analysis like this."

It's the kind of thing that will draw people.
Posted by: fd at March 15, 2022 07:55 AM (vrz2I)

I'm in over my head here!

Posted by: Robert Reich at March 15, 2022 07:57 AM (PiwSw)

64 America will never be a train country.

You mean the country built on wagon trains and "Mountain? F it, I'll go straight through!" might not want to only be able to go places the government says it's okay to go?

No. I refuse to believe it.

/sarc

Realistically, I don't get why so many seem to miss this. First, the US is a HUGE country. We span a f-ing continent. Only Russia is as big. Our "personal space" bubble tends to be twice to three times that of our Euro-weenie counterparts'. Stop trying to force your Euro-trash culture on us.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 07:58 AM (1H0Qa)

65 McCaskill is an idiot but he deep state GOP created her - that Missouri seat was a layup for our side and they fucked it up, just like Nevada and Connecticutt that year I believe. Almost like they did it on purpose.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 15, 2022 07:58 AM (oWBc3)

66 "I bet the Junta cooks up a reason for a round of vote buying stimulus checks going out about mid October. Call it All the Stuff Is Expensive Because of Putin stimulus."

Inflation Compensation checks.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2022 07:53 AM

Don't give them any ideas. I can see pelosi racking her demented brain trying to come up with some way to buy everyone's vote like that. Guarantee they are thinking about how they can "compensate" social security recipients because they got screwed by the lame a$$ COLA raise.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 15, 2022 07:59 AM (bVYXr)

67 "America will never be a train country."

Our distances are too vast. European nations are pocket-sized by comparison.

Instead, we use our rails for freight.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 15, 2022 07:59 AM (i0slg)

68 Happy Ides of March...
BEWARE!

Posted by: redridinghood at March 15, 2022 07:59 AM (NpAcC)

69 Claire McCaskill: FNC's Tucker Carlson "Really, Really Close to Treason"

In modern Progressive-Speak, "Treason" means "disagrees with the Uniparty."

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:00 AM (1H0Qa)

70 Or, it does get built and empty trains zip from Hartsfield to Savannah in record time.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 07:55 AM (p/oLD)
===

Now do the Fresno to Merced High Speed Rail.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2022 08:00 AM (EZebt)

71 After attending the Trump Rally on Saturday night in Florence, I would love to see Trump continue to lead the fight through the 2022 mid-term, and then step aside for a younger, yet like minded candidate in the 2024 election.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2022 08:00 AM (3D/fK)

72 Rails for freight? Freight equals deplorables. Profit!

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 15, 2022 08:00 AM (oWBc3)

73 Almost like they did it on purpose.

If the GOPe were trying to hand full control to the Progressives, what would they be doing differently?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:01 AM (1H0Qa)

74 Claire McCaskill: FNC's Tucker Carlson "Really, Really Close to Treason"

Well, there's the fact that he's American and this is a Russia-Ukraine conflict, so not treason by definition alone. Same goes for Mutt.

Posted by: Guy Smiley - I am here. Standing...here. at March 15, 2022 08:01 AM (HsAzN)

75 67 "America will never be a train country."

Our distances are too vast. European nations are pocket-sized by comparison.

Instead, we use our rails for freight.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 15, 2022 07:59 AM (i0slg)

It was a train country and regionally it was an interurban electric railway country. Ironically, the road improvements that interubans made or were required to in order to get trackage rights were what led to their doom and passenger rail's demise via the automobile and trucking.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2022 08:01 AM (s2VJv)

76 "The state is spending $8 million in federal funding to determine the feasibility of a high-speed rail system from Atlanta to Savannah. Jon Ossoff is behind it. Everytime some damn dumb Dem gets some power in the state they do one of these studies and it goes nowhere.
Posted by: fd"

We already have a high speed freeway with relatively little traffic on it for just that purpose and you can do it on your own schedule and probably for half the cost of a train ticket and even have a car when you get their to get around. Which is why the feasibility study will say we must do it.

Posted by: Ripley at March 15, 2022 08:01 AM (MxEKc)

77 And the VAST majority of Americans bought in because we've been conditioned that there should be no cost to our high lifestyle, so we must be afraid of everything.

I have been running under the theory that the fear of death in the public increases exponentially as quality and length of life increases.

When half the children born died within a few years, and the mother herself died in her early thirties, when most manual work had a significant risk of injury, when wars were far more frequent, when it was rare for anyone to make it in to their sixties, and when the culture had more of a faith that included views of the afterlife, then death was seen as something very different than now.

Now everyone expects to live healthy forever.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 08:01 AM (lD3vL)

78 Posted by: Guy Smiley - I am here. Standing...here. at March 15, 2022 08:01 AM (HsAzN)

Forget it, she's rolling.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:02 AM (1H0Qa)

79 America will never be a train country. We love our freedom. Trains are fine for Europe. The Left wants Europe sans the good parts.
Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 07:53 AM (FB3c2)

America already has an air travel network. Trains are massively inferior to air travel, unless your actual goal is simply to ride on a train for the experience itself.

The so called progressives are really retrograde. Replace the new with the old. Trains for airplanes. Windmills for carbon based fuels. Rousseau for Rockefeller.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2022 08:02 AM (6FeV1)

80 Can't you just see hordes of Atlanta denizens boarding a train for a day trip to the beach?

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2022 08:02 AM (vrz2I)

81 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:02 AM (DU+/6)

82 I truly do not believe that this nation will see an election in 2024.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 15, 2022 08:02 AM (/hCMk)

83 Train, train. Take me on out to the beach.

Posted by: Guy Smiley - I am here. Standing...here. at March 15, 2022 08:02 AM (HsAzN)

84 Now everyone expects to live healthy forever.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 08:01 AM (lD3vL)

They have nothing to live for besides life itself. It's a terrifying existence.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2022 08:03 AM (6FeV1)

85 Now everyone expects to live healthy forever.
___

No, some of us don't expect that at all.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 15, 2022 08:04 AM (/hCMk)

86 In other words, the bottom was too close to the top.
Posted by: fd at March 15, 2022 07:49 AM (vrz2I)
++++
Better than the front falling off.
https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:04 AM (DU+/6)

87 Not in this world, anyway.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 15, 2022 08:04 AM (/hCMk)

88 hey y'all

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclops at March 15, 2022 08:05 AM (Adlwz)

89 "What did we use for light before communism gave us the candle ?
Electricity."

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 15, 2022 08:05 AM (c1v4f)

90 Don't give them any ideas. I can see pelosi racking her demented brain trying to come up with some way to buy everyone's vote like that.

I don't believe that there is any requirement for presenting a cogent rational argument for anything these days. Pelosi already set back all known laws of economics by saying that the massive increase in the creation and injection of fiat currency into the economy reduces inflation.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 08:05 AM (lD3vL)

91 The train to Savannah will be as successful and popular as the Atlanta streetcar was/is for downtown Atlanta.

Posted by: Ripley at March 15, 2022 08:05 AM (MxEKc)

92 Good morning, Hordelings!

Another musical reference to today's date.
Myles Kennedy - "The Ides of March".
https://youtu.be/hAD_82BD7k4

Posted by: Doof at March 15, 2022 08:06 AM (mZUr4)

93
~sob-sob~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 15, 2022 08:06 AM (SWi3y)

94 "Conservatives are attacking America by weaponizing our favorite things."

*

Wait, what?

Stupid bastards want everyone to take identical tests, boys to play against boys and not be allowed to kick the sh*t out of girls, elections be transparent with one person having exactly one vote, no more and no less, with only people eligible to vote being able to vote, and laws be applied equally across the board.

What am I missing here?

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 15, 2022 08:07 AM (vwLCV)

95 Not the perfect country & western song because he hadnt said anything at all about mama,
Or trains to beaches,
Or trucks,
Or prison,
Or getting drunk

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 08:07 AM (yrol0)

96 I have been running under the theory that the fear of death in the public increases exponentially as quality and length of life increases.

I can't dispute that. What really sticks in my craw is how much it has even infected the Church.

We've stopped having "funerals" and now they're "celebrations of life." We stopped "mourning" and started "rejoicing that [whoever] has entered Heaven," and yet somehow the idea that someone might die from a disease is a good reason to close the doors, send everyone home, and resign to Perdition those whose only lifeline to God was the weekly rhythm of church services and being in close proximity to God's people.

[no, you don't have to believe the way I do. Given that someone *does* however, you would have to be able to square that circle]

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:07 AM (1H0Qa)

97 When the COVID plandemic morphed into a civilian compliance operation shortly after *biden "won" the "election" the stage was set for future compliance type ops. The next one is already underway.

Climate Crisis.

The first compliance effort is to wean the population off of fossil fuels by any means necessary. Skyrocketing energy prices are the result and are here to stay. Shortages, real shortages are coming.

And true to form anyone that even suggests this, or anything else the junta spouts is spreading false information and is a traitor. That little op is well underway too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2022 08:07 AM (BFigT)

98 89 "What did we use for light before communism gave us the candle ?
Electricity."
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (c1v4f) at March 15, 2022 08:05 AM (c1v4f)

"If it wasn't for electricity, we'd all be watching TV by candlelight."

- - George Gobel

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2022 08:07 AM (s2VJv)

99 "Better than the front falling off.
https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM"

Not common at all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2022 08:07 AM (3D/fK)

100 We already have a high speed freeway with relatively little traffic on it for just that purpose and you can do it on your own schedule and probably for half the cost of a train ticket and even have a car when you get their to get around. Which is why the feasibility study will say we must do it.
Posted by: Ripley

Say that again when gas is $10. Besides, you can take the bus in Savannah. You don't need a car, poor person.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:08 AM (qnVBz)

101 Savannah isn't even where Georgians go to the beach.

There doesn't seem to be any real need for established two way transit between those two cities. It can only be graft.

Posted by: blaster at March 15, 2022 08:08 AM (9otr5)

102 That said we can never really know the true feelings of the public at large because the agitprop media's job is to lie, obfuscate or otherwise embargo the facts in order to preserve the Leftist-Globalist enterprise that hijacked the country in 2020.
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This is one of the key strategic problems with running a censorship regime. You can do it. You can control the press and send thugs out to keep the rubes from saying things that go off the script. You can make people feel scared and alone and be too fearful to ask *anyone* they know whether that's actually true.

This makes all regime-related messaging consistent and keeps dissent at a minimum, but it comes with a direct cost: ignorance. When you employ a total censorship state, you silence your internal opponents and keep dissent minimized, but you also cut off your own sources of information. You don't know how angry people are or how many angry people there are. You necessarily create an intelligence vacuum when you run a censorship regime. This is one of the reasons why revolutionary triggers are often surprising and unexpected or even inconceivable beforehand.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:08 AM (DU+/6)

103 Now everyone expects to live healthy forever.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 08:01 AM (lD3vL)

As they always say on the radio. You DESERVE this or that. You deserve to live a long life

Posted by: A dude in MI at March 15, 2022 08:08 AM (/6GbT)

104 RIP Scott Hall.

Posted by: mr tmz at March 15, 2022 08:08 AM (rJ48h)

105 What is worse is hospitals that still won't get rid of their mask mandates and restrictive visitor policies because the policies are set by HR karens and none of the doctors dare question them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 07:36 AM (qnVBz)

Yesterday I went to the hospital for a kidney ultrasound, and the technician said she despairs of ever having their mask mandate lifted.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 15, 2022 08:09 AM (45fpk)

106 I have provided you high speed rail! I have provided you plentiful busses! Admire me! Worship me citizens!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:09 AM (qnVBz)

107 The state is spending $8 million in federal funding to determine the feasibility of a high-speed rail system from Atlanta to Savannah.

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Ukraine is the answer to so many questions.

Same as the $14B that is headed to Ukraine as we speak., no one wants that train. No one gives a sh*t about a train from Atlanta to Savannah. But lots of people will get part of that $8M, same as lots of DC politicians will get some of that $14B.

I'd be surprised if $200M reaches Ukrainians.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 15, 2022 08:09 AM (vwLCV)

108 What am I missing here?

Realizing that our society found its current arrangement for good and valid reasons and not wanting to throw out the baby with the bathwater is EXACTLY THE SAME as being a KKK Nazi lover.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:09 AM (1H0Qa)

109 "1970, before you were born"
Get off MY lawn, JJ. Ya whippersnapper.

Posted by: GWB at March 15, 2022 08:10 AM (Vry30)

110
RIP Scott Hall.

Posted by: mr tmz at March 15, 2022 08:08 A

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 15, 2022 08:10 AM (DUIap)

111 Our Betters have created several momentous Known Unknowns. We know bad shit might happen, but aren't sure how, when or why. It's like we're walking across a frozen lake and can hear the ice creaking.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 15, 2022 08:10 AM (i0slg)

112 Now everyone expects to live healthy forever.
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No, some of us don't expect that at all.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace

You have a renewed mind. Also, in my speculation I added that faith is a significant component. Included in that was the "quality of life" factor. Suicides occur when people zero out their QoL matrix. Good times creates fantasies of long healthy life. Pastor John MacArthur wrote a book "Whatever Happened to Heaven" where, among other things, that if it were up to people to number their days would keep putting things on their bucketlist to accomplish before dying - even when they acknowledge that the world is a dumpster when compared to Heaven.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 08:10 AM (lD3vL)

113 91 Erie PA has, or had, a free downtown trolley. It was a couple of those buses that look like a trolley car. It ran a pretty reasonable route for people who worked downtown. Even being free, about the only riders you would see were homeless guys staying warm or cool depending on the season.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 15, 2022 08:10 AM (lz5hY)

114 The California High-Speed Rail project is one of the most expensive failures in State history and could cost $100 billion, more than three times the $33 billion that was initially estimated.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 08:11 AM (yrol0)

115 How sad is it that we now live in a society where the most radical position one can hold is "leave me alone"?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:12 AM (1H0Qa)

116 It was a train country and regionally it was an interurban electric railway country. Ironically, the road improvements that interubans made or were required to in order to get trackage rights were what led to their doom and passenger rail's demise via the automobile and trucking.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2022 08:01 AM (s2VJv)
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In part. Air travel was the final nail. We move a lot of freight by rail, but the intermodal transport system has made it so we move less freight by rail end-to-end. Huge amounts of stuff moves by rail between intermodal hubs and then it hits trucks. It depends on what it is.

But the two real problems for passenger rail in the US is twofold. First is scale as others pointed out, but the other is density. We don't have the population density for effective rail transportation. We do in one place: the Acela corridor. The denser NE to Mid-Atlantic has the density to make rail workable, and that is where most of our passenger rail is. Even there, though, nobody rides it. Americans don't travel by train, even when they have the choice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:12 AM (DU+/6)

117 Same as the $14B that is headed to Ukraine as we speak., no one wants that train. No one gives a sh*t about a train from Atlanta to Savannah. But lots of people will get part of that $8M, same as lots of DC politicians will get some of that $14B.

I'd be surprised if $200M reaches Ukrainians.

There was a movie "Backstabbing for Beginners" which is a tutorial on how that process works.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 08:12 AM (lD3vL)

118 This time around, sadly, the hysteria wasn't pushed solely by lefty environmental activists but also by President Donald Trump, Republican governors, and "conservative" influencers throughout the media. Once that buy-in was made, all hope was lost.

Totally nailed it. I love PDJT but his original shut down recommendation was a terrible super consequential blunder. Combine that with his strangely passive response to the George FLoyd riots and his last year in office was just awful. 3 great years then an awful finish.

Posted by: Dusky Piss Flaps at March 15, 2022 08:12 AM (RlHi9)

119 Cali hourly workers have received about $265 million of the $6.1 billion that has been spent on construction, representing just 4%.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 08:12 AM (yrol0)

120 My hospital informed us yesterday that they are "reviewing" the mask policy and will inform us at a future date if there will be any changes. Until then, wear your masks at all times, even if working from home, or you will be fired!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:12 AM (qnVBz)

121 Yesterday I went to the hospital for a kidney ultrasound, and the technician said she despairs of ever having their mask mandate lifted.
Posted by: grammie winger

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It's bizarre because one would think they of all people would be able to look at the situation and say "This hasn't accomplished anything."

I can forgive poor D'Onee'sHa for being terrified of da COATIDS and wearing three masks. I can't understand educated people rejecting what they are seeing with their own eyes.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 15, 2022 08:12 AM (vwLCV)

122 After 12 years of delays, mismanagement, and political gridlock, the total cost estimate for the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has reached $100 billion.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 08:14 AM (yrol0)

123 "Savannah isn't even where Georgians go to the beach.

There doesn't seem to be any real need for established two way transit between those two cities. It can only be graft.

Posted by: blaster"

Yep. Hilton Head, SC or the Florida panhandle. But the Savannah train will be packed for St Patricks day.

Posted by: Ripley at March 15, 2022 08:14 AM (MxEKc)

124 How sad is it that we now live in a society where the most radical position one can hold is "leave me alone"?
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:12 AM (1H0Qa)

All the world is everywhere and always a disaster, and We're All In This Together.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2022 08:15 AM (6FeV1)

125 After 12 years of delays, mismanagement, and political gridlock, the total cost estimate for the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has reached $100 billion.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 08:14 AM (yrol0)
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On the plus side, it won't cost that much because it won't be built. Everything already squandered is lost, but it won't cost $100 billion. It has been clear for many years now that every additional penny spent on that debacle is good money thrown after bad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:15 AM (DU+/6)

126 Here's the Russian version of Vehicle

https://www.youtube.com/

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 15, 2022 08:15 AM (7ZQe3)

127 if it were up to people to number their days would keep putting things on their bucketlist to accomplish before dying - even when they acknowledge that the world is a dumpster when compared to Heaven.

Dying has been made scary. Once upon a time it was just a part of life. Forget Christianity, the Greek Philosophers all embraced it. So did the Norse and Germans. The Egyptians, Romans, and on and on. Don't live for tomorrow - it may not come. Don't live for today - that way leads to debauchery. Live for the after-life.

How much better would life be if we all tried to live lives actually worthy of that?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:15 AM (1H0Qa)

128 How sad is it that we now live in a society where the most radical position one can hold is "leave me alone"?
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:12 AM (1H0Qa)
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Welcome to totalitarianism. It isn't there yet in this country, but we're well on our way and likely past the inflection point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:16 AM (DU+/6)

129 "They're Lying To You': Woman Runs Into Frame, Interrupts Live Russian Broadcast To Protest War In Ukraine"
She was taken into custody by Russian police and probably will be imprisoned for the rest of her life or killed.
We need someone to do this on air at the CNN studios.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 15, 2022 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

130 No doubt trains made a huge impact on settling this country. If I have read a hundred books on The Old West, I have read 200. But the leftists want us to give up cars, our freedom, and use trains like the Euros for transport. No chance, no how.

Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 08:16 AM (FB3c2)

131 One of two things needs to happen: NATO needs to be dissolved and the EU needs to stand up and put their big balls on display.

Or the EU needs to shut the fuck up, pay the bills and continue to hide in the shadows like the little Marxist bitches that they are.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 15, 2022 08:17 AM (oWZwa)

132 I once took Amtrak in the Fall from NYC to Albany for a work-related day trip. The tracks are right on the Hudson.

Spectacular, gorgeous ride.

The meeting was near the train station, you see. Else it would have been boring I-87 the whole way.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 15, 2022 08:17 AM (i0slg)

133 America will never be a train country. We love our freedom. Trains are fine for Europe. The Left wants Europe sans the good parts.
Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 07:53 AM (FB3c2)

I am a free man! (rattles chains)...I am the only free man on this train! The rest of you are CATTLE!

Posted by: Kostoyed Amourski at March 15, 2022 08:17 AM (wVHhX)

134 Owning a gun isn't a "God-given right." It's a slave-owning, misogynistic founding father-given right. I'm not against 2A, but be real - the Constitution was written by people! Today I'm filibustering a bill that would allow concealed carry without training or a permit -Nebraska Senator Megan Hunt

I get that she is from Omaha, but how in the hell did you all manage to elect a fully woke 22 year old "Bi-queen" AWFL?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:18 AM (qnVBz)

135 Yesterday I went to the hospital for a kidney ultrasound, and the technician said she despairs of ever having their mask mandate lifted.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 15, 2022 08:09 AM

TSA is going to extend the mask mandate that is set to expire this week for all public transportation. I doubt it will ever go away.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 15, 2022 08:18 AM (bVYXr)

136 Hundreds of local Seattle businesses are leaving, and Seattle residents have no one to blame except voters and the communists they've elected."
Put a Fork in Seattle

Those businesses were only profiting when white people controlled the area, and now that Seattle's properly undertaking measures for racial and sexual equity, they flee like ticks who've engorged themselves and jump to their next meal. We have plenty of people we can blame!

Posted by: Progressive Seattle Voters at March 15, 2022 08:18 AM (BCSAN)

137 I can't understand educated people rejecting what they are seeing with their own eyes.

It makes perfect sense. Much of their "education" has been focused on teaching them to reject things they know to be true and accept things that are false on their face.

That's the whole point of "Critical Theory" which infected colleges and universities long before the word "equity" was ever uttered in a public school classroom.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:18 AM (1H0Qa)

138 I have been running under the theory that the fear of death in the public increases exponentially as quality and length of life increases.

That and the lack of Faith & God in their lives.
Convinced there's nothing more than a dirt nap scares the shit out of people.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 08:18 AM (NOXTJ)

139 On the plus side, it won't cost that much because it won't be built. Everything already squandered is lost, but it won't cost $100 billion. It has been clear for many years now that every additional penny spent on that debacle is good money thrown after bad.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:15 AM (DU+/6)
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Not exactly squandered.
/Gavin and friends

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 15, 2022 08:19 AM (EZebt)

140 We have free train-like double-busses linked together that run the length of town on their own road parallel to the real train tracks, with free park-and-rides along the way that were very popular with downtown workers pre-covid. The system ran 24-hours pre-Covid.

Lots of office workers, college students, and just regular folks of all types used it pre-Covid as a convenient way to avoid the difficulty and cost of downtown parking. The homeless/hobos commandeered the back (as always seems to be the case no matter the town!) and everybody else sat up front.

Now the whole thing shuts down at 6:30 pm, making it virtually useless as if I was to go downtown I'd have to Uber back anyway, it does not run on Sundays at all which was one of its busiest days, and even during the days, there are far fewer buses and long, long waits. Plus, you still have to wear a tard-rag or they'll throw you off. I used to love that system. Now I almost never use it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley - I am here. Standing...here. at March 15, 2022 08:19 AM (HsAzN)

141 I get that she is from Omaha, but how in the hell did you all manage to elect a fully woke 22 year old "Bi-queen" AWFL?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:18 AM (qnVBz)
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An otherwise boring election cycle with a serious money machine backing her campaign? I don't know and I can't be bothered to look, but that's my guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:19 AM (DU+/6)

142 Oops

https://youtu.be/fX8g_JEJol8R

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 15, 2022 08:20 AM (7ZQe3)

143 "Will Putin Up The Ante"

All we have heard since this mess started is Russian doctrine is "escalate to de-escalate" so that sounds like a big "yes".

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 15, 2022 08:20 AM (XNqFY)

144 Those businesses were only profiting when white people controlled the area, and now that Seattle's properly undertaking measures for racial and sexual equity, they flee like ticks who've engorged themselves and jump to their next meal. We have plenty of people we can blame!
Posted by: Progressive Seattle Voters at March 15, 2022 08:18 AM (BCSAN)
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Ah, yes, rehashing the "white flight" bullshit. The funny-not-funny thing about "white flight" is that it wasn't. It wasn't white flight, it was decency flight. Decent, middle-class black and Asian and Latino folk were fleeing places like Detroit and Baltimore right along with those nasty white people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:22 AM (DU+/6)

145 I'm not against 2A, but

Anyone who says this is against the 2nd Amendment.

Yes, I SHOULD be able to own a howitzer. Yes, I SHOULD be able to walk into city hall with my AR-97 strapped to my shoulder and my Glock 34.5 concealed on my person.

Because the bad guys already are (at least the concealed carry part), and when bad things happen, the only person I know I can count on is *me*.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:23 AM (1H0Qa)

146 There has always been a certain effort in education to train children that any inconsistencies they notice about totalitarian and collectivist utopianism is always, always due to the student not being smart enough. You just don't know what you're talking about yet. That's Reactionary thought. Wrongthink. Trust The Experts.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2022 08:24 AM (6FeV1)

147 The Small Business Administration has (among other blunders) disbursed more than $6.2 billion to loan applicants it now suspects of identity theft.�
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It's worse than they even say. They were told to turn off almost all identify verification. The platform was built by Rocket Mortgage (whose palm got greased for that?)
You could get a loan for $200k without submitting a single document, not even a copy of your driver's license. And a $10k grant.

Those were orders from the top-- get the money out there. That was Trump, even as late as 2020, still full of faith in the government can fix this. He was trying to juice the economy that he let Covid kill.

Posted by: Well at March 15, 2022 08:24 AM (pMvSF)

148 Air freight accounts for a huge volume of shipping. I live not far from Louisville, KY... a huge hub for UPS. The amount of air traffic going into and out of that airport solely for UPS is astounding.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2022 08:24 AM (BFigT)

149 Decent, middle-class black and Asian and Latino folk were fleeing places like Detroit and Baltimore right along with those nasty white people.

But those black, Asian, and Latinos don't count as PoC because they "benefit from whiteness and the patriarchy," which, as far as I can tell, means they take responsibility for their own choices and actions and have decided not to live as barbarians raiding and pillaging their neighbors.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:24 AM (1H0Qa)

150 After 12 years of delays, mismanagement, and political gridlock, the total cost estimate for the California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) has reached $100 billion.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 08:14 AM (yrol0)
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When they started on that "project" we all speculated on eventual cost. Someone here picked $500 billion, iirc, on the theory it was some particular huge multiple of state government promises.

What a ridiculous waste of money. Building a train. These people should be forever mocked.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 15, 2022 08:25 AM (XNqFY)

151 "I'm not against 2A, but"

Anyone who says this is against the 2nd Amendment. ....
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:23 AM (1H0Qa)
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Yes, this is fully right. Just like how anyone that "isn't technically a whore" is a whore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:25 AM (DU+/6)

152 The denser NE to Mid-Atlantic has the density to make rail workable, and that is where most of our passenger rail is. Even there, though, nobody rides it. Americans don't travel by train, even when they have the choice.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Because the train only goes to one place. Once there, you are on foot to figure out how to get where you need to go.
Downtown Dallas is no longer a couple of businesses on the square surrounding the county courthouse. Once you get to the train station, it's on you to get to the other end to your job.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 08:26 AM (NOXTJ)

153 "I'm not against 2A, but"

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One of the most valuable things you can teach your children is that nothing before the "but" is true.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 15, 2022 08:26 AM (vwLCV)

154 Did Putin accept Elon's "high stakes" duel offer?

Posted by: sidney at March 15, 2022 08:27 AM (LJJah)

155 There has always been a certain effort in education to train children that any inconsistencies they notice about totalitarian and collectivist utopianism is always, always due to the student not being smart enough. You just don't know what you're talking about yet. That's Reactionary thought. Wrongthink. Trust The Experts.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2022 08:24 AM (6FeV1)
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And much of that is thanks to the guy who would be my personal choice to go stifle in the cradle if I had a time machine: John Fucking Dewey.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:28 AM (DU+/6)

156 Ukraine is the answer to so many questions.

Same as the $14B that is headed to Ukraine as we speak., no one wants that train. No one gives a sh*t about a train from Atlanta to Savannah. But lots of people will get part of that $8M, same as lots of DC politicians will get some of that $14B.

I'd be surprised if $200M reaches Ukrainians.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 15, 2022 08:09 AM (vwLCV)
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In unrelated news, Hunter Biden has invested $1.4B on behalf of an unspecified angel investor in his latest venture: a chain of U.S. government-subsidized, Chinese-operated, solar-and-wind-powered crematoria in every city and town throughout the country.

Long Big Death!

/It's too early in the morning to be so dark ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 15, 2022 08:28 AM (c3Qm1)

157
"Not against" does not mean "for." No qualifiers.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2022 08:28 AM (s2VJv)

158 Downtown Dallas is no longer a couple of businesses on the square surrounding the county courthouse.

I'll admit, when I was working in downtown Dallas, I liked DART and the TRE (I was living in north Arlington), because any time I was on the train was time I wasn't driving.

BUT I also knew plenty of people who couldn't have made that work. The office I worked at was like 2 or 3 blocks from one of the Red Line stops.

And once you get out of true "downtown" and up into north Dallas or Richardson, using DART just doesn't work very effectively if you have any other option.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:29 AM (1H0Qa)

159 Chinese-operated, solar-and-wind-powered crematoria in every city and town throughout the country.

Slow burn....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2022 08:29 AM (BFigT)

160 Because the train only goes to one place. Once there, you are on foot to figure out how to get where you need to go.
Downtown Dallas is no longer a couple of businesses on the square surrounding the county courthouse. Once you get to the train station, it's on you to get to the other end to your job.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 08:26 AM (NOXTJ)
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Back when Top Gear was a thing, they'd do races of mass transit (train, bus, air, sea, whatever) vs. Jeremy Clarkson in his car. The reason Clarkson usually won those races is because of this factor. The train or plane or ship is fast, but you have to get to it and the terms of the game always included that the mass transit folks could *not* use private cars. And walking between stops and waiting for slow buses to get you to the fast train flip the advantage.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:30 AM (DU+/6)

161 Black people are increasing their Repub vote. Hispanics are massively increasing the theie Repub vote, particularly in Texas, FL, and I guess AZ. The Dems are the ones fixated on race
The reality is that party only exists because of Woke white people. That is their base, and the only part that is growing.

A lot of kids should have sued their teachers, and looked side eyed at their parents.

Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 08:30 AM (FB3c2)

162 Can't believe I voted for Romney. What a gigantic POS.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at March 15, 2022 08:30 AM (LKen+)

163 And once you get out of true "downtown" and up into north Dallas or Richardson, using DART just doesn't work very effectively if you have any other option.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

I've moved. I'm no longer 15 miles north of my office. I'm now 81 miles north. No bus or train service is feasible.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 08:30 AM (NOXTJ)

164 Pete Seria and everybody who appreciates cover bands -- the Lexington Lab Band is awesome (and prolific). The only song I've heard them stumble on was a Rush song, because nobody can duplicate Neil Peart.

https://lexingtonlabband.com/

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 15, 2022 08:31 AM (PiwSw)

165 No one likes a big bully beating up on a littler guy, so Putin and Russia invading Ukraine, a much smaller nation, naturally invited sympathy. Biden's corrupt relationships there have all been papered over by the press. Corruption is so normal in Russia they probably don't even think twice about Biden's penny-ante efforts, but if Russia was smart they would release every detail to the public. The smallest detail. It would have a powerful effect.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 15, 2022 08:32 AM (f9C7x)

166 No one likes a big bully beating up on a littler guy, so Putin and Russia invading Ukraine, a much smaller nation, naturally invited sympathy.
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That really has been the entire justification for us becoming involved in WWIII, hasn't it?

"Ukraine is a smaller country."

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 15, 2022 08:33 AM (vwLCV)

167 Omaha is a strange town with a strange history. It Nebraska, like a lot of places isn't what Americans imagine it to be.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 15, 2022 08:33 AM (oWBc3)

168 Try again
Good morning horde
Posted by: Skip's Phone

I thought you gave us a Hide Five

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2022 08:34 AM (arJlL)

169 I've moved. I'm no longer 15 miles north of my office. I'm now 81 miles north. No bus or train service is feasible.

Yep. That'll do it.

Again, it baffles me that people don't understand the inherent difficulties in getting a nation our size with interests as diverse as ours to adopt centralized, point-to-point transportation as our primary means of transport.

Even back when trains were helping build the West, the *people* often made their own way on their own trails in wagons. Being "close to town" often meant it was only a one day round trip to get to town, get your grocery order (that you'd put in last month), and then get back home.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:34 AM (1H0Qa)

170 17 One of the strangest things about Omaha is Carter Lake Iowa.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 15, 2022 08:35 AM (lz5hY)

171 Just heard a song on the radio

Don't say Gay, by The Kansas City Faggots

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2022 08:35 AM (arJlL)

172 Silicon Valley had a pretty good transportation system in place when we lived there back in 2000-2004. There was an electric trolley that meandered through Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Santa Clara IIRC. The CalTrain would take you up to San Francisco or as far south as Gilroy. Most stations were within walking distance. Granted it was primarily for that area but it worked.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2022 08:35 AM (BFigT)

173 One of Hunter's corrupt gigs was with Amtrak. Just another scam.

Posted by: fd at March 15, 2022 08:36 AM (vrz2I)

174 Alright... time to work-at-work.
One day I will be a rich and famous (or at least semi-well known and making a real living) author. But for now, the Man calleth.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at March 15, 2022 08:36 AM (1H0Qa)

175 I'm a big PDT fan. Yugely.

But after seeing what TPTB unleashed on the his supporters and the world during and after his first term, I can't imagine what they have planned if he were to win a second term.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at March 15, 2022 08:36 AM (aX0CW)

176 Omaha is a strange town with a strange history. It Nebraska, like a lot of places isn't what Americans imagine it to be.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 15, 2022 08:33 AM (oWBc3)
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One of the weirder experiences of my life happened in Omaha. I was there for work and was on night shift, so I took my lunch break at about 03:00. I went to Walmart to get a sandwich and there a pimp propositioned me on behalf of his bitch, right in the Walmart aisle. Great, high-pressure salesman. Said I didn't have time, he told me quickies were her specialty and he guaranteed I wouldn't be late back to work. Said I just wasn't interested, he started pitching her various qualities and talents.

At a Walmart at three in the morning while I was on my lunch break. It was fucking surreal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:36 AM (DU+/6)

177 146 There has always been a certain effort in education to train children that any inconsistencies they notice about totalitarian and collectivist utopianism is always, always due to the student not being smart enough. You just don't know what you're talking about yet. That's Reactionary thought. Wrongthink. Trust The Experts.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2022 08:24 AM (6FeV1)

Having a paramilitary in Antifa, an informal Gestapo ready to inform you to the FBI at a moment's notice, and sicced the entire Corporate America to fire from their jobs anyone who doesn't take our jabs doesn't mean the Democrats are fascist. Just look at how much they love gay people!

*Things my family has told me in complete seriousness

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at March 15, 2022 08:37 AM (BCSAN)

178 I'm not sure the 'pick on your own size' argument has much resonance here anymore. Most people don't care about Ukraine, just like they might get agitated but won't get involved when a guy rapes a woman on a train, or some ferals attack an Asian grandma,etc. The self-centric society is making the propagandist's job damn difficult these days outside of DC cocktail parties.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 15, 2022 08:37 AM (oWBc3)

179 155 There has always been a certain effort in education to train children that any inconsistencies they notice about totalitarian and collectivist utopianism is always, always due to the student not being smart enough. You just don't know what you're talking about yet. That's Reactionary thought. Wrongthink. Trust The Experts.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 15, 2022 08:24 AM (6FeV1)
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And much of that is thanks to the guy who would be my personal choice to go stifle in the cradle if I had a time machine: John Fucking Dewey.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:28 AM (DU+/6)
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Ayn Rand blamed Immanual Kant as the primary origin for the philosophical underpinnings of such anti-rational, nihilistic ideas -- and ultimately their destructive collectivism genocidal fruits which necessarily followed -- specifically: his unreadable, hence "you're just no smart enough to grasp it," Critique of Pure Reason.

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 15, 2022 08:37 AM (c3Qm1)

180 Black people are increasing their Repub vote. Hispanics are massively increasing the theie Repub vote, particularly in Texas, FL, and I guess AZ. The Dems are the ones fixated on race

And the Dems are focusing on making white people woke, and then capturing the woke white girl vote so they can all help those minorities who have been brainwashed by those racist republicans.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:37 AM (qnVBz)

181 167 the Midwest has always been strange politically. But if you ever want to expound, do so.

Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 08:37 AM (FB3c2)

182 Silicon Valley had a pretty good transportation system in place when we lived there back in 2000-2004. There was an electric trolley that meandered through Sunnyvale, Mountain View and Santa Clara IIRC. The CalTrain would take you up to San Francisco or as far south as Gilroy. Most stations were within walking distance. Granted it was primarily for that area but it worked.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2022 08:35 AM (BFigT)
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They also have high population density.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:37 AM (DU+/6)

183 Probably nothing, but Nowruz, the Persian New Year, is March 20. Perhaps the missiles Iran shot at Erbil were practice for Nowruz.

Posted by: Delurk Ergo Sum at March 15, 2022 08:37 AM (SmFPm)

184 Nebraska Senator Megan Hunt
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Isn't Nebraska the only state with a unicameral assembly? Is Senator what they call their representatives?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 15, 2022 08:38 AM (FBf3u)

185 Just heard a song on the radio

Don't say Gay, by The Kansas City Faggots
Posted by: JT

We hired them to lay track. Not jump around.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 08:38 AM (NOXTJ)

186 John Fucking Dewey.

What do you have against a library organization system?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:38 AM (qnVBz)

187 Globull Warming makes the sea level rise. That started again as soon as the JEF left office.

So that ship that got grounded in the Chesapeake COULDN'T have issue with being floated. This is more fake news.

I'm so tired of the lies.

Posted by: torabora at March 15, 2022 08:39 AM (vTL8p)

188 I live not far from Louisville, KY... a huge hub for UPS. The amount of air traffic going into and out of that airport solely for UPS is astounding.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2022 08:24 AM (BFigT)

Always like driving by that airport when we head south. Very busy

Posted by: A dude in MI at March 15, 2022 08:41 AM (/6GbT)

189 What do you have against a library organization system?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:38 AM (qnVBz)
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That he is known for the decimal system to the exclusion of his great and terrible evil is prime evidence of the efficacy of his movement's info op.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:41 AM (DU+/6)

190 Just heard a song on the radio

Don't say Gay, by The Kansas City Faggots
Posted by: JT

We hired them to lay track. Not jump around.
Posted by: rickb223

lol Hiya rickb !

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2022 08:42 AM (arJlL)

191 "We continue to raise with Saudi Arabia the need to ensure fair trial guarantees, freedom from arbitrary and extrajudicial detention, transparency, the rule of law, and freedom of religion of belief," Price said.

My irony meter just pegged at eleventy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 15, 2022 08:43 AM (f9C7x)

192 "Trump's catastrophic decision to acquiesce to the demands of Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx..."

The question is, would he do it again? That is, in a general sense, is his susceptibility to expert opinion in the name of the "greater good" an ongoing caution? I believe so.

The irony is, for all of Trump's talents and his reputation for toughness ("You're fired!"), he's a softie. He's overtly tough but covertly sentimental and impressionable. (Think Jarrod and Ivanka.)

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 15, 2022 08:43 AM (H8QX8)

193 Dems push plan to tax oil companies' profits, send checks to Americans during Russia-Ukraine price spike
Energy industry insiders warn plan could backfire, increase costs on consumers

https://tinyurl.com/36p4cfy8

Posted by: redridinghood at March 15, 2022 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

194 "Ukraine is a smaller country."
Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 15, 2022 08:33 AM (vwLCV)

compared to Russia, all countries are smaller

Posted by: REDACTED at March 15, 2022 08:44 AM (us2H3)

195 compared to Russia, all countries are smaller
Posted by: REDACTED at March 15, 2022 08:44 AM (us2H3)
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Canada is nearly there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:44 AM (DU+/6)

196 lol Hiya rickb !
Posted by: JT

Hiya JT!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 08:45 AM (NOXTJ)

197 compared to Russia, all countries are smaller
Posted by: REDACTED at March 15, 2022 08:44 AM (us2H3)
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Canada is nearly there.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

*cough China cough*

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 08:46 AM (NOXTJ)

198 Tulsi Gabbard - doing the work the Republican Paty won't do.

Posted by: kraken at March 15, 2022 08:46 AM (Vr12I)

199 Interesting idea: DeSantis/Gabbard '24.

Not sure what to think of Tulsi Gabbard. As she is on the WEF Young Global Leaders list.

https://bit.ly/3JeGvhH

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 15, 2022 08:46 AM (Do5/p)

200 *cough China cough*
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 08:46 AM (NOXTJ)
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China is closer to US-sized than Russia-sized, but yeah. Big 'ole countries, the lot of them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:47 AM (DU+/6)

201 The Russia issue isn't a function of geographical size, it's a 4x greater population, and an even more exaggerated military advantage.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 15, 2022 08:48 AM (f9C7x)

202 Climate change hurricane hysteria season starts soon!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:48 AM (qnVBz)

203 Dems push plan to tax oil companies' profits, send checks to Americans during Russia-Ukraine price spike
Energy industry insiders warn plan could backfire, increase costs on consumers

https://tinyurl.com/36p4cfy8

Posted by: redridinghood at March 15, 2022 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

Classic playbook stuff. The crisis-into -opportunity wheels never stop turning. Turn us into relief-check junkies as civilization collapses around us.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 15, 2022 08:48 AM (H8QX8)

204 199 Interesting idea: DeSantis/Gabbard '24.

Not sure what to think of Tulsi Gabbard. As she is on the WEF Young Global Leaders list.

https://bit.ly/3JeGvhH
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 15, 2022 08:46 AM (Do5/p)

With some Republicans, don't forget.

Posted by: kraken at March 15, 2022 08:48 AM (Vr12I)

205 Not sure what to think of Tulsi Gabbard. As she is on the WEF Young Global Leaders list.

Nope. Nope. Nope.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 08:49 AM (NOXTJ)

206 Nope. Nope. Nope.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 08:49 AM (NOXTJ)
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That's where I am. If you have WEF membership or accolades, you're off my list.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:49 AM (DU+/6)

207 198 Tulsi Gabbard - doing the work the Republican Paty won't do.
Posted by: kraken at March 15, 2022 08:46 AM (Vr12I)

How true.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 15, 2022 08:50 AM (H8QX8)

208 I think Tulsi is a WEF authoritarian, but she got on the wrong side of Pelosi and was kicked off the path. Now she has to strike a moderate, different tone to get herself back in power. But trust me, when she has power, you will not like it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:50 AM (qnVBz)

209 193 Dems push plan to tax oil companies' profits, send checks to Americans during Russia-Ukraine price spike
Energy industry insiders warn plan could backfire, increase costs on consumers

https://tinyurl.com/36p4cfy8

Posted by: redridinghood at March 15, 2022 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

Ahh, yes, the non-profit model of grabbing every piece of revenue and spending it immediately, so they can have absolutely nothing left over for when hard times strike and their revenues shrink or their costs rise. All while the people who contribute nothing but move other people's money around give themselves 6 figure salaries.

What can go wrong?

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at March 15, 2022 08:50 AM (BCSAN)

210 Yesterday I went to the hospital for a kidney ultrasound, and the technician said she despairs of ever having their mask mandate lifted.
Posted by: grammie winger
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It's bizarre because one would think they of all people would be able to look at the situation and say "This hasn't accomplished anything."

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA

As it has been explained to me, hospitals suffer from all of the usual bureaucratic pathologies of large sclerotic institutions that have heavy legal exposure.

What happened is that the Centers for Disease Creation caused a regulatory and administrative panic in their politically induced hysteria and hospitals were forced to quickly assemble committees of neurotic bureaucrats to reduce legal exposure to irrational litigants who felt the hospitals weren't doing enough.

The bizarre and the insane policies ended up being the result because the court systems are bizarre and insane.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 08:51 AM (lD3vL)

211 Tulsi is like a Siren in the Odyssey. Be careful.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 15, 2022 08:51 AM (oWBc3)

212 See Crenshaw, Dan.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:51 AM (qnVBz)

213 Not sure what to think of Tulsi Gabbard. As she is on the WEF Young Global Leaders list.

https://bit.ly/3JeGvhH
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 15, 2022 08:46 AM (Do5/p)

Oooh, Ibram X made the list, searching searching, but Ida Bae Wells did not! That list is racist!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 15, 2022 08:51 AM (PiwSw)

214 Victim chases down armed robber, gets his money back.

I like living here.

https://tinyurl.com/2ddnmrfn

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2022 08:51 AM (3D/fK)

215 Climate change hurricane hysteria season starts soon!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:48 AM (qnVBz)
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Electric cars hardest hit.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 15, 2022 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

216 Not sure what to think of Tulsi Gabbard. As she is on the WEF Young Global Leaders list.

Someone should warn Tucker. He seemingly falls all over himself in support of Gabbard, though that may be motivated by an anti-Uniparty stance more than a pro-Gabbard personally stance.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 15, 2022 08:52 AM (f9C7x)

217 The Russia issue isn't a function of geographical size, it's a 4x greater population, and an even more exaggerated military advantage.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

**

And it's still no reason for us to be involved.

The entire reason we're being pushed to get WWIII going is because DC politicians' graft and ability to launder US taxpayer dollars is threatened.

Hunter Biden's Burisma consulting gig is all you need to know about why we're going to go to war with Russia over Ukraine.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 15, 2022 08:52 AM (vwLCV)

218 206

That's where I am. If you have WEF membership or accolades, you're off my list.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:49 AM (DU+/6)

I imagine there's a lot to be discovered about our stalwart leaders with a bit of digging, eh Joe?

Posted by: kraken at March 15, 2022 08:52 AM (Vr12I)

219 UK defense sources say if Ukraine can hold out #2weeks they will have the upper hand on the Rooskies.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 08:52 AM (ZgB9e)

220 >>The decision sealed his electoral fate; the booming economy he helped build entered a death spiral.

Ah no. Trump got 74 million votes, most of any sitting president in history.

What sealed his fate was massive cheating unless you still believe despite the enormous amount of evidence pouring out to the contrary that Joe Biden got 81 million legal votes drooling in his basement.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2022 08:53 AM (ZLI7S)

221 I mean, I get it. Russians are killing American journalists.

Wait, no, that's not true. That's the Ukranians doing that.

Who are we supposed to be getting riled up and fighting against again?

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 15, 2022 08:53 AM (vwLCV)

222 I like Tulsi, but she's not the savior you think she is.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 15, 2022 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

223 I seem to recall some government functionary named Mike Pence was the SARS-CoV-19 chairman starting in February 2020 with Brix as a coordinator.

When did Fauci steal the spotlight? I know he and Brix were on stage a lot together early on, then she bailed.

Someone oughta' ask Pence what exactly he did as coordinator of that task force.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2022 08:53 AM (BFigT)

224 219 UK defense sources say if Ukraine can hold out #2weeks they will have the upper hand on the Rooskies.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 08:52 AM (ZgB9e)

And this is believable?

Posted by: kraken at March 15, 2022 08:53 AM (Vr12I)

225 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2022 08:51 AM (3D/fK)
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Great story.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 15, 2022 08:53 AM (f9C7x)

226 UK defense sources say if Ukraine can hold out #2weeks they will have the upper hand on the Rooskies.
Posted by: Braenyard

The Russkies are going to give them the surprise reach around.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:54 AM (qnVBz)

227 222 I like Tulsi, but she's not the savior you think she is.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 15, 2022 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

Not looking for a savior. I'm looking to win.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2022 08:54 AM (s2VJv)

228 We can be heavily involved in Ukraine without ever ever putting a boot on the ground.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 08:54 AM (ZgB9e)

229 Someone should warn Tucker. He seemingly falls all over himself in support of Gabbard, though that may be motivated by an anti-Uniparty stance more than a pro-Gabbard personally stance.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 15, 2022 08:52 AM (f9C7x)
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I think that's a fair read, but if you're in the WEF accolades list, you're Uniparty. You can be Uniparty without that, of course, and you can support and like all kinds of bad things without that. Being on that list or being a member of that organization, however, is a sure-fire indicator that you're someone who she be kept as far from any kind of authority as possible because you want me dead or enslaved to your creepy global technocracy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:54 AM (DU+/6)

230 See Crenshaw, Dan.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

I'm keeping an eye on him.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 08:54 AM (NOXTJ)

231 Ahh, yes, the non-profit model of grabbing every piece of revenue and spending it immediately, so they can have absolutely nothing left over for when hard times strike and their revenues shrink or their costs rise.

If you were a banker or lender, would you want any other policy to be the norm? Why allow a business to accumulate enough money to underwrite their own expansions, when you can have government confiscate and seize all available assets so to expand you need the government and the banker's permission (plus their usual vig for brokering a permit). Now the ESG grifters have a seat at the table that they were never invited to join.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 08:54 AM (lD3vL)

232 "Bloom Raskin, the wife of Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, is an advocate for using the Federal Reserve to promote green energy policy, which would mark a dramatic departure from the central banking system's dual mandate of maintaining maximum employment and keeping inflation in check."

Manchin Sinks Biden Federal Reserve Nominee Who Drew Republican Boycott

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Famous Zen saying: "From a Withered Xi, a Raskin Blooms."

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 15, 2022 08:55 AM (c3Qm1)

233 One thing I can say with absolute certainty. In two weeks, something will happen in Ukrainia.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:55 AM (qnVBz)

234 Very apt photoshop today.

JJ, you are the absolute master.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 15, 2022 08:55 AM (f9C7x)

235 UK defense sources say if Ukraine can hold out #2weeks they will have the upper hand on the Rooskies.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 08:52 AM (ZgB9e)

***

We shau see bout that Roundeye

Posted by: Xi Jinping at March 15, 2022 08:55 AM (flINI)

236 With some Republicans, don't forget.

Posted by: kraken at March 15, 2022 08:48 AM

Yep, such as Dan Crenshaw. And we know all about how most conservatives were fawning all over him early and how he turned out.

None of these assholes are to be trusted. Especially not anyone in House or Senate. They are all bought and paid for either by WEF or China or both.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 15, 2022 08:55 AM (Do5/p)

237 Morning all. We are meeting with a real estate agent this afternoon so I imagine we'll make a decision soon to either move or stay put. The issue with the dumb ass behind us who has 5 dogs will soon be resolved. Animal control came out yesterday after two complaints. I'm calling today to make it three. We need to keep the pressure on them to make her get rid of at least 2 of them.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 15, 2022 08:56 AM (nxdel)

238 Gabbard has no political future. Certainly not in Hawaii. She's probably doing payback now, and getting paid.

Posted by: kraken at March 15, 2022 08:56 AM (Vr12I)

239 Didn't get to post this in the morning thread, and won't be around for the post 100 art thread, so here are the psalms for Lent which some people are reading through-Psalm 46, 47, 48 are the ones for today, With its encouragement that God is our refuge and strength, psalm 46 is particularly appropriate for today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2022 08:56 AM (GezNK)

240 227 222 I like Tulsi, but she's not the savior you think she is.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 15, 2022 08:53 AM (NpAcC)
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Think of her this way, She's a very good undercover agent. She says and does what you want to see and hear.

Remember the stalwart, fresh Tea Party candidates that turned on a dime when they were elected?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 08:56 AM (ZgB9e)

241 >>Not looking for a savior. I'm looking to win.

You should read some of the stuff put out by Shipwreckedcrew on her. He's a conservative former federal prosecutor from Hawaii and he knows Hawaiian politics and the Gabbard clan.

He is adamant that she is not what she appears.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2022 08:56 AM (ZLI7S)

242 Leftists never die, they just assume another form.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:57 AM (qnVBz)

243 #twoweeks for Ukraine? Petrogradas like Putin recall the two and a half year(!) siege of Leningrad lime it was yesterday. They don't think like we, or some British defence source, do.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 15, 2022 08:57 AM (oWBc3)

244 Is the WEF list something a politico must be nominated to and accept? Or is it just some list, like my list of favorite Wodehouse short stories?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 15, 2022 08:57 AM (f9C7x)

245 Lime, like, whatever.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 15, 2022 08:57 AM (oWBc3)

246 But she looks hot in a wet suit!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:57 AM (qnVBz)

247 UK defense sources say if Ukraine can hold out #2weeks they will have the upper hand on the Rooskies.
Posted by: Braenyard

They also said #twoweeks to flatten the curve, that the greatest national security is #whitesupremacy or alternatively #climatechange. That military investment must be focused on #lgbt issues, that China is a nonaggressor, and that NATO can work fine without anyone but the former United State's monetary and physical investment.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 08:58 AM (lD3vL)

248 Being on that list or being a member of that organization, however, is a sure-fire indicator that you're someone who she be kept as far from any kind of authority as possible because you want me dead or enslaved to your creepy global technocracy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:54 AM (DU+/6)

Lots of BlackRock employees, I see. Welp. Maria Bartiromo!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 15, 2022 08:58 AM (PiwSw)

249 200 *cough China cough*
Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 08:46 AM (NOXTJ)
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China is closer to US-sized than Russia-sized, but yeah. Big 'ole countries, the lot of them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:47 AM (DU+/6)

this isn't gonna be another 3k million is not 3 billion, right ?

Posted by: REDACTED at March 15, 2022 08:58 AM (us2H3)

250 What's the story behind Manchin not supporting the Raskin nomination for the Fed?

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at March 15, 2022 08:59 AM (88xKn)

251 The Russkies are going to give them the surprise reach around.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 08:54 AM (qnVBz)

He tried his tricks that Ruskie bear
The United Nations said it's all fair
He did the radiation he did the chemical plague
But he could not win with a cossack spin
The Vostok Bomb the Stalin strike
He tried every move he tried to hitch hike
He drilled a hole like a Russian star
He made every move in his repertoire...

Posted by: Ivan Meets GI Joe at March 15, 2022 08:59 AM (wVHhX)

252 Tulsi Gabbard is acting a lot like someone who's about to be let go from her job and is trying desperately to find another one to avoid the embarrassment.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2022 08:59 AM (BFigT)

253 Remember the stalwart, fresh Tea Party candidates that turned on a dime when they were elected?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 08:56 AM (ZgB9e)

***

What the HELL are you talking about...

Posted by: Joe Scarborough at March 15, 2022 08:59 AM (flINI)

254 He is adamant that she is not what she appears.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2022 08:56 AM (ZLI7S)
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How so? IIRC, her father was Chair of the Republican Party (all ten of their voters). But I have no idea what this cryptic remark means. I could actually go read Shipwrecked crew on the topic, and I promise I will, but is there a TL : DR?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 15, 2022 09:00 AM (f9C7x)

255 210 I remember when all the nurses smoked. Well at least a lot of them did. Smoking is bad news, but still. How someone in that field still believes in masks is beyond me. Hey, do your own thing. But it will be harder for me to trust you when you do the Kabuki theater.

Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 09:00 AM (FB3c2)

256 Morning all. We are meeting with a real estate agent this afternoon so I imagine we'll make a decision soon to either move or stay put. The issue with the dumb ass behind us who has 5 dogs will soon be resolved. Animal control came out yesterday after two complaints. I'm calling today to make it three. We need to keep the pressure on them to make her get rid of at least 2 of them.

Drop a friendly not to Tony Fauci telling him that there are some willing and highly suitable candidates for more of his experiments.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 09:00 AM (lD3vL)

257 >>What's the story behind Manchin not supporting the Raskin nomination for the Fed?

She's one of the radicals that thinks the banks and financial system should target the fossil fuel industry to support "green energy".

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2022 09:00 AM (ZLI7S)

258 Send the WEF $1000 and you will be included in the next publication of "Who's Who in Future World Megalomaniacs". Your copy comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by Klaus Schwab and a membership pin!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 09:01 AM (qnVBz)

259 239

https://tinyurl.com/4pwjbn6n

Commentary on the psalms by Matthew Henry, a pastor and wonderful Biblical scholar of the 1600s.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2022 09:01 AM (GezNK)

260 The people in charge are driving this country like they stole it.

Posted by: ... at March 15, 2022 09:01 AM (sBTTZ)

261 Beware The Ides of March
Or, as I like to say:
HAPPY STABBY DAY!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 15, 2022 09:01 AM (mB0As)

262 What sealed his fate was massive cheating unless you still believe despite the enormous amount of evidence pouring out to the contrary that Joe Biden got 81 million legal votes drooling in his basement.

There was a massive increase in votes cast in 2020 over any previous election - about an extra 20M.

The FNM says it is because voting was made easier and that essentially 100% of the adults in the big blue cites all voted, and all voted for Biden, I believe it is because voter fraud was made easier.

If we assume the latter you end up with around 60M votes for Biden...which sounds about right based on every other anecdotal piece of information we have, and of course the ongoing fraud investigations.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 15, 2022 09:01 AM (ESjRY)

263 Indignacio Vindacatorem, Reuben Hick ,

So, we should stop shipping javelins and stingers and hang them out to dry?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 09:01 AM (ZgB9e)

264 Send the WEF $1000 and you will be included in the next publication of "Who's Who in Future World Megalomaniacs". Your copy comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by Klaus Schwab and a membership pin!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 09:01 AM (qnVBz)
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I hope that's true. It would make using them as a first-pass filter even easier.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 09:02 AM (DU+/6)

265 Despite all the potential distractions, Brandon stays focused on the things which matter to Americans.

https://tinyurl.com/4sfs4a47

Well, this and curing cancer.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2022 09:02 AM (3D/fK)

266 261 Beware The Ides of March
Or, as I like to say:
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 15, 2022 09:01 AM (mB0As)

{{{vmom. HAPPY STABBY DAY! }}}

Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 09:03 AM (ZgB9e)

267 See Crenshaw, Dan.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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I'm keeping an eye on him.
Posted by: rickb223

give that worthless pos a red rider bb gun. maybe he'll shoot his other eye out.

'morning from the redneck riviera

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (k1UTF) - at March 15, 2022 09:03 AM (k1UTF)

268 Anyone who fights with Hillary, Willard, Pelosi AND Joe is worthy of notice, at least, and certainly encouragemeent. More has been done in that field of combat than 90% of the Republicans. ( She gets no vote from me, though).

Posted by: kraken at March 15, 2022 09:04 AM (Vr12I)

269 Send the WEF $1000 and you will be included in the next publication of "Who's Who in Future World Megalomaniacs".

In all honesty, if for a second I thought $1K would get them off my back in the future, it'd be money well spent. It'd be a pleasure to be "inside the system" and fuck it all to hell.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2022 09:04 AM (BFigT)

270 But before I could get to the $11 Billion over budget Stacey Tank Abrams Memorial Train Stations and Churches Fried Chicken Stand in my pickup truck

She got runned over by a damned old 300 kpm (limited to 85 kph for almost 90% of the trip) 40% coal fueled electric train and homeless shelter.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 09:04 AM (yrol0)

271 How is it possible a cargo ship ran aground? I was told the sea levels were rising at an alarming rate.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 15, 2022 09:04 AM (o2MD2)

272 I love living up on my mountain away from everyone. 3 places I have lived had neighbors with uncontrollable dogs. One of those places was probably what Rueben faces. Guy behind us had several large dogs who would snarl and bark and jump at the fence as soon as we would walk out the back door.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 09:05 AM (qnVBz)

273 >>>At a Walmart at three in the morning while I was on my lunch break. It was fucking surreal.

>So, no happy ending?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 15, 2022 09:05 AM (oWZwa)

274 I seem to recall some government functionary named Mike Pence was the SARS-CoV-19 chairman starting in February 2020 with Brix as a coordinator.

So the greatest political fuck-up and mismanagement with global consequences can be laid at the feet of Mike Pence.

Apparently he believes that having "destroying Western Civilization" on his resume makes him eminently qualified to be your next president.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 09:05 AM (lD3vL)

275 Beware The Ides of March
Or, as I like to say:
HAPPY STABBY DAY!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

Have fun stabbing the castle !

Posted by: JT at March 15, 2022 09:05 AM (arJlL)

276 >>How so? IIRC, her father was Chair of the Republican Party (all ten of their voters). But I have no idea what this cryptic remark means. I could actually go read Shipwrecked crew on the topic, and I promise I will, but is there a TL : DR?

He mostly drops anecdotes and doesn't do big write-ups on her and her family but he does point out that her parents were followers of a guy who founded a splinter cult of the Hare Krishha cult.

Probably shouldn't be lost on people that she also supported Trump's impeachment. That's not likely to play well with a lot of Republican voters including the former president.

Just because she's good on a few issues and is a thorn to the hard left doesn't mean she's on our side.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2022 09:06 AM (ZLI7S)

277 Thank you, J.J. Thanks also to Julie Kelly, whose words should be played and replayed until everyone on earth hears and understands them.

Posted by: creeper at March 15, 2022 09:06 AM (cTCuP)

278 "With prices skyrocketing, it's time for Washington to suspend -- and ultimately repeal -- the Renewable Fuel Standard."
Food for the Table, Not for the Gas Tank

Right. They'll get right on that after ending DST and right after the heat death of the universe.

C'mon, man, they want to UP it to 15%.

Morning, y'all.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 15, 2022 09:06 AM (F0YaR)

279 this isn't gonna be another 3k million is not 3 billion, right ?
Posted by: REDACTED

Nah. I thought China had more landmass than it does.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 15, 2022 09:07 AM (NOXTJ)

280 So, no happy ending?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 15, 2022 09:05 AM (oWZwa)
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No. And I still have my kidneys.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 09:08 AM (DU+/6)

281 C'mon, man, they want to UP it to 15%.

Morning, y'all.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 15, 2022 09:06 AM (F0YaR)

I think RAM put out a notice that 3rd gen Hemi (2010 or 2011 to about 2020) does not like 15.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 09:08 AM (yrol0)

282 Mayor Pete.
Chrystia Freeland (Trudeau's Deputy PM)
Vanessa Kerry, John Kerry's Daughter (who married an Iranian national
Peter Thiel
Leana Wen
The Zuckmeister (of course)

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at March 15, 2022 09:09 AM (PiwSw)

283 At a Walmart at three in the morning while I was on my lunch break. It was fucking surreal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022

***
We stopped having 24-hour WMs a while ago. Darn.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 15, 2022 09:09 AM (txdEq)

284
The WEF is actually THRUSH, the enemy agency in the Man from UNCLE. TRUSH = Technological Hierarchy for the removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity.

That shoe fits well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 15, 2022 09:09 AM (Mzdiz)

285 One of those places was probably what Rueben faces.

I found my slice of heaven - just waiting for the sloven appraiser to come through. The closing has been stopped for what is becoming a month now waiting for this asshole to do his job.

I'm filling out TREC complaint forms, and may consider upgrading to a lawsuit.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 09:09 AM (lD3vL)

286 271 How is it possible a cargo ship ran aground? I was told the sea levels were rising at an alarming rate.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 15, 2022 09:04 AM (o2MD2)

Computer model predictions of sea level are rising at an alarming rate. Actual seal level has been rising at a steady rate since the end of the last ice age.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 15, 2022 09:09 AM (UuD2k)

287 Hey, Skip...how is your dad?

Posted by: creeper at March 15, 2022 09:09 AM (cTCuP)

288 The FNM says it is because voting was made easier and that essentially 100% of the adults in the big blue cites all voted, and all voted for Biden, I believe it is because voter fraud was made easier.

*

Time magazine, in their article spiking the football about how they cheated, noted that only 25% of votes were cast in person.

If we don't get that under control our entire electoral process if forever f*cked. Absentee is fine, but the process has to at least require a notary.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 15, 2022 09:10 AM (vwLCV)

289 USA Today Names Rachel Levine One of their Women of the Year

The best woman for the job is a man!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 09:10 AM (yrol0)

290 I thought killing the homeless was Chinese-Mexican Fetanyl's job. Now, all of a sudden, Manhattan Media is informs me that they have nabbed a serial homeless shooter who has murdered two homeless people in NYC/DC. Why is this news? Can anyone tell me?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:10 AM (0chEi)

291 So in blue areas, you still have to mask on buses, in hospitals, and churches. No one should judge a church lightly. But I am in discernment, meaning I am going to switch after 40 years. The chance mask policy will make a difference is huge

Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 09:10 AM (FB3c2)

292 Catturd
@catturd2

28m
LMAO ... #DraftDodgerMittRomney is now the #4 trend in the USA.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 15, 2022 09:11 AM (NpAcC)

293 I told him, "Julie, baby! Don't go! Don't go!" but would he listen to me?? No.

Posted by: mrs julius caesar at March 15, 2022 09:11 AM (UHVv4)

294 Pence was put in charge of Covid, but he delegated to Marc Short, who found a Fauci fangirl to further delegate to. She took whatever Fauci said and repackaged it as her own advice to Pence who in turn fed it to Trump. So Fauci would tell Trump something. Then Pence would chime in that his people came to the same conclusion.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 09:12 AM (qnVBz)

295 USA Today Names Rachel Levine One of their Women of the Year

The best woman for the job is a man!!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 09:10 AM (yrol0)

***

(Deep guteral voice with bouncing adams apple)

YES!!

Posted by: Lia Thomas at March 15, 2022 09:12 AM (flINI)

296 No word on if masks involved or not but...

||NEW YORK (AP) -- A dissident legal scholar who was jailed for two years in China after participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement was killed Monday in his law firm's office in New York, where he had settled after seeking asylum in the U.S., police said.

Li Jinjin, 66, was stabbed to death in the city where he had long worked as an immigration lawyer, even as he continued to advocate publicly for the many people jailed or killed by Chinese authorities during the nation's democracy movement.

An arrest was made in his killing. Police said Xiaoning Zhang, 25, was taken into custody and faces a murder charge. It wasn't immediately clear when she would be arraigned or if she had retained an attorney.||

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 15, 2022 09:12 AM (UHVv4)

297 I find it interesting how these missiles systems from the 1980s and 1990s are still kicking ass in the 21st century. Time to fire up the military-industrial-complex comrade!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 15, 2022 09:12 AM (oWZwa)

298 Went to get my new retiree ID card on base the other day.

Was surprised to find out that ALL masking requirements have been dropped!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 15, 2022 09:13 AM (3D/fK)

299 I live not far from Louisville, KY... a huge hub for UPS. The amount of air traffic going into and out of that airport solely for UPS is astounding.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Repeat that again over Covington international airport serving Cincinnati and Amazon, but mostly Amazon.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 09:13 AM (lD3vL)

300 If we assume the latter you end up with around 60M votes for Biden...which sounds about right based on every other anecdotal piece of information we have, and of course the ongoing fraud investigations.

45 million MAX

that was my calculation then and I still stand by it.

hi y'all. I'm busy and can't deal with news so not here as much. looks like going for college swing to CO. I'm excited, never been. worried about how woke/pothead the schools there are tho. oh well lol that's probably everywhere.

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 15, 2022 09:14 AM (j9HX3)

301 296 An arrest was made in his killing. Police said Xiaoning Zhang, 25, was taken into custody and faces a murder charge. It wasn't immediately clear when she would be arraigned or if she had retained an attorney.||
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 15, 2022 09:12 AM (UHVv4)

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So...political assassination by the Chinese government?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 15, 2022 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

302 Nebraska Senator Megan Hunt
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Isn't Nebraska the only state with a unicameral assembly? Is Senator what they call their representatives?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 15, 2022 08:38 AM (FBf3u)

Yes. She represents the Benson area, a semi-crappy area of Omaha. There's been just enough gentrification to get a white liberal/black voter coalition. To say it's not representative of Nebraska as a whole is an understatement.

Posted by: Wally at March 15, 2022 09:14 AM (FJYfm)

303 No Tulsi on the ticket...if we must, she could be a cabinet head for something that affects Hawaii...maybe the Bureau of Indian Affairs...

Posted by: Nova local at March 15, 2022 09:14 AM (exHjb)

304 Computer model predictions of sea level are rising at an alarming rate. Actual seal level has been rising at a steady rate since the end of the last ice age.
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Michael Mann is well known for blowing seals.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 15, 2022 09:15 AM (UHVv4)

305 Let's get the Pentagon to sell them all of our old bullshit inventory! We'll build more!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 15, 2022 09:15 AM (oWZwa)

306 No. And I still have my kidneys.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Keeping kidneys sounds pretty happy.
Glad you made it.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 09:15 AM (ZgB9e)

307 252 Tulsi Gabbard is acting a lot like someone who's about to be let go from her job and is trying desperately to find another one to avoid the embarrassment.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2022 08:59 AM (BFigT)

Well she at least kicked Romney's ass when no one else would.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 15, 2022 09:15 AM (H8QX8)

308 Okay, that's not a cabinet head, but close enough...

Posted by: Nova local at March 15, 2022 09:15 AM (exHjb)

309 290 I can't help you there. I am not sure I get it. Anyone who preys on the homeless should be buried under the jail. No short at you, we are friends. But whoever did that should be put away

Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 09:16 AM (FB3c2)

310 Pence was put in charge of Covid, but he delegated to Marc Short, who found a Fauci fangirl to further delegate to. She took whatever Fauci said and repackaged it as her own advice to Pence who in turn fed it to Trump. So Fauci would tell Trump something. Then Pence would chime in that his people came to the same conclusion.

The takeaway here is that Pence is a lazy irresponsible bum who is completely incapable of calculating risk, so had no problems outsourcing something that would effect the entire planet to a mouth breather.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 09:16 AM (lD3vL)

311 Putin revealed to actually be without jam in his sack

*

This must be a gay thing.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 15, 2022 09:16 AM (vwLCV)

312 303 No Tulsi on the ticket...if we must, she could be a cabinet head for something that affects Hawaii...maybe the Bureau of Indian Affairs...
Posted by: Nova local at March 15, 2022 09:14 AM (exHjb)
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No commies or political adventures in the adminstration.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 09:16 AM (ZgB9e)

313 Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 09:10 AM (FB3c2)

Hi, Quint

I know you have some theological issues with the church which you had been a member of for so many years, but on another note-they're still masking?! I'm sorry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2022 09:17 AM (GezNK)

314 DeSantis/Gabbard 24!!!!

Posted by: Sugar Plum Fairy #etc at March 15, 2022 09:17 AM (velLz)

315 Good morning!

When they started seizing the private property of Russian oligarchs because, well, . . . because they are rich and Russian, I wondered: how soon before they apply this here?
Figured they'd start with Trump or Lindell -- you are a 'domestic terrorist' and supported 'insurrection,' so we can take all your stuff.

Then last night Tucker did a compilation of clips where people denounced him and Tulsi for TREASON for merely worrying about biological pathogens in Ukraine being released when a lab is bombed or whatever. Of course it was The View, specifically Joy Behar, who said something like "He should be pursued like all those Russian oligarchs. . ."

And there it was. Expect more of this.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2022 09:17 AM (MmndN)

316 So...political assassination by the Chinese government?
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We'll have to see. Maybe they were having an affair or something too?? Chinese purposefully sending violent nuts as refugees like the Cubans in IIRC the '70s??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 15, 2022 09:17 AM (UHVv4)

317 If you want to get Tulsi in your administration give her VA or something like that where politics shouldn't matter.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 15, 2022 09:18 AM (ESjRY)

318 Shame about Julius Caesar. Probably in line with Alexander as the greatest General who ever lived.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 15, 2022 09:19 AM (o2MD2)

319 I can see Trump seriously considering Kim Reynolds, Governor of Iowa. She's done a good job in Iowa although much lower profile than DeSantis, is a big Trump supporter and he likes her.

She comes from a key regional demographic, is obvious a woman and unlike the current female VP isn't a cackling moron.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2022 09:19 AM (ZLI7S)

320 260 The people in charge are driving this country like they stole it.

Posted by: ... at March 15, 2022 09:01 AM (sBTTZ)

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There was a good reason for horse thieves being immediately hanged back in the day.

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 15, 2022 09:19 AM (c3Qm1)

321 If UT was full of fucking Mormons

they would censure Mutt's lame ass

Posted by: REDACTED at March 15, 2022 09:20 AM (us2H3)

322 315 Good morning!

When they started seizing the private property of Russian oligarchs because, well, . . . because they are rich and Russian, I wondered: how soon before they apply this here?
Figured they'd start with Trump or Lindell -- you are a 'domestic terrorist' and supported 'insurrection,' so we can take all your stuff.

Then last night Tucker did a compilation of clips where people denounced him and Tulsi for TREASON for merely worrying about biological pathogens in Ukraine being released when a lab is bombed or whatever. Of course it was The View, specifically Joy Behar, who said something like "He should be pursued like all those Russian oligarchs. . ."

And there it was. Expect more of this.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2022 09:17 AM (MmndN)

The B Hussein Obama Memorial BioLab and Dog Food Stand

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 09:20 AM (yrol0)

323 I don't think it's time for Trump to step back. I think it's time for him to step forward.

Donald Trump is in the unique position of being able to quash the COVID lie for a vast number of people. He needs to do that and right now. Stand in front of Americans, President Trump, and tell them the truth about COVID. Label the vaxxines for what they are...useless against COVID and dangerous to the human body. Admit your own part in the hoax and apologize for it.

Set us free.

Posted by: creeper at March 15, 2022 09:20 AM (cTCuP)

324 sorry, wasn't

Posted by: REDACTED at March 15, 2022 09:20 AM (us2H3)

325 318 Shame about Julius Caesar. Probably in line with Alexander as the greatest General who ever lived.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 15, 2022 09:19 AM (o2MD2)

A list of greatest generals hanked by the Horde would be interesting.

Posted by: kraken at March 15, 2022 09:20 AM (Vr12I)

326 Et Tu Tulsi?

Posted by: Julius Mittins at March 15, 2022 09:20 AM (gmo/4)

327 317 If you want to get Tulsi in your administration give her VA or something like that where politics shouldn't matter.
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The problem doing that is you have to know HI will replace here with another Hirono. Best to let Gabbard stay in the House and support her efforts to replace Hirono in the Senate. Much smarter move.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:20 AM (0chEi)

328 I need a drink

or 2

Posted by: REDACTED at March 15, 2022 09:21 AM (us2H3)

329 No one should judge a church lightly. But I am in discernment, meaning I am going to switch after 40 years. The chance mask policy will make a difference is huge
Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 09:10 AM (FB3c2)

Mask policy is a criterion for my husband and I as we look for a church in our new home town. We won't even consider attending a church that enforced it. I do cut a break for churches in our former community who would have been shut down by the health department if they didn't mask, but our new community did not have those kinds of restrictions.

Posted by: Emmie is unacceptable, eh at March 15, 2022 09:21 AM (6RgRK)

330 Kidneys are a big deal. People go on about diabetes, cholesterol, etc. It is a cliche that if you are fat, you will magically have these things. Yet many have high blood pressure, fat or thin. It can screw up your kidneys. I say get checked

Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 09:21 AM (FB3c2)

331 A list of greatest generals hanked by the Horde would be interesting.
Posted by: kraken at March 15, 2022 09:20 AM (Vr12I)

I'm ready for my closeup!

Posted by: General Mark Milley at March 15, 2022 09:21 AM (PiwSw)

332 She comes from a key regional demographic, is obvious a woman and unlike the current female VP isn't a cackling moron.

so just FYI my very left-leaning wine mom friends all loved her response to Joetato and were like "who is this?" - I think she would be a great Veep idea. she appeals to the Ladies Who Lunch set.

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 15, 2022 09:21 AM (j9HX3)

333 325 318 Shame about Julius Caesar. Probably in line with Alexander as the greatest General who ever lived.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 15, 2022 09:19 AM (o2MD2)

A list of greatest generals hanked by the Horde would be interesting.
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I'd put Hannibal above Alexander. Then comes Nathan Beford Forrest.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:22 AM (0chEi)

334 Donald Trump is in the unique position of being able to quash the COVID lie for a vast number of people. He needs to do that and right now. Stand in front of Americans, President Trump, and tell them the truth about COVID. Label the vaxxines for what they are...useless against COVID and dangerous to the human body. Admit your own part in the hoax and apologize for it.

been waiting for this for two years

not holding breath

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 15, 2022 09:22 AM (j9HX3)

335 Shame about Julius Caesar. Probably in line with Alexander as the greatest General who ever lived.
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Patton probably read his book too!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 15, 2022 09:23 AM (UHVv4)

336 >>The problem doing that is you have to know HI will replace here with another Hirono. Best to let Gabbard stay in the House and support her efforts to replace Hirono in the Senate. Much smarter move.

She's already out of the House.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2022 09:23 AM (ZLI7S)

337 329 good call. It can tell a lot without asking much.

Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 09:23 AM (FB3c2)

338 Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 15, 2022 09:19 AM (o2MD2)

I'm not a military expert but his death had big impact in Roman history.

Posted by: dantesed at March 15, 2022 09:23 AM (88xKn)

339 DU has a discussion on a deep analysis report on why the Dems lost the VA Governorship. "How did VA give Biden a 10 pt victory, only to see McAuliffe lose by 2 a year later? It wasn't mask mandates and school closures. It was the fact that 75 and over voter turnout was up 2.7%" Wonder why those fucking old people came out suddenly to punish the wonderful dems. You'd think they'd be grateful...the 2 years of Dem lockdown is what kept them all from dying, unlike the elderly in Red states!

Some reacted to the news rationally:
Interesting. This speaks to ease of voting to me. Also, Youngkin ran a really good campaign by any standard. He was everywhere ad wise as soon as he got the nomination...MacAuliffe ran a bad campaign. He didn't put in the work

Others, less rationally:
old a*ssholes screwing the young over That Demographic Is and always has been the real target of the 'CRT' swill...who resent and all their lives have resisted any attempts at establishing equality between white and black Americans.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at March 15, 2022 09:23 AM (JCZqz)

340 Set us free.
Posted by: creeper at March 15, 2022 09:20 AM (cTCuP)

Wholeheartedly agree. It would be actions of a true leader.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 15, 2022 09:24 AM (H8QX8)

341 How did VA give Biden a 10 pt victory, only to see McAuliffe lose by 2 a year later?

clue to DU fucktards - the Republicans of VA had LAWYERS stationed at every. single. polling station.

that's how.

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 15, 2022 09:24 AM (j9HX3)

342 Pretty sure Tulsi is no longer in Congress, she didn't run for reelection.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2022 09:24 AM (MmndN)

343 The latest Global Climate Change Data that you may not hear about from the Usual Suspects, especially since global temperatures as measured by the Climatistas have been on a plateau the past several years:

From NOAA, March 13 2022:
The average contiguous U.S. temperature during February was 33.8�F, 0.1�F below the 20th-century average, ranking in the middle third of the 128-year period of record.

The winter (December-February) average contiguous U.S. temperature was 34.8�F, 2.5�F above average, ranking in the warmest third of the winter record. (See what they did here - they look at a combination of three months to insert a "Scare the rubes!" and hope they don't pay attention to February itself.)

Global February 2022 report, also from NOAA:
The February 2020 global land and ocean surface temperature was 2.11�F (1.17�C) above the 20th century average of 53.8�F (12.1�C). This was the second highest for February in the 141-year record and was the third highest monthly temperature departure from average in the 1,682-month record. Only March 2016 and February 2016 had a higher temperature departure.

They work hard to make it sound terrible, but it's not.

Posted by: Gref at March 15, 2022 09:24 AM (AMIL/)

344 She comes from a key regional demographic, is obvious a woman and unlike the current female VP isn't a cackling moron.

And would absolutely positively guarantee that DeSantis is impeached on January 21, 2025

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 15, 2022 09:24 AM (lD3vL)

345 336

She's already out of the House.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2022 09:23 AM (ZLI7S)

As I mentioned abovethread, she's likely done as far as elected office goes. Pissed off all the wrong people.

Posted by: kraken at March 15, 2022 09:25 AM (Vr12I)

346 336 >>The problem doing that is you have to know HI will replace here with another Hirono. Best to let Gabbard stay in the House and support her efforts to replace Hirono in the Senate. Much smarter move.

She's already out of the House.
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When did that happen?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:25 AM (0chEi)

347 I'd put Hannibal above Alexander. Then comes Nathan Beford Forrest.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:22 AM (0chEi)

They both lost in the end. Julius and Alexander never lost a battle, or a war.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at March 15, 2022 09:25 AM (o2MD2)

348 I don't think Trump is going to be on the GOP ticket ever again. Too much bad blood there. And, the GOP will see to it that he's ineligible for whatever reason they can come up with. Does that mean Trump runs as an independent? If so he better be getting his ground game put together nationally to overcome both the GOP's and the Democrat's cheating machines. Otherwise talk of a Trump comeback is academic.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2022 09:25 AM (BFigT)

349 At a Walmart at three in the morning while I was on my lunch break. It was fucking surreal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 15, 2022 08:36 AM (DU+/6)

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$20, same as on Aisle 11.

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 15, 2022 09:26 AM (c3Qm1)

350 332 so just FYI my very left-leaning wine mom friends all loved her response to Joetato and were like "who is this?" - I think she would be a great Veep idea. she appeals to the Ladies Who Lunch set.
Posted by: Black Orchid at March 15, 2022 09:21 AM (j9HX3)

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"Oh, wait...social media has dictated that she is an enemy. She's now the dumbest, most vile woman on the planet. If only we could have good Republican women again like Sarah Palin."
-your lefty wine mom friends in about 2 years

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 15, 2022 09:26 AM (LvTSG)

351 Probably already mentioned: Hillary was smearing Tulsi as a "Russian asset" a few years ago. Think Tulsi even sued her over it. She's been a unperson within the Dem party for a while.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 15, 2022 09:26 AM (MmndN)

352 The WEF is actually THRUSH, the enemy agency in the Man from UNCLE. THRUSH = Technological Hierarchy for the removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity.

That shoe fits well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 15, 2022

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From the show's prospectus:

"Good men or evil men, if you are not a member of Thrush, you are marked to be ruled or destroyed."

(The meaning of the name was never given on the show. The "Hierarchy" business was developed by pro writer David McDaniel for his original U.N.C.L.E. novels, and the producers thought it was a fine idea. It seems very ornate and over-the-top -- but then the name was devised, McDaniel tells us, in the late 1890s.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 15, 2022 09:26 AM (txdEq)

353 >>When did that happen?

2020. She didn't run for re-election when she decided to run for president.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2022 09:26 AM (ZLI7S)

354 Within a few years of Alexander's death his empire was split by his generals and his family was dead.

Octavius was a political "adoption" but Julius's heirs ruled for quite a while in Rome.

Not generalship per se, but Julius was not just a great general but a good politician as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 15, 2022 09:26 AM (ESjRY)

355 Global February 2022 report, also from NOAA:
The February 2020 global land and ocean surface temperature was 2.11F (1.17C) above the 20th century average of 53.8F (12.1C). This was the second highest for February in the 141-year record and was the third highest monthly temperature departure from average in the 1,682-month record. Only March 2016 and February 2016 had a higher temperature departure.

They work hard to make it sound terrible, but it's not.

Posted by: Gref at March 15, 2022 09:24 AM (AMIL/)

You could average ZIP codes and have moar reliable mail delivery.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 15, 2022 09:26 AM (yrol0)

356 Never knew there was a band called Vehicle. I wonder if they ever opened for Traffic.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 15, 2022 09:26 AM (OssQ4)

357 >>>Label the vaxxines for what they are...useless against COVID and dangerous to the human body. Admit your own part in the hoax and apologize for it.

Does he really need to apologize? He's not a doctor or "SCIENTIST" he was an administrator and he got the ball rolling. Whether the shit worked or not was tasked to fuckheads like Dr. Fauci. Subject Matter Experts who lie, cheat and steal.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 15, 2022 09:26 AM (oWZwa)

358 This is a nice story of a kindness done by a mailman or UPS driver for a veteran he didn't know:

https://tinyurl.com/mrxjrpsv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 15, 2022 09:26 AM (GezNK)

359 I like Tulsi a lot, but since she has been groomed by the WEF I do not trust her one bit. Her decency and sanity may be cover for advancing the WEF's goals.

Posted by: Emmie is unacceptable, eh at March 15, 2022 09:26 AM (6RgRK)

360 been waiting for this for two years

not holding breath
Posted by: Black Orchid at March 15, 2022 09:22 AM (j9HX3)
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His rally this weekend was Magananimous

Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 09:27 AM (ZgB9e)

361 347 I'd put Hannibal above Alexander. Then comes Nathan Beford Forrest.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:22 AM (0chEi)

They both lost in the end. Julius and Alexander never lost a battle, or a war.
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True, but both had to build their army's while fighting and winning on the run. Julius and Alexander had ready built army's to win with. Level of difficulty needs to be factored in.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:27 AM (0chEi)

362 Oh crap, after clicking. I've heard that song a few thousand times. Vehicle, huh?

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 15, 2022 09:28 AM (OssQ4)

363 been waiting for this for two years

not holding breath
Posted by: Black Orchid at March 15, 2022 09:22 AM (j9HX3)

Yeah, I know. Trump keeps recommending the clot shot. That doesn't indicate he's had a change of heart. Amazing, for someone so bright.

Posted by: creeper at March 15, 2022 09:28 AM (cTCuP)

364 MoMA stabber suspect arrested in Philadelphia.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 15, 2022 09:28 AM (UHVv4)

365 so just FYI my very left-leaning wine mom friends all loved her response to Joetato and were like "who is this?" - I think she would be a great Veep idea. she appeals to the Ladies Who Lunch set.
Posted by: Black Orchid

Just what we need. Another agent of the left/deep state as VP because "more electable".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 15, 2022 09:28 AM (qnVBz)

366 How did VA give Biden a 10 pt victory, only to see McAuliffe lose by 2 a year later?

Before the counting stopped and the fix started Trump was up in VA.

I believe he actually won VA...and yes the GOP actually stopped most of the fraud in 2021 which is why Youngkin won.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 15, 2022 09:28 AM (ESjRY)

367 366 Before the counting stopped and the fix started Trump was up in VA.

I believe he actually won VA...and yes the GOP actually stopped most of the fraud in 2021 which is why Youngkin won.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 15, 2022 09:28 AM (ESjRY)

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Capture the GOP, and we can actually win.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 15, 2022 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

368 363 been waiting for this for two years

not holding breath
Posted by: Black Orchid at March 15, 2022 09:22 AM (j9HX3)

Yeah, I know. Trump keeps recommending the clot shot. That doesn't indicate he's had a change of heart. Amazing, for someone so bright.
Posted by: creeper at March 15, 2022 09:28 AM (cTCuP)

Unforced error on his part. He could just shut up about it, but no.

Posted by: kraken at March 15, 2022 09:29 AM (Vr12I)

369 364 MoMA stabber suspect arrested in Philadelphia.

WOW that is actually shocking! is he still in custody or did Krasner release him already?

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 15, 2022 09:29 AM (j9HX3)

370

Appropriate art thread up.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 15, 2022 09:29 AM (s2VJv)

371 348 I don't think Trump is going to be on the GOP ticket ever again.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2022 09:25 AM (BFigT)

The best thing Trump can do for his country is endorse DeSantis (if DeSantis indicates he wishes to run). If DeSantis demurs on his own, then what difference does it make. There's no one else. Run, Trump, run.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 15, 2022 09:30 AM (H8QX8)

372 I told him, "Julie, baby! Don't go! Don't go!" but would he listen to me?? No.
Posted by: mrs julius caesar at March 15, 2022

***
At the Senate, later that same day:

"DEATH TO CAESAR!!"

"Wait a minute! Just wait a minute here! Let's talk this -- urrgh!!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 15, 2022 09:30 AM (txdEq)

373 Oh, the band is Ides of March. I see. More coffee.

:facepalm:

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 15, 2022 09:30 AM (OssQ4)

374 I will have to disagree about Trump, I think we need him to win in 2024. He can only serve for 4 years, he's already been impeached, lied about, spied on etc... He doesn't have to worry about re-election, so he can go in there and start breaking shit, exposing more of the deep state, it doesn't matter what they do to him at this point.(because he is older, and has no F's to give) He needs to do all the ugly things that make people uncomfortable in order to clear the path for a DeSantis 8 year term.
Posted by: spypeach at March 15, 2022 07:48 AM (wAxm0)

Yes.

Posted by: Voter theater. at March 15, 2022 09:30 AM (FCPbW)

375 348 I don't think Trump is going to be on the GOP ticket ever again. Too much bad blood there. And, the GOP will see to it that he's ineligible for whatever reason they can come up with. Does that mean Trump runs as an independent? If so he better be getting his ground game put together nationally to overcome both the GOP's and the Democrat's cheating machines. Otherwise talk of a Trump comeback is academic.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 15, 2022 09:25 AM (BFigT)

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I still love the idea of us overcoming the margin of fraud this year (assuming they don't cancel the elections owing to a "climate emergency"), taking the House, and electing Trump as Speaker -- although as you observe, I don't think the GOPee would let that happen either.

Investigative committee after investigative committee, impeachment after impeachment ... yeah, Make Gridlock Great Again, sit back, and #EnjoyTheShow.

Posted by: ShainS -- Immanentizing the Eschaton is not just a river in Egypt at March 15, 2022 09:30 AM (c3Qm1)

376 Level of difficulty needs to be factored in.

How about Frederick the Great then?

Prior to him Prussia was a moderate regional power.

Under him they fought the combined might of France, Austria, the HRE, and Russia to a standstill.

And after he died Prussia went right back to being just a moderate power until the 1860s...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 15, 2022 09:31 AM (ESjRY)

377 361 347 I'd put Hannibal above Alexander. Then comes Nathan Beford Forrest.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:22 AM (0chEi)

They both lost in the end. Julius and Alexander never lost a battle, or a war.
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True, but both had to build their army's while fighting and winning on the run. Julius and Alexander had ready built army's to win with. Level of difficulty needs to be factored in.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:27 AM

They were all pikers compared to me.

Posted by: Gjergj Kastrioti "Skanderbeg" at March 15, 2022 09:31 AM (JCZqz)

378 Tulsi does not belong on the GOP ticket. The "unity" bullshit is bullshit. For my money, the idea that Trump didn't understand DC is also nonsense. What possibly could have prepared him for the GOP stabbing him in the back at every turn, including the AGs? And before any one says "he should have appointed different AGs", remember that the GOP led Senate said "no dice" to that from the start. Why should Trump have expected that Sessions, Barr, and Rosenstein were out to sabotage his agenda? We didn't expect that, as we looked on in horror, or just shock, to see the GOP hold the House, Senate, and the Presidency and proceed to do fuck all on every single issue they insisted would be changed and reformed!
To blame Trump for not understanding the absolute duplicity of the GOP, while patting ourselves on the back for our great knowledge, is silly. We, the people, the GOP people elected every single bastard who shivved him and us.

Posted by: CN at March 15, 2022 09:31 AM (ONvIw)

379 361 347 I'd put Hannibal above Alexander. Then comes Nathan Beford Forrest.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:22 AM (0chEi)

They both lost in the end. Julius and Alexander never lost a battle, or a war.
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True, but both had to build their army's while fighting and winning on the run. Julius and Alexander had ready built army's to win with. Level of difficulty needs to be factored in.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:27 AM (0chEi)

More true of Alexander than Julius. Alexander's army was an elite and veteran force built by his father to conquer the Persians.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 15, 2022 09:32 AM (z5Vrg)

380 WOW that is actually shocking! is he still in custody or did Krasner release him already?
Posted by: Black Orchid

That depends. What's his ethnicity?

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 15, 2022 09:32 AM (OssQ4)

381 >>I don't think Trump is going to be on the GOP ticket ever again.

I could not disagree more. Right now Trump IS the the leader of the Republican party. He is the energy behind the party and he is almost singlehandedly changing the party more in his image.

He didn't just go to South Carolina for his own benefit. He was there endorsing America First candidates for other offices both statewide and national. He's been doing this for the last year quite successfully. He's not doing this to hand if off to DeSantis or anyone else.

He's running. He's been all but saying it whenever asked for the last year and hasn't formally announced because of campaign finance laws. He already has a national organization, name recognition and an enthusiastic base many who want revenge as much as he does.

The only way he isn't the nominee is he decides he doesn't want to be.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2022 09:32 AM (ZLI7S)

382 Does he really need to apologize? He's not a doctor or "SCIENTIST" he was an administrator and he got the ball rolling. Whether the shit worked or not was tasked to fuckheads like Dr. Fauci. Subject Matter Experts who lie, cheat and steal.
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BTW, according to a leftist twatterer attacking PDT for wrongly taking credit for the vaxx, Pfizer wasn't part of Warp Speed and didn't get any federal money.

And I doubt PDT knew that the Pharma corporations were working on mRNA crap and not ordinary dead-virus vaccines as for the seasonal flu.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 15, 2022 09:32 AM (UHVv4)

383 369 364 MoMA stabber suspect arrested in Philadelphia.

WOW that is actually shocking! is he still in custody or did Krasner release him already?
Posted by: Black Orchid at March 15, 2022 09:29 AM

Well, he's being held until we can arrange his presentation of the Medal Of Freedom award.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 15, 2022 09:33 AM (JCZqz)

384 True, but both had to build their army's while fighting and winning on the run. Julius and Alexander had ready built army's to win with. Level of difficulty needs to be factored in.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022

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Hannibal was a remarkable man. His campaign against Rome went on for ca. 15 years as he marched around Italy, tried to get some of the cities to come over to him, and tried to get Carthage to send him supplies and men. Still, he whipped the Romans every time they made the mistake of letting him pick the ground. It was not until Scipio Africanus took the war to Africa and menaced Carthage, and used some of Hannibal's own methods against him, that the Carthaginian was defeated.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 15, 2022 09:33 AM (txdEq)

385 Never knew there was a band called Vehicle. I wonder if they ever opened for Traffic.
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Just the Cars.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 15, 2022 09:33 AM (UHVv4)

386 376 Level of difficulty needs to be factored in.

How about Frederick the Great then?

Prior to him Prussia was a moderate regional power.

Under him they fought the combined might of France, Austria, the HRE, and Russia to a standstill.

And after he died Prussia went right back to being just a moderate power until the 1860s...
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Who would you rather fight personally, Frederick or Nathan B?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:33 AM (0chEi)

387 We, the people, the GOP people elected every single bastard who shivved him and us.
Posted by: CN at March 15, 2022 09:31 AM (ONvIw)

Well, sorta. We had to work within the limits of election fraud and GOPe sabotage.

Posted by: Emmie is unacceptable, eh at March 15, 2022 09:34 AM (6RgRK)

388 What's with the endless "once-free" BS? I'm still free. I bet you're still free, as well, as are your neighbors and fellow countrymen.

No one "gave up their liberty".

Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 15, 2022 09:34 AM (naEeR)

389 More true of Alexander than Julius. Alexander's army was an elite and veteran force built by his father to conquer the Persians.

Yes, Phillip doesn't get enough credit for giving Alexander a Macedon ready to rule Greece and Persia.

And had he lived a little longer would have probably done so himself. Though Phillip was less reckless then Alexander...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 15, 2022 09:34 AM (ESjRY)

390 Does anyone here want Tulsi as POTUS? If not, then she should not be VPOTUS. Also, Tulsi is a loose cannon who would go public and denounce the President's policies and decisions whenever she felt like it.

Posted by: Gref at March 15, 2022 09:35 AM (AMIL/)

391 Who would you rather fight personally, Frederick or Nathan B?

By that standard there are a bunch of special forces types I want to fight even less then those two.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 15, 2022 09:36 AM (ESjRY)

392 And I doubt PDT knew that the Pharma corporations were working on mRNA crap and not ordinary dead-virus vaccines as for the seasonal flu.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 15, 2022 09:32 AM (UHVv4)

No Trump does not need to "apologize" for wuflu. How would he have known that Fauci, the NIH, and the CDC were out to cover their asses, or that the phama companies were involved in bioweapons? to expect him to have knowledge that we, only now, possess is dumb

Posted by: CN at March 15, 2022 09:36 AM (ONvIw)

393 381 >>I don't think Trump is going to be on the GOP ticket ever again.
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Its Trump or DeSantis. Trump Unleashed is how you respond to Obama Unleashed. Give Trump 4 years and let him tear the ass out of Deep State.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:36 AM (0chEi)

394 390 Does anyone here want Tulsi as POTUS? If not, then she should not be VPOTUS. Also, Tulsi is a loose cannon who would go public and denounce the President's policies and decisions whenever she felt like it.
Posted by: Gref at March 15, 2022 09:35 AM (AMIL/)

I'm glad she's slapping around Romney, but that's as far as it goes. The idea of some unity ticket with a leftist on it is a guarantee of failure

Posted by: CN at March 15, 2022 09:37 AM (ONvIw)

395 >>>To blame Trump for not understanding the absolute duplicity of the GOP, while patting ourselves on the back for our great knowledge, is silly. We, the people, the GOP people elected every single bastard who shivved him and us.

Posted by: CN at March 15, 2022 09:31 AM (ONvIw)
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Amen

Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 09:37 AM (ZgB9e)

396 That depends. What's his ethnicity?
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White, middle-aged but rabid anti-Trumper.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 15, 2022 09:38 AM (UHVv4)

397 Tulsi Gabbard is still a leftwing nutcase. Her getting something right once in a while doesn't change that.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at March 15, 2022 09:38 AM (dr4Q1)

398 348 my guess is he will. Unless they want to burn the party down to rebuild it. That, would be two Obama regimes, one Trump, then Biden and another Dem. That is a bad ratio for us

I like Desantis like we all do. Hell I like Paul. I had a Paul sticker a year before he ran in 2016. But Paul doesn't want to be president. Even if he did, he could never get 51 percent to vote for him. You need to offer them something to vote for you.

I can see Desantis becaus he is a rock star. But I don't see how he unseets Trump unless Trump bows out.

Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 09:38 AM (FB3c2)

399 What's with the endless "once-free" BS? I'm still free. I bet you're still free, as well, as are your neighbors and fellow countrymen.

No one "gave up their liberty".
Posted by: Rob Crawford at March 15, 2022

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Tell that to the people who lost their jobs over the "vaccine" mandate. Tell that to the people being searched by TSA, forced to strap a diaper on their faces, and not allowed on planes because of a "no-fly" list they can't contest. Tell that to the small businesses who went under because of tyrannical lockdowns while the big box stores flourished.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 15, 2022 09:39 AM (txdEq)

400 If the Democrats had brains, they'd run Manchin/Gabbard.
Not saying I trust Gabbard (I still get a strong Manchurian candidate vibe from her) only saying that she has considerable cross over appeal, as does Manchin.

Let me also stir the pot by saying that I actually give credit to Slow Joe's handlers for one right decision not to participate in an insane lend-lease of fighter jets from a NATO airfield I will give credit where it's due. So good one Joe for not tripping over an obvious wire attached to WW III.

Back to work...

Posted by: Zek at March 15, 2022 09:39 AM (OzNIz)

401 True, but both had to build their army's while fighting and winning on the run.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

Posted by: Archer at March 15, 2022 09:40 AM (gmo/4)

402 Posted by: CN at March 15, 2022 09:31 AM (ONvIw)

Attention COBs

This should be a Thread lede or at least a side bar.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 09:40 AM (ZgB9e)

403 Tulsi Gabbard is a WEF stooge. No.

Posted by: Archer at March 15, 2022 09:41 AM (gmo/4)

404 The only way he isn't the nominee is he decides he doesn't want to be.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2022 09:32 AM (ZLI7S)

Exactly. And this drumbeat that he should have got out his crystal ball and knew that the wuflu was bullshit and that the pharma companies were liars who would do more harm than good by suppressing treatments, is almost insulting to the intelligence.

Posted by: CN at March 15, 2022 09:41 AM (ONvIw)

405 >> If the Democrats had brains, they'd run Manchin/Gabbard.

Only problem with that is that the far left of the party where all the energy is today would not support it. The AOC wing of the party hates both of them.

Democrats sold their soul for the support of the communists and now they have to ride the tiger.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2022 09:41 AM (ZLI7S)

406 If Trump or DeSantis is not on the Repub ticket in 2024 people are going to be very angry. I think its inching slowly to our having had enough of this BS and people are done. They want some action on the way the country is headed and know the won't get it with dems or gop.Trump and/or DeSantis will make the effort and I think its our last chance.

Posted by: Megthered at March 15, 2022 09:41 AM (f1xtl)

407 True, but both had to build their army's while fighting and winning on the run. Julius and Alexander had ready built army's to win with. Level of difficulty needs to be factored in.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 09:27 AM (0chEi)
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If that's the measure, Julius jumps up even further. He had to recruit hard for his Gallic campaigns, as no rational person wanted to get close to being captured by the Celts.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 15, 2022 09:44 AM (tmTWs)

408 >>Exactly. And this drumbeat that he should have got out his crystal ball and knew that the wuflu was bullshit and that the pharma companies were liars who would do more harm than good by suppressing treatments, is almost insulting to the intelligence.

There's a bit of revisionist history going on pretending that Trump didn't do everything he could to get the country back to work after the 2 week shutdown. He was up against virtually every Democrat governor and mayor and not an insignificant number of Republican ones and they had control of opening their states.

In hindsight it's easy to say what Trump should have done but knowing what he did then with virtually the entire world marching in lockstep with lockdowns the real end of his electoral chances would have been for him to push even harder to open the country and call the whole thing a hoax. We may know that now but the reality is we did not in the midst of the panic in 2020.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 15, 2022 09:45 AM (ZLI7S)

409 the pharma companies were liars who would do more harm than good by suppressing treatments, is almost insulting to the intelligence.
Posted by: CN at March 15, 2022 09:41 AM (ONvIw)
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Yes! Exactly right!

Posted by: Raytheon promoting war in Ukraine at March 15, 2022 09:46 AM (tmTWs)

410 409 the pharma companies were liars who would do more harm than good by suppressing treatments, is almost insulting to the intelligence.
Posted by: CN at March 15, 2022 09:41 AM (ONvIw)
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It's criminal

Posted by: Braenyard at March 15, 2022 09:47 AM (ZgB9e)

411 I never thought highly of Fortrest. Sure he was amazing in independent actions. But he never made a decisive impact on a major battlefield. He was extremely insubordinate to his leaders and that trickled down. What he did after the war is left to history.

I know many Southerners revered the man. And for sure he was great in head on battle. But there is a reason he only advanced so far. He did not play well with others. You could not trust him in the end.

Posted by: Quint at March 15, 2022 09:49 AM (HT9h9)

412 >>>To blame Trump for not understanding the absolute duplicity of the GOP, while patting ourselves on the back for our great knowledge, is silly. We, the people, the GOP people elected every single bastard who shivved him and us.

Posted by: CN at March 15, 2022 09:31 AM (ONvIw)
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And, worse, we readily support any proven Uniparty douche every time they temporarily express some positive MAGA statement.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 15, 2022 09:50 AM (tmTWs)

413 And, worse, we readily support any proven Uniparty douche every time they temporarily express some positive MAGA statement.

So we're heading "back to normal", just as they hoped. With a good, Trump should have known the future, tossed in for good measure.

Posted by: CN at March 15, 2022 09:54 AM (ONvIw)

414 GEORGE WASHINGTON.
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George is Moses. His job was to keep the army in the field until the Brits got tired of chasing him. India, and the profits it was sending London is the biggest reason why we won our rebellion. Then there was Guilford Courthouse, Kings Mountain, Cowpens and the French Navy's Miracle at the Mouth of the Chesepeake that brought things to an end. Notice this all happened in SC, NC and VA.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 15, 2022 10:06 AM (0chEi)

415 The worst thing to come out of 2020 was not blm or covid or vaccines or even a stolen election. It was the assertion of Emergency Powers. Undefined and without an expiration date, EPs hastened the death of personal freedom at the hand of unworthy pencil pushers.

Posted by: red speck at March 15, 2022 10:11 AM (gS3OW)

416 "Russia Today Confirmed it Will Return NASA Astronaut as Planned"

This is simply because the Russian Cosmonauts up there with him at the moment would never have stood for leaving him behind, and the Russian Government knows it. They are faced with a decision:

Give the order to leave him up there, face a mutiny from their own cosmonauts, then deal with a trial and sentencing of men for having the humanity to not abandon a fellow human in the vacuum of space, along with all of the public backlash associated with it:

OR;

Just bring him back.

It's a simple decision. Only an absolute moron or a madman would have chosen otherwise. In all honesty, if they'd decided to leave him, I would start building my nuclear fallout shelter this very morning, because it would have proven to me that Putin had gone stark, raving mad.

Posted by: Goober at March 15, 2022 10:14 AM (Hgvgt)

417 Trump would be much more credible if he admitted that Lois Frankel (D-FL21) is more powerful than he is and decided to use his billions to defeat her in November 2022. He could then run for Speaker of the House, thereby humiliating Nancy Pelosi.

Why wait until 2024 when you can make significant progress in 2022?

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at March 15, 2022 10:19 AM (EMi53)

418 Who here is actually falling for the WEF young leader's bullshit? Gabbard has an agenda and it doesn't have your best interest at heart. She is Klaus's little darling; don't be fooled.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at March 15, 2022 10:26 AM (hlxe7)

419 Sefton is right. Trumped erred grievously when he bowed to Fauci, et al. And he was feckless in the face of the Deep State attack on his presidency. And 79 is too damn old to be president, I don't care that he is still pretty hardy right now. Three years is a long time at Trump's age. A lot can happen in three years.

DeSantis is younger and smarter than Trump, and I think he has the smarts and capacity to succeed where Trump cannot.

Posted by: Ralph at March 15, 2022 01:30 PM (Qf//C)

420 "Interesting idea: DeSantis/Gabbard '24?"

No. F**k no, JJS.

1. Tulsi got an "F" on 2A from the NRA.
2. Tulsi is for federally-funded abortions.
3. Tulsi supports a simplified path to citizenship for illegal aliens.
4. Tulsi is pro LGBT legislation.
5. Tulsi Is for single payer health care.

Sheesh. You thinking with the wrong head?

Posted by: Lawrence L at March 15, 2022 01:44 PM (FAuXd)

421 Fuck DeSantis/Gabbard.

Gabbard is a LEFTIST and Ace should fire you for this alone.

If Trump does not run, then it's DeSantis all the way.

But, to suggest putting the triangulating whore of Gabbard as the VP is just hyper-evil/stupid/betraying on a level I can't imagine.

You males need to stop thinking with your d*cks like that idiot Carlson inviting her on his show all the time.

She is WEG/Davos and a lefty.

STOP the nonsense now.

Posted by: Sapwolf at March 15, 2022 03:28 PM (etPhZ)

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