Wednesday Morning Rant [Joe Mannix]

"Oops?" You're going with "oops?"

Eric Schmidt is the former head honcho at Google who has since retired. Nowadays, he's involved in working toward anything that expands big technocratic government - at least when he's not wearing a mirrored vest and elaborate top hat at the super-elite version of Burning Man.

Last week, he was advocating for a new Senate bill to fund scientific and technological research in the United States. He sees this as necessary because the US is losing its edge in scientific and technological endeavors as so much expertise now exists beyond our shores. He isn't wrong about the assessment or even its root causes, but he is, of course, wrong about the solution. But what is the cause of our problems in technical and scientific innovation and leadership?

As described in the Brietbart article about his meeting with Commerce Secretary Raimondo, he actually does hit the nail on the head:

Meanwhile, the loss of the U.S. manufacturing sector also destroyed the economic and engineering foundation for private-sector U.S. researchers, even as U.S. universities imported more Chinese and European scientists to take U.S. science careers.
Schmidt twice acknowledged the disastrous mistake that has been pushed by investors for 15 or more years. “We made a mistake collectively,” he told Raimondo. “This bill addresses that,” he said, adding:

… it provides funding for expansion of these [fabs] but it also provides funding for basic research, basic strategy, and basically get us to where we should have been because of the mistake we made maybe a decade ago. Why is that important? When you study fabs they are a process of continuous improvement, every single day, over and over and over again.

A "mistake." And a collective one at that. He's not at fault. Nobody is at fault. No one could have seen it coming. It was merely a mistake - a little "oopsie" - when we hollowed out our industrial base and offshored everything for thirty solid years thanks to perverse incentives, insane trade policies and globalist economic theory. Nobody could have foreseen that this could have disastrous consequences on our research and development base.

Except that they could, and should have. Why do you need scientists, engineers and other technical people - those much-vaunted STEM folks - if you have no industry? What need is there for chemists or physicists or engineers or production-control experts and so on if there are no factories to run or to build what they develop? Isn't it more efficient to put the research and development work closer to the factory if you can? In same cases, isn't it necessary? Why yes, yes it is. And you can put it closer to the factory. In China or Korea or Taiwan or Japan or Vietnam or India.

But what is the solution to this tremendous problem? Is the solution the reindustrialization of America? Is it using trade, environmental, energy, health, tax, defense and other policies to make the United States more attractive to industrial concerns? Is it to incentivize repatriation of industry and encourage the development of new industries? Is it an America First policy complex to enable the slow but necessary reconstruction of our industrial base and the industrial and scientific power that is downstream - not upstream - of it?

No, of course not. The answer is subsidies and government programs to try to build more technical expertise and capability by bringing in even more foreigners and throwing around even more money, all while addressing zero of the root causes that led to this situation. Centralize the ineffective response in a way that costs a lot of money and hurts American workers while lining Eric Schmidt's pockets some more. That's better than tackling the problems caused by the generation-long experiment in destructive globalist policies.

This is right, proper and fair. After all, it isn't his or his buddies' fault. It was just a collective mistake.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 11:00 AM

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Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at March 30, 2022 11:01 AM (9rBIi)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at March 30, 2022 11:01 AM (PHprs)

3 corgis called

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at March 30, 2022 11:01 AM (9rBIi)

4 oops... it's all the govt can do when the graft is exposed...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at March 30, 2022 11:03 AM (9rBIi)

5
head hencho

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Excellent typo.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 30, 2022 11:03 AM (SKVme)

6 Willowed: Stephen King voted for Nixon.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022

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King would have been 21 at the time. Odd that he was so levelheaded then, only to be warped later. You'd have thought that after going through the college world from '64 to '68, he'd already have been bent to the left. Quite possibly he thought what I did at 15: Nixon was promising to end the war, and he didn't want to go to Vietnam.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 30, 2022 11:03 AM (txdEq)

7 6 King would have been 21 at the time. Odd that he was so levelheaded then, only to be warped later. You'd have thought that after going through the college world from '64 to '68, he'd already have been bent to the left. Quite possibly he thought what I did at 15: Nixon was promising to end the war, and he didn't want to go to Vietnam.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 30, 2022 11:02 AM (txdEq)

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Watergate broke him, apparently. His dad was a Republican.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:04 AM (LvTSG)

8 Raimondo?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 30, 2022 11:04 AM (lCui1)

9 Americans fund research performed by ChiCom Students. Yeah. Sounds legit.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 30, 2022 11:05 AM (XHZzR)

10 >>Raimondo?

My old governor.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2022 11:05 AM (ZLI7S)

11 Raimondo?
Posted by: vmom

Yes, the Sum of All Trolls as foretold by Tom Clancy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 30, 2022 11:05 AM (p6Md5)

12 Lost in the sauce from this morning but highly relevant: "Tim Ryan, Former Democratic Candidate For President, Focuses On One Big Issue Trump Always Talked About In New Campaign Ad"

https://dailycaller.com/2022/03/29/ tim-ryan-china-ad-ohio-senate-donald-trump/

Is it bullshit or is he signaling something deeper?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:06 AM (s2VJv)

13 So I assume he will give all his Google money back then? I love all these ex tech execs who retire with 9 figure bank accounts and then tell the world how evil their products are.

The give the fucking money back asshoes.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:06 AM (0aeV3)

14 Alright, I guess this is what's going on with this vote.

McConnell maybe wants to win in November, but not very big.

A huge Republican wave would put the onus on him and the other Republicans to perform for the voters/ Performing means losing some of that sweet, sweet graft especially the Chinese money.

So, once again we're back to titrating outcomes.

How can we lose just enough votes to barely change the balance in the Senate and House? How can we have just enough power to get the lion's share of the graft, yet continually frustrate our voters with our lack of power to get anything done, so they'll send us more money to win elections?

Nothing about the country. It's up for sale and destruction. Nothing about the voter's welfare. Fuck the cattle and take their money. Destruction of the Middle and Working classes? Eh, you'll have nothing and like it and be happier.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 30, 2022 11:06 AM (5NkmN)

15 the US is losing its edge in scientific and technological endeavors as so much expertise now exists beyond our shores.

We're selling it...on the cheap.

Posted by: BignJames at March 30, 2022 11:06 AM (AwYPR)

16
CCCCOOOOOUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH- COUGH

~sob-sob~

cough

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 30, 2022 11:06 AM (SWi3y)

17 After all, it isn't his or his buddies' fault. It was just a collective mistake.

The eternal cry of the idiot leftist - "We didn't know!"

We didn't know - outsourcing would destroy our manufacturing capabilities.

We didn't know - legalizing gay 'marriage' would lead to teachers grooming students as their own sex toys.

We didn't know - allowing tech industries to monopolize would lead to their ability to silence conservatives and establish 'speech code' favoring a tyrannical left.

Except we did know and were shouted down as 'conspiracy theorists' and 'racists' and 'haters.' Schmit ought to have a sweaty, feculent horse cock jammed down his throat until he chokes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2022 11:06 AM (2JVJo)

18 What is wrong?

I'll take affirmative action, wokism, and the HR department.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:07 AM (iDcra)

19 Gosh, if only some major political figure in the last decade or so could have made the case sending all of our manufacturing to China, while creating perverse incentives against manufacturing, at home, was a bad idea.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at March 30, 2022 11:07 AM (5pTK/)

20 Watergate broke him, apparently. His dad was a Republican.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022

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I think his father, in the words of Bruce Springsteen, "went out for a ride and never came back" when SK was a pre-teen. His mother was a pioneer in being a single mom (as was mine, as it happened). His father would probably have had had zero influence on his later politics. Yeah, Watergate may have been his watershed, so to speak.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 30, 2022 11:07 AM (txdEq)

21 8 Raimondo?

Sadly, he is my very small brother. If you get, how you say, my drift.

Posted by: The Paolo at March 30, 2022 11:07 AM (1IJnB)

22 "We" made a mistake?

Who's this "we," Kemosabe?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2022 11:08 AM (MmndN)

23 12 How can we lose just enough votes to barely change the balance in the Senate and House? How can we have just enough power to get the lion's share of the graft, yet continually frustrate our voters with our lack of power to get anything done, so they'll send us more money to win elections?

Posted by: naturalfake at March 30, 2022 11:06 AM (5NkmN)

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The idea that SCOTUS is a major issue for the electorate right now is silly. Mitch knows this. He could kill it and come out looking good, but he doesn't want to kill it. He can let it go through, excuse me...he can fail to reign in Collins, and not affect the vote in November because the economy is still going to be the biggest issue by far.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:08 AM (LvTSG)

24 to create "that magical moment" for children who do not identify with traditional gender roles.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2022 10:59 AM (MmndN)

Errrrrrrrrrrr..... what magical moment?

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:08 AM (wi8tR)

25 All part of a systematic and methodical plan to gut America's strength in the world economy. Hollowing out and emasculating a once vibrant powerhouse. We're the Will Smith to their Jada.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 30, 2022 11:08 AM (II3Gr)

26 Buffett's father was a Republican politician and a John Bircher iirc.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 30, 2022 11:08 AM (z5Vrg)

27 Pretty sure while Schmidt was promoting the China offshoring he was also diddling Rupert Murdoch's Chinese wife, Wendy Deng.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2022 11:08 AM (MmndN)

28 *opens door*

Good luck! We're all counting on you.

*closes door*

Posted by: Dr. Rumack at March 30, 2022 11:08 AM (4I/2K)

29 Is it bullshit or is he signaling something deeper?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:06 AM (s2VJv)

J.J., you know better. It's bullshit bukakke theater for the rubes. Ryan would whore himself out for China bux in an instant.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2022 11:08 AM (2JVJo)

30 Excellent typo.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 30, 2022 11:03 AM (SKVme)
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Whoops. Fixed it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2022 11:09 AM (DU+/6)

31 Joe us on CNN Speaks, got to remember to find time tonight

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 30, 2022 11:09 AM (ImfVB)

32 Commerce Secretary Raimondo sounds so right somehow

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:09 AM (wi8tR)

33 Anyone else remember when IBM was the industry leader in filing for patents on a yearly basis?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at March 30, 2022 11:09 AM (5pTK/)

34 Every major US companys IT is run by Indians. I am not just talking about low level coders. I mean coders, managers, directors and VPs. If you are not Indian dont bother applying for a job at Fortune 100 company with anything tech related.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:09 AM (0aeV3)

35 From that Tim Ryan ad at #12:

"They promised us higher wages and lower prices," Ryan says in the ad. . . "Instead, we got pink slips and now price increases." "China is winning and now workers are losing. It's us versus them. CAPITALISM VERSUS COMMUNISM. I'm not backing down. Are You?"

That emphasis is mine.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:09 AM (s2VJv)

36 I don't think that Wall Street and the CEOs who got mega-bonuses saw it as a mistake, though they're probably happy to pretend to be sorry now that it is biting them in the a$$.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2022 11:10 AM (MmndN)

37 Why yes, by Jove, I indeed am a scurrilous douchebag.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt at March 30, 2022 11:10 AM (LaNzR)

38 A troll has ascended to high places?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:10 AM (eGTCV)

39 Except we did know and were shouted down as 'conspiracy theorists' and 'racists' and 'haters.' Schmit ought to have a sweaty, feculent horse cock jammed down his throat until he chokes.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2022 11:06 AM (2JVJo)

That might take a while.

And it's a terrible thing to say.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:10 AM (wi8tR)

40 Nothing gets through the US Congress without $1B+ worth of grift attached to the taxpayer's wallet, it is known.

Posted by: Scott_T at March 30, 2022 11:10 AM (2waQ7)

41 The link to the Breitbart article is already broken. Quick work, my Masters.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2022 11:11 AM (R0Tis)

42 >>Errrrrrrrrrrr..... what magical moment?

Yeah, I have no idea what that Disney exec meant by that.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2022 11:11 AM (MmndN)

43 That emphasis is mine.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:09 AM (s2VJv)

He sounds like a fake asshole loser trolling for the rube vote.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:11 AM (wi8tR)

44 29 Is it bullshit or is he signaling something deeper?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:06 AM (s2VJv)

J.J., you know better. It's bullshit bukakke theater for the rubes. Ryan would whore himself out for China bux in an instant.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2022 11:08 AM (2JVJo)

Maybe, but I find it interesting in that there is a civil war in the Democrat Party but to utter those words is total heresy on their part. It's also a shot at Biden and the Kaloramans, not just the Titty Caca commies.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:12 AM (s2VJv)

45 WTF, Joe?

Where's my roid-rage ape?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 30, 2022 11:12 AM (MFphb)

46 44 Maybe, but I find it interesting in that there is a civil war in the Democrat Party but to utter those words is total heresy on their part. It's also a shot at Biden and the Kaloramans, not just the Titty Caca commies.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:12 AM (s2VJv)

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And McCain is going to build the wall.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:12 AM (LvTSG)

47 Raimondo?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 30, 2022 11:04 AM (lCui1)

Early demo version of a song that with reworking became a huge hit by Abba.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2022 11:12 AM (4I/2K)

48 "They promised us higher wages and lower prices," Ryan says in the ad. . . "Instead, we got pink slips and now price increases." "China is winning and now workers are losing. It's us versus them. CAPITALISM VERSUS COMMUNISM. I'm not backing down. Are You?"

That emphasis is mine.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:09 AM (s2VJv)
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Let me see, ranks about a 2 on the 0 to 10 credible scale. If it were coming from an R, it would be a 2.1 on the credible scale.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at March 30, 2022 11:12 AM (5pTK/)

49
Posted by: naturalfake at March 30, 2022 11:06 AM (5NkmN)

This is the Great American Shell Game, in a nutshell. The GOP plays its role for the Uniparty, in return for being permitted to pick over America's corpse.

But yeah... make sure to get out and vote!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 30, 2022 11:12 AM (SKVme)

50 Anyone else remember when IBM was the industry leader in filing for patents on a yearly basis?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
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I do. As cub engineer the company I worked for designed several to spec machines for IBM, a roller coater, and photoexposer, along with developers, etchers, and strippers. All the IBM guys were white, crew cuts, wore black pants had white shirts and black ties..... much like NASA when they could actually do things.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:13 AM (iDcra)

51 Errrrrrrrrrrr..... what magical moment?

Yeah, I have no idea what that Disney exec meant by that.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2022 11:11 AM (MmndN)

I do.

Posted by: BignJames at March 30, 2022 11:13 AM (AwYPR)

52 Welcome to Ronald Reagan's "service economy".

Why does every Republican president fail spectacularly on one vital issue?

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2022 11:13 AM (cTCuP)

53 The link to the Breitbart article is already broken. Quick work, my Masters.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 30, 2022 11:11 AM (R0Tis)
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Looks like an archive.org problem. Here are links to the two things in the article, which go directly:
- Eric Schmidt at rich guy Burning Man (Guardian) : https://is.gd/3HQxPy
- Main article (Breitbart) : https://is.gd/RxOZZw

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2022 11:13 AM (DU+/6)

54 Wanna get STEM going again in America for Americans? Here is my no cost solution that could be a 1 page bill. End h1b visas. No more Chinese university visas. Any college grad with a bachelors in science gets 1/2 their tuition refunded upon graduation.

The end.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:13 AM (0aeV3)

55 46 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:12 AM (LvTSG)

Your point is taken. But the difference is Tim Ryan's a Democrat spouting "conservative" talking points to a Democrat audience. McCain was a phony conservative playing to a conservative audience.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:13 AM (s2VJv)

56 >>Is it bullshit or is he signaling something deeper?

I would assume BS -- just as he and others pretended to want to end Obamacare right up until the GOP had the House, the Senate and the WH.

Scumbags.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2022 11:14 AM (MmndN)

57 52 Welcome to Ronald Reagan's "service economy".

Why does every Republican president fail spectacularly on one vital issue?
Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2022 11:13 AM (cTCuP)

Technically the service economy is just redefining everything as a service. Highly misleading term in its usage.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 30, 2022 11:14 AM (z5Vrg)

58 No one could have seen it coming. It was merely a mistake - a little "oopsie" - when we hollowed out our industrial base and offshored everything for thirty solid years thanks to perverse incentives, insane trade policies and globalist economic theory.

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... and massive graft, but mostly massive graft.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 30, 2022 11:14 AM (hef1G)

59 The idea that SCOTUS is a major issue for the electorate right now is silly. Mitch knows this. He could kill it and come out looking good, but he doesn't want to kill it. He can let it go through, excuse me...he can fail to reign in Collins, and not affect the vote in November because the economy is still going to be the biggest issue by far.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:08 AM (LvTSG)

So, why not stop it? As far as I can figure, there is zero, absolutely zero, downside to doing your damnest to stop Jackson.

For what it's worth, i do think it will effect votes, even if it's just at the margins. They had a chance to prove they're with Republican and Rep-leaning voters in general, even if they planned to never do a single conservative thing once elected.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 30, 2022 11:15 AM (5NkmN)

60 18 What is wrong?

I'll take affirmative action, wokism, and the HR department.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:07 AM (iDcra)

Everything is wrong. Everything we were raised to believe is all bullshit meant to benefit those in power over us. Any humanity and decency we have is exploited as weakness. We're bled dry then cast aside, all the while being told this is normal. Everything is wrong.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 30, 2022 11:15 AM (II3Gr)

61 Oil and Gas services. Welcome to the new service economy!

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 30, 2022 11:15 AM (z5Vrg)

62 Errrrrrrrrrrr..... what magical moment?

Yeah, I have no idea what that Disney exec meant by that.

Posted by: Lizzy
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He is a Disney exec. It means when he pops a 7 year old boy's butt cherry.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:15 AM (iDcra)

63 Mannix!

*Jazzy music plays*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 30, 2022 11:15 AM (V6f9+)

64 Lot of consensus building here at the HQ this morning. A rarity indeed.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:15 AM (wi8tR)

65
I do. As cub engineer the company I worked for designed several to spec machines for IBM, a roller coater, and photoexposer, along with developers, etchers, and strippers. All the IBM guys were white, crew cuts, wore black pants had white shirts and black ties..... much like NASA when they could actually do things.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:13 AM (iDcra)
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And they smoked cigarettes by the carton and drank coffee by the gallon, right?

*my thesis is the heyday of American ingenuity was fueled by coffee and cigarettes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at March 30, 2022 11:15 AM (5pTK/)

66 An engineer is a service job. So is a doctor.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:16 AM (0aeV3)

67 >>Except we did know and were shouted down as 'conspiracy theorists' and 'racists' and 'haters.'

Also: Isolationists, xenophobes

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2022 11:16 AM (MmndN)

68 55 46 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:12 AM (LvTSG)

Your point is taken. But the difference is Tim Ryan's a Democrat spouting "conservative" talking points to a Democrat audience. McCain was a phony conservative playing to a conservative audience.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:13 AM (s2VJv)

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Tim Ryan is a Democrat running in Ohio, a red state. Even if it's a primary ad, Ohio Democrats run far more conservative than nationwide. He'll become senator, vote for all the leftist things, and then have ads about how much he loves his guns almost as much as he loves his family. And then he'll get re-elected.

Why? Because Democrats don't actually want the crazy leftist bullshit, but they're partisans so they keep voting for it. He just needs his foot in the door.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:16 AM (LvTSG)

69 *my thesis is the heyday of American ingenuity was fueled by coffee and cigarettes.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker

Seeing as those both stimulate the brain, you may be on to something

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (lCui1)

70
Guys, I get your points about Tim Ryan. But you're missing the forest for the trees.

Whereas Titty Caca is warning that the Dems will get shellacked, her concern is that they're not Maoist enough. Tim Ryan - regardless of his truthfulness - is presenting a message because he realizes a much larger percentage of people including traditional Democrats are fed up.

There is something in the air that he is tapping into, his sincerity or lack thereof notwithstanding and that's the essence of my observations.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (s2VJv)

71 Google Past: Don't be Evil

Google Present: Don't be Republican

Posted by: Muad'dib at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (sjdRT)

72 He is a Disney exec. It means when he pops a 7 year old boy's butt cherry.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:15 AM (iDcra)

Well, I was gonna' clean it up a little bit.

Posted by: BignJames at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (AwYPR)

73 59 So, why not stop it? As far as I can figure, there is zero, absolutely zero, downside to doing your damnest to stop Jackson.

For what it's worth, i do think it will effect votes, even if it's just at the margins. They had a chance to prove they're with Republican and Rep-leaning voters in general, even if they planned to never do a single conservative thing once elected.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 30, 2022 11:15 AM (5NkmN)

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Why? Because Mitch wants her on SCOTUS. That's why.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (LvTSG)

74 As cub engineer the company I worked for designed several to spec machines for IBM, a roller coater, and photoexposer, along with developers, etchers, and strippers. All the IBM guys were white, crew cuts, wore black pants had white shirts and black ties..... much like NASA when they could actually do things.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable

The first place I worked had several in house IBM engineers. Yes, they wore the uniform but one of them possessed a huge sense of humor.

When a difficult issue popped up, he'd tell the assembled crew "We must consult 'The Book'", and he'd make a great show of marching around with one of those oversized IBM manuals above his head in his outstretched arms.

We all, of course, bowed deeply towards 'The Book'.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (bNcG+)

75 Technically the service economy is just redefining everything as a service. Highly misleading term in its usage.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 30, 2022 11:14 AM (z5Vrg)

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Out: Internet of Things.
In: Internet of Services.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (hef1G)

76
Technically the service economy is just redefining everything as a service. Highly misleading term in its usage.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 30, 2022 11:14 AM (z5Vrg)

Oh, I see. And the apparent loss of a vast majority of our production capacity is just a mirage.

Got it.

Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (cTCuP)

77 "Conspiracy theory" is such a pre-plandemic term

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 30, 2022 11:18 AM (lCui1)

78 68

See Jon Tester. He lurves Guns so the rubes in Montana keep voting for him, as he votes to destroy their lives, year after year.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:18 AM (0aeV3)

79 Now that our betters sold us down the river to the lowest bidder everything that follows is managing the decline. Say hello to America as Hell. Oh, and you are to blame for making them do that.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 30, 2022 11:18 AM (XHZzR)

80 You can spot the faker language easily because it's generally stuff that should have been said aloud with pride a decade or more ago.

In 10 years Democrats and Fake Republicans (BIRM) will be running on protecting your children from pervert teachers.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:19 AM (wi8tR)

81 70 There is something in the air that he is tapping into, his sincerity or lack thereof notwithstanding and that's the essence of my observations.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (s2VJv)

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And we're just saying that he's lying about it because the crazy leftism is a failing political gambit.

I mean...that's a good thing, but he's not going to actually vote any different if he gets in the Senate.

This isn't some new phenomenon. Every politician has to lie about how conservative they are, putting on a facade of conservatism to win. It's been like that for a long time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:19 AM (LvTSG)

82 Everything is wrong

Everything is Broken. Click nic for the article.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 30, 2022 11:19 AM (sAmhv)

83 "Conspiracy theory" is such a pre-plandemic term
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 30, 2022 11:18 AM (lCui1)
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At this point, the conspiracy theorists should just rebrand themselves as the most reliable fortune tellers who ever prognosticated.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2022 11:19 AM (DU+/6)

84 "Conspiracy theory" is such a pre-plandemic term
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 30, 2022 11:18 AM

Yes. The correct post-plandemic term is "spoiler alert".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2022 11:19 AM (vqhPW)

85
We all, of course, bowed deeply towards 'The Book'.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (bNcG+)

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 30, 2022 11:19 AM (lCui1)

86 Who's trying to destroy the United States? I didn't say that. You said that.

Posted by: Nervous Smoking Lawyer Martin Short at March 30, 2022 11:19 AM (dRsJf)

87 78 68

See Jon Tester. He lurves Guns so the rubes in Montana keep voting for him, as he votes to destroy their lives, year after year.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:18 AM (0aeV3)

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We don't even get drama about whether he'll vote for KBJ or not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:19 AM (LvTSG)

88 76
Technically the service economy is just redefining everything as a service. Highly misleading term in its usage.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 30, 2022 11:14 AM (z5Vrg)

Oh, I see. And the apparent loss of a vast majority of our production capacity is just a mirage.

Got it.
Posted by: creeper at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (cTCuP)

Manufacturing is a sector. "Services" are 70% of the economy the way to term is defined. Our oil and gas industry has been progressively replaced by oil and gas services.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 30, 2022 11:20 AM (z5Vrg)

89 Google Past: Don't be Evil

Google Present: Don't be Republican
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (sjdRT)
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Nope, Google merely dropped the "Don't" from their mission statement.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at March 30, 2022 11:20 AM (5pTK/)

90
Not to quote a Democrat but Erskine Bowles pointed this all out 25 years ago when done being the Slickster's chief of staff: no domestic STEM majors were being produced.

But our kindergarteners now know all about sucking cock.

Posted by: Auspex at March 30, 2022 11:20 AM (Xo3T0)

91 This does seem to be the left's latest dodge. Who could have seen the easily and loudly predicted consequences of our ideas? No one is to blame for carrying out policies that were stridently warned against and blatantly against any sound economic policy. Mistakes were made, and now we have to move on!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2022 11:21 AM (KZzsI)

92 Posted by: Nervous Smoking Lawyer Martin Short at March 30, 2022 11:19 AM (dRsJf)

Oh yeah. Nathan Thurm, esq.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at March 30, 2022 11:21 AM (ZSK0i)

93 IMHO, the real moving of production to China happened under Bush the Lesser. Obama didn't really accelerate that, he didn't have to, just kept the momentum going.

Trump fighting against China and for middle America was another reason, a big one, to get rid of him.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:21 AM (iDcra)

94 "China is winning and now workers are losing. It's us versus them. CAPITALISM VERSUS COMMUNISM. I'm not backing down. Are You?"

That emphasis is mine.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:09 AM (s2VJv)

Election year bullshit to fool the rubes. Does he have any past actions to back up his words?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 30, 2022 11:22 AM (MFphb)

95 When a difficult issue popped up, he'd tell the assembled crew "We must consult 'The Book'", and he'd make a great show of marching around with one of those oversized IBM manuals above his head in his outstretched arms.

We all, of course, bowed deeply towards 'The Book'.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (bNcG+)
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That's also really smart, because it breaks up thought patterns that are getting one nowhere through use of humor. And, obviously, very funny in the process.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at March 30, 2022 11:22 AM (5pTK/)

96 Who's trying to destroy the United States? I didn't say that. You said that.
Posted by: Nervous Smoking Lawyer Martin Short

I loved that character, he did it so well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2022 11:22 AM (KZzsI)

97 Google Past: Don't be Evil

Google Present: Don't be Republican
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (sjdRT)

I should we know what is evil? We aren't theologians.

*Google minions.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 30, 2022 11:22 AM (vivhj)

98 94 Election year bullshit to fool the rubes. Does he have any past actions to back up his words?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 30, 2022 11:22 AM (MFphb)

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Yeah, I doubt Tim Ryan would become the Rand Paul of the Democrats, a truly independent voice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:22 AM (LvTSG)

99 The gun issue has allowed many Dems to be far leftists and get elected in red areas of the country. It is a pretty good calculation for the left. Let the deplorables own a shotgun or 7 and in exchange we turn everything else in acidity into our image.

And the rubes keep falling for it every fucking election season. Because lets face it out side is full of idiotic LIVs as much as their side.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (0aeV3)

100 to create "that magical moment" for children who do not identify with traditional gender roles.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2022 10:59 AM (MmndN)

Errrrrrrrrrrr..... what magical moment?
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That magical moment when you realize that the only way to be your real, authentic self is to have your body surgically mutilated, and commit to a lifetime of injecting yourself with artificial hormones, so that you can pretend to be something that every cell in your body (and every other person you meet) knows you're not?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (k4dH2)

101 83 "Conspiracy theory" is such a pre-plandemic term
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 30, 2022 11:18 AM (lCui1)
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At this point, the conspiracy theorists should just rebrand themselves as the most reliable fortune tellers who ever prognosticated.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

A conspiracy theory is just 3 or 4 news cycles ahead of the present.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (sAmhv)

102 .... all while addressing zero of the root causes that led to this situation.

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Root Cause Analysis is a social construct tool of the white cisheteropatriarchy oppressor and must be rejected at every turn!

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (qDhG5)

103 Now that our betters sold us down the river to the lowest bidder everything that follows is managing the decline. Say hello to America as Hell. Oh, and you are to blame for making them do that.

Posted by: Puddinhead
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The democrats and Biden junta are well past that. We are now into "Planned Destruction."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (iDcra)

104 Google Past: Don't be Evil

Google Present: Don't be Republican
Posted by: Muad'dib at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (sjdRT)

I should we know what is evil? We aren't theologians.

*Google minions.
Posted by: Just Lily at March 30, 2022 11:22 AM

We didn't really change anything. We're just being open now about how we always defined "evil".

Posted by: Google Execs at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (vqhPW)

105 the US is losing its edge in scientific and technological endeavors as so much expertise now exists beyond our shores.
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We're selling it...on the cheap.
Posted by: BignJames at March 30, 2022 11:06 AM (AwYPR)

"When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract." -- Lenin

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (T7iTv)

106 Have a friend who sees admissions to CalPoly San Luis Obispo, probably one of the finest applied engineering schools in America.

She says that almost all foreign students (paying full freight) goes into engineering. Not English. Not history. To the extent that a ton of deserving American kids do not get a chance.

We keep hearing that our kids are not studying engineering. That is because Cal Poly and schools like it made the decision that money was more important than who they were founded to serve.

Its betrayal as usual in American Universities.

Posted by: Justin Castreau at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (ZW1rs)

107 99 The gun issue has allowed many Dems to be far leftists and get elected in red areas of the country. It is a pretty good calculation for the left. Let the deplorables own a shotgun or 7 and in exchange we turn everything else in acidity into our image.

And the rubes keep falling for it every fucking election season. Because lets face it out side is full of idiotic LIVs as much as their side.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (0aeV3)

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How many single issue voters are there about guns around here? I think there are a few.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (LvTSG)

108 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:17 AM (s2VJv)

Zoom out a little.

The branch has been exposed. The communists are so entrenched now, so far up our asses that it's finally "okay" to talk about it.

That's all it is. It's almost like a reverse Overton Window. Or remnants if it's shift. A way behind lagging indicator of thoughts that will soon vanish into dust because of far more pressing issues.

Nobody is offering "Capitalism" anymore. *Nobody*.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:24 AM (wi8tR)

109 remnants of*

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:25 AM (wi8tR)

110 The first place I worked had several in house IBM engineers. Yes, they wore the uniform but one of them possessed a huge sense of humor.

An engineer with a sense of humor?

Those words do not compute.

Posted by: Archer at March 30, 2022 11:25 AM (gmo/4)

111 I feel strongly about this thing

Posted by: DB at March 30, 2022 11:25 AM (geLO8)

112 Govt is monstrous in size and deed.

And it will undeniably continue to grow until a catastrophic collapse.

That is literally the only thing that will stop its growth.

Posted by: I've got bad news for you at March 30, 2022 11:25 AM (lOr+7)

113 Trump fighting against China and for middle America was another reason, a big one, to get rid of him.
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It was the only reason. The investment in China/Asia had tilted too far for a rebalance according to our money lenders.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 30, 2022 11:25 AM (XHZzR)

114 re 12: I get emails from lots of pols and groups on both sides. Ryan sent out one last week in which he, in a traditional statesman-like fashion, wrote:

"All this to say, f*** the filibuster."

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 30, 2022 11:26 AM (Ynyl9)

115 Imma take issue with one ascpect of "we" seeing what was coming and that is the issue surrounding "free trade".

Conservatives were told to be for it and for the most part were. Very few were advocates of fair trade, and it took a few decades and DJT to point out how our so-called fairness was hurting our bums and why. It seems like most non-statists are now on board with fair trade agreements that don't give away the American candy store, but now it's too late, cuz no meen tweets amiright?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 30, 2022 11:26 AM (MFphb)

116 After all, it isn't his or his buddies' fault. It was just a collective mistake.

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This is the great benefit of collectivism, comrades! All blame is assigned to the amorphous collective; it's almost like a protection racket for the destroyers ...

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 30, 2022 11:26 AM (qDhG5)

117 "What is wrong?

I'll take affirmative action, wokism, and the HR department.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable"

Yep. And it is going to get worse as the wokistas move up in management and make ever more decisions based on social justice and fairness. Corporations will be just as screwed up as public schools.

Posted by: Ripley at March 30, 2022 11:26 AM (MxEKc)

118 When a difficult issue popped up, he'd tell the assembled crew "We must consult 'The Book'"...

IBM technical manuals were the sh*ts. I remember special ordering a set of PC XT books and then driving to the IBM offices downtown and paying out a significant chunk of my student budget for them. Now the tech company I work for doesn't even have a tech writer on staff.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 30, 2022 11:26 AM (nfrXX)

119 It was the only reason.

Oh, his war on pedos was another. His actually reducing the size and scope of government was another. There were a lot of reasons but I agree that the China vs America thing was the major one.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2022 11:26 AM (KZzsI)

120 No offense meant Open Blogger, but I'm absolutely meh. No more outrage left; no fucks to be given (as the young'ns say).

Let it all burn. It was a good run, but we probably need to wipe it clean and start over again.

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at March 30, 2022 11:26 AM (dbdgv)

121 Disregarding the cloud software business, is Amazon really a tech company or Sears 2.0? Is Apple(and by extension phone makers were always tech companies)? Are taxi companies now tech companies because they have apps?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 30, 2022 11:28 AM (z5Vrg)

122 An engineer is a service job. So is a doctor.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

Engineering hasn't had a gatekeeping association limiting the number of engineering schools or graduates. Except mebbe civil e.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 30, 2022 11:28 AM (p6Md5)

123 An engineer with a sense of humor?

Those words do not compute.
Posted by: Archer

Pishposh!

Where would all those 'ohm' jokes come from otherwise?

"Ohm on the range"
etc. There are a million of them.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2022 11:28 AM (bNcG+)

124 Its kind of ironic that the age of western/world exploration was driven by a desire to find a cheaper route to China. Now that we have we are soon to be ruled by China. Top Men.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 30, 2022 11:28 AM (XHZzR)

125
I tried. Oh well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:28 AM (s2VJv)

126 I can't tell if I am fat or have neuropathy. Maybe both.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 11:28 AM (SH2Zi)

127 Uh oh. Even the Washington Post has turned on Hunter.

The strategy seems to be coming into focus. Hunter is going under the bus but Joe was completely uninvolved.

It will probably work for the very stupid but this is not good for Democrats.

https://tinyurl.com/yc2cdnu5

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2022 11:28 AM (ZLI7S)

128 How many single issue voters are there about guns around here? I think there are a few.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (LvTSG)

*raises hand*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 30, 2022 11:28 AM (V6f9+)

129 Josh Hawley introduces bill to increase penalties for child pornographers

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 11:29 AM (1IJnB)

130 107

Maybe not here. But in general, tons. And not specifically single issue. Tester and his ilk use guns to prove they are centrist and moderate. And if their opponent says nah bru you are a far leftists Tester comes back with how can you say that look how much I have done for 2A rights? Same with Manchin who runs campaign ads holding rifles to prove how much he cares about the issue.

It obviously works because the state that voted 68% for Trump voted for Manchin. And Montana voted Republican for president in every election since forever yet Teater is in his 4th term.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:29 AM (0aeV3)

131 93 IMHO, the real moving of production to China happened under Bush the Lesser. Obama didn't really accelerate that, he didn't have to, just kept the momentum going.

Trump fighting against China and for middle America was another reason, a big one, to get rid of him.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:21 AM (iDcra

It started well before Bush. I was working with textile and industrial companies in the mid to late 90s that had already seen competitors and suppliers move production there, and wondering how they could compete.

Posted by: Tofer732 at March 30, 2022 11:29 AM (GcxM3)

132 Internet Archive is temporarily offline. TMI

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 11:29 AM (CLkaN)

133 I can't tell if I am fat or have neuropathy. Maybe both.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 11:28 AM (SH2Zi)

You're not fat.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 30, 2022 11:30 AM (Ez6QX)

134 Guess what happens when you hire a third-world engineer with a third-world degree for a third-world wage?

I get to laugh at you and call you a dumbfuck.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 30, 2022 11:30 AM (S3EUx)

135 I don't think there's any doubt that there is a Democratic civil war going on, too.

There are Democrats who know that COVID was a scam, that China is our enemy. They aren't in positions of power anymore, however.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 30, 2022 11:31 AM (V6f9+)

136 >>128 How many single issue voters are there about guns around here? I think there are a few.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (LvTSG)

*raises hand*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse

*raises foot* hand is busy pulling a boresnake.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 11:31 AM (1IJnB)

137 The only single issue thing I vote on is abortion. I'm willing to compromise slightly on things to get a much bigger portion of good, but I won't budge on murdering helpless innocent babies. Not one bit.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2022 11:31 AM (KZzsI)

138 All of our "head honchos" over the last 30 years have done nothing to preserve our way of life and ascendant position circa 1992 and prior.

In fact, they have only subverted and preverted it.

Hang them all.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 30, 2022 11:31 AM (9ieJC)

139 I like Joe's Monkey Face

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 30, 2022 11:32 AM (ImfVB)

140 Guess what happens when you hire a third-world engineer with a third-world degree for a third-world wage?

I get to laugh at you and call you a dumbfuck.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 30, 2022 11:30 AM (S3EUx)

Bridges in Miami?

Posted by: BignJames at March 30, 2022 11:32 AM (AwYPR)

141 It obviously works because the state that voted 68% for Trump voted for Manchin. And Montana voted Republican for president in every election since forever yet Teater is in his 4th term.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:29 AM (0aeV3)

What is Tester's voting record on gun rights issues?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 11:32 AM (P3gRi)

142 And the rubes keep falling for it every fucking election season. Because lets face it out side is full of idiotic LIVs as much as their side.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (0aeV3)

Eh, I know you're being bombastic here but in general it's harder to be a Republican - and all the surveys of Tea Party etc showed that they had a significantly better grasp of current issues, facts, and knowledge of history than idiot Democrats... so I will respectfully disagree.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:32 AM (wi8tR)

143 Josh Hawley introduces bill to increase penalties for child pornographers

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 11:29 AM (1IJnB)

*rolls eyes* *glares*

Posted by: Judge Jackson at March 30, 2022 11:32 AM (4I/2K)

144 Government funding will not replace private enterprise R&D.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 11:32 AM (CLkaN)

145 Internet Archive is temporarily offline. TMI
Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 11:29 AM (CLkaN)
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There are direct shortened links in comment 53.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2022 11:33 AM (DU+/6)

146 But our kindergarteners now know all about sucking cock.
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And the joys of injecting themselves with artificial hormones.

NJ is making junior high kids watch videos of "trans" kids showing them how to shoot themselves up, and exhorting them to "be bold and brave" and "make the choice to be happy" and "stand up for themselves" (complete with inspirational background music), as it extols the many virtues (and of course, zero drawbacks) of "transitioning."

This stuff is beyond insane, and a decade from now a lot of people are going to be looking back and wondering why more people didn't stand up and call out this crazy and dangerous bullshit for what it is.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at March 30, 2022 11:33 AM (k4dH2)

147 How many single issue voters are there about guns around here? I think there are a few.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (LvTSG)

*raises hand*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse

*raises foot* hand is busy pulling a boresnake.
Posted by: Capital Eff

*fist bumps all around

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2022 11:33 AM (At65q)

148 I tried. Oh well.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 30, 2022 11:28 AM (s2VJv)

Not your fault, J.J. It's that too many of us have been red-pilled to believe anything coming out of these lying bastiches' mouths.

Could he have seen the light? Maybe. But, IMHO, he's watching the Titanic sink and is desperately looking to put on a woman's dress so he can find a place in the lifeboat.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2022 11:33 AM (2JVJo)

149 140 Guess what happens when you hire a third-world engineer with a third-world degree for a third-world wage?

I get to laugh at you and call you a dumbfuck.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 30, 2022 11:30 AM (S3EUx)

Bridges in Miami?
Posted by: BignJames at March 30, 2022 11:32 AM (AwYPR)

Those were women engineers.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 30, 2022 11:33 AM (II3Gr)

150 It started well before Bush. I was working with textile and industrial companies in the mid to late 90s that had already seen competitors and suppliers move production there, and wondering how they could compete.
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NC lost textile mills every year during the 80s. Most went to India. Oddly, for every textile mill that was close the per capita income of workers went up. This is largely due to the invasion of Yankee Refugees from the NE and Upper Midwest needing homes and roads and such. The Yankee Exodus started in 1969. Blue shitholes are shitholes cuz the talented Yankees could not afford to live there anymore.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 30, 2022 11:33 AM (XHZzR)

151 137 The only single issue thing I vote on is abortion. I'm willing to compromise slightly on things to get a much bigger portion of good, but I won't budge on murdering helpless innocent babies. Not one bit.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2022 11:31 AM (KZzsI)

That is how I convinced my kids to vote the right way last election...

It is also my non-negotiable, which means I'll likely never vote a Democrat, since they've purged all pro-lifers from their party permanently...

Posted by: Nova local at March 30, 2022 11:34 AM (exHjb)

152
Inflation and shortages are causing supermarkets and consumers to shift away from big name brands, I was just reading. They're going more to the low cost store brands, and the grocery stores are shifting shelf space accordingly.

I noticed some of that locally. One of the local Food Lions now has a bunch of generic store brand ketchup, when it used to be all Heinz and Hunts.

Brand loyalty, which used to be pretty solid, is now crumbling due to inflation and shortages.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 30, 2022 11:34 AM (Mzdiz)

153 142

As a whole, I agree, Republicans are better informed. But elections are won by 1 or 2%. You dont need to convince everyone just a small handful.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:34 AM (0aeV3)

154 Government funding will not replace private enterprise R&D.
Posted by: Braenyard

Government funding gives us gain of function in backwater weapons labs in turd world countries.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2022 11:34 AM (At65q)

155 He sounds like a fake asshole loser trolling for the rube vote.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:11 AM (wi8tR)

That's my default position for any politician seeking office. Whether he is particularly adept at aligning his talking points to his electorate's concerns or is genuinely concerned and committed to this talking points remains to be seen.

First priority is always to get into office. Second priority is to stay in office. We had one particularly unsuccessful as a dem state pol in WA switch to republican to stay in office in a redish district.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 11:34 AM (SH2Zi)

156 I don't think that Wall Street and the CEOs who got mega-bonuses saw it as a mistake, though they're probably happy to pretend to be sorry now that it is biting them in the a$$.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2022 11:10 AM (MmndN)

If you're worth hundreds of millions of dollars - or more - can you really be said to be ass bitten? They're hoping that we'll forget now that the teeth in our ass are going a bit deeper. They're hoping that when the rope comes out that they'll get a pass.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 30, 2022 11:35 AM (T7iTv)

157 But elections are won by 1 or 2%. You dont need to convince everyone just a small handful.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:34 AM (0aeV3)

That I will agree with. Lots of dummies around.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:36 AM (wi8tR)

158 It started well before Bush. I was working with textile and industrial companies in the mid to late 90s that had already seen competitors and suppliers move production there, and wondering how they could compete.

Posted by: Tofer732
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A sales guy from Keyence sold shit tons of sensors to the textile industry here in Kalifornia in the 90s. Beleive it or not one of the biggest areas for growing cotton had a huge textile industry. EPA said the the textile factories had to upgrade their plants on a very short schedule. So short schedule means high cost and no production during retrofits. So many of them moved production off shore "temporarily." Guess what? they never came back except a small number of boutique factories. Big Gov had a big hand in off shoring textiles.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:36 AM (iDcra)

159 You're not fat.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 30, 2022 11:30 AM (Ez6QX)

Oh great, now I've got neuropathy.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 11:36 AM (SH2Zi)

160 NJ is making junior high kids watch videos of "trans" kids showing them how to shoot themselves up, and exhorting them to "be bold and brave" and "make the choice to be happy" and "stand up for themselves" (complete with inspirational background music), as it extols the many virtues (and of course, zero drawbacks) of "transitioning."

This stuff is beyond insane, and a decade from now a lot of people are going to be looking back and wondering why more people didn't stand up and call out this crazy and dangerous bullshit for what it is.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at March 30, 2022 11:33 AM (k4dH2)

I know people who like to wave that rainbow flag but I don't think any of them would let a teacher sexually abuse their children. And yet they allow it to happen. The only explanation I have is that Satan has blinded their eyes.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:37 AM (eGTCV)

161 First priority is always to get into office. Second priority is to stay in office.

Its pretty easy to justify that in your head as a politician. "How can I help and serve the people if I am out of office?" Obviously every politician other than John McCain believes they are the best choice or they wouldn't run for office in the first place. So that's when the compromises, corruption, and loss of integrity begins: my first goal is to stay in this job.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2022 11:37 AM (KZzsI)

162 Up until 2008, manufacturing continued to increase strongly in the USA. It fell off before TARP and since went sideways, never recovering fully. (population kept growing) FRED chart, NAICS ... not sure exactly what it measures, economic capacity, or production in constant dollars, or ?
https://is.gd/Tlj6Cs

But number of employees peaked around 1980 at 19.5 million, steadily down to 12.6 million last month. But the big drop was around 2000 to 2009, then slow recovery. So thank Globalist Bush and his China friends for that.

https://is.gd/PO3UIv

Posted by: illiniwek at March 30, 2022 11:38 AM (Cus5s)

163 >>We had one particularly unsuccessful as a dem state pol in WA switch to republican to stay in office in a redish district.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur

There is hope. And a hot MILF to boot.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8jb759

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 11:38 AM (1IJnB)

164 What is Tester's voting record on gun rights issues?

I don't know offhand but for a long time, Harry Reid's was pretty good and it got him an NRA endorsement. Which I think is sort of Joe X's point. While I believe that a pol's position on gun rights is usually a pretty good barometer of his overall trustworthiness, it's not a slam dunk but some of "us" seem eager to be fooled again and again.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 30, 2022 11:38 AM (nfrXX)

165 Uh oh. Even the Washington Post has turned on Hunter.

The strategy seems to be coming into focus. Hunter is going under the bus but Joe was completely uninvolved.
_____________

Mr. Ten Percent? The whole criminal enterprise, which spanned Joe Biden's half-century in political office, depended on the willingness of The Big Guy to be a crook.

There's no way Hunter Biden (or the Biden brothers) run their con without the knowledge and participation of Joe Biden. He's the kingpin.

And everybody knows it.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at March 30, 2022 11:39 AM (k4dH2)

166 Oh great, now I've got neuropathy.

Neuropathy isn't too tough to spot. It starts with little unexplained stabbing paints in your feet and legs. Then it becomes a nearly constant low level grinding pain like an itch that goes too far. Then it becomes an inability for parts to properly control their heat, so your feet are constantly like blocks of ice you cannot warm up and are uncomfortable to touch anything with. Then numbness. If its the kind that is progressive, it moves up from your feet up your legs slowly over the years.

My mom has it, my brother has it (diabetes). Its awful stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2022 11:39 AM (KZzsI)

167 165 There's no way Hunter Biden (or the Biden brothers) run their con without the knowledge and participation of Joe Biden. He's the kingpin.

And everybody knows it.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at March 30, 2022 11:39 AM (k4dH2)

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Especially when Hunter was flying on government planes to these meets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:39 AM (LvTSG)

168 I'll add another cause.

Universities are woke experiences in gender and feminist studies. There are no incentives for basic engineering and scientific research.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 30, 2022 11:41 AM (t3OOQ)

169 Posted by: illiniwek at March 30, 2022 11:38 AM (Cus5

Bush tried to put tariffs on steel and the Right screamed bloody murder.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 30, 2022 11:41 AM (/ijUi)

170 I don't know offhand but for a long time, Harry Reid's was pretty good and it got him an NRA endorsement. Which I think is sort of Joe X's point. While I believe that a pol's position on gun rights is usually a pretty good barometer of his overall trustworthiness, it's not a slam dunk but some of "us" seem eager to be fooled again and again.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 30, 2022 11:38 AM (nfrXX)

Well, my point is, that if you are a single-issue voter, and a politician delivers on that single issue, you vote for him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 30, 2022 11:41 AM (P3gRi)

171 Manufacturing is icky and dirty. We need thought leaders and influencers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2022 11:41 AM (63Dwl)

172 Even in the reddest of states Dems have a bottom support level of 35%. So for a Tester or Manchin to win he doesnt have to get every Republican. He just need to find enough of them to get to 47 or 48%. And I say 47 or 48 because the other part of the plan is getting some fake Libertarian to run and get 4%. The Dems run this playbook perfectly over and over. And the GOP being the stupid party can never figure it out.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:41 AM (0aeV3)

173 >Brand loyalty, which used to be pretty solid, is now crumbling due to inflation and shortages.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 30, 2022 11:34 AM (Mzdiz)

Can't wait for the white can, black block letter BEER to return.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 30, 2022 11:42 AM (/pdBT)

174 It was just a collective mistake.

Comrade Schmidt sees us as the collective and the politburo as leadership with him as its advisor.
He is an American in name only.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 11:42 AM (CLkaN)

175 There is hope. And a hot MILF to boot.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8jb759

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 11:38 AM (1IJnB)

She's got a bit of mileage that's for sure. Still running good but someone missed the 50,000 mile tuneup.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:42 AM (wi8tR)

176 tis the EPA (and the state versions of same) that killed manufacturing here

my uncle ran a plastics plant in upstate PA and he finally couldn't take it anymore. he was the main employer in that region, he cried when he had to close it. the EPA.

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 30, 2022 11:42 AM (j9HX3)

177 176 tis the EPA (and the state versions of same) that killed manufacturing here

my uncle ran a plastics plant in upstate PA and he finally couldn't take it anymore. he was the main employer in that region, he cried when he had to close it. the EPA.
Posted by: Black Orchid at March 30, 2022 11:42 AM (j9HX3)

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He cried because he couldn't oppress the workers anymore, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:43 AM (LvTSG)

178 The only single issue thing I vote on is abortion. I'm willing to compromise slightly on things to get a much bigger portion of good, but I won't budge on murdering helpless innocent babies. Not one bit.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Amen. All other good things are built upon the foundation of the right to life.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2022 11:43 AM (bNcG+)

179
Subsidized science, particularly government subsidized science, becomes "settled" science. The entire grant reviewing, approving and funding apparatus behind government subsidized science is warren after warren, and silo after silo, of incestuous cabals of "scientists" scratching one another's backs.

It would be fairer to stage gladiatorial games to determine who gets funding -- at least that would winnow out the oversupply of barely adequate practitioners of "science".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 30, 2022 11:43 AM (pNxlR)

180 There is hope. And a hot MILF to boot.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8jb759
Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 11:38 AM (1IJnB)
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Holy moly, Patty Murray has been in the Senate for thirty years? Longer than most Morons have been alive, that complete moron has been a Senator.

Incredible.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 30, 2022 11:44 AM (se5Oh)

181 illiniwek at March 30, 2022 11:38 AM (Cus5s)
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Also automation took over big time. PLC and computer control came into their own then. At our small engineering and design company we had three principals. I did the mechanical engineering, and power dist, another partner did electrical (analog), and a third did PLC and PC software. five years before that would have been 10-14 person engineering department.

Automating routine jobs was even more dramatic.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:44 AM (iDcra)

182 Single issue voting is quicksand. Democrats used that for year to pull in NRA voters.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 11:44 AM (CLkaN)

183 There is hope. And a hot MILF to boot.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8jb759

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 11:38 AM (1IJnB)

Very milfy. Although I would like to see a switch, and I believe of all years, this could be the one year to unseat a national dem in WA, I expect a 60-40 split for Murray.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 11:44 AM (SH2Zi)

184 AmSpectator: Biden: Shut Him Up, Shut Him Down.

Back to the basement, forever.

Posted by: Ziba at March 30, 2022 11:44 AM (S1hrL)

185 In the '80s & '90s, my direct boss was the President of a Fortune 1000, NYE listed Uniform Rental company. 3rd largest in the nation, at the time. $470m annual revenues, then, over a billion $ annually, now.

And they kept all of their manufacturing onshore, either directly in the USA, or no further "offshore" than Puerto Rico or other U.S. Territories. It *can* be done, but it takes some dedication and commitment to GET it done.

They did consider the Chinese option, and the largest in the industry "went there", and their garments and goods are crap as a result. Keeping production expertise in-house does have a higher upfront cost, but offers a much higher profit and reward AND CONTROL of the entire production chain, preventing being held hostage to disloyal offshore subcontractors.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 30, 2022 11:44 AM (QzJWU)

186 Beans, bullets, bandaids, and badguys- we used to recognize the national security interest in being able to make the first 3, the 4th was outsourced. Now, we've got plenty of homemade badguys, but we rely on the globe for everything else.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at March 30, 2022 11:44 AM (xbDAF)

187 Holy moly, Patty Murray has been in the Senate for thirty years? Longer than most Morons have been alive, that complete moron has been a Senator.

Is she one of the senile Dems?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:45 AM (eGTCV)

188 >>She's got a bit of mileage that's for sure. Still running good but someone missed the 50,000 mile tuneup.

Honest assessment.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 11:45 AM (1IJnB)

189
Pishposh!

Where would all those 'ohm' jokes come from otherwise?

"Ohm on the range"
etc. There are a million of them.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2022 11:28 AM (bNcG+)

Yeah, but you're gonna face a lot of resistance from the humor-deficient.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2022 11:45 AM (n+4am)

190 Every major US companys IT is run by Indians. I am not just talking about low level coders. I mean coders, managers, directors and VPs. If you are not Indian dont bother applying for a job at Fortune 100 company with anything tech related.
Posted by: Joe XiDen

I recall one Indian department manager in my past. I had one Indian employee in my group,and said dept manager demanded this employee's rating be changed to an A rating, then took away my other employees' mediocre raises so that this employee could get a ten percent raise. I refused to sign off, so a VP of HR had to sign all the paperwork. That department manager left for other opportunities shortly thereafter.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2022 11:45 AM (TfCUX)

191 Just seems to me that the welfare of actual Americans is, and has for a long time, been the bottom of priorities for all those calling the shots. It's the crux of all that's wrong. Washington DC does not care about the fallout from their insane policies regarding the exceptionalism of America or its citizens, what happened to our manufacturing and the domino effect it's had. I don't see it changing, unless we dispense with each and every sack of garbage in that filthy, corrupt town.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 30, 2022 11:46 AM (sVtYq)

192 Automating routine jobs frees up human resources to do other work in a capitalist system.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 11:46 AM (CLkaN)

193 How many single issue voters are there about guns around here? I think there are a few.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM (LvTSG)

*raises hand*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse

*raises foot* hand is busy pulling a boresnake.
Posted by: Capital Eff

*fist bumps all around

*makes fvcking motion with AR10 propped on crotch.*

Posted by: Roland THTG at March 30, 2022 11:46 AM (j40lz)

194
Eisenhower, in his famous farewell address, warned about the merger of govt. and science. We remember the "military industrial complex" line most, but he spoke extensively of a technocratic elite forming.

Science and govt. merging to the detriment of the both and to the people.

What he warned about has come true in spades. Fauci is the poster boy for that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 30, 2022 11:46 AM (Mzdiz)

195
Up until 2008, manufacturing continued to increase strongly in the USA.
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But number of employees peaked around 1980 at 19.5 million, steadily down to 12.6 million last month.

Many machines in USA. New machines.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2022 11:46 AM (63Dwl)

196 Ford announced a couple of weeks ago that Google is partnering with them on their restoration of the Michigan Central Railroad Terminal and will be moving a segment of their business into the restored building. Part of the campus will be turned into a classroom and technical learning center for HS students who want technical and coding skills and whose HS are lacking in offering those classes. I am on a phone so cannot link but search for Detroit Michigan Central station and numerous stories come up. This is a 1B project opening next year.

Posted by: Jen the original at March 30, 2022 11:46 AM (iJp8g)

197 Wasn't Patty Murray the one that lost the election so they did a recount. She lost the recount so they did another recount. She lost the second recount so they did a third recount. She won the third recount so no more recounts.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:46 AM (iDcra)

198 Seems pretty obvious to me that Ryan is just trolling for votes in Ohio basically from blue collar Trump voters. I don't think he believes his own commercial or gives a rat's ass about working people. But I also think its his first presidential campaign commercial in disguise. He is setting up the debate vs the ultra left.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 30, 2022 11:47 AM (lgeFv)

199 "The solitary inventor tinkering in his shop has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories...Partly because of the costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment...is ever present and is gravely to be regarded."
--Ike, January 1961

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 30, 2022 11:47 AM (videA)

200 Now the tech company I work for doesn't even have a tech writer on staff.
Posted by: Oddbob at March 30, 2022 11:26 AM (nfrXX)

That's because tech companies constantly update stuff making it nigh impossible to write manuals. Even there online KB systems are often out-of-date. There's no stability and that's a problem.

Posted by: WiNO at March 30, 2022 11:47 AM (EpDzw)

201 "Bush tried to put tariffs on steel and the Right screamed bloody murder." Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

OK, yeah, I should have said GOPe I guess, since for at least part of that time they had some control. Or maybe it was mostly the same DeepState (including WallStreet leveraged gamblers and their bailouts) that runs the joint now.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 30, 2022 11:47 AM (Cus5s)

202 Oh great, now I've got neuropathy.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 11:36 AM (SH2Zi)

It's okay. Here's a hug. {{{flounder}}}

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 30, 2022 11:48 AM (Ez6QX)

203 TMJ @167- so zho bai-din is pulling that ''old crazy mob boss' trick?

Posted by: Eromero at March 30, 2022 11:48 AM (sAHLN)

204 The continual recount until the Dem won, was for governor of WA not senate.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:48 AM (0aeV3)

205 Put that no-knowledge justice on the Supreme Court, Sen Collins. Speed the decay of its power.

Pixy's hamsters could do a better job than the GOPe.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 30, 2022 11:48 AM (u82oZ)

206 There is hope. And a hot MILF to boot.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8jb759

--

She is very pretty.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 30, 2022 11:49 AM (sVtYq)

207 Holy moly, Patty Murray has been in the Senate for thirty years? Longer than most Morons have been alive, that complete moron has been a Senator.

Incredible.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 30, 2022 11:44 AM

Says everything you need to know about WA that the dumbest member of the Senate keeps getting reelected there. My BIL's mother, herself a Bear of Very Little Brain, loves her.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2022 11:49 AM (vqhPW)

208 Especially when Hunter was flying on government planes to these meets.
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And carrying his laptop with multiple DOJ encryption keys on it, with 20-year expiration dates.

The corruption in every level of our federal government is mind-blowing.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at March 30, 2022 11:49 AM (k4dH2)

209 Wasn't Patty Murray the one that lost the election so they did a recount. She lost the recount so they did another recount. She lost the second recount so they did a third recount. She won the third recount so no more recounts.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:46 AM (iDcra)

That was Gregwhore. Stolen governor election.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 11:49 AM (SH2Zi)

210 Nice. CNN joins WaPo admitting Hunter's serious federal crimes. Now we know for sure nothing will be done about it.

Posted by: Ziba at March 30, 2022 11:49 AM (S1hrL)

211 >>197 Wasn't Patty Murray the one that lost the election so they did a recount. She lost the recount so they did another recount. She lost the second recount so they did a third recount. She won the third recount so no more recounts.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable

I believe you are referring to Governor Christine Gregoire. Dino Rossi simped in the end.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 11:50 AM (1IJnB)

212 It's okay. Here's a hug. {{{flounder}}}

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 30, 2022 11:48 AM (Ez6QX)

Ooh. All better. Thanks.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 11:50 AM (SH2Zi)

213
AmSpectator: Biden: Shut Him Up, Shut Him Down.

Back to the basement, forever.
Posted by: Ziba

Is he going to come down with a case of Omicron?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2022 11:50 AM (63Dwl)

214 210 Nice. CNN joins WaPo admitting Hunter's serious federal crimes. Now we know for sure nothing will be done about it.
Posted by: Ziba at March 30, 2022 11:49 AM (S1hrL)

What kind of lies will be told to protect The Big Guy?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:50 AM (eGTCV)

215 Wasn't Patty Murray Paul Ryan's best friend in the Senate?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:50 AM (LvTSG)

216 Eh Rossi could only do so much when every leftist judge told him to fuck off.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:51 AM (0aeV3)

217 AmSpectator: Biden: Shut Him Up, Shut Him Down.

Back to the basement, forever.
Posted by: Ziba

Is he going to come down with a case of Omicron?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2022 11:50 AM (63Dwl)

Will he just be quietly locked in the basement, or will there be a resignation?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:51 AM (eGTCV)

218 How many single issue voters are there about guns around here? I think there are a few.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM

I would suspect relatively few are single-issue voters per se, but use it as a marker. If someone is correct on gun rights, they're probably right on the other issues.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 30, 2022 11:51 AM (a3Q+t)

219 This busty brunette longs for an industrial renaissance:
https://is.gd/GihmLq

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2022 11:51 AM (DU+/6)

220 Thanks all for the clarification on the steal in Washington. Thought it was a senate seat.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (iDcra)

221 217 AmSpectator: Biden: Shut Him Up, Shut Him Down.

Back to the basement, forever.
Posted by: Ziba

Is he going to come down with a case of Omicron?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2022 11:50 AM (63Dwl)

Will he just be quietly locked in the basement, or will there be a resignation?
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My guess he will just be kept in the basement so those currently in power can stay there.

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (dbdgv)

222 210 Nice. CNN joins WaPo admitting Hunter's serious federal crimes. Now we know for sure nothing will be done about it.
Posted by: Ziba at March 30, 2022 11:49 AM (S1hrL)

Sounds like someone is getting info from the grand jury proceedings

Posted by: Tofer732 at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (GcxM3)

223
Yeah, Patty Murray is well known to be the dumbest member of the Senate. Box of rocks dumb. Lisa Moocow is a close second.

Big Dummies.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (Mzdiz)

224 Automating routine jobs frees up human resources to do other work in a capitalist system.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 11:46 AM (CLkaN)

What happens when there aren't enough low level jobs or even mid-level jobs? That's a question the "Efficiency yesterday, efficiency today, efficiency forever" folks refuse to consider. It is also why the supply chain is now jumbled into incoherence. You can maximize one area to a point the system collapses.

Posted by: WiNO at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (EpDzw)

225 It is unconscionable tht the GOP would pounce on poor Hunter like this. He lost his brother, a war hero recently. For shame GOP, for shame.
- msm

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (0aeV3)

226 My thoughts on single issue voting, it's not so much 'keep voting down gun control and I'll vote for you' as much as its 'if you vote for gun control, I WILL vote for your opponent'.

I don't need saints in office, but I do need people who will do what I want to keep their phoney baloney jobs.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (V6f9+)

227 169 Posted by: illiniwek at March 30, 2022 11:38 AM (Cus5

Bush tried to put tariffs on steel and the Right screamed bloody murder.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 30, 2022 11:41 AM (/ijUi)

China up until a few years ago was heavily subsidizing their own steel production and damaging steel industries world-wide.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (z5Vrg)

228 224 What happens when there aren't enough low level jobs or even mid-level jobs? That's a question the "Efficiency yesterday, efficiency today, efficiency forever" folks refuse to consider. It is also why the supply chain is now jumbled into incoherence. You can maximize one area to a point the system collapses.
Posted by: WiNO at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (EpDzw)

=======

We should dig all canals with spoons.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (LvTSG)

229 Patty Murray aka The Mom In Tennis Shoes (puke) is very big on military funding. WA has a large military presence.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (1IJnB)

230 Alopecia would be a good name for a kid.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (wi8tR)

231 My thoughts on single issue voting, it's not so much 'keep voting down gun control and I'll vote for you' as much as its 'if you vote for gun control, I WILL vote for your opponent'.

I don't need saints in office, but I do need people who will do what I want to keep their phoney baloney jobs.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (V6f9+)

Well said.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 11:53 AM (SH2Zi)

232 219 This busty brunette longs for an industrial renaissance:
https://is.gd/GihmLq

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2022 11:51 AM (DU+/6)

---------

And they say 1745 was The Last Rising.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 30, 2022 11:53 AM (gcVDk)

233 I have two issues that I refuse to compromise or back off one iota. Guns and abortion.

You ain't touching my guns and I'll never vote for anyone who wants to kill born or unborn babies.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2022 11:53 AM (At65q)

234 And they say 1745 was The Last Rising.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 30, 2022 11:53 AM (gcVDk)

More like 0600.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 11:54 AM (SH2Zi)

235 I'm still in favor of a national divorce. It's not just the government that is beyond repair but also half of the population. I understand the position of those that don't want to give up anything to the socialist left but the writing is on the wall and that we will continue with the one step forward two steps back until the Left have total control.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 30, 2022 11:55 AM (u5NuV)

236 224 Automating routine jobs frees up human resources to do other work in a capitalist system.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 11:46 AM (CLkaN)

What happens when there aren't enough low level jobs or even mid-level jobs? That's a question the "Efficiency yesterday, efficiency today, efficiency forever" folks refuse to consider. It is also why the supply chain is now jumbled into incoherence. You can maximize one area to a point the system collapses.
Posted by: WiNO at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (EpDzw)

Prices wouldn't be so high if more people were working. We face something closer to a shortage of labor in a variety of skilled labor jobs(which is why they pay so well). The professions are closer to being oversupplied, though the labor being supplied is of dubious quality.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 30, 2022 11:55 AM (z5Vrg)

237 Send Schmidt to China to study the problem, then after the midterms revoke his passport. Problem not solved, but smackdown served.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 30, 2022 11:55 AM (Ucb0d)

238 Inflation and shortages are causing supermarkets and consumers to shift away from big name brands, I was just reading. They're going more to the low cost store brands, and the grocery stores are shifting shelf space accordingly. . . .

Brand loyalty, which used to be pretty solid, is now crumbling due to inflation and shortages.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 30, 2022

***
I've been buying store brands since I got out on my own in the '70s. Before that -- I'd buy the store brand of liquor and beer to save $$.

That didn't always work out. A & P carried a brand called Harwood Canadian that *only* came in quarts, not fifths, as if the distillery was trying to get rid of the product as fast as they could. Stuff gave me headaches before I went to sleep.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 30, 2022 11:55 AM (txdEq)

239 Wow. I finally dumped my Firefox-forked web browser and started using Edge (which was suggested to me for older Win7 machines like mine) and this site in particular loads about 30x faster.

So, if you're on an older computer and this site loads for a very long time, try Edge.

No, I'm not spam.

Just making a recommendation.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 30, 2022 11:55 AM (frr40)

240 233 I have two issues that I refuse to compromise or back off one iota. Guns and abortion.

You ain't touching my guns and I'll never vote for anyone who wants to kill born or unborn babies.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2022 11:53 AM (At65q)

Honest question: how many voters are hard core, over-the top, fanatical, abortion is a sacrament supporters? Apart from everyone in Hollywood, I mean.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:55 AM (eGTCV)

241 230 Alopecia would be a good name for a kid.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (wi8tR)

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Or an alpaca.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 30, 2022 11:56 AM (gcVDk)

242 >>>So, why not stop it? As far as I can figure, there is zero, absolutely zero, downside to doing your damnest to stop Jackson.
...
Posted by: naturalfake
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McConnell's playing for the other team.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 11:56 AM (CLkaN)

243 Or an alpaca.

--------

That was a llama-assed joke.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 30, 2022 11:56 AM (gcVDk)

244 Alopecia would be a good name for a kid.
Posted by: ...

Especially if your last name is Pecia.
Albert Oliver Pecia.

Al O. Pecia

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2022 11:57 AM (At65q)

245
Blackrock president says entitled peasants better get used to coming shortages and inflation:

https://tinyurl.com/y9z37j6g

He seems pleased.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 30, 2022 11:57 AM (Mzdiz)

246 Yeah, Patty Murray is well known to be the dumbest member of the Senate. Box of rocks dumb. Lisa Moocow is a close second.

Big Dummies.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM

Yep...the rocket surgeon who explained that Afghanis loved Bin Laden because of women's issues he supported and the childcare opportunities he created.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2022 11:57 AM (vqhPW)

247 230 Alopecia would be a good name for a kid.
______________

Except it would be spelled Allo'peesha.

Mom heard a nurse mention the condition, and thought it sounded nice!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at March 30, 2022 11:58 AM (k4dH2)

248 Honest question: how many voters are hard core, over-the top, fanatical, abortion is a sacrament supporters? Apart from everyone in Hollywood, I mean.
Posted by: N.L. Urker

Start with those who work for Planned Infanticde.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2022 11:58 AM (At65q)

249 Honest question: how many voters are hard core, over-the top, fanatical, abortion is a sacrament supporters? Apart from everyone in Hollywood, I mean.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:55 AM (eGTCV)

Guessing it is close to the unmovable 30% or so hardcore left who still think that Brandon is doing a good job.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 11:59 AM (SH2Zi)

250 Honest question: how many voters are hard core, over-the top, fanatical, abortion is a sacrament supporters? Apart from everyone in Hollywood, I mean.
Posted by: N.L. Urker

Most females under 40, for the most part. It's the faith they've been raised in, so to speak.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 30, 2022 11:59 AM (frr40)

251
This busty brunette longs for an industrial renaissance:
https://is.gd/GihmLq
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2022 11:51 AM (DU+/6)

That'll put some rebar in your new construction...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2022 11:59 AM (n+4am)

252 Blackrock president says entitled peasants better get used to coming shortages and inflation:

https://tinyurl.com/y9z37j6g

He seems pleased.

The refusal of the elites to even pretend to care is puzzling to me. Whatever happened to "I feel your pain"?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:59 AM (eGTCV)

253 Prediction: Tim Ryan wins. Then votes 100% with AOC. Then is re elected in 2024 by running ads saying AOC is a poopy head.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:59 AM (0aeV3)

254 233 I have two issues that I refuse to compromise or back off one iota. Guns and abortion.

You ain't touching my guns and I'll never vote for anyone who wants to kill born or unborn babies.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2022 11:53 AM (At65q)

Amen. I would add illegal immigration.

Posted by: kraken at March 30, 2022 11:59 AM (Vr12I)

255 No, I'm not spam. Just making a recommendation.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 30, 2022 11:55 AM (frr40)

Friends don't let friends use MS browsers. Not even once. It'll turn you ghey.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 12:00 PM (SH2Zi)

256 253 Prediction: Tim Ryan wins. Then votes 100% with AOC. Then is re elected in 2024 by running ads saying AOC is a poopy head.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 11:59 AM (0aeV3)

=======

But he held a gun in an ad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 12:00 PM (LvTSG)

257 >>This busty brunette longs for an industrial renaissance:
https://is.gd/GihmLq
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Nice separation.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 12:00 PM (1IJnB)

258 Patty Murray aka The Mom In Tennis Shoes (puke) is very big on military funding. WA has a large military presence.
Posted by: Capital Eff

And WA is said to be terrible when if comes to getting out/counting military ballots. Hmmm

Posted by: Rex B at March 30, 2022 12:01 PM (lz0/u)

259 Nice separation.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 12:00 PM (1IJnB)

Best money can buy. She looks augmented.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 12:01 PM (SH2Zi)

260 Nabbing this quote from the Morning Report, as this may become more important in the future:

"Even with that, I believe the info from the actual computer itself is what's needed for legal purposes"

It's not. The video/photos alone are radioactive and some have already been corroborated in terms of date/time through various means.

I've mentioned this before; someone distributed them anonymously to porn sites and attributed them to various other sources. But the chans won't even let censored bits stay up for very long, everyone is (rightfully) scared shitless of the FBI.

They probably got the idea from the Bidens' people uploading the not-blatantly-illegal videos so that they could point to Pornhub and say "look these are fake, they just repurposed porn to pass it off as Hunter!" (which they also did themselves to muddy the water). And that wasn't just to give cover for some of the footage from the laptop - HUNTER HIMSELF had an account and was uploading footage of himself banging hookers.

This is all beyond fucked but I'm not holding my breath for more of the truth to get out.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at March 30, 2022 12:01 PM (ns4uC)

261 Odds that " any" Dem votes against the SC nominee?

Posted by: kraken at March 30, 2022 12:01 PM (Vr12I)

262 The refusal of the elites to even pretend to care is puzzling to me. Whatever happened to "I feel your pain"?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:59 AM (eGTCV)

They had to do that before. Now they don't.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (W8sdV)

263 It'll turn you ghey.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 12:00 PM

How fast does it turn you ghey? IS it Glee fast, or just NPR fast?

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (frr40)

264 God damn susan collins straight to hell. Goddamn bitch.

Posted by: Eli Cash at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (LR9WY)

265 Alopecia would be a good name for a kid.
Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 11:52 AM (wi8tR)

Works for me!

Posted by: Al O'Pecia, the bald Irishman at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (MFphb)

266 How many single issue voters are there about guns around here? I think there are a few.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 11:23 AM

2A guarantees 1A.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (R0vP5)

267 259 Nice separation.

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 12:00 PM (1IJnB)

Best money can buy. She looks augmented.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 12:01 PM (SH2Zi)

So, not factory original.

Posted by: kraken at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (Vr12I)

268 Remember the poll about fighting for America if invades?

98% of republicans said they would fight.

40% of donkeys said they would fight.

Want bet that 80% of donkeys would fight republicans if we wanted an amicable split from them? Maybe more.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (iDcra)

269 The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment...is ever present and is gravely to be regarded."
--Ike, January 1961

And yet, talk to almost any presidential 'scholar,' and they will tell you Ike was a stuttering old man whose best days were behind him and who presided over an era of hate, sexism and stultifying oppression.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (2JVJo)

270 250

My wife has a friend like that. Who is married and has 3 kids by the way. But abortion as an issue for her is more important than Oxygen. As said above most women under 40 feel this way.

Which is why the single most reliable Dem voter is not a black voter. It is a single, college educated woman in her 20s.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (0aeV3)

271 But he held a gun in an ad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 12:00 PM (LvTSG)

Sure. But did he shoot a copy of ObamaCare in it? Because those are the only guys I believe.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (W8sdV)

272 261 Odds that " any" Dem votes against the SC nominee?
Posted by: kraken at March 30, 2022 12:01 PM (Vr12I)

=========

I'm sure moderate Kristen Sinema will vote against her, right?
Or moderate Jon Tester?
Or moderate Mastor?
Or moderate Warnock?
Or moderate Kelly?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (LvTSG)

273 It'll turn you ghey.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 12:00 PM

How fast does it turn you ghey? IS it Glee fast, or just NPR fast?

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (frr40)

Better to not chance it.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (SH2Zi)

274 Yeah, Patty Murray is well known to be the dumbest member of the Senate. Box of rocks dumb. Lisa Moocow is a close second.

I thought it was Miasma Hirono that held the title.

Posted by: Roland THTG at March 30, 2022 12:03 PM (j40lz)

275 Honest question: how many voters are hard core, over-the top, fanatical, abortion is a sacrament supporters? Apart from everyone in Hollywood, I mean.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:55 AM (eGTCV)

You've obviously never been to Massachusetts.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2022 12:03 PM (2JVJo)

276 How fast does it turn you ghey? IS it Glee fast, or just NPR fast?
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (frr40)

Hummus fast.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 30, 2022 12:03 PM (Ez6QX)

277 It's funny how the media, which never hesitated to shriek at Donald Trump, is now so terrified of upsetting President Dementia.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 12:03 PM (eGTCV)

278 Blackrock president says entitled peasants better get used to coming shortages and inflation:

https://tinyurl.com/y9z37j6g

He seems pleased.

--

Of course. Mr. Blackrock will not experience any shortages and inflation will have no effect on his standard of living.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 30, 2022 12:03 PM (sVtYq)

279 This busty brunette longs for an industrial renaissance:
https://is.gd/GihmLq
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Tan line tits for the win

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 30, 2022 12:04 PM (V6f9+)

280 So, not factory original.

Posted by: kraken at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (Vr12I)

I could be wrong. I wouldn't kick her out of bed, but natural is superior.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 12:04 PM (SH2Zi)

281 Yeah, Patty Murray is well known to be the dumbest member of the Senate. Box of rocks dumb. Lisa Moocow is a close second.

Big Dummies.
Posted by: publius

I think you quit looking much, much too soon.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 30, 2022 12:04 PM (R0vP5)

282
Most females under 40, for the most part. It's the faith they've been raised in, so to speak.
__________

Mackensie Scott, Jeff Bezos' ex-wife, just made the largest-ever contribution to PP. Something like $275 million.

Scott is in her 50's. And she birthed three kids.

She's not stupid, she's not ignorant, she knows that babies in utero are not just "clumps of cells" or "masses of tissue, like tumors."

And yet she has just willingly paid for the deliberate destruction of many millions of babies in utero.

It's inexplicable.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at March 30, 2022 12:04 PM (k4dH2)

283 The refusal of the elites to even pretend to care is puzzling to me. Whatever happened to "I feel your pain"?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:59 AM (eGTCV)

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It's now become "I feel your humiliation and there's nothing you can do about it" -- which is part of the kink, but a major ahistorical error.

Make the National Razor Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 30, 2022 12:04 PM (9WaV6)

284 >He seems pleased.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 30, 2022 11:57 AM (Mzdiz)

"BlackRock co-founder Rob Kapito said on Tuesday that 'we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice' who will be shocked by coming shortages"

Yeah, I'm sure he'll be making a bunch of sacrifices like having to move down to using $50s to light his Cuban cigars. It's weird that we're getting these villains straight out of central casting now. I guess the simulation is just getting lazy.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 30, 2022 12:05 PM (5tT9a)

285 >>>I did the mechanical engineering, and power dist, another partner did electrical (analog), and a third did PLC and PC software. five years before that would have been 10-14 person engineering department.

Automating routine jobs was even more dramatic.

>Now what you have forward to look to are people so fucking stupid they don't even know you need specialized software applications and licensing to interface with industrialized equipment. They think these IT folks with their social media accounts are all that's required to keep a factory running.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 30, 2022 12:05 PM (S3EUx)

286 I am disappointed that anyone here thinks there is a greater than 0% chance the gop stops the nomination. Have you people been asleep for the past 5 years? Come on.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 12:05 PM (0aeV3)

287 Alopecia would be a good name for a kid.

**

(lays $500 on the table)

I bet there's a kid out there named that already.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 30, 2022 12:05 PM (d1OHN)

288 No split. It'd be like living next to Mexico-Iran with nukes. Fuck that shit.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 12:05 PM (JCGAK)

289 262 The refusal of the elites to even pretend to care is puzzling to me. Whatever happened to "I feel your pain"?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:59 AM (eGTCV)

They had to do that before. Now they don't.
Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (W8sdV)

They create our pain, then mock us. They put the jackboot on our necks then deride us for not standing up. Like cops. And God.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 30, 2022 12:05 PM (II3Gr)

290 I think Busty Brunette would be a good stage name for a stripper.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 12:06 PM (eGTCV)

291 Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 12:05 PM (0aeV3)

5?

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 12:06 PM (JCGAK)

292 How fast does it turn you ghey? IS it Glee fast, or just NPR fast?
Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (frr40)

Hummus fast.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 30, 2022 12:03 PM (Ez6QX)

lol, precisely.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 12:06 PM (SH2Zi)

293 282. ....It's inexplicable.
--------
Gaia > Humans

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at March 30, 2022 12:06 PM (dbdgv)

294 She's not stupid, she's not ignorant, she knows that babies in utero are not just "clumps of cells" or "masses of tissue, like tumors."

And yet she has just willingly paid for the deliberate destruction of many millions of babies in utero.

It's inexplicable.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at March 30, 2022 12:04 PM (k4dH2)

The Left... Killing American Babies, while importing foreign children via Mass immigration, both legal and illegal (1.2 million a year LEGAL immigrants).

It's almost like they don't like Americans...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2022 12:06 PM (oHd/0)

295 "BlackRock co-founder Rob Kapito said on Tuesday that 'we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice' who will be shocked by coming shortages"

Yeah, I'm sure he'll be making a bunch of sacrifices like having to move down to using $50s to light his Cuban cigars. It's weird that we're getting these villains straight out of central casting now. I guess the simulation is just getting lazy.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 30, 2022 12:05 PM (5tT9a)

Cocksuckers like him are creating the shortages.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 30, 2022 12:06 PM (II3Gr)

296 293 282. ....It's inexplicable.
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Gaia > Humans
Posted by: Saxinis Kion at March 30, 2022 12:06 PM (dbdgv)

=========

The little people need to stop procreating. The anointed can do what they want.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 12:06 PM (LvTSG)

297 I am disappointed that anyone here thinks there is a greater than 0% chance the gop stops the nomination. Have you people been asleep for the past 5 years? Come on.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 12:05 PM (0aeV3)

Over under is +4 Repugnantkin votes.

Posted by: Roland THTG at March 30, 2022 12:07 PM (j40lz)

298 Yeah more like 50 lol.
But specifically the last 5.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 12:07 PM (0aeV3)

299 Want bet that 80% of donkeys would fight republicans if we wanted an amicable split from them? Maybe more.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (iDcra)

Fine with me. I prefer a peaceful split but whatever it takes.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 30, 2022 12:08 PM (u5NuV)

300 It's inexplicable.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at March 30, 2022 12:04 PM (k4dH2)

For people like that, I think the primary motivation is population control for the wrong sort of people.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 12:08 PM (SH2Zi)

301 Abortion is the structured slaughter of true native Americans. The biggest genocide in history.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 12:08 PM (JCGAK)

302 The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment...is ever present and is gravely to be regarded."
--Ike, January 1961

And yet, talk to almost any presidential 'scholar,' and they will tell you Ike was a stuttering old man whose best days were behind him and who presided over an era of hate, sexism and stultifying oppression.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2022 12:02 PM (2JVJo)

And they say that like it's a BAD thing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 30, 2022 12:08 PM (V6f9+)

303 Re: Jackson. Stop acting surprised. The only reason the rest of the GOP Senators aren't voting for Jackson is because they don't have to. Collins is the sacrificial lamb on the Jackson vote because she was re-elected in 2020 and said this is her last term.
This is the same GOP that ignored Dems flooding swing states with mail in ballots then, when Trump beat the "fortified" fraud, allowed them to stop counting and take weeks to "find" ballots. Then they lied that Trump incited an insurrection to sic FBI on his supporters and put DC under military occupation to swear Biden in.
The GOP *wants* Jackson.

Posted by: Venus at March 30, 2022 12:09 PM (YVBLw)

304
For people like that, I think the primary motivation is population control for the wrong sort of people.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 12:08 PM (SH2Zi)

Which works out, in the real world, to be predominately black people. But they're not racists.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 12:09 PM (eGTCV)

305 I am disappointed that anyone here thinks there is a greater than 0% chance the gop stops the nomination. Have you people been asleep for the past 5 years? Come on.

--

I agree Joe XiDen...I said days ago this nasty wretch will be confirmed and there's nothing you or I can do about it. D's vote in lockstep for a Republican president's SCOTUS picks, throwing poo, insults and lies at the candidate in intense, hateful fashion. Conversely, and for the most part, the GOP is flabby and flaccid by comparison. It is what it is.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 30, 2022 12:09 PM (sVtYq)

306 Collins is already a lock, so they have 51 (or 50 vs 49, I think a Dem is out?). As a cow once said, "What difference, at this point, does it make?"

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 30, 2022 12:09 PM (frr40)

307 For me, abortion is murder. Yeah, I went there. Government sanctioned murder of the innocent. God judges this harshly.

Posted by: kraken at March 30, 2022 12:09 PM (Vr12I)

308 Hannity and Laura will be telling us how hard the gop fought the nomination though. They will have GOP senators on and everything.

Send $100 ASAP so they can keep fighting the radical Biden agenda folx.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 12:10 PM (0aeV3)

309 And they say that like it's a BAD thing.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 30, 2022 12:08 PM (V6f9+)

Gotta admit, I laughed.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 30, 2022 12:10 PM (MFphb)

310 I saw Tan Line Tits open for Motorhead at The Roundhouse in London around '78.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 30, 2022 12:10 PM (C9Xou)

311 307 For me, abortion is murder. Yeah, I went there. Government sanctioned murder of the innocent. God judges this harshly.
Posted by: kraken at March 30, 2022 12:09 PM (Vr12I)

I'm sure he would, if he ever came back from the corner store where he went to get smokes all those many years ago.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 30, 2022 12:10 PM (II3Gr)

312 And yet, talk to almost any presidential 'scholar,' and they will tell you Ike was a stuttering old man whose best days were behind him and who presided over an era of hate, sexism and stultifying oppression.

His approval ratings were really low when he left office, but over time people began to respect him more and more and he became very well regarded by all but leftist scholars.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2022 12:10 PM (KZzsI)

313 She's not stupid, she's not ignorant, she knows that babies in utero are not just "clumps of cells" or "masses of tissue, like tumors."

**

They're Moloch worshippers.

THEY'RE not. The local, low level nobodies don't realize what they're doing. They're convinced that killing millions of black babies is healthcare something something.

But the high ups in DC? The ones with the creepy art hanging in their dining rooms who will go to the mat for abortion? I have no doubt they're worshiping that god, and those sacrifices are on purpose.

It's brilliant when you think about it. Even better? They've based our medical industry on it. Those vaccines you get? Guess what they're tested on? Cells. From a tortured aborted baby that had to be alive in order to get the necessary bits.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 30, 2022 12:10 PM (d1OHN)

314 286 I am disappointed that anyone here thinks there is a greater than 0% chance the gop stops the nomination. Have you people been asleep for the past 5 years? Come on.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 12:05 PM (0aeV3)

When all they have to say is, that based on Biden's statements of ONLY choosing a Black Woman, this appointment is ILLEGAL under the Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. To vote for this appointment, would make them an accessory to a crime.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2022 12:10 PM (oHd/0)

315 The GOP *wants* Jackson.

Posted by: Venus at March 30, 2022 12:09 PM (YVBLw)

Yep. Prepare your anus.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at March 30, 2022 12:10 PM (SH2Zi)

316 Inflation and shortages are causing supermarkets and consumers to shift away from big name brands, I was just reading. They're going more to the low cost store brands, and the grocery stores are shifting shelf space accordingly.

I noticed some of that locally. One of the local Food Lions now has a bunch of generic store brand ketchup, when it used to be all Heinz and Hunts.

Brand loyalty, which used to be pretty solid, is now crumbling due to inflation and shortages.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 30, 2022 11:34 AM (Mzdiz)

in the store yesterday, i noticed one block, 4 normal sticks of loan o lakes butter was 7.60.

seven fucking dollars...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at March 30, 2022 12:11 PM (9rBIi)

317 "BlackRock co-founder Rob Kapito said on Tuesday that 'we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice' who will be shocked by coming shortages"

That's because the shortages we're facing are completely artificial in origin. This is a deliberate strategy to starve people.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 30, 2022 12:11 PM (SchxB)

318 >Cocksuckers like him are creating the shortages.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 30, 2022 12:06 PM (II3Gr)

The Blackrock plan of wrecking the single-family housing market for the middle class surely has no relation to the Great Reset.

Now live in your urban bugman hive, eat fake meat, have no family, and consoom porn while you cry about how happy you are about owning nothing.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 30, 2022 12:11 PM (5tT9a)

319 I am completely certain that this demented pedo lover Jackson will get out of committee but I can't say 100% she'll be confirmed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2022 12:11 PM (KZzsI)

320 The refusal of the elites to even pretend to care is puzzling to me. Whatever happened to "I feel your pain"?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:59 AM

Now they're just admitting that they've been getting off on it all these years.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2022 12:11 PM (vqhPW)

321 And yet she has just willingly paid for the deliberate destruction of many millions of babies in utero.

It's inexplicable.

Maybe those are millions of "the kind we don't want too many of" to quote some famous legal scholar, who won't be around to compete with her grandkids.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 30, 2022 12:12 PM (nfrXX)

322 If you look at Chinas GDP over the last 20 years it begins to skyrocket under bush, when he leaves office it's around 5 trillion, when Obama leaves offices it's around 12 trillion, it starts to flatten and is starting a downward ark under Trump.

Hey I wonder why they got rid of Trump?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 30, 2022 12:12 PM (A7ffE)

323 "China up until a few years ago was heavily subsidizing their own steel production and damaging steel industries world-wide."

Japan also did iirc. And early in Trump Time, they caught a major Japan steel maker selling us inferior product (used in defense? can't recall detail) Then there were the chip dumping days, common tactic of driving competition out of business, then becoming dominant, if not a monopoly.

Late 90's Saudis/OPEC ran oil down to $10, drillers in US shut down, then came $100+ oil.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 30, 2022 12:12 PM (Cus5s)

324 317 "BlackRock co-founder Rob Kapito said on Tuesday that 'we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice' who will be shocked by coming shortages"

What sacrifices has he made?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 12:13 PM (eGTCV)

325 238 Inflation and shortages are causing supermarkets and consumers to shift away from big name brands,
-------------

Bought store brands forever.

Joey B. is causing shortages in store brands too.
Saltine crackers were off the shelf - all brands.

Stores started replacing them with Gamesa crackers.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 12:13 PM (CLkaN)

326 I havent been to a supermarket in a long time. Instacart baby!!

But as far as I can tell everything I ( or the missus) order is available and delivered. I dunno I am not experiencing these shortages first hand. Is it regional maybe? Specific items?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 30, 2022 12:13 PM (0aeV3)

327 That's because the shortages we're facing are completely artificial in origin. This is a deliberate strategy to starve people.

**

DING DING DING

Notice how everything is moving towards global warming now that COVID is over? The next push will be limiting family sizes. Population control and all that. Add the vaxxine deaths that will start developing around the same time, and we will start seeing a major drop in population. On purpose.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 30, 2022 12:13 PM (d1OHN)

328 The little people need to stop procreating. The anointed can do what they want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 12:06 PM (LvTSG)

They're aiming for a Utopia scenario: 500 million world wide population.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 30, 2022 12:13 PM (V6f9+)

329 I saw Tan Line Tits open for Motorhead at The Roundhouse in London around '78.
Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 30, 2022 12:10 PM (C9Xou)

Tan Line Tits open for every band. That is why guys start to play an instrument in the first place.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (MFphb)

330 68 55 46

That may work for Ohio democrats. Any OH Ind./Rep. that vote for Ryan on this basis are dumber than shit.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (Hszs6)

331 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2022 12:11 PM (KZzsI)

She's got Collins vote and I'm pretty sure Romney... Isn't that enough since the Dems vote in lock step ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (J8ILO)

332 328 The little people need to stop procreating. The anointed can do what they want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 12:06 PM (LvTSG)

They're aiming for a Utopia scenario: 500 million world wide population.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 30, 2022 12:13 PM (V6f9+)

Georgia Guidestones meet Agenda 21.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (II3Gr)

333 328 The little people need to stop procreating. The anointed can do what they want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 12:06 PM (LvTSG)

They're aiming for a Utopia scenario: 500 million world wide population.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 30, 2022 12:13 PM (V6f9+)

========

That's a lot of dead people.

Man...a James Bond movie that took on this sort of thing could be so topical and shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (LvTSG)

334 The GOP *wants* Jackson.

Posted by: Venus at March 30, 2022 12:09 PM (YVBLw)

---------

GOPee 2022: Pedos Have Rights, Too.

Miss Severely Conservative Anthony Kennedy, yet?

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (C9Xou)

335 So, has anyone had any success with marriage counseling? Got thrown a curveball.

Posted by: Uncharted Waters at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (nTr2D)

336 Honest question: how many voters are hard core, over-the top, fanatical, abortion is a sacrament supporters? Apart from everyone in Hollywood, I mean.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:55 AM (eGTCV)

You've obviously never been to Massachusetts.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2022 12:03 PM

^^^ This. It really is a sacrament to them.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 30, 2022 12:15 PM (vqhPW)

337 The refusal of the elites to even pretend to care is puzzling to me. Whatever happened to "I feel your pain"?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 11:59 AM

The heiress to the Anheiser Busch fortune feels your pain. Her husband died and left her a single mother to fend for herself on the family estate. It has inspired her to run for Mo senate to help other less fortunate people like her. And to force republicans to compromise with democrats more.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy AOSHQ contributor at March 30, 2022 12:15 PM (qnVBz)

338 "BlackRock co-founder Rob Kapito said on Tuesday that 'we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice' who will be shocked by coming shortages"

Yeah, I'm sure he'll be making a bunch of sacrifices like having to move down to using $50s to light his Cuban cigars. It's weird that we're getting these villains straight out of central casting now. I guess the simulation is just getting lazy.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen

They better pray the balloon never goes up. Most boolits don't have a name on them. They are addressed "to whom it may concern".

If it ever comes down to society trying to find scapegoats, it's be like the French Revolution minus the guillotene.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2022 12:15 PM (At65q)

339
Manufacturing is icky and dirty. We need thought leaders and influencers.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I'm a BIG FAN of influencers who, in the course of snapping yet another selfie of themselves, back off the edge of a cliff, a high wall, a bridge, or over the side of a tall building. You ... complete ... me!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 30, 2022 12:15 PM (pNxlR)

340
"They promised us higher wages and lower prices," Ryan says in the ad. . . "Instead, we got pink slips and now price increases." "China is winning and now workers are losing. It's us versus them. CAPITALISM VERSUS COMMUNISM. I'm not backing down. Are You?"
==
Sherrod Brown approach.

And just Like Sherrod Brown, its bullshit, to cover the fact that he's a tool in the hands of our overlords.

Posted by: We're from the government and we're to help. at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (LnO+l)

341 So, has anyone had any success with marriage counseling? Got thrown a curveball.
Posted by: Uncharted Waters at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (nTr2D)

aw shit. i didn't, but then i think the biggest part was she didn't think it was necessary. if it was her idea and you want to stay together, then yeah it can work. i know people who did it successfully.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (9rBIi)

342 335 So, has anyone had any success with marriage counseling? Got thrown a curveball.
Posted by: Uncharted Waters at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (nTr2D)

Never met a marriage counselor who was not divorced.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (oHd/0)

343 332 328 The little people need to stop procreating. The anointed can do what they want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 12:06 PM (LvTSG)

They're aiming for a Utopia scenario: 500 million world wide population.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 30, 2022 12:13 PM (V6f9+)

Georgia Guidestones meet Agenda 21.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (II3Gr)

I think the radical LGBTQ++++ agenda serves that goal by in effect sterilizing the human race.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (eGTCV)

344 Alopecia would be a good name for a kid.
Posted by: Moron Rubie

I did a U.S. white pages search for "Alopecia"
No matches, but here are some of the close last names:

Holopitza (sounds yummy!)
Alopiza
Alopiso
Alopisoo
Alapizo

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (w9Wax)

345 As a teenager in the 80s, I remember reading an article in Proceedings magazine about how most of the electronic components in our military craft were made in Japan. I asked myself why would we farm out critcal technology components to potential enemies? Sure Japan is our ally, but at that time there were still plenty of World War 2 vets alive. It still makes no sense to me to farm out critical technolgies or services to foreign powers.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (3TihK)

346 *ring ring*
McConnell: Who's there?
Xi: It's me cuck.
McConnell: Yes Sir!
Xi: Put the bitch through. Got it boy fucker?
McConnell: No problem Sir. We'll use the bukkake theater approach on this one.

Xi: Good. Now fuck off.
*click*

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (1IJnB)

347 in the store yesterday, i noticed one block, 4 normal sticks of loan o lakes butter was 7.60.

seven fucking dollars...
Posted by: SturmToddler

Not sure if loan o'lakes was a typo or not.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (TfCUX)

348 Remember when everything was made in Japan? I do.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (VhE0u)

349 GTFOH. Amy Schumer "traumatized" by the Will Smith slap.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (At65q)

350
in the store yesterday, i noticed one block, 4 normal sticks of loan o lakes butter was 7.60.

seven fucking dollars...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at March 30, 2022 12:11 PM (9rBIi)

Shit. Five years ago you could get four of those babies for about 9

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (JCGAK)

351 I'm a BIG FAN of influencers who, in the course of snapping yet another selfie of themselves, back off the edge of a cliff, a high wall, a bridge, or over the side of a tall building. You ... complete ... me!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 30, 2022 12:15 PM (pNxlR)

Death by narcissism usually happens to the people around the narcissist, so this is somewhat refreshing.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (II3Gr)

352 When all they have to say is, that based on Biden's statements of ONLY choosing a Black Woman, this appointment is ILLEGAL under the Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. To vote for this appointment, would make them an accessory to a crime.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2022 12:10 PM (oHd/

Nah. Confirm her and then start the lawsuit process in the court system that ultimately ends at the SC.
Comedy Gold, Jerry! Except no standing.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 30, 2022 12:17 PM (MFphb)

353
In that WSJ article about the shift to local brands, it quotes retailers as saying it's giving them leverage over the big brands. The ones that are doing the best are the ones that can maintain consistent, if not perfect, supply. And some of the off-brands are beating the big boys on that.

I've even noticed what may be evidence of that locally. Little Debbie. She was a big bully. Grocery stores had to carry her shit in a special area, and could not put any competing products nearby. And Little Debbie's henchmen had to be allowed to come in and do the stocking of that dedicated space.

Now, one of the local Food Lions is putting competing products on the same space as Little Debbie. And even puts Little Debbie in several places over the store.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 30, 2022 12:17 PM (Mzdiz)

354 349 GTFOH. Amy Schumer "traumatized" by the Will Smith slap.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (At65q)

=========

My first thought when I heard of the slap was that Amy Schumer was the real victim.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 30, 2022 12:17 PM (LvTSG)

355 335
Yes.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 30, 2022 12:17 PM (Hszs6)

356 Never met a marriage counselor who was not divorced.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (oHd/0)

A cobbler's shoes are never mended.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 12:17 PM (JCGAK)

357 317 "BlackRock co-founder Rob Kapito said on Tuesday that 'we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice' who will be shocked by coming shortages"

That's because the shortages we're facing are completely artificial in origin. This is a deliberate strategy to starve people.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 30, 2022 12:11 PM (SchxB)
----------------

Then intent is not to starve us but to rake off all the cream we have been churning.

In other words, we've been climbing the ladder getting close to that comfortable plateau. They are kicking us back to the first rung.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 12:17 PM (CLkaN)

358 Planned Parenthood has expanded bigly to 'gender affirming' hormone therapy, HIV PrEP, and Programs for Schools.

Coupled with abortion, it only seems to be gaining in political power in all of the normal Democratic strongholds and pushing into more conservative areas via 'education' of our children.

Parents need to step back and look at their state's legislature/laws to see how 'educators,' school districts and school boards are getting away with moving from actual ABC educational program and into more and more into social issues.

Posted by: Lola at March 30, 2022 12:18 PM (NIYa7)

359 So, has anyone had any success with marriage counseling? Got thrown a curveball.
Posted by: Uncharted Waters at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (nTr2D)

3 attempts to save a 16-year marriage w/ 4 kids.
O success.
It's an op being run against you.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2022 12:18 PM (4I/2K)

360 So, has anyone had any success with marriage counseling? Got thrown a curveball.
Posted by: Uncharted Waters at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (nTr2D)

Anecdotal only of multiple couple friends. I've found that if it's the wife who wants it you can have success. If it's the husband who wants to try it not so much. Women have usually made up their mind when you get to that point.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 30, 2022 12:18 PM (u5NuV)

361 I look at garbage like what's going on and I don't have any questions any more about God commanding the Israelites to wipe out the Canaanites.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 12:18 PM (eGTCV)

362 So, has anyone had any success with marriage counseling? Got thrown a curveball.

Not personally but my observation is that it works when everyone involved wants it to. Which, again speaking generally, excludes most curveball throwers. Hoping for the best for you.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 30, 2022 12:18 PM (nfrXX)

363 Tuesday that 'we have a very entitled generation that has never had to sacrifice'
==
well I suppose the elites have decided to "teach us all a lesson" then?

Josh Painter quote here.

Posted by: We're from the government and we're to help. at March 30, 2022 12:18 PM (83Rr+)

364 So, has anyone had any success with marriage counseling? Got thrown a curveball.
Posted by: Uncharted Waters

*

Yeah, but don't go to a psychologist or any academic one that wants to help your marriage fail by finding out what's wrong with it. Find a faith-based one that wants to help you get through it.

I recommend Emotionally Focused Therapy. Look for the term in your area.

Check out some books, too. When Sorry Isn't Enough is a good one, as is Fighting For Your Marriage. That's a start.
You've got some work ahead of you. If it's worth it get to work.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 30, 2022 12:18 PM (d1OHN)

365 in the store yesterday, i noticed one block, 4 normal sticks of loan o lakes butter was 7.60.

seven fucking dollars...
Posted by: SturmToddler

A four pack at Sam's (four 1 lb packages) is $13 & change. I used to buy it late last year for $7 & change.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2022 12:19 PM (At65q)

366 in the store yesterday, i noticed one block, 4 normal sticks of loan o lakes butter was 7.60.

seven fucking dollars...
Posted by: SturmToddler

Not sure if loan o'lakes was a typo or not.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (TfCUX)

yup, Land o Lakes.

damn autocorrect got me...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at March 30, 2022 12:19 PM (9rBIi)

367 335 So, has anyone had any success with marriage counseling? Got thrown a curveball.
Posted by: Uncharted Waters at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (nTr2D)

Success? No. It can work if you have the right counselor and right set of circumstances, i.e. both parties actually want to work it out. If one party has already made up her/his mind, then the counseling is just cover for them to tell their friends that they did everything they could but you just wouldn't come around/sabotaged it/refused to even try to make it work.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 30, 2022 12:19 PM (II3Gr)

368 The major reason RINOs are a much bigger problem for us than a Tester or Manchin is for the progs is the RINOs run the republican party. They are collectively in the most powerful position in the party.
We allow this, for reasons that aren't super clear to me yet here we are.

Posted by: Inogame at March 30, 2022 12:19 PM (53oGX)

369 It will probably work for the very stupid but this is not good for Democrats.
https://tinyurl.com/yc2cdnu5
Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2022 11:28 AM (ZLI7S)
~~~~~

You can practically hear the screeching of the libs on Twitter. They're out of control.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 30, 2022 12:19 PM (VhE0u)

370 Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (9rBIi)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (oHd/0)

Thanks for the input.

Posted by: Uncharted Waters at March 30, 2022 12:20 PM (nTr2D)

371 Nah. Confirm her and then start the lawsuit process in the court system that ultimately ends at the SC.
Comedy Gold, Jerry! Except no standing.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 30, 2022 12:17 PM (MFphb)

Find a really good Asian Man Federal Judge? or better a Class action suit by all the Fed Judges who are NOT Black Females?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2022 12:20 PM (oHd/0)

372 So, has anyone had any success with marriage counseling? Got thrown a curveball.

Not personally but my observation is that it works when everyone involved wants it to. Which, again speaking generally, excludes most curveball throwers. Hoping for the best for you.
==
Specifically speaking no. Generally speaking, you have at least some chance of discovering a root cause. Not that you will, and not that if you do, you can solve it. But it least you tried.

Posted by: My two cents at March 30, 2022 12:20 PM (anMa/)

373 361 I look at garbage like what's going on and I don't have any questions any more about God commanding the Israelites to wipe out the Canaanites.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 12:18 PM (eGTCV)

It was for combatting syncretism, which was a perennial problem for Israel. We have the same problem today, in different iterations, but nevertheless.

Posted by: kraken at March 30, 2022 12:20 PM (Vr12I)

374
It was for combatting syncretism, which was a perennial problem for Israel. We have the same problem today, in different iterations, but nevertheless.
Posted by: kraken at March 30, 2022 12:20 PM (Vr12I)

True but the Canaanite religions were truly corrupt.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 12:21 PM (eGTCV)

375 Why would one consider buying LandOLakes butter?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 12:21 PM (CLkaN)

376 >>361 I look at garbage like what's going on and I don't have any questions any more about God commanding the Israelites to wipe out the Canaanites.
Posted by: N.L. Urker,

Moses rocks!

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 12:21 PM (1IJnB)

377 Most people today go to counselors (of any kind) for validation, not advice they don't want to hear. And there are plenty of "counselors" who will give the client exactly what they want, regardless of the damage, so long as the checks keep coming.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 30, 2022 12:21 PM (frr40)

378 Moses rocks!
Posted by: Capital Eff at March 30, 2022 12:21 PM (1IJnB)

He struck then instead of speaking to them. Got in trouble for that one.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 30, 2022 12:22 PM (II3Gr)

379 Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (9rBIi)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (oHd/0)

Thanks for the input.
Posted by: Uncharted Waters at March 30, 2022 12:20 PM (nTr2D)

no worries. i hope it works for you. I suggested it to my ex, and when we got in there, the counseler asked "why are you here". the ex said, you tell her, you wanted this.

that was pretty much the sign it was over.

of course i was the one who started it all because i was exceptionally unhappy. so i got to pay for it all.

If she suggested, maybe she wants to make it work. good luck to you.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at March 30, 2022 12:22 PM (9rBIi)

380 They're aiming for a Utopia scenario: 500 million world wide population.

--

I've heard this figure bandied about. That would involve such a massive amount of deaths, it's hard to imagine such evil.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 30, 2022 12:22 PM (sVtYq)

381 Maybe those are millions of "the kind we don't want too many of" to quote some famous legal scholar, who won't be around to compete with her grandkids.
____________

She got $38 billion in the divorce, and Bezos himself, who is her kids' father (and will be the grandfather of her grandkids) kept many billions more than that for himself.

Sure, Bezos' current 'ho will probably run through a few of those billions before he kicks off, but there will still be plenty left for the Bezos spawn and the spawn's spawn to inherit.

I don't think Mackensie Scott is worried about her grandkids having to "compete" against anybody.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at March 30, 2022 12:22 PM (k4dH2)

382 >We should dig all canals with spoons.

That's the crux of the problem. Tucker talked to Ben Shapiro (of all people) and said he would make self-driving trucks illegal.

Just as I would reward people who create jobs I would punish people who destroy them.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 30, 2022 12:22 PM (44ww/)

383 But it least you tried.
Posted by: My two cents

*

And if it goes south you won't be sitting in mediation while she says "he didn't so and so"

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 30, 2022 12:22 PM (d1OHN)

384 Sad to hear about marriage problems

Was nice out early but getting winter mix falling

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 30, 2022 12:22 PM (ImfVB)

385 Nood

Posted by: Furious George at March 30, 2022 12:22 PM (9vQJW)

386 374
It was for combatting syncretism, which was a perennial problem for Israel. We have the same problem today, in different iterations, but nevertheless.
Posted by: kraken at March 30, 2022 12:20 PM (Vr12I)

True but the Canaanite religions were truly corrupt.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 30, 2022 12:21 PM (eGTCV)

Yes, indeed they were. And the Israelites continually went down that slippery slope.

Posted by: kraken at March 30, 2022 12:22 PM (Vr12I)

387 Now, one of the local Food Lions is putting competing products on the same space as Little Debbie. And even puts Little Debbie in several places over the store.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 30, 2022 12:17 PM (Mzdiz)

Nobody puts Little Debbie in a corner!

Posted by: Johnny at March 30, 2022 12:23 PM (4I/2K)

388 Schmidt through his foundation pays about 120 to be in the White House working alongside the Biden people.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 30, 2022 12:23 PM (yrol0)

389 Why would one consider buying LandOLakes butter?

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I use and cook with a lot of stick butter. Used Land'O'Lakes for a very long time. Until they went woke. I haven't gotten one stick since.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 30, 2022 12:24 PM (sVtYq)

390 I've heard this figure bandied about. That would involve such a massive amount of deaths, it's hard to imagine such evil.
Posted by: Lady in Black

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Apparently there was some monolith that appeared a few years back in Georgia that has that number mentioned specifically on it.

Three years ago I thought it was absurd when people would talk about it being the guide for the New World Order.

Now? Well...

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 30, 2022 12:24 PM (d1OHN)

391 I thought Schmidt was a citizen of Cyprus?

Posted by: Coki at March 30, 2022 12:24 PM (cw1qA)

392 They're aiming for a Utopia scenario: 500 million world wide population.

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I've heard this figure bandied about. That would involve such a massive amount of deaths, it's hard to imagine such evil.
Posted by: Lady in Black

500 million would put EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE ELITES, back to hunter/gatherer.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2022 12:24 PM (At65q)

393 Grocery loans are floating rate, right? Who would offer a fixed rate loan for groceries?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2022 12:25 PM (TfCUX)

394 >So, has anyone had any success with marriage counseling? Got thrown a curveball.

Be glad it wasn't chin music.

Posted by: Nolan Ryan at March 30, 2022 12:25 PM (MFphb)

395 364 So, has anyone had any success with marriage counseling? Got thrown a curveball.
Posted by: Uncharted Waters
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Yeah, but don't go to a psychologist or any academic one that wants to help your marriage fail by finding out what's wrong with it. Find a faith-based one that wants to help you get through it.

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Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 30, 2022 12:18 PM (d1OHN)
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Seconded

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 12:25 PM (CLkaN)

396 They're aiming for a Utopia scenario: 500 million world wide population.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 30, 2022 12:13 PM (V6f9+)

Georgia Guidestones meet Agenda 21.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 30, 2022 12:14 PM (II3Gr)

I think the radical LGBTQ++++ agenda serves that goal by in effect sterilizing the human race.
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Divorce, abortion, birth control, forcing women into the work force, Covid, vaccines, WWIII. It takes a lot to kill off most of the world. Life, finds a way.

Posted by: they will say to the mountains fall on us . . . at March 30, 2022 12:25 PM (WME33)

397 Actually in this area farms must be part of this Land of Lakes as see their signs at farms. So assume their milk products go to them.

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 30, 2022 12:26 PM (ImfVB)

398 500 million would put EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE ELITES, back to hunter/gatherer.
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One word...
Robots.

Posted by: Eric Schmidt to the graduate at March 30, 2022 12:27 PM (ifhcL)

399 The Gaia Religion would love to see 1/2 the world population gone

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 30, 2022 12:27 PM (ImfVB)

400
Little Debbie was worse than Don Corleone. Years ago, on the managers at a local grocery explained her tactics.

You did it her way, without question, or no Little Debbie products for you.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 30, 2022 12:27 PM (Mzdiz)

401 Uncharted,

Sorry to hear that you're in need of it.

All for it if both of you are willing and not just looking for someone to listen to bitch sessions and not accomplish anything.

There is a style of counseling where you each have your own counselor who meet with you individually and they then collaborate together with you both.

This was the direction my sister went - they made it through their rocky patch successfully.

Direction I was hoping to go as I started the process. My ex had no real interest...she was done.

If you can get things going to right direction again its always worth the shot. Divorce sucks.

Posted by: H Badger at March 30, 2022 12:29 PM (n/0Nw)

402 They all beat store owners for shelf space.

Look at Frito. They put a local potato chip mfg - and they were delicious - out of business. Forced owners to put them where you had to search for them.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 12:30 PM (CLkaN)

403 My wife (at the time) got us thrown out of marriage counselling. He told us that she needed drug and alcohol counseling. So, no, it didn't work out.

Posted by: pawn at March 30, 2022 12:31 PM (kYVzH)

404 356 Never met a marriage counselor who was not divorced.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2022 12:16 PM (oHd/0)

A cobbler's shoes are never mended.
Posted by: ... at March 30, 2022 12:17 PM (JCGAK)
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"A cuck's wife is never satisfied." -- Aphorismic Shit Ace would probably say

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at March 30, 2022 12:31 PM (9Nsd0)

405 Little Debbie was worse than Don Corleone. Years ago, on the managers at a local grocery explained her tactics.

You did it her way, without question, or no Little Debbie products for you.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 30, 2022 12:27 PM (Mzdiz)

We get an end cap, see? And not just any end cap. We get one facing the registers and no more than 15 from the center register. You go that?
This is a nice aisle, don't you think? Be a shame if sumptin were to happen to it.

Posted by: Little Debbie, throwing all 50lbs of her weight around at March 30, 2022 12:31 PM (MFphb)

406 So, has anyone had any success with marriage counseling? Got thrown a curveball.
Posted by: Uncharted Waters
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Yeah, but don't go to a psychologist or any academic one that wants to help your marriage fail by finding out what's wrong with it. Find a faith-based one that wants to help you get through it.
Posted by: Moron Rubie

Seconded
Posted by: Braenyard at March 30, 2022 12:25 PM (CLkaN)

That has possibilities for success IF both are believers and will bend a knee to God's Word. If one of you is adamantly not, expect to hear ONLY about YOUR obligations from your spouse. It can be an op to discover ammo that can and will be used against you in further escalation.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 30, 2022 12:32 PM (4I/2K)

407 Joshua rocks

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 30, 2022 12:33 PM (KZzsI)

408 So, has anyone had any success with marriage counseling

Just admit it's your fault, everything.
That's my experience.

Posted by: Bosk at March 30, 2022 12:34 PM (x6uUk)

409
OT: Rick Beato analyzes the Cowbell Song (with sometime lurking Moron Buck Dharma)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xvc81GL5EI

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2022 12:35 PM (n+4am)

410 Hi,

Manufacturing Engineer here with 20+ years experience in cold steel forming industry.

Fired in January over mandates. Now serving clients as an industry expert on contract basis. One client pays more than half my former salary, so former employer can "lol - get fucked!"

Anywho, this analysis is spot on, with added bonus - I would prefer stability of regular check, but I will not even try for a job connected to government or pharma. TONS of jobs out there right now in those industries - no takers.

Defense and medical industries can double lol - get fucked. Forever. Amen.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at March 30, 2022 12:37 PM (CR4bz)

411
500 million would put EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE ELITES, back to hunter/gatherer.
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I accept your proposal.

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at March 30, 2022 12:45 PM (dbdgv)

412 The U.S. government spends a lot on research & development. It doesn't need any big increase in such spending.

Posted by: Roland F Hirsch at March 30, 2022 01:17 PM (oMkPq)

413 This mindset has been around for a while. It was responsible for me having to leave physics, because it was impossible to get a job. Bell Labs basically vanished at the same time the Soviet Union imploded and I was competing against researchers with CVs the thickness of phone directories and also had multiple patents. The only options were academia (I hate teaching) or research labs and the labs were drying up.

The reason American students don't go into STEM fields is there aren't jobs for them. For H1-B visa holders, maybe. But having the in-house technical expertise is just as important as having production in-house. It will take a while for the damage to be fixed and that's only if they WANT to fix it.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at March 30, 2022 01:44 PM (NlVMd)

414 Notice how the "mistakes" (as well as the costs) are always collective. But the profit? It's never collective, but always "earned" by the individuals (such as Eric Schmidt).

The socialization of costs and blame but privatization of profits and benefits has plagued America for sometime now. It's a super-convenient formula for our oligarchic elites. They never pay a price for their huge mistakes. After all, "we all made them." But they always earn mega-bucks, no matter what. The sooner we break up these tech monopolies the better.

Posted by: Rusty Trawler at March 30, 2022 02:10 PM (1gif2)

415 R&D based on government funded work requires companies that can bring lab discoveries to the marketplace. The US has laws in place to encourage that (Bayh-Dole, Stevenson-Wydler). What is needed is for the feds to provide an environment that encourages investment, not crony capitalism. But this is just preaching to the choir.

Posted by: KungPow at March 30, 2022 02:54 PM (GsV5t)

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