Retired Intelligence Officers: A Three-Letter Agency Came to Me Asking For My Copy of Hunter Biden's Laptop, In Order to Analyze the President's Family for Possible Compromise by Hostile Foreign Governments

Weird that NeverTrump isn't interested in a special prosecutor, isn't it?

It's almost as if they're highly partisan liberal Democrats or something.

A retired intelligence officer says a U.S. spy agency asked for his help in fall 2020 to try to acquire a copy of the Hunter Biden laptop contents ahead of the presidential election.

Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer's account to Just the News was confirmed by three other people who were approached by Shaffer or the agency or were involved in the approach.
They said the agency's interest was to analyze the hard drive contents for any evidence or patterns of how foreign adversaries were seeking to compromise prominent Americans or their families.
Shaffer provided details about the approach during an appearance Friday on the Just the News television show on Real America's Voice.
"A three-letter agency came to me and said, 'Hey, we've heard that you have access to a copy of the Hunter Biden hard drive. Could we get a copy?'" Shaffer said during the interview. "And I said, like, 'Do you know what's on there? I mean, we're talking about everything from child porn, to, you know, all these these issues regarding the president.'
"And they said, 'We don't care. ... We want to either confirm or refute it. We want to act factual. We don't have a political dog in the fight. What our concern is, is that if there's compromising information on that hard drive, this is before the election, the president could be compromised to the level of owing either China or or Ukraine something. And this is what this three letter agency was concerned about."
A U.S. official directly familiar with the effort confirmed the request to Just the News, saying the intelligence community wanted to know if anything on the hard drive had been hacked, whether the Biden family was compromised, and whether there were any patterns about how foreign adversaries were seeking to compromise prominent Americans.

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1 Cruel

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 12:39 PM (8KO2b)

2 Weird

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2022 12:40 PM (HvJ69)

3 We are so screwed.

Posted by: Infidel at April 04, 2022 12:40 PM (ou23q)

4 Have someone else taste your applesauce first, Joe.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at April 04, 2022 12:40 PM (QRdjz)

5 How can anything compromise him when nobody cares?

Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2022 12:40 PM (CYnTg)

6 I got nuthin'.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 04, 2022 12:41 PM (RkC6l)

7 Probably they were looking for pointers on how to more successfully compromise people themselves.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 04, 2022 12:41 PM (Ewmxj)

8 Why didn't they just ask the fbi?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 12:41 PM (t3/qz)

9 Biden family was compromised about 50 years ago.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 04, 2022 12:41 PM (QYPq3)

10 "We want to act factual"

Quotable quote!

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo F'n Mouf at April 04, 2022 12:41 PM (qpX6U)

11 nood

Posted by: fd at April 04, 2022 12:41 PM (8jZOp)

12 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

13 Lurking swampthings.

Posted by: redenzo at April 04, 2022 12:42 PM (E7vND)

14 Central time, baby. The BEST time.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

15 quote: "it calls almost every Ukrainian a Nazi who deserves death. "Nazis who took weapons, must be killed in numbers as much as possible... Not just the elites, the most of the people are guilty, they are passive Nazis, Nazi enablers. They supported these elites and must be punished."

Which explains why so many civilians have been executed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 01:35 PM (trdmm)
Willowed (also last thread got bugged)

Killing "Nazis who took weapons" is not a call for killing civilians, Nazi or no. That second section preceded by ... seems likely just a broad justification for the war to discourage sympathizing with Ukraine.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 12:42 PM (z5Vrg)

16 Special Counsel in #twoweeks

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 04, 2022 12:42 PM (fvJFK)

17
How about "the Bidens simply are corrupt as all get out"? Did that thought occur to you intelligence geniuses?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2022 12:42 PM (pNxlR)

18 test

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (trdmm)

19 Hmmm, well there's nothing going on in Ukraine or China. Hey did you hear about Chris Rock getting slapped? ZOMG!

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (GwxCX)

20 A three-letter agency came to me and said, 'Hey, we've heard that you have access to a copy of the Hunter Biden hard drive. Could we get a copy?
---------

This is the laptop that every intelligence agency agreed was fake, right?

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (8KO2b)

21 A three-letter agency....KGB?

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (TNyrE)

22 OT, but one of the big vax believers in my office mentioned just now he is going for his 2nd booster shot. Reason? "International travel exposes you to more dangers. A booster is a good thing."

Yeshua of Nazareth wept, and is still weeping.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (txdEq)

23 I don't believe anyone anymore about anything.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (HvJ69)

24 They said the agency's interest was to analyze the hard drive contents for any evidence or patterns of how foreign adversaries were seeking to compromise prominent Americans or their families.

By flashing their asian fartclams at them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (t3/qz)

25 >>>"And I said, like, 'Do you know what's on there? I mean, we're talking about everything from child porn, to, you know, all these these issues regarding the president.'

Smart guy.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (SH2Zi)

26 "Three-letter agency."

FDA? They have four sources on the story, and none of them will spell it out? Must be really lethal letters.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo F'n Mouf at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (qpX6U)

27 5 How can anything compromise him when nobody cares?
Posted by: steevy at April 04, 2022 12:40 PM (CYnTg)

I'll admit, I am disappointed in the American people. That this was OUT THERE... ALL OF IT, yet Biden not only continued to run, but somehow supposedly WON? We can blame the media, but we have to acknowledge that they are part of the US people.

Add in the blatant cowardice shown during the 'Pandemic'... the masks, lockdowns, and cowering before Government power grabs?

I'm pretty disgusted with the majority of my 'fellow' citizens right now.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2022 12:44 PM (oHd/0)

28 "Didn't you Trumpists argue that special prosecutors were unconstitutional on their face? Whataboutism from the Trumpkins!"
-Allahpundit

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 12:44 PM (LvTSG)

29 It's funny when Ace posts things and breaks the blog.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 12:44 PM (Zz0t1)

30 So- the CIA's motives were pure?

Just curious, did this form the basis for those Biden lackeys posing as intelligence officials to say this was Russian Disinformation, up which Lettuce Brain made similar claims.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 12:44 PM (DFbpm)

31 A Three-Letter Agency Came to Me Asking For My Copy of Hunter Biden's Laptop, In Order to
..........

check out all the kiddiesex links.

Posted by: wth at April 04, 2022 12:44 PM (v0R5T)

32 Since when do "retired" intelligence officers have access to this shit?

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at April 04, 2022 12:44 PM (OHFvg)

33 I tried posting a few minutes ago on the previous thread, and the system took it and disappeared it. When I tried again, same result. But it seems to be okay here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 12:44 PM (txdEq)

34 26 "Three-letter agency."

FDA? They have four sources on the story, and none of them will spell it out? Must be really lethal letters.
Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo F'n Mouf at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (qpX6U)

Hunter was dealing with an oil company... so... EPA?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2022 12:44 PM (oHd/0)

35 "And they said, 'We don't care. ... We want to either confirm or refute it. We want to act factual. We don't have a political dog in the fight. What our concern is, is that if there's compromising information on that hard drive, this is before the election, the president could be compromised to the level of owing either China or or Ukraine something. And this is what this three letter agency was concerned about."

If you don't care and aren't going to do anything about it, what's your point?

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

36 I linked a video over the weekend. I will find it and relink.

It was about Russian propaganda. The point was that one of their main goals has been to create uncertainty and divisions.

I was thinking of that here. There was obviously a lot of bias and corruption, but I think it also needed a lot of people just not sure of what the truth was - maybe it all was this giant mirage and the laptop was fake. So they stayed away.
Anyway, I will go find the link

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (Xw7A2)

37 There are rats in the walls. A lot of them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (XvPQV)

38
Three letter agency: CDC

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (pNxlR)

39 It's almost as if they're highly partisan liberal Democrats or something.

I think some are, but I think most are just backed into a corner of their own making and see no way to react that gets them out. They are so determined to oppose Trump and all he stands for that they're arguing things that they not all that long ago would have vehemently rejected.

So now they are in the ludicrous position of defending a degenerate scumbag of almost comical proportions in the name of opposing someone who they consider insupportably immoral.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (KZzsI)

40 Smart guy.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM

President Pedo Poopy Pants said Hunter was the smartest guy he knows. I don't doubt that.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (GwxCX)

41 So once again an on record source is ignored in favor of Sources Say because of political reasons.

This is my shocked face.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (GbPPJ)

42 Autumnal.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (HTCOy)

43 I don't believe anyone anymore about anything.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (HvJ69)

^This^

When my wife asks if I've heard the latest about Ukraine, I tell her exactly that.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (AiZBA)

44 Three letter agency: CDC
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (pNxlR)

JOBS!

- - Joe "Poopie Pants" Biden

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (Zz0t1)

45 Killing "Nazis who took weapons" is not a call for killing civilians, Nazi or no. That second section preceded by ... seems likely just a broad justification for the war to discourage sympathizing with Ukraine.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 12:42 PM (z5Vrg)

If you read the text, it says that "passive nazis" (ie, everyone who didn't welcome the Russians eagerly) were just as guilty as anyone, and deserved death.

I understand not wanting to see the US enter the war - I don't want to see the US enter another war. But actually supporting Putin now is the same as continuing to support the Third Reich after reports of the concentration camps started coming out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (trdmm)

46

Pretty sure Joe's been compromised for years considering what an asshole he is, and how sleazy and greedy he is.

I mean, it's all right there.

And that idiot is the Pres.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (XnbJC)

47 Geez, don't these people know there is no compromising anybody in the Oligarchy Cartel. These baby raping, blood sucking, global greed grabbing dictatorial bastards have no worries.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (lgeFv)

48 The laptop only confirmed that the Biden crime family was compromised by corruption and traitorous sedition.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (iDcra)

49 37 There are rats in the walls. A lot of them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (XvPQV)

========

Stephen King approves of these rats in the walls because they didn't vote for Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (LvTSG)

50 None dare call it treason.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (Z/rHa)

51 A retired intelligence officer says a U.S. spy agency asked for his help in fall 2020 to try to acquire a copy of the Hunter Biden laptop contents

Heck of a spy agency we've got.

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (D6lWx)

52 I don't believe anyone anymore about anything.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (HvJ69)

^This^

When my wife asks if I've heard the latest about Ukraine, I tell her exactly that.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (AiZBA)

I say the same to my wife when she asks me what I want for dinner. She is not amused.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 12:47 PM (SH2Zi)

53 IGA.

Posted by: klaftern at April 04, 2022 12:47 PM (taPSh)

54 willowed from a frozen thread:

Tom Servo:
Here's a different link; https://tinyurl.com/mu3spajd

Allowing google to translate, I get no Ukrainian genocide, just a de-nazification and a rooting out of the Bandera elites.

I'm not buying anything that comes out of Ukraine. I'm sticking with Lara Logan and the Grayzone lib boys on this

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 12:47 PM (ONvIw)

55 "saying the intelligence community wanted to know if anything on the hard drive had been hacked, whether the Biden family was compromised"

I think this is all misdirection and battlespace prep to try to make it look like only a POSSIBILITY that Biden was compromised. By focusing on the possibility, they want you to miss the fact that he was ALREADY compromised. What else does taking tens of millions of dollars from hostile or semi-hostile foreign governments and agents mean? The Biden family was bought and paid for just like the Clintons before them. That's how they were compromised. No need to consider whether the KGB has any pics of the crackhead that are even more compromising than what we've already seen.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 04, 2022 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

56 There are rats in the walls. A lot of them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (XvPQV)

========

Stephen King approves of these rats in the walls because they didn't vote for Trump.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (LvTSG)

They're probably racist rats who like H. P. Lovecraft or some shit, too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 12:47 PM (XvPQV)

57 Act Factual. So the Fed khaki-pants wearing Chad, Brad and Randy types really are as thugtastically stupid as I thought. No dog in a political fight? Bullshit. Those assholes were doing damage control and wanted to know what was there to control the narrative. The IC is little more than a protection racket for crime families.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 04, 2022 12:47 PM (mIJ9W)

58 - maybe it all was this giant mirage and the laptop was fake. So they stayed away.
Anyway, I will go find the link
Posted by: Gentlemen

If the NYT gave up the 'it's faaaaaake' line, it's not fake. They confirmed reporting from conservative outlets from a year.

It's real. Don't bother thinking otherwise.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2022 12:48 PM (p6Md5)

59 Imagine the irony of a "spy" asking for materials.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 12:48 PM (DFbpm)

60 Sure you guys are angry about Biden being corrupt as all get out, compromised by foreign enemies and his family being a national security nightmare but I didn't see any of you complaining when...

{tears open envelope and blows}

Trump Said His Daughter Ivanka Was Hot!

Posted by: Allahdumbshit at April 04, 2022 12:48 PM (8KO2b)

61 Vlad Vexler Powerful Tactics Putin's Propaganda Uses To Hook You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j6Vg7yLx54

Skip to about 7 min. for the best parts.

I disagree with him about the email hacking, and the end where he talks about how Trump talks, but it is worthwhile regardless.

He discusses the Russian strategy of disrupting democracies with disinformation. Nothing new, but he seems closer to reality than most I have heard. (by that i mean closer to what I think.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 04, 2022 12:48 PM (Xw7A2)

62 Putin got Nord Stream 2

Xi got open borders and an end to the Trump administration State Department investigation of Chinese influence buying in the US

Zelensky is getting billions in aid that will disappear

How much more evidence do we need?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 12:48 PM (ZLI7S)

63 Breitbart interviewed the guy who handed the laptop from hell over to the fibs.

It did not go well for him.

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2022 12:48 PM (DJFLF)

64 No reason to believe any of these people.

Posted by: Fucktard millenial at April 04, 2022 12:48 PM (gkoWb)

65 56 They're probably racist rats who like H. P. Lovecraft or some shit, too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 12:47 PM (XvPQV)

=========

"Me?! Influenced by HP Lovecraft?! That's a dirty lie!"
-Guy who wrote Salem's Lot and Firestarter

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 12:48 PM (LvTSG)

66 I don't believe anyone anymore about anything.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (HvJ69)

^This^

When my wife asks if I've heard the latest about Ukraine, I tell her exactly that.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (AiZBA)

+2

This is the most-reported, most lied about war ever.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 12:49 PM (XvPQV)

67 This is just a way for the Biden mob to get ahead of this. GOPe/Liberals: "Hunter Biden's laptop was Ruskie disinfo."
(Laptop story confirmed)
GOPe/Liberals: "I'm so sick of hearing about Hunter Biden's laptop."

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at April 04, 2022 12:49 PM (7Fj9P)

68

Is that "retired" or "retarded?"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 12:49 PM (s2VJv)

69 Putin will be in Kiev in three days. And the Taliban will never take over Afghanistan.
Anything else that you want to know?

Posted by: Three Letter Spy Agency at April 04, 2022 12:49 PM (OHFvg)

70 Vlad should hack Times square and run a slide show from Hunter's laptop while playing Superfreak.

Posted by: The Wzzerdd at April 04, 2022 12:49 PM (xBuq7)

71 The really sad thing is this "intelligence agency" was probably interested in obtaining some Kompromat for themselves.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 12:49 PM (8KO2b)

72 I understand not wanting to see the US enter the war - I don't want to see the US enter another war. But actually supporting Putin now is the same as continuing to support the Third Reich after reports of the concentration camps started coming out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (trdmm)

I disagree. Azov are Bandera supporting swine and a war for Bandera supporting swine is unacceptable and repugnant. I will not believe CNN reporting or anything coming out of the CIA or Ukraine.

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 12:49 PM (ONvIw)

73 these intelligence geniuses are trying to figure out if Biden is on the take? when they pull the Biden mask off of him it's still old man Biden underneath.

Posted by: x at April 04, 2022 12:49 PM (uQFwj)

74 It's like we're living in an alternate universe, where American presidents can be puppets of a foreign power, be dementia patients, and pedophile predators, and everyone just shrugs and yawns.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2022 12:49 PM (YV6PJ)

75
+2

This is the most-reported, most lied about war ever.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 12:49 PM (XvPQV)

This can't be true. I mean, I saw Don Lemon on TV and he was wearing a HELMET, ferkrysesakes.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (Zz0t1)

76 Ace, I believe this post is hate speech.
- Social Media

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (OalnH)

77 Got a copy of Hunter's laptop?

Would you like one?

Posted by: Clinton Foundation at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (D6lWx)

78 Did the hamsters move to Texas? Suddenly all the times are in central time zone. Seems to have happened during the last post.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (U+Oxn)

79 Agency needs at least five letters, or GTFO.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo F'n Mouf at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (qpX6U)

80 72 I understand not wanting to see the US enter the war - I don't want to see the US enter another war. But actually supporting Putin now is the same as continuing to support the Third Reich after reports of the concentration camps started coming out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (trdmm)

========

I care as much as when this whole thing started.

Ace was at a 4. I never rose above a 1.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (LvTSG)

81 saying the intelligence community wanted to know if anything on the hard drive had been hacked, whether the Biden family was compromised

I hope this is true; its their job. I hope that there are at least some people left in the government who are worried about this kind of thing.

But they wouldn't want this info because they want to prosecute or do anything about the Bidens. They'd want it because they have a job to do and they need info to handle it. What got compromised, what can we trust, how much info got out and to whom?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (KZzsI)

82 Non-nooding bastids!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (dfRN6)

83 Zelensky is getting billions in aid that will disappear

How much more evidence do we need?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 12:48 PM (ZLI7S)

You just don't like him because he's a grifter who plays piano with his dick. H8er

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (ONvIw)

84 The IC is little more than a protection racket for crime families.
-------------------
This is also what Media is.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (HTCOy)

85 This can't be true. I mean, I saw Don Lemon on TV and he was wearing a HELMET, ferkrysesakes.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (Zz0t1)

Good to know. I'd hate to damage my axe handle during my interview with Don Lemon.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (XvPQV)

86 the Alphabets were concerned about the President being compromised ?...

howsabout the Sniffer and his methed spawn ?!

and his brother ?

and his handler wife ?

Posted by: Thomas Anderson at April 04, 2022 12:51 PM (f6tGE)

87 Autumnal.
Posted by: Puddinhead

waay back in my active dooty daze, there was a young lady from east texas named Autum. she was dating a north georgia redneck. he used to reference their dates as an Atumnal Orgasm. also, their arguments for peecann versus pecan were epic and entertained us for hours.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at April 04, 2022 12:51 PM (UgAdJ)

88 Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (lgeFv)

the BF was telling me he couldn't believe how the Bidet fam wasn't getting Hunter the help he needs, obviously he needs an intervention, blase, blase, blase...

I said RYFKM? These people eat at Comet Pizza ffs!

you think they care about the kids' drug habits? Especially since they're another revenue stream?

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2022 12:51 PM (DJFLF)

89 Sources Say, so who knows if it's true. It may well be, though, and wouldn't surprise me. And that intelligence agency is probably in deep shit. The official story is that this laptop did not exist and that the Bidens are clean. Wanting a copy to assess it for compromise vectors is dangerous heterodoxy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 12:51 PM (DU+/6)

90 The IC is little more than a protection racket for crime families.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 04, 2022 12:47 PM (mIJ9W)

Pretty much. You wonder why they cannot thwart a terror attack on domestic soil? Because that is not their mission.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 12:51 PM (SH2Zi)

91 This is the most-reported, most lied about war ever.

Maybe not. Maybe the lies just aren't as good.

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2022 12:51 PM (D6lWx)

92 Non-nooding bastids!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (dfRN6)

If there was a nood, you'd have to search to find it because the time zone changed in that thread.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 12:51 PM (Zz0t1)

93 I don't believe anyone anymore about anything.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (HvJ69)

* Everything is an op

* Nothing is real

* Everything is fake and gay

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 12:51 PM (8KO2b)

94 "KGB" is a three-letter government agency. Just sayin'.

(Yeah, I know, they changed names after the demise of the Soviet Union, but they will always be the KGB to those of us nearing the age of 29)

Posted by: a.moron at April 04, 2022 12:51 PM (tu3iY)

95 "And they said, 'We don't care. ... We want to either confirm or refute it. We want to act factual. We don't have a political dog in the fight. What our concern is, is that if there's compromising information on that hard drive, this is before the election, the president could be compromised to the level of owing either China or or Ukraine something. And this is what this three letter agency was concerned about."
++++
But did he give it to them?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 12:51 PM (DU+/6)

96 Saying you don't want the US to enter the war in Ukraine doesn't mean you support Putin. He's clearly an evil guy and his once vaunted military is obviously a poorly trained, immoral, incompetent bunch of marauders. But what they are doing need as to be exposed and punished. You can't simply let that kind of action be inconsequential.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 12:51 PM (DFbpm)

97 94 "KGB" is a three-letter government agency. Just sayin'.

(Yeah, I know, they changed names after the demise of the Soviet Union, but they will always be the KGB to those of us nearing the age of 29)

Posted by: a.moron at April 04, 2022 12:51 PM (tu3iY)

========

FSB, also a three letter agency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (LvTSG)

98 I'm going to keep hammering this point: the 25th amendment was always a red-herring. Hunter Biden is the real leverage that they have to get rid of Biden. They covered up the laptop story not just to get rid of Trump, but because they knew that it would be useful down the line. It's why all this news is coming out now, as Biden's approval ratings are rock-bottom and the world is spiraling out of control.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (wmDcS)

99 I'm not buying anything that comes out of Ukraine. I'm sticking with Lara Logan and the Grayzone lib boys on this

Posted by: CN The First
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Me too. The biggest factor is all the wrong people pushing for Ukraine and against Russia and the 120% push by all of the media for Ukraine and against Russia.

If people want to believe alll the wrong people and the media after covid, the vax scam, and the 2020 election. I can't convince them with logical arguments.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (iDcra)

100 Imagine the irony of a "spy" asking for materials.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 12:48 PM (DFbpm)

Yuge red flag. They have it. They want to know who else has it. And it was a smart move to deny having access to it.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (SH2Zi)

101 Non-nooding bastids!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

You should have come here and checked comment #11

Posted by: t-bird at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (D6lWx)

102
If you read the text, it says that "passive nazis" (ie, everyone who didn't welcome the Russians eagerly) were just as guilty as anyone, and deserved death.

I understand not wanting to see the US enter the war - I don't want to see the US enter another war. But actually supporting Putin now is the same as continuing to support the Third Reich after reports of the concentration camps started coming out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (trdmm)

The guy putting out the tweets doesn't quote anything of that nature. It justifies "punishing" the general population as Nazis per his quotes. I didn't try running the text through google translate or anything, but this guy has buried the lede if it says anything about killing off the general population.

The part about getting rid of Bandera-elites is about assassinating or executing Ukrainian leaders, which is something we do in war (and after war) too.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (z5Vrg)

103 It's real. Don't bother thinking otherwise.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

I know it's real, and I was a strong believer in it being real from the start. But I am saying that idiots who live on twitter and green rooms, or twitter and DC orgies could easily think it was not real.

Also LIVs who live in the cesspool of facebook posts about herbal medicine regrowing livers and shit. Russia is taking advantage of the firehose of information by adding a firehose of disinformation just to fuck things up.

And the more disinformation out there, the easier it is to think good information is not.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (Xw7A2)

104
A three-letter agency....KGB?
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (TNyrE)

They're the FSB now. Then again, plus ca change and all that shit.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (n+4am)

105 But actually supporting Putin now is the same as continuing to support the Third Reich after reports of the concentration camps started coming out.

I'd dial that back until we get actual hard, reliable information. So much absolute bullcrap has vomited out of the news about this event, ridiculous, blatant nonsense, that you just cannot trust anything whatsoever being told us. Trust none of it.

Remember the Yugoslavian war, the Serbo-Croat thing? Most of what we learned about what the bad guys were doing turned out to be either hilariously overblown or just flat out invention. Don't believe just because you've been told.

Neither side of this conflict are good guys. The only possible good guys in this are the Ukranian people.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (KZzsI)

106 39 It's almost as if they're highly partisan liberal Democrats or something.

I think some are, but I think most are just backed into a corner of their own making and see no way to react that gets them out. They are so determined to oppose Trump and all he stands for that they're arguing things that they not all that long ago would have vehemently rejected.

So now they are in the ludicrous position of defending a degenerate scumbag of almost comical proportions in the name of opposing someone who they consider insupportably immoral.
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I can buy that. Hunter is the white elephant that keeps on crapping all over the place. The TDS blinkers have led them into a bad situation, and getting out of it takes precedence over anything and everything, no matter the cost in credibility or credulity. Like the one guy said about the JFK Assassination, the real conspiracy was in the cover-up.

Posted by: exdem13 at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (W+kMI)

107 Non-nooding bastids!

There was a nood, but because of the time warp (again) it got inserted into the middle of the comments. (Around 12:30.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (U+Oxn)

108 *tries playing piano with dick*

Posted by: Drunk Billy Joel at April 04, 2022 12:53 PM (gkoWb)

109 I like that the Feds are now saying "laptop?? What laptop" when before it as all "Russian disinformation" and behind the scenes it was "oh shit!"

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 04, 2022 12:53 PM (Q/Gw4)

110 the president could be compromised to the level of owing either China or or Ukraine something

In 2014 when Russia attacked Ukraine Obama did *nothing*

In 2022 when Russia attacked Ukraine Biden gave them a ton of aide and implemented sanctions on Russia.

Sounds like *text book* quid pro quo to me.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 12:53 PM (ESjRY)

111 That's misdirection. SPECTRE has more than three letters.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 04, 2022 12:53 PM (ZK5yA)

112 Ralphie with his Little Orphan Annie decoder ring >> Our "inelegance" agencies.

Posted by: Archer at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (gmo/4)

113 I'm going to keep hammering this point: the 25th amendment was always a red-herring. Hunter Biden is the real leverage that they have to get rid of Biden. They covered up the laptop story not just to get rid of Trump, but because they knew that it would be useful down the line. It's why all this news is coming out now, as Biden's approval ratings are rock-bottom and the world is spiraling out of control.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (wmDcS)

Which raises an interesting line of attack on the power of the IC/DOJ. Dump their blackmail material any way you can.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (SH2Zi)

114 If people want to believe alll the wrong people and the media after covid, the vax scam, and the 2020 election. I can't convince them with logical arguments.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (iDcra)

I rate this as true, why should I trust the Feds, the CIA, and the media on this? Why should I trust the Ukraine's translations of a Russian editorial?

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (ONvIw)

115 111 That's misdirection. SPECTRE has more than three letters.
Posted by: callsign claymore at April 04, 2022 12:53 PM (ZK5yA)

=========

*quietly sips drink in the corner with nefarious smile on face*
-KAOS

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (LvTSG)

116
Good to know. I'd hate to damage my axe handle during my interview with Don Lemon.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 12:50 PM (XvPQV)

https://is.gd/9Nwlfm

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

117 "I don't believe anyone anymore about anything."

First I took a course in epistemology. Then, as if that wasn't bad enough, the 21st Century happened. Makes me a lot more resistant to being baited into sundry causes and outrages.

Posted by: gp Wants To Act Factual at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (qpX6U)

118 Zelensky is getting billions in aid that will disappear
........

it's like magic or something.

Posted by: wth at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (v0R5T)

119 Imagine the irony of a "spy" asking for materials.

That is one of the ways they gather intel. Going to sources and getting stuff from them, and its always nice to ask first.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (KZzsI)

120 Whelp, about time to head off to the official announcement of pending downsizing.

Should be a blast.

Posted by: Bete at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (F9322)

121
I disagree. Azov are Bandera supporting swine and a war for Bandera supporting swine is unacceptable and repugnant. I will not believe CNN reporting or anything coming out of the CIA or Ukraine.
Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 12:49 PM (ONvIw)

Why were the original nazis so reviled? Because (among other things) they regularly carried out large scale executions of the civilian populations. So the neo-nazis of Asov may be bad, but that hardly makes Putin's Old School Nazis any better. As I said, I also still argue for staying out of it completely.

And again, this statement today came from a Russian Government site. It's not disinformation, its direct official information. Russia is proud of what they're doing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (trdmm)

122 A cleaned-up Hunter would be a lousy earner. A squeaky one, at that.

Posted by: klaftern at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (taPSh)

123 I do not recall Shaffer, although I believe he was one of my students when he was a lieutenant. We know many of the same people.
I can easily see this happening...there may actually have been a "3 letter agency" trying to do their job (to act factually) and see how, and if, a FIS (Foreign Intel Service) had been working Biden and if there was evidence on his laptop. Personally, I'd be stunned if none hadn't.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (axyOa)

124 > A retired intelligence officer says a U.S. spy agency asked for his help in fall 2020 to try to acquire a copy of the Hunter Biden laptop contents

> Heck of a spy agency we've got.

Sounds to me like someone at CIA heard about it, but knew they couldn't get a copy through normal means because the agency is in the tank for Biden. So they went outside the agency to see how bad it was.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (NahKu)

125
"Me?! Influenced by HP Lovecraft?! That's a dirty lie!"
-Guy who wrote Salem's Lot and Firestarter
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022

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One of SK's early stories in his Night Shift collection is a direct pastiche of Lovecraft. It's called "Jerusalem's Lot." I think it was written before the novel that used that town name was penned.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (txdEq)

126 intelligence Damn autocucumber

Posted by: Archer at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (gmo/4)

127 108 *tries playing piano with dick*
Posted by: Drunk Billy Joel at April 04, 2022 12:53 PM (gkoWb)

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"Oh come on! It's easy! Do it like this!"

Posted by: Michelle Obama at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (VJsqe)

128 As if the Big Guy were going to send Hunter off to rehab for a 4-6 week stint when that time would be better spent being to deployed to Ukraine for the ten percent vig

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (DJFLF)

129 108 *tries playing piano with dick*
Posted by: Drunk Billy Joel at April 04, 2022 12:53 PM (gkoWb)

You're just jealous of Super Schmeckle!

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (ONvIw)

130 Assume this is true. Assume also that they got the drive. The Biden campaign (such as it was) continued and then every element of the State/Party/Media Complex went all-in to install Biden by every available mechanism.

This means one of three things:
1. Biden and his son are clean
2. The intelligence agency assessed it and sounded the alarm, but the alarm was ignored
3. The intelligence agency bigwigs got wind of the assessment activity and put an end to it promptly before conclusions could be drawn.

We all know Door Number One is not possible. This is what happens when your government is rotten to the core as well as overly large and redundant and full of byzantine overlaps. Even if there is a non-monster working in an agency somewhere, he cannot succeed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (DU+/6)

131
Yuge red flag. They have it. They want to know who else has it. And it was a smart move to deny having access to it.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (SH2Zi)

They knew about the child pron, and wanted to get an admission of possession.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (n+4am)

132 .."We want to act factual."
.."We don't have a political dog in the fight."

A) they want to *act* factual... they admit it was an act.
b) They absolutely had a dog in the fight... they spent over 4 years harassing Trump before and after he was elected.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (IaP+4)

133 89 Sources Say, so who knows if it's true. It may well be, though, and wouldn't surprise me. And that intelligence agency is probably in deep shit. The official story is that this laptop did not exist and that the Bidens are clean. Wanting a copy to assess it for compromise vectors is dangerous heterodoxy. Posted by: Joe Mannix
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I think it is a mistake to consider the Biden junta as homogeneous in its wants and desires other than to get rid of Trump. Ditto for the different federal bureaucracies including those involved in national security. Generally speaking, oligarchies generally have quite unsettled politics as different players seek to maximize their own power especially when popular discontent rises.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (Iq9dF)

134 98 I'm going to keep hammering this point: the 25th amendment was always a red-herring. Hunter Biden is the real leverage that they have to get rid of Biden. They covered up the laptop story not just to get rid of Trump, but because they knew that it would be useful down the line. It's why all this news is coming out now, as Biden's approval ratings are rock-bottom and the world is spiraling out of control.
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This is true. The junta always knew that Potato would outlive his usefulness, and Hunter was the screw-up insurance to be used as needed. Now they just need a good way to get the Vice Ho out of there, and they're set to run somebody else in 2024.

Posted by: exdem13 at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (W+kMI)

135 whether there were any patterns about how foreign adversaries were seeking to compromise prominent Americans.
___________

Here's the pattern: the Bidens (and Kerrys and Clintons, etc.) will sell out American interests in a heartbeat to any foreign adversary who waves enough dollars (and/or crack and hooker ass, in Hunter Biden's case) in front of their faces.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (k4dH2)

136 115 TJM, KAOS was my first pick.

Posted by: callsign claymore at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (ZK5yA)

137 * Everything is an op

* Nothing is real

* Everything is fake and gay
Posted by: ...

Isn't that what they want? Isn't that the goal of the dinsinformation crowd? To get people to throw up their hands and ignore reality.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (Xw7A2)

138 "I'd dial that back until we get actual hard, reliable information. "

There already is a lot of that emerging. The timeline puts the Russian troops there, so does the decomposition. That's notwithstanding the survivors. Because there are always survivors in a massacre.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (DFbpm)

139 125 One of SK's early stories in his Night Shift collection is a direct pastiche of Lovecraft. It's called "Jerusalem's Lot." I think it was written before the novel that used that town name was penned.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (txdEq)

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Yeah, that's the more obvious Lovecraft version of the story (made as a television series called Chapelwaite starring Adrien Brody a couple of years ago).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (LvTSG)

140 That's misdirection. SPECTRE has more than three letters.
Posted by: callsign claymore at April 04, 2022

***
And we have 6. What's your point?

Posted by: Thrush Supreme Council at April 04, 2022 12:56 PM (txdEq)

141 I'll give you a three letter intelligence agency: Jobs

Posted by: Joe Bidumb at April 04, 2022 12:56 PM (/NOHf)

142 The guy putting out the tweets doesn't quote anything of that nature. It justifies "punishing" the general population as Nazis per his quotes. I didn't try running the text through google translate or anything, but this guy has buried the lede if it says anything about killing off the general population.

The part about getting rid of Bandera-elites is about assassinating or executing Ukrainian leaders, which is something we do in war (and after war) too.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM

I did put it through translate. The only people it wants to "liquidate" is the Bandera elite. So what?

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 12:56 PM (ONvIw)

143 I understand not wanting to see the US enter the war - I don't want to see the US enter another war. But actually supporting Putin now is the same as continuing to support the Third Reich after reports of the concentration camps started coming Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 12:46 PM (trdmm)

I don't care and I'm not a nazi. I don't want a war for Biden's money laundering nation. I don't believe any of the "news" coming out of that area. You can believe what you want.

Posted by: megthered at April 04, 2022 12:56 PM (f1xtl)

144 The 13 heroes of Snake Island - fake
The Ghost Pilot of Kiev - fake
Shooting at a nuclear reactor - fake

It just goes on and on and on. I mean who would have thought the most corrupt country in Europe that has been a virtual ATM for corrupt oligarchs and politicians both within Ukraine and throughout the west would be a dishonest place?

It's not just Hunter's $1 million per year from Burisma they are trying to cover up. It's the money laundering of billions in aid dollars.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 12:56 PM (ZLI7S)

145 >>>Isn't that what they want? Isn't that the goal of the dinsinformation crowd? To get people to throw up their hands and ignore reality.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (Xw7A2)

I got news for you...

Posted by: Reality at April 04, 2022 12:57 PM (QYPq3)

146 quietly sips drink in the corner with nefarious smile on face-KAOS

Technically, KAOS is a three-letter agency, it’s just that it’s headquartered west of the Mississippi.

Wait. Is this a KAOS front blog? Nobody tells me anything!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 04, 2022 12:57 PM (U+Oxn)

147 There was a nood, but because of the time warp (again) it got inserted into the middle of the comments. (Around 12:30.)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (U+Oxn)

Oh, that's right, we're doing the timewarp again!

**Starts dancing**

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 04, 2022 12:57 PM (dfRN6)

148 And the inevitable spin from this: "intelligence agencies checked it out at the time and determined there was nothing to worry about"

Posted by: can of spam at April 04, 2022 12:57 PM (eQ4Ac)

149 So, if you were on the food thread yesterday, I have come up with the new ham plan today...

In a nod to Weasel and the gourmets both, I'll be making a homemade ham, bean, and tomato soup (using the ham bone as stock)...and then "pigs" in a blanket with ham sticks, cheese, and Aldi crescent rolls (I'm skipping these, but the teens will all love them). And everyone gets the fruit salad. So, soup, salad, and sandwich. This plan got a lot of cheers, and I'll have no ham left (anything that doesn't go in the 2 packs of rolls gets chopped and tossed in the soup with the bone)...

Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 12:57 PM (exHjb)

150 Double ought spies...

Posted by: Archer at April 04, 2022 12:57 PM (gmo/4)

151 "Isn't that what they want? Isn't that the goal of the dinsinformation crowd? To get people to throw up their hands and ignore reality."

Sure does feel like it.

Posted by: gp Wants To Act Factual at April 04, 2022 12:57 PM (qpX6U)

152 Old news.
Some people did some things.
Mistakes were made.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Time to move on.

Posted by: White House at April 04, 2022 12:57 PM (a3Q+t)

153 108 *tries playing piano with dick*
Posted by: Drunk Billy Joel at April 04, 2022 12:53 PM (gkoWb)
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Is that you Otis?

You know CCP is also a three letter agency.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 04, 2022 12:57 PM (iDcra)

154 87 Autumnal.
Posted by: Puddinhead

waay back in my active dooty daze, there was a young lady from east texas named Autum. she was dating a north georgia redneck. he used to reference their dates as an Atumnal Orgasm. also, their arguments for peecann versus pecan were epic and entertained us for hours.
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This is a perfect definition of Autumnal. Did she, perchance, have Auburn Hair?

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 12:57 PM (HTCOy)

155 I can have this all wrapped up for you in a mere five years!

Posted by: Special Counsel Durham at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (YTBIQ)

156 One of SK's early stories in his Night Shift collection is a direct pastiche of Lovecraft. It's called "Jerusalem's Lot." I think it was written before the novel that used that town name was penned.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 12:54 PM (txdEq)

========

Yeah, that's the more obvious Lovecraft version of the story (made as a television series called Chapelwaite starring Adrien Brody a couple of years ago).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (LvTSG)

I don't mind the Lovecraft inspiration, HPL has been scaring and inspiring people for decades. It's King's hypocracy that pisses me off. He's ready to cancel and shame anyone who doesn't have a (D) behind their name. His hands aren't fucking clean.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (XvPQV)

157 The Ukraine government called on its citizens to protect the country and handed out weapons.

Shooting at armed enemy militia is a perfectly normal thing to do in war.

Seriously do people not know anything about war? We shot a bunch of militia members in Iraq/'Stan and there is nothing unethical about it.

The actual ethical debate here is when the militia members count as lawful combatants or not which has been debated since the Franco-Prussian war.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (ESjRY)

158 +2

This is the most-reported, most lied about war ever.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 12:49 PM (XvPQV)

Ive not watched even 10 seconds of "news" coverage about this "war" and I will bet Im as accurately informed as anyone at CNN or the other MFM conglomerates.

Posted by: LASue at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (Ed8Zd)

159 113 I'm going to keep hammering this point: the 25th amendment was always a red-herring. Hunter Biden is the real leverage that they have to get rid of Biden. They covered up the laptop story not just to get rid of Trump, but because they knew that it would be useful down the line. It's why all this news is coming out now, as Biden's approval ratings are rock-bottom and the world is spiraling out of control.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (wmDcS)

The reason I continue to think that a 25th Amendment procedure could be viable is because a lot of Dem Senators have to be on board for any removal of Biden to take place, and I don't believe they would ever go for impeachment, no matter what the evidence. However I believe they *could* be brought on board an Incapacity finding, especially is November's returns are bad enough for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (trdmm)

160 I think it is a mistake to consider the Biden junta as homogeneous in its wants and desires other than to get rid of Trump. Ditto for the different federal bureaucracies including those involved in national security. Generally speaking, oligarchies generally have quite unsettled politics as different players seek to maximize their own power especially when popular discontent rises.
Posted by: whig at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (Iq9dF)
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Oh, I don't think that at all. There is clearly a factional war going on and the politburo is not aligned in the same direction or working toward the same goals.

But this was allegedly pre-election. The deep state was aligned pre-election, and it was aligned toward eliminating Trump and installing Biden.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (DU+/6)

161 The 13 heroes of Snake Island - fake
The Ghost Pilot of Kiev - fake
Shooting at a nuclear reactor - fake

7:35 of missing phone records- Fake but accurate!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (t3/qz)

162
I was just reading Denninger's forum this morning. Denninger thinks Amazon has been hacked big time, all the credit card and *password* data has been compromised. And that Amazon is probably covering this up.

You can read his post in the Bar forum but you have to join the forum to read that section.

In short he thinks there's been a very major, highly sophisticated breach of Amazon's systems. He said he got a warning last night that someone had attempted to log on to his Amazon account with his password from a foreign IP location. His password is a very long random string.

To get that means Amazon is utterly compromised, someone running capturing password transmissions over the wire.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (Mzdiz)

163 156 I don't mind the Lovecraft inspiration, HPL has been scaring and inspiring people for decades. It's King's hypocracy that pisses me off. He's ready to cancel and shame anyone who doesn't have a (D) behind their name. His hands aren't fucking clean.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (XvPQV)

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King's body of work seems to be Lovecraft + daddy issues. I'm sure he's spoken harshly of Lovecraft since it became de rigeur to shit on him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (LvTSG)

164
108 *tries playing piano with dick*
Posted by: Drunk Billy Joel at April 04, 2022 12:53 PM (gkoWb)

"Root Beer Rag." Hunt and peck... er.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 12:59 PM (s2VJv)

165 This means one of three things:
1. Biden and his son are clean
2. The intelligence agency assessed it and sounded the alarm, but the alarm was ignored
3. The intelligence agency bigwigs got wind of the assessment activity and put an end to it promptly before conclusions could be drawn.

4. This was an out group faction of CIA who wanted to know how bad it was, but couldn't acquire the laptop through CIA because they're the out group.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2022 12:59 PM (NahKu)

166 Oh, that's right, we're doing the timewarp again!

**Starts dancing**
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 04, 2022 12:57 PM

Beware the pelvic thrusts.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 04, 2022 12:59 PM (a3Q+t)

167
The actual ethical debate here is when the militia members count as lawful combatants or not which has been debated since the Franco-Prussian war.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (ESjRY)

Isn't it just, uniformed yes, no uniform can be shot?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 12:59 PM (z5Vrg)

168
Actually the opening of "Angry Young Man" would be challenging.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 12:59 PM (s2VJv)

169 160 Oh, I don't think that at all. There is clearly a factional war going on and the politburo is not aligned in the same direction or working toward the same goals.

But this was allegedly pre-election. The deep state was aligned pre-election, and it was aligned toward eliminating Trump and installing Biden.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (DU+/6)

========

Out of power and with a common enemy, they were united.

In power and without a common goal (separate bank accounts don't mean a common goal), and suddenly its much harder. Weird...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 12:59 PM (LvTSG)

170 A U.S. official directly familiar with the effort confirmed the request to Just the News, saying the intelligence community wanted to know if anything on the hard drive had been hacked, whether the Biden family was compromised, and whether there were any patterns about how foreign adversaries were seeking to compromise prominent Americans.

YES

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 12:59 PM (yrol0)

171 "A three-letter agency came to me and said, 'Hey, we've heard that you have access to a copy of the Hunter Biden hard drive. Could we get a copy?'"

By which time, everybody knew (or could easily find) the name of the Mac shop guy and also knew that Rudy Guilliani had a copy that he was actively trying to get somebody to look at.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 04, 2022 12:59 PM (nfrXX)

172 Isn't that what they want? Isn't that the goal of the dinsinformation crowd? To get people to throw up their hands and ignore reality.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (Xw7A2)

I think chaos, confusion and control is the goal. They want you to believe them as often as possible because without that trust, they are severely weakened.

The knowledge that practically nothing is what it seems is empowering, and will hopefully lead people to turn to the Truth. And well there's only one place for that.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 01:00 PM (/NOHf)

173 According to the guys at Grayzone, who host MacGregor and others. Bucha may be a deception too and a byproduct of Ukes killing supporters of Russia
https://tinyurl.com/396wa77n

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 01:00 PM (ONvIw)

174 But actually supporting Putin now is the same as continuing to support the Third Reich after reports of the concentration camps started coming out.

Yeah, no. Believing the latest allegation from the Ukrainian ministry of propaganda at face value, when pretty much everything else they've fed our media has been bullshit is foolish.

Folks seem really eager to forget that Zelensky made all of the men in his country legitimate military targets by issuing a general conscription order (and maybe didn't give every last one a uniform, which means summarily executing them is justified) and ignore the deliberate placement of Ukrainian military assets in civilian areas, much like the palestinians do, in order to generate civilian collateral damage they can make up stories about in hopes of generating sympathy.

Posted by: Methos at April 04, 2022 01:00 PM (kOpft)

175 This is the most-reported, most lied about war ever.
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This is false. All wars are heavily reported and full of lies. It just is.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:00 PM (HTCOy)

176 4. This was an out group faction of CIA who wanted to know how bad it was, but couldn't acquire the laptop through CIA because they're the out group.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2022 12:59 PM (NahKu)
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Sure, that could be it, too. And then what do they want to do with it? Internal blackmail? Who knows.

Having to play Kremlinology with your own government sucks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:00 PM (DU+/6)

177 The reason I continue to think that a 25th Amendment procedure could be viable is because a lot of Dem Senators have to be on board for any removal of Biden to take place, and I don't believe they would ever go for impeachment, no matter what the evidence. However I believe they *could* be brought on board an Incapacity finding, especially is November's returns are bad enough for them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (trdmm)

The issue is the GOP. To make the 25th stick you need half the GOP in the House and Senate to vote to approve it. There's no way to get that without significant concessions, which I don't think the Dems are willing or able to give.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 04, 2022 01:00 PM (wmDcS)

178 As has been noted elsewhere, if the standard for calling someone as bad as hilter in a war is that he is causing civilian casualties, then most American presidents, including everyone at least since Busy Sr has a little mustache.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 04, 2022 01:00 PM (YV6PJ)

179 Sure hope they used the Cone of Silence.

Posted by: wth at April 04, 2022 01:00 PM (v0R5T)

180 Just compare the treatment of the Hunter Biden laptop to the way the Steele dossier was treated.

Hillary campaign-funded Steel dossier full of hearsay and unsourced unproven allegations based on rumors spread by a drunk Russian: This is serious stuff! It shows that Trump is compromised and could be blackmailed by foreign governments!

Hunter Biden laptop full of actual first-hand communication, deeply compromising photos and actual evidence of foreign bribes: It could be Russian disinfo! We can't prove these things are 100% true so we should ban all and any discussion of them on all of social media!

Posted by: Rusty Trawler at April 04, 2022 01:00 PM (1gif2)

181 Iy is fascinating to watch this, everything they are saying is a lie but that is it

Posted by: Y5 at April 04, 2022 01:00 PM (yzUsu)

182 The Biden family is gross, corrupt, and compromised, it is known. They are everything and more that the left believed Trump was.

Posted by: LizLem at April 04, 2022 01:01 PM (+mkOR)

183 By which time, everybody knew (or could easily find) the name of the Mac shop guy and also knew that Rudy Guilliani had a copy that he was actively trying to get somebody to look at.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 04, 2022 12:59 PM (nfrXX)
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But those guys might talk if the alleged agency had asked them for it...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:01 PM (DU+/6)

184 I support war crimes trials for Putin, Zelensky, Biden, Obama and Hillary.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2022 01:01 PM (lgeFv)

185 saying the intelligence community wanted to know if anything on the hard drive had been hacked, whether the Biden family was compromised, and whether there were any patterns about how foreign adversaries were seeking to compromise prominent Americans.
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This is a lie. Whatever the reason was (if it happened) you can be sure it was not this.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 01:01 PM (/NOHf)

186 163 Combined with drugs. Lots and lots of drugs.

Posted by: Bete at April 04, 2022 01:01 PM (F9322)

187 3. The intelligence agency bigwigs got wind of the assessment activity and put an end to it promptly before conclusions could be drawn.

We all know Door Number One is not possible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (DU+/6)

4. The Biden family is as dirty as they come. The dirt on Biden is more useful to the IC as leverage, than if it is exposed and widely held to be legitimate. Thus, the 50 former IC people calling it Russian disinfo.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:01 PM (SH2Zi)

188 There was a nood, but because of the time warp (again) it got inserted into the middle of the comments. (Around 12:30.)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 04, 2022

***
"Mr. Spock -- the time warp. What'd it do to us?"

"It inserted your comments in the Daily Tech Thread, Captain. We have 3 more posts to live over again."

"Not those last three posts --!"

Posted by: Thrush Supreme Council at April 04, 2022 01:01 PM (txdEq)

189 BL (really dont) M is a crime syndicate.

None of the women acknowledged the house behind them. Its far from a box, with more than 6,500 square feet, more than half a dozen bedrooms and bathrooms, several fireplaces, a soundstage, a pool and bungalow, and parking for more than 20 cars, according to real-estate listings. The California property was purchased for nearly $6 million in cash in October 2020 with money that had been donated to BLMGNF.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 04, 2022 01:02 PM (yrol0)

190 114 If people want to believe alll the wrong people and the media after covid, the vax scam, and the 2020 election. I can't convince them with logical arguments. Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable

I rate this as true, why should I trust the Feds, the CIA, and the media on this? Why should I trust the Ukraine's translations of a Russian editorial? Posted by: CN The First
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General test for objectivity--if you are acting like a defense attorney or a prosecutor by admitting all evidence for your suppositions and denying any contra evidence, then an objective analysis of a situation is not present. It is always wise to keep one's words soft because you might have to eat them later on when more facts come out as they always do.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2022 01:02 PM (Iq9dF)

191 "Isn't it just, uniformed yes, no uniform can be shot?"

I dunno. It seems the Russians shot old people on bicycles collecting water, and old woman in her back yard, pretty sure I saw a child, people of all ages on mass graves, people shopping for food.

But yeah, let's go on defending that.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 01:02 PM (DFbpm)

192 Tom the article cited is basically a column or editorial, RIA has them on their front page all the time, often they are fairly over the top and hysterical, like that one. "Official" here is misleading - it's propaganda, not policy.

Policy will be reflected in the agreement Ukraine submits to regarding NATO membership and military status. Bold prediction: "denazification" will not even be mentioned in the agreement.

German chancellor's first reaction to Bucha claims was correct one: access for int'l investigators. Meaning = he doesn't trust Ukes on this.

And aside from hysterical claims from the extremely unreliable Human Rights Watch, and the hysterics from the Ukrainians themselves, there's no evidence of massacres from the substantial areas that have been under (variable) Russian control since late February. On the contrary, the "high point" of Russian abuses that have been documented is a shooting of some demonstrators - one incident from among many demonstrations.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 04, 2022 01:02 PM (OTzUX)

193 "This is NOT the story you're looking for"--MSM

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 04, 2022 01:02 PM (ynpvh)

194 175 This is the most-reported, most lied about war ever.
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This is false. All wars are heavily reported and full of lies. It just is.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:00 PM (HTCOy)

I'm indulging in hyperbole to make a point: we don't have anyone reliable to tell us the truth about what's happening. What we are getting is spin and more spin, from both sides.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 01:02 PM (XvPQV)

195 Our object?

"The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"

(Orwell was one of our satraps, you know.)

Posted by: Thrush Supreme Council at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (txdEq)

196
King's body of work seems to be Lovecraft + daddy issues. I'm sure he's spoken harshly of Lovecraft since it became de rigeur to shit on him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (LvTSG)

Don't forget "the villain is a creepy space alien".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (n+4am)

197 Someone is going down for the shit on Hunter's laptop, but it won't be Hunter. They will round up some low level Chinese consulate staff and deport them for "attempted corruption" then Hunter will be declared clean.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (t3/qz)

198 *tries playing piano with dick*
Posted by: Drunk Billy Joel at April 04, 2022 12:53 PM (gkoWb)

"Root Beer Rag." Hunt and peck... er.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 12:59 PM (s2VJv)

"Chopstick."

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

199 @165: "4. This was an out group faction of CIA who wanted to know how bad it was, but couldn't acquire the laptop through CIA because they're the out group."

Added benefit of "proving" to lesser mortals that the laptop contents are out in the wild too.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (4NlP1)

200 I dunno. It seems the Russians shot old people on bicycles collecting water, and old woman in her back yard, pretty sure I saw a child, people of all ages on mass graves, people shopping for food.

But yeah, let's go on defending that.
Posted by: Marcus T

**

I heard they bombed a childrens hospital too.

But at least those sailors on the boat told them what's what before they got blowed up.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (jZJe9)

201 The thing is, Hitler was bad, however, was no mao or stalin

Posted by: Y5 at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (yzUsu)

202 An article out today about the pad that the Secret Service rents to be near Hunter's Malibu beach mansion. $30K large a month to rent at taxpayer's expense.

They should have stuffed them in a Studio apartment in El Segundo and made them commute on LA freeways everyday to protect that rat fuck.

Posted by: Cheri at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (oiNtH)

203 @#$% the people coming to "break the news" of my impending dismissal can't even show up on time.

Seriously, don't try to sell me you hate to see me go when you can't be punctual.

Posted by: Bete at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (F9322)

204 191 "Isn't it just, uniformed yes, no uniform can be shot?"

I dunno. It seems the Russians shot old people on bicycles collecting water, and old woman in her back yard, pretty sure I saw a child, people of all ages on mass graves, people shopping for food.

But yeah, let's go on defending that.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 01:02 PM (DFbpm)

Well that response is about part for the course for coverage of Ukraine. A short discussion about what is considered a legitimate combatant becomes... that.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (z5Vrg)

205 Isn't it just, uniformed yes, no uniform can be shot?

A little more then that - Article 4 of the Third Geneva Convention

(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
(c) That of carrying arms openly;
(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:04 PM (ESjRY)

206 15 quote: "it calls almost every Ukrainian a Nazi who deserves death. "Nazis who took weapons, must be killed in numbers as much as possible... Not just the elites, the most of the people are guilty, they are passive Nazis, Nazi enablers. They supported these elites and must be punished."

Which explains why so many civilians have been executed.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 01:35 PM (trdmm)
Willowed (also last thread got bugged)

Killing "Nazis who took weapons" is not a call for killing civilians, Nazi or no. That second section preceded by ... seems likely just a broad justification for the war to discourage sympathizing with Ukraine.
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The Azov Battalion and their ilk are a propaganda gift to Putin, who will use it to inspire his people and cast shade on Ukraine to mock the so-called anti-Nazi EU and USA with charges of hypocrisy. Russians hate Nazis to a degree unknown to people who didn't have forebears who survived the Great Patriotic War. Zelensky's cause is NOT served by having them as allies, but he really has no choice, since they are guaranteed support, for now.

Posted by: exdem13 at April 04, 2022 01:04 PM (W+kMI)

207 Sure hope they used the Cone of Silence.

Posted by: wth at April 04, 2022 01:00 PM (v0R5T)

I've been waiting for that reference. LOL

Posted by: Archer at April 04, 2022 01:04 PM (gmo/4)

208 I missed getting to say this in the previous thread... if Elon Musk plans to wear the skin suit of Twitter, hollow it out, and rebuild it to something good, I'm all for this.

I'm still amazed it feels like he's on our side in this social media war. May he prove a worthy ally in the fight.

Posted by: LizLem at April 04, 2022 01:04 PM (+mkOR)

209 When my wife asks if I've heard the latest about Ukraine, I tell her exactly that.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV

My wife gets miffed when I call Zelensky "The World's Boyfriend"

Posted by: Oedipus at April 04, 2022 01:04 PM (DbihG)

210 He said he got a warning last night that someone had attempted to log on to his Amazon account with his password from a foreign IP location. His password is a very long random string.

To get that means Amazon is utterly compromised, someone running capturing password transmissions over the wire.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (Mzdiz

Or he tried accessing his account from a VPN and forgot or didn't realize it.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 01:04 PM (/NOHf)

211 The Biden family is gross, corrupt, and compromised, it is known. They are everything and more that the left believed Trump was.
Posted by: LizLem at April 04, 2022 01:01 PM (+mkOR)

And this is why Owebama tapped him as VP. Where he knew he was capable of the colossal fuckup, he was also in deep with the Chinese and Ukraine and could launder vast amounts of money.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

212 A three-letter agency came to me and said, 'Hey, we've heard that you have access to a copy of the Hunter Biden hard drive. Could we get a copy?'"

BLM

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 01:04 PM (t3/qz)

213 President Biden is obviously not compromised, since no big deal has been made of the laptop by any three letter agency. The Right loves their nothingburgers.

Posted by: Sid at April 04, 2022 01:04 PM (iv1Id)

214 Also: F*ck Ukraine, and f*ck war for Biden, Kerry, Graham, McCain, and any other DC grifters' money laundering channels being compromised.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:04 PM (jZJe9)

215 You know who else was as bad as Hitler?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 04, 2022 01:04 PM (dfRN6)

216 whether there were any patterns about how foreign adversaries were seeking to compromise prominent Americans.
___________

Here's the pattern: the Bidens (and Kerrys and Clintons, etc.) will sell out American interests in a heartbeat to any foreign adversary who waves enough dollars (and/or crack and hooker ass, in Hunter Biden's case) in front of their faces.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 04, 2022 12:55 PM (k4dH2)
***

Read one of Oleg Kalugin's books. It is astonishingly easy to get people to "assist" you and to do things they normally wouldn't.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2022 01:05 PM (axyOa)

217 Say, didn't Barr tell us that the initial Durham report would be out in spring of 2020?

*Makes shake weight motion*

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2022 01:05 PM (QXKQ9)

218 In a nod to Weasel
Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 12:57 PM

Wouldn't a gourmand nod to Weasel involve Spaghettios?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 04, 2022 01:05 PM (a3Q+t)

219 Rooskies always execute enemy partizans.

Posted by: Archer at April 04, 2022 01:05 PM (gmo/4)

220 I know its not tranny tuesday yet, but another dude ready to drop kick some women:

https://tinyurl.com/yckys8ft

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2022 01:05 PM (lgeFv)

221 This busty blonde in her underwear doubts she can even imagine the depths of depravity that define the Biden family:
https://is.gd/toaVfx

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:05 PM (DU+/6)

222 Copy of laptop to protect Hunter?
Park for the course

Posted by: Skip's Phone at April 04, 2022 01:06 PM (tik+D)

223 They will round up some low level Chinese consulate staff and deport them for "attempted corruption" then Hunter will be declared clean.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Okay they can try but pretty hard to do when it is Hunter in so many compromising pictures doing shady shit.

Posted by: Cheri at April 04, 2022 01:06 PM (oiNtH)

224 The thing is, the laptop and its contents have been more or less public knowledge for over a year. Not that we've seen it all, but we know what's supposedly there. Release the data, all of it and make it public. The purported damage to national security is done. We know it and our adversaries know it. The only reason the info is being kept under wraps is because it's a Democrat's son with major implications to the party. The rest of the damage, national or otherwise isn't really what the left gives a shit about anyway.

The infighting amongst the IC is a distraction.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 01:06 PM (BFigT)

225 If you don't want people to believe you support Nazis, maybe don't have pictures of Nazis hanging in your mayors offices.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:06 PM (jZJe9)

226 One of the more perplexing parts of the war is that apparently now shelling a city where enemy combatants are entrenched is...a war crime?

What the hell.

I get people liked the videos of smart bombs hitting isolated enemy encampments in the middle of nowhere from the WoT...but that is not the norm.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:06 PM (ESjRY)

227 To get that means Amazon is utterly compromised, someone running capturing password transmissions over the wire.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (Mzdiz

Or he tried accessing his account from a VPN and forgot or didn't realize it.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 01:04 PM (/NOHf)

Or someone tried to capture his password while using a VPN.

Posted by: trev006 at April 04, 2022 01:06 PM (Eqkqm)

228 We can blame the media, but we have to acknowledge that they are part of the US people.

Are they?
I mean the NYT is owned by a Mexican National.
Other media companies are global...
So US People? is that guaranteed?

Posted by: Inogame at April 04, 2022 01:06 PM (53oGX)

229 Okay they can try but pretty hard to do when it is Hunter in so many compromising pictures doing shady shit.
Posted by: Cheri

"It wasn't me"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 01:06 PM (t3/qz)

230 the president could be compromised to the level of owing either China or or Ukraine something.

===

Wait, WHAT? Oh never mind, but let's get Ukraine into NATO. If they want it , its theirs, right Joe?

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (mmOYv)

231 178 As has been noted elsewhere, if the standard for calling someone as bad as hilter in a war is that he is causing civilian casualties, then most American presidents, including everyone at least since Busy Sr has a little mustache.
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Kind of hard to top Lincoln.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (HTCOy)

232 ----------------
This is a perfect definition of Autumnal. Did she, perchance, have Auburn Hair?
Posted by: Puddinhead

dishwater blonde, smoking hot. very typical east texas young lady. smart as a whip, tied up the north georgia redneck and route marched his ass home to mom & dad. made him an east texas redneck.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (UgAdJ)

233 I don't know what worse, that a lot of people in important positions lie about things or that so many people almost always believe them.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (Ynyl9)

234 This busty blonde in her underwear doubts she can even imagine the depths of depravity that define the Biden family:
https://is.gd/toaVfx

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:05 PM (DU+/6)

Nice Bod. Not nice face.

Posted by: Archer at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (gmo/4)

235 Here's an example of a fake atrocity video being put out by the Ukrainians. There's a lot of this stuff coming out.

https://tinyurl.com/2j48k9ek

The UN claims that since the start of the war there have been roughly 1,400 civilian deaths in Ukraine. In the first 8 weeks of the war in Iraq there far more civilian deaths.

Civilians die in wars. It's just that everyone has a cell phone camera now.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (ZLI7S)

236 And Biden getting ready to make sure boys can continue to beat up girls:

https://tinyurl.com/yf6m5x36

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (lgeFv)

237 Wouldn't a gourmand nod to Weasel involve Spaghettios?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 04, 2022

***
Hmmm! Now you've got me thinking. Thursday has traditionally been Pasta Night at Chez Wolfus, but I've got some ravioli in the cabinet. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (txdEq)

238 "Well that response is about part for the course for coverage of Ukraine. A short discussion about what is considered a legitimate combatant becomes... that.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (z5Vrg)"

I think the point was they are clearly Noncom's. These weren't MAM's or people actively engaged in The fight norwe're they actively supporting it.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (DFbpm)

239
Is Putin bad? Certainly.

Did he order civilians to be executed? Perhaps.

Do I care? Maybe. A little tiny bit.

Does it justify our meddling in this shitshow? No.

Can we benefit from meddling in this shitshow? No.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (SKVme)

240 Neither side of this conflict are good guys. The only possible good guys in this are the Ukranian people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

My feelings are that you are mostly right, but that a lot of the Uke corruption was driven by a desperate desire to make the US regime happy in order to get protection. They knew this was coming and also knew that their only hope of staying our of russian control was to do whatever the scumbags in DC asked. My point is that I am not as hard on the Uke corruption since a lot of that was driven by DC, and we know how bad TFG and FJB are.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (Xw7A2)

241 BL (really dont) M is a crime syndicate.

That's why it was *chef's kiss* when Clinton Inc took it over.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 01:08 PM (ZGrMX)

242
Nice Bod. Not nice face.

What he said

Posted by: Y5 at April 04, 2022 01:08 PM (yzUsu)

243 This busty blonde in her underwear doubts she can even imagine the depths of depravity that define the Biden family:
https://is.gd/toaVfx

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:05 PM (DU+/6)

MILF'ish.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

244 "Root Beer Rag." Hunt and peck... er.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 12:59 PM (s2VJv)

He played Hava Negila with 3 other men who dropped trou.

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 01:08 PM (ONvIw)

245 232 ----------------
This is a perfect definition of Autumnal. Did she, perchance, have Auburn Hair?
Posted by: Puddinhead

dishwater blonde, smoking hot. very typical east texas young lady. smart as a whip, tied up the north georgia redneck and route marched his ass home to mom & dad. made him an east texas redneck.
-----------------
Sweet. I've heard that east texas ladies like to climb your leg while dancing. That's nice too.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:08 PM (HTCOy)

246 This busty blonde in her underwear doubts she can even imagine the depths of depravity that define the Biden family:
https://is.gd/toaVfx
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:05 PM (DU+/6)

She and "depths of depravity" seem to go together.
In a good way.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2022 01:08 PM (axyOa)

247 221 This busty blonde in her underwear doubts she can even imagine the depths of depravity that define the Biden family:
https://is.gd/toaVfx
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:05 PM (DU+/6)

She means business.
Respect.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 01:08 PM (XvPQV)

248 238 "Well that response is about part for the course for coverage of Ukraine. A short discussion about what is considered a legitimate combatant becomes... that.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (z5Vrg)"

I think the point was they are clearly Noncom's. These weren't MAM's or people actively engaged in The fight norwe're they actively supporting it.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (DFbpm)

Did anyone say they were combatants?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:08 PM (z5Vrg)

249 >>for any evidence or patterns of how foreign adversaries were ~~seeking to~~ compromising prominent Americans or their families.

FIFY

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2022 01:08 PM (MmndN)

250 Zelensky's cause is NOT served by having them as allies, but he really has no choice, since they are guaranteed support, for now.

My memory is that Azov and its ilk were some of the best forces Ukraine had after our coup so we built the Uke military up *starting with* them.

That doesn't mean the Ukes are all NAZIs by any stretch...but there are more NAZIs in Ukraine then there were at the Freedom Convoy in Ontario and Trudeau used that as an excuse to ride people down and arrest them...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:08 PM (ESjRY)

251 Posted by: Bete at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (F9322)

Sorry! I've been through layoffs decades ago (and now they're back - thanks Joe Biden!). It sucks to be laid off and if you're not laid off you're always afraid that the next shoe will drop.

Posted by: 496 at April 04, 2022 01:08 PM (VJsqe)

252 But this was allegedly pre-election. The deep state was aligned pre-election, and it was aligned toward eliminating Trump and installing Biden. Posted by: Joe Mannix
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That does not mean that parts of the Deep State would not be interested in the laptop contents as part of the incessant jockeying for position in an increasingly fragmented junta.

Simply put, the big players in the Deep State agreed that Trump must go but don't necessarily support Biden's continued presence as POTUS as a consequence and leaking damaging stories out now that Biden's junta is floundering is the same as saying don't blame us--blame those other guys.

Posted by: whig at April 04, 2022 01:09 PM (Iq9dF)

253
The Hill:
Biden: Rupert Murdoch "most dangerous man in the world"

Excerpts from the book "This Will Not Pass," by journalists Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns obtained by CNN reveal Biden assessed Fox News "as one of the most destructive forces in the United States."
The book reportedly describes Fox News as a "torrent of anti-Biden programming, stoking skepticism about vaccines and disseminating wild conspiracy theories about the January 6 attack."

https://tinyurl.com/2p99zwzx

Posted by: redridinghood at April 04, 2022 01:09 PM (NpAcC)

254 This busty blonde in her underwear doubts she can even imagine the depths of depravity that define the Biden family:
https://is.gd/toaVfx

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022
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Nice Bod. Not nice face.
Posted by: Archer at April 04, 2022

***
Pretty, but a little heavy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 01:09 PM (txdEq)

255 > The Biden family is as dirty as they come. The dirt on Biden is more useful to the IC as leverage, than if it is exposed and widely held to be legitimate. Thus, the 50 former IC people calling it Russian disinfo.

This is not my world, not even a little bit. From what little I understand about that world, you have to think about everything as a tool. There's no good or evil, just things that are useful or not. If something is useful, then you have to determine if it's more useful for you or for someone else. If it's less useful to you than to someone else, how do you change that? Hide it? Twist it? Steal it? Eliminate it?

Example: You find out your laptop is bugged. That's a tool. Now you decide whether to twist it or to eliminate it. It could be more useful to start planting false info than to eliminate the bug.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2022 01:09 PM (NahKu)

256 I think chaos, confusion and control is the goal. They want you to believe them as often as possible because without that trust, they are severely weakened.

The knowledge that practically nothing is what it seems is empowering, and will hopefully lead people to turn to the Truth. And well there's only one place for that.
Posted by: ...

This is very true, but I want to add that for people who have rejected God, their only comfort comes from putting blind faith in "the experts" or showing virtue by supporting "the current thing."

Some disengage, some engage with blind faith in the regime which is harming them

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 04, 2022 01:09 PM (Xw7A2)

257 Seriously do people not know anything about war? We shot a bunch of militia members in Iraq/'Stan and there is nothing unethical about it.

The actual ethical debate here is when the militia members count as lawful combatants or not which has been debated since the Franco-Prussian war.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (ESjRY)

Clearly the British were guilty of War Crimes, for firing at American Minute Men!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2022 01:09 PM (oHd/0)

258 She looks like she's letting a huge fart.

Posted by: wth at April 04, 2022 01:09 PM (v0R5T)

259 198 *tries playing piano with dick*
Posted by: Drunk Billy Joel at April 04, 2022 12:53 PM (gkoWb)

"Root Beer Rag." Hunt and peck... er.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 12:59 PM (s2VJv)

"Chopstick."
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

Hey thats my act!

Posted by: Keith Moon at April 04, 2022 01:10 PM (yrol0)

260 My feelings are that you are mostly right, but that a lot of the Uke corruption was driven by a desperate desire to make the US regime happy in order to get protection. They knew this was coming and also knew that their only hope of staying our of russian control was to do whatever the scumbags in DC asked. My point is that I am not as hard on the Uke corruption since a lot of that was driven by DC, and we know how bad TFG and FJB are.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (Xw7A2)
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A lot of truth here.
The fact is most Americans just do not understand how business gets done...legitimate business, in places like Central Europe, the Middle East or Asia. A little bakesh...or a lot. Whatever it takes to close the deal.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2022 01:10 PM (axyOa)

261 She looks like she's letting a huge fart.
Posted by: wth at April 04, 2022 01:09 PM (v0R5T)

You shouldn't tease garrett like that.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 01:10 PM (Zz0t1)

262 Pole dancers dig them some Klezmer.

Posted by: klaftern at April 04, 2022 01:11 PM (taPSh)

263 This is a very interesting thread describing some of the historical issues between Russia and Ukraine from a Russian perspective. The killing and anger goes back a long ways and while not excusing actions it certainly does put a different perspective on things than the constant Zelensky love and Ukrainian flag waving of our media.

https://nitter.net/i/status/1509234758777196545

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 01:11 PM (ZLI7S)

264 To my mind the utter lack of clarity in Ukraine right now is another good reason why the USA and NATO should stay out of it, and let the Ukrainian people determine their own destiny. But none of this would be happening now if Obummer and friends hadn't supported regime change in Ukraine back in 2014. I hope they got good return on their blood money.

Posted by: exdem13 at April 04, 2022 01:12 PM (W+kMI)

265
Denninger had a fraudulent charge on one his credit cards a few days ago. He said they caught it, alerted him, and he got a new number/card. He didn't think much of it, until that Amazon thing.

The same card was stored with Amazon, and now he thinks that's where the card data was stolen.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at April 04, 2022 01:13 PM (Mzdiz)

266 So that I can keep score here....

Biden blowing up some random 'Stanis, because other 'Stanis blew up Americans - with a high degree of certainly they had nothing to do with it is...ok...Putin is a war criminal because civilians died when he went to war Ukraine? Is that right?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:13 PM (ESjRY)

267 Palestinians accuse Israel of warcrimes every day , ten times a day. And they always have "proof."

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2022 01:13 PM (FKphP)

268 To get that means Amazon is utterly compromised, someone running capturing password transmissions over the wire.

Yes, I got a notification as well and had to go through several steps to confirm my login. Changing PW now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:13 PM (KZzsI)

269 And keep in mind the Uke army has been shelling cities in the Russian enclaves off and on since 2014.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:14 PM (ESjRY)

270 Before you all let your cynical freak flags fly, remember, Swallwell and Feinstein both had to relinquish their seats over concerns they may have been compromised through their close encounters with foreign adversaries.

Wait...they're still...no, that can't be right.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 04, 2022 01:14 PM (KbCG3)

271 But none of this would be happening now if Obummer and friends hadn't supported regime change in Ukraine back in 2014. I hope they got good return on their blood money.

Ukraine is a Kalorama klient state. Obama should handle their defense, not the US government. He could send Michael naked and scare the crap out of Putin.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 01:14 PM (ZGrMX)

272 *Gestures Hypnotically*

"These are not the illegal deals with ChiCom spies that enriched Joe Biden when he was VP that you are looking for . . . "

-- Obama Wan Kenobi, Jedi Master of the Farce

*trips over flowing robes, faceplants in giant pile of Bantha shit*

Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2022 01:14 PM (JGgz0)

273 "Did anyone say they were combatants?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:08 PM (z5Vrg)"

Read up thread. That's not directed at you specifically. I don't believe anyone. It I do believe my own eyes and experiences. There is no reason to believe this massacre was a staged and the timeline of occupation plus recent survivors stories all Point to the Russians. Now I think there is enough bullshit on both sides to fill an ocean. But that's the nature of war. Plus I don't care what Russias casus belli was. But it doesn't justify both the invasion of an independent nation, shelling civilians and trampling every rule of war there is.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 01:14 PM (DFbpm)

274 >>That doesn't mean the Ukes are all NAZIs by any stretch...but there are more NAZIs in Ukraine then there were at the Freedom Convoy in Ontario and Trudeau used that as an excuse to ride people down and arrest them...

Interestingly enough it has been reported that some of the white nationalists here in the US have traveled to Ukraine to receive training from the Azov Battalion.

A couple years ago the media was hammering them as Nazis and now they have become Zelensky's angels and the protectors of Ukraine.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 01:14 PM (ZLI7S)

275 My feelings are that you are mostly right, but that a lot of the Uke corruption was driven by a desperate desire to make the US regime happy in order to get protection. They knew this was coming and also knew that their only hope of staying our of russian control was to do whatever the scumbags in DC asked. My point is that I am not as hard on the Uke corruption since a lot of that was driven by DC, and we know how bad TFG and FJB are.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 04, 2022 01:07 PM (Xw7A2)
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Protection and billions and billions, but mostly billions for the oligarchs. The corruption was not a "please save me", IMO. It was elites in the US and elites in Ukraine enriching themselves at the expense of their peoples.

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 01:15 PM (ONvIw)

276 Black Lives Matter Secretly Bought a $6 Million House
Allies and critics alike have questioned where the organization's money has gone.

It's far from a box, with more than 6,500 square feet, more than half a dozen bedrooms and bathrooms, several fireplaces, a soundstage, a pool and bungalow, and parking for more than 20 cars, according to real-estate listings. The California property was purchased for nearly $6 million in cash in October 2020 with money that had been donated to BLMGNF.

Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 01:15 PM (RHGPo)

277 Wut?

Posted by: Human Chemical Toilet at April 04, 2022 01:15 PM (W7Wi6)

278 In the last mostly free election the Ukes had - back in 2010 - the party that won, which represented the eastern parts of the country, wanted to balance between Russia and Europe.

Apparently after our coup though only European leaning parties are allowed.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:16 PM (ESjRY)

279 Biden blowing up some random 'Stanis, because other 'Stanis blew up Americans - with a high degree of certainly they had nothing to do with it is...ok...Putin is a war criminal because civilians died when he went to war Ukraine? Is that right?

Posted by: 18-1

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Shut up.

Also don't mention that we flew over an ocean in order to invade and occupy Iraq because WMDs, and Russia has our bioweapons labs right next door.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:16 PM (jZJe9)

280 A couple years ago the media was hammering them as Nazis and now they have become Zelensky's angels and the protectors of Ukraine.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 01:14 PM (ZLI7S)

It's a tragedy. When I saw Azov whitewashed in Tablet, I was sickened.

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 01:16 PM (ONvIw)

281 Today, if any agency of the government asked me for information about any prominent Democrat, I would assume they were planning some sort of sting operation on me and do my very best Sergeant Schultz impersonation.

Posted by: JB1000 at April 04, 2022 01:16 PM (w6PQE)

282
-- Obama Wan Kenobi, Jedi Master of the Farce

*trips over flowing robes, faceplants in giant pile of Bantha shit*
Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2022

***
Did anybody ever publish a Bored of the Rings/Doon-style parody of Star Wars? A book, I mean, not the "Hardware Wars" short film (which, if you haven't seen it, is hilarious).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 01:16 PM (txdEq)

283 263 This is a very interesting thread describing some of the historical issues between Russia and Ukraine from a Russian perspective. The killing and anger goes back a long ways and while not excusing actions it certainly does put a different perspective on things than the constant Zelensky love and Ukrainian flag waving of our media.

https://nitter.net/i/status/1509234758777196545
Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 01:11 PM (ZLI7S)

That's not so much a historical grievance (as Ukraine ultimately fought more for the Reds than the other way around) as a very antagonistic choice of national mythos by modern Ukraine. The Cossack thing(mentioned in their national anthem) was better and more flexible.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:17 PM (z5Vrg)

284 > He said he got a warning last night that someone had attempted to log on to his Amazon account with his password from a foreign IP location. His password is a very long random string.

Does he re-use passwords? A VERY common attack happens just after any website or service is compromised. Once the usernames and passwords get out, the baddies then use those username and password combinations on Amazon, all major banks, etc to try to get in.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2022 01:17 PM (NahKu)

285 Wow! I sure hope this three-letter agency can analyze the contents in time for the 2020 election!!

Posted by: Coki at April 04, 2022 01:17 PM (oUbDu)

286 271 But none of this would be happening now if Obummer and friends hadn't supported regime change in Ukraine back in 2014. I hope they got good return on their blood money.
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Not just Ukraine. Add Georgia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria. Victoria Nuland was very busy growing democracy and liberty for a price.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:17 PM (HTCOy)

287 But it doesn't justify both the invasion of an independent nation, shelling civilians and trampling every rule of war there is.

Should I point you to the contents of Democrat Underground or Daily Kos from 2003-2008 making the same point you are here?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:17 PM (ESjRY)

288 Civilians should have evacuated first thing, more that a month ago, but Zelenskyys government preferred to carry on a propaganda war, held civilians back and instructed them on use of Molotov cocktails, taught grandmas to shoot Aks. Looked good on twitter.

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2022 01:17 PM (FKphP)

289 "Election".

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at April 04, 2022 01:18 PM (W7Wi6)

290 Was ist das "Kalorama", bitte?

Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2022 01:18 PM (JGgz0)

291 This is not my world, not even a little bit.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2022 01:09 PM (NahKu)

Not mine either. And it takes a great bit of understanding to see how some would act in ways that seem counterproductive to normal people or deceptively useful. I think you have it sorted pretty well. I had a professor once who made a statement that stuck with me.

To protect your client from fraud, you need to be able to think up ways to perpetrate a fraud.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:18 PM (SH2Zi)

292 One of the more perplexing parts of the war is that apparently now shelling a city where enemy combatants are entrenched is...a war crime?

Yeah. For me the standards for a war crime have to be pretty high because by definition war is a hellish evil that causes people to die and suffer. Shelling a building with civilians in it because your opponent is using it as a HQ and firing rockets from it: not a war crime. Rounding up civilians and killing them en mass: war crime.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:18 PM (KZzsI)

293 ...To get that means Amazon is utterly compromised, someone running capturing password transmissions over the wire.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at April 04, 2022 12:58 PM (Mzdiz)
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If that is true - and I'll need more than Denninger's word for it - then people had better hope they're just trying to extort Amazon. Because if they have all that, they probably went and took transaction history and identity information, too. If you've ever bought something subversive or naughty from Amazon, say hello to blackmail. And if it hit the AWS side of the business, then all of the AWS-hosted cloud applications might be vulnerable, too, which would be wildly worse than just an Amazon compromise.

I very much hope he's wrong.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:18 PM (DU+/6)

294 "Should I point you to the contents of Democrat Underground or Daily Kos from 2003-2008 making the same point you are here?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:17 PM (ESjRY)"

What's your fucking point? Do you have one?

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 01:19 PM (DFbpm)

295
Azov this. Putin that. Whatever.

It's a couple of Slav kleptocrats hammering it out over black earth and natgas. What else do you expect?

I'm beyond tired of hearing about it, I'm beyond tired of our involvement in this, and I'm beyond tired of being expected to give a fuck.

Not our circus, not our monkeys. And what's more: if you actually care about this, you should be *even more* committed to keeping the US out of it than I am.

WE WILL ONLY MAKE THIS WORSE LIKE ALWAYS.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 01:19 PM (SKVme)

296 I realize this was a lazy journalist so may well be not the full quote but "THE president may be compromised?" Not "the potential president?" Sounds like the the 3 letter agency knew the fix was in for Joe Bribem and was confident that the cheat would be successful.

Why can't we have UN observers and purple ink for voting like the cool 3rd world shitholes?

Posted by: PaleRider, simply irredeemable at April 04, 2022 01:19 PM (3cGpq)

297
What's your fucking point? Do you have one?

Did you agree with them then?

Because you agree with them now.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:19 PM (ESjRY)

298
Should I point you to the contents of Democrat Underground or Daily Kos from 2003-2008 making the same point you are here?

Technically accurate in some ways, but not the same. We had reasonably good justification (that convinced the UN) to invade Iraq. Russia does not have that to invade Ukraine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:20 PM (KZzsI)

299 Cumulus Media fired Amber Athey for joking that Kamala's brown SOTU suit looked like a UPS uniform.

https://bit.ly/3KbUfKn

Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2022 01:20 PM (NahKu)

300 One of the more perplexing parts of the war is that apparently now shelling a city where enemy combatants are entrenched is...a war crime?

Apparently anyone other than US FedGov going to war is a war crime.

Posted by: Methos at April 04, 2022 01:20 PM (kOpft)

301 Palestinians accuse Israel of warcrimes every day , ten times a day. And they always have "proof."

Dave Reboi and others have noted that Zelensky has been following the Palestinian propaganda playbook to a "T". It works, except when someone's lucky enough to film the "behind the scenes" of Pallywood.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM (ZGrMX)

302 There is no reason to believe this massacre was a staged and the timeline of occupation plus recent survivors stories all Point to the Russians. Now I think there is enough bullshit on both sides to fill an ocean. But that's the nature of war. Plus I don't care what Russias casus belli was. But it doesn't justify both the invasion of an independent nation, shelling civilians and trampling every rule of war there is.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 01:14 PM (DFbpm)

I think it's unlikely that Russia is actively pursuing a policy of genocide. There's atrocity in war but that's not necessarily indicative of a crime by the Russian government as a whole. I'm not going to rush to assert what has or has not occurred as it'll be some time before a lot of this is cleared up.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM (z5Vrg)

303 If you've ever bought something subversive or naughty from Amazon, say hello to blackmail.

I can't imagine what Amazon would have that would make you susceptible to blackmail these days.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM (KZzsI)

304
Apparently anyone other than US FedGov going to war is a war crime.
Posted by: Methos at April 04, 2022 01:20 PM (kOpft)

This is the essence of our foreign policy.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM (z5Vrg)

305 Civilians should have evacuated first thing, more that a month ago, but Zelenskyys government preferred to carry on a propaganda war, held civilians back and instructed them on use of Molotov cocktails, taught grandmas to shoot AKs. Looked good on twitter.

Posted by: runner

If this was a "normal" war, the person (Zelenskyyyyyyy) who armed civilians and put them in harm's way in front of an invasion force would be considered the "war criminal", but since this is a propaganda war and Putin = Satan, that's not happening here.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM (JGgz0)

306 I could see Biden activating the Draft. I really could.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM (HTCOy)

307
Denninger is pretty sophisticated. He uses a password safe, and used long random string passwords for all such accounts he has, he says.

He thinks Amazon's backend security has been pwned.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at April 04, 2022 01:22 PM (Mzdiz)

308 Wall Street had an article about Zelenskyys rejection of negotiations about Ukrains neutral status during Munich conference this winter.

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2022 01:22 PM (FKphP)

309 Dave Reboi and others have noted that Zelensky has been following the Palestinian propaganda playbook to a "T".

Yep, and he's been using Pally tactics: put a sniper in a school, hide artillery in an apartment courtyard, then attack the Russians for fighting back.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:22 PM (KZzsI)

310 A couple years ago the media was hammering them as Nazis and now they have become Zelensky's angels and the protectors of Ukraine.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 01:14 PM (ZLI7S)

A lot of the Russians killed by the Third Reich were bad. So were many of the French, out and out Communists. That still didn't make the Third Reich the side to champion.

Again, I'm not advocating for the US to enter the war, I want us to stay out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 01:22 PM (trdmm)

311 Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind is right up there with Hardware Wars.

Posted by: klaftern at April 04, 2022 01:22 PM (taPSh)

312 I could see Biden activating the Draft. I really could.

I could see him thinking its a great idea personally and trying it but being stopped by the others in his administration as instant political suicide.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

313 Yeah. For me the standards for a war crime have to be pretty high because by definition war is a hellish evil that causes people to die and suffer. Shelling a building with civilians in it because your opponent is using it as a HQ and firing rockets from it: not a war crime. Rounding up civilians and killing them en mass: war crime.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:18 PM (KZzsI)

Yup.
The war crime is using the building with civilians in it as a HQ.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2022 01:23 PM (axyOa)

314 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:05 PM (DU+/6)

Having a pose while she waits for the next client? I hope she's not dead now or strung out on drugs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:23 PM (GezNK)

315 >>Not just Ukraine. Add Georgia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria. Victoria Nuland was very busy growing democracy and liberty for a price.

Don't forget Kazakhstan where Hunter was also getting paid, we supported a very large bio lab and Putin just helped put down a color revolution there in February. Same players right down to Biden and Kerry and their corrupt children.

Before we demand Putin be brought up on charges I want out corrupt government brought up on charges.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 01:23 PM (ZLI7S)

316 I could see Biden activating the Draft. I really could.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM (HTCOy)

Include women.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2022 01:23 PM (axyOa)

317 "Did you agree with them then?

Because you agree with them now.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:19 PM (ESjRY)"

Look dickhead. If you're trying to align me with the Democrats, go fuck your self. I made my statement, you want to refute it with your deep knowledge of events, try it. Make an actual point instead of casting aspersions or launching ad hominems as means of trying to hide your knowledge (and obviously logic) deficit.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 01:24 PM (DFbpm)

318 Again, I'm not advocating for the US to enter the war, I want us to stay out.

I dunno one way or another I just know that condemning Russia as Nazis then excusing actual Ukranian Nazis is a very strange approach.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:24 PM (KZzsI)

319 175 This is the most-reported, most lied about war ever.
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This is false. All wars are heavily reported and full of lies. It just is.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:00 PM (HTCOy)

And now, we finally find the true truth.

Posted by: Nova local at April 04, 2022 01:24 PM (exHjb)

320 316 I could see Biden activating the Draft. I really could.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM (HTCOy)

Include women.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2022 01:23 PM (axyOa)

=========

Who knows what a woman actually is? Just draft everybody.

Except the trannies. They're the only women.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:24 PM (LvTSG)

321 306 I could see Biden activating the Draft. I really could.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM (HTCOy)

That would cool war ardor super expresso. Can you see the leftist suburban kiddies heading off to protect Biden's Ukrainian money and his oligarch buddies? Do it, Biden

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 01:24 PM (ONvIw)

322 I could see him thinking its a great idea personally and trying it but being stopped by the others in his administration as instant political suicide.
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I await the pitting of WH fractions against one another soon. Its how Biden stays in office and Hunter stays out of jail.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:24 PM (HTCOy)

323 "... But it doesn't justify both the invasion of an independent nation, shelling civilians and trampling every rule of war there is.."
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Meh. We've got enough problems at home to worry about. Much more important than Russia's war crimes. Just add Ukraine to the rest of Hollyweirds' other causes, Free Tibet, POC representation, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at April 04, 2022 01:24 PM (dbdgv)

324 Did anybody ever publish a Bored of the Rings/Doon-style parody of Star Wars? A book, I mean, not the "Hardware Wars" short film (which, if you haven't seen it, is hilarious).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 01:16 PM (txdEq)

There was a nod to HW wars in one of 7-9. I forget which. A huge battleship shaped iron pressing some First Order uniforms or somesuch.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:25 PM (SH2Zi)

325 Biden could re-institute the draft, screaming through the pillow firmly mounted on his face.

Posted by: klaftern at April 04, 2022 01:25 PM (taPSh)

326 >> And if it hit the AWS side of the business, then all of the AWS-hosted cloud applications might be vulnerable, too,

That's the point he was making, and the reason he thinks they'll try to keep this quiet.

He said he's going do a Ticker (which will be public without login needed soon on this). If you're a member of his forum, you can read it in the Bar section.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at April 04, 2022 01:25 PM (Mzdiz)

327 323 "... But it doesn't justify both the invasion of an independent nation, shelling civilians and trampling every rule of war there is.."
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Meh. We've got enough problems at home to worry about. Much more important than Russia's war crimes. Just add Ukraine to the rest of Hollyweirds' other causes, Free Tibet, POC representation, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at April 04, 2022 01:24 PM (dbdgv)

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We are not the world's police. Germany has a greater claim to dealing with this than we do. Send their military to push Russia back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:25 PM (LvTSG)

328 318
I dunno one way or another I just know that condemning Russia as Nazis then excusing actual Ukranian Nazis is a very strange approach.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:24 PM (KZzsI)

Communists do it all the time. Everyone against them is a fascist, even other communists. Also it's fine to work with Nazis to take over Poland.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:25 PM (z5Vrg)

329 Nope, nada, nothing ziltch. Just some of grannies fave receipe's and some wedding invitations. Nothing to see here, move along.

JFC. HFS !!!!

Posted by: Ray at April 04, 2022 01:25 PM (sw3xv)

330 I can't imagine what Amazon would have that would make you susceptible to blackmail these days.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM

The Hope Solo drainage culvert, Prime members get it free, same price as in town.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:25 PM (GwxCX)

331 If Ukraine keeps holding back Russia, Russia takes what they can get and calls it quits, and China thinks twice about a similar adventure in Taiwan. WWIII averted. Nothing else matters.

Posted by: borderline at April 04, 2022 01:25 PM (XZ6f8)

332 If you've ever bought something subversive or naughty from Amazon, say hello to blackmail.

The only thing I've bought is books-none of which were porn-which is probably pretty mild nowadays, but I expect if someone really wanted to go after a person they could plant stuff in their records.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:25 PM (GezNK)

333 If this was a "normal" war, the person (Zelenskyyyyyyy) who armed civilians and put them in harm's way in front of an invasion force would be considered the "war criminal", but since this is a propaganda war and Putin = Satan, that's not happening here.
Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM (JGgz0)

in 1939, should Churchill have been considered a "War Criminal" for organizing a Home Guard to oppose the threatened nazi invasion? It was mostly old men and young boys.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 01:25 PM (trdmm)

334 I dunno one way or another I just know that condemning Russia as Nazis then excusing actual Ukranian Nazis is a very strange approach.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:24 PM (KZzsI)

Totally fucking with our minds and loyalties to protect...money.

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 01:26 PM (ONvIw)

335 That article is important. I think its a message to Uranian side.

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2022 01:26 PM (FKphP)

336 Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2022 01:20 PM (NahKu)

looks like her firing has more to do with her opinions of regendering children

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2022 01:26 PM (DJFLF)

337 It's

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2022 01:26 PM (FKphP)

338 This busty blonde in her underwear doubts she can even imagine the depths of depravity that define the Biden family:
https://is.gd/toaVfx

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Nice Bod. Not nice face.
Posted by: Archer

Pretty, but a little heavy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Heavy? No fat rolls, just the one chin, visible collar bone, no bat wings, no fupa, has a flat tummy. She's no cheeseburger-deprived waif, but she's not heavy IRL.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 04, 2022 01:26 PM (4I/2K)

339 I would encourage people jumping on the FNM bandwagon that everything is now a "war crime" think very, very carefully about that that actually means.

The west spent a lot of effort trying to identify things that go beyond the normal cruelty of war as specific war crimes so as to try and get people to not engage in them.

But if every f*cking thing you do in a war is now a "war crime" from laying mines, to using artillery, to shooting back at snipers, no one will care. And we'll be back to real massacres and war crimes.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:26 PM (ESjRY)

340 323 "... But it doesn't justify both the invasion of an independent nation, shelling civilians and trampling every rule of war there is.."
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Meh, it was mostly peaceful shelling of civilians.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:26 PM (HTCOy)

341 In any case, Putin could be personally guilty of gassing civilians in a concentration camp but he's not going to be jailed or touched for any war crimes until Russia gives him up and that's not happening.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:26 PM (KZzsI)

342
We are not the world's police. Germany has a greater claim to dealing with this than we do. Send their military to push Russia back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:25 PM

Well, the third time is a charm.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:26 PM (GwxCX)

343 "I dunno. It seems the Russians shot old people on bicycles collecting water, and old woman in her back yard, pretty sure I saw a child, people of all ages on mass graves, people shopping for food.

But yeah, let's go on defending that."

Why not? We defending us doing the same in Vietnam

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at April 04, 2022 01:27 PM (5HBd1)

344
Include women.

The fuck are those ?

Posted by: Your new SC Justice at April 04, 2022 01:27 PM (K1yn3)

345 We are not the world's police. Germany has a greater claim to dealing with this than we do. Send their military to push Russia back.
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I think we agree on that point. Maybe misread my meaning?

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at April 04, 2022 01:27 PM (dbdgv)

346 Uhm, The Biden Criminal Organization doesn't need analysis, it needs indictments.

The clown prince Hunter had crooked and corrupt dealings with Ukraine, Russia and f**king China all setup and made possible by Pappa Meat Puppet.

I mean it is incredible what this despicable family has been allowed to get away with, but, there it is.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 01:27 PM (QGxYa)

347 342
We are not the world's police. Germany has a greater claim to dealing with this than we do. Send their military to push Russia back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:25 PM

Well, the third time is a charm.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:26 PM (GwxCX)

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Their one functioning helicopter will team up with the Ghost of Kiev to kill Putin personally.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:27 PM (LvTSG)

348 This is the most-reported, most lied about war ever.
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This is false. All wars are heavily reported and full of lies. It just is.

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Yes, truth is the first casualty.... or something like that.

Posted by: runner at April 04, 2022 01:27 PM (FKphP)

349 Poland's national conservative prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecky, has publicly upbraided the French president, Emmanuel Macron, over his negotiations with Vladimir Putin, insisting they have achieved nothing.

"President Macron, how many times have you negotiated with Putin and what have you achieved?" the Polish leader demanded, referring to the Frenchman's multiple calls with the Russian president since his invasion of Ukraine began.

"We do not discuss, we do not negotiate with criminals. Criminals have to be fought against," Morawiecki went on.

"Nobody negotiated with Hitler. You would negotiate with Hitler, with Stalin, with Pol Pot afterwards?"

Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 01:27 PM (RHGPo)

350 345 We are not the world's police. Germany has a greater claim to dealing with this than we do. Send their military to push Russia back.
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I think we agree on that point. Maybe misread my meaning?
Posted by: Saxinis Kion at April 04, 2022 01:27 PM (dbdgv)

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I was adding to your point, not countering it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:27 PM (LvTSG)

351 Actually, they didn't consider it a war crime when the Ukes were talking about castrating or kneecapping Russian soldiers. I don't believe any of it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at April 04, 2022 01:28 PM (5HBd1)

352 I do wonder what Reagan would do in Ukraine. I also don't think Trump would put up with this shit either. But we have President Pedo Poopy Pants at the helm. He's the Capitan Hazlewood of the world.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:28 PM (GwxCX)

353 WTF does being a "Nazi" really mean in Ukraine? Are they building gas chambers? Are they planning on invading Poland? I think they probably like swastikas because in their world that means anti-communist.

Posted by: borderline at April 04, 2022 01:28 PM (ckrhB)

354 Germany has a greater claim to dealing with this than we do. Send their military to push Russia back.
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By design, the German military cannot support itself outside of Germany. Everyone knows that. Further, today's Germans aren't the Germans our fathers fought. More like Cheese Danish these days.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:28 PM (HTCOy)

355 353 WTF does being a "Nazi" really mean in Ukraine? Are they building gas chambers? Are they planning on invading Poland? I think they probably like swastikas because in their world that means anti-communist.
Posted by: borderline at April 04, 2022 01:28 PM (ckrhB)

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Maybe they just want single payer healthcare.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:28 PM (LvTSG)

356 337 It's
Posted by: runner at April 04, 2022 01:26 PM (FKphP)

Just set off "The Liberty Bell March" in my head.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM (dfRN6)

357 If you're trying to align me with the Democrats, go fuck your self.

You got on the cuck boat all by yourself, so fly your freak flag proud.

Maybe you can get an internship at Daily Kos? If they are still around of course...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM (ESjRY)

358 in 1939, should Churchill have been considered a "War Criminal" for organizing a Home Guard to oppose the threatened nazi invasion? It was mostly old men and young boys.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 01:25 PM (trdmm)

As Germans were not on the streets of London, no. Handing molotov cocktails and rifles to civilians after you conscripted all Uke makes 18-65, yes. They should have been evacuated, like many Brit kids.

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM (ONvIw)

359 Apparently after our coup though only European leaning parties are allowed.

Only parties favored by DC?

That certainly sounds like Pelosi's definition of "democracy."

Posted by: Methos at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM (kOpft)

360 354 Germany has a greater claim to dealing with this than we do. Send their military to push Russia back.
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By design, the German military cannot support itself outside of Germany. Everyone knows that. Further, today's Germans aren't the Germans our fathers fought. More like Cheese Danish these days.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:28 PM (HTCOy)

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I know.

I think they should cut off their opiate to the masses (single payer healthcare) so they can fill the gap of the World Police that they so obviously wish for.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM (LvTSG)

361 Did anybody ever publish a Bored of the Rings/Doon-style parody of Star Wars? A book, I mean, not the "Hardware Wars" short film (which, if you haven't seen it, is hilarious).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Sadly, Harvard Lampoon has not done one. But I just saw on Kindle that there is a book called "FireForce", which is described as a "Star Wars Parody", so I'm going to check it out and I'll report back.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM (JGgz0)

362 This busty blonde in her underwear doubts she can even imagine the depths of depravity that define the Biden family:
https://is.gd/toaVfx
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Nice Bod. Not nice face.
Posted by: Archer

Pretty, but a little heavy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Heavy? No fat rolls, just the one chin, visible collar bone, no bat wings, no fupa, has a flat tummy. She's no cheeseburger-deprived waif, but she's not heavy IRL.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 04, 2022 01:26 PM (4I/2K)
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Sheesh you guys. OK. Send her to me. I'll take one for the team.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM (axyOa)

363 I can't imagine what Amazon would have that would make you susceptible to blackmail these days.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM
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Just because deviance has been normalized in the macro doesn't mean it's been normalized in the micro. If you bought a butt plug off Amazon, that doesn't matter at the macro scale. "John Doe, from Phoenix, bought a butt plug on July 3rd" doesn't matter.

It might matter on the micro scale, though - like if your wife or boss finds out about it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM (DU+/6)

364 Biden's million soy army

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 01:30 PM (t3/qz)

365 PLEASE GIVE US LAPTOP WE WON'T LOSE IT THAT'S UNPOSSIBLE.

ALSO, YOUR WHERABOUTS ON 1/6/21 AND DO YOU SUPPORT ALL CURRENT THINGS?

Posted by: Tasty Burger at April 04, 2022 01:30 PM (N/oGZ)

366 353 WTF does being a "Nazi" really mean in Ukraine? Are they building gas chambers? Are they planning on invading Poland? I think they probably like swastikas because in their world that means anti-communist.
Posted by: borderline at April 04, 2022 01:28 PM (ckrhB)

Unclear. It's not clear what the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis believe it stands for, and Russia has not particularly made clear what de-Nazification entails(we de-Nazified Germany). Worth noting that de-Nazification doesn't really seem to be a big part of peace talks so it may be largely irrelevant finger-pointing.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:30 PM (z5Vrg)

367 363 It might matter on the micro scale, though - like if your wife or boss finds out about it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM (DU+/6)

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Micro scale butt plugs?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:30 PM (LvTSG)

368 Actually, they didn't consider it a war crime when the Ukes were talking about castrating or kneecapping Russian soldiers. I don't believe any of it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at April 04, 2022 01:28 PM

What would you do to soldiers who were on your street, in your country, in your house? Serious question. I sure as fuck wouldn't give them chocolate and a smoke. If they invaded my country they should pray that's all that happens to them.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:30 PM (GwxCX)

369 Does anyone remember the fake Palestine videos? If the Pallys can fake massacres with their stone-age technology, I'd think the Ukrainians or Russians could do the same.

I'm a bit more concerned with the war-zones in USA cities.

Posted by: Saxinis Kion at April 04, 2022 01:30 PM (dbdgv)

370 "[...] whether there were any patterns about how foreign adversaries were seeking to compromise prominent Americans."

If these lavishly funded dimwits can root around in my finances without my knowledge or approval why can't they do the same to Brandon?

Posted by: aelfheld at April 04, 2022 01:30 PM (Zy9Yy)

371 "I think it's unlikely that Russia is actively pursuing a policy of genocide. There's atrocity in war but that's not necessarily indicative of a crime by the Russian government as a whole. I'm not going to rush to assert what has or has not occurred as it'll be some time before a lot of this is cleared up.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM (z5Vrg)"

Policy? No. There rarely is and if so it is usually not spoken. It there is enough of an imprimatur given to know it can be done with a certain amount of cover. That is until the heat is on and people start disappearing. War is really hell, there is no doubt. There is a lot of emotion. Watching you're friends die next to you and being involved I. The ebb and flow of battle can take a toll. It can break you. Cause you to do the most heinous things. That's where discipline and self control kick in. With this Russian army, some of the contractors they're using and some of the proxies reportedly in country I can see this happening. It would not be the first time.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 01:30 PM (DFbpm)

372 Include women.

The fuck are those ?
Posted by: Your new SC Justice at April 04, 2022 01:27 PM (K1yn3)

Do we look like biologists?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2022 01:31 PM (axyOa)

373 @339

>>But if every f*cking thing you do in a war is now a "war crime"

The Junta blew up an Afghani along with children who were delivering water, they literally had no idea who they were droning, but they had to do something, anything after they straight up got 13 Marines murdered.

So what Russia has allegedly done is no worse than that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 01:31 PM (QGxYa)

374 312 I could see Biden activating the Draft. I really could.

I could see him thinking its a great idea personally and trying it but being stopped by the others in his administration as instant political suicide.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

Word is that recruitment goals are not even close to being met, and its affecting the manning of units so bad, they are looking to lower force structures.

Add in really low re-enlistment numbers... so low you can't even find them online anymore.... and we've got a problem.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2022 01:31 PM (oHd/0)

375 Dave Reboi and others have noted that Zelensky has been following the Palestinian propaganda playbook to a "T".

Yep, and he's been using Pally tactics: put a sniper in a school, hide artillery in an apartment courtyard, then attack the Russians for fighting back.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:22 PM (KZzsI)

As much as we may dislike a tactic, it is a valid tactic against a numerically and materially superior combatant.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:31 PM (SH2Zi)

376
I know.

I think they should cut off their opiate to the masses (single payer healthcare) so they can fill the gap of the World Police that they so obviously wish for.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM (LvTSG)

They've had single-payer since Bismarck. Didn't stop them from WWI and WWII.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:31 PM (z5Vrg)

377 There is no reason to believe this massacre was a staged and the timeline of occupation plus recent survivors stories all Point to the Russians. Now I think there is enough bullshit on both sides to fill an ocean. But that's the nature of war. Plus I don't care what Russias casus belli was. But it doesn't justify both the invasion of an independent nation, shelling civilians and trampling every rule of war there is.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 01:14 PM (DFbpm)

I think it's unlikely that Russia is actively pursuing a policy of genocide. There's atrocity in war but that's not necessarily indicative of a crime by the Russian government as a whole. I'm not going to rush to assert what has or has not occurred as it'll be some time before a lot of this is cleared up.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM (z5Vrg)
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Poorly led, poorly supplied, hated by the people they were told they were liberating from Naziism? Then told they failed and need to retreat? I can see discipline breaking down.
Alternatively, this is the same Russian Army that raped and slaughtered its way across Germany 75 years ago.

Posted by: rd at April 04, 2022 01:31 PM (Z32m1)

378 Cumulus Media fired Amber Athey for joking that Kamala's brown SOTU suit looked like a UPS uniform.

https://bit.ly/3KbUfKn
Posted by: bonhomme at April 04, 2022 01:20 PM (NahKu)

And she's not wrong.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

379 376
They've had single-payer since Bismarck. Didn't stop them from WWI and WWII.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:31 PM (z5Vrg)

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I have a feeling that the cost structure has changed over the last 100 years.

Lots more old people compared to young people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:31 PM (LvTSG)

380 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM (DU+/6)

I try to buy as little as possible from Amazon and if I wanted a butt plug (which I don't) I wouldn't buy it from Amazon. I think Bezos is another evil man who wants to control the world-his ex wife is a woman who is not much better.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:32 PM (GezNK)

381 I'm beyond tired of hearing about it, I'm beyond tired of our involvement in this, and I'm beyond tired of being expected to give a fuck.

FAKE NEWS!

I drove by your house this a.m, I saw your "I Stand With Ukraine" lawn sign out front!

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2022 01:32 PM (DJFLF)

382 368 Actually, they didn't consider it a war crime when the Ukes were talking about castrating or kneecapping Russian soldiers. I don't believe any of it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at April 04, 2022 01:28 PM

What would you do to soldiers who were on your street, in your country, in your house? Serious question. I sure as fuck wouldn't give them chocolate and a smoke. If they invaded my country they should pray that's all that happens to them.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:30 PM (GwxCX)

You can't bloody well treat uniformed combatants like that and then turn around and expect fair treatment.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:32 PM (z5Vrg)

383 Cumulus Media fired Amber Athey for joking that Kamala's brown SOTU suit looked like a UPS uniform.

UPS was offended that people would think they hire employees as stupid as Kamala.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 01:32 PM (t3/qz)

384 I can assure you that Hunter will not be prosecuted

Posted by: extremely Reasonable DC Prosecutor at April 04, 2022 01:33 PM (us2H3)

385
To put it another way... Do you want Russia to go on a rampage of successful invasions that reconstitute its lost Empire, while its neighbors tremble, and its leaders preen over their conquests?

Because the surest way to make that happen is getting the US involved. We will - not maybe or possibly - but *will* make that happen.

The best thing you can ever do for any gang of terrorists or dictator is give them us as an opponent. They'll round out their twenty year slugfest with a major propaganda victory, a shitload of new money and equipment, and their flag flying over at least one new capital.

It is the American way of war.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 01:33 PM (SKVme)

386 OK so my post 381 is a delayed April Fool's joke.

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2022 01:33 PM (DJFLF)

387 It seems the Russians shot old people on bicycles collecting water, and old woman in her back yard, pretty sure I saw a child, people of all ages on mass graves, people shopping for food.

Again I am not saying none of this happened, only that you CANNOT TRUST that it happened simply because it has been reported by media that is trying its hardest to force you into a certain viewpoint.

The Russian media is reporting on alleged Ukranian atrocities as well, terrible stuff by their forces. I don't trust that either.

Gell-Mann Amnesia, do you understand the concept? We know we cannot trust the media. In this conflict we know it more than ever before, they keep reporting absolute nonsense and lies. Over and over the Ukranian accounts have been proven to be absolutely ludicrous, using video game footage and making stuff up.

I'm just saying: wait and see, don't buy it because you heard it or saw it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:33 PM (KZzsI)

388 I dunno one way or another I just know that condemning Russia as Nazis then excusing actual Ukranian Nazis is a very strange approach.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I mean, neither side are Nazis. Nazis were singular in what they did and I think it is stupid to compare.

One side, however, are something much worse - they are ruskies.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 04, 2022 01:33 PM (Xw7A2)

389 WTF does being a "Nazi" really mean in Ukraine?
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The same as Bernie Sanders' National Socialism. I was dissappointed that Trump and Sanders weren't the two candidates in 2016. Imagine a national election with two Nationalists debating? It would have been great. But the Wilsonian Progressives would never let that happen. Remember, they are the ones that are too big to fail.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:33 PM (HTCOy)

390 >>WTF does being a "Nazi" really mean in Ukraine?

Ukrainians probably know a hell of a lot more about what it means to be an actual Nazi than most Americans seeing as how there was a large number of them working with Hitler in WWII.

Peter Daszak, the head of the criminal organization known as Eco Health Alliance is the son of a former Ukrainian Nazi. It's not a foreign idea to Ukraine, a country that just a few years ago bestowed the honor of hero of Ukraine on Stepan Bandera.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 01:34 PM (ZLI7S)

391 I try to buy as little as possible from Amazon and if I wanted a butt plug (which I don't) I wouldn't buy it from Amazon. I think Bezos is another evil man who wants to control the world-his ex wife is a woman who is not much better.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:32 PM (GezNK)
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I don't disagree, Fen. The point I'm driving at is that there are a whole lot of people who use Amazon for everything. They wouldn't bat an eyelash at using them to deliver everything from kitty litter to sex toys. And if there has been a really wide compromise of their platforms, those people should hope that they're just going after Amazon and not looking to start a retail blackmail network.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:34 PM (DU+/6)

392

309 Dave Reboi and others have noted that Zelensky has been following the Palestinian propaganda playbook to a "T".

Yep, and he's been using Pally tactics: put a sniper in a school, hide artillery in an apartment courtyard, then attack the Russians for fighting back.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:22 PM (KZzsI)

So when Z shows me pics of dead old people, I am instantly suspicious about where they came from. According to grayzone, they kicked the moms out of the maternity hospital so that Azov could have the electricity and battery charging stations,, and food. They took the food.
It could be that both sides are lying, but sewing wings on Zman and the Azovs is delusional.

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 01:34 PM (ONvIw)

393 Armies are supposed to be party to the Geneva Convention. It protects soldiers on both sides.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at April 04, 2022 01:34 PM (5HBd1)

394 I could see Biden activating the Draft. I really could.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:21 PM (HTCOy)

Include women.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2022 01:23 PM (axyOa)

Women women? Or NCAA sports women?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 04, 2022 01:34 PM (n+4am)

395 364 Biden's million soy army

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 01:30 PM (t3/qz)

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"Discipline is the soul of an army." -- George Washington, 1757

"High heels are the sole of an army." -- Beijing Biden, 2021

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 01:34 PM (EPP+r)

396 One of the guys behind Azov battalion was Oleh Liashko.

He's been trying to get the Uke government to execute anyone who has obstructed the Uke military...since 2014.

Amusingly in 2015 he came out in favor of LGBT stuff (that's your CIA dollars at work).

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:34 PM (ESjRY)

397 Technically accurate in some ways, but not the same. We had reasonably good justification (that convinced the UN) to invade Iraq. Russia does not have that to invade Ukraine.

Zelemsky's claim he was told he could join NATO at any time, even before you consider the bioweapons labs and Azov, is sufficient, per the Monroe doctrine (as would be paraphrased from Russia's point of view).

Posted by: Methos at April 04, 2022 01:34 PM (kOpft)

398 I'm a bit more concerned with the war-zones in USA cities.

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You'd best remember to stay off the f*cking grass if you get close to federal property you pay taxes to maintain, citizen.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:34 PM (jZJe9)

399 383 Cumulus Media fired Amber Athey for joking that Kamala's brown SOTU suit looked like a UPS uniform.

UPS was offended that people would think they hire employees as stupid as Kamala.

There is a time for asking what brown can do for you.
and that time is every day.

Posted by: Busted Can of Biscuits at April 04, 2022 01:35 PM (K1yn3)

400 As much as we may dislike a tactic, it is a valid tactic against a numerically and materially superior combatant.

Its possibly useful tactically but that doesn't make it valid. Holding children hostage to try to stop an opponent might be useful, but its not valid. I know war is evil, but there are things you can do in war that go above and beyond what is right and proper and allowable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:35 PM (KZzsI)

401 Peter Daszak, the head of the criminal organization known as Eco Health Alliance is the son of a former Ukrainian Nazi. It's not a foreign idea to Ukraine, a country that just a few years ago bestowed the honor of hero of Ukraine on Stepan Bandera.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 01:34 PM (ZLI7S)

And Z-man is "cool" with Bandera hero worship. Not buying his sainthood, not one iota.

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 01:35 PM (ONvIw)

402 Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
-- Norman Schwarzkopf

Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 01:35 PM (RHGPo)

403 338 This busty blonde in her underwear doubts she can even imagine the depths of depravity that define the Biden family:
https://is.gd/toaVfx
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Nice Bod. Not nice face.
Posted by: Archer
Pretty, but a little heavy.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Heavy? No fat rolls, just the one chin, visible collar bone, no bat wings, no fupa, has a flat tummy. She's no cheeseburger-deprived waif, but she's not heavy IRL.
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And people say that anime girls aren't real. This is one that graduated and got a nice life going for herself, and we get to admire the results.

Posted by: exdem13 at April 04, 2022 01:35 PM (W+kMI)

404 >>But if every f*cking thing you do in a war is now a "war crime"

The Junta blew up an Afghani along with children who were delivering water, they literally had no idea who they were droning, but they had to do something, anything after they straight up got 13 Marines murdered.

So what Russia has allegedly done is no worse than that.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 01:31 PM (QGxYa)
***

The only thing different now is everyone has a cellphone. Everything gets recorded. And to the Karens living their little protected lives, it all looks so horrible.
This is why the propaganda gets so easily sold.
They will sort out the war crimes BS in 5-6 years. Maybe.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2022 01:35 PM (axyOa)

405 useful to remember what Orwell said about Truth in the war he was in:

"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories, and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that had never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various "party lines".

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 01:35 PM (trdmm)

406 Sheesh you guys. OK. Send her to me. I'll take one for the team.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM

No shit, she's a goddess compared to the usual waifs with collagen lips.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:36 PM (GwxCX)

407 Cumulus Media fired Amber Athey for joking that Kamala's brown SOTU suit looked like a UPS uniform.

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Equality is not being able to make observations like that because someone is black.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:36 PM (jZJe9)

408 NCAA sports women

Speaking of which. Is that stupid bb player still in custody in Russia for trying to bring in illegal drugs?

Posted by: Infidel at April 04, 2022 01:36 PM (ou23q)

409 Sheesh you guys. OK. Send her to me. I'll take one for the team.
Posted by: Diogenes at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM (axyOa)

The line starts behind me.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 04, 2022 01:37 PM (4I/2K)

410 As much as we may dislike a tactic, it is a valid tactic against a numerically and materially superior combatant.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:31 PM (SH2Zi)

We condemn it palis, but kiss Zelensky's ass? Not me, that's bullshit.

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 01:37 PM (ONvIw)

411 Kamala's deputy chief of staff is leaving. Yet another person not positioning her for success.

I'm starting to think she isn't easy to work with.

Posted by: Ktgreat at April 04, 2022 01:38 PM (AD3JT)

412 No shit, she's a goddess compared to the usual waifs with collagen lips.
Posted by: Minnfidel

**

+1

I prefer my women to look like women. Her face is fine although not my type (although if she gave me attention I'd follow her all over town), but her body is wonderful.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:38 PM (jZJe9)

413 Dave Reboi and others have noted that Zelensky has been following the Palestinian propaganda playbook to a "T".

Yep, and he's been using Pally tactics: put a sniper in a school, hide artillery in an apartment courtyard, then attack the Russians for fighting back.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:22 PM (KZzsI)

As much as we may dislike a tactic, it is a valid tactic against a numerically and materially superior combatant.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:31 PM (SH2Zi)
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What is the difference when the Russians are parking their armored vehicles next to Ukrainian houses at night, so the Ukrainians cannot shell them?

Posted by: rd at April 04, 2022 01:38 PM (Z32m1)

414
One thing I love about this place is that we can be arguing about war crimes and the role of our country in deterrence, etc., but one well-rounded girl in her undies derails everything.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 01:38 PM (SKVme)

415 in 1939, should Churchill have been considered a "War Criminal" for organizing a Home Guard to oppose the threatened nazi invasion? It was mostly old men and young boys.

Posted by: Tom Servo

If Germany had successfully invaded Britain and slaughtered a bunch of those Home Guard folks, and Churchill had been put on trial by the victors, I'm sure he would have been considered a war criminal.

It's not necessarily MY opinion that it is a war crime to arm civilians and then hide behind them, though I lean in that direction. I'm pretty sure the Geneva Convention considers it a war crime.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2022 01:38 PM (JGgz0)

416 What would you do to soldiers who were on your street, in your country, in your house? Serious question. I sure as fuck wouldn't give them chocolate and a smoke. If they invaded my country they should pray that's all that happens to them.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:30 PM (GwxCX)

You can't bloody well treat uniformed combatants like that and then turn around and expect fair treatment.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:32 PM

That doesn't answer the question. I mean if someone who invaded my country is doing that and raping my wife and killing my family at that moment IDGAF what happens to them.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:39 PM (GwxCX)

417 It's not a foreign idea to Ukraine, a country that just a few years ago bestowed the honor of hero of Ukraine on Stepan Bandera.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 01:34 PM (ZLI7S)

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Speaking of 'Z", he was good in Zorro.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 01:39 PM (EPP+r)

418 Excerpts from the book "This Will Not Pass," by journalists Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns obtained by CNN reveal Biden assessed Fox News "as one of the most destructive forces in the United States."
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Fix News is leftist shit. This is pure pattycake.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 01:39 PM (/NOHf)

419 What would you do to soldiers who were on your street, in your country, in your house? Serious question. I sure as fuck wouldn't give them chocolate and a smoke. If they invaded my country they should pray that's all that happens to them.

This is the older notion of war. We've been trying very very hard to move away from it...but maybe its pointless? I don't ask this as a gotcha...maybe it is.

The US spent two decades fighting wars by the letter and spirit of the Geneva conventions and got defeated by a bunch of goat f*ckers for our efforts.

But...more to the point here...if the argument goes from "here are specific objective things allowed and not allowed" to, "these are the good guys they can do whatever and those badguys are to be damned whatever they do" then everyone will just claim to be "the goodguys"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:39 PM (ESjRY)

420 Since everything is an op and nothing is real (truer words have never been spoken) - Has anyone debunked those pictures of supposed looters taped to light posts? Those seem completely fake - curious if they've been debunked.

Posted by: 496 at April 04, 2022 01:39 PM (VJsqe)

421 The Daily Daddario has the answer to the woman question:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8um6w7

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:39 PM (LvTSG)

422 401 Peter Daszak, the head of the criminal organization known as Eco Health Alliance is the son of a former Ukrainian Nazi. It's not a foreign idea to Ukraine, a country that just a few years ago bestowed the honor of hero of Ukraine on Stepan Bandera.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 01:34 PM (ZLI7S)

And Z-man is "cool" with Bandera hero worship. Not buying his sainthood, not one iota.
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To be fair, I don't think Zelensky really wants to have the Actual Nazis, but he has to use them. They are dependable fighters, they know what they're doing, and they really don't like Russians! But they are "problematic", and if by some wonder Ukraine does force a defensive win, the Actual Nazis will want some recognition and reward for their services. Zelensky will have to put up or shut up, and if he shuts up, they might take offense in turn. Choose and lose, Z-man.

Posted by: exdem13 at April 04, 2022 01:39 PM (W+kMI)

423 I would stand with Ukraine, but I'm a little tired from this move. Can I sit in this comfy chair with Ukraine? Ok

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2022 01:39 PM (QXKQ9)

424 The Junta blew up an Afghani along with children who were delivering water, they literally had no idea who they were droning, but they had to do something, anything after they straight up got 13 Marines murdered.

So what Russia has allegedly done is no worse than that.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

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This is an outstanding post.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:39 PM (jZJe9)

425 If you've ever bought something subversive or naughty from Amazon, say hello to blackmail.

__________________________

Dildo of the month club ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 04, 2022 01:39 PM (M+Lyo)

426 It's kind of disconcerting that I know more than most intelligence agencies.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 04, 2022 01:40 PM (5kI0z)

427 One thing I love about this place is that we can be arguing about war crimes and the role of our country in deterrence, etc., but one well-rounded girl in her undies derails everything.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 01:38 PM

Well can I order her on Amazon? Cuz that's Prime!!!

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:40 PM (GwxCX)

428 Kamala's deputy chief of staff is leaving. Yet another person not positioning her for success.

I'm starting to think she isn't easy to work with.
Posted by: Ktgreat at April 04, 2022 01:38 PM (AD3JT)

Either that or the word is out that Kamala WON'T be President, so why stay attached to her? She ain't going anywhere.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 01:40 PM (mR6Gs)

429 War crime to use civilians as cover.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 04, 2022 01:40 PM (drs6R)

430 No shit, she's a goddess compared to the usual waifs with collagen lips.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Agreed

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 01:40 PM (/NOHf)

431 One thing I love about this place is that we can be arguing about war crimes and the role of our country in deterrence, etc., but one well-rounded girl in her undies derails everything.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

**

Isn't that the story of Man?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:40 PM (jZJe9)

432 Our own media empire has gone all in for Ukraine. It's beyond possible they're crafting propaganda out of whole cloth. There's a narrative they've been told to push. They are nothing if not compliant.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 01:41 PM (BFigT)

433 "As much as we may dislike a tactic, it is a valid tactic against a numerically and materially superior combatant. "

I cant remember the last time I've read a more ignorant statement. In Afghanistan our troopers would sometimes hand out candy to the children or taskmaster to them through them terp. The Taliban didn't like that, so one time they cut the throats of a few girls and threw them in the trash. Even their parents would claim them until it was dark the next day. Is that a valid tactic?

Posted by: Marcus T at April 04, 2022 01:41 PM (DFbpm)

434 Actually, they didn't consider it a war crime when the Ukes were talking about castrating or kneecapping Russian soldiers. I don't believe any of it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at April 04, 2022 01:28 PM

What would you do to soldiers who were on your street, in your country, in your house? Serious question. I sure as fuck wouldn't give them chocolate and a smoke. If they invaded my country they should pray that's all that happens to them.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:30 PM (GwxCX)

Then you would be a war criminal deserving of hanging, too.

If a uniformed soldier surrenders, you are obligated to accept that surrender and are then responsible for his well-being until the end of hostilities or some prisoner trade (or liberation) occurs.

Posted by: Methos at April 04, 2022 01:41 PM (kOpft)

435
I try to buy as little as possible from Amazon and if I wanted a butt plug (which I don't) I wouldn't buy it from Amazon.

Get if from the Mom and Pop butt plug store.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 04, 2022 01:41 PM (63Dwl)

436 @404

>>They will sort out the war crimes BS in 5-6 years. Maybe.

As the saying goes, War is hell, sucks to be caught up in it but that's the way the cookie crumbles.

If the West wasn't teetering on the edge of collapse, pathetic and utterly corrupt, we could have prevented this conflict, instead the West stoked the flames for their own craven ends and are going to get a lot of innocent people killed.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 01:41 PM (QGxYa)

437 One thing I love about this place is that we can be arguing about war crimes and the role of our country in deterrence, etc., but one well-rounded girl in her undies derails everything.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 01:38 PM (SKVme)

As they do.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 04, 2022 01:42 PM (4I/2K)

438 Actually, they didn't consider it a war crime when the Ukes were talking about castrating or kneecapping Russian soldiers. I don't believe any of it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at April 04, 2022 01:28 PM (5HBd1

THIS. Most people don't realize that most of the world is quite merciless when fighting wars. Collateral death is a feature, not a bug. Most countries encourage it.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 04, 2022 01:42 PM (Qhnrt)

439 That doesn't answer the question. I mean if someone who invaded my country is doing that and raping my wife and killing my family at that moment IDGAF what happens to them.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:39 PM (GwxCX)

If you want to fight join a uniformed group and stick to the rules.
Starting a cycle of retributive violence just sucks for everyone. The Russian soldiers in question weren't accused of being guilty of any of the things you listed.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:42 PM (z5Vrg)

440 Cumulus Media fired Amber Athey for joking that Kamala's brown SOTU suit looked like a UPS uniform.
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I told you women are funny. That's awesome.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 01:42 PM (/NOHf)

441 PLEASE GIVE US LAPTOP WE WON'T LOSE IT THAT'S UNPOSSIBLE.

ALSO, YOUR WHERABOUTS ON 1/6/21 AND DO YOU SUPPORT ALL CURRENT THINGS?

Posted by: Tasty Burger

I read this in BEN ROETHLISBERGER'S voice.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2022 01:42 PM (JGgz0)

442 416 What would you do to soldiers who were on your street, in your country, in your house? Serious question. I sure as fuck wouldn't give them chocolate and a smoke. If they invaded my country they should pray that's all that happens to them.
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We are expecting a 3M invasion this May and we are forced to provide all the goodies to include lawyers to the invaders. What are you talking about?

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:42 PM (HTCOy)

443 The Daily Daddario has the answer to the woman question:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8um6w7
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:39 PM (LvTSG)

She's really not THAT pretty, and if fact she may not be pretty at all.
But man, those tits....

Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 01:42 PM (mR6Gs)

444
The US spent two decades fighting wars by the letter and spirit of the Geneva conventions and got defeated by a bunch of goat f*ckers for our efforts.

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"We" were fighting wars to fuel our defense establishment, its bought-and-paid for crooks in the Congress and Pentagon, and the Democrat Party's propaganda machine.

Nothing more or less. They do not see it as a defeat, because we are not governed by Americans. All of *their* objectives were neatly achieved. The only people defeated were us, and their hapless, goat-fucking, dope-dealing pet warlords.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 01:43 PM (SKVme)

445 Get if from the Mom and Pop butt plug store.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 04, 2022 01:41 PM (63Dwl)

Clamfarts are US

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 04, 2022 01:43 PM (M+Lyo)

446 I prefer my women to look like women. Her face is fine although not my type (although if she gave me attention I'd follow her all over town), but her body is wonderful.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:38

I think she's gorgeous! Women like the pinups from the 40's and Hollywood actresses up until the early 70's were what women should look like for the most part. Give me some curves instead of a 98 lbs. waif full of silicone doing the duckface picture thing. Ish.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:43 PM (GwxCX)

447 he's been using Pally tactics: put a sniper in a school, hide artillery in an apartment courtyard, then attack the Russians for fighting back.

As much as we may dislike a tactic, it is a valid tactic against a numerically and materially superior combatant.

Its possibly useful tactically but that doesn't make it valid. Holding children hostage to try to stop an opponent might be useful, but its not valid. I know war is evil, but there are things you can do in war that go above and beyond what is right and proper and allowable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:35 PM (KZzsI)

Goal post move.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:44 PM (SH2Zi)

448 I could see Biden activating the Draft. I really could.

I could see him thinking its a great idea personally and trying it but being stopped by the others in his administration as instant political suicide.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

Word is that recruitment goals are not even close to being met, and its affecting the manning of units so bad, they are looking to lower force structures.

Add in really low re-enlistment numbers... so low you can't even find them online anymore.... and we've got a problem.

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If you think there's a risk of government goons getting shot in the face for attempting to confiscate firearms, just wait until they come to your door looking to kidnap your children to fight their wars.

Posted by: Methos at April 04, 2022 01:44 PM (kOpft)

449 We condemn it palis, but kiss Zelensky's ass? Not me, that's bullshit.

Posted by: CN The First at April 04, 2022 01:37 PM (ONvIw)

Nobody is kissing anyone's ass. Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:44 PM (SH2Zi)

450 I mean if someone who invaded my country is doing that and raping my wife and killing my family at that moment IDGAF what happens to them.

The technical answer here is that if the invading army rapes your wife and/or kills your presumably non-combatant family intentionally and with no valid military objective (ie your family and an enemy unit are in the same house which they hit with artillery) that the invaders are war criminals - nominally to be arrested by their own leadership.

Obviously in the real, modern world the US is about the only country that would arrest its own soldiers for things like this. the UN "peacekeepers" have been infamous for years for mass rape...and I don't think people have been arrested for it very often.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:44 PM (ESjRY)

451 Isn't that the story of Man?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too

It may not be the story of "Man", but it's definitely the story of "Men".

Posted by: Sharkman at April 04, 2022 01:45 PM (JGgz0)

452 447 he's been using Pally tactics: put a sniper in a school, hide artillery in an apartment courtyard, then attack the Russians for fighting back.

As much as we may dislike a tactic, it is a valid tactic against a numerically and materially superior combatant.

Its possibly useful tactically but that doesn't make it valid. Holding children hostage to try to stop an opponent might be useful, but its not valid. I know war is evil, but there are things you can do in war that go above and beyond what is right and proper and allowable.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:35 PM (KZzsI)

Goal post move.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:44 PM (SH2Zi)

Isn't fighting from a school the holding children hostage part?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:45 PM (z5Vrg)

453 We are expecting a 3M invasion this May and we are forced to provide all the goodies to include lawyers to the invaders. What are you talking about?
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 01:42 PM

So if one breaks into your house you'll call 1-800 Ask Gary? OK champ.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:45 PM (GwxCX)

454 The tide has shifted; its no longer about equality; its about "equity". Its no longer "everybody has an equal chance" ; its about-"you owe us" -pay up mofo.

Posted by: pahound at April 04, 2022 01:45 PM (Keh7K)

455 If a uniformed soldier surrenders, you are obligated to accept that surrender and are then responsible for his well-being until the end of hostilities or some prisoner trade (or liberation) occurs.
Posted by: Methos at April 04, 2022 01:41 PM (kOpft)

In 1944 and 1945, US soldiers accepted Wehrmacht prisoners, but by widespread agreement summarily executed anyone wearing an SS uniform. Also, and it was because of their habit of hiding grenades on their persons, etc.; few Japanese soldiers tried to surrender, but those who did were generally shot on sight.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 01:45 PM (trdmm)

456 Our own media empire has gone all in for Ukraine. It's beyond possible they're crafting propaganda out of whole cloth. There's a narrative they've been told to push. They are nothing if not compliant.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 01:41 PM (BFigT)

Probably because this is an echo of the Russian Collusion Hoax.
There are many stupid people in this country and when they hear "Putin", they think "Trump." The people pushing this propaganda know

Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 01:45 PM (mR6Gs)

457 I think she's gorgeous! Women like the pinups from the 40's and Hollywood actresses up until the early 70's were what women should look like for the most part. Give me some curves instead of a 98 lbs. waif full of silicone doing the duckface picture thing. Ish.
Posted by: Minnfidel

*

Yeah, that's the great part about different people being attracted to different things. This way we aren't all chasing the same women.

She's pretty, don't get me wrong. I'm just saying that her features aren't what I usually lean towards. Again, if she gave me any attention I'd chase her all over, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:46 PM (jZJe9)

458 " 'ere, 'ere...let's not go on about 'oo killed 'oo' "

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2022 01:46 PM (DJFLF)

459 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 01:38 PM (SKVme)

Stress level of ASHQ posters must be going up. There are more bosomy babes in this thread than I think I've seen-well I didn't see them all-than we've had before in other thread s before. I think a thread everyday should just be dedicated bosomy babes in states of undress. Many men or some lesbians can furiously hit the internet for the favorite photos and feel their blood pressure drop.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:46 PM (GezNK)

460 455 If a uniformed soldier surrenders, you are obligated to accept that surrender and are then responsible for his well-being until the end of hostilities or some prisoner trade (or liberation) occurs.
Posted by: Methos at April 04, 2022 01:41 PM (kOpft)

In 1944 and 1945, US soldiers accepted Wehrmacht prisoners, but by widespread agreement summarily executed anyone wearing an SS uniform. Also, and it was because of their habit of hiding grenades on their persons, etc.; few Japanese soldiers tried to surrender, but those who did were generally shot on sight.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 01:45 PM (trdmm)

SS started that by not honoring surrenders. That's why their surrenders weren't honored.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:46 PM (z5Vrg)

461
Bosom > Barzoom.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 01:46 PM (s2VJv)

462 Addendum: Face-wise pretty.

Body wise her body type is just about ideal for me.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:46 PM (jZJe9)

463 She looks like she's letting a huge fart.
Posted by: wth at April 04, 2022 01:09 PM

That's hot!

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA) at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (a3Q+t)

464 I feel like we have drifted from the topic of the thread.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (FTZYW)

465 Obviously in the real, modern world the US is about the only country that would arrest its own soldiers for things like this. the UN "peacekeepers" have been infamous for years for mass rape...and I don't think people have been arrested for it very often.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:44 PM

I guess that's my larger point. If Ukraine had invaded Russia I would feel the same and say eff them. They forfeit that outrage as the aggressor.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (GwxCX)

466 I feel like we have drifted from the topic of the thread.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (FTZYW)

Gun Thread ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (M+Lyo)

467 "What? The curtains?"

Posted by: pahound at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (Keh7K)

468 464 I feel like we have drifted from the topic of the thread.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (FTZYW

========

Star Trek?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (LvTSG)

469 464 I feel like we have drifted from the topic of the thread.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (FTZYW)

It happens with the "First!" comment.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (s2VJv)

470 426 It's kind of disconcerting that I know more than most intelligence agencies.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 04, 2022 01:40 PM (5kI0z)

My Theory is that is you look at any Fed Gov Agency, it does the Opposite of what the name actually says.

Defense Department? Does not defend, it attacks.
Dept of Education? Scores are lower since it was created.
Commerce Dept? Actually impedes commerce via all its regulations.

Thus, Central Intelligence Agency? Is stupid.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (oHd/0)

471 364 Biden's million soy army
========
Yet another reason I want the USA to stay out of Ukraine. Thanks to the Potato Junta we have a military that's undermanned, has low morale, spends more time on Wokeness Awareness than training, and has basic training that's hardly more difficult than band camp. Putin's guys would school them hard and make us look weak in the eyes of the world. That would definitely cause more harm than good in the long run.

Posted by: exdem13 at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (W+kMI)

472
This busty blonde in her underwear doubts she can even imagine the depths of depravity that define the Biden family:
https://is.gd/toaVfx

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
______________________

~sob-sob~

I'd hit it...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 04, 2022 01:48 PM (SWi3y)

473 >>That doesn't answer the question. I mean if someone who invaded my country is doing that and raping my wife and killing my family at that moment IDGAF what happens to them.

More importanatly and likely more relevant :

What do you do when it is the guys fighting for your side?

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 01:48 PM (Fe7iT)

474 PROMETHEUS

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:48 PM (jZJe9)

475 Isn't fighting from a school the holding children hostage part?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:45 PM (z5Vrg)

That presumes that there are children present and you are preventing their evacuation.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:48 PM (SH2Zi)

476 I could see Biden activating the Draft. I really could.

I could see him thinking its a great idea personally and trying it but being stopped by the others in his administration as instant political suicide.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:23 PM (KZzsI)

Word is that recruitment goals are not even close to being met, and its affecting the manning of units so bad, they are looking to lower force structures.

Add in really low re-enlistment numbers... so low you can't even find them online anymore.... and we've got a problem.

Now you know why we've been encouraged to come here, AMIGOS!

Posted by: Millions of Illegals of Fighting Age at April 04, 2022 01:48 PM (mR6Gs)

477 470 Thus, Central Intelligence Agency? Is stupid.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (oHd/0)

========

It is decentralizing stupidity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 01:48 PM (LvTSG)

478 @424

>>This is an outstanding post.

After 20 plus years of the US fucking up, blowing up and killing the shit out of people in the ME, I just don't really have the stomach to listen to people go on about "war crimes," in Ukraine.

I can't tell you how much I don't give a shit about Ukraine. Since it's simply a corrupt vassal state run by the Deep State, which was formerly a vassal of Russia, it's like a filthy whore passed around by the swells.

Or alternatively...

Jim Mora: War Crimes? We're talking about War Crimes? War Crimes????

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 01:48 PM (QGxYa)

479 Heck, i clicked on it again just to remind myself what I liked.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:48 PM (jZJe9)

480 465 Obviously in the real, modern world the US is about the only country that would arrest its own soldiers for things like this. the UN "peacekeepers" have been infamous for years for mass rape...and I don't think people have been arrested for it very often.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:44 PM

I guess that's my larger point. If Ukraine had invaded Russia I would feel the same and say eff them. They forfeit that outrage as the aggressor.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (GwxCX)

It's a feel-good form of vengeance that just ends up getting a lot of people killed. The other side has prisoners of war too and is operating in areas where you have civilians..

Do you want them to start retributive violence against those people?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:49 PM (z5Vrg)

481 461
Bosom > Barzoom.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 04, 2022 01:46 PM (s2VJv)

Yeah, but Barsoom, rocks... lots of Hot Red Martian chicks.

Posted by: John Carter at April 04, 2022 01:49 PM (oHd/0)

482 The Daily Daddario has the answer to the woman question:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8um6w7
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022

***
Now she is heavy -- where a girl ought to be.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 01:49 PM (txdEq)

483 475 Isn't fighting from a school the holding children hostage part?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:45 PM (z5Vrg)

That presumes that there are children present and you are preventing their evacuation.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:48 PM (SH2Zi)

I would think it's implied, as there's not much reason normally to fight from a school.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:50 PM (z5Vrg)

484 Isn't fighting from a school the holding children hostage part?

No, I was just using a very old, proven, well-known standard rhetorical device of giving an extreme example to show how the lesser example is ridiculous.

Everyone knows what I was doing and what was going on, unless they are feeling defensive and upset.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 04, 2022 01:50 PM (KZzsI)

485 This busty blonde in her underwear doubts she can even imagine the depths of depravity that define the Biden family:
https://is.gd/toaVfx

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Big Girl

You better be equipped like The Paolo with this broad.
Anything else would be like throwing a hot dog down a hallway.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 01:50 PM (mR6Gs)

486 >>This busty blonde in her underwear doubts she can even imagine the depths of depravity that define the Biden family:
https://is.gd/toaVfx

What an unfortunate face, though.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 01:50 PM (Fe7iT)

487 Is Russia a signatory on the Geneva convention?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 01:50 PM (t3/qz)

488 In 1944 and 1945, US soldiers accepted Wehrmacht prisoners, but by widespread agreement summarily executed anyone wearing an SS uniform. Also, and it was because of their habit of hiding grenades on their persons, etc.; few Japanese soldiers tried to surrender, but those who did were generally shot on sight.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 01:45 PM (trdmm)

SS started that by not honoring surrenders. That's why their surrenders weren't honored.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:46 PM (z5Vrg)

Why, what have you heard?

Posted by: Lt. Ron Speirs at April 04, 2022 01:51 PM (4I/2K)

489 They forfeit that outrage as the aggressor.

That is one way to view things. Now who do you think your average ethnic Russian resident of Lugansk thinks the aggressor is? Should he follow that same standard?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:51 PM (ESjRY)

490 More importanatly and likely more relevant :

What do you do when it is the guys fighting for your side?
Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 01:48 PM

I don't think it's more likely and or relevant. We are talking about their country getting invaded. I am not absolving anyone from humanity but I understand their rage. They didn't invite the Ruskie's in. Putin did that. I can't imagine Reagan or Trump putting up with his bullshit.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:51 PM (GwxCX)

491 ...sometimes...

Posted by: pahound at April 04, 2022 01:51 PM (Keh7K)

492 If a uniformed soldier surrenders, you are obligated to accept that surrender and are then responsible for his well-being until the end of hostilities or some prisoner trade (or liberation) occurs.
Posted by: Methos at April 04, 2022 01:41 PM (kOpft)

Yeah. Okay. Whatever.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 04, 2022 01:51 PM (Qhnrt)

493 Isn't fighting from a school the holding children hostage part?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:45 PM (z5Vrg)

That presumes that there are children present and you are preventing their evacuation.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:48 PM (SH2Zi)

I would think it's implied, as there's not much reason normally to fight from a school.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:50 PM (z5Vrg)

An active war is going on in your neighborhood. Are you sending your littles off to school. I sure as hell ain't.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:52 PM (SH2Zi)

494 Is Russia a signatory on the Geneva convention?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 01:50 PM (t3/qz)
++++
Why does it matter? The Geneva Convention is about as meaningful as that League of Nations resolution outlawing war.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:52 PM (DU+/6)

495 According to an explanation written by Amber Athey, she was probably fired for coming out against the Trans Kids movement; but Cumulus was scared to say that openly, so they grabbed her somewhat stale joke about Kamala and claimed it was "RAYCISS!!" and fired her for that.

Cumulus is as leftist as any media company out there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 01:52 PM (trdmm)

496 473 >>That doesn't answer the question. I mean if someone who invaded my country is doing that and raping my wife and killing my family at that moment IDGAF what happens to them.

More importanatly and likely more relevant :

What do you do when it is the guys fighting for your side?
Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 01:48 PM (Fe7iT)

Easy, arrest them and then look at options to limit the damage. Does the enemy have guys doing the same? Trade and each side can execute the criminals as needed.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:52 PM (z5Vrg)

497 ....with masks?

Posted by: pahound at April 04, 2022 01:52 PM (Keh7K)

498 That is one way to view things. Now who do you think your average ethnic Russian resident of Lugansk thinks the aggressor is? Should he follow that same standard?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:51 PM

That's up to them. But ask the people of Crimea.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:52 PM (GwxCX)

499 FSB, also a three letter agency.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 12:52 PM (LvTSG)

FJB?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 04, 2022 01:53 PM (qHuNL)

500 I would think it's implied, as there's not much reason normally to fight from a school.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:50 PM (z5Vrg)

An active war is going on in your neighborhood. Are you sending your littles off to school. I sure as hell ain't.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:52 PM (SH2Zi)

Probably not the case in Ukraine true, though I think in the context of Palestine it happens.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:53 PM (z5Vrg)

501 "What? The curtains?"
Posted by: pahound at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM (Keh7K)

No singing!

Posted by: King of Swamp Castle at April 04, 2022 01:53 PM (4I/2K)

502
What an unfortunate face, though.
Posted by: garrett
________________

~sob-sob~

Meh,, I won't see it while she's sitting on mine...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 04, 2022 01:53 PM (SWi3y)

503 NIH - National Institutes of Health

yeah, Tony Fauci was trying to extend his own gig

Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 01:53 PM (RHGPo)

504 uh-oh

Posted by: pahound at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (Keh7K)

505 When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (GezNK)

506 > Hot Red Martian chicks.
__________

I read that as Hot Red Martini chicks and, well, got excited.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (BFigT)

507 This busty blonde in her underwear doubts she can even imagine the depths of depravity that define the Biden family:
https://is.gd/toaVfx

What an unfortunate face, though.
Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022

***
Her face looks familiar, like an actress I've seen somewhere. Okay, got it -- Belinda J. Montgomery, who played Doogie Howser's mom!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (txdEq)

508 >>I don't think it's more likely and or relevant.

Get your head outta your ass then.

False Flags exist and happen with a frequency that is impossible to ignore. Believe nothing until it verified. Especially reports out of a theater of war.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (Fe7iT)

509 "What? The curtains?"
Posted by: pahound at April 04, 2022 01:47 PM

Meat Curtains?

Behind the meat curtain!

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (GwxCX)

510 I was thinking of that here. There was obviously a lot of bias and corruption, but I think it also needed a lot of people just not sure of what the truth was - maybe it all was this giant mirage and the laptop was fake. So they stayed away.
Anyway, I will go find the link
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at April 04, 2022 12:45 PM (Xw7A2)

Yeah it took Russian propaganda to hide Hunter's laptop, make a serious disease (COVID) into the apocalypse, deny creation of said disease in China, claim Joe won 81 million votes, and 1/6 was an insurrection. Yet somehow, I'm supposed to believe those same people are honest about Ukraine. (This doesn't mean I believe the Russians either.)

Posted by: WiNO at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (EpDzw)

511 505 When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (GezNK)

Be careful what you wish for.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (z5Vrg)

512 ISI - Inter-Services Intelligence (Pakistani)

Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (RHGPo)

513 A judge in Los Angeles has found that a California law mandating publicly traded companies include people from underrepresented communities on their boards is unconstitutional, ruling in favor of a conservative group [JW] seeking an injunction against the measure.

Superior Court Judge Terry Green granted summary judgment to Judicial Watch on Friday. The conservative legal group had argued the law violates the equal protection clause of California's constitution.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 01:55 PM (t3/qz)

514 Probably not the case in Ukraine true, though I think in the context of Palestine it happens.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:53 PM (z5Vrg)

Fair, but they have been in a perpetual state of "war" for decades, and, their value of human life is way less than Western or European standards. They dress their little jihadis up in suicide bomber garb and celebrate such things.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:55 PM (SH2Zi)

515 Straight shooters. Balls and Strikes.

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at April 04, 2022 01:55 PM (ce5tS)

516 Be careful what you wish for.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (z5Vrg)

Thanks; That made me laugh. I appreciate your humorous honesty.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:55 PM (GezNK)

517 Just got home. could take a nap in the driveway

Posted by: Skip's Phone at April 04, 2022 01:56 PM (2JoB8)

518 MI6 - British Secret Intelligence Service

Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 01:56 PM (RHGPo)

519 decades?

Posted by: pahound at April 04, 2022 01:56 PM (Keh7K)

520 When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (GezNK)

I was on all those romance novel covers.

Posted by: Count Fabio de Monet at April 04, 2022 01:57 PM (4I/2K)

521 When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?

*

https://tinyurl.com/27457yja

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:57 PM (jZJe9)

522 When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (GezNK)

We wouldn't want the 'ettes to get all worked up. Detracts from the sammich mission.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 01:57 PM (SH2Zi)

523 When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (GezNK)

I would but it really wouldn't be fair to the ladies or other morons.

For what it's worth I think the girl is nice. A perfect face isn't usually all that sexy.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 01:57 PM (FTZYW)

524 494 Is Russia a signatory on the Geneva convention?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 04, 2022 01:50 PM (t3/qz)
++++
Why does it matter? The Geneva Convention is about as meaningful as that League of Nations resolution outlawing war.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:52 PM (DU+/6)
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Or Congress declaring war, required to approve peace treaties, produce an annual budget ... or any of those things in that old, obsolete, white supremacist Constitution thingy they and the SCOTUS regularly wipe their asses with.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 01:57 PM (Way2G)

525 "Fun fact" from Ukraine - every president since 2010 has had his predecessor arrested or forced them to flee the country.

And yes, that includes Zelensky.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:57 PM (ESjRY)

526 You know who isn't a part of the ICC in The Hague?

The US.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 01:57 PM (ZLI7S)

527 >>When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?

Are you asking me for Dick Pics, Fenelon?

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 01:58 PM (Fe7iT)

528 526 You know who isn't a part of the ICC in The Hague?

The US.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 01:57 PM (ZLI7S)

International law is a joke anyways.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:58 PM (z5Vrg)

529 so?

Posted by: pahound at April 04, 2022 01:58 PM (Keh7K)

530 If a uniformed soldier surrenders, you are obligated to accept that surrender and are then responsible for his well-being until the end of hostilities or some prisoner trade (or liberation) occurs.
Posted by: Methos at April 04, 2022 01:41 PM (kOpft)

Reality is different from what is considered the norms of war. German journalist interviewed some Germans who fought from the defenses during D-Day. Many of them mentioned that they didn't expect anyone to accept their surrender. They understood that shooting up the enemy and then trying to surrender was a fools proposition.

Posted by: WiNO at April 04, 2022 01:58 PM (EpDzw)

531
For what it's worth I think the girl is nice. A perfect face isn't usually all that sexy.
Posted by: ...

Sounds like:
"I only read the threads and comments"

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 04, 2022 01:58 PM (4LiSh)

532 "Fun fact" from Ukraine - every president since 2010 has had his predecessor arrested or forced them to flee the country.

And yes, that includes Zelensky.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:57 PM (ESjRY)

That sounds like Illinois...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 04, 2022 01:59 PM (ZSK0i)

533 Huh

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 04, 2022 01:59 PM (drs6R)

534 https://tinyurl.com/27457yja
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 01:57 PM (jZJe9)
++++
Ah, yes. The raw sex appeal of the drug-fueled First Son.

:: vomits ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:59 PM (DU+/6)

535
Get your head outta your ass then.

False Flags exist and happen with a frequency that is impossible to ignore. Believe nothing until it verified. Especially reports out of a theater of war.
Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM

Pull my head out of my ass? You first Sparky. Where did I cite a specific example from a single report. Or are you going to say no atrocities are being committed on either side? Are you going to book a trip to go verify that? I am not excusing it but I understand the position they (Ukranians) are in. I am not saying the Ukranians are saints by ANY stretch but if you are going to tell me you'd give the enemy who invaded Say Ohio and was raping women and flattening it I doubt you'd be so bold. Nice insult though champ.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 01:59 PM (GwxCX)

536
Hah. Mexicon is getting upset about all the border crossings. By Californians crossing over to buy subsidized gas across the border that runs about half the price in CA.

This caused shortages in and so Mexico is ending all subsidies for the border areas.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at April 04, 2022 01:59 PM (Mzdiz)

537 23
I don't believe anyone anymore about anything.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 04, 2022 12:43 PM (HvJ69)
........

Sources say Putin is retreating from Kyiv so he can nuke it.

Posted by: wth at April 04, 2022 01:59 PM (v0R5T)

538 525 "Fun fact" from Ukraine - every president since 2010 has had his predecessor arrested or forced them to flee the country.

And yes, that includes Zelensky.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:57 PM (ESjRY)

Although it appears that Zelensky and Poroshenko have now patched up their differences.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 01:59 PM (trdmm)

539 530 If a uniformed soldier surrenders, you are obligated to accept that surrender and are then responsible for his well-being until the end of hostilities or some prisoner trade (or liberation) occurs.
Posted by: Methos at April 04, 2022 01:41 PM (kOpft)

Reality is different from what is considered the norms of war. German journalist interviewed some Germans who fought from the defenses during D-Day. Many of them mentioned that they didn't expect anyone to accept their surrender. They understood that shooting up the enemy and then trying to surrender was a fools proposition.
Posted by: WiNO at April 04, 2022 01:58 PM (EpDzw)

Number of German soldiers captured? 200,000.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:59 PM (z5Vrg)

540 International law is a joke anyways.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:58 PM (z5Vrg)
++++
International Law doesn't exist. There are treaty obligations backed with real consequences or there is nothing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:59 PM (DU+/6)

541 >>Fun fact" from Ukraine - every president since 2010 has had his predecessor arrested or forced them to flee the country.

>>And yes, that includes Zelensky.

Right before the war started Zelensky was threatening to imprison Petro Poreshenko but was talked out of it by his hero Justin Trudeau. The guy who calls truck drivers Nazis.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 02:00 PM (ZLI7S)

542 Of course the nature of putting your pictures out there, as a model or in sexy underwear, is they are going to be critiqued. The world isn't a nice place. Then again I try to only be cruel to leftists.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:00 PM (FTZYW)

543 Or Congress declaring war,

I was worried for quite a while Biden would declare a no fly zone, and then use Russia shooting back at an American plane as a pre-text for war without a DOW from congress.

Interestingly I think a majority in Congress has no problem calling for war with Russia...but that same majority wouldn't vote for it.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 02:00 PM (ESjRY)

544 505 When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (GezNK)

It really doesn't work that way, but you know that. If I need to see some serious beefcake, I'll ask DH for a view. Not interested in some other dudes.... parts.

But men? Honestly, only one head works at a time, and usually neither is all that able to hold the thought.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 04, 2022 02:00 PM (okGHj)

545 Hah. Mexicon is getting upset..

**

hahaha, I read that as "Mexicoon"

Which would be a great screen name if the situation applied.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Joe Biden's Daughter's Diary is Real, Too at April 04, 2022 02:00 PM (jZJe9)

546 476 I could see Biden activating the Draft. I really could.

.. but it would have to include women and the LGBTQF community who have been protected from military service up till now.

Damn, you can't fake you way out of the draft by pretending to be gay any more.

Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 02:00 PM (RHGPo)

547 I would but it really wouldn't be fair to the ladies or other morons.

LOL, ellipses.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:01 PM (GezNK)

548
International law is a joke anyways.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:58 PM (z5Vrg)

It's a fantasy. And a relatively recent delusion - nobody ever conceived of such silliness before a hundred years ago. And as it happens, what we describe as "crimes against humanity" were much rarer before then.

The old, single law of international affairs - "fuck around with others as you'd like them to fuck around unto you" -worked better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 02:01 PM (SKVme)

549 Sources say Putin is retreating from Kyiv so he can nuke it.
Posted by: wth at April 04, 2022 01:59 PM (v0R5T)

I hope that's Jen Griffin's sources, otherwise we'd be in a lot of trouble.

Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 02:01 PM (mR6Gs)

550 Russian propaganda and Ukrainian propaganda have one thing in common. Its propaganda. Don't believe any reporting in this dustup. Both sides are selling a story and we should not be buying from either dishonest broker.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at April 04, 2022 02:01 PM (l7Kbv)

551 When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (GezNK)

This will not end well for anyone.

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

552 Damn, you can't fake you way out of the draft by pretending to be gay any more.
Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 02:00 PM (RHGPo)

didn't really work before either...

Posted by: Cpl. Klinger at April 04, 2022 02:02 PM (oHd/0)

553 So, there is no line of communication between the IC and FBI? "Hey, Chris, this is Gina. Can you tell me what was on Hunter Biden's laptop?"

This is absolute bullshit. Even money they are pissed at Team Biden for not going to war with Russia.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 04, 2022 02:02 PM (nMx88)

554 Posted by: tcn in AK at April 04, 2022 02:00 PM (okGHj)

I was of course being facetious, but I appreciate your closing retort.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:02 PM (GezNK)

555 The old, single law of international affairs - "fuck around with others as you'd like them to fuck around unto you" -worked better.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 02:01 PM (SKVme)
++++
The Golden Rule is pretty good advice.

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

556 When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?

Interesting that somebidy that bitches about the hq is here

Posted by: Y5 at April 04, 2022 02:02 PM (yzUsu)

557 When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 01:54 PM (GezNK)

Beached Whales are not attractive.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)

558 Although it appears that Zelensky and Poroshenko have now patched up their differences.

My memory Z chased Poroshenko out of the country, but then the latter came back after the war started and Z gave him a form of cashless bail.

I would *love* to hear what the CIA take on Poroshenko versus Z is. I presume Z's just a better natural politician no matter how well Poroshenko takes orders.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 02:03 PM (ESjRY)

559 The old, single law of international affairs - "fuck around with others as you'd like them to fuck around unto you" -worked better.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 02:01 PM (SKVme)
------------
Vae victis.

Posted by: Brennus at April 04, 2022 02:03 PM (T8gyh)

560 I'm put together like a Bavarian innkeeper, proving that God has a sense of humor indeed.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 04, 2022 02:03 PM (4I/2K)

561 They're all corrupt. This is not difficult; eggs-omelettes. Take another booster....

Posted by: pahound at April 04, 2022 02:03 PM (Keh7K)

562 >> Russian propaganda and Ukrainian propaganda have one thing in common. Its propaganda. Don't believe any reporting in this dustup. Both sides are selling a story and we should not be buying from either dishonest broker.

Yep.
and let's be honest...the Western Media is a major Sponsor of this war. Agitated for it and pushing it relentlessly for their Deep State benefactors.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (Fe7iT)

563 Number of German soldiers captured? 200,000.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:59 PM (z5Vrg)

On D-Day? Did you understand the point? You're in a protected position. You gun down 15 of the enemy. You run out of ammo and stand up to surrender. What do you expect to happen? You are going to get shot and I wouldn't blame anyone who did it.

BTW, since Zalensky called on every male to fight, he made everyone a soldier.

Posted by: WiNO at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (EpDzw)

564 Chinese health officials in Jiangsu province, which borders Shanghai, claimed on Sunday that they have discovered a new sub-variant of Omicron dubbed BA.1.1. If the report is confirmed, it would be the first sighting of a new variant found nowhere else in the world.

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

565 Sources say Putin is retreating from Kyiv so he can nuke it.

My magic 8 ball says future unclear.

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

566 562 Yep.
and let's be honest...the Western Media is a major Sponsor of this war. Agitated for it and pushing it relentlessly for their Deep State benefactors.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (Fe7iT)

========

Biden got a temporary three point bump in the polls.

Mission: accomplished.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (LvTSG)

567 Beached Whales are not attractive.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)

They are to grizzly bears. There's a shoe for every foot...

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (okGHj)

568 @434 If a uniformed soldier surrenders, you are obligated to accept that surrender and are then responsible for his well-being until the end of hostilities or some prisoner trade (or liberation) occurs.

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No, you are *never* obligated to accept the surrender. For example, taking care of surrendered troops might be beyond your ability. In such a situation, you would decline to accept the surrender.

If you accept it, then certain obligations fall upon you. But you are never required to accept.

Posted by: junior at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (WBb7t)

569 517 Just got home. could take a nap in the driveway
-----------------
Try your best to make it to the couch. The couch longs for your company.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (HTCOy)

570 555 The old, single law of international affairs - "fuck around with others as you'd like them to fuck around unto you" -worked better.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 02:01 PM (SKVme)
++++
The Golden Rule is pretty good advice.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 02:02 PM (DU+/6)

He has the Gold, makes the rules?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (oHd/0)

571 BTW, since Zalensky called on every male to fight, he made everyone a soldier.

Including, amusingly, the trannies.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 02:05 PM (ESjRY)

572 I would *love* to hear what the CIA take on Poroshenko versus Z is. I presume Z's just a better natural politician no matter how well Poroshenko takes orders.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 02:03 PM (ESjRY)

It was a smart move by Poroshenko to come back *after* the war started; he didn't have to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 02:05 PM (trdmm)

573 OT: The Shin spicy ramen is too spicy for me.

Alternations to the portions or packet are going to be required. Whew. Lovely flavor...when I can taste anything, though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 02:05 PM (XvPQV)

574
They are to grizzly bears. There's a shoe for every foot...
Posted by: tcn in AK at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (okGHj)

I'm more the whale. I have the white belly to prove it.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

575 Chinese health officials in Jiangsu province, which borders Shanghai, claimed on Sunday that they have discovered a new sub-variant of Omicron dubbed BA.1.1. If the report is confirmed, it would be the first sighting of a new variant found nowhere else in the world.
Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (RHGPo)
++++
Or it's a lie to provide cover for Beijing's crackdown on Shanghai in the name of "public health." Or its a lie for some other reason. Or it's true, but it doesn't matter because who cares.

Roll the dice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 02:05 PM (DU+/6)

576 564 Chinese health officials in Jiangsu province, which borders Shanghai, claimed on Sunday that they have discovered a new sub-variant of Omicron dubbed BA.1.1. If the report is confirmed, it would be the first sighting of a new variant found nowhere else in the world.
Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (RHGPo)

Only one way to stop this madness--nuke China. Incinerate the source. Nuke it from space to be sure.

/s

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 04, 2022 02:05 PM (okGHj)

577 564 Chinese health officials in Jiangsu province, which borders Shanghai, claimed on Sunday that they have discovered a new sub-variant of Omicron dubbed BA.1.1. If the report is confirmed, it would be the first sighting of a new variant found nowhere else in the world.
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Do they know if it will bloom in September or October yet?

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 04, 2022 02:06 PM (HTCOy)

578 Off Gallic sock.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 04, 2022 02:06 PM (T8gyh)

579 , it would be the first sighting of a new variant found nowhere else in the world.

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

Time for a new release!

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:06 PM (FTZYW)

580 and let's be honest...the Western Media is a major Sponsor of this war. Agitated for it and pushing it relentlessly for their Deep State benefactors.

Zelensky was installed by Obama on behalf of the World Economic Forum, aka the real Deep State. WEF currently has the stated goals of ousting both Putin and Xi. It's not hard to see why the US media has their lips attached to his dick.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 02:06 PM (ZGrMX)

581 This caused shortages in and so Mexico is ending all subsidies for the border areas.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at April 04, 2022 01:59 PM (Mzdiz)

LOL, awesome.
Free market forces 1, subsidies 0

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 04, 2022 02:06 PM (qHuNL)

582 When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?

Depends on your definition of manly? I am always baffled at women who fall for the soy pajama boy type. The pic that Joe posted I thought was very pretty and had a very healthy body type, I also think her face was pretty. To each their own, some like super skinny looks etc. Not me.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 02:06 PM (GwxCX)

583 Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 01:58 PM (Fe7iT

Uh, no. Does "shirtless perfect physique" sound like I was asking for dick pics?

That would need to be "pantless. perfect physique." Depsite the utter oddity of the Anthny Weiner who sent out dics pics, I think most women don't want to receive those, or if they ask it's some strange form of politeness. "Umm. Thanks so much for the pictures of your berries and twig."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:06 PM (GezNK)

584 Brown bears are "up" in Pa. Must be spring-hope they got vaccinated....

Posted by: pahound at April 04, 2022 02:07 PM (Keh7K)

585 NIAID Director Anthony Fauci says if you got flu, there is no need for a flu vaccine. Facebook and their independent fact-checker have labelled this false information. In other words, Facebook is telling everyone that Fauci spreads misinformation.

Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 02:07 PM (RHGPo)

586 >>BTW, since Zalensky called on every male to fight, he made everyone a soldier.

Released and armed Violent Criminals.

...but there's Russians raping Ukrainian Women.

NOT Ukrainian Rapists released into the general populace in the absence of Police Forces.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:07 PM (Fe7iT)

587 562 and this makes me distrust their coverage, even if Zelenskyy pounded out some Chopin with his schmeckle.
I'll wait and see what Logan has to say. I don't trust Ukraine to translate Russian documents

Posted by: CN at April 04, 2022 02:07 PM (A7Yw3)

588 >>I would *love* to hear what the CIA take on Poroshenko versus Z is. I presume Z's just a better natural politician no matter how well Poroshenko takes orders.

Zelensky has Kolomisky. He was originally aligned with Poreshenko but then Poreshenko nationalized PrivatBank because it was mostly a huge money laundering outfit.

Kolomoisky is also the real owner of Burisma.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 02:07 PM (ZLI7S)

589 Zelensky was installed by Obama on behalf of the World Economic Forum, aka the real Deep State. WEF currently has the stated goals of ousting both Putin and Xi. It's not hard to see why the US media has their lips attached to his dick.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 02:06 PM (ZGrMX)

There is literally nothing that can be believed coming from the Western "media" about this war. It's a continuous WEF press release at this point.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 04, 2022 02:08 PM (nMx88)

590 Sources say Putin is retreating from Kyiv so he can nuke it.

My magic 8 ball says future unclear.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (ESjRY)

All I see is a big bright blur.

Posted by: Han Solo at April 04, 2022 02:08 PM (kOpft)

591 Russian propaganda and Ukrainian propaganda have one thing in common. Its propaganda. Don't believe any reporting in this dustup. Both sides are selling a story and we should not be buying from either dishonest broker.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at April 04, 2022 02:01 PM (l7Kbv)

Yet, we have people here who will get worked up over the latest deep state propaganda. I've fallen for it too many times to get worked up again. Remember the mass graves in Serbia? Remember the vast numbers of Serbian tanks destroyed? Remember babies bayonetted in incubators? Remember WMDs? Some people are suckers for life.

Posted by: WiNO at April 04, 2022 02:08 PM (EpDzw)

592 550 Russian propaganda and Ukrainian propaganda have one thing in common. Its propaganda. Don't believe any reporting in this dustup. Both sides are selling a story and we should not be buying from either dishonest broker.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at April 04, 2022 02:01 PM (l7Kbv)

I'm taking what I hereby dub the BUPO approach: Bullshit Until Proven Otherwise

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 04, 2022 02:08 PM (II3Gr)

593 I think pantsless is taken as read around here.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:08 PM (FTZYW)

594 Russian propaganda and Ukrainian propaganda have one thing in common. Its propaganda. Don't believe any reporting in this dustup. Both sides are selling a story and we should not be buying from either dishonest broker.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert

EVERYONE pushes propaganda in war. Even the US. That's nothing new.

What's new is, people, even here, thinking it's not supposed to happen.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 02:09 PM (H4qIP)

595 FWIW I have no expectation of physical perfection. I see myself every day.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at April 04, 2022 02:09 PM (eGTCV)

596 OT: The Shin spicy ramen is too spicy for me.

Alternations to the portions or packet are going to be required. Whew. Lovely flavor...when I can taste anything, though.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 02:05 PM (XvPQV)

Both my daughter and I love those things.

Good thing we don't have them very often. The Sodium content....LAWDY!

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

597 No, you are *never* obligated to accept the surrender. For example, taking care of surrendered troops might be beyond your ability. In such a situation, you would decline to accept the surrender.

I remember in Lone Survivor the US soldiers get identified by some Afghan peasants aligned with the Taliban.

The soldiers discuss killing them, tying them up securely (which is probably still killing them just slowly), or letting them go and decide on the latter since they don't want to kill civilians. One of the civilians runs back and get the local Taliban forces to come after the Americans and they kill most of Americans.

Its quite the ethical dilemma isn't it? And I guarantee you no other military force would have made the choice the Americans did.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 02:09 PM (ESjRY)

598 >>When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?

My perfect manly physique includes a turgid, girthy, mushroom tipped, moisture seeking missile Fenelon.

And you are asking for pictures.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:09 PM (Fe7iT)

599 10 % for the big guy-

Posted by: pahound at April 04, 2022 02:09 PM (Keh7K)

600 He has the Gold, makes the rules?
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (oHd/0)

I hope not. You want Bill Gates making the rules?

Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 02:09 PM (mR6Gs)

601 waiting for Ace's next post; just saw an entertaining piece about how the Jan 6 committee saying that they don't have to make any criminal referrals in order for the Justice Department to file charges. I heard the Narrator doing a voiceover, saying "The Jan. 6th committee is not going to make any criminal referrals."

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 02:09 PM (trdmm)

602 ace, help!

Posted by: Infidel at April 04, 2022 02:10 PM (ou23q)

603 Beached Whales are not attractive.
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 02:02 PM (Zz0t1)

They are to grizzly bears. There's a shoe for every foot...

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (okGHj)

And there's a foot for every ass.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:10 PM (SH2Zi)

604 Haven't really bought either side of this war

Posted by: Skip's Phone at April 04, 2022 02:10 PM (2JoB8)

605
SS started that by not honoring surrenders. That's why their surrenders weren't honored.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 01:46 PM (z5Vrg)

Plus, the SS was on a bit shakier ground legal-wise, since they weren't really part of the German military. They were the armed force of the Nazi Party. Still uniformed, openly armed with a command structure, but if an opponent REALLY wanted to classify them as unlawful combatants, they'd have an easier time of it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 04, 2022 02:10 PM (n+4am)

606 On D-Day? Did you understand the point? You're in a protected position. You gun down 15 of the enemy. You run out of ammo and stand up to surrender. What do you expect to happen? You are going to get shot and I wouldn't blame anyone who did it.

BTW, since Zalensky called on every male to fight, he made everyone a soldier.
Posted by: WiNO at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (EpDzw)

D-day through August 21. Total german soldiers throughout the war captured was 2.8m.

Historically many battles were resolved by the charge and involved a lot of surrenders. Wars had insanely high death rates starting from a bit before the Napoleonic Wars and ending with WWII iirc.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 02:10 PM (z5Vrg)

607 I look much better after she's had a few drinks.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 04, 2022 02:10 PM (4I/2K)

608 OT: The Shin spicy ramen is too spicy for me.

Alternations to the portions or packet are going to be required. Whew. Lovely flavor...when I can taste anything, though.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 02:05 PM (XvPQV)

Both my daughter and I love those things.

Good thing we don't have them very often. The Sodium content....LAWDY!
Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

I get the appeal, but the capacin content is too high for me. I'm going to experiment more since I...bought a case instead of a packet on Amazon. Whoops.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 02:11 PM (XvPQV)

609 N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh.

Very tall, bendy, barmaids and newly single women seem to want you. So youse gots that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 04, 2022 02:12 PM (u82oZ)

610 When will the bosomy babe fans here be posting their shirtless, perfect and manly physiques to make up for the babes who apparently have some flaws in face or body?

Here's a pic the morons can use if they want to show us their shit:

https://tinyurl.com/mtvvcvw6

*scroll down a bit*

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2022 02:12 PM (DJFLF)

611 My perfect manly physique includes a turgid, girthy, mushroom tipped, moisture seeking missile
--------------

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:12 PM (FTZYW)

612 My magic 8 ball says future unclear.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 02:04 PM (ESjRY)

is that a dyslexic magic 8 ball?

Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 02:12 PM (mR6Gs)

613 601 "The Jan. 6th committee is not going to make any criminal referrals."

.. they didn't have a "Ranking Member" appointed by the "Minority Leader" (as described in the enabling legislation) so their "criminal referrals" are probably invalid anyway.

Posted by: SMOD at April 04, 2022 02:12 PM (RHGPo)

614 Its quite the ethical dilemma isn't it? And I guarantee you no other military force would have made the choice the Americans did.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 02:09 PM (ESjRY)

And they made the wrong choice by letting them live. All but one of them, as well as a lot of other US soldiers, died because of that bad choice. The lesson - if you aren't prepared to make the hard, brutal choices you will face in a war, you shouldn't be there. If your country won't allow you to make the hard, but necessary choices, your country should never have gotten involved.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 04, 2022 02:12 PM (trdmm)

615 Yet, we have people here who will get worked up over the latest deep state propaganda. I've fallen for it too many times to get worked up again. Remember the mass graves in Serbia? Remember the vast numbers of Serbian tanks destroyed? Remember babies bayonetted in incubators? Remember WMDs? Some people are suckers for life.
Posted by: WiNO at April 04, 2022 02:08 PM (EpDzw)

An interesting detail emerged recently about the Bosnian War and Kosovo. Remember all those tales about mass graves filled with those murdered by the Serbs? It turns out the number of civilians killed by the Serbs was around 200, and most of those mass graves were filled by those slain by the US-aligned Croats.

The lying is worse now, but it has been a thing a long, long time.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (nMx88)

616 573 OT: The Shin spicy ramen is too spicy for me.

Alternations to the portions or packet are going to be required. Whew. Lovely flavor...when I can taste anything, though.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 02:05 PM (XvPQV)

I have an idea. Just don't buy it anymore. Don't ruin it for the rest of us who like it as is.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (Qhnrt)

617 And you are asking for pictures.
Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:09 PM (Fe7iT)

Dream on, buddy. I grew up before cell phones and thankfully nobody ever assumed I wanted a picture of their berries and twigs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (GezNK)

618
NOT Ukrainian Rapists released into the general populace in the absence of Police Forces.

The daily mail had a story up about a Russian unit raping a Uke woman over the course of several hours and threatening to kill her kid all the time.

I looked at where the attack supposedly happened and...its an area that the Russians never took over. So...did a group of Russians really drive some distance into Ukrainian territory to rape one woman for several hours and then just leave? Seems pretty unlikely unless you have a death wish.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (ESjRY)

619 Propaganda is on all sides. Everyone has an angle. I am sure there's atrocities committed on both sides. It's a moral conundrum if you are the one whose home is being invaded. I'd like to think if someone had destryoed my city, my home and killed or raped my family members I'd be able to accept a surrender. But I know in reality I wouldn't. I'd string them up. Period.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (GwxCX)

620 In other new, President Biden had emergency surgery to reduce the length of his nose after he stated that Hunter hadn't made money in China. The extra weight of his nose was causing the President to repeatedly face plant while attempting to walk around the White House.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (ZEHVO)

621 My perfect manly physique includes a turgid, girthy, mushroom tipped, moisture seeking missile
--------------

-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:12 PM (FTZYW)

Lol

Walt Whitman, yeah, he would say that. Not Emerson

Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (mR6Gs)

622 Very tall, bendy, barmaids and newly single women seem to want you. So youse gots that.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at April 04, 2022 02:12 PM (u82oZ)

That does help the confidence. Hairdressers in NYC do to.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (eGTCV)

623 If your country won't allow you to make the hard, but necessary choices, your country should never have gotten involved.

This SHOULD be the listen we took from the WoT...but didn't.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 02:14 PM (ESjRY)

624 @580 Zelensky was installed by Obama on behalf of the World Economic Forum, aka the real Deep State.

----

Zelensky took office while Trump was president.

Posted by: junior at April 04, 2022 02:14 PM (hawEC)

625 >>Dream on, buddy. I grew up before cell phones and thankfully nobody ever assumed I wanted a picture of their berries and twigs.

Holier than thou and wanting to see our dicks.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:14 PM (Fe7iT)

626 I have an idea. Just don't buy it anymore. Don't ruin it for the rest of us who like it as is.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (Qhnrt)

Wut?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 02:14 PM (XvPQV)

627 I get the appeal, but the capacin content is too high for me. I'm going to experiment more since I...bought a case instead of a packet on Amazon. Whoops.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 02:11 PM (XvPQV)

Mail it to Ukraine as relief rations, claim virtue points.

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

628 I looked at where the attack supposedly happened and...its an area that the Russians never took over. So...did a group of Russians really drive some distance into Ukrainian territory to rape one woman for several hours and then just leave? Seems pretty unlikely unless you have a death wish.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (ESjRY)

Bankjob?

Posted by: OddBall.... at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (oHd/0)

629 525 "Fun fact" from Ukraine - every president since 2010 has had his predecessor arrested or forced them to flee the country.

And yes, that includes Zelensky.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 04, 2022 01:57 PM (ESjRY)

Interesting that the democrats are trying that here. They would shed their skin where they stand if Trump were arrested and jailed.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (sI15f)

630 Dream on, buddy. I grew up before cell phones and thankfully nobody ever assumed I wanted a picture of their berries and twigs.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (GezNK)

Berries & Twigs?

Here in Jersey, it's Sausage & Peppers

Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (mR6Gs)

631 The Shin spicy ramen is too spicy for me.

Alternations to the portions or packet are going to be required. Whew. Lovely flavor...when I can taste anything, though.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 02:05 PM (XvPQV)

Excellent for clearing the sinuses. Add some deli-sliced chicken or roast beef for ghetto pho.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (SH2Zi)

632
I get the appeal, but the capacin content is too high for me. I'm going to experiment more since I...bought a case instead of a packet on Amazon. Whoops.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 02:11 PM (XvPQV)

I will dump in a small can of mushroom slices, slice up some meat product (ham, beef, bacon) and add that.

3:30 in the microwave and FEAST. I do let it rest a bit so the noodles will absorb most of the liquid.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

633 >>Zelensky took office while Trump was president.

His real benefactor was Kolomoisky, one of the richest and most corrupt men in Ukraine.

Also formerly Hunter's boss.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (ZLI7S)

634 EVERYONE pushes propaganda in war. Even the US. That's nothing new.

What's new is, people, even here, thinking it's not supposed to happen.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 02:09 PM (H4qIP)

Exactly. Which is why "believe nothing you read and only half of what you see" is a good starting point. Governments lie all the time. It is in both their nature and interest to do so.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (l7Kbv)

635 Walt Whitman, yeah, he would say that. Not Emerson
Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (mR6Gs)

He sings the body electric, biotch!

Posted by: Leaves of Grass at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (qHuNL)

636 Things are getting pear shaped.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (drs6R)

637 619 Propaganda is on all sides. Everyone has an angle. I am sure there's atrocities committed on both sides. It's a moral conundrum if you are the one whose home is being invaded. I'd like to think if someone had destryoed my city, my home and killed or raped my family members I'd be able to accept a surrender. But I know in reality I wouldn't. I'd string them up. Period.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (GwxCX)

It's not about being good. You don't want every enemy soldier to fight to the death and you also don't want them to do the same to your side.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (z5Vrg)

638 >>Mail it to Ukraine as relief rations, claim virtue points.

In Case of Russian Chemical Attack, Break Glass, Crush and Rub into Eyes.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (Fe7iT)

639 What! No Serb war criminals? You mean that Owen Wilson movie wasn't a documentary? Damn.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (oWBc3)

640
Excellent for clearing the sinuses. Add some deli-sliced chicken or roast beef for ghetto pho.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (SH2Zi)

This guy.

He seems to get it.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

641 Or it's a lie to provide cover for Beijing's crackdown on Shanghai in the name of "public health." Or its a lie for some other reason. Or it's true, but it doesn't matter because who cares.

Roll the dice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 02:05 PM (DU+/6)

Or the Wuhan Lab released its 3rd/4th/5th variant. They are still working on the Xi variant that mainly kills kills foreign gweilo devils.

Posted by: cool breeze at April 04, 2022 02:16 PM (UGKMd)

642 Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:14 PM (Fe7iT)

Aww, com'om. You seem to have lost the humor in my comments. The "holier than thou" was not necessary.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:16 PM (GezNK)

643 I get the appeal, but the capacin content is too high for me. I'm going to experiment more since I...bought a case instead of a packet on Amazon. Whoops.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 02:11 PM (XvPQV)

Mail it to Ukraine as relief rations, claim virtue points.

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

MoMe booby prize.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:16 PM (SH2Zi)

644 Fly those F-35's on kale and algae. We got this....

Posted by: pahound at April 04, 2022 02:16 PM (Keh7K)

645
I get the appeal, but the capacin content is too high for me. I'm going to experiment more since I...bought a case instead of a packet on Amazon. Whoops.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

A bit of sour cream seems to be the magic ingredient which my better half uses when my chili is too hot for her.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (iPSYn)

646 >> The "holier than thou" was not necessary.

You probably don't want to see THAT Poll.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (Fe7iT)

647 MoMe booby prize.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 0

We are not giving away boobies.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (W2Pud)

648 Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2022 02:12 PM (DJFLF)

I think they should all post pictures and claim to be the model pictured.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (GezNK)

649 Nice looking girl, but, she is the wrong color.

Posted by: Jamaica Queens at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (b+v9B)

650 Here's a pic the morons can use if they want to show us their shit:

https://tinyurl.com/mtvvcvw6

*scroll down a bit*
Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2022 02:12 PM (DJFLF)

Any guy can stuff a rolled up pair of socks in their underwear...

Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (mR6Gs)

651 We are not giving away boobies.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (W2Pud)

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Raffle?

Posted by: 496 at April 04, 2022 02:18 PM (VJsqe)

652 Ramen is good. I like the Pad Thai noodles a bit better.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 04, 2022 02:18 PM (drs6R)

653 I think they should all post pictures and claim to be the model pictured.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (GezNK)

That's David Beckham

Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 02:18 PM (mR6Gs)

654 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:16 PM (GezNK)

The way you laughed at the replies to you seemed extra scoldy to me.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:18 PM (FTZYW)

655 You probably don't want to see THAT Poll.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (Fe7iT)

Is this a delayed April's Fool joke? Because it kind of is getting lame and stale at this point.

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2022 02:18 PM (DJFLF)

656
We are not giving away boobies.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (W2Pud)

DAMMMIT!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

657 >> I like the Pad Thai noodles a bit better.

Yeah. Pad Thai, Udon, then Ramen.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:18 PM (Fe7iT)

658 Excellent for clearing the sinuses. Add some deli-sliced chicken or roast beef for ghetto pho.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (SH2Zi)

Pho King good food.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 04, 2022 02:18 PM (AiZBA)

659 647 MoMe booby prize.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 0

We are not giving away boobies.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (W2Pud)

So you're accepting cash?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 02:19 PM (z5Vrg)

660 Any guy can stuff a rolled up pair of socks in their underwear...
Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (mR6Gs)

Foil wrapped cucumbers don't really work.

Posted by: Derek Smalls at April 04, 2022 02:19 PM (4I/2K)

661 Ramen is good. I like the Pad Thai noodles a bit better.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Twenty five cents a meal is hard to beat.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 02:19 PM (H4qIP)

662 Just the mere fact that there were emails detailing the financial payments was evidence of the 'hack'. Yeah buddy, there's your hack, pay the stupid bastards and they'll give you anything you want.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 04, 2022 02:19 PM (/CoS6)

663 I have an idea. Just don't buy it anymore. Don't ruin it for the rest of us who like it as is.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 04, 2022 02:13 PM (Qhnrt)

I think he was suggesting altering the stuff he already bought for his own consumption.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:19 PM (SH2Zi)

664 Here in Jersey, it's Sausage & Peppers
Posted by: JoeF. at April 04, 2022 02:15 PM (mR6Gs)

I have never heard that expression. Well maybe sausage, but wouldn'tsomeone have to stringy little balsl to describe them as peppers?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:19 PM (GezNK)

665 think they should all post pictures and claim to be the model pictured.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (GezNK)

well that' exactly what I intended!

and of course when they claim to be as hot as David Beckham, we all know it's truthy!!

Posted by: kallisto at April 04, 2022 02:19 PM (DJFLF)

666 >> In other new, President Biden had emergency surgery to reduce the length of his nose after he stated that Hunter hadn't made money in China. The extra weight of his nose was causing the President to repeatedly face plant while attempting to walk around the White House.

"Well, I didn't *airquotes* make *airquotes* money in China. I mean -- are you accusing me of counterfeiting, bro? They gave me this awesome diamond -- as a GIFT -- dunno why, probably because I got them coke, like, the primo stuff, man, none of that crap you get in, like party? Anacostia. And really, is it a crime to party now? C'mon, man. . ."

-- Hunter Biden, ARTIST!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2022 02:19 PM (MmndN)

667
Pho King good food.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 04, 2022 02:18 PM (AiZBA)

Massive lines of people waiting to get it. A huge pho queue, if you will.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (II3Gr)

668 You guys are making me hungry.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (Ez6QX)

669 639 What! No Serb war criminals? You mean that Owen Wilson movie wasn't a documentary? Damn.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

Apparently so was 'Lords of War'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (sAmhv)

670 It pays to remember that nobody speaks for everyone here.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (FTZYW)

671 MoMe booby prize.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler

We are not giving away boobies.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (W2Pud)

Will work for boobies.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (SH2Zi)

672 661 Ramen is good. I like the Pad Thai noodles a bit better.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Twenty five cents a meal is hard to beat.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 02:19 PM (H4qIP)

=========

*dreams up ways to sell it for $30 a bowl to hipsters*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (LvTSG)

673 I would like to apologize to Infidel for taking this thread in an unfortunate direction.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (GezNK)

674 There's a chain here, Kizuki Ramen and Izakaya.... it is awesome. Fresh noodles made in house and the stocks and ingredients are fantastic.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 04, 2022 02:21 PM (W2Pud)

675 *dreams up ways to sell it for $30 a bowl to hipsters*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (LvTSG)

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Just call it poke and add some uncooked fish - they'll eat it up.

Posted by: 496 at April 04, 2022 02:21 PM (VJsqe)

676 Will work for boobies.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (SH2Zi)

Careful what you wish for. That could mean you wake up with implants.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 04, 2022 02:21 PM (II3Gr)

677
Here's my cooking story.

Last night I was doing steaks, and I finished them, and finished my steak sauce, and set it aside while I plated everything. Precariously, on the edge of the sink. And then I turned around to grab it, and knocked a HOT CAST IRON PAN onto my bare foot, splashing myself with the hot sauce on the way, and then having a sauceless, burned up, foot-crushed dinner afterward.

Yay, me. Way to go, YD.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 02:21 PM (SKVme)

678 >>*dreams up ways to sell it for $30 a bowl to hipsters*

Duck Confit...

where the 'duck' is seagull.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:22 PM (Fe7iT)

679 Pho King good food.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV

Sofa king good.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 02:22 PM (H4qIP)

680 675 *dreams up ways to sell it for $30 a bowl to hipsters*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (LvTSG)

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Just call it poke and add some uncooked fish - they'll eat it up.
Posted by: 496 at April 04, 2022 02:21 PM (VJsqe)

==========

"How about we get the customers to cook their own food!"
-The Japanese

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 02:22 PM (LvTSG)

681 MoMe booby prize.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler

We are not giving away boobies.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (W2Pud)

Will work for boobies.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (SH2Zi)

*kneels and bows head* What is thy bidding, my twin masters?

Posted by: Darth de Monet at April 04, 2022 02:22 PM (4I/2K)

682 Before the Plandemic, there was a great place in Hoboken to get Ramen.

A Ramen shop opened in Rockaway that's pretty good but definately not as good as that spot in Hoboken.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 04, 2022 02:22 PM (Z9Cz5)

683 Just because deviance has been normalized in the macro doesn't mean it's been normalized in the micro. If you bought a butt plug off Amazon, that doesn't matter at the macro scale. "John Doe, from Phoenix, bought a butt plug on July 3rd" doesn't matter.

It might matter on the micro scale, though - like if your wife or boss finds out about it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 04, 2022 01:29 PM (DU+/6)

Hey, how did you get a hold of my Amazon account?

Posted by: John Doe from Phoenix at April 04, 2022 02:22 PM (1gif2)

684 Careful what you wish for. That could mean you wake up with implants.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 04, 2022 02:21 PM (II3Gr)
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And missing a kidney.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 04, 2022 02:22 PM (T8gyh)

685 Will work for boobies.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (SH2Zi)

Careful what you wish for. That could mean you wake up with implants.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 04, 2022 02:21 PM (II3Gr)

Then I'd never have to leave the house.

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

686 *dreams up ways to sell it for $30 a bowl to hipsters*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (LvTSG)

Throw in some fair trade organic quinoa. Hipsters love that shit.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 04, 2022 02:23 PM (II3Gr)

687 >>A Ramen shop opened in Rockaway that's pretty good but definately not as good as that spot in Hoboken.

Where in Hoboken? I used to go to hoboken for Friday Fish Sammiches for the Demo Crew.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:23 PM (Fe7iT)

688 Just because deviance has been normalized in the macro doesn't mean it's been normalized in the micro. If you bought a butt plug off Amazon, that doesn't matter at the macro scale. "John Doe, from Phoenix, bought a butt plug on July 3rd" doesn't matter.

It might matter on the micro scale, though - like if your wife or boss finds out about it.

Imagine if *my* wife finds out.

Posted by: Barack Obama at April 04, 2022 02:23 PM (ZGrMX)

689 I ate at HuHot last week. Pretty good all you can eat Mongolian bbq with pad Thai, Udon, and ramen noodles.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 04, 2022 02:23 PM (drs6R)

690 Duck Confit...

where the 'duck' is seagull.
Posted by: garrett

Squab.

Aka, common rock dove, aka pigeon.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 02:23 PM (H4qIP)

691 Yay, me. Way to go, YD.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 02:21 PM (SKVme)

Ouch. Thank goodness you didn't drop it on one of the kids.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 04, 2022 02:23 PM (Ez6QX)

692 *kneels and bows head* What is thy bidding, my twin masters?
Posted by: Darth de Monet at April 04, 2022 02:22 PM (4I/2K)

This is the story of mankind.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 04, 2022 02:24 PM (AiZBA)

693 =========

*dreams up ways to sell it for $30 a bowl to hipsters*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (LvTSG)

You're a bit late on that one. There are ramen places all over around here and they're charging almost exactly that.

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

694 "...the intelligence community wanted to know if anything on the hard drive had been hacked, whether the Biden family was compromised, and whether there were any patterns about how foreign adversaries were seeking to compromise prominent Americans."

The answers are yes, yes, and yes there are.

We'll find out just how compromised the Biden family is when the Chinese communists make their move on Taiwan.

Posted by: troyriser at April 04, 2022 02:24 PM (3nGt1)

695 Huh. I have a job interview this week for a position that, I believe, I am wildly unqualified for.

Ironically, they reached out to me to submit an application. Will wonders never cease.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 04, 2022 02:24 PM (j8/IU)

696 >>Aka, common rock dove, aka pigeon.

Dove/Pigeon is actually good, provided you are in Manhattan, Montana and not Manhattan, NY.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:24 PM (Fe7iT)

697 I think he was suggesting altering the stuff he already bought for his own consumption.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:19 PM (SH2Zi)

Jah, that. I don't begrudge anyone who likes it spicy, just need to modify my consumption.

I may try cheese and chicken and reduce packet portions.

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

698 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 02:21 PM (SKVme)

I'm sorry. That sounds very painful. I have heard of some personally painful culinary disasters on here. I've just burned myself with hot water. My sister slipped on some spaghetti, banged into a lower cabinet and broke her toe, which is mild in comparison to your incident.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:24 PM (GezNK)

699 I ate at HuHot last week. Pretty good all you can eat Mongolian bbq with pad Thai, Udon, and ramen noodles.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 04, 2022 02:23 PM (drs6R)

My son *loves* HuHot. They are one of the better Mongolian BBQ places.

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

700 the MSM laps up the the crack ooze of Jake Sullivan

one of the main sources of the Russia Hoax

Posted by: REDACTED at April 04, 2022 02:25 PM (us2H3)

701 Well, they were bound to find out what EVERYBODY else already knew. Bastards, everyday ordinary bastards.

Posted by: Eromero at April 04, 2022 02:25 PM (AD5lp)

702 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (GezNK)

Mannix brought up butt plugs and *you're* the one apologizing? Never change, HQ.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:25 PM (FTZYW)

703 Yay, me. Way to go, YD.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 02:21 PM (SKVme)

I'd watch a cooking show like that.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:25 PM (SH2Zi)

704 I get the appeal, but the capacin content is too high for me. I'm going to experiment more since I...bought a case instead of a packet on Amazon. Whoops.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

A bit of sour cream seems to be the magic ingredient which my better half uses when my chili is too hot for her.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 04, 2022

***
Have some honey ready. That's what restaurants use to cool the burning of chiles in New Mexico -- they have a container of honey on the table and they bring you a basket of sopaipillas.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 02:25 PM (txdEq)

705 >>It might matter on the micro scale, though - like if your wife or boss finds out about it.

"Uh, honey, why does Amazon (and google, instagram, MS Edge) keep recommending bondage clothes and accessories?"
-- the wife

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2022 02:25 PM (MmndN)

706 >>My son *loves* HuHot. They are one of the better Mongolian BBQ places.

The one is Missoula is sketch. You have been warned.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:25 PM (Fe7iT)

707 Yay, me. Way to go, YD.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's

According to what I've read on the food threads you're doing it wrong.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 04, 2022 02:25 PM (iPSYn)

708 Huh. I have a job interview this week for a position that, I believe, I am wildly unqualified for.
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Way-ull, the entire Cabinet from the President on down are all wildly unqualified for their positions. Go for it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 04, 2022 02:26 PM (T8gyh)

709 >>Duck Confit...

>>where the 'duck' is seagull.

A Chinese restaurant around here was busted a couple years ago for selling duck that was actually seagull.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 02:26 PM (ZLI7S)

710 A bit of sour cream seems to be the magic ingredient which my better half uses when my chili is too hot for her.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 04, 2022 02:17 PM (iPSYn)

Sour cream! Why didn't I think of that...thank you, will try.

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

711 670 It pays to remember that nobody speaks for everyone here.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:20 PM (FTZYW)

Does everyone speak for no one?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at April 04, 2022 02:26 PM (eGTCV)

712 425 If you've ever bought something subversive or naughty from Amazon, say hello to blackmail.
__________________________

Dildo of the month club ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 04, 2022 01:39 PM (M+Lyo)

It's the gift that keeps on giving, Clark.

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (tu3iY)

713 Huh. I have a job interview this week for a position that, I believe, I am wildly unqualified for.

Ironically, they reached out to me to submit an application. Will wonders never cease.
Posted by: thathalfrican

Take the job. Ride it into the ground. Walk away from the burning hulk and remind them, "you came after me".

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (H4qIP)

714 So did a three letter agency go Ewok hunting?

Posted by: Bete at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (F9322)

715 >>Yay, me. Way to go, YD.

Ouch, YD!!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (MmndN)

716 I'd watch a cooking show like that.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:25 PM (SH2Zi)

Master Chef meets Jackass

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (II3Gr)

717 Yay, me. Way to go, YD.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 02:21 PM (SKVme)

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In many ways, this too is the story of ShainS.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (lvF49)

718 The one is Missoula is sketch. You have been warned.
Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:25 PM (Fe7iT)

Thanks. We might be in Missoula this weekend. I will avoid HuHot.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (Ez6QX)

719 The one is Missoula is sketch. You have been warned.
Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:25 PM (Fe7iT)

Thanks! We might be in Missoula this weekend. I will avoid HuHot.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (Ez6QX)

720 Sheesh. I was offered a copy of the laptop hard drive by a NY Post reporter I was having breakfast with one morning this past fall.

It's not like it required an intelligence specialist to find it.

Posted by: Defenestratus at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (yxV1d)

721 I touched something hot in a toaster oven and when my hand recoiled it jumped into the bar on the front top of the oven. It sizzled and smoked and smelled like a pig roast.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (FTZYW)

722 Huh. I have a job interview this week for a position that, I believe, I am wildly unqualified for.

You're commenting here, so you're already better than any other applicant they have.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (ZGrMX)

723 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 04, 2022 02:26 PM (T8gyh)

Lmfao that is a really low bar. Damn.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (j8/IU)

724 707 Yay, me. Way to go, YD.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 02:21 PM (SKVme)

Well, they DO say it's all in the presentation....

Posted by: Frank Zappa at April 04, 2022 02:28 PM (wtvvX)

725 703 Yay, me. Way to go, YD.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 02:21 PM (SKVme)

I'd watch a cooking show like that.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at Ap

You're mean. But I'd watch it with you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 04, 2022 02:28 PM (W2Pud)

726 Well that was weird.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 04, 2022 02:28 PM (Ez6QX)

727 Today's Actor of the Day is Brad Pitt.

Brad Pitt was in Sleepers with Kevin Bacon.

He was in Fight Club with Helena Bonham Carter, who was in Dark Shadows with Christopher Lee.

More actors have a higher Bacon number than a Christopher-Lee-number. This isn't true for Brad Pitt.

Most notable movies: Fight Club, Se7en, Inglorious Basterds, The Departed, Snatch, Troy, Fury, and Meet Joe Black.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 04, 2022 02:28 PM (44ww/)

728 Pho King good food.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV
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Sofa king good.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022

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I keep hearing there's going to be a new Mardi Gras organization and parade called Fah. Of course the main float in the parade will be for the King -- the Fah King Float.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 02:28 PM (txdEq)

729 A bit of sour cream seems to be the magic ingredient which my better half uses when my chili is too hot for her.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 04, 2022

turn in your Wick Fowler cards, stat

Posted by: REDACTED at April 04, 2022 02:28 PM (us2H3)

730 Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (H4qIP)

Cannot. Stop. Laughing.

At least you guys have middling faith in me. Or less than middling.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 04, 2022 02:28 PM (j8/IU)

731 Flipping channels last night, saw a bit of MASH (the movie) where Frank was getting it on with Hot Lips ("my lips are hot, kiss my hot lips, Frank!").

Anyway, later on thought about Spear Chucker Jones, and was thinking about what, exactly, was 'offensive' about it. The implication is, I think, that a 'spear chucker' is primitive, a savage, or perhaps uncivilized, but not necessarily 'racist'.

It is not literally racist, but maybe the umbras and penumbra's of cultural context make it so?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 04, 2022 02:28 PM (qHuNL)

732 I was way past 29 when I had my first taste of Ramen noodles.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 04, 2022 02:28 PM (BFigT)

733 I feel like talking about some things but it's too close to the willowpoint.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at April 04, 2022 02:28 PM (eGTCV)

734 I touched something hot in a toaster oven and when my hand recoiled it jumped into the bar on the front top of the oven. It sizzled and smoked and smelled like a pig roast.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (FTZYW)

I still have a scar from doing exactly that.

Smelled the same, too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2022 02:29 PM (6FeV1)

735 730 Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (H4qIP)

Cannot. Stop. Laughing.

At least you guys have middling faith in me. Or less than middling.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 04, 2022 02:28 PM (j8/IU)

Look at it this way, everyone is confident in you. It's just the direction of that confidence that differs.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 04, 2022 02:29 PM (z5Vrg)

736 Dove/Pigeon is actually good, provided you are in Manhattan, Montana and not Manhattan, NY.
Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:24 PM (Fe7iT)

Flying rats they are, nothing but flying rats.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 04, 2022 02:29 PM (CcBZe)

737 Posted by: Ian S. at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (ZGrMX)

Welp. I guess AoS counts for something.

In the interview I should tell them without prompting that I post in a well known reputable smart military blog.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 04, 2022 02:29 PM (j8/IU)

738 >>Most notable movies: Fight Club, Se7en, Inglorious Basterds, The Departed, Snatch, Troy, Fury, and Meet Joe Black.

A River Runs Through It

(that's what she said)

Posted by: Lizzy at April 04, 2022 02:29 PM (MmndN)

739 I touched something hot in a toaster oven and when my hand recoiled it jumped into the bar on the front top of the oven. It sizzled and smoked and smelled like a pig roast.

Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (FTZYW)

Pro tip: Do not do this. Especially around Cannibal Bob.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:29 PM (SH2Zi)

740 Noodus Amber Athey

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 04, 2022 02:29 PM (txdEq)

741 Well that was weird.
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 04, 2022 02:28 PM (Ez6QX)

I didn't do it.......

Posted by: Sponge - FJB at April 04, 2022 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

742 Mannix brought up butt plugs and *you're* the one apologizing? Never change, HQ.
Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:25 PM (FTZYW)

I didn't see that episode.
Did he get knocked out?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 04, 2022 02:30 PM (qHuNL)

743 714 So did a three letter agency go Ewok hunting?

Posted by: Bete at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (F9322)

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As a Victor Davis Hanson Distinguished Fartclam Scholar, Ace is being interviewed to replace Jonah as the Assness Chair.

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 04, 2022 02:30 PM (lvF49)

744 >>Flying rats they are, nothing but flying rats.

In NYC.

In a riverside field of wheat in MT, they are Doves.

Posted by: garrett at April 04, 2022 02:30 PM (Fe7iT)

745 "Passive Nazi" is an unintentionally hilarious thing to accuse someone of.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 04, 2022 02:30 PM (44ww/)

746
Sour cream! Why didn't I think of that...thank you, will try.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Hope it works... next time I go visit my Brother in Ferndale I'll let you buy me a beer.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 04, 2022 02:30 PM (iPSYn)

747 Posted by: ... at April 04, 2022 02:27 PM (FTZYW)

Ouch' I've gotten some bad shocks , but I didn't electrocute myself or have burning flesh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:31 PM (GezNK)

748 A Chinese restaurant around here was busted a couple years ago for selling duck that was actually seagull.
Posted by: JackStraw

Bad juju if you are the Western United States.
Everything west of the Mississippi.
The broad that heads up the US Fish & Wildlife Service was nicknamed The Wicked Witch of the West.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 04, 2022 02:31 PM (H4qIP)

749
Anyway, later on thought about Spear Chucker Jones, and was thinking about what, exactly, was 'offensive' about it. The implication is, I think, that a 'spear chucker' is primitive, a savage, or perhaps uncivilized, but not necessarily 'racist'.
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I don't know if they explained it in the movie, but in the novel, Spearchucker got his nic because he threw the javelin in college sport.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 04, 2022 02:31 PM (T8gyh)

750 I've not perused the comments, so, my hot take is probably a repeat:

Whatever three letter agency inquired about the hard drive is trying to recover whatever shreds of their integrity may still exist.

In no way shape or form did that three letter agency really care about Biden being selected.

If the agency truly thought there was an issue, there were other ways to get the information out about the hard drive so as to prevent Biden being installed.

But, sure, a year after the deed was done, now this is coming out? Yeah, pull the other one.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at April 04, 2022 02:31 PM (5pTK/)

751 >>In NYC.

>>In a riverside field of wheat in MT, they are Doves.

I had "dove" in an outdoor Vietnamese restaurant in China. The whole area was covered with them. They just set up traps and voila.

Not terrible but not my favorite.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 04, 2022 02:32 PM (ZLI7S)

752 In the interview I should tell them without prompting that I post in a well known reputable smart military blog.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at April 04, 2022 02:29 PM (j8/IU)

We will vouch for you. Or break kneecaps, whichever is necessary.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur, homeschooler at April 04, 2022 02:32 PM (SH2Zi)

753 Hope it works... next time I go visit my Brother in Ferndale I'll let you buy me a beer.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 04, 2022 02:30 PM (iPSYn)

Sounds good

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 04, 2022 02:33 PM (XvPQV)

754
which is mild in comparison to your incident.

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Not bad, all things considered. Some swelling and band-aids. I mostly got out of the way, so no broken bones or severe burns.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 02:33 PM (SKVme)

755 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 04, 2022 02:33 PM (SKVme)

I am glad to hear that YD.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:36 PM (GezNK)

756 I was making tea in a travel mug one morning before work. Still wearing sweatpants. Poured the hot water into the mug, then as i went to return the electric kettle to its base i knocked over the mug full of freshly boiled water, which splashed all over my leg and soaked into my pants, which held the boiling water against my leg. Had one hell of a scald burn all over my knee. Took forever to heal up.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2022 02:38 PM (6FeV1)

757 I guess scalding is probably the most common kitchen injury for someone who is not a professional chef. Sorry, W-O.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 04, 2022 02:40 PM (GezNK)

758 Nothing beats the fresh noodles I pluck from the wild Ramen trees just up the road...

Now if I could figure out how to plant flavor packets.

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at April 04, 2022 02:43 PM (Vu7A1)

759 The dirty little secret is that hand made ramen noodles are never "hand" made....

You have to knead the dough with your feet because it's so stiff.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2022 02:45 PM (6FeV1)

760 731 Flipping channels last night, saw a bit of MASH (the movie) where Frank was getting it on with Hot Lips ("my lips are hot, kiss my hot lips, Frank!").

Anyway, later on thought about Spear Chucker Jones, and was thinking about what, exactly, was 'offensive' about it. The implication is, I think, that a 'spear chucker' is primitive, a savage, or perhaps uncivilized, but not necessarily 'racist'.

It is not literally racist, but maybe the umbras and penumbra's of cultural context make it so?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 04, 2022 02:28 PM (qHuNL)

The term "spear-chucker" was always pretty much anti-black racist (at least in the 60s).

MASH the movie was infinitely better than the TV show. I still use the phrase "the pros from Dover" on a weekly basis....

Posted by: Frank Zappa at April 04, 2022 02:47 PM (wtvvX)

761 It is kind of dumb really, because i can't think of a single culture in human history who didn't have some form of spear as a weapon.

Also, pancakes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 04, 2022 02:49 PM (6FeV1)

762 Not knowing who the f LtCol Shaffler is I looked him up on wiki
He is a buffoon
Who lost his security clearance 15 years ago
Why would anyone want to hire him?
Ace shouldn't you have told us more about him to help us judge his reliability ?

Posted by: Kurt at April 04, 2022 03:53 PM (o7fM+)

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