John Hayward/Doc_Zero Has Thoughts on "Establishment" GOP Liberals Always Stabbing the Right in the Back

Let me quote him. It's mostly good stuff.

But he's wrong on the fundamental issue.

It's far worse than he thinks.

John Hayward
@Doc_0
There is a part of the conservative sphere that has always felt populism is the ultimate sin, only the Left should be allowed to fight culture wars, and genuine conservative grassroots movements should be immediately run down with rhetorical lawn mowers.
There are different reasons why some conservatives gravitate to this way of thinking. Some are paid grifters. Some live deep inside the left-wing information sphere and inherit its prejudices, such as the notion cultural combat is toxic for conservatives but OK for lefties.
Some remain convinced there is a crucial group of "moderates" and "independents" in the electorate that will abandon Republicans forever if they fight the way left-wingers do. Perpetual fear of offending indy voters explains a great deal of conservative timidity since the 90s.
Some believe they can win ideological struggles without sullying themselves with filthy politics. If they just hold their principles high and visibly disdain effective political strategy, people will someday realize the Right has been right all along, and rally to its banner.
Some are quietly fatalist, believing conservatives can never hope to prevail against the absolute media domination of the Left or the vast power it wields through government institutions like schools. Engaging on cultural issues is like challenging Godzilla to a cage match.
For these timid elements of conservatism, the worst offense of the Right is questioning the motives of the Left. Nothing makes them spring into action against other conservatives faster than insinuations of bad faith or sinister motives against the Left.
The Left must always be regarded as the loyal opposition, good people who want the best for everyone, but are simply mistaken about how to achieve these noble ends. Accusations of malevolence or hidden agendas against the Left are denounced as ugly conspiracy mongering.
John Hayward
This attitude holds among timid conservatives even as the Left wages all-out war and loudly asserts there are no honest, sincere, good-faith arguments against its agenda. Is there a political argument on the Left that doesn't begin with denying the good intentions of opponents?

Run through the list of top issues: if you want border security, you must be a xenophobe. If you oppose abortion, you must be a blind religious fanatic or misogynist. If you want smaller government, you're cruel and greedy. Question global warming? You're a tool of Big Oil.
But as soon as any head of steam builds among grassroots conservatives for questioning the motives of the Left on similar grounds, the timid conservatives leap into action. Tut tut! That language is out of bounds! How dare you imply Lefty's agenda is deliberately destructive!
They'll tell you it's paranoia and slander to talk about the destructive agenda of the Left even as hyperventilating lefties are busy laying out their agenda with hundreds of social media videos and vowing to destroy anyone who gets in their way.
A great deal of the cancerous growth of the Left in the post-Reagan era was facilitated by this conservative mindset. No matter how blatant the Left was about its agenda, noticing that agenda and questioning its motives was considered rude, improper, and out of the mainstream.

You don't want to fight an ugly culture war? Well, guess what? EVERYTHING is culture. Everything either feeds into culture, or is shaped by it. The Left gets that, and deployed legions of paid shock troops to capture institutions and corporations while you kept your hands clean.
Too much of the conservative commentariat is exactly that: commentators. They were comfortable remarking on the passing scene, not changing it. "Activism" was a dirty word, something the OTHER guys did. Tossing harmless Nerf footballs of theory around op-ed pages was good enough.
Now we've arrived at the final destination, the fatal terrain, the fabled Hill to Die On: political and sexual indoctrination of goddamn FIVE YEAR OLDS using public money and state institutions - and it's STILL not time to take the gloves off, huh? Still time for tone policing?
Still out of bounds to ask what the Left's full agenda looks like, to question the motives of people who do this to children - and those who defend them? They think nothing of denying the very humanity of all who oppose them - and you insist WE must remain polite and respectful?
It's as if some conservatives fear the Left's true agenda is so hideous - as carefully laid out by lefties themselves - that if we expose it and speak honestly about it, the public will turn against US for putting such ugliness into their Twitter feeds and Facebook pages.
You've got a legion of parents out there, a real honest-to-gosh grassroots movement, sickened and disgusted by what they've learned about public education, enraged at the way they were treated by the establishment when they raised their voices. They come from every demographic.
What that grassroots army of parents needs right now is REPRESENTATION. They're looking for candidates to support at every level. And they need intellectual firepower, ideological support, a movement that understands their concerns and offers a philosophy to illuminate them.
That's where you're supposed to come in, conservatives - from activists to professional pundits. Or do we get another Tea Party debacle where the grassroots gets trashed by the establishment and left to the mercy of grifters because they threatened to rock the boat too hard? /end

He's far too charitable. In a post all about doubting the good faith of the left, he seems to have a blind spot as far as doubting the good faith of the left's frequent allies, the GOP "Establishment."

He casts this as the "Establishment" actually supporting the right's policy positions, but being too cowardly and too weak to stand up to the media to push for them.

In fact, the "Establishment" despises the right's positions. They are liberals. They always say the same thing: "Guys we're totally on your siiiiiiide on this issue, it's just not the right tiiiiiime for this, we have to worry about the meeeeeedia..."

But they're not on our side. They support the leftwing position -- they're just too chickenshit to say so. Instead, they use the left as a bogeyman to frighten the right from pushing for its own interests and agenda.

That's why they are so supportive of the left and constantly defend them from "unfair" attacks like calling them "groomers:" Because 1, the "Establishment" (liberal) GOP needs the left to fight for the leftwing position on issues, because the fake pseudoright cannot fight openly for these positions but wants them to prevail, and, of course, 2, slurs like "Groomer" also apply to the pseudoright.

They claim they're selflessly defending their political enemies, the left, from these attacks. But that's doubly a lie: The left are not their political enemies, but their primary political allies, and they're not defending just the left from the "groomer" insult: They're defending themselves, because they approve of grooming.

David French is screaming that he's defending the left from the groomer insult while himself defending all the grooming that the actual right objects to.

For anyone who still believes that the "Establishment" just avoids taking the right side in culture war issues out of fear of losing elections -- as opposed to simply supporting the left's side in culture war issues -- consider what they're willing to do when someone, like Trump, outrages them and threatens their monopoly:

They're willing --eager, even -- to throw elections to the Democrats. They're willing -- again, eager -- to Burn It All Down.

So you tell me: If they really are on the right's side of, say, immigration, why are they worried about the media destroying us and causing us to lose elections? They have demonstrated for six straight years they are completely willing to cede elections to Democrats, and even vote and campaign for Democrats, when the right upsets them by advancing a rightist agenda.

They're not "timid." They're not afraid of culture wars -- as we see in the case of David French and Jonah Goldberg and AllahPundit, they are in fact snarling beligerents in the culture wars.

They're just fighting them for the other side.

Yes, their preferred method of fighting the culture war is in the coward's way of embedding themselves in the right as saboteurs and destroying us from within.

But, when they're discovered as saboteurs, they are very willing to run to the enemy's position and put on the enemy's uniforms.

Bill Kristol is not "too timid" to fight the culture wars. No, he is a fierce culture warrior.

He's just leftwing.

And AllahPundit as well. I point him out because he is not only a cultural leftist, but he fights the culture war in the same way all culture leftists do: He claims he actually hates culture wars, and then attacks the right for starting them and fighting them.

He pretends the left has not been waging unending culture war on the country for decades.

Because he agrees with the left, and he agrees with the left's own narrative on culture wars: "We're not fighting any culture wars, because our positions are not leftwing ideological positions. Our positions are 'just right' and simply 'pure justice.'"

They deny there is any ideological preference to their positions; their positions are manifestly the just and right way to consider these issues. There is only one just and good position to have on these issues, and, coincidentally enough, they happen to have the just and good position on every single culture war issue.

In this Narrative, there is no "political struggle" here because the opposing political side does not have any legitimate position at all. It is not a case of the left fighting a culture war which the right opposes; it is a case of the left fighting for the manifest public good and the right evilly opposing it because they're low-minded bigots who Hate.

That is why Allahpundit can repeatedly say he opposes "the right's culture warring" while himself taking the left's position on every culture war issue: Because he doesn't believe this a collision of two ideologies. He simply believes one side is simply Right (as in correct) and the other side is simply... evil.

All of these "Establishment" GOP voices believe this.

They do not resist clamping down on the border because it's "unpopular" and the media would "destroy us" if we "go too far."

No, Trump proved that the border is potent issue... and that the right has the more popular take on it.

There are not "two sides" on cancer, the left says. There is just one side-- just as there is only one side on illegal aliens, the border, Critical Race Theory, grooming young kids to be open-minded about their gender, etc.

That's how AllahPundit always disdains a culture war while fighting it, red in tooth and claw: Because there just is no opposing side to credit as legitimate.

If this were just about the "Establishment's" timidity about taking an unpopular side of a culture war issue and their worry about losing seat, they would have adopted the strong-border position long ago.

Instead, the "Establishment" GOP is back negotiating... amnesty for illegal aliens again:

Yes, even though the GOP is killing the Democrats on this issue, Thom Tillis and his gang of liberal "Republicans" is back negotiating with Democrats to amnesty illegal aliens and give the Democrats one less thing to worry about in November.

The political winds are at hurricane force level right now and it's all to the back of the Republican Party. They're cruising to a red tsunami come November. Democrats by the dozens are retiring, so how does the GOP take advantage of all these political winds? They're going to hold talks with Democrats...on immigration reform.
Are you kidding me? What the hell is going on, and what the hell do they think will come out of these talks. It's a trap. First, of course, Democrats want to have a bipartisan meeting with the Republicans. They're going to put forward proposals that simply will not fly with our side, and then plaster the airwaves about the GOP's willingness to hash out a deal to depress GOP turnout and infuriate the conservative base. They'll tease that they're close to some agreement only to pour more salt into the wound. Then, the news breaks about the inevitable collapse of the talks which by then will have done its job by casting doubt and righteous fury among those the GOP base.
If there is one issue that will cause Republican voters to stay at home, it's a deal on immigration reform. We all know Democrats want an 'open borders/every illegal gets citizenship' bill. They're going to play on the Republicans' affinity for regular order, tradition, and all-around naivete to slowly push for this. Will it work? No, but the point now is to make this a 2022 strategy if they can. The Select Committee on January 6 was their original ploy, but that's dead. Too many domestic crises and no one cares about January 6 anymore. Playing 'Weekend at Bernie's' with a bill that everyone knows is dead but seems alive to depress GOP turnout is a hail Mary, but that's all Democrats have. Wait, Republicans aren't that dumb, right? Folks, they're dabbling with this nonsense when they don't need to, and for what? For what? The Democratic Party has only become more extreme.

This behavior cannot be called merely "timid."

No, Tillis and the rest of the liberal "Republicans" are actually courageous enough to tell conservatives to go fuck themselves and die.

They're not cowards avoiding a fight. They're partisans on the other side eager to fight.

And so they continue to fight for the left's less-politically-popular side of it.

Not because they worry that the immigration hurts the right.

No, it's just straight-up because they support the left's position on immigration and believe that the right's position is... (wait for it...)

Racist.

They avoid saying that, because they know they'd be kicked out of even pretending to be on the right if they just start slinging around the Racist slur like their leftwing comrades do.

But the minute they actually make it official and decamp to join the left -- they do start accusing the right of Racism (and homophobia, and transphobia, etc., etc.) as all of their leftwing comrades do.

While they're still pretending to be on the right, they avoid saying what they believe and accusing the right of racism; but they moment they decide they can make better money grifting the left, they start letting the charges of racism fly.

I love John Haywood, but he is just dead-wrong here.

One more black-ish pill for you:

A lot of the liberal Republicans, who are actually neoliberal Democrats, have been forced to unmask.

But only those saboteurs in one area of the movement: The area of actually writing about politics.

The neoliberal Democrats posing as Republicans have mostly outed themselves, because their jobs require them to express their beliefs (even if those beliefs are often expressed in as deceptive a way as possible).

But most of the Republican Party's workers do not have to publicly announce their beliefs. Most of the Republican Party's grifters work in positions where they can be relatively silent on policy, at least as regards speaking publicly about it.

All the Acela Corridor grifters in fundraising, consulting, polling, etc., can remain masked as they continue to work to sabotage the actual political right.

We need to unmask these people and purge them.

Remember: David French used to pose as rootin'-tootin' sixgun-shootin' Severe Conservative himself for years and years before Trump's embrace of actual rightwing culture war issues caused him to show his real belief system.

David French is no longer pretending he's against the GOP's push to get CRT out of the schools because he worries that it might cause suburban PTA Moms to desert us.

No, he knows that suburban PTA moms hate this CRT poison and want to get it out of the schools themselves.

He supports CRT because, get this, he just supports CRT.

And he says you're not a Christian if you oppose it:

This is what they really believe. All the bullshit about just opposing this stuff because they worry we'll lose seats is chum for the chumps.

7 I'm at the point where I think every fight should be fought, no matter how miniscule the issue. It's the Broken Windows theory of policing brought to culture wars: Fight the "little fights", the small shit, just so there are fewer Big Battles that need to be fought.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

They screw us because we let them do it. No, strike that. Not "we." I quit voting for them. As long as conservatives keep crawling over broken glass to vote for GOP Democrats (and they are *all* - all of them - Democrats, at least at the national level), they'll keep on laughing their way to the bank.
They said, loudly and clearly, in every way imaginable "we just need to get rid of Trump, and the rubes will come back to the fold, and we can have our precious shell-game back on track."
I said that was a terrible miscalculation on their part, and it was a miscalculation on mine. They were right; I was dead damned wrong. And when you hand them their big "win" in November, you'll go right back to complaining about how they've buggered you once again.
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Posted by: Ace at 05:03 PM

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1 In before content readers

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 11, 2022 05:03 PM (QYPq3)

2 Most Independents are lapsed Republicans. GWB cured me. That is all.

Posted by: Snake from Bongino Island at April 11, 2022 05:05 PM (dyeT9)

3 Who's the Chinese guy in the bottom picture?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at April 11, 2022 05:05 PM (tgp/G)

4 Of course the establishment GOP liberals stab you in the back, for the same reason as the rattlesnake bites: It's their nature.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 11, 2022 05:06 PM (nRMeC)

5 Hell of a movie review. Cliff's Notes version: do we go see it?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 05:07 PM (H4qIP)

6 so the Hill screencap shows ads for guitars, which i'm cool with. So people will be like, "wow, is ace secretly a guitarist?"

It would be so great if i got credit for being a guitarist without having to do all the work of learning guitar.

Posted by: ace at April 11, 2022 05:07 PM (0G13K)

7 I'm at the point where I think every fight should be fought, no matter how miniscule the issue. It's the Broken Windows theory of policing brought to culture wars: Fight the "little fights", the small shit, just so there are fewer Big Battles that need to be fought.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:08 PM (utMrO)

8 Damn Ace ~~busty~~ beefy content here

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 11, 2022 05:09 PM (XvPQV)

9 7 I'm at the point where I think every fight should be fought, no matter how miniscule the issue. It's the Broken Windows theory of policing brought to culture wars: Fight the "little fights", the small shit, just so there are fewer Big Battles that need to be fought.
Posted by: Huck Follywood,

good point, i added it to the post

Posted by: ace at April 11, 2022 05:09 PM (0G13K)

10 You don't want to fight an ugly culture war? Well, guess what? EVERYTHING is culture. Everything either feeds into culture, or is shaped by it.

I do. I want to get down in the mud, fight the left, gut them & wear their guts as decoration. And that's literally, not figuratively.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 05:09 PM (H4qIP)

11 this is a good post, musky and girthy

Posted by: ace at April 11, 2022 05:10 PM (0G13K)

12 >>>Hell of a movie review. Cliff's Notes version: do we go see it?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 05:07 PM (H4qIP)

Stay home. Verbal is Keyser Soze.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 11, 2022 05:10 PM (QYPq3)

13 Gope Leadership has to be savvy.

They need to accomplish two things. Easing the prog agenda into place while still getting the base to vote.

Posted by: I guess I'll tell them at April 11, 2022 05:10 PM (zUpMx)

14 Read the content. Embarrassed

Posted by: Squid at April 11, 2022 05:11 PM (6C+Gj)

15 7 I'm at the point where I think every fight should be fought, no matter how miniscule the issue. It's the Broken Windows theory of policing brought to culture wars: Fight the "little fights", the small shit, just so there are fewer Big Battles that need to be fought.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:08 PM (utMrO)

They were all hills to die on. We have gotten to the point where we are running out of hills.

What the fuck were we waiting for again?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:11 PM (F/J1O)

16 Russia banned from the marathon?

Dzhokhar Tsarnayev hardest hit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 11, 2022 05:11 PM (6FeV1)

17 Movie review?

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 11, 2022 05:11 PM (ju2Fy)

18 This world would be better off with way less liberals.

Way less.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 05:11 PM (H4qIP)

19 He casts this as the "Establishment" actually supporting the right's policy positions, but being too cowardly and too weak to stand up to the media to push for them.

In fact, the "Establishment" despises the right's positions. They are liberals.
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Thank you, Ace.

Already need a cigarette; this one's gonna be good.

Posted by: ... at April 11, 2022 05:11 PM (dscaa)

20 11 this is a good post, musky and girthy
Posted by: ace at April 11, 2022 05:10 PM (0G13K)

Like an ewok's arm, with a fist.

Sidebar: we need a ace power picture, with a fuzzy ewok hand w/ clenched fist on a field of white.

Maybe throw in some clutched lightning bolts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:12 PM (F/J1O)

21 18 This world would be better off with way less liberals.

Way less.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 05:11 PM (H4qIP)

Fewer.

FEWER.

(this is MY hill to die on. )

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 11, 2022 05:13 PM (6FeV1)

22 Gang of Six still around?

Posted by: Squid at April 11, 2022 05:13 PM (6C+Gj)

23 I'm at the point where I think every fight should be fought, no matter how miniscule the issue. It's the Broken Windows theory of policing brought to culture wars: Fight the "little fights", the small shit, just so there are fewer Big Battles that need to be fought.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:08 PM (utMrO)

This. And it has the side benefit of training your side to fight. You don't take an army fresh out of basic and throw them into battle, unless you are Russia or China, I guess.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 05:13 PM (SH2Zi)

24 I'm at the point that I don't want to discuss shit with leftists. I just want them dead.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 05:13 PM (yRved)

25 Maybe throw in some clutched lightning bolts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:12 PM (F/J1O)

Righteous Indign-Ace-tion

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 11, 2022 05:14 PM (6FeV1)

26 So yes, short answer is they are in on it. It's been pretty obvious for quite some time. They are all globalists.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 11, 2022 05:14 PM (QYPq3)

27 I always get Haywood mixed up with Mark Hemingway.

The other night I was watching his wife, Mollie, on Gutfeld and my wife came in and said "quite looking at her like you'd want to run away to Pirate Island with her.."

I just turned to her glassy eyed and said "Is there a Pirate Island? Oh Lord, let it be true."

Posted by: Boswell at April 11, 2022 05:14 PM (5iUNf)

28 I visited a friend and her asshole husband last week, and he has a Lincoln Project coffee mug. I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:14 PM (utMrO)

29 I agree with you, Huck. Because this is what the left does. They fight everything, EVERYTHING. Every single little thing. It's all big and worth making a fuss to them.

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe 2022! at April 11, 2022 05:15 PM (wyw4S)

30 IMMIGRATION REFORM

HUMANS ARE NOT ILLEGAL

Posted by: wth at April 11, 2022 05:15 PM (v0R5T)

31 Girthy post. On point.

The left fights with the religious zeal of the Jihadi. For them this IS their religion. And, like the Jihadi, they'll fight to the death.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 11, 2022 05:15 PM (BFigT)

32 SKATEBOARDING IS NOT A CRIME

Posted by: wth at April 11, 2022 05:15 PM (v0R5T)

33 28 I visited a friend and her asshole husband last week, and he has a Lincoln Project coffee mug. I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:14 PM (utMrO)

You should have threw up a little in his mug.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 11, 2022 05:15 PM (6FeV1)

34 >>>I visited a friend and her asshole husband last week, and he has a Lincoln Project coffee mug. I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:14 PM (utMrO)

Does you friend know she married a queer?

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 11, 2022 05:15 PM (QYPq3)

35 28 I visited a friend and her asshole husband last week, and he has a Lincoln Project coffee mug. I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw it.
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Does his wife know he is a fag?

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 11, 2022 05:16 PM (yRved)

36 PSA - Brownells dot com has shotgun primers in stock.
$75 / 1000.
Limit 2.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 11, 2022 05:16 PM (0HRob)

37 I visited a friend and her asshole husband last week, and he has a Lincoln Project coffee mug. I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:14 PM (utMrO)

Should have dirty dicked it.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 05:16 PM (SH2Zi)

38 I visited a friend and her asshole husband last week, and he has a Lincoln Project coffee mug. I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Should have asked him how he liked fucking little boys. Light dinner conversation at a fancy restaurant.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 05:16 PM (H4qIP)

39 28 I visited a friend and her asshole husband last week, and he has a Lincoln Project coffee mug. I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:14 PM (utMrO)

So, she is ok with pedophiles?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:16 PM (F/J1O)

40 I'm at the point that I don't want to discuss shit with leftists. I just want them dead.
Posted by: Puddinhead

do you perhaps have a how to for subscribing to your petroglyphs?

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at April 11, 2022 05:16 PM (UgAdJ)

41 I do. I want to get down in the mud, fight the left, gut them & wear their guts as decoration. And that's literally, not figuratively.
Posted by: rickb223

The Left hates you, hates a virtuous life, and generally hates themselves.
Their fundamental nihilism illuminates (or perhaps, darkens) everything that they do.
Some are probably not truly aware of just what is at stake, so this week it was one thing, and then another.

This past weekend was my son's birthday. We went out to lunch together on Sunday. He has a son (my grandson), and I picked him up (4 year old grandson) and hugged him as they were leaving the restaurant.
I am fighting for my grandson's right to exist as a free human being. Not as a slave of the cruel Leftist idealogues, who want to make him into something horrible.
And yes, they want him to be a slave. To CRT, to the Covid19 Plandemic, to all the other evils that Joe Biden (Weekend at Bernie's President) and the more snarling denizens of the Left can dream up.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....lost in a lost world at April 11, 2022 05:16 PM (vcOmj)

42 Russia banned from the marathon?

Dzhokhar Tsarnayev hardest hit.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 11, 2022 05:11 PM (6FeV1)
.......

hit like a speed bump.

Posted by: wth at April 11, 2022 05:16 PM (v0R5T)

43 I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:14 PM (utMrO)

Next time throw up in his mouth...it's more effective.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 11, 2022 05:17 PM (XIJ/X)

44 38 I visited a friend and her asshole husband last week, and he has a Lincoln Project coffee mug. I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:14 PM (utMrO)

Should have dirty dicked it.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 05:16 PM (SH2Zi)

It's that new, soft, smelly kind of biscotti.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:17 PM (F/J1O)

45 PSA - Brownells dot com has shotgun primers in stock.
$75 / 1000.
Limit 2.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 11, 2022 05:16 PM (0HRob)

Nice. MidwayUSA has Winchester SR 6 1/2 in stock.

I need large rifle, small pistol, large pistol, and large pistol magnum.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 05:17 PM (SH2Zi)

46 I agree with everything Ace had to say, including the guitar stuff which is weaksauce but I'm weaksauce sometimes too.

I always was puzzled why so damn few people wanted to fight for social conservatism. Why Derb got shoved out? Why Jonah Goldberg felches for his wife's bulls?

Nobody who wore a suit for a living wanted to fight against gay marriage, or in favor of Bible studies after school, or just fight at all.

There aren't two sides in DC. There's one side. They're all one incestous family and they're making us pay for Pornhub premium.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 11, 2022 05:18 PM (XvPQV)

47 7 I'm at the point where I think every fight should be fought, no matter how miniscule the issue. It's the Broken Windows theory of policing brought to culture wars: Fight the "little fights", the small shit, just so there are fewer Big Battles that need to be fought.
Posted by: Huck Follywood,

And yet people still don't understand why Trump had to establish his penis size in an early debate. They idiotically think it was "ego".

He was going to be running against a *woman*. They were getting ready to emasculate him. And they would have. They would have done an SNL bit about how he had no penis. Or she would have had a scripted line implying things about a tiny member in the first debate. And once that image was burnished in people's minds, it would have been nearly impossible to shake loose from against a female opponent.

Trump GOT this. Whatever his faults, he lit the way for anyone who wants to follow. And he still takes shit for it, from people on his own side. It is not an easy path.

Posted by: ... at April 11, 2022 05:18 PM (dscaa)

48 43 I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:14 PM (utMrO)

Next time throw up in his mouth...it's more effective.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 11, 2022 05:17 PM (XIJ/X)

Kinky.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:18 PM (F/J1O)

49 I may have gone too far, in one or two places.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 11, 2022 05:18 PM (XvPQV)

50 I visited a friend and her asshole husband last week, and he has a Lincoln Project coffee mug. I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

missed an opportunity to 'drink from the cup of respect'...then aciddentally on purpose knock it off the counter and break it.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at April 11, 2022 05:18 PM (UgAdJ)

51 this is a good post, musky and girthy
Posted by: ace

Girthy and inciteful, yes.
Musky? It smell like patchouli oil?
I guess so because the eGOP and our 'conservative' pundits sure bring the odor of liars and pedos.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 05:18 PM (mBybU)

52 hit like a speed bump.

Posted by: wth at April 11, 2022 05:16 PM (v0R5T)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE LITERALLY THREW HIS BROTHER UNDER THE CAR!!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBER at April 11, 2022 05:19 PM (QYPq3)

53 @34 and @35 Horde mind in action
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Horde mind in action

She married him a couple of years ago (she was widowed first time around) and she thinks he's a mostly harmless doofus. I said, "probably you're right...just keep him away from schools"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:19 PM (utMrO)

54 F David French, Goldberg, Bill Kristol, and all the other ass-kissers wanting to be invited to the good parties.

Use the prickliest cactus available while you're at it.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The Air at April 11, 2022 05:19 PM (nBNUK)

55 Musky Ace is best Ace.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 05:20 PM (yQpMk)

56 16 Russia banned from the marathon?

Dzhokhar Tsarnayev hardest hit.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 11, 2022 05:11 PM (6FeV1)

Regardless of one's feelings about the Russia/Ukraine war, I don't think it's a good idea to try to cancel a whole country. It might bring about unforeseen consequences.

Posted by: Thrawn at April 11, 2022 05:20 PM (Rl7KJ)

57 FFS, I am tired of Insty and Ed using the treacher and Iowahawk quotes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:20 PM (F/J1O)

58 Doc 0 used to write in the minor league section of Tepid Gas; I forget what they called it. But he became so famous for his fiskings that he got promoted to the main page, and not long after he'd done a book and got hired by Breitbart.

I enjoy his point-by-point rants, though I did call him down once; he was gracious enough to respond to my objection.

He's a righteous dude.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 11, 2022 05:20 PM (F0YaR)

59 Unions at April 11, 2022 05:14 PM (utMrO)

Next time throw up in his mouth...it's more effective.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

In fairness, he just finished cleaning his wife after a weekend with her herd

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:20 PM (x5ry8)

60 I'm at the point where I think every fight should be fought, no matter how miniscule the issue.

I'm at the opposite end of the spectrum. I was for fighting the culture war back when the right stuck a knife in my back on gay marriage and elevated buffoons like Kasich to insist on unilateral disarmament in the culture wars. In the intervening 20+ years, the culture war has been lost. The best you can do is remove yourself and your family from the larger culture and minimize the damage.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 11, 2022 05:20 PM (ppBhU)

61 Beautiful post, Ace. A keeper.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 05:21 PM (trdmm)

62 I'm at the point that I don't want to discuss shit with leftists. I just want them dead.
Posted by: Puddinhead

And people wonder why I feel so at home here.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 05:21 PM (H4qIP)

63 In short, take your enemies at their word.

Posted by: aelfheld at April 11, 2022 05:21 PM (Zy9Yy)

64 I think that everyone here knows of my inclination to try to find some fair or just interpretation of events other than just "they suck". This can get annoying I am sure, and I apologize because it comes from the heart; I genuinely want to believe that someone is not a horrible person just because I do not agree with what they say, and want to find the best way to take their statements.

And I suspect that at least a small part of why the establishment reacts the way they do is driven by that (see I did it again, Please don't throw the rotten fruit with the hard pokey bits on it this time. I'm looking at you, ...). I mean the majority is probably driven by disgust with Trump supporters, fear of seeming low brow and populist, and fear of being cut off their lifestream of being the stunt "conservative" on leftist talking head shows.

But like me, these guys probably know and are reasonably friendly with a lot of leftists, and know that at least part of the time they mean well even if they are utterly wrong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 11, 2022 05:21 PM (KZzsI)

65 Congratulations. You have arrived at the point I was arguing 12 years ago.

/silently screams in despair

Posted by: Brother Tim, #teamheadsonpikes at April 11, 2022 05:21 PM (OUMaO)

66 Actually was the entire thing.

Ace, I think you need to separate the pundits from the politicians. The pundits are fighting for the left, no doubt there. However, Tillis and Co. are timid cucks who think if they do bipartisan shit they will get pats on the back from the NYT and win more votes. If they thought the NYT would pay them
On the back for building a wall they would do that instead.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 05:21 PM (1Kx8v)

67 But most of the Republican Party's workers do not have to publicly announce their beliefs. Most of the Republican Party's grifters work in positions where they can be relatively silent on policy, at least as regards speaking publicly about it.
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They screw us because we let them do it. No, strike that. Not "we." I quit voting for them. As long as conservatives keep crawling over broken glass to vote for GOP Democrats (and they are *all* - all of them - Democrats, at least at the national level), they'll keep on laughing their way to the bank.

They said, loudly and clearly, in every way imaginable "we just need to get rid of Trump, and the rubes will come back to the fold, and we can have our precious shell-game back on track."

I said that was a terrible miscalculation on their part, and it was a miscalculation on mine. They were right; I was dead damned wrong. And when you hand them their big "win" in November, you'll go right back to complaining about how they've buggered you once again.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 11, 2022 05:21 PM (SKVme)

68 David French is literally the reason the term "insufferable twat" was coined.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 11, 2022 05:22 PM (wb1YC)

69 In fairness, conservative thoughts and ideas are not very popular or populist so they tend not to be a good fit.

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:22 PM (x5ry8)

70 The best you can do is remove yourself and your family from the larger culture and minimize the damage.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 11, 2022 05:20 PM (ppBhU)

You can't. Anywhere you go, they'll pursue you because the goal is to force you to bend the knee to their ideology.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 11, 2022 05:22 PM (wmDcS)

71 55 Musky Ace is best Ace.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 05:20 PM (yQpMk)

When he takes a bath, he looks like this:

https://tinyurl.com/mr2rx5sn

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:22 PM (F/J1O)

72 I agree completely with this and suggest it would be a good idea to take a look at the "Republican" currently leading the race in PA and it might help explain why Trump is endorsing Oz.

It's a two person race at this point and McCormick is a classic establishment fraud. And he's winning.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 05:22 PM (ZLI7S)

73 Trump GOT this. Whatever his faults, he lit the way for anyone who wants to follow. And he still takes shit for it, from people on his own side. It is not an easy path.
Posted by: ... at April 11, 2022 05:18 PM (dscaa)
============
Trump really taught us. I think he blazed a path forward for other politicos, if they choose to walk it. And if they are capable and intelligent enough.

My only issue with Trump is I think he's going to be too old for a second term. My issue with everyone else is I worry they aren't going to be as aggressive.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:22 PM (utMrO)

74 In the intervening 20+ years, the culture war has been lost. The best you can do is remove yourself and your family from the larger culture and minimize the damage.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 11, 2022 05:20 PM (ppBhU)

It was lost; but the culture itself is committing suicide now, and everything is going to be reset. Time to get back out and fight for what's to come.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 05:23 PM (trdmm)

75 0 I visited a friend and her asshole husband last week, and he has a Lincoln Project coffee mug. I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

missed an opportunity to 'drink from the cup of respect'...then aciddentally on purpose knock it off the counter and break it.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at April 11, 2022 05:18 PM (UgAdJ)
******
I would not have held back and pointed out that they are nothing but a bunch of grifting pedophiles and that unfortunately he fell for their scam.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 11, 2022 05:23 PM (NpAcC)

76 So how many stars is this movie again?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 05:23 PM (gj5vL)

77 Bruce Fenton bitcoin hustler and republican candidate for senate compares Zelensky to Osama Bin Ladin.

Posted by: carly at April 11, 2022 05:23 PM (NobeD)

78 There aren't two sides in DC. There's one side. They're all one incestous family and they're making us pay for Pornhub premium.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 11, 2022 05:18 PM (XvPQV)

They call it "Congress" for a reason.

Posted by: ... at April 11, 2022 05:23 PM (dscaa)

79 McCormick is a classic establishment fraud
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So is Oz.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:24 PM (utMrO)

80 "He supports CRT because, get this, he just supports CRT... This is what they really believe." Dude, no, thats what they're paid to say. Its just their job. What they believe / think / support is irrelevant.

Posted by: espinostifer at April 11, 2022 05:24 PM (Uzh5E)

81 David French, now... I am not sure what to think of him. He seems to have slouched his way all the road down to Gomorrah and is part of the crowd demanding Lot give them the angels visiting his house to turk in the streets. He's gone beyond plausible definitions of aberrant behavior as being part of living in a free republic to defending those actions and attacking people who find them distasteful.

He's crossed the rubicon into attacking that which he used to love and defend. He's become the enemy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 11, 2022 05:24 PM (KZzsI)

82 76 So how many stars is this movie again?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 05:23 PM (gj5vL)

Brokeback Mountain, so 'four firm Stelters'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:24 PM (F/J1O)

83 Just checking, has the GOP defunded NPR yet?

I mean, it was the talk of the town in....*checks notes*....1994.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 11, 2022 05:24 PM (wb1YC)

84 Nobody needs nattering nabonds of negativism, nothing is lost, but there is a bunch of work that needs doing to get back to where things should be

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:25 PM (x5ry8)

85 David French is literally the reason the term "insufferable twat" was coined.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 11, 2022 05:22 PM (wb1YC)
================
Is that you, Momma French?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 11, 2022 05:25 PM (utMrO)

86 It's a two person race at this point and McCormick is a classic establishment fraud. And he's winning.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 05:22 PM (ZLI7S)

I suspect many missed the sarcasm when I said that McCormick has been a severe conservative for at least 12 months now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 05:25 PM (trdmm)

87 So, we're cool with David Frum, though, right?

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 11, 2022 05:25 PM (QYPq3)

88 Brokeback Mountain, so 'four firm Stelters'.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:24 PM (F/J1O)

I would imagine a weepy Stelter would be kind of mushy.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 11, 2022 05:25 PM (PiwSw)

89 Vote for Mitch and the boys and they will totally defund npr and Obamacare too. Swearsies!

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 05:25 PM (1Kx8v)

90 >>>28 I visited a friend and her asshole

Oh jes? How you say, "Samesies."

Posted by: The Paolo at April 11, 2022 05:25 PM (0G13K)

91 >>So is Oz.

But Trump seems to think he can control him.

There are no perfect candidates. They are all flawed. I don't care if people like hearing it or not but sometimes you do have to vote for the lesser of evils.

We went through this endlessly in 2016 with an election being a binary choice. It's as true now as it was then.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 05:26 PM (ZLI7S)

92 I mean, it was the talk of the town in....*checks notes*....1994.
Posted by: Azathoth at April 11, 2022 05:24 PM (wb1YC)
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You don't like political theater for the rubes?

Posted by: John McVain at April 11, 2022 05:26 PM (utMrO)

93 I suspect many missed the sarcasm when I said that McCormick has been a severe conservative for at least 12 months now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 05:25 PM (trdmm)

Oh...it came through loud and clear.

But it is a messy situation...I wish Trump had simply declined to say anything.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 11, 2022 05:26 PM (XIJ/X)

94 I suspect many missed the sarcasm when I said that McCormick has been a severe conservative for at least 12 months now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 05:25 PM (trdmm)

I thought it was good.

Posted by: ... at April 11, 2022 05:26 PM (dscaa)

95 >>>So how many stars is this movie again?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 11, 2022 05:23 PM (gj5vL)

Rating will be revealed in Part II.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 11, 2022 05:26 PM (QYPq3)

96 57 FFS, I am tired of Insty and Ed using the treacher and Iowahawk quotes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD
Insty has been neutered since his dayjob was at risk. Special Ed cannot meme so he simply reuses ones well past their sell by date.

Tapscott and Hoyt are about the only reliable cobs there. Green is okay depending on the day. But, haven't seen Bernstein in a while nor Treacherous Treacher direct posts.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 05:27 PM (Iq9dF)

97 I've said it for a long, long time. Back when I first got here - during Romney vs. Obama.

Conservatism is a failed ideology because, at the end of the day, it's the notion that we'll all form orderly lines to the camps - and revel in our orderly lines. Even now ... most folks here would be considered "black pilled" when put in a room against the typical Republican voter. And yet, we still get #VoteHarder every single damn day on this site.

That's a fine essay Ace linked. But it still comes down to something any redneck would have told you ten years ago - you're not free if you don't have the ability to say No.

Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 05:27 PM (PKAiF)

98 Some believe they can win ideological struggles without sullying themselves with filthy politics.

I think Trump and now DeSantis have put an end to that belief. At least for a thinking person.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 11, 2022 05:28 PM (lgeFv)

99 I suspect many missed the sarcasm when I said that McCormick has been a severe conservative for at least 12 months now.

Posted by: Tom Servo

Are you saying if Romney had a son that was a Senate candidate, it would be McCormick?

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 05:28 PM (Iq9dF)

100 86 It's a two person race at this point and McCormick is a classic establishment fraud. And he's winning.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 05:22 PM (ZLI7S)

I suspect many missed the sarcasm when I said that McCormick has been a severe conservative for at least 12 months now.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 05:25 PM (trdmm)

But there is a real conservative in the PA race...and surprises happen in races all the time - see last year's Repub VA convention...all of the winners were "surprises" to the pundits and pollsters...and then they all won the general in another surprise.

If you're in PA, get out and vote for the conservative and get your friends to, too. Primaries are low turn out elections, so it can be won even if Trump sent an endorsement (if nothing else, that endorsement might put the top 2 non conservatives at each other's throat and let the real conservative squeak through)...

Posted by: Nova local at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (exHjb)

101 You can take Haywood to the bank!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (63Dwl)

102 I put them more as weak Leftists

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (2JoB8)

103 >>I suspect many missed the sarcasm when I said that McCormick has been a severe conservative for at least 12 months now.

I'm not even sure it's that long.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (ZLI7S)

104 That piece of shit has 5 sons I believe. And at least one if not many will probably go the Mittens way into politics.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (1Kx8v)

105 He's crossed the rubicon into attacking that which he used to love and defend. He's become the enemy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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He was a hollow man and DC filled him up with their priorities.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (Iq9dF)

106
Conservatism is a failed ideology because, at the end of the day, it's the notion that we'll all form orderly lines to the camps - and revel in our orderly lines. Even now ... most folks here would be considered "black pilled" when put in a room against the typical Republican voter. And yet, we still get #VoteHarder every single damn day on this site.

That is the opposite of conservatism

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (x5ry8)

107 Regardless of one's feelings about the Russia/Ukraine war, I don't think it's a good idea to try to cancel a whole country. It might bring about unforeseen consequences.
Posted by: Thrawn at April 11, 2022 05:20 PM (Rl7KJ)

Word is the harder we sanction, the HIGHER Putin's approval rating goes.

And... I can see the logic of why.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (oHd/0)

108 This is a bit why I don't put much faith in the argument for why Trump shouldn't run based on "people didn't like his style. Or a bit of why DeSantis needs to run because "he doesn't have Trump's baggage." Look for a lot of people that isn't why they don't like Trump. It's the excuse and if he's not there then they will just create a new excuse for DeSantis or whoever the nominee is as they have always done. Its like the old "libertarian" mindset of they would support the GOP if they weren't anti-drug, but as soon as that's off the table or you have a pro-pot GOP guy they will find a new excuse why they're voting for the Dem. Its not a Trump vs DeSantis thing its about the idea that if we just had a guy that didn't have "this one issue" we'd get these people, but we won't.

Posted by: buzzion at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (vMCab)

109 In today's political climate, I'm not a conservative - I'm a Radical. A radical wants to overthrow the current ruling orthodoxy and replace it with something much, much better.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (trdmm)

110 Its just crazy to me that their disgust and hate of Trump has driven so many of these guys to utterly betray and now fight against the positions that they long held, simply because he does and his supporters do. Its the worst kind of rah rah mindless team supporting.

Red Sox fans like tacos? THEN TACOS ARE THE WORST FOOD EVER AND WE SHOULD HAVE A TACO BURNING AT YANKEE STADIUMS!

Yankees fans love pizza? THEN PIZZA IS THE FOOD OF HITLER AND WE SHOULD DESTROY ALL PIZZERIAS IN BOSTON!

In 1984 and Brave New World, the government had to force people to take positions through terror and propaganda. These writers were all wrong. People will take absolutely contrary positions based on what their stated enemy believes, integrity, logic, and past history be damned.

Its like when former Midnight Oil's lead singer was on TV and reversed himself completely in a single minute on a topic, because the administration he now worked for held the opposite position. Its like Colbert's crowd having to be told they now hate firing Comey because Trump did it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (KZzsI)

111 There are no perfect candidates. They are all flawed. I don't care if people like hearing it or not but sometimes you do have to vote for the lesser of evils.

We went through this endlessly in 2016 with an election being a binary choice. It's as true now as it was then.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 05:26 PM (ZLI7S)

When presented with the Conservative Hangman, or the Progressive Hangman, the choice is not binary. Not in the slightest.

You struggle - no, you ignore - the concept of the false choice.

Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 05:30 PM (PKAiF)

112 Musky Ace is best Ace.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 05:20 PM (yQpMk)
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When he takes a bath, he looks like this:
https://tinyurl.com/mr2rx5sn
Posted by: Aetius451AD

to click, or not to click. that is the question.

- macbif

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at April 11, 2022 05:30 PM (UgAdJ)

113 That is the opposite of conservatism
Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (x5ry

This is why I always preferred the Chesterton description of 'Traditionalist'. I'll also take 'Sane', 'Honorable', and 'Decent'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:30 PM (F/J1O)

114 Some believe they can win ideological struggles without sullying themselves with filthy politics.

I think Trump and now DeSantis have put an end to that belief. At least for a thinking person.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 11, 2022 05:28 PM

It proved to be popular with people too. Take a damn stand, popular or not. Stand for something, own it, preach it and let the chips fall where they may. The problem is the swamp creatures and more importantly the McCainMitten wing that want to be the cool kids on capitol hill. They've never had to fight for a damn thing. People have heard the same song and dance from these types for years. I'll vote for Trump or Desantis maybe someone else whom I can trust most of the time. I have voted my last squish and held my nose for the last time.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 05:31 PM (Gpfnk)

115 He was a hollow man and DC filled him up with their priorities.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (Iq9dF)

ISWYD

Posted by: ... at April 11, 2022 05:31 PM (dscaa)

116 Bipartisan Immigration Talks? The talks will go like this:

The Junta: We will close the border, for real, if you Republican Cucks agree to an amnesty for the 11 million illegals who were here by 2020.

Republican Cucks: Welp, 11 million getting ammesty is bad, but it is a lot better than being overrun by still more millions for the next three years. We agree.

CNN, several months later: So far 42 million undocumented immigrants have applied for the no-questions-asked amnesty approved by bi-partisan majorities in the House and the Senate!

The Junta, watching thew CNN report at a bar: Hahahahaha! Another round of drinks here, waitress! Who knew the Republican Cucks could be so f^cking stupid and easy to con? So much for that Red Wave now that we have over 40 million additional guaranteed votes! Hey Alejandro, make sure you cancel those wall construction contracts first thing tomorrow, right?

Posted by: Gref at April 11, 2022 05:31 PM (AMIL/)

117 He was a hollow man and DC filled him up with their priorities.
Posted by: whig

Priorities? Is that what we are calling excrement now?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 05:32 PM (mBybU)

118 You can take Haywood to the bank!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (63Dwl)

You can take wood to the sperm bank.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 05:32 PM (SH2Zi)

119 >>When presented with the Conservative Hangman, or the Progressive Hangman, the choice is not binary. Not in the slightest.

>>You struggle - no, you ignore - the concept of the false choice.

No Scogg, you're wrong. You don't just do nothing and let radical leftists win. You try to build a coalition with those who can be influenced.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 05:32 PM (ZLI7S)

120 to click, or not to click. that is the question.

- macbif
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at April 11, 2022 05:30 PM (UgAdJ)

No boobs or anything disgusting. More mocking ace.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:32 PM (F/J1O)

121 Word is the harder we sanction, the HIGHER Putin's approval rating goes.

And... I can see the logic of why.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (oHd/0)

Sanctions never work, and shared suffering tends to inflame tribal instincts.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 11, 2022 05:32 PM (wmDcS)

122 That is the opposite of conservatism

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:29 PM (x5ry

That's the "no true Scotsman" argument. Also, the "religion of peace" argument.

I don't care about the approved definitions, or the long-winded justifications. I care about what people do. Not even the why - just the what.

Conservatives, in groups, make futile gestures and pick up their own trash. It's admirable. But not impactful.

Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 05:33 PM (PKAiF)

123 No boobs or anything disgusting. More mocking ace.

I am imagining either a really skinny drenched Ewok or a super floofy one

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 11, 2022 05:33 PM (KZzsI)

124 A side thought on French saying CRT is just a race and justice debate, bullshit... CRT is RACISM straight up.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 11, 2022 05:33 PM (lgeFv)

125 Priorities? Is that what we are calling excrement now?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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Euphemisms can oft go astray because I wished to be polite. More quotable to say French bent over and let the GOPe fill him with their essence.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 05:33 PM (Iq9dF)

126 "People of all genders can have abortions."

Classic case of lefttards out-lefttarding themselves.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2022 05:33 PM (Y5qcH)

127 FFS, I am tired of Insty and Ed using the treacher and Iowahawk quotes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:20 PM (F/J1O)

Mainly Ed, and neither are real conservatives. In a nutshell, they are NeverTrumps.

As they say in poker, this is a "tell".

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 11, 2022 05:33 PM (F0YaR)

128 Musky Ace is best Ace.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 05:20 PM

Elon named his second son Ace. Ace Musk

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 05:33 PM (Gpfnk)

129 And yet, we still get #VoteHarder every single damn day on this site."

There's no contradiction there, because as Alinsky himself wrote, any other method to change the system is pure political madness. We're not going to launch a physical, kinetic revolution, and so we either use the existing methods to take back some power or we surrender completely and forever.

And I for one do not feel like surrendering.

Now you change society by changing the Culture, and that is very hard work. You do NOT change society by voting; but you DO stop your enemies from being able to do things like put you into concentration camps by voting. Voting is a Defensive strategy, not an offensive one - but it is VITALLY important.

So yes, Vote Harder! If only to save your own lives from what the left has planned for you.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 05:34 PM (trdmm)

130 There is never anything futile about doing the right thing and being honorable. It might not be pragmatically effective in the short run, but its the right thing to do and hence inescapably proper.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 11, 2022 05:34 PM (KZzsI)

131 The GOP is the Washington Generals of parties. Let the Dem clown around, but when the score is about to count, they start turning the ball over until they just barely lose.

The Elite vs. The People has been a gain the elite have 'mastered' for centuries. Keep enough division (sound familiar) to stay in power. Only the French (of all people) ever really got the whole 'rise up and butcher the elite' close to correct.

Posted by: Legion of Boom at April 11, 2022 05:34 PM (HlStW)

132 wtf does French think "Christians need to hear" about racist CRT dogma? That the Christian Founders did not conceive of a nation based in Liberty? Those WASPy fellows were not escaping tyranny, and establishing a more perfect union?

French loves this Marxist/Racist divisiveness? Or is it more base than that, he believes nothing, but loves the pay check and the platform for stroking it (his fat ego) in public?

Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2022 05:34 PM (Cus5s)

133 There aren't two sides in DC. There's one side. They're all one incestous family and they're making us pay for Pornhub premium.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 11, 2022 05:18 PM (XvPQV)

They call it "Congress" for a reason.
Posted by: ... at April 11, 2022 05:23 PM (dscaa)

Nicely said

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 11, 2022 05:34 PM (XvPQV)

134 Sanctions never work, and shared suffering tends to inflame tribal instincts.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 11, 2022 05:32 PM (wmDcS)

It is hard to make people believe that they can throw off a dictator and embrace freedom when you are calling them all monsters, denying their fundamental humanity, and also encouraging war crimes against them.

It is hard to persuade someone you are not out to get them, when you are doing everything you can in a coordinated fashion with the entire world to get them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:34 PM (F/J1O)

135 Ace Musk

by Mennen.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 05:34 PM (yQpMk)

136 Back in the late 90s, early 00s I was always amazed that Republican office holders never pursued an advantage when they had it, and would always compromise for the absolute least they could get and still claim to be "fighting for conservative goals"

Why...this made no sense! If you want to move in a righward direction you'd be doing the opposite of this!

And then we found out that's because those GOP office holders didn't want to advance conservative goals - they were literally controlled opposition.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 11, 2022 05:34 PM (ESjRY)

137 Conservatives, in groups, make futile gestures and pick up their own trash. It's admirable. But not impactful.

That is the thing conservatism should not be about any group other than those that adhere to the Constitution, groups are foe marxists

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:34 PM (x5ry8)

138 That they called them hills to die on kind of gave them away, if we’d been listening. They thought the issue was a losing one. Which means either that they thought they were losing issues—they didn’t believe in the rightness of the conservative side—or it meant that they were on the side that was going to lose.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 11, 2022 05:34 PM (U+Oxn)

139 I'm sorry, what movie was this?

Posted by: Oddknot at April 11, 2022 05:35 PM (rEYaR)

140 A radical wants to overthrow the current ruling orthodoxy and replace it with something much, much better.

Right there with ya.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 11, 2022 05:35 PM (nxdel)

141 I am imagining either a really skinny drenched Ewok or a super floofy one
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 11, 2022 05:33 PM (KZzsI)

Floofy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:35 PM (F/J1O)

142 Well clarified Whig.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 05:35 PM (iPSYn)

143 Dems : 100% of illegals get citizenship

reps: whoa!! That is crazy. Best we can do is 98%

Next day: email goes out saying how they stood up to the radical Dems on immigration and please send $100

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 05:35 PM (1Kx8v)

144

MY LOINS ARE HEAVY WITH NEED!

BITCH-SLAP MY PROSTATE WITH YOUR DIAMOND CUTTER!

Posted by: Bill Kristolnacht at April 11, 2022 05:35 PM (tRCU2)

145 We should fight the left at every opportunity for one simple reason.

They take losing very, very poorly. It amuses me to no end.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2022 05:35 PM (Y5qcH)

146 110 Its just crazy to me that their disgust and hate of Trump has driven so many of these guys to utterly betray and now fight against the positions that they long held, simply because he does and his supporters do. Its the worst kind of rah rah mindless team supporting.

Because they never really believed those positions. Trump caused them to drop the mask. And they're no longer trying to hide what they want. They're like that one bitch Congresswoman that always claimed to be Pro-Life but the moment some actual Pro-Life legislation came up she voted against it. See they're fine claiming to hold these positions when they know they won't be moved forward, but once its "oh shit this might actually win" they need to let their true colors show.

Posted by: buzzion at April 11, 2022 05:36 PM (vMCab)

147 David French has turned into Jen Rubin.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 11, 2022 05:36 PM (NpAcC)

148 The negotiation should be this. Once 1000 miles of the wall is built we will start negotiating on amnesty.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 05:36 PM (1Kx8v)

149 Floofy.

I refuse to believe that is a real animal.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 05:37 PM (yQpMk)

150 Prostitute sued!

- Joey Soft Serve

Posted by: Archer at April 11, 2022 05:37 PM (gmo/4)

151 Posted by: buzzion at April 11, 2022 05:36 PM (vMCab)

The dead guy speaks truth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:37 PM (F/J1O)

152 The problem with conservative governance is that is fundamentally libertarian. The Lord Acton quote -- "Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought" -- was all well and good, until society eroded right and wrong to a place where what men "ought" to do was not simply a matter of degree but a matter of decency and gutter perversion.

That's where we are now. Not even BIOLOGY is a gating factor to the Left.

So as conservatives, we don't fight every battle; we acquiesce to judgment of individuals to set their own course. But with Leftism flexing its muscles from the bowels of bureaucracy, we find it necessary to fight every incremental change before the whole ship is swamped and lost.

Posted by: red speck at April 11, 2022 05:37 PM (gS3OW)

153 Because they would rather be the nice guy in the room. Of course the nice guy gets killed last but it's all about feeling virtuous. Feeling, not being virtuous. They don't understand the difference. That is the David French Jonuh Challapunt and others world.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 05:37 PM (Gpfnk)

154 >>The negotiation should be this. Once 1000 miles of the wall is built we will start negotiating on amnesty.

No negotiation. Deport 100% of the illegals.

If they can deport Elian Gonzalez, they can deport the rest of them just the same.

Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 05:38 PM (DOReJ)

155 New Traditionalists

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 11, 2022 05:38 PM (63Dwl)

156 144

MY LOINS ARE HEAVY WITH NEED!

BITCH-SLAP MY PROSTATE WITH YOUR DIAMOND CUTTER!
Posted by: Bill Kristolnacht at April 11, 2022 05:35 PM (tRCU2)

Is this the return of the comment bot? I love these.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:38 PM (F/J1O)

157
It's a two person race at this point and McCormick is a classic establishment fraud. And he's winning.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 05:22 PM

How can you be sure? As a Pennsylvania resident I'm sure that ANY poll in this state is coming from the left and so full of shit to be worthless.

The left is terrified of Kathy Barnett. To push her ratings down to nothing is easy peasy for those bastids.

Always, always ignore the polls from this state.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 11, 2022 05:38 PM (dQvv7)

158 >>>The negotiation should be this. Once 1000 miles of the wall is built we will start negotiating on amnesty.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 05:36 PM (1Kx8v)

And once negotiations begin, here is our offer: Get bent.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 11, 2022 05:38 PM (QYPq3)

159 So yes, Vote Harder! If only to save your own lives from what the left has planned for you.

Yet, there's the gear. That's the DNC. And there's the pawl. That's the GOP.

VoteHarder for what, exactly ? And Vote - what - when the results are invalidated yet again ?

There is really quite the crux of it. You're not VotingHarder to save a single damn thing. Not a single solitary thing.

You honestly think the current regime gives a shit about your particular moment in a polling booth ? Please - it's a rhetorical question. Bother, or don't. I'm sure you'll feel better if you do.

Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 05:38 PM (PKAiF)

160 So, Hayward is actually wrong when he says the Right incorrectly defends the Left as honest people with the same values. In the eyes of the Establishment, that is absolutely correct because they do agree on the social issues.

Posted by: WiNO at April 11, 2022 05:39 PM (T4RS9)

161 No amnesty for anybody ever

Maybe ther could be amnesty for hot chicks, but they are going to have to fucknfor it

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:39 PM (x5ry8)

162 It does seem like the GOPs has PTSD from CA after the immigration prop, Hollywood turning 100% (need that cheap labor) and CA going indigo.

Posted by: Legion of Boom at April 11, 2022 05:39 PM (HlStW)

163 6 so the Hill screencap shows ads for guitars, which i'm cool with. So people will be like, "wow, is ace secretly a guitarist?"

It would be so great if i got credit for being a guitarist without having to do all the work of learning guitar.

Posted by: ace at April 11, 2022 05:07 PM (0G13K)

Just claim that you did "Through the Fire and the Flames" on hard mode. Close enough.

Posted by: buzzion at April 11, 2022 05:39 PM (vMCab)

164 >Tapscott and Hoyt are about the only reliable cobs there. Green is okay depending on the day. But, haven't seen Bernstein in a while nor Treacherous Treacher direct posts.
Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 05:27 PM (Iq9dF)

Bernstein is gone? Reynolds allowing that chucklefuck to shit all over anyone who correctly observed that the 2020 election was "fortified" was the reason I ditched Instapundit for good.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 11, 2022 05:39 PM (dH+yi)

165 Local News: Start your Easter early!

It's Holy Week, you philistines!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:39 PM (F/J1O)

166 First you give us the amnesty, then we give you the oral pleasure.

Posted by: Hot Chicks at April 11, 2022 05:40 PM (gmo/4)

167 My view is a simple one. When we start again -

1. Free speech for everyone except leftists and other traitors.

"Oh but that's not free speech", you say. And I say "I don't GAF".

It is the literal First Amendment of the Ellipsistution.

Anyone who wants to use the freedoms of a system to overthrow that very system will have no freedom. Because we are living the result of giving "freedom" to the commie infiltrators right now. How do we like it?

Posted by: ... at April 11, 2022 05:40 PM (dscaa)

168 Am I the only one annoyed by people who tell me that what I do and believe is fruitless and irrelevant, but never suggest, much less argue, a different path?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 05:40 PM (yQpMk)

169 >>Maybe ther could be amnesty for hot chicks

There would have to be some sort of test...

Maybe like the Pepsi Challenge?

Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 05:40 PM (DOReJ)

170 CRT is about as unChristian as it gets. There is absolutely no charitable thinking involved, no "despite my circumstances, I won't mistreat or slander people," and definitely no attempt to love one's neighbor.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 11, 2022 05:41 PM (/+bwe)

171 Floofy.

I refuse to believe that is a real animal.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 05:37 PM (yQpMk)
.......

I think I won one of those at the carnival ring toss.

Posted by: wth at April 11, 2022 05:41 PM (v0R5T)

172 There was an ad in my email this morning from a favorite store of mine advertising Easter gun discounts

Is that wrong

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:41 PM (x5ry8)

173 169 >>Maybe ther could be amnesty for hot chicks

There would have to be some sort of test...

Maybe like the Pepsi Challenge?
Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 05:40 PM (DOReJ)

I don't think we need to set their hair on fire like Michael Jackson. Would be kind of counter-productive...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:41 PM (F/J1O)

174 Am I the only one annoyed by people who tell me that what I do and believe is fruitless and irrelevant, but never suggest, much less argue, a different path?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 05:40 PM

Same here. Also the older I get the less fucks I give about what other people think about me. Oh I also have a twitter account so I don't want to pull rank S/

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 05:42 PM (Gpfnk)

175 Am I the only one annoyed by people who tell me that what I do and believe is fruitless and irrelevant, but never suggest, much less argue, a different path?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 05:40 PM

No.

Posted by: Chuck C at April 11, 2022 05:42 PM (EughT)

176 Maybe the grifter groomers are pissed Trump was protecting the immigrant children? It would explain a lot for the Frenchites.

Posted by: Legion of Boom at April 11, 2022 05:42 PM (HlStW)

177 MY LOINS ARE HEAVY WITH NEED!

BITCH-SLAP MY PROSTATE WITH YOUR DIAMOND CUTTER!
Posted by: Bill Kristolnacht at April 11, 2022 05:35 PM (tRCU2)

Is this the return of the comment bot? I love these.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:38 PM (F/J1O)

New MUMR bot?!
I am excite

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 11, 2022 05:42 PM (XvPQV)

178 Joe Bob Briggs would vote this post, no body dies yet and still waiting on the breasts.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 11, 2022 05:42 PM (sADMr)

179 >>It would be so great if i got credit for being a guitarist without having to do all the work of learning guitar.

Take Carolla's advice. Learn to play one sick run and maybe a relative chord.

Then, just play that and look the guitar and compliment it and hand it bak -

"Man. That one sounds sweet. Love the neck."

Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 05:42 PM (DOReJ)

180 All I know is that if we had our legitimate true president now, we would not have the catastrophe at our borders, we would not have runaway inflation, people would be working, the situation in Ukraine and Russia would be nonexistent. I do however, believe that the BLM and the Antifa would be in full force. So there's that.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 11, 2022 05:42 PM (VGZ9M)

181 There would have to be some sort of test...

Maybe like the Pepsi Challenge?

Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 05:40 PM (DOReJ)

Wet t-shirts should be involved.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 11, 2022 05:42 PM (SH2Zi)

182 >>>There was an ad in my email this morning from a favorite store of mine advertising Easter gun discounts

Is that wrong

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:41 PM (x5ry

It's only wrong not to take advantage of it.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 11, 2022 05:42 PM (QYPq3)

183 First you give us the amnesty, then we give you the oral pleasure.
Posted by: Hot Chicks

Sorry babe, this is not the incel site,

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:42 PM (x5ry8)

184 There was an ad in my email this morning from a favorite store of mine advertising Easter gun discounts

Is that wrong
Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:41 PM (x5ry

Depends on the prices...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 11, 2022 05:43 PM (XvPQV)

185 170 CRT is about as unChristian as it gets. There is absolutely no charitable thinking involved, no "despite my circumstances, I won't mistreat or slander people," and definitely no attempt to love one's neighbor.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 11, 2022 05:41 PM (/+bwe)

That is the problem- public vs private. Christianity has that chink in the armor- the desire for charity and to do for those who cannot do for themselves. The libs use that urge to say 'well, we will force the government to force OTHER people to do things that we will NOT do ourselves on our own.'

This is the horseshit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 05:43 PM (F/J1O)

186 SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY

and Saturday..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 05:43 PM (yQpMk)

187 First off, you have to consider DC a "company town".
The law firms are the kind that meet for drinks outside of the court room.
It's a big chummy atmosphere.

Posted by: SMOD at April 11, 2022 05:43 PM (X5CsJ)

188 There was an ad in my email this morning from a favorite store of mine advertising Easter gun discounts

Is that wrong
Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:41 PM

Well they have sales on chocolate bunnies and eggs and other shit that has nothing to do with Easter so, why not. Easter is a joyous occasion and getting a new firearm is joyous!

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 05:43 PM (Gpfnk)

189 System is designed to work through faction. Truth is, there isn't. Well, there's us, and them, but them ain't us. Remember when Mitt pleaded with, and hand wrote letters to 30 GOP senators who he publicly stated secretly agreed with him re impeachment? There it is folks, they are all Mitt. Romney's just the open one- but the vast majority is "them" d and r. It is only a minor, niggling fear of us, that keeps those 30 traitors from turning their coats.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 11, 2022 05:43 PM (fj2YZ)

190 I don't agree with this latest iteration of Scogg but conservatism is indeed a neutered and useless guide to ideology to fight the left. Let the left have the term because essentially, the right is going to have to reverse the status quo and break the ratchet.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 05:43 PM (Iq9dF)

191 176 Maybe the grifter groomers are pissed Trump was protecting the immigrant children? It would explain a lot for the Frenchites.
Posted by: Legion of Boom at April 11, 2022 05:42 PM (HlStW)

That's one thing that never gets mentioned. All the amnesty supporters only want it to exploit illegal immigrants. One side is votes and the other is for cheap labor. Neither side wants what's best for anyone.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 11, 2022 05:44 PM (Y5qcH)

192 There was an ad in my email this morning from a favorite store of mine advertising Easter gun discounts

Is that wrong

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:41 PM (x5ry

It's only wrong not to take advantage of it.
Posted by: In R

In fairness they did not show any biblical big guys golding guns

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:44 PM (x5ry8)

193 Easter is a good time to buy gun parts. Parts of guns.

Posted by: fd at April 11, 2022 05:44 PM (vrz2I)

194 Voting Harder doesn't give you a damned bit of virtue. It's slacktivism at its finest.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 11, 2022 05:44 PM (dH+yi)

195 Definitely a capitol A, Ace post.
Bigly.

Posted by: Bosk at April 11, 2022 05:44 PM (x6uUk)

196 187 First off, you have to consider DC a "company town".
The law firms are the kind that meet for drinks outside of the court room.
It's a big chummy atmosphere. Posted by: SMOD
---------------
Good analogy, both lawyers and DC regard their erstwhile clients as dunces to be fleeced and laughed at.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 05:45 PM (Iq9dF)

197 "BiPartisan" . Ha! That just means some especially egregious fvckery is being perpetrated on the American people.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 11, 2022 05:45 PM (z7fHM)

198 >>Voting Harder doesn't give you a damned bit of virtue. It's slacktivism at its finest.

Doing nothing but complaining is worse.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 05:45 PM (ZLI7S)

199 CRT is about as unChristian as it gets.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 11, 2022 05:41 PM

Just because it adds a second original sin for a specific set of people and requires begging forgiveness for actions for actions you are not responsible for ...

Posted by: Chuck C at April 11, 2022 05:45 PM (EughT)

200 172 There was an ad in my email this morning from a favorite store of mine advertising Easter gun discounts

Is that wrong
Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:41 PM (x5ry

No.

Now if it was a lumber and nails discount. That would be wrong.

Posted by: buzzion at April 11, 2022 05:46 PM (vMCab)

201 >>Sorry babe, this is not the incel site,

Are you currently Balls Deep in a chick?

I hate to break it to you.

That means you're an INCEL.

Posted by: Ice-T at April 11, 2022 05:46 PM (DOReJ)

202 Just have a big "hot or not" site, then give the bottom half the heave back south of the border

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:46 PM (x5ry8)

203 Could also be they're just on the take. Goldberg has no real world skills beyond hot eating contests.

Posted by: GB at April 11, 2022 05:47 PM (RZsi4)

204 buzzion

That was funny, wrong but dunny

Posted by: Y5 at April 11, 2022 05:47 PM (x5ry8)

205

another Access Point

https://twitter.censors.us/Doc_0

Posted by: zigzag at April 11, 2022 05:47 PM (fmzFt)

206 >>>Doing nothing but complaining is worse.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 05:45 PM (ZLI7S)

I know how to operate the remote at Marriotts.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 11, 2022 05:48 PM (QYPq3)

207 one thing I want to see happen because of "voting harder" - I want to see all 10 GOP House members who voted to Impeach Trump stripped of their seats. 4 down, 6 to go.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 05:48 PM (trdmm)

208 Anybody to the left of me is asshoe.

Posted by: Eromero at April 11, 2022 05:49 PM (CkzT8)

209 I said that was a terrible miscalculation on their part, and it was a miscalculation on mine. They were right; I was dead damned wrong. And when you hand them their big "win" in November, you'll go right back to complaining about how they've buggered you once again.

This is exactly right. The GOP is pretending in its fundraising and GOTV efforts that they are big buddies with Trump and he's in on the big win. These are the same people who fought him every inch of his presidency then helped out in the cheat that gave Biden the presidency.

Helping them gain power back is going to o what, exactly for us? Do you really think that they will block any of Biden's nominations?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 11, 2022 05:49 PM (KZzsI)

210 Bernstein is gone? Reynolds allowing that chucklefuck to shit all over anyone who correctly observed that the 2020 election was "fortified" was the reason I ditched Instapundit for good.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen
-------------------------
Haven't seen Bernstein post in months-I think Bernstein is more or less not going to submit himself to being the butt of the comments on his threads anymore. Althouse's pointless musings still make a rare appearance though.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 05:49 PM (Iq9dF)

211 >>>How the Fight Over Critical Race Theory Became a Religious War

Because CRT at its core is a religious principle? I mean seriously assigning someone inherited guilt, and obligations based on a metaphysical debt of ethical wrongs passing from person to person based on lineage and ancestry is religious at its very core. Derp.

Posted by: mikethemoose at April 11, 2022 05:50 PM (d1FAj)

212 I am in a foul mood. Getting ready to submit my taxes and two full months of my fun money budget is going out the door with them.

There should be a law forbidding Tax Day from falling in Holy Week.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 05:50 PM (yQpMk)

213 Due respects, you're all arguing the best strategy to win a war lost a decade ago.

And this is why we fail.

Posted by: Brother Tim, #teamheadsonpikes at April 11, 2022 05:50 PM (OUMaO)

214 CRT is about as unChristian as it gets.

Critical Race Theory is antiChrist. It presents a system of belief, sin, and salvation that replaces Jesus Christ and the Bible. It creates a system of hateful racism and inustice and presents it as fighting racism and creating justice. It is satanic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 11, 2022 05:51 PM (KZzsI)

215 192 There was an ad in my email this morning from a favorite store of mine advertising Easter gun discounts

Is that wrong

Posted by: Y5
--------------------
Did they have an offer of buying your cloak while selling you a bayonet for your new battle rifle? If so, then they are biblical.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 05:51 PM (Iq9dF)

216 >>>Due respects, you're all arguing the best strategy to win a war lost a decade ago.

And this is why we fail.

Posted by: Brother Tim, #teamheadsonpikes at April 11, 2022 05:50 PM (OUMaO)

Try three decades ago.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 11, 2022 05:51 PM (QYPq3)

217 Due respects, you're all arguing the best strategy to win a war lost a decade ago.

And this is why we fail.
Posted by: Brother Tim, #teamheadsonpikes at April 11, 2022 05:50 PM (OUMaO)

If we've lost, isn't the fail built in?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 05:51 PM (yQpMk)

218 213 Due respects, you're all arguing the best strategy to win a war lost a decade ago.

And this is why we fail.
Posted by: Brother Tim, #teamheadsonpikes at April 11, 2022 05:50 PM (OUMaO)

We lost a lot of battles, but the War goes on. The Left got the upper hand, sure - but now they're about to blow up everything they worked so hard to win. It's all up for grabs, all over again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 05:52 PM (trdmm)

219 So much content in one post! Today is the day that my cardboard membership finally paid off.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at April 11, 2022 05:53 PM (4NlP1)

220 Is that wrong

Its exploitative, taking advantage of confused Christians who put country and party ahead of God.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 11, 2022 05:53 PM (KZzsI)

221 When activists shout "CRT" about ideas they don't like, they're not defending the the faith, they're often trying to block you from a perspectives that Christian believers need to hear. How the fight over CRT was distorted into a dumbed-down religious war.
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Bah, Jim Lindsay, who started his podcast pretty straight liberal has impressed me with his critical abilities more than you ever have, French.

You're a lightweight.

Who's blocking a perspective? Cannot the concern about CRT be a perspective about defending the faith that your summary caricature "blocks" people from hearing?

You shouldn't generally be violating the principle that you're invoking.

Who's "shouting 'CRT'"? What kind of lame-ass straw man are you building?!

I should read your article, so I can fisk the hell out of it.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2022 05:54 PM (krQz2)

222 If French is truly a fan of CRT, then why doesn't he give his job and money to a black person?

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 11, 2022 05:54 PM (3TihK)

223 The libs use that urge to say 'well, we will force the government to force OTHER people to do things that we will NOT do ourselves on our own.'

This is the horseshit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022

And the cherry on top is when churches take the money to do the things libs can't get public union employees to do, like the Lutheran group that was #1 for refugee placements. Meanwhile, government goes after pro-life nuns and closes Catholic adoption agencies that don't cater to same-sex couples.

Christians ought to stand up for each other against the pagans.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 11, 2022 05:56 PM (/+bwe)

224 Its exploitative, taking advantage of confused Christians who put country and party ahead of God.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 11, 2022 05:53 PM (KZzsI)

The people who did that are those who will be told "Get away from me, you evildoers - I never knew you!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 05:56 PM (trdmm)

225 If French is truly a fan of CRT, then why doesn't he give his job and money to a black person?
Posted by: Darth Randall at April 11, 2022 05:54 PM

Or at least his donuts.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 05:56 PM (Gpfnk)

226 222 If French is truly a fan of CRT, then why doesn't he give his job and money to a black person?

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 11, 2022 05:54 PM (3TihK)

++++

In spirit.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 11, 2022 05:56 PM (VGZ9M)

227 Things are so frustrating and awful right now that I'd consider it a huge win if the ratchet pushed back even one click but it only goes one way, ever.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 11, 2022 05:57 PM (KZzsI)

228 She's sooo stunning and brave!

https://tinyurl.com/zaw3s4nz

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 11, 2022 05:57 PM (ZTzFi)

229 On the CRT note, Allie Beth Stuckey has a video where she uses all the pro-CRT language of the marxists and inserts "groomer."

Posted by: Fool Otto at April 11, 2022 05:57 PM (DB16e)

230 Hearhens, rather.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 11, 2022 05:57 PM (/+bwe)

231 We're not going to launch a physical, kinetic revolution, and so we either use the existing methods to take back some power or we surrender completely and forever.

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Respectfully - very respectfully, given that I value your opinions - I disagree.

Voting is a non-starter. The GOP is a stalking horse for the Democrats. Voting for them solves nothing. Worse, it provides the GOP's party (the Democrats) with a hate object. Worse yet than that, it lends legitimacy to our wholly undemocratic regime, and prevents people from forming a meaningful opposition.

I think a revolution is off the table for now, much as I might wish otherwise. But there are a whole lot of other things we can do in between.

One of those things is the annihilation of the Republican Party. And it has to happen before any progress can be made. And all it would take is for conservatives to sit out one election. You don't even have to get off the couch for step one. Crack a beer, and let those con-artists go down in flames.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 11, 2022 05:57 PM (SKVme)

232 >>If French is truly a fan of CRT, then why doesn't he give his job and money to a black person?

He buys Offsets with his wife's Fartclam.

Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 05:57 PM (DOReJ)

233 THIS: Because 1, the "Establishment" (liberal) GOP needs the left to fight for the leftwing position on issues, because the fake pseudoright cannot fight openly for these positions but wants them to prevail,

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 11, 2022 05:57 PM (KItfg)

234 Lutheran group that was #1 for refugee placements. Meanwhile, government goes after pro-life nuns and closes Catholic adoption agencies that don't cater to same-sex couples.
Posted by: NaughtyPine

Now do Catholic Family Charites... they're doing the 'refugee' thing as well, only they call it helping the poor.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 05:58 PM (iPSYn)

235 He buys Offsets with his wife's Fartclam.
Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 05:57 PM

The Paolo.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 05:58 PM (Gpfnk)

236 >>One of those things is the annihilation of the Republican Party. And it has to happen before any progress can be made. And all it would take is for conservatives to sit out one election. You don't even have to get off the couch for step one. Crack a beer, and let those con-artists go down in flames.

Then what?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 05:58 PM (ZLI7S)

237 Right, people conserving a representative republic should always reject popularism, because what is popular--like what could be decided in elections--is always bad.

I think somebody is mistaking "elitism" for "conservatism".

I think a more conservative perspective is that populism has its place. Especially when you're pissing 70-90% of the people off. --Or maybe yet, something held by 70% of the people shouldn't be dismissed as "populism" just because it's popular.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2022 05:59 PM (krQz2)

238
He buys Offsets with his wife's Fartclam.

Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 05:57 PM (DOReJ)

Thanks garret, I thought Fartclam was dead and it made me sad.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 11, 2022 05:59 PM (KItfg)

239 The media loves to adopt the position that their reporting is not biased, it is simply The Truth, and The Truth so happens to be aligned with left-wing ideology. Leftists believe disputing their positions is akin to denying 1+1=2. In the eyes of the Left, conservatives are claiming 1+1=3 and pointing out the error of that conclusion cannot be categorized as polemics, it is simply stating The Truth. It is therefore POINTLESS for conservatives to attempt to sway leftists or engage in good-faith debates with liberals. Liberals view us as flat-earthers. We need to actively invite their hatred and employ their own tactics. Calling opponents of the DeSantis bill "groomers" is a good example. Make them appear nuts with a single word. The Left wants to call us racists, conspiracy theorists, etc.? Fine, suck on this groomers, racists, etc. The Left wants gay men to transform into women? Then the Leftists are homophobes. Debates should only serve the purpose of repeatedly portraying them as extreme, anti-American, hateful fill in-the-blanks.

Posted by: Porfiry at April 11, 2022 05:59 PM (AGWXI)

240 Grilling a hamburger with my Sycamore charcoal can't wait to get it done

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2022 06:00 PM (2JoB8)

241 >>Then what?

The Killing can start?
I really want to get to that part of the program. There's a lotta people who need killin'.

Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 06:00 PM (DOReJ)

242 Now do Catholic Family Charites... they're doing the 'refugee' thing as well, only they call it helping the poor.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 05:58 PM

Yep, and they get PAID by the government per person to do so. Yea, no conflict there, oh and then we get to pay for their shit for years and if you raise a voice you are rayyciss or xenophobic! Hater!

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 06:00 PM (Gpfnk)

243 She's sooo stunning and brave!

https://tinyurl.com/zaw3s4nz
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 11, 2022 05:57 PM (ZTzFi)

They're gonna need a bigger aircraft.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at April 11, 2022 06:00 PM (xPJvm)

244 FARTCLAM LIVES!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 06:00 PM (yQpMk)

245 The Paolodin says French is a Righteous dude. Paolodin's don't lie.

Posted by: Fool Otto at April 11, 2022 06:01 PM (DB16e)

246 FLM

Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 06:01 PM (DOReJ)

247 I can't overemphasized enough that when we talk about wiping out Democrats in the midterms, that also means their Vichy Co-Conspirators in the Republican Party. If we don't get rid of McConnell and his supporters it will be a Pyrrhic victory.

The one thing I will give Trump's Save America PAC is that they are on this issue better then anyone.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 11, 2022 06:01 PM (+5YjI)

248 FARTCLAMS GOT LEGS!!

Posted by: Clumsy Carp at April 11, 2022 06:01 PM (YFU8M)

249 Bipartisan immigration reform?

No proof of legal residency?

Enjoy the catapult ride into the Atlantic Ocean.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 06:01 PM (i4Gw3)

250 You don't even have to get off the couch for step one. Crack a beer, and let those con-artists go down in flames.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 11, 2022 05:57 PM (SKVme)

If we did that, the Left would do what it has already done in California; pass universal mail in voting, and guarantee that would be the last honest election any of us would see in our lifetimes.

Czechoslovakia did this in 1946; they freely voted in a Communist government. It was over 40 years before anyone in that country saw an honest election again. The same would happen here.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 06:01 PM (trdmm)

251 Stronk Musk

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 11, 2022 06:01 PM (Wnd0C)

252 Someone put a quarter in the blog.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 06:03 PM (Gpfnk)

253
Then what?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 05:58 PM (ZLI7S)

New Party. A party for whom electioneering is PR and propaganda, not a strategy. Tactical electioneering only. Street actions. Mostly peaceful, if needed. Strikes. And on, and on.

No inroads can be made within the system. Forget it. It's useless.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 11, 2022 06:03 PM (SKVme)

254 Do I have the place to myself?

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 06:03 PM (Gpfnk)

255 Czechoslovakia did this in 1946; they freely voted in a Communist government. It was over 40 years before anyone in that country saw an honest election again. The same would happen here.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2022 06:01 PM (trdmm)

^^ I feel like a hostage or a battered wife. I know it's supporting my abuser to vote GOP and...yet... the fear of the relentlessly insane Dems compels me...

Posted by: Iris at April 11, 2022 06:03 PM (DibdT)

256 Yep, and they get PAID by the government per person to do so. Yea, no conflict there, oh and then we get to pay for their shit for years and if you raise a voice you are rayyciss or xenophobic! Hater!
Posted by: Minnfidel

Started giving solely to support the parrish now instead of weekly, and you'll never see anything from us on the 'Charity development appeal' form.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 06:04 PM (iPSYn)

257 Where we, the American citizens, are:

Without any open and non-censored public discussion and debate, along with no votes either for or against by the school board, city, county, state, and Federal voting populations, we are forced to endure CRT, sex education and sex change encouragement and help for kindergarten kids and above, electric vehicles only by date 20xx, free everything for millions of border jumpers who simply say they seek asylum from bad guys in Sh!thola-mala, COVID lockdowns and maskings and forced vaccinations, and moar!

Holee Fook. We are screwed.

Posted by: Gref at April 11, 2022 06:05 PM (AMIL/)

258 Who is that statue of? Famous CRT advocate Martin Luther King?

Posted by: ... at April 11, 2022 06:05 PM (dscaa)

259
No inroads can be made within the system. Forget it. It's useless.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 11, 2022 06:03 PM

Disagree. It can be saved without destroying it. But it has to start small and local. School boards etc. Trump scared the shit out of the establishment, that's why they worked to get rid of him.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 06:05 PM (Gpfnk)

260 Brietbart said over a decade ago, this WAR, he was right and damn we miss and need him so much ot hurts.

Posted by: Gonzotx at April 11, 2022 06:05 PM (1Kcet)

261 Partisan: Dems get 100%

Bipartisan Dems get 99%

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 06:06 PM (1Kx8v)

262 Who is that statue of? Famous CRT advocate Martin Luther King?
Posted by: ... at April 11, 2022 06:05 PM (dscaa)

Who looks suspiciously like Mao. Created by a Chinese sculptor.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at April 11, 2022 06:06 PM (AiZBA)

263 Well this is depressing... I want a donut....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 11, 2022 06:06 PM (wHb9C)

264 And when you hand them their big "win" in November, you'll go right back to complaining about how they've buggered you once again.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Better to fight with Donald Trump and lose than to stick one's hind quarters in the air and be buggered by the Democrats .

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 06:06 PM (XnG/+)

265 "Critical Race Theory is antiChrist. It presents a system of belief, sin, and salvation that replaces Jesus Christ and the Bible. It creates a system of hateful racism and inustice and presents it as fighting racism and creating justice. It is satanic." Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Which is why French should be made to give a detailed "exegesis" of specifically what "Christians need to hear" about the atheist/racist/evil CRT. Show what scriptures about which you (political nut French) intend to enlighten Christians.

Spell it out Frenchy ... what he really thinks (I'd guess) is Christians need to hear how wrong they are, and how atheism/paganism is so much better. He loves his pagan gods (which maybe he thinks are "agnostic", idk)

Posted by: illiniwek at April 11, 2022 06:07 PM (Cus5s)

266 Disagree. It can be saved without destroying it. But it has to start small and local. School boards etc. Trump scared the shit out of the establishment, that's why they worked to get rid of him.
Posted by: Minnfidel

I'm almost 60. I don't have 40 years.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 06:07 PM (wGlI0)

267 theres many many rabid lefties at all levels who have joined the Republican party to change it from within. I met a few Calitards who who had moved to Boise and bragged about switching parties to change it from within. there was one rabid old abrasive arrogant CaliHag that ran the ALS nonprofit we volunteered with there who ad nausem said how she had lived in The Colony (whatever that is) and was doing just that. Push push push to the left. It never ever stops. and as we see now there never 'too far' left.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 11, 2022 06:07 PM (KItfg)

268 Well this is depressing... I want a donut....
Posted by: It's me donna

No donuts; but, you can haz egg salad on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 06:07 PM (iPSYn)

269 fartclam just smells dead.

Posted by: wth at April 11, 2022 06:07 PM (v0R5T)

270 Outstanding, Ace, thanks. Good example of why I come here.

Breitbart's "Politics is downstream from culture" also means, "Politics is downhill from culture." And in wars and battles, holding the high ground is fundamental.

Posted by: goatexchange at April 11, 2022 06:07 PM (APPN8)

271 What reformatted Senate do about immigration after 3 million are in?

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2022 06:07 PM (2JoB8)

272 263 Well this is depressing... I want a donut....
Posted by: It's me donna at April 11, 2022 06:06 PM (wHb9C)
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Just had some cheese cake but a bag of kolaches would be nice.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 06:08 PM (XnG/+)

273 Disagree. It can be saved without destroying it.

Hence, why the GOP still exists. You can save it, guys. We can make it painless. The landing can be soft, relatively speaking.

A better justification for "VoteHarder" couldn't be made. Not even from my blackened heart.

Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 06:08 PM (PKAiF)

274 No donuts; but, you can haz egg salad on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 06:07 PM (iPSYn)
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They fed me a chicken salad sandwich after my ablation.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 06:09 PM (XnG/+)

275 >>fartclam just smells dead.

We can rebuild it.

We can make it stronger.

Posted by: 6 Million Dollar Fartclam at April 11, 2022 06:09 PM (DOReJ)

276 Skip, how's your phone?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 06:10 PM (XnG/+)

277 But like me, these guys probably know and are reasonably friendly with a lot of leftists, and know that at least part of the time they mean well even if they are utterly wrong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 11, 2022 05:21 PM (KZzsI)

^^ I think they don't mean their hurtful stupidity but at some point they need to be held accountable for the results of their policies: raising min wage (results in fewer jobs); no new oil drilling (hurts poor due to higher gas prices). And being held accountable means at some point they no longer get "credit" for their good intentions since their actions are demonstrably harmful and simply do not have the end result they are claiming to seek to achieve.

Posted by: Iris at April 11, 2022 06:10 PM (DibdT)

278 The Bionic Bivalve

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 06:10 PM (i4Gw3)

279 yikes. new scam I just learned about from a patient.

They call and say your IP address has been associated with accepting and downloading kiddie porn. Little old lady got swindled out of 25k.

damn.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 06:10 PM (W2Pud)

280 Bongino always says this about DC:

"All Democrats are Democrats. Most Republicans are Democrats."

Not getting any argument on that from me. Not after the last 6 years.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 06:11 PM (TgO2L)

281 >>New Party. A party for whom electioneering is PR and propaganda, not a strategy. Tactical electioneering only. Street actions. Mostly peaceful, if needed. Strikes. And on, and on.

>>No inroads can be made within the system. Forget it. It's useless.

How is it useless? That is exactly what has happened to the Democrat party. Todays' Democrat party bears almost zero resemblance to the party of 10 years ago let alone the days of JFK.

10 years ago Bernie was a crank from VT that everyone laughed at. Now he is the spiritual leader of the party. It has become a Democrat/Socialist party with strong tinges of communism and it happened without giving up their party and starting from scratch which a generational endeavor.

People spend far too much time bitching about Trump's faults and not seeing he is fundamentally changing the party from the ground up. His rallies and endorsements are all about bringing in a new breed of America First people and that's why he scares both Democrats and establishment Republicans.

This is not going to be the same old Republican party.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 06:11 PM (ZLI7S)

282 They fed me a chicken salad sandwich after my ablation.
Posted by: Braenyard

They didn't want anymore eggs so they fed you the chicken.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 06:11 PM (iPSYn)

283 I'm almost 60. I don't have 40 years.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 06:07 PM

I don't have that either but it's still worth fighting for. I am looking into ways to be more involved. I'll plant a sapling for a tree I'll never see become mighty. Give the left credit, they are patient and started small. But they have gone too far and many are getting woke to what their wokeness is.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 06:11 PM (Gpfnk)

284 No donuts; but, you can haz egg salad on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

I'd rather trust gas station sushi before I trust 3 day old egg salad.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 06:11 PM (wGlI0)

285 What the fuck does French think is even intelligent in CRT.

CRT is *nothing* but a regression to Jacobinism.

It was enlightening to me that Marx is not the thing. In the 20th century we've been taught as if Marx was some sort of particular event, but it wasn't. Marx's audience in the 1850s turns out to be the bitter-ender Jacobins who retook Paris in 1871. He was a mere gloss on Rousseauan revolutionism and the institution he wanted to throw down was the "capitalist" (market) system.

Now, that they have pretty much rejected Marx's emphasis on the economy, the redirection toward "privilege" is simply a recursion of the anti-nobility stance of the Jacobins, the people who were truly privileged in the system the Jacobins rebelled against.

It's still the case that "institutions are the problem", and that's why the entire "systemic racist" system has to be brought down. (It doesn't just represent "viewpoints", French, you moron). And the first division of the Jacobins was whether everybody who ever benefited from the old system had to be put to the blade.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2022 06:11 PM (krQz2)

286 I know I'm way late to this but when can we start shooting people in the face?

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at April 11, 2022 06:12 PM (ZNlqs)

287 The GOP can be saved by replacing all of the people in it.

Maybe not all at once, but hey, Rome didn't fall in a day.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 11, 2022 06:12 PM (6FeV1)

288 The hilarious part is watching msnbc or reading NYT you would think every Republican is to the right of Trump these days.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 06:12 PM (1Kx8v)

289 She's sooo stunning and brave!

https://tinyurl.com/zaw3s4nz
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 11, 2022 05:57 PM (ZTzFi)
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My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 11, 2022 06:12 PM (3TihK)

290 I don't have that either but it's still worth fighting for. I am looking into ways to be more involved. I'll plant a sapling for a tree I'll never see become mighty. Give the left credit, they are patient and started small. But they have gone too far and many are getting woke to what their wokeness is.
Posted by: Minnfidel

It's definitely worth fighting for. But I'd rather do something with quicker results.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 11, 2022 06:12 PM (wGlI0)

291 We can rebuild it.

We can make it stronger.

Posted by: 6 Million Dollar Fartclam at April 11, 2022 06:09 PM (DOReJ)

I laughed.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at April 11, 2022 06:13 PM (KItfg)

292 >>Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at April 11, 2022 06:12 PM (ZNlqs)

Your Newsletter. I wish to receive it.

Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 06:13 PM (DOReJ)

293 fartclam just smells dead.

We can rebuild it.

We can make it stronger.
Posted by: 6 Million Dollar Fartclam at April 11, 2022 06:09 PM

It can transition. I had a POS Ford, the 6,000 Tranny.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 06:13 PM (Gpfnk)

294 It's a madhouse! A madhouse!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 11, 2022 06:14 PM (R/m4+)

295 I don't have that either but it's still worth fighting for.

Do any of you ever step back, look at what you say, then compare it to the typical afternoon school special ?

No. I bet you do not.

Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 06:14 PM (PKAiF)

296 Systemic Racism is just like Global Warming. A deliberate lie, impossible to disprove, and acts as both a floor wax and a dessert topping.

Posted by: ... at April 11, 2022 06:14 PM (dscaa)

297 Well...

SMH that finally does answer the question that chaps are well assless. Which is a crime in those photos because that ass needs some cover. Like from a baseball infield.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 06:14 PM (i4Gw3)

298 I'd rather trust gas station sushi before I trust 3 day old egg salad.
Posted by: rickb223

Never trust gas station sushi and always make your egg salad fresh. You can use 4 day old hard boiled eggs...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 06:14 PM (iPSYn)

299 The name of the movie ace is reviewing here is:

"Thanks For Your Vote; Fuck You."

Starring the NeverTrump Human Centipede.

Posted by: Sharkman at April 11, 2022 06:14 PM (TgO2L)

300 We are honey bees working to fill our combs.
It's harvest time and Deep State is coming.

see 1974-1980

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 06:15 PM (XnG/+)

301 Do any of you ever step back, look at what you say, then compare it to the typical afternoon school special ?

No. I bet you do not.
Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 06:14 PM

Clarify what you mean.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 06:15 PM (Gpfnk)

302 Took it to Verizon and guy is convinced battery is dead, actually set appointment up right after work at ubreakifix, it's very near me so why not try it.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2022 06:15 PM (2JoB8)

303
g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 11, 2022 06:15 PM (DUIap)

304 One thing that is clear as fuck about this is that conservatives MUST get active in the primaries and start getting rid of these squishes and backstabbers. Last month in Texas, we had a chance to fire both Greg "All hat and no cattle" Abbott and Dan "John McCain's Genital Wart" Crenshaw, but both won their primaries easily. This is despite a shitload of bad press from our side. Where the fuck were the voters when we needed them?

In addition to other shit like taking over school board, we have to, we must get fucking active during primary seasons and start firing these fucking pieces of shit.

Posted by: Biden Stercore in eius braccae at April 11, 2022 06:16 PM (0hHNz)

305 LOL Anna!

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 11, 2022 06:16 PM (ZTzFi)

306 Otherwise a week out waiting for a battery on line

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2022 06:16 PM (2JoB8)

307 Where is systemic racism evident? Wherever (D) or progs run the system.

Coincidence? I think not!

Posted by: Legion of Boom at April 11, 2022 06:16 PM (j6XFF)

308 yikes. new scam I just learned about from a patient.

They call and say your IP address has been associated with accepting and downloading kiddie porn. Little old lady got swindled out of 25k.

damn.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 11, 2022 06:10
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I got something similar, today. Just regular porn, not kiddie. But it did say they have video of me "pleasuring" myself. Gonna send it to the world and ruin my life if I don't pony up $1,500 to their account in bitcoin. I deleted it.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 11, 2022 06:16 PM (ju2Fy)

309 The conservative establishment still fights as if we normally win the White House every cycle with 49 states.

Like we can afford to have some sort of "Geneva Convention" type rules of engagement that we're forced to follow, but our enemies do not and we just hav to accept a certain amount of collateral damage to keep the moral high ground.

I could maybe understand this way of thinking 30+ years ago, but not now.

Posted by: Blago at April 11, 2022 06:17 PM (PwNLq)

310 No. I bet you do not.
Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 06:14 PM (PKAiF)

What the fuck is your point, scoggins, outside of generic off-the-rack shit stirring?

Dammit, man, I've seen your work at its highest heights. You're an artist. You're better than this.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 11, 2022 06:17 PM (6FeV1)

311 >>I got something similar, today. Just regular porn, not kiddie. But it did say they have video of me "pleasuring" myself.

You are officially a Content Creator!

Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 06:17 PM (DOReJ)

312 304 One thing that is clear as fuck about this is that conservatives MUST get active in the primaries and start getting rid of these squishes and backstabbers.

Would be great... Not gonna happen... At least as much as we would like... Hell.. It even looks like Liz Cheney may pull out a win in Wyoming....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 11, 2022 06:17 PM (wHb9C)

313
{{{SMH!!!}}}

Posted by: Braenyard at April 11, 2022 06:18 PM (XnG/+)

314 People spend far too much time bitching about Trump's faults and not seeing he is fundamentally changing the party from the ground up. His rallies and endorsements are all about bringing in a new breed of America First people and that's why he scares both Democrats and establishment Republicans.

This is not going to be the same old Republican party.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 06:11 PM (ZLI7S)
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What was my "biggest fear" in 2016 has become a fond wish. I dreaded that the Republican party could be changed into the "The Party of Trump". Now, I think that at least the acknowledgment of what Trump has done for the Republican party is my litmus test for whom I would vote for.

Posted by: Axeman at April 11, 2022 06:18 PM (krQz2)

315 osted by: olddog in mo at April 11, 2022 06:16 PM

Just tell them you uploaded it from Hunter's laptop and you will pay them in Yen.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 06:18 PM (Gpfnk)

316 Heya Braenyard. : )

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at April 11, 2022 06:18 PM (ZTzFi)

317 If it was from Hunter's laptop, that would be Yuan

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 06:18 PM (i4Gw3)

318 You call me up and say you got video of me "pleasuring myself", i'mma demand some damn royalties.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 11, 2022 06:18 PM (6FeV1)

319 dayum that's a long post

Posted by: DB at April 11, 2022 06:19 PM (geLO8)

320 I got something similar, today. Just regular porn, not kiddie. But it did say they have video of me "pleasuring" myself.

Well you can always get a job at CNN. They love that shit.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 06:19 PM (Gpfnk)

321 SMH

Did not even bother to read the article. Saw the pictures and closed the tab. Eeeewwww

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2022 06:19 PM (i4Gw3)

322 You hear all these scams on old people and its like wtf do you lose 30 IQ points when you hit 65 or what?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 06:19 PM (1Kx8v)

323 but our enemies do not and we just hav to accept a certain amount of collateral damage to keep the moral high ground.

If the FBI (big spit) is following someone because they are going to shoot up or bomb someplace the FBI should share that information with everyone that can stop the perp.
Right now they sell them the guns, powder, and then follow/lead them to the massacre.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 11, 2022 06:19 PM (iPSYn)

324 Finally read the Hayward column - he's wrong about French - French supports CRT because a check shows up to the French house for supporting it - period.

French could give flying fuck less whether CRT or grooming or anything else the guy writing French check cares about - it about the check.

Posted by: Boswell at April 11, 2022 06:19 PM (5iUNf)

325 You hear all these scams on old people and its like wtf do you lose 30 IQ points when you hit 65 or what?
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 06:19 PM

Our president called, he'd like a word.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 06:20 PM (Gpfnk)

326 The we have video of you jacking off scam us been a round a long time.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 06:20 PM (1Kx8v)

327 Missed today Buck brought his Monkey Face

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2022 06:20 PM (2JoB8)

328
I only have one thing in my house that could be even remotely considered child porn and that's an album cover by 'Blind Faith'. I didn't like the cover 'art' but did like Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, and Eric Clapton.

Lock me up. I ain't paying 25 grand.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 11, 2022 06:20 PM (dQvv7)

329 Clarify what you mean.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 06:15 PM (Gpfnk)

As in "come on guys, we can't win if we don't even try". You can't get slaughtered on the plains if you don't try either. Be smarter - or at least, don't be so loud in trying to get other people to be dumb enough to listen. Fuck around like that, and some dumb ass might even believe you. Then die.

Seriously - just watch what you say. As in, at least look, analytically, at what you routinely say. When it sounds like some shit from an afternoon school special ? I probably wouldn't even limit that crap as off limits for kids in serious times. I'd just be quiet on that level of dumb. As much to protect myself from being branded a fool as much as to protect the little ankle biters from believing really, really stupid adult fantasy.

Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 06:20 PM (PKAiF)

330 Nood. Quick takes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 11, 2022 06:21 PM (F/J1O)

331
I get those emails from time to time.

I just reply back "ha! Joke's on you, pal. My genitals were burned off in a fire in 1987."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 11, 2022 06:21 PM (SKVme)

332 You hear all these scams on old people and its like wtf do you lose 30 IQ points when you hit 65 or what?
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 11, 2022 06:19 PM

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Who has the money? That's who the attacks are engineered for. If you don't fall for it, you aren't the target.

Posted by: Legion of Boom at April 11, 2022 06:21 PM (j6XFF)

333 You are officially a Content Creator!
Posted by: garrett at April 11, 2022 06:17
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What's the pay scale?

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 11, 2022 06:22 PM (ju2Fy)

334 As in "come on guys, we can't win if we don't even try". You can't get slaughtered on the plains if you don't try either. Be smarter - or at least, don't be so loud in trying to get other people to be dumb enough to listen. Fuck around like that, and some dumb ass might even believe you. Then die.

Seriously - just watch what you say. As in, at least look, analytically, at what you routinely say. When it sounds like some shit from an afternoon school special ? I probably wouldn't even limit that crap as off limits for kids in serious times. I'd just be quiet on that level of dumb. As much to protect myself from being branded a fool as much as to protect the little ankle biters from believing really, really stupid adult fantasy.
Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 06:20 PM

Okay sparky. Lulz.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 06:22 PM (Gpfnk)

335 As in "come on guys, we can't win if we don't even try". You can't get slaughtered on the plains if you don't try either. Be smarter - or at least, don't be so loud in trying to get other people to be dumb enough to listen. Fuck around like that, and some dumb ass might even believe you. Then die.

Seriously - just watch what you say. As in, at least look, analytically, at what you routinely say. When it sounds like some shit from an afternoon school special ? I probably wouldn't even limit that crap as off limits for kids in serious times. I'd just be quiet on that level of dumb. As much to protect myself from being branded a fool as much as to protect the little ankle biters from believing really, really stupid adult fantasy.
Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 06:20 PM (PKAiF)

I literally cannot find an idea in this entire screed.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 06:23 PM (yQpMk)

336 >>What was my "biggest fear" in 2016 has become a fond wish. I dreaded that the Republican party could be changed into the "The Party of Trump". Now, I think that at least the acknowledgment of what Trump has done for the Republican party is my litmus test for whom I would vote for.

Me too. I thought it was a vanity run and wrote him off at first as a joke. He proved me wrong.

Look at the demographical change of the party. It's not the party of the Chamber of Commerce and the country club anymore. No more big business. It's the party of the working man and increasingly the party of minorities and women.

That was the last thing I expected. But I am actually hopeful now that the party is building a populist base of people who actually love the country and care about the middle class. This is not the Republican party of even 5 years ago.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 11, 2022 06:23 PM (ZLI7S)

337 His rallies and endorsements are all about bringing in a new breed of America First people

Yes.

Posted by: The Wizard of Dr. Oz at April 11, 2022 06:26 PM (Xrfse)

338 I literally cannot find an idea in this entire screed.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 06:23 PM (yQpMk)

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Forget it, he's rolling ...

Posted by: ShainS -- They are Child Predators, not Groomers at April 11, 2022 06:26 PM (VPsrH)

339 I literally cannot find an idea in this entire screed.

Neither would Lee Greenwood or Peggy Noonan.

The idea is there. And if you could clearly refute it, you would. That is, after all, why you felt the need to opine.

Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 06:28 PM (PKAiF)

340 I literally cannot find an idea in this entire screed.

Posted by: G'rump928(c)
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He wants to be somebody and his grasp does not reach his ambitions.

Humility is the first lesson that all online commenters should learn.

Posted by: whig at April 11, 2022 06:29 PM (Iq9dF)

341 I literally cannot find an idea in this entire screed.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 11, 2022 06:23 PM

Same, trolls gotta troll.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 11, 2022 06:29 PM (Gpfnk)

342 I find people that have been banned from a place multiple times yet continue to come back with new names to be rather sad and pathetic individuals that would be worthy of pity if they weren't so fucking insufferable.

Posted by: buzzion at April 11, 2022 06:30 PM (vMCab)

343 Ace likes to talk about Jonah and Bill K and all the rest like to make themselves feel better by echoing each other, without saying anything deeper than questioning the relative merits of hot dogs and sandwiches.

Does it make you feel better as well ? Does the echo reverb through yourselves ?

Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 06:31 PM (PKAiF)

344 I find people that have been banned from a place multiple times yet continue to come back with new names to be rather sad and pathetic individuals that would be worthy of pity if they weren't so fucking insufferable.

Posted by: buzzion at April 11, 2022 06:30 PM (vMCab)

I find quitters that revel in their quit to be ... quitters. Quitting because the rules say so is still just quitting.

Posted by: Brutal Math at April 11, 2022 06:34 PM (PKAiF)

345 "You don't want to fight an ugly culture war? Well, guess what? EVERYTHING is culture. Everything either feeds into culture, or is shaped by it. The Left gets that, and deployed legions of paid shock troops to capture institutions and corporations while you kept your hands clean.

Too much of the conservative commentariat is exactly that: commentators. They were comfortable remarking on the passing scene, not changing it. "Activism" was a dirty word, something the OTHER guys did. Tossing harmless Nerf footballs of theory around op-ed pages was good enough."

Are we ready to start talking 'action' in this cultural war or should we just keep reading blogs and calling organizers glowies? Vote, donate, run for office, seek out *actions* that will move the cultural ball. Big or small...just do it.

Posted by: le sigh at April 11, 2022 06:40 PM (ELnqd)

346 When the left took over control of every institution in the US, do you think they overlooked the GOP?

Posted by: Brian at April 11, 2022 06:44 PM (mTw24)

347 they all hate us.

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Posted by: Dora Roland at April 11, 2022 10:04 PM (7kXIs)

349 David French thinks we're a bunch of rubes who won't recognize that he's simply cribbing from Orwell.

CRT is just "ideas we don't like," David? Okay, I'll cop to it - I don't like Marxist bilge, and I don't think Christians need to hear it, not least because we've been hearing it for years.

Posted by: Impudent Warwick at April 12, 2022 04:18 AM (f/6Wb)

350 I have been on here almost 20 years making these arguments since Chimphitler and have seen the evolution of many over to reality including the great Ace.

We are in an abusive relationship with the Uniparty.

Trump, like John the baptist, had his purpose. He is past his expiration date.

DeSantis is not lucky. He sets himself up for success.

Observing Trump taught him what to do and what not to do. We are fortunate to have him.

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