The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 4/26/22

Good morning, kids. Tuesday and of course the big news is Elon Musk's successful purchase of Leftist social media organ Twitter. Welcome news, at least on the surface. One can argue about what Twitter's actual reach is and its effectiveness as a means of mass communication and influence. But considering how it was used since the emergence of Trump in 2015 to embargo not only his message (it was the primary means by which he was able to go around the propaganda/smear machine) but anything else that ran counter to the approved Leftist narrative and meme on every issue under the sun, when seen in that light, the wresting of control of a major Leftist house organ is a stunning victory. The complete unhinged reaction from all quarters of the Left, divorced from reality as they are, only confirms it.

There has been one salutary effect of the weeks-long efforts of Elon Musk to gain control of Twitter, and the debate over the freedom of speech that ensued: now the Left’s foremost individuals and institutions are out in the open about their hatred for the freedom of speech. The authoritarian heart of the Left has been exposed, as has their war against the foundational principle of any free society: the right to express oneself even if one’s opinions don’t coincide with those of the powerful and/or moneyed elites. Barack and Hillary hate the freedom of speech and want you to think it’s a dangerous toy, too dangerous for you to play with. And now three pillars of the unctuous and hypocritical Leftist “human rights” establishment, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have come out against it as well. . .
. . . Deborah Brown, whom Reuters describes as a “digital rights researcher and advocate” at Human Rights Watch, asserted: “Regardless of who owns Twitter, the company has human rights responsibilities to respect the rights of people around the world who rely on the platform. Changes to its policies, features, and algorithms, big and small, can have disproportionate and sometimes devastating impacts, including offline violence. Freedom of expression is not an absolute right, which is why Twitter needs to invest in efforts to keep its most vulnerable users safe on the platform.”
See, it’s all about preventing violence. As the Left relentlessly insists, conservative speech not only leads to violence, but in itself amounts to violence. If Twitter allows freedom of speech, people are going to get hurt. This argument would have a great deal more force if Human Rights Watch had ever called out Antifa or Black Lives Matter violence, or if the “white supremacists” that Biden and Merrick Garland and other Leftists keep insisting are the biggest terror threat the nation faces today actually showed themselves, or if HRW had ever shown concern about Leftist violence against those who dissent from its agenda. But HRW is not remotely consistent; it has never shown any concern for the violence that might arise from Leftist speech. What’s more, the warning that speech can lead to violence ignores the fact that even the most ardent free speech advocate is not in favor of allowing the free propagation of actual calls for violence or illegal activity. Evans is just employing a tested tool of the Left: the claim that speech simply must be restricted, because if it isn’t, people are going to get hurt. This remains spectacularly unproven.

As the estimable Robert Spencer notes above, when three of the worst anti-American organizations, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), whose words and deeds over the course of decades completely belie their names come out against you, it's a badge of honor and an indicator that you're one of the good guys. But that said, to me Elon Musk is still a big question mark. While I have tremendous admiration for SpaceX, I have never been a fan of Tesla. That's not so much because I'm against electric vehicles, per se, but because Musk eagerly took billions of taxpayer dollars from the federal government to manufacture and market it. The same federal government that is now hell bent on destroying oil, coal and natural gas. And all the while, Musk flaunts an image of how his company is a wildly profitable, shining example of free market entrepreneurialism.

The other thing that has irked me, despite drawing the ire of such crooked Commie frauds as Elizabeth "Lieawatha" Warren, is his latent (or perhaps not so latent) flirtation with globalism and the Great Reset crowd. In fact, he does believe in the global warming/climate change fraud. Back in 2017 (ancient history, right?) he Tweeted:

"No need to rely on scientists for global warming -- just use a thermometer"

Well, did he really believe it, does he still believe it or was it just part of his carny act to get billions in government lucre while conning the climate cultists? Either way, it's not really a good look, IMHO. By the way, we're still waiting for his hyperloops, Solar City, and Tesla semi-trucks among other things. And yet, and yet. . .

Meanwhile, Jack Dorsey, the whackadoo freak who, when he was emperor of Twitter banned anyone and everyone who dared Tweet anything counter to leftist propaganda, from President Trump at the most crucial moment of his presidency in the wake of the stolen 2020 election to doctors and researchers who dared question the official line about therapeutics over vaccines and the origin of the General Tso's Sicken, etc. etc., emerged from his hidey-hole in full support of Musk:

“I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness,” Dorsey said. “The idea and service is all that matters to me, and I will do whatever it takes to protect both. Twitter as a company has always been my sole issue and my biggest regret. It has been owned by Wall Street and the ad model. Taking it back from Wall Street is the correct first step.”
“In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness,” he continued. “Elon’s goal of creating a platform that is “maximally trusted and broadly inclusive” is the right one. This is also @paraga’s goal, and why I chose him. Thank you both for getting the company out of an impossible situation. This is the right path…I believe it with all my heart.”

Dorsey is referring to Parag Agarwal, the Twitter CEO who took over for him late last year, who you might recall had this to say upon taking the reins:

Incoming Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who will shortly replace Jack Dorsey as head of the far-left social media company, uncritically repeated a quote in 2010 suggesting that there should be no need to “distinguish between white people and racists.”
“If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists,” tweeted Agrawal, in quotes. It is unclear who he was quoting.
While anti-white racism has become common in many U.S. institutions, including its top corporations, Agrawal made his comment in 2010 — years before the Black Lives Matter movement would arrive to push American corporations even further towards the left on issues of race. . .
. . . In an interview with the MIT Technology Review last year, while he was CTO of the company, Agrawal said free speech was no longer a focus for the company.
“Our role is not to be bound by the First Amendment, but our role is to serve a healthy public conversation and our moves are reflective of things that we believe lead to a healthier public conversation,” said Agrawal.
“The kinds of things that we do about this is, focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.”

Real charmer, this polliwog. Look, if all of this is some sort of 11-dimension, Henry Gondorff long con, it's a damn good one. That said, with views like that, Agarwal has got to be shit-canned immediately, along with the rest of Twitter's "Trust and Safety Dept." right behind him. That will be the tell. But assuming this isn't a con, Musk might be the richest man on the planet and have billions in fuck-you money to play with, but he's going up against the Kalorama Klown Komintern that can and will use the entire federal government to step on you like a bug.

As Churchill once said, “If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.” I'm not claiming Elon Musk is the devil, but I sure know who and what represents the other guy.

So that said, I welcome the "Under New Management" shingle hanging in the Twitter doorway. At least for now.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"From a straight political standpoint, things are not going well for the Democrats. They have only one way out of a historic rejection at the polls."
Fraud is the Only Issue
"My elderly mother was taken to the emergency room in critical condition. . . "
My Nightmare Experience With Cruel, Fascistic Chinese COVID Policies at a California Hospital

THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

"Austria doesn’t support Ukraine joining the EU…ever."
Ukraine Updates: Blinken, Austin Visit Kyiv, Ukrainians Celebrate Easter as War Rages On
"At the same time [inept ideological pinhead Wendy] Sherman, whose past roles in government included negotiating over the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs, said she agreed that the potential threat of Russia using a low-yield or so-called tactical nuclear weapon in the conflict was cause for concern."
Deputy Secretary of State: Russia's Nuclear Arsenal Did Not Deter U.S. From Sending Troops to Ukraine
". . . But absurdly suggests that would have been a bad thing." (Marie Yovanovich, saboteur and mutineer - jjs)
Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Admits Trump Would Have Prevented War
"The Biden [junta] is stopping Ukrainians from finding safety in the false pretense of 'helping" them."
Why is Biden Undercutting Ukrainian Refugees?
"Some foreign fighters have quit because they have to accept that it’s going to be chaos, and sometimes there are not enough weapons, Wali said. The language barrier and fighting in fields are some of the main problems that they have had to overcome, they both added."
Foreign Fighters Describe How Easy It Is to Get Into Ukraine and Get Weapons
"Volodymyr Zelenskyy has given American elites some white supremacists they can embrace."
Nazis In Ukraine
DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL, THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Michael Walsh: "First he killed the golden goose of American energy production. Now, he's selling off the carcass for parts."
Biden Selling Out U.S. Oil Reserve
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Buried in an early-Monday morning New York Times article about Attorney General Merrick B. Garland was a revelation about how Monaco conducted business – and Washington, D.C., lawyer Chris Horner says it raises questions similar to those asked when he learned Jackson used 'alias' email accounts."
Deputy AG Involved In Jan. 6 Investigation May Be Breaking the Law By Allegedly Using Pseudonymous E-Mail Address, Lawyer Says
"Whereas [Mark] Meadows was a bureaucrat involved in the planning of a peaceful demonstration, [Malig-Nancy] Pelosi possessed the authority to adequately prepare."
Both Warned Of Potential J6 Violence, Meadows Put National Guard On Standby While Pelosi Refused Them
Julie Kelly: "It appears Jayson Chambers, one of the key FBI Agents involved in the entrapment effort, did just that. Why?"
Did a Key FBI Agent in Whitmer Plot Attempt to Surveil Steven Crowder?
Robert Spencer: "Every American who values our Republic has a stake in seeing her prevail."
Leftists File Suit to Bar Marjorie Taylor Greene From Ballot Because She Supported "Insurrection"
"A prophetic book that explained a century of broken dreams - and the slaughters they spawned."
Revisiting David Horowitz's Hating Whitey
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"On Monday, Judge Robert R. Summerhays granted a temporary restraining order that is likely to prevent Biden from ending Title 42 while the case makes its way through federal court."
Trump-Appointed Judge Announces He Will Block Biden from Ending Title 42 at Border
"The next president must enact a comprehensive 'roundup and '” policy of illegals who will have entered the country during Biden’s term." (should be since LBJ's term - jjs)
The War America Should be Fighting
"Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, keeps urging the Biden administration to stop the record pace of illegal immigration, to no avail."
Texas Border Democrat: "We Need to Listen to the Border Communities"
"The murders prompted former President Trump and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to visit Long Island, spotlighting the criminal effects of lax immigration and unvetted 'open borders.'”
Long Island MS-13 Homicide Trial Highlights Consequences Of Biden’s Border Crisis
"In video footage captured by Fox News, Mexican authorities wearing bright orange vests were chasing, tackling, and grabbing migrants attempting to cross the Rio Grande River into Texas."
Mexican Authorities Witnessed Trying To Stop Migrants In Unusual Sight
"Swing-state Democrats up for election this year, including Kelly, have beaten a hasty retreat from Biden's plan, with Democrat Nevada governor Steve Sisolak warning the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] that rescinding Title 42 would spark a 'humanitarian crisis.'"
Border-State Dem Has Politically Convenient Epiphany on Border Security
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Chinese state media appears to be preparing the public for such a fate, even as Shanghai’s lockdown grinds into its fourth week with no end in sight."
China Sparks Panic, Teases Beijing Chinese Coronavirus Lockdown
As Beijing demands that more business reopen, companies are trying to figure out how to deal with conflicting demands to keep residents locked down. “Most companies will ask people to live at the factory,” one anonymous Shanghai resident told the press. “But how are you going to do it? People may not be allowed to go home.”
Shanghai Surprise: China Mulls Locking Down Workers Inside Factories
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Representatives from the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) met with Education Department officials on Monday to discuss “how they are addressing students’ academic needs, tackling the social-emotional needs of students and staff, and using funds from the American Rescue Plan (ARP) to help with recovery efforts,” according to a DOE press release.
Top Biden Officials Huddle With School Group That Supported The FBI Targeting Parents
The teacher played several videos for her 8-year-old students that addressed “queer kid stuff,” “pride parades,” “love is love,” and a lesson on Stonewall. One of the videos (below), called Talking to Kids About Pride Month, was pretty disturbing.
Angry Moms Confront LGBTQ Pervert Pedophile Groomers in Explosive School Board Meeting
"American campuses have become the last place to find open debate about controversial matters."
Don’t Say It: An Interview with Amy Wax
"The problem was that a board member decided to read out loud from a book that any student can find in the school library."
At a Fairbanks School Board Meeting, You Could Feel the Leftist Panic
"Is it surprising that parents are unwilling to trust this greasy-haired one-eyed Satanist guy with their six year olds?"
Report: Satanic Temple SUES School After It Refused After Hours ‘Satan Club’ For Kids
The university can implement “special programs” which are allowed to assist “marginalized groups…who experience hardship, economic disadvantage, inequality or discrimination,” according to the Ontario Human Rights Code.
University Will Only Give Tenure Position to "Women, Transgender, Non-Binary, or Two-Spirit" Individuals
"Remote learning has created a population of college students in dire need of remedial education."
Dazed and Confused
"The idea that parental concern is a form of unhelpful meddling in education has not gained much traction, and for good reason."
The Role of Parents in Education
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Durham called the conspiracy to thwart Trump a “joint venture” between the aforementioned parties to flood the government with false allegations in the hopes that something would stick.
John Durham Subpoenas Members of Clinton Campaign and DNC
"The Government should not permit HFA and the DNC to adopt conflicting positions in different proceedings, depending on the federal agency against which they are litigating."
Margot Cleveland: Letter -- No, Hillary Clinton Can’t Try to Hide 2016 Oppo Research From the Special Counsel
“Mr. Trump, I know you take your business seriously and I take mine seriously,” Engoron said, per Just the News. “I hereby hold you in civil contempt and fine you $10,000 per day until you purge that contempt.”
Hack-in-Black New York Judge Holds Trump in Civil Contempt
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"The Bremerton School District in 2015 suspended coach Joe Kennedy, claiming his postgame prayers were designed to cause a spectacle. Kennedy pushed back, claiming he was exercising his First Amendment rights. During Monday's arguments, the justices seemed to take Kennedy's side."
Supreme Court Signals Victory for Praying Football Coach
"The Supreme Court has a chance to make clear that the Constitution does not permit, let alone require, the government to discriminate against expressions of faith."
Endorse Religious Liberty
"Reducing them to ashes is the only way."
Pope "Fiction's" Unholy War on Traditionalist Carmelite Nuns
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"Psaki was pressed about the visitor logs – specifically what Schwerin was meeting about and why he had such access to the White House – during Monday’s press briefing. The press secretary said had little to offer."
Peppermint Piss-Hockey Dodges On Biden’s White House Meeting With Hunter Biden’s Business Partner
"Jobs for the boys."
Joe Biden Just Promoted the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Who Attacked the Investigation into the Hunter Biden-Linked Burisma
"Hallie and Biden’s affair led to the end of Biden’s first marriage to Kathleen Biden. Hallie’s husband, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer in 2015, after which she started the affair with his brother."
Hunter Biden Told Brother’s Widow To Get HIV Screening During Affair
OTHER DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
[Sen. Ron] Johnson’s campaign spokesman Jake Wilkins slammed the group as a "poorly built front for dark, liberal Democrat money" and claimed it has been "running ads misleading Wisconsin voters about Ron Johnson's personal finances and his successful record on tax reform."
Wisconsin Dems Rely on Front Group to Attack Republican Incumbent While Decrying Dark Money
POLITICS
"The ideology making Democrats unpopular is also preventing them from understanding why they are unpopular."
Democrats’ Culture War Is Destroying Their Ability To Govern Competently Enough To Fool Voters
"Biden’s decision to run in 2024 comes as many videos in the last few weeks have shown the president disoriented and confused. On the Monday after Easter Sunday, Biden had to be guided away from a crowd by an Easter Bunny."
Poll: Majority Believe Joe Biden Not Fit for Presidency, Doubt Mental Ability
“For a sitting [so-called quote-unquote "president"] barely into his second year in office to be below 20% in the next election’s preference shows just how low Biden has dropped in the public eye.”
Is This the Most Embarrassing Poll for Joe Biden Ever?
"Fewer than one-in-three Democrats say they want the sitting [so-called quote-unquote "president"] to run for re-election."
Who Do Dems Want In 2024? Right Now, Anybody But Biden: I&I/TIPP Poll
"It is not and was never meant to be an alternative to impeachment."
The 25th Amendment Won’t Fix Our Biden Problem
“He served in the Turkish military, not the U.S. military, and he chose to do that,” [candidate Carla Sands] added. “He chose to put Turkey first. And he has said that the baby’s heartbeat is not a heartbeat, it’s an electrical impulse.”
Watch – Dr. Oz Attacked for Putting "Turkey First," Not Being Pro-Life
Thad McCotter: "There is a more practical [reason] for the Left’s Big Lies, past, present, and future, as the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid boasted, 'It worked, didn’t it?'”
The Limping Truth vs the Sophist Left
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“This shows you just how prolific our fentanyl problem is,” Kelly said in the article. “Every day, people in the Bay Area continue to overdose, young people suffering from addiction, and they’re dying at unacceptable rates. So this is just one dent that we feel we took.”
California Detectives Seize 90 Pounds of Fentanyl: Enough to Kill Millions of Americans
“They were killed because they were police officers,” he added. “Wearing the badge shouldn’t make you a target.” (neither should expressing your first amendment rights - jjs)
FBI Head "Fey" Wray Says Skyrocketing Police Murder Rate "Doesn’t Get Enough Attention"
". . . Johnson offered some sage advice. He advised all homeowners to shoot these bastards to 'save taxpayers money.' And he had more advice. He told the news conference attendees that 'if somebody’s breaking into your house, you’re more than welcome to shoot them in Santa Rosa County, and we prefer that you do actually, [emphasis added].'”
HERO: Florida Sheriff Gives Fantastic Advice for Crime Victims to "Save Taxpayers Money"
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"His remarks follow reports of Twitter considering accepting the Tesla CEO’s $43 billion offer to take over the social media company. According to reports, Musk has secured a deal."
Ron DeSantis: Elon Musk Buying Twitter "Raises the Prospect" That Free Speech Will Return
“Elon’s goal of creating a platform that is ‘maximally trusted and broadly inclusive’ is the right one.”
Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Endorses Elon Musk’s Vision for Platform
Robert Spencer: ". . . the self-anointed guardians of acceptable opinion have for far too long regarded any disagreement as violent, hateful, and abusive. If free society is to continue, that must end. All free people must hope that Elon Musk can actually make this happen. If he does, the reverberations will be felt far beyond Twitter."
Human Rights Watch, ACLU, Amnesty International Clutch Their Pearls in Horror at Elon Musk’s Purchase of Twitter
"The exposé will mostly focus on negative aspects of Tesla. Variety reported that the documentary, which is directed by Emma Schwartz, will explore the future-minded company and their development of self-driving cars."
FX and NYT Announce Elon Musk Exposé Documentary as Billionaire Buys Twitter
“At its root, @ElonMusk wanting to purchase Twitter is not about left vs right. It’s about white power. The man was raised in Apartheid by a white nationalist. He’s upset that Twitter won’t allow white nationalists to target/harass people. That’s his definition of free speech,” raged Shaun [Talcum X] King.
Cry Harder: Triggered Leftists Get ‘RIP Twitter’ Trending After Reports of Twitter Sale to Elon Musk
“We’re back,” Carlson said via Twitter.
Tucker Carlson Returns to Twitter After One Month of Departure
"The nature of the articles . . . focusing entirely and solely on a tiny smattering of individuals who have complaints about these companies, without getting any other perspectives, suggests both stories are not really interested in reporting news, but instead are aimed at attacking Musk. Moreover, in the last few weeks similar such anti-Musk hit-jobs have become to appear regularly in the press."
Today's Blacklisted American: The Media Knives Are Now Out for Elon Musk

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"Leading D.C.-insider news outlets, including Politico, Axios and Punchbowl News, rely largely on newsletters with integrated advertising and sponsorships to distribute their content to key decisionmakers in American politics. Those newsletters are frequently sponsored by Big Tech firms, defense contractors, Chinese mega-companies and other corporate interests."
Legacy Media’s Most Influential Newsletters Are Funded By Some of America’s Biggest Corporations
Robert Spencer: "Another ominous sign that the Left is stepping up its campaign against free speech."
Russia Hoaxer Hillary Decries Online "Disinformation"
"Barack Obama doesn’t want to prevent the flooding of the public square with raw sewage. He wants the exclusive ability to flood the public square with sewage and prevent its cleanup."
The Ruling Class’ Pantheon of Lies
"Batya Ungar-Sargon offers an explanation for why wokeness has become a major feature of American life."
Is the Media the Source of Woke Racism?
"Completely Orwellian."
Report: Google Rolls Out Feature That Corrects You With Woke ‘Inclusive’ Language
"Bookbinder even highlighted the corporate collusion to take down Parler, another free-speech alternative to Twitter, in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riot to rationalize a preemptive strike at Truth Social."
Left-Wing Group Demands Apple Preemptively Nuke Truth Social
"Every American should be deeply concerned by the fact that a few unaccountable big tech companies are controlling the free flow of information."
Facebook Wiped A Conservative Wisconsin News Page After Wrongfully Censoring It For Months
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Israel is believed to have launched several covert operations to sabotage Tehran's program during the past several years and could strike the country's nuclear infrastructure, especially if Iran's program reaches advanced stages of development on an atomic weapon."
War Footing: Iran Parades New Missiles, Drones Amid Threats To Strike Israel
"The brief honeymoon after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was just that."
NATO’s Bleak Future
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Daniel Greenfield: "Our enemies will have a clear field for destroying our satellites." (treason, straight up - jjs)
Biden Unilaterally Surrenders to Russia and China in Satellite Wars
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Boeing’s engineering failures with Starliner have been expensive to the company. Not only has Boeing had to pay out of its own pocket an extra $410 million for this second demo flight, it has had to write off the cost of that first service module. Furthermore, not being operational has probably meant it has lost business to SpaceX and its Dragon capsules."
ULA Begins Stacking Atlas 5 Rocket That Will Launch Strainer on Demo Mission
"The string of amazing galaxy images coming from the Hubble Space Telescope continues. The photo to the right, cropped and reduced to post here, was released today and shows an object dubbed VV-689 that is believed to be two galaxies in the process of colliding and merging."
Colliding Galaxies
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Political correctness is mind-boggling. I’ll never understand why so many people bend to the will of a tiny group of pink-haired dime museums screaming that they are being 'genocided.' We’ve already seen what happened in England; we can’t allow women and girls to be sexually assaulted because a man in pumps believes his rights are being violated if we don’t."
The Left Is Willfully Blind to Transgender Attacks on Kids
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"In pursuit of the intolerable, a once august corporation blows out its brains."
The Disney Divorce
The judge touted Fort Bend County as a “unique place” whose residents “compose the most diverse county in the United States, deliver extremely high graduation rates and are one of the top capita purchasers in Texas.”
Hack-in-Black Judge From, of All Places, Texas Invites Disney to Move Amid DeSantis Feud
Christian Toto: "Comedy's grand gala turns into an embarrassing display of chutzpah."
Mark Twain Prize Honors Propagandist Jon Stewart, Ignores Cancel Culture
HITHER & YON
"America faces a grim future as marriage rates plummet."
Fat and Lonely
"It becomes more difficult by the day not to conclude that it is Western liberalism that the twentieth century ultimately vanquished."
The End of Liberalism?

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:20 AM

Comments

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

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 07:21 AM (9nPZp)

2 And now coffee.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 07:21 AM (9nPZp)

3 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 07:21 AM (yrol0)

4 Top 10?

Posted by: IanDeal at April 26, 2022 07:21 AM (MGjjz)

5 Morning peeps.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2022 07:22 AM (BFigT)

6 Not first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 26, 2022 07:22 AM (bVYXr)

7 Not liking new pop under tab that comes up when you go to comments.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 07:24 AM (9otr5)

8 See, its all about preventing violence. As the Left relentlessly insists, conservative speech not only leads to violence, but in itself amounts to violence.

I saw this starting at UT back in 1980. One persons words could be cause for another person PHYSICAL violence. These were not fighting words per se, just words about markets, or freedom, or justice.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 07:24 AM (yrol0)

9 Everything is a CIA op.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 07:24 AM (reLiW)

10 I wonder why he bought Twitter rather than Facebook? Is Facebook still a private company?

Posted by: Brunnhilde at April 26, 2022 07:25 AM (aW5/6)

11 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 26, 2022 07:27 AM (3D/fK)

12 If they are not gonna make a distinction between muslims and extremists, then why should I distinguish between white people and racists, tweeted Agrawal

I hope the day comes very soon when white people really look at their income and start figuring out way to cut their taxes. And wake up and stop their donations to charities that hate them.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 07:28 AM (yrol0)

13 I wonder why he bought Twitter rather than Facebook? Is Facebook still a private company?

1) Facebook is probably more expensive, and not that much more influential (I think)

2) Facebook didn't ban the Babylon Bee.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 07:28 AM (9nPZp)

14 Good morning dear morons and thank you JJ

The "Elon will save free speech" palaver reminds me of the "Coming Red Wave will Save America" talk.

Let me know when it actually happens. #twoweeks

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2022 07:28 AM (EZebt)

15 Mornin' Mo-rons!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 26, 2022 07:28 AM (X0Dcg)

16 I am sure much will be made of Durham subpoena to DNC and Fusion GPS.

The reason they are being called to testify is that they asserted an attorney-client privilege with Sussmann materials. Not for the core issue of Russiagate - that it was all a fraud to mobilize the full force of the USG on Trump.

That is not what the Sussmann trial is about.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 07:28 AM (9otr5)

17 Well, well, well, now the nyt is worried that the drunken spending spree the Country has been on since covid might have been the wrong thing to do. Seems this inflation may now be permanently baked into the cake and never get fixed without a recession and massive unemployment.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 26, 2022 07:28 AM (bVYXr)

18 10 I wonder why he bought Twitter rather than Facebook? Is Facebook still a private company?
Posted by: Brunnhilde at April 26, 2022 07:25 AM (aW5/6)

Meta Platforms Inc - Class A
As of April 25, 2022 • 2:56 PM CDT
NASDAQ: FB
186.84USD

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 07:29 AM (yrol0)

19 Mornin'. Moar coffee.

Posted by: Mainah at April 26, 2022 07:29 AM (B+qrE)

20 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's phone at April 26, 2022 07:29 AM (QsYDb)

21 I think Conservatives are going to find Musk to be a very mixed blessing as far as Twitter goes.

I'm sure things will improve, but he is definitely a Free Speech and Libertarian absolutist - and that makes him say and do some whacky things at times.

Still, my schadenboner has lasted for at least the last 20 hours or so.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 07:30 AM (9nPZp)

22 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 26, 2022 07:30 AM (07e/s)

23 "Fat And Lonely" link reports on disturbing demographic trends. If this comes true, not only will fewer people get married, they won't even get many dates.

What will the country look like in the next few decades as these trends play out? The aforementioned Clarey, told me that, two decades from now, "marriage will be the distinct minority of relationships," with the vast majority of "people dating in perpetuity until they're dead." Oh, and "your average American woman will weigh 200 pounds, and your average American man will be 265."

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 07:30 AM (gyc1W)

24 Florida Sheriff Is A Straight Shooter!

Abolish Government Groomers!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 26, 2022 07:31 AM (AnSUv)

25 Howdy JJ. Lots to ingest this morning.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at April 26, 2022 07:31 AM (R5lpX)

26 The "Elon will save free speech" palaver reminds me of the "Coming Red Wave will Save America" talk.

The difference being that Elon has an actual history of doing material things to support free speech (turning on the internet in Ukraine, and then refusing to work against Russia and China - on free speech grounds). The Republicans - with few exceptions - have no history of actually trying to save America from the Progressives.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 07:32 AM (9nPZp)

27 Lieawatha Warren has nothing to say about Zuckerberg buying the 2020 election for $400m

Posted by: Skip's phone at April 26, 2022 07:32 AM (QsYDb)

28 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at April 26, 2022 07:33 AM (u7pQw)

29 "The authoritarian heart of the Left has been exposed..."
Not at all unlike the Right's authoritarian heart of "follow the law or we'll shoot you for not having paid your seatbelt ticket....

Every law that exists....is enforced under threat of death...but "land of the free."

FOH.

Badges are lapdogs for tyrants... Right or Left.

"Consent" of the governed.
Oddly... Real consent can be rescinded.
Not fooled.

Posted by: Pork Chotlim at April 26, 2022 07:33 AM (ErNlT)

30 From the NYT:

Ms. Monacos office overcame hiccups, too. It did not play its traditional management role under its predecessor, and she had to ease information bottlenecks. Exceedingly wary about cybercrime, she used a pseudonymous email address.

So shes a lying bitch cvnt like HRC.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 07:33 AM (yrol0)

31 "Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness,"

Gaia is a retard.

Posted by: fd's sock #11 at April 26, 2022 07:34 AM (vrz2I)

32 Still, my schadenboner has lasted for at least the last 20 hours or so.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

After 4 hours, you should have called your doctor.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 07:36 AM (co19B)

33 We got on the phone with a guy at the FBI and he asked how did you get involved, how did you get on this Antifa app? Crowder told Kelly about the initial call, wondering aloud why the FBI didnt know how to access the encrypted chat.
The FBI, Crowder said, didnt express any interest in capturing the perpetrators, which Crowder found odd.

Is Pantifa really an FIB opp??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 07:37 AM (yrol0)

34 >>That is not what the Sussmann trial is about.

Yes it is. You should read some of the emails that were dumped last night. The amount of colluding between Fusion, the Clinton campaign, tech guys and the media is incredible even for those of us who know they are corrupt.

This is the stuff Sussmann, Hillary, the DNC, Fusion, GT, etc., never wanted the public to see because it proves there was indeed a conspiracy to frame Trump and his associates.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 07:37 AM (ZLI7S)

35 Also, I'm already tired of the newest round of "Teachers are saints!" coverage I've been seeing.

Teachers are whiney, entitled, and (even the best of them) enabling of evil. And, yes, I'm related to several who are "good" teachers. They're still whiney and entitled and think their working conditions are somehow worse than anywhere else in white-collar America.

As though periodic reviews and testing of output quality aren't things all the rest of us have to put up with.

And if I hear one more teacher say "We don't get paid for a single day we don't work!" I may flip my lid.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 07:37 AM (9nPZp)

36 What will the country look like in the next few decades as these trends play out? The aforementioned Clarey, told me that, two decades from now, "marriage will be the distinct minority of relationships," with the vast majority of "people dating in perpetuity until they're dead." Oh, and "your average American woman will weigh 200 pounds, and your average American man will be 265."
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 07:30 AM (gyc1W)

I wouldn't be surprised. Our current culture is a cradle-to-grave drum beat that everything must be viewed through the lens of the individual.

Posted by: Mainah at April 26, 2022 07:38 AM (B+qrE)

37
"Dorsey is referring to Parag Agarwal, the Twitter CEO who took over for him late last year, who you might recall had this to say upon taking the reins:"

Supposedly , a lot of the push for censoring conservatives came from Vijaya Gaddie a lawyer in charge of their Trust and safety dept. Seems like every time I look into some leftist woke oppression there are some Indians involved in it. Why is that? The prog movement is thick with Indian born or first generation lawyers and academics.

Posted by: Ripley at April 26, 2022 07:38 AM (PTDkx)

38 Watching liberals and the nevertrumpers lose their shit over Musk's purchase of Twitter is almost surreal. It's like watching a mental a patient finally realize their delusions and psychosis are not real.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2022 07:38 AM (yrCUI)

39
g'mornin' again, 'rons

PSA: working from the office is stupid, counter-productive, infuriating, off-pissing, and stupid.

In short: it's bullsiht

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 26, 2022 07:39 AM (+OVL6)

40

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 26, 2022 07:40 AM (SWi3y)

41 "And if I hear one more teacher say "We don't get paid for a single day we don't work!" I may flip my lid.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit"

Only teachers work extra hours at home and weekends. That never happens to the rest of us.

Posted by: Ripley at April 26, 2022 07:41 AM (PTDkx)

42 Supposedly , a lot of the push for censoring conservatives came from Vijaya Gaddie a lawyer in charge of their Trust and safety dept. Seems like every time I look into some leftist woke oppression there are some Indians involved in it. Why is that? The prog movement is thick with Indian born or first generation lawyers and academics.

Posted by: Ripley

Dots can't handle freedom. They still need Great Britain running interference.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 07:41 AM (co19B)

43 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2022 07:41 AM (arJlL)

44 Remember when the ACLU was used in 2020 to help "fortify" the 2020 election in especially Black dominated Cities like Atlanta?
Curious how this group got a pass amongst Republicans and Democrats, yes?

Posted by: hmmm... at April 26, 2022 07:42 AM (B1mYq)

45 How long before Musk is hauled before congress to answer for every bad thing twitter has ever done?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 07:42 AM (bg3iC)

46 The "Disney Divorce" article states Disney policy toward very young Floridian kids in a concisely horrible way:

unless those children are subjected to state-funded instruction in sexual orientation and gender identity, the rights and safety of the LGBTQ+ community will be infringed and put at risk

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 07:42 AM (gyc1W)

47 That is not what the Sussmann trial is about.
Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 07:28 AM (9otr5)

Yes it is very much about how much if RussiaGate is in public communications and that HRC has already admitted using the FIB and CAI to harass PDT.

She even admitted her guilt to the FEC.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 07:42 AM (yrol0)

48 > What will the country look like in the next few decades as these trends play out?
___________

It's probably best if these people don't breed anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2022 07:43 AM (BFigT)

49 I wouldn't be surprised. Our current culture is a cradle-to-grave drum beat that everything must be viewed through the lens of the individual.

My wife and I were talking about this just the other day. Why would any (sane) person - especially a guy - ever get married? And the entire "Elite Establishment" has been telling the Malthusian lie for at least as long as I've been alive (longer, really).

When you add that to the "me, me, me" generations created by the last wave of Boomers and the first wave of Gen Xers (Millenials the current crop of kids), and start adding all the lies of Progressivism (fat is good! Men can be women! No one has any right to expect anything from you!) what else would you expect to have happen?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 07:43 AM (9nPZp)

50 This is willowed re F*ck headed murderer Alec Baldwin. Great post and point:

The only exception to this occurs when one has a weapon in his hands and he has personally unloaded it for checking.
AS SOON AS HE PUTS IT DOWN, RULE 1 APPLIES AGAIN.

That's every time for every person. No exceptions.
Posted by: rickb223

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at April 26, 2022 07:44 AM (IqBWa)

51
Twitter Trust and Safety Dept. = Fire Dept. in "Farenheit 451"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 26, 2022 07:44 AM (s2VJv)

52 Democratic Arizona gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs

Ho lee fook CRAY CRAY EYES

https://tinyurl.com/mpwvzdv3

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 07:44 AM (yrol0)

53 Only teachers work extra hours at home and weekends. That never happens to the rest of us.

Or have to work through lunch, or stand all day (okay, that's mostly blue-collar, but still), or have trouble finding a good time to go pee. Or deal with (sometimes) unreasonable expectations. Or...

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 07:45 AM (9nPZp)

54 I don't see Elon as any kind of savior but that doesn't stop me from appreciating current events.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2022 07:45 AM (4olE8)

55 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

(I thought that was you.)

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2022 07:45 AM (arJlL)

56 Bezos's response shows that someone can be worth more money than all but one person ever, and still be extremely butt hurt. He's pissed Musk has a great space program whose ships don't look like penises, and he's going to spend the rest of his life trying to go after Musk for that.

Hopefully Musk ups the trolling on Jeff, reminding him that despite having $100 billion or so, he's still a sad man who needs to pump himself with HGH to feel like a man.

Posted by: Rbastid at April 26, 2022 07:45 AM (Hyu/m)

57 This is the stuff Sussmann, Hillary, the DNC, Fusion, GT, etc., never wanted the public to see because it proves there was indeed a conspiracy to frame Trump and his associates.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 07:37 AM (ZLI7S)

Jack you are making my point. My post was made AFTER reading those emails. What was Sussmann indicted for again?

The conspiracy is not being charged. And none of those in the "joint venture" are in the government. A lot more is being made of this than is warranted. Oh well at least he is getting all this info out. Sure, but we knew all of this 5 years ago. Really. We knew Fusion GPS was shopping their crap dossier in the press. We knew Hillary used Perkins-Coke to hire Fusion.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 07:46 AM (9otr5)

58 Re: "polliwog"

IIRC, we used that word for "tadpole" as kids. The word you may have been seeking is "golliwog", which is equivalent to "the n-word", although when I was a small child in England, one could order golliwog pins from the back of jam jars ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 26, 2022 07:47 AM (wODFs)

59 (I thought that was you.)
Posted by: JT at April 26, 2022 07:45 AM (arJlL)

shhhh! it's a secret.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 07:47 AM (9nPZp)

60 Jeff Bezos could be the richest man in the world but titties tripped him up.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 07:47 AM (9otr5)

61 51
Twitter Trust and Safety Dept. = Fire Dept. in "Farenheit 451"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 26, 2022 07:44 AM (s2VJv)

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers

instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 07:48 AM (yrol0)

62 After 4 hours, you should have called your doctor.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 07:36 AM (co19B)

What is the time required for calling Guiness?

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at April 26, 2022 07:48 AM (wODFs)

63 'Freedom of expression is not an absolute right'

Excuse me, have you ever heard of the US constitution?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 26, 2022 07:49 AM (5kI0z)

64 >>Jack you are making my point. My post was made AFTER reading those emails. What was Sussmann indicted for again?

He was indicted for lying to the FBI that he wasn't working for any client when the brought them the fake evidence Trump was colluding with Russia. He obviously was thanks to the evidence.

>>The conspiracy is not being charged. And none of those in the "joint venture" are in the government. A lot more is being made of this than is warranted. Oh well at least he is getting all this info out. Sure, but we knew all of this 5 years ago. Really. We knew Fusion GPS was shopping their crap dossier in the press. We knew Hillary used Perkins-Coke to hire Fusion.

The conspiracy isn't being charged ,,, yet.

Once again, it's not what you know it's what you can prove in court with evidence. Durham has the evidence and the fight is to get it before the jury. That is why all the players are so desperate to keep it secret.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 07:50 AM (ZLI7S)

65 This is the stuff Sussmann, Hillary, the DNC, Fusion, GT, etc., never wanted the public to see because it proves there was indeed a conspiracy to frame Trump and his associates.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 07:37 AM (ZLI7S)
==================
The scale of the conspiracy suggest much worse. Essentially all Americans electronic communications are recorded and over 30,000 Americans were targeted for electronic surveillance without warrants in 2016, thanks to "private contractors" like FusionGPS having access to raw NSA data. Trump was obviously included, along with his children and friends.

This was (and is) so massive and regular an occurrence that it is hard to comprehend. Another conclusion: The likelihood that large numbers of American intel agencies have fat files on Biden Inc and Hunter/Jim is 100%. Not just the Russians or Chinese might be blackmailing the junta.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 07:51 AM (ljU3O)

66 'Freedom of expression is not an absolute right'

Hey! Look fat. You can't yell fire in a crowded bathroom. Now you shush. Shush! Shush.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at April 26, 2022 07:52 AM (vrz2I)

67 Seems this inflation may now be permanently baked into the cake and never get fixed without a recession and massive unemployment.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 26, 2022 07:28 AM (bVYXr)
===

Those are the traditional remedies, but there is already recession and unemployment. So where do we go from here?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2022 07:52 AM (EZebt)

68 Great job, JJ ! AGAIN !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2022 07:52 AM (arJlL)

69 'Freedom of expression is not an absolute right'

So Deborah Brown says. What gives her the authority to determine what are Rights, what are rights and the extent of their expression?

Brown seems incompatible with a free society.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 26, 2022 07:53 AM (AHeqJ)

70 Flynn went down for "lying to the FBI" even though the FBI lied to him and said it wasn't an "interview". Hillary's hack approached the FBI and CIA with intentional fraud and misdirection.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 07:53 AM (Br3Bv)

71 Oh, and we knew that Hillary's people were shopping the dossier in government.

You know who else did that? Yeah, John McCain. He's beyond the reach of the law though.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 07:53 AM (9otr5)

72 What is the time required for calling Guiness?
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know

LOL. That's gonna be a race. And we ain't near the end. Yet.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 07:53 AM (co19B)

73 So where do we go from here?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

The Trump depression!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 07:54 AM (Br3Bv)

74 (I thought that was you.)
Posted by: JT at April 26, 2022 07:45 AM (arJlL)

shhhh! it's a secret.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

Oh. (sorry)

LOL !!!

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2022 07:54 AM (arJlL)

75 Oh, Putin too.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 07:54 AM (Br3Bv)

76 'Freedom of expression is not an absolute right'

Hey! Look fat. You can't yell fire in a crowded bathroom. Now you shush. Shush! Shush.

I believe that it was Nancy Pelosi who properly gave us the correct expression: "You can't cry 'Wolf' in a crowded theater".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 26, 2022 07:54 AM (AHeqJ)

77 How much did pence know?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 07:55 AM (Br3Bv)

78 Jeff Bezos, a bald dickhead shell of a man who penis shaped rockets can't reach orbit... much like his life here on Earf.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2022 07:55 AM (BFigT)

79 JJ,

The Hubble Space Telescope article link points to a generic AOL login, not an article.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 26, 2022 07:55 AM (ZSK0i)

80 Don't cry "Botox is in shortage" in Congress.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 07:56 AM (Br3Bv)

81 >>he scale of the conspiracy suggest much worse. Essentially all Americans electronic communications are recorded and over 30,000 Americans were targeted for electronic surveillance without warrants in 2016, thanks to "private contractors" like FusionGPS having access to raw NSA data. Trump was obviously included, along with his children and friends.

Indeed. What I find equally troubling although not really surprising is that the media knew all along that Russia collusion was BS yet they still pushed it relentlessly. In many ways this is far worse than what Twitter was doing by stifling conservative speech on private platform, this was knowingly pushing false information to ruin the lives of some political opponents and building a narrative from whole cloth.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 07:56 AM (ZLI7S)

82 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Saints of the Day
St. Cletus (1st c.) and St. Marcellinus (3rd c.) were both Romans, popes, and martyrs who ruled the Holy See during the terrible persecution of Christians at the hands of the Roman Empire. St. Cletus was a convert and disciple of St. Peter the Apostle who became the third Bishop of Rome from 76 to 89 A.D., under the reigns of Roman Emperors Vespasian and Titus. His name appears in the Roman Canon of the Mass. St. Marcellinus was the twenty-ninth Bishop of Rome from 296 to 304 A.D. during the infamous persecution of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, on the eve of the legalization of Christianity across the Empire. Statues of these two popes of the early Church sit on opposite corners of the portico ceiling of Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. They share a feast day on April 26th.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2022 07:56 AM (vBMpQ)

83 In the cultural war, Musk buying Twitter is like Guadalcanal in 1942. Winning there was far from the end of the war; but it was a very important step on the way.

It also showed which way the tide of events was flowing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 07:56 AM (8HAVQ)

84 "From a straight political standpoint, things are not going well for the Democrats. They have only one way out of a historic rejection at the polls."

I have absolutely no confidence in a free, fair election of any sort in November, save for the pitifully few places (such as Florida) fighting against Democrat thievery. And I really have no confidence in the GOP suddenly finding their balls and fighting back against yet another stolen election.

In short, we'll all be here next November complaining about the same skullfuckery that we're complaining about today.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2022 07:56 AM (2JVJo)

85 'Freedom of expression is not an absolute right'

Anyone who tells you *any* of your rights is not "absolute" is a tyrannical liar.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 07:57 AM (9nPZp)

86 What Musk has done is heroic.
As Trump can attest, now Musk will be a hunted man by the Deep State. . Musk will suffer-- particularly over the next six months.

However, if the Rs regain control of the House and the WH in 2024 , Musk may eventually get the last laugh.

Posted by: Voter theater. at April 26, 2022 07:57 AM (FCPbW)

87 Thanks Tonypete !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2022 07:57 AM (arJlL)

88 Dorsey is referring to Parag Agarwal, the Twitter CEO who took over for him late last year, who you might recall had this to say upon taking the reins:"

Supposedly , a lot of the push for censoring conservatives came from Vijaya Gaddie a lawyer in charge of their Trust and safety dept. Seems like every time I look into some leftist woke oppression there are some Indians involved in it. Why is that? The prog movement is thick with Indian born or first generation lawyers and academics.

Posted by: Ripley

Import Indians to replace White Christians (Heritage Americans) and you have India. Same for every other group our Overlords are importing to replace Heritage Americans while they profit off the destruction of Heritage Americans.
Wait until y'all hear about Restorative Justice (used in Africa) being taught and moved in to replace Anglo-Saxon Jurisprudence.
God will destroy us for ignoring Logos in the Bible. (Tower of Babel in this case).

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 07:57 AM (B1mYq)

89 79 JJ,

The Hubble Space Telescope article link points to a generic AOL login, not an article.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 26, 2022 07:55 AM (ZSK0i)

Fixed. Thanks!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 26, 2022 07:58 AM (s2VJv)

90 In short, we'll all be here next November complaining about the same skullfuckery that we're complaining about today.

Well... I mean...

At least we're consistent.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 07:58 AM (9nPZp)

91 Bezos' newsletter covered up the Hunter laptop story, the DiFi driver story, WuTang FangFang, but now he is worried about someone being under the influence of China.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 07:58 AM (Br3Bv)

92 Anyone who tells you *any* of your rights is not "absolute" is a tyrannical liar.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

"Rights aren't absolute"
--FJB

And just like that, democrats put slavery back on the table.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 07:58 AM (co19B)

93 In the cultural war, Musk buying Twitter is like Guadalcanal in 1942. Winning there was far from the end of the war; but it was a very important step on the way.

It also showed which way the tide of events was flowing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 07:56 AM (8HAVQ)
===
This is a good reminder.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2022 08:00 AM (EZebt)

94 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:00 AM (DU+/6)

95 'Freedom of expression is not an absolute right'
=====
Neither is Freedom of Association.

Posted by: The Civil Rights Act at April 26, 2022 08:00 AM (B1mYq)

96 Bezos' newsletter covered up the Hunter laptop story, the DiFi driver story, WuTang FangFang, but now he is worried about someone being under the influence of China.

And he knows that we know that he knows that we know that his real concern is exactly the opposite: that Musk isn't under the influence of anyone except Musk (and Mary Jane, perhaps), and therefore is free to start some rubble bouncing.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:00 AM (9nPZp)

97 The authoritarian heart of the Left has been exposed, as has their war against the foundational principle of any free society: the right to express oneself even if one’s opinions don’t coincide with those of the powerful and/or moneyed elites.
++++
Made obvious, perhaps. It was exposed some time ago, but it is now *much* harder to ignore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:00 AM (DU+/6)

98 Indeed. What I find equally troubling although not really surprising is that the media knew all along that Russia collusion was BS yet they still pushed it relentlessly. In many ways this is far worse than what Twitter was doing by stifling conservative speech on private platform, this was knowingly pushing false information to ruin the lives of some political opponents and building a narrative from whole cloth.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 07:56 AM (ZLI7S)

But again we have known this for 5 years. Not suspected, known, and we had the proof then with publicly known emails. Some of us were troubled about it then. And that's why 5 years later "proof" which is not being used to prove the conspiracy is underwhelming.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:01 AM (9otr5)

99 unless those children are subjected to state-funded instruction in sexual orientation and gender identity, the rights and safety of the LGBTQ+ community will be infringed and put at risk

I always love those ambiguous unsubstantiated claims to alleged "infringements" to unspecified "rights".

But they have absolutely no problem abrogating true Rights in the pursuit of these imaginary goblins.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 26, 2022 08:01 AM (AHeqJ)

100 Natural Rights - the foundation of our constitution, and nation.

The new scotus justice that Romney voted for doesn't believe in them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 08:01 AM (8HAVQ)

101 I heard on the radio this morning that Twitter ranks 15th in number of users. Facebook is number 1. Now whether this is real or not I do not know.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at April 26, 2022 08:01 AM (aW5/6)

102 Anyone who tells you *any* of your rights is not "absolute" is a tyrannical liar.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

Not anymore they aren't.

Posted by: The Civil Rights Act at April 26, 2022 08:01 AM (B1mYq)

103 “Regardless of who owns Twitter, the company has human rights responsibilities to respect the rights of people around the world who rely on the platform. Changes to its policies, features, and algorithms, big and small, can have disproportionate and sometimes devastating impacts, including offline violence. Freedom of expression is not an absolute right, which is why Twitter needs to invest in efforts to keep its most vulnerable users safe on the platform.”
++++
Well, it is absolute, Debbie, but whatever. You're a totalitarian, so there are no rights. But beyond that, what is Twitter's responsibility to its users? Where was this argument when Twitter was literally and with volition endangering its users engaging in wrongthink? Was the argument absent? Of course it was.

Twitter's users have recourse: stop using the product.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:02 AM (DU+/6)

104 Pope "Fiction's" Unholy War on Traditionalist Carmelite Nuns

Francis is an antipope. A heresiarch and a tool of Satan who, as far as being a scandal to the laity, is worse than a dozen Alexander VIs.

BENEDICT XVI is the one, true Pope.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2022 08:02 AM (2JVJo)

105 The new scotus justice that Romney voted for doesn't believe in them.

It doesn't know the difference between boys and girls, either.

*I can't call it "she" because I'm not a biologist so I'm obviously not qualified to know if it has a wang or not.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:03 AM (9nPZp)

106 Hiya Mannix !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2022 08:03 AM (arJlL)

107 Boeing is spending $410 million on an unmanned demo flight for its Starliner capsule on top of an Atlas rocket, (and using Russian engines to power the first stage).

Even if they succeed in getting the rocket to space in May, thereby earning a shot at future NASA manned spaceflight business, they still have the little problem of being 4 times the cost of a SpaceX flight.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 08:04 AM (UnrFW)

108 BENEDICT XVI is the one, true Pope.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Amen!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2022 08:04 AM (vBMpQ)

109 Made obvious, perhaps. It was exposed some time ago, but it is now *much* harder to ignore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:00 AM (DU+/6)
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This is becoming the critical question. How much more brazen will they become? Perhaps they have already overplayed their hand? What will it take to rouse the populace?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2022 08:04 AM (EZebt)

110 BENEDICT XVI is the one, true Pope.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Amen!
Posted by: Tonypete

AMEN !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2022 08:05 AM (arJlL)

111 Even if they succeed in getting the rocket to space in May, thereby earning a shot at future NASA manned spaceflight business, they still have the little problem of being 4 times the cost of a SpaceX flight.

Ah, but they bribe all the right people, so they'll probably win the contracts anyway.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:05 AM (9nPZp)

112 O/T I was forced to wear my mask at JFK yesterday as everyone was. Most people at SFO were maskless.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2022 08:05 AM (EZebt)

113 I heard on the radio this morning that Twitter ranks 15th in number of users.

Ahhhhh. We have already moved on to the "I don't care, nobody uses stupid twitter anyway" phase.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:05 AM (bg3iC)

114 Anyone who tells you *any* of your rights is not "absolute" is a tyrannical liar.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

this is not the hill to die on

Posted by: Senate Republican Caucus at April 26, 2022 08:05 AM (UnrFW)

115 Well, did he really believe it, does he still believe it or was it just part of his carny act to get billions in government lucre while conning the climate cultists? Either way, it's not really a good look, IMHO. By the way, we're still waiting for his hyperloops, Solar City, and Tesla semi-trucks among other things. And yet, and yet. . .
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Yup. I am not a huge Musk fan, and his reality-distortion field is *real.* That said, whatever his foibles and contradictions, he appears to be on the right side of things when it comes to speech and other basic human rights. If he wants to go to war in defense of free speech and finance it with $50 billion of his own money, I have nothing but praise and admiration on that front.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:05 AM (DU+/6)

116 Turn teaching into a blue collar job and watch the feminists, SWJs, LGBT, women, and weak men flee.

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 08:06 AM (B1mYq)

117 Sefton: ...was it just part of his carny act to get billions in government lucre while conning the climate cultists?

********

Carny Capitalism?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 26, 2022 08:06 AM (kXYt5)

118 The US has only one man rated orbital launch system.

And the US government wants to mess with the company that makes it because the owner bought Twitter.

We are in the best of hands.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:07 AM (9otr5)

119 Ah, but they bribe all the right people, so they'll probably win the contracts anyway.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:05 AM (9nPZp)
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Snopes rates this as "True, dat"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 08:07 AM (UnrFW)

120 Even if they succeed in getting the rocket to space in May, thereby earning a shot at future NASA manned spaceflight business, they still have the little problem of being 4 times the cost of a SpaceX flight.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

But why would $$$$ matter to NASA? They have made their out reach to muslims among their top priorities not safe, timely and cost efficient payload transfer.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2022 08:07 AM (vBMpQ)

121 What will it take to rouse the populace?

Murdering James Dobson on the Capitol Steps.
And even then they'll be fine if they build up to it slowly with lots of "evidence" (read: lies, rumors, and innuendo) that he's "a Russian Agent."

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:07 AM (9nPZp)

122 >>But again we have known this for 5 years. Not suspected, known, and we had the proof then with publicly known emails. Some of us were troubled about it then. And that's why 5 years later "proof" which is not being used to prove the conspiracy is underwhelming.

Sorry but no we did not have the proof. Yes, some of us here knew it, a vast amount of the public still has no clue. Poll after poll shows that a significant majority of Democrats believe Trump colluded with Russia to this day.

Now Durham has actual documentary proof, evidence, that nobody had previously that the whole thing was a made up conspiracy and it went much deeper than even we knew. Rags like the WaPo and the NYT might not face criminal sanction but their reputation, the only thing of value they really have, is going to take a serious hit. This is about winning the information war as much as it is the legal war.

You can't go to federal court, particularly not one in DC, to try high powered Democrats on what you know. You have to have evidence. Why do you think all the parties are fighting so hard to keep Durham from putting it before a jury?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:08 AM (ZLI7S)

123 Hump day has descended across the land and not a moment too soon.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2022 08:08 AM (AZ01v)

124 O/T I was forced to wear my mask at JFK yesterday as everyone was. Most people at SFO were maskless.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2022 08:05 AM (EZebt)
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Count me as a little surprised there isn't a consistent mask rule, on top of NYC airports being more retrograde than SFO.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 08:09 AM (UnrFW)

125 I liked the NY Post headline about Musk and Twitter: "Tweet the new boss".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2022 08:09 AM (fF2aM)

126 Hump day has descended across the land and not a moment too soon.

You either mean something different than me when I use that term, or this is the Worst Wednesday Ever.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:10 AM (9nPZp)

127 Even if they succeed in getting the rocket to space in May, thereby earning a shot at future NASA manned spaceflight business, they still have the little problem of being 4 times the cost of a SpaceX flight.

Ah, but they bribe all the right people, so they'll probably win the contracts anyway.
Posted by: AllenG

Open up space to capitalism and NASA won't be allowed into the parking lot.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:10 AM (co19B)

128 "the WaPo and the NYT might not face criminal sanction but their reputation, the only thing of value they really have, is going to take a serious hit"

If you believe that you must have just taken a serious bong hit.

Posted by: fd's sock #11 at April 26, 2022 08:11 AM (vrz2I)

129 That said, with views like that, Agarwal has got to be shit-canned immediately, along with the rest of Twitter's "Trust and Safety Dept." right behind him. That will be the tell. But assuming this isn't a con, Musk might be the richest man on the planet and have billions in fuck-you money to play with, but he's going up against the Kalorama Klown Komintern that can and will use the entire federal government to step on you like a bug.
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There are two things there, and both are true. The hard-left censorship apparatchiks at Twitter have to go. Some will self-fire by ragequitting, but the deeper operatives working for the state will have to be identified and purged, thrown out as the claw the walls and knock over furniture.

And this might end Musk. The full weight of the federal government will be slowly brought to bear on him. They will fuck around with all his stuff through the agencies. We live in a censorship regime, and the censorship and control are essential, not incidental. They cannot allow Twitter to decontrol and it is better off dead than open. The press backlash is just beginning. Twitter will be Nazi Germany within six weeks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:11 AM (DU+/6)

130 Open up space to capitalism and NASA won't be allowed into the parking lot.

And within 5 minutes you'll have useless socialists who "just want to focus on their art!" crying about how it's not fair that "only the rich can get to space."

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:11 AM (9nPZp)

131 I haven't been to JFK in ?? years.

It reminded me of the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2022 08:11 AM (EZebt)

132 The US has only one man rated orbital launch system.

And the US government wants to mess with the company that makes it because the owner bought Twitter.

We are in the best of hands.

They want to return to relying on Putin/Russia for their space adventures.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 26, 2022 08:11 AM (AHeqJ)

133 Not that long ago the intelligence community proffered a letter or some such bullshit about the importance social media has to national security. This was back when Musk first got vocal about buying Twitter.

I hope Musk is savvy enough to realize what might be coming.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2022 08:11 AM (BFigT)

134 When society is under threat, comedians are the ones who get sent away first. Its just a reminder to people that democracy is under threat. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to music, to thought, to poetry.

First they came for the comedians and I did not speak out because I was not a comedian.

Posted by: J Stewart at April 26, 2022 08:11 AM (yrol0)

135 @126

>>You either mean something different than me when I use that term, or this is the Worst Wednesday Ever.

Seems my dotage has gotten the better of me, turns out it's only Tuesday.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2022 08:11 AM (AZ01v)

136 And just like that, democrats put slavery back on the table.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 07:58 AM (co19B)
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Slavery has always been on the table for democrats. They ache for the day when humanity has been put back into chains to dance to their tune.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2022 08:11 AM (YIVH2)

137 So a judge announces he will block Biden from ending title 42? *yawn* Biden will do what he wants.

Good Tuesday morning all and I have to say I had the best nights sleep I've had in years. I got 8 hours. The only thing I've done different is I put a diffuser in the bedroom and put lavender oil in it. The past 3 nights have been wonderful!

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 26, 2022 08:12 AM (nxdel)

138 You either mean something different than me when I use that term, or this is the Worst Wednesday Ever.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:10 AM (9nPZp)
--=

Shhh. He's on a roll.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2022 08:12 AM (EZebt)

139 Haha, yesterday the Tampa Bay Lightning were at the White House. Biden introduced NHL commissioner Gary Bettman as Gary Batman.

Posted by: Mainah at April 26, 2022 08:12 AM (B+qrE)

140 Even if they succeed in getting the rocket to space in May, thereby earning a shot at future NASA manned spaceflight business, they still have the little problem of being 4 times the cost of a SpaceX flight.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 08:04 AM (UnrFW)

If you add in the Big Govt cost of NASA working on this it goes to about 20X. As the GAO called it

UNSUSTAINABLE

Posted by: J Stewart at April 26, 2022 08:13 AM (yrol0)

141 Hiya, JT!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:13 AM (DU+/6)

142 And I read the article on the Carmelite nuns.* The nickelfucking POS archbishop Perez could be brought to his knees if the Philly faithful would simply stop putting money into the collection basket. But, like the never-Trumpers, too many RCC say, "that's not who we are" and give cover and silent assent to sin.

*there is a wonderful book, A Right To Be Merry, written by a young nun who was part of a group of Carmelites sent to found the first cloistered convent in Roswell, NM. It's still in print (the nun later became abbess of the convent) and a lovely read for anyone interested.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2022 08:13 AM (2JVJo)

143 So a judge announces he will block Biden from ending title 42? *yawn* Biden will do what he wants.

And will be praised for it. "Co-equal means the judiciary can't rule by fiat!"

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:13 AM (9nPZp)

144 It is dangerous to have all of these various communications methods. The government needs to consolidate email, phone, text and social media into one system with a government issued username, and run at a government datacenter. That way, the government can ensure communications are safe and free from dangerous misinformation. And it will be written into the law that the government can not access your information unless it is necessary.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:13 AM (bg3iC)

145 off off unfunny sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 08:13 AM (yrol0)

146 O/T I was forced to wear my mask at JFK yesterday as everyone was. Most people at SFO were maskless.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I am quite blessed in that I no longer need to use an airport. It is quite liberating.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2022 08:14 AM (vBMpQ)

147 Chances of fraud - I believe Florida , Texas, and Wisconsin (!!!) Have sufficiently fortified their election processes. Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania are still at risk, I think.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 08:14 AM (8HAVQ)

148 Jack we are pack in our same fortifications.

Durham has not brought a case about the core of Russiagate. You say "yet" and this has been the case for a while now.

Is he secretly going after government officials? Well if it's a secret we wouldn't know. But I have heard about tens of thousands of sealed indictments before. Color me skeptical.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:14 AM (9otr5)

149 There are two things there, and both are true. The hard-left censorship apparatchiks at Twitter have to go. Some will self-fire by ragequitting, but the deeper operatives working for the state will have to be identified and purged, thrown out as the claw the walls and knock over furniture.

The sabotage and destruction will be epic. The Leftists who are raging will do what they always do - burn it all down. Expect server failures, unexplained outages, destructive algorithms, etc.

In the meantime, the Party will all of a sudden take a serious legal interest in corralling Twitter.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 26, 2022 08:14 AM (AHeqJ)

150 >>If you believe that you must have just taken a serious bong hit.

If you don't think the WaPo and the NYT will face negative consequences in public trust when the rest of the country finds out they were knowingly pushing lies to try to keep Trump out of the White House and then have him removed when he was a sitting president I don't know what to tell you.

But then lots of people here said just last week that Musk would never take Twitter.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:14 AM (ZLI7S)

151 Hump day has descended across the land and not a moment too soon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I thought Tuesday was Taco Tuesday for her pleasure.
Wait a damn minute, women get back to back days?

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 08:14 AM (B1mYq)

152 Haha, yesterday the Tampa Bay Lightning were at the White House. Biden introduced NHL commissioner Gary Bettman as Gary Batman.
Posted by: Mainah at April 26, 2022 08:12 AM (B+qrE)

Bettman's lucky Stinkfinger didn't call him "Gay Batman."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2022 08:15 AM (2JVJo)

153 And it will be written into the law that the government can not access your information unless it is necessary.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:13 AM (bg3iC)
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...or unless they want to for the lulz....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2022 08:15 AM (YIVH2)

154 And within 5 minutes you'll have useless socialists who "just want to focus on their art!" crying about how it's not fair that "only the rich can get to space."
Posted by: AllenG

They're doing that now. At least, with capitalism, the price will come down.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:15 AM (co19B)

155 In the meantime, the Party will all of a sudden take a serious legal interest in corralling Twitter.

This is true, but with Musk taking Twitter back private, that limits their ability to f*ck with him some. Probably not enough, but some.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:15 AM (9nPZp)

156 I thought it was Rapey Tuesday

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 26, 2022 08:16 AM (F2CQq)

157 This is becoming the critical question. How much more brazen will they become? Perhaps they have already overplayed their hand? What will it take to rouse the populace?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2022 08:04 AM (EZebt)
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They will become ever more brazen. They have to. We're past the inflection point on censorship. All tyrannies require censorship of speech that is not Party-aligned. It must be suppressed, because the Party is lying, stealing, murdering and enslaving and they need absolute total control of messaging to maintain the line that freedom is slavery and death is life and sin is righteousness. It can only accelerate.

Why do you think we ran Radio Free Europe during the Cold War - and why do you think that getting caught listening to it would get you sent to the gulag if you weren't just shot on sight? They will get more brazen about it. They have to. They have no choice. The control *must* be maintained or the game ends.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:16 AM (DU+/6)

158 Count me as a little surprised there isn't a consistent mask rule, on top of NYC airports being more retrograde than SFO.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 08:09 AM

NY State re instituted the mask mandate for all planes and trains in the State two days after the federal judge smacked it down.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 26, 2022 08:16 AM (bVYXr)

159 It is dangerous to have all of these various communications methods. The government needs to consolidate email, phone, text and social media into one system with a government issued username, and run at a government datacenter. That way, the government can ensure communications are safe and free from dangerous misinformation. And it will be written into the law that the government can not access your information unless it is necessary.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:13 AM (bg3iC)
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This brings to mind the story of the Transportation Security Administration.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2022 08:16 AM (EZebt)

160 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2022 08:13 AM (2JVJo)

Thanks for the recommendation. I appreciate books about cloistered orders of monks and nuns and have read works by St Teresa of Avila. Another good fictional account of a Benedictine order is "In This House of Brede" By Rummer Godden.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2022 08:17 AM (fF2aM)

161 The only thing I've done different is I put a diffuser in the bedroom and put lavender oil in it. The past 3 nights have been wonderful!
Posted by: Jewells45

Good for you Jewells45! Ah, sleeeeep. . . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2022 08:17 AM (vBMpQ)

162 Morning.

Having some trouble with my computer.
More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at April 26, 2022 08:17 AM (88xKn)

163 The people that read WaPo and NYT are true believers and nothing will sway them. They lie every f'n day and just keep chugging along, reputation be damned.

Posted by: fd's sock #12 at April 26, 2022 08:17 AM (vrz2I)

164 Yet one constant stands out century after century: whenever freedoms light seems dim, humanitys enduring love for liberty brings freedoms flame roaring back to life. Far from liberalisms end, we are on the road as witnesses to its beginning yet again.

Liberalism has never ever ever meant FREEDOM. It was always an excuse to force people into sex, hedonism, and sloth.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 08:18 AM (yrol0)

165 This brings to mind the story of the Transportation Security Administration.

Ah, yes. The Halcyon days of (hey, I was twenty and stupid, okay) "but we *trust* George Bush!"

If I could go back in time, I'd smack myself silly.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:18 AM (9nPZp)

166 In the meantime, the Party will all of a sudden take a serious legal interest in corralling Twitter.

This is true, but with Musk taking Twitter back private, that limits their ability to f*ck with him some. Probably not enough, but some.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:15 AM (9nPZp)
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Since we suspect that the intelligence community has deep ties to Twitter, is it possible that there are backdoors only they have access to? What malicious code could they introduce? Do they have a "kill switch" for Twitter?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2022 08:18 AM (YIVH2)

167 Good Tuesday morning all and I have to say I had the best nights sleep I've had in years. I got 8 hours. The only thing I've done different is I put a diffuser in the bedroom and put lavender oil in it. The past 3 nights have been wonderful!
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 26, 2022 08:12 AM (nxdel)

I thought for sure you were going to give us a promo code for My Pillow.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:19 AM (9otr5)

168 If you don't think the WaPo and the NYT will face negative consequences in public trust when the rest of the country finds out they were knowingly pushing lies to try to keep Trump out of the White House and then have him removed when he was a sitting president I don't know what to tell you.

Do you honestly believe anyone other than Party members and lo-fo mofos trust WaPo or the NYT? Anyone already jacked into politics knows they are the domestic equivalent of a Nazi propaganda outlet. And the mushy middle won't care, because the MFM outlets they patronize will not and never will report on the lies peddled to them.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2022 08:19 AM (2JVJo)

169 PA is going to have major fraud this year. With Shapiro running for Gov and Lamb running for senate, the cheat game will be strong.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:19 AM (bg3iC)

170 If you want to follow the most insufferable collusion explainer, I suggest Dawson S Fields account on Twitter. Dude is like actually Pete Stronk and Mueller are the good guys and Donald Trump is a super secret FBI Informer.

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 08:19 AM (B1mYq)

171 >>Durham has not brought a case about the core of Russiagate. You say "yet" and this has been the case for a while now.

Frankly, neither you nor anyone here knows where the core was. We think we do but we don't. I think sometimes we make the same mistake the left did with Trump, they just knew he colluded with Russia right up until the moment they find out it never happened. Investigating people not crimes is not how our system is supposed to work despite what the commies on the left say. Follow the evidence and when you find crimes indict. I've seen zero evidence this isn't exactly what Durham is doing.

Let Durham finish his investigation. He has said multiple times in his latest filings there was in fake a coordinated effort to push this hoax an defraud the government. That's just another way of saying conspiracy.

And sorry, you don't get to pretend that taking down Hillary and her entire corrupt campaign isn't a huge frigging deal. She IS the deep state.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:20 AM (ZLI7S)

172 Why do you think we ran Radio Free Europe during the Cold War - and why do you think that getting caught listening to it would get you sent to the gulag if you weren't just shot on sight? They will get more brazen about it. They have to. They have no choice. The control *must* be maintained or the game ends.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:16 AM (DU+/6)

When do we get radio free america? Cause NPR suck donkey dicks!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 08:20 AM (yrol0)

173 Saying Elon is saving free speech is the same as saying Biden is going to take away your guns.

These mortals will be long gone before any founding amendment will be challenged beyond fucking hysteria.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 26, 2022 08:20 AM (LkM8p)

174 If you don't think the WaPo and the NYT will face negative consequences in public trust when the rest of the country finds out they were knowingly pushing lies to try to keep Trump out of the White House and then have him removed when he was a sitting president I don't know what to tell you. ...
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:14 AM (ZLI7S)
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There is very little public trust left to shatter. The elderly still somewhat believe the old names in news, but virtually no one else does. The only people seriously reading those papers now are the factional Party men and the people engaging in Kremlinology - and only the Party men believe a word of it. The TV networks are somehow in better shape, but not by all that much.

"Public trust" is increasingly irrelevant because it's largely already gone. It's not a disincentive and it doesn't matter to their continuation as going concerns. Unless the malefactors are publicly repudiated and frog-marched off to prison for their myriad and obvious crimes - and they won't be - there will be no reforms and it won't matter. Press men, Party men, freelancers, spooks, etc. - they're all immune.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:21 AM (DU+/6)

175 NY State re instituted the mask mandate for all planes and trains in the State two days after the federal judge smacked it down.

Further confirmation of my years-long contention that masks are never going away.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2022 08:21 AM (2JVJo)

176 @149

>>In the meantime, the Party will all of a sudden take a serious legal interest in corralling Twitter.

Within minutes of the sale being announced the left was already talking about revising section 230.

The left doesn't hide what they are going to do and they immediately set about making that goal a reaity.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2022 08:21 AM (AZ01v)

177 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

178
: the claim that speech simply must be restricted, because if it isn’t, people are going to get hurt. This remains spectacularly unproven.
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But here we are we still trying to "demonstrate" that the Left's "assertions" are "unproven" instead of calling them what they are - malicious demonic lies. Lies have a 0% chance of being proven. Why give any wiggle room?

The Left doesn't give a fuck about violence except as a tool to literally beat their opponents with. This soft sell doesn't work. Trumo showed it. JJ gets it.

And anyone who trails in Trump's wake (including St. DeSantis) must use the same snappy *emotional* appeals to cold hard truth to convince people. This other stuff, while very respectable academically, trying to toe lines of fairness while they come at us with bats, fists, axes and guns, amounts to useless intellectual masturbation.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:21 AM (nE2Dl)

179 Thanks for the recommendation. I appreciate books about cloistered orders of monks and nuns and have read works by St Teresa of Avila. Another good fictional account of a Benedictine order is "In This House of Brede" By Rummer Godden.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Who names their kid "Rummer" ?

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2022 08:21 AM (arJlL)

180 What the last two years have made crystal clear is that there are 30%-- some 90 million--Americans who have happily chosen slavery in the name of safety.

"Freedom from" is not free, it's slavery.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2022 08:21 AM (+Obm8)

181 The people who read the Times and the Post WANT them to lie to bring down Republicans.

This just enhances their credibility with their core constituents.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:21 AM (9otr5)

182 It amuses me to see that Hunter Biden is going bald, just like dear old dad. He already bought himself a set of new Chiclet-like teeth like dad's, so maybe he'll go for the plugs like dad did too.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 26, 2022 08:21 AM (k4dH2)

183 Thank you, JJ and God bless the horde.

And expletive deleted Jason Lee Steorts in the expletive deleted.

Posted by: National Review, the shiny new Jen Rubin of Conservative Urinalism at April 26, 2022 08:22 AM (jV+aN)

184 >>Do you honestly believe anyone other than Party members and lo-fo mofos trust WaPo or the NYT? Anyone already jacked into politics knows they are the domestic equivalent of a Nazi propaganda outlet. And the mushy middle won't care, because the MFM outlets they patronize will not and never will report on the lies peddled to them.

Of course not but I know the left uses them as the Bible of truth and fact. Even the mushy middle doesn't like being lied to and used.

You don't fight a war to take down your friends. You fight it to take down the enemy.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:22 AM (ZLI7S)

185 Since we suspect that the intelligence community has deep ties to Twitter, is it possible that there are backdoors only they have access to? What malicious code could they introduce? Do they have a "kill switch" for Twitter?

It's possible, but unlikely that it would be in code. It's more likely to be having internet providers shut down their servers.

One thing Musk will do quickly, if he's world wise enough, is to remove any cloud presence from Twitter and do everything on-prem with his own server farms and an internal ISP. He'll also begin security scans of his own software, looking specifically for any such back-door access.

The Twitter board and CEO were at least smart enough (because they might be held personally liable if they didn't) to declare a code freeze until the shareholder vote and Musk's (almost certain) takeover at the end of next month.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:22 AM (9nPZp)

186 I wonder if all the leftist hysteria over Musk buying Twitter is just a lot of smoke and noise designed to cover up that nothing will really change there. I don't know Musk's politics though I think he's also on the left.

But if the Left kicks up enough noise and such, it might make people think Twitter will change for the better, so they'll stay (or sign up) only to find that it's the same Soviet prison camp.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 26, 2022 08:22 AM (scLo8)

187 And how many planes were hijacked after 9/11? None! We gave up some liberty for safety and it worked! Now lets give up more liberty for more safety! It is a proven winning strategy!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:23 AM (bg3iC)

188 Since we suspect that the intelligence community has deep ties to Twitter, is it possible that there are backdoors only they have access to? What malicious code could they introduce? Do they have a "kill switch" for Twitter?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 26, 2022 08:18 AM (YIVH2)
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All of the above, probably. But it would be better to poison and erode Twitter than kill it outright. It needs to be made illegitimate and reduced until the only people using it are official enemies of the state. Just like Gab.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)

189 Fen, here's a link to Merry:

https://tinyurl.com/yc3sekjp

And my memory was off. Sister Mary Francis was a Poor Clare, not a Carmelite.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2022 08:23 AM (2JVJo)

190 I thought for sure you were going to give us a promo code for My Pillow.
Posted by: blaster

Having mentioned that, how does Mike Lindell know which pillow to send to you when you buy? Are they all tagged in the warehouse - this one for Tonypete, this one is blaster's, this one is for Jewells45, and so on?

Must be a pretty damn big facility to be able to store a pillow for each of us and it just sits there until (or if!) we order one.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2022 08:23 AM (vBMpQ)

191 Liberalism has never ever ever meant FREEDOM. It was always an excuse to force people into sex, hedonism, and sloth.
Posted by: rhennigantx

AllRight ! I'm gonna shower, I just wanted to read da comments !

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2022 08:23 AM (arJlL)

192 Rick Wilson, suspected pederast, loses mind. Says Antifa isn't real after being called out for saying they needed to 'mow them down' when talking about journalists and their covering of Antifa.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

193 @171

>>And sorry, you don't get to pretend that taking down Hillary and her entire corrupt campaign isn't a huge frigging deal.

It may have been a big deal between 2016 - 2019, now?

Pfft.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2022 08:24 AM (AZ01v)

194 Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:21 AM (nE2Dl)

All of that.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:24 AM (9nPZp)

195 Datacenters never burn down and cause months long disruptions.

Green.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:25 AM (bg3iC)

196 And sorry, you don't get to pretend that taking down Hillary and her entire corrupt campaign isn't a huge frigging deal. She IS the deep state.

And she will die comfortably in bed without ever seeing a single day in jail. Sorry if I don't call that 'taking down.'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2022 08:25 AM (2JVJo)

197 . And it will be written into the law that the government can not access your information unless it is necessary.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:13 AM (bg3iC)

LOL

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:25 AM (1hWhC)

198 In Fairness, I believe that at least 30% of all the people who have ever existed have preferred slavery to freedom, and in places like the Islamic world its close to 90%.

At the best of times, 1/3 want slavery, 1/3 want freedom, and 1/3 just don't give a shit.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 08:25 AM (8HAVQ)

199 I thought it was Rapey Tuesday
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

Imagin3 getting raped on Tuesday.
Lol
Lmao

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 08:25 AM (B1mYq)

200 And sorry, you don't get to pretend that taking down Hillary and her entire corrupt campaign isn't a huge frigging deal. She IS the deep state.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:20 AM (ZLI7S)

Has he taken down Hillary and her whole campaign?

You don't get to pretend he has.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:25 AM (9otr5)

201 The left doesn't hide what they are going to do and they immediately set about making that goal a reaity.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2022 08:21 AM (AZ01v)
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And their outlets are providing another roadmap, too, and it will be followed. Suddenly there are lots of stories about how Twitter is about to become a snakepit if terrorism, incitements to violence, neo-Nazism and child pornography.

Of those things happen *now* on the platform, but the platform is also protected as a control mechanism for the regime. Once those protections are removed, the stuff that's already there will be amplified by malefactors posting new stuff and amplifying each other. It may become precisely what they "predicted" - because they did it - and then they will be compelled to take action against it in the interests of reducing crime and increasing public peace.

Be on the lookout for that strategy, because I strongly suspect they'll run that playbook. They're telegraphing it already.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:26 AM (DU+/6)

202 Posting from Finland was a nightmare...let's try a different locale.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 26, 2022 08:26 AM (GYIa4)

203 NEW WHO RULES:

New 7. A Regional Director may determine that an event constitutes a public health emergency of regional concern and provide related guidance to States Parties in the region either before or after notification of an event that may constitute a public health emergency of international concern is made to the Director-General, who shall inform all States Parties.

If you think FauxXhi is bad, wait until WHO gets to decide what is an emergency!!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 08:27 AM (yrol0)

204 All of that.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:24 AM (9nPZp)

I swear I almost mentioned you next to JJ as someone who "gets it". But i didn't want to start leaving people out. You know who you are.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:27 AM (1hWhC)

205 A woman came along with her four year old daughter to our church yesterday to look at a beautiful old upright piano from the 1800s which we are selling. Both she and her daughter had masks on and I couldn't even hear all they were saying-particularly the adorable daughter. It made me so sad.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2022 08:27 AM (fF2aM)

206 Bezos is a loathsome leftist. He is also anti-American. His purchase of the WaPo and its continued use as a weapon against truth tells you exactly what he's up to. Bezos has gotten rich by being China's biggest retailer. In the process he's cost our country thousands of job and robbed people of their standard of living. Summarily that's why everything he does ends in some type of failure. Unlike Musk, He's not a creator of anything. He's a thief and a harlequin.

I don't trust any man. My faith is in Jesus Christ. But there are degrees of evil, and even at that Bezos is nothing more then an attendant.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2022 08:27 AM (yrCUI)

207 >>There is very little public trust left to shatter. The elderly still somewhat believe the old names in news, but virtually no one else does. The only people seriously reading those papers now are the factional Party men and the people engaging in Kremlinology - and only the Party men believe a word of it. The TV networks are somehow in better shape, but not by all that much.

I might believe this if we didn't just live through a 5 year period that proved the opposite. We can lie to ourselves all we want about the lack of influence those legacy media organizations hold but they almost took down a duly elected president and did help ruin the lives of numerous people like General Mike Flynn and Michael Caputo.

The NYT and the WaPo are the conduits the Intel Community uses to build narratives. Go back and look at Page and Strzok's tweets about leaking information to both of them. Not Twitter or Facebook, the NYT and the WaPo. Without them there never would have been a Russia collusion hoax of any note.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:27 AM (ZLI7S)

208 What the last two years have made crystal clear is that there are 30%-- some 90 million--Americans who have happily chosen slavery in the name of safety.

I think that number is low by at least 10 percentage points.

"Healthcare is a right." Sound familiar?
"You can't take away Social Security, I paid in to the system!" (Yes, you did - the government stole your money. Mine, too. Why do you want them to steal my children's?)
"Two weeks to flatten the curve!"

The vast majority of the human race is very quick to bow to someone who seems confident and promises to keep them "safe," with little-to-no thought paid toward what it will cost them in either the near or long term.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:27 AM (9nPZp)

209 I thought for sure you were going to give us a promo code for My Pillow.

lol.. it did look that way didn't it?

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 26, 2022 08:28 AM (nxdel)

210 The DNC wants the FAB out of the way. She started poking her head out of her burrow, and is is getting smacked down hard.

Or, everything will be dismissed so she can say "That has been prosecuted, and there was nothing wrong with what I did." when she campaigns in 24.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:28 AM (bg3iC)

211 Posting from Finland was a nightmare...let's try a different locale.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 26, 2022 08:26 AM (GYIa4)

Try Ukraine. Everyone loves Ukraine and any suppression of speech from there is racist, bigoted and pro Russian.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

212 I haven't been to JFK in ?? years.
It reminded me of the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2022 08:11 AM (EZebt)
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circa 1975.
Even renovated, JFK feels retro.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 08:28 AM (dtRKo)

213 182 It amuses me to see that Hunter Biden is going bald, just like dear old dad. He already bought himself a set of new Chiclet-like teeth like dad's, so maybe he'll go for the plugs like dad did too.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 26, 2022 08:21 AM (k4dH2)

Hunter literally had meth mouth. It was not a good look.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:28 AM (9otr5)

214 And she will die comfortably in bed without ever seeing a single day in jail. Sorry if I don't call that 'taking down.'
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I take comfort in the undeniable fact that stan always gets his due. I may not witness it, but it will happen.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2022 08:29 AM (vBMpQ)

215 >>It may have been a big deal between 2016 - 2019, now?

>>Pfft.

Really, when the speculation has been rampant here for the last year that she was running in 2024?

Oh ok.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:29 AM (ZLI7S)

216 "You can't take away Social Security, I paid in to the system!" (Yes, you did - the government stole your money. Mine, too. Why do you want them to steal my children's?)
"Two weeks to flatten the curve!"

The vast majority of the human race is very quick to bow to someone who seems confident and promises to keep them "safe," with little-to-no thought paid toward what it will cost them in either the near or long term.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:27 AM (9nPZp)

Social Security is a ponzi scheme of the highest order, but for some reason, stupid people have been brainwashed into thinking the government doesn't lie and it will take CARE of you when you need them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

217 Having mentioned that, how does Mike Lindell know which pillow to send to you when you buy? Are they all tagged in the warehouse - this one for Tonypete, this one is blaster's, this one is for Jewells45, and so on?

It's the same as when Chick-fil-A gives you the "wrong" order at the Drive Thru: God Himself speaks and says "that one."

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:29 AM (9nPZp)

218 Musk has about 6 weeks to get his shit straight before the sale, if it is allowed to go through is finalized. In those 6 weeks a lot can change. The federal government's intelligence agencies are likely near panic. No doubt Twitter has all sorts of "hidden features" that have been used by the IC for years... those are now at risk of being exposed or disabled. Either one is unacceptable to them. I'd expect this little tidbit to become public anyway.

Even if Musk is denied ownership by whatever means the feds decide to use the intelligence capabilities of Twitter will have been lost. For now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2022 08:29 AM (BFigT)

219 OK, I'm going to see if I can get my author website under control. I'll be in and out.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2022 08:30 AM (2JVJo)

220 At the best of times, 1/3 want slavery, 1/3 want freedom, and 1/3 just don't give a shit.
Posted by: Tom Servo

So 1/3 Freedom and 2/3 slavery. Because those that don't GAS, will get slavery shoved up their fartclam.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:30 AM (co19B)

221 187 And how many planes were hijacked after 9/11? None! We gave up some liberty for safety and it worked! Now lets give up more liberty for more safety! It is a proven winning strategy!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:23 AM (bg3iC)

Cat there would have never been another 9/11. I know many people that ordered the metal framed dell laptop with the full intention to beat to death the next hijacker.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 08:30 AM (yrol0)

222 Mppp, masks are completely gone where I live. Even the store employees have quit wearing them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 08:30 AM (8HAVQ)

223 JT-Her name is actually spelled "Rumer". My mistake. Rumer is another name for a gypsy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2022 08:30 AM (fF2aM)

224 until the only people using it are official enemies of the state. Just like Gab.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I'm a Cis White Male from our country's founding stock, which are official enemies of the state since WWI. Might as well embrace it, get strong, get lean and mean, and prepare to fight for your people.

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 08:30 AM (B1mYq)

225 The NYT and the WaPo are the conduits the Intel Community uses to build narratives. Go back and look at Page and Strzok's tweets about leaking information to both of them. Not Twitter or Facebook, the NYT and the WaPo. Without them there never would have been a Russia collusion hoax of any note.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:27 AM (ZLI7S)

I could have written this. In fact I probably have.

Page and Strzok are currently in legal danger then, yes?

No? Okay then.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:30 AM (9otr5)

226 the claim that speech simply must be restricted, because if it isn’t, people are going to get hurt. This remains spectacularly unproven.
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It has the opposite effect. Censorship and speech control can reduce friction for the ruling powers and look in the short term like a net good for them, because it is. Longer term, however, it causes unsolvable problems. When you silence people, you remove an outlet for them. They have no way to know whether or not they're alone and there is also no wider mediating force. This alienates people, drives them mad and ultimately reduces inhibitions. At the same time, it also shuts off intelligence capability against them because they're not allowed to talk to anyone.

What it leads to is masses of alienated, angry people with fewer inhibitions and increasing anomie, while also cutting off their ability to learn about them and removing any moderating feedback. Then, at some point that is utterly unpredictable and also oddly predicated, the whole thing blows up and you end up in a revolution. Lots of people die in revolutions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:31 AM (DU+/6)

227 Biden Selling Out U.S. Oil Reserve

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I'm sure this got the attention on the network news last night that it so richly deserved, right? It is truly unconscionable this fool did this. It is my understanding, and I could be wrong, that our strategic oil reserves are for emergency situations and for the sole benefit of, you know, that quaint notion of the American people.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2022 08:31 AM (sVtYq)

228 131 I haven't been to JFK in ?? years.
It reminded me of the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2022 08:11 AM (EZebt)

My last time at JFK was to catch a Delta flight to Moscow. After that ordeal, I switched to Singapore Airlines out of Houston to go there. So much better in both the airport and airline.

Posted by: jwest at April 26, 2022 08:31 AM (/BlEx)

229 227 Biden Selling Out U.S. Oil Reserve

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I'm sure this got the attention on the network news last night that it so richly deserved, right? It is truly unconscionable this fool did this. It is my understanding, and I could be wrong, that our strategic oil reserves are for emergency situations and for the sole benefit of, you know, that quaint notion of the American people.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2022 08:31 AM (sVtYq)

Yeah the strategic reserve is for emergency use like military situations.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2022 08:32 AM (b2nrj)

230 Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2022 08:29 AM (vBMpQ)

There are times when the only comfort is remembering that Eternal Justice will be done, one way or another.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:32 AM (9nPZp)

231 The Coup was so much bigger and broader than Hillary, quite frankly what Durham is on the trail of is reminiscent of the bumbling inspector from Goddard Park, he sees everything that's not important to solving the mystery.

It's sad really.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2022 08:32 AM (mDf7x)

232 It amazes me that the left has monopolized speech, while committing ALL the violence related to any speech whatsoever, and has been successful in suppressing 90% of conservative/right wing speech.

Americans really have been dumbed down and brainwashed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

233 Don't trust Musk but enjoying some 2015 vibes while they last.

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 08:33 AM (B1mYq)

234 It's the same as when Chick-fil-A gives you the "wrong" order at the Drive Thru: God Himself speaks and says "that one."
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

Why is God hanging out at Braum's so much?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:33 AM (co19B)

235 "On Monday, Judge Robert R. Summerhays granted a temporary restraining order that is likely to prevent Biden from ending Title 42 while the case makes its way through federal court."

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I wonder how long it will hold until the properly woke judge is assigned to reverse the restraining order.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2022 08:33 AM (sVtYq)

236 It's the same as when Chick-fil-A gives you the "wrong" order at the Drive Thru: God Himself speaks and says "that one."
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

Exactly! Clearly a Higher Power wanted me to have curly fries.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2022 08:33 AM (vBMpQ)

237 >>I could have written this. In fact I probably have.

>>Page and Strzok are currently in legal danger then, yes?

>>No? Okay then.

We. Don't. Know.

Was Rodney Joffe in trouble before Durham exposed him? Was Michael Sussmann even a topic of conversation before Durham indicted him? How about Igor Danchenko another person who almost nobody had ever heard of who is now under criminal indictment.

Watch the investigation. I'm so old I remember when I was told here repeatedly that nothing would happen. That turned out to be wrong.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:33 AM (ZLI7S)

238 At the best of times, 1/3 want slavery, 1/3 want freedom, and 1/3 just don't give a shit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 08:25 AM (8HAVQ)
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Which is why Lenin pointed out only a small radical vanguard is necessary to fomenting a revolution, not the larger majority of the people.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2022 08:34 AM (EZebt)

239 Hillary isn't running for anything. It's Biden and Kamala but our side has been in denial about it since everyone dreamed Biden would never "make it" every step between the original primary and now.

Now somehow they're gonna West Wing and House of Cards the First Brown Female Vice President cuz reasons? Nope.

They are showing you that it doesn't *matter* who or what is the puppet figure. And all of the "risks" that Biden would be gone physically or mentally were known when she was chosen. Which means she is an approved card carrying member that they *trust*. That hasn't changed. She is next.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:34 AM (DscAT)

240 They have no way to know whether or not they're alone and there is also no wider mediating force. This alienates people, drives them mad and ultimately reduces inhibitions. At the same time, it also shuts off intelligence capability against them because they're not allowed to talk to anyone.

Saw that at work. Can't have a discussion with other docs about covid issues because you don't know what karen nurse or admin or doc for that matter will overhear and try to have you fired for spreading misinformation.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:34 AM (bg3iC)

241 A majority of a-hole SCOTUS justices have temporarily reinstated a racist (against high-achieving Asians) admissions policy at TJ Science & Tech HS in Virginia. TJ, the nation's top-ranked public HS, had a student body of over 70% high-achieving Asians, but this was deemed to be "too many" Asians after the George Floyd nonsense, and the Fairfax Co. race-baiters decided to "re-balance" the racial mix to reduce the Asians and admit more unqualified blacks and hispanics in the name of "diversity." Parents sued and a federal judge stopped the blatant racism against Asians and ordered the school to suspend the new admissions policy, but now the SCOTUS has reinstated it. Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito dissented and said they would have suspended the racist policy.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 26, 2022 08:34 AM (k4dH2)

242 Wener herzog was quoted saying that what happened in Germany in the 30's was that 1/3 of the population decided to kill another 1/3, and the remaining 1/3 sat on their hands and enjoyed the show.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 08:34 AM (8HAVQ)

243 Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:33 AM (co19B)

CfA may be the Lord's chicken, but Braums is His ice cream.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:35 AM (9nPZp)

244 ... The NYT and the WaPo are the conduits the Intel Community uses to build narratives. Go back and look at Page and Strzok's tweets about leaking information to both of them. Not Twitter or Facebook, the NYT and the WaPo. Without them there never would have been a Russia collusion hoax of any note.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:27 AM (ZLI7S)
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They aren't mutually exclusive. Trust is not required for narrative-setting or control. An absence of trust doesn't mean you know the truth, it just means that you know you are being lied to. And social media acts as an amplifier for the legacy media because too few people read the legacy media. They don't lead to Facebook or Twitter because there's no real good way to do so. You leak to your captive "news" agencies and then let it amplify through social media by controlling who those networks deem "credible" or "reliable."

Saturation of control doesn't mean anyone believes you - but it does mean that they all know the party line and are afraid to push back for the fear of having their lives ruined. Six of one, perhaps.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:35 AM (DU+/6)

245 Alright, y'all, I have to work at work.
Catch you later.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:36 AM (9nPZp)

246 Social Security is a ponzi scheme of the highest order, but for some reason, stupid people have been brainwashed into thinking the government doesn't lie and it will take CARE of you when you need them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

Concur.

The Social Security Ponzi Madoff Scheme should have been abolished long ago.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 26, 2022 08:36 AM (AnSUv)

247 Watch the investigation. I'm so old I remember when I was told here repeatedly that nothing would happen. That turned out to be wrong.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:33 AM (ZLI7S)

"Nothing will happen" does not include Sussman, Danchenko, Boombotz, Schlitzbrigger, or Key to the Whole Operation Kevin Clinesmith. And to pretend otherwise is an insult to the intelligence of many fine people.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:36 AM (DscAT)

248 At the best of times, 1/3 want slavery, 1/3 want freedom, and 1/3 just don't give a shit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 08:25 AM (8HAVQ)

True, yet Romney got slayed by the media for pointing that out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

249 Concur.

The Social Security Ponzi Madoff Scheme should have been abolished long ago.

More coffee.

It will be abolished once the Millennials are fully in charge. Boomers can't suffer enough in their opinion.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 26, 2022 08:37 AM (AHeqJ)

250 Everyone loses value over time and therefore becomes expendable. With each passing day Hillary has less value to the party and the people who surrounded her. Her reputation has already suffered, something she could already ill afford. Her political value is mostly gone. Durham may never get anyone to turn on her, but he might. You'd be surprised what people facing jail time and loss of employment do. How many people do you think would be willing to do time for her? Or is it really her they're going after? Maybe it's the cabal that wanted her as their figurehead? Durham has plodded along carefully against an entrenched organization that has taken decades to build. That won't be taken down overnight. But I think he's on the right path and eventually someone will throw Hillary under the bus. She's clearly a loathsome person who directed or lent her imprimatur to this attempted coup. It's going to come out, sooner or later.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2022 08:37 AM (yrCUI)

251 At the best of times, 1/3 want slavery, 1/3 want freedom, and 1/3 just don't give a shit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 08:25 AM (8HAVQ)
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I am not sure I agree. If that were the case, we'd constantly swing between extremes. I think it's more like 10-20% people are evil and 10-20% are good, with the vast middle backing whoever the strong horse is.

If you let evil become the strong horse it gets most people behind it when it's down to the brass tacks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:38 AM (DU+/6)

252 Ron DeSantis: Elon Musk Buying Twitter "Raises the Prospect" That Free Speech Will Return

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I like how DeSantis doesn't over-sugarcoat what Musk's buyout portends. It's a cautious statement, as it should be. I will gladly rejoice if free speech is truly the end result (minus violent rhetoric, of course) but only time will tell if Musk lives up to some people's expectations. I remain curious, but cautious.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2022 08:38 AM (sVtYq)

253 Regarding groomers in the classroom, I would posit that while the sexual element is the most highly visible aspect of it right now, there is a broader and deeper component that people should be aware of. And that is teachers who actively seek to create a secret emotional bond with children, to the exclusion of parents. "You can feel free talking with me, Johnny. I won't tell your parents. It will be just between us."

This approach doesn't necessarily involve a sexual aspect. It could be religion, global warming, politics, guns in the household... you name it. And it happens every day all around us. The teacher-student veil of secrecy destroys families. I've seen the aftermath of this at first hand in my own family.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 26, 2022 08:38 AM (kXYt5)

254 Wener herzog was quoted saying that what happened in Germany in the 30's was that 1/3 of the population decided to kill another 1/3, and the remaining 1/3 sat on their hands and enjoyed the show.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 08:34 AM (8HAVQ)

Good thing it wasn't 1/4, cuz THAT would've been REALLY bad.

Posted by: Stupid Fast Food Burger Eaters at April 26, 2022 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

255 Cat there would have never been another 9/11. I know many people that ordered the metal framed dell laptop with the full intention to beat to death the next hijacker.
Posted by: rhennigantx

ALWAYS ask for a seatbelt extender.
Perfect melee weapon.
Fire extinguisher. If they can't see and can't breathe, they can't fight.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:38 AM (co19B)

256 I heard that Babylon Bee is back on Twitter and so is Tucker Carlson, perhaps others. So , not too bad if a start.

Posted by: runner at April 26, 2022 08:38 AM (3WWC/)

257 Holy cannoli I was just DM. Malia Obama is flat out homely. In their white house years I always thought Malia was the more attractive one and Sasha was the chubby little sister. It's the opposite. Malia has also taken up dads cigarette habit.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 26, 2022 08:38 AM (nxdel)

258 249 It will be abolished once the Millennials are fully in charge. Boomers can't suffer enough in their opinion.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 26, 2022 08:37 AM (AHeqJ)

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Social Security is first and foremost a vote getting scheme.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 26, 2022 08:38 AM (LvTSG)

259 Is Pantifa really an FIB opp??
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Yes.
None of the leaders have been arrested.
Only the most extreme and unrepentant have seen jail time-- only because they all but begged for it.
None of their funding has been investigated.
It's as organic as the Whitmore kidnapping plot.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2022 08:39 AM (+Obm8)

260 The Social Security Ponzi Madoff Scheme should have been abolished long ag

We can't even get rid of the penny.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:39 AM (bg3iC)

261 Will the new Twitter that believes free speech allow Alex Jones back on?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 26, 2022 08:39 AM (F2CQq)

262 Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2022 08:32 AM (mDf7x)

Exactly. Hillary was the real "cutout" for the intentions of the DS.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:39 AM (DscAT)

263 260 The Social Security Ponzi Madoff Scheme should have been abolished long ag

We can't even get rid of the penny.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:39 AM (bg3iC)

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Big Copper has its rusty fingers in everything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 26, 2022 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

264 234 Rick, we have 4 Braums in the area. Two are romper room, bunch of kids, the other are the old soldiers home, staffed by retirees who came back to work. Guess which ones I shop at.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2022 08:39 AM (lz5hY)

265 "Nothing will happen" does not include Sussman, Danchenko, Boombotz, Schlitzbrigger, or Key to the Whole Operation Kevin Clinesmith. And to pretend otherwise is an insult to the intelligence of many fine people.
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:36 AM (DscAT)
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Kevin Clinesmith is what finally ended any lingering optimism I had that justice would even possibly be served. They found a mid-level (mid-high) patsy, used his little corner of the conspiracy to assign full blame and then they prosecuted him - before letting him go and reinstating his professional certifications.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:40 AM (DU+/6)

266 263 260 The Social Security Ponzi Madoff Scheme should have been abolished long ag

We can't even get rid of the penny.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:39 AM (bg3iC)

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Big Copper has its rusty fingers in everything.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 26, 2022 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

Probably Big Zinc these days.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2022 08:40 AM (b2nrj)

267 t's the opposite. Malia has also taken up dads cigarette habit.
Posted by: Jewells45 at April 26, 2022 08:38 AM (nxdel)

Isn't she the one that's been caught smoking weed at every opportunity?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

268 If you don't think the WaPo and the NYT will face negative consequences in public trust when the rest of the country finds out

"when"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 08:41 AM (sZYxc)

269 Why would Twitter allow the conservatives back now?

Musk doesn't own it yet. Doesn't doing so just show that it was all arbitrary and capricious and not about Trust and Safety like they said?

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:41 AM (9otr5)

270 I like how DeSantis doesn't over-sugarcoat what Musk's buyout portends. It's a cautious statement, as it should be. I will gladly rejoice if free speech is truly the end result (minus violent rhetoric, of course) but only time will tell if Musk lives up to some people's expectations. I remain curious, but cautious.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 26, 2022 08:38 AM (sVtYq)
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Yup. It's long odds. I think the probability is better that Twitter dies or is killed off rather than free speech returning. But it's the first glimmer of hope in a while now, outside of the notable exception that is Ron DeSantis and Florida.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:41 AM (DU+/6)

271 >>>Isn't she the one that's been caught smoking weed at every opportunity?
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a teenager who smokes dope? Unpossible!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 08:42 AM (sZYxc)

272 I'll go with the salutary Elon effect. What's not to like at least for now?

Posted by: Ziba at April 26, 2022 08:42 AM (S1hrL)

273 >>"Nothing will happen" does not include Sussman, Danchenko, Boombotz, Schlitzbrigger, or Key to the Whole Operation Kevin Clinesmith. And to pretend otherwise is an insult to the intelligence of many fine people.

Really. Then you have all the evidence, not conjecture, of what really happened? Can I see it?

The idea that Durham, probably the most respected prosecutor who has a long career of prosecuting corrupt politicians and government agents including the FBI is just burying this is stupid and unsupported by facts and an insult to other fine people.

The left investigates people because they are communists. We investigate crimes and go where the evidence leads. If you have any evidence that Durham is ignoring clear crimes by anyone then show it. Otherwise it's just ranting.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:42 AM (ZLI7S)

274 Why would Twitter allow the conservatives back now?

Musk doesn't own it yet. Doesn't doing so just show that it was all arbitrary and capricious and not about Trust and Safety like they said?
Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:41 AM (9otr5)
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If they do, it'll be puzzling.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:42 AM (DU+/6)

275 CfA may be the Lord's chicken, but Braums is His ice cream.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

Pray that's true, because they can't make a correct burger to save their lives.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:42 AM (co19B)

276 Isn't she the one that's been caught smoking weed at every opportunity?

Yep. Chip off the old block as they say.

Posted by: Jewells45 at April 26, 2022 08:42 AM (nxdel)

277 CfA may be the Lord's chicken, but Braums is His ice cream.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 26, 2022 08:35 AM (9nPZp)

I've had CfA. IMO, the chicken is nothing to write home about. And after their CEO lectured Americans to shine blacks' shoes, the company can horsefuck, for all I care.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2022 08:43 AM (2JVJo)

278 "Kevin Clinesmith is what finally ended any lingering optimism"

Why is it, do you think, that Clinesmith got off so easy? Because I know that's a question a lot of people in Washington are thinking about. I wonder why they're so concerned.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2022 08:43 AM (yrCUI)

279 269 Why would Twitter allow the conservatives back now?

Musk doesn't own it yet. Doesn't doing so just show that it was all arbitrary and capricious and not about Trust and Safety like they said?
Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:41 AM (9otr5)

Some people looking to appeal to the new incoming boss I guess.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2022 08:43 AM (b2nrj)

280 277 I've had CfA. IMO, the chicken is nothing to write home about. And after their CEO lectured Americans to shine blacks' shoes, the company can horsefuck, for all I care.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2022 08:43 AM (2JVJo)

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When you come down here, you should check out Boxcar Betty's.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 26, 2022 08:43 AM (LvTSG)

281 Social Security is a ponzi scheme of the highest order, but for some reason, stupid people have been brainwashed into thinking the government doesn't lie and it will take CARE of you when you need them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)
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Not true. We take the money and put it in a lockbox for your retirement

Posted by: VP Al Gore at April 26, 2022 08:44 AM (EZebt)

282 Obama and the weed gene.

https://is.gd/tf7a4u

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

283 In order to be not racist, you must first categorize everyone according to race, then discriminate against certain races in order to give an advantage to others. Science!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:44 AM (bg3iC)

284 283 In order to be not racist, you must first categorize everyone according to race, then discriminate against certain races in order to give an advantage to others. Science!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:44 AM (bg3iC)

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Also, you have to be born not white.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 26, 2022 08:44 AM (LvTSG)

285 The Globalidt Elite in league with satanic Biden are using space based energy weapons to kill Trumps friend Putin

Posted by: Kurt at April 26, 2022 08:45 AM (CBNY7)

286 Why is it, do you think, that Clinesmith got off so easy? Because I know that's a question a lot of people in Washington are thinking about. I wonder why they're so concerned.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2022 08:43 AM (yrCUI)
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I don't buy it. I don't think Clinesmith flipped. I don't think Rosenstein was a secret white hat. I don't think they baited a trap that is yet to be sprung.

I just don't buy it anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:45 AM (DU+/6)

287 284 283 In order to be not racist, you must first categorize everyone according to race, then discriminate against certain races in order to give an advantage to others. Science!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:44 AM (bg3iC)

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Also, you have to be born not white.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 26, 2022 08:44 AM (LvTSG)

And Asians, you're right up against the line so you better watch yourself.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2022 08:45 AM (b2nrj)

288 261

That's why it's called free speech. If you don't like what's on tap, don't go.

Posted by: Ziba at April 26, 2022 08:45 AM (S1hrL)

289 What was the reason for not upholding the lower court ruling? Let me guess... the plaintiff lacked standing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 08:45 AM (bg3iC)

290 Rick, we have 4 Braums in the area. Two are romper room, bunch of kids, the other are the old soldiers home, staffed by retirees who came back to work. Guess which ones I shop at.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

We have one. It's Fannin County Meth Central.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:45 AM (co19B)

291 257 Holy cannoli I was just DM. Malia Obama is flat out homely. In their white house years I always thought Malia was the more attractive one and Sasha was the chubby little sister. It's the opposite. Malia has also taken up dads cigarette habit.
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A lot of people criticized the Obamas for letting Malia go to work as an intern for Harvey Weinstein's company, but it was clear she had nothing to fear, since Harv only ever tried to molest the good-looking ladies.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 26, 2022 08:45 AM (k4dH2)

292 Putin's Racist Free Speech will kill us all! Twitter is a cook book! A COOOOK BOOOOK!

Posted by: Obese Purple-Haired Tolerance Police at April 26, 2022 08:46 AM (v9xyf)

293
That's why it's called free speech. If you don't like what's on tap, don't go.
Posted by: Ziba at April 26, 2022 08:45 AM (S1hrL)

What's wrong with that place? It's got a decent atmosphere and a CRAZY number of beers on tap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

294 Let's keep this Kurt post. It's nice to see what whacky conspiracy theories leftists have.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2022 08:46 AM (b2nrj)

295 Not a big fan of CfA. I also have a strong dislike for a lot of their customers who come to a halt on the busiest street at the busiest time so they can wait to get into line in the parking lot.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2022 08:46 AM (lz5hY)

296 @262

>>Exactly. Hillary was the real "cutout" for the intentions of the DS.

Remember, it was McCain and Graham who "brought" the Steele Dossier to the FBIs "attention" six months after they were already using it as a basis for investigation.

Again, Durham is a bullshit timewaster, his investigation is meaningless and is meant to be protective of the IC/LE apparatus and prime movers of the Coup.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2022 08:46 AM (mDf7x)

297 The Twitter purchase is about making money, and Musk sees freer speech and transparency as critical elements in rebuilding the totally destroyed public trust in the platform. He needs twitter in the same way Trump needs Twitter (or Truth Social): it's a low cost and effective way to market Teslas and SpaceX (and, he hopes, Boring Company) products to the world.

I am betting he has a business plan that will reinvigorate the business. All the "Trust and Safety" nonsense so important to the fascists is a complete distraction to making money and, for that excellent reason, will get flushed as soon as he can start implementing his plan.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 08:46 AM (sZYxc)

298
We have one. It's Fannin County Meth Central.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:45 AM (co19B)

I've been there a few times. Rick's not wrong.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

299 Posted by: Kurt at April 26, 2022 08:45 AM (CBNY7)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at April 26, 2022 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

300 The left investigates people because they are communists. We investigate crimes and go where the evidence leads. If you have any evidence that Durham is ignoring clear crimes by anyone then show it. Otherwise it's just ranting.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:42 AM (ZLI7S)

Hey if the shoe fits I'll wear it. But I know what I mean when I say "nothing will happen" and so far I've been waayyyy more right than wrong. Including about Kevin Clinesmith from minute 1.

Remember it was Sessions and then Barr.

Now it's Durham. In the meantime I could have grown three ZZ Top beards while all we STILL get from the Comeys of the world is golden book deals and Dimestore Twitter Buddhism.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:47 AM (Lic/8)

301 Rick, we have 4 Braums in the area. Two are romper room, bunch of kids, the other are the old soldiers home, staffed by retirees who came back to work. Guess which ones I shop at.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

The one where the staff says "Yes Sir." or "Yes Ma'am" routinely? LOL

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2022 08:48 AM (vBMpQ)

302 251 At the best of times, 1/3 want slavery, 1/3 want freedom, and 1/3 just don't give a shit.

How was it during ancient Roman times?

Posted by: dantesed at April 26, 2022 08:48 AM (88xKn)

303 A semi-famous American mangaka (Fred Gallagher, also known as fredrin), is quitting Twitter because he refuses to take part in the space being "manipulated by one person." As a fan, all I can say is GOOD! Twitter was rotting this guy's brain, to the point that he was obsessing over how to "help trans kids in Texas" more than his languishing webcomic. Maybe now he can focus on drawing his sad girls in snow.

Posted by: pookysgirl, looking on the bright side at April 26, 2022 08:49 AM (XKZwp)

304 Upthread

I find it hard to believe that people in Washington are "wondering" why Clinesmith got off so easy.
I think they probably expected as much; it's DC after all.

Posted by: Ziba at April 26, 2022 08:49 AM (S1hrL)

305 JackStraw whatever Durhams reputation is, I do know what he hasn't done: indict anyone of consequence over the core Russiagate hoax.

You suggest that I don't know what he has done. Neither do you.

What he has not done is cold hard fact. What he has done is speculation.

Is Joffe even in trouble? He's a person of interest.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:49 AM (9otr5)

306 Please don't get rid of @285, this mornings Kurt special!

It's just too good.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 08:49 AM (sZYxc)

307 Not a big fan of CfA. I also have a strong dislike for a lot of their customers who come to a halt on the busiest street at the busiest time so they can wait to get into line in the parking lot.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2022 08:46 AM (lz5hY)

I could take or leave the food but setting aside the right lane of northbound Broadway for CfA parking is irksome.

Posted by: hogmartin at April 26, 2022 08:49 AM (P4LRL)

308 >>I am betting he has a business plan that will reinvigorate the business. All the "Trust and Safety" nonsense so important to the fascists is a complete distraction to making money and, for that excellent reason, will get flushed as soon as he can start implementing his plan.

People who were banned under previous ownership are already being allowed back on the platform and conservatives are seeing the number of followers they have increase, in some cases dramatically.

The censorship appears to be being taken down.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:49 AM (ZLI7S)

309 Fen, here's a link to Merry:

https://tinyurl.com/yc3sekjp

Thanks, MPPPP.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2022 08:49 AM (fF2aM)

310 Watch the investigation. I'm so old I remember when I was told here repeatedly that nothing would happen. That turned out to be wrong.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:33 AM (ZLI7S)

Nothing has happened yet. I remember being told that we would hear big things the spring and summer of 2020. Durham did nothing. Clinesmith suffered next to nothing. Now Durham's investigation looks to be serving two purposes. First it is to protect the IC by making it look like those sneaky people fooled them. Second, intraparty battles and a way to damage the Clinton faction some.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at April 26, 2022 08:50 AM (EpDzw)

311 1/3 want slavery, 1/3 want freedom, and 1/3 just don't give a shit.

How was it during ancient Roman times?
Posted by: dantesed

I/III want slavery, I/III want freedom, and I/III just don't give a shit.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2022 08:50 AM (vBMpQ)

312 311 1/3 want slavery, 1/3 want freedom, and 1/3 just don't give a shit.

How was it during ancient Roman times?
Posted by: dantesed

I/III want slavery, I/III want freedom, and I/III just don't give a shit.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2022 08:50 AM (vBMpQ)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 26, 2022 08:50 AM (LvTSG)

313 @286

>>I just don't buy it anymore.

For Gods sake, they're still mucking about at the basement of the Coup, something that happened over half a decade ago at this point.

So unless Durham has a key to the express elevator to the Penthouse, which he doesn't, this clown is going to milk this nonsense for another half decade.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2022 08:51 AM (mDf7x)

314
I just don't buy it anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:45 AM (DU+/6)

Welcome to the Dark Side.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:51 AM (0z4lf)

315 Posted by: pookysgirl, looking on the bright side at April 26, 2022 08:49 AM (XKZwp)

What is a mangaka?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2022 08:51 AM (fF2aM)

316 1/3 want slavery, 1/3 want freedom, and 1/3 just don't give a shit.

How was it during ancient Roman times?
Posted by: dantesed

I/III want slavery, I/III want freedom, and I/III just don't give a shit.
Posted by: Tonypete

ISWYDT. Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:51 AM (co19B)

317 291 257 Holy cannoli I was just DM. Malia Obama is flat out homely. In their white house years I always thought Malia was the more attractive one and Sasha was the chubby little sister. It's the opposite. Malia has also taken up dads cigarette habit.
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If she has her daddies' ears she will do well as an orifice.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 26, 2022 08:52 AM (8Sqzu)

318 301 Tonypete, I do most of my grocery shopping there. One time, I had three bags (they have carry handles) and my arms still work so no problem. Old lady at the register says it's raining, and you might slip with that cane. Do you want some help. Over at the Junior League stores the register dude has to get back to playing Candy Cane on his phone.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2022 08:52 AM (lz5hY)

319 Hillary IS NOT the deep state. She is a distraction.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:53 AM (co19B)

320 What is a mangaka?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 26, 2022 08:53 AM (vBMpQ)

321 >>Nothing has happened yet.

It's impossible to discuss this with people who are committed to the idea that nothing will happen and when things do happen all I'm told is that doesn't matter and unless a lightning bolt is unleashed by Zeus and smites everyone the right hates it's all hoax.

You guys have it your way. I'm going to continue enjoying the show.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:53 AM (ZLI7S)

322 Welcome to the Dark Side.
Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:51 AM (0z4lf)
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Been there a long time now. I had some hope when the Mueller farce wound down to nothing that the counter-attack would be real and meaningful. It wasn't. It won't be.

I know that my opinion on the whole affair - which is essentially that corruption is so pervasive and complete that the system cannot be fixed and will just keep on growing and stealing and oppressing and murdering until it collapses - is pretty based and cynical, but it is what it is. I just don't buy the idea of good men (or even men with correct incentives) in positions of authority in this system.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:53 AM (DU+/6)

323 315 Posted by: pookysgirl, looking on the bright side at April 26, 2022 08:49 AM (XKZwp)

What is a mangaka?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2022 08:51 AM (fF2aM)

Comic artist. Used more strictly someone who is professionally paid for their work.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2022 08:53 AM (b2nrj)

324 Jeez, can we just enjoy the moment for a little bit? Musk is going to do fine with twitter.

Posted by: Cornfed at April 26, 2022 08:53 AM (mZkxB)

325 319 Hillary IS NOT the deep state. She is a distraction.
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She is the Dowager Queen of SoDiNY. We should bind her feet to prevent her from walking among mortals.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 26, 2022 08:54 AM (8Sqzu)

326 8 "Kevin Clinesmith is what finally ended any lingering optimism"

Why is it, do you think, that Clinesmith got off so easy? Because I know that's a question a lot of people in Washington are thinking about. I wonder why they're so concerned.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2022 08:43 AM (yrCUI)

You mean why did he get off as easy as every single other person involved in the coup? Not exactly the Riddle of the Sphinx here.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:54 AM (5u8TL)

327 What is a mangaka?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2022 08:51 AM (fF2aM)
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I'm guessing it involves rum. Lots of rum.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 08:54 AM (sZYxc)

328 Durham's game is to release his drip drip findings in the midst of a major distraction. That way he knows no one is paying attention...but not his fault!

Posted by: Ziba at April 26, 2022 08:55 AM (S1hrL)

329 It's impossible to discuss this with people who are committed to the idea that nothing will happen and when things do happen all I'm told is that doesn't matter and unless a lightning bolt is unleashed by Zeus and smites everyone the right hates it's all hoax.

You guys have it your way. I'm going to continue enjoying the show.
Posted by: JackStraw

Half a decade on. Who is in jail?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:55 AM (co19B)

330 >>Hillary IS NOT the deep state. She is a distraction.

Of course she is. One of the leaders of it.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:55 AM (ZLI7S)

331 It's impossible to discuss this with people who are committed to the idea that nothing will happen and when things do happen all I'm told is that doesn't matter and unless a lightning bolt is unleashed by Zeus and smites everyone the right hates it's all hoax.

You guys have it your way. I'm going to continue enjoying the show.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:53 AM (ZLI7S)
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That's not entirely fair, Jack. The problem is that every lightning bolt simply wasn't. I can only take being lied to for so long before I reject the notion out of hand. I'm there. You're not. Time will eventually prove one of us correct.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:55 AM (DU+/6)

332 327 What is a mangaka?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2022 08:51 AM (fF2aM)
---------------
Probably something really gay. Ask Garrett.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 26, 2022 08:55 AM (8Sqzu)

333 Been there a long time now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:53 AM (DU+/6)

I know I just wanted to say that.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:55 AM (5u8TL)

334 I love me some JackStraw but this whole thing was, is, and always will be a let down.

We were promised filet and got beef jerky.

Posted by: MJ at April 26, 2022 08:56 AM (zwDuR)

335 329 It's impossible to discuss this with people who are committed to the idea that nothing will happen and when things do happen all I'm told is that doesn't matter and unless a lightning bolt is unleashed by Zeus and smites everyone the right hates it's all hoax.

You guys have it your way. I'm going to continue enjoying the show.
Posted by: JackStraw

Half a decade on. Who is in jail?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:55 AM (co19B)

I know, I know! The J6 protestors.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2022 08:56 AM (b2nrj)

336 334 I love me some JackStraw but this whole thing was, is, and always will be a let down.

We were promised filet and got beef jerky.
Posted by: MJ at April 26, 2022 08:56 AM (zwDuR)

=======

But beef jerky is delicious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 26, 2022 08:56 AM (LvTSG)

337 @286

>>I just don't buy it anymore.

For Gods sake, they're still mucking about at the basement of the Coup, something that happened over half a decade ago at this point.

So unless Durham has a key to the express elevator to the Penthouse, which he doesn't, this clown is going to milk this nonsense for another half decade.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 26, 2022 08:51 AM (mDf7x)

One thing I keep hearing is the case has to be flawless to even stand a chance in DC. Can't Durham request a change of venue for that very reason? Why not fight for that?

Your point is good. In a normal case, Sussman would be one of the guys given immunity to spill his guts. And you know if Durham were serious, he could make Sussman's life miserable until he agreed. Instead we're acting like maybe getting Sussman is nabbing Capone.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at April 26, 2022 08:56 AM (EpDzw)

338 297 The Twitter purchase is about making money,

I don't agree. It's not about losing money, but it is primarily about a conscientious capitalist's vision of how to preserve and sustain our civilizational foundation. I accept that I am making a leap of faith based on what I have seen in Musk, his words, his actions. For all his innovative talents, Musk is also a thowback to a true capitalist social
conscience.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 26, 2022 08:56 AM (H8QX8)

339 "I just don't buy it anymore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:45 AM (DU+/6)"

Your right to feel that way. But a lot of these pieces didn't magically come together. There are some gaps that were filled in by someone, including where to look for certain pieces of supporting evidence.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2022 08:56 AM (yrCUI)

340 We were promised filet and got beef jerky.
Posted by: MJ at April 26, 2022 08:56 AM (zwDuR)
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No, not even. We were promised fillet and got ... nothing. Not even a weak substitution. Not even cold spam.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 08:56 AM (DU+/6)

341 >>Half a decade on. Who is in jail?

Durham's investigation has only been a criminal investigation for approximately 3 years and 1 of those years includes is when the country was largely shut including the courts for the virus. More like 2 years.

Facts matter.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:57 AM (ZLI7S)

342 Today starts 32 straight days of Little League / Girls Softball. Some double headers. Some three games going on at the same time at different fields. 32 straight days of hot dogs from the concession stand as dinner. Mothers Day there are four games. This makes me happy.

Carry on.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 26, 2022 08:57 AM (45fpk)

343 NY State re instituted the mask mandate for all planes and trains in the State two days after the federal judge smacked it down.

Further confirmation of my years-long contention that masks are never going away.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 26, 2022 08:21 AM (2JVJo)

If I was that judge, I'd have federal marshals drag that piss poor excuse for a governor in front of me and put her ass in jail for contempt. Enough of this crap.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 26, 2022 08:58 AM (Zvtjl)

344 Half a decade on. Who is in jail?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:55 AM (co19B)

Buffalo Guy.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 26, 2022 08:58 AM (AnSUv)

345 You guys have it your way. I'm going to continue enjoying the show. Posted by: JackStraw

Good; Don't let the naysayers get you down. It's a relief from the perpetual Eeyores.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2022 08:58 AM (fF2aM)

346 Doesn't matter what Durham takes to court, it will all be DC juries, game over.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 26, 2022 08:58 AM (F2CQq)

347 Half a decade on. Who is in jail?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:55 AM (co19B)

And a better question - what stopped the followon coup, known as The Steal? Which was arguably much bigger and far more consequential. And what is in place to stop the scandalous bullshit they are working on right now?

This is what Jack refuses to cotton to. Nothing stopped The Steal and it was orchestrated by all the same players. Time is up. Nothing fucking *happened*.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 08:59 AM (cLRnF)

348 334 I love me some JackStraw but this whole thing was, is, and always will be a let down.

We were promised filet and got beef jerky.
Posted by: MJ

More like promised filet and got served digested filet straight out of San Fran, DC/NoVa, and NYC.

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 08:59 AM (B1mYq)

349 Your right to feel that way. But a lot of these pieces didn't magically come together. There are some gaps that were filled in by someone, including where to look for certain pieces of supporting evidence.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2022 08:56 AM (yrCUI)
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I don't disparage the work of citizen investigators and citizens who did all of the heavy lifting on this. Men like Solomon and organizations like the Epoch Times and the network of anonymous independents on Twitter have done admirable, remarkable, impressive and very fine work. It is thanks to them that we know what happened and, importantly, can more fully understand what we have lost and how corrupt the entire Complex is.

But it was them. It was independent men with intelligence who put in the work and exposed the truth. It wasn't the investigators and prosecutors with indictment power. It wasn't the organizations that are supposed to this - and those organizations not only didn't do the work, they actively work for the other side.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 09:00 AM (DU+/6)

350 "Israel is believed to have launched several covert operations to sabotage Tehran's program during the past several years and could strike the country's nuclear infrastructure, especially if Iran's program reaches advanced stages of development on an atomic weapon."

I don't think war between Iran and Israel can be avoided, and it'll be desperate days for Israel, at least at first, what with Hezbollah and the IRGC right up against the northern border.

Unlike with Ukraine, the Junta will "stay neutral" or even outright support Iran. My head is spinning trying to keep up with how crazy radical the Biden junta foreign policy is become.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 09:00 AM (PVITw)

351 Why is God hanging out at Braum's so much?
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:33 AM (co19B)

chocolate chocolate chip

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 09:00 AM (yrol0)

352 Hilary and Joe Biden are the same thing. Except one is in the WH and the other one isn't.

They are both grifters who will never the inside of a jail cell.

Posted by: dantesed at April 26, 2022 09:01 AM (88xKn)

353 I've had CfA. IMO, the chicken is nothing to write home about. And after their CEO lectured Americans to shine blacks' shoes, the company can horsefuck, for all I care.

We were all given permission to no longer virtue signal by going to CfA when it was discovered that their charity was altered to eschew traditional American values in favor of Leftist causes.

I left the long drive-thru lines and over-priced chicken for Raising Cane's variety.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 26, 2022 09:01 AM (AHeqJ)

354 Doesn't matter what Durham takes to court, it will all be DC juries, game over.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

That doesn't matter. All that matters is, he tried.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 09:01 AM (co19B)

355 Apropos of nothing -

One of the things I found fascinating about the (thus far) great series "Tokyo Vice", is that -

there are fanzines for various and sundry yakuza.

That's right. There's -

Tiger Beat for Yakuza!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2022 09:01 AM (5NkmN)

356 >>And a better question - what stopped the followon coup, known as The Steal? Which was arguably much bigger and far more consequential. And what is in place to stop the scandalous bullshit they are working on right now?

>>This is what Jack refuses to cotton to. Nothing stopped The Steal and it was orchestrated by all the same players. Time is up. Nothing fucking *happened*.

LOL, wut? The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Should he also have gotten to he bottom of the Lindergh baby kidnapping?

Exactly what proof is that the 2020 election steal which was done at the state level had anything to do with the people who pulled the 2016 Russia hoax?

Let's see your proof.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:01 AM (ZLI7S)

357 Best "fast food" I've ever had was at Culvers in Two Harbors MN. Unbelievably good

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 26, 2022 09:01 AM (flINI)

358 Mornin'
(sips coffee)

Think I'll take a gander at the tech thread and come back. The 2 galaxies colliding article was interesting.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 26, 2022 09:01 AM (sAmhv)

359 We were promised filet and got beef jerky.
Posted by: MJ at April 26, 2022 08:56 AM (zwDuR)
++++
No, not even. We were promised fillet and got ... nothing. Not even a weak substitution. Not even cold spam.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Not even ground up insects!

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 26, 2022 09:03 AM (AHeqJ)

360 Best "fast food" I've ever had was at Culvers in Two Harbors MN. Unbelievably good

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 26, 2022 09:01 AM (flINI)

My great grandfather had a fish store in Two Harbors, back in the day. I used to love to go fishing there for brook trout.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 26, 2022 09:03 AM (45fpk)

361 350 "Israel is believed to have launched several covert operations to sabotage Tehran's program during the past several years and could strike the country's nuclear infrastructure, especially if Iran's program reaches advanced stages of development on an atomic weapon."

I don't think war between Iran and Israel can be avoided, and it'll be desperate days for Israel, at least at first, what with Hezbollah and the IRGC right up against the northern border.

Unlike with Ukraine, the Junta will "stay neutral" or even outright support Iran. My head is spinning trying to keep up with how crazy radical the Biden junta foreign policy is become.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 09:00 AM (PVITw)

Is not valjar binx Iranian?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 09:03 AM (yrol0)

362 How was it during ancient Roman times?
Posted by: dantesed at April 26, 2022 08:48 AM

Kilroynius hic erat

Posted by: Gaius Kilroynius at April 26, 2022 09:04 AM (a3Q+t)

363 Everyone knows that HC will NEVER be prosecuted.
Only fools believe that day will come. Hell, she'll probably be on the ticket in 2024.

Posted by: Ziba at April 26, 2022 09:04 AM (S1hrL)

364 I left the long drive-thru lines and over-priced chicken for Raising Cane's variety.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 26, 2022 09:01 AM (AHeqJ)

Raising Cain's is better.

But if you want a real shock go to McDonald's for their
Deluxe?...Premium? whatever they call it Chicken Sandwich. It's CF-adjacent only much much tastier.

And, of course, Popeye's Chicken Sando is much better the CF. You have choices people.

Don't be a pawn of Big Cluck!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2022 09:04 AM (5NkmN)

365 Kilroynius hic erat
Posted by: Gaius Kilroynius at April 26, 2022 09:04 AM (a3Q+t)

hic

Russia Russia Russia

Posted by: HRC worthless bitch at April 26, 2022 09:05 AM (yrol0)

366 Today starts 32 straight days of Little League / Girls Softball. Some double headers. Some three games going on at the same time at different fields. 32 straight days of hot dogs from the concession stand as dinner. Mothers Day there are four games. This makes me happy.

Carry on.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 26, 2022 08:57 AM (45fpk)

Yes! My littles have their first games this week. And I have my first ever game as coach this week. My oldest may be pitching and will be in the infield. And I'd be surprised if my youngest will sleep between now and first game, he is so jazzed. He's intense and a bit of a circus freak when it comes to baseball.

Spent an hour and a half yesterday with four of our weakest batters trying to whip some form, swing, and confidence into them. "Stance. Grip. Load the bat. Eye on the ball." x about 150 times. The little guys responded well, though.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:05 AM (SH2Zi)

367 Culver's is excellent when and where you can find them.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2022 09:05 AM (5NkmN)

368 LOL, wut? The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Should he also have gotten to he bottom of the Lindergh baby kidnapping?

Exactly what proof is that the 2020 election steal which was done at the state level had anything to do with the people who pulled the 2016 Russia hoax?

Let's see your proof.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:01 AM (ZLI7S)

I think this speaks for itself. I think you're generally a good dude so I take it easy even when you occasionally get a little funny with me. But suffice it to say you are in La La Land if you want to believe/claim Russigate and The Steal are two totally separate events.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 09:06 AM (5Bwba)

369

They are so violently angry because time and history has marched on, and left them behind, and it's their own damn fault and they know it.

Systemic racism in this country was DEAD. Black politicians ,
Artisan writers, and especially small businessmen flourished.

But these same success stories allowed and in some cases deliberately inflamed the subgenius 7th generation welfare types into political weapons and out and out class warfare, and here we are.

Crabs dragging everything else around them down into the boiling water.

Posted by: Truth Hurtin at April 26, 2022 09:06 AM (pKQC9)

370 363 Everyone knows that HC will NEVER be prosecuted.
Only fools believe that day will come. Hell, she'll probably be on the ticket in 2024.
Posted by: Ziba at April 26, 2022 09:04 AM (S1hrL)

But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 09:06 AM (yrol0)

371 Your right to feel that way. But a lot of these pieces didn't magically come together. There are some gaps that were filled in by someone, including where to look for certain pieces of supporting evidence.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 26, 2022 08:56 AM (yrCUI)
++++
I realize now that I might have misunderstood your comment, in that the implication might be that the great work of the citizen investigators and journalists was guided with some inside baseball by secret white hats.

If that's what you meant, then fair enough. That may well have happened. It doesn't mean the system is salvageable. We have one example - not related to Spygate - where is *known* to have happened. The man at DARPA who found the unclassified rejection of EcoHealth Alliance by DARPA because of its recklessness searched for it, found it, and released it directly with his name on it. That proposal and its rejection were damning and would have been more than enough to launch investigations about COVID origins and see some very bad actors trussed up in prison. It didn't happen. It won't happen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 09:06 AM (DU+/6)

372 Spent an hour and a half yesterday with four of our weakest batters trying to whip some form, swing, and confidence into them. "Stance. Grip. Load the bat. Eye on the ball." x about 150 times. The little guys responded well, though.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:05 AM (SH2Zi)

Isn't it just the best?

Posted by: grammie winger at April 26, 2022 09:07 AM (45fpk)

373 We are getting a Whataburger in Fort Smith. I've heard they have slipped a little in the past few years. I always found it to be good fast food.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2022 09:07 AM (lz5hY)

374 That doesn't matter. All that matters is, he tried.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 09:01 AM (co19B)

Do we give him a trophy for trying? Assuming he really "tried."

Posted by: Ziba at April 26, 2022 09:07 AM (S1hrL)

375 289 What was the reason for not upholding the lower court ruling? Let me guess... the plaintiff lacked standing.
_____________

They didn't give their reason. The case is being heard in the 4th Circuit in Richmond. Full case hasn't worked its way up to SCOTUS yet. The parents' group wanted the racist policy suspended until the case is decided, but SCOTUS declined to reinstate the suspension that a trial court had ordered (and that the 4th Circuit had reversed).

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 26, 2022 09:07 AM (k4dH2)

376 This is what Jack refuses to cotton to. Nothing stopped The Steal and it was orchestrated by all the same players. Time is up. Nothing fucking *happened*.
Posted by: ...

Where is that 300 million raised to Stop The Steal anyways? One of the many uncomfortable questions most absolutely refuse to address like the kool aid drinking cult members they are.
And they will try it again in 2024. I mean who in the hell do you believe is coordinating the Desantis hits? Hell, Jenna Ellis wants to represent Disney ffs.
Where did the Stop The Steal money go? I'm legit want these fuckers prosecuted more than the Deep State because at least the former has a realistic chance of happening.

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 09:07 AM (B1mYq)

377 369

They are so violently angry because time and history has marched on, and left them behind, and it's their own damn fault and they know it.

Systemic racism in this country was DEAD. Black politicians ,
Artisan writers, and especially small businessmen flourished.

But these same success stories allowed and in some cases deliberately inflamed the subgenius 7th generation welfare types into political weapons and out and out class warfare, and here we are.

Crabs dragging everything else around them down into the boiling water.
Posted by: Truth Hurtin at April 26, 2022 09:06 AM (pKQC9)

We fought the war on poverty and POVERTY WON.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 09:08 AM (yrol0)

378 I was in a panic in early 2018 about the "investigation" moving too slowly, and Jack and I got into raging disagreements then about the pace of "nothing happening". While I like his ongoing optimism, there is definitely a strong Don Quixote quality to this whole thing.

Durham, at a guess, hoped he would find nothing. Instead he is finding an unimaginably massive conspiracy. Rosemary Collyer exposed the NSA in 2018 as collecting every domestic electronic communication, in black letter violation of the law, and it still goes on. She exposed the "private contractor" access to that data, including for FusionGPS, leading to over 30,000 Americans being surveilled for "reasons" in 2016 alone, including Trump, his children and many of his friends, associates and donors.

Nothing has happened. No one has gone to jail. No one is even indicted. Instead, Durham is "investigating".

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 09:08 AM (PVITw)

379 Gunman, aged 68, fatally shoots a nanny and two kids and wounds another adult in a Russian kindergarten class before killing himself, in the village of Veshkayma, region of Ulyanovsk. Don't worry though, the Militia got there in time to kill all the other kids and teachers in case there were any terrorists still in the building. [BTW, nowhere near Ukraine.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 26, 2022 09:08 AM (UHVv4)

380 >> think this speaks for itself. I think you're generally a good dude so I take it easy even when you occasionally get a little funny with me. But suffice it to say you are in La La Land if you want to believe/claim Russigate and The Steal are two totally separate events.

The only thing it proves is that you like others make unsubstantiated claims of things you just know happened and have zero evidence to back it up.

Then when I call you on it you just accuse me of being naive despite the fact you can't rebut a single thing.

You claimed the same people who pulled the Russia hoax rigged the 2020 election. Ok, prove it. That's how things work in our legal system, you need proof.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:08 AM (ZLI7S)

381 The body of Bishop Evans the Texas National Guardsman who drowned while attempting to save drug smuggling illegals last week was recovered from the Rio Grande yesterday. Newsmax had video footage of the recovery, with his flag draped gurney being carried to a van with fellow soldiers and BP saluting him. They also played video of Psaki being asked if Biden bears responsibility for his death in which she snarkily replied that Evans worked for the state of Texas not the Federal govt.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 26, 2022 09:09 AM (AAXhQ)

382 372

Yes! Little League is the best. An island of sanity in a crazy world. And the kids are having fun.

Posted by: Ziba at April 26, 2022 09:09 AM (S1hrL)

383 Spent an hour and a half yesterday with four of our weakest batters trying to whip some form, swing, and confidence into them. "Stance. Grip. Load the bat. Eye on the ball." x about 150 times. The little guys responded well, though.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:05 AM (SH2Zi)

We are swimming in Culvers here. It's a Wisconsin-based company. Great fast food. Nice bathrooms.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 26, 2022 09:09 AM (45fpk)

384 oops I goofed up

Posted by: grammie winger at April 26, 2022 09:09 AM (45fpk)

385 Culver's. Best place for fast food, in every aspect.

Posted by: kraken at April 26, 2022 09:10 AM (Vr12I)

386 Spent an hour and a half yesterday with four of our weakest batters trying to whip some form, swing, and confidence into them. "Stance. Grip. Load the bat. Eye on the ball." x about 150 times. The little guys responded well, though.

Posted by: flounder

No! That isn't how you do it! You tell them they are perfect, praise everything they do, blame the ball, the pitcher, the sun, the wind, the noise for failure. Then take them all out for ice cream and declare everyone a winner.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 09:10 AM (bg3iC)

387 Isn't it just the best?

Posted by: grammie winger at April 26, 2022 09:07 AM (45fpk)

Yep. And our program is flourishing, so there is a lot of excitement. We have some really good players, despite being one or two years out of T-ball. But the ones yesterday are the fosters, the ones in counseling, the ones with attention problems that seem to get less at home practice time. So it was nice to give them a bit more attention so that they can feel confident out there.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:10 AM (SH2Zi)

388 Someone mentioned the Israeli terrorist hunting series, "Fauda" (on Netflix) the other day.

It is excellent. Very unlike something Netflix itself would produce.

Excellent, violent, action series with all the fat trimmed off so far.

The shocka?

The lovely and discerning Mrs naturalfake is a big fan of "Fauda"( and "Tokyo Vice").

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2022 09:10 AM (5NkmN)

389 Then take them all out for ice cream and declare everyone a winner.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 09:10 AM (bg3iC)

F that. Me, when they do their little pirouettes in the swing: This is baseball, not ballet! Keep your feet on the ground!

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:12 AM (SH2Zi)

390 (peeks in) rehashin' old arguments

I'll come back in the Art thread, because I'm all kULtuRed and stuff.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 26, 2022 09:13 AM (sAmhv)

391 My great grandfather had a fish store in Two Harbors, back in the day. I used to love to go fishing there for brook trout.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 26, 2022 09:03 AM (45fpk)

***

The North Shore of MN is beautiful. I spent a lot of time up there as a kid. The place was magical to me.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 26, 2022 09:14 AM (flINI)

392 Explosion rips through a van at a university in southern Pakistan, killing 3 Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 26, 2022 09:14 AM (UHVv4)

393 Durham emails include:

Emails with Slates Franklin Foer from May 14, 2016 in which Fusion GPS conveys information on a Trump advisor and Alfa Bank.

July 26, 2016 e-mails from Fusion GPS to the Wall Street Journal communicating allegations from Christopher Steele stating a Trump advisor meeting with a former KGB official close to Putin … would be huge news.

July 29 and July 31, 2016 emails with a reporter (Washington Posts Tom Hamburger) concerning Carter Pages investments and meetings with Russians - of which the reporter said Its bullshit.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 09:14 AM (yrol0)

394 They also played video of Psaki being asked if Biden bears responsibility for his death in which she snarkily replied that Evans worked for the state of Texas not the Federal govt.

This is like asking Putin how he feels about a Ukrainian death. Federal Employees are not Americans and should never be considered to be Americans - they are mercenaries, about as American as an anchor baby. Their allegiance is towards the oligarchs and the royalty in Kalorama. Their enemy is We The People.

They should always be considered to be an occupying enemy force.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 26, 2022 09:15 AM (AHeqJ)

395 Twitter will remain a cesspit of antisocial psychosis, just one that permits conservative viewpoints. No thanks.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 26, 2022 09:15 AM (GD2xa)

396 381 Posted by: Jen the original at April 26, 2022 09:09 AM (AAXhQ)
================
I wonder which country Psaki thinks she works for, that disgusting bitch.

God bless the Evans family and the Texas Guard, for trying to do the work the Junta refuses to do.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 09:15 AM (PVITw)

397 F that. Me, when they do their little pirouettes in the swing: This is baseball, not ballet! Keep your feet on the ground!
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:12 AM (SH2Zi)

THERES NO PILETING IN BASEBALL

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 09:15 AM (yrol0)

398 >>Nothing has happened. No one has gone to jail. No one is even indicted. Instead, Durham is "investigating".

Actually 3 people have been indicted including the guy who is credited with creating the Steele dossier and Hillary's campaign lawyer who will be going on trial in less than a month. Durham doesn't get to make court scheduling dates. The courts do that.

Do you trust John Ratcliffe? He was on the tube this weekend saying that given the evidence he largely turned over to Durham and through his discussions with Durham he expects "many" more indictments. His words not mine.

The part I find most frustrating is people have this tendency to say things are taking to long when they really don't care about what's going on to make things take long time like teams of high priced lawyers fighting back and delaying the production of evidence.

Whitewater took over 6 years and that was a relatively minor land scam. Sure, I'd like this to go fast at least as much as anyone cause I probably follow it more closely than most but it is absolutely meaningless in the grand scheme of are things actually happening and they clearly are.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:15 AM (ZLI7S)

399 Rehashin' old arguments??? The Horde Way!!!

Posted by: kraken at April 26, 2022 09:16 AM (Vr12I)

400 The truth has never needed a censor.

Only lies require censorship.

If you are censoring speech--or persons-- it's because you are protecting lies.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 26, 2022 09:16 AM (+Obm8)

401 Durham: Eat your fish and chips and be happy.

Posted by: Ziba at April 26, 2022 09:16 AM (S1hrL)

402
I saw Tiger Beat for Yakuza open for Tears for Fears last year at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2022 09:16 AM (5NkmN)

403 Am I the only one who took special note of Lieawatha's TV appearances last week? To me, it looks like she's signaling that she's going to primary Puddinhead.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 26, 2022 09:16 AM (sWM8x)

404 for all the back and forth about "justice" - No "justice" is possible until we take back control, and we can't take back control until we defeat the current culture. It's foolish to think any of this can happen out of sequence. It's important for Durham's investigation to move forward, because it paralyzes and neutralizes key players on the enemies team; but no, there can be no "justice" until someone on our side (and I do NOT mean GOP-e) can take power.

Berlin had to be burned to the ground before anyone in the Third Reich could be tried for what they had done.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 09:17 AM (r46W7)

405 Then when I call you on it you just accuse me of being naive despite the fact you can't rebut a single thing.

You claimed the same people who pulled the Russia hoax rigged the 2020 election. Ok, prove it. That's how things work in our legal system, you need proof.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:08 AM (ZLI7S)

I've seen no evidence it's not the same people. HOWEVER even if they are different, my point is where was the *deterrent*?

We had the WH, DOJ and even Congress. If "something" had happened, maybe these "different" people would have thought twice about conducting the most brazen electoral theft of our lives and believing, quite correctly mind you, that they could get away with it.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 09:17 AM (y5zzc)

406 In Fairness, I believe that at least 30% of all the people who have ever existed have preferred slavery to freedom, and in places like the Islamic world its close to 90%.

At the best of times, 1/3 want slavery, 1/3 want freedom, and 1/3 just don't give a shit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 08:25 AM (8HAVQ)

This is why immigration used to be restricted to only people who respect the values embodied in the Constitution.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at April 26, 2022 09:17 AM (y7DUB)

407 383 Spent an hour and a half yesterday with four of our weakest batters trying to whip some form, swing, and confidence into them. "Stance. Grip. Load the bat. Eye on the ball." x about 150 times. The little guys responded well, though.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:05 AM (SH2Zi)
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THe hardest thing to teach is letting the ball get in on them. Most batters want to hit it off their forward hip. Making contact deeper generally generates more power.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 26, 2022 09:17 AM (8Sqzu)

408 I used to love watching my kids play Little League. My wife and I spent many an early evening drinking a little beer and watching our son try to get his pitches over the plate. Just the best.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 09:18 AM (PVITw)

409 While I have tremendous admiration for SpaceX, I have never been a fan of Tesla. That's not so much because I'm against electric vehicles, per se, but because Musk eagerly took billions of taxpayer dollars from the federal government to manufacture and market it. The same federal government that is now hell bent on destroying oil, coal and natural gas. And all the while, Musk flaunts an image of how his company is a wildly profitable, shining example of free market entrepreneurialism.

And let's not forget that Musk has a lot of business in China. So will Musk bow to demands from China regarding Twitter operations as every other CEO in America has done? If it comes down to free speech on Twitter or maintaining business in China, which will Musk choose?

Time will tell. This is a war that has been going on decades and the right has lost every battle for decades. Musk finally won a battle. But we are still losing the war by a long shot. Maybe this win turns the tide? Again, time will tell.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 26, 2022 09:18 AM (Do5/p)

410 What is a mangaka?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

A gaka with testicles.....

Posted by: JT at April 26, 2022 09:18 AM (arJlL)

411 Rehashin' old arguments??? The Horde Way!!!
Posted by: kraken at April 26, 2022 09:16 AM (Vr12I)

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No it isn't...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 26, 2022 09:18 AM (flINI)

412 JackStraw, the desire you seem to be swimming against is that of the villains being paraded through streets in tumbrels to the guillotines. Which I would like too, BTW.

Posted by: kraken at April 26, 2022 09:18 AM (Vr12I)

413 I did take notice to lieawatha's freudian "amnesty at the border" slip.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 09:18 AM (bg3iC)

414 411 Rehashin' old arguments??? The Horde Way!!!
Posted by: kraken at April 26, 2022 09:16 AM (Vr12I)

***

No it isn't...
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 26, 2022 09:18 AM (flINI)

Is too!!

Posted by: kraken at April 26, 2022 09:19 AM (Vr12I)

415 Someone mentioned the Israeli terrorist hunting series, "Fauda" (on Netflix) the other day.

It is excellent. Very unlike something Netflix itself would produce. ...

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Concur. I was hoping they would have another installment . Another pleasant thing, you can tell the man who plays main character is very familiar with firearms IRL...

Posted by: runner at April 26, 2022 09:19 AM (3WWC/)

416 We are getting a Whataburger in Fort Smith. I've heard they have slipped a little in the past few years. I always found it to be good fast food.

I have always been disappointed in Whataburger. I don't see what people find so appealing about their menu. Its basically warmed over dog food.

Braum's burgers are far better - probably because they are cooked as if at a family BBQ, and they use fresh ingredients (they often have a mini-market on premises)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 26, 2022 09:19 AM (AHeqJ)

417 Liawatha be heap big worried:

SenWarren
This deal is dangerous for our democracy. Billionaires like Elon Musk play by a different set of rules than everyone else, accumulating power for their own gain. We need a wealth tax and strong rules to hold Big Tech accountable

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 09:19 AM (yrol0)

418 408 I used to love watching my kids play Little League. My wife and I spent many an early evening drinking a little beer and watching our son try to get his pitches over the plate. Just the best.
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Yep. Good times.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (8Sqzu)

419 403 I'll take a straw poll of my tribal cop buddies at the Cherokee casinos to get their true feelings about Warren. Actually, I already know. I can say stupid bint in the languages of the five civilized tribes.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (lz5hY)

420 >>>Am I the only one who took special note of Lieawatha's TV appearances last week? To me, it looks like she's signaling that she's going to primary Puddinhead.
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May as well. Somebody has to, since the DevilCrats will have to field a candidate to lose to Trump.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (PVITw)

421 This is both the funniest and the saddest thing I've read all week:

"For him to say he's doing this for free speech is just a fallacy. It's just wrong. This is not about free speech, if it were there would be a completely different approach needed," said Professor Katherine Gelber, Orwell Professor of Political Science at the University of Queensland.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (HsAzN)

422 Great series overall.

Posted by: runner at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (3WWC/)

423 >>>They also played video of Psaki being asked if Biden bears responsibility for his death in which she snarkily replied that Evans worked for the state of Texas not the Federal govt.

>How is that different than saying he's black and not herspanix?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (LkM8p)

424 Only lies require censorship.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

This, most succinctly.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (w9Wax)

425 CNN: Jack Dorsey made Twitter a safe place for healthy conversation. Now that crazy man Elon will turn it toxic again.

Lol

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (nyZ9P)

426 Is Joffe even in trouble? He's a person of interest.
Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:49 AM (9otr5

I've followed this thread this a.m.

I believe he is. One of the other analysts flipped, IIRC.

There's a reason all communications with Fusion is being calledegal attorney/client privilege. Yes, it's par for the course.

But, I don't believe it will succeed. That's what worries Elias, Simpson and others.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (4aH1v)

427 We need a wealth tax and strong rules to hold Big Tech accountable
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Un huh.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (8Sqzu)

428 413 I did take notice to lieawatha's freudian "amnesty at the border" slip.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 09:18 AM (bg3iC)

I do not see how they can rewrite AMNESTY as it has been defined in law, not by the State dept or INS.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (yrol0)

429 425 CNN: Jack Dorsey made Twitter a safe place for healthy conversation. Now that crazy man Elon will turn it toxic again.

Lol

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (nyZ9P)

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A=A.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 26, 2022 09:21 AM (LvTSG)

430 403 Am I the only one who took special note of Lieawatha's TV appearances last week? To me, it looks like she's signaling that she's going to primary Puddinhead.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 26, 2022 09:16 AM (sWM8x)

Oh no doubt she'll try, she's one of the only major figures still standing on the left. But did you watch the polls during the 2020 primaries, notice why she flamed out? There is not one single black or hispanic voter in the country who gives a damn about some shrill white yankee Karen shrieking at them to give up their menthol cigarrettes. Any Dem candidate *has* to get a huge black and hispanic turnout to win; none of these pasty white cosplayers on the dem side can pull it off.

(Biden was associated with Obama, and Clyburn gave him the Black Seal of Approval, that's why he got the nomination)

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 09:21 AM (r46W7)

431 Noooooo. You aren't allowed to use pattern recognition, connect the dots, the players involved, along with evidence to make connections between the events beginning with Russia Collusion and ending with J6 entrapment and Stop the Steal 300 million grift.

Unbelievable that people have any trust in any government institution or government actor. People who have faith in government institutions and the government are not Americans and must leave America. America was founded on not trusting government and its institutions

This is one major tell: Americans trusting the government and its institutions. Make use of this advice or dont.

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 09:21 AM (B1mYq)

432 The Pisssser Press Secretary hit a new low yesterday with her snark about Evans' death not being acknowledged by the Administration. I hope she gets the treatment she deserves at MSNBC. That woman is a viper.

Posted by: Ziba at April 26, 2022 09:21 AM (S1hrL)

433 I've seen no evidence it's not the same people. HOWEVER even if they are different, my point is where was the *deterrent*?

We had the WH, DOJ and even Congress. If "something" had happened, maybe these "different" people would have thought twice about conducting the most brazen electoral theft of our lives and believing, quite correctly mind you, that they could get away with it.
Posted by: ...

One person gave to order to stop counting across six states. That wasn't coincidental.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 09:21 AM (co19B)

434 430 Oh no doubt she'll try, she's one of the only major figures still standing on the left. But did you watch the polls during the 2020 primaries, notice why she flamed out? There is not one single black or hispanic voter in the country who gives a damn about some shrill white yankee Karen shrieking at them to give up their menthol cigarrettes. Any Dem candidate *has* to get a huge black and hispanic turnout to win; none of these pasty white cosplayers on the dem side can pull it off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 26, 2022 09:21 AM (r46W7)

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The whole, "We need someone with a Southern accent," died the second Obama became a god.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 26, 2022 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

435 427 We need a wealth tax and strong rules to hold Big Tech accountable
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Un huh.
Posted by: Puddinghead at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (8Sqzu)

Wealth tax will come down hard on the heads of billionaire and land directly in the laps of thousandaires.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2022 09:22 AM (yrol0)

436 THe hardest thing to teach is letting the ball get in on them. Most batters want to hit it off their forward hip. Making contact deeper generally generates more power.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 26, 2022 09:17 AM (8Sqzu)

Yeah, we're not even at that level yet. If I can get them to keep a solid stance, not swat at the ball, deliver a full, confident swing, then they (those 4) can be proud that they did something that vaguely resembles a baseball swing. Then we can work on rotation of the hips and getting them some power in their swing.

My youngest, however (not to brag), it is no joke when I say he makes people, strangers stop and pay attention and remark. But he has worked hard, and he is the reason I am coaching, because nobody else would or could.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:22 AM (SH2Zi)

437 Do you trust John Ratcliffe? He was on the tube this weekend saying that given the evidence he largely turned over to Durham and through his discussions with Durham he expects "many" more indictments. His words not mine.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:15 AM (ZLI7S)

My mama would say expect in one, shit in the other, see which one fills up first.

Do I trust Ratliffe. Sure. Does that make his opinion true? Hard to say. I'd like it to be. I heard after Clinesmith that "many" indictments were coming (Clinesmith was never indicted.) A year later a couple indictments came. I heard that after those came there would be "many" more coming.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 09:22 AM (9otr5)

438 CNN: Jack Dorsey made Twitter a safe place for healthy conversation. Now that crazy man Elon will turn it toxic again.

Lol

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant

I'll laugh so hard when Musk puts Dorsey back as CEO.

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 09:23 AM (B1mYq)

439 >>I've seen no evidence it's not the same people. HOWEVER even if they are different, my point is where was the *deterrent*?

That's how things work in a communist country, guilty until proven innocent. That is not how they work here or at least it's not supposed to be how they work here. I'm really not interested in being as corrupt as the left. And what evidence do you have that had Durham had s time machine and started his investigation in 2016 it would have deterred what happened in 2020 at the state level?

Yes, there is a lot of work to fix system that frankly we allowed to become corrupted for decades and Durham isn't going to singlehandedly fix everything and root out all the corruption in government. His job is to investigate the 2016 and if he finds evidence of prosecutable crimes to pursue them wherever they go.

This isn't a fake Mueller/Weissmann, leak to the press every 5 minutes with fake narratives scam, this is a real criminal investigation by honest prosecutors.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:23 AM (ZLI7S)

440 Musk didn't just take the government money to throw deep cycle batteries into a car. He has invented and refined technology to make an electric car a viable thing. Electric motors and batteries wouldn't be where they are today without the risks Musk took.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 09:23 AM (bg3iC)

441 >Hillary IS NOT the deep state. She is a distraction.

Posted by: Cankles at April 26, 2022 09:23 AM (us2H3)

442
People are still here?

I herd that stampeding to Twitter was the au courant thing to do.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at April 26, 2022 09:23 AM (q1ouM)

443 "For him to say he's doing this for free speech is just a fallacy. It's just wrong. This is not about free speech, if it were there would be a completely different approach needed," said Professor Katherine Gelber, Orwell Professor of Political Science at the University of Queensland.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (HsAzN)
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It almost beggars belief.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 09:23 AM (DU+/6)

444 This deal is dangerous for our democracy.

You mean our Constitutional Republic, Gray Beaver.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at April 26, 2022 09:24 AM (y7DUB)

445 Exactly what proof is that the 2020 election steal which was done at the state level had anything to do with the people who pulled the 2016 Russia hoax?

Let's see your proof.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:01 AM (ZLI7S)

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One could write a PhD thesis on this topic.

You may think it's not "proof" but I knew the election was going to be stolen -- and by the people who spent over four years in the same soft coup against Trump -- when Pelosi publicly stated in January of 2020 that "One Way or Another" Trump would not be President in 10 months.

And she was right ... and why they were able to run and install a virtual vegetable who couldn't attract flies (while Trump is attracting overflow crowds of tens of thousands) to rub our noses in it.

Posted by: ShainS at April 26, 2022 09:24 AM (6Ym5C)

446 ... There's a reason all communications with Fusion is being called legal attorney/client privilege. Yes, it's par for the course. ...
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (4aH1v)
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It is. Unless you're not in the Complex. Legal privilege didn't matter one iota when the Justice Department was raiding Trump's lawyers, did it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 09:24 AM (DU+/6)

447 I worked for the fed for over 30 years so let me just say this about investigations; it's seldom about punishment. It's mostly trying to figure out how it happened. The individuals currently named in the Russiagate conspiracy all are/were agents of change. Obviously tagged by Clinton to do her dirty work they are primarily responsible for what went down. Their egos are huge, but it's highly unlikely they'll ever work in Washington D.C. doing what they've been doing again. Sure, some will get gigs on TV, write books, get paid lots of money, whatever. But they'll never be a "player" again.

Should they go to jail? Probably. But most won't. The exposure will limit their usefulness, and this includes Hillary Clinton too. Here designs on future political activities are effectively over.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2022 09:25 AM (BFigT)

448 Rove is on Fox and just went full Porky Pig with the stammering.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2022 09:25 AM (lz5hY)

449 Is Joffe even in trouble? He's a person of interest.
Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 08:49 AM (9otr5
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His lawyer asked the Durham team this exact question, in writing, and by way of an answer got a trial subpoena.

So, yes, he's in trouble. As he should be.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 09:25 AM (PVITw)

450 435 427 We need a wealth tax and strong rules to hold Big Tech accountable
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Un huh.
Posted by: Puddinghead at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (8Sqzu)

Wealth tax will come down hard on the heads of billionaire and land directly in the laps of thousandaires.
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Ask Lizzy was is the effective tax rate of printing $13T in funny money. Then compute the effective tax rate of more than doubling the cost of energy. Pretty sure the rich get richer on these two taxes.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 26, 2022 09:25 AM (8Sqzu)

451 I learned the difference between white people and racists by watching the behavior of Winfrey, Farrakhan, Belafonte, and this latest group of black 'Americans'. They are the real racists.

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2022 09:25 AM (0OP+5)

452 When I coached baseball (mumble mumble) years ago it seemed I was more interested in putting in the work that the kids who were there to play the game. I miss it so much it is palpable. Enjoy the time with the kids because it goes too fast.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 26, 2022 09:26 AM (flINI)

453 We are getting a Whataburger in Fort Smith. I've heard they have slipped a little in the past few years. I always found it to be good fast food.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2022 09:07 AM (lz5hY)

The Mushroom Swiss is awesome.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

454 443 "For him to say he's doing this for free speech is just a fallacy. It's just wrong. This is not about free speech, if it were there would be a completely different approach needed," said Professor Katherine Gelber, Orwell Professor of Political Science at the University of Queensland.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (HsAzN)
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It almost beggars belief.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 09:23 AM (DU+/6)

Who would've expected an Orwell professor to be so Orwellian?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2022 09:26 AM (b2nrj)

455 Do. Not. Call. Them. "Migrants."
They are ILLEGAL ALIENS.
"Migrants" is a term given the illegal border crossers in Europe, transiting into western countries from the shitholes of the middle east. "Journalists" dreamed it up, to soften the issue of muzzies wanting freebies into a "we must have empathy for these poor people fleeing terror."
So "migrants" then got applied to every fucking piece of shit wading across the Rio Grande, or jumping the fence into So Cal.
They are ALIENS. The don't aspire to our values, they don't and won't speak our language, they don't and won't assimilate, and they are a drag on our resources and welfare.
And they for sure are ILLEGAL.
So shut up with the MIGRANT bullshit. You are only playing their game by using their words. Don't say DON'T SAY GAY either.
Haven't you learned anything?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 26, 2022 09:26 AM (KiBMU)

456 Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur

Where is this magical place where men are still allowed to coach and mentor other children without banging AIDS trannies in front of the department of education?

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 09:26 AM (B1mYq)

457 The single most important influence on my politics is and always has been George Orwell. To see a professor...an Orwell Professor of Political Science treat Orwell as an instruction manual and not a warning is just...I almost can't even.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 26, 2022 09:26 AM (HsAzN)

458 I herd that stampeding to Twitter was the au courant thing to do.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at April 26, 2022 09:23 AM (q1ouM)

I may dust off my dusty account to post a Musk, Hope picture.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:26 AM (SH2Zi)

459 @421

Orwell Professor of Political Science? That's hilarious.

Posted by: Ziba at April 26, 2022 09:26 AM (S1hrL)

460 Inspite of his fantasies , Biden is also done.

Posted by: runner at April 26, 2022 09:26 AM (3WWC/)

461 Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:23 AM (ZLI7S)

I guess we will see my friend. We're on the same side and FWIW we seem to agree about most other things.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 09:27 AM (y5zzc)

462 Vox Day said yesterday:

Elon Musk is not “the world’s richest person” because he’s a good guy or because he is dedicated to the Good, the Beautiful, and the True. Whatever god he serves is not God the Father of Jesus Christ. This is just the exchange of one set of gatekeepers for another.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 26, 2022 09:27 AM (OssQ4)

463 Should they go to jail? Probably. But most won't. The exposure will limit their usefulness, and this includes Hillary Clinton too. Here designs on future political activities are effectively over.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 26, 2022 09:25 AM (BFigT)
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Not good enough. I understand what you're saying and I even agree with a lot of it, but these people are not the whole story and they were able to operate and achieve their goals thanks to a culture of corruption and general unlawfulness that saturates and pervades every facet of the federal government.

Without real punishment, real jail time, real routing out of malefactors and real consequences hanging over the heads of the federal government like the Sword of Damocles, nothing changes and nothing improves. And that is not going to happen, because this rotten system is responsible for policing itself.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 09:27 AM (DU+/6)

464 > You know who else did that? Yeah, John McCain. He's beyond the reach of the law though.

Beg to differ.

Posted by: Lucifer Morningstar at April 26, 2022 09:28 AM (bW8dp)

465 So, is Warren going after her own wealth, or will the threshold be just above what she has?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 09:28 AM (bg3iC)

466 465 So, is Warren going after her own wealth, or will the threshold be just above what she has?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 26, 2022 09:28 AM (bg3iC)

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Carveouts for Carlos Slim and Jeff Bezos.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 26, 2022 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

467 >>Do I trust Ratliffe. Sure. Does that make his opinion true? Hard to say. I'd like it to be. I heard after Clinesmith that "many" indictments were coming (Clinesmith was never indicted.) A year later a couple indictments came. I heard that after those came there would be "many" more coming.

Of course Clinesmith was indicted and tried and Durham asked the court for the maximum penalty available under the statute. He got a DC judge who gave him a light sentence.

Yes, the courts are corrupt and particularly in the DC circuit once again demonstrating the reason for having overwhelming and bulletproof evidence when going up against the Democrat elite.

Leslie McAdoo, one of the best criminal defense lawyers in DC on our side and a former federal prosecutor estimates that Sussmann's defense has probably cost him in the neighborhood of $1.5 million so far. What do you reckon they are doing for all that money?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:29 AM (ZLI7S)

468 Just seeing a TV commercial for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds new TV show.

I wonder if they'll go to strange new planets and groom their kids for sex with Federation personnel???

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 26, 2022 09:29 AM (UHVv4)

469 One person gave to order to stop counting across six states. That wasn't coincidental.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 09:21 AM (co19B)

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"Your'e damn right I ordered the Code Pink!"

Posted by: ShainS at April 26, 2022 09:29 AM (6Ym5C)

470 15-year old me got to the last pages of Animal Farm, and as Boxer was being carted off to the glue factory, I knew who I was politically. That's never budged.

It's notable that Animal Farm was required reading in my HS advanced English class.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 26, 2022 09:29 AM (HsAzN)

471 I will believe Durham isn't a grifter when someone is executed for the treason that was committed against Trump and this country or at a MINIMUM, ANYONE not in the Trump camp goes to jail. ANYONE.

Thus far, there has been ZERO arrests, ZERO convictions and ZERO accountability for ANYTHING done against Trump, the 2020 elections or ANY crimes against conservatives or Republicans in government.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

472 Where is this magical place where men are still allowed to coach and mentor other children without banging AIDS trannies in front of the department of education?

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 09:26 AM (B1mYq)

Rural. Some homeschooled (maybe up to 20%). I think logging is primary industry.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:29 AM (SH2Zi)

473 There's a reason all communications with Fusion is being calledegal attorney/client privilege. Yes, it's par for the course.

But, I don't believe it will succeed. That's what worries Elias, Simpson and others.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 26, 2022 09:20 AM (4aH1v)

I am going to give credit to Durham for this bit of cleverness: he is getting the Clinton campaign to convict Sussmann for him. Sussmann says he wasn't working for the Clinton campaign. Durham says well if we got your emails with the campaign that would prove it one way or the other, and the Clinton campaign, as would be pro forma for one of their lawyers, says its attorney-client privilege. Which really puts a crimp in Sussmann's I wasn't working for them story.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 09:29 AM (9otr5)

474 444 This deal is dangerous for our democracy.

You're talking about the war in Ukraine, right?

Posted by: Ziba at April 26, 2022 09:30 AM (S1hrL)

475 > Vox Day

Or, as I call him, Vox "Kuwaiti Prince" Day.

Ran away to Italy to live on daddy's money, while expecting the rest of us to take "his" country back for him.

Bah.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2022 09:30 AM (bW8dp)

476 463 Even if they would go to jail, it won't be jail jail. It will be one of the units at Allenwood that can be described as comfortable if not swanky.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2022 09:30 AM (lz5hY)

477 Rove is on Fox and just went full Porky Pig with the stammering.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2022 09:25 AM (lz5hY)

Perfect imagery.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at April 26, 2022 09:30 AM (y7DUB)

478 OT-Trust the harness. A Christian devotional from "The Upper Room" by a man from Virginia;

https://tinyurl.com/2p85swrf

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2022 09:30 AM (C5YNT)

479 Take away Tesla and Musk is pretty damn awesome for PayPal. The add Tesla. Then add SpaceX. The guy is a fucking 21st century baller.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 26, 2022 09:30 AM (nyZ9P)

480 457 The single most important influence on my politics is and always has been George Orwell. To see a professor...an Orwell Professor of Political Science treat Orwell as an instruction manual and not a warning is just...I almost can't even.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 26, 2022 09:26 AM (HsAzN)

The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 26, 2022 09:31 AM (b2nrj)

481 >>>Rove is on Fox and just went full Porky Pig with the stammering.

>Was he flogging his magic grease board of truth and statistics? That shit cracks me up.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 26, 2022 09:31 AM (LkM8p)

482 Clinesmith was referred to the court on an "information" not an indictment. Because he was pleading. They are called different things because they are different things.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 09:32 AM (9otr5)

483 Rove is on Fox and just went full Porky Pig with the stammering.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2022 09:25 AM (lz5hY)

Eh, Rove should buy and retire to some Caribbean island.

He accomplished everything he wanted.

He gave us a Republican Party that is now a mirror___ of the Democrat Party.

Instead of doing every single stupid thing they promise, the Reps do absolutely nothing they promise.

And all for the same reason: lotsa sweet sweet graft.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2022 09:32 AM (5NkmN)

484 Speaking of the Big Steal, did y'all see True The Vote did some very interesting citizen journalising the other day?

They bought cell phone geolocation data near drop boxes in purple states, states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona (and probably others I forgot). Sifting through the information, they narrowed down cell numbers to those repeatedly visiting the boxes and dropping off "ballots". Then they matched the data with surveillance video and Voila! Pictures of the actual steal as it happened!

Drop boxes, placed in violation of state law and under the "covid!!" cover story, became the locus of (in Pennsylvania alone (iirc) over 300,000 votes dropped off by these "mules" as True The Vote called them. Many wore gloves so their fingerprints weren't on the fake votes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 09:32 AM (K25FW)

485 My youngest, however (not to brag), it is no joke when I say he makes people, strangers stop and pay attention and remark. But he has worked hard, and he is the reason I am coaching, because nobody else would or could.
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Finding good coaches is hard. My son played on a lot of 'Where's Waldo' teams. You know, the paint chip eaters you have to hide somewhere on the field. He had one year with a travel team where everyone on the team knew how to play the game. He really enjoyed that season. His HS team was a joke. They played the players whose mommy and daddy's did the scrunt work at the concession stand and field prep. As a result, their kids were always starting pitchers. By the time they put my kid in the score was alway 10+ to 1. My kid gave up Baseball because of that shit. He was a pretty good pitcher and an ace outfielder who was batting around .500+.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 26, 2022 09:32 AM (8Sqzu)

486 Sundance at CTH has a good take on the Durham investigation: basically, he's only going after people who were technically "outside of government" like Hillary & her peeps.

Or as he terms it: Bill Barr was the bondo, and Durham is the spray paint.

Posted by: ShainS at April 26, 2022 09:32 AM (6Ym5C)

487 mirror = mirror image

Posted by: naturalfake at April 26, 2022 09:32 AM (5NkmN)

488 When I coached baseball (mumble mumble) years ago it seemed I was more interested in putting in the work that the kids who were there to play the game. I miss it so much it is palpable. Enjoy the time with the kids because it goes too fast.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 26, 2022 09:26 AM (flINI)

I want to get more time to spend with those kids, because we have about 6-8 of 13 core kids who know the game well for their age and really want to go next level. I think that is our next few practices, after I get the ones who are scared of the ball and throw like girls (worse than our girls, who throw like boys) a bit better.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:32 AM (SH2Zi)

489 Vox Day said yesterday:

Elon Musk is not “the world’s richest person” because he’s a good guy or because he is dedicated to the Good, the Beautiful, and the True. Whatever god he serves is not God the Father of Jesus Christ. This is just the exchange of one set of gatekeepers for another.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus

He is not wrong, is he?

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 09:32 AM (B1mYq)

490 This isn't a fake Mueller/Weissmann, leak to the press every 5 minutes with fake narratives scam, this is a real criminal investigation by honest prosecutors.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:23 AM (ZLI7S)
==
Show me. Without scalps it is not.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 26, 2022 09:32 AM (LyTO1)

491 Does Merrick Garland have the ability to rein in Durham at any time?

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at April 26, 2022 09:32 AM (y7DUB)

492 JFC not more Durham stuff.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 26, 2022 09:33 AM (nyZ9P)

493 Karl Rove is an idiot

Posted by: Chris "Fatboy" Stirewalt at April 26, 2022 09:33 AM (flINI)

494 Rove is on Fox and just went full Porky Pig with the stammering.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 26, 2022 09:25 AM (lz5hY)
Perfect imagery.
Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at April 26, 2022 09:30 AM (y7DUB)

Karl Rove is a flaccid, flabby boiled egg of a man.

He should be beaten with a tire iron.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 26, 2022 09:33 AM (AnSUv)

495 NOOD.

Lum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 26, 2022 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

496 Leslie McAdoo, one of the best criminal defense lawyers in DC on our side and a former federal prosecutor estimates that Sussmann's defense has probably cost him in the neighborhood of $1.5 million so far. What do you reckon they are doing for all that money?
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:29 AM (ZLI7S)

That number seems low. But what are they doing for it? Several lunches at The Palm, I am sure.

Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 09:33 AM (9otr5)

497 > CNN: Jack Dorsey made Twitter a safe place for healthy conversation.

And by "healthy conversation" they mean "talking about what flavor of anal lube pairs best with a leather bar".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 26, 2022 09:33 AM (bW8dp)

498 Without real punishment, real jail time, real routing out of malefactors and real consequences hanging over the heads of the federal government like the Sword of Damocles, nothing changes and nothing improves. And that is not going to happen, because this rotten system is responsible for policing itself.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 26, 2022 09:27 AM (DU+/6)

This. They are not forced to follow the same rules. We are not in their club.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:34 AM (SH2Zi)

499 I am going to give credit to Durham for this bit of cleverness: he is getting the Clinton campaign to convict Sussmann for him
Posted by: blaster at April 26, 2022 09:29 AM (9otr5)
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Elias too. He's toast as a byproduct of all the machinations. A two-for-one special.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 26, 2022 09:34 AM (K25FW)

500

He plead guilty. You aren't really going to try and say that isn't the same thing as being indicted are you?

You are going to some extreme lengths to make a nonsense case.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:35 AM (ZLI7S)

501 Rove is not an idiot. He got tens of millions of people to vote for Bush thinking Bush was the new Reagan or some shit. He is not the idiot. We are the idiots for believing his lies.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at April 26, 2022 09:36 AM (nyZ9P)

502 Ran away to Italy to live on daddy's money, while expecting the rest of us to take "his" country back for him.

Bah.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Is he wrong, though? What you posted is the sort of reflexive non sequitur I would normally expect to see on Twitter after a true Trump statement, honestly. "Yeah, but Trump once hugged his daughter on his lap. Bah."

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 26, 2022 09:36 AM (OssQ4)

503 Rove was the Bush Crime Family's tool to eradicate the influence of Reagan.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at April 26, 2022 09:36 AM (y7DUB)

504 WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden has granted the first three pardons of his term, providing clemency to a Kennedy-era Secret Service agent convicted of federal bribery charges that involved trying to sell a copy of an agency file, and to two people who were convicted on drug-related charges but went on to become pillars in their communities.

The Democratic president also commuted the sentences of 75 others for nonviolent, drug-related convictions. The White House announced the clemencies Tuesday as it launched a series of job training and re-entry programs for those in prison or recently released.

Many of those who received commutations have been serving their sentences on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Several were serving lengthy sentences and would have received lesser terms had they been convicted today for the same offenses as a result of the 2018 bipartisan sentencing reform ushered into law by the Trump administration.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 26, 2022 09:37 AM (UHVv4)

505 Speaking of Little League Baseball, was listening to someone on radio yesterday making the point that it's getting difficult to find people to be umpires & referees because so many of the parents now are so abusive.

I mean, even when I was a kid growing up in the 60's & 70's there were always one or two a-hole parents like that (usually fathers), trying to re-live their glory days or live vicariously through their children. Always felt sorry for those kids and figured their home lives were more hellish than my own ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 26, 2022 09:37 AM (6Ym5C)

506 This is what every man wants.

https://is.gd/HWQbTJ

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 09:38 AM (XeOZa)

507 Rove always seemed like a tool to me.

Posted by: ... at April 26, 2022 09:38 AM (y5zzc)

508 >>I mean, even when I was a kid growing up in the 60's & 70's there were always one or two a-hole parents like that (usually fathers), trying to re-live their glory days or live vicariously through their children. Always felt sorry for those kids and figured their home lives were more hellish than my own ...

I umped Little League for a while when I was a younger. I ended up quitting cause the constant abuse I took from parents wasn't worth it.

It's ridiculous how out of control some parents get.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 09:40 AM (ZLI7S)

509 My kid gave up Baseball because of that shit. He was a pretty good pitcher and an ace outfielder who was batting around .500+.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 26, 2022 09:32 AM (8Sqzu)

That's sad. I hope that my youngest's intensity and my oldest new opportunities (getting out of the outfield) carries them through the tough years of adolescence. But I will be brutally honest. The kids whose parents are contributing to coaching and running the team are getting primary consideration on positions and playing, partly on their talent and knowledge, but also because the parents are willing to contribute (there is much overlap here with kid talent/knowledge). I'll do my best to move people around. But those kids who do the work and have good attitudes - largely as a result of involved parenting - will be my go-tos.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:41 AM (SH2Zi)

510 Rove is not an idiot. He got tens of millions of people to vote for Bush thinking Bush was the new Reagan or some shit. He is not the idiot. We are the idiots for believing his lies.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant

We?
Lmao

Posted by: I mean at April 26, 2022 09:41 AM (RKBdb)

511 My kid gave up Baseball because of that shit. He was a pretty good pitcher and an ace outfielder who was batting around .500+.
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Friends of mine, husband and wife, signed their two daughters up for a slow-pitch softball league. They were disturbed that a lot of the girls never got to play, so they organized a new team and told the other coaches to give them their scrubs. In three years their scrub team was winning about half their games.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 26, 2022 09:43 AM (sWM8x)

512 Speaking of Little League Baseball, was listening to someone on radio yesterday making the point that it's getting difficult to find people to be umpires & referees because so many of the parents now are so abusive.

I mean, even when I was a kid growing up in the 60's & 70's there were always one or two a-hole parents like that (usually fathers), trying to re-live their glory days or live vicariously through their children. Always felt sorry for those kids and figured their home lives were more hellish than my own ...

Posted by: ShainS at April 26, 2022 09:37 AM (6Ym5C)

We have a really good program administrator, and she put the kibosh on that shit. The word is out, that nobody is taking any shit from these types, and they will be made to leave the games if they are abusive to umps, coaches, or kids.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:45 AM (SH2Zi)

513 The final scene of the first season of, "Peacemaker," makes the sixish hours worth watching. It's kinda like what's going on with TwitWhore.

Posted by: Marooned at April 26, 2022 09:48 AM (w6hJ9)

514 Friends of mine, husband and wife, signed their two daughters up for a slow-pitch softball league. They were disturbed that a lot of the girls never got to play, so they organized a new team and told the other coaches to give them their scrubs. In three years their scrub team was winning about half their games.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 26, 2022 09:43 AM (sWM8x)

That's excellent. To be honest, though, it is hard to place every kid in rotation, barring some almost random assignment and computer-generated rotation to get everyone equal playing time. Trying to figure out how to back up the weaker players with the better ones, benching your best players and your own kid and forcing them to watch the others make mistakes, etc. I've spent more time on that than I care to say.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at April 26, 2022 09:49 AM (SH2Zi)

515 494 Rove is on Fox and just went full Porky Pig with the stammering.
Posted by: bill in arkansas
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Rove is up to his neck in a takedown attempt against former governor and senate candidate Eric Greitens in MO. He is being subpoenaed along with some of McConnell's operatives for pushing false abuse accusations by Greitens ex-wife.

Posted by: whig at April 26, 2022 09:54 AM (Iq9dF)

516 Rove did a good job of selling globalism wrapped in New American Prosperity.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 26, 2022 10:01 AM (4fSQf)

517 Thanks JJ.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at April 26, 2022 10:20 AM (Lu/m5)

518 Elon has software people and those people are well paid and arguably the best in the world at what they do.

I can see some very interesting things happening with the Twitter.

Posted by: Garyfl at April 26, 2022 11:00 AM (SSSrQ)

519 And sorry, you don't get to pretend that taking down Hillary and her entire corrupt campaign isn't a huge frigging deal. She IS the deep state.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2022 08:20 AM (ZLI7S)

My problem with this is that if it were true, I don't think Durham would still be alive.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at April 26, 2022 11:18 AM (9qiMu)

520 47 "She even admitted her guilt to the FEC."

And got fined, as did the DNC. That's how they plan to establish a defense of double-jeopardy!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at April 26, 2022 11:29 AM (Ucb0d)

521 Open up space to capitalism and NASA won't be allowed into the parking lot.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 26, 2022 08:10 AM (co19B)

If we own a satellite space station with a "Death" laser I think we could rule the universe. Just sayin...

Posted by: Vader Jr at April 26, 2022 06:53 PM (9unzF)

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