The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 4/27/22

Good morning, kids. Wednesday and the reaction to Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter continues to top the links, and I think for good reason. Getting beyond Musk's somewhat checkered résumé as a businessman (big fan of SpaceX, Tesla and all the other projects I'm not so sanguine about) which earned me criticism yesterday appropriately enough on Twitter, the reaction from the propaganda pimps, media gatekeepers and the Junta is telling. Free speech and the free exchange of ideas is one of the foundational principles of this nation and society. At least, such as it was, or was intended. The big newspapers, followed on by radio and television decided which stories were news and just as importantly which were not. Plus the way in which those stories were reported influenced the way Americans were supposed to think, feel and vote.

The emergence of talk radio, particularly Rush Limbaugh of blessed memory, might have cracked open the door, but the internet kicked it in, and took down the frame and the whole damned wall with it. One of the tired old bromides hurled at Limbaugh and others is that all they do is tell millions of people what to think. Forgetting that it's insulting, it's an incredibly fatal conceit on the part of the critics. Rush and his colleagues didn't tell people what to think; they merely reflected what millions of people were already thinking, and had been thinking for years, yet never had a voice to express those thoughts. That's why his audience grew by leaps and bounds for 33 consecutive years and why Leftwing imitators like Air America flopped. Well at least Randi Rhodes and Al Franken can breathe a sigh of relief since their fiasco has been supplanted by CNN+.

Right at the start of the last episode of CutJibNewsletter Speaks!, John Hayward, f/k/a "Doc Zero" marveled at the beginnings of the blogosphere, where writers and pundits had a space to gather, comment, debate and provide a forum for the free-flowing exchange of ideas: ideas of course that ran contra to what was being pimped on the big three networks, The NY Times and WaPo. He also lamented how social media as well as Big Brother big tech put a huge damper on all of that, especially in the wake of the 2004 election where the real journalists exposed key propagandist Dan Rather and his attempt to sabotage George Bush with the TANG fake news. Stay tuned for Russian Collusion and Pee-Pee-Gate.

Beyond the free-flowing exchange of "dangerous" ideas and opinion, the organizational platform by which like-minded yet heretofore isolated individuals could unite presented the obvious existential threat to the Democrat-Left. And the rest is history. But it's a history that is still being written with Musk's acquisition of Twitter. Let me state that Elon Musk by himself is not the savior of free speech nor is Twitter on its own the, or even a key crucial platform that by itself is the main conduit of information/communication. But, again, it's the reaction to it from the Left that is telling.

Looking at the 2020 election, there's no way in hell that Sponge Brain Square Depends Joey got 81 million legitimate votes. But for sure, he did get millions. The 9:00PM swing district mass ballot dumping notwithstanding, how many legitimate Biden voters might have stayed home (they wouldn't have voted for Trump for sure) had Twitter and all of social media along with the rest of the mainstream agitprop Democrat house organs not defamed, ridiculed or outright spiked the NY Post's bombshell story about the Hunter laptop -- the same story that 18 months later they suddenly have declared to be true, albeit buried somewhere in the middle of the papers in tiny type?

New incoming Twitter boss Elon Musk responded to one of the most controversial aspects of the 2020 presidential election on Tuesday after the company unanimously approved his offer to acquire the social media platform for $44 billion.
Musk weighed in on Twitter’s decision to censor an explosive story that was published by the New York Post about then-Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and a laptop that purportedly belongs to Hunter that is filled with content that was problematic for his father’s campaign.
“Vijaya Gadde, the top censorship advocate at Twitter who famously gaslit the world on Joe Rogan’s podcast and censored the Hunter Biden laptop story, is very upset about the @elonmusk takeover,” political commentator Saagar Enjeti wrote on Twitter.
Musk responded a short time later, writing: “Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate.”

Again, had the story not been embargoed, would enough legitimate Biden voters been dissuaded from voting? A recent poll showed that 16% of Biden voters would not have pulled the lever for him. Would it have been enough to have overcome the steal is an imponderable but in any case it's all water under the bridge. What is important now is that for whatever reason Elon Musk is now in the forefront of the free speech restoration movement in this country. As such, he has painted a giant target on his forehead, and I mean that in both the literal and figurative sense given who and what we are dealing with.

Beyond the avenues of speech is the very nature of speech itself. Who controls it, who shapes it, who gets to decide what is and what is not appropriate is the ultimate weapon.

This tyranny of minorities has long since come to define the Democrat coalition which knits together single-issue victimhood voters whose pet issue, whether it’s police shootings, green energy, racial justice, men pretending they’re women, or the right of teachers to sexually indoctrinate kindergartners against the wishes of their parents, must take precedence.
That is why the Biden [junta] will fight for an otherwise unpopular mask mandate.
Democrat political authority comes from the moral authority of defending oppressed minorities. The old Democrat party which asserted that it represented an oppressed majority being kept down by men of wealth has made way for a coalition of increasingly implausible minorities.
That’s the wide gap between the party of Jackson and of Obama. And it’s Obama’s party now.
Beyond the racial minorities of the civil rights movement, the moral minority consists of wealthy white elites, their sexual fetishes, cultural obsessions, and neurotic tics. Masking is just the latest neurotic tic that the decadent element that makes up its ruling base demands of all of us.
From police defunding to mandatory masking to men roleplaying as women, the outré demands are a minority even within the Democrat coalition. But the minority of minorities, by banding together, take something that only 2% of the country might want and turn it into something that the 31% of Americans who identify as Democrats are obligated to support on the party line.
And if the Democrats win, the will of the 2% is ruthlessly imposed on the 98%. . .
. . . Morality requires universally agreed on values which moral minorities attack at every turn. The great effort to transform the existence of moral minorities into its own moral authority through intersectionality requires unsustainable amounts of messaging and outright intimidation. Cancel culture terrorizes people into not speaking or even thinking for fear they’ll run afoul of constantly changing codes that no one except their cultural oppressors can even keep track of.
Totalitarian states deploy mass propaganda like this either at the height of enthusiasm for their revolutions or at their insecure decline when everyone is starting to lose faith in the revolution. And it’s been a generation since even the faithful believe in the cause rather than the anti-cause characterized by a rotating cast of conservative hate objects in the media and social media. . .
. . . How can you do class warfare when you’ve become a movement of billionaires whose supreme causes are electric cars that cost more than the average annual income, the sexual fetishes of wealthy men, and the fussiness of remote workers who don’t like being around other people?
It’s getting increasingly hard to disguise the fact that leftist revolutions aren’t about liberating the majority, but about enslaving it to the cultural obsessions of a tiny minority.
You can only dress up the tyranny of an upper class in oppressed drag for so long.
The moral minorities aren’t out to liberate anyone, including themselves, but to force everyone to use the words they want, to eat and dress like them, and to live like them.
There’s a leftist term for that, it isn’t revolution or liberation: it’s colonialism.
When 2% of the country gets to tell everyone else how to live, that’s true oppression.

It's easy to see why Leftists are in absolute freakout mode over Elon Musk and Twitter. If Musk and his new executives decide to allow Trump, Tucker Carlson, Libs of TikTok and everyone else who was muzzled by Vajajay Grabber or whatever the hell the weepy censor calls herself, that's disastrous for the Left. And, as Daniel Greenfield points out, if they are indeed 2% of the thought/political leadership of this country which represents maybe a third of the total population, you can see why they are rushing to flood the country with tens of millions more illiterate peasants from south of the border.

That said, has anyone asked them why they want to come to a country where their children would be turned into sex slaves or suffer genital disfigurement via hormones or surgery? Meh, too many of them are doing that already as we have seen. Cue Titty Caca Cortez crying in front of the chain link fence.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"We are living in Orwellian times."
Diversity, Free Speech, and the "Woke" Assault on America
Lloyd Billingsley: "The FBI’s past political subterfuge previews what lies ahead of midterms and 2024."
Foreshadowing Bureau Injustice
"The concurring opinions by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch in a recent case take us back to fundamental questions of natural right and the challenge posed to them by progressives. Since the justices implicate such important philosophical and historical issues, readers should challenge them to develop their arguments further."
Two Ways to Fight Progressive Jurisprudence
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton: “Taxpayer funds obviously were being used because there were government officials at NIH working with the University of Pittsburgh to try to mitigate the public outrage at the fetal chop shop that was being run up there.”
Biden’s NIH May Have Colluded With University To Downplay Experiments On Babies
Daniel Greenfield: "When the will of 2% of the country is imposed on the other 98%."
A Tyranny of Moral Minorities

THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

Lavrov’s remark in a lengthy interview on state television came on the same day as President Vladimir Putin accused the West of trying to “destroy Russia from within,” and after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the U.S. wants to see “Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine."
Lavrov: Danger of Nuclear Conflict is "Serious, Real," and "Cannot Be Underestimated"
"As the war in Ukraine drags on, the United States is making a clash with Russia more likely with each passing week."
The Biden Junta is Openly Pursuing a Policy of Escalation in Ukraine
"Foreign Ministry responds to Lavrov’s warning."
China: “No One Wants a Third World War”
"Vladimir Putin would not have sent his forces into Ukraine in the first place if [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden had not demonstrated such weakness on the world stage."
Joe Biden’s Weakness Encouraged Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
His communications director, Kelsey Cooper, further explained Paul’s position to The Daily Wire, saying, “[w]hile there is no justification for Putin’s war on Ukraine, there is an explanation for the invasion, which was the point Dr. Paul was making. Any other interpretation of the exchange is a blatant attempt to misinform”
"Blatant Attempt to Misinform": Rand Paul Fires Back at Critics After Tense Exchange With Antony Blinken
Russia targets Ukrainian railways: “Nato, in essence, is engaged in a war with Russia through a proxy and is arming that proxy. War means war.”
Ukraine Updates: Russian Spies Ruin Assassination Plot Claims With Fake Signature, SIMS Games
"How much does it hurt Vladimir Putin when American performance venues refuse to play Tchaikovsky?"
Banning Russia, Banning Russians
DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL, THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Asian shares retreated on Wednesday, echoing a broad decline on Wall Street and driven by worries about how the war in Ukraine may push prices for oil and other commodities higher."
Dow Plummets 800 Points, Tech Stocks Slump Again, NASDAQ Worst Loss Since 2020, Tesla Sinks
"The pain at the gas pump shows no signs of abating, and the Biden [junta] seems to want to make it worse."
Biden Junta Imposes Further Limits on Arctic Drilling
"Hopefully the American people will get the memo soon. Until then, [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s approval rating is likely to stay somewhere in the low 40s."
The Media Don’t Get What You Don’t Get About Biden’s Economic Boom
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Something to cling to: after stoking fear and wreaking mayhem, superstitions always and inevitably implode, as antithetical facts pile up and reality breaks through."
Up the Garden Path, By the Nose, Down Under
"What would we do without 'experts?'"
World to Run Out of Food in 27 years and 248 Days!
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Jeffrey Lord: "248-page filing of self-indictment released."
The January 6 Committee Indicts Itself
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled that it could approve [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s plan to rescind the Trump-era 'Remain in Mexico' policy for asylum seekers."
Supreme Court Could Hand Biden an Immigration Win
“We’re aiding and abetting illegal entry to the United States,” the source said. “We’re using government cars to transport people to American towns. It’s working like an Uber service.”
Biden’s DHS Acts as "Full Service Travel Agency" for Illegal Aliens Arriving at Southern Border
“I would note that the National Guard work for the states and so he is an employee of the Texas National Guard and his efforts and his operation were directed by there, not by the federal government.”
Peppermint Piss-Hockey Blames Texas When Asked About Death of National Guardsman at the Border
Alejandro Mayorkas has flouted the nation’s immigration laws and effectively opened America’s borders. It’s time for him to go. (he's only following orders, und befehel ist befehel - jjs)
Impeach Mayorkas
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Another alarming negative impact of lockdowns revealed."
Outbreak of Hepatitis in Children Caused by Lockdowns That Weakened Immunity
The Great Famine shows the Chinese Communist Party will bitterly cling to deadly policies based on “science” no matter the human cost.
Chinese Covid Outbreak in Beijing Results in Panic Buying, Citywide Testing
"Maybe another booster shot will help."
Quadruple Vaxxed Kamala Harris Catches Chinese COVID
"The longtime bureaucrat claims to be science itself, but he's shown himself to have an authoritarian disposition."
Fauci Lets His Megalomania Show
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Critical Race Theory (CRT). . . has generated a backlash in recent years from parents. But a parents group called Fair Education Santa Barbara began fighting four years ago, filing what is believed to be the nation’s first lawsuit against CRT and related pedagogy, which critics say poison the minds of young children." (of all places Santa Barbara - jjs)
"This is a Cult": How Wealthy Santa Barbara Foreshadowed the Fight Against Crackpot Curriculum
"Appallingly bad critical race theory science fiction showcases the ideology’s toxicity."
Crackpot Race Theory Is Derived From a Laughably Dumb Series of Space Alien Stories
"Will the College Board thwart democratically elected officials’ attempts to remove critical race theory from the classroom?"
AP Radicalism
Other recommendations include partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities, as well as school, tribal colleges, universities and non-profit organizations to “confront systemic and enduring inequities that impact descendant communities in the United States.” (it's their money - jjs)
Harvard to Allocate $100M to Address its "Legacies with Slavery"
"Once an oasis for open discussion, equal treatment, and intellectual thought, established academia has now become a haven for bigotry and hate, focused specifically in destroying anyone who does not support giving minorities favored treatment."
Pushback: Judge Rules Lawsuit From Professor Suspended for Refusing to Favor Black Students Can Proceed
Robert Spencer: "A young man named John Fuller was recently serving as parliamentarian of the Ohio State University Undergraduate Student Government General Assembly when he unwittingly sparked controversy by saying . . . that he would 'love' to live in a world where 'black people were taught that they are superior.' It’s not clear what world John Fuller lives in, because the one where Ohio State University is located already teaches that. Where has this John Fuller fellow been?"
OSU Student Says Black People Are Superior, and It's No Wonder
“We all got to come together for a certain cause.”
University Event Teaches Students How to Clean Sex Toys
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Overall, throughout America, antisemitic incidents are at a record high. Still, it’s where Democrats are in charge in those two left-wing states that account for a whopping 30 percent of the incidents." (incredibly, and bitterly ironic, perhaps the most Jewish regions on the planet - jjs)
Democrat-Run NY and NJ See Record-High Anti-Semitic Hate Crimes
"Look who's leading the boycotting of Israel."
The Anti-Israel Bias of the Middle East Studies Association
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"This bombshell comes on top of a report from Monday that visitor logs from the Obama administration show that Hunter Biden’s top business partner visited the White House 19 times while Joe Biden was vice president, contradicting Joe’s claims that he was never involved in his son’s business dealings."
Joe Biden Has $5.2 Million in "Unexplained" Income. I Wonder Where It Came From?
"Ricchetti currently serves as [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s White House counsel and was the president of the investment firm Schwerin and Hunter Biden managed, Rosemont Seneca Partners. Ricchetti also was Biden’s chief of staff from 2013 to 2017."
Report: Hunter Biden Business Partner Visited White House 8 More Times
"Delaware U.S. District Attorney David Weiss is leading the investigation into Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings and tax handling. Weiss is the only U.S. Attorney appointed by former President Donald Trump to remain in office."
Lavrenty Garland Denies Need for Hunter Biden Special Counsel, Says He is "Quite Comfortable" With Current Prosecutor
"The White House visitor logs revealed a number of visits from Eric Schwerin — including a sit-down with then-Vice President Joe Biden — while he was president of the now-defunct investment fund Rosemont Seneca Partners."
Report: Joe Biden Granted West Wing Meeting To Hunter Associate While He Was VP
"Former Democrat senator Chris 'Waitress Sandwich' Dodd to represent United States at Summit of the Americas."
Biden Crony’s Presidential Appointment Could Pose Conflict of Interest
POLITICS
"Puppet of the Democratic Party."
Tucker Carlson Trashes "MSNBC Contributor" Kevin McCarthy
The survey asked Democrat voters, “If the Democratic presidential primary for the 2024 election was held today, who would you vote for?”
Survey: Only 37 Percent of Democrats Support Joe Biden in Presidential Primary
"Black and Hispanic adults also think less of Biden's job performance."
Gallup: Biden Job Approval Down in Nearly Every U.S. Subgroup, Especially Ages 18-64
"Biden has doubled down, signaling how confident his people are in their ability to collude with the censorship regime against their challengers."
Democrats Have Nothing to Offer Voters So They’re Banking on Smearing and Censoring Their Opposition
Robert Spencer: "Guess when he thinks he took office. . ."
Joe Biden Can’t Remember How Long He Has Been [so-called quote-unquote] President
"The lefty stand-up comic suggests doubling down on stupid in advance of the midterms."
Please, DNC, Do What Dean Obeidallah Says
"It’s an amusing allegation, to say the least, especially so soon after Barack Obama was given a rock-star welcome during his recent return to the White House while Biden was treated like a ripe number two on the floor of a gas station bathroom. I doubt Obama has any feelings of jealousy towards Biden."
Malig-Nancy Pelosi Thinks Obama is "Jealous" of Biden. Yeah, Right.
"It is not and was never meant to be an alternative to impeachment."
The 25th Amendment Won’t Fix Our Biden Problem
"The criticism of Oz’s candidacy has been almost 100% focused on whether or not Oz is sufficiently conservative on abortion, on guns and on cultural issues in general. Critics point to things Dr. Oz said during the long run of his show and on segments his show ran. This criticism is legitimate, but it is worth pointing out that this is the exactly same criticism that was levied at candidate Trump in 2015."
In Defense of Trump's Endorsement of Dr. Oz
"Crime is the scarlet letter of New York Democrats and the ball and chain plunging Hochul’s approval rating to new depths. . . Only the voters can shift our state’s trajectory on this issue and others; but at least it’s clear now they want a change of direction."
An Astonishing Turnaround in New Yorkers’ Concerns is Bad News for Democrats
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"The limousine crash, which occurred on Oct. 6, 2018, killed 20 people, including 17 passengers, the driver and two bystanders, according to New York State Police. The owner of the limousine company, Shahed Hussain, was a long-time FBI informant who allegedly 'lied on tax returns and immigration papers, misled FBI handlers, committed bankruptcy fraud, and racked up hotel code violations and tens of thousands in unpaid property taxes with no consequences,' according to Stefanik."
"Long Overdue": Rep. Elise Stefanik Confirms Investigation of FBI’s Role in Deadly Limo Crash
"It wouldn’t matter if Lightfoot filled the jails. It’s far too late to retrieve the situation. The tiny enclaves of security are disappearing as criminals run wild in the streets in a dystopian nightmare that everyone on the right predicted and no one on the left heeded."
Chicago Gangs Enjoy the Beautiful Weekend Spring Weather by Slaughtering Each Other
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Blocks irate staffers from making site changes."
Twitter Goes on Internal Lockdown to Prevent Woke Employees Taking Revenge For Elon Musk Takeover
The attorney is apparently so well respected within the company that she is seen “internally as Twitter’s ‘moral authority,'” Politico added.
Twitter’s Top Lawyer Cried During Meeting About Elon Musk Buyout: Report
"Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate."
Elon Musk Weighs In On Twitter Censoring Hunter Biden Laptop Story During 2020 Election
"True, the richest man in the world has thus far impressed, but the Twitter fight poses a real challenge."
Here’s How Elon Musk’s Free-Speech Gambit Can Succeed
“Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Musk said in the statement.
Democrats Are Horrified Now That Twitter Might Actually Allow Free Speech
"Elon Musk is not going to save humanity, but decoupling Twitter from the transhumanist project would be a positive step."
Bringing Down Temples
"Parody or drunken chutzpah"?"
MSNBC Host Dragged for Complaining Musk Might Use Twitter to Do to the Left What it Did to the Right
"Ending Big Tech censorship at Twitter will be trickier than it sounds, but it’s worth the struggle."
Musk’s Free Speech Crusade
"[Drooling cretin Ed] Markey argued that having a handful of billionaires in control of major social media platforms — like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram — was an unacceptable scenario and called on Congress to act to restrain them." (going to go after Jeff Bezos and Carlos Slim too, fuck-face? - jjs)
Democrat Senator Demands "Algorithmic Justice" in the Wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
I have been suspended from Twitter for just over a month now. What did I do to get suspended? I responded to a tweet that said, “No matter your opinion on Lia Thomas, I urge you to discuss the topic as if a transgender person were in the room. Because one probably is.”
Will Elon Musk Let Me Back on Twitter?
"Set a 280-character minimum for tweets."
A Modest Proposal for Elon Musk
"Some conservatives who should know better have lost their minds over the Tesla CEO’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter. They will pay a heavy price."
Elon Musk Will Not Save Us

* * * * *
"Walsh wrote a book satirizing the transgender cult, and it became a best-seller on Amazon. The woke crew who runs Amazon isn’t about to let that continue."
[WATCH] Amazon Employees Hold Secret Zoom Meeting Plotting to Ban Conservative Children's Book Johnny the Walrus by Matt Walsh
"It was an old-fashioned mainstream media hit piece that was intended to ruin its conservative new media target. And it has been a gloriously spectacular failure."
More Tears for Taylor Lorenz: Libs of TikTok Hits 1 Million Followers
"It is odd that the notion that speech must be censored is the current fashion of people who call themselves liberal."
You Can't Have a Functioning Nation Without Free Speech
"MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan criticized the Biden [junta] in a series of tweets Tuesday over the administration’s alleged failure to promote coronavirus booster shots."
MSNBC Host Mehdi Hasan Lashes Out at Biden Junta
"Shutting down dissenting speech only serves to strengthen its appeal."
Why Censorship Fails
"Despite her isolation, Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps coming after the 'fake media' and her hypocritical colleagues with admirable thumos. Compared to Williamson, she is a model of courage."
Kevin Williamson and National Review Gag on Greene
ABORTION
"The law relies on citizens to file legal claims against abortion providers or anyone believed to perform or assist with an abortion."
Federal Court Dismisses All Challenges to Texas Abortion Law Enforcement Provision
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Policy proposal outlines path to isolate Communist regime."
Why It’s Time To Label China a "Genuine Adversary"
A day earlier, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said any attempt by China to build a naval base in the archipelago, which lies to Australia’s northeast, would cross a “red line,” not just for Australia but also for other countries in the region and the United States. “We won’t be having Chinese military naval bases in our region on our doorstep,” he said.
China Rejects Criticism of Its Security Pact With Solomon Islands, Calls Naval Base Claim "Fabricated"
"The Chinese Communist Party wants us to believe that it has no hegemonic ambitions and that its BRI is just another multilateral advance for mankind."
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a Geopolitical Offensive
"GOP demands Biden [junta] brief American public on contested deal."
Lawmakers to Biden: No More Secret Negotiations With Iran
"As Israel sails between Scylla and Charybdis, from Jerusalem’s point of view, better Scylla."
Between the Scylla of the PA and the Charybdis of Hamas
"The good times for the Palestinian Authority are over."
Palestinians Find the Aid Cupboard is Bare
“Afghanistan’s overall instability has led to the near extinction of religious minorities, particularly the Jewish, Hindu, and Sikh communities.” (instability = Islamic rule - jjs)
Religious Freedom Commission: "Last Known Remaining Jew Left Afghanistan in September"
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
“Allah, delight us with the extermination of the evil Jews.” (he seems nice - jjs)
Day-Ending-in-"Y" Dept.: Imam on Palestinian TV Prays for "Extermination" of Jews
Raymond Ibrahim: "When all is said and done, Islamic notions of 'justice' are based on a simple dichotomy: whenever Muslims conquer, slaughter, subjugate, and steal land -- that is just; whenever they have to live under “infidel” authority, that is unjust." Ramadan: "A Month of Jihad, Conquest, and Victory"
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"The New York region should build on its current advantages, not look to past glories."
A Growth Strategy for Upstate
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Capitalism in space: Hawaiian Airlines has now become the second commercial airline company to agree to use SpaceX’s Starlink Wi-Fi on its airplanes."
SpaceX Signs Up Another Airline to Use Starling WiFi On its Planes
"Apophis is a potentially dangerous asteroid, with a 1 in 150,000 chance it will hit the Earth in 2068. Getting as much information about it as soon as possible is crucial so that future generations will be prepared should its path eventually become a collision course."
NASA Extends Eight Planetary Missions, Including Sending OSIRIS-REx to the Asteroid Apophis
"SpaceX has completed a mission with private astronauts."
A Dawn of Democratized Space Travel
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"When children are assigned graphic gay porn in class, that's grooming. It's okay to say so." (meh, it's pedophilia - jjs)
Don't Be Afraid to Call It Grooming
"We are socially still struggling with how to treat women as equals not in just the positive aspects of our society but even in the negatives."
The Depp-Heard Trial Reminds Us That Toxic Femininity is Real and Horrifying
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Coign will let customers funnel donations to conservative causes." (FDIC, SEC, IRS will shut them down - jjs)
New Credit Card Company Wants To Counter Woke Banks
"Theatre Row calls itself a ‘lively, accessible venue for diverse audiences’ but [playwright Phelim] McAleer said the venue’s penchant for artistic censorship suggests otherwise."
NYC Theater Censors Abortion Exposé While Running Play About Sexualized Young Girls and Hitler
"It’s extraordinary that the birthday of our nation — Independence Day — is celebrated for only a single day, while the commemoration of a niche riot is celebrated for an entire month. If you woke executives really think Americans are into that, then we normals can only wonder how you got as far as you did."
Dear Corporations: This "Pride Month," LEAVE US ALONE
"It’s time to make sure their cultural and political defeat is painful and permanent."
The "Woking Dead" Are Losing
HITHER & YON
Christian Toto: "Smart shocker captures social media narcissism ... but something's missing."
hostaing Brings Body Horror to a New, Disturbing Level

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 08:35 AM

Comments

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1 Good morning one and all!

Posted by: NR Pax at April 27, 2022 07:36 AM (4olE8)

2 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at April 27, 2022 07:38 AM (yGM/J)

3 Morning peeps. Musk took the kids toy away. Now they're pissed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 27, 2022 07:38 AM (BFigT)

4 Curses! Foiled again!

/twirls mustache

Posted by: Biden's Dog at April 27, 2022 07:38 AM (yGM/J)

5 Good morning dear morons and thank you JJ

I nooded this morning

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 27, 2022 07:39 AM (EZebt)

6 top ten!

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 27, 2022 07:40 AM (bVYXr)

7 Good morning horde!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 07:40 AM (kf6Ak)

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

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 07:41 AM (9nPZp)

9 I wonder if Twitter will cost Musk Tesla or SpaceX...Governments all over might take such exception to his control of Twitter that they will act (even more) aggressively towards his other businesses.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 07:42 AM (m7egX)

10 Minorities: If mama's not happy, nobody is happy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 27, 2022 07:42 AM (EZebt)

11 Had my nose buried in a book yesterday so I missed the gloating on Twitter's sale to the Martian Conquistador.
For the record:
*gloat gloat evil laugh gloat"

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 07:42 AM (kf6Ak)

12 You can now say 2 Plus 2= Men Have Penises, Wimmen Have Vjayjays on Twitter and not get banned or your life destroyed.

Big Homo All Butt Hurt.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 27, 2022 07:43 AM (/1l9x)

13 9 I wonder if Twitter will cost Musk Tesla or SpaceX...Governments all over might take such exception to his control of Twitter that they will act (even more) aggressively towards his other businesses.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

It's possible. Or they might toady to him. Depends on how he plays it.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 07:44 AM (kf6Ak)

14 About $2.5 million in federal funds were spent supporting UP’s mission to become a “tissue hub” for human remains ranging from six to 42 weeks’ gestation (the typical pregnancy lasts approximately 40 weeks), according to Judicial Watch’s analysis of documents obtained from a separate 2021 FOIA lawsuit.

Which is fine if there was a natural fetal death. They don't say it, but I imagine UP would say "We didn't use any federal funds to procure aborted fetuses"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 27, 2022 07:44 AM (bg3iC)

15 Boy, I can't keep up with youss guys.
Good morning. It's already hump day here and also trash day for my street.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 27, 2022 07:44 AM (qfLjt)

16 I'm old enough to remember when Musk was an accessory to Disco.

Posted by: fd at April 27, 2022 07:44 AM (vrz2I)

17 Old and Busted: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

New Hotness: "Words that we don't like are LITERAL violence."

The Progressive left has always - dating back to the Alien and Sedition Acts - been anti-free speech. They have always supported "free speech, but with limits."

So any time they take a loss - however minor or temporary - they throw a tantrum. And any time they can point to someone saying something that would, perhaps, have been better had they self-censored, they have to make it out like it's the end of the world and that this is proof, PROOF!, that we need censorship and "content moderation."

It's not new to the internet. It wasn't even new to talk radio. It's been around since the Progressives realized the power of words.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 07:44 AM (9nPZp)

18 So should I get back on twatter with a new account? Been banned since the Great MAGA Purge of 2020

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 07:45 AM (kf6Ak)

19 I understand the reason why JJS focuses on "81 million votes". It's like a headline, and captures attention. But the real issue is (obviously) where those votes happened. The Big Steal might only have been powered by a couple hundred thousand fake votes, but very strategically distributed.

DevilCrats got tired of winning the "popular vote" and losing the Electoral College.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 07:45 AM (m7egX)

20 16 I'm old enough to remember when Musk was an accessory to Disco.
Posted by: fd at April 27, 2022 07:44 AM (vrz2I)

Azzaro > Drakkar >>>>>>> Musk

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 27, 2022 07:45 AM (s2VJv)

21

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 27, 2022 07:45 AM (SWi3y)

22 This Morning Report is girthier than Girthy.

Posted by: Miklos, no homo basz meg at April 27, 2022 07:45 AM (dr+j+)

23 8 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

And never let them have any power over anyone ever again.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 27, 2022 07:46 AM (4olE8)

24
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 27, 2022 07:46 AM (DUIap)

25 I wonder if Twitter will cost Musk Tesla or SpaceX...Governments all over might take such exception to his control of Twitter that they will act (even more) aggressively towards his other businesses.

European nations are already "warning" Musk that there are "rules." So, I'd say there's a good chance.

If thoughts can be freely exchanged, who knows what those peasants and serfs will think of? They might decide they should be free to live their lives as they see fit without government interference.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 07:47 AM (9nPZp)

26 Making a bigger deal outta Madeline Albright's death than Orrin's

fuck em in the ass

Posted by: REDACTED at April 27, 2022 07:50 AM (us2H3)

27 If thoughts can be freely exchanged, who knows what those peasants and serfs will think of? They might decide they should be free to live their lives as they see fit without government interference.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 07:47 AM (9nPZp)

Independent thoughts are violence, sir.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 27, 2022 07:50 AM (45fpk)

28 Twitters' sale to Musk won't be completed for about 4-5 weeks. There's plenty of time for the government to figure out some reason why it's not in the national interest to let the company go private. Or the shareholders be bullied into backing out... highly unlikely but who knows. Or something else regulatory related.

There are a lot of people with a vested interest in keeping Twitter a cesspool of left-think.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 27, 2022 07:50 AM (BFigT)

29 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 27, 2022 07:50 AM (Msys3)

30 free to live their lives as they see fit without government interference.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

Hmm

*peruses thumb worn copy of document from, like 100 years ago*

Posted by: Miklos, the bands that Bind would be an OK band name at April 27, 2022 07:50 AM (dr+j+)

31 And never let them have any power over anyone ever again.

I sort of find myself politically between Heinlein and Tolkien (who was a "philosophical anarchist" apparently).

Those who seek power are, almost without exception, those who should never have any. And event he best men with the best intentions will make decisions that hurt others if they are forced to govern.

Mind your Ps & Qs, keep your hands to yourself, respect others' property, and let me live in peace. If it weren't for the fact the Kraken of Government first has to be slain, that would be about the extent of my political philosophy.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 07:50 AM (9nPZp)

32 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 07:41 AM (9nPZp)
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This is AosHQ Scripture now. I find it very comforting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 07:51 AM (m7egX)

33 In 2020 the dems did everything everywhere all at once. Signature validation, unsolicited mail in ballots, harvesting, drop boxes... that wasn't enough. Then they had to do the last minute steal. How many other states would trump have won where the first part was enough?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 27, 2022 07:51 AM (Br3Bv)

34 the bands that Bind would be an OK band name

If Freda Payne were lead singer

Posted by: Miklos, extending and revising at April 27, 2022 07:52 AM (dr+j+)

35 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 27, 2022 07:52 AM (arJlL)

36 This is AosHQ Scripture now. I find it very comforting.

It's very cathartic. I think everyone should say it from time to time.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 07:52 AM (9nPZp)

37 PBUa.

Praise Be Upon ace (lower case).

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 27, 2022 07:52 AM (Br3Bv)

38 Azzaro > Drakkar >>>>>>> Musk
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 27, 2022 07:45 AM (s2VJv)

***

Azzaro > Drakkar >>>>>>> Musk>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Hai Karate

Posted by: Chris at April 27, 2022 07:53 AM (flINI)

39 34 the bands that Bind would be an OK band name

If Freda Payne were lead singer
Posted by: Miklos, extending and revising at April 27, 2022 07:52 AM (dr+j+)

"Band of Gold" became an anthem of the late Vietnam era but the lyrics are bizarre.

It does feature prominently in the soundtrack of my childhood.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 27, 2022 07:53 AM (s2VJv)

40 JT

Posted by: Freda Payne, with a band of Gold at April 27, 2022 07:54 AM (dr+j+)

41 Those who seek power are, almost without exception, those who should never have any.

I've jokingly tossed around the image of some guy waking up after getting shanghaied in the dead of night in a strange house and the first thing he hears is "Congratulations, Senator."

Posted by: NR Pax at April 27, 2022 07:54 AM (4olE8)

42 mornin' y'all

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at April 27, 2022 07:54 AM (4TZI4)

43 Vavajay Grabber. Nice one, JJ!

Let's all use that over on twatter.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 27, 2022 07:54 AM (KiBMU)

44 Look around you. This is what happens when you allow an election to be stolen.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 27, 2022 07:54 AM (FwkSU)

45 Miklos !

What're YOU doin' here ?

Posted by: JT at April 27, 2022 07:55 AM (arJlL)

46 from Pixy's thread:

179 20 note to the AoS crew:

it would appear as though there are NBC Universal admins asking questions on Internet infrastructure mailing lists about how to purge Twitter from the Internet entirely now that Elon bought it:

https://tinyurl.com/52nysyu5

Guy wants to play chicken with the richest man in the world who happens to own both a social network and a satellite internet provider.
Let him. FAFO.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 27, 2022 07:19 AM (MqQvv)

This is funny, so many times over the last 3 years or so I have wanted to see all of Twitter deleted completely - now leftists are threatening to do it for me? LOL! (of course they can't do it, junkies can never cut off their dealers)

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 07:55 AM (r46W7)

47 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at April 27, 2022 07:55 AM (arJlL)

48 "This is what happens when you allow an election to be stolen."

Sorry. I'll be better.

Posted by: fd at April 27, 2022 07:55 AM (vrz2I)

49 biden is going to get us into a shooting war with Russia. It is not going to end the way he thinks it will.

As Admiral Josh Painter said.....this business will get out of control, it will get out of control and we will be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 27, 2022 07:55 AM (bVYXr)

50 Todays earworm is the theme song to Courtship of Eddies Father. I have no idea who planted it there.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 27, 2022 07:56 AM (flINI)

51 J.J., I think Dems would have printed as many ballots as they needed in 2020. It was determined far in advance of that election that Donald Trump was not going to win.

Posted by: creeper at April 27, 2022 07:56 AM (cTCuP)

52 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 07:56 AM (DU+/6)

53 Todays earworm is the theme song to Courtship of Eddies Father. I have no idea who planted it there.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 27, 2022 07:56 AM (flINI)

Daaa dadadada-daaaaaa....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 27, 2022 07:56 AM (6FeV1)

54 Thanks JJ !

Posted by: JT at April 27, 2022 07:57 AM (arJlL)

55 Dear Corporations: This "Pride Month," LEAVE US ALONE

Not going to read through to the article right now (maybe later), but I do want to say this: all these "Whatever" Month things... they just seem insulting to me.

I guess I'm on the side of "Celebrate the 4th of July, but every day is Independence Day" side of things. Why on earth would I settle for just one month - one month of people paying attention to my history or existence or whatever - and then go back to them ignoring me completely?

Because that's what happens, and that's been true for years.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 07:57 AM (9nPZp)

56 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger at April 27, 2022 07:57 AM (45fpk)

57 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 07:57 AM (05ST2)

58 Of course! The first widely-seen assault of a freefacer by a masked covidian takes place in a Costco.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 27, 2022 07:57 AM (KiBMU)

59 What're YOU doin' here ?
Posted by: JT

Working on a "When JT finds out " video edit

Posted by: Miklos, probably a mite less worse than Hitler at April 27, 2022 07:58 AM (dr+j+)

60 51 J.J., I think Dems would have printed as many ballots as they needed in 2020. It was determined far in advance of that election that Donald Trump was not going to win.
Posted by: creeper at April 27, 2022 07:56 AM (cTCuP)

I agree BUT, I think the ballot dumping was a last minute decision when they saw that Trump was going to beat the cheat.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 27, 2022 07:58 AM (s2VJv)

61 One of the tired old bromides hurled at Limbaugh and others is that all they do is tell millions of people what to think. Forgetting that it's insulting, it's an incredibly fatal conceit on the part of the critics. Rush and his colleagues didn't tell people what to think; they merely reflected what millions of people were already thinking, and had been thinking for years, yet never had a voice to express those thoughts.
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That fatal conceit is also projection, as is most of what the Left says about its enemies. The press complex *does* view its job as telling people what to think. What the press chooses to cover, the direction of that coverage, the opinions disguised as reporting, all of it is designed quite deliberately to tell people not what happened, but what to think about what happened (or, perhaps more precisely, what to think about what the press says is what happened).

Hell, Mika (I think) said it explicitly on MSNBC when bitching about Trump end-running the press and talking directly to the people on Twitter and Facebook. The press absolutely does see precisely this as their main mission.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 07:58 AM (DU+/6)

62 JJS point is well stated: Many legitimate Biden votes would have been cast for Trump, had the laptop news been allowed to expose the Big Guy and his generalized corruption.

So many votes, in fact, that the Big Steal would have not been enough, and PDJT would have won. We might have a solid economy, peace in the world, and much reduced covid impacts. No one would be worried about WW3. Fauci might have long since been fired, the origins of covid would be more generally known, and he could be facing the Hague trial he so richly deserves.

Civilization is "water under the bridge" because mean tweets could not be "allowed" to win.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 07:59 AM (m7egX)

63 Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

pics

Posted by: Miklos, get us off to a good start at April 27, 2022 07:59 AM (dr+j+)

64 61 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 07:58 AM (DU+/6)

When that douchebag at the Times or WaPo had that editorial stating that it was now journalism's job to NOT be impartial in order to beat Trump, that was the bitter end.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 27, 2022 08:00 AM (s2VJv)

65 it would appear as though there are NBC Universal admins asking questions on Internet infrastructure mailing lists about how to purge Twitter from the Internet entirely now that Elon bought it

The very idea that Wrongpeople might have Wrongthoughts and (gasp) share them drives Progressives insane. Their ideas can't hold up to the most casual of scrutiny, so they must prevent those who would scrutinize from saying anything.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:00 AM (9nPZp)

66 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 27, 2022 08:00 AM (YIVH2)

67 It's very cathartic. I think everyone should say it from time to time.
Posted by: AllenG
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No thanks.

I'll stick with The Lord's Prayer, thankyouverymuch.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:01 AM (bHvPK)

68 I heard some additional ideas about what might be going on with twitter and the unbannings and possibly other things going on like the followers increasing.

I know there's the whole new people joining or people that haven't logged on in forever joining. But some of the other thoughts are that there are probably some there that agree with Elon on freedom of speech but haven't felt like they could act without the woke mob there firing them. So now they might feel like they have some more freedom to actually process and approve undoing suspensions and bans for wrong-think.

And as for follower increases, well they could be undoing shadowbans in advance of any audits that go looking through everything.

Posted by: buzzion at April 27, 2022 08:01 AM (vMCab)

69 Again, had the story not been embargoed, would enough legitimate Biden voters been dissuaded from voting? A recent poll showed that 16% of Biden voters would not have pulled the lever for him. Would it have been enough to have overcome the steal is an imponderable but in any case it's all water under the bridge.
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It's possible, but such a poll is useless. They're asking a year after the fact when lots and lots of Biden voters have serious buyer's remorse. The "I'm a good Democrat and I vote for my candidate" set would need a compelling excuse to claim to change their answers or else they'll fall into a fugue state. "It isn't because I chose wrong because of my party alignment, it's because I was accidentally misled about this one person" is a good enough reason to paper over the problem. Most of that 16% would have pulled the lever anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:01 AM (DU+/6)

70 62 Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 07:59 AM (m7egX)

I don't think they would have switched. They would have stayed home. But, it would have overcome the steal for sure. In theory.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 27, 2022 08:01 AM (s2VJv)

71 Morning, Horde...How goes it?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

And so it goes

Posted by: Three-timing Charles Kuralt from CBS at April 27, 2022 08:02 AM (dr+j+)

72 "I think the ballot dumping was a last minute decision when they saw that Trump was going to beat the cheat."

Now Kemp and Ratshitburger want us to forget they sat on their hands while it was going down. I am so afraid those stupid mfrs are going to blow it big time this year.

Posted by: fd at April 27, 2022 08:03 AM (vrz2I)

73 Todays earworm is the theme song to Courtship of Eddies Father. I have no idea who planted it there.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

Uncle Bill from 'Family Affair'.

Gotta watch out for those pesky TV widowers. See also Lucas McCain, Ben Cartwright, Andy Griffith, Steve Douglas, etc.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 27, 2022 08:03 AM (Msys3)

74 "Ending Big Tech censorship at Twitter will be trickier than it sounds, but it’s worth the struggle."

--

I'm perplexed.

1. Remove censorship.
2. Fire anyone employed by Twitter who continues to censor.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 27, 2022 08:03 AM (sVtYq)

75 Morning inflation report:

So, I mentioned this week, Safeway jacked up their bakery dozen donuts from $6 to $10. What I didn't notice til I picked up chocolate milk yesterday was that they also raised the price of a dozen bakery bagels from $6 to $10. That price is even crazier than the donut price.

As always, I'll now skip discussing the best regular price deals b/c that guarantees the bots that read this end up changing those prices by next week...and when they change it, it's not by a couple cents or percent...

Posted by: Nova local at April 27, 2022 08:04 AM (exHjb)

76 In theory.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

Posted by: Aspiring Miklos, new in town at April 27, 2022 08:04 AM (dr+j+)

77 You can only dress up the tyranny of an upper class in oppressed drag for so long.
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That's a great line, but we'll see how long "so long" is. "So long" can be a lot longer with total control of all available messaging visible to most people. This is one of the many reasons the censorship regime is vital to the wider system, and why it will die very hard if it dies at all. If Musk actually is able to reform Twitter, Twitter at least will be destroyed and possibly Musk along with it. At least, that's where my wager is. I think he will see great initial success but then fail as the full pressure of the entire Complex is brought against Twitter. We can't have a non-censored major platform. It's incompatible with the ruling system.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:04 AM (DU+/6)

78 Posted by: buzzion at April 27, 2022 08:01 AM (vMCab)

I think it was posted here yesterday, but I think there's a good chance it's an attempt by Twitter to hide the bodies. If they turn off all the algorithms and code that were preventing conservatives from playing on a level field with Progressives, and they start un-banning people now before Musk takes over, what are the chances that Musk brings in a forensic team to review the code base? They can't just delete the source control history, but if Musk gets in and finds everything already set up the way he wants it (or close to), does he spend the time and money digging into the past, or does he just focus on the future?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:05 AM (9nPZp)

79 Todays earworm is the theme song to Courtship of Eddies Father. I have no idea who planted it there.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

Uncle Bill from 'Family Affair'.

Gotta watch out for those pesky TV widowers. See also Lucas McCain, Ben Cartwright, Andy Griffith, Steve Douglas, etc.
Posted by: Tonypete

Green Acres is the Place for Being

Posted by: Eva Gabor, dahlink at April 27, 2022 08:05 AM (dr+j+)

80 I'll stick with The Lord's Prayer, thankyouverymuch.
Posted by: SMH

My top choice also. But I must admit, the Prayer to St. Michael is up there in the running too.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 27, 2022 08:05 AM (Msys3)

81 Good morning horde

JJ wrote War and Peace overnight

Posted by: Skip's phone at April 27, 2022 08:06 AM (lfDP1)

82 For Collectivism to "work", even conceptually, requires everyone to be on board. Any strays or stragglers endanger the success of the collective.

Liberalism works no matter what any one person does. You succeed or fail on your own luck and efforts. Society can't succeed or fail because society itself has no externally imposed failure condition. The only "failure" of society possible in a Liberal order is illiberal governance itself.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 27, 2022 08:06 AM (6FeV1)

83 Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:01 AM (bHvPK)

You can embrace the power of "and," you know.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:06 AM (9nPZp)

84 Now Kemp and Ratshitburger want us to forget they sat on their hands while it was going down. I am so afraid those stupid mfrs are going to blow it big time this year.
Posted by: fd
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Hub is from south GA, and his family still lives there.

They don't trust any of them, and they pretty much think that Atlanta will continue pull the cheating strings.

Kinda like those of us in downstate IL realize the futility of voting when Chicago has perfected the art of cheating.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:06 AM (bHvPK)

85 but if Musk gets in and finds everything already set up the way he wants it (or close to), does he spend the time and money digging into the past, or does he just focus on the future?
Posted by: AllenG #Texit

Yes.
(Hoping for both)

Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 08:07 AM (05ST2)

86 Aww, the Twit lawyer who helped steal the election and banned the oldest major newspaper in the country in pursuit of that goal is crying because her company is moving to free speech. I would prefer criminal charges for election interference.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 27, 2022 08:07 AM (FwkSU)

87 My top choice also. But I must admit, the Prayer to St. Michael is up there in the running too.
Posted by: Tonypete
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I'm not Catholic, and I don't pray to saints.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:07 AM (bHvPK)

88 Hub is from south GA, and his family still lives there.

They don't trust any of them, and they pretty much think that Atlanta will continue pull the cheating strings.

Kinda like those of us in downstate IL realize the futility of voting when Chicago has perfected the art of cheating.
Posted by: SMH

My uncle from Valdosta had a shotgun rack fitted in his Cadillac.

Would not go messin'.

Posted by: Miklos, the least eccentric in the fambly at April 27, 2022 08:08 AM (dr+j+)

89 What the left runs on: End racism, equal rights for all, fairness

What the left actually wants: Racism against whites, homosupremacy, sex with children, looting the treasury

So of course they can't let LIVs get real, un-"fortified" news.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 27, 2022 08:09 AM (0pxZD)

90 For Collectivism to "work", even conceptually, requires everyone to be on board. Any strays or stragglers endanger the success of the collective.

Which is why it can work in small, voluntary groups (families, some small, voluntary communes), and why it will never work in groups larger than about 50 individuals (and usually less than that).

Once you get to over 50, the statistical probability that you'll have someone who is a pure drain on the society (either through slacking or because they're just not good at anything) approaches 1. And the moment you have even one person who is a pure drain on the community, the collective starts falling apart.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:09 AM (9nPZp)

91 My uncle from Valdosta had a shotgun rack fitted in his Cadillac.

Would not go messin'.
Posted by: Miklos, the least eccentric in the fambly at April 27, 2022 08:08 AM (dr+j+)

Weird. Putting one in mine. Arrives tomorrow so a task for the weekend.

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:10 AM (9otr5)

92 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 07:41 AM (9nPZp)
================
This is AosHQ Scripture now. I find it very comforting.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions a

Yep. I'm going to embroider it on a dainty, ruffly pillow for the sofa.

Posted by: G. Gnome will not comply at April 27, 2022 08:10 AM (OQcPl)

93 I see in GA that Perdue is now campaigning on the fact Kemp allowed the steal. It is good he is saying the right things...but my memory is he just allowed his Senate seat to be stolen without doing much of anything.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 27, 2022 08:10 AM (0pxZD)

94 Aww, the Twit lawyer who helped steal the election and banned the oldest major newspaper in the country in pursuit of that goal is crying because her company is moving to free speech. I would prefer criminal charges for election interference.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Personally? I prefer the gallows for anyone abridging the Bill of Rights.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 08:10 AM (05ST2)

95 Aww, the Twit lawyer who helped steal the election and banned the oldest major newspaper in the country in pursuit of that goal is crying because her company is moving to free speech. I would prefer criminal charges for election interference.

--

She's the Amber Heard in the Twitter relationship with conservatives. Mentally abusing our side, beating us into submission, gaslighting us, then through tears, claiming some kind of victimhood in the scenario.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 27, 2022 08:10 AM (sVtYq)

96 At least, that's where my wager is. I think he will see great initial success but then fail as the full pressure of the entire Complex is brought against Twitter. We can't have a non-censored major platform. It's incompatible with the ruling system.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:04 AM (DU+/6)
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That may very well be true, but "you can't stop the signal." Musk's downfall, if it happens, may be a spark that triggers REAL revolution in this country. More and more people will realize 1) they are going to lose everything they have or 2) they have nothing to lose. These are not mutually exclusive. THAT's when things get really dangerous for everyone.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 27, 2022 08:10 AM (YIVH2)

97 This is a hilarious bit from the Depp vs Turd trial where Turd's lawyer's line of questioning exposes that Depp is the victim of Domestic Violence.

https://youtu.be/5SfFmo2pti8

Posted by: buzzion at April 27, 2022 08:11 AM (vMCab)

98 Musk's downfall, if it happens, may be a spark that triggers REAL revolution in this country.
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Yeah, because people are gonna line up to die for some billionaire.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:11 AM (bHvPK)

99 Weird. Putting one in mine. Arrives tomorrow so a task for the weekend.
Posted by: blaster

Cool.

Trying to figure how to do in a convertible.

Posted by: Miklos appeals to the Horde at April 27, 2022 08:11 AM (dr+j+)

100 This tyranny of minorities has long since come to define the Democrat coalition

Federalist Papers references first thing in the morning? Somebody got some last night. That's the Breakfast of Champions.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 27, 2022 08:11 AM (cupoy)

101 Good morning Horde and Happy Birthday JJ.

I have been thinking about it, and have changed my mind. America, you may have my governors. DeSantis/Youngkin 2024.

Make the rubble bounce.

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:12 AM (9otr5)

102 ... but the internet kicked it in, and took down the frame and the whole damned wall with it. ...
... He also lamented how social media as well as Big Brother big tech put a huge damper on all of that ...
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Social media was the solution to the problem of uncontrolled, uncensored speech on the internet, not the source of it. A tremendous number of people - though apparently not DocZero - have gotten this entirely wrong over the past couple of weeks of the Musk story.

Before social media, there were no all-encompassing "platforms." People had blogs and websites you read them or not. When social media happened, it made everything easier (important, since not everyone wants to or can run a website) and bigger with lots of people present (important, since you need an audience). The cost of that was centralization. The network effects inevitably took over and suddenly if you're *not* on Facebook or Twitter, you don't have an audience. So everyone is on those platforms.

And that centralization made the censorship possible. It wouldn't have been workable in the Wild West of pre-social-media.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:12 AM (DU+/6)

103 Morning, Horde...How goes it?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

(Watch what ya say.....)

Posted by: JT at April 27, 2022 08:12 AM (arJlL)

104 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

105 Hey Sponge.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:13 AM (bHvPK)

106 There's a leftist term for that, it isn't revolution or liberation: it's colonialism.

When 2% of the country gets to tell everyone else how to live, that's true oppression.

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Great point by Daniel Greenfield. I've got an idea for my next PhD thesis in Asshat Studies:

"The History of Colonialism: From Barack Obama Sr. to Barack Obama Jr."

Posted by: ShainS at April 27, 2022 08:13 AM (FMQfH)

107 they are going to lose everything they have

Everyone is losing 15% per annum

*NO MATHS*

Posted by: Miklos sees and speaks at April 27, 2022 08:13 AM (dr+j+)

108 I know there's the whole new people joining or people that haven't logged on in forever joining... So now they might feel like they have some more freedom to actually process and approve undoing suspensions and bans for wrong-think.

Until their company's HR shrews start digging into their Tweets to find reasons to fire them.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 08:13 AM (AHeqJ)

109 The nation's economy is being overseen by graduates of the Johnny Depp School of Money Management.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 27, 2022 08:13 AM (lz5hY)

110 So, Vijaya Gadde is the Amber Heard of Christine Blasey Fords?

Posted by: goatexchange at April 27, 2022 08:13 AM (APPN8)

111 I often asked lefty leaning LIVs who love them some socialism how much they donate to charity. The answer is generally nothing.

Then I ask them how they expect collectivism to work if even the "good people" like them don't want to give their things to others.

And the answer is always, "the government will make the rich people share so people like me can have more". And I often hear this from people living in million dollar houses with 6 figure incomes.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 27, 2022 08:13 AM (0pxZD)

112 ...how social media as well as Big Brother big tech put a huge damper on all of that...

Did it? Or was it the quest for money? Selling out to corporate interests, putting in commenting systems controlled by others, enjoying the limelight created by their blogging success - with the concomitant fear of losing all that.

I think big tech cemented the losses but we did much of it to ourselves.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 27, 2022 08:14 AM (GYIa4)

113 I don't trust Elon Musk, but what he's doing is hysterical. The fact that he has ripped the carpet back more, Trump started it, Elon is assisting, exposing the roaches that are the left is good AND entertaining.

They are fascists. They are hateful. They are violent. They are snakes backed into a corner and the WORLD can see who they are now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

114 I agree BUT, I think the ballot dumping was a last minute decision when they saw that Trump was going to beat the cheat.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 27, 2022 07:58 AM (s2VJv)
======================
Couldn't disagree more. First, SecState's all over the country (but especially in contended states, like Pennsylvania) had to illegally allow "drop boxes" in violation of state constitutions. Took months to gestate that plan and implement it. Then the ballot dumping was a logistical planning exercise.

I saw a recent article that I will try to find, and send to JJS, and it illustrates the whole thing pretty well.

True The Vote matched cell phone geolocation data to surveillance video and made the vote dumps visible. One can literally see the "mules" dropping off (presumably illegal) votes. Many of them are wearing gloves so their fingerprints aren't on the ballots.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 08:14 AM (TqUyY)

115 "The History of Colonialism: From Barack Obama Sr. to Barack Obama Jr."
Posted by: ShainS

Diversity HIRED

Posted by: University of Miklos at April 27, 2022 08:14 AM (dr+j+)

116 Musk's downfall, if it happens, may be a spark that triggers REAL revolution in this country.
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Yeah, because people are gonna line up to die for some billionaire.
Posted by: SMH

If they won't line up for the loss of the First Amendment, they won't line up for a, so put a fork in us, because we're done.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 08:14 AM (05ST2)

117 Great point by Daniel Greenfield. I've got an idea for my next PhD thesis in Asshat Studies:

"The History of Colonialism: From Barack Obama Sr. to Barack Obama Jr."
Posted by: ShainS at April 27, 2022 08:13 AM (FMQfH)
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If you wrote it in just the right way, you could probably get that published in the most left-wing journal in the country.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 27, 2022 08:15 AM (YIVH2)

118 Yeah, because people are gonna line up to die for some billionaire.
Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:11 AM (bHvPK)

I think it's more the realization that "it'll be fine, someone else will fix it, things will work themselves out" goes out the window if even a guy as powerful as Musk can be 86'ed for daring to buck the collective.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 27, 2022 08:15 AM (6FeV1)

119 JJ wrote War and Peace overnight
Posted by: Skip's phone

On the longest night of the year, right ?

HUH !

Posted by: JT at April 27, 2022 08:16 AM (arJlL)

120 That may very well be true, but "you can't stop the signal." Musk's downfall, if it happens, may be a spark that triggers REAL revolution in this country. More and more people will realize 1) they are going to lose everything they have or 2) they have nothing to lose. These are not mutually exclusive. THAT's when things get really dangerous for everyone.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 27, 2022 08:10 AM (YIVH2)
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Possible, though I think unlikely. A popular revolution around a billionaire would be bizarre, but these are also crazy times. It is more likely, I think, that the subsequent destruction of Twitter (if it happens) will be a great big signal to everyone involved that cannot be denied. Will it lead to revolution? Who knows, but I doubt it. More likely, it leads to more people checking out, phoning it in, slacking off and skating by. And that reduces the robustness of the surviving system pretty dramatically.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:16 AM (DU+/6)

121 Yeah, because people are gonna line up to die for some billionaire.

Except that Musk has done a lot to make himself a *likable* billionaire.

He smokes dope with Joe Rogan. He's trying to make The Jetsons come true. He gets real high-speed internet to every corner of the earth (Starlink ain't cheap, but it's really good). Now he's trying to make Twitter into a real free speech platform.

If it's clear that he fails because the Establishment brings its full weight to bear on him, I think it might go poorly for that Establishment. Sure, people may not "line up to die for some billionaire," but I don't think that will be their motivation. Rather it will be: "If they can and will do that to HIM, what will they do to me?"

At that point, you may (hopefully) still have just enough people who remember what Liberty should be that things would get very sporty.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:16 AM (9nPZp)

122 The steal was brazen. They told us how they were going to cheat in the election. They did it. Then they celebrated how they did it. And then they declared that repeating what they said was treason.

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:16 AM (9otr5)

123 Inflation will be the death of the Democrats. It killed Carter. The Carter/Biden parallel is uncanny actually.

Posted by: kraken at April 27, 2022 08:16 AM (Vr12I)

124 "They can't just delete the source control history, but if Musk gets in and finds everything already set up the way he wants it (or close to), does he spend the time and money digging into the past, or does he just focus on the future?
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:05 AM (9nPZp)"

It won't even be close to what he wants when he takes over; but I agree with Buzzion above, I believe Twitter mgmt is trying to get rid of the most obviously bad shit they've been up to, like shadowbanning and allowing thousands of bots to pump up the numbers of accounts they preferred.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 08:17 AM (r46W7)

125 And that centralization made the censorship possible. It wouldn't have been workable in the Wild West of pre-social-media.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:12 AM (DU+/6)

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Absolutely. And there's a lesson in their for Republics, Corporations, and other large organizations.

Make Subsidiarity Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS at April 27, 2022 08:17 AM (FMQfH)

126
re: CORONAVIRUS Outbreak of Hepatitis in Children Caused by Lockdowns That Weakened Immunity

I disagree that the cause was Lockdowns.

Rather my better guess is that the cause of the Hepatitis Outbreak, if cross referenced with which children got the MRNA injection, that the MRNA injection will prove to be the real culprit.

Posted by: Speller at April 27, 2022 08:18 AM (pSotA)

127 HUH !
Posted by: JT

I read that in a James Brown voice

Posted by: Sould Brother Miklos Number One at April 27, 2022 08:18 AM (dr+j+)

128 "For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost." - Luke 19:10

BibleGateway Verse of the Day

Posted by: grammie winger at April 27, 2022 08:18 AM (45fpk)

129 So, Vijaya Gadde is the Amber Heard of Christine Blasey Fords?
Posted by: goatexchange at April 27, 2022 08:13 AM (APPN

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Speaking of Blasey-Ford I saw recently her father and grandfather were both CIA Clandestine Service officers. Even in retirement, Ralph Blasey (father) managed front businesses for the agency (or so some blogger claimed).

Not sure if it is true, but I must remind myself to snoop around the web a little and see. Would not surprise me, honestly, if she has spy history running in her DNA.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 08:18 AM (TqUyY)

130 A rightwing "revolution" comes from one of two places generally:

1) A col or gen decides he's had enough of socialism and pulls of a coup

2) Rightwing elected officials start using the powers they have as government officials.

The military looks to have been neutered. But then so have most "rightwing" politicians.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 27, 2022 08:18 AM (0pxZD)

131 Ox gores Twitter

Posted by: REDACTED at April 27, 2022 08:18 AM (us2H3)

132 Re: Elon Musk. I have said this for a while, whatever else about Elon Musk, the guy has style.

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:19 AM (9otr5)

133 Except that Musk has done a lot to make himself a *likable* billionaire.
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So?

Still does not mean people are gonna kit up and die for him.

Doesn't matter how much weed he smokes with Joe Rogan.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:19 AM (3RN75)

134 Inflation will be the death of the Democrats. It killed Carter. The Carter/Biden parallel is uncanny actually.
Posted by: kraken at April 27, 2022 08:16 AM (Vr12I)
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It might be. I hope it will be. Data doesn't matter, but facts do. "Inflation is topping 8% and it's historic in terms of severity" is true, but it isn't visceral and it doesn't move people. "I can't afford to feed my family like I used to be able to, and I now have to go without other things to keep food on the table," however, is also true and it is entirely visceral and thus moves people. Data don't move people. Facts do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:19 AM (DU+/6)

135 Yeah, because people are gonna line up to die for some billionaire.
Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:11 AM (bHvPK)

I think it's more the realization that "it'll be fine, someone else will fix it, things will work themselves out" goes out the window if even a guy as powerful as Musk can be 86'ed for daring to buck the collective.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 27, 2022 08:15 AM (6FeV1)
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It might not be *the* straw that breaks the camel's back, but it could be *a* straw.

The rumor is that Twitter's ban of The Babylon Bee is basically what prompted Musk to take action. Think about that...It's just a satire website that had a very active and funny Twitter presence. But once it was banned, the gloves came off and Musk set out to send his own message that it was NOT OK to do that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 27, 2022 08:19 AM (YIVH2)

136 The steal was brazen. They told us how they were going to cheat in the election. They did it. Then they celebrated how they did it. And then they declared that repeating what they said was treason.
Posted by: blaster

The election was Fortified.

New and Improved!

Posted by: Twitter employee putting person items into box at April 27, 2022 08:19 AM (dr+j+)

137 Whenever I read St. Michael's prayer I can't help substituting words for Satan, evil, the devil.

Posted by: Ziba at April 27, 2022 08:20 AM (S1hrL)

138 Before social media, there were no all-encompassing "platforms." People had blogs and websites you read them or not. When social media happened, it made everything easier (important, since not everyone wants to or can run a website) and bigger with lots of people present (important, since you need an audience). The cost of that was centralization

If you are too lazy to publish a blog, a cheap statement made in under two hundred characters isn't going to draw my attention.

Besides, there are platforms like FB and more robust systems like WordPress, Wix, Drupal and Medium for those who might put some effort in to it but not want to build their own website.

Twitter was its most valuable as a news aggregator until the cancer of click-bait headline writing ruined that.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 08:20 AM (AHeqJ)

139 @120

>>A popular revolution around a billionaire would be bizarre..

That should read, a second popular revolution behind a billionaire, Trump started it, Musk has joined at the turning of the tide.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 27, 2022 08:20 AM (dRt96)

140 Make Subsidiarity Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS at April 27, 2022 08:17 AM (FMQfH)
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Subsidiarity is such a beautiful and robust concept. It isn't maximally efficient, but it is maximally strong and durable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:20 AM (DU+/6)

141 Morning SMH.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

142 The rumor is that Twitter's ban of The Babylon Bee is basically what prompted Musk to take action. Think about that...It's just a satire website that had a very active and funny Twitter presence.

Plus they're Jesus people, which makes it even tastier.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 27, 2022 08:21 AM (45fpk)

143 Musk needs to clean house. It's already out in legal circles that Twitter's CLO Gadde has been reaching out to other lawyers in an attempt to undermine Twitter post takeover.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 08:21 AM (QYQ5e)

144 Hey grammie.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:21 AM (3RN75)

145 And that centralization made the censorship possible

And this is a point a President DeSantis or the like should keep in mind. We need to break globalist/centralized systems down.

Yes, it will make things cost slightly more in the short term. In the long term it gives you a freer, more stable system.

If you have 3 companies colluding they will screw up...and eventually screw over their customers. If you have 100 working independently, some with make good choices, some bad. But the smart ones will learn from that.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 27, 2022 08:21 AM (0pxZD)

146 Still does not mean people are gonna kit up and die for him.

Doesn't matter how much weed he smokes with Joe Rogan.
Posted by: SMH

"You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other poor bastards self-immolate"

Posted by: Gen. George S. "Miklos" Patton at April 27, 2022 08:22 AM (dr+j+)

147 The steal was brazen. They told us how they were going to cheat in the election. They did it.

--

Joe Biden to voter: "Then don't vote for me. I don't need your vote."

Also Joe Biden: "We have the biggest fraud operation in history."

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 27, 2022 08:22 AM (sVtYq)

148 Good morning, SMH!

Posted by: grammie winger at April 27, 2022 08:22 AM (45fpk)

149
Amber Room >>> Amber Heard.

The Amber Heard mentality. Get it?!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 27, 2022 08:22 AM (s2VJv)

150 The rumor is that Twitter's ban of The Babylon Bee is basically what prompted Musk to take action. Think about that...It's just a satire website that had a very active and funny Twitter presence. But once it was banned, the gloves came off and Musk set out to send his own message that it was NOT OK to do that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 27, 2022 08:19 AM (YIVH2)

Sometimes we don't know the straw. Supposedly Trump decided to run because Obama insulted him publicly at some bigwig dinner.

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:22 AM (9otr5)

151 If you are too lazy to publish a blog, a cheap statement made in under two hundred characters isn't going to draw my attention.

Besides, there are platforms like FB and more robust systems like WordPress, Wix, Drupal and Medium for those who might put some effort in to it but not want to build their own website.

Twitter was its most valuable as a news aggregator until the cancer of click-bait headline writing ruined that.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 08:20 AM (AHeqJ)
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Twitter has always been unusual in that it is the "microblogging" concept, but the point remains. Facebook is also a centralized platform. So is Wordpress the way most people use it (yes, you *can* roll your own from scratch, but most people don't - they use Wordpress-in-a-can on a major platform, maybe even Wordpress' own).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:22 AM (DU+/6)

152 123 Inflation will be the death of the Democrats. It killed Carter. The Carter/Biden parallel is uncanny actually.
Posted by: kraken at April 27, 2022 08:16 AM (Vr12I)

Carter won in '76, as a result of the Nixon debacle. Carter was a nobody governor before that campaign, but the Dems wanted someone with a southern accent to be the nominee. After they won across the board, the left decided it was time to let all of their freak flags fly, just like now.

Reagan, as we all know, was the result. And it amazes me that so many Republicans love to forget that the GOP-e always hated Reagan just like they hated Trump.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 08:22 AM (r46W7)

153 132 Re: Elon Musk. I have said this for a while, whatever else about Elon Musk, the guy has style.
Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:19 AM (9otr5)

"Classy guy. He gets out of the shower to pee!"

- - Buddy Hackett

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 27, 2022 08:23 AM (s2VJv)

154 HUH !
Posted by: JT

I read that in a James Brown voice
Posted by: Sould Brother Miklos Number One

"Eddie Murphy eat your heart out !"

Posted by: JT at April 27, 2022 08:23 AM (arJlL)

155 "Inflation is topping 8% and it's historic in terms of severity" is true

If by "true" you mean "understated by greater than 50%." Yes.

A much more true (and visceral) statement re: inflation: "Your dollar today is worth about 80 cents yesterday."

But, otherwise, spot on. People are cancelling vacations. They're scaling back on expenditures. Many people who have never had to do so are having to choose between which bills to pay.

But I have great faith in the Republican Establishment and Conservative Inc. to bail the Democrats fat out of the fire lest any of those icky conservatives gain any actual power.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:23 AM (9nPZp)

156 Breaking

Dinesh D'Souza documentary on True The Vote data. Here is the trailer.

This is huge. YUGE.

https://tinyurl.com/bdzy7efd

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 08:23 AM (E7cKd)

157 We've come a long way in a week, from Twitter is a cesspool that doesn't matter to losing Twitter is going to cause the left to cancel the wealthiest man in the world.

Can't be both.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2022 08:24 AM (ZLI7S)

158 The Amber Heard mentality. Get it?!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Stupid cow

Posted by: J. Depp at April 27, 2022 08:24 AM (dr+j+)

159 The Twitter addicts will still be on the platform in 6 months, but I'd bet the remaining bulk of subscribers lose interest. Musk may have pulled Twitter out of the sewer, but it's appeal will have been lost. That right there says a lot about the individuals who live on Twitter.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 27, 2022 08:24 AM (BFigT)

160 Yes, it will make things cost slightly more in the short term. In the long term it gives you a freer, more stable system.

If you have 3 companies colluding they will screw up...and eventually screw over their customers. If you have 100 working independently, some with make good choices, some bad. But the smart ones will learn from that.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 27, 2022 08:21 AM (0pxZD)
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It costs more in perpetuity, until the costs of system failure suddenly descend. Redundancy is expensive. It's also robust and makes the overall metasystem tremendously stronger and a lot more survivable because the cross-section of consequences from fuck-ups or malice is a lot stronger. If a state makes a bone-headed decision, it might hurt the people in that state. If the feds make a bone-headed decision, it hurts everyone in the country. If the decisions are good, doing it in just one place - the federal government, for example - is cheaper and more efficient because it reduces redundancy, all other things being equal. If the decision is bad, it is also *efficiently* bad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:25 AM (DU+/6)

161 There's some book about Musk that says sometimes he just fires people because he gets mad at them. This is evidence that he is crazy or something. I mean, never mind that Steve Jobs used to do that - it's in his highly laudatory biography, people who hate Musk LOVE Jobs.

Anyway, if I was a high profile exec at Twitter I'd be reading that book. If you think you can't work for Musk, you are probably right. And if you take action AGAINST the company prior to the sale, I hope you can afford better lawyers than the richest man in the world can.

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:25 AM (9otr5)

162 One last thing about inflation: the severity of inflation in the mid 70s shook the country so badly that it determined the thrust of government until 2000. ALL the politicians Republican AND Democrat talked economics. The Biden regime may have dug their own grave politically with their insane economics. We shall see, I suppose.

Posted by: kraken at April 27, 2022 08:25 AM (Vr12I)

163 If you see Amber Heard, make a wish. After all, if you wish upon a shitting star, it always comes true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:25 AM (DU+/6)

164 Twitter becomes the latest distraction as they try to do to Musk what they did to Trump.

Joy Reid is out front.

Posted by: Ziba at April 27, 2022 08:25 AM (S1hrL)

165 As the headline said, "Eccentric Billionaire Does More for Free Speech in One Day than Republicans have in Decades."

Never, not once, have I heard any of the GOPe defend the base against any of the -ism slurs the left regularly hurls.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 27, 2022 08:26 AM (hOeHG)

166 Never, not once, have I heard any of the GOPe defend the base against any of the -ism slurs the left regularly hurls.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 27, 2022 08:26 AM (hOeHG)
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Of course not. The GOPe is on their side. Same team.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:27 AM (DU+/6)

167 Still does not mean people are gonna kit up and die for him.

Doesn't matter how much weed he smokes with Joe Rogan.
Posted by: SMH

"You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making the other poor bastards self-immolate"
Posted by: Gen. George S. "Miklos" Patton

You don't EVER win a war if you don't even kit up.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 08:27 AM (05ST2)

168 143 Musk needs to clean house. It's already out in legal circles that Twitter's CLO Gadde has been reaching out to other lawyers in an attempt to undermine Twitter post takeover.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 08:21 AM (QYQ5e)

It's always rather comical to watch rich and powerful people transit through:
denial
anger
bargaining
depression
acceptance

and it's really funny when they get stuck on the first four and just keep recycling them over and over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 08:27 AM (r46W7)

169 Investors in $TSLA seem to be a bit displeased about the Twitter deal. Stock took an 11% dump yesterday.

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:27 AM (9otr5)

170
Stupid cow
Posted by: J. Depp at April 27, 2022 08:24 AM (dr+j+)

💩 🛏

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

171 But, otherwise, spot on. People are cancelling vacations. They're scaling back on expenditures. Many people who have never had to do so are having to choose between which bills to pay.
___

By God's grace, we're able to pay our bills, but beyond flying our eldest daughter out to visit us in June, we will likely not be taking our usual trip to Texas in October.

I have a feeling that six months from now, we will look back and think these are the good 'ol days.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:28 AM (3RN75)

172 I agree BUT, I think the ballot dumping was a last minute decision when they saw that Trump was going to beat the cheat.
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^^^THIS^^^

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 27, 2022 08:28 AM (MIKMs)

173 Hey!

I was just accepted for the Eccentric Billionaire 101 class at the Community College!

Posted by: Life around turning Miklos at April 27, 2022 08:28 AM (dr+j+)

174 Can't be both.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2022 08:24 AM (ZLI7S)

Embrace the power of "And."

1) Twitter is (and largely will continue to be) a cesspool where all discourse is lowest-common-denominator "hot takes." In general, it adds nothing of value to the public discourse.

HOWEVER

2) A LOT of people are on twitter and that's where they get their news and opinions. So having it *not* be one-sided (if you're a Leftist who needs all "public discourse" to be one-sided because your opinions are all trash), is a devastating blow.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:28 AM (9nPZp)

175 Gadde wasn't the only Twitter lawyer Musk tweeted about last night. Maybe not even the most important.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2022 08:29 AM (ZLI7S)

176 Musk may have pulled Twitter out of the sewer, but it's appeal will have been lost.

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We have yet to see if a balance of diverse posters (ideologically, because ideology is the reason they were shut out to begin with) will take up the slack here. Will it grow because others who could potentially finally have a voice get onboard?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 27, 2022 08:29 AM (sVtYq)

177 Russia swaps a USMC veteran with the U.S. for a Russian drug trafficker in prisoner swap.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 27, 2022 08:29 AM (UHVv4)

178 You don't EVER win a war if you don't even kit up.
Posted by: rickb223
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Kitted up numerous times in Iraq. Did we win in Iraq?

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:29 AM (3RN75)

179 If they published the NY Post story... They just would have cheated more and still won. I don't think people understand that when cheaters control the cards, you will never win.

Posted by: BacktoGA at April 27, 2022 08:29 AM (MPYWI)

180 "By whatever means necessary."

They flat-out told us they would steal it. Then they did. Now they wear the spoils as a skin suit and laugh off the truth as it is exposed day by day.

Posted by: creeper at April 27, 2022 08:29 AM (cTCuP)

181 You don't EVER win a war if you don't even kit up.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 08:27 AM (05ST2)

A reminder on my latest PSA PSA: AR15 and PSA Dagger (Glock-ish clone) for $699. A lot of gun for a little money.

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:29 AM (9otr5)

182 That said, has anyone asked them why they want to come to a country where their children would be turned into sex slaves or suffer genital disfigurement via hormones or surgery?

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Hard to resist the influence of the Neo-American Dream of Forever Handouts while the minority of suckers who work for a living support you, your anchor babies, and your chain migration relatives. Plus, being encouraged & rewarded -- instead of punished -- for killing whitey is quite the extra-added bonus incentive.

"America, what a country!"

Posted by: ShainS at April 27, 2022 08:30 AM (FMQfH)

183 They are going to find that a lot of Twitter is bots. Which means it was also worth less then projected. Notice all the followers falling off some of the major liberal posters. Think that's just people leaving? Lolol. They were gaming the entire content promotion/demotion part. That's not news to most people. But what is, is who was doing it. It was a deliberate effort between authoritarians at Twitter and government agencies.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 08:30 AM (QYQ5e)

184 171 But, otherwise, spot on. People are cancelling vacations. They're scaling back on expenditures. Many people who have never had to do so are having to choose between which bills to pay.
___

By God's grace, we're able to pay our bills, but beyond flying our eldest daughter out to visit us in June, we will likely not be taking our usual trip to Texas in October.

I have a feeling that six months from now, we will look back and think these are the good 'ol days.
Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:28 AM (3RN75)

Remember when we could eat meat regularly? Good times, good times.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 27, 2022 08:30 AM (b2nrj)

185 157 We've come a long way in a week, from Twitter is a cesspool that doesn't matter to losing Twitter is going to cause the left to cancel the wealthiest man in the world.

Can't be both.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2022 08:24 AM (ZLI7S)

Look at the Left - it matters to *them*. And watching Elon take away their favorite toy is making me giggle like a little girl.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 08:30 AM (r46W7)

186 Posted by: Sponge

When I get this video editing thing down

Yer on the list

Posted by: When Sponge finds out at April 27, 2022 08:30 AM (dr+j+)

187 I think this is a good time to remember that super Christian Mike Pence-- when told the Christian churches of IN sould not be allowed the freedom to speak against the sin of homosexuality--folded and ran.

He, and French and all the other NeverTrump, have a religion of convenience, not conviction.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 27, 2022 08:30 AM (hOeHG)

188 The US doesn't fight to win wars anymore

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 27, 2022 08:30 AM (F2CQq)

189 IF Musk does what he says he's going to do with the twatters, by cancelling all the bot accounts and blue checking all human members, the total registered user count will drop by at LEAST 25%.

That will lessen the 'power' that the twatters has because where everyone currently thinks as go the twatters, so does the world, they won't think that anymore because they'll see just what a small fraction of the global population is on that time suck and will slowly cease to give a shit about what it thinks.

I hope, anyway.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

190 Kitted up numerous times in Iraq. Did we win in Iraq?
Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:29 AM (3RN75)

Kitting up is necessary but not sufficient. The other side kitted up, too.

What's important is actually wanting to win. Instead of saying stupid stuff like "it is difficult define victory conditions."

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:31 AM (9otr5)

191 You don't EVER win a war if you don't even kit up.
Posted by: rickb223

Aye

Posted by: The Tall men in Skirts at April 27, 2022 08:31 AM (dr+j+)

192 A plug for CJN Speaks its another fantastic episode so if you haven't tried it do so

Posted by: Skip's phone at April 27, 2022 08:31 AM (lfDP1)

193 Remember when we could eat meat regularly? Good times, good times.
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Still can for now, courtesy of deep freezers and canning/dehydrating.
Gonna be interesting what the prices are for meat six months from now, when the shit really hits the fan.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:32 AM (3RN75)

194 Russia swaps a USMC veteran with the U.S. for a Russian drug trafficker in prisoner swap.
Posted by: andycanuck

We got the Marine vet, right ?

Posted by: JT at April 27, 2022 08:32 AM (arJlL)

195 I have a feeling that six months from now, we will look back and think these are the good 'ol days.
Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:28 AM (3RN75)

I say this almost every day. Some day we will look back on today as the good old days.

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:32 AM (9otr5)

196 55 Dear Corporations: This "Pride Month," LEAVE US ALONE

Not going to read through to the article right now (maybe later), but I do want to say this: all these "Whatever" Month things... they just seem insulting to me.

I guess I'm on the side of "Celebrate the 4th of July, but every day is Independence Day" side of things. Why on earth would I settle for just one month - one month of people paying attention to my history or existence or whatever - and then go back to them ignoring me completely?

Because that's what happens, and that's been true for years.
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But that's what happens to Easter and Christmas - people are 'religious' for one day and then back to sin et alia.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 27, 2022 08:32 AM (qfLjt)

197 178 You don't EVER win a war if you don't even kit up.
Posted by: rickb223
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Kitted up numerous times in Iraq. Did we win in Iraq?
Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:29 AM (3RN75)

Militarily yes, grand strategy-wise no.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 27, 2022 08:32 AM (b2nrj)

198 NJ: Brooklyn man - Anwar Stuart - arrested for shooting in North Jersey mall.

https://tinyurl.com/3munmnxn

Posted by: McCool at April 27, 2022 08:32 AM (BqBIh)

199 Remember when we could eat meat regularly? Good times, good times.

--

That should be said in a Edward G. Robinson voice.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 27, 2022 08:33 AM (sVtYq)

200 "By whatever means necessary."

They flat-out told us they would steal it. Then they did. Now they wear the spoils as a skin suit and laugh off the truth as it is exposed day by day.

Posted by: creeper at April 27, 2022 08:29 AM (cTCuP)

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As I noted in yesterday's Morning Report thread: Pelosi publicly stated in January of 2020 that "One Way or Another" Trump would not be President in 10 months.

Posted by: ShainS at April 27, 2022 08:33 AM (FMQfH)

201 Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 08:20 AM (AHeqJ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:22 AM (DU+/6)

I'm thinking of resurrecting my blog -- what platform do you guys recommend? (looking for a balance between low cost and easy to maintain and unlikely/hard to cancel)

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 08:33 AM (kf6Ak)

202 Back in 2006 I played with Mr Musk in Far Cry 1.

Great player except for his bandwidth.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 27, 2022 08:33 AM (CXHLK)

203 >>1) Twitter is (and largely will continue to be) a cesspool where all discourse is lowest-common-denominator "hot takes." In general, it adds nothing of value to the public discourse.

Not all of it. Twitter has also been the best source for taking apart the Russia hoax and the China virus lies. That's why many people who were researching both were ruthlessly censored.

Of course it's awful when speech is limited to what the communists on the left want to say but a real free speech town square is exactly what we need. Many conservative accounts saw massive gains in their follows and retweets just yesterday and the way we beat their speech without going to guns is with more of our speech.

They know this and that is what they are afraid of.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2022 08:33 AM (ZLI7S)

204 169 Investors in $TSLA seem to be a bit displeased about the Twitter deal. Stock took an 11% dump yesterday.
Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:27 AM (9otr5)

Tesla exists as a beneficiary of Government largesse. If Tesla gets crosswise with the Powers that Be, it could lose a lot of its potential. In other words, it's reasonable for investors to worry.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 08:33 AM (r46W7)

205 NJ: Brooklyn man - Anwar Stuart - arrested for shooting in North Jersey mall.

https://tinyurl.com/3munmnxn
Posted by: McCool at April 27, 2022 08:32 AM (BqBIh)

No bail. He'll be out by lunch.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

206 It costs more in perpetuity, until the costs of system failure suddenly descend. Redundancy is expensive

This is funny because my son and I have been studying many of the economic arguments that were being had in the US from the time the Constitution was ratified up through the Civil War (we home school, it's part of his history credit this year), and many of the very same arguments (not 1:1, but very close) were made back then, too.

We still make them today. It is absolutely true that it is "more efficient" and "effective" to lean on Comparative Advantage and having fewer people do more things. However, it is also absolutely true that such "efficient" and "effective" systems are highly susceptible to disruption from any number of sources.

The hard part, that I don't think enough people even try to do, is figuring out where the balance is. When do we have enough economic diversity to enrich everyone, but enough redundancy and self-sufficiency to absorb economic shocks?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:33 AM (9nPZp)

207 IF Musk does what he says he's going to do with the twatters, by cancelling all the bot accounts and blue checking all human members, the total registered user count will drop by at LEAST 25%. ...
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)
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That will have consequences on Twitter, but the real fear is probably Facebook and to a lesser extent YouTube. How much of their shareholder value is fiction because too many users are bots? Will major shareholders start asking questions?

Bots are a known problem and it comes up sometimes, but is always tamped down. If Twitter demonstrates provably that huge numbers of "users" are bots, then suddenly Facebook and Alphabet may have serious problems. The shareholders might get uppity, but advertisers *will* get uppity. They're paying for impressions on human beings, not robots.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:34 AM (DU+/6)

208 NJ: Brooklyn man - Anwar Stuart - arrested for shooting in North Jersey mall.

https://tinyurl.com/3munmnxn
Posted by: McCool

Those pesky Amish on rumspringa

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 08:35 AM (kf6Ak)

209 171 But, otherwise, spot on. People are cancelling vacations. They're scaling back on expenditures. Many people who have never had to do so are having to choose between which bills to pay.
___

By God's grace, we're able to pay our bills, but beyond flying our eldest daughter out to visit us in June, we will likely not be taking our usual trip to Texas in October.

I have a feeling that six months from now, we will look back and think these are the good 'ol days.
Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:28 AM (3RN75)

That's why I'm leaving our vacay to a game convention this summer - we visit the remaining grandparents and have the hotel feed my kids breakfast and dinner every day of the trip. I'm not happy about the price of the hotels, but I think about trying to pay it next year (since I've seen the prices since I've booked skyrocket) and decided my spouse could have his gaming convention one more time til we live on "beach vacations" or "staycations" or "off, off season fun"...or til inflation gets under control or his salary matches it (well, the latter is never happening, so maybe the former)...

Posted by: Nova local at April 27, 2022 08:35 AM (exHjb)

210 Russia swaps a USMC veteran with the U.S. for a Russian drug trafficker in prisoner swap.
Posted by: andycanuck

We got the Marine vet, right ?
Posted by: JT

So cynical for one so young.

Posted by: Miklos wonders if this kilt makes his butt look big, and if that's even a problem at April 27, 2022 08:35 AM (dr+j+)

211 I see Kevin Luntz-McCarthy is back in the news, as word comes of his friendly conversations with Liz Cheney and their mutual wishes for lots more censorship, not freer speech.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 08:35 AM (2J4yK)

212 New Delhi blanketed in smoke from a landfill fire. Local Buddhists blamed.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 27, 2022 08:36 AM (UHVv4)

213 Back in 2006 I played with Mr Musk in Far Cry 1.
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Back in 2006, I was cleaning out my buddies' remains from a Bradley in Taji.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:36 AM (3RN75)

214 We've come a long way in a week, from Twitter is a cesspool that doesn't matter to losing Twitter is going to cause the left to cancel the wealthiest man in the world.

Can't be both.
Posted by: JackStraw

Twitter IS a cesspool that doesn't really matter to the majority of people and the left WILL try to cancel Musk.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 08:36 AM (05ST2)

215 And I don't think Elon Musk is "on our side." I mean he gives bigly to the ACLU. However it does look like he is on our side regarding free speech. And that is what matters on a platform like twitter.

Just like all the GOPers in congress that are "on our side" on everything except immigration. That fact that they are for legalizing every criminal that sneaks in negates every other position they have.

Posted by: buzzion at April 27, 2022 08:36 AM (vMCab)

216
Bots are a known problem and it comes up sometimes, but is always tamped down. If Twitter demonstrates provably that huge numbers of "users" are bots, then suddenly Facebook and Alphabet may have serious problems. The shareholders might get uppity, but advertisers *will* get uppity. They're paying for impressions on human beings, not robots.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:34 AM (DU+/6)

If that's the case, the investors and advertisers are stupid and haven't been paying attention. They get what they deserve.

I hope it DOES come out that millions of users are bots. FUCK. THEM. They've built this. They can reap it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

217 Kitting up is necessary but not sufficient. The other side kitted up, too.

What's important is actually wanting to win. Instead of saying stupid stuff like "it is difficult define victory conditions."
Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:31 AM (9otr5)

It's also a good example of how one can win every battle but still lose the war, because the leaders are a bunch of traitorous bastards.

any analogies to the GOP-e are purely intentional.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 08:36 AM (r46W7)

218 Those pesky Amish on rumspringa
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 08:35 AM (kf6Ak)

Damned Jacobites.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 27, 2022 08:36 AM (6FeV1)

219 IF Musk does what he says he's going to do with the twatters, by cancelling all the bot accounts and blue checking all human members, the total registered user count will drop by at LEAST 25%.

That will lessen the 'power' that the twatters has because where everyone currently thinks as go the twatters, so does the world, they won't think that anymore because they'll see just what a small fraction of the global population is on that time suck and will slowly cease to give a shit about what it thinks.

I hope, anyway.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

Maybe to some degree, but the numbers never really mattered much to Twitter admins anyway. Look at the "Trending" section on there. Some of the top Trending items have only a couple thousand posts. Others don't even have a numbers of posts listed. The Trending list has never been a list of the things that people are really interested in. It's a list of things the Admins want you to be interested in. You were never going to get some positive conservative news in the Top 30 list.

Stuff like that will change under Musk, I think.

Posted by: Wally at April 27, 2022 08:36 AM (FJYfm)

220 Twitter, as the blogfather has said, is a Styrofoam iceberg--90% of what you see is in the surface.

But, execs and politicians love the manufactured popularity as it is (was) excessively manipulated to produce "trends," giving them the cover to do what they wanted anyway.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 27, 2022 08:36 AM (hOeHG)

221 If you see Amber Heard, make a wish. After all, if you wish upon a shitting star, it always comes true.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:25 AM (DU+/6)

We can take turns filling the sheets....hubba hubba 23 Skidoo!

C'mon man!

Posted by: Joe Biden, Asshoe democrat at April 27, 2022 08:37 AM (/1l9x)

222 I'm thinking of resurrecting my blog -- what platform do you guys recommend? (looking for a balance between low cost and easy to maintain and unlikely/hard to cancel)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 08:33 AM (kf6Ak)
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One of the mid-line Wordpress vendors, probably. The giants are all deeply in bed with big tech, but the mid-line guys are probably a bit better. Nothing is safe from Big Tech, but the smaller players don't have the technological capability to go actively hunting for wrongthink.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:37 AM (DU+/6)

223 Tesla exists as a beneficiary of Government largesse. If Tesla gets crosswise with the Powers that Be, it could lose a lot of its potential. In other words, it's reasonable for investors to worry.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 08:33 AM (r46W7)

This criticism of Tesla is wrong. No Tesla vehicles are eligible for sales tax credits. When the government buys electric vehicles, they do not buy Teslas. And the recent Biden pushes for government to "invest" in electric cars specifically does not mention Tesla because it is a non-union company.

People buy Teslas DESPITE government largesse, not because of it.

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 08:37 AM (9otr5)

224 By God's grace, we're able to pay our bills, but beyond flying our eldest daughter out to visit us in June, we will likely not be taking our usual trip to Texas in October.

Yep, we're in a similar state. That's one reason we've moved out to my old family farm. We're hoping (in the next year or two - it'll take some time) to get near to "Grocery Bill: Zero." But this year has taken a huge bite out of our budget and our ability to do things we *want* to do.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:37 AM (9nPZp)

225 advertisers *will* get uppity. They're paying for impressions on human beings, not robots.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

e.g. Newsday back in the day

Posted by: Miklos was in that biz at April 27, 2022 08:37 AM (dr+j+)

226 216 If that's the case, the investors and advertisers are stupid and haven't been paying attention. They get what they deserve.

I hope it DOES come out that millions of users are bots. FUCK. THEM. They've built this. They can reap it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

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It's almost like Big Tech has been using the opacity of their operations to create fake groundswells of opinion regarding public policy in directions that they favor.

But that's just conspiracy theorizing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:38 AM (LvTSG)

227 Bernie Sanders, AOC and the squad are bringing a brass band to the WH today to push the cancellation of all student loan debt.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 27, 2022 08:38 AM (NpAcC)

228 218 Those pesky Amish on rumspringa
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 08:35 AM (kf6Ak)

Damned Jacobites.
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I blame the Crazy Quakers. Fucking assholes.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 08:38 AM (4vi12)

229 We got the Marine vet, right ?
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Yes, some guy named Bunter Hiden.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 27, 2022 08:39 AM (UHVv4)

230 They are going to find that a lot of Twitter is bots. Which means it was also worth less then projected. Notice all the followers falling off some of the major liberal posters. Think that's just people leaving? Lolol. They were gaming the entire content promotion/demotion part. That's not news to most people. But what is, is who was doing it. It was a deliberate effort between authoritarians at Twitter and government agencies.

Consider the secondary effects of that.
Many businesses altered their public face based on these 'bots'. Rush Limbaugh (PBUH) spent the money to discover that a very tiny cabal of dedicated Twitter manipulators and activists would give the appearance of a large angry mob. So if Twitter 2.0 identifies and isolates these bots, how much less influence will these malefactors have on business/social life?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 08:39 AM (AHeqJ)

231 227 Bernie Sanders, AOC and the squad are bringing a brass band

A Muppet, a Strumpet and some Trumpets walk into the White House...

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 27, 2022 08:39 AM (HsAzN)

232 222 I'm thinking of resurrecting my blog -- what platform do you guys recommend? (looking for a balance between low cost and easy to maintain and unlikely/hard to cancel)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 08:33 AM (kf6Ak)
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One of the mid-line Wordpress vendors, probably. The giants are all deeply in bed with big tech, but the mid-line guys are probably a bit better. Nothing is safe from Big Tech, but the smaller players don't have the technological capability to go actively hunting for wrongthink.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:37 AM (DU+/6)

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I'm on Wordpress, but I don't say controversial things.

Except this: https://tinyurl.com/5n79cm7u

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

233 I hope it DOES come out that millions of users are bots. FUCK. THEM. They've built this. They can reap it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)
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I don't disagree. And the advertisers have often tried to fight the bot problem - most notably Coca-Cola - but the combined power of big tech is pretty huge and if you want to advertise *at all* (and remember, Alphabet essentially has an advertising monopoly outside of Facebook, and Facebook has most of the rest), you shut up about it. Conclusive evidence that some huge portion of users and impressions are bots would be extremely damaging.

And yeah. Bring it on.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:39 AM (DU+/6)

234 I can't wait to dress up as Free Speech this Halloween and scare the shit out of everyone.

Posted by: buzzion at April 27, 2022 08:40 AM (vMCab)

235 The hard part, that I don't think enough people even try to do, is figuring out where the balance is. When do we have enough economic diversity to enrich everyone, but enough redundancy and self-sufficiency to absorb economic shocks?
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:33 AM (9nPZp)

To put that in place there'd need to be some sort of centralized decision-making. Most of the time this ends up captive to special interests.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 27, 2022 08:40 AM (b2nrj)

236 Bernie Sanders, AOC and the squad are bringing a brass band to the WH today to push the cancellation of all student loan debt.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 27, 2022 08:38 AM (NpAcC)

Sousaphones to the rescue!

Posted by: grammie winger at April 27, 2022 08:40 AM (45fpk)

237 230 Consider the secondary effects of that.
Many businesses altered their public face based on these 'bots'. Rush Limbaugh (PBUH) spent the money to discover that a very tiny cabal of dedicated Twitter manipulators and activists would give the appearance of a large angry mob. So if Twitter 2.0 identifies and isolates these bots, how much less influence will these malefactors have on business/social life?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 08:39 AM (AHeqJ)

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"I read it in a management book! I read it in a management book!"
-CEOs everywhere, explaining why they bowed to Twitter all the time

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:40 AM (LvTSG)

238 I Identify as an Influencer with 20 million followers.

Posted by: Topless Miklos at April 27, 2022 08:40 AM (dr+j+)

239 >>Twitter IS a cesspool that doesn't really matter to the majority of people and the left WILL try to cancel Musk.

Of course they will try to cancel him. Do you really think he doesn't know that?

I don't care about Musk's politics. I don't care that he takes a bunch of government subsidies. I care that he has the balls and the resources to fight for free speech when almost nobody else in the country will. If we don't have that we don't have a country.

If we can't support a guy who is putting a huge portion of his wealth on the line for our most important right then what the hell are we ever going to fight for?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2022 08:40 AM (ZLI7S)

240 Trump won in 2020. All else is commentary on the steal.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 27, 2022 08:40 AM (yQpMk)

241 New Delhi blanketed in smoke from a landfill fire. Local Buddhists blamed.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 27, 2022 08:36 AM (UHVv4)
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Hey Buddhists: next life, be better.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 08:40 AM (2J4yK)

242 232 222 I'm thinking of resurrecting my blog -- what platform do you guys recommend?
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Regardless of platform adding a lot bewbies is advisable.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 08:41 AM (4vi12)

243 One of the mid-line Wordpress vendors, probably. The giants are all deeply in bed with big tech, but the mid-line guys are probably a bit better. Nothing is safe from Big Tech, but the smaller players don't have the technological capability to go actively hunting for wrongthink.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

If you have a minute, can you give me a couple of examples? *pretty please*
That can get me started looking.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 08:41 AM (kf6Ak)

244 Tesla exists as a beneficiary of Government largesse. If Tesla gets crosswise with the Powers that Be, it could lose a lot of its potential. In other words, it's reasonable for investors to worry.
Posted by: Tom Servo

There isn't enough chevy volts and Nissan Leafs to make up for a Tesla disappearance from the marketplace.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 08:41 AM (05ST2)

245 But that's what happens to Easter and Christmas - people are 'religious' for one day and then back to sin et alia.

The economics are different. A lot of companies count on Christmas spending, for instance. Several companies (Cadbury, Paas) see their biggest revenue around Easter. And, frankly, I don't know a single Christian who would care or be offended (as a Christian) if the stores suddenly stopped pushing Easter and Christmas.

I would be sad not to get my Cadbury Cream Eggs, though.

As for "Easter and Christmas Christians," that is literally between them and God.

Black History Month, or Pride Month, or whatever - if you stopped doing those, you'd hear the screams from Pluto (which is still a planet, dammit!).

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:41 AM (9nPZp)

246 But that's just conspiracy theorizing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:38 AM (LvTSG)
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It was a mistranslation, as discovered in the current era. It turns out that "conspiracy theory" would have been more properly translated as "spoiler alert."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:41 AM (DU+/6)

247 244 Tesla exists as a beneficiary of Government largesse. If Tesla gets crosswise with the Powers that Be, it could lose a lot of its potential. In other words, it's reasonable for investors to worry.
Posted by: Tom Servo

There isn't enough chevy volts and Nissan Leafs to make up for a Tesla disappearance from the marketplace.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 08:41 AM (05ST2)

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And I thought the monetary incentive to buy Teslas expired something like five years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:42 AM (LvTSG)

248 234 I can't wait to dress up as Free Speech this Halloween and scare the shit out of everyone.
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Wear a Trump mask.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 08:42 AM (4vi12)

249 There is a significant number of people around here who are homesteading. They are buying 5 to 30 acres and turning them into producng land - productive of food, that is. The advantage here is that water is easily available, and the climate is favorable.

Posted by: kraken at April 27, 2022 08:42 AM (Vr12I)

250 Nissan Leafs

Is that a real thing? Leafs?

It sounds like a car company bought a hockey team.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 27, 2022 08:42 AM (HsAzN)

251 246 But that's just conspiracy theorizing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:38 AM (LvTSG)
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It was a mistranslation, as discovered in the current era. It turns out that "conspiracy theory" would have been more properly translated as "spoiler alert."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:41 AM (DU+/6)

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So...Bruce Willis has been dead the whole time?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:42 AM (LvTSG)

252 But that's what happens to Easter and Christmas - people are 'religious' for one day and then back to sin et alia.
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CMEs.

Christmas, Mothers Day, Easter.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:42 AM (3RN75)

253 To put that in place there'd need to be some sort of centralized decision-making. Most of the time this ends up captive to special interests.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 27, 2022 08:40 AM (b2nrj)

Update the Sherman anti-Trust act for the 21st century. Break up all of Big Tech.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 08:42 AM (r46W7)

254 Are Chevy Volts still a thing? I thought they got recalled.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 08:42 AM (4vi12)

255 If we can't support a guy who is putting a huge portion of his wealth on the line for our most important right then what the hell are we ever going to fight for?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2022 08:40 AM (ZLI7S)

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. This is the way of our people.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 27, 2022 08:43 AM (45fpk)

256 ========

It's almost like Big Tech has been using the opacity of their operations to create fake groundswells of opinion regarding public policy in directions that they favor.

But that's just conspiracy theorizing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:38 AM (LvTSG)

It's so crazy, it just might WORK!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

257 'Burma' court convicts and sentences these-letters-don't-match-pronunciation woman to 5 years for corruption.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 27, 2022 08:43 AM (UHVv4)

258 We got the Marine vet, right ?
Posted by: JT

So cynical for one so young.
Posted by: Miklos wonders if this kilt makes his butt look big, and if that's even a problem

LOL !!!

Posted by: JT at April 27, 2022 08:43 AM (arJlL)

259 > Bernie Sanders, AOC and the squad are bringing a brass band to the WH today to push the cancellation of all student loan debt.
__________________

Those words in that order to not make sense. Especially the first two.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 27, 2022 08:43 AM (BFigT)

260 If you have a minute, can you give me a couple of examples? *pretty please*
That can get me started looking.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 08:41 AM (kf6Ak)
++++
Bluehost is what I've used in the past. Mid-line platform, good stability, affordable, not a lot of frills, pretty easy to use unless you want to do some more elaborate customization. If you stick with what's in the box, it's easy. If you don't, you're off to the bowels of Wordpress and that can be intimidating.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:43 AM (DU+/6)

261 Update the Sherman anti-Trust act for the 21st century. Break up all of Big Tech.
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Get your Teddy Roosevelt baseball bat and start swinging. Escpecially those tax free family trusts that run as NGOs.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 08:44 AM (4vi12)

262 Tesla exists as a beneficiary of Government largesse. If Tesla gets crosswise with the Powers that Be, it could lose a lot of its potential. In other words, it's reasonable for investors to worry.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Politicians come and go.

The Deep state abides,

maybe the Musk Dude too

Posted by: Aimless Miklos with illegal lawn darts at April 27, 2022 08:44 AM (dr+j+)

263 Update the Sherman anti-Trust act for the 21st century. Break up all of Big Tech.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 08:42 AM (r46W7)
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Don't even need to update Sherman and Clayton. They still apply, and Big Tech is in black-letter violation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:44 AM (DU+/6)

264 255 If we can't support a guy who is putting a huge portion of his wealth on the line for our most important right then what the hell are we ever going to fight for?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2022 08:40 AM (ZLI7S)

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. This is the way of our people.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 27, 2022 08:43 AM (45fpk)

Reminiscent of the Book of Judges.

Posted by: kraken at April 27, 2022 08:44 AM (Vr12I)

265 Look at the "Trending" section on there. Some of the top Trending items have only a couple thousand posts. Others don't even have a numbers of posts listed. The Trending list has never been a list of the things that people are really interested in. It's a list of things the Admins want you to be interested in. You were never going to get some positive conservative news in the Top 30 list.

Stuff like that will change under Musk, I think.
Posted by: Wally at April 27, 2022 08:36 AM (FJYfm)

I think once the "Trending" was legit. But then they did start to manipulate it because they didn't like what things were trending. And that's also why they altered it more to no longer be the hashtags but to offer an "explanation blurb" about it. To force the narrative.

Posted by: buzzion at April 27, 2022 08:44 AM (vMCab)

266 253 To put that in place there'd need to be some sort of centralized decision-making. Most of the time this ends up captive to special interests.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 27, 2022 08:40 AM (b2nrj)

Update the Sherman anti-Trust act for the 21st century. Break up all of Big Tech.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 08:42 AM (r46W7)

Anti-trust addresses a different issue from attempting to have companies try and be robust. In a normal competitive environment, losing in 9 years by efficiency to win in the 1 year by robustness doesn't work, you don't survive the 9 years.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 27, 2022 08:44 AM (b2nrj)

267 So...Bruce Willis has been dead the whole time?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:42 AM (LvTSG)

Just his career.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 27, 2022 08:44 AM (yQpMk)

268 Tesla: the car the Left loves to hate. Coming soon.

Posted by: Ziba at April 27, 2022 08:44 AM (S1hrL)

269
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I'm on Wordpress, but I don't say controversial things.

Except this: https://tinyurl.com/5n79cm7u
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

That might be the biggest load of horseshit I've ever read on the internet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

270 I think you can buy a pass to watch 2000 Mules at home if theres no nearby theatre showing it.
It should be good Really good

Posted by: LASue at April 27, 2022 08:45 AM (5y7pR)

271 Bernie Sanders, AOC and the squad are bringing a brass band

A Muppet, a Strumpet and some Trumpets walk into the White House...
Posted by: Guy Smiley

Golf clap

Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 08:45 AM (05ST2)

272 269 That might be the biggest load of horseshit I've ever read on the internet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

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And you've read snippets from Obama speeches.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:45 AM (LvTSG)

273 Joe will have to wait until fall to cancel student debt, he can't shoot that wad this early.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 27, 2022 08:45 AM (F2CQq)

274 Bot influencer.

Posted by: runner at April 27, 2022 08:45 AM (3WWC/)

275 Ten Worst Pickup Lines Ever

#1 - Hey, baby, wanna go for a ride in my Leaf?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 27, 2022 08:46 AM (HsAzN)

276 You have to ask yourself why is the Left so afraid of the free exchange of ideas and honest, truthful debate. That question answers itself.

The advantage of a platform like Twitter is it can quickly, and broadly disseminate an issue. It creates the narrative. That narrative gets carried well beyond the platform, mostly by the MSM, their most prolific users.

Now In an honest, truthful forum, it can also be quickly eliminated and debunked if it's fallacious. Remember that same reach and depth exposes it to many people with a multitude of skills, point of views and ideas. It's additive to debate if allowed to function without intervention. But the Left doesn't want that. They can't have that because honest truthful debate exposes their lies, delusions and outright fabrications. That's why they rigged the process to promote their narratives, eliminate debate, demote opposing points of view and completely eliminate any truth that represents a threat to their power. A lot of people on the Left and their partners in the Deep State put all their eggs in the Twitter basket for a reason. It's a very powerful tool for control. This is far from over.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 08:46 AM (QYQ5e)

277 To put that in place there'd need to be some sort of centralized decision-making. Most of the time this ends up captive to special interests.

The government is going to have *some* amount of influence on the economy no matter what you do. Taxes are (and always will be, in some form or other) a thing. So will trade agreements and such.

So the people in charge of those need to keep that balance in mind. Too much protectionism and the country is poorer than it needs to be. Too much "diversity" and "outsourcing" and we're too dependent upon outside forces.

The best thing we can do is make things as transparent as possible and let people make the best decision *for themselves.* With that said, the government *is* going to have an impact, so it needs to be mindful of it.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:46 AM (9nPZp)

278 “Allah, delight us with the extermination of the evil Jews.”
================

Similar language is being broadcast over the "call to prayer" loudspeaker system from atop the Temple Mount, where Islam built its 634th holiest site (or whatev) on top of the ruins of the Jewish Temple.

Admirable of Israel to let this happen. I guess.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 08:46 AM (6eGdO)

279
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. This is the way of our people.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 27, 2022 08:43 AM (45fpk)

We are the losers, my friend
And we'll keep on quitting til the end

Posted by: discarded Queen lyrics at April 27, 2022 08:46 AM (kf6Ak)

280 267 So...Bruce Willis has been dead the whole time?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:42 AM (LvTSG)

Just his career.
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Bruce Willis would make a better Biden than Biden.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 08:46 AM (4vi12)

281 If Twitter demonstrates provably that huge numbers of "users" are bots, then suddenly Facebook and Alphabet may have serious problems. The shareholders might get uppity, but advertisers *will* get uppity. They're paying for impressions on human beings, not robots.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

This is a huge deal. True user numbers have been fake for a very long time, and ad dollars have been spent based on those fake numbers.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 27, 2022 08:46 AM (FwkSU)

282 Joe will have to wait until fall to cancel student debt, he can't shoot that wad this early.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 27, 2022 08:45 AM (F2CQq)
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If the politburo is smart, they'll *never* cancel student debt. They'll just keep deferring it 3-24 months at a time. Cancellation is a one-time deal and when it's over, it's over. Serial deferral is a gift that keeps on giving - and keeps the desired population firmly on the plantation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:47 AM (DU+/6)

283 Off to werk
Bbl

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 08:47 AM (kf6Ak)

284 Stand by for justice!

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 27, 2022 08:47 AM (vuisn)

285 Bluehost is what I've used in the past. Mid-line platform, good stability, affordable, not a lot of frills, pretty easy to use unless you want to do some more elaborate customization. If you stick with what's in the box, it's easy. If you don't, you're off to the bowels of Wordpress and that can be intimidating.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:43 AM (DU+/6)

Thanks!!!!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 08:47 AM (kf6Ak)

286 So the people in charge of those need to keep that balance in mind. Too much protectionism and the country is poorer than it needs to be. Too much "diversity" and "outsourcing" and we're too dependent upon outside forces.

The best thing we can do is make things as transparent as possible and let people make the best decision *for themselves.* With that said, the government *is* going to have an impact, so it needs to be mindful of it.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:46 AM (9nPZp)

I'm just saying on paper the answers are easy, in practice implementation is messy.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 27, 2022 08:47 AM (b2nrj)

287 283 Off to werk
Bbl
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 08:47 AM (kf6Ak)

285 Thanks!!!!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 08:47 AM (kf6Ak)

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LIAR!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:48 AM (LvTSG)

288 Tesla: the car the Left loves to hate. Coming soon.
Posted by: Ziba

Yet they can't wait to have in their driveway to virtue signal.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 08:48 AM (05ST2)

289 "I'm on Wordpress, but I don't say controversial things. "

Says the man who made Prometheus both a pejorative and warrior cry.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 08:48 AM (QYQ5e)

290 Ten Worst Pickup Lines Ever

#1 - Hey, baby, wanna go for a ride in my Leaf?
Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 27, 2022 08:46 AM (HsAzN)
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Bullshit. This is a great pickup line. It worked on me, and I had a great time with a good man.

Posted by: Body-positivity environmental activist with hairy pits and eyebrow piercings at April 27, 2022 08:48 AM (DU+/6)

291 And, with that, it's time to work at work.

Have fun, y'all.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:48 AM (9nPZp)

292 “Allah, delight us with the extermination of the evil Jews.”
================

Similar language is being broadcast over the "call to prayer" loudspeaker system from atop the Temple Mount, where Islam built its 634th holiest site (or whatev) on top of the ruins of the Jewish Temple.

Admirable of Israel to let this happen. I guess.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers

What's your problem?

Posted by: Diversity and Inclusion Twitter Latinx, placing personal items into box under watchful eyes of South at April 27, 2022 08:48 AM (dr+j+)

293 James Baker is the other lawyer Musk tweeted about last night when Cernovich asked him what he was going to do about him.

Doesn't sound afraid to me and 3 days ago that question would have gotten you banned on Twitter.

@elonmusk

Replying to @Cernovich
Sounds pretty bad ...

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2022 08:48 AM (ZLI7S)

294 290 Bullshit. This is a great pickup line. It worked on me, and I had a great time with a good man.

You're right. I've reconsidered. It would also work on gay woodland nymphs.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at April 27, 2022 08:49 AM (HsAzN)

295 I hear the Germans are giving some tanks to the Ukes. German Tanks in Ukraine all over again.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 08:49 AM (4vi12)

296 =======

And you've read snippets from Obama speeches.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:45 AM (LvTSG)

I did say "might be." You still have a chance.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

297 This criticism of Tesla is wrong. No Tesla vehicles are eligible for sales tax credits.

Posted by: blaster

A large portion of Tesla revenue comes from selling carbon credits.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 27, 2022 08:50 AM (FwkSU)

298 Bullshit. This is a great pickup line. It worked on me, and I had a great time with a good "man".
Posted by: Body-positivity environmental activist with hairy pits and eyebrow piercings at April 27, 2022 08:48 AM (DU+/6)
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fixed it for you.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 08:50 AM (6eGdO)

299 J.J., I think Dems would have printed as many ballots as they needed in 2020. It was determined far in advance of that election that Donald Trump was not going to win.
--
Not just that, they had another backup if all that failed: Lawfare

Look at how prepared and aggressive their attorneys were in every single case everywhere. They were ready because they were prepped for win or lose. (Compare that to the soggy garbage "oh shit, what are we supposed to do?" legal work of Team Trump."

They had at least 4 plans guaranteed to ensure their win. Trump had ... one--win the election.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 27, 2022 08:50 AM (wa4LO)

300 A lot of people on the Left and their partners in the Deep State put all their eggs in the Twitter basket for a reason. It's a very powerful tool for control. This is far from over.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 08:46 AM (QYQ5e)

Excellent point.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 27, 2022 08:50 AM (/1l9x)

301 I think you can buy a pass to watch 2000 Mules at home if theres no nearby theatre showing it.
It should be good Really good
Posted by: LASue at April 27, 2022 08:45 AM (5y7pR)
~~~~~

I'm going to see it Monday night at the theater with a couple of friends. Can't wait.

(Yes, there is more than one conservative in NJ.)

Posted by: IrishEi at April 27, 2022 08:50 AM (VhE0u)

302 Off to werk
Bbl
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 27, 2022 08:47 AM (kf6Ak)

285 Thanks!!!!

LIAR!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Evrybody's werking for the weekend

Posted by: the weekend starts HERE at April 27, 2022 08:50 AM (dr+j+)

303 Major Japanese railway, Tokyu, now powered only by renewables.

That actually means, "The renewable sources driving Tokyu trains include hydropower, geothermal-power, wind power and solar power, according to Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that provides the electricity and tracks its energy sourcing."

So I'm guessing without hydro [when the enviro left wants to ban hydro dams] it wouldn't run worth shit even with the geo.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 27, 2022 08:50 AM (UHVv4)

304 "I tell you", he replied, if they keep quiet the stones will cry out. "

Luke 19:40

Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 08:50 AM (QYQ5e)

305 Re: Inflation and Food:
I work for a supermarket.
Buckle up.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 27, 2022 08:51 AM (43xH1)

306 A large portion of Tesla revenue comes from selling carbon credits.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

to whom?

Posted by: Miklos ain't the only one laughing at April 27, 2022 08:51 AM (dr+j+)

307 I love how the left cries about allowing "misinformation" out.

Hold on sugartits. Who promised you that you would never be lied to?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 08:52 AM (05ST2)

308 I saw "What's Your Problem" open for "Total Destruction" at the Bowery Ballroom in 1982.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 08:52 AM (6eGdO)

309 2000 Mules will be banned from EWETOOBS before the month is out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

310 264

Musk is found wanting (guilty) before he even gets started.

That's cute.

Posted by: Ziba at April 27, 2022 08:52 AM (S1hrL)

311 So I'm guessing without hydro [when the enviro left wants to ban hydro dams] it wouldn't run worth shit even with the geo.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 27, 2022 08:50 AM (UHVv4)
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Hydro is the best "renewable" electricity, hands down, by so wide a margin that the rest don't matter. Geothermal might get there, but like hyrdo, there are only so many places it can work.

But yeah, both hydro and geothermal require raping mother gaia without killing lots of birds and starving people, so they're bad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:52 AM (DU+/6)

312 > This is a huge deal. True user numbers have been fake for a very long time, and ad dollars have been spent based on those fake numbers.
______________

Advertising 101

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 27, 2022 08:53 AM (BFigT)

313 I believe Russia has made a huge mistake by cutting off nat gas to Poland and Bulgaria - a typically heavy handed Russian move guaranteed to backfire on them. First, no one is going to comply when some foreign ruler threatens to crack the whip harder; see why Sweden and Finland now want to join NATO. Second, now the entire eastern bloc of countries, most of which relied on Russian supplies, is being forced to realize that Trump was exactly right, and Russia should NEVER be trusted as a critical supply source. They're going to find alternatives, and they are NOT going back to depending on Russia even when this is over.

Russia has just cut their own throat, economically. Remember, this is nat gas, not oil - Russia currently does not have the technical ability to sell it anywhere else.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 08:53 AM (r46W7)

314 Similar language is being broadcast over the "call to prayer" loudspeaker system from atop the Temple Mount, where Islam built its 634th holiest site (or whatev) on top of the ruins of the Jewish Temple.

There is no "Temple Mount". It was taken down in 70AD by the Romans. Not just the temple, but even the earth it was built upon. The belief was the the heat from the temple's immolation melted the gold and it seeped into the foundation, ergo, digging up and destroying the mount itself.

The Dome of the Rock rests upon the former Fort Antonio that was adjacent to the temple site.

It is literally impossible to build anything on the Temple Mount. It is gone.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 08:53 AM (AHeqJ)

315 2000 Mules will be banned from EWETOOBS before the month is out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)
~~~~~

There are plenty of ways to watch it. And D'Souza is hosting it on Rumble anyway.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 27, 2022 08:53 AM (VhE0u)

316 Off to twerk??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 27, 2022 08:53 AM (UHVv4)

317 That's an excellent article by Greenfield. I can count conservative writers that good on one hand and still be able to pick up my Wheaties spoon. I do enjoy JJ too.

Posted by: ... at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (cl3Ep)

318 305 Re: Inflation and Food:
I work for a supermarket.
Buckle up.
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Yeah, I know. Just bought a 24 K cup box of coffee yesterday for $12+. Two weeks ago I spent $9.90.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (4vi12)

319 Re: Inflation and Food:
I work for a supermarket.
Buckle up.
Posted by: LenNeal at April 27, 2022 08:51 AM (43xH1)

Good. I want all of Joe's voters to have to eat ramen noodle soup and drink from a garden hose to survive.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (/1l9x)

320 Re: Inflation and Food:
I work for a supermarket.
Buckle up.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 27, 2022 08:51 AM (43xH1)

I've mostly given up on eating lunch. However, I do get breakfast since daughter has chickens who produce bucket loads of eggs.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (45fpk)

321 I think you can buy a pass to watch 2000 Mules at home if theres no nearby theatre showing it.
It should be good Really good
Posted by: LASue at April 27, 2022 08:45 AM (5y7pR)
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You can see it right now at the link @156, or so the trailer says...

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (6eGdO)

322 So, today is the beginning of the crazy busy weekend, and I still have to work.

Today is Junior's first reconciliation after work. My mom's coming in, and she'll be taking Dolley and I to dinner afterwards.

Tomorrow, Dolley and I have to sign our will.

Friday everyone else comes in (about a dozen relatives).

Saturday, early morning, is the rehearsal for Junior's first communion, and there's a big dinner for my dad's side of the family.

Sunday is the first communion mass (at the busiest mass held at a downtown church with limited parking) and then everyone's coming to my house for BBQ afterwards.

Have I ever mentioned that I'm not really a social creature at all?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (LvTSG)

323 I heard a lot of people complaining at the supermarket checkout. Also cursing Brandon and Democrats for it. I was kind of shocked. There are lots of liberals here. It's sad that people are now limiting what they buy, especially seniors. I don't see how this ends well for Democrats.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (QYQ5e)

324 Just got the E-Mail: COVID is over, effective immediately. Business as usual at all offices worldwide and no COVID-related requirements or restrictions in any way unless countermanded by local authorities.

Took 'em long enough.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (DU+/6)

325 "I tell you", he replied, if they keep quiet the stones will cry out. "

Luke 19:40
Posted by: Marcus T

Zacchaeus was a wee little man
And a wee little man was he
He climbed up in a sycamore tree
For the Lord he wanted to see

Posted by: as taught to lil' Miklos at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (dr+j+)

326 to whom?
Posted by: Miklos

The big 3, last time I checked.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (FwkSU)

327 "Walsh wrote a book satirizing the transgender cult, and it became a best-seller on Amazon. The woke crew who runs Amazon isn’t about to let that continue.
[WATCH] Amazon Employees Hold Secret Zoom Meeting Plotting to Ban Conservative Children's Book Johnny the Walrus by Matt Walsh "

Pardon the ranting...
I still can't believe my comic picaresque novel, "Wearing the Cat" got the extinction treatment from the "woke crew" at Amazon.

For literally years, all they would allow is one negative woke review. Even when I knew of several people who wrote good reviews, these peoples' reviews somehow never made it to the sales page or if they did, vanished before the day was up.
Until, finally Karen McStickUpMyAss was gone or something happened allowing some positive reviews from morons to show up on the sales page. So, thank you, morons/ettes for that.

Anyway, I still can't believe that me, nobody me, and my comic novel written to make people laugh and have an entertaining read and even think a bit, was targeted by the/a humorless Karen(s) at Amazon.
and it still hurts.

Okay...rant off.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 27, 2022 08:55 AM (5NkmN)

328 >>There are plenty of ways to watch it. And D'Souza is hosting it on Rumble anyway.

And now you can talk about it on Twitter without getting banned.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2022 08:55 AM (ZLI7S)

329 324 Just got the E-Mail: COVID is over, effective immediately. Business as usual at all offices worldwide and no COVID-related requirements or restrictions in any way unless countermanded by local authorities.

Took 'em long enough.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (DU+/6)

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"Oh, drat...and I was just about to get my shot..."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:55 AM (LvTSG)

330 But yeah, both hydro and geothermal require raping mother gaia without killing lots of birds and starving people, so they're bad.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:52 AM (DU+/6)

effective geothermal requires you to live on top of a volcanic field, like in Iceland. Still, there are risks - I thought it was pretty funny when the US' top geothermal research station in Hawaii ended up underneath 100 feet of solidified lava in one of the last big eruptions.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 08:55 AM (r46W7)

331 There is no "Temple Mount". It was taken down in 70AD by the Romans. Not just the temple, but even the earth it was built upon.

So, empty hole?

Posted by: grammie winger at April 27, 2022 08:56 AM (45fpk)

332 Russia has just cut their own throat, economically. Remember, this is nat gas, not oil - Russia currently does not have the technical ability to sell it anywhere else.

Except earlier this year Russia and China made a monster of a deal to pipe petro from the fields that are currently serving Europe, through Mongolia into China.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 08:56 AM (AHeqJ)

333 Have I ever mentioned that I'm not really a social creature at all?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (LvTSG)

The Lord is just giving you a taste of hell to keep you on the straight and narrow.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 27, 2022 08:56 AM (b2nrj)

334 The idea is to *shape reality* and if Gulag, Fakebook AND Twitter all agree, well then that must be Reality.

If one of them isn't playing ball anymore, that puts a king sized dent in their Lie Machine. And they know it.

Posted by: ... at April 27, 2022 08:56 AM (cl3Ep)

335 I'm waiting for the Temple to be rebuilt and that stain to be smitten from the place of its original location.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 08:56 AM (QYQ5e)

336 Marginalization /demonization is practically all they do.
Protesting an election with unprecedented levels of fraud has, as we know, become "Insurrection."

Now, any opposition to blatant viewpoint censorship is being a "Free Speech Absolutist."

Pretty much every article describing Musk in relation to Twitter includes this moniker.

Posted by: Zek's Covid Recovered Ass at April 27, 2022 08:56 AM (OzNIz)

337 Have I ever mentioned that I'm not really a social creature at all?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The Old Huguenot Church would be nice, but I guess not.

Posted by: Upriver Miklos at April 27, 2022 08:56 AM (dr+j+)

338 I wonder if Carpe Donktum and James O'Keefe will be back on Twitter?

Posted by: redridinghood at April 27, 2022 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

339 Tomorrow, Dolley and I have to sign our will.
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James, what are you and Dolly leaving me?

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 08:57 AM (4vi12)

340 >>There is no "Temple Mount". It was taken down in 70AD by the Romans. Not just the temple, but even the earth it was built upon.

Weird. as they keep finding more and more shit beneath the Temple Mount.

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 08:57 AM (js33G)

341 323 I heard a lot of people complaining at the supermarket checkout. Also cursing Brandon and Democrats for it. I was kind of shocked. There are lots of liberals here. It's sad that people are now limiting what they buy, especially seniors. I don't see how this ends well for Democrats.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (QYQ5e)

Economic unrest. America hates deprivation, and THAT and that alone runs across party lines. Ronald Reagan was a result of this phnomenon.

Posted by: kraken at April 27, 2022 08:57 AM (Vr12I)

342 There is no "Temple Mount". It was taken down in 70AD by the Romans. Not just the temple, but even the earth it was built upon.

So, empty hole?

More life calved glacier. That slice was torn down.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 08:57 AM (AHeqJ)

343 339 Tomorrow, Dolley and I have to sign our will.
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James, what are you and Dolly leaving me?
Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 08:57 AM (4vi12)

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Pocket lint.

Sponge gets first dibs, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:57 AM (LvTSG)

344 332 Russia has just cut their own throat, economically. Remember, this is nat gas, not oil - Russia currently does not have the technical ability to sell it anywhere else.

Except earlier this year Russia and China made a monster of a deal to pipe petro from the fields that are currently serving Europe, through Mongolia into China.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 08:56 AM (AHeqJ)

And China inked a deal to buy all the coal Russia can dig.

Posted by: kraken at April 27, 2022 08:58 AM (Vr12I)

345 Miklos was in that biz

Vaudeville ?

Posted by: JT at April 27, 2022 08:58 AM (arJlL)

346 There is no "Temple Mount". It was taken down in 70AD by the Romans. Not just the temple, but even the earth it was built upon.

Weird. as they keep finding more and more shit beneath the Temple Mount.

Fort Antonio.
The ground is dolomite which is excellent for carving and digging tunnels. I would not be surprised if much of underground Jerusalem is like an anthill.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 08:58 AM (AHeqJ)

347 >>I heard a lot of people complaining at the supermarket checkout. Also cursing Brandon and Democrats for it. I was kind of shocked. There are lots of liberals here. It's sad that people are now limiting what they buy, especially seniors. I don't see how this ends well for Democrats.

Fucking Brandon.

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 08:58 AM (js33G)

348 347 Fucking Brandon.
Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 08:58 AM (js33G)

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Nobody wants that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:59 AM (LvTSG)

349 340 >>There is no "Temple Mount". It was taken down in 70AD by the Romans. Not just the temple, but even the earth it was built upon.

Weird. as they keep finding more and more shit beneath the Temple Mount.
Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 08:57 AM (js33G)

I think he is referring to the Mount part. It's no longer a hill or whatever.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 27, 2022 08:59 AM (b2nrj)

350 I hear the Germans are giving some tanks to the Ukes.
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50 Gepard vehicles with antiaircraft guns on them.

"The vehicles, made by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, are no longer in the inventory of the German armed forces, but the manufacturer has kept a number in its own stocks. The ease of use of the two-cannon flak setup, mounted on a Leopard tank chassis, has made the Gepard a favorite among military experts, especially as the Bundeswehr looks for no-frills defenses against drones."

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 27, 2022 08:59 AM (UHVv4)

351 Speaking of Musk, SpaceX launched its fourth crewed mission to the ISS this morning. This is getting so routine, no one even notices anymore!

Docking is scheduled to occur later today, at around 8:15 this evening (if you want to watch).

This is so frequent a trip now (Axiom crew just left!) that you wonder if they had time to wash the sheets and towels.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 08:59 AM (6eGdO)

352 Damn. My Todd sock fell off.

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 09:00 AM (js33G)

353 "Except earlier this year Russia and China made a monster of a deal to pipe petro from the fields that are currently serving Europe, through Mongolia into China."

They can make all the deals they want. Have fun. The lack of diversity in markets will be the death of them both. Right now Brandon is too deep in Chinas pocket to impact that relationship. But when someone competent gets elected and a congress gets off their fat corrupt asses, thinks will change. Russia needs the global market more then the global market needs them. They are one energy invention away from economic irrelevancy. So I suggest the Russians learn to speak Chinese. It will make their subjugation easier.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 09:00 AM (QYQ5e)

354 Pocket lint.

Sponge gets first dibs, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

reminds me

*checks behind sofa cushions*

$18 million

Posted by: E. Musk at April 27, 2022 09:00 AM (dr+j+)

355 >>Docking is scheduled to occur later today, at around 8:15 this evening (if you want to watch).

CBD never misses a chance to wstch guys docking.

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 09:00 AM (js33G)

356 Understand that they would start an unnecessary war just for better optics and shift in focus.

Your life to them is less than a dog's face full of deaseasd fleas.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 27, 2022 09:00 AM (CXHLK)

357 355 >>Docking is scheduled to occur later today, at around 8:15 this evening (if you want to watch).

CBD never misses a chance to wstch guys docking.
Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 09:00 AM (js33G)

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Says the guy with a "Todd sock".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 09:00 AM (LvTSG)

358 Get you some Horde, ettes and garrett!
Happy Hump Day!

Posted by: Insane Pawg Posse at April 27, 2022 09:01 AM (/Ugph)

359 323 I heard a lot of people complaining at the supermarket checkout. Also cursing Brandon and Democrats for it. I was kind of shocked. There are lots of liberals here. It's sad that people are now limiting what they buy, especially seniors. I don't see how this ends well for Democrats.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (QYQ5e)

You see where I live...this happens all the time, here, no matter the grocery (although I admit I'm never in Whole Paycheck)...every seat is gonna be winnable in November if things don't change...

Posted by: Nova local at April 27, 2022 09:01 AM (exHjb)

360 Just filled up my 11 gallon gas tank. $47+ here in NOVA. Used to cost less than $21.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:01 AM (4vi12)

361 The old Democrat party which asserted that it represented an oppressed majority being kept down by men of wealth has made way for a coalition of increasingly implausible minorities.

**

Before 2020, convincing blacks that the parties switched names every time the Democrats did horrible things used to be the most impressive political maneuver I'd ever seen. Then, briefly, it was the stolen election.

Now, after watching the election, I understand that Republicans don't mind.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 27, 2022 09:01 AM (vYHuO)

362 There is no "Temple Mount". It was taken down in 70AD by the Romans. Not just the temple, but even the earth it was built upon.

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Western wall is a fake? No one told me..,

Posted by: runner at April 27, 2022 09:01 AM (3WWC/)

363 Damn. My Todd sock fell off.
Posted by: garrett

Not me this time

Posted by: Todd at April 27, 2022 09:01 AM (dr+j+)

364 You can see it right now at the link @156, or so the trailer says...
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (6eGdO)
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Yeah, if you "click the blue link in the description" below.

I'll pass.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 27, 2022 09:01 AM (VhE0u)

365 The Dome of the Rock rests upon the former Fort Antonio that was adjacent to the temple site.

It is literally impossible to build anything on the Temple Mount. It is gone.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 08:53 AM (AHeqJ)

I've read a very plausible analysis that holds that, based on style and the oldest inscriptions still visible in the interior, the Dome was actually a Byzantine Christian structure built in the very early 600's, just before the Mohammedan explosion. Then came 100 years of war and very little actual record keeping by anyone, and at the end the new Caliphs jump up and say "Oh yeah we built that, and WE KEEL anyone who says different!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 09:02 AM (r46W7)

366 >>Russia needs the global market more then the global market needs them. They are one energy invention away from economic irrelevancy. So I suggest the Russians learn to speak Chinese. It will make their subjugation easier.

One Energy Invention, huh?

I am sure that will happen at any moment, too.

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 09:02 AM (js33G)

367 Tomorrow, Dolley and I have to sign our will.

Nothing like having kiddos to face your own mortality.

Don't forget the generous life insurance policy!

It's a must cuz you never know.

My sis' husband died in a complete freak accident out of the blue, when her kiddos were very young.

Fortunately, he'd set up a generous policy that she was able to live off of if needed and which she used to send her kids to college.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 27, 2022 09:02 AM (5NkmN)

368 and then everyone's coming to my house for BBQ afterwards.

Have I ever mentioned that I'm not really a social creature at all?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You've also never mentioned your address. Now we see why.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 09:02 AM (05ST2)

369 By the way, F India. They are buying a lot of Russian oil in violation of the sanctions.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 09:02 AM (QYQ5e)

370 And China inked a deal to buy all the coal Russia can dig.

Which makes the Democrat Party's military and financial involvement in Ukraine (despite Ukraine not being a NATO member) definitely a Chinese operation.

We know for a fact that most if not nearly all of the politicians are financially dependent on China, and China requires massive cheap energy in order to forever replace the West in general and the former United States in particular as the sole global hegemony.

The Chinese operatives in the fUS (aka "politicians") are simultaneously comprehensively destroying every vector of wealth generation and social maintenance while also guaranteeing rock-bottom price fuel sources by weaning Europe off of Putin's energy tit.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 09:02 AM (AHeqJ)

371 Just filled up my 11 gallon gas tank. $47+ here in NOVA. Used to cost less than $21.
Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:01 AM (4vi12)
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Yup. My fill-ups are running about $55 now. It's *awesome.*

Thanks, Joe "war on oil" Biden.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 09:02 AM (DU+/6)

372 You don't EVER win a war if you don't even kit up.
Posted by: rickb223
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Kitted up numerous times in Iraq. Did we win in Iraq?

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 08:29 AM

We quit in Iraq and Afghanistan and Vietnam. You can't win if you just keep walking away.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 27, 2022 09:03 AM (bVYXr)

373 Pocket lint.

Sponge gets first dibs, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Don't ferget me, James Monroe !

Posted by: JT at April 27, 2022 09:03 AM (arJlL)

374 I saw Pesky Amish open for Hole at the Madison Square Garden back in 2016.

Posted by: runner at April 27, 2022 09:04 AM (3WWC/)

375 343 339 Tomorrow, Dolley and I have to sign our will.
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James, what are you and Dolly leaving me?
Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 08:57 AM (4vi12)

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Pocket lint.

Sponge gets first dibs, though.
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You, like Ace, are cruel man.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:04 AM (4vi12)

376
Have I ever mentioned that I'm not really a social creature at all?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (LvTSG)

Have Prometheus playing in the background on all TV's in your house.

You'll slay them.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

377 By the way, F India. They are buying a lot of Russian oil in violation of the sanctions.

I have absolutely no problem with any government doing what is best for its own financial and civil interests despite what the wicked and depraved Kalorama Kartel demands.

Sanctions = Suicide

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 09:04 AM (AHeqJ)

378 I heard a lot of people complaining at the supermarket checkout. Also cursing Brandon and Democrats for it. I was kind of shocked. There are lots of liberals here. It's sad that people are now limiting what they buy, especially seniors. I don't see how this ends well for Democrats.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM

We use blue buffalo dog food and it went up by nearly 20% in one month. I buy it at the tractor store because they are the cheapest around including amazon and chewy.com. Walmart sells it for even more than tractor.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at April 27, 2022 09:05 AM (bVYXr)

379 We quit in Iraq and Afghanistan and Vietnam. You can't win if you just keep walking away.
Posted by: Mister Scott
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Newsflash:
It wasn't we lowly troops who walked away.
Thank TPTB.
The same ones who currently are having difficulty getting suckers to sign up.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 09:05 AM (3RN75)

380 >>By the way, F India. They are buying a lot of Russian oil in violation of the sanctions.

Blame Biden/Blinken and their retarded notion of Sanctions.

We literally pushed Russia towards improved trade relations with China AND India.

All to maintain Ukraine as a source of Polotical Grift for the EU and WEF crowd.

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 09:05 AM (js33G)

381 Ukraine is a money pit for American taxpayer dollars and Putin is in this to win. We're cutting our own throat.

Posted by: Ziba at April 27, 2022 09:05 AM (S1hrL)

382 I heard a lot of people complaining at the supermarket checkout. Also cursing Brandon and Democrats for it. I was kind of shocked. There are lots of liberals here. It's sad that people are now limiting what they buy, especially seniors. I don't see how this ends well for Democrats.
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You see where I live...this happens all the time, here, no matter the grocery (although I admit I'm never in Whole Paycheck)...every seat is gonna be winnable in November if things don't change...

**

Shame the Republicans aren't running on anything.

Imagine the bloodbath if they were discussing ending the electric car bullsh*t, ending men in womens sports, ending gays grooming elementary school kids, etc.

But not a peep.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 27, 2022 09:05 AM (vYHuO)

383 The part of the 25th Amendment that most folks seem to miss is that it takes 2/3rds of the Senate to temporarily remove the President for 90 days, and 3/4ths of the Senate to permanently remove the President.

It's easier to impeach and remove the Presdient with 2/3rds of the Senate.

Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

384 Western wall is a fake? No one told me..,
Posted by: runner at April 27, 2022 09:01 AM (3WWC/)

I've seen the argument, and I don't know which side is correct. The question is, was the western wall the foundation of the Temple Mount, or the Antonine Fortress? (built by Mark Antony when he was in control of the area)

In the passion story, the Antonine Fortress overlooked the Temple grounds and was Pilate's seat of power.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 09:05 AM (r46W7)

385 We never should have been in Iraq in the first place.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 09:06 AM (3RN75)

386 >>My fill-ups are running about $55 now.

$125 a tank.

Fuck Joe Biden in the Ass with his son's AIDS infected dick.

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 09:06 AM (js33G)

387 and then everyone's coming to my house for BBQ afterwards.

Have I ever mentioned that I'm not really a social creature at all?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You've also never mentioned your address. Now we see why.
Posted by: rickb223

123 Main Street
Anytown USA

Posted by: Miklos is new at this doxxing stuff at April 27, 2022 09:06 AM (dr+j+)

388 369 By the way, F India. They are buying a lot of Russian oil in violation of the sanctions.
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Meh. India does sensible things. They stopped COVID in its tracks by using Ivermectin, C3, D3 and Zinc and they didn't kill their economy. We, on the other hand,....

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:06 AM (4vi12)

389
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Pocket lint.

Sponge gets first dibs, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 08:57 AM (LvTSG)

WOOT! WINNING!!!!

See? It pays to get married on my birthday.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

390 But not a peep.

*

Wait, sorry. That's not true. Republicans are attacking guys who had car wrecks and couldn't attend the Naval Academy that they learned they'd been nominated for.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 27, 2022 09:06 AM (vYHuO)

391 387 You've also never mentioned your address. Now we see why.
Posted by: rickb223

123 Main Street
Anytown USA
Posted by: Miklos is new at this doxxing stuff at April 27, 2022 09:06 AM (dr+j+)

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It's actually 123 Fake Street.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 09:07 AM (LvTSG)

392 $125 a tank.
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About what the hubby pays twice a week.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 09:07 AM (3RN75)

393 Ed Markey: ‘Algorithmic Justice’ Demands Elon Musk Twitter Bid Is Stopped

Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

394 "I am sure that will happen at any moment, too.
Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 09:02 AM (js33G)"

Nope. Slowly, and overall efficiency with the use of energy has become better every year. You need the market to drop back to where Trump had it and to stay on the current trajectory alone to sink the Russian economy. I am not a green person. A lot of it is horseshit that only profitable because they throw massive amounts of OUR tax money at it. It there has been some cool inventions and advances. Batteries are getting better and improving. All of that will continue to chip away at the fossil fuel market, which BTW isnt going anywhere. But it will get harder to run your entire economy on it. It's why countries like the Saudis have for years been trying to diversify. They see it coming.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 09:07 AM (QYQ5e)

395 Not sure how yet but want to see 2000 Mules

Posted by: Skip's phone at April 27, 2022 09:07 AM (8h9oV)

396 We never should have been in Iraq in the first place.
Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 09:06 AM (3RN75)

I was never there, but have very close friends and acquaintance that were. I disagree. I have no issue with us going there, just have HUGE issues with the RoE and actual mission.

We were not there to win anything. THAT is fucked up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

397 It's easier to impeach and remove the Presdient with 2/3rds of the Senate.
Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

Oh yeah, I remember finding this when I looked at the procedures back when the left was all for it as a way to get rid of Trump. Also, it requires the VP to be heavily involved in the move to dump the President.

Still, in the current situation, I can hear Lloyd Christmas saying "So you're saying that there's a chance...."

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 09:08 AM (r46W7)

398 >>India does sensible things. They stopped COVID in its tracks by using Ivermectin, C3, D3 and Zinc and they didn't kill their economy. We, on the other hand,....

Yeah. Trust India's reporting about as much as you trust our CDC.

India has little to no care for human life and I doubt they were very successful at any medical intervention considering their entire Culture is essentially a fomite for disease.

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 09:08 AM (js33G)

399 Who knew you could rule the world by just printing money. Those fucking Zimbabwians must be really fucking stupid.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:09 AM (4vi12)

400 397 It's easier to impeach and remove the Presdient with 2/3rds of the Senate.
Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

Oh yeah, I remember finding this when I looked at the procedures back when the left was all for it as a way to get rid of Trump. Also, it requires the VP to be heavily involved in the move to dump the President.

Still, in the current situation, I can hear Lloyd Christmas saying "So you're saying that there's a chance...."
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 09:08 AM (r46W7)

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I mean...it's almost like it's designed (by lawyers, so over designed) to formally remove a president that can't actually function at a basic level instead of a partisan tool.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 09:09 AM (LvTSG)

401 $125 a tank.
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About what the hubby pays twice a week.
Posted by: SMH

And I thought mine was bad at $94 for mine and $77 for wife's.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 27, 2022 09:09 AM (05ST2)

402 393 Ed Markey: ‘Algorithmic Justice’ Demands Elon Musk Twitter Bid Is Stopped
Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

Still love the exchange between him and Mark Steyn at that climate change hearing about 10 years ago. Steyn destroyed him.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 27, 2022 09:09 AM (s2VJv)

403 Economist, Harvard Professor, Director of the National Economic Council under President Barack Obama, and Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton Larry Summers: ‘Very Substantially Slow’ Economy Is ‘Most Likely’ Outlook for Early Next Year, We Won’t Get Close to Fed’s Inflation Goals

Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

404 397 It's easier to impeach and remove the Presdient with 2/3rds of the Senate.
Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:05 AM (RHGPo)
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Watch out for Scottish Law.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:09 AM (4vi12)

405 I was never there, but have very close friends and acquaintance that were. I disagree. I have no issue with us going there, just have HUGE issues with the RoE and actual mission.
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I was there, and you can disagree if you want.

We were there so the MIC could make bank.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 09:10 AM (3RN75)

406 Josh Hawley sent Musk a letter asking him to reveal all the censorship that's taken place at Twitter. Wonder if he will.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 27, 2022 09:10 AM (VhE0u)

407 $125 a tank.
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About what the hubby pays twice a week.
Posted by: SMH

**

At that rate in three to four years he could afford an entry level compact Nissan Leaf with a 100 mile range that will possibly last four or five years before the batteries need replacement.

What are y'all waiting for?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 27, 2022 09:10 AM (vYHuO)

408 It's actually 123 Fake Street.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Fake Aly

Down South of Tradd

Posted by: Miklos is getting better at this doxxing stuff at April 27, 2022 09:11 AM (dr+j+)

409 >>Nope. Slowly, and overall efficiency with the use of energy has become better every year

The Galciers will be back well before there is a paradigm shift in our energy consumption.

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 09:11 AM (js33G)

410 The White House detailed plans Tuesday for more coronavirus vaccines, suggesting future vaccines would be more effective if the government continued to fund the research.

“It is possible that we may get a whole new generation of vaccines in the Fall or Winter that may be more effective and more durable,” White House COVID-⁠19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told reporters during the daily briefing.

.. it's about time they admit the original vaccine has run it's course. Whatever good it had, has expired.

Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

411 And I thought mine was bad at $94 for mine and $77 for wife's.
Posted by: rickb223
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Hub has to commute to StL six days a week, to change out light fixtures for those that can afford to work from home.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 09:11 AM (3RN75)

412 Let me tell you about the power of propaganda . On 9/11 the "pilots "were mostly Saudi. Then Pakistan hid the culprit- OBL for years . Yet Iraq got broken. Gaddafi assassinated. Because terrorism. If this continues, we might some day be training and arming neo-nazis to promote our oligarchs' and deep state goals and not know it!

Posted by: runner at April 27, 2022 09:11 AM (3WWC/)

413 353

Congress will never get off their "fat corrupt asses."

Posted by: Ziba at April 27, 2022 09:11 AM (S1hrL)

414 408 Down South of Tradd
Posted by: Miklos is getting better at this doxxing stuff at April 27, 2022 09:11 AM (dr+j+)

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My old boss was named Tradd. It's a very Charleston name.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 09:11 AM (LvTSG)

415 Not sure how yet but want to see 2000 Mules
Posted by: Skip's phone

I don't wanna be on the cleanup crew.

Posted by: JT at April 27, 2022 09:12 AM (arJlL)

416 Look at you rich people filling up your tanks. I can only afford to put as much gas in to get me 3/4 home, I have to push it the rest of the way. Uphill.

Posted by: lowandslow at April 27, 2022 09:12 AM (qH6FZ)

417 388 369 By the way, F India. They are buying a lot of Russian oil in violation of the sanctions.
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Meh. India does sensible things. They stopped COVID in its tracks by using Ivermectin, C3, D3 and Zinc and they didn't kill their economy. We, on the other hand,....
Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:06 AM (4vi12)

Now, it's not my job to defend India, and I wouldn't take it if offered. BUT I can't help but point out that story was misreported, like everything. India is *not* actually buying any Russian oil at the moment; they said that they wanted Russia to build a mid-asian pipeline so that they could start to buy Russian oil in 5 years.

Russia has surprisingly been sending very few oil tankers anywhere - they are probably scared of them getting confiscated. As far as I can tell, most of their actual sales have been coming from pipeline connections to Europe and China.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 09:12 AM (r46W7)

418 Shame the Republicans aren't running on anything.
Imagine the bloodbath if they were discussing ending the electric car bullsh*t, ending men in womens sports, ending gays grooming elementary school kids, etc.
But not a peep.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 27, 2022 09:05 AM (vYHuO)

That the good ole Rove/Turtle Axis at work.

Promise nothing, do nothing, change graft streams so you get more.

What would signal a real change is if those expecting coronation in the Senate and House, were disposed by leaders willing to actually enact the voters will.

Bu-u-u-t, I expect a big barrel of nothing.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 27, 2022 09:12 AM (5NkmN)

419 I have a 4 cyl Ford Ranger with a 14 gallon fuel tank.

Now costs me $70 ish to fill.

Fuck Joe Biden. Fuck the Democrats.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

420 Western wall is a fake? No one told me..,

The Western wall that exists today is a small section of retaining wall that also included the original Temple area. Herod's Temple could not contain the number of people who attended, so the wall retained earth that greatly expanded the proximate area.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 09:12 AM (AHeqJ)

421 What are y'all waiting for?
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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That will never happen.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 09:12 AM (3RN75)

422 I'm on Bluehost but I think it's too expensive for what I do. Will probably move back to Entirely Digital.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at April 27, 2022 09:12 AM (YynYJ)

423 I sort of admire that the Democrats have figured out a way to get all of the money without physically sending our troops over there yet. That's pretty impressive. Of course, to get the big aid packages to skim off of, they're going to need our troops over there. We're going to need to release some of our bioweapons or something similar to get everyone behind it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 27, 2022 09:12 AM (vYHuO)

424 Biden Education Secretary Miguel Cardona met with members of the National Association of Secondary School Principals on Monday after the group asked him to “ban hostile parents and individuals from school grounds who threaten our safety.”

“NASSP is calling on federal officials to protect school leaders from rampant hostility and violence that disrupts our schools and threatens the safety of our educations and students,” the group said in September.

Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

425 ----------------
Watch out for Scottish Law.
Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:09 AM (4vi12)

That comes on right after Law and Order, doesn't it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

426 By the way, F India. They are buying a lot of Russian oil in violation of the sanctions.

*

And if I'm understanding correctly, we're draining our strategic reserves to sell to Europe.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 27, 2022 09:13 AM (vYHuO)

427 They're going to find alternatives, and they are NOT going back to depending on Russia even when this is over.
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According to this, Poland at least was already replacing Russian natural gas with other Baltic and Norwegian sources meant to be fully online this year.

https://twitter.com/PrasenjiTweets/status/
1518980132681052160

BTW, Gazprom denied the story for about 3 hours before the announcement. https://tinyurl.com/yckn5vkr

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 27, 2022 09:14 AM (UHVv4)

428 My old boss was named Tradd. It's a very Charleston name.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Interloping whippersnappers

Posted by: Sen. "Fritz" Miklos Hollings-Ravenel at April 27, 2022 09:14 AM (dr+j+)

429 What is the point of the Temple Mount discussion?

Posted by: runner at April 27, 2022 09:14 AM (3WWC/)

430 My wife and I were at the grocery store yesterday. The produce section looked like a Soviet era store. There was more empty shelf space than actual produce. We spent over $100. Last year at this time the same amount of groceries would have been about $50. Maybe less.

3/4 of a tank of gas in her Explorer was $48.

A 5 gallon can of diesel for my Kubota tractor was $24

Last year at this time those costs were about half.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 27, 2022 09:15 AM (BFigT)

431 That will never happen.
Posted by: SMH

*

I bet you could get 40 miles with six cinder blocks in the back.

Actually, nevermind. I suspect you're cautioned not to carry heavy items in the back.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 27, 2022 09:15 AM (vYHuO)

432 President Biden’s chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Merrick Garland, promised the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday he will not interfere with the agency’s probe into Hunter Biden’s potential tax fraud, money laundering, and violation of lobbying laws.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) asked Garland if he knew of the probe into the president’s son. Garland refused to reveal any internal deliberations against Hunter but noted the investigation is being run by David Weiss, a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Wilmington, Delaware.

Garland then promised the Biden administration would not interfere in the investigation. “There will not be interference of any political or improper kind.”

Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

433 Damn. My Todd sock fell off.
Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 09:00 AM (js33G)

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Fucking Todd...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 27, 2022 09:15 AM (flINI)

434 =========

My old boss was named Tradd. It's a very Charleston name.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 09:11 AM (LvTSG)

I worked with a guy in Cali years ago named Tad. He was a surfer. His license plate on his truck said TadRips.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

435 >>And if I'm understanding correctly, we're draining our strategic reserves to sell to Europe.

There was an analyst on the radio yesterday, praising the Biden Admin for its use of the SPR to reduce the impact of prices at the pump.

'We've likely seen the highest price point for Gas this year!' - He said.

Gas went up 9 cents, again yesterday afternoon.

Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 09:15 AM (js33G)

436 ***

Fucking Todd...
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 27, 2022 09:15 AM (flINI)

HE BITE YOU!!!!!

Posted by: Just the Punchline at April 27, 2022 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

437 435 'We've likely seen the highest price point for Gas this year!' - He said.

Gas went up 9 cents, again yesterday afternoon.
Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 09:15 AM (js33G)

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Our mean tweet reserve has been depleted, though. That's the real victory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 09:16 AM (LvTSG)

438 I bit an extra bullet and filled up with gas-gas last week (no corn or fermented Moon Pies in the tank).

Blue Baby is happier, I can tell.

Posted by: Miklos, noting that the Driving Season is underway at April 27, 2022 09:17 AM (dr+j+)

439 379 We quit in Iraq and Afghanistan and Vietnam. You can't win if you just keep walking away.
Posted by: Mister Scott
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If you can't win the thing in four years you are doing something wrong or it isn't worth the price.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:17 AM (4vi12)

440 429 What is the point of the Temple Mount discussion?
Posted by: runner at April 27, 2022 09:14 AM (3WWC/)

careful, next you'll be asking "what is the point of the comments sections?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 09:17 AM (r46W7)

441
Garland then promised the Biden administration would not interfere in the investigation. “There will not be interference of any political or improper kind.”
Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

His word as a Biden admin.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

442 I bet you could get 40 miles with six cinder blocks in the back.
___

My husband is an electrician.
He drives a truck, which actually can hold his tools and supplies.
Some electric rice-burner, not so much.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at April 27, 2022 09:17 AM (3RN75)

443 Conservatives in Brazil have announced a large rally for free speech and individual liberty in Sao Paulo scheduled for May 1, a holiday typically celebrated by Marxists known as “International Workers’ Day.”

Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

444 @SenMarkey
Elon Musk and a handful of billionaires now have dangerous influence over the most powerful online platforms. They can't be trusted, and self-regulation has failed. We must pass laws to protect privacy and promote algorithmic justice for internet users, especially for kids.
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WTAF is "algorithmic justice?" Isn't that what we have now, in the censorship regime that is largely automated and requires human intervention only for edge cases?

Who gave this toolbox a microphone? Hey, Markey! Define your damn terms!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 09:17 AM (DU+/6)

445 428 Interloping whippersnappers
Posted by: Sen. "Fritz" Miklos Hollings-Ravenel at April 27, 2022 09:14 AM (dr+j+)

I saw Interloping Whippersnappers open for Intergalactic Touring Band at the Intercollegiate Broadcast Society Convention in '77.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 27, 2022 09:17 AM (s2VJv)

446 Watch out for Scottish Law.
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The old "not proven" gambit. Second time I've fallen for it this month!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 27, 2022 09:18 AM (UHVv4)

447
Last year at this time those costs were about half.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 27, 2022 09:15 AM (BFigT)

TRUST Joe Biden and the Democrats. They're working HARD for YOU.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

448 "Dig for Victory"? Are we going to see Biden on the weekend gardening thread soon? I have a feeling he'll be heavily involved with pushing up daisies and worm composting in the next few years regardless.

I just started putting in my first garden...would it be patriotic for me to tear it out now?

Posted by: Grimmy at April 27, 2022 09:18 AM (JCZqz)

449 I have always thought Twitter was overblown and not nearly as important in real life as it is made out to be. But watching the left freak-out over the Musk purchase is amazing and illuminating. This is like the Berlin Wall coming down it seems. If we ever retire this country this country to sanity it might be seen as a major turning point.

Posted by: Ripley at April 27, 2022 09:19 AM (MxEKc)

450 423

What is to admire exactly? Most likely American special forces are already present in Ukraine; we just haven't been told that. The longer the war drags on over there, the more dangerous it becomes for everyone. It's shocking how cavalier the officials "in charge" are when talking about the threat of nuclear war.

Posted by: Ziba at April 27, 2022 09:19 AM (S1hrL)

451 Conservatives in Brazil have announced a large rally for free speech and individual liberty in Sao Paulo scheduled for May 1, a holiday typically celebrated by Marxists known as “International Workers’ Day.”
Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

They will be shot. It's Brazil.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

452 "The Galciers will be back well before there is a paradigm shift in our energy consumption.
Posted by: garrett at April 27, 2022 09:11 AM (js33G)"

Who are they, a family of Canadian goalies?

(okay I know it's low to bag on misspellings - but I loved that word, "Galcier"!!!)

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 09:19 AM (r46W7)

453 hard to believe but Kevin Mc is to the left of Paul Ryan and John Boner

Posted by: REDACTED at April 27, 2022 09:20 AM (us2H3)

454 Take any word, append "justice". Now you have a new progressive cause!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 27, 2022 09:20 AM (bg3iC)

455 I saw The Galciers open for Sly and the Family Stone at Rick's in '82.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

456 The White House detailed plans Tuesday for more coronavirus vaccines,
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BTW, Pfizer and, I think Moderna, are pushing for emergency status for their new kids' vaxxes oddly enough.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 27, 2022 09:21 AM (UHVv4)

457 Garland then promised the Biden administration would not interfere in the investigation. “There will not be interference of any political or improper kind.”
Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

So what he is saying is that they will interfere, and that interference won't be political or improper - by definition.

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 09:21 AM (9otr5)

458 I heard a lot of people complaining at the supermarket checkout. Also cursing Brandon and Democrats for it. I was kind of shocked. There are lots of liberals here. It's sad that people are now limiting what they buy, especially seniors. I don't see how this ends well for Democrats.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 08:54 AM (QYQ5e)
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My barbershop is a chatty place. The barber herself is a real chatterbox and the customers all talk a lot, too. At my last haircut (about three weeks ago), the recurring theme was inflation and blame for it.

Spoiler alert: they aren't blaming Trump. One guy - who wasn't even me - pointed out that COVID spending was going to hurt no matter what, but what's happened since then is making everything so much worse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 09:21 AM (DU+/6)

459 449 I have always thought Twitter was overblown and not nearly as important in real life as it is made out to be. But watching the left freak-out over the Musk purchase is amazing and illuminating. This is like the Berlin Wall coming down it seems. If we ever retire this country this country to sanity it might be seen as a major turning point.
Posted by: Ripley at April 27, 2022 09:19 AM (MxEKc)

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It's important because certain powerful people choose for it to be. CEOs who want an excuse to shit on their customers can point to a trending topic, saying if they don't do the woke thing, then there will be a firestorm on Twitter that will drag their name through the mud.

At this point, any serious minded person who uses it as an excuse is silly and should have no power over anything, but it's definitely an excuse they use.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 09:21 AM (LvTSG)

460 80% of All US Dollars in Existence Have Been Printed in Just the Last Two Years.

Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

461 453 hard to believe but Kevin Mc is to the left of Paul Ryan and John Boner
Posted by: REDACTED at April 27, 2022 09:20 AM (us2H3)

And he will be the Speaker! WOOOOT!!!

Vote harder, bishes!

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 09:22 AM (9otr5)

462 Take any word, append "justice". Now you have a new progressive cause!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 27, 2022 09:20 AM (bg3iC)
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Yet, oddly, you don't have any kind of justice...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 09:22 AM (DU+/6)

463 Josh Hawley sent Musk a letter asking him to reveal all the censorship that's taken place at Twitter. Wonder if he will.
Posted by: IrishEi at April 27, 2022 09:10 AM (VhE0u)
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Twitter is now destroying all the evidence. See the stories out today about followers, likes, and retweets of conservatives has suddenly spiked upwards.

Posted by: WisRich at April 27, 2022 09:22 AM (G0vdT)

464 Everyone getting JACKED about the prospects of Speaker of the House Kevin McTardy and Senate leader Murder Turtle?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 27, 2022 09:22 AM (flINI)

465 When you print more money it means there are more dollars chasing the same amount of goods and services, which causes prices to rise. In just the past three fiscal years, federal spending has swollen to nearly $7 trillion a year, up from about $4.4 trillion in fiscal year 2019. Spending was $6.6 trillion in 2020, and $6.8 trillion in 2021.

If we want to put this into perspective, we can take a look at the monetary supply at the beginning of 2020, which showed just $4.0192 trillion in circulation. By January 2021, that number had jumped up to $6.7 trillion — but this was only the beginning.

By November of last year, that number climbed to $20.354 trillion dollars in circulation — meaning that since January 2020, the United States has printed nearly 80% of all US dollars in existence.

Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

466 Why don't just give the Ukes a nuke to make up for Clinton getting them to give up their nukes? Let the slavs do what slavs do.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:23 AM (4vi12)

467 460 80% of All US Dollars in Existence Have Been Printed in Just the Last Two Years.
Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

You should append that with " Have a Nice Day"!!

Posted by: kraken at April 27, 2022 09:23 AM (Vr12I)

468 What is the point of the Temple Mount discussion?
Posted by: runner

I want to extend this from just a smart Military Blog to Smart Military and Ancient Archaeology blog.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 27, 2022 09:23 AM (AHeqJ)

469
By November of last year, that number climbed to $20.354 trillion dollars in circulation — meaning that since January 2020, the United States has printed nearly 80% of all US dollars in existence.
Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

MMMMAAAAAAATTTTTTHHHHH!!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

470 Twitter is now destroying all the evidence. See the stories out today about followers, likes, and retweets of conservatives has suddenly spiked upwards.

Posted by: WisRich at April 27, 2022 09:22 AM (G0vdT)

Can't stop the wave, Mal.

Posted by: Archer at April 27, 2022 09:23 AM (gmo/4)

471 464 Everyone getting JACKED about the prospects of Speaker of the House Kevin McTardy and Senate leader Murder Turtle?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 27, 2022 09:22 AM (flINI)

I have been wooting this since the red wave talk started.

It's going to be glorious, isn't it?

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 09:23 AM (9otr5)

472 461 453 hard to believe but Kevin Mc is to the left of Paul Ryan and John Boner
Posted by: REDACTED at April 27, 2022 09:20 AM (us2H3)

And he will be the Speaker! WOOOOT!!!
Vote harder, bishes!
Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 09:22 AM (9otr5)

To Defend Mc with Faint Praise, this might just mean that he's a much worse liar than either of them were.

but yeah - the idea that any Californian should be Speaker is idiotic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 09:24 AM (r46W7)

473 I saw Interloping Whippersnappers open for Intergalactic Touring Band at the Intercollegiate Broadcast Society Convention in '77.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Bootlegs go for Big Bucks if the Psychadelic Furs intro is there

Posted by: Moderately legal Miklos at April 27, 2022 09:24 AM (dr+j+)

474 462 Take any word, append "justice". Now you have a new progressive cause!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 27, 2022 09:20 AM (bg3iC)
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Pussy Justice. I like it.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:24 AM (4vi12)

475 hard to believe but Kevin Mc is to the left of Paul Ryan and John Boner
Posted by: REDACTED at April 27, 2022 09:20 AM (us2H3)
~~~~~

Peas in a pod.

Remember the "Young Guns?"
Eric Cantor
Paul Ryan
Kevin McCarthy

Posted by: IrishEi at April 27, 2022 09:24 AM (VhE0u)

476 457 Garland then promised the Biden administration would not interfere in the investigation. “There will not be interference of any political or improper kind.”
Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

he also promised not to jizz in the GOP pieholes

Posted by: REDACTED at April 27, 2022 09:24 AM (us2H3)

477 My barbershop is a chatty place. The barber herself is a real chatterbox and the customers all talk a lot, too. At my last haircut (about three weeks ago), the recurring theme was inflation and blame for it.

Spoiler alert: they aren't blaming Trump. One guy - who wasn't even me - pointed out that COVID spending was going to hurt no matter what, but what's happened since then is making everything so much worse.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 09:21 AM (DU+/6)

Something else to mention - unlike 2020, where everyone was shut in (except in Florida), people are out and about and talking about how bad things are in person. Real people. These interactions mean so much more than pixel conversations on the internet b/c people respond to people...

Posted by: Nova local at April 27, 2022 09:24 AM (exHjb)

478 461

Not hard to believe at all. He's always been a POS. An eloquent POS.

Posted by: Ziba at April 27, 2022 09:25 AM (S1hrL)

479 The White House detailed plans Tuesday for more coronavirus vaccines, suggesting future vaccines would be more effective if the government continued to fund the research.

“It is possible that we may get a whole new generation of vaccines in the Fall or Winter that may be more effective and more durable,” White House COVID-⁠19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha told reporters during the daily briefing.

.. it's about time they admit the original vaccine has run it's course. Whatever good it had, has expired.
Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

It's equally as possible that a whole new generation of willing and eager hourglass-shaped ladies this Fall or Winter may be more attracted and interested in me.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 27, 2022 09:25 AM (4I/2K)

480 Can't stop the wave, Mal.

Posted by: Archer

hey, hold my beer

Posted by: King Canute at April 27, 2022 09:25 AM (dr+j+)

481 I can visualize Twitter now - oil drums in back of the office buildings, clerks rushing out with piles of documents, smoke rising in the sky - vans pulling up with boxes of shredders from Office Max being unloaded.

Posted by: kraken at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (Vr12I)

482 Not hard to believe at all. He's always been a POS. An eloquent POS.
Posted by: Ziba at April 27, 2022 09:25 AM (S1hrL)

Is that snark? Have you ever heard the guy talk? Why in the world someone so inartful at speaking should be Speaker is beyond me.

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (9otr5)

483 I can visualize Twitter now - oil drums in back of the office buildings, clerks rushing out with piles of documents, smoke rising in the sky - vans pulling up with boxes of shredders from Office Max being unloaded.
Posted by: kraken at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (Vr12I)

They've elected a new pope.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

484 > WTAF is "algorithmic justice?

Another name for Restorative Justice. The West African system of jurisprudence... Just as the founders intended, bigot. Yay!

Anglo-Saxon Jurisprudence. Boo! Hiss! Cvnt!

Maybe, just maybe, we will all get our fourskins back, bros! Quick somebody tweet Musk that we want Restorative Justice for all our fourskins.

Posted by: Insane Pawg Posse at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (/Ugph)

485 McCarthy has been working very closely with Trump and his PAC. To say I'm shocked would be an understatement. He's also formulating the commitment to America with Trump and others. Even Gingrich is involved. So we'll see where this goes, but there appears to be good coordination.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (QYQ5e)

486
My sister has had a DNA test and recently a Parkinson's test which revealed... *drum roll*

Anybody got any good Jewish jokes I can tell?

Seriously, it's a damn good thing my family got the hell out of Germany when they did.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (dQvv7)

487 My barbershop is a chatty place

barbers

hair

comprehensible English (I assume)

1%-er

Posted by: Statistically Valid Miklos at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (dr+j+)

488 McCarthy has been working very closely with Trump and his PAC. To say I'm shocked would be an understatement. He's also formulating the commitment to America with Trump and others. Even Gingrich is involved. So we'll see where this goes, but there appears to be good coordination.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (QYQ5e)

McCarthy has proven to talk out of both sides of his mouth........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

489 464 Everyone getting JACKED about the prospects of Speaker of the House Kevin McTardy and Senate leader Murder Turtle?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 27, 2022 09:22 AM (flINI)

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I'm much more excited by the idea of Gretchen Whitmer losing in MI, the MN House potentially flipping to red, the AZ state legislature becoming more firmly Republican, Democratic majorities in the NM legislature being reduced to nothing, and Republicans taking the NV state senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

490 Is that snark? Have you ever heard the guy talk? Why in the world someone so inartful at speaking should be Speaker is beyond me.
Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (9otr5)

***

Biden has the dementia excuse, what is McTardys excuse. He has a wooden tongue.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 27, 2022 09:27 AM (flINI)

491 barbers
hair
comprehensible English (I assume)
1%-er
Posted by: Statistically Valid Miklos at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (dr+j+)
++++
Yeah, we're all rolling deep. The barber chair is solid gold. The waiting area chairs are just gold plate, though. The place is going downhill.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 09:27 AM (DU+/6)

492 483
They've elected a new pope.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

Ahahahahaha!!!!

Posted by: kraken at April 27, 2022 09:27 AM (Vr12I)

493 485 McCarthy has been working very closely with Trump and his PAC. To say I'm shocked would be an understatement. He's also formulating the commitment to America with Trump and others. Even Gingrich is involved. So we'll see where this goes, but there appears to be good coordination.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (QYQ5e)

Good coordination to put an ineffective, ineloquent, anti-base guy in as Speaker.

There is a reason they call it the Stupid Party.

Posted by: blaster at April 27, 2022 09:28 AM (9otr5)

494 Kevin = Todd.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 27, 2022 09:28 AM (4I/2K)

495 488 McCarthy has proven to talk out of both sides of his mouth........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

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McCarthy is a quisling that will go with the prevailing winds.

Make the prevailing winds in our favor, then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

496 Why don't just give the Ukes a nuke to make up for Clinton getting them to give up their nukes? Let the slavs do what slavs do.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:23 AM (4vi12)

May the blessings of the Bomb Almighty, and the Fellowship of the Holy Fallout, descend upon us all. This day and forever more.

Amen.

Posted by: Archer at April 27, 2022 09:28 AM (gmo/4)

497 McCarthy has been working very closely with Trump and his PAC. To say I'm shocked would be an understatement. He's also formulating the commitment to America with Trump and others. Even Gingrich is involved. So we'll see where this goes, but there appears to be good coordination.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 09:26 AM (QYQ5e)

McCarthy has proven to talk out of both sides of his mouth........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Friend close, enemies closer.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 27, 2022 09:29 AM (4I/2K)

498 80% of All US Dollars in Existence Have Been Printed in Just the Last Two Years.
Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

You should append that with " Have a Nice Day"!!
Posted by: kraken

I just pay with Post-It notes with "US" and Smiley Faces on them

Posted by: Federal Reserve bank of Miklos at April 27, 2022 09:29 AM (dr+j+)

499 I'm not excited about Speaker McCarthy.

I am very excited about no more Speaker Pelosi. He might be a C - at best. There is no letter for how bad she is.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 27, 2022 09:29 AM (ZLI7S)

500 mmm

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 27, 2022 09:29 AM (w9Wax)

501 Get rid of Brandon? There isn't enough balls between the R's to tee off at Augusta let alone get rid of a Democrat president. Besides it leaves us with Kamala. Then what?

Posted by: ... at April 27, 2022 09:29 AM (PmvzC)

502 and Republicans taking the NV state senate.
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James, Vegas ain't gonna allow that.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:30 AM (4vi12)

503 Get rid of Brandon? There isn't enough balls between the R's to tee off at Augusta let alone get rid of a Democrat president. Besides it leaves us with Kamala. Then what?

Posted by: ... at April 27, 2022 09:29 AM (PmvzC)

FESTIVAL!!!!

Posted by: Archer at April 27, 2022 09:30 AM (gmo/4)

504 NOOD.

Lum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 27, 2022 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

505 My husband is an electrician.
He drives a truck, which actually can hold his tools and supplies.
Some electric rice-burner, not so much.
Posted by: SMH

**

C'mon, no electrician needs to drive more than 100 miles a day or carry spools or heavy tools.
/

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 27, 2022 09:31 AM (vYHuO)

506 McCarthy is a shitbag.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 27, 2022 09:31 AM (X7Em0)

507 Make the prevailing winds in our favor, then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Cabbage, boiled peanuts, and Guinness

Posted by: Miklos refers to Mark Twain's "1601" as well at April 27, 2022 09:31 AM (dr+j+)

508
Make the prevailing winds in our favor, then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

See: 2017-2020

Posted by: ... at April 27, 2022 09:31 AM (rnofd)

509 507 Make the prevailing winds in our favor, then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Cabbage, boiled peanuts, and Guinness
Posted by: Miklos refers to Mark Twain's "1601" as well at April 27, 2022 09:31 AM (dr+j+)

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That's just a good time, right there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

510 Washington Post columnist Max Boot said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that he believes people who are crazy and dangerous are the mainstream of the Democrat Party.

Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

511 McCarthy is a quisling that will go with the prevailing winds.

Make the prevailing winds in our favor, then.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

You never know when a Beckett will show up. Always a surprise when it happens, especially to their former masters.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 09:32 AM (r46W7)

512 Ooops ...

Washington Post columnist Max Boot said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that he believes people who are crazy and dangerous are the mainstream of the Republican Party.

Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

513 My home page is Yahoo. It is an absolute cornucopia of stupidity, vanity, pointlessness, useless information, and general mind rot. They have no shame. Or sense, or seriousness. Like the whole site is run by 14 year old valley girls. If they had any shame, they would all hang themselves.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 27, 2022 09:32 AM (QSjkU)

514 369 By the way, F India. They are buying a lot of Russian oil in violation of the sanctions.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 27, 2022 09:02 AM (QYQ5e)

Sanctions. Say, when do Joe and his foreign policy clowns expect the extensive and extreme sanctions to stop Russia from doing bad things in Ukraine?

In Joe's last press conference, at least 6 weeks ago, he said sanctions are not meant to deter actions; when asked when sanctions will have an effect on Putin, he said give it a month. Next time Joe or Jen is asked, I expect they will answer that our sanctions are having a devastating effect on the Russian economy. Period. They will not put another date milestone out in public. Moving goal posts? How about no goal posts.

Posted by: Gref at April 27, 2022 09:33 AM (AMIL/)

515 McCarthy has proven to talk out of both sides of his mouth........

Just what I said. Eloquent POS.

Posted by: Ziba at April 27, 2022 09:33 AM (S1hrL)

516 Why don't just give the Ukes a nuke to make up for Clinton getting them to give up their nukes? Let the slavs do what slavs do.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:23 AM (4vi12)

May the blessings of the Bomb Almighty, and the Fellowship of the Holy Fallout, descend upon us all. This day and forever more.

Amen.
Posted by: Archer at April 27, 2022 09:28 AM (gmo/4)

Cols. Brent and Taylor had the right idea:
In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe, lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 27, 2022 09:33 AM (4I/2K)

517 513 My home page is Yahoo. It is an absolute cornucopia of stupidity, vanity, pointlessness, useless information, and general mind rot. They have no shame. Or sense, or seriousness. Like the whole site is run by 14 year old valley girls. If they had any shame, they would all hang themselves.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 27, 2022 09:32 AM (QSjkU)

There is only one correct homepage.

ace.mu.nu

Posted by: buzzion at April 27, 2022 09:33 AM (vMCab)

518 What is the point of the Temple Mount discussion?
Posted by: runner at April 27, 2022 09:14 AM (3WWC/)
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pedantry

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 27, 2022 09:33 AM (PfDBe)

519 Max Boot is the mainstream of the Democrat Party. So, I guess he's correct.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 27, 2022 09:34 AM (r46W7)

520 Has Max Boot left the Republican Party again?

Posted by: ... at April 27, 2022 09:36 AM (hLpQz)

521 TJM, I guess we'll see what's left of you come Monday.

Posted by: creeper at April 27, 2022 09:38 AM (cTCuP)

522 What is the point of sucking Putin's dick to punish Biden?

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at April 27, 2022 09:38 AM (UHVv4)

523 If the politburo is smart, they'll *never* cancel student debt. They'll just keep deferring it 3-24 months at a time. Cancellation is a one-time deal and when it's over, it's over. Serial deferral is a gift that keeps on giving - and keeps the desired population firmly on the plantation.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:47 AM (DU+/6)

Cancel a bit at a time. 40k here, 40k there.

You are right. Cancel once it's gone. A bit at a time forces those to keep supporting Ds in the hopes their cancelation comes next.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 27, 2022 09:40 AM (NW9xb)

524 521 TJM, I guess we'll see what's left of you come Monday.
Posted by: creeper at April 27, 2022 09:38 AM (cTCuP)

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An empty shell...hungover and sodden with tears of exhaustion.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 27, 2022 09:43 AM (LvTSG)

525 I think he will see great initial success but then fail as the full pressure of the entire Complex is brought against Twitter. We can't have a non-censored major platform. It's incompatible with the ruling system.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 27, 2022 08:04 AM

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This will happen relatively quickly in places like Canada and the EU, where it is already established law that speech that offends any protected group is violence and thereby outlawed. The EU is already saber rattling that Twitter will be banned if it doesn't continue to censor. These places are lost causes for free speech. The US is the real battlefield.

Posted by: Bigsmith at April 27, 2022 09:44 AM (q1+FM)

526 The don't want to cancel the debt of the (wrong kind of people)! Some kind of litmus test must be applied in the shadows of the full dark of night.

Posted by: klaftern at April 27, 2022 09:44 AM (taPSh)

527 522 What is the point of sucking Putin's dick to punish Biden?
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What's the point of sucking Zelensky's dick to fluff Biden and the CIA?

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 27, 2022 09:47 AM (4vi12)

528 he's only following orders, und befehel ist befehel - jjs

Is that Yiddish?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 27, 2022 09:48 AM (ZSK0i)

529 Ivy League Reparations/Legacies of Slavery:
The solution is clear. Trade Ivy League endowments and campus locations with HBCU's.
Grambling students will now takeover Harvard.
Southern University trades with Yale.
Jackson State trades with Columbia. etc.
This will end Ivy League systemic racism.

Posted by: TitanTom at April 27, 2022 10:04 AM (oQ1G4)

530 528 he's only following orders, und befehel ist befehel - jjs

Is that Yiddish?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 27, 2022 09:48 AM (ZSK0i)

Not exactly . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 27, 2022 10:14 AM (s2VJv)

531 Perhaps German then.

Befehl is Befehl.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 27, 2022 10:22 AM (ZSK0i)

532 "This will happen relatively quickly in places like Canada and the EU, where it is already established law that speech that offends any protected group is violence and thereby outlawed. The EU is already saber rattling that Twitter will be banned if it doesn't continue to censor. These places are lost causes for free speech. The US is the real battlefield. --Bigsmith"

Structurally, this will all play out at a "level" above Twitter. The EU, yes. And in the U.K. And of course the Full Commie Tyrants of the US Democrat party will go straight to Google and Apple to create all kinds of pressure, such as was brought to bear when Parler raised the black flag for a hot minute. So what happens when Apple no longer carries the Twitter app on the iPhone... ?

Not saying that Musk owning Twitter isn't a positive step, but evil never rests, and Evil Karen is calling the Evil Manager.

Posted by: Zek's Covid Recovered Ass at April 27, 2022 10:26 AM (OzNIz)

533 We Are Looking At "Political Climate Change" And The Left Is Losing Its Mind

Posted by: SMOD at April 27, 2022 10:26 AM (RHGPo)

534 Whoops. Whoopsie.

"Befehl ist Befehl".

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 27, 2022 10:27 AM (ZSK0i)

535 Is that pot I smell? !

Posted by: Kurt's Mom calling from upstairs at April 27, 2022 10:34 AM (OzNIz)

536 The Forces of Evil are spamming me. Here's an email I received from Nancy Pelosi today (she wants me to send at least $15 to save humanity (and a House Dem majority)):

I'm going to watch Trump and Republicans' plot to regain power completely BACKFIRE.

Here's my plan: If 3,081 Democrats renew their 2022 Membership before midnight, it will help us OUTRAISE Republicans, CRUSH their plans of flipping our Majorities, and hand them their first HUMILIATING defeat of the Election Year. Can I count on you to help me stop Republicans from ever -- EVER -- holding power over us again?

Posted by: Gref at April 27, 2022 10:41 AM (AMIL/)

537 I think it was posted here yesterday, but I think there's a good chance it's an attempt by Twitter to hide the bodies. If they turn off all the algorithms and code that were preventing conservatives from playing on a level field with Progressives, and they start un-banning people now before Musk takes over, what are the chances that Musk brings in a forensic team to review the code base? They can't just delete the source control history, but if Musk gets in and finds everything already set up the way he wants it (or close to), does he spend the time and money digging into the past, or does he just focus on the future?
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at April 27, 2022 08:05 AM (9nPZp)

One podcaster I listen to that has been shadow banned on twitter for a long time posted his stats this morning. Low and behold, his numbers are WAY up. They must have lifted the shadow ban. People should check their stats.

Posted by: Bonnie Blue - no longer playing the game at April 27, 2022 10:59 AM (9qiMu)

538 ART NOOD

Posted by: Skip's phone at April 28, 2022 09:31 AM (t31we)

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