Biden Seeks Sweeping New Powers To Confiscate Wealth to Fight The Enemy

To fight the fascists, we had to become the fascists.

Before getting to that, Biden also demands another $33 billion for a foreign country, and Pelosi wants to attach $22.5 billion in further foreign aid to that.

We're just pissing out billions like we've been drinking them by the quart all night, huh?

There is wide, bipartisan support in Congress for giving Ukraine all the assistance it needs to fight the Russians, and its eventual approval seems certain. But Biden and congressional Democrats also want lawmakers to approve billions more to battle the pandemic, and that along with a Republican push to entangle the measure with an extension of some Trump-era immigration restrictions leaves the proposal's pathway to enactment unclear.
In an accompanying letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Biden also asked lawmakers to include an additional $22.5 billion for vaccines, treatments, testing and aid to other countries in continuing efforts to contain COVID-19.
But that figure, which Biden also requested last month, seems aspirational at best. In a compromise with Republicans, Senate Democrats have already agreed to pare that figure to $10 billion, and reviving the higher amount would be at best an uphill fight.

Wow what a compromise. Boy those Senate Republican are really Fighting For Us, huh?

And I do appreciate their Courage in pretending to fight to make the Ukraine aid contingent on extending Title 42 before they drop that demand like a bad habit.

Biden also wants the power to seize person property based on a deliberately vague string of qualifiers, which is definitely not a dry run for seizing the estates of future political enemies (like Elon Musk).

Biden was also asking Congress on Thursday for new powers to seize and repurpose the assets of Russian oligarchs.
He wants lawmakers to make it a criminal offense for a person to "knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government," double the statute of limitations for foreign money laundering offenses to 10 years, and expand the definition of "racketeering" under U.S. law to include efforts to evade sanctions.
Biden will also ask Congress to allow the federal government use the proceeds from selling the seized assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs to help the people of Ukraine.

If you think that is alarming, you haven't seen nothin' yet.

Further proof that America 2022 is just the Soviet Union 1978 below, as our decrepit figurehead "leader" shows galloping dementia even in reading prepared remarks, and our Nomenklatura Kremlin class remains silent about what is happening right in front of their corrupt, Inner Party eyes.

Biden's brain stops working in middle of speech. pic.twitter.com/DFNyqtSWl9
— TheBlaze (@theblaze) April 28, 2022

"Ill-begotten gains."

They corruptly gave birth to their gains.

Okay, Sage of Scranton.

Posted by: Ace at 12:02 PM

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1 Further proof that America 2022 is just the Soviet Union 1978 below, as our decrepit figurehead "leader" shows galloping dementia even in reading prepared remarks, and our Nomenklatura Kremlin class remains silent about what is happening right in front of their corrupt, Inner Party eyes.

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So, a decade until the system collapses and we get outright control by oligarchs?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:02 PM (LvTSG)

2 First!

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:02 PM (b2nrj)

3 2 First!
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:02 PM (b2nrj)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:03 PM (LvTSG)

4 Ill-begotten? Did Joe get religion?

Posted by: @ at April 28, 2022 12:03 PM (ZsR3z)

5 top 10

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 28, 2022 12:04 PM (Y+l9t)

6 Someone should remind these people we're not officially at war with Russia.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:04 PM (b2nrj)

7 How hard is it to make the transition from kleptocracy to kleptocrats? Impossible for some, it appears.

Posted by: @ at April 28, 2022 12:04 PM (ZsR3z)

8 Oh good, that video was indeed put in. Well done.

Also, we are well done.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 28, 2022 12:04 PM (QYPq3)

9 His word as a Biden.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at April 28, 2022 12:04 PM (ZTJjv)

10 Biden will also ask Congress to allow the federal government use the proceeds from selling the seized assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs to help the people of Ukraine.
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This might be acceptable, actually, as there is a mechanism to do this. It's even constitutional. But was there ever a letter of marque issued? I don't remember one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:05 PM (DU+/6)

11 >>>Someone should remind these people we're not officially at war with Russia.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:04 PM (b2nrj)

Uhhhh...

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 28, 2022 12:05 PM (QYPq3)

12 but Biden and congressional Democrats also want lawmakers to approve billions more to battle the pandemic

Hint: its not a pandemic any more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 12:05 PM (KZzsI)

13 Seize power and then squeeze the people.
Typical.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 28, 2022 12:05 PM (XvPQV)

14 His word as a Biden.

His word as a Biden is faknpfoerirjaoewj.

Posted by: @ at April 28, 2022 12:05 PM (ZsR3z)

15 12 but Biden and congressional Democrats also want lawmakers to approve billions more to battle the pandemic

Hint: its not a pandemic any more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 12:05 PM (KZzsI)

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Hasn't been for, like, a year and a half.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:05 PM (LvTSG)

16 >>>4 Ill-begotten? Did Joe get religion?

it's ill-gotten, of course, but a lot of people make this (dum-dum) error

Posted by: ace at April 28, 2022 12:05 PM (0G13K)

17 He wants lawmakers to make it a criminal offense for a person to "knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government," double the statute of limitations for foreign money laundering offenses to 10 years, and expand the definition of "racketeering" under U.S. law to include efforts to evade sanctions.
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Make Hunter the test case and I'm all in.

Posted by: LASue, Thought Leader at April 28, 2022 12:06 PM (5y7pR)

18 Bread and oil. We have plenty.

Posted by: mrp at April 28, 2022 12:06 PM (6eRlp)

19 We are so F**KED

Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2022 12:06 PM (dvgPQ)

20 Republicans agree on spending $33 billion on ~~defense contractors and subsequent political kickbacks~~ Ukraine and $10 billion on ~~big pharma and subsequent political kickbacks~~ COVID after months under Joe Biden and the politburo.

Republicans do not agree on spending anything on the wall or border enforcement for years under Donald Trump.

#goRedTeam #onOurSide

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:06 PM (DU+/6)

21 But Biden and congressional Democrats also want lawmakers to approve billions more to battle the pandemic,

**

The pandemic that Fauci announced was over.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 28, 2022 12:06 PM (M0433)

22 Hasn't been for, like, a year and a half.

CDC officially said so, in summer last year. But people cling to that term like their security blanket. Makes it sound scary and justifies anything whatsoever that makes them feel safer

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 12:07 PM (KZzsI)

23 'kleptocracy'

that's a hard one, Grandpa

Posted by: DB at April 28, 2022 12:07 PM (geLO8)

24 Seize suspected Russian assets? Yeah, that law isn't aimed at Elon Musk, at all,

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 12:07 PM (5pTK/)

25 Corrupt Oligarchy? You're soaking in it!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 28, 2022 12:07 PM (XvPQV)

26 "these are bad guys"

FBI ... "greatest threat is American White Supremacists"

hmmm, so white MAGA types are even worse guys.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 28, 2022 12:07 PM (Cus5s)

27 The pandemic is over? We need a new pandemic! Stat!

Posted by: mrp at April 28, 2022 12:07 PM (6eRlp)

28 Biden also wants the power to seize person property based on a deliberately vague string of qualifiers, which is definitely not a dry run for seizing the estates of future political enemies (like Elon Musk).
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Definitely not. This is just for external enemies of the moment and there is no chance of misapplication of vague law against domestic or civilian enemies of the state.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (DU+/6)

29 They keep doubling down on the idiocy.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (Y+l9t)

30 27 The pandemic is over? We need a new pandemic! Stat!
Posted by: mrp at April 28, 2022 12:07 PM (6eRlp)

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All I got is nuclear exchange with Russia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (LvTSG)

31 well the silver lining in all this is our precious GOP is totally on board with this

DC is a circus that attracts clowns

Posted by: REDACTED at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (us2H3)

32 ill-gotten, okay
misbegotten, okay
illbegotten is new to me

Posted by: DB at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (geLO8)

33
The pandemic that Fauci announced was over.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 28, 2022 12:06 PM (M0433)

And the next day said it wasn't

Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (dvgPQ)

34 16 >>>4 Ill-begotten? Did Joe get religion?

it's ill-gotten, of course, but a lot of people make this (dum-dum) error

Posted by: ace at April 28, 2022 12:05 PM (0G13K)

I'm sure the Bidens know all about ill-begotten. Hurr hurr.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (b2nrj)

35 Ask for whatever you want, but we'll only give you half of that. We have principles, you know!

Posted by: GOPe at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (dx9uU)

36 The pandemic is over? We need a new pandemic! Stat!
Posted by: mrp at April 28, 2022 12:07 PM (6eRlp)
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Why? The old pandemic is back, baby!

Posted by: Anthony Fauci at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (DU+/6)

37 "He wants lawmakers to make it a criminal offense for a person to "knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government," double the statute of limitations for foreign money laundering offenses to 10 years, and expand the definition of "racketeering" under U.S. law to include efforts to evade sanctions."

If this law gets passed, I would love it if a prosecutor turned around and used it on Hunter and Joe.

I know, dreams and stuff. But foreign money laundering is definitely on the table for the Hunter grand jury.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (a/dOO)

38 This is just for external enemies of the moment and there is no chance of misapplication of vague law against domestic or civilian enemies of the state.

"Uh huh, uh huh *taking notes*
--FBI agents

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (KZzsI)

39 Well, ever since "Guilty until Proven Innocent" became SOP, AKA asset forfeiture, it was only a matter of time before the definition was broadened.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (5pTK/)

40 Does anyone really believe Ukraine will beat Russia, unless we get involved with our own men?

Anyone?

So what good does it do to send "aid" to Ukraine, if it's just going to either A. prolong the war, or B. start WWIII.

Nobody in any "leadership" position in the rest of the world seems to show any interest in trying to broker a peace. What does that tell you.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (NWBBy)

41 The guys who are clubtocracy. Hehehehe. But these are bad guys.

But, I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to f***in' amuse you?

Posted by: Putin DeVito at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (4I/2K)

42 We're going to seize their ill begotten gains.

Yeah, no you're not. Fuck off. There's no way that shit is remotely legal. Your opinion of "Russia BAD" is not sufficient to seize people's property.

Posted by: deadrody at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (/jrmI)

43 All I got is nuclear exchange with Russia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (LvTSG)

over a country with the GDP of Arkansas

seems pretty fucking legit

Posted by: REDACTED at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (us2H3)

44 Fascists Against Fascism, Unite!
Racists Against Racism, Unite!
Propagandists Against Propaganda, Unite!
Satans Retards, Unite!

Posted by: Satans Retards at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (tgEY/)

45 40 Does anyone really believe Ukraine will beat Russia, unless we get involved with our own men?

No

Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (dvgPQ)

46 As I've been malinforming since all of this bullsh*t began, this is the ENTIRE point of this war. Hunter will have one of those yachts, just like the President of Ukraine will have another one. This entire US aid/war nonsense is for skimming into the pockets of DC politicians who have already been laundering money in Ukraine.

Say, did anyone ever explain how the President of Ukraine could afford multiple yachts?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (M0433)

47
Elon Musk to be declared a Russian KGB asset in 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - . . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (s2VJv)

48 Remember how the Patriot Act was only going to be used against AQ and foreign terrorists? Yeah, good times.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (BxH25)

49 Will we be at actual war in November so the elections can be "postponed?"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 12:10 PM (63Dwl)

50 Jeezez H Kee-rist Jr but other countries have to be laughing at us for having this senile old bastard as our supposed president

Posted by: DB at April 28, 2022 12:10 PM (geLO8)

51 So what good does it do to send "aid" to Ukraine

It's how you launder money.

Posted by: t-bird at April 28, 2022 12:10 PM (dx9uU)

52 Biden Seeks Sweeping New Powers To Confiscate Wealth to Fight The Enemy

Biden himself is seeking ice cream. The Klain/Kalorama Kartel is seeking this other stuff.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 28, 2022 12:10 PM (ZGrMX)

53 So what good does it do to send "aid" to Ukraine, if it's just going to either A. prolong the war, or B. start WWIII.

Aid to Ukraine gets scrubbed and sent back to politicians who voted for it, into the pockets of politicians there, and used to purchase weapons at cut rates from US companies and then sold on a huge open market to anyone who wants them, like Iran and Pakistan.

Oh, and a few token thousands to the people of Ukraine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 12:10 PM (KZzsI)

54 40 Does anyone really believe Ukraine will beat Russia, unless we get involved with our own men?

Anyone?

So what good does it do to send "aid" to Ukraine, if it's just going to either A. prolong the war, or B. start WWIII.

Nobody in any "leadership" position in the rest of the world seems to show any interest in trying to broker a peace. What does that tell you.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (NWBBy)

Well in theory a proxy war exhausts the resources of your adversary at minimum, and sometimes you actually win like in Vietnam.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:10 PM (b2nrj)

55 So what good does it do to send "aid" to Ukraine
*

FWIW, I suspect we haven't been.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 28, 2022 12:11 PM (M0433)

56 Instead of buying Twitter, Elon Musk could have used his $44B to arm the Ukraine!! REEEEE!!!

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 28, 2022 12:11 PM (QYPq3)

57 I have neighbors struggling to afford food and gas. But yeah, what the he'll Republicans in the senate, send Ukraine $50 billion. Assholes.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 28, 2022 12:11 PM (BxH25)

58 45 40 Does anyone really believe Ukraine will beat Russia, unless we get involved with our own men?

oh fuck, you betcha !!

Posted by: Minestry of Truth at April 28, 2022 12:11 PM (us2H3)

59 Ill-gotten, not ill-begotten, unless he's talking about the parentage of the gains.

Posted by: LASue, Thought Leader at April 28, 2022 12:11 PM (5y7pR)

60 What did the Russian Oligarchs do? Besides being Russian and Rich?

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 28, 2022 12:11 PM (dKiJG)

61 43 All I got is nuclear exchange with Russia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (LvTSG)

over a country with the GDP of Arkansas

seems pretty fucking legit
Posted by: REDACTED at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (us2H3)

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They stole the 2016 election! And then chose to do nothing in an election with nationwide mail in voting!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:11 PM (LvTSG)

62 He wants lawmakers to make it a criminal offense for a person to "knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government," double the statute of limitations for foreign money laundering offenses to 10 years, and expand the definition of "racketeering" under U.S. law to include efforts to evade sanctions."
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That's actually more restrictive and honest than the "Civil Asset Forfeiture" schemes. This one was piloted here before going international...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:11 PM (DU+/6)

63 Does anyone really believe Ukraine will beat Russia, unless we get involved with our own men?

Anyone?

So what good does it do to send "aid" to Ukraine, if it's just going to either A. prolong the war, or B. start WWIII.

Nobody in any "leadership" position in the rest of the world seems to show any interest in trying to broker a peace. What does that tell you. BurtTC

It tells me The Big Guy gets 10%

Posted by: mrp at April 28, 2022 12:11 PM (6eRlp)

64 Remember, $5B for a wall to protect the United States was too much money.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 28, 2022 12:11 PM (M0433)

65 Ladies and gentleman, the President of the United States! Let's hear it!

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at April 28, 2022 12:11 PM (buqBu)

66
Fuck Joe Biden

Posted by: Yo! at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (JQUO/)

67 56 Instead of buying Twitter, Elon Musk could have used his $44B to arm the Ukraine!! REEEEE!!!
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at April 28, 2022 12:11 PM (QYPq3)

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He could have given it to me!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (LvTSG)

68
First of all - yeah, the spending is bad. Secondly - yeah, the arbitrary of seizure of property is bad.

But let's not lose sight of the big picture, here. All of this is just pre-game. This is the stuff we do before the stuff we really want to do, and it creates the environment that makes the actual end goal possible.

What our pocket-stuffing tyrants want is an intergenerational conflict in Eastern Europe. A stupendously expensive, interminable, and ultimately catastrophic adventure that enriches their donors, while humiliating our country and strengthening our rivals. And they want to pay for it all with your money and your kids' lives, and to use it as a pretext for further curtailing your freedoms.

Your enemy isn't Russia, or even China.

Your enemy is the US federal government.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (UGDPW)

69 Does anyone really believe Ukraine will beat Russia, unless we get involved with our own men?

Anyone?

So what good does it do to send "aid" to Ukraine, if it's just going to either A. prolong the war, or B. start WWIII.

Nobody in any "leadership" position in the rest of the world seems to show any interest in trying to broker a peace. What does that tell you.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (NWBBy)

Maybe? Ukraine is showing willingness to fight and Western/modern weapons are making a big impact. The Ukes have a pretty big army.

I don't know if they can win but Russia could lose. I wouldn't put big odds on it, but it could happen.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (XvPQV)

70 Yeah, no you're not. Fuck off. There's no way that shit is remotely legal. Your opinion of "Russia BAD" is not sufficient to seize people's property.
Posted by: deadrody at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (/jrmI)
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It's just another step down the road toward a "Nation of Men rather than laws."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (5pTK/)

71 He wants lawmakers to make it a criminal offense for a person to "knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government,"

Another way to go after Trump? His moscow tower deal?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (R8uWY)

72 Only 10 billion?....them's some fiscal hawks.

Posted by: BignJames at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (AwYPR)

73 Man, Biden's not doing so well, is he?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (DU+/6)

74 All I hear is claptrapIsee.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (viHpT)

75
So, a decade until the system collapses and we get outright control by oligarchs?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:02 PM (LvTSG)

riggghhhhttt... we ain't got nearly that much time left.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (trdmm)

76 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 28, 2022 12:13 PM (arJlL)

77 Remember how the Patriot Act was only going to be used against AQ and foreign terrorists?

I cannot remember the name of the law, but the text of it orders people under investigation to not destroy their accounting records or that's a felony. They don't even have to be informed of the investigation, or be arrested, just being looked into.

The FBI loved that law. They extended it to ALL their investigations: you cannot destroy anything they consider evidence, even if you aren't aware of being investigated. Deleting files on your computer? Felony. Throwing out the trash? Felony.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 12:13 PM (KZzsI)

78 57 I have neighbors struggling to afford food and gas. But yeah, what the he'll Republicans in the senate, send Ukraine $50 billion. Assholes.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 28, 2022 12:11 PM (BxH25)

That's only ~$150 per American. You'll hardly miss it!
-Congress

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:13 PM (b2nrj)

79 >>>23 'kleptocracy'
that's a hard one, Grandpa

if i'm being fair, sometimes I have a hard time with words like this, where you get lost if you can't find the correct accent point. Like even a common word like "economy" suddenly gets very very hard if you forget that the stress is on the first oh. If you forget where the stress is you start going 'econo, eco, econO, Eco" etc.

but then again it's a prepared script so he knew the word was coming up and he's said it recently so eff this decrepit r@pist.

Posted by: ace at April 28, 2022 12:13 PM (0G13K)

80 As has been said, our government is willing to fight to the last Ukrainian.

Though, I'm seeing, "Genocide Reeee" which probably means our troops will be needed to prevent the "genocide."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 12:13 PM (5pTK/)

81 Yeah, no you're not. Fuck off. There's no way that shit is remotely legal. Your opinion of "Russia BAD" is not sufficient to seize people's property.
Posted by: deadrody

Why? It is perfectly legal for the state to take your assets because they think you got it from drug dealing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 28, 2022 12:13 PM (R8uWY)

82 That's only ~$150 per American. You'll hardly miss it!
-Congress
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:13 PM (b2nrj)

I'll take my 150 dollars now please

Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2022 12:13 PM (dvgPQ)

83 The difference between the Ds and the Rs is how fast we crash. The Rs agree to only 1/3 amount of grease the Ds want applied to the wheels of tyranny. The Rs send fundraising emails touting how they'll build new, better brakes after agreeing with Ds to cut the existing brake lines.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 28, 2022 12:14 PM (fxCK2)

84 Begin the Begats.

(used 139 times in the Bible over 17 books)

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 28, 2022 12:14 PM (4I/2K)

85 just wait, next year Jim Jordan and the rest of our heroes will vote for Kevin

we've been seriously had, boys

Posted by: REDACTED at April 28, 2022 12:14 PM (us2H3)

86 So let me get this straight: we're going to do NOTHING to actually sanction or punish Russia or its bazillion-dollar petrochemical industry, but we sure as hell are gonna seize some private yachts belonging to rich guys with Russian last names. Sound about right to you?

Do the sanctions on the oil and gas industry still kick in in June? Such a bold, tough move. It's like telling Rico Suave the poolboy that he better stop fucking your wife . . . in two months. But hey, in the meantime here's some Viagra and yayo!

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 28, 2022 12:14 PM (iFTx/)

87 ... What our pocket-stuffing tyrants want is an intergenerational conflict in Eastern Europe. A stupendously expensive, interminable, and ultimately catastrophic adventure that enriches their donors, while humiliating our country and strengthening our rivals. And they want to pay for it all with your money and your kids' lives, and to use it as a pretext for further curtailing your freedoms. ...
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (UGDPW)
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And it will end with Russian AA guns shelling the last helicopters that take off from the Portugal Oblast of the new Russian Empire.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:14 PM (DU+/6)

88 But let's not lose sight of the big picture, here. All of this is just pre-game. This is the stuff we do before the stuff we really want to do, and it creates the environment that makes the actual end goal possible.

What our pocket-stuffing tyrants want is an intergenerational conflict in Eastern Europe. A stupendously expensive, interminable, and ultimately catastrophic adventure that enriches their donors, while humiliating our country and strengthening our rivals. And they want to pay for it all with your money and your kids' lives, and to use it as a pretext for further curtailing your freedoms.

Your enemy isn't Russia, or even China.

Your enemy is the US federal government.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (UGDPW)

YD be preachin'!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 28, 2022 12:14 PM (XvPQV)

89 I knew that the worldwide rush to confiscate assets of Russian oligarchs - and the widespread approval from the MFM of this action - was a really, really bad idea, and the slippery slope to confiscating the assets of domestic badthinkers would happen eventually. I didn't think we'd be looking at that this year.

I guess I wasn't quite cynical enough.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 28, 2022 12:14 PM (TEjGR)

90 So what good does it do to send "aid" to Ukraine,

It does a world of good, friendo.

Posted by: Lockheed Martin at April 28, 2022 12:14 PM (h5TKJ)

91
Why? The old pandemic is back, baby!
Posted by: Anthony Fauci

Well, in many ways, the Big Boy never left, sir. He's always offered the same high-quality meals at competitive prices.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 12:14 PM (63Dwl)

92 31 well the silver lining in all this is our precious GOP is totally on board with this

DC is a circus that attracts clowns

Posted by: REDACTED
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DC Clowns as harmful as John Wayne Gacy.

Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:14 PM (Iq9dF)

93 I’d like $150 to better stock the liquor cabinet.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (A4m9Z)

94 The drugs are no longer working. When do FJB's handlers just skip over him and just go right to purple rabbit?

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now fortified with Green Chilis at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (9I3i5)

95 Further proof that America 2022 is just the Soviet Union 1978 below, as our decrepit figurehead "leader" shows galloping dementia even in reading prepared remarks, and our Nomenklatura Kremlin class remains silent about what is happening right in front of their corrupt, Inner Party eyes.

Discomfiting thought: Trump was not the new Reagan, he was the new Gorbachev.

Posted by: Brother Tim, #teamheadsonpikes at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (OUMaO)

96 I have neighbors struggling to afford food and gas. But yeah, what the he'll Republicans in the senate, send Ukraine $50 billion. Assholes.
Posted by: Marcus T

They are only going to tax the rich to pay for it. Don't worry. The rich are a bottomless pit of money.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (R8uWY)

97 Maybe? Ukraine is showing willingness to fight and Western/modern weapons are making a big impact. The Ukes have a pretty big army.

I don't know if they can win but Russia could lose. I wouldn't put big odds on it, but it could happen.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (XvPQV)

The Ukes have a lot of bodies. Their proper army is mostly gone. But given lots of bodies and an endless supply of equipment, they could eventually make this exceed the price Russia is willing to pay.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (b2nrj)

98 So what good does it do to send "aid" to Ukraine, if it's just going to either A. prolong the war, or B. start WWIII.

Nobody in any "leadership" position in the rest of the world seems to show any interest in trying to broker a peace. What does that tell you.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (NWBBy)

Tells me that the United States government is laundering money in Ukraine....as always.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (sI15f)

99 The Russians are bogged down in Ukraine now. As better weapons flow in from the West, it gets worse for them. They are also crowing about gas sales to Europe and how that isn't hurting them. Sure, maybe now. But there will be new gas flowing through the Baltic Pipe before next winter and Europe's reliance on them will be much less. Add to that a price drop in the market and Ukraine becomes an unsustainable drag on their economy. Things start collapsing on them, which is when things get dangerous.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (BxH25)

100 I imagine that high end Real Estate brokers are at odds with these developments

Posted by: REDACTED at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (us2H3)

101 Mr Gorbechev, put up that wall.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (R8uWY)

102 Only 10 billion?....them's some fiscal hawks.
Posted by: BignJames at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (AwYPR)
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Hey, originally, 11 billion budgeted, but, we cut it down to 10! Are you arguing against budget cuts?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (5pTK/)

103 And it will end with Russian AA guns shelling the last helicopters that take off from the Portugal Oblast of the new Russian Empire.

Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Doubt that one. My guess is it is more like Wait for the Flash and say cheese.

Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (Iq9dF)

104 96 They are only going to tax the rich to pay for it. Don't worry. The rich are a bottomless pit of money.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (R8uWY)

=========

"Yeah...tax the rich. Sure."
-The Fed, still trying to find the off button to the money machine (it's under a coffee cup)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:16 PM (LvTSG)

105 Maybe they are going to give Ukraine aids.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 28, 2022 12:16 PM (R8uWY)

106 It's not senility it's his stutter !

Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2022 12:16 PM (dvgPQ)

107 Accommodate the oligarchs!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 28, 2022 12:16 PM (II3Gr)

108 Doubt that one. My guess is it is more like Wait for the Flash and say cheese.
Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (Iq9dF)
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That would be a bad outcome for our ruling class. They want eternal war and extremely slow defeat with massive losses of allied territory. Hard to get that with nukes. They may fuck up and get that outcome, but they'll try to avoid it through the use of proxies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (DU+/6)

109 if i'm being fair, sometimes I have a hard time with words like this, where you get lost if you can't find the correct accent point.

*

Ace, what was the word you used for the suggestion of a tan line on a lovely young lady a few weeks ago? It was similar to soup can, but that would be absurd.

French IIRC, related to suspicion.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (M0433)

110 Well in theory a proxy war exhausts the resources of your adversary at minimum, and sometimes you actually win like in Vietnam.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:10 PM (b2nrj)

I'm not sure why Russia is supposed to be my adversary. China, I get, but not Russia. And we don't seem the least bit interested in draining China's resources.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (NWBBy)

111 At least this time we're not likely to get a Rambo movie with him in Ukraine helping plucky tribesmen defeat the Russians.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (KZzsI)

112 I've seen leftists whinging about how we could solve all of our problems by seizing Elon Musk's wealth (most of which is in assets and not cold hard cash, of course). We send roughly the same amount of money to Ukraine in actual cash to be flushed down the toilet and they're cheering it on.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (WzZ44)

113 We should start by taking the ill-gotten gains of our Politicians.

Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (ZVGkc)

114 Where is our military?

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (sI15f)

115 I'm still puzzling about 'religious exemptions' for the vaxx. Why?

Correct answer is 'No'. No reason to justify.
Simiarly, 'wear this mask' <== No.

Posted by: micky at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (3byMq)

116 Incidentally, I've been seeing under-the-radar stories about the EU types getting progressively more alarmed that Zelensky's "give everyone a gun to shoot commies" thing sets a bad precedent. LOL.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (ZGrMX)

117 107 Accommodate the oligarchs!
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 28, 2022 12:16 PM (II3Gr)

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Afflict the ~~comfortable~~ underclasses and comfort the ~~afflicted~~ oligarchs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (LvTSG)

118 93 I’d like $150 to better stock the liquor cabinet.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (A4m9Z)

This is actually useful. If you come to the PNW MoMe, I can help with that...as long as you like Bourbon.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (XvPQV)

119 114 Where is our military?
Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (sI15f)

Getting ready to arrest and/or massacre us right here.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (s2VJv)

120 Your opinion of "Russia BAD" is not sufficient to seize people's property.
Posted by: deadrody at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (/jrmI)

Yachts are being seized all over the world. Fortunately, there's absolutely no possible way this could all backfire.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (uvymP)

121 Even I can see that Joe Biden is not altogether there

Posted by: Jose Feliciano at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (flINI)

122 He wants lawmakers to make it a criminal offense for a person to "knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government," double the statute of limitations for foreign money laundering offenses to 10 years, and expand the definition of "racketeering" under U.S. law to include efforts to evade sanctions.

This applies to FJB too, right? I also find it coinvent that Ukraine and China are not on the list - can't do anything to upset the 10% cut.

Posted by: Lost In Space - Now fortified with Green Chilis at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (9I3i5)

123 Posted by: Marcus T at April 28, 2022 12:15 PM (BxH25)

Russia is not bogged down

they are procedding as planned

they know this will soon disappear from the American conscience

Posted by: REDACTED at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (us2H3)

124 This sudden big load of money being airlifted to Ukraine strongly suggests to me that Ukraine is losing badly and this is the last corrupt payoff of slush-fund money being made before the end comes

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

125 Incidentally, I've been seeing under-the-radar stories about the EU types getting progressively more alarmed that Zelensky's "give everyone a gun to shoot commies" thing sets a bad precedent. LOL.
Posted by: Ian S

*

Yeah, it's sort of hard to claim genocide when you announced that everyone still in place is a combatant.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (M0433)

126 When does Kirk, Spock, and Bones beam in?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (VwHCD)

127 121 Even I can see that Joe Biden is not altogether there
Posted by: Jose Feliciano at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (flINI)

1. Light
2. Fire
3. ???
4. Profit!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (s2VJv)

128 Where is our military?
Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (sI15f)

D.I.E. training, sir!

Posted by: Private Winger at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (4I/2K)

129 Where is our military?
Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (sI15f)
++++
Mostly at home, but I would be shocked if we don't have boots on the ground in Ukraine.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (DU+/6)

130 He's got a Crayon and a Playskool Phone on Wheels.

Posted by: ShainS at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (FMQfH)

131 Where is our military?
Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (sI15f)

Trying on pumps.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (A4m9Z)

132 Ace, what was the word you used for the suggestion of a tan line on a lovely young lady a few weeks ago? It was similar to soup can, but that would be absurd

Probably Soupcon with a funny c that has a tail on the bottom. Means like "suspicion" or "touch".

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (KZzsI)

133 We give Ukraine $50 bn, they put in a competing offer and buy Twitter. Put Hunter in charge.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (R8uWY)

134 81 Yeah, no you're not. Fuck off. There's no way that shit is remotely legal. Your opinion of "Russia BAD" is not sufficient to seize people's property.
Posted by: deadrody

Why? It is perfectly legal for the state to take your assets because they think you got it from drug dealing.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 28, 2022 12:13 PM (R8uWY)
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Except that isn't perfectly legal either, regardless of whether the people doing the seizing say it is, or if the corrupt DOJ and courts agree. The pesky constitution still says you cannot deprive someone of their property without due process.

Posted by: deadrody at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (/jrmI)

135 That would be a bad outcome for our ruling class. They want eternal war and extremely slow defeat with massive losses of allied territory. Hard to get that with nukes. They may fuck up and get that outcome, but they'll try to avoid it through the use of proxies.

The ruling class smart set have a new idea, that nuclear war is actually winnable and MAD no longer applies. I've seen a couple of them say that on the Twats in the last few days.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (ZGrMX)

136 119 114 Where is our military?
Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (sI15f)

currently crossing the Rio Grande into TX

Posted by: REDACTED at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (us2H3)

137 Even I can see that Joe Biden is not altogether there
Posted by: Jose Feliciano at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (flINI)

***

Heh

Posted by: George Shearing at April 28, 2022 12:20 PM (flINI)

138 Say, did anyone ever explain how the President of Ukraine could afford multiple yachts?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 28, 2022 12:09 PM (M0433)

Comedy is big business in Ukraine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at April 28, 2022 12:20 PM (uvymP)

139 >> He wants lawmakers to make it a criminal offense for a person to "knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government,"

How much of that 3.5 Million from the Moscow Mayor's Wife did Joe Biden get?

Let's seize his homes and bank accounts. Just to be safe.

Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2022 12:20 PM (ZVGkc)

140
Discomfiting thought: Trump was not the new Reagan, he was the new Gorbachev.
Posted by: Brother Tim

More like Yeltsin.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 12:20 PM (63Dwl)

141 Another way to go after Trump? His moscow tower deal?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (R8uWY)

I absolutely believe it. DeSantis as well. They'll make sure that money from a "Russian source" is tied to a bank account linked to DeSantis.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 28, 2022 12:20 PM (wmDcS)

142

Does Jill have relations with this dude or does she have a team of hung black dudes that give it to her as much as she wants.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 28, 2022 12:20 PM (XnbJC)

143 119 114 Where is our military?
Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (sI15f)

Getting ready to arrest and/or massacre us right here.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (s2VJv)

America is fallen.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 12:20 PM (sI15f)

144 126 When does Kirk, Spock, and Bones beam in?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (VwHCD)

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I'm pretty sure we're gonna need the Mirror Universe evil Kirk, Spock, and Bones.

Posted by: ShainS at April 28, 2022 12:20 PM (FMQfH)

145 You cannot possibly see this clip and assert that he is firing on anywhere near all cylinders. Unless, of course, you are a pretty damn dull knife yourself. Or a Democrat.

Posted by: RM at April 28, 2022 12:20 PM (U3LtS)

146 124 This sudden big load of money being airlifted to Ukraine strongly suggests to me that Ukraine is losing badly and this is the last corrupt payoff of slush-fund money being made before the end comes
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (iFTx/)

Well Russia has one last area they're working on seizing and then the war pretty much becomes them sitting on their war aims and Ukraine trying to push them off it(which is much harder than defending for Ukraine). Depending on relative tolerance for losses, not technically unwinnable for Ukraine, just incredibly costly in lives.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:20 PM (b2nrj)

147 I'm not sure why Russia is supposed to be my adversary. China, I get, but not Russia. And we don't seem the least bit interested in draining China's resources.

Posted by: BurtTC

It makes much more sense if you see it as China using their proxies in the USGov to destroy a state that's a rival and sitting on valuable resources. It's a let's-you-and-him-fight deal.

Posted by: Brother Tim, #teamheadsonpikes at April 28, 2022 12:21 PM (OUMaO)

148 Meanwhile, the Fed promises higher interest rates, Biden opens the border's floodgates, student loan "forgiveness" is on the table, and it's Pandemic Forever. And we just have to have a proxy war in Ukraine.

Posted by: mrp at April 28, 2022 12:21 PM (6eRlp)

149 To the best of my knowledge it is illegal and unconstitutional to hold people accountable for acts taken before a law was passed. So you can't bust Hunter or Trump for breaking a law that didn't exist when they did anything.

But... constitution, and all that, so who knows what they'll try next.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 12:21 PM (KZzsI)

150 >>>French IIRC, related to suspicion.

soupcon with that little curly-cue thing under the c. it's called a cedilla. Soupcon means suspicion but in Englih we now use it to mean "hint," as in " soupcon of cinnamon in the stew."

The cedilla, by the way, turns the c soft. It would normally be hard (like a K) in front of an o.

Posted by: ace at April 28, 2022 12:21 PM (0G13K)

151 114 Where is our military?
Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (sI15f)

Being purged of patriots

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 28, 2022 12:21 PM (XvPQV)

152 >>Wow what a compromise. Boy those Senate Republican are really Fighting For Us, huh?

As has been noted, the GOP has controlled the House, ie, the power of the purse for 20 of the last 28 years.

The GOP is a garbage party composed of corrupt, double dealing, shitheads and smarmy, moralizing liars.

They are not the answer to any of the problems we face and are too a large extent, responsible for us being at the edge of the abyss.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 28, 2022 12:21 PM (lBjrg)

153 Getting ready to arrest and/or massacre us right here.

Half of them will collapse and weep if you yell "Sir" into a bullhorn at them.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 28, 2022 12:21 PM (ZGrMX)

154 The Ukraine is weak.

Posted by: garrett at April 28, 2022 12:21 PM (ZVGkc)

155 Holy crud, that clip of Biden.

It's one thing to have trouble with a word, heck, we've all done it when speaking extemporaneously, but, a speech that, most likely, was rehearsed?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 12:21 PM (5pTK/)

156 144 126 When does Kirk, Spock, and Bones beam in?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 28, 2022 12:18 PM (VwHCD)

when Brandon prohibits Rooskie porn

Posted by: REDACTED at April 28, 2022 12:22 PM (us2H3)

157 142

Does Jill have relations with this dude or does she have a team of hung black dudes that give it to her as much as she wants.
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 28, 2022 12:20 PM (XnbJC)

Hillary's dude with the epi-pen . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 28, 2022 12:22 PM (s2VJv)

158 Biden is going to have to collapse on camera before they do anything about this decrepit senile fraudster.
By the way, where's Harris? She has Covid and they are feeding her medication for people that have serious comorbidities. If she is asymptomatic, why?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 28, 2022 12:22 PM (Y+l9t)

159
The ruling class smart set have a new idea, that nuclear war is actually winnable and MAD no longer applies. I've seen a couple of them say that on the Twats in the last few days.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (ZGrMX)

Shit, man... the NYT ran an article last month about how a "limited" nuclear exchange really isn't such a big deal like all you little worrywort Russia-lovers say it is. Like "don't be such a wet blanket. It's just a couple of little old nukes. Good grief."

Ya gotta love the Party loyalty of these fuckin' hacks, though. DC and NY would be prime targets for nuclear strikes, they would all likely die in such an exchange, but the Party says "'agitate for this," and they do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2022 12:22 PM (UGDPW)

160 150 soupcon with that little curly-cue thing under the c. it's called a cedilla. Soupcon means suspicion but in Englih we now use it to mean "hint," as in " soupcon of cinnamon in the stew."

The cedilla, by the way, turns the c soft. It would normally be hard (like a K) in front of an o.

Posted by: ace at April 28, 2022 12:21 PM (0G13K)

=======

Ooo la la.

I watched a whole bunch of French movies over the last couple of weeks, and I'm convinced that it would take me no more than a month living in France to go from "bad high school education half-forgotten" to "competently conversational".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:22 PM (LvTSG)

161 Some Borders Matter!

Posted by: ShainS at April 28, 2022 12:22 PM (FMQfH)

162 129 Where is our military?
Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (sI15f)
++++
Mostly at home, but I would be shocked if we don't have boots on the ground in Ukraine.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (DU+/6)

"Military advisors"

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:23 PM (b2nrj)

163 Mostly at home, but I would be shocked if we don't have boots on the ground in Ukraine.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM

Scuttlebutt is the 82nd has been forward-deployed to Poland.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 28, 2022 12:23 PM (a3Q+t)

164
I just watched that clip.

HO

LEE

FOOK

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 28, 2022 12:23 PM (s2VJv)

165 64 Remember, $5B for a wall to protect the United States was too much money.
____________

Of course it was.

Five cents is too much to spend on something they didn't want in the first place.

And the last thing these assholes want is a sovereign U.S. with secure borders.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at April 28, 2022 12:23 PM (k4dH2)

166 The ruling class smart set have a new idea, that nuclear war is actually winnable and MAD no longer applies. I've seen a couple of them say that on the Twats in the last few days.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (ZGrMX)
++++
Yeah. They're evil and insane and they might even believe that, but they don't want that. Even if they think it's winnable, they don't *want* to win a war.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:23 PM (DU+/6)

167 @141

>>I absolutely believe it. DeSantis as well. They'll make sure that money from a "Russian source" is tied to a bank account linked to DeSantis.

Or alternatively...

Hillary Clintons lies forced the FBI/DOJ to try to entrap George Popodopolis for money laundering.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 28, 2022 12:24 PM (lBjrg)

168 162 129 Where is our military?
Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (sI15f)
++++
Mostly at home, but I would be shocked if we don't have boots on the ground in Ukraine.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (DU+/6)

"Military advisors"
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:23 PM (b2nrj)

Good morning, KIEV-IETNAMMMMM!!!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 28, 2022 12:24 PM (s2VJv)

169 Except that isn't perfectly legal either, regardless of whether the people doing the seizing say it is, or if the corrupt DOJ and courts agree. The pesky constitution still says you cannot deprive someone of their property without due process.
Posted by: deadrody at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (/jrmI)
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The problem, though, is that it takes time and money to recover those assets. The process is geared toward frustrating people so they give up.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 12:24 PM (5pTK/)

170 I listened to him. Dear Lord, he's a mush-brained idiot.

I'm sure the American people who are suffering with high gas and food prices appreciate Joey shoveling another 33 billion to the corrupt Ukraine government.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:24 PM (ptqGC)

171 Texas should rebrand themselves as 'Ukraine"

Posted by: REDACTED at April 28, 2022 12:24 PM (us2H3)

172 I just watched that clip.

HO

LEE

FOOK

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 28, 2022 12:23 PM (s2VJv)

I know... And he represents the US ? The rest of the World is laughing

Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2022 12:24 PM (dvgPQ)

173 163 Mostly at home, but I would be shocked if we don't have boots on the ground in Ukraine.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM

Scuttlebutt is the 82nd has been forward-deployed to Poland.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 28, 2022 12:23 PM (a3Q+t)

Frag Milley and Austin.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 28, 2022 12:25 PM (s2VJv)

174 Brain Seizure announces wealth seizures

Posted by: Jonah Goldbrick Voted For This at April 28, 2022 12:25 PM (Kh1f2)

175 The pesky constitution still says you cannot deprive someone of their property without due process.

"Ha ha ha ha ha haha!!!!"
--Supreme Court after ruling for asset seizure laws

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 12:25 PM (KZzsI)

176 GA's Third ID is in Poland on the Ukrainian border.

Remember Joey telling them they'd soon see blah blah blah "when you're there"?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:25 PM (ptqGC)

177 By the way, where's Harris? She has Covid and they are feeding her medication for people that have serious comorbidities. If she is asymptomatic, why?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 28, 2022 12:22 PM (Y+l9t)

***

They are trying to kill her and she is too stupid to understand

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 28, 2022 12:25 PM (flINI)

178 I saw an article on Tuesday about Zelensky going around giving iPads to orphans. Nice use of our money.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 28, 2022 12:26 PM (DRSnL)

179 166 The ruling class smart set have a new idea, that nuclear war is actually winnable and MAD no longer applies. I've seen a couple of them say that on the Twats in the last few days.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 28, 2022 12:19 PM (ZGrMX)
++++
Yeah. They're evil and insane and they might even believe that, but they don't want that. Even if they think it's winnable, they don't *want* to win a war.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:23 PM (DU+/6)

I heard Alexander Vindmann (??!!) on Bloomberg News last week saying that we can send all the arms to Kiev that we want to, and Russia will be too cowed to do anything about it (??!).

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 28, 2022 12:26 PM (TEjGR)

180
I saw an article on Tuesday about Zelensky going around giving iPads to orphans. Nice use of our money.
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 28, 2022 12:26 PM (DRSnL)

Shut up Russian.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2022 12:26 PM (UGDPW)

181 >>>I watched a whole bunch of French movies over the last couple of weeks, and I'm convinced that it would take me no more than a month living in France to go from "bad high school education half-forgotten" to "competently conversational".

well that is the whole premise of Berlitz. They claim that a one or two week course of complete immersion in one of their language hotels, with strictly enforced language policing, will have you at least speaking with a limited vocabulary.

It will take years to accumulate a decent vocabulary but the ability to just think on the fly in french *structures* is really the whole key to conversation. (Or in any foreign language, of course.)

Posted by: ace at April 28, 2022 12:26 PM (0G13K)

182 The GOP is a garbage party composed of corrupt, double dealing, shitheads and smarmy, moralizing liars.

They are not the answer to any of the problems we face and are too a large extent, responsible for us being at the edge of the abyss.

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Amen to all of this. They've even stopped bothering with being seen as moralizing liars. They don't do much of anything anymore. They can't even be bothered with giving vague lip service to obvious winning positions. They are sh*t. Pure sh*t.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (sVtYq)

183 >> I saw an article on Tuesday about Zelensky going around giving iPads to orphans. Nice use of our money.

Never too early to get those little Ukrainian Girls Camming.

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (ZVGkc)

184 This sudden big load of money being airlifted to Ukraine strongly suggests to me that Ukraine is losing badly and this is the last corrupt payoff of slush-fund money being made before the end comes
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Exactly.
1) What happened to the billions we already spent?
2) There are not warehouses full of arms ready to be shipped; at best, a year to complete the procurement.

This is nothing but a bribe to keep Ukraine fighting a losing battle. As others have pointed out, who benefits from a prolonged war? We could send them a trillion and they're still going to lose unless we send troops.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (X8TUh)

185 "Well Russia has one last area they're working on seizing and then the war pretty much becomes them sitting on their war aims and Ukraine trying to push them off it
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy"

Wait! I thought Russia was getting their butts kicked. Is that not true? To be fair, I stopped listening to almost all the war news weeks ago because it all seemed like lies.

Posted by: Ripley at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (MxEKc)

186 That headline is misinformation. Biden's brain stopped working well before the middle of that speech.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (ppBhU)

187
Frag Milley and Austin.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 28, 2022 12:25 PM (s2VJv)

No kidding. I can't stand those Deep State tools.

Another thing that drives me crazy about Joey, is how he goes on and on about the bravery of the Ukrainian fighters. I've never heard him speak about our own troops that way.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (ptqGC)

188 158 Biden is going to have to collapse on camera before they do anything about this decrepit senile fraudster.
By the way, where's Harris? She has Covid and they are feeding her medication for people that have serious comorbidities. If she is asymptomatic, why?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 28, 2022 12:22 PM (Y+l9t)

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"Let me wifesplain somethin' to you ..." -- Dr. Jill Edith Wilson Biden

Posted by: ShainS at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (FMQfH)

189 you'll know when DC gets really deperate on Ukraine

they will bring Nayirah out of retirement

Posted by: REDACTED at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (us2H3)

190 soupcon with that little curly-cue thing under the c. it's called a cedilla. Soupcon means suspicion but in Englih we now use it to mean "hint," as in " soupcon of cinnamon in the stew."

The cedilla, by the way, turns the c soft. It would normally be hard (like a K) in front of an o.

Posted by: ace

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Thanks ace. That's a fantastic word because of the "suspicion" tie-in.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (Ib7Be)

191 That would be a bad outcome for our ruling class. They want eternal war and extremely slow defeat with massive losses of allied territory. Hard to get that with nukes. They may fuck up and get that outcome, but they'll try to avoid it through the use of proxies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix
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They don't have that time. Japan which has been effectively killing its own currency since the 90's is now desperately trying to shore up the yen. Last I checked, their public debt was well over 300 pct of GDP. We are next with serious cracks in the US as reserve currency--if the Euro and Petro dollar go bye bye, we will be seeing import export controls, currency limits, etc. similar to UK post WWII.

The European Union and China are in about the same shape and the massive increase in energy prices is already whacking at EU GDP and China is hit with covid lockdowns plus high energy with their real estate industry crumbling in slo motion like Japan did in the 1990's.

I think that the cash grabs right now in DC are desperate attempts by elected officials to get the plunder while the plunder still has some value. They have more or less written off voters at this stage.

Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (Iq9dF)

192 The gears in Biden's transmission are seriously locking up. If this dude can actually hit a bathroom and not piss on himself it would be a win for him.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (VwHCD)

193 I have to assume that both parties are neck-deep in corrupt Ukrainian deals.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 28, 2022 12:28 PM (m0zqP)

194
They are not the answer to any of the problems we face and are too a large extent, responsible for us being at the edge of the abyss.

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Democrats could never have achieved any of this madness without their complicity. They are every bit as responsible for our problems.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2022 12:28 PM (UGDPW)

195 I keep hearing the story change from hour to hour of how the Ukraine is kicking Russia's ass, then the Russians massacre more trans-black Ukrainians. Then the ghost of Kiev comes to the rescue. Then the Russians are only a day from taking another town where the Ukrainian LBGQT+ brigagade is stationed. Then Russia's most important naval vessel is sunk by a country without a navy...then....

Sounds like a pack of lies, cuz it is.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 28, 2022 12:28 PM (VVddH)

196 Hey, remember how fun it was when the Left screamed and frothed 24/7/365 x 4 about how much of a fascist dictator Trump was with every breath he took? Yeah, about that...

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 28, 2022 12:28 PM (sVtYq)

197 I know... And he represents the US ? The rest of the World is laughing
Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2022 12:24 PM (dvgPQ)

Didn't Biden call Macron to congratulate him for his electoral victory, and Macron bleu him off with "Sorry, I'm too busy drinking champagne at the Eiffel Tower."?

Posted by: mrp at April 28, 2022 12:28 PM (6eRlp)

198 174 Brain Seizure announces wealth seizures
Posted by: Jonah Goldbrick Voted For This at April 28, 2022 12:25 PM (Kh1f2)

A thread winning contender.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 28, 2022 12:28 PM (s2VJv)

199 This smells like Kamala Harris. That is, four day old liverwurst that sat in the sun and Willie Browns taint.

Remember when she was AG in California, Harris was seizing and selling peoples property without due process. She seized a pro life advocates property without due process. She also said she would seize drug company patents without due process. She was also a big proponent of "civil asset forfeiture".

Posted by: Marcus T at April 28, 2022 12:28 PM (BxH25)

200 158 Biden is going to have to collapse on camera before they do anything about this decrepit senile fraudster.
By the way, where's Harris? She has Covid and they are feeding her medication for people that have serious comorbidities. If she is asymptomatic, why?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 28, 2022 12:22 PM (Y+l9t)
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*Putting on tinfoil hat*

Maybe they are getting rid of her *first* before they take down Biden completely. Getting her out of the way solves a lot of problems in case he falls before she does.

*taking off tinfoil hat*

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 28, 2022 12:28 PM (YIVH2)

201 Biden was also asking Congress on Thursday for new powers to seize and repurpose the assets of Russian oligarchs.

Why not? Somalians do that to ships that pass by all the time. The junta now wants to become the world's greatest pirate - confiscating whatever the hell they want, anywhere they want from anyone they want.

Whatever the former United States is now? Its the face of unchecked evil and represents a clear and present danger to the people of the world.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 28, 2022 12:28 PM (AHeqJ)

202 >>I have to assume that both parties are neck-deep in corrupt Ukrainian deals.

Wrong!

I was Balls Deep.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at April 28, 2022 12:29 PM (ZVGkc)

203 They are trying to kill her and she is too stupid to understand
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 28, 2022 12:25 PM (flINI)
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Not a chance. Kamala dying would be a nightmare scenario. With the VP chair empty, that puts Pelosi - who is a demented elderly alcoholic from the wrong faction - next in line, with Biden still frail and and incompetent to the point that they have no idea when he'll shuffle off. On top of that, they're not going to maintain the speaker's gavel after the election.

A VP vacancy right now is probably the *last* thing they want, despite how awful Kamala is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:29 PM (DU+/6)

204 Before getting to that, Biden also demands another $33 billion for a foreign country, and Pelosi wants to attach $22.5 billion in further foreign aid to that.

We're just pissing out billions like we've been drinking them by the quart all night, huh? ace--

How much was that border wall that democrats wailed about wasting money on?
Billions for the borders of others countries, 0.00 for ours. Tells you all you need to know about those in DC

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 28, 2022 12:29 PM (MFphb)

205 178 I saw an article on Tuesday about Zelensky going around giving iPads to orphans. Nice use of our money.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 28, 2022 12:26 PM (DRSnL)

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The recipients who got Obama phones should start protesting outside the White House for something similar.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 28, 2022 12:29 PM (TNyrE)

206 The pesky constitution still says you cannot deprive someone of their property without due process.

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The same one that says that even telling lies and/or saying things that are true at bad times for politicians are still free speech?

We're past that part, friend. Sorry.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 28, 2022 12:29 PM (IQOtg)

207 Or is it ill-begotten GAINZZZ!

Posted by: banana Dream at April 28, 2022 12:29 PM (lMrg3)

208 "He wants lawmakers to make it a criminal offense for a person to "knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government,""

Replace "Russian government" with "Ukrainian government" and I could be persuaded.

Posted by: Carrion Luggage at April 28, 2022 12:30 PM (wKWYy)

209 He wants lawmakers to make it a criminal offense for a person to "knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian government," ...

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Do China, Ukraine, and Iran next.

Posted by: ShainS at April 28, 2022 12:30 PM (FMQfH)

210 If this dude can actually hit a bathroom and not piss on himself it would be a win for him.

Low aspirations maybe, but there are days where I count that as a win for myself. This thing ain't a precision instrument. But Biden? I'm picturing one of those urban fire-hydrant scenes with little Bidens splashing around in pop pop's yellow fountain.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 28, 2022 12:30 PM (ppBhU)

211
A suggestion

No holidays in Taiwan
Could be shooting there

Posted by: Yo! at April 28, 2022 12:30 PM (JQUO/)

212 I think that the cash grabs right now in DC are desperate attempts by elected officials to get the plunder while the plunder still has some value. They have more or less written off voters at this stage.
Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (Iq9dF)
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For some of them, this is certainly true. But there is no group that engages in "all is well and everything will always be fine" magical thinking like government leftists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:30 PM (DU+/6)

213 Remember, don't make the Manhattans angry. Give them moar money.

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 28, 2022 12:30 PM (3FiQa)

214 I don't see the problem here.

Just print more money. Duh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 28, 2022 12:30 PM (XG8it)

215 Russia has designs beyond Ukraine. They are already fomenting conflict in Moldova, and they won't stop there.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 28, 2022 12:31 PM (BxH25)

216 Just a reminder, The Gulag Archipelago wasn't fiction

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 28, 2022 12:31 PM (QxkTJ)

217 How much was that border wall that democrats wailed about wasting money on?
Billions for the borders of others countries, 0.00 for ours. Tells you all you need to know about those in DC

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My memory might be faulty, but I think it was a paltry $5 billion.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 28, 2022 12:31 PM (sVtYq)

218 If she is asymptomatic, why?

Posted by: sharon
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Pavloxid is more like Pfizer mectrin. The only difference is that you have to drop a lot of medications in order to take it due to interactions. The interactions are caused by the two drug cocktail designed after AIDS treatments. One drug is in the cocktail (taken from AIDS protocols) solely to prolong the effect of the antiviral. That drug that prolongs the effect of the antiviral is what causes Pavloxid to interact with so many other medications as it slows their clearance from the body risking higher concentrations of those drugs in the blood than designed.

Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:32 PM (Iq9dF)

219 This brunette in a dress can think of better uses for tens of billions of dollars:
https://bit.ly/3KrlRuz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:32 PM (DU+/6)

220 Seizing Joe's ill-begotten Rehoboth beach house and ill-begotten Corvette would be justified. Heck, even his wife is ill-begotten.

Never forget Neilia Biden.

Posted by: F. Unger at April 28, 2022 12:32 PM (g6+Ik)

221 174 Brain Seizure announces wealth seizures

Posted by: Jonah Goldbrick Voted For This at April 28, 2022 12:25 PM (Kh1f2)

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Brain and brain, what is brain?

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 28, 2022 12:32 PM (TNyrE)

222 Well I guess I'm not working today. The program I use for everything won't load.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 28, 2022 12:32 PM (DRSnL)

223 Billions for the borders of others countries, 0.00 for ours. Tells you all you need to know about those in DC
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You meant Manhattan, didn't you?

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 28, 2022 12:32 PM (3FiQa)

224 This Russia clown theatre is hilarious, they are building a box they can't get out of when China gets rolling.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 28, 2022 12:33 PM (QxkTJ)

225
"If you want to be one of the higher-ups, you need to be able to communicate. Not giggle and trip on your words like you just learned to talk."

--- The Girl, upon seeing this one minute ago (she is also the one who gave me my favorite descriptor of Brandon - "The Walking Husk")

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2022 12:33 PM (UGDPW)

226 203 A VP vacancy right now is probably the *last* thing they want, despite how awful Kamala is.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:29 PM (DU+/6)

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This wouldn't be a problem if they had put someone competent, intelligent, and compelling in the VP slot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:33 PM (LvTSG)

227 Brandon promised he and Kamelface would have a private lunch together every week, just as he and TFG did.

# of lunches this year? Two.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 28, 2022 12:33 PM (a3Q+t)

228 How 'bouts:

"knowingly or intentionally possess proceeds directly obtained from corrupt dealings with the Russian OR UKRANIAN government,"

Right right. Light almost, ALMOST traveled a whole plank length before the left says "nah bro".

Posted by: banana Dream at April 28, 2022 12:33 PM (lMrg3)

229 I think that the cash grabs right now in DC are desperate attempts by elected officials to get the plunder while the plunder still has some value. They have more or less written off voters at this stage.
Posted by: whig

When it hits bottom, 1929 - 1939 are going to look like a picnic.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 12:33 PM (SvtOj)

230 222 Well I guess I'm not working today. The program I use for everything won't load.
Posted by: Jordan61

Go home and take hubs out for brunch. Order an eggs Benedict and a mimosa.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (XG8it)

231 Why not? Somalians do that to ships that pass by all the time. The junta now wants to become the world's greatest pirate - confiscating whatever the hell they want, anywhere they want from anyone they want.

Whatever the former United States is now? Its the face of unchecked evil and represents a clear and present danger to the people of the world.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 28, 2022 12:28 PM (AHeqJ)

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This might help Michelle Obama run in 2024 as Black Beard.

Posted by: ShainS at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (FMQfH)

232 The gears in Biden's transmission are seriously locking up. If this dude can actually hit a bathroom and not piss on himself it would be a win for him.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (VwHCD)

I love it when I read a comment and know who posted it without even having to look at the nic.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (DRSnL)

233 Just print more money. Duh.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 28, 2022 12:30 PM (XG8it

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Great idea

Posted by: Robert Mugabe at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (flINI)

234 Any details on which Republicans are supporting this?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (Hszs6)

235 210 "This thing ain't a precision instrument"

- every female that's ever had to share a bathroom with a male

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (MCVM5)

236 NJ Nets hardest hit

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (gRF5m)

237 This wouldn't be a problem if they had put someone competent, intelligent, and compelling in the VP slot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:33 PM (LvTSG)
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HAHAHAHAHAH

:: wipes tear ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (DU+/6)

238 193 I have to assume that both parties are neck-deep in corrupt Ukrainian deals.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 28, 2022 12:28 PM (m0zqP)

Not an unfair assumption. Our Betters tend to be corrupt, venal shitbags.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (II3Gr)

239 This wouldn't be a problem if they had put someone competent, intelligent, and compelling in the VP slot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:33 PM (LvTSG)
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If they were capable of doing that, they wouldn't be the Democrat party we have come to know and loathe. They'd at least be worthy of some measure of respect. But that's a bridge too far for them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (YIVH2)

240 I know, dreams and stuff. But foreign money laundering is definitely on the table for the Hunter grand jury.
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at April 28, 2022 12:08 PM (a/dOO)

I"m gonna be that guy and say what every sentient being knows;
Nothing will happen to Hunter or Joe or his brother or... you get the picture. Nothing will happen. There is no justice, there is no law. There is only Power.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (MFphb)

241 *Brooklyn Nets

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (gRF5m)

242 soupcon with that little curly-cue thing under the c. it's called a cedilla. Soupcon means suspicion but in Englih we now use it to mean "hint," as in " soupcon of cinnamon in the stew."

The cedilla, by the way, turns the c soft. It would normally be hard (like a K) in front of an o.

Posted by: ace

Cedilla...
you're breaking my heart.....

Posted by: JT at April 28, 2022 12:35 PM (arJlL)

243 >>>203 A VP vacancy right now is probably the *last* thing they want, despite how awful Kamala is.

hard disagree, dude. Getting in a viable successor solves so many problems for them... IF one can be found.

I guess they think "Mayor Pete" is a real winner.

Posted by: ace at April 28, 2022 12:35 PM (0G13K)

244 and our intel agencies have already proven that they are more than willing to fake evidence of political enemies' conspiracy with the Russian government.

What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: 29Victor at April 28, 2022 12:35 PM (BJKQV)

245 You meant Manhattan, didn't you?

Posted by: Puddinghead at April 28, 2022 12:32 PM (3FiQa)

Is that an inside joke between you and your pudding dealer?

Because the power has rotated firmly in Kalorama's direction.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 28, 2022 12:35 PM (XIJ/X)

246 Go home and take hubs out for brunch. Order an eggs Benedict and a mimosa.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (XG8it)

I should. My boss is out today with a sick kid.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 28, 2022 12:35 PM (DRSnL)

247 Biden was also asking Congress on Thursday for new powers to seize and repurpose the assets of Russian oligarchs.

What is the basis for the federal government claiming to have jurisdiction over another nation's citizens?

Posted by: Methos at April 28, 2022 12:35 PM (kOpft)

248 This wouldn't be a problem if they had put someone competent, intelligent, and compelling in the VP slot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Fixed.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 12:35 PM (SvtOj)

249 $33 billion to Ukraine.

Let's compare that to what we provided to Afghanistan between 2003 and 2016. According to the GAO, we supplied $76 billion to the Afghan security forces:

https://tinyurl.com/3362x4w3

We're giving UKR half as many armaments as we did in Afghanistan in 14 years. If I'm visualizing all the arms that were left there in the Great Bagram Bugout, I can't imagine the Ukes even utilizing half of what we're sending them. Where does the rest of that funding go? I guess to ask the question is to answer it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 28, 2022 12:35 PM (TEjGR)

250 For some of them, this is certainly true. But there is no group that engages in "all is well and everything will always be fine" magical thinking like government leftists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix
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The government people that can be named and seen are the least of my worries--my worries are about the shadowy junta pulling their strings--people like Larry Fink for example. When you start treating the world's reality as separate from a virtual world of say finance, then you get some really bad outcomes because the virtual world is a heuristic that is supposed to represent reality. The growth of various kinds of derivatives have distorted market forces so much that real world consequences for companies are not taken into account.

Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (Iq9dF)

251 These aid packages all go to fill the pockets of the politicians and their friends.

Have you have ever wondered why we send billions each year to countries that never improve.

Have you have ever wondered why people in congress get 100 times richer than you and I would at the same pay level

The answer is the same to both questions....massive graft, and it is your money.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (VVddH)

252 Wait! I thought Russia was getting their butts kicked. Is that not true? To be fair, I stopped listening to almost all the war news weeks ago because it all seemed like lies.
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They could be. Maybe it ain't going well for them.
I note the neocons at insty have throttled up their "Russia is lo-osing!" linkage.
Which is totally not a coincidence at the same time we're demanded to extend our credit another $33billion to give away.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (X8TUh)

253 Zelensky gonna be rich.

Posted by: wth at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (v0R5T)

254 Putting aside all of the other possible uses of this "authority", all the hair on fire handwringing and freaking out here and in the Nato nations and censorship campaigns tells me that Russia is drilling into a lot of nerves and NOT bogging down, in any sense of the word. Tell me how a single thing our msm tells us is even remotely trustworthy on this after the years of gaslighting and making shit up. And I don't want to even begin to glean what is accurate about the situation from our vaunted CIA or Biden's babysitters. But, yeah, let's keep trying to annoy the big bear that's currently looking right at us.

Posted by: Theskepticalschnauzer aka THELonebadger at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (h+7ej)

255 239 If they were capable of doing that, they wouldn't be the Democrat party we have come to know and loathe. They'd at least be worthy of some measure of respect. But that's a bridge too far for them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (YIVH2)

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Their last two presidents are machine politicians from tightly controlled Democratic states with extreme protocols around hierarchy.

And then there's the Clintons.

This feels like a bad recipe for promoting competency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (LvTSG)

256 And for something different and fun:

@davidhogg111

I just took my yearbook photos for next years class of 2023 yearbook and I just got like secondary pride. I felt like my mom looking at it. I got a year left, but I'm proud of myself.

I made sure to get my yearbook photos so conservatives can't say I didn't go to Harvard like they did with my HS

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Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (ptqGC)

257 This tamping down our 1st Amendment rights is preemptive. They know what's coming and they want to prevent us from organizing and defending this nation and our rights to live freely in it.

We truly have been taken over by enemies...foreign and domestic.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (sI15f)

258 well that is the whole premise of Berlitz. They claim that a one or two week course of complete immersion in one of their language hotels, with strictly enforced language policing, will have you at least speaking with a limited vocabulary.

Defense Language Institute. IIRC, you're not permitted to speak anything but the subject language during the day, even if you're outside of class. So, taking a piss when your buddy walks into the latrine? Better say "hello" in Russian, not English.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (wmDcS)

259 hard disagree, dude. Getting in a viable successor solves so many problems for them... IF one can be found.

I guess they think "Mayor Pete" is a real winner.
Posted by: ace

The guy who couldn't solve the supply chain issue?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (SvtOj)

260 The rat bastard is turning into quite the dictator

Posted by: Skip's phone at April 28, 2022 12:37 PM (t31we)

261 The confused flip out is coming. They won’t be able to hide it.

And I couldn’t fucking care less. Fuck that whole family.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 28, 2022 12:37 PM (A4m9Z)

262 Zelensky gonna be rich.

Posted by: wth at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (v0R5T)

He already is.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:37 PM (ptqGC)

263 If VP gone, Pelosi does not advance. They get to appoint a new VP who has to be approved by the Senate which is 50/50 and no VP to break a tie so office could remain vacant. In this scenario, if a new speaker is elected after November, they could then impeach Biden and a the speaker advance. But if Kamala gone, the speaker does not become VP.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 28, 2022 12:37 PM (Y+l9t)

264 Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:32 PM (Iq9dF)

Whig, how are you feeling? I read that you were still suffering from the effects of the WuFlu, part deux.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 28, 2022 12:37 PM (TEjGR)

265 And by specifically excluding corrupt dealings with THE Ukraine from the extra double-plus bad penalties aren't you kind of saying, "nah we won't be looking into that". This whole thing stinks.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 28, 2022 12:37 PM (lMrg3)

266 BATTLE THE PANDEMIC
STAND BEHIND THE UKULALIENS

Posted by: wth at April 28, 2022 12:37 PM (v0R5T)

267
Even if you graduate from Harvard, you won't stop being a fag, Dave. Bet your lame-o mom isn't so happy about the no-grandkids thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2022 12:37 PM (UGDPW)

268 --- The Girl, upon seeing this one minute ago (she is also the one who gave me my favorite descriptor of Brandon - "The Walking Husk")

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2022 12:33 PM (UGDPW)

I call him the Incredible Husk.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 28, 2022 12:37 PM (VwHCD)

269 The government people that can be named and seen are the least of my worries--my worries are about the shadowy junta pulling their strings--people like Larry Fink for example. When you start treating the world's reality as separate from a virtual world of say finance, then you get some really bad outcomes because the virtual world is a heuristic that is supposed to represent reality. The growth of various kinds of derivatives have distorted market forces so much that real world consequences for companies are not taken into account.
Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (Iq9dF)
++++
Yup. And they continue to handwave it all away, and will do so until there's an accident and we get a whole heap of bad luck.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:37 PM (DU+/6)

270 Have any of you seen the Hell Beast speaking at Albright's funeral? Good Lord.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:37 PM (ptqGC)

271 Has the US declared war against Russia?

Posted by: mr tmz at April 28, 2022 12:38 PM (rJ48h)

272 Someone should remind these people we're not officially at war with Russia.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

That is double-plus ungood remark, comrade.

Chairman Biden and his friends will be made aware of your questioning of the past, present and future. Do not be aligned with capitalist roader scum such as Donaldivich Trumpski.

Daspadanya!

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...now with more socialism at April 28, 2022 12:38 PM (vcOmj)

273 Biden's brain stops working in middle of speech.
.......

OK, who pulled the fucking plug?

Posted by: wth at April 28, 2022 12:38 PM (v0R5T)

274 So we can seize the Clinton's assets now?

Posted by: Halfhand at April 28, 2022 12:38 PM (wFpVU)

275 When it hits bottom, 1929 - 1939 are going to look like a picnic.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 12:33 PM (SvtOj)

You know what else might look like a picnic in comparison?

Posted by: Committee of Public Safety at April 28, 2022 12:38 PM (MFphb)

276 This tamping down our 1st Amendment rights is preemptive. They know what's coming and they want to prevent us from organizing and defending this nation and our rights to live freely in it.

We truly have been taken over by enemies...foreign and domestic.
Posted by: Miss Issippi

Then the domestic can die, same as the foreign.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 12:38 PM (SvtOj)

277 I think that the cash grabs right now in DC are desperate attempts by elected officials to get the plunder while the plunder still has some value. They have more or less written off voters at this stage.
Posted by: whig

When it hits bottom, 1929 - 1939 are going to look like a picnic.

--

Here's hoping there are a few window jumpers in that crowd when The Great Depression 2.0 hits.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 28, 2022 12:38 PM (sVtYq)

278 NJ Nets hardest hit

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at April 28, 2022 12:34 PM (gRF5m)

Brooklyn Nets

Posted by: BignJames at April 28, 2022 12:38 PM (AwYPR)

279 hard disagree, dude. Getting in a viable successor solves so many problems for them... IF one can be found.

I guess they think "Mayor Pete" is a real winner.
Posted by: ace at April 28, 2022 12:35 PM (0G13K)

There's almost no way to get one through the approval process prior to the elections.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 28, 2022 12:38 PM (wmDcS)

280 And to think that the libs of 1980-88 screeched that Reagan was too old, that Alzheimer's was creeping up on him, that he was simply doing whatever Nancy said to do . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 28, 2022 12:38 PM (txdEq)

281 I hadn't heard Droolcup's "speech" before now. I thought I was beyond being surprised or shocked by his dysfunction, but I was wrong.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 28, 2022 12:39 PM (sWM8x)

282 185 "Well Russia has one last area they're working on seizing and then the war pretty much becomes them sitting on their war aims and Ukraine trying to push them off it
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy"

Wait! I thought Russia was getting their butts kicked. Is that not true? To be fair, I stopped listening to almost all the war news weeks ago because it all seemed like lies.
Posted by: Ripley at April 28, 2022 12:27 PM (MxEKc)

If losing is defined as "not on the verge of conquering all of Europe", then yes, Russia is losing. They do appear to have largely occupied their territorial aims and it would seem their hope is that everyone will just forget about things over time similar to their 2014 seizure of Crimea. They appear to desire a formal peace deal, but not feel terribly pressured to have one (no indications of willingness to make real concessions).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:39 PM (b2nrj)

283 hard disagree, dude. Getting in a viable successor solves so many problems for them... IF one can be found.

I guess they think "Mayor Pete" is a real winner.
Posted by: ace at April 28, 2022 12:35 PM (0G13K)
++++
Oy. Possible. But man, that would be a tough row to hoe right now. It needs confirmation and being an election year and having capitulated on Jumanji, the Senate Republicans might pretend to have a backbone.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:39 PM (DU+/6)

284 258 Defense Language Institute. IIRC, you're not permitted to speak anything but the subject language during the day, even if you're outside of class. So, taking a piss when your buddy walks into the latrine? Better say "hello" in Russian, not English.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (wmDcS)

=======

That's just what a Russian puppet would say...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:39 PM (LvTSG)

285 Biden's eyes look dead.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:39 PM (ptqGC)

286 Zelensky gonna be rich.

Posted by: wth at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (v0R5T)

He already is.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:37 PM (ptqGC)
.........

Richer, then. Maybe he could buy Twitter from Elon.

Posted by: wth at April 28, 2022 12:39 PM (v0R5T)

287 They want waw.

Posted by: Eromero at April 28, 2022 12:40 PM (gktX6)

288 The only way a P or VP is getting replaced outside the electoral process is if Scalia's pillow performs an encore.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 28, 2022 12:40 PM (ppBhU)

289 >>> @davidhogg111
I made sure to get my yearbook photos so conservatives can't say I didn't go to Harvard like they did with my HSPosted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (ptqGC)

When did colleges start having yearbooks? Are they now just High School! Part Deux?

Posted by: banana Dream at April 28, 2022 12:40 PM (lMrg3)

290 279 hard disagree, dude. Getting in a viable successor solves so many problems for them... IF one can be found.

I guess they think "Mayor Pete" is a real winner.
Posted by: ace at April 28, 2022 12:35 PM (0G13K)

There's almost no way to get one through the approval process prior to the elections.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 28, 2022 12:38 PM (wmDcS)

=========

There was no way Mitch was going to allow an unqualified, pedophile approving, radical to get onto SCOTUS in an election year, either.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

291 Have any of you seen the Hell Beast speaking at Albright's funeral? Good Lord.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022

***
You'll have to be more specific. There are so many.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 28, 2022 12:40 PM (txdEq)

292 Ill-begotten? Did Joe get religion?
Posted by: @ at April 28, 2022 12:03 PM (ZsR3z)

so, who begat who?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at April 28, 2022 12:40 PM (WhsXQ)

293 Ben Franklin called it, "A Republic, if you can keep it"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 28, 2022 12:40 PM (gyc1W)

294

Musks's Twitter Buyout Deal May Unravel

https://tinyurl.com/9em78jt7

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 12:40 PM (63Dwl)

295 >I made sure to get my yearbook photos so conservatives can't say I didn't go to Harvard like they did with my HS
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (ptqGC)

Do you think he has the self-awareness that the only reason he's in Hahhvahhrd is because of his service to the Narrative? Because he's dumb as a brick and certainly would never get in on merit.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 28, 2022 12:41 PM (WzZ44)

296 Any details on which Republicans are supporting this?
Posted by: Dr. Claw

All good comrades will support Chairman Biden in his quest for peace and justice in the world.
Chairman Biden only wants what is best for People's American Republic.
Forward!!!

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...now with more socialism at April 28, 2022 12:41 PM (vcOmj)

297 Is it just me? Lately when I expand any aoshq "Continue reading...", for a week or two or sometimes opens a new url to the archives instead of simply "unhiding" the below the fold area, and when I click back I get taken first to an obvious spam garbage junk website. I downloaded an anti-virus app and it didn't find anything. Is anyone else experiencing this, like it might not be on my end?

Posted by: Who is Brandon Galt? at April 28, 2022 12:41 PM (vPiXK)

298 They want waw.
Posted by: Eromero at April 28, 2022 12:40 PM (gktX6)

Whad is it good fow,
absowutewy nutin

Posted by: banana Dream at April 28, 2022 12:41 PM (lMrg3)

299 Lol. You think only Democrats will Vote for whatever stooge they put up for VP?

Posted by: Mitt Romney at April 28, 2022 12:41 PM (BxH25)

300 I thought I was beyond being surprised or shocked by his dysfunction, but I was wrong.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 28, 2022 12:39 PM (sWM8x)

He's probably having a more difficult time even reading, so he falls back on simple and trite phrases that he remembers.

If he weren't such a fucking scumbag and an existential threat to the country I love, I would feel sort of sorry for him. But I just want him to accelerate into total decrepitude.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 28, 2022 12:41 PM (XIJ/X)

301 Zelensky gonna be rich.
Posted by: wth

He's already rich.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at April 28, 2022 12:42 PM (vcOmj)

302
When did colleges start having yearbooks? Are they now just High School! Part Deux?
Posted by: banana Dream at April 28, 2022

***
As far as I know, college yearbooks have been A Thing for decades.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 28, 2022 12:42 PM (txdEq)

303 There's almost no way to get one through the approval process prior to the elections.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 28, 2022 12:38 PM (wmDcS)
---
I'm sure the usual gang of turncoats in the GOPe will give them cover to put someone into office, if only "for the good of the nation."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 28, 2022 12:42 PM (YIVH2)

304 Anyone want to explain how the US taxpayer is going to get that $33 billion plus interest back?
What's our return on this investment?

Oh, right--whirled peas.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 28, 2022 12:42 PM (X8TUh)

305 Every candidate is a winner in a nation where the Biden/Harris ticket was put in office. There is no bottom level where a candidate is so bad they cannot be "elected". Just ask Macron.

He's so popular he was pelted with tomatos when he went out in public last time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 12:42 PM (KZzsI)

306 When it hits bottom, 1929 - 1939 are going to look like a picnic.

Posted by: rickb223
---------------------
In some ways, we had a lot more resilience in the Great Depression. Many people knew how to raise food for example or hunt. People had the raw skills to fix broken down mechanical items and those items themselves were repairable. Supply chains were domestic and often very local requiring little transport. And so on. Dunno what will happen in this case--one little bit of hope is that prior to the Fed Govt and the Fed screwing up and prolonging the Depression, most panics aka depressions lasted only one or two years before pulling out of them. Essentially both FedGov and the Fed have more or less killed their own tools by overuse--the risk is that FedGov tries to make the suffering equal or equitable at the point of a gun. Then we are off to Zimbabwe or Venezuela territory.

Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:42 PM (Iq9dF)

307
Ill-begotten? Did Joe get religion?
Posted by: @

so, who begat who?
Posted by: SturmToddler

Joe begat Hunter. Hunter lost his gat.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 12:42 PM (63Dwl)

308 If he weren't such a fucking scumbag and an existential threat to the country I love, I would feel sort of sorry for him. But I just want him to accelerate into total decrepitude.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 28, 2022 12:41 PM (XIJ/X)

------

I want him to physically seize up on camera. Just get it over with already. And Jill is pure evil for pushing the husk to run.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:42 PM (ptqGC)

309 Scalia's Pillow is the prelude for the Broadway musical "Hellzapoppin!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 28, 2022 12:43 PM (gyc1W)

310 I guess they think "Mayor Pete" is a real winner.
Posted by: ace

The guy who couldn't solve the supply chain issue?
Posted by: rickb223

He knows things. Things you and I could scarcely imagine.
Like .....buggery.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at April 28, 2022 12:43 PM (vcOmj)

311 As far as I know, college yearbooks have been A Thing for decades.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 28, 2022 12:42 PM (txdEq)
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Very much so. My own institution (150+ years old) has yearbooks going back at least a century or more.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 28, 2022 12:43 PM (YIVH2)

312 Biden's eyes look dead.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:39 PM (ptqGC)

When his heart stops it will just be a formality.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 28, 2022 12:43 PM (VwHCD)

313 Of all the Ivy League asaholes that fester in CONgress, this is the best and brightest they could come up with. Cockgobbler and the Incredible Husk. Complete fucking garbage humans.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 28, 2022 12:43 PM (A4m9Z)

314 We shall go on to the end, we shall accommodate in France, we shall accommodate on the seas and oceans, we shall accommodate with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall accommodate our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall accommodate on the beaches, we shall accommodate on the landing grounds, we shall accommodate in the fields and in the streets, we shall accommodate in the hills; we shall take from those guys, you know, the thing. C'mon, man!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 28, 2022 12:43 PM (II3Gr)

315 You would think that at some point a virus named Covid2019 would be accepted as having run it's course.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 28, 2022 12:43 PM (yQpMk)

316 Defense Language Institute. IIRC, you're not permitted to speak anything but the subject language during the day, even if you're outside of class. So, taking a piss when your buddy walks into the latrine? Better say "hello" in Russian, not English.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (wmDcS)

Much easier to say "hello" in Russian than to type it. That takes forever.

Posted by: mrp at April 28, 2022 12:43 PM (6eRlp)

317 WHAT THE FUCK WITH ALL THESE NEW POP UPS AND REDIRECTS ON THIS SITE MAKE IT STOP

Posted by: Brandon at April 28, 2022 12:43 PM (aUYRN)

318 Think like a Democrat for a moment and take 50 points off your IQ. Mayor Butt Bandit is their guy.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 28, 2022 12:44 PM (BxH25)

319 If Zelensky is so rich, he should buy himself a cool uniform with lots of medals and a big hat.

Posted by: wth at April 28, 2022 12:44 PM (v0R5T)

320 Musks's Twitter Buyout Deal May Unravel

https://tinyurl.com/9em78jt7
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 12:40 PM (63Dwl)
++++
It ain't over 'til it's over. It never is. But this article is silly. It boils down to "sometimes Musk changes his mind" and "his free speech positions could draw government ire from the EU and industrial interference from other Big Tech companies, and so he might not get what he wants and walk away."

All of that is true, but PJ wanted a grabby headline.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:44 PM (DU+/6)

321 OT/ But a "Judge" has ruled that Hillary's e-mails can not be used as evidence in the Durham investigation... Obama judge

Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2022 12:44 PM (dvgPQ)

322 Much easier to say "hello" in Russian than to type it. That takes forever.

Most Russians just say "privyet" because its more informal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 12:45 PM (KZzsI)

323 If he weren't such a fucking scumbag and an existential threat to the country I love, I would feel sort of sorry for him. But I just want him to accelerate into total decrepitude.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 28, 2022 12:41 PM (XIJ/X)

This...totally this.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 28, 2022 12:45 PM (VwHCD)

324 At the cost of 80B the US is out of Afghanistan now they've stirred up different war that they want to use to fund their friends.

When is the US going to stop funding wars?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 28, 2022 12:45 PM (b7QJ9)

325 I just watched that clip.

HO
LEE
FOOK

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 28, 2022 12:23 PM

I know... And he represents the US ? The rest of the World is laughing
Posted by: It's me donna at April 28, 2022 12:24 PM

81,000,000 votes

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 28, 2022 12:45 PM (DUIap)

326 The galloping dementia is bad but, frankly, I'm more concerned with the galloping fascism.

Posted by: Its like they only have six months left to ruin everything at April 28, 2022 12:45 PM (e0Dvj)

327 They do appear to have largely occupied their territorial aims and it would seem their hope is that everyone will just forget about things over time similar to their 2014 seizure of Crimea. They appear to desire a formal peace deal, but not feel terribly pressured to have one (no indications of willingness to make real concessions).
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Not to forget South Ossetia, which is actually a northern part of Georgia. They "annexed" that, too.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at April 28, 2022 12:45 PM (vcOmj)

328 There was no way Mitch was going to allow an unqualified, pedophile approving, radical to get onto SCOTUS in an election year, either.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

Bullshit. Whatsherface was always going to get on. Her appointment didn't change the balance of power in the Court. The only question is whether the GOP would make it painful for the Dems.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 28, 2022 12:45 PM (wmDcS)

329 32 ill-gotten, okay
misbegotten, okay
illbegotten is new to me

He could have gone full idiot and said
illmisbegotten

Posted by: Ciampino at April 28, 2022 12:45 PM (qfLjt)

330 Newsome will run, after first coming out as transgender, and announcing a genetic test proves him California's first black governor.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (gyc1W)

331 >All of that is true, but PJ wanted a grabby headline.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:44 PM (DU+/6)

Moran is the worst at PJM, and that's saying something.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (WzZ44)

332 Biden's eyes look dead.

with the amount of drugs they keep him on to get through the day most of him is probably dead

Posted by: brak at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (j5Tg0)

333 As far as I know, college yearbooks have been A Thing for decades.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 28, 2022 12:42 PM (txdEq)
++++
At least at Harvard. My school didn't do them, but a lot do.

Remember, Facebook - back when it was The Facebook - was created as a virtual yearbook picture and chat platform for Harvard students when Zuckerberg was there.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (DU+/6)

334 When is the US going to stop funding wars?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 28, 2022 12:45 PM (b7QJ9)
------------

About the same time the US stops fomenting wars.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (5pTK/)

335 When is the US going to stop funding wars?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

What kind of 'Merican are you?

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (vcOmj)

336 Biden's eyes look dead.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022

***
Not like a doll's eyes. A doll would at least be cute.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (txdEq)

337 When is the US going to stop funding wars?
==
When our politicians stop getting paid off by the makers of war materials.

Which is to say, never.

Posted by: Its like they only have six months left to ruin everything at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (e0Dvj)

338 >>> As far as I know, college yearbooks have been A Thing for decades.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 28, 2022 12:42 PM (txdEq)

Really! I had no idea. I never heard of it but I graduated college in the 90s and I didn't even walk. For me it was all just an artificial boundary to being paid more, so my real personal "graduation" was my first paycheck from Boeing. I didn't really give a flyin fignewton about the rest.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (lMrg3)

339 Aw come on man! I don't like other people horning in on my 10%.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (iDcra)

340 And this does not include billions already sent. We are at war, I gather?

Posted by: runner at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (BP9lK)

341 Here's hoping there are a few window jumpers in that crowd when The Great Depression 2.0 hits.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 28, 2022 12:38 PM (sVtYq)

"Jumpers". Yeah, that's what we'll call them.

Posted by: Committee of Public Safety at April 28, 2022 12:47 PM (MFphb)

342 337 When is the US going to stop funding wars?
==
When our politicians stop getting paid off by the makers of war materials.

Which is to say, never.
Posted by: Its like they only have six months left to ruin everything at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (e0Dvj)

Eisenhower warned us.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 28, 2022 12:47 PM (II3Gr)

343 I think at some point Biden is going to freeze up so badly they will need to walk him away from the podium. Almost like grandpa who walks into the corner of the living room and starts to unzip his fly because he thinks he's in the bathroom. It's really getting pathetic.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 28, 2022 12:47 PM (BxH25)

344 328 There was no way Mitch was going to allow an unqualified, pedophile approving, radical to get onto SCOTUS in an election year, either.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

Bullshit. Whatsherface was always going to get on. Her appointment didn't change the balance of power in the Court. The only question is whether the GOP would make it painful for the Dems.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 28, 2022 12:45 PM (wmDcS)

=========

He didn't even make a show of it. "I won't vote for her, but anyone can vote for her if they want," is not the attitude of a leader out to extract blood from his named opponent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:47 PM (LvTSG)

345 In that clip of Biden, you could almost see him getting to a point where he says, "I don't want to do this fucking shit anymore."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at April 28, 2022 12:47 PM (KbCG3)

346 People are worried about food prices, gas prices, their IRA's losing value, car prices, food shortages...and the administration is worried about consolidating and holding on to power. So, business as usual.

Posted by: 29Victor at April 28, 2022 12:47 PM (BJKQV)

347 Why would you get a college yearbook when you probably only know about 2% of the people in it? It's like buying a used wedding photo book

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 28, 2022 12:47 PM (flINI)

348 32 ill-gotten, okay
misbegotten, okay
illbegotten is new to me

He could have gone full idiot and said
illmisbegotten
Posted by: Ciampino at April 28, 2022 12:45 PM (qfLjt)
.......

disbegotten?

Posted by: wth at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (v0R5T)

349 Defense Language Institute. IIRC, you're not permitted to speak anything but the subject language during the day, even if you're outside of class. So, taking a piss when your buddy walks into the latrine? Better say "hello" in Russian, not English.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 28, 2022 12:36 PM (wmDcS)

Much easier to say "hello" in Russian than to type it. That takes forever.
Posted by: mrp at April 28, 2022 12:43 PM

Zdrastvooytye!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (a3Q+t)

350 He wants lawmakers to make it a criminal offense

again for crimes he's currently committing.

Posted by: DaveA at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (FhXTo)

351 NATO is one hungry child , territorial ambitions, military ambitions. What is its purpose, really?

Posted by: runner at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (BP9lK)

352

The Chicago City Council narrowly approved Mayor Lori Lightfoot's $12 million plan to give out prepaid gas and transit cards to provide relief from high gas prices.

Under the new Chicago Moves program, the city will issue up to 50,000 prepaid $150 gas cards and 100,000 prepaid $50 transit cards.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (63Dwl)

353 And this does not include billions already sent. We are at war, I gather?
Posted by: runner at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (BP9lK)

Selling weapons to combatants doesn't make you one, witness WWII Lend-Lease. But giving them away free does, IMO.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (yQpMk)

354 Every time Joey the senile pedophile speaks about Russia, oil goes up $2.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (iDcra)

355 It ain't over 'til it's over. It never is. But this article is silly. It boils down to "sometimes Musk changes his mind" and "his free speech positions could draw government ire from the EU and industrial interference from other Big Tech companies, and so he might not get what he wants and walk away."

All of that is true, but PJ wanted a grabby headline.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:44 PM (DU+/6)
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Musk risks too much reputational damage if he just backs out now. Barring some unexpected catastrophe, the deal is going to go through.

Posted by: Revenant at April 28, 2022 12:49 PM (Gcdtg)

356 A military alliance to enforce political goals? Change regimes??

Posted by: runner at April 28, 2022 12:49 PM (BP9lK)

357 I don't think that this is all some plot by the Mil-Ind Complex to launder money. I think that they expected a brief war and then the US would step in and negotiate with the Russians. Zelensky's refusal to leave combined with Russian incompetence means that instead the Ukrainian gov didn't collapse, and the war is dragging on requiring NATO to suddenly back up its talk with actual support.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at April 28, 2022 12:49 PM (wmDcS)

358 "The European Commission has warned buyers of Russian gas they could breach sanctions if they converted gas payments into roubles, as officials struggled to clarify the EU’s stance on Moscow’s payments scheme.

Russian gas giant Gazprom cut supplies to Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday after they refused to pay for gas in roubles.

Speaking at a briefing, a senior EU official said that if EU buyers declare their payments for gas are completed once the payment has been made in euros and before it is converted into roubles, sanctions would have been respected."

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:49 PM (b2nrj)

359 Why would you get a college yearbook when you probably only know about 2% of the people in it? It's like buying a used wedding photo book
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

Considering the student body of UT Austin is 51,090 students.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 12:49 PM (SvtOj)

360 The Hell Beast speaking at Albright's funeral.

She's as horrible as ever.

https://tinyurl.com/3xwu7xmk

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:49 PM (ptqGC)

361 God, just grant me the spectacle of Biden having the liquid shits in a public event that can't be denied.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 28, 2022 12:49 PM (WzZ44)

362 and 100,000 prepaid $50 transit cards.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (63Dwl)

I thought they just jumped the turnstiles anyway.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 28, 2022 12:49 PM (yQpMk)

363 You know, if people were ever to say I didn't go to college, and I felt inclined to disabuse them of that notion, I would show them a transcript or my diploma, not a yearbook (I don't even recall having a yearbook).

Did he also sign up for one of those "Who's Who" email scams, just to prove he's someone important?

Posted by: No One of Consequence at April 28, 2022 12:49 PM (CAJOC)

364 I'm not sure if the EU is trying to tell its members they can pay in roubles if they pretend they aren't or what.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:49 PM (b2nrj)

365 The Chicago City Council narrowly approved Mayor Lori Lightfoot's $12 million plan to give out prepaid gas and transit cards to provide relief from high gas prices.

Under the new Chicago Moves program, the city will issue up to 50,000 prepaid $150 gas cards and 100,000 prepaid $50 transit cards.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (63Dwl)
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Also known as the "Gangs now get free travel" bill.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 12:50 PM (5pTK/)

366 And this does not include billions already sent. We are at war, I gather?
Posted by: runner at April 28, 2022 12:46 PM (BP9lK)
.......

The Incredible Disappearing Covid and Uke Funds.
Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.

Posted by: wth at April 28, 2022 12:50 PM (v0R5T)

367 Imagine how much meth and guns those will buy?

Posted by: Jen the original at April 28, 2022 12:50 PM (AAXhQ)

368 Considering the student body of UT Austin is 51,090 students.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 12:49 PM (SvtOj)

We need fewer college graduates, not more.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 28, 2022 12:50 PM (II3Gr)

369 >and the administration is worried about consolidating and holding on to power. So, business as usual.
Posted by: 29Victor at April 28, 2022 12:47 PM (BJKQV)

And the GOP isn't even pretending to care about our very real problems, even though it would be a slam-dunk winner for them.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 28, 2022 12:50 PM (WzZ44)

370 Have you all seen the teleprompter Biden has now?

Like, you know how it's always been those two sheets of angled glass on either side of the lectern? Notice how you have never see the left-right look typical politician speech? Just square ahead look for him.

Now it's a big screen with 4-inch font. Looks like one of those old rear-projection big screen TVs from the 80's.

A sentence is over 8 lines. That's what he's staring at trying to read in this clip. That's how bad it is.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 28, 2022 12:50 PM (X8TUh)

371 Eighty-One million Americans can't be wrong, h8rs!

Posted by: Joys Behar and Reid at April 28, 2022 12:51 PM (a3Q+t)

372 This tamping down our 1st Amendment rights is preemptive. They know what's coming and they want to prevent us from organizing and defending this nation and our rights to live freely in it.

We truly have been taken over by enemies...foreign and domestic.
Posted by: Miss Issippi

Yes. The threat of such an institutional inquest is of itself without more intended to chill free speech.

Posted by: 7man at April 28, 2022 12:51 PM (qwO6y)

373 NATO has been into violent regime change business since it bombed Serbia , under false pretenses. Please to not pisss on ny boots with land-lease analogies.

Posted by: runner at April 28, 2022 12:51 PM (BP9lK)

374 Further proof that America 2022 is just the Soviet Union 1978 below

It was always going to be The Golden Scalp Weasel or Brezhnev's UnDead UnEnding Eyebrow.

Posted by: DaveA at April 28, 2022 12:51 PM (FhXTo)

375 364 I'm not sure if the EU is trying to tell its members they can pay in roubles if they pretend they aren't or what.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 12:49 PM (b2nrj)
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See, just pay EUR to this intermediary -- pay no attention to the currency exchange that goes on behind the curtain -- and get your gas!

You didn't pay in rubles, so no worries!

Posted by: Revenant at April 28, 2022 12:51 PM (Gcdtg)

376 You know, if people were ever to say I didn't go to college, and I felt inclined to disabuse them of that notion, I would show them a transcript or my diploma, not a yearbook (I don't even recall having a yearbook).

Thump them on the head with your class ring.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 28, 2022 12:51 PM (yQpMk)

377 >Why would you get a college yearbook when you probably only know about 2% of the people in it? It's like buying a used wedding photo book
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 28, 2022 12:47 PM (flINI)

I thought the same, but then it occurred to me that in a place like an Ivy League uni, what really matters is the networking, so a yearbook could actually be a useful tool to those ends in a graduate's future.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 28, 2022 12:51 PM (WzZ44)

378 Start with those gains in Hunter's off-shore accounts and the 10% in your closet, asshole.

Posted by: Roy at April 28, 2022 12:52 PM (Ti+Tv)

379 Zdrastvooytye!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (a3Q+t)
++++
Zardoz?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:52 PM (DU+/6)

380 Under the new Chicago Moves program, the city will issue up to 50,000 prepaid $150 gas cards and 100,000 prepaid $50 transit cards.

can you trade those directly for drugs or is there a waiting period?

Posted by: brak at April 28, 2022 12:52 PM (j5Tg0)

381 310 I guess they think "Mayor Pete" is a real winner.
Posted by: ace

The guy who couldn't solve the supply chain issue?
Posted by: rickb223

He knows things. Things you and I could scarcely imagine.
Like .....buggery.
----
I read that as shrubbery, not sure why (gallops off banging coconuts).

Back to topic, he knows .... lactation.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 28, 2022 12:52 PM (qfLjt)

382 Please to not pisss on ny boots with land-lease analogies.
Posted by: runner at April 28, 2022 12:51 PM (BP9lK)

It won't be Lend-Lease until the Ukes give us an island.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 28, 2022 12:52 PM (yQpMk)

383 Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.
Posted by: wth at April 28, 2022

***
We'd be better with Bullwinkle at the helm, at that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 28, 2022 12:53 PM (txdEq)

384 The Chicago City Council narrowly approved Mayor Lori Lightfoot's $12 million plan to give out prepaid gas and transit cards to provide relief from high gas prices.

Under the new Chicago Moves program, the city will issue up to 50,000 prepaid $150 gas cards and 100,000 prepaid $50 transit cards.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (63Dwl)
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And where does the $12 million come from? Increased gas taxes and transit fees?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 28, 2022 12:53 PM (iDcra)

385 This Thread has been deemed dangerous false speech by the Homeland Security Disinformation and Control Bureau.

Please report yourselves and your families to the nearest Homeland Security Control Facility for Re-Education and for Community Service to Make You Free.

Posted by: Commissar Nina at April 28, 2022 12:53 PM (Z32m1)

386 Puddin tried to excuse this speech by talking about his "childhood stutter" and how it still returns sometimes.

BS.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 28, 2022 12:53 PM (sWM8x)

387 Joe Biden may be a stunning embarrassment to the US, he may forget his lines, freeze up during speeches, wander around not knowing which door to use, run from the Easter Bunny, and look like the utter, decrepit fool he is...yet he* is managing to implement total annihilation of our country, our freedoms, our liberties, our economic stability at record pace.

* Yes, I know the people really in charge wheel out this f*cker and he's not doing much on his own behind the scenes, but regardless of that, it's getting done and implemented.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 28, 2022 12:53 PM (sVtYq)

388 Zdrastvooytye!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (a3Q+t)

Na Zdarovye.

Posted by: runner at April 28, 2022 12:53 PM (BP9lK)

389 I think at some point Biden is going to freeze up so badly they will need to walk him away from the podium. Almost like grandpa who walks into the corner of the living room and starts to unzip his fly because he thinks he's in the bathroom. It's really getting pathetic.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 28, 2022 12:47 PM (BxH25)

Would be cool if they rolled him away on a hand truck like an old refrigerator.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 28, 2022 12:53 PM (VwHCD)

390 384 And where does the $12 million come from? Increased gas taxes and transit fees?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 28, 2022 12:53 PM (iDcra)

========

Increased policing of the Southside.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:53 PM (LvTSG)

391 I guess they think "Mayor Pete" is a real winner.
Posted by: ace

The guy who couldn't solve the supply chain issue?
Posted by: rickb223

***

Same guy who couldn't manage to fill the potholes in South Bend

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (flINI)

392
Now it's a big screen with 4-inch font. Looks like one of those old rear-projection big screen TVs from the 80's.

A sentence is over 8 lines. That's what he's staring at trying to read in this clip. That's how bad it is.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 28, 2022 12:50 PM (X8TUh)

It's an older machine from the 1980s Politburo, that they seized from some oligarch. They were built like a farm woman in a babushka.

Posted by: Roy at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (Ti+Tv)

393 The Chicago City Council narrowly approved Mayor Lori Lightfoot's $12 million plan to give out prepaid gas and transit cards to provide relief from high gas prices.

Under the new Chicago Moves program, the city will issue up to 50,000 prepaid $150 gas cards and 100,000 prepaid $50 transit cards.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (63Dwl)

Should've been kevlar credits.

Posted by: golfman @truth banned for calling lebron a whore at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (hOMhY)

394 I read that as shrubbery, not sure why (gallops off banging coconuts).

Back to topic, he knows .... lactation.
Posted by: Ciampino at April 28, 2022 12:52 PM (qfLjt)
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Great, you just reminded me of those two weirdos who tried to "nurse" a kid from a male nipple and were bent out of shape because the guy wasn't lactating. I believe the kid was adopted. We are so screwed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (5pTK/)

395 And where does the $12 million come from? Increased gas taxes and transit fees?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 28, 2022 12:53 PM

Let's not bicker about where it comes from.

Posted by: Groot at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (a3Q+t)

396 Every time Groot comes up in the news, I just can't believe that thing lives indoors.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (ppBhU)

397 Why would you get a college yearbook when you probably only know about 2% of the people in it? It's like buying a used wedding photo book
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report
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Where I work, it's included in the student activity fee or something. It only shows individual photos of seniors (in color) and then has black-and-white photos of student organizations, activities, clubs, fraternities/sororities, etc. We only have around 8000 students, tops, so it's not huge.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (YIVH2)

398 Hello Darkness My Old Friend...

Posted by: Tasty Burger at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (N/oGZ)

399 Dutch gave the US small mountains of bauxite in partial repayment.

Not one dollar will be returned from Kiev.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (jroyo)

400 Whig, how are you feeling? I read that you were still suffering from the effects of the WuFlu, part deux.

Posted by: Darrell Harris
----------------------
Thanks for asking. I have officially become old because I can bore people to tears with current ailments. Main issue on coof is it is affecting some cognition subtypes, O2 saturation in blood, and chronic fatigue. My immune system has taken a major hit and I may have to have infusions. If you know someone suffering from long covid, have them get help as they know a lot more about it than last year. Dunno whether related but I also have to have newly discovered lumps in thyroid biopsied next week and this week had tooth trouble with a crown causing an abscess leading to a root canal probably tomorrow.

Immuno deficient is a pain in the butt. Only good thing is that my pre-existing inflammatory arthritis is muted because my immune system is fighting real bugs. So, always look for the silver lining.

Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (Iq9dF)

401 Considering the student body of UT Austin is 51,090 students.

UT Austin yearbook was mostly student organizations listing their members with pictures, not the whole student body

Posted by: brak at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (j5Tg0)

402 I thought the same, but then it occurred to me that in a place like an Ivy League uni, what really matters is the networking, so a yearbook could actually be a useful tool to those ends in a graduate's future.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen

Sorry. I was out sick the day they took the class pictures for Harvard.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (SvtOj)

403 And where does the $12 million come from? Increased gas taxes and transit fees?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 28, 2022 12:53 PM (iDcra)

Asset forefeiture

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 28, 2022 12:55 PM (II3Gr)

404 Zdrastvooytye!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 28, 2022 12:48 PM (a3Q+t)

See? Three syllables. Two too many. "Hey" or "hi" work fine.

Posted by: mrp at April 28, 2022 12:55 PM (6eRlp)

405 Why would I want to talk to anyone while pissing in a public place? Let alone mention the town that got irradiated by Chernobyl?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 28, 2022 12:55 PM (mo5H2)

406 "Biden also demands another $33 billion for a foreign country, and Pelosi wants to attach $22.5 billion in further foreign aid to that."
And before anyone asks, 'Why?',
just remember...
"The Big Guy gets 10%".

Posted by: sic721 at April 28, 2022 12:55 PM (hfM+5)

407 *forfeiture

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 28, 2022 12:55 PM (II3Gr)

408 Have you all seen the teleprompter Biden has now?

Like, you know how it's always been those two sheets of angled glass on either side of the lectern? Notice how you have never see the left-right look typical politician speech? Just square ahead look for him.

Now it's a big screen with 4-inch font. Looks like one of those old rear-projection big screen TVs from the 80's.

A sentence is over 8 lines. That's what he's staring at trying to read in this clip. That's how bad it is.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 28, 2022

***
In the SCOAMF days, there was a blog purportedly written by "The Teleprompter of the United States," detailing its struggles with getting BHO to follow the script. If TOTUS were to appear now, it would be even more hilarious.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 28, 2022 12:56 PM (txdEq)

409 When will Putin unleash the hackers since Joey gave them a little list?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 28, 2022 12:56 PM (jroyo)

410 368 Considering the student body of UT Austin is 51,090 students.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 12:49 PM (SvtOj)

We need fewer college graduates, not more.
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51,001 are majoring in Social Work, Womyns Studies and Minorities Studies. All have to attend "You Want Fries With That 101" in order to graduate.

Posted by: Ciampino at April 28, 2022 12:56 PM (qfLjt)

411 I have a question: what happened to the billions that were approved about a week ago? Spent already? On what?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 28, 2022 12:56 PM (5kI0z)

412 Is Joe getting worse every time they drag him out into the public, or is that just my imagination?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 28, 2022 12:56 PM (eGTCV)

413 Any coincidence that Groot is the disposal device in the Chicago area? Just got off the horn with them.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 28, 2022 12:56 PM (mo5H2)

414 What wealth?

Posted by: The Enemy at April 28, 2022 12:56 PM (vN+oL)

415 In the SCOAMF days, there was a blog purportedly written by "The Teleprompter of the United States," detailing its struggles with getting BHO to follow the script. If TOTUS were to appear now, it would be even more hilarious.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 28, 2022 12:56 PM (txdEq)
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TOTUS blog was hilarious.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 12:56 PM (5pTK/)

416 Укуси меня

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 12:56 PM (SvtOj)

417 The WEF likes Bootyjudge.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 28, 2022 12:56 PM (R8uWY)

418 Mayor Lightfoot today announced the formal designation of the Southside as "World's Largest Outdoor Shooting Range".

There's going to be a plaque put up, by way of warning the unwary tourists and college kids.

Posted by: Senator John Kennedy is a hoot at April 28, 2022 12:56 PM (gyc1W)

419 Huh. Are residential mortgages with excellent credit and 20% down really going for around 5.5% right now? If so, look out below, housing bubble.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:57 PM (DU+/6)

420 Also, when can I get my mortgage debt forgiven? Why should I have to pay for it?

I'm a highly educated White with 3 Master's Degrees in Genderqueer Interpretive Dance Theory, Animal Husbandry of Middle Earth, and Ancient Movie Languages.

I can't swing a $185k mortgage and $300k in student loan debt.

PAY ME!

Posted by: Tasty Burger at April 28, 2022 12:57 PM (N/oGZ)

421 I am just glad the president is not important.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 28, 2022 12:57 PM (R8uWY)

422 The only question these evil fools should be asked, and it should be asked all day every day (especially of that horrible press secretary) is "how does this help the American people?".

Posted by: DJ at April 28, 2022 12:57 PM (O3/K+)

423 359 Why would you get a college yearbook when you probably only know about 2% of the people in it? It's like buying a used wedding photo book
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report
------------------
The good news is that Ancestry is scanning all those year books into their databases for access. Give them your DNA and they basically are all set for giving law enforcement all of your biostatistics.

Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:57 PM (Iq9dF)

424 so a yearbook could actually be a useful tool to those ends in a graduate's future.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at April 28, 2022 12:51 PM (WzZ44)

That's what fraternities are for.

And prayers up for whig!!

Posted by: golfman @truth banned for calling lebron a whore at April 28, 2022 12:57 PM (hOMhY)

425 419 Huh. Are residential mortgages with excellent credit and 20% down really going for around 5.5% right now? If so, look out below, housing bubble.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:57 PM (DU+/6)

========

As long as I can keep paying the mortgage payments, it's all just academic to me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:57 PM (LvTSG)

426 Everytime Biden appears, Russia realizes that there is nothing on the other side to stop them. Biden's mouth, stupidity and condition were the green light to start the invasion. Now, Ukraine can't stop either, unless they want to become like Crimea at best, or Mariupoal at worst.

Posted by: Hunter Biden's laptop at April 28, 2022 12:57 PM (atmLn)

427 TOTUS blog was hilarious.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 12:56 PM (5pTK/)
---
hah! Maybe it should show up on Twitter...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 28, 2022 12:57 PM (YIVH2)

428 Imagine if we just spent $1 billion for the military to guard our own border.

Posted by: Blago at April 28, 2022 12:58 PM (V1Cfw)

429 Immuno deficient is a pain in the butt. Only good thing is that my pre-existing inflammatory arthritis is muted because my immune system is fighting real bugs. So, always look for the silver lining.

Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (Iq9dF)

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Good heavens, whig. I thought my occasional bouts of exhaustion and brain fog were bad. I'll pray that you get completely well soon.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 12:58 PM (ptqGC)

430 o, a decade until the system collapses and we get outright control by oligarchs?
__
we have outright control by them now.

what you are talking about is internecine dispute between oligarchs as to who should be the shot callers.

The parties basically mediate that process now behind closed doors. Its is largely pay for play. Its a bidding system, moderated somewhat by blackmail, which is some what countered/tempered by potential federal investigation. When the wheels fall off, it will be giant robot armies facing off...

Posted by: so you got that to look forward to at April 28, 2022 12:58 PM (6K+lC)

431 Jame! What's the population of Ukraine?
* tangents into a recent DMT experience and describes machine elves*
It's only 43 million? I would have assumed 80-100 million for some reason. Wouldn't you agree, Eddie Bravo?
Jamie what's 55 billion divided by 43 million?
* tangents into machine elves are actually our trend *
Holy shit! These assholes are handing out close to 1300 American Dollars per citizen in the Ukraine. Brendan Schaub, when you subtract childen, we are handing the Ukraine more money per adult than our own Representatives gave out for COVID stimulus checks.

Posted by: Toe Rogan at April 28, 2022 12:58 PM (6uD7/)

432
As long as I can keep paying the mortgage payments, it's all just academic to me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 12:57 PM (LvTSG)
---------------

*checks mortgage balance*

*still reads 0*

Yep, academic.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 12:59 PM (5pTK/)

433
We need fewer college graduates, not more.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 28, 2022 12:50 PM

the world needs ditch-diggers, too

Posted by: Judge Elihu Smails at April 28, 2022 12:59 PM (DUIap)

434 $33B will buy a full carrier battle group including the airwing and AEGIS cruisers.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 28, 2022 12:59 PM (yQpMk)

435 417 The WEF likes Bootyjudge.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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What is not to like for them? After all Bootyjudge's father was a leading scholar of Italian Communist Gramsci which was a guidestone to the Frankfurt School.

Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 12:59 PM (Iq9dF)

436 ========So, a decade until the system collapses and we get outright control by oligarchs?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
-----------------------

Nah, it'll be a lot different.
We aren't peasants accustomed to oligarchs, corporatists, and tyrants.

see - Newton's Third Law

Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2022 01:00 PM (gWhJu)

437 I made sure to get my yearbook photos so conservatives can't say I didn't go to Harvard like they did with my HS --Hogg

I did not say he didn't go to that high school. I said he rode there on his bike after the slaughter was over, and then claimed PTSD. Peter Wang, ROTC cadet, was inside helping save students' lives, and died for his trouble. Peter Wang is in the yearbook at West Point. Unfortunately, he won't graduate.

Don't really care what Hogg gets, but I'd like to see Peter Wang awarded the Medal of Honor.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 28, 2022 01:00 PM (videA)

438 Zdravstvuitye, properly. Its a hilarious word of bizarre excess I cannot understand the origins of. Why would you make such a commonly used word such a jaw-cracker? I know its the formal greeting like "salutations" or "greeings" but still...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 01:00 PM (KZzsI)

439 What are the qualifications to become an oligarch?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 28, 2022 01:00 PM (eGTCV)

440 Hope you feel better Whig. Sounds like you’re having a tough time.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 28, 2022 01:00 PM (A4m9Z)

441 Gosh, whig, I'm so sorry to read about your health troubles. Sending prayers and well wishes to you!

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 28, 2022 01:00 PM (sVtYq)

442 yet he* is managing to implement total annihilation of our country, our freedoms, our liberties, our economic stability at record pace.

It would not be possible except hundreds of thousands of people willingly and eagerly participate in the destruction.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 28, 2022 01:00 PM (AHeqJ)

443 439 What are the qualifications to become an oligarch?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 28, 2022 01:00 PM (eGTCV)

1. Be rich
2. There are no other requirements

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 01:00 PM (b2nrj)

444 Another day, another dementia moment.

Aka - it's another day that ends in Y...

Posted by: Nova local at April 28, 2022 01:01 PM (exHjb)

445 Don't really care what Hogg gets, but I'd like to see Peter Wang awarded the Medal of Honor.
Posted by: Stringer Davis

I'd like to see Hogg get antibiotic resistant syphillis.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 01:01 PM (SvtOj)

446 I did not say he didn't go to that high school. I said he rode there on his bike after the slaughter was over, and then claimed PTSD

Yeah, then he was on TV, traveling, and doing interviews so much his senior year, its inconceivable he even did any studies then. Did he even get a diploma? Probably, handed one by the school for being such a Hero.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 01:01 PM (KZzsI)

447

The U.S. government on Thursday will lay out its long-awaited plan to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, which have taken a disproportionate toll on Black smokers and other minorities.

Menthol accounts for more than a third of cigarettes sold in the U.S, and the mint flavor is overwhelmingly favored by Black smokers and young people.

The FDA will also seek to ban menthol and dozens of over sweet and fruity flavors from small cigars, which are increasingly popular with young people, especially Black teens.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 01:01 PM (63Dwl)

448 1. Be rich
2. There are no other requirements
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022 01:00 PM (b2nrj)
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Didn't work for PDT.

I'm guessing Ba'al worship is probably a prerequisite.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 01:01 PM (5pTK/)

449 If Joe collapses on stage is he going to fall face down, or topple over backwards?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 28, 2022 01:02 PM (eGTCV)

450 I'd like to see Hogg get antibiotic resistant syphillis.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 01:01 PM (SvtOj)

No love for me?

Posted by: Ass Cancer at April 28, 2022 01:02 PM (yQpMk)

451 "Biden's brain stops working in the middle of speech..."

Big assumption that it worked before that.

Posted by: Ironwolf32 at April 28, 2022 01:02 PM (UfuiO)

452 439 What are the qualifications to become an oligarch?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 28, 2022 01:00 PM (eGTCV)

=======

According to Tenet, you first need to receive a message that's been sent backwards in time from the future that gives you access to seed money in the form of a bunch of gold bars.

I think there's an online application process.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 01:02 PM (LvTSG)

453 Menthol accounts for more than a third of cigarettes sold in the U.S, and the mint flavor is overwhelmingly favored by Black smokers and young people.

At least its not clove cigs. I cannot understand why those were ever popular, let alone exist.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 01:03 PM (KZzsI)

454 I wonder how they communicate with Biden? Obviously they don't have morning briefings with him anymore so how do they prep him for announcements like the video. As my parents dementia progressed, they lost the ability to read words. Other nations must be wondering what's going to become of the US. No one elected is in charge.

Posted by: Megthered at April 28, 2022 01:03 PM (dAAZ4)

455 What are the qualifications to become an oligarch?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 28, 2022

1. Be rich
2. There are no other requirements
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022

***
Survive the purge of the wanna-be oligarchs

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at April 28, 2022 01:03 PM (txdEq)

456 Zdravstvuitye, properly. Its a hilarious word of bizarre excess I cannot understand the origins of. Why would you make such a commonly used word such a jaw-cracker? I know its the formal greeting like "salutations" or "greeings" but still...

Its pretty common to just omit the "itye" ending (less formal).

There's also is the simpler, easier-to-pronounce preevyet.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 28, 2022 01:03 PM (ppBhU)

457 The WEF likes Bootyjudge.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Considering his lineage traces back to the original knights of malta, why would anybody be surprised Pete is their guy and always has been.

Posted by: Toe Rogan at April 28, 2022 01:04 PM (6uD7/)

458 At least its not clove cigs. I cannot understand why those were ever popular, let alone exist.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 01:03 PM (KZzsI)
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Us pot smokers needed something when we couldn't get weed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at April 28, 2022 01:04 PM (5pTK/)

459 flavored cigars

Swisher Sweets? H8RZ!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at April 28, 2022 01:04 PM (J/+fm)

460 434 $33B will buy a full carrier battle group including the airwing and AEGIS cruisers.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 28, 2022 12:59 PM (yQpMk)
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There you go, putting perspective on this deal.
Listen, this thing is about %90 grift, get in line and you'll get a cut too.

Posted by: Get Some at April 28, 2022 01:04 PM (gWhJu)

461 I'd like to see Hogg get antibiotic resistant syphillis.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 01:01 PM (SvtOj)

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But he'd have to have actual sex to get it.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 28, 2022 01:05 PM (ptqGC)

462 I made sure to get my yearbook photos so conservatives can't say I didn't go to Harvard like they did with my HS

*

No one said you didn't go to high school.

People said you weren't AT your high school during the shooting.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 28, 2022 01:05 PM (IQOtg)

463 There's also is the simpler, easier-to-pronounce preevyet.

Yeah like I said above, most people use that informally. Basically "hi!" Like using "poka" instead of Das Vedaniye or vcevo khoroshivo

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 01:05 PM (KZzsI)

464 Templars, Baby!

Posted by: Gary Drayton at April 28, 2022 01:05 PM (yQpMk)

465 Does Biden have a clue what $33 B is?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 28, 2022 01:05 PM (eGTCV)

466 There is no quick easy fix for Europe's energy :

https://tinyurl.com/32v3aup7

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at April 28, 2022 01:05 PM (YynYJ)

467 There you go, putting perspective on this deal.
Listen, this thing is about %90 grift, get in line and you'll get a cut too.
Posted by: Get Some

Give me $3 million in small, unmarked bills and no one will ever see or hear from me again.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 01:06 PM (SvtOj)

468 The only question these evil fools should be asked, and it should be asked all day every day (especially of that horrible press secretary) is "how does this help the American people?".

I love your child-like naivete.

They hate us deeply. They are open about their hatred of us, and enjoy having contests between the various warlords as to who can be more insulting, derisive and offensive to We The People via policy and direct action.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 28, 2022 01:06 PM (AHeqJ)

469 Whig, hope things turn to the better for you. Sounds rough.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 28, 2022 01:06 PM (iDcra)

470 465 Does Biden have a clue what $33 B is?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 28, 2022 01:05 PM (eGTCV)

Billions of dollars have been tossed around for years that I honestly believe most Americans think it is nothing more than a rounding error.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 28, 2022 01:06 PM (N39Ws)

471 So lemme get this straight.
We've got thought police coming online at DHS to persecute political speech.
No we've got full on police action against designated political enemies.

We need to combine all this into an overreaching Ministry of Love

Posted by: mikethemoose at April 28, 2022 01:07 PM (R4z5M)

472 Good heavens, whig. I thought my occasional bouts of exhaustion and brain fog were bad. I'll pray that you get completely well soon.

Posted by: Jane D'oh
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Jane, I would seriously get checked on your brain fog via a long haul clinic. I am having to undergo relearning smell via aroma therapy and some strategies for the brain used to rehab stroke victims.

In my case, I had a bad case with similar long haul symptoms in January 21 Coof infection through April. My doctors advised taking the J&J vaccine as treatment in April of 2021 which I did one day prior to J&J being taken off the market. It seemed to help until mid June where I had a relapse with dangerous blood pressure spikes to stroke level and some symptoms reoccuring. Then I got Coof again this January. The only difference between the infections was I got bronchitis as the follow on infection in Feb 21 and followon pneumonia and a sinus infection from Coof in 2022. I probably avoided hospitalization this Jan by taking Pavloxid.

My advice if you do get long haul treatment is stay the hell away from letting them inject more vaccine into you.

Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 01:07 PM (Iq9dF)

473 I'd like to see Hogg get antibiotic resistant syphillis.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 01:01 PM (SvtOj)

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But he'd have to have actual sex to get it.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

I'm sure some harvard guy has pounded dat azz.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 01:07 PM (SvtOj)

474 Give me $3 million in small, unmarked bills and no one will ever see or hear from me again.

Narrator: People saw Rick a year later, wearing tattered Versace suit, trying to sell his Lamborghini for food money.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 01:07 PM (KZzsI)

475 In the law Statutes of Limitations are also referred to as "statutes of repose."

The common sense reason is that at a certain point the difficulty of trying to reconstruct remote events outweighs the benefit. And an implicit assumption is that if something was a BFD on Day 1, someone aggrieved shouldn't wait an infinite period of time to seek redress.

So the "extension of statute of limitations" to 10 years, while on one surface "reasonable" ("What, are you in Putin's pocket ?!") in practice becomes a license for an unscrupulous prosecutor to perform a dry, forensic-accounting 10 year colonoscopy on anyone they choose to "investigate." For example, what Letitia James (NY AG) is trying to do to all things "Trump." The sheer costs and distraction of such "investigations" would crush almost anyone into pleading to something, anything just to make it stop.

So yeah, F this entirely. I just hope the new Congress can keep track of all the new threats the left keeps launching. "Swarm" lawfare seems to be their preferred method these days.

Posted by: Zek at April 28, 2022 01:08 PM (OzNIz)

476 There's also is the simpler, easier-to-pronounce preevyet.

Yeah like I said above, most people use that informally. Basically "hi!" Like using "poka" instead of Das Vedaniye or vcevo khoroshivo
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

POKA ?

Posted by: JT at April 28, 2022 01:08 PM (arJlL)

477 The U.S. government on Thursday will lay out its long-awaited plan to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, which have taken a disproportionate toll on Black smokers and other minorities.

Menthol accounts for more than a third of cigarettes sold in the U.S, and the mint flavor is overwhelmingly favored by Black smokers and young people.

The FDA will also seek to ban menthol and dozens of over sweet and fruity flavors from small cigars, which are increasingly popular with young people, especially Black teens.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 01:01 PM (63Dwl)

Priorities, people.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at April 28, 2022 01:08 PM (II3Gr)

478 434 $33B will buy a full carrier battle group including the airwing and AEGIS cruisers.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 28, 2022 12:59 PM (yQpMk)

Yes, but will it also buy the personnel with experience to operate this equipment? We're sending all this war material over there, but a) is it going to get through? and b) does the Ukrainian army have enough experienced people to use all this stuff? I doubt 3 days of pseudo-basic training can cover all this.

Posted by: Thrawn at April 28, 2022 01:08 PM (Rl7KJ)

479 Does Biden have a clue what $33 B is?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 28, 2022 01:05 PM (eGTCV)

Even with a broken brain, he still can do the math. 10%

Posted by: 7man at April 28, 2022 01:08 PM (qwO6y)

480 At the bar last night and this asinine middle-aged White Woman was going on about how her grandbabies were going to Disney and she knew nothing at all about anything, but Trump was a horrible person, while her husband of what 30 years sat next to her looking embarrassed.
It's time for that shit to be over.
I'm done.
White Middle-Class women are the worst, most spoiled, nastiest class of human being being to ever exist on Planet Earth.
Fucking nasty, crazy, shitty, animals.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 28, 2022 01:08 PM (U11/V)

481 But he'd have to have actual sex to get it.

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LOL, what a vision! Hogg having sex. He probably has a noodle p***s to match his arms.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 28, 2022 01:08 PM (sVtYq)

482 But he'd have to have actual sex to get it.

Sadly, I am guessing he's been neck deep in leftist women since he first stood in front of that microphone. Even serial killers in prison get women offering themselves to them, just because they're famous.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 01:08 PM (KZzsI)

483 A billion is a large number. But there are even larger numbers. So no matter how big the ideas you want to express are, there will be a number for it.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at April 28, 2022 01:08 PM (ppBhU)

484 There is no quick easy fix for Europe's energy :

https://tinyurl.com/32v3aup7
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Nuclear.

Air burst style.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 01:08 PM (SvtOj)

485 What are the qualifications to become an oligarch?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 28, 2022

1. Be rich
2. There are no other requirements

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022

I think you have to own a few politicians...or buy some.

Posted by: BignJames at April 28, 2022 01:08 PM (AwYPR)

486 Of fucking course Biden's circle would ask for 33 billion.
33 is one of buttfucking Freemasons favorite numbers to throw around as a signal.

Posted by: Toe Rogan at April 28, 2022 01:09 PM (6uD7/)

487 Dutch gave the US small mountains of bauxite in partial repayment.

Not one dollar will be returned from Kiev.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 28, 2022 12:54 PM (jroyo)

About 10-25% of the money we send to Ukraine will return to the off-shore accounts of the right people in both US Political parties.

Posted by: rd at April 28, 2022 01:09 PM (Z32m1)

488 The decrepitude of Von Hindenberg and the philosophical moorings of Schicklegruber.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at April 28, 2022 01:10 PM (I+ZWa)

489 Splitters.

Posted by: Maltese Knights of the People at April 28, 2022 01:10 PM (n9wey)

490 I'd like to see Hogg get antibiotic resistant syphillis.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 01:01 PM (SvtOj)

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But he'd have to have actual sex to get it.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
==

You are assuming Hogg and a girl. I'm sure he has had his butt cherry popped.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 28, 2022 01:10 PM (iDcra)

491 It is on our strategic interest to keep Ukraine in the fight. Give them money for weapons. If the Russians get through Ukraine, they will be looking at Poland next. And we will then be sending our boys in. You want no blood - pay to keep Ukraine in the fight.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 28, 2022 01:10 PM (LyTO1)

492 while her husband of what 30 years sat next to her looking embarrassed.
It's time for that shit to be over.

I agree, its time for men to step up and be leaders in their household. Not tyrants, but strong, loving, protective, and committed leaders. Stop wimping out just so she won't get mad, stop giving in just so she won't complain. Step up and take your position.

I know, easy to say from a single guy. But its what we need.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 01:10 PM (KZzsI)

493 My advice if you do get long haul treatment is stay the hell away from letting them inject more vaccine into you.
Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 01:07 PM (Iq9dF)

Your experience supports the view that the vaccines provided short term protection, up to 4 months, at the cost of long term damage to the bodies immune system.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 28, 2022 01:10 PM (trdmm)

494
Lotta people around here seem to know an *awful* lot about the Russian language. Traitors. Wreckers. We have always been at war with Russia. Where did you learn this? Where do you have your assets hidden?? Get on the train.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2022 01:11 PM (UGDPW)

495 In the law Statutes of Limitations are also referred to as "statutes of repose."

The common sense reason is that at a certain point the difficulty of trying to reconstruct remote events outweighs the benefit. And an implicit assumption is that if something was a BFD on Day 1, someone aggrieved shouldn't wait an infinite period of time to seek redress.

No statute of limitations on murder.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 01:11 PM (SvtOj)

496 440 Hope you feel better Whig. Sounds like you’re having a tough time. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

441 Gosh, whig, I'm so sorry to read about your health troubles. Sending prayers and well wishes to you! Posted by: Lady in Black
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Thanks for the well wishes. I am getting treatment for specifically long haul covid this time. Don't want to bore people with facts as a lot of people have had it far worse than I by losing loved ones or having strokes, heart attacks, etc.

Major note is that there is now some agreement on treatment for long haul covid even for people like me with prior immune issues and that anyone with it should not consider the vaxx as one of those treatments for long covid. It might in fact cause a relapse of sorts.
We have better options now.

Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 01:11 PM (Iq9dF)

497 Lotta people around here seem to know an *awful* lot about the Russian language. Traitors. Wreckers. We have always been at war with Russia. Where did you learn this?

Google translate.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 01:11 PM (SvtOj)

498 White Middle-Class women are the worst, most spoiled, nastiest class of human being being to ever exist on Planet Earth.

--

I'm a white middle class woman. I am the complete antithesis of what passes for these ignorant, clueless female dolts. I include every 'ette in that group as well. But I can't argue that there aren't a whole lotta women that fall into that category. I'm ashamed they're biologically grouped with me.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 28, 2022 01:11 PM (sVtYq)

499 I never could find a menthol cigarette that I could stand.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 28, 2022 01:11 PM (dNqv+)

500 Even serial killers in prison get women offering themselves to them, just because they're famous.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

It's not because they are famous. It is because of Hybristophilia.
Hybristophilia is a sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes, a paraphilia in which sexual arousal, facilitation, and attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent upon being with a partner known to have committed a crime.

Posted by: Toe Rogan at April 28, 2022 01:11 PM (6uD7/)

501 Puddin is deteriorating so rapidly, his handlers have to be considering just keeping him out of sight completely. Sort of a Nukular Rose Garden strategy.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 28, 2022 01:11 PM (sWM8x)

502 495
No statute of limitations on murder.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 01:11 PM (SvtOj)

Hope Alec Baldwin gets that message.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 28, 2022 01:12 PM (N39Ws)

503 Yesterday, this sack of doorknobs claimed he went into politics because he wanted to fix "abuses of power." This prick is the most corrupt politicians this side of Hillary, but whatever you say, Joe.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 28, 2022 01:12 PM (XSRBF)

504 What are the qualifications to become an oligarch?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at April 28, 2022

1. Be rich
2. There are no other requirements

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 28, 2022

I think you have to own a few politicians...or buy some.
Posted by: BignJames at April 28, 2022 01:08 PM (AwYPR)

And make sure The Big Guy gets his cut.

Posted by: mrp at April 28, 2022 01:12 PM (6eRlp)

505 About 10-25% of the money we send to Ukraine will return to the off-shore accounts of the right people in both US Political parties.
Posted by: rd at April 28, 2022 01:09 PM (Z32m1)

10 - 25%??? Far more than that will never get more than 50 miles away from DC.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 28, 2022 01:12 PM (trdmm)

506 It is on our strategic interest to keep Ukraine in the fight. Give them money for weapons. If the Russians get through Ukraine, they will be looking at Poland next. And we will then be sending our boys in. You want no blood - pay to keep Ukraine in the fight.
Posted by: Black JEM at April 28, 2022 01:10 PM (LyTO1)

I am unconvinced. Indeed, I think supporting Ukraine has made Russia more likely to fuck with the Baltic States and maybe even Poland.

Posted by: Gary Drayton at April 28, 2022 01:12 PM (yQpMk)

507 We have always been at war with Russia. Where did you learn this?

Five years of Russian in high school and college. That last part was especially good because the teacher was one of those super pretty Slavic girls. Seemed really sad all the time though, this was during the cold war and she might have missed her family and home.

Or that's just how Russians are.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 01:12 PM (KZzsI)

508 dammit

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 28, 2022 01:13 PM (yQpMk)

509 >>>What are the qualifications to become an oligarch?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again

Probably have to be European or Russian. They're the only ones called that... for now.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 28, 2022 01:13 PM (XSRBF)

510 Websters : Ill Begotten Gains:

Having a crackhead son pimp bribes from foreigners in exchange for favors.

or:

Spending an entire half century in public office taking bribes to enrich oneself.

Posted by: Jeff Gillooly at April 28, 2022 01:13 PM (6BTho)

511 507 Or that's just how Russians are.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 01:12 PM (KZzsI)

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I mean...dat history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 01:13 PM (LvTSG)

512 "No statute of limitations on murder."

Yeah and "you can't shout fire in a crowded theater (unless on fire)." So frickin what. Financial crimes are uniquely complex to investigate and defend. Murder usually ain't, and has a unique moral place in the law and biblical morality.

Posted by: Zek at April 28, 2022 01:14 PM (OzNIz)

513 I am the complete antithesis of what passes for these ignorant, clueless female dolts. I include every 'ette in that group as well.
---
Yes, you are, as are all the 'ettes.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 28, 2022 01:14 PM (sWM8x)

514 It's not because they are famous. It is because of Hybristophilia.

Maybe a combo? People definitely seem to be more attracted to someone because of their fame, like its a positive reflection on you if they sex you up.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 01:14 PM (KZzsI)

515 258

Not true. I attended DLI, and there is no such requirement. Such a requirement wouldn’t even be practical in teaching someone a foreign language.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 28, 2022 01:14 PM (4G0LT)

516 >>>Or that's just how Russians are.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I think it's Russia. I live in a neighborhood filled with Russians and Ukrainians. The women are almost always gorgeous, but they always seem very depressed.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 28, 2022 01:14 PM (XSRBF)

517 Hybristophilia is a sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes, a paraphilia in which sexual arousal, facilitation, and attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent upon being with a partner known to have committed a crime.
Posted by: Toe Rogan at April 28, 2022 01:11 PM (6uD7/)

But it has to be a REAL crime, not just "That shirt - and those pants??? That's a Crime!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 28, 2022 01:14 PM (trdmm)

518
Five years of Russian in high school and college.

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Uh HUH. That figures.

I bet you listen to Cheyekofsky and read Dahstoyvsky too, you treasonous swine.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 28, 2022 01:15 PM (UGDPW)

519 10 - 25%??? Far more than that will never get more than 50 miles away from DC.
Posted by: Tom Servo

1,377 miles to be exact.
DC to Cayman Islands.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 28, 2022 01:15 PM (SvtOj)

520 438 Zdravstvuitye, properly. Its a hilarious word of bizarre excess I cannot understand the origins of. Why would you make such a commonly used word such a jaw-cracker?

there's a fun russian cartoon, luntik, that includes an episode in which a character slowly and carefully pronounces every syllable of it. pretty funny.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at April 28, 2022 01:16 PM (0CuV9)

521 I did read a Chekov short story i high school -- in Russian -- and it was FREAKING BRUTAL. I don't even remember the name of the book now. Also some Solzhenitsyn like A Day In The Life...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 01:16 PM (KZzsI)

522 NOOD

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at April 28, 2022 01:17 PM (XSRBF)

523 That video.

I know Biden ain't acting, because NO ONE could pull off that level of dementia as an "act".

JFC.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 28, 2022 01:17 PM (wtvvX)

524 All that sweet graft is paying off for Ukraine.

Posted by: creeper at April 28, 2022 01:17 PM (cTCuP)

525 White Middle-Class women are the worst, most spoiled, nastiest class of human being being to ever exist on Planet Earth.

----Well, I guess I don't even know why I am living after this assessment.

I think I'll let God be the judge of me.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at April 28, 2022 01:17 PM (sI15f)

526 Your experience supports the view that the vaccines provided short term protection, up to 4 months, at the cost of long term damage to the bodies immune system. Posted by: Tom Servo
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Yes, I would say so. I am in a bit of an usual condition to evaluate it because I have had to have extensive blood tests etc. since being diagnosed with inflammatory arthritis and have blood and test data going back to 2014 or so. My guess it is has something to do with the ACE2 receptors throughout the body being locked up by the spike protein causing unpredictable effects. The worst was that with Coof pt 1, the vaxx, and Coof pt 2, I had unpredictable blood pressure spikes of both systolic and diastolic up to stroke levels and similar unpredictable serious drops in O2 saturation to the lower 90's. I can say after being poked, prodded, irradiated, and magnetized all over that my lungs per se are fine even after pneumonia with no ground glass effect being observed. What I am having trouble with is that I have no stamina and even a short walk or standing too long can lead to a drop in O2 saturation (been tested a bit on on that very item along with self testing).

Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 01:17 PM (Iq9dF)

527 437 I made sure to get my yearbook photos so conservatives can't say I didn't go to Harvard like they did with my HS --Hogg

I did not say he didn't go to that high school. I said he rode there on his bike after the slaughter was over, and then claimed PTSD. Peter Wang, ROTC cadet, was inside helping save students' lives, and died for his trouble. Peter Wang is in the yearbook at West Point. Unfortunately, he won't graduate.

Don't really care what Hogg gets, but I'd like to see Peter Wang awarded the Medal of Honor.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 28, 2022 01:00 PM (videA)

I get emotional thinking about that kid. Have, ever since I read his story.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 28, 2022 01:18 PM (TEjGR)

528 Maybe a combo? People definitely seem to be more attracted to someone because of their fame, like its a positive reflection on you if they sex you up.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Probably so.
Women seek the dark triad tho. This is believed to be coded in their DMZ knowing the Dark Triad types who are violent will be more likely and have a higher success rate of being protected and there children protected.

Posted by: Toe Rogan at April 28, 2022 01:18 PM (6uD7/)

529 >>>
Or that's just how Russians are.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 01:12 PM (KZzsI)

The meme everyone has seen, showing four famous authors.

The British one, "I will die for Honor!",
the French, "I will die for Love!",
the American, "I will die for Freedom!",
the Russian, "I will die"

Posted by: banana Dream at April 28, 2022 01:18 PM (lMrg3)

530 White middle class LIBTARD womenz are the worst of the worst.

Gotta get that descriptor in there.

Those women are atheistic in nature and foment nothing but strife, drama and angst.

Posted by: Carmenzoid at April 28, 2022 01:18 PM (9sa5h)

531 The FDA will also seek to ban menthol and dozens of over sweet and fruity flavors from small cigars, which are increasingly popular with young people, especially Black teens.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 28, 2022 01:01 PM (63Dwl)

Mothafuckers gonna be pissed !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 28, 2022 01:18 PM (M+Lyo)

532 I love how the press and the White House continually use the phrase 'Biden wants...' or ' Biden is...' and then they put him in front of the cameras and it's obvious he doesn't know which hole to s*** from anymore.

This is all the cabal controlling him. Biden has as much input on these policy conversations is that one elderly relative you have at Christmas that sits around while the kids are discussing the latest console game.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 28, 2022 01:19 PM (wb1YC)

533 It is on our strategic interest to keep Ukraine in the fight. Give them money for weapons. If the Russians get through Ukraine, they will be looking at Poland next. And we will then be sending our boys in. You want no blood - pay to keep Ukraine in the fight.

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Yeah, and the France an Italy....

Posted by: runner at April 28, 2022 01:20 PM (BP9lK)

534 425 419 Huh. Are residential mortgages with excellent credit and 20% down really going for around 5.5% right now? If so, look out below, housing bubble.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 28, 2022 12:57 PM (DU+/6)
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Cynically, when that happens I will still be able to get more than I've put into this house and take the proceeds to buy a new failed mortgage.

thank you HUD.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2022 01:20 PM (OMAvJ)

535 What I am having trouble with is that I have no stamina and even a short walk or standing too long can lead to a drop in O2 saturation (been tested a bit on on that very item along with self testing).
Posted by: whig at April 28, 2022 01:17 PM (Iq9dF)

Docs have a theory or a solution?

Posted by: Nova local at April 28, 2022 01:21 PM (exHjb)

536 So the former Warsaw pact members of NATO cough over some of their Soviet made armaments and get to buy quality Lockheed Martin and Raytheon products. And most of the gang in Congress get a bottle of whiskey at Christmas. With a fat envelope attached.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 28, 2022 01:21 PM (lz5hY)

537 I'm not sure why Russia is supposed to be my adversary. China, I get, but not Russia. And we don't seem the least bit interested in draining China's resources.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 28, 2022 12:17 PM (NWBBy)

This is how I'm seeing this also. As always: Follow the money.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at April 28, 2022 01:25 PM (Qhnrt)

538 whig, Breathe steam, If you're hear, respond and I'll tell you the story.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2022 01:25 PM (OMAvJ)

539 I am unconvinced. Indeed, I think supporting Ukraine has made Russia more likely to fuck with the Baltic States and maybe even Poland.
Posted by: Gary Drayton at April 28, 2022 01:12 PM (yQpMk)
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A Russian General just announced that Moldovia is next. If you think Russia will stop with Ukraine and not keep looking west I think that is a bad bet. We need Russia to weaken herself further in Ukraine.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 28, 2022 01:26 PM (LyTO1)

540 So the former Warsaw pact members of NATO cough over some of their Soviet made armaments and get to buy quality Lockheed Martin and Raytheon products. And most of the gang in Congress get a bottle of whiskey at Christmas. With a fat envelope attached.

Better yet, they're the new woke Lockheed and Raytheon products. The bombs play the Islamic call to prayer while falling, and the missiles are now shaped like vaginas instead of phalluses.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 28, 2022 01:27 PM (ZGrMX)

541 hahahaha

As someone noted above, there's a reason the US is pushing for war and not peace negotiations.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - F*ck Helping Ukrainian Nazi Supporters at April 28, 2022 01:28 PM (M0433)

542 537 I'm not sure why Russia is supposed to be my adversary. ...
Posted by: BurtTC
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Russia has always been your adversary, just because they may not be preeminent does not preclude their desire to bury us.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2022 01:29 PM (OMAvJ)

543 Biden wants more war powers for his economic war on Russia, but at the same time he's fueling Russia's strangling Europe of natural gas by keeping the US from producing more of it. It's almost as if Biden's only goal is the accumulation of his personal power.

Posted by: Socratease at April 28, 2022 01:32 PM (oqnjT)

544 So what good does it do to send "aid" to Ukraine, if it's just going to either A. prolong the war, or B. start WWIII.

Aid to Ukraine gets scrubbed and sent back to politicians who voted for it, into the pockets of politicians there, and used to purchase weapons at cut rates from US companies and then sold on a huge open market to anyone who wants them, like Iran and Pakistan.

Oh, and a few token thousands to the people of Ukraine.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 28, 2022 12:10 PM (KZzsI)

Plus we can send junk weapons not worth a cent to Ukraine, have the Russians blow them up, and have the taxpayers pay full price twice - Ukraine 'pays' us by loans we gave them, and contractors here have to replace the stocks with expensive new stuff.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 28, 2022 01:33 PM (eoQWY)

545 Biden wants more war powers for his economic war on Russia, but at the same time he's fueling Russia's strangling Europe of natural gas by keeping the US from producing more of it. It's almost as if Biden's only goal is the accumulation of his personal power.
Posted by: Socratease at April 28, 2022 01:32 PM (oqnjT)

It makes a little more sense if one group is backing war with Russia while another is placating the Eco-geek factions, but not a lot.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 28, 2022 01:34 PM (eoQWY)

546 Maybe? Ukraine is showing willingness to fight and Western/modern weapons are making a big impact. The Ukes have a pretty big army.

I don't know if they can win but Russia could lose. I wouldn't put big odds on it, but it could happen.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at April 28, 2022 12:12 PM (XvPQV)

The bulk of Ukranian forces are surrounded in the Donbas without hope of relief or resupply. Distractions in Moldova, a Nato aided strike at a boat in the sea, none of that will change the fact that in a little while those troops will be killed or captured, and the refusal to negotiate seriously is a betrayal of the Ukranian forces fighting there.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 28, 2022 01:39 PM (eoQWY)

547 I'm not sure why Russia is supposed to be my adversary. ...
Posted by: BurtTC
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Russia has always been your adversary, just because they may not be preeminent does not preclude their desire to bury us.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 28, 2022 01:29 PM (OMAvJ)

The Soviet Union has been dead since the 1990s.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 28, 2022 01:44 PM (eoQWY)

548 Under the new Chicago Moves program, the city will issue up to 50,000 prepaid $150 gas cards and 100,000 prepaid $50 transit cards.

can you trade those directly for drugs or is there a waiting period?
Posted by: brak at April 28, 2022 12:52 PM (j5Tg0)

Oh about 80 percent won't leave the admin building in the first place.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 28, 2022 01:50 PM (eoQWY)

549 The Soviet Union has been dead since the 1990s.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 28, 2022 01:44 PM (eoQWY)

Only on paper.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at April 28, 2022 01:57 PM (MkuC5)

550 Nood, for the record...

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at April 28, 2022 01:59 PM (MkuC5)

551 U+1F600

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking great in a trenchcoat and fedora with JP Melville at April 28, 2022 02:20 PM (LvTSG)

552 This is all a big scam. Fed government at this point is simply organized crime. This is probably the biggest money laundering scheme in the history of money, laundry and schemes. They send untold billions to pay crooks in Europe. The crooks send a percentage back to the politicians through "clean" channels. That's one of the reasons they want to escalate the conflict. Bigger conflict, bigger payoffs.

Posted by: Mozam at April 28, 2022 02:37 PM (ea+OK)

553 Kamala dies of Covid19. National tragedy, you know. Couldn't be helped. Did everything humanly possible to save her.
Hillary installed as Veep. Brandon 25th'ed out of office. President Hillary!

Posted by: FriscoYoda at April 28, 2022 02:59 PM (+56GQ)

554 update

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, believes a man can fly with Superman at April 28, 2022 03:06 PM (LvTSG)

555 Biden is the Enemy, the DNC is the Enemy the United Nations is the Enemy

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at April 28, 2022 06:31 PM (wGqjj)

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