The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 5/12/22

Good morning, kids. Thursday and while, as usual, we have the veritable linkapalooza on issues that each in their own right are at or near flaming-skull level, I'm going to focus in on one story that on any other day in this ongoing nightmare would get lost in the sauce but for me is setting off a fire alarm.

The New York Times reported Tuesday: “A Baby Formula Shortage Leaves Desperate Parents Searching for Food.” A headline once impossible in America.
On Wednesday, incoming press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked who at the White House was “running point” on the baby shortage. She had no idea.
Instead, she assured reporters that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was rushing to make sure formula is “safe.” She blamed “Abbott’s voluntary recall of infant formula products,” which took place after four infants were hospitalized, and two died, though there is no proven link yet with the formula itself, according to the FDA.(The White House cannot get its message straight: on Monday, press secretary Jen Psaki said the FDA had “issued” the recall.)
Meanwhile, desperate mothers are considering their options: driving for hours to find formula somewhere; trying to restart breast-feeding; or even trying to create their own homemade substitutes, which the government has advised them not to do. 
They face the prospect of being unable to feed hungry, panicked, and crying infants, who are incapable of understanding why their mothers, who have nurtured them every moment of their lives thus far, are somehow, suddenly, declining to feed them.

Step back and pause for a moment and put everything aside -- all the depredations, abuses and outrages visited upon us for the past several years and ramped up by orders of magnitude in just the past 16 months -- and let this sink in. The United States of America. Historically the most prosperous, abundant, wealthiest and freest society that ever was or ever will be. The nation, and especially its people, who have helped feed the starving and cure the sick out of its own pocket and generosity of its own heart, that gave (and continues to give) its blood and treasure to liberate the world from tyranny twice in a generation as well as a Cold War.

That same United States of America today finds itself on the brink of running out of baby formula.

Ho. Lee. Fook.

The $30.5 trillion dollar question is, how in God's name did we let this happen? That, of course, is a rhetorical question, but perhaps the answer lies in the response by what can only be described as a glittering jewel of pig-ignorance and cold-blooded reptilian hatred that craves only one thing: power. In other words, a typical leftist:

Former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner (D) complained on Wednesday that Republicans were doing more to try to outlaw abortion than they were to address the shortage of baby formula.
“There’s a national shortage of baby formula. That means babies are going hungry. Instead of taking care of our nation’s children, conservatives are worried about banning abortions. Sickening,” she tweeted."

You should read the responses. Interesting solution she and her Twitter minions seem to be offering. Instead of stopping her party from continuing to grind the economy into dust, we need to kill babies in the womb to prevent more mouths to feed. That's more than just an interesting solution; it has all the hallmarks of being a "final solution." Mercifully for the people of Ohio, this insect who, besides being Bernie Sanders' co-campaign chair, has a hate on for Jews, white people and the free market, was soundly defeated in her bid for a House seat, albeit by someone who's merely a relatively sane Trotskyite by comparison.

These people are manifestly irresponsible, so ideologically driven as to border on mental derangement, and because they have a near complete stranglehold on the levers of power and the instruments of control that maintain that power, pose an absolute, undeniable, existential threat to every man, woman and child -- in and out of the womb -- in this country.

Co-blogger and friend CBD has made the case that the straw that will break the camel's back, as it were, from both an electoral and perhaps a long-term societal standpoint is our children. When parents saw firsthand via remote learning the mind-, body- and soul-rape of our kids from CRT Jive Kampf and sexual grooming, that was a watershed moment. In fact, it had been going on for years if not decades but thanks to being locked down with the panic over General Tso's Sickness it was on full display for anyone who had eyes to see and gave a shit. As we saw with the parents in Loudon County, they had both as well as a giant collective set of lungs, vocal cords, and most importantly the cojones to stand up and use them.

To CBD's point, we can and have put up with a lot of shit over the years, but when you come for our kids - with the clear intention now, and excuse my language, of trying to come IN our kids, you are going to get a reaction. Yet, instead of backing off and engaging in a period of introspection or even compromise, the left doubles, triple and quadruples down. They have to; they're true believers in every sense of the word and will brook no quarter with those whom they view as evil and standing in the way of the paradise on earth they think they can create.

In October of 2021, Merrick Garland issued a memorandum that expressed concern about a “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff who participate in the vital work of running our nation’s public schools.”
“Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation’s core values,” Garland wrote at the time. “Those who dedicate their time and energy to ensuring that our children receive a proper education in a safe environment deserve to be able to do their work without fear for their safety.”
To combat this alleged problem, Garland announced a 30-day plan that would have the FBI working with U.S attorneys across the country to discuss “strategies for addressing threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff, and will open dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting, assessment, and response.”
The memorandum arrived less than a week after leaders of the National School Boards Association wrote [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden a letter claiming that “many public school officials are also facing physical threats because of propaganda purporting the false inclusion of critical race theory within classroom instruction and curricula . . ."
. . . The whistleblowers reportedly claimed that the FBI opened investigations with the threat tag all over the country. Of the examples cited, one FBI investigation centered on a mom flagged by the National Threat Operations Center snitch-line, who was described as a “right-wing” member of the group “Moms for Liberty.” The investigation sparked after she allegedly told a local school board “we are coming for you.” The FBI later determined that the mother was no threat and that her rhetoric referred to a peaceful transfer of power through school board elections.
Another investigation centered on a dad who “fit the profile of an insurrectionist” because he “rails against the government” and owned lots of guns.
While the letter noted how the FBI ultimtately dismissed these investigations, the two congressman were still troubled by the fact precious law enforcement resources were used to probe parents that were merely exercising their First Amendment right.

And now the Department of Homeland Security is attempting to set up this so-called "Disinformation Governance Board." A Ministry of Propaganda by any other name would still reek to high Heaven as bad. But I digress. On the latest episode of our award-winning podcast, both CBD and Joe Mannix discussed the case of Nicolae Ceaucescu. He, too, like the Democrat-Left, had a complete stranglehold on the levers of power and the instruments of control that maintain that power. And then a random event, the attempted arrest and removal of a dissident Hungarian pastor, touched off mass national riots and a bloody revolution that saw Ceaucescu and his wife tried and executed.

And here we are in 2022 with the economy in ruins, our military decimated even as the Junta is itching to wag the dog against Putin, stagflation imminent, gasoline and diesel through the roof, criminals running wild in the streets with tacit and outright approval of corrupt DAs, persecution and censorship of political opposition and perhaps a summer of organized civil unrest and violence funded and approved of at the highest levels.

Forgetting elections for a moment, will any or all of that be enough to engender a "great reset" to coin a phrase? Who knows. But when mothers cannot feed their babies, on top of the fact that there is a drive to turn those that survive to adolescence into catamites and sex slaves, then all bets are off.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Despite bloated voter rolls and zero safeguards on absentee ballot signatures, Alaska is about to conduct an all mail-in statewide primary."
Alaska’s Special Election is a Template for How the Left Wants to Rig the Vote
Victor Davis Hanson: "When revolutionaries undermine the system, earn the antipathy of the people, face looming disaster at the polls, it is then they prove most dangerous—as we’ll see over the next few months."
Imagine the Unimaginable
Daniel Greenfield: "The future is going to be a lot like the past."
All Wars Are Endless Wars
Julie Kelly: "Brandon Caserta was not a criminal planning to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer but a human pawn in yet another FBI stunt designed to interfere in the election and sabotage Donald Trump."
Whitmer Hoax Defendant: "My Life Got Taken Away From Me" (Part 1 of a Two-Part Story)
"The Left has a domestic army, funded by Americans through taxes, purchases, tuition, and fees, which it can deploy in any number of ways to subvert the will of the people, the function of government, and the rule of law. It’s an intolerable situation."
Riots Are Now an Establishment Industry and Will Happen Every Summer

ABORTION

David Horowitz: "ABORT THE COURT and ABORT THE CONSTITUTION encapsulate two pillars of a campaign to ABORT THE COUNTRY, which is the ultimate goal of a progressive left that in fact is deeply reactionary, and is seeking to advance revolutionary agendas that killed more than 100 million people in the last century, impoverished whole continents and snuffed out the flames of freedom for billions of hapless victims."
What’s in a Slogan? More than you might think.
"The pro-baby-slaughtering protests, chanting, and screaming outside the homes of six Supreme Court justices violate federal law, and Joe Biden’s attorney general refuses to enforce that law."
AG Moloch Garland Refuses to Enforce Laws Protecting SCOTUS
"The Senate passed an emergency, bipartisan bill to beef up security for the justices and the Supreme Court building, sending it to the House on Monday night. Democrats in the House, however, don't appear to be eager to get the bill passed into law." (gee, ya think? - jjs)
House Dems Insert Poison Pill Into Bipartisan Bill To Protect Supreme Court Justices
“Silence doesn't guarantee safety. The mob may come for you. The Commonwealth Attorney has the power to prosecute the individuals picketing and protesting outside the homes of SCOTUS Justices. The Commonwealth Attorney is supposed to enforce the law,” Sears tweeted.
Va. Lt. Gov. Sears: "The Commonwealth Attorney Has the Power to Prosecute Individuals…Protesting Outside Homes of SCOTUS Justices"
"Not only has a draft opinion been leaked, but private conversations have as well now? Once again, no one will be happy about this. Conservatives won’t be happy about the leak, and pro-abortion leftists won’t be happy that it seems that the conservative justices who are likely to vote to overturn Roe v. Wade appear to be holding firm on it."
There’s Been Another Supreme Court Leak ... No One Will Be Happy About This One
“'The most likely leaker was someone on the left—whether a clerk, staffer, or family member of someone at the Court—who wanted to create public protests and otherwise scare Justice Kavanaugh or Barrett away from joining Justice Alito’s majority,' Georgetown Law professor Ilya Shapiro said."
Media’s Spin On Who Leaked SCOTUS Opinion Doesn’t Hold Water, Legal Experts Say

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"Wednesday’s vote was a repeat of that roll call, and Democratic leaders did not appear to expect anything different."
Manchin Joins Republicans To Doom Far-Left Abortion Bill
"Radical abortion activism takes complete precedence over women’s health and safety."
Planned Parenthood Directs Women to Where They Can Buy Illegal Abortion Drugs
"Forget about tolerance. If you don’t believe in abortion, you’re dead to the Left."
Liberals’ Aborted Tolerance on Abortion
"No outrage. No promise to bring the terrorists to justice. Nothing about how they pose a lethal threat to American security like [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden imagines white supremacists do."
Potential Repeal of Roe v. Wade Gives Democrats a Chance to Go Wild
Rabbi Michael Barclay: "Thousands of years ago, Jewish Sages were dealing with the same issue of when/if/how abortion should be permitted or forbidden. With the national chaos regarding a potential reversal of Roe v. Wade, this ancient wisdom and unique understanding is more valuable than ever."
Abortion: A Jewish Perspective on a Passionate Issue
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"In closed-door talks, GOP legislators blocked plans to award green cards to many Russian college graduates and roughly 40,000 Afghans — and eventually, to their families. Their arrival would help investors and employers but would deflate ordinary Americans’ wages and inflate their housing costs."
Ukraine Weapons Bill OKs More Migration
"A majority of Americans do not want the U.S. to go to war with Russia over Ukraine, but Congress is pushing us there."
Americans Don’t Want War With Russia But Republicans and Democrats Are Forcing It Anyway
"It appears that Biden has been backed into a position of supporting American military strength whether he wants to or not." (interesting points but I don't know that I agree with the apparent thrust of the piece - jjs)
The Return of a Powerful U.S.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Read: information the Left doesn’t want you to have."
The Dangerous "Disinformation" Smear
"She wants to turn Twitter into Wikipedia."
Biden Disinformation Czar Demands Power to Edit Other People’s Tweets
"Anyone claiming to be a champion of science but quick to flag new evidence as ‘misinformation’ is no scientist at all."
Top Medical Licensure Board Creates Misinformation Policy — Because What Could Go Wrong With a Science Hive Mind?
Robert Spencer: "MSNBC anchor illustrates the extent of the Left’s detachment from reality." (Back-Alley Felch-ie - jjs)
Ali Velshi’s Delusions
Color me highly skeptical of that move.
Jack Dorsey Weighs In on Possibility of Becoming Twitter’s CEO Again Under Elon Musk
"When you don't want to be questioned about mocking Elon Musk."
Video: Twitter Exec PANICS When Confronted by James O'Keefe
DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL, THE ECONOMY, STUPID
If they can't kill them in the womb, starve them postpartum, eh?
GOP Rep. Stefanik Calls Out Biden Over Baby Formula Shortage — "We Have Seen No Plan"
"If this were the Trump administration, the media would have been demanding answers. They would have been insisting that the president invoke the Defense Production Act, as they did of Trump during the early days of the [Chinese] coronavirus pandemic. And Trump would have taken charge."
Joe Biden Is Letting Babies Go Hungry in America
CEO of United Refining Co., John Catsimatidis said Wednesday the East Coast may experience diesel rationing and shortages this summer, Bloomberg reported.“I wouldn’t be surprised to see diesel being rationed on the East Coast this summer,” said Catsimatidis during a phone interview, the outlet reported. “Right now inventories are low and we may see a shortage in coming months.” Catsimatidis claimed that there won’t be a shortage of regular gasoline, but prices would soar to record highs.
Billionaire CEO Says Fuel Rationing May Be Around the Corner
"The record inflation seen in recent months has led massive numbers of people across the country to seek out food banks rather than brave sticker shock at the grocery store. Officials at multiple food distribution organizations told the AP they've been swamped by the demand for food."
Food Banks Fight To Keep Doors Open Amid Record Inflation, Demand
"I didn’t realize Putin’s Price Hike or whatever the Democrats call it began in 2021."
Inflation Rose 8.3% From a Year Ago in April, Remains at 40-Year High
"Why not leave digital currency to the free market? You know why."
CBDCs: Biden’s Latest Plan for the Surveillance State
Terry Jeffrey: "We are on our way to running an annual merchandise trade deficit with China that will exceed $400 billion. This is not free trade. It is subsidizing a tyrant." (we have one occupying our own government - jjs)
US Trade Deficit With Communist China Is Climbing
"Independents, Dems both support erasing student debts, but not GOP."
Who Wants To Forgive Student Loans? Some Surprising Findings: I&I/TIPP Poll
"Inflation is eroding Joe Biden’s ability to deliver on his main legislative achievement in office." (inflation is his main achievement - jjs)
Build Back Never
"Public pension fiduciaries may soon be looking to distance themselves from advisors leading them down the ESG path."
How the ESG Movement is Shooting Itself in the Foot
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
". . . their number one geo-political rival is willing to hand them boatloads of money to manufacture an unreliable energy source to supplant the reliable petroleum products that helped make us a world power in the first place. From their perspective, it seems like a win-win."
China Trying to Corner the Solar-Panel Market
"Thanks to hasty closures of fossil-fuel and nuclear plants, coupled with shortfalls in renewable-energy production, Americans will face increasing power outages."
A Summer of Blackouts?
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"According to the Justice Department, the couple traveled to Washington D.C. on January 5th and photos show them taking selfies in the Capitol the following day." (Sefton blood status: [X] boiling - jjs)
MORE POLITICAL PRISONERS: Georgia Couple Sentenced to Jail for Taking Selfies in Capitol on Jan. 6
If the Ministry of Truth was active at the time, Nina Jankmeoff would have had them arrested and thrown into the Garland Archipelago with the J-6 martyrs, and their children taken away from them.
Whistleblower Reveals FBI Investigated Concerned Parents Under AG Merrick Garland’s Counterterrorism Directive
"Newly released evidence implicates partisan operators against journalists."
Project Veritas Subpoenas Pushed by Lawyer Who Represented Creep Governor Cuomo, Ashley Biden, and SDNY Family Members
"The real insurrection brewing in America isn’t on the right despite the constant talk and promotion of this view. It is meant to hide the reality."
The Leftwing Insurrection
Robert Spencer: "A California mayoral candidate reveals it again." (his grandfather was a '72 Munich murderer - jjs)
The Democrats' Readiness to Ally with Radical Groups (because it itself is a radical group - jjs)
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Congress refuses to address our own crises, virtue-signaling about aid to Ukraine without ensuring the money falls into the proper hands."
Congress Could Nearly Double U.S. Border Budget With $40 Billion They’re Sending Ukraine
"Bedoya, who is professor at Georgetown Law, was previously criticized by Senate Republicans for his past comments on social media and in other outlets opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after President Joe Biden announced his nomination."
Senate Confirms Biden’s "Radical" FTC Pick Criticized For Anti-ICE Stance
"The Border Patrol agents cleared of criminal wrongdoing in the wake of a media-driven frenzy over images falsely suggesting they whipped Haitian migrants are nonetheless prohibited from riding horses, hobbling their ability to secure swaths of the border inaccessible by car, according to a Border Patrol union representative."
Zero Horsepower: Media-Driven Scandal Leaves Border Patrol Agents Without Critical Tool
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Dr. James W. Le Duc, head of the Galveston National Laboratory, warned Chinese researchers about potential congressional investigations in April 2020, according to emails obtained by Judicial Watch. . . Roughly a year after his warnings, Le Duc accepted a position on the “Biosafety Advisory Committee” at China’s Westlake University, e-mails show."
Top US Scientist Warned Chinese Counterparts of Possible Investigations Into the Wuhan lab. One Year Later, He Took a Job at a Chinese University
"In the clip, Garrett, author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, announces to the National Academy of Medicine that a large-scale study conducted in Japan found that masks do not help defend against viruses such as the 2009 influenza. Instead, the main advantage of masks is to cause frightened behavior. "
Flashback: 2018 Video Shows "Public Health Expert" Admitting Masks Only Work to "Cause Alarm"
"When [Chinese] COVID was first discovered, all the evidence — not the models — clearly showed it was nothing more than a new variant of the flu, requiring an initial slightly more aggressive treatment but nothing that different than what we normally do. No one however wanted to look at that evidence. Instead, everyone panicked, letting government officials tear up the Constitution and destroy our freedoms, all in the name of 'safety' and 'security.' Fear ruled, and so freedom and common sense died."
The Evidence Keeps Pouring In Showing the Utter Failure of All Chinese COVID Mandates
"The fact is the [junta] has no better idea of the pandemic’s future than the groundhog does about winter’s duration. Maybe worse. The most consistent feature of the pandemic has been that expert predictions have been unfailingly inaccurate."
Billions in Chinese COVID Relieve Haven't Been Spent… But Biden Still Demands More!
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Grooming and brainwashing will abound, no doubt. And the program is run by . . . the Justice Dept.?!
"Not Open … To Parents": Hyper-Racial Justice Department "SPIRIT" Program Set To Descend On Public School
"Every single one of the candidates backed by the 1776 Project PAC have won their elections this year, 1776 Project founder Ryan Girdusky told told the Daily Caller News Foundation. He said support for candidates backed by his PAC was evidenced by the election results and turnout."
Texas School Board Candidates Sweep Elections With Help Of Anti-CRT PACs
“Since de-levelling was introduced… the school has dropped from 189th to 308th in the nationwide school rankings.” The parents movement in Barrington crosses all political, racial, and ethnic lines. It’s just parents refusing to be silent anymore.
Parents Revolt Against “Equity” Agenda In Barrington (RI) As School District Drops Precipitously In National Rankings
"[The complaint] will make you sick that these type of people were involved in setting policies for the teaching of little children."
Pushback: Arizona Parents Sue Over School Board's Attempt to Silence and Intimidate Them
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Dinesh D’Souza’s new documentary provides convincing evidence of ballot trafficking."
2,000 Mules Will Infuriate You
“'It’s not to go find the ballots in the ballot mix. You can’t do that. The way to find it is these guys [True the Vote] have the cell phone identification of all of the mules. All of them. So law enforcement has to step in at this point, and the next step is to go and interview the mules. Who paid you, where’d you get the money?' If that seems like a stretch, remember that the FBI has a history of using such data to identify and prosecute individuals, as they did in the wake of the January 6 protest at the Capitol."
2000 Mules: D'Souza Says There's an Easy Way to "Bust" the Ballot Traffickers, "But It's Not the Way You Think"
"Paddy McGuire's work misled the public about election integrity, this his county took cash from the notorious Center for Tech and Civic Life." Auditor Who Dismissed 2020 Fraud Failed to Declare Thousands of Dollars from Zuckerberg Election Interference Fund
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"If Trump pays the $110,000 in fines that have accrued to date, his team sufficiently explains their processes for keeping and destroying documents, and authorities can examine some more boxes of documents, he will be out of contempt of court that stemmed from his staff’s failure to comply with the New York attorney general’s subpoena of documents relating to the investigation of the Trump Organization."
Judge Conditionally Lifts Trump Contempt Ruling
"Karine Jean-Pierre’s tweets haven’t aged well." (much like Suzanne Evil Calves' calves - jjs)
Biden’s New Press Sec Thinks Russia Stole the 2016 Election. She’ll Fit Right In.
"A Wall Street Journal deep dive reveals that Steele’s central charges were based on idle gossip. Not from intel-community insiders with vast source networks. No: from a trio of unremarkable hacks with zero insight into covert affairs, whose only real connections were to Clinton World." (we knew this from day one, but thanks WSJ for catching up, finally - jjs)
The Steele Dossier’s Tawdry, Absurd and Fake "Sources"
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"All safe spaces are equal - but some are more equal than others." (and more safer-er - jjs)
Harvard's Jew-Hate
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"The site of the maskless fundraiser, Trone's mansion in Potomac, Md., is not even located in the state's Sixth Congressional District, which Trone represents. His estate is part of the Eighth Congressional District represented by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) since 2017. Tickets to an upcoming Democratic fundraiser in Illinois, where Biden is scheduled to appear alongside billionaire governor J.B. Pritzker (D., Ill.), will cost as much as $365,000 each."
Democrat Whose Offices Are Still Closed Due to Chinese COVID-19 Hosts Maskless Fundraising Soirée
POLITICS
“In all honesty, I was not a Trumper initially,” Barnette wrote on page 33 of her book. “With the likes of former governor Mike Huckabee, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and Senator Ted Cruz, there was no way on God’s green Earth I was intending to vote for the television and business mogul. We had just too many ‘good’ options to resort to voting for him. Out of sixteen presidential candidates, Donald Trump was number 16 on my preferred list.” (I felt the way she did before he clinched it; the more important questions are what does she think of him NOW and what he accomplished? - jjs)
Kathy Barnette Attacked Trump in 2016 GOP Primary: "Horrid," "Very Little Substance," "Moral Character is Questionable"
“Catholics don’t have to worry whether Kathy Barnette is sincere," said CatholicVote President Brian Burch in a May 10 statement. "The other candidates in the race are working to cover up or explain away their past positions, but Kathy Barnette doesn’t have that problem."
CatholicVote Endorses "Pro-Life Champion" Kathy Barnette for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania
"A new poll out Sunday found a potential new frontrunner in the crowded GOP Pennsylvania Senate primary."
Who Is Kathy Barnette? The Candidate Shaking Up the Pennsylvania Senate Race
"Once in a while, a Democrat says something that actually makes sense. For Paul Begala to do so in a way that’s winsome and, well, even funny is a refreshing surprise."
Paul "the forehead" Begala Slams Democrats' Elitism
"His Cinderella-story campaign seems made for TV — but Hollywoke wouldn’t dare."
Hillbilly Elegy 2: J.D. Vance’s Trump Turnaround
“Those months when she doubled down on attacking Republicans, attacking President Trump showed just how out of touch she was, not only with her constituents, but with the American people and with the Republican Party."
SHOT: House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik Details Her Efforts To Have Liz Cheney Removed From Leadership
"She is doing a service to this nation." (mostly illustrating how the GOPe is in bed with you and yours, asshole; for that I am grateful - jjs)
CHASER: Chinless, Fish-Eyed Stooge Eric Holder Sez Liz Cheney Has Guts
"Elon Musk has already started what should become a trend: the gradual inauguration of a future on whose cutting edge stand the lovers of civility, freedom, and truth." (starts of very well, but then goes into a Trump-bashing rant, though I do agree with some of it - jjs)
To Save the Country, Just "Vote Republican?" Not Even Close
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“'Members from the community and gang members from this crowd were actively fighting the police while they were trying to tend to the victims,' Chicago Police Commander of the Ninth District Don Jerome said during a press conference, according to LiveNOW from Fox." (Make the Society Great Again! Oh, wait a second . . . - jjs)
Officers Trying to Perform Life-Saving Measures on Gunshot Victims Met By "Hostile Crowd," Police Say
"Last month, the safety board issued the movie company its highest level of citation and maximum fine following its investigation into the deadly shot discharged last October that left Hutchins dead and film director Joel Souza wounded."
Rust Producers Dispute New Mexico Safety Agency’s Penalty
"Dallas police describe the shooter as a Black male about 5 feet, 7 inches to 5 feet, 10 inches with a thin build, curly hair and a beard. He was seen driving a maroon minivan." (Thanks, Obama! Thanks, Holder! Thanks, LBJ! - jjs)
Three Korean Women Shot at Dallas Hair Salon
SECOND AMENDMENT
"The suit against the law was brought by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc., Firearms Policy Foundation, Calguns Foundation, Poway Weapons and Gear and PWG Range, North County Shooting Center, Inc., Beebe Family Arms and Munitions, and Matthew Jones, as well as two other private citizens."
Ninth Circuit Panel Strikes California Semi-Auto Rifle Ban for 18-20 Year-Olds
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Cardinal Joseph Zen is a fierce critic of the Chinese Communist Party."
Catholic Prelate and Longtime Opponent of the CCP Arrested in Hong Kong
"Chinese authorities suppressed the protests in 2019, and now they’re looking to put an end to support for the protesters, even though the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund ceased operations last year after facing pressure from the government."
Hong Kong Authorities Arrest at Least Four Humanitarians for Legal Aid to Pro-Democracy Protesters
"While activists, corporations, and governments are helping Ukraine resist Russia’s invasion, very few talk about Hong Kong’s loss of its democracy to Communist China."
Why Doesn’t Hong Kong’s Tragic Subjugation Get as Much Attention as Ukraine?
Umm, I think it should be "Embrace Multiculturalism and Face National Suicide."
Swedish Fashion Designer: Embrace Multiculturalism or Face Civil War
"What the Ramadan violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque means for the two countries."
Can the Cold Peace Between Israel and Jordan Last?
"Based on two stories yesterday, it appears that the future alliances between nations in space are now beginning to sort themselves out."
The Future Factions in Space Become Clearer
Go long on Ferragamo, Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blank!
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Wins Philippines Presidential Election
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Imtiaz Mohammad cozies up to politicians, while belittling the US and its citizens."
Congresswoman Bro-Fo Omar/Nur/Burqawitz/Ikeeelyou Poses for Photo with "America is Run on Hate" Guy
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
They put on a transvestite water ballet in pregnancy flight suits while singing "Prisoners of Love?"
Here’s How the Navy Responded to China’s Mock Invasion of Taiwan
"Iran's Noor-2 satellite publicly released on Tuesday an image that it says is of a U.S. Navy base in Bahrain, with Iranian officials touting the photographs as proof that Tehran has knowledge of the American military's movements in the region."
Iran Spies on US Military Base in Bahrain
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"Several multi million-dollar mansions were among the residences in the ritzy neighborhood that went up in flames. Officials reportedly declared a state of emergency in Laguna Niguel to help fight the growing fire."
Wind-Fueled Laguna Niguel Wildfire Ravages Upscale Waterfront Homes in Southern California
“This needs to stop,” the Crawfords wrote in the caption to their Instagram post. “Our children are having emotional breakdowns, NOT from running, but from a mob that has been weaponized by [running’s] most accomplished and celebrated individuals. They are stating that children running is abusive and not providing any data or facts. The reports and stance are false. Hundreds of witnesses including police officers and hours of video footage corroborate. When will you apologize and retract?”
6-Year-Old Who Ran Marathon With His Family Visited By CPS, Family Says
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"In the United States, opioid deaths are usually caused by fentanyl, which the CDC estimates was responsible for 75 percent of the 2021 overdose deaths."
U.S. Drug Overdoses Reach Record High
"Free Beacon Investigates: Five cities, five free crack pipes." (the Hunter Biden Val-u-Pack! - jjs)
Yes, Safe Smoking Kits Include Free Crack Pipes. We Know Because We Got Them.
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Note that Sutherland Space Hub is not the SaxaVord Shetland Island spaceport also being developed in Scotland. The two are competing with each other to successfully complete the first launch from the United Kingdom in history. Also competing for this honor is an airport in Cornwall, which has a deal with Virgin Orbit to do its own launch later this year. And regardless who wins this race, the three sites will likely give the UK the first European-based spaceports in history."
Orbex Unveils a Full Scale Prototype of Its Prime Smallsat Rocket
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Sebastian Gorka: "Is it just deranged thespians and virtue-signaling politicians who have been driven mad? Not quite."
They’re Not Insane, They Have a Plan
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"You can’t make this shit up."
Washington Post Op-Ed Demands Name Change at George Washington University
"Clown world strikes again."
"Sexism" Row Erupts Over Not Enough Parasitic Worms Being Named After Female Scientists
Christian Toto: "The author of Don’t Burn This Country slams disappointing woke comics."
Dave Rubin: Maher, Chappelle, Rogan "Sound Like Conservatives"
Dennis Prager: "11 of the most absurd "beliefs" of our cultural elites."
The Age of the Absurd
HITHER & YON
"To reign as heavyweight champion in those years was to wear the crown of manhood before the whole world."
A Rose on Lincoln’s Grave
O. Henry and Rod Serling, staring down and smirking.
Man Dies of Heart Attack While Trying to Bury Girlfriend He Allegedly Murdered, Cops Say

NOTE: The opinions expressed in the links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 12, 2022 07:39 AM (bVYXr)

2 Top 10

Posted by: IanDeal at May 12, 2022 07:40 AM (MGjjz)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 12, 2022 07:40 AM (Vuoqe)

4 Morning peeps.

Rural living is waking up to gunfire from the redneck down the road with a new toy.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2022 07:41 AM (BFigT)

5 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at May 12, 2022 07:42 AM (u7pQw)

6 "But if we can't abort them, we have to starve them! WHY U H8 WAMENZ?"

OK, calmer now. Good morning, everyone.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 12, 2022 07:42 AM (4olE8)

7 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 12, 2022 07:42 AM (Do5/p)

8 And yet democrat mothers and fathers will continue voting democrat.

Posted by: fd at May 12, 2022 07:43 AM (uH1zk)

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

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 07:43 AM (4Rx1C)

10 Why not a fomula op? All the other ops have been sucessful.

Posted by: Eromero at May 12, 2022 07:43 AM (gktX6)

11 Since I didn't get the memo, can someone tell me if we are pouncing, seizing or weaponizing the fact that we have massive shortage of formula caused by the government?

Posted by: NR Pax at May 12, 2022 07:44 AM (4olE8)

12 Speaking of not being able to make shit up:

"Alabama jail director Vicky White was about to honored as employee of the year for the FIFTH time in her career before she helped murderer and lover Casey Cole White escape from prison on April 29."

Posted by: fd at May 12, 2022 07:45 AM (uH1zk)

13 Fen congratulations to your son on his graduation. Most rural areas including mine have Ag companies to assist farmers with planting harvesting etc. Soil sampling fertilizer and pest control etc. An internship with them would give him insight as to whether he has interest in that part of ag. His school can help secure one for him.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 12, 2022 07:46 AM (AhwG8)

14 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 12, 2022 07:46 AM (arJlL)

15 I do think they need to rename Washington DC to just DC. (District of Corruption).

Posted by: fd at May 12, 2022 07:46 AM (uH1zk)

16 That same United States of America today finds itself on the brink of running out of baby formula.

I would argue that it's not the same USA. The USA that used to Do Great Things is gone, swallowed by the monster around us. Anyone who trusts government (really at any level, but especially at the Federal level) is living under a rock, a complete idiot, or a True Believer. Back when we Did Great Things, the Government had earned some trust (it has more than spent that in the intervening years).

At the same time, Conservatives and Orthodox Christians (the Venn diagram was not a circle back then, now I do not believe it is possible to be a Bible-believing Christian and also be Liberal) all-too-often sat out the culture war around them or, worse, conformed to the World's definitions of "mercy" and "good" and "success."

That USA no longer exists.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 07:47 AM (4Rx1C)

17 f'd @ 12-
'White girls love them some bad boys.'

-thug of the month

Posted by: Eromero at May 12, 2022 07:47 AM (gktX6)

18 I'd like to see an analysis of how we got to a state of affairs where one company has a monopoly on infant formula, to the point where a simple safety recall can collapse the entire market.

I can guarantee you absurd regulations and omnipresent graft are at the core of it all, without even seeing a single data point.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 07:48 AM (6FeV1)

19 Yeah I know he's white.

Posted by: Eromero at May 12, 2022 07:48 AM (gktX6)

20 Since I didn't get the memo, can someone tell me if we are pouncing, seizing or weaponizing the fact that we have massive shortage of formula caused by the government?

All of those.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 07:48 AM (4Rx1C)

21 Baby Formula Shortage Deep Thot:

Maybe letting the FBI bomb or otherwise torch all those food processing plants wasn't a bright idea?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2022 07:48 AM (BFigT)

22 Good morning horde
Might be in links but read VDH this morning and warning the Left isn't just going to give up.
And at Federalist Alaska is going to all mail voting. Every resident now, the past, dead, illegals in system will get a ballot mailed to them or whoever lives their now to get sent in with no questions asked, signature not checked.

Posted by: Skip's phone at May 12, 2022 07:49 AM (5WpHf)

23 Much of our power here is nuclear so I'm not too worried about power outages, but you folks in California... sheesh. It's really incredible how the degeneration acceleration has kicked in.

Posted by: fd at May 12, 2022 07:50 AM (uH1zk)

24 Meanwhile, mothers who can only use formula (and often can only use one specific type of one specific brand of formula) are being told "oh, don't make formula at home, it's not nutritious!"

Which it isn't. Homemade formulas based on powdered milk and other things is not nutritionally complete for infants and a prolonged diet of it is bad. However, it is not *as* bad as the child literally starving to death, which is, in some cases, the only other option.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 07:50 AM (4Rx1C)

25 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 12, 2022 07:50 AM (z99Zw)

26 Happy Birthday JJ!!

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 07:51 AM (WY8d2)

27 ||How much do the political elites hate the freedom of speech? Enough to pull out all the stops to prevent self-professed "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk from taking over Twitter. Now the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is stepping in to "review" Musk's purchase of Twitter, looking into whether or not the takeover violates antitrust laws.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 07:51 AM (Jtln5)

28 Posted by: Jen the original at May 12, 2022 07:46 AM (AhwG

Thanks very much, Jen, for the congrats and for the info. The school has a farm and is located next to seed company so I think the school tries to get them hooked up with those opportunties among others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2022 07:51 AM (fF2aM)

29 Mornin', Horde. Yea, Alaska jacked up their election system just on time to hose Sarah Palin.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at May 12, 2022 07:51 AM (BtPzX)

30 I got halfway through and can't read anymore. This country is literally f*cking unraveling.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 07:51 AM (sVtYq)

31 you know how to make shortages a lot worse

let illegals in at scale

ur welcome

Posted by: REDACTED at May 12, 2022 07:52 AM (us2H3)

32
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Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2022 07:52 AM (yrol0)

33 How can Musk buying Twitter violate any antitrust law? It's one for one. Twitter in, Twitter out. Who owns the entity is irrelevant.

If there's a violation in the future with Musk, then there's a violation with the cabal of idiots running it now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 07:53 AM (6FeV1)

34 Disney misses 2nd quarter profit expectations but claims adding circa 8 million subscribers to its streaming service is a victory.

I didn't feel like looking it up but I wonder if the bulk of those are free-trial accounts or if they've lost millions of accounts more than they've gained?

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 07:53 AM (Jtln5)

35 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

The link between the baby formula shortage and abortion had occurred to me as well. As I've said here before, Democrats are ALL IN on killing as many children as possible, in or out of the womb.

They are absolutely relentless in their drive to eliminate the entire human race from the face of the earth. As long as THEY get to be the ones who turn out the lights.

It is an evil that is unfathomable to most human beings.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 12, 2022 07:53 AM (YIVH2)

36 CEO of United Refining Co., John Catsimatidis

What was his name before he changed it ?

Posted by: JT at May 12, 2022 07:53 AM (arJlL)

37 U.S. casinos report winning $5.3-billion in March, their best single month total ever. I wonder how that tracks with inflation over the decades??

Related: the Las Vegas Cosmopolitan gives all 5,400 employees a $5,000 bonus.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 07:53 AM (Jtln5)

38 Morning.
Brewing some ultra MAGA coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at May 12, 2022 07:54 AM (88xKn)

39 Mothers of newborns are naturally hysterical. It's a good thing, actually. I can only imagine their worry and anguish.

The infants too, of course.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 12, 2022 07:55 AM (i0slg)

40 I am not, in any way, hostile to Jews, but Schumer's abortion bill yesterday will play into the hands of the types of people who believe that Protocols of the Elders of Zion nonsense.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 12, 2022 07:55 AM (z99Zw)

41 Have two good friends and fellow Trumpers who are just in misery right now, due to the markets. I took a small hit myself. Did not know what to say. Do you get out with a 40% loss, or hold on? We still have 2 1/2 years left of this fool

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 07:56 AM (WY8d2)

42 These are all Own Goals.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 12, 2022 07:56 AM (i0slg)

43 The only sort-of good news in all of this is that Democrats are going to get positively shellacked come November, and they're in a Catch-22 of their own making.

I fully believe they were setting up Joe Brandon to be a fall-guy - take the big steps to implement the things they knew were unpopular and would lead to exactly this sort of economy, and then be removed from Office (either via his Cabinet or an Impeachment over "sudden revelations" in the Hunter case). They didn't count on VP Kneepads being even more loathsome to voters, though (which tells me they aren't exactly towering intellects). So now they can either get completely drubbed in November and then also fight to keep in place these policies that are literally killing people, or they can impeach BOTH POTUS and the VP in the very slim hope that President Nancy Pelosi can save them - assuming Republicans let it get that far that fast. The problem with removing Brandon and Kameltoe is that if the timing is wrong, it won't be President Pelosi, it'll be President Kevin McCarthy.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 07:56 AM (4Rx1C)

44 Another item of news, the two New York lawyers charged with firebombing an empty NYPD vehicle and caught in a vehicle with more molotov cocktails during the mostly peaceful fire based protests in NYC will not have to face a terrorism enhancement. They are now facing a sentence of 18-24 months (and possibly lower if their attorneys are capable of convincing the judge) instead of possible ten years with the terror enhancement.

Posted by: Penfold at May 12, 2022 07:56 AM (Fbt5B)

45 These people are manifestly irresponsible, so ideologically driven as to border on mental derangement, and because they have a near complete stranglehold on the levers of power and the instruments of control that maintain that power, pose an absolute, undeniable, existential threat to every man, woman and child -- in and out of the womb -- in this country.

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They aren't on the border of mental derangement. They are f*cking mentally insane. No news there, but it has left us in a very, very dangerous situation. There really is not much time left here. They have the entire country in a bag and the drawstring is almost completely pulled shut now. I don't know how we're ever going to get out of this, especially considering who we have on our supposed side. We're sitting a bundle of dynamite and the match is burning the fuse. This is not hyperbole, unfortunately. It's all too real and we're living through something historic, all of which is horrific.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 07:57 AM (sVtYq)

46 Merrick Garland is okay siccing the FBI on parents who dare to challenge school boards, but, is uninterested actual lawbreakers trying to intimidate SCOTUS justices.

Gosh, didn't see that one coming.

I might add, as I said yesterday, I don't care Merrick Garland sent the FBI after parents. I do care the FBI was willing to follow those orders.

But, the best and brightest straight arrows of law enforcement are all too happy to follow those orders.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 07:57 AM (5pTK/)

47 Great job, as usual, J.J.

Good morning.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 07:57 AM (5pTK/)

48 37. Desperate gamblers who are trying next months mortgage payment? I think its the legality of Sportsbetting across the country

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 07:57 AM (WY8d2)

49 How can Musk buying Twitter violate any antitrust law? It's one for one. Twitter in, Twitter out. Who owns the entity is irrelevant.

It's cute you think the rules matter.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 07:58 AM (4Rx1C)

50 40 I am not, in any way, hostile to Jews, but Schumer's abortion bill yesterday will play into the hands of the types of people who believe that Protocols of the Elders of Zion nonsense.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 12, 2022 07:55 AM (z99Zw)

Schumer does not exactly help the cause in dispelling stereotypes.

Ever see the movie "A Soldier's Story?" Adolph Ceaser's reaction to the death of C.J. Memphis is quite instructive and reflects my attitude towards Schemer.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 07:58 AM (s2VJv)

51 This is not hyperbole, unfortunately. It's all too real and we're living through something historic, all of which is horrific.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 07:57 AM (sVtYq)

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Well said. I might add, we'd not have known how much "our side" is working against our interests and the interests of America, in general, were it not for the advent of President Trump.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 07:59 AM (5pTK/)

52 The New York Times reported Tuesday: “A Baby Formula Shortage Leaves Desperate Parents Searching for Food.” A headline once impossible in America.

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Stolen elections have consequences.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump did in 2 years what Biden had promised for 40 at May 12, 2022 07:59 AM (rjyzh)

53 “Threats against public servants are not only illegal, they run counter to our nation’s core values,” Garland wrote at the time.

1776, the founders of our "nation's core values" wrote a scathing letter and threat to the ruling authority - then acted upon it.

Over 244 years later, your ilk set about to burn, loot and murder, culminating in an overthrow of the government. And to this day you are threatening Supreme Court Justices and congress critters.

“Those who dedicate their time and energy to ensuring that our children receive a proper education in a safe environment deserve to be able to do their work without fear for their safety.”

aka Parents. Because the "teachers" are preying upon the children to be mentally unstable, illiterate sex slaves.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:00 AM (AHeqJ)

54 If we blow that Penn Governors race, it will really screw us in 2024. Gov gets to appoint the SOS and election chief.

Is Mastriano unelectable? did Trump endorse him

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:00 AM (WY8d2)

55
which took place after four infants were hospitalized, and two died, though there is no proven link yet with the formula itself, according to the FDA.

While the bacteria suspected *could* have come from the formula it also could have come from the water used in the mix, or sloppy handling of the lid, or the dispensing cup.

Abundance of caution caused a shortage. Top Men.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2022 08:00 AM (dQvv7)

56 Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 07:57 AM (sVtYq)

I can't decide what is more frightening: the idea that Democrats are really so stupid that they really don't understand cause and effect as it applies to their policies, or that they're "true believers" who are not opposed to cracking a few eggs to make their omelet.

Short term the effects are the same. Long term, one leads to savagery and barbarism while the other leads "a boot stomping on the face of humanity forever."

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 08:01 AM (4Rx1C)

57 Another item of news, the two New York lawyers charged with firebombing an empty NYPD vehicle and caught in a vehicle with more molotov cocktails during the mostly peaceful fire based protests in NYC will not have to face a terrorism enhancement. They are now facing a sentence of 18-24 months (and possibly lower if their attorneys are capable of convincing the judge) instead of possible ten years with the terror enhancement.

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They're thanking their lucky stars they didn't take their picture inside the Capitol on J6!! Now, talk about enhanced terrorism charges and additional time in the slammer for that unforgivable transgression!

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:01 AM (sVtYq)

58 Desperate gamblers who are trying next months mortgage payment? I think its the legality of Sportsbetting across the country
Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 07:57 AM (WY8d2)
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Students who are celebrating not having to pay back their student loans.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:01 AM (5pTK/)

59 You know, one would almost think that it was probably Democrats who were intimidating judges 100 years ago leading to the creation of the laws prohibiting intimidation of judges.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump did in 2 years what Biden had promised for 40 at May 12, 2022 08:02 AM (rjyzh)

60 So, news I didn't know - 3 Supreme Court justices live in Fairfax County.

See, it's not a bad place if you have to be in the area.

Posted by: Nova local at May 12, 2022 08:02 AM (exHjb)

61
I have no problem finding infant formula on Amazon with a same or next day delivery.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2022 08:02 AM (dQvv7)

62 Hahaha

I just heard that we're flying the flag at half mast until Monday to celebrate Covid-19 deaths.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump did in 2 years what Biden had promised for 40 at May 12, 2022 08:02 AM (rjyzh)

63 Another item of news, the two New York lawyers charged with firebombing an empty NYPD vehicle and caught in a vehicle with more molotov cocktails during the mostly peaceful fire based protests in NYC will not have to face a terrorism enhancement. They are now facing a sentence of 18-24 months (and possibly lower if their attorneys are capable of convincing the judge) instead of possible ten years with the terror enhancement.

Any word on the J6 Panty Raid participants?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:02 AM (AHeqJ)

64 Wildfires destroy several multimillion-dollar mansions in coastal southern CA.

No one 'important' I guess as the chyron didn't add e.g. 'including Oprah Schumer-Colbert-Feinstein's summer home' to the description.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:02 AM (Jtln5)

65 While mothers desperately seek baby formula, Biden announces billions more $ for Ukraine. When does the country rise up against the inhumanity of this administration? If not now, when?

Posted by: Ziba at May 12, 2022 08:02 AM (S1hrL)

66 Good morning dear morons and congratulations on your birthday

That was not an essay it was an indictment. Bravo.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2022 08:03 AM (EZebt)

67 28. Hydroponic farming has become huge also. Most of the plastic boxed salad greens herbs etc in the Midwest are grown in huge greenhouses. There is a show on RFD TV called FarmHer that focuses on women in Ag.and they have several episodes on the big greenhouse farms. Lots of high tech to be able to harvest daily year round and very intensive sanitation. The greenhouses need educated Ag majors to make and supervise all the planting growing etc.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 12, 2022 08:03 AM (Eeyyh)

68 Right now, Fairfax is letting protestors gather for a few minutes to get the news media coverage and then making them disperse...

Which would be very Fairfax...

Posted by: Nova local at May 12, 2022 08:03 AM (exHjb)

69 I have no problem finding infant formula on Amazon with a same or next day delivery.

Its the new "Can't Get ID to Vote" mentality.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:03 AM (AHeqJ)

70 They're thanking their lucky stars they didn't take their picture inside the Capitol on J6!!
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Or have Lego cop-car models in their houses!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:05 AM (Jtln5)

71 67 28. Hydroponic farming has become huge also. Most of the plastic boxed salad greens herbs etc in the Midwest are grown in huge greenhouses. There is a show on RFD TV called FarmHer that focuses on women in Ag.and they have several episodes on the big greenhouse farms. Lots of high tech to be able to harvest daily year round and very intensive sanitation. The greenhouses need educated Ag majors to make and supervise all the planting growing etc.
Posted by: Jen the original at May 12, 2022 08:03 AM (Eeyyh)

Mendel out, Lysenko in. Yeah, we're heading for starvation.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 08:05 AM (s2VJv)

72 Threatening "school administrators" is not going to be tolerated. Threatening Supreme Court Justices is no problem, however. Carry on.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

73 Right now, Fairfax is letting protestors gather for a few minutes to get the news media coverage and then making them disperse...

Which would be very Fairfax...

Any rallies to "Defund The Schools!" ?
For the 'Defund the Police' the facilitators already rerouted the money devoted to police services to their pet social projects. I propose the same thing. "Defund The Schools" and reroute the money to alternative education.

These greedy, sloven perverts won't work for free to empty classrooms.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:06 AM (AHeqJ)

74 I am surprised that with the riots that have taken place and the threatened riots to come, an enterprising person of unstable mental clarity hasn't taking liberty with the opportunities such rich target environments afford.

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 12, 2022 08:06 AM (p9+o4)

75 I don't have infant children but better go buy a pallet of formula because shortage

Posted by: A dude in MI, size Ultra MAGA at May 12, 2022 08:06 AM (/6GbT)

76 Look at the collapse happening all around you. This is what happens when you allow an election to be stolen.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 12, 2022 08:06 AM (EZB3K)

77 Posted by: Jen the original at May 12, 2022 08:03 AM (Eeyyh)

Thanks for the great information, Jen. They also have greenhouses at his school which do the hydroponic gardening. He toured that when he went to visit.

BTW, I apologize for all my personal information about my son on the earlier thread. I just wanted to share some good news, since what is going on with me is concerning.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2022 08:07 AM (fF2aM)

78 The Left are vile SOBs

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 12, 2022 08:07 AM (Irn0L)

79 Also, between the gas prices which are still going up and the baby food shortage and other shortages that are going to start occurring (pray for rain in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico, y'all - a lot of beef comes from there, among other foodstuffs), we're getting really, really close to "When the Music Stops."

It won't take much more for gas prices to be so high you can't go anywhere and can't even get things delivered (diesel is hovering around 5.50/gal at truck stops, and the average Semi Truck holds about 300 gallons or so when full - that's A LOT of money).

Once that happens, with a trickle of supplies (I don't *think* it would all completely shut down), an average Urban Center will be out of food in a week or three. And then who knows what will happen?

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 08:07 AM (4Rx1C)

80 Merrick Garland led his life to be a stealth nominee to SCOTUS. Denied!

I imagine he wants revenge.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 12, 2022 08:07 AM (i0slg)

81 Finnish president and P.M. say they're in favour of joining NATO.

Vlad says Holy Mutha Russia will take "retalitory steps" of "military-technical steps" if the Finns join NATO.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:08 AM (Jtln5)

82 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

83 The Trial And Execution Of Nikolai Ceaucescu:

"Unhand me, you brute!! Don't you know who I am?!?!"

"Nikolai Ceaucescu?"

"Yes! Now return me to my palace or face my wrath, nave!!"

*sound of machine guns*

"Hey, fellas. Let's check out this dead guy's palace."

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 08:08 AM (8gxrg)

84 Schumer's baby murder bill barely lost yesterday. Just thinking about that makes me sick to my stomach, and is the perfect embodiment of just how extreme the Democrat Party has become. Some of the tidbits of the bill I saw yesterday were straight out of a horror movie. And it lost by 1 lone vote. Un-flipping-believable.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:08 AM (sVtYq)

85 In an effort to alleviate the pain at the pump, the Biden administration cancels the leases on over 1 million acres of oil rich land, preventing any further extraction from the region.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

86 The Left are vile SOBs
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 12, 2022 08:07 AM (Irn0L)
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The left haven't changed their spots.

However, the GOPe have made us all aware they too have their own spots.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:09 AM (5pTK/)

87 I imagine he wants revenge.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 12, 2022 08:07 AM (i0slg)

I was saying that to FenSpouse this morning.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2022 08:09 AM (fF2aM)

88 arghhh. 2022

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:09 AM (WY8d2)

89 That same United States of America today finds itself on the brink of running out of baby formula.
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I can't help but to sadly disagree. It is not that same USA. It is a different USA. We have the same name and the same institutions and agencies are still on the stage going through the motions, but it is not that place. We crossed Year Zero at some point in the last decade. It's USA 2.0 (or 3.0, or 4.0 - it sort of depends on how you count) now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:09 AM (DU+/6)

90 #81 Ooops. "military-technical steps" = "military-technical nature".

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:09 AM (Jtln5)

91 You know things are bad, when you hear Karen's bitching about Biden at the Grocery store

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:10 AM (WY8d2)

92 Leaks from SCOTUS. Perfectly fine. More of the "anything goes" mentality...

Posted by: Ziba at May 12, 2022 08:10 AM (S1hrL)

93 > Hydroponic farming has become huge also.
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I've seen some ads for "upscale" hydroponic grow systems... basically a plastic box with a grow light and some fancy LED's. Some are selling for thousands of dollars.

The target demographic seems to be urban dwellers with $$.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2022 08:10 AM (BFigT)

94 You know things are bad, when you hear Karen's bitching about Biden at the Grocery store
Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:10 AM (WY8d2)
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doesn't matter. They'd still vote for the demented old walking corpse.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:11 AM (5pTK/)

95 84. Show vote. They needed 60 to get cloture to begin with. Manchin did vote for two marxists for Fed Board and FTC this week though, but I will take it

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:11 AM (WY8d2)

96 I read a terrifying article yesterday addressing the coming diesel fuel shortage, and just what that portends. If any of it comes true, we're in deep doo doo. We're going to experience unfathomable shortages and equally unfathomable prices of food and goods that are already at 40-year record highs.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:11 AM (sVtYq)

97 ||Ruth Sent Us is meant to appear grassroots. In reality, it's interlinked with a much larger network of leftist organizations. The site was registered by Sam Spiegel, the director of digital media at an anti-Trump PAC known as Unseat whose email contact is listed as Vigil for Democracy. [...]

Ruth Sent Us promotes activism through something called Strike for Choice which its Twitter account describes as "one of the national strikes under the Vigil For Democracy umbrella."

The protest fundraising is being conducted through Open Collective, a leftist financial sponsor, which had previously partnered with the Digital Infrastructure Fund backed by $605,000 from the Ford Foundation, $50,000 from leftist Persian billionaire Pierre Omidyar, and $100,000 from George Soros' Open Society Foundation.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:11 AM (Jtln5)

98 77. Fen you are welcome. I know you are facing some health issues and I pray for you that they are resolved soon. Do not apologize for sharing the happy news of your sons achievement. In the midst of the torrent of bad news here it’s a bright spot of hope.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (Eeyyh)

99 “There’s a national shortage of baby formula. That means babies are going hungry. Instead of taking care of our nation’s children, conservatives are worried about banning abortions. Sickening,” she tweeted."
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Just so much bluster. First, the two are not related. Second, what congressional action can they take for the baby formula shortage? Can they issue a binding order to Abbot to start making more? No, not that I am aware of. Can they make it themselves and start distributing it? No, they can't.

At most, Congress can pressure the executive to sort out whatever is happening at the FDA. It's all rumor as near as I can tell, but Abbot's major facility is still idle pending FDA clearance. Sorry, toots, but that's executive and not congressional.

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

100 Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Sponge Brain ShitsPants, the Biden Abomination. at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (jV+aN)

101 I noodle around with ideas of political theory and ideology. I've come to the conclusion that the junta in DC well and truly has no ideology. The only coherence to their actions and statements comes from a desire to do Evil. Whatever causes the greatest human suffering and the greatest damage to Truth, that is what they will do.

There is no "And then...." as with most revolutionary ideologies. There is no bright future beyond the immediate suffering. To the extent you can call this faction ideological at all, it is a purely punitive ideology. The destroy whatever it is they did not create, and they can create nothing. So they destroy everything.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (6FeV1)

102 It's gonna be too bad when there is no power for the grow lights.

Posted by: fd at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (vrz2I)

103 "Alabama jail director Vicky White was about to honored as employee of the year for the FIFTH time in her career before she helped murderer and lover Casey Cole White escape from prison on April 29."

Posted by: fd

Apparently her suicide attempt became a successful suicide yesterday. RIP, cray cray lady.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (8gxrg)

104 While mothers desperately seek baby formula, Biden announces billions more $ for Ukraine. When does the country rise up against the inhumanity of this administration? If not now, when?

First off, I'm pretty sure its not the Fe'ral Government's responsibility to provide baby formula. I don't think even communist China does that.

Second, its not a function of "inhumanity" this is the act of War against We The People. Plundering and Looting the people is always about the spoils.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (AHeqJ)

105 Worst thing is that 49 senators voted for Infanticide, the killing of a baby after is born. That includes Synema and Casey

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (WY8d2)

106 77 Posted by: Jen the original at May 12, 2022 08:03 AM (Eeyyh)

Thanks for the great information, Jen. They also have greenhouses at his school which do the hydroponic gardening. He toured that when he went to visit.

BTW, I apologize for all my personal information about my son on the earlier thread. I just wanted to share some good news, since what is going on with me is concerning.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2022 08:07 AM (fF2aM)

Congrats to your son! And as someone who talks about my kids all the time, never apologize for sharing your good news here. My oldest is 1 behind your son, and I'm pretty sure I celebrated her getting her 1st part time job a few months ago here!

PS - And she's still employed and the boss loves her, so children's science birthday party assistant works for her, at least as pocket money to get through her college years and build some work experience for a resume...

Posted by: Nova local at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (exHjb)

107 Schumer's baby murder bill barely lost yesterday. Just thinking about that makes me sick to my stomach, and is the perfect embodiment of just how extreme the Democrat Party has become. Some of the tidbits of the bill I saw yesterday were straight out of a horror movie. And it lost by 1 lone vote. Un-flipping-believable.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:08 AM (sVtYq)

No really: With 51 senators opposed and 49 in support, Democrats fell short of the 60 votes they would have needed to take up sweeping legislation to ensure abortion access and explicitly bar a wide array of restrictions.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (Irn0L)

108 Good morning everyone!

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

109 The US is sending so much fuel to Europe that there will be fuel rationing in the east coast this summer. That will play well.

Look for shipping costs to go through the roof, if you can get anyone to ship.

Well, at least non Americans will have fuel.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (EZB3K)

110 Co-blogger and friend CBD has made the case that the straw that will break the camel's back, as it were, from both an electoral and perhaps a long-term societal standpoint is our children.

Wait......CBD has friends?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

111 That same United States of America today finds itself on the brink of running out of baby formula.
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I can't help but to sadly disagree. It is not that same USA. It is a different USA. We have the same name and the same institutions and agencies are still on the stage going through the motions, but it is not that place. We crossed Year Zero at some point in the last decade. It's USA 2.0 (or 3.0, or 4.0 - it sort of depends on how you count) now

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I agree, Joe. We aren't the same. We haven't been the same for a long time. We're just wearing the skin suit now.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:13 AM (sVtYq)

112 I have no problem finding infant formula on Amazon with a same or next day delivery.

1) To some degree: yes, but the prices have jumped quite a bit. Given how much formula a child goes through, that hurts the pocket book almost as much as gas prices. Maybe more in some cases.

2) It seems (I'm adjacent to many Mom groups) that the stuff that's hardest to find are specifically the ones formulated for specific digestive issues - which makes it worse, because if you need one of those kinds, you really can't use anything else.

3) I don't know how many times - even with reasonably good budgeting and planning, I had to make a midnight trip out to the store to buy formula when my kids were that little. And if you go to Walmart or (in my neck of the woods) Brookshires, it's a crap shoot if you'll find any at all, and even longer odds that you'll find any of that special formula from point 2.

The fact that it's available on Amazon is not really helpful in a lot of circumstances.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 08:13 AM (4Rx1C)

113 Worst thing is that 49 senators voted for Infanticide, the killing of a baby after is born. That includes Synema and Casey
Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (WY8d2)

That is disgusting and why we can never trust ANY democrat....or many RINOs

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 12, 2022 08:13 AM (Irn0L)

114 94. Agreed. Karens would vote for Hitler if he were Pro Choice

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:14 AM (WY8d2)

115 I don't think I have the intestinal fortitude for all the bad news today. Maybe see some of you on a later thread. Have a good day everyone.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2022 08:14 AM (fF2aM)

116 While the letter noted how the FBI ultimtately dismissed these investigations, the two congressman were still troubled by the fact precious law enforcement resources were used to probe parents that were merely exercising their First Amendment right.
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"Troubled congressmen" are about as valuable as rusty nails hammered point-up into your hallway carpet. What the hell does "troubled" mean? It means nothing. It means, "here's a soundbite - now watch as I do nothing because I'm a coward or directly involved in it."

How about more than some words, eh? How about refusing to pass any funding bill that includes line items for DoJ? You control the power of the purse, don't you?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:14 AM (DU+/6)

117 In reference to the baby formula, if the shortage, and there is one, had not been so widely publicized people would not have started hording. Which is exasperating the shortage.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 12, 2022 08:15 AM (Irn0L)

118 Posted by: Nova local at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (exHjb)

Yes, it's clear you are very devoted to your kids and it's nice to hear that they are doing well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2022 08:15 AM (fF2aM)

119 At most, Congress can pressure the executive to sort out whatever is happening at the FDA. It's all rumor as near as I can tell, but Abbot's major facility is still idle pending FDA clearance. Sorry, toots, but that's executive and not congressional.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

How about the federal government, legislative AND executive get the fuck out the way?

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at May 12, 2022 08:15 AM (HFXv5)

120 Disinformation Board has declared there is no formula shortage, such talk is a threat to our democracy, and in fact the ration has been increased to 4 ounces per day.

Posted by: Ripley at May 12, 2022 08:16 AM (MxEKc)

121 Forgetting elections for a moment, will any or all of that be enough to engender a "great reset" to coin a phrase? Who knows. But when mothers cannot feed their babies, on top of the fact that there is a drive to turn those that survive to adolescence into catamites and sex slaves, then all bets are off.
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I think it's more likely that all of this is a consequence of the great reset, not a potential cause of it. In a situation like this, the ruling powers are utterly victorious or there's a different kind - a much older kind - of reset.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:16 AM (DU+/6)

122 41 Have two good friends and fellow Trumpers who are just in misery right now, due to the markets. I took a small hit myself. Did not know what to say. Do you get out with a 40% loss, or hold on? We still have 2 1/2 years left of this fool
Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 07:56 AM (WY8d2)

Depends when and if you need the money...any money you need in the next 12 months should never be in the market. Any money you need in 13-60 months should be only partially in the market. If you don't need it for more than 60 months (5 years), then just leave it all...

Posted by: Nova local at May 12, 2022 08:17 AM (exHjb)

123 So Pierre Omydar is funding attacks on the supreme court. He also pays the salary of Bill Kristol among other so-called conservatives, which explains their whorish writings.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 12, 2022 08:17 AM (EZB3K)

124 That USA no longer exists.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 07:47 AM (4Rx1C)

Arguably, that USA ceased to exist when we started paying people to BE rather than to DO.

It's just taken a while for the corpse to notice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 12, 2022 08:17 AM (z99Zw)

125 I read a terrifying article yesterday addressing the coming diesel fuel shortage, and just what that portends. If any of it comes true, we're in deep doo doo. We're going to experience unfathomable shortages and equally unfathomable prices of food and goods that are already at 40-year record highs.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:11 AM (sVtYq)

Yep, it's like firsthand experience of what eliminating fossil fuels does to our system. And there will be those on the left that say "good." They are so ideologically bound to their notions, actual human suffering doesn't matter.

Posted by: Mainah at May 12, 2022 08:17 AM (B+qrE)

126 58. Interesting on the Student loans. Word is that it will be only 10k forgiveness, and under 125k income. Lot of liberal lawyers in Manahttan making that that cannot barely pay rent.

Have friends whose kids all owe on average of 25 to 50 k, one with 150k

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:17 AM (WY8d2)

127 In reference to the baby formula, if the shortage, and there is one, had not been so widely publicized people would not have started hording. Which is exasperating the shortage.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 12, 2022 08:15 AM (Irn0L)
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Agreed. The media is ginning up fear pron over this (just like they do everything else), because they are of the same mindset of the Democrat Party.

They, too, want to be a part of the extinction of the human race BAMN, as long as they get to report on it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 12, 2022 08:18 AM (YIVH2)

128 Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (AHeqJ)

It's not the Federal Government's job to supply the formula, but when Pete Bootygig (or whatever his name is) makes the supply chain issues worse than they are, that's the Federal Government's fault and problem to fix.

We don't (last I looked) make most of the formula used in the US domestically, we import it (mostly from China, which is dumb, but that's a different discussion). So with the *addition* of the biggest formula facility in the US going up in flames, that already-stressed supply line broke.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 08:18 AM (4Rx1C)

129 An excellent observation...

Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth; 9h
81 million votes... and I've never seen a Biden hat or shirt in my life.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:18 AM (Jtln5)

130 James O'Keefe and Project Veritas have replaced Sixty Minutes as the hard-hitting journalists that scumbags flee.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 12, 2022 08:18 AM (W+kMI)

131 104

The government is responsible if, in fact, the formula shortage is due to the FDA dragging its feet giving the all clear.

The administration and its policies are, in fact, inhumane, imo. You may disagree now, but wait and see.

Posted by: Ziba at May 12, 2022 08:19 AM (S1hrL)

132 "Instead of stopping her party from continuing to grind the economy into dust, we need to kill babies in the womb to prevent more mouths to feed."

Yet the Junta welcomes over 100,000 more mouths to feed, every month, from around the world. You can be the Junta does whatever it takes to have baby formula on-hand to feed all the babies brought across the Rio Grande, and newborns in taxpayer-funded illegal immigrant charity shelters across the country,

Posted by: BlueMoon at May 12, 2022 08:19 AM (FYFBu)

133 Agreed. Karens would vote for Hitler if he were Pro Choice

Do I have news for them!

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 08:19 AM (4Rx1C)

134 123 So Pierre Omydar is funding attacks on the supreme court. He also pays the salary of Bill Kristol among other so-called conservatives, which explains their whorish writings.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 12, 2022 08:17 AM (EZB3K)

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eBay money buys a lot of paid protestors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 08:19 AM (LvTSG)

135 As per the Bee snark:
If the Disinformation Board is nonpartisan and necessary--put Trump in charge of it.

Anyway, it's not just the FBI that should be disbanded. The entire Department of Justice needs razed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 12, 2022 08:19 AM (rHyrR)

136 Everytime wife and I go grocery shopping, i pick up at least two cans of low salt fruit , veggies, and some kind of meat if i can. She ribs me about that, but yesterday she said she kind of understands now

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:19 AM (WY8d2)

137 The US is sending so much fuel to Europe that there will be fuel rationing in the east coast this summer. That will play well. ...
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 12, 2022 08:12 AM (EZB3K)
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Our hybridized world of 1984, Brave New World and Atlas Shrugged continues apace, I see.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:19 AM (DU+/6)

138 133.Touche

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:20 AM (WY8d2)

139 130 James O'Keefe and Project Veritas have replaced Sixty Minutes as the hard-hitting journalists that scumbags flee.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 12, 2022 08:18 AM (W+kMI)

I bet most of those that fled 60 Minutes cameras probably weren't all that bad. All things considered.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 08:20 AM (s2VJv)

140 Good news, the baby formula ration is being increased!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2022 08:21 AM (EZebt)

141 Our hybridized world of 1984, Brave New World and Atlas Shrugged continues apace, I see.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:19 AM (DU+/6)

You'll get Mad Max, Brazil, and Blade Runner.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 08:21 AM (6FeV1)

142 138 133.Touche
Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:20 AM (WY8d2)

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Just wait until they find out what Hitler thought of single payer healthcare and corporations performing the whims of a "progressive" state.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 08:21 AM (LvTSG)

143 How can Musk buying Twitter violate any antitrust law? It's one for one. Twitter in, Twitter out. Who owns the entity is irrelevant.

If there's a violation in the future with Musk, then there's a violation with the cabal of idiots running it now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 07:53 AM (6FeV1)

Because of his ownership positions with noted communications companies Tesla/SpaceX/Starlink and because he wants to deprive them of a modicum of control but, mostly...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 12, 2022 08:21 AM (z99Zw)

144 141 Our hybridized world of 1984, Brave New World and Atlas Shrugged continues apace, I see.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:19 AM (DU+/6)

You'll get Mad Max, Brazil, and Blade Runner.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 08:21 AM (6FeV1)

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Go long on ducts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 08:21 AM (LvTSG)

145 Everytime wife and I go grocery shopping, i pick up at least two cans of low salt fruit , veggies, and some kind of meat if i can. She ribs me about that, but yesterday she said she kind of understands now
Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:19 AM (WY8d2)
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My wife used to do the same about the canned stuff I keep on hand. No longer. Much like she used to raise an eyebrow when I carried in church. A couple of church shootings later, that issue has gone away, too.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:21 AM (5pTK/)

146 well Ric Grenell has disgraced himself as far a I'm concerned. Nothing but a GOP-e Sid Blumenthal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 08:21 AM (r46W7)

147 The government is responsible if, in fact, the formula shortage is due to the FDA dragging its feet giving the all clear.

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They're responsible on the other end, too. It's my understanding that the plants hadn't been inspected in years.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:22 AM (DxFDO)

148 Anyway, it's not just the FBI that should be disbanded. The entire Department of Justice needs razed.

Plus some scattering and salting.

Come to the Burning Side. We have S'mores.
Until the supply chain fails, anyway.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 08:22 AM (4Rx1C)

149 We all agree that Putin is evil, and feel for the Women and Children of Ukraine, but Zalensky and the other leaders there are grifters. fucker is worh 800 million due to Chicago syle political theft. Pentagon sends 40 billion in arms to satisfy their defense contracter buddies

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:22 AM (WY8d2)

150 91 You know things are bad, when you hear Karen's bitching about Biden at the Grocery store
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It's called "cause and effect", ladies. The situation at the grocery stores happened because you voted for the Placeholder.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 12, 2022 08:22 AM (W+kMI)

151 A summer of seething masses: gas prices continue to rise and possible rationing, brown outs, black outs,
etc. The summer of 2022 will be lit.

Posted by: Ziba at May 12, 2022 08:22 AM (S1hrL)

152 Schumer's baby murder bill barely lost yesterday. Just thinking about that makes me sick to my stomach, and is the perfect embodiment of just how extreme the Democrat Party has become. Some of the tidbits of the bill I saw yesterday were straight out of a horror movie. And it lost by 1 lone vote. Un-flipping-believable.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:08 AM

It lost by eleven votes, not one. He needed a filibuster proof majority of 60 votes to pass it and he knew he did not have the votes.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 12, 2022 08:22 AM (bVYXr)

153 146. Grennell ? what happened?

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:23 AM (WY8d2)

154 146 well Ric Grenell has disgraced himself as far a I'm concerned. Nothing but a GOP-e Sid Blumenthal.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 08:21 AM (r46W7)

He has been very convincing that:
1. Oz is the wrong choice
2. Barnette is clean and committed to our cause and not just from 2022

Use the info wisely.

Posted by: Nova local at May 12, 2022 08:23 AM (exHjb)

155 We don't (last I looked) make most of the formula used in the US domestically, we import it (mostly from China, which is dumb, but that's a different discussion). So with the *addition* of the biggest formula facility in the US going up in flames, that already-stressed supply line broke.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 08:18 AM (4Rx1C)

You'd think the US would look at Russia holding Europe hostage over energy and say "hmm, maybe we don't want the same thing to happen with baby formula, etc. etc." They might think it, but then rationalize it away with "well that's just America First icky Ultra-Maga thinking!"

Posted by: Mainah at May 12, 2022 08:23 AM (B+qrE)

156 I read a terrifying article yesterday addressing the coming diesel fuel shortage, and just what that portends. If any of it comes true, we're in deep doo doo. We're going to experience unfathomable shortages and equally unfathomable prices of food and goods that are already at 40-year record highs.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:11 AM (sVtYq)
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Yeah, the economy runs on diesel and electricity. Transportation runs almost entirely on diesel. A shortage of diesel means less transportation, and much higher costs per mile. There's no way around that. Diesel pumps through every vein in this country.

And it's particularly appalling that we're under diesel supply pressure, because it's fairly easy to make. You can even squeeze it out of coal if you need to (and if you have surplus electricity as an input). But hey, it's "carbon" so it's got to go.

I really, really hate our shitty press. Whenever the cost of fuel or inflation comes up, not one journalist asks Ole' Porridge Brain or any of his surrogates whether he is reconsidering his campaign promise to kill the oil industry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)

157
Short of DeSantis or whomever coming in, sacking the entire DOJ and abolishing the FBI, then going after Soros, Omidyar, Fink, etc. etc and RICOing their asses, seizing their assets and then convicting the lot on treason and hanging them Nuremberg style, then nothing will change.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM (s2VJv)

158 Magical thinking:

canceling oil leases will lower gas prices.
Canceling debts will lower inflation.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM (EZebt)

159 I heard a disturbing statistic on the radio. Supposedly one in three single mothers are skipping meals so they can afford to feed their kids. I have no idea if true or how they came up with that number but it is the type of news that is usually thrown in out during a Republican administration to smear them. Things must be pretty bad for the regime if news like this is being reported .

On the other hand, from what I know of single mothers they vote overwhelming Dem, so they are getting what they voted for, good and hard.

Posted by: Ripley at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM (MxEKc)

160 The US is sending so much fuel to Europe that there will be fuel rationing in the east coast this summer. That will play well. ...

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The thing is, will Americans even know the US (or rather, illegitimate Biden's mal-administration) did that? Sent our dwindling resources to another country while we suffer here at home?

Just like our tax dollars, $40Billion, going to the Ukraine when we're in a world of hurt here in this country. Who will tell them? The MFM? Most will never know, is my guess.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM (sVtYq)

161 So, Rev just tested positive for Covid. 5 days of quarantine. Uff da.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM (45fpk)

162 Time for today's liberal blame-casting for gas prices!
PapaPear - Proud Liberal #RestoreAmerica
Want proof that gas price gouging is underway? Compare oil and gas prices over the last 20 years. Oil is WELL BELOW the pre-Great Recession peak and WELL BELOW Obama’s first term yet #gasprices are at record highs!

It's gone up about another fifty cents in Michigan the last week or so For no apparent reason. Biden put more reserve oil in the market. So why does the price keep climbing???

Predatory Capitalism is who to blame for inflation! Their goal is to make Biden look bad and reinstate their puppet Donald Trump

Haven't you heard? The USSC overturned the law of supply and demand. All very legal and complex.
Okay...that last one was pretty funny. Nice that we can all shit on the useless SCOTUS.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM (NCgXW)

163 152 It lost by eleven votes, not one. He needed a filibuster proof majority of 60 votes to pass it and he knew he did not have the votes.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 12, 2022 08:22 AM (bVYXr)

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And he refused to put forward a bill that Collins supported that wasn't quite so lefty insane that would have gotten her vote (and probably Murkowski's, Romney's, and, yes, Manchin's).

It was failure theater. He just dragged his entire caucus (save Manchin) into outright supporting the erasure of women and the advocacy of abortion until crowning.

But, remember, Sinema is moderate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM (LvTSG)

164 81 million votes... and I've never seen a Biden hat or shirt in my life.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:18 AM (Jtln5)

Back during the stolen election, I met an old battleaxe who was wearing a long sleeve "Biden" tshirt. She kept babbling how her federal judge of a layabout husband was retired and needed medical care blah blah blah. A real loon. Only "Biden" shirt I have ever seen.
Hopefully both of these parasites have expired since then.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM (p9+o4)

165 My wife used to do the same about the canned stuff I keep on hand. No longer. Much like she used to raise an eyebrow when I carried in church. A couple of church shootings later, that issue has gone away, too.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:21 AM

There was and may still be a law on the books in Boston that requires all males over the age of 16 to be armed when attending church services. Dates from Colonial days due Indian raids.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM (bVYXr)

166 154 146 well Ric Grenell has disgraced himself as far a I'm concerned. Nothing but a GOP-e Sid Blumenthal.

as has Salena Zito, after hearing Kathy explain her day yesterday on Rich Zeoli this morning.

totally done with Zito

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM (w0NJk)

167 I wouldn’t be surprised to see diesel being rationed on the East Coast this summer,” said Catsimatidis during a phone interview, the outlet reported. “Right now inventories are low and we may see a shortage in coming months.” Catsimatidis claimed that there won’t be a shortage of regular gasoline, but prices would soar to record highs.

The Saboteurs and Destroyers in Congress (aka Leftist Democrats) are pushing the NOPEC law that would criminalize OPEC and permit lawsuits against OPEC for alleged "market manipulation".

OPEC had a counter - it was the former US, Canada, Mexico and other non-OPEC oil producing/exporting nations. But the same monsters pushing NOPEC destroyed the only market counter to OPEC resulting in a true monopoly.

They are now talking $200-$300/bbl oil. They have tried this stunt for decades, beginning with 'W's reign of error, but considering the demonic cabal that has overtaken DC, you never know if it will succeed this time.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:25 AM (AHeqJ)

168 166 . . . totally done with Zito
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM (w0NJk)

Ditto.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 08:25 AM (s2VJv)

169 I really, really hate our shitty press. Whenever the cost of fuel or inflation comes up, not one journalist asks Ole' Porridge Brain or any of his surrogates whether he is reconsidering his campaign promise to kill the oil industry.

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90% of the country wants to return to the Trump era energy independence policies.

1% of the country wants electric cars.

Guess who wins?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:25 AM (DxFDO)

170 VDH still obsessing over COVID and jabs. He's losing me.

G'morning, all and Happy Birthday, J.J.

Posted by: creeper at May 12, 2022 08:25 AM (cTCuP)

171 162 Predatory Capitalism is who to blame for inflation! Their goal is to make Biden look bad and reinstate their puppet Donald Trump

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM (NCgXW)

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Sounds like capitalism isn't someone to fuck with. Better get on capitalism's side.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 08:25 AM (LvTSG)

172 Leaving aside the issue of fraud, I am without sympathy for those who voted for this maladministration.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 12, 2022 08:26 AM (rJ48h)

173 well Ric Grenell has disgraced himself as far a I'm concerned. Nothing but a GOP-e Sid Blumenthal.

I missed it. What did he do?

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

174 Posted by: Mainah at May 12, 2022 08:23 AM (B+qrE)

As someone said earlier (maybe yesterday?), the Democrats don't want solutions, they want issues. So having little oil production domestically (and little baby formula production) makes sense to them. Not to mention the first one gives them a convenient bad guy (or used to, people seem to be catching on now) because people don't *see* the price of oil day-to-day, they *see* how much the price of gasoline changes though.

It's almost like America First was designed, in part, to address these issues and *that* was one of the things that scared the Uniparty the most.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 08:26 AM (4Rx1C)

175 Andy Dick was arrested for sexually assaulting a male. I did not see this coming!

Posted by: Stevie Wonder at May 12, 2022 08:26 AM (FJYfm)

176 I really, really hate our shitty press. Whenever the cost of fuel or inflation comes up, not one journalist asks Ole' Porridge Brain or any of his surrogates whether he is reconsidering his campaign promise to kill the oil industry.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)
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The problem is, once politicians start in on an industry, that industry tends to curtail their activities. It won't matter if a new regime comes along that is more friendly, the industry has been warned what will happen when things change.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:26 AM (5pTK/)

177 Powell may have been Trump's worse appointment at the Fed.
From what I hear he was a compromise pick , after RINO's rejected Trump's first choice who supported a gold standard.

Fed wants the markets to have a massive correction that will take care of inflation, instead of rate hikes. No demand if everyone loses 70% of their 401k

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:27 AM (WY8d2)

178 54 If we blow that Penn Governors race, it will really screw us in 2024. Gov gets to appoint the SOS and election chief.

Is Mastriano unelectable? did Trump endorse him
Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:00 AM (WY8d2)

IMO Trump has put the entire Pa ballot in jeopardy with the endorsement of Oz.

Posted by: 7man at May 12, 2022 08:27 AM (qwO6y)

179 172 Leaving aside the issue of fraud, I am without sympathy for those who voted for this maladministration.
Posted by: mr tmz at May 12, 2022 08:26 AM (rJ48h)

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The people of Philadelphia haven't had an honest election in decades, and their city has just steadily gone down the shitter, especially over the past decade or so.

They could have stopped it at any time. They chose to let the steal fester.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 08:27 AM (LvTSG)

180 173 well Ric Grenell has disgraced himself as far a I'm concerned. Nothing but a GOP-e Sid Blumenthal.

I missed it. What did he do?
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 12, 2022 08:26 AM (nxdel)

Publicly lied multiple times about Kathy Barnette, the surging conservative MAGA in the PA Senate race, then would not retract, instead ranting and raving...

Posted by: Nova local at May 12, 2022 08:27 AM (exHjb)

181 The $40 billion for Ukraine and nothing for Americans shows you precisely why McCarthy and McConnell need to go. I am so sick of these weak caitiffs and their cronies selling out the American people. Our country has been suffering for years now, and that's their priority? This is who is going to "save" us? Hardly the only thing they protect is their fellow Democrats and whatever the media tells them. F Republicans. They're dog shit.

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 12, 2022 08:27 AM (DFbpm)

182 How can Musk buying Twitter violate any antitrust law? It's one for one. Twitter in, Twitter out. Who owns the entity is irrelevant.

If there's a violation in the future with Musk, then there's a violation with the cabal of idiots running it now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 07:53 AM (6FeV1)
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Twitter is in black-letter antitrust violation, just like Facebook and Google are (and the combine of MIcrosoft+Google+Amazon, acting as a cartel in cloud services). When you're on Team State, antitrust ceases to be an issue with which you must be worried. The FTC will never come calling, unless it's for your regular dinner date.

If you're not on Team State, though, look the hell out. Twitter has a "microblogging" monopoly. They're in violation of antitrust. Add into it Musk's Starlink and suddenly it's vertical integration, too.

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

183 And it's particularly appalling that we're under diesel supply pressure, because it's fairly easy to make. You can even squeeze it out of coal if you need to (and if you have surplus electricity as an input). But hey, it's "carbon" so it's got to go.

I really, really hate our shitty press. Whenever the cost of fuel or inflation comes up, not one journalist asks Ole' Porridge Brain or any of his surrogates whether he is reconsidering his campaign promise to kill the oil industry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:23 AM

The Germans ran their entire armed forces on coal liquification during the last 18 months of the war when they lost access to the caucus oil fields.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 12, 2022 08:27 AM (bVYXr)

184
Maybe you can sous vide the baby formula to make it safe - I think pasteurized temperature for milk is around 153 degrees iirc. Free sous vide machines for everyone - especially men who chest feed!

Posted by: Karen CheChe at May 12, 2022 08:28 AM (dQvv7)

185 So, Rev just tested positive for Covid. 5 days of quarantine

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Wait, but can't he just wear a mask?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:28 AM (DxFDO)

186 1% of the country wants electric cars.

Guess who wins?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:25 AM (DxFDO)
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Daddy and Mommy government, because they know best?

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

187

I bet most of those that fled 60 Minutes cameras probably weren't all that bad. All things considered.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 08:20 AM (s2VJv)

Ask General Motors why they flee 60 Minutes. It's not because of "hard hitting, truthful journalism."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

188 The government is responsible if, in fact, the formula shortage is due to the FDA dragging its feet giving the all clear.

The administration and its policies are, in fact, inhumane, imo. You may disagree now, but wait and see.
Posted by: Ziba

What was it that someone posted yesterday? The government was coming up with 100 rules for appliances?
How about, Dear Government,
GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY???
How hard is that? Trump was able to do it. Yes, the government is directly responsible for the baby food formula shortage if the FDA is dragging it's feet. Who is over the FDA? Congress?

Or Slo Jo?

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at May 12, 2022 08:28 AM (HFXv5)

189 Stock futures head lower as relentless selling continues on Wall Street from inflation fears

Way to go joe

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 12, 2022 08:28 AM (Irn0L)

190 As someone said earlier (maybe yesterday?), the Democrats don't want solutions, they want issues. So having little oil production domestically (and little baby formula production) makes sense to them. Not to mention the first one gives them a convenient bad guy (or used to, people seem to be catching on now) because people don't *see* the price of oil day-to-day, they *see* how much the price of gasoline changes though.

It's almost like America First was designed, in part, to address these issues and *that* was one of the things that scared the Uniparty the most.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 08:26 AM (4Rx1C)

Men like to solve problems. Women like to talk about problems. The Male Party (at least, it used to be the Male Party) may make mistakes, but at least they're trying to resolve issues. The Female Party just likes to emote.

Posted by: Wally at May 12, 2022 08:29 AM (FJYfm)

191 Threatening "school administrators" is not going to be tolerated. Threatening Supreme Court Justices is no problem, however. Carry on.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

Just make sure that you're threatening the correct Supreme Court Justices. Get the wrong ones and we'll treat you like those people who got within a few hundred feet of the elected "representatives".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 12, 2022 08:29 AM (z99Zw)

192 well Ric Grenell has disgraced himself as far a I'm concerned. Nothing but a GOP-e Sid Blumenthal.

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It was an eye-opener for sure. He really disappointed me. Oh well, another one on the pile.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:29 AM (sVtYq)

193 Look, whoever the GOP voters go with in the primaries, they nedd to unify right away. When Vance won in Ohio, all of his opponents endorsed him right away. Class act

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:29 AM (WY8d2)

194 McCarthy. Another Trump pick, right next to Dr Oz.

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 12, 2022 08:29 AM (DFbpm)

195 Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM (NCgXW)
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You do good work. I hope the inflation isn't forcing you to reuse your hazmat suits. That's dangerous.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:30 AM (DU+/6)

196 Wait, but can't he just wear a mask?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:28 AM (DxFDO)

I'm out of masks so I wrapped Saran Wrap around his head.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2022 08:30 AM (45fpk)

197 191 Threatening "school administrators" is not going to be tolerated. Threatening Supreme Court Justices is no problem, however. Carry on.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

Just make sure that you're threatening the correct Supreme Court Justices. Get the wrong ones and we'll treat you like those people who got within a few hundred feet of the elected "representatives".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 12, 2022 08:29 AM (z99Zw)

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*shows up at Sotomayor's house*
I believe that Justice Sotomayor views all of the issues before the court from the lens of the law and the constitution as written. I believe it is well within the realm of possibility that she would have voted to overturn Roe because she is open to facts and reason.
*cops laugh hysterically*
Try the veal! I'll be here all week!
*gets arrested and pulled away to prison*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 08:30 AM (LvTSG)

198 Hey, all we need now are some Kansas dust storms!

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:30 AM (sVtYq)

199 PapaPear - Proud Liberal #RestoreAmerica
Want proof that gas price gouging is underway? Compare oil and gas prices over the last 20 years. Oil is WELL BELOW the pre-Great Recession peak and WELL BELOW Obama’s first term yet #gasprices are at record highs!

PapaPear is apparently blindly unaware that labor and production costs have skyrocketed. That mental retard has no idea that regulation, taxation and lawfare added to double-digit inflation represents the greatest increase in the cost to transform a barrel from the other side of the planet into EPA friendly motor fuels.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:31 AM (AHeqJ)

200 170 VDH still obsessing over COVID and jabs. He's losing me.

G'morning, all and Happy Birthday, J.J.
Posted by: creeper at May 12, 2022 08:25 AM (cTCuP)
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I'm frustrated that they have once again, unapologetically and unironically, trotted out the "My Body, My Choice" slogan without realizing they gave that one away.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 12, 2022 08:31 AM (EZebt)

201
I missed it. What did he do?
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 12, 2022 08:26 AM (nxdel)

Slandered the black woman running in PA by taking a tweet wildly out of context and trying to destroy her campaign with it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

202 I'm out of masks so I wrapped Saran Wrap around his head.

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Good thinking.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:31 AM (DxFDO)

203 Free sous vide machines for everyone - especially men who chest feed!
Posted by: Karen CheChe at May 12, 2022 08:28 AM (dQvv7)
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Now that's a disturbing thought...

*puts on tinfoil hat*
Maybe this baby formula shortage is a gambit to enforce men to take the necessary hormones to start producing their own breast milk. Thus, forcibly transitioning men into at least partial women against their will. More trannies, means more power for Democrats.
*takes off tinfoil hat*

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 12, 2022 08:31 AM (YIVH2)

204 Alright, y'all. Time for work at work.
Back tomorrow, prolly.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 08:31 AM (4Rx1C)

205 So now they can either get completely drubbed in November and then also fight to keep in place these policies that are literally killing people, or they can impeach BOTH POTUS and the VP in the very slim hope that President Nancy Pelosi can save them - assuming Republicans let it get that far that fast. The problem with removing Brandon and Kameltoe is that if the timing is wrong, it won't be President Pelosi, it'll be President Kevin McCarthy.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 07:56 AM (4Rx1C)

They already waited too long - Congress is pretty much finished for the year, and for this session. The stupid show-vote on abortion that Schemer stages is a pretty good indicator of all that they can do now. There is no leadership, no cohesive idea of what to do. I think they're all just going to listen to the deck band play while their ship goes under.

related article above - I agree that "protest mobs" are now an established industry; but I disagree we will see much of them this summer. Why? Because they can only pull it off in cities they control. Who cares if they burn down Minneapolis, or Seattle, or Portland again? Not me.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 08:32 AM (r46W7)

206 149 We all agree that Putin is evil, and feel for the Women and Children of Ukraine, but Zalensky and the other leaders there are grifters. fucker is worh 800 million due to Chicago syle political theft. Pentagon sends 40 billion in arms to satisfy their defense contracter buddies
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Ukraine was part of Czarist Russia and the USSR for three centuries. It has existed as an independent nation since the Nineties because Russia lacked the means and will to take it back. Until 2022, when a puppet POTUS with no real support is in charge of the USA. Putin says "go", and sneers at the posturing in DC and Kiev.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 12, 2022 08:32 AM (W+kMI)

207 40 billion to Ukraine was fucked. Let them eat cake, to american public paying $5 for gas, and 6 bucks for a bag of cheetos

Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:32 AM (WY8d2)

208 What the hell is going on with Mark Levin? Jesus Christ man...

He calls anyone criticizing the $40B to Ukraine's bureacracy a "Putin-ass kisser" because we'd rather money be spent on an Operation Warp Speed for baby formula.

Someone squeezed this loudmouth cocksucker and it shows.

Posted by: Tasty Burger at May 12, 2022 08:33 AM (N/oGZ)

209 You should read the responses. Interesting solution she and her Twitter minions seem to be offering. Instead of stopping her party from continuing to grind the economy into dust, we need to kill babies in the womb to prevent more mouths to feed. That's more than just an interesting solution; it has all the hallmarks of being a "final solution."

Wait until you look more closely at all the "Dis Is De Treatment Protocol You Will Follow" orders for Covid 19.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at May 12, 2022 08:33 AM (LOM7u)

210 Also very willowed from yesterday (posted after 11am in the morning thread
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Re: the Ukrainian soldier with the Totenkopf:

big fucking deal. Young, aggressive, military men do the things young, aggressive military men do.

I'm sick and tired of this trend to sift through every pebble to try to find some Nazi symbolism and then paint everyone associated with a broad brush. It happens all the time in the US, too. One stupid asshole peckerwood Neo Nazi flies a Nazi flag from his truck, now suddenly the entire convoy is a Neo Nazi dogwhistle. It half makes me think that it's false flag stuff because it's too goddamn convenient.

But seriously, one trooper wearing a Totenkopf insignia is hardly worth even discussing. It's hardly a sign of Ukraine as a whole.
Posted by: Goober
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response in next post

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:33 AM (DxFDO)

211 Andy Dick was arrested for sexually assaulting a male. I did not see this coming!
Posted by: Stevie Wonder at May 12, 2022 08:26 AM (FJYfm)

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You'd have to be blind NOT to see it.

Posted by: Jose Feliciano at May 12, 2022 08:33 AM (flINI)

212 Inflation CPI up 11% . Higher than expect.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2022 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

213 Jeff Bartos had a GREAT interview this morning with Chris Stigall. If Stigall posts audio of it later I'll link it. First of all I still love Bartos the most (again, I can't vote R in the primary) and hope that the PA morons will at least listen to the guy. he's a breath of fresh air!

But aside from that he has interesting things to say about the Club for Growth, the PA GOP and how they f*cked this all up, and the other candidates. He's a good guy so nothing salacious or bitchy at all. Just what I think might be ... honesty?

Also I was ripping him (slightly) for being missing for a bit. Turns out he had a heart emergency and was hospitalized and needed surgery. I'll have to look into that because it sounds like my situation last year at this time with my husband ... so I feel bad not knowing about that. And I'm glad he is well enough now to be back on the campaign trail, even if it might be too late for him

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 12, 2022 08:34 AM (w0NJk)

214
Someone squeezed this loudmouth cocksucker and it shows.
Posted by: Tasty Burger at May 12, 2022 08:33 AM (N/oGZ)

He's a rich elitist. He's smarter than you because he can get on the radio and yell and you must listen because he was part of the Reagan administration.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

215 201
I missed it. What did he do?
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 12, 2022 08:26 AM (nxdel)

Slandered the black woman running in PA by taking a tweet wildly out of context and trying to destroy her campaign with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

It would have been completely acceptable to have said that he opposes her, and that he thinks Mehmet Oz is a better candidate. (that's who he supports, and is apparently being paid by) But he went WAY beyond that by jumping into pure slander to make his attack. As I said, I have lost all respect for him and no longer wish to see him in any government office, ever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 08:34 AM (r46W7)

216 205 related article above - I agree that "protest mobs" are now an established industry; but I disagree we will see much of them this summer. Why? Because they can only pull it off in cities they control. Who cares if they burn down Minneapolis, or Seattle, or Portland again? Not me.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 08:32 AM (r46W7)

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The protest mobs, like the ones who showed up to SCOTUS and are protesting at judges' homes, are a bought and paid for "army", on call whenever their masters demand them, but they're not the only thing. Antifa and BLM still operate and their funding is most likely separate from the protest mobs.

They're also off the chain, knowing after two years of limitless action, that they can do whatever they want. I expect some concentrated doses of "direct action" in blue enclaves. I hope they target Manhattan. If they're smart, they'll target Manhattan.

If it happens in Manhattan, Manhattan media makes it national news.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 08:34 AM (LvTSG)

217 The problem is, once politicians start in on an industry, that industry tends to curtail their activities. It won't matter if a new regime comes along that is more friendly, the industry has been warned what will happen when things change.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:26 AM (5pTK/)
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Yes, the knock-on effects are huge. For a narrow example, look at nuclear reprocessing. Carter banned it because he's an idiot. Reagan rolled back most or all of those stupid rules and bans, but we still have no nuclear materials reprocessing in this country. Who on earth is going to invest the vast sums of money it takes to build an operation like that when some future asshole's mere whim can immediately drive the value of the investment to zero?

Nobody will. Nobody did. You can stop things on a dime through main force, but you cannot restart them on demand and you cannot make people invest their money into industries where they fear being crippled by some asshole's mere whim.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:34 AM (DU+/6)

218 Inflation CPI up 11% . Higher than expect.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2022 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

You forgot "unexpectedly."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

219 really, really hate our shitty press. Whenever the cost of fuel or inflation comes up, not one journalist asks Ole' Porridge Brain or any of his surrogates whether he is reconsidering his campaign promise to kill the oil industry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:23 AM

I always thought tyranny would visit us as a top down phenomenon. But what we are seeing is more organic. One may share a zip code with a lefty but both cannot claim to be an American.

Posted by: 7man at May 12, 2022 08:34 AM (qwO6y)

220 I am starting to read " The Fourth Industrial Revolution" by Klaus Schwab. I want to know exactly what is in the thinking of one of our enemies. I read " Mein Kampf" once. I considered it an appalling book. Swab's book is appalling in a similar fashion. The world, not just us, is under assault by what I consider demonic/satanic forces.

Posted by: kraken at May 12, 2022 08:35 AM (Vr12I)

221 What the hell is going on with Mark Levin? Jesus Christ man...

He calls anyone criticizing the $40B to Ukraine's bureacracy a "Putin-ass kisser" because we'd rather money be spent on an Operation Warp Speed for baby formula.

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I have immense respect for Mark Levin. But this is insane.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:35 AM (sVtYq)

222 As I said, I have lost all respect for him and no longer wish to see him in any government office, ever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 08:34 AM (r46W7)

Politics in America has been destroyed forever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

223 193 Look, whoever the GOP voters go with in the primaries, they nedd to unify right away. When Vance won in Ohio, all of his opponents endorsed him right away. Class act
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The Buckeye State is still the pace-setter for proper behavior, at least outside of Democrat-controlled urban areas. *stares at urban homicide rate* Anyways, Ohio Republicans (not necessarily the House of Taft) want to win big in November. That means teamwork, right?

Posted by: exdem13 at May 12, 2022 08:35 AM (W+kMI)

224 Who is over the FDA? Congress?

Or Slo Jo?

Over the past few decades, Congress has been writing mini Enabling Acts such where all of these agencies are legally considered independent without any real oversight.

So our Congress Critters, wring their hands and complain that there is nothing anyone can do. If our elected officials, who have the Constitutional authority to create, fund, oversee and ultimately disband a department or agency says that they can't do any of that, then it appears that We The People must do it by violence and force. At least that is the message I'm hearing when a Senator says "there is nothing we can do".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:36 AM (AHeqJ)

225 Oprah scissor buddy Gayle King yammering about the formula shortage now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 12, 2022 08:36 AM (aIbh3)

226 I always thought tyranny would visit us as a top down phenomenon. But what we are seeing is more organic. One may share a zip code with a lefty but both cannot claim to be an American.
Posted by: 7man at May 12, 2022 08:34 AM (qwO6y)
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It is a top-down phenomenon, but that doesn't mean they have no supporters outside the top. And the disconnect between neighbors is one of the things that makes resolution harder because, unlike last time, you can't really draw a line of best fit across the country to determine the sides.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:37 AM (DU+/6)

227 "In a newly released video clip, Biden disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz demands that "trustworthy verified people" like her be given the power to edit other people's tweets, making Twitter more like Wikipedia."

Every day this administration gets more dangerous and orwellian.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2022 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

228 Saint of the Day
Bl. Imelda Lambertini (1322--1333) was born to a noble family in Bologna, Italy. As a child she developed a great love for the Holy Eucharist. At nine years old, she requested to become a Dominican postulant. She was allowed to enter, however, in that era, children were not permitted to receive Holy Communion. Imelda repeatedly pleaded to receive Communion, but each time she was denied. When the feast of the Ascension approached, Imelda begged to make her First Holy Communion on this feast. Again, she was denied. On the Vigil of the Feast of the Ascension she was in the chapel praying, as the other Sisters received Holy Communion. Afterwards a glowing host was seen suspended in the air above the child. The priest understood this as a sign, and he ministered the Holy Eucharist to her. Imelda remained kneeling in prayer as the nuns left the chapel. When they returned for her, they found her just as they had left her, but her body was lifeless. It was felt that Imelda died of pure ecstatic joy after receiving Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Bl. Imelda Lambertini is the patron saint of First Communicants.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 12, 2022 08:37 AM (ifHdv)

229 Thanks everyone. I hadn't heard anything about the Grennell thing. Well shit.. I liked him. Another one disappoints.

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 12, 2022 08:37 AM (nxdel)

230 What the hell is going on with Mark Levin? Jesus Christ man...

He calls anyone criticizing the $40B to Ukraine's bureacracy a "Putin-ass kisser" because we'd rather money be spent on an Operation Warp Speed for baby formula.

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I have immense respect for Mark Levin. But this is insane.

I wonder how much of his portfolio, or those of his handlers and enablers are invested in Raytheon and Boeing?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:37 AM (AHeqJ)

231 So our Congress Critters, wring their hands and complain that there is nothing anyone can do. If our elected officials, who have the Constitutional authority to create, fund, oversee and ultimately disband a department or agency says that they can't do any of that, then it appears that We The People must do it by violence and force. At least that is the message I'm hearing when a Senator says "there is nothing we can do".
Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:36 AM (AHeqJ)
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They're lying bastards. Yes, they enabled all of this by writing generous charters to the agencies and granting them pseudo independence, but they still have to pass the funding and could revoke those agencies if they wanted to. Whether they could actually *enforce* such an act like defunding or revocation is unknown, but they could take the action if they wanted to.

They don't want to.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:38 AM (DU+/6)

232
So our Congress Critters, wring their hands and complain that there is nothing anyone can do. If our elected officials, who have the Constitutional authority to create, fund, oversee and ultimately disband a department or agency says that they can't do any of that, then it appears that We The People must do it by violence and force. At least that is the message I'm hearing when a Senator says "there is nothing we can do".
Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:36 AM (AHeqJ)
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A strict reading of our Constitution says Congress cannot abdicate their law making responsibility to un-elected agencies. Yet, they've done so. Or, rather, said agencies do not have the power to make up rules, which are then enforced as if they are laws. because, properly, the only body which has the ability to write law is Congress.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:39 AM (5pTK/)

233 I have immense respect for Mark Levin. But this is insane.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:35 AM (sVtYq)

The R Party supported military intervention for 50 years. It's going to take a while for some to admit what a disaster it was. Some never will admit it.

I'm a transactional guy when it comes to politics. I'll take having Levin with us on some issues, and will just ignore him when he's not.

Posted by: Wally at May 12, 2022 08:39 AM (FJYfm)

234 I always thought tyranny would visit us as a top down phenomenon. But what we are seeing is more organic. One may share a zip code with a lefty but both cannot claim to be an American.

I describe them as "American as an anchor baby". They are physically here, and some authorities consider them citizens, but they sure as hell don't belong here or consider this as their cultural home.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:39 AM (AHeqJ)

235 This is hilariously sad.

The Unconfirmable Lightness of the Porky

https://more-love.org/free-dont-weigh-me-cards/

Via Insty.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 12, 2022 08:39 AM (5NkmN)

236 Can't you whip up some baby formula with a little melamine and drywall dust?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 12, 2022 08:40 AM (Pu/aU)

237 Wait, but can't he just wear a mask?

Posted by: Moron Robbie

I'm out of masks so I wrapped Saran Wrap around his head.
Posted by: grammie winger

Why is Rev turning blue?

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at May 12, 2022 08:40 AM (0gL1v)

238 People With Penises opened for GWAR at Alpine Valley in ‘88.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 12, 2022 08:40 AM (1TuZk)

239
The Unconfirmable Lightness of the Porky

https://more-love.org/free-dont-weigh-me-cards/

Via Insty.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 12, 2022 08:39 AM (5NkmN)

Queue Elmer Fudd singing "Feewings....Nothing more dan FEEWINGS."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

240 Hwkins' is misinformed.

Posted by: runner at May 12, 2022 08:41 AM (6XHLQ)

241 What happened to last weeks $33 billion to Ukraine? Has that been air dropped and plundered already or has that been upped to $40 billion to account for additional plundering?

Posted by: Ripley at May 12, 2022 08:41 AM (MxEKc)

242
Why is Rev turning blue?
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at May 12, 2022 08:40 AM (0gL1v)

It means 'it's working.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

243 By the way, about those 401K's which are getting hammered right now? Anyone else think Congress writing laws which favored sending trillions of risk free dollars to Wall Street may not have been in the best interests of the American public?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:41 AM (5pTK/)

244 A strict reading of our Constitution says Congress cannot abdicate their law making responsibility to un-elected agencies. Yet, they've done so. Or, rather, said agencies do not have the power to make up rules, which are then enforced as if they are laws. because, properly, the only body which has the ability to write law is Congress.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:39 AM (5pTK/)
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Thus the "Administrative Law" dodge for the agencies. Their rules and regulations carry the force of law, and they have their own cops and their own courts and it's completely outside the normal system. It's also insane and unjust. I've never personally (thank G-d) had deal with an Administrative Law Court "trial," but I have family members who have. If you think the normal courts are corrupt, unfair and dishonest, hope you never have to step foot in an ALC.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:41 AM (DU+/6)

245 Queue Elmer Fudd singing "Feewings....Nothing more dan FEEWINGS."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

***

FWEEDOM!!

Posted by: Kumswallow Harris at May 12, 2022 08:41 AM (flINI)

246
But, if your baby may be at higher risk, consider taking these extra steps to prepare your powdered formula with hot water (at least 158°F/70°C):

A little higher than my guess.

https://www.cdc.gov/cronobacter/infection-and-infants.html

Posted by: Karen CheChe at May 12, 2022 08:41 AM (dQvv7)

247 ...when they lost access to the Caucasus oil fields.
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Can't trust whitey!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:41 AM (Jtln5)

248 I'm sick and tired of this trend to sift through every pebble to try to find some Nazi symbolism and then paint everyone associated with a broad brush...
But seriously, one trooper wearing a Totenkopf insignia is hardly worth even discussing. It's hardly a sign of Ukraine as a whole.
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It's amazing to me how people are still uninformed about the actual 100% Nazis in Ukraine. This isn't sifting through every pebble, and it is absolutely a sign of (western) Ukraine as a whole. Linked below is a recent PBS interview with a "hero" mayor in Ukraine. Notice the picture they blurred out behind the mayor. Not a military guy. An elected official. Recognize him? Do you wonder why they blurred out the image behind the elected official? This is not a link to another source. This is the official PBS link:

https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/
1499525817776365574

https://tinyurl.com/zybkhvhy

The blurred image behind the mayor is Stephen Bandera. Look him up if you are unfamiliar.

We are fighting on the side of Nazis. We are giving billions to Nazis. We are flying the flag of this nation and praying for their victory.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:42 AM (DxFDO)

249 >>I'm a transactional guy when it comes to politics. I'll take having Levin with us on some issues, and will just ignore him when he's not.

Realistically it's the only way to approach politics. Everyone in politics will disappoint over some issue at some point. Every single one. Kind of like life.

On balance Levin is good (aside from his maniacal shouting). I don't have to agree with him on everything.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2022 08:42 AM (ZLI7S)

250 222 As I said, I have lost all respect for him and no longer wish to see him in any government office, ever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 08:34 AM (r46W7)

Politics in America has been destroyed forever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

So many political players today don't appear to understand the reason you don't go "all-in" when it comes to personal attacks; it's because when they do it and are wrong, they are (and deserve to be) discredited Forever. When you disagree reasonably, you can come back. You do what Grenell just did, well you are finished as far as we are concerned. Goodbye, go have a nice life somewhere else.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 08:42 AM (r46W7)

251 Yeah, the economy runs on diesel and electricity. Transportation runs almost entirely on diesel. A shortage of diesel means less transportation, and much higher costs per mile. There's no way around that. Diesel pumps through every vein in this country.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)

Wine Moms in suburbia (and husbands if they have them) will not be happy when Juan and his crew cannot mow their lawns and tend their gardens, because Juan cannot find diesel for his huge crew cab pickup that tows his lawn equipment trailer.

Posted by: BlueMoon at May 12, 2022 08:42 AM (FYFBu)

252 170 VDH still obsessing over COVID and jabs. He's losing me.

Posted by: creeper

He loses me every single time I see an ad on U-Toob in which he is featured talking about a history podcast he has. He opens with: "World War One promised us a perpetual peace . . ."

I always skip the ad as soon as I can, usually saying something like: "WW1 promised nothing but more war. Do you even know anything about that war?"

Very annoying ad which I shouldn't get worked up about. Yet I do. Sigh.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 08:42 AM (8gxrg)

253
I'm a transactional guy when it comes to politics. I'll take having Levin with us on some issues, and will just ignore him when he's not.
Posted by: Wally at May 12, 2022 08:39 AM (FJYfm)

Conservative politics is very much a Luby's Cafeteria dealio.

Whereas Progtard politics is very much Golden Corral pig-trough, scrambling slob show with a Chocolate Fountain(!) at the end.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 12, 2022 08:43 AM (5NkmN)

254 really, really hate our shitty press. Whenever the cost of fuel or inflation comes up, not one journalist asks Ole' Porridge Brain or any of his surrogates whether he is reconsidering his campaign promise to kill the oil industry.

Or demand an economic explanation for why shutting a Russian pipeline down hurts Russia, but shutting down American pipelines doesn't hurt America.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:43 AM (AHeqJ)

255 He calls anyone criticizing the $40B to Ukraine's bureacracy a "Putin-ass kisser" because we'd rather money be spent on an Operation Warp Speed for baby formula.

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Levin was always a loudmouth, trained to think about international sphere in neocon terms . It is sad that he is stuck on stupid like that.

Posted by: runner at May 12, 2022 08:43 AM (6XHLQ)

256 We have fundamental security interests in Ukraine. But our first priority should be the citizens of our country. We've been suffering for a year now. We have issues with our neighbors getting basic foodstuffs. People can't afford gas. People are being financially challenged. Our border is wide open and these people are pouring into our communities. Crime is out of control, and the list goes on.

Yet, Ukraine is the issue that Republicans finally get passionate about and spend $40 billion on top of all the other garbage? F them, and f anyone trying to say those looting this out are in American. They can eat a bag of dicks. Of course they attack with ad hominems and pejoratives. Because they lose the argument of facts and substance.

This isn't a Republican Party that is going to save us from anything. Quite the contrary. We need to wipe out from Congress every person voting for that bill.

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 12, 2022 08:43 AM (DFbpm)

257 Inflation CPI up 11% . Higher than expect.

I thought the latest number was 8.3%
down from 8.5% last month.

Posted by: McCool at May 12, 2022 08:44 AM (BqBIh)

258
We are fighting on the side of Nazis. We are giving billions to Nazis. We are flying the flag of this nation and praying for their victory.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:42 AM (DxFDO)

We?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

259 This is all so damned depressing. I think I'll lift my spirits a bit and go scrub some toilets. I'll resume my regularly scheduled depression upon my return. Adios, muchachos.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 12, 2022 08:44 AM (sVtYq)

260 Yeah, the economy runs on diesel and electricity. Transportation runs almost entirely on diesel. A shortage of diesel means less transportation, and much higher costs per mile. There's no way around that. Diesel pumps through every vein in this country.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:23 AM (DU+/6)
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I mentioned to my wife yesterday that, even if the chip shortage for cars were solved tomorrow, the transportation industry doesn't have the capacity to deliver the cars.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:44 AM (5pTK/)

261 The Unconfirmable Lightness of the Porky
https://more-love.org/free-dont-weigh-me-cards/
Posted by: naturalfake at May 12, 2022 08:39 AM (5NkmN)
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What cowardly and passive-aggressive thing. If you don't want to be weighed, tell your doctor or the intake nurse. If they want you to get on a scale, refuse. If they insist, demand to know why they need that information to treat your ailment.

Passing a little card is fake confrontation and very stupid. Engage with the person directly and refuse and if he insists then demand that he justify why he needs the information. It isn't that hard, but it does require a bit more engagement than passing a stupid little card along.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:44 AM (DU+/6)

262 ...At least some of developed beyond that nasty burden.

Posted by: runner at May 12, 2022 08:44 AM (6XHLQ)

263 Anyway, it's not just the FBI that should be disbanded. The entire Department of Justice needs razed.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 12, 2022 08:19 AM (rHyrR)

The entire Department of - fill in the blank - needs to be razed. I'll exempt Defense from total destruction but it needs to be trimmed down also.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 12, 2022 08:45 AM (z99Zw)

264 We have fundamental security interests in Ukraine.

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Our bioweapons labs that the Biden and Kerry families had exclusive funding deals with?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:45 AM (DxFDO)

265 Nuclear sunset law proposal: every federal law and federal agency expires in five years, save the Constitution.

Posted by: Zek at May 12, 2022 08:45 AM (9RLhb)

266 The lies. The fucking lies.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 12, 2022 08:45 AM (aIbh3)

267 Levin is a neocon. His only real issue besides law is more and more war. And war is more important than law.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 12, 2022 08:45 AM (EZB3K)

268 We?
Posted by: Sponge

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I know what you mean, but our flag and our tax dollars. I figured that was pretty clear.

Like SMH and I talked about yesterday, remember in WWII when we fought WITH Russia to defeat Nazis?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:46 AM (DxFDO)

269 As soon as it came up I knew the Dems would blame the Republicans for the baby food shortage. My snarky take:

The Republicans overturned Roe v Wade and now we can't feed all the unwanted babies.

Posted by: blaster at May 12, 2022 08:46 AM (9otr5)

270 "Protest Mobs" are a multi-billion dollar industry here. The various entities funneling money into them set the targets and the duration of the ops. Congress has a hand in this to be sure, but I don't think they have the level of control we give them.

The mobs help "nudge" the political class into the proper lane. And we'll see a fair amount of this activity over the summer and probably for the foreseeable future.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 12, 2022 08:46 AM (BFigT)

271 Kathy B said something mildly Karenish about "Gays always leading with the fact that they are gay."

Grenell is gay, and highlighted this comment as something horrifically "radical" and then commenced his slander campaign against her.

Thus proving her point, it would seem.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 08:46 AM (8gxrg)

272 210 Also very willowed from yesterday (posted after 11am in the morning thread
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Re: the Ukrainian soldier with the Totenkopf:
I'm sick and tired of this trend to sift through every pebble to try to find some Nazi symbolism and then paint everyone associated with a broad brush. It happens all the time in the US, too. One stupid asshole peckerwood Neo Nazi flies a Nazi flag from his truck, now suddenly the entire convoy is a Neo Nazi dogwhistle. It half makes me think that it's false flag stuff because it's too goddamn convenient.
Posted by: Goober
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It's like this, Goober.
Democrats 2008-2022: If you don't agree with us you are a NAZI!! Red State NAZI, MAGA NAZI, you're a NAZI!! REEEEEEEEE!!!
Democrats 2022: Viva Ukraine!! Viva democracy!! Pay no attention to the Azov Battalion and their ethnic cleansing platform. Ignore the men with actual Nazi views and insignia. Nothing to see here, move along.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 12, 2022 08:46 AM (W+kMI)

273 156
And it's particularly appalling that we're under diesel supply pressure, because it's fairly easy to make. You can even squeeze it out of coal if you need to (and if you have surplus electricity as an input). But hey, it's "carbon" so it's got to go.
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Good morning Horde. Took a break and have been off politics for a day and instead watched live airplanes taking off and landing at Los Angeles and Manchester (UK) airports.
Pre black majority rule in 1994 in South Africa (RSA), SASOL made fuels out of coal. I remember the complaints that RSA was exporting gasoline while the country had a 'shortage'. It was explained that the priority was making diesel. Diesel was a by-product of gasoline production hence to make enough diesel to run transportation and the Defense Force (Army, Navy and Air Force) there was an over-abundance of gasoline produced. Those more versed in the petroleum industry correct me if I'm wrong but is this generally true or is it a quirk of the Fischer-Tropsch process (oil from coal)?

Posted by: Ciampino at May 12, 2022 08:46 AM (qfLjt)

274 I missed it. What did he do?
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 12, 2022 08:26 AM (nxdel)

Slandered the black woman running in PA by taking a tweet wildly out of context and trying to destroy her campaign with it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

It would have been completely acceptable to have said that he opposes her, and that he thinks Mehmet Oz is a better candidate. (that's who he supports, and is apparently being paid by) But he went WAY beyond that by jumping into pure slander to make his attack. As I said, I have lost all respect for him and no longer wish to see him in any government office, ever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 08:34 AM (r46W7)
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I like Kathy and was really upset about that tweet because it was totally wrong and slanderous,
.... but there are some tweets that have come out which will cause her a lot of problems in the general election.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2022 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

275 Nuclear sunset law proposal: every federal law and federal agency expires in five years, save the Constitution.
Posted by: Zek at May 12, 2022 08:45 AM (9RLhb)
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Let's call it, "The Idaho Principle."

(I seem to recall Idaho is set up for all, I mean all, laws to sunset and the legislature has to revisit those laws every few years)

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:47 AM (5pTK/)

276
I know what you mean, but our flag and our tax dollars. I figured that was pretty clear.

Like SMH and I talked about yesterday, remember in WWII when we fought WITH Russia to defeat Nazis?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:46 AM (DxFDO)

But the 1980's called. They want their foreign policy back!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

277 I wonder what Monty would say about our current sitch.

Posted by: blaster at May 12, 2022 08:47 AM (9otr5)

278 We all agree that Putin is evil...
Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:22 AM (WY8d2)

Upon what do you base that claim? Something you saw in the famously truthful and never at all incorrect media?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 12, 2022 08:47 AM (z99Zw)

279 We have illegal shit going on in the Ukraine.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 12, 2022 08:47 AM (aIbh3)

280 That's one helluva meme there, JJ.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

281 Yeah, the economy runs on diesel and electricity. Transportation runs almost entirely on diesel. A shortage of diesel means less transportation, and much higher costs per mile. There's no way around that. Diesel pumps through every vein in this country.

I was reading the enlightening commentary in WattsUpWith That when it was pointed out that King's Island in Australia was supposed to be this Energy Utopia Model for the Planet by going all green. So far, over 95% of the energy is being produced by diesel generators.

Hawaii is doing the same thing, and much of their generation is now coming from diesel generators.

The perverse increase in "renewables" is preventing the construction of permanent efficient thermal generation such as nuclear and nat-gas, resulting in perpetual "emergency" use of the most expensive form of dispatchable energy generation - diesel.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:48 AM (AHeqJ)

282 We have illegal shit going on in the Ukraine.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 12, 2022 08:47 AM (aIbh3)

As with everything else with this current government, IT'S ALL MONEY LAUNDERING.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

283 269 As soon as it came up I knew the Dems would blame the Republicans for the baby food shortage. My snarky take:

The Republicans overturned Roe v Wade and now we can't feed all the unwanted babies.
Posted by: blaster at May 12, 2022 08:46 AM (9otr5)

EXACTLY! This is the media complex/Uniparty play - thus why it got publicized exactly when it did.

Posted by: Nova local at May 12, 2022 08:48 AM (exHjb)

284 If GOP Congressmen are upset "precious law enforcement resources" were wasted on the FBI, then defund the fuckers and shut the whole bureau down. Actually better yet just resign, GFY quietly, and let us find someone else who will.

Posted by: Roy at May 12, 2022 08:48 AM (dkwYV)

285 The entire Department of - fill in the blank - needs to be razed. I'll exempt Defense from total destruction but it needs to be trimmed down also.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 12, 2022 08:45 AM (z99Zw)
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"The Pentagon" becoming "The Triangle" would be a nice start.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:48 AM (5pTK/)

286 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:37 AM (DU+/6)

Not to belabor a point but the culture is embracing tyranny. You see it in the worship of their sacramental abortion, in their mask and vax theater, in their savage cruelty to children, in their green new world, etc.

Posted by: 7man at May 12, 2022 08:48 AM (qwO6y)

287 By the way, about those 401K's which are getting hammered right now? Anyone else think Congress writing laws which favored sending trillions of risk free dollars to Wall Street may not have been in the best interests of the American public?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 08:41 AM

I pulled our 401k (TSP) out of a fund that invests heavily in stocks and put the money in the treasury fund about six months ago. Any rational person should have been able to see what was coming and taken precautions to mitigate their losses.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 12, 2022 08:49 AM (bVYXr)

288
So, Rev just tested positive for Covid. 5 days of quarantine. Uff da.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2022 08:24 AM

Do you have an oximeter? They're probably around 25 bucks at the pharmacy. Test him soon so you have a baseline. Test yourself, too.

My sister was an inhalation therapist and she seems to think less than 90% is really bad. My wife is always 99-100% and I'm 95-99%.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2022 08:49 AM (dQvv7)

289 We are fighting on the side of Nazis. We are giving billions to Nazis. We are flying the flag of this nation and praying for their victory.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:42 AM (DxFDO)

The reason this argument has no resonance is because Putin himself is every bit as much a Nazi as Schickelgruber himself was; he just doesn't use the Magic Word or Magic Symbols. (he has his own Magic Words and Magic Symbols) He invaded a weaker neighbor based on a thin pretext; he believes in Lebensraum for Russian Speakers; he believes it is his Nations Destiny to rule its neighbors; he has authorized Ethnic Cleansing of the areas his troops have overrun, deporting over a million people to who knows where. Putin himself is the biggest, baddest Nazi on the world stage today.

Now this doesn't make the Ukrainians better; but even if your argument were true (I think it's grossly exaggerated), then it's still just a case of one group of nazi's fighting a bigger group of nazi's. Hardly the kind of thing to get anyone enthused over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 08:49 AM (r46W7)

290 Good morning. Not.

From what I've read, the FDA not only ordered the recall, but shut down Abbott plant -- and will not let them reopnr. Despite being td the line was fixrd/cleaned, despite the plant operating several separate baby formula lines there that were NOT part of the recall.

They are intentionally killing babies. Not hyperbole.
EVIL

Posted by: Lizzy's phone at May 12, 2022 08:49 AM (vyClj)

291 Ryan Maue @RyanMaue; 10h
Biden scores a huge climate policy victory by canceling massive Alaska oil and gas lease sale. Progressive environmental groups and climate scientists cheered the decision. Americans need to accept high gas prices or get an electric car.

The Interior Department's decision to not move forward with the lease sale comes as gas prices soar.

Biden admin has finally found its stride in not letting politics, polls or suffering families get in the way of implementing aggressive environmental regulations.

Climate advisor Gina McCarthy took credit for the lease cancellation apparently before Interior announced it.

Today's Alaska oil lease sale cancelation comes on the heels of federal court hearing Tuesday: Did Biden legally suspend oil lease sales?

Biden admin argued that climate change be considered as reason to suspend oil & gas drilling leases going forward.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:49 AM (Jtln5)

292 Pre black majority rule in 1994 in South Africa (RSA), SASOL made fuels out of coal. I remember the complaints that RSA was exporting gasoline while the country had a 'shortage'. It was explained that the priority was making diesel. Diesel was a by-product of gasoline production hence to make enough diesel to run transportation and the Defense Force (Army, Navy and Air Force) there was an over-abundance of gasoline produced. Those more versed in the petroleum industry correct me if I'm wrong but is this generally true or is it a quirk of the Fischer-Tropsch process (oil from coal)?
Posted by: Ciampino at May 12, 2022 08:46 AM (qfLjt)
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You get both. You have some control over the mix, but you always get both. Which is a "byproduct" of the other depends entirely on your perspective. When the wholesale switch to kerosene from whale oil was underway (the oil industry is what saved the whales, not the environmentalists), it was gasoline that was the byproduct. There was nothing to do with the stuff and it had no use. The early refineries would dump it into the river periodically light it on fire to get rid of the stuff.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:50 AM (DU+/6)

293
"My sister was an inhalation therapist and she seems to think less than 90% is really bad. My wife is always 99-100% and I'm 95-99%."

Yes less than 90% is very bad unless you are already a long term emphysemic. Just be sure to measure when you're at rest because oxygen saturation varies quite a bit moment to moment depending on activity.

Posted by: Zek at May 12, 2022 08:50 AM (9RLhb)

294 Nuclear sunset law proposal: every federal law and federal agency expires in five years, save the Constitution.

aka: The K Street Bailout and Stimulus Plan

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:50 AM (AHeqJ)

295 291 Ryan Maue @RyanMaue; 10h
Biden scores a huge climate policy victory by canceling massive Alaska oil and gas lease sale. Progressive environmental groups and climate scientists cheered the decision. Americans need to accept high gas prices or get an electric car.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:49 AM (Jtln5)

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And our Intrepid DU reporter was just telling us that the left was convinced that high gas prices were both bad and entirely the fault of corporate greed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 08:50 AM (LvTSG)

296 Nebraska here. Everyone seems to be jumping up and down because Herbster, who was endorsed by Trump, lost the Republican nomination for governor. It's not that Trump has lost his luster; Herbster got hammered with a big, fat, juicy sex scandal. The guy who won, Pillen, was slammed for trying to force CRT into the school system. It was a dirty campaign.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 12, 2022 08:51 AM (GzMhu)

297 That same United States of America today finds itself on the brink of running out of baby formula.

People assume because the US has been rich and stable that is always will be. And the LIVs, especially, just assume that means they can just keep doing what they've been doing - vote for the person the FNM tells you is the nice moderate guy and ignore politics to the best of their ability otherwise.

But as some old dead white guy said, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. "

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2022 08:51 AM (ESjRY)

298
Not to belabor a point but the culture is embracing tyranny. You see it in the worship of their sacramental abortion, in their mask and vax theater, in their savage cruelty to children, in their green new world, etc.
Posted by: 7man at May 12, 2022 08:48 AM (qwO6y)

The Culture we have developed needs to be overthrown and destroyed and replaced by something different. There will be no peace or security for anyone in this country until that happens.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 08:51 AM (r46W7)

299 Do you have an oximeter? They're probably around 25 bucks at the pharmacy. Test him soon so you have a baseline. Test yourself, too.

My sister was an inhalation therapist and she seems to think less than 90% is really bad. My wife is always 99-100% and I'm 95-99%.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2022 08:49 AM (dQvv7)

Thanks for the information - I will check that out!

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2022 08:52 AM (45fpk)

300 296 Nebraska here. Everyone seems to be jumping up and down because Herbster, who was endorsed by Trump, lost the Republican nomination for governor. It's not that Trump has lost his luster; Herbster got hammered with a big, fat, juicy sex scandal. The guy who won, Pillen, was slammed for trying to force CRT into the school system. It was a dirty campaign.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 12, 2022 08:51 AM (GzMhu)

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Nebraska, so I assume the sex scandal was..."He tried reverse cowgirl, with his wife! Before they were married!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 08:52 AM (LvTSG)

301 Nuclear sunset law proposal: every federal law and federal agency expires in five years, save the Constitution.
Posted by: Zek at May 12, 2022 08:45 AM (9RLhb)
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Sunsetting every some number of years is fine and I would support it - so long as you also forbid omnibus renewal. Every bill must be renewed independently with its own piece of legislation. No "everything in the code sunsetting this year is hereby renewed" crap.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:52 AM (DU+/6)

302 I wonder what Monty would say about our current sitch.

Posted by: blaster

Something intentionally slanderous about Americans and complimentary about himself, most likely.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 08:52 AM (8gxrg)

303 Ryan Maue @RyanMaue; 10h
Biden scores a huge climate policy victory by canceling massive Alaska oil and gas lease sale. Progressive environmental groups and climate scientists cheered the decision. Americans need to accept high gas prices or get an electric car.

Do these people even read what they write? Biden is out there saying he's fighting fighting fighting to get gas prices DOWN.

Posted by: blaster at May 12, 2022 08:52 AM (9otr5)

304 Greg Price @greg_price11; 15h
Biden: "I've got a plan to lower the costs for everyday things that make most people who work to have who need and that would fundamentally change the standard of living if we made things more affordable."

https://nitter.net/greg_price11/status/
1524505566151852033#m

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:52 AM (Jtln5)

305 It is all one shiny object after another for the public to be distracted by while the plans of TPTB proceed. We are overwhelmed by " events". A gigantic"Op".

Posted by: kraken at May 12, 2022 08:52 AM (Vr12I)

306 Something intentionally slanderous about Americans and complimentary about himself, most likely.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 08:52 AM (8gxrg)

Not that Monty. Our Monty.

I think he would say we are DOOMED.

Posted by: blaster at May 12, 2022 08:53 AM (9otr5)

307 303 Do these people even read what they write? Biden is out there saying he's fighting fighting fighting to get gas prices DOWN.
Posted by: blaster at May 12, 2022 08:52 AM (9otr5)

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It's why their "messaging" doesn't matter.

Their actual policies hurt, and it's obvious. Hence, all the cheating necessary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 08:53 AM (LvTSG)

308 "Americans need to accept high gas prices or get an electric car."

Little Hitler there needs to accept this bag of dicks.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 12, 2022 08:53 AM (HsAzN)

309 If GOP Congressmen are upset "precious law enforcement resources" were wasted on the FBI, then defund the fuckers and shut the whole bureau down.

Except for Trump, the federal level Republican party hasn't fought on any domestic issue since Welfare Reform in the mid 90s.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2022 08:53 AM (ESjRY)

310 270 "Protest Mobs" are a multi-billion dollar industry here. The various entities funneling money into them set the targets and the duration of the ops. Congress has a hand in this to be sure, but I don't think they have the level of control we give them.
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That level of control only exists in certain states, in certain areas. Wherever the mobs are shown firepower and a non-compliant authority, they go elsewhere. It's that simple.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 12, 2022 08:53 AM (W+kMI)

311 Not to belabor a point but the culture is embracing tyranny. You see it in the worship of their sacramental abortion, in their mask and vax theater, in their savage cruelty to children, in their green new world, etc.
Posted by: 7man at May 12, 2022 08:48 AM (qwO6y)
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Big chunks of it do, yes, as does the entire formal culture as controlled by any institution of any meaningful size. But that doesn't mean it isn't top-down. It still is, and it is top-down in every dimension as pushed by every institution they control (which is all of them). There wasn't a great groundswell of people demanding lunacy, the lunacy has been imposed. It will gain many enthusiastic participants, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:53 AM (DU+/6)

312 "The fact is the [junta] has no better idea of the pandemic’s future than the groundhog does about winter’s duration. Maybe worse.

******

Pandemitawney Phil

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2022 08:54 AM (kXYt5)

313 Just be sure to measure when you're at rest because oxygen saturation varies quite a bit moment to moment depending on activity.

Posted by: Zek at May 12, 2022 08:50 AM (9RLhb)

Oh great. Rev is ADHD and always hopping around.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2022 08:54 AM (45fpk)

314 Little Hitler there needs to accept this bag of dicks.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 12, 2022 08:53 AM (HsAzN)

Why do I think he'd like that?

Posted by: blaster at May 12, 2022 08:54 AM (9otr5)

315 >>Now this doesn't make the Ukrainians better; but even if your argument were true (I think it's grossly exaggerated), then it's still just a case of one group of nazi's fighting a bigger group of nazi's. Hardly the kind of thing to get anyone enthused over.

The biggest argument is it's not our fight despite the fact we helped engineer it.

There have been tribal fights in Europe since there has been Europe. We don't even understand most of the ancient hostilities and don't really have a dog in the fight.

NATO is a relic that should have died with the Soviet Union. We have much more pressing issues right here at home and with our most dangerous foe China. Let Europe deal with Europe and all their fights. We have no real national security issues with Ukraine vs Russia, just ones war junkies like Graham gin up.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2022 08:54 AM (ZLI7S)

316 Do these people even read what they write? Biden is out there saying he's fighting fighting fighting to get gas prices DOWN.

They assume the LIVs will never hear, "You gas prices are going up specifically because Biden is reducing the supply".

And...they are right.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2022 08:54 AM (ESjRY)

317 You can make your own Baby Formula:
*13 oz Pet Evaporated Milk
*20 oz Water
*2 Level Tablespoons Karo syrup
*Pour 4 oz into each of 6 bottles
*Feed baby every 3-4 hours or on demand

Posted by: OldSarg at May 12, 2022 08:54 AM (p9Pq/)

318 Ryan Maue @RyanMaue; 10h
Biden scores a huge climate policy victory by canceling massive Alaska oil and gas lease sale. Progressive environmental groups and climate scientists cheered the decision. Americans need to accept high gas prices or get an electric car.

Yep, get right on that, carve out six figures to get on a waiting list for an electric car, then discover that rolling blackouts and sky-high electric utility rates have negated the so-called savings.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:54 AM (AHeqJ)

319 Barnette. Not a fan. The "abortion survivor" bit and the anti Trump comments. Support the candidate who can win the election, period. She's an unknown quantity even though she's at least got some intersectionality going for her.

Posted by: Ziba at May 12, 2022 08:55 AM (S1hrL)

320 310 That level of control only exists in certain states, in certain areas. Wherever the mobs are shown firepower and a non-compliant authority, they go elsewhere. It's that simple.
Posted by: exdem13 at May 12, 2022 08:53 AM (W+kMI)

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And they're allowed that control. It's how college administrators incite certain student groups to protest and then give in to the protests. Or how the EPA works with environmental groups on the sue and settle method.

These groups have power only because the people in power of these blue enclaves use them to get what they already want.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 08:55 AM (LvTSG)

321 Now this doesn't make the Ukrainians better; but even if your argument were true (I think it's grossly exaggerated), then it's still just a case of one group of nazi's fighting a bigger group of nazi's. Hardly the kind of thing to get anyone enthused over.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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Yeah, it's why we shouldn't give a sh*t about either side. But our betters launder money and put bioweapons labs right next to Russia's borders right before poking Russia and provoking the war.

Did you watch the PBS link, Tom? The elected official's favorite photo?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:55 AM (DxFDO)

322
g'mornin', 'rons

working at the office is stupid, infuriating, off-pissing, counter-productive, and stupid

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 12, 2022 08:55 AM (+OVL6)

323 They assume the LIVs will never hear, "You gas prices are going up specifically because Biden is reducing the supply".

And...they are right.

Thank a Teacher !

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:55 AM (AHeqJ)

324
Today's Alaska oil lease sale cancelation comes on the heels of federal court hearing Tuesday: Did Biden legally suspend oil lease sales?

Biden admin argued that climate change be considered as reason to suspend oil & gas drilling leases going forward.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:49 AM (Jtln5)

There isn't enough lithium on earth to build all the batteries.

They're killing you on purpose for no reason other than power. They don't care about the planet. They don't care about the environment. They only care about control.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

325 The thing that drives me crazy about Levin (who I love listening to re: Constitutional matters) is that they're basically reviving this idiotic paranoid "Domino Theory" that was horseshit to begin with.

RUSSIA WILL KEEP CONQUERING IF WE DON'T STOP THEM NOW! POLAND, BALTICS AT RISK!

except they're NATO members. We'll justifiably go to war with Russia to protect them. So, we have to go to war to protect a non-NATO so that NATO countries aren't invaded?

BUT MOLLLLLLLLDDDDDOOOOOVVVAAA!

Yes. That will resonate with Americans as we pay $25 per gallon and feed infants with dissolved flour-water.

In addition to this bullshit, we're told Russia is a dilapidated foreign power with shitty tanks, stupid drunk troops, and stupid battle plans. Also, Russia will conquer Europe if we don't stop them in Ukraine.

As Buckwheat used to say, "OOHHHHHHH-TAAAAY!!!"

Posted by: Tasty Burger at May 12, 2022 08:56 AM (N/oGZ)

326 @RyanMaue
Biden scores a huge climate policy victory by canceling massive Alaska oil and gas lease sale. Progressive environmental groups and climate scientists cheered the decision. ... Biden admin argued that climate change be considered as reason to suspend oil & gas drilling leases going forward.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:49 AM (Jtln5)
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As promised in the second debate and some of his "rallies" during the campaign. This is one campaign promise that the administration is absolutely keeping.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:56 AM (DU+/6)

327 I tend to shy away from the "you voted for this" tack, not because it isn't accurate, or because it isn't cathartic, but tactically. I press harder on "the election was stolen from EVERYBODY, not just me". Even if you voted for the paste eater, your vote still didn't really count. You'll never redpill them, but you might blackpill them.

I don't want to convert someone to the R-tard team anyway, they're just as evil and complicit. I want them to completely re-evaluate their entire worldview.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 08:56 AM (6FeV1)

328 I very rarely say "I never quite trusted (so-and-so)" but something about Grennell always gave me pause. Not the gay thing. I got the same vibes about him that I used to get about S.E. Cupp in her FOX days. That he was acting a part.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 12, 2022 08:56 AM (HsAzN)

329 And it's particularly appalling that we're under diesel supply pressure, because it's fairly easy to make. You can even squeeze it out of coal if you need to (and if you have surplus electricity as an input). But hey, it's "carbon" so it's got to go.
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We the People are carbon-based lifeforms, so we've got to go. /s

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 12, 2022 08:56 AM (MIKMs)

330 Americans need to accept high gas prices or get an electric car.

*

If gas prices are too high for you then go spend $50K and buy a subcompact car you can possibly drive 150 miles a day.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:56 AM (DxFDO)

331 BTW the Clintons are at it again. It's dangerous to be a friend of Bill and Hill.
https://tinyurl.com/ytw6e3ws
https://tinyurl.com/35krrmfe

Posted by: exdem13 at May 12, 2022 08:56 AM (W+kMI)

332 What happened to last weeks $33 billion to Ukraine?
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It was raised to the $40-billion by the Senate that was going to have saved the U.S. economy because $4.1-trillion wasn't enough.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:57 AM (Jtln5)

333 278 We all agree that Putin is evil...
Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:22 AM (WY8d2)

Upon what do you base that claim? Something you saw in the famously truthful and never at all incorrect media?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 12, 2022 08:47 AM (z99Zw)

Well personally, I came to that conclusion when Putin ordered Spetznatz troops to demolish 4 apartment buildings full of Russian civilians, in order to justify his invasion of Chechnaya. That happened in 1999, and now that over 2 decades have passed, no one seriously disputes the idea that it was always a KGB led "false flag" operation.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 08:57 AM (r46W7)

334 Canceling those drilling leases is bound to bring prices down.

Sure. Why not?

Posted by: Ziba at May 12, 2022 08:57 AM (S1hrL)

335 As someone said earlier (maybe yesterday?), the Democrats don't want solutions, they want issues.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 12, 2022 08:26 AM (4Rx1C)

My wife likes to say "things have a way of working out" and gets irritated when I point out that I'm the reason. I suspect that politicians - and their minions - believe the same. No matter what they do...someone will make things work. As a result, what they desire most is the means to remain firmly attached to the teat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 12, 2022 08:58 AM (z99Zw)

336 The best outcome in Ukraine is that Russia gets the Russian enclaves and Putin publicly guarantees the borders of Ukraine.

Which is the deal on the table before the war started of course

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2022 08:58 AM (ESjRY)

337 For the record, I didn't blur the image nor hang the image behind the elected mayor in the PBS interview.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:58 AM (DxFDO)

338 You can make your own Baby Formula:
*13 oz Pet Evaporated Milk
*20 oz Water
*2 Level Tablespoons Karo syrup
*Pour 4 oz into each of 6 bottles
*Feed baby every 3-4 hours or on demand
Posted by: OldSarg at May 12, 2022 08:54 AM (p9Pq/)

The FDA frowns upon doing this as it's available and anyone can do it, ruining their bid to control EVERYONE.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

339 Not that Monty. Our Monty.

I think he would say we are DOOMED.

Posted by: blaster

Ahh, my bad. Just finished a book about the Brits fighting in NW Europe in 44-45 do my mind is not properly focused.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 08:58 AM (8gxrg)

340 well Ric Grenell has disgraced himself as far a I'm concerned. Nothing but a GOP-e Sid Blumenthal.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 08:21 AM (r46W7)

You thought a guy "married" to another guy was on our side?

Posted by: WiNO at May 12, 2022 08:59 AM (EpDzw)

341 That level of control only exists in certain states, in certain areas. Wherever the mobs are shown firepower and a non-compliant authority, they go elsewhere. It's that simple.

Simple clues to know if you are in a Compliant Authority Zone is when no one seems to question the mysterious appearance of pallets of bricks on street corners a day or two before a Mostly Peaceful Protest.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 08:59 AM (AHeqJ)

342 Under Trump: Baby food

Under Biden: No Baby food

This should be politics 101. But the GOPe doesn't want to make this argument.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2022 08:59 AM (ESjRY)

343 My money is still on Ukraine is winning but needs more billions from the U.S. for a couple of years, and then suddenly it turns out it's over and Russia won.

Maybe the Ukranian exiles need billions after that, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:00 AM (DxFDO)

344 Sometimes it would be nice to know what was intended with the photoshopped pictures. Even if it's in WHITE at the end.

Today it's obviously something about abortion (i'd guess), but what the H^&L was the original photo from?

Posted by: Scott_T at May 12, 2022 09:00 AM (2waQ7)

345 Apologies for being a pedant but as an Our Gang fan I must point out that "O-Tay" was Porky's thing. The other characters would repeat it back to him. As in Porky: "O-tay, Banky?" Spanky: "O-tay!"

Because Porky and Buckwheat were usually paired up as the "little tag-alongs" of their era, Buckwheat said "O-Tay" back to Porky more than anyone else, and it became codified as "his" due to Eddie Murphy.

Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas actually overcame his (very real) speech impediment, and in the later MGM shorts he speaks almost perfectly. (he was always a little mumble-mouthed even as an adult.)

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 12, 2022 09:00 AM (HsAzN)

346
From what I've read, the FDA not only ordered the recall, but shut down Abbott plant -- and will not let them reopnr. Despite being td the line was fixrd/cleaned, despite the plant operating several separate baby formula lines there that were NOT part of the recall.

They are intentionally killing babies. Not hyperbole.
EVIL

Posted by: Lizzy's phone at May 12, 2022 08:49 AM

From the CDC's own website they mention four cases per year of the Cronobacter infection on average. Last year there were an average number of cases. I guess Abbott didn't make the 'right' political contributions.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2022 09:00 AM (dQvv7)

347 I pulled our 401k (TSP) out of a fund that invests heavily in stocks and put the money in the treasury fund about six months ago. Any rational person should have been able to see what was coming and taken precautions to mitigate their losses.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 12, 2022 08:49 AM (bVYXr)
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Yes, but, you pay attention. Plus, I think most of the people here are at least one standard deviation on the IQ chart. However, the average American? Probably would have been better to encourage savings.

Anyway, need to run, later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 12, 2022 09:01 AM (5pTK/)

348 Geez, who at the time would've thought that 50+ years on we would be ruled by the equivalent of the Manson Family?

Posted by: Gaspergoo at May 12, 2022 09:01 AM (wjR/U)

349 even though she's at least got some intersectionality going for her.
Posted by: Ziba at May 12, 2022 08:55 AM (S1hrL)

Yeah, just what i'd expect a paid shill for....

*spins wheel*

*wheel is stuck, won't spin*

*looks askance*

... uh... doodyhead!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 09:01 AM (6FeV1)

350 @RyanMaue
Biden scores a huge climate policy victory by canceling massive Alaska oil and gas lease sale. Progressive environmental groups and climate scientists cheered the decision. ... Biden admin argued that climate change be considered as reason to suspend oil & gas drilling leases going forward.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 08:49 AM (Jtln5)
++++
As promised in the second debate and some of his "rallies" during the campaign. This is one campaign promise that the administration is absolutely keeping.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 08:56 AM (DU+/6)

Winter is coming. Prepare accordingly.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 12, 2022 09:01 AM (4I/2K)

351 I never used baby formula for either of my kids, but I can imagine the panic for the mothers out there who rely on it to feed their babies. 'Don't Mess With Our Kids' should be at the forefront of this fall's election campaign.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2022 09:02 AM (45fpk)

352 How about, Dear Government,
GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY???
How hard is that?
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at May 12, 2022 08:28 AM (HFXv5)

It's pretty hard actually. If the government gets out of the way people might start asking why we need so many federal employees. I only need 15 more years until I get my pension. I'm writing another 20 rules just because you asked this. -- pretty much every federal employee

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 12, 2022 09:02 AM (z99Zw)

353 Wow, I just heard that the government is going to allow emergency distributions of baby formula to some babies "depending on how badly the child need it"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:03 AM (DxFDO)

354 Grenell said something mean...he's a SOS, then!

Cancel him, they said.

Posted by: Ziba at May 12, 2022 09:03 AM (S1hrL)

355 Dear God,

Please tell me it's not Grooming Thursday.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 12, 2022 09:03 AM (aeMRC)

356 Catturd
@catturd2 32m
When I was growing up, the unhinged lunatic Lefties were screaming about a new Ice Age coming.

None of these hysterical moron's dire predictions ever come true - they always target the gullible, foolish sheep every generation with some new end-of-the-world bullshit.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2022 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

357 I pulled our 401k (TSP) out of a fund that invests heavily in stocks and put the money in the treasury fund about six months ago.

I did that with some of our money but not nearly enough.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2022 09:04 AM (45fpk)

358 How people saw the future in 1962: Robots do all the work, space colonies, vacations on the moon

What the future looks like in 2022: Illegals, Chinese Slaves, and H1Bs do all the work, we have central American/Indian/Chinese colonies in the US, the government is trying to ban vacations on the sly

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2022 09:04 AM (ESjRY)

359 Uber Teats: We deliver a wet nurse to your hungry baby. Get the app now.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 12, 2022 09:04 AM (4I/2K)

360 It's not Grenell's hatchet that pisses me off.

It's the direction he chose to swing it in.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 09:04 AM (6FeV1)

361 I wonder what Monty would say about our current sitch.
Posted by: blaster at May 12, 2022 08:47 AM (9otr5)

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Reading Monty was a must for me back in the day. Where did he go?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 12, 2022 09:04 AM (flINI)

362 353

That could start a war because babies of color will be first in line.

Posted by: Ziba at May 12, 2022 09:05 AM (S1hrL)

363 Well personally, I came to that conclusion when Putin ordered Spetznatz troops to demolish 4 apartment buildings full of Russian civilians, in order to justify his invasion of Chechnaya. That happened in 1999, and now that over 2 decades have passed, no one seriously disputes the idea that it was always a KGB led "false flag" operation.

Which, while typical of amoral governments, is small peanuts compared to what Western "leaders" did in all things surrounding C19.

On the evil scale where 0 is Jesus Christ and 10 Satan, I give western politicians a significantly higher rating than Putin. Putin creates a false flag that kills hundreds, ours create daily false flags that will bring down civilization killing billions.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 09:05 AM (AHeqJ)

364 There isn't enough lithium on earth to build all the batteries.

They're killing you on purpose for no reason other than power. They don't care about the planet. They don't care about the environment. They only care about control.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 08:56 AM

There is probably enough lithium in the asteroid belt to meet demand. Shipping costs will be a bitch though.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 12, 2022 09:05 AM (bVYXr)

365 359 Uber Teats: We deliver a wet nurse to your hungry baby. Get the app now.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 12, 2022 09:04 AM (4I/2K)

Uber Udders.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 09:06 AM (s2VJv)

366 Did you watch the PBS link, Tom? The elected official's favorite photo?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 08:55 AM (DxFDO)

I haven't yet, when I have time I might - but nothing in it will matter to me. They could all be wearing swastika armbands and it wouldn't change my view that both sides are bad and we are crazy to be getting involved at all. Fiscally, I think this $40 billion in free money we're passing out is madness, but here we are. But the way to oppose it is to focus on how bad it is for *us* to be getting involved at all, not scare stories about secret nazis.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 09:06 AM (r46W7)

367 353 Wow, I just heard that the government is going to allow emergency distributions of baby formula to some babies "depending on how badly the child need it"
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:03 AM (DxFDO)

Meaning how black or Democrat.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 09:06 AM (s2VJv)

368 The more I think about the latest Ukraine funding, the angrier I get.

Can someone please explain why the f $!@ Ukraine is so important? I get that aid money is Lauderdale through there, but that's not unique. I get that more than a few Senator's sons and other family are getting paid handsomely for little to know work by Ukrainian oligarchs, but that's also not unique.But why was Ukraine the center or TWO impeachments, why was the US embassy spying on US conservative commentators, why did we run the color revolution there in 2014, why is Soros so invested there??

Those things, even combined, don't explain why the US Congress is today legislating as if Ukraine is a US state. No, worse, as if it were the homeland and we here are territories, allies...some responsibility that has far outlived it's usefulness (e.g. a NATO partner)? Seriously, it feels like we as a people have been replaced, like we are in the way of their oh so great concern and responsibility for the a Ukrainian people, the Afghans, and any other people. All of us, not just MAGA, privileged whites or whatever -' they are looting ALL of our futures, our kids and grandkids futures for...freaking Ukraine. WTF

Posted by: Lizzy's phone at May 12, 2022 09:06 AM (vyClj)

369 Inflation CPI up 11% . Higher than expect.

I thought the latest number was 8.3%
down from 8.5% last month.

Posted by: McCool at May 12, 2022 08:44 AM (BqBIh)
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Sorry, should have been PPI. Producer price index.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2022 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

370 Wow, I just heard that the government is going to allow emergency distributions of baby formula to some babies "depending on how badly the child need it"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:03 AM (DxFDO)

Taking tips from Solomon.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2022 09:06 AM (45fpk)

371 With all the lithium going into batteries, how the hell are we supposed to keep all the elected officials medicated?!?!?!?!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 09:07 AM (6FeV1)

372 Wow, I just heard that the government is going to allow emergency distributions of baby formula to some babies "depending on how badly the child need it"

Foxes will be rationing feed to the chickens.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 09:07 AM (AHeqJ)

373 Biden admin says oil leases were cancelled due to lack of interest from industry.

Posted by: McCool at May 12, 2022 09:07 AM (BqBIh)

374 303 Ryan Maue @RyanMaue; 10h
Biden scores a huge climate policy victory by canceling massive Alaska oil and gas lease sale. Progressive environmental groups and climate scientists cheered the decision. Americans need to accept high gas prices or get an electric car.

Do these people even read what they write? Biden is out there saying he's fighting fighting fighting to get gas prices DOWN.

Posted by: blaster at May 12, 2022 08:52 AM (9otr5)

It is the Junta's standard operating procedure for problems that poll badly for them. Proclaim you are starting a new, Whole of Government effort, to fix a problem. (Or form a Panel of Experts to prepare a report about how to fix the problem.) No schedule or hard goals are ever announced, though. Then have Joe do a showy meeting with friendly CEOs from the applicable industry. Then the Junta does absolutely nothing to fix the problem.

Posted by: BlueMoon at May 12, 2022 09:07 AM (FYFBu)

375 The states with the greatest baby formula shortages are "rd" states. American Holodomor, anyone?

Posted by: RS at May 12, 2022 09:08 AM (1XDfN)

376 278 We all agree that Putin is evil...
Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:22 AM (WY8d2)

Upon what do you base that claim? Something you saw in the famously truthful and never at all incorrect media?
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Putin is an honest-to-God tyrant, with no real political opposition and no criticism from the Russian press, whose bravest members all died from spontaneous lead poisoning and sudden falls from tall buildings. He doesn't care about the average Russian's "quality of life", and he sells oil and arms abroad instead of whatever we used to make until we gave it all to China. He'll give up power on the day he dies, and not one day earlier. But he's still not worth fighting where Ukraine is involved. Moldova, which is the size of 3 Appalachian Ohio counties, is definitely not worth fighting him over.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 12, 2022 09:08 AM (W+kMI)

377 Sorry, should have been PPI. Producer price index.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2022 09:06 AM (NpAcC)
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Ah. Not surprising, though extremely bad. We'll see CPI relief about two quarters after PPI starts receding. PPI hasn't been receding.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 12, 2022 09:08 AM (DU+/6)

378 On the evil scale where 0 is Jesus Christ and 10 Satan, I give western politicians a significantly higher rating than Putin. Putin creates a false flag that kills hundreds, ours create daily false flags that will bring down civilization killing billions.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 09:05 AM (AHeqJ)

Can't argue that point. A Plague on All Their Houses, and all that. If I were to pick the worst, I would say that the "Green Energy" movement, in seeking to destroy fossil and nuclear power sources, is going to end up killing tens of millions more people than the Covid creation did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 09:09 AM (r46W7)

379 Taking tips from Solomon.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2022 09:06 AM (45fpk

Not to be confused with the You Toob channel for aspiring self-taught mohels, "Taking Tips With Solomon"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 09:09 AM (6FeV1)

380 an someone please explain why the f $!@ Ukraine is so important? I get that aid money is Lauderdale through there, but that's not unique. I get that more than a few Senator's sons and other family are getting paid handsomely for little to know work by Ukrainian oligarchs,

Are you using the Mary Cloggenstein filter on your posts?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 09:09 AM (AHeqJ)

381 Review of Top Gun, Maverick:

https://youtu.be/MgTA6oI_Y1E

Can't wait.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 09:09 AM (8gxrg)

382 349

I beg your pardon, sir?

Posted by: Ziba at May 12, 2022 09:10 AM (S1hrL)

383 Biden admin says oil leases were cancelled due to lack of interest from industry.

Posted by: McCool at May 12, 2022 09:07 AM

Who is going to invest billions into exploring and developing those oil fields when they know that biden will do everything he can to stop production for the next 3 years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 12, 2022 09:10 AM (bVYXr)

384 Did you watch the PBS link, Tom? The elected official's favorite photo?
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I haven't yet, when I have time I might - but nothing in it will matter to me... But the way to oppose it is to focus on how bad it is for *us* to be getting involved at all, not scare stories about secret nazis.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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The interview doesn't matter. Just the blurring and why. Here's a picture since it's faster.

https://pbs.tw___.com/media/FNBF4_
cXIAQ9OW5?format=jpg&name=large

I have the clear advantage since I don't have to focus on just one reason for us to not be involved in this dumbassedness or "secret" Nazis.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:10 AM (DxFDO)

385 dammit

https://pbs.twIMG.com/media/FNBF4_
cXIAQ9OW5?format=jpg&name=large

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:10 AM (DxFDO)

386 In August 2021, several stories ran about Abbott, a maker of popular covid tests, when it had its factory in Westbrook, MA destroy its inventory. Weeks later, the country was facing a surge in covid cases.

Now, Abbott recalled certain lots of baby formula with expiration dates of April 1, 2022 or later, manufactured at its Michigan plant and distributed throughout the U.S. and overseas. The FDA ordered the plant closed but will now allow Abbott to release some specialty formulas "on a case-by-case basis."

Note, reportedly, Abbott Nutrition is the exclusive supplier for more than half of the WIC agencies nationwide.

Some strange happenings, indeed. And let us not forget the food factory "mishaps."

Posted by: Lola at May 12, 2022 09:10 AM (NIYa7)

387
I sent my daughter an oximeter early in the pandemic. Her sons had the best time with it, running around and testing their heart rate and oxygen saturation. When my daughter caught a cold and was slow to get out of bed in the morning one of her youngest sons came into her bedroom with the oximeter and tested her.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2022 09:11 AM (dQvv7)

388 BREAKING NEWS!!!!
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9:05 AM EST-- President Joe Biden has authorized emergency production and shipment of baby formula to Ukraine.

Flanked by Neil Cavuto and Mark Levin, Biden said "To all the Putin ass-kissers out there criticizing this, PLEASE bring your hungry infant to California so it can be made comfortable and then post-birth aborted. Do your part to aid in the Ukrainian war effort. Odds are that kid's going to die fighting in a pointless war in the future anyway."

Posted by: Tasty Burger at May 12, 2022 09:11 AM (N/oGZ)

389 an someone please explain why the f $!@ Ukraine is so important?

In 2014 Russia invaded Ukraine and Barack Obama did...nothing.

Then Ukraine started bribing Joe Biden.

in 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine and Biden is giving them billions.

This is the clearest quid pro quo in American history

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2022 09:11 AM (ESjRY)

390 I never used baby formula for either of my kids, but I can imagine the panic for the mothers out there who rely on it to feed their babies.

'Don't Mess With Our Kids' should be at the forefront of this fall's election campaign.

Posted by: grammie winger

The "Don't Mess With, Don't Look At, And God Forbid, Don't Touch My Kids" campaign.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at May 12, 2022 09:12 AM (jv87l)

391 Biden admin says oil leases were cancelled due to lack of interest from industry.

Biden says a lot of things.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 09:12 AM (AHeqJ)

392 'Don't Mess With Our Kids' should be at the forefront of this fall's election campaign.

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Have any Republicans figured out it's an election year yet?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:12 AM (DxFDO)

393 381 Review of Top Gun, Maverick:

https://youtu.be/MgTA6oI_Y1E

Can't wait.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 09:09 AM (8gxrg)
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Oh oh Sharkman, you've awaken the Top Gun haters.

PS. I'm looking forward to as well.

Posted by: WisRich at May 12, 2022 09:13 AM (G0vdT)

394 Have any Republicans figured out it's an election year yet?

Go away, bait'n

Posted by: Mitch "Frito at May 12, 2022 09:13 AM (ESjRY)

395 'You can keep your WIC if you like your WIC.'

- some Kenyan

Posted by: Eromero at May 12, 2022 09:13 AM (gktX6)

396 Nuclear sunset law proposal: every federal law and federal agency expires in five years, save the Constitution.
Posted by: Zek at May 12, 2022 08:45 AM

Two words: Continuing Resolution.

Posted by: GOPes & Donkeys at May 12, 2022 09:13 AM (a3Q+t)

397 392 'Don't Mess With Our Kids' should be at the forefront of this fall's election campaign.

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Have any Republicans figured out it's an election year yet?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:12 AM (DxFDO)

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It's primary season and most of the electorate isn't paying attention to electoral politics yet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

398 Don't Weigh Me Cards -

Weighing me every time I come in for an appointment and talking about my weight like it's a problem perpetuates weight stigma (a known and serious health risk).

Narrator: your excessive weight IS a real problem and it perpetuates known and serious health risks. You should feel bad about your condition (pain avoidance motivator) and get a reality check from a medical professional.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 12, 2022 09:14 AM (4I/2K)

399 Riots are MiniPurges. The movies of course got it all wrong. They aren't a way for the crypto-right to go take out their mommy issues on POCs but rather for the out and proud Left to use POCs as their foot soldiers to take out their daddy issues on normiez.

Posted by: blaster at May 12, 2022 09:14 AM (9otr5)

400 On the evil scale where 0 is Jesus Christ and 10 Satan, I give western politicians a significantly higher rating than Putin. Putin creates a false flag that kills hundreds, ours create daily false flags that will bring down civilization killing billions.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 09:05 AM (AHeqJ)

"Putin's a pimp. He could never have out fought Satan-o"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 09:15 AM (s2VJv)

401 Because the Russians just lurve thems some Jooos [and others]...

https://tinyurl.com/yc6jn7ub
https://tinyurl.com/356kcvwz
https://tinyurl.com/ydekvte9

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 09:15 AM (Jtln5)

402 Oh, hey, it will be hilarious in a few months when these same environmental groups and climate activists are bit ching about the cost -- and scarcity -' of electricity for their cars, their fancy iphones, smart appliances, etc.

Oh, you thought only the normies would have to suffer and adapt? Precious.

Posted by: Lizzy's phone at May 12, 2022 09:15 AM (vyClj)

403 398 Narrator: your excessive weight IS a real problem and it perpetuates known and serious health risks. You should feel bad about your condition (pain avoidance motivator) and get a reality check from a medical professional.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 12, 2022 09:14 AM (4I/2K)

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"I have trouble breathing and can barely walk to the bathroom and back."

"Have you thought of losing any of your excess 200 pounds? That might also lessen your risk of heart attack."

"I didn't come here to find ways to sacrifice anything to become healthier. Just give me a pill."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for wonder in the modern world with Tati at May 12, 2022 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

404 "Have any Republicans figured out it's an election year yet?"

Mitch McConnell has. He always has his finger on the pulse. He knows that the kids get hot and heavy when he promises capital gains tax cuts and financial aid packages to countries that are supercolliders of corruption.

Word is he's preparing a $65 billion effort to help American youths find Ukraine and Moldova on a map.

Posted by: Tasty Burger at May 12, 2022 09:15 AM (N/oGZ)

405 390 I never used baby formula for either of my kids, but I can imagine the panic for the mothers out there who rely on it to feed their babies.

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Specially if the baby is one of the few with metabolic issues who need special formulas

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 12, 2022 09:16 AM (kf6Ak)

406 >>Can someone please explain why the f $!@ Ukraine is so important?

No. Nobody can and nobody even tries because it's not that important to US interests. All we get is Putin is evil and Ukraine is a plucky democracy we must defend, neither statement is entirely true.

Incorporating Ukraine and Georgia into NATO has been the policy of the neocons and globalists for decades. It is a uniparty mission. They didn't stop after NATO membership was dangled in front of Georgia and Putin did as he said he would and invaded and they aren't stopping now when they same damn thing happened in Ukraine.

And now Finland is being mentioned as the next NATO member and that really light Putin's candle. We are bumbling our way toward WWIII over nothing.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 12, 2022 09:16 AM (ZLI7S)

407 Oh oh Sharkman, you've awaken the Top Gun haters.

PS. I'm looking forward to as well.

Posted by: WisRich

I joined the Navy in part because of that movie, and that was probably the best decision I've ever made. So I have a sofdespot for it. Also: I just love all things jets, except the alleged football team.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 09:17 AM (8gxrg)

408 Everyone in politics will disappoint over some issue at some point.

How dare you say something rational!

Posted by: Squid at May 12, 2022 09:17 AM (hI596)

409 54 If we blow that Penn Governors race, it will really screw us in 2024. Gov gets to appoint the SOS and election chief.
Posted by: Jonah at May 12, 2022 08:00 AM

This times 1000! Without Republican governors, we might have lost states like Georgia and Arizona to fraud in the 2020 election! Oh, wait...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 12, 2022 09:17 AM (NqqNb)

410 >>Can someone please explain why the f $!@ Ukraine is so important?

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Global trafficking and laundromat hub

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 12, 2022 09:17 AM (kf6Ak)

411 381 Review of Top Gun, Maverick:
https://youtu.be/MgTA6oI_Y1E
Can't wait.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 09:09 AM (8gxrg)

How would you rate the new Top Gun?
a. Not gay
b. Kinda gay
c. Super gay
d. As gay as the original

Posted by: Wally at May 12, 2022 09:17 AM (FJYfm)

412
Word is he's preparing a $65 billion effort to help American youths find Ukraine and Moldova on a map.

Take a world map. Remove the national borders. Put a star where Kiev is. Ask Americans what country that is. 95%+ will say "Russia".

If you do the same thing for Moldova it would be even funnier. I'm guessing "Germany" or "Greece" or... "Russia"

Posted by: 18-1 at May 12, 2022 09:18 AM (ESjRY)

413 Pet Evaporated Milk

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Pet milk? Can you milk a cat, Greg?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2022 09:18 AM (kXYt5)

414 Everybody gets gov mandated electric vehicles. Power grid collapses. Electric vehicles now are tiny homes.

The Earf iz saved!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 12, 2022 09:18 AM (fWTJL)

415 Nuclear sunset law proposal: every federal law and federal agency expires in five years, save the Constitution.
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It's not laws that make a nation great, it's the people.

No law can contain a corrupt people.

It's rough to say, but proposals like this or Article V convention or some new amendment--at this point-- are no more than trying to convince yourself you can save the marriage if you just let her have a few nights a week with her boyfriend.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 12, 2022 09:18 AM (rHyrR)

416 I beg your pardon, sir?
Posted by: Ziba at May 12, 2022 09:10 AM (S1hrL)

Just being silly. Not at your expense. Pay it no mind.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 09:18 AM (6FeV1)

417 Now, Abbott recalled certain lots of baby formula with expiration dates of April 1, 2022 or later, manufactured at its Michigan plant and distributed throughout the U.S. and overseas. The FDA ordered the plant closed but will now allow Abbott to release some specialty formulas "on a case-by-case basis."

Note, reportedly, Abbott Nutrition is the exclusive supplier for more than half of the WIC agencies nationwide.

I was reading of a rather cruel experiment where researchers took babies from troubled families and created groups of kids that were given various levels of nutrition and attention. (they wanted to see what had more of an effect on child development). Those who were deprived of nutrition did poorly and ended up with a lifetime of being physically inferior to those who had good nutrition.

Also, there is a statistical difference in the physical and mental abilities of people who were gestating during Ramadan.

Just random observations...

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 09:18 AM (AHeqJ)

418 389

Because Zelenskyy thinks it is.

It isn't.

Posted by: Ziba at May 12, 2022 09:18 AM (S1hrL)

419 Can someone please explain why the f $!@ Ukraine is so important?

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Global trafficking and laundromat hub

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Not joking and mentioned a couple of days ago:

It's the ch1ld s3x trafficking capitol of Europe, and competes for the world title.

Knowing what we know now, one has to assume that's motivation for our betters, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:19 AM (DxFDO)

420 There is probably enough lithium in the asteroid belt to meet demand. Shipping costs will be a bitch though.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 12, 2022 09:05 AM

The costs are getting the orbital infrastructure in place. Once you're in Low Earth Orbit, you're halfway to anywhere.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 12, 2022 09:19 AM (a3Q+t)

421 Don't Weigh Me card = Do Not Resuscitate

Because scarce health care resources will not go to the morbidly obese, no matter what your favorite Fat Studies professor promises with her body positivity BS.

Posted by: Lizzy's phone at May 12, 2022 09:19 AM (vyClj)

422 I was reading of a rather cruel experiment where researchers took babies from troubled families and created groups of kids that were given various levels of nutrition and attention.

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"rather cruel" is quite an understatement

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 12, 2022 09:19 AM (kf6Ak)

423 Because the Russians just lurve thems some Jooos [and others]...

https://tinyurl.com/yc6jn7ub
https://tinyurl.com/356kcvwz
https://tinyurl.com/ydekvte9
Posted by: andycanuck
**

Yep. Let's not send them $100B, either.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:20 AM (DxFDO)

424 With all the lithium going into batteries, how the hell are we supposed to keep all the elected officials medicated?!?!?!?!
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Thorazine.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at May 12, 2022 09:20 AM (jv87l)

425 414 Everybody gets gov mandated electric vehicles. Power grid collapses. Electric vehicles now are tiny homes.

The Earf iz saved!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 12, 2022 09:18 AM (fWTJL)

"If it wasn't for electricity, we'd all be watching TV by candlelight."

- - George Gobel

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 09:20 AM (s2VJv)

426
The costs are getting the orbital infrastructure in place. Once you're in Low Earth Orbit, you're halfway to anywhere.

So let's focus on the good news here...its going to be really easy to mine that asteroid now guys!

The bad news? Yes mistakes were made and the asteroid is now where Cleveland used to be. But don't worry we've got a bunch of other cities in Ohio still!

Posted by: Some asteroid mining PR flack at May 12, 2022 09:20 AM (ESjRY)

427 an someone please explain why the f $!@ Ukraine is so important?

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It goes like this. We give taxpayer money to "Ukraine" and by "Ukraine" we mean it will be money tangentially associated with Ukraine. Those funds are then recycled back to businesses that have an interest in Ukraine who will then use those funds to give to lobbyist to give to politicians or to hire people associated with politicians who will then have money to give to politicians. In addition, we will then do favors for people in Ukraine who will continue to sending our own (taxpayer) money back to us (politicians).

The best part is we will be lectured in the process.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 12, 2022 09:21 AM (sX1BW)

428 How would you rate the new Top Gun?
a. Not gay
b. Kinda gay
c. Super gay
d. As gay as the original

Posted by: Wally

D. Definitely in the BroMance category. The subplot between Goose's son and Maverick promises to be pretty good.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 09:21 AM (8gxrg)

429
Specially if the baby is one of the few with metabolic issues who need special formulas

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 12, 2022 09:16 AM

A niece just had a premature infant who would require special formula. As soon as the infant came home we sent our niece a couple hundred dollar Amazon gift card. I don't know what she bought but within one hour I received notification it was redeemed. I've never seen one spent so fast.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2022 09:21 AM (dQvv7)

430 424 With all the lithium going into batteries, how the hell are we supposed to keep all the elected officials medicated?!?!?!?!
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Thorazine.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at May 12, 2022 09:20 AM (jv87l)

Thorazine sounds like a mash-up of Charlize Theron and Thora Birch.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 09:22 AM (s2VJv)

431 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at May 12, 2022 09:22 AM (arJlL)

432 I get that aid money is Lauderdale through there
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Because Biden wants his Fort Worth's -- usually 10% I hear!

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 09:22 AM (Jtln5)

433 D. Definitely in the BroMance category. The subplot between Goose's son and Maverick promises to be pretty good.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 09:21 AM (8gxrg)

Can I assume there will be an extended shirtless volleyball scene?

Posted by: Wally at May 12, 2022 09:22 AM (FJYfm)

434 Specially if the baby is one of the few with metabolic issues who need special formulas
Posted by: vmom

My youngest wouldn't nurse and couldn't tolerate any of the normal offerings from Abbott or Mead Johnson (Enfamil).

In desperation I called Abbott and they hooked me up with their Product Development people - for a year or so they sent cases of a formula undergoing testing. Smelled, looked and tasted like billy goat barf but the little guy ate it and thrived.

Abbott never charged me for any of it.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 12, 2022 09:22 AM (ifHdv)

435 D. Definitely in the BroMance category. The subplot between Goose's son and Maverick promises to be pretty good.

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Hey, at least Goose's son is above age. Give Hollywood some credit.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 12, 2022 09:23 AM (sX1BW)

436 Yes mistakes were made and the asteroid is now where Cleveland used to be. But don't worry we've got a bunch of other cities in Ohio still!
Posted by: Some asteroid mining PR flack

How hard would it be to aim for DC....

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 12, 2022 09:23 AM (kf6Ak)

437 Because Biden wants his Fort Worth's -- usually 10% I hear!
Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 09:22 AM (Jtln5)

Groping Naples is just a side benefit of the gig.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 12, 2022 09:23 AM (6FeV1)

438 Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Wins Philippines Presidential Election

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Go long on shoes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at May 12, 2022 09:23 AM (FVME7)

439 A niece just had a premature infant who would require special formula. As soon as the infant came home we sent our niece a couple hundred dollar Amazon gift card. I don't know what she bought but within one hour I received notification it was redeemed. I've never seen one spent so fast.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

**

When we had our first one we spent a bunch of money immediately because we didn't know anything or have any experience and had to learn fast. The crib and diapers were nice, but there were some other things that added up quickly.

That's been a long time ago. I can't imagine what breast pumps and the like cost now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:24 AM (DxFDO)

440 Moron Robbie, child trafficking doesn't seem big enough for almost all of Congress effectively assuming responsibility for, and prioritizing Ukraine above all else.

Is Ukraine going to be the seat of the global world governance?

Posted by: Lizzy's phone at May 12, 2022 09:24 AM (vyClj)

441 385 dammit

https://pbs.twIMG.com/media/FNBF4_
cXIAQ9OW5?format=jpg&name=large
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:10 AM (DxFDO)

Stepan Bandera; I thought the photo would be worse. It's easy for us in the west to condemn someone like that, but I can also understand why a Viktor Yushchenko awarded him the title of Hero of Ukraine. A figure like John Brown, perhaps; John Brown fought against slavery, but John Brown killed a lot of innocent people for his visions. Bandera appears to have switched sides a lot, fighting for whoever he thought had the best prospects of making the Ukraine independent at the time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2022 09:24 AM (r46W7)

442 . Smelled, looked and tasted like billy goat barf but the little guy ate it and thrived.

Abbott never charged me for any of it.
Posted by: Tonypete

Wow. That's great.
Reminds me - goat's milk is supposedly closer to human milk than cow milk.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 12, 2022 09:24 AM (kf6Ak)

443 Hey, at least Goose's son is above age. Give Hollywood some credit.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe)

It's a general release movie and not Netflix, so . . .

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 09:25 AM (8gxrg)

444 "The fact is the [junta] has no better idea of the pandemic’s future than the groundhog does about winter’s duration.

******

Biden: What do you think we should do about the coming surge in COVID?

Staffer: Go fer broke, sir.

Biden: Great. Now how will we be able to predict how many cases there will be?

(wait for it)

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2022 09:25 AM (kXYt5)

445 In desperation I called Abbott and they hooked me up with their Product Development people - for a year or so they sent cases of a formula undergoing testing. Smelled, looked and tasted like billy goat barf but the little guy ate it and thrived.

Abbott never charged me for any of it.
Posted by: Tonypete

*

Wow. That's a fantastic story and would tilt me to their company if I had any need whatsoever. That's awesom.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:25 AM (DxFDO)

446 These people are manifestly irresponsible, so ideologically driven as to border on mental derangement, and because they have a near complete stranglehold on the levers of power and the instruments of control that maintain that power, pose an absolute, undeniable, existential threat to every man, woman and child -- in and out of the womb -- in this country.

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Shorter version? A psychopathic satanic pedophilic oligarchic death cult.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at May 12, 2022 09:25 AM (93Arc)

447 Everyone in politics will disappoint over some issue at some point.

How dare you say something rational!
Posted by: Squid at May 12, 2022 09:17 AM (hI596)
********
True.
Also, If someone doesn't agree with me on every single issue I will no longer support them... they are dead to me. /

Posted by: redridinghood at May 12, 2022 09:25 AM (NpAcC)

448 368 The more I think about the latest Ukraine funding, the angrier I get.

Can someone please explain why the f $!@ Ukraine is so important? I get that aid money is Lauderdale through there, but that's not unique. I get that more than a few Senator's sons and other family are getting paid handsomely for little to know work by Ukrainian oligarchs, but that's also not unique. But why was Ukraine the center or TWO impeachments, why was the US embassy spying on US conservative commentators, why did we run the color revolution there in 2014, why is Soros so invested there??
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Since you asked.... Ukraine is important to eh Biden junta for three reasons.
1. Ukraine is the distraction. Pay no heed to the wrecking of the US economy, obsolete Covid restrictions, etc. Look at Ukraine, people!!
2. Putin will cheerfully release all the dirt on the Bidens and the bioweapons labs. The more DC gets stuck in gridlock and political hysteria over scandals and failed policies, the freer hand he has in Europe and Central Asia.
3. Soros has it in for Putin because he won't surrender power to the Globalist Technofascist State and its "progressive" agenda.

Posted by: exdem13 at May 12, 2022 09:26 AM (W+kMI)

449 That picture at the top of the thread is pretty dusturbing. Who would paint such a thing?

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 09:26 AM (8gxrg)

450 Smelled, looked and tasted like billy goat barf but the little guy ate it and thrived.

Ewwwwwwwe!

Posted by: Female Sheep at May 12, 2022 09:26 AM (a3Q+t)

451 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at May 12, 2022 09:26 AM (arJlL)

452 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2022 09:27 AM (45fpk)

453 "Sexism" Row Erupts Over Not Enough Parasitic Worms Being Named After Female Scientists

Well, this is a protest we can get behind.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at May 12, 2022 09:27 AM (FVME7)

454 Thorazine sounds like a mash-up of Charlize Theron and Thora Birch.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Thorazine will take a 350 lb Cuban bench presser who benches 565 lbs, and make him a pliable and calm as a sleeping infant.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at May 12, 2022 09:27 AM (jv87l)

455 Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Wins Philippines Presidential Election

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His VP is Pres Duterte's daughter.
Just ...interesting. Were the voters looking for strongman leadership or is it just name recognition...

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 12, 2022 09:28 AM (kf6Ak)

456 Hiya JT!
Posted by: grammie winger

Posted by: JT at May 12, 2022 09:28 AM (arJlL)

457 "The suit against the law was brought by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc., Firearms Policy Foundation, Calguns Foundation, Poway Weapons and Gear and PWG Range, North County Shooting Center, Inc., Beebe Family Arms and Munitions, and Matthew Jones, as well as two other private citizens."

Hmmm. Who's missing from that list that you might have expected to be there?

Posted by: Oddbob, SuperMaxiMAGA with Wings at May 12, 2022 09:28 AM (nfrXX)

458 449 That picture at the top of the thread is pretty dusturbing. Who would paint such a thing?
Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 09:26 AM (8gxrg)

Siquieros "Echo of a Scream"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 09:29 AM (s2VJv)

459 How the hell can a recall from a SINGLE manufacturer of baby formula cause a severe shortage. Does Abbott make all the friggin formula in the world?

Posted by: FriscoYoda at May 12, 2022 09:30 AM (S7une)

460 453 "Sexism" Row Erupts Over Not Enough Parasitic Worms Being Named After Female Scientists

Well, this is a protest we can get behind.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Racist too.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 12, 2022 09:30 AM (fWTJL)

461 Hmmm. Who's missing from that list that you might have expected to be there?
Posted by: Oddbob, SuperMaxiMAGA with Wings at May 12, 2022 09:28 AM

Sorry, I was getting fitted for this month's ration of suits.

Posted by: Wayne LaPierre at May 12, 2022 09:30 AM (a3Q+t)

462 Stepan Bandera; I thought the photo would be worse. It's easy for us in the west to condemn someone like that, but I can also understand why a Viktor Yushchenko awarded him the title of Hero of Ukraine.

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Yeah, just a direct collaborator with Hitler and the Nazis who willingly formed nationalist battalions to take orders from them and operate under their command. No big deal.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:30 AM (DxFDO)

463

Art's up. A Slotty Bartfarst image.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 09:31 AM (s2VJv)

464 How the hell can a recall from a SINGLE manufacturer of baby formula cause a severe shortage. Does Abbott make all the friggin formula in the world?

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Decentralization is the answer to almost all things economic.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 12, 2022 09:31 AM (sX1BW)

465 SH, yeah, foreign aid has always been a scam like that. Ukraine is not unique. What is unique is that Ukraine was at the center of the dossier coup attempt as well as two impeachments. There's more going on there -- a hell of a lot more, and it seems to involve most of DC.

Posted by: Lizzy's phone at May 12, 2022 09:31 AM (vyClj)

466 Is Ukraine going to be the seat of the global world governance?

Posted by: Lizzy's phone

I think it already is World graft and child sex slave central.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 09:31 AM (8gxrg)

467
My daughter had identical twins and made a small fortune in product testing on them - of safe stuff like diapers and other baby related goods. It took away a little of the financial sting of expecting one and getting two.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 12, 2022 09:32 AM (dQvv7)

468 The Zimmerman post summarizing the Coof Hysteria Hoax is an excellent one, everything all in one place. I know several people who need to read it. Unfortunately, they probably won't.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 12, 2022 09:32 AM (txdEq)

469 Thorazine will take a 350 lb Cuban bench presser who benches 565 lbs, and make him a pliable and calm as a sleeping infant.

Hot lead to the brainpan will make that same Cuban bench presser "sleeping" like a Leftist's infant.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 09:32 AM (AHeqJ)

470 Since no one knows anything and the MSM doesn't have any interest in discussing anything, I guess "no big deal" really is true, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The Black family survived slavery but not welfare at May 12, 2022 09:32 AM (DxFDO)

471 And now Finland is being mentioned as the next NATO member and that really light Putin's candle.
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Who'd have thought that invading a neighbour would see other unaligned neighbours want to join a defensive alliance?? Especially when Sweden and Finland are such existential threats to Holy Mutha Russia.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 09:32 AM (Jtln5)

472 NOOD. Lum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 12, 2022 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

473 We are supporting Ukraine so they will keep their mouths shut about their grifting with the Bidens. This isn't rocket science.

We (the American people) don't have a dog in this hunt and never did.

Posted by: creeper at May 12, 2022 09:32 AM (cTCuP)

474 How the hell can a recall from a SINGLE manufacturer of baby formula cause a severe shortage. Does Abbott make all the friggin formula in the world?

And yet no one seemed to complain that it is a virtual monopoly.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 12, 2022 09:33 AM (AHeqJ)

475 Infant formula shortage = The Current Thing

Internet expert opinions incoming!!!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2022 09:33 AM (kXYt5)

476 449 That picture at the top of the thread is pretty dusturbing. Who would paint such a thing?

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 09:26 AM (8gxrg)

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Somebody who wanted you to be disturbed.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at May 12, 2022 09:33 AM (93Arc)

477 Just put the student debt back on the universities. This is an example of how Republican "principles" get in the way of reality. This is a war, and all is fair in war.

By putting the debt back on the universities we kill three birds with one stone,

1. The debt issue is off the table so the Democrats cannot use it anymore.

2. The debt will be paid for by the university said student attended, and will not be directly paid for by the tax payers.

3. It will hurt the universities forcing them to tighten their belt.

Now if we just nail the universities with a price cap if they accept federal funds all will be well in the valley. I know conservatives don't like debt relief and price caps. But they will hurt the left and that is what you do in war, hurt your enemies and help yourself and allies.

Posted by: William Eaton at May 12, 2022 09:34 AM (RF/pZ)

478 Reading the sidebar, it's not a surprise that Hannity followed Trumps orders and trashed Barnette last night.

I don't know the truth about Barnette but I do know, jeesh, politics is a dirty dirty business.

Posted by: WisRich at May 12, 2022 09:34 AM (G0vdT)

479 The thing is, will Americans even know the US (or rather, illegitimate Biden's mal-administration) did that? Sent our dwindling resources to another country while we suffer here at home?
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Only if we beat it into their heads.

Preferably with a tire iron.

Posted by: SMH that God hasn't lobbed a Texas-sized asteroid at us yet at May 12, 2022 09:34 AM (R037X)

480 Chinese Firm To Acquire 13 Percent Of Canadian Lithium Company For $5 Million
A Chinese firm that specializes in industrial explosives is planning to acquire a more than 10 percent stake in a Canadian lithium company for $5 million. On April 17, China-based company Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group Co. Ltd. (Yahua Group) announced its plan to acquire 13.2 percent of Ultra Lithium Inc., a Vancouver-based lithium and gold...

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 12, 2022 09:35 AM (Jtln5)

481 How would you rate the new Top Gun?
a. Not gay
b. Kinda gay
c. Super gay
d. As gay as the original
Posted by: Wally

e. Bathhouse, gloryhole gayer.

Posted by: Biergood at May 12, 2022 09:35 AM (FQWHA)

482 Siquieros "Echo of a Scream"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

He was a Stalinist commie so I guess that's exactly who might paint such a thing.

Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 09:36 AM (8gxrg)

483 Decentralization is the answer to almost all things economic.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at May 12, 2022 09:31 AM (sX1BW)

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Beat me to it, and with less snark.

Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at May 12, 2022 09:36 AM (93Arc)

484 475 Infant formula shortage = The Current Thing

Internet expert opinions incoming!!!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2022 09:33 AM (kXYt5)

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Excellent diagnosis, Dr. House. What is the present half-life of The Current Thing?

Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at May 12, 2022 09:38 AM (93Arc)

485 Part of that 40 billion is going for research in Ukraine. You know, those biolabs. Everyone does research in a war zone.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 12, 2022 09:40 AM (YynYJ)

486 Also, just think what a winning political position it would be:

"We can cancel student debt and the tax payers will not have to pay for it because the universities will".

Talk about turning the tables on a Democrat position.

Everyone loves free stuff when someone else will has to pay for it. Why not make that "someone" be a Democrat?

Posted by: William Eaton at May 12, 2022 09:43 AM (RF/pZ)

487 Klingon investment advisor to his clients: "Today is a good day to buy".

Posted by: Fox2! at May 12, 2022 09:46 AM (5Oamx)

488 Supposedly one in three single mothers are skipping meals so they can afford to feed their kids.
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Oh, really? I'm sure some could probably afford to skip a few meals anyway.

Also, isn't that what you're supposed to do as a parent, if worse comes to worse?

I'm not so concerned about them skipping meals as I am more concerned about WHY THE FUCK ARE WE AT THIS POINT AND WHY ARE WE ALLOWING IT TO CONTINUE?

Posted by: bicentennialguy at May 12, 2022 09:47 AM (IytoW)

489 The polling article on student loan forgiveness is HILARIOUS!!!

Who wants to forgive $10K in loans ?

Uh, who cares ? That isn't what they want. That effort is targeted to elite college majors that provide no benefits. Think Gender Studies at Harvard. Imagine $200K in student loads for a completely useless degree.

Nobody on earth should have any problem paying off $10K in student loans. That's what I did, back when the payment was 5% of my net income.

Nothing like asking a question, designed to get a positive response that doesn't come close to examining the actual issue.

Posted by: deadrody at May 12, 2022 10:00 AM (/jrmI)

490 171 Regarding the baby formula thing, stocks are down, but not out. Nationwide it's been hovering at about 50% of full, but people on the Twats are reporting that many stores have plenty of it. Our Overlords clearly want to generate a panic.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 12, 2022 10:04 AM (ZGrMX)

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WILLOWED:

475 Infant formula shortage = The Current Thing

Internet expert opinions incoming!!!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2022 09:33 AM (kXYt5)

Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at May 12, 2022 10:09 AM (93Arc)

491
If the public schools did a better job of introducing the lesbian lifestyle as the best alternative at an early age the safety of infant formula would disappear as an issue.

As my daughter always tearfully asks, "Why are the Republicans doing this to the country?"

Posted by: Karen CheChe at May 12, 2022 10:09 AM (dQvv7)

492 I still think we are facing a Fourth Turning- but it seems to have been on the brink since just before Trump.

Posted by: Lord Whorfin at May 12, 2022 10:19 AM (kMoe2)

493 Nic update.

Posted by: ShainS at May 12, 2022 10:38 AM (FVR5P)

494 "The $30.5 trillion dollar question is, how in God's name did we let this happen?"

Hahahahaha. Washington DC figured out that if you steal from people who aren't even born yet, they're hard-pressed to stop you.

Much of that debt was incurred long before you were ever born, kid.

The good news is that you can choose whether or not you want to help pay it off.

You can leave. Like I did.

Posted by: JamesCarville at May 12, 2022 10:47 AM (OZmwH)

495 Paul Begala looks like a fetus.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 12, 2022 10:50 AM (yQpMk)

496 482 Siquieros "Echo of a Scream"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

He was a Stalinist commie so I guess that's exactly who might paint such a thing.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 12, 2022 09:36 AM (8gxrg)

I have no qualms about stealing from a Commie. In fact, in using that imagery to correctly portray what real Commies are doing is an act of patriotism.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 12, 2022 10:56 AM (s2VJv)

497 When, if ever, will that sorry dipstick Merrick Garland start to worry about threats to Supreme Court Justices.

Boy did the country dodge a bullet when Garland's nomination to a seat on the Supremes was derailed.

Posted by: GlendaleGreybeard at May 12, 2022 11:09 AM (K57hO)

498 "Cooper also said McDonald was not a 'good candidate for probation' because of her otherwise law-abiding life."

Huh? I thought this was a criterion FOR probation. Maybe if she was an illegal alien gangbanger she would have gotten probation. What a fucking turd this judge is. May antifa drop its blessings on his head.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 12, 2022 12:06 PM (ynpvh)

499 497 When, if ever, will that sorry dipstick Merrick Garland start to worry about threats to Supreme Court Justices.

Boy did the country dodge a bullet when Garland's nomination to a seat on the Supremes was derailed.

Posted by: GlendaleGreybeard at May 12, 2022 11:09 AM (K57hO)

He may have been derailed, but he's a fucking trainwreck for this country as AG.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 12, 2022 12:06 PM (ynpvh)

500 Rogan is no conservative, and he dislikes Trump and dislikes us. Thinks people with American flags are right wing nits.

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 12, 2022 12:28 PM (t4poC)

501 121 Forgetting elections for a moment, will any or all of that be enough to engender a "great reset" to coin a phrase? Who knows. But when mothers cannot feed their babies, on top of the fact that there is a drive to turn those that survive to adolescence into catamites and sex slaves, then all bets are off.
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Thank you for teaching me a new word: catamite.

Now for humor, 'Does your catamount bend its knees when servicing the catamite?'

Posted by: Ciampino at May 12, 2022 12:36 PM (qfLjt)

502 SO WE, ONCE A GREAT NATION, ARE NOW GOING TO STARVE INFANTS TO DEATH. I wonder who will fire the first shot.

Posted by: sidney at May 12, 2022 01:47 PM (Uy/WF)

503 As I and millions of other depression era babies can attest infants thrive on mashed potatoes, heavy on the milk and butter, along with mother's milk.

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