The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 5/20/22

Good morning, kids. The weekend is here and with the trial of former Hillary mouthpiece Michael Sussmann getting underway, there are a number of links below the fold for those keen on self-abuse. I say that knowing full well that absolutely nothing of any substance is going to come of this trial, even if Sussmann is convicted. If anyone thinks that Hillary Clinton will in any way, shape or form face any real legal consequences for attempting to sabotage the 2016 Trump campaign, your brain function is marginally greater than that of current Oval Office occupant Sponge Brain Shits Pants. Hell, Sussmann will probably get a Kevin Clinesmith wrist-slap at worst, and then find himself with an Andrew McCabe book deal and political analyst gig at MSLSD or XiNN. The jury pool alone means John Durham has no shot in hell, even with what some analysts are calling right out of the box a slam dunk case. Already, you can see the fix is in as the judge has denied a motion by Durham to dismiss a juror because of unambiguous and direct ties to the Hillary campaign. It's a farce.

If this were the only thing making news, I'd say even a rigged trial might be an eye-opener for the low-information crowd. But our world is crashing down on our heads and this is about the last thing most folks are paying attention to. Gasoline going through the roof? Shortages of baby formula? Stagflation? Terrible and horrible but this is supposed to be America, and America is not a third world nation. Well, with a rigged justice system that favors those in power and rigged elections, we may still be a first world country, but we for sure have a third world government. Case in point, I give you the words of fish-eyed, multi-chinned, racialist Commie thug Eric Holder:

“We cannot allow what happened on January 6 to go unpunished because it would invite something like that to happen again in the future. Future people who would consider doing something like this have to be deterred.”
Holder added, “I think a non-prosecution would divide the nation as well. And if we don’t have that deterrent impact coming out of the consideration of what happened on January the 6, we put this republic at risk in the future.”

He's talking about Trump but is that not just the greatest example of projection or what? You're absolutely right, Eric. You, Obama, Hillary, Pelosi, Schumer, anyone and everyone in the federal law enforcement, intel and military agencies that colluded with you to rig the 2020 election and then stage the violence of January 6th while using it as a pretext to persecute political enemies should all be tried for treason, hanged, and your filthy corpses left swinging in the center of the National Mall as so much rotting carrion for the buzzards to pick at. And to serve as a warning. Maybe then, and only then, will those who cheer you on get the message. Meh, probably not. But it's a start.

In any case, speaking of third world countries, as Ace from time to time asks, "is this something?"

On Thursday, Newsweek reported that the U.S. government bought $119 million of Jynneos vaccines from biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic, which makes the vaccine, on Wednesday.
Bavarian Nordic announced in a press release on Wednesday that “the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), part of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has exercised the first options under the contract to supply a freeze-dried version of JYNNEOS® smallpox vaccine, thus allowing for the first doses of this version to be manufactured and invoiced in 2023 and 2024.”
On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Department of Health stated that “Monkeypox is a rare but potentially serious viral illness that typically begins with flu-like illness and swelling of the lymph nodes and progresses to a rash on the face and body.”
“Most infections last 2-to-4 weeks. In parts of central and west Africa where monkeypox occurs, people can be exposed through bites or scratches from rodents and small mammals, preparing wild game, or having contact with an infected animal or possibly animal products,” the government agency added. . .
. . . While this is the first case of monkeypox in the U.S. in 2022, in the United Kingdom, nine men were diagnosed last month alone. The virus appears to be, in part, sexually transmitted.

In the words of Eddie Murphy from a Saturday Night skit he did about 40 years ago, and no doubt could never be done again, "We bring you the AIDS, mon!" Quick, let's get Anthony Fauci on this so he can collude with Big Pharma to develop some kind of snake oil that he can test on fetal tissue, or better yet, poor Negro orphans, like he did with AZT, and then get the government to proclaim it as a miracle cure -- for $10,000 a dose.

Better yet, declare it to be a pandemic that will require masks, lockdowns and injections for everyone starting now until some time after the midterms. Probably "two weeks" nudge-nudge-wink-wink. Because, after all, we're all in this together.

UPDATE: I had forgotten all about this, and thanks to commenter Cat Ass Trophy for the reminder. This is from last January.

A test monkey is on the lam after a truck carrying 100 apes to a laboratory crashed.
The truck driver, en route to Florida, crashed into a dump truck on Friday outside Danville, Pennsylvania.
Four crab-eating macaques seized the opportunity to escape -- and as of Saturday, one was still at large. . .
. . . Cynomolgus monkeys, as the species is also known, can cost more than $10,000, and were used as test subjects for the development of the [Chinese] COVID-19 vaccine, according to a report.
The intelligent, social primates are also known to utilize stone tools in the wild.

Crab-eating macaques; soft-shell or the ones in Joy Behar's crotch? In any case, nothing to see here, move along. Right?

Let's face it, whether this thing really is the next crisis that cannot be allowed to go to waste (manufactured or one of opportunity), or if as I suspect this is a result of open borders, it serves to underscore the fact that as I stated, we're a first world country with a third world government. The elimination of Title 42 is a catastrophe not because millions of third world peasants have been unvetted for Chinese COVID vaccinations but because they're third world peasants that are being brought here intentionally to pack Democrat voter registration rolls. Other racialist ideologues and groups, like La Raza, have long called for a "reconquista" of the United States which they see as an imperialist occupier of stolen lands (sounds familiar). In other words, REPLACEMENT of the indigenous American people and culture with one that is much less fussy about things like the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, free fair and secure elections, the English language and so on. In other words, the perfect Democrat. And it's not just Latinos invading us from the south; coming across are growing masses from every corner of the globe bringing us not just poverty and disease and no desire to assimilate - or more likely Democrat-driven disincentivizing - but violent criminals and jihadists.

The Democrat-Left does not care. If they cared, then they wouldn't be Democrat-Leftists. Some think that the destruction we are going through is mere incompetence. But if Joey Soft-Serve and the Kalorama Klown Komintern were intentionally tearing the country apart, what would they do differently? From preeminent lurker Victor Davis Hanson:

So is Biden malicious, incompetent, or a wannabe left-wing ideologue?
When pressed about inflation and fuel price hikes, Biden either blames someone or something else, gets mad at the questioner, or claims Donald Trump did it.
His [junta] apparently believes things are going well and according to plan.
When polls disagree, his team either believes the American people are brainwashed or that they themselves have not supplied sufficient propaganda. So they never pivot or compromise, but rededicate themselves to continued failure.
Why? Apparently, what most in the country see as disasters, Biden envisions as success. . .
. . . The public believes the Biden Administration has failed America, with disastrous results due either to its incompetence, belligerence, or left-wing zealotry.
But Biden and his delusional team seem delighted with what they have wrought.
In sum, what Americans see as an abject catastrophe, they cheer on as a stunning and planned success.

Have a good weekend. New podcast episode posting early this afternoon. Be there. Aloha.

Special long distance "def" dedication, and a "pox" on all the Left's houses:

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Grover Norquist: "He wants to give your favorite government agency more money — and the power to spy on you."
Supersizing the IRS: Another Big, Bad Biden Idea
"Musk might be thankful to have Tesla untethered from the ESG label. It seems a certainty that bad times lie ahead for 'ESG' investments, with harmful knock-on effects elsewhere in the market. This will all be due in part to ESG swimming, quacking and doing other things like a scam. Whatever prompted Elon Musk to express his opinion, he will be proved right."
Especially Sleazy Government: Musk Cries Scam on "ESG"

DEMOCRAT WAR ON OIL, THE ECONOMY, STUPID

"The national average for regular gas reached another high Thursday, standing at $4.598. This matches the trend seen during the last ten days, as gas prices have consistently continued to climb."
Biden’s America: Gas Prices Climb for 10 Consecutive Days
“Oh nonsense. All due respect, Madame Secretary, that is utter nonsense. In January 2021, the average gas price of my state was $2.07, eight months later, long before Vladimir Putin had invaded Ukraine, that price was up over 30% and has been going up consistently ever since. What are you doing to reverse this administration’s policies that are drawing down our own supply of energy in this country, that are throttling oil and gas production in the United States of America. What are you doing about it?”
Sen. Hawley Grills Jennifer Graft-holm After Pinning Putin For Gas Prices
"Blame the Russians says Biden, despite the facts pointing to him."
Pumping Up Prices
The Midwest’s “high risk” rating means its resources are “potentially insufficient” to meet peak load amid both normal and extreme conditions, NERC stated in an accompanying release. While extreme temperatures and low wind output levels are expected to play a role in potential Midwest blackouts, the region’s 2.3% year-over-year decline in capacity is projected to have an even larger impact.
Over Half the Country at Risk of "Energy Emergencies" This Summer, Electric Grid Analysis Shows
"My frustration is at an all-time high."
Manchin Hammers Biden Junta for Not Doing Enough to Fix Energy Crisis
“He's not against all pipelines. He greenlighted Russia's pipeline, let them sell their oil to Europe, canceled ours.”
Scalise: "If Anybody's Going to Be Sued for Gouging, It Should Be the Gouger-in-Chief," Who Caused Record Gas Prices

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Look on the bright side; Antifa and BLM won't be able to afford Molotov cocktails.
Gas Stations in Washington State Brace for $10 a Gallon Amid Gas Shortages
"The prevailing wisdom is that the supply chain crisis is temporary and will resolve itself at some point in the near future. But is that the case? The CEO of a website that covers the trucking and logistics sector isn’t terribly optimistic."
Will the Supply Chain Return to Normal Anytime Soon?
Rabbi Dov Fischer: "The media cannot hide from mothers the empty shelves and disappeared supplies."
Why the Baby Formula Shortage Is Biden’s New Afghanistan
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] is increasingly delusional about the state of the economy."
Economic Optimism Has Collapsed Under Build-Back-Better-Biden: TIPP Poll
On Thursday’s “PBS NewsHour,” White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese responded to a question on why the Biden administration didn’t invoke the Defense Production Act to address the baby formula shortage earlier by stating that the administration has been working on the issue since February and “the reason why we are where we are today, where production is getting to 100%, is because of the work that’s been happening over the last several weeks.”
Biden Nat’l Economic Council Head Deese Defends Waiting to Invoke DPA on Formula: Our Work Has Production "Getting to 100%"
"Biden is not putting any serious effort into a side effect of the supply chain mess: the baby formula shortage."
First World Countries Don't Have Baby Formula Shortages
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"The bill only mentions white supremacy and neo-Nazis because obviously, those are the only people who terrorize others."
House Passes "White Supremacism" Domestic Terrorism Bill After Buffalo Shooting
"Media outlets blamed Tucker Carlson and Republicans for inspiring the shooter, but he condemned Republicans in his diary, never mentioned Carlson and expressed that he was politically left-leaning." (a white Stalinist - jjs)
Buffalo Shooter’s Personal Diary is Pretty Clear About His Sources of Inspiration
"Government fails in its basic role — again."
The Media Ignores New York Officials’ Failure to Prevent Buffalo Massacre
Robert Spencer: "Your kids are watching the horrors of leftist insanity."
Eric Swalwell's Four-Year-Old Son Hates You. Here's Why.
Jeffrey Lord: "The Left is obsessed with it and replacement theory."
Biden, Liz-ard Cheney, Kinzinger Push the Politics of Racial Supremacy

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"The crimes range from child pornography to rape. These are just the reported crimes. If a principal or school district wanted to hide a sexual predator, as they did in Loudoun County, Va,, when a transgender kid in a skirt anally raped a 14-year-old girl, they often can."
Creep-fest: 135—Oops, 137—Teachers Arrested for Sex Crimes So Far This Year
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The department announced Wednesday former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff and former U.S. Deputy Secretary General Jamie Gorelick under Clinton “will lead a thorough review and assessment” of the board that was “grossly and intentionally mischaracterized.” (second look at Jankowicz? - jjs)
The Clownish Disinfo Czar Got the Boot, But Biden’s "Ministry of Truth" Hired Monster Replacements
Yoel Roth, the head of Twitter’s safety and integrity unit, unveiled the site’s "crisis misinformation policy" on Thursday. In a blog post, Roth outlined how Twitter will place warning labels on tweets deemed to contain misinformation and prevent them from being "amplified or recommended" in times of armed conflict, natural disasters, or public health emergencies.
Meet the Conspiracy Theorist Behind Twitter’s "Crisis Misinformation Policy"
“Talking out of turn, reading your own script rather than the one that Chuck Todd provides you is white supremacy.”
Video: Carlson Slams Talking Heads Who Claim Free Speech Is Racism
"One by one, the several hundred examples of discrimination, blackballing, censorship, and oppression that I have documented in this blacklist column since January 2020 are beginning to show up in the courts, with almost all having solid grounds for big victories. The companies and universities that somehow decided that they could unilaterally revoke the Bill of Rights and all civil rights laws are beginning to discover that they do not have such power. These entities are now about to face huge settlements or defeats in the courts for that foolishness."
Pushback: Two Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants Fired for Asking Questions File Lawsuit
"The game is simple: pick a crime and blame a political enemy for it."
Care for a Game of Six Degrees of Tucker Carlson?
I can't believe it took them this long to do it.
Woman Makes Sexual Misconduct Claim Against Elon Musk
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"Paul, along with Sens. Mike Braun of Indiana, Bill Hagerty and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, John Boozman of Arkansas, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Mike Lee of Utah, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Mike Crapo of Idaho and Josh Hawley of Missouri, all voted to block advancing the aid on Monday." (good for them; they did the absolute right thing - jjs)
Piece of Shit McConnell Calls Out Republicans Who Opposed Ukraine Aid
"As the world focuses its attention on the war in Eastern Europe and Russian aggression, some European companies are still comfortable buying metal from the Russian government — the same government attacking the Avostal steel plant."
American Defense Doesn’t Need Russian Metal
"Some of the scenarios are dangerous."
What If Ukraine Wins Big?
ABORTION
"It includes exceptions for abortions to save the life of the mother 'in a medical emergency,' or if the pregnancy resulted from 'rape, sexual assault, or incest that has been reported to law enforcement.'”
Oklahoma Passes Ban on Almost All Abortions Starting at Conception
"Lindsay Crouse, who earned notoriety after disclosing that her ex-boyfriend is dating Lady Gaga in a 2020 op-ed, said in a May 8 tweet that protesters should target the Chevy Chase Club because that way, she said, their cries "will reach not just Kavanaugh but also Justice Roberts—both are members." She deleted the tweet, but only after it elicited praise from activists who Shared The Address of the club across the platform. "
NYT Writer Urged Activists To Escalate Protests Targeting Kavanaugh
"After Roe, America will face a fundamental question."
Who is a Person?
"We’ve been sold a bill of goods about contraception and abortion, things we’re told ‘liberate’ us that actually suppress what makes us women."
The Birth Control Industry is Neither Liberating Nor Pro-Woman, But Fertility Awareness is Both
"The current crowd of abortion enthusiasts denouncing pregnancy care centers aren't able to articulate the reason for their rage."
If They Had Any Idea What Pregnancy Centers Do, Would They Still Attack Us?
"Regardless of whether the King of Laredo loses his crown this week, House Democrats opposed to abortion are a dying breed."
The House’s Last Pro-Life Democrat Is on the Ropes
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"The injustice of an inhuman religion."
The Climate Death Cult
"Lost jobs, lost tax revenue, exploding energy prices, and spiraling inflation. This [so-called quote-unquote] presidency just keeps getting worse."
Biden Puts Eco-Activists Before American Motorists
CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
“We cannot allow what happened on January 6 to go unpunished because it would invite something like that to happen again in the future. Future people who would consider doing something like this have to be deterred." (I agree, Eric: you along with Pelosi, Schumer, Obama and Hillary should be convicted of high treason and hanged - jjs)
Fish-Eyed, Multi-Chinned Commie Thug Holder: There Will Be "High-Level Prosecutions of People Close to Donald Trump"
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
In addition, Biden has given illegal aliens a number of “protected areas” where they can avoid arrest and deportation, is working to further crack down on ICE arrests, and has shielded illegal aliens from being arrested at most courthouses.
DHS Data: Biden Deporting Fewer Illegal Aliens Convicted of Murder, Kidnapping, Sexual Assault
Good. And. Hard.
New York Taxpayers to Pay $220 Million Next Year for Illegal Migrants’ Health Care
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Agency is reluctant to make 'concrete predictions,' however."
Déjà Vu All Over Again: CDC Wants More Masking
"In Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, and other districts, schools bar students from classrooms for five days following a direct [Chinese] COVID exposure or a close contact with a [Chinese] COVID-positive person. To return to in-person learning, the students must test negative after the five-day quarantine and wear a mask for five more days in school."
Public Schools Force Unvaccinated Students To Stay Home—Even If They Test Negative
"Back at it."
Wuhan Lab Publishes Study Manipulating H7N9 Virus To Be More Lethal
Gee, ya think?! If they just declared the pandemic over and moved on to some other distraction, they'd be in the clear. But no. They have to keep fucking that chicken until it's mush and feathers.
CDC Is Worried Making New Chinese COVID Vaccines Will Suggest To Americans That They Don’t Actually Work
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"New York educational authorities attempt to introduce divisive racial concepts via 'transformative social and emotional learning.'”
Smuggling in Radical Instruction
Daniel Greenfield: "Those kids mean money in the bank for teachers’ unions and Democrats."
Forcing 1 Million Escaped Students Back to the Public School Plantation
"The ongoing failure of California schools."
The Landmark Vergara Lawsuit: Ten Years in the Rearview
"Universities that do not embrace critical race theory will face consequences."
Accreditation Council Punishes UNC For Denying Tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones
"Accused of racism by an incoming McKinsey consultant, bar bent over backwards to appease Brown's diversity commissars." (fatal mistake; that bar will be out of business inside of 6 months - jjs)
Brown University Students Extract Groveling Apology From Working-Class Watering Hole
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Good."
DATA: Mail-In Ballot Use Down 90% In Georgia
"The American political system faces a pandemic of rule-breaking that threatens constitutional government."
Election Fraud in 2022?
"Sacramento-based dark money group Fund for a Better Future in 2020 gave more than $3 million to Abrams's Fair Fight Action, its tax forms show. Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss is by far Fund for a Better Future's top donor—his advocacy group, Berger Action Fund, gave the dark money group more than $45 million from 2016 to 2020." (a don in the the Global Reset Crime Family - jjs)
Liberal Dark Money Group Bankrolled by Foreign Billionaire Gave Millions to Tank Abrams’ Voting Nonprofit
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Margot Cleveland: "That Joffe used Sussmann to feed supposed intel to the DOJ supports the false statement charge against Sussmann, but will the jury learn of this?"
Michael Sussmann Defense Contradicts Itself on Another Key Argument
"Sussmann is accused of lying to the FBI by bringing the agency bogus dirt on Donald Trump and claiming to have been acting as a concerned citizen, and not on behalf of a client. Sussmann told the FBI that Trump had a secret communications channel with the Kremlin via Alfa Bank. FBI agents found no evidence that such a channel existed."
Clinton Lawyer Marc Elias Sings Like a Canary at Sussman-Durham Trial
"Sussmann, a Democrat lawyer with ties to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, was charged last year by Durham with lying to the FBI during a 2016 meeting. The trial kicked off earlier this week, with Baker providing crucial testimony Thursday that could strengthen special counsel John Durham’s case against Sussmann."
Former FBI Official Testifies in Durham Case, Says He’s "Confident" Sussmann Denied Acting on Behalf of Client
“The connection is not so close that it affects her impartiality,” Cooper said. “She did not know the connection, unfortunately, when she filled out the questionnaire.”
Sussmann Judge Rejects Prosecutors’ Protests After Juror Reveals Tie to Defendant
"Mook presided over Hillary’s 2016 campaign and harbored 'a deep sense of responsibility' for her loss to Donald Trump. He chose not to send Clinton to Midwestern states in the Democratic primary because of her negative comparison with Bernie Sanders and her basic unlikeability. In the general election, with Trump flying all over the country and holding massive rallies, Mook again kept Hillary out of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania for the same reasons. Trump won all of them and won the White House."
Hillary Clinton Campaign Manager Robby Mook Will Testify in Russia Collusion Hoax Trial

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"Crucially, public release of the notes came after the five-year statute of limitations had lapsed in March of this year."
Handwritten Notes From 2017 Show FBI Agents Mislead DOJ on the Trump-Russia Investigation
“The American people know Democrats weaponized the power of impeachment against President Donald Trump to advance their own extreme political agenda,” [Elise] Stefanik, R-N.Y., told Fox News.
House Republicans Introduce Resolution to Expunge Second Trump Impeachment
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Medical conscience concerns are too serious to be allowed to fluctuate according to the whims of the current presidential [junta]."
How A Republican Congress Can Protect Health-Care Workers From the Biggest Federal Erasure of Their Conscience Rights Ever
"A vile anti-Semite and spreader of blood libels lurks the halls of Congress -- while her own party remains silent."
Rancida Taliban and the Making of Her Second Blood Libel
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Jonathan Turley: "By bringing this action as a civil lawsuit, the Justice Department may have undercut the ongoing investigation by David Weiss, the US attorney for Delaware, into Hunter Biden’s foreign dealings. This civil suit doesn’t necessarily bar Weiss, but Hunter’s team can now argue that criminally charging him with a FARA violation would be inconsistent with contemporary investigations."
How the Feds’ Civil Suit Against Steve Wynn Helps Hunter Biden . . . How Convenient
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"The activist behind many of the Loudoun, Virginia schools' 'woke' reforms has a troubled background."
Loudoun’s NAACP Head Claims Embarrassing Comments Were Made By An Imposter
POLITICS
"Quinnipiac pointed out that 47 percent of the registered voters said they were more motivated to vote than in the previous midterm election. In comparison, 43 percent said they are just as motivated — meaning nothing changed for this group — and ten percent said they were less motivated."
Quinnipiac Poll: Republicans Gain Momentum with Voters
"John Couvillon, the founder of MC Analytics & Polling, has analyzed voter turnout in the ten states that have run primaries so far in 2022, compared it to 2018 (the last midterm election, in which Democrats won back control of the House), and found massive shifts toward Republican turnout in all but one of them."
Yet Another Omen of Impending Democrat Doom in the 2022 Midterms
"When a man lacking the requisite character to hold great power is overwhelmed by his own moral turpitude, entire nations fall apart."
Biden's America Rots from the Head Down
"New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney announced he would run for the state’s 17th Congressional District’s seat, currently held by freshman left-wing Democrat Rep. Mondaire Jones, after the state’s newly proposed congressional map changed the lines of his own district."
Dem Leadership Closes Ranks To Help Top Member Unseat Young Black Left-Winger
“The thinly veiled racism here is profoundly disappointing.”
Rep. Torres Accuses DCCC Chairman of Racism as Panicked NY Democrats Turn Fire on Each Other
"This is going to be pure, progressive pain — and no one deserves it more. After New York state Democrats tried to gerrymander their way into one-party dominance with cheating so flagrant even a Democrat-dominated court couldn’t stomach it, new congressional districts in the Empire State are pitting longtime party “titans” against each other in battles for survival."
Nadler in Fight for Survival, Scrambling to React to Massive Court Decision
"Democrats are beginning to realize that there really isn’t a viable alternative to a Joe Biden candidacy in 2024. To drive that point home, Amie Parnes and Hanna Trudo of The Hill have written an excellent analysis of the Democrat’s conundrum for 2024. Not only is the Democratic bench aging and out of touch — much like the president — but it’s made up of political lightweights and losers. . . There’s no doubt that Biden wants to run. And, given the alternatives, it appears that the job is his for the taking. But if he doesn’t run, do Democrats really want to nominate Kamala Harris to replace him?"
Democrats Facing the Grim Reality That Biden Is Their Only Hope
"Greitens is polling at 26 percent, which is nine points higher than his closest challenger, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) is polling at 11 percent, while Rep. Billy Long (R-MO) is at seven percent."
Poll: Eric Greitens Takes Commanding Lead in Missouri Republican U.S. Senate Race
"Contrary to Democrat hysteria, it is only getting more liberal."
The PC Direction of the GOP
SECOND AMENDMENT
Right before an election; like jumping in a salt water pool and drying off on a subway third rail.
Senate Democrats Introduce Bill Requiring a Federal Firearms License to Buy and Own a Gun
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The order, which was issued the month after Russia invaded Ukraine, calls on top-level regime officials, their spouses, and their children to shed real estate and shares in entities held overseas."
Lessons From Russia: China Tells Elites To Shed Overseas Assets
"Taiwan has expressed its hope to be a member of the IPEF, a status that would rile Beijing. The Chinese Communist Party regards Taiwan as a renegade province and prioritizes isolating the island democracy and severely limiting its diplomatic space."
Biden Heads to Asia, As Senators Press Him to Include Taiwan in New Regional Economic Partnership
"We must end the dominance of the progressive ruling class over American foreign policy."
Angelo Codevilla’s Lessons of Statecraft
"Looking back, he has more in common with Woodrow Wilson than any conservative Republican."
Should George W. Bush Go Down as One of the Worst Presidents?
"With prices soaring, Iranians return to the streets to oppose nation's harshly repressive regime."
New Protests Make Supporting Iran’s Democratic Opposition Imperative
". . . While the international community hides behind virtue signalling."
Forgetting the Genocide of the Yezidis
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Terror-tied institutions put out a welcome mat for the ignorant and clueless."
South Florida Radical Mosques' "Open House" Shams
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE, THE COURTS
"Nusrat Choudhury, Biden's pick for a New York City federal trial court, allegedly claimed during a 2015 panel that police shoot unarmed black people every day in the United States. Choudhury defended the statement in a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in April. But on May 11, Choudhury told the committee she had never made such a statement."
Biden Judicial Pick Lied About Cop Killings. Now She Claims She Didn’t.
"Buckhead wants to become its own city, but practical problems stand in the way, for now."
Secession in Atlanta?
"Biden’s new housing-supply plan would likely have only a modest effect."
Overpromising and Underdelivering
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
“Most infections last 2-to-4 weeks. In parts of central and west Africa where monkeypox occurs, people can be exposed through bites or scratches from rodents and small mammals, preparing wild game, or having contact with an infected animal or possibly animal products,” the government agency added.
U.S. Buys $119 Million Worth of Monkeypox Vaccines After First Case Diagnosed in Massachusetts
"We should stopping pushing 5-year-olds onto ADHD medication and start pushing them to get outside and play."
Are Schools Contributing to Skyrocketing ADHD Diagnoses? I’m a Pediatrician, and I Think So
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The data produced a lot of fascinating short movies, all available at the link, including a phenomenon the scientists have nicknamed a 'space hedgehog' because of its look. About 15,000 miles across, 'At present no one knows exactly what it is or how it formed in the Sun’s atmosphere.'” (Ron Jeremy with a helmet? - jjs)
ESA Release New Images From Solar Orbiter
"Capitalism in space: Because of an as yet unexplained technical issue discovered on its New Shepard suborbital spacecraft, Blue Origin has scrubbed tomorrow’s planned fifth passenger flight."
Technical Issue on New Shepard Delays Fifth Passenger Flight
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"A federal judge's assertion that 'HHS Guidance encourages a parent to file a complaint if a medical provider refuses to gender transition their child, of any age, including an infant,' is beyond disturbing."
Biden Junta Mandate Could Allow Infantes to Be Gender Transitioned
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Despite a drop-off in revenue growth that cost 150 primarily U.S.-based employees their jobs this past week, sources at Netflix told Variety that the decision to cancel those projects was not financially motivated. “The decisions not to move forward with these projects were creative rather than cost related, meaning they would have taken place regardless of the company’s slower revenue growth,” Variety reported.
Netflix Axes Ibram X. Krement Show Called Antiracist Baby — And Other Woke Projects
According to a brief titled “Addressing weight stigma and fatphobia in public health,” which was published by the University of Illinois Chicago’s School of Public Health, the word “obesity” is racist, and the focus on body size is rooted in racism for some reason.
You Won’t Believe What Woke Left-Wing Kooks Think is "Racist" Now
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1 What about Tucker Carlson's buried lede, three-quarters of the way through his Tuesday show, concerning the intention of the U.S. government to spend three trillion dollars to "defeat" Russia?

Posted by: Marooned at May 20, 2022 07:46 AM (w6hJ9)

2 Happy Fricking Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 20, 2022 07:46 AM (yrol0)

3 Welcome to Farzrohr Friday.

Posted by: fd at May 20, 2022 07:47 AM (vrz2I)

4 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 20, 2022 07:47 AM (z99Zw)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 20, 2022 07:47 AM (l2DCN)

6 Probably another day of record high fuel prices. LGB.

Posted by: fd at May 20, 2022 07:47 AM (vrz2I)

7 Morning all. The weekend awaits.

Posted by: IanDeal at May 20, 2022 07:48 AM (MGjjz)

8 Moronin, Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at May 20, 2022 07:48 AM (u7pQw)

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

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 07:49 AM (rM9us)

10 1 What about Tucker Carlson's buried lede, three-quarters of the way through his Tuesday show, concerning the intention of the U.S. government to spend three trillion dollars to "defeat" Russia?
Posted by: Marooned at May 20, 2022 07:46 AM (w6hJ9)

Went spent $22 Trillion on the War on Poverty and lost.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 20, 2022 07:49 AM (yrol0)

11 If the ChiComs wanted to use their paid-for US assets to bring down the Russians, how would it be different from what we're seeing with US policy and actions?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2022 07:49 AM (i0slg)

12 The virus appears to be, in part, sexually transmitted.

If only there were a way to avoid such diseases.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 07:49 AM (rM9us)

13 Mornin' Mo-rons!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at May 20, 2022 07:49 AM (BtPzX)

14 "We cannot allow what happened on January 6 to go unpunished because it would invite something like that to happen again in the future."

If Trump by some miracle were to win in 2024 that goes right out the window.

Posted by: fd at May 20, 2022 07:49 AM (vrz2I)

15 In sum, what Americans see as an abject catastrophe, they cheer on as a stunning and planned success.

Just consider that for a moment, because it is a well said point not enough appreciated.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 20, 2022 07:50 AM (Ijkw6)

16 This Sussman trial is too funny.

So, apparently, the prosecution found out that one of the jurors kids is on the same Crew team as Sussmans daughter, the judge, who is married to Lisa Pages lawyer, yes that Lisa Page, denied the prosecutions request to replace that juror.

Funny stuff indeed.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 20, 2022 07:50 AM (7eTP/)

17 Actual news item from Austin TX:
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Abortion access primarily effects cisgender women, and abortion rights advocates tend to focus on them. However, transgender men and nonbinary people who get pregnant also seek abortions, and some feel left out of the conversation.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2022 07:50 AM (i0slg)

18 Morning peeps.

Eric "Monkey Pox" Holder needs to DIAF

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2022 07:52 AM (BFigT)

19 Now I understand the PA monkey crash a few weeks ago.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 20, 2022 07:52 AM (R8uWY)

20 What about Tucker Carlson's buried lede, three-quarters of the way through his Tuesday show, concerning the intention of the U.S. government to spend three trillion dollars to "defeat" Russia?
Posted by: Marooned at May 20, 2022 07:46 AM (w6hJ9)
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I bet just paying Russia to behave would cost ten per cent of that amount. But lets ask Eye Patch McCain what he thinks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 20, 2022 07:52 AM (Ijkw6)

21 "If only there were a way to avoid such diseases.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit "

We are deeply probing into the matter.

Posted by: The Experts at May 20, 2022 07:53 AM (vrz2I)

22 But Biden and his delusional team seem delighted with what they have wrought.

You're so close! Not "seem" and they're not delusional (not in the way you mean). What did you think "fundamentally transform America" meant? They're only about 2 steps away from their own Glorious Revolution.

They're not deluded (again, not the way you think). They're not "misreading" the American public. They're not confused (well, undiagnosed Dementia patient Joe Brandon is, but the puppet masters aren't).

They want Stalin-esque Communism, they want it here, and they're getting close to when they'll start to turn violent.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 07:53 AM (rM9us)

23 Elon Musk is singlehandedly doing more damage to the elitist Left than the entire pathetic Republican party.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 20, 2022 07:54 AM (H8QX8)

24 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 20, 2022 07:54 AM (arJlL)

25 Posted by: Ignoramus at May 20, 2022 07:50 AM (i0slg)

Abortion outlawed. Men and minorities hardest hit.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 07:55 AM (rM9us)

26 So, apparently, the prosecution found out that one of the jurors kids is on the same Crew team as Sussmans daughter, the judge, who is married to Lisa Pages lawyer, yes that Lisa Page, denied the prosecutions request to replace that juror.

Funny stuff indeed.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 20, 2022 07:50 AM (7eTP/)
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It gets funnier, as the DOJ person overseeing the Durham investigation for Merrick Garland (Margaret Goodlander) is married to Jake Sullivan, one of the primary targets.

And she refuses to recuse herself.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 20, 2022 07:55 AM (Ijkw6)

27 I'm afraid to read the lead in op-ed.

Nonetheless, I will endeavor to persevere.

*If Lone Watie can pull this shit off, I can at least fake it*

Morning, y'all.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2022 07:55 AM (F0YaR)

28 This war has been extremely educational for me. I had no idea Russian steel production was competitive enough to put them in second place for all exporters. And yet the mongoloid regime wants to ban steel and oil coming out of Russia? Sure, what could go wrong? The supply chain crisis isn't big enough yet!

Even if you were incredibly gullible and believed the Zelensky lie machine, the fact is that excluding Russia from the global economy in relatively minor ways has extended an economic crisis from 2020. This continued press is likely to collapse everything unless we have regime change- here in America.

Posted by: trev006 at May 20, 2022 07:55 AM (Lo2B3)

29 Elon Musk is singlehandedly doing more damage to the elitist Left than the entire pathetic Republican party.

1. He is, and it's glorious to watch.
2. Low bar.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 07:55 AM (rM9us)

30 Cant believe what I just heard on morning propaganda report. Georgia hospitals mysteriously are seeing a large increase in covid cases from people that are vaxed and fully boosted. I almost fell out of my chair when I heard that being admitted so it must be really bad. In typical covid stupidity it followed some other propaganda about the vax being approved for little kids now and they should go get one.

Somebody needs to get control of the narrative or the LIV's might notice and start asking questions.

Posted by: Ripley at May 20, 2022 07:55 AM (MxEKc)

31 Elon Musk is singlehandedly doing more damage to the elitist Left than the entire pathetic Republican party.
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 20, 2022 07:54 AM (H8QX

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Let me ask my special friend to focus group that.

Posted by: Kevin Luntz-McCarthy at May 20, 2022 07:56 AM (Ijkw6)

32 What If Ukraine Wins Big?

Wait, haven't they been winning big since day one? Honestly, it looks like Russia is winning. They are holding the territory they want. Mariupol is theirs. Supposedly, several Ukrainian platoons and companies being sent to the front have immediately surrendered.

Oh, I noticed from pictures of the soldiers surrendering at the steel plant that there were no women. Where are those impressive female fighters?

Posted by: WiNO at May 20, 2022 07:56 AM (EpDzw)

33 The local Babylon DC nEWz (Fox) is warning of kLImATe chANGe will kill us all because it will be hot today.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2022 07:56 AM (HTCOy)

34 There were over 200 indictments of Trump people
JJ, what is the total for Obamas 2 terms

Posted by: Steve at May 20, 2022 07:57 AM (uKL8n)

35 Mr Chekov, set phasers to stunned.

||Russia claims to have used laser weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine, although the US says it has seen no evidence of this and Ukraine has derided it as propaganda. What are laser weapons and how effective could they be in the conflict?

Yury Borisov, the deputy prime minister in charge of military development, told Russian TV that a laser prototype called Zadira was being deployed in Ukraine and had burned up a Ukrainian drone within five seconds at a distance of 5km (three miles).||

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 07:58 AM (yikp0)

36 The Durham "investigation" illustrates how pervasive incest seems to be within the wheels of government.

No surprise there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2022 07:59 AM (BFigT)

37 @26

>>And she refuses to recuse herself.

Sadham and gahmora has nothing on the feral government.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 20, 2022 07:59 AM (C4moP)

38 Somebody needs to get control of the narrative or the LIV's might notice and start asking questions.
Posted by: Ripley at May 20, 2022 07:55 AM (MxEKc)

I think everyone except the diehard COVIDIANs is done with masking and vaccines. Too many people know someone who still caught the disease after being quadruple jabbed.

Posted by: WiNO at May 20, 2022 08:00 AM (EpDzw)

39 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

I think I've made the point before that this is not "incompetence" but remarkable success.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2022 08:00 AM (EZebt)

40 People better wake up. Democrats are using WHO as a pretext for tyranny. They are unconstitutionally giving them control of public health in the US. They will be able to monitor and control people on the US based on the authority that Biden is trying to transfer to them. They are trying to bind all future administrations to their regime and litigate any disagreements at The International Court, not within our country. It is one of the most egregious attacks on out liberty, freedom and constitution ever launched. Call your congressman and ask them what they are doing to stop this.

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 20, 2022 08:00 AM (mSy8I)

41 "Elon Musk is singlehandedly doing more damage to the elitist Left than the entire pathetic Republican party.
Posted by: Ordinary American"

GOP: Nice but free speech is not the hill to die on.

Posted by: Ripley at May 20, 2022 08:01 AM (MxEKc)

42 Somebody needs to get control of the narrative or the LIV's might notice and start asking questions.

No, they won't. At this point, anyone who isn't already either deprogrammed or at least in the middle of deprogramming has too much of their own identity invested in COVID and nothing you say, do, or show them will change their minds.

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The local Babylon DC nEWz (Fox) is warning of kLImATe chANGe will kill us all because it will be hot today.

I saw someone (on the left, and a Global ~~Warming~~ ~~Cooling~~ ~~no, Warming again~~ Climate ~~Change~~ Disruption apologist) finally admit (unwittingly) that there's no "there, there" even if the worst predictions are true. If all the ice on earth melted (no scenario that I've seen calls for that), the coast lines would move in a few miles (more in lower areas, less in higher elevations).

Which makes it all the more fun, nowadays, to say "Even if humans are causing it... so what?"

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:01 AM (rM9us)

43 Now I understand the PA monkey crash a few weeks ago.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 20, 2022 07:52 AM (R8uWY)

you know, i'd forgotten about that, but you're right...

Posted by: zombie miracle max at May 20, 2022 08:01 AM (p03vF)

44 Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 07:58 AM (yikp0)

Seems plausible. Laser weapons are probably the cheapest way to defeat cheap drones. Why wouldn't the Russians being testing it out?

Posted by: WiNO at May 20, 2022 08:02 AM (EpDzw)

45 Fish-Eyed, Multi-Chinned Commie Thug Holder: There Will Be "High-Level Prosecutions of People Close to Donald Trump"

And when they happen, 'true cons' like Paul and Cruz will be right behind them, solemnly chin-wagging about 'our democracy' and how 'we need to restore the nation's trust.'

I was off on the timeline, but the longer this goes on, the more I am convinced that Trump will be prosecuted, jailed and possibly Epstein'd. . .and none of the GOP or the 'we got all the guns!' patriots will do a damned thing to stop it.

Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 20, 2022 08:02 AM (2JVJo)

46 2 known and 20 suspected monkeypox cases in Quebec. Get ready for Lockdown 2.0 across the continent, or world, soon.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:02 AM (yikp0)

47

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 20, 2022 08:02 AM (SWi3y)

48 Well, with a rigged justice system that favors those in power and rigged elections, we may still be a first world country, but we for sure have a third world government.
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Yes, which means that we won't be a first-world country for long if it continues. The two are irreconcilable and one will defeat the other. My money would be on "third world" if I had a bet down on the victor.

Good morning.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:03 AM (DU+/6)

49 Monkeypox and other diseases find a welcoming portal through the southern border.

Posted by: 7man at May 20, 2022 08:03 AM (qwO6y)

50 The WHO will also apparently be able to gain health records on American citizens. You no longer have that privacy as the government is stealing it from you under the guise of public health. They want to push global "equity" as a means of receiving any medicine. Which means that it goes not to people who need it, but to whomever they determine is most in need. It also gives them control over that medicine including manufacture and distribution, no matter where it's made or where the company is located. They will use their largesse to buy up supplies and distribute them as they see fit. It's time to re-onshore all of our medicine production.

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 20, 2022 08:04 AM (mSy8I)

51 Ooookay.

Norks claim nearly 10% of its 26 million people 'have fallen ill' amid C-19 outbreak but only 65 have died.

AP wants us to know that "outside experts" question this figure.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:04 AM (yikp0)

52 The Hell - it is fresh. And smelly.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 20, 2022 08:04 AM (HsAzN)

53 Reconquista? Eh, can we just give them the rest of California and sign a treaty to end the migration?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2022 08:05 AM (fs1hN)

54 I meant to add, and Musk seems to be having effortless fun while doing it. Unlike the insipid, constipation-faced Republicans at best threatening another stern letter to some bureaucrat who'll use it to wipe his ass.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 20, 2022 08:05 AM (H8QX8)

55 ...The jury pool alone means John Durham has no shot in hell, even with what some analysts are calling right out of the box a slam dunk case. Already, you can see the fix is in as the judge has denied a motion by Durham to dismiss a juror because of unambiguous and direct ties to the Hillary campaign. It's a farce...

Remember when 'no reasonable prosecutor' would bring charges against the HildeBeast? When she was First Crooked Lady?

Seriously, the prosecutors estimated they had no better than a 10-20% chance of conviction over Whitewater. This estimate was NOT a lie. It was baked into the cake, like a file. Everyone else went to jail or "suicided" over Whitewater, and she never got charged.

Go figure. And so it goes. Justice is for chumps.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2022 08:05 AM (F0YaR)

56 The Democrat-Left does not care. If they cared, then they wouldn't be Democrat-Leftists. Some think that the destruction we are going through is mere incompetence. But if Joey Soft-Serve and the Kalorama Klown Komintern were intentionally tearing the country apart, what would they do differently?

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are not, and have never been, doing a damn thing. They are simply figure heads and puppets. Of the Obama cartel, of the WEF, of the Deep State. Take your pick.

It is FAR past time that people stop blaming Biden and Harris for anything. They are puppets, they are not pulling the strings.

The Obama cartel never left DC in 2016. They infest every level of government and they worked tirelessly to undermine Trump every day of his Administration from January 2017 to January 2021. And they have been in full control since January 2021.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 20, 2022 08:06 AM (Do5/p)

57 Good morning all. Kids in close contact forced out of school, even if they test negative? That was SOP here too, until we elected a conservative school board.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 20, 2022 08:06 AM (45fpk)

58 Democrats have weaponized public health as their means to attack our entire democratic republic. They will use it to steal elections and punish those who disagree with them. Along with their speech codes and attacks on the First Amendment, there has never been a more diabolical attack on our liberty and Constitution. Every last one of these people need to be voted out and replaced with strong conservatives.

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 20, 2022 08:07 AM (mSy8I)

59 Morning.
More Ultra-MAGA coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at May 20, 2022 08:07 AM (88xKn)

60 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 20, 2022 08:02 AM (2JVJo)

Welcome to a Communist takeover.

1 - Give people who ARE paying attention way too much to pay attention to. Keep them divided and each one thinking his cause is the "most important one" so they can never focus on the real issue.

2 - Give people who are only sort of paying attention a lot of informational "chaff" so they are never sure what's going on.

3 - Give people who aren't paying attention the informational equivalent of "bread and circuses" and keep your message consistent (with just enough variance to sound believable).

Meanwhile, you "march through the institutions" until you've reached critical mass, and then it's time for gulags and political executions.

Like I said, they're nearly there. And, you're right, "our side" won't storm the proverbial Bastille. We won't fight until there is literally no other option. At that point it may be too late. But, then again, it may not, and the consequences of that fight are going to be bad enough that I can understand why people don't want to start it.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:08 AM (rM9us)

61 When polls disagree, his team either believes the American people are brainwashed or that they themselves have not supplied sufficient propaganda. So they never pivot or compromise, but rededicate themselves to continued failure.
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They have no choice. They've gone all-in. They can only move forward. Any retrenchment would snowball. The pendulum is approaching the end of its arc. They push forward enough to break the mechanism, or it swings back and decapitates them.

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

62 "Musk might be thankful to have Tesla untethered from the ESG label. It seems a certainty that bad times lie ahead for 'ESG' investments, with harmful knock-on effects elsewhere in the market. This will all be due in part to ESG swimming, quacking and doing other things like a scam.

I'm in the middle of ESG investing for a very big client. Lets say that they are interested in investments in mining because of the demand for minerals.

There are two elements of ESG: (1)The reason why they are looking at minerals (the political tempest to transform the energy industry into electric/battery) and (2) the analysis of the ESG around the specific mine.
For (2), a mine is exposed to weather, landslides, hurricanes (E), protests, education level, income of the people (S) and corruption and regulatory abuse (G).

So be careful of what ESG you are referring to, the bullshit version or the practical version.

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

63 ...2.3% year-over-year decline in capacity...

While, at the same time, insisting that everyone switch to electric everything.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 20, 2022 08:10 AM (z99Zw)

64 Ooookay.

Norks claim nearly 10% of its 26 million people 'have fallen ill' amid C-19 outbreak but only 65 have died.

AP wants us to know that "outside experts" question this figure.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:04 AM (yikp0)
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I'm a bit surprised. I'd figure they'd push out the story that C-19 is giving their people superpowers, which they will use to defend the current government and defeat the South Koreans, then they'll take over the world!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 08:10 AM (YIVH2)

65 Notice the difference between the judicial treatment of people associated with January 6th and Sussman? Do you still think anyone who isnt part of the Democrats tyranny can get a fair trial in Washington? It's laughable now that anyone can posit there's equal treatment under the law and justice is blind. Hardly.

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 20, 2022 08:10 AM (mSy8I)

66 Gas Stations in Washington State Brace for $10 a Gallon Amid Gas Shortages

Pantifa downsizing to 16 OZ Molotov cocktails.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 20, 2022 08:10 AM (yrol0)

67 The WHO will also apparently be able to gain health records on American citizens. You no longer have that privacy as the government is stealing it from you under the guise of public health. They want to push global "equity" as a means of receiving any medicine. ...
Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 20, 2022 08:04 AM (mSy8I)
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Now more than ever, I wish I had a mob doctor. A real one, not some "concierge" halfway measure. No records retained by the doctor, and nothing electronic. I can bring my file with me. I pay cash and he doesn't even know my surname. I get the drugs from an affiliated drug dealer and also pay cash.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:10 AM (DU+/6)

68 Good morning, Horde. Thank you J.J., for all the nooz.

Sussman won't be won at trial. The real action starts when it goes to appeal.

Posted by: creeper at May 20, 2022 08:11 AM (cTCuP)

69 Every last one of these people need to be ~~voted out~~ dropped into the sea and replaced with strong conservatives.
Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 20, 2022 08:07 AM (mSy8I)
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I accept your proposal with one modest amendment.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2022 08:12 AM (EZebt)

70 Sussman won't be won at trial. The real action starts when it goes to appeal.
Posted by: creeper at May 20, 2022 08:11 AM (cTCuP)

???? If they do not find him guilty there is no appeal?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 20, 2022 08:12 AM (d0Qel)

71 First World Countries Don't Have Baby Formula Shortages

*thumbs through dictionary*

hmm maybe we are not a First World Country

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 20, 2022 08:13 AM (yrol0)

72 The companies and universities that somehow decided that they could unilaterally revoke the Bill of Rights and all civil rights laws are beginning to discover that they do not have such power. These entities are now about to face huge settlements or defeats in the courts for that foolishness.

The companies and universities will suffer. The taxpayers and shareholders will suffer. The actual guilty parties will not suffer. Rinse, repeat, again and again and again.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 20, 2022 08:13 AM (z99Zw)

73 George W. Bush is one of the worst presidents of all time.

So was his daddy. And Jeb! is an inbred tool.

Fuck all the Bushes.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 20, 2022 08:13 AM (VghRo)

74 DHS Data: Biden Deporting Fewer Illegal Aliens Convicted of Murder, Kidnapping, Sexual Assault

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I truly wonder where he'd stand if it was his daughter Ashley? who was the one kidnapped, or raped by an illegal alien. These Democrats who push close to no punishment for crimes like these committed by illegals deserve to have their own family members as victims. Harsh, but I don't care. They don't care about my family, or yours. Because they are protected and removed from the dangerous harm they put us in, so yeah, I don't care how bad that sounds.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 20, 2022 08:13 AM (sVtYq)

75 Democrats have weaponized public health as their means to attack our entire democratic republic. They will use it to steal elections and punish those who disagree with them. Along with their speech codes and attacks on the First Amendment, there has never been a more diabolical attack on our liberty and Constitution. Every last one of these people need to be voted out and replaced with strong conservatives.
Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 20, 2022 08:07 AM (mSy8I)
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Everything. Everything has been weaponized. The entire State/Party/Media Complex is a weapon now. There are no exceptions. Every agency, the political parties, the press, the large corporations, the universities, the entertainment media - everything and all of it, down to the last man and process - is a weapon against anything off the Left Pole now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:13 AM (DU+/6)

76 The local Babylon DC nEWz (Fox) is warning of kLImATe chANGe will kill us all because it will be hot today.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 20, 2022 07:56 AM (HTCOy)

***

These local newsreader retards are predictable.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 20, 2022 08:14 AM (flINI)

77 Remember, running the oligarchy in a first world country turned out to be really tough work, so our betters opted for running the oligarchy of a third world country...

and it took them less than two years to get us there!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 20, 2022 08:14 AM (hOUT3)

78 61 . . . They push forward enough to break the mechanism, or it swings back and decapitates them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:08 AM (DU+/6)

Inshalla.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2022 08:14 AM (s2VJv)

79 House Republicans Introduce Resolution to Expunge Second Trump Impeachment

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Yay, I guess, but this seems unproductive since it will go nowhere. Maybe its purpose is to shine a light on other Rs and how they'd vote, versus actually passing. I dunno...

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 20, 2022 08:16 AM (sVtYq)

80 Oh, oh.

Chicago 13-year-old boy suffers serious injuries [I assume AP means 'wound/s'] after being shot by a cop after having been pulled over while driving a car involved in a carjacking. I assume an armed carjacking although it doesn't say.

Crank up the outrage soon despite the two Chicago kids fatally shot on the weekend by other blacks.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:16 AM (yikp0)

81 Well, that gun legislation is scary as hell. Don't worry, the courts will find it unconstitutional... right? Oh. No standing?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 20, 2022 08:16 AM (R8uWY)

82 I truly wonder where he'd stand if it was his daughter Ashley? who was the one kidnapped, or raped by an illegal alien.
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He'd want in on the action.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 20, 2022 08:17 AM (z36Gg)

83 Musk might be amusing himself now, but I think the "service" Twitter provided to the junta and by extension the Democrats in general isn't something they'll just let go of. It was no coincidence the disinfo governance board popped up just as the sale of Twitter kicked off. However, like all things the government tries to duplicate that works in the private sector, they fucked it up. They will claw back the "service" Twitter provided one way or another.

Don't think for a second the junta won't come down on Musk, whether it be Tesla, Space-X, other investments or all of it including him personally.

This little saga is going to get spicy.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2022 08:18 AM (BFigT)

84 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:10 AM (DU+/6)

Yep.

Of course, you lost all that privacy the moment Obamacare forced all doctors to go to electronic health records and electronic prescriptions and all that crap.

At least with paper files, the government had to have someone actually look at the documents and read them. Now they can just do a relatively quick search - aided by Cloud AI of various kinds) and find whatever they want in minutes.

Which is what makes questions from your doctor like "do you own a gun" or even "do you wear a seatbelt" so dangerous. First off, it's none of your damn business. Second, if I were to answer, there's literally nothing stopping the Government from mining that information except their word that they won't.

And we know what the Government's word is worth.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:18 AM (rM9us)

85 82 I truly wonder where he'd stand if it was his daughter Ashley? who was the one kidnapped, or raped by an illegal alien.
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He'd want in on the action.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 20, 2022 08:17 AM (z36Gg)

Spit-roasted with Corn-Pop. Or Maize-Papi?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2022 08:18 AM (s2VJv)

86 hurray hurray, AOC is engaged. Guy looks like the food channel guy who does those "if you can eat this 4 pound cheeseburger and all these fries in 30 minutes we'll put your picture on our wall" guy.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 20, 2022 08:19 AM (Ynyl9)

87 McConnell, why is the massive sum of $40b the right amount? Why not $5b? Why are payments to Ukrainian govt officials included? Why is oversight from the Inspector General excluded? Unless you can prove otherwise, I will assume it is because you are going to get a big payoff. Is that "moral" you desiccated mumbling piece of caca?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2022 08:19 AM (fs1hN)

88 Everything. Everything has been weaponized. The entire State/Party/Media Complex is a weapon now. There are no exceptions. Every agency, the political parties, the press, the large corporations, the universities, the entertainment media - everything and all of it, down to the last man and process - is a weapon against anything off the Left Pole now.

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This is why I find myself really wondering if and how we ever get out of this. I've been saying for a while now that they have been moving the mechanisms in place to bypass all of our safeguards, all of our means to choose our destiny, all of our protections against an all-powerful government structure. They're doing it right this very minute, and making great progress in a relative short amount of time. We're running out of options. They've covered the bases. It's a dire situation, and I'm not saying that for effect.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 20, 2022 08:19 AM (sVtYq)

89 Will Russia accept a humiliating defeat?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 20, 2022 08:21 AM (R8uWY)

90 My four-year-old grandson just texted me to point out that the 18-year-old Buffalo grocery shooter comes from a generation that can't figure out if they can have a menstrual period through their penis, so why do we give any credence whatsoeever to what he said in his diary? And also to ask if he could have a Pop Tart for breakfast

Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 08:21 AM (kXYt5)

91 I have noticed that the IRS has not increased the mileage reimbursement rate, and I expect it won't.

They have done this before in response to earlier price shocks, but to do so would acknowledge reality and grant some relief from higher gas prices.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2022 08:21 AM (EZebt)

92 I really don't see how democrats can allow elections to take place this fall.

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

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:21 AM (KaHtf)

93 Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 08:21 AM (kXYt5)

***

That is bettah than my Amy story

Posted by: Jimmuh Cartah at May 20, 2022 08:22 AM (flINI)

94 hey y'all

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at May 20, 2022 08:22 AM (4TZI4)

95 I have noticed that the IRS has not increased the mileage reimbursement rate, and I expect it won't.

They have done this before in response to earlier price shocks, but to do so would acknowledge reality and grant some relief from higher gas prices.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 20, 2022 08:21 AM (EZebt)

I "Think" the Military has increased their reimbursement when you use your private car for trips. At least that is what I was told

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 20, 2022 08:22 AM (d0Qel)

96 We have to follow the law to remove a law breaker.

Robot law only for robots. Unless there is some kind of emergency.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 20, 2022 08:23 AM (efm4j)

97 Moslem, taking an educated guess, stabs at least three in a town near Oslo, Norway in "random" knife-attack.

Oddly enough, AP used the proper 'wounded' for this story.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:23 AM (yikp0)

98 You can't even imagine what Oct will look like.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 20, 2022 08:23 AM (R8uWY)

99 Well, I've been wondering why they've seemed unconcerned about the looming mid-terms blowout. Monkeypox. It's all coming back, probably by summer's end: lockdowns, enforced masking, national mail-in voting, vaccine mandates. No way they won't go there based on what they're facing if they don't.

Posted by: Biergood at May 20, 2022 08:24 AM (FQWHA)

100 Don't think for a second the junta won't come down on Musk, whether it be Tesla, Space-X, other investments or all of it including him personally.

This little saga is going to get spicy.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2022 08:18 AM (BFigT)
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Yup. They'll go after Musk and all of his enterprises with both barrels. They might hesitate over this because a collapse of Tesla - which has been on the brink of collapse for a decade and is in many ways a cash furnace propped up by investor credulity and Musk's reality distortion field - would cause serious repercussions in the wider equity market. Given that the markets are in a serious decline anyway, though, they might strike while the iron is hot.

I hope Musk has a nice rainy day fund set aside.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:24 AM (DU+/6)

101 Knife wounds 3 in Oslo?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 20, 2022 08:24 AM (R8uWY)

102 Sri Lanka closes schools and limits work due to acute fuel shortage.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:24 AM (yikp0)

103 Valor Friday

"Picture this. It’s 6 June, 1944. You're a young lieutenant in the US Army's 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division (the same regiment as the famous Band of Brothers).
After being scattered all over the Normandy countryside, you and your men have regrouped and are pushing the war on the Germans at the edge of Fortress Europe in what was (and remains) the largest amphibious army operation ever."

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 20, 2022 08:25 AM (z36Gg)

104 My four-year-old grandson just texted me to point out that the 18-year-old Buffalo grocery shooter comes from a generation that can't figure out if they can have a menstrual period through their penis, so why do we give any credence whatsoeever to what he said in his diary? And also to ask if he could have a Pop Tart for breakfast
Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 08:21 AM (kXYt5)

Hahahahaha...hahahaha....perfect!

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 20, 2022 08:25 AM (VghRo)

105 https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=125920

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 20, 2022 08:25 AM (z36Gg)

106 Monkeypox monkeypox oh monkey monkeypox,
monkeypox monkeypox oh monkey monkeypox,
Monkeypox! Do do do do,,,,
I got a shot for your monkeypox I gave you.
-your government

Posted by: Eromero at May 20, 2022 08:25 AM (0OP+5)

107 So be careful of what ESG you are referring to, the bullshit version or the practical version.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

There is no such thing as practical ESG investing. The very definition precludes it. There is investing to make a return, or investing to make a political point, and the two do not correspond.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:25 AM (KaHtf)

108 You can't even imagine what Oct will look like.
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1917

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:25 AM (yikp0)

109 Handwritten Notes From 2017 Show FBI Agents Mislead DOJ on the Trump-Russia Investigation
___________________

That's okay, Hannity vouched for them, good guys, ham & eggers

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2022 08:25 AM (fs1hN)

110 Don't think for a second the junta won't come down on Musk, whether it be Tesla, Space-X, other investments or all of it including him personally.

This little saga is going to get spicy.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2022 08:18 AM (BFigT)

WHO is being granted sovereignty over public health policy including dissemination of information and censorship of disinformation. You have to be in awe how a junta of the unnamed is relentless in attacking us with the us now including Musk.

Posted by: 7man at May 20, 2022 08:26 AM (qwO6y)

111 Posted by: Lady in Black at May 20, 2022 08:19 AM (sVtYq)

The way out is the same way out it took for the Roman Republic. Everything will crash and burn - the offices of Government may still exist in some form, like the jerking of a chicken's corpse - and people will be forced to fend for themselves.

Human nature doesn't change, and those who have pushed things so far have no ability to stop, even if they had the desire (they don't).

The difference between us and Rome is that the majority of our citizens are at least literate (I sincerely believe that will matter), and we have a small but real sub-culture of people who have been preparing for just such a disaster for decades.

Thus the "burn it down" mantra. The benefit of a controlled burn - whether that's by all rank-and-file, actual work-a-day Conservatives "going Galt" or something else - is that it's more likely (not "likely" just "more likely") that the burning times will be somewhat shorter and that what is built back will at least somewhat resemble the (classical) Liberal Republic we all want.

Waiting for it to burn on its own makes it much more likely that we descend into pure despotism and savagery.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:26 AM (rM9us)

112 The wife and I have agreed no more covid shots/boosters of any kind.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at May 20, 2022 08:26 AM (bVYXr)

113 99 Well, I've been wondering why they've seemed unconcerned about the looming mid-terms blowout. Monkeypox. It's all coming back, probably by summer's end: lockdowns, enforced masking, national mail-in voting, vaccine mandates. No way they won't go there based on what they're facing if they don't.
Posted by: Biergood at May 20, 2022 08:24 AM (FQWHA)

I agree.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 20, 2022 08:26 AM (H8QX8)

114 Knife wounds 3 in Oslo?
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Working with a white lorry.

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:26 AM (yikp0)

115 Knife wounds 3 in Oslo?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 20, 2022 08:24 AM (R8uWY)

***

Stupid Skandis wandering around running into knives...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 20, 2022 08:26 AM (flINI)

116 Which is what makes questions from your doctor like "do you own a gun" or even "do you wear a seatbelt" so dangerous. First off, it's none of your damn business. Second, if I were to answer, there's literally nothing stopping the Government from mining that information except their word that they won't. ...
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:18 AM (rM9us)
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The last time I went to the doctor, I struck out about 75% of the questions on the intake form and initialed them. When I got with the doctor, he started asking them to me directly. I declined to answer. By the third one, I said, "You seem to be under the misapprehension that I failed to notice those questions. I didn't. I declined to answer them. I will not answer them just because you're asking me directly." He chuckled and sarcastically asked, "why? Don't you trust me?" I replied that I had no reason to trust or distrust him, but I have plenty of reason to distrust his care network, my insurance company, the government and the various privacy policies.

He put down his tablet and treated me. But this has gone way too far.

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

117 The local Babylon DC nEWz (Fox) is warning of kLImATe chANGe will kill us all because it will be hot today.
Posted by: Puddleglum

******

Well, that would account for the 9-14 inches of snow predicted for tonight and tomorrow inn the foothills west of Denver and 5-11 inches in Colorado Springs proper.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 08:27 AM (kXYt5)

118 Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 08:21 AM (kXYt5)

Make sure it's a frosted Pop-tart.

Posted by: dantesed at May 20, 2022 08:28 AM (88xKn)

119 Wuhan Lab Publishes Study Manipulating H7N9 Virus To Be More Lethal
______________________
Because Fauci isn't on trial for crimes against humanity, these crimes will continue.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2022 08:28 AM (fs1hN)

120 New York Taxpayers to Pay $220 Million Next Year for Illegal Migrants Health Care

Double or triple that number. Most likely over a $Billion.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 20, 2022 08:28 AM (yrol0)

121 Handwritten Notes From 2017 Show FBI Agents Mislead DOJ on the Trump-Russia Investigation

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Well, that's a relief! Now they can work on cobbling together a new training program to address the "mistakes that were made." We wouldn't want that to happen again. Integrity is their #1 priority!

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 20, 2022 08:28 AM (sVtYq)

122 Picture this. It’s 6 June, 1944. Your command realizes that 30% of the troops have not completed mandatory trans awareness training, and 50% are delinquent in their monthly sexual assault training modules. He declares a training down day and mandatory remedial sensitivity lectures for all troops in theater. Meanwhile Hitler launches an unprecedented air assault and levels London.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 20, 2022 08:29 AM (R8uWY)

123 The last time I went to the doctor, I struck out about 75% of the questions on the intake form and initialed them.

My response was to write "irrelevant" next to all of those.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:29 AM (rM9us)

124 He put down his tablet and treated me. But this has gone way too far.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:27 AM (DU+/6)

...........

The newest one I've noticed is "Do you feel safe at home?". Seriously??

Posted by: Molly k. at May 20, 2022 08:29 AM (LGScp)

125 105 https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=125920
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 20, 2022 08:25 AM (z36Gg)
SMH, that's one of my favorite stories from D-Day. Old Pappy Eromero went ashore that morning with the 29th Infantry Division. He was my hero.

Posted by: Eromero at May 20, 2022 08:30 AM (0OP+5)

126 We are supposedly hitting 95F this weekend

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 20, 2022 08:30 AM (kf6Ak)

127 Happy Friday, folks. Good morning.

Posted by: Inogame at May 20, 2022 08:30 AM (53oGX)

128 I really don't see how democrats can allow elections to take place this fall.

This is what happens when you allow an election to be stolen.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:21 AM (KaHtf)
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They probably don't care all that much about the federal elections. They care some, to be sure, but a switchover to GOP control of the Congress means only that some appointees might get rejected. Maybe. If they have a bad day.

The states are more important, but also not exactly subject to federal rules in regard to elections.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:30 AM (DU+/6)

129 Fortunately, CAT, that's not the case. They were definitely men then.

Sadly, it seems that men like back in the day are in very short supply nowadays.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 20, 2022 08:31 AM (z36Gg)

130 "John Couvillon, the founder of MC Analytics & Polling, has analyzed voter turnout in the ten states that have run primaries so far in 2022, compared it to 2018 (the last midterm election, in which Democrats won back control of the House), and found massive shifts toward Republican turnout in all but one of them."

Before I read the article I guessed Oregon. I don't know what is happening to Oregon, but it seems like they want more crazy.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 20, 2022 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

131 The newest one I've noticed is "Do you feel safe at home?". Seriously??

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Coming soon: "Are you comfortable in your own body?" "Do you believe you might be misgendered?"

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 20, 2022 08:31 AM (sVtYq)

132 I am in Ft Worth, TX today. It is apparently primary election season. The ads I see here are brutal.

RINO squishes are getting hit hard.

Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 08:31 AM (uUZin)

133 The newest one I've noticed is "Do you feel safe at home?". Seriously??
Posted by: Molly k. at May 20, 2022 08:29 AM (LGScp)

***

If Dad is sitting on the Thunderjug NO ONE is safe...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 20, 2022 08:32 AM (flINI)

134 Eromero : )

That is so cool.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 20, 2022 08:32 AM (z36Gg)

135 19 Now I understand the PA monkey crash a few weeks ago.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

I'd forgotten about that!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 20, 2022 08:32 AM (kf6Ak)

136 The newest one I've noticed is "Do you feel safe at home?". Seriously??

They've been asking that to women for years.

I remember when my wife was pregnant (both times) and we'd go to the doctor or hospital - with me sitting right there beside her, "do you feel safe in your home?"

Finally, one time, I started laughing and the nurse looked all offended. To which I explained, "You realize, for the answer to that question to mean anything, you'd have to ask me to leave first, right?" She huffed about protocol and left.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:32 AM (rM9us)

137 A very rare 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR coupe that had been kept in the German automaker's collection was sold to a private owner for €135 million, the equivalent of $142 million. That price makes it the most expensive car known to ever have been sold, according to Hagerty, a company that tracks collector car values. [Link in my sock.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:32 AM (yikp0)

138 I hope Musk has a nice rainy day fund set aside.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

*******

Hell, he scraped together $46 billion from his couch cushions to buy a Big Mac and Twitter, I suspect he'll be okay.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 08:33 AM (kXYt5)

139 Holder "multi-chinned"? Try none.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at May 20, 2022 08:33 AM (y7DUB)

140 ???? If they do not find him guilty there is no appeal?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 20, 2022 08:12 AM (d0Qel)

Seriously, do you think there's a snowball's chance in Hell he would be found innocent by this court?

Posted by: creeper at May 20, 2022 08:33 AM (cTCuP)

141 . . . While this is the first case of monkeypox in the U.S. in 2022, in the United Kingdom, nine men were diagnosed last month alone. The virus appears to be, in part, sexually transmitted.

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Out: Stop fucking that chicken.
In: Stop fucking that monkey.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 20, 2022 08:33 AM (fV53l)

142 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Sounds like you need a drink. Here you go.

Wow. Drinking in the morning? Looks like you have a drinking problem. I'll mark that down for later review. Do you drink away your problems often or usually?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 20, 2022 08:34 AM (R8uWY)

143 Economic Optimism Has Collapsed Under Build-Back-Better-Biden: TIPP Poll

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Well, we're still in the demolition phase.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 20, 2022 08:34 AM (FVME7)

144 Good morning, JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 20, 2022 08:34 AM (C61Gf)

145 RINO squishes are getting hit hard.
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 08:31 AM (uUZin)

I’m untouchable

Posted by: Dan Crenshaw at May 20, 2022 08:35 AM (qwO6y)

146 Who knew monkey love would lead to monkey pox?

Posted by: Head puddi at May 20, 2022 08:35 AM (4wkIi)

147 "A federal judge's assertion that 'HHS Guidance encourages a parent to file a complaint if a medical provider refuses to gender transition their child, of any age, including an infant,' is beyond disturbing."
________________________

Paging Mr. SMOD, Mr. SMOD please pick up the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2022 08:35 AM (fs1hN)

148 Economic Optimism Has Collapsed Under Build-Back-Better-Biden: TIPP Poll

I'm shocked.
This is my shocked face.

I cannot believe that people are not optimistic about the economy in the middle of a supply chain crisis, soaring gas prices, rising interest rates, and (true) 20+% inflation.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:36 AM (rM9us)

149 The newest one I've noticed is "Do you feel safe at home?". Seriously??
Posted by: Molly k. at May 20, 2022 08:29 AM (LGScp)
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One of my cats likes to try and sneak up on me early in the morning. So I guess the answer is, "No."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 08:36 AM (YIVH2)

150 I am pretty fortunate. My Doc is former Navy and is an avid shooter. I have even been to his property to shoot occasionally. After going over my blood work and feeling my balls when I cough, Doc will usually pull out whatever handgun he's carrying and we talk guns. He especially likes going prairie dog hunting for fun and pleasure.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 20, 2022 08:36 AM (VghRo)

151 why the Biden administration didn’t invoke the Defense Production Act to address the baby formula shortage earlier by stating that the administration has been working on the issue since February

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Hey, it took these guys months to come up with "ultra MAGA".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 20, 2022 08:36 AM (FVME7)

152 Netflix Axes Ibram X. Krement Show Called Antiracist Baby — And Other Woke Projects

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 20, 2022 08:37 AM (yrol0)

153 "A federal judge's assertion that 'HHS Guidance encourages a parent to file a complaint if a medical provider refuses to gender transition their child, of any age, including an infant,' is beyond disturbing."

What. The Actual. Fuck.

So many groomers, so few wood chippers.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:37 AM (rM9us)

154 Who knew monkey love would lead to monkey pox?

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There's a Stones song in there somewhere.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 20, 2022 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

155 Holy shit gorelick is involved so you know it is a fucking unconstitutional flaming shitshow about to get worse.

Posted by: Eli Cash at May 20, 2022 08:37 AM (SScvq)

156 138 I hope Musk has a nice rainy day fund set aside.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

*******

Hell, he scraped together $46 billion from his couch cushions to buy a Big Mac and Twitter, I suspect he'll be okay.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 08:33 AM (kXYt5)

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The great thing about successful serial entrepreneurs is that if they go bust, which many often do and sometimes more than once, they're able to continue making fortunes.

Musk has already made several fortunes via several ventures. He it literally a Randian-like industrialist hero.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 20, 2022 08:38 AM (fV53l)

157 Assuming the GOP takes over the house, the J6 committee themselves will be under investigation, the 2020 election theft will be under investigation, and almost every appointment will be a hard slog, with many rejected. It would be a stalemate for two years at best. This would make the democrats look absolutely useless, with their demented fraud in the white house their only visible spokesman. They are going to have to find some way to prevent that.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:39 AM (KaHtf)

158 Who knew monkey love would lead to monkey pox?

There's a Stones song in there somewhere.
Posted by: Lady in Black

I think they do have a song where Mick screams he's a monkey.

Posted by: Biergood at May 20, 2022 08:39 AM (FQWHA)

159 There's a Stones song in there somewhere.
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The Monkees "And They Called It Monkey Love".

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:39 AM (yikp0)

160 Call your congressman and ask them what they are doing to stop this.
Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at May 20, 2022 08:00 AM (mSy8I)

We're planning on creating a new federal agency with minimal oversight to look into this. Please send $20 to my re-election campaign so help. -- Congress (doesn't matter which party)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at May 20, 2022 08:40 AM (z99Zw)

161 why the Biden administration didn’t invoke the Defense Production Act to address the baby formula shortage earlier by stating that the administration has been working on the issue since February

I am... not sanguine about this.

First, the administration shuts down the single largest baby food manufacturing plant in the US because a bacterium - that is very, very common - might have come from there. Then, they sit on the problem for several months.

Then, when everyone starts screaming "Won't someone think about the children!" they invoke the Defense Production Act? Because our babies are going to war or something?

I dunno, something smells bad, and I don't think it's just Brandon's Depends.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:40 AM (rM9us)

162 I am in Ft Worth, TX today. It is apparently primary election season. The ads I see here are brutal.

RINO squishes are getting hit hard.
Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2022 08:31 AM (uUZin)
*******
My sister-in-law who didn't bother to vote in the 2020 election asked me last night which candidates she should vote for in the runoff.
She never votes in a primary and I think for the first time in her life she is scared at the direction of this country.
She is also heavily invested in tech stocks.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 20, 2022 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

163 For years now weve known that, far from a pandemic of the unvaccinated, Covid is rather a pandemic of the fat, who have suffered far higher fatality rates per infection.

78% mutha fucking PERCENT

Think about 4 out of 5 COVID deaths were people who were morbidly obese. That usually mean close to 100 LBS over normal body weight.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 20, 2022 08:41 AM (yrol0)

164 Picture this. It’s 6 June, 1944. Your command realizes that 30% of the troops have not completed mandatory trans awareness training, and 50% are delinquent in their monthly sexual assault training modules. He declares a training down day and mandatory remedial sensitivity lectures for all troops in theater. Meanwhile Hitler launches an unprecedented air assault and levels London.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 20, 2022 08:29 AM (R8uWY)

Sigh, you don't know how close you are to the truth. Makes me want to cry or kill people or both

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 20, 2022 08:41 AM (d0Qel)

165 157 Assuming the GOP takes over the house, the J6 committee themselves will be under investigation, the 2020 election theft will be under investigation, and almost every appointment will be a hard slog, with many rejected. It would be a stalemate for two years at best. This would make the democrats look absolutely useless, with their demented fraud in the white house their only visible spokesman. They are going to have to find some way to prevent that.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:39 AM (KaHtf)

Ummmm. No

Posted by: Kevin McCarthy at May 20, 2022 08:41 AM (qwO6y)

166 Well, I've been wondering why they've seemed unconcerned about the looming mid-terms blowout. Monkeypox. It's all coming back, probably by summer's end: lockdowns, enforced masking, national mail-in voting, vaccine mandates. No way they won't go there based on what they're facing if they don't.
Posted by: Biergood at May 20, 2022 08:24 AM (FQWHA)

DeSantis may or may not resist. I don't know. I do know that every other state - even the ones where fellow Morons say "COVID is done here!" - will lockdown, mandate and do forced jabs at the risk of losing your job. And nobody is going to resist.

Hear me now and believe me later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 20, 2022 08:41 AM (2JVJo)

167 "why the Biden administration didn’t invoke the Defense Production Act to address the baby formula shortage earlier by stating that the administration has been working on the issue since February"

These things take time. After one year Kamala is still looking into root causes of illegal immigration so finding the root cause of the baby formula will take at least that long.

Posted by: Ripley at May 20, 2022 08:42 AM (MxEKc)

168 Assuming the GOP takes over the house, the J6 committee themselves will be under investigation, the 2020 election theft will be under investigation, and almost every appointment will be a hard slog, with many rejected. It would be a stalemate for two years at best. This would make the democrats look absolutely useless, with their demented fraud in the white house their only visible spokesman. They are going to have to find some way to prevent that.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:39 AM (KaHtf)
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I doubt the investigations. The GOP will "put this unpleasantness behind us." As to appointments, yeah - some of those will be blocked. Not many. Hell, half the Senate Republicans there now voted to put Garland in at DoJ.

Legislative stalemate is possible and even likely outside of the one area that really matters: the budget. It's not the best outcome for the Left, but they probably don't particularly fear a Republican Congress. They have no reason to. The Republicans still go along to get along in most respects, plus they get a whipping boy to blame for everything that goes wrong.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:42 AM (DU+/6)

169 Assuming the GOP takes over the house, the J6 committee themselves will be under investigation, the 2020 election theft will be under investigation

LOL.

I needed that laugh.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:42 AM (rM9us)

170 word on the street is Sussman has been in the gym, expecting a conviction to come down in the trial

he's mainly toughening up his wrists for the most severe punishment possible

Posted by: REDACTED at May 20, 2022 08:42 AM (us2H3)

171 What nobody ever does here at this blog is look at our current state of affairs from the point/view of these leftists. Would you voluntarily give up the power you've acquired after having stolen a presidential election? We never put ourselves in THEIR position. If you were them, what would YOU do?

Posted by: JROD at May 20, 2022 08:42 AM (0jZnq)

172 I dunno, something smells bad, and I don't think it's just Brandon's Depends.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:40 AM (rM9us)
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That's a good point. Why is the Defense Production Act necessary to fix the baby formula shortage? Can't the FDA stop slow-walking its approval of re-opening the plants? Or even fast-track any permits required?

It really doesn't pass the smell test. There's gotta be something else going on.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 08:42 AM (YIVH2)

173 Legislative stalemate is possible and even likely outside of the one area that really matters: the budget. It's not the best outcome for the Left, but they probably don't particularly fear a Republican Congress. They have no reason to. The Republicans still go along to get along in most respects, plus they get a whipping boy to blame for everything that goes wrong.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:42 AM (DU+/6)
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I don't think they'll even let legislative stalemate slow them down. They'll just have FJB issue executive orders because Congress can't be trusted to act (according to them). A stalemate in Congress helps them because they can point to the Republicans as to why things aren't improving.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 08:44 AM (YIVH2)

174 ZOD.

Posted by: ZOD at May 20, 2022 08:44 AM (Q/6pY)

175 CDC Is Worried Making New Chinese COVID Vaccines Will Suggest To Americans That They Don’t Actually Work

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How could they get a crazy ass idea like that?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 20, 2022 08:44 AM (FVME7)

176 "Knife wounds in Oslo?"

That give me an idea for a song...

Posted by: Kneel Young at May 20, 2022 08:44 AM (vrz2I)

177 Legislative stalemate is possible and even likely outside of the one area that really matters: the budget.

Aye, there's the rub.

I'll believe Republicans actually care about the future of the country when they start slashing Federal agencies' budgets and try to get entitlement spending under control.

Until then, they're just part of the Uniparty. A necessary "coasting" period so the engine doesn't burn out, if you will.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:44 AM (rM9us)

178 Elon Musk @elonmusk; 6h
Finally, we get to use Elongate as scandal name. It's kinda perfect. 🤣

[I assume over reports Musk's lawyers paid a 'sexually harassed' female employee $250Gs to get lost.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:45 AM (yikp0)

179 Mitch is now officially covering for Biden

that's a lot of Trump hate there

Posted by: REDACTED at May 20, 2022 08:45 AM (us2H3)

180 Zod!

* kneels *

Posted by: Kneel Young at May 20, 2022 08:45 AM (vrz2I)

181 Everything. Everything has been weaponized. The entire State/Party/Media Complex is a weapon now. There are no exceptions. Every agency, the political parties, the press, the large corporations, the universities, the entertainment media - everything and all of it, down to the last man and process - is a weapon against anything off the Left Pole now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:13 AM

Don't forget professional (and college) sports leagues. Everyone one of the US professional sports leagues - NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL - has been used by the left to push (using best Critical Drinker voice) "the message".

And add to this USA Olympics. Which surrendered to the USNWT regarding "equal pay". Anti-capitalist decision as women's soccer has a much smaller fan base and brings in much less revenue. Akin to paying MiLB players the same as MLB players.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 20, 2022 08:45 AM (Do5/p)

182 ... Then, when everyone starts screaming "Won't someone think about the children!" they invoke the Defense Production Act? Because our babies are going to war or something?

I dunno, something smells bad, and I don't think it's just Brandon's Depends.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:40 AM (rM9us)
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The DPA is for publicity. What the DPA will likely do is get the Abbott plant back online - something that should have happened ages ago. There is also new spin on this. According to the talking heads this morning, the Abbott plant shutdown in February was prompted by "whistleblowers" alerting the FDA about unsafe practices in October or November of last year.

So let's give this the best possible interpretation based on the new spin. They got credible evidence of Abbott running an unsanitary and dangerous plant, then took four months to act, then acted, then found that nothing was wrong, then took another two months of doing nothing and leaving the plant idle until it caused a crisis, then the crisis blew up and the executive uses the DPA to bypass the FDA.

How, exactly, does the FDA come out smelling like roses after the new "whistleblower" spin?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:45 AM (DU+/6)

183 11 Gop senators vote against Ukraine 40 billion in Gubmint cheese, while middle class is getting shredded on gas and inflation. Zalensky is a grifter

Posted by: Jonah at May 20, 2022 08:45 AM (WY8d2)

184 [I assume over reports Musk's lawyers paid a 'sexually harassed' female employee $250Gs to get lost.]

Almost certainly.

Of course, I saw that and thought, "has to be a nothing burger. If she had even 10% of a claim there would have been at least 1 more zero there."

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:46 AM (rM9us)

185 Note for the military history buffs: just got both volumes of Clay Blair's superlative "Hitler's U-Boat War." If you're (really, really, really) wonky about submarine warfare, I can't recommend it highly enough.

Now if Robert Caro will just live long enough to finish the final volume of his mammoth LBJ bio...

Posted by: ZOD at May 20, 2022 08:46 AM (Q/6pY)

186 Even if Hilldawg never receives justice, at least we have Norm MacDonald's history of Hillarity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgFtRJULPsY

Posted by: Marooned at May 20, 2022 08:46 AM (w6hJ9)

187 So let's give this the best possible interpretation based on the new spin. They got credible evidence of Abbott running an unsanitary and dangerous plant, then took four months to act, then acted, then found that nothing was wrong, then took another two months of doing nothing and leaving the plant idle until it caused a crisis, then the crisis blew up and the executive uses the DPA to bypass the FDA.

How, exactly, does the FDA come out smelling like roses after the new "whistleblower" spin?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:45 AM (DU+/6)
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If they are using DPA to bypass FDA, what else can they use DPA to accomplish that they normally could not?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 08:47 AM (YIVH2)

188 In the ENR, an patient visit is called an encounter. Once you open an encounter, a template is opened for documentation of the various elements of the visit (medical and social history, physical examination, test results, etc.). Some elements are required entry (e.g. Pain score, with data entry limited to a set of drop down menu options). So for certain items you MUST make an entry regardless of medical relevance and the entry MUST be one of the choices provided for you. You cannot complete the encounter unless an entry is made. And the encounter is linked to billing for that visit. You cannot submit for billing unless all of the required data entry fields are completed.

CAT might be able to enlighten you about specific data entry being required these days, I've been retired for three years now. It does vary slightly between different hospital systems, but is trending toward more nationwide standardization.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 08:47 AM (kXYt5)

189 178 Elon Musk @elonmusk; 6h
Finally, we get to use Elongate as scandal name. It's kinda perfect. 🤣

[I assume over reports Musk's lawyers paid a 'sexually harassed' female employee $250Gs to get lost.]
Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:45 AM (yikp0)

He does have bravado.

Posted by: 7man at May 20, 2022 08:47 AM (qwO6y)

190 I think for the first time in her life she is scared at the direction of this country.
She is also heavily invested in tech stocks.
Posted by: redridinghood

I believe a lot of people have woken up. I also feel bad if she is in tech stocks. They are deservedly getting hammered. I bought a lot of energy stocks when they were down, which has helped my portfolio not crash as badly as the indexes, though I am still hurting this year.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:47 AM (KaHtf)

191 Massive shootout between future Harvard grads in Chicago.

This area of the Goldcoast is one of priciest Zip codes in U.S. One bedrooms go for 2500 a month at least.

Posted by: Jonah at May 20, 2022 08:48 AM (WY8d2)

192 Cant wait for Biden's 'summer of recovery'.

Posted by: dantesed at May 20, 2022 08:48 AM (88xKn)

193 That's a good point. Why is the Defense Production Act necessary to fix the baby formula shortage? Can't the FDA stop slow-walking its approval of re-opening the plants? Or even fast-track any permits required?

It really doesn't pass the smell test. There's gotta be something else going on.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 08:42 AM (YIVH2)
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The FDA wouldn't. My pet theory (well, guess) on this is that the dude in charge of the investigate was furious that he didn't find any wrongdoing and couldn't slap Abbott with a gigantic fine that he would ride all the way to the top of the FDA executive ranks. He was leaving their plant idle for retribution because the play didn't work.

As to the DPA, I suspect it is it break the logjam and force the FDA to stand down. They probably closed ranks around this extorting goon and refused to get him out of the way and get the agency working on clearing the reopening in triple time. So to bypass them, hello DPA.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:48 AM (DU+/6)

194 read a story on Commom Sense about a guy who is probably the leadng cancer researcher and was on track to win the Nobel

got MeTooed

no one will hire him

now on unemployment

we be smart

Posted by: REDACTED at May 20, 2022 08:48 AM (us2H3)

195 >>You cannot submit for billing unless all of the required data entry fields are completed.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 08:47 AM (kXYt5)

Thanks for this. I've just spent an intensive six months in the healthcare world, and your explanation answers several (unasked) questions I've had.

Posted by: ZOD at May 20, 2022 08:49 AM (Q/6pY)

196 ENR = EMR

Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 08:49 AM (kXYt5)

197 If they are using DPA to bypass FDA, what else can they use DPA to accomplish that they normally could not?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 20, 2022 08:47 AM (YIVH2)
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Who knows? Anything, maybe, so long as there is a "crisis?" Using the DPA for COVID was probably inappropriate. Using it for this is wildly inappropriate. The brakes are off.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:49 AM (DU+/6)

198 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.
Saint of the Day
St. Bernardine of Siena (1380--1444) was born in Siena, Italy. As a young man he volunteered to care for Plague victims in the local hospital. He discerned a call to Holy Orders and joined the Franciscans at the age of 22. He lived in solitude for over a decade before being sent to preach in the streets, which he did with incredible skill. He traveled on foot to strife-torn cities, attacking sin and paganism and encouraging all to a life of faith and virtue. Huge crowds numbering in the tens of thousands would come to hear him preach in the public square. The pope compared him to St. Paul the Apostle due to his preaching skill. Bernardine was especially known for promulgating devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus. It was he who devised the IHS symbol over a blazing sun as a monogram and logo for the Holy Name of Jesus (in Greek) to replace the public display of insignias of rival family tribes which disturbed the peace. He also served as the head of his Franciscan community. When he began there were 300 friars; when he died there were over 4,000. St. Bernardine's feast day is May 20th.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2022 08:50 AM (Msys3)

199 The DPA is for publicity. What the DPA will likely do is get the Abbott plant back online - something that should have happened ages ago.

Last I heard, the plant coming back online was a done deal - Abbott just needs to turn the lights back on (more or less). DPA allows the government to fast-track orders (in the name of "defense") at *other* manufacturers. So... I don't know.

You'd think, with such a shortage, other manufacturers would have already stepped up if they could have, so I don't see what that buys, either.

What I *don't* like is the government asserting control that was only supposed to exist so we could, you know, win a war, in order to "address" a crisis that they caused.

It sets a bad precedent.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:50 AM (rM9us)

200 Ummmm. No
Posted by: Kevin McCarthy

McCarthy himself was subpoenaed. I don't think he will stop it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:50 AM (KaHtf)

201 Try being in tech options. Luckily i bought some Leaps, but are getting crushed. My wife is the brains of the family, she stopped me from going big on them, and made my positions much smaller. She is a cash is King Lady, thankfully.

Posted by: Jonah at May 20, 2022 08:51 AM (WY8d2)

202 184 [I assume over reports Musk's lawyers paid a 'sexually harassed' female employee $250Gs to get lost.]

Almost certainly.

Of course, I saw that and thought, "has to be a nothing burger. If she had even 10% of a claim there would have been at least 1 more zero there."
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:46 AM (rM9us)

Nah, at that number, Musk probably wasn't 100% innocent. It wasn't what she said, but I'm sure he probably had some really bad verbal flirting involved, and thus $250K to avoid the embarrassment. In fact, that's why he asks her to name a body part - the flashing didn't happen, so he can double down on that and make the story about that (and continue to avoid the actual embarrassing part - either rubbing her leg or offering her cash for the erotic massage - I'm betting the last part is the true part)...

Posted by: Nova local at May 20, 2022 08:51 AM (exHjb)

203 ... So for certain items you MUST make an entry regardless of medical relevance and the entry MUST be one of the choices provided for you. You cannot complete the encounter unless an entry is made. And the encounter is linked to billing for that visit. You cannot submit for billing unless all of the required data entry fields are completed. ...
Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 08:47 AM (kXYt5)
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And that nobody objected to the implementation standard that required such things means they never talked to patients and probably talked to damn few doctors. Plenty of administrators and IT guys signed off on it, I'm sure, but something tells me that point-of-care testing was minimal and their inclusion in the design phase was probably non-existent.

This is perhaps a perfect little microcosm that reflects the overall problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:51 AM (DU+/6)

204 Tech stocks are like going to Bally's. You made a couple of 40% profit trades, and then get hooked. A Casino trap

Posted by: Jonah at May 20, 2022 08:52 AM (WY8d2)

205 Okay, y'all, time to work at work.
Catch you Monday.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at May 20, 2022 08:52 AM (rM9us)

206 Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2022 08:50 AM (Msys3)

Thanks. I needed that

Posted by: 7man at May 20, 2022 08:53 AM (qwO6y)

207 And right on cue Elon is accused of sexual assault. The left is so fucking predictable.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 20, 2022 08:53 AM (R47Rr)

208 Only thing keeping him alive are rockets.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 20, 2022 08:54 AM (efm4j)

209 If you were them, what would YOU do?

Proscribe any opposing parties. Arrest their leaders. Use the military to strike down any protests.

Restrict the movements and communications of the opposing party's voters. Arrest a vast number pour encourager les autres. Use the state media to demonize them as enemies of the people.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 20, 2022 08:54 AM (2JVJo)

210 Here's a fun fisking of a cri du retard by a wymyn bemoaning the dearth of men (though she doesn't say it directly, it's what she means, look at who she targets) mostly white men, reading the latest Jane Austen-manque literary novel concerning the trials and tribulations of a dwarf, Eskimo lesbian in opening her own Pinkberry yoghurt shop, or whatever.

It's by the monster Hunter guy:
https://tinyurl.com/ymf686hb

It's a good look at the current book and cultural scene and why they suck so badly.
BONUS! The article fisked is so cluelessly self-revealing it's hilarious, if maddening, by its own self.

Via Insty.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 20, 2022 08:55 AM (5NkmN)

211 First person Elon Musk needs to fire at Twitter is Yoel Roth, the guy that created the sites "crisis misinformation policy."
Evidently, he's the guy that blocked the Hunter Biden laptop story and called Trump supporters "actual Nazis."

Posted by: redridinghood at May 20, 2022 08:55 AM (NpAcC)

212 Only thing keeping him alive are rockets.
Posted by: humphreyrobot

Zombie Von Braun (back in the day)?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2022 08:55 AM (Msys3)

213 Yesterday was Thursday. Today it is Friday.

Posted by: Rebecca Black at May 20, 2022 08:55 AM (xYrVq)

214 Nephew works hard, he maxed out his 401 k contributions even while struggling to pay pricey rent. Company matches some of it. His K is down 45%. Been working 10 years.
He called me miserable, told him he is lucky that he has time on his side and he can cost average. He voted for Biden. He hates the guy

Posted by: Jonah at May 20, 2022 08:55 AM (WY8d2)

215 wonder what Kevin Mc and his Cheesy roomie do at night ??

Posted by: REDACTED at May 20, 2022 08:56 AM (us2H3)

216 Went spent $22 Trillion on the War on Poverty and lost.
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It's pretty had to win a war on poverty when the government is constantly importing fresh troops for the other side through our southern border.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 20, 2022 08:56 AM (MvHI3)

217 It's not the best outcome for the Left, but they probably don't particularly fear a Republican Congress. They have no reason to. The Republicans still go along to get along in most respects, plus they get a whipping boy to blame for everything that goes wrong.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 20, 2022 08:42 AM

There is no such thing as a "Republican Congress", except in name only. 75% of Republicans, including 100% of Republican "leadership", are Democrats, controlled by China, controlled by WEF or some combination of the three.

There will never be a true Republican Congress until 75% of Republicans, including 100% of Republican leadership, are America-first conservatives.

I don't see that ever happening in our lifetimes.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at May 20, 2022 08:56 AM (Do5/p)

218 We just sent $40 billion to a country that outlawed opposition parties.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:56 AM (KaHtf)

219 >>209 If you were them, what would YOU do?

Crush them. Drive them. Da lamentations of da vimmen.

Posted by: ZOD at May 20, 2022 08:56 AM (Q/6pY)

220 #194 Redacted's story; see sock link:

||In 2018, David Sabatini was a world-renowned molecular biologist. He was a tenured professor at MIT. He ran a major lab at the Whitehead Institute, overseeing a team of 39 researchers, postdocs and technicians. Their job was to disentangle the mystery of the mTOR signaling pathway, a protein Sabatini had discovered while still in medical school, at Johns Hopkins. The mTOR signaling pathway plays a critical role in tumor development. Figuring out how it works would go a long way toward saving countless lives.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:56 AM (yikp0)

221 There's a Stones song in there somewhere.
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The Monkees "And They Called It Monkey Love".

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I was thinking more along the lines of 'Monkey Man.'

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 20, 2022 08:57 AM (sVtYq)

222 Pennsylvania is a joke. Cannot even count a F$$ing primary.

We gotta win that Governorship, or 2024 is gone.

Posted by: Jonah at May 20, 2022 08:58 AM (WY8d2)

223 Misinformation is good.

Posted by: Zombie Gordon Gecko at May 20, 2022 08:58 AM (OzNIz)

224 JJ Sussmann will probably get a Kevin Clinesmith wrist-slap at worst...

They've probably inserted 2 or 3 on the jury who wouldn't find Satan guilty.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at May 20, 2022 08:58 AM (aX0CW)

225 207 And right on cue Elon is accused of sexual assault. The left is so fucking predictable.
__________

Yep. They'd already smeared him as a racist in the NYT, so this had to be next.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 20, 2022 08:58 AM (MvHI3)

226 Maybe the DPA is being used because it signals "we're at war?" Being "at war" means certain things can be done without all that messy legal bullshit the left hates so much. Pretending to fix a formula shortage under that guise makes other, perhaps less appealing acts more acceptable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 20, 2022 08:58 AM (BFigT)

227 40 billion to the city of Kiev, the sex slave capital of the World. Think the movie Taken

Posted by: Jonah at May 20, 2022 08:59 AM (WY8d2)

228 218 We just sent $40 billion to a country that outlawed opposition parties.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:56 AM (KaHtf)

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I'm surprised this Congress hasn't already passed a bill to outlaw the Republican party ... with "bipartisan" support.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 20, 2022 08:59 AM (fV53l)

229 Short list of people that want you dead or in slavery:

https://tinyurl.com/dfn4wf7p

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 20, 2022 08:59 AM (yrol0)

230 Netflix Axes Ibram X. Krement Show Called Antiracist Baby — And Other Woke Projects

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It's interesting that Netflix is backing off the CRT crap. Disney got the crap beaten out of them because of their kiddie perversion program. The fact that it's now CRT that's taking a boot to the crotch may indicate a broader based anti leftist/progressive agenda.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 20, 2022 08:59 AM (FVME7)

231 From yesterday:

Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 11m
@BusinessInsider: 'SpaceX employee said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence'

Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:59 AM (yikp0)

232 America is just about shovel ready!

Posted by: Joe Biden of the Round Table at May 20, 2022 09:00 AM (kuuAI)

233 230 It's interesting that Netflix is backing off the CRT crap. Disney got the crap beaten out of them because of their kiddie perversion program. The fact that it's now CRT that's taking a boot to the crotch may indicate a broader based anti leftist/progressive agenda.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 20, 2022 08:59 AM (FVME7)

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I'd be willing to bet that their woke kids programming is some of their worst performing stuff.

When hundreds of billions in market capitalization disappear over a few months, it has a way of directing the mind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 20, 2022 09:00 AM (LvTSG)

234 You Won’t Believe What Woke Left-Wing Kooks Think is "Racist" Now
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"Thinks" and "Says" are two different things. I *think* we should begin making this distinction more often.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2022 09:00 AM (+BR1Z)

235 We just sent $40 billion to a country that outlawed opposition parties.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:56 AM (KaHtf)

admirable behavior needs to be rewarded

Posted by: REDACTED at May 20, 2022 09:01 AM (us2H3)

236 Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:59 AM (yikp0)

Elon probably took his shirt off.

Posted by: dantesed at May 20, 2022 09:01 AM (88xKn)

237 We gotta win that Governorship, or 2024 is gone.
Posted by: Jonah at May 20, 2022 08:58 AM (WY8d2)

Silly you.

Posted by: PA Supreme Court at May 20, 2022 09:01 AM (aX0CW)

238 Misinformation are the trial balloons of thought itself. They may contain half-falsehoods and half-truths. But it's the new, half-truths that desperately need to be heard. Because only by starting with new, half-truths can any society or culture advance.

Posted by: Zombie Gordon Gecko at May 20, 2022 09:01 AM (OzNIz)

239 @BusinessInsider: 'SpaceX employee said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence'
Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:59 AM (yikp0)
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Musk was right, they are coming after him. And the most communist rag possible, Business Insider, is an appropriate choice of forum for these pigs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 20, 2022 09:01 AM (kuuAI)

240 Can somebody please explain to me the difference between “wound” and “injury” that some people here seem to get so worked up about?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 09:01 AM (RS4cl)

241 the word “obesity” is racist, and the focus on body size is rooted in racism for some reason.

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Hey! I'm a protected class!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 20, 2022 09:02 AM (FVME7)

242 We just sent $40 billion to a country that outlawed opposition parties.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:56 AM (KaHtf)
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$36 Billion. Ten per cent went to the Big Guy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 20, 2022 09:02 AM (kuuAI)

243 We just sent $40 billion to a country that outlawed opposition parties.
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Commies gotta stick together.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at May 20, 2022 09:03 AM (z36Gg)

244 There will never be a true Republican Congress until 75% of Republicans, including 100% of Republican leadership, are America-first conservatives.
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I don't know if Kathy Barnette is the real deal. I know McCormack and Oz are not. Thanks Hannity!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 20, 2022 09:03 AM (fs1hN)

245 re: baby formula shortage

I am... not sanguine about this...Then, when everyone starts screaming "Won't someone think about the children!" they invoke the Defense Production Act? Because our babies are going to war or something?
I dunno, something smells bad, and I don't think it's just Brandon's Depends.
Posted by: AllenG

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Same here.

There are lots of good reasons to look at it as a way for them to observe the reactions and what will happen during the coming food shortages for adults.

A warm up, if you will.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 20, 2022 09:03 AM (/pPvq)

246 224 JJ Sussmann will probably get a Kevin Clinesmith wrist-slap at worst...

They've probably inserted 2 or 3 on the jury who wouldn't find Satan guilty.
Posted by: Deep State 910 at May 20, 2022 08:58 AM (aX0CW)

Cankles is NOT on trial here

move to strike

Posted by: REDACTED at May 20, 2022 09:04 AM (us2H3)

247 I notice a story about the statute of limitations expiring against various FBI potential crimes in "Crossfire Hurricane." Who woulda thunk it?

Posted by: Zek at May 20, 2022 09:04 AM (OzNIz)

248 We just sent $40 billion to a country that outlawed opposition parties.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:56 AM (KaHtf)
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and charged it on our credit card.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 20, 2022 09:04 AM (kuuAI)

249 Maybe the DPA is being used because it signals "we're at war?"
Posted by: Martini Farmer

We are at war, and have been since late 2019. War looks different now; countries launch viruses, attack proxies, and nobody declares them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 09:04 AM (KaHtf)

250 the word “obesity” is racist, and the focus on body size is rooted in racism for some reason.

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Hey! I'm a protected class!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 20, 2022 09:02 AM (FVME7)

Nice!

Now, if you just call yourself a woman, you can appear on the cover of next year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 20, 2022 09:04 AM (5NkmN)

251 We just sent $40 billion to a country that outlawed opposition parties.

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It's so weird that the President of the United States just said a couple of days ago that he no longer recognizes the GOP as a legitimate party, isn't it?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 20, 2022 09:04 AM (/pPvq)

252 "Assuming the GOP takes over the house, the J6 committee themselves will be under investigation, the 2020 election theft will be under investigation,"

You cannot be serious.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 20, 2022 09:05 AM (H8QX8)

253 GOP, Republican, whatever. I was thinking of another post, sorry.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 20, 2022 09:05 AM (/pPvq)

254 wound (n.) -An injury to an organism, especially one in which the skin or another external surface is torn, pierced, cut, or otherwise broken.

So a wound is a sub-type of the broader term injury. A broken ankle is an injury but not a wound. Wound carries the connotation of being inflicted by a weapon or an implement.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 09:05 AM (kXYt5)

255 Does my penis make my breasts look small?

Posted by: Future Bitch at May 20, 2022 09:06 AM (OzNIz)

256 A heart can be wounded by monotonous languor.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 09:07 AM (kXYt5)

257 Boeing finally launched its ridiculously-named "Starliner", after years of delay, but it didn't work properly. Happily, it has triple-redundancy so the capsule is limping its way to ISS.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 20, 2022 09:07 AM (kuuAI)

258 They don't care about my family, or yours. Because they are protected and removed from the dangerous harm they put us in, so yeah, I don't care how bad that sounds.

Wisdom from the "Good Samaritan".
Democrats are the thugs who beat, rob, rape and leave for dead We The People. A few of them will say "The bitch deserved it". Republicans passing the wounded and bleeding We The People might shake their heads; a few might say "Such as shame, such an injustice" but will do nothing. Then Trump came along, as a Samaritan and outcast the Establishment didn't have pictures of him having sex with children but only with consenting super models.

He patched us up to the best of his ability.

Such is the state we are in.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 20, 2022 09:07 AM (AHeqJ)

259 Ask yourself, Is she worth a million dollars, maybe 1.2 million?

Each time before i leap , this is the equation i ask myself. Don't know Musk's equation.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 20, 2022 09:07 AM (efm4j)

260 Thanks for the explanation, Muldoon.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 20, 2022 09:07 AM (RS4cl)

261 According to a brief titled “Addressing weight stigma and fatphobia in public health,” which was published by the University of Illinois Chicago’s School of Public Health, the word “obesity” is racist, and the focus on body size is rooted in racism for some reason.

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Come on, man! Everybody knows that wearing white makes your ass look fat versus wearing black. Straight-up racism ... Black Pants Matter!

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 20, 2022 09:08 AM (fV53l)

262 Before I read the article I guessed Oregon. I don't know what is happening to Oregon, but it seems like they want more crazy.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 20, 2022 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

Sane people are leaving.

Posted by: Deep State 910 at May 20, 2022 09:08 AM (aX0CW)

263 "Assuming the GOP takes over the house, the J6 committee themselves will be under investigation, the 2020 election theft will be under investigation,"
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You cannot be serious.
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 20, 2022 09:05 AM (H8QX

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So, you got a laugh out of that?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 20, 2022 09:08 AM (kuuAI)

264 I saw Monotonous Languor open for the Monkees at the Forum in '68.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 20, 2022 09:08 AM (5NkmN)

265 262 Before I read the article I guessed Oregon. I don't know what is happening to Oregon, but it seems like they want more crazy.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 20, 2022 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

Sane people are leaving.
Posted by: Deep State 910 at May 20, 2022 09:08 AM (aX0CW)

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I thought it was only progressives moving to red states to turn them blue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 20, 2022 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

266 My primary care physician isn't crazy about government interventions, but really doesn't like hearing about it, so devolved the mandatory questionnaires to the P.A.

Somehow "I am a firearms instructor" freed me forever from being asked about guns in the home. "Have you fallen in the last year" got them "No but I've dropped two eggs while juggling themout of the tray" which I though was significant (equals the rest of my life put together), but was taken as high humor.

There were two new ones this month. "Have you been unable to pay for daily necessities or medical care?" -- kind of a gimmee, I thought, but I have some pride -- and "Have you found yourself feeling hopeless and unable to go on?" Huh. Imagine the bollocks it takes to ask that of a professional gun nut who can't juggle eggs.

Somebody is by golly up to something here.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 20, 2022 09:09 AM (videA)

267 Went spent $22 Trillion on the War on Poverty and lost.

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Reminds me of a other old song.

I fought poverty and poverty won
I fought poverty and poverty won

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 20, 2022 09:09 AM (FVME7)

268 Yeah, the end of the world is progressing to it's rightful conclusion.

No matter. Finally got ARC going between the TV and AV receiver in the study.

I'm ready for eternity, now.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 20, 2022 09:10 AM (MkuC5)

269 "Have you found yourself feeling hopeless and unable to go on?"

Lots of times. But I'll be damned if I tell my doctor (and I happen to like the guy).

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 20, 2022 09:11 AM (2JVJo)

270 We just sent $40 billion to a country that outlawed opposition parties.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:56 AM (KaHtf)
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and charged it on our credit card.
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On an account that debt service is held by China, a country that we are near 100% dependent on and are currently menacing Taiwan, and the retarded children at the Pentagram are provoking to War.

When you screw up Afghanistan so spectacularly, the only path to redemption is to stage a two front war with the worlds' mightiest armies.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 20, 2022 09:11 AM (AHeqJ)

271 all have a good day

Posted by: Jonah at May 20, 2022 09:11 AM (WY8d2)

272 I was going to claim that VDH stole my comment regarding Xiden, purposeful or not, hurting our country. Unfortunately, Sean Hannity said the very same thing six months after sponge brains was elected. And, Laura Ingraham has been beating that drum early on in this administration. She actually had a pretty good show last night. Didn't interrupt VDH, or any of her guests, mostly.

Posted by: Mean Tweets at May 20, 2022 09:11 AM (BOJAx)

273 Title 42 ends on Monday and Biden is overseas and has never been to the border.
This is the last day the judge has to extend it.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 20, 2022 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

274 Before I read the article I guessed Oregon. I don't know what is happening to Oregon, but it seems like they want more crazy.
Posted by: redridinghood

They should change the state song.

Crazy
I'm crazy for feeling so lonely
I'm crazy
Crazy for feeling so blue

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 20, 2022 09:12 AM (FVME7)

275 270 We just sent $40 billion to a country that outlawed opposition parties.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 08:56 AM (KaHtf)
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and charged it on our credit card.
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We sent it to the CIA. Duh.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 20, 2022 09:12 AM (uia9V)

276 I heard someone make an interesting point regarding the mask mandates and craziness earlier today. It was a purposeful act to achieve the same goals as BLM and antifa. The black people could look at whites and seethe with anger. The leftists could look at Trump supporters and seethe with anger.

The mask provided that for the "normal" portion of the population, and especially white on white. Think of how many people it affected. Stores and businesses who wouldn't let you come in. Doctors offices who still make you wear one even though everyone acknowledges they do absolutely nothing. People assuming each other were diseased.

The masks were a brilliantly played wedge to divide the nation as well, and we're still feeling the aftershocks.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 20, 2022 09:12 AM (/pPvq)

277 Imagine the bollocks it takes to ask that of a professional gun nut who can't juggle eggs. Somebody is by golly up to something here.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 20, 2022 09:09 AM (videA)

Jib status: Cut approved

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 20, 2022 09:12 AM (MkuC5)

278 You cannot be serious.
Posted by: Ordinary American

When one party tries to criminalize their opposition, using extralegal methods, it has to be punished, or the entire system loses any credibility.

See also the supreme court. If they change their rulings due to threats from the mob, their credibility is gone.

Once the courts and congress are perceived that way, we no longer have a government.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 09:13 AM (KaHtf)

279 249 Maybe the DPA is being used because it signals "we're at war?"
Posted by: Martini Farmer

We are at war, and have been since late 2019. War looks different now; countries launch viruses, attack proxies, and nobody declares them.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 09:04 AM (KaHtf)

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4th generation warfare.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 20, 2022 09:14 AM (fV53l)

280 Beat musical instruments into weapons.

Like Belushi.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 20, 2022 09:14 AM (efm4j)

281 Cobb, would one of you please remove my three previous comments? Clearly, my brain is not functioning properly this morning.

Thank you.

Posted by: creeper at May 20, 2022 09:14 AM (cTCuP)

282 On an account that debt service is held by China, a country that we are near 100% dependent on and are currently menacing Taiwan, and the retarded children at the Pentagram are provoking to War.
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It would be a real sad moment should China collapse and our debt with it. Money lenders love to start wars for different reasons. In our case it may be to decapitate China.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 20, 2022 09:15 AM (uia9V)

283 Clearly, my brain is not functioning properly this morning.

Thank you.
Posted by: creeper at May 20, 2022 09:14 AM (cTCuP)

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You mean there are some people here whos brains function normally?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 20, 2022 09:15 AM (flINI)

284 Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 20, 2022 08:59 AM (fV53l)

Heh.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2022 09:16 AM (cl3Ep)

285 When one party tries to criminalize their opposition, using extralegal methods, it has to be punished, or the entire system loses any credibility.

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You mean like how the Miinistry of Truth will be directly tied to PATRIOT Act for insight and enforcement? JJ mentioned it in the Chertoff piece above.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 20, 2022 09:16 AM (/pPvq)

286 Somebody is by golly up to something here.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at May 20, 2022 09:09 AM (videA)

*****

Heh- egg juggling gun nut.
I'm picturing you making breakfast by tossing eggs up over the stove and trick shooting them out of mid air into the skillet. Bullet holes in the range hood.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 09:17 AM (kXYt5)

287 Posted by: creeper at May 20, 2022 09:14 AM (cTCuP)

I never knew you were a blonde.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2022 09:17 AM (cl3Ep)

288 Among other inanities, I have determined the best appropriate theme music for setting the AR up for night operations must be "Shadows of the Night" played so loudly it wakes up the neighbors and makes the dawgs howl, screeched as loudly as possible in your best gurl voice.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 20, 2022 09:18 AM (MkuC5)

289 The story about Canadian medical providers aggressively telling disabled people to off themselves is more than a little scary. My autistic nephew would be a target. This whole strange leftist shit belief system needs to be eradicated before they get any closer.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 20, 2022 09:19 AM (kuuAI)

290 Heh- egg juggling gun nut.
I'm picturing you making breakfast by tossing eggs up over the stove and trick shooting them out of mid air into the skillet. Bullet holes in the range hood.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 09:17 AM (kXYt5)

Yas gots to pop a few caps in da ass to make an omelets

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 20, 2022 09:19 AM (yrol0)

291 Dinnerish deSousa new movie doc starring Tank Abrams, "2,000 meals".

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 20, 2022 09:19 AM (hWaIR)

292 279 Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at May 20, 2022 09:14 AM (fV53l)

Hey Shain. Stay tuned for the next podcast. You got a shout-out.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2022 09:20 AM (s2VJv)

293 "Scrambled or over easy?...Pull!!!...BLAM!!"

Posted by: Muldoon at May 20, 2022 09:20 AM (kXYt5)

294 Wanna watch Atomic Blonde, have a political orgasm.

I know, it's fake.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 20, 2022 09:20 AM (efm4j)

295 Filled up my pick up this morning. 28.76 gal @$4.75/gal. $137.00

Posted by: Archer at May 20, 2022 09:20 AM (gmo/4)

296 Biden is in Asia. What would it take to persuade them to keep him?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 20, 2022 09:21 AM (kuuAI)

297 So since I obviously cannot think today it's time to finish cleaning out the drains before rain moves in this afternoon. Physical labor appears to be all I'm good for.

Thanks for tolerating my warped understanding of Sussman, Horde. A whack upside the head would've been in order.

Keep yer hand on it, Morons. Later.

Posted by: creeper at May 20, 2022 09:21 AM (cTCuP)

298 The one’s who come here know how great the US is. Immigrants founded the country. Maybe, so shall they save it.
Posted by: mot at May 20, 2022 09:20 AM (FlUFP)

"Now, what would be the odds of that?"

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 20, 2022 09:21 AM (MkuC5)

299 Nina Jankowicz, has resigned. The revelation came in a Washington Post story by 37-year-old reporter Taylor Lorenz, who herself is a lightning rod for her online theatrics. Lorenz frames the story as far-right influencers being responsible for a coordinated online hit job against Jankowicz.

Ministry of Truth Agent bemoans shutdown of Ministry of Truth.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 20, 2022 09:22 AM (yrol0)

300 Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 09:13 AM (KaHtf)

I don't disagree. I just predict that any "investigation" by the GOP will be a Trey Gowdy-special kabuki.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 20, 2022 09:22 AM (H8QX8)

301 Nina Jankowicz, has resigned.

Don't get a hard on. they already have her replacement. Saw it yesterday. Older woman.

Posted by: Archer at May 20, 2022 09:23 AM (gmo/4)

302 Biden is in Asia. What would it take to persuade them to keep him?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 20, 2022 09:21 AM (kuuAI)

Are there still any South Pacific cannibal islands we could have him visit?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 20, 2022 09:23 AM (5NkmN)

303 Atomic Blonde was fun. Quality old school style action movie with fantastic set pieces and Charlize playing dress up and looking positively delectable.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2022 09:23 AM (cl3Ep)

304 Ministry of Truth Agent bemoans shutdown of Ministry of Truth.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 20, 2022 09:22 AM (yrol0)

It's not shut down, and won't be.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 20, 2022 09:23 AM (H8QX8)

305 You mean there are some people here whos brains function normally?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

I may have to change my whole approach to commenting here if that is the case.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2022 09:23 AM (Msys3)

306 say what you will about Schumer but he offers Trump no quarter

Mitch offers Brandon 40 billion

Posted by: REDACTED at May 20, 2022 09:24 AM (us2H3)

307 303 Atomic Blonde was fun. Quality old school style action movie with fantastic set pieces and Charlize playing dress up and looking positively delectable.
Posted by: ... at May 20, 2022 09:23 AM (cl3Ep)

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Killer soundtrack, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 20, 2022 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

308 Also, Stalker references for some reason.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 20, 2022 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

309 Biden is in Asia. What would it take to persuade them to keep him?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I was thinking he goes to China and seeks asylum.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 09:25 AM (KaHtf)

310 Russia to consider allowing people over 40 to join military as losses mount

Judges would have also accepted School Boys and Afghanistan War vets.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 20, 2022 09:25 AM (yrol0)

311 Nina Yankurtits is on Only Bans now

Posted by: REDACTED at May 20, 2022 09:25 AM (us2H3)

312 'Yankurtits' - that can't be a real name.....

Posted by: Tonypete at May 20, 2022 09:26 AM (Msys3)

313 Killer soundtrack, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 20, 2022 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

Yeah it's like they asked what would people expect/want the soundtrack to be, and then did that.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2022 09:26 AM (okGUQ)

314 309 Biden is in Asia. What would it take to persuade them to keep him?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

you no have dat much

Posted by: slant at May 20, 2022 09:26 AM (us2H3)

315 Are there still any South Pacific cannibal islands we could have him visit?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 20, 2022 09:23 AM (5NkmN)
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Stringy, but tastes just like chicken.

Posted by: Papua New Guinea Michelon Guide at May 20, 2022 09:27 AM (kuuAI)

316 I just read that AOC got engaged to some poor sap.
Hopefully, that will discourage all those bad people from saying mean things about her and trying to date her.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at May 20, 2022 09:27 AM (dr4Q1)

317 315 Are there still any South Pacific cannibal islands we could have him visit?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 20, 2022 09:23 AM (5NkmN)
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Stringy, but tastes just like chicken.
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I would caution you not to eat his brain.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 20, 2022 09:28 AM (uia9V)

318 Dinnerish deSousa new movie doc starring Tank Abrams, "2,000 meals".
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions

An Army marches on its stomach and Tank is a weapon of mass destruction.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at May 20, 2022 09:28 AM (FVME7)

319 316 I just read that AOC got engaged to some poor sap.
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The guy has been pumping her for years. Is she pregnant is the real question?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 20, 2022 09:29 AM (uia9V)

320 16 I just read that AOC got engaged to some poor sap.

When you find a good campaign consultant, marry him!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 20, 2022 09:29 AM (R8uWY)

321 Also, Stalker references for some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at May 20, 2022 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

Speaking of stalkers (not the movie), I heard an old hit yesterday by Roger Miller (King of the Road) titled "Tomorrow Night in Baltimore",

that could be the stalker's anthem.

I know that was the intention, but Wholley Kau! Listen to the whole thing.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 20, 2022 09:29 AM (5NkmN)

322 Charlize playing dress up and looking positively delectable.
Posted by: ... at May 20, 2022 09:23 AM (cl3Ep)
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wow- different tastes. I think she looks increasingly butchy in her latest efforts and especially in that movie. I found it sort of hard to watch her, honestly, and eventually turned the movie off

Posted by: Papua New Guinea Michelon Guide at May 20, 2022 09:31 AM (kuuAI)

323 @209 MPPP-Well thats two of us! My thinking is if you want to know what's going to happen in the near future with these a-holes on the left, just ask yourself, what you would do to maintain control/power?

I know it just makes you sound doom and gloom but I think its quite simply the reality we are facing. The left might seem incompetent and dumb, marxism is inherently incompetent and looks dumb, but when you have "religious" zealots motivated by it, they ain't letting go of it. Statism is 100% a f'ing religion.

I read your comment the other day about the mid terms and the disappointment some will feel when some of the MAGA candidates turn out to be GOPe grifters that disguised themselves. I have a bad feeling this will be the outcome of a "red wave". If they aren't grifters, mark my words, the GOPe will remove them the next time their seats are up. Class of 94' repeat.

Posted by: JROD at May 20, 2022 09:31 AM (0jZnq)

324 NOOD Bewbs!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 20, 2022 09:31 AM (56+8G)

325 Regulators are in the midst of forcing Wall Street banks to undertake a "systematic search" of more than 100 personal mobile phones used by top level traders and dealmakers in hope of undercovering wrongdoing on platforms like WhatsApp.

The SEC has been "sending firms lists of key positions" that are to be reviewed, according to a Wednesday morning writeup by Bloomberg. In some cases, these include people who head up investment banking teams or trading desks.

Employees are being asked to hand over their phones so they can be "examined by lawyers", the report says. The goal of the sweep is to "gauge how pervasively Wall Street professionals use unauthorized messaging platforms to chat with each other or clients" and to determine whether or not business related messages sent via unapproved platforms are being preserved, as they are required to be.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 20, 2022 09:32 AM (R8uWY)

326 I haven't seen Charlize in a while and am afraid to look. She should be getting nice and MILFy if she's willing to embrace aging naturally. I suspect that's hard for many multimillionaire movie stars to do, though, so hey let's get duck lips.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 20, 2022 09:33 AM (a/TAv)

327 Regulators are in the midst of forcing Wall Street banks to undertake a "systematic search" of more than 100 personal mobile phones used by top level traders and dealmakers in hope of undercovering wrongdoing on platforms like WhatsApp.

The SEC has been "sending firms lists of key positions" that are to be reviewed, according to a Wednesday morning writeup by Bloomberg. In some cases, these include people who head up investment banking teams or trading desks.

Employees are being asked to hand over their phones so they can be "examined by lawyers", the report says. The goal of the sweep is to "gauge how pervasively Wall Street professionals use unauthorized messaging platforms to chat with each other or clients" and to determine whether or not business related messages sent via unapproved platforms are being preserved, as they are required to be.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

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Weird how no one in government is mentioned in regards to those messages. Bunch of straight shooters I guess.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The left killed Roe V Wade when they removed shame from society at May 20, 2022 09:34 AM (a/TAv)

328 wow- different tastes. I think she looks increasingly butchy in her latest efforts and especially in that movie. I found it sort of hard to watch her, honestly, and eventually turned the movie off

Posted by: Papua New Guinea Michelon Guide at May 20, 2022 09:31 AM (kuuAI)

Really? Well I was mostly commenting on her body, which, my Lord. I'm sensitive to Pedowood butching up beautiful women and don't remember having a problem with her in that, except for a couple scenes.

Posted by: ... at May 20, 2022 09:34 AM (ZqYcg)

329 The plight of the ruling class is heartbreaking.

Posted by: klaftern at May 20, 2022 09:38 AM (taPSh)

330
Biden is in Asia. What would it take to persuade them to keep him?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at May 20, 2022 09:21 AM

trade him for a future draft pick or a player to be named later

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 20, 2022 09:40 AM (ENBF0)

331 Norks claim nearly 10% of its 26 million people 'have fallen ill' amid C-19 outbreak but only 65 have died.

AP wants us to know that "outside experts" question this figure.
Posted by: andycanuck (Jtln5) at May 20, 2022 08:04 AM

Not saying I believe that number, but the Norks don't have obesity as a co-morbidity factor.

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 20, 2022 10:06 AM (u4Fwd)

332 Not saying I believe that number, but the Norks don't have obesity as a co-morbidity factor.
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Good point. Not having enough food to feed your population can sometimes be a good thing for a country. Maybe the Biden junta will use that as a selling point for what's coming here.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at May 20, 2022 10:11 AM (MvHI3)

333 “REPLACEMENT of the indigenous American people”

People that look like you and I are not indigenous Americans, you fallacious scab. LOLGF

Posted by: Stan at May 20, 2022 10:58 AM (Rfq+z)

334 Funny how the Dems in Congress "forget" that the 2nd Amendment "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", and that prohibition is incumbent on THEM. I guess they figure putting up impediments to legal ownership is not infringement. then again, they've been getting away with it since the 1930's in the SCOTUS...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 20, 2022 12:07 PM (ynpvh)

335 "Once the courts and congress are perceived that way, we no longer have a government."
Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 20, 2022 09:13 AM

Once?

Posted by: markedup2 at May 20, 2022 02:05 PM (KqsbZ)

336 333 “REPLACEMENT of the indigenous American people”

People that look like you and I are not indigenous Americans, you fallacious scab. LOLGF
Posted by: Stan at May 20, 2022 10:58 AM (Rfq+z)

Um, hate to break it to you but as someone who was born here after 1789, I am in point of fact an indigenous United States citizen, or AMERICAN. Anyone before that is something else.

You may now retrieve your footwear maintenance carrier.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 20, 2022 09:54 PM (s2VJv)

337 Ꮢight now it looks like Drupal іs the preferred blogging platform out there right now.

(from what I've read) Is that whаt you're using on your blog?

Posted by: fogged at May 23, 2022 12:12 AM (L6IdM)

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