Head of the Leftwing Foreign Policy Influence Shop The Brookings Institution" Is an Illegal Agent of Qatar, Court Records Allege

The Washington Post smeared Ron DeSantis' press secretary Christina Pushaw. They really hate her. Because she humiliates them.

She worked briefly for the former President of Georgia, a liberal reformer opposed to Putin and the stooges supported by Putin to run the country.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stood up for his press secretary, Christina Pushaw Wednesday, after a hit piece in the Washington Post accused her of violating the FARA Act.
"I am not deterred by any smear piece from these legacy media outlets," DeSantis said during a press conference in West Palm Beach. "The only reason they’re attacking her is because she’s doing a great job."
According to the Post, Pushaw belatedly registered this week as a foreign agent of a former president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, regarding work she did for the politician between 2018 and 2020. She made the disclosure after being contacted by the Justice Department, her attorney Michael Sherwin said.

Christina Pushaw
@ChristinaPushaw
Lib logic:
Put a Ukraine flag in your bio, and you’re a hero standing up against Russia
Actually spend years living and working in a foreign country for a leader who went to war with Putin, and you’re a Russian agent
Not serious people

Gee, I wonder why the DOJ would have chosen to leak this story today to a corrupt propaganda paper that carries its water for it.

Might it have leaked this in order to offset the story that General John Allen, a leader at the leftwing, extremely Clinton-aligned Brookings Institution -- essentially an incubator for the Russiagate Conspiracy Theory, as it employed "Primary Sub-Source 1," Igor "Iggy" Danchenko, who will go on trial soon -- is now being investigated for acting as an illegal, undisclosed agent of Qatar?

Dave Reaboi has been screaming about all the DC Swamp Creatures -- especially those allied with the Democrats -- who are paid foreign agents of Qatar, but who are permitted to continue operating without registering under FARA because so many of them are on the take that to start calling out any of them would bring down the entire dirty whorehouse.

Dave Reaboi has been making the case that a substantial part of the DC foreign policy Swamp is not-so-secretly on Qatar's payroll for years. He wrote a book about it: Qatar's Shadow War: The Islamist Emirate and its Information Operations in the United States.

Federal prosecutors have obtained records indicating that John R. Allen, the retired four-star Marine general who commanded all American troops in Afghanistan and now heads a venerable Washington think tank, secretly lobbied for the government of Qatar, lied to investigators about his role and tried to withhold evidence sought by a federal subpoena, according to court documents.
The court records are the latest evidence of a broad investigation by the Justice Department and F.B.I. into the influence that wealthy Arab nations like Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia wield in Washington.
The records about General Allen were filed in April in Federal District Court in central California in an application for a warrant to search General Allen's electronic communications.

So yes, I strongly suspect the DOJ leaked the bullshit about Christina Pushaw to offset this major, major scandal about a four start general getting caught acting as a secret agent for Qatar.

Given that half of DC is on Qatar's payroll, I don't know if I'd expect this go any further than Allen. The whole town has a strong personal interest in making this investigation short and laser-focused on a single individual.

Though that might be a little tricky:

Other filings in the case appear to remain sealed, and the public release of the warrant application may have been accidental. The filing lays out evidence that General Allen joined in the secret lobbying plan along with Richard G. Olson, a former United States ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Pakistan, and Imaad Zuberi, a business executive with ties in the Middle East.

They accidentally released the warrant application, so they rushed out the leak about Christina Pushaw.

Mr. Zuberi is serving a prison sentence for violating foreign lobbying, campaign finance and tax laws, as well as for obstruction of justice. Mr. Olson has agreed to plead guilty for participating in the Qatari lobbying effort in violation of a prohibition on such activity during the first year after leaving diplomatic service.

Reaboi writes about this at his substack, Late Republic Nonsense:

The work product generated by Brookings' experts often reflected the foreign policy priorities of the US intelligence community. When the CIA wanted to engage with the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, for example, a Brookings report would helpfully conclude--erroniously, of course--that the Ikhwan had abandoned violence and had become a constructive and legitimate force in Egypt's domestic politics. (My old friend, the late Middle East expert Barry Rubin, was approached to write this very report on behalf of Langley. He declined.)
Of course, the US intelligence community wasn't the only influential force that saw the importance of think tanks like Brookings. As a non-profit "research" institution, it depended on money from private donors: wealthy individuals, corporations and, increasingly, foreign governments.
Having influence over a think tank like Brookings became a prize, and at least one energy-rich Gulf monarchy wanted it. Qatar donated an estimated $24 million to Brookings, becoming its largest foreign donor.
But that wasn't anywhere near the extent of it. In 2008, the Qatari government essentially licensed Brookings' name to affix to a new think tank called the Brookings Doha Center, based in the emirate's capital city. This was advantageous for both parties, as it created a multi-million-dollar influence-peddling slush-fund, with no possibility of oversight or disclosure required by American law.
According to a WikiLeaks cable from 2009, one Doha-based expatriate told a U.S. diplomat that, "their drive for international conferences, their hosting of U.S. military bases, and their relentless engagement with others were all part of a strategy to protect Qatar. 'We have no military," one Qatari told him, "so think of the conferences as our aircraft carriers, and the military bases as our nuclear weapons.'"
This week, news broke that federal prosecutors have evidence that the former head of US Central Command, retired Marine Corps 4-star general John Allen--who also, for the last year, ran the Brookings Institution--secretly lobbied for the Emirate of Qatar and lied about it to federal agents.
It's a relatively complex sentence, but none of it should be surprising--aside from the fact that this particular influence-peddling scheme on behalf of Qatar seems as though it's moving from the shadows into the light. The little we know so far confirms nearly five years of my reporting and analysis on Doha's influence schemes in the United States; indeed, it seems like it could've been pulled directly from my 2020 book, Qatar's Shadow War.
If there's anyone who'd be working to advance Qatar's interests in Washington, it would of course be the head of Brookings, long compromised by tens of millions from Doha and weaponized as an propaganda attack-dog against the Islamist Emirate's enemies. And, if that Qatari agent of influence were to be the former head of CENTCOM--with its massive al-Udeid Airbase located outside the Qatari capital--it might be almost too perfect.

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1 Well, let me be the first to say it.

Nothing will happen to him.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 10, 2022 03:38 PM (7bRMQ)

2 Can I get that Sheik dipped in chocolate to go, please?

Posted by: Czech Chick at June 10, 2022 03:38 PM (haWye)

3 Well, let me be the first!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 10, 2022 03:39 PM (7bRMQ)

4 Can I get that Sheik dipped in chocolate to go, please?

Posted by: Czech Chick at June 10, 2022 03:38 PM (haWye)

You want maybe a chocolate dipped Cohn instead?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 10, 2022 03:40 PM (7bRMQ)

5 Nothing near the Clinton's is clean.

Posted by: DaveA at June 10, 2022 03:41 PM (FhXTo)

6 Quiet in here.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 10, 2022 03:41 PM (7bRMQ)

7 Security agents! That's the ticket.

Posted by: Just Lily at June 10, 2022 03:41 PM (RLLZj)

8 Yes, but he has no relation to Trump.

Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 03:42 PM (krQz2)

9 Allen was wrapped up in Petraeus's affair scandal and had some problem in Tampa with some milfy socialite

He's a man of appetites.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Posted by: blasterx at June 10, 2022 03:42 PM (6TxNR)

10 They collect big checks advising them on "security."
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And/or how to get the best distance out of the gays.

Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 03:42 PM (krQz2)

11 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 10, 2022 03:44 PM (arJlL)

12 Cost of living around DC is through the roof. Probably due to all the foreign money sloshing around. Why, it's almost as if you need to have some shady foreign sourced income supplement to live there. So the cycle continues.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 10, 2022 03:44 PM (fs1hN)

13 I always thought it strange that Al Jazeera and CENTCOM were bot based in Doha.

Posted by: blasterx at June 10, 2022 03:44 PM (6TxNR)

14 Being an agent of a foreign government is only a concern if you once did work for a foreign firm and try to participate in a Trump administration. Having lunch in Qatar probably counts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 03:44 PM (LvTSG)

15 "The only reason they're attacking her is because she's doing a great job."
.........

This is not allowed in the Biden years.

Posted by: wth at June 10, 2022 03:45 PM (v0R5T)

16 so it turns out that brookings closed out it's doha branch, right before the afghan collapse, fancy that, which was possible thanks to the taliban bigwigs, that tiny emirate had given sanctuary to,

Posted by: no 6 at June 10, 2022 03:45 PM (i0Lci)

17 DeSantis said during a press conference in West Palm Beach. "The only reason they're attacking her is that she's doing a great job."
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Damn it! Say it!

Say "And they belong to the other party"!

Gotta start calling Dems Dems.

Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 03:46 PM (krQz2)

18 Is the entire federal government nothing more than a humongous criminal enterprise?

Why, yes--that's exactly what it is.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 10, 2022 03:47 PM (sWM8x)

19 Ziggy played Qatar.

Posted by: David Bowie at June 10, 2022 03:47 PM (lf83v)

20
'We have no military," one Qatari told him, "so think of the conferences as our aircraft carriers, and the military bases as our nuclear weapons.'"

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Smart man. There's a rotted out, utterly corrupt government with a huge military that it loves using for the personal profit of its elites.

Any old tin-pot dictator can rent it for the cost of a few gold-plated Bugattis. I'm looking at you, Zelensky.

Only a fool would pay for his own shit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 10, 2022 03:47 PM (xPIwr)

21 Half of DC is on the Qatari payroll, half is on the Chinese payroll and half is on the Ukraine payroll.

Posted by: Yogi Berra at June 10, 2022 03:48 PM (lf83v)

22 Nobody calls nood anymore.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 10, 2022 03:49 PM (DRSnL)

23 Ace, I still see that pic of Jim Carrey in a womens one-piece.
So cruel.

Posted by: wth at June 10, 2022 03:50 PM (v0R5T)

24 But if it's canned, we'll buy it!

Posted by: Art Museum at June 10, 2022 03:50 PM (7bRMQ)

25 Nobody calls nood anymore.

Nood shortages. Supply chain problems.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 10, 2022 03:50 PM (lf83v)

26 Didn't Rick Wilson mysteriously collect a check from a Doha-based think tank a few years back, in the midst of the anti-Trump craze? I sort of vaguely recall he did....

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 10, 2022 03:51 PM (eGo5o)

27 18 Is the entire federal government nothing more than a humongous criminal enterprise?

Why, yes--that's exactly what it is.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 10, 2022 03:47 PM (sWM8x)

Yes, you are correct. This also explains why they hated DJT with such passion: he wasn't on the take so they had no leverage over him. He might have been getting close to blowing the lid off the whole thing.

Beware: your sins will surely be exposed. Just like sunlight to a vampire, the naked truth is deadly to Democrats.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at June 10, 2022 03:51 PM (JNTt1)

28 Almost ashamed that I spent four days leave there in 2006.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 10, 2022 03:51 PM (39+0L)

29 Shocking

Posted by: ... at June 10, 2022 03:52 PM (Ao62D)

30 Donald Trump failed

to make Qatar his #1 priority.

Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 03:52 PM (krQz2)

31 Didn't Rick Wilson mysteriously collect a check from a Doha-based think tank a few years back, in the midst of the anti-Trump craze? I sort of vaguely recall he did....

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 10, 2022 03:51 PM (eGo5o)

Oh, we don't care about that. But that Confederate flag of his....

Posted by: Alphabet Agencies at June 10, 2022 03:53 PM (7bRMQ)

32 Nobody calls nood anymore.

Nood shortages. Supply chain problems.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 10, 2022 03:50 PM (lf83v)
........

I blame Putin.

Posted by: wth at June 10, 2022 03:53 PM (v0R5T)

33 Beware: your sins will surely be exposed. Just like sunlight to a vampire, the naked truth is deadly to Democrats.
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Judgement Day is gonna be LIT!

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 10, 2022 03:53 PM (39+0L)

34 Half of DC is on the Qatari payroll, half is on the Chinese payroll and half is on the Ukraine payroll.
Posted by: Yogi Berra at June 10, 2022 03:48 PM (lf83v)
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Early threadwinner candidate

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 10, 2022 03:53 PM (eGo5o)

35 Everyone's got to have a little side hustle going. Amiright?

Posted by: GOPe at June 10, 2022 03:54 PM (8rxS0)

36 The attacks on Pushaw are a reminder that, regardless of their shiny credentials, many (most?) of the DC swamp creatures are actually stump-dumb and ignorant as hell. I'm just a nobody office drone and hardly an expert on Eastern European goepolitics, but even I know very well that Saakashvili has always been a Putin enemy. These tools don't know that, so of course they start scream "PUTIN SPY!" on command.

I can't remember what it was now, but not long ago Michael McFaul, who was an ambassador under Obama and teaches at Stanford now, said something that was just jaw-droppingly incorrect about some basic international knowledge.

Posted by: radar at June 10, 2022 03:54 PM (9/IeZ)

37 DeSantis really is awesome, I keep expecting to be disappointed, but I never am.

Posted by: Victory at June 10, 2022 03:55 PM (3dm+3)

38
Bring out your milfs

Bring out your milfs

Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at June 10, 2022 03:55 PM (QcUcQ)

39 Judgement Day is gonna be LIT!

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 10, 2022 03:53 PM (39+0L)

Oh, I cancelled that. That UMC Pastor said it was a fairy tale.

Posted by: Guy At The Judgement Seat at June 10, 2022 03:55 PM (7bRMQ)

40 What Ron DeSantis should be saying:

"Every time you people write a hit piece against any of my supporters, they automatically get a $10,000 a year raise. They love these hit pieces. Keep 'em coming."

Posted by: JamesTCarville at June 10, 2022 03:55 PM (z50H4)

41 No worries, his pension is safe.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 10, 2022 03:55 PM (hJi1m)

42 26 Didn't Rick Wilson mysteriously collect a check from a Doha-based think tank a few years back, in the midst of the anti-Trump craze? I sort of vaguely recall he did....
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 10, 2022 03:51 PM (eGo5o)

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When I indulge in impossible dreams, I dream of his investors hauling Rick Wilson into court to recoup the money they gave him for his phony Trump movie that he never made.

Posted by: radar at June 10, 2022 03:56 PM (9/IeZ)

43 >>>Pushaw belatedly registered this week as a foreign agent of a former president

This is loose shit. Tighten it up Death Santa. You have to know by now that all contacts with foreigners will be considered FARA applicable if you say anything remotely positive about that foreign nation.

Posted by: Zombie Isaac Newton at June 10, 2022 03:56 PM (nByzo)

44 Half of DC is on the Qatari payroll, half is on the Chinese payroll and half is on the Ukraine payroll.
Posted by: Yogi Berra at June 10, 2022 03:48 PM (lf83v)
.......

This looks suspiciously like Math.

Posted by: wth at June 10, 2022 03:56 PM (v0R5T)

45 Bring out your milfs

Bring out your milfs
Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at June 10, 2022 03:55 PM

Specify the MILF and pics please. With chocolate on top.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 10, 2022 03:57 PM (hJi1m)

46 Guess they didn't get the memo, now that the Dems are in charge you're supposed to illegally lobby for China.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at June 10, 2022 03:57 PM (Bd6X8)

47 "Dave Reaboi has been screaming about all the DC Swamp Creatures -- especially those allied with the Democrats -- who are paid foreign agents of Qatar, but who are permitted to continue operating without registering under FARA because so many of them are on the take that to start calling out any of them would bring down the entire dirty whorehouse."

So DC has gone ~~global~~ native?

This is yet another thing I simply shan't believe. I shannot!

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 10, 2022 03:58 PM (aXxgO)

48 Might it have leaked this in order to offset the story that General John Allen, a leader at the leftwing, extremely Clinton-aligned Brookings Institution -- essentially an incubator for the Russiagate Conspiracy Theory, as it employed "Primary Sub-Source 1," Igor "Iggy" Danchenko, who will go on trial soon -- is now being investigated for acting as an illegal, undisclosed agent of Qatar?
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Damn. File that under "shit I didn't know but that doesn't surprise me."

Will he have his life utterly and completely destroyed for an actual FARA violation like Flynn had his life destroyed for a fake FARA violation?

Don't answer. We all already know.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 03:58 PM (0zQHa)

49 eh, it seems like every other lefty is registering as a FARA agent years after the fact when someone brings it up, so this is a huge nothing burger for Christina.

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at June 10, 2022 03:59 PM (p03vF)

50 They accidentally released the warrant application, so they rushed out the leak about Christina Pushaw.
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Top. Men.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 03:59 PM (0zQHa)

51 Traitors are so dreamy.
- any random presstitute

Posted by: Eromero at June 10, 2022 04:00 PM (gktX6)

52 It still boggles my mind PDT was the cleanest politician in Washington in probably 3 decades.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 10, 2022 04:00 PM (5pTK/)

53 eh, it seems like every other lefty is registering as a FARA agent years after the fact when someone brings it up, so this is a huge nothing burger for Christina.

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at June 10, 2022 03:59 PM (p03vF)

You're a foreign agent, and you're a foreign agent, and you're a foreign agent!

Posted by: Orpah at June 10, 2022 04:00 PM (7bRMQ)

54 He should change "legacy media" to "relic media". Ha!

Posted by: Eric at June 10, 2022 04:00 PM (xWTud)

55 They accidentally released the warrant application, so they rushed out the leak about Christina Pushaw.
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Top. Men.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 03:59 PM (0zQHa)
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More of a bottom myself.

Posted by: Don Le Mon at June 10, 2022 04:01 PM (krQz2)

56 The Spice Must Flow.

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2022 04:01 PM (Vr12I)

57 They're hiring them because they want highly-placed Americans on their payroll who will act as their mouthpieces and agents of influence when they want something from the United States government.

And this is understood. And this is how a lot of our generals and admirals avoid having to ever register under FARA. They're not agents of foreign interests, oh no. They're just "security consultants" to foreign interests, you see.
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Why, I can't believe that. I cannot believe it at all. There is no way that top government and military officials can be a bunch of corrupt traitors selling their positions to foreigners and then operating under a permanent conflict of interest in the pursuit of foreign objectives while disclosing none of it.

Surely, that's impossible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:01 PM (0zQHa)

58 I was a secret agent for Qatar and all I got was this lousy t-shirt and 5 million dollars.

Posted by: General John Allen at June 10, 2022 04:02 PM (8GBH4)

59 57 Why, I can't believe that. I cannot believe it at all. There is no way that top government and military officials can be a bunch of corrupt traitors selling their positions to foreigners and then operating under a permanent conflict of interest in the pursuit of foreign objectives while disclosing none of it.

Surely, that's impossible.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:01 PM (0zQHa)

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Even saying this out loud is tantamount to treason.

Send in the clowns!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:02 PM (LvTSG)

60 And am I thinking of another Middle Eastern middle man, but isn't Qatar on Iran's payroll, so weasels like Wilson can avoid any issues with sanctions?

Posted by: Wally at June 10, 2022 04:02 PM (FJYfm)

61 Everyone else getting two ads after the post, before the comments?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty of BAD TRUMPY MANS! at June 10, 2022 04:02 PM (/Ym0t)

62 Given that half of DC is on Qatar's payroll, I don't know if I'd expect this go any further than Allen. The whole town has a strong personal interest in making this investigation short and laser-focused on a single individual.
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The only way there's any kind of real reckoning - and even it would be a halfway measure by definition - is if the half that is CCP-owned decides to go after the half that is Qatar-owned.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:02 PM (0zQHa)

63 Big Guy cut still 10%?

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2022 04:02 PM (Vr12I)

64 The Spice Must Flow.
Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2022 04:01 PM (Vr12I)

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I know that feeling.

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at June 10, 2022 04:03 PM (krQz2)

65 They're hiring them because they want highly-placed Americans on their payroll who will act as their mouthpieces and agents of influence when they want something from the United States government.

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Hunter is their usual go-to for underaged girls and coke, with the standard 10% going to The Big Guy.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 10, 2022 04:03 PM (3m/gK)

66 Yes, add to the list of entities that once had the unquestioned support from conservative voters, who have done great damage to their reputations, to the point of being gutless, evil swamp creatures... I present to you, the brass of Pentagon as a prime example.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2022 04:03 PM (eruGX)

67 eh, it seems like every other lefty is registering as a FARA agent years after the fact when someone brings it up, so this is a huge nothing burger for Christina.
Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at June 10, 2022 03:59 PM (p03vF)
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But they're ruling class leftists, not deplorables from America's Wang that work counter to the central state's interests.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:03 PM (0zQHa)

68 I'm not even sure that's a crime anymore

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 10, 2022 04:04 PM (XvPQV)

69 68 I'm not even sure that's a crime anymore
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 10, 2022 04:04 PM (XvPQV)

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Depends on the party affiliation.

It's like Logan Act violations.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:05 PM (LvTSG)

70 Everyone else getting two ads after the post, before the comments?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty of BAD TRUMPY MANS! at June 10, 2022 04:02 PM (/Ym0t)

yeah, it just started happening after the art thread i think. or early afternoon.

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at June 10, 2022 04:05 PM (p03vF)

71 I present to you, the brass of Pentagon as a prime example.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2022 04:03 PM (eruGX)
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Obama replaced a lot of generals.

Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 04:05 PM (krQz2)

72 >>>Everyone else getting two ads after the post, before the comments?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty of BAD TRUMPY MANS! at June 10, 2022 04:02 PM (/Ym0t)

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*Raises hand*

Posted by: Turn two at June 10, 2022 04:05 PM (IFPNq)

73 I'm surprised Christina Pushaw didn't get the 4:00 a.m. no-knock SWAT/CNN raid.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 10, 2022 04:05 PM (3m/gK)

74 That's not chocolate.

Posted by: an Oompa Loompa at June 10, 2022 04:05 PM (vrz2I)

75 Name a more corrupt place on earth than DC.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (IEa8U)

76 72 >>>Everyone else getting two ads after the post, before the comments?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty of BAD TRUMPY MANS! at June 10, 2022 04:02 PM (/Ym0t)

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*Raises hand*
Posted by: Turn two at June 10, 2022 04:05 PM (IFPNq)

Yo

Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (BJKQV)

77
70 Everyone else getting two ads after the post, before the comments?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty of BAD TRUMPY MANS! at June 10, 2022 04:02 PM (/Ym0t)

yeah, it just started happening after the art thread i think. or early afternoon.
Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at June 10, 2022 04:05 PM (p03vF)

Ewoks got bills to pay too.

Posted by: kraken at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (Vr12I)

78 Just getting to part in Russian where the Bolsheviks taken over shut down media opposition

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (2JoB8)

79 DC should be renamed "Satan's Butthole."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (IEa8U)

80 I'm not even sure that's a crime anymore

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 10, 2022 04:04 PM (XvPQV)

Show them the person, they'll show you the crime.

Ruthless attention to your tittles is called for.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (nByzo)

81 It's like Logan Act violations.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:05 PM (LvTSG)

Lara Logan Act?

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (p03vF)

82 61 Everyone else getting two ads after the post, before the comments?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty of BAD TRUMPY MANS! at June 10, 2022 04:02 PM (/Ym0t)

Yeah, but I was also getting Phoebe Cates coming out of the pool in the sidebar this morning so I'm not really complaining.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (906pl)

83 How is FARA Constitutional?
Your stupid Government can't interfere with your right to associate.

Posted by: torabora at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (Y274z)

84 @49

>>so this is a huge nothing burger for Christina.

Indeed it is but that doesn't mean the Juntas LE apparatus won't put her through the pain is the process rigamaroll.

In fact I fully expect it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 10, 2022 04:07 PM (wOwzR)

85 Big Guy cut still 10%?

Bitch, I'm president now.

I don't get out of bed for anything less than 40 percent.

Posted by: Joey Applesauce at June 10, 2022 04:07 PM (lf83v)

86 Recently revisited the Nimitz museum, I can't imagine what men like him would make of the current crop of multi-star generals/admirals.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 10, 2022 04:07 PM (oWBc3)

87 FARA is suspiciously like gun registration.

Posted by: torabora at June 10, 2022 04:07 PM (Y274z)

88 Gee, wasn't John Bolton, after being recently fired by OrangeManBad, was spotted in Qatar? Why yes he was (I grabbed an infowars description, but it was covered by many other outlets):

By Infowars.com Tuesday, January 28, 2020 Fired White House national security adviser John Bolton was recently seen wandering the streets of Qatar, sparking questions about why the neocon was even in the Middle East. Video of Bolton reportedly walking on a sidewalk in Doha, Qatar was posted to Twitter earlier this month.

Also, fuck The Brookings Institute, a stable of traitors and whores.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 10, 2022 04:07 PM (F0YaR)

89 Good time for a name change: democrat party to Benedict Arnold.

Posted by: The Biden Abomination That Causes Desolation at June 10, 2022 04:08 PM (jV+aN)

90 The only way there's any kind of real reckoning - and even it would be a halfway measure by definition - is if the half that is CCP-owned decides to go after the half that is Qatar-owned.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:02 PM (0zQHa)

I keep hearing how Yemen is the single most horrific human rights disaster occurring today, and since the U.S. is A-OK with the perps, nobody really says anything about it, to the point the general pubic doesn't even know it's going on.

I'm not sure where Qatar fits in there, but I assume it does.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 10, 2022 04:08 PM (eruGX)

91 forgotten by yesterday

Posted by: REDACTED at June 10, 2022 04:08 PM (us2H3)

92 Show them the person, they'll show you the crime.

Ruthless attention to your tittles is called for.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (nByzo)

I'm not Joe Mannix but I will do my best to pay attention to all titties.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 10, 2022 04:08 PM (XvPQV)

93 DC should be renamed "Satan's Butthole."

Uhh, dibbs.

From my Navy days.

Posted by: Peter Buttegeig at June 10, 2022 04:08 PM (lf83v)

94 John Kerry should be in prison for his involvement with Iran

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 10, 2022 04:09 PM (M+Lyo)

95 FARA is suspiciously like gun registration.

Posted by: torabora at June 10, 2022 04:07 PM (Y274z)

Farrah>>>>>FARA

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 10, 2022 04:09 PM (7bRMQ)

96 Also, fuck The Brookings Institute, a stable of traitors and whores.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 10, 2022 04:07 PM (F0YaR)

Good time for a name change: democrat party to Benedict Arnold.

Posted by: The Biden Abomination That Causes Desolation at June 10, 2022 04:08 PM (jV+aN)

All of DC, GOPe and Dems.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:09 PM (nByzo)

97 #86 when you got General Milley mincing around like he's J Edgar Hoover waving the Fag Flag we are lost.

Posted by: torabora at June 10, 2022 04:09 PM (Y274z)

98 You missed the part of the story where he tried to influence trump to take actions against the Saudis and benefit Qatar, but Trump told him to pound sand. So he wasn't even an effective agent.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 10, 2022 04:09 PM (t3/qz)

99 Ruthless attention to your tittles is called for.

Makes my jot rock hard every time.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 10, 2022 04:09 PM (ppBhU)

100 75 Name a more corrupt place on earth than DC.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (IEa8U)

Kiev?

Tijuana ?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 10, 2022 04:10 PM (XvPQV)

101 94 John Kerry should be in prison for his involvement with Iran
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 10, 2022 04:09 PM (M+Lyo)

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And Ted Kennedy should have rotted in prison for his involvement with the USSR.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:10 PM (LvTSG)

102 12 Cost of living around DC is through the roof. Probably due to all the foreign money sloshing around. Why, it's almost as if you need to have some shady foreign sourced income supplement to live there. So the cycle continues.
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Check out Manhattan

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:10 PM (ifUkZ)

103 Name a more corrupt place on earth than DC.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (IEa8U)

Kiev?

Tijuana ?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at June 10, 2022 04:10 PM (XvPQV)

It's a trick question.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:10 PM (nByzo)

104 Name a more corrupt place on earth than DC.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (IEa8U)

Might have an answer by the ONT.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 10, 2022 04:10 PM (7bRMQ)

105 98 You missed the part of the story where he tried to influence trump to take actions against the Saudis and benefit Qatar, but Trump told him to pound sand. So he wasn't even an effective agent.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 10, 2022 04:09 PM (t3/qz)

=========

I am presently incarcerated, imprisoned for a crime I did not even commit. "Attempted murder," now honestly, did they ever give anyone a Nobel prize for "attempted chemistry?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:11 PM (LvTSG)

106 I don't understand why she'd have to register as a foreign consultant, she's not STILL working for the president of Georgia, for crying out loud.

Although it is kind of embarrassing for the left to be reminded of Georgia and how they did nothing and cared nothing about it while freaking out about the same thing happening to Ukraine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 10, 2022 04:11 PM (KZzsI)

107 Farrah>>>>>FARA
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 10, 2022 04:09 PM (7bRMQ)

yeah, give me bald girl that's a good lay

you can't fuck the do

Posted by: REDACTED at June 10, 2022 04:11 PM (us2H3)

108 102 Check out Manhattan
Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:10 PM (ifUkZ)

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I prefer my bourbon straight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:11 PM (LvTSG)

109 I wouldn't be at all shocked to discover that the heads of most of our think-tank and political nonprofits on both sides are acting as agents of foreign governments. At this point I'd be shocked if they weren't.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:11 PM (BJKQV)

110 #71 a Republican Senate led by McConnell confirmed Gaylord's general picks.

Posted by: torabora at June 10, 2022 04:12 PM (Y274z)

111 109 I wouldn't be at all shocked to discover that the heads of most of our think-tank and political nonprofits on both sides are acting as agents of foreign governments. At this point I'd be shocked if they weren't.
Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:11 PM (BJKQV)

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Except the Green movement. They definitely just care about Gaia and not depressing US energy production to favor Russian energy production.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:12 PM (LvTSG)

112 You think Islamist Qatari influence matters to this country or the people in it? I facilitated the rape of children for most of your media, cultural, and political elite. I was murdered in my prison cell. And you people still think elections matter. Lol.

Posted by: Jeffrey Epstein at June 10, 2022 04:12 PM (QpAAp)

113 oh the FARA act you say?

according to leftist fash prosecutors, everyone (republican) who made a long distance phone call violated it.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at June 10, 2022 04:12 PM (7uiTk)

114 These "think tanks" all live or die by their donors.
The Feds are all crooks.
Gen. Custer was a vainglorious a**hole.
(exits to ululate with the Sioux)...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 10, 2022 04:13 PM (jTmQV)

115 LOLGF: Jan6 Stipulation Extravanganza netted ~7 million fewer viewers than watch the nightly news.

Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 04:13 PM (krQz2)

116 Tijuana is just a harmless little border town, but I'll put it to you Greg, if we indict a town known for acts of donkey carnality, aren't we then indicting our own government? And the entire American experiment? Uh, okay, I'll sit down now.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 10, 2022 04:14 PM (oWBc3)

117 115 LOLGF: Jan6 Stipulation Extravanganza netted ~7 million fewer viewers than watch the nightly news.
Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 04:13 PM (krQz2)

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But they messaged!

They messaged!

How will reality counter that?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:14 PM (LvTSG)

118 I'm thinking changing Democrats to Bolsheviks

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2022 04:14 PM (2JoB8)

119 115 LOLGF: Jan6 Stipulation Extravanganza netted ~7 million fewer viewers than watch the nightly news.
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Wow, that's bad. No one watches the nightly news.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:14 PM (ifUkZ)

120 As the eye-patched wonder said, it is just too expensive to get ahead in DC unless you are allowed to inside trade and take bribes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 10, 2022 04:15 PM (lTGtQ)

121 Intermittent Daddario:

https://tinyurl.com/3e3bbche

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:15 PM (LvTSG)

122 LOLGF: Jan6 Stipulation Extravanganza netted ~7 million fewer viewers than watch the nightly news.
Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 04:13 PM (krQz2)
.......

Masterchef Junior edition was on.

Posted by: wth at June 10, 2022 04:15 PM (v0R5T)

123 More people watched J6 than the J6 hearings.

(And I think a lot of them we cheering them on.)

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 10, 2022 04:16 PM (Y5qcH)

124 These "think tanks" all live or die by their donors.
The Feds are all crooks.
Gen. Custer was a vainglorious a**hole.
(exits to ululate with the Sioux)...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 10, 2022 04:13 PM (jTmQV)

They are just perches for political parties out of power, a shadow government in waiting. I assume the heirarchy of needs for scum and villanny is:

1. Elected rep or executive;
b. Lobbyist;
iii. Think tank do-nothing job.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:16 PM (nByzo)

125 Its as if the joke is on the Democrats and they don't know it yet. They are dead people who don't know they're dead.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:16 PM (ifUkZ)

126 Just got back from seeing Maverick.

Holy shit it is good!

Unabashedly American but they did play it safe by just calling the opposing for 'The Enemy'.

I get it. Worldwide box office and all. Cruise is one of the remaining few actors who knows why people go to movies.

Definitely a thumbs up. Totally amazing they put Cruise through the ringer on those canyon shots. You could see the G forces in his face.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 10, 2022 04:16 PM (nsnF6)

127 105 98 You missed the part of the story where he tried to influence trump to take actions against the Saudis and benefit Qatar, but Trump told him to pound sand. So he wasn't even an effective agent.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 10, 2022 04:09 PM (t3/qz)

No wonder the military brass was all-in on the move to kick Trump out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 10, 2022 04:16 PM (trdmm)

128 As the eye-patched wonder said, it is just too expensive to get ahead in DC unless you are allowed to inside trade and take bribes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 10, 2022 04:15 PM (lTGtQ)

We only have to pay him half rates to look out for us, right?

Posted by: Quatar at June 10, 2022 04:16 PM (7bRMQ)

129 this country has 2 paths

either an all out civil war or being taken over by a foreign invader

do not accept bullshit subsitutions

Posted by: REDACTED at June 10, 2022 04:17 PM (us2H3)

130 "They are dead people who don't know they're dead."

Much like the stupid!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 10, 2022 04:17 PM (jTmQV)

131 How long has he been on the take? While he was helping run the Naval Academy? While he was helping run things in the Middle East?

Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:18 PM (BJKQV)

132 Name a more corrupt place on earth than DC.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 10, 2022 04:06 PM (IEa8U)

it's a tie with Chicago.

Posted by: Yogi Bear at June 10, 2022 04:18 PM (AMIL/)

133 130 "They are dead people who don't know they're dead."

fuck, I know I'm dead

I'm just not dead dead

Posted by: REDACTED at June 10, 2022 04:19 PM (us2H3)

134 Unabashedly American but they did play it safe by just calling the opposing for 'The Enemy'.

The original was really vague on the adversary in that one, too. I mean, yeah, a movie like this, you don't want them to make up a place like Val Verde or Sokovia or something.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at June 10, 2022 04:19 PM (l8gTz)

135 Its as if the joke is on the Democrats and they don't know it yet. They are dead people who don't know they're dead.
Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:16 PM (ifUkZ)
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I saw quotes from some adults who were with their children watching it.

Well, we all know that Democrats can't make good choices in governance. All the same, they can't make good choices in presentation either.

The Democrats couldn't resist spending 15 minutes pontificating, and they lost a lot of people in those first 15 minutes.

Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 04:19 PM (krQz2)

136 131 How long has he been on the take? While he was helping run the Naval Academy? While he was helping run things in the Middle East?
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Probably as soon as he was made CENTCOM Commander.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:19 PM (ifUkZ)

137 Chicago doesn't hold a candle to DC in terms of corruption and graft. No way.

I assume 97% of people in DC are on the take.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (nsnF6)

138 Willowed, for consideration:

Worst candy ever? Tie between Chick-o-Sticks or Bit-o-Honey.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (nByzo)

139 Masterchef Junior edition was on.
Posted by: wth at June 10, 2022 04:15 PM (v0R5T)
******
I love that show.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (NpAcC)

140 115 LOLGF: Jan6 Stipulation Extravanganza netted ~7 million fewer viewers than watch the nightly news.
Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 04:13 PM (krQz2)

This is why libs were salty that Fox News didn't go out with their coverage of the farce.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (Rl7KJ)

141 As the eye-patched wonder said, it is just too expensive to get ahead in DC unless you are allowed to inside trade and take bribes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 10, 2022 04:15 PM (lTGtQ)

Decentralize the Federal Government. Congresscritters should live and work in the states/districts they represent.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (BJKQV)

142 Being a Qatari agent is not like being a Georgian agent. Georgia is a basically friendly nation. Qatar is, for all practical purposes, a puppet regime of Iran. It is actually alone among the Arab emirates in this regard. This isn't a case of doing it for the money, since he could have picked UAE or any of a number of oil-rich states to work for.

He picked Qatar specifically BECAUSE it is an Iranian satellite. He is not really a Qatari agent at all, but an Iranian agent.

Which brings up the question, why? It seems unlikely that he supports throwing gays from rooftops, or making adultery a capital offense.

The reason is obvious. He is coordinating with Iran to carry out terrorist attacks on America. By doing so, he can advance the crafty gun control agenda of the far left.

Posted by: Ken at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (nOMhL)

143 The rot in the federal government is pervasive and deep.

Long past time to burn it all down and salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (MvHI3)

144 135
The Democrats couldn't resist spending 15 minutes pontificating, and they lost a lot of people in those first 15 minutes.
Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 04:19 PM (krQz2)

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They put a well-established television producer in charge, and he let them lead with 15 minutes of speechifying instead of dramatic footage with dramatic music?

Damn...it's like they had nothing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (LvTSG)

145 fuck, I know I'm dead

I'm just not dead dead

Posted by: REDACTED at June 10, 2022 04:19 PM (us2H3)

You ain't fooling anyone. Get on the cart.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (nByzo)

146 Fox News is celebrating pride month.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 10, 2022 04:21 PM (63Dwl)

147 Also-

TheJamesMadison is the kindest, warmest, bravest and best author I have ever read.

Posted by: Miklos, late to the Birthday Party at June 10, 2022 04:21 PM (7DK/q)

148 LOLGF: Jan6 Stipulation Extravanganza netted ~7 million fewer viewers than watch the nightly news.
Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 04:13 PM (krQz2)
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So what? Like 10 or 15 thousand people tuned in?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:21 PM (0zQHa)

149 141 As the eye-patched wonder said, it is just too expensive to get ahead in DC unless you are allowed to inside trade and take bribes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 10, 2022 04:15 PM (lTGtQ)

Decentralize the Federal Government. Congresscritters should live and work in the states/districts they represent.
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Embrace the concept of Tele-Working and empty DC of government workers. Let it become Baltimore South.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:22 PM (ifUkZ)

150 Illegal Agent of Qatar surfaces in Cairo, Nest of Spies.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at June 10, 2022 04:22 PM (qpX6U)

151 147 Also-

TheJamesMadison is the kindest, warmest, bravest and best author I have ever read.
Posted by: Miklos, late to the Birthday Party at June 10, 2022 04:21 PM (7DK/q)

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And don't you forget it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:22 PM (LvTSG)

152 Worst candy ever? Tie between Chick-o-Sticks or Bit-o-Honey.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (nByzo)

May I interest you in some carob?

Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:22 PM (BJKQV)

153 >>> Jan6 Stipulation Extravanganza netted ~7 million fewer viewers than watch the nightly news.
Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 04:13 PM (krQz2)

People still watch news on TV?!!! I wonder how these numbers correlate with owners of landlines and robot attack insurance.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 10, 2022 04:23 PM (t/4Zp)

154 148 LOLGF: Jan6 Stipulation Extravanganza netted ~7 million fewer viewers than watch the nightly news.
Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 04:13 PM (krQz2)
++++
So what? Like 10 or 15 thousand people tuned in?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:21 PM (0zQHa)

=========

"I'm feeling so hot right now..."
-Brian Stetler, star of CNN+

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:23 PM (LvTSG)

155 Decentralize the Federal Government. Congresscritters should live and work in the states/districts they represent.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (BJKQV)

They'll have to ensure a shortage of tar and feathers, first.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:23 PM (nByzo)

156 I assume if they held the J6 kabuki theatre on Twitter exclusively (for a nice fee), every Dem would watch.

As it is, Democrats are lazy fucks unless it's 140 characters of idiocy at their fingertips.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 10, 2022 04:23 PM (nsnF6)

157 The Hill says there were 20 million viewers.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 10, 2022 04:23 PM (jTmQV)

158 Masterchef Junior edition was on.
Posted by: wth at June 10, 2022 04:15 PM (v0R5T)
******
I love that show.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (NpAcC)'
.......

WWE wrestlers who knew nothing about cooking were "helping" the little kids. It was funny.

Posted by: wth at June 10, 2022 04:23 PM (v0R5T)

159 Baraka Allahu Fix general. Now do as we say infadel.

Posted by: Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse at June 10, 2022 04:23 PM (uN6X9)

160 141 As the eye-patched wonder said, it is just too expensive to get ahead in DC unless you are allowed to inside trade and take bribes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 10, 2022 04:15 PM (lTGtQ)

Decentralize the Federal Government. Congresscritters should live and work in the states/districts they represent.
Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (BJKQV)

Yeah, this is a general principle of structuring government. I have thought a congress of mayors might be a sensible way to structure things.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 10, 2022 04:23 PM (b2nrj)

161 157 The Hill says there were 20 million viewers.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 10, 2022 04:23 PM (jTmQV

19 million were passengers in airport waiting areas.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 10, 2022 04:24 PM (nsnF6)

162 May I interest you in some carob?
Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:22 PM (BJKQV)

Oh, what the hell is that stuff? It tastes like sweat.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 10, 2022 04:24 PM (Y5qcH)

163 Worst candy ever? Anything with black licorice in it.

Posted by: Tuna at June 10, 2022 04:24 PM (gLRfa)

164 The Hill says there were 20 million viewers.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 10, 2022 04:23 PM (jTmQV)
++++
That implies that 27 million people watch the mainline networks' nightly news broadcasts.

Sad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:24 PM (0zQHa)

165 Deputy shot a man in columbus. Riot to start in... what? Oh white man. Nevermind.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 10, 2022 04:25 PM (t3/qz)

166 >>> Worst candy ever? Tie between Chick-o-Sticks or Bit-o-Honey.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (nByzo)

May I interest you in some carob?
Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:22 PM (BJKQV)

Yes, carob is pretty bad. The worst I've found, though is some Indian bean-based candy. Yes it tastes as bad as it sounds. But a good amount of Indian candy is great. Not the bean stuff though.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 10, 2022 04:25 PM (t/4Zp)

167 Reruns of The Andy Griffith Show out poll J6 Hearings.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:25 PM (ifUkZ)

168 May I interest you in some carob?

Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:22 PM (BJKQV)

I am open to the notion that I have not yet experienced the worst.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:25 PM (nByzo)

169 161 157 The Hill says there were 20 million viewers.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 10, 2022 04:23 PM (jTmQV

the hill be a shill

Posted by: REDACTED at June 10, 2022 04:25 PM (us2H3)

170 This redhead in a corset is neither a foreign agent (registered or unregistered) nor a J6 hearing viewer:
https://is.gd/GweE5A

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:25 PM (0zQHa)

171 Worst candy ever? Tie between Chick-o-Sticks or Bit-o-Honey.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur

May I interest you in some carob?
Posted by: 29Victor

Circus peanut or Necca wafers

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (IEa8U)

172 160 Yeah, this is a general principle of structuring government. I have thought a congress of mayors might be a sensible way to structure things.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 10, 2022 04:23 PM (b2nrj)

==========

I don't need my mayor to have a say in foreign affairs.

I need my mayor focused on local matters that he's most directly concerned with.

I also don't need the federal government telling my mayor what to do.

Subsidiarity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

173 A $5.00 crackwhore living behind the dumpster at the local Dollar Store has more integrity than any of our retired "generals" and "admirals" selling their asses to the highest bidder in the middle east.

Another reason to eliminate the federal government.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (R/m4+)

174 Candy Corn is the lamest candy ever. There's no point, it sucks, and there's a reason it can only move any units when it's purchased in sympathy assortments for Halloween.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (0zQHa)

175 The Gannett network (USA Today) is eliminating virtually all opinion pieces and endorsements of national candidates after hearing from their member newspapers that they're losing readers due to leftist bias.

https://tinyurl.com/56b5mx38

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (sWM8x)

176 Deputy shot a man in columbus. Riot to start in... what? Oh white man. Nevermind.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 10, 2022 04:25 PM (t3/qz)

I could use a new pair of reading glasses. Who's with me?!

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (nByzo)

177 watching 5 minures of network TV will convince a sane person

Amerika is lost

Posted by: REDACTED at June 10, 2022 04:27 PM (us2H3)

178 175 The Gannett network (USA Today) is eliminating virtually all opinion pieces and endorsements of national candidates after hearing from their member newspapers that they're losing readers due to leftist bias.

https://tinyurl.com/56b5mx38
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (sWM8x)

So, keep the bias, but just for hard news?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 10, 2022 04:27 PM (Y5qcH)

179 The Big 3 networks get 18-20 million viewers for their nightly news.

So that's 6-7 million per network.
Their Jan 6 shows got 3-4 million per.

Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 04:27 PM (krQz2)

180 157 The Hill says there were 20 million viewers.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

They're lying. It was under a million and I'm being generous.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 10, 2022 04:27 PM (2graF)

181 157 The Hill says there were 20 million viewers.
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That is like 6% of America. The next question is how long did they watch?

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:27 PM (ifUkZ)

182
I don't need my mayor to have a say in foreign affairs.

I need my mayor focused on local matters that he's most directly concerned with.

I also don't need the federal government telling my mayor what to do.

Subsidiarity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

Who should have a say in foreign affairs? Besides the House is mostly about securing federal money for districts anyways.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 10, 2022 04:27 PM (b2nrj)

183 This redhead in a corset is neither a foreign agent (registered or unregistered) nor a J6 hearing viewer:
https://is.gd/GweE5A

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:25 PM (0zQHa)

Same chick as last time? Not that I am complaining.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:27 PM (nByzo)

184 Masterchef Junior edition was on.
Posted by: wth at June 10, 2022 04:15 PM (v0R5T)

What a tough call last night! Trump bashing on 3 channels, and young, nubile boys cooking on another one! Set the DVR to Whacking Time

Posted by: Lincoln Project staff at June 10, 2022 04:28 PM (FJYfm)

185 How is being a "security consultant" to a foreign entity not working for their interests?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 10, 2022 04:28 PM (Mzdiz)

186 Nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 10, 2022 04:28 PM (Qy7kP)

187 The Gannett network (USA Today) is eliminating virtually all opinion pieces and endorsements of national candidates after hearing from their member newspapers that they're losing readers due to leftist bias.

https://tinyurl.com/56b5mx38
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (sWM8x)
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So rather than clean up their news divisions and stopping the overt leftwing water-carrying in what was supposed to be straightforward reporting of information, they're getting rid of editorial and endorsements sections that are there precisely to cater to opinion?

Are they on drugs? What kind? Are they interested in sharing?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:28 PM (0zQHa)

188 Qatar has fourth highest per capita GDP among all nations. They drink their milkshake.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at June 10, 2022 04:28 PM (qpX6U)

189 144 135
The Democrats couldn't resist spending 15 minutes pontificating, and they lost a lot of people in those first 15 minutes.
Posted by: Axeman at June 10, 2022 04:19 PM (krQz2)
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They put a well-established television producer in charge, and he let them lead with 15 minutes of speechifying instead of dramatic footage with dramatic music?

Damn...it's like they had nothing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:20 PM (LvTSG)

No tv or movie producer or director could ever convince Congresscritters, especially a Committee Chairman, to not speechify to lead-off a show trial on prime time national tv. If anything is impossible, this is it.

Posted by: Yogi Bear at June 10, 2022 04:28 PM (AMIL/)

190 I am open to the notion that I have not yet experienced the worst.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:25 PM (nByzo)

My mom tried every health fad of the '70s on us. I have suffered much.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:28 PM (BJKQV)

191 181 157 The Hill says there were 20 million viewers.
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That is like 6% of America. The next question is how long did they watch?
Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:27 PM (ifUkZ)

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That's 10 million less than Star Trek the Next Generation was getting weekly, in syndication, when it first aired 30 years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:28 PM (LvTSG)

192 174 Candy Corn is the lamest candy ever. There's no point, it sucks, and there's a reason it can only move any units when it's purchased in sympathy assortments for Halloween.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (0zQHa)

you sir, are one mean fuck

Posted by: REDACTED at June 10, 2022 04:28 PM (us2H3)

193 No disrespect intended for anyone presently serving, but...
In the face of evidence like this, who signs up for the military?
Come on all you big strong men, Uncle Sam needs you for... wait, what???

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 10, 2022 04:28 PM (jTmQV)

194 The Gannett network (USA Today) is eliminating virtually all opinion pieces and endorsements of national candidates after hearing from their member newspapers that they're losing readers due to leftist bias.

https://tinyurl.com/56b5mx38

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (sWM8x)

Ace: Is this something?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 10, 2022 04:28 PM (nByzo)

195 These are the same journalists who say dozens of people attend trump rallies.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 10, 2022 04:29 PM (t3/qz)

196 146 Fox News is celebrating pride month.
_____________

What's the best way to celebrate pride month?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 10, 2022 04:29 PM (fs1hN)

197 Candy Corn is the lamest candy ever. There's no point, it sucks, and there's a reason it can only move any units when it's purchased in sympathy assortments for Halloween.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (0zQHa)

Mix it with dry roasted peanuts 50/50 and it tastes like a Payday

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 10, 2022 04:29 PM (OgrpQ)

198 Masterchef Junior edition was on.
Posted by: wth

Iron Chef in the original Japanese>>>Masterchef Junior

Posted by: Miklos-san, today's mystery ingredient at June 10, 2022 04:29 PM (7DK/q)

199 So, keep the bias, but just for hard news?
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I expect so, yeah.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 10, 2022 04:29 PM (sWM8x)

200 182 Who should have a say in foreign affairs? Besides the House is mostly about securing federal money for districts anyways.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 10, 2022 04:27 PM (b2nrj)

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The concept of the federal government as actually described in the US Constitution is one primarily focused on foreign affairs. The federal government should focus on that, and not on domestic affairs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:29 PM (LvTSG)

201 Vietnamese candy is the worst candy ever made.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:29 PM (BJKQV)

202 And let's recall the Podesta brother who's own, as I recall much much larger "oops! oopsie!" for failing to do his FARA filings. Also, miraculously, no action taken - this was revealed about the time Gen. Flynn was being blackmailed over his FARA business, which I don't believe was illegal or rule-breaking in any respect, as part of the jaw-dropping DOJ "hit" on an incoming NSA.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 10, 2022 04:29 PM (OTzUX)

203 We are losing readers due to our leftwing bias

Shit. We need to hide it better.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 10, 2022 04:30 PM (t3/qz)

204 I wonder who supplies King Harv’s security.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 10, 2022 04:30 PM (rzOL9)

205 What's the best way to celebrate pride month?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Ooh Ooh I know this

Posted by: Pete Buttgig, transported at June 10, 2022 04:30 PM (7DK/q)

206 146 Fox News is celebrating pride month.

The food network is celebrating gluttony.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 10, 2022 04:30 PM (BJKQV)

207 Podesta was running the outfit Manafort was working for.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 10, 2022 04:31 PM (t3/qz)

208 200 182 Who should have a say in foreign affairs? Besides the House is mostly about securing federal money for districts anyways.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 10, 2022 04:27 PM (b2nrj)

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The concept of the federal government as actually described in the US Constitution is one primarily focused on foreign affairs. The federal government should focus on that, and not on domestic affairs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 10, 2022 04:29 PM (LvTSG)

But who should have a say in foreign affairs? Is the person elected to be mayor for some reason less well equipped to present the views of his town? Besides having a busier job might prevent excessive legislation.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at June 10, 2022 04:31 PM (b2nrj)

209 191 181 157 The Hill says there were 20 million viewers.
________________
If they were Biden 'voters' you can safely reduce that to 15 million to account for the fraud.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 10, 2022 04:31 PM (fs1hN)

210 banana Dream at June 10, 2022 04:25 PM (t/4Zp)

OMG. Flashback to a fancy 10+ course dinner at a Chinese restaurant. There was lots of yummy food but the final, dessert, course was a sweetened bean soup. Yech. I sampled it because I thought maybe they had some special trick where that was tasty. Nope. It was just bean soup with a bunch of sugar instead of salt and savory spices. A veteran of Chinese dining skipped out before the final course and related it was because sic "their desserts are dismal"

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at June 10, 2022 04:31 PM (3cGpq)

211 Candy Corn is the lamest candy ever. There's no point, it sucks, and there's a reason it can only move any units when it's purchased in sympathy assortments for Halloween.
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There is some very good Candy Corn. Brachs is pretty good. This from a guy who grew up eating his Grandma's candy corn that was probably 5 or 6 years old.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:31 PM (ifUkZ)

212 We are losing readers due to our leftwing bias

Shit. We need to hide it better.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Tole you peoples

Posted by: "Messaging" at June 10, 2022 04:31 PM (7DK/q)

213 Cable News Watch@CableNewsWatch
Dems BS 1/6 hearings BOMB in the ratings!
8pm ET
ABC Attack on the Capitol 0.5 4.477
NBC January 6th Hearings 0.4 3.296
CBC Capitol Assault Hearings 0.3 3.335
. . . .
Joe Concha@JoeConchaTV
Context: The evening newscasts on CBS, NBC & ABC average anywhere from 18 to 20 million viewers combined on a typical night. Those newscasts do not air in primetime. The January 6 hearings airing in primetime Thursday took in just 11+ million viewers on those three same networks.
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Maybe if they'd added a laugh track.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 10, 2022 04:31 PM (FVME7)

214 Candy corn is just fine at one time of year. As long as it's not too stale. A bit stale is OK, but not too much.

And Gannett is about what, 15-20 years late with their move to pretend to become a news organization, and not just another cartoon propaganda outfit?

Posted by: rhomboid at June 10, 2022 04:32 PM (OTzUX)

215 I am getting new ads on the comments page. Just below the post.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 10, 2022 04:32 PM (t3/qz)

216 Is the person elected to be mayor for some reason less well equipped to present the views of his town? Besides having a busier job might prevent excessive legislation.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Pick Me!

Posted by: Mayor Pete Buttsecksgig at June 10, 2022 04:32 PM (7DK/q)

217 197 Candy Corn is the lamest candy ever. There's no point, it sucks, and there's a reason it can only move any units when it's purchased in sympathy assortments for Halloween.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (0zQHa)

Mix it with dry roasted peanuts 50/50 and it tastes like a Payday
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Imma gonna try that. I love Paydays.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:33 PM (ifUkZ)

218
I fully expect elected officials and government functionaries to be corrupt and in the pocket of foreign potentates. The thing that pisses me off is that they sell out their own country so CHEAPLY.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 10, 2022 04:33 PM (n+4am)

219 Joe Concha@JoeConchaTV
Context: The evening newscasts on CBS, NBC & ABC average anywhere from 18 to 20 million viewers combined on a typical night. Those newscasts do not air in primetime. The January 6 hearings airing in primetime Thursday took in just 11+ million viewers on those three same networks.
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Maybe if they'd added a laugh track.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 10, 2022 04:31 PM (FVME7)
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Nadler failing to jump a shark.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 10, 2022 04:33 PM (3m/gK)

220 >>> This redhead in a corset is neither a foreign agent (registered or unregistered) nor a J6 hearing viewer:
https://is.gd/GweE5A
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:25 PM (0zQHa)

Has anyone heard of "waist trainers"? I saw them on amazon. They really are modern corsets but women wear them all the time and keep tightening them. Eventually, it dislocates, distorts, and compacts their internal organs until they get the extreme barbie shape. The waist trainers eventually atrophy a woman's abdominal and back muscles until they have to wear them to just keep posture.

That's pretty horrible. But I think duck lips are pretty horrible too, so I'm out of the loop. Be healthy, be happy with your looks but don't mutilate yourself, sheesh.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 10, 2022 04:33 PM (t/4Zp)

221 Just below the post.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Is "below the post" some kind of euphemism?

I kinda hope so

Posted by: Mayor Pete! at June 10, 2022 04:34 PM (7DK/q)

222 Man I hate Candy Corn.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Man I hate Candy Corn at June 10, 2022 04:34 PM (x8Wzq)

223 Joe Concha@JoeConchaTV
Context: The evening newscasts on CBS, NBC & ABC average anywhere from 18 to 20 million viewers combined on a typical night. Those newscasts do not air in primetime. The January 6 hearings airing in primetime Thursday took in just 11+ million viewers on those three same networks.
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Maybe if they'd added a laugh track.
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Or a hot chick with big boobs emceeing?

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:34 PM (ifUkZ)

224 Nadler failing to jump a shark.
Posted by: ShainS

Hard pass

Posted by: the Sharks at June 10, 2022 04:35 PM (7DK/q)

225 Working at home today. 90 friggin' degrees. I am not a fan of AC, but my computer is. Guess I am setting up the window AC.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Man I hate Candy Corn at June 10, 2022 04:35 PM (x8Wzq)

226 Or a hot chick with big boobs emceeing?
Posted by: Puddinhead

You no pay, I no work

Posted by: Yanet Garcia at June 10, 2022 04:36 PM (7DK/q)

227 The ratings fail isn't that big a deal to the show trial managers. They get plenty of choice sound-bits to scatter throughout the morning shows and local news to reach the LIVs.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 10, 2022 04:36 PM (fs1hN)

228 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC
According to CBS News out of the Top 10 deadliest cities in America, 7 of them are in Republican-run states.

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"According to CBS News . . .". Well, there's your problem.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 10, 2022 04:36 PM (FVME7)

229 225 Working at home today. 90 friggin' degrees. I am not a fan of AC, but my computer is. Guess I am setting up the window AC.
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AC retards a man's essential essences from blossoming.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:37 PM (ifUkZ)

230 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 10, 2022 04:25 PM (0zQHa)

She's actually an "actress" trying for a remake of the new sexy version of Gunsmoke where she plays Miss Kitty.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2022 04:37 PM (l7p9i)

231 @86 Recently revisited the Nimitz museum, I can't imagine what men like him would make of the current crop of multi-star generals/admirals.

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He'd be familiar with the type. They always accumulate during peacetime. Then a big war comes along, and they start getting sacked when they promptly fail in actual combat.

Pity about the men under them in the meantime, of course.

Posted by: junior at June 10, 2022 04:38 PM (6C7mC)

232 Come on Ace. Next time you fall into a chocolate story jazz it up with women totally saturated in chocolate.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 10, 2022 04:38 PM (fVyML)

233 Democrat-run cities in Republican-run states.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 10, 2022 04:38 PM (t/4Zp)

234 Posted by: banana Dream at June 10, 2022 04:33 PM (t/4Zp)

Stupid women didn't learn anything from the history of corsets in Victorian times?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2022 04:39 PM (l7p9i)

235 I guess there has been a

nood

for a very long time

Posted by: banana Dream at June 10, 2022 04:39 PM (t/4Zp)

236 There is some very good Candy Corn. Brachs is pretty good. This from a guy who grew up eating his Grandma's candy corn that was probably 5 or 6 years old.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 10, 2022 04:31 PM (ifUkZ)

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Was that the only OCD kid who would fight off the little white to eat, followed by the large center orange piece, and then ending with the white -- to try and discern a flavor difference?

[I also cause my best friend in high school much hilarity by eating the crust around my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches first -- to get the bland, hard part gone -- before enjoying the tasty, soft rest of the bread and filling.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 10, 2022 04:40 PM (3m/gK)

237 AOC
According to CBS News out of the Top 10 deadliest cities in America, 7 of them are in Republican-run states.

And even if this were true which political party runs these cities?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 10, 2022 04:40 PM (l7p9i)

238 * crap, "Was I the only OCD kid..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 10, 2022 04:41 PM (3m/gK)

239 USA Today is a newspaper much like I am a ballerina...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 10, 2022 04:41 PM (jTmQV)

240 Miklos not going that far but would suggest Battle of Lake Erie for any young reader, male mostly

Posted by: Skip at June 10, 2022 04:41 PM (2JoB8)

241 * crap, "BITE OFF"

I give up, damn voice translation ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 10, 2022 04:42 PM (3m/gK)

242 Worst candy ever? Tie between Chick-o-Sticks or Bit-o-Honey.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur

May I interest you in some carob?
Posted by: 29Victor

Circus peanut or Necca wafers
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 10, 2022 04:26 PM (IEa8U)
*******
I love Chick-O-Sticks and the Peanut butter bars made by Atkinson's candy, a company in Lufkin, Texas. A friend of mine use to bring me bag fulls when she visited her family in Lufkin.

Circus peanuts and Bit-o-Honey are nasty, nasty, nasty.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 10, 2022 04:42 PM (NpAcC)

243 Miklos not going that far but would suggest Battle of Lake Erie for any young reader, male mostly
Posted by: Skip

That book appealed to my immature side

Posted by: Miklos, old enough to both vote and buy beer ON THE SAME DAY at June 10, 2022 04:44 PM (7DK/q)

244 Allen 'seems' to be a perpetual pasty, perhaps of his own doing. In Nov 2012, he & Jill Kelley were investigated for an alleged affair. He was cleared in a misconduct inquiry Jan 2013. He retired (reportedly, his wife was ill) from military service spring '13 but by June '13, joined Brookings. Then Sept '14, the O& Joe Administration announced he would coordinate international efforts against ISIS which he did for roughly a year, until 10/'15, when the White House announced his departure. 2017, became the 7th Pres. of Brookings & also sat on the Homeland Security Advisory Council until fall 2020 when his 5 year term to the council expired.

Many Brookings personnel, esp. the co-chairs of the Brookings Broad of Trustees, are brilliant. I think, among other positions held, one serves as the Vice Chair of the Obama Foundation. The other, Chairman of the WEF, Aspen Institute; also serves on the board of directors at Pfizer and Visa Inc., and is lead independent director at Intuit.

And, yes, David Reaboi is one of the best.

Posted by: Lola at June 10, 2022 04:48 PM (NIYa7)

245 Yes, you are correct. This also explains why they hated DJT with such passion: he wasn't on the take so they had no leverage over him. He might have been getting close to blowing the lid off the whole thing.

Beware: your sins will surely be exposed. Just like sunlight to a vampire, the naked truth is deadly to Democrats.
Posted by: Bonecrusher at June 10, 2022 03:51 PM (JNTt1)

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Yep.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 10, 2022 04:59 PM (DcKNO)

246 Generals are pretty skilled ass kissers. Not the best and brightest. There are a few who are exceptions.

Everyone on the left has a price. Everyone in politics has a price. Put that together and you come out as a pretty cheap whore.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 10, 2022 05:01 PM (DcKNO)

247 "Half of DC is on the Qatari payroll, half is on the Chinese payroll and half is on the Ukraine payroll." Posted by: Yogi Berra

And Hunter is (?) not a registered foreign agent, he is an oil and gas and ? Expert that deserves his millions. Joe himself directly involved in so much ... Strzok, ValJar, others come out of years living in Iran. Clinton's aide's mother was Muslim Brotherhood. ... Then there are the connections to Pakistan ... good grief.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 10, 2022 05:02 PM (Cus5s)

248
Wasn't Douglas McArthur grand poohbah of the Philippine
army circa 1940?

Oh, that's right. We owned them then.

Posted by: Auspex at June 10, 2022 05:08 PM (Xo3T0)

249 If I was DeSantis, I would tell her how cool it was that she worked for someone who "stood up to Putin", then after she left the room I'd quietly assign a state cop to tail her and make sure she's on the up and up. Mikheil Saakashvili is another Soros/Bushie agent and supremely corrupt and shady figure. Working for Poroshenkos or Zelenskys or the Saakashvilis of the world shouldn't be considered to be a resume enhancer. I hope the future DeSantis administration keeps her away from foreign policy

Posted by: Theskepticalschnauzer aka THELonebadger at June 10, 2022 05:52 PM (lIDCz)

250 Bill Stepian cancelled less than an hour before his Jan 6 commission testimony was set to begin, citing a "family emergency."

https://tinyurl.com/26wd3fe9

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 13, 2022 02:57 PM (sWM8x)

251 An intriguing discussion is definitely worth
comment. I do believe that you should write more on this topic,
it might not be a taboo subject but generally people do
not talk about these subjects. To the next! Many thanks!!

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