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The Morning Report — 7/20/22

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Good morning, kids. Wednesday and say what you will about Donald Trump as a president or perhaps as a candidate for 2024. There is no doubt that the anti-globalist, anti-Leftist, pro-American agenda is an absolute winner, even in deepest, bluest Democrat strongholds. Ironically, what makes it such a winner is not so much because for three solid years, everyone across the board felt the effects of the greatest economic boom time in American history. It's that contrasted with 18 solid months of the wanton, intentional destruction of the personal wealth of virtually every American citizen due to the ideologically driven incompetence of those pulling the strings of President Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants.

As Ace and a number of cobs, most notably CBD, have noted over the past several months, is the utter uselessness and indeed co-conspiratorial nature of the GOP in aiding and abetting America's gradual dissolution since the 60s, and now all-at-once since Dubya/Obama. If electoral politics still means something more than merely a barometer (and I do have serious doubts), then the GOP either has to be wiped out or taken over by MAGA acolytes, primary by bloody primary. This primary season, Trump-endorsed candidates have won an overwhelming number of victories and last night in Maryland of all places, another one took the prize.

Maryland Delegate Dan Cox (R-04), who secured former President Donald J. Trump’s highly valuable endorsement, defeated Trump critic Gov. Larry Hogan’s (R-MD) choice as his successor, Kelly Schulz, in Maryland’s Republican gubernatorial primary.

Cox was the only candidate with Trump’s backing in a contest Tuesday night and handily beat out Schulz, who served as secretary of labor, licensing, and regulation and secretary of commerce during different points of Hogan’s administration. Trump endorsed Cox in November, and the race became a microcosm of something much larger happening in the GOP as the America First movement and Republican establishment battle for the soul of the party. With 68 percent reporting at 11:20 p.m., Cox had garnered 56 percent of the vote, trouncing Schulz, who took home 40 percent, the Associated Press election results shared by the New York Times show. The victory signals that conservatives in Maryland are more aligned with Trump than the departing governor. . .

. . . The victory puts Trump’s endorsement record at 147-10 in 2022, and notably, Trump has been perfect with his picks in 22 other states.

Again, I do not think these results are purely because of Donald Trump the president, let alone the man. Republicans fully understand the nature of the GOPe and have had enough, They do not want candidates who accept the Leftist narrative on a whole range of issues. They want unabashed, unafraid individuals to tell the Left and the media (but I repeat myself) to take their pronouns, pronouncements and perversions and shove them up their ass until it comes out their nose.

That said, the question of Trump's potential candidacy in 2024 remains. I am in the camp that he should not run. I think he's too old, despite his mental faculties still very much intact, and some of his unforced errors, particularly with Fauci and the CDC in the initial handling of the psy-op pandemic which was the biggest and ultimately led to his undoing. I think he should use his well-deserved fame and following to lead an actual movement that goes beyond just electoral politics. But, the tea leaves seem to indicate that he indeed will throw his yuuuge MAGA hat into the ring, probably some time soon after the midterms. I think he sees his incredible winning streak with his endorsements as an endorsement of him at the top of the ticket in '24 and not the reaction to the past 18 months of hell on earth.

Look, if he gets the nod, I will crawl naked through molten lava to vote for him. But I think we're better served with Ron DeSantis as the standard-bearer. Young, a fighter who not only defends himself but goes on the attack against the left, and has made Florida into a beacon of freedom and prosperity.

What I also think DeSantis can do — and really, all the MAGA candidates must do going forward — is win over the disaffected by doing everything the GOPe never did: boldly stating the case for American economic prosperity, societal normalcy and stability and foreign policy sanity by attacking everyone and everything Democrat/Leftist, nonstop and with no mercy. Has to be done. Again, does electoral politics really make an actual difference in effecting an actual reversal of course when every aspect of both the public and private sectors has been so thoroughly corrupted? Not by itself. Perhaps not at all. Yet more and more people are scared shitless of where we are going. We will always have the low-information voter, but thanks to what our government and both parties have wrought, that segment of the populace is shrinking in direct proportion to the rising cost of living. I guess we have that to be grateful for.

    ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

  • "What, then has education been doing to our civilization? The very concept of IQ, the Stanford-Binet test, and things similar, is, as its critics argue, a cultural construct—less a measure of potential than of capacities already developed. It’s no surprise that persons growing up in environments which stimulate and enable the development of human possibilities do in fact develop more of these." (this is Codevilla's last major essay, to be included in Michael Walsh's forthcoming book on fighting the Great Reset this fall - jjs)
    Angelo Codevilla: Against the Great Reset — "Resetting the Educational Reset"
  • Roger Kimball: "The global establishment's assault on national sovereignty."
    On Popular Reason and Self-Rule
  • ". . . And that fact, that the world is not coming to an end, is why globalists today are not trusted, and why somebody felt compelled to destroy a symbol of their agenda."
    Globalism and the Georgia Stones

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1 Yeah Buddy

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 06:47 AM (R5lpX)

2 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J. Happy Birthday.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2022 06:48 AM (fBY/Q)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 20, 2022 06:48 AM (T4tVD)

4 Saint of the Day
St. Margaret (289-304 A.D.) was born in Antioch, the daughter of a pagan priest. Her mother died when she was an infant, and she was raised by a Christian nurse. St. Margaret grew into a pious and virtuous young woman. When she came of age, Margaret returned to live with her father and quickly angered him when she refused to take part in pagan sacrifices. Furious at her, he drove her out of his home. Margaret then returned to live with her nurse. One day a Roman prefect noticed Margaret's beauty and desired to have her for himself. Margaret declined. She was brought to trial, scourged, tortured, and thrown into prison by her suitor. While there, the devil appeared to her in the form of a dragon to break her faith. Margaret made the Sign of the Cross, and the dragon fled defeated. Margaret's cell was filled with light and her wounds were miraculously healed. Enraged to find her healed, her suitor had new tortures applied to her body, which did her no harm and caused many witnesses to convert to the Christian faith. She was then killed by beheading. She is the patron saint against sterility, of the dying, and of pregnancy, labor, and childbirth.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2022 06:50 AM (fBY/Q)

5 Too early, early report! Everyone have a good day!

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 20, 2022 06:52 AM (yEBFM)

6 >>That said, the question of Trump's potential candidacy in 2024 remains.

I don't think there really is a question, Trump is going to run, all other candidates would be wasting time, money, and creating needless drama and should clear the field for him.

DeSantis is an awesome governor and should remain being an awesome governor until Trump leaves the scene.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 20, 2022 06:52 AM (FR5iB)

7 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 06:52 AM (1cmKJ)

8 Thanks as always TP for Saint of the day

Posted by: 7man at July 20, 2022 06:53 AM (qwO6y)

9 Good morning, good people. Let's get a back fire going, see if we can stop this thing.

Posted by: Eromero at July 20, 2022 06:54 AM (gktX6)

10 Dayum JJ u b up early

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 06:54 AM (ex2Cx)

11 The State Department Used Your Tax Dollars To Fund a Film Festival That Depicted Drag Queens, Incest, and P3dophilia

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Heard an interesting point made the other day.

The question isn't if the little kids should be around The Gays or not. The question is why The Gays desperately need to be around the kids so badly.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 06:55 AM (G69WR)

12 Dewey Cox won his race in Maryland?

Posted by: Squid at July 20, 2022 06:56 AM (hiJiZ)

13 @10

>>Dayum JJ u b up early

He's also now in Central Time, so it's 6am right now in Wisconsin.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 20, 2022 06:56 AM (FR5iB)

14 Trump is too old. Though he is more vital and energetic than almost anyone could be, there is just (IMO) too many miles on the tread.

Having said that, I am not convinced DeSantis is ruthless enough. Destroying the FBI and imprisoning Merrick Garlands little elves is going to take a deep-seated commitment,. Trump has that, I believe. Does DeSantis?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 20, 2022 06:58 AM (lDb9g)

15 as always, my thanks for your Herculean efforts, JJ !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 20, 2022 06:58 AM (oZtf9)

16 Good morning horde
Thanks for your work JJ

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 20, 2022 06:59 AM (Kb+Ia)

17 40 yards in under 15 seconds with a pistol to kill a man armed with a rifle. He needs to give classes.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 20, 2022 06:59 AM (bVYXr)

18 That said, the question of Trump's potential candidacy in 2024 remains

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Like Bender touched on above, Desantis should focus on the state and help other governors focus on strengthening their states, because that's where the victory lies. Let Trump or other superstars take the arrows of the impotent office of the president, because if Desantis is there he would be treated exactly like Trump was.

I think we're already past the point where we can have a functioning republic like we were all convinced we had up until 2000 (note the language, because I'm not sure we had one until then, either).

A controlled burn with coordinated 10th Amendment action is our best hope at this point.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 06:59 AM (G69WR)

19 Maryland is a democratic state. But I was shocked that the lunatic Tom Perez has so much traction. Wes Moore is not great but is miles better than Comrade Perez. Barring any last minute Soros shenanigans, it looks like we dodged a bullet.

Same with MoCo, where the current leader (for County Exec) - Blair is a normal successful person who is running as a democrat while Elrich is a joke. I guess Elrich has the incumbent advantage but is still losing. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at July 20, 2022 06:59 AM (fMhOl)

20 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at July 20, 2022 07:00 AM (T4tVD)

21 When David Rubenstein bought the Magna Carta and put it on display at the Library of Congress I thought "Finally! A billionaire who loves freedom!"

I am sorry to now read what his money has bought at Monticello. So sad.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 20, 2022 07:02 AM (lDb9g)

22 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 20, 2022 07:02 AM (z99Zw)

23 Guide reproduction wisely—improving fitness and diversity.

Paging Maggie and Ruth, please pick up the WHITES ONLY phone!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:02 AM (ex2Cx)

24 Look, if he gets the nod, I will crawl naked through molten lava to vote for him.

They don't have that in Wisconsin, do they ?

Posted by: JT at July 20, 2022 07:02 AM (T4tVD)

25 So...JJ actually Escaped from New York, huh. Good deal.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 07:03 AM (R5lpX)

26 My sisters are the epitome of wine moms, except they are grand-moms. Low-info, in the sense that all "news" they absorb is from NPR and the NYT, they are deathly afraid of the prospect of Ron DeSantis. And how they, as devout practicing catholics, can square themselves with the party of child-killing abortion, is a mystery to me.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 20, 2022 07:03 AM (YU7Gz)

27 Is there any legal action the bodega clerk can take regarding his five days at Rikers? Apparently, he was denied proper medical care for a stab wound and it became infected. And the stabber was never charged. A stay at Rikers itself would be no picnic, and excessive bail comes into the picture.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 20, 2022 07:04 AM (lz5hY)

28 There's an older President than there's biden. Let's not confuse the two. Biden is and always has always been a mean spirited and a not so bright politician. He parlayed his wife's and daughter's death into a political career mover and then he added in Beau. PDT on the other hand is smart and except for the campaign and his 4 years in office not a politician. Look at the man and not the age. Saying all of that I don't want PDT to run, why should he put himself and his family through what he endured in the past. However, if the repubs don't come up with a better option he needs to run.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 20, 2022 07:04 AM (2NHgQ)

29 40 yards in under 15 seconds with a pistol to kill a man armed with a rifle. He needs to give classes.
Posted by: Mister Scott


WITH 8 out of 10 hits.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 07:04 AM (1cmKJ)

30 Boker Tov Patriots

Still on leave which means I am working harder than ever??? WTF

I am in the I'd rather PDT not run, but lead the movement. I just don't think that Trump has that in him, but we will see

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 20, 2022 07:04 AM (Irn0L)

31
Monkeypox is a queer disease.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 20, 2022 07:04 AM (Irs8U)

32 Wife finally cancelled Netflix yesterday after they said they were going up a buck a month for the subscription. My comment to her was that they think you're in the group that will pay more for their garbage as millions of others have walked away. The CNN plus model. Lefties struggle with basic economic theory.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 20, 2022 07:05 AM (oWBc3)

33 @14

>>Does DeSantis?

More than likely, the bigger problem is congress and the GOP.

Without their support in the effort, which Trump and DeSantis will never get, the fight will largely be symbolic and pyrrhic.

As Tom Servo said, I believe, the Presidency is largely a false prize and as we have seen since Clinton is that one executive simply upends what the previous administration did.

Also the administrative state is now largely in the complete control and thrall of the Donk party and will resist any GOP executive action.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 20, 2022 07:05 AM (FR5iB)

34 Is there any legal action the bodega clerk can take regarding his five days at Rikers? Apparently, he was denied proper medical care for a stab wound and it became infected. And the stabber was never charged. A stay at Rikers itself would be no picnic, and excessive bail comes into the picture.
Posted by: bill in arkansas


In a just world, the DA would already be hitting the bricks looking for a new job.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 07:05 AM (1cmKJ)

35 "Politicians and policymakers looking to address the youth-crime crisis cannot afford to ignore the question."
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It's neat to look back and see the purposeful destruction of the black family in the 60s ("we'll have them n*&&*rs voting Democrat for 200 years" -LBJ), and then the purposeful destruction of the white family soon after (remember how brave and celebrated Murphy Brown was?), and now here we are wondering why our kids are a wreck and the Democrat children keep putting on dresses and shooting at everyone.

Those idiots who warned about stable families and fathers in the home were dumb slippery slope conspiracy theorists, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:06 AM (G69WR)

36 Hey JJ, while you are probably in Madison or Milwaukee, find a way up to the wilds of Sawyer county, for a few old fashions at one of the remaining supper clubs, one of which is owned by my BIL. And get there by tracking up the Mississippi, then up the St Croix, and over.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at July 20, 2022 07:08 AM (YU7Gz)

37 Happy Post Voting Day, everyone. I shall be watching with great interest at which candidate steps up for the GPROMD. It would be nice to hope that Van Hollen is crowbared out of office but I know that is a long shot.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 20, 2022 07:08 AM (4olE8)

38 25 So...JJ actually Escaped from New York, huh. Good deal.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 07:03 AM (R5lpX)


Nope. T-Minus about 72 hours.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 20, 2022 07:09 AM (4oM4Q)

39 "40 yards in under 15 seconds with a pistol to kill a man armed with a rifle. "

I bet the perp was surprised when he started taking fire himself. I wonder if he had time to ponder his demise.

Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 07:09 AM (sn5EN)

40 Hiya Captain !

Posted by: JT at July 20, 2022 07:10 AM (T4tVD)

41 Safe travels JJ !

Posted by: JT at July 20, 2022 07:10 AM (T4tVD)

42 37 I always hope at least one or two of the Congressional lifers get shown the door. Might as well hope for a dozen while I'm at it because it seldom happens.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 20, 2022 07:11 AM (lz5hY)

43
I bet the perp was surprised when he started taking fire himself. I wonder if he had time to ponder his demise.

Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 07:09 AM


The last thing to cross his mind was a chunk of hot lead.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 20, 2022 07:11 AM (Irs8U)

44

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 20, 2022 07:11 AM (74Gk2)

45 The greatest fear I have of Trump 2.0 is that he will start thinking about a legacy and be drawn into the centrist/healer role by sycophants and "experts", instead of being the scorched earth barbarian we require.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 20, 2022 07:11 AM (oWBc3)

46 I remember Rush Limbaugh, like Trump today, leading a wave of Conservatism into 1994. Different times, same enthusiasm.

From the days of Goldwater, Reagan, Class of 94' to the Tea Party, let's hope this time is different.

Sure hope I'm wrong.

Posted by: JROD at July 20, 2022 07:11 AM (0jZnq)

47 ...If electoral politics still means something more than merely a barometer (and I do have serious doubts), then the GOP either has to be wiped out or taken over by MAGA acolytes, primary by bloody primary. This primary season, Trump-endorsed candidates have won an overwhelming number of victories and last night in Maryland of all places, another one took the prize.

Cox may lose. I hope not. But Trump's influence is controlling much of the primary season. And yet, Doctor Oz in PA has declared that 'the MAGA movement is dying'. This, just weeks after Trump's endorsement barely dragged his rotten corpse over the primary finish line by a micrometer.

Sigh. And so it goes.

I too hope that Trump doesn't declare, but I'll be mostly obligated to vote for him in the primary, just because. He has EARNED my vote. DeSantis doesn't run my state. His future is bright, but maybe not in 2024. And I'd moar think him a fool to challenge a declared Trump in the 2024 primary.

He's smarter than that. I hope.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 20, 2022 07:11 AM (JOtiF)

48 I've been scratching my head as to why Trump hasn't been completely bro-ing out with DeSantis. The two of them together would be an epoch defining team. Maybe it's just Trump's arrogance... but I've always been of the opinion that Trump's vaunted arrogance is just an act. When it's time for actual action, he usual seemed to be very willing to be more water than stone. Letting the GOP pick his subordinates. Letting Hawaiian judges have their way and side-stepping their rulings without going against them. Etc. So maybe he simply sees DeSantis as yet another flash in the pan Severe Conservative who's just waiting for his moment to Scott Brown himself into national irrelevance. I don't know.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:11 AM (oxXRA)

49 Speaking of "suspicious of not having a functioning republic since before 2000", that Watergate link is worth a read. Ahem:

"Where to start? Perhaps with Howard Hunt, the White House operative whose name was found in address books belonging to two of the Watergate burglars. If you saw All the President’s Men, you may remember Woodward’s discovery that Hunt was also at the CIA and that he worked part-time at a PR firm called Mullen. Mullen never comes up again in the movie. In fact, as Woodstein soon found out, it was a CIA front."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:12 AM (G69WR)

50 "Monkeypox is a queer disease."

My parents were here yesterday and have bought into monkeypox being the next big thing. I had to hold my tongue but I don't think they are as at much risk as they seem to think they are. I've given up trying to convince them that what they read in "The Week" and see on GMA is bullshit.

Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 07:12 AM (sn5EN)

51 being the scorched earth barbarian we require.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 20, 2022 07:11 AM (oWBc3)

As far as I'm concerned, Scorched Earth Barbarian *is* the Center.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:13 AM (oxXRA)

52 Some people have made Alec Baldwin's "Coffee is for Closers" (Glengarry Glen Ross) speech as their motivation wake up call, I am making Tucker Carlton's Iowa Leadership speech mine.

What he took forty minutes to say is what can be summed up here: They are supposed to represent you, not the New York Times editorial board; vote only for those who even when the Leftists swarm demonstrate a deep and natural preference for policies that promote human flourishing.

When tasked to name three, after fifteen minutes, only came up with DeSantis and a bit under pressure the governor of the meeting's hosting state.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 20, 2022 07:14 AM (AHeqJ)

53 The greatest fear I have of Trump 2.0 is that he will start thinking about a legacy and be drawn into the centrist/healer role by sycophants and "experts", instead of being the scorched earth barbarian we require.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 20, 2022 07:11 AM (oWBc3)

That does not worry me, because if he were re-elected, just like the first time the dems will attack him so viscously that they will again drive him to the right. The Truth is, if the dems had reached out to Trump the first time and worked with him, things might have been different and I think Trump may have governed more from the Middle, but we can thank the dems for not doing that

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 20, 2022 07:14 AM (Irn0L)

54 Happy Moon Day.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 20, 2022 07:14 AM (89T5c)

55 Mentioned earlier, but America landed on the moon today over 50 years ago. Still one of the crowning achievements of the human race and in particular of our American culture. It's hard to reconcile the country we have become with that place and time, but Happy Apollo 11 Day!

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 20, 2022 07:15 AM (oWBc3)

56 46 I remember Rush Limbaugh, like Trump today, leading a wave of Conservatism into 1994. Different times, same enthusiasm.

From the days of Goldwater, Reagan, Class of 94' to the Tea Party, let's hope this time is different.

Sure hope I'm wrong.
Posted by: JROD at July 20, 2022 07:11 AM (0jZnq)


The weight of history and what is in front of us means change is coming. Electoral politics as a function of normal order does not necessarily register as a factor of that change but for sure of the mood of the electorate.

We are in an interregnum, poised over an abyss as dark or darker than the one Churchill warned about on the eve of the Battle of Britain.

God be with us,

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 20, 2022 07:15 AM (4oM4Q)

57 "Monkeypox is a queer disease."

Well when you live on the old country dirt road, shit like that happens

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 20, 2022 07:15 AM (Irn0L)

58 AOC-Sanders 2024

Because why not? The world is already going to hell.... Let's grease the skids.

Posted by: Alexandria's Bundt Cake at July 20, 2022 07:15 AM (rB2I4)

59 My parents were here yesterday and have bought into monkeypox being the next big thing. I had to hold my tongue

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You have to stop doing that. People have to be told firmly "This is a disease of gay males that is transmitted almost entirely through anal sex and feces, same as HIV/AIDS." Show them the data if need be.

This is the only way this crap (ha) stops. We've tolerated lies and bullsh*t for too long. Don't be cruel, just honest.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:15 AM (G69WR)

60 "Monkeypox is a queer disease."

My parents were here yesterday and have bought into monkeypox being the next big thing. I had to hold my tongue but I don't think they are as at much risk as they seem to think they are. I've given up trying to convince them that what they read in "The Week" and see on GMA is bullshit.
Posted by: fd

I'm vacationing with my SIL and her family. She is a pediatrician. Monkeypox came up in conversation. She was unaware it seems to affect gay men most often. After she looked it up she has become strangely quiet on the matter.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2022 07:16 AM (fBY/Q)

61 Respondents chose armed citizens as the best protection by 41.8% to 25.1% for local police and 10.3% for federal agents.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:19 AM (ex2Cx)

62 Don't be cruel, just honest.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:15 AM (G69WR)

"You've been lied to" sounds conspiratorial, but it's better than "you're stupid".

Especially now, when pretty much everybody with a brain is willing to accept that there are at least some lies in the news they watch.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:19 AM (6FeV1)

63 "You have to stop doing that"

My parents are 85. I'm more conservative than they have ever been. They think I am nuts for thinking the 2020 election was stolen. They are not interested in the data.

Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 07:20 AM (sn5EN)

64 43 The last thing to cross mall shooter's mind was "damn, thought I had it made in a gun free zone".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 20, 2022 07:20 AM (lz5hY)

65 AOC-Sanders 2024

Because why not? The world is already going to hell.... Let's grease the skids.
Posted by: Alexandria's Bundt Cake at July 20, 2022 07:15 AM (rB2I4)

Tits and Ass.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:20 AM (6FeV1)

66 Bodega Al is Free! Free At Last, Free At Last, Thank God Almighty Bodega Al Is Free At Last!

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 20, 2022 07:20 AM (qZQHw)

67 G'morning, all.

Time to post Salties morning greeting for him as they enjoy a most excellent adventure for several more weeks.

Good morning!
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 20, 2022 07:21 AM (1n+EO)

68 I'm vacationing with my SIL and her family. She is a pediatrician. Monkeypox came up in conversation. She was unaware it seems to affect gay men most often. After she looked it up she has become strangely quiet on the matter.

*

I commented on it yesterday, but this sort of thing is so disconcerting. I had a doctors appointment and the office insisted I put on a disposable mask upon entry. I could understand if it was February 2020, but it's almost August two years later. We know things now, mainly that masks do absolutely nothing. And the doctors offices where we go to ask for help on medical issues immediately ding their credibility by requiring patients who are there to ask medical questions to hold a magical totem against evil when they enter the office.

I don't expect doctors to know everything, but I do sort of expect a scientific approach to, you know, science.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:21 AM (G69WR)

69 As Tom Servo said, I believe, the Presidency is largely a false prize and as we have seen since Clinton is that one executive simply upends what the previous administration did.

Other than the fact the win the Presidential Sweepstakes gives you controlling access to a Multi Trillion Dollar International Slush Fund. You get to reward cronies with ambassadorships, sinecure Secretary and director positions, and given the new powers discovered by the current ruling junta - complete dictatorial power over all living things if you frame your tyranny in the terms of an amorphous and ambiguous Climate Emergency.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 20, 2022 07:22 AM (AHeqJ)

70 "The last thing to cross mall shooter's mind was "damn, thought I had it made in a gun free zone"."

That's what I'm thinking."Gee, this wasn't supposed to happen".

Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 07:22 AM (sn5EN)

71 I don't expect doctors to know everything, but I do sort of expect a scientific approach to, you know, science.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:21 AM (G69WR)

Science don't mean shit. They got an insurance company to obey.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:22 AM (6FeV1)

72 My parents are 85

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Fair enough on this and I understand completely because I'm there with some of my relatives. I'd rather enjoy the last few years with smiles and laughter and memories rather than anger and spite and separation.

It's a big reason I'm not on any type of social media.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:22 AM (G69WR)

73 Howdy VIA. How goes it for you and Mrs VIA.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 07:24 AM (R5lpX)

74 IG Report Shows Immigration System Buckling Under Pressure

Cloward Piven always assume the the gran new version 2.01 of the system they broke will be better! They never used WIN8!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:24 AM (ex2Cx)

75 Science don't mean shit. They got an insurance company to obey.

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It's disturbing to realize that they're trying so hard to normalize it, and it's working. People are dutifully strapping their lucky rabbits feet back on while they drive alone in the July heat.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:24 AM (G69WR)

76 I don't know if being 85 makes you more gullible or maybe by that age you just don't care.

Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 07:25 AM (sn5EN)

77 morning horde. day 5 of covid and the walls are closing in... actually, i've been lucky in that since i wasn't vaxx'd it's been severly mild and would have been much worse if i'd had the jab...

/sarc sort of.

honestly, as we have talked about here, it's been a cold. i felt rough for a day and have been fine otherwise. daily regimens of emergen-c, zicam, and a does of zpak on the first day seems like it works as well as the first time. for me. your milage may vary.

anyways, coffee is ready, time for the content.

happy birfday JJ.

Posted by: metallica at July 20, 2022 07:25 AM (p03vF)

78 People are dutifully strapping their lucky rabbits feet back on while they drive alone in the July heat.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:24 AM (G69WR)

... and then wondering why they're developing respiratory problems.

Must be Silent Covid. Or third-hand smoke.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:25 AM (6FeV1)

79 Science don't mean shit. They got an insurance company to obey.

The lawyers, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 20, 2022 07:25 AM (89T5c)

80 70 "The last thing to cross mall shooter's mind was "damn, thought I had it made in a gun free zone"."

That's what I'm thinking."Gee, this wasn't supposed to happen".
Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 07:22 AM (sn5EN)

For The last thing to cross mall shooter's mind judges would have also accepted 115 gr FMJ.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:26 AM (ex2Cx)

81 Jumping back to the Maryland primary for a moment..

Governor Larry Hogan reached across the aisle and endorsed Thiru Vignarajah in the Baltimore city race for City State's .

He lost last night as well.

Running at exactly zero for two..Larry Hogan has absolutely NO coattails in Maryland.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 20, 2022 07:26 AM (1n+EO)

82 The last six years have revealed that the elites are incompetent, unprincipled, and not very bright. D vs. R, L vs. C, black vs. white, straight vs. gay are all ginned up to keep the country from uniting and kicking everyone of them out of power and hold them accountable. Trump's problem is as an outsider, he has no list of people he can trust and put into place to drain the swamp. So the swamp drained him.

Posted by: IanDeal at July 20, 2022 07:26 AM (MGjjz)

83 @69

>>Other than the fact the win the Presidential Sweepstakes gives you controlling access to a Multi Trillion Dollar International Slush Fund.

True, maybe the false prize maxim should be revised to, if your an honest America First Nationalist, otherwise it's the prize of prizes.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 20, 2022 07:26 AM (FR5iB)

84 With regards to DJT, I can't do more than agree with JJ.

But if Trump runs - and I am hoping he will not - someone who has his ear (and most importantly, his balls) will sit him down and force-feed this column regarding the MFM. Tattoo it on the inside of his eyeballs, if needed.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8zx2sb

The media is the enemy of the people, Donald! Remember when you said that? And do you believe in it or is it just an applause line to you? Because if all it is is a sick joke, then I have no interest in you running again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 20, 2022 07:26 AM (AW0uW)

85 Thank you, JJ.
Blessings on your move. If ever in Springfield, IL, please allow me buy you a beer.

The RNC may not even realize they are getting no more $ from me due to Cheney and Kinzinger being allowed to remain in the party, but I'm voting strictly MAGA or DeSantis types. If none on ballot, no vote for anyone.

Posted by: Democrats: Raping The Children We Cannot Kill Since 1973! at July 20, 2022 07:27 AM (jV+aN)

86 I've noticed that in pictures of homeless camp there are a lot of people still wearing masks. Sure they use dirty needles and eat out of dumpsters, but they dang sure ain't gonna catch Covid.

Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 07:28 AM (sn5EN)

87 For The last thing to cross mall shooter's mind judges would have also accepted 115 gr FMJ.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:26 AM (ex2Cx)

**

I'm thinking probably 124gr JHP.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 07:28 AM (R5lpX)

88 The surveillance video shows Sapirman exit the restroom at 5:56:48 p.m. He was neutralized by Dicken at 5:57:03 p.m.

Judges would have also accepted Sent to Hell!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:28 AM (ex2Cx)

89 @81

>>Running at exactly zero for two..Larry Hogan has absolutely NO coattails in Maryland.

Larry Hogan doesn't even rise to the level of mediocrity.

He also has no discernible neck, never vote for a guy with no discernible neck.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 20, 2022 07:28 AM (FR5iB)

90 Burn it down.
Scatter the stone.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at July 20, 2022 07:28 AM (I4BRW)

91 86 I've noticed that in pictures of homeless camp there are a lot of people still wearing masks. Sure they use dirty needles and eat out of dumpsters, but they dang sure ain't gonna catch Covid.
Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 07:28 AM (sn5EN)

"I'll give y'all two bucks if you throw this mask on while i take your picture. "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:29 AM (6FeV1)

92 We are in an interregnum, poised over an abyss as dark or darker than the one Churchill warned about on the eve of the Battle of Britain.

God be with us,
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Amen !

Posted by: JT at July 20, 2022 07:29 AM (T4tVD)

93 Stone? Stone?
How do you scatter one stone?

Damnit. MOAR COFFEE!

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at July 20, 2022 07:30 AM (I4BRW)

94 Larry Hogan sucks donkey cock by choice.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 20, 2022 07:30 AM (89T5c)

95 "How goes it for you and Mrs VIA."

Rough, but making it.

Oreo, our cat died suddenly of a feline stroke on Saturday.
Sunday we drove her remains to Baltimore to rest beside her sisters.

Our friend's mother who I mentioned going into hospice care passed away on Monday while the cemetery was burying oreo.
Two hours later, we set out for NAS Oceana to spend Monday night, and then yesterday morning load up more stuff from our deploying son's apartment to bring down to the house, and finally spent the rest of yesterday driving him.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 20, 2022 07:31 AM (1n+EO)

96 US House Backs NATO Membership For Finland, Sweden by Large Margin

Let Finland and Sweden join. Get the US out. Easy peasy. NATO should have died decades ago.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 20, 2022 07:32 AM (z99Zw)

97 2024 is going to be the first election in a long while with essentially two incumbents.

No one term president in recent memory has been followed by such a catastrophic planet-killer of a shit meteorite that everyone thinks, "ok, jeez, we'll go back to the other guy then! Just make it stop!"

There have almost certainly been rigging or tampering with elections, but never to usher in a failure of such astronomical proportions.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:33 AM (6FeV1)

98 driving him=driving home.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 20, 2022 07:33 AM (1n+EO)

99 After she looked it up she has become strangely quiet on the matter.

That would be the sound of a narrative being shattered.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 20, 2022 07:33 AM (4olE8)

100 >>> I think he sees his incredible winning streak with his endorsements as an endorsement of him at the top of the ticket in '24 and not the reaction to the past 18 months of hell on earth.
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It absolutely IS an endorsement of him. It is proof that people want to go back to what they had under Trump and and proof that they are putting faith in his endorsements.

I'm absolutely stunned that people here have fallen for the media's gaslighting. Who exactly are the democrats and their media allies terrified of? Who are the democrats STILL trying to prevent from running by repeatedly trying to impeach him? They are clearly telling you who they fear the most.

I have no problem with DeSantis and would absolutely vote for him if he were to get the nod. But the truth is, as good as he is, he is untested. He's got a friendly legislature behind him and indeed they have been the originators of many of the things DeSantis gets credit for signing.

My ideal would be Trump/DeSantis in 2024 and then DeSantis at the top of the ticket in 2028 and 2032. It's going to take at least 12 years to get this country back on track.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 20, 2022 07:34 AM (VhE0u)

101 Just a brief note from the hinterlands: it's been hot and dry here (Texas) and this affects the hay growing season, two cuts this year instead of the three of the past couple of years. Ranchers are thinning the herd.

Posted by: Robert17 at July 20, 2022 07:35 AM (+V+tv)

102 But, the tea leaves seem to indicate that he [Trump] indeed will throw his yuuuge MAGA hat into the ring, probably some time soon after the midterms.

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FWIW, Seb Gorka has been saying for months that Trump IS running, and that -- after speaking with somebody close to the Trump camp -- he expects The Donald to announce BEFORE the midterms.

I think the idea is, should the R's (and especially those he endorses continue to) subsequently crush the Margin of Fraud in the midterms, he can perhaps take some credit for that success and cast it as a mandate for his return to the Presidency.

It might help energize The MAGA Base, but of course it could also energize the GOPee (establishment eunuchs) as well as Psychotic Left & MDM-MSM (BIRM). Anyway, an unconventional break with the past, but something not wholly unexpected from A Disruptor.

[Thanks as usual for the rant & links, JJ!]

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 20, 2022 07:35 AM (QbCrG)

103 Rough, but making it.

Oreo, our cat died suddenly of a feline stroke on Saturday.
Sunday we drove her remains to Baltimore to rest beside her sisters.

Our friend's mother who I mentioned going into hospice care passed away on Monday while the cemetery was burying oreo.
Two hours later, we set out for NAS Oceana to spend Monday night, and then yesterday morning load up more stuff from our deploying son's apartment to bring down to the house, and finally spent the rest of yesterday driving him.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 20, 2022 07:31 AM (1n+EO)

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Wow! Condolences for your cat and for your friends. Hope VIA Son has smooth sailing wherever he ends up.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 07:36 AM (R5lpX)

104 79 Science don't mean shit. They got an insurance company to obey.

The lawyers, too.
____________

Apparently it's the government (e.g., Medicaid and Medicare) that is forcing doctors' offices to require the wearing of masks, at least according to reports I've read.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 20, 2022 07:36 AM (MvHI3)

105 On the plus side, it looks like Baltimore voters finally rejected Soros endorsed Marylin Mosby in her bid for re-election as Baltimore State's Attorney

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 20, 2022 07:36 AM (1n+EO)

106 My ideal would be Trump/DeSantis in 2024 and then DeSantis at the top of the ticket in 2028 and 2032. It's going to take at least 12 years to get this country back on track.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 20, 2022 07:34 AM (VhE0u)

I would love to see something like an ideological dynasty form up, with these two as the nucleus. A clear line of succession, keeping the foundational issues of liberty and sovereignty foremost in the platform.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:37 AM (6FeV1)

107 I think our number one enemy is not actually the Media or the Democrats, but lethargy and habit.

Take as a good example my parents. They grew up in the 50s and 60s (both born in '4, in rural Texas (mostly - mom's family moved around some, but stayed in west Texas while Dad's family was pretty stationary in Odessa). To them, the news will - to some extent - always be Walter Cronkite and the difference between the Republicans and Democrats is not that Republicans are Conservative and Democrats are Progressive, but that Republicans are good for business while Democrats (try to be) good for people.

No matter how much evidence they see, that will always be the truth for them - even though, intellectually, they know otherwise (and they do: we've talked about it a lot).

That is what we have to combat and overcome. People need to accept and internalize the truth they may know but still haven't accepted: that the UniParty has decided to deliver us into Globalist hands and our nation and culture will have to be ripped from their hands - by ballot preferably.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at July 20, 2022 07:37 AM (I4BRW)

108 Gosh, that's a weird coincidence for the AP to be running these kinds of stories for mainstream media. Headline, Associate Press, today:

"Ukraine graft concerns resurface as Russia war goes on"

https://tinyurl.com/bddmycvd

I wonder why they're running these kinds of stories? Also I love how they slip this in as an orangemanbad angle:

"Those issues, which date back decades and were not an insignificant part of former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:38 AM (G69WR)

109
"Stone? Stone?
How do you scatter one stone?
Damnit. MOAR COFFEE!
Posted by: AllenG #Texit "


Crushers. Aggregate machines.. Cone crushers. Grizzly feeders. Versatile applications. Easy setup. Stone crushers, rock crushers, jaw crushers. 200-400hp. Limestone, sandstone. Supertooth jaw dies. Anvils. Jawplates. gyratory crusher, and impact crusher. Jaw crushers, toggle crushers,hammer crushers.

Posted by: Crushing Machines For Sale at July 20, 2022 07:39 AM (sn5EN)

110 That is what we have to combat and overcome. People need to accept and internalize the truth they may know but still haven't accepted: that the UniParty has decided to deliver us into Globalist hands and our nation and culture will have to be ripped from their hands - by ballot preferably.

People are too comfy, still. And there is that whole willful ignorance thing.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 20, 2022 07:40 AM (89T5c)

111 Apparently it's the government (e.g., Medicaid and Medicare) that is forcing doctors' offices to require the wearing of masks, at least according to reports I've read.

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That was my assumption. I remember something similar a year or so ago when any university that received federal funding and grants for research was determined to somehow be a federal employer even though none of the employees were federal employees.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:41 AM (G69WR)

112 After she looked it up she has become strangely quiet on the matter.

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It would be interesting to know her thoughts on who catches HIV/AIDS.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:41 AM (G69WR)

113 Stone? Stone?
How do you scatter one stone?
Damnit. MOAR COFFEE!
Posted by: AllenG #Texit "


Crushers. Aggregate machines.. Cone crushers. Grizzly feeders. Versatile applications. Easy setup. Stone crushers, rock crushers, jaw crushers. 200-400hp. Limestone, sandstone. Supertooth jaw dies. Anvils. Jawplates. gyratory crusher, and impact crusher. Jaw crushers, toggle crushers,hammer crushers.
Posted by: Crushing Machines For Sale at July 20, 2022 07:39 AM (sn5EN)

**

Sledgehammer and plenty of prisoners. Making small rocks out of big rocks since the beginning of time.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 07:41 AM (R5lpX)

114 2024 is going to be the first election in a long while with essentially two incumbents.

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Even if they could rig the 2024 election to give Biden 3 billion votes and a 57-state landslide (why wouldn't they, and who would stop them?), I just can't see them continuing the deteriorating optics unless it's purely to rub our noses in his Depends.

But hey, I didn't think they'd fill the ENTIRE Junta with nothing but Star Wars Bar $20/pop handjob rejects, so what the hell do I know ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 20, 2022 07:42 AM (QbCrG)

115 I bet the perp was surprised when he started taking fire himself. I wonder if he had time to ponder his demise.
Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 07:09 AM (sn5EN)


I hope he was sentient enough to see the incoming 8th round!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 20, 2022 07:42 AM (hOUT3)

116 In English Language Arts, 42 percent of students in the district scored below proficient, with 72 percent of African Americans and 66 percent of "Latinx" at reading levels deemed unsatisfactory for their grade levels.

SF Unified spends about $1.05 B per year. There are 58, 705 students. 18k per student. lets call it $400k for a class of 22. You could hire a college prof for that money!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:42 AM (ex2Cx)

117 I would love to see something like an ideological dynasty form up, with these two as the nucleus. A clear line of succession, keeping the foundational issues of liberty and sovereignty foremost in the platform.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:37 AM (6FeV1)
~~~~~

*fistbump*

Posted by: IrishEi at July 20, 2022 07:43 AM (VhE0u)

118 On a completely different note:

Q: What do you get when you cross a herd of cows with a light-duty pickup truck?

A: A trip for 4 to the ER and a totaled truck.



I'm a wee bit sore today (yesterday was worse) after doing just that (well, my wife was driving - in her defense, it was bad light, the cows were all road-colored, and they were just standing there).

0 / 10 stars. Would not recommend.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at July 20, 2022 07:43 AM (I4BRW)

119 You could hire a college prof for that money!
Posted by: rhennigantx

Hmmmm. Perhaps it would be more effective to hire someone that thinks clearly and logically instead.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2022 07:44 AM (fBY/Q)

120 Good morning y'all!

Posted by: t_bodie - Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 20, 2022 07:44 AM (6jpby)

121 @10

>>Dayum JJ u b up early

He's also now in Central Time, so it's 6am right now in Wisconsin.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 20, 2022 06:56 AM (FR5iB)


Pretty sure he's still in NYC. Leaves this week. Issue with the moving company.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 20, 2022 07:44 AM (z99Zw)

122 A: A trip for 4 to the ER and a totaled truck.

Posted by: AllenG

Whoa!! Glad you all are doing pretty well. Hitting any large animal at speed is a bad experience.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2022 07:46 AM (fBY/Q)

123 My biggest fear of Trump 2.0 is that he will be a lame duck as soon as he gets there... UNLESS he has so changed the party that the GOPe dare not cross him. I think we'll soon find out

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 20, 2022 07:46 AM (flINI)

124 "the cows were all road-colored, and they were just standing there).
"

Sounds like a Gary Larson cartoon.
Hope y'all are recovering.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 20, 2022 07:46 AM (1n+EO)

125 Morning peeps.

FWIW I caught a short video the other day on YT that showed Trump's personal aircraft, the 757 he flew when campaigning being repainted. A large American flag adorns the tail. So, perhaps it's a sign that we'll see that iconic airplane again soon.

Also... it's gonna' be freaking hot here and I need to start mowing the property after the weekend's rains. Crap...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 20, 2022 07:46 AM (BFigT)

126 0 / 10 stars. Would not recommend.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at July 20, 2022 07:43 AM (I4BRW)

Woof. Rough miles. Hope everything turns out ok, and that your insurance is solid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:46 AM (6FeV1)

127 Running at exactly zero for two..Larry Hogan has absolutely NO coattails in Maryland.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 20, 2022 07:26 AM (1n+EO)

***

Lockdown Larry is a democrat... and not liked by anyone really

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 20, 2022 07:47 AM (flINI)

128 124 "the cows were all road-colored, and they were just standing there).

Yes earworm.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 20, 2022 07:48 AM (89T5c)

129 Good morning, and Happy Birthday to you JJ.

Proud to be a Marylander today. Although the win by Cox likely just signals the cheat machine to "go to eleven" come general election time. It's one thing for a liberal Republican like Hogan (or Erlich not too long ago) to become governor. But there's no way the fraudsters will allow a MAGA type to win. Hoping for the best, but keeping expectations realistic.

Posted by: Doof at July 20, 2022 07:48 AM (5KWKT)

130 Jeez VIA and AllenG. Sorry to both of you.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:48 AM (G69WR)

131 With the move to WI, I heard Rock County area. If Sefton moves to Dane County, I hardly see the point. If it is Rock Co, Janesville area has good amenities. For drinks, there are tons of squirrelly dive bars all over; I'd keep the NYC origin under wraps though.
If you like your bars with more entertainment, like teeth in the parking lot, Bad Brad's. Hedberg library is very nice.
If you're downtown, stop by Carousel Consignments.
For gun shops, CTR guns and auto repair are nice guys; or Mid City guns and golf carts. Cont'd

Posted by: LenNeal at July 20, 2022 07:49 AM (U11/V)

132 Good morning.
More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at July 20, 2022 07:49 AM (88xKn)

133 Even if they could rig the 2024 election to give Biden 3 billion votes and a 57-state landslide (why wouldn't they, and who would stop them?), I just can't see them continuing the deteriorating optics unless it's purely to rub our noses in his Depends.

I think the fact they haven't already removed Biden via the 25th Amendment shows that they're in trouble. I really think they elected Biden to install President Harris, but she's shown herself to be SO stupid and incompetent - not to mention unlikable - that the Junta realized that won't work.

I won't be surprised if she gets the boot in 2024 and Joe picks a new running mate - someone the Junta thinks can further their agenda. Then they'll pull out all the stops to get him "re-elected," let him serve a few months (or maybe 2 years and a couple of months so they can dream of effectively 10 years of President Whomever) and then remove him.

Alternatively, they roll the dice with Harris - because Joe is doing so poorly (they really do have a very deep bench of failure, don't they?) and wait until Jan or Feb next year.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at July 20, 2022 07:49 AM (I4BRW)

134 : What do you get when you cross a herd of cows with a light-duty pickup truck?

A: A trip for 4 to the ER and a totaled truck.



I'm a wee bit sore today (yesterday was worse) after doing just that (well, my wife was driving - in her defense, it was bad light, the cows were all road-colored, and they were just standing there).



**

Circa 1978 Bann, Germany. Driving on a curvy unmarked road. Came around blind curve to see herd of cows in middle of road. High embankment on one side and sloping hillside towards village below on other. Slick, wet road. Yeah Buddy I hit a couple of cows. Trucks were built a little better back then.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 07:50 AM (R5lpX)

135 Lockdown Larry is a democrat... and not liked by anyone really
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 20, 2022 07:47 AM (flINI)


You're not wrong. Although credit where it is due - he did just recently make it easier to obtain a concealed carry permit. Which I plan to do post haste.

Posted by: Doof at July 20, 2022 07:50 AM (5KWKT)

136 Church of the Covenant in Boston, hangs a large banner on which is written:

And God said…
Protect Abortion Access 4 All
Ensure Black Lives Matter
Honor Bodily Autonomy
Defend LGBTQ+ Rights
End Voter Suppression

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:50 AM (ex2Cx)

137 Crushers. Aggregate machines.. Cone crushers. Grizzly feeders. Versatile applications. Easy setup. Stone crushers, rock crushers, jaw crushers. 200-400hp. Limestone, sandstone. Supertooth jaw dies. Anvils. Jawplates. gyratory crusher, and impact crusher. Jaw crushers, toggle crushers,hammer crushers.

Posted by: Crushing Machines For Sale at July 20, 2022 07:39 AM (sn5EN)


Now I want a crushing machine. Though for the feedstock I have in mind, a woodchipper would probably suffice.

Good ad, btw. Do y'all sell lace wigs too, perchance?

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 20, 2022 07:51 AM (JOtiF)

138 In WI for insurance stuff, check out The Farm Bureau.
Banks, I recommend opening 3 or 4 accounts at different places and seeing who you like. I hear good things about Blackhawk Bank.
There are a bunch of shooting ranges around, shotgun, pistol, rifle. Ask around here or wherever.
I reeeally hope you didn't move to Dane County.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 20, 2022 07:51 AM (U11/V)

139 the cows were all road-colored, and they were just standing there).

0 / 10 stars. Would not recommend.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at July 20, 2022 07:43 AM (I4BRW)

Oooof! Sorry, Allen! I narrowly avoided doing that once. I was on a dusty road (at night) following a vehicle in front. The cow apparently walked in between our two cars. It just stared at me.

Posted by: Mainah at July 20, 2022 07:53 AM (B+qrE)

140 I don't think they shuffle off Biden now. He's still upright, and anyone else they put on the mound will be the exact same sort of shambling, stammering, useless clusterfuck. So why rock the boat and admit weakness? Just ride this old pervert's corpse into the ground until they physically can't make him move anymore. Anything he says or does is irrelevant to the DNC's primary goals of destroying the republic, dispensing with the constitution, and installing some kind of emergency "Protectorate". So let it ride.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:54 AM (6FeV1)

141 Yeah, we're all fine - bumps, bruises, and a couple minor abrasions. My kids were a little sore that night, and fine yesterday. My wife and I got it worse - and me worst of all, because I don't actually fit in the cab of that truck unless there's nobody sitting behind me - meaning I was closer to the airbags than I optimally should have been.

But, yeah, people are all fine. The truck is totaled. We've just started dealing with the insurance, but don't expect any issues (thank God Texas is a closed range State).

Actually, that's likely to be the biggest holdup is that we know whose cows they were, and in Texas he's liable for them being in the road. Our Insurance may insist we go after him for reimbursement - which we don't want to do because he's a friend.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at July 20, 2022 07:54 AM (I4BRW)

142 I paid zero attention to the MD primaries yesterday because, in the end, it will mean nothing. I pay attention to MD politics to see how deranged the democrats get

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 20, 2022 07:55 AM (flINI)

143 Lioness fatally injured while being introduced to a new zoo male companion at Birmingham Zoo in Alabama.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 07:55 AM (yikp0)

144 The greatest fear I have of Trump 2.0 is that he will start thinking about a legacy and be drawn into the centrist/healer role by sycophants and "experts", instead of being the scorched earth barbarian we require.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 20, 2022 07:11 AM (oWBc3)


He fixed the economy after 2016, killed RvW, and reined in (a bit) the regulatory state. That's already a pretty good legacy. If he were to fix, to whatever amount possible, the mess that the potato's people have caused, he'd go down in an honest history as a top 5.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 20, 2022 07:55 AM (z99Zw)

145 Actually, that's likely to be the biggest holdup is that we know whose cows they were, and in Texas he's liable for them being in the road. Our Insurance may insist we go after him for reimbursement - which we don't want to do because he's a friend.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit at July 20, 2022 07:54 AM (I4BRW)

**

That always sucks.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 07:56 AM (R5lpX)

146 Lioness fatally injured while being introduced to a new zoo male companion at Birmingham Zoo in Alabama.

The safe word was "Rrroarrror." Should have used it.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at July 20, 2022 07:56 AM (I4BRW)

147 A couple comments on the main thrust of the essay today:

1) It isn't a Trump endorsement. The voters are pissed and are taking it out on those they believe are establishment. They want bomb throwers in office. Trump's endorsement is a signal to the voters to know who the establishment hates. Recall the bitching from that one GOP consultant that 80% of the base is MAGA now.

2) It is happening all over the country. Kari Lake has a 14 point lead over the establishment (Pense endorsed) Robson in AZ. In MI-03 Gibbs will beat the Dem by 10, while (impeachment voting) Meijer loses to the Dem by 10. In MI-03 the Republican voters are planning to actually vote Dem if Meijer wins the primary.

3) Like it or not, Trump is going to run and DeSantis will not challenge him. This is a done deal, so adjust your expectations. You might want something else, but this is what is coming for 24.

4) There are only two ways politically to get rid of the GOPe. You can either reform it by doing everything possible to elect America First candidates, or destroy it by allowing the Democrats to fully control Washington for a decade, then hope to have a new party rise from the ashes. (cont)

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 20, 2022 07:57 AM (5p7BC)

148 Jurors in penalty trial of FL school shooter Nikolas Cruz shown graphic video of him killing 17 people in high school.

County Police call Uvalde cops as character witnesses.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 07:57 AM (yikp0)

149 I’ll never forget it as long as I live,” Tucker told the audience in Iowa, before quoting Haley’s statements after George Floyd’s death and the subsequent riots that overtook many American cities in 2020. “And then she said, ‘in order for healing to occur, what happens next must be personal and painful for everyone.'”

Tucker responded, “Really, why’s that?”

Great point! Parading St George around is pure virtue signaling!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:57 AM (ex2Cx)

150 And how they, as devout practicing catholics, can square themselves with the party of child-killing abortion, is a mystery to me.

Same thing with my SIL. I don't get it.

Morning all!

Posted by: jewells45 at July 20, 2022 07:58 AM (nxdel)

151 Morning Jewells

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 07:59 AM (R5lpX)

152 Trump has been in the lion's mouth and yet still managed to push the enemy to the brink. It took the third or fourth historic and grotesque global operation against him to finally make him into a human being.

Assuming DeSantis or anyone else has this level of hubris and fortitude, let alone power of rabble rousing and mass marketing persuasion, and will not be swallowed up and discarded by the beast once it really sets its eyes upon him, is likely (though not necessarily) wishful thinking.

Remember - if we ride the Ron horse and they manage to take him out with the dirtiest of tricks, whether pure threats and intimidation, going after his family, using something real from his past, buying and selling him, or flat inventing five hundred worldwide scandals until one sticks, then that is it. We have no one to come behind him aside from the Haleys, Bushes and Pences.

All of this is ignoring the question of whether The Ronald could *ever* build the impossible coalition Trump did by playing the Left at their own game, and by not being beholden to a soul but himself and his own judgment.

Trying new things is nice, but I remain flatly uncertain.

Posted by: ... at July 20, 2022 08:00 AM (dscaa)

153 Great point! Parading St George around is pure virtue signaling!
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:57 AM (ex2Cx)

It truly is Personal and Painful to me to know that the vaunted wheels of justice are guided and controlled by a color sensor.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 08:00 AM (6FeV1)

154
Merrick Garland - better consider the possibility that Kamala gets shown the door, and he is the replacement. How many Senate votes does it take for a VP appointment?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 20, 2022 08:00 AM (Irs8U)

155 140 I don't think they shuffle off Biden now. He's still upright, and anyone else they put on the mound will be the exact same sort of shambling, stammering, useless clusterfuck. So why rock the boat and admit weakness? Just ride this old pervert's corpse into the ground until they physically can't make him move anymore. Anything he says or does is irrelevant to the DNC's primary goals of destroying the republic, dispensing with the constitution, and installing some kind of emergency "Protectorate". So let it ride.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:54 AM (6FeV1)

At least until the wheels completely fall off of the Ukraine Grift.

Posted by: Allie at July 20, 2022 08:00 AM (UnA8+)

156 And how they, as devout practicing catholics, can square themselves with the party of child-killing abortion, is a mystery to me.

The argument (from the ones I talk to) goes something like this: "Sure, abortion is horrible, but it needs to be available because raped 10 year olds. Meanwhile, Republicans want do away completely with welfare and just let people starve in the street."

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at July 20, 2022 08:00 AM (I4BRW)

157 "Like it or not, Trump is going to run"

The criminal referral from the J6 Commision will ensure this. Trump's into personal honor.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 20, 2022 08:01 AM (i0slg)

158 I commented on it yesterday, but this sort of thing is so disconcerting. I had a doctors appointment and the office insisted I put on a disposable mask upon entry. I could understand if it was February 2020, but it's almost August two years later...
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 07:21 AM (G69WR)


I'm guessing it's either a federal or BIG MEDICINE rule.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 20, 2022 08:01 AM (z99Zw)

159 DeSantis has not been through the fire as Trump was. Yes, Trump has warts, so what. DeSantis does as well, we just don't know what they are.

DeSantis should he run and win would be assaulted even more than Trump most likely. How will he stand up to that is the question. One likes to think he would be as strong as Trump was, but who knows?

Keep DeSantis in FL for now where he is needed.

Posted by: Ziba at July 20, 2022 08:01 AM (4h9M3)

160 Lioness fatally injured while being introduced to a new zoo male companion at Birmingham Zoo in Alabama.

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We can't even figure out how to get two captive lions raised by man to live together in the same general area without one killing the other, but those same Scientists are going to fix global warming.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 08:02 AM (b8OTv)

161 Kelly Schulz, who lost in Maryland, used to live in the same neighborhood as us when we lived in Maryland. Her son and my son were the same age and hung out together. He later became an Army Ranger.

Our sons were in high school about the same time Kevin Spacey was filming House of Cards in DC. Her son met Kevin Spacey, who hit on him. This was before Kevin Spacey was widely known as a sex predator.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 20, 2022 08:02 AM (OeBYn)

162 . How many Senate votes does it take for a VP appointment?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 20, 2022 08:00

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I'm thinking about 60 or so, although I could be wrong.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 08:02 AM (R5lpX)

163 Angelo Codevilla: Against the Great Reset — "Resetting the Educational Reset"

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Love the way Mr. Codevilla (RIP) refers to the members of the Big Incestuous Satanic Pedophilic Orgiastic Oligarchic Nihilistic Death Cult Cabal as "Davos Man."

You can see them all together, when taking breaks from raping little slave-boy breakfast tacos, marveling at their extended transhuman evolutionary depiction of man from Ape to Home Sapien to Homosexual to GloboHomo ... and finally to a final, perfected Godlike version of Davos Man as a cross between Skynet and The Matrix.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 20, 2022 08:03 AM (QbCrG)

164 Morning That Guy!

Lord, we desperately need rain here! It's supposed to be 101 Saturday and I have to go to a baseball game. Ugh.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 20, 2022 08:03 AM (nxdel)

165 >>> All of this is ignoring the question of whether The Ronald could *ever* build the impossible coalition Trump did by playing the Left at their own game, and by not being beholden to a soul but himself and his own judgment.
~~~~~

The Donald & The Ronald in '24.

It works.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 20, 2022 08:04 AM (VhE0u)

166 'I believe we rightly believed but certainly believe..'

Who the hell is scripting these answers for Kamala Harris? Nobody talks like this.

Posted by: dantesed at July 20, 2022 08:04 AM (88xKn)

167 "They want unabashed, unafraid individuals to tell the Left and the media (but I repeat myself) to take their pronouns, pronouncements and perversions and shove them up their ass until it comes out their nose."

Pure poetry, J.J. - and props for the alliteration.

Posted by: Roy at July 20, 2022 08:04 AM (UkKql)

168 Re: the leftist takeover of Montpelier and dissemination of false historical narratives:

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both”
― James Madison

Vest not our trust in the man, but in the noble and just ideas and principles championed by the man.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:04 AM (kXYt5)

169 Her son met Kevin Spacey, who hit on him. This was before Kevin Spacey was widely known as a sex predator.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

And yet, Spacey hasn't paid for his continued perversions.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2022 08:04 AM (fBY/Q)

170 Honestly, the answer is Embrace The Power Of And.

Neither Trump nor DeSantis can singlehandedly beat back the global perversion of collectivist totalitarianism. Whoever gets the nomination, sanity will only prevail if the forces of sanity transition from the lightning rod iconoclast model of rebellion to the coalitional long march model.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 08:05 AM (6FeV1)

171 (cont) I have my doubts that we would survive full Democrat control, they would federalize everything and put the levers in place to make sure no one could win an election who is not Party approved. So we become the 20th century Soviets. A lot of people around here think we already are, but I reject that idea otherwise things like Dobbs wouldn't happen.

But I think the GOPe is likely to die. The voters usually get what they want. Just like the middle of the road Democrats were wiped out by the Democrat leftists, the GOPe is also on the way out. The future of Congress is highly partisan with full voiced Socialists on one side and America First on the other. There isn't going to be room for many people of either party in the middle.

But we will see, the Deep State is entrenched and it protects itself through political persecution, political prosecution, and literal murder. I used to think conspiracy theories like Briebart's death were nuts. I no longer do, there is too much evidence of outright political assasination in the past.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 20, 2022 08:05 AM (5p7BC)

172 Same quote goes for the school kids in California article.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:05 AM (kXYt5)

173 ...and the office insisted I put on a disposable mask upon entry. I could understand if it was February 2020, but it's almost August two years later...

Another reason I love living in Rural Texas. I virtually never see anyone in a mask.

BTW, I doubt it is a federal rule, or every doctors office and hospital from Weatherford west in Texas would be in violation. I can believe *some* of them would. I can't believe *all* of them would, especially since Medicaid and Medicare represent so much of the payer base in the area.

So, State rule or Virtue Signaling make more sense to me.

Posted by: AllenG #Texit at July 20, 2022 08:05 AM (I4BRW)

174 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 20, 2022 08:06 AM (WWh8n)

175 "The very concept of IQ, the Stanford-Binet test, and things similar, is, as its critics argue, a cultural construct"

This is a perfect example of where Progressivism is a result of the Enlightenment gone too far. The concept of "Intelligence Quotient" comes from the idea that the human - the entire human, not just the physiology/biology, but everything, including the brain and every emotion and thought - is controlled by scientific laws that can be discovered and manipulated just like physical laws. The Enlightenment would have said "Oh no, the human mind and soul is special, created by God, and not really subject to scientific law; you're trying to make science do what it can't." Progressivism says, "We are gods, because SCIENCE!, and therefore we can do this; there is no metaphysical to ponder, just science."

This is one of the places where Progressivism takes a virtue, rips out the governor, and mashes the pedal to the floor.

So, they came up with tests to mechanically discover which people were smart enough to be elite (receive a college education, for example) and which would remain among the hoi polloi.

Posted by: GWB at July 20, 2022 08:06 AM (QHHuJ)

176 Running at exactly zero for two..Larry Hogan has absolutely NO coattails in Maryland.

Hogan's a Jeb. He was still a massive upgrade from Martin O'Malley, but that's not saying much.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 20, 2022 08:07 AM (zm+d5)

177 More than 55% of Republicans, and 70% of Americans overall, support legalized gay marriage.

After a massive and continuing propaganda campaign, that's the numbers they get. The result is the total collapse shown by brashness of the alphabet people and outright grooming. Notice how a conservative site calls it gay marriage and not homosexual marriage. I give it a decade and they'll be supporting trannies.

Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 20, 2022 08:07 AM (EpDzw)

178 Church of the Covenant in Boston, hangs a large banner on which is written:

And God said…
Protect Abortion Access 4 All
Ensure Black Lives Matter
Honor Bodily Autonomy
Defend LGBTQ+ Rights
End Voter Suppression
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:50 AM (ex2Cx)
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Where, exactly, does God say those things in the Bible? I must have missed that in Sunday School when I was a kid.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 20, 2022 08:07 AM (K5n5d)

179 How many Senate votes does it take for a VP appointment?

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"Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

The interesting thing is, if Harris become POTUS, she would no longer be able to cast a tie-breaking vote if it was 50-50 in the Senate.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 20, 2022 08:07 AM (QbCrG)

180 Biden will travel to MA today to promote his climate change fight, will not issue emergency declaration. [I guess we'll see, fat!]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 08:08 AM (yikp0)

181 Huh. Uvalde School District is set to fire its embattled police chief Pete Arredondo.

Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 08:08 AM (sn5EN)

182 If I ever catch one of these genius blue checks sitting at a restaurant, I'll just ask them straightforward questions until they leave. Your reframing will not avail you if you want to stay until dessert.

"Please name a historical insurrection that succeeded."
"Now compare that one to this one."

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 20, 2022 08:08 AM (ybIRR)

183 Just a brief note from the hinterlands: it's been hot and dry here (Texas) and this affects the hay growing season, two cuts this year instead of the three of the past couple of years. Ranchers are thinning the herd.

Posted by: Robert17 at July 20, 2022 07:35 AM


They are thinning herds big time. I can tell just from driving from Bonham to Sherman. Not seeing 1/10th the number of cattle that we normally see.


Not sure we are going to get two cuts on the hay this year. They already did one cut and we have not had a drop of rain since then and there is no rain in the long range forecast.

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

184 Who the hell is scripting these answers for Kamala Harris? Nobody talks like this.

And why does it keep happening? You know her and her staff are aware they are being laughed at and mocked. Makes zero sense.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 20, 2022 08:09 AM (nxdel)

185 Lioness fatally injured while being introduced to a new zoo male companion at Birmingham Zoo in Alabama.

Offhand, I'm thinking that the Lion Sharing Program isn't going to provide any more lions to the Birmingham Zoo until there is some regime change.

Fortunately, though they had the good sense to combine a male with a female and expect productive results as opposed to the New Science™ where two males, with one identifying as a female would be attempted.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 20, 2022 08:09 AM (AHeqJ)

186 Boston cybersecurity firm warns of severe vulnerabilities in popular Chinese-made GPS vehicle tracker.

||...BitSight says the flaws could let attackers remotely hijack device-equipped vehicles, cutting off fuel to them and otherwise seizing control while they travel.

The researchers say users should immediately disable the MV720 GPS tracker until a fix becomes available. The report was released Tuesday to coincide with an advisory from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency listing five vulnerabilities.||

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 08:10 AM (yikp0)

187 In 2010, Kathleen Sebelius, then the secretary of Health and Human Services, tried to explain how the $718 billion Democrats raided from Medicare could simultaneously pay for that program as well as Obamacare:

You have to spend the money to spend the money that was spent on other spending!

Posted by: Commalala at July 20, 2022 08:10 AM (ex2Cx)

188 >>> But I think the GOPe is likely to die. The voters usually get what they want.
~~~~~

From your keyboard to God's monitor.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 20, 2022 08:10 AM (VhE0u)

189 Had dr.'s appt this week. Told to wear mask by reception. Removed it in the treatment room. Dr. didn't ask me to put it back on. Went to check out at reception and the clerk told me to put my mask on.

The bureaucrats are in charge.

Posted by: Ziba at July 20, 2022 08:10 AM (4h9M3)

190 will not issue emergency declaration.

Good to hear. Although that’s a fight I almost want to have before the midterms. Almost.

Posted by: Squid at July 20, 2022 08:11 AM (hiJiZ)

191 DeSantis should he run and win would be assaulted even more than Trump most likely. How will he stand up to that is the question. One likes to think he would be as strong as Trump was, but who knows?

Keep DeSantis in FL for now where he is needed.
Posted by: Ziba at July 20, 2022 08:01 AM (4h9M3)


DeSantis has already been attacked repeatedly by the major media and made them look like idiots every time, with some help from the lovely and cruel Christina Pushaw. (That was the entire point of Tucker's bees-up-your-shorts story). He's term-limited after he wins this fall, so I'd love to see him as VP on Trump's ticket.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 20, 2022 08:11 AM (zm+d5)

192 The interesting thing is, if Harris become POTUS, she would no longer be able to cast a tie-breaking vote if it was 50-50 in the Senate.

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Should add that this would also come into play if Harris resigned as VP.

Another twist: does "confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress" mean as part of a joint session, or does it mean by BOTH SEPARATELY? A little vaguely worded, and I don't know the history when this has happened in the past.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 20, 2022 08:11 AM (QbCrG)

193 Would not recommend.
Posted by: AllenG #Texit



Ouch. Glad you are all ok.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 20, 2022 08:12 AM (PcfWO)

194 Where, exactly, does God say those things in the Bible? I must have missed that in Sunday School when I was a kid.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 20, 2022 08:07 AM (K5n5d)

Hey Its on the banner so it must be true!

Posted by: Commalala at July 20, 2022 08:12 AM (ex2Cx)

195 ...and the office insisted I put on a disposable mask upon entry. I could understand if it was February 2020, but it's almost August two years later...

Another reason I love living in Rural Texas. I virtually never see anyone in a mask.

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That's the thing. They're done here in NC, too. Even in crazy liberal enclaves like Durham and Charlotte only the true believers wear their maga hat to let you know who they voted for.

But then you go to your doctors office where everyone has advanced degrees and is supposed to believe in science and the scientific method, and...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 08:12 AM (b8OTv)

196 Who the hell is scripting these answers for Kamala Harris? Nobody talks like this.


...

Someone who is stoned all the time does.

Posted by: Ziba at July 20, 2022 08:12 AM (4h9M3)

197 Dr. didn't ask me to put it back on. Went to check out at reception and the clerk told me to put my mask on.

The bureaucrats are in charge.
Posted by: Ziba

So, how does this work? If you refused to mask up at the reception desk you couldn't check out?

F*** these people.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2022 08:12 AM (fBY/Q)

198 So, the current--new and improved!--conspiracy theory of "Days of Our J6 Lives" is that Trump ordered the Secret Service to go to the Capital to "kidnap" Pence to prevent him from certifying the vote.

That's what they're attempting to insinuate--without evidence-- was deleted from the SS texts.

But that's going to be their capstone of "proof" when they refer Trump to the DOJ for prosecution for insurrection.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 20, 2022 08:12 AM (rF1TC)

199 On point might be DJT will have nothing but gain if returning, wiping out the deep state has to be ruthless

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 20, 2022 08:12 AM (SUTeF)

200 ...We will always have the low-information voter, but thanks to what our government and both parties have wrought, that segment of the populace is shrinking in direct proportion to the rising cost of living.
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I disagree here, but I think the net effect may end up being similar. The LIVs are still LIVs, and they are still the majority of the electorate. They may, however, pivot. In the past, the LIV voted on inertia and that will continue, but the past few years may have changed the *direction* of that inertia. The pain of an ineffective COVID response, the pain of inflation, the pain of energy prices, the coming pain of food prices and availability, the loud and crass focus on shit that doesn't matter, the tone-deafness and arrogance of people like AOC - all of this likely does matter.

They don't know - and won't learn - the details - but the damage around them and pain in their lives may push them into being LIVs who support the neopopulists by default. If an LIV disruption and reorientation has occurred, that is a historic electoral game-changer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 20, 2022 08:12 AM (WWh8n)

201 Indiana "abortion doctor" "signals" she will sue state's Attorney-General for defamation.

I guess he called her "baby killer" instead of "abortion doctor".

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 08:13 AM (yikp0)

202 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 08:13 AM (ex2Cx)

203 Love the way Mr. Codevilla (RIP) refers to the members of the Big Incestuous Satanic Pedophilic Orgiastic Oligarchic Nihilistic Death Cult Cabal as "Davos Man." ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 20, 2022 08:03 AM (QbCrG)
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I like "Davos Man" as a species definition. I also like "Davoisie" as a social/class definition. Both are lovely descriptors.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 20, 2022 08:14 AM (WWh8n)

204 138 I reeeally hope you didn't move to Dane County.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 20, 2022 07:51 AM (U11/V)


Rock Cty.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 20, 2022 08:14 AM (4oM4Q)

205 Indiana "abortion doctor" "signals" she will sue state's Attorney-General for defamation.

I guess he called her "baby killer" instead of "abortion doctor".
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 08:13 AM (yikp0)

In a just world, the court would immediately throw out her case since she is a public person.

Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 20, 2022 08:14 AM (EpDzw)

206 Regarding the Maryland race, the Democrats put a million dollars into ads hoping Trump endorsed Cox would win as they felt he would have a better chance of losing in the general.
Let's hope the people of Maryland make this backfire on the Dems.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 20, 2022 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

207 Like it or not, Trump is going to run and DeSantis will not challenge him. This is a done deal, so adjust your expectations. You might want something else, but this is what is coming for 24.

See me above. If he runs and gives the lying, treasonous MFM any access, conferences or respect - after what they have done to him and his family - then I have no use for him. If he thinks he needs media access, then OAN and Epoch Times. No one else.

Sorry, I am done with applause lines that end up as sick jokes. "Lock her up," anyone?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 20, 2022 08:15 AM (AW0uW)

208 With regards to * biden; the Democrat movers and shakers will do with him whatever they think will keep them in power and further their agenda to the greatest extent possible. That might involve the 25th A, assassination or "a medical issue." They can't afford to lose the White House in '24, so really anything goes. And that might just include keeping Harris around. If they can get her installed sooner rather than later there's time to polish her credentials and make her out to be the victim of circumstances. Running against her has "challenges."

Pity the poor black woman...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 20, 2022 08:15 AM (BFigT)

209 Church of the Covenant in Boston, hangs a large banner on which is written:

And God said…
Protect Abortion Access 4 All
Ensure Black Lives Matter
Honor Bodily Autonomy
Defend LGBTQ+ Rights
End Voter Suppression
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:50 AM


Scripture, *********ers! Do you read it?!

Posted by: Jules Winfield at July 20, 2022 08:15 AM (4p7Em)

210 In a just world, the court would immediately throw out her case since she is a public person.
Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 20, 2022 08:14 AM (EpDzw)
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And if not throw it out, at least defer it until the active investigation into her premeditated conspiracy to suppress evidence of rape is handled...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 20, 2022 08:16 AM (WWh8n)

211 So, State rule or Virtue Signaling make more sense to me.

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I suspect you'd get a circular non-answer if you started trying to figure it out. The staff would say Blue Cross Blue Shield, BCBS, would blame the feds, the feds would say it was a local determination, etc.

But the fact remains that the doctors are showing their patients that they embrace these totems, and that's disturbing as heck.

Are you going to refer me to a phrenologist next, doc? Find out why my humours are imbalanced?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 08:16 AM (b8OTv)

212 Amazon sues administrators of more than 10,000 Facebook groups it accuses of coordinating fake [positive] reviews [for money].

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

213 SF Unified spends about $1.05 B per year. There are 58, 705 students. 18k per student. lets call it $400k for a class of 22. You could hire a college prof for that money!
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:42 AM (ex2Cx)

The money has nothing to do with improving education. It is to sustain the sinecures and grift within the educational industry. Moreover, the unstated objective is illiterate and incompetent students. Why would they want intelligent, inquisitive, free-thinking young people? That represents nothing but a future problem and threat.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 20, 2022 08:17 AM (H8QX8)

214 Lioness fatally injured while being introduced to a new zoo male companion at Birmingham Zoo in Alabama.
Posted by: andycanuck


********

You don't always have to make everything about your hurt felines, andy!

Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:17 AM (kXYt5)

215 I like "Davos Man" as a species definition. I also like "Davoisie" as a social/class definition. Both are lovely descriptors.

Yeah, excellent terms. Should be in the HQ Style Guide.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 20, 2022 08:17 AM (zm+d5)

216 I like "Davos Man" as a species definition. I also like "Davoisie" as a social/class definition. Both are lovely descriptors.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 20, 2022 08:14 AM


Stealing those.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 20, 2022 08:17 AM (4p7Em)

217 I saw Tucker Carlson basically just set aside his rationalist thinking and openly admit that what we are in the midst of is spiritual war between good and evil at his talk in Iowa.

Hopefully many more people are awakening to this truth.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2022 08:17 AM (knoo+)

218 For general information, the Church of the Covenant are a Presbyterian denomination.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 20, 2022 08:17 AM (AW0uW)

219 184 Who the hell is scripting these answers for Kamala Harris? Nobody talks like this.
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And why does it keep happening? You know her and her staff are aware they are being laughed at and mocked. Makes zero sense.
Posted by: jewells45 at July 20, 2022 08:09 AM (nxdel)



The clothes Michelle Obama wore. Do you see her dress like that now? No.

Kamalala appearances are dedicated to a certain segment of the population, the same segment that Michelle's apparel was.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 20, 2022 08:18 AM (iLuhX)

220
Tits and Ass.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 07:20 AM (6FeV1)

The most accurate political campaign description I've ever seen.

Posted by: Alexandria's Bundt Cake at July 20, 2022 08:18 AM (jQ4Vv)

221 I guess he called her "baby killer" instead of "abortion doctor".
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 08:13 AM (yikp0)
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If anything, he was being MORE accurate, since a "doctor" implies a healer, whereas as an "abortion doctor" is NOT a healer.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 20, 2022 08:18 AM (K5n5d)

222 Said it before and will happily repeat--the ultimate goal here for Americans, NOT democrats, is to return to this most unique form of government.

What you see is Americans meeting and ultimately prevailing over an issue as serious as any. It's an integral part of our heritage, to ensure our Republic endures. It cannot be abandoned.

So NEVER despair.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 20, 2022 08:19 AM (KATBx)

223 They don't know - and won't learn - the details - but the damage around them and pain in their lives may push them into being LIVs who support the neopopulists by default. If an LIV disruption and reorientation has occurred, that is a historic electoral game-changer.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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To this point, this is what you are seeing in the Hispanic communities nationwide, and it is the biggest untold story of the election. Massive shifts toward Republicans and especially populist Republicans. They won't vote for the GOPe corporatists, but they will turn out for someone like Mayra Flores and Kari Lake. These are LIVs, but they know that their communities have turned to shit and are pissed about it.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 20, 2022 08:19 AM (5p7BC)

224 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 20, 2022 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

225 Are you going to refer me to a phrenologist next, doc? Find out why my humours are imbalanced?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 08:16 AM (b8OTv)

Your motor skills and reasoning powers are far too elevated. I'm prescribing you two hours daily of Colbert and a once daily The View. If you're not drooling and soiling yourself within two weeks, call the office and we'll get you back in.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 08:20 AM (6FeV1)

226 " Massive shifts toward Republicans and especially populist Republicans."

Hopefully this will be aided by Dems so disgusted that they don't show up to vote for anybody.

Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 08:21 AM (sn5EN)

227 ...The future of Congress is highly partisan with full voiced Socialists on one side and America First on the other. There isn't going to be room for many people of either party in the middle....

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 20, 2022 08:05 AM (5p7BC)

Excellent 2-part comment, Dave. This point here I think presents a problem / opportunity. There is little-to-no identification (from a mainstream / conventional wisdom POV) of what a highly partisan leftist is. Ditto a leftist extremist. Is there even such a thing as "alt-LEFT"?? The Dems have gone so far left in the past decade or two, yet they are portrayed as anything but.

How do we overcome THAT?

Posted by: Doof at July 20, 2022 08:21 AM (5KWKT)

228 #201 It's the 10-year-old rape-enabler baby-killer possibly launching the suit.

||An Indianapolis doctor who performed an abortion on a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio took the first step Tuesday toward suing Indiana’s attorney general for defamation.

Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist who gave the girl a medication-induced abortion on June 30, filed a tort claim notice over what she says are false statements that Attorney General Todd Rokita has made about her and her work.

[...] After the news of the 10-year-old's abortion broke, Rokita told Fox he would investigate whether Bernard violated child abuse notification or abortion reporting laws. He also said his office would look into whether anything Bernard said to the Indianapolis Star about the girl's case violated federal medical privacy laws. Rokita offered no specific allegations of wrongdoing.||

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 08:21 AM (yikp0)

229 I did not vote for Trump in the 2016 primary and IMMEDIATELY recognized my mistake.

You cannot have Trump policies without the man. Anyone else will have donor strings and therefore more of what you see today. Sorry. And respectfully, JJ.

The only ticket for 2024 is Trump as president and DeSantis as VP.

Posted by: Danimal28 at July 20, 2022 08:22 AM (klw0w)

230 217 I saw Tucker Carlson basically just set aside his rationalist thinking and openly admit that what we are in the midst of is spiritual war between good and evil at his talk in Iowa.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2022 08:17 AM (knoo+)

Good. Now we need to hear it from a politician, in a sustained, substantive and determined way. But I don't expect to.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 20, 2022 08:22 AM (H8QX8)

231 Indiana "abortion doctor" "signals" she will sue state's Attorney-General for defamation.

I guess he called her "baby killer" instead of "abortion doctor".
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 08:13 AM (yikp0)

In a just world, the court would immediately throw out her case since she is a public person.

Posted by: WiNO - Time for a Marriage Amendment at July 20, 2022 08:14 AM


Nothing is going to happen. She made herself a "public person" by going on TV and running her mouth.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 20, 2022 08:23 AM (bVYXr)

232 32 Wife finally cancelled Netflix yesterday after they said they were going up a buck a month for the subscription. My comment to her was that they think you're in the group that will pay more for their garbage as millions of others have walked away. The CNN plus model. Lefties struggle with basic economic theory.
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NFLX is up $10 a share this morning. Methinks they tanked their stock hard in order to report good news this summer. This rally was supposed to be heralded by Biden getting the nasty Arabs to pump moar oil. That failed and Biden has been kept in the basebment but the rally must go on! Everything in Manhattan is Fake.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 20, 2022 08:23 AM (ifUkZ)

233 Church of the Covenant in Boston, hangs a large banner on which is written:

And God said…
Protect Abortion Access 4 All
Ensure Black Lives Matter
Honor Bodily Autonomy
Defend LGBTQ+ Rights
End Voter Suppression
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 07:50 AM (ex2Cx)
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Setting aside theological and moral issues, this is clearly an example of a church engaging - nakedly and openly - in partisan politics. This shows that this particular church is a political organization. It's tax-exempt status should be revoked.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 20, 2022 08:23 AM (5zVb8)

234 Name one Republican president who accomplished more in one term than Trump. And Trump did it largely by himself while under constant assault from all sides.

Trump didn't wipe out the deep state, that's a fantasy to expect anyone to accomplish in 4 years when it has been decades in the making and has made lots of rules to protect itself but he sure as hell did more to not just expose it but take it from the category of conspiracy theory to fact.

Trump's age doesn't bother me because he has more energy than guys half his age and nobody in the country is more responsible for the ongoing makeover of the GOP than Trump. He is the inspiration for America First and he's the leader of the new GOP.

DeSantis is doing a great job but Trump is the leader despite his mean tweets or maybe because of them.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 20, 2022 08:23 AM (ZLI7S)

235 From Pixy's thread, what rhymes with baby? How about Sadie?

Posted by: Ciampino - now a poet at July 20, 2022 08:24 AM (qfLjt)

236 The Maryland gubernatorial will now come down to a candidate who is similar to Trump, vs a candidate who offers the Maryland voter more of the same old failed socialist policies.

Chose wisely, folks.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 20, 2022 08:25 AM (1n+EO)

237 The researchers say users should immediately disable the MV720 GPS tracker until a fix becomes available.

*******

Daiisy, Daisy give me...your...

...ansswer...

...do........

Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:25 AM (kXYt5)

238 Nothing is going to happen. She made herself a "public person" by going on TV and running her mouth.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 20, 2022 08:23 AM (bVYXr)

Truth is an absolute defense against libel.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 08:25 AM (6FeV1)

239 The only ticket for 2024 is Trump as president and DeSantis as VP.
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I don't think you can have a Pres and VP from the same state. Its a Constitutional thingy. That being said we can retort the question by asking what is the definition of a state? We're not biologists.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 20, 2022 08:25 AM (ifUkZ)

240 And yet, Spacey hasn't paid for his continued perversions.

His accusers tend to have the life expectancy of people who have dirt on the Clintons.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 20, 2022 08:26 AM (OeBYn)

241 My view is this. The conservative field is small. I'm OK if Trump runs and I will support him. He picks DeSantis as VP, then we've got 12 years of a SOLID America-First agenda and America is BACK like a muthafucka.

8 years of DeSantis, then what if Trump doesn't get his remaining 4?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 20, 2022 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

242 I think he should use his well-deserved fame and following to lead an actual movement that goes beyond just electoral politics.
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#MeToo. Whether with himself as the first candidate, or someone else (I think he should be setting up a protege and unquestioned successor in any event). I think it must be a new Party, with new, aggressive branding. And that Party should have electoral politics as a *secondary* focus, at least in the near-to-medium term.

It would, by definition be an actual Movement, something new and different. Electoral politics is the stage of a movement when a cause becomes a business.

The initial strategy ought to be mass movement politics, street-level stuff, with the electoral operation as a PR push. To lend the movement a patina of legitimacy, while achieving the goal of breaking the GOP's back and replacing it, and attracting Dem voters who'd never consider Republicans. THEN it's time to shift this aggression into retail politics and deliver the death-blow to the Democrats next.

Just my $0.02. Trump doesn't listen to me, but he's in a position to actually do all that. That's how he becomes an historical figure, not with another GOP run.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 20, 2022 08:26 AM (Zhwz2)

243 235 From Pixy's thread, what rhymes with baby? How about Sadie?

Maybe.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 20, 2022 08:26 AM (89T5c)

244 236 The Maryland gubernatorial will now come down to a candidate who is similar to Trump, vs a candidate who offers the Maryland voter more of the same old failed socialist policies.

Chose wisely, folks.
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Its MD. They will steal it for the Dems. Much like NJ.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 20, 2022 08:26 AM (ifUkZ)

245 You don't always have to make everything about your hurt felines, andy!
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I am NOT a sourpuss!!!

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

246 Trump is from NYC. DeSantis is from FL.

Problem solved.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 08:27 AM (6FeV1)

247 The Nazis killing sick kids and people story really was a kick in the ass!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 08:28 AM (ex2Cx)

248 I think the country is too far gone for it to matter who wins in 2024; and every Morning Report confirms it.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 20, 2022 08:28 AM (OeBYn)

249 ICYMI - Kari Lake is leading Robson in the AZ gubernatorial primary 43 - 29 with 18% still undecided. Other candidates are far behind these two.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 20, 2022 08:28 AM (5p7BC)

250 Biden getting the nasty Arabs to pump moar Moops Moor oil.
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Fixed!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 08:28 AM (yikp0)

251 “I’ll never forget it as long as I live,” Tucker told the audience in Iowa, before quoting Haley’s statements after George Floyd’s death and the subsequent riots that overtook many American cities in 2020. “And then she said, ‘in order for healing to occur, what happens next must be personal and painful for everyone.'” Tucker responded, “Really, why’s that?”

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Regarding Nikki Haley, this is almost verbatim what she spewed out just prior to removing the Confederate flag at the State House in SC years ago following that church shooting...and we all know the avalanche that happened from there in making the Confederate flag (a source of familial pride for many southerners) as poisonous as the swastika all across the country. She's a pure snake.

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

252 If you can't grab a pussy then you are a pussy. This should be our rallying cry.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 20, 2022 08:29 AM (ifUkZ)

253 Trump is from NYC. DeSantis is from FL.

Problem solved.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 08:27 AM


Trump changed his residency to Florida.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 20, 2022 08:29 AM (bVYXr)

254 The clothes Michelle Obama wore. Do you see her dress like that now? No.

Kamalala appearances are dedicated to a certain segment of the population, the same segment that Michelle's apparel was.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 20, 2022 08:18 AM (iLuh

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The clothes Michelle Obama wore were styled to hide the fact that there was a man under that dress.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 08:29 AM (R5lpX)

255 "I think the country is too far gone for it to matter who wins in 2024"

I thought that in 2016 when we all expected HRC to be the next president.

Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 08:29 AM (sn5EN)

256 I think the country is too far gone for it to matter who wins in 2024

Which campaign are you working for this cycle? Have you signed up to be a poll watcher?

Posted by: Squid at July 20, 2022 08:30 AM (hiJiZ)

257 Lawrence O'Donnell
stated on April 14, 2015 in a panel discussion on MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell":
"The president and vice president can't be from the same state."

Truth o Meter is so far to the left the needle is sticking out of the gauge!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 08:30 AM (ex2Cx)

258 Mean Tweets is Trump exposing the truth.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 20, 2022 08:31 AM (iLuhX)

259 As long as Donald Trump is healthy and wants to run for President, he’s my candidate.

Only bigger dummies than me think it is easy to accomplish the economic record President Donald Trump did during his time in office.

I respect DeSantis, but he had not yet dealt with a full-scale assault by the national Liberal Media and the corrupt national intelligence/justice/military agencies.

If asked, DeSantis should run as President Trump’s VP. Even though both now live in Florida, they can do it, and they can win.

If President Trump wants geographic and gender diversity he may select Kari Lake, especially if she wins her race for Governor in Arizona.

Posted by: Just a big dummy at July 20, 2022 08:31 AM (U2W4Y)

260 The playboy "spare" prince, who couldn't do his job of just not being too obvious of a scumbag, of a country of disarmed peasants complains that Americans don't have rights while calling for Americans to lose more rights. I mean its perfect isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 20, 2022 08:31 AM (ESjRY)

261 Isn't Kevin Spacey being tried in England right now for his pedo crimes there?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 20, 2022 08:31 AM (Rcp6g)

262 In 2020 Biden beat Trump by over 32 points in Maryland.

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

263 The clothes Michelle Obama wore were styled to hide the fact that there was a man under that dress.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 08:29 AM (R5lpX)

She was registered as a M on voting records in the 90s.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 08:31 AM (ex2Cx)

264 I think the country is too far gone for it to matter who wins in 2024; and every Morning Report confirms it.

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I concur. Mostly because I recognize just how deranged and unreachable at least 40% of us are. And I'll also repeat something yet again because it's very important to understand by all. And that is you can't cohabitate with Bolsheviks, Communists, Marxists...whatever you want to call them. It's an impossible situation. We will never reconcile. We will never peacefully live as Americans, because that's not going to satisfy them. Ever. They are quite literally hopelessly anti-American and all that that implies.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 20, 2022 08:32 AM (sVtYq)

265 I don't think you can have a Pres and VP from the same state. Its a Constitutional thingy. That being said we can retort the question by asking what is the definition of a state? We're not biologists.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 20, 2022 08:25 AM (ifUkZ)
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Just by the language of the 12th amendment, it says that electors vote for President and Vice-President, one of which cannot be from the same state as themselves. So theoretically Florida's electors could vote for Trump for President and another candidate for Vice President, as long as that person is from another state.

I'm sure there's some arcane law passed by Congress that clarifies this or something, but the language in the Constitution itself seems to make this interpretation valid.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 20, 2022 08:32 AM (K5n5d)

266 Regarding Nikki Haley.....She's a pure snake.



Women fake orgasms.

Faking conservatism is not difficult for them.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2022 08:32 AM (knoo+)

267 Gay bee?

Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:32 AM (kXYt5)

268 Murder Charges Dropped Against NYC Bodega Clerk Who Defended Himself During Attack

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I thought it was "bogeda".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 20, 2022 08:33 AM (FVME7)

269 thru da links at 734!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 08:33 AM (ex2Cx)

270 ... ...BitSight says the flaws could let attackers remotely hijack device-equipped vehicles, cutting off fuel to them and otherwise seizing control while they travel. ... The researchers say users should immediately disable the MV720 GPS tracker until a fix becomes available. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 08:10 AM (yikp0)
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People don't install these things in their own cars, they're probably installed in fleet vehicles and those purchased from low-end dealers of they "buy here, pay here" variety. Buy the car and if you miss a payment, they can shut down your ability to drive it and then send the repo man. It makes some sense for the dealer, who is also providing financing to customers with high credit risk.

Do you think the actual users of these devices will fic it? Fleet owners might. Low-end dealers probably won't.

It is another example of a great tagline I once read about the future of IoT: "Our only hope is that the internet of incompatible things collapses under its own weight before the internet of insecure things gets us killed." Sadly, engineers have largely solved compatibility...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 20, 2022 08:33 AM (5zVb8)

271 262 In 2020 Biden beat Trump by over 32 points in Maryland.


I know MD is a mess but that right there is proof of massive fraud! no way on earth that really happened

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2022 08:34 AM (w0NJk)

272
The clothes Michelle Obama wore were styled to hide the fact that there was a man under that dress.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 08:29 AM (R5lpX)



And it failed miserably on more than one occasion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 20, 2022 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

273 Regarding Nikki Haley, this is almost verbatim what she spewed out just prior to removing the Confederate flag at the State House in SC years ago following that church shooting...and we all know the avalanche that happened from there in making the Confederate flag (a source of familial pride for many southerners) as poisonous as the swastika all across the country. She's a pure snake.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 20, 2022 08:28 AM (sVtYq)

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That's when the wife coined the nickname Niggy Haley. (Forgive my insensitivity.) I'll show myself out.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 08:35 AM (R5lpX)

274 know MD is a mess but that right there is proof of massive fraud! no way on earth that really happened
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2022 08:34 AM (w0NJk)

Zactly.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 20, 2022 08:35 AM (h/xvO)

275

Don't you think that it's a bit early to abandon Trump after all this nation has been through? Trump was simply robbed in 2020 and deserves his second term, and this nation needs Trump's second term! Nothing could be more satisfying than having Trump bookend the disastrous Biden regime...

DeSantis will have his chance in the fullness of time, perhaps after starting out as Trump's VP...

Posted by: Zettai at July 20, 2022 08:35 AM (yVWMR)

276 The clothes Michelle Obama wore were styled to hide the fact that there was a man under that dress.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 08:29 AM (R5lpX)


And it failed miserably on more than one occasion.
Posted by: Sponge


Grabbing your junk in front of the press to re-arrange it doesn't help.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 08:36 AM (1cmKJ)

277 I never been to Maryland but am I correct in in guessing the entire state is controlled by the city of Baltimore?

Posted by: dantesed at July 20, 2022 08:36 AM (88xKn)

278 277 And Montgomery County.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 20, 2022 08:37 AM (lz5hY)

279 203
I like "Davos Man" as a species definition. I also like "Davoisie" as a social/class definition. Both are lovely descriptors.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 20, 2022 08:14 AM (WWh8n)
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Davosite ?

Also Wefty for the WEF accolites?

Posted by: Ciampino - now a wordsmith at July 20, 2022 08:37 AM (qfLjt)

280 I never been to Maryland but am I correct in in guessing the entire state is controlled by the city of Baltimore?
Posted by: dantesed at July 20, 2022 08:36 AM (88xKn)

Well it sure as shit ain't Hagerstown....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 08:37 AM (6FeV1)

281 Scripture, *********ers! Do you read it?!
Posted by: Jules Winfield at July 20, 2022 08:15 AM (4p7Em)

What is this "Scripture" you are referring to?

Posted by: Church Of The Covenant Commies And Sodomites at July 20, 2022 08:37 AM (qZQHw)

282
Someone was wailing that with Cox winning the primary the Maryland GOP committed suicide. I didn't know a corpse could commit suicide.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 20, 2022 08:38 AM (/U27+)

283 never been to Maryland but am I correct in in guessing the entire state is controlled by the city of Baltimore?
Posted by: dantesed at Jul

Assholes in DC

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 20, 2022 08:38 AM (h/xvO)

284 272
The clothes Michelle Obama wore were styled to hide the fact that there was a man under that dress.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 08:29 AM (R5lpX)


And it failed miserably on more than one occasion.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck
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Maybe that's not why she wore that tacky crap.
She doesn't wear it now. She hasn't worn it since Barky left office.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 20, 2022 08:39 AM (iLuhX)

285 Last time i ever look at the RINO site RRHelections. They hate Trump and act like we are going to lose every Gov and Senate race. Vaya con Dios

Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 08:39 AM (WY8d2)

286 [...] After the news of the 10-year-old's abortion broke, Rokita told Fox he would investigate whether Bernard violated child abuse notification or abortion reporting laws. He also said his office would look into whether anything Bernard said to the Indianapolis Star about the girl's case violated federal medical privacy laws. Rokita offered no specific allegations of wrongdoing.||
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An AG saying he's going to investigate somebody isn't defamatory. And the abortion doctor did violate the reporting laws when she falsely reported the 27-year old illegal alien rapist on the form as being a minor.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 20, 2022 08:39 AM (MvHI3)

287 Someone was wailing that with Cox winning the primary the Maryland GOP committed suicide. I didn't know a corpse could commit suicide.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 20, 2022 08:38 AM (/U27+)



I guess they found out how to kill a zombie, then.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 20, 2022 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

288 278 277 And Montgomery County.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 20, 2022 08:37 AM (lz5hY)


Montgomery Clift > Montgomery County

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 20, 2022 08:40 AM (4oM4Q)

289 Don't you think that it's a bit early to abandon Trump after all this nation has been through? Trump was simply robbed in 2020...

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I certainly won't abandon him. He was robbed. And my trust is still with him, most importantly. He didn't make every call correctly. But I trust him not to upend my country and hand the keys of our sovereignty over to the globalists or Communist China or any other body trying to knock America straight into the dirt.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 20, 2022 08:40 AM (sVtYq)

290 I know MD is a mess but that right there is proof of massive fraud! no way on earth that really happened
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Given that all the tactical leaders of BLM (Black Lesbians) got a sizeable payoff, what are the odds that they want to do it again? And who in NY and SF will pay for it? Much moar complex to steal down ticket races than a simple binary race given that each of the suspect states only have one or two all black polling stations.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 20, 2022 08:40 AM (ifUkZ)

291 >> I think he should use his well-deserved fame and following to lead an actual movement that goes beyond just electoral politics.

I think a pretty strong case can be made that is exactly what is happening. There is a major electoral shift going on in the makeup of the Democrat and GOP parties largely along cultural issues.

The Democrat party is becoming the party of big business and the rich and the Republican party is becoming the party of the working man and woman with more traditional values.

Politics is downstream from culture. The Democrats have been trying to change our culture and they had a wide base of support from the grassroots to do it. Now they are losing it to the GOP. Take a look at the polling on things like education and other cultural issues. The GOP isn't just and gaining large numbers of minorities because of Biden hate, many of them are waking up to the fact that the Democrat party doesn't support their values and the America First GOP does. That breakfast taco Mayra Flores is a good example.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 20, 2022 08:40 AM (ZLI7S)

292 Hmm.

The UK government -- I assume the permanent civil service -- is offering UK farmers money to retire using the Lump Sum Exit Scheme.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 08:40 AM (yikp0)

293 If it's now okay for prostitutes to loiter, can you rightfully call them streetwalkers any longer?

Buy-standers?

Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:40 AM (kXYt5)

294 ---------------------------------

Maybe that's not why she wore that tacky crap.
She doesn't wear it now. She hasn't worn it since Barky left office.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 20, 2022 08:39 AM (iLuhX)



Seems your wardrobe changes when the peasants aren't footing the bill anymore.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 20, 2022 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

295 Why Democrats Are Losing Ground With Hispanics

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But Medicx Jill reached out to them!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 20, 2022 08:41 AM (FVME7)

296 Montgomery Clift > Montgomery County
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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Whoa pawdna, that's a stretch.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 20, 2022 08:42 AM (iLuhX)

297 Buy-standers?

Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:40 AM (kXYt5)




Ho-degas?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2022 08:42 AM (knoo+)

298 Women fake orgasms.

Faking conservatism is not difficult for them.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2022 08:32 AM


Wait....whut?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 20, 2022 08:42 AM (4p7Em)

299 I make sure to share as many articles with my friends who have young kids that are about to go off school in August. They are really afraid, but ready for battle and have already had discussions with their kids as to what to look out for and report back to them.
I am grateful for Libs of TikTok for exposing all this.


Non-binary teacher proud that her outreach helped a first-grader come out as transgender

https://tinyurl.com/bdze2msj

Posted by: redridinghood at July 20, 2022 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

300 I just want to say - western MD is God's country! just beautiful, and wonderful people out there.

also on this:

Maybe that's not why she wore that tacky crap.
She doesn't wear it now. She hasn't worn it since Barky left office.


the tacky stuff was expensive designer fashion - yeah it was ugly but those were custom pieces by top designers of The Current Year (which is why it was ugly).

which equals - incredibly uncomfortable to wear, especially if you have some "junk in the trunk" and Mooch has a LOT of that.

she's not wearing now b/c she's basically lazy, doesn't really care about her appearance that much, and wants to be comfy.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2022 08:43 AM (w0NJk)

301 > Well it sure as shit ain't Hagerstown
________

I read that in The Greaseman's voice.

* I'm formally from Wheaton

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 20, 2022 08:43 AM (BFigT)

302 >.I never been to Maryland but am I correct in in guessing the entire state is controlled by the city of Baltimore?

Posted by: dantesed

there's an urban corridor from Baltimore south to the Beltway counties that is solid D. Some of the richest and poorest people in the state live there. People who depend on gov't for either their power or their sustenance.

Every state has its 'Berkeley' and in MD, it's Takoma Park, just minutes outside DC.

Posted by: DB at July 20, 2022 08:43 AM (geLO8)

303 Its MD. They will steal it for the Dems. Much like NJ.

MD has been so gerrymandered for so long that they don’t bother cheating. The redistricting is going to be quite interesting.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 20, 2022 08:44 AM (zm+d5)

304 ...also skinny people are the only people who would wear designer togs just because they want to

for them they fit just fine and aren't that painful to wear.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2022 08:44 AM (w0NJk)

305 11 The State Department Used Your Tax Dollars To Fund a Film Festival That Depicted Drag Queens, Incest, and P3dophilia

*

Heard an interesting point made the other day.

The question isn't if the little kids should be around The Gays or not. The question is why The Gays desperately need to be around the kids so badly.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 06:55 AM (G69WR)
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Easy-peasy they are pedos, both those that want to be around kids and those who support that predilection. Other gays we can leave alone but this lot needs to be tire-ironed.

Posted by: Ciampino - pedos leave the kids alone at July 20, 2022 08:44 AM (qfLjt)

306 Church of the Covenant in Boston, hangs a large banner on which is written:

And God said…
Protect Abortion Access 4 All
Ensure Black Lives Matter
Honor Bodily Autonomy
Defend LGBTQ+ Rights...


So I go to their website and see that they are (of course PC-USA, the apostate denomination).

I'm trying to harmonize the banner creed: "Honor Bodily Autonomy" with what is on the front page of their site: "Masks and vaccinations are still required for all entering the building"

Then I remember that this organization has leveled at Stage IV reprobation as defined by the second half of Romans chapter 1 - their spiritual condition is terminal.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 20, 2022 08:44 AM (AHeqJ)

307 This BS about linebacker Moochelle running in 2024.

Fact: GOP wins house in 2022.
Fact: Keeps House in 2024 as House rarely flips in Prez Base years

Fact: Divas like the Obamas do not run if they cannot control congress with big sweep progressive legislation from day one.

She Ain't running

Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 08:44 AM (WY8d2)

308 >>* I'm formally from Wheaton

Posted by: Martini Farmer



Silver Spring here

Posted by: DB at July 20, 2022 08:44 AM (geLO8)

309 Last time i ever look at the RINO site RRHelections. They hate Trump and act like we are going to lose every Gov and Senate race. Vaya con Dios

Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 08:39 AM (WY8d2)

I have never heard of them! And I just looked, and if anything you are being kind.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 20, 2022 08:44 AM (XIJ/X)

310
Why Democrats Are Losing Ground With Hispanics

_________

Push the ideas of "toxic masculinity" and "gender fluidity" on a demographic that puts great stock in traditional roles and see what happens.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 20, 2022 08:45 AM (/U27+)

311 An AG saying he's going to investigate somebody isn't defamatory. And the abortion doctor did violate the reporting laws when she falsely reported the 27-year old illegal alien rapist on the form as being a minor.
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Yeah; and I'd say not calling the cops over the rapist-father no matter who brought the kid [unnecessarily] across the border isn't going to look good on her even if there were any legal justification for that on either side of the border.

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

312 I like "Davos Man" as a species definition.

*********

I don't trust Greta Thunberg. Just lo0k at her picture.

She's got beady Davos eyes!

Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:45 AM (kXYt5)

313 Trump was simply robbed in 2020 and deserves his second term
Posted by: Zettai at July 20, 2022 08:35 AM (yVWMR)

I agree wholeheartedly but cannot bear the thought of another four years of the Left and media running amok all over him. I need to understand how he will handle them differently, seriously, proactively, i.e., not "counter-punching" via tweets and "fake news" and cute monikers like "Cryin' Chuck." This would mean recruiting serious non-GOPe warriors around him in ways I'm not sure he understands.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 20, 2022 08:45 AM (H8QX8)

314 Today is National Hot Dog Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 20, 2022 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

315 Rock Cty.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 20, 2022 08:14 AM (4oM4Q)


You and I will share the same congressman.

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

316 I don't trust Greta Thunberg. Just lo0k at her picture.

She's got beady Davos eyes!
Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:45 AM (kXYt5)
++++
*snort*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 20, 2022 08:46 AM (5zVb8)

317 Every state has its 'Berkeley' and in MD, it's Takoma Park, just minutes outside DC.
Posted by: DB at July 20, 2022 08:43 AM (geLO

**

Been to Takoma Park. Sort of reminded me of Watts or Harlem.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 08:46 AM (R5lpX)

318 Buy-standers?
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Curb a-peelers.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 08:46 AM (yikp0)

319
g'mornin', 'rons

working from the office is stupid, off-pissing, counter-productive, frustrating, and stupid

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 20, 2022 08:46 AM (4bdw+)

320 I agree wholeheartedly but cannot bear the thought of another four years of the Left and media running amok all over him.

really?!?!?! I would love to see them try!

come on that is the MOST FUN part of him getting his (already won!) second term!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2022 08:46 AM (w0NJk)

321 >>>she's not wearing now b/c she's basically lazy, doesn't really care about her appearance that much, and wants to be comfy.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2022 08:43 AM (w0NJk)
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She dresses better now than she did then.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 20, 2022 08:47 AM (iLuhX)

322 The GOPe are compromised, maybe a handful are not but, most are compromised and blackmailed. They work for the Globalists.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 20, 2022 08:47 AM (m7R0k)

323 Montgomery Clift > Montgomery County
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 20, 2022 08:40 AM (4oM4Q)

Montgomery Wards>Montgomery Clift > Montgomery County

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 08:47 AM (ex2Cx)

324 She dresses better now than she did then.


yeah this probably speaks more to current design trends than it does to her

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2022 08:47 AM (w0NJk)

325

When Trump does or says something perplexing, it helps to remember that he is the President of this entire nation, not just of "our side" -- he's got to give everyone a little something -- and thus there are going to be some things that will disappoint us, and we should attempt to understand before we criticise...

Posted by: Zettai at July 20, 2022 08:47 AM (f4L2n)

326 So I came up with something last night. Instead of Climate Change, we start referring to it as Climate Control.

Posted by: ... at July 20, 2022 08:48 AM (x64Wn)

327 That breakfast taco Mayra Flores is a good example.

The story that came out overnight where a Dem Congressman is spending DNC money to put out racist ads against her is pretty something. They’re afraid of her.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 20, 2022 08:48 AM (zm+d5)

328 Posted by: rhennigantx at July 20, 2022 08:47 AM (ex2Cx)

Montgomery Scott > Montgomery Wards>Montgomery Clift > Montgomery County

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 20, 2022 08:48 AM (4oM4Q)

329 If Trump does run again - and I am ambivalent on the topic but will vote for him if he does (I am ambivalent because I'd rather see him do what he's been doing, which is helping to vet candidates and build an actual opposition force rather than go tilting at deep state windmills in America's rottenest borough) - his VP pick is particularly important. He's old. He's vigorous and sharp, but he's very old and the risks that his vigor and sharpness decline or that he just dies are much more elevated. The VP pick will matter. A lot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 20, 2022 08:48 AM (5zVb8)

330 Inflation has hit the mexican community hard along with Gas prices. Rent in their dumpy apratments has soared, and they drive alot for their multiple jobs

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

331 Montgomery Wards> Montgomery Burns > Montgomery Clift > Montgomery County

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 20, 2022 08:48 AM (89T5c)

332 I commented on it yesterday, but this sort of thing is so disconcerting. I had a doctors appointment and the office insisted I put on a disposable mask upon entry. I could understand if it was February 2020, but it's

I don't expect doctors to know everything, but I do sort of expect a scientific approach to, you know, science.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

My wife had a minor surgical procedure last week. Required to mask-up to enter the building. In the waiting room, half the people had the masks below their noses. The desk person took theirs down when not speaking to someone.

In her room, before the procedure, we of corse had our masks off. The doctor entered wearing a mask and we went to put ours on, then he said we didn't have to put them on if we didn't want to. We didn't, then he took his off and went over the pre-surgery stuff.

Most of the people there knew it was all bullshit, including some staff. It was pure insanity.

Posted by: Biergood at July 20, 2022 08:49 AM (FQWHA)

333 Disclose.tv @disclosetv; 16h
JUST IN - WEF to deepen cooperation with China on "addressing climate change, promoting industrial transformation and social equity," said Klaus Schwab to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang today.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 08:49 AM (yikp0)

334 She's got beady Davos eyes!
Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:45 AM (kXYt5)

**

Golf clap...

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 08:49 AM (R5lpX)

335 Today is National Hot Dog Day.
Posted by: redridinghood


So wrap your mouth around a wiener!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 08:50 AM (1cmKJ)

336 297
Ho-degas?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2022 08:42 AM (knoo+)
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I like that.
Is that what a house of ill-repute is called in NYC, since they call some shops bodegas?

Posted by: Ciampino - NYC is NOT the center of the universe at July 20, 2022 08:50 AM (qfLjt)

337
WEF to deepen cooperation with China on "addressing climate change, promoting industrial transformation and social equity," said Klaus Schwab to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang today.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 08:49 AM (yikp0)

_________

Good luck with that, round eyes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 20, 2022 08:51 AM (/U27+)

338 I live in the part of MD that is as red as West Virginia. This state is weird. If you took out the I95 corridor and lower part of I270 this state would be Kansas.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 20, 2022 08:51 AM (flINI)

339 I only come here and to Free Republic at this point. Only true conservative venues at this point.

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

340 Now that gas prices have come down I can maybe afford a hot dog.

Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 08:51 AM (sn5EN)

341 Gov. Larry Hogan’s (R-MD) is finally kicked to the curb. Lard ass can now go into lobbying.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 20, 2022 08:52 AM (m7R0k)

342 Posted by: Ordinary American at July 20, 2022 08:45 AM (H8QX

But all those things Trump did have lead to people seeing the Democrats for what they are. I'm not arguing for the "long game" here (no time) but rather just an appreciation for what has happened in this country in seven years.

The wool the Democrats and Uniparty had over this country's eyes was thicker than molasses in January, and Trump cut through it with surgical efficiency. It can't be ignored.

Posted by: ... at July 20, 2022 08:52 AM (x64Wn)

343 When I was a kid there was a shopping mall near where I lived. It had JCPenney on one end and Montgomery Wards on the other end.

Posted by: dantesed at July 20, 2022 08:52 AM (88xKn)

344 Bootgig has some good intersectionality:
gay, gay with wife and children, gay, no experience, gay, bike rider, gay, stupid

Posted by: Ziba at July 20, 2022 08:52 AM (4h9M3)

345 The Democrat party is becoming the party of big business and the rich and the Republican party is becoming the party of the working man and woman with more traditional values.

In Tucker Carlson's Iowa speech, he likened the difference in that the Left wants you to align with secular forces, abandoning family and traditional values. He didn't characterize the GOP as anything other than the only opposition to these monsters.

In my economy, its the difference between Imago Dei and Lebensunwertes Leben (Image of God vs Life-Unworthy-Of-Life). We are probably speaking of the same things. The Left hates humanity, things of beauty, righteousness and all of the things that make a civilization work together as human beings. They fantasize about what man should be since they are gods and feel that it is their role and responsibility to transform all ways of life to fit their model. And if you don't fit into that model, then you are expendable, since you are not worthy.

The GOP is a mess until the enablers of Darkness are removed and replaced by true representatives of We The People.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 20, 2022 08:52 AM (AHeqJ)

346 I live in the part of MD that is as red as West Virginia. This state is weird. If you took out the I95 corridor and lower part of I270 this state would be Kansas.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 20, 2022 08:51 AM (flINI)

Now do PA. NJ. MA. ... literally any state. Rip out the biggest urban area, and any state turns into Kansas.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 08:52 AM (6FeV1)

347 re: DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS

This is on The Vegetable's schedule at 2:45 PM ET today:
"The President delivers remarks on tackling the climate crisis and seizing the opportunity of a clean energy future to create jobs and lower costs for families."

UGH.

Why is Biden pushing this crap so hard? Below is a link to a WaPo article from Monday yesterday that describes one reason, perhaps the only reason, why Biden is pushing anti-fossil fuel madness so hard. To fulfill a promise that unlike all other of his promises. actually has a measurable goal along with a target date: A 50 percent reduction of 2006-level CO2 emissions by 2030. One of Joe's many promises that he seems intent on keeping.

https://tinyurl.com/38ssx7hn

Posted by: Gref at July 20, 2022 08:52 AM (AMIL/)

348 4 Saint of the day - Margaret
Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2022 06:50 AM (fBY/Q)
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awesome

Posted by: Ciampino - no longer Catholic at July 20, 2022 08:53 AM (qfLjt)

349 338. Well said. Same way with Illinois. Dems lost over 100 counties in the 2020 election, but had to win about only 6.

Drive 30 miles out of the shithole chicago, and you see flags and good people everywhere

Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 08:53 AM (WY8d2)

350 I do think it's not as much Trump backing but MAGA flowing if that makes sense

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 20, 2022 08:54 AM (SUTeF)

351 I won't be the least bit surprised if, somewhere around October 2024, the Democrats acknowledge that Trump won.

Can't serve more than two terms. Oh gosh, sorry, guys.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 08:54 AM (b4nR4)

352 Bootgig has some good intersectionality:
gay, gay with wife and children, gay, no experience, gay, bike rider, gay, stupid
Posted by: Ziba

Some say he's gay.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2022 08:54 AM (fBY/Q)

353 >.UGH.

Why is Biden pushing this crap so hard?


Because the Big Democrat Donors told him to

Posted by: DB at July 20, 2022 08:54 AM (geLO8)

354
She'll "how-dare" you
When she scares you
Her Asperger's Syndrome will unnerve you
She's ferocious
And she knows just what it takes to make Al Gore blush
All the greenies think she's so fly
She's got beady Davos eyes

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2022 08:54 AM (knoo+)

355 Where could a fellow buy a set of those invisible handcuffs AOC was wearing yesterday? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 20, 2022 08:55 AM (eGTCV)

356 Some say he's gay.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2022 08:54 AM (fBY/Q)

I actually think he's straight and it's all an act.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 08:55 AM (6FeV1)

357
"I don't expect doctors to know everything, but I do sort of expect a scientific approach to, you know, science.
Posted by: Moron Robbie"

I work in medical-legal law and interact with doctors constantly. The medical profession, like others, has different niches. There are the academic center docs, the research types, the back-office types (pathologists, radiologists, etc). But I can also say that the vast majority of high-volume, face-to-patient practitioners (Family Practice, Internal Medicine, OB-GYN, GI, etc) are now almost all working for The Man in the form of a large, highly structured organization. The numbers in solo or small partnership practice have dwindled to insignificance. As a consequence, those working for The Man have, for the most part, adopted a salaried employee/bureaucrat mentality.

So most of them don't really think about Science or Medicine at all, but just churning out billing and learning how to work the latest electronic medical record software. Basically frickin drones.

Posted by: Zek at July 20, 2022 08:55 AM (OzNIz)

358 ."....by attacking everyone and everything Democrat/Leftist, nonstop and with no mercy."

Thats it in a nutshell. The MAGA Mantra. Attack.
And if there is to be a GOP then the new GOP Golden rule : ATTACK.
Always in all things and all places ATTACK>

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 20, 2022 08:55 AM (MeDg4)

359 313 Trump was simply robbed in 2020 and deserves his second term
Posted by: Zettai at July 20, 2022 08:35 AM (yVWMR)

I agree wholeheartedly but cannot bear the thought of another four years of the Left and media running amok all over him. I need to understand how he will handle them differently, seriously, proactively, i.e., not "counter-punching" via tweets and "fake news" and cute monikers like "Cryin' Chuck." This would mean recruiting serious non-GOPe warriors around him in ways I'm not sure he understands.
----------------------
Simple Fix - all WH press meetings will be conducted remotely on Teams. Oh, and Trump gets to control the on switch. This will be done to lower DC's carbon footprint.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 20, 2022 08:56 AM (uia9V)

360 Church of the Covenant Moloch in Boston,

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 20, 2022 08:56 AM (C1rbv)

361 When Trump does or says something perplexing, it helps to remember that he is the President of this entire nation, not just of "our side" -- he's got to give everyone a little something -- and thus there are going to be some things that will disappoint us, and we should attempt to understand before we criticise...
Posted by: Zettai at July 20, 2022 08:47 AM (f4L2n)

You make concessions only after victory, as Lincoln did. There is no negotiating with the Left. There is nothing he can offer them that will quell their hatred.

At the same time, I thought Trump should have held "Love/Hate" retreats at Mar Lago when he was President. That is, invite in 100 prominent cultural Leftist figures at a time for 3-7 day events in which they would have a chance to meet and discuss America and politics. In between, games, entertainments, activities would be offered. One requirement, agreed to in advance, would be an orientation session on the basics of the Constitution. The idea would be simply to make human contact with one's "enemy."

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 20, 2022 08:56 AM (H8QX8)

362 Montgomery Scott > Montgomery Wards>Montgomery Clift > Montgomery County

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 20, 2022 08:48 AM (4oM4Q)

***

Elizabeth Montgomery > Montgomery Scott > Montgomery Wards>Montgomery Clift > Montgomery County

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 20, 2022 08:56 AM (flINI)

363 She's got beady Davos eyes!
Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:45 AM (kXYt5)

That is too good. Almost Muldoon worthy.

Posted by: ... at July 20, 2022 08:56 AM (x64Wn)

364 random goofball thought this morning - blowing up the Georgia Stones was like Harry Potter having to destroy the Horcruxes before he could kill Voldemort.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 20, 2022 08:56 AM (r46W7)

365 I remember the run up tot he 1994 elections, before the internet. Every GOP publication or talk show, was about how the far right won too many primaries for Senate , Gov, and the House. and would lose the midterms despite the Wave.

Gingrich was getting roasted by the GOPe

Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 08:56 AM (WY8d2)

366 Bootgig has some good intersectionality:
gay, gay with wife and children, gay, no experience, gay, bike rider, gay, stupid
Posted by: Ziba

Some say he's gay.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2022 08:54 AM (fBY/Q)

**

It's been said he'll hold one in his mouth or ass until it goes soft.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 08:57 AM (R5lpX)

367 ...She's got beady Davos eyes

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2022 08:54 AM



Well done, sir!

Posted by: Zettai at July 20, 2022 08:57 AM (f4L2n)

368 I challenge anybody to name a state where a pregnant 10-year-old child can not legally get an abortion.

Rape, incest, health risks to the pregnant individual exceptions are in place for a reason.

By definition, getting a 10-year-old pregnant is rape. Substantial number of such cases are by a family member. 10 year old bodies are not mature enough to safely carry a pregnancy to term and deliver.

It's probably more likely the child was taken across state lines to evade prosecution of the rapist.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:57 AM (kXYt5)

369 Beady Davos eyes?

LOL.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 20, 2022 08:57 AM (C1rbv)

370 Moloch demands you worship him. Lucifer demands that you worship yourself.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 08:57 AM (6FeV1)

371 353 >.UGH.

Why is Biden pushing this crap so hard?


Because the Big Democrat Donors told him to
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These are the same guys Biden dished $13T in walking around money to.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 20, 2022 08:57 AM (uia9V)

372 362. Weibolt's here in IL. Had the Green Stamps

Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 08:57 AM (WY8d2)

373 Why is Biden pushing this crap so hard?

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It makes sense when you begin to accept the population reduction goals. CO2 in the atmosphere is good for growing plants and feeding humans and animals. Reduced CO2 levels? Catastrophe.

Which one are we trying to accomplish?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 08:58 AM (b4nR4)

374 I wrote recently about my full expectation that the verbose representative from the Bronx, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, will join the race for president in 2024. Her continued public antics – like yesterday's hilarious "arrest" scene outside the Supreme Court building – only bear witness to that fact. Cortez will turn the constitutionally required 35 years of age a month before the general election that year, rendering her legally eligible, even if painfully unprepared.

https://bit.ly/3Ou69AY

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 20, 2022 08:58 AM (FVME7)

375 I will vote for Trump in a heartbeat. Same for Deasantis.

To me Trump is the only proven one who can win and compete in the Rust Belt at this point

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

376 George Soros donated $1 Mil to Beta's Governor campaign putting him $2.6 Million over Abbott's reelection campaign funds.

They're trying to buy Texas and have a buffoon as their candidate.

I sure the fuck hope Texas does the right thing in this instance and boots that fucker yet again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 20, 2022 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

377 Irish Bob gets Soros Bux.

George Soros Donates $1 Million To Robert Francis O'Rourke's Campaign

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now the Summer of Our Discontent at July 20, 2022 08:59 AM (FVME7)

378 AOC is a marxist, but she has a rocking body. Damn

Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 09:00 AM (WY8d2)

379 I wonder what was on Tucker Carlson's mind being in Iowa? That sort of action indicates political things might be afoot. He's got money so it's not out of the realm of possibilities if that's something that interests him.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 20, 2022 09:00 AM (BFigT)

380 Posted by: Gref at July 20, 2022 08:52 AM (AMIL/

He doesn't give a shit about promises. It's all about not letting the crisis of everyone already living in fear and bowing to the Globalist One World State go to waste. They already have many ready to submit to them with open arms, now it's time to push us into the Great Leap Forward, I mean Reset.

Posted by: ... at July 20, 2022 09:00 AM (x64Wn)

381 373

Destruction of the country. The Left has gone insane. It's that simple.

Posted by: Ziba at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (4h9M3)

382 Don't look now but China's LNG imports dropped a record amount last month as their economy continues to grind down. Expect a sporty winter with Asian unrest, energy shortages in Europe and our elections going hard against the elite.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (oWBc3)

383 Beto is running in a red wave. He lost in a dem wave in 2018

Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (WY8d2)

384 234 Name one Republican president who accomplished more in one term than Trump. And Trump did it largely by himself while under constant assault from all sides."

Ronald Reagan in his first term, and it's easy to forget he had almost as much opposition (even from his own party) as Trump did. But he made a LOT better appointments, for the most part. 2nd term got bogged down, but his first term was glorious.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (r46W7)

385 The numbers in solo or small partnership practice have dwindled to insignificance. As a consequence, those working for The Man have, for the most part, adopted a salaried employee/bureaucrat mentality.
Posted by: Zek


*******

True

Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (kXYt5)

386 In her room, before the procedure, we of corse had our masks off. The doctor entered wearing a mask and we went to put ours on, then he said we didn't have to put them on if we didn't want to. We didn't, then he took his off and went over the pre-surgery stuff.
Most of the people there knew it was all bullshit, including some staff. It was pure insanity.
Posted by: Biergood
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So most of them don't really think about Science or Medicine at all, but just churning out billing and learning how to work the latest electronic medical record software. Basically frickin drones.
Posted by: Zek

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Yep. With the problem being that people might not really notice or care, but their brains do.

I have to wonder if this is part of a coordinated push to chip away at the trust/relationship people have established with their doctors and the medical field in general. Because it's working, and will get worse as time passes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (b4nR4)

387 >>Judge In Stefan Halper Case Drops SpyGate Bombshell: Halper Likely Lied To The FBI On Purpose

https://tinyurl.com/4dw3mzy2

Posted by: JackStraw at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (ZLI7S)

388 Chyron here, moments ago, "Firefighters had busiest day since WWII as fires burned across London."

BTW, it was just over 40°C yesterday but it's dropped to 26°C this morning [30°C humidity reading].

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (yikp0)

389 "AOC is a marxist, but she has a rocking body. Damn"

AOC is a marxist, but she has a rocking body. Daaayum!"

Posted by: Ghetto Booty Autocorrect at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (OzNIz)

390 I know my comment will disappear but I have to get this off my chest: it doesn't matter if it is Trump or DeSantis or GOP candidate X. The anti American left will attack non stop like the rabid dogs that they are.

So get off the notion that if we back DeSantis he won't get the same treatment Trump got.

Posted by: Floridatacochick at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (jGcri)

391 326 So I came up with something last night. Instead of Climate Change, we start referring to it as Climate Control.

Posted by: ... at July 20, 2022 08:48 AM (x64Wn)

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Climate Fascism.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (QbCrG)

392 Having said that, I am not convinced DeSantis is ruthless enough. Destroying the FBI and imprisoning Merrick Garlands little elves is going to take a deep-seated commitment,. Trump has that, I believe. Does DeSantis?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 20, 2022 06:58 AM (lDb9g)

Agree. Trump has less than zero tolerance when he knows you are screwing him--more so than ever. And if theres one thing that must happen beyond all other things it is a firing and prosecution binge on the seditious and traitorous administrative state. Thats clearly Trumps job to do for all the right reasons.

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (MeDg4)

393 379 I wonder what was on Tucker Carlson's mind being in Iowa? That sort of action indicates political things might be afoot. He's got money so it's not out of the realm of possibilities if that's something that interests him.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 20, 2022 09:00 AM (BFigT)

I agree. Interesting to note that he's as comfortable with himself as Trump is, something few politicians share.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 20, 2022 09:02 AM (H8QX8)

394 378 AOC is a marxist, but she has a rocking body. Damn

....

So you wanna have sex with her. Is that it?

Posted by: Ziba at July 20, 2022 09:02 AM (4h9M3)

395 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2022 08:54 AM

*******

Nice!

Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 09:02 AM (kXYt5)

396 To fulfill a promise that unlike all other of his promises. actually has a measurable goal along with a target date: A 50 percent reduction of 2006-level CO2 emissions by 2030. One of Joe's many promises that he seems intent on keeping.

https://tinyurl.com/38ssx7hn
Posted by: Gref

What pisses me off the most about the left is that they are just flat out stupid yet continually allowed to breathe. You can't "break" the food chain, supply chain or oil chain slightly. When you break it, you break it across the board.

The "elites" will be in the same boat as the rest of us when there is no food to eat. You can't break it by starving plants of CO2 and think you will somehow get food. Same with the supply chain. No chips = no cars. Period. ICE or EV.

Oil? Oil is so capital intensive, there won't be "boutique" drillers/refiners. That means no jets, yachts, or helicopters for the elites.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 09:03 AM (1cmKJ)

397 379 I wonder what was on Tucker Carlson's mind being in Iowa? That sort of action indicates political things might be afoot. He's got money so it's not out of the realm of possibilities if that's something that interests him.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 20, 2022 09:00 AM (BFigT)

The other night Tucker was LOL'ing on his show when someone brought up the idea of him going into politics. Iowa was where the action was the other night, so being a media person who actually believes in doing his job, he went where the action was.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 20, 2022 09:03 AM (r46W7)

398 The Three Amigos
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/
1549458574165827584

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 09:03 AM (yikp0)

399 I'd like to gently mention that the Indy mall Good Samaritan used a Glock 9mm handgun to dispatch the mass shooter from 120ft away. 10 shots fired, 8 hit the target.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 20, 2022 09:05 AM (m7R0k)

400 390 I know my comment will disappear but I have to get this off my chest: it doesn't matter if it is Trump or DeSantis or GOP candidate X. The anti American left will attack non stop like the rabid dogs that they are.

So get off the notion that if we back DeSantis he won't get the same treatment Trump got.

Posted by: Floridatacochick at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (jGcri)

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Your comment didn't disappear, and you're absolutely right. Any R always gets the same treatment, whether it's total UniParty losers like Romney, Da Bushes, Liz Cheney, hell even Cap'n Bill Kristol would get the same treatment if he won the R nomination.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 20, 2022 09:05 AM (QbCrG)

401 The Three Amigos
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/
1549458574165827584
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 09:03 AM (yikp0)



Wait. I thought Putin was dying 'n shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 20, 2022 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

402 Re: hot Dutch commentator:

Holland is my favorite European country. They all speak English better than you do, they love Americans, and remember what was done for them. And, standing around the airport waiting to pick up a friend, I about broke my neck snapping back and forth looking at one after another 6 foot tall smoking hot blonde.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at July 20, 2022 09:05 AM (aWQko)

403 Oil? Oil is so capital intensive, there won't be "boutique" drillers/refiners. That means no jets, yachts, or helicopters for the elites.

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I used to think this, but now I don't know. These are Bond-villain level guys doing this. Heck, Bezos was going to have some historic bridge removed and rebuilt to his specifications because his trillion dollar yacht needed clearance to fit underneath.

Same as when they started this fifty years ago, they have plans we can't see or imagine.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 09:05 AM (b4nR4)

404 Someone was wailing that with Cox winning the primary the Maryland GOP committed suicide.

I consistently forget MD has a GOPe governor. He is indistinguishable from a Dem anyway.

So let's suppose Cox is too conservative for MD. The people in MD elected some crazy Democrat instead. If crazy Democrat ideas work then they'll be happy with him. If crazy Democrat ideas don't work they'll have an opportunity again in 4 years to change course, now better educated as to what a crazy Democrat means for them personally.

I see this a lot in blue states were the GOPe runs people that are basically just "not as crazy" leftwingers. So the people in those states never hear any argument against leftwing ideas, and never really have a choice.

I think it is a flawed approach. Yes, running actual conservatives in blue states means most of them will lose right now. This isn't a short term play. You are hoping after several cycles the LIVs will get that voting for the "nice Democrat" means pain personally for them, and voting for the "extreme rightwing Republican" actually means their lives get better.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 20, 2022 09:05 AM (ESjRY)

405 If DeSantis wants to run in '24, then he should have stepped aside and let someone else run for Governor this year. The governorship should not be a stepping stone to higher office. Floridians deserve to have someone in the office who will be committed to the job for four full years.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at July 20, 2022 09:06 AM (wmDcS)

406 Oil? Oil is so capital intensive, there won't be "boutique" drillers/refiners. That means no jets, yachts, or helicopters for the elites.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 09:03 AM (1cmKJ)
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The only reason the elites have any of those things is because of the sheer volume of energy produced to meet the needs of the rest of us. If that goes away and we're all starving/freezing, the elites won't be too far behind us.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 20, 2022 09:06 AM (K5n5d)

407 First, good to see you settled in a sane place and back to the Morning Report, JJ.

I have changed my mind on Trump. I want him to run, and will vote in the 2024 primary for him and in the general if he secures the nomination. My reasoning is this: the leftwing states are likely to secede if he wins. The only peaceful division of the country will happen if that occurs because communists will leave only if they cannot destroy and control.

DeSantis is a fine man and might even cause the same leftist secession, but I'm not so certain there. He could be coopted or bullied into submission. The indications are he would not be, but it is a question mark.

I also will vote in the 2024 general election if someone like Nikki Haley gets nominated or even put on the ticket as Veep, and that vote will be straight down the line for the Democrats and I will continue to do so until the Republican Party is destroyed.

Trump should have taken out the GOP in January 2021, but he still can be useful if he prompts a leftwing secession.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at July 20, 2022 09:07 AM (nMx88)

408
So get off the notion that if we back DeSantis he won't get the same treatment Trump got.
Posted by: Floridatacochick at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (jGcri

But it wasn't the Leftist's attacks that wrecked Trump's term. It was all of the attacks from his own party and even more, from the people that HE HIMSELF appointed that wrecked his term. People like Jeff Sessions, and Rince Priebus, and John Bolton, and William Barr, and Rex Tillerson, and Fukin' Fauci.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 20, 2022 09:07 AM (r46W7)

409 Chyron here, moments ago, "Firefighters had busiest day since WWII as fires burned across London."

BTW, it was just over 40°C yesterday but it's dropped to 26°C this morning [30°C humidity reading].
Posted by: andycanuck


It was 36 C overnight here. (86 F)

Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 09:07 AM (1cmKJ)

410 First, Ron DeSantis needs to win in November. Unfortunately, there are a lot of Democrat Supervisors of Election in FL counties w dead ppl listed as “Active Voters”, who are sent mail-in ballots, which are returned to the Supervisors. Unscrupulous Supervisors then have a trove of ballots to fill-in as they wish. The first three voters listed in my community as “Active Voters” have been dead for years. And, yes, I have a D as SOE

Posted by: EveR at July 20, 2022 09:08 AM (MUpk6)

411 So get off the notion that if we back DeSantis he won't get the same treatment Trump got.

Posted by: Floridatacochick at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (jGcri)

I'm not sure anybody questions that. The issue is how to fight back and who is most capable of it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 20, 2022 09:08 AM (H8QX8)

412 404 I think it is a flawed approach. Yes, running actual conservatives in blue states means most of them will lose right now. This isn't a short term play. You are hoping after several cycles the LIVs will get that voting for the "nice Democrat" means pain personally for them, and voting for the "extreme rightwing Republican" actually means their lives get better.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 20, 2022 09:05 AM (ESjRY)

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If the GOPe itself wouldn't label these people as crazy, they'd play like generic Republicans with the electorate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 20, 2022 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

413 AOC is a two bagger as she might chew through the first

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 20, 2022 09:08 AM (oWBc3)

414 The one outcome that makes no sense is for DeSantis to be the VP. Its a worthless job, and will also be a thankless one under Trump. Trump 2024, DeSantis beyond. Seems to be the best bet.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 20, 2022 09:08 AM (Tv7JP)

415 Tucker would be a very strong candidate. Sharp, informed, telegenic, persuasive, etc

Posted by: Squid at July 20, 2022 09:08 AM (hiJiZ)

416 >>But it wasn't the Leftist's attacks that wrecked Trump's term. It was all of the attacks from his own party and even more, from the people that HE HIMSELF appointed that wrecked his term. People like Jeff Sessions, and Rince Priebus, and John Bolton, and William Barr, and Rex Tillerson, and Fukin' Fauci.

It was a stolen election that wrecked Trump and nothing else. He won in 2020.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 20, 2022 09:09 AM (ZLI7S)

417 Chyron here, moments ago, "Firefighters had busiest day since WWII as fires burned across London."

BTW, it was just over 40°C yesterday but it's dropped to 26°C this morning [30°C humidity reading].
Posted by: andycanuck



Why would a 'heat wave' cause London to burn? There's no vegetation, just buildings.

Something seems, well, off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 20, 2022 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

418 390 I know my comment will disappear but I have to get this off my chest: it doesn't matter if it is Trump or DeSantis or GOP candidate X. The anti American left will attack non stop like the rabid dogs that they are.

So get off the notion that if we back DeSantis he won't get the same treatment Trump got.
Posted by: Floridatacochick at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (jGcri)

You are correct. And because DeSantis doesn't have personal wealth, or a cadre of loyal followers that will work in the Federal government to do his bidding, he could be more vulnerable than Trump, ironically enough. Give Trump a chance to clean the Augean Stables. He won't succeed, but he'll show the country how it's done, and let DeSantis finish the job in 2028.

If Trump is Moses, DeSantis is Joshua.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 20, 2022 09:09 AM (3msSY)

419 yep

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

420 Oh, another thing the "queer" (that's how she described herself) woman from the organization for healthy sexuality for teens said at the Board of Education meeting last night was- and I assume it was intended as a way to ease tension- was "I want you to breathe in this thought: "Everybody needs to be accepted for where they are." I sometimes use breath prayers such as a time in time in silence to breathe in for a six or so seconds , hold it for a six seconds and bring a prayer to God, or if you can't think of what you need to ask God for today you might say, "Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me-or us.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 20, 2022 09:09 AM (PrR4G)

421 Keep in mind, the final poll in the Schultz - Cox race had Cox only leading within the margin of error.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 20, 2022 09:09 AM (rAq2Z)

422 I have changed my mind on Trump. I want him to run, and will vote in the 2024 primary for him and in the general if he secures the nomination. My reasoning is this: the leftwing states are likely to secede if he wins."

They will want to, but they can't, because to do so means telling everyone in their states who collects a Social Security or other benefit check that it's over, for good. That's a problem that there is no way to solve other than by abolishing all of it if the country splits up. Every planner who says otherwise is huffing unicorn farts.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 20, 2022 09:10 AM (r46W7)

423 >>So you wanna have sex with her. Is that it?

Posted by: Ziba


ALL RIGHT, I'LL DO IT.
But no talking.

Posted by: DB at July 20, 2022 09:10 AM (geLO8)

424 Holland is my favorite European country. They all speak English better than you do, they love Americans, and remember what was done for them. And, standing around the airport waiting to pick up a friend, I about broke my neck snapping back and forth looking at one after another 6 foot tall smoking hot blonde.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at July 20, 2022 09:05 AM


We did some Ops in Holland with their troops back in the 70s around Nijmegan. They friggin loved us back then. Couldn't pay for a beer or food anywhere while we were there.


Pretty cool, got to play around the City and bridge a bit.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 20, 2022 09:10 AM (bVYXr)

425 408 But it wasn't the Leftist's attacks that wrecked Trump's term. It was all of the attacks from his own party and even more, from the people that HE HIMSELF appointed that wrecked his term. People like Jeff Sessions, and Rince Priebus, and John Bolton, and William Barr, and Rex Tillerson, and Fukin' Fauci.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 20, 2022 09:07 AM (r46W7)

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Assume that DeSantis brings better people, what about someone like McConnell? Does McConnell let DeSantis staff his administration with senate approval and the kinds of conservatives that he denied Trump? Does he allow recess to allow DeSantis to recess appoint conservatives for a year that couldn't get 51 votes because of people like Romney and Collins?

That's not a small part of this equation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 20, 2022 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

426 399 I'd like to gently mention that the Indy mall Good Samaritan used a Glock 9mm handgun to dispatch the mass shooter from 120ft away. 10 shots fired, 8 hit the target.
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Dude has been praticing. Those are excellent numbers. It also tells us he has balls to stand still against a shooter with a rifle. Not that easy to do.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 20, 2022 09:10 AM (uia9V)

427 "I want you to breathe in this thought: "Everybody needs to be accepted for where they are."

And the obvious question, are you including groomers/pedos in this group?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 20, 2022 09:10 AM (ESjRY)

428 43
I bet the perp was surprised when he started taking fire himself. I wonder if he had time to ponder his demise.

Posted by: fd at July 20, 2022 07:09 AM

The last thing to cross his mind was a chunk of hot lead.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 20, 2022 07:11 AM (Irs8U)
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We need a new term for Kalifornia as lead bullets are banned there.

Posted by: Ciampino - do bad guys care about CA's lead ban? at July 20, 2022 09:11 AM (qfLjt)

429 The Donald & The Ronald in '24.

It works.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 20, 2022 08:04 AM (VhE0u)


Trump is a resident of Florida now. Constitution doesn't permit Prez and VP from the same state. That's why Cheney is "from" Wyoming.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 20, 2022 09:11 AM (z99Zw)

430 Holland is my favorite European country. They all speak English better than you do, they love Americans, and remember what was done for them. And, standing around the airport waiting to pick up a friend, I about broke my neck snapping back and forth looking at one after another 6 foot tall smoking hot blonde.

I feel the exact same way, except I'm looking at the tall hot GUYS ... who also in my experience have a rapier wit and can speak French when necessary (in a very hot way, unfortunately Dutch isn't very hot sounding)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2022 09:11 AM (w0NJk)

431 However, the Board of Ed isn't a church and I don't know that everybody should be accepted for where they are.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 20, 2022 09:11 AM (PrR4G)

432 414 The one outcome that makes no sense is for DeSantis to be the VP.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 20, 2022 09:08 AM (Tv7JP)

I agree, and it's a moot issue as he'll never do it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 20, 2022 09:11 AM (H8QX8)

433 the "queer" (that's how she described herself) woman from the organization for healthy sexuality for teens said at the Board of Education meeting last night was- and I assume it was intended as a way to ease tension- was "I want you to breathe in this thought: "Everybody needs to be accepted for where they are."


Who they are is completely different that whom you're grooming them to be, queer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 20, 2022 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

434 To fulfill a promise that unlike all other of his promises. actually has a measurable goal along with a target date: A 50 percent reduction of 2006-level CO2 emissions by 2030. One of Joe's many promises that he seems intent on keeping.

And empirical evidence is totally thrown out when it meets ideology. ALL of the nations signed on to reduce their CO2 levels ended up increasing their CO2 levels. It was ONLY the former United States that lowered it - beyond even what was contractually obligated by replacing coal plants with natural gas plants. Going Green means that you end up burning the filthiest material: bituminous coal because the nukes, natgas pipes and compliant coal was shut down leaving only peat moss and brown coal as emergency fuel.

The answer to lowering CO2 - even if you think killing people and inducing famine and war is acceptable collateral damage in achieving arbitrary and capricious ideological goals - is expand the use of natural gas.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 20, 2022 09:12 AM (AHeqJ)

435 "This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light: in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth."

1 John 1:5-6

Posted by: Marcus T at July 20, 2022 09:12 AM (VpIIl)

436 Why would a 'heat wave' cause London to burn? There's no vegetation, just buildings.

Something seems, well, off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 20, 2022 09:09 AM


I suspect the fire department is responding to heat related emergency calls not actual fires.


I guess the Germans might have restarted the Blitz to distract attention away from the fact their country no longer has a reliable energy source.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 20, 2022 09:12 AM (bVYXr)

437 402. Anne Frank disagrees

Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 09:12 AM (WY8d2)

438 I want you to breathe in this thought: "Everybody needs to be accepted for where they are."

*

Unless you're a Trump voter.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 09:12 AM (3W7WC)

439 And the obvious question, are you including groomers/pedos in this group?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 20, 2022 09:10 AM (ESjRY)

Trump supporters? Priests?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 09:12 AM (6FeV1)

440 British do not know heat. Try Phoenix in August

Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 09:13 AM (WY8d2)

441 I think a pretty strong case can be made that is exactly what is happening. There is a major electoral shift going on in the makeup of the Democrat and GOP parties largely along cultural issues.

The Democrat party is becoming the party of big business and the rich and the Republican party is becoming the party of the working man and woman with more traditional values.
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GOP and Dems are the status quo. Full stop. A "movement" must move - as in, it must be going somewhere. The GOP is a dead end.

I think it would be great if Trump (or anyone) became the leader of a mass movement, but that would necessarily be outside of existing Party structures.

If politics is downstream of culture, then let's divert the stream. That happens in the street, not in delegations and caucuses that are basically nothing more than key parties for wealthy old perverts. Politicking can wait.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 20, 2022 09:13 AM (Zhwz2)

442 We need a new term for Kalifornia as lead bullets are banned there.

Victims.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 20, 2022 09:13 AM (AHeqJ)

443 So get off the notion that if we back DeSantis he won't get the same treatment Trump got.

Posted by: Floridatacochick at July 20, 2022 09:01 AM (jGcri)

I think that's obvious, and I am not sure why this straw man is getting any traction.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 20, 2022 09:13 AM (XIJ/X)

444 422. Tom exactly. Seniors will never allow a breakup of the union, and they are the most reliable voting bloc there is.

Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 09:14 AM (WY8d2)

445 British do not know heat. Try Phoenix in August

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I'll see your humidity and raise you 100.
- Alabama

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 09:14 AM (3W7WC)

446 British do not know heat. Try Phoenix in August
Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 09:13 AM (WY8d2)



The Brits make fun of the US for the fact that New Orleans hasn't fully recovered from Katrina.

Really? You fucking take a Cat 5 hurricane to your shores and let me know how it works out for you, pompous assholes.

You HAVE no natural disasters and your country is STILL a shithole with ghettos and abandon buildings everywhere.

Explain THAT, fucknut.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 20, 2022 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

447 437 402. Anne Frank disagrees


meh. go that way and you're gonna have to hate basically all of Continental Europe.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2022 09:15 AM (w0NJk)

448 421 Keep in mind, the final poll in the Schultz - Cox race had Cox only leading within the margin of error.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 20, 2022 09:09 AM (rAq2Z)

This is a very good point to remember for the rest of this year. An MSM report of "too close to call" means a MAGA candidate 56%, uniparty candidate 40%.

(if the pollsters had any shred of credibility they couldn't miss a 16 point gap)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 20, 2022 09:15 AM (r46W7)

449 We need a new term for Kalifornia as lead bullets are banned there.

Posted by: Ciampino - do bad guys care about CA's lead ban? at July 20, 2022 09:11 AM (qfLjt)

There are some new copper bullets that look like they are quite good for self defense.

The market will always find away around government edicts.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 20, 2022 09:15 AM (XIJ/X)

450 445. Touche

Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 09:15 AM (WY8d2)

451 >>Trump is a resident of Florida now. Constitution doesn't permit Prez and VP from the same state. That's why Cheney is "from" Wyoming.

Axshually, that is not 100% true. The Constitution prohibits electors in a given state from voting for a President and VP of their state but it's not an outright ban. The ticket would likely lose the votes from Florida if Trump and DeSantis ran together but a simple work around is for Trump to regain his NY residency. He does still own a home there.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 20, 2022 09:15 AM (ZLI7S)

452 I hear good things about Blackhawk Bank.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 20, 2022 07:51 AM (U11/V)

Can confirm, from my days in Iowa. I still maintain one account there.

Posted by: creeper at July 20, 2022 09:15 AM (cTCuP)

453 443
I think that's obvious, and I am not sure why this straw man is getting any traction.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 20, 2022 09:13 AM (XIJ/X)

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I have seen it asserted that the media environment against DeSantis would be calmer. Not explicitly, but implicitly.

"We can't have another GOP administration of chaos. We need someone else."

The chaos was created by the media most of the time. They'd create chaos under any Republican.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 20, 2022 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

454
I think that's obvious, and I am not sure why this straw man is getting any traction.


Agreed here.

I want to hear what all the 2024 candidates have to say in how they'll deal with the GOPe leadership and the permanent bureaucracy. It will be a problem for any actual conservative as we saw with Trump - but that doesn't mean others might not handle it better.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 20, 2022 09:15 AM (ESjRY)

455 meh. go that way and you're gonna have to hate basically all of Continental Europe.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2022 09:15 AM (w0NJk)

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 20, 2022 09:16 AM (r46W7)

456 What we need is a trojan horse. Some spineless simp gop machine nobody to win the presidency, then govern like ultra-mega-MAGA times 100 on crank.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 09:16 AM (6FeV1)

457 *sigh*

Posted by: creeper at July 20, 2022 09:16 AM (cTCuP)

458 This is a good sign if you are wondering if evangelicals will support DeSantis:

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=6NoEvgIha4E

Really good interview on Focus on the Family.

Posted by: Emmie at July 20, 2022 09:16 AM (6RgRK)

459 CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.


lol TOUCHE!!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2022 09:16 AM (w0NJk)

460
meh. go that way and you're gonna have to hate basically all of Continental Europe.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2022 09:15 AM (w0NJk)



As if that's a bad thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 20, 2022 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

461 366 Bootgig has some good intersectionality:
gay, gay with wife and children, gay, no experience, gay, bike rider, gay, stupid
Posted by: Ziba
Some say he's gay.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 20, 2022 08:54 AM (fBY/Q)
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It's been said he'll hold one in his mouth or ass until it goes soft.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 20, 2022 08:57 AM (R5lpX)
----
It's breakfast time!!!!
You meant a Mars Bar right? lie if you must.

Posted by: Ciampino - they used to say you haven't tasted nothing until you taste chocolate at July 20, 2022 09:17 AM (qfLjt)

462 456 What we need is a trojan horse. Some spineless simp gop machine nobody to win the presidency, then govern like ultra-mega-MAGA times 100 on crank.


I've really got to get my husband into politics.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 20, 2022 09:17 AM (w0NJk)

463 402 Holland is my favorite European country. They all speak English better than you do, they love Americans, and remember what was done for them. And, standing around the airport waiting to pick up a friend, I about broke my neck snapping back and forth looking at one after another 6 foot tall smoking hot blonde.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at July 20, 2022 09:05 AM (aWQko)

The ones under 40 all seem to talk like they learned English by listening to Rap Albums, though.

Posted by: Allie at July 20, 2022 09:17 AM (UnA8+)

464 449 We need a new term for Kalifornia as lead bullets are banned there.

Posted by: Ciampino - do bad guys care about CA's lead ban? at July 20, 2022 09:11 AM (qfLjt)

There are some new copper bullets that look like they are quite good for self defense.

The market will always find away around government edicts.
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Depleted uraniam would work.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 20, 2022 09:17 AM (uia9V)

465 If Trump is Moses, DeSantis is Joshua.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 20, 2022 09:09 AM (3msSY)

Well said...Trump and DeSantis are Providential warriors.

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 20, 2022 09:18 AM (pJMW1)

466 If we had the SEC of the 1980's. Pelosi and her Husband would have been arrested for insider trading, before the chip stock vote.

Posted by: Jonah at July 20, 2022 09:18 AM (WY8d2)

467 My friend, who I was waiting to pick up at the airport in Holland, was a retired Colonel, who held the high ground next to the Nijmegen bridge during Operation Market Garden. School children in Holland knew his name. The town square was named after him.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at July 20, 2022 09:18 AM (aWQko)

468 The most important thing that can be done for this country is to kill the GOPe. They are the major impediment to returning to a free and constitutional America. They are our deadly enemy, and should be treated as such. They hate us, and for my part, I hate them to death.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 20, 2022 09:19 AM (QSjkU)

469 353 >.UGH.

Why is Biden pushing this crap so hard?
Because the Big Democrat Donors told him to
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True dat. I believe the donors are using money plus Joe's vanity to get him to push the Globalist agenda. Joe wants to out-shine both Trump AND Obama.

No one is going to call Joe the Deporter-in-Chief. No one is going to say Obama did more about climate change than Joe. No one is going to say Joe is a Russian tool and appeaser like Trump, and Obama (Crimea). No one is going to say Obama did more about civil rights than Joe (trannies, the equity BS). The incessant claims that no President had greater job growth in the first X months. Joe is working to establish a legacy that will look terrific in Prog-written histories. Time is getting short for his legacy construction.

Of course I could be all wrong. I did not stay in a Holiday Inn last night.

Posted by: Gref at July 20, 2022 09:19 AM (AMIL/)

470 > The chaos was created by the media most of the time. They'd create chaos under any Republican.
__________

Yup. And, to be frank, they'd thrive on another Trump administration. They might publicly say he's bad for the country but he's solid gold for the media and their wallets.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 20, 2022 09:19 AM (BFigT)

471 Why would a 'heat wave' cause London to burn? There's no vegetation, just buildings.
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But the Moslem Mayor said it so it must be true!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 09:19 AM (yikp0)

472 I have seen it asserted that the media environment against DeSantis would be calmer. Not explicitly, but implicitly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at July 20, 2022 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

It's arrant nonsense. A casual reading of the rabid responses to DeSantis speaking about pretty much anything would quickly disabuse one of that notion.

I think it is, at least in part, disinformation from the insane NeverTrump contingent.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 20, 2022 09:19 AM (XIJ/X)

473 It's probably more likely the child was taken across state lines to evade prosecution of the rapist.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:57 AM (kXYt5)
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I think it's worse than that. They surely had an abortionist in Ohio who was in their network of people who don't ask questions and don't report obvious criminality. They almost certainly did *not* need to go to Indiana to get a club provider.

They *wanted* to go to another state to get the marketing benefit and open the political salvo against state-level abortion restrictions by using a raped kid as a symbol. This makes it even worse, because it implies that they knew about this kid, knew she had been raped, knew she was pregnant and then conspired with her mother (and probably her rapist) to hold off on getting the abortion until they could put the op in motion by identifying the club provider in Indiana and getting her on board. They probably could have sent her down the street, but chose not to do so because they wanted the "SHE HAD TO CROSS STATE LINES" narrative.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 20, 2022 09:19 AM (5zVb8)

474 Not so great Britain and the rest of the Euro's complain about the heat because most of them have never installed any AC units, which is why they love to sit back and preach at Americans being so evil that they use AC. And then whenever the air temperature gets above 80 degrees they fall all over themselves crying and shrieking "oh we're dieing here, we're dieing!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 20, 2022 09:19 AM (r46W7)

475 Yeah, I'm a no on DeSantis for VP. Waste of his talents. He can be his own 2 term President, in time.

IMO YMMV

Posted by: DB at July 20, 2022 09:19 AM (geLO8)

476 Oh, another thing the "queer" (that's how she described herself) woman from the organization for healthy sexuality for teens said at the Board of Education meeting last night was- and I assume it was intended as a way to ease tension- was "I want you to breathe in this thought: "Everybody needs to be accepted for where they are."


No. Period. Full stop. Lady, you are as full of shit as a Christmas goose. (Not you Fen)

I do not and will not accept someone who is as diametrically opposed to me as is possible.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 09:20 AM (1cmKJ)

477 Yup. And, to be frank, they'd thrive on another Trump administration. They might publicly say he's bad for the country but he's solid gold for the media and their wallets.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 20, 2022 09:19 AM (BFigT)



I told you.

Posted by: Tom Brokaw at July 20, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

478 472 It's arrant nonsense. A casual reading of the rabid responses to DeSantis speaking about pretty much anything would quickly disabuse one of that notion.

I think it is, at least in part, disinformation from the insane NeverTrump contingent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 20, 2022 09:19 AM (XIJ/X)

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Possible, but it's not a strawman since the NT is pushing it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 20, 2022 09:20 AM (LvTSG)

479 Well said...Trump and DeSantis are Providential warriors.
Posted by: Voter theater. at July 20, 2022 09:18 AM (pJMW1)

How sad that two men who simply aren't completely retarded look downright Providential in comparison with the cavalcade of degenerate corrupt buttfuckery we've come to expect.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 20, 2022 09:20 AM (6FeV1)

480 I see this a lot in blue states were the GOPe runs people that are basically just "not as crazy" leftwingers. So the people in those states never hear any argument against leftwing ideas, and never really have a choice.

How would you characterize Virginia with its GOP governor? Does MD look at VA and see a difference?

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

481 454
I think that's obvious, and I am not sure why this straw man is getting any traction.

Agreed here.

I want to hear what all the 2024 candidates have to say in how they'll deal with the GOPe leadership and the permanent bureaucracy. It will be a problem for any actual conservative as we saw with Trump - but that doesn't mean others might not handle it better.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 20, 2022 09:15 AM (ESjRY)

This is going to be extremely difficult, unfortunately. I live in CT, and am active in local GOP politics because I want to give them one last chance before I walk away from them forever, and I might as well give it my all.

I'm shocked at the number of Republicans that absolutely can't stand Trump. They don't care about his accomplishments - his attitude is what turns them off. I spoke with one elected official that had several chances to vote for Trump, and only voted for him once. He wrote in Nikki Haley (?!) for 2020.

I don't get it, but it's there, and it's real. You'd need a special candidate to break through that.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 20, 2022 09:20 AM (3msSY)

482 Democrat Supervisors of Election in FL counties w dead ppl listed as “Active Voters”, who are sent mail-in ballots, which are returned to the Supervisors.
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No, that is not how the mail-in voting system works in Florida.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 20, 2022 09:21 AM (5p7BC)

483 >>Why is Biden pushing this crap so hard?

Same reason every other country aligned with the WEF is pushing this crap.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 20, 2022 09:21 AM (ZLI7S)

484 Cool, Hawkpilot!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 09:21 AM (yikp0)

485 Posted by: Hawkpilot at July 20, 2022 09:18 AM (aWQko)

My late Uncle was a glider pilot involved in Market Garden. He was of the opinion that it was "unpleasant".

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 20, 2022 09:21 AM (QSjkU)

486 470 Yup. And, to be frank, they'd thrive on another Trump administration. They might publicly say he's bad for the country but he's solid gold for the media and their wallets.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 20, 2022 09:19 AM (BFigT)

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Any Republican would be. Maybe Trump would be better than others in this regard, but any Republican puts them into Resistance mode.

Resistance mode is more addictive to read and absorb in media than pliant apologist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 20, 2022 09:21 AM (LvTSG)

487 Tucker is right where Tucker needs to be, talking to the people, relating, helping them understand, and saying what needs to be said.

DeSantis is where he needs to be, showing other governors the power of the position, proving that leadership can come from the state level, leading a bottom up revolt.

Trump is a good cheerleader, and international negotiator and a strong man. He needs to be President.

What has to go is McConnell, McCarthy and the rest of Congressional leadership that tie one hand behind our back prior to the fight. The traitors in the party that are in it for graft must be purged. It's doubtful it will happen, but this is the way.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 20, 2022 09:21 AM (knoo+)

488 Does anyone make non-radioactive Uranium bullets?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 20, 2022 09:21 AM (C1rbv)

489 467 My friend, who I was waiting to pick up at the airport in Holland, was a retired Colonel, who held the high ground next to the Nijmegen bridge during Operation Market Garden. School children in Holland knew his name. The town square was named after him.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at July 20, 2022 09:18 AM (aWQko)

Did he "Hold until relieved"???

(I know, different film)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 20, 2022 09:22 AM (r46W7)

490 "It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people can't be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it."
-- Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

This is the democracy problem and the enlightenment problem. A method of dealing with people of common goals and values is a worthless method of dealing with people with alien goals and values.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 20, 2022 09:22 AM (44ww/)

491 488 Does anyone make non-radioactive Uranium bullets?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 20, 2022 09:21 AM (C1rbv)

whoever supplies the A-10's does, but I don't think you can buy them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 20, 2022 09:22 AM (r46W7)

492 If Trump wins 2024 without DeSantis as VP, and DeSantis decides to run in 2028, what about the Primary battle in 2028 between DeSantis and Trump's VP?

Posted by: davidt at July 20, 2022 09:22 AM (oTZbj)

493 >.If Trump is Moses, DeSantis is Joshua.



I always thought Moses got a raw deal. He takes Israel all the way down the field to 1st and goal at the 1 yard line, then God pulls him and lets Joshua run it in for the score.

Posted by: DB at July 20, 2022 09:23 AM (geLO8)

494 It's probably more likely the child was taken across state lines to evade prosecution of the rapist.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 20, 2022 08:57 AM (kXYt5)


^This^

Posted by: Emmie at July 20, 2022 09:23 AM (6RgRK)

495 "I want you to breathe in this thought: "Everybody needs to be accepted for where they are."

Except it is manifestly clear that they themselves come nowhere close to that sentiment in their own lives.

If they accepted Johnny "as who he is", then why are they trying to move heaven and earth to get Johnny to identify as something else?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 20, 2022 09:23 AM (AHeqJ)

496 490 "It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people can't be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it."
-- Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

This is the democracy problem and the enlightenment problem. A method of dealing with people of common goals and values is a worthless method of dealing with people with alien goals and values.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 20, 2022 09:22 AM (44ww/)

Pretty bad people are governed in prisons. It's pretty much a sliding scale like that, the worse the people the more draconian the measures needed to keep them from destroying others.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 20, 2022 09:24 AM (L4he4)

497 My late Uncle was a glider pilot involved in Market Garden. He was of the opinion that it was "unpleasant".
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Those things were death traps.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 20, 2022 09:24 AM (uia9V)

498 I've just taken it as inevitable that Trump is going to run again and win the nomination quickly and easily. It's not my preference. In fact, I have no idea what my preference is since I've accepted what I see as an inevitability so completely.

He'll run. He'll effectively win the nomination by NH at the latest.

Wishing someone else would run and win is a waste of brain power in my mind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 20, 2022 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

499 This is the democracy problem and the enlightenment problem. A method of dealing with people of common goals and values is a worthless method of dealing with people with alien goals and values.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 20, 2022 09:22 AM (44ww/)

It's also why Monarchy is probably the *best* possible government for any Arab country. It's either that or a military dictatorship; nothing else works for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 20, 2022 09:24 AM (r46W7)

500 I always thought Moses got a raw deal. He takes Israel all the way down the field to 1st and goal at the 1 yard line, then God pulls him and lets Joshua run it in for the score.
Posted by: DB at July 20, 2022 09:23 AM (geLO

Moses threw a tantrum and disobeyed God. God was pissed.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 20, 2022 09:25 AM (QSjkU)

501 McConnell predicting a full slate of GOPe traitors running in 2024.

Posted by: Ziba at July 20, 2022 09:25 AM (4h9M3)

502 "NeverTrump’s Latest Attempt To Dismiss Election Concerns Is Particularly Dishonest"

Molly Hemingway's piece noted above is your must read article of the day.

You want to know why the last presidential election was lost, and why the coming elections will be compromised? It is because the GOP has subversives they have supported for years, helping perpetuate the illegality and never fighting it with any conviction.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 20, 2022 09:25 AM (VpIIl)

503 It's probably more likely the child was taken across state lines to evade prosecution of the rapist.

*

And exposure of the sex trafficking and income stream of the mother.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 09:25 AM (YY8sh)

504 boldly stating the case for American economic prosperity, societal normalcy and stability and foreign policy sanity by attacking everyone and everything Democrat/Leftist, nonstop and with no mercy.

I agree with this...BUT! I think Trump can be that man. Per Kurt Schlichter's book; a "true authoritarian" who will drop the gloves at go at it. Is what we need. Trump can be that as a lame duck President, who cares how many enemies he make, he's gone after 4 years. Then DeSantis can come in, smooth out ruffled feather and take over the helm for a solid 12 years of "We are going to fix this shit". I also think Schlichter would be the perfect VP for Trumps reign of terror.

Posted by: Paladin at July 20, 2022 09:26 AM (Br9Gi)

505 We need a new term for Kalifornia as lead bullets are banned there.

Posted by: Ciampino

There are some new copper bullets that look like they are quite good for self defense.

I asked about solid copper round balls for black powder rifles for hunting. Everyone said it was a bad idea as copper isn't as heavy as lead and wouldn't transfer kinetic energy as well.
If it's not good enough to drop a 120 lb whitetail, I'm leery about trying to drop a 300 lb man.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 09:26 AM (1cmKJ)

506 The Colonel wanted me to take a Commission. None of his (many) kids ever went in the Service, so I was the stand-in. I had to pass, as being a Warrant is the most enviable job in the Military, but we did use some of his words of wisdom on my son's successful West Point application.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at July 20, 2022 09:26 AM (aWQko)

507 Oh, another thing the "queer" (that's how she described herself) woman from the organization for healthy sexuality for teens said at the Board of Education meeting last night was- and I assume it was intended as a way to ease tension- was "I want you to breathe in this thought: "Everybody needs to be accepted for where they are." I sometimes use breath prayers such as a time in time in silence to breathe in for a six or so seconds , hold it for a six seconds and bring a prayer to God, or if you can't think of what you need to ask God for today you might say, "Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me-or us.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 20, 2022 09:09 AM (PrR4G)
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What a bunch of disingenuous twaddle. It isn't about "acceptance," it's about forcing an ideology and trying to convert people to your cult and gain (and retain) access to youths. Moreover, you can be sure she doesn't advocate "accepting" traditional positions. Her weird pseudo-religious crap aside, this kind of blatant and sanctimonious deceit is probably not winning her any converts.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 20, 2022 09:27 AM (5zVb8)

508 " "I want you to breathe in this thought: "Everybody needs to be accepted for where they are."

Word.

Posted by: zombie John Wayne Gacy at July 20, 2022 09:27 AM (sn5EN)

509 JustTheNews:

The previously untold story of how highly anticipated declassified material never became public is contained in a memo obtained by Just the News from the National Archives that was written by then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows just hours before Trump left office on noon of Jan. 20, 2021.

Meadows' memo confirmed prior reporting by Just the News that Trump on Jan. 19, 2021 declassified a binder of hundreds of pages of sensitive FBI documents that show how the bureau used informants and FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign and misled both a federal court and Congress about flaws in the evidence they offered to get approval for the investigation.

Posted by: SMOD at July 20, 2022 09:27 AM (ePkPk)

510 If the GOPe itself wouldn't label these people as crazy, they'd play like generic Republicans with the electorate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 20, 2022 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

Bingo. You're more than just a pretty face sometimes you know.

Posted by: ... at July 20, 2022 09:27 AM (yTwpj)

511 whoever supplies the A-10's does, but I don't think you can buy them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 20, 2022 09:22 AM (r46W7)

I think they stopped using depleted uranium. While it's not highly radioactive, it's still a pretty toxic heavy metal.

I seem to remember reading they had switched to tungsten.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 20, 2022 09:27 AM (UuD2k)

512 I always thought Moses got a raw deal. He takes Israel all the way down the field to 1st and goal at the 1 yard line, then God pulls him and lets Joshua run it in for the score.
Posted by: DB at July 20, 2022 09:23 AM (geLO

Moses threw a tantrum and disobeyed God. God was pissed.
Posted by: Xipe Totec


Then Moses got sent to the minors for 40 years.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 09:28 AM (1cmKJ)

513 The fact DeSantis is backed by all the big donors who backed Jeb! as well as the NeverTrump choir on Twitter, including David French, Bill Kristol and George Conway makes him a huge "no" for me.

Also DeSantis's supporters never can explain why he banned fracking in FL or why he has used FL's red flag laws (passed under Scott after Parkland) to take the guns away from 5000 Floridians while governor.

Finally, despite the revisionist history, DeSantis locked down FL and kept it locked down even as Trump was asking governor's to re-open after Easter 2020. People were legit arrested on beaches. FL was only partially opened up in September 2020 and fully after the vax came out. DeSantis didn't say anything bad about Fauci until recently.

Six states did not shut down at all: SD (Noem), UT (Herbert, then Cox), WY (Gordon), AK (Hutchinson), ND (Burgum) and Iowa (Reynolds). How come no one ever talks about them?

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 20, 2022 09:28 AM (YVBLw)

514 My friend, who I was waiting to pick up at the airport in Holland, was a retired Colonel, who held the high ground next to the Nijmegen bridge during Operation Market Garden. School children in Holland knew his name. The town square was named after him.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at July 20, 2022 09:18 AM


Nice. My friend's grandfather never made it through the Netherlands.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 20, 2022 09:28 AM (4p7Em)

515
Bingo. You're more than just a pretty face sometimes you know.
Posted by: ... at July 20, 2022 09:27 AM (yTwpj)



Oh shit. NOW you've done it......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 20, 2022 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

516 The GOP standard bearer in 2024 will be an amalgamation of Hitler/Mao/Pol Pot/Charles Manson... We will find out in time who will embody these people. I mean, if they can turn mittens rombley and juan mcvain into Hitler they can do it to anyone

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 20, 2022 09:28 AM (flINI)

517 Trump ripped Speaker Robin Voss (WI-Assembly) a new one last night. Voss has been instrumental in holding Gov. Evers in check since Walker left the governorship in a lot of ways. Trump is mad at him for not joining the I WON campaign.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 20, 2022 09:28 AM (45fpk)

518
The most important thing that can be done for this country is to kill the GOPe. They are the major impediment to returning to a free and constitutional America.
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Yes. For the Right to live, the Party must die. In a broader sense, for the country to live, "both" Parties must die.

It's not a big, complex thing. It's right in front of our faces.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 20, 2022 09:28 AM (Zhwz2)

519 If they accepted Johnny "as who he is", then why are they trying to move heaven and earth to get Johnny to identify as something else?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 20, 2022 09:23 AM (AHeqJ)

Rachel Levine would like to tell you why.

Posted by: Ziba at July 20, 2022 09:28 AM (4h9M3)

520 510 Bingo. You're more than just a pretty face sometimes you know.
Posted by: ... at July 20, 2022 09:27 AM (yTwpj)

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You just want to date me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 20, 2022 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

521 I think they stopped using depleted uranium. While it's not highly radioactive, it's still a pretty toxic heavy metal.

Yet sending any round into a tank isn't toxic?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 09:29 AM (1cmKJ)

522 The GOP, led by Romney's niece, who Trump for some reason supports, is wholly responsible for the last presidential election loss. She continues to use the same lawyers and consultants who deliberately undermined the entire election process because they didn't like Trump. That is now being further weaponized by Democrats for all future elections- and the GOP isn't doing a thing about it. In fact, they are still using many of the same people in their operations.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 20, 2022 09:29 AM (VpIIl)

523 512 I always thought Moses got a raw deal. He takes Israel all the way down the field to 1st and goal at the 1 yard line, then God pulls him and lets Joshua run it in for the score.
Posted by: DB at July 20, 2022 09:23 AM (geLO

Moses threw a tantrum and disobeyed God. God was pissed.
Posted by: Xipe Totec


Then Moses got sent to the minors for 40 years.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 09:28 AM (1cmKJ)

Other way around. And that was not a punishment for Moses but the Hebrews.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 20, 2022 09:30 AM (L4he4)

524 ... I'm leery about trying to drop a 300 lb man.
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Why would I want to rob or attack you, Rick??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 09:30 AM (yikp0)

525 Trump is a resident of Florida now. Constitution doesn't permit Prez and VP from the same state. That's why Cheney is "from" Wyoming.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 20, 2022 09:11 AM (z99Zw)
~~~~~

He can move back to Trump Tower.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 20, 2022 09:30 AM (VhE0u)

526
The GOP standard bearer in 2024 will be an amalgamation of Hitler/Mao/Pol Pot/Charles Manson
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No. It will be an amalgation of Jim Bakker/Bobby Bowfinger/Roy Munson... the way nature intended.

Posted by: The GOP at July 20, 2022 09:31 AM (Zhwz2)

527 Why would I want to rob or attack you, Rick??
Posted by: andycanuck


Lol.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 09:31 AM (1cmKJ)

528 525 He can move back to Trump Tower.
Posted by: IrishEi at July 20, 2022 09:30 AM (VhE0u)

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He could buy a house in rural Kansas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 20, 2022 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

529 McConnell predicting a full slate of GOPe traitors running in 2024.
Posted by: Ziba

*****

2016 was the biggest and "brightest" field of candidates ever in GOP history.

Where are they now? lol

Any of them actually not only being begged for endorsements by candidates across the country, but who's endorsements change primaries to where the "popular governor's" pick gets demolished?

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 20, 2022 09:33 AM (YVBLw)

530 NOOD

Posted by: Ciampino - - - at July 20, 2022 09:33 AM (qfLjt)

531 nood architecture

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 20, 2022 09:33 AM (yikp0)

532 >Then Moses got sent to the minors for 40 years.

Posted by: rickb223




But he's your best player. You chew his ass, sit him down for a few plays, then send him back in.
"Winning is the only thing." -Vince Lombardi (pbuh)

Posted by: DB at July 20, 2022 09:33 AM (geLO8)

533 Look, if he gets the nod, I will crawl naked through molten lava to vote for him. But I think we're better served with Ron DeSantis as the standard-bearer. Young, a fighter who not only defends himself but goes on the attack against the left, and has made Florida into a beacon of freedom and prosperity.

This. I love Trump. Desantis can win a lot of independents. Look it's not me who needs to be convinced. I'll pull the lever for Trump in a nanosecond and would join you JJ in crawling over molten lava naked to vote for him. But if I had my pick as of now it would be Desantis.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 20, 2022 09:34 AM (iiRhj)

534 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 20, 2022 09:13 AM (XIJ/X)

What's not so obvious is people believing he automatically has Trump's battleship fortitude, because has fought extremely hard and said a lot of the right things. Trump's constitution is essentially a lifetime one-off and you only need to look to the wilting of just about every other spotlight Republican in the last 20 years.

Like it or not, it is a wildcard until the real testing occurs, which remains to be seen. Acknowledging this is not a thought crime or blind Trump support.

Posted by: ... at July 20, 2022 09:34 AM (xtKXh)

535 >>Did he hold until relieved?

I believe they had to be evacuated back across the river. He blamed Monty, who did not haul ass up the road to relieve them.

He is actually quoted in the book "a bridge too far", from a speech he gave to the pilots dropping them in. On D-Day, his 82nd boys had been scattered to the 4 winds, so when this jump came up he told them "Gentlemen, you can put us down in Holland, or put us down in hell, but put us all down in one place together!".

Posted by: Hawkpilot at July 20, 2022 09:35 AM (aWQko)

536 You just want to date me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 20, 2022 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

I do but I'm out of carbon.

Posted by: ... at July 20, 2022 09:36 AM (xtKXh)

537 Her weird pseudo-religious crap aside, this kind of blatant and sanctimonious deceit is probably not winning her any converts.

She is a very well spoken, rather attractive woman who used self-deprecating humor to try to disarm folks. She has a doctorate in something, Educational Psychology, I think, but years of working at ETS-the Educational Testing Service which develops tests such as the SAT, GRE, etc doesn't make you an expert of the psychology of kids. There was a woman there who has a degree in psychology and addictions and spent 25 years working with kids in trauma. She was appalled at this stuff. People don't seem to be addressing the fact that a lot of kids who want to transgender have either physical/sexual/mental abuse at home and transgendering is a way, they think, to escape from their bodies and become a new person. No, instead they're given hormone blockers or given surgery to get their breasts take off or not sent to someone who might questions the left wing orthodoxy on this.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 20, 2022 09:37 AM (PrR4G)

538 Ronald Reagan in his first term, and it's easy to forget he had almost as much opposition (even from his own party) as Trump did. But he made a LOT better appointments, for the most part. 2nd term got bogged down, but his first term was glorious.
Posted by: Tom Servo

*****

Better appointments were because there were still members of the GOP who hadn't sold the country out to China to choose from back then.

I was talking to my mom (a LEGAL immigrant) just the other day and she said how sickening it was to her that America is not being run by Americans anymore. It's run by China, the UN, the EU, etc. She said she thinks by the time Americans wake up it will be too late. Sad.

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 20, 2022 09:37 AM (YVBLw)

539 She also said very few people "de-transition". Yes; maybe because you don't give them the tools on how to do that! D'oh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 20, 2022 09:39 AM (PrR4G)

540 There was a lot of discussion about replacing the PGU-14 rounds the GAU-8 was using. But it was mostly because those rounds have a shelf life (plus the PGU-13 was also pretty good round). But tungsten penetrators, et al, simply don't have the firepower the PGU-14 delivers on target. Because of it's pyrophoric nature, the rounds send high velocity, spontaneously combusting particles through the wall of the armor and into the crew space, which is devastating. It is also not radioactive in nature, and more a heavy metal contaminant like lead. FWIW

Posted by: Marcus T at July 20, 2022 09:39 AM (VpIIl)

541 I'm not that worried about Trump's age. I am worried that he seems to be running on "I was robbed; I am owed the presidency" rather than "Remember what life was like during my presidency". Yes, he was robbed, but he needs to end the pity party. He needs to put together a comprehensive plan of what he intends to do if re-elected. And, no, no DeSantis VP. Leave DeSantis down there in Florida doing what descent is does best: provide the country with an example of the good life under a conservative governor vs. trap life under a proggie governor. DeSantis has lots of time.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at July 20, 2022 09:40 AM (H31K8)

542 521 I think they stopped using depleted uranium. While it's not highly radioactive, it's still a pretty toxic heavy metal.

Yet sending any round into a tank isn't toxic?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 20, 2022 09:29 AM (1cmKJ)
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The big fuss is what is left in the soil.

Posted by: Ciampino - W is expensive at July 20, 2022 09:42 AM (qfLjt)

543 08 McCain 59,948,323
12 Romney 60,933,504
16 Trump 62,984,828
20 Trump 74,216,154 (with most diverse coalition of any GOP candidate ever).

It's really simple -- any GOP candidate but Trump (including DeSantis no matter how many of Trump's mannerisms he copies) is going to be lucky to get Romney's numbers, as there are at least 11 million people who aren't going to vote for anyone but Trump. Trump got those "unlikely" or "infrequent" voters to the polls.

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 20, 2022 09:43 AM (YVBLw)

544 She also said very few people "de-transition". Yes; maybe because you don't give them the tools on how to do that! D'oh.

*

There was a great comic posted here a few weeks ago that summed up the kids and cross dressing thing perfectly.

A plain little girl was looking at a huge picture of an awesome cross dresser super hero with people cheering and clapping and bright colors and cool music playing etc. etc., and then in the next frame she looked at a black and white picture of herself.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 20, 2022 09:43 AM (YY8sh)

545
How would you characterize Virginia with its GOP governor? Does MD look at VA and see a difference?


Youngkin seems to be an actual conservative. People will see a difference between him and the scumbags that came before him and hopefully make the connection.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 20, 2022 09:44 AM (ESjRY)

546 Yes; I saw that cartoon, Marcus. they want to big heroes, heroines and they get acclaim from people on social media, and when they hype doesn't live up to what they wanted they get depressed and suicidal.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 20, 2022 09:46 AM (PrR4G)

547 I was robbed; I am owed the presidency" rather than "Remember what life was like during my presidency". Yes, he was robbed, but he needs to end the pity party. He needs to put together a comprehensive plan of what he intends to do if re-elected.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin

****

Trump has literally given rally after rally, most of which are 2 hours long, talking about energy independence, gas prices, unnecessary wars, CRT, wide open borders, rise in crime, men competing in women's sports, the rigged 2020 election (proven by the WI and PA Supreme courts) and the need for election security and this is seen as a "pity party?" LOL Trump doesn't need to present a 7 point plan. He has proven he can fix all this shit.

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 20, 2022 09:47 AM (YVBLw)

548 "I'd keep the NYC origin under wraps though. "

Yep.

They're called "Wood Ticks." Throw away all the "I (heart) New York" t-shirts...don't even use them as oil rags.

Posted by: Ju at July 20, 2022 09:49 AM (aTmM/)

549 This is going to be extremely difficult, unfortunately. I live in CT, and am active in local GOP politics because I want to give them one last chance before I walk away from them forever, and I might as well give it my all.

I'm shocked at the number of Republicans that absolutely can't stand Trump. They don't care about his accomplishments - his attitude is what turns them off. I spoke with one elected official that had several chances to vote for Trump, and only voted for him once. He wrote in Nikki Haley (?!) for 2020.

I don't get it, but it's there, and it's real. You'd need a special candidate to break through that.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

****

No offense but I'm not interested one bit in trying to "win over" anybody in CT.

The state has 7 electoral college votes. Plus the alleged Republicans there are not better than the Democrats. Any candidate that would appeal to CT Republicans (such as a Nikky Haley) has no change in the South or Midwest.

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 20, 2022 09:52 AM (YVBLw)

550 That's what I have also been saying, the GOP needs to been dismantled. And soon! I wait for further instructions.

Posted by: sidney at July 20, 2022 09:53 AM (Uy/WF)

551 549>Very true, UMAGA. I'm done accepting half baked Republicans. As corporal Hicks once said, " I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit... It's the only way to be sure." Time to nuke the GOP.

Posted by: sidney at July 20, 2022 09:59 AM (Uy/WF)

552 He wrote in Nikki Haley (?!) for 2020.
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Sort of says it all.

Posted by: ... at July 20, 2022 10:08 AM (fyqlm)

553 "I think he's too old, despite his mental faculties still very much intact, and some of his unforced errors, particularly with Fauci and the CDC in the initial handling of the psy-op pandemic which was the biggest and ultimately led to his undoing."

Operation Warp Speed sucked but Americans knew Trump meant well regardless and gave him a landslide. His undoing was the Election Fraud Coup.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at July 20, 2022 10:18 AM (Ndje9)

554 DeSantis would be foolish to run. First, the system is still completely rigged. There've been no significant changes in any of the 5 craphole states that haven't already been challenged in courts and knocked back down. None.

DeSantis would waste a ton of time and energy on a nothing-burger from an illegitimate government, anyway.

DeSantis is far more powerful as the governor of a Free State. Let Trump run and waste his time and money. Maybe - just maybe - yet another obvious cheat will light a fire under his hardcore believers to finally do something other than share Q drops with each other.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at July 20, 2022 10:21 AM (cAmAc)

555 BS it’s Trump Al the way, he’s the one that walked, or rammed through the fire for us, for all of us.

We must stop the BS of DeSantis, even DeSantis knows it’s not his time

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 20, 2022 10:30 AM (t4poC)

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Posted by: Sarah at July 20, 2022 10:57 AM (O3yIH)

557 Agreed! These “commentators “ haven’t even listened to Trump, they listen to the “main” media and read crazy anti Trump crap.

Repeat and rinse

47 I was robbed; I am owed the presidency" rather than "Remember what life was like during my presidency". Yes, he was robbed, but he needs to end the pity party. He needs to put together a comprehensive plan of what he intends to do if re-elected.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin

****

Trump has literally given rally after rally, most of which are 2 hours long, talking about energy independence, gas prices, unnecessary wars, CRT, wide open borders, rise in crime, men competing in women's sports, the rigged 2020 election (proven by the WI and PA Supreme courts) and the need for election security and this is seen as a "pity party?" LOL Trump doesn't need to present a 7 point plan. He has proven he can fix all this shit.

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 20, 2022 11:11 AM (t4poC)

558 The Ron DeSantis who went to a private fundraiser yesterday with the Utah GOP, home of the traitorous Mittens? That one? I think I'll pass ever voting for him.

Posted by: cjhmhch at July 20, 2022 12:30 PM (LX4Fk)

559 The social media account run by the Biden White House tweeted that the president has taken “historic action to lower gas prices for families, and gas prices have declined by an average of 50 cents per gallon over the last 34 days.”
Shades of 1984:
“...there have even been demonstrations thanking Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to 20 grams per week...”
Note bene: last week the chocolate ration was 30 grams per week. - Winston Smith 1984

Posted by: waepnedmann at July 20, 2022 12:58 PM (ZVmsb)

560 Sorry JJ. While I agree with sentiment regarding the takeover/destruction of the current Republican Party as we know it and the implementation - not mere advocacy - of real MAGA policies, not having President Trump at the top of the ticket in 2024 is a nonstarter for me.
What the RINO and Chamber of Commerce Republicans did in 2020 to help Democrats steal a national election, this will never be forgiven by myself and tens of millions across the nation. We are where we are now because the 2020 presidential contest was stolen, with duplicity and complicity from Republican governors (AZ, GA) state legistlatures (AZ, GA, PA, MI, WI) and deep state cooperation. I want justice. I want scalps. I want jail time and real consequences for all (D and R alike) who participated. We aren't letting this go and until so-called "conservative" pundits and leaders supposedly on our side quit thinking they can just brush this massive crime under the rug, then we will NEVER be united as a movement.
I will personally not vote for anyone who isn't Donald Trump in 2024. Republicans be damned!
Also, no mention from you about completing the border wall. That must be done, with mass deportations too.

Posted by: Tracy at July 20, 2022 01:30 PM (cm2PG)

561 I voted hesitantly vote for Trump in 2016 and enthusiastically 2020. He was dealt a shit hand and was surrounded by wolves in GOP clothing. Yet he still got alot of great stuff done. Anybody hear from ISIS much lately? Threats from North Korea? Terrorism has nearly disappeared. He got the worst 1% on our side to out themselves.

That said, he walked into every one of the traps they set for him. He spent a year talking about how they would try to steal the election and then had no plan. It's a pattern with him.

Even with that, if he had let say Newt Gingrich help out on his Twitter feed he probably would have won reelection.

I am not voting for Haley or pence I will literally vote for Biden oveerthem or anyone of the DCFirsters. A bad dem president is better for our movement than a bad GOP president.

I think Trump is doing much better in his current role and do not wish to vote for him a third time.

Posted by: Shiggz (cool ranch MAGA) at July 20, 2022 02:54 PM (0SrVS)

562 People (including some here) keep pushing the lie that Trump only talked about pending voter fraud in 2020 and did nothing about it.

Not even close to accurate. As I stated, it's a lie and easily proven to be so, save for those too lazy or invested in a false narrative to be bothered to do a simple online engine search of news articles PRE-ELECTION 2020 that chronicle team Trump's efforts against drop boxes and mail-in ballots in both state and federal courts.

This lie is a NeverTrump talking point and nothing more.
Fuck NeverTrump, the Bushes, the McCains, the Romneys and the whole worthless G.O.P.!

Posted by: Tracy at July 20, 2022 04:57 PM (cm2PG)

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