The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 7/25/22

Good morning, kids. Start of a new week, and a new life, so let's dive right in. The long drive was punctuated by a couple of stops to fill up the tank. $60 bucks in western Pennsylvania and then $48 in Indiana. The cratering economy for me was somewhat abstract even in impossibly expensive New York City but those two stops hit me in the face, and really brought home what the average American has been experiencing every day for well over a year now. People are angry at President Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants but he's just the visible face of a party that is intentionally doing everything it can to "fundamentally transform" everyone into a destitute serf beholden to a relative handful of wealthy, powerful overlords in government as well as a select few corporate C-suites.

A couple of good essays bring this point into sharp focus. First, courtesy of CBD, we have James Kunstler from his aptly titled Clusterfuck Nation blog setting the stage with a piece in reaction to Joey Soft-Serve's recent fiasco of a trip to the Middle East:

It’s like our country is trapped on one of those swirling carnival rides beloved of the county fairs… only, the felonious mutt who runs the ride has nodded off in a fentanyl delirium with the motor running at maximum speed… and the children-of-all-ages locked in the pods of this infernal machine shriek and vomit with each sickening rotation… as the half-century-old swing arms groan and wobble from metal fatigue on their squealing pivots… and suddenly comes a deafening crunch of gnashed gears, the smell of burning oil, and the pathetic whimpering of the nearly dead. . .
. . . It’s like a crime scene where the forensic experts have entered. The Saudi leader and his entourage only hang around the room for three minutes until the US State Department shoots enough photos to prove that “JB” was there and not stuffed in the basement of his Delaware beach house for the weekend, as usual. The American news media gets briefed: Saudi Arabia graciously agrees to bump up its oil production somewhere in the 2025-2027 time-frame — a triumph for US diplomacy, the networks are informed. Air Force One wings home through clouds of despair. The White House team members spend the flight updating their resumés.
I think we have witnessed “Joe Biden’s” final appearance at any world-stage event. He can do no more for the Party of Chaos. It has done what it can to wreck the joint with him as the pretend head-of-state.

Funny how the Democrat-Left is getting exactly what it wants in the rejiggering of America into a socialist shithole because, I don't think they are shocked or upset in the least with out of control crime, skyrocketing prices, supply chain breakdowns and a dollar shrinking faster than Brian Stetler's yutzick after an ice bucket challenge with ethyl chloride. What shocks and upsets them is that we the citizenry are not over the moon ecstatic and grateful to them. That's what they don't understand, and so as whole swathes of heretofore solid Democrat voting blocs openly boast of abandoning the party come this November (a permanent shift remains to be seen, mostly because of a GOP unwilling to attract and retain them), the Kalorama Klown Komintern has no choice but to quadruple down.

However corrupt the people and institutions of government and an alarmingly large section of the private sector may be, even in the wake of a stolen national election, the Left's control over even the most seriously compromised of the latter is still not absolute. With November just around the corner, there is little doubt that every criminal effort to keep the House and Senate in their hands will be used. To reiterate, they attempted to steal 2016, they did in fact steal 2020, and there is nothing they will not do up to and including physical violence — remember, that is now official state sanctioned physical violence — to preserve, protect and defend their power.

As friend and friend of the blog Michael Walsh reminds us, "by any means necessary" ain't just a river in Egypt.

One of the ringing phrases of that decade was "by any means necessary," which originated in in a 1960 speech by the black French West Indian radical Marxist Frantz Fanon, "Why we use violence." The phrase may have had its roots in the 1948 play Dirty Hands(Les mains sales) by the Existentialist French playwright and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre ("It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary") and then widely popularized by Malcolm X in 1965 (the year of his own assassination): "We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary." It's a slogan now associated with black American filmmaker Spike Lee, who adopted it from Malcolm while making his eponymous film.
In case you haven't figured it out yet, "by any means necessary" means violence, otherwise known by the 1960s' euphemism, "direct action." . . .
. . . Partisans on both sides of the ideological divide now speak openly of civil war—"direct action" at its rawest—and who can blame them? The country is a mess, a criminal oligarchy of the elderly, led by the same few families for the past 40 years (the Bushes, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Trumps), with a Trump v. Biden rematch possibly in the cards for 2024, unless either sensible heads prevail or the Grim Reaper finally comes to call for the Baby Boomers.
If war comes, however, it won't be geographical but ideological. The states have split between the parties, while the parties have split the electorate in odd ways: rich whites, especially Democrat women, have adopted the Sixties' clenched fists of "revolution," while the working class, including Latinos, has drifted toward the Republicans, hoping to preserve their rapidly declining standard of living while hunkering down and awaiting the possible succor of the fall elections.

As to the elections, we shall see what happens. I keep wondering, and as a caveat let me emphasize that I abhor violence, that as the Left ramps up its political thuggery in kangaroo courts and street thuggery with the firebombing of right-to-life centers and houses of worship, along with conservative and Republican political offices, the attempted assassinations of opposition figures like Justice Kavanaugh and Lee Zeldin, as well as the unleashing of criminals on our streets to terrorize the citizenry, will all of this lead them to their ultimate goal of total control, or will what was supposed to be a controlled demolition of society to Cloward-Piven it into paradise on earth actually turn into a Hiroshima-sized blowback against them?

Either way, we are heading for "interesting times."

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

It’s like our country is trapped on one of those swirling carnival rides beloved of the county fairs… only, the felonious mutt who runs the ride has nodded off in a fentanyl delirium with the motor running at maximum speed… and the children-of-all-ages locked in the pods of this infernal machine shriek and vomit with each sickening rotation… as the half-century-old swing arms groan and wobble from metal fatigue on their squealing pivots… and suddenly comes a deafening crunch of gnashed gears, the smell of burning oil, and the pathetic whimpering of the nearly dead.
The Last Days of “Joe Biden
Roger Kimball: "The union of abstract benevolence, which takes mankind as a whole for its object, with unbridled moralism is a toxic, misery-producing brew."
Big Government Benevolence
". . . You are, if you have any sense."
Who's Afraid of Klaus Schwab and the 'Great Reset'?
Victor Davis Hanson: "Alienating half the country is not a wise strategy of military recruitment."
How To Erode the World’s Greatest Military
Michael Walsh: "The system stinks and everybody knows it. Everybody, left and right agrees that something needs to be done. The question is, what? We may not have the answer to that yet, but we do know how: by any means necessary."
"By Any Means Necessary"

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

“ . . . pleaded guilty June 27 in District of Columbia federal court to a charge of demonstrating or parading in a restricted building.”
Pennsylvania Man Awaiting Sentencing Over January 6th Commits Suicide
"Oddly, the Black Rose Anarchist Federation seemed to distance itself from this year’s camp but says it still supports organizers."
Organizers of Portland's Antifa Summer Camp for Kids Go Quiet After Media Outlets Shine a Light on Them
"According to data compiled by the Family Research Council, there have been more than 100 attacks against pro-life groups nationwide since the beginning of May, many of which have been attributed to Jane’s Revenge, a far-left militant group that has taken credit for much of the violence."
Summer of Rage, Part I: Militant Pro-Abortion Radicals Flourish in Madison, Wisconsin; Violence ‘Meme’d’ on Twitter
"No one wants to openly admit [we all] hope Clarence Thomas dies."
Daniel Greenfield: Defund UCLA

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"The 65 Project will spend millions this year trying to expose and disbar more than 100 lawyers who worked on Trump’s election lawsuits."
More Than 100 Trump-Affiliated Lawyers Targeted By Dark Money Group
"Reflections on an unthinkable thought."
Was Bannon Found Guilty Because Jury and Judge Feared a Mob Reaction if He Were Acquitted>
Drop dead.
Liz-ard Cheney: Trump ‘Engaged in the Most Serious Misconduct’ of Any President in History
"Democrats of both parties are interested only in convincing people not to vote for Trump again. "
Some Lessons From January 6 Committee Finale
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Biden will never take responsibility for the inflation, so we shouldn’t expect him to take responsibility for the recession."
Biden Junta Bracing for a Tsunami of Bad Economic News Next Week
I suppose it depends on what your definition of "recession" is . . .
Yellen: U.S. Economy Is Not in a Recession
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"I think these extreme events that are getting steadily worse and more severe are really beginning to change minds. We have to have unity as a nation to come together and stop making this a political football. It shouldn’t be a partisan issue.”
Al Gore Compares ‘Climate Deniers’ to Police in Uvalde, Attacks Senate Filibuster for Blocking Action on Climate Change
David Harsanyi: "We ARE facing an emergency, but it's not the climate."
Biden Has No Right To Declare a National Climate Emergency
"The stuff that dreams are made of."
Piercing the Electric Car Fantasy
"When Green goes bad."
Is Sri Lanka's Disaster Headed Our Way?
"The corporate media wrote off Trump’s warning as a knee-jerk reaction and aversion to green energy — but he was right."
Trump Was Right About Europe’s Dangerous Dependence On Russian Energy
SECOND AMENDMENT
"The bill was developed in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Texas Heartbeat Act, wherein private citizens would be able to sue people who illegally sell firearms to individuals under 21 years old for up to $10,000, Fox reported. The Texas law provides private citizens in and outside the state with the power to sue abortion clinics and those who help women obtain abortions."
Newsom Signs California Gun Control Bill Modeled After Texas Abortion Law
" . . . And it didn’t start in Greenwood, Indiana."
Good Samaritans With Guns Make the World Safer
"State and city leaders condemn a high court decision on legal firearms, saying that it will worsen rising violent crime—but that’s a problem in their own power to solve."
New York’s Supreme Gun Distraction
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The guilty plea comes as Democrats across the country are complaining that illegal immigrants being shipped from Republican-controlled states to their areas are putting a strain on their resources."
Previously Deported Illegal Alien Pleads Guilty To Chinese COVID Relief Fraud, Other Charges
"The federal government collects about $22 billion annually in tax receipts from illegal aliens."
Feds Ignore Illegal Alien ID Theft Plaguing Americans
"As part of their legislative funding package for the 2023 fiscal year, House Democrats are hoping to reward DACA illegal aliens by allowing them to take jobs in Washington, DC, on Capitol Hill."
Democrats Slip Capitol Hill Jobs Plan for Illegal Aliens into Funding Package
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
But, but, but . . . gun control!
Multiple Shot In Peck Park, Los Angeles. LAPD Declares Citywide Tactical Alert
Daniel Greenfield: "Eliminating the crime doesn’t eliminate the consequences."
Democrats Decriminalized Drugs to Help Black People. Black Overdoses Skyrocketed
"A barber was giving a haircut right in the middle of the bridge. It’s a very pretty bridge, too."
Newly Opened Bridge in Los Angeles Magnet for Flash Mobs, Drag Racing, and Violence
Lloyd Billingsley: "New DA Brooke Jenkins cleans house in San Francisco."
Boudin Battalions Booted
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"NYT darling Herman Daly has plans for you."
The Economist Plotting the Brave New World Order
"Now that Biden has [Chinese] Covid, those people who warned you to be in constant fear for your life are awkwardly trying to avoid eye contact."
Media Sugarcoat 79-Year-Old Biden’s Chinese Covid Test After Threatening School, Church, And Work Could Kill You
"Reflections on the media's treatment of Trump with the [Chinese] virus."
Biden's Chinese Covid and Double Standards
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Trust this science."
New England Journal of Medicine: Unvaccinated Chinese COVID Patients Are Contagious for LESS Time Than those Vaxed or Boosted
Lloyd Billingsley: "But FBI investigators aren’t saying what they found."
FBI Investigated Fauci’s Grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology
"Now that Joe Biden has [Chinese] COVID, can we call it a 'pandemic of the vaccinated?'"
Life Among the ‘Super-Dodgers’
John Dale Dunn, M.D.: " A courageous and brilliant doctor who has been persecuted for telling the truth about the treatment of [Chinese] COVID."
Dr. Peter McCullough: Chinese COVID 19 Early Treatment Hero
“If you’re gonna force people to get vaccinated because the science changes, you also have to acknowledge that you’re allowing people to have exceptions because the science changes, and it’s no longer necessary."
NYC Mayor Fires Another 200 City Workers Over Chinese COVID Jab
"So when exactly did Fauci and Birx know that the vaccines wouldn’t prevent infection? Why did the Biden [junta] suggest that the vaccines were the silver bullet against [Chinese] COVID?"
Did Our Health Experts Lie About Chinese COVID Vaccines?

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"It sure does seem that goal of these leftist politicians is to hurt and even kill children, not protect them."
Using the Wuhan Panic to Kill Children
"Who did this to us? Will they get away with it?"
Willing Accomplices in The Greatest Crime of Our Lifetimes
"After all the [Chinese] COVID horrors the government has put us through — and continues to — you'd think we'd at least get some form of apology for all the failures."
Big Government Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
"As predicted."
Mask Mandates Are Coming Back
"[Chinese] Covid’s biggest danger now is not the latest variant but the risk that public health officials will overreact."
No More Masks
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"An example from Mexican history demonstrates that concerned parents can overcome a Marxist school indoctrination program."
Revolution and the Minds of Children
Christopher F. Rufo: "Los Angeles Unified School District adopts radical 'trans-affirming' programming and instructs teachers to work toward 'the breakdown of the gender binary.'”
Sexual Liberation in Public Schools
"This survey comes hot on the heels of one commissioned by the American Federation of Teachers which found that voters in key battleground states are more likely to side with Republicans than Democrats in regards to who they trust more on education."
Student Behavior Among Major Reasons Teachers Are Leaving Their Jobs: Survey
"We are entering a future where blacklisting, censorship, and the abuse of power will become the norm, because apparently the new generation thinks such things are always justified, if they have been offended in any way. From a recent poll of 2,000 students at 130 colleges."
A Large Majority of Today's College Students Think Blacklisting is a Good Thing
ABORTION
David Harsanyi: "Why would any Republican vote for that cynical, dishonest, anti-constitutional ‘contraception’ bill?"
No One is Coming For Contraception, But They’re Definitely Coming For Conscience Rights
"Democrats say they love democracy, but when it produces laws they oppose, they’ll use all their power to undermine it."
In the Wake of Roe’s Demise, Democrats Are Doing All They Can to Thwart Democracy
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Watch out for foul play."
Midterm Machinations
Margot Cleveland: "The Fulton County district attorney is making the Jan. 6 show trial look like a paragon of propriety and due process."
Fulton County DA’s J6-Style Crusade Against Lindsey Graham Is Unconstitutional, and Here’s Why
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"It's insulting."
Jewish Father Sues Elite Private School Over ‘Racially Divisive And Anti-Semitic’ DEI Curriculum
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"Evidence of deep corruption has become apparent. It's time for an investigation."
Is The Joe Biden Crime Family Finally Breaking Apart?
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Minnesota's Jeff Ettinger now says he 'know[s] how to fight inflation' as his former company made food 'affordable.'"
Swine and Sleaze: Democrat Conspired To Hike Pork Prices, Lawsuits Say
Robert Spencer: "What did you expect?"
Rancida Taliban Campaign Events Were Organized by Accused Jihad Financiers
“All he’s good at is raising money from Wall Street and Big Pharma executives,” Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters, who has led in recent Republican primary polls, told the DCNF when asked about the donations to Kelly’s campaign.
Mark Kelly Raked In Cash From Corporate-Backed PACs Despite Pledging To Refuse ‘Corporate PAC Money’
"Jordan and Delaney, who contributed $10,000 in May to Barnes's leadership committee Leading the PAC and $5,800 to his campaign, are prominent in the progressive activist world."
This Wisconsin Dem Wants To Distance Himself From ‘Defund the Police.’ Two of His Biggest Donors Bankrolled Campaign To Remove Law Enforcement From Schools.
POLITICS
"I've only begun to fight."
DeSantis Urges Florida GOP To Be Ready For Battle
"After the last few weeks, I am absolutely convinced that Trump should and must run in 2024. Trump must run to finish what he started, Trump must run to crush the Republican establishment."
Trump 2024: Crush the Establishment
"There is nothing that the government says out loud that the people trust or believe."
The Globalist Effort to 'Get Trump' Is Backfiring — Bigly!
“He slept well last night. He ate his breakfast and lunch fully,” Jha said at a White House press briefing. “He actually showed me his plate,” he added while making a plate-holding gesture with his hands.
Chinese COVID Response Coordinator Ashish Jha Gives Strange Update On Biden’s Health Following Chinese COVID Diagnosis
"About 60 percent of Americans disapprove of the president, according to FiveThirtyEight’s polling average. Just 38 percent of Americans approve. Biden's disapproval has risen and his approval has fallen by a few points in the last month, when he first became the most unpopular commander in chief in recorded history."
For Second Straight Month, Biden Least Popular President, Legitimate or Otherwise, in History
"For 2024, Democrats are turning to blue-state strongholds where governors levy burdensome taxes, host sanctuary cities, bankroll illegals, and infuse wokeness and equity throughout every corner of state government."
Fishing for a Biden Successor

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"Democrats are failing the American people because they’ve rushed to the extreme. Meanwhile, Republicans are building a broad and diverse coalition."
Ronna Romney McDaniel: Democrats Are Devouring Their Own. Here’s One Way Republicans Can Benefit
"Pence is fighting a rear-guard action against Trump that has little hope for success. The populist forces driving the Republican Party will not be denied — even if Donald Trump isn’t the candidate."
Rift in Arizona GOP Widens With Visits By Both Trump and Pence
In a further confirmation of observations that the Democrat party has become the party of the wealthy, “Republicans lead 52%-37% among voters with incomes between $30,000 and $50,000 a year,” while conversely, “Democrats have the same 15-point advantage, 52% to 37%, among voters with annual incomes over $200,000,” notes Rasmussen.
Republicans Increase Generic Congressional Ballot Lead to Double Digits
"Arizonans don’t care what DC’s political elites and other RINOS say about how we should run our state or who we should elect as our next governor."
DC RINOs Campaign Against Trump-Endorsed Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake
"Want all of America to be like California? Vote Newsom."
Gavin Newsom: OK for California, Too Wacky for America
". . . according to [PJ Media's Rick] Moran, ordinary Republicans are voting for Trump due to hero-worship, while establishment Republicans oppose Trump because they think such hero-worship unhealthy. Moran’s analysis appears to represent the thinking of many Republican pundits. It also represents an analysis that is so wrong and out of touch with ordinary Republicans as to be downright laughable."
Completely Misunderstanding Trump’s Influence in the Republican Party
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"This round of aid comes just 10 days after the U.S. government and the World Bank announced they were sending a combined $1.7 billion in assistance to the Ukrainian government in an effort to support health care workers in the war-torn nation."
U.S. Sending $270 Million More Taxpayer Dollars To Ukraine
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Gordon Chang: "The speaker had planned to go to Taipei in April but postponed after testing positive for [Chinese] COVID-19. Beijing issued harsh words at the time and regularly condemns visits by American and other officials to the island republic, which it claims as its territory. So is the Chinese war warning this time also bluster?"
Will Malig-Nancy Pelosi Start World War III With China?
Thad McCotter: "Our feckless post-Soviet foreign policy regarding China yields only bitter lessons and rotten fruit."
Cold War II: Nixon Undone (Again)
"Biden’s meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman makes the U.S. look weak."
The Rehabilitation of a Pariah
"People have risen up throughout the globe over inflation, high costs of living and government corruption."
Here Are Just Some of the Uprisings Over Government Incompetence Happening Around the World
"Abbas knew his Arab audience would understand — and that his American one wouldn't."
Abbas Called For Israel’s Destruction in Front of Biden
"Even worse, he’s totally a fan of UNRWA, as corrupt and duplicitous as only a UN agency can be."
Biden Funds Palestinian Anti-Semitism
"Like the empires of the past, there are orders of rank. Black privilege travels to the empire's very frontiers, if not quite beyond them."
Brittney Griner’s Black Privilege
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
“'Close enough for government work’ has taken on a whole new dimension in the Biden era."
CIA Director "Very Proud" of Afghanistan Analysis That Led to the Disastrous Withdrawal
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Chinese-made Huawei “equipment was capable of capturing and disrupting highly restricted Defense Department communications, including those used by US Strategic Command, which oversees the country’s nuclear weapons.”
Report: China-Made Huawei Equipment Can Disrupt U.S. Military and Nuclear Communications
“You can actually take someone’s DNA, take, you know, their medical profile and you can target a biological weapon that will kill that person or take them off the battlefield or make them inoperable,” Crow, from Colorado, reportedly said.
Democrat House Intelligence Committee Member Warns: DNA Testing Can Be Used as Bioweapon to Target Americans
"Without sufficient industrial capacity and firepower, high tech information systems merely communicate the obvious: you are going to lose."
Industrial Power in Economics and War
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Residents express anger at Angela Merkel’s open border policy."
Syrian Migrant Kills German Teenager, Dumps Her Body at a Sewage Treatment Plant
Raymond Ibrahim: ". . . Says Pope Francis’ favorite Muslim sheikh."
Don’t Judge Islam by the Actions of a Few Muslims
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
“They intend to stack thousands of mid-level staff jobs. Well-funded groups are already developing lists of candidates selected often for their animus against the system — in line with Trump’s long-running obsession with draining 'the swamp.' This includes building extensive databases of people vetted as being committed to Trump and his agenda.”
Trump World Plan To Gut The Federal Bureaucracy Of Leftists, Revealed In Axios Report
"Illinois set to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue."
‘Your Problem Now’: Illinois Gov J.B. "Sitz-" Pritzker Celebrates GOP Billionaires Fleeing His State for Florida
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
A spokeswoman said the registry has “approximately 750 cases per year of people aged under 50 in Victoria suddenly having their heart stop (a cardiac arrest).”
Australian Medical Community Has Started a Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) Registry
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"In other words, this early data from Webb suggests that galaxies formed much faster than expected after the Big Bang. This either means all the theories describing the Bang are wrong, or that it might not have even happened."
The Earliest Galaxy So Far Seen?
"Chinese rocket designers appear to be rethinking the proposed design of the Long March 9 heavy lift rocket that China is building, switching from an expendable clone of NASA’s SLS to a reusable clone of SpaceX’s Starship/Superheavy."
China Rethinking Its Proposed Heavy Lift Rocket to Make it a Starship Clone
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Even Bill Clinton’s Defense of Marriage Act is too 'extreme' for GOP elites to support."
GOP Leaders to Religious Right: We Don’t Care About Marriage
Many outspoken gay conservatives have jumped on board and are helping Michell get her message out there. “We are a coalition of gays against the sexualization and indoctrination of children,” says the site.
'Gays Against Groomers' Organizes to Join Parents in the Fight Against Sexual Grooming in Schools
"After the fall of Roe v. Wade, it is time to discuss the role of dads in American society."
Neglect of Fathers Is Neglect of America
"How many erstwhile liberals will decide to flee the Democrat fold as a result of Biden’s gender policy?"
Joe Biden’s Game-Plan to End Women’s Sports is Right Out of the Marxist Playbook
So was slavery and Jim Crow.
Sen. Cornyn: Gay ‘Marriage’ Already is ‘Law of the Land,’ Settled by SCOTUS
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"The Diversity and Inclusiveness programs that so many companies have rushed into place are facades."
Age Discrimination: The Dark Side of Diversity
"Ten years ago Barack Obama introduced her as a Democrat composite. Her life seemed miserable enough then. It only became worse."
Obama’s Julia All Grown Up
"The Right can and must fight the culture war."
Beyond Elves and Hobbits
Christian Toto: "Comedians unite at Madison Square Garden to cheer free speech, send message."
Chappelle Joins Rock, Hart to Tell Cancel Culture to Pound Sand
"Julia, Paul [Child], and the cast around her saw that she connected with her audience, and that she made cooking fun, not a tool of oppression. It didn’t matter if others didn’t see it. She didn’t let a sour feminist dampen the joy she gave people.
Pop Culture Warriors: Julia Child & the New TV Series in Her Honor
"Who profits from the disintegration of the American family? Who profits from its invasion by mass entertainment, mass media, and mass schooling, three prongs of one pitchfork?"
Who Wants That Castle Down?
". . . All of those things make Schilling anathema to the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, whose members, like so many others in sports media, lean to the left."
Why Has Cooperstown Shut Out Curt Schilling?
"Living with the nightmare that socialism brought to a once thriving nation."
Prager U Video: Venezuela — Vivi’s Life Under Socialism
HITHER & YON
"The 2014 death of Philip Seymour Hoffman left a hole in American movies."
A Rare Talent, a Lingering Absence
"Rafelson was responsible for co-creating the fictional pop music group and television series “The Monkees” alongside the late Bert Schneider, which won him an Emmy for outstanding comedy series in 1967. But he was perhaps best known for his work during the New Hollywood era, which saw a classical studio system giving way to a batch of rebellious young voices and fresh filmmaking styles, and helped usher in talents like Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg."
Legendary Bob Rafelson, New Hollywood Era Director, Dies at 89

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 25, 2022 07:31 AM (1Z8zZ)

2 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 07:31 AM (ex2Cx)

3 Happy Birthday!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2022 07:31 AM (PiwSw)

4 fucking second again. I fell like Chase Elliot!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 07:32 AM (ex2Cx)

5 Nood announced. How was the trip?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 25, 2022 07:32 AM (1Z8zZ)

6 morning horde.

don't forget to wring the humidity out of your clothes on the way out the door.

covfefe is ready

now to the content.

and sounds like the move went well. happy birfday JJ

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 25, 2022 07:33 AM (p03vF)

7 Happy Monday, one and all! I am working until Wednesday and that is the reason I'm able to be so cheerful at the moment.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 25, 2022 07:33 AM (4olE8)

8 and suddenly comes a deafening crunch of gnashed gears, the smell of burning oil, and the pathetic whimpering of the nearly dead

Sounds like bad porn for old people!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 07:33 AM (ex2Cx)

9 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

I read your essay with a silly accent.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2022 07:33 AM (EZebt)

10 Posted last night. Nothing to see here, folks. Just elite athletes who are barely old enough to drink getting cancer or dying from heart attacks right after being injected with the mRNA concoction:

"John Metchie III, former Alabama WR, reveals he's been diagnosed with leukemia"

Superstar 2021 wide receiver. Healthier than I'd ever dream of being. Did publicly-approved vaxxine PSAs for the state of Alabama to encourage stupid hillbillies to get the injection.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 25, 2022 07:34 AM (gIwDN)

11 My gosh, it's full of links. See you this afternoon.

Posted by: Infidel at July 25, 2022 07:34 AM (mn1Pi)

12 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2022 07:35 AM (6WCwE)

13 Wow- that's one big cheddar of a MR! Thank you JJS.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2022 07:35 AM (Q4ymG)

14 5 Nood announced. How was the trip?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 25, 2022 07:32 AM (1Z8zZ)

Grueling. Started 4 hours later than I wanted which meant night driving for the last quarter was unavoidable. I hate night driving on highways. 15.5 hours later, we made it. At least I gained an hour crossing into the central time zone.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 07:35 AM (x0n13)

15 Saint of the Day
St. James the Greater (died 44 AD) is the brother of St. John the Apostle, and was one of Jesus's original 12 Apostles. The title "Greater" was added to distinguish him from St. James the Lesser, and is believed not to concern status or holiness, but physical height. Besides being the son of Zebedee, what is known of St. James's life comes after he and his brother were called to leave their father and their nets and follow after Jesus. James was one of the three apostles invited to witness the miraculous Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor. As well, his righteous anger at seeing a Samaritan town reject Jesus inspired him to ask Jesus to call down fire on the town, which Jesus gently rebuked. Following Christ's Resurrection and Ascension, James preached the Gospel across the Roman empire before traveling to Spain, where he spread the Gospel for many years. The famous "Camino de Santiago" pilgrimage path in Spain is named in his honor (Santiago is Spanish for James). At the end of his life, James returned to Jerusalem, where he was the first apostle to be martyred. His feast day is July 25th.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2022 07:36 AM (6WCwE)

16 Roughly 2,500 St Louis Boeing workers set to strike after company's offer rejected.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:36 AM (yikp0)

17 There's a chance that Biden will die from this Covid bout. Let's call it 10% for argument's sake.

I put the odds of his not reaching 2024, let alone running, at 90%.

Get ready for POTUS Kamala.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 25, 2022 07:36 AM (i0slg)

18 It rings a little absurd to bemoan "dynastic" politics, especially when you include the names Trump and Obama on the list.

It's not dynastic politics. It's Uniparty politics.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 07:37 AM (CNi0M)

19 Welcome to the Midwest, JJ! I pray life is peaceful after you settle in. I've heard they have pretty good food up there.

Mornin' to the Horde! Moar covfefe . . .

Posted by: Catherine at July 25, 2022 07:37 AM (ZSsrh)

20 "At least I gained an hour crossing into the central time zone."

I once flew from Grand Rapids to Milwaukee and arrived earlier than I'd left.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 25, 2022 07:37 AM (i0slg)

21 Biden's plagiarized book "The Yellow Trail" is being contested by Dick Diarrhea who claims to have ghost-authored the book.

Posted by: Ciampino - FJB is a FJB at July 25, 2022 07:37 AM (qfLjt)

22 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 25, 2022 07:38 AM (G8ScF)

23 The Monkees co-creator and New Hollywood director, Bob Rafelson, dies at 89.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:38 AM (yikp0)

24 JJ, know it's bittersweet. Your story is emblematic of what is happening in America as freedom-loving people are forced out of their homes.

Posted by: IanDeal at July 25, 2022 07:38 AM (MGjjz)

25 Down goes, Frasier! Down goes, Frasier!

Muhammad Ali's championship belt from the Rumble in the Jungle title fight sells for $6.1-million at auction.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:38 AM (yikp0)

26 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 25, 2022 07:39 AM (Do5/p)

27 The variations of the name James has always been fascinating to me. James. Jacob. Diego. Yakov. Any of the hundreds of variants of those. All essentially the "same" name. It's wild.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 07:40 AM (CNi0M)

28 CIA Director "Proud" of Afghanistan withdrawal.

Well, yeah. Are you surprised?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2022 07:40 AM (EZebt)

29 Glad you made it, JJ. Driving on the interstate is always fun and dangerous.

More coffee.

Posted by: dantesed at July 25, 2022 07:40 AM (88xKn)

30 I read your essay with a silly accent.
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I just read your reply in the Holy Grail French knight's accent!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:40 AM (yikp0)

31 "Now that Joe Biden has [Chinese] COVID, can we call it a 'pandemic of the vaccinated?'"

Me: No mask, no real change of habits, no vax, no Covid.

The President of the United States: 4 vaccinations , masks, all the precautions, the best health care in the world, Covid.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at July 25, 2022 07:41 AM (sn5EN)

32 25-year-old Dane, Jonas Vingegaard, wins his first Tour de France title. Still hasn't had fatal vaxx-related stroke... yet... so far... for now.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:41 AM (yikp0)

33 yeah, about that Walsh article, most of it is good. but "... a criminal oligarchy of the elderly, led by the same few families for the past 40 years (the Bushes, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Trumps), ..." makes no sense unless I'm missing something.

Trump is the new player on the field and hasn't been in govt for the last 40 years. Unless Walsh is claiming includence since he's a business tycoon, but then he left a number of people off the list.

or is it simply a fact of orange man bad?

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 25, 2022 07:41 AM (p03vF)

34 23 The Monkees co-creator and New Hollywood director, Bob Rafelson, dies at 89.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:38 AM (yikp0)

Obit is linked in the H&Y section.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 07:41 AM (x0n13)

35 ffs

#9-Chase Elliott won the M&Ms Fan Appreciation 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway after NASCAR disqualified intial winner #11-Hamlin and second place finisher #18-Busch.

HA

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 07:41 AM (ex2Cx)

36 I just read your reply in the Holy Grail French knight's accent!
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:40 AM (yikp0)

Fetchez la vache!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2022 07:42 AM (PiwSw)

37 Obit is linked in the H&Y section.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 07:41 AM (x0n13)

H and Y

Hung and Young

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 07:42 AM (ex2Cx)

38 That's a very well expressed tribute to Phillip Seymour Hoffman, outstanding actor and self-destructive human.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2022 07:42 AM (Q4ymG)

39 I just read your reply in the Holy Grail French knight's accent ,eh?
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:40 AM (yikp0)
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FIFY

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2022 07:43 AM (EZebt)

40 Morning peeps. JJ. - I'll bet it's a significant change looking out your window this morning.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 07:43 AM (BFigT)

41 JJ - I really have to wonder how you can do this every day and not become a curmudgeonly recluse. You are a better man than me.

If I had to wade through the dreck and bile that is the MSM every day to compile this kind of tome, I'd probably just quit. Or throw shoes and scream at the dogs.

I love your work, but sometimes I have my suspicions about your mental health... ;-)

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 25, 2022 07:43 AM (5MVKq)

42 Oh dang it off braindead sock.

"suddenly comes a deafening crunch of gnashed gears, the smell of burning oil, and the pathetic whimpering of the nearly dead"

The flaming windmill in Texas is brought to mind.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2022 07:44 AM (sn5EN)

43 25-year-old Dane, Jonas Vingegaard, wins his first Tour de France title. Still hasn't had fatal vaxx-related stroke... yet... so far... for now.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:41 AM (yikp0)

it was an amazing race this year, and he done well. was fun to watch, when you could find coverage of it.

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 25, 2022 07:44 AM (p03vF)

44 Obit is linked in the H&Y section.
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Sorry, I don't read Cheeseheadese.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:45 AM (yikp0)

45 Welcome Home JJ! We're delighted to have you with us at last! Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2022 07:45 AM (45fpk)

46 YOU: Clean your plate.
YOU: Show it to the nice man with the stethoscope.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2022 07:45 AM (PiwSw)

47 Owen described to this august assemblage how his efforts to replace the “individual selfish system” with a “united social” system would bring forth a “new man” who was free from the grasping imperatives that had marred human nature from time immemorial. (And not only human nature: the utopian socialist Charles Fourier expected selfishness and cruelty to be obliterated from the animal kingdom as well: one day, he thought, even lions and whales would be domesticated.)

fucking idiot!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 07:45 AM (ex2Cx)

48 Yellen is essentially correct. The technical triggers for declaring a recession are more a function of last-year's post-pandemic-pop than they are of a genuinely contracting economy.

I say this not to boost the commies, but to warn against knee-jerk investment decisions.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 25, 2022 07:45 AM (vcv8B)

49

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 25, 2022 07:46 AM (SWi3y)

50 This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.

Posted by: Santa Klaus at July 25, 2022 07:46 AM (ex2Cx)

51 IMO, saying Baseball writers "lean left" is a dramatic understatement.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2022 07:46 AM (Q4ymG)

52 I read your essay with a silly accent.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2022 07:33 AM (EZebt)

Hey dere, dere are no accents here doncha know.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2022 07:47 AM (45fpk)

53 Seven 'injured' after gunfire erupts at Los Angeles park during car show. Low-riders hardest hit.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:47 AM (yikp0)

54 40 Morning peeps. JJ. - I'll bet it's a significant change looking out your window this morning.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 07:43 AM (BFigT)

I had a literal million dollar view - an unobstructed downtown view of Soho all the way to the World Trade Center.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 07:47 AM (x0n13)

55 That pessimistic view abroad unfortunately is now shared by many Americans at home. In 2021, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute conducted its periodic poll of attitudes toward the U.S. military. The result was astonishing. Currently, only 45 percent of Americans polled expressed a great deal of trust in their armed forces.

That was the plan so they can draft women!

Posted by: Santa Klaus at July 25, 2022 07:48 AM (ex2Cx)

56 saw this at yahoo, from like 2 hours ago:

A bishop was robbed at gunpoint in the middle of a sermon Sunday in Brooklyn, and it was caught on video, CBS New York reports.

Bishop Lamor Whitehead says five to ten minutes into the sermon, he saw the door in the back of the room kicked open and three to four men walked in with guns. He believes he was targeted, the station says. The service was being livestreamed.

"I said, 'Alright, alright, alright,' pretty much stating that I'm not going to do anything because I know you're coming for me. You're coming straight to me. I don't want my parishioners hurt. I've got women and children there," said Whitehead, of Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries.

"As I got down, one went to my wife and took all her jewelry and had the gun in front of my 8-month-old baby's face. Took off my bishop's ring, my wedding band and took off my bishop's chain, and then I had chains underneath my robe and he started tapping my neck to see if anything else. So that means they knew. They watched and they knew that I have other jewelry," he explained.

more... https://tinyurl.com/2e3vxwkk

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 25, 2022 07:48 AM (Ynyl9)

57 Red Chinese add science lab to orbiting space station. [Orbiting contrasted with land-based, I guess.]

No word on if they will be experimenting using bat paste instead of live bats for GOF research. NIH says they don't know either... honest.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:49 AM (yikp0)

58 Hiya

Posted by: JT at July 25, 2022 07:49 AM (T4tVD)

59 there is something seriously wrong with the Cheney French crowd

Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2022 07:49 AM (us2H3)

60 Hey dere, dere are no accents here doncha know.
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2022 07:47 AM (45fpk)
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I can't tell who is who on the podcast anymore.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2022 07:49 AM (EZebt)

61 When one arrives in Wisconsin, is it customary to cut the cheese ?

Posted by: JT at July 25, 2022 07:49 AM (T4tVD)

62 I had a literal million dollar view - an unobstructed downtown view of Soho all the way to the World Trade Center.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 07:47 AM (x0n13)
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Thank goodness you don't have to watch all the Holland Tunnel traffic any more! (looking on the bright side, here)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2022 07:49 AM (Q4ymG)

63 Yellen: U.S. Economy Is Not in a Recession

Yellen's mentor: "They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 25, 2022 07:50 AM (1Z8zZ)

64 I had a literal million dollar view - an unobstructed downtown view of Soho all the way to the World Trade Center.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 07:47 AM (x0n13)

I bet you miss it, really. This must be a big jolt for you.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2022 07:50 AM (45fpk)

65 18 yeah. Walsh lost me at "Obama and Trump".

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 25, 2022 07:50 AM (vcv8B)

66 Glad you SERE'd out of that shithole New York City JJ!

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 25, 2022 07:50 AM (qZQHw)

67 Good morning peeps. A beautiful heavy rain is falling right now. Thank you Jesus.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 25, 2022 07:50 AM (nxdel)

68 Manson’s principled resignation comes after Johnathan Perkins, the director for Race and Equity at the University of California-Los Angeles, recently tweeted, "No one wants to openly admit [we all] hope Clarence Thomas dies."

Now do Jumanji Action Jackson!

Posted by: Santa Klaus at July 25, 2022 07:51 AM (ex2Cx)

69 My family has a long history of military service. My younger cousin is the last to have served. He is turning 50 soon. None of the family have recommended enlisting to their children.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at July 25, 2022 07:51 AM (PbwT0)

70 65 I had a literal million dollar view - an unobstructed downtown view of Soho all the way to the World Trade Center.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 07:47 AM (x0n13)

I bet you miss it, really. This must be a big jolt for you.
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2022 07:50 AM (45fpk)

Yeah. It's not easy but life goes on. Who knows what the future brings?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 07:51 AM (x0n13)

71 Haitian refugee boat sinks in the Caribbean as they flee gang war in Port-au-Prince. Oddly enough, they don't seem to be heading to Cuba for some strange reason.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:51 AM (yikp0)

72 Welcome to WI, JJ, and thanks for helping to try to turn a purple state red.

Posted by: davidt at July 25, 2022 07:52 AM (oTZbj)

73 The amount of front groups and false flag operations by the FBI Stasi is increasing.

It's so obvious how desperate the left is to provoke an "attack" to justify suspension of all legal rights due to the "emergency."

All government now is by crisis, not consent.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2022 07:52 AM (Zf0+a)

74 Who knows what the future brings?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 07:51 AM (x0n13)

Beer. Lots and lots of beer.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2022 07:52 AM (45fpk)

75 It looks like ending Tamil terrorism is a crime.

Human rightists demand arrest of fled Sri Lankan president for alleged war crimes.

I guess his ESG Green camouflage is now ineffective.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:53 AM (yikp0)

76 The Bishop had a Rolls Royce?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2022 07:53 AM (PiwSw)

77 None of the family have recommended enlisting to their children.
Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at July 25, 2022 07:51 AM (PbwT0)

The past is a foreign country.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 07:53 AM (6FeV1)

78 The Monkees co-creator and New Hollywood director, Bob Rafelson, dies at 89.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:38 AM (yikp0)

Obit is linked in the H&Y section.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Hitler & Son

Posted by: JT at July 25, 2022 07:53 AM (T4tVD)

79 74 Who knows what the future brings?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 07:51 AM (x0n13)

Beer. Lots and lots of beer.
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2022 07:52 AM (45fpk)

And Cheese!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2022 07:53 AM (PiwSw)

80 had a literal million dollar view - an unobstructed downtown view of Soho all the way to the World Trade Center.

*

Different strokes and all that, but this sounds horrible.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 25, 2022 07:54 AM (gIwDN)

81 Democrats Decriminalized Drugs to Help Black People. Black Overdoses Skyrocketed

Democrats hate blacks. Sure, they use them to gain, and retain, power but they hate blacks. Some of those black people were not aborted. The Democrats are trying to help "correct" the situation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 25, 2022 07:54 AM (1Z8zZ)

82 Page, a '50s model and Playboy centerfold ..., is finally getting recognized in Nashville.

The Tennessee native, nicknamed the "Queen of Pinups," is set to receive a historical marker in downtown Nashville. The marker will be placed near Hume-Fogg High School, where Page graduated second in her class in 1940.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:54 AM (yikp0)

83 they don't seem to be heading to Cuba for some strange reason.

They share an island with the Dominican Republic
which admittedly is no paradise but surely it would be easier to go to the other side of the island ?

Posted by: McCool at July 25, 2022 07:54 AM (BqBIh)

84 John Cornyn once was human, now he's just a signal device for the GOPe.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2022 07:54 AM (Q4ymG)

85 In a very short time -- less than a year -- Sri Lanka went from being one of Asia's great success stories and a model for the developing world, to the present situation, where the nation's currency has lost half its value since 2019 (when Gotabaya Rajapaksa came into office), with inflation running at around 112 percent, and president Rajapaksa fleeing the country in fear of his life as protesters breached the walls of his official residence and that of the nation's prime minister. It is, in short, an absolute catastrophe.

Gota forgot to clean his plate!!

Posted by: Santa Klaus at July 25, 2022 07:55 AM (ex2Cx)

86 The amount of front groups and false flag operations by the FBI Stasi is increasing.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

We turned into East Germany slowly and all of a sudden.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2022 07:55 AM (6WCwE)

87 I have no doubt that JJ will embrace relocation with a sense of adventure and curiosity. I've lived in a few garden spots and each has had plusses and minusses.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2022 07:55 AM (EZebt)

88 They share an island with the Dominican Republic
which admittedly is no paradise but surely it would be easier to go to the other side of the island ?
Posted by: McCool at July 25, 2022 07:54 AM (BqBIh)

It's easier to cross the Korean DMZ than to walk from Haiti into the DR.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 07:55 AM (6FeV1)

89 Even Newark.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2022 07:56 AM (EZebt)

90 Daniel Greenfield: "Eliminating the crime doesn't eliminate the consequences."

Democrats Decriminalized Drugs to Help Black People. Black Overdoses Skyrocketed

Was the rationale to decriminalize drugs the same that some use to lower the legal age to buy/drink alcohol from 21 to 18? I have read over the years that many other countries have a lower legal age for alcohol purchase/consumption* and the claim is that because 18-20 year olds can drink and it's not a big deal, there are less binging and alcohol problems compared to USA.

So the rationale here would be that decriminalizing drugs would make the black community not see drug use as a desired activity anymore, since it's not a criminal activity?

*i.e. Canada is 18, I think, so lots of people here in Michigan tell stories of their teen years where they went over the border to Windsor to drink legally there.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 25, 2022 07:56 AM (Do5/p)

91 The Bishop had a Rolls Royce?
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Isn't that the name of a 1950's Ealing Studios comedy??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:56 AM (yikp0)

92 Democrats Decriminalized Drugs to Help Black People. Black Overdoses Skyrocketed

*

Now do minimum sentencing because back in the mid 80s some white guy didn't get jailed for the same amount of time as a black guy for having drugs and that was racism so blacks and democrats insisted there be strict requirements for sentences and three strikes laws, and it led to record incarceration of (drum roll please) black people.

Whoops! Whoopsie!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 25, 2022 07:57 AM (gIwDN)

93 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Back in the office after a week of "staycation." Didn't do anything particularly fun, other than hang out with y'all...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2022 07:57 AM (YIVH2)

94 #82 Should read "Bettie Page...".

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:57 AM (yikp0)

95 The J6 Committee isn't just to disqualify Trump and any who support him-- the whole announcement of "new information in September" has the purpose of changing election laws.

To provide "justification" for blue locations to ban "MAGA" observers.

The narrative they've been building is, "contesting, objecting or merely not accepting the 'party line' on elections is a 'threat to our democracy;' a disruption and insurrection."

They're going to ban Republican poll watchers.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2022 07:58 AM (Zf0+a)

96 The Tennessee native, nicknamed the "Queen of Pinups," is set to receive a historical marker in downtown Nashville. The marker will be placed near Hume-Fogg High School, where Page graduated second in her class in 1940.
Posted by: andycanuck

Even though she posed nude sometimes, she sure showed much more class than the gals that came after her.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2022 07:58 AM (6WCwE)

97 This Wisconsin Dem Wants To Distance Himself From ‘Defund the Police.’ Two of His Biggest Donors Bankrolled Campaign To Remove Law Enforcement From Schools.

We're gonna hear a lot about Wisconsin politics now.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 25, 2022 07:58 AM (1Z8zZ)

98 The Bishop had a Rolls Royce?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2022 07:53 AM (PiwSw)

Guess you don't believe in my church. The Church of Divine Economic Spirituality.

Posted by: Daddy Rich at July 25, 2022 07:59 AM (qZQHw)

99 91 The Bishop had a Rolls Royce?
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Isn't that the name of a 1950's Ealing Studios comedy??
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:56 AM (yikp0)

"My Mother Superior, the Car." The part of Ann Sothern was played by Sally Field . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 07:59 AM (x0n13)

100 Gota forgot to clean his plate!!
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No ice cream in Sri Lanka.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:59 AM (yikp0)

101 They're going to ban Republican poll watchers.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2022 07:58 AM (Zf0+a)

How about this: every poll location in the US must have at least one Ultra-MAGA, and at least one Black Panther.

Deal?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 07:59 AM (6FeV1)

102 They share an island with the Dominican Republic
which admittedly is no paradise but surely it would be easier to go to the other side of the island ?
Posted by: McCool at July 25, 2022 07:54 AM (BqBIh)
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The Dominicans shoot every Haitian they find near the border.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2022 07:59 AM (EZebt)

103 Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries??

Posted by: dantesed at July 25, 2022 08:00 AM (88xKn)

104 Oh, and you're never going to believe this, but those minimum sentencing requirements that black people and democrats demanded?

They're racist now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 25, 2022 08:00 AM (gIwDN)

105 Aquaman drives an Olds ?

Game of Thrones, Aquaman and See star Jason Momoa hit a motorcyclist with his 1970 Oldsmobile this weekend, but no serious injuries were reported, the California Highway Patrol said.

Posted by: McCool at July 25, 2022 08:00 AM (BqBIh)

106 I had a literal million dollar view - an unobstructed downtown view of Soho all the way to the World Trade Center.
___________

We used to live within walking distance of Monterey Bay. My office was right next to an old, functioning lighthouse and walking trails along the Pacific Ocean where only a block away from it. Now, I look outside and see cows.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 08:01 AM (BFigT)

107 CIA Director ("Very proud ofAfghanistan" performance) is a literal idiot. But, then, having a foreign intel agency at all has always been of questionable value to the country, so nothing new I guess.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2022 08:01 AM (Q4ymG)

108 The Dominicans shoot every Haitian they find near the border.

So you're saying this is an effective means of minimizing illegal border crossings ? hmmmmmm

Posted by: McCool at July 25, 2022 08:01 AM (BqBIh)

109 Democrat House Intelligence Committee Member Warns: DNA Testing Can Be Used as Bioweapon to Target Americans

Thank goodness there's no way for our enemies to get that data.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 25, 2022 08:02 AM (1Z8zZ)

110 I don't think more than 10% of people in our feel-good "have a nice day" world understand the malice of our benefactors, i.e., the actual harm they intend to us as a matter of their nature and the outcome of their "policies," which are indissolubly connected. People have lost touch with what it means to be personally despised, and also with the daily practice of a severe self-respect.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2022 08:02 AM (H8QX8)

111 Sakurajima continues erupting in southern Japan on Kyushu.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 08:02 AM (yikp0)

112 So you're saying this is an effective means of minimizing illegal border crossings ? hmmmmmm
Posted by: McCool at July 25, 2022 08:01 AM (BqBIh)

There are signs at the border every hundred feet saying "Haiti has no home here".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 08:02 AM (6FeV1)

113
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 25, 2022 08:02 AM (ENBF0)

114 o the present situation, where the nation's currency has lost half its value since 2019 (when Gotabaya Rajapaksa came into office

Who names their kid Gotabaya ?

Posted by: JT at July 25, 2022 08:03 AM (T4tVD)

115 On the new Cal Gun Laws:

It was also learned that the California Department of Justice advised Zawahri in an October 2011 letter that he was ineligible to purchase a firearm. The incident occurred the day before Zawahri's 24th birthday.

So it appears California did not file the letter with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

Posted by: Santa Klaus at July 25, 2022 08:03 AM (ex2Cx)

116 "The Dominicans shoot every Haitian they find near the border."

Still looking for a downside to this.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2022 08:04 AM (1n+EO)

117 107 Used to be when CIA pulled off a major blunder, people would just write it off as multi dimensional chess, an engineered fiasco meant to throw the other side a curveball. Now we know they've always been a bunch of fuckups.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 25, 2022 08:04 AM (lz5hY)

118 President of Indonesia meeting Xi in Beijing [despite the Reds' strict Covid protocols] undoubtedly to discuss Belt & Road tightening.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 08:04 AM (yikp0)

119 There are signs at the border every hundred feet saying "Haiti has no home here".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 08:02 AM (6FeV1)

Dude I think you out Mulled Muldoon!

Posted by: Santa Klaus at July 25, 2022 08:04 AM (ex2Cx)

120 Who names their kid Gotabaya ?
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2022 08:03 AM (T4tVD)

I think they might do family name/ surname first, but I'm not sure...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 08:04 AM (6FeV1)

121 I see on revolver that Musk Cucked Brin ... apparently they are no longer on speaking terms.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 25, 2022 08:04 AM (5Qjf9)

122 Dude I think you out Mulled Muldoon!
Posted by: Santa Klaus at July 25, 2022 08:04 AM (ex2Cx)

Unpossible.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 08:05 AM (6FeV1)

123 114 o the present situation, where the nation's currency has lost half its value since 2019 (when Gotabaya Rajapaksa came into office

Who names their kid Gotabaya ?
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2022 08:03 AM (T4tVD)

If he married early Iranian regime spokesman Sadegh Gotzbzadeh . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 08:05 AM (x0n13)

124 GOP Leaders to ~~Religious Right~~ GOP voters (permanent or transitory): We Don’t Care About ~~Marriage~~ Anything That Matters To You (Please Send Donations)

Edited for completeness.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 25, 2022 08:05 AM (1Z8zZ)

125 Have there been any sightings of Pedo Joe since his COVID diagnosis ?

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 25, 2022 08:05 AM (5Qjf9)

126 #82 Should read "Bettie Page...".
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 07:57 AM (yikp0)

oh we KNEW who you were talking about. just the name Page got my mind headed in that direction and the mention of pin ups confirmed who was the subject.

man, always had a thing for her...

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 25, 2022 08:06 AM (p03vF)

127 Sen. Cornyn: Gay ‘Marriage’ Already is ‘Law of the Land,’ Settled by SCOTUS

So was abortion.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 25, 2022 08:06 AM (1Z8zZ)

128 "Aquaman drives an Olds ? Game of Thrones, Aquaman and See star Jason Momoa hit a motorcyclist with his 1970 Oldsmobile this weekend"

It's ok because it's painted green. Probably runs on naturally sourced free range organic sunflower oil too.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2022 08:06 AM (sn5EN)

129 124 GOP Leaders to Religious Right GOP voters (permanent or transitory): We Don’t Care About Marriage Anything That Matters To You (Please Send Donations)

Edited for completeness.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 25, 2022 08:05 AM (1Z8zZ)

Do they care about anything their voters care about?

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2022 08:07 AM (H8QX8)

130 David Marchese, who interviewed Daly on July 18 for the New York Times, introduced him to readers as a pioneer, a prophet — a lone, heroic voice in the wilderness who for decades has been proclaiming that “that prioritizing growth is ultimately a losing game” and that what the developed world needs is “a steady-state economy” that by “cutting back on per capita consumption” makes “ecological room for the poor to catch up.”

A falling tide lowers all ships!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:07 AM (ex2Cx)

131 121 I see on revolver that Musk Cucked Brin ... apparently they are no longer on speaking terms.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 25, 2022 08:04 AM (5Qjf9)

He filled to the rim with Brin.

1970s decaf coffee commercial reference.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 08:07 AM (x0n13)

132 Here Are Just Some of the Uprisings Over Government Incompetence Happening Around the World

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Ultimately, I hope it leads to a lot of so-called monsters like Klaus Schwab being fed to the sharks...quite literally. Because they deserve no less.

Glad you made it to your destination safely, JJ!

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2022 08:07 AM (sVtYq)

133 @110 Ordinary American-I believe you are 100% correct in your assessment. This is why I've said a lot of us are in for a rude awakening.

Posted by: JROD at July 25, 2022 08:08 AM (0jZnq)

134 JJ, welcome to Free Merica, where a citizen can sit on the back deck in their underwear and drink morning coffee.

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

135 "Who names their kid Gotabaya ?"

His dad Gotatylenol Rajapaksa?

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2022 08:08 AM (sn5EN)

136 ||Event Seen As 'Fed Op,' Group Quick To Split When Confronted

A group of self-proclaimed Nazis appeared outside Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit conference this weekend in Tampa, but critics say all the evidence points to them once again having been Democrats in disguise.

Some of the evidence was provided by Tayler Hansen, a field reporter with the conservative outlet Next News Network.

When Hansen asked the Nazis why they'd shown up together, they feigned ignorance and acted as if they'd each come out there individually.||

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 08:08 AM (yikp0)

137 Has anyone seen Captain Hate lately? His health was bad, I know, but I hope he's doing well.

Also, I wonder if he has a take on all these scare stories Democrats are talking up about JD Vance running a terrible campaign.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2022 08:10 AM (Q4ymG)

138 In the comments section on the article on the Bishop robbery, a commenter thinks it was staged for the insurance money. Given the Bishop's lifestyle, I think there's a non-zero chance that's true.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2022 08:10 AM (PiwSw)

139 JJ, welcome to Free Merica, where a citizen can sit on the back deck in their underwear and drink morning coffee.
Posted by: Eromero

Oh; I thought you said The Black Deck.....

Posted by: JT at July 25, 2022 08:10 AM (T4tVD)

140 "Who names their kid Gotabaya ?"

His dad Gotatylenol Rajapaksa?
Posted by: fd at July 25, 2022 08:08 AM (sn5EN)

ISWYDT

and now i need an advil...

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 25, 2022 08:11 AM (p03vF)

141 The Saudi leader and his entourage only hang around the room for three minutes until the US State Department shoots enough photos to prove that “JB” was there and not stuffed in the basement of his Delaware beach house for the weekend, as usual.
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It was probably like a customer confab at a major vendor convention. In my industry, it goes like this: the customer CEO and the CEO of the vendor get on stage together to talk about how great the other one is. A bit later in the day, the customer CTO and his entourage sit around a big, fancy table in a distant corner of the facility and issue lists of demands and grievances to the vendor's engineering, sales and support leads.

I suspect the diplomatic version of that happened, where the Saudi contingent issued the American contingent with a laundry list of reasons they can't do what we want and wouldn't do it even if they could.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 08:11 AM (WWh8n)

142 Welcome, JJ !

" ... an ice bucket challenge with ethyl chloride"

you (and Ace) just keep getting more eloquent !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 25, 2022 08:12 AM (oZtf9)

143 JJ, welcome to Free Merica, where a citizen can sit on the back deck in their underwear and drink morning coffee.
Posted by: Eromero

remember JJ, if you trim the bushes correctly, it'll make your deck look bigger

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 25, 2022 08:12 AM (p03vF)

144 Dr. McCullough rejected the nihilist approach protocol of Fauci: just send them home and to come back if they really get sick, then we’ll hospitalize them.

I have 3 friends fathers that got the Remdesivir treatment. They lasted about 3 days. Killed their kidneys.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:12 AM (ex2Cx)

145 134 JJ, welcome to Free Merica, where a citizen can sit on the back deck in their underwear and drink morning coffee.
Posted by: Eromero at July 25, 2022 08:08 AM (0OP+5)

you can afford underwear??

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:12 AM (ex2Cx)

146 Has anyone seen Captain Hate lately? His health was bad, I know, but I hope he's doing well.

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I've been wondering about him, too. I hope all is well. And where has Lizzy been?

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2022 08:13 AM (sVtYq)

147 Did Our Health Experts Lie About COVID Vaccines?

Does the pope shit in a funny hat?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:14 AM (ex2Cx)

148 Musk is denying he cucked Brin. Who would be surprised either way? People are people, from the richest billionaire to the lowliest trailer trash twerking on their front steps.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2022 08:14 AM (sn5EN)

149 Good morning peeps. A beautiful heavy rain is falling right now. Thank you Jesus.
Posted by: jewells45 at July 25, 2022 07:50 AM (nxdel)

My weather app keeps promising that it'll rain here in 3 days...then that promise goes away.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 25, 2022 08:14 AM (1Z8zZ)

150 ...will all of this lead them to their ultimate goal of total control, or will what was supposed to be a controlled demolition of society to Cloward-Piven it into paradise on earth actually turn into a Hiroshima-sized blowback against them.
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It is entirely possible that the answer to this question is "neither." It may be more likely that we see something more like Irish-style "troubles" that run for a couple of decades. High tension with periodic sporadic violence, particularly along the urban/suburban and suburban/rural interfaces. Increased clannishness within the division areas and likely vigilantism throughout, though primarily in the suburban and rural zones. Routine shows of force from the feds at many locations across the continent, though they do little to change the overall theme.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 08:14 AM (WWh8n)

151 Joe showed his doctor his plate and said, "I eated it all and I'm a good boy, I am." He proceeded to wash his dinner down with his sippie cup filled with apple juice.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2022 08:15 AM (sVtYq)

152 The narrative they've been building is, "contesting, objecting or merely not accepting the 'party line' on elections is a 'threat to our democracy;' a disruption and insurrection." They're going to ban Republican poll watchers.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2022 07:58 AM

Yep, all the people claiming "red wave!" and stating things like "I don't see a path for Democrats to win anywhere" are using flawed logic. They are analyzing things assuming past Democrat tactics. But the Democrat tactics are always, always changing. Adding more and more ways to cheat.

It's like a military strategy to win a war fought with WWII tactics instead of updating strategy to win a war fought with current or future tactics.

Conservatives always seem to be a step behind. Patting themselves on the back for making changes to the voting system to (maybe) prevent what the Democrats did last time, while not doing anything to prevent the new tactics Democrats will use.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 25, 2022 08:15 AM (Do5/p)

153 WEF c#nts, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, have first TV leadership debate tonight during campaign to become UK Conservative Party leader and then PM in September.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 08:15 AM (yikp0)

154 Had a nice stop in Savannah last night. On to Orlando today. Not one nickel to D*sney.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 25, 2022 08:15 AM (lNLXk)

155 you can afford underwear??

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:12 AM (ex2Cx)

Cues monty python Four Yorkshiremen ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 25, 2022 08:15 AM (5Qjf9)

156 Welcome back, JJ. Thanks for the essays. Yes, it looked like the Saudis wanted nothing to do with that idiot POTUS. How embarrassing.

Posted by: sidney at July 25, 2022 08:15 AM (Uy/WF)

157 If he married early Iranian regime spokesman Sadegh Gotzbzadeh . . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2022 08:05 AM (x0n13)
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There are no gays in Iran!

Posted by: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as overheard by Andy Samberg at July 25, 2022 08:16 AM (74LlX)

158
Doctor's appointment this morning. No coffee. Cranky.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2022 08:16 AM (JVuoD)

159 Doctor's appointment this morning. No coffee. Cranky.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

And they wonder why our BP is up and we are agitated.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2022 08:17 AM (6WCwE)

160 Gas is still hovering over $4 a gallon here. $1.79 under PDT. Our little rush hour is in progress, mostly folks from Paris, AR driving to work in Fort Smith. At, say 20mpg (pickup truck country) they will spend $80 a week in fuel, just going to work.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 25, 2022 08:17 AM (lz5hY)

161 I haven't read all the comments but, has anyone noted that Joe Biden is a senile clusterfuck of a miserable failure yet?

Posted by: that guy that hasn't read all the comments at July 25, 2022 08:18 AM (hwaFC)

162 ||Intelligence Committee members warn US of bioweapons targeting DNA of individual Americans

A member of the House Intelligence Committee warned Americans to stay away from DNA testing services as the information could be used to develop bioweapons targeting specific groups of Americans or even individuals.

Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., made the comments during an appearance at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado on Friday, saying many Americans are far too willing to give up their DNA information to private companies.||

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 08:18 AM (yikp0)

163
Given the Bishop's lifestyle, I think there's a non-zero chance that's true.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2022 08:10 AM (PiwSw)

__________

Concur

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2022 08:19 AM (JVuoD)

164 The Rio Grande has gone dry in parts of Albuquerque, hasn't happened here since the 80's.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 25, 2022 08:19 AM (sRUs0)

165 The pope shits in his hat?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2022 08:19 AM (89T5c)

166 They share an island with the Dominican Republic
which admittedly is no paradise but surely it would be easier to go to the other side of the island ?
Posted by: McCool at July 25, 2022 07:54 AM (BqBIh)

Generally speaking, and by generally speaking I believe I mean universally, any country which isn't a "western democracy" gives short shrift to "refugees" - particularly ones fleeing "gang violence" or "poverty".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 25, 2022 08:19 AM (1Z8zZ)

167 Had a nice stop in Savannah last night. On to Orlando today. Not one nickel to D*sney.

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Favorite local restaurants of ours in and around O-town:

Bubbalou's BBQ
Gabriel's Subs
Beefy King
Boston's Fish House

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2022 08:19 AM (sVtYq)

168 The long drive was punctuated by a couple of stops to fill up the tank. $60 bucks in western Pennsylvania and then $48 in Indiana. The cratering economy for me was somewhat abstract even in impossibly expensive New York City but those two stops hit me in the face, and really brought home what the average American has been experiencing every day for well over a year now.
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During the peak of the COVID stupids (March - November 2020), I spent a lot of time on the road. I got the hell out of Dodge for 2-3 weeks at a time to go look after family in another part of the country and to escape from my blue city nightmare. I'd spend 2-3 weeks elsewhere, then home for a bit, then repeat. I had one trip in 2021. Lots of road time.

In 2021, it was starting to hit. Gas was higher but not insane, but hotels especially went straight to plaid. Conversations at hotels especially showed some serious discontent. It was expensive. Service was down. People were tiring of propaganda pouring out of TV sets in public areas. It was an undercurrent then. I suspect it is far worse now, but thankfully I have not needed to travel in about a year.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 08:20 AM (WWh8n)

169 The pope shits in his hat?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

And on established Doctrine.

And on the Faithful.

There's more. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2022 08:20 AM (6WCwE)

170 Mornin'
(sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 25, 2022 08:20 AM (sAmhv)

171 In one eye-opening finding, 74 percent of undergrads endorse the view that a professor who says “something that students find offensive” should be reported to the university. By a majority almost as lopsided, 65 percent believe that a fellow student who says something they consider offensive should be turned in.

well rat fuck!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:21 AM (ex2Cx)

172 A member of the House Intelligence Committee warned Americans to stay away from DNA testing services as the information could be used to develop bioweapons targeting specific groups of Americans or even individuals.

Honky bombs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2022 08:21 AM (89T5c)

173 Conservatives always seem to be a step behind. Patting themselves on the back for making changes to the voting system to (maybe) prevent what the Democrats did last time, while not doing anything to prevent the new tactics Democrats will use.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 25, 2022 08:15 AM (Do5/p)

I'd say GOPe morevso than conservatives, but then they only want to LOOK like they're doing something. the goal is to lose and not actually be in charge so they can grift...

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 25, 2022 08:21 AM (p03vF)

174 I love the reaction to the Axios stories Jonathan Swann is writing about PDJT's plans. Many comments lack energy, and seem almost resigned. It's almost like they think he is inevitable now.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2022 08:21 AM (74LlX)

175 "So when exactly did Fauci and Birx know that the vaccines wouldn’t prevent infection? Why did the Biden [junta] suggest that the vaccines were the silver bullet against [Chinese] COVID?"

Did Our Health Experts Lie About Chinese COVID Vaccines?

This should not be a question any longer. It was obvious they were lying from the start.

In summer of 2020, everyone on the left claimed that true vaccines needed 18 months to be developed properly. That put the rollout in December of 2021.

When Trump pushed the rollout in November 2020, everyone on the Left said to not trust the "vaccines". After the rigged and stolen election, they did a complete 180, and started pushing the "vaccines".

Everything regarding the Plandemic has been a lie. People need to stop asking these questions and start making statements. YES, every single fucking "expert" has been lying about everything to do with COVID from the start. Now what are we going to do about it.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 25, 2022 08:21 AM (Do5/p)

176 "The federal government collects about $22 billion annually in tax receipts from illegal aliens."

A money making operation. Spending 5 billion of that to finish a wall on the Southern border would be foolish.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2022 08:21 AM (sn5EN)

177 WEF c#nts, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, have first TV leadership debate tonight during campaign to become UK Conservative Party leader and then PM in September.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 08:15 AM (yikp0)
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I dream of a day when "I am or used to be affiliated with the {WEF | UN | etc}" has the same consequences in daily life as "I am a member of the Aryan Nation" has today.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 08:22 AM (WWh8n)

178 161 I haven't read all the comments but, has anyone noted that Joe Biden is a senile clusterfuck of a miserable failure yet?
Posted by: that guy that hasn't read all the comments at July 25, 2022 08:18 AM (hwaFC)

I don’t pay attention to the news….oh wait.

Posted by: 7man at July 25, 2022 08:22 AM (qwO6y)

179 Well,...

David Warner has died.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 08:23 AM (LvTSG)

180 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 25, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

181 Who names their kid Gotabaya ?
Posted by: JT at July 25, 2022 08:03 AM (T4tVD)

I'll take "Mothers in Ceylon" for $200.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at July 25, 2022 08:24 AM (1Z8zZ)

182 Well, THAT was an interesting weekend......

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 25, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

183 According to data compiled by the Family Research Council, there have been more than 100 attacks against pro-life groups nationwide since the beginning of May, many of which have been attributed to Jane’s Revenge, a far-left militant group that has taken credit for much of the violence.

The only solution is to enshrine homosexual marriage and abortion into Federal law. Now about expanding immigration, trade, and lowering taxes on us.

Posted by: GOPe at July 25, 2022 08:24 AM (EpDzw)

184 177 I dream of a day when "I am or used to be affiliated with the {WEF | UN | etc}" has the same consequences in daily life as "I am a member of the Aryan Nation" has today.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 08:22 AM (WWh8n)

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I'd take, "I think communism is great, it's just been done wrong so far," having that effect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 08:24 AM (LvTSG)

185 Everything regarding the Plandemic has been a lie. People need to stop asking these questions and start making statements. YES, every single fucking "expert" has been lying about everything to do with COVID from the start. Now what are we going to do about it.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 25, 2022 08:21 AM (Do5/p)

Ditto masks
Ditto social distancing
Ditto lock downs
Ditto remote “learning”

Posted by: 7man at July 25, 2022 08:25 AM (qwO6y)

186 Left LIVs: We need to stop using fossil fuels now or else we will all die!

Lefty Pols: I'm going to make it to expensive to use gas to save the Erf!

[Lefty LIVs votes for Left Pol]

Left Livs: WHy the hell is gas and everything else so expensive?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 08:25 AM (ESjRY)

187 186 Left LIVs: We need to stop using fossil fuels now or else we will all die!

Lefty Pols: I'm going to make it to expensive to use gas to save the Erf!

[Lefty LIVs votes for Left Pol]

Left Livs: WHy the hell is gas and everything else so expensive?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 08:25 AM (ESjRY)

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Remember, they stole an election to make this happen after having campaigned on it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 08:26 AM (LvTSG)

188 IMO Brix is in full federal CYA mode. She may think there's about to be some sort of "adverse" action against the covid crew and is trying to get out in front of it. She had been almost totally off the radar and for whatever reason suddenly pops back up. Yea, she's got a book out. Who doesn't? This isn't how you do publicity tours.

Something's off...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 08:26 AM (BFigT)

189 So whenever a liberal, especially a celebrity one, mentions "transitioning" off fossil fuels or how high gas prices "are good" I immediately think back to Soviet Farmers.

I read an article once that said farmers of the Soviet Union were not allowed to travel more than 60 miles away from their homes. That's right, in the great classless society of the Soviet Union, shocker, some people had more rights than others.

And it bleeds over into other comments as well. Whenever a liberal mentions the "American love affair with cars" or "Europeans don't need AC like us"..they don't really give a shit about the climate.

They give a shit about creating a class from which you will be excluded. Oh, "mass transportation" is another one.

They just don't want your stupid car on the road or stupid breath on the plane. You aren't doing anything that important...why do you need to go anywhere, Soviet Farmer?

If they were serious about climate change, instead of Cash for Clunkers, they would outlaw private jets. They go the same places, in general, that commercial jets go to. I doubt many celebs are landing at the local strip in Kearney, Nebraska. Nope, Cannes? Yes.

Posted by: thesgm at July 25, 2022 08:27 AM (0VY45)

190 price fixing scheme" to drive up the price of ham and bacon, active lawsuits facing the company argue.

Public Hanging!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:27 AM (ex2Cx)

191 China approves domestic HIV drug for COVID patients.

https://tinyurl.com/3sxjccfc

Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2022 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

192 ... A member of the House Intelligence Committee warned Americans to stay away from DNA testing services as the information could be used to develop bioweapons targeting specific groups of Americans or even individuals....
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 08:18 AM (yikp0)
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Not to mention domestic LE and intelligence. This is good advice. Keep information about yourself - especially the immutable characteristics of what you are - to yourself. Trust no one.

But how about some legislation, Rep. Crow? Not the mess of the GDPR, but a simpler framework for protecting data privacy and ownership? Make me the owner of data collected about me and give me control over it. Make all information sharing - all of it, without exception - between a collector of information (say, a genetic testing company or a website) and any third-party subject to explicit opt-in by the customer. No complex opt-out schemes for partial coverage, but explicit opt-in. Also ensconce the entitlement to data destruction for individuals (the "right to be forgotten" concept) into the law.

You could, you know, try doing something about it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 08:28 AM (WWh8n)

193 I'm hoping that America-hating Griner broad does get sentenced to a long prison term in Russia. But if I had to guess, and like the article intimates, her black privilege will get her sprung when the Biden Maladministration trades her for the Russian arms dealer.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2022 08:28 AM (sVtYq)

194 147 Did Our Health Experts Lie About COVID Vaccines?

Does the pope shit in a funny hat?
-------------

Report at one Canadian hospital of 3 doctors that died 1 week after taking jab. I'm getting a bad feeling about this SADS thing going around.

Posted by: Haywood at July 25, 2022 08:29 AM (QgwDT)

195
"The narrative they've been building is, "contesting, objecting or merely not accepting the 'party line' on elections is a 'threat to our democracy;' a disruption and insurrection."

They're going to ban Republican poll watchers.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice"

Fulton County in Atlanta has a mini-J6 committee that is threatening and subpoenaed various Georgia Republicans for treason or insurrection or something. They are currently going after gov. Kemp. Dems will be setting up these Revolutionary Committees of Justice all over the country if they are slapped down in November.

Posted by: Ripley at July 25, 2022 08:29 AM (MxEKc)

196 He slept well last night. He ate his breakfast and lunch fully,” Jha said at a White House press briefing. “He actually showed me his plate

just fuck is all I can say fuck!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:30 AM (ex2Cx)

197 Too bad about Michael Walsh's misguided enmity toward Trump. It sours every article he writes.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2022 08:30 AM (H8QX8)

198 They just don't want your stupid car on the road or stupid breath on the plane. You aren't doing anything that important...why do you need to go anywhere, Soviet Farmer?

In the years leading up to COVID I noticed the big travel mags started screaming in ever more strident tones about "THOSE PEOPLE" flooding the more exclusive vacation spots of the rich and famous.

There were some calls to ban Joe Normie from traveling, "to save the Erf". But...they could never quite figure out how to message banning Joe Normie while not banning Dan Government Drone or Sally Celebrity.

Turns out all they needed was a little COVID! But now they are having the sads that many normies are back to traveling.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 08:30 AM (ESjRY)

199 Chess Thread News!

||Played by humans, chess is a game of strategic thinking, calm concentration and patient intellectual endeavour. Violence does not usually come into it. The same, it seems, cannot always be said of machines.

Last week, according to Russian media outlets, a chess-playing robot, apparently unsettled by the quick responses of a seven-year-old boy, unceremoniously grabbed and broke his finger during a match at the Moscow Open.||

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 08:30 AM (yikp0)

200 193 I'm hoping that America-hating Griner broad does get sentenced to a long prison term in Russia. But if I had to guess, and like the article intimates, her black privilege will get her sprung when the Biden Maladministration trades her for the Russian arms dealer.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2022 08:28 AM (sVtYq)

=========

I can't wait for Trump to negotiate her release, and for her first appearance in America to bash him for his anti-gay stances.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 08:30 AM (LvTSG)

201 PA has the highest or second highest gas tax in the land. 75 cents a gallon. Which probably explains most of the difference. Another hidden tax scheme.

Posted by: ... at July 25, 2022 08:31 AM (6jH1W)

202 I can't wait for Trump to negotiate her release, and for her first appearance in America to bash him for his anti-gay stances.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 08:30 AM (LvTSG)

She and Megan Rapinoe will do a buddy tour.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2022 08:32 AM (PiwSw)

203 and like the article intimates, her black privilege will get her sprung when the Biden Maladministration trades her for the Russian arms dealer.

That Russian guy is a pretty serious Nat Sec Operative type for the Russkies

And...we'll be getting a pot smoking, America hating, Sportsball player in return.

Oh how wonderful.

One does wonder though how many American/Euro Mercs from Ukraine that Putin has that would be a better trade for the arms dealer guy

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 08:32 AM (ESjRY)

204 Abe assassin to undergo psych assessment until November.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 08:33 AM (yikp0)

205 IMO Brix is in full federal CYA mode. She may think there's about to be some sort of "adverse" action against the covid crew and is trying to get out in front of it. She had been almost totally off the radar and for whatever reason suddenly pops back up. Yea, she's got a book out. Who doesn't? This isn't how you do publicity tours.

Something's off...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 08:26 AM (BFigT)

i could see that except i don't see how saying NOW that she lied THEN is going to help her. in fact, I'd think it would have WORSE consequences for her if the shit hits the fan.

i mean, she's publicly on record saying i knew they were bad and lied to you about it. i don't see that protecting her in any way...

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 25, 2022 08:33 AM (p03vF)

206 IMO Brix is in full federal CYA mode. She may think there's about to be some sort of "adverse" action against the covid crew and is trying to get out in front of it. She had been almost totally off the radar and for whatever reason suddenly pops back up. Yea, she's got a book out. Who doesn't? This isn't how you do publicity tours. ...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 08:26 AM (BFigT)
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Or it's a final cash-grab as the wheels come off the remaining COVID regime as it crumbles under casual non-compliance.

The only potential adverse action will be against the pharma companies. If the dam breaks on this crap, the FDA will hide behind the fact that Pfizer and Moderna (and probably J&J) lied to them in the trial data. The FDA's active cooperation in those lies will be swept under the rug. The liability protections in the EUA will be declared void because of the fraud. Pfizer (and possibly J&J) will lose half or 2/3 of their market value in the resulting litigation, and Moderna goes to zero. The people at the FDA retire and take their pensions.

That's the most "adverse" thing I could imagine actually happening, and that's a longshot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 08:33 AM (WWh8n)

207 The PA GOP socks low hanging donkey balls.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2022 08:33 AM (89T5c)

208 The International Monetary Fund awarded Pakistan up to $1.17 billion Thursday on top of its 2019 $6 billion bailout loan as the economy teeters on default, with only enough foreign currency reserves to sustain five weeks of imports.

IMF ===USA

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:33 AM (ex2Cx)

209 Too many people blame Biden instead of the Democrat party for wrecking our country..
They are just unable to make the connection.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2022 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

210 207 The PA GOP socks low hanging donkey balls.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2022 08:33 AM (89T5c)

Judges would have also accepted Sucks!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:34 AM (ex2Cx)

211 The PA GOP socks low hanging donkey balls.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Hey! We do too! Is there room for us underneath that donkey??
-- OH eGOP

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2022 08:35 AM (6WCwE)

212 Did you serfs choose an unacceptable candidate in the primaries? Purchase our newest guidebook Eight Easy Steps to Sabotaging Prole Candidates.

Posted by: GOPe at July 25, 2022 08:35 AM (EpDzw)

213 GOP Leaders to Religious Right GOP voters (permanent or transitory): We Don’t Care About Marriage Anything That Matters To You (Please Send Donations)

Well, that's cause True, blue wonderful cons are all about sound fiscal policy, not 'side issues'........HAHAHAHAHAHA.

How many times did we hear that line of shit, even here?

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 25, 2022 08:35 AM (cY9wR)

214 193 I'm hoping that America-hating Griner broad does get sentenced to a long prison term in Russia. But if I had to guess, and like the article intimates, her black privilege will get her sprung when the Biden Maladministration trades her for the Russian arms dealer.
Posted by: Lady in Black

The Russian arms dealer: is it the same one that was portrayed (loosely) by Nicholas Cage in the movie 'Lord of War' (which was really good by the way)?

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 25, 2022 08:35 AM (sAmhv)

215 Last week, according to Russian media outlets, a chess-playing robot, apparently unsettled by the quick responses of a seven-year-old boy, unceremoniously grabbed and broke his finger during a match at the Moscow Open.||
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 08:30 AM (yikp0)

Kids need to learn early about their new robot masters!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:35 AM (ex2Cx)

216 Those "Revolutionary Committees of Justice" that the left is holding.... precursors to massive political violence.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 08:35 AM (BFigT)

217 Sent this to my state legislators yesterday afternoon:

Proposal: Add a None of The Above option to ballots

Goal: Allow people to clearly state that none of the candidates represent their views

In many elections, I find that none of the candidates are people I want in office. Currently, this means that I have to either vote for the lesser evil, but still vote for evil, or vote for no one. I find both options distasteful, because it doesn't tell the powers that nominate candidates that they have failed.

My proposal has two parts. First, if None of the Above wins the most votes, then a new election is required for that office. None of the initial slate of candidates for that office, nor any loser from any other election on that ballot, is allowed as a candidate for the new election.

Second, any candidate for an office where None of the Above wins cannot run for an elected office for four (4) years, nor be appointed to a state or lower-level office for the same period of time. I am also open to extending this restriction to any candidate who gets fewer votes than None of the Above.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 25, 2022 08:35 AM (oGiDo)

218 Five days later and Biden still recovering from "mild" symptoms?

Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2022 08:35 AM (4h9M3)

219 Larry Hogan continues to show his true colors.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3rcbjw

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2022 08:36 AM (1n+EO)

220 "ordinary Republicans are voting for Trump due to hero-worship, "

We don't need another hero. We just need someone to kick ass.

Posted by: fd at July 25, 2022 08:36 AM (sn5EN)

221 204 Abe assassin to undergo psych assessment until November.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 08:33 AM (yikp0)

First reaction: I thought John Wilkes Booth was long-dead?

Moar covefe....

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 25, 2022 08:36 AM (906pl)

222 Part 2:

Possible Issues

1) Presidential elections could get interesting. If None of the Above wins, it could create some interesting dynamics. If (my state) elects "None of the Above", it would certainly break any belief in a landslide victory.

2) It would create greater accountability of incumbents to the voters. Even if they run unopposed, they can still lose the election and office if they vote against the interests of their electorate.

3) For a time, there would likely be more elections as bad candidates and elected officials lose to None of the Above.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 25, 2022 08:36 AM (oGiDo)

223 Conservatives always seem to be a step behind. Patting themselves on the back for making changes to the voting system to (maybe) prevent what the Democrats did last time, while not doing anything to prevent the new tactics Democrats will use.
--
I recall the MI hearing on 2020, as the Republicans sat and listened to a list of election law violation after election law violation.

And the fat, doughy turd chairman bellies up to his mic, "so how can we stop this from happening again?" Actual quote.

Looking for the barn latch in the pile of ashes--"we need to keep this barn door locked!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2022 08:36 AM (Zf0+a)

224 Autocucumber SUCKS low hanging donkey balls.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2022 08:37 AM (89T5c)

225 Burns said Wednesday during an Aspen Security Forum discussion that he was “very proud … of the analysis, with all of its imperfections, that we tried to provide to policymakers over the six months leading up to the withdrawal.”

He also stated the Custer had the upper hand and Waterloo was just a battle.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:37 AM (ex2Cx)

226 Did you serfs choose an unacceptable candidate in the primaries? Purchase our newest guidebook Eight Easy Steps to Sabotaging Prole Candidates.
Posted by: GOPe

What to see how it's done:

https://vimeo.com/731880696

Start about 1:40 into it. How the workings of a county Repub committee is the beginning of the deep state.

This is a huge battle locally for me.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2022 08:38 AM (6WCwE)

227 Glad to see you made it to a somewhat more rational part of the country.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 25, 2022 08:38 AM (lTGtQ)

228 Conservatives always seem to be a step behind. Patting themselves on the back for making changes to the voting system to (maybe) prevent what the Democrats did last time, while not doing anything to prevent the new tactics Democrats will use.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 25, 2022 08:15 AM (Do5/p)

It's not even that so much as the laws will actually just be violated around the time of the election. The Democrats break the law(before and after the election date), lawsuits fly(before and after the election date), everyone shrugs, and the Democrats get to keep their win.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 25, 2022 08:38 AM (b2nrj)

229 "ordinary Republicans are voting for Trump due to hero-worship, "

Which is due to the rest being shitty, second-rate villains.

The moose out front reading a comic book shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 25, 2022 08:38 AM (cY9wR)

230 Proposal: Add a None of The Above option to ballots

Goal: Allow people to clearly state that none of the candidates represent their views

Bring it on

Posted by: Mr. Noneoftheabove at July 25, 2022 08:39 AM (qwO6y)

231 However, despite the horrific nature of the crime, police responded to the outrage by asserting they were also keeping tabs on hatred expressed online, in other words anti-migrant sentiment, which, “If necessary…will also be prosecuted.”

Coming to a small North American nation near you!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:39 AM (ex2Cx)

232 Five days later and Biden still recovering from "mild" symptoms?

Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2022 08:35 AM

Yep and other than one photo op which may or may not have been from past generic photos no one has seen or heard from biden in those five days, yet he is supposedly hard at work and cleaning his plate everyday.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 25, 2022 08:39 AM (bVYXr)

233 And the fat, doughy turd chairman bellies up to his mic, "so how can we stop this from happening again?" Actual quote.

It is amazing that there are essentially 3 stages to Dem perfidy, and it always goes this way...

1) Conservatives warn the GOPe that the Dems are planning something bad - like stealing the presidential election. The GOPe responds by saying, "Oh come on they'd never do that!"

2) The Democrats do whatever the hell conservatives warned about - like stealing an election.

3) The GOPe publicly announces that no one warned them, and that really, SOMEONE should do something so this doesn't happen. Then members of the GOPe try their damnedest to make sure no one does anything about it.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 08:40 AM (ESjRY)

234 Not a fan of Kuntzler but he did nail it.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 08:41 AM (D8mow)

235 The moose out front reading a comic book shoulda told ya.
Posted by: Blue Hen at July 25, 2022 08:38 AM (cY9wR)

Blue the moose out front was killed and ate during the last bad freeze.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:41 AM (ex2Cx)

236 Saudi Arabia graciously agrees to bump up its oil production somewhere in the 2025-2027 time-frame "

I saw this at the time, and was amazed that no one (not even on our side) took note of what the Saudi's were saying, right out in the open - "Sure, we'll raise production, as soon as America gets a new President."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2022 08:41 AM (r46W7)

237 The PA GOP socks low hanging donkey balls.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2022 08:33 AM

The notion that dems are running a racist, no-neck clown that looks like a teen thug wanna-be for a Senate seat in PA makes Christine O'Donnell look like Daniel Webster.

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 25, 2022 08:41 AM (cY9wR)

238 234 Not a fan of Kuntzler but he did nail it.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 08:41 AM (D8mow)

He's overly optimistic.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2022 08:42 AM (H8QX8)

239 Thank you, JJ.
Welcome to flyover country.
If they'd only just flyover....

Posted by: Democrats: Raping The Children We Cannot Kill Since 1973! at July 25, 2022 08:42 AM (jV+aN)

240 Yep and other than one photo op which may or may not have been from past generic photos no one has seen or heard from biden in those five days, yet he is supposedly hard at work and cleaning his plate everyday.
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He's watching Matlock reruns with his drool cup properly attached.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 08:42 AM (D8mow)

241 JJ, have you eaten any cheese yet?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 08:43 AM (D8mow)

242 Pence got .3% in the straw poll

he's on his way now

Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2022 08:43 AM (us2H3)

243 242 Pence got .3% in the straw poll

he's on his way now
Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2022 08:43 AM (us2H3)

===========

He's going to raise 9 figures from the establishment's donors, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 08:44 AM (LvTSG)

244 All you need is a conservative with a little bit of charisma to beat a brain dead ogre like Fetterman.

Good thing PA choose a celebrity with err...modest conservative creds who appears to want to campaign by hiding.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 08:44 AM (ESjRY)

245 "Pence got .3% in the straw poll

he's on his way now"

Pence/Hogan, 2024

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2022 08:44 AM (1n+EO)

246 J6 committee, America's twist on the Committee of Public Safety during the French Terror.

Guillotine him! she cries.

Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2022 08:44 AM (4h9M3)

247 Pence will get thousands of dollars in donations for each actual vote he gets in any primary.

And somehow that money will wind up in his pocket.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 08:44 AM (ESjRY)

248 242 Pence got .3% in the straw poll

he's on his way now
---------------
This is how great snowballs start. Pence's magnitism and panache' will be unresistable.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 08:45 AM (D8mow)

249 Pence got .3% in the straw poll

Can you feel it? Something is swelling.

Posted by: Mike 'no pulse' Pence at July 25, 2022 08:45 AM (cY9wR)

250 236 Saudi Arabia graciously agrees to bump up its oil production somewhere in the 2025-2027 time-frame "

I saw this at the time, and was amazed that no one (not even on our side) took note of what the Saudi's were saying, right out in the open - "Sure, we'll raise production, as soon as America gets a new President."
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2022 08:41 AM (r46W7)

Our arrangement with them is dependent on US protection. Biden is obviously not offering that. It makes sense they'd try to pressure for a change in the US presidency.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 25, 2022 08:45 AM (b2nrj)

251 Pence got .3% in the straw poll

he's on his way now
Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2022 08:43 AM (us2H3)

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He's going to raise 9 figures from the establishment's donors, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 08:44 AM

He is jeb! Part Duex.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 25, 2022 08:46 AM (bVYXr)

252 irresistable.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 08:46 AM (D8mow)

253 Pence got .3% in the straw poll

Can you feel it? Something is swelling.
Posted by: Mike 'no pulse' Pence at July 25, 2022 08:45 AM (cY9wR)

Please crap.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 25, 2022 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

254 If this bullshit j6 pig farm goes after Ginnie Thomas, all bets are off

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 25, 2022 08:46 AM (z8QLv)

255 Pence/Hogan, 2024
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2022 08:44 AM (1n+EO)

Beat me to it. Hogan is hard at undermining the MAGA gubernatorial nominee in Md.

Posted by: 7man at July 25, 2022 08:46 AM (qwO6y)

256 Pence/Hogan, 2024

Pence/Katshitt

Pence/Romney (at night, we take turns)

Pence/McMuffin

The throbbing has begun

Posted by: Mike 'no pulse' Pence at July 25, 2022 08:47 AM (cY9wR)

257 Kameltoe has probably praying her ass off and cutting the heads off a few chickens

Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2022 08:47 AM (us2H3)

258 "In one eye-opening finding, 74 percent of undergrads endorse the view that a professor who says “something that students find offensive” should be reported to the university. By a majority almost as lopsided, 65 percent believe that a fellow student who says something they consider offensive should be turned in."

It just shows how thin-skinned these little shits are.

Posted by: sidney at July 25, 2022 08:47 AM (Uy/WF)

259 247 Pence will get thousands of dollars in donations for each actual vote he gets in any primary.

And somehow that money will wind up in his pocket.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 08:44 AM (ESjRY)

============

The establishment's donors will go from candidate to candidate in the Republican primary, before a single vote is taken, as their promised Trump-killer.

They will get increasingly desperate to the point where, a week before Iowa, they'll dump at least $50 million on some unknown state legislator because Pence, Cheney, Ratzinger, Romney, and the rest will have failed to get any traction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 08:47 AM (LvTSG)

260 magnetism

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 08:47 AM (D8mow)

261 PA has the highest or second highest gas tax in the land. 75 cents a gallon. Which probably explains most of the difference. Another hidden tax scheme.
Posted by: ... at July 25, 2022 08:31 AM (6jH1W)

***

With a gas tax that high it's a wonder that the roads aren't nicer.... On top of that, every time my daughter takes the toll road from Youngstown to the breezewood exit it costs me over $20. Rip off

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 25, 2022 08:47 AM (flINI)

262 JJ, congratulations on completing your move to Wisconsin. I lived there for three years while in grade school, a loooong time ago. In the far west, about 40 miles from St. Paul. I loved it. Enjoy!

Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2022 08:47 AM (AMIL/)

263 Pence is getting his payout.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2022 08:48 AM (89T5c)

264 143 JJ, welcome to Free Merica, where a citizen can sit on the back deck in their underwear and drink morning coffee.
Posted by: Eromero

remember JJ, if you trim the bushes correctly, it'll make your deck look bigger

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 25, 2022 08:12 AM (p03vF)
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That's what the lady said about a Brazilian.....

Posted by: Ciampino - a Brazilizn is not the same as a You'reAGuy at July 25, 2022 08:48 AM (qfLjt)

265 Hogan looks like a human goiter

Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2022 08:48 AM (us2H3)

266 257 Kameltoe has probably praying her ass off and cutting the heads off a few chickens
---------------
I doubt she has the skill to chop a chicken's head off. Maybe someone on her staff knows how to do that?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 08:48 AM (D8mow)

267 'magnetism'

Shear, raw animal magnetism.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2022 08:48 AM (1n+EO)

268 Think of the deep denial and delusion of the GOPe-- they still think, "get rid of Trump, and the rubes will go back to voting for us."

The 170 to 4 Trump endorsements vs. their picks, all the new middle and working class voters they've been driving out since Reagan, that every poll shows Trump winning the nomination in 2024 by 30+ points ....

And yet they persist

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2022 08:49 AM (Zf0+a)

269 249 Pence got .3% in the straw poll

Can you feel it? Something is swelling.
Posted by: Mike 'no pulse' Pence at July 25, 2022 08:45 AM (cY9wR)

Maybe that's Jeb!

Posted by: Roy at July 25, 2022 08:49 AM (GzQr3)

270 "Hogan looks like a human goiter"

Do thumbs get goiter?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2022 08:50 AM (1n+EO)

271 Pence got .3% in the straw poll

he's on his way now
Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2022 08:43 AM (us2H3)
++++
Kamala may well end up in the big chair after posting a similar performance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 08:50 AM (WWh8n)

272 "In one eye-opening finding, 74 percent of undergrads endorse the view that a professor who says “something that students find offensive” should be reported to the university. By a majority almost as lopsided, 65 percent believe that a fellow student who says something they consider offensive should be turned in."

It just shows how thin-skinned these little shits are.

Posted by: sidney at July 25, 2022 08:47 AM

I blame the parents. I mean these little $hits have gone through life being told they are special little snowflakes, the center of the known universe and pampered constantly. It really isn't any wonder that they are all fvcked up now. Reality will catch up with them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 25, 2022 08:50 AM (bVYXr)

273 Anyone care to bet that Liz Mother Superior Cheyney does go after Ginnie Thomas?

That's one episode of the J6 series I would actually watch. That one and the sequel.

Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2022 08:50 AM (4h9M3)

274 269 249 Pence got .3% in the straw poll

Can you feel it? Something is swelling.
Posted by: Mike 'no pulse' Pence at July 25, 2022 08:45 AM (cY9wR)

Maybe that's Jeb!
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Girthy Jeb! Veiny, too.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 08:50 AM (D8mow)

275 With a gas tax that high it's a wonder that the roads aren't nicer.... On top of that, every time my daughter takes the toll road from Youngstown to the breezewood exit it costs me over $20. Rip off
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 25, 2022 08:47 AM (flINI)

People are willing to pay a premium in order to GTFO of the state.

Posted by: Roy at July 25, 2022 08:51 AM (GzQr3)

276 271 Pence got .3% in the straw poll

he's on his way now
Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2022 08:43 AM (us2H3)
++++
Kamala may well end up in the big chair after posting a similar performance.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 08:50 AM (WWh8n)

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It kind of goes to show how the two parties are at very different points.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 08:51 AM (LvTSG)

277 Elon Musk laughs off affair rumors, insists he hasn’t ‘had sex in ages’

https://tinyurl.com/9w6x2s6p

Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2022 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

278 247 Pence will get thousands of dollars in donations for each actual vote he gets in any primary.

And somehow that money will wind up in his pocket.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 08:44 AM (ESjRY)

JEB!@#$%ASDFJKL; got about $180 MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS for 3 Electors!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:51 AM (ex2Cx)

279 "The federal government collects about $22 billion annually in tax receipts from illegal aliens."
____________

And federal, state, and local governments spend hundreds of billions annually providing benefits to illegal aliens.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 25, 2022 08:52 AM (MvHI3)

280 Lockdown Larry thought he'd get props acquiring South Korean covid test kits that didn't work. Hey Lar! Whap happened to those kits?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 25, 2022 08:52 AM (flINI)

281 On top of that, every time my daughter takes the toll road from Youngstown to the breezewood exit it costs me over $20.
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Didn't they build that Highway in the 1930s?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 08:52 AM (D8mow)

282 I still have some hope that we will avoid another kinetic civil war (we are already in a cold civil war, or course). The left's morale is collapsing across the board, and demoralized and despondent people never make much of a fighting force.

But *if* we had such a way, it would not be like the first American war, which was mainly geographical. I fear it would be far more like the English civil wars of the 1640's, where the country split by class and religion, and perhaps the best way to describe what happened is that one half of every city in the land decided to murder the other half, and in response the other side began to murder back. After 10 years, together they had managed to burn almost the entire country to the ground.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2022 08:52 AM (r46W7)

283 'Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD. Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart- they do no wrong but follow his ways."

Psalm 119:1-3

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2022 08:53 AM (VpIIl)

284 Trans-affirming care?

A HERO'S STORY: Dr. Richard Levine hopped out of bed one day in his mid-40's, got in the shower, looked down and declared, "OMG, WHERE DID THAT PENIS COME FROM?!!!", then toweled off, donned a floral print dress, faux pearl necklace and a pair of sensible size 12 shoes and bid his wife and kids goodbye forever, and headed off to his job as a psychiatrically trained adolescent medicine physician on a mission to save countless young people from suffering the same fate...

Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2022 08:53 AM (kXYt5)

285 280 Lockdown Larry thought he'd get props acquiring South Korean covid test kits that didn't work. Hey Lar! Whap happened to those kits?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 25, 2022 08:52 AM (flINI)

"Fuck you", he explained.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2022 08:53 AM (r46W7)

286 We will use the title "Dept. of Public Safety."

Posted by: Revolution Committees of Justice at July 25, 2022 08:53 AM (m8+xt)

287 For those interested in a fight and who have a Disqus account, Michael Walsh is defending his column in the comments at Insty's.

https://instapundit.com/
533217/#respond

Including... ||Forty years is roughly two generations. GHW Bush was elected veep in 1980. We had Bush-Clinton in 1992, We had Bush (George) from 2000-2008, We almost had Bush (Jeb) and Clinton (Hillary) in 2016. We had eight years of Obama from 2008-2016, and now we have Obama's veep. Don't be surprised if Michelle winds up on the ticket in 2024. And we had a Trump campaign in 2016, with the possibility of another in 2024, and his sons eyeing office beyond 2028. In other words, "the same few families." That's what it's supposed to mean, and in fact does mean. Hope that helps.||

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 08:53 AM (yikp0)

288 "ordinary Republicans are voting for Trump due to hero-worship, "

Not a 'hero'. Trump was a blunt instrument against The System and you still don't get it. You're not going to like what's next.

Posted by: Ordinary Republican at July 25, 2022 08:53 AM (sAmhv)

289 And federal, state, and local governments spend hundreds of billions annually providing benefits to illegal aliens.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 25, 2022 08:52 AM (MvHI3)

I was about $130 BILLION in 2010. My guess is close to half a TRILLION now!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:53 AM (ex2Cx)

290 Larry Hogan continues to show his true colors.
https://tinyurl.com/2s3rcbjw
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2022 08:36 AM (1n+EO)

Hulk Hogan > Larry Hogan

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 25, 2022 08:54 AM (qZQHw)

291 JEB!@#$%ASDFJKL; got about $180 MILLION FUCKING DOLLARS for 3 Electors!
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Bloomberg got 8 Guamanian electors for $100M. But he also got Lady Lindsay under his thumb with $80M in SC.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 08:54 AM (D8mow)

292 Just me, or was that Michael Walsh piece a jumbled mess?

He had some good points, but his wording is so circular and unclear that it was damn-near unreadable. I had to go back and re-start several paragraphs to figure out where he was going.

His bio says he's an author - I'm surprised he hasn't starved.

Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2022 08:54 AM (VJsqe)

293 "In one eye-opening finding, 74 percent of undergrads endorse the view that a professor who says “something that students find offensive” should be reported to the university. By a majority almost as lopsided, 65 percent believe that a fellow student who says something they consider offensive should be turned in." ...
Posted by: sidney at July 25, 2022 08:47 AM (Uy/WF)
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What I find interesting is that it isn't inverted in terms of ratio of professor vs. students. The students are more likely to be given the benefit of the doubt by the red guards. Perhaps it's because of the distrust of authority figures who are "offensive."

The other notable thing is the vagary - probably intentional - of the question. "Reported" or "turned in?" To what end? What's the goal or expectation of these amateur red guards? Censure? Termination of employment or expulsion? Arrest and confinement in a reeducation camp? Execution? Report them to whom and for what purpose? What's the remedy? Where are the lines and where are the limits? Have they even considered the question beyond the first step of "report them?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 08:55 AM (WWh8n)

294 284 Trans-affirming care?

A HERO'S STORY: Dr. Richard Levine hopped out of bed one day in his mid-40's, got in the shower, looked down and declared, "OMG, WHERE DID THAT PENIS COME FROM?!!!", then toweled off, donned a floral print dress, faux pearl necklace and a pair of sensible size 12 shoes and bid his wife and kids goodbye forever, and headed off to his job as a psychiatrically trained adolescent medicine physician on a mission to save countless young people from suffering the same fate...
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2022 08:53 AM (kXYt5)

A I am the dick!

Posted by: Richard Levines Dick at July 25, 2022 08:55 AM (ex2Cx)

295 Pence-David French 2024

lets make it a landslide

Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2022 08:56 AM (us2H3)

296 Larry Hogan is what all the NeverTrumpers think is a "perfect" republican. Well he can join Liz Cheney on the unemployed grifter line after this fall.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2022 08:56 AM (r46W7)

297 " 65 percent believe that a fellow student who says something they consider offensive should be turned in."

Germany, 1937.

Remember when young people were the foremost advocates of free speech and colleges were the one place you could actually discuss and debate offensive ideas?

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2022 08:56 AM (H8QX8)

298 "Lockdown Larry thought he'd get props acquiring South Korean covid test kits that didn't work. Hey Lar! Whap happened to those kits?"

Better yet, He pulled that stunt at BWI where a plane lod of South Korean stuff showed up.

Fully cleared by the federal government.

Yet there is Larry, surrounded by Maryland State Police, with a perimeter of Maryland National Guard in full combat gear.

Claimed that he was afraid that Trump would confiscate the stuff at the airport.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2022 08:56 AM (1n+EO)

299 On top of that, every time my daughter takes the toll road from Youngstown to the breezewood exit it costs me over $20.
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Didn't they build that Highway in the 1930s?
Posted by: Puddinhead

And the Breezewood and Carlisle exits show how bigly one can screw up if one puts his mind to it.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2022 08:57 AM (6WCwE)

300 "The federal government collects about $22 billion annually in tax receipts from illegal aliens."
____________

And federal, state, and local governments spend hundreds of billions annually providing benefits to illegal aliens.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 25, 2022 08:52 AM

Don't forget the amount of $$$$$ hospital emergency rooms lose because illegals go there for treatment for everything from a runny nose to giving birth and they never pay a dime.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 25, 2022 08:57 AM (bVYXr)

301 Hulk Hogan > Larry Hogan
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 25, 2022 08:54 AM (qZQHw)

Hogans Heros>Hulk Hogan > Larry Hogan

Posted by: Richard Levines Dick at July 25, 2022 08:57 AM (ex2Cx)

302 Even if J6 hadn't happened and Trump wasn't running for POTUS Mike Pence would still be at .3%.
He's milquetoast.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2022 08:57 AM (NpAcC)

303 296 Larry Hogan is what all the NeverTrumpers think is a "perfect" republican. Well he can join Liz Cheney on the unemployed grifter line after this fall.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2022 08:56 AM (r46W7)

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Another blue state Republican as the hope of the future, huh?

It's a good thing we don't have another example of such a man who simply won't stop being a thorn in the entire base's side out of spite years after he stopped being relevant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 08:57 AM (LvTSG)

304 Glad you made it out JJ! Although:

"Manhattan is overrated, but not overly so."

- Stuff Thomas Jefferson might have said if he didn't have to commute to Manhattan 5 days a week.

Posted by: Boswell at July 25, 2022 08:57 AM (+Cgut)

305 He had some good points, but his wording is so circular and unclear that it was damn-near unreadable. I had to go back and re-start several paragraphs to figure out where he was going.

His bio says he's an author - I'm surprised he hasn't starved.
Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2022 08:54 AM (VJsqe)

He needs an editor, one he'll listen to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2022 08:57 AM (r46W7)

306 280 Lockdown Larry thought he'd get props acquiring South Korean covid test kits that didn't work. Hey Lar! Whap happened to those kits?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 25, 2022 08:52 AM (flINI)

That little piece of corruption got buried.

Posted by: 7man at July 25, 2022 08:58 AM (qwO6y)

307 What I find interesting is that it isn't inverted in terms of ratio of professor vs. students. The students are more likely to be given the benefit of the doubt by the red guards. Perhaps it's because of the distrust of authority figures who are "offensive."

The other notable thing is the vagary - probably intentional - of the question. "Reported" or "turned in?" To what end? What's the goal or expectation of these amateur red guards? Censure? Termination of employment or expulsion? Arrest and confinement in a reeducation camp? Execution? Report them to whom and for what purpose? What's the remedy? Where are the lines and where are the limits? Have they even considered the question beyond the first step of "report them?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 08:55 AM (WWh8n

I'm inclined to think it's that figures in authority are viewed as inherently more dangerous if espousing incorrect ideas. This is not only intuitive but true. A mad king is much worse than a mad street hobo. The issue is what they view as mad or dangerous.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 25, 2022 08:58 AM (b2nrj)

308 PS Who da fuck decides to take soldiers prisoned in Germany and make it a G D sitcomm!!

Posted by: Richard Levines Dick at July 25, 2022 08:58 AM (ex2Cx)

309 Beer. Lots and lots of beer.
Posted by: grammie winger at July 25, 2022 07:52 AM (45fpk)

And Cheese!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 25, 2022 07:53 AM (PiwSw)

**********

What am I?

Chopped liver?

Posted by: The Wisconsin Bratwursts at July 25, 2022 08:58 AM (xxG/v)

310 Good morning Horde and Happy Birthday JJ!

Posted by: blaster at July 25, 2022 08:59 AM (6TxNR)

311 284

Wasn't Levine in his mid-60s when he decided he didn't want his penis anymore? Even more pathetic at that age.

Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2022 08:59 AM (4h9M3)

312 off dick sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 08:59 AM (ex2Cx)

313 I was willing to give Pence the benefit of doubt. But he proves more every day that his actions during the election were malicious. Why else would he directly oppose the very clear will of the party voters? Rhetorically, it is because he was never on board with the agenda in the first place. In fact, I am beginning to believe he had more to do with undermining the president then we imagined.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2022 08:59 AM (VpIIl)

314 Trump is the first Republican president to try to deliver on his campaign promises since...Reagan.

It shouldn't be a surprise he is popular with the base.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 08:59 AM (ESjRY)

315 314 Trump is the first Republican president to try to deliver on his campaign promises since...Reagan.

It shouldn't be a surprise he is popular with the base.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 08:59 AM (ESjRY)

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Which cadre of establishment stooges are going to steal Trump's name and claim to be Trump Republicans for decades after his death, using the mantle as a cudgel against the base?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:00 AM (LvTSG)

316 261 With a gas tax that high it's a wonder that the roads aren't nicer.... On top of that, every time my daughter takes the toll road from Youngstown to the breezewood exit it costs me over $20. Rip off
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

Don't have her take the Turnpike. Not sure where her final destination is but Rt 422 will get you to Ebensburg, PA. After that, there are several routes going east that are not used much because I80 and the PA Tpk take most of the traffic.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 25, 2022 09:00 AM (sAmhv)

317 Democrats make women second class citizens in their own titular sports. And the rabble cheer.

A Handmaid's Tale indeed.

Posted by: ... at July 25, 2022 09:01 AM (6jH1W)

318 In the Republican electoral calculus, MD is vastly important

Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2022 09:01 AM (us2H3)

319 And the Breezewood and Carlisle exits show how bigly one can screw up if one puts his mind to it.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2022 08:57 AM (6WCwE)

***

Yeah, that Breezewood exit is a doozy. It's like it was designed by students of Frank Gehry

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 25, 2022 09:01 AM (flINI)

320 China Rethinking Its Proposed Heavy Lift Rocket to Make it a Starship Clone

Judges would have also accepted Chinese couple at NASA have stolen plans!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 09:01 AM (ex2Cx)

321 Yay me. Sitting at the courthouse annex for jury duty. Lived in the last place for 30 years. Took 20 years before I was ever called. I've been here a year and got called.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2022 09:01 AM (+Dm7G)

322 Trump is the first Republican president to try to deliver on his campaign promises since...Reagan.

It shouldn't be a surprise he is popular with the base.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 08:59 AM (ESjRY)
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Yeah. The Dems have a good track record of delivering on promises. The problem is that what they promise is disastrous. They deliver it, though. Biden (/the politburo running him) is delivering. This administration is doing what it said it would do. What are the odds that GOP candidates make that fact part of their campaigns?

And while I'm in fantasy land, I like my odds of having the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders show up to keep me company tonight.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:02 AM (WWh8n)

323 With a gas tax that high it's a wonder that the roads aren't nicer.... On top of that, every time my daughter takes the toll road from Youngstown to the breezewood exit it costs me over $20. Rip off
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 25, 2022 08:47 AM (flINI)
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Infrastructure funds are for infrastructure projects, and infrastructure projects are jobs programs. If they actually do eventually result in infrastructure, it's just a happy accident.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:03 AM (WWh8n)

324 Well, let's see. Woodmans has the cheapest gas right now. For your own sanity don't go to Madison, Milwaukee, or Racine for a while. The best farmer's market here is, believe it or not, in downtown Beloit, Saturday mornings starting about 7AM. Take a drive out to Monroe, see some Mennonites and Amish. For Chinese food, Janesville has The Cozy Inn, a for-real 'Chop Suey' type place you thought vanished in the 1960s.
If you must go to an airport, take the excellent regional private bus, Van Galder. That's all I can think of for now.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2022 09:03 AM (U11/V)

325 Cross-country runner Madison Kenyon of Idaho revealed, “It was frustrating to know that I was being beat by a male, but I think it really hit me when we’re watching the podium. That’s when it hit me that this wasn’t fair, and that this is removing or dropping females back in their own sport.”

Dear Jesus Moar please!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 09:03 AM (ex2Cx)

326 With a gas tax that high it's a wonder that the roads aren't nicer

The pessimistic analysis of this is those taxes are going to retired highway workers' pensions.

Likely it is worse then that and it is going to illegals and bureaucrats.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 09:03 AM (ESjRY)

327 I'm wondering if Biden getting Covid, despite being vaxed, boosted, re-boosted and who knows how many other updates, has made the slightest impression on the LIV's that the vax is mostly worthless theater? Or has the MSM managed to work up more hysteria about this killer virus and convince them Biden would be dead without having been vaxed?

Posted by: Ripley at July 25, 2022 09:03 AM (MxEKc)

328 325 Cross-country runner Madison Kenyon of Idaho revealed, “It was frustrating to know that I was being beat by a male, but I think it really hit me when we’re watching the podium. That’s when it hit me that this wasn’t fair, and that this is removing or dropping females back in their own sport.”

Dear Jesus Moar please!!
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2022 09:03 AM (ex2Cx)

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Is she willing to protest the forced inclusion of women at Augusta National yet?

No?

Well, then I still don't give a shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:04 AM (LvTSG)

329 San Diego Comic Con premier of Amazon's Rings of Powers trailer proves to be a sh1t show.

Steven Colbert was the panel host and proceeded to prove how much of an ignorant slut he is by blaming one of the elves for creating the one True Ring.

So Colbert is a shill for Sauron. Got it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2022 09:04 AM (iyUvv)

330 Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2022 09:01 AM (+Dm7G)

Tell them you're unvaxxed and they will you released immediately.

Posted by: dantesed at July 25, 2022 09:04 AM (88xKn)

331 327 I'm wondering if Biden getting Covid, despite being vaxed, boosted, re-boosted and who knows how many other updates, has made the slightest impression on the LIV's that the vax is mostly worthless theater? Or has the MSM managed to work up more hysteria about this killer virus and convince them Biden would be dead without having been vaxed?
Posted by: Ripley at July 25, 2022 09:03 AM (MxEKc)

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There have been millions of examples of this to the point where virtually everyone has a personal story about it. And yet, "if I hadn't been triple-vaxxed and quadruple boosted, it would have been worse."

The vaccine is a religious talisman to the left now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:05 AM (LvTSG)

332 Steven Colbert was the panel host and proceeded to prove how much of an ignorant slut he is by blaming one of the elves for creating the one True Ring.

So Colbert is a shill for Sauron. Got it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2022 09:04 AM (iyUvv)

Welllll, technicalllly..... Feanor did teach Sauron how to make Rings of Power, so......

(or something)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 09:06 AM (/EuRN)

333 299 Tonypete, when stationed in DC and going home to Warren a lot, I would often use US30. Usually in better condition than the PA turnpike. A low bar, but still. Also saving $3.60 int the early 70s.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 25, 2022 09:06 AM (lz5hY)

334 321 Yay me. Sitting at the courthouse annex for jury duty. Lived in the last place for 30 years. Took 20 years before I was ever called. I've been here a year and got called.
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I got called once and then again as soon as the "excused duty for X years after a previous call-up" time period had passed, randomly out of Ontario's, say, 10-million adults.

One guy in my first pool said he'd been called alot -- 5 or 6 times as I recall. Something tells me their random algorithm might be a bit effed up.

Luckily for the second call-up, there were no cases to be heard so we were all let go on the first day.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 09:06 AM (yikp0)

335 So what else is part of the Left's Unholy Trinity besides abortion and COVID shots?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2022 09:06 AM (iyUvv)

336 Any means necessary is why they have unleashed criminals to cause chaos

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 25, 2022 09:06 AM (G8ScF)

337 Is that a real Biden quote up there?

Posted by: DB at July 25, 2022 09:06 AM (geLO8)

338 Liz-ard Cheney: Trump ‘Engaged in the Most Serious Misconduct’ of Any President in History

More so than Obama personally targeting American citizens to be assassinated?

Forcing private citizens to choose between having a job and being shot-up with a toxic experimental drug?

Selling helium, oil, uranium and other strategic assets from a tax-payer funded repository to enemy nations?

Providing global terrorist regimes with $90B in military hardware?

Pixy limits the VERY lengthy list of "presidential misconduct".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 25, 2022 09:06 AM (3hSHB)

339 245 Pence/Hogan, 2024
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2022 08:44 AM (1n+EO)

I'm sure WTOP will stop fawning over Hogan long enough to post that idea.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 25, 2022 09:07 AM (4olE8)

340 In response, Rep. Steve Scalise and Rep. Debbie Lesko called out the cluelessness of the Biden proposal: "It is shameful that Democrats' divisive politics and radical gender ideology ignore basic science and are destroying women’s sports that Title IX was created to protect"
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Read that sentence as the average mildly interested person, and try to imagine giving a fuck what they are talking about. For some reason the GOP still defaults to GOPEspeak instead of talking in a way that humans understand and are motivated by.

Trump demonstrated the way: Distill your message down to about ten words or less. Be firm about it and tell the truth.

"Democrats are deleting women from their own sports, and it's wrong". This is not hard.

Posted by: ... at July 25, 2022 09:07 AM (6jH1W)

341 Cross-country runner Madison Kenyon of Idaho revealed, “It was frustrating to know that I was being beat by a male,

but I think it really hit me when we’re watching the podium.

And his balls were hanging out.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2022 09:07 AM (+Dm7G)

342 So what's this Oak Lair place in Wisconsin like? Pretty edgelord sounding name, if you ask me...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 09:08 AM (/EuRN)

343 > Sitting at the courthouse annex for jury duty.

> Tell them you're unvaxxed and they will you released immediately.
______________

or tell them you HAVE covid and go from there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 09:08 AM (BFigT)

344 Welcome back to America, J.J.

Posted by: creeper at July 25, 2022 09:08 AM (cTCuP)

345 >>The vaccine is a religious talisman to the left now.

I've been having fun tossing Brix's words at some liberal acquaintances who also thought the sun shone out of Brix's butt.

If you can't torment your opponents with their own idiocy life is just not worth living.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2022 09:09 AM (ZLI7S)

346 287 For those interested in a fight and who have a Disqus account, Michael Walsh is defending his column in the comments at Insty's.

https://instapundit.com/
533217/#respond
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 08:53 AM (yikp0)

He's not doing so well, revealing an unattractive arrogance and contempt.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2022 09:09 AM (H8QX8)

347 335 So what else is part of the Left's Unholy Trinity besides abortion and COVID shots?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2022 09:06 AM (iyUvv)

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The concept of 'lived truth' - eg: if somebody says something is true to them, it MUST be accepted as their truth.

Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2022 09:09 AM (VJsqe)

348 335 So what else is part of the Left's Unholy Trinity besides abortion and COVID shots?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Romans 1:18-32 covers it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 25, 2022 09:09 AM (sAmhv)

349 So Colbert is a shill for Sauron. Got it.
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Didn't we already know that??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 09:09 AM (yikp0)

350 I got called a lot for jury duty in CA, found out that my drivers license and voter registration weren't the same. One had middle initial, one had full middle name. So Computer saw that as 2 different people. Once I changed it I got called way less.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 25, 2022 09:10 AM (sRUs0)

351 If you can't torment your opponents with their own idiocy life is just not worth living.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2022 09:09 AM (ZLI7S)
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The only people I know in that camp are utterly and totally immune to facts. They cannot be moved with facts. They will continue until they go broke or die thanks to what's going on. Once they move position, I'd say it's even odds about whether or not they move even further toward the insane.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:10 AM (WWh8n)

352 Breezewood has more toilets per capita than any other town in the US. They had to build a new power plant just to support the sewage treatment plant.

Posted by: pawn at July 25, 2022 09:10 AM (wsHtO)

353 Say, have you heard that the baby formula shortage continues? The WSJ reported last week the shortage is as bad as in May when Brandon took dramatic action - flying formula to the US from overseas. WSJ also reported that so far, the total amount of imported formula is enough for one day's US consumption.

Instead of this news, we get Trump! Insurrection! Women are dying by the million because they can't get an abortion 24/7 in every county in the nation!

Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2022 09:10 AM (AMIL/)

354 Wait Michael Walsh thinks Trump is an oligarch?
Someone needs to stop sniffing glue

Posted by: Joetato at July 25, 2022 09:10 AM (PsUT0)

355 Luckily for the second call-up, there were no cases to be heard so we were all let go on the first day.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 25, 2022 09:06 AM (yikp0)

An evenly spaced sequence of numbers is the farthest from "random" you can get. Randomness never actually looks random.

You may not be interested in Statistical Mechanics, but Statistical Mechanics is rocking horse feldspar Miami lava.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 09:11 AM (/EuRN)

356 354 Wait Michael Walsh thinks Trump is an oligarch?
Someone needs to stop sniffing glue
Posted by: Joetato at July 25, 2022 09:10 AM (PsUT0)

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Oligarchs are usually part of the power structure, not a hate object of the power structure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:11 AM (LvTSG)

357 Of course the best part of this trailer is the reveal of what Sauron looks like in this Age...

The memes instantly wrote themselves when someone asked the real Slim Shady to stand up. Because Sauron looks like Eminem

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2022 09:11 AM (iyUvv)

358 I got called a lot for jury duty in CA, found out that my drivers license and voter registration weren't the same. One had middle initial, one had full middle name. So Computer saw that as 2 different people. Once I changed it I got called way less.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 25, 2022 09:10 AM (sRUs0)
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That happened to me in CO, but resulted in duplicate voter registration. I guess some friendly person at the DMV registered me to vote without telling me and the system accepted it.

I got two ballots thanks to CO's vote-by-mail system.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:11 AM (WWh8n)

359 >>The only people I know in that camp are utterly and totally immune to facts. They cannot be moved with facts. They will continue until they go broke or die thanks to what's going on. Once they move position, I'd say it's even odds about whether or not they move even further toward the insane.

The ones I know don't change, at least not publicly. But the cognitive dissonance is obvious.

They know and even better they know I know.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

360 337

Nah. Biden would have said "And I licked the plate."

Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2022 09:12 AM (4h9M3)

361 WEAR THE DAMN MASK!!

Posted by: Larry Hogan at July 25, 2022 09:12 AM (YzG46)

362 Wasn't Levine in his mid-60s when he decided he didn't want his penis anymore? Even more pathetic at that age.

********

H will turn 65 this year (born Oct 1957). I first learned of him declaring himself to be a woman about 12 years ago from a fellow Tulane alum who has always kept herself well appraised of alumni gossip. Probably somewhere around age 45-50 is my best guess.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2022 09:12 AM (kXYt5)

363 361 WEAR THE DAMN MASK!!
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I think this translates to 'Smell The Glove."

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 09:13 AM (D8mow)

364 Pardon me for not being caught up, but where did Mr. Sefton relocate to? Chicago?

Posted by: Will at July 25, 2022 09:13 AM (YA4S8)

365 The ones I know don't change, at least not publicly. But the cognitive dissonance is obvious.

They know and even better they know I know.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)
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Man, the handful of people I know who were susceptible to reality already pivoted. They don't talk about it, but they just no longer bring it up or comment on it at all. They went from noisy to quiet. The ones that are still noisy are impervious and there's no point in engaging anymore unless there's a third party present who might be convinced.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:14 AM (WWh8n)

366 364: Wisconsin

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 25, 2022 09:14 AM (sAmhv)

367
Yeah, that Breezewood exit is a doozy. It's like it was designed by students of Frank Gehry

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 25, 2022 09:01 AM (flINI)

I laughed out loud. It sounded strange. Been too long.

Thanks, Truck Monkey.

Posted by: creeper at July 25, 2022 09:14 AM (cTCuP)

368 So what else is part of the Left's Unholy Trinity besides abortion and COVID shots?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Buggery

Posted by: ... at July 25, 2022 09:14 AM (6jH1W)

369 Oligarchs are usually part of the power structure, not a hate object of the power structure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:11 AM (LvTSG)

And there are, by definition, more than one of them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 09:14 AM (/EuRN)

370 363 361 WEAR THE DAMN MASK!!
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I think this translates to 'Smell The Glove."
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 09:13 AM (D8mow)

That's not what they originally wanted to put on the album cover, I can tell you that!

Posted by: Ian Faith at July 25, 2022 09:14 AM (PiwSw)

371 So who does Admiral Levine date? It sucks to be a sailor.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 09:14 AM (D8mow)

372 >>H will turn 65 this year (born Oct 1957). I first learned of him declaring himself to be a woman about 12 years ago from a fellow Tulane alum who has always kept herself well appraised of alumni gossip. Probably somewhere around age 45-50 is my best guess.

Why not just buy a sports car like most men enjoying their midlife crisis? Seems less complicated.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2022 09:15 AM (ZLI7S)

373 more SADS

Phil Petty, a former South Carolina star quarterback who led the Gamecocks to two bowl wins during his collegiate career, has died, the university announced Thursday. He was 43.

Petty played for South Carolina from 1999 to 2001. He had battled a brief illness prior to his death, The State reported.

Posted by: DB at July 25, 2022 09:15 AM (geLO8)

374 re: mask

Had a customer yesterday that was wearing one of those clear plastic masks that cover everything but the eyes.

And I was thinking of telling him, "you know if you painted that mask white you could dress as Hannibal Lector for Halloween."

Luckily I stopped myself.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2022 09:15 AM (iyUvv)

375 Nice biden/star trek pic. "Patterns of farce"

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2022 09:16 AM (VwHCD)

376 PA taxes the hell out of everything. I have to pay $10/yr just to breathe. Not kidding.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 25, 2022 09:16 AM (lNLXk)

377 You don't change most people's minds with facts. You do it with emotion. That's why Democrats never ever stop their cheap emotional theater.

Posted by: ... at July 25, 2022 09:16 AM (6jH1W)

378 The ones that are still noisy are impervious and there's no point in engaging anymore unless there's a third party present who might be convinced.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:14 AM (WWh8n)

What galls me is people saying "Why can't we all just drop this"...

A) Oh, *now* we can drop it?
B) We can't "drop it" now, because credulous dolts didn't stand up in the first damn place and say "No".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 09:16 AM (/EuRN)

379 And I was thinking of telling him, "you know if you painted that mask white you could dress as Hannibal Lector for Halloween."

Luckily I stopped myself.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2022 09:15 AM (iyUvv)
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Good thing. If he became a cannibal, he'd agitate for universal and mandatory routine COVID testing to reduce the possibility that he feasts upon COVID-riddled flesh.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:17 AM (WWh8n)

380 They call it a "per capita" tax. $10 if you are over 18 and alive. Plus about 3 different property taxes.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 25, 2022 09:17 AM (lNLXk)

381 H will turn 65 this year (born Oct 1957). I first learned of him declaring himself to be a woman about 12 years ago from a fellow Tulane alum who has always kept herself well appraised of alumni gossip. Probably somewhere around age 45-50 is my best guess.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2022 09:12 AM (kXYt5)

He's a walking, talking freak show. Should be in the looney bin, not on the federal layabout payroll.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 25, 2022 09:17 AM (qZQHw)

382 365 Man, the handful of people I know who were susceptible to reality already pivoted. They don't talk about it, but they just no longer bring it up or comment on it at all. They went from noisy to quiet. The ones that are still noisy are impervious and there's no point in engaging anymore unless there's a third party present who might be convinced.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:14 AM (WWh8n)

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We went to church yesterday, and I noted a slight uptic in the number of people masked up. From something like 5 to 20 total in a congregation of about 200 or so.

As I was sitting there, I noted that Dolley had never even brought up the idea of putting on a mask for months. I think my obvious lack of compliance had an effect on her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:18 AM (LvTSG)

383 So, you guys are telling me that Pence is not too popular?

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2022 09:18 AM (5gyQ/)

384 As I was sitting there, I noted that Dolley had never even brought up the idea of putting on a mask for months. I think my obvious lack of compliance had an effect on her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:18 AM (LvTSG)
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Lack of compliance without consequence is something people will notice, even if they don't (or can't) articulate it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:19 AM (WWh8n)

385 Pence is as popular as that guy trying to swim ashore at North Sentinel Island.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2022 09:19 AM (iyUvv)

386 I see the RNC is going to hold their 2024 convention in Milwaukee, WI.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2022 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

387 Biden seems to have regressed to pre-school age mentally.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 25, 2022 09:19 AM (eGTCV)

388 So, you guys are telling me that Pence is not too popular?
Posted by: runner at July 25, 2022 09:18 AM (5gyQ/)
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He's "establishment popular" or "estopular."

He'll be a shoe-in as Kamala's "unity" VP pick.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:19 AM (WWh8n)

389 I have no idea of the credibility of this man, although I've heard his name before-Lew Rockwell. This is a damning article on Covid shots, "The Covid Vaccine Plot":

https://tinyurl.com/bmakt7rz

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2022 09:20 AM (fL5aK)

390 384 Lack of compliance without consequence is something people will notice, even if they don't (or can't) articulate it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:19 AM (WWh8n)

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We all got covid months ago.

We got it from Junior. While he was at school. While school was still mandating masks. He got it from a girl who was masked, while he was masked.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:20 AM (LvTSG)

391 PA taxes the hell out of everything. I have to pay $10/yr just to breathe. Not kidding.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 25, 2022 09:16 AM (lNLXk)

How much is it just to walk around??

Posted by: dantesed at July 25, 2022 09:20 AM (88xKn)

392 He'll be a shoe-in as Kamala's "unity" VP pick.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:19 AM (WWh8n)

Whore/Bore '24

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 09:20 AM (/EuRN)

393 "Biden will never take responsibility for the inflation, so we shouldn’t expect him to take responsibility for the recession."

Biden Junta Bracing for a Tsunami of Bad Economic News Next Week
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Unexpectedly. Predicted headlines from the Junta & MDM-MSM:

"This Recession is Only Transitory."

"Why Recession, Hyperinflation, Job & Business Loss, and Starvation Are Good."

"No, Really, It' NOT A Depression. Trust Us!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 25, 2022 09:20 AM (QbCrG)

394 I dated Ethyl Chloride in high school.

Posted by: bentcarrot.com at July 25, 2022 09:20 AM (PIlQh)

395 How much is it just to walk around??

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2022 09:21 AM (iyUvv)

396 My wife got tapped for jury duty. Judging by the questionnaire enclosed with the jury summons it'll be for personal injury trials. I suggested she tank the questionnaire with bullshit answers and she'd be off the hook.

but.... no

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 09:21 AM (BFigT)

397 "You don't change most people's minds with facts. You do it with emotion. That's why Democrats never ever stop their cheap emotional theater.

Posted by: ... "

Disagree. I (and many others) dropped my youthful liberalism when I finally allowed myself to see the world as it is and the endless flood of facts. All that is needed in most cases is somehow breaching the wall of smug ignorance. Granted, that is harder than it sounds.

Posted by: Ripley at July 25, 2022 09:22 AM (MxEKc)

398 and she'd be off the hook.

but.... no
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 09:21 AM (BFigT)

If you really want to be off the hook, answer truthfully.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 09:22 AM (/EuRN)

399 David French is running for Pope

Posted by: REDACTED at July 25, 2022 09:22 AM (us2H3)

400 396 My wife got tapped for jury duty. Judging by the questionnaire enclosed with the jury summons it'll be for personal injury trials. I suggested she tank the questionnaire with bullshit answers and she'd be off the hook.

but.... no
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 09:21 AM (BFigT)

Easy way to get off jury duty: Say something racist.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 25, 2022 09:23 AM (Y5qcH)

401 Biden seems to have regressed to pre-school age mentally.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 25, 2022 09:19 AM (eGTCV)

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In many ways, this too is the story of the "progressive" movement ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 25, 2022 09:23 AM (QbCrG)

402 Used to live the Magic of Breezewood running the kids from NoVA to summer camp in western PA. Good times.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 25, 2022 09:23 AM (906pl)

403 390 384 Lack of compliance without consequence is something people will notice, even if they don't (or can't) articulate it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:19 AM (WWh8n)

==========

We all got covid months ago.

We got it from Junior. While he was at school. While school was still mandating masks. He got it from a girl who was masked, while he was masked.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:20 AM (LvTSG)

But it would have been worse if you weren't masked!

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 25, 2022 09:23 AM (b2nrj)

404 395 How much is it just to walk around??
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They make you eat scrapple, rite?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 09:23 AM (D8mow)

405 393 "Biden will never take responsibility for the inflation, so we shouldn’t expect him to take responsibility for the recession."

Biden Junta Bracing for a Tsunami of Bad Economic News Next Week
-------
Unexpectedly. Predicted headlines from the Junta & MDM-MSM:
"This Recession is Only Transitory."
"Why Recession, Hyperinflation, Job & Business Loss, and Starvation Are Good."
"No, Really, It' NOT A Depression. Trust Us!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 25, 2022 09:20 AM (QbCrG)

Also - "Putin's Recession."

Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2022 09:23 AM (AMIL/)

406 David French is running for Pope

Of Eunuch Village?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2022 09:23 AM (iyUvv)

407 . And yet, "if I hadn't been triple-vaxxed and quadruple boosted, it would have been worse."

My favorite is one some clot shotted individual dies the FNM interviews a family member who gives the "it would have been worse without the clot shot" line

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 09:23 AM (ESjRY)

408 My wife got tapped for jury duty. Judging by the questionnaire enclosed with the jury summons it'll be for personal injury trials. I suggested she tank the questionnaire with bullshit answers and she'd be off the hook.

but.... no
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 09:21 AM (BFigT)

Easy way to get off jury duty: Say something racist.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 25, 2022 09:23 AM (Y5qcH)

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One word: ~~Plastics~~ Nullification.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 25, 2022 09:24 AM (QbCrG)

409 >>Disagree. I (and many others) dropped my youthful liberalism when I finally allowed myself to see the world as it is and the endless flood of facts. All that is needed in most cases is somehow breaching the wall of smug ignorance. Granted, that is harder than it sounds.

I think quite a few will learn some valuable lessons about economics and energy over the next couple years through the school of hard knocks. Sadly, the rest of us have been enrolled as well.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2022 09:24 AM (ZLI7S)

410 Do TPTB actually believe people will buy the mask scam again? I mean the Karens will, of course, but the rest of them have spent a blissful summer unmasked. How is Fauci going to scare them into masking up this time?

Posted by: creeper at July 25, 2022 09:24 AM (cTCuP)

411 Whore/Bore '24
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 09:20 AM (/EuRN)
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Has a certain poetry to it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:24 AM (WWh8n)

412 My favorite is one some clot shotted individual dies the FNM interviews a family member who gives the "it would have been worse without the clot shot" line
Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2022 09:23 AM (ESjRY)

Yep, He would have been more deader.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 25, 2022 09:24 AM (UuD2k)

413 So, you guys are telling me that Pence is not too popular?

Posted by: runner at July 25, 2022 09:18 AM (5gyQ/)

He's the guy you trebuchet out into a mine field to, you know, see if it's actually a minefield. The dude you push out of a boat to see if there are sharks around, or kick out of an airlock on an alien planet to see if the air is breathable.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2022 09:25 AM (VwHCD)

414 Congrats on the move,JJ!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2022 09:25 AM (kf6Ak)

415 Biden Junta Bracing for a Tsunami of Bad Economic News Next Week

Right. Any words that end in -ion are being cancelled.

Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2022 09:25 AM (4h9M3)

416 You can be a starving artist. You'll never be a starving philosopher.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 09:25 AM (/EuRN)

417 He's "establishment popular" or "estopular."

I like it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2022 09:25 AM (H8QX8)

418 Whore/Bore '24
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 09:20 AM (/EuRN)

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More Whore/Bore '28!

Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2022 09:25 AM (VJsqe)

419 David French is running for Pope

Of Eunuch Village?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2022 09:23 AM (iyUvv)

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Heh. I don't think JJ is gonna miss that part of NYC.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 25, 2022 09:25 AM (QbCrG)

420 ++++
The only people I know in that camp are utterly and totally immune to facts. They cannot be moved with facts. They will continue until they go broke or die thanks to what's going on. Once they move position, I'd say it's even odds about whether or not they move even further toward the insane.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:10 AM (WWh8n)

You know you've really hit home when you say something and they shut down and never say a word to you again about the topic. I have some in-laws who have been all in on the Covid bandwagon; some other relative had a bad case of covid, and in a group e-mail they said "thank heaven he was vaccinated, it would have been so much worse!" They pride themselves on being "scientific" so I asked them "how do you quantify that? What's the difference between saying that and saying "oh if his wife hadn't lit so many votive candles, it would have been so much worse!!!" Not only did they never answer, they've never dared to speak to me about Covid again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2022 09:25 AM (r46W7)

421 That's all I can think of for now.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 25, 2022 09:03 AM

Needs a lutefisk recommendation.

Posted by: Thorvald at July 25, 2022 09:26 AM (a3Q+t)

422 Right. Any words that end in -ion are being cancelled.
Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2022 09:25 AM (4h9M3)

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Buzzion hardest hit

Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2022 09:26 AM (VJsqe)

423 Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 09:21 AM (BFigT)

Locally, I was served a jury summons; I told them that I have a severe hearing loss and they excused me.

I wear hearing aids in case you're wondering.

Posted by: dantesed at July 25, 2022 09:26 AM (88xKn)

424 I've only been tapped for Jury Duty once. I went and sat in the courtroom as the start time came and went. About a half hour after were supposed to start, we in the court room heard muffled shouting coming from the chambers (small courthouse, chambers right off the court room). Then the judge and the two lawyers came out and the judge informed us that this was a case of gross misconduct by the prosecution, that he was dismissing all charges with prejudice, and that the court was very thankful for our time and that our service would be noted.

Damndest thing I've ever seen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:26 AM (WWh8n)

425 Bad News Biden

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2022 09:26 AM (kf6Ak)

426 and she'd be off the hook.

but.... no
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 09:21 AM (BFigT)

If you really want to be off the hook, answer truthfully.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Eyeball whomever asked you a jury question. Don't look away. Look straight at them as you give a straight answer. They can't stand someone they can't intimidate.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2022 09:27 AM (+Dm7G)

427 University of Michigan Medical students walked out of a graduation ceremony simply because the speaker was pro-life. Think about that. People who are about to take the Hippocratic Oath walked out because they disagreed with someone's point of view, which is to let children live, not murder them in the womb.

Is that someone you would trust with your families healthcare? Never. And it's another reason why people don't trust their doctors anymore.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2022 09:27 AM (VpIIl)

428 aoc will be able to run for president in 2024. She will be 36. for some reason I thought she would not meet the age requirement.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 25, 2022 09:27 AM (bVYXr)

429 Easy way to get off jury duty: Say something racist.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 25, 2022 09:23 AM (Y5qcH)

Off jury duty today. Credit rating destroyed tomorrow. Indicted for hate crime the next day.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2022 09:27 AM (H8QX8)

430 Only come across Lew Rockwell occasionally in the past however this is very sentient:

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Anytime debate and information is suppressed, you know that something is being hidden and that a secret agenda is operating.
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There are times when people can be lied to exclusively for their own good (eg to prevent an unnecessary panic), but it is vanishingly rare. And the source has to be an eminently trustworthy one. Otherwise the above is a universal truth and it guides me whenever attempting to inform myself.

Posted by: ... at July 25, 2022 09:28 AM (6jH1W)

431 Locally, I was served a jury summons; I told them that I have a severe hearing loss and they excused me.

I wear hearing aids in case you're wondering.
Posted by: dantesed

I WOULD NEVER HAVE KNOWN.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2022 09:28 AM (+Dm7G)

432 remember JJ, if you trim the bushes correctly, it'll make your deck look bigger
Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 25, 2022 08:12 AM

You're saying his deck is hardwood? Fancy!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 25, 2022 09:28 AM (a3Q+t)

433 All the voters love a military man.

Posted by: Gen. Eric Republican, USAF ret at July 25, 2022 09:28 AM (yQpMk)

434 >>aoc will be able to run for president in 2024. She will be 36. for some reason I thought she would not meet the age requirement.

She has the intellectual horsepower of a somewhat slow 12 year old so easy mistake to make.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2022 09:28 AM (ZLI7S)

435 428 aoc will be able to run for president in 2024. She will be 36. for some reason I thought she would not meet the age requirement.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 25, 2022 09:27 AM (bVYXr)

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Because you're remembering the conversations about her from last time?

She's one who would raise a shit ton of money, maybe win the Iowa caucus, and then go nowhere. She'd be like Pete Buttigieg, but the flameout would be funnier.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

436 There have been millions of examples of this to the point where virtually everyone has a personal story about it. And yet, "if I hadn't been triple-vaxxed and quadruple boosted, it would have been worse."

The vaccine is a religious talisman to the left now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:05 AM (LvTSG)

The Junta is going to update its messaging. Joe will now be used as an example that everyone will eventually get COVID, so it is even more mandatory you get vaxxed so you will have mild symptoms and a speedy recovery like Joe!

Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2022 09:29 AM (AMIL/)

437 Ironically Biden isn't really "responsible" for any of this, no more than the Disney animatronic dummies are "responsible" for the lines they're programmed to say.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2022 09:29 AM (r46W7)

438 427 University of Michigan Medical students walked out of a graduation ceremony simply because the speaker was pro-life. Think about that. People who are about to take the Hippocratic Oath walked out because they disagreed with someone's point of view, which is to let children live, not murder them in the womb.

Is that someone you would trust with your families healthcare? Never. And it's another reason why people don't trust their doctors anymore.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 25, 2022 09:27 AM (VpIIl)

The Hippocratic Oath (which used to prohibit abortion) has been revised.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 25, 2022 09:29 AM (b2nrj)

439 ... Anytime debate and information is suppressed, you know that something is being hidden and that a secret agenda is operating. ...
Posted by: ... at July 25, 2022 09:28 AM (6jH1W)
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See also: power. When one group is allowed to speak and act but another isn't, the group that isn't is the one without power.

Now square that with the white supremacy narrative and the consequences for those who publicly question it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2022 09:29 AM (WWh8n)

440 FP mag on UCLA. Interesting piece but why didn't they mention who is on the UC Board of Regents? They are the ones running the show.

Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2022 09:30 AM (4h9M3)

441 aoc will be able to run for president in 2024. She will be 36. for some reason I thought she would not meet the age requirement.
Posted by: Mister Scott

She will barely beat it by election day. Iirc, her birthday in in September. So she will actually be running before she is able to be elected.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2022 09:30 AM (+Dm7G)

442 If you really want to be off the hook, answer truthfully.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2022 09:22 AM (/EuRN)

There it is.

Posted by: ... at July 25, 2022 09:30 AM (6jH1W)

443 A Google developer was recently fired for revealing that the tech giant’s AI bot had a mind of its own. The trigger that made him realize that the technology was sentient was a joke it made about Israel not belonging to any religion.

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2022 09:30 AM (RHGPo)

444 The Junta is going to update its messaging. Joe will now be used as an example that everyone will eventually get COVID, so it is even more mandatory you get vaxxed so you will have mild symptoms and a speedy recovery like Joe!

Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2022 09:29 AM

Speedy recovery? slo joe hasn't been seen anywhere in five days and he has access to treatments that Trump did not. and Trump was out of the hospital in less than three days.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 25, 2022 09:30 AM (bVYXr)

445 436 The Junta is going to update its messaging. Joe will now be used as an example that everyone will eventually get COVID, so it is even more mandatory you get vaxxed so you will have mild symptoms and a speedy recovery like Joe!
Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2022 09:29 AM (AMIL/)

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Meh. Aside from Joe's promise that the vaxx would save you completely from covid, that's pretty much been the party line for at least a year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:30 AM (LvTSG)

446 "I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgment, and I will do no harm or injustice to them. Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. But I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art."

Some removed original components of the Hippocratic Oath^

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 25, 2022 09:30 AM (b2nrj)

447 Oh the hilarity

Kamala vs Doll Eyes Alex

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 25, 2022 09:30 AM (iyUvv)

448 She's one who would raise a shit ton of money, maybe win the Iowa caucus, and then go nowhere. She'd be like Pete Buttigieg, but the flameout would be funnier.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

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You say that AOC & Mooch will never be president with such confidence - I wish I shared it. You're much more attuned to the pulse of elections/politics than I, so I take it on faith that you're correct. Still - either of those two feels unstoppable to me.

Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2022 09:30 AM (VJsqe)

449 Drove by my local gas station....$3.99. I can't believe I'm happy about sub $4 gas.

I'm sure Biden will boast about this. Just Crazy.

Posted by: WisRich at July 25, 2022 09:31 AM (G0vdT)

450 aoc will be able to run for president in 2024. She will be 36. for some reason I thought she would not meet the age requirement.
Posted by: Mister Scott

She will barely beat it by election day. Iirc, her birthday in in September. So she will actually be running before she is able to be elected.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2022 09:30 AM

She was born in October 1989 so she will be 35 in 2024.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 25, 2022 09:31 AM (bVYXr)

451 I was called for jury duty once, medical malpractice. I said I didn't believe in malpractice monetary damages because all that does is raise insurance rates, and I only believe in taking away medical licenses.
The lawyers on both sides look horrified.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2022 09:31 AM (kf6Ak)

452 "aoc will be able to run for president in 2024."

She's 36-25-36, but wears a 35D bra. Thought you should know that.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 25, 2022 09:31 AM (i0slg)

453 448 You say that AOC & Mooch will never be president with such confidence - I wish I shared it. You're much more attuned to the pulse of elections/politics than I, so I take it on faith that you're correct. Still - either of those two feels unstoppable to me.
Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2022 09:30 AM (VJsqe)

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Mooch will never run.

AOC will run, but she can't build a coalition around her. At best, she can follow the Kamala path as a useful idiot with the right color and sexual organs that the establishment decides to use her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

454 Czech Republic to buy 24 F-35s amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, ministry says

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2022 09:31 AM (RHGPo)

455 She was born in October 1989 so she will be 35 in 2024.
Posted by: Mister Scott

I knew she'd barely make it.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2022 09:32 AM (+Dm7G)

456 although all of our lives will be on the line, it's starting to loo like the 2024 presidential campaign is going to be the most hilariously entertaining shitshow of all time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2022 09:32 AM (r46W7)

457
She's one who would raise a shit ton of money, maybe win the Iowa caucus, and then go nowhere. She'd be like Pete Buttigieg, but the flameout would be funnier.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 25, 2022 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

I wouldnt be so sure. Depends who she is up against. Whoever is behind her has strong persuasive power, and she never backs down or apologizes. She, like Trump (and the people behind Obama), is a rabble rouser. She is not one to write off.

Posted by: ... at July 25, 2022 09:32 AM (6jH1W)

458 An Iranian senior missile engineer died in southern Iran several days ago, according to a report by an Iranian dissident group published on Saturday night. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps engineer Said Thamardar Mutlak was described in alleged funeral announcements shared by the National Iranian Congress as having been made a shahid (martyr) and murdered in Shiraz. The report stated that Iranian authorities did not want news of the death to be published, and that Mutlak’s family had been threatened not to share the news.

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2022 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

459 He's the guy you trebuchet out into a mine field to, you know, see if it's actually a minefield. The dude you push out of a boat to see if there are sharks around, or kick out of an airlock on an alien planet to see if the air is breathable.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 25, 2022 09:25 AM

Wouldn't a better analogy be the guy you send out with an acoustic Gibson to sing a folk song at a Metal concert?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 25, 2022 09:33 AM (a3Q+t)

460 449 Drove by my local gas station....$3.99. I can't believe I'm happy about sub $4 gas.

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I was happy when it went down to $4.25 from $4.99

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 25, 2022 09:33 AM (kf6Ak)

461 Why not just buy a sports car like most men enjoying their midlife crisis? Seems less complicated.
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No lefty virtue-signalling points for doing that. Levine wouldn't have been promoted above his dubious qualifications if he hadn't trumpeted his "trans" status.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 25, 2022 09:33 AM (MvHI3)

462 AOC could win a Senate seat from NY. Seriously

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 25, 2022 09:33 AM (i0slg)

463 Drove by my local gas station....$3.99. I can't believe I'm happy about sub $4 gas.

I'm sure Biden will boast about this. Just Crazy.
Posted by: WisRich

Except he didn't claim credit when it was going up. He and the left said the President doesn't control gas prices.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2022 09:33 AM (+Dm7G)

464 You say that AOC & Mooch will never be president with such confidence - I wish I shared it. You're much more attuned to the pulse of elections/politics than I, so I take it on faith that you're correct. Still - either of those two feels unstoppable to me.
Posted by: 496 at July 25, 2022 09:30 AM (VJsqe)

You credit our enemies with far more strength than they actually have. It's an easy mistake to make, but don't get trapped in it. They are pathetic and defeatable.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 25, 2022 09:33 AM (r46W7)

465 A chess robot broke a 7-year-old boy's finger during a match in Russia last week.

Video posted to social media of the incident shows the robot, which is playing three simultaneous matches against various opponents using a large mechanical arm, playing the young victim. The boy, reaches to move one of his pieces and the robot grabs his finger. The robot did not appear to make any severe twisting or other movements after grabbing the finger, however.

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2022 09:34 AM (RHGPo)

466 389 I have no idea of the credibility of this man, although I've heard his name before-Lew Rockwell. This is a damning article on Covid shots, "The Covid Vaccine Plot":

https://tinyurl.com/bmakt7rz
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2022 09:20 AM (fL5aK)

Thanks. Nothing unreasonable there in my opinion.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2022 09:34 AM (H8QX8)

467 I did the jury thing once and it was all because one party had and accident with the other party and the insurance companies/parties couldn't agree on a settlement.

My question to the judge, which got me tossed, was "Isn't this sort of thing why you have insurance in the first place? So you don't have to mickey mouse around with a trial?"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2022 09:35 AM (BFigT)

468 Nood Art.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 25, 2022 09:35 AM (906pl)

469 >>I wouldnt be so sure. Depends who she is up against. Whoever is behind her has strong persuasive power, and she never backs down or apologizes. She, like Trump (and the people behind Obama), is a rabble rouser. She is not one to write off.

AOC has been ranked as the least productive member of Congress by a study done by Vanderbilt University. She talks a lot of smack and tweets a ton but she has almost no accomplishments.

I think she would get annihilated outside her small, protected bubble. She's a dunce and does not hold up to scrutiny.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2022 09:36 AM (ZLI7S)

470 I wouldnt be so sure. Depends who she is up against. Whoever is behind her has strong persuasive power, and she never backs down or apologizes. She, like Trump (and the people behind Obama), is a rabble rouser. She is not one to write off.
Posted by: ...

As soon as she runs, I'll start posting the picture of her being held up by the armpits while her legs are spread eagle in shorts. Musta been college days.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2022 09:36 AM (+Dm7G)

471 A Google developer was recently fired for revealing that the tech giant’s AI bot had a mind of its own. The trigger that made him realize that the technology was sentient was a joke it made about Israel not belonging to any religion.

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2022 09:30 AM (RHGPo)

I'm as much against shitty google as anyone, but he was fired for releasing confidential transcripts that give a lot of the game away on Goolag's natural language processing abilities.

Natural language processing is one of the great Next Frontiers in computing. I've been sounding the horn on this one for a decade or two and predicting that Goolag has the most to gain from it and would lead the charge.

His firing has nothing to do with the simulation of sentience. The computer is not sentient but it does have a comprehension of linguistics that appears quite refined.

Posted by: ... at July 25, 2022 09:36 AM (6jH1W)

472 Joe Biden considers declaring his mental incapacity an “emergency.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2022 09:37 AM (RHGPo)

473 Did Feanor teach Sauron? I don't think he did.

He did slam his front door in the face of Melkor IIRC. There is so much hero and villain in one person, such a great character.

Also on twatter, a picture of Slim Shady Sauron. "... Morgoth's spaghetti" puns I am bitter that I did not come up with first.

I will repeat my claim that Warhammer will not go pozzed as far as the stories. I don't feel better or worse about the prediction, I just want people to see what resisting the Borg looks like.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 25, 2022 09:37 AM (44ww/)

474 I think she would get annihilated outside her small, protected bubble. She's a dunce and does not hold up to scrutiny.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2022 09:36 AM (ZLI7S)

You could say the same things about Name Recognition Biden.

I'm not saying she's the next president. I'm saying don't write her off, the world is strange, and she and her people understand politics and persuasion.

Posted by: ... at July 25, 2022 09:39 AM (6jH1W)

475 456

An entertaining shit show until the day after when one of the shits "wins." Like Newsom or g-d knows who.

Posted by: Ziba at July 25, 2022 09:40 AM (4h9M3)

476 He's watching Matlock reruns with his drool cup properly attached.
Posted by: Puddinhead

More likely watching Cuties on a loop.

Posted by: Biergood at July 25, 2022 09:42 AM (FQWHA)

477 Why would kids today, after hearing for 18 years about how the United States is the most evil country on earth and are constantly taught to hate the country, want to defend it in the military?

No one will address this, especially not the military.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 25, 2022 09:42 AM (CdZ4i)

478 "GOP Leaders to Religious Right: We Don’t Care About Marriage"
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My state probably leads the country in popular support for traditional marriage. Notice how our "conservative" junior senator, Tommy Tuberville, responded when he was asked if he supports homosexual "marriage:"

"Yeah, if that’s what you want to do, fine."

"I’m all about live life the way you want to. It’s a free country."

These filthy GOPe cocksuckers are beneath contempt, as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 25, 2022 09:48 AM (sWM8x)

479 477 Why would kids today, after hearing for 18 years about how the United States is the most evil country on earth and are constantly taught to hate the country, want to defend it in the military?

No one will address this, especially not the military.
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Alternatively, for the smart kids, why would you join an army that does not defend its own country?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 09:49 AM (D8mow)

480 ‘Unprecedented’: W.H.O. Chief Tedros Defied Experts to Declare Monkeypox Emergency, Falsely Claims 9-6 Vote a ‘Tie’

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2022 09:50 AM (RHGPo)

481 Despite that he didn’t create it, a media company co-founded by LeBron James is looking to get trademark protection for the phrase “Shut Up and Dribble.”

James’ company, Uninterrupted, filed for trademark status for the phrase last week, according to USA Today.

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2022 09:51 AM (RHGPo)

482 AOC should be written off as a threat outside of her bubble. Her only route to office is as a party endorsed candidate and the party nearly gerrymandered her district, they hate her so much.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2022 09:52 AM (Z89do)

483 James’ company, Uninterrupted, filed for trademark status for the phrase last week, according to USA Today.
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I guess 'Smell the Glove' is already trademarked.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2022 09:53 AM (D8mow)

484 His firing has nothing to do with the simulation of sentience. The computer is not sentient but it does have a comprehension of linguistics that appears quite refined.
Posted by: ... at July 25, 2022 09:36 AM (6jH1W)

It wasn't even refined, it was just a gussied up 90s chat bot. Bigger thesaurus, same inability to actually follow conversation. It just picked out a couple words and formed a response, zero understanding of context.

Posted by: Sjg at July 25, 2022 10:18 AM (gDSJf)

485 Not that Michael Walsh is wrong, but "direct action" traces back much further than the 1960s. The term first appeared in print by the International Workers of the World in 1910, and traces further back to the phrase "propaganda of the deed" which was first suggested in 1857 and "formally" approved as a tactic by the International Anarchist Congress of London in 1881.
"By any means necessary", aka "terrorism", is a very old anarcho-communist concept, that has gone through several euphemisms, much the way "progressivism", "liberalism", and "democratic-socialism" have been used.

Posted by: Sam at July 25, 2022 10:28 AM (ohyxL)

486

The bishop had a Rolls Royce ?

He was a Holy Roller.

Posted by: safristi at July 25, 2022 10:48 AM (qktfm)

487 I get paid more than $85 every hour for working on the web. I found out about this activity 3 months prior and subsequent to joining this I have earned effectively $15k from this without having internet working abilities.
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Posted by: Sarah at July 25, 2022 11:26 AM (rbkQ1)

488 201 PA has the highest or second highest gas tax in the land. 75 cents a gallon. Which probably explains most of the difference. Another hidden tax scheme.

Looks like Pa is 3rd behind Cali and Ill at .59 with what I found..

Posted by: mick at July 25, 2022 11:36 AM (sVc11)

489 Mr. Sefton, I hope your move went smoothly and I admire your hard work in putting these articles up for review, it's a great round up.

However, I'd like to take issue with your "friend of the blog" walsh
I know Ace and some cobs were cold on Trump but I was unaware that any of them were actual never trumpers (maybe I missed it)
Walsh is over on instapundit's site slamming commenters on his article. To be more specific, he does a drive by on the Trump family and calls them a "ruling criminal family" which is absurd as he has only been elected twice and none of his other family members have. Commenters rightly objected to that and he's doubling down on his position. I'm not sure if it is advantageous to call such a "friend", as associating with such dreck brings down everyone. Just wanted to mention it.

Thanks for all you do -

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