The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 7/27/22

Good morning, kids. Wednesday and I'm sure you're as surprised as I am (not) that Chris "Fredo" Cuomo, the steroid-addled, no-talent, idiot son and brother of mobsters, has emerged from an imposed period of hibernation to both proclaim his innocence in covering up and lobbying for other propagandists to do the same in his brother's sexual assaults as well as mass murder of elderly nursing home residents via exposure to the General Tso's Sickness and to announce a new gig. He got picked up by shyster Dan Abrams' junta house organ News Nation.

The network touted Cuomo’s experience in investigative journalism and anchoring, pointing to his past interviews with presidents, world leaders, coverage of 9/11 and war zones, and “hundreds of powerful, eye-opening stories.”
“NewsNation has earned high-praise from multiple media watchdog groups by remaining true to its mission to bring viewers the fact-based news that impacts their lives without opinion or bias,” Nexstar Media Inc. Sean Compton, the president of the network’s parent company, said. “Chris joins our growing team of seasoned, award-winning journalists and will further our efforts to continue to ensure fairness and transparency in our news reporting and talk shows.”

Are you fucking kidding me? This is a prime example of pissing on my back and telling me it's raining. Meh, why waste pixels on this? The only reason I cite this is that it mirrors both the double standards regarding those in favor of the junta and those that are not in every other aspect of our lives. In this case, the media is about as trusted and respected as a known child molester; the irony in that simile is that child molestation is now an avowed public policy goal of the left and has been an avocation of the current Oval Office occupant for decades. But that said, News Nation, which probably has an audience approaching that of CNN+, knows who they hired. It's their way of flipping the bird to us as well as attempting to preserve the illusion and myth of the so-called Fourth Estate, which is in point of fact, the tip of the spear of the American Fifth Column. Same reason they threw a gala testimonial dinner for Dan Rather after his propaganda attempt to derail Dubya just prior to the 2004 election. Same reason the Pulitzer Prize, spelled and pronounced "Pull It, Surprise!" has never been taken away from Walter Duranty and for sure the CNN propagandists who were used as tools to concoct and release the Russiagate hoax by the CIA/FBI at the behest of Hillary Clinton.

So much for not wanting to waste pixels on this, but I guess (read: I hope) I had a salient point to make. And the fact that trust in the media has been trending downward for years now and has cratered in the eyes of a large majority of people is a hopeful sign. Yes, as Lincoln(?) said "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Crucially, I think we are at a point where that number in "some of the people" is at its lowest level and that "all of the people" are on to them. Gas at $6.00 a gallon and climbing with all sorts of excuse making and especially the condescension and insanity of transitioning to "green energy" as good for you, does not engender trust as it is so patiently false. Yet still they persist.

They have to. It is somewhat of a miracle that even after stealing an election, incarcerating innocent Americans as political prisoners for an insurrection that they, the Left, orchestrated and so thoroughly destabilizing our society and nation that they still have not quite captured the country, lock stock and barrel. But the fact remains that they are this close (I'm holding my thumb and forefinger a pubic hair from a Coke can's breadth apart) to doing so. And they're not going to just give up.

When we speak of corruption, arguably one of the most in-your-face examples beyond the media is the FBI.

The FBI has become a cancer on the American body politic. The FBI must go.
Grassley summarized how the FBI spiked the Hunter Biden material, stating that “the allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.” He noted that a 2020 FBI intelligence assessment that was “used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation.” He added: “Based on allegations, verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation. . . ”
. . . Hunter Biden isn’t even close to being the first sign of this institutional corruption. Garland even sicced the FBI on parents protesting at school board meetings over the imposition of the woke agenda in public schools. When challenged, Garland insisted that this was all on the up-and-up: “Parents have been complaining about the education of their children and about school boards since there were such things as school boards and public education. This is totally protected by the First Amendment. True threats of violence are not protected by the First Amendment. Those are the things we are worried about here. Those are the only things we are worried about here. We are not investigating peaceful protests or parent involvement in school board meetings. There is no precedent for doing that and we would never do that. We are only concerned about violence and threats of violence against school administrators, teachers, staff.
That sounds reasonable, but PJ Media’s Megan Fox did a deep dive into the supposed “threats” that school board members had allegedly received that justified FBI intervention, and came up empty. Fox concluded, “There isn’t one legitimate threat on the NSBA’s list or a situation that wasn’t handled easily by the police.” The NSBA is the National School Boards Association, which appealed to the FBI for help, with Wray’s corrupt Bureau only too happy to oblige. . .
. . . This is the same FBI that consistently denies the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat, and lied outright about the jihadi who stormed the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, and took hostages in January 2022, demanding the release of convicted jihad terrorist Aafia Siddiqui. FBI Special Agent in Charge Matt DeSarno said: “We do believe from our engagement with this subject that he was singularly focused on one issue, uh, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community, uh, but we’re continuing to work to find motive and, and we will continue on that path.” Several days later, with the evidence overwhelming, the FBI had to admit sheepishly that it was a targeted attack on Jews after all. . .
. . . FBI and Homeland Security Department officials have often insisted and frequently repeated the claim that “white supremacists” and other “domestic extremists” constitute the foremost terror threat the nation faces. The FBI is currently pursuing no fewer than 2,700 investigations of “domestic extremism,” more than twice the usual number of such investigations. The dramatic increase in investigations suggests, at least in a sane world, a response to a sharply increased threat, but Biden’s handlers have shown no evidence of a massive spike in “white supremacist” terrorism. It’s just something we’re supposed to take their word for. Timothy Langan, the assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, in November 2021 presented it to Congress as axiomatic: “It goes without saying that the threat from domestic terrorism is heightened and has significantly increased in the last 18 months.”
Does it really? Or is that just what the feds would have us believe as the January 6 Committee continues its efforts to stigmatize legitimate political opposition as terrorism?. . .
. . . And all this is aside from the FBI’s role in the Russian Collusion hoax and so much more. The FBI today is a rogue, out-of-control agency in service not of justice but of the interests of the Democrat Party. It should be shut down. But will there ever be a president with the courage to do so?

The estimable Robert Spencer is, of course 1,000% correct. The FBI has got to be abolished. But what would that really accomplish? What would impeaching President Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants accomplish? Our entire government and far too much of the private sector is so thoroughly corrupted with ideologues, criminals and ideologically-driven criminals that elections, even relatively honest ones, will have little impact in the long term insofar as reversing course from the abyss we are this close to being shoved into.

It's not necessarily the system. It's the people who are in positions of power that have zero moral compass, zero ethics and worst of all, an absolute unshakeable faith that not only what they are doing is right but they have the moral and intellectual superiority, and the duty to impose their will on us. This is why I believe we're not going to be voting our way out of it as we did, or thought we did, in the old days. That doesn't mean you shouldn't vote. But long term, an American revival to pre-2001 days, let alone pre-1913, is just not in the cards from where I stand.

That said, a revival of Americanism can be in our future. What form that takes geographically and politically is anyone's guess. How we arrive at that point is also an unknown, but sadly, it will involve much pain, suffering and likely, bloodshed.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Robert Spencer: "The Bureau has become irremediably politicized and inveterately corrupt."
Defund the FBI
"Not only was digital technology useful in this way from a scientific standpoint, but also from an ethical standpoint, it appeared to be a kinder, gentler, and therefore more just form of world control."
Against the Great Reset: 'Big Tech: Sacred Culture or Cyborg Rapture?'
Kurt Schlichter: "What's really behind the Left's agenda to make us ingest insects?"
Don't Let Them Reset Society to Make You Into a Bug-Eating Serf
"It is no longer the Constitution but the ruling class that defines what encompasses the rights and privileges of American citizenship."
The Demise of American Citizenship
"The prevailing vision of environmentalism today caters to a global oligarchy."
The Dehumanizing Tyranny of Densification

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

"The party's climate rhetoric is increasingly radical, dangerously insurrectionist."
How Long Until Democrats Storm the Capitol?
"Declare Emergency hopes roadblocks will pressure Biden to declare a climate emergency."
This Climate Alarmism Group Is Planning To Shut Down the Nation’s Capital
"We've seen screaming rage mainstreamed like this before. It did not end well for anyone."
Narcissistic Rage on the Left
"Who needs the law and reasoned debate when you’ve got spray paint and Molotov cocktails? Send out a few death threats while firebombing a few pregnancy centers and those opponents will quickly fall into line."
Today's Blacklisted American: Pro-Abortion Terrorists Vandalize 77 Churches and Pregnancy Centers in Last 10 Weeks
"Pro-choice activists have committed over 100 attacks against pro-life groups since the beginning of May, according to data compiled by the Family Research Council. The attack on Wisconsin Family Action was the first of many of which have been attributed to Jane’s Revenge."
Summer of Rage, Part II: Court Filings Reveal Threats, Intimidation Against Anti-Abortion Group Prior to Firebombing Claimed by ‘Jane’s Revenge’

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"It is quite clear from this that Democrat leaders bear more responsibility for the riot than Donald Trump — which is why you haven’t seen this come up in the hearings and why the committee was stacked with anti-Trump partisans."
Jan. 6 Committee Hiding Evidence That Absolves Trump
Show me anyone not a leftist and I'll show you the crime . . .
AG "Lavrenty" Garland Won’t Rule Out Charging Trump — Even if He is 2024 Candidate
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
“Everything’s gotten more expensive. We need the extra income because grocery bills have doubled and I basically have my own little army.”
#Bidenflation: 58% of Americans Living Paycheck-to-Paycheck
"‘Recession’ is far from the first concept the left has simply redefined to deflect the consequences of their failed policies and ideas."
The Left’s Response to Failure is to Redefine It as Success
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"If raping the earth and ravaging the seas to get the minerals needed for 'clean energy' are off the table, what's left?"
'You Will Own Nothing, and Like It" — The Real "Clean Energy" Future
Daniel Greenfield: "Solar panel lead in the groundwater and wind turbine fiberglass in your lungs."
Environmentalism is an Environmental Hazard
The buses are nearly double the cost of regular diesel buses, even before charging infrastructure expenses are taken into account, according to The New Haven Independent. The project to replace diesel buses with electric buses will also cost about $25.7 million in total, the NHI reported.
Electric Bus Fleet Touted By Dems Taken Out Of Service After One Burned Up In Battery Fire
"Ireland’s Climate Action Plan recommends cuts of between 22% and 30% for the agricultural sector." (Potato Famine 2: No Mass Migration Boogaloo - jjs)
Ireland Poised to Join the Growing List of Countries Putting ‘The Climate’ Over Food Security
". It is all fun and games until the coastal elites walk into their favorite coffee shop, and it is out of oat milk. Many of them are about to find out just how razor-thin the supply chains that supply their urban lifestyle are. And you can be sure when their lives get hard, they will blame it on their ideological enemies, just like they always do."
Justin Castreau-cescu Decides to Walk Down the Same Failed Green Path as Sri Lanka
"There's no reason to be alarmed by the weather."
Climate Emergency? What a Crock!
Despite spending the entire first half of the article outlining a supposed “climate crisis” occurring throughout the country, the Times quoted Curbelo noting that these crises are not things that “most people” face every day, while issues like inflation are readily apparent to anyone who pulls up to the gas pump.
As Dems Go All In on Climate Change, Literally 1 Percent of Americans Call It Top Concern
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Two illegal aliens who took advantage of the judicial-ordered releases were illegal aliens Arody Ramos Tome, convicted of first-degree murder in 1984, and Marvin Cua, convicted of burglary in 2018."
Democrat-Appointed Judges Empty Jails, Freeing Convicted Illegal Alien Killer
"By leaving hundreds and hundreds of miles of border completely unpatrolled … that number is very very, very artificially low."
The 500,000 ‘Known Gotaways’ Who Snuck Across Biden’s Open Border This Year Are Likely Much Higher
Oh please, the money will be stolen, expropriated or otherwise printed, and the laws ignored to de facto grant it.
Democrats Admit Defeat: Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Not in Budget Package
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Trump was discussing the border crisis and said criminals from other countries come across the border and bring crime and drugs."
Trump: "Execute a Drug Dealer and You’ll Save 500 Lives"
Lloyd Billingsley: "To fight his own prosecutors, not the violent crime now surging across Los Angeles."
Gascón Lawyers Up
"Author Matt Palumbo exposes the financier's networks and agenda."
Video: How Nazi Collaborator Soros Spent $18 Billion to Control the Media, Defund the Police, and Elect Leftist Prosecutors
"California voted to legalize recreational marijuana in Nov. 2016. Many argued that the market would become safer if state officials could regulate the previously underground cartels while creating economic revenue. Northern California authorities are battling illegal grow plantations, violence, and ecological damage caused by cartel operations."
NARCOFORNIA: How Progressives Sold Out Rural California to Drug Lords
"The court sentenced Kemp to one year and one day in prison, but he only served ten months. Two years later, he was on the county’s payroll in a key position."
Jaw-Dropping: L.A. County Hired a Corrupt Felon for a Key Health Services Post
"Baltimore’s tragic record provides clear evidence that disorder breeds more disorder—and death."
City of Broken Windows
"A gruesome murder case shows the ropes."
How Intersectionality Works: Black vs. LGBT
"The teen is the poster child for everything that’s wrong with the criminal justice system, Mayor Eric Adams said." (no, Adams, you and your fellow leftists created him; he's merely the symptom of the disease - jjs)
NYC Teen Animal Seen Punching Cop in Wild Video Was Sprung Without Bail in Robbery Case Days Earlier
The victim told police she heard her alleged attackers say, “I hate white people … the way they talk” before they reportedly hit her in the head with a blunt object and ran. LeCroix was treated at a local hospital and received three staples in her head. (I thought LeCroix would be charged with first degree obstruction of a black person's fist with a white head - jjs)
Two Teenagers Charged With Hate Crimes After Allegedly Making ‘Anti-White’ Statements, Assaulting White Woman In New York
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Jeffrey Lord: "Jan. 6 editorials from the Post and WSJ.
The New York Post, Wall Street Journal Get Trump Wrong
"An article by FiveThirtyEight tried to prove that the pro-life movement is a result of racist replacement theory and failed magnificently."
In Bizarre Screed, FiveThirtyEight Falsely Labels Pro-Lifers Racist, Ignores Racism of Abortion Industry
Christian Toto: "InfoWars’ Alex Jones gets his closeup – sans fact checks, context."
‘Alex’s War’ – Mash Note to Culture’s No. 1 Conspiracy Theorist
That's because he is, or at least was, the media itself.
Chris "Fredo" Cuomo Denies Contacting Media To Cover Up His Brother’s Scandal
The network touted Cuomo’s experience in investigative journalism and anchoring, pointing to his past interviews with presidents, world leaders, coverage of 9/11 and war zones, and “hundreds of powerful, eye-opening stories.”
. . . Cuomo To Host Prime-Time Show On NewsNation
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Wait until you see what's in the Democrats' latest gun bill."
Yep, It's True! They're Coming for Your Guns.
LOCKDOWN 2: MONKEY POX MONKEY BUSINESS BOOGALOO???
"Time for the LGBTQ+s to show what they’re made of."
Monkeypox—Eight Weeks To Stop The Spread
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"But remember: It's all a 'conspiracy theory' according to the Big Pharma salespeople like Fauci."
40% of Women With the Chinese COVID Vaccine Have Reported Significant Effects on their Periods
"The vaccines for measles, diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough do work, but by lying about the effectiveness of the [Chinese] COVID shots, health agencies worldwide have lost their credibility. They have successfully convinced millions of parents to fear getting any vaccines, even those that really work and can prevent their children from dying."
Childhood Vaccinations in '20 and '21 Declined the Most in 30 Years
“First of all, I didn’t recommend locking anything down, you’re asking me questions, you’re talking about — the CDC’s the public agency that uses their epidemiologists and their science-based approach to make recommendations."
FACT CHECK: Anthony Fauci Falsely Claims He Never Recommended Shutdowns to Fight Chinese Coronavirus
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"This Book Is Antiracist is key element of curriculum at Lower Manhattan Community Middle School." (you know who else had children spy on their parents? - jjs)
At This Manhattan Middle School School, Sixth-Graders Are Asked To Surveil Friends and Family for "Microaggressions"
"The decoupling will allow Jackson, who’s on Harvard’s Board of Overseers, to participate in the University of North Carolina case while still recusing herself from the Harvard case."
SCOTUS Splits Up Affirmative Action Cases So KBJ Can Participate On UNC, After She Recused From Harvard Case
"Over 140 educators have been charged for sexual misconduct-related crimes against students this year alone."
Teacher Grooming Remains Real Issue Despite Media Caricatures
"The University of Pennsylvania Law School is gunning to expel a heterodox professor."
Brazen Falsehood
"The chickens of the 1960s have come home to roost."
Black Studies as Cultural Reparations
ABORTION
"CNN reported that Roberts had been focused on swaying the two newest justices — Kavanaugh and Barrett — but that he had been derailed somewhat when the leaked draft, authored by Justice Alito, became public."
Chief Justice Roberts Lobbied Court Conservatives Hard To Salvage Roe: Report
"A Victims of Abortion Memorial in Washington, D.C., would honor the lives of all those impacted by abortion."
Wanted: A Victims of Abortion Memorial
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"A bipartisan group of senators proposes commonsense reforms to the Electoral Count Act." (bipartisan is one of those words that alarms me - jjs)
Better a Century Late than Never
"Democratic attacks on Trump’s census proposals ignore the problems caused by drawing congressional districts according to residents, not citizens."
Why Some Votes Count More Than Others
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"Brian Auten pushed Trump-Russia collusion and is now accused of discrediting Hunter Biden stories."
Meet the FBI Analyst Behind the Decade’s Biggest Political Disinformation Campaigns
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Margot Cleveland: "This scandal is no longer just about the Biden family; it’s about every member of the law enforcement and intelligence communities who put our country at risk by failing to do their jobs."
FBI’s False Labeling of Biden Laptop as Disinformation is Even Worse Than it Seems. Here’s Why
"The loan is the latest Biden-era windfall for General Motors, which over the past year has paid Beltway lobbyist Jeff Ricchetti nearly $350,000 to lobby the government on federal subsidies for electric vehicles and charging stations. Ricchetti is the younger brother and former lobbying partner of White House adviser Steve Ricchetti. The longtime Biden aide, who lobbied for GM until 2008, has been directly involved in discussions with Congress about funding for electric vehicles and charging stations."
All in the Family: Biden Junta Loans Billions to Company Repped by Top Aide’s Lobbyist Brother
POLITICS
"Trump is the same today as he was before he was elected. The very things we disdain today are the things that made him the man for our time."
I Was Wrong About Trump
"Trump's announcement and presence during the last two months of the midterm campaign would be a stark reminder of what was compared to what is."
Trump Should Announce His Candidacy Before the Midterms
She also described herself as “a woman wearing a blue suit” on behalf of the visually impaired.
Kamala Harris: My Pronouns Are ‘She’ and ‘Her’
“Why is the [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] personal physician not here? Are you familiar with a reason?”
Videos: Journalists Again Demand To Know Why Biden’s Doctor Is Hiding
"Tanking poll numbers and obvious lack of enthusiasm for the Biden [junta] have forced the Democrats to confront a series of hard choices."
Making ‘The Switch’
"While Biden fared poorly in the state’s 2020 Democratic primary, his apparent failure to win over the Granite State with the advantage of incumbency is likely a symptom of how unpopular the president has grown, even within his own party."
New Hampshire Voters Pick Peter "Puffer" Buttigieg Over Joe Biden In 2024: Poll
Robert Spencer: "During ten tumultuous years in Congress, a presidential campaign, and two campaigns for governor of Colorado, Tom Tancredo stood indefatigably for America-First principles before virtually anyone else dared to do so. The title of his new memoir,I Was Trump Before Trump was Cool, is as whimsical as it is accurate."
Before Trump, There Was Tom Tancredo
"Forty-two years ago, Goldwater correctly diagnosed the problems afflicting America — many of them worse today than they were back then."
Barry Goldwater’s 1980 GOP Convention Speech Resonates Amid Biden’s Failing So-Called Quote-Unquote "presidency"
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Will it be Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss?"
Clash for Britain’s Future Begins
"You will not see this in the US media, but Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa with 217 million people (and growing over 2.5% a year), is devolving toward chaos."
Nigeria, Unable to Secure its Capital City, is Closing Schools, Evacuating Students
"The Mimizuka shrine, which is dedicated to the noses of Koreans sliced off by the Japanese, serves as a vital reminder of man’s inhumanity to man."
Can South Korea and Japan Overcome Their Divisions?
"The country’s resilient civil society outlasts one government after another—as well as media predictions of disaster." (except their cratering birth rate is leading to their extinction as a people - jjs)
Italy Endures
". . . Toward what end?"
Pakistan’s Minister of Health: Populate the World with Muslims
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
Payments to the government of Afghanistan for salaries went to “suspicious units and non-existent object codes” or were never delivered to bank accounts belonging to Afghan security personnel.
‘Ghost Soldiers’: The Pentagon Lost $232 Million Trying To Pay Afghan Forces
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Fufeng Group, a Shandong, China-based company, which produces flavor enhancers and sugar substitutes, recently purchased 300 acres in the state."
Lawmakers Seek Review of Chinese Purchase of Farmland Adjacent to U.S. Military Base
"Amir Handjani in hot water over his role as top adviser to repressive Gulf monarch."
Judge Orders Quincy Institute Fellow To Turn Over Documents in Alleged Hack-and-Leak Scheme
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Will Scott Singer continue to bow to radical Islam or will he rescind this award?"
Boca Raton Mayor Signs Proclamation in Name of Mosque Linked to Terror and Anti-Semitism
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"Brazen discrimination."
Cruz Grills Biden Official Over State Dept. Email Allegedly Excluding "Straight White Men"
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Our lives demand attention, and sometimes painful reflection. This is something no pill or an app can provide."
There’s a Pill for That
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Will this force an acceleration in the launch of the American private space stations now under construction? Hard to say. If we had a competent executive branch run by a clear-minded president, some action could be taken to help make this happen."
New Boss of Roscosmos Confirms Decision to Leave ISS in 2024
". . . China is once again violating the Outer Space Treaty by acting with willful negligence to threaten harm to others with one of its launches."
Tentative Crash Date for Long March 5B Core Stage: July 31st
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Hey, if you want to make ovaries, you have to break some balls . . .
FDA Officials Warn Of Brain Swelling, Vision Loss In Minors Using Puberty Blockers
"The rule would expand Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) ban on sex-based discrimination to include gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy-related conditions including abortion, according to a Monday announcement. In practice, this would mean forcing health insurance providers to cover sex change procedures, according to Roger Severino, former director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights."
Biden Junta Poised to Force Insurers to Pay for Sex Changes
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Elmo wants to be an 'upstander' to racism."
Sesame Street’s Racial Justice Curriculum Begins With Infants
"I’d rather be called a racial slur than Filipinx" one user wrote. "Please stop trying to impose weird western gender ideology onto people who never wanted it or asked for it in the first place" another said.
Filipinos Blast Comic-Con for Use of Woke Term "Filipinx"
"With the traditional nuclear family unit becoming politicized as being patriarchal and oppressive to women, there are now forces advocating for its abolishment."
Single Parenthood and America's Vulnerable Youth
"Could the film be made today?"
Not Without My Daughter
"And to make it sweeter, he launches a more general attack against leftist late-night TV hosts."
Glenn Greenwald Launches a Delightfully Savage Attack Against Samantha Bee
Dennis Prager: "Why my friends and I had more wisdom when we were 12 than college students and faculty have today."
A Nation of Fools
Daniel Greenfield: "Minority groups that don't die as victims live long enough to become the villains."
Victims Wanted
HITHER & YON
"The New Right has turned on him."
The Buckley Legacy: Now It’s Controversial on the Right?

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:41 AM

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1

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 27, 2022 07:41 AM (SWi3y)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 07:42 AM (1Z8zZ)

3 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 07:42 AM (ex2Cx)

4 'User agent, mobile carrier, time zone settings, identifiers for advertising purpose, model of your device, the device system, network type, device IDs, your screen resolution and operating system, app and file names and types,'" he continued.

"So all your apps and all your file names, all the things you have filed away on your phone, they have access to that," he said. "'File names and types, keystroke patterns or rhythms.'"

"So they're monitoring your keystrokes, which means they know every f---ing thing you type," Rogan added.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 07:42 AM (ex2Cx)

5 Meh.... Fredo's gotta' Fredo.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2022 07:42 AM (BFigT)

6 Happy Wednesday everyone. Go forth and enjoy the day no matter who it irritates.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 27, 2022 07:42 AM (4olE8)

7 Corgis called.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 07:42 AM (1Z8zZ)

8 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 27, 2022 07:44 AM (odVni)

9 The FIB is a corrupt organ of a corrupt government run by corrupt individuals hiding behind the curtains.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 07:44 AM (ynpvh)

10 "There's a pill for that"

We've got you covered.

Posted by: Carter's at July 27, 2022 07:45 AM (sn5EN)

11 This Climate Alarmism Group Is Planning To Shut Down the Nation’s Capital
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Finally, something we can all agree on that needs to happen!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 07:45 AM (K5n5d)

12 Lights!

Camera!

and....

CUT! CUT! CUT!

https://tinyurl.com/2tjtnu69

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 27, 2022 07:45 AM (odVni)

13 JJ how do you like cow country?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 27, 2022 07:45 AM (gbzeC)

14 morning horde.

coffee is ready. off to the content.

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 07:46 AM (p03vF)

15 J6 hiding exculpatory evidence? Say it ain't true!
Why, Nancy and her illegitimately formed committee would NEVER do anything like that!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 07:46 AM (ynpvh)

16 Marsha Blackburn on Fox Business explains that Senate chip bill has been stripped of all security protections against China .Schumer involved.

Posted by: Jen the original at July 27, 2022 07:46 AM (edZKp)

17 " ... the tip of the spear of the American Fifth Column."

ever the poet, JJ !

thanks ! (as always !)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 27, 2022 07:47 AM (oZtf9)

18 Good morning and thank you, JJ.
News Nation, at best, does indeed suck.

Posted by: Democrats: Raping The Children We Cannot Kill Since 1973! at July 27, 2022 07:47 AM (jV+aN)

19 Good morning ! So a comment attributed to Trump that was critical of the Fox&Friends show prompted me to look at a bit of that show this morning.

The segment I saw started with a loving tribute to Mr and Mrs Zielinsky, intended to induce warm and fuzzy feelings. It then shifted to a full throated call to arms, delivered by Kilmeade, to help our Ukrainian allies in their border war. And then they shifted to an interview with GOPE toad and toadie Eric Ericsen. Zap. That was all I could take.
100% GOPE propaganda. Unwatchable

The GOPE is in comeback mode. Maybe watch a little Faux Nooz before you hop on the red wave train. For me its MAGA only. No gop

Posted by: Joetato at July 27, 2022 07:48 AM (PsUT0)

20 13 JJ how do you like cow country?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 27, 2022 07:45 AM (gbzeC)

Honestly, it's a real nice place to visit. Do I want to live here? TBD.

That said, I'm longing for a hometown that only exists in my memories.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2022 07:48 AM (x0n13)

21 13 JJ how do you like cow country?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 27, 2022 07:45 AM (gbzeC)
-

He's quickly realized that the moo-ve is the biggest miss steak he ever made.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 27, 2022 07:49 AM (odVni)

22 "Garland Won’t Rule Out Charging Trump — Even if He is 2024 Candidate"

Can Garland charge himself? Oh, who am I kidding!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 07:49 AM (ynpvh)

23 I've never heard of News Nation. Are they on TV? Streaming only?

Posted by: jewells45 at July 27, 2022 07:49 AM (nxdel)

24 Good morning all. A buddy saw this on a t shirt yesterday: Make Orwell Fiction Again.

Now coffee and content and I’ll wait for TP’s Saint of the day.

Posted by: 7man at July 27, 2022 07:49 AM (qwO6y)

25 I'm holding my thumb and forefinger a pubic hair from a Coke can's breadth apart

A reference only a 29 year old would get.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 07:51 AM (1Z8zZ)

26 Good morning JJ, and thanks again. Wondering if you've had to cut the lawn yet. Wondering if you have a mower.

Now to read the links.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 27, 2022 07:51 AM (45fpk)

27 Good morning, JJ, good morning Horde...

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at July 27, 2022 07:51 AM (53oGX)

28 Fuck Gascon. Pinche Cabron. Yeah, lets NOT tell families of victims when the killer of their loved one(s) is up for a parole hearing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 07:52 AM (ynpvh)

29 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2022 07:52 AM (6WCwE)

30 What would it really take to abolish the FBI? Could it even be done?

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 07:53 AM (sn5EN)

31 I am the walrus dick.

Posted by: Paul at July 27, 2022 07:54 AM (uH1zk)

32 "So they're monitoring your keystrokes, which means they know every f---ing thing you type," Rogan added.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 07:42 AM (ex2Cx)

tiktok?

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 07:54 AM (p03vF)

33 How Long Until Democrats Storm the Capitol?

Democrats have stormed the Capitol dozens of times over the years. The bureaucracy, the media, the left-wing politicians praise them for it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 07:54 AM (1Z8zZ)

34 30 JJ lives in a reality of fear and paranoia
Remember how he tried to tell us thst Jane riot was really ANTIFA costumed as MAGA patriots?
Posted by: Paul at July 27, 20

And you suck cock by choice.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2022 07:55 AM (89T5c)

35 > What would it really take to abolish the FBI?
____________

A national divorce or full on civil war.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2022 07:55 AM (BFigT)

36 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at July 27, 2022 07:55 AM (u7pQw)

37 Good morning, J.J. I just realized you had a time change when you moved. Are you up an hour earlier?

Oh, and Happy Birthday, BTW.

Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2022 07:56 AM (cTCuP)

38 Good morning, good folk. Looking forward to a great day of comment-reading!

And also Halloween (96 days away).

Posted by: Brunnhilde at July 27, 2022 07:56 AM (aW5/6)

39
Alex Stein's latest video from Uvalde, Texas.

The best he's ever done.

https://youtu.be/Cn1734OZcyY

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 27, 2022 07:56 AM (MPQU0)

40 Kamala: "My pronouns are she and her"

Reality: pronouns are bitch and whore.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 07:56 AM (ynpvh)

41 JJ how do you like cow country?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

They have cows there ?

Posted by: JT at July 27, 2022 07:56 AM (T4tVD)

42 If you abolish the FBI, abolish the Department of Justice as well

neither agency has integrity or fairly seeks justice

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 07:57 AM (geLO8)

43 For me its MAGA only. No gop
Posted by: Joetato at July 27, 2022 07:48 AM (PsUT0)

same here. and fox is almost as bad as the others with the exception of tucker, anymore.

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 07:57 AM (p03vF)

44 TikTok knows every second of video you watch. They push a psycho tranny neurodivergent rant to your kid, and if she watches a few seconds before swiping, they push more.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 07:57 AM (eC4Tv)

45 "If raping the earth and ravaging the seas to get the minerals needed for 'clean energy' are off the table, what's left?"

A worldwide population of ~500M, limited in possessions and travel to that which is approved by their overlords.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 07:57 AM (1Z8zZ)

46 It's the people who are in positions of power that have zero moral compass, zero ethics and worst of all, an absolute unshakeable faith that not only what they are doing is right but they have the moral and intellectual superiority, and the duty to impose their will on us.

JJ,
You just described almost every teacher, small town and city employee, county admin, local elected official. I would prefer a good old lord of the manor tyranny to that of those believing they can help me, my family, or my fellow citizens.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 07:58 AM (ex2Cx)

47 24 Good morning all. A buddy saw this on a t shirt yesterday: Make Orwell Fiction Again.

Now coffee and content and I’ll wait for TP’s Saint of the day.
Posted by: 7man at July 27, 2022 07:49 AM (qwO6y)

MOFA... deez nuts.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2022 07:58 AM (x0n13)

48 I thought WI pulled the cheese right out of the ground.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 07:58 AM (eC4Tv)

49 "Bipartisan" today just means some especially particularly egregious fvckery is being perpetrated against the American people. The Democrats act partisan, and the Republicans act Bi

Posted by: Common Tater at July 27, 2022 07:58 AM (+xgnY)

50 Paki minister of health: "Populate the world with Muslims" is a-okay with left.

"Populate the world with Christians"--now thems fighting words. Ironic, given the mussies love to fight

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 07:58 AM (ynpvh)

51 "Narcissistic Rage on the Left"

I hear a pastor describe this as simply the same old recycled sin: "You shall be as God".

They want to be the ones who decide which children live or die. They want to be the ones who assign gender. They want to be the ones who define marriage. They want to be the ones who decide when it is time for you to pass away. They want to do the things that are in God's hands. It's the ultimate replacement.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 27, 2022 07:59 AM (45fpk)

52 Hey JJ
*points to pasture*
SHIT
*point to can in hand*
SHINOLA

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 07:59 AM (ex2Cx)

53 Creeper are you getting any rain down your way? It's raining right now here. Much needed!

Posted by: jewells45 at July 27, 2022 08:01 AM (nxdel)

54 It should be you, your family and your community with just enough government to make it work.

We have president and congress and judges and federal government and state government and county, township, city government. Then us just trying to get by without running afoul of any of them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:01 AM (eC4Tv)

55 "What would it really take to abolish the FBI?
___________
A national divorce or full on civil war.
Posted by: Martini Farmer"

Other than that, I don't Congress would ever defund them, and if a President tried it the FBI would frame him (or her) a dozen ways from Sunday. The only way to enforce it would be by force.

Posted by: Paul at July 27, 2022 08:01 AM (sn5EN)

56 I keep insisting that the resolution to our current problems is contained in the Declaration of Independence.

READ and emulate it. Let the shit fly where it will, the ultimate end is to restore our representational republic to it's designed purpose.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 27, 2022 08:01 AM (KATBx)

57 SCOTUS Splits Up Affirmative Action Cases So KBJ Can Participate On UNC, After She Recused From Harvard Case

I assume that this means the rulings will be Harvard can have affirmative action because it's private and UNC must have affirmative action because it's evil southerners.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 08:01 AM (1Z8zZ)

58 ARRRRG!

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 08:02 AM (sn5EN)

59 "Bipartisan," means both major gangs get pieces of the action.

Posted by: davidt at July 27, 2022 08:02 AM (oTZbj)

60 "Filipinos Blast Comic-Con for Use of Woke Term Filipinx"

What I imagine:
"You wanta see a Filipinx?" :::Filipino flipping the bird to Comic-Con:::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:02 AM (ynpvh)

61 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

The FBI has been a problem before. How long was J. Edgar Hoover the Director?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2022 08:02 AM (dzJhQ)

62 And I purposefully made the president, congress and judges separate from the federal government as a whole because the reality is they all act as independent entities who impact the lives of individuals.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:02 AM (eC4Tv)

63 Funniest thing I read yesterday was the post about the men pretending to be lesbians getting butt hurt because they were set up on a blind date with another man pretending to be a lesbian.

And the clueless woman who did it being like "what did I do wrong? Am I transphobic?"

Welcome to the club sister, where we can't even figure out what to call anyone without being labeled a bigot.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2022 08:02 AM (z2zu/)

64 This Climate Alarmism Group Is Planning To Shut Down the Nation’s Capital

--

How many congressidiots will fear for their lives?!

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 27, 2022 08:03 AM (sVtYq)

65 53 Hey JJ
*points to pasture*
SHIT
*point to can in hand*
SHINOLA

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 07:59 AM (ex2Cx)

The two kinda mix if you're out in the pasture.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:03 AM (ynpvh)

66 "I thought WI pulled the cheese right out of the ground.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy"

I hear they roll it up in big balls of string.

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 08:03 AM (sn5EN)

67 congress created the fbi, they could repeal them.

LOL

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 27, 2022 08:03 AM (oZtf9)

68 "Bipartisan," means both major gangs get pieces of the action.
Posted by: davidt at July 27, 2022 08:02 AM (oTZbj)

I thought it meant the GOPe is giving dems everything they want while talking tough and promising "on the next hill.... maybe"

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 08:03 AM (p03vF)

69 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:03 AM (Zz0t1)

70 The FBI needs a real leader.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:04 AM (eC4Tv)

71 The FBI has always been corrupt the difference is that it has been captured and is controlled by one political party now.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 27, 2022 08:04 AM (kOpme)

72 The network touted Cuomo’s experience in investigative journalism and anchoring

He doesn't know the first thing about journalism and should be anchoring a boat at the bottom of the ocean somewhere.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:04 AM (Zz0t1)

73 "A bipartisan group of senators proposes commonsense reforms to the Electoral Count Act."

The first sentence:

After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of 16 senators presented legislation last week to reform the Electoral Count Act of 1887, the statute whose ambiguous and confusing provisions Donald Trump and his supporters had exploited to argue that the results of the 2020 election could be set aside.

Their goal is to ensure that no one can fight a cheat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 08:04 AM (1Z8zZ)

74 Kurt Schlichter: "What's really behind the Left's agenda to make us ingest insects?"
Don't Let Them Reset Society to Make You Into a Bug-Eating Serf

*

Good article. Thanks.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:04 AM (NLNdT)

75 How hard would it be to dissolve 50% of the FBI?

Posted by: Sidney at July 27, 2022 08:05 AM (ZK0UZ)

76 I've never heard of News Nation. Are they on TV? Streaming only?

It's the new name for WGN Chicago, which is on most cable/satellite systems.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2022 08:05 AM (zm+d5)

77 Abolish The FBI!

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 27, 2022 08:05 AM (G87iV)

78 76 How hard would it be to dissolve 50% of the FBI?

Posted by: Sidney at July 27, 2022 08:05 AM (ZK0UZ)

We need a bigger vat...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:05 AM (ynpvh)

79 UNC full on commie just like Harvard

As for race based admissions, thanks again Sandy Oconnor R-AZ

Posted by: Joetato at July 27, 2022 08:05 AM (PsUT0)

80 " How hard would it be to dissolve 50% of the FBI?"

Cut 75% of the budget.

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 08:06 AM (sn5EN)

81 That said, I'm longing for a hometown that only exists in my memories.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2022 07:48 AM (x0n13)
===
Thirty five years later I can say it gets better but it never goes away.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2022 08:06 AM (dzJhQ)

82 Marsha Blackburn on Fox Business explains that Senate chip bill has been stripped of all security protections against China .Schumer involved.

--

If it undermines the USA, you can bet your bottom dollar that Schumer and every filthy Democrat is at the forefront making sure it happens.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 27, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

83 Saint of the Day
Saint Titus Brandsma
Given the birth name Anno, Brandsma and his siblings grew up on their parents' dairy farm in rural Frisia. From age 11 on, Anno was educated at a preparatory school for boys who were studying for the priesthood. He joined the Carmelite novitiate in 1898, taking the name Titus in honor of his father. After his 1905 ordination, Brandsma received a doctorate in philosophy and initiated a project to translate the works of Saint Teresa of Avila into Dutch.
Working as a journalist Brandsma served as ecclesiastical advisor to Catholic journalists. His long-standing opposition to Nazi ideology came to the attention of the Nazis when they invaded the Netherlands in 1940. Fr. Brandsma was arrested in January 1942. He was eventually was taken to the Dachau camp in Germany. During his brief time at Dachau, Fr. Brandsma was well-known for his kindness and spiritual support of other prisoners. His death on July 26, 1942 was a result of the Reich's program of medical experimentation on prisoners. He gave a wooden rosary to the nurse who administered the fatal injection; she later became Catholic and testified to his holiness.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2022 08:06 AM (6WCwE)

84 Also the aerial photo of the suburb in California in the

"The prevailing vision of environmentalism today caters to a global oligarchy."
The Dehumanizing Tyranny of Densification

link is terrifying.

People live like that on purpose?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:06 AM (NLNdT)

85 This Climate Alarmism Group Is Planning To Shut Down the Nation’s Capital
--
How many congressidiots will fear for their lives?!
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 27, 2022 08:03 AM (sVtYq)

time to buy popcorn. I can't WAIT to see these guys go hog wild and torch and burn and loot while the media tells us this si just a little disturbance and nothing major.

while they're attaching the fencing around the capitol and the whitehouse. and this time it's TOTALLY NOT LIKE jan 6...

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 08:06 AM (p03vF)

86 He's quickly realized that the moo-ve is the biggest miss steak he ever made.
Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 27, 2022 07:49 AM (odVni)
===
This is a crime against the English language.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2022 08:07 AM (dzJhQ)

87 "Will it be Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss?"

Either way it will be more pain for the real people of the UK.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 08:07 AM (1Z8zZ)

88 Heh Sara got a raise.

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 08:08 AM (sn5EN)

89 Can we fix Sarah up with Paul/Kurt? I think they'd be a good match.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 27, 2022 08:08 AM (sVtYq)

90 >"What would it really take to abolish the FBI?

a miracle
seriously, in these times, you'd need an act of Congress officially defunding and disbanding the agency, which I'm sure would lead to years of lawsuits and foot-dragging and institutional chaos, and then at some point the effort would fizzle, like most efforts at reform

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 08:08 AM (geLO8)

91 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at July 27, 2022 08:08 AM (T4tVD)

92 If it undermines the USA, you can bet your bottom dollar that Schumer and every filthy Democrat is at the forefront making sure it happens.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 27, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

The republican support is worth watching. This is the perfect example of Uniparty at work. The USA is for sale.

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

93 How hard would it be to dissolve 50% of the FBI?
Posted by: Sidney at July 27, 2022 08:05 AM (ZK0UZ)

what solvent are you using? I'm thinking HCL or Sulfuric Acid would be acceptable, but as noted above, you'll need a bigger vat...

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 08:09 AM (p03vF)

94 GashTrash is back.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 27, 2022 08:10 AM (89T5c)

95 "you'd need an act of Congress officially defunding and disbanding the agency, which I'm sure would lead to years of lawsuits and foot-dragging and institutional chaos, and then at some point the effort would fizzle, like most efforts at reform"

Thanks for the answer. I guess. I was kind of hoping for something like "You are all fired!".

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 08:10 AM (sn5EN)

96 That said, I'm longing for a hometown that only exists in my memories.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

*

It's weird to realize that the world became a much worse place when middle school boys could no longer find a Playboy magazine while riding their bikes around the outskirts of the neighborhood.

That wouldn't have made sense to anyone in the 80s, but it does now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:10 AM (NLNdT)

97 a miracle
seriously, in these times, you'd need an act of Congress officially defunding and disbanding the agency, which I'm sure would lead to years of lawsuits and foot-dragging and institutional chaos, and then at some point the effort would fizzle, like most efforts at reform

--

At best, I think all I can hope for is that they continue to so degrade their integrity and trustworthiness, that whatever comes from them is automatically and wholly discredited.

And I say that as I have a sibling graduating in just a few days from the FBI academy.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 27, 2022 08:10 AM (sVtYq)

98 Advice I gave people escaping the Balkan War in the 1990s was, "You're a refugee, act like one." The key being, Yugoslavia is gone, dead, and it's not coming back. "This, the 'blobby, dimwitted', Midwest USA, is your new reality." Few listened to me, choosing to be miserable trying to recreate a phantom country here, in their minds.
For a reasonable range of 'ethnic food' like you might find in NYC, Valli Produce in Rockford is good. There is a Half Price Book Outlet in Rockford as well, nice place. Stop into the Antique Malls in South Beloit.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 27, 2022 08:13 AM (U11/V)

99 >Thanks for the answer. I guess. I was kind of hoping for something like "You are all fired!".

Posted by: fd

if only it were that easy. My theory is that the USGov't has become self-aware, like SkyNet or Colussus. It will protect itself at all cost.

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 08:13 AM (geLO8)

100 We are starting to get a sense of the impact of the Pence/Ducey endorsement of Robson.

This endorsement did cause undecided voters to make up their minds. 5% of voters decided to support Robson.

Unfortunately for her, the endorsement also caused 7% of voters to support Lake. Lake has crossed the 50% mark in the primary.

I suspect that we will see this play out elsewhere, the net effect of a Pence endorsement is negative.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2022 08:14 AM (ey3Ve)

101 The gun bill sure seems to have roots from the NY Safe Act. The criteria for a banned firearm is written in a way where it can be used against ownership of the most common of firearms, and some so uncommon they have never been used in a crime. Example. The Walther OSP pistol in .22 short is a banned weapon in the eyes of those who enforce the Safe Act. Why? Because the five round magazine is ahead of the trigger guard. This Federal monstrosity should hopefully never see the light of day now that it has passed committee. Pelosi may not have the votes.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2022 08:14 AM (lz5hY)

102 "At best, I think all I can hope for is that they continue to so degrade their integrity and trustworthiness, that whatever comes from them is automatically and wholly discredited."

Maybe a stealth FBI director that goes in all J Edgar gung ho for the FBI and then on the first day announces he (or she) is shutting down all investigations and everyone can take the rest of the day off.

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 08:14 AM (sn5EN)

103 Electoral vote count act reform bill will be 15,000 pages of

The text of Title 4 USC 12,837 part 3 paragraph 9Ba1 the word "some" is stricken and replaced with the following text: "all"

But it will be so much less ambiguous.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:14 AM (eC4Tv)

104 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:15 AM (WWh8n)

105 90 Heh Sara got a raise.

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 08:08 AM (sn5EN)

In her business, there's constant inflation and deflation...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:15 AM (ynpvh)

106 It's not necessarily the system. It's the people who are in positions of power that have zero moral compass, zero ethics and worst of all, an absolute unshakeable faith that not only what they are doing is right but they have the moral and intellectual superiority, and the duty to impose their will on us.

A bureaucracy this large, safely based in a city populated by like minded thinkers, all employed by various fellow agencies, all of which are elevated above the individual states while ruling over them, will only attract and promote the most ruthless and power hungry.

Sorry J.J. - you're wrong on this one. It is the system. Any system this big, this powerful, will not be constrained. And it will never be the powerful force for good that old time conservatives wrongly believed in.

It has to go. Never to be replaced.

Posted by: Sauce for the Goose at July 27, 2022 08:15 AM (71xA2)

107 "Also the aerial photo of the suburb in California in the,
"The prevailing vision of environmentalism today caters to a global oligarchy.""
The Dehumanizing Tyranny of Densification

I can't find that link.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 27, 2022 08:15 AM (qH6FZ)

108 Wasn't Buffalo Guy pAntifa dressed in MAGA gear to paint MAGA as violent extremists?

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

109 Climate Change lunatics in DC. Mayhem, chaos, and no arrests. Seen it too many times, yawn.

Posted by: Ziba at July 27, 2022 08:16 AM (4h9M3)

110 NYC teen seen punching cop in wild video was sprung without bail in robbery case days earlier

Unbelievable. The kid asked the judge if he could press charges against the cop..

Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2022 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

111 “NewsNation has earned high-praise from multiple media watchdog groups by remaining true to its mission to bring viewers the fact-based news that impacts their lives without opinion or bias,” Nexstar Media Inc. Sean Compton, the president of the network’s parent company, said.
++++
Ah, so they're a group of commie propagandists. Got it.

"Watchdog groups." Feh. More like the second cousins twice removed of the ruling class.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:16 AM (WWh8n)

112 98 It's weird to realize that the world became a much worse place when middle school boys could no longer find a Playboy magazine while riding their bikes around the outskirts of the neighborhood.

That wouldn't have made sense to anyone in the 80s, but it does now.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:10 AM (NLNdT)

That was sex ed for many a middle-schooler back in the day...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:17 AM (ynpvh)

113 Firings
Layoffs
Move physical offices
Leave open spots unfilled
Regulate the hell out of it
And label it publicly and repeatedly as secret police.
All of this can be done by WH and requires no support from the corrupt Congress

Posted by: Joetato at July 27, 2022 08:17 AM (PsUT0)

114 What would it really take to abolish the FBI? Could it even be done?
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 07:53 AM (sn5EN)

Step 1: DoJ budget includes funding for the salary of the AG (Constitutional position) and nothing else.
Step 2: Funding for the FBI is not added to any other department's budget.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 08:17 AM (1Z8zZ)

115 The most meaningful day in my life occurred in 1956 when as a boy of eleven or twelve I became a citizen of the United States. Little did I know that in my lifetime I would see the descent of American citizenship into near meaninglessness. A collapse that came about internally and was not directly precipitated by the nation’s foreign adversaries.

Unfortunately, the bulk of Americans obliviously believe that American citizenship remains what it has always been; in reality, it is rapidly disappearing.

Progressives love the ROW people but HATE Americans!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 08:17 AM (ex2Cx)

116 I can't find that link.
Posted by: lowandslow at July 27, 2022 08:15 AM (qH6FZ)

Never mind, found it.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 27, 2022 08:17 AM (qH6FZ)

117 tiktok?
Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 07:54 AM (p03vF)

yes

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 08:17 AM (ex2Cx)

118 my civil rights is being dissed

Posted by: NYC teen at July 27, 2022 08:17 AM (sn5EN)

119 A national divorce or full blown civil war is about the only way the existing government can be trimmed. One side or the other is going to embrace the FBI as it is today and reconstitute it. The other side won't. The same goes for every agency, department or bureau in existence today.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2022 08:18 AM (BFigT)

120 Gun control via wildly ambiguous legislation which imposes ridiculous punishment for minor infractions so that it is safer to not own a gun than to mistakenly run afoul of this law? Our government would do this? In the USA? The hell you say?

It is the old progressive trick. We aren't saying you can't, you are making the choice not to.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:18 AM (eC4Tv)

121 102 We are starting to get a sense of the impact of the Pence/Ducey endorsement of Robson.
This endorsement did cause undecided voters to make up their minds. 5% of voters decided to support Robson.
Unfortunately for her, the endorsement also caused 7% of voters to support Lake. Lake has crossed the 50% mark in the primary.
I suspect that we will see this play out elsewhere, the net effect of a Pence endorsement is negative.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2022 08:14 AM (ey3Ve)

So like shit-midas?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:18 AM (ynpvh)

122 Posted by: Sarah at July 27, 2022 08:07 AM (0n95l)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at July 27, 2022 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

123 I want to get one of those t-shirts advertised on PJ media.
Donkey Pox
The Disease Destroying America.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2022 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

124 "Also the aerial photo of the suburb in California in the,
"The prevailing vision of environmentalism today caters to a global oligarchy.""
The Dehumanizing Tyranny of Densification

I can't find that link.
Posted by: lowandslow
***
It's the last one in "above the fold." Here it is directly:

https://tinyurl.com/59dursdn

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:19 AM (NLNdT)

125 103
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 27, 2022 08:14 AM (lz5hY)

SCOTUS: "Shall Not Be Infringed"
Congress: "But what if we infringe it THIS way?"
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:19 AM (ynpvh)

126 Lol thanks for your replies to my “how to dissolve the FBI?” A very big vat! I’m sitting in my car waiting for employee to take a drug test # 10. Because he got popped last year. He has had to do 12 tests in this year. Over the next 4 years he must take a drug test every 3months. Why, you ask? He has a class B CDL. He must have a real smart mouth because this is really unheard of for weed.

Posted by: Sidney at July 27, 2022 08:19 AM (ZK0UZ)

127 The FBI will fund itself through a fee for service app.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:19 AM (eC4Tv)

128 OnlyFIBs.com.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:20 AM (eC4Tv)

129 Dem hysteria over climate change is picking up and heading towards violence and/or political tyranny to address it.

At the same time they are flooding the country will third world immigrants, legal and illegal, who don't give a shit about any of that, and never lectured about their carbon footprint and wasteful energy use.

WTF do the Dems think is going top happen when our replacements get ever more control of the country and congress? The whole climate/environment agenda will be unceremoniously tossed aside by them like the garbage they leave at the border area and parks. That will be fun to watch.

Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2022 08:20 AM (MxEKc)

130 ...myth of the so-called Fourth Estate, which is in point of fact, the tip of the spear of the American Fifth Column

********

I had a sixth sense you were going to say something like that!

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

131 The estimable Robert Spencer is, of course 1,000% correct. The FBI has got to be abolished. But what would that really accomplish? What would impeaching President Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants accomplish? Our entire government and far too much of the private sector is so thoroughly corrupted with ideologues, criminals and ideologically-driven criminals that elections, even relatively honest ones, will have little impact in the long term insofar as reversing course from the abyss we are this close to being shoved into.
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It could do one thing: instill fear. Not an impeachment and removal. That doesn't matter. Closing an agency, firing everyone in it, severely restricting rehiring into other agencies and salting the earth where it stood might actually do something. It would make the other agencies afraid. They can prevent their own reform and they can avoid accountability but if they do, then they face outright destruction. They would be shown to be existentially vulnerable, and that would instill fear and possibly panic.

Closing an agency (preferably the whole thing, not just a major component like the FBI) would engender crisis in the other agencies. That has value.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:20 AM (WWh8n)

132 OnlyFIBs.com.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:20 AM (eC4Tv)

You don't have to be lonely.......

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

133 I wonder how many world news agencies would descend upon NY like maggots to dead flesh if two white teenagers had smashed an object into a black woman's head while proclaiming, "I hate black people."

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 27, 2022 08:21 AM (sVtYq)

134 They have cows there ?
Posted by: JT

Oh they got some cows. We're talkin about dairy farms, right?

Posted by: Skeptical Schnauzer at July 27, 2022 08:21 AM (h+7ej)

135 If you are interested. Simply give it a shot on the accompanying site... www.salarycash1.com
Posted by: Sarah at July 27, 2022 08:07 AM (0n95l)

Do you do housecalls? And how much for a BJ?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 08:21 AM (ex2Cx)

136 Most of the worlds issues go away if the next gathering of the WEF assholes is tactically nuked.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

137 News Nation, which probably has an audience approaching that of CNN+, knows who they hired. It's their way of flipping the bird to us as well as attempting to preserve the illusion and myth of the so-called Fourth Estate, which is in point of fact, the tip of the spear of the American Fifth Column.

Shades of Kolchak from 1974.
In their 1st episode one of the charaters kept calling reporter Kolchak an member of the Fifth Column while Kolchak kept correcting him saying he was part of the Fourth Estate.

Nowadays they are one and the same.

Posted by: Nan G at July 27, 2022 08:22 AM (iAC5W)

138 Do you do housecalls? And how much for a BJ?
Posted by: rhennigantx

$10. Half the price as in town.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:22 AM (eC4Tv)

139 They took Comet TV off one of my antenna stations, and replaced it with some bullshit channel called Newsy. Another leftwing propaganda news channel.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 27, 2022 08:22 AM (sRUs0)

140 I told you Kamikazes never pull back on the stick.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 08:23 AM (KMmDq)

141 130 OnlyFIBs.com.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:20 AM (eC4Tv)

My computer's security system says it's a dangerous website...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:23 AM (ynpvh)

142 Today is National Scotch Day!
Drink up!

Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2022 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

143 That was sex ed for many a middle-schooler back in the day...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:17 AM (ynpvh)

funny enough, just had that argument with the 20 something kids who are teachers in NYC. it went about as well as expected. they were bitching about the don't say gay bill... yeah, i set them straight there, but talking about what kids need to know and how they have to teach them about the different options.

I asked why, why not just do the basics, p in v leads to a baby. this is what happens. these are the diseases you can get and what they look like. and that was it. it worked in the 80s....

they didn't have a good reason to get into feelings and all, but wanted to.

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 08:24 AM (p03vF)

144 Back in the dark ages, when I was a young kid. My Late Father and I, would watch the TV show FBI every Sunday night together. It starred Efrem Zimbalist. I worshipped those Guys. Then when Obama because Prez, it all went down hill, to the point where nobody respects them anymore. So Sad

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:24 AM (WY8d2)

145 Twenty years ago When I was in the mayor's office and Gavin got elected I was pretty upset. There was a "community organizer" I was close with. We were talking on the phone and I think she was trying to console me, she said "They're gonna try to make this motherf*cker President!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2022 08:24 AM (dzJhQ)

146 137 If you are interested. Simply give it a shot on the accompanying site... www.salarycash1.com
Posted by: Sarah at July 27, 2022 08:07 AM (0n95l)

Do you do housecalls? And how much for a BJ?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 08:21 AM (ex2Cx)

Sarah could be catfishing you. Could get Transgender TrigglyPuff show up...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:25 AM (ynpvh)

147 They took Comet TV off one of my antenna stations, and replaced it with some bullshit channel called Newsy. Another leftwing propaganda news channel.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 27, 2022 08:22 AM (sRUs0)

I tuned into Newsy once. They were spewing about the "white supremacy problem in America" in the first 5 seconds, so I've never been back.

Update your channel listing. It's likely Comet just moved somewhere else.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

148 The FBI is a creature of Congress. They created it, they can unmake it. The way to get Democrats on board with the idea is for the next President to make Donald Trump Jr. the next head of the FBI.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 08:25 AM (r46W7)

149 139 Do you do housecalls? And how much for a BJ?
Posted by: rhennigantx

$10. Half the price as in town.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:22 AM (eC4Tv)

So she does between 8 and 10 and hour? Kamala would be jealous

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:25 AM (ynpvh)

150 How does a Climate Alarmism Group plan on shutting down DC? Any chance they will enter the Capital? Do they wear Shaman Fur Hats with Horns?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 08:25 AM (KMmDq)

151 140. Saw that. PBS news does not even hide it anymore, they are so Woke

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:25 AM (WY8d2)

152 138 Most of the worlds issues go away if the next gathering of the WEF assholes is tactically nuked.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:21 AM

Considering the locations those kind of groups meet at, I'd be okay upgrading from a tactical nuke. Maybe we could get a joint session with the UN...

Posted by: Military Moron at July 27, 2022 08:25 AM (NCgXW)

153 Robert Spencer's article is good, but it has a distinct recency bias. The FBI has been shit for much longer than he implies in the article. Waco. Whitey Bulger. COINTELPRO. J. Edna's various corruptions.

The only time the FBI *wasn't* a goon squad of shock troops was in its very early days when it was merely useless and had no mission.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:26 AM (WWh8n)

154 Back in the dark ages, when I was a young kid. My Late Father and I, would watch the TV show FBI every Sunday night together.

*

It's been discussed here recently, but go ahead and name an American movie or TV show since the 80s where the hero wasn't a government employee, ex-government employee returning to his rightful place, or otherwise government-adjacent.

I'll wait.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:26 AM (NLNdT)

155 151. shut it down? they can have D.C. slum

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:26 AM (WY8d2)

156 Damian Williams, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said the charges “should send a strong message to anyone who is even thinking about committing insider trading: Cut it out. Because we're watching.”

Unless you are in congress, then it's coo.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:27 AM (eC4Tv)

157 146 We were talking on the phone and I think she was trying to console me, she said "They're gonna try to make this motherf*cker President!"
----------------
Being related to the Getty's is a good place to start.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 08:27 AM (KMmDq)

158 155. Die Hard? Off duty Cop

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

159 Damian Williams, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said the charges “should send a strong message to anyone who is even thinking about committing insider trading: Cut it out. Because we're watching.”

Unless you are in congress, then it's coo.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:27 AM (eC4Tv)

Pelosi, laughing, spreads her wings.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

160 Dark Triad personalities are unusual in American life, and that applies to the English political tradition in general. In other political cultures, malignant personalities seem to show up more often, maybe because different cultures throw up different kinds of leaders.

Obama
Sandy
Liawatha
Nancy
51 morons that signed the Hunter letter.

James Lewis, you need open your eyes!

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

161 Back in the dark ages, when I was a young kid. My Late Father and I, would watch the TV show FBI every Sunday night together. It starred Efrem Zimbalist. I worshipped those Guys. Then when Obama because Prez, it all went down hill, to the point where nobody respects them anymore. So Sad
Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:24 AM (WY8d2)
++++
The "FBI is awesome" propaganda on TV did its job, as did the press capture. The FBI never deserved its reputation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:28 AM (WWh8n)

162 All of those shows were recruitment shows for government service.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:28 AM (eC4Tv)

163 Die Hard? Off duty Cop
Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:27 AM (WY8d2)

Falling Down

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

164 154 Robert Spencer's article is good, but it has a distinct recency bias. The FBI has been shit for much longer than he implies in the article. Waco. Whitey Bulger. COINTELPRO. J. Edna's various corruptions.

The only time the FBI *wasn't* a goon squad of shock troops was in its very early days when it was merely useless and had no mission.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:26 AM (WWh8n)

They then collected dirt on Politicians to keep there relevancy. Sorta like today.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:28 AM (ynpvh)

165 When your entire recruitment strategy is to entice kids who lay around watching tv all day, you get that.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:29 AM (eC4Tv)

166 Rick Grimes. Walking Dead

Frodo Lord of the Rings. LOL

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:29 AM (WY8d2)

167 their, not there. Stupid fingers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:29 AM (ynpvh)

168 155 It's been discussed here recently, but go ahead and name an American movie or TV show since the 80s where the hero wasn't a government employee, ex-government employee returning to his rightful place, or otherwise government-adjacent.

I'll wait.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:26 AM (NLNdT)

The Godfather.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2022 08:29 AM (x0n13)

169 GEN Milley told us that at the end of the meeting, the President told Mr. Miller that there would be a large number of protestors on January 6, 2021, and Mr. Miller should ensure sufficient National Guard or Soldiers would be there to make sure it was a safe event. Gen Milley told us that Mr. Miller responded, ‘We’ve got a plan and we’ve got it covered.'”

The plan was to make PDT look bad!! Milley is a rat bastard!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 08:29 AM (ex2Cx)

170 When was the last time a govt agency was ever dissolved? None that I can think of in my lifetime. We cant even end govt funding of NPR or Planned Parenthood without causing a meltdown. I can't see any effort to get rid of the FBI succeeding especially when only a handful of law and order loving Republicans would ever go along with something like that. We are stuck with them until the collapse.

Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (MxEKc)

171
Actually, the Corleones were sort of government-adjacent.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (x0n13)

172 It's been discussed here recently, but go ahead and name an American movie or TV show since the 80s where the hero wasn't a government employee, ex-government employee returning to his rightful place, or otherwise government-adjacent.

I'll wait.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:26 AM (NLNdT)

the A-Team...

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (p03vF)

173
They took Comet TV off one of my antenna stations, and replaced it with some bullshit channel called Newsy. Another leftwing propaganda news channel.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

Re-scan. It might show up on another channel.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (MPQU0)

174 Electoral vote count act reform bill will be 15,000 pages of

The text of Title 4 USC 12,837 part 3 paragraph 9Ba1 the word "some" is stricken and replaced with the following text: "all"

But it will be so much less ambiguous.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:14 AM (eC4Tv)

I'd like to see a Constitutional amendment that laws can only be replaced, never modified. That way the bill that gets passed is readable by anyone who can read.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (1Z8zZ)

175 Thank you, Vlad!

"German government to reduce incentives for buyers of electric cars and end incentives for plugin hybrids."

Let's hope it gets alot better. Worse??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (yikp0)

176 A better way of dealing with the FBI (assuming - stupidly - that we ever have the right president and a supportive congressional majority) is to lay out the history of FBI failure and corruption from the beginning ALONGSIDE it's successes. Then announce bureau reforms. Among them:

FBI agents will now rotate cities on 4-6 year rotations. Political crimes will be removed from the jurisdiction of the DC / NY offices. Anyone who put a fingerprint on Crossfire Hurricane will be reassigned to ... bank robberies in Alberquerque. Dramatically reduce the Bureau's size and more importantly it's scope. Same goes for the DoJ and the EPA.

Posted by: SMFH at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (CEh/e)

177 Ah, yes. . . . . .the return of the Cuomosexxual. . . . . after having done his world tour of bathhouses. . .

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & MSM InfoWhores at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (8m/Xb)

178 Frasier

Posted by: grammie winger at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (45fpk)

179
the A-Team...
Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (p03vF)

Uh.....ex-government employees being AWOL Military......

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

180 Die Hard: Government employee trying to regain his rightful place? Cops work for the gubmint.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:31 AM (eC4Tv)

181 It's been discussed here recently, but go ahead and name an American movie or TV show since the 80s where the hero wasn't a government employee, ex-government employee returning to his rightful place, or otherwise government-adjacent.

I'll wait.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:26 AM (NLNdT)
++++
I can think of one. Sort of. The hero is a government agent (FBI, no less) but the show portrays the government generally and the FBI specifically as deeply corrupt and evil and working against the interests not just of Americans but of humans writ large. The hero himself, and his sidekick, are lawless and do whatever the hell they want regardless of legality. They're the heroes, but they're still oppressive bastards who ignore the rules.

That show is the "X-Files," and I think it is the most accurate (in terms of general accuracy in that it reflects attitude, not in real cases and whatnot) portrayal of the FBI that has ever been put on TV.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:31 AM (WWh8n)

182 The climate alarmist group was likely invited to the capitol city and therefore will be permitted to roam freely everywhere they want. But their message will be received and acted upon.

Always "The Plan"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2022 08:31 AM (BFigT)

183 174
They took Comet TV off one of my antenna stations, and replaced it with some bullshit channel called Newsy. Another leftwing propaganda news channel.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

Re-scan. It might show up on another channel.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (MPQU0)

Newsy is the shit. I mean, it's a crappy channel.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:31 AM (ynpvh)

184 When was the last time a govt agency was ever dissolved? None that I can think of in my lifetime. We cant even end govt funding of NPR or Planned Parenthood without causing a meltdown. I can't see any effort to get rid of the FBI succeeding especially when only a handful of law and order loving Republicans would ever go along with something like that. We are stuck with them until the collapse.
Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (MxEKc)

I think they finally closed up the Y2K program 2 or 3 years ago...

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 08:32 AM (p03vF)

185
Newsy is ~~the~~ shit. I mean, it's a crappy channel.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:31 AM (ynpvh)

Autocorrect.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

186 The hero himself, and his sidekick, are lawless and do whatever the hell they want regardless of legality. They're the heroes, but they're still oppressive bastards who ignore the rules.

That show is the "X-Files,"

*

That's a good answer and I'll allow it for the spirit of the thing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:32 AM (NLNdT)

187 "It's been discussed here recently, but go ahead and name an American movie or TV show since the 80s where the hero wasn't a government employee, ex-government employee returning to his rightful place, or otherwise government-adjacent.

Posted by: Moron Robbie"

I think you must mean public servant. (We can thank the Clinton's for that mutilation of the language.)

Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2022 08:33 AM (MxEKc)

188 When was the last time a govt agency was ever dissolved? None that I can think of in my lifetime. We cant even end govt funding of NPR or Planned Parenthood without causing a meltdown. I can't see any effort to get rid of the FBI succeeding especially when only a handful of law and order loving Republicans would ever go along with something like that. We are stuck with them until the collapse.
Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (MxEKc)
++++
I agree. I think shuttering an entire agency would do a lot to scare the others into better behavior. Not fix the others, but moderate them. There's no way they will permit that to happen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:33 AM (WWh8n)

189
Yes, the whole Climate Alarmist DC shutdown is fully orchestrated by the Democrats.

"See?! The people are demanding we do something and so we must!"

Pfft.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2022 08:33 AM (x0n13)

190 Interesting observation from the article about the two monsters attacking the elderly white lady:

"African Americans on the left (which is most of them) provoke the "racism" they get from whites by initiating actual racism through obnoxious words and actions. This is intentional so they can continue pushing their false "white supremacy" agenda and cry victim to get what they want."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:34 AM (NLNdT)

191 The environmentalist elites will go on drinking bottled water and it will be the city’s poor drinking out of the toilet.

Plants need water!
Like from da toilet?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 08:34 AM (ex2Cx)

192 Most of the worlds issues go away if the next gathering of the WEF assholes is tactically nuked.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:21 AM

Russia seems to be working on this issue, in a round about indirect sort of way. I know they're not a friend, nor necessarily doing it for our common good, but its still being accomplished, by destroying Europe's economy before the WEF is ready and willing to do it themselves.

Posted by: Skeptical Schnauzer at July 27, 2022 08:34 AM (h+7ej)

193 189 When was the last time a govt agency was ever dissolved? None that I can think of in my lifetime. We cant even end govt funding of NPR or Planned Parenthood without causing a meltdown. I can't see any effort to get rid of the FBI succeeding especially when only a handful of law and order loving Republicans would ever go along with something like that. We are stuck with them until the collapse.
Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (MxEKc)
++++
I agree. I think shuttering an entire agency would do a lot to scare the others into better behavior. Not fix the others, but moderate them. There's no way they will permit that to happen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:33 AM (WWh8n)

Like Jaba the Hutt, only gets bigger, meaner, fatter. Is there a Sarlac pit around here somewhere?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:34 AM (ynpvh)

194 It's been discussed here recently, but go ahead and name an American movie or TV show since the 80s where the hero wasn't a government employee, ex-government employee returning to his rightful place, or otherwise government-adjacent.

I'll wait.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:26 AM (NLNdT)
===

I remember finding it remarkable that the villain in Ghostbusters (1984) was a flunky from the EPA.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2022 08:35 AM (dzJhQ)

195 When was the last time a govt agency was ever dissolved?

*

Who was working on the wall on the southern border?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:35 AM (NLNdT)

196 193 Posted by: Skeptical Schnauzer at July 27, 2022 08:34 AM (h+7ej)

This is what I meant when I said I was "rootin' for Putin."

If he is an enemy of the Global Reset, for the time being, he is an ally. At least in that struggle.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2022 08:35 AM (x0n13)

197 192 The environmentalist elites will go on drinking bottled water and it will be the city’s poor drinking out of the toilet.

Plants need water!
Like from da toilet?

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 08:34 AM (ex2Cx)

Toilet tank, possibly okay.
Toilet bowl, not so much

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:35 AM (ynpvh)

198 This DU poster is completely confused, has reality backwards, and even other posters are trying to correct her, but her confusion is a nice dream for TX, FL and other red state Morons!

Texas was going to turn blue but then Roe vs. Wade was overturned and all sorts of christo-fascist laws and freedom for AR-15s has happened of late. Is the whole thing to make living in red states so uncomfortable that the liberal voters leave? Are they trying to turn purple Georgia red? Is the civil war on universities De Santis is waging meant to turn youth from blue places off studying in Florida? They have already turned off immigration. Unpalatable politics everywhere. What do they care if they are guaranteed 2 Senators from each state. The far left has REALLY been bitching about how "undemocratic" 2 Senators per state is. How dare a few large states not be able to bully the country!

For the first time ever, less than half of US Hispanics are now Catholic, the first ever for any large Hispanic population on the planet. In 2014, 11% of US evangelicals were Latino. 2 or 3 years ago it was up to 19%. Likely easily over 20% now. Were the Bushes right all along?

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at July 27, 2022 08:35 AM (NCgXW)

199 A Team hated the gubmint

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:36 AM (WY8d2)

200 162 Back in the dark ages, when I was a young kid. My Late Father and I, would watch the TV show FBI every Sunday night together. It starred Efrem Zimbalist. I worshipped those Guys. Then when Obama because Prez, it all went down hill, to the point where nobody respects them anymore. So Sad
Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:24 AM (WY8d2)
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The "FBI is awesome" propaganda on TV did its job, as did the press capture. The FBI never deserved its reputation.
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I thought it funny that Tarantino had George Spahn, played by Bruce Dern, adament about watching FBI while being held hostage by the Manson Gang Molls. Sort of like Biden being adament about watching Matlock reruns.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 08:36 AM (KMmDq)

201 John wick

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:36 AM (WY8d2)

202 195 I remember finding it remarkable that the villain in Ghostbusters (1984) was a flunky from the EPA.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2022 08:35 AM (dzJhQ)

Yes, it's true; he doesn't have a dick...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:36 AM (ynpvh)

203 That we just went through “the coolest monthly anomaly in over 10 years, the coolest June in 22 years, and the ninth coolest June in the 44 year satellite record,” says University of Alabama at Huntsville climate scientist Roy Spencer.

I heard that we are in for a cooling period of of about 230 years or so starting in 2024.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 08:36 AM (ex2Cx)

204 Rambo

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:36 AM (WY8d2)

205 Frasier
Posted by: grammie winger
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Niles

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 08:36 AM (yikp0)

206 WTF do the Dems think is going top happen when our replacements get ever more control of the country and congress? The whole climate/environment agenda will be unceremoniously tossed aside by them like the garbage they leave at the border area and parks. That will be fun to watch.
Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2022 08:20 AM (MxEKc)"

The "climate change" hysteria can only be understood if you think of it as a warped religious cult which demands it's followers sacrifice themselves and everything they own to it. It's a Hellfire and Brimstone religion designed for people who think they're too smart to fall for a Hellfire and Brimstone religion.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 08:36 AM (r46W7)

207 Newsom is a very scary prospect for 2024, imo.

Posted by: Ziba at July 27, 2022 08:37 AM (4h9M3)

208 That show is the "X-Files," and I think it is the most accurate (in terms of general accuracy in that it reflects attitude, not in real cases and whatnot) portrayal of the FBI that has ever been put on TV.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Interesting Joe. Even the catch-phrase "The truth is out there." is apropos. Sure, it's out there, but all levels of government and quasi govt orgs do all they can to cover it up and replace it with whatever they want.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2022 08:37 AM (6WCwE)

209 As Dems Go All In on Climate Change, Literally 1 Percent of Americans Call It Top Concern

Maybe 1 TENTH of 1%!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 08:37 AM (ex2Cx)

210 I remember finding it remarkable that the villain in Ghostbusters (1984) was a flunky from the EPA.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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I wondered about that once I was older. I was too young to keep up at the time, but I bet there was some inside jab regarding NYC and the EPA butting heads.

Shame you can't search for that sort of thing anymore. Say, anyone else remember when search engines would search for stuff? Man, the internet used to be so f*cking awesome.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:37 AM (NLNdT)

211 When was the last time a govt agency was ever dissolved?

Federal Tea Tasting Board, 1996.
Civil Aeronautics Board, 1985 (a lot of people would like to have it back).

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 27, 2022 08:38 AM (x61Im)

212 None that I can think of in my lifetime.
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I think they finally got rid of the 13 Federal Tea Testers some 20 years ago. Progress.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 08:38 AM (KMmDq)

213 The entire LE and IC complex needs to be torn down and replaced. All LE and IC functions are stripped from every extant agency, and all of their staff fired. Five new agencies:
1. Domestic law enforcement. Limited to interstate crime only. No exceptions, no carve-outs, no "local cooperation." Nada. Interstate crime only.
2. Domestic intelligence. Extremely limited. No more silent subpoenas or warrantless data collection. They can do it the hard way: by monitoring and handing off to the former if investigation is warranted.
3. Foreign intelligence. Much looser limits, but only applicable for foreigners. If citizens are involved, hand off to the former.
4. Military intelligence. Strictly limited. Military affairs only.
5. Internal Affairs. These are the cops that police the other four. No more than 25% of the staff and 10% of the executive ranks can come from any of those other agencies. Recruit from private sector and local authorities for the rest. Perpetual bounty system. Pay them more the corruption they unearth. Give them a perverse incentive for aggressive action. If some babies get thrown out with the bathwater, so be it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:38 AM (WWh8n)

214 Was Frodo a govt employee? He was working for the various kings so maybe.

Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2022 08:38 AM (MxEKc)

215 210 As Dems Go All In on Climate Change, Literally 1 Percent of Americans Call It Top Concern

Maybe 1 TENTH of 1%!
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They have to give the Bernie Bots something to die for.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 08:39 AM (KMmDq)

216 After fire ravages their town, Lefties in CA not happy to be assisted by a militia group.

"The last thing I'm going to do is take a free tri-tip sandwich from a right-wing extremist group," said one resident

https://tinyurl.com/2xo3bv7z

Posted by: McCool at July 27, 2022 08:39 AM (BqBIh)

217 Just received our new Tax Bill in the IL Burbs. Up 40% because of all the knock downs in my area. Trust fund kids do not care about inflation. Wife will not leave her family, I am screwed

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:39 AM (WY8d2)

218 >>> It's been discussed here recently, but go ahead and name an American movie or TV show since the 80s where the hero wasn't a government employee, ex-government employee returning to his rightful place, or otherwise government-adjacent.

I'll wait.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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Only licensed and authorized heroes allowed.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 08:39 AM (2I6ca)

219 Trump: "Execute a Drug Dealer and You’ll Save 500 Lives"

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 08:39 AM (ex2Cx)

220 And I'd argue that the EPA guy wasn't so much a villain as a DMV joke. But yeah, the EPA would NEVER be joked about today.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:39 AM (NLNdT)

221 216 210 As Dems Go All In on Climate Change, Literally 1 Percent of Americans Call It Top Concern

Maybe 1 TENTH of 1%!
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They have to give the Bernie Bots something to die for.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 08:39 AM (KMmDq)

Well, a greater percent of the population than CO2 is in the atmosphere...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:40 AM (ynpvh)

222 214 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:38 AM (WWh8n)

But the fish stinks from the head. The entire system of government is so thoroughly corrupted that it too needs to be demolished and reconstructed.

And lest we forget, it's the educational system that created the corrupt individuals in the first place.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2022 08:40 AM (x0n13)

223 Just received our new Tax Bill in the IL Burbs. Up 40%

Oh my gosh.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 27, 2022 08:40 AM (45fpk)

224 This is what I meant when I said I was "rootin' for Putin."

If he is an enemy of the Global Reset, for the time being, he is an ally. At least in that struggle.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

BINGO. Well said, JJ. Last I checked, Putin wasn't calling me a deplorable who would make the world better by dying.

Posted by: Skeptical Schnauzer at July 27, 2022 08:40 AM (h+7ej)

225 208. Newsome would get detroyed in the Rust belt. Non starter

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM (WY8d2)

226 I love the layers of dumb in “Filipinx”. It’s based on assuming the trailing O is from Spanish even though the Philippines is not even European. It’s pure cultural imperialism.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM (zm+d5)

227 On further thought, you can't get rid of the FBI. Or any other government agency. Because it would eventually fall to Congress to do it. You would be asking the government to disband part of the government. This will never, ever happen peacefully.

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM (geLO8)

228 Rip off the band aid. Every agency needs to be dissolved and the ones that pass muster will be reconstituted at a 20% staffing level in Bismarck ND. New staff, once vetted, will no longer be allowed to have a Union. All federal employees will be offered a % to apply to their own 401k plan. No pensions.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM (flINI)

229 "The last thing I'm going to do is take a free tri-tip sandwich from a right-wing extremist group," said one resident
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Starve, bitch

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM (2I6ca)

230 Frodo was arguably the most government-adjacent hero in decades. Probably the most conservative and Christian-conservative, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM (NLNdT)

231
Starve, bitch

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM (2I6ca)

CUT. JIB. NEWSLETTER.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

232 224. Really bad Grammie. Trapped by Family who will not leave this slum of a state

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:42 AM (WY8d2)

233 It's been discussed here recently, but go ahead and name an American movie or TV show since the 80s where the hero wasn't a government employee, ex-government employee returning to his rightful place, or otherwise government-adjacent.

I'll wait.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:26 AM (NLNdT)

The Matrix? Jurassic Park? The Shawshank Redemption (maybe cheating, i bet the book was written well before the movie)?

Pulp Fiction? Goodfellas? Maybe they're more anti-heros

Lol....Toy Story?

Posted by: Moron Film Critic at July 27, 2022 08:42 AM (NCgXW)

234 227 I love the layers of dumb in “Filipinx”. It’s based on assuming the trailing O is from Spanish even though the Philippines is not even European. It’s pure cultural imperialism.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM (zm+d5)

True, but with over 400 years of Spanish influence. So much so that there are plenty of borrow-words in Tagalong.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:42 AM (ynpvh)

235 Good morning horde
Very busy

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 27, 2022 08:42 AM (3dD6s)

236 IIRC when BJ Clinton was elected he cut funding to the DoD significantly enough to cause a RIF there... something that hasn't happened in the federal government to that degree since. And I believe congress/OPM has been dicking around with the metrics for when/if a RIF is even possible.

So, yea... downsizing isn't in the cards anytime soon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2022 08:42 AM (BFigT)

237 Biden to talk to Xi on Thursday as Nanzi prepares to fly to Taiwan [FAA has to test her broomstick] that the Reds are concerned might not be a safe trip.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (yikp0)

238 But the fish stinks from the head. The entire system of government is so thoroughly corrupted that it too needs to be demolished and reconstructed.

And lest we forget, it's the educational system that created the corrupt individuals in the first place.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 27, 2022 08:40 AM (x0n13)
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This is probably true. If there's any chance of reform, though, it has to start with the destruction and purge of LE and IC functions. It might be a lost cause anyway and it's certainly academic, since that will never happen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (WWh8n)

239 NPR Health News
@NPRHealth

Fauci says the government must help fight homophobic stigmas surrounding monkeypox

Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

240 230 "The last thing I'm going to do is take a free tri-tip sandwich from a right-wing extremist group," said one resident
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Starve, bitch
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM (2I6ca)

That is an improper response. Proper response is, "Well then, Make me a tri-tip sandwich"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (ynpvh)

241 Trump's, in his speech, talked about fast tracking the ability to fire bureaucrats and eliminate agencies.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (2I6ca)

242 Really bad Grammie. Trapped by Family who will not leave this slum of a state

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:42 AM (WY8d2)

Taxes are already way high there. To add 40 percent is ridiculous. So sorry.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (45fpk)

243 We are starting to get a sense of the impact of the Pence/Ducey endorsement of Robson.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2022 08:14 AM (ey3Ve)

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Just from my vantage point in suburban Phoenix, it seems as if the GOPe has been going all out the last two weeks to drag Robson across the finish line.

Multiple door hangers, at least one text message a day begging for $5, multiple placards in the mailbox. I barely watch any television, but I seem to be inundated with ads during those brief moments, too.

Meanwhile, I get nothing related to Lake. She is either extremely confident of a win or packed it in some time ago and left the campaign on cruise control. This time next week, we'll have our answer.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (TNyrE)

244 199 This DU poster is completely confused, has reality backwards, and even other posters are trying to correct her, but her confusion is a nice dream for TX, FL and other red state Morons!"

That's funny; it's happening to a lot of leftists today. (which is why I do NOT think they are going to be in any shape to actually fight for what they think they believe) They aren't just losing some battles; they are having to face the collapse of their entire worldview, and the easy ay to spot it is when they sink into cognitive dissonance and just start spewing things that don't even make a pretense of rationality or coherence.

The few leftists I still know are mostly just dropping out completely and saying things like "I was never really interested in politics, I don't follow what's happening, I don't want to talk about it at all." Yeah these are the people who up until a year ago or so were the preachiest assholes in the world.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (r46W7)

245 Posted by: McCool

Militia comes in and offers food and shelter in a disaster, loon rants that the right wing militia is trying to politicize their misery.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (eC4Tv)

246 Let's hope it gets alot better. Worse??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (yikp0)

I know this makes me a bad person (and I don't care), but I want Germany to be cold and dark this winter.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (XIJ/X)

247 226 208. Newsome would get detroyed in the Rust belt. Non starter
Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM

I thought that about Biden.

Posted by: Grimmy at July 27, 2022 08:44 AM (NCgXW)

248 Costner in Field of Dreams. Facing eviction from the big gubmint bank.

Soldiers in Platoon were no gubmint patsies

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:44 AM (WY8d2)

249 MegaMillions up to one beeeellion dollars.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at July 27, 2022 08:44 AM (qpX6U)

250 207

Climate change, like the China virus, is the new religion of scientism: G-d is dead; science sans facts lives. (Brownstone.org)

Posted by: Ziba at July 27, 2022 08:44 AM (4h9M3)

251 The last thing I'm going to do is take a free tri-tip sandwich from a right-wing extremist group," said one resident
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Starve, bitch
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM (2I6ca)
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Endorsed. Newsletter. Etc.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:44 AM (WWh8n)

252 No Biden was born in Scranton

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:44 AM (WY8d2)

253 @NPRHealth

Fauci says the government must help fight homophobic stigmas surrounding monkeypox
Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

Yeah, that's reasonably far away from the government's actual job.

Thanks, but no thanks. Government is NOT in the business of controlling what I THINK, you fucking maggot.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

254 238 Biden to talk to Xi on Thursday as Nanzi prepares to fly to Taiwan [FAA has to test her broomstick] that the Reds are concerned might not be a safe trip.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (yikp0)

But is Xi's pronouns she or he?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:45 AM (ynpvh)

255 Intersectionality, that's how. In this case, race trumps sexual orientation, and the pressure to protect a young black athlete (three black athletes, actually) from the horrible racism of the American criminal justice system takes precedence.

napoleon and mr. pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 08:45 AM (ex2Cx)

256 All Federal employees should be required to wear tri-corn hats for all days billed for.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 08:45 AM (KMmDq)

257 I don't think superhero movies count, and the Matrix is definitely a superhero movie. I don't remember Shawshank or Jurrasic well enough to say, but I'd be shocked if there's not some tie-in with both.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:45 AM (NLNdT)

258 this close (I'm holding my thumb and forefinger a pubic hair from a Coke can's breadth apart)

Assuming you mean the main diameter of a Coke can (2.60 inches), and not the diameter of the narrower top (2.13 inches), and using 0.010 inches for the universal RCH engineering standard, this measurement equals 2.59 inches, remarkably precise for a former denizen of Twenty-First Century New York City.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 27, 2022 08:45 AM (a3Q+t)

259 It's been discussed here recently, but go ahead and name an American movie or TV show since the 80s where the hero wasn't a government employee, ex-government employee returning to his rightful place, or otherwise government-adjacent.

I'll wait.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:26 AM (NLNdT)

Firefly. Person of Interest.

Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2022 08:46 AM (6TxNR)

260 But is Xi's pronouns she or he?
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They are Emperor and Cooley.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 08:46 AM (KMmDq)

261 240 NPR Health News
@NPRHealth

Fauci says the government must help fight homophobic stigmas surrounding monkeypox

Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

Easy. Have those population engaging in the riskiest activities tamp down their risky activities. What? Can't do that as that's homophobic?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:46 AM (ynpvh)

262 Uh.....ex-government employees being AWOL Military......
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

yeah, but were they actually trying to return to their rightful place? i mean it's a bit fuzzy really other than "these "bad guys" aren't bad, but the govt is going after them anyway..."

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 08:46 AM (p03vF)

263 @NPRHealth

Fauci says the government must help fight homophobic stigmas surrounding monkeypox

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Step 1: Get gays to stop transmitting the a gay disease to infants and toddlers in a way that is mysteriously not being discussed for mysterious reasons

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:47 AM (NLNdT)

264 > Newsome would get detroyed in the Rust belt. Non starter
Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM

I thought that about Biden.

Posted by: Grimmy

I thought that about 0bama

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 08:47 AM (geLO8)

265 244. GOPe tried to pull Richard Irvin over the line in IL, with about 100 million. He came in 3rd .

Lake does have a big mouth. I support her, but sometimes you have to win first, then enact your agenda

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:47 AM (WY8d2)

266
yeah, but were they actually trying to return to their rightful place? i mean it's a bit fuzzy really other than "these "bad guys" aren't bad, but the govt is going after them anyway..."
Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 08:46 AM (p03vF)

Well, they were "on a mission to clear their names after being falsely convicted of crimes they didn't commit, while taking on missions to assist the oppressed along the way."

Meaning, they wanted their rightful positions as special forces in the military back.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

267 260 It's been discussed here recently, but go ahead and name an American movie or TV show since the 80s where the hero wasn't a government employee, ex-government employee returning to his rightful place, or otherwise government-adjacent.

I'll wait.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:26 AM (NLNdT)

Firefly. Person of Interest.
Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2022 08:46 AM (6TxNR)

Hero (save the cheerleader, save the world)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Veronica Mars

Posted by: Nova local at July 27, 2022 08:48 AM (exHjb)

268 They are renaming the Asian Murder Hornet because that name is of course.... racist.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 27, 2022 08:48 AM (sRUs0)

269 269 They are renaming the Asian Murder Hornet because that name is of course.... racist.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 27, 2022 08:48 AM (sRUs0)

So it will now be called the Asian Hornet of Love?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:49 AM (ynpvh)

270 Climate change, like the China virus, is the new religion of scientism: G-d is dead; science sans facts lives. (Brownstone.org)
Posted by: Ziba at July 27, 2022 08:44 AM (4h9M3)
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Science is dead. The scientific method no longer applies in the field, so the field is no longer rightly called "science." The entire premise behind the whole scheme that used to be called "science" is falsification. You attempt to falsify, not to confirm. You predict and then test and look for unexpected outcomes, then reassess.

Yet falsification is dead and has been for a while. Question the data on climate? Why, that's non-scientific. Write a paper about how you failed to confirm findings in a major paper in medicine, and question the original conclusion? Why, that's non-scientific. Draw different conclusions on public health matters than the experts drew? Why, that's non-scientific.

"Science" isn't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:49 AM (WWh8n)

271 "You will not see this in the US media, but Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa with 217 million people (and growing over 2.5% a year), is devolving toward chaos."

Nigeria needs a 21st Century Shaka Zulu.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 08:50 AM (r46W7)

272 Explorers claim they've found the wreckage of WW2 USN destroyer USS Samuel B. Roberts near the Philippines.

https://tinyurl.com/bdzjv29w

This is from a month ago so I don't know why it's being reported here now but I thought I'd include it anyway even though it wasn't the new find I had thought it was.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 08:50 AM (yikp0)

273 Newsome would get detroyed in the Rust belt. Non starter
Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM
I thought that about Biden.
Posted by: Grimmy
I thought that about 0bama
Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 08:47 AM (geLO

********
The wine moms think he's dreamy.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2022 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

274 Germany: BASF will be slashing ammonia production bc the price of natural gas is so high

https://tinyurl.com/2cxabo9s

Posted by: McCool at July 27, 2022 08:50 AM (BqBIh)

275 Firefly. Person of Interest.
Posted by: blaster

*

Firefly was government adjacent, wasn't he? One of the good guys and all that. They were anti-heroes, but I sort of remember him being a soldier.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:50 AM (NLNdT)

276 $5 gas, rising property taxes, $50 for a simple oil change. Now i need to worry about monkey pox? F that

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:50 AM (WY8d2)

277 Got into a twitter fight yesterday and it was literally the dumbest thing I’ve ever been involved with. I should have known better.

Posted by: sinalco at July 27, 2022 08:51 AM (zADsQ)

278 >Science is dead. The scientific method no longer applies in the field, so the field is no longer rightly called "science."

it's been replaced by Pscience!™

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 08:51 AM (geLO8)

279 Germany: BASF will be slashing ammonia production bc the price of natural gas is so high

https://tinyurl.com/2cxabo9s
Posted by: McCool at July 27, 2022 08:50 AM (BqBIh)

I certainly hope the world is learning that this whole globalization thing is worthless and leads to famine, death and total destruction.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

280 Never seen person of interest, so I can't comment on it.

I can't comment on 99% of TV and movies, frankly, but it's an interesting thing to ponder.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:51 AM (NLNdT)

281 276 Firefly. Person of Interest.
Posted by: blaster
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Firefly was government adjacent, wasn't he? One of the good guys and all that. They were anti-heroes, but I sort of remember him being a soldier.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:50 AM (NLNdT)

He was on the losing side of a war against a repressive government, one that released a virus on an unsuspecting planet with the unintended consequence of creating the reapers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:51 AM (ynpvh)

282 "German government to reduce incentives for buyers of electric cars and end incentives for plugin hybrids."

When you think about it, German car-makers are majority owned by the governments of the German states, and every one of them has signed a pledge to stop making internal combustion engines within the next few years. You have to wonder about that whole incentive system.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 27, 2022 08:52 AM (x61Im)

283 277 $5 gas, rising property taxes, $50 for a simple oil change. Now i need to worry about monkey pox? F that

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:50 AM (WY8d2)

And that's how it spreads.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:52 AM (ynpvh)

284 Never seen person of interest, so I can't comment on it.

It's a good show, with Jim Caviezal (sp)

Posted by: grammie winger at July 27, 2022 08:52 AM (45fpk)

285 258 I don't think superhero movies count, and the Matrix is definitely a superhero movie. I don't remember Shawshank or Jurrasic well enough to say, but I'd be shocked if there's not some tie-in with both.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:45 AM

Jurassic Park is great for this case. The true protagonists are the two paleontologists at the beginning of the movie. It's made clear they are funded privately, by the billionaire making Jurassic Park. The government was bought off early by him, and he was given the island to do whatever he wanted.

The only pressing issues are wrongful death insurance claims (private) and corporate espionage (private). Oh, and rampaging dinosaurs and the hubris of man (this is at least government adjacent, but a villain).

Posted by: Grimmy at July 27, 2022 08:52 AM (NCgXW)

286 49 I thought WI pulled the cheese right out of the ground.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 07:58 AM (eC4Tv)
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Don't be silly, cheeses grow on trees, just as pasta like spaghetti, linguine, etc. Don't you know Marco Polo brought back pasta seeds from China?

Posted by: Ciampino - what fruit trees give Bolognese? at July 27, 2022 08:52 AM (qfLjt)

287 Got into a twitter fight yesterday and it was literally the dumbest thing I’ve ever been involved with. I should have known better.
Posted by: sinalco at July 27, 2022 08:51 AM (zADsQ)

Same shit happens here, TBH.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

288 279 >Science is dead. The scientific method no longer applies in the field, so the field is no longer rightly called "science."

it's been replaced by Pscience!™

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 08:51 AM (geLO

Psaki Psupports Pscience!™

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:53 AM (ynpvh)

289 Newsome will not run, knowing it will be at least a GOP House in 2024. Parties never lose their majority in a base year.

Newsome is a megalomaniac. He wants sweeping legislation

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:53 AM (WY8d2)

290
"I am a woman wearing a blue dress."

Posted by: Stuff Kamala Harris, Super Genius, Said, Vol. 69 at July 27, 2022 08:53 AM (5NkmN)

291 @NPRHealth
Fauci says the government must help fight homophobic stigmas surrounding monkeypox
Posted by: redridinghood at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (NpAcC)
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Uh, no, it doesn't. That's not the government's mission. The public health agency's mission is to control outbreaks and provide advice to help prevent them.

So provide guidance. Recommend suspending meetings of the 38/7 Club for a while. They let their freak flags fly during COVID and shut down everything. Run 'em up the pole again. Close down bath houses and hook-up bars. Monitor social media for people hosting orgies and disrupt them. Start a wall-to-wall ad campaign recommending that those who are not in monogamous relationships quit boning down for a few weeks. Issue dire warnings about group sex.

But no, because it isn't about disease. It, like everything else, is about power and the balance of interest groups.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:53 AM (WWh8n)

292 Hero (save the cheerleader, save the world)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Veronica Mars

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I've heard of one of these before.

Superhero shows are a different thing because superhero. I had to look up Veronica Mars. Quote:

"After her best friend is murdered, and her father is removed as county Sheriff, Veronica Mars dedicates her life to cracking the toughest mysteries in the affluent town of Neptune."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:54 AM (NLNdT)

293 285 Never seen person of interest, so I can't comment on it.

It's a good show, with Jim Caviezal (sp)
Posted by: grammie winger at July 27, 2022 08:52 AM (45fpk)

Wife and I were watching it until Netflix pulled the plug on it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:54 AM (ynpvh)

294 291
"I am a woman wearing a blue dress."

Bill Clinton: "Go on." heavy breathing "Tell me more."

Posted by: NR Pax at July 27, 2022 08:54 AM (4olE8)

295 Firefly was government adjacent, wasn't he? One of the good guys and all that. They were anti-heroes, but I sort of remember him being a soldier.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:50 AM (NLNdT)

He was very much against the government, and that was the point of the whole series. The government were the bad guys - Mal and crew just wanted to be left alone.

If former soldiers is the measure, heck, I'm government adjacent now.

Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2022 08:54 AM (6TxNR)

296 Let's see how the Biden administration is doing on FDR's second bill of rights checklist:
1.The right to a useful and remunerative job - Workforce participation rate anemic at barely 50%
2. The right to earn enough to provide adequate food, clothing, recreation; cost of groceries outpacing mandatory minimum wage
3. The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products- costs of fertilizer and diesel hammering family farms
4. The right of every businessman to trade free from unfair competition and domination by monopolies- Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Pfizer etc. in bed with govt
5. The right of every family to a decent home- tent cities everywhere
6. The right of adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health- mandatory experimental vaccines
7. The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accidents - threatening IRAs, looming social credit scores
8. The right to a good education- CRT and grooming and masks

Yeah, it's a bullshit concept, but it's like the Dems aren't even trying

Posted by: Muldoon at July 27, 2022 08:54 AM (kXYt5)

297 291
"I am a woman wearing a blue dress."
Posted by: Stuff Kamala Harris, Super Genius, Said
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I thought that was Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 08:54 AM (KMmDq)

298
So provide guidance. Recommend suspending meetings of the 38/7 Club for a while. They let their freak flags fly during COVID and shut down everything. Run 'em up the pole again. Close down bath houses and hook-up bars. Monitor social media for people hosting orgies and disrupt them. Start a wall-to-wall ad campaign recommending that those who are not in monogamous relationships quit boning down for a few weeks. Issue dire warnings about group sex.

But no, because it isn't about disease. It, like everything else, is about power and the balance of interest groups.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:53 AM (WWh8n)

So, you're saying they need to create their own "don't say gay" bill?

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

299 The dems new religion is very harsh. There is something wrong with a religion that has no realistic path to salvation and no avenue for redemption. It's a wonder people would want to follow such a destructive doctrine.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 08:55 AM (flINI)

300 Excuse me, but why the hell is Pelosi going to Taiwan??

Posted by: jewells45 at July 27, 2022 08:55 AM (nxdel)

301 He was on the losing side of a war against a repressive government, one that released a virus on an unsuspecting planet with the unintended consequence of creating the reapers.

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Yep. Good guy soldier, like I said.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:55 AM (NLNdT)

302 When is the last time a newly election Dem prez had to face a GOP House?

Not JFK, Carter, Clinton, Obama, or Biden

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:55 AM (WY8d2)

303 @292: Al-Gayeda will not tolerate any restraint of their lifestyle. And the media will portray efforts to stop the spread of monkeypox as "homophobic."

Posted by: NR Pax at July 27, 2022 08:55 AM (4olE8)

304 291
"I am a woman wearing a blue dress."

Posted by: Stuff Kamala Harris, Super Genius, Said, Vol. 69 at July 27, 2022 08:53 AM (5NkmN)

"I was the woman wearing the blue dress"--Monica Lewinsky

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (ynpvh)

305 Last month I GOT a check of nearly 21,000$

Hunter Biden is a customer ... confirmed.

Posted by: spindrift at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (h5TKJ)

306 284 277 $5 gas, rising property taxes, $50 for a simple oil change. Now i need to worry about monkey pox? F that

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:50 AM (WY8d2)

And that's how it spreads.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:52 AM

Not to worry, Comrade! Whether you care or not is not an issue! You will comply with our restrictions...that is all that matters.

(Shit...typing that, I got deja vu-vibes of Xerxes from the movie 300. Something along the lines of you can believe whatever you want, as long as you kneel to me, you will be rewarded)

Posted by: Helpful Government Commissar at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (NCgXW)

307 300 The dems new religion is very harsh. There is something wrong with a religion that has no realistic path to salvation and no avenue for redemption. It's a wonder people would want to follow such a destructive doctrine.

some people live for cruelty and vengeance

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (w0NJk)

308 yeah, but were they actually trying to return to their rightful place? i mean it's a bit fuzzy really other than "these "bad guys" aren't bad, but the govt is going after them anyway..."
Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 08:46 AM (p03vF)

Well, they were "on a mission to clear their names after being falsely convicted of crimes they didn't commit, while taking on missions to assist the oppressed along the way."

Meaning, they wanted their rightful positions as special forces in the military back.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

i always took it as, they wanted to get back into normal society, not the military.

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (p03vF)

309 By the definition, Person of Interest becomes government adjacent, too, even though the government is the bad guy, and the good guys are working against it.

Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (6TxNR)

310 Daryl is Walking Dead

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (WY8d2)

311 301 Excuse me, but why the hell is Pelosi going to Taiwan??

China offered her a good deal on real estate if they take over.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (4olE8)

312
"I am a woman wearing a blue dress."

Posted by: Stuff Kamala Harris, Super Genius, Said, Vol. 69 at July 27, 2022 08:53 AM

I am a man wondering how things got so fvcked up that you're a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (DbcOd)

313 >>"I am a woman wearing a blue dress."
Posted by: Stuff Kamala Harris, Super Genius, Said

so, she's the devil then
I KNEW IT

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (geLO8)

314 Excuse me, but why the hell is Pelosi going to Taiwan??
Posted by: jewells45 at July 27, 2022 08:55 AM (nxdel)

Have you SEEN the liquor bill for her flights? She's thirsty and needs to tie one on.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

315 301 Excuse me, but why the hell is Pelosi going to Taiwan??

Posted by: jewells45 at July 27, 2022 08:55 AM (nxdel)

Fact finding mission...to figure out which stocks to tell her husband to buy?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 08:57 AM (ynpvh)

316 If former soldiers is the measure, heck, I'm government adjacent now.

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I don't know what the measure is, and I have no problem with soldiers. Good guy soldier losing to bad guy soldier is still good guy government-adjacent resisting bad guys, though.

I'm just pointing out that there's a lot of funny coincidences in TV and movies.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 08:57 AM (NLNdT)

317 Was Frodo a govt employee? He was working for the various kings so maybe.
Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2022 08:38 AM (MxEKc)
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Frodo did have family connections to the Shire government as he was a cousin of some kind to both Merriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took. The Brandybucks governed "Buckland" and the Tooks had a "Thain" which was basically the lord of the Shire.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:57 AM (K5n5d)

318 "I am a woman wearing a blue dress."

Posted by: Stuff Kamala Harris, Super Genius, Said, Vol. 69 at July 27, 2022 08:53 AM

https://youtu.be/xXy7qYAKrfc

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

319 The Fugitive

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:57 AM (WY8d2)

320 Home fuel supplier has a deal for homeowners:

calculate how many gallons you'll need Sept.-April, get it for a mere $4.49/gal. But the total must be paid up front. A 275 gal tank would cost $1234.75 to fill. Six fill ups would run $7,408.50 due in August Or pay in installments by adding ten cents to the gallon.

Or pay at time of fill up by signing on to the price protection plan: calculate total # of gallons you'll purchase and buy the plan at $ .50/gal. You'll still only pay $4.49 at fill up!

WTF.

Posted by: Ziba at July 27, 2022 08:57 AM (4h9M3)

321 300 The dems new religion is very harsh. There is something wrong with a religion that has no realistic path to salvation and no avenue for redemption. It's a wonder people would want to follow such a destructive doctrine.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 08:55 AM (flINI)

A fair amount of it is social status seeking. Many adherents would not be if there was some other dominant belief system in academia.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 08:57 AM (b2nrj)

322 Mommala was wearing a blue suit.

She doesn't wear dresses.

Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2022 08:58 AM (6TxNR)

323 >> Excuse me, but why the hell is Pelosi going to Taiwan??

Posted by: jewells45

to tell the Taiwanese that when war with China comes, just lie back and think pleasant thoughts

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 08:58 AM (geLO8)

324 "The entire LE and IC complex needs to be torn down and replaced. All LE and IC functions are stripped from every extant agency, and all of their staff fired."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

It's like talking about the flat tax or the dissolution of various federal departments, it's kinda our political fantasy porn. It's never going to happen. One reason, the GOP would never let it happen. At least the Democrats throws a bone to their voters every once and a while by expanding government control, the GOP enjoys working against their voters.
But vote harder!

Posted by: lowandslow at July 27, 2022 08:58 AM (qH6FZ)

325 You know how everywhere you go, work, restaurant, hotels, there are always people trying to charge their cell phones in desperate attempt to keep their phone working? Now apply that to tens millions of cars with large, heavy charging cables everywhere you go. I'm looking forward to that.

Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2022 08:58 AM (MxEKc)

326 Explorers claim they've found the wreckage of WW2 USN destroyer USS Samuel B. Roberts

That ship cannot be raised. Brass balls weigh too much.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 27, 2022 08:58 AM (x61Im)

327 some people live for cruelty and vengeance
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (w0NJk)

***

ace is a democrat?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 08:58 AM (flINI)

328 By the definition, Person of Interest becomes government adjacent, too, even though the government is the bad guy, and the good guys are working against it.
Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (6TxNR)
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Reese and Shaw were both former government operatives...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:58 AM (K5n5d)

329 318 Was Frodo a govt employee? He was working for the various kings so maybe.
Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2022 08:38 AM (MxEKc)
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Frodo did have family connections to the Shire government as he was a cousin of some kind to both Merriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took. The Brandybucks governed "Buckland" and the Tooks had a "Thain" which was basically the lord of the Shire.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:57 AM (K5n5d)

If distant kin relationships count, that's nearly everyone.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 08:59 AM (b2nrj)

330 >>> Fauci says the government must
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Remember that scene where the Nazi stick a garden hose up the prisoners butt?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 08:59 AM (2I6ca)

331 290 Newsome will not run, knowing it will be at least a GOP House in 2024. Parties never lose their majority in a base year.

Newsome is a megalomaniac. He wants sweeping legislation
Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 08:53 AM (WY8d2)

This is assuming that Newsom has some control over his political "choices". I think that if he is told to run by his owners, he will run.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 09:00 AM (r46W7)

332
i always took it as, they wanted to get back into normal society, not the military.
Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (p03vF)

Actually, show opening doesn't say anything either way. They've been underground for 10 years after escaping. That's it.

We're wrong. We're right. It's whatever we want it to be. YAY TEAM!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

333 I know this makes me a bad person (and I don't care), but I want Germany to be cold and dark this winter.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (XIJ/X)
===

You're a person who doesn't object to the natural consequences of stupid policies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2022 09:00 AM (dzJhQ)

334 High Noon

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 09:00 AM (WY8d2)

335 328 some people live for cruelty and vengeance
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 27, 2022 08:56 AM (w0NJk)
***
ace is a democrat?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 08:58 AM (flINI)

I think that statement is non-denominational

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:00 AM (ynpvh)

336 I've never noticed how similar the A-Team and Firefly is before now. That's pretty neat.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 09:00 AM (KtV/v)

337 Pelosi is going to Taiwan to scare the Chinese.
Shouldn't be difficult, just look at her.

Posted by: Ziba at July 27, 2022 09:00 AM (4h9M3)

338 Newsome is a megalomaniac. He wants sweeping legislation
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True. How else can he bail California out? Dittos NY and Illinois.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 09:01 AM (KMmDq)

339 ace is a democrat?

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Ewoke

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 09:01 AM (KtV/v)

340 247 Let's hope it gets alot better. Worse??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (yikp0)

I know this makes me a bad person (and I don't care), but I want Germany to be cold and dark this winter.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (XIJ/X)

Europeans don't learn without touching the hot stove. They don't usually learn with it either, but sometimes.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:01 AM (b2nrj)

341 Intrepid journalist, Chris Cuomo, is going to school you on how to pump iron, pump mish, and break the news cycle.

Pay attention, you're about to be taken to the big board.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 27, 2022 09:01 AM (0ocXn)

342 I heard that we are in for a cooling period of of about 230 years or so starting in 2024.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 08:36 AM (ex2Cx)

Ice Age! Give up your cars! Eat bugs!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 09:01 AM (1Z8zZ)

343 Now I'm hearing the opening riff of the A-Team theme in my head

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 09:01 AM (geLO8)

344 334. Nah. German Gubmint does not care if the bratwurst is cold. Only gay rights and climate change matter

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 09:01 AM (WY8d2)

345 Home fuel supplier has a deal for homeowners:

calculate how many gallons you'll need Sept.-April, get it for a mere $4.49/gal. But the total must be paid up front. A 275 gal tank would cost $1234.75 to fill. Six fill ups would run $7,408.50 due in August Or pay in installments by adding ten cents to the gallon.

Or pay at time of fill up by signing on to the price protection plan: calculate total # of gallons you'll purchase and buy the plan at $ .50/gal. You'll still only pay $4.49 at fill up!

WTF.
Posted by: Ziba at July 27, 2022 08:57 AM (4h9M3)

This sounds like the water bill in the city of Chitcago, honestly.

You pay in advance for the "anticipated water usage" and if you don't exceed or reach that amount, they'll reimburse you.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

346 334 I know this makes me a bad person (and I don't care), but I want Germany to be cold and dark this winter.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (XIJ/X)
===

You're a person who doesn't object to the natural consequences of stupid policies.
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My guess is Putin will play Father Christmas and send them some gas for the holidays.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 09:02 AM (KMmDq)

347 Ahhh, the power of suggestion! Um, am I the only one here who’ll be buying some tri tip and rolls this week?

All your tri tip are belong to us.

Posted by: RondinellaMamma Donald Trump is our duly elected president. at July 27, 2022 09:02 AM (l0Cy4)

348 330 318 Was Frodo a govt employee? He was working for the various kings so maybe.
Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2022 08:38 AM (MxEKc)
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Frodo did have family connections to the Shire government as he was a cousin of some kind to both Merriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took. The Brandybucks governed "Buckland" and the Tooks had a "Thain" which was basically the lord of the Shire.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:57 AM (K5n5d)

If distant kin relationships count, that's nearly everyone. Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 08:59 AM (b2nrj)

Like six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon.
I mean, I'm couple of hops from Hollywood by family.
I have an ancestor that was a local politician in his state.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:02 AM (ynpvh)

349 Big picture - government employees of various stripes become the focus of films, etc., happened when Government finally and completely took over the role as Total Authority and Final Arbiter in Everything, Everywhere, Always, No Exceptions. There's no point in having a hero win a big fight when some puny desk jockey can stroll in after it's all over and say "nope we award the win to someone else."

If you recall the original "Incredibles" plays with this idea throughout, which is what made it such a good script.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 09:03 AM (r46W7)

350 NY city is now the epicenter of monkey pox, just like it was epicenter of AIDS explosion way back in the 80's.

Posted by: runner at July 27, 2022 09:03 AM (3PcYn)

351 280
I certainly hope the world is learning that this whole globalization thing is worthless and leads to famine, death and total destruction.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 08:51 AM

That's a little unfair...a lot of globalization has been very good for humanity, if you just mean increased trade, shipping, specialization in production, etc. It's kind of delicately balanced, but incredibly efficient, and has led to thr fastest growth in global wealth in history.

The problem is when governments and rich, powerful assholes start artificially manipulating demand and requirements. "Let's force everyone to use electric cars, renewable energy production, give up ALL domestic production of critical products, allow unchecked mass migration", etc.

Posted by: Not Financial Advice at July 27, 2022 09:03 AM (NCgXW)

352 The Fugitive

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Iirc that's the one with Tommy Lee Jones, and I think he's very much also playing a hero in that. I don't doubt for a moment there were PR connections established for that role.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 09:03 AM (KtV/v)

353
Instead of Big Dick Energy-

With Kamala Harris and Monica Lewinsky, it's

Blue Dress Synergy!

It's a funny, old world, ain't it?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2022 09:03 AM (5NkmN)

354 One hero in film who I think has an admirable and healthy view of government is the Outlaw Josey Wales.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 09:04 AM (r46W7)

355 338 Pelosi is going to Taiwan to scare the Chinese.
Shouldn't be difficult, just look at her.

Posted by: Ziba at July 27, 2022 09:00 AM (4h9M3)

She hopes Xi likes large boobs.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:04 AM (ynpvh)

356 Ghostbusters?

Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2022 09:04 AM (6TxNR)

357 I've never noticed how similar the A-Team and Firefly is before now. That's pretty neat.
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I pity the fool not in my bunk!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:04 AM (yikp0)

358 Frodo did have family connections to the Shire government as he was a cousin of some kind to both Merriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took. The Brandybucks governed "Buckland" and the Tooks had a "Thain" which was basically the lord of the Shire.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 08:57 AM (K5n5d)

If distant kin relationships count, that's nearly everyone.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 08:59 AM (b2nrj)
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Each of the Farthings in the Shire had a dominant family, more or less. Not really a government, per se, though they had administrative roles within their society. The Baggins (Frodo's family) was most influential in the North Farthing, the Brandybucks in the East Farthing, and the Tooks in the South Farthing, and I forget who was the Mayor of the West Farthing. By a loose definition, Frodo would have been a sort of quasi-ambassador of the Shire to the Elves, if nothing else.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 09:04 AM (K5n5d)

359 Your earworm for the day
https://tinyurl.com/ybwm8e5c

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 09:04 AM (geLO8)

360 I never watched The A Team when it was on. They play it every day at 5 and I tune in to see the Hot Chick of the episode.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 27, 2022 09:04 AM (sRUs0)

361 GDP report and rate rise today? Welcome back to 1935

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 09:05 AM (WY8d2)

362 345 334. Nah. German Gubmint does not care if the bratwurst is cold. Only gay rights and climate change matter

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 09:01 AM (WY8d2)

gay bratwurst? Uh, no thanks.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:05 AM (ynpvh)

363 Did anyone see the Biden rant on Bloody J6 and Trump not doing a thing speech? Now they are all about the Cops. Pivot is their middle name.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 09:05 AM (KMmDq)

364 335 High Noon
Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 09:00 AM

Is that post 80s? Does make me think "Unforgiven", though, which should count.

Posted by: Moron Movie Critic at July 27, 2022 09:06 AM (NCgXW)

365 Mmm. Kevin bacon.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:06 AM (yikp0)

366 This is what I meant when I said I was "rootin' for Putin."

If he is an enemy of the Global Reset, for the time being, he is an ally. At least in that struggle.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

BINGO. Well said, JJ. Last I checked, Putin wasn't calling me a deplorable who would make the world better by dying.
Posted by: Skeptical Schnauzer at July 27, 2022 08:40 AM (h+7ej)

He's been pretty vocal about his opposition to the NWO and the ghey agenda. For some reason the media doesn't mention that much.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 09:06 AM (1Z8zZ)

367 Love this quote:
"Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination."

Andrew Lang

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 27, 2022 09:06 AM (Y5qcH)

368 355. nice one Tom. Evil guy in that flick was the Union US senator

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 09:06 AM (WY8d2)

369 347 334 I know this makes me a bad person (and I don't care), but I want Germany to be cold and dark this winter.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM (XIJ/X)
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You're a person who doesn't object to the natural consequences of stupid policies.
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My guess is Putin will play Father Christmas and send them some gas for the holidays.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 09:02 AM (KMmDq)

Quid Pro Quo. Germany gets the gas, Putin gets something in return.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:06 AM (ynpvh)

370 351 NY city is now the epicenter of monkey pox, just like it was epicenter of AIDS explosion way back in the 80's.
Posted by: runner at July 27, 2022 09:03 AM (3PcYn)

and wasn't some political type (mayor maybe?) recently advertising in Florida saying "Hey gays come back! You'll like NYC much much better than nasty old Florida!" I wish the entire city of NYC would get covered in monkeypox. Not just the people in it, the city itself.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 09:06 AM (r46W7)

371 NY city is now the epicenter of monkey pox, just like it was epicenter of AIDS explosion way back in the 80's.

15 days to flatten the perv !

Posted by: McCool at July 27, 2022 09:07 AM (BqBIh)

372 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 09:07 AM (KMmDq)

373 361 I never watched The A Team when it was on. They play it every day at 5 and I tune in to see the Hot Chick of the episode.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 27, 2022 09:04 AM (sRUs0)

My Mom wouldn't let me watch A-Team. She thought it was too violent.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 27, 2022 09:07 AM (Y5qcH)

374 351 NY city is now the epicenter of monkey pox, just like it was epicenter of AIDS explosion way back in the 80's.

Posted by: runner at July 27, 2022 09:03 AM (3PcYn)

In the Stonewall area, by any chance?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:07 AM (ynpvh)

375 Politicians and diapers needs to be changed regularly ... for the same reason.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 09:07 AM (flINI)

376 342 Intrepid journalist, Chris Cuomo, is going to school you on how to pump iron, pump mish, and break the news cycle.

Pay attention, you're about to be taken to the big board.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 27, 2022 09:01 AM

Lol...when I first read that, I thought it was a (joking) threat from Cuomo to me. I was amused and confused.

I'm up for those "pumping mish" classes, though, if you think they'll help.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at July 27, 2022 09:07 AM (NCgXW)

377 My bad on High Noon, same with fugitive. Before the 1980's

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 09:08 AM (WY8d2)

378 My guess is Putin will play Father Christmas and send them some gas for the holidays.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 09:02 AM (KMmDq)
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Or he's going to play Saint Nick's Evil Twin, Krampus, and cut them off completely...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 09:08 AM (K5n5d)

379 Newsom will run and the media will go gaga over him.
Ugh.

The phrase "the bigger the megalomania, the greater the failure" might not apply in Newsom's case: yes, he's a failure, but people will still vote for him because white teeth and hair gel.

Posted by: Ziba at July 27, 2022 09:08 AM (4h9M3)

380 Lara Croft in Tomb Raider despised govt agents, who were pretty much evil and incompetent. Totally empowered woman.

Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2022 09:08 AM (MxEKc)

381 Ghost Ship?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 09:08 AM (KMmDq)

382 I love the layers of dumb in “Filipinx”. It’s based on assuming the trailing O is from Spanish even though the Philippines is not even European. It’s pure cultural imperialism.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 27, 2022 08:41 AM (zm+d5)

Here's their thinking:

Brown people are like children. We must teach them how to be good little cultural foot soldiers so that we can remove the people who stand in the way of our killing off as many brown people as possible.

For the planet.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 09:08 AM (1Z8zZ)

383 Chicago has the monkey pox bad. Speading thru Boys Town

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 09:08 AM (WY8d2)

384 366 Mmm. Kevin bacon.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:06 AM (yikp0)

After the eco-pocalypse: Mmm. Kevin Bacon...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:09 AM (ynpvh)

385 Once you've gone brat' you'll never be fraught!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:09 AM (yikp0)

386 I barely remember Ghostbusters but remember really liking it. I think they at least started out making the struggling small business owners point, but I don't remember their background or the ending beyond saving the city from marshmallow man.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 09:09 AM (KtV/v)

387
The problem is when governments and rich, powerful assholes start artificially manipulating demand and requirements. "Let's force everyone to use electric cars, renewable energy production, give up ALL domestic production of critical products, allow unchecked mass migration", etc.
Posted by: Not Financial Advice at July 27, 2022 09:03 AM (NCgXW)

Thanks for proving my point.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

388 375 351 NY city is now the epicenter of monkey pox, just like it was epicenter of AIDS explosion way back in the 80's.

Posted by: runner at July 27, 2022 09:03 AM (3PcYn)

In the Stonewall area, by any chance?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:07 AM

Look, you guys keep your homophobic jokes going, but it's getting people killed! NPR, when reporting on monkey pox, CLEARLY said it has spread rapidly between "men who have sex with men", because not all man on man sex is gay!

Posted by: Clueless Branch Covidian at July 27, 2022 09:10 AM (NCgXW)

389 Filipinos Blast Comic-Con for Use of Woke Term "Filipinx"

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Brunch restaurant idea. Filipinx Flapjack Flippers, fun for the whole family!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 27, 2022 09:10 AM (FVME7)

390 376 Politicians and diapers needs to be changed regularly ... for the same reason.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 09:07 AM (flINI)

Is why they should all wear masks...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:10 AM (ynpvh)

391 Gavin Nuisance is straight out of central casting for the Anti-Christ. He may win just based on the voting population

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 09:10 AM (flINI)

392 Soft Power is like a soft dick. It penetrates nothing.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 09:10 AM (KMmDq)

393 Pump Up the Volume was ant FCC at least

also a great movie!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 27, 2022 09:10 AM (w0NJk)

394 Excuse me, but why the hell is Pelosi going to Taiwan??

Posted by: jewells45 at July 27, 2022 08:55 AM (nxdel)

She's entering the Guinness World's Record Contest for "The Longest Boobs in the World".

Supposed to be the odds on favorite.

U! S! A!
U! S! A!
U! S! A!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2022 09:10 AM (5NkmN)

395 > I'm holding my thumb and forefinger a pubic hair from a Coke can's breadth apart

I got that reference, and wondered whatever happened to that Brave Heroine, Anita Hill.

She's a "Women's Studies" professor at Brandeis. Less than stellar for a Yale Law graduate and one-time rising star.

Apparently no major law firm wanted to have a snake like her as partner, which, given their notorious tolerance of snake-like behavior, says rather a lot.

She's just one in a long line of women that the Democommunist Party has used and then discarded like a Kleenex.... Monica Lewinsky, Christine Blasey-Ford, Cindy Sheehan...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:10 AM (bW8dp)

396 Ukraine is so ravaged by war, they've started having summer concerts in Mariupol again.

https://tinyurl.com/26ve4g7g

and doing Vogue photo shoots with Z and his wife

https://tinyurl.com/28xy23c4

Posted by: McCool at July 27, 2022 09:11 AM (BqBIh)

397 The left is going apeshit over trumps speech.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 09:11 AM (eC4Tv)

398 Your earworm for the day
https://tinyurl.com/ybwm8e5c
Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 09:04 AM (geLO8

I'm actually not clicking this.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

399 The Philippines was named after King Philip of Spain. So the Spanish connection is real. It's still absolutely dumb.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 27, 2022 09:11 AM (Y5qcH)

400 373. Great movie. No PC bullshit in it either.

so good, that even Pitt and Decaprio could not f it up

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 09:11 AM (WY8d2)

401 392 Gavin Nuisance is straight out of central casting for the Anti-Christ. He may win just based on the voting population
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He reminds me of Warren Beatty - autistic mannequin.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 09:12 AM (KMmDq)

402 House, MD

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:12 AM (23i+m)

403 392. Yes!!! Newsome is Damian in Omen 3

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 09:12 AM (WY8d2)

404 400 The Philippines was named after King Philip of Spain. So the Spanish connection is real. It's still absolutely dumb.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 27, 2022 09:11 AM (Y5qcH)

And the Spanish were there from the 1500's until we booted them in 1898.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:12 AM (ynpvh)

405 The left is going apeshit over trumps speech.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 09:11 AM (eC4Tv)

So, today ends in y?

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

406 After the eco-pocalypse: Mmm. Kevin Bacon...
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Start with the Vegan salad.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:12 AM (yikp0)

407 Although in fairness it's probably difficult to imagine people who aren't government adjacent any longer. I'd wager 30% of the employed country is employed by federal, state, or local government.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 27, 2022 09:12 AM (KtV/v)

408 404 392. Yes!!! Newsome is Damian in Omen 3

Posted by: Jonah at July 27, 2022 09:12 AM (WY8d2)

who's gonna shave his head looking for the 666?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:13 AM (ynpvh)

409 FDA Officials Warn Of Brain Swelling, Vision Loss In Minors Using Puberty Blockers
_____________

These drugs cause brain tumor symptoms in kids.

But yeah, let's keep pushing this shit on little kids, because "Admiral" Levine says it's what they need!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 27, 2022 09:13 AM (MvHI3)

410 >I'm actually not clicking this.

Posted by: Sponge

I love it when a musical score comes together

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 09:13 AM (geLO8)

411 Apparently no major law firm wanted to have a snake like her as partner, which, given their notorious tolerance of snake-like behavior, says rather a lot.
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She's a scorpion.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 09:13 AM (KMmDq)

412 351 NY city is now the epicenter of monkey pox, just like it was epicenter of AIDS explosion way back in the 80's.

Posted by: runner at July 27, 2022 09:03 AM (3PcYn)

And we'll all be made to pay for it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 27, 2022 09:13 AM (H8QX8)

413 387 I barely remember Ghostbusters but remember really liking it. "

Are you saying that you haven't watched it 30 times and memorized the script backwards and forwards like the rest of us?

"During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveller came as a large and moving Torb! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex Supplicants they chose a new form for him... that of a Giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day I can tell you."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 09:13 AM (r46W7)

414 Start with the Vegan salad.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:12 AM (yikp0)

***

With the toasted Crickets

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 09:13 AM (flINI)

415 87 He's quickly realized that the moo-ve is the biggest miss steak he ever made.
Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 27, 2022 07:49 AM (odVni)
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This is a crime against the English language.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2022 08:07 AM (dzJhQ)
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Udder nonsense. Never herd anyone say that before.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 27, 2022 09:14 AM (odVni)

416 The Wolf of Wall Street

Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2022 09:14 AM (6TxNR)

417 > I love the layers of dumb in “Filipinx”. It’s based on assuming the trailing O is from Spanish

Well, it kinda is. The Philippines are named after King Philip II of Spain.

It's a marker of how little of a shit the classic colonial powers gave about the locals that the Spaniards gave them a name they can't even pronounce. "F" isn't a phoneme in Tagalog... they invariably substitute it with "P" ("Pilipino"). As opposed to the modern communist definition of "colonialism", where it refers to things like, e.g. giving the Arabs billions of dollars for their oil.

That makes it immensely fun to hear a Filipino talk about a fishing license ("pissing license").

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:14 AM (bW8dp)

418 407 After the eco-pocalypse: Mmm. Kevin Bacon...
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Start with the Vegan salad.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:12 AM (yikp0)

I happen to know a few Vegans. Not enough meat on their bones. But this would be a better discussion with Cannibal Bob involved.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:14 AM (ynpvh)

419 The left is ~~going~~ continuing to go apeshit over Trump ~~trumps speech~~.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 09:11 AM (eC4Tv)-
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FIFY

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 09:14 AM (K5n5d)

420 Planned all along!

The vaccines for measles, diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough do work, but by lying about the effectiveness of the [Chinese] COVID shots, health agencies worldwide have lost their credibility. They have successfully convinced millions of parents to fear getting any vaccines, even those that really work and can prevent their children from dying.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 09:14 AM (ex2Cx)

421
I love it when a musical score comes together
Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance, at July 27, 2022 09:13 AM (geLO8 )

Yeah, I clicked it. But had already heard it since I listened to the opener to see if they were wanting their old jobs back.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

422 "Science" isn't.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 08:49 AM (WWh8n)

Well said.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 09:15 AM (1Z8zZ)

423 With the toasted Crickets
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Not Vegan but I prefer salads with crumbled Bacon.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:15 AM (yikp0)

424 410 FDA Officials Warn Of Brain Swelling, Vision Loss In Minors Using Puberty Blockers
_____________
These drugs cause brain tumor symptoms in kids.
But yeah, let's keep pushing this shit on little kids, because "Admiral" Levine says it's what they need!
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 27, 2022 09:13 AM (MvHI3)

COVID vaccine symptoms were counfounding their earlier results.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:15 AM (ynpvh)

425 Will vegans eat the bugs?

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

426 414 387 I barely remember Ghostbusters but remember really liking it. "

Are you saying that you haven't watched it 30 times and memorized the script backwards and forwards like the rest of us?

"During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveller came as a large and moving Torb! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex Supplicants they chose a new form for him... that of a Giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day I can tell you."
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 09:13 AM (r46W7)

Don't think I've ever watched the whole thing. Caught parts of it when it's been aired on tv.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:15 AM (b2nrj)

427 Firefly. Person of Interest.[/p]

Oooh, those are good ones.
In Firefly the government is explicitly the bad guy and in PoI, the government is bad guy adjacent (the bad guy being the company building Samaritan).

Posted by: GMan at July 27, 2022 09:16 AM (GfWuY)

428 My Mom wouldn't let me watch A-Team. She thought it was too violent.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

They throw a lot lead around but they never kill anyone.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 27, 2022 09:16 AM (FVME7)

429 I've been referring to "Beto" O'Rourke as "Betx" recently. I hope it catches on.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:16 AM (bW8dp)

430 "Yes, your honor, it's true. This man has no dick."

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 27, 2022 09:16 AM (UuD2k)

431
dangit

Posted by: GMan at July 27, 2022 09:16 AM (GfWuY)

432 They throw a lot lead around but they never kill anyone.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 27, 2022 09:16 AM (FVME7)

***

Just like real cops...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 09:17 AM (flINI)

433 They have successfully convinced millions of parents to fear getting any vaccines, even those that really work and can prevent their children from dying.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 09:14 AM (ex2Cx)

They don't care. 1. They have government-backed force and punishment on their side. 2. They want death.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 27, 2022 09:17 AM (H8QX8)

434 Gavin Nuisance is straight out of central casting for the Anti-Christ. He may win just based on the voting population
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 09:10 AM (flINI)
===

Ending homelessness? Check.
Screwing best friend's wife? Check.
Destroying schools and small businesses? Check.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2022 09:17 AM (dzJhQ)

435 Many locusts are kosher, as per Torah. Many a Yemenite Jew eat them.

I'd be more than happy to sprinkle some deep fried locusts on my salad.

As for the rest of you, what's not to like about worms and roaches!!!

If it's good enough for a Chinese wet market....

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 27, 2022 09:17 AM (odVni)

436 410 FDA Officials Warn Of Brain Swelling, Vision Loss In Minors Using Puberty Blockers
_____________

These drugs cause brain tumor symptoms in kids.

But yeah, let's keep pushing this shit on little kids, because "Admiral" Levine says it's what they need!
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 27, 2022 09:13 AM (MvHI3)

If it the same shit they give old men with prostate cancer it will seriously fuck you over. Poor decision making, over emotional, cannot take heat or cold.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 09:17 AM (ex2Cx)

437 Any particular reason that the Left is going apeshit over Trump's speech, or -

is this just every day, general purpose apeshittery?

Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2022 09:17 AM (5NkmN)

438
Don't think I've ever watched the whole thing. Caught parts of it when it's been aired on tv.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:15 AM (b2nrj)

HERETIC!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

439 They have successfully convinced millions of parents to fear getting any vaccines, even those that really work and can prevent their children from dying.

It doesn't help that there have been rumblings that they want to do a combined flu-coronavirus vaccine shot.

Once they start talking about combining it with other vaccinations, parents will start avoiding them ALL like the plague.

Posted by: GMan at July 27, 2022 09:18 AM (GfWuY)

440 430 I've been referring to "Beto" O'Rourke as "Betx" recently. I hope it catches on.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:16 AM (bW8dp)

You cannot spell Beatoff without Beto!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 09:18 AM (ex2Cx)

441 FBI constantly looking for those DARK “white supremacists”

Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2022 09:18 AM (RHGPo)

442 Will vegans eat the bugs?
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They also don't care about e.g. prairie dogs killed by harvester machines and the like.

Small Mammals Don't Matter.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:18 AM (yikp0)

443 438

Was it the part when Trump said "death penalty"?

Posted by: Ziba at July 27, 2022 09:18 AM (4h9M3)

444 "Where do these stairs go?"

" THEY GO UP!!"

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

445 "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith."

Hebrews 12:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at July 27, 2022 09:19 AM (VpIIl)

446 Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day I can tell you."
Posted by: Tom Servo

Was it January 6?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 27, 2022 09:19 AM (FVME7)

447 445 "Where do these stairs go?"

" THEY GO UP!!"
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)
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Maybe they lead nowhere just for show.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 27, 2022 09:19 AM (odVni)

448 442 FBI constantly looking for those DARK “white supremacists”

Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2022 09:18 AM (RHGPo)

So looking at folks with melanin? I'm confused.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:19 AM (ynpvh)

449 "Yes, your honor, it's true. This man has no dick."
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 27, 2022 09:16 AM (UuD2k)

"....because DICKLESS here decided to turn off the power grid..."

"IS THIS TRUE?!??"

"Yes, it's true. This man has no dick."

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

450 Just reported now: At least five killed in northern Philippines 7.3 magnitude earthquake.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:20 AM (yikp0)

451 Was Ghostbusters peak Sigourney?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:20 AM (23i+m)

452 They changed the name of the Asian Murder Hornet because racism.

Even though Asia is continent, it's an insect, and it came from there. I guess the left think Asians look like insects and don't' want people to think that hornets are Asians.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 27, 2022 09:20 AM (UuD2k)

453 Udder nonsense. Never herd anyone say that before.
Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 27, 2022 09:14 AM (odVni)
===
*Kirk screaming 'Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaahn!'*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2022 09:20 AM (dzJhQ)

454 Democrats are push "Climate Emergency" because they have nothing else.

Everything they have tried to turn the tide in November has flopped with the voters. So they are going to try this one to see if it works.

It has the advantage of if it does work, it mutes the downside of high energy prices.

Spoiler : its not going to work

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2022 09:20 AM (tPqvt)

455 Don't think I've ever watched the whole thing. Caught parts of it when it's been aired on tv.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:15 AM (b2nrj)

It was pretty good when it came out. Now, compared to any "comedy" made in the last 20 years or so it is absolute comedy gold, with one of the best ensemble casts ever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 09:21 AM (r46W7)

456 40 police vehicles (including a monster SWAT truck) and 60 personnel armed to the teeth like Navy Seals on a mission on my quiet country lane yesterday, to apparently capture a minor felon from the mobile home next door. They spent three hours trying to coax him out with a bullhorn. Turns out he wasn't even there. An absolutely ridiculous display of manpower and weaponry.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 27, 2022 09:21 AM (H8QX8)

457 398 The left is going apeshit over trumps speech.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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Been trying to find the text.
It's lefty explode worthy.
He also laid out the first steps of his campaign platform.
Hmmm, maybe that's why the explosions.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 09:21 AM (2I6ca)

458 > If distant kin relationships count, that's nearly everyone.

Not all that distant. Bilbo's mom was a Took, and Frodo's Mom was a Brandybuck.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:21 AM (bW8dp)

459 Was Ghostbusters peak Sigourney?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:20 AM (23i+m)

***

Her seminal work was done in Alien

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 09:21 AM (flINI)

460 454 Democrats are push "Climate Emergency" because they have nothing else.

Everything they have tried to turn the tide in November has flopped with the voters. So they are going to try this one to see if it works.

It has the advantage of if it does work, it mutes the downside of high energy prices.

Spoiler : its not going to work
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They should show us their tits. That might work.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 09:21 AM (tiR3O)

461 450 Just reported now: At least five killed in northern Philippines 7.3 magnitude earthquake.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:20 AM (yikp0)

Shallow bastard, 10km down, with vertical and horizontal displacement.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:22 AM (ynpvh)

462 "My Mom wouldn't let me watch A-Team. She thought it was too violent.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe"

They never hit anybody. Thye are worse shots than Imperial Storm Troppers.

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 09:22 AM (sn5EN)

463 troopers

Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 09:22 AM (sn5EN)

464 I saw Cyborg Rapture open for Judas Priest at King Tuts Wah Wah Hut in '85.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 27, 2022 09:23 AM (QbCrG)

465 458 > If distant kin relationships count, that's nearly everyone.

Not all that distant. Bilbo's mom was a Took, and Frodo's Mom was a Brandybuck.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:21 AM (bW8dp)

Not the entire clan is government though. So it's like saying parts of his cousin's extended family runs the local government. I think most of us probably have relatives within that range with government jobs.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:23 AM (b2nrj)

466 "Yes, your honor, it's true. This man has no dick."
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 27, 2022 09:16 AM

"Well that's what I heard!"

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2022 09:23 AM (4p7Em)

467 They never hit anybody. Thye are worse shots than Imperial Storm Troppers.
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 09:22 AM (sn5EN)

That would be a funny skit. A-Team vs. Imperial Storm Troopers.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 27, 2022 09:23 AM (UuD2k)

468 456 40 police vehicles (including a monster SWAT truck) and 60 personnel armed to the teeth like Navy Seals on a mission on my quiet country lane yesterday, to apparently capture a minor felon from the mobile home next door. They spent three hours trying to coax him out with a bullhorn. Turns out he wasn't even there. An absolutely ridiculous display of manpower and weaponry.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 27, 2022 09:21 AM (H8QX

Your tax dollars at work.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:23 AM (ynpvh)

469 40 police vehicles (including a monster SWAT truck) and 60 personnel armed to the teeth like Navy Seals on a mission on my quiet country lane yesterday, to apparently capture a minor felon from the mobile home next door. They spent three hours trying to coax him out with a bullhorn. Turns out he wasn't even there. An absolutely ridiculous display of manpower and weaponry.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 27, 2022 09:21 AM (H8QX

Church lady on the bullhorn: Never mind.

Posted by: Archer at July 27, 2022 09:23 AM (gmo/4)

470
That would be a funny skit. A-Team vs. Imperial Storm Troopers.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 27, 2022 09:23 AM (UuD2k)

Point. Blank. Range.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

471 > They should show us their tits. That might work.

Preferably AOC or Sinema, not Pelosi or Hillary.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:23 AM (bW8dp)

472
Her seminal work was done in Alien
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 09:21 AM (flINI)

She became the ultra-Milf in Galaxy Quest.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 09:23 AM (r46W7)

473 Thibault and other FBI officials sought to falsely portray as disinformation evidence acquired from multiple sources that provided the FBI derogatory information related to Hunter Biden’s financial and foreign business activities, even though some of that information had already been or could be verified.

Now do the 51 lying dickheads that said is was Russian Disinfo!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 09:24 AM (ex2Cx)

474 419 The left is ~~going continuing to go ape~~shit ~~over Trump trumps speech~~.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 27, 2022 09:11 AM (eC4Tv)-
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FIFY
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 27, 2022 09:14 AM

I think we can still tighten it up a bit.

Posted by: AoS Fake Editor at July 27, 2022 09:24 AM (NCgXW)

475 "I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something I loved from my childhood. Something that could never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Sta-Puft."

"Nice thinkin' Ray."

Posted by: GMan at July 27, 2022 09:24 AM (GfWuY)

476 > An absolutely ridiculous display of manpower and weaponry.

Reminds me of the cops in Alice's Restaurant using aerial photography to collect evidence in a littering case.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:24 AM (bW8dp)

477 467 They never hit anybody. Thye are worse shots than Imperial Storm Troppers.
Posted by: fd at July 27, 2022 09:22 AM (sn5EN)

That would be a funny skit. A-Team vs. Imperial Storm Troopers.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 27, 2022 09:23 AM (UuD2k)

Throw in some red shirts. They don't get shot, but die anyway.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:24 AM (ynpvh)

478 Was Ghostbusters peak Sigourney?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:20 AM (23i+m)

***

Her seminal work was done in Alien
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 09:21 AM (flINI)

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Too bad she didn't get her panties in a twist.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 27, 2022 09:25 AM (QbCrG)

479 "It's...looking at me...Ray."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 27, 2022 09:25 AM (4p7Em)

480 Poor decision making, over emotional, cannot take heat or cold.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 27, 2022 09:17 AM (ex2Cx)

So it works at turning you into a woman?

-ducks!-

Posted by: blaster at July 27, 2022 09:25 AM (6TxNR)

481 "Ugh....It smells like burnt dog hair....OH Venkman, I'm sooo sorry...."

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

482 > Her seminal work was done in Alien

Those skimpy panties and thin t-shirt.... yowza.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:25 AM (bW8dp)

483 40 police vehicles (including a monster SWAT truck) and 60 personnel armed to the teeth like Navy Seals on a mission on my quiet country lane yesterday, to apparently capture a minor felon from the mobile home next door. They spent three hours trying to coax him out with a bullhorn. Turns out he wasn't even there. An absolutely ridiculous display of manpower and weaponry.

Posted by: Ordinary American

If any of them were obese, and I know there were a few, you should have taking pictures.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2022 09:26 AM (44ww/)

484 472
Her seminal work was done in Alien
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 09:21 AM (flINI)

She became the ultra-Milf in Galaxy Quest.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 09:23 AM

I don't even know what sorcery was worked to go from itty-bitty-titty Ripley in her undies to maximum cleavage in Galaxy Quest.

But I approve.

Posted by: Movie Magic at July 27, 2022 09:26 AM (NCgXW)

485 I got that reference, and wondered whatever happened to that Brave Heroine, Anita Hill.

She's a "Women's Studies" professor at Brandeis. Less than stellar for a Yale Law graduate and one-time rising star.

Apparently no major law firm wanted to have a snake like her as partner, which, given their notorious tolerance of snake-like behavior, says rather a lot.
__________

It's better than she deserves.

She was so lame that even as a Yale Law grad who was a black woman, she was having trouble getting hired for a government job!

Thomas felt sorry for her and hired her at EEOC, and we know how she repaid his kindness.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 27, 2022 09:26 AM (MvHI3)

486 "Egon... your mucus."

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 27, 2022 09:26 AM (ZSK0i)

487 Kamala thinks the Dems have Disability Equity to run on. Once the candidate gets past the personal pronoun part and what they're wearing, there's nothing left to say. Perfect for the lazy candidate.

Posted by: Ziba at July 27, 2022 09:27 AM (4h9M3)

488 > I don't even know what sorcery was worked to go from itty-bitty-titty Ripley in her undies

Small, yes, but very tasty looking.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:27 AM (bW8dp)

489 Biden gave a recorded speech yesterday. They must have spliced together the footage. At first he looks sleepy and retarded, then there's a blip, and he comes back wide eyed and angry.

The definitely juiced him with something.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 27, 2022 09:27 AM (UuD2k)

490 Was Ghostbusters peak Sigourney?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 27, 2022 09:20 AM (23i+m)

Her seminal work was done in Alien
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 09:21 AM (flINI)

I'd agree with "Alien".

She was young and showed the goods about as much as you possibly can without actually showing the goods.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 27, 2022 09:27 AM (5NkmN)

491 Didja see this rectification of hate speech? The "Asian murder hornet" is now the "northern giant hornet".

New York Post@nypost
Scientists change Asian murder hornets name to avoid 'discrimination'

https://bit.ly/3J8S4Yi

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Should be the northern giant hornx.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 27, 2022 09:27 AM (FVME7)

492 Her seminal work was done in Alien

Those skimpy panties and thin t-shirt.... yowza.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:25 AM (bW8dp)

***

Her shaved head and secksie underthings did something to the 18 year old Truck Monkey... down there...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 27, 2022 09:27 AM (flINI)

493 "Listen! Do you smell that?"

Posted by: GMan at July 27, 2022 09:28 AM (GfWuY)

494 Young Sigourney Weaver in " The Year of Living Dangerously". Really attractive. She has aged very well.

Posted by: kraken at July 27, 2022 09:28 AM (Vr12I)

495 AG Garland Won’t Rule Out Charging Trump — Even If He Is 2024 Candidate

John, Find out if Robert Mueller and his Democrat henchmen are available for another two-and-a-half year Special Counsel caper! Stat!

Posted by: Gref at July 27, 2022 09:28 AM (AMIL/)

496 She's a "Women's Studies" professor at Brandeis. Less than stellar for a Yale Law graduate and one-time rising star.

Apparently no major law firm wanted to have a snake like her as partner, which, given their notorious tolerance of snake-like behavior, says rather a lot.

She's just one in a long line of women that the Democommunist Party has used and then discarded like a Kleenex.... Monica Lewinsky, Christine Blasey-Ford, Cindy Sheehan...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:10 AM (bW8dp)

Don't bite the hand that feeds you. Who would be so stupid as to do so afterwards? Women's studies departments I guess.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:28 AM (b2nrj)

497 "Trump is the same today as he was before he was elected. The very things we disdain today are the things that made him the man for our time."

Trump was removed precisely because he was term-limited and therefore could burn D.C. down and he was going to do just that using Schedule F which would re-classify federal employees.

You all rag on him for his personnel decisions; he was working on it. Consider the rats that infest the nest, Mike Pence for starters...

Posted by: Danimal28 at July 27, 2022 09:28 AM (klw0w)

498 News from the ONT:

Zod is back and cancer free
Sharkman's move went smoothly

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2022 09:29 AM (YynYJ)

499 "If you can't be tough, then at least be nice." Applies especially to fat cops, that when they wear armor look like a ham butt between two slices of bread.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2022 09:29 AM (44ww/)

500 "40 police vehicles (including a monster SWAT truck) and 60 personnel armed to the teeth like Navy Seals on a mission .."

You have to look at the target and other risks to determine what's reasonable. Sometimes you can grab a perp when they run out for smokes or a Slurpee. But that carries a risk to the public. Again, circumstantial and you have to assess those risks. If someone has expressed a penchant for violence, or is potentially armed, you go balls to the walls and bring out all your resources. Again, hard to judge but more is always better.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 27, 2022 09:29 AM (VpIIl)

501 498 News from the ONT:

Zod is back and cancer free
Sharkman's move went smoothly
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2022 09:29 AM (YynYJ)

Good things come in threes, what's the last one?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:30 AM (b2nrj)

502
I know this makes me a bad person (and I don't care), but I want Germany to be cold and dark this winter.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 27, 2022 08:43 AM

Last week, a cow-orker in Germany was complaining that it was 95 degrees in Hamburg. I told him he'll remember this fondly six months from now when he's freezing his ass off 'cause Vlad shut the pipe off

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 27, 2022 09:30 AM (ENBF0)

503 And from Doomburg, that wood the Germans are burning? It's our trees. We are turning them into wood pellets and shippng them to Germany.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2022 09:30 AM (YynYJ)

504 498 News from the ONT:

Zod is back and cancer free
Sharkman's move went smoothly
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2022 09:29 AM (YynYJ)

Meanwhile, the world is still scheduled to end tonight, women and minorities hardest hit. News at 11.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2022 09:30 AM (r46W7)

505 Nood art

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:30 AM (b2nrj)

506 497...Consider the rats that infest the nest, Mike Pence for starters...
Posted by: Danimal28 at July 27, 2022 09:28 AM

Please let him run in 2024. Please let him run in 2024....

Posted by: Wishful Thinking at July 27, 2022 09:31 AM (NCgXW)

507 503 And from Doomburg, that wood the Germans are burning? It's our trees. We are turning them into wood pellets and shippng them to Germany.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2022 09:30 AM (YynYJ)

I thought they were already chopping their own old growth forest for bird choppers...why would they need our wood?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:31 AM (ynpvh)

508 Didn't Anita Hill get a book deal?

Conservatives are bearing some of the consequences for not believing in patronage. Or maybe they have to come around to it.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2022 09:31 AM (44ww/)

509 I told him he'll remember this fondly six months from now when he's freezing his ass off 'cause Vlad shut the pipe off
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 27, 2022 09:30 AM (ENBF0)

***

The Paolo, how do you say, never shuts off the pipe

Posted by: The Paolo at July 27, 2022 09:31 AM (flINI)

510 505 Nood art

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 27, 2022 09:30 AM (b2nrj)

non-nude NOOD art...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2022 09:32 AM (ynpvh)

511 > News from the ONT:

Zod is back and cancer free
Sharkman's move went smoothly
_____________

Probably the best news of the day

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 27, 2022 09:32 AM (BFigT)

512 Time to invest in pellet stove manufacturing stock then.

Posted by: Ziba at July 27, 2022 09:32 AM (4h9M3)

513 I'm just gonna stay here until the art thread reaches 100.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2022 09:33 AM (44ww/)

514 One of the FBI agents mentioned in the Grassley letter, Timothy Thibault, Agent in Charge - Washington Field Office at Federal Bureau of Investigation, has already been cited as posting very partisan postings on social media, where he cites that he is FBI.

He is on LinkedIn .. just Google "Timothy Thibault FBI"

Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2022 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

515 A local oldies TV station here aired a viewer discretion "social justice warning" before a Hawaii Five-O episode that I believe was due to the cops describing Red Chinese spy suspects as "Orientals" instead of today's "Asian"!

Episode description here:
https://tinyurl.com/28femc35

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 27, 2022 09:33 AM (yikp0)

516 News from the ONT:

Zod is back and cancer free
Sharkman's move went smoothly
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2022 09:29 AM (YynYJ

this is GREAT news.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 27, 2022 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

517 The executive branch has 2 million army and 2 million bureaucracy. Firing 50K is fucking weak.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2022 09:34 AM (44ww/)

518 News from the ONT:

Zod is back and cancer free
Sharkman's move went smoothly
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 27, 2022 09:29 AM (YynYJ)
++++
Excellent! Thank you for the update.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 27, 2022 09:34 AM (WWh8n)

519 > Those skimpy panties and thin t-shirt.... yowza.

Here we go:

https://tinyurl.com/5a3yyu78

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:35 AM (bW8dp)

520 > Zod is back and cancer free
Sharkman's move went smoothly

Excellent.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 27, 2022 09:35 AM (bW8dp)

521 Comic-Con Mocked for Using Gender Neutral ‘Filipinx’ to Refer to Filipino People

Posted by: SMOD at July 27, 2022 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

522 Anita Hill is stupid. After the Thomas affair she was hired at a (memory fails) college in OK with a nice title and responsibility, she didn't last a year, drifted to CA for another failure.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 09:36 AM (2I6ca)

523 Speaking of women, it appears that England has real, feminine women leading their soccer team. As opposed to commie dyke who shall not be named.

England's top soccer woman is ... a woman
pic - https://bit.ly/3ox0rDw

Alessia Russo kicks in winning goal over Sweden with her heel.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2022 09:40 AM (2I6ca)

524 Anita Hill got a $1 Million book deal in 1991. That isn't dumb. I wonder if I check in on Blasey Ford if she upgraded from that house she was subletting.

You either *reward your friends, *punish your enemies, or *get crapped on. Those are the choices.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 27, 2022 09:44 AM (44ww/)

525 522 Anita Hill is stupid.
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Yep.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 27, 2022 09:51 AM (tiR3O)

526 She was young and showed the goods

Susan "Sigourney" Weaver was a Hollywood-ancient 30 when Alien was made. Almost missed her window.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 27, 2022 10:08 AM (x61Im)

527 Anyone who put a fingerprint on Crossfire Hurricane will be reassigned to ... bank robberies in Alberquerque. Dramatically reduce the Bureau's size and more importantly it's scope. Same goes for the DoJ and the EPA.
Posted by: SMFH at July 27, 2022 08:30 AM (CEh/e)

Point Barrow, AK

Or some of those small towns that have withered since the fighter alert base was closed.

Posted by: Fox2! at July 27, 2022 10:20 AM (ueLz3)

528 Home fuel supplier has a deal for homeowners:

calculate how many gallons you'll need Sept.-April, get it for a mere $4.49/gal. But the total must be paid up front. A 275 gal tank would cost $1234.75 to fill. Six fill ups would run $7,408.50 due in August Or pay in installments by adding ten cents to the gallon.

Or pay at time of fill up by signing on to the price protection plan: calculate total # of gallons you'll purchase and buy the plan at $ .50/gal. You'll still only pay $4.49 at fill up!

WTF.
Posted by: Ziba at July 27, 2022 08:57 AM (4h9M3)

My fuel oil supplier here in Central Jersey is at 4.29 a gallon as of this morning. 150 gallon minimum, COD. I may wait another week or so and get 150 gallons, or, bite the bullet and get the 275 gallon tank filled. Am on 1/8 right now. Usually we can run on 300 gallons a season. Three bedroom ranch with full basement. Very well insulated.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at July 27, 2022 10:21 AM (Zvtjl)

529 Could you give us weekly updates on your move? The cultural shock of a life long New Yorker moving to Wisconsin is fascinating/funny.

Posted by: Sean at July 27, 2022 11:10 AM (2oHWb)

530 Red state cucks across the country who are refusing to go back to 1 day in person voting (with absentee ballots only for military and infirm) are handing their states over to the commies who control the major cities. Look at GA -- Atlanta is now big enough to credibly steal statewide elections the same way Detroit and Philly have been doing for decades. How much longer will it take for Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio to do the same in Texas?
Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 27, 2022 11:05 AM (YVBLw)

The steal wasn't accomplished due to early voting. It was aided by mail-in voting but the big thing was that no one enforced the existing laws.

There's video of workers scanning the same ballots over and over and over. There's photos of workers bringing stuffed backpacks into counting rooms in violation of the law. None of this has anything to do with early voting. It's all about will to power and the refusal to enforce the GD law.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 27, 2022 11:22 AM (1Z8zZ)

531 'But the fact remains that they are this close (I'm holding my thumb and forefinger a pubic hair from a Coke can's breadth apart) to doing so.'

Ace level 'all day chuckle', JJ.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at July 27, 2022 11:23 AM (DePyg)

532
As Dems Go All In on Climate Change, Literally 1 Percent of Americans Call It Top Concern
===
Those 1% are the 1%ers. The people with so much money they can worry about notional "emergencies" of climate. They are also highly neurotic, motivated by panic and big donors. When you understand American Politics as nothing more than a grift, ie peeling donations off of the gullible, the Dems going all in on climate is easy to understand. They are in it for the money. They will continue to clip these richy rich Malthusians, until it no longer works.

There is a LOT of ruin in Malthusian Billionaires.

Posted by: simplemind at July 27, 2022 11:26 AM (HMKZ8)

533 It IS the system. The federal leviathan is the issue. If there wasn't a power to seize there's nothing the bad folks can grab onto. If there weren't an absurdity of laws that shouldn't be, there would be no power to abuse.

I don't care that it's a benevolent despot. It's despotcy that's the problem, not the despot.

Posted by: Fred Friendly at July 27, 2022 11:34 AM (7tVui)

534 some people live for cruelty and vengeance
===
Pushing a man to violence, who has made it is life's work to perfect, would be a mistake.

But, I will watch, and take notes...

Posted by: VDH at July 27, 2022 11:39 AM (307qb)

535 I am making a real GOOD MONEY (80$ to 92$ / hr. )online from my laptop. Last month I GOT a check of nearly 21,000$, this online work is simple and straightforward, I don't have to go to the OFFICE, Its home online job. At that point this work opportunity is for you. If you are interested.
Simply give it a shot on the accompanying site... www.salarycash1.com

Posted by: Sarah at July 27, 2022 02:00 PM (mTKoR)

536 Under the article title RUFKM, Grassley's statement is caveated into pure nothingness:

“the allegations provided to my office appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation.”

Six efforts in a single sentence to avoid actually saying anything.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at July 27, 2022 02:08 PM (K58O6)

537 Excellent Spencer post.

Except there is really no "Hunter Biden" crime wave.

It's Joe Biden taking bribes through Hunter. Without Joe, Hunter is washing cars.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at July 27, 2022 06:49 PM (Ndje9)

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