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The Morning Report — 7/28/22

Good morning, kids. Thursday and is anybody really surprised that Joe Manchin caved and signed on to the watered down version of the Build Bolshevism Bigger bill? Many of us, and I'm ashamed to say myself included, believed that his torpedoing of the original multi-trillion dollar insanity was because he too saw it as insane, despite being pimped by everyone in his party. It was also supposed to be the crowning jewel of this illegitimate junta that would see it go from victory to victory in the ensuing years. Manchin effectively blocking it derailed their domestic agenda, or theoretically anyway. Now, supposedly, he's revived it.

In recent weeks, Manchin shot down Democrat attempts at pushing through Biden’s agenda, and reportedly told Democratic leaders he would “unequivocally” refuse to support legislation related to climate change and tax increases.
Now, the West Virginia senator claims reconciling with Democrats on this package will help the country fight inflation.
“We must be honest about the economic reality America now faces if we want to avoid fanning the flames of inflation,” Manchin said in a statement Wednesday. “At its core, the purpose of reconciliation is to get our economic and financial house in order. Contrary to foolish talk otherwise, America cannot spend its way out of debt or out of inflation.”The revival of Biden’s agenda comes as the president has faced mounting criticism from his own party for failing to implement significant policy over his first year and a half in office. Democrats will use the budget reconciliation process to bypass the Senate filibuster and advance the bill along party lines, potentially giving the party a much-needed legislative victory before a midterm election where Democrats are expected to face a “red wave.”
To pass the package, Democrats still might need to convince Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), who has voiced opposition to elements of Biden’s spending agenda. Axios reported that hours after Manchin’s surprise reversal, a spokesperson for Sinema said the Arizona senator did not have a comment on the bill because “she will need to review the text.”

Yeah, this bill will reduce inflation the same as pouring a supertanker-sized lard-glucose cocktail down Jerry Nadler's maw will slim him down so much that Tank Abrams will lose the weight. Complete farce. At the beginning of this Kalorama Komintern Klown show, the original BBB bill was rightly feared as a national kill shot (the stolen election I guess merely put us in a coma).

Yet all the disasters since then makes this a moot point, at least from a political perspective. The only thing it will do is enrage an already terrified and enraged citizenry. As for Joe Manchin, he's a whore. Probably the highest paid whore in history to date but a whore nonetheless.

Among the many pearls of wisdom of the great Milton Friedman is this gem:

“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.”

With that in mind, I cannot understand how West Virginians keep sending this asshole to Congress. Considering his party's open vow to destroy oil, gas and coal, it's even more of a puzzler. And let's not hold our breath over Senator Kinky Boots either. But why should I direct my ire at them when we have our wonderful GOP as a bulwark — pun definitely intended — to protect us?

Let’s climb on board the “wayback machine” and take a journey to the distant time of summer, 2021. To fulfill his “return to normalcy” pledge, Joe Biden was demanding a budget-busting (and inflation-triggering) $1.2T for infrastructure, and another $5T for Build Back Better (to apparently build it back better after he gets done breaking it). Republicans (of the Vichy RINO variety) feverishly negotiated with the Dems to avoid fiscal Armageddon. They successfully negotiated Armageddon down to a mere total disaster -- agreeing to give the Dems a paltry $1.2T to distribute to their leftist pals.
President Asterisk held a rose garden announcement for the big reveal -- showing the world the sting they had just pulled off. He announced on national television that he and the congressional Democrats had dupped the Republicans. He was taking the infrastructure bill to the bank, and the Democrats would be pursuing the Build Back Better bill through reconciliation. The Republicans hadn’t negotiated the Democrats down from anything. Playing the part of Charlie Brown, the Republicans had taken one more shot at the football.
And there they were, the Vichy RINOs -- standing right next to Biden -- grinning like the village idiots he had made them. It was a learning opportunity -- if the RINOs had any capacity to learn. The whole episode once again proved the adage that there’s a sucker born every minute.
Well, a few minutes have passed since then and the Republicans are lining up to prove that the adage is still alive and well in Washington, D.C. After the Uvalde school shooting, the calls for sensible gun control -- from people who want total gun confiscation -- became a cacophony. But knowing that they’d probably control Congress next year, and could do anything they wished to address the problem, wasn’t enough for the RINOs. They decided to throw the Dems a lifeline now. They jumped right on the “let’s make fools of the Republicans again” bandwagon.
They negotiated a gun-safety bill with the Democrats, that was short on “negotiation” and missed the “safety” point entirely. You see, when the RINOs are involved, negotiating means deciding how much of the Democrats wish list they’ll surrender on. Somehow “compromise” never means getting something in return. . .
. . . Now the House Judiciary Committee is discussing an assault weapons ban -- which if passed will also be a mere temporary stop on the road total gun confiscation. When accused of trying to ban guns in common use, Chairman “I didn’t soil myself” Nadler responded, “That’s the point.” He should have added, “Haven’t you been paying attention?” Which of course, they haven’t been.
I have a couple of questions for the Republicans. Do you feel stupid yet? Or are you too dumb to realize you’ve been played -- again?
The Dems won’t enforce our current gun laws -- which criminals won’t follow anyway. The only people who will comply with more restrictions are law-abiding citizens. They don’t tend to go around shooting each other, because it’s already against the law -- which the law-abiding follow. So, the Republicans have “negotiated” increased restrictions on the law-abiding and the creation of a bunch of tools for leftists to use while harassing gun owners -- and gotten nothing in return. They rationalized it as “common sense” gun laws -- because they didn’t have the common sense to see what this was really all about. Do you get why we call the Democrats the evil party and the Republicans the stupid party? Both titles are well earned.

Thanks to author John Green for providing a nice segue from BBB to gun confiscation, as well as what he terms GOP "stupidity." For the umpteenth time, the GOP is not stupid. They're in league with the Democrats. Hence the term, uni-party. Psaki-Psircling back to the political angle, the real stupidity is Manchin's timing. Oh so brave to fight against $5 trillion in waste and freedom-destroying insanity but $1.5 trillion is doing the right thing for the people! And for the people means his off-shore bank account.

Rush Limbaugh of blessed memory used to say that discussing things like budgets and deficits just made people's eyes and ears glaze over. But thanks to President Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants and his handlers having intentionally taken a wrecking ball to our economy and savings, that which was once arcane is now top of mind with even the lowest of low information voters. Even if somehow this bill falters, either because of Sinema or the fact that several Senators are out of action because of the General Tso's Sickness (there is no absentee voting in the Senate [not that rules matter there, either]), the junta will just deem it passed by declaring a "national emergency."

We are so friggin' unmoored from any sense of normalcy, propriety and the barest minimum of ethics that anything is possible. For sure from their side of the line. I'm hoping and praying from ours as well. And that does not include the GOP just to be clear.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"The Anglo-American alternative to fascism, Marxism, and enlightenment rationalism."
Escaping Liberal Democracy
However, the organization which promotes the “Great Reset” did not stop there and went on to say that this theory can be applied to everything from cars to private homes.
World Economic Forum Says It Is 'Time to Look Beyond' Private Vehicle Ownership

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

He searched the web for things like “how to be stealthy,” “assassin skills” and “most effective place to stab someone” in the weeks before his alleged June 8 assassination attempt. He also told another person he planned to “remove some people from the Supreme Court” in order to “stop roe v wade from being overturned” in an ominous fo
Would-Be Justice Kavanaugh Assassin Roske Googled Stabbing Methods Before Assassination Attempt on SCOTUS Justice
Clarice Feldman: "Given this example and the irrational nexus between ESG weighting and performance I think the hyping by Black Rock and others of their novel ESG investing strategy was both a marketing ploy to attract virtue-signaling asset managers and a means to enable trustees to tamp down the disruptions occasioned by shareholder activism. It was never a sound investment practice."
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Department of Justice's third-ranking official has a history of calling crisis pregnancy centers "fake clinics," a false, inflammatory description employed by terrorist groups that have recently attacked the pro-life organizations. . . An anarchist group that has claimed responsibility for many of the attacks, Jane’s Revenge, has used the same "fake clinic" rhetoric as Gupta.
Biden DOJ Official Smears Pregnancy Centers Amid Wave of Attacks

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“'Contempt of Congress' is a charge that deserves contempt."
The Steve Bannon Treatment
His sentence is tied for the longest jail sentence levied so far against those involved in the riot, which has often been dubbed as “white supremacist” by prominent Democrats and officials.
Longest J6 Jail Sentence Levied Thus Far Goes To . . . A Black Guy
DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS
"When we demonize oil, we ultimately are demonizing our entire culture and history."
'Dirty' Oil
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The Federal Open Market Committee, which sets interest rate policy, said its target rate for overnight interbank funding would rise to a range of 2.25 percent to 2.50 percent, up from the 1.50 to 1.75 percent the Fed set last month. In addition, the Fed said it would raise the rate it pays on reserve balances to 2.40 percent."
Fed Hikes Interest Rates By 75 Basis Points Again
. . . Mostly on our heads.
Sen. Warren: ‘I Believe the Biden [junta] Will Have Brought Down the National Debt’
David Harsanyi: "No ‘recession?’ Ok, how about we call it ‘stagflation?'"
Call it Whatever You Want, the Economy Sucks
"The Federal Reserve is a fraud and has been from its inception."
The Church of the Federal Reserve is Here to Save Us
"And they say liberals have no sense of humor. Faced with record inflation and terrible poll numbers, Democratic leaders say they’ve reached a deal for even more taxes and spending. Get this, they’re calling it the Inflation Reduction Act. Ha! We can only imagine that Sen. Joe Manchin said yes because he thought it was a joke. Certainly the American people won’t be laughing.:
Biden's Plan to Boost Inflation
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
". . . And a doomsday voice from the past is back."
Climate Change Alarmists Ramp Up Their Rhetoric and Disruptive Tactics
"Biden’s contemplated executive action on climate is troubling not just constitutionally but practically."
Bad Piled on Bad
"When STEM goes woke, the university system is through."
The Triumph of Scientism
"It’s not a recession, it’s a 'transition.'”
Videos: Biden Energy Secretary Admits Being “Obsessed” With Green Transition
"Regardless of whether Nigerians supply gas to Europe or not, they must stand for their energy rights. No Western political institution should determine energy access in the daily lives of Nigerians. As for the West, it is time for people of conscience to take a stand against the colonialism that green lobbyists seek to impose on billions of lives across the world."
A Hypocritical Green Lobby Sustains Nigeria’s Energy Poverty
"Throw on another sweater, or some wood on the fire (until they ban that, too)."
With More Green Energy, Plan for a Dark Future and Sheltering In Place
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Left-wing group could get $1 billion from taxpayers to keep gang members here."
‘Deportation Defense’ is Big Business
"The other 222 migrants were from 12 other countries."
Border Patrol Catches 183 Brazilians, 8 Romanians, 2 Nigerians Illegally Crossing California Border in 2 Groups
"The official justification is to reduce the backlog of immigration cases, but it is ultimately weak medicine for treating the symptoms while neglecting the cause of the problem."
ID Cards for Illegal Aliens Is an Idea as Bad as It Sounds
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"The policies were introduced by two vulnerable Democrats, Reps. Abigail Spanberger (Va.) and Josh Gottheimer (N.J.). But other Democrats and left-wing activist groups bristled at the proposals."
Malig-Nancy Pelosi Scraps Pro-Police Bill, Dealing Blow to Vulnerable Dems
"We need to go back to ensuring that criminal sentences are lengthy, incapacitating, and a proper deterrent to crime."
Despair in Sentencing
Lloyd Billingsley: "Los Angeles DA turns back the clock to pre-Manson times."
Gascón Versus Victims
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Grab your popcorn."
Trump To Sue CNN
DeSantis spokeswoman: “write the same hit piece you were gonna write anyway.”
Democrat Activists of Media Shocked That Republicans No Longer Want to Talk to Them
“This is ‘DeSantis for Clicks,’ and Floridians see right through it. No wonder media credibility has fallen to an all time low.”
DeSantis’ Spokeswoman Shreds WaPo For 2,000-Word Article Whining About Her Tweets
"Television news and newspapers rank nearly at the bottom" of institutions measured by the survey," said Gallup, "with only Congress garnering less confidence from the public than TV news. While these two news institutions have never earned high confidence ratings, they have fallen in the rankings in recent years."
Gallup: Only 11% Have 'Great Deal' of Confidence in TV News, Only 16% in Newspapers
Christian Toto: "Far-Left comic praises rules that silenced Lenny Bruce, George Carlin."
Patton Oswalt: Bring on Comedy Restrictions (Even Prison?)
"The decision comes only two days after the company denied ads created by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Governors Association. The denial had sparked online outrage among Democrats."
Hulu Denied Democratic Political Ads From Airing. Two Days Later, It Changed Its Mind.
SECOND AMENDMENT
"The Republicans have 'negotiated' increased restrictions on the law-abiding and the creation of a bunch of tools for leftists to use while harassing gun owners -- and gotten nothing in return."
Republican's Take Another Run at Lucy's Football
LOCKDOWN 2: MONKEY POX MONKEY BUSINESS BOOGALOO???
"Facts don’t care about your feels."
NYC Health Commissioner Wants WHO to Rename Monkeypox Because of ‘Racism and Stigma’
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"The communications reveal a high level of coordination between the government and tech industry during the pandemic and raise questions about the extent to which other private companies are working with the federal government to censor the public."
How the CDC Coordinated With Big Tech To Censor Americans
“And the revisionist history that is taking place is astounding — didn’t call for masks, didn’t call for lockdowns. I could go on and on,” Blackburn continued.
Marsha Blackburn: ‘There Is a New Pandemic’ Called ‘Fauci Fatigue’
“This vaccine campaign will go down as the biggest scandal in medical history”
Member Of European Parliament Labels Chinese COVID Vaccine Coercion “Worst Crime Ever Committed on Humanity”
The only virus the Chi-Coms are trying to prevent is the spread of anti-authoritarian rage against their authority.
Chinese Coronavirus: Wuhan Locks Down Nearly 1 Million Residents
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Varying Degrees, an annual survey released by the left-leaning New America think tank, found just over half of Americans, 55 percent, say higher education has a positive influence on the United States, down from 69 percent in 2020. While Republicans showed the greatest drop, plummeting from 61 percent in 2020 to 37 percent in 2022, self-identified Democrats' confidence in colleges also declined 7 points."
Poll: Americans Lose Confidence in Predominantly Left-Leaning Colleges
John Stossel: "School choice is good for everybody but unions, socialist bureaucrats and the tired education establishment. It’s one good thing accidently created by the pandemic."
Chinese COVID's Good News
"very American student deserves access to an education that inspires self-confidence and pride in their country, and that empowers them to live out their American Dream."
Fake Civics Bill Will Open the Floodgates of Racial Propaganda, Must Be Stopped
Christopher F. Rufo: "The city’s public schools teach K-5 students to subvert the sexuality of 'white colonizers' and begin exploring 'the infinite gender spectrum.'”
In Portland, the Sexual Revolution Starts in Kindergarten
The recent arrival of these ugly ideas into elementary schools however has finally sparked a growing rebellion that I think has only just begun, and will get more angry and determined the longer the education establishment continues to resist reform while demanding parents and teachers accept without question its queer and racist agenda."
Signs of a Growing Revolt Against the Bigoted Left Across the Entire Education Community
ABORTION
"Likely midterm voters were overwhelmingly supportive of the law’s enforcement, with 60 percent supporting the enforcement of the law as opposed to only 31 percent saying it should not be enforced."
POLL: Joe Biden Out-of-Step with Voters on Response to Roe v. Wade Fallout
"Biden has also considered declaring a public health emergency to protect abortion access, prompting Senate Republicans to introduce legislation blocking the president from using executive authority."
Dems Introduce Bill to Fund Abortions Around the World With Foreign Aid
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
Margot Cleveland: "D.A. Willis’ entire special grand jury investigation equally benefits the entire Democrat Party, as well as her political future."
Georgia Democrat Prosecutor Has Been Slapped Down By Two Courts Now — But It’s Not Enough
"That’s the Fani Willis investigation in a nutshell. She wants to nail Donald Trump for something, and she’s trying not to let the politics of this election get in the way of rehashing the last one. And the mainstream media is falling for it, too."
Georgia District Attorney Investigating Trump Runs Into a Snag
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Francis has decided it’s time to ban the Latin Mass."
Pope "Fiction" Francis’ Cancel Campaign Against the Latin Mass
"Miloon Kothari is part of a commission to investigate alleged Israeli crimes."
UN Official Investigating Israel: ‘Jewish Lobby’ Controls Social Media
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Margot Cleveland: "Conflicts of interest aside, the complexity and scope of the Biden corruption investigation exceed the capabilities of the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office."
DOJ Insiders Say Delaware US Attorney’s Office Too Inadequate to Investigate Biden Family Corruption
Miranda Devine: "Now we know why the FBI never investigated the laptop, thanks to whistleblowers who have come forward to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley alleging a widespread effort within the agency to discredit negative information about the Bidens as Russian disinformation."
Hunter Biden Scandal May Lead Right Back to Joe
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Paul sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia, one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, at an average price of roughly $165 each on Tuesday worth up to $5 million, a financial disclosure shows. Paul took a total loss of roughly $341,000, according to the disclosure."
Malig-Nancy Nancy Pelosi’s Drunk-Driving Husband Unloads Massive Stake In Chips Stock For Huge Loss After Buying Shares Before Subsidy Vote
"'My greatest fears came true,' local Democrat said of congressional hopeful Greg Landsman's taxpayer-funded program."
Ohio Dem Worked To Raise Taxes To Boost Teacher Pay. Executives Got the Money First.
POLITICS
"Biden’s onset of [Chinese] COVID comes at a convenient time when he’s in dire need of sympathy and a distraction. Don’t fall for it."
Did Biden Really Have Chinese COVID-19?
"Prepared remarks circulated by the Trump team show the 45th president’s proposals on an array of topics, including the Second Amendment, border security, education, energy, and election integrity, but a central focus of his policy proposal addresses law and order."
42 Policy Proposals Donald Trump Outlined at America First Summit in D.C.
"I'm disgusted."
Dems Turn On Their Own Party For Interfering In GOP Primaries
When radicals try to portray their opposition as “extremists,” you know they’re in a “wing and a prayer” mode. (and that some Republican somewhere will get physically assaulted - jjs)
In Desperation, Democrats Will Portray Republicans as 'Extremists' For Midterms
"Only Democrats give White House senior officials passing marks."
Voters Give Biden Team of Advisers Failing Grades: I&I/TIPP Poll
"Lasry, who had given his campaign fund about $12 million in personal loans, decided to back Barnes, who is now the favorite to win the nomination."
Milwaukee Bucks Executive Drops Bid To Challenge Wisconsin’s Ron Johnson
"Sen. Mark Kelly's 'Republicans for Kelly' group has deep left-wing ties."
Surprise! The ‘Republican’ Group Supporting an Arizona Democrat Isn’t Very Republican
"Whitmer locked down the Wolverine State with more severity than most other states to demonstrate her partisan and political bona fides to Democrats and the broader left, Dixon observed."
Republican Candidate for MI Governor Tudor Dixon: "Wretched" Whitmer Was "Auditioning for Vice President" with "Lockdowns"

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"Peach State Democrat forced to go out of state to find a sheriff surrogate for a new ad."
"Tank" Abrams Can’t Find a Georgia Cop Who Supports Her
"Abrams’ Instagram meme is presumptuous and poorly done. And, worst of all, it’s not funny. Thanks to Stacey Abrams, we have even more proof that the left can’t meme, no matter how hard it tries."
The Left Can't Meme: "Tank" Abrams Edition
"In a bad omen, the former vice president was unable to deliver his speech as originally planned due to a storm."
Pence Kicks Off Battle for 2024 With Campaign Speech
"Kamala Harris is a joke, but it’s not funny. . . she hasn’t managed to do a single thing that would lead anyone to believe she’s ready at a moment’s notice to be sworn in as president of the United States. If the thought doesn’t fill you with panic, check your pulse."
Kamala Can’t
"The alleged ultra-MAGA Senate candidate is actually a mega-bad choice."
Eric Greitens is a Miserable Candidate for Missouri
"Forward" is not just the name of a Yiddish newspaper. It's a socialist/commie battlecry.
Report: Former Republicans, Democrats Team Up with Andrew "Out the Ying" Yang to Launch New ‘Forward’ Third Party
"The Founding Fathers feared demagogues like the Squad, with good reason."
Democracy Dies in Demagoguery
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Victor Davis Hanson: "The United States is nearing a gut-check on Ukraine."
The Ukrainian Verdun
"America’s leaders need to tell Zelenskyy to keep his censorious nonsense at home. This nation is his bread and butter right now, and the least he can do is show some respect."
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy's Unmitigated Gall Should Not Be Tolerated
"The new Russia is not a new country, but a Russian Federation burdened with the great historical tasks of conquering territories."
Putin's 'New Russia'
"Victoria Nuland and Victoria Spartz tell two radically different tales."
Ukraine: A Tale of Two Victorias
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The Pentagon will escalate troop movements and security measures in the Pacific if Pelosi follows through with her planned Taiwan visit. China likely would not attack Pelosi’s plane directly, officials familiar with the matter told the AP, but senior officials worry that her presence could inflame existing tensions between the U.S. and China over Taiwan."
US Military To Prep For War If Pelosi Goes To Taiwan: Report
AP News: “Russia’s Gazprom on Wednesday halved the amount of natural gas flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe to 20% of capacity.”
European Countries Resort to EU-Wide Gas Rationing After Russia Slashes Supply
"Bout, who is often referred to as the 'Merchant of Death,' is a notorious arms trafficker who inspired the 2005 Nicolas Cage movie Lord of War.”
Biden Offers to Release Notorious Russian Terrorist in Exchange for Brittney Griner, Report Says
"After Boris, what?"
Britain, the Tories, and Kemi Badenoch
"Will President Macron cave in to their anti-Semitic agenda?"
In French National Assembly, Far Right and Far Left Unite Against Israel
"As if the world couldn’t get any more dystopian, a bunch of world-leading architects have designed possibly the worst idea for a city that man could imagine."
Watch This Ad For Saudi’s New City ‘The Line,’ The Most Dystopian Nightmare Online Right Now
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Daniel Greenfield: "After only 95 [Chinese] COVID deaths, Biden wants to purge tens of thousands of unvaccinated personnel."
Biden’s Military Vaccine Mandate is a Political Test
"The order came almost two weeks after McFarland ordered a temporary restraining order against the Air Force from pursuing punitive measures against those airmen, and the Air Force did not successfully argue against it."
Judge Halts Punishment of Airmen Who Filed for Religious Exemptions from Vaccine Mandate
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: "We can’t have people committing thoughtcrime."
Move Over, Monkeypox: ‘Islamophobia’ Breaks Out in Southern Indiana
"It happens to be the best way to take down an enemy society."
What Islam and the Left Agree On
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Manchin proves he's a whore. Among the highest paid, but a whore nevertheless. Fuck him and frankly to hell with West Virginians who keep voting for him while ignoring his party affiliation.
Chuck Schemer, Joe Manchin Strike Deal on Obamacare, Climate Change Bill
"L.A. spent nearly $600 million and took the past six years to construct the bridge that opened on July 10. But since then, the new renovation has been taken over by criminal activity such as drag races, graffiti, and dangerous social media stunts, according to Fox 11." L.A. Closes New $600 Million Bridge 4 Times In 5 Days After People Keep Using It For Illegal Activity, TikTok Videos
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The speed in which this galaxy formed places a great challenge on the Big Bang theory itself. 220 million years is an instant when it comes to galaxy formation, which has been assumed to take far longer."
Another Webb Galaxy Found Even Closer to the Big Bang
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
. . . And “lactating person” instead of ‘nursing mother’ because it’s more “gender-inclusive.” ("my neeeples are borshting with excitement!" - jjs)
Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Advising Hospitals To Use Term ‘Father’s Milk’
"There were times during that period in the fall of 2018 when I, someone who had led a mostly happy life, was suicidal."
Honest Talk About Politics and Male Suicide
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"We apologize."
The View Takes Back Attacks On Conservative Group
HITHER & YON
"Age doesn’t always bring wisdom."
Norman Lear’s First Century

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:43 AM

Comments

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at July 28, 2022 07:44 AM (xej1u)

2 Awright, let's get started.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 28, 2022 07:44 AM (MkuC5)

3 Top of the heap

Posted by: IanDeal at July 28, 2022 07:44 AM (MGjjz)

4 corgis called

morning horde

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 28, 2022 07:45 AM (p03vF)

5 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 28, 2022 07:45 AM (zhLdt)

6 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Verse for the day:

"Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.""

--Jeremiah 1:4-5

Posted by: Tonypete at July 28, 2022 07:47 AM (6WCwE)

7 Definition of a recession, 2 consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth if there is a Republican president. If this happens under a democrat president it is called a reset.

I'm going to have trouble believing the deep states GDP results if they are positive. Definitely will have a thumb on the scale.

Posted by: redenzo at July 28, 2022 07:48 AM (E7vND)

8 Who is the party of outrage, drama and betrayal?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 28, 2022 07:48 AM (0ocXn)

9 You will own nothing;
You will find that properly prepared insects are tasty;
You will be happy;
...
Or else!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 28, 2022 07:48 AM (hOUT3)

10 "Aerial surveys show massive amounts of methane venting from oil and gas operations near TX and NM."

I guess they've found the new bogeyman to replace / go along with CO2. Look for a cattle/cow ban in the U.S.'s future.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 07:48 AM (yikp0)

11
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 28, 2022 07:49 AM (ENBF0)

12 Manchin is running for president

Posted by: Tony P at July 28, 2022 07:49 AM (7Tuzj)

13 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at July 28, 2022 07:49 AM (u7pQw)

14 Tyler Carditis @TyCardon; July 27
Bizarre that the State Department rented out a five-story upper East Side mansion to Jeffrey Epstein from 1992 to 1996. Does the State Department rent out property to private citizens often? Seems weird.

https://nitter.net/TyCardon/status/
1552445995396767744#m

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 07:49 AM (yikp0)

15 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

The minimum wage here currently $16.99 is linked to the inflation rate. So now these geniuses get to experience what is called a wage-price spiral.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 28, 2022 07:50 AM (dzJhQ)

16 It's pretty neat to consider that Trump managed to create conditions for households to increase income by around $4500. First time in 40 years or so that type of growth happened IIRC. And he did it almost entirely on his own.

And then the (R) politicians needed to get re-elected so they passed tax cuts that will expire.

And now look around. Inflation has magically eaten away around $4500 per household (what a coincidence), and we're about to get tax increases.

Neat, huh?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 28, 2022 07:50 AM (SAoso)

17 "Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.""

--Jeremiah 1:4-5
Posted by: Tonypete at July 28, 2022 07:47 AM (6WCwE)

I find it very hard to reconcile that with what is being done on a mass scale by the PP animals...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 28, 2022 07:50 AM (hOUT3)

18 Thank you, JJ.
The monkey pox has arrived in Sangamon County, Illinois. Stories refer to "an adult man" contracting it.

Back up to top to read.

Posted by: Democrats: Raping The Children We Cannot Kill Since 1973! at July 28, 2022 07:50 AM (jV+aN)

19 Know it's trite, but FJM.

Posted by: Ziba at July 28, 2022 07:50 AM (4h9M3)

20 "Wyoming judge temporarily blocks state's abortion ban on the day it took effect."

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 07:51 AM (yikp0)

21 Playing the part of Charlie Brown, the Republicans had taken one more shot at the football.

I disagree with this analogy. Charlie Brown's issue was that he was trusting. Every time he believed that Lucy would let him kick the ball.

The Republican Senators didn't believe that they weren't screwing the country when they allowed the Democrats to keep reconciliation in the bank. It's just another in the long line of lies they've told us through the years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 28, 2022 07:51 AM (zhLdt)

22 and now it's time for the 4 hour bitch fest with our sister company supplier.

yay...

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 28, 2022 07:51 AM (p03vF)

23 https://nitter.net/TyCardon/status/
1552445995396767744#m
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 07:49 AM (yikp0)

Old news comrade, move along!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 28, 2022 07:52 AM (hOUT3)

24 Government spending causing inflation by devaluing the dollar is too complicated for people to understand.

"I get money from the government," is easy to understand.

Posted by: davidt at July 28, 2022 07:52 AM (oTZbj)

25 However, the organization which promotes the “Great Reset” did not stop there and went on to say that this theory can be applied to everything from cars to private homes.

Say, isn't there a political system which bans private ownership? I could have sworn there was.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 28, 2022 07:53 AM (zhLdt)

26 21
"Anyone that will become a professional politician has no morals and no goals save augmenting his income with graft!"

"Stuff Jefferson Said" UVA Press Collector's Edition, 1815

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at July 28, 2022 07:55 AM (hOUT3)

27 BTW...

Disclose.tv @disclosetv; 18h
JUST IN - U.S. Senate just passed the $52 billion CHIPS-plus bill. House vote could come as soon as this week.

Speaker Pelosi's husband dumped his NVIDIA stock one day before the vote.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 07:55 AM (yikp0)

28 We must spend our way out of inflation. Duh!

Posted by: Squid at July 28, 2022 07:55 AM (wgw4H)

29 More than ever. . . . .the sooner the hand-to-hand in the streets begins, the better. We all know where this is heading. All extreme socialism ends in mass murder. . . . always.

Posted by: Despise DemoNcrat VPs who shower with their daughters at July 28, 2022 07:55 AM (8m/Xb)

30 Yeah Buddy. Top o'the morning wankers, rappers, Scalawags and ne'erdowells. Also...hellooo Ladies.

Now to peruse the content.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 28, 2022 07:56 AM (R5lpX)

31 Nursing fathers. If even possible and the Old Man would have gone along, I would have developed an early taste for Guckenheimer whiskey and Duke beer.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 28, 2022 07:56 AM (lz5hY)

32 Breaking911 @Breaking911; 9h
FED CHAIR POWELL: "I do not think the US is currently in a recession. There's just too many areas of the economy that are performing too well."

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 07:57 AM (yikp0)

33 Yeah, I don't think I'm in the mood for another day of wallowing in misery about us being sold out for the 1287th time. Going to sit this one out.

Elect better people.

Or don't, and it will all crash and burn.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 28, 2022 07:57 AM (5p7BC)

34 "Price controls" on drugs....

Get ready for rent-seeking pharma political donations on the scale of billions of dollars.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2022 07:57 AM (803A3)

35 If even possible and the Old Man would have gone along, I would have developed an early taste for Guckenheimer whiskey and Duke beer.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Oooooooo! Your Pop liked the fancy stuff!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 28, 2022 07:58 AM (6WCwE)

36 Everyone has their price....

Posted by: the million dollar man at July 28, 2022 07:58 AM (jex5w)

37 35 A Guke and a Duke, the order of choice at finer Ohio dive bars.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 28, 2022 07:59 AM (lz5hY)

38 New bill includes 40% reduction in emissions by 2030.

People will be doing less of just about everything while they starve staying at home.

Posted by: Ziba at July 28, 2022 08:00 AM (4h9M3)

39 In Desperation, Democrats Will Portray Republicans as 'Extremists' For Midterms

They've portrayed Republicans as extremists every election for as long as I've been alive.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 28, 2022 08:00 AM (zhLdt)

40 "The speed in which this galaxy formed places a great challenge on the Big Bang theory itself. 220 million years is an instant when it comes to galaxy formation, which has been assumed to take far longer."
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This is starting to get really interesting. The Big Bang theory is one of those accepted pieces of "truth" in science because we don't have a whole lot of evidence (yet) to disprove it. Did the Big Bang happen as we think it did? Or did something else jump start our universe as we currently understand it?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 08:00 AM (YIVH2)

41 So pence is going to run. It will be jeb! 2.0.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 28, 2022 08:00 AM (bVYXr)

42 Is Ghislaine Maxwell actually in a prison, or living in some mansion someplace?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2022 08:01 AM (drqH/)

43 Eric Gretiens... I'm not of Missouri, but am I wrong to smell GOPe on the "scandals" he has?

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at July 28, 2022 08:01 AM (53oGX)

44 (elects better people, country thrives, Sue and Settle is implemented, mail in ballot plan is implemented, "better people" are charged with insurrection)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 28, 2022 08:01 AM (SAoso)

45 enrage an already terrified and enraged citizenry.

Zzzzzzzx

Posted by: The enraged citizens at July 28, 2022 08:01 AM (PsUT0)

46 If Cocaine Mitch and the Cali Conservative (sic) head up Capital Hill what was won exactly?

I think we're going to find out how long the middle class can take 5 buck gas. Hint: it's not likely to be this November. 3 Novembers from now with Trump at the top of the ticket, maybe. Which is why he's got a better chance of going to jail then returning to the WH.

Fascism has landed on our heads. Thank the Democrats by dropping it on theirs. If we can ever sideline Mitch.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at July 28, 2022 08:01 AM (DePyg)

47 220 million years is an instant

**

When was that stupid dumb superstitious sky father book written, anyway?

And why was it so accurate?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 28, 2022 08:02 AM (SAoso)

48 Good morning! Enjoying a cup of Texas pecan coffee. Yummy!

Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 08:02 AM (nxdel)

49 JJ, can you see cows from your back porch?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:02 AM (T/Wjp)

50 A Guke and a Duke, the order of choice at finer Ohio dive bars.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Nick - "Hey look, mister. We serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast, and we don't need any characters around to give the joint "atmosphere". Is that clear, or do I have to slip you my left for a convincer?"

Posted by: Tonypete at July 28, 2022 08:02 AM (6WCwE)

51 41 Just yesterday, one of the guys at the gas station/hang out brought up Pence. Said he seemed like a nice man. I said Dr. Ben Carson is a nice man, Pence is a worm.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 28, 2022 08:03 AM (lz5hY)

52 I guess they've found the new bogeyman to replace / go along with CO2. Look for a cattle/cow ban in the U.S.'s future.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 07:48 AM (yikp0)
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Doesn't the BBB include some outrageous taxes on cattle? High enough to basically price them out of existence?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 08:03 AM (YIVH2)

53 Manchin Bridge, Manchin highway, Manchin rest stop, Manchin "business park"...

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 08:03 AM (89T5c)

54 "Scientism" the new fake science or the new fake religion? G-d is dead.

Posted by: Ziba at July 28, 2022 08:04 AM (4h9M3)

55 Will the real FJB please identify himself

https://twitter.com/FiveTimesAugust/status/
1552124554918727681

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 28, 2022 08:04 AM (gbzeC)

56 Climbing aboard the Biden junta's train now is outright insanity. Someone got to Manchin. The only question is, "Who?".

Posted by: creeper at July 28, 2022 08:05 AM (cTCuP)

57 “We must be honest about the economic reality America now faces if we want to avoid fanning the flames of inflation,” Manchin said in a statement Wednesday. “At its core, the purpose of reconciliation is to get our economic and financial house in order. Contrary to foolish talk otherwise, America cannot spend its way out of debt or out of inflation.”
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So the man who says - correctly - that "America cannot spend its way out of debt or out of inflation" is signing on to spend more than a trillion dollars that we don't have, contributing the debt and driving more inflation - as well as causing even greater pressure on the federal budget (which is already in critical condition) in a rising interest rate environment and then compounding that pressure by raising taxes at the same time, which will reduce the economic activity required to make the tax increase result in meaningful additional revenues, all while doing nothing about other spending?

#washingtonLogic
#theBodyStinks #justBuryItAlready

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2022 08:05 AM (WWh8n)

58 Lotta good memes on Jesse Kelly's twitter

https://tinyurl.com/3mvdhr7f

Posted by: 496 at July 28, 2022 08:05 AM (VJsqe)

59 They told Manchin he could frame it as an inflation tax decrease and he bought it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:05 AM (eC4Tv)

60 "The speed in which this galaxy formed places a great challenge on the Big Bang theory itself. 220 million years is an instant when it comes to galaxy formation, which has been assumed to take far longer."
----------------------------
God was in a hurry to get puppies started on Earth, so He sped things up.

[Insert cartoon of God's R&D Team showing Him their new project -- puppies -- and God ordering, "Nuke the lizards. I want you to make this your top priority" here.]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 08:06 AM (yikp0)

61 50 Any downtown bar named The Horseshoe or Brass Rail, around the corner from the pay by the week hotel.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 28, 2022 08:06 AM (lz5hY)

62 ...Oh so brave to fight against $5 trillion in waste and freedom-destroying insanity but $1.5 trillion is doing the right thing for the people! And for the people means his off-shore bank account.

Maybe so, but his family's nest is already nicely feathered Manchin's daughter is CEO of the company that makes Epi Pens. She jacked up the price to $600 per pair of pens, which contain in total about 75 cents worth of ephedrine. Annnnnd, they 'expire' every year. Annnnnnd they are the only US manufacturer (maybe there is one other) of these FDA approved pens. She and her company got rich.

After the alternate media obtained these little factoids, the uproar caused her to cut the price in half. Woohoo! We whupped 'em again, didn't we Josey?

Yeah boy, we whupped 'em again. /Josey Wales voice off.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 28, 2022 08:07 AM (JOtiF)

63 Will the real FJB please identify himself

https://twitter.com/FiveTimesAugust/status/
1552124554918727681

*

Holy crap. His hair is parted on different sides. Surely that video is flipped.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 28, 2022 08:07 AM (SAoso)

64 Let us speak on Patton Oswalt, an unfunny creature who is always typecast as the blithering dolt in every show or movie I've ever had the displeasure of seeing him in.

Fat, dumpy and stupid is no way to go through life, Oswalt.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 28, 2022 08:09 AM (R5lpX)

65 Timeline is interesting. If this started weeks ago with Manchin initiating then we have a nut with a gun going to kill Kavanaugh followed by Manchin 'seeing the (targeting) light (from a sniper rifle)'. Well played.

They didn't even have to fire a shot.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at July 28, 2022 08:09 AM (DePyg)

66 What's the matter,rubes? Build your own grift

Posted by: DC in general at July 28, 2022 08:09 AM (/6GbT)

67 Their plan has always been the destruction of the republic ... they are becoming more confident, they are just looting the f out of the country on the way out.

Posted by: Haywood at July 28, 2022 08:09 AM (/+rSy)

68 With that in mind, I cannot understand how West Virginians keep sending this asshole to Congress. Considering his party's open vow to destroy oil, gas and coal, it's even more of a puzzler.
++++
Back in the early aughts, when the internet was common but still not really understood, some magazine ran an experiment in NYC. They asked subway riders if they would divulge their passwords in exchange for $20 in cash. They had a lot of takers. In the next round, they asked riders if they would divulge their passwords in exchange for a candy bar. They still had a lot of takers. The short-term profit - even if extremely modest - enticed people to engage in extremely dangerous behavior due to a combination of short-sighted greed and ignorance as to consequences.

That's your answer, JJ. The pork-barrel spending (the modest short-term profit) is enticing enough and the risks - destruction of industry in the state, declining wealth, etc. - are both abstract and complex as well as in the future. The pork will win every time because the marketing is easy. "Win today, and trust me tomorrow, don't listen to naysayers because they have never been right and we're all still just fine."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2022 08:10 AM (WWh8n)

69 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

70 61 50 Any downtown bar named The Horseshoe or Brass Rail, around the corner from the pay by the week hotel.
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In my yout, Raleigh had the Queen Bee Bar adjacent to an old 19th C dive hotel. Soldiers from Ft. Bragg like the cheap prices and short commute to NC State and St. Mary's bars and coeds. Unfortunately, the Queen Bee Bar excelled in trannies. Well, boys will be boys and every couple of months one of the he/she's would be badly beaten due to discovery of a weiner.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:10 AM (T/Wjp)

71 Have I mentioned lately that we're fucked? Because, we're proper fucked.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

72 Holy crap. His hair is parted on different sides. Surely that video is flipped.
-----------------------
Or mommy combed his hair for him for the second drugged appearance after he cleaned his plate?

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 08:10 AM (yikp0)

73
69 FIRST!!!!!

As it should be.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

74 Hello, Horde. I am identifying as First. Please to respect my decision.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 28, 2022 08:11 AM (906pl)

75 Manchin is worth $117 million.

His wife, indepently, is worth $20 million.

At the end of the day, Mylan Labs Manchin figures he can weather the storm. He has a wonderful fucking view from the balcony seats.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 08:12 AM (89T5c)

76 Fat, dumpy and stupid is no way to go through life, Oswalt.
-----------------
Type cast actors make bank in Hollywood. Until they don't.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:12 AM (T/Wjp)

77 Manchin is running for president
Posted by: Tony P at July 28, 2022 07:49 AM (7Tuzj)

Caving to Schumer, the best you could say is that he's running for the Dem nomination, which he won't get.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 28, 2022 08:12 AM (zhLdt)

78 Toronto has a Horseshoe Tavern and a Brass Rail strip-club although I think the latter closed many years ago.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 08:12 AM (yikp0)

79 Let me be the first to declare today's GDP number as 'unexpectedly historic', as it will be the first time 2 quarters of negative growth is declared as not recessionary, and actually Very Good News for America.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 28, 2022 08:12 AM (JOtiF)

80 The Republicans hadn’t negotiated the Democrats down from anything. Playing the part of Charlie Brown, the Republicans had taken one more shot at the football.
++++
Bullshit. They don't get off that easy. They're not foolish rubes getting duped by the Dems' rope-a-dope games. If they were merely stupid, venal, foolish, arrogant assholes then they'd occasionally, just by luck, get something right.

They didn't stumble and fall because Lucy took the football away. They *knew* Lucy would take the football away, and they practiced completing the motion and maintaining their footing when their foot connected to nothing but empty air.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2022 08:13 AM (WWh8n)

81 World Economic Forum Says It Is 'Time to Look Beyond' Private Vehicle Ownership

--

And just exactly who elected these nefarious, totalitarian f*ckers to anything? Just exactly who made them gods with the power to decide, for 7 billion people, how they should and should not live? What they can and can't have? Pardon me for the harshness, but I don't care...every last one of them needs their necks snapped.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 28, 2022 08:13 AM (sVtYq)

82 Milton Friedman was a genius.

Seriously need term limits for these idiots.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 28, 2022 08:13 AM (4q/mG)

83 And here is the difference between D and R. They haven't been particularly successful at pushing the agenda during Biden's term; not like during Obama's.

And they don't have a strong majority, and the midterms look bad for them. And this bill isn't everything they wanted.

But it's a lot. The difference between D and R is that they actually mean what they say, and they go after it. Not that what they say is ever any good, but people who vote for them get what vote for. Rs would never, ever pursue an agenda item like this. Or at all. Or even pretend to.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2022 08:14 AM (Zhwz2)

84 Sadly I know people who would happily go along with "sharing" a car, even their home all in the name of climate change. It's frightening that Schwab has this much power. The future looks pretty damn bleak.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 08:14 AM (nxdel)

85 Longest J6 Jail Sentence Levied Thus Far Goes To . . . A Black Guy
_______

Of course it's the longest. He's guilty of treason twice over.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 28, 2022 08:15 AM (TgBWG)

86 Tucker was talking about how important it is to know when your school board elections are since they are usually scheduled separately from federal and state elections. This is all done on purpose because most people aren't paying attention.
Meanwhile.....
Randi Weingarten is reelected for 8th term leading American Federation of Teachers
In 2022 the teachers union gave over 11 million to Democrats and 75 dollars to Republicans.

https://tinyurl.com/yckvd5cf

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

87 76 Oswalt had a role in a couple of Justified episodes. Betcha Nick Searcy got along not so fine with the little fat fuck.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 28, 2022 08:15 AM (lz5hY)

88 Breaking911 @Breaking911; 9h
FED CHAIR POWELL: "I do not think the US is currently in a recession. There's just too many areas of the economy that are performing too well."
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 07:57 AM (yikp0)

Other than the makers of printing presses and top level politicians getting their cut of everything, name one.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 28, 2022 08:15 AM (zhLdt)

89 For those interested in MFM bullshit in Canada.

Asshole reporter [and his cameraman earlier] takes a running start to push into Freedom Convoy leader's supporters after being released from prison, while trying to leave the Courthouse.

https://twitter.com/RealAndyLeeShow/status/
1552309513927110658

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM (yikp0)

90 And just exactly who elected these nefarious, totalitarian f*ckers to anything? Just exactly who made them gods with the power to decide, for 7 billion people, how they should and should not live?

Nobody and that's the really infuriating part. But there's big money in the climate change scam and too many people willing to sell their souls.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM (nxdel)

91 Milton Friedman was a genius.

Seriously need term limits for these idiots.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 28, 2022 08:13 AM (4q/mG)

The voting public simply needs to listen to Baroke Hussein Owebama.

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

Stop voting for your own demise.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

92 49 JJ, can you see cows from your back porch?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:02 AM (T/Wjp)

Nah, just some weird garden ornament made from empty wine bottles.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM (x0n13)

93 name one...

The assholes at pfizer and moderna seem to be doin peachy!!!

Posted by: Haywood at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM (/+rSy)

94 Isn't Oswalt the guy who stole meds out of his parents medicine cabinet, gave them to his wife who later died from an OD, then made a movie about it where he's an innocent victim in the telling?

He's got big balls, you gotta give him that.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM (DePyg)

95 "We apologize."

The View Takes Back Attacks On Conservative Group
________

Total BS. Any husband knows that an apology so phrased will get you nowhere.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM (TgBWG)

96 Joe Manchin, the millionaire, got to Joe Manchin, the Senator.

Posted by: Ziba at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM (4h9M3)

97 Their plan has always been the destruction of the republic ... they are becoming more confident, they are just looting the f out of the country on the way out.

--

No sentient, even marginally so, human being can determine anything less than the undeniable, visible proof they are purposefully destroying America. We are at the rubber meets the road point in history for this country. All around us, it's abysmal and there is no light on the horizon that I can see. There's too much going wrong. Not to be histrionic or anything, but the avalanche is underway. Next up, get ready for famine. Because, yes kids, by all accounts, there is a demonic undercurrent to highly curtail food production worldwide.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 28, 2022 08:18 AM (sVtYq)

98 @Breaking911
FED CHAIR POWELL: "I do not think the US is currently in a recession. There's just too many areas of the economy that are performing too well."
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 07:57 AM (yikp0)
++++
It's been a while since a new Fed Cliche was added to the book. We can add "too many areas of the economy are performing too well" to the list of things like:
"we're confident we can manage a soft landing"
"we have adequate policy tools to tackle the current crisis"
"the economic fundamentals remain robust"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2022 08:18 AM (WWh8n)

99 Longest J6 Jail Sentence Levied Thus Far Goes To . . . A Black Guy
_______

Of course it's the longest. He's guilty of treason twice over.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 28, 2022 08:15 AM (TgBWG)
********
There is a price to pay if you're black and stray from the plantation. The Democrats are going to put y'all back in chains.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

100 >> Let me be the first to declare today's GDP number as 'unexpectedly historic'

Month 3 is just around the corner. Right after they revise #2 down even further.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 08:19 AM (rwTWa)

101 Nah, just some weird garden ornament made from empty wine bottles.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM (x0n13)
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It's really weird. It's a sculpture, but it looks kind of like a pile of bottles. But the weirdest thing is that it keeps growing every day ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2022 08:19 AM (WWh8n)

102 Breaking911 @Breaking911; 9h
FED CHAIR POWELL: "I do not think the US is currently in a recession. There's just too many areas of the economy that are performing too well."

*

Clearly. I'm still not sure how so many help wanted signs are up when things are economically so bad.

None of this makes a bit of sense.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 28, 2022 08:20 AM (HQPbJ)

103 Randi Weingarten - just checked her spouse is Sharon Klienbaum. So dyke leader of AFT and long time 'Union Gal.' Jeebus wept.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:20 AM (T/Wjp)

104 >>FED CHAIR POWELL: "I do not think the US is currently in a recession. There's just too many areas of the economy that are performing too well."

And Inflation is totes transitory.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 08:20 AM (rwTWa)

105 99 Surprised the Democrats didn't give him 3/5 of a sentence.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 28, 2022 08:20 AM (lz5hY)

106 Oh, good lord. This is tortuous.

At least 4 dead after Alaska teen shoots 3 siblings then themselves | Thu, Jul 28
Authorities say at least four children are dead after a 15-year-old fatally shot three of their siblings before taking their own life in Fairbanks, Alaska, according to state troopers.

We don't want to offend the killer by assuming "their" gender.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:20 AM (eC4Tv)

107 say what you want about Mitch but he really knows how to play the dims

Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2022 08:20 AM (us2H3)

108 Nah, just some weird garden ornament made from empty wine bottles.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM (x0n13)

Sounds like a potential Art Thread candidate to me.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 28, 2022 08:20 AM (906pl)

109 Starting hour late has my time way off
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 28, 2022 08:21 AM (qSotw)

110
At least 4 dead after Alaska teen shoots 3 siblings then themselves | Thu, Jul 28
Authorities say at least four children are dead after a 15-year-old fatally shot three of their siblings before taking their own life in Fairbanks, Alaska, according to state troopers.

We don't want to offend the killer by assuming "their" gender.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:20 AM (eC4Tv)

I want to see the list of meds he was on for the past 5 years.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

111 Countless people getting crushed by runaway inflation and these mfrkers are lining their pockets with glee and DARING anyone to do anything about it.

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 28, 2022 08:22 AM (/6GbT)

112 say what you want about Mitch but he really knows how to play the dims

Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2022 08:20 AM (us2H3)

And screw us.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

113
Oswalt had a role in a couple of Justified episodes. Betcha Nick Searcy got along not so fine with the little fat fuck.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 28, 2022 08:15 AM

even Olyphant complained about working with Oswalt

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 28, 2022 08:22 AM (ENBF0)

114 Let's practice e'rbody.
1, 2, 3 ...

FUNCESSION!

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 08:22 AM (flINI)

115 Nah, just some weird garden ornament made from empty wine bottles.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM (x0n13)

Sounds like a potential Art Thread candidate to me.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 28, 2022 08:20 AM (906pl)
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We really don't have enough backyard sculptures on the Art Thread...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 08:22 AM (YIVH2)

116 92 49 JJ, can you see cows from your back porch?
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:02 AM (T/Wjp)

Nah, just some weird garden ornament made from empty wine bottles.
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Did you have a view of garden ornaments made from empty wine bottles in NYC or just had to step over empty wine bottles in NYC?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:22 AM (T/Wjp)

117 Wine bottles? Should be beer bottles. Are you sure you landed in the right state?

Posted by: grammie winger at July 28, 2022 08:22 AM (45fpk)

118 Nah, just some weird garden ornament made from empty wine bottles.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM (x0n13)

Was it included in the sale price of the house?

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

119 I'm still not sure how so many help wanted signs are up when things are economically so bad.

--

Lazy f*ckers who are living off Uncle Sugar and don't want to work? That sentiment sure seemed to explode when the covid train came rolling in, and the stimulus dollars kept coming.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 28, 2022 08:23 AM (sVtYq)

120 This is starting to get really interesting. The Big Bang theory is one of those accepted pieces of "truth" in science because we don't have a whole lot of evidence (yet) to disprove it. Did the Big Bang happen as we think it did? Or did something else jump start our universe as we currently understand it?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 08:00 AM (YIVH2)

I've never been happy with the BBT. "Science" rejects the idea of a steady-state universe because it would require matter to be constantly created which is believed to be impossible. But if all that impossibility were to occur all at once, we can just ignore that contradiction.

Wherever I see anything from astronomers or cosmologist since Sagan, they all talk about what they "know". Makes me crazy. You don't know shit. You think something. You have theories about things. As Jefferson said, "Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to bullshit about things and he'll get never ending government funding."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 28, 2022 08:23 AM (zhLdt)

121 91 ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES.

Stop voting for your own demise.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM

So, so true. If we had term limits I would not have the likes of Chuck U Schumer as one of my Senators.

Which brings me to something I have said many, many times since the 2020 "election". The offices of Governor and US Senate and Presidential elections should be decided by an Electoral College system. Being that President Trump won almost 75% of the counties in NYS it might make the election of these offices more in line of what the citizens of these States want.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 28, 2022 08:23 AM (4q/mG)

122 Lazy f*ckers who are living off Uncle Sugar and don't want to work? That sentiment sure seemed to explode when the covid train came rolling in, and the stimulus dollars kept coming.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 28, 2022 08:23 AM (sVtYq)

Grift must pay well, can't find help around here

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 28, 2022 08:24 AM (/6GbT)

123 111 Countless people getting crushed by runaway inflation and these mfrkers are lining their pockets with glee and DARING anyone to do anything about it.

***
As destructive as their policies are, they haven't actually affected the policy-makers.
They have money, they have teslas and no problems charging them, they have private jets...

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 28, 2022 08:24 AM (gbzeC)

124
even Olyphant complained about working with Oswalt
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 28, 2022 08:22 AM (ENBF0)

It saddens me that my teenage crush Meredith Salenger is married to that fat fuck.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

125 We don't want to offend the killer by assuming "their" gender.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:20 AM (eC4Tv)
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It's so asinine.
Odds that the killer is male: >>95%
Odds that the killer is on SSRIs: >>80%

You can damn near set your watch by this, yet they persist in the stupid reporting.

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

126 The Bureau of Economic Research is just a bunch of old white power domestic terrorists agitating against The People.

Posted by: Karine Jean Pierre at July 28, 2022 08:25 AM (4sUNT)

127 No sentient, even marginally so, human being can determine anything less than the undeniable, visible proof they are purposefully destroying America. We are at the rubber meets the road point in history for this country. All around us, it's abysmal and there is no light on the horizon that I can see. There's too much going wrong. Not to be histrionic or anything, but the avalanche is underway. Next up, get ready for famine. Because, yes kids, by all accounts, there is a demonic undercurrent to highly curtail food production worldwide.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 28, 2022 08:18 AM (sVtYq)

Oh yes it is coming. For example, the Iraqis are storming the palace in Baghdad.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Dyin' Time's Here". Thunderdome.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 28, 2022 08:25 AM (JOtiF)

128 It's not a recession because reasons...

OK

FUNPRESSION!

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 08:25 AM (flINI)

129 Climbing aboard the Biden junta's train now is outright insanity. Someone got to Manchin. The only question is, "Who?".
Posted by: creeper at July 28, 2022 08:05 AM (cTCuP)

Maybe they suggested a criminal investigation into his daughter over the insulin/epipen stuff.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 28, 2022 08:25 AM (zhLdt)

130 This is starting to get really interesting. The Big Bang theory is one of those accepted pieces of "truth" in science because we don't have a whole lot of evidence (yet) to disprove it. Did the Big Bang happen as we think it did? Or did something else jump start our universe as we currently understand it?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 08:00 AM (YIVH2)

"I'm standing right here, you know."

- God

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 28, 2022 08:25 AM (906pl)

131 >>I'm still not sure how so many help wanted signs are up when things are economically so bad.

I can't think of a biz I have been in that hasn't had issues wiyh staffing in the past 18 months. Not a single one...and they are ALL advertising starting hourly wages above $16/hour.
Most advertise bonus and other incentives for employees making it 90+ days.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 08:26 AM (rwTWa)

132 I'm late with Saltie's upbeat daily greeting.

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

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 28, 2022 08:26 AM (1n+EO)

133 ECONOMIC FUNLAPSE!

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 08:26 AM (flINI)

134 They told Manchin he could frame it as an inflation tax decrease and he bought it.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:05 AM (eC4Tv)

He can frame it as a pepperoni pizza but Domino's won't deliver it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 28, 2022 08:26 AM (zhLdt)

135 I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul!

Posted by: Infectious Demonic Monkypock at July 28, 2022 08:26 AM (u7Rwk)

136 Are you sure that is a wine bottle ornament and not just where your alcoholic wine aunt neighbor throws her empties?

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

137 test

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 28, 2022 08:27 AM (O9syx)

138 131 Fast food joints around here are promoting hiring bonuses up to 1K after X number of days, and, of course, the $15 an hour which has no impact on inflation.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 28, 2022 08:27 AM (lz5hY)

139
So, so true. If we had term limits I would not have the likes of Chuck U Schumer as one of my Senators.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at July 28, 2022 08:23 AM (4q/mG)

Yes. Sad but true. Because the people won't pay attention and I don't see that changing any time soon, we do need term limits.

Limit the graft, but will that help or hinder? Will they then get elected and steal with reckless abandon?

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

140 I'm still not sure how so many help wanted signs are up when things are economically so bad.

One guess I heard is that lots of boomers took retirement during Covid and left a big hole in the workforce. Not enough people to fill those spots.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 28, 2022 08:28 AM (45fpk)

141 This is starting to get really interesting. The Big Bang theory is one of those accepted pieces of "truth" in science because we don't have a whole lot of evidence (yet) to disprove it. Did the Big Bang happen as we think it did? Or did something else jump start our universe as we currently understand it?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 08:00 AM (YIVH2)
++++
Based on the way things are going, I have an increasing degree of confidence in the conspiracy theory that the Large Hadron Collider accident in 2008 ripped a hole in spacetime and thrust us into a parallel dimension where everything is out of kilter with expectations - that we entered some sort of bizarro universe. If this is the case, physics has a lot of catching up to do in terms of understanding the fundamental rules of nature ...

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

142 Manchins statement on the bill was Kamala Harris level politician jabberwocky.

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

143 Are you sure that is a wine bottle ornament and not just where your alcoholic wine aunt neighbor throws her empties?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:27 AM (eC4Tv)

***

If they're a true Wine Aunt they drink their wine from a box

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 08:28 AM (flINI)

144 ECONOMIC FUNLAPSE!
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 08:26 AM (flINI)

ECONOMIC CALYPSO!!!!

EVERYBODY REGGAE!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

145 "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will not teach a constitutional law seminar at George Washington University this fall for the first time in more than a decade amid nationwide backlash over his concurrence in the case overturning Roe v. Wade."
" Petitioners pushing for Thomas' removal celebrated his removal from the list of instructors, saying, "We did it."

https://tinyurl.com/3c23zxpe

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

146 So, so true. If we had term limits I would not have the likes of Chuck U Schumer as one of my Senators.
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You'd just end up with another Senator from Goldman Sachs. You live in a satrap not a state.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:29 AM (T/Wjp)

147 The big bang started when God's cat batted His point energy source off of the table and it hit the floor.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:30 AM (eC4Tv)

148 145 "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will not teach a constitutional law seminar at George Washington University this fall for the first time in more than a decade amid nationwide backlash over his concurrence in the case overturning Roe v. Wade."
" Petitioners pushing for Thomas' removal celebrated his removal from the list of instructors, saying, "We did it."

https://tinyurl.com/3c23zxpe
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Bet they were mostly white.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:30 AM (T/Wjp)

149 Pardon my ignorance but what is this LIV golf tournament thing? Is it a bunch of low information voters playing golf?

Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 08:30 AM (nxdel)

150 I'll amuse myself today by hoping Manwich gets a non-stop, irate earful from his constituents and has a come to Jesus moment about dropping yet another atom bomb on America.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 28, 2022 08:31 AM (sVtYq)

151 So according to Yahoo! LIV news, Americans are worried about gas prices but say they can afford it. But what there are really worried abut, polls say is, get this, the cots of child care! Yes, that is what everybody is bitching about in the stores and office and everywhere I go. The cost of child care is is killing us and the govt should take care of that.

Where do do they get this? Do they poll their coworkers or just make it up?

Posted by: Ripley at July 28, 2022 08:31 AM (PTDkx)

152 IF Manchin shows his face with the little people again,he should be hounded and made a pariah..I'd say fruits and veggies thrown, but they are getting expensive. Any of thse assclowns making public appearance anymore

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 28, 2022 08:31 AM (/6GbT)

153 GDP number awful

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:32 AM (WY8d2)

154 One guess I heard is that lots of boomers took retirement during Covid and left a big hole in the workforce. Not enough people to fill those spots.
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That is definitely true in DoD.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:32 AM (T/Wjp)

155 Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan; 2h
#BREAKING:

Whistleblower: Same FBI Boss Who Shut Down Hunter Biden Dirt Also Pressured Agents to Juice Domestic Violent Extremism Stats

https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/
1552590608392388609

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 28, 2022 08:32 AM (yikp0)

156 mornin' y'all.

So they Anti-Pope came out against the Latin Mass.

My shocked face is worn out form over use. Might be time for another Church schism. Hopefully a peaceful one.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at July 28, 2022 08:32 AM (PbwT0)

157 Sorry, VDJ. No sympathy here for the country that bought and paid for our (p)resident.

Posted by: creeper at July 28, 2022 08:32 AM (cTCuP)

158 Oswalt had a role in a couple of Justified episodes. Betcha Nick Searcy got along not so fine with the little fat fuck.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 28, 2022 08:15 AM (lz5hY)

**

Nick Searcy was a year behind me in high school. We had a political science class together. Even then, he wouldn't have been considered a liberal. He was also a pretty decent basketball player.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 28, 2022 08:32 AM (R5lpX)

159 Man Chin is running for Vice President.

Posted by: Zek at July 28, 2022 08:32 AM (OzNIz)

160 Second quarter GDP report. -.9.

2nd consecutive quarters of negative growth. Official recession.

Market diving

Posted by: redenzo at July 28, 2022 08:33 AM (E7vND)

161 Pardon my ignorance but what is this LIV golf tournament thing? Is it a bunch of low information voters playing golf?
Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 08:30 AM (nxdel)

A Saudi funded golf league, lead by Greg Norman, created to compete with the PGA Tour. They're throwing tons of $$$$ at PGA Tour stars to jump ship.

The LIV is roman numerals for 54, the score achieved if each hole in a round is birdied, which has never been done.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

162 2nd straight quarter the GDP has dropped. .9%

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

163 43 Eric Gretiens... I'm not of Missouri, but am I wrong to smell GOPe on the "scandals" he has?
Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit
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Same here.. from what I've heard from my Show-Me state friends is that all of this is a hit job and they will ensure they get to the polls and vote for Gretiens b/c it smells like an inside hit job. Don't think the GOPe are going out without a fight... fuckers.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 28, 2022 08:33 AM (ZoSzo)

164 149 Pardon my ignorance but what is this LIV golf tournament thing? Is it a bunch of low information voters playing golf?
Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 08:30 AM (nxdel)

The Saudis are starting up a competitor to the Pro Golf Tour (PGA). The usual chorus of wilting orchids are all hot and bothered because of the incident with the "reporter". But the Saudis have deep pockets and have signed some big stars.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2022 08:34 AM (cupoy)

165 GDP report, per CNBC (lefty Comcast) says number shows recession is here.

But hey lets have Joe Manchin tax the job creators

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:34 AM (WY8d2)

166 There is a new level of entitlement being taught.

You are an activist. Demand respect from hour 1 day 1. Make them concede to your demands.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:34 AM (eC4Tv)

167 Based on the way things are going, I have an increasing degree of confidence in the conspiracy theory that the Large Hadron Collider accident in 2008 ripped a hole in spacetime and thrust us into a parallel dimension where everything is out of kilter with expectations...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

When I first learnt about deterministic laws of physics as a kid, I tried to "fool" nature by doing something unexpected. Like put my foot down in a slightly different place than originally intended as I was walking. Since I would be breaking the laws of physics, I hoped it would get me into a parallel universe. Never seemed to work.

Then again, how can you tell? Maybe the parallel universes are so similar to the original you can't tell the difference.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 08:34 AM (vcv8B)

168 164. Two of the LIV events are at Trump courses

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:34 AM (WY8d2)

169 Manchin is going to be their boy, - it's all just a ruse. Could be worse, if Joe is considering 4 more years of sniffing your children.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 28, 2022 08:34 AM (0ocXn)

170 Second quarter GDP report. -.9.

2nd consecutive quarters of negative growth. Official recession.

Market diving
Posted by: redenzo at July 28, 2022 08:33 AM (E7vND)

Which should be revised to -3.9 in 8 weeks or so.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

171 I like Greitens, but he had a affair as Governor. Stupid like Bill Clinton

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:35 AM (WY8d2)

172 Nobody and that's the really infuriating part. But there's big money in the climate change scam and too many people willing to sell their souls.
Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 08:17 AM (nxdel)

The argument made by the WEF, privately, is simple. Hey there, person in government, our agenda is going to be enacted. You have two choices. You can help us get it in place faster, in which case you and yours become part of the ruling elite. Or you can thwart us, in which case you and yours will be part of the massive pile of corpses we plan to create.

Not one of the geniuses has ever considered that, after the great reset is accomplished, their co-operation will no longer be required.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 28, 2022 08:35 AM (zhLdt)

173 "2nd straight quarter the GDP has dropped. .9%"

So definitely not a recession, right?

Posted by: Ripley at July 28, 2022 08:35 AM (PTDkx)

174 Whoops, there it is....Negative .9% GDP

With 9% inflation. Thanks Joe.

Posted by: WisRich at July 28, 2022 08:35 AM (G0vdT)

175 Two of the LIV events are at Trump courses
Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:34 AM (WY8d2)

Which is why Trump has come out in favor of it. The PGA abandoned his ass after the "insurrection" and pulled out from 2 of his courses.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

176 If I got busted in Russia, do you think the USA would trade the Merchant of Death for my release? Nah. They'd turn over the Wholesaler of Heartburn, or the Dealer of Discomfort, whatever benchers they got.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at July 28, 2022 08:36 AM (qpX6U)

177 "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will not teach a constitutional law seminar at George Washington University this fall for the first time in more than a decade amid nationwide backlash over his concurrence in the case overturning Roe v. Wade."
" Petitioners pushing for Thomas' removal celebrated his removal from the list of instructors, saying, "We did it."

--

Couple this with the immature, childish brats in medical school! that walked out of the seminar because a woman speaker believes in not murdering babies.

This is what passes for our up and coming doctors and lawyers. Fully ignorant, petulant SOBs who have spent their whole silly lives stomping feet, throwing fits, crushing the least bit of opposition that doesn't match 100% their belief systems. Do I find that very frightening? Yes, I do.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 28, 2022 08:36 AM (sVtYq)

178 173 "2nd straight quarter the GDP has dropped. .9%"
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My guess is to double that number.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:36 AM (T/Wjp)

179 Britain, the Tories, and Kemi Badenoch
_________

From the Brit sites I go to, it looks as if the current pick is just the placeholder as they go down to defeat. Badenoch may be the one to bring them back, if that's possible.

Which may be a foretaste for here. I expect the GOP to take the House (not so sure about the Senate). But even if they get both, it will be a last hurrah. They are guaranteed to alienate the conservative base by playing the usual games. Does anyone expect to see the FBI lose one dollar of funding?

Posted by: Eeyore at July 28, 2022 08:36 AM (TgBWG)

180 Palace guard currently getting matching orders for the day. Commence Bullshit. Dismissed

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 28, 2022 08:36 AM (/6GbT)

181 " Petitioners pushing for Thomas' removal celebrated his removal from the list of instructors, saying, "We did it."

https://tinyurl.com/3c23zxpe
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Bet they were mostly white.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:30 AM (T/Wjp)

I bet they weren't students at that college. Why?

Over 16,000 signers of the petition; the school only has 1600 students. I'm tempted to do some math...

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 28, 2022 08:36 AM (JOtiF)

182 2nd straight quarter the GDP has dropped. .9%
Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

***

COVID. Putins war. J6 Insurrection. Overturning Roe v Wade. MAGA violence all across the country. Republicans in general...

Am I missing any?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 08:36 AM (flINI)

183 I try not to ask much for prayers, but if you are the praying type I'd appreciate prayers for my mom, who goes in for breast cancer surgery this morning.

Thanks.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 08:36 AM (oZPIE)

184 33> I agree. Not in the mood to wallow either. What's done is done. We should be concentrating on developing a new political party.

Posted by: sidney at July 28, 2022 08:37 AM (Uy/WF)

185 The LIV is roman numerals for 54, the score achieved if each hole in a round is birdied, which has never been done.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas

LIV are all par 72?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 08:37 AM (vcv8B)

186 US Military To Prep For War If Pelosi Goes To Taiwan: Report
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I hope the high heel reserve is at maximum supply level.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 28, 2022 08:37 AM (TgBWG)

187 It is the Trump/Putin twin's economic disaster!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:37 AM (eC4Tv)

188 169 Manchin can dust off the commercial where he's shooting the Obamacare bill. Wearing a flannel shirt and using a Model 70, he will appeal to the 2A crowd and lesbians.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 28, 2022 08:37 AM (lz5hY)

189 If I got busted in Russia, do you think the USA would trade the Merchant of Death for my release? Nah. They'd turn over the Wholesaler of Heartburn, or the Dealer of Discomfort, whatever benchers they got.
Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at July 28, 2022 08:36 AM (qpX6U)

You won't have Al Sharpton screaming racism and parading your lesbian wife all over every TV you can find.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

190 Manchin had a price. That price was met. It's really that simple. Every politician is like this. They can't help themselves. The system they've bought into demands their corruption. If there was a personal price to be paid for fucking over those that you claim to represent there might be reform. Until that happens it'll be business as usual, "red wave" notwithstanding.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2022 08:38 AM (BFigT)

191 Guys, DC is nothing moar than a college campus full of insane trust fund babies at the moment. Do not believe these adult adolescents represent a majority. They don't. They are paid actors.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:38 AM (T/Wjp)

192 With that in mind, I cannot understand how West Virginians keep sending this asshole to Congress.

I presume the "My family has voted Democrat since 1932!" people are dying off. So normies voting for Democrats is perplexing.

Manchin's opponent in 2018 did make it close and 2012 was not.

So one theory - if you look at the polling Manchin was WAY ahead early on, and as time went on his opponent got close but never quite went ahead. Let me suggest there were enough LIVs voting, that had no idea who his opponent was, and therefore just voted for Manchin because they sort of heard of him.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2022 08:38 AM (ESjRY)

193 Mornin’, my fellow breakfast tacos.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 28, 2022 08:38 AM (O9syx)

194 Market diving

Posted by: redenzo at July 28, 2022 08:33 AM (E7vND)

Eons ago my step-father taught me the benefits of dollar cost averaging ( I think that's the term). Anyway, a set amount of money gets automatically invested each month come rain or come shine. Wouldn't you know it, just when we retire, it's pouring out there.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 28, 2022 08:38 AM (45fpk)

195
LIV are all par 72?
Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 08:37 AM (vcv8B)

Do not know, but that would stand to reason, I guess.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

196 The Taiwanese can lob Pelosi across the strait as their first volley.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:38 AM (eC4Tv)

197 I saw LIV just signed 2 time Masters winner Bubba Watson

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 28, 2022 08:38 AM (sRUs0)

198 "There is a new level of entitlement being taught.

You are an activist. Demand respect from hour 1 day 1. Make them concede to your demands.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy"

At some point the activists overwhelm the norms and apathetic and their ability of give whatever they are demanding and they out of targets. I kinda think we are at or near that point. What then? Show trials and struggle sessions?

Posted by: Ripley at July 28, 2022 08:39 AM (PTDkx)

199 Next up, get ready for famine. Because, yes kids, by all accounts, there is a demonic undercurrent to highly curtail food production worldwide.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 28, 2022 08:18 AM (sVtYq)

Worldwide population of 500M. BAMN.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 28, 2022 08:39 AM (zhLdt)

200 When we're fighting over squirrel stew we'll look back at "worrying about the market" with nostalgia.

Posted by: Zek at July 28, 2022 08:39 AM (OzNIz)

201 Then again, how can you tell? Maybe the parallel universes are so similar to the original you can't tell the difference.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 08:34 AM (vcv8B)

They're similar, that's how it starts. But then later there's running and screaming.

Posted by: Jeff Goldblum at July 28, 2022 08:39 AM (cupoy)

202 Call-
Senator Manchin's office
202-224-3954 DC
304-342-5855 Charleston

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 08:40 AM (NpAcC)

203 I try not to ask much for prayers, but if you are the praying type I'd appreciate prayers for my mom, who goes in for breast cancer surgery this morning.

Thanks.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 08:36 AM (oZPIE)

Absolutely.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 28, 2022 08:40 AM (45fpk)

204 This Manchin deal, is a signal that the Dems know they cannot keep the House. It is gone. A house vote on this deal destroys many swing seat Rats.

Manchin is not running in 2024 for his Senate Seat. That is obvious

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:40 AM (WY8d2)

205 I just went to drudge to do a quick scan of headlines and it's like a postcard from a foreign land.
Demo are up in polls, the economy is not in recession, the wheels are closing in on Trump, gas are responsibly cutting back on cock ...

Who's delusional, us or them?
We both can't be living in the same reality

Posted by: Jeff Goldblum, who nonetheless got the job at July 28, 2022 08:41 AM (MFphb)

206 Didn't the woman accusing Gretiens of various things turn out to be completely insane?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2022 08:41 AM (ESjRY)

207 Far less than the 1% some analysts expected! Huge win!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:41 AM (eC4Tv)

208 Does BBB not have to get 60 votes? or is it considered a budget bill?

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at July 28, 2022 08:41 AM (53oGX)

209 The LIV is roman numerals for 54, the score achieved if each hole in a round is birdied, which has never been done.

Pish posh! I do yesterday. Twice.

Posted by: Long Kim Jong at July 28, 2022 08:41 AM (u7Rwk)

210 I saw LIV just signed 2 time Masters winner Bubba Watson
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 28, 2022 08:38 AM (sRUs0)

Phil Mickelson (initially rejected, then sold out), Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Paul Casey (I think), to name a few.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

211 PGA is 4 days 72 hole events. LIV is 3 day 54 hole events.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 28, 2022 08:41 AM (sRUs0)

212 Thanks for the explanation guys! I had no idea and kept seeing LIV. Never occurred to me it was roman numerals. I was being silly when I said low information voter but I just couldn't figure out what it meant. Now, that said who gives a fuck if the saudis come up with their own tournament? All that's going on in the world trust me, that's number 18,678 on my list of things I give a shit about.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 08:41 AM (nxdel)

213 We don't pay attention to GDP numbers quarter to quarter anyway. It is an outdated, racist measure of the economy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:41 AM (eC4Tv)

214 Not Totally Bugf*ck Crazy, Just Corrupt!

Posted by: Manchin Presidential Slogan Workshop at July 28, 2022 08:41 AM (OzNIz)

215 I try not to ask much for prayers, but if you are the praying type I'd appreciate prayers for my mom, who goes in for breast cancer surgery this morning.

Done.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 08:41 AM (89T5c)

216 COVID. Putins war. J6 Insurrection. Overturning Roe v Wade. MAGA violence all across the country. Republicans in general...

Am I missing any?
-------------------
Yeah. $80B in weapons sloshing about the ME and SW Asia and another $56B sloshing about Eastern Europe. Then there is the ripple effect on China and EU with the US devaluing the dollar. It seems we are in a double dog dare you moment everywhere you look. Obama, like Hitler, is a compulsive gambler.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:42 AM (T/Wjp)

217 You can lose money in the market or you can watch your savings evaporate in the bank.

Take your pick.

Posted by: creeper at July 28, 2022 08:42 AM (cTCuP)

218 194. I gave up buying the dips in the market. It has a few big up days here or there. but as long as we have $5 gas and Biden, why bother

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:42 AM (WY8d2)

219 Disclose.tv @disclosetv; 18h
JUST IN - U.S. Senate just passed the $52 billion CHIPS-plus bill. House vote could come as soon as this week.

Speaker Pelosi's husband dumped his NVIDIA stock one day before the vote.

I'm still scratching my head over that. Cynically, I thought it was that he ~~was told~~ knew the CHIPS act would not pass and figured he would get out while the passing of the act is built into the price. But....

He didn't buy stocks, he bought options, and while he, he may have had stocks, the reporting is so poor that I'm reading "up to five million dollars" in stocks and claims that he sold on the 17th of July (today is the 28th, not "yesterday").

For all we know, this would be the least performing trade and he needed to free up capital for a much better opportunity. Lose a little to score a lot.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 08:42 AM (3hSHB)

220 I wonder if Satan's Minions in the WEF, those calling for the eradication of personal vehicles, will be giving up their private jets, limo caravans, world class food, luxurious getaways and multiple mansions? I'll have to chew on that...

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 28, 2022 08:43 AM (sVtYq)

221 The GDP print of -0.9 is less good than it looks at the top line and is definitely recessionary regardless of the spin. Really cursory read:

Personal consumption expenditure is up 1.0%, but goods (physical stuff) are down 4.4% and private investment is down a staggering 13.5%. The only increases were in services spending (read: things like medical and child care, education, etc.) and intellectual property investment (probably mostly in big tech). Exports were up slightly. Gross all-in private investment is down by 2.73% and the inventory draw-down after the gigantic build-up in Q4 of last year (that pushed the entire GDP print positive due to its scale) continues, with inventories posting -2.01%. Investment in non-residential structures (stores, factories, office buildings, etc.) fell by 11.7% and residential structures (houses, apartment buildings, etc.) fell by 14%.

Declining real spending in the physical economy, declining investment, declining inventories and reduced construction and fixed asset investment while inflation continues and the average joe's credit cards are nearly maxed out isn't exactly a rosy "things are better than the top-line GDP print indicates" story.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 28, 2022 08:43 AM (WWh8n)

222 Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 08:36 AM (oZPIE)
********
Definitely. Sending prayers for your mom!

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

223 Morning, and thanks for the news J.J.

These people are not behaving like they know they are going to lose. It reminds me of the way I felt before the last election, knowing Trump would win, but believing they wouldn't allow it. They are not going to let go of power.

Posted by: spypeach at July 28, 2022 08:43 AM (gnwe5)

224 Does BBB not have to get 60 votes? or is it considered a budget bill?

Schumer will pass it with 50 + Kammy and the GOPE will shit in their hands.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:43 AM (eC4Tv)

225 210. Pga tour played politics by cancelling trump course events. F them

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:44 AM (WY8d2)

226 I try not to ask much for prayers, but if you are the praying type I'd appreciate prayers for my mom, who goes in for breast cancer surgery this morning.

Thanks.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 28, 2022 08:36 AM (oZPIE)

Absolutely. Godspeed to your mother and may the surgeon have steady hands and a good heart.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

227 Again, I'll point out intentionally causing inflation, and that's what Democrats are doing, is a really bad idea.

LIVs don't pay attention to the Dems looting the treasury. They don't want to know this stuff in fact. But they can't help but see the inflation.

The only answers to this then are

1) The Democrats know their goose is cooked and they are looting as much as they can in a last orgy

2) The Democrats are stupid and don't get that LIVs *will* see inflation and *will* vote against them

3) The Democrats aren't worried about how actual citizens vote

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2022 08:44 AM (ESjRY)

228 Disclose.tv @disclosetv; 18h
JUST IN - U.S. Senate just passed the $52 billion CHIPS-plus bill. House vote could come as soon as this week.

***

Ponch and Jon lobbied HARD for that bill

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 08:44 AM (flINI)

229 183>Said a little prayer for your mom and you. I hope you have someone with you. God bless.

Posted by: sidney at July 28, 2022 08:44 AM (Uy/WF)

230 " We are so friggin' unmoored from any sense of normalcy, propriety and the barest minimum of ethics that anything is possible."
"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."

Posted by: x-ray jeff at July 28, 2022 08:44 AM (iQfO7)

231 It was destined to happen, we still just want to believe (otherwise).

Congressional Progressive Caucus Issues Executive Action Agenda for Biden Administration, March 17, 2022

The proposed executive actions would lower costs, raise workers’ wages, protect immigrant rights, advance racial equity, and combat the climate crisis
WASHINGTON — Today, the Congressional Progressive Caucus released its agenda for executive action from the Biden administration as part of its ongoing effort to deliver on the President’s agenda.

It's the largest ideological caucus in Congress. "Dance with the one that brought you." Next target, imo: The entire Freedom Caucus 'because 1/6.'

Posted by: Lola at July 28, 2022 08:45 AM (NIYa7)

232 Two of the LIV events are at Trump courses
Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:34 AM (WY8d2)

Which is why Trump has come out in favor of it. The PGA abandoned his ass after the "insurrection" and pulled out from 2 of his courses.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

The PGA Tour yanked away the PGA Championship from Trump's Bedminster course (even with a signed contract) because, well, belonga Orange Man Bad.

So I'm sure he agreed to the LIV events to literally stick his thumb in the PGA's eye while chanted 'yuk yuk yuk'.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 28, 2022 08:45 AM (JOtiF)

233 Not one of the geniuses has ever considered that, after the great reset is accomplished, their co-operation will no longer be required.

Exactly! The alligator will eat them last, but it will still eat them. Fools.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 08:45 AM (nxdel)

234 Wonder how much NBC paid for their PGA broadcasting rights? Deal was just renewed this year. May be worth half what they paid now. So sad.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 08:46 AM (vcv8B)

235 The Vogue photo shoot tells you everything you need to know about Zelensky and Ukraine. It also should inform anyone who still believes they can win.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 28, 2022 08:46 AM (oWBc3)

236 Thanks for the explanation guys! I had no idea and kept seeing LIV. Never occurred to me it was roman numerals. I was being silly when I said low information voter but I just couldn't figure out what it meant. Now, that said who gives a fuck if the saudis come up with their own tournament? All that's going on in the world trust me, that's number 18,678 on my list of things I give a shit about.
Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 08:41 AM (nxdel)

The Saudis are funding a golf tour! (And Dubai is funding the Euro Tour. And China is funding the PGA Tour. But yes, let's suddenly get all sanctimonious about where sports gets its money.)

Posted by: Wally at July 28, 2022 08:46 AM (FJYfm)

237 What then? Show trials and struggle sessions?
Posted by: Ripley at July 28, 2022 08:39 AM (PTDkx)

Show trials? Two Impeachments and the Jan 6 kangaroo proceedings should check that box. The cancel culture is public struggle sessions, wringing apologies out of fools to discourage the others from stepping out of line.

What comes after show trials and struggle sessions? I already watch what I say in my own house because I know my phone and my fire tv remotes are listening. They are also trying to compel us to deny obvious truths like gender, just like good little Soviets.

The Marxist Totalitarianism is coming from inside the house.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2022 08:46 AM (cupoy)

238 We're hanging from one hinge now. Won't be long...

Posted by: Ziba at July 28, 2022 08:46 AM (4h9M3)

239 A prayer for your mom, Bitter Clinger. And one for her surgical team, too.

Posted by: creeper at July 28, 2022 08:47 AM (cTCuP)

240 -0.9% GDP

To be revised lower later and not covered by the media.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 28, 2022 08:47 AM (Y5qcH)

241 Prayers up, Grammie.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:47 AM (T/Wjp)

242
I just went to drudge to do a quick scan of headlines and it's like a postcard from a foreign land.
Demo are up in polls, the economy is not in recession, the wheels are closing in on Trump, gas are responsibly cutting back on cock ...

Who's delusional, us or them?
We both can't be living in the same reality

Posted by: Jeff Goldblum, who nonetheless got the job at July 28, 2022 08:41 AM

I start out the morning by checking out offthepress dot com - which is run by former Drudge people. There, you get the actual news. I then go to Drudge and read the opposite in the headlines. It's baffling.

Posted by: Barely Saunders at July 28, 2022 08:47 AM (jE276)

243 S and P now positive. Just crazy

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:47 AM (WY8d2)

244 This Manchin deal, is a signal that the Dems know they cannot keep the House. It is gone. A house vote on this deal destroys many swing seat Rats.

Manchin is not running in 2024 for his Senate Seat. That is obvious

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:40 AM

If he does somehow manage to win the dem nomination in 2024 he will join a long list of democrat candidates who lost their home state in the general election.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 28, 2022 08:47 AM (bVYXr)

245 redefining a recession was hard

the redefining of "emissions" will be easily controlled

Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2022 08:48 AM (us2H3)

246 235

Yup. That's why I'm rootin' for Putin...

Posted by: Ziba at July 28, 2022 08:48 AM (4h9M3)

247 The "Forward" Party, eh?

What was it I said about Pence obviously reading from The Script the other day? What was it he said two days ago?

"It's time for Republicans to look Forward, not backwards"?

Gee what a coincidence. And yes it matters that he's merely reading from the script. The same script Romney, Cheney, Pelosi, Obama and Hillary read from. Everyone needs to understand what we are up against.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 08:48 AM (TQp/e)

248 I'd watch that movie with the trailer with the 'line' city in Saudi Arabia. Kind of like that dystopian train movie, the one where no one owns anything and they eat bugs, except for the elite at the one end, though stationary and in the desert instead of the snow.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 28, 2022 08:48 AM (fs1hN)

249 GDP is crashing? Sell sell sell se... oooooh that stock has a nice discount now Buy buy buy buy!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:49 AM (eC4Tv)

250 To be revised lower later and not covered by the media.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 28, 2022 08:47 AM (Y5qcH)

Why revise it? They lie about everything else, like that will give them legitimacy

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 28, 2022 08:49 AM (/6GbT)

251 Manchin is not running in 2024 for his Senate Seat. That is obvious

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:40 AM

so, you're saying he will be dead, right ?

Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2022 08:49 AM (us2H3)

252 183. Prayers for your mom and for you as she battles breast cancer. Courage and healing for her; strength and comfort for both of you.

Posted by: Lola at July 28, 2022 08:49 AM (NIYa7)

253 The war on private property has only begun. It's incremental and inexorable.

Marx said very plainly that if his entire ideology had to be distilled down to one point, it would be this: the abolition of private property.

The problem with conservatism is that it has no ultimate goal. Preservation is not a goal but a defensive, survival strategy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 28, 2022 08:50 AM (H8QX8)

254 Prayers for skillful, wise doctors. Compassionate nurses.a speedy and complete recovery for you mom, Bitter.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 28, 2022 08:50 AM (P6j3m)

255 For all we know, this would be the least performing trade and he needed to free up capital for a much better opportunity. Lose a little to score a lot.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

I assumed it was a case of

"Honey, I'm getting a ton of heat over your stock deals. Can you lose a little money to give me plausible deniability? This CHIPS bill would be perfect."

"Sure, Nance"

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 08:50 AM (vcv8B)

256 The way the tour treated Phil, makes me hope they crash and burn. He and Tiger made billions for the PGa Tour. The only reason I watched.

Phil is a huge Veterans supporter, like the Wounded Warriors.

They treated Phil like a Criminal

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:50 AM (WY8d2)

257 235 The Vogue photo shoot tells you everything you need to know about Zelensky and Ukraine. It also should inform anyone who still believes they can win.
-------------------
Ukraine is all about the revenge of the Manhattan money lenders who were thrown out of Russia by Putin once Yeltsin went down. Its a particularly nasty abuse of national assets for the benefit of a very few. Of course, those very few are special. I laughed watching footage of Ben Stiller meeting Zelensky.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 08:51 AM (T/Wjp)

258 Bitter Clinger prayers sent for your mom.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 08:51 AM (nxdel)

259 Manchin's not running again, that's obvious. He needed to pad his nest egg some more. And you can be he's not going to retire to WV. He'll resurface in a couple years in a leftist shit hole state.

It's what he does.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2022 08:51 AM (BFigT)

260 183. Prayers for your Mom, Bitter

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:52 AM (WY8d2)

261 Manchin will be reelected with ease.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 08:52 AM (TQp/e)

262 the market roared yesterday cuz Powell signaled he would let inflation blaze until next year

next year, the crash

Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2022 08:52 AM (us2H3)

263 Just read three articles about the negative GDP growth.

Amazingly (or not) all three of them avoided using the word 'recession' until 3-5 paragraphs in. And even then, they said this 'raises fear of a possible recession'.

Two consecutive negative quarters of GDP growth has been the criteria (and the only criteria) to describe a recession for 50 years. But the press is carrying water for Biden. We truly do live in an Orwellian world right now.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at July 28, 2022 08:52 AM (GMR0L)

264 I like that Trump is coming up with policies, ones that can inspire voters across the political spectrum. It probably lines up pretty well with what McCarthy and McConnell proposed.

Ok, that was a joke. But now these McIdiots can at least be put on the spot and asked if they agree with the proposals. Not sure who in media would ask them though. It wouldn't be TDS sufferer Brett Bair for example.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 28, 2022 08:52 AM (fs1hN)

265 I'm still not sure how so many help wanted signs are up when things are economically so bad.

Employers are only offering part time jobs so that medical benefits aren't owed. I see several people in retail in my area in two or more part time jobs.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 28, 2022 08:52 AM (lTGtQ)

266 BC, done and done!!!

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 08:52 AM (TQp/e)

267 They treated Phil like a Criminal
Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:50 AM (WY8d2)

Just like they increasingly treat all of us.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 28, 2022 08:52 AM (H8QX8)

268 I'd watch that movie with the trailer with the 'line' city in Saudi Arabia. Kind of like that dystopian train movie, the one where no one owns anything and they eat bugs, except for the elite at the one end, though stationary and in the desert instead of the snow.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Snowpiercer. Someone commented on twitter that it looks like Snowpiercer meets Judge Dredd.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 08:53 AM (vcv8B)

269 It's what he does.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2022 08:51 AM (BFigT)

he could die but even then ....

Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2022 08:53 AM (us2H3)

270 217 You can lose money in the market or you can watch your savings evaporate in the bank.

Take your pick.
Posted by: creeper at July 28, 2022 08:42 AM (cTCuP)

I would submit a third option: Crack 'n' hookers!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 28, 2022 08:53 AM (cupoy)

271 259. Manchin knows the party is over after the GOP takes the House. He will be only be relevant on Judges at that point, not on legislation

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:53 AM (WY8d2)

272 Ryan James Girdusky
@RyanGirdusky
August 23rd is not only primary day for Floridians, it's the day of every county school board election. You need to find out who the conservative candidate is and vote for them.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9h8pby

Here's everyone the
@1776ProjectPac
has endorsed for school board in Florida

https://tinyurl.com/wnm9cvh3

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

273 Does BBB not have to get 60 votes? or is it considered a budget bill?

Schumer will pass it with 50 + Kammy and the GOPE will shit in their hands.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:43 AM (eC4Tv)

They are using 'reconciliation', which I admit I don't understand fully, that sidesteps the Senate filibuster rules somehow. So straight majorities in the House/Senate can pass these crocks of shit.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 28, 2022 08:53 AM (JOtiF)

274 In Desperation, Democrats Will Portray Republicans as 'Extremists' For Midterms
________

Well, that is certainly unprecedented.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 28, 2022 08:54 AM (TgBWG)

275 Contemplating "nothing" is sometimes frightening. What if there never was anything? How can the Universe be expanding into any thing? What was "it" before?

Another thing that frightened me when ainwas younger, they can plot where all the planets were, and predict where they will be far into the future. Does this mean my own life is following a predictable trajectory? "Wherever you are, is where you're meant to be". Yeah, sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2022 08:54 AM (3sphl)

276 Synema lives in a state that really hates tax raising, and has promised not to

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:54 AM (WY8d2)

277 ,9 will be revised downward

Powell said so yesterday

Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2022 08:55 AM (us2H3)

278 I met Judge Dredd.
He's okay.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 28, 2022 08:55 AM (h//r+)

279 Testing because of that whore Sarah.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 08:56 AM (UlZCQ)

280 I then go to Drudge and read the opposite in the headlines. It's baffling.

Drudge sold out to a Google oligarch (technically not quite what he did, but close enough). He has nothing to do with the day to day running of the site any more.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2022 08:56 AM (ESjRY)

281 -.9% my ass. Triple that and you're in the ballpark.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 28, 2022 08:56 AM (oWBc3)

282 Having gold to me does not make sense. On paper it is a hedge, but if the shit hits the fan, only food and ammo will matter.

How do you barter with a 3k coin. Give it to Jon Snow?

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 08:56 AM (WY8d2)

283 Testing because of that whore Sarah.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 08:56 AM (UlZCQ)

***

Fuckin' Sarah...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 08:57 AM (flINI)

284
Drudge sold out to a Google oligarch (technically not quite what he did, but close enough). He has nothing to do with the day to day running of the site any more.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2022 08:56 AM (ESjRY)

His name is still on it. That means he supports it. He is asshoe.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

285 Reconciliation is one bill per year where the majority leader is allowed to suspend rules and do whatever.
McTurtle didn't use his one year, and is allowing Schumer to bank it and use 2 or 3 or however the fuck many he wants to because rules are inly things that republicans pretend to follow and anything goes in an emergency and everything is an emergency.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:57 AM (eC4Tv)

286 The democrats did this with the barest of majority and when, if the republicans get back with big majorities they won't be able to do anything because they don't have 61 in the senate.

In my heart I knew this was going to pass somehow because you simply do not steal an election and not go full on totalitarian commie.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 28, 2022 08:57 AM (u4CEu)

287 275
Another thing that frightened me when ainwas younger, they can plot where all the planets were, and predict where they will be far into the future. Does this mean my own life is following a predictable trajectory? "Wherever you are, is where you're meant to be". Yeah, sure.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2022 08:54 AM (3sphl)

There's no such thing as Free Will. It only seems " free" from our perspective?

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 08:57 AM (Vr12I)

288 Contemplating "nothing" is sometimes frightening. What if there never was anything? How can the Universe be expanding into any thing? What was "it" before?

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." John 1:1-5

Posted by: grammie winger at July 28, 2022 08:58 AM (45fpk)

289 Does this mean my own life is following a predictable trajectory? "Wherever you are, is where you're meant to be". Yeah, sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2022 08:54 AM (3sphl)

God gave us free will. That's my belief.

It doesn't mean He doesn't intervene in our affairs, I believe that He does and He shows himself often, in many and varied ways, sometimes only personal to you.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 08:58 AM (UlZCQ)

290 Let me say this about that

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance at July 28, 2022 08:58 AM (geLO8)

291 The ridiculous thing about the carried interest issue is that it is limited to $14 billion. The firms that use this black magic to boost profits, control and invest hundreds of trillions. Clown world.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 28, 2022 08:58 AM (oWBc3)

292 I'm not putting my hope in Sinema. (Phrasing. I know) but she might have a problem.

House progs will eat shit if they vote to pass. Yes. This Manchin deal sucks.

But SALT was not removed. This is a big deal for Cali, NY & NJ progs. House control hopefully in Nov.

As I said yesterday - they may have trapped themselves in a corner with the name of this bill. Even LIV will understand that inflation in 2023 & 2024 - this bill did not eliminate. Lower, yes. But that was the Fed and the recession.

Powells comment is simply CYA. He missed the boat last summer.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 28, 2022 08:58 AM (NW9xb)

293 if the shit hits the fan, only food and ammo will matter.
Posted by: Jonah

And without ammo, you have no way to defend your food.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 08:58 AM (vcv8B)

294 I buy 1/10 oz gold.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 08:59 AM (eC4Tv)

295 Powell will chip along with interest rates until next year

then he will get serious and crash the economy

and of course, the dims and the MSM will blame the evil republicans

for the last 5K years, everyone knows interest rates must be at or higher than the inflation rate

Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2022 08:59 AM (us2H3)

296 264 I like that Trump is coming up with policies,

I agree. He should be very specific, and directly address reform. Just one example, top to bottom audit of the DOJ and FBI. Force Republicans to go on the record.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 28, 2022 08:59 AM (H8QX8)

297 The only way this place could be this fucked up is because of free will, even Stan couldn't manage this shitshow.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 28, 2022 08:59 AM (oWBc3)

298 How do you barter with a 3k coin. Give it to Jon Snow?
Posted by: Jonah

Junk silver. Pre-65 coins. I'd rather show that than ammo for barter.

Posted by: MkY at July 28, 2022 08:59 AM (JL+3K)

299 McConnell's job is to make sure all of his caucus does not vote for this bill, or the Media will call it bi partisan

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 09:00 AM (WY8d2)

300 Does this mean my own life is following a predictable trajectory?

The first question to answer this quandary - is quantum mechanics just a useful math trick or does it describe reality?

The second question is, what is consciousness? If it is a trick, and we really are just controlled by our physical makeup, which is deterministic, then yes. You could map out everyone's life if you could analyze all the data about the world.

I don't know about #1, but I do NOT believe in the materialistic take on #2. We are more then just flesh and bone, and that thing, that soul, allows us free will. And no one can map out what 8 billion souls may do.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2022 09:00 AM (ESjRY)

301 297 The only way this place could be this fucked up is because of free will, even Stan couldn't manage this shitshow.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 28, 2022 08:59 AM (oWBc3)

Musial or Kowalski?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2022 09:00 AM (x0n13)

302 LIV's have absolutely no idea what this bill is, that it exists or will be passed, what a Joe Manchin is, or much beyond who is on this year's Dancing With the Stars.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 09:01 AM (UlZCQ)

303 296 264 I like that Trump is coming up with policies,

I agree. He should be very specific, and directly address reform. Just one example, top to bottom audit of the DOJ and FBI. Force Republicans to go on the record.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 28, 2022 08:59 AM (H8QX

=========

I was assured that every word out of Trump's mouth has been about the steal and his personal pique at being robbed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 28, 2022 09:01 AM (LvTSG)

304 299 McConnell's job is to make sure all of his caucus does not vote for this bill, or the Media will call it bi partisan
Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 09:00 AM (WY8d2)

====

Calling it bipartisan will make the economic effects worse, that's for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 28, 2022 09:01 AM (LvTSG)

305 You guys debating the origin and fate of the universe?

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance at July 28, 2022 09:02 AM (geLO8)

306 They finally put the correct number of zeroes on Mansion's check. Kinda like not buying the MagaMillons ticket until it gets into bazillions. You just gotta be patient.

Posted by: Eromero at July 28, 2022 09:02 AM (gktX6)

307 BTW the photoshop up top is horrifying

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance at July 28, 2022 09:02 AM (geLO8)

308 305 You guys debating the origin and fate of the universe?
Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance at July 28, 2022 09:02 AM (geLO

=========

Well, let's see. First the earth cooled. And then the dinosaurs came, but they got too big and fat, so they all died and they turned into oil. And then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 28, 2022 09:02 AM (LvTSG)

309 LIV's have absolutely no idea what this bill is, that it exists or will be passed, what a Joe Manchin is, or much beyond who is on this year's Dancing With the Stars.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 09:01 AM (UlZCQ)

***

We have been remarkably successful

Posted by: National Education Association at July 28, 2022 09:02 AM (flINI)

310 NSFW!!!!

Posted by: runner at July 28, 2022 09:02 AM (3PcYn)

311 I buy 1/10 oz gold.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

I hope not. The markup on those is atrocious.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 28, 2022 09:03 AM (lTGtQ)

312 First revision of 2Q 2022 GDP growth will be -1.3%. Final revision will be -1.6%.

My wild ass guess due to BBB for 3Q 2022 is -2.1%

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 28, 2022 09:03 AM (u4CEu)

313 295. Right. Due to Covid, all the major savings banks were given so much cash, that they do not have to raise savings account interest to get customers. They do not care.

Reason why savings will not go up even, if Rates are at 10%

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 09:03 AM (WY8d2)

314 Well played Sgt Sefton, already honing in on that dry Midwestern wit!

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 28, 2022 09:03 AM (oWBc3)

315 Yes, I believe in free will.

But, the past and the future already exist, in theory. So we t was troubling to reach a level of self awareness, wondering if everything is predetermined. It is a wicked philosophy, perhaps.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2022 09:03 AM (3sphl)

316 99 McConnell's job is to make sure all of his caucus does not vote for this bill, or the Media will call it bi partisan
Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 09:00 AM (WY8d2)

Since when has the media cared about truth or numbers. They'll call it bipartisan anyway.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 28, 2022 09:03 AM (H8QX8)

317 LIVs don't care what's in it. It the Inflation Act. Hammer that name from now until 2024 and it did not prevent a recession.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 28, 2022 09:03 AM (NW9xb)

318 299 McConnell's job is to make sure all of his caucus does not vote for this bill, or the Media will call it bi partisan
Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 09:00 AM (WY8d2)

well, if anyone can control his caucus, it's Mitch

he's well known for his nerf hammer

Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2022 09:03 AM (us2H3)

319 309
We have been remarkably successful
Posted by: National Education Association at July 28, 2022 09:02 AM (flINI)

========

De Tocqueville wrote about how, in the 1830s (long before teachers unions), the average Joe in the remote hinterlands of New York State could talk intelligently and in an informed manner about the issues of the day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 28, 2022 09:03 AM (LvTSG)

320 305 You guys debating the origin and fate of the universe?
Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance at July 28, 2022 09:02 AM (geLO

Well, it's easier than figuring out how to get out of the current mess we are in.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 09:04 AM (Vr12I)

321 Hey, what can I say -- You trusted me!

Plus the check finally cleared. -- West Virginny Joe (D)

Posted by: Archer at July 28, 2022 09:04 AM (gmo/4)

322 Tommy Pigott
@TommyPigott
Biden inherited a recovery and created a recession

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
23m
CNBC reacts to the U.S. economy shrinking by 0.9% in the second quarter: "OH MY GOSH!"

https://tinyurl.com/2epbbunn

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

323 Manchin always struck me as something of a chowderhead. Is he really that bright?

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 28, 2022 09:04 AM (H8QX8)

324 287 275
Another thing that frightened me when ainwas younger, they can plot where all the planets were, and predict where they will be far into the future. Does this mean my own life is following a predictable trajectory? "Wherever you are, is where you're meant to be". Yeah, sure.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2022 08:54 AM (3sphl)

There's no such thing as Free Will. It only seems " free" from our perspective?
Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 08:57 AM (Vr12I)
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That is a matter of using a particular understanding of free will, which is not the understanding of classical, but of modern philosophers. The key is how you understand choice. The moderns ultimately run to Sartre's extreme, that if there is a basis for the choice, that limits your freedom. Which is absurd.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 28, 2022 09:04 AM (TgBWG)

325 Biden will speak to the country at 2:15 pm.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

326 What I find fascinating is how much of the material world we still have zero comprehension about.

The fabric of our reality is so utterly different than our conception of it, it would probably blow our tiny minds to know what people will know in 300 years. (assuming the Left doesn't destroy everything, which is bold)

Our observations that reality doesn't appear to exist until you *measure it* actually points to some kind of shared dream among those with consciousness, an idea so stupid and implausible, that it feels strange to even write it. And yet... why the hell not?

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 09:05 AM (UlZCQ)

327 315 Yes, I believe in free will.

But, the past and the future already exist, in theory. So we t was troubling to reach a level of self awareness, wondering if everything is predetermined. It is a wicked philosophy, perhaps.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2022 09:03 AM (3sphl)

Well, without God being apart from and in control of it all, it certainly would be.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 09:05 AM (Vr12I)

328 323 Manchin always struck me as something of a chowderhead. Is he really that bright?
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 28, 2022 09:04 AM (H8QX

========

He's a US Senator. Chances are his IQ is roughly in the mid-90s, made all the worse by decades of being told he's always right by people who want something from him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 28, 2022 09:06 AM (LvTSG)

329 Why are Dems so concerned about Bed, Bath and Beyond?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 09:06 AM (T/Wjp)

330 Trump needs to realize right now, that his 2024 fate rests on these midterm Senate and gov elections. House is a lock.

He needs to get up to Penn and help Oz for sure.

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 09:06 AM (WY8d2)

331 The Covid spike protein (not other coronavirus spike proteins) trigger the immune system to attack heart tissue. Go ahead and get jabbed again.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 09:06 AM (eC4Tv)

332 325 Biden will speak to the country at 2:15 pm.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

========

He will message on the economy, and everyone will be convinced that everything is great.

EVERYONE!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 28, 2022 09:06 AM (LvTSG)

333 That is a matter of using a particular understanding of free will, which is not the understanding of classical, but of modern philosophers. The key is how you understand choice. The moderns ultimately run to Sartre's extreme, that if there is a basis for the choice, that limits your freedom. Which is absurd.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 28, 2022 09:04 AM (TgBWG)

If your choice is inevitably caused by a likewise inevitable cause, things are deterministic. If your will chooses such that after weighing things it can choose the option was has less causal strength behind it, then it is the will making the choice.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 28, 2022 09:07 AM (b2nrj)

334 Well, it's easier than figuring out how to get out of the current mess we are in.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 09:04 AM (Vr12I)

Oh that one is VERY easy. It's just not nice.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 09:07 AM (UlZCQ)

335 IN THE beginning, there was Nothing; then Something happened

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance at July 28, 2022 09:07 AM (geLO8)

336 This is fun - Metaphysics after only one cup of coffee on a Thursday morning!

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 09:07 AM (Vr12I)

337 -.9 doesn't mean what you think it means

Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2022 09:08 AM (us2H3)

338 Biden will speak to the country at 2:15 pm.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

***

Question is...
Will his pupils be as big as pie plates? Will he blink? Will he alternate between creepy whispers and old man screaming at the clouds?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 09:08 AM (flINI)

339 291 The ridiculous thing about the carried interest issue is that it is limited to $14 billion.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

They'll generate $14B in taxes. I don't think it's limited.

Long overdue. "Carried Interest" has always been total BS. It lets General Partners in private investment firms (i.e the ones hired to manage the capital, not the Limited Partners who actually contribute the capital) claim long-term capital gains tax rates on the share of profits they are granted. No-one else gets that deal. The rest of us pay ordinary income tax rates.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 09:08 AM (vcv8B)

340 Biden speech about Student loans? And he tested negative for Covid

Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 09:08 AM (WY8d2)

341 332 The Covid spike protein (not other coronavirus spike proteins) trigger the immune system to attack heart tissue. Go ahead and get jabbed again.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 09:06 AM (eC4Tv)

I got that d-dimer blood test I heard you should get if you had the vax. Doc said it was normal.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 28, 2022 09:08 AM (Y5qcH)

342 Yo, Sarah!!! What's YOUR take on Free Will?

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 09:08 AM (Vr12I)

343 >>Declining real spending in the physical economy, declining investment, declining inventories and reduced construction and fixed asset investment while inflation continues and the average joe's credit cards are nearly maxed out isn't exactly a rosy "things are better than the top-line GDP print indicates" story.

This is the reason Gas prices have dropped, temporarily.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 09:09 AM (rwTWa)

344 Question is...
Will his pupils be as big as pie plates? Will he blink?
--------------
Answers - Yes and No, respectively.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 09:10 AM (T/Wjp)

345 341 Biden speech about Student loans? And he tested negative for Covid
Posted by: Jonah at July 28, 2022 09:08 AM (WY8d2)

He never had it. No way this sick old bastard would have survived.

Sympathy ploy and a distraction.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2022 09:10 AM (x0n13)

346 >>I am making a real GOOD MONEY (80$ to 92$ / hr. )online from my laptop.

You are selling your lap too cheaply. Must be fat.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 09:10 AM (rwTWa)

347 it will get so bad that people will not be able to fill up their Teslas

Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2022 09:10 AM (us2H3)

348 Wouldn't surprise me if Mylan Labs Manchin was being blackmailed.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 09:10 AM (89T5c)

349 Clean up @ 329

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 28, 2022 09:10 AM (R5lpX)

350 325 Biden will speak to the country at 2:15 pm.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

What country, Tjada or Fredonia?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2022 09:11 AM (x0n13)

351 >He never had it. No way this sick old bastard would have survived.

Sympathy ploy and a distraction.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

yeah, he had Covid for what, a week? Now he's all better.

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance at July 28, 2022 09:11 AM (geLO8)

352 Sinema has watched Manchin and learned. Sinema will now have ' reservations' about the Dem 700 billion payoff to their various enablers.

' Being on the fence' is a hell of a franchise in Congress.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 28, 2022 09:11 AM (wReBR)

353
Sympathy ploy and a distraction.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2022 09:10 AM (x0n13)

They figured out that if he went to Delaware for a week after returning from his Middle East trip, that would be bad for his tough guy image.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

354 348 it will get so bad that people will not be able to fill up their Teslas
Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2022 09:10 AM (us2H3)

Yeah, especially with that Premium electricity the Teslas run on.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 09:11 AM (Vr12I)

355
yeah, he had Covid for what, a week? Now he's all better.
Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance at July 28, 2022 09:11 AM (geLO8 )

To be fair, Trump had it for 2 days.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

356 start out the morning by checking out offthepress dot com - which is run by former Drudge people. There, you get the actual news. I then go to Drudge and read the opposite in the headlines. It's baffling.
Posted by: Barely Saunders at July 28, 2022 08:47 AM (jE276)

I usually start here or cfp, but every once in a while...
Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out

Posted by: OneEyedJack , not Jeff goldblum at July 28, 2022 09:12 AM (MFphb)

357 Arguing over the concept of free will in a world where everything actually exists at the same time, and time itself is only our perception is already fruitless. We were only designed to comprehend so much.

Paradoxes abound in our world, both of the mathematical variety and otherwise. They confound our smartest agents, many of whom used to be content leaving what was currently not understood under the purview of God. But that wasn't diverse and equitable so now we must become God. That always works out peachy.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 09:12 AM (UlZCQ)

358 You know how you get to colander world? This is how you get to colander world. Silver lining is that europe is going to take five times as hard as USA is... but that is not much of a silver lining.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 28, 2022 09:12 AM (u4CEu)

359 353 Sinema has watched Manchin and learned. Sinema will now have ' reservations' about the Dem 700 billion payoff to their various enablers.

' Being on the fence' is a hell of a franchise in Congress.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 28, 2022 09:11 AM (wReBR)

=========

I'm really looking forward to the 5-6 seat GOP gain in the Senate so we can get a new cast of characters who are always on the fence. I'm sick of both Sinema and Manchin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 28, 2022 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

360 >>He never had it. No way this sick old bastard would have survived.

Friend's husband fell in his shower (84). Hit his head and ended up hospitalized and in a Coma.

Diabetic,Heart Issues, Overweight and not in any semblance of good shape...

He died. Of Covid. According to his death cert.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 09:12 AM (rwTWa)

361 325 Biden will speak to the country at 2:15 pm.

Which Biden? Bug eyed no blinkey Joe or slit eyed slurring joe ?

Posted by: Haywood at July 28, 2022 09:12 AM (3K9Nm)

362 Trying to figure out why they're pushing to increase inflation.

All I can think is, they expect to be able to blame Republicans in 2024.

I don't see a historical example where high inflation, a stagnate economy and generous welfare ever led to cuts in spending, taxes and regulations.

The federal government is a corpse. The states that move now to cut themselves free are the only ones that will survive. None will make that move.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2022 09:13 AM (LVS93)

363 European Countries Resort to EU-Wide Gas Rationing After Russia Slashes Supply

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Boy, they're sure more sophisticated us!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 09:13 AM (FVME7)

364 Here's "looking forward."

American taxpayers bail out Germany and the EU because freezing and starving.

Posted by: Ziba at July 28, 2022 09:13 AM (4h9M3)

365 For a time at least, old Dodge and Oldsmobiles were favored in Saudi over Mercedes Benz by the well to do, free will or not.

Why? Because the POS had a far better AC system, the BMW and Mercedes couldn't keep the interior cool. This was told to me by an American, a civilian contractor over there many years ago. He watched all these Prince Faisal types bombing around in crappy cars and couldn't figure out why they would do that.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 28, 2022 09:13 AM (3sphl)

366 The Columbia Bugle
@ColumbiaBugle

6m
"It's not our recession. It's the uhh uhhhh PUTIN recession!!!!"

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

367 Yo, Sarah!!! What's YOUR take on Free Will?

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 09:08 AM (Vr12I)

Sarah doesn't give anything up for FREE. But for $20 she WILL.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 09:13 AM (UlZCQ)

368 300 (18-1)
My view:

#1 QM is not just a mathematical trick. The universe is truly random (and parallel in my opinion - I am an Everettian).

#2 Agreed. Consciousness is non-physical.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 09:14 AM (vcv8B)

369
From what part of the world do people put the dollar sign AFTER the amount, like Sarah?

92$ ???

Posted by: Barely Saunders at July 28, 2022 09:14 AM (jE276)

370 What I find fascinating is how much of the material world we still have zero comprehension about.

This is what I call Social Babelization - when a system is so complex that it is beyond understanding.

In the historical narrative concerning the city of Babel, the people, under the ruler Nimrod, where to undergo a bold activity, some might suggest was an afront to God's exclusive domain.

To frustrate those plans, he divided them up. Two take-aways: (1) It takes an enormous coordinated effort to undergo something highly complex. (2) That effort, given how warlords and dictators flourish, is guaranteed to be evil and worthy of divine judgement and destruction.

Sometimes it is best to stay in our own lane and quit trying to compete against God.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 09:15 AM (3hSHB)

371 Patton Oswalt: Bring on Comedy Restrictions (Even Prison?)

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Say what you will about woke comedy, it works just as well as green energy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 09:15 AM (FVME7)

372 358 Arguing over the concept of free will in a world where everything actually exists at the same time, and time itself is only our perception is already fruitless. We were only designed to comprehend so much.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 09:12 AM (UlZCQ)

It has a fair amount of bearing on ethical and legal theories. You should be able to think of instances where leftwing academics deny any culpability of an individual and place it all on their environment? If determinism is true, this is correct. Humans wouldn't be moral agents(which is actually the intended theological point of some denominations). It's unjust to hold someone responsible for something over which they have no control. Like beating your wife for causing inflation.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 28, 2022 09:15 AM (b2nrj)

373 Patton Oswalt: Bring on Comedy Restrictions (Even Prison?)

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Say what you will about woke comedy, it works just as well as green energy.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 09:15 AM (FVME7)

What the hell does Patton Oswalt know about comedy?

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

374 Should I know who Patton Oswalt is? In fact I have no idea who Oswalt is.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 28, 2022 09:16 AM (eGTCV)

375 Trying to figure out why they're pushing to increase inflation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2022 09:13 AM (LVS93)

Because their goal is to break the bourgeois middle class and make everybody poor. The middle class has too much power. And power is the endgame.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 09:16 AM (UlZCQ)

376 From what part of the world do people put the dollar sign AFTER the amount, like Sarah?

92$ ???

Botistan

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 28, 2022 09:16 AM (sRUs0)

377

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 28, 2022 09:16 AM (SWi3y)

378 It actually makes more sense to put the dollar sign after the amount, because that reflects how we say it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 28, 2022 09:17 AM (O9syx)

379 In fact I have no idea who Oswalt is.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 28, 2022 09:16 AM (eGTCV)

Loosely associated with grassy knolls.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 28, 2022 09:17 AM (45fpk)

380 I bomb around in a crappy car by choice. I don't want my car making telephone calls for me or yanking the steering wheel away from me because it perceives I am too close to the center line or stepping on my brakes because it doesn't think I am at a safe distance or verbally giving me any helpful driving/gas saving tips.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 09:17 AM (flINI)

381 If we were to dispense of the concept of justice, which might be absurd under determinism anyways, then we would also have the concept of inevitably bad people. So why not get rid of inevitably bad people before they do bad things? It may not be their fault, but nothing is anybody's fault.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 28, 2022 09:17 AM (b2nrj)

382 Judge denies Steve Bannon’s motion for acquittal his after contempt conviction, because of course.

Posted by: flounder at July 28, 2022 09:18 AM (Txmck)

383 >>Trying to figure out why they're pushing to increase inflation.

To bleed the citizenry.
Direct Taxation is too unpopular. So, they will punish us in an indirect way.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 09:18 AM (rwTWa)

384 > Paul sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia

Translation: he got caught.

> Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Advising Hospitals To Use Term ‘Father’s Milk’

That's nice. I'm advising everyone to ignore anything that comes out of this idiotic pseudo-scientific organization.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 28, 2022 09:18 AM (bW8dp)

385 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 28, 2022 09:15 AM (b2nrj)

Agreed. My point is free will exists because God gave it to us. That doesn't mean I can prove it. Other than the consequences of it, which of course are all around us. But even that becomes a tautology.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 09:18 AM (UlZCQ)

386 Naomi Wolf got it right. This isn't merely a war against economic prosperity and the presumptions of our Constitution, it's war on the human spirit.

There's not a politician alive who understands this. Reagan had a certain feel for this base element in Leftist ideology and intent (called "liberal" in his time). Trump is not going to become a political metaphysician. But in fact that's what we need. This war will be won or lost in the marriage of the word and the spirit, logos, a linguistic crusade.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 28, 2022 09:19 AM (H8QX8)

387 QM is not just a mathematical trick. The universe is truly random (and parallel in my opinion - I am an Everettian).

π and Planck's constant aren't? Does this mean that you are open to anisotropic speed of light?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 09:19 AM (3hSHB)

388 I'm thinking Sarah is married to the infamous Nigerian Prince, who needs your help desperately to get his millions out of the country and is willing to pay an exorbitant sum to facilitate that endeavor.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 28, 2022 09:19 AM (R5lpX)

389 FJB: It isn't a recession, the economy is stronger than ever. The recession and weak economy are Trump and Putin's fault.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 09:19 AM (eC4Tv)

390 337 This is fun - Metaphysics after only one cup of coffee on a Thursday morning!
Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 09:07 AM (Vr12I)

Right? At least it's not math.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 28, 2022 09:20 AM (906pl)

391 I bomb around in a crappy car by choice. I don't want my car making telephone calls for me or yanking the steering wheel away from me because it perceives I am too close to the center line or stepping on my brakes because it doesn't think I am at a safe distance or verbally giving me any helpful driving/gas saving tips.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 09:17 AM (flINI)

This. All of this. Or emailing me that it is time for an oil change. Or nagging me about tire pressures. Or giving me verbal commands for driving directions and displaying a stupid silly and useless map to distract me.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2022 09:20 AM (4I/2K)

392 I'm thinking Sarah is married to the infamous Nigerian Prince, who needs your help desperately to get his millions out of the country and is willing to pay an exorbitant sum to facilitate that endeavor.
Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 28, 2022 09:19 AM (R5lpX)

She's in his sex slave dungeon and this is how she keeps her family from being sent to the mines.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 28, 2022 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

393 > I don't want my car making telephone calls for me or yanking the steering wheel away

Most likely this will be rammed through by making it impossible to buy insurance unless you have all the latest "safety features".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 28, 2022 09:20 AM (bW8dp)

394 Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Advising Hospitals To Use Term ‘Father’s Milk’

My daughter just got a border collie puppy. She tries to nurse on their 8 year old black lab whose name is Frank. Frank is not amused. I will inform him that it is now his duty to nurse the puppy.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 28, 2022 09:20 AM (45fpk)

395 389 FJB: It isn't a recession, the economy is stronger than ever. The recession and weak economy are Trump and Putin's fault.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 09:19 AM (eC4Tv)

=======

Wait...you're not an ER doctor...you're Biden's speechwriter!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 28, 2022 09:20 AM (LvTSG)

396 QM is not just a mathematical trick. The universe is truly random (and parallel in my opinion - I am an Everettian).

π and Planck's constant aren't? Does this mean that you are open to anisotropic speed of light?
Posted by: Reuben Hick

Wait. Are you telling me that C-A-T might actually spell dog?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 09:20 AM (0E97k)

397 374 Should I know who Patton Oswalt is? In fact I have no idea who Oswalt is.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 28, 2022 09:16 AM (eGTCV)

He's a comedian (allegedly) that looks like he has Down's Syndrome, but he doesn't. He's just really unfortunate looking.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 28, 2022 09:21 AM (UuD2k)

398 The Saudis are starting up a competitor to the Pro Golf Tour (PGA). The usual chorus of wilting orchids are all hot and bothered because of the incident with the "reporter". But the Saudis have deep pockets and have signed some big stars.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2022 08:34 AM (cupoy)

As far as I can tell it's only a competitor to the PGA cuz the PGA decided it was. LIV doesn't say you can't play on PGA, PGA says you can't play on LIV. But LIV pays better.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 28, 2022 09:21 AM (zhLdt)

399 397 He's a comedian (allegedly) that looks like he has Down's Syndrome, but he doesn't. He's just really unfortunate looking.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 28, 2022 09:21 AM (UuD2k)

=========

He's funny in Space Cop.

Space Cop is hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 28, 2022 09:21 AM (LvTSG)

400 53 Manchin Bridge, Manchin highway, Manchin rest stop, Manchin "business park"...
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 08:03 AM (89T5c)

If passing revised BBB has the negative effects on the country that we all think it will, people will be using Manchin’s grave as a rest stop.

Posted by: Arch Stanton at July 28, 2022 09:21 AM (TaNxW)

401 Z-man and wifey and Vogue Mag. How democracy will win the war.

Posted by: Ziba at July 28, 2022 09:22 AM (4h9M3)

402 374 Should I know who Patton Oswalt is? In fact I have no idea who Oswalt is.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, at July 28, 2022 09:16 AM (eGTCV)

Ran the Third Army then shot Kennedy

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 28, 2022 09:22 AM (Spr0s)

403 Agreed. My point is free will exists because God gave it to us.

So you disagree with St Augustine? That while he conjectured that Adam had the ability not to sin, but post Fall man has lost his natural ability to not sin?

John 8:34 we read that Jesus said that anyone who sins is a slave of sin. Could you harmonize slavery with freedom?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 09:22 AM (3hSHB)

404 That is one wild photoshop this morning. Joey B. hasn't looked that lively in years.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 28, 2022 09:22 AM (YKyOU)

405 Term limits means that you will be betrayed more often.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 28, 2022 09:22 AM (44ww/)

406 It's unjust to hold someone responsible for something over which they have no control. Like beating your wife for causing inflation.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Except no amount of wife-beating will ever affect inflation, whereas incarcerating wife-beaters will A) deter other would-be wife-beaters, and B) provide some vengeance for the beaten wives.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 09:23 AM (vcv8B)

407 Right? At least it's not math.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 28, 2022 09:20 AM (906pl)

In the end, everything is math.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 09:23 AM (UlZCQ)

408 Manchin learned from one of the all time greats in the art of grifting... Robert Byrd. Some of his grift will find its way into his buddies hands back in WV.

Plus, his name will adorn multiple bridges, schools and highways in the decades to come.

What's not to like about all that?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2022 09:23 AM (BFigT)

409 > She tries to nurse on their 8 year old black lab whose name is Frank.

Way back when, my family got a male kitten who tried to nurse on the older male cat. The older tolerated it, and in general took care of the kitten (bathing him, etc.).

However, when the kitten turned into a teenage cat and started trying to have sex with him, he made it clear that that wasn't going to happen, no way, no how.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 28, 2022 09:24 AM (bW8dp)

410 I'd be surprised if someone like Oswalt didn't ultimately say what he said. Moral inversion is the flag they fly.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 28, 2022 09:24 AM (H8QX8)

411 Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) trended on Twitter on Wednesday evening as left-wing users expressed outrage at him for allegedly mocking people with disabilities in commenting on remarks on Tuesday by Vice President Kamala Harris.

As Breitbart News reported, Harris introduced herself to a group of community activists by sharing her gender pronouns. In addition, as Breitbart News noted, she “described herself as ‘a woman wearing a blue suit’ on behalf of the visually impaired.”

Not to mention, the Democrats in Illinois redistricted him out of a seat.

"Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen, Nobody knows but Jesus.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2022 09:24 AM (RHGPo)

412 My wife has a '21 VW. I was on my way to Ohio when it closed the sunroof and suggested that I'd get better gas mileage not having it open at highway speeds. It angered me (probably beyond reason) so much that I refuse to drive the damn thing anymore. My stripped down Jetta with manual trans is a damn sight better than that pos

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 09:24 AM (flINI)

413 Of course there is free will. Sometimes really bad things happen to really good people, and just the opposite. Life's a crapshoot, and then you die.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at July 28, 2022 09:24 AM (sRUs0)

414 One thing that I find amazing is when fundamental constants like Pi, which was defined by the geometry circle, show up in places that have nothing to do with circles.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 28, 2022 09:24 AM (UuD2k)

415 In the end, everything is math.
Posted by: ...

Yep. That adds up.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 28, 2022 09:24 AM (6WCwE)

416 He's a comedian (allegedly) that looks like he has Down's Syndrome, but he doesn't. He's just really unfortunate looking.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 28, 2022 09:21 AM (UuD2k)

**

Objection!!...Stating facts not in evidence.

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 28, 2022 09:24 AM (R5lpX)

417
Most likely this will be rammed through by making it impossible to buy insurance unless you have all the latest "safety features".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 28, 2022 09:20 AM

I don't think they'll ever 'red-line' older vehicles. If the insurance company knows you will never rear end another vehicle because of a safety feature, shouldn't the insurance on that vehicle cost less?

Posted by: Barely Saunders at July 28, 2022 09:25 AM (jE276)

418 Oh please. Not all this about length again. I told Max over and over that he was fine as God made him. He was frequently anxious about it. Though we had five children. Men! *smh*

Posted by: Mrs. Marie Planck at July 28, 2022 09:25 AM (4I/2K)

419 Adam Kinzinger🇺🇦🇺🇸✌️
@AdamKinzinger
If you ever wonder why the left still can’t win elections despite the insanity of Trumpism, save stuff like this for reference later 👇👇👇. You can get mad at me, but I’m not wrong.

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2022 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

420 406 It's unjust to hold someone responsible for something over which they have no control. Like beating your wife for causing inflation.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Except no amount of wife-beating will ever affect inflation, whereas incarcerating wife-beaters will A) deter other would-be wife-beaters, and B) provide some vengeance for the beaten wives.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 09:23 AM (vcv8B)

That post was about justice. The other post addresses the concept of "dealing with" people who are "inevitably evil". "Making an example of" exists in both free will and no free-will framework.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 28, 2022 09:25 AM (b2nrj)

421 Zero Kelvin is absolute 0. The planck temperature is absolute hot 10^10 K. Our physical existence lies just above absolute 0. 200-400K. And a minuscule shift in temperature means no life can exist.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 09:26 AM (eC4Tv)

422 Do we have a destiny? Or are we like a feather blown about on the wind?

I think it's both.

-- Forrest, Forrest Gump

Posted by: Archer at July 28, 2022 09:27 AM (gmo/4)

423 > If the insurance company knows you will never rear end another vehicle because of a safety feature, shouldn't the insurance on that vehicle cost less?

In a homo economicus world, maybe.

In the world we have, it'll be more like "So, Mr. Defendant... you deliberately chose to drive a vehicle without the latest safety features, is that correct?"

No insurance company is going to want to be on the hook for Mr. Defendant in that scenario.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 28, 2022 09:27 AM (bW8dp)

424 There are zero, legal gun laws, as every living being has the absolute right to effectively defend their existence.

Every gun law, is in and of itself, an act of aggression.

Posted by: Concerned 0331 at July 28, 2022 09:27 AM (nA8QI)

425 Green Nude Eel ... redistributing the wealth of future generations into the pockets of the oligarchs and their grifter political class.

Also redistributing individual liberty ... so sovereign rights are owned by the oligarchy. But call it "Green" and it is all for the greater good. spit ... (but spitting is not enough)

Posted by: illiniwek at July 28, 2022 09:28 AM (Cus5s)

426 I am a comedian and a progressive activist. Mostly progressive activist, but if I get backed into a corner I yell "But I am just a comedian!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 09:28 AM (eC4Tv)

427 58 Lotta good memes on Jesse Kelly's twitter

https://tinyurl.com/3mvdhr7f

Posted by: 496 at July 28, 2022 08:05 AM (VJsqe)
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These were awesome. They wasted about an hour of my time.

Posted by: Ciampino - there must be more where those came from at July 28, 2022 09:28 AM (qfLjt)

428 π and Planck's constant aren't? Does this mean that you are open to anisotropic speed of light?
Posted by: Reuben Hick

π is purely mathematics. It can't be any other value. Planck's constant could be zero, but isn't. Hence physics, not mathematics.

Not sure why anisotropic c follows? (I don't think there's evidence for it)

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 09:28 AM (vcv8B)

429 House Judiciary GOP@JudiciaryGOP
#BREAKING
Whistleblowers: FBI Leadership Pressuring Agents to Artificially Pad Domestic Terrorism Data

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You just can't have too much imaginary right wing terrorism!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 09:28 AM (FVME7)

430 396 QM is not just a mathematical trick. The universe is truly random (and parallel in my opinion - I am an Everettian).

π and Planck's constant aren't? Does this mean that you are open to anisotropic speed of light?
Posted by: Reuben Hick

Wait. Are you telling me that C-A-T might actually spell dog?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 09:20 AM (0E97k)

Brace yourself for learning that 300 years ago, the Jesuits renamed black as white, and white as black, and those colors/names have remained in general use to this day!

Posted by: Gref at July 28, 2022 09:28 AM (AMIL/)

431 Let me say this about that
Posted by: DB - still gaining

After much deliberative thought, I've come to the conclusion that you are right.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 28, 2022 09:29 AM (P6j3m)

432 So you disagree with St Augustine? That while he conjectured that Adam had the ability not to sin, but post Fall man has lost his natural ability to not sin?

John 8:34 we read that Jesus said that anyone who sins is a slave of sin. Could you harmonize slavery with freedom?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 09:22 AM (3hSHB)

I will admit my knowledge of St Augustine is... limited. I am also no Biblical scholar.

I will merely say that it is likely beyond our limited understand to fully describe and comprehend the nature of free will. It's like trying to understand all of math all at once.

Nobody does. Math has known paradoxes. Maybe one day we will get an insight into some of them, or specifically why they seem to us like paradoxes when in reality they are not.

But trying to put it all in terms that make a great deal of satisfying sense is fun but fruitless, other than as a path to understanding God a little bit better. I walk by faith not by sight.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 09:29 AM (UlZCQ)

433 Adam Kinzinger🇺🇦🇺🇸✌️
@AdamKinzinger
If you ever wonder why the left still can’t win elections despite the insanity of Trumpism, save stuff like this for reference later 👇👇👇. You can get mad at me, but I’m not wrong.

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2022 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

Crying pussy traitor says "what?"

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 09:29 AM (U3uv2)

434 House Judiciary GOP@JudiciaryGOP
#BREAKING
Whistleblowers: FBI Leadership Pressuring Agents to Artificially Pad Domestic Terrorism Data

You just can't have too much imaginary right wing terrorism!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 09:28 AM (FVME7)

Same with hate crime hoaxes. Demand for them far outstrips supply.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 09:30 AM (U3uv2)

435 Come for the art. Stay for the esoteric mathematical and quantum physics discussions. Gee, I love this place.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2022 09:30 AM (4I/2K)

436 Nood art.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 09:31 AM (U3uv2)

437 Thank you

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance at July 28, 2022 09:31 AM (geLO8)

438 I need you to inflate domestic right wing terrorism by 10x.

But there is zero, sir.

Don't worry, we will make some, then you can multiply that by 10.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 28, 2022 09:32 AM (eC4Tv)

439 So you disagree with St Augustine? That while he conjectured that Adam had the ability not to sin, but post Fall man has lost his natural ability to not sin?

John 8:34 we read that Jesus said that anyone who sins is a slave of sin. Could you harmonize slavery with freedom?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 09:22 AM (3hSHB)

The alternative is not Pelagianism, which Augustine was arguing against.

The Catholic Church teaches a sort of impaired free will. It is by the grace of God we can make good choices(which is abundantly rather than selectively provided as a form of arbitrary favoritism). God does not force us to make good or evil choices. Humans are still moral agents.

An elaborate illusion to cover up a puppet show would seem to make less sense.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 28, 2022 09:32 AM (b2nrj)

440 With that in mind, I cannot understand how West Virginians keep sending this asshole to Congress. Considering his party's open vow to destroy oil, gas and coal, it's even more of a puzzler.
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t.ly/XZqZ

^ That's from June 2020. Voters in WV "like" their electronic voting systems.

Yep. It sure is a puzzler, alright. I'm so puzzled. But listen, Champ, you guys are going to totally vote your way out of tyranny THIS time. Without a doubt. I believe in your ability to vote harder, Comrades.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at July 28, 2022 09:32 AM (nZRvW)

441 But that wasn't diverse and equitable so now we must become God.

Which is the underlying premise of "free will". The concept of the Doctrines of Grace are predictably hostile to a world that believes it has no impediments except itself.

The idea of free will, in of itself is contradictory since it assumes that the Will has no particular bent or direction, that it can choose to sin, or not to sin. Scriptures and all of human existence proves that to not be true.

Free Will also is a rebuke against repentance and sanctification.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 09:32 AM (3hSHB)

442 435 Come for the art. Stay for the esoteric mathematical and quantum physics discussions. Gee, I love this place.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2022 09:30 AM (4I/2K)

AoS a potpourri of random facts and conjectures. Certainly entertains and diverts, without fail.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 09:33 AM (Vr12I)

443 432 I will admit my knowledge of St Augustine is... limited.

Overrated tourist trap in my opinion. Interesting history though.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 28, 2022 09:33 AM (vcv8B)

444 Gay, bisexual Latino men disproportionately affected by monkeypox: South Bay health officials

Yes, there it is. Monkey Pox is a homophobe

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2022 09:34 AM (RHGPo)

445 Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 09:24 AM (flINI)

I get this way with all the "helpful" call intake robots, which are built to delay, deny and keep you busy while supposedly maybe eventually routing you to the "correct" human in molasses course.

The ones that confirm everything you say with a "Did you say..." and you have to answer yes or no each time are my favorites. I could smash every existing phone just thinking about them.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 09:34 AM (UlZCQ)

446 So Helenkiller said she was shooting for three because she is preggers with twins?

Posted by: torabora at July 28, 2022 09:34 AM (Y274z)

447 434 House Judiciary GOP@JudiciaryGOP
#BREAKING
Whistleblowers: FBI Leadership Pressuring Agents to Artificially Pad Domestic Terrorism Data
You just can't have too much imaginary right wing terrorism!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 09:28 AM (FVME7)

Same with hate crime hoaxes. Demand for them far outstrips supply.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 09:30 AM (U3uv2)

The most important FBI investigation today is identifying the whistleblowers. One-half of total FBI personnel must be on that job. Anyone believed to have done it will wish they got the same treatment as J6 political prisoners.

Posted by: Gref at July 28, 2022 09:35 AM (AMIL/)

448 Yes, there it is. Monkey Pox is a homophobe
Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2022 09:34 AM (RHGPo)
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Axshually, that's the Love-is-Love Pox, bigot.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at July 28, 2022 09:35 AM (nZRvW)

449 All I know is: I pray God forgive my natural state of sin for it is great\large AND that God forgive my sins\actual omission and commission sins, for they are many.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at July 28, 2022 09:35 AM (P6j3m)

450 The AK-15 is a new Russian assault rifle. It was developed under the Ratnik future infantrymen programme. This weapon was first publicly revealed in 2016. The AK-15 is mainly aimed at elite units of the Russian military and law enforcement forces, as well as possible export customers. It is planned that the AK-15 will replace in production an AK-103 assault rifle.

The AK-15 is essentially a version of the AK-12, chambered for a 7.62x39 mm ammunition. This ammunition has superior penetration and stopping power comparing with the Soviet 5.45x39 mm ammunition, or standard NATO 5.56x45 mm ammunition. The 7.62x39 mm ammunition is still used by the Russian military and law enforcement forces and is widely used around the world. Some operators prefer this caliber. There were also plans to chamber the AK-15 for a standard NATO 7.62x51 mm ammunition. Also the new weapon is better balanced and has improved ergonomics.

Posted by: SMOD at July 28, 2022 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

451
Come for the art. Stay for the esoteric mathematical and quantum physics discussions. Gee, I love this place.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 28, 2022 09:30 AM

Did you know the meaning of 'homo economicus' before this thread? I didn't.

Posted by: Barely Saunders at July 28, 2022 09:37 AM (jE276)

452 Schrodinger's speed of light - because we measure it changes.

Posted by: Archer at July 28, 2022 09:38 AM (gmo/4)

453 Free Will also is a rebuke against repentance and sanctification.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 09:32 AM (3hSHB)

FWIW Augustine still believed in free will. It's his answer to the problem of evil.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 28, 2022 09:39 AM (b2nrj)

454 This is the final Kamikaze attack. They know they are dead and have decided not to pull back on the stick.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 28, 2022 09:43 AM (tiR3O)

455 Free Will also is a rebuke against repentance and sanctification.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 09:32 AM (3hSHB)
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I don't understand this at all. You cannot have repentance without Free Will. If I cannot choose, then I cannot repent, because whoever is truly calling the shots for my behaviors automatically assumes responsibility for them. I'm an automaton, which makes repentance a moot point.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at July 28, 2022 09:44 AM (nZRvW)

456 "So you disagree with St Augustine? That while he conjectured that Adam had the ability not to sin, but post Fall man has lost his natural ability to not sin?
John 8:34 we read that Jesus said that anyone who sins is a slave of sin. Could you harmonize slavery with freedom?"

imo we have free will, despite "sin nature". Being imperfect does not mean we are incapable of making right choices.

Also, the Christian concept is we are redeemed from the price of sin (wages of of sin is death), because we are redeemed from Adam's sin. It is our free will that allows us to make better choices, while still tied to this "body of death".

We live in "man's day", where we "choose you this day whom you will serve". (even OT keeps telling people to choose, because man has free will). The Lord's day is judgment of those choices.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 28, 2022 09:48 AM (Cus5s)

457 I'm really looking forward to the 5-6 seat GOP gain in the Senate so we can get a new cast of characters who are always on the fence. I'm sick of both Sinema and Manchin.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 28, 2022 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

Mitch does NOT ,under any circumstances ,want a 10 seat Senate GOP majority.
The grift is best when you have the majority but not quite enough of a majority.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at July 28, 2022 09:49 AM (wReBR)

458 To give up free will is possession. Christians do not give up free will, they do not let the holy spirit take over as the demons do. "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind" is an active, ongoing process. Discipline, more than "surrender".

Posted by: illiniwek at July 28, 2022 09:55 AM (Cus5s)

459 333 That is a matter of using a particular understanding of free will, which is not the understanding of classical, but of modern philosophers. The key is how you understand choice. The moderns ultimately run to Sartre's extreme, that if there is a basis for the choice, that limits your freedom. Which is absurd.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 28, 2022 09:04 AM (TgBWG)

If your choice is inevitably caused by a likewise inevitable cause, things are deterministic. If your will chooses such that after weighing things it can choose the option was has less causal strength behind it, then it is the will making the choice.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 28, 2022 09:07 AM (b2nrj)
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Nooded, so sorry. But your view is a paradigmatic example of the modern view. It is rejected by most pre-moderns. The question turns on what you mean by a cause of a choice, and whether a physical cause excludes a rational cause.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 28, 2022 10:33 AM (TgBWG)

460 Free will ... looking at (real) science, from the (classically?) trained mind, and deciding Al Gore's Sciencism is a Big Lie. And that the Plandemic Response was not science, it was a planned attack on our sovereignty.

But the Preachers of "get the vax, wear the mask" and the "Climate End is Near" alarmists are demanding submission, not thinking. (the denounce thinking, demand 2+2=5) But the use force of BigGov to get doctors to refuse early treatment of Covid (denying their original oath).

and this is my problem with institutional Christianity that demands people not think and study, but accept the dictate of the denomination (and weekly recite that darned Nicene Creed, where critics were exiled ... early cancel culture)

Posted by: illiniwek at July 28, 2022 10:45 AM (Cus5s)

461 JJ, please don't go along with Leftist propaganda. They love to say they are "democratic" when they aren't. They steal elections. They are Democrats, not Democratics. Under "First Amendment" concerns, you summarized one article this way:

Hulu Denied Democratic Political Ads From Airing. Two Days Later, It Changed Its Mind.

Let me fix that:

Hulu Denied Democrat Political Ads From Airing. Two Days Later, It Changed Its Mind.

It's a small edit, but important.

Posted by: bradc at July 28, 2022 12:36 PM (czlme)

462 J.J.

Love you from the old days at hot air, but there have been a lot of "kill shots", so why do you guys keep doing this? You say this will be the end and then it happens and then you move on to calling something else the end. The truth is the country was shot in the head 2008 and it's just taken it this long to fall down.

Pro tip: I hear goats are a great resource for preppers.

Posted by: DFCtomm at July 28, 2022 12:36 PM (OHy0b)

463 "I have a couple of questions for the Republicans. Do you feel stupid yet? Or are you too dumb to realize you’ve been played -- again."

"I have a couple of questions for the Republicansconservative pundits. Do you feel stupid yet? Or are you too dumb to realize you’ve been played -- again."

There is a reason why this keeps happening and it has NOTHING to do with Republicans being the Stupid Party. Unfortunately, the real answer is one that you have to figure out by yourself. Maybe a few more decades of betrayal will do the trick?

Posted by: Lawrence L at July 28, 2022 01:35 PM (FAuXd)

464 I am making a real GOOD MONEY licking monkeypox fecal matter off of homosexual anuses.

Posted by: Sarah Smile at July 28, 2022 03:06 PM (MxZdd)

465 462 Posted by: DFCtomm at July 28, 2022 12:36 PM (OHy0b)

Not sure what you're referring to.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 28, 2022 03:14 PM (x0n13)

466 " have a couple of questions for the Republicans. Do you feel stupid yet? Or are you too dumb to realize you’ve been played -- again?"
you know they're on the same side? right? there is no opposition. the only ones who're stupid are the people who think; after everything we've seen for the last few decades (and certainly since trump got elected); are people who think there are 2 parties

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