The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 7/29/22

Good morning, kids. The weekend is here and yesterday's lead was typical DC whore Joe Manchin completely selling out on a cheaper, i.e politically more palatable (at least he thinks), Build Bolshevism Bigger bill that wastes only a measly $1 trillion instead of the original $5 trillion of money that we don't have on top of the trillions in national debt plus stagflation that has put us in a recession. Whoops! My bad. The junta insists we're not in a recession and I agree. We're plunging headlong not only into a Depression but one so horrendous it will bring about societal collapse. As intended.

That said, this bill isn't just about money. In fact, the money and the pretext of this sham legislation is just that. A sham. BBB has always been the means to complete the absolute transformation of America into a socialist/communist state.

Notwithstanding the public’s consistent and overwhelming lack of concern about climate change as an urgent problem, the main concern of the Biden [junta] and the entire agenda of the Democrat Party has been, and continues to be, driven by this issue. In the words of [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden, “climate change poses an existential threat” – in fact, the chief existential threat to the United States – greater than terrorism, or Chinese expansionism, or the invasion by 2,400,000 unvetted illegal migrants annually across America’s broken southern border. . .
. . . Yet, despite the lack of public support, and the immediate destructive consequences of the anti-climate change policies, the radical leadership of the Democrat policy is adamant in pursuing them. According to Bernie Sanders, a lifetime supporter of communist dictators and bankrupt socialist regimes, “the climate crisis is not only the single greatest challenge facing our country,” but “is also our single greatest opportunity to build a more just and equitable future,” by which he means a bankrupt, socialist dictatorship.
How is it possible that there should be such a disconnect between a democratic government and its constituents? How was such a radical consensus formed over such a controversial and contested issue – a consensus so strong and so anti-democratic that by 2022 it had resulted in the lowest approval ratings ever recorded for a sitting president and his political party? The answer can be found in the vast network of tax-exempt foundations and advocacy groups, unscrutinized and accountable to no one, that developed the analyses and policy recommendations that make up the “Green New Deal” in the decades prior to its official launch in 2019. . .
. . . In a July 2019 interview with The Washington Post, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief-of-staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, acknowledged that the Green New Deal had not been devised to protect the environment, but rather, to inject discredited socialist “solutions” into the American economy. “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,” he said with great candor, “is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys [reporters] think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a ‘how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy’ thing.” We don’t say this, but rather conceal it, because if we did we would have to explain why the epic failures of socialist regimes in our lifetimes should not be a red flag against repeating them.

So, there it is, and it was out in the open for all to see. Including Joe Manchin. He might come across as Joe Rockhead but you don't get to join the Congressional crime family and make multi-millions of dollars without being fully vetted by those pulling the strings. And if it means destroying the lifeblood of the state and constituents that elected you, then so be it. There's no more pretext, no more regular order or illusion of regular order that must be maintained, especially in the wake of everything that has happened since the coming of the psy-op that was the General Tso's Sickness unleashed on us by the Chi-Coms and glommed onto by the State. No longer a Deep State, since their theft of the 2020 election.

And that brings us to the question of Donald Trump, 2024, elections and where we are headed. Whatever one thinks about Trump vis a vis whether he should be the candidate, we have to think in terms of what he himself said as a mantra, regardless of who is the candidate:

"In reality, they're not after me, they're after you. I'm just in their way."

Substitute the word "America" for "you" and "You're" for "I'm" and you'll see what I mean. Michael Anton has written a truly frightening essay that games out the possibilities for shenanigans in '24 and the absolutely chilling prospects for what happens if they get away with another steal or perhaps worse if they don't. Hat tip to commenter MTF for the link:

The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again. In fact, they made this clear in 2020, in a series of public statements. Simply for quoting their words in an essay for The American Mind, I was mercilessly mocked and attacked. But they were quite clear. Trump won’t be president at noon, Jan. 20, 2021, even if we have to use the military to drag him out of there.
If the regime felt that strongly back then, imagine how they feel now. But you don’t have to imagine. They tell you every day. Liz Cheney, Trump’s personal Javert, has said that the 45th president is literally the greatest threat facing America today—greater than China, than our crashing economy, than our unraveling civil society. . .
. . . Anti-Trump hysteria is in the final analysis not about Trump. The regime can’t allow Trump to be president not because of who he is (although that grates), but because of who his followers are. That class—Angelo Codevilla’s “country class”—must not be allowed representation by candidates who might implement their preferences, which also, and above all, must not be allowed. The rubes have no legitimate standing to affect the outcome of any political process, because of who they are, but mostly because of what they want. . .
. . . while Trump's core MAGA agenda is decidedly not outside the historic bipartisan mainstream, it is well outside the present regime's core interests. Our rulers' wealth and power rise with open borders, trade giveaways, and endless war. Trump, at least in principle, and often in practice, threatens all three.

It's here that Anton games out several scenarios of what happens if Trump weathers the storm and survives the obvious attempt to take him out via the January 6 Kangaroo Court, then becomes the candidate and wins, or loses. And remember, this applies to any MAGA candidate with full force.

So the choice before them is: Do what(ever) they did last time—and more so, if necessary—and risk an even bigger reaction, or take their chances that they can win a fair fight. (The latter assumes that they have complete control of their minions who run elections at the local level.) But to repeat a point: Perhaps they consider the reaction a feature, not a bug?
Which leaves Plan F, which they have already sketched in broad outlines. I don’t know exactly what form it will take, but they have made clear that “under no circumstance” can Trump be allowed to take office again. Among the “circumstances” covered by the word “no” would seem to be an Electoral College majority, or a tie followed by a House vote in Trump’s favor.
What happens then? Well, in the words of the “Transition Integrity Project,” a Soros-network-linked collection of regime hacks who in 2020 gamed out their strategy for preventing a Trump second term, the contest would become “a street fight, not a legal battle.” Again, their words, not mine. But allow me to translate: The 2020 summer riots, but orders of magnitude larger, not to be called off until their people are secure in the White House.

I believe that the arguments about whether he should run or not, while certainly worthy of engaging in, are in the end a distraction. To do so is to accept the illusion that America still stands and that regular order still exists. From lockdowns, to sanctioned street thuggery, to rigged elections and a rigged justice system where we still have innocent Americans locked up as political prisoners, it's anything but regular order.

As I replied to a commenter a week or so ago:

The weight of history and what is in front of us means change is coming. Electoral politics as a function of normal order does not necessarily register as a factor of that change but for sure of the mood of the electorate. We are in an interregnum, poised over an abyss as dark or darker than the one Churchill warned about on the eve of the Battle of Britain. God be with us.

Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Michael Anton: "The people who really run the United States of America have made it clear that they can’t, and won’t, if they can help it, allow Donald Trump to be president again . . . Rest assured, if what I fear might happen, happens, we will be blamed for it. And the fire next time will make their reaction to Jan. 6 look like a marshmallow roast. I don’t know which possibility is scarier: that they haven’t thought any of this through, or that they have." (hat tip to commenter MTF - jjs)
They Can't Let Him Back In
"In Alzheimer’s — as in [Chinese] coronavirus and global warming — the science is far from settled."
Inside The Corrupt World of Alzheimer’s Science (And What Its Failure Means for All "Settled Science")
David Horowitz and John Perazzo: "Taxpayer dollars to make the world green and red."
Rigging the War on Fossil Fuels
"The battlefield is our country's mind and soul."
World War III Is Here and It’s an Ongoing Psyop to Break America

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

"The Committee's real agenda."
Malig-Nancy Pelosi’s January 6th Committee and the Death of American Justice
". . . He declined to disavow using the PATRIOT Act against parents."
DOJ Tells Congress It Hasn’t Prosecuted Anyone For SCOTUS Protests, But Is Still Going After Parents
"There may be rejoicing over the release of Artur Pawlowski and his brother, and now with respect to Tamara Lich, but there is no joy in Mudville as long as Justin Trudeau is in the batter’s box, and, unlike Casey in the famous poem, gives no indication of striking out."
Hope Springs Infernal: Pawlowski, Lich, and Canadian 'Justice'
MoveOn along with Demand Justice, both Leftist activist organizations, started a petition and called on Thomas to either resign or be impeached because after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade they fear that SCOTUS will next overturn “gay rights and contraception rights,” according to MoveOn.
Leftist Activists [Thugs] Call for Clarence Thomas’ Impeachment
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Doesn't sound like a recession to me."
Joe Biden Downplays Economic Woes As U.S. Enters Recession
“I helped pull this country out of a recession before — and, as president, I’ll do it again,” Biden wrote on social media in October 2020.
Candidate Joe Biden Promised to ‘Pull This Country Out of a Recession’ in 2020
"The bill’s companion legislation passed the Senate on Wednesday afternoon, with seventeen Republican votes in support."
Despite Leadership Opposition, 24 Republicans Help Send CHIPS Package To Biden’s Desk
"The bear market has set government retirement systems back ten years in funding, even as taxpayers ante up ever more to keep them afloat."
Public Pensions’ Lost Decade
"If the [junta] and their amen corner in the Washington press corps keep insisting the economy is just fine, they will annihilate what little credibility they have left."
Wordplay Won’t Change Economic Reality
Douglas Murray:"Because re-naming things is one of the left’s favorite pastimes. If you cannot change the facts then you can at least change the language around the facts. By doing so you can massage the facts, make them less concerning and in the process wish reality away. For a time, at least."
Undocumented, Under-housed Chest-fed Kids Are Not in a Recession, Say Dems
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Prayers for the victims and families.
Deadly Kentucky Floods Kill 8, Dozens Of Homes Damaged; Gov. Requests Federal Aid

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"Manchin and Schumer struck the deal to advance the Democrat agenda and lower the deficit at a time when Americans continue to reel from record-high inflation."
Democrat Reconciliation Bill Relies on Extra Taxes, IRS Enforcement to Spend over $400B on Obamacare, ‘Climate Change’
David Harsanyi: "The Inflation Reduction Act is to inflation what the Affordable Care Act — which doubled premium costs — was to health-care insurance."
Democrats’ High-Spending "Inflation Reduction Act" Will Do Just the Opposite
"The only bright side, and it is a bright side, is that by throwing in their lot with the Biden baloney, our woke economic class will soon be as discredited as their political, legal, and medical allies have been. By signing away their soul to the devils of Build Back Better and ESG, these experts, like the deadwood they are, may well float out to sea on the receding economic tide. America needs business leaders as wise as its people, not the current cabal of ivory tower leftists leading our country into radical decline while calling it a success."
More Build Back Better Baloney
"As Barack Obama once said, ‘You don’t raise taxes in a recession.’"
Democrats’ $700 Billion ‘Build Back Better’ Plan to Raise Taxes During a Recession is a Political Death Wish
David Harsanyi: "The Inflation Reduction Act is to inflation what the Affordable Care Act — which doubled premium costs — was to health-care insurance."
Democrats’ High-Spending "Inflation Reduction Act" Will Do Just the Opposite

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"California presumes to be able to do everything — from fixing the Earth’s climate to providing healthcare for all — but can’t even get its residents potable drinking water."
Something’s in the Water
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
But Joe Manchin voted to destroy coal mining.
West Virginia Won’t Do Business With Wall Street Banks That Boycott Fossil Fuels
"West Virginia is furthest down the path of putting companies that seek to punish the fossil fuel industry on notice. Moore authored a letter to Climate Envoy John Kerry in May 2021, informing him that states were going to put the financial institutions on alert. Fifteen state treasurers and comptrollers signed on to the principles Moore expressed in the letter." (and yet, Joe Manchin - jjs)
West Virginia Might Just Save the Republic If Other Republican State Leaders Get on Board
"It represents a sophisticated attempt to balance the requirement that Congress make major policy decisions with the needs of the modern administrative state."
How West Virginia v. EPA Changed the Administrative State
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"You *literally* asked for this."
D.C. Mayor Bowser Wants National Guard to Help With Illegal Immigrants Bused to Capital
"The development comes after Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott effectively told Washington, D.C., Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser to pound sand Thursday afternoon after she complained that the border state was flooding her city with illegal aliens."
Biden Reverses Course, Will Close Gaps in Areas of Border Wall as Crisis Hits D.C., Elections Loom
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"John Fetterman supports drug legalization, shortening prison sentences for murder."
Dem Senate Candidate Would Worsen Pennsylvania’s Crime Spike, Sheriffs Fear
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“Obviously, the ruling yesterday was a disappointment for my family and I. I’m appealing the decision in the sixth circuit,” Sandmann said in a statement responding to the ruling this week. “Judge Bertelsmann revisited the statements that I ‘blocked Nathan Phillips’ and ‘would not allow him to retreat.’ His job was to rule on the legal issue of what those statements were.”
Nick Sandmann Responds After Judge Tosses Lawsuits Against 5 Media Companies
Michael Anton: "I do not believe the magazine Buckley founded is any longer even remotely conservative."
Letters to the Editor: The Right’s Changing Views on Buckley and National Review
ABORTION
"Her grotesque comments ignore the countless unborn killed under Roe for 'imperfections.'”
Kamala Harris to the Disabled: Abortion Is Good for You
"Polling suggests that 72 percent of voters support abortion restrictions at least as strict as the law featured in the Dobbs v. Jackson case."
Democrats Push Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Until Birth Despite Significant Unpopularity Among Americans
“This is not a company that values the safety of user data or privacy, but rather a company that prioritizes partisan political gain regardless of what that means for their users."
‘Americans Should Not Be Deceived’: Experts Sound The Alarm On Google’s Pledge To Protect Abortion Data
LOCKDOWN 2: MONKEY POX MONKEY BUSINESS BOOGALOO???
If you didn’t learn it from the [Chinese] Covid hysteria, you had better learn it now. Don’t expect anything productive or useful from our “experts.” And definitely don’t do what they say “must” be done to stop a virus that passes through nearly everyone without incident.
Monkeypox is the Left’s "Don’t Say Gay"
"Rather than face disapproving comments from gay activists, public health experts, the media, and politicians preferred to let a deadly disease become an epidemic."
The Regime Wants You to Get Monkeypox
"Outlets from Newsweek to the LA Times to Canada’s CTV published articles in May and June emphasizing the threat of the stigma against gay and bisexual men, not the threat from the actual virus itself." (they should be stigmatized because male anal sex spreads the disease - jjs)
It Took Months for the Media to State the Obvious About Monkeypox
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"It will take years if not decades for researchers to document the totality of the cruel harms of the pandemic lockdowns. Whatever the damage, it could have been much worse. With the hindsight of a blind man, and the depravity of a despot, Anthony Fauci said this week the restrictions should have been more draconian than they were. He’s a national headache that just won’t go away." (a national cancer - jjs)
Fauci Torments a Nation
"This has to stop."
Anthony Fauci Is STILL Funding China’s Military-Run Labs With U.S. Taxpayer Cash
"She's the head of US government bioethics."
Fauci’s Wife Insisted on Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine Trials For Children
“'We were just following orders,' the doctors will say when the truth comes out. Where have we heard that before?"
Doctors Said the Vaccine Was Safe
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Ivy League law school will force students to write physical messages on a bulletin board after the listserv turned toxic."
Yale Law School Axes Student Listserv That Energized Protests and Scandals
"Educators don’t get much for their $1,200 yearly dues."
Do Teachers Really Need a Union?
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"The left’s push for a popular vote for the presidency directly undermines the electoral system established by our Constitution."
Democrats Are Dangerously Close to Changing Laws So Our President is Elected By Popular Vote
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Rep. Sanford Bishop considered joining Farrakhan's anti-Semitic organization."
This Georgia Dem Once Praised Louis Farrakhan as ‘Impressive’
"The Court’s religion cases concern more than the activities of religious people; they relate to speech in general, to Americans’ ability to express their profoundest sentiments and thoughts."
The Supreme Court Restores Religious Liberty
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
Margot Cleveland: "It appears the FBI headquarters either improperly withheld information or presented inaccurate information to the U.S. attorney’s office in Pittsburgh and possibly also Delaware."
DOJ May Have Obstructed Important Biden Corruption Investigations Out of Pittsburgh and Delaware
"I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings."
17 Times Joe Biden Got Involved in the Family Business
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Gee, ya think?
The Pelosis ‘Appear To Have Taken Advantage Of Inside Information,’ Says Former Fed Chair
“Two of the speed violations that we found against her SUVs occurred in school zones with ‘school child present,’ according to the citations.”
Report: Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Hasn’t Paid Speeding, Red Light Tickets
"Republicans dominated the 87th annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, winning 10-0." (Linda Sanchez, a class act; then again, the GOP deserves it, but not for the same reasons - jjs)
Democrat Congresswoman Flips Off Republican Dugout During Baseball Game, GOP Dominates In Blowout
POLITICS
"With angry voters set to punish Biden and his party, many of the 'dangerous' candidates being promoted may win."
Democrats Pumping Up Trumpian Candidates Should Be Careful What They Wish For
"That number is up sharply from January and February when 51 percent of Democrat voters wanted another nominee besides Biden to represent their party in the next presidential race."
WH Press Secretary ‘Not Worried About Poll’ Showing 75% of Democrats Want Party to Nominate Someone Other Than Biden
". . . But a political era — that of the New Deal Democrats — is coming to its inglorious end."
No, America Isn’t Over
"The pitfalls of conservatism without practical reason or natural law."
Tribal Politics
"The Atlantic Council parts ways with Koch-funded scholars who caused an internal uproar last year."
DC Think Tanks Learn Hard Lessons About Koch Funding
"Gavin Newsom’s bravado about California is undermined by reality."
Not a National Model—a National Warning
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"The government of Ukraine is censoring American politicians, military theorists, and academics who are deemed ‘pro-Russian.’"
US Taxpayers Are Funding Ukraine’s Blacklisting of American Dissenters for Thought Crimes
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The strike group “is continuing normal, scheduled operations as part of her routine patrol in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific,” Commander Hayley Sims told Reuters. This return comes during an extended diplomatic battle between the United States and China regarding a potential visit by Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, according to Reuters.
US Deploys Aircraft Carrier On China’s Doorstep As Taiwan Tensions Ramp Up
"Prominent among those Republicans seeking to join Pelosi’s visit is former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, whom the Chinese Communist Party absolutely loathes for his stalwart support of Taiwan. Chinese propagandists derided Pompeo as a “lunatic” in March when he called on the Biden [junta] to extend formal diplomatic recognition to Taiwan during his own visit to the island."
China: Pelosi Trip a ‘Big Headache’ for Biden, No-Win Situation for Democrats
Biden and Xi discussed “a range of issues,” including Taiwan, and the White House readout identified “climate change and health security” as areas where follow-up activity from U.S. and Chinese officials would be required.
In 2.5-Hour Conversation With China’s Xi, Biden Mentions Chinese COVID Origins and Fentanyl Zero Times
“I don’t know where this idea is coming from.”
Biden National Security Coordinator Says Idea That Saudis Infected POTUS With Chinese COVID Are “Ludicrous”
"Where, exactly, did 'diplomatic engagement' get us?"
Our Other Foreign Policy of Stale Orthodoxy: Iran
"Navi Pillay is standing by Miloon Kothari after anti-Semitic comments."
UN Official Running Investigation Into Israel Defends Colleague Who Said Jewish Lobby Controls Social Media
IDF “presented aerial imagery and maps showing … tunnels, weapons production sites and arms depots positioned near schools, hospitals, the al-Azhar University, a Pepsi factory, mosques and United Nations facilities.”
Gaza: Hamas Building New Terror Tunnels and Weapons Depots Near Hospitals, Schools, and Mosques
"Feeling the sting of Lebanese fury."
Hassan Nasrallah Backtracks From War Talk
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“Defense Department officials have been sounding the alarm for months: the military is going to miss its enlisted recruiting goals this year, and the Army may be in the worst spot of any of the services.” – Army Times
Military Recruitment Crisis Underway as Biden Junta Continues Emphasis on Wokeness, Vaccine Mandates
LtCol Stuart Scheller: "Some blame the problem on 'woke generals.' But that’s a catch-all term misdiagnosing the root problem: the American military is currently led by senior general officers lacking moral courage."
The American Military is Promoting Cowardice
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
For decades, we’ve been told that the U.S. should not spend such a high percentage of GDP. But this graph says, “Yes, it should!”
No, We Don’t Spend ‘Too Much’ On Health Care — Here’s The Proof
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The federal government is now apparently trying to set a new policy whereby any new work by a private company on or even near federal land will require its full approval, and even if given that approval will carry with it strict and endless governmental demands, all designed to slow things down."
NASA is Apparently Withdrawing its Permits for Starship Launches in Florida
"According to the new prediction, the core stage will return to Earth during a 32 hour period centered on the early morning hours of July 31st above the Middle East. . . This story will be updated repeatedly until the core crashes this weekend."
Update on Long March 5B Core Stage Crash Prediction
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The ruling is being heralded as a major victory for the LGBTQ community, but many are concerned about its implications for religious liberty."
Michigan Supreme Court Rules State’s Civil Rights Law Covers Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity
"Has the transexual movement already sown the seeds of its own eventual downfall?"
The Transgender Dichotomy
"The question is: if the U.K. has figured out that pushing kids toward gender transitioning is harmful, why hasn’t the Biden [junta]?"
Controversial Transgender Clinic Shuts Down in U.K., Deemed ‘Not Safe’ for Children
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
". . . So my bad. I’m sorry.”
Fat Albert Speer Whoopi Personally Apologizes to TPUSA for Saying They ‘Embraced’ Neo-Nazis
Christian Toto: "Colbert, Fallon pummel [so-called quote-unquote "president"] after Mainstream Media gives 'all clear.'"
It’s Official: Late Night TV Turned on Recession-Era Biden
"All bodies are beach bodies."
Spain’s New Ad Campaign Includes Topless Woman After Mastectomy, and More
"If America is going to survive as a nation founded on Judeo-Christian values, then Americans are going to have to get serious about rising up against the ‘woke’ mob and reclaiming the heritage of this great nation — and our pastors, rabbis, and other church leaders must be ready to stand against Leftist attacks!"
Highway to Hell: Grace Church School Forced Students to Attend Drag Queen Worship Service
"Liberals do not merely dislike satire -- they cannot even recognize satire as satire."
Why Satire Unhinges the Left
Daniel Greenfield: "The war between messy realities and smooth illusions may determine our future."
The Frictionless Politics of the Social Technocracy
HITHER & YON
"How to explain the evil of Reinhard Heydrich?"
A New Biography of a Lesser-Known Nazi Confounds the Reader

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:29 AM

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1 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 29, 2022 07:30 AM (uvymP)

2 The others have been informed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 29, 2022 07:30 AM (uvymP)

3 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 29, 2022 07:31 AM (1n+EO)

4

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at July 29, 2022 07:32 AM (74Gk2)

5 Hi all

Posted by: Ciampino - Pringle can waveguide at July 29, 2022 07:33 AM (qfLjt)

6 Ethylene glycol is "antifreeze" used in autos. Toxic.

Propylene glycol is used in foods. Presumably not toxic. Do your own diligence, think I have that right.
Posted by: Common Tater

But they are both glycol and sound chemicall-y! Reee! Poison!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 07:35 AM (eC4Tv)

7 Good morning, JJ. Morning, horde.

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at July 29, 2022 07:36 AM (53oGX)

8 Cernovich @Cernovich
Wikipedia changed the definition of recession to favor the Biden regime, and then locked the page.

Posted by: ed norton at July 29, 2022 07:37 AM (yikp0)

9 Just do it. Run this bitch off the cliff. Let's get on with the reset before my kids are old enough to fight and die for it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 07:37 AM (eC4Tv)

10 "the climate crisis is not only the single greatest challenge facing our country,” but “is also our single greatest opportunity to build a more just and equitable future"

The first part is a lie that enables the second part which is also a lie. What do you expect from commie scum congressman with thress houseswho has never earned an honest dollar in it's life?

Posted by: fd at July 29, 2022 07:38 AM (sn5EN)

11 "Unrecognized by most, this war has been going on during the last century in different forms and from different actors..."

Understatement of the century. "Unrecognized by most."

Naming the disease is the priority. Name it, call it out, force it into the conversation with relentless, undeviating commitment. This is the primary, essential work of a leader. This is above all a linguistic, rhetorical war. It must be, even if it becomes physical: it must be driven by a linguistically moral energy. We haven't found the leader yet who can wage this war.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 29, 2022 07:38 AM (H8QX8)

12 This build back better inflation bill: Sure I hate the wasteful spending, but the worse thing is the tax increases and most of all the weaponization of the IRS and giving money to them for "Audits" and "agents" to terrorize Americans. The new KGB

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 29, 2022 07:39 AM (FHzKS)

13 JJ killin it.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at July 29, 2022 07:39 AM (MkuC5)

14 #8 Off sewer sock!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 07:39 AM (yikp0)

15 "Propylene glycol is used in foods. "

Warning. Do not eat Mirilax if you are allergic to projectile pooping.

Posted by: Mirilax at July 29, 2022 07:39 AM (sn5EN)

16 In brief:

U.S. District Judge William O. Bertelsman on Tuesday dismissed Sandmann's lawsuits against The New York Times, CBS News, ABC News, Gannett, and Rolling Stone magazine.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 07:41 AM (yikp0)

17 I can't get too worked up about this bill. It's just another boondoggle and giveaway, but not as big as they wanted.
Anything to hasten the collapse.

Posted by: fd at July 29, 2022 07:41 AM (sn5EN)

18 well, it's nice that the broader population is starting to notice ...

Thanks, JJ !

Hope you enjoy your first weekend in The Land of Sky Blue Waters !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 29, 2022 07:41 AM (mjR/z)

19 Every day a significant number of Americans are waking up to the fraud that is the deep state, and that our self-proclaimed elites are idiots operating far outside whatever limited competency they may have. The problem is the bridge from where we are to a country based on freedom, rights, and responsibilities is on fire.

Posted by: IanDeal at July 29, 2022 07:42 AM (MGjjz)

20 Highway to Hell: Grace Church School Forced Students to Attend Drag Queen Worship Service

I swear, that article is nothing but click-bait.

We are supposed to be outraged and be stirred to activity but the clown who composed that article was either to cowardly to reveal the ID of "Grace Church" (which every town in America has), or the event never took place and its all lies and propaganda.

By saying "Grace Church" and failing to distinguish it from the many thousands of other similarly named congregations, she is slurring them all. That is evil.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 07:42 AM (3hSHB)

21 I read Anton's piece yesterday and summarized it for a friend.

"Anton does not seem to believe that plans A-E have any remote chance ... I think he's probably right. Plan-F appears feasible still."

There are a number of optimists out there, including Bannon, and as long as they enjoy continued success Trump will win in 2024 and Plan F will begin. Plan F is a hot civil war ... a continuation of the summer of 2020 but with less restraint.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 29, 2022 07:43 AM (5Qjf9)

22 it seems to have carried over from Tech Thread, so de-willowing:
"112 no, Eromero, antifreeze is ethylene glycol, bigly poisonous ... polyethylene glycol is quite inert over a wide range of molecular weights, kind of waxy / fatty, and edible; also a vigorous laxative, it's the active ingredient in the gallon jug of 'cleanout solution' used for colonoscopy prep, etc.
it enjoyed a brief fad as a zero-calorie fat substitute in snack foods."

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 29, 2022 07:43 AM (mjR/z)

23 Miralax is a sliding scale depending on how much you take. From gentile to "Colonoscopy clean out in an hour".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 07:44 AM (eC4Tv)

24 morning horde. sucks to oversleep. but at least i'm in my home office so pants are optional...

covfefe is ready. now to the content.

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 29, 2022 07:44 AM (p03vF)

25 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at July 29, 2022 07:44 AM (u7pQw)

26 U.S. District Judge William O. Bertelsman on Tuesday dismissed Sandmann's lawsuits against The New York Times, CBS News, ABC News, Gannett, and Rolling Stone magazine.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 07:41 AM (yikp0)

But of course he did.

I listened to Project Veritas latest update on their defamation suit against the NY Times. The Times' response to the judge's dismissal of their appeal to dismiss was laughable yet scary. They denied the meaning of their own words, or even the idea that words have meanings (but exclusive only to their prerogative). It was basically a legalistic phrasing worthy of Orwell's Squealer in "Animal Farm."

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 29, 2022 07:44 AM (H8QX8)

27 WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department on Thursday offered a reward of up to $10 million for information about Russian interference in American elections, including a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a troll farm that officials say fueled a divisive social media campaign in 2016.

The reward, offered by the department’s Rewards for Justice program, seeks information about the Internet Research Agency, Yevgeniy Prigozhin — a wealthy businessman whose ties to Putin earned him the nickname “Putin Chef” — and other entities involved in interfering in the 2016 U.S. election won by Republican Donald Trump.

Prigozhin and 12 other Russians were indicted along with the IRA in 2018 as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into whether Russia had coordinated with the Trump campaign to sway the election. The defendants were accused of a huge but hidden social media trolling campaign aimed at sowing discord on hot-button issues and at helping Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton. Officials say Prigozhin provided funding for the IRA through companies he controlled.

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2022 07:45 AM (X5CsJ)

28 I also sent my friend a quote from Anton. Viz:

What happens then? Well, in the words of the “Transition Integrity Project,” a Soros-network-linked collection of regime hacks who in 2020 gamed out their strategy for preventing a Trump second term, the contest would become “a street fight, not a legal battle.” Again, their words, not mine. But allow me to translate: The 2020 summer riots, but orders of magnitude larger, not to be called off until their people are secure in the White House.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 29, 2022 07:45 AM (5Qjf9)

29 At the risk of being called negative, I fully expect a steal rehearsal (a sighting in) this November. After correcting aiming, the 24 elections will be stolen. It will be epic. Then there will be the bad times. Really bad times.

Posted by: Eromero at July 29, 2022 07:45 AM (gktX6)

30 Are we really gonna fly Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, in a Cessna?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 29, 2022 07:45 AM (1n+EO)

31 "Drag Queen Worship Service"

All people
must
bow down
In the sacred presence
of the
Latex Wearing Queen

Steamroller

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at July 29, 2022 07:46 AM (sn5EN)

32 By saying "Grace Church" and failing to distinguish it from the many thousands of other similarly named congregations, she is slurring them all. That is evil.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

It is grace church in manhattan. This is one of those "So and so wrote an article about so and so's article talking about this tweet that got alot of likes"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 07:46 AM (+08AP)

33 Christian churches heading away from God and moving to Marxism Religion

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 29, 2022 07:47 AM (4FZz4)

34 @29, exactly, just like 2018 was a rehearsal for 2020.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 29, 2022 07:47 AM (mjR/z)

35 Plan F has always been the plan.

Posted by: davidt at July 29, 2022 07:47 AM (oTZbj)

36 The federal government is now apparently trying to set a new policy whereby any new work by a private company on or even near federal land will require its full approval, and even if given that approval will carry with it strict and endless governmental demands, all designed to slow things down."

Or move the operations out of the FUS so that locations more proximate to the equator will benefit.

It should be abundantly clear that the American bureaucracy is absolutely hostile to human flourishing, the Constitution and is fully on board with the WEF Communist agenda.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 07:48 AM (3hSHB)

37 Thanks for the link to the Anton article…I think.

Posted by: 7man at July 29, 2022 07:48 AM (qwO6y)

38 Fun fact: If you accidentally drink ethylene glycol, the antidote is ethanol. Get drunk for a few hours or 12.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 07:48 AM (eC4Tv)

39 Thanks, cat and soc. I drink th gallon and spew the 1.5 gallon in August. I been there, not my first colonoscopy.

Posted by: Eromero at July 29, 2022 07:49 AM (gktX6)

40 Good morning dear morons from Sonoma and thank you JJ

We no longer have a government of the people. We are ruled by an illegitimate and lawless junta that has declared war against the Constitution and the American people.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2022 07:49 AM (dzJhQ)

41 From gentile to "Colonoscopy clean out in an hour".
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How fast do the Jooooooo doses work??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 07:49 AM (yikp0)

42 35 Plan F has always been the plan.

Posted by: davidt at July 29, 2022 07:47 AM (oTZbj)

Only the really hard left is willing to go there. Hence A-E. IMO they are not nearly as strong as they believe, which is why the soft versions will fail. Their real plan is plan G, gulag.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 29, 2022 07:50 AM (5Qjf9)

43 Are we really gonna fly Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, in a Cessna?

Not enough capacity for the required quantities of alcohol.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 07:50 AM (3hSHB)

44 U.S. District Judge William O. Bertelsman on Tuesday dismissed Sandmann's lawsuits against The New York Times, CBS News, ABC News, Gannett, and Rolling Stone magazine.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 07:41 AM (yikp0)

Corrupt, venal "justices" serving for life like tape worms in the federal "justice" system's bowels respond favorably to bribes, hookers, vacation getaways and more bribes.

Hope the Sand Man gets justice one day.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 29, 2022 07:50 AM (R/m4+)

45
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 29, 2022 07:50 AM (ENBF0)

46 The State Department on Thursday offered a reward of up to $10 million for information about Russian interference in American elections,
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Cool! Let's all put in a claim showing the Russians buying more Facebook ads for Hillary than for Trump!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 07:51 AM (yikp0)

47 Theybcan just take Nancy to chinatown in SF. She would never know the difference. Just pay some guy $5 to be "leader of Taiwan".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 07:51 AM (eC4Tv)

48 The Commerce Dept. said yesterday that we ARE in a Recession. The WH has finally been forced to acknowledge that.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 29, 2022 07:52 AM (C1rbv)

49 $10 million? i can find some evidence.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 07:52 AM (eC4Tv)

50 “I don’t know who is going to be running. If Joe Biden runs again and he is the Democratic nominee, depending on who the Republican nominee is, we will just have to wait and see,” Manchin told Cuomo. “I am not predicting anything or how I would support or not support, or get involved or not. But I can tell you this, whoever the elected president is - Democrat, Republican, independent - every one of us should pray they succeed. I am going to do everything I can to make that person successful.”

Cuomo pressed Manchin: “I don’t think I have ever heard a sitting senator that is a member of a party not automatically say: ‘Oh yeah, the sitting president is in my party, I’m for them.'”
Poll: Majority of voters don't want Biden or Trump in 2024

Manchin responded: “Well, I don’t know what to tell you on that. I’m always for the right person when they’re running.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2022 07:53 AM (X5CsJ)

51 Lollapalooza is back, Baby!!!!!!

Streaming July 28 - july31!!!!!

Meh.

On the other hand, you can see Sampa the Great and Jordy live!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2022 07:53 AM (5NkmN)

52 The Ivermectin 1% solution for cattle and swine (and me) is suspended in Propylene glycol.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 29, 2022 07:53 AM (C1rbv)

53 "Are we really gonna fly Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, in a Cessna?"

Can we get Nick Miller to use his Commodore 64 based time machine to fly her to the year 2525?

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to the Time Chasers movie at July 29, 2022 07:54 AM (sn5EN)

54 "It will take years if not decades for researchers to document the totality of the cruel harms of the pandemic lockdowns. Whatever the damage, it could have been much worse. With the hindsight of a blind man, and the depravity of a despot, Anthony Fauci said this week the restrictions should have been more draconian than they were. He’s a national headache that just won’t go away."

Cruelty and humiliation is part of the kink.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 07:54 AM (3hSHB)

55 Plan F has always been the plan.
Posted by: davidt at July 29, 2022 07:47 AM (oTZbj)

I thought it was Plan R.

Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at July 29, 2022 07:55 AM (4I/2K)

56 Space Junk, Devo.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 29, 2022 07:56 AM (jsvvo)

57 What happens then? Well, in the words of the “Transition Integrity Project,” a Soros-network-linked collection of regime hacks who in 2020 gamed out their strategy for preventing a Trump second term, the contest would become “a street fight, not a legal battle.” Again, their words, not mine. But allow me to translate: The 2020 summer riots, but orders of magnitude larger, not to be called off until their people are secure in the White House.

*

Some unarmed tourists visiting D.C. on January 6th were attempting an insurrection and trying to pull off a coup, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 29, 2022 07:56 AM (yla5g)

58 And the bullsh*t CHIP bill has matasticized from a 50B bill to a 250B bill, so these a**holes are about to throw another 1.25T onto the funeral pyre of this dying country.

These people literally are burning this country to the ground like the monster in GoodFellas burned down the Tiki Lounge.

Bastards.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 29, 2022 07:56 AM (OTm0W)

59 "Plan F has always been the plan.
Posted by: davidt at July 29, 2022 07:47 AM (oTZbj)

I thought it was Plan R.
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper"

Stupid stupid humans.

Posted by: Plan 9 at July 29, 2022 07:56 AM (sn5EN)

60 I found Anton's article a little unintentionally amusing. He offers the usual caveat about Trump "love him or hate" then iterates his unparalleled accomplishments. So what is the problem; why must be always qualify any discussion of Trump with the "given his faults" line or something like it? As if none of them can possibly write a piece about Trump without this obligatory concession. But they don't really examine what their problem is beyond something like "he grates."

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 29, 2022 07:57 AM (H8QX8)

61 Can't find a country and western space junk song.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 29, 2022 07:58 AM (jsvvo)

62 Fun fact: If you accidentally drink ethylene glycol, the antidote is ethanol. Get drunk for a few hours or 12.
-------------------------
As featured in House M.D. episode "Acceptance".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0606011/

Patient attempted suicide by ingesting photocopier toner that uses the booze treatment too.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 07:59 AM (yikp0)

63 Hey! Anybody remember Bill Clinton? Whatever happened to THAT guy? Is he dead?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 07:59 AM (eC4Tv)

64 >Plan F has always been the plan.
Posted by: davidt at July 29, 2022 07:47 AM (oTZbj)

I thought it was Plan R.

Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper

let's go with plan 9- it's a 5 year plan, good plan

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance at July 29, 2022 07:59 AM (geLO8)

65 Boy, Michael Anton's September 2020 "The Coming Coup?" article sure is good, too.

We really did go through a historic moment in U.S. history in 2020.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 29, 2022 08:00 AM (yla5g)

66 @63

>>Hey! Anybody remember Bill Clinton? Whatever happened to THAT guy? Is he dead?

He's probably off chasing underage tail on whatever the new P3dohhe Island is.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 29, 2022 08:00 AM (OTm0W)

67 Most of this spending will be stolen, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2022 08:01 AM (i0slg)

68 The woke movement and all it's attendants, BLM, Antifa, etc. is just American Nazism.

How can it be stopped? Our youth is seemingly indoctrinated.

Posted by: pawn at July 29, 2022 08:01 AM (wsHtO)

69 33 Christian churches heading away from God and moving to Marxism Religion
Posted by: Skip's phone at July 29, 2022 07:47 AM (4FZz4)

Got to stay hip. That's what matters.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 29, 2022 08:02 AM (H8QX8)

70 67 Most of this spending will be stolen, no?
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2022 08:01 AM (i0slg

If by stolen you mean stolen, then yes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 29, 2022 08:02 AM (PY/t0)

71 Use Plan 9 from outer-space because all you of Earth are idiots!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 08:03 AM (yikp0)

72 @67

>>Most of this spending will be stolen, no?

Without a doubt.

Remember, Rand Paul wanted to add an amendment to the Ukrainian spendapalooza bill that would have established an IG to monitor and track where the money went.

Uniparty shut that down toot sweet.

They're all corrupt monster save a small handful.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 29, 2022 08:03 AM (OTm0W)

73 Remember my name, earthlings. *smh*

Posted by: Cmdr Eros, of Plan 9 fame at July 29, 2022 08:04 AM (4I/2K)

74 Miralax is a sliding scale depending on how much you take. From gentile to "Colonoscopy clean out in an hour".
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 07:44 AM (eC4Tv)
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I can vouch for that, though my most recent procedure used a different medication that worked much more efficiently.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 29, 2022 08:04 AM (YIVH2)

75 Google AI is just itching to place grey Party CONTEXT Propaganda on every link above. Your opinions are wrong, comrade, HERE IS WHY.

Posted by: Lord High Minister of Censorship and Content Monitoring at July 29, 2022 08:04 AM (u7Rwk)

76 The Chi-Coms want to rule the World. We're in the way. They'd kill 100 million of us without a thought, if they thought they could get away with it.

I fear that in the next ten years they'll unleash a killer virus that targets round-eyes. Do you doubt that they're working on this as we speak?

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2022 08:04 AM (i0slg)

77 Do they think they can pull this off without a shooting war? I'm betting they do.

I'm betting they think we're all frogs and they used the slow addition of heat method to avoid an uprising. And the J6 committee is the ruler on the knuckles to show how they can destroy you if you try.

I'm also scared they are right.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 29, 2022 08:05 AM (PY/t0)

78 Google AI is just itching to place grey Party CONTEXT Propaganda on every link above. Your opinions are wrong, comrade, HERE IS WHY.
Posted by: Lord High Minister of Censorship and Content Monitoring at July 29, 2022 08:04 AM (u7Rwk)

Number 7 will surprise you!

Posted by: Google AI at July 29, 2022 08:05 AM (4I/2K)

79 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 08:06 AM (Zz0t1)

80 Poll: Majority of voters don't want Biden or Trump in 2024

No majority gets to choose their dictators.

The Executive has been transformed into a de facto totalitarian dictatorship or at least an enabling mechanism for the various segments of the Regulatory Branch to administrate, and no one can vote for the warlords who rule from their director's positions.

No one can unseat Fauci, or Wray, or that weasel in the IRS that persecuted Tea Party related organizations. They are like the wicked and depraved "judges" that receive life-long appointments who spread misery during their tenures.

The presidency is merely a figurehead position, the Party runs the multi-trillion dollar international slush-fund, and the warlords torture We The People.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 08:06 AM (3hSHB)

81 Good morning all, and thanks for the news J.J.

Like I said yesterday, these people are not behaving like they think they are going to lose. It's terrifying to think what comes next. All I can do is continue to pray that God has mercy on this country.

Posted by: spypeach at July 29, 2022 08:07 AM (gnwe5)

82 Christian churches heading away from God and moving to Marxism Religion
Posted by: Skip's phone at July 29, 2022 07:47 AM (4FZz4)

Heading also to Idol worship. Themselves being the idols. They have usurped the throne.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 08:07 AM (45fpk)

83 74 Citrate of magnesia tends to get the job done.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2022 08:07 AM (lz5hY)

84 67 Most of this spending will be stolen, no?
Posted by: Ignoramus

Yes.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 29, 2022 08:07 AM (LQjWA)

85 So what is the problem; why must be always qualify any discussion of Trump with the "given his faults" line or something like it?

*

I suspect because 80-90% of normal people watch ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. and know he's a big stupid jerk who said pussy and can't understand why Nice Guy Biden is having such bad luck when that idiot Trump made it look easy.

Seriously, imagine all of the propaganda to convince people that Joe is a good, honest, straight-shooting guy with a good family directed in the opposite way at Trump. That's likely the reason. It's a way to at least get MSM readers and listeners to hopefully move into the first bit of the piece.

(Because Trump is a racist jerk and probably Russian, too)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 29, 2022 08:07 AM (yla5g)

86 BBB has always been the means to complete the absolute transformation of America into a socialist/communist state.

Have I mentioned how bad we're fucked? Because we're quite proper fucked.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)

87 "Can't find a country and western space junk song.
Posted by: humphreyrobot"

*searches for Salvage 1 theme song*

Nope. Me either.

Posted by: fd at July 29, 2022 08:07 AM (sn5EN)

88 They're all corrupt monster save a small handful.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 29, 2022 08:03 AM (OTm0W)

Has one ever given you the sense that they see themselves a sacred steward to a great purpose, a noble experiment, something much greater than themselves or an ephemeral political end? The time Trump came out and hugged the flag, as silly as it may sound, is one time I felt that. Trump more than anybody gave me that sense, that he deeply, organically loved and appreciated America.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 29, 2022 08:08 AM (H8QX8)

89 The so-called "climate crisis" has always been a fraudulent scam giving the Dems an excuse for raising taxes.

Posted by: vic /s at July 29, 2022 08:08 AM (mZwKe)

90 the American military is currently led by senior general officers lacking moral courage.
=====

Pampered perfumed princes of the pentagon are busy securing their personal eunuch guards squads.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 29, 2022 08:08 AM (MIKMs)

91 The presidency is merely a figurehead position, the Party runs the multi-trillion dollar international slush-fund, and the warlords torture We The People.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 08:06 AM (3hSHB)

Concur. Which is why the federales need to be abolished.

Grifters, parasites and layabouts all.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 29, 2022 08:08 AM (R/m4+)

92 From gentile to "Colonoscopy clean out in an hour".

*

I love this autocucumber.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 29, 2022 08:08 AM (yla5g)

93
Biden: "What am I signing?"
Unidentified voice: "Just sign it."

Corrupt old man who knows his corruption has been discovered has no choice but to follow orders.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 29, 2022 08:08 AM (jE276)

94 That Anton article is good but go and read the one he he links that he wrote 3 months before the 2020 election predicting what would happen before and after the election. It is 100% accurate on every point. It's as if he had a time machine.

Posted by: Ripley at July 29, 2022 08:09 AM (MxEKc)

95 Destroying the economy will make everyone dependent on the government.
Communists in Russia in 1917 had the same plan

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 29, 2022 08:09 AM (4FZz4)

96 6 Ethylene glycol is "antifreeze" used in autos. Toxic.

Propylene glycol is used in foods. Presumably not toxic. Do your own diligence, think I have that right.
Posted by: Common Tater

But they are both glycol and sound chemicall-y! Reee! Poison!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 07:35 AM (eC4Tv)
----
In simple terms:
Alcohols are compounds of carbon with one OH group. Ethanol is CH3Ch2OH. It is metabolized to vinegar and used to generate ATP. Methanol is CH3OH and oxidizes to formaldehyde and formic acid, nasty poisons to cells.
Glycols have 2 or more OH groups. Ethylene glycol is Ch2OH-CH2OH, and is converted to oxalic acid, a cell poison. Propylene glycol CH3-CHOH-CH2OH gets converted to vinegar as well so is safe.

Posted by: Ciampino - Organic Chemistry lesson at July 29, 2022 08:09 AM (qfLjt)

97 We have been in a cooling period since 1983.

Posted by: vic /s at July 29, 2022 08:09 AM (mZwKe)

98 Distraction or not Trump must run and America's supporters must push the throttle full forward.

The formal declaration of War will be Trump charged with insurrection crimes.

Fight or flight.

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 29, 2022 08:09 AM (OcxYp)

99 "Officials say sunlight magnified by glass bottles in a garbage can ignited 200 hectare fire in northern TX."

[Approx. 500 acres.]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 08:09 AM (yikp0)

100 mornin' y'all.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at July 29, 2022 08:10 AM (PbwT0)

101 76 The Chi-Coms want to rule the World. We're in the way. They'd kill 100 million of us without a thought, if they thought they could get away with it.

I fear that in the next ten years they'll unleash a killer virus that targets round-eyes. Do you doubt that they're working on this as we speak?
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2022 08:04 AM (i0slg)

"Pfft."

- - Global Caliphate LLC

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2022 08:11 AM (x0n13)

102 Biden is worse than Gov Lapetomaine in Blazing Saddles

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2022 08:11 AM (i0slg)

103 Officials say sunlight magnified by glass bottles in a garbage can ignited 200 hectare fire in northern TX

**

Uncovered recycling container?

If we had a functioning press someone would ask this sort of thing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 29, 2022 08:11 AM (yla5g)

104 90 Flag rank should never be awarded unless the candidate holds a Combat Infantry Badge, a Combat Action Ribbon, an Air medal with combat documentation, and whatever the Navy awards for action with the enemy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2022 08:11 AM (lz5hY)

105 53 "Are we really gonna fly Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, in a Cessna?"

Can we get Nick Miller to use his Commodore 64 based time machine to fly her to the year 2525?
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to the Time Chasers movie at July 29, 2022 07:54 AM (sn5EN)

"We're begging you, no!"

- - Zager & Evans

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2022 08:12 AM (x0n13)

106 "Officials say sunlight magnified by glass bottles in a garbage can ignited 200 hectare fire in northern TX."

Legislators all around are now crafting bills to criminalize not strictly obeying the mandatory recycling segregation rules.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 08:12 AM (3hSHB)

107 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

I read that Anton article earlier this morning.

The scenario I see as most likely, should Teh Donald run again, is a massive, overwhelming cheat by the Dems, for two reasons:

- firstly, to rub our noses in the fact that our 'votes' and 'elections' no longer matter. Whomever the Dems / Deep State / MFM wants in the Oval Office will be installed and you deplorables can suck horse cock.

- secondly, to test the water. After the steal is successful, what then? Sullen acceptance or open revolt? Either one will serve the Dems' purpose. Sullen acceptance means Americans' wills have finally been broken and the final transformation to bug-eating, feces-swilling slaves can begin. Open revolt means sending out the troops, throwing away ROE and ordering them to go weapons-free on any suspected Trumper.

We'll see, but I think that is what will happen.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:13 AM (AW0uW)

108 Morning peeps. Looks like another rather bleak day after reading this. Might have to find some other diversion.

Just a quick thot; the accelerated move towards socialism by the politicians in the capitol city, all of them, is apparently suffering from the exact same issue every national effort over the last several decades has experienced. Incompetence.

They'll enact it but it won't be "successful." It will destroy the country, but not like they think it will.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2022 08:14 AM (BFigT)

109 Legislators all around are now crafting bills to criminalize not strictly obeying the mandatory recycling segregation rules.

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Except those segregation rules run afoul of the mandatory recycling laws that are nothing more than job creation programs where bottles, cans, and paper are all thrown in the same silly box to be pointlessly sorted by people standing at conveyor belts at the facility.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 29, 2022 08:14 AM (yla5g)

110 Welcome to the Ministry of Truth:

https://tinyurl.com/muxa4dhc

Posted by: Augustine at July 29, 2022 08:14 AM (BDZWU)

111 Only the really hard left is willing to go there. Hence A-E. IMO they are not nearly as strong as they believe, which is why the soft versions will fail. Their real plan is plan G, gulag.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 29, 2022 07:50 AM (5Qjf9

Agree. And the J6 prisoners KNOW you are correct.

Gulags await for anyone who cant get their mind in the right(left) place.

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 29, 2022 08:14 AM (OcxYp)

112 If we're breaking out the time machine, we could load Nanz on John Denver's Rutan and make sure he's good and drunk.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2022 08:15 AM (lz5hY)

113 Alcohols are compounds of carbon with one OH group. Ethanol is CH3Ch2OH. It is metabolized to vinegar and used to generate ATP. Methanol is CH3OH and oxidizes to formaldehyde and formic acid, nasty poisons to cells.
Glycols have 2 or more OH groups. Ethylene glycol is Ch2OH-CH2OH, and is converted to oxalic acid, a cell poison. Propylene glycol CH3-CHOH-CH2OH gets converted to vinegar as well so is safe.

Will this material be on the test this afternoon?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 08:15 AM (3hSHB)

114 ....and on your birthday no less.

Nicely done JJ.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

115 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 29, 2022 08:15 AM (WWh8n)

116 it seems to have carried over from Tech Thread, so de-willowing:
"112 no, Eromero, antifreeze is ethylene glycol, bigly poisonous ... polyethylene glycol is quite inert over a wide range of molecular weights, kind of waxy / fatty, and edible; also a vigorous laxative, it's the active ingredient in the gallon jug of 'cleanout solution' used for colonoscopy prep, etc.
it enjoyed a brief fad as a zero-calorie fat substitute in snack foods."
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 29, 2022 07:43 AM (mjR/z)

which is why one MUST go read the reviews for the 5lb bag of sugar free gummy bears on amazon.

tear inducing in the best way possible.

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 29, 2022 08:16 AM (p03vF)

117 and whatever the Navy awards for action with the enemy
That would currently be the Jolly Butt Pirate Happy Rainbow Lollypop Award, with Sparkle Clusters.

Posted by: Admiral Levine at July 29, 2022 08:16 AM (u7Rwk)

118 Anybody who uses the phrase "my bad" is to be flogged in the public square.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 29, 2022 08:16 AM (Dc2NZ)

119 Morning Horde. Happy Recovery Summer to you all. Pay no attention to that retard in the WH. He's a lawn jockey that drools. Drools is a business rule management system (BRMS) with a forward and backward chaining inference based rules engine, more correctly known as a production rule system, using an enhanced implementation of the Rete algorithm.

Or its to drop saliva uncontrollably from the mouth.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:16 AM (HTCOy)

120 Every day a significant number of Americans are waking up to the fraud that is the deep state, and that our self-proclaimed elites are idiots operating far outside whatever limited competency they may have.
Posted by: IanDeal at July 29, 2022 07:42 AM (MGjjz)

The question is, does it matter? Does it matter what the people know? Does it matter what the people want. Based on the past 20-30 years, I think it doesn't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 29, 2022 08:17 AM (uvymP)

121 106 "Officials say sunlight magnified by glass bottles in a garbage can ignited 200 hectare fire in northern TX."

notice how easy it is to accept a totally ridiculous statement like this, because it has the word "officials" in front of it. All this means is that the fire, as far as they can tell, started spontaneously and they have no idea how. But they can't bear to say "we don't know" so they make up a stupid story like this to pretend that they do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:17 AM (r46W7)

122 21
Plan F is a hot civil war ... a continuation of the summer of 2020 but with less restraint.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 29, 2022 07:43 AM (5Qjf9)
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The various 'unrests' of 2020 were totally one-sided and the only 'hot' parts were the fires. When our side starts shooting and even taking the initiative then it will be a real hot war.

Posted by: Ciampino - 2929 unrest were all in blue cities at July 29, 2022 08:17 AM (qfLjt)

123 it enjoyed a brief fad as a zero-calorie fat substitute in snack foods."
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 29, 2022 07:43 AM (mjR/z)
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Is this what inspired the phrase "anal leakage" back in the late 90s?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 29, 2022 08:17 AM (YIVH2)

124 Church theology is inversely proportional to the number of theatrical lighting effects aimed at the pulpit/ stage.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 08:18 AM (eC4Tv)

125 117 and whatever the Navy awards for action with the enemy
That would currently be the Jolly Butt Pirate Happy Rainbow Lollypop Award, with Sparkle Clusters.
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The Navy/Marine Corps Lifesaving medal may be coopted in this environment.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:18 AM (HTCOy)

126 Good morning Horde.

Morning JJ!

Posted by: mpfs at July 29, 2022 08:18 AM (HkqBs)

127 “From lockdowns, to sanctioned street thuggery, to rigged elections and a rigged justice system where we still have innocent Americans locked up as political prisoners, it's anything but regular order.”

Manchin et al now support a double super charged IRS, an agency which operates outside any limitations of constitutional order. Meet the new stasi.

Posted by: 7man at July 29, 2022 08:18 AM (qwO6y)

128 Church theology is inversely proportional to the number of theatrical lighting effects aimed at the pulpit/ stage.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 08:18 AM (eC4Tv)

We have colored ones too.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 08:20 AM (45fpk)

129 I just had a slice of Finnish korpuu with my coffee. Got it from a bakery in the MI U.P. Cardamom is good stuff, brings back memories of my Dad the baker.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2022 08:20 AM (lz5hY)

130 122 21
Plan F is a hot civil war ... a continuation of the summer of 2020 but with less restraint.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 29, 2022 07:43 AM (5Qjf9)
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The various 'unrests' of 2020 were totally one-sided and the only 'hot' parts were the fires. When our side starts shooting and even taking the initiative then it will be a real hot war.
Posted by: Ciampino - 2929 unrest were all in blue cities at July 29, 2022 08:17 AM (qfLjt)

The front will not be in the cities. We are not there. We're in "flyover country."

BLM/Antifa won't be the opposing force. The National Guard and even regular Army will be.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2022 08:20 AM (x0n13)

131 The 2nd Amendment is in place for Americans to protect themselves from a tyrannical government. Period.

This government is tyrannical. They're going to come for your guns.

Stand your ground. If you don't have any guns, get some NOW, before it's too late.

Buy ammo like your life depends on it.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

132 We're having a notarecession.
A new scientific economic discovery by the Biden administration assisted by the smartest man in the room, Hunter B.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 29, 2022 08:20 AM (wj3Rl)

133 If your church does not include reference to it being a church, and goes out of it's way to disguise a cross in its logo as anything other than a cross, it probably isn't a Christian church.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 08:20 AM (eC4Tv)

134 Anybody who uses the phrase "my bad" is to be flogged in the public square.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 29, 2022 08:16 AM (Dc2NZ)

**hugs Eris**

I said yesterday any so-called 'adult' who says 'my bad' should be beaten into an irreversible coma.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:20 AM (AW0uW)

135 Cardamom is good stuff, brings back memories of my Dad the baker.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2022 08:20 AM (lz5hY)

Expensive though.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 08:21 AM (45fpk)

136 We have been in a cooling period since 1983.
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Yes, because satellite 'thermometers" aren't located next to asphalt parking-lots and a/c exhaust outlets, while showing all the temperature ranges around the world without omitting "unhelpful" readings like from cool, landlocked nations or the Arctic.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 08:21 AM (yikp0)

137 113 Alcohols are compounds of carbon with one OH group. .......

Will this material be on the test this afternoon?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 08:15 AM (3hSHB)

YES!

Posted by: Ciampino - Organic Chemistry quiz later at July 29, 2022 08:21 AM (qfLjt)

138 The Democrat's are about to realize one of their long-lived dreams. To declare broadband internet an "essential service" to pass a "net neutrality" bill.

That means you'll only hear/read Democrat "Green/Society Destroying propaganda 24/7.

A sample of the new and improved AOSHQ:

~~Ohhhhh...~~ Even deplorable must admit that Presidential-hopeful, Hunter Biden's marriage is ~~in trouble because of pressure due to federal investigations into him.~~ a model for us all. ~~Right right right right right. I was going to say, yeah, that would be the most likely cause of marital friction involving Hunter Biden.~~

~~Well if there's one thing~~ The increasingly popular Hunter Biden finds cameras and questions everywhere he goes but modestly shies away from affirming or denying his Presidential run, which Our Democracy needs so desperately at the dangerous juncture.

But, if there's one thing we know about the galant Hunter Biden. It's that he won't ignore Our Democracy's call to service.
***
Like so.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2022 08:21 AM (5NkmN)

139 TS,

I had a large glass jug set my deck on fire in FL.

It is possible.

As far as being responsible for the fire in TX, I agree, we don't know enough. I'm sure whoever came up with the "cause", it's been somewhat vetted because it is kind of "out there".

Posted by: pawn at July 29, 2022 08:22 AM (wsHtO)

140 We have colored ones too.
Posted by: grammie winger

Smoke machines? Does the preacher have a walk on theme?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 08:22 AM (eC4Tv)

141 I drink th gallon and spew the 1.5 gallon in August. I been there, not my first colonoscopy.
Posted by: Eromero at July 29, 2022 07:49 AM (gktX6)

Same. I also get to do lesser prep for an MRI to look for prostate cancer. My derrière is gonna be so sad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 29, 2022 08:22 AM (uvymP)

142 121 106 "Officials say sunlight magnified by glass bottles in a garbage can ignited 200 hectare fire in northern TX."
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This does happen in places like Yuma and 29 Palms. The good news it happens in deserts that have very little shit to burn. Usually clear glass (Miller High Life and MD 2020 bottles) in a desert darkens to brown overtime and this prevents ignition. Don't drink Miller and MD 2020 to save the deserts.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:22 AM (HTCOy)

143 How is it possible that there should be such a disconnect between a democratic government and its constituents?
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To ask is to answer. Check your premises. The government is not representative.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 29, 2022 08:22 AM (WWh8n)

144 notice how easy it is to accept a totally ridiculous statement like this, because it has the word "officials" in front of it. All this means is that the fire, as far as they can tell, started spontaneously and they have no idea how. But they can't bear to say "we don't know" so they make up a stupid story like this to pretend that they do.

I don't care if they use the word "official" or "In a vision from the Almighty God", the Gell-Mann Amnesia rules always apply. I can't trust that the fire spontaneously started or even if a garbage can was even involved.

I'm just here for the snark.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 08:23 AM (3hSHB)

145 So I see we are still at "Communism is almost here, America is being destroyed, we can't do anything to stop it, even if wins in it won't matter because ."

Shall we talk about boobs?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 08:23 AM (NDXbq)

146 Will this material be on the test this afternoon?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 08:15 AM (3hSHB)

YES!
Posted by: Ciampino - Organic Chemistry quiz later at July 29, 2022 08:21 AM (qfLjt)
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Ciampino - I think you absolutely should post a quiz question this afternoon, just to see if anyone was paying attention this morning...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 29, 2022 08:23 AM (YIVH2)

147 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 08:20 AM (eC4Tv)

You're working with a lot of broad brushes this morning, eh?

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 08:23 AM (45fpk)

148 Don't drink Miller and MD 2020 to save the deserts.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:22 AM (HTCOy

But 'The champagne of beers!'

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

149 The question is, does it matter? Does it matter what the people know? Does it matter what the people want. Based on the past 20-30 years, I think it doesn't.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 29, 2022 08:17 AM (uvymP)

I believe we are diving into a political singularity, if you'll pardon the phrase. A point in time where suddenly, none of what has happened before is a guide, a place where things will happen that would always have been unthinkable and impossible before. This is very open ended; it can go in any direction, because there will be no rules.

The people that fight the hardest to seize the future when the time comes will shape it. As far as predicting 2024 - I do not think anyone of us, standing here on the precipice of the future, can foresee what things will look like then, after the chaos of the next 2 years. We are all about to live through the worst two years of our lives, and if you do not realize that yet, you should.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:23 AM (r46W7)

150
You're working with a lot of broad brushes this morning, eh?
Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 08:23 AM (45fpk)

THIS morning?

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

151
Manchin et al now support a double super charged IRS, an agency which operates outside any limitations of constitutional order. Meet the new stasi.

Posted by: 7man at July 29, 2022 08:18 AM

Has there even been a vote on this yet?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 29, 2022 08:24 AM (jE276)

152 135 Yep. I can remember Dad ordering it for the shop. The price would make a Mexican Cartel think about it, and made Dad, a stoic Finn, nearly cry.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2022 08:24 AM (lz5hY)

153 BLM/Antifa won't be the opposing force. The National Guard and even regular Army will be.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2022 08:20 AM (x0n13)

Exactly. And, as I said, no ROE, no Geneva Convention, nothing. The troops will be ordered to go full Katyn Forest on people like us and I am not at all confident that they will refuse.

I also am not confident that 'we' (however you define it) will fight back. If I were wargaming things out, I would make sure the first strike by the Deep State would be a Waco / Ruby Ridge on steroids. Oh, some might still want to fight, but knowing human nature, most people will see the carnage, look at their loved ones and decide keeping one's head down is the only way to go.

Sorry to be cynical and depressive, but you all know me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:24 AM (AW0uW)

154 re: Doctors Said the Vaccine Was Safe

I agreed with everything said in this piece up until his conclusion:

Ultimately I believe this scandal will bring down Pfizer and Moderna. They may have all sorts of indemnity against harm caused by their vaccines, and it may take 20 years, but ultimately public outrage will reach such a fever pitch against these drug companies that they will implode.

I think more likely the public outrage will recede into the background. Unlike something like Thalidomide, with a more direct, tangible link to phocomelia (birth defects), the link to multiple different adverse effects from the mRNA vaccines is less immediate and provable, less direct-line. Statistics such as 'excess deaths' do not resonate as much with the public. Besides, Pfizer and Moderna have the full weight of the U.S. Government backing them. They will thrive in the wake of this vaccine.

But my prediction is worth the pixels it's printed with.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2022 08:24 AM (kXYt5)

155 Trump will never be allowed anywhere near the presidency again. If he runs, They will assassinate him.

Posted by: TheMitch at July 29, 2022 08:24 AM (cDITE)

156
Shall we talk about boobs?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 08:23 AM (NDXbq)

Dave in Fla for President.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

157 135 Cardamom is good stuff, brings back memories of my Dad the baker.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2022 08:20 AM (lz5hY)

Expensive though.
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Nothing beats high price spice like Saffron.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:24 AM (HTCOy)

158 Will the test be multiple choice or essay?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 29, 2022 08:25 AM (Dc2NZ)

159 Smoke machines? Does the preacher have a walk on theme?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 08:22 AM (eC4Tv)

What - you think we're ELCA ?

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 08:25 AM (45fpk)

160 We have been in a cooling period since 1983.
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Yes, because satellite 'thermometers" aren't located next to asphalt parking-lots and a/c exhaust outlets, while showing all the temperature ranges around the world without omitting "unhelpful" readings like from cool, landlocked nations or the Arctic.
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From my admittedly dim understanding, Antarctic Ice has increased.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 29, 2022 08:25 AM (MIKMs)

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

I see it and I know it's here right now, the time for choosing, the time for deciding what is truly important is now.

but everyone I know in real life just keeps going on about their business like nothing is happening.

and I'm over here freakin' out and no one in my immediate circle can understand why, I try to explain it to them and they just go blank, like I am speaking a foreign language.

Posted by: unvaxxed-trucker-traitor and noted Putin shill at July 29, 2022 08:25 AM (fcWVN)

162 We have been in a cooling period since 1983.

*

It's okay to accept that the push to reduce CO2 - literally plant food, and necessary for all life on earth - is tied to Our Betters' population reduction fetish.

It's hard not to see it, honestly.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 29, 2022 08:25 AM (yla5g)

163 But I can tell you this, whoever the elected president is - Democrat, Republican, independent - every one of us should pray they succeed. I am going to do everything I can to make that person successful.

"But that's for after the 2024 election. For now I'm going to fuck over the country a bit more to enrich myself and my family. YOLO, bitches!" -- What Joe Manchin was thinking

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 29, 2022 08:25 AM (uvymP)

164 "If he runs, They will assassinate him."

And if they do, that is the moment that all bets are off.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 29, 2022 08:26 AM (1n+EO)

165 while Trump's core MAGA agenda is decidedly not outside the historic bipartisan mainstream, it is well outside the present regime's core interests.
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This particular point is one that many people - including me - have made for several years. Trump wasn't radical. If anything, his platform is more akin to a 1970s Democrat platform than anything else (with notable exceptions such as his positions on abortion and unions and his general regulatory-minimizing stance). The government radicalized, but his platform was actually fairly old-fashioned and if you back to the time when we actually had two parties - pre-1990 is probably a decent guess - he is closer to a Democrat.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 29, 2022 08:26 AM (WWh8n)

166 155 Trump will never be allowed anywhere near the presidency again. If he runs, They will assassinate him.
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Then its game on. Imagine our Too-Big-To-Fail continuously looking over their shoulder 24/7/365?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:26 AM (HTCOy)

167 *reads JJ's as-always excellent Morning Report*

I think I'll just stay here and drink, today.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 29, 2022 08:26 AM (4I/2K)

168 Having moved around the country alot and searched for new church homes numerous times, these are merely observations.

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

169 Oh, some might still want to fight, but knowing human nature, most people will see the carnage, look at their loved ones and decide keeping one's head down is the only way to go.

Sorry to be cynical and depressive, but you all know me.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:24 AM (AW0uW)
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I still maintain that the nation's grandfathers (many of whom are military veterans) are among the most dangerous foes the junta will ever face, should the shooting start. They WILL go YOLO and no fucks given about taking the enemy down with them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 29, 2022 08:27 AM (YIVH2)

170 "If you doubt this [that Dems mean what they say], ask yourself: When was the last time they acted more moderately than they talk?"

Posted by: Braenyard at July 29, 2022 08:27 AM (wj3Rl)

171 Shall we talk about boobs?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 08:23 AM (NDXbq)

Sure. How about these?

https://tinyurl.com/2493zxcj

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:27 AM (AW0uW)

172 Remember, if they kill Trump then we shoot the media first. We will see who has a come to Jesus moment first.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:27 AM (HTCOy)

173
The front will not be in the cities. We are not there. We're in "flyover country."

BLM/Antifa won't be the opposing force. The National Guard and even regular Army will be.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Admit it. It feels great to state that phrase.
Welcome home.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 08:27 AM (3hSHB)

174 Joe Manchin is a con artist.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2022 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

175 So the choice before them is: Do what(ever) they did last time—and more so, if necessary—and risk an even bigger reaction, or take their chances that they can win a fair fight. (The latter assumes that they have complete control of their minions who run elections at the local level.) But to repeat a point: Perhaps they consider the reaction a feature, not a bug?
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Sort of between feature and big. Acceptable cost and manageable damage, probably. Keep in mind what happened in 2020. We've seen that particular game played before in other countries. It was a color revolution and "loss of confidence in election integrity" is a part of the color revolution playbook.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 29, 2022 08:27 AM (WWh8n)

176 "Will the test be multiple choice or essay?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes"

I'm hoping for a lab.

Posted by: fd at July 29, 2022 08:28 AM (sn5EN)

177 Smoke machines? Does the preacher have a walk on theme?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 08:22 AM (eC4Tv)

What - you think we're ELCA ?
Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 08:25 AM (45fpk)

Bazinga! lols

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 29, 2022 08:28 AM (4I/2K)

178 60 I found Anton's article a little unintentionally amusing. He offers the usual caveat about Trump "love him or hate" then iterates his unparalleled accomplishments. So what is the problem; why must be always qualify any discussion of Trump with the "given his faults" line or something like it? As if none of them can possibly write a piece about Trump without this obligatory concession. But they don't really examine what their problem is beyond something like "he grates."

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 29, 2022 07:57 AM (H8QX

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Agree with you 100%. It's almost like trying to justify Trump but having to give credence to Leftist opinion.
Similarly I often read about 'globull warming' from our side and there is always some acknowledgement that CO2 somehow is bad. Absolute rubbish.

Posted by: Ciampino - we don't have to agree with Leftists even 1% at July 29, 2022 08:28 AM (qfLjt)

179 1960's progressives -We're radicals!

2020's progressives- They're radicals!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 08:28 AM (eC4Tv)

180
The front will not be in the cities. We are not there. We're in "flyover country."

BLM/Antifa won't be the opposing force. The National Guard and even regular Army will be.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2022 08:20 AM (x0n13)

The cities and academies are the breeding grounds for the paramilitary wing of the demoncrat party. The actual military is being prepared for active domestic suppression. A young person joining today’s military might very well be expected to turn his weapon on an American citizen.

Posted by: 7man at July 29, 2022 08:28 AM (qwO6y)

181 Smoke machines? Does the preacher have a walk on theme?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 08:22 AM (eC4Tv)

https://youtu.be/SHqBPw5HYDU?t=5

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

182 "Trump will never be allowed anywhere near the presidency again. If he runs, They will assassinate him."

This is the elemental truth that no one dares to speak.

Posted by: pawn at July 29, 2022 08:29 AM (wsHtO)

183
Sure. How about these?

https://tinyurl.com/2493zxcj
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:27 AM (AW0uW)

Perky.

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

184 "But I can tell you this, whoever the elected president is - Democrat, Republican, independent - every one of us should pray they succeed. I am going to do everything I can to make that person successful." Joe Manchin.

Succeed at what?

Posted by: davidt at July 29, 2022 08:29 AM (oTZbj)

185 Try to wargame in your mind how violence, a so-called uprising or "civil war," would play out. It is simply unimaginable. The disproportion of force and arms is too great. To compensate, the organizational skills, not to mention the moral and political unity, of the underdog force would need to be surpassing. There would need to be a fierce contingent of political support ready to step into the breach. But we can't find even one politician who at the very least hinted moral support for January 6th, or who would dare to speak up for violent insurrection. If some kind of Fort Sumter event erupted, the political repudiation and be swift and overwhelming. Any effort would be left naked and annihilated.
No, this is first a war of words and ideas, of moral courage to take on the lies and narratives and betrayals.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 29, 2022 08:29 AM (H8QX8)

186 Flyover country is the best country. Even better now that JJ's here.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 08:30 AM (45fpk)

187 But I can tell you this, whoever the elected president is - Democrat, Republican, independent - every one of us should pray they succeed. I am going to do everything I can to make that person successful.”

*

The problem is that we no longer share common goals as Americans. Bush and his PATRIOT Act was wildly successful. Obama and his healthcare takeover was wildly successful. Trump was rejected by the entirety of both parties and all agencies in D.C.

See the problem?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 29, 2022 08:30 AM (yla5g)

188 F&F showing another bus with illegals coming from Texas and arriving in DC.
FU Biden and Mayor Bowser.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2022 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

189 "Trump will never be allowed anywhere near the presidency again. If he runs, They will assassinate him."

I have absolutely no doubt that the FBI already has a shooter primed and ready to go.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:30 AM (AW0uW)

190 Having moved around the country alot and searched for new church homes numerous times, these are merely observations.

^^^^THIS

Ended up finding a place that still sings from a real hymnal songs written by poets not those who only repetitively chant bumper-sticker theology projected on the wall.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 08:31 AM (3hSHB)

191 I'll give you a dollar if you can go out on a sunny day and start a fire with a Miller High Life bottle.

That trope is along the lines of a million monkeys with a million typewriters reproducing Shakespeare.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2022 08:31 AM (kXYt5)

192 But I can tell you this, whoever the elected president is - Democrat, Republican, independent - every one of us should pray they succeed. I am going to do everything I can to make that person successful.

That depends on what 'success' means. If you want Joe Biden to be successful in his desires as president, you hate this country and should be fed to marine life.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

193 The crazy part of Global Warming is that there are Scienxtists publicly stating that plants don't REALLY eat CO2. It's all a misunderstanding.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 29, 2022 08:31 AM (yla5g)

194 90 Flag rank should never be awarded unless the candidate holds a Combat Infantry Badge, a Combat Action Ribbon, an Air medal with combat documentation, and whatever the Navy awards for action with the enemy.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2022 08:11 AM (lz5hY)

I like the idea except the lackeys, boot lickers and yes men always find a way to adorn themselves with every ribbon and award out there by stretching the rules and their bung holes while back stabbing those in the way for more and more promotions, then on to double dipping when they retire by working for/with defense contractor thieves.

Our current military is as corrupt as the rest of the federal leviathan and needs to be done away with.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 29, 2022 08:31 AM (R/m4+)

195 "Trump will never be allowed anywhere near the presidency again. If he runs, They will assassinate him.

Posted by: TheMitch"

That's what I am thinking. And if that fails they will have every foreign govt. they are allied with refuse to recognize his win or accept his ambassadors. Tech companies will cut-off the WH and Republicans. Govt offices will not accept his appointees and close down. They will gladly burn the country down and starve every senior depending on SS.

Posted by: Ripley at July 29, 2022 08:32 AM (MxEKc)

196 Sophia Loren again:

https://tinyurl.com/5bv67x8v

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:32 AM (AW0uW)

197 123 Is this what inspired the phrase "anal leakage" back in the late 90s?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 29, 2022 08:17 AM (YIVH2)

That was Olestra.

Posted by: Allie at July 29, 2022 08:32 AM (UnA8+)

198 but everyone I know in real life just keeps going on about their business like nothing is happening.

and I'm over here freakin' out and no one in my immediate circle can understand why, I try to explain it to them and they just go blank, like I am speaking a foreign language.
Posted by: unvaxxed-trucker-traitor and noted Putin shill at July 29, 2022 08:25 AM (fcWVN)

Things would have looked the same if you were living in 1936 Berlin, so long as you kept your head down and weren't one of those "disloyal" people who were starting to be rounded up. Most Berliners thought things were going great right up to the point that the bombs began falling on their city.

In great historical times, the majority of people never see what's happening until after its over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:33 AM (r46W7)

199 182 "Trump will never be allowed anywhere near the presidency again. If he runs, They will assassinate him."

This is the elemental truth that no one dares to speak.
Posted by: pawn at July 29, 2022 08:29 AM (wsHtO)

Yes and here’s why I respect Trump. I believe he knows that.

Posted by: 7man at July 29, 2022 08:33 AM (qwO6y)

200 I think more likely the public outrage will recede into the background... Besides, Pfizer and Moderna have the full weight of the U.S. Government backing them. They will thrive in the wake of this vaccine.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2022 08:24 AM (kXYt5)

I agree. Too big to fail.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 29, 2022 08:34 AM (H8QX8)

201 180 A young person joining today’s military might very well be expected to turn his weapon on an American citizen.
Posted by: 7man at July 29, 2022 08:28 AM (qwO6y)

Is the expression "frag" still in the lexicon?

Asking for a friend . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2022 08:34 AM (x0n13)

202 And the utterly delicious Marion Davies:

https://tinyurl.com/bdfc442j

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:34 AM (AW0uW)

203 There will not be a hot civil war, at least not for a long time. That's just not "who we are." Americans can be made to pass under the yoke with very little violence at this juncture.

I do think it could *eventually* happen, and it will be because of that fact... Once we've passed under that yoke, it won't be enough to satisfy the sneering power-demons in charge. They will, of course, as always, feel compelled to strip every individual of every thing. Their wealth, their food, their dignity, and their lives. But that will have to happen before any pushback occurs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2022 08:34 AM (Zhwz2)

204 BLM/Antifa won't be the opposing force. The National Guard and even regular Army will be.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
----------------
JJ, this will be a dirty war. Ocassional sniper attacks, IEDs and other ambushes. First mute them by taking out their Repeater/Reporters/Media. Then burn them by knocking off their political stooges. Then blast them by taking down their DAs/Judges. Lets see who survives the longest.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:34 AM (HTCOy)

205 But I can tell you this, whoever the elected president is - Democrat, Republican, independent - every one of us should pray they succeed. I am going to do everything I can to make that person successful.”

It highly depends on what is meant by "successful". If success is defined as implementing WEF/Caliphate/Xi's goals against We The People, then, in the words of the late Rush Limbaugh "I hope he fails".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 08:36 AM (3hSHB)

206 BTW, people, don't forget to pick up your Mega Millions tix today.

**thinks**

What I could do with 500 million dollars. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:36 AM (AW0uW)

207 Presuming we don't have a Romney like waste of flesh as the Republican nominee in 2024 he has to

1) Have a plan to deal with the coming attempt to steal the election. Game out what the left will do and have people ready to counter it. Don't wait to file a lawsuit a week later...

2) Have a plan to deal with a likely real insurrection between election day and being sworn in

3) Have a plan to counter/remove/destroy the permanent bureaucracy and the GOPe

And if Trump doesn't have these he shouldn't run in 2024. Same with DeSantis or anyone else...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 29, 2022 08:36 AM (ESjRY)

208 Republicans won the Congressional baseball game last night 10-0.
Let's hope it's a sign of things to come in November.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2022 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

209 They're all corrupt monster ~~save a small handful~~.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 29, 2022 08:03 AM (OTm0W)

FIFY. I suspect that they're just corrupt in different ways. Our goal is to have people who's corruption is not fatal to the country or us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 29, 2022 08:36 AM (uvymP)

210 JJ, this will be a dirty war. Ocassional sniper attacks, IEDs and other ambushes. First mute them by taking out their Repeater/Reporters/Media. Then burn them by knocking off their political stooges. Then blast them by taking down their DAs/Judges. Lets see who survives the longest.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:34 AM (HTCOy)
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Yep. One of the dirtiest wars ever fought. We have a large number of military veterans who spent time overseas learning some of the dirtiest tricks from the dirtiest fighters on the planet. It won't be pretty for The Powers That Be (or regular Americans).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 29, 2022 08:36 AM (YIVH2)

211 203 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2022 08:34 AM (Zhwz2)

I tend to agree. The American mindset is to not do anything until the wolf is at your throat.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2022 08:36 AM (x0n13)

212 I think this is where I go see what needs fixing somewhere else. Y'all have fun.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 29, 2022 08:37 AM (yla5g)

213 188 F&F showing another bus with illegals coming from Texas and arriving in DC.
FU Biden and Mayor Bowser.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2022 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

Several commenters here derided Gov. Abbott when he announced this plan because it would be far too little and only for show - but it's having the desired effect, isn't it? Some also ridiculed the idea that only volunteers are put on the buses to DC - but because of that, there are *no* grounds for any Judge anywhere to slap an injunction on it, which there would be if force was involved in any part of the operation.

And now it's having the desired effect, isn't it?

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:37 AM (r46W7)

214 ... Statistics such as 'excess deaths' do not resonate as much with the public. Besides, Pfizer and Moderna have the full weight of the U.S. Government backing them. ...
Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2022 08:24 AM (kXYt5)
++++
People who had loved ones die understand it viscerally and a lot of them will want retribution. The scale is also enormous.

These companies are immune from liability. That immunity *should* be stripped because they committed fraud in their trials and fraud voids all contracts - including their immunity. The fraud can be easily demonstrated in court and then the lawsuits that destroy at least 50% of Pfizer's enterprise value and send Moderna to zero would begin.

But that cannot be permitted to happen. Their fraud was executed with the full knowledge and cooperation of the FDA. That has to be defended because they *have* to have been right all along. The only way that the drug companies will be exposed to liability is if the FDA decides to sacrifice them in an act of self-preservation, but I doubt that happens because no matter what, the public health agencies would collapse, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 29, 2022 08:37 AM (WWh8n)

215 IRS is just going after their political rivals, lots of Leftists scaming taxes are free and clear.

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 29, 2022 08:37 AM (4FZz4)

216
That was Olestra.
Posted by: Allie at July 29, 2022 08:32 AM (UnA8+)

LOL.

Doritos that make you shit. BRILLIANT!!!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

217 What I could do with 500 million dollars. . .
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:36 AM (AW0uW)
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Buy a cup of coffee after hyperinflation kicks in?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 29, 2022 08:38 AM (YIVH2)

218 206 BTW, people, don't forget to pick up your Mega Millions tix today.

**thinks**

What I could do with 500 million dollars. .
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Do you have the winning numbers? I could use a bump in my Net Worth.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:38 AM (HTCOy)

219 In a sense the weaker the junta makes the military now the better.

I'd rather have the military that can't beat the Taliban under Biden/Milley then a competent one because the junta and its real controllers are the biggest danger to America right now.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 29, 2022 08:38 AM (ESjRY)

220 "Republicans won the Congressional baseball game last night 10-0."

I hate that stupid thing. The Pubs should tell the Dems to get f'd.

Posted by: fd at July 29, 2022 08:38 AM (sn5EN)

221 If they "can't" let Trump in, then they "can't" let anyone antithetical to their agenda and effective in. Something to ponder.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2022 08:38 AM (/stMw)

222 Nothing beats high price spice like Saffron.

******

And I'm just so mad about that!

Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2022 08:38 AM (kXYt5)

223 But they can't bear to say "we don't know" so they make up a stupid story like this to pretend that they do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:17 AM (r46W7)

This is a symptom of everything with elites...they hate saying they don't know how something happened, they like moving on to just talking about the result.

Its like the stolen election "big lie" - most NTs have zero idea whether the election was stolen, they just repeat the mantra that it wasn't and then move on to the results - which they liked and wanted and that's all they really know.

Posted by: Boswell at July 29, 2022 08:39 AM (+Cgut)

224 It highly depends on what is meant by "successful". If success is defined as implementing WEF/Caliphate/Xi's goals against We The People, then, in the words of the late Rush Limbaugh "I hope he fails".
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 08:36 AM (3hSHB)

As Rush Limbaugh said about Obama, "I hope he fails." Rush was right, and our great national tragedy is that Obama succeeded in almost all of his true goals.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:39 AM (r46W7)

225 [A young person joining today’s military might very well be expected to turn his weapon on an American citizen.
Posted by: 7man

You are just waking up to the reality that I see to be inevitable.

For generations the Party Miltiary has never been about We The People, but has always been violent force projection in service to the politicians, the MIC and their vain schemes and designs

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 08:39 AM (3hSHB)

226 When was F. Joe supposed to have "helped to pull this country out of a recession before"?

Oh. Silly me. Probably when Reagan, Bush or Bush, or Trump was in office.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 29, 2022 08:39 AM (txdEq)

227 Some interesting woke/broke news: Apple TV+’s new animated movie Luck is being advertised as “from the creative genius behind Toy Story and Cars”. Which turns out to be John Lassiter, who was ejected by Disney for being a white male. (And Pixar has sucked ever since he was booted).

Posted by: Ian S. at July 29, 2022 08:39 AM (zm+d5)

228 I've described it this way. The USA will be a very different country in five years. What that will be, I don't know. It's like 1860 and 1776.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2022 08:39 AM (i0slg)

229 >>Trump will never be allowed anywhere near the presidency again. If he runs, They will assassinate him.

As much as we argue about Trump vs DeSantis or whomever it's really not about them, it's about us.

Trump is the target of most of their hate at the moment because he is the person currently leading the movement against them. But if DeSantis or someone else picks up the torch of this movement they will be after them with the same hate.

We are up against a globalist movement that is being pushed on this country by an international socialist movement that has been working to install this on all western societies for decades. The whole global warming movement is simply a means to reengineer western socieites and transfer wealth and it's been run by the same globalist scum. Nationalism, the desire for free people to rule themselves, is what they really hate and what threatens their cause.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2022 08:39 AM (ZLI7S)

230 That immunity *should* be stripped because they committed fraud in their trials and fraud voids all contracts - including their immunity

Pfizer was approved based on their claim that they reduced the chance of getting COVID by 95% - which led both the Biden's declaration you can't get COVID if you get the clot shot AND the mandates.

Obviously they lied. And yet...not only are they still in business we still have people demanding clot shot mandates.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 29, 2022 08:39 AM (ESjRY)

231 we shoot the media first.

You’d only need to off about a dozen of them before the rest got the message.

Posted by: Squid at July 29, 2022 08:39 AM (wgw4H)

232 I suspect because 80-90% of normal people watch ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. and know he's a big stupid jerk who said pussy...
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 29, 2022 08:07 AM (yla5g)

What I don't understand is how that ever got even a bit of traction. I doubt there's an American over the age of 15 who hasn't referred to a woman's part with that term.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 29, 2022 08:40 AM (uvymP)

233 "Praise be to you, LORD; teach me your decrees. With my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth. I rejoice in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches.

Psalm 119:12-14

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2022 08:40 AM (VpIIl)

234 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:36 AM (AW0uW)

I can't even imagine what I'd do with 500 million dollars except put our son through college, move and give some money to people who want to put their kids into private school the resources to do that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2022 08:40 AM (fL5aK)

235 Several commenters here derided Gov. Abbott when he announced this plan because it would be far too little and only for show - but it's having the desired effect, isn't it?

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:37 AM (r46W7)

I think that's because no one believed he would see it through and continue with it after the first press conference.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

236 At first, I doubted the use of the term 'Automatic weapon' in the reportage.

But hey, who knows.

https://tinyurl.com/49e4rduu

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 29, 2022 08:41 AM (1n+EO)

237 Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2022 08:40 AM (VpIIl)

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2022 08:41 AM (fL5aK)

238 "Republicans won the Congressional baseball game last night 10-0."

********

What did the Republicans scratch while in the batter's box? You know, since they don't have any balls.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2022 08:41 AM (kXYt5)

239 And now it's having the desired effect, isn't it?
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:37 AM (r46W7)

Yes.....more please. Ship all they asses to New Yawk and washington dc.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 29, 2022 08:41 AM (R/m4+)

240 The so-called "long march through the institutions" is complete. The politicians are the last cog to get moving and as is typically the case, they suck at what they're supposed to do. Not that they aren't trying.

We'll find out soon enough if they've successful.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2022 08:41 AM (BFigT)

241 Some interesting woke/broke news: Apple TV+’s new animated movie Luck is being advertised as “from the creative genius behind Toy Story and Cars”. Which turns out to be John Lassiter, who was ejected by Disney for being a white male. (And Pixar has sucked ever since he was booted).
Posted by: Ian S. at July 29, 2022 08:39 AM (zm+d5)
++++
Huh. I guess we'll see if Lassiter still has the Midas Touch. It's on Apple's streaming service, though, so color me skeptical.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 29, 2022 08:42 AM (WWh8n)

242 Flag rank should never be awarded unless the candidate holds a Combat Infantry Badge, a Combat Action Ribbon, an Air medal with combat documentation, and whatever the Navy awards for action with the enemy.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 29, 2022 08:11 AM (lz5hY)

That would encourage military adventurism.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 29, 2022 08:42 AM (uvymP)

243 228 I've described it this way. The USA will be a very different country in five years. What that will be, I don't know. It's like 1860 and 1776.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2022 08:39 AM (i0slg)

I agree, although I think the best historical analogy is 1930 - 1933. Whichever you go with, nothing will be the same on the other side.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:42 AM (r46W7)

244 And I'm just so mad about that!
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Intergalactic space whores make me happy!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 08:43 AM (yikp0)

245 "Flag rank should never be awarded unless the candidate holds a Combat Infantry Badge, a Combat Action Ribbon, an Air medal with combat documentation, and whatever the Navy awards for action with the enemy."

I am reminded that Milley graduated Q course, Ranger School and has a CIB. That is, after attending Columbia and Princeton.

"Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2022 08:43 AM (VpIIl)

246 Nothing beats high price spice like Saffron.

******

And I'm just so mad about that!
Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2022 08:38 AM (kXYt5)

Calm down there, Mellow Yellow.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2022 08:44 AM (5NkmN)

247 107
Open revolt means sending out the troops, throwing away ROE and ordering them to go weapons-free on any suspected Trumper.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:13 AM (AW0uW)
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Who are these 'troops'? They have families that live amongst the rest of the population. Plus how many troops versus millions of armed civilians - or militia? The revolt may start slowly but once it starts rolling .....

Posted by: Ciampino - if it goes hot we'll win at July 29, 2022 08:44 AM (qfLjt)

248 I think that's because no one believed he would see it through and continue with it after the first press conference.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

It's fair to ridicule politicians when they don't follow through - but that means we should also take note when they do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:44 AM (r46W7)

249 10-0? What, did the Democrats agree to let them watch up close instead of from the closet if they won?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2022 08:44 AM (Zhwz2)

250 222 Nothing beats high price spice like Saffron.

******

And I'm just so mad about that!
Posted by: Muldoon
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So you're Mad About Saffron. Well done, Muldoon. How about E Lec Tric Al Ba Nan A? Donovan was special. A real verified hippie.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:45 AM (HTCOy)

251 249 10-0? What, did the Democrats agree to let them watch up close instead of from the closet if they won?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2022 08:44 AM (Zhwz2)

all of the democrats threw the ball like Obama.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:47 AM (r46W7)

252 What I do see as likely is that Biden won't last until 2024, let alone run. So POTUS Kamala is in the cards before then. I expect she has a somewhat different set of puppeteers than Biden, so there's additional uncertainty.

Who will primary the first POTUS woman of color? Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2022 08:47 AM (i0slg)

253 notice how easy it is to accept a totally ridiculous statement like this, because it has the word "officials" in front of it. All this means is that the fire, as far as they can tell, started spontaneously and they have no idea how. But they can't bear to say "we don't know" so they make up a stupid story like this to pretend that they do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:17 AM (r46W7)

I watched a video about visiting Thailand and the narrator said that everyone lies to you all the time, even the police, if they don't know something. If you ask how to get to a place, they'll give you directions even if they've never heard of the place. Saying "I don't know" causes them to lose face whereas lying does not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 29, 2022 08:47 AM (uvymP)

254 Nothing about the very soon to be upcoming vote on the assault weapons ban?

I believe they're voting on HR 1808 or whatever it is in about an hour?

Posted by: GMan at July 29, 2022 08:47 AM (GfWuY)

255 Well damn, had a good comment but used angle brackets like a idiot so it is all gone.

Meh, my passion is past now.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 08:47 AM (NDXbq)

256 238 "Republicans won the Congressional baseball game last night 10-0."

********

What did the Republicans scratch while in the batter's box? You know, since they don't have any balls.
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I guess the Dems didn't bring the SKS rifles.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:47 AM (HTCOy)

257 Open revolt means sending out the troops, throwing away ROE and ordering them to go weapons-free on any suspected Trumper.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:13 AM (AW0uW)
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Who are these 'troops'? They have families that live amongst the rest of the population. Plus how many troops versus millions of armed civilians - or militia? The revolt may start slowly but once it starts rolling .....
Posted by: Ciampino - if it goes hot we'll win at July 29, 2022 08:44 AM (qfLjt)
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A lot of people also seem to forget that we have a huge contingent of retired military (some on this very blog) who also have a wide range of skills and training that make them very, very dangerous when they get pissed. When Marcus Luttrell returned from Afghanistan, a few drunken locals stole his dog or something. He chased them across three counties and managed to corner them by himself until the local authorities caught up. Very John Wick, but Luttrell had enough restraint to just wound them a bit. He could have killed them all without any difficulty.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 29, 2022 08:47 AM (YIVH2)

258 I can't even imagine what I'd do with 500 million dollars except put our son through college, move and give some money to people who want to put their kids into private school the resources to do that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2022 08:40 AM (fL5aK)

I would move, first of all, to an isolated location with a lovely 19th century mansion.

Then get cosmetic work done to ameliorate my ugliness.

Then charity donations - to Food for the Poor first, and then to animal rescue organizations.

Beyond that, who knows?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:48 AM (AW0uW)

259 I watched a video about visiting Thailand and the narrator said that everyone lies to you all the time, even the police, if they don't know something. If you ask how to get to a place, they'll give you directions even if they've never heard of the place. Saying "I don't know" causes them to lose face whereas lying does not.
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Ask a Thai Ladyboy. They never lie.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:48 AM (HTCOy)

260 I remember wandering through the Spice Bazaar in Istanbul.

Talk about an interesting place.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 29, 2022 08:48 AM (1n+EO)

261 Agree with you 100%. It's almost like trying to justify Trump but having to give credence to Leftist opinion.
Similarly I often read about 'globull warming' from our side and there is always some acknowledgement that CO2 somehow is bad. Absolute rubbish.
Posted by: Ciampino

I don't have a suggestion for how to accomplish this, but we really must break this mind-set of constantly appeasing the left. I kept reading some opinions after the Roe reversal (not here) that voiced a worry it might radicalize the left. Might? We won and should celebrate it and constantly push as to why their radical abortion agenda is evil. Win minds and hearts. Not worry about their reaction.

Posted by: Biergood at July 29, 2022 08:48 AM (FQWHA)

262 Who are these 'troops'? They have families that live amongst the rest of the population. Plus how many troops versus millions of armed civilians - or militia? The revolt may start slowly but once it starts rolling .....
Posted by: Ciampino - if it goes hot we'll win at July 29, 2022 08:44 AM (qfLjt)

I don't believe it would be tried, because the military could never even attempt to do more than control a few of the largest cities. It's easy to think that the American military is big, but it really isn't even close to the task.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:49 AM (r46W7)

263 Donovan was special. A real verified hippie.

A Sunshine Superman, you might say.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:49 AM (AW0uW)

264 If you ask how to get to a place, they'll give you directions even if they've never heard of the place. Saying "I don't know" causes them to lose face whereas lying does not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 29, 2022 08:47 AM (uvymP)
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My parents lived in Britain in the 70s and they tell me that this same phenomenon happens there. It isn't about saving face, exactly, because it's more like wanted to avoid the perception of impoliteness. It would be rude not to help, so they "help" anyway even if they can't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 29, 2022 08:50 AM (WWh8n)

265 If I win tonight's lottery drawing, I'll give each of you a crisp new $5 bill!!

Posted by: Weasel at July 29, 2022 08:50 AM (jzLNY)

266 If Trump is taken out, do you think DeSantis will fold?

I do.

Posted by: pawn at July 29, 2022 08:50 AM (wsHtO)

267 Does anyone think the true GOP, what's left of it, will fall in line and allow a complete societal collapse?

Posted by: sidney at July 29, 2022 08:50 AM (Uy/WF)

268 Well damn, had a good comment but used angle brackets like a idiot so it is all gone.

Meh, my passion is past now.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 08:47 AM

Have you tried hitting the back arrow once or twice?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 29, 2022 08:50 AM (jE276)

269 252 What I do see as likely is that Biden won't last until 2024, let alone run. So POTUS Kamala is in the cards before then. I expect she has a somewhat different set of puppeteers than Biden, so there's additional uncertainty.
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Kamala represents the Silicon Valley Crime Gang. Biden is totes Manhattan Family all the way. Nobody trusts Chicago except Obama.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:51 AM (HTCOy)

270 >>I kept reading some opinions after the Roe reversal (not here) that voiced a worry it might radicalize the left.

I remember reading over and over that cities would burn and the left would be super energized for the Fall election because of Roe. Neither seems to be happening.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2022 08:51 AM (ZLI7S)

271 What I don't understand is how that ever got even a bit of traction. I doubt there's an American over the age of 15 who hasn't referred to a woman's part with that term.

It has nothing at all to do with what he said. Democrats say far worse stuff most of the time.

The Political/Pavlovian Conditioning has taken root in far too many Americans so, like your dog, when presented to a stranger, mimics your reaction. If you show some uncomfortableness with the person, the dog's demeanor is towards protection.

If they Enemedia said "Trump praises God" with a certain tone, expression and context, many nominal Christians would view that as a negative and be offended.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 08:51 AM (3hSHB)

272 I don't get the Congressional baseball games. Once upon a time, when baseball was a mainstay of the working classes, it was a useful bit of propaganda, I suppose. "Look, fellow hoo-mons, we're just like you! We're not lizard people at all."

But it's really archaic, now. Baseball has declined so much in popularity over the years, and has become decidedly more oriented toward the White Claw and champagne crowds.

A football game would be more in line with the demo these days, but I guess that's not realistic. Most Congressmen would explode in a mist of dust and lipids if they took a hit, and most of the younger ones would catch Monkeypox in the huddles.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2022 08:52 AM (Zhwz2)

273 Then get cosmetic work done to ameliorate my ugliness.
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What will you do with the remaining ¢12??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 08:52 AM (yikp0)

274
Have you tried hitting the back arrow once or twice?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 29, 2022 08:50 AM (jE276)

Commenting on old threads will get you autobanned.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

275 And now for something completely different: Chinese construction worker does amazing dance. I can't stand the Chinese Government and Communist party but the average people probably just want to live their lives and enjoy a little happiness:

https://tinyurl.com/32swr69t

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2022 08:52 AM (fL5aK)

276 267 Does anyone think the true GOP, what's left of it, will fall in line and allow a complete societal collapse?
Posted by: sidney at July 29, 2022 08:50 AM (Uy/WF)

mistaken premise - societal collapses do not happen because they are "allowed". They come uninvited, but they come.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:53 AM (r46W7)

277 If there is "open civil war" I don't see a realistic scenario where the left wins - even if they control the government at the start.

The cities they live in require incredible resources to run, which they can barely do now with no one opposing them.

The lose if they can't keep food, water, and electricity coming in.

To win they would have to defeat fly over land without killing too many people so they can force the survivors to run the infrastructure to keep them fed.

Meanwhile while they have plenty of people full of enough hate to want to go to Jesusland and kill people, the rigor of military life during war is NOT the sort of thing they are prepared for.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 29, 2022 08:53 AM (ESjRY)

278 I remember reading over and over that cities would burn and the left would be super energized for the Fall election because of Roe. Neither seems to be happening.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2022 08:51 AM (ZLI7S)

Churches and crisis pregnancy centers have been torched and vandalized. Doesn't seem to be much uproar over that though.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 08:53 AM (45fpk)

279 Trump runs and wins, he WILL be installed in office to serve his term.

That is the only time the subject will be brought up.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 29, 2022 08:53 AM (KATBx)

280 And since I brought up the subject of ugliness, here is one of my fave old pix, from the movie Gold Diggers of 1933:

https://tinyurl.com/y8dxh2y9

The man is character actor Guy Kibbee. The girl is the luscious Joan Blondell.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:53 AM (AW0uW)

281 236 At first, I doubted the use of the term 'Automatic weapon' in the reportage.

But hey, who knows.

https://tinyurl.com/49e4rduu

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 29, 2022 08:41 AM (1n+EO)
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The audio definitely sounds like a fully automatic weapon firing.

Posted by: Ciampino - not unusual for criminals to have machine pistols at July 29, 2022 08:53 AM (qfLjt)

282
I don't believe it would be tried, because the military could never even attempt to do more than control a few of the largest cities. It's easy to think that the American military is big, but it really isn't even close to the task.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:49 AM

something something every blade of grass something...

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 29, 2022 08:53 AM (ENBF0)

283 If I had a billion dollars, I'd pay off every debt owed by members of my family, which isn't all that much in the context of that much money. Then comes an annuity for each of my brothers and me, just to make sure we're all good and have an income stream.

With the rest - probably in the neighborhood of $490 million - I would buy a stable of cucks to go agitate for my side for once. I'd buy existing media outfits and pundits, dope the organizations with based people, and unleash them on the public to fight for the right things for once. It would be no more honest than the existing system, but I'd pay them to lie for my benefit instead of the Soros/WEF crowd. If that happens, some of the Horde will be getting offer letters in the mail in case they want a career change to go whip the cucks into shape and keep them on message.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 29, 2022 08:53 AM (WWh8n)

284 221 If they "can't" let Trump in, then they "can't" let anyone antithetical to their agenda and effective in. Something to ponder.
Posted by: ... at July 29, 2022 08:38 AM (/stMw)

which means we don't live in a representative republic anymore and the Constitution is no longer in effect.

the Ruling Class has violated the basic social contract, and their power is illegitimate.

I or you or anyone else is under no moral or ethical obligation to obey them or abide by their dictates.

Posted by: unvaxxed-trucker-traitor and noted Putin shill at July 29, 2022 08:54 AM (fcWVN)

285 267 Does anyone think the true GOP, what's left of it, will fall in line and allow a complete societal collapse?
Posted by: sidney at July 29, 2022 08:50 AM (Uy/WF)

It won't be put to them like that. It won't come to them as a question or choice. It will just happen. They won't be able to stop it, and finally (with maybe one or two exceptions) won't take the risk to try.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 29, 2022 08:54 AM (H8QX8)

286 "Kamala represents the Silicon Valley Crime Gang."

This is Nancy's power base. She built it with Paul's business connections.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2022 08:54 AM (i0slg)

287 The Political/Pavlovian Conditioning has taken root in far too many Americans so, like your dog, when presented to a stranger, mimics your reaction.

Yes. If you point out to your average Trump hating LIV they he/she has ALSO said the word p*ssy in private conversation you'll get a very confused look...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 29, 2022 08:55 AM (ESjRY)

288 * Iid I had *half* a billion dollars. Oy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 29, 2022 08:55 AM (WWh8n)

289 Trump runs and wins, he WILL be installed in office to serve his term.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 29, 2022 08:53 AM (KATBx)

From your mouth to God's ears.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:55 AM (AW0uW)

290 A football game would be more in line with the demo these days, but I guess that's not realistic. Most Congressmen would explode in a mist of dust and lipids if they took a hit, and most of the younger ones would catch Monkeypox in the huddles.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2022 08:52 AM (Zhwz2)
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Poetry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 29, 2022 08:56 AM (WWh8n)

291 We've already seen that electing Trump, or anyone else, won't change the fundamental rot at the DOJ or any agency within its purview. Parents have already been treated as domestic terrorists, and it is just a matter of time before then come for you and me. The whole damn thing needs to be dismantled. How this is done exactly, I can't say, but I suspect it will be very very ugly.

Posted by: JBirks at July 29, 2022 08:56 AM (eDCqW)

292 I'd keep one million each for myself and my kids, then probably give the rest to missions. I have a couple of favorites.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 08:56 AM (45fpk)

293 Once the British got rid of Cromwell they disinterred his corpse and hanged it in a gibbet and let it rot for all to see. We are gonna need a couple of gibbets once Trump is restored to his rightful position.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:56 AM (HTCOy)

294 Does anyone think the true GOP, what's left of it, will fall in line and allow a complete societal collapse?
Posted by: sidney at July 29, 2022 08:50 AM (Uy/WF)

Um... Yes. Zero doubt. They want it just as much as Dems do.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2022 08:57 AM (Zhwz2)

295 Similarly I often read about 'globull warming' from our side and there is always some acknowledgement that CO2 somehow is bad. Absolute rubbish.
Posted by: Ciampino

Well...that's the problem with the political mind set and our present situation.

Once a, ah simply call it a lie...Once a lie become an established truth for one side via slavish bootlicking by the MSM. The "political" thing is not to alienate voters who might otherwise vote for you but are nutty about "CO2 destruction of Our Planet".

The smart thing is to strangle that lie in its crib repeatedly en masse every single time it's brought forth. However...

Huge amounts of graft are build into the CO2 lie. Plus, BONUS! the destruction of the USA to the benefit of China(and thus more graft).

Unfortunately, the political mindset plus huge bucks for betraying your country means, with this crows in DC at least, "we" seem to have chosen our destroyer, and the Nude Green Eel it is.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2022 08:57 AM (5NkmN)

296 >>Churches and crisis pregnancy centers have been torched and vandalized. Doesn't seem to be much uproar over that though.

There's no doubt there has been some isolated incidents, there always are with the left particularly when they are in charge and refuse to punish their own. But the widespread violence and energy we have been told for decades would occur hasn't.

Leftists have to live in the same utopia their leaders are creating. They have to buy the same groceries, the same gas and face the same dismal economy. They don't seem all that energized by the results these days either and I don't see them being as easy to incite to support more of this as they were in 2020 when Orange Man Bad had created hell on earth also known as the best economy in generations.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2022 08:57 AM (ZLI7S)

297 262 Who are these 'troops'? They have families that live amongst the rest of the population.
Posted by: Ciampino - if it goes hot we'll win at July 29, 2022 08:44 AM (qfLjt)

It's true among every totalitarian / dictatorship gov't that the troops have families among the population - yet those militaries seem to have no problem enforcing the rule of the gov't against the people. Don't think American troops are much different.

Very rarely will any particular soldier be facing his own home town or family when ordered to do something. It would be a big difference if, say, military units were made up from localities and stationed in those localities - then when the order came to fire on the civilians they would actually be facing their friends and families. But that's not how it works. A solder from Springfield, MA is stationed in Texas, for instance.

I have no faith that the military members will refuse when the orders are given. For example, I used to believe that the rank and file at the FBI would keep the FBI honest- didn't happen.

Posted by: Mehive at July 29, 2022 08:57 AM (ky+MF)

298 We are gonna need a couple of gibbets once Trump is restored to his rightful position.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 08:56 AM (HTCOy)

Problem is, Trump isn't a gibbet kind of guy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 29, 2022 08:57 AM (H8QX8)

299 "But it's really archaic, now. Baseball has declined so much in popularity over the years, and has become decidedly more oriented toward the White Claw and champagne crowds."

Agreed, but the White Claw and champagne crowd is the Uniparty crowd, and Dems and Reps are all about pleasing that crowd.
You know who still waxes poetic about baseball? George Will and Doris Kearns Goodwin. That's all you need to know about the Congressional game. That's their target audience.

Posted by: Wally at July 29, 2022 08:58 AM (FJYfm)

300 149 I believe we are diving into a political singularity, if you'll pardon the phrase. A point in time where suddenly, none of what has happened before is a guide, a place where things will happen that would always have been unthinkable and impossible before. This is very open ended; it can go in any direction, because there will be no rules.

The people that fight the hardest to seize the future when the time comes will shape it. As far as predicting 2024 - I do not think anyone of us, standing here on the precipice of the future, can foresee what things will look like then, after the chaos of the next 2 years. We are all about to live through the worst two years of our lives, and if you do not realize that yet, you should.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2022 08:23 AM (r46W7)

If Trump runs, the next two years will make the last seven seem like a pillow fight. It will be pretty much the same no matter who the Republican candidates are in 2024, or the winner of the R nomination. The expected and dearly hoped-for Democrat mid-term wipe-out this November will only increase their blood-lust to keep the Presidency in 2024.

Posted by: Gref at July 29, 2022 08:58 AM (AMIL/)

301 ormation about Russian interference in American elections, including a close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin and a troll farm that officials say fueled a divisive social media campaign in 2016.

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2022 07:45 AM (X5CsJ)

yeah, that's not fucking creepy at all is it. so after 3 investigations and 2 impeachments, they couldn't prove there was collusion, because they're incompetent and the evidence was fabricated, but mostly because evidence was fabricated. So now they've convicted these guys of a crime that didn't happen? so, are the russians the new A-Team?

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 29, 2022 08:59 AM (p03vF)

302
The audio definitely sounds like a fully automatic weapon firing.

Posted by: Ciampino - not unusual for criminals to have machine pistols at July 29, 2022 08:53 AM

it's an AK-15 with a ghost bump sight & the thing what goes up & a eleventy seven thousand capacity clip with laser guided hypersonic exploding round bullets

my cousin's girlfriend's brother told me about it yesterday at 31 flavors

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 29, 2022 08:59 AM (ENBF0)

303 The truth bomb in the links is that Spectator article that discusses long term political trends in the US.

The author is correct on a many points, such as the bankruptcy of the ruling Democrat govetning philosophy.

You can see many examples of how the uniparty agenda is doomed. In Arizona the largest bloc moving to support MAGA candidates (and NOT GOP) is Hispanic males.

The GOP only happens to house MAGA. But MAGA is its own philosophy that is being embraced everywhere, throughout all demographics.

So they can try to use every dirty trick in the book to stop Trump in 2024. They will fail, and Trump is possibly the Deep State best case scenario. Bringing down Trump will cause them to be steamrolled in an even more violent manner.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 08:59 AM (NDXbq)

304 You know who still waxes poetic about baseball?

Occasionally me.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 08:59 AM (45fpk)

305 I don't see a hot shooting civil war. More likely is societal collapse with food and other essentials being scarce or even unavaiable. Cities are the most vulnerable. In this scenario, Government can't make trucks run.

Blue women and minorities hardest hit.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2022 08:59 AM (i0slg)

306 Or move the operations out of the FUS so that locations more proximate to the equator will benefit.

It should be abundantly clear that the American bureaucracy is absolutely hostile to human flourishing, the Constitution and is fully on board with the WEF Communist agenda.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 07:48 AM (3hSHB)

second look at Belize?

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 29, 2022 08:59 AM (p03vF)

307 >>> 229 >>Trump will never be allowed anywhere near the presidency again. If he runs, They will assassinate him.

As much as we argue about Trump vs DeSantis or whomever it's really not about them, it's about us.

Trump is the target of most of their hate at the moment because he is the person currently leading the movement against them. But if DeSantis or someone else picks up the torch of this movement they will be after them with the same hate.

We are up against a globalist movement that is being pushed on this country by an international socialist movement that has been working to install this on all western societies for decades. The whole global warming movement is simply a means to reengineer western socieites and transfer wealth and it's been run by the same globalist scum. Nationalism, the desire for free people to rule themselves, is what they really hate and what threatens their cause.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2022 08:39 AM (ZLI7S)

If anything I think this *understates* the evil we are dealing with. If they can't get their way they will destroy or even kill as much of everything possible.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 29, 2022 08:59 AM (llON8)

308 286 "Kamala represents the Silicon Valley Crime Gang."

This is Nancy's power base. She built it with Paul's business connections.
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Yes and no. Both Nanzi and Paul are connected to the mob. It was the Tech Titans that put Nanzi in business. Feinstein preceded Nanzi in being the Tech Titan Whore. Once Nanzi leaves there will be another Tech Titan Whore. Most likely a gay whore.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:00 AM (HTCOy)

309 Does anyone think the true GOP, what's left of it, will fall in line and allow a complete societal collapse?

I suspect that many people in the GOPe and even the Dems don't want societal collapse and can see it coming but...

1) They believe it is inevitable
2) It is better to be on the side of the winners then the losers right?
3) They've made "agreements" with the junta that make them switching sides impossible

And this is why having so few real *leaders* on our side is such a problem. Present a realistic picture of how we get back to something like Heritage America and you'll win back some of the pols that are warming seats in DC.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 29, 2022 09:00 AM (ESjRY)

310 Very rarely will any particular soldier be facing his own home town or family when ordered to do something.

The *residents* of said town are near the military families and friends.

But the troops won't be the regular army. They'll be antifa and BLM.

Posted by: GMan at July 29, 2022 09:00 AM (GfWuY)

311 I don't believe it would be tried, because the military could never even attempt to do more than control a few of the largest cities. It's easy to think that the American military is big, but it really isn't even close to the task.

I was really burned out from work and did something I rarely do and binge watched a series - in this case about life on board a Nimitz class carrier.

Among the takeaways, there are a few switched on people, but generally speaking the rank and file are a bunch of fuck-ups extending their high school days out a few more years before moving on with life and growing up. And this message came out after the military obviously did some editing. One deployment and only eight hours of interviews and videos of people doing things.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 09:01 AM (3hSHB)

312 "In 1989, the USSR ended due to the collapse of its socialist economic system and the fifteen Soviet satellite countries, including Ukraine, regained their independence."

"The Communist Party of China (CCP) then took the baton of global communism,..."

"Chinese military and political decision-makers still embrace Sun Tzu's admonition to "break the enemy's resistance without fighting," and to exploit the normalcy bias by "engaging the enemy with what they expect as it is what they are able to discern and it will confirm their projections" and it will settle them into predicable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate."

Posted by: Braenyard at July 29, 2022 09:01 AM (wj3Rl)

313 Trump can pick DeSantis as VP. This would give him 12 years of legacy going forward. That might be needed to kill the twin beasts of NYC and SF crazy oligarchs.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:02 AM (HTCOy)

314 Historical note that article reminded me of. Hoover made the depression worse by raising taxes.

So the Manchin deal is doomed to failure, especially if it affects direct consumer prices or household income.

I can't wait to see the 2024 campaign slogan to "end the meat tax"

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 09:02 AM (NDXbq)

315 and most of the younger ones would catch Monkeypox in the huddles.

*******

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE 95% OF MONKEYPOX CASES ARE CONTRACTED BY MEN HAVING CLOSE PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH OTHER MEN'S GENITAL AREA, LIKE WHEN A QB LINES UP UNDER CENTER FOR THE SNAP AND PUTS HIS HANDS IN THE ... OH HOLY CRAP, IT'S NOT FUNNY!!!

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at July 29, 2022 09:03 AM (kXYt5)

316 @303
One of the things that Trump did was to start to rebrand the R party as the party of those who do actual work (and their families).

Trump won in 2016 because he got Deplorables (white non-college -- the largest cohort of all, and over-represented in swing states) to turn out and pull the R lever. People who wouldn't vote for Romney, and who Romney dismissed.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2022 09:03 AM (i0slg)

317 Trump can pick DeSantis as VP. This would give him 12 years of legacy going forward. That might be needed to kill the twin beasts of NYC and SF crazy oligarchs.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:02 AM (HTCOy)

This is the camp I fly my flag in.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

318 I suspect that many people in the GOPe and even the Dems don't want societal collapse

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Oh, they do. These people want everyone poor, atomized, fearful and subservient. They want to sit stop a heap of shit, wearing golden crowns. It's what animates all such people, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Their own comfort is pain if you can share in it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2022 09:04 AM (Zhwz2)

319 Pelosi and China trip is another hoax, am I right?

Posted by: Ziba at July 29, 2022 09:04 AM (4h9M3)

320 If they Enemedia said "Trump praises God" with a certain tone, expression and context, many nominal Christians would view that as a negative and be offended.
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Ad currently running on Chicago outlets is (R) candidate appearing to pray in thanks for Roe v Wade. Heavy emphasis on his southern IL drawl. 'Too conservative for IL' is the tag by Dem Governors Assoc (my personal opinion is that it is a Pritzker-funded national operation).

Nasty little thing appealing to all the limousine 'liberals' prejudices. Pritzker is running hard -- don't know whether for Gov or Pres.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 29, 2022 09:04 AM (MIKMs)

321 You have to laugh at these Federalist articles that cry cry cry about what the dirty "Left" are doing.

Thousands of words and not a solitary syllable about the Judas GOP that lets it all happen and then alternately insults their constituents and begs them for money.

Fuck the Federalist and fuck the fucking Diaz Brothers.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2022 09:05 AM (/stMw)

322 But the troops won't be the regular army. They'll be antifa and BLM.
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BLM is a spent round. AntiFa is Bernie Bots - real NAZIs. They are pathetic and have few numbers. Obama's Domestic Army is kaput. Soro's DAs are where the power is right now and nobody likes them. They represent easy targets.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:05 AM (HTCOy)

323 If the Leftists get their way, America's high point will forever be ... the administration of Donald Trump.

We cannot let the Left take us down.

Posted by: JM in Florida at July 29, 2022 09:05 AM (ynlJ2)

324 The American military doesn't have to be in Everytown, USA to quell a revolt.

There's plenty of local muscle willing to do it for a price.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2022 09:05 AM (BFigT)

325 The rumor I have heard from multiple source is that Trump and DeSantis have a deal. DeSantis will be the VP pick.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 09:05 AM (NDXbq)

326 "A football game would be more in line with the demo these days",

Cornhole tournament.

Posted by: fd at July 29, 2022 09:05 AM (sn5EN)

327 Nothing beats high price spice like Saffron.

If only it didn't have to be harvested during the full moon by 19yo virgins.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 29, 2022 09:06 AM (uvymP)

328 258 I can't even imagine what I'd do with 500 million dollars ....... I would move, first of all, to an isolated location with a lovely 19th century mansion.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:48 AM (AW0uW)
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.... a lovely 19th century mansion with a moat containing alligators.

There I fixed it for you.

Posted by: Ciampino - I do like the donations to animal shelters at July 29, 2022 09:06 AM (qfLjt)

329 Pritzker is running hard -- don't know whether for Gov or Pres.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 29, 2022 09:04 AM (MIKMs)

He'd make a great President. Just look at how well he's done as Governor.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 09:06 AM (45fpk)

330 Trump can pick DeSantis as VP. This would give him 12 years of legacy going forward. That might be needed to kill the twin beasts of NYC and SF crazy oligarchs.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:02 AM (HTCOy)

And get Christina Pushaw as MFM liason.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 09:07 AM (AW0uW)

331 319 Pelosi and China trip is another hoax, am I right?
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Its staged puppet theater. Much like Charlottesville and the summer of Mostly Peaceful Protest. Its all scripted in Manhattan, Hollywood and DC.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:07 AM (HTCOy)

332 Our rulers' wealth and power rise with open borders, trade giveaways, and endless war.

Americans were never meant to be ruled. Anyone who considers themselves our rulers need to be eradicated.

Posted by: Methos at July 29, 2022 09:07 AM (kOpft)

333 "While wooing American companies to offshore their manufacturing and assembly to China, the CCP was building and infiltrating channels in the United States at many levels.

Those channels included universities and think tanks, social and cultural groups, Chinese-language media, Chinese cultural organizations; such as Confucius Institutes, and WeChat, the Chinese social media and messaging app.

Newsweek has identified about 600 Chinese groups operating in the U.S. that are all in regular touch with and guided by the CCP."

Posted by: Braenyard at July 29, 2022 09:07 AM (wj3Rl)

334 China announced a few days ago that in response to global warming concerns, stress GLOBAL, they are ordering 300 million tons more of coal per year be mined. They are building coal plants in China and around the world as fast as the west decommissions ours.

Global warming is a farce and yet we are destroying our energy independence and economy over it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2022 09:08 AM (ZLI7S)

335
And get Christina Pushaw as MFM liason.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 09:07 AM (AW0uW)

She got bass mouth.....

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

336 The *residents* of said town are near the military families and friends.

Posted by: GMan at July 29, 2022 09:00 AM (GfWuY)

Again, that is true in every totalitarian / dictatorship gov't. Yet, again, those military people follow the orders to subjugate their own people. And again, I doubt our military members are going to be much different.

Also, I'd point out that military members are not overwhelmingly conservatives. Having been in the military, I can tell you that there are tons of leftists in the military among both the enlisted and the officers.

So, again, I have no faith that the military will refuse orders when orders are given to do something against the civilian population.

A lot of conservatives always seem to believe that the military is on "our" side. It isn't. First, the military has been wildly politicized by the left since Clinton's day. Second, as I said, there are probably about as many leftists in the military as conservatives. Third, human nature's experience in other countries tells us that the soldiers will follow orders - even when told to fire on their own people.

Posted by: Mehive at July 29, 2022 09:08 AM (ky+MF)

337 so, are the russians the new A-Team?
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I pity the fool!

Posted by: Mr V at July 29, 2022 09:08 AM (yikp0)

338 318 I suspect that many people in the GOPe and even the Dems don't want societal collapse

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Oh, they do. These people want everyone poor, atomized, fearful and subservient. They want to sit stop a heap of shit, wearing golden crowns. It's what animates all such people, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Their own comfort is pain if you can share in it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2022 09:04 AM (Zhwz2)

I second that. Too many on the Right believe the Left either operates according to "good intentions gone astray" or that they share an ultimate concern for our shared society.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 29, 2022 09:08 AM (H8QX8)

339
Cornhole tournament.
Posted by: fd at July 29, 2022 09:05 AM (sn5EN)

spikeball......

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

340 329 Pritzker is running hard -- don't know whether for Gov or Pres.
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He is the controlled opposition to Gavin Newsome in the Dem primaries. They had to find a guy so repellant to make Gavin marginally attractive to their own voters.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:09 AM (HTCOy)

341 "Trump and DeSantis have a deal. DeSantis will be the VP pick."

Even if there isn't a deal yet, there's an inevitable logic to it, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2022 09:09 AM (i0slg)

342 325 The rumor I have heard from multiple source is that Trump and DeSantis have a deal. DeSantis will be the VP pick.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 09:05 AM (NDXbq)

Interesting.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 29, 2022 09:09 AM (H8QX8)

343 They had to find a guy so repellant to make Gavin marginally attractive to their own voters.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:09 AM (HTCOy)

They also had to find one who isn't making license plates. Yet.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 09:10 AM (45fpk)

344 >>> 328 258 I can't even imagine what I'd do with 500 million dollars ....... I would move, first of all, to an isolated location with a lovely 19th century mansion.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:48 AM (AW0uW)
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.... a lovely 19th century mansion with a moat containing alligators with lasers on their heads.

There I fixed it for you.
Posted by: Ciampino - I do like the donations to animal shelters at July 29, 2022 09:06 AM (qfLjt)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 29, 2022 09:10 AM (llON8)

345 Saw this Farage interview last night. The topic of BLM came up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpBg-Q3I15Y

It's a really good interview but the 411 is that BLM appeared in London the day after George Floyd. It was obviously prepared well in advance and ready to go.

It's a really good interview as well. A guy who won an MBE for effective charity work and was then cancelled.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 29, 2022 09:10 AM (5Qjf9)

346 Cornhole tournament.
Posted by: fd at July 29, 2022 09:05 AM (sn5EN)

We're going to win!!!!

Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 29, 2022 09:10 AM (FJYfm)

347 In 2024 Manchin will run an ad where he shoots the BBB bill with a high capacity rifle, punches a groomer, gnaws into a giant chophouse ribeye while mouthing "America", and then dumps a bucket of red white and blue paint on himself Flashdance style. And be reelected with ease.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2022 09:11 AM (/stMw)

348 Does anyone have the link to that short story about An Army of One that was about how a potential revolution could happen?

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at July 29, 2022 09:11 AM (xxG/v)

349 Huh. I guess we'll see if Lassiter still has the Midas Touch. It's on Apple's streaming service, though, so color me skeptical.

I'm also skeptical, but it does have a character voiced by former Pixar good luck charm John Ratzenberger (who was also kicked from Disney for lack of wokeness). So fingers crossed it's actually decent.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 29, 2022 09:11 AM (ZGrMX)

350 The man is character actor Guy Kibbee. The girl is the luscious Joan Blondell.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 08:53 AM (AW0uW)
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I recently saw Joan Blondell in the Depression-era poker movie "The Cincinnati Kid", made in the 60's, in which she played the card dealer Lady Fingers . She had a long career as a wisecrackin' blonde.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 29, 2022 09:11 AM (Dc2NZ)

351 The two greatest threats to my children are the US government and the Chi-Coms. And one is in thrall to the other.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2022 09:11 AM (i0slg)

352 We have a tendency here at AOS to have our faces glued to the national political scene - which is understandable since Americans have far too long elevated the Executive Branch to a God-like existence it never deserved or to be allowed.

But if this November is a wave election, and I believe it will be...all the real important action will be on the local level, as conservatives take back their towns and the statewide election processes. Only after that will the change we crave at the national level will begin to happen...

Posted by: Boswell at July 29, 2022 09:11 AM (+Cgut)

353 >>> 338 318 I suspect that many people in the GOPe and even the Dems don't want societal collapse

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Oh, they do. These people want everyone poor, atomized, fearful and subservient. They want to sit stop a heap of shit, wearing golden crowns. It's what animates all such people, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Their own comfort is pain if you can share in it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2022 09:04 AM (Zhwz2)

I second that. Too many on the Right believe the Left either operates according to "good intentions gone astray" or that they share an ultimate concern for our shared society.
Posted by: Ordinary American at July 29, 2022 09:08 AM (H8QX

They are psychos who will burn shit to the ground if they can't get their way.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 29, 2022 09:12 AM (llON8)

354 277 If there is "open civil war" I don't see a realistic scenario where the left wins - even if they control the government at the start.
The cities they live in require incredible resources to run, which they can barely do now with no one opposing them.
The lose if they can't keep food, water, and electricity coming in.

To win they would have to defeat fly over land without killing too many people so they can force the survivors to run the infrastructure to keep them fed.

Meanwhile while they have plenty of people full of enough hate to want to go to Jesusland and kill people, the rigor of military life during war is NOT the sort of thing they are prepared for.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 29, 2022 08:53 AM (ESjRY)

Everything will depend on how the US Military reacts to a big-time insurrection or a civil war. I don't believe it can or will stay out completely. This is why the Leftists are working overtime to make entire US Military into a Leftist-belief force.

Posted by: Gref at July 29, 2022 09:12 AM (AMIL/)

355 WHEN I win the Powerball drawing tonight I will, on Monday, Revive the Choco-Taco Ice cream brand

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 29, 2022 09:12 AM (flINI)

356 A lot of conservatives always seem to believe that the military is on "our" side. It isn't
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This is true. All generals are politicians. The current crop are largely beholden to Obama for their sinecure.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:12 AM (HTCOy)

357 DeSantis needs to win his reelection in Florida.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2022 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

358 Pritzker is running hard -- don't know whether for Gov or Pres.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 29, 2022 09:04 AM (MIKMs)

If Pritzker is running hard, you better warm up the AED.

Posted by: Wally at July 29, 2022 09:13 AM (FJYfm)

359 I recently saw Joan Blondell in the Depression-era poker movie "The Cincinnati Kid", made in the 60's, in which she played the card dealer Lady Fingers . She had a long career as a wisecrackin' blonde.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 29, 2022 09:11 AM (Dc2NZ)

She looked a little too much like Shelley Winters in that movie for my taste.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 29, 2022 09:13 AM (AW0uW)

360 273 Then get cosmetic work done to ameliorate my ugliness.
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What will you do with the remaining ¢12??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 08:52 AM (yikp0)
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Very cruel.

Posted by: Ciampino - I do like the donation to animal shelters at July 29, 2022 09:13 AM (qfLjt)

361 Once a, ah simply call it a lie...Once a lie become an established truth for one side via slavish bootlicking by the MSM. The "political" thing is not to alienate voters who might otherwise vote for you but are nutty about "CO2 destruction of Our Planet".

Take back the language, take back the narrative.

For example: when speaking of "CO2", talking about the "greening" of the planet since plants greatly flourish with increased atmospheric CO2. Gush about how nitrogen based fertilizers allow more natural food to be grown on less and less farmland, requiring less water and allowing for more untamed/"pristine" pastures and woodlands.

Since words don't have meaning anymore and are largely used for emotional triggering, push them into merging contradictory emotions and their triggers.

Disable them through their own rhetoric by confusing their emotions.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 09:13 AM (3hSHB)

362 >>> 355 WHEN I win the Powerball drawing tonight I will, on Monday, Revive the Choco-Taco Ice cream brand
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 29, 2022 09:12 AM (flINI)

Ditch the low-fat ice cream please.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 29, 2022 09:13 AM (llON8)

363 Hey! You got Pickleball in my Cornhole!

Posted by: The Uniparty at July 29, 2022 09:13 AM (sn5EN)

364 DeSantis needs to win his reelection in Florida.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2022 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

Never underestimate the grift power of Charlie Crist.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

365 Again, that is true in every totalitarian / dictatorship gov't. Yet, again, those military people follow the orders to subjugate their own people. And again, I doubt our military members are going to be much different.

Posted by: Mehive at July 29, 2022 09:08 AM (ky+MF)

Traditionally troops were composed of strongly regional regiment, and you didn't want to send the local regiment to put down the rebellion there. Not keeping track of local or personal loyalties has screwed up a few operations.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 29, 2022 09:13 AM (b2nrj)

366 342 325 The rumor I have heard from multiple source is that Trump and DeSantis have a deal. DeSantis will be the VP pick.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 09:05 AM (NDXbq)

I'd be happy if this were true, but I doubt this. Nobody believes the vice presidency is a good stepping-stone to the presidency. Very few VPs win the presidency in their own right. LBJ and Truman both became president b/c of deaths and won as incumbents, not VPs. So, I doubt DeSantis wants VP when he has a shot at the presidency.

Posted by: Mehive at July 29, 2022 09:14 AM (ky+MF)

367 BLM is a spent round. AntiFa is Bernie Bots - real NAZIs. They are pathetic and have few numbers. Obama's Domestic Army is kaput

You *say* that, but they're the only ones taking to the streets and engaging in violence.

yes, I understand that if we did that we'd be in prison, but they are actually gaining experience in what they'll need to do in the near future.

By the way, all this, that we're discussing, is WHY they're trying to push the gun control. The need as many of the unfavored folks disarmed as they can get before the shit really hits the fan this winter.

Posted by: GMan at July 29, 2022 09:14 AM (GfWuY)

368 all the real important action will be on the local level, as conservatives take back their towns and the statewide election processes. Only after that will the change we crave at the national level will begin to happen...
Posted by: Boswell at July 29, 2022 09:11 AM (+Cgut)

100%. If you vote in primaries and local/state elections for the right people, the national problems will start to resolve themselves. Look no further than Larry Hogan squealing like a stuck pig that the MAGA candidate ran away with the MD primary a few weeks ago.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 29, 2022 09:14 AM (ZGrMX)

369
Oh, they do. These people want everyone poor, atomized, fearful and subservient. They want to sit atop a heap of shit, wearing golden crowns. It's what animates all such people, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Their own comfort is pain if you can share in it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2022 09:04 AM (Zhwz2)

I hope you are wrong, but I strongly suspect you are right.

Posted by: unvaxxed-trucker-traitor and noted Putin shill at July 29, 2022 09:14 AM (fcWVN)

370 And in my local online paper this bit of lightness:

"Earlier this month a passerby found a turtle in the road. The driver then stopped and removed it from the road before calling the police."

Why would you call the police after removing a turtle from the road? It sounds like the wind up to a joke.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2022 09:15 AM (fL5aK)

371 If DeSantis has any sense, he will ride Trump's coattails to the presidency by being VP. Maybe it's not fair and maybe people who still bother to "love" politicians won't like it, but it's the correct move.

Trump is happy to be the lightning rod and could have carried the whole party to victory if they wanted. They didn't.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2022 09:15 AM (/stMw)

372 342 325 The rumor I have heard from multiple source is that Trump and DeSantis have a deal. DeSantis will be the VP pick.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 09:05 AM (NDXbq)
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My first reaction is..bad move for DeSantis.

My second reaction is....they're from the same state. Constitution doesn't allow it.

Posted by: WisRich at July 29, 2022 09:15 AM (G0vdT)

373 I'd be happy if this were true, but I doubt this. Nobody believes the vice presidency is a good stepping-stone to the presidency. Very few VPs win the presidency in their own right.

The model we're looking for here is Reagan/Bush, except without the VP being a CIA implant.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 29, 2022 09:15 AM (ZGrMX)

374 355 WHEN I win the Powerball drawing tonight I will, on Monday, Revive the Choco-Taco Ice cream brand
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 29, 2022 09:12 AM (flINI)

Ditch the low-fat ice cream please.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 29, 2022 09:13 AM (llON

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It will have more fat than Lena Dunhams dimpled ass

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 29, 2022 09:15 AM (flINI)

375 >>> 369
Oh, they do. These people want everyone poor, atomized, fearful and subservient. They want to sit atop a heap of shit, wearing golden crowns. It's what animates all such people, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Their own comfort is pain if you can share in it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2022 09:04 AM (Zhwz2)

I hope you are wrong, but I strongly suspect you are right.
Posted by: unvaxxed-trucker-traitor and noted Putin shill at July 29, 2022 09:14 AM (fcWVN)

"You will own nothing and be happy." -- WEF psychos, the people who also want you to eat bugs

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 29, 2022 09:16 AM (llON8)

376 To win they would have to defeat fly over land without killing too many people so they can force the survivors to run the infrastructure to keep them fed.

I'm confident that the vast majority of these "people" who you are thinking of truly believe that electricity originates from the wall outlet and food has its provenance at a grocery store.

The mental connection of reservoirs, agriculture and thermal energy production happening outside the city limits just isn't there.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 09:16 AM (3hSHB)

377
It will have more fat than Lena Dunhams dimpled ass
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 29, 2022 09:15 AM (flINI)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at July 29, 2022 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

378 My second reaction is....they're from the same state. Constitution doesn't allow it.

Not actually true. The Constitution won't allow Florida electors to vote for DeSantis in that case. And Trump can always declare residence at any Trump property.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 29, 2022 09:16 AM (ZGrMX)

379 "Earlier this month a passerby found a turtle in the road. The driver then stopped and removed it from the road before calling the police."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2022 09:15 AM (fL5aK)

Good.

Posted by: Baxter Stockman at July 29, 2022 09:17 AM (FJYfm)

380 378 My second reaction is....they're from the same state. Constitution doesn't allow it.

Not actually true. The Constitution won't allow Florida electors to vote for DeSantis in that case. And Trump can always declare residence at any Trump property.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 29, 2022 09:16 AM (ZGrMX)

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A man so poor as Trump could never buy a house in Kansas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 29, 2022 09:17 AM (LvTSG)

381 A lot of conservatives always seem to believe that the military is on "our" side. It isn't

The fact that they take orders from an illegitimate President shows they're disloyal to the oath they took to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. This isn't the news that you think it is.

Posted by: Methos at July 29, 2022 09:17 AM (kOpft)

382 I'd be happy if this were true, but I doubt this. Nobody believes the vice presidency is a good stepping-stone to the presidency. Very few VPs win the presidency in their own right. LBJ and Truman both became president b/c of deaths and won as incumbents, not VPs. So, I doubt DeSantis wants VP when he has a shot at the presidency.
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True, but that's why DeSantis is the Ace in the Hole. Kill Trump get Godzilla Trump with 75M+ aggrieved morners. Great Insurance Policy.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:17 AM (HTCOy)

383 Hasn't it been established that the president and vice-president cannot reside in the same state?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 29, 2022 09:17 AM (wj3Rl)

384 I second that. Too many on the Right believe the Left either operates according to "good intentions gone astray" or that they share an ultimate concern for our shared society.

I suppose it's easier to believe that than to accept that these people are literally evil pieces of shit that want you and your children dead.

I mean, they *are* evil pieces of shit that want me and my children dead. I know that, but I've had a hell of time explaining that to others. It's gotten easier lately, which should really worry everyone.

Posted by: GMan at July 29, 2022 09:18 AM (GfWuY)

385 ==========

A man so poor as Trump could never buy a house in Kansas.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 29, 2022 09:17 AM (LvTSG)

Tornadoes.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

386 My second reaction is....they're from the same state. Constitution doesn't allow it.[/i

Read the Constitution. Your fear only comes in to play if the Electoral College creates a tie and the election is decided in Congress.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 09:18 AM (3hSHB)

387 Hasn't it been established that the president and vice-president cannot reside in the same state?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 29, 2022 09:17 AM (wj3Rl)

it only effects the electoral votes.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

388 379 "Earlier this month a passerby found a turtle in the road. The driver then stopped and removed it from the road before calling the police."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2022 09:15 AM (fL5aK)

Good.
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I guess this driver never read Steinbeck?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:18 AM (HTCOy)

389 >>My second reaction is....they're from the same state. Constitution doesn't allow it.

Axshually, it does. What the Constitution says is that if a president and vp run from the same state the electors of that state can't vote for them. This is from a time when we didn't have president and vp running on a ticket and the first place winner became president and second became vp. So they could run together but they would lose Florida's electoral votes.

Or Trump could just take residency back in his NY home and solve the problem completely.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2022 09:18 AM (ZLI7S)

390 370-So here's a turtle and police joke. The passerby removed the turtle from the road and then called the police. The police discovered that the turtle had a lengthy rap sheet. He was then arrested and placed in shell block B.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2022 09:19 AM (fL5aK)

391 >>> 386 My second reaction is....they're from the same state. Constitution doesn't allow it.[/i

Read the Constitution. Your fear only comes in to play if the Electoral College creates a tie and the election is decided in Congress.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 09:18 AM (3hSHB)

*cackle*

Posted by: Kamala Harris at July 29, 2022 09:19 AM (llON8)

392 A lot of conservatives always seem to believe that the military is on "our" side. It isn't

I don't think that's been true for several years. What a lot of conservatives do believe is that the military that burned down an entire ship in drydock, has record low recruiting, and is actively trying to trans everyone probably isn't that formidable. China would win in 9 minutes, to paraphrase Battlefield Earth.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 29, 2022 09:19 AM (ZGrMX)

393 And the turtle says, "At these prices, you won't be getting many more!"

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 09:19 AM (yikp0)

394 392 I don't think that's been true for several years. What a lot of conservatives do believe is that the military that burned down an entire ship in drydock, has record low recruiting, and is actively trying to trans everyone probably isn't that formidable. China would win in 9 minutes, to paraphrase Battlefield Earth.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 29, 2022 09:19 AM (ZGrMX)

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China would have to get its troops over here, first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 29, 2022 09:20 AM (LvTSG)

395 The rumor I have heard from multiple source is that Trump and DeSantis have a deal. DeSantis will be the VP pick.
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DeSantis is wildly talented. My caveat is that his children are young so he needs some time. VP or SoS would be very good. Pompeo seems to want to play as well, but does he have the spine against the 'DC Borg' -- although I must say that he looks better than Haley or Noem as far as fortitude.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 29, 2022 09:20 AM (MIKMs)

396 394 392 I don't think that's been true for several years. What a lot of conservatives do believe is that the military that burned down an entire ship in drydock, has record low recruiting, and is actively trying to trans everyone probably isn't that formidable. China would win in 9 minutes, to paraphrase Battlefield Earth.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 29, 2022 09:19 AM (ZGrMX)

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China would have to get its troops over here, first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 29, 2022 09:20 AM (LvTSG)

*5 years later*

"Lots of Asians coming over the border these days, wonder what's up with that..."

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 29, 2022 09:21 AM (b2nrj)

397 >>>325 The rumor I have heard from multiple source is that Trump and DeSantis have a deal. DeSantis will be the VP pick.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 09:05 AM

Nah. No reason why DeSantis would agree to this right now. Not before more testing to see whether he could actually beat Trump in the primary. These "VP deal" rumors are just the next step along the coping line from the earlier "DeSantis said he wouldn't run if Trump ran" rumor.

Posted by: Match Checksout at July 29, 2022 09:22 AM (IK4m/)

398 Good.
Posted by: Baxter Stockman at July 29, 2022 09:17 AM (FJYfm)

I've removed turtles from the road-Box Turtles or painted turtles. I do not remove snapping turtles that are about the size of a small pizza plate. Those things could bike your hand off. I also didn't call the police.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2022 09:22 AM (fL5aK)

399 China would have to get its troops over here, first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 29, 2022 09:20 AM (LvTSG)
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Who's to say they don't have any "sleeper" cells here already? We know they have spies everywhere in academia and industry.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 29, 2022 09:22 AM (YIVH2)

400 The model we're looking for here is Reagan/Bush, except without the VP being a CIA implant.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 29, 2022 09:15 AM (ZGrMX)

that's not really accurate. Reagan picked Bush to appease the non-conservative northeast liberal GOP establishment. Trump picking DeSantis would seem to be doubling down on MAGA, not appeasing the party.

And, you have to remember that Bush I only won the Presidency after Reagan b/c the dems put up such a terrible, terrible candidate in Dukakis. My guess is that if the dems had nominated someone else that year Bush I would have lost the election.

Bush I managed to go from approvals in the high 80s to losing to Clinton in less than 2 years, which almost seems like an impossible feat.

Posted by: Mehive at July 29, 2022 09:22 AM (ky+MF)

401 Read the Constitution. Your fear only comes in to play if the Electoral College creates a tie and the election is decided in Congress.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 29, 2022 09:18 AM (3hSHB)
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Thanks for the clarification.

Posted by: WisRich at July 29, 2022 09:22 AM (G0vdT)

402 "bite" not "bite".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2022 09:22 AM (fL5aK)

403 DeSantis is wildly talented. My caveat is that his children are young so he needs some time. VP or SoS would be very good. Pompeo seems to want to play as well, but does he have the spine against the 'DC Borg' -- although I must say that he looks better than Haley or Noem as far as fortitude.

DeSantis' ace in the hole is Christina Pushaw. The Left is so angry about how good she is at humiliating them that the WaPo ran an article attempting to smear her.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 29, 2022 09:22 AM (ZGrMX)

404 Bah-not "bike"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2022 09:22 AM (fL5aK)

405 There is a picture of Samuel Alito in the Daily Mail. Damn if he doesn't look EXACTLY like Gene Hackman. Go over there and take a look.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 29, 2022 09:23 AM (flINI)

406 Good morning Sarah.

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 09:23 AM (45fpk)

407 that's not really accurate. Reagan picked Bush to appease the non-conservative northeast liberal GOP establishment. Trump picking DeSantis would seem to be doubling down on MAGA, not appeasing the party.

Posted by: Mehive at July 29, 2022 09:22 AM (ky+MF)

Isn't NeverTrump on board with DeSantis? If they can support him I don't see why other non-conservative republicans would be unable to.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 29, 2022 09:24 AM (b2nrj)

408 China would have to get its troops over here, first.
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The way to defeat China is to starve them. This would be done by the Navy. You could also put bounties on sunken Chinese Merchant Marines. Much cheaper way to destroy their ability to feed themselves. Cargo ships are slow and big. Easy to hit unescorted. Then there are Rods from God that could easily put into action. Imagine a guided steal telephone pole falling from space hitting a cargo ship. Nasty.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:24 AM (HTCOy)

409 I am making a real GOOD MONEY (80$ to 92$ / hr. )online from my laptop.

Hehehehehe. I know how.

Posted by: perverted IT guy at July 29, 2022 09:25 AM (cY9wR)

410 Posted by: Sarah at July 29, 2022 09:22 AM (xPgOp)

***

My sacred honor compels me...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 29, 2022 09:25 AM (flINI)

411 I recently saw Joan Blondell in the Depression-era poker movie "The Cincinnati Kid", made in the 60's, in which she played the card dealer Lady Fingers . She had a long career as a wisecrackin' blonde.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at July 29, 2022 09:11 AM (Dc2NZ)

"Bet's in. Time to show, gentlemen.
Oh, well look at that. 3 Kings beat 3 Queens! Only in your sexist Patriarchy would that happen you primitive fucks!
And where's my doctor in this deck, huh! 52 fucking cards and no doctor. How'm I supposed to get an abortion, you bastards! My body! My choice! You'd like that wouldn't you? Me forced to have your baby in this deck of cards. Well, fuck you!
It's like Nixon and Rush Limbaugh designed this playing card deck!!!"
(laughter)

Posted by: Wise-Cracking Blonde circa 2022 at July 29, 2022 09:25 AM (5NkmN)

412 I do not trust any of our military above the rank of O-5. I had my suspicions as an O-3 back in the early 1980's.

Posted by: Archer at July 29, 2022 09:26 AM (gmo/4)

413 DeSantis' ace in the hole is Christina Pushaw. The Left is so angry about how good she is at humiliating them that the WaPo ran an article attempting to smear her.

I love her. She is my hero.

Trump makes DeathSantis VP and states "I am only serving one term, the one I was robbed of, and will support my VP to succeed me after it."

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 29, 2022 09:26 AM (w0NJk)

414 Polyethylene glycol is the third ingredient listed in Colon Blow.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 29, 2022 09:27 AM (44ww/)

415 I wanted to say also - what we're seeing is how it works when FedGov dies.

I used to say ages ago it had to collapse and die.

Here we are. I didn't know how that would look, but this is it.

Just hang on. Hold on to your butts. The Inevitable (since the information revolution) is in fact happening.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 29, 2022 09:27 AM (w0NJk)

416 "Pritzker is running hard -- don't know whether for Gov or Pres. "

For a box of donuts and chocolate cake.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2022 09:27 AM (ZeDNp)

417 Joan Blondell was hotlicks and a real actress, whose career went from the 1927 to 1979. Actresses careers don't last that long if they can't act.

Adapt and move forward.
She was great.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 29, 2022 09:28 AM (wj3Rl)

418 416 "Pritzker is running hard -- don't know whether for Gov or Pres. "

For a box of donuts and chocolate cake.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2022 09:27 AM (ZeDNp)

========

Weird...I was assured the no one would dare run against Kamala.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at July 29, 2022 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

419 "I do not trust any of our military above the rank of O-5. I had my suspicions as an O-3 back in the early 1980's.
"

Toss in about 80% of the CMC's, and 100% of the MCPON's.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 29, 2022 09:28 AM (1n+EO)

420 Isn't NeverTrump on board with DeSantis? If they can support him I don't see why other non-conservative republicans would be unable to.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 29, 2022 09:24 AM (b2nrj)

Nevertrump makes some noises that they would support DeSantis - but that is b/c they want to make sure Trump is defeated. They will be just as against DeSantis as they are Trump if DeSantis runs as a MAGA candidate.

For instance, if you read AP's stuff on HotAir regarding DeSantis, you can generally feel the hatred oozing from AP, even as he's attempting to say ok things about DeSantis.

It's really the MAGA policies Nevertrump is against, not really Trump as a person - although they try to pretend it's only about Trump's personality. But, nevertrump argued against just about every Trump policy.

Posted by: Mehive at July 29, 2022 09:29 AM (ky+MF)

421 Not that conditions are as soft as for Westerners but the Little Emperors composing the PLA aren't exactly Mao's Red Army of the '30s either; and mommy and daddy and two sets of grandparents aren't going to be happy about them going to war either.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 09:29 AM (yikp0)

422 "To win they would have to defeat fly over land without killing too many people so they can force the survivors to run the infrastructure to keep them fed."

Not necessarily true for the initial period, that may last quite a while. Think bigger. If civil war breaks out, every country in the world will pick a side, sooner or later. China would be happy to keep the Blue States fed and supplied with everything China produces. China will let Blue buy on credit. If the bulk of the US Navy, especially the attack submarines goes Blue, Red may not be able to interdict sea traffic to/from Blue for long. If tens of millions of Blue citizens starve until China and others send food, that's not going to bother the Blue Commissars.

Posted by: Gref at July 29, 2022 09:30 AM (AMIL/)

423 Posted by: Sarah at July 29, 2022 09:22 AM (xPgOp)

And yet that boil on your back persists - why oh why can't you afford to have that thing lanced?

Posted by: Boswell at July 29, 2022 09:30 AM (+Cgut)

424 On second thoughts --

DeSantis has mad skillz that could be very effectively used at SoS. Can't you just imagine him pushing through the diplodocus diplomats? (Sorry, just spent a little too much time with grandkids.)

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 29, 2022 09:30 AM (MIKMs)

425 Polyethylene glycol is the third ingredient listed in Colon Blow.
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Ano-Puffs too! But not in Kaboom! Too expensive.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 29, 2022 09:30 AM (yikp0)

426 I'd pay good money to watch Pritzker and Nadler compete in a 50 yard dash.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2022 09:30 AM (ZeDNp)

427 A football game would be more in line with the demo these days, but I guess that's not realistic. Most Congressmen would explode in a mist of dust and lipids if they took a hit, and most of the younger ones would catch Monkeypox in the huddles.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2022 08:52 AM (Zhwz2)

sooooo..... what's the downside?

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 29, 2022 09:31 AM (p03vF)

428 325 The rumor I have heard from multiple source is that Trump and DeSantis have a deal. DeSantis will be the VP pick.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 29, 2022 09:05 AM

If this is true, you can bet that DeSantis will not just be a figurehead.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2022 09:32 AM (x0n13)

429 Imagine a guided steal telephone pole falling from space hitting a cargo ship. Nasty.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:24 AM (HTCOy)

Beijing

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 29, 2022 09:32 AM (89T5c)

430 Manchin is NOT to blame.

McConnell and rest of GOP knew this was going to happen when they voted to pass the "Infrastructure" bill -- in fact, it would not even be possible to do this reconciliation without it.

The delay was only for political purposes -- helps the GOP (who wanted it) because they get to pretend they were "screwed" and didn't want this and helps the Dems because the inflation that will be caused by this gets delayed until after midterms.

This is kabuki theater by two evil masterminds (McConnell *and* Manchin) that results in a win-win for both sides of the establishment.

We have to start to acknowledge this.

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 29, 2022 09:32 AM (YVBLw)

431 Art is late!

Panic!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at July 29, 2022 09:32 AM (LvTSG)

432 Not necessarily true for the initial period, that may last quite a while. Think bigger. If civil war breaks out, every country in the world will pick a side, sooner or later. China would be happy to keep the Blue States fed and supplied with everything China produces. China will let Blue buy on credit. If the bulk of the US Navy, especially the attack submarines goes Blue, Red may not be able to interdict sea traffic to/from Blue for long. If tens of millions of Blue citizens starve until China and others send food, that's not going to bother the Blue Commissars.

Posted by: Gref at July 29, 2022 09:30 AM (AMIL/)

And all of Europe, Mexico, and Canada will be on Blue's side.

Posted by: Mehive at July 29, 2022 09:32 AM (ky+MF)

433 Isn't NeverTrump on board with DeSantis? If they can support him I don't see why other non-conservative republicans would be unable to.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 29, 2022 09:24 AM (b2nrj)

Nevertrump makes some noises that they would support DeSantis

They cheered on hillzebub. they aren't on board with anyone except perhaps mcmuffin or mitt.

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 29, 2022 09:32 AM (cY9wR)

434 If you've ever noticed but every O-6 command and higher has CNN on in the lobby 24/7/365. Kind of tells you the C in CNN is for CIA.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:32 AM (HTCOy)

435 ... a passerby found a turtle in the road. The driver then stopped and removed it from the road...

*******

Phooey!! I spent most of the day getting halfway across the road and that dude put me right back where I started. I'll never make it to Grandma's at this rate!

Posted by: the turtle at July 29, 2022 09:32 AM (kXYt5)

436 Imagine a guided steal telephone pole falling from space hitting a cargo ship. Nasty.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:24 AM (HTCOy)

Rods from G-d?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2022 09:33 AM (x0n13)

437 /sock

Posted by: Muldoon at July 29, 2022 09:33 AM (kXYt5)

438 "Manchin is NOT to blame. "

Hahahaha. *takes breath* hahahaha.

*makes OK sign*

The Bill is called The Manchin Tax and Inflation Destruction Act.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 29, 2022 09:34 AM (ZeDNp)

439 408> Nice thought. lol. True dat, starve the MOFOs.

Posted by: sidney at July 29, 2022 09:34 AM (Uy/WF)

440 If the bulk of the US Navy, especially the attack submarines goes Blue, Red may not be able to interdict sea traffic to/from Blue for long.
Posted by: Gref at July 29, 2022 09:30 AM (AMIL/)
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A mini-civil war inside of a ballistic missile submarine 1000' below the waves is a nightmare scenario I really don't want to contemplate.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 29, 2022 09:34 AM (YIVH2)

441 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 29, 2022 08:20 AM (eC4Tv)

You're working with a lot of broad brushes this morning, eh?
Posted by: grammie winger

What're da Broads gonna use ?

Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at July 29, 2022 09:35 AM (T4tVD)

442
This is kabuki theater by two evil masterminds (McConnell *and* Manchin) that results in a win-win for both sides of the establishment
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Oddly, if you look at a map, both West Virginia and Kentucky share a very large border together.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:35 AM (HTCOy)

443 Art is late!

Panic!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at July 29, 2022 09:32 AM (LvTSG)

I'm refreshing as fast as I can Cap'n!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

444 297 262 Who are these 'troops'? They have families that live amongst the rest of the population.
Posted by: Ciampino - if it goes hot we'll win at July 29, 2022 08:44 AM (qfLjt)

It's true among every totalitarian / dictatorship gov't that the troops have families among the population - yet those militaries seem to have no problem enforcing the rule of the gov't against the people. Don't think American troops are much different.

Posted by: Mehive at July 29, 2022 08:57 AM (ky+MF)

Posted by: Ciampino - posse commitatus? at July 29, 2022 09:35 AM (qfLjt)

445 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 09:35 AM (45fpk)

446 "Art is late!"

I'm on the outside
Looking in

Posted by: zombie Art Bell at July 29, 2022 09:36 AM (sn5EN)

447 Such obvious grift
Posted by: Paul

The big guy says that you're a lying, dog faced pony soldier.

Posted by: Hunter Bidens' laptop at July 29, 2022 09:36 AM (cY9wR)

448 Isn't NeverTrump on board with DeSantis? If they can support him I don't see why other non-conservative republicans would be unable to.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 29, 2022 09:24 AM (b2nrj)

*****

People who voted for Hillary/McMuffin and Biden represent Democrats not Republicans of any stripe. They are pushing little D now only to try to weaken Trump so that Boot-edge-ege can "win" in 2024 (which is who they will be voting for when Trump seals the 2024 nomination).

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 29, 2022 09:37 AM (YVBLw)

449 436 Imagine a guided steal telephone pole falling from space hitting a cargo ship. Nasty.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:24 AM (HTCOy)

Rods from G-d?
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Yes. All you need is a JDAM and fins. Circular Error Probable within 3 feet of dead center. It can take out airports too.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:37 AM (HTCOy)

450 NTs become anonymous the moment their enemies forget about them. They are de jure conservative, de facto liberal, and so they are objectively worse than a regular liberal.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 29, 2022 09:37 AM (44ww/)

451 If I was Trump and have decided to run, I would go with someone like Kari Lake.

Posted by: lowandslow at July 29, 2022 09:38 AM (qH6FZ)

452 Are we without culture this morning?

Posted by: grammie winger at July 29, 2022 09:38 AM (45fpk)

453 The idea that VP isn't a stepping stone to the presidency is probably partly because most presidents have very bad second terms and most VPs are milquetoast dummies. Trump is a total anomaly and would pave a road in gold for his successor.

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2022 09:38 AM (/stMw)

454 Was CBD riding motorcycles with Jeff Goldblum?

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

455 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 29, 2022 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

456 Nood. Art.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 29, 2022 09:39 AM (RkC6l)

457 Posted by: the turtle at July 29, 2022 09:32 AM (kXYt5)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2022 09:40 AM (fL5aK)

458 >>>"...a tie followed by a House vote in Trump’s favor."

This presumes a Republican controlled house (which I now doubt will happen). But should the Republicans win the house, what makes the author think a majority would vote for Trump as president? Wouldn't they more likely vote for the Democrat candidate, even Biden, in return for promises to enact things on the Republican agenda? Promises that would not be kept of course, but the Republican leadership is always gullible as shown by recent events.

Posted by: George V at July 29, 2022 09:40 AM (ugbqN)

459 Its amazing how extended hours trading can kill a rally. Both AMZN and APPL had great earnings and NASDAQ was expecting a +3% bounce on the open. Turns out the rally high was taken in after hours trading.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:41 AM (HTCOy)

460 The idea that VP isn't a stepping stone to the presidency is probably partly because most presidents have very bad second terms and most VPs are milquetoast dummies. Trump is a total anomaly and would pave a road in gold for his successor.
Posted by: ...

****

Like Reagan to GHWB. I get it.

But it doesn't have to be his VP who Trump sets up to succeed him, imo.

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 29, 2022 09:42 AM (YVBLw)

461 Trump moves to Atlanta.
Would that help?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 29, 2022 09:42 AM (wj3Rl)

462 >>> 432 Not necessarily true for the initial period, that may last quite a while. Think bigger. If civil war breaks out, every country in the world will pick a side, sooner or later. China would be happy to keep the Blue States fed and supplied with everything China produces. China will let Blue buy on credit. If the bulk of the US Navy, especially the attack submarines goes Blue, Red may not be able to interdict sea traffic to/from Blue for long. If tens of millions of Blue citizens starve until China and others send food, that's not going to bother the Blue Commissars.

Posted by: Gref at July 29, 2022 09:30 AM (AMIL/)

And all of Europe, Mexico, and Canada will be on Blue's side.
Posted by: Mehive at July 29, 2022 09:32 AM (ky+MF)

The governments absolutely would, and the citizens who support non-commie America wouldn't be in any position to offer direct assistance. On the other hand, if the shit really hits the fan here I suspect there will be quite a snowball effect.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 29, 2022 09:44 AM (llON8)

463 Bush I only made it because Reagan was so popular.
Bush I was not an attractive candidate.
Reagan had huge coattails.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 29, 2022 09:45 AM (wj3Rl)

464 We have to start to acknowledge this.
Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus

Yes, because acknowledging that is the only way to find any path forward that leads to annihilating them root and branch from the face of the earth, like smallpox.

Posted by: Paul in Texas at July 29, 2022 09:46 AM (RaWcF)

465 "The idea that VP isn't a stepping stone to the presidency is probably partly because most presidents have very bad second terms and most VPs are milquetoast dummies. Trump is a total anomaly and would pave a road in gold for his successor."

Throw in the fact that Trump has zero interest in the fine print wrt domestic matters and this is all the more important. He's more a big-picture foreign policy guy. Which makes DeSantis a logical choice since he's basically the converse.

Posted by: JBirks at July 29, 2022 09:49 AM (eDCqW)

466 461 Trump moves to Atlanta.
Would that help?
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Is there room on Stone Mountain to add Trump?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 29, 2022 09:51 AM (HTCOy)

467 Would like to hear a "phoned home" ring-in from AOP. There is a video going around of just awful damage to a Studebaker shop from a straight-line storm in Alberta.

I know, he's dodging floods(!) in AZ just now, but imagine having your collection three states and half a province away when something like that goes down.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 29, 2022 10:01 AM (x61Im)

468 I came up with an acronym years ago for what is apparently becoming more and more pervasive among us these days.
ASS = Apocalyptic Stress Syndrome
Seems we all have a touch of it these days.
Watch and pray. Mark 13:23, Mark 13:37

Posted by: Hairpin Turn Concrete Truck Collision Take Me Now at July 29, 2022 10:11 AM (/LFwX)

469 Mayor Bowser, you f**cking c*nt, you finally get to feel just a fraction of what the policies you support for the border states feels like. S*ck on that d*ck, b*tch!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2022 11:01 AM (ynpvh)

470 It would be justice if the Chinese rocket stage landed squarely on Mao's Masoleum in Tianamen Square. Not gonna happen, but would be nice.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 29, 2022 11:29 AM (ynpvh)

471 "Our rulers' wealth and power rise with open borders, trade giveaways, and endless war. Trump, at least in principle, and often in practice, threatens all three."

I didn't vote for Trump in the 2016 primary and immediately recognized my mistake. Make no mistake... If DJT or DeSantis runs(with the bravery of defying donors) our rabid communist establishment will treat them the same nasty way.

The only way I can see any victory at elections is for YOU all to get off your duffs and become election judges in suspected areas. For example, I live 40 miles from MPLS and I can be an election judge in that corrupt shithole. You can too. We need to completely overwhelm them this Nov 8th and in 2024.

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