Mid-Morning Art Thread

Relativity Lattice
Maurits Cornelis Escher

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Just what I need. An optical illusion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

3 Wow. Ugly.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2022 09:30 AM (Am657)

4 A view of today's world.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2022 09:31 AM (7bRMQ)

5 Up The Down Staircase.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2022 09:31 AM (7bRMQ)

6 Imagine how this dude's brain worked........

"Don't take the brown acid..."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

7 A classic. Love this pic.

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 09:32 AM (Q14hI)

8 Inside view of Mar a Lago.
FBI: Where are these documents?
Trump: Top of the stairs.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2022 09:32 AM (R8uWY)

9 Pretty impressive detail with only a pencil, tho.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

10 Physics is for nerds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 09:32 AM (LvTSG)

11 Escher is very cool. I like Escher. I never knew what the "M.C." stood for before today, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 09:32 AM (WWh8n)

12 "

Posted by: Tuna at August 09, 2022 09:32 AM (gLRfa)

13 Emcee Escher.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 09, 2022 09:33 AM (R8uWY)

14 No, no, no, you are not playing that opening guitar riff!!!

- every music store clerk

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 09, 2022 09:33 AM (w9Wax)

15 The entrance to the new IRS wing where you can argue your new taxes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2022 09:33 AM (BFigT)

16 There are only 2 true people. The rest are defying gravity.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

17 Pretty impressive detail with only a pencil, tho.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
Never underestimate the power of a pencil.

Posted by: Christopher Nolan's "Joker" at August 09, 2022 09:33 AM (WWh8n)

18 Looks like the inside of the IRS building.

Posted by: mpfs, Trump 2024 at August 09, 2022 09:33 AM (HkqBs)

19 "4 A view of today's world."

My first thought too.

Posted by: Tuna at August 09, 2022 09:33 AM (gLRfa)

20 I always knew drafting was art

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 09, 2022 09:33 AM (sRUs0)

21 And it only gets worse the longer you look at it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 09, 2022 09:33 AM (Am657)

22 Looks like some sort of NPC dwelling.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 09, 2022 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

23 Not looking at this until I get a fresh cup of covfefe.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 09, 2022 09:34 AM (906pl)

24 Or maybe this is the latest Biden brain MRI.

Posted by: mpfs, Trump 2024 at August 09, 2022 09:34 AM (HkqBs)

25 A favorite in my early psychedelic years.

Posted by: From about that time at August 09, 2022 09:34 AM (4780s)

26 The detail is incredible.

Would hang in my office.

It wouldn't match anything, but, hey, no matter.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 09:34 AM (5pTK/)

27 I prefer red leaf lettuce to Relativity Lettuce!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2022 09:34 AM (BRHaw)

28 From Larry Niven's "Neutron Star": "Gravity was changing faster than I liked."

Seems to fit this!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 09, 2022 09:35 AM (txdEq)

29 Nope.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 09, 2022 09:35 AM (45fpk)

30 I always knew drafting was art

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 09, 2022 09:33 AM (sRUs0)

It saves gas too!

Posted by: NASCAR at August 09, 2022 09:35 AM (7bRMQ)

31 Hogwarts?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2022 09:35 AM (U2p+3)

32 2 Just what I need. An optical illusion.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

Its a pigment of your castration!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2022 09:35 AM (BRHaw)

33 Looks like an Etch-a-Sketch.

Posted by: dantesed at August 09, 2022 09:36 AM (88xKn)

34 Alternate title: America 2022.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 09, 2022 09:36 AM (FVME7)

35 There's Boobs on the third staircase

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2022 09:37 AM (Ggr3u)

36 I really like Escher. Had a softcover book of his stuff as a late teen.

Thanks for this!

Posted by: Appycay at August 09, 2022 09:37 AM (zGcp1)

37 Loved Escher paintings growing up.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 09:37 AM (mZ3xv)

38 I love this.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 09, 2022 09:37 AM (yBTz5)

39 FBI Lawless Goons Searching Mar-A-Lago...

Would Not Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 09, 2022 09:38 AM (2CExO)

40 Very apt for today.

Posted by: red speck at August 09, 2022 09:38 AM (gS3OW)

41 ThreeD Winner - a limerick

It's an XYZ axis refresher
That defies gravitational pressure
When you walk on the wall
But never do fall
It's the artwork of M.C. Escher!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 09, 2022 09:38 AM (kXYt5)

42 Curiosity.

From the sidebar - how do you know that AP linked that and not someone else at HA?

And, I ask b/c in my experience, most of the other writers at HA are not much more conservative then AP.

Ed Morissey, for instance, is closer to an establishment republican (i.e., globalist, uni-party - but for low taxes) than he is to a conservative.

I'm not sure AP leaving HA will make HA a "conservative" blog. they need to fire most of their writers and whoever is in charge of the blog and replace them all with actual conservatives for that to happen.

Posted by: Mehive at August 09, 2022 09:38 AM (ky+MF)

43 I enjoy Escher's works. The depth of his imagination (might help to be Dutch) and his ability to express it is beyond amazing. And his artistic skill is wonderful. Fantastic scenes, beautifully drawn, and entertainment, what a package.

Thanks, CBD. This is a greatly needed distraction today.

Posted by: JTB at August 09, 2022 09:38 AM (7EjX1)

44 Trippy

Posted by: Kris at August 09, 2022 09:38 AM (OyyDO)

45 "Oh hi! Just go through this door and our friendly, helpful government employee will help you!"

Posted by: mpfs, Trump 2024. That is all. at August 09, 2022 09:38 AM (HkqBs)

46 There is additional seating outside on the Mobius strip.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2022 09:39 AM (XG2Fi)

47 I can't draw faces. Sue me.

Posted by: M. C. Escher at August 09, 2022 09:39 AM (vcv8B)

48 47 I can't draw faces. Sue me.
Posted by: M. C. Escher at August 09, 2022 09:39 AM (vcv8B)

========

You'll be hearing from my lawyer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 09:40 AM (LvTSG)

49 Not commonly known but Eschers favorite game was Dutch Oven!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2022 09:40 AM (BRHaw)

50 It's the artwork of M.C. Escher!
Posted by: Muldoon at August 09, 2022 09:38 AM (kXYt5)

I truly think your brain works the same as his.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

51 Never underestimate the power of a pencil.
Posted by: Christopher Nolan's "Joker" at August 09, 2022 09:33 AM (WWh8n)

You know it.

Posted by: John Wick at August 09, 2022 09:40 AM (ZGrMX)

52 Mister Muldoon, sir....
I'm standing beside of myself in awe at your limerick!

Posted by: Appycay at August 09, 2022 09:40 AM (zGcp1)

53 Ugh. I can't stand Escher.

Too many college posters, too many copies of Godel, Escher, Bach in the college bookstore.

Too over-exposed for me to see with a fresh eye. And anyway, my eyes are filled to the brim with bile today.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 09, 2022 09:40 AM (AW0uW)

54 Hanging in the dormroom of every nerd '78 - '95.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 09:40 AM (IEa8U)

55 thx mul

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2022 09:41 AM (BRHaw)

56 My great aunt (one of my favorite people) had a calendar of MC Escher back in the *mumbldy* and I loved it.

Posted by: Infidel at August 09, 2022 09:41 AM (mn1Pi)

57 Also, regarding HA and Ed Morrisey - is there any way to find out the numbers for who listens to his podcast ("TEMS")? I've often wondered who would listen to what he has to say. I'm curious what his numbers are.

Posted by: Mehive at August 09, 2022 09:41 AM (ky+MF)

58 I think Escher might have had to deal with government agency paperwork at one point in his life. This etching is probably a representation of that effort.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 09, 2022 09:41 AM (5pTK/)

59 4 A view of today's world.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2022 09:31 AM (7bRMQ)

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Needs more black

Posted by: 496 at August 09, 2022 09:41 AM (VJsqe)

60 If you look closely you'll see the top of Joe's skull open.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 09:41 AM (cTCuP)

61 I think I see a couple of code violations

Posted by: REDACTED at August 09, 2022 09:41 AM (us2H3)

62

Meh. It's no Bob Ross

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 09, 2022 09:42 AM (SWi3y)

63 I may be wrong, but I believe the Italian painters came up with perspective, that is drawing to a horizon point, which opened up a whole new dimension for art, of which Escher benefited from.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 09:42 AM (mZ3xv)

64 When you turn this sideways it all makes sense.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 09, 2022 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

65 I love Escher, and this piece is exactly correct for today.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 09:42 AM (ZGrMX)

66 Escher should have been hired to design the Winchester House, then you'd really have something.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 09, 2022 09:42 AM (sRUs0)

67 ha

Dutch Master
When your CPAP machine sucks up one of your farts and gives you a pressurized Dutch Oven through the mask.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2022 09:43 AM (BRHaw)

68 I think it's hung upside down.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2022 09:43 AM (BFigT)

69 This work is best appreciated while enjoying a blunt, some Ding Dongs and a Robin Trower album.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2022 09:43 AM (XG2Fi)

70 Escher should have been hired to design the Winchester House, then you'd really have something.

Or Hogwarts.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 09:43 AM (ZGrMX)

71 47 >>I can't draw faces. Sue me.

Gurgle: "Escher self portrait." Dude can draw. Just chose not to here.

Posted by: red speck at August 09, 2022 09:44 AM (gS3OW)

72 There is additional seating outside on the Mobius strip.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2022 09:39 AM (XG2Fi)

Come see us at 77 for all your investigative needs.

Posted by: Stuart Bailey at August 09, 2022 09:44 AM (7bRMQ)

73 Can't Touch This!

- MC Escher

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 09, 2022 09:44 AM (FVME7)

74 From the basements of Metropolis

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 09, 2022 09:45 AM (9+5+q)

75 Alternate title: Dealing with one of the 87000 new IRS agents

Posted by: lizzy at August 09, 2022 09:45 AM (I/doM)

76 Too over-exposed for me to see with a fresh eye. And anyway, my eyes are filled to the brim with bile today.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 09, 2022 09:40 AM (AW0uW)
++++
This one is ultra-famous, but he's done a lot of other stuff. How about these?
https://is.gd/vFSYY9
https://is.gd/WFJ4t6
https://is.gd/PJgdnS

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 09:46 AM (WWh8n)

77 Can a non-coplanar sniper still shoot you?

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 09:46 AM (ZGrMX)

78 tedfuwv

Posted by: test at August 09, 2022 09:46 AM (I/doM)

79 63 I may be wrong, but I believe the Italian painters came up with perspective, that is drawing to a horizon point, which opened up a whole new dimension for art, of which Escher benefited from.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 09:42 AM (mZ3xv)

Filippo Brunelleschi. He was the designer of the Florence cathedral dome, and lost an sculpture contest to Lorenzo Ghiberti.

Posted by: Kris at August 09, 2022 09:46 AM (OyyDO)

80 MC Escher

Hands

https://tinyurl.com/2p89vn8n

Posted by: Infidel at August 09, 2022 09:47 AM (mn1Pi)

81 Escher should have been hired to design the Winchester House, then you'd really have something.

I'd like to visit the Winchester House, but I have no plans to fly ever again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 09, 2022 09:47 AM (AW0uW)

82 This illustration was used a basis for a joke in an episode of Futurerama.

Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2022 09:47 AM (gmo/4)

83 Filippo Brunelleschi. He was the designer of the Florence cathedral dome, and lost an sculpture contest to Lorenzo Ghiberti.
Posted by: Kris at August 09, 2022 09:46 AM (OyyDO)

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The contest was rigged!

Posted by: F. Brunelleschi at August 09, 2022 09:47 AM (XG2Fi)

84 this looks like a song

Posted by: The Yardbird at August 09, 2022 09:48 AM (us2H3)

85 Filippo Brunelleschi. He was the designer of the Florence cathedral dome, and lost an sculpture contest to Lorenzo Ghiberti.
Posted by: Kris at August 09, 2022 09:46 AM (OyyDO)

There you go. I knew the setting, just not the location or the actors.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 09:48 AM (mZ3xv)

86 >>Never underestimate the power of a pencil.

Can't touch this?
Can't build this!

Posted by: I, Pencil at August 09, 2022 09:48 AM (I/doM)

87 I think it's hung upside down.

I downloaded it and rotated just to see, and it's actually disorienting when viewed from the other sides. Viewed with his name in the upper right almost works

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 09:48 AM (Q14hI)

88 Bluebird of Bitterness posted a really neat version of this recently: https://tinyurl.com/rnannrwj

(Link goes to bluebirdofbitterness.com)

Posted by: Biden's Lonely Neuron at August 09, 2022 09:49 AM (UgCb4)

89 I think Fred Astair danced there.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 09, 2022 09:49 AM (FVME7)

90 ah yes, the graphic on how we write laws

Posted by: DC at August 09, 2022 09:49 AM (us2H3)

91 Imagine the rent on a home that has dimensions you don't even need...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2022 09:49 AM (YIVH2)

92 Finally, Thanks CBD.
Art that not only makes sense but perfectly reflects the world today.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at August 09, 2022 09:50 AM (P+D9B)

93 I think it's hung upside down.

You keep a horse in your basement, Dr. Klopek?

Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2022 09:50 AM (gmo/4)

94 Imagine the rent on a home that has dimensions you don't even need...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2022 09:49 AM (YIVH2)

Imagine the taxes....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2022 09:51 AM (9qnK7)

95 Oh, the tricks Escher played representing a three-dimensional world in a two-dimensional venue.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 09, 2022 09:51 AM (kXYt5)

96 escher would hang these on a spin plate, attached to the wall

Posted by: guy thta makes shit up at August 09, 2022 09:51 AM (us2H3)

97 Fall Down the Stairs of Esher by EA Poe.

Posted by: JT at August 09, 2022 09:51 AM (T4tVD)

98 What do you do if you really need to use the bathroom but you are on the opposite side of the house?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2022 09:51 AM (YIVH2)

99 69 This work is best appreciated while enjoying a blunt, some Ding Dongs and a Robin Trower album.

Agreed!

Posted by: Too Rolling Stoned at August 09, 2022 09:51 AM (BySB9)

100 You've run so long
You've run so far
Your eyes can be so cruel

Posted by: Jareth at August 09, 2022 09:52 AM (ftFVW)

101 Bobby Fisher's fav artist

Posted by: guy thta makes shit up at August 09, 2022 09:52 AM (us2H3)

102 Acshually, the commission Ghiberti didn't win. The commission split evenly and as a compromise the project was given to Brunelleschi and Ghiberti jointly, but Brunelleschi refused to share the credit and abandoned the project. The Gates of Paradise door on the Florence Baptistry.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at August 09, 2022 09:52 AM (vN+oL)

103 GAINZZZZ ... the benefits of stair climbing.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 09, 2022 09:52 AM (NpAcC)

104 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday! Give all those special critters in your life a nice tummy rub!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2022 09:52 AM (U2p+3)

105 Senile Joe could go for a spectacular fall on those stairs.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, at August 09, 2022 09:53 AM (eGTCV)

106 You keep a horse in your basement, Dr. Klopek?

Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2022 09:50 AM (gmo/4)

At the Irish high-rise tenement:

Jimmy Rabbitt: "You're not taking the horse in the lift?"

Kid with Horse: "We have to - the stairs would kill him!"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 09, 2022 09:53 AM (906pl)

107 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday! Give all those special critters in your life a nice tummy rub!

Just tried it on the wife. Results were not good.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 09:53 AM (/tnu7)

108 It's Tummy Rub Tuesday! Give all those special critters in your life a nice tummy rub!
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 09, 2022 09:52 AM (U2p+3)
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Penny loves tummy rubs.
Kaylee likes to show her belly, but doesn't like tummy rubs.
Jasmine doesn't like tummy rubs at all and doesn't show her belly.
So I'm 1 for 3 in my household...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2022 09:53 AM (YIVH2)

109 Escher was something else.

he achieved that repetitive geometry without any Adobe product!!

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2022 09:54 AM (dCxaZ)

110 AP is leaving Hot Gas cuz their comment wall is a big fucking failure

when they drop the wall, assholes like me will continue trolling the queer fucker

I mean, why else would you go there

Posted by: REDACTED at August 09, 2022 09:54 AM (us2H3)

111

Can't touch this touch Can't touch this touch Can't . . .

- - MC Escher's Hammer

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2022 09:54 AM (x0n13)

112 This is Escheresque.

Dan Rather@DanRather
(Overhead in Florida)
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
The Feds.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 09, 2022 09:54 AM (FVME7)

113 This illustration is evocative of the many paths to the future this country can take. Many lead, no doubt, to tyranny and only one to liberty.

Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2022 09:54 AM (gmo/4)

114 At least it is not naked fat guy

Posted by: MAC V SOG at August 09, 2022 09:54 AM (P4Pk9)

115 You've run so long
You've run so far
Your eyes can be so cruel
Posted by: Jareth

But they let you be the Prezzy
despite the fact that you drool

Burma Shave

Posted by: JT at August 09, 2022 09:54 AM (T4tVD)

116 >>> Posted by: Mehive at August 09, 2022 09:38 AM (ky+MF)

As an aside to that, just pointing out that Allahpundit has long had a reputation for generating hate-clicks. A lot of his contrarian bs was guaranteed to get pissed-off conservatives leaving comments. But with all of Salem locking comments behind VIP membership now, he probably doesn’t get the traffic he used to. I’ll bet that was the real nail in his coffin.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 09, 2022 09:55 AM (+dHQK)

117 today all you need to do is start with an image, whether computer generated or manual, position a little here and there, copypasta over there, click click click...

Done!

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2022 09:56 AM (dCxaZ)

118 I’ll bet that was the real nail in his coffin.
Posted by: Caiwyn at August 09, 2022 09:55 AM (+dHQK)

Like a dunk tank that's all out of baseballs.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 09, 2022 09:56 AM (9qnK7)

119 Imagine the rent on a home that has dimensions you don't even need...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2022

***
Or a universe without shrimp. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 09, 2022 09:57 AM (txdEq)

120 Penny loves tummy rubs.
Kaylee likes to show her belly, but doesn't like tummy rubs.
Jasmine doesn't like tummy rubs at all and doesn't show her belly.
So I'm 1 for 3 in my household...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2022 09:53 AM (YIVH2)

Hans plays with Lotte, Lotte plays with Jane
Jane plays with Willi, Willi is happy again
Suki plays with Leo, Sacha plays with Britt
Adolf builds a bonfire, Enrico plays with it

Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2022 09:58 AM (gmo/4)

121 Penny loves tummy rubs.
Kaylee likes to show her belly, but doesn't like tummy rubs.
Jasmine doesn't like tummy rubs at all and doesn't show her belly.

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I was having flashbacks to my college class on Formal Logic there for a minute and expecting this to be a quiz question.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 09, 2022 09:58 AM (+lwg5)

122 77 Can a non-coplanar sniper still shoot you?
Posted by: Ian S

Only in curved spacetime.

Posted by: M. C. Escher at August 09, 2022 09:58 AM (vcv8B)

123 AP is moving in with Liz Cheney ala Kevin Mac and Cheese

Posted by: REDACTED at August 09, 2022 09:58 AM (us2H3)

124 Nope. Not on this blog. [CBD]

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 09, 2022 09:58 AM (AW0uW)

125 Or a universe without shrimp. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 09, 2022 09:57 AM (txdEq)
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I'd be OK with that as I'm not fond of shrimp.

Now a universe without bacon is too horrible to contemplate...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2022 09:59 AM (YIVH2)

126 Aside from that I shall keep my own counsel.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 09, 2022 09:59 AM (kXYt5)

127 I wonder if Escher was autistic.

Posted by: kraken at August 09, 2022 09:59 AM (Vr12I)

128 This is what AF1 stairs look like to Joe.

Posted by: Guy watching a puppet show at August 09, 2022 09:59 AM (XfhKA)

129 Not here. [CBD]

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Proper usage is The Shamed and Humiliated Dan Rather

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2022 10:00 AM (XG2Fi)

130 Penny loves tummy rubs.
Kaylee likes to show her belly, but doesn't like tummy rubs.
Jasmine doesn't like tummy rubs at all and doesn't show her belly.

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I was having flashbacks to my college class on Formal Logic there for a minute and expecting this to be a quiz question.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 09, 2022 09:58 AM (+lwg5)
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Which one is the fluffiest?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2022 10:00 AM (YIVH2)

131 This is Escheresque.

Dan Rather@DanRather
(Overhead in Florida)
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
The Feds.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 09, 2022 09:54 AM (FVME7)

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"What's the frequency, asshole?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 09, 2022 10:00 AM (+lwg5)

132 Not here. [CBD]

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 09, 2022 09:58 AM (AW0uW)

I always find it out to consider, as "free" as we like to think we were back in the day, that Dan Rather was the main voice of our TV news on one of the only three networks that we could get.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:00 AM (/tnu7)

133 Physics is for nerds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 09:32 AM

Make sure you thank a nerd for their service today.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 09, 2022 10:01 AM (nLsAg)

134 I get it. I'm a simpleton. But I like Escher.

And don't worry. It's not like I'm running for president. What are the odds we'd have 2 straight simpletons as president?

Posted by: Wally at August 09, 2022 10:01 AM (FJYfm)

135 The things that happened in 1860 are not relevant to our situation. I'm not going to engage any zealot knucklehead who disputes me on this, just clown on you.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2022 10:03 AM (44ww/)

136 So Disney announces that Obi Wan is gay, and then the left wing media says Liz Cheney is Obi Wan. Are they trying to tell us something?

Posted by: Wally at August 09, 2022 10:03 AM (FJYfm)

137 Escher imagined the future: Narrow-beam gravity generators and gravity nullifiers!

Posted by: Gref at August 09, 2022 10:03 AM (AMIL/)

138 During Trump’s second impeachment trial, Herrera Beutler released a statement alleging that the president called Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as members sheltered from rioters. When McCarthy asked Trump to call off the rioters, Herrera Beutler alleged, Trump said that the rioters were “more upset about the election than you are.”

and she voted to impeach Trump this

Bitch, yu deserve to lose just cuz stoopid

Posted by: REDACTED at August 09, 2022 10:04 AM (us2H3)

139 I'm a simpleton. But I like Escher.

Posted by: Wally at August 09, 2022 10:01 AM (FJYfm)

I guess I am too.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 09, 2022 10:04 AM (XIJ/X)

140 Clever. Technically interesting. But ultimately uninspiring. I am never going to look at an Escher in a dark (or joyous) mood and see something new.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 09, 2022 10:04 AM (vcv8B)

141 I like it. Artist has skills.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:04 AM (QSjkU)

142 The Right-wing hate radiated from Mar-A-Lago in waves, like a lizard broiling in the hot Texas sun...

Posted by: Dan Rather at August 09, 2022 10:04 AM (PiwSw)

143 137 Escher imagined the future: Narrow-beam gravity generators and gravity nullifiers!

Posted by: Gref at August 09, 2022 10:03 AM (AMIL/)

Somebody reads sci-fi it sems.

Posted by: kraken at August 09, 2022 10:04 AM (Vr12I)

144 Painting: Arts Building interior, University of Illinois Circle Campus, ca 1973.

Posted by: Filesystem /gp Corrupted at August 09, 2022 10:05 AM (qpX6U)

145 Love Escher! Have a coffee table book of his works.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2022 10:05 AM (N39Ws)

146 Dan Rather's fraud is more famous and more interesting than Dan Rather ever was.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2022 10:05 AM (44ww/)

147 And don't worry. It's not like I'm running for president. What are the odds we'd have 2 straight simpletons as president?
Posted by: Wally

Depends on how successful the administrative state is in their activated disaster of the country. If they are, expect a whole parade of them.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 10:05 AM (IEa8U)

148 Dan Rather@DanRather
(Overhead in Florida)
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
The Feds.

The correct punchline is "What's the frequency, Kenneth?", not "The Feds".

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 10:05 AM (ZGrMX)

149 I get it. I'm a simpleton. But I like Escher.

I'm not one to sit and analyze visual art. I just like what I like. I also like Escher.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:05 AM (/tnu7)

150 139 I'm a simpleton. But I like Escher.

Posted by: Wally at August 09, 2022 10:01 AM (FJYfm)

I guess I am too.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 09, 2022 10:04 AM (XIJ/X)

Me 3.

Posted by: kraken at August 09, 2022 10:05 AM (Vr12I)

151 So Disney announces that Obi Wan is gay, and then the left wing media says Liz Cheney is Obi Wan. Are they trying to tell us something?

I mean, look at her. No man with working eyeballs would touch that.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 10:06 AM (ZGrMX)

152 Sure as hell beats a nekkid lardass on an ottoman.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:06 AM (QSjkU)

153 Knock knock.
Who’s there?
The Feds.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at August 09, 2022 09:54 AM (FVME7)

Losers like Dan are still incensed at him for taking out their precious Historic Hillary. Which is like a warm blanket to me. Their tears moisten and enrich my desiccated heart.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:06 AM (/6Rxy)

154 Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2022 10:03 AM (44ww/)

Is there context?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 09, 2022 10:06 AM (XIJ/X)

155 Ninety-one days to the mid-term elections.

147 days to the swearing-in of the new Congress elected on November 8 (or within a month or three of that date).

Posted by: Gref at August 09, 2022 10:06 AM (AMIL/)

156 Is Dan Rather still publishing his newsletter?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2022 10:06 AM (XG2Fi)

157 Somebody reads sci-fi it sems.
Posted by: kraken at August 09, 2022 10:04 AM (Vr12I)

She was green from head to toe and had three breasts, supported by a leather bra.

Also, sci-fi.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 10:07 AM (mZ3xv)

158 155 Ninety-one days to the mid-term elections.

147 days to the swearing-in of the new Congress elected on November 8 (or within a month or three of that date).
Posted by: Gref at August 09, 2022 10:06 AM (AMIL/)

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148 days until Liz Cheney signs a contract that nets her more money in a year than any of us will make in a lifetime.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:07 AM (LvTSG)

159 man, Nixon shoulda just had the FBI raid the DNC HQ

Posted by: REDACTED at August 09, 2022 10:07 AM (us2H3)

160 151 So Disney announces that Obi Wan is gay, and then the left wing media says Liz Cheney is Obi Wan. Are they trying to tell us something?

I mean, look at her. No man with working eyeballs, sense of smell or taste would touch that.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 10:06 AM (ZGrMX)

FIFY

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2022 10:07 AM (N39Ws)

161 Remember when

MUELLER WAS COMING

?

And they're still singing the same tired song. FFS Hillary lost, they stole the next one, and they're still not over it.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:07 AM (/6Rxy)

162 Recall how recently the NY judge held Trump in contempt and was fining him $10k per day?

Well, you won't find another case like that ever. Not just the egregious fine but the judge-- upon no proof whatsoever but the "he just has to be a crook, I know it" rule--decided not to take the word of his attorney that they had turned over all docs.

No other case ever will a judge not accept that as the end. Every single time they will accept that. Because attorneys get barred from the practice of law for life if they're not 100% sure it's true.

That was a trial run and it worked. Not one civil liberty attorney anywhere said a peep. And that's the play they are running again in MEL.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 09, 2022 10:08 AM (hqgRM)

163 161 And they're still singing the same tired song. FFS Hillary lost, they stole the next one, and they're still not over it.
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:07 AM (/6Rxy)

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I think the "stole the next one" may be the key part of that equation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:08 AM (LvTSG)

164 "She was green from head to toe and had three breasts, supported by a leather bra."

Space Leather. Sparkly.

Posted by: Filesystem /gp Corrupted at August 09, 2022 10:08 AM (qpX6U)

165 148 days until Liz Cheney signs a contract that nets her more money in a year than any of us will make in a lifetime.

It's gonna be a defense contractor, because that's where her daddy has the most influence.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 10:08 AM (ZGrMX)

166 Remember when lock her up was all fascist and shit? Good times.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:08 AM (3vQN0)

167 Is there context?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 09, 2022 10:06 AM (XIJ/X)

No.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (44ww/)

168 So has anybody's elected Congress Critters offered any statements on the raid on Trump's home?

Bueller?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (N39Ws)

169 148 days until Liz Cheney signs a contract that nets her more money in a year than any of us will make in a lifetime.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:07 AM (LvTSG)

Educate me Dad. Why the hell would anybody pay Liz Cheney for anything? She has no following, no influence, no brain.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (QSjkU)

170 OK, sorry, CBD. I'm out.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (AW0uW)

171 Such appropriate art for the Chines curse interesting times we are going through. On better days I like to look at some of Escher's simpler works and muse about how my brain and eyes are so flummoxed by the 2-d to 3-d translation with the way he draws things.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (3cGpq)

172 Well, you won't find another case like that ever.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 09, 2022 10:08 AM (hqgRM)

You mean in the past. Because I'm pretty certain the future is full of them.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (/6Rxy)

173 Dan Rather's fraud is more famous and more interesting than Dan Rather ever was.

Makes me wonder how far back the subtle manipulation went. At least the subtlety required some degree of skill, even though they only had to manage three different networks. Now its just ham-fisted, constant in your face crap.

I remember the good old days, when you could get an easy high school A in the right class just by picking out all the charged rhetoric in a newspaper article. Ah - memories.

Now ? The same easy A by writing the rhetoric.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (/tnu7)

174 169 Educate me Dad. Why the hell would anybody pay Liz Cheney for anything? She has no following, no influence, no brain.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (QSjkU)

==========

She is one of the anointed.

An NGO or law firm will pay her $10 million per year, minimum, for services rendered. She will not be expected to do anything but be "anti-Trump Republican" on CNN.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:10 AM (LvTSG)

175 I think it was junior high art class and my famously idiotic art teacher who introduced us to Escher and the concept of perspective. Many of us attempted to copy some of his works. None were very successful.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2022 10:10 AM (BFigT)

176 148 days until Liz Cheney signs a contract that nets her more money in a year than any of us will make in a lifetime.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

'A' contract? I'm sure she'll be on the board of at least one mil-contractor, a partner at a white shoe firm, and head of a new 'nOn-PaRtIsAn' PAC by the end of the year.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 09, 2022 10:10 AM (IEa8U)

177 148 days until Liz Cheney signs a contract that nets her more money in a year than any of us will make in a lifetime.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:07 AM (LvTSG)

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CNN won't touch her. Zaslav has this weird idea that it might become relevant someday by reporting the news fairly. The last thing it needs is to pay big money to a politician whose only distinction is in being a conservative quisling.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2022 10:10 AM (XG2Fi)

178 165 148 days until Liz Cheney signs a contract that nets her more money in a year than any of us will make in a lifetime.

It's gonna be a defense contractor, because that's where her daddy has the most influence.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 10:08 AM (ZGrMX)

She can simultaneously do two no-work jobs.

Posted by: Gref at August 09, 2022 10:10 AM (AMIL/)

179 173 Dan Rather's fraud is more famous and more interesting than Dan Rather ever was.

Makes me wonder how far back the subtle manipulation went. At least the subtlety required some degree of skill, even though they only had to manage three different networks. Now its just ham-fisted, constant in your face crap.

I remember the good old days, when you could get an easy high school A in the right class just by picking out all the charged rhetoric in a newspaper article. Ah - memories.

Now ? The same easy A by writing the rhetoric.
Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (/tnu7)

And he was teaching Journlistism at some school for a while.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2022 10:11 AM (BRHaw)

180 An NGO or law firm will pay her $10 million per year, minimum, for services rendered. She will not be expected to do anything but be "anti-Trump Republican" on CNN.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:10 AM (LvTSG)

They can get a lot more for their money than Liz could ever get them. And they have a problem with the money.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:11 AM (QSjkU)

181 177 148 days until Liz Cheney signs a contract that nets her more money in a year than any of us will make in a lifetime.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:07 AM (LvTSG)

Only Fans ??

Posted by: REDACTED at August 09, 2022 10:11 AM (us2H3)

182 I am late to the thread but keep thinking this morning that they will manufacture something from the raid on Trumps home. They will have to produce evidence.

Posted by: AnnaS at August 09, 2022 10:11 AM (o8muS)

183 Makes me wonder how far back the subtle manipulation went. At least the subtlety required some degree of skill, even though they only had to manage three different networks. Now its just ham-fisted, constant in your face crap.

Rather has been an asset since the jump

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2022 10:12 AM (dCxaZ)

184 And her daddy is an old geezer who is out of the loop.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:12 AM (QSjkU)

185 Perfect art for today, CBD!

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2022 10:12 AM (0OP+5)

186 You mean in the past. Because I'm pretty certain the future is full of them.
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (/6Rxy)

I'm so old I remember when attorney-client privilege was a thing. Even for Republicans!

Posted by: blaster at August 09, 2022 10:12 AM (6TxNR)

187 Only Fans ??
Posted by: REDACTED at August 09, 2022 10:11 AM (us2H3)

You fell on your head, didn't you?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 09, 2022 10:12 AM (ZSK0i)

188 Only Fans ??
Posted by: REDACTED at August 09, 2022 10:11 AM (us2H3)

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LOL

*retch*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2022 10:12 AM (XG2Fi)

189 So what is the “charge” that Trump stole documents from the white house?

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:12 AM (3vQN0)

190 I think when someone mentions Escher's artwork, most people know what that is. It's so unique.

Posted by: Roy at August 09, 2022 10:13 AM (eTZII)

191 168 So has anybody's elected Congress Critters offered any statements on the raid on Trump's home?
-----------
Gaetz was just on Bannon's Warroom

Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at August 09, 2022 10:13 AM (aXaSz)

192 168 So has anybody's elected Congress Critters offered any statements on the raid on Trump's home?

Bueller?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (N39Ws)

========

McCarthy himself. Last night.

It's weird when people intentionally block out the GOP and then accuse them of saying nothing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:14 AM (LvTSG)

193 McConnel sent Wray a thank you basket this morning.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:14 AM (3vQN0)

194 182 I am late to the thread but keep thinking this morning that they will manufacture something from the raid on Trumps home. They will have to produce evidence.

Posted by: AnnaS at August 09, 2022 10:11 AM (o8muS)

All they need to do to keep the Dem base energized is produce innuendo. For reference, see, Hoax, Russian Collusion, Evidence of Trump's Treason Is In Plain Sight.

Posted by: Gref at August 09, 2022 10:14 AM (AMIL/)

195 Now ? The same easy A by writing the rhetoric.
Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (/tnu7)

And he was teaching Journlistism at some school for a while.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 09, 2022 10:11 AM (BRHaw)

Kids - I distinctly remember a certain "Facts of Life" episode where Jo gets her wings clipped by deviating from the "Who, What, When, Where, and Why" in the high school newspaper to sensationalize about a wrongly-arrested teacher. Now ? Apparently the Five Ws are for squares.

FWIW - I was definitely Jo over Blair.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:14 AM (/tnu7)

196 189 So what is the “charge” that Trump stole documents from the white house?
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:12 AM (3vQN0)

You showed me the man.

Posted by: Beria at August 09, 2022 10:14 AM (eTZII)

197 McCarthy will say all sorts of shit. But will he defund a penny of the FBI budget? No.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:15 AM (3vQN0)

198 ---
Penny loves tummy rubs.
Kaylee likes to show her belly, but doesn't like tummy rubs.
Jasmine doesn't like tummy rubs at all and doesn't show her belly.
So I'm 1 for 3 in my household...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2022 09:53 AM (YIVH2)

You rub my dog's belly/chest soft enough, he'll fall fast asleep.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

199 Escher conspired with Roger Penrose to sneak math into his art. Beware.

Posted by: Filesystem /gp Corrupted at August 09, 2022 10:15 AM (qpX6U)

200 I'm quite certain most of the FOP quietly wants Trump gone. He's a pebble in their loafers.

That's the fake opposition party.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 10:16 AM (mZ3xv)

201 197 McCarthy will say all sorts of shit. But will he defund a penny of the FBI budget? No.
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:15 AM (3vQN0)

=========

No, he won't. If he were serious, he wouldn't threaten committee hearings, he'd return to regular budgetary order and pass individual budget and appropriations bills by department, allowing for specific targeting of the DOJ and FBI.

The question, though, wasn't "was he going to do anything," but, "did he say anything."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:16 AM (LvTSG)

202 Hey, hey, ho, ho the FBI has got to go.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:16 AM (QSjkU)

203 So has anybody's elected Congress Critters offered any statements on the raid on Trump's home?

Bueller?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (N39Ws)

In reading link sites this morning, several have come out and denounced the act.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

204 I was under the impression Trump flushed all the important stuff.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:16 AM (/6Rxy)

205 Where the F is Tucker Carlson? Is he a pussy like the others

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:17 AM (WY8d2)

206 So has anybody's elected Congress Critters offered any statements on the raid on Trump's home?

Bueller?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (N39Ws)

The Squad held a slumber party to celebrate with boxed wine and chocolates.

Posted by: Roy at August 09, 2022 10:17 AM (eTZII)

207 In reading link sites this morning, several have come out and denounced the act.

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Is it too early to call them "ritual denunciations"?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 09, 2022 10:17 AM (XG2Fi)

208 In reading link sites this morning, several have come out and denounced the act.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, the same spineless mutherhumpers that certified the crooked election. Me impressed.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:17 AM (QSjkU)

209 This gets better- the raid was carried out by the Washington DC field office not the FLa field office. Remember who heads the DC office.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 09, 2022 10:17 AM (Z6weq)

210 Putin is smiling today.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:18 AM (lf83v)

211 Who, what, when, and where. That's it. Why is motive. Anything else is opinion.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2022 10:18 AM (0OP+5)

212 You rub my dog's belly/chest soft enough, he'll fall fast asleep.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:15 AM (Zz0t1)

For centuries, a lot of our distant-distant ancestors lost fingers or hands trying that with captured young wolves! But eventually it worked!

Posted by: Gref at August 09, 2022 10:18 AM (AMIL/)

213
Yeah, the same spineless mutherhumpers that certified the crooked election. Me impressed.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:17 AM (QSjkU)

And I agree with you, but the statement was made that they've been silent, which isn't true.

They're stomping feet and shaking fists. We just know exactly what that means, unfortunately.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

214 Makes me wonder how far back the subtle manipulation went. At least the subtlety required some degree of skill, even though they only had to manage three different networks. Now its just ham-fisted, constant in your face crap.

Cronkite lied nightly about the Vietnam War to turn the normies against it. And of course the New York Times lied about conditions in the USSR basically from the jump.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 10:19 AM (ZGrMX)

215 So, I gave "The Sandman" a another chance with a couple of episodes, and -

The Great Part:
The dude playing "The Sandman" has absolutely mastered Zoolander's "Blue Steel" look and deploys it at least once every 3 minutes.

So, if you just can't get enough of "Blue Steel", Baby, this is your show.

The Usual Olde Netflix Boring Bullshit Crapola Aspect:

"The Sandman"'s main purpose seems to be introducing teh ghey secondary characters, so they can do teh stuff for your education, bigot! And then get die or become enlightened or some such thing.
So, if you can't get enough boring teh ghey characters needlessly introduced in your show, Baby!, have I got a show for you!

It's really not very good anyway. Avoid unless your a fan of the above.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 09, 2022 10:19 AM (5NkmN)

216 Late to the party today.
Saint of the Day
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (1891--1942) was born as Edith Stein in Prussia, the youngest of eleven children from a devout Jewish family. She was a bright and gifted child. She went on to receive a doctorate in philosophy, studying under philosophers Heidegger and Husserl. Despite her atheism, she was affected by several friends who displayed a great passion for the Catholic faith. One day, while staying at a friend's home, she saw the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila. She read it, and after finishing it she exclaimed, "This is the Truth." Edith was baptized in Cologne, Germany in 1922. From there she taught for a time at a Dominican school. When the rise of anti-semitism forced her to resign from a teaching post, she wrote to Pope Pius XI asking him to publicly denounce the Nazis. Discerning a call to the religious life, she became a Carmelite nun in Cologne 1934, taking the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. The Nazis eventually came for her, and she, along with her sister Rose, who was also a convert, were sent to Auschwitz. They were both killed in the gas chamber. St. Edith Stein is the patroness of martyrs and Europe.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2022 10:19 AM (LsEU/)

217 McConnell lost me. I defended him on Judges, but no more.

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:19 AM (WY8d2)

218 203 So has anybody's elected Congress Critters offered any statements on the raid on Trump's home?

Bueller?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 09, 2022 10:09 AM (N39Ws)

I'm looking for Markwayne Mullin to get on a plane bound for Florida.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:19 AM (cTCuP)

219 Ummm. . . Bacon, Lattice and Tomato.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:19 AM (lf83v)

220 For centuries, a lot of our distant-distant ancestors lost fingers or hands trying that with captured young wolves! But eventually it worked!
Posted by: Gref at August 09, 2022 10:18 AM (AMIL/)

I don't think it happened that way. I think a certain percentage of wolves decided whoring was easier than hunting for a living.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:20 AM (QSjkU)

221 Putin is smiling today.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:18 AM (lf83v)

The WEF is rubbing their hands together and giggling like a school girl.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

222 Secret Service is garbage also

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:20 AM (WY8d2)

223 This art work is kinda like I feel today... I guess the Judge who signed the warrant is a FL Obama appointed Judge

Posted by: It's me donna at August 09, 2022 10:20 AM (bs+z0)

224 So Disney announces that Obi Wan is gay, and then the left wing media says Liz Cheney is Obi Wan. Are they trying to tell us something?

Posted by: Wally at August 09, 2022 10:03 AM (FJYfm)

Yes, Liz Cheney plays women's softball.

Posted by: Archer at August 09, 2022 10:20 AM (gmo/4)

225 Kristi Noem called it "unamerican". Powerful, powerful stuff.

That is lava hot rhetoric.

Imagine the cigarette we can smoke after she says Democrats are "abusing their power" and goes on to call it "unacceptable".

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:20 AM (/6Rxy)

226 Hmm, seen rooms like this in video games. This must be the bastard that inspired them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 09, 2022 10:21 AM (VwHCD)

227 My money is Liz gets appointed to several Boards of defense contractors and will be highly paid.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 09, 2022 10:21 AM (qH6FZ)

228 Food for thought:

@LarryOConnor
Attorney General Merrick Garland approved an FBI raid on the former president who personally revoked his nomination for the Supreme Court when he won the presidency.

@BonginoReport
Judge Who Signed Off on FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid Warrant Once Quit His Job to Represent Jeffrey Epstein's Associates.

Note from IrishEi: He quit his job prosecuting Epstein to go and work for Epstein.

Posted by: IrishEi at August 09, 2022 10:21 AM (3ImbR)

229 205 Where the F is Tucker Carlson? Is he a pussy like the others
Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:17 AM (WY8d2)

I believe he is on vacation.. Unless FOX canned him

Posted by: It's me donna at August 09, 2022 10:21 AM (bs+z0)

230 The only relevance a GOP Senate would have is blocking judges and appointments in 2023.

House will block all GOP country club deals

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:21 AM (WY8d2)

231 They're stomping feet and shaking fists. We just know exactly what that means, unfortunately.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

They're with Manfred Mann?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2022 10:22 AM (7bRMQ)

232 That is lava hot rhetoric.

Imagine the cigarette we can smoke after she says Democrats are "abusing their power" and goes on to call it "unacceptable".

What's she supposed to say? State governors, especially ones in buttfuck flyover country, don't have any jurisdiction over the FBI.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 10:22 AM (ZGrMX)

233 guess the Judge who signed the warrant is a FL Obama appointed Judge
Posted by: It's me donna at August 09, 2022 10:20 AM (bs+z0)

Don't you even think about protesting outside his home.

It's a federal crime.

Posted by: Garland at August 09, 2022 10:22 AM (9FBGz)

234 229. He cannot fly back for this?

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:22 AM (WY8d2)

235
I believe he is on vacation.. Unless FOX canned him
Posted by: It's me donna at August 09, 2022 10:21 AM (bs+z0)

But he should end his vacation immediately and get on TV and yell like Beale!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

236 This raid stinks of Obama.

And Wray.

He went to Saranac Lake like Michael Corleone went to the baptism when the heads of the five families were killed.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:22 AM (lf83v)

237 Plenty of stuff to go after Noem about, making one of the very few statements about yesterday ain't one.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 09, 2022 10:23 AM (qH6FZ)

238 Where the F is Tucker Carlson? Is he a pussy like the others

Tucker's on vacation, as he usually is this time of year. I wouldn't be completely surprised if the FIB timed the raid around that.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 10:23 AM (ZGrMX)

239 Fox reporting the Judge who signed off on the search warrant was a lawyer for some Epstein associates. Probably incidental, just another example of how incestuous the hereditary ruling class really is.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 09, 2022 10:23 AM (m7Ses)

240 I don't think Putin is smiling today. He has to be as stunned by Biden's action as we are.

Putin and Trump respect each other. This is critical to dealing with a foreign country. Putin can't possibly respect Joe. If he's laughing, it's not at Trump.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:23 AM (cTCuP)

241 230 The only relevance a GOP Senate would have is blocking judges and appointments in 2023.

House will block all GOP country club deals
Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:21 AM (WY8d2)

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Even a 55-45 GOP Senate doesn't guarantee a slowdown of appointments under Biden.

Joe Mannix had a rant about a year ago that detailed how easily the GOP was helping get things through already. It's always been something that McConnell could slow down or even stop, especially when that NM senator was out for 2 months. He didn't because he didn't want to stop it. Hell, he could have fought for the GA seats and gotten a clear majority, but he chose not to do that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:23 AM (LvTSG)

242 Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2022 10:19 AM (LsEU/)

a very brave soul and an example to us all

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2022 10:24 AM (dCxaZ)

243 Lauren Boebert's Twitter:

"It was President Trump today, but it’s you next if we don’t take a stand."

Short video.
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert

Posted by: Muldoon at August 09, 2022 10:24 AM (kXYt5)

244 Finally something worth hanging on the wall.

Posted by: The Guy at August 09, 2022 10:24 AM (WS6Pg)

245 Wakes up.
Looks around.
Dang. America changed.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2022 10:24 AM (anj39)

246 Liz Cheney, like most politicians likes the money but really, really likes the attention she gets every time she opens her pie hole. Working elsewhere, doing whatever isn't going to give the attention she craves.

She'll remain visible and continue to run her mouth. She's got plenty of grift lined up to make ends meet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2022 10:24 AM (BFigT)

247 Thanks CBD for the thread

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:24 AM (WY8d2)

248 The question, though, wasn't "was he going to do anything," but, "did he say anything."

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Fair enough.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:24 AM (3vQN0)

249 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at August 09, 2022 10:25 AM (T4tVD)

250 St. Edith Stein is the patroness of martyrs and Europe.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 09, 2022 10:19 AM (LsEU/)
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Thank you. Very appropriate.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 10:25 AM (fs1hN)

251 246. Yes. She will be Claire MCkaskill. a pissed old C%%t on MSNBC

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:25 AM (WY8d2)

252 I saw Piltdown Man open for Manfred Mann at Sheffield Park back in '78.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 10:26 AM (WWh8n)

253 The same laws they claim Trump has broken were broken by Mueller and half of the FBI leadership, not to mention Clinton, Obama, and Comey.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 10:26 AM (mZ3xv)

254 I don't think Putin is smiling today. He has to be as stunned by Biden's action as we are.

Putin and Trump respect each other. This is critical to dealing with a foreign country. Putin can't possibly respect Joe. If he's laughing, it's not at Trump.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:23 AM (cTCuP)

Then Vlad should start releasing the dirt he supposedly has on the junta.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 09, 2022 10:26 AM (7bRMQ)

255 Who, what, when, and where. That's it. Why is motive. Anything else is opinion.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2022 10:18 AM (0OP+5)

Don't blame me, I went to Math and Science classes. Its a miracle I can write a sentence you can understand enough to correct. Complete accuracy is a bridge too far.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:26 AM (/tnu7)

256 I think Putin is smiling because American politicians have adopted the Soviet model and abandoned any semblance of fairness and civility.

No more speeches about American virtues and justice.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:26 AM (lf83v)

257 Fox reporting the Judge who signed off on the search warrant was a lawyer for some Epstein associates. Probably incidental, just another example of how incestuous the hereditary ruling class really is.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 09, 2022 10:23 AM (m7Ses)

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It's Pedos all the way up ...

Even Escher couldn't have imagined that.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 09, 2022 10:26 AM (+lwg5)

258 The same laws they claim Trump has broken were broken by Mueller and half of the FBI leadership, not to mention Clinton, Obama, and Comey.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 10:26 AM (mZ3xv)
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But those other guys are above the law, so it doesn't matter for them. "Hypocrisy" and "double standard" don't matter because everyone knows it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 10:27 AM (WWh8n)

259 Some of you don't seem to realize Cheney has nothing to sell. She fucked herself right into irrelevance. She will be shunned by both parties.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:27 AM (QSjkU)

260 245 Wakes up.
Looks around.
Dang. America changed.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 09, 2022 10:24 AM (anj39)

You forgot to scratch.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:27 AM (cTCuP)

261 241. He's in on the game.

Posted by: CN at August 09, 2022 10:27 AM (VuQO/)

262 You forgot to scratch.
Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:27 AM (cTCuP)
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He discovered topical creams ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 10:27 AM (WWh8n)

263 241. True on appointments. Good ber is a POS. Judges they will block

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:28 AM (WY8d2)

264 Imagine the cigarette we can smoke after she says Democrats are "abusing their power" and goes on to call it "unacceptable".
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:20 AM (/6Rxy)

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Just wait until she writes an angry op-Ed. May have several exclamation points.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:28 AM (3vQN0)

265 259 Some of you don't seem to realize Cheney has nothing to sell. She fucked herself right into irrelevance. She will be shunned by both parties.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:27 AM (QSjkU)

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Are we talking about the same people that thought Jeb Bush would easily win the 2016 GOP nomination?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:28 AM (LvTSG)

266 Rep Eric SwallowWell tweeted a bunch of laughter.

Hahahaha. That kind of bullshit.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 10:28 AM (mZ3xv)

267 Which one is the fluffiest?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 09, 2022 10:00 AM (YIVH2)

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Heh.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 09, 2022 10:28 AM (+lwg5)

268 Some of you don't seem to realize Cheney has nothing to sell. She fucked herself right into irrelevance. She will be shunned by both parties.
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Like Benedict Arnold was by both the Americans and the British.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:28 AM (lf83v)

269 263. Goober praised Garland

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:28 AM (WY8d2)

270 McConnell is losing, due to lack of will or stamina, probably due to age, or he is winning, if this is what he wanted. Either way, he has to go.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 10:29 AM (fs1hN)

271 Kittuh confused. Kittuh will stay under bed and nap.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 09, 2022 10:29 AM (sAmhv)

272 Just call her Quisling.

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:29 AM (WY8d2)

273 Bruce Reinhardt was the judge who quit to defend Epstein.

He started an LLC right before he quit and listed Epsteins address as his office.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 10:29 AM (mZ3xv)

274 The msm is laughably pushing the idea that Biden had nothing to do with this.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:30 AM (3vQN0)

275 270. Sadly his Number 1 is the awful Cronyn. Thune is a weasel also

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:30 AM (WY8d2)

276 274 The msm is laughably pushing the idea that Biden had nothing to do with this.
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:30 AM (3vQN0)

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I'd believe it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:30 AM (LvTSG)

277 Reinhart also donated to Jeb Bush's campaign.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 10:30 AM (mZ3xv)

278 What happened to Barraso in Wyoming? Is he deep state also

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:30 AM (WY8d2)

279 274 The msm is laughably pushing the idea that Biden had nothing to do with this.
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:30 AM (3vQN0)

He may well not have. Can you say "plausible deniability"? I knew you couldn.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:31 AM (cTCuP)

280 I think Putin is smiling because American politicians have adopted the Soviet model and abandoned any semblance of fairness and civility.

Putin called out the US for holding political prisoners after Jan 6

we lost the moral high ground a long time ago

Posted by: brak at August 09, 2022 10:31 AM (j5Tg0)

281 What’s Andy “straight shooter” McCarthy’s take on all of this?

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:31 AM (3vQN0)

282 I saw Piltdown Man open for Manfred Mann at Sheffield Park back in '78.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I was in the front row!!

Posted by: Quinn the Eskimo at August 09, 2022 10:31 AM (LsEU/)

283 What's she supposed to say? State governors, especially ones in buttfuck flyover country, don't have any jurisdiction over the FBI.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 10:22 AM (ZGrMX)

I would honestly be happier with anything other than this GOP approved milquetoast gobshite.

At least ridicule the Democrats for doing it. Say they have no balls. Say that stealing an election wasn't good enough, now they have to torment the man they stole it from.

Instead she calls him "former president". Fuck that bitch.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:31 AM (/6Rxy)

284 Are we talking about the same people that thought Jeb Bush would easily win the 2016 GOP nomination?
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I wonder what good ole Yeb! is thinking. Yeah, no, not really.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 10:31 AM (fs1hN)

285 The msm is laughably pushing the idea that Biden had nothing to do with this.

I think they're correct. ClintonWorld started pushing last night that this raid proved that Trump had violated an obscure law and that disqualified him from running for Federal office. The orders came from Chappequa, not Kalorama.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 09, 2022 10:32 AM (ZGrMX)

286 The msm is laughably pushing the idea that Biden had nothing to do with this.
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I'm sure he didn't. Biden doesn't know what the hell is going on. The Obama gang did this using the Biden White House as a front.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:32 AM (lf83v)

287 I was in the front row!!
Posted by: Quinn the Eskimo at August 09, 2022 10:31 AM (LsEU/)
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So *that's* why everyone jumped for joy!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 10:32 AM (WWh8n)

288 Rumour is Fox was tipped off about Raid, and told Tucker to stay away

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:32 AM (WY8d2)

289 Cheney will land on her fat disgusting feet. You can take it to the bank and cash it with the sunrise tomorrow.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:32 AM (/6Rxy)

290 What Joe Biden sees when told to go to the stage.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at August 09, 2022 10:32 AM (buTO7)

291 Say what you want about the FBI, but they nailed Richard Jewell for the Atlanta Olympic bombing.

Posted by: Wally at August 09, 2022 10:33 AM (FJYfm)

292 The msm is laughably pushing the idea that Biden had nothing to do with this.

They stepped in it, and now they regret it. Too late.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 10:33 AM (/NCI4)

293 How about the super duper conservative Virginia AG start sending state troopers to the homes of FBI agents living in VA? Surely some of them must have an outstanding parking ticket.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:33 AM (3vQN0)

294 McConnell is losing, due to lack of will or stamina, probably due to age, or he is winning, if this is what he wanted. Either way, he has to go.

The UniParty works both ways. I have the "privilege" of living close enough to watch Kentucky politics. No matter how badly the base gets fed up with McConnell, the Kentucky Democrats never quite seem to appoint a candidate that can resist saying the wrong things long enough to get elected as Senator.

Now, Governor ? They can find those guys all the time. But, as if by magic, they simply can't put out a candidate able to keep it together long enough to send Mitch back home. But they really, really want to. Trust 'em.

So badly that last time out, they ran Allison Grimes. Literally, ran her - she looked like the love child of John Kerry. And had about the same talking points. In Kentucky.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:33 AM (/tnu7)

295 I saw Piltdown Man open for Manfred Mann at Sheffield Park back in '78.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 10:26 AM (WWh8n)

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I'm pretty sure this guy is just making things up here, since I'm pretty sure he's closer to 29 than 59.

;-)

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 09, 2022 10:34 AM (+lwg5)

296
Does the title mean that I can place my most annoying relatives on that arrangement and never hear from them again?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 09, 2022 10:34 AM (pNxlR)

297 Didn't Nancy Pelosi mutilate an official government document when she tore up Trump's State of the Union address?

Shouldn't she be prosecuted and prohibited from running for public office?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:34 AM (lf83v)

298 251 246. Yes. She will be Claire MCkaskill. a pissed old C%%t on MSNBC
Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:25 AM (WY8d2)

That's pretty much the brand though

Posted by: blaster at August 09, 2022 10:34 AM (6TxNR)

299 what the fuck am I supposed to say ?

that I knew about this raid and totally approved

OK

I KNEW ABOUT THIS RAID AND TOTALLY APPROVED !!!

Posted by: the fucking Turtle at August 09, 2022 10:34 AM (us2H3)

300 Christopher Wray's vacation home.

Posted by: The More You Know at August 09, 2022 10:34 AM (foClJ)

301 Denmark ends all coof jabs for children:

https://tinyurl.com/mtvejtde

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2022 10:34 AM (dCxaZ)

302 The msm is laughably pushing the idea that Biden had nothing to do with this.

I'm not surprised that Obama kept Chauncey Gardiner out of the loop.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 09, 2022 10:35 AM (m7Ses)

303 287 I was in the front row!!
Posted by: Quinn the Eskimo at August 09, 2022 10:31 AM (LsEU/)
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What did every Biden rally attendee say? for 500 Alex.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at August 09, 2022 10:35 AM (buTO7)

304 Didn't Nancy Pelosi mutilate an official government document when she tore up Trump's State of the Union address?

Shouldn't she be prosecuted and prohibited from running for public office?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:34 AM (lf83v)

I think that was debunked back when because it was only a copy an not an original document and wasn't classified.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

305 The funny part is, if Biden didn't know he's outed as not being in control. How do they write that narrative?

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:35 AM (cTCuP)

306 We need to start a list of important non GOPe types, who have been silent.

Cruz, Hawley, Scalise? Mike Lee has been vocal

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:35 AM (WY8d2)

307 Governors can start investigations of federal employees in their state. They could play ball if they wanted to. But they don’t want to.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:35 AM (3vQN0)

308 Couldn't have come from Chappaqua. They're way too terrified about Durham putting some no name low level operative on trial for trying to fool the standup men and women of the FIB. You just wait until Autumn. That's when Durham brings the whole house of cards down by inconveniencing Scoopy McJohnson.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:36 AM (/6Rxy)

309 What happened to my sportcoat, it only has one arm! What is happening? Neilia, no, no, I mean Jill, help me with this g-damn coat!

Posted by: (In the) Dark Brandon at August 09, 2022 10:36 AM (fs1hN)

310 So badly that last time out, they ran Allison Grimes. Literally, ran her - she looked like the love child of John Kerry. And had about the same talking points. In Kentucky.
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TBF, Kentucky is crazy about horses.

Posted by: KY Dem Party at August 09, 2022 10:36 AM (RxKS+)

311 Cheney will do a show with Nicole Wallace called Penis Envy

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:36 AM (WY8d2)

312 274 The msm is laughably pushing the idea that Biden had nothing to do with this.

This actually could be truth. Biden's mental and physical abilities are, at best, limited. He's just a prop. A nasty, partisan, corrupt, broken brain, easily led, prop.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 09, 2022 10:36 AM (sAmhv)

313 Seems like there are some primaries today. I wonder what effect this will have on the MAGA endorsed candidates. It'd be nice to see them go from wherever they are to overwhelming levels of votes. A big Fuck You to the uniparty in general.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 09, 2022 10:36 AM (ikkIg)

314 302 The msm is laughably pushing the idea that Biden had nothing to do with this.

I'm not surprised that Obama kept Chauncey Gardiner out of the loop.
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Chauncey was a good gardener. What is Joe good at?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 09, 2022 10:36 AM (fWTJL)

315 I KNEW ABOUT THIS RAID AND TOTALLY APPROVED !!!

Posted by: the fucking Turtle at August 09, 2022 10:34 AM (us2H3)

You have to work in the kinda' lisp, kinda' slur that Hog Jaws speaks with. Imagine you've got a mouth full of marbles;

I SHNEW ABOUTH ZHIS RAID AND THOTALLY APPROVED !!!

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:37 AM (/tnu7)

316 Couldn't have come from Chappaqua.

It didn't come from the Clintons. They have less juice than gravel now.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 10:37 AM (/NCI4)

317 Say what you want about the FBI, but they nailed Richard Jewell for the Atlanta Olympic bombing.

Posted by: Wally at August 09, 2022 10:33 AM (FJYfm)

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And they gave Lon Horiuchi a medal & promotion for murdering Vickie Weaver while she was standing on her porch holding her 10-month old baby.

Brave & Stunning ... Top. Psychopaths.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 09, 2022 10:37 AM (+lwg5)

318 They told us that the spike protein would stay in the site of injection (muscle tissue). Except it doesn't *always*...

https://tinyurl.com/yc3cjr3u

mRna jabs associated with case of reactive arthritis

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2022 10:37 AM (dCxaZ)

319 Chauncey was a good gardener. What is Joe good at?

C'mon man, eating ice cream and sniffing children.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 09, 2022 10:38 AM (m7Ses)

320 Liked dick Morris said last night on Newsmax. Trump played hardball, but stayed within the rules like most republicans.

Democrats are willing to go full Brown Shirt

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:38 AM (WY8d2)

321 I think that was debunked back when because it was only a copy an not an original document and wasn't classified.
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I'm not sure that's how the game is played. The correct answer may be "is the accused a Dem? Debunked!"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 10:38 AM (fs1hN)

322 Chauncey was a good gardener. What is Joe good at?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 09, 2022 10:36 AM (fWTJL)

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He like to watch ... especially when Hunter & Dr. Jill go at it.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 09, 2022 10:38 AM (+lwg5)

323 Cuomo tweet:

DOJ must prove this wasn't political.

Someone is hedging bets.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 10:38 AM (mZ3xv)

324 mRna jabs associated with case of reactive arthritis

oh SHOCKING!

yes sudden-onset RA is what I got, literally hours after second Moderna dose.

and just as suddenly as it appeared, a course of Ivermectin somehow cured it?!?!

but of course had nothing at all to do with shot

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 09, 2022 10:39 AM (w0NJk)

325 Chauncey was a good gardener. What is Joe good at?
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Sniffing hair.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:39 AM (lf83v)

326
All hail the FBI, Sword and Shield of the State!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 09, 2022 10:39 AM (1Nxff)

327 I can see deSantis playing ball and open some investigations into FBI protocol in the Miami office or some shit. There is always a crime to be found if you look for it.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:39 AM (3vQN0)

328 313 Seems like there are some primaries today. I wonder what effect this will have on the MAGA endorsed candidates. It'd be nice to see them go from wherever they are to overwhelming levels of votes. A big Fuck You to the uniparty in general.
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One of the reasons for this hit is to force candidates to defend Trump rather than defend the MAGA platform. When you're explaining, you're loosing. Attack, Attack, Attack. Stay on target - stay on message.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 09, 2022 10:39 AM (fWTJL)

329 What happened to my sportcoat, it only has one arm! What is happening? Neilia, no, no, I mean Jill, help me with this g-damn coat!
Posted by: (In the) Dark Brandon

One of my buddies insisted that that whole event was simply a loving wife helping her devote husband with his coat.
Honestly.

I told him I saw a dottering old man failing to dress himself and his caretaker had to step in. All while Yakity Sax was playing in the background.

Posted by: Quinn the Eskimo at August 09, 2022 10:40 AM (LsEU/)

330 Someone is hedging bets.

And trying to convince people he isn't a partisan ass***e, so as to mount a comeback. It won't work.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 10:40 AM (/NCI4)

331 CBS: Trump WITHOUT EVIDENCE called the raid corrupt.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:40 AM (3vQN0)

332 And trying to convince people he isn't a partisan ass***e, so as to mount a comeback. It won't work.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 09, 2022 10:40 AM (/NCI4)

I think you're selling the guy short. He might yet overcome the partisan stigma.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:41 AM (/tnu7)

333 McCarthy, Noem, Desantis, Rubio, Lake, Lee, Gosar, Biggs?

Scalise gunned down by these marxists, and he is silent today?

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:41 AM (WY8d2)

334 I can see deSantis playing ball and open some investigations into FBI protocol in the Miami office or some shit. There is always a crime to be found if you look for it.

Looks like this office isn't in compliance with multiple provisions of the local building code. Enjoy working from the parking lot.

Posted by: brak at August 09, 2022 10:42 AM (j5Tg0)

335 When do we update "Come Out Ye Black an' Tans" for to taunt the current occupation cowards?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 09, 2022 10:42 AM (hqgRM)

336 in the breaking blind squirrel news

Joe Walsh says this will push moderate republicans to Trump's column

Posted by: the fucking Turtle at August 09, 2022 10:42 AM (us2H3)

337 They planned this raid for Monday, not the usually Friday. I think this narrative has a story arc that has yet to play out.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2022 10:42 AM (Y5qcH)

338 WaPo as well:

"Top Republicans echo Trump's evidence-free claims to discredit FBI search"

The journOlist Slack channel must be burning up this morning.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 09, 2022 10:43 AM (m7Ses)

339 Ive heard Cuomo interviewed on podcasts and he comes across as a pretty decent guy. I think his CNN persona was more an act than the real Fredo. My view has always been they are all actors, playing a role. On Fox they play the angry conservative role. On CNN they play the angry liberal role. On CNBC they play the serious business guy role. But they are all riled with a script written by someone else.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:43 AM (3vQN0)

340 They planned this raid for Monday, not the usually Friday. I think this narrative has a story arc that has yet to play out.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2022 10:42 AM (Y5qcH)

That's a very, very, very good point. Wish I would have made it.

*raises first beer of the day in your direction*

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:43 AM (/tnu7)

341 Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:41 AM (WY8d2)

there's lots of republicans on the tw@tts speaking out

Posted by: kallisto at August 09, 2022 10:43 AM (dCxaZ)

342 Escher is always fun.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at August 09, 2022 10:43 AM (Mzdiz)

343 now we see why Garland and Wray have never run for political office

Posted by: REDACTED at August 09, 2022 10:43 AM (us2H3)

344 This was the purpose of this raid. To scare all DC Republicans into silence, or your NoVa home will be raided also

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:43 AM (WY8d2)

345 337 They planned this raid for Monday, not the usually Friday. I think this narrative has a story arc that has yet to play out.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2022 10:42 AM (Y5qcH

Sure. Come Friday they will find a document that says Trump and Epstein were good buddies and Trump had a haram of 12 13 year olds.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 10:44 AM (mZ3xv)

346 Joe Walsh says this will push moderate republicans to Trump's column
_______________________________________________

"Life's been good to me so far"?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:44 AM (lf83v)

347 >>> 336 in the breaking blind squirrel news

Joe Walsh says this will push moderate republicans to Trump's column
Posted by: the fucking Turtle at August 09, 2022 10:42 AM (us2H3)

Was Walsh fcking a pumpkin when he said that?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2022 10:44 AM (llON8)

348 Joe Walsh says this will push moderate republicans to Trump's column

Posted by: the fucking Turtle at August 09, 2022 10:42 AM (us2H3)

If he's not careful, he'll lose his license.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:44 AM (/6Rxy)

349 Ive heard Cuomo interviewed on podcasts and he comes across as a pretty decent guy.

There was absolutely a moment, early in the 'Rona days, where they were positioning him as the opponent to Trump. And it all fell apart. But somebody in the UniParty saw what you saw.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:45 AM (/tnu7)

350 Ive heard Cuomo interviewed on podcasts and he comes across as a pretty decent guy.
___________________________________________

Maybe the "pretty decent guy" thing is an act too.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:45 AM (lf83v)

351 Biden is speaking.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 10:45 AM (mZ3xv)

352 339. His brother was a marxist dictator as Gov of New York, and celebrated the passing of infanticide abortion. But his brother is a nice guy. WTF?

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:45 AM (WY8d2)

353 CBS: Trump WITHOUT EVIDENCE called the raid corrupt.
____________

I hate this new reporting. Never would they add that to any statement a Dem makes.

Note this statement is technically WITHOUT EVIDENCE, but what am I supposed to do, have my staff (heh) cut out newspaper articles of Dems saying all sorts of dubious crap and show that the reporter just reported the fact that the statement was made without adding this bullshit disclaimer to it?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 10:45 AM (fs1hN)

354 Biden is speaking.
________________________________

You're very generous.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:46 AM (lf83v)

355 Biden is speaking.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 10:45 AM (mZ3xv)

argle bargle argle bargle

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 09, 2022 10:46 AM (S+j2h)

356 I met Joe Walsh personally when he was campaigniing for the House in IL. He is a Elmer Gantry. A con man with a nice smile

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:46 AM (WY8d2)

357 Cheney will land on her fat disgusting feet. You can take it to the bank and cash it with the sunrise tomorrow.
Posted by: ...

From how far up? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: A. Pinochet at August 09, 2022 10:46 AM (PpiqM)

358 >>> 352 339. His brother was a marxist dictator as Gov of New York, and celebrated the passing of infanticide abortion. But his brother is a nice guy. WTF?
Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:45 AM (WY8d2)

Wasn't he also the one out puzting around on his bike during one of the woofloo lockdowns, and got all pissy and 'do-you-know-who-I-am' when some rando confronted him?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (llON8)

359 48 Joe Walsh says this will push moderate republicans to Trump's column

His Massrati does 185.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (W/9Bb)

360 What’s Andy “straight shooter” McCarthy’s take on all of this?

==

It will go like this: "They would not , can't, execute a search warrant unless theyvhad ( hold the laughter) very solid evidence that there was something there!" 🤡

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (AVI/t)

361 WaPo as well:

"Top Republicans echo Trump's evidence-free claims to discredit FBI search"

The journOlist Slack channel must be burning up this morning.
Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 09, 2022 10:43 AM (m7Ses)

Trump was undoubtedly correct when he called the media "the enemy of the people." They continue to prove it on a daily basis.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

362 I hate to keep bringing up the same complaint, but we have the worst weather of any Banana Republic in the world.

Posted by: Wally at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (FJYfm)

363 I’m just telling you how he came across to me. It’s hard to fake that for an hour long podcast interview. He’s actually pretty funny.

I’m just saying what I heard. No need to beat me over the head for it, lol.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (3vQN0)

364 Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:45 AM (/tnu7)

I think - and thought at the time - he was being used as a visual cue of what "real leadership" looks like. New York loudmouth. It was perfect fake contrast during the "crisis".

He played his part, knowingly or not. He wasn't ever destined for anything but the bottom of the barrel.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (/6Rxy)

365 Apropos of absolutely nothing...

https://youtu.be/1aVHLL5egRY

Hootie and the Blowfish - "Let Her Cry"

The mood just seems to fit.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (cTCuP)

366 Wasn't he also the one out puzting around on his bike during one of the woofloo lockdowns, and got all pissy and 'do-you-know-who-I-am' when some rando confronted him?

Same. In all fairness, I thought the original statement was about the former Gov, not the former - and probably current - 'Roid Rager.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (/tnu7)

367 WaPo as well:

"Top Republicans echo Trump's evidence-free claims to discredit FBI search"

The journOlist Slack channel must be burning up this morning.
Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 09, 2022 10:43 AM (m7Ses)
++++
Probably, and probably both of them (Party and State sides). They're in unison on this one. There will be no opposition from either quarter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (WWh8n)

368 He's talking about the chip bill but I'm sure the press will ask him about just how much of a criminal the criminal Trump is.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 09, 2022 10:48 AM (mZ3xv)

369 Wasn't he also the one out puzting around on his bike during one of the woofloo lockdowns, and got all pissy and 'do-you-know-who-I-am' when some rando confronted him?

Yep: https://bit.ly/3JI77bJ

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 09, 2022 10:48 AM (Bd6X8)

370 If he was raided he must have been hiding something!

🤮🤮

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2022 10:48 AM (AVI/t)

371 339 Ive heard Cuomo interviewed on podcasts and he comes across as a pretty decent guy. I think his CNN persona was more an act than the real Fredo. My view has always been they are all actors, playing a role. On Fox they play the angry conservative role. On CNN they play the angry liberal role. On CNBC they play the serious business guy role. But they are all riled with a script written by someone else.
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:43 AM (3vQN0)

Still have to have no personal integrity and perhaps no soul to be a mouthpiece of Stan.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 09, 2022 10:48 AM (s3wLb)

372 I know right? We have a banana republic without the tropical weather and beautiful beaches. Bummer.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:48 AM (3vQN0)

373 >>> 363 I’m just telling you how he came across to me. It’s hard to fake that for an hour long podcast interview. He’s actually pretty funny.

I’m just saying what I heard. No need to beat me over the head for it, lol.
Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (3vQN0)

We'd rather beat him over the head anyway ;P

... unless you suggest carrots in chili!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 09, 2022 10:48 AM (llON8)

374 It's spinning round and round and round..,

Posted by: runner at August 09, 2022 10:49 AM (AVI/t)

375 It will go like this: "They would not , can't, execute a search warrant unless theyvhad ( hold the laughter) very solid evidence that there was something there!" 🤡
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (AVI/t)
++++
They're already running that line on Twitter. "A judge wouldn't have signed off on the warrant without good, credible reasons as presented by the investigation team. Even if nothing comes from this, it was absolutely *not* unlawful or a "weaponization" of the system against a political opponent. There are checks and balances at every level."

Essentially. That is not a direct quote, but it's a common Twitter Theme today.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 10:49 AM (WWh8n)

376 Ive heard Cuomo interviewed on podcasts and he comes across as a pretty decent guy.

Did he, at any point, threaten to throw the interviewer down a flight of stairs? Because THAT'S who Fredo Cuomo is.

Not the front he put on in some softball interview. He's a piece of shit, just like the rest of his family.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

377 It's his olive oil voice and his guinea charm

Posted by: Cuomo at August 09, 2022 10:49 AM (q8Oe1)

378 Senate GOP leadership is really f%cking up right now.

McConnell, Cronyn, Barasso, Thune. They are cementing the fact that they hate Trump voters

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:49 AM (WY8d2)

379 Trump was undoubtedly correct when he called the media "the enemy of the people." They continue to prove it on a daily basis.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (Zz0t1)

I was saying it on Hot Air in 2008. While many on our side were still trying to prove the media were "biased".

Do I at least get a cookie?

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:50 AM (/6Rxy)

380 oe Walsh says this will push moderate republicans to Trump's column

It sure didn't hurt the America First movement, did it?

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 10:50 AM (wiM5O)

381 > No matter how badly the base gets fed up with McConnell, the Kentucky Democrats never quite seem to appoint a candidate that can resist saying the wrong things long enough to get elected as Senator.
___________

I live in Kentucky. The GOP can't find someone to unseat McConnell either. However the left will find a suitable candidate soon enough. A lot of McConnell's rural base has had it with him. He can't count on their blind votes whenever his next election comes up... assuming he'll run again.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2022 10:50 AM (BFigT)

382
Do I at least get a cookie?
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:50 AM (/6Rxy)

Would you like a crunchy cookie or a chewy banana?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

383 The msm stories made sure to highlight that a judge approved this. And you know all judges are 100% above board and absolutely apolitical.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:51 AM (3vQN0)

384 I hate to keep bringing up the same complaint, but we have the worst weather of any Banana Republic in the world.

Posted by: Wally at August 09, 2022 10:47 AM (FJYfm)

Yet, within our Banana Republic, I contend my Ohio Valley has it worst. Icy and single digits with no snow in the winter, humid as Hell and over 100 for stints in the summer, about two weeks of spring and two more of fall. Enough pollen to bail, if you could sell the shit. Yet just not quite cold or hot enough to brag about.

True fact, the Indians back in the day would only hunt in the Ohio Valley - wouldn't settle here. Said the ground wasn't fit to live on. My ancestors said "
Oh yeah ? Hold my beer".

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:51 AM (/tnu7)

385 MC Escher is always interesting. Would not hang. Had a notebook in high school with something like this on it.

Posted by: G. Gnome will not comply at August 09, 2022 10:51 AM (OQcPl)

386 They planned this raid for Monday, not the usually Friday. I think this narrative has a story arc that has yet to play out.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe
==
Keep your eye on the big toe.

Its an op. If it were news that they didn't want to spread, it would have been the Friday before a holiday weekend. Here they want a week to shape narrative. Day 1 Joe Biden's hands are clean. Day 2 CONCERNS about ntl security violations Day 3 many many concerned "REPUBLICANS" saying this disqualifies Trump Day 4 Press Conference - special counsel vs secret indictment Day 5 The wheels are falling off

Day 6 profit

Posted by: at least this is what they have planned at August 09, 2022 10:51 AM (RxKS+)

387 They're already running that line on Twitter. "A judge wouldn't have signed off on the warrant without good, credible reasons...

You mean like they do with FISA warrants?

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 10:51 AM (wiM5O)

388 There are checks and balances at every level.
__________

This is our understanding as well.

Posted by: FISA Court at August 09, 2022 10:51 AM (fs1hN)

389 So McConnell allows the Red Flag Bill, Chip bill, and gets rolled by Manchin and Synema. Now by his silence, he approves of the FBI Raid.

Fuck it, Time to worry about the House only.

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:52 AM (WY8d2)

390 They're already running that line on Twitter. "A judge wouldn't have signed off on the warrant without good, credible reasons as presented by the investigation team. Even if nothing comes from this, it was absolutely *not* unlawful or a "weaponization" of the system against a political opponent. There are checks and balances at every level."

Essentially. That is not a direct quote, but it's a common Twitter Theme today.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 10:49 AM (WWh8n)

LMAO

Who was that Dem judge that ran his own investigation of Trump and refused to shut it down when ordered to by a higher court?

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:52 AM (cTCuP)

391 It's spinning round and round and round..,
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2022 10:49 AM (AVI/t)

What a great idea for a song!

Posted by: Dead or Alive at August 09, 2022 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)

392 The FBI has to be abolished. Harry Truman was right about a lot of things, and this is one of them.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:53 AM (QSjkU)

393 History has a long list of u intended consequences. This may prove to be one of those. It could galvanize the Trump base like nothing else could have and hurt Dems bigly this and next election.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at August 09, 2022 10:53 AM (3vQN0)

394
Did he, at any point, threaten to throw the interviewer down a flight of stairs? Because THAT'S who Fredo Cuomo is.

Throw him up and down the Escher stairs.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 09, 2022 10:53 AM (63Dwl)

395 Would hang. Just wouldn’t look at it.

Posted by: Squid at August 09, 2022 10:53 AM (wkzCN)

396 It's spinning round and round and round..,
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2022 10:49 AM (AVI/t)

What a great idea for a song!
Posted by: Dead or Alive

I know, right?

Posted by: RATT at August 09, 2022 10:54 AM (PpiqM)

397 A lot of McConnell's rural base has had it with him. He can't count on their blind votes whenever his next election comes up... assuming he'll run again.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2022 10:50 AM (BFigT)

I remembered that you live there. I'm pretty close myself, work with a lot of political refugees from Jefferson County.

I think Cameron will be your next Governor. Kind of a shame, because I think he'd be better used as the primary challenger for McConnell.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:54 AM (/tnu7)

398 If he was raided he must have been hiding something!

🤮🤮
Posted by: runner at August 09, 2022 10:48 AM (AVI/t)

Unintentionally hilarious Twitter thread last night from NeverTrumper Jim Swift. First, he says an IRS audit is no big deal if you're honest. Then he says that years ago, he was audited, AND THEY TOLD HIM HE OWED $11,000, at a time when he said he wasn't making squat.
Yep. Nothing to worry about from an IRS audit.

He seems to think this is OK, because they eventually settled for $110. (So, did they give you back the time and money you wasted on the audit?) And oh, yeah - He was working for Congress at the time. I'm sure that played no part at all in eventually settling the case.

Posted by: Wally at August 09, 2022 10:54 AM (FJYfm)

399 Escher! You magnificent b***ard!

Posted by: sinalco at August 09, 2022 10:55 AM (yODqO)

400 346 Joe Walsh says this will push moderate republicans to Trump's column
_______________________________________________

"Life's been good to me so far"?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 09, 2022 10:44 AM (lf83v)

===========

I'm pretty sure that Trump's presidency pushed a lot of moderates into Trump's and MAGA's column. The insanity of the left made that happen. I heard this from my own father and uncle.

Hence, the cheating. All of these reactions from the establishment Democrats are just weakening them politically. Whether that matters is up to the GOP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:55 AM (LvTSG)

401 Would you like a crunchy cookie or a chewy banana?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

On second thought nevermind.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:55 AM (/6Rxy)

402 Do I at least get a cookie?
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:50 AM (/6Rxy)

Would you like a crunchy cookie or a chewy banana?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 09, 2022 10:51 AM (Zz0t1)

-------

It's a trap! The cruncy cookie is made from crickets, while the chewy banana is made from Santa Claran slugs!

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 09, 2022 10:55 AM (+lwg5)

403 You mean like they do with FISA warrants?
Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 10:51 AM (wiM5O)
++++
:: channels his inner Twitter statist ::

The success rate of FISA warrants indicates the high degree of care and adherence to process that law enforcement and intelligence agencies treat the process. If they weren't very clearly taking their duties *very* seriously, FISA rejections would be much higher. The FISA success rate indicates integrity, not malice.

:: turns off channeling device ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 10:55 AM (WWh8n)

404 What a great idea for a song!
Posted by: Dead or Alive

I know, right?
Posted by: RATT

Get off my lawn.

Posted by: Blood,Sweat, and Tears at August 09, 2022 10:56 AM (W/9Bb)

405 They're already running that line on Twitter. "A judge wouldn't have signed off on the warrant without good, credible reasons as presented by the investigation team. Even if nothing comes from this, it was absolutely *not* unlawful or a "weaponization" of the system against a political opponent. There are checks and balances at every level."
==
Everyone has TOTEs forgotten the corruption of the FISA court. No one paid any price. Some Judge had to retire. That's it. F T F S Banana Republics are more serious about the rule of law. These twats just memory hole everything because they own the media. In banana republics you get the occasional journalist or Jurist making public statements about the corruption - before they are assassinated.

Posted by: at least this is what they have planned at August 09, 2022 10:56 AM (L3V7E)

406 Where's "guy who moves pianos for a living"? Here, move this upstairs for me. Just follow that guy...

Posted by: MC Escher at August 09, 2022 10:56 AM (Q14hI)

407 378 Senate GOP leadership is really f%cking up right now.

McConnell, Cronyn, Barasso, Thune. They are cementing the fact that they hate Trump voters
Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:49 AM (WY8d2)

========

They'll have control of the next Congress. That's all they care about right now. They're retain their leadership seats while providing nothing, creating no platform, and generally being ineffective.

And then they will wonder mightily about why the GOP base keeps turning to people like Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:57 AM (LvTSG)

408 Awful. Tim Scott on CBS this morning, says we should give the FBI the benefit of the doubt

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:57 AM (WY8d2)

409 381 I live in Kentucky. The GOP can't find someone to unseat McConnell either. However the left will find a suitable candidate soon enough. A lot of McConnell's rural base has had it with him. He can't count on their blind votes whenever his next election comes up... assuming he'll run again.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2022 10:50 AM (BFigT)

========

I remember when, early last year, McConnell worked with the state level apparatus to implement changes to how Senate deaths and retirements are handled.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 10:58 AM (LvTSG)

410 Who was that Dem judge that ran his own investigation of Trump and refused to shut it down when ordered to by a higher court?

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:52 AM (cTCuP)

Sullivan?

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:58 AM (/6Rxy)

411 Wait a minute! "Get off my lawn"? Not, "Hey, you, get offa my cloud"?

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:58 AM (cTCuP)

412 They wouldn't have arrested George Floyd without good reason.

There! Am I doing this right?

Posted by: Wally at August 09, 2022 10:58 AM (FJYfm)

413 Here the GOP finally gets a personal black man as a Senator to help the party. and the guy turns out to be a traitor

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:58 AM (WY8d2)

414 Awful. Tim Scott on CBS this morning, says we should give the FBI the benefit of the doubt
Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:57 AM (WY8d2)
++++
No. My default (and even fairly committed) position is that I should not give these people any benefit of any doubt. Why should I? Articulate - clearly and precisely, taking into account both recent and less-recent history - the reasons they have earned the "benefit of the doubt."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 09, 2022 10:58 AM (WWh8n)

415 408 Awful. Tim Scott on CBS this morning, says we should give the FBI the benefit of the doubt
Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 10:57 AM (WY8d2)

I do. I doubt everything they say and do.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 09, 2022 10:58 AM (QSjkU)

416 MonkeyPox cookies are always popular

bubbily tastilicious

Posted by: REDACTED at August 09, 2022 10:59 AM (us2H3)

417 Last thought about McConnell; there is zero love lost between him and Trump. The outwardly hate each other. If Trump was to run and win Trump would move heaven and earth to oust McConnell from his leadership position. He'd sell his kids to oust McConnell from Congress.

McConnell has similar feelings about Trump. Did he know about the raid? Doubtful. Does he approve? Oh hell yes he does.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 09, 2022 10:59 AM (BFigT)

418 Sullivan?
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:58 AM (/6Rxy)

That's the one.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:59 AM (cTCuP)

419 Wait a minute! "Get off my lawn"? Not, "Hey, you, get offa my cloud"?
Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:58 AM (cTCuP)
++++
Hey, McLeod! Get off of my ewe!

Posted by: Drunken Scotsman at August 09, 2022 10:59 AM (WWh8n)

420 111 Can't touch this touch Can't touch this touch Can't . . .

- - MC Escher's Hammer
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 09, 2022 09:54 AM (x0n13)

MC Escher >> MC Hammer

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 09, 2022 10:59 AM (ynpvh)

421 I'm pretty sure that Trump's presidency pushed a lot of moderates into Trump's and MAGA's column. The insanity of the left made that happen. I heard this from my own father and uncle.

Nothing wrong, and a lot right, with going with personal anecdata. After all, in real life, what else do any of us have to go with ?

I've seen similar, although my conclusions of where we should go with it, if we want to survive, differ from most here. I've said it a million times, I think Trump stumbled upon the secret sauce of Nationalist Populism.

I don't think most people are very ideological. They just want shit to work. Shit worked under Trump.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:59 AM (/tnu7)

422 Tim Scott on CBS this morning, says we should give the FBI the benefit of the doubt
==
Tim Scott you are a fcukin' dummy.

Posted by: Martha Stewart at August 09, 2022 11:00 AM (DTXjw)

423 > They planned this raid for Monday, not the usually Friday.

8/8 must have some special significance for them. What could it be, I wonder?

Posted by: me at August 09, 2022 11:00 AM (9p+wn)

424 Sullivan?
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:58 AM (/6Rxy)

Annie Sullivan

see, justice is blind

Posted by: REDACTED at August 09, 2022 11:00 AM (us2H3)

425 What a great idea for a song!
Posted by: Dead or Alive

I know, right?
Posted by: RATT

Get off my lawn.
Posted by: Blood,Sweat, and Tears

Pfft!

Posted by: Perry Como at August 09, 2022 11:00 AM (dy/xE)

426

It's upside down fool.

Posted by: safristi at August 09, 2022 11:01 AM (qktfm)

427 My kingdom for more than one fucking person in the GOP with balls and sense who isn't also an inveterate liar.

Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 11:01 AM (/6Rxy)

428 Wasn't he also the one out puzting around on his bike during one of the woofloo lockdowns, and got all pissy and 'do-you-know-who-I-am' when some rando confronted him?

He was also the same cocksucker who wrecked a nice vintage muscle car while showing off for friends while drag racing.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 09, 2022 11:01 AM (KYKwc)

429 lawn...cloud? It's both, depending on the song. There are many.

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 11:01 AM (cTCuP)

430 "Trump claims, despite lacking evidence" {X}

6 months later: {X} "is happening, and here is why it's a good thing"

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 09, 2022 11:01 AM (44ww/)

431 421 Nothing wrong, and a lot right, with going with personal anecdata. After all, in real life, what else do any of us have to go with ?

I've seen similar, although my conclusions of where we should go with it, if we want to survive, differ from most here. I've said it a million times, I think Trump stumbled upon the secret sauce of Nationalist Populism.

I don't think most people are very ideological. They just want shit to work. Shit worked under Trump.
Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 10:59 AM (/tnu7)

=========

My anecdote would mean nothing to me without the reality of the cheat. 1 million fake votes in PA? That's not because Trump became less popular.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 09, 2022 11:01 AM (LvTSG)

432
8/8 must have some special significance for them. What could it be, I wonder?
Posted by: me at August 09, 2022 11:00 AM

Nixon resigned on 8/8/74. Maybe?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 09, 2022 11:02 AM (W/9Bb)

433 Who was that Dem judge that ran his own investigation of Trump and refused to shut it down when ordered to by a higher court?

Posted by: creeper at August 09, 2022 10:52 AM (cTCuP)

Sullivan?
Posted by: ... at August 09, 2022 10:58 AM (/6Rxy)

The Florida federal magistrate judge who signed off on a search warrant authorizing the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort left the local US Attorney’s office more than a decade ago to rep employees of convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein who had received immunity in the long-running sex-trafficking investigation of the financier.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 09, 2022 11:02 AM (FHzKS)

434 Noodus simianus

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 09, 2022 11:03 AM (yBTz5)

435 Last night on newsmax they said the husband of Liz Cheney is a lawyer for Hunter!

Posted by: Chillin the most at August 09, 2022 11:03 AM (/AVlP)

436
He was also the same cocksucker who wrecked a nice vintage muscle car while showing off for friends while drag racing.
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walking around nude outside, visible through window while wife streamed a yoga instruction on the internet.

Who does that. . .

Posted by: these things happen in clown world at August 09, 2022 11:03 AM (DTXjw)

437 Everybody look up the beautiful etching cites @76.

And then RUN and get Fen, and tell her that Mannix just posted pictures that have no bikini babes. She's not going to believe this.

Posted by: 100,000 Studebaker Trucks at August 09, 2022 11:03 AM (x61Im)

438 Sean trende at RCP says Trump should be locked up. RCP is a center right sight. Sarc...

Posted by: Jonah at August 09, 2022 11:04 AM (WY8d2)

439 H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. 8/8 is HH, which we all know stands for Heil Hitler.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 09, 2022 11:04 AM (UuD2k)

440 8/8 must have some special significance for them. What could it be, I wonder?

88 is HH. I remember that was a a tiny thing early in Trump's campaign (or administration?)

8 is lucky to the Chinese (if you remember the Olympics starting on 8/8/0

8/8/74 is when Nixon went on TV to say he was resigning.

Posted by: t-bird at August 09, 2022 11:04 AM (Q14hI)

441 Awful. Tim Scott on CBS this morning, says we should give the FBI the benefit of the doubt

He also endorsed Murkowski for her race. So not exactly a MAGA type.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at August 09, 2022 11:05 AM (Bd6X8)

442 My anecdote would mean nothing to me without the reality of the cheat. 1 million fake votes in PA? That's not because Trump became less popular.

There you go, believing your lying eyes. Personally, I liked going to sleep at night, then getting up the next morning, and seeing the new vote totals literally go one way by 10-1 ratios. I didn't pay any attention to the charts and graphs showing 100K to 0 instant updates - those could be fictional as easily as I can draw a line - but the numbers the media were showing were just so blatantly obvious. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin strained Suspension of Reality about as much as 90s WWF.

Posted by: Good for the Gander at August 09, 2022 11:05 AM (/tnu7)

443 McConnell has similar feelings about Trump. Did he know about the raid? Doubtful. Does he approve? Oh hell yes he does.
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McConnell needs to go.

I'm curious if protesters show up at McConnell's house, gently telling him that, while he did provide some service to the people who voted for him, he is no longer useful and he should resign, if they will be treated no worse than the leftist protestors that hounded him.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 09, 2022 11:06 AM (fs1hN)

444 Tim Scott. Trojan horse, slightly more masculine than Lindsey Graham.

Posted by: Eromero at August 09, 2022 11:06 AM (0OP+5)

445 Its an op. If it were news that they didn't want to spread, it would have been the Friday before a holiday weekend.
Posted by: at least this is what they have planned

Yep, this occurred on a Monday smack in the middle of the evening news/main cable shows precisely when every show would immediately stop what was being aired and cut to coverage of the big raid. This matter could have been handled, like it always has in the past, via a negotiation and if that fails a lawsuit. This raid was flat out an episode of political terrorism by the Federal government designed to send a message to the public about the midterm election 90 days away and to be the opening salvo in tying up President Trump with endless distractions while trying to run for a 2nd term. This moment is on par with Watergate or the Kennedy Assassination in how it could reshape who controls the government. If this spirals out of control and it easily could, we could be looking at a 9/11 or Fort Sumter moment.

Posted by: Lost In Space at August 09, 2022 11:07 AM (FF+On)

446 They're already running that line on Twitter. "A judge wouldn't have signed off on the warrant without good, credible reasons as presented by the investigation team. Even if nothing comes from this, it was absolutely *not* unlawful or a "weaponization" of the system against a political opponent. There are checks and balances at every level."
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Sure there are. Just ask the FISA judges who signed off on all those bogus warrants and subpoenas against people like Carter Page. The applications were full of lies and bullshit, and the FISA judges just rubber-stamped them, without even asking any questions. And a lot of other federal judges do exactly the same.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at August 09, 2022 11:11 AM (MvHI3)

447 For the past year and a half, at least, the entire focus of the department of justice has been "Get Trump".

Posted by: Javems at August 09, 2022 11:12 AM (AmoqO)

448
Too many college posters, too many copies of "Godel, Escher, Bach" in the college bookstore.

A friend of mine from HS, imagining me to have assumed the role of being an "intellectual", gushed effusively about that work and equally enthusiastically insisted that I read it.

Never happened, and won't happen for as long as I live.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 09, 2022 11:13 AM (pNxlR)

449 Sean trende at RCP says Trump should be locked up. RCP is a center right sight. Sarc...
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Part of the op. You can expect a couple of days worth of "republicans" who are shocked an horrified at TRUMP rather than the FBI/DOJ. Enormous buckets of concern will be spilled.

Posted by: these things happen in clown world at August 09, 2022 11:19 AM (DTXjw)

450 @449 Yes sure, but are they fourth-generation Republicans?

Posted by: 100,000 Studebaker Trucks at August 09, 2022 11:22 AM (x61Im)

451 Tim Scott on CBS this morning, says we should give the FBI the benefit of the doubt

Scott was told by McConnell that he would get zero NRSC money unless he played the game.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 09, 2022 11:24 AM (lTGtQ)

452 Is this the Biden Coup running this op or the Bush Coup running this op? Hard to tell.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 09, 2022 11:26 AM (HTCOy)

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