The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/18/22

Good morning, kids. Thursday and before I dive into the continuing breakdown of any gossamer-thin fig leaf of a pretext of law and order, comity and business as usual that has revealed the raw lust for power of America's worst enemy — a third of its own citizenry and at least 90% of its own government — this story from the other side of the planet constitutes a potential war warning, at least for Taiwan:

China’s collapsing real estate market could throw the world’s second largest economy into chaos and worsen a global economic slowdown . . .
. . . Chinese developers have lost at least $90 billion in the last year, according to reporting from Bloomberg, as home prices have gone down for the last 11 months. Dozens of developers have defaulted on their debts, and many of them have stopped work on unfinished housing, which has sparked mass outrage and even protests as more than 80% of Chinese homebuyers take out mortgages and begin paying them down before their prospective home is completed.
This arrangement, which was once a source of easily accessible capital in a red-hot housing market, has left countless Chinese consumers holding the bag on half-finished homes that may never be fully constructed. Thousands of homebuyers are refusing to pay mortgages on unfinished properties in a mortgage boycott that has spread to nearly 100 cities and has affected over 320 development projects.
“It’s gotten to the point where no one is taking care of it. So we naturally also have to defend our own rights,” one boycotter, who remained anonymous to avoid retribution, told The LA Times. “If we the people are not happy, it’s difficult to have a stable society.” She also told the outlet that some homebuyers who demanded answers have been threatened or detained for their trouble.

There is also an ongoing drought situation on the mainland that is affecting crops as well as power generation. Couple that with palpable civil discontent over Xi's draconian policies breaking through the regime's censorship wall as well as an America that is too busy being destroyed from within by traitors in and out of government who are in Xi's pocket, and a potential Taiwan grab might well be moving to the front burner.

It was already being fast-tracked thanks to the incompetence and frankly the more-than-likely collusion with Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants and his handlers. Malig-Nancy Pelosi figures hugely in the mix here as well. But her trip to Taiwan was no show of support for that nation; it was some sort of CYA move for her and her family's multi-million dollar grift. Yet, a move to invade and conquer that is not of Xi's planned time and choosing could bite him in the ass. Is the PLA immune from the insane amount of corruption that is rampant within that government? What of the morale of its frontline soldiers and conscripts? Does it also have the same level of competency, or incompetency, in its generalship as that of the Russian armed forces? Will we be drawn into it as yet another convenient distraction from the Kalorama wrecking ball or will Biden collect his Big Guy cut from Xi and look the other way?

Ho. Lee. Fook. A war of convenience to distract the people and rally them to the cause was also the playbook for Argentina in 1982 when it temporarily seized the Falklands. Of course, the parallel ends there given the players involved today, 40 years on. While the Argentinian junta fell as a result of Thostaer's Britain retaking the islands and Argentina's economy collapsing, what are the odds that the Chinese Communists will also suffer a similar fate? They, of course, will never allow that.

Interesting times, indeed. Quoting that anonymous Chinese citizen “If we the people are not happy, it’s difficult to have a stable society.” Bingo. Back over here in the rapidly communizing former United States, the dam is actually breaking on the Mar-a-Lago raid, itself a distraction as well as political attack on the junta's biggest threat: Donald Trump. Not that there will ever be any repercussions on the junta here if the power structure and corruption continue as before. But what we had all known or strongly suspected has been uncovered, due to the efforts of real journalist Margot Cleveland as documented by Victoria Taft:

The same Florida magistrate who approved the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home will decide on Thursday if we can see why he approved it. We’d like to check his work, you understand. Because it looks like the FBI is up to its old tricks again. Indeed, the FBI’s supposed “leaker” who complained about Trump’s document cache seems to have obliterated the excuses we’ve heard for the raid and laid bare the sole reason behind it: get Trump. . .
. . . The FBI and DOJ, of course, don’t want us to see the evidence that allegedly supports the propriety of the Mar-a-Lago smash and grab. They must have had an overweening need to get those nuclear secret documents that the Feds told the media Trump had.
Thing is, we don’t need to read the docs; we’d just like to know that there’s more support for the report than the leak to The Washington Post that Trump had “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons.” Or more than the speculative rantings of Maggie Haberman on Twitter. Or more than the Wall Street Journal story leaked by the Feds in their tried-and-true continuous feedback loop. This loop starts with leaks to the media, the media dutifully report them, and the FBI uses the stories as “evidence” in their warrant applications. See how that works? They pulled this trick in the Alfa-Bank, Steele Dossier, Gretchen Whitmer, and Russian Collusion cases. So we hope you understand the skepticism.
Indeed, as I wrote those words above, news came from Professor Margot Cleveland, who writes for The Federalist, that that’s exactly what they did . . .
. . . Cleveland outed the source for the Trump document tale. She reports it’s this guy, former National Archives (NARA) head David Ferriero . . .
. . . Here’s how Cleveland put it:

Given these problems with the underlying legal theories, targeting a political enemy and former president of the United States with a search warrant represents an unforgivable lapse in judgment. And as for the claim that the DOJ needed to recover these vital national security documents, the shifting stories spread by leakers suggest this rationale is simply a pretext.
After all, within the course of one week, the justification for the search went from “nuclear secrets” to classified documents, to videos suggesting the documents were not secure, to videos suggesting the Trump team was serendipitously moving the documents, to a confidential human source claiming Trump continued to possess presidential records, to a supposed lie by Trump’s attorney that there were no documents present at Mar-a-Lago marked classified.
No matter the excuse provided for the raid, however, the reality remains that the Biden administration launched an unnecessary grand jury criminal investigation into Trump based on a referral from a partisan archivist. And all Americans of goodwill see the obvious difference in the government’s treatment of Clinton, Obama, and Trump, proving the purpose of the investigation was “to get” Trump and not the documents.
We’re in uncharted territory when half the country doesn’t trust the FBI or Department of Justice (DOJ) to tell the truth and show us their work. We want to see how 2 + 2 = an invasion of the home belonging to the former President of the United States of America. In short, we want to see the affidavit supporting why Trump-hating Magistrate Bruce Reinhart approved the raid.

As I said, we're not going to be allowed to see jack-shit with these people in power. What's more, given the nature of the beast, anyone who now presses the case is going to get whacked on the knuckles. Literally. Emphasis on the word "whacked."

Based on his performance to date, embattled Americans can believe that Christopher Wray would be willing to turn back the clock. As at Ruby Ridge and Waco, massive military force against the people would render deadly results but on a much wider scale. Remember, the FBI retains military snipers even after deadly “accidents,” so more innocent women would surely take bullets to the head.
More whistleblowers would suffer fatal gunshots to the chest, passed off by the FBI as a suicide before all the facts are in. That could also be the fate of more government insiders with access to sensitive documents. Sudden, heavily armed FBI raids of politicians’ homes could easily have deadly consequences, to be passed off as accidental.
On Wray’s watch, more journalists could find their homes and offices raided, and it’s not out of the question that some journalists could suddenly disappear. With massive power, special privilege, and zero accountability, pretty much anything is possible for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 2022 moving forward, the struggle of the people against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Lloyd Billingsley: "Skeletons in the FBI’s closet—and warnings of more violence to come."
Live Freeh or Die
"Crickets are already popular in Asia, our betters assure us. But then again, so are mask-wearing and communism. I keep thinking of that pathetic scene in Soylent Green where Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson get hold of some actual, real food and it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event for them. I figure we’re, what, ten years out at this point?"
Take a Look Inside a Cricket Farm…Which is Where Your Food Will Come From Soon

RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO

Margot Cleveland: "The DOJ and FBI think they can execute the same game plan they did for the last six years without the public noticing. They can’t."
10 Similarities Between the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Raid and Spygate
"Worse, it shows in shining glory — again — that this raid was pretextual, that it was an overly broad search warrant that gave FBI agents carte blanche to take every document, passport, and piece of Melania’s underwear they wanted. SO THEY COULD FIND A CRIME."
BOMBSHELL: Outing of Trump Raid 'Leaker' Shatters FBI Document Excuse, Now All Eyes Are on Affidavit Hearing
“Trump’s attorneys could have a runway to argue the scope of the search is overly broad.”
Ex-FBI Official: Search Warrant’s ‘Stunningly Broad Scope’ Gives Trump Room For Legal Challenge
Margot Cleveland: "The DOJ and FBI think they can execute the same game plan they did for the last six years without the public noticing. They can’t."
10 Similarities Between the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Raid and Spygate
"The bureau’s Mar-a-Lago raid reeks of secret-police tactics as it attempts to destroy Trump."
The FBI Who Cried Wolf

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Miranda Devine, what is your problem? You negate the facts of your own essay with this double-talk: "God knows Trump is no saint, and we still don’t know what the FBI was looking for in the documents they seized on Monday of last week." What the hell kind of crap is that?! Catch a clue, Tootsie and get over yourself.
Liberals’ FBI Trust is a Real Gut-Buster
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Victor Davis Hanson: "Those who warn most of some mythical civil war are those most likely to incite one."
"Civil War" Porn
“This was a referendum on the never ending Witch Hunt."
Donald Trump Calls to Dissolve January 6 Committee in Wake of Liz-ard Cheney’s Loss: "The People Have Spoken!"
Pastor Paul Doyle: “It feels like she’s trying to intimidate me.”
Read Letter From NY Attorney General Letitia James Threatening Church Hosting Trump-Friendly Event
"In the weeks since the leak of the draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — the case that would eventually overturn infamous pro-abortion case Roe v. Wade — churches, pregnancy centers, and other pro-life organizations have been subjected to vandalism and violence from pro-abortion leftists."
Watch: CatholicVote Slams Biden’s Inaction on Firebombed Churches
"Buta Biberaj's assistant Kimberly Phillips says she works for a racist county." (the moral disciples of Charles Manson, so no surprise here - jjs)
Nazi Collaborator Soros DA’s Deputy Predicts Race War
Sic transit gloria James Hodgkinson . . .
James Carville: "Majority" of GOP Voters "Really Stupid" Evil Racists
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Working Americans are suffering terribly during this time of "zero inflation."
Americans Are Borrowing More Than Ever, and Biden’s ‘Zero Inflation’ Lie Will Only Make It Worse
"Average rent prices are up 25% from March 2020."
Video: Americans Are Fleeing To MEXICO To Avoid Biden’s Titanic Economy
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Not Jerry Gallo, Jerry Callow!!!
Manchin: Democrats "Never Said" Inflation Reduction Act Would Immediately Bring Down Costs
"It remains unclear whether or not [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s boost to the IRS budget mole results in the agency gaining more military style equipment or weapons."
The IRS Already Spent Over $20 Million on Military Equipment and Ammo
Daniel Greenfield: "Biden promised government workers were coming back to the office. He lied."
Democrats Don’t Want Federal Employees to Have to Come to Work

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"A Congressional Budget Office report leaves no doubt about the cause of the nation’s crushing debt burden."
Facing Reality on Entitlements
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"The Democrats’ massive climate spending package, which President Joe Biden signed into law on Tuesday, will give over $40 billion to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), just as the bill allocates almost $80 billion to expand the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)."
The IRS Isn’t the Only Agency Being Supersized By Democrats
Lobbied = Bribed.
REPORT: Bill Gates Lobbied Manchin On Sweeping $386 Billion Climate Change Bill
"Below the surface, hard core greens are grumbling that the bill is a disappointment, with threats to disrupt its implementation. What’s going on here?"
Inside the Dishonest "Inflation Reduction Act"
For “clear violations of the fundamental tenets of research.”
White House Climate Science Overseer Sanctioned and Barred by the National Academy of Sciences
NIMBY. Hence arming the EPA and IRS to the teeth.
'Transformative' Says Ron Klain: 'We're Going to Build Thousands of Solar Arrays, Thousands of Windmills. . . '
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"The ongoing emergency declaration is set to expire on Oct. 13 unless it is extended again by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). While no formal announcement has been made yet, HHS previously said it would give state and local health agencies 60 days advanced notice if it planned not to extend the emergency, a deadline that passed at the start of the week with no warning issued, according to Axios."
Biden Blows Past Deadline to End Chinese COVID Public Health Emergency
"My goal is a new, public health action-oriented culture at CDC that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication and timeliness.” (". . . minus any real science that goes against the approved narrative" I added that last part - jjs)
CDC To De-Emphasize Science, Prioritize Communications In Complete Post- Chinese COVID Overhaul
"It's the left, not the right, that spent the last two years trying to score political points during this once-in-a-generation pandemic."
No, Republicans Didn’t ‘Let Their Citizens Die’ During Chinese COVID
"It is almost as if the leftists who blindly moved to blacklist and destroy people from March 2020 until the end of 2021 had inexplicably been consumed by hubris. Somehow they came to believe that the law no longer applied to them, and that they could do anything they wanted to enforce their edicts, even if their actions were illegal, slanderous, or disgustingly tyrannical."
Pushback: Doctor Files $25 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against Houston Methodist for Its Chinese COVID Slanders
“What do you think this is, the Soviet fucking Union? You can’t come take my shit. The law doesn’t work like that. It’s so messed up. We need a hospitality alliance.” (sorry to say, you probably voted for this so enjoy it good and hard - jjs)
Hamptons Restaurateurs Clash With "Party Police" Over Post- Chinese COVID Crackdowns
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Jack Posobiec: “[An] anonymous whistleblower who works as a ‘travel youth care worker’ for a federally funded contractor, shared that tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children are being bussed and flown throughout the US and being handed off to unvetted adult ‘sponsors.'”
Biden Behind 'Child Trafficking' Operation at Southern Border
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"I'm for decriminalizing across the board."
John Fetterman Has Repeatedly Nodded To Woke Drug Policy
"Though Miyares maintains that Fetterman has only lied about the incident, he ultimately supported his U.S. Senate bid in 2021, arguing that he has done more good than bad as a politician." (it's a mental illness - jjs)
John Fetterman in 2013: "I Did the Right Thing" Pulling Gun on Unarmed Black Jogger
"A scandal of epic proportions." ("1-877-Kids-4-Cash, donate your kid to-day!" - jjs)
Judge Orders Two Fellow Judges To Pay $200 Million Over "Kids-For-Cash" Scandal
"The problem for DeSantis is that announcing an intent not to enforce the law is not the same as actually refusing to enforce the law in a specific case."
Florida Prosecutor Suspended by DeSantis Sues the Governor in Federal Court
Raymond Ibrahim: ". . . Until it blows up in his face.
Biden Exploits Muslim Murders to Play Identity Politics
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Republicans need to make Big Tech and social media companies protect free speech before the 2024 presidential election."
If Big Tech Isn’t Regulated Before 2024, the Election Will Be Rigged Again
"Pro-groomer social media platform Twitter has permanently suspended the Gays Against Groomers organization from their account."
Twitter Is Objectively Pro-Groomer
". . . it’s curious that the hospital added the disclaimer about age to the website on or around the time Libs of TikTok highlighted the gruesome procedure at Boston Children’s and the video from the grinning Madame Mengele. This is the kind of thing you do when you’re faced with bad publicity and/or trying to cover up something."
Libs of TikTok Pointed Out Boston Children's Hospital's Trans Surgery Policy. Then the Fact-Checkers Got Involved.
ABORTION
"About power and control."
Planned Parenthood Spends Historical $50 Million On Midterm Elections
"They previously made $925 for an abortion at 16 weeks’ gestation."
Abortionists Lament Over Shuttered Clinics in Louisiana
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Kelly is running now against pro-Second Amendment Blake Masters (R), and a commercial airing again and again in the Phoenix area contrasts Masters’ support of SCOTUS’s pro-life decision with Kelly’s use of classic leftist catch phrases about women’s health."
Mark Kelly Conspicuously Avoids Topic of Gun Control on Campaign Trail
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Christopher F. Rufo: "Sacramento City Unified School District instructs teachers to 'normalize gender exploration' and promotes such identities as 'genderqueer,' ' polysexual,' and 'two-spirit.'”
How Gender Radicalism Conquered Sacramento Schools
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"A Catholic who prays the Rosary daily responds."
The Atlantic Attacks the Rosary as a Dangerous, Right-Wing Weapon"
"Israel-hating activists justify and valorize terrorism."
Calling for the Death of Jews on Campus
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"E-mails reveal how Hunter got Obama to officially recognize partnership."
"Whatever You Need": How Hunter Biden Helped the CCP’s Premier Influence Group Gain a US Foothold
"New texts reveal more DAMNING info on Hunter."
Video: 50% for the Big Guy?
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Here is the full list of deep-state and Democrat allies that prove the ‘no one is above the law’ schtick is all a lie."
Democrats Say "No One is Above the Law," But This List of Their Corrupt Allies Proves Otherwise
POLITICS
"Good riddance to them."
The Purge of Impeachment Republicans Is Nearly Complete
"Cheney’s trouncing Tuesday shows just how fed up the Right is with Never Trumpers."
See Ya ’Round, Liz
"In a hypothetical 2024 poll between Biden and former President Donald Trump, the former president leads with a majority of the vote with 53 percent compared to the 39 percent who would vote for Biden. This comes after the recent FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, which showed that 39 percent of Ohio voters are 'more likely' to support Trump if he runs for president in 2024."
Ohio Flips: 1st Poll Post Mar-a-Lago Raid Shows J.D. Vance, Republicans Have Overtaken Democrats
"While Republicans will still likely take back the House of Representatives, with significantly less seats than originally expected, taking control of the Senate is looking very unlikely at this point. What happened?" (meh, YMMV - jjs)
Is the Red Wave Crashing?
"They’re backing far-left [wife-beater] Sen. Raphael Warnock instead."
Never Trumpers’ Despicable Attack on Herschel Walker
"A Republican has to be a bit of a Machiavellian to control a hostile Deep State–infested government. Does Trump have what it takes?"
Does Trump Have the Political Savvy to Succeed in a Second Term?
"She's the better man."
Trump Torches Democrat Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney in Goof Endorsement
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
“'If we the people are not happy, it’s difficult to have a stable society.' She also told the outlet that some homebuyers who demanded answers have been threatened or detained for their trouble." (get ready for the PLA to invade Taiwan - jjs)
Chinese Real Estate Collapse Throws Economy Into Crisis
"Leave the energy for the people."
China Begins Rationing Energy Supplies Amid Severe Drought
"Former secretary of state joins advocates, Republican lawmakers in pressure campaign to block Raisi visit."
Pompeo Presses Biden To Deny Iranian President a US Visa, Citing Active Terror Plots
"The attack was carried out by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, who called on the government to release Ricardo Ruiz."
Hundreds of Mexican National Guard Troops Sent to Tijuana to Counter Cartel Violence
"Says they’re extremists who want to overthrow the government."
German Official Trashes Cost of Living Protesters as “Enemies of the State”
This from the piece of shit that spent his entire life declaring the actual Holocaust a myth.
Abbas, in Germany, Accuses Israel of "50 Holocausts," "Apartheid"
Sky News UK: “The head of RAF recruitment has resigned in protest at an ‘effective pause’ on offering jobs to white male recruits in favour of women and ethnic minorities, defence sources have claimed.”
Report: UK’s Royal Air Force “Pauses” Recruitment of White Male to Fill Gender, Racial Diversity Quota
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
"The mental state of crowds manipulated by political theatrics."
Afghanistan: Biden’s Most-Telling "Illusion"
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: "What we have seen over the past year has been nothing other than chaos disguised as policymaking."
As Afghanistan Proves, Biden Has No Plan — He Just Stumbles From Disaster to Disaster (he creates them first - jjs)
"While the US and its allies airlifted nearly 130,000 people out of the country during the weeks-long mission, McCaul’s report makes clear that many more were left to fend for themselves."
More Than 1,000 Americans Were Left in Afghanistan by Biden Exodus: GOP Report
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"How 'woke' experiments endanger our Armed Forces."
Defense, Diversity, and the China Threat
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Dennis Prager: "Western elites in academia, media, politics and the business world—in short, everywhere—are moral fools."
A Reminder About the Moral Difference Between the Christian and Muslim Worlds at This Time
"Will I be the next victim?"
My Encounter with Salman Rushdie
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Deane Waldman, M.D.: "The offensively named Inflation Reduction Act is primarily a bill of health care promises, to join a long and disreputable history of lies from the government."
Biden's Inflation Bill Is a Nest of Health Care Lies
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Scientists first spotted the “dark plasma explosion” on Sunday when it burst forth from the sun’s surface, reaching a speed of around 1.3 million miles per hour, according to LiveScience. The explosion ripped through the sun’s atmosphere, creating a coronal mass ejection (CME), which is essentially a massive jet of solar material, SpaceWeather reported."
Scientists Say a Huge "Cannibal" Geomagnetic Storm Will Slam Into Earth
"Capitalism in space: The in-space 3D printing company Redwire announced yesterday that it will launch to ISS the first privately-built greenhouse, scheduled for a ’23 liftoff."
Redwire to Launch First Commercial and Private Greenhouse in Space
"In partnership with scientists at MIT, the Planetary Science Institute, and others, Rocket Lab engineers this week published a detailed description of the company’s planned privately funded mission to Venus, presently targeting a launch in May 2023."
A Detailed Description of Rocket Lab's Private Venus Mission"
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Challenging this evil ideology, which is destroying a generation of children, is something every decent person should be doing."
A Moral Call to Arms About the Transgender Revolution
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“There’s a longtime effort in the works by activists and ministers to rename it because of its namesake’s role in the slave trade."
Progressive Thugs Demand Renaming of Boston’s Historic Faneuil Hall
"It’s critical that parents have age-appropriate conversations with their children to protect them from progressives’ dangerous worldview."
Parents Must Have Tough Conversations With Their Kids to Counter a Progressive Onslaught
"The movement so completely changed American Blacks’ relationship with law and society that Griner’s choices—which benefit Putin—are no surprise."
Brittney Griner is Another Victim of the BLM Movement
"Abrasive, anti-war, and over-the-top Donald Trump is probably our last punk rocker."
Too Punk for Rock and Roll
HITHER & YON
“This discovery is our strongest indicator that Peter had a special association with the basilica, and it was likely dedicated to him. Since Byzantine Christian tradition routinely identified Peter’s home in Bethsaida, and not in Capernaum as is often thought today, it seems likely that the basilica commemorates his house,” said Steven Notley, one of the professors leading the project.
Archeologists Uncover Inscription Linking Ancient Church to Possible Home of Two Apostles
"Washington’s 'Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport' spoke to the whole world."
Soul of Freedom

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:28 AM

Comments

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 07:28 AM (BRHaw)

2 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 07:29 AM (1n+EO)

3 I've read that letter from Washington to the Hebrew congregation. It's very moving. Thanks for including it, J.J. I'm also glad to read about the evidence for the house of several of the apostles:

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2022 07:32 AM (wvo9L)

4 morning horde.

coffee is ready

off to the content before a full day of meetings...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 18, 2022 07:32 AM (WhsXQ)

5 Did Chuck Grassley really say the IRS has "AK-15s"?

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 07:33 AM (sn5EN)

6 "Crickets are already popular in Asia"

You know what else is popular in Asia?

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 07:34 AM (sn5EN)

7 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at August 18, 2022 07:34 AM (u7pQw)

8 I see the FBI Director of Entrapment was heading up the Trump operation.

Posted by: BignJames at August 18, 2022 07:35 AM (AwYPR)

9 I am so thankful I locked in a 30 y 3% mortg. when I could.

Posted by: Infidel at August 18, 2022 07:37 AM (QgnTJ)

10 Could have been first, read 15% of the content. Rookie mistake.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 18, 2022 07:38 AM (qH6FZ)

11 Bill Jacobson says myriad propaganda news organizations are now clamoring for the affidavit, and their argument sticks a knife into the Fibbie/DOJ cabal.

They say so much has been leaked by the Feds that little remains to be seen, so there is no good argument for keeping it secret.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 07:38 AM (hkZDC)

12 The 2024 election WILL be rigged again.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 07:39 AM (sn5EN)

13 That video yesterday of Biden at the signing ceremony .....

He looks so far gone that it is become a national security issue.
IMHO.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 07:39 AM (1n+EO)

14 I see the FBI Director of Entrapment was heading up the Trump operation.
Posted by: BignJames at August 18, 2022 07:35 AM (AwYPR)
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they should just formalize things and give that guy the actual title you suggest.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 07:39 AM (hkZDC)

15 "You know what else is popular in Asia?"

Soy sauce?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 07:40 AM (1n+EO)

16 See, when the feds break into your house and steal your property, it won't be a big deal. The feds standard was set at Mar-A-Lago.

Posted by: Eromero at August 18, 2022 07:40 AM (PU3C4)

17 "You know what else is popular in Asia?"

Soy sauce"

Well that, and crapping on the ground.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 07:41 AM (sn5EN)

18 15 "You know what else is popular in Asia?"

Soy sauce?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 07:40 AM (1n+EO)

Matzo ball soup and pastrami?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2022 07:41 AM (x0n13)

19 Also, rickshaws and bamboo hovels.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 07:42 AM (sn5EN)

20 One big problem Trump evidently has is finding lawyers experienced in Constitutional litigation. Democrats successfully intimidate them, getting people fired, disbarred, investigated and worse if they represent Trump.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 07:42 AM (hkZDC)

21 baluts and fresh monkey brains?

Posted by: BignJames at August 18, 2022 07:42 AM (AwYPR)

22 ""You know what else is popular in Asia?"

Soy sauce?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 07:40 AM (1n+EO)

Matzo ball soup and pastrami?"

Styrofoam fish market boxes.
When there is a downpour, those things flow down to the sea in the tens of thousands.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 07:43 AM (1n+EO)

23 > to videos suggesting the Trump team was serendipitously moving the documents

I think you meant surreptitiously, though it may have been serendipitous for the FBI if they learned about it. Are editors a thing anymore?

Posted by: me at August 18, 2022 07:44 AM (5jdq3)

24 In two years I will be dead or retired. Maybe both.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 07:45 AM (sn5EN)

25 AK-15? Pssssshhhh. I have an AR-74! With 2 things that go up!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 07:45 AM (hwoGt)

26 At BBC, usable news: "Mystery of ancient creature with no anus solved."

Posted by: gp Dodging Fast Nuclei at August 18, 2022 07:47 AM (qpX6U)

27 Down by the seaside
The styrofoam's flowin'

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 07:47 AM (hwoGt)

28 " Are editors a thing anymore?"

All it takes to be a "journalist" is exhibiting that you are down for the struggle. Spelling and grammar are secondary. Accuracy is thirdly.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 07:47 AM (sn5EN)

29 Happy Thursday, one and all. I am happy to report that my physical therapy for adhesive capsulitis (That's frozen shoulder for you non-fancy education havin' folks) has been yielding results. I have a much better range of motion and the pain, while constant, has dropped.

That's some good news to balance the shit going on right now.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2022 07:47 AM (4olE8)

30 Or more than the Wall Street Journal story leaked by the Feds in their tried-and-true continuous feedback loop. This loop starts with leaks to the media, the media dutifully report them, and the FBI uses the stories as “evidence” in their warrant applications. See how that works?

You forgot that DPT Must be Evil as he does not submit himself to the AUTHORITIES. This is a regular ruse used by Progressives, if you are not a lawbreaker, then you should not object to this new law on blah blah balh!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 07:47 AM (BRHaw)

31 Also at BBC: "Rushdie attack suspect 'only read two pages' of Satanic Verses"

Imagine how mad he'd have been if he read the whole thing.

Posted by: gp Dodging Fast Nuclei at August 18, 2022 07:48 AM (qpX6U)

32 20 One big problem Trump evidently has is finding lawyers experienced in Constitutional litigation. Democrats successfully intimidate them, getting people fired, disbarred, investigated and worse if they represent Trump.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 07:42 AM (hkZDC)

The 65 Project is filing complaints against the 100+ lawyers who worked on finding the illegal voting.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 07:49 AM (BRHaw)

33 Coincidentally enough given JJ's emphasis this a.m., flash flooding in western China; drought elsewhere seeing manufacturing shut down like for Toyota car batteries.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 18, 2022 07:49 AM (yikp0)

34 "Mystery of ancient creature with no anus solved."

Pelosi just packs it in her head.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 07:49 AM (sn5EN)

35 The same Florida magistrate who approved the raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home will decide on Thursday if we can see why he approved it.

You know, for a free and open society, we sure do keep a lot of secrets from those who are supposedly free.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 07:50 AM (Dazu1)

36 Victoria Taft succinctly summarizes the double standard in her PJ Media article, from JJ's link

To put it in context, the Clintons stole nearly $200,000 worth of furniture, part of which they were told to pay back. There was no FBI raid. Later, Hillary's server was chock-full of classified information that was easily hackable by spy agencies. No raid. Then there were President Obama's 30 million pages of "unclassified documents" that he failed to return to the National Archives (NARA), also with no FBI raid. NARA and Obama's foundation agreed to a Memo of Understanding (MOU) promise in 2018 that the documents would be digitized and in exchange, Obama's foundation had to pay $3.3 million to NARA to be allowed to keep the records "on loan."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 07:50 AM (CPOhL)

37 Another day in paradise, can I go home now?

Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 18, 2022 07:51 AM (lr0Lr)

38 Time to start planning for the after times.

Posted by: IanDeal at August 18, 2022 07:51 AM (MGjjz)

39 I don't have to go anywhere today so am feeling kinda green.
Maybe I'll burn the trash pile.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 07:51 AM (sn5EN)

40 Accounts also differed on where Foster’s body had been found, which raised the possibility that it had been moved. A point-blank gunshot wound to the head leaves an enormous amount of blood, bone and tissue but accounts discussing the position of the body, and photos of the scene, do not reflect that reality. The bullet was never found, and accounts also differed on the type of gun found in Foster’s hand.

I had forgot that point!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 07:52 AM (BRHaw)

41 Also at BBC: "Rushdie attack suspect 'only read two pages' of Satanic Verses"

Imagine how mad he'd have been if he read the whole thing.
Posted by: gp Dodging Fast Nuclei at August 18, 2022 07:48 AM (qpX6U)
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no one could finish that book

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 07:52 AM (CPOhL)

42 Morning peeps.

Revised WEF motto: "You will eat nothing and own bugs."

I think that's how it goes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2022 07:52 AM (BFigT)

43 ha

5. Don’t Question Authority
Schiff also pushed another ploy used in earlier get-Trump hoaxes, namely condemning criticism of the FBI. “The GOP’s unfounded attacks on the FBI are grossly irresponsible,”

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 07:53 AM (BRHaw)

44 He looks so far gone that it is become a national security issue.

I would have felt sorry for him but it's Biden so...

Truly is pathetic though. That mouth hanging open, complete confusion on his face. He had no clue where he was.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 18, 2022 07:54 AM (nxdel)

45 31
Imagine how mad he'd have been if he read the whole thing.
Posted by: gp Dodging Fast Nuclei at August 18, 2022 07:48 AM (qpX6U)

Four pages in and I knew I'd wasted my money. And I found it on the sidewalk!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2022 07:54 AM (4olE8)

46 I see the FBI Director of Entrapment was heading up the Trump operation.
Posted by: BignJames
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they should just formalize things and give that guy the actual title you suggest.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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The Panty-Sniffer Pursuivant.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 18, 2022 07:54 AM (yikp0)

47 Hilarious Donald Trump endorsements keep coming, as he threw wrenches into two NYC Democrat primaries, by endorsing people he hates. In the case of Adam Goldman the primary opponent immediately started using the endorsement against Goldman (who helped prosecute a Trump impeachment).

Trump is a world class troll.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 07:55 AM (CPOhL)

48 the shifting stories spread by leakers suggest this rationale is simply a pretext.
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Which was exactly the theory I proposed last week.

Someone was ordered, probably six months ago or more, to "find a reason" to raid Trump's home by a certain Monday in August. And they did.

Posted by: ... at August 18, 2022 07:55 AM (dscaa)

49 At BBC, usable news: "Mystery of ancient creature with no anus solved."
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No shit?!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 18, 2022 07:55 AM (yikp0)

50 Driving around yesterday in was depressed by the sight of more forested land being cleared for solar panels. They are destroying trees that take sunlight and convert it to oxygen, and which also provide cool shade, and putting up fast fields of panels that are burning hot and are ugly as hell. It's disgusting.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 07:56 AM (sn5EN)

51 Everybody over 70 years old. Consider that what you are doing is play acting before the next generation, because you're soon to be dead.

Can you enjoy your time with your family or are you going to continue to steal from the American taxpayer?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 18, 2022 07:56 AM (WHt4f)

52 " “The GOP’s unfounded attacks on the FBI are grossly irresponsible,”

1629112

or

AFBIAAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 07:57 AM (1n+EO)

53 But while just 30% of Republicans and 45% of independents feel positive about the FBI, 75% of Democrats and 81% of liberals are big fans.

Who would have thought jack booted thugs would like other jack booted thugs??

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 07:57 AM (BRHaw)

54 Epstein's lawyer today conducts the hearing on keeping secret the tatters of Levrenty Garland's "I'll show you the crime" assault on the American Republic.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 07:58 AM (CPOhL)

55 > Driving around yesterday in was depressed by the sight of more forested land being cleared for solar panels.
____________

There's an effort underway here in the Bluegrass to repurpose crop and pasture land for solar panel "farms." In some cases the locals are affluent enough to fight it, elsewhere not so much. Most of the time it's the 3rd or 4th generation who now owns the property and their kids want nothing to do with "farming."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2022 07:59 AM (BFigT)

56 "Crickets are already popular in Asia, our betters assure us. But then again, so are mask-wearing and communism. I keep thinking of that pathetic scene in Soylent Green where Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson get hold of some actual, real food and it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event for them. I figure we’re, what, ten years out at this point?"

The thing that amuses me here is that:
One of the kiddos years ago had on of those snazzy lizards, which was fed almost exclusively on farmed crickets.
However, Snazzy Lizard got sick with...Lizard Cancer!

Wondering how this could happen, I did some research and found out that "farmed crickets" are a terrible food. Highly lacking in important nutrients, proteins, fats, and vitamins. No lizard/reptile/animal in general should be fed an exclusive diet of "farmed crickets".

Did you get that? "Farmed crickets" are no es bueno.
For even a lizard, let alone a human being.
Even if you're the biggest fan of eating crickets in the world, once again like EVs, like global warming,
eating crickets, however processed, will leave you severely malnourished.
Just another scam for the stupid.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2022 07:59 AM (5NkmN)

57 Hong Kong says 29 of 47 democracy activists charged with conspiracy to commit subversion pleaded guilty.

That's alot less, even per capita, than the J6 kangaroo courts. Xi is slipping.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 18, 2022 07:59 AM (yikp0)

58 “The GOP’s unfounded attacks on the FBI are grossly irresponsible,”
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Yeah, fuck that guy in particular

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 07:59 AM (CPOhL)

59 "75% of Democrats and 81% of liberals are big fans."

All while wearing their 'Che" tee-shirts, and sipping their latte's out of their 'Question Authority' cups.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 07:59 AM (1n+EO)

60 The great failing of the authoritarian Left is that it has no imagination. Our tragic reality is that the Right has none either.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 18, 2022 08:00 AM (H8QX8)

61 50 Driving around yesterday in was depressed by the sight of more forested land being cleared for solar panels. They are destroying trees that take sunlight and convert it to oxygen, and which also provide cool shade, and putting up fast fields of panels that are burning hot and are ugly as hell. It's disgusting.

tree cover also contributes to the rain/water cycle

very foolish. but what does one expect from these tyrannical midwits?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 18, 2022 08:00 AM (w0NJk)

62 ISIS bombs Taliban mosque in Kabul killing some 21 and wounding/injuring 33 in another victory for Biden's Afghan policy.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 18, 2022 08:01 AM (yikp0)

63 Miranda Devine, what is your problem? You negate the facts of your own essay with this double-talk: "God knows Trump is no saint, and we still don’t know what the FBI was looking for in the documents they seized on Monday of last week."

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Trump is "no saint" from what point of view? He was quite literally the cleanest politician in Washington DC. Likewise for his Trump Empire business practices, or he would've been prosecuted by the corrupt DA in NY. Don't dare preface your comments by saying he's no saint, unless you're referring to his womanizing over the years.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 18, 2022 08:02 AM (sVtYq)

64 Anyone else having issues with protonmail this morning?

Posted by: WeBoned! at August 18, 2022 08:03 AM (8k7U7)

65 It's long been a staple of commie regimes to use war as a fog to their failings. And I do NOT exclude the US from this practice, as Clinton bombed an aspirin factory when his fortunes were flagging.

The Chins have long been known to be digging a buncha holes in their big desert to place ICBMs there.

They are using MIRVed warheads on their missiles, btw. We unilaterally stopped doing that like 20 years ago.

And so it goes.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 18, 2022 08:03 AM (JOtiF)

66 "Don't dare preface your comments by saying he's no saint, unless you're referring to his womanizing over the years."

Remember back in the old days..

The Left demanded that what happened in the bedroom between consenting adults was nobodies business.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 08:03 AM (1n+EO)

67 The labor force participation rate, at 62.1%, and the employment-population ratio, at 60.8%… remain below their February 2020 values.”
“The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons increased by 303,000 to 3.9 million in July. The rise reflected the increase in the number of persons whose hours were cut due to slack work or business conditions.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 08:03 AM (BRHaw)

68 Trump is "no saint" from what point of view? He was quite literally the cleanest politician in Washington DC. Likewise for his Trump Empire business practices, or he would've been prosecuted by the corrupt DA in NY. Don't dare preface your comments by saying he's no saint, unless you're referring to his womanizing over the years.

good catch. what do these people think the ACTUAL saints were like? they weren't all Saint Agnes.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 18, 2022 08:04 AM (w0NJk)

69 Everybody over 70 years old. Consider that what you are doing is play acting before the next generation, because you're soon to be dead.

Can you enjoy your time with your family or are you going to continue to steal from the American taxpayer?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 18, 2022 07:56 AM (WHt4f)

Welp, that's certainly a hot take.

Not over 70 or near, but I'm sure the average Joe Blows reply to this is "Go fuck yourself" or "You first, lame-o."

We gotta get a better class of troll here.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2022 08:04 AM (5NkmN)

70 First!*

*First one who made omelettes and bacon for breakfast and walked the dogs.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 18, 2022 08:04 AM (bVYXr)

71 Don't dare preface your comments by saying he's no saint, unless you're referring to his womanizing over the years.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 18, 2022 08:02 AM (sVtYq)

Even that is completely irrelevant given JFK, LBJ and especially Clinton.

The swipe at Trump is out of left field especially since the point she's making in her discourse is the corruption and witch-hunting of the FBI.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2022 08:04 AM (x0n13)

72 Why would it? Well, immediately it’s not,” Manchin responded. “But we never said anything happens immediately like today, turn the switch on and off.”

Another lying DemocRAT!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 08:04 AM (BRHaw)

73 For those cretins demanding that we (not them) eat crickets, I have to ask:

Given that such a thing is a traditionally Asian cuisine, are you not demanding that we engage in Cultural Appropriation?

Posted by: NR Pax at August 18, 2022 08:05 AM (4olE8)

74 but what does one expect from these tyrannical midwits?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 18, 2022 08:00 AM (w0NJk)
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They fully plan on killing us all with their imbecilic stupidity. It's a planned extinction on a global scale.

The entirety of the human race will be wiped from the Earth. And the last Leftist to turn out the lights will look upon the "natural" world (really a ruined wasteland) and call it "good."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 18, 2022 08:05 AM (YIVH2)

75 “The GOP’s unfounded attacks on the FBI are grossly irresponsible,”

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Unfounded??? What a laugh! They're very well founded. And documented. Just not honestly reported on by the propaganda "media."

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 18, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

76 "We gotta get a better class of troll here."

We keep bringing that up with Ace at the annual budget meeting.

But he would rather spend the money on flea dips, and messenger bags.

So we get what we can afford.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 08:06 AM (1n+EO)

77 I went to the cnn homepage and there in a HUGE red banner "TRUMP THREATENS TO RELEASE VIDEO OF MAR-A-LAGO RAID"

First, I thought it wasn't a raid? Second - HE SCARES THE SHIT OUT OF THEM. There is absolutely, positively, nothing illegal or immoral or wrong about him releasing the video.

They also say some adviser are advising for it, some against.

DO IT. JUST DO IT. They are going to freak out whether you do or not. JUST DO IT.

Posted by: blaster at August 18, 2022 08:06 AM (6TxNR)

78 53 But while just 30% of Republicans and 45% of independents feel positive about the FBI, 75% of Democrats and 81% of liberals are big fans.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Imagine if you had asked the same question after Comey's Hillary email announcement just prior to the 2016 election? Democrats would have been hating on the FBI. R numbers would have been higher (we hadn't yet understood the full duplicity of the Comey FBI), but not by that much.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 18, 2022 08:06 AM (g1EEm)

79 A top German official has trashed people who may be planning to protest against energy blackouts as "enemies of the state" and "extremists" who want to overthrow the government.
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Is there a seminar at WEF meetings on the language totalitarian statists should use while enslaving the peons, or is it merely coincidental all these clowns sound alike?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:06 AM (hkZDC)

80 Trump has no path to the presidency! The walls have closed in! There are too many investigations!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 08:06 AM (hwoGt)

81

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 18, 2022 08:06 AM (SWi3y)

82 Auckland, New Zealand family finds the bodies of two children in suitcases purchased from a storage unit.

||WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A New Zealand family who bought some abandoned goods from a storage unit got home with their purchases to discover the bodies of two children hidden in two suitcases, police said Thursday.

The children were between 5 and 10 years old, had been dead for a number of years, and the suitcases had been in storage for at least three or four years, Detective Inspector Tofilau Faamanuia Vaaelua said. [...]

He also said police had contacted Interpol and overseas policing agencies -- a possible indication police might believe the suspect or suspects are now living abroad.||

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

83 Is there any way that the FBI, if following established procedures, should have been able to remove three passports during the search. And NOT have any of them listed on the property receipt?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 08:08 AM (1n+EO)

84 The swipe at Trump is out of left field especially since the point she's making in her discourse is the corruption and witch-hunting of the FBI.

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I see this a lot, actually. Almost like a shield for the writer. You have to make a disparaging comment about Trump to protect yourself. "I don't like the man personally, but [insert bad thing that happened to him] isn't right."

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

85 Clintons: *Have multiple investigations due to actual criminal activity

Also Clintons: We need to get our allies to open multiple bogus investigations into Trump to teach him a lesson about talking about our investigations.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 08:08 AM (hwoGt)

86 So I want to tell you guys about the bad thing that happened up by our cabin? we have a vacation place near a town called Eagles Mere. it's ... my favorite place in the world. if PA weren't boned, we would retire there very happily.

anyway.

there was a terrible fire in a cute nearby town called Berwick. Ten people died, many were children.

they had a fundraiser for the families in Berwick while I was up there. this is what happened:

http://bitly.ws/ttuK

and this is the mentally-ill "dreamer" who caused the new tragedy:

http://bitly.ws/ttuN

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 18, 2022 08:08 AM (w0NJk)

87 >>>eating crickets, however processed, will leave you severely malnourished.
Just another scam for the stupid.

Posted by: naturalfake

>Maybe it's too late and I have already been brainwashed. I had a shrimp burrito that was delicious and now I'm second guessing my choice. Can I still have bacon and eggs? With cheese and salsa? Is a torlilla and cilantro too third world? Maybe I should stick to cheerios and 2%.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 18, 2022 08:09 AM (WHt4f)

88 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 08:09 AM (WWh8n)

89 Is there a seminar at WEF meetings on the language totalitarian statists should use while enslaving the peons, or is it merely coincidental all these clowns sound alike?
Posted by: Huck Follywood

As part of their orientation they watch old H!tler speeches.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 18, 2022 08:09 AM (g1EEm)

90 Is there a seminar at WEF meetings on the language totalitarian statists should use while enslaving the peons, or is it merely coincidental all these clowns sound alike?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:06 AM (hkZDC)
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They've all be indoctrinated into the Cult of Leftism. It really is a cult, with rituals, hierarchies, catechisms, and everything else you'd associate with cult-like behavior. It's no wonder they all sound the same.

They've been programmed by the high priesthood of the WEF.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 18, 2022 08:09 AM (YIVH2)

91 DO IT. JUST DO IT. They are going to freak out whether you do or not. JUST DO IT.
Posted by: blaster at August 18, 2022 08:06 AM (6TxNR)
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honestly, I'm surprised the DOJ hasn't subpoenaed the video.

What crimes were photographed, what bugs planted, what evidence planted...and what was missed. One argument against releasing the entire video is informing the DOJ of what Trump doesn't know, as compared to what he does.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:10 AM (hkZDC)

92 >>"While Republicans will still likely take back the House of Representatives, with significantly less seats than originally expected, taking control of the Senate is looking very unlikely at this point. What happened?"

According to Robert Cahahly, polling director for Trafalgar which is the gold standard for polling these days, nothing. If anything generic Republicans are doing slightly better thanks to the idiotic raid.

It's August. For as long as I have been watching politics polls in August are very unreliable for obvious reasons. The races begin after Labor Day.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2022 08:11 AM (ZLI7S)

93 Is there any way that the FBI, if following established procedures, should have been able to remove three passports during the search. And NOT have any of them listed on the property receipt?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 08:08 AM

Nope, everything they remove from the house must be recorded on the property receipt that is left with the owner or their representative.

They went to the trouble of putting a cocktail napkin on the receipt so we know removing the passports was done on purpose either to use for a later leak to the press that Trump had his passport seized by the fib or just simply to intimidate Trump.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 18, 2022 08:11 AM (bVYXr)

94 One argument against releasing the entire video is informing the DOJ of what Trump doesn't know, as compared to what he does.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

What does it matter? Nothing will come of anything even with Trump back in the WH and an R congress.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 08:12 AM (hwoGt)

95 Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 18, 2022 08:08 AM (w0NJk)
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Oddly, my security settings have lately rejected Bitly links, so I can't read these.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:13 AM (hkZDC)

96 The swipe at Trump is out of left field especially since the point she's making in her discourse is the corruption and witch-hunting of the FBI.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2022 08:04 AM (x0n13)

Actually such barbs and caveats and qualifiers about Trump are de rigueur for many on the so-called Right. It's like an unconscious tribute to their guild.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 18, 2022 08:13 AM (H8QX8)

97 We're going to really create 9 million jobs, not just deploying clean energy, but making it here in America. That's going to be transformative.

A note on Bhusseins $1 Trillion Stimulus:
What we can say is that in the three months after the stimulus bill was signed Feb. 18, the economy lost more than 1.5 million jobs, according to the BLS. So even if the president's 150,000-jobs claim is correct, that's about 10 percent of the total jobs lost.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 08:13 AM (BRHaw)

98 They went to the trouble of putting a cocktail napkin on the receipt so we know removing the passports was done on purpose either to use for a later leak to the press that Trump had his passport seized by the fib or just simply to intimidate Trump.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 18, 2022 08:11 AM (bVYXr)
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Seizing the passports was a deliberate psychological ploy by the FBI. Leaving them off the itemized receipt was also part of that same strategy. EVERYTHING they did was about sending a message to Trump and his supporters.

It's also meant to sow doubt in the minds of the undecided, who might believe Trump was guilty of something when they hear the FBI just had to take the passports to prevent Trump from fleeing the country.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 18, 2022 08:13 AM (YIVH2)

99 ||China imposed sweeping power cuts to households and factories in Sichuan province, including those belonging to major electronics companies where drought conditions have strained the region’s hydropower-based energy production capacity.||

Having a hot time in Sichuan, oddly enough.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 18, 2022 08:14 AM (yikp0)

100 Hoping Trump would travel without his passport, so he could be "arrested" overseas?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 08:14 AM (hwoGt)

101 "Nope, everything they remove from the house must be recorded on the property receipt that is left with the owner or their representative. "

That was my understanding as well.
But what keeps them from answering with 'They were in box #12 on the property receipt?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 08:14 AM (1n+EO)

102 “It’s gotten to the point where no one is taking care of it. So we naturally also have to defend our own rights,” one boycotter, who remained anonymous to avoid retribution, told The LA Times. ..
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I see that the domestic press has finally caught wind of this, months down the line. Newspapers are no place for nuance, but it is notable how personally devastating this decision to default on a mortgage can be for the people involved. China's social credit system ties in with the money credit system. If you become a bad debtor, it cuts you off from things like high-speed rail, air travel, passports and more. Your "public health" passport might turn red at any time, restricting you from more or less *everything.* Moreover, in Chinese tradition, this black mark is intergenerational. Your kids will be punished, too.

Large-scale defaults are different in China than they would be here. It is an act of desperation along the lines of "life will suck if I do this, but it is unbearable now." Not to mention the destruction of capital chains in the big banks, which are largely in bad shape anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 08:14 AM (WWh8n)

103 events in China are fascinating - it's looking like China, with it's weird Imperial mix of communism, fascism, and capitalism, has come up with something that combines the worst aspects of each system. Now they're marching lockstep into a good old capitalist financial panic and banking crisis, which should be impossible in a top-down totalitarian system.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 08:15 AM (r46W7)

104 Oddly, my security settings have lately rejected Bitly links, so I can't read these.

shoot Huck well you get the general gist from the abcnews link - I just prefer the local news on this (WNEP). but the MSM link is: (remove spaces)

https://abcnews.go.com/US/ dead-17-injured-car- crashes-crowd-fundraiser-fire/ story

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 18, 2022 08:15 AM (w0NJk)

105 All the best trolls are mostly fake. Mostly.

Posted by: Newt, the one from LV-426 at August 18, 2022 08:15 AM (gFL6k)

106 We’re in uncharted territory when half the country doesn’t trust the FBI or Department of Justice (DOJ) to tell the truth and show us their work. We want to see how 2 + 2 = an invasion of the home belonging to the former President of the United States of America.
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Welcome to the party. I still want to see how 1 + 1 = the destruction of Michael Flynn.

The FBI has been suspicious for a long, long, long time. It has been clearly corrupt and monstrous since they tore their own masks off in 2016.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 08:16 AM (WWh8n)

107 But while just 30% of Republicans and 45% of independents feel positive about the FBI, 75% of Democrats and 81% of liberals are big fans. Who would have thought jack booted thugs would like other jack booted thugs??
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 07:57 AM (BRHaw)

It just wasn't that long ago, watching Donahue as a little kid, with a clean cut, all-American poster-boy for good old fashioned Law Enforcement telling the audience regarding expanded Civil Asset Forfeiture "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear". This mentality was largely approved of by the Right, and loudly condemned by the Left.

Even as a kid, I always assumed "I guess one side figures it'll never happen to them, and the other side is sure it will". Turns out, I guessed correct. Because now, not even forty years later, the reactions are exactly the opposite.

Democrats and Liberals are big fans now because they're in control. There wasn't any kind of philosophical under-pinning to the debate. It was all about who'd be searched, and who would do the searching.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:16 AM (Dazu1)

108 China will be fine.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 08:16 AM (hwoGt)

109 I am really to the point of asking that EVERY suspect in every crime have their nationality, citizenship and immigration status, where applicable be listed on any news report.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 08:16 AM (1n+EO)

110 If things get too spicy, Xi will release another virus.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 08:16 AM (hwoGt)

111 to videos suggesting the Trump team was serendipitously moving the documents

I think you meant surreptitiously, though it may have been serendipitous for the FBI if they learned about it. Are editors a thing anymore?
Posted by: me at August 18, 2022 07:44 AM (5jdq3)
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Well today is Serendipity Day as well as National Fajita Day. carry on.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2022 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

112 Price of eggs/dz at Aldi's last year was $.65. Now $3.29/dz. So I can now get 2 eggs for the same price as 12 last year.

Can't wait for the Joe's "inflation reduction" to fix that.

Posted by: Pete Seria at August 18, 2022 08:17 AM (7ZQe3)

113 China Is Asshoe!

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 18, 2022 08:17 AM (R/m4+)

114 It's August. For as long as I have been watching politics polls in August are very unreliable for obvious reasons. The races begin after Labor Day.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2022 08:11 AM (ZLI7S)
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and pollsters so routinely overstate Demofascist positioning that, even then, GOP candidates do better than the average poll suggests. Look at Lizard Cheney, and he crushing margin. Few, or none, projected that level of loss. A Wyoming newspaper editor suggested three days before the primary she might actually win.

I am just grimly waiting for November, ignoring these polls, and looking forward to pulling the lever.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:17 AM (hkZDC)

115 events in China are fascinating - it's looking like China, with it's weird Imperial mix of communism, fascism, and capitalism, has come up with something that combines the worst aspects of each system. Now they're marching lockstep into a good old capitalist financial panic and banking crisis, which should be impossible in a top-down totalitarian system.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 08:15 AM (r46W7)
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Theft is theft and it has its consequences regardless of which system enabled the theft.

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

116 Stop using name on your shitty bwog or I call powees

Posted by: Ho Lee Fook at August 18, 2022 08:18 AM (Y1sOo)

117 My goal is a new, public health action-oriented culture at CDC that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communication and timeliness.

I would argue that Public Health is a giant scam. It assumes that we live in a closed society that will act logically and rationally to government advice. Prohibition and the war on drugs are just 2 examples of complete and total failure.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 08:18 AM (BRHaw)

118 Large-scale defaults are different in China than they would be here. It is an act of desperation along the lines of "life will suck if I do this, but it is unbearable now." Not to mention the destruction of capital chains in the big banks, which are largely in bad shape anyway.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 08:14 AM (WWh8n)

The biggest problem for anyone who tries to rule China is that if only 10% of the population gets fed up and quits cooperating, they'll have over 100 million angry people working to destabilize the system.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 08:18 AM (r46W7)

119 Thanks for that link about Fetterman

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 18, 2022 08:18 AM (gbzeC)

120 "While Republicans will still likely take back the House of Representatives, with significantly less seats than originally expected, taking control of the Senate is looking very unlikely at this point. What happened?"

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In all seriousness, if voters are so braindead that they're approving of the economic hardships they're experiencing, both currently and what's coming down the tracks like an out-of-control locomotive, and they see no urgency to throw these D bastards out of office, we deserve what we're gonna get...good and hard. Enjoy your audits. Here, munch on some bugs while you face your armed IRS agent.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 18, 2022 08:19 AM (sVtYq)

121 116 Stop using name on your shitty bwog or I call powees
Posted by: Ho Lee Fook at August 18, 2022 08:18 AM (Y1sOo)

wassa matta, sum ting wong?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 08:19 AM (r46W7)

122 I would argue that Public Health is a giant scam. It assumes that we live in a closed society that will act logically and rationally to government advice. Prohibition and the war on drugs are just 2 examples of complete and total failure.

If something like the CDC was that damn vital, all fifty states would have something similar. And, since I'm a capitalist, I'd much rather fifty different agencies respond to something like the 'Rona rather than one agency. Yes, it won't be as efficient. But it also, purely based on probability, has less of an aggregate chance of being completely wrong. As in, at least one of those agencies will guess the correct response if nothing else.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:20 AM (Dazu1)

123 Well today is Serendipity Day as well as National Fajita Day. carry on.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2022 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

Sad, when fajitas becomes a luxury food do to The New Biden/Democrat Induce Inflationary Poverty Scheme.

On the upside, here's your chance get an early jump on your future and marinate some crickets in lime juice and garlic and have -

Cricket Fajitas(TM)!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2022 08:21 AM (5NkmN)

124 The biggest problem for anyone who tries to rule China is that if only 10% of the population gets fed up and quits cooperating, they'll have over 100 million angry people working to destabilize the system.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 08:18 AM (r46W7)
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And about 800 million to ride herd on them to various degrees. Unfortunately for that math, the coming (or present) recession there is going to make a lot more people suddenly more desperate. The biggest problems for China are demography (they're done for and the population is going to collapse within fifty years) and despair. People just checking out might be enough to do it. Checking out in China is hard, but there will be more capacity - and desire - to do so as employment dries up.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 08:21 AM (WWh8n)

125 51 Everybody over 70 years old. Consider that what you are doing is play acting before the next generation, because you're soon to be dead.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

If the next generation spent half as much time worrying about their own lives as they do about their parents', they might be doing a little better for themselves. It would at least get rid of that annoying whining sound in my ear.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 18, 2022 08:21 AM (g1EEm)

126 Marshall R Williams @texan_marshall
I don’t see how it couldn’t be. China’s central bank holds more debt than ours does. They are on the verge of a massive housing crash, worse than our 2008 crash.

Ilgephelfis @ilgephelfis · 13h
Replying to @zerohedge
Of course not. The Chinese people will magically start paying their mortgages again and the Chinese banks will magically start allowing them to withdraw their money and everything will be just fine for the world that is heavily invested in Chinese real estate.

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/
1560012394205777920

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 18, 2022 08:21 AM (yikp0)

127 Young Marine faces court martial for refusing Covid vaccine, refuses to return to US for separation procedure.

https://tinyurl.com/mt6kvp4y

A story of moral courage, and another story of our degenerating military.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 18, 2022 08:22 AM (H8QX8)

128 If something like the CDC was that damn vital, all fifty states would have something similar. And, since I'm a capitalist, I'd much rather fifty different agencies respond to something like the 'Rona rather than one agency. Yes, it won't be as efficient. But it also, purely based on probability, has less of an aggregate chance of being completely wrong. As in, at least one of those agencies will guess the correct response if nothing else.
Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:20 AM (Dazu1)
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Subsidiarity. What a concept. The hypothetical efficiency is lower, but the cross-section of damage resulting from wrong (or bad) decisions is also lower. Such a system is much more robust.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 08:22 AM (WWh8n)

129 IMO a random eff bee eye agent saw the passports (likely the Donald's and Melania's) and picked them up under the "flight risk" caveat. Whether the passports were on a list of things they were allegedly looking for isn't all that relevant under that scenario.

I think if he really wanted to skip out, Trump would have.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2022 08:23 AM (BFigT)

130 >>I am just grimly waiting for November, ignoring these polls, and looking forward to pulling the lever.

By and large I ignore most polls for the reasons you stated and because the methodology used by most pollsters is outdated. Trafalgar's polling methodology is much more modern and looks deeper into the data to detect trends that aren't necessarily represented by the top line numbers.

They've done very well the last few election cycles and nailed close races in contested markets like the VA governors race almost exactly. I'm not saying they are always right but they seem to give a much better view of races and trends backed by data than the typical media polls like Fox that are a joke.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2022 08:23 AM (ZLI7S)

131 I think the Senate is still going to turn. The nevertrumpers are shrieking and trying to undermine Herschel Walker, but I think that's just like them saying Liz Cheney was viable - Hershel is going to win.

the problem is Pennsylvania, and the fact that Doc Oz is a terrible candidate. But Nevada, Georgia, and Wisconsin should all be good.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 08:23 AM (r46W7)

132 120 "While Republicans will still likely take back the House of Representatives, with significantly less seats than originally expected, taking control of the Senate is looking very unlikely at this point. What happened?"

Nothing has happened. The election is in November.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 18, 2022 08:24 AM (H8QX8)

133 Huh. I just got a spam email from trina.crickenberger.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 08:24 AM (sn5EN)

134 Ryan Murphy, Southampton town code compliance and emergency management administrator, defended the enforcement after the rules were relaxed during the pandemic.

Slapping his riding quirt alternatively to his and then to his thigh high jack boots he said Ve have vays of making you comply!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 08:24 AM (BRHaw)

135 the problem is Pennsylvania, and the fact that Doc Oz is a terrible candidate. But Nevada, Georgia, and Wisconsin should all be good.

yep

we suck

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 18, 2022 08:24 AM (w0NJk)

136 FBI fell apart after they botched 9/11 and the Hanson Spy case.

Even with Republican DOJ's, the career Nazi's in The FBI were able to take down Casper Weinberger before the 1992 election, Ted Stevens to get the 60 votes for Obamacare, Curt Weldon because he was a critic,

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:24 AM (WY8d2)

137 This arrangement, which was once a source of easily accessible capital in a red-hot housing market, has left countless Chinese consumers holding the bag on half-finished homes that may never be fully constructed.

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Spoilers:

This is EXACTLY how EVs work, and why they are being pushed on us.

Statistically no one here wants them, and the few well off people who do want them can purchase them. But here's the key. The tooling is already developed. The plants and manufacturing plans are already in the works. The 2,5,10, 20 etc year financial plans are already in the books by auto manufacturers.

Because the U.S. is no longer the king of the hill. China is. China controls the markets and the forecasts, and they demand EVs, so Ford, Chevy, and "American" companies tell Americans to f*ck off, we're not selling what you want. You can buy what China wants, because that's what we're making.

Trillions of dollars of investments and wealth are at risk right now by forcing this on America, and Trump was the American people speaking up and saying no. Not only that, but changing the plans. Can you see why Trump is going to jail (or worse)?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 08:24 AM (9+Jmc)

138 > "You will eat nothing and own bugs."

It seems like the elites plan to live like aristocracy and extend their lives by consuming the blood of the young, while most of humanity become brainwashed, degraded servants that eat bugs. Also, they are strangely interested in blotting out the sun. Apparently we ran out of dystopian novels to use the "______ was a warning, not an instruction manual" and are getting a little crazy with it.

Posted by: me at August 18, 2022 08:25 AM (5jdq3)

139 Whitey Bulger and the Boston Marthon bombing big stains on the FBI also

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:25 AM (WY8d2)

140 I wonder whether a move against Taiwan would provoke widespread protests in communist China? Their economy is imploding, and there is no sane rationale for an invasion, even for the rabidly nationalistic Chinese.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 18, 2022 08:25 AM (XIJ/X)

141 I'm only voting for Oz because Trump asked me to
I'm worried about all the negative Mastriano ads though

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 18, 2022 08:26 AM (gbzeC)

142 Subsidiarity. What a concept. The hypothetical efficiency is lower, but the cross-section of damage resulting from wrong (or bad) decisions is also lower. Such a system is much more robust.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 08:22 AM (WWh8n)

A competition of good governance!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 08:26 AM (BRHaw)

143 Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 18, 2022 08:15 AM (w0NJk)
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so sad. the state police spokesman makes it pretty clear they think this was was an intentional act by this pre-American.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:26 AM (NGWiW)

144 Trillions of dollars of investments and wealth are at risk right now by forcing this on America, and Trump was the American people speaking up and saying no. Not only that, but changing the plans. Can you see why Trump is going to jail (or worse)?

that makes sense

I'll still never ever have one of those pieces of garbage

a hybrid using a gasoline engine? maybe. but some plug in nonsense no fargin way

they can go after Trump but they as of yet can't force us to buy garbage

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 18, 2022 08:26 AM (w0NJk)

145 Egg prices. They sell some designer eggs for 7$ a carton I noticed. Apparently some people buy them.

Posted by: kraken at August 18, 2022 08:27 AM (Vr12I)

146 I'm starting to wonder if anybody is going to be left in Mexico to turn the lights out. I wonder just how much of their population has illegally flooded into this country. It has to be staggering.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 18, 2022 08:27 AM (sVtYq)

147 "It seems like the elites plan to live like aristocracy and extend their lives by consuming the blood of the young, while most of humanity become brainwashed, degraded servants that eat bugs."

The Troglytes and the City-Dwellers.

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a STOS episode at August 18, 2022 08:27 AM (sn5EN)

148 so sad. the state police spokesman makes it pretty clear they think this was was an intentional act by this pre-American.

up there everyone knows everyone

in the crowd, they knew EXACTLY who he was, even tho he lived in a next-door town not in Berwick. always a problem. I think mental illness but more than that.

so enriching!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 18, 2022 08:28 AM (w0NJk)

149 I wonder whether a move against Taiwan would provoke widespread protests in communist China? Their economy is imploding, and there is no sane rationale for an invasion, even for the rabidly nationalistic Chinese.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 18, 2022 08:25 AM (XIJ/X)
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I doubt it. Reunification has been a major goal for a few generations now. The Party apparatchiks will take to the streets in support - and to bust the heads of anyone not on board. So I seriously doubt widespread protesting of the action. Individual, silent protest is more likely. Reduced production, reduced commerce, climbing over the firewall to read more subversive content from abroad, etc. Stuff like that is probably more likely.

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

150 >>the problem is Pennsylvania, and the fact that Doc Oz is a terrible candidate

Have you seen Fetterman lately? He makes Biden sound lucid.

And the oppo research on him is starting to drop. He's further left than Stalin. Oz might not be a great candidate but this clown is a disaster.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2022 08:28 AM (ZLI7S)

151 Subsidiarity. What a concept. The hypothetical efficiency is lower, but the cross-section of damage resulting from wrong (or bad) decisions is also lower. Such a system is much more robust.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 08:22 AM (WWh8n)

You've used this word twice now, when I bring up that topic. So that's the succinct term for the idea ? Subsidiarity. Thanks. Being self educated on these things, I often don't know the "official" term.

Subsidiarity (again, gracias) just ties in perfectly with the idea of a Republic, and all that ties in like peas and carrots with Capitalism. It's like bulk-heads on a ship, each with their own pumps. Sure, at any given time, at least one of the pumps won't work. But they all surely won't fail at once.

The idea works in social systems. I've used it forever when designing physical systems.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:28 AM (Dazu1)

152 109 I am really to the point of asking that EVERY suspect in every crime have their nationality, citizenship and immigration status, where applicable be listed on any news report.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 08:16 AM (1n+EO)

On the other hand, today you can pretty easily guess all of those just by paying attention to what isn't said.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 08:28 AM (r46W7)

153 132. Spot on. Even in the summer of 2014, before we picked up 9 seats, the MSM and GOP doomers had us not taking the Senate. I know this for a fact, because I spent a weekend in Davenport, Iowa with my cousin who voluntered for the Joni Ernst Campaign. They had her down 15% at the time

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:28 AM (WY8d2)

154 Egg prices.

my neighbor here in suburban NJ bought chickens a few years ago.
we thought he was a little crazy
not so crazy now.

Posted by: McCool at August 18, 2022 08:28 AM (BqBIh)

155 Egg prices. They sell some designer eggs for 7$ a carton I noticed. Apparently some people buy them.

Posted by: kraken at August 18, 2022 08:27 AM (Vr12I)

Cage free eggs are $6.99 by me. I get my cage free eggs from my daughter for nothing.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 18, 2022 08:29 AM (45fpk)

156 I'll still never ever have one of those pieces of garbage

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It's all the "american" car companies are going to make. Because China wants them.

You don't have to buy one. They don't give a crap. But you will. All that has to happen is emission testing prohibits your vehicle from being able to renew its registration.

I bet it's in the bill they just passed, frankly.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 08:29 AM (9+Jmc)

157 145 Egg prices. They sell some designer eggs for 7$ a carton I noticed. Apparently some people buy them.
Posted by: kraken at August 18, 2022 08:27 AM (Vr12I)

The difference between a factory-farm egg and a free-range egg is quite significant. I buy my eggs from the farmers, but the grocery store organic, free-range eggs are all that some people can get as an alternative.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 18, 2022 08:29 AM (H8QX8)

158 "While Republicans will still likely take back the House of Representatives, with significantly less seats than originally expected, taking control of the Senate is looking very unlikely at this point. What happened?" (meh, YMMV - jjs)
Is the Red Wave Crashing?
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*rolls eyes*

As long as you don't look at actual elections, I guess this logic sort of works.

We will see a lot of these kinds of stories for the next 3 months, where people try to assuage the Democrats fears and get them to not stay home.

But it is stupid. Wyoming and Alaska just scored record Republican participation in a primary. On the heels of record turnout in Arizona.

What the fuck do you think those voters are going to do in November, sit home cause they suddenly don't care any more?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 08:29 AM (5p7BC)

159 150. Great point Jack. Baris of PPD is saying that Oz has seen the light. He was timid about taking on Fetterman's health.

But is now on the attack

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:30 AM (WY8d2)

160 Can you enjoy your time with your family or are you going to continue to steal from the American taxpayer?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 18, 2022 07:56 AM (WHt4f)

every dime I can lay my hands on !

Posted by: REDACTED at August 18, 2022 08:30 AM (us2H3)

161 DeSantis fired a state attorney, who is suing DeSantis in Federal Court for exceeding his authority.

I wonder what the basis is for getting this claim into Federal Court....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:30 AM (NGWiW)

162 We will see a lot of these kinds of stories for the next 3 months, where people try to assuage the Democrats fears and get them to not stay home.

yep Dave the garbage polls are about keeping the lefties from wallowing in deep depression and anomie

and keeping US in the deep depression and anomie

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 18, 2022 08:31 AM (w0NJk)

163 Fetterman is a trust fund kid, who was supported by his parents until he was 50

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:31 AM (WY8d2)

164 "On the other hand, today you can pretty easily guess all of those just by paying attention to what isn't said."

True, but that is me guessing.

I want the damn article to read 'Salvadorian citizen, in the United States illegally' every time it is appropriate.

For the benefit of the less inquisitive members of the population.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 08:31 AM (1n+EO)

165 The question to ask yourself is if China went with EVs to break the U. S. on purpose.

You already know the answer.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 08:31 AM (9+Jmc)

166 Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2022 08:21 AM (5NkmN)
*******
Here's the recipe-
Classic Cricket Fajitas:
PREP THE CRICKETS | 5 mins
Soak the crickets in water and set aside.
Mix smoked paprika, cumin, and chilli powder with finely chopped garlic cloves and half lime juice, and set aside.
2. PREPARE THE VEGETABLES | 10 mins
Dice the pepper and onion, and chop the coriander.
On a medium-high heat fry the chopped pepper and onion for a few minutes until they start to soften.
Add the soaked crickets, spices that you set aside and chopped coriander and fry until the vegetables are cooked. Make sure they don’t get too soft, there should be some crunch!

https://tinyurl.com/262pkrmu

Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2022 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

167 DeSantis fired a state attorney, who is suing DeSantis in Federal Court for exceeding his authority. I wonder what the basis is for getting this claim into Federal Court....
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:30 AM (NGWiW)

The "I'm a Left Winger and I'm not getting my way" statute. Come on, even I knew that one.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:32 AM (Dazu1)

168 2020. RCP average on Wisconsin was 10+ to Biden. Gillum winning big in Florida in 2018 etc.... all a mirage

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:32 AM (WY8d2)

169 Cage free eggs are $6.99 by me. I get my cage free eggs from my daughter for nothing.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 18, 2022 08:29 AM (45fpk)

Nice!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 18, 2022 08:33 AM (gbzeC)

170 Chinese Real Estate circa 2022 is US Real Estate circa 2007. The big difference is their property boom is not leveraged 1,000-1. 10-1 at most.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 18, 2022 08:33 AM (g1EEm)

171 "What are you prepared to do??" (Sean Connery, the character of Jim Malone, the Untouchables)

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & NetherWorld Arkanciders at August 18, 2022 08:33 AM (8m/Xb)

172 "All that has to happen is emission testing prohibits your vehicle from being able to renew its registration."

I bet cop cars will be exempt. Anyway, if they try to stop people from driving IC vehicles, the whole country will fall apart, if it hasn't already.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 08:33 AM (sn5EN)

173 We have a fox in our neighborhood. I saw her just this morning scooting into some shrubbery a quarter mile or so away. If I had chickens she would think more highly of my yard, no doubt.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:33 AM (NGWiW)

174 It's all the "american" car companies are going to make. Because China wants them.

You don't have to buy one. They don't give a crap. But you will. All that has to happen is emission testing prohibits your vehicle from being able to renew its registration.

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I basically said this the other day. The Bigs are starting to announce their major plans for making EVs a biiig part of their inventory. Essentially crowding out the gas-powered vehicle production. We'll ultimately be left with no choice but EV. I can see where it's going. You will be forced into their plans whether you want it or not.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 18, 2022 08:33 AM (sVtYq)

175 Eating crickets or any other bugs? Bullshit. The person that comes and tries to tell me I have to eat bugs is going to end up on my grill themselves.
Some seasoning, A1 or Kraft BBQ I'm sure your arm, leg will taste better than some crickets.. Maybe CBD has recipes for seasoning the obese(?)

Posted by: JROD at August 18, 2022 08:34 AM (0jZnq)

176

Engage Morning Wood Pee-Pee Manuver!

Posted by: Captain Hardthrust at August 18, 2022 08:34 AM (QC8jx)

177 The biggest problem for China trying to plan an invasion of Taiwan is that if you wargame it out, there's no way to carry out a successful cross channel invasion without a widespread nuclear first strike that takes out all of the Taiwan's coastal bases and military infrastructure. See what happened to the Moskva in the Black Sea; modern anti-ship missiles are too good for any ship to get within 50 miles of a working installation.

And even China is still a bit wary of starting a nuclear war.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 08:34 AM (r46W7)

178 I'll eat my city councilpeople before I eat crickets.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 08:34 AM (sn5EN)

179 We are moving KTY back to her last year of kolledge
It will be an off campus apartment so this is like trying to mobilize an army of capybara

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 18, 2022 08:34 AM (gbzeC)

180 Man, crickets are nasty as f*ck. Ask any fisherman who buys them. The bins of egg cartons with slices of potatoes and everything - EVERYTHING - covered in feces?

Yum.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 08:35 AM (9+Jmc)

181 The "I'm a Left Winger and I'm not getting my way" statute. Come on, even I knew that one.
Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:32 AM (Dazu1)
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Of course! What was I thinking?!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:35 AM (NGWiW)

182 You've used this word twice now, when I bring up that topic. So that's the succinct term for the idea ? Subsidiarity. Thanks. Being self educated on these things, I often don't know the "official" term. ...
Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:28 AM (Dazu1)
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Yeah, essentially. Subsidiarity is the idea that social/political decisions should be made at the smallest workable scale (e.g., "the more things that are more local, the better") rather than at larger or the largest workable scale.

For national defense, for example, the smallest workable scale is the nation. For minimum wage, the smallest workable scale is the municipality or county/county complex.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 08:35 AM (WWh8n)

183 The biggest problem for China trying to plan an invasion of Taiwan is that if you wargame it out, there's no way to carry out a successful cross channel invasion without a widespread nuclear first strike that takes out all of the Taiwan's coastal bases and military infrastructure.

And that would kill the very industries they want to take. It's so stupid, they just might do it. Well, we'd do it.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:35 AM (Dazu1)

184 Reason I gave up on Jack Posbiec. Followed him due to his unwavering support of Trump thru thick and thin, and is a terrific pro lifer. But his dooming lately on the Midterms made me step away. Posting links to the Ny Times and Wash post, makes me sick

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:35 AM (WY8d2)

185 I wouldn't eat a cricket even if it was in Hedy's schmundie

Posted by: REDACTED at August 18, 2022 08:35 AM (us2H3)

186 DeSantis fired a state attorney, who is suing DeSantis in Federal Court for exceeding his authority. I wonder what the basis is for getting this claim into Federal Court....
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:30 AM (NGWiW)
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He didn't fire the attorney, he suspended the attorney. Big different, and I suspect the attorney knows it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 08:36 AM (WWh8n)

187 184 Reason I gave up on Jack Posbiec. Followed him due to his unwavering support of Trump thru thick and thin, and is a terrific pro lifer. But his dooming lately on the Midterms made me step away. Posting links to the Ny Times and Wash post, makes me sick

Poso is a mole

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 18, 2022 08:36 AM (w0NJk)

188 today you can pretty easily guess all of those just by paying attention to what isn't said

my tell is when they do this in the headline:
"[insert suburban town name] man charged with sexual assault and possession of a weapon"

Third or fourth paragraph in
"Juan Cepeda-Ruiz......."

Posted by: McCool at August 18, 2022 08:36 AM (BqBIh)

189 FeetMan is proof that democrat voters will simply vote for whatever Looter with a "d" after their name so they can continue to Mooch.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 18, 2022 08:36 AM (R/m4+)

190 "We'll ultimately be left with no choice but EV. I can see where it's going."

I wonder if Cash for Clunkers was intended to remove usable cars from the used car purchase pool.

No....I don't wonder. I know.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 08:36 AM (1n+EO)

191 You will love extra locust pepperoni on your soy cheese pizza at Buck-A-Slice.

Posted by: Cyberpunk 2077 at August 18, 2022 08:36 AM (gFL6k)

192 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 18, 2022 08:34 AM (gbzeC)
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that last tuition payment is awfully joyous, so you at least have that to look forward to.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:36 AM (NGWiW)

193 basically said this the other day. The Bigs are starting to announce their major plans for making EVs a biiig part of their inventory.

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That's the thing. They were announcing it back when Obama was president. This has been the plan for over a decade because of China.

See why MAGA is so dangerous?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 08:37 AM (9+Jmc)

194 158 Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 08:29 AM (5p7BC)

I knew you would "love" this one. Hence my YMMV disclaimer.

It is BS. I discard a lot of stories now that are poo-pooing the imminent red wave because they are lefty wish-casting.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2022 08:37 AM (x0n13)

195 JackStraw and Dave in Fla keep me from that ever-enticing window ledge. You guys always help me keep grounded, that's for sure. Thanks to you both. Seriously.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 18, 2022 08:37 AM (sVtYq)

196 The goal of our tyrants is to have us become like Chinese consumers. Just considering food matters, think on the Chinese food situation. Wet markets, anyone?

Posted by: kraken at August 18, 2022 08:37 AM (Vr12I)

197 Xi releasing another virus is not an impossibility. The really bad thing is we wouldn't have PDT's travel freeze, the one the left screamed about. Who knows how many cases were prevented as a result of that. These asshoes will probably offer free bus rides anywhere in the country. Even if the junta saw the light and instituted a freeze, the typhoid Mary agents of Xi could just waltz into Eagle Pass TX, after infecting a few thousand of their newest amigos, also soon to be in the wind.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 18, 2022 08:37 AM (lz5hY)

198 How is Tim Ryan even competitive in Ohio? Ex Moderate, who now supports 9 Month late term abortion, and voted for massive tax raises last week.

Trump won this state easily twice. Are the polls on bogus in Ohio?

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:37 AM (WY8d2)

199 Texas school district pulls Anne Frank's diary, Bible from shelves after complaints

https://tinyurl.com/nv8muuyh

Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2022 08:38 AM (NpAcC)

200 He didn't fire the attorney, he suspended the attorney
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permanently, and then appointed a state judge as a replacement. You may see a difference there but I'm not sure what it is.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:38 AM (NGWiW)

201 in fairness, why were the Americans in afghanistan there?

Posted by: confederatefifth at August 18, 2022 08:38 AM (fVvKG)

202 "While the CDC doesn’t have the power to make law or enforce public health mandates outside of rare circumstances, CDC recommendations became de facto binding law in many jurisdictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Democratic mayors and governors in particular often modeled executive orders and public health rules after CDC recommendations, with little room for variance."

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Streamlining CDC messaging will, in the future give the CDC more capability to strangle innovative or unorthodox therapies (such as Ivermectin) in the crib, and will surely allow them to be the sole source of information, thereby empowering them to be the true determiner of public policy.

Walensky wants Congress to give CDC real teeth.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2022 08:39 AM (kXYt5)

203 Xi releasing another virus is not an impossibility.

It is. But if they're that far gone, such that they play the literal "scorched Earth" card - it means the coming famine will be more of a worry than the virus anyway.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:39 AM (Dazu1)

204 197 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 18, 2022 08:37 AM (lz5hY)

The next one that will be released will be the real thing. And I mean millions dropping dead within days.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2022 08:39 AM (x0n13)

205 167 DeSantis fired a state attorney, who is suing DeSantis in Federal Court for exceeding his authority. I wonder what the basis is for getting this claim into Federal Court....
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:30 AM (NGWiW)

The "I'm a Left Winger and I'm not getting my way" statute. Come on, even I knew that one.
Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:32 AM (Dazu1)

He framed it in terms of Civil Rights, aka First Amendment. Idiotic, since that does NOT apply in an Employer/Employee relationship (your boss can fire you if you tell all his customers that they suck) and also, the Florida State Constitution specifically gives the Governor the power to do this. His avenue of appeal, as laid out by the Florida State Constitution, is to go to the Florida Legislature and ask them to overturn the Governor's decision.

of course they won't, which is why he's crying to his federal mommy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 08:39 AM (r46W7)

206 Texas school district pulls Anne Frank's diary, Bible from shelves after complaints

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Why do tranny, CRT and a host of other hard left materials that also get a wide net of parental complaints never get pulled?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 18, 2022 08:40 AM (sVtYq)

207 Well, Biden/Democrats did have one really good chance to foist this EV garbage on the rest of us, but -
their leaky brains and screaming greed betrayed them.

Biden/Democrats chose to loot the treasury of trillions with their lame-ass, old-fashioned, graft-heavy, national economy crippling, inflationary with their bills right out of the gate and the inflationary supercharger passed this last week.

They could of built nuke power plants and set up a good stab at serious recharge infrastructure around major cities, but...Nope.

Not that EV isn't still a piggy totalitarian's dream. Something along the lines of the cars in "The Marching Morons", but they could've forced the issue. Maybe.
Anyway, we're too poor now and loaded with insane debt. Inflation is eating away at our wealth and economy. No way we can afford even a bare-ass minimum of what EVs need.

I think that's why Elon Musk has been selling his Tesla stock and engaging in multiple splits to bring the stock price lower in a controlled manner that (maybe) saves his wealth.
That puppet show is over, baby.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2022 08:40 AM (5NkmN)

208 These leftists talk want to make illegal drug use safer, but never want to talk about the war on drugs and the harms caused by black market importation and sale of these substances.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 08:40 AM (hwoGt)

209 178 Damned right. That is one hell of a contrarian strategy. Props.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & NetherWorld Arkanciders at August 18, 2022 08:40 AM (8m/Xb)

210 Our main problem is Kevin wants a slim majority so he can hide behind it

and Mitch is perfectly happy to lose the midterms and blame it on Trump

as long as we got those two in command

we got pronbs

Posted by: REDACTED at August 18, 2022 08:40 AM (us2H3)

211 Texas school district pulls Anne Frank's diary, Bible from shelves after complaints.

Its Dallas. The dirt in Texas isn't any more magical than anywhere else in the United States. Big cities are gonna' do what they do. No different in Texas than the Acela Corridor.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:41 AM (Dazu1)

212
The next one that will be released will be the real thing. And I mean millions dropping dead within days.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2022 08:39 AM (x0n13)

the good thing is that it won't work any better than any other cheap Chinese knockoff product does.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 08:41 AM (r46W7)

213 Chinese Real Estate circa 2022 is US Real Estate circa 2007. The big difference is their property boom is not leveraged 1,000-1. 10-1 at most.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 18, 2022 08:33 AM (g1EEm)
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Unlike here, the banks there will take it in both ends - individual mortgage holders defaulting, often in unison and the property developers - who are brutally leveraged - defaulting.

Tie in to that the absurd cost of housing in China's first-tier cities (Shanghai is at like 35x median income) and vacancy throughout the country and there is a *lot* of room to move down hard. Then there's the local government finance problem, where many of these places depend on land sales to developers to finance themselves. With crashing demand (some land "sale" auctions have gone no-bid for the first time), the squeeze is on to keep the local governments financed and damn little to squeeze.

With the industrial corruption, mortgage defaults (and on an unfinished building, the leverage is essentially undefined, since you can't divide by zero), property developer defaults, etc., Chinese banks are probably fucked. They also lie a lot about non-performing loans.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 08:42 AM (WWh8n)

214 Rush use to talk about this with advertising. Newsmax and conservative AM stations play Progressive Auto insurance all day long. Progressive is owned by Lewis, who is Geroge Soros social justice marxist partner in crime. Geico is owned by Semi Marxist Warren Buffet.

A Caller called out Rush one day on this. He apologized, and said it was the staions fault

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:42 AM (WY8d2)

215 The goal of our tyrants is to have us become like Chinese consumers. Just considering food matters, think on the Chinese food situation. Wet markets, anyone?
Posted by: kraken at August 18, 2022 08:37 AM (Vr12I)

Albert Fish, a.k.a The Grey Man, said he learned about eating people from a sailor who had been to China during a famine and found human flesh for sale at a local market and said it was quite tasty.

When Old Al was arrested they found the rump of one of his victims in his oven. Al also had so many needles and metal items stuck up his ass that he shorted the electric chair in the first go around.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 18, 2022 08:43 AM (R/m4+)

216 You no have you money back. You leave now! - Chinese Banks

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 18, 2022 08:43 AM (mE7cY)

217 Stated differently, Walensky doesn't want to be a public health advisor, she wants to be a public health enforcer.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2022 08:43 AM (kXYt5)

218 The most important takeaway from the EV conversation?

The United States isn't top dog any longer. We can say we are and we can keep doing our thing and we're awesome and all that, but corporations aren't building products for us. Corporations are building products for China. We can buy them if we want to.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 08:43 AM (9+Jmc)

219 Trump won this state easily twice. Are the polls on bogus in Ohio?
Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:37 AM (WY8d2)
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Yes, say my Ohio relatives. Captain Hate could probably give you a better view, or more actual facts.

FWIW, my family lives not too far from Ryan's old Congressional district and they think Ryan will lose even there, so massive turnout in urban districts is all that can get him over the top, and that doesn't seem likely in a midterm election (as opposed to a Presidential race). Or so goes the election gossip.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:43 AM (NGWiW)

220 Stop the blackpilling, Sefton. China won't invade because the Russia/Ukraine thing has demonstrated the West is perfectly willing to impose blockades and massive domestic starvation would happen within six months - China is a huge food importer. Pelosi's intentions don't matter; it was seen to defy the Chinese and rally Taiwan, and appearance is what counts in these things. And Biden doesn't matter; DoD is pretty clearly running the show re: both Ukraine and Taiwan.

And what's this endlessly repeated nonsense about eating crickets? Have a backyard garden and talk to local people, find out who has free range chickens and eggs to sell. Unless you want to raise some yourself. And rabbits are good and easy for meat (see "Possum Living", which is half a century old by now and still totally accurate and valuable). Keep a cat around to keep the mice down, and the cat will eat the crickets for you. It simply doesn't matter what big-brained WEF/Davos plans might be if you bother to live like Thomas Jefferson wanted you to.

And if you live in the city and can't do any of that, eating bugs should be right up your alley, bugman.

Posted by: rold at August 18, 2022 08:43 AM (SrTUc)

221

Much, JJ?

Posted by: Tinfoil Bombast at August 18, 2022 08:44 AM (QC8jx)

222 161 DeSantis fired a state attorney, who is suing DeSantis in Federal Court for exceeding his authority.
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He'll find an Obama judge and be back on the job in three months.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 18, 2022 08:44 AM (H8QX8)

223 In 2016, both Ron Johnson and Toomey consistently trailed in the polls

Posted by: REDACTED at August 18, 2022 08:44 AM (us2H3)

224 213. Yes. I am trying to figure out a way to best short the market due to China, but Spy puts are too expensive. could be a short bull run in Nov though

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:44 AM (WY8d2)

225 We have so many shiny new toys of war! We should at least try them out! - Chinese Military

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 18, 2022 08:44 AM (mE7cY)

226 211 Yep. OK is considered the reddest of red states (Arkansas might be that, just doesn't get publicity). OK also has some cities and towns that come up with screwy ideas that would make Austin TX say "why didn't we think of that".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 18, 2022 08:45 AM (lz5hY)

227 I knew you would "love" this one. Hence my YMMV disclaimer.

It is BS. I discard a lot of stories now that are poo-pooing the imminent red wave because they are lefty wish-casting.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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I have taught you well, young padawan.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 08:45 AM (5p7BC)

228 Second most important takeaway:

MAGA is a huge threat to China.

Trump is personally a huge threat. Which is why he has to win in 2024.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 08:45 AM (9+Jmc)

229 The next one that will be released will be the real thing. And I mean millions dropping dead within days.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2022 08:39 AM (x0n13)

I'll guess you're talking about Nipah, grafted to the magical, mystical spike protein. I've read a lot of folks theorizing about that. I'll wager a few quatloos that, at the beginning of 'Rona Madness, that was what our Cabal of Idiots thought got loose.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:45 AM (Dazu1)

230 Progressive is owned by Lewis, who is Geroge Soros social justice marxist partner in crime
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public company, and Peter Lewis died almost ten years ago

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:45 AM (NGWiW)

231 223. Double digits down in 2016. Tillis was always down too

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:45 AM (WY8d2)

232 >>Its Dallas. The dirt in Texas isn't any more magical than anywhere else in the United States. Big cities are gonna' do what they do. No different in Texas than the Acela Corridor.

Texas is a myth that only Texans believe.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 08:46 AM (8rVOA)

233 If Ron Johnson loses to a marxist Black Guy like Barnes in a GOP year, then you know it is cheating

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:46 AM (WY8d2)

234
Its Dallas. The dirt in Texas isn't any more magical than anywhere else in the United States. Big cities are gonna' do what they do. No different in Texas than the Acela Corridor.
Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:41 AM (Dazu1)

Pete Hegseth talking about this on F & F - looks like conservative constituents complained about Gender Queer books being in the school library, so in response libs complained about the Bible and Anne Frank, and for the moment the (gutless) admins just said "ok we ban EVERYHING that anyone complains about ever". So if I lived there I would now start filing complaints over See Dick and Jane run, and end up with yellow warning tape across the door to the school library and EVERYONE banned from entry.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 08:46 AM (r46W7)

235 Looks like J.J. has a new admirer.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 08:46 AM (1n+EO)

236 Add the soaked crickets, spices that you set aside and chopped coriander and fry until the vegetables are cooked. Make sure they don’t get too soft, there should be some crunch!

https://tinyurl.com/262pkrmu
Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2022 08:31 AM (NpAcC)

Ha ha ha!

Hilarious! Scary! Sad!

All at the same time.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2022 08:47 AM (5NkmN)

237 Buffet is an old fashioned fascist. He loves a big State which can throw favor his way.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 08:47 AM (hwoGt)

238 230. At the time when he was alive. I was referring too. Public maybe, but his fortune to spew left hate was acquired thru Progressive

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:48 AM (WY8d2)

239 This inability to judge the West—which was created by Christians and has, with all its many flaws, been rooted in Judeo-Christian morality—as morally more elevated than the Muslim world goes to the heart of the crisis facing the West: the Left’s desire to destroy it. Western elites in academia, media, politics and the business world—in short, everywhere—are moral fools.

Dayum Prager!! Thems some harsh and true words!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 08:48 AM (BRHaw)

240 Looks like J.J. has a new admirer.

Nah. I've always thought he was the best news aggregator in the business. And the man has a birthday 365 times a year. How cool is that ?

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:48 AM (Dazu1)

241 And what's this endlessly repeated nonsense about eating crickets? Have a backyard garden and talk to local people, find out who has free range chickens and eggs to sell. Unless you want to raise some yourself. And rabbits are good and easy for meat (see "Possum Living", which is half a century old by now and still totally accurate and valuable). Keep a cat around to keep the mice down, and the cat will eat the crickets for you.

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It's incredible to know we're having these conversations two years after the best economy in decades that was intentionality stripped from us and the created wealth intentionally destroyed via inflation.

It's sort of liberating to be free of the silly old romantic beliefs of my youth.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 08:48 AM (9+Jmc)

242 One of the things that ticks me off the most about the mfm's obsession with comparing Hillary's little email issue to Trump's docs.....she was and will never be president. A point that Noone brings up, of course. Trump could deem anything declassified he wanted to keep. That bitch had no ability to do the same. Of course, I understand totally that none of this matters, cuz none of this has anything to do with real law.

Posted by: Skeptical Schnauzer at August 18, 2022 08:49 AM (h+7ej)

243 Thanks for your help, Paul.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 08:49 AM (9+Jmc)

244 What is a public company anymore anyways? You think anybody at Chase questions Jamie Dimon when he endorses Biden?

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:49 AM (WY8d2)

245 >>if you bother to live like Thomas Jefferson wanted you to.

Joe Biden doesn't make the most convincing Philosopher King.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 08:50 AM (8rVOA)

246 IMHO, you have to be an idiot to take out a mortgage and make payments on a property that isn't completed (construction loan exception).

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 18, 2022 08:50 AM (JVCkA)

247 Big geomagnetic storm today, says JJS link. The ISS is probably not the place to be.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:50 AM (NGWiW)

248 Xi releasing another virus is not an impossibility.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 18, 2022 08:37 AM (lz5hY)
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If that happens, China is DONE on the world stage. No matter how much money they throw around, they will have destroyed any and all of their relationships. No one will take their phone calls. Businesses will flee like rats deserting a sinking ship (they already are, I think).
Nuclear strikes on China would not be out of the question, if only to contain/eradicate the virus.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 18, 2022 08:50 AM (YIVH2)

249 Chyna: the land of a billion marks.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 18, 2022 08:50 AM (JVCkA)

250 I said it yesterday and I'll say it again: The "surveillance" at MAL the FBI claims they saw to justify the raid was the laughably stupid dramatic recreation photo of docs in a toilet.

The FBI planted that story with Maggie, that Trump was flushing docs, she took it a step further and faked up a photo.
And it's so ridiculously obvious it's fake.

But the FBI wrapped that turd is glossy paper and bows; jingo and legalese to hide from the judge what the "surveillance" really was.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 18, 2022 08:50 AM (Zf0+a)

251 Have a backyard garden and talk to local people, find out who has free range chickens and eggs to sell. Unless you want to raise some yourself.

Easier answer - find a pacifist Lib with free range chickens.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:51 AM (Dazu1)

252 Oh no! The wheels are closing in!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 08:51 AM (hwoGt)

253 There's a local guy who raises crickets. Sells them live to the bait stores, and they're pretty expensive as bait goes. Most of the stores sell them fresh and live from the cage in those chinese takeout containers. Guy probably has a good retirement gig going until the IRS kicks in his door.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 18, 2022 08:51 AM (lz5hY)

254 >> One of the things that ticks me off the most about the mfm's obsession with comparing Hillary's little email issue to Trump's docs One of the things that ticks me off the most about the mfm's obsession with comparing Hillary's little email issue to Trump's docs

Also. She set up a personal system designed to avoid the Federal Records Act.
But.
No Reasonable Prosecutor could EVER hope to find Intent.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 08:51 AM (8rVOA)

255 With the industrial corruption, mortgage defaults (and on an unfinished building, the leverage is essentially undefined, since you can't divide by zero), property developer defaults, etc., Chinese banks are probably fucked. They also lie a lot about non-performing loans.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 08:42 AM (WWh8n)

China's problem is probably very similar to the situation in NYC, 1929. Everything was so fabulously overvalued and leveraged that when the real estate market went down, every bank went down with it. (parallel to the stock market crash)

This could end up being one of the great, historical financial crises, along the lines of the South Sea bubble and the Dutch tulip craze. Both of those wiped out the finances of their respective governments for a generation, at least.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 08:52 AM (r46W7)

256 that happens, China is DONE on the world stage. No matter how much money they throw around, they will have destroyed any and all of their relationships

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Goodness no. They are the world's largest market. They'd get a tsk-tsk and be rolling two weeks later.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 08:52 AM (9+Jmc)

257 Despise Buffett more than Soros. Even his allies depsise Soros as a person, and know he was a Nazi Helper.

But that bullshit Uncle Warren is a good guy from Omahaand the dean of Capitalism makes me sick

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:52 AM (WY8d2)

258 After 7 years of relentless investigations by multiple agencies, the CFOs testimony is finally going to bring Drumpf down!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 08:52 AM (hwoGt)

259 James Carville: "Majority" of GOP Voters "Really Stupid" Evil Racists

I believe the term is "deplorable", James.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 18, 2022 08:52 AM (g1EEm)

260 But that bullshit Uncle Warren is a good guy from Omaha and the dean of Capitalism makes me sick.

Always worried about his poor secretary that pays more in taxes than he does. Never so worried that he just covers the bill for her. Oh, no.

But he's worried to death about it.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:53 AM (Dazu1)

261 LOL you probably all saw this already but in case you haven't

FBI Reveals Items Found In Trump's Safe
https://youtu.be/E1zup6iAUVs

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 18, 2022 08:53 AM (gbzeC)

262 Heck, China practices actual slavery and a horrible caste system and our politicians can't stay away.

Money is the route through all evil.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 08:54 AM (9+Jmc)

263 211 Yep. OK is considered the reddest of red states (Arkansas might be that, just doesn't get publicity). OK also has some cities and towns that come up with screwy ideas that would make Austin TX say "why didn't we think of that".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 18, 2022 08:45 AM (lz5hY)
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I wonder if it all boils down to the size of the community. Once a town/city reaches a certain size, Leftism seems to take over eventually.

Maybe if we had a Constitutional amendment determining that communities could not be larger than 50,000 people and that they must be no closer than 50 miles to each other, that might change a lot of behaviors for the better.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 18, 2022 08:54 AM (YIVH2)

264 China owns a shitload of Farm land in the midwest. Especially Hog Farms. But if they go belly up like the Japanese, then you cant take it with you. Our land feeds Chinese Communist Soldiers?

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:54 AM (WY8d2)

265 Yes. I am trying to figure out a way to best short the market due to China, but Spy puts are too expensive. could be a short bull run in Nov though

Could dabble in SPDN

Posted by: MkY at August 18, 2022 08:54 AM (WG2sj)

266 Remember when Cohen was going to take trump down because he knew where the bodies were buries?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 08:54 AM (hwoGt)

267 Also. She set up a personal system designed to avoid the Federal Records Act.
But.
No Reasonable Prosecutor could EVER hope to find Intent.
Posted by: garrett

And that too. But as you said....no reasonable prosecutor blahblahblah......

Posted by: Skeptical Schnauzer at August 18, 2022 08:55 AM (h+7ej)

268 >>No red wave *sad trombone*. The American People want what the Democrats are offering. President Biden has all the joementum, and will have a strong mandate to manage the climate crisis.

Get a load of this retard.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 08:55 AM (8rVOA)

269 No red wave *sad trombone*. The American People want what the Democrats are offering. President Biden has all the joementum, and will have a strong mandate to manage the climate crisis.
Posted by: Sid at August 18, 2022 08:53 AM (IRDWK)
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I imagine Sid staying up late all night practicing his stupidity in a mirror, so he can get it *just right* for the Morning Report thread...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 18, 2022 08:55 AM (YIVH2)

270 IMHO, you have to be an idiot to take out a mortgage and make payments on a property that isn't completed (construction loan exception).
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 18, 2022 08:50 AM (JVCkA)
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It is supposed to be safe and relatively low-risk. Essentially, it is supposed to be that the mortgage holder transfers the money to the bank, which puts it into a "supervisory" account used for construction and the developer can't drain those accounts on its own whim. Withdrawals are signed off on by the applicable Party men in the local government.

But they're all con men and liars. The accounts are empty and the buildings aren't built. What actually happened was that the accounts were drained and used to pay interest on (or pay down) debt held by the developer, increasing debt capacity. The developer then goes and sells more debt and uses *that* money to build buildings and buy the enormously expensive land leases at auction. It is fairly similar to a ponzi scheme.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 08:55 AM (WWh8n)

271 262. Sid. you should not drink before breakfast

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:55 AM (WY8d2)

272 The odd part to me is folks like Sid (and Obama) who actively WANT the end of America and the rise of slaver nations to take her place.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 08:55 AM (9+Jmc)

273 Oh no! The wheels are closing in!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 08:51 AM (hwoGt)
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I love this place

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:56 AM (NGWiW)

274 >>I wonder if it all boils down to the size of the community. Once a town/city reaches a certain size, Leftism seems to take over eventually.

It is the Universities and the Public Sector Unions.

Remove their influence and Cities in Red States will not have this issue.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 08:57 AM (8rVOA)

275 266. Thanks for the tip Mate. I will check it out

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:57 AM (WY8d2)

276 There's been a lot of wargaming done on the Taiwan issue, both here and in China. In about half the scenarios we're handed our ass, half the PLA goes down in flames.

I think Xi is patient enough to allow the various operatives and agents that have been infiltrated into Taiwanese society to do their work before he starts any shit. Blunting Taiwan's ability to fight back on a level field would likely throw the conflict China's way.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2022 08:57 AM (BFigT)

277 227 I knew you would "love" this one. Hence my YMMV disclaimer.
It is BS. I discard a lot of stories now that are poo-pooing the imminent red wave because they are lefty wish-casting.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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I have taught you well, young padawan.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 08:45 AM (5p7BC)

That particular article - yeah, a "Political Consultant" named Moshe who lives in NYC thinks he has some great insight into what's happening in the rest of the country. It's like asking Woody Allen for his opinion on things.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 08:58 AM (r46W7)

278 "Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in the one Spirit, striving together as one for the faith of the gospel without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you."

Philippians 1:27-28

Posted by: Marcus T at August 18, 2022 08:58 AM (VpIIl)

279 IMHO, you have to be an idiot to take out a mortgage and make payments on a property that isn't completed (construction loan exception).
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 18, 2022 08:50 AM (JVCkA)

Back in ye olde country, saw that a lot - condos being sold pre- construction
That somehow never get built because someone absconds with the money

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 18, 2022 08:59 AM (gbzeC)

280 Subsidiarity. What a concept. The hypothetical efficiency is lower, but the cross-section of damage resulting from wrong (or bad) decisions is also lower. Such a system is much more robust.
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Yes. I have been yammering on about this for years here. The Daleks are running around intoning 'Consolidate' so that we human people have no outlet or control.

In government, there is no savings or 'efficiency' by consolidating. Sounds counterintuitive, but the proof is in the pudding.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 18, 2022 08:59 AM (MIKMs)

281 https://bit.ly/The_Reinhart_Song

Posted by: Marooned at August 18, 2022 08:59 AM (w6hJ9)

282 If that happens, China is DONE on the world stage.

That is the risk Xi took with covid. He had to shut down the HK protests before it took him out. The world responded well to his efforts. There is no reason to think they wouldn't do it again.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 08:59 AM (hwoGt)

283 247 Big geomagnetic storm today, says JJS link. The ISS is probably not the place to be.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 08:50 AM (NGWiW)

Fantastic Four ended up doing ok!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 08:59 AM (BRHaw)

284 I wonder if it all boils down to the size of the community. Once a town/city reaches a certain size, Leftism seems to take over eventually.

It does. You never see a big, right wing city. It simply does not happen.

Now - if you're really curious, and assuming you have the time, I'd like you to do what I did one day, probably a decade or more ago, as I was pondering this. Take your Saturday and go down to a nice, safe park in your nearest big city. Middle of the day, where you know you're going to be fine.

Sit down on a bench, where you can get a good look at all those high rise office buildings and multi-story condos around you. Do you think living and working that close together breeds individuality, or collectivism ? More yet, do you think folks that close together could get by, day to day, with less or more rules and community services than those living in individual homes on one acre lawns ? And what about those one acre people compared to a guy on twenty acres - maybe running a play farm ?

See where I'm going ?

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 08:59 AM (Dazu1)

285 Guys like Buffett, Soros, Gates and pretty soon Bezos, could not use their money to prolong their life spans. all the billions and trillions, and they cant take it with them. Praise God!

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 09:00 AM (WY8d2)

286 Take a Look Inside a Cricket Farm…Which is Where Your Food Will Come From Soon

Sorry. I've got cows out back, fish in the pond & wild game in the woods. Hard pass.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 18, 2022 09:00 AM (Ri+XN)

287 Tim Ryan is not competitive in Ohio. Vance will win that race by at least 10 points.

This is all leftist wishcasting.

Walker will win in Georgia, and Masters is likely to win in AZ. Kelly has a lot of money, but he also has a voting record to defend now.

I haven't looked at Laxalt in NV recently.

Oz is pretty likely to win in PA now, Fetterman is a horrible candidate, and Oz is running the right campaign for that state, lots of retail politics at the local level instead of massive ad buys in the areas he will lose anyway.

The only real wildcard is New Hampshire.

Oh, and WI and AK will stay Republican, but Murkowski holding the seat is kind of a tossup. That damn rank choice jungle is hard to figure out. At some point in the future a Democrat is going to win an AK Senate seat with about 35% vote share, thanks to that stupidity.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:01 AM (5p7BC)

288 China is always about Optics. The CCP still has to worry about uprises from their people. If they are close to a crash, they will invade Taiwan.

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 09:01 AM (WY8d2)

289 China owns a shitload of Farm land in the midwest. Especially Hog Farms. But if they go belly up like the Japanese, then you cant take it with you. Our land feeds Chinese Communist Soldiers?
Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:54 AM (WY8d2)

Well...that's the reason for the "Xi Doctrine" proclaimed a few years ago. Basically, it says that China has the right to invade any country at any time any where on the globe to protect Chinese lives, interests, and property.

BONUS! The Chinese signed an agreement with Canada that allows them to station Chinese troops in Canada anytime "should the need arise."

How well would our high-heeled, dual spirit, furry military respond to the inevitable challenge is the question here.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2022 09:02 AM (5NkmN)

290 Sorry. I've got cows out back, fish in the pond & wild game in the woods. Hard pass.
Posted by: rickb223

Sorry, State says your cows pollute and aren't issuing fishing or game licenses this year. Some nice agents will be around to explain it to you.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:02 AM (hwoGt)

291 It would be interesting to know the percentage of dollars and "research" that the communist Chinese have contributed to the total Global Warming push.

Shame we don't have a group of people whose job is to report on that sort of thing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 09:02 AM (9+Jmc)

292 They just showed Canada versus Australia in the Little League Baseball World Series on TV and we're wearing red, naturally enough, but the Aussies are wearing dark blue for some strange reason and not their usual national yellow [and green]. That's odd.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 18, 2022 09:02 AM (yikp0)

293 Posted by: Sid at August 18, 2022 08:53 AM (IRDWK)
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every word of this parody made me laugh

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 09:03 AM (qFy+C)

294 IMHO, you have to be an idiot to take out a mortgage and make payments on a property that isn't completed (construction loan exception).
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse

Construction loan paid off. We close on the house tomorrow afternoon.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 18, 2022 09:03 AM (Ri+XN)

295 Rushdie attack suspect 'only read two pages' of Satanic Verses

Having read the whole book, the attacker got off lightly. Most boring blasphemy ever.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 18, 2022 09:03 AM (zm+d5)

296 Sorry. I've got cows out back, fish in the pond & wild game in the woods. Hard pass

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So two weeks worth of food.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 09:03 AM (9+Jmc)

297 288. Thanks Dave. North Carolina is a lock I assume. How about Colorado? any chance there?

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 09:04 AM (WY8d2)

298 If the country is begging Weekend at Joey's to deal with the climate crisis why did Democrats lie about the green deal bullshit bill they just passed and call it a deficit reduction bill?

One thing that has not changed in polling is that the number 1 issue for most Americans right now is inflation, global warming is way down the list and for many way, way down the list. This bill will make inflation worse.

Prices are going to continue to rise this Fall including fuel and food. You can't eat a solar panel or a windmill.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2022 09:04 AM (ZLI7S)

299 5 reasons to start your own cricket farm:
- food for you
- food for birds
- food for reptiles
- bait

- profit

Actually on a cricket farm website

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2022 09:04 AM (BFigT)

300 China owns a shitload of Farm land in the midwest. Especially Hog Farms. But if they go belly up like the Japanese, then you cant take it with you. Our land feeds Chinese Communist Soldiers?
Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 08:54 AM (WY8d2)

My bet is, sooner rather than later, China nationalizes whatever Western investments are in China, and we nationalize whatever land they've bought in China.

If China thinks they can use Canada as a staging point to project into the US ? Good luck. Boys, you're logistics ain't gonna' be pretty. Rifle behind every blade of grass.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 09:05 AM (Dazu1)

301 >>State says your cows pollute and aren't issuing fishing or game licenses this year. Some nice agents will be around to explain it to you.

Hahaha - we've got Bears that will take care of those Warden's remains.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 09:05 AM (8rVOA)

302 Said it before, but the deer, turkey, and everything else population is f*cked if things get to the point where parents are told to feed their children insects.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 09:05 AM (9+Jmc)

303 China now faces a similar choice to what the US faced in the banking crisis of 1933. The US Government still had enough widespread public support that it was able to effectively nationalize the banking system and restore to a semblance of working order. It's not an easy trick to pull off, though, and if a country accepts responsibility for all of the old bad debts and prints money to cover it, they will kick off Zimbabwe style inflation. Of course if they don't cover it they kick off a depression.

Xi has some interesting choices to make.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:05 AM (r46W7)

304 I wonder if it all boils down to the size of the community. Once a town/city reaches a certain size, Leftism seems to take over eventually.

It is the Universities and the Public Sector Unions.

Remove their influence and Cities in Red States will not have this issue.
Posted by: garrett

Remove the social safety net.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 18, 2022 09:05 AM (Ri+XN)

305 Mark Kelly. I've spent a lot of time in AZ, and would be living there if Retardo hadn't opened the border. AZ is pretty much up there as a pro 2A state, even among the lefties. Kelly won on the coattails of the big steal, and if they don't get it right again (they'll try), space cadet won't make it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 18, 2022 09:05 AM (lz5hY)

306 "Brittney Griner is Another Victim of the BLM Movement"

Heads up: This link just leads to this page.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 18, 2022 09:06 AM (M9XmQ)

307 "In government, there is no savings or 'efficiency' by consolidating. Sounds counterintuitive, but the proof is in the pudding.
Posted by: mustbequantum"

When the city and county consolidated here, we got all the problems of the city and higher taxes.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 09:06 AM (sn5EN)

308 Given these problems with the underlying legal theories, targeting a political enemy and former president of the United States with a search warrant represents an unforgivable lapse in judgment.

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Not a lapse in judgment when your side commits serial treason, sedition, the theft of elections, & other crimes with the full knowledge that NO ONE WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE OR PUNISHED -- and in fact, WILL BE RICHLY REWARDED.

"Come on, ~~man~~ Margot!"

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 18, 2022 09:06 AM (WtAgB)

309 Kind of shows you how far left Schumer is a this point. Ga, FL, NC, and Wisconsin have four far left African Americans as candidates in a GOP year.

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 09:06 AM (WY8d2)

310 State says your cows pollute and aren't issuing fishing or game licenses this year. Some nice agents will be around to explain it to you.

Hahaha - we've got Bears that will take care of those Warden's remains.
Posted by: garrett

I'll get hogs.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 18, 2022 09:06 AM (Ri+XN)

311 How well would our high-heeled, dual spirit, furry military respond to the inevitable challenge is the question here.

The ChiComs will broadcast an offer of free dick chopping and we’ll surrender without firing a shot.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 18, 2022 09:06 AM (zm+d5)

312 The internal polls are devastating for Democrats and I can tell you they are VERY worried about the senate now. Republicans have managed to stay on message thus far about the economy, crime, the border, our schools and linking that to the Democrats actual votes which caused the current malaise and lawlessness our country is going through.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 18, 2022 09:06 AM (S1S3K)

313 299 One thing that has not changed in polling is that the number 1 issue for most Americans right now is inflation, global warming is way down the list and for many way, way down the list. This bill will make inflation worse.

Prices are going to continue to rise this Fall including fuel and food. You can't eat a solar panel or a windmill.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2022 09:04 AM (ZLI7S)

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But the polls in summer!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:07 AM (LvTSG)

314 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Verse for the day:

"For I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute. You will even be handed over by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to death. You will be hated by all because of my name, but not a hair on your head will be destroyed. By your perseverance you will secure your lives."

--Luke 21:15-19

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2022 09:07 AM (LsEU/)

315 I have a herd of deer living on my farmland. State only gave me 1 buck and 1 doe tag this year.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:07 AM (hwoGt)

316 306. Steal and he was a blank slate, that slept with Gabbie Giffords

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 09:07 AM (WY8d2)

317 Prices are going to continue to rise this Fall including fuel and food. You can't eat a solar panel or a windmill.
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This may sound silly, but I do worry that the solar panel 'farms' will create deserts out of productive soil.

Another stray worry: how do you extinguish battery fires?

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 18, 2022 09:07 AM (MIKMs)

318 actually, I find bigger towns to be a good thing

gives the scum a place to congregate and keeps them out of the countryside

Posted by: REDACTED at August 18, 2022 09:07 AM (us2H3)

319 Some middle class people still have savings. That's what they're after with the spending bill. Inflation will take care of that. Tax increase without a single tax bill passed.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 09:07 AM (9+Jmc)

320 Hey leftists, if eating bugs is so great, make people on EBT eat crickets and see how that goes.

What's that? You don't want to piss off your main constituency?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 18, 2022 09:08 AM (UuD2k)

321 Sarah Palin's race-

The Hill: Who is Mary Peltola, the Democrat outperforming expectations in Alaska?

"What we're seeing is an opening up of doors," Walsh said. "Peltola is someone who is following a path that we have seen.""She's served in the state legislature and now she's running for Congress. She has taken advantage of a seat that was just kind of locked up for decades by one person. It's a tough state in that way."
"She's stepped up and taken advantage of the moment," she added."

https://tinyurl.com/ycy2hc8u

Posted by: redridinghood at August 18, 2022 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

322 315 I have a herd of deer living on my farmland. State only gave me 1 buck and 1 doe tag this year.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:07 AM (hwoGt)

The rest of the deer are non-binary.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 18, 2022 09:09 AM (UuD2k)

323 317 Prices are going to continue to rise this Fall including fuel and food. You can't eat a solar panel or a windmill.
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obviously, you have never had a windmill after it's been sous vide

Posted by: REDACTED at August 18, 2022 09:09 AM (us2H3)

324 I think I'm getting a look at what American civilians in, say the Philippines, felt like when they woke up in a Jap prison camp.

This whole thing is surreal. I don't even know who these people are. I want to wake up and make the nightmare go away before one more damned thing happens.

And it won't be just one more damned thing will it.

Posted by: torabora at August 18, 2022 09:09 AM (3qoBw)

325 >>I have a herd of deer living on my farmland. State only gave me 1 buck and 1 doe tag this year.

Not enough damage? Or, no Damage Permits available?

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 09:09 AM (8rVOA)

326 "Posted by: Dave in Fla"

I hope you are right about Walker. The opposition propaganda is being funded from mostly out of state, as is Abrams. The media makes it sound like Walker has no chance.

Warnock only won because the GOP put up a worthless piece of backstabbing carpetbagging crap that nobody wanted to vote for.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 09:10 AM (sn5EN)

327 I wonder if it all boils down to the size of the community. Once a town/city reaches a certain size, Leftism seems to take over eventually.

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This is generally true as well for virtually any organization, especially the ones I've worked for.

Don't recall whom or when, but read something once that humans function best together as a team at around a maximum size of around 100. Beyond that, the larger they get, the more dysfunctional & collectivized (where excellence is punished, and mediocrity and flat-out incompetence rewarded).

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 18, 2022 09:10 AM (WtAgB)

328 Hey leftists, if eating bugs is so great, make people on EBT eat crickets and see how that goes.

What's that? You don't want to piss off your main constituency?

*

Yep. Turn off their AC to save Global Warming. Confiscate their illegal guns. Etc etc.

No, that would be dangerous. We're going to make it so that compliant white people are the target.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 09:10 AM (9+Jmc)

329 My bet is, sooner rather than later, China nationalizes whatever Western investments are in China, and we nationalize whatever land they've bought in China."

I have a good friend who, for a while, had a big interest in a small manufacturing plant in China. (Set it up to fulfill a contract with Walmart, and Walmart's requirements meant there was no way to fulfill the contract with any other source)

So he told me that every western business installation has to have a Chinese national who is listed as the official "legal" owner of any property there, so no westerners are allowed to own anything outright. This guy who is paid to be the "legal owner" is usually some local party official who just collects a check each month and other than that, has no connection with the business.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:10 AM (r46W7)

330 Seen on Yahoo! LIV news: TRump claims, without evince, the search of his home was politically motivated..."

I guess I should be used to this by now but it is always "without evidence " when the regime is accused of some dirty tricks. Always.Conversely lefts smears of the right are almost always taken at face value and their anger it causes is mocked and dismissed by the MSM.

How much longer can this go on? It is becoming intolerable, yet I don't see an end any time soon.

Posted by: Ripley at August 18, 2022 09:11 AM (MxEKc)

331 Jonah - North Carolina is a solid lock. Is it Tubbs running there? Anyway, he will win easily.

Colorado I don't think flips. Mail-in fraud in that state makes it tough. Good news is that Boebert will keep her seat though.

There will be surprise House flips, that happens in every wave election. But surprise Senate flips usually don't happen. If there is an out of the blue flip, it might be some place like Connecticut where the local political machine isn't watching for it. They think the election is in the bag and don't heed the warning signs.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:11 AM (5p7BC)

332 The new GOP House needs to smart on investigations in 2023. Cannot go on a blood lust like the Dems did in 2019.

Biden and Hunter are useless, and he is not running again anyways. Focus on the real left wing power like Garland, Linton and Monaco at the FBI. IRS

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 09:11 AM (WY8d2)

333 There's been a lot of wargaming done on the Taiwan issue, both here and in China. In about half the scenarios we're handed our ass, half the PLA goes down in flames.

I think Xi is patient enough to allow the various operatives and agents that have been infiltrated into Taiwanese society to do their work before he starts any shit. Blunting Taiwan's ability to fight back on a level field would likely throw the conflict China's way.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2022 08:57 AM (BFigT)

I was talking to a guy who has a brother fairly high in the Chinese military and he says that Taiwan will definitely be invaded with in 3 years. 5 years at the very most.

Taiwan should be prepared to poison pill the country by blowing up the chip factories. Yeah, that screws everyone worldwide but them's the breaks. Should be their attitude and quiet diplomatic message.
Give everyone at little skin in that game.

Next, they should have a massive, multiple, redundant team plan to blow up China's major dam system. Hopefully sequentially for maximum damage. China might "win", but it would take them decades to recover from their win.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 18, 2022 09:12 AM (5NkmN)

334 I hope you are right about Walker. The opposition propaganda is being funded from mostly out of state, as is Abrams. The media makes it sound like Walker has no chance."

The biggest and loudest attacks on Walker are coming from Bill Kristol and his bunch. They're not even pretending to be "conservative" anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:12 AM (r46W7)

335 331. Ted Budd Congressman. The Dem is a marxist Supreme Court Justice

Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 09:12 AM (WY8d2)

336 330 Trump says, without evidence... And then the cocksuckers will provide "evidence" from unnamed reliable sources.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 18, 2022 09:12 AM (lz5hY)

337 See also: Vince Foster, Linda Tripp, Philip Haney, et al.

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His name was Seth Rich.

/Obligatory

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 18, 2022 09:12 AM (WtAgB)

338 In before the art again? Even though Daisy Doggie has helpfully been consuming all my time and attention this morni....

DAISY! STOP! WAIT! DON'T!

[[waves good morning to horde, dashes off]]

Posted by: mindful webworker - sunrise walks are so nice this time of year at August 18, 2022 09:13 AM (6LG2q)

339 287 Oz is pretty likely to win in PA now, Fetterman is a horrible candidate, and Oz is running the right campaign for that state, lots of retail politics at the local level instead of massive ad buys in the areas he will lose anyway.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:01 AM (5p7BC)

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I get real tired of the stories from people saying, "I only see the D ads on my TV!"

Ad buys are shit. They don't move things, especially in races with wall to wall coverage on regular news networks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

340 Scott runs a twatter poll...

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays · 1h
In 2020, I got a lot of pushback for predicting that if Biden won, Republicans would be "hunted." Do you think my prediction has been realized?

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 18, 2022 09:13 AM (yikp0)

341 I have a herd of deer living on my farmland. State only gave me 1 buck and 1 doe tag this year.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Perhaps a few of them will run into an 'accident'.

Hey, it could happen.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2022 09:13 AM (LsEU/)

342 332 The new GOP House needs to smart on investigations in 2023. Cannot go on a blood lust like the Dems did in 2019.

Biden and Hunter are useless, and he is not running again anyways. Focus on the real left wing power like Garland, Linton and Monaco at the FBI. IRS
Posted by: Jonah at August 18, 2022 09:11 AM (WY8d2)

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No investigations.

Just budget cutting. Spend all of their time, effort, and political capital on fighting Biden's veto pen on a series of budget and appropriations bills.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

343 I hope you are right about Walker. The opposition propaganda is being funded from mostly out of state, as is Abrams. The media makes it sound like Walker has no chance.
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That is your clue right there.

I get fundraising texts from Warnock everyday.

Where is the support for Warnock among Georgia voters?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:14 AM (5p7BC)

344 The GOP is going to start investigating HRC and Benghazi again. Finish up old business. They will get to Hunter in 2028, and this latest FBI nonsense around 2034, as long as you keep donating and keep them in power, of course.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:14 AM (hwoGt)

345 344 The GOP is going to start investigating HRC and Benghazi again. Finish up old business. They will get to Hunter in 2028, and this latest FBI nonsense around 2034, as long as you keep donating and keep them in power, of course.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:14 AM (hwoGt)

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Incorrect.

They're going to get to the bottom of the Tea Pot Dome Scandal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

346 >>Scott runs a twatter poll...

He should have stuck to drawing Ziggy Pipoffs.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 09:15 AM (8rVOA)

347 266 Yes. I am trying to figure out a way to best short the market due to China, but Spy puts are too expensive. could be a short bull run in Nov though

Could dabble in SPDN
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Take a look at SQQQ. It will do the same thing as SPDN

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 18, 2022 09:15 AM (0chEi)

348
Oh, and WI and AK will stay Republican, but Murkowski holding the seat is kind of a tossup. That damn rank choice jungle is hard to figure out. At some point in the future a Democrat is going to win an AK Senate seat with about 35% vote share, thanks to that stupidity.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:01 AM (5p7BC)

Right now it's possible that both Palin and Begich will lose to the Democrat, who only has that 35% support as you say.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:16 AM (r46W7)

349 The more Fetterman is exposed to scrutiny the further he falls. The guy is a provable fraud who plays the Everyman role. He wholeheartedly supports the entire Democrat agenda that is crushing the people of Pennsylvania. That can't play well if Oz stays on message.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 18, 2022 09:16 AM (S1S3K)

350 Mitch says next year that the GOP will make Biden be the moderate he really is

that Mitch, he's a beaut, huh

Posted by: REDACTED at August 18, 2022 09:16 AM (us2H3)

351 If I remember right Old Mao Moose Dung didn't care if some nukes got dropped on Red China.

Less mouths to feed.

Of course old Moose Dung never washed his ass or brushed his teeth so what did he know.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 18, 2022 09:16 AM (R/m4+)

352 "They're not even pretending to be "conservative" anymore."

Here's the thing. Trump is not conservative. I don't care about conservatives. I care about saving what's left of the country. "Conservatives" are not going to do that. If they want to come along that's great, but if they oppose, they are worse than Democrats.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 09:16 AM (sn5EN)

353 Remember, the FBI retains military snipers even after deadly “accidents,” so more innocent women would surely take bullets to the head.

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"Not to worry, comrade! Chris Wray will be outsourcing future dissident murders now to the IRS. What could go wrong?"

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 18, 2022 09:16 AM (WtAgB)

354 Wow, Carville has gone off the deep end, and called two thirds of Republican voters irredeemable racists. What the hell, did his wife not make him breakfast or something?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 18, 2022 09:16 AM (+UMhJ)

355 Warren G was innocent!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:17 AM (hwoGt)

356 313 299 One thing that has not changed in polling is that the number 1 issue for most Americans right now is inflation, global warming is way down the list and for many way, way down the list. This bill will make inflation worse.

Prices are going to continue to rise this Fall including fuel and food. You can't eat a solar panel or a windmill.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2022 09:04 AM (ZLI7S)

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But the polls in summer!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:07 AM (LvTSG)

When ask as an open question (not a list to pick from) it comes it at 3%!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 09:17 AM (BRHaw)

357 I get real tired of the stories from people saying, "I only see the D ads on my TV!"

Ad buys are shit. They don't move things, especially in races with wall to wall coverage on regular news networks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

But look how much money Liz Cheney raised!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:17 AM (r46W7)

358 350 Mitch says next year that the GOP will make Biden be the moderate he really is

that Mitch, he's a beaut, huh
Posted by: REDACTED at August 18, 2022 09:16 AM (us2H3)

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Mitch knows that Biden isn't running his administration. The only way the Biden administration moderates is if he fires a whole swath of his cabinet and a bunch more political appointees to replace them with people who aren't part of the DC machine.

You know...what conservatives want a Republican to do.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:17 AM (LvTSG)

359 "Where is the support for Warnock among Georgia voters?
Posted by: Dave in Fla"

Atlanta, Macon, Savannah. All the big cities.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 09:17 AM (sn5EN)

360 Ted Budd, thanks I knew I had the name wrong.

Anyway, he is Trump endorsed and will win in NC easily.

NC polling for Trump v Biden right now has Trump winning the state by over 15. Compare to Trump's margin in 2020.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:17 AM (5p7BC)

361 I just wonder exactly how the NYC health department will determine the exact amount of allowable bug parts in edible bug parts, like they do with hot dogs. Seems like a conundrum.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 18, 2022 09:17 AM (M9XmQ)

362 Imagine how ashamed you would be if you found out that one of your relatives was a FBI agent who raided Trump's house. I wouldn't ever speak to them again.

And don't think it can't happen. My brother proudly told me 7 years ago that Obama was " the best President ever". That was it. After he drove away that day I send Xmas/birthday gift and have zero other contact with the prick. I won't even go to his funeral. He has zero idea what is going on because I NEVER had a cross word about the issue and I won't. Eff these people and the horse they rode in on.

I'm so tired of watching things get destroyed. It's what poo Tin is doing in Europe but it's happening right here to my country.

Posted by: torabora at August 18, 2022 09:18 AM (3qoBw)

363 The more Fetterman is exposed to scrutiny the further he falls. The guy is a provable fraud who plays the Everyman role.
Posted by: Marcus T

And, he looks like a failed Frankenstein experiment.

Why yes, I am that shallow.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2022 09:18 AM (LsEU/)

364 >>Carville has gone off the deep end, and called two thirds of Republican voters irredeemable racists.

Guy has always held these beliefs. He just tried to navigate his political career by not evincing them.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 09:18 AM (8rVOA)

365 357 But look how much money Liz Cheney raised!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:17 AM (r46W7)

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I also remember how much Eric Cantor spent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:18 AM (LvTSG)

366 Cage free eggs are $6.99 by me. I get my cage free eggs from my daughter for nothing.
Posted by: grammie winger

That's a deal !

Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at August 18, 2022 09:18 AM (T4tVD)

367 Mitch says next year that the GOP will make Biden be the moderate he really is

that Mitch, he's a beaut, huh

Posted by: REDACTED at August 18, 2022 09:16 AM (us2H3)

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That sounds like a Babylon Bee headline.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 18, 2022 09:18 AM (WtAgB)

368 I was in Atlanta a week or so ago and saw tons of Warnock and Abrams signs, and ZERO Kemp signs. The same thing in Macon.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 09:18 AM (sn5EN)

369 363 Why yes, I am that shallow.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2022 09:18 AM (LsEU/)

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So are a lot of LIVs...

*looks at Tonypete suspiciously*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

370 Morning all, thanks for the news J.J.

Regarding the red wave fading, they are only saying this so that it's more believable when they cheat. Same thing they did last election.

Posted by: spypeach at August 18, 2022 09:19 AM (gnwe5)

371 > Mitch says next year that the GOP will make Biden be the moderate he really is
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McConnell believes his own party's bullshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2022 09:19 AM (BFigT)

372 When ask as an open question (not a list to pick from) it comes it at 3%!

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And it brings us back to China, EVs, and money.

They have to pretend it's important and pass this stuff. Otherwise there are trillions of dollars at stake.

No one here wants it. It doesn't matter. It's not for us.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 09:19 AM (9+Jmc)

373 Fetterman has a closet full of Carhartt hoodies he sent someone to Tractor Supply to pick up.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:19 AM (hwoGt)

374 Don't recall whom or when, but read something once that humans function best together as a team at around a maximum size of around 100.

Back when I was in the Army, rules of thumb on span of control was five, one man in charge of five. Add another layer to the org chart, and you've got six chiefs and twenty-five Indians, with only one layer between the MFIC and every Indian. I've seen these types of organizations work well.

Add one more layer, and now you've got thirty one chiefs, one hundred twenty five Indians, and two layers between the MFIC and the Indians. I've seen these organizations work also, but that extra layer is always where I've seen the fvckery start. Any layer after that and it always turns into a zoo. Every. Single. Time.

So I buy your one hundred number. Makes sense to me.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 09:19 AM (Dazu1)

375 gives the scum a place to congregate and keeps them out of the countryside
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And then vote themselves power over you.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 18, 2022 09:19 AM (MIKMs)

376 368 I was in Atlanta a week or so ago and saw tons of Warnock and Abrams signs, and ZERO Kemp signs. The same thing in Macon.
Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 09:18 AM (sn5EN)

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In SC during the 2016 primary, I saw a grand total of 2 Biden signs over the course of months.

Guess who won the SC Democratic primary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

377 Tom Fitton @TomFitton · Aug 11
The same DOJ that raided Trump over WH docs told @JudicialWatch and a court that Bill Clinton had right to take records with him!

"Presidential Records Act does not confer any mandatory or even discretionary authority on Archivist to classify records. Under the statute, this responsibility is left solely to the President." Fed court judge on Bill Clinton hiding records in his sock drawer.

https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/
1560237709200969729

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 18, 2022 09:20 AM (yikp0)

378 Imagine how ashamed you would be if you found out that one of your relatives was a FBI agent who raided Trump's house. I wouldn't ever speak to them again.
Posted by: torabora

A niece recently married a seemingly nice guy whom recently joined the FIB. He has already run into stiff pushback from family and extended family. (He looks remarkably similar to some of the glowies in the pics being circulated)

Posted by: Tonypete at August 18, 2022 09:20 AM (LsEU/)

379 Take a look at SQQQ. It will do the same thing as SPDN
Posted by: Puddinhead

♫ you better know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run ♫

These short ETFs rebalance in funky ways such that they do not track the inverse of the index over more than one day (i.e., they do intraday, but not overnight). So long-term holding is a seriously bad idea.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 18, 2022 09:21 AM (g1EEm)

380 The funny thing about Carville's comments, when you read them, is that he's not defending Democrat Party positions; he's defending the Deep State and the Uniparty, all the way. There's not one bit of difference anymore between him and most of the editorial staff over at Hot Air, or NR.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:21 AM (r46W7)

381 So did you see that PDT is now claiming he knows Strzok is also a CIA agent?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 09:21 AM (BRHaw)

382 NC polling for Trump v Biden right now has Trump winning the state by over 15. Compare to Trump's margin in 2020.

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You mean when we elected a black republican Lt Governor but somehow also re-elected the sitting lockdown Democrat?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 09:21 AM (9+Jmc)

383 Well nobody campaigned for Biden. His rallies had dozens of people. They knew they were going to cheat their way to a win.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 09:21 AM (sn5EN)

384 Atlanta, Macon, Savannah. All the big cities.
Posted by: fd
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Naw, that isn't Warnock support. That is generic D support. They will pull the lever for Hitler, if there is a D next to the name.

Without people actively supporting *him* as a candidate, he has no shot. As much as we make fun of Abrams, she actually has a coalition of support behind her. Warnock is a big fat zero. He brings nothing to the table for anyone who votes in Georgia.

A lot of people are ignoring (purposely) the fact that Walker won his primary by 50 points.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:21 AM (5p7BC)

385 "The GOP’s unfounded attacks on the FBI are grossly irresponsible,”

A non-denial denial reminiscent of the Nixon Admin.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 18, 2022 09:22 AM (JVCkA)

386 I saw maybe 2 Biden bumper stickers the entire 2020 election cycle while living in a blue county. Some people legitimately voted for him, but there was no enthusiasm.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:22 AM (hwoGt)

387 I still see Hillary bumper stickers.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:23 AM (hwoGt)

388 If there is an out of the blue flip, it might be some place like Connecticut where the local political machine isn't watching for it. They think the election is in the bag and don't heed the warning signs.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:11 AM (5p7BC)
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It moved

Posted by: Old Man Sitting By The Side Of The Road at August 18, 2022 09:23 AM (+UMhJ)

389 >>Another stray worry: how do you extinguish battery fires?

It's not such a stray worry, it's a huge problem being faced by fire departments around the world. You don't read much about it in the media because that would damage the everything electric cultists but it's real.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2022 09:23 AM (ZLI7S)

390 You buy now. You been here four hour!

Chicoms

Posted by: Archer at August 18, 2022 09:23 AM (gmo/4)

391 "Those who warn most of some mythical civil war are those most likely to incite one."

Run that by Tim Pool, VDH.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 18, 2022 09:23 AM (44ww/)

392 388 If there is an out of the blue flip, it might be some place like Connecticut where the local political machine isn't watching for it. They think the election is in the bag and don't heed the warning signs.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:11 AM (5p7BC)
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It moved
Posted by: Old Man Sitting By The Side Of The Road at August 18, 2022 09:23 AM (+UMhJ)

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I can't wait for another Scott Brown, you know, a huge money pit of a candidate for re-election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:23 AM (LvTSG)

393 Right now it's possible that both Palin and Begich will lose to the Democrat, who only has that 35% support as you say.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:16 AM

I doubt palin will lose, odds are very good she will have over 50% once they do the next count. She nearly got the same number of votes as the democrat did and begich is now out of the count and his second choice voters most likely all voted for palin so that should push her over 50%.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 18, 2022 09:23 AM (bVYXr)

394 I just wonder exactly how the NYC health department will determine the exact amount of allowable bug parts in edible bug parts, like they do with hot dogs. Seems like a conundrum.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 18, 2022 09:17 AM (M9XmQ)

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Can't wait to see the USDA's revised Food Pyramid, and where Soylent Green ranks vs. insects.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 18, 2022 09:24 AM (WtAgB)

395 So I buy your one hundred number. Makes sense to me.
Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 09:19 AM (Dazu1)

Human beings are socially optimized to live in either hunter/gatherer groups or small, agricultural societies. Bigger than that and it all starts to go wrong quickly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:24 AM (r46W7)

396 So did you see that PDT is now claiming he knows Strzok is also a CIA agent?
Posted by: rhennigantx

Always was, apparently. Was actually CIA sent in to act as oversight for CIA’s control of FBI. Gateway Pundit link:

https://tinyurl.com/5y9cujbc

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 18, 2022 09:24 AM (M9XmQ)

397 Don't recall whom or when, but read something once that humans function best together as a team at around a maximum size of around 100.

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There's a really great book on groups called the Lucifer Principle. Worth a read. Short version: every group of people will have the same identities (leader, comic relief, f*ck up, etc). Iirc people can switch groups and change roles. But the roles have to exist and are very predictable.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 09:24 AM (9+Jmc)

398 Voters are legitimately stupid. Hey, I recognize that name! Click.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:24 AM (hwoGt)

399 "uncharted territory when half the country doesn’t trust the FBI or Department of Justice (DOJ) to tell the truth and show us their work."

and half the other half hope the FBI will go full Stasi against their political enemies. They presume such loss of liberty will never come back to bit them.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 18, 2022 09:25 AM (Cus5s)

400 Another stray worry: how do you extinguish battery fires?

Throw libs on them !

Posted by: JT at August 18, 2022 09:25 AM (T4tVD)

401 personally, I don't think it matters who wins

the same old shit will continue, to one degree or another

it will take a real catastrophe to change things

like the looming debt bomb

or a war

Posted by: REDACTED at August 18, 2022 09:25 AM (us2H3)

402 The raid on Trump's house was a huge mistake. It moved a lot of people who were on the fence in Republicans direction including independents. I have a few relatively apolitical friends, not big Trump fans and not regular voters who will
Now be there on Election Day for Republicans. Why? The raid and general weaponizing of the government against the people, combined with the Democrats IRS army scares the shit out of them and assaults their libertarian instincts. I believe one of them said, this has to stop.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 18, 2022 09:25 AM (S1S3K)

403 >>I doubt palin will lose, odds are very good she will have over 50% once they do the next count. She nearly got the same number of votes as the democrat did and begich is now out of the count and his second choice voters most likely all voted for palin so that should push her over 50%.

Nobody has any idea, nor will they before the 2nd of September.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 09:25 AM (8rVOA)

404 Mitch says next year that the GOP will make Biden be the moderate he really is

that Mitch, he's a beaut, huh
Posted by: REDACTED at August 18, 2022 09:16 AM (us2H3)
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I dream of a world where Mitch McConnell is the retiree he really is.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at August 18, 2022 09:26 AM (+UMhJ)

405 So did you see that PDT is now claiming he knows Strzok is also a CIA agent?

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The CIA are the ones that are supposed to be prohibited from operating on American soil, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 09:26 AM (9+Jmc)

406 Carville's argument is that Democrats suffer from being "too smart" and "smart". The "too smart" ones are coming up with all the garbage that gets them in electoral trouble (like grooming your kids). Whereas Republicans are just "dumb" and "dumber" according to Carville (except for the few that agree with him, of course).

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 18, 2022 09:26 AM (g1EEm)

407 Must be nice. Collecting 2 government paychecks. How does the HR system handle that?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:26 AM (hwoGt)

408 Human beings are socially optimized to live in either hunter/gatherer groups or small, agricultural societies. Bigger than that and it all starts to go wrong quickly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:24 AM (r46W7)

Now do the Federal Bureaucracy. All starts to come together, don't it ?

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 09:26 AM (Dazu1)

409 Don't recall whom or when, but read something once that humans function best together as a team at around a maximum size of around 100.
Posted by: ShainS

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I'm sure others have touched on that concept, but I seem to recall Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point having a chapter on that.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2022 09:26 AM (kXYt5)

410 405 The CIA are the ones that are supposed to be prohibited from operating on American soil, right?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 09:26 AM (9+Jmc)

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"I don't get it."
-The CDC, funding gain of function research

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:26 AM (LvTSG)

411 >>Another stray worry: how do you extinguish battery fires?

It is probably best to try and use them rather than put them out.

Maybe a mobile glass blowing biz

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 09:26 AM (8rVOA)

412 In the race for U.S. Senate, Democrat Mandela Barnes is supported by 51% and incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is the choice of 44%, while 1% say “neither,” 3% say they don’t know and 1% decline to answer. Vote preference includes those who say they are undecided but who say they lean toward a candidate. In the June poll, 46% preferred Barnes and 44% chose Johnson.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 09:27 AM (BRHaw)

413 Must be nice. Collecting 2 government paychecks. How does the HR system handle that?

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Two HR departments. Duh.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 09:27 AM (9+Jmc)

414 "that isn't Warnock support. That is generic D support. They will pull the lever for Hitler, if there is a D next to the name."

Well yeah that's nothing new. Dems always stick together. I hope like hell we get rid of Warnock, and then John Jerkoff. Both were elected because of the covid scam and steal.

Their opponents would not stand up and say the election was stolen and these people have to be stopped. They went along with the steal and a lot of Republicans didn't bother to support them because of that and also the fact that they were so distasteful to start with.

Posted by: fd at August 18, 2022 09:27 AM (sn5EN)

415 A lot of people are ignoring (purposely) the fact that Walker won his primary by 50 points.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:21 AM (5p7BC)

and I remember that just before the primary, all of the nevertrumper outlets were running pieces saying "oh walker's in trouble! Walker might lose his primary!" They were mad since Walker refused to "debate" the other candidates. Why debate some clown you're going to defeat by 50 points?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:27 AM (r46W7)

416 So did you see that PDT is now claiming he knows Strzok is also a CIA agent?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 09:21 AM

Time has proven Trump correct in everything he claimed the left was doing so I have zero reason to doubt that he is a cia agent or some other kind of cia asset.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 18, 2022 09:27 AM (bVYXr)

417 Why are Republicans suddenly projected to barely win the House but lose the Senate? Are folks currently loving the Biden destruction of America?

Posted by: AnnaS at August 18, 2022 09:27 AM (l4l/z)

418 The CIA are the ones that are supposed to be prohibited from operating on American soil, right?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 18, 2022 09:26 AM (9+Jmc)

Winner winner

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 09:27 AM (BRHaw)

419 Human beings are socially optimized to live in either hunter/gatherer groups or small, agricultural societies. Bigger than that and it all starts to go wrong quickly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:24 AM (r46W7)

You make very large groups work by templating. McDonalds is really thousands of individual stores of a couple dozen employees.

Posted by: Someguy's at August 18, 2022 09:27 AM (KcSkz)

420 Stroke was probably on a "leave of absence" from the CIA. So not "technically" an agent!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:28 AM (hwoGt)

421 "The CIA are the ones that are supposed to be prohibited from operating on American soil, right?"

In theory, yes.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 18, 2022 09:28 AM (1n+EO)

422 415 and I remember that just before the primary, all of the nevertrumper outlets were running pieces saying "oh walker's in trouble! Walker might lose his primary!" They were mad since Walker refused to "debate" the other candidates. Why debate some clown you're going to defeat by 50 points?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:27 AM (r46W7)

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"That's what I should have done!"
-Hillary

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

423 Reposted from earlier thread.

I thought this was an interesting account. This Navy chaplain who served and died in Vietnam, Fr. Vincent Capodanno, is having his move to sainthood delayed-so says the conservative RC site-Church Militant- because of politics in the RCC. He sounds like a very inspirational figure who loved Jesus, his faith, his country and the men he served:

https://tinyurl.com/392ywdya

Handsome man too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2022 09:28 AM (wvo9L)

424 >> "The CIA are the ones that are supposed to be prohibited from operating on American soil, right?"

hence the establishment of the 5 Eyes.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 09:28 AM (8rVOA)

425 Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold
BREAKING: A new Icelandic study shows COVID reinfection rate rises with number of vaccine doses.

The study shows that for most age groups, those who have received two doses or more are more likely to become reinfected than those who have received no vaccination or one dose.

Wow

https://twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/
1559296671644848130

Link at the thread.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 18, 2022 09:29 AM (yikp0)

426 I don't get the adoration for VDH. He bores the shit out of me with his keen eye for the obvious and his milquetoast delivery. Like reading yesterday's paper. Yeah? No shit? Ya don't say. So many non insights. No predictions. Just a rehashing of shit any observer already knows about last fucking week.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 18, 2022 09:29 AM (eJn7u)

427 Can't prove the CIA had intent.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:29 AM (hwoGt)

428 Why are Republicans suddenly projected to barely win the House but lose the Senate? Are folks currently loving the Biden destruction of America?
Posted by: AnnaS at August 18, 2022 09:27 AM (l4l/z)

Because they are setting up for the cheat.

Posted by: spypeach at August 18, 2022 09:29 AM (gnwe5)

429 Why? The raid and general weaponizing of the government against the people, combined with the Democrats IRS army scares the shit out of them and assaults their libertarian instincts. I believe one of them said, this has to stop.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Pretty good point. I think have 87K new IRS agents announced the same week the FBI raids a former president does not go unnoticed by people.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:29 AM (5p7BC)

430 I doubt palin will lose, odds are very good she will have over 50% once they do the next count. She nearly got the same number of votes as the democrat did and begich is now out of the count and his second choice voters most likely all voted for palin so that should push her over 50%.
Posted by: Mister Scott

They're going to learn they need to campaign for second preferences too. Not just the number 1 spot.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 18, 2022 09:29 AM (g1EEm)

431 427 Can't prove the CIA had intent.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 18, 2022 09:29 AM (hwoGt)

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No reasonable prosecutor would indict.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

432 412 In the race for U.S. Senate, Democrat Mandela Barnes is supported by 51% and incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is the choice of 44%'

I think that poll is pure garbage, and deliberately surveyed only heavy democrat areas, like Madison and Wisconsin.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 18, 2022 09:29 AM (r46W7)

433 the leak to The Washington Post that Trump had “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons.”
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The FBI found a Hulk comic book (first edition) that shows how gamma radiation can create the Hulk.

The walls are closing in!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 18, 2022 09:29 AM (lf83v)

434 >>I don't get the adoration for VDH. He bores the shit out of me

He's a thinking man's Britt Hume.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 09:30 AM (8rVOA)

435 Time has proven Trump correct in everything he claimed the left was doing so I have zero reason to doubt that he is a cia agent or some other kind of cia asset.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 18, 2022 09:27 AM (bVYXr)

Is does explain how he knew what the CIA was working on in regards to Alfa Bank and that British dude!

Does not explain why he was banging that homely gal!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 09:30 AM (BRHaw)

436 So did you see that PDT is now claiming he knows Strzok is also a CIA agent?

Gateway Pundit said that in 2018. All conspiracy theories are just spoiler alerts now.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 18, 2022 09:30 AM (ZGrMX)

437 comic relief, f*ck up

*******

Hey, what can I say? I'm a multi-tasker!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 18, 2022 09:30 AM (kXYt5)

438 50% for the Big Guy? ... out of Hunter's "earnings".

One story said they don't know where about 70% of the money for Ukraine went ... (or maybe that should be 70% of the weaponry, which seems to be sold around the world). Yeah ... lots of money flowing to the bad guys ... the funding for the global mafias is insane, the country is being extracted, and now it is by the trillions.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 18, 2022 09:31 AM (Cus5s)

439 "As Afghanistan proves, Biden has no plan — he just stumbles from disaster to disaster"

Everyone is still waiting to see Biden's plans to end COVID, keep ISIS and al Queda out of Afghanistan, reduce gas prices, end the baby formula shortage, end inflation, and meet his (impossible) 2030 US CO2 emissions reduction goal.

The Junta either says it has a plan but never reveals it, or says it is developing plans and all options are on the table. Sooner or later no one bothers them about a particular plan, or which options were selected or are off the table, because a new Brandon-generated crisis has emerged.

Eventually a crisis subsides and Brandon and the Junta quickly claim the good news is due to their plan. Which was never revealed, or if some sketchy details were given out, there were no goals or schedules announced. Making it impossible to prove the Junta did what it always does - talk a good game then forgetting about taking concrete steps to fix the problem.

It is scandal after scandal but they are of course never reported as such.

Posted by: Gref at August 18, 2022 09:31 AM (AMIL/)

440 nood

portrait

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 18, 2022 09:31 AM (yikp0)

441 Brennan testified to Congress back in the Spring of 2017 that he had put together a "fusion team" that included the FBI, NSA and CIA to investigate Russian interference in the election. Strzok was supposedly part of that.

My belief has always been this was a cover for what was already being done, unauthorized access to NSA databases by the FBI and private contractors to spy on American citizens including Trump and associates.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 18, 2022 09:31 AM (ZLI7S)

442 Pence continues to defend what is obviously a criminal enterprise, because people are whispering in his ear if he gets rid of Trump he could be President.

Posted by: Tom C at August 18, 2022 09:31 AM (UC9jk)

443 I believe Alaska will still be collecting ballots up until the 31st.

Then they will see if anyone broke the 50% mark.

THEN they will start tabulating the ranked choices.

It is a clusterfuck. But. Alaska.

Posted by: garrett at August 18, 2022 09:32 AM (8rVOA)

444 Another stray worry: how do you extinguish battery fires?

At least, when responding to a house fire, you can knock out the meter head. It's not an elegant solution, but you don't have to worry about spraying the wet stuff on the energized stuff in your never ending pursuit to put out the red stuff.

EV fire ? Great, just because the battery is on fire doesn't mean it's not still energized. And we can't use the non-conductive, Class C shit because of all the heavy metals.

Maybe drive a temporary ground rod, attach to a cable, drop the cable in the fire to try to ground the battery ? Hope the temporary ground doesn't melt ?

Bring hot dogs and marshmallows ? Make a day of it ?

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 09:32 AM (Dazu1)

445 It's not all that uncommon to have civilian "agents" embedded with military units but operate as if they were military as well as the opposite. It's also not uncommon to have civilian employees of Agency X also work in Bureau Z as a coordinator or some other job. They're not paid by two agencies... most likely.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 18, 2022 09:32 AM (BFigT)

446 In the race for U.S. Senate, Democrat Mandela Barnes is supported by 51% and incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is the choice of 44%
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Nice to know the preference of Milwaukee.

What does Wisconsin think?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:32 AM (5p7BC)

447 I thought this was an interesting account. This Navy chaplain who served and died in Vietnam, Fr. Vincent Capodanno, is having his move to sainthood delayed-so says the conservative RC site-Church Militant- because of politics in the RCC. He sounds like a very inspirational figure who loved Jesus, his faith, his country and the men he served:

https://tinyurl.com/392ywdya

Handsome man too.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 18, 2022 09:28 AM (wvo9L)

An inspiration to be sure. I so much appreciate from this and many of your other comments your willingness to understand our causes and our struggles.

Posted by: 7man at August 18, 2022 09:33 AM (qwO6y)

448 426 I don't get the adoration for VDH.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

He's everyone's cantankerous uncle, but with great delivery and eloquence. What's not to like? Plus, he's more credentialed than 99.9% of the credentialed assholes on the left who like to laud it over the deplorables. A nice poke in their eye.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 18, 2022 09:33 AM (g1EEm)

449 "Pretty good point. I think have 87K new IRS agents announced the same week the FBI raids a former president does not go unnoticed by people.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:29 AM (5p7BC)"

It really puts things over the top and into perspective. Universally Nobody likes the IRS. I asked someone from the local GOP why this point isn't in every commercial. He just shrugged.

*face palm*

Posted by: Marcus T at August 18, 2022 09:34 AM (S1S3K)

450 Garrett - Yep, stupidest system I've ever seen.

They can't even look at the rank choices until all votes are tabulated, which can't happen until the 31st.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:34 AM (5p7BC)

451 "The Democrats’ massive climate spending package, which President Joe Biden signed into law on Tuesday, will give over $40 billion to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), just as the bill allocates almost $80 billion to expand the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)."

The IRS Isn’t the Only Agency Being Supersized By Democrats

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One could also argue today -- in our modern oligarchic-reverse-fascist state -- that the $280 billion Big Tech corporate welfare bill that McConnell recently helped the Dems pass is a further weaponization of a ~~Federal~~ Feral Agency in all but name, given their willingness to censor, defame, cancel, & otherwise do the bidding of the Junta's political enemies with impunity.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 18, 2022 09:34 AM (WtAgB)

452 I don't get the adoration for VDH. He bores the shit out of me with his keen eye for the obvious and his milquetoast delivery. Like reading yesterday's paper. Yeah? No shit? Ya don't say. So many non insights. No predictions. Just a rehashing of shit any observer already knows about last fucking week.

VDH soft-focuses reality for those who think Trump is too edgy or not intellectual. That's a necessary service in order to stop more people from joining the Lincoln Project.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 18, 2022 09:35 AM (ZGrMX)

453 VDH soft-focuses reality for those who think Trump is too edgy or not intellectual. That's a necessary service in order to stop more people from joining the Lincoln Project.

Like Bob Guccione back in the day, smearing jelly on the camera lens ?

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 18, 2022 09:36 AM (Dazu1)

454 Is does explain how he knew what the CIA was working on in regards to Alfa Bank and that British dude!

Does not explain why he was banging that homely gal!
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 18, 2022 09:30 AM (BRHaw)
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It'll turn out that Page was an NSA asset or double, and their dalliance was in the interests of interagency comity...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 18, 2022 09:36 AM (WWh8n)

455 That movie Falling Down speaks loudly to me. I wouldn't piss on Michael Douglas if he was on fire though.

Trump is right about the heat being on high. I'm not sure though if the heat doesn't have to be higher. Being nice and accommodating to the SOB's doesn't work. They need to be forced back to the dark corners they crawled out from.

This movement to mutilate children is stomach churning. And the school parents have to fight for simple decency while being smeared as terrorists.

Now there's a drag show troupe touring and citizens clap like trained seals. I'm so afraid someone is going to ....

Temperature must come down? Really while they tear societal norms out by the roots?

I can see all too well where this is going. I watched Waco burn at the lunch table at work and knew right then things were effed up when that snotty dyke AG wasn't fired and Clinton needed impeached for that attack on American innocents. There's never any accountability is there.

Posted by: torabora at August 18, 2022 09:36 AM (3qoBw)

456

JustTheNews:

The case in question is titled Judicial Watch v. National Archives and Records Administration and it involved an effort by the conservative watchdog to compel the Archives to forcibly seize hours of audio recordings that Clinton made during his presidency with historian Taylor Branch.

For pop culture, the case is most memorable for the revelation that the 42nd president for a time stored the audio tapes in his sock drawer at the White House. The tapes became the focal point of a 2009 book that Branch wrote.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington D.C. ultimately rejected Judicial Watch's suit by concluding there was no provision in the Presidential Records Act to force the National Archives to seize records from a former president.

Posted by: SMOD at August 18, 2022 09:37 AM (RHGPo)

457 442 Pence continues to defend what is obviously a criminal enterprise, because people are whispering in his ear if he gets rid of Trump he could be President.
Posted by: Tom C at August 18, 2022 09:31 AM (UC9jk)

He's pathetic, programmatic, pious and treacherous. I'm sorry Trump ever fell for his act, or listened to whomever advised him to bring him in.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 18, 2022 09:37 AM (H8QX8)

458 Interagency raids are going to be LIT!

Posted by: torabora at August 18, 2022 09:40 AM (3qoBw)

459 Pence continues to defend what is obviously a criminal enterprise, because people are whispering in his ear if he gets rid of Trump he could be President.

Posted by: Tom C at August 18, 2022 09:31 AM (UC9jk)

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On the one hand, you have to marvel at the self-delusion of a Pence, Cheney, and other sub-mediocrities. On the other, if someone whispers in your ear "Hey, if we were able to install Joey Sponge-Brain Shit-Pants in the White House -- you could be next" ... I suppose it's not so delusory.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 18, 2022 09:41 AM (WtAgB)

460 Posted by: torabora at August 18, 2022 09:36 AM (3qoBw)

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Ditto. Righteous rant.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 18, 2022 09:44 AM (WtAgB)

461 " Yes, it won't be as efficient..."

Let's not confuse efficacy with efficiency!

Posted by: Brett at August 18, 2022 09:44 AM (OEKpk)

462 #456

Exactly right Ordinary American.
I read that last night.

It's a case the courts are going to have to pretzel their way around or overturn.

IIFC Tom Fitton's Judicial Watch brought that (losing) suit and by losing then he helps Trump now bunches.

Posted by: torabora at August 18, 2022 09:44 AM (3qoBw)

463 446 In the race for U.S. Senate, Democrat Mandela Barnes is supported by 51% and incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is the choice of 44%
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Nice to know the preference of Milwaukee.

What does Wisconsin think?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 18, 2022 09:32 AM (5p7BC)

I can answer that!!!!!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2022 09:50 AM (x0n13)

464 463 I can answer that!!!!!!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2022 09:50 AM (x0n13)

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Yeah, but how are the 3 am bagels?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 18, 2022 09:51 AM (LvTSG)

465 26 At BBC, usable news: "Mystery of ancient creature with no anus solved."
Did the anus split off to form another branch of the animal kingdom and was accidentally discovered by a genealogist?

Posted by: x-ray jeff at August 18, 2022 10:13 AM (jxMt9)

466 The Court will grant the motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12(b)(1) because plaintiff’s claim is not redressable. NARA does not have the authority to designate materials as “Presidential records,” NARA does not have the tapes in question, and NARA lacks any right, duty, or means to seize control of them. In other words, there has been no showing that a remedy would be available to redress plaintiff’s alleged injury even if the Court agreed with plaintiff’s characterization of the materials. Since plaintiff is completely unable to identify anything the Court could order the agency to do that the agency has any power, much less, a mandatory duty, to do, the case must be dismissed.

Posted by: SMOD at August 18, 2022 10:25 AM (RHGPo)

467 Gays Against Groomers sounds like it's fairly new and not particularly well established. I sure hope it becomes a big thing. We need more of this from the gay community. I checked out their website and the founder makes a really excellent point about how the "T" in LGBT has nothing in common with "LGB."

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 18, 2022 10:48 AM (+dHQK)

468 Posted by: Caiwyn at August 18, 2022 10:48 AM (+dHQK)

Gays Against Groomers = GAG ???

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2022 10:51 AM (x0n13)

469 Louis FREEH is also the guy who deep-sixed agent John O'Neill's warning about the impending 9/11 terror attack. PBS Frontline even did a report about it, fer cripes sake, about 20 years ago now. (Probably been expunged by now)

Posted by: Beverly at August 18, 2022 10:55 AM (cq3U1)

470 >>Gays Against Groomers = GAG ???
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 18, 2022 10:51 AM (x0n13)

Hehe, yeah, I noticed that too. I don't think it's intentional. You should check out their site, the founder has done a couple of interviews with NewsMax hosts. Seems based.

Posted by: Caiwyn at August 18, 2022 11:00 AM (+dHQK)

471 Watching Pence deliver a speech, you have to conclude that he has taken Goofy Gestures 101 from Pelosi. Ignore the sounds from his lie-hole: his hands say "This is fatuous bullshit" over and over.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 18, 2022 11:11 AM (peWy1)

472 Blunting Taiwan's ability to fight back on a level field would likely throw the conflict China's way.

Good thing that Taiwan is anything but level. All army-compatible paths are through valleys - and Taiwan has had 70 years to setup on the mountains surrounding them.

Posted by: markedup2 at August 18, 2022 11:21 AM (TD4D6)

473 Vincent Foster committed suicide. Four different agencies investigated his death and came to the same conclusion. One of the four was Kenneth Starr's staff. He was known to be distressed and his home town doctor had prescribed anti-depressants for him.

Linda Tripp died of pancreatic cancer two years ago. She was treated badly by the Clinton crew but she landed on her feet.

Wm. Sessions was the FBI director during the Ruby Ridge fiasco and the Waco disaster. Freeh I have little doubt is untrustworthy, but the bureau's issues predate him. Time to bust it into little tiny pieces.

Posted by: Art Deco at August 18, 2022 03:53 PM (1BrBu)

474 Of course the commies can invade Taiwan. Ever seen that zombie flick where the zombies overwhelm the walls surrounding Israel simply by creating massive mounds of zombies and forging on despite the millions being killed?

Beijing will simply march their armies into the sea and march across the corpses. It takes a true civilian to make such an idiotic statement.

How many ships did the allies employ at Normandy skippy?

What was the ration of allied aircraft to Germans at Normandy Field Marshal?

Which army has the higher level of training and skill, Taiwan or the PRC?

Finally what makes you think Taiwan doesn't have nukes? Guess what the South Africans and Israelis were doing with Taiwan in the 70s? I love it when those with massive intelligence and military experience post such tripe but hey weren't we told the Ukranians would be overwhelmed in two weeks?

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