The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/22/22

Good morning, kids. Start of a new week and a few things out there are brewing that do not exactly fill me with strength and confidence for the near term, let alone the outright banana republic thuggery epitomized by the only recently unimaginable Gestapo raid on a former president — one who was ousted by the rigging and theft of a national election. Talking with a very good friend this weekend, he mentioned arguably the worst woman in America, Malig-Nancy Pelosi, all but guaranteeing that the Democrats were going to hold both the Senate and the House come November (sorry, no link). Considering the intentional abject destruction meted out by her and her ilk led by the handlers of a demented, pervert dotard who spent most of his adult life figuratively fucking his constituents as well as members of his own family, quite literally, you have to ask yourself how could this be possible?

I refer you to her infamous proclamation only a few months before the 2020 election wherein she absolutely guaranteed "Donald Trump will not be president." I distinctly remember both her wording as well as her tone and it was not mere political bluster. She said it as if she had the inside dope and as history shows, she sure did. My friend relayed to me that that is exactly what she sounded like this time around as well. And right on cue, we have this:

Elementary schools and universities have been preparing for potential monkeypox outbreaks as the summer closes and the autumn sessions near.
Though monkeypox has spread almost exclusively among men who have sex with men (14,000 confirmed cases in the United States), health officials fear that the virus will spread beyond the LGBTQ community and into the general population, with elementary school and college students being the most vulnerable. Per the Hill . . .

. . . Young children have a natural propensity to play and touch each other. If one such child is infected with monkeypox, they can spawn a local outbreak with the other children, and their teachers. Many such children engage in physical contact like playful wrestling. Such activities are innate. Attempting to limit or prevent such physical contact is not only futile, but it could be harmful to their development.
Given the limited supply and specific focus on the LGBTQ community, vaccinating such populations against monkeypox would be nearly impossible at this point, leading various school districts and colleges to develop their own plan. Just last week, Penn State released its own monkeypox guidance, in which it stressed that “anybody is at risk for monkeypox.”

Here's an idea, maybe homosexuals should abstain from buggering each other and lock themselves in their homes to prevent the spread of the disease to the normal population. Maybe the government should force them to remain locked in their homes for their own protection, like we did back when the term AIDS first came into the public consciousness. Oops! Never happened!

Of course, a statement like that which exposes the rank hypocrisy of the Left could result in my "cancellation." This latest sin-borne plague, if you will, like AIDS really is a "gay disease." Whatever risk it may pose to the vast majority of normal people, like AIDS, does not warrant draconian measures that shut down all of society — like the response to the General Tso's Sickness, aka Chinese COVID. The only reason to do something like this is purely to make a favored population/political bloc not feel stigmatized by shaming and smearing one's political enemies as bigots for pointing out the obvious, as well as to lay the groundwork for mail-in voting and ballot harvesting but mostly to lay the groundwork for mail-in voting and ballot harvesting.

So that is perhaps Malig-Nancy's boot to the groin. It sure as hell wasn't the Gestapo raid on Mar-a-Lago since by all indications a majority of people across the board view it as a naked political cheap shot at Trump and his associates. The proof? Trump has already raised millions of dollars in the immediate aftermath and the cash registers are still ringing. I imagine the IRS is champing at the bit to raid his 501-C3 as we speak. So, if monkeypox monkey business drops us to our knees, the stomp on the head seems to be coming direct from the GOP.

Last week, Tucker Carlson showcased the fact that the GOP is doing its best to lose November’s election.
He included a clip of Mitch McConnell admitting that the GOP would likely not take the Senate. McConnell and the rest of the leadership don’t want to win. Carlson rightly suggested that, if Republicans really wanted to win, they’d run on crime and immigration. While the economy is reportedly voters’ number one issue, it’s what goes on in their neighborhoods and on their streets that matters. If Americans don’t feel safe in their homes, walking down their streets, or sitting in drive-thru lines because they’re scared to go into a restaurant or store, nothing else matters…not the economy, abortion, gender rights, or Ukraine.
Republicans don’t care. They’re complaining about Biden’s spending, bemoaning government overreach, and sanctioning Putin. Those issues aren’t going to return the GOP to power, but Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and Ronna McDaniel seem sanguine. Their lives don’t change if the GOP doesn’t take back Congress. They’ll still rule their little fiefdoms, still be invited to Georgetown cocktail parties to be feted by lobbyists and, of course, they’ll still be on Sunday morning shows to feign outrage for the latest Democrat policy.
For these grifters, the only difference between winning and losing in November is having to work for the American people…something they’re loathe to do. . .
. . . The reality is that this election has been tailor-made for the GOP, but that’s not the way it’s shaping up because McConnell, McCarthy, McDaniel, and their puppeteer, the hack Frank Luntz—who happens to be McCarthy’s roommate, landlord, or whatever—have decided they don’t want to save America. They’d rather sit back in the comfort of their minority position and pretend to care while enjoying the perks of “leadership.”

The $200 Trillion dollar question that the author, whose accurate analysis fails to ask is WHY? If you've been a reader of this column, or more likely, are just aware of the actions of the GOP at least since the Obama years you know the answer. And it's part and parcel of why in Trump's first two years when that party held all the cards in Congress his legislative agenda was essentially stymied and then, how the 2020 steal came about. The GOP is not an opposition party. It is a sham party that is there strictly to give the illusion of opposition to the dismantling of America that started over 100 years ago and went full tilt boogie with the imposition of the New Deal that turned the notion of our republic — that power is supposed to be vested primarily in the individual citizen — on its ear.

With that preamble, I give you the latest from friend of the blog and friend Michael Walsh:

You know the American Republic is on its last legs when those trying to destroy it consistently refer to it as "our democracy," which is exactly what it is not and what it was never intended to be. Historically, democracies don't last long, because they quickly turn into tyrannies after passing through the parasitical stage . . .
. . . Modern experience has taught us that essentially plebiscitary democracies, in which the "right" to vote is applied indiscriminately, and for which there are no qualifications (in some cases, not even breathing) eventually collapse once the citizenry discover they can vote themselves money without having to work for it. . .
. . . And here we are: a lazy and insolent populace demands that others feed, house, and clothe them at public expense, in exchange for doing nothing civically useful. And yet we are constantly told by the enemies of the Republic (who aptly call themselves "Democrats") that the "right" to vote is "sacred" and "sacrosanct," which is pretty rich coming from professional atheists who believe only in destruction. Unsurprisingly, these are the same people who hate the Constitution and are now open in their advocacy of its destruction. . .
. . . In short, we have to destroy the Constitution in order to save it. But why let the Left have all the fun? If we really want to defend our Republic -- and do away with "their democracy" -- it's time to get busy. Institutional capture is something conservatives are terrible at, in part because they don't realize our institutions of government, faith, and learning are even subject to capture.

Yet again, another great read from Walsh. My only problem is that I fear not only our government but a very large segment of society outside of government has become so corrupt, and more crucially dumbed down, as to make restoration all but impossible. At least I can't see it. Even though it took about 100-odd years to complete the "Long March Through the Institutions," a free society is relatively easy to destroy from within. A totalitarian police state, which we are a red nether hair's breadth from devolving into, not so much. And it all started in the schools. It's going to take at least two generations to de-Marxify America. That is if the propaganda/brainwashing mills allow it to happen. And they're not. The classifying of concerned and outraged parents at school board meetings as terrorists is proof positive that the instrumentalities of this government will be arrayed against anyone who opposes their hold on absolute power. What do you think 87,000 new IRS agents are all about?

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Michael Walsh: "You know the American Republic is on its last legs when those trying to destroy it consistently refer to it as 'our democracy,' which is exactly what it is not and what it was never intended to be . . . Time to restore the American Republic, by any means necessary."
"Our Democracy" Needs a Great Reset
"Parental alienation therapy teaches children that their alleged abuser, and they themselves, are the victims of 'alienation' by the non-abusive parent."
Exposé: The Quiet Epidemic of "Judicial Child Trafficking"
Victor Davis Hanson: "Our elites are now viewed with the disdain they have earned on their own merits. And they are none too happy about it."
The Worst and the Stupidest?
"There is no getting around the brazen fact that we are now facing arguably the greatest menace ever to gather its forces against the liberal civilization of the West. This is not hyperbole. For the regents of deconstruction, it’s full speed ahead . . . Whether the effort will bear fruit remains to be decided, but there is, really, no alternative."
The Great Reset: Testing, Testing. . .

RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO

"Trump declassified documents pertaining to the Russia collusion hoax and the Hillary Clinton email scandal in 2020 and 2021. Trump and his ally and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) representative, Kash Patel, wanted these in the public domain."
Did Joe Biden Reclassify the Russia Collusion Docs That Trump Declassified?
Roger Kimball: "Raiding Donald Trump’s private residence without compelling justification, the FBI violated Gertrude Stein’s rule about knowing how far to go when going too far."
The Feds Go Too Far
"The travesty at Mar-a-Lago shouldn’t blind us to the fact that viewing records showing a president’s motives and relationships is useful information."
Ordinarily, The American People Benefit From Viewing Presidential Records
Larry Elder: "One pertaining to Trump, the other to top Democrat officials."
Mar-a-Lago 'Raid': Two-Tiered Justice?

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CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"The Jan. 6 Committee is investigating security failures by the House Sergeant-at-Arms (SAA) in connection with the Capitol riot — and its consultant Brian Young is married to House Deputy SAA Kim E. Campbell."
January 6 Committee Hired Consultant Who May Have ‘Huge’ Conflict Of Interest
Jack Posobiec: "“All I’ve got to say is keep licking them boots. Keep licking those boots. Simp.”
Pence Displays ‘Big Simp Energy’ With Defense of FBI
"New York governor Kathy Hochul has directed state to investigate pro-life pregnancy centers."
NY Governor Was Mum on Pro-Abortion Firebombing. Now She’s Calling Pro-Life Activists ‘Extremists.’
"A look at the FBI’s last six years shows a pattern of irredeemable corruption." (Six? Try 60. jjs)
Think the FBI Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt? This Laundry List of Corruption Should Make You Think Again
"Democrats are power hungry and will do anything to get and maintain power, that includes cheating, lying, stealing, if necessary." (you left out acts of physical violence - jjs)
The Sociopathic Democrat Party
Robert Spencer: "The authoritarians are just getting started."
In New Jersey, Parents Who Protest Leftist Agenda at School Board Meetings Are "Extremist"
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"They don't know how they sound."
Critics Roast Energy Secretary For Telling Poor People To Buy Solar Panels
“The objective is that, in each gendarmerie brigade, there are gendarmes trained in attacks on ecology It will be a revolution."
Great Reset: French Gov't to Recruit 3,000 "Green Police" Over Climate Change
"Imagine if you had billions of dollars of other peoples’ money at your disposal to invest and instead of investing it prudently to provide the maximum safest returns you can find, you decide to blow it to advance your own 'environmental, social and governance'(ESG) objectives."
Another Bad Day at Black Rock
"Life on Earth creates CO2. It’s a good thing."
Don’t They Know That Crickets Fart Too?
“. . . there is so much, in the legislation for this, so many loopholes how the money can be spent, and I keep going back to 2009 when Joe Biden was in charge of implementing the stimulus package and hundreds of millions of dollars in green technology money was wasted in 2009.”
Former EPA Administrator ‘Very Concerned’ About EPA’s $27 Billion Green Bank
DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS
"More pressure on demand means upward pressure on prices. So we’re watching what happens globally. But we are doing everything possible to try to stabilize supply and demand to try to keep those prices coming down." (vayr ge hargit - jjs)
Granholm: If China Opens Up Significantly After Chinese COVID, Gas Prices Could Rise
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
". . . even if the Fed changes course (which is not quite imminent in any case), its efforts will be stymied by what [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden and congressional Democrats have been doing."
The Federal Reserve, Biden, and Congress Face the Unthinkable
"Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said Sunday that the Biden [junta] would announce in the next ten days whether or not the nationwide pause on federal student loan payments and interest accrual that went into effect two and half years ago would extend or expire."
Nationwide Pause On Student Loan Debt Set To Expire, Biden Officials Expected To Update Borrowers Soon
"Tony Vargas supports tax hikes on individuals making $100,000 per year."
Meet the Nebraska Lawmaker Gunning To Make His State Income Tax One of the Most Punishing
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
“Notice the scenario in this IRS recruiting program is ‘taking down a landscape business owner who failed to properly report how he paid for his vehicles,’ not ‘taking down a billionaire who uses the corporate jet for private trips,’” [Rep. Tom] Massie posted.
GOP Rep Sounds The Alarm On Viral IRS Training Video
Molly McCaughey: "The Left's hit squad magnifies."
Dems Weaponize the IRS to Silence Critics
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Lloyd Billingsley: "Fauci-funded officials allowed China to destroy files, materials and equipment, without backups."
China in Charge at U.S. Lab
"There are many people that will say that Americans 'rolled over' in the face of [Chinese] covid restrictions and vaccine pressures despite extensive evidence that neither of these things had any effect on stopping or stalling the pandemic. But the notion of American pacifism is simply not true. If it were then the US would be looking a lot more like China right now."
China’s Endless Chinese COVID Hysteria is a Dark Experiment in Social Conditioning
"Cosmetic reforms at the country's major health agencies aren't enough."
The CDC’s Big Fail on Chinese COVID-19: Where’s the Real Accountability?
LOCKDOWN 2: MONKEY POX MONKEY BUSINESS BOOGALOO???
. . . and toy poodles.
CDC Director: 98 Percent of Monkeypox Cases Are Occurring in Men
Though monkeypox has spread almost exclusively among men who have sex with men (14,000 confirmed cases in the United States), health officials fear that the virus will spread beyond the LGBTQ community and into the general population, with elementary school and college students being the most vulnerable." (and here comes the midterm election steal, folks - jjs)
Schools, Colleges Prep for Monkeypox Outbreaks as Autumn Nears
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott buses migrants to 'sanctuary cities,' including NYC, bringing attention to Democrat officials who refuse to do anything about the problem."
Broken Border, Dysfunctional Government
"They're giving migrants arriving from Texas on buses some amazing runaround."
Stop Bureaucrat Tricks: New York Tries to Get Rid of Migrants Seeking Services Through Red Tape
"The event comes as Mayor Eric Adams (D) estimates that, in the last few weeks, Abbott has bused more than 4,000 border crossers to New York City as part of his plan to alleviate waves of illegal immigration to Texas by transporting new arrivals to sanctuary cities run by Democrats."
Border Crossers Awarded Healthcare, Free Cellphones Upon Arrival in NYC
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"The ruling opens up the possibility of future cases using the ADA to require prisons to allow biological males into women’s prisons if they identify as transgender, although it remains unclear whether that or another accommodation would be required."
Dem-Appointed Judge Opens The Door To More Men Being Housed In Women’s Prisons
"Only when members of the media began asking questions about the appointment did Evers rescind it."
Wisconsin’s Democrat Governor Appointed a Violent Felon to the State Juvenile Justice Commission
"As the city government abandons public safety, Baltimore residents pool resources to stop package thieves."
Bring Your Own Camera
"Amid Stalinist show trials and a complete collapse of the justice system, one young woman alone acts for justice."
D.C. Lawyer of the Year: Natasha Taylor-Smith
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Miranda Devine: "Sam Harris deserves our gratitude. With dazzling honesty, the liberal atheist public intellectual from LA has said out loud what we all knew but which his ilk have blurred for the past two years: once you decide Donald Trump is the second coming of Adolf Hitler, then anything is legitimate to stop him — and, yes, everything illegitimate was done to stop him in 2020, and it was 'warranted.' Now that the Orange Hitler is lining himself up for a second tilt at the presidency, it’s OK to suspend democracy again to stop him."
The Left's Mask Slips on Brazen Trump Bias
"Meta, the corporate parent of Facebook, has announced its plans to control the flow of information on the site where most voters get their news."
Zuckerberg's Meta Going All-In on Censorship as the Midterm Election Nears
"Kathy Hochul's slippery slope in New York was an opening salvo to destroy the First Amendment."
Hochul's Compelled Speech Bill is Just the Beginning
A-fucking-men, asshole! A-fucking-men!
Stelter’s Final Words: "Don’t Give Platforms To Those Lying To Our Faces"
"Those are cosmetic changes. If Licht wants to bring CNN back to profitability, he’s going to have to do something that many of his woke snowflake employees are not going to like. He’s going to have to have CNN climb down from the soap box and go back to what we used to call reporting 'straight news.' It won’t be 'unbiased.”'But it’s likely to be less overtly left-wing."
New CNN CEO Tells Employees, 'You Might Not Like or Understand' What's Coming
SECOND AMENDMENT
"According to the report, it is unknown how the ATF acquired the customers’ information – though the owners in question acquired their triggers via Gun Broker or the Rare Breed Triggers website."
ATF Shows Up at People’s Homes to Confiscate Rare Breed FRT-15 Triggers
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"The real tragedy of the civil rights movement is its failure to convince African Americans that they have made any progress."
Has Wokism Scared Black Students Away from College?
“We’re talking about the future of America. When we talk about the future of America, we’re talking about our children and grandchildren. Elections, they’re about them. It’s about hope and the future, and we’re not getting there, and we’re not getting there very fast.” (so far, she's saying all the right things - jjs)
VA Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears: Education 'Is a National Security Crisis"
"How much will it really help student achievement?"
Enormous Amounts of Money Flow into the Bottomless Education Pit
"Austin Independent School District course says gender is 'innermost concept of self as male, female, neither or both.'"
Texas School District Pushes Teachers To Take ‘LGBTQIA+’ Training on Taxpayers’ Dime
"She will stick with her vision, and if her classes get smaller, well, so be it. True believers do not weigh their truth by popularity."
The Plight of the Progressive Teacher
"The so-called intellectual class at Harvard is fully in support of intolerance of dissenting ideas, and is willing to work hard to maintain it. What a bunch of close-minded thugs."
Today's Blacklisted American: Conservatives Blackballed With Enthusiasm From Harvard
Karol Markowicz: "A teacher has put out a detailed exposé proving a child can pass New York’s algebra Regents exam by simply guessing all Cs."
A New York Teacher Exposes Our State School System Sham — Where Guessing Gets You a Pass
"The system cannot be reformed. It must be reestablished on new foundations."
About Going to College
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"The requests sought email and text messages from both agencies that mentioned [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s Promoting Access to Voting executive order and the hosta Act, a law that prohibits executive branch employees from engaging in election activities."
Citizens United Sues Biden Administration Over Election-Takeover Documents
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"His work with the group raises questions about his stance on Israel—which has shifted during his Senate campaign—and is likely to increase scrutiny into his far-left foreign policy positions as he faces off against incumbent Republican senator Ron Johnson in the competitive race."
Mandela Barnes Talks Up Support for Israel on the Campaign Trail. He Doesn’t Mention His Membership in a Vocal Anti-Israel Group.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Which brings the running total of Democrat appointees willing to sell out America to China to about 100%." Obama’s Chief Agriculture Advisor Just Headlined a Major Chinese Communist Party Event
"Sean Casten holds up to $500,000 in company that is expected to benefit from Democrats' so-called Inflation Reduction Act."
Illinois Dem Touts ‘Historic’ Green Energy Spending That Will Likely Pad His Pocket
POLITICS
Todd said, “We are less than three months before the Midterms and our brand new NBC News poll paints a pretty bleak picture. Americans are angry. They are disappointed, and they are worried about the future of this country.” (meh, Pelosi again guaranteed a Democrat midterm steal - jjs)
NBC’s Chuck Todd: Americans Are Angry, Disappointed, 74% Say Country on Wrong Track
Mollie Hemingway: "As the top elected Republican in the country, Mitch McConnell has an obligation to immediately and dramatically improve his performance." (for real, Mollie? - jjs)
Come on, Mitch McConnell, Republicans Need You to Step Up and Lead
"Why is it behaving this way and what can we do to change this dynamic?"
The GOP is Doing Its Best to Lose the November Election
“I definitely get more done when he’s not here,” Biden White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told Politico Playbook. “No question about it.”
Joe Biden: The MIA [so-called quote-unquote] President
Yawn. Do it, Lizard. Your endorsement is the kiss of death.
Liz-ard Cheney Says She’ll Support Dems In Races Against Some Republicans
"Have Show Me State Republicans finally had enough?"
Spoiler Alert: Cheney Crony Makes a Run in Missouri
"The Indiana GOP chose 38-year-old business executive Rudy Yakym to replace Walorski on both ballots at a caucus on Saturday. Though the party had initially decided to hold separate votes for the special election and the general election, representatives decided to choose Yakym for both."
Indiana Republicans Choose Replacement for the Late Rep. Jackie Walorksi
"The onus will be on the Dems — if the GOP can show some smarts, which is never a given."
Democrats vs. Republicans: Who Will Self-Destruct First?
"After 55 years, January 20th, 2023 will mark the first time since 1967 that no member of the Cheney, Clinton, McCain, or Bush family will hold elected or appointed office in the federal government of the United States of America."
Donald the Dynasty Slayer
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"If the car bombing is tied to the war it would mark the first time since February that the violence unleashed on Ukraine has reached the Russian capital."
Moscow Car Bomb Kills Daughter of Top Pro-Kremlin Ideologue
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The U.S. and its allies stand between China and the dominion of the world." 
Could the Battle of the Taiwan Straits Be the Trafalgar of the 21st Century?
"A match made in heaven for both Jews and Arabs."
Jordan as the Homeland for Palestinians
"Israel's journey from liability to force-multiplier for the United States."
Video: The Post-1967 Turning Point of U.S.-Israel Cooperation
"The world is darkening. Murdering intellectuals does not bring light. It doesn’t even kill their ideas."
When Liberals Tolerate Political Violence
"How much longer will the PA's 'Pay-For-Slay' program be funded?"
The Palestinian Authority Paid $1,421,940 to the Jihadis Who Blew Up the Sbarro Pizzeria
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
Daniel Greenfield: "Congressional report exposes Biden's Afghanistan lies."
Biden Lied, Americans Died
"Biden’s actions in Afghanistan went against the advice and wishes of congressional leaders, military and intelligence experts, and even some of his closest advisors and cabinet officials."
Biden’s Disastrous Afghanistan Withdrawal: One Year Later
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"With profitable cybercrime operations earning hackers billions of dollars, the future seems bright for the next generation of cyber-warriors."
‘Hacker Summer Camp’ Paints Grim Picture of Global Cybersecurity
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Raymond Ibrahim: "Killing those who 'blaspheme' against Muhammad is as old as Islam."
‘Death to Blasphemers!’ Islam’s Ancient War on Critics of Muhammad
"Liberals still won’t defend his criticisms of it, even as they cast Christianity as dangerous."
Salman Rushdie’s Lonely Fight Against Islam
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"With polio now confirmed in New York City’s wastewater and monkeypox having spread around the world – albeit with mortality rates remaining low – it appears that disease outbreaks are happening faster and more frequently than before." (how do we know this is not being intentionally released by a foreign power, or worse, our own alleged government? - jjs)
Is Your Government Ready For Another Pandemic?
"The original source of the virus? The oral vaccine itself."
Polio in U.S., UK, and Israel Reveals Rare Risk of Oral Vaccine
"Despite the re-emergence of polio being triggered by a vaccine, health officials and mainstream media outlets have continued to push vaccination as the solution to a potential outbreak."
Polio Cases Continue to Rise as a Result of Vaccine-Created Strains
"Health officials are yet to detect a source for the outbreak."
CDC investigating ‘Fast-Moving’ E. coli outbreak in Michigan and Ohio
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Concorde has a serious replacement. Will it fly?"
Supersonic Boom: ‘Overture’ Goes Presto
"Sky Perfect is the first communications satellite company to choose Starship for a satellite launch. It is however the rocket’s fourth signed customer. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa made a deal in 2018 for a flight around the Moon, while NASA chose Starship in 2021 as the manned lunar lander in its Artemis program. UPDATE: SpaceX also has a second private manned customer, Jared Isaacman, whose present deal with SpaceX calls for two Dragon flights followed by a Starship flight."
Starship Gets its First Communications Satellite Customer
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Transgender ideology has infiltrated public schools, hospitals, and higher ed. Its adherents are not going to leave you alone."
The Transgender Movement is Not Just Intolerant. It’s Barbaric and Violent, and It’s Coming for Your Children
“'Do you have a penis?' she innocently inquired first."
Meet the 80-Year-Old Woman Who Refused to Shower With a Man
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"The entire concept of 'work' has been turned on its head, and quiet quitting is just one-way employees are demonstrating their unhappiness with current conditions."
The Phenomenon of "Quiet Quitting"
“I sincerely regret the way I have alienated some of my Black colleagues and friends. I am deeply sorry.”
President of American Historical Association Issues Groveling Apology After Backlash Over Criticism of 1619 Project
"REVIEW: "Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America."
The Arnaz Paradox
"Evaluating the theories."
Where Did Wokeness Come From?
Christian Toto: "Right-leaning smashes ignored by radio, find followings on free speech platforms."
Does Hollywood’s Conservative Blacklist Extend to Music Industry?
"Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in South Orange, N.J. will rename itself for Delia Bolden, the first black female high school graduate in the area. The student body chose Bolden’s name from a list that included names of notable people with local connections and generic names not tied to a person."
New Jersey Elementary School Ditches Founding Father From Its Name
"Prayer runs against every instinct of self-advancement and self-involvement—no wonder liberal society scorns it."
Ego’s Opposite
"REVIEW: Dr. Fauci: A Little Golden Book Biography. ("M" is for Mengele - jjs)
Self Care for Psychopaths: The Anthony Fauci Children’s Book
HITHER & YON
"Here's a moving story you won't want to miss."
Forgiveness and Healing for Two Old Soldiers
"What we create and what it says about us."
Monuments to Futility
"Fifty years later, a former FBI agent looks back on the bizarre bank robbery that inspired an iconic New York film."
The Deacon and the Dog

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 22, 2022 07:46 AM (bVYXr)

2 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 07:47 AM (BRHaw)

3 Oww podium

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 22, 2022 07:47 AM (qxFmg)

4 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 22, 2022 07:48 AM (UDSQC)

5 What is beyond weirdest times?

Posted by: IanDeal at August 22, 2022 07:48 AM (MGjjz)

6 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2022 07:48 AM (1n+EO)

7 The cheesy JJS is the best JJS! Thank you sir.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at August 22, 2022 07:49 AM (AzEXR)

8 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at August 22, 2022 07:51 AM (u7pQw)

9 Happy Monday, one and all. I remember how the Crazy Times in Starship Troopers came to an end and I'd like to hope that we're not going to duplicate that.

However, I'll invest in rope just to be on the safe side.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 22, 2022 07:51 AM (4olE8)

10 I remember when Nancy said that about Trump. There was also a politician in Pennsylvania saying the same thing "guaranteeing" he wasn't going to win PA.

Posted by: JROD at August 22, 2022 07:52 AM (0jZnq)

11 7 The cheesy JJS is the best JJS! Thank you sir.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at August 22, 2022 07:49 AM (AzEXR)

Fromunda. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2022 07:52 AM (x0n13)

12 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 22, 2022 07:53 AM (uvymP)

13 Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.

~~ Iowahawk, 2015

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at August 22, 2022 07:54 AM (AzEXR)

14 "Elementary schools and universities have been preparing for potential monkeypox outbreaks as the summer closes and the autumn sessions near. "

They they should stop having gay orgies for the kiddies. Oops! I mean stop encouraging boys having sex with boys.

Posted by: Ripley at August 22, 2022 07:54 AM (MxEKc)

15 Nanzi would worry me too as I am sure she was in on the fix

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 22, 2022 07:55 AM (qxFmg)

16 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 22, 2022 07:55 AM (T4tVD)

17 Skips ALL the content and still misses Top Ten.
So
Top Twenty!

Posted by: torabora at August 22, 2022 07:56 AM (EeUOj)

18 Fromunda. . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2022 07:52 AM (x0n13)

That's Pixy. From down unda.

Bonza, m8.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 22, 2022 07:56 AM (6FeV1)

19 We talk about "two-tiered justice". as Larry ELder does in his article.

It's really three. Democrats, Republicans, and Trump.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at August 22, 2022 07:56 AM (AzEXR)

20 "We can't stigmatize the LGBTOMGWTFBBQ community!"

Children are getting sexually transmitted diseases. I think the time for stigmatizing is right now, thankyouverymuch.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 22, 2022 07:56 AM (4olE8)

21 "We can't stigmatize the LGBTOMGWTFBBQ community!"

Children are getting sexually transmitted diseases. I think the time for stigmatizing is right now, thankyouverymuch.

*

Children and DOGS are getting it.

Lesions around the rectum. What a mystery!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 07:58 AM (e0y0z)

22 "Don’t They Know That Crickets Fart Too?"

That last one will not fade away.

Posted by: zombie Buddy Holly at August 22, 2022 07:59 AM (sn5EN)

23
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 22, 2022 07:59 AM (ENBF0)

24 Skips ALL the content and still misses Top Ten.
So
Top Twenty!
Posted by: torabora

I hope CBD doesn't read that !

Posted by: JT at August 22, 2022 07:59 AM (T4tVD)

25 Many here have been dubious about a "red wave" and whether it would ultimately matter. I have always suspected the GOP didn't want to win mostly because of the attention they'd receive from the left and their base as the country circles the drain. In essence, they'd be left holding the bag as we collapse into... whatever.

The one thing the GOP cannot abide is responsibility.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2022 08:00 AM (BFigT)

26 Children and DOGS are getting it.

Lesions around the rectum. What a mystery!

With regards to the dogs, I think we need someone to take the John Wick approach.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 22, 2022 08:00 AM (4olE8)

27 morning horde.

it's a monday. off to the content

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 22, 2022 08:01 AM (p03vF)

28 ffs

That’s big simp energy right there,” he reiterated, before suggesting that it might also be “a little LDE.”

“I don’t know, Mike Pence. A lot of LDE coming from you right now. Don’t like it.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 08:01 AM (BRHaw)

29 "Meta, the corporate parent of Facebook, has announced its plans to control the flow of information on the site where most voters get their news."
Zuckerberg's Meta Going All-In on Censorship as the Midterm Election Nears

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IOW, same as it ever was. Except now it's going into hyperdrive. Why not? Nobody in Congress is stopping the flagrant censorship that has only accelerated in big tech platforms. They'll keep on doing it and doing it and doing it. Apparently, unimpeded. Yay 1st Amendment...

As an aside, I marvel at idiots who get their main source of "news" from Facebook. AYFKM??

*shakes head*

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:01 AM (sVtYq)

30 The Russian manipulation of German gas supplies portends a very cold winter for European homes. Gas forward contract prices rose 19% in a single day when Gazprom made its announcement, and will go higher.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at August 22, 2022 08:02 AM (AzEXR)

31 Another great reason to homeschool is you don't have to worry about your kid bringing monkeypox home. Or any commie marxist socialist ideas.

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2022 08:02 AM (sn5EN)

32 "Thomas Jefferson Elementary School in South Orange, N.J. will rename itself for Delia Bolden, the first black female high school graduate in the area.

*

Because no one in N.J. thought blacks were genetically and academically capable of doing it.

Go ahead. It's okay. Admit it. That's why you horrible people believe every time a black person or woman does something that it's an "accomplishment," isn't it? Same as going into space or becoming president.

You don't think they can. Not really. That's why you constantly lower standard for them and throw parties when they clear the lowest bar.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:02 AM (e0y0z)

33
As an aside, I marvel at idiots who get their main source of "news" from Facebook. AYFKM??

*shakes head*
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:01 AM (sVtYq)

Can't fix stupid.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 22, 2022 08:02 AM (kDW7z)

34 On closer study, the Democratic Party historically appears always to have been this way and has only compounded its condition over time. Opposed to the founding, the Federalists, and adamantly pro-slavery, Democrats launched such hate-filled entities as the Confederacy, the Klu Klux Clan, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and then in a wild ’60s swing became even more profoundly anti-America and nearly communist.

NEARLY??

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 08:03 AM (BRHaw)

35 Many here have been dubious about a "red wave" and whether it would ultimately matter.

*

The news articles have already begun about how the red wave is a mirage and the Democrats are tied and not to believe your eyes with what you see in your community and America.

The fix is in.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:03 AM (e0y0z)

36 36 The fix is in.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:03 AM (e0y0z)

Well, at the very least, the fake-out is.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2022 08:04 AM (x0n13)

37 Well, except the leadership. Director Wray of course was appointed by Trump himself .
Posted by: Paul

*

Which has been probably the biggest gripe against Trump by his supporters. He made horrible hiring choices (largely because he assumed Americans loved America).

Try to keep up.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:05 AM (e0y0z)

38 The Mar-A-Lago raid worries even Democrats, I think. Not the DailyKos crazies, since no totalitarian act goes too far in their estimation, but a lot of suburban voters. I have no evidence of that, no polling data, but I bet this hurts Democrats. I'd love it if some reporter asks the coal-mine canary Marcy Kaptur what she thinks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at August 22, 2022 08:05 AM (X0bQz)

39 Stelter’s Final Words: "Don’t Give Platforms To Those Lying To Our Faces"

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"Something, something irony" is what's coming to mind here.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:05 AM (sVtYq)

40 *unzips pants*

*waits for Paul*

Posted by: Backhole the Clown at August 22, 2022 08:06 AM (kDW7z)

41 The sizes that we're talking about are so big - $40 billion for the EPA when their annual budget is $10 billion. The IRS getting $80 billion when all of Treasury is 15 billion-dollar agency and Department of Education is a 75 billion-dollar agency. These are massive numbers,” Vought said.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 08:06 AM (BRHaw)

42 The Mar-A-Lago raid worries even Democrats, I think.

*

Trump wanted to be a dictator, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:06 AM (e0y0z)

43 Plenty of people see the problem we're facing. Not many have an answer for what to do about it except vote our way out of it.

And that process is now, at best, suspect.

So I'm left without answers on what to do to circumvent the great reset.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 08:07 AM (mE7cY)

44 "gestalt raid"
==================

Paul is obviously in therapy and the truth just slipped out. He means "Gestapo", probably.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at August 22, 2022 08:07 AM (X0bQz)

45 Visited Bryn Mawr with daughter to look at the school. They are an elite/elitist institution, and they feel VERY badly about it. In the 1920s the women's college refused to allow a black woman to attend, but she did anyway, and she wasn't really allowed to enroll but managed to get into enough classes (some faculty was sympathetic and not racist) to graduate after 7 years.

So now they have named a dorm after her. The best part, though, is that dorm is where the LGBTWTFBBQ students live, because, you know, their struggle is exactly the same. And, yes, Bryn Mawr remains a women's institution, but they are very proud of their trans-men in the student body. No transwomen, though. You have to have been "assigned female at birth" in order to attend as an undergraduate.

You try to make sense of it.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2022 08:08 AM (6TxNR)

46 22 "Don’t They Know That Crickets Fart Too?"

That last one will not fade away.
Posted by: zombie Buddy Holly at August 22, 2022 07:59 AM (sn5EN)

Bob Geldof looks at that line and things about remaking "Do They Know It's Christmas."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2022 08:09 AM (x0n13)

47 I'm going to wager that roughly 75% of American adults have no earthly idea the Democrats just passed their phony inflation bill to include an additional 87,000 weapons-trained IRS agents which will be unleashed upon the middle class. The news must not be on Facebook yet.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:09 AM (sVtYq)

48 Yet his bill will make the IRS three-quarters the size of the U.S. Marine Corps. Who’s Biden making war on?

you get a raid
you get a raid
and you and you and you

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 08:10 AM (BRHaw)

49 Many here have been dubious about a "red wave" and whether it would ultimately matter. I have always suspected the GOP didn't want to win mostly because of the attention they'd receive from the left and their base as the country circles the drain. In essence, they'd be left holding the bag as we collapse into... whatever.

The one thing the GOP cannot abide is responsibility.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2022 08:00 AM (BFigT)

it felt like they were GOING to have to deal with a red wave and actually win. but now, i'm not so sure. they're doing their damnedest to lose it all. and at that point. i check out. i'll never vote for a gop again.

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 22, 2022 08:10 AM (p03vF)

50 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 22, 2022 08:10 AM (KE2ea)

51 I have no doubt that several, perhaps many Republican candidates will ultimately win. They'll have to fight for it. In the final analysis however will there be enough of the America First/MAGA candidates to slow the decline?

I think not.

The GOP wants to fail. It's in their DNA. It is the one thing they will fight for. A minority of representatives who feel otherwise won't change that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2022 08:10 AM (BFigT)

52 Plenty of people see the problem we're facing. Not many have an answer for what to do about it except vote our way out of it.

And that process is now, at best, suspect.

So I'm left without answers on what to do to circumvent the great reset.

--

It should be apparent, to anyone with an IQ set above lukewarm that voting isn't going to be enough.

I have come to realize that the US government, the deep state if you will, fully believes they own the government. The voters, The People, do not. And unless something drastic unfolds, we will not be allowed to choose our own destiny. It's not ours.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:11 AM (sVtYq)

53 CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has admitted that her agency failed the public’s “expectations” in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and, more recently, the Monkeypox outbreak.

“For 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for COVID-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations,

Find your sword
Fall on it!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 08:11 AM (BRHaw)

54 "You have to have been "assigned female at birth" in order to attend as an undergraduate."

Who does this thing they call "assigning"? A higher power? And why does He/She/It keep getting it wrong?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2022 08:12 AM (i0slg)

55 49
it felt like they were GOING to have to deal with a red wave and actually win. but now, i'm not so sure. they're doing their damnedest to lose it all. and at that point. i check out. i'll never vote for a gop again.
Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 22, 2022 08:10 AM (p03vF)

They saw what happened in 2016 when they expected like everyone else that Trump and the GOP would lose.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2022 08:12 AM (x0n13)

56 So I'm left without answers on what to do to circumvent the great reset.

Posted by: AlaBAMA

**

China wants X.
Our politicians, corporations, academia, and manufacturing base was bought by China, so they also want X.

Trump wants Y, and the American people also want Y. And a small hint of what could happen DID happen over the course of one year (remember, one year of his term occurred in lockdown), and it was incredible. And done with little to no support from Congress or his party.

It's easy to see why Trump is considered so dangerous. And us, too.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:12 AM (gm6nk)

57 that her agency failed the public’s “expectations”

You mean the expectation that you would be competent and act in our best interests?

Yeah. You are right, you failed at that.

But good news! We won't ever expect that again. So you've got that going for you.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2022 08:13 AM (6TxNR)

58 The GOP wants to fail. It's in their DNA. It is the one thing they will fight for. A minority of representatives who feel otherwise won't change that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2022 08:10 AM (BFigT)

Its their LDE!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 08:13 AM (BRHaw)

59 McConnell helped sabotage the 2020 elections so there is no reason to expect he will not do it again.

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2022 08:13 AM (sn5EN)

60
Uh oh. We're under a Class1-

Senile Joe Rain Storm Warning:

Constnat Dribbling Throughout the Day with No Sign of Stopping

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2022 08:13 AM (5NkmN)

61 Who does this thing they call "assigning"? A higher power? And why does He/She/It keep getting it wrong?
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2022 08:12 AM (i0slg)

Stupid doctors. It's not like they are biologists or something.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2022 08:14 AM (6TxNR)

62 I'll also say I'm very impressed with the quality of Trump's security team. China and the U.S. are against him, as well as the usual suspects.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:14 AM (gm6nk)

63 The peerless David Solway. I came across him 15 years ago with his "The Big Lie", a forensic examination of the academic Left that remains the densest and richest I've ever read. He is, like David Horowitz, a former Leftist.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 22, 2022 08:14 AM (H8QX8)

64 JJ's Front Page link highlights New Jersey teachers personalizing their dispute with parents. Their ads are on television, and specific parents are being called "extremists" right along still pictures presented with only the union context. And the Florida law the teachers call "Don't Say Gay" is mentioned as coming to New Jersey. If this ad campaign boomerangs, I won't be surprised. The unions think they can scare parents, but parents have never regarded the teachers unions as the good guys. Witness Chris Christie, who got himself elected on the back of viral town-hall meetings where he roasted the unions.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at August 22, 2022 08:15 AM (GKfru)

65 I remember ny old man yelling at the TV when I was a kid during the 76' Republican convention when the GOPe pulled their shenanigans with Reagan. I remember all the old timers Grandfather, Great Uncles grumbling about "Checked-Pant Republicans, Country Club Republicans, Rockefeller Republicans" at family gatherings, hell getting in fistfights at family reunions over the subject should someone exhibit any favor towards the GOPe. This is why I get a kick out of clueless comments of "cONseRVatIsm FaiLeD"as if these bastards harbored any conservatism at all. After Reagan the GOPe learned their craft well which became obvious after the Class Of 94'. Conservatives subsequently purged by leadership and grifters remained.

This. Is. Nothing. New.

Posted by: JROD at August 22, 2022 08:16 AM (0jZnq)

66 >>it felt like they were GOING to have to deal with a red wave and actually win. but now, i'm not so sure.

Yeah, someone's going to have to convince me that standing in line for an hour or more on election day is not going to be a complete waste of time.

Posted by: Ho Lee Fook at August 22, 2022 08:16 AM (Y1sOo)

67 "Find your sword
Fall on it!"

There is no shame in this

Posted by: The Operative at August 22, 2022 08:16 AM (1n+EO)

68 Top 'o the mornin' to ye, JJ and the Horde!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 08:16 AM (WWh8n)

69 Just got back from walking the dogs. Our weather broke and it's a nice 71 degrees outside. Problem is there is 97% humidity.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 22, 2022 08:16 AM (bVYXr)

70 The GOP wants to fail. It's in their DNA. It is the one thing they will fight for. A minority of representatives who feel otherwise won't change that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2022 08:10 AM (BFigT)
==============
McConnell thinks "success" means beating MAGA, so candidates he hates losing elections counts, to him, as a success.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at August 22, 2022 08:17 AM (GKfru)

71 [ii]populace demands that others feed, house, and clothe them at public expense,

**********

Case in point (including rent seekers)

https://tinyurl.com/free-lunch-yup

Measure on the ballot for November in Colorado to provide two meals a day (bkfst & lunch) for all public school students for FREE. The "FREE" meals program is expected to cost $100 million, funds to be raised by a tax on"the rich". Any money left over (I crack myself up) will be dumped into the General Fund, bypassing TABOR. Local farmers praise the measure, finding the rent they sought in the form of state payments to food producers. FREE, FREE, FREE!!!!!!!

I wonder how large a margin it will pass by...

Posted by: Muldoon at August 22, 2022 08:17 AM (kXYt5)

72 Spunk Fever is for faggots, not for kids, a la Trix. However, like AIDS, it infects general populations which tolerates faggotdom. Please excuse the truthiness if you happen to be a fag.

Posted by: Marooned at August 22, 2022 08:17 AM (w6hJ9)

73 Gah. My poor dad. He sent me a link from the New Yorker about Trump and the military. I didn't make it past the first paragraph.

It's not worth arguing with him about it, but it makes me so sad. He served for 24 years.

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2022 08:17 AM (sn5EN)

74 Yeah, someone's going to have to convince me that standing in line for an hour or more on election day is not going to be a complete waste of time.

Posted by: Ho Lee Fook at August 22, 2022 08:16 AM (Y1sOo)

I think that local elections matter a lot. I'll be there on election day.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 22, 2022 08:18 AM (45fpk)

75 I'm going to wager that roughly 75% of American adults have no earthly idea the Democrats just passed their phony inflation bill to include an additional 87,000 weapons-trained IRS agents which will be unleashed upon the middle class. The news must not be on Facebook yet.
Posted by: Lady in Black

*

Let them sell one set of good used golf clubs that they bought in 2007 for $601 and discover that they receive a 1099 from ebay and are considered a small business that didn't withhold SS, unemployment, etc. taxes because of a law signed by Biden in 2021.

Down from $20K and 200 sales/year under Trump.

Trump wanted to be a dictator, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:18 AM (gm6nk)

76 Looks like more rain today.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2022 08:19 AM (1n+EO)

77 ... mutual animosity in the pre-Trump years. ...
The masses increasingly could not see any reason for elite status other than expertise in navigating the system for lucrative compensation.

And more of them see it now than ever before.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 08:19 AM (QrvWz)

78 You have to go vote. I know it hurts. We stand no chance otherwise.

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2022 08:19 AM (sn5EN)

79 The only reason to do something like this is purely to make a favored population/political bloc not feel stigmatized by shaming and smearing one's political enemies as bigots for pointing out the obvious, as well as to lay the groundwork for mail-in voting and ballot harvesting but mostly to lay the groundwork for mail-in voting and ballot harvesting.
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They probably don't even need to. There are two obstacles to permanently destroying elections by raising cheat-by-mail to be the standard: political opposition and popular opposition. This Monkeypox gambit - if that's the point of it - is to counter political opposition. The popular opposition is likely fairly weak. People are lazy and cheat-by-mail is easy and convenient.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 08:19 AM (WWh8n)

80 Black student enrollment in American colleges and universities has declined dramatically in the past ten years, 24 percent in fact, from 2.5 million students in 2010 to 1.9 million in 2020.

Why would you go to a place where you are considered weak, and dumb, and uneducable? Why would you spend almost a quarter of your life being treated as a second (or even third class) person?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 08:20 AM (BRHaw)

81 Did e Biden Reclassify the Russia Collusion Docs That Trump Declassified?
______________

Is there any chance we'll get to see them?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 22, 2022 08:20 AM (fs1hN)

82 Liz Cheney is on a mission to destroy all Republicans that aren't like Mitt Romney.
Sean Davis
@seanmdav

Deranged nutjob who just lost an election by 40 points thinks she gets to decide who is and isn't fit for office.

ABC News Politics
@ABCPolitics

GOP Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz have "made themselves unfit for future office," Rep. Liz Cheney tells @jonkarl.
Both of whom took steps that fundamentally threatened the constitutional order and structure in the aftermath of the last election." https://abcn.ws/3CmdH6k

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2022 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

83 The GOPe is the facehugger latched onto the Republican brand's face. Nothing about them is conservative, or focused on preserving liberty and freedom against the communist bullet train crashing into us at this very moment. Removing them from control has been nearly impossible for 40+ years. They're at the helm of the power structure. And apparently, voters who could do something about it are too stupid to realize it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:20 AM (sVtYq)

84 Measure on the ballot for November in Colorado to provide two meals a day (bkfst & lunch) for all public school students for FREE.

We had that here for a while. I think they just voted to discontinue it.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 22, 2022 08:20 AM (45fpk)

85 "Who does this thing they call "assigning"? A higher power? And why does He/She/It keep getting it wrong?

Posted by: Ignoramus"

More twisting of the language by the left to advance their agenda. They have much of the country believing (or at least repeating) that when gender is noted by the doctor/nurse at birth it is being assigned or picked. That is 1984 level newspeak

Posted by: Ripley at August 22, 2022 08:20 AM (MxEKc)

86 @71

Oh, I forgot to mention, the free meals will be HEALTHY!!!!!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 22, 2022 08:20 AM (kXYt5)

87 Gah. My poor dad. He sent me a link from the New Yorker about Trump and the military. I didn't make it past the first paragraph.

It's not worth arguing with him about it, but it makes me so sad. He served for 24 years.
Posted by: fd

*

We might be brothers.
(kidding)

I have the same thing happen with a family member that I deeply love and respect, and who wants the unarmed J6 sightseers hanged. I don't discuss it and don't try to change his mind. It's the Facebook trap. I won't harm my last years with him because of the media's purposeful manipulation of him.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:20 AM (Xp8eC)

88 Those who thought up some of the most destructive, crackpot, and dangerous policies in American history were precisely those who were degreed and well-off and careful to ensure they were never subject to the destructive consequences of their own pernicious ideologies.

applause, applause

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 08:21 AM (QrvWz)

89 Republicans don’t care. They’re complaining about Biden’s spending, bemoaning government overreach, and sanctioning Putin. Those issues aren’t going to return the GOP to power, but Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and Ronna McDaniel seem sanguine. Their lives don’t change if the GOP doesn’t take back Congress. They’ll still rule their little fiefdoms, still be invited to Georgetown cocktail parties to be feted by lobbyists and, of course, they’ll still be on Sunday morning shows to feign outrage for the latest Democrat policy.
++++
Like the in The Producers, they have long since figured out that they can make more money (maintain influence, access to graft channels and the Beltway lifestyle) on a flop than on a hit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 08:21 AM (WWh8n)

90 82 ABC News Politics
@ABCPolitics

GOP Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz have "made themselves unfit for future office," Rep. Liz Cheney tells @jonkarl.
Both of whom took steps that fundamentally threatened the constitutional order and structure in the aftermath of the last election." https://abcn.ws/3CmdH6k
Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2022 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

=========

That sounds pretty insurrectiony to me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 08:21 AM (LvTSG)

91 I think that local elections matter a lot. I'll be there on election day.

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This!

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:22 AM (sVtYq)

92 75 I'm going to wager that roughly 75% of American adults have no earthly idea the Democrats just passed their phony inflation bill to include an additional 87,000 weapons-trained IRS agents which will be unleashed upon the middle class. The news must not be on Facebook yet.
Posted by: Lady in Black

50% don't even pay taxes. What do they care.

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

93 JJ

Guessing gets a PASS link:

https://tinyurl.com/mpu5phk5

thanks

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 08:22 AM (BRHaw)

94 89 Like the in The Producers, they have long since figured out that they can make more money (maintain influence, access to graft channels and the Beltway lifestyle) on a flop than on a hit.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 08:21 AM (WWh8n)

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"Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach. Too good."
-Mitch McConnell

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 08:22 AM (LvTSG)

95 Black student enrollment in American colleges and universities has declined dramatically in the past ten years, 24 percent in fact, from 2.5 million students in 2010 to 1.9 million in 2020.

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This is absolutely incredible. Earn a B average in high school and you go to school somewhere - many somewheres - for free. Full ride. No questions asked. But nope, won't do it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:22 AM (Xp8eC)

96 Pray harder.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2022 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

97 "The "FREE" meals program is expected to cost $100 million, funds to be raised by a tax on"the rich"."

Then they don't seem to be 'free' then, are they?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2022 08:23 AM (1n+EO)

98 I got an Independent newspaper in the mail. Didn't ask for one.

It's like the fucking DNC wrote it. Probably did.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 22, 2022 08:23 AM (kDW7z)

99 Children and DOGS are getting it.
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Does God send us signs? I think He may be practically hitting us over the head with this one.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 22, 2022 08:23 AM (fs1hN)

100 We're seeing chatter meant to discourage our turnout. Don't buy into it. That may be all that the Left has.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2022 08:24 AM (i0slg)

101 I got an Independent newspaper in the mail. Didn't ask for one.

It's like the fucking DNC wrote it. Probably did.

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Do you have a birdcage or litter box to line? Dead fish to wrap?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:24 AM (sVtYq)

102 Yeah, someone's going to have to convince me that standing in line for an hour or more on election day is not going to be a complete waste of time.

Posted by: Ho Lee Fook at August 22, 2022 08:16 AM (Y1sOo)

We had a new school bond on the ballot in May and it was voted down by one vote. If a couple of people that voted no had stayed home it would have passed and added even more $$$$ to our property taxes.

https://tinyurl.com/39yuu638

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 22, 2022 08:24 AM (bVYXr)

103 Ont he topic of elections, the lefty orgs aren't even couching it anymore. The previous owner of this house was a Democrat and I still get a lot of Den junk mail and mail from the various organizations with which the previous owner used to be a member. One of those is the ACLU, which has long since degraded into a hilarious sham when one considers its on-paper mission.

The ACLU circular I got is all about election "fairness" and "fortifying" structures and controls to ensure "access to democracy." They're barely hiding anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 08:24 AM (WWh8n)

104 And I see where Applications at the nation's Service Academies is cratering, as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2022 08:25 AM (1n+EO)

105 95 This is absolutely incredible. Earn a B average in high school and you go to school somewhere - many somewheres - for free. Full ride. No questions asked. But nope, won't do it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:22 AM (Xp8eC)

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Colleges are becoming the haven of white women. Something like 60% of graduates are female now. And those white women will...not...leave...you...alone...

I imagine being black at a college is frustrating, especially if you're there to become a chemical engineer or something. "Why aren't you joining us in the march, Lamar?"

Also...you know...there's an internal black culture thing against education. There's that as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 08:25 AM (LvTSG)

106 Trafalgar polling has Oz down 5 in the PA Senate race. Not 11 or whatever the idiotic media polls are saying. Mastriano is down 4 in the race for governor.

August polls. They both absolutely can win. Go vote, make Mitch cry.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 08:25 AM (ZLI7S)

107 I'm going to wager that roughly 75% of American adults have no earthly idea the Democrats just passed their phony inflation bill to include an additional 87,000 weapons-trained IRS agents which will be unleashed upon the middle class. The news must not be on Facebook yet.
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Polls have shown that a large percentage of Americans just want to be left alone. The dem response to that is 87,000 new IRS agents. But the public doesn't pay attention.
Probably half or more don't know about this.
Don't know who merrick garland is.
Don't know who mitch mcconnell is.
Don't have a clue what is going on in DC.
And what they do think they know is wrong because they read it on facebook or saw it on the evening news.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 22, 2022 08:26 AM (dr4Q1)

108 I imagine being black at a college is frustrating, especially if you're there to become a chemical engineer or something. "Why aren't you joining us in the march, Lamar?"

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Maybe there aren't enough "BLACKS ONLY" dorms and other social event structures in place to segregate out the whites.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:26 AM (sVtYq)

109 John Wood, a close friend of the Cheney family, officially left his position on the committee in late June and rented an apartment in Kansas City.

Wood also FAILED in Katrina.

He hid emails and calls for the entire weekend that the levees failed.
Bush should have had him hanged in the Rose Garden!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 08:26 AM (BRHaw)

110 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2022 08:27 AM (LsEU/)

111 109 He hid emails and calls for the entire weekend that the levees failed.
Bush should have had him hanged in the Rose Garden!
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 08:26 AM (BRHaw)

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That would have been disloyal to a loyal underling and uncouth. Better that W never fired him or even chastised him in public.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 08:28 AM (LvTSG)

112 "Maybe there aren't enough "BLACKS ONLY" dorms and other social event structures in place to segregate out the whites."

Vending Machines...

We need more "Blacks Only' vending machines.
Next to the water fountains.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2022 08:28 AM (1n+EO)

113 Guten Morgen, Horden. The acclimation of JT the Wonder Dog continues, with his introduction to the cats last night. We've got a very strange fear triangle going on here: Hex regularly tries to aasert dominance over Bel but fails miserably, he's contemptuous of JT; Bel routinely beats the crap out of Hex, she's timid around JT; and JT thinks Bel is a play friend but is terrified of Hex. He'll bark a warning to Pooky if he sees Hex. "Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!"

Posted by: pookysgirl, not skilled enough in pet psychology at August 22, 2022 08:28 AM (XKZwp)

114 I'm hoping we get the Trump-endorsed guy for governor and dump TeachersUnion Evers.

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

115 We’re bad at institutional capture because we don’t believe the institutions should even exist.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 22, 2022 08:29 AM (g1EEm)

116 I imagine being black at a college is frustrating, especially if you're there to become a chemical engineer or something. "Why aren't you joining us in the march, Lamar?"
Also...you know...there's an internal black culture thing against education. There's that as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Guaranteed a spot in college. Guaranteed to go there for free. Guaranteed to not have to pay for a single thing. Room, meals, books, etc., all free. Get an A-B average in high school and you can go to places like Duke, UNC, etc., where you're guaranteed to graduate with a guaranteed diversity hire spot at hundreds of opportunities with multiple corporations starting at 100K+

Nah, bruh. Imma hang out over here and play Xbox, yo.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:29 AM (Xp8eC)

117 Measure on the ballot for November in Colorado to provide two meals a day (bkfst & lunch) for all public school students for FREE. The "FREE" meals program is expected to cost $100 million, funds to be raised by a tax on"the rich". Any money left over (I crack myself up) will be dumped into the General Fund, bypassing TABOR. Local farmers praise the measure, finding the rent they sought in the form of state payments to food producers. FREE, FREE, FREE!!!!!!!

I wonder how large a margin it will pass by...
Posted by: Muldoon

If John Denver were alive, he'd be spinning in his grave.

Posted by: JT at August 22, 2022 08:29 AM (T4tVD)

118 "Colleges are becoming the haven of white women. Something like 60% of graduates are female now. And those white women will...not...leave...you...alone..."

So THAT'S where all the white women at!

Posted by: Sherriff Bart at August 22, 2022 08:29 AM (oTZbj)

119 Now that we're disabusing ourselves of the notion of a red wave in the midterms and beyond, what then?

Posted by: Ziba at August 22, 2022 08:29 AM (4h9M3)

120 Had a visit with my sister yesterday, a well-educated but bubble living liberal. Always a bit on the fearful side of life, she's terrified of the monkeypox.

I explained that she had nothing to fear, 98% of monkeypox patients are promiscuous gay men.

She said that was right-wing fake news.

I said I'd show her a left-wing news source that spoke the facts, and sent the NBC News article on the 'pox.

She laughed that I thought NBC was left wing.

I laughed that she didn't think NBC was left wing.

A good time was had by all (and Epstein didn't kill himself).

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 22, 2022 08:30 AM (fWbjv)

121 McConnell made a statement over the weekend or late last week that really illustrates how he thinks and what his motivations are. He said "the quality of the candidate" will dictate whether he/she wins a Senate race or not. Note he was specifically talking about the Senate, not the House.

He knows the House is going to flip. IMO he doesn't want the Senate to flip as well, so he's signaling to the uniparty that it's OK to take down America First/MAGA Senate candidates during the election.

He'll settle for a divided congress when he "could" have had both chambers and made a real attempt to derail the junta.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2022 08:30 AM (BFigT)

122 This is absolutely incredible. Earn a B average in high school and you go to school somewhere - many somewheres - for free. Full ride. No questions asked. But nope, won't do it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:22 AM (Xp8eC)
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And you've touched on the problem, though you don't know it. The problem is the structurally racist and patriarchal grading scheme that is used to throw a veneer of "objectivity" atop a system designed and executed to perpetuate oppression. There is no such thing as objectivity and objectivity itself is an expression of Eurocentrism and patriarchal motivations. The falsity of objectivity as such is then used as a justification to continue compounding the inbuilt oppressiveness of the overall system.

The disparate outcomes in enrollment and grading are clear evidence of the underlying problems and only antiracist and antisexist action will allow for actual process against the vast systems of oppression in our overall sociogovernmental metasystem. Older progressive education concepts championed since the 1920s - including the elimination of classical grading - are good steps toward increased justice.

Posted by: Your Kid's Education Professor at August 22, 2022 08:30 AM (WWh8n)

123 Trafalgar polling has Oz down 5 in the PA Senate race. Not 11 or whatever the idiotic media polls are saying. Mastriano is down 4 in the race for governor.

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This Oz fellow is the pits. But lord have mercy, Fetterman is just...I don't even know if I can find the correct words to describe him. He's so creepy and offensive. His visage is pure evil. And that's just on a personal note. His politics are simply horrific. How or why PA would choose that freak over Oz is beyond me.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:30 AM (sVtYq)

124 47 I'm going to wager that roughly 75% of American adults have no earthly idea the Democrats just passed their phony inflation bill to include an additional 87,000 weapons-trained IRS agents which will be unleashed upon the middle class. The news must not be on Facebook yet.
Posted by: Lady in Blacl
__________

Akshually, President Biden stated that no one who makes under $400k will see their taxes raised, meaning you won't get raided by the IRS, and for posting this misinformation, you are banned.
-"Fact" "checkers"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 22, 2022 08:31 AM (fs1hN)

125 Stupid doctors. It's not like they are biologists or something.

*******

One hospital I worked at used a dartboard. Not with real darts, that would have been dangerous and we weren't reckless. We used the little plastic balls with Velcro. If the ball touched the line we just flipped a coin to decide. We did give serious thought to a Rock/Paper/Scissors technique.

(does this need a sarc tag?)

Posted by: Muldoon at August 22, 2022 08:31 AM (kXYt5)

126 123 This Oz fellow is the pits. But lord have mercy, Fetterman is just...I don't even know if I can find the correct words to describe him. He's so creepy and offensive. His visage is pure evil. And that's just on a personal note. His politics are simply horrific. How or why PA would choose that freak over Oz is beyond me.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:30 AM (sVtYq)

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Go Team Red!

(not a criticism, just an observation that the dichotomy always comes back, always)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 08:31 AM (LvTSG)

127 But lord have mercy, Fetterman is just
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He is brain damaged. Fitting for PA.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 08:31 AM (g/54t)

128 Is Fetterman still declaring that no-one should ever need ID to cast a ballot?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2022 08:32 AM (1n+EO)

129 We're seeing chatter meant to discourage our turnout. Don't buy into it. That may be all that the Left has.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2022 08:24 AM (i0slg)
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It's important that people don't fall into this trap. Georgia may have been stolen, but Republicans didn't turn out because of a concerted effort to discourage them from voting.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2022 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

130 Posted by: Your Kid's Education Professor at August 22, 2022 08:30 AM (WWh8n)

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I haven't said it in a while, but I love these. They have to be sparse or they lose their comedy, but they are fantastic.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:32 AM (Xp8eC)

131 Facebook pulling the Fascists rules, why have the government do it when corporations will?

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 22, 2022 08:32 AM (qxFmg)

132 John Wood, a close friend of the Cheney family, officially left his position on the committee in late June and rented an apartment in Kansas City.

Wood also FAILED in Katrina.

He hid emails and calls for the entire weekend that the levees failed.
Bush should have had him hanged in the Rose Garden!
Posted by: rhennigantx

I beg your pardon.
I'm gonna hang you in the Rose Garden....

Posted by: JT at August 22, 2022 08:32 AM (T4tVD)

133 He'll settle for a divided congress when he "could" have had both chambers and made a real attempt to derail the junta.
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Look on the bright side, Turtle could die.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 08:33 AM (g/54t)

134 This Oz fellow is the pits. But lord have mercy, Fetterman is just...I don't even know if I can find the correct words to describe him. He's so creepy and offensive. His visage is pure evil. And that's just on a personal note. His politics are simply horrific. How or why PA would choose that freak over Oz is beyond me.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:30 AM (sVtYq)
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He seems fine to us.
-120% of Philly "voters"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 22, 2022 08:33 AM (fs1hN)

135 But lord have mercy, Fetterman is just
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He is brain damaged. Fitting for PA.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 08:31 AM

He is literally brain damaged from that stroke he suffered and should not be running, but like Herr Doktor jill biden, his wife wants to be the wife of a US Senator.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 22, 2022 08:33 AM (bVYXr)

136 "My only problem is that I fear not only our government but a very large segment of society outside of government has become so corrupt, and more crucially dumbed down, as to make restoration all but impossible. At least I can't see it. Even though it took about 100-odd years to complete the "Long March Through the Institutions," a free society is relatively easy to destroy from within. A totalitarian police state, which we are a red nether hair's breadth from devolving into, not so much."

Most people operate under the illusion that totalitarian systems do not have popular support. In a blind pigs and acorns thing, one of our totalitarians, Michael Bloomberg, essentially was right in a sense when he said Xi had to keep the Red Chinese placated. Even the people in our totalitarian hellhole who are hellbent on elimination of fossil fuel had to lighten up to keep the rubes in line.

I'm not worried about monkeypox effecting the election at this point. I am worried that the election will prove meaningless with the likes of McConnell and McCarthy as our lieutenants while our backs are against the wall. McConnell, at least, doesn't even want the title.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 22, 2022 08:33 AM (nMx88)

137 It's important that people don't fall into this trap. Georgia may have been stolen, but Republicans didn't turn out because of a concerted effort to discourage them from voting.
Posted by: redridinghood

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Republicans didn't turn out because they watched Republicans roll over and not fight. Worse, they watched Republicans be complicit in the steal. They didn't see the point of turning out.

They were discouraged from voting BY REPUBLICANS.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:34 AM (Xp8eC)

138 But lord have mercy, Fetterman is just
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He is brain damaged. Fitting for PA.
Posted by: Puddinhead

Gee, thanks !

Posted by: JT at August 22, 2022 08:34 AM (T4tVD)

139 "For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all.Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently."

Romans 8:24-25

Posted by: Marcus T at August 22, 2022 08:34 AM (VpIIl)

140 No joke, Fetterman reminds me of Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan. They look nearly identical.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:35 AM (sVtYq)

141 doom

Posted by: davidt at August 22, 2022 08:35 AM (oTZbj)

142 I've never been more convinced that if you want to live forever, all you have to do is become a scumbag politician.

They never die.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 08:35 AM (mE7cY)

143 *types*
*deletes*

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 22, 2022 08:36 AM (QqVDA)

144 142 I've never been more convinced that if you want to live forever, all you have to do is become a scumbag politician.

They never die.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 08:35 AM (mE7cY)

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"I'm getting better!"
-Robert Byrd

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 08:36 AM (LvTSG)

145 One hospital I worked at used a dartboard. Not with real darts, that would have been dangerous and we weren't reckless. We used the little plastic balls with Velcro. If the ball touched the line we just flipped a coin to decide. We did give serious thought to a Rock/Paper/Scissors technique.

(does this need a sarc tag?)
Posted by: Muldoon at August 22, 2022 08:31 AM (kXYt5)
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The sad thing is that this is entirely plausible these days...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2022 08:36 AM (YIVH2)

146 A California dog is blind after ingesting oxycodone while on a walk.

https://tinyurl.com/2ad9et4n

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2022 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

147 You kind of have to feel sorry for Philly. One of the original Wilsonian Too Big To Fail city states and now its obvious to everyone it has failed. The exoduos of Yankees started in 1969. Seems Philly is now becoming the new Baltimore.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 08:36 AM (g/54t)

148 Shrek Fetterman is a 6'10" pile of shit.

He's an Ivy League trained Marxist and is dangerous as hell.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 22, 2022 08:36 AM (kDW7z)

149 McConnell puts PAC $34 mil into Oz's campaign in PA.

What, he's worried?

Posted by: Ziba at August 22, 2022 08:36 AM (4h9M3)

150 Two years of lockdowns did *nothing* to stop the spread of COVID since it is a respiratory disease.

However, if alphabet population agree to just stop orgies for two weeks it would end monkeypox

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 08:36 AM (ESjRY)

151 The GOP is not an opposition party. It is a sham party that is there strictly to give the illusion of opposition to the dismantling of America that started over 100 years ago and went full tilt boogie with the imposition of the New Deal that turned the notion of our republic — that power is supposed to be vested primarily in the individual citizen — on its ear.

You got it. But you and I are in the minority. Most people, including most Republicans, are wedded to this idea that there is a "good party" and a "bad party". They won't give that paradigm up.

When you talk about these things, just understand that a whole lot of people, including many here, simply scroll past - hoping the next article will be about "the red wave". Those people have personally spent decades of their lives pouring their emotions into "Republicans good, Democrats bad", sometimes they've sunk thousands of dollars into the concept. They will not write off that investment. Neither will any lifelong Democrat. That's just not how people work.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 08:36 AM (SOasU)

152
139 "For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all.Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently."

Romans 8:24-25
Posted by: Marcus T at August 22, 2022 08:34 AM (VpIIl

Hear, hear. Also, Yay, though I walk through the valley...

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 08:37 AM (mE7cY)

153 Florida's primary is tomorrow. I guess I'll have to go out and vote.

More coffee...

Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2022 08:37 AM (88xKn)

154 "For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all.Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently."

Romans 8:24-25

Posted by: Marcus T at August 22, 2022 08:34 AM (VpIIl)

You always select such wonderful verses. I've been trying to memorize them. Good for my brain; good for my soul. Thanks.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 22, 2022 08:37 AM (45fpk)

155 144 142 I've never been more convinced that if you want to live forever, all you have to do is become a scumbag politician.

They never die.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 08:35 AM (mE7cY)

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"I'm getting better!"
-Robert Byrd
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I can't hear you!
Diane Feinstein

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 08:38 AM (g/54t)

156 Trump is doing a rally in PA on September 3rd for Mastriano and Oz. He actually wants to win PA and thinks he can work with Oz.

I seem to remember Trump being right once or twice before.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 08:38 AM (ZLI7S)

157 Look on the bright side, Turtle could die.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 08:33 AM (g/54t)
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I dunno. He's actual elite ruling class. They seem to live forever. I imagine due to a combination of some WEF go-juice and the fact that the Devil takes care of his own.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 08:38 AM (WWh8n)

158 Posted by: Sid at August 22, 2022 08:38 AM (JsCSn)

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Well, you won. Good job.

I'm not even going to vote now.

Take the rest of the day off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

159 I'm going to wager that roughly 75% of American adults have no earthly idea the Democrats jus

This is our problem on almost every issue.

This is why Biden-flation is such a big deal.

You can spend all your attention on Dancing with the Stars, your fantasy football team, and waxing your balls, but you will still notice the price of everything going up...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 08:39 AM (ESjRY)

160 158 Look on the bright side, Turtle could die.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 08:33 AM (g/54t)
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I dunno. He's actual elite ruling class. They seem to live forever. I imagine due to a combination of some WEF go-juice and the fact that the Devil takes care of his own.
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The Go Juice has to be stem cells.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 08:40 AM (g/54t)

161 Yay, though I walk through the valley...

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 08:37 AM (mE7cY)

Years ago I noticed that David said "the valley of the shadow of death", not "the valley of death". Death has lost its sting.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 22, 2022 08:40 AM (45fpk)

162 Jumping in to say hi HI just because I can, thanks to our new Walk Me at Sunrise pooch.

Wondering if it's any harder for JJ to timely post the Morning Report from here in the Central time zone.

Oh, btw, it's my birthday. I have officially entered my eighth decade spinning around the sun. It's been beautiful. It's been horrible. Ready for more. After another cup of coffee.

Posted by: mindful webworker - let's go for a walk at August 22, 2022 08:41 AM (izaSZ)

163 The Nazi's original plan for dealing with the 'unwanted' was to starve them to death.

I think that's the plan now. No work, no money, no food. Sorry folks. Good luck.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 08:41 AM (mE7cY)

164 Then they don't seem to be 'free' then, are they?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice[/ii]

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You caught that too, eh?

Maybe we should move you up to Journeyman Village Idiot!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 22, 2022 08:41 AM (kXYt5)

165 McConnell wants to be a Senate Majority leader. Again. There's only one way to do that.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2022 08:41 AM (LVI60)

166 Years ago I noticed that David said "the valley of the shadow of death", not "the valley of death". Death has lost its sting.
Posted by: grammie winger at August 22, 2022 08:40 AM (45fpk

That's excellent insight! I truly hadn't thought of it like that.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 08:42 AM (mE7cY)

167 Happy birthday, mindful webworker!

Posted by: grammie winger at August 22, 2022 08:42 AM (45fpk)

168 I get a weekly email from a local gun company. In it they post their "best sellers" in 3 categories for the previous week; pistols, shotguns and rifles. For as long as I've been getting these, maybe 6 months or more the top 2-3 selling shotguns are the Mossberg "Shockwave" versions.

Not a Turkey gun. A stubby shotgun.

Interesting....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2022 08:42 AM (BFigT)

169 So we are remembering the Qua Drang Valley today?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 08:42 AM (g/54t)

170 Biden committed MORE weapons, in the billions of $$ to Ukraine over the weekend. "For as long as it takes" for Ukraine to win, or for the US taxpayer to go flat broke?

Posted by: Ziba at August 22, 2022 08:43 AM (4h9M3)

171 The Nazi's original plan for dealing with the 'unwanted' was to starve them to death.

I think that's the plan now. No work, no money, no food. Sorry folks. Good luck.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

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Didn't Stalin handle the kulaks that way, too? (wasn't that in Ukraine, btw?)

And we don't have horses, so when our cars are banned...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:43 AM (Xp8eC)

172 163 The Nazi's original plan for dealing with the 'unwanted' was to starve them to death.

I think that's the plan now. No work, no money, no food. Sorry folks. Good luck.
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The NAZIs learned that from Lenin and Stalin. Then there is Mao who loved to starve people. Now its Larry Fink at Blackrock.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 08:44 AM (g/54t)

173 I do not share JJ ' pessimism. Dems always say they will win. A number of problematic states cleaned up their act since last election. Too late to make monkeypox a pandemic and DJT is not on the ticket.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2022 08:44 AM (LVI60)

174 Years ago I noticed that David said "the valley of the shadow of death", not "the valley of death". Death has lost its sting.
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'Where, O Death, is now thy sting / Alleluia' - my favorite hymn.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 22, 2022 08:45 AM (MIKMs)

175 I think that's the plan now. No work, no money, no food. Sorry folks. Good luck.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 08:41 AM (mE7cY)

the Jews were a lot farther along in "starving" than Americans

take Americans 6 months to a year just to get to svelte

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 08:45 AM (us2H3)

176 "
Not a Turkey gun. A stubby shotgun.

Interesting...."

It is NOT a shotgun.

As far as the ATF is officially concerned, it is simply a 'firearm'.

I own one, with the crimson trace saddle laser sight, to allow accurate shooting even when held low. As well as the Opsal insert to allow for the Aguila mini-shells.
Nice for in the house if needed.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2022 08:45 AM (1n+EO)

177 I see the Ukes assassinated the daughter of one of Putin's allies in Russia.

I'm so old I remember when killing combatants who weren't engaged in combat was a war crime let alone intentionally targeting civvies.

Be interesting to see what the Russian response is.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 08:46 AM (ESjRY)

178 see the Ukes assassinated the daughter of one of Putin's allies in Russia.

No, that was an inside hit. Ukes have no such power or reach.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2022 08:47 AM (LVI60)

179 Alternate view on less black students going to college: they're right. Except for a very special few, or unless they aspire to a life in the bureaucracy, it's a coloss waste of time, money, and effort for them. Lower levels of public education are so bad now that not one out of a hundred would enter with the study skills or critical thinking skills necessary to make it in any serious education effort; the system is set up to get them to take huge loans and then drop out. Everyone is starting to figure out that's what the real game is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2022 08:47 AM (r46W7)

180 177 I see the Ukes assassinated the daughter of one of Putin's allies in Russia.

I'm so old I remember when killing combatants who weren't engaged in combat was a war crime let alone intentionally targeting civvies.

Be interesting to see what the Russian response is.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 08:46 AM (ESjRY)

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I read that it was a carbomb targeting her father, who is the architect of the Ukraine conflict (I think). The girl got into the car instead of him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 08:47 AM (LvTSG)

181 Didn't Stalin handle the kulaks that way, too? (wasn't that in Ukraine, btw?)

And we don't have horses, so when our cars are banned...
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The Soviets were happy to play Hank Fonda's The Grapes of Wrath to their comrades. Then it backfired. Seems the peasants were impressed that even poor farmers in America had their own trucks and could travel anywhere they wanted. The Grapes of Wrath, after that, was taken out of circulation.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 08:48 AM (g/54t)

182 Internal power struggles , who knows.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2022 08:48 AM (LVI60)

183 Schlichter bringing the boom and truth this morning.

https://tinyurl.com/2nh5fdw6

Though this is mostly about pols like Pence and Tim Scott, "flaccidon" would be a perfect name for McConnell.

All three have no idea what time it is (or are corrupt as fucl) but only McConnell could be of use if the Republicans take both Senate and House and then hold them and add should Trump be re-elected in 2024.

A wily, ruthless, knife-wielding pro at the top of the Senate onboard with the MAGA agenda.
Bu-u-u-t, that's not going to happen, he doesn't care about the Middle or Working Classes getting crushed. He doesn't care that children are being groomed and mutilated in public schools to conform to gender insanity. He just doesn't care about anything.

So, McConnell as Flaccidon Rex and all the lesser old flaccidons will continue to graze on their Chinese bux as they slowly and softly slump into their graves dragging America in with them.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2022 08:48 AM (5NkmN)

184 Didn't Stalin handle the kulaks that way, too? (wasn't that in Ukraine, btw?)

The Holodomor. When the Germans went into Ukraine as part of Barbarossa, the Ukrainians were more than willing to accept them as liberators and volunteer for the Wehrmacht, and staged parades and such to try and convince the Germans of their sincerity. Germany stuck to their ideology and began exterminating the population instead.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 08:48 AM (SOasU)

185 Good morning morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2022 08:48 AM (EZebt)

186 fuel = fuck

Thx AC!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2022 08:49 AM (5NkmN)

187 Nurse: Good news and bad news, baby boy! The good news is the doctors used Rock/Paper/Scissors to assign your 'gender'.

Baby Boy: Let me guess the bad news...I got 'scissors'?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 22, 2022 08:49 AM (kXYt5)

188 181 The Soviets were happy to play Hank Fonda's The Grapes of Wrath to their comrades. Then it backfired. Seems the peasants were impressed that even poor farmers in America had their own trucks and could travel anywhere they wanted. The Grapes of Wrath, after that, was taken out of circulation.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 08:48 AM (g/54t)

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"Look at those decadent capitalists with run-down trucks that barely function that they put their entire collection of belongings and family into to travel across the country."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 08:49 AM (LvTSG)

189 128 Is Fetterman still declaring that no-one should ever need ID to cast a ballot?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2022 08:32 AM (1n+EO)

Now do alcohol and driving!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 08:49 AM (BRHaw)

190 Western media is making it out like a Uke hit, since Russians won't say of course, who did it, they can.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2022 08:50 AM (LVI60)

191 >>I read that it was a carbomb targeting her father, who is the architect of the Ukraine conflict (I think). The girl got into the car instead of him.

I'm so old I remember when only people who didn't want to preserve the liberal order of the west didn't support Zelensky.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 08:50 AM (ZLI7S)

192 Meh, not going to get into this yet again today.

This is the 5th election cycle now that McConnell has promised Republicans will lose.

Pelosi was also very confident she would increase her conference size in 2020. She didn't.

Wave elections sweep all aside, including people trying to lose on purpose. The only way Pelosi can win now is cancel the elections or lock the country down and impose mail in voting.

I'd like to hear a legitimate argument for the logistics for either of those 80 days out from the election.

Pelosi has this same assurance of Democrat victory every election cycle. Just because she was right once doesn't give her a pass on the last 9 she got wrong.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 22, 2022 08:50 AM (7Usg6)

193 All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ.

Posted by: Big Smoke at August 22, 2022 08:50 AM (n33T8)

194 fuel = fuck

Thx AC!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2022 08:49 AM (5NkmN)
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"Sex for gasoline" is not all that unreasonable vision of commerce in the wasteland...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 08:50 AM (WWh8n)

195 "Look at those decadent capitalists with run-down trucks that barely function that they put their entire collection of belongings and family into to travel across the country."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 08:49 AM (LvTSG)

always with a little humor, comrade

Posted by: Yen Lo at August 22, 2022 08:51 AM (us2H3)

196 191 >>I read that it was a carbomb targeting her father, who is the architect of the Ukraine conflict (I think). The girl got into the car instead of him.

I'm so old I remember when only people who didn't want to preserve the liberal order of the west didn't support Zelensky.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 08:50 AM (ZLI7S)

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I remember when I didn't give two shits about the NWO fighting Russia for a plot of land I'll never be close to, the modern day version of two feudal lords measuring dicks.

It was the case when the whole thing started, and it's still true of today.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 08:51 AM (LvTSG)

197 I agree that the ukes are being blamed for the car bomb, but its unlikely that they did this one. Her father was associated with a lot of Russian mob characters, and this one looks a lot like a mob hit aimed at her father. Who knows why one of them had a grudge against him, but those aren't people you want to cross. (She had borrowed her father's car for the night)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2022 08:52 AM (r46W7)

198 The German army wanted to induct Soviet citizens, notably Ukes. The Ukes were on board with this.

But NAZI racial plans were to kill slavic people eventually so Hitler demanded the army stop arming the Ukes and others. Some Ukes still tried to work with the Germans like Banda.

I'd argue this alone might have made the different for the Germans. Another million or so Soviets citizen soldiers and friendly territory in Ukraine might have been just enough because remember from 41-42 the Germans were seriously threatening to overrun Moscow.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 08:52 AM (ESjRY)

199 @194 "Nobody RIdes for Free."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 22, 2022 08:52 AM (x61Im)

200 I've never been more convinced that if you want to live forever, all you have to do is become a scumbag politician.

They never die.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 22, 2022 08:35 AM (m
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I always wonder about George Soros. Did he make a deal with the devil?
Or is he the devil?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 22, 2022 08:53 AM (dr4Q1)

201 189 128 Is Fetterman still declaring that no-one should ever need ID to cast a ballot?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2022 08:32 AM (1n+EO)

no one carrys ID on Qo'noS

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 08:53 AM (us2H3)

202 always wonder about George Soros. Did he make a deal with the devil?
Or is he the devil?
Posted by: Florida Peasant a

He killed the devil, then had to take his place per the fine print.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 08:54 AM (R8uWY)

203 I'm concerned with the automakers suddenly going full blast on the EVs. One would think they would be taking a wait and see stance, knowing a future Trump administration would roll back most or all of the green agenda. It's almost like they've been briefed that the fix is already in.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 22, 2022 08:54 AM (lz5hY)

204
Karol Markowicz education link fixed.

Thanks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2022 08:54 AM (x0n13)

205 So, McConnell as Flaccidon Rex and all the lesser old flaccidons will continue to graze on their Chinese bux as they slowly and softly slump into their graves dragging America in with them.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2022 08:48 AM (5NkmN)

An idea as old as time itself. Leaders with one foot already in the grave rarely are forward thinkers. They typically just want to keep the status quo until they die. Since some folks take issue with generational labels, I won't use any - and simply say that today's Political Class, being much older than 29, aren't interested in any kind of reform. They are interested in grabbing as much wealth and power for their own kind as they can, while lifting up the ladder behind them.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 08:54 AM (SOasU)

206 Is Fetterman still declaring that no-one should ever need ID to cast a ballot?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2022 08:32 AM (1n+EO)

Did he say that at an event that required ID to get into?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 08:55 AM (R8uWY)

207 always wonder about George Soros. Did he make a deal with the devil?
Or is he the devil?

I saw an interview were he talked about the time he was working with the NAZI allied Hungarian government taking property from Jews and said he really enjoyed it.

Something turned him evil early on.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 08:55 AM (ESjRY)

208 Naw, the Russian target is the Russian version of Alex Jones only without an audience in Russia.

He wasn't the architect of anything.

He is on a black list that was published a few months ago of people who are opposing Ukraine. Several on that list have died. Rand Paul and Glen Greenwald are also on that list.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 22, 2022 08:55 AM (7Usg6)

209 128 Is Fetterman still declaring that no-one should ever need ID to cast a ballot?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2022 08:32 AM (1n+EO)

Okay. Then all PA Republican voters go and vote as many times as you want.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2022 08:55 AM (x0n13)

210 "Sex for gasoline" is not all that unreasonable vision of commerce in the wasteland...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 08:50 AM (WWh8n)

Gas, grass or ass.

The 70s really are making a comeback!

*Puts on "Stayin Alive" and discos down*

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2022 08:56 AM (5NkmN)

211 But lord have mercy, Fetterman is just
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He is brain damaged. Fitting for PA.
Posted by: Puddinhead

Pennsyltucky is a real thing.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2022 08:56 AM (LsEU/)

212 And once we find out the grid can't handle all of the EVs, the auto makers will whine that they don't have the ability to manufacture ICE cars anymore.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 08:57 AM (R8uWY)

213 The concept of parting words of wisdom from Tater makes me smile.
What is his favorite donut, btw?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, at August 22, 2022 08:57 AM (eGTCV)

214 I'm concerned with the automakers suddenly going full blast on the EVs. One would think they would be taking a wait and see stance

One of the many areas where we continue to fail in responding to the left.

The automakers are going full steam ahead because there really isn't any negative consequence for doing so, and the left will come after them if they do not.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 08:57 AM (ESjRY)

215 Florida's primary is tomorrow. I guess I'll have to go out and vote.

More coffee...
Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2022 08:37 AM (88xKn)
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Early voting was available all last week. My wife and I voted last Thursday.
Anyone who says it is hard to vote in Florida is lying.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 22, 2022 08:57 AM (dr4Q1)

216 "Sex for gasoline" is not all that unreasonable vision of commerce in the wasteland...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 08:50 AM (WWh8n)

The central plot point of every episode of "Rat Patrol" was trading water for gasoline with that Kraut colonel.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2022 08:58 AM (x0n13)

217
John 'Jesse Ventura' Fetterman

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 08:58 AM (QrvWz)

218 I'd argue this alone might have made the different for the Germans. Another million or so Soviets citizen soldiers and friendly territory in Ukraine might have been just enough because remember from 41-42 the Germans were seriously threatening to overrun Moscow.

Studied this quite a bit myself. Its an interesting question. A friendly Ukraine would have helped from a logistical standpoint, no doubt. Would Germany have effectively armed them, though ? I honestly don't know. The Romanian and Hungarian collapses at Stalingrad were, in no small party, because those formations didn't have effective AT guns like the PAK series fielded by the Wehrmacht. Germany didn't provide that equipment to their allies. Would they have provided it to the Ukes, in numbers that would have made a difference ?

Again, I don't know.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 08:59 AM (SOasU)

219 Get rid of your car, use public transportation.

Germany To Prioritize Coal Shipments Across Rail Network Over Passenger Trains Amid Worsening Energy Crisis

Doh!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 22, 2022 08:59 AM (UuD2k)

220 If Fetterman was as compassionate as he says he is, he would make an effort to get everyone a photo id. It is really difficult to live without one. A quality of life issue. Equity. Equality. Accessing services and all that.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 08:59 AM (R8uWY)

221 I'm starting to get the feeling that this Trump guy doen't like turtles

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 08:59 AM (us2H3)

222 Dennis Rodman tries to get Brittney on the rebound

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 09:00 AM (us2H3)

223 221 I'm starting to get the feeling that this Trump guy doen't like turtles
Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 08:59 AM (us2H3)

Never trust an animal that can breathe from both ends.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 22, 2022 09:01 AM (UuD2k)

224 198 Hitler's contempt for anything slavic shows in newsreels from the era. You often see German soldiers armed with captured arms. In the final weeks, films of the arming of the Volksturm showed anything and everything being passed out. With millions of Soviets taken prisoner, you never see a German armed with a Moisin Nagant M91. Every so often, a PPSH 41, but never an M91 which they probably captured in the millions.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 22, 2022 09:03 AM (lz5hY)

225 "spread beyond the LGBTQ community"

this is a GB problem

Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2022 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

226 Would they have provided it to the Ukes, in numbers that would have made a difference ?

I suspect not.

But...the Germans ended up losing because they couldn't match Soviet manpower numbers. Which, amusingly the Soviets could because we were sending them food and supplies.

At the start of the war with the USSR the Germans outnumbered the Soviets roughly 3.5M to 2.5M. By the summer of 1942 those numbers the Soviets had gotten up to about 5.5M. Adding another 1M on the German side, even if not well equipped could have made a serious difference.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 09:03 AM (ESjRY)

227 So when people parade in the Capitol it is insurrection, but when Harvard and Yale law professors write a New York Times editorial advising the Progs to just ignore the constitution and do what they want to do that's just peachy?

And how do they do that? The proposal is to break the District of Columbia down into 127 neighborhoods, and admit each of those 127 neighborhoods as a new state.

Full professors at Harvard law and Yale law.

Link to Powerline https://bit.ly/3Couju7

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 22, 2022 09:04 AM (fWbjv)

228 I'm concerned with the automakers suddenly going full blast on the EVs. One would think they would be taking a wait and see stance

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I won't drag it all out again, but it's in yesterday's JJ thread.

Short version: China has had this in the works for a decade. GM and Ford agree. The plants are already established and the tooling ready to go. Everything else is in service of that. Think lobbyists, etc. China is GM's biggest market. Ford is building the "Mustang" EV sport-ute in China as we speak.

We are not the leader of the free world any longer. Americans are no longer determining what American companies build. We are allowed to buy what the leader wants, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 09:04 AM (Xp8eC)

229 219 Get rid of your car, use public transportation.

Germany To Prioritize Coal Shipments Across Rail Network Over Passenger Trains Amid Worsening Energy Crisis

Doh!
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The Future Belongs to Me. Sort of.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 09:04 AM (g/54t)

230 The central plot point of every episode of "Rat Patrol" was trading water for gasoline with that Kraut colonel.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

True. But it was a Captain (Hans Dietrich). It always made me wonder though, who did the good captain piss off to only have command of a patrol sized unit?

"You can go to the Eastern Front or North Africa, Herr Hauptmann."

Posted by: Tonypete at August 22, 2022 09:04 AM (LsEU/)

231 Turtles carry salmonella. As do all reptiles.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2022 09:04 AM (ggThQ)

232 I don't think "the plan" is to have everyone in an EV. "The Plan" is to strip the citizenry of private modes of transportation.

A mobile society is difficult to subjugate.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2022 09:04 AM (BFigT)

233 I'm concerned with the automakers suddenly going full blast on the EVs. One would think they would be taking a wait and see stance, knowing a future Trump administration would roll back most or all of the green agenda. It's almost like they've been briefed that the fix is already in.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 22, 2022 08:54 AM

the automakers committed to the EV fallacy probably ten years ago...these things take time, especially a change of this magnitude

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 22, 2022 09:05 AM (ENBF0)

234
"You can go to the Eastern Front or North Africa, Herr Hauptmann."

Much better to be a British prisoner then a Soviet one...I'd take the tan in a heartbeat given that choice.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 09:05 AM (ESjRY)

235 >>Germany To Prioritize Coal Shipments Across Rail Network Over Passenger Trains Amid Worsening Energy Crisis

I just heard a laugh in Florida all the way up here.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 09:05 AM (ZLI7S)

236 Driving on the interstate I tried to imagine every car as an EV and how that could happen. It can't by 2030.

But fossil fuel car owners will be taxed to death for resisting.

Posted by: Ziba at August 22, 2022 09:06 AM (4h9M3)

237 BTW - An incoming president can't reclassify documents that a previous president declassified.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 22, 2022 09:06 AM (7Usg6)

238 The CDC was invented to handle something like MonkeyPox, a cousin of SmallPox, but the CDC has proven to be incapable of fulfilling it's original purpose.

Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2022 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

239 "The only reason to do something like this is purely to make a favored population/political bloc not feel stigmatized by shaming and smearing one's political enemies as bigots for pointing out the obvious..."

Trying to have a policy discussion based on genetic and/or behavioral/societal differences between groups is verboten! Unless the Left starts the discussion. Then all anti-majority cards become trump cards for them, Disparate Impact being the Ultimate Trump Card.

Posted by: Gref at August 22, 2022 09:06 AM (AMIL/)

240 Get rid of your car, use public transportation.

Germany To Prioritize Coal Shipments Across Rail Network Over Passenger Trains Amid Worsening Energy Crisis

Doh!
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 22, 2022 08:59 AM (UuD2k)
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Command and control government is a bitch and half.

I'm reminded of a railroad freight problem. Stuff moves around in cars and on chassis and they aren't always where you need them. A car here and a chassis there and eventually they accumulate to the point where you have lots of cars where you don't need them. At that point, you have to bite the bullet and run an empty train to move your rolling stock around so it's where you need it. Those are expensive and hated because they cost money and earn no revenue. Much work goes in to minimizing the problem wherever possible.

Germany is entering into that condition, but at the scale of the entire economy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 09:07 AM (WWh8n)

241 the automakers committed to the EV fallacy probably ten years ago...these things take time, especially a change of this magnitude
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 22, 2022 09:05 AM (ENBF0)

Viable changes that make large improvements happen virtually overnight. Horses disappeared from cities in less than 10 years after the Model T. EV's have been aggressively pushed by the Fed for over 20 years now.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 22, 2022 09:07 AM (UuD2k)

242 In essence, they'd be left holding the bag as we collapse into... whatever.
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In the next 2 years, the economy will a) get better (and the media will credit Biden) or b) get worse/stagnate (and the media will blame Republicans).

Because the average Republican refuses to fight a media war, they are more scared of being in power than consignment of millions to poverty and slavery.

There's only one Republican who can and will fight and win a media war. And the Republicans fear him more than even death itself.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 22, 2022 09:07 AM (Zf0+a)

243 231 Turtles carry salmonella. As do all reptiles.
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Salmonella is those really expensive lady handbags the black kids are always stealing, rite?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 09:07 AM (g/54t)

244 There's only one Republican who can and will fight and win a media war. And the Republicans fear him more than even death itself.

Hey, I am a woman you know.

Posted by: Christina Pushaw at August 22, 2022 09:08 AM (ESjRY)

245 Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
26m
JUST IN - US natural gas prices hit 14-year record high.

https://tinyurl.com/ye5jrw9k

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2022 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

246 You know how I know you're a useless piece of shit? When you allow Chuck Schumer to punk your ass like a fucking bitch every day.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 22, 2022 09:08 AM (iRfpu)

247 BTW - An incoming president can't reclassify documents that a previous president declassified.

Posted by: Dave in Fla

Oh, really? I guess he will have to sue. First he has to find a court that has jurisdiction.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 09:08 AM (R8uWY)

248 Interesting WWII video showing troop numbers per day on each European front. https://youtu.be/1CqGeAmVu1I

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 09:08 AM (ESjRY)

249 225

Look no farther than France. The gay couple gave the monkey pox to their dog. The dog liked to lick...

Posted by: Ziba at August 22, 2022 09:09 AM (4h9M3)

250 The central plot point of every episode of "Rat Patrol" was trading water for gasoline with that Kraut colonel.
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I saw one of my mom's soap operas post-RP and saw the Kraut colonel was in it. I asked her is he was a bad guy or a good guy? and she told me he started out as a bad guy but then turned into a good guy!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 22, 2022 09:09 AM (yikp0)

251 And here we are: a lazy and insolent populace demands that others feed, house, and clothe them at public expense, in exchange for doing nothing civically useful.

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50 million and counting third-world illegal alien peasants can't be wrong!

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 22, 2022 09:09 AM (BDDnd)

252 BTW - An incoming president can't reclassify documents that a previous president declassified.

Posted by: Dave in Fla

*

The courts are undecided on this.
- Hawaiian Judge

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 09:09 AM (Xp8eC)

253 Sorry Mollie. Mitch McConnell epitomizes everything that people hate about Washington, and that our party needs to rid itself of in order to reverse the current destruction. His only talents come from longevity, and being an octogenarian in the senate. Those are not necessarily the qualities the people want. That would be manipulation, a penchant for personal survival over duty to the people, "deal" making over principled leadership and personally attempting to pick winners and losers, instead of having the voters pick them. He's shown many times that he loathes the voters, especially when he personally finds them distasteful. He doesn't possess and ounce of courage, and his motives are based more in pompousness and amour propre, then anything for the ultimate benefit of the people. There is a reason McConnell is the most loathed politician in Washington, and he has just proven it again. To be trite, AMF Mitch. Go home, sell reverse mortgages or golf course retirement homes, but just go away. Our country depends on it.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 22, 2022 09:09 AM (VpIIl)

254 Turtles are nature's suction cup.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 09:09 AM (R8uWY)

255 Sarah Hyland is pretty.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at August 22, 2022 09:10 AM (qpX6U)

256 You can buy a Ford, Chevy, or Dodge gas V8 on down to a 160 cc four banger gas powered vehicle.

You can buy a Ford, Chevy, or Dodge pickup with a big 6 diesel.

These electric pos will go the way of the Cruze - the bone yard. The end is not near.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 09:10 AM (QrvWz)

257 Which WW II front had more casualties — Europe or the Pacific/Asia?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2022 09:10 AM (ggThQ)

258 Dennis Rodman is going to Russia on a humanitarian mission?

That will set off a few metal detectors...

Posted by: Muldoon at August 22, 2022 09:10 AM (kXYt5)

259 Look no farther than France. The gay couple gave the monkey pox to their dog. The dog liked to lick...
Posted by: Ziba at August 22, 2022 09:09 AM (4h9M3)

The CDC has just declared Peanut Butter to be a major vector in the transmission of Monkeypox!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2022 09:11 AM (5NkmN)

260 Here's an idea, maybe homosexuals should abstain from buggering each other and lock themselves in their homes to prevent the spread of the disease to the normal population.

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Mandatory HAZMAT helmets and butt-plugs!

If it saves just one dog ...

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 22, 2022 09:11 AM (BDDnd)

261 Can you still get an F150 V8? I thought they were all turbosupercharged 4 cylinders.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 09:12 AM (R8uWY)

262 259 Look no farther than France. The gay couple gave the monkey pox to their dog. The dog liked to lick...
Posted by: Ziba at August 22, 2022 09:09 AM (4h9M3)

The CDC has just declared Peanut Butter to be a major vector in the transmission of Monkeypox!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2022 09:11 AM (5NkmN)

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"We're going to shut down all peanut butter industrial centers in America, and when America runs out of peanut butter, we'll blame it on Putin."
-FDA

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

263 The central plot point of every episode of "Rat Patrol" was trading water for gasoline with that Kraut colonel.

Borrowed from the original Sahara, which starred Humphrey Bogart and a riveted Grant tank.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 22, 2022 09:12 AM (x61Im)

264 257 Which WW II front had more casualties — Europe or the Pacific/Asia?
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Europe. Then Asia.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 09:12 AM (g/54t)

265 95 This is absolutely incredible. Earn a B average in high school and you go to school somewhere - many somewheres - for free. Full ride. No questions asked. But nope, won't do it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 08:22 AM (Xp8eC)

This is not actually how it works. At the top end, an African American with great grades and high SATs is going to get admitted to all the Ivies and offered millions in scholarships.

But that is not where the vast majority of African American students are - they aren't the Huxtables. They are attending schools that are terrible. They are woefully unprepared for any level of college, and when they get admitted to colleges they often cannot cope. There is lots of blame to go around.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2022 09:12 AM (6TxNR)

266 @disclosetv
JUST IN - US natural gas prices hit 14-year record high.

https://tinyurl.com/ye5jrw9k
Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2022 09:08 AM (NpAcC)
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In time for winter! A winter where we're also going to be adding massive strain as we chuck as much gas as technically possible through ports to try to keep the lights on (and the factories humming) in Europe.

The Biden Administration's war on fracking is an abject disaster and we're only in the opening stages of it. Fracking produces a lot of gas, even if you don't want it. We've spent more than a decade with gas selling for under the cost of production and have retooled a *lot* of stuff to use it because it was so cheap and plentiful (and it's a good fuel to boot). Strangle the gas supply and spike its price and shit gets bad.

It's going to be bad and probably get worse. Even if the Administration backs off on its "no fracking" stance, there's going to be a lot of "once bitten, twice shy" among people with the capital to go try again. Add in some ESG restrictions by capital market players and there's a deadlock.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 09:12 AM (WWh8n)

267 Dennis Rodman is going to Russia on a humanitarian mission?

He better check his luggage.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 09:12 AM (R8uWY)

268 >>There's only one Republican who can and will fight and win a media war. And the Republicans fear him more than even death itself.

Fat Abe Lincoln in a dress might disagree.

America First candidates aren't winning across the country because nobody but us is paying attention. Funny thing about $4 gas and skyrocketing food prices, people notice.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

269 "You always select such wonderful verses. I've been trying to memorize them. Good for my brain; good for my soul. Thanks.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 22, 2022 08:37 AM (45fpk) "

Thank you. God works in mysterious ways. If he can save me, and have his Spirit put his words in front of me, then it is possible for him to save and inspire anyone.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 22, 2022 09:13 AM (VpIIl)

270 Fat Abe Lincoln in a dress might disagree.

Um...who might this be?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 09:13 AM (ESjRY)

271 US natural gas prices hit 14-year record high.

https://tinyurl.com/ye5jrw9k
Posted by: redridinghood
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Just-in-time for winter.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 09:13 AM (QrvWz)

272 268 America First candidates aren't winning across the country because nobody but us is paying attention. Funny thing about $4 gas and skyrocketing food prices, people notice.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

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Listen, it's not like a war on energy is going to make things significantly worse for people all of a sudden when temperatures decline in late October or anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

273 Latvia to tear down Soviet Era monument that commemorates the Red Army's victory over Nazi Germany.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 22, 2022 09:14 AM (yikp0)

274 258 What are we rootin' for? Rodman to spring Griner to embarrass Biden, or Rodman to get locked up just because he's Rodman?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 22, 2022 09:14 AM (lz5hY)

275 270 Fat Abe Lincoln in a dress might disagree.

Um...who might this be?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 09:13 AM (ESjRY)

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Liz Cheney.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

276 But that is not where the vast majority of African American students are - they aren't the Huxtables. They are attending schools that are terrible. They are woefully unprepared for any level of college, and when they get admitted to colleges they often cannot cope. There is lots of blame to go around.
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If you want to improve black education results you are gonna have to get rid of the black school teachers - almost all of them women. Sad but true.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 09:14 AM (g/54t)

277 Funny thing about $4 gas and skyrocketing food prices, people notice.

You can loot the treasury all day long and the dancing with the stars crowd will not notice.

But you double people's grocery bills in a year and they notice

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 09:14 AM (ESjRY)

278 @192 Dave in Florida-With November 2020 still fresh on the mind, the left going full throttle rhetorically and action wise showing they would have no problem arresting political opponents. Top that with the history of the GOPe and its leadership.....it can make people a bit apprehensive.

It's not for the fun of being contrarian to provoke an argument, nor is it the sky is falling doom. It's not a contest of "I've been conservative doing this longer". It's hoping a red wave happens. It's hoping half these bastards aren't grifters and the good ones fodder for GOPe leadership to take out next election cycle. It's hoping red wave candidates not get arrested and marched out of office because "MAGA/Republicans are the most serious threat to the security of this country".

I hope you are right but I also have reality tapping me on the shoulder and saying hello.

Posted by: JROD at August 22, 2022 09:14 AM (0jZnq)

279 The US government took over the US car industry in 2009. We discussed it here. We also discussed what the outcome would be. Why is any of this a shock?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 22, 2022 09:14 AM (x61Im)

280 Danny is gonna get the pox from his 2 daddys who like to romp at gay orgies. Then danny is gonna spread that shit all over school.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 09:15 AM (R8uWY)

281 236 Driving on the interstate I tried to imagine every car as an EV and how that could happen. It can't by 2030.

But fossil fuel car owners will be taxed to death for resisting.
Posted by: Ziba at August 22, 2022 09:06 AM (4h9M3)

The point is NOT a 1 for 1 exchange.

There will be less cars. Where do you need to go, peon?

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2022 09:15 AM (6TxNR)

282 DU references a different NBC poll that shows "threats to democracy" as voters' #1 concern.

Threats to Democracy: 21%
Cost of Living: 16%
Jobs and the Economy: 14%
Immigration: 13%
Climate Change: 9%
Guns (could be pro or anti?): 8%
Abortion: 8%

Perhaps the Dems messaging is getting through along with Jan6 investigation Keep this truth going. Voters need to hear more about overstepping republicans and how dangerous they have become!

Sitting With 8-9% Are Abortion, Guns & Climate Change That would make it seem like the Overturn of Roe did not elevate the issue. Nor did all the gun massacres, including Uvalde.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at August 22, 2022 09:15 AM (JCZqz)

283 231 Turtles carry salmonella. As do all reptiles.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2022 09:04 AM (ggThQ)

leporsy, ftw

Posted by: armadiler at August 22, 2022 09:15 AM (us2H3)

284 Which WW II front had more casualties — Europe or the Pacific/Asia?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2022 09:10 AM (ggThQ)
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It is extremely hard to say, especially because in the East there are two primary sources of data and both of them are questionable because of unreliable narrators. Japan obviously wants to minimize the numbers and the China obviously wants to amplify them. There were casualties elsewhere like Korea and Manchuria and the Philippines and the like, but most of the killing and dying happened in China. I don't know that anyone really knows which theater was worse in terms of body count. Europe's numbers are more reliable, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 09:16 AM (WWh8n)

285 Fat Abe Lincoln in a dress might disagree...

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

I thought she was now Teddy Roosevelt only fatter and with a thicker mustache.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2022 09:16 AM (5NkmN)

286 With that preamble, I give you the latest from friend of the blog and friend Michael Walsh

Life's been good to him so far.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 22, 2022 09:16 AM (yQpMk)

287 Fat Abe Lincoln in a dress might disagree.
....
Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

SPOONING ALERT!

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2022 09:16 AM (6TxNR)

288 "Nobody RIdes for Free."
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 22, 2022 08:52 AM (x61Im)

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Ass gas or grass...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 22, 2022 09:16 AM (flINI)

289 "If you want to improve black education results ..."

That's a goal that conservatives/Republicans should never ever try to tackle, because it is futile. Let Dems own that problem forever.

Posted by: gp Is Committed To Doing The Important Work at August 22, 2022 09:17 AM (qpX6U)

290 If you want to improve black education results you are gonna have to get rid of the black school teachers - almost all of them women. Sad but true.

holy sheep this is true - but there are excellent teachers of that same demo as well! but the ones in the union in a lot of the schools - whooo boy

way back I worked with a local charter (in Philly) and they had amazing success with difficult neighborhoods - and always, always tried first to retain the existing teachers. but I think they had a 0 percent retention rate of that demo. they just didn't want to adjust to the new school's protocols. AT ALL. it's a huge problem and you're not allowed to talk about it, but it hurts Black families the most! it needs to be talked about! and these ladies could absolutely be better teachers! but the union coddles them.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 22, 2022 09:17 AM (w0NJk)

291 At that point, you have to bite the bullet and run an empty train to move your rolling stock around so it's where you need it. T... Germany is entering into that condition, but at the scale of the entire economy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at

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Germany has a history of finding something to fill empty train cars...

Posted by: Muldoon at August 22, 2022 09:17 AM (kXYt5)

292 "No joke, Fetterman reminds me of Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan. They look nearly identical.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2022 08:35 AM (sVtYq) "

Well, his agenda is much the same. Kill babies up to, and maybe after birth, anarchy in the federal government, racism, undermining personal liberty and freedoms, etc..

I suppose hiding in the basement, allowed him for a little while to be a work of fiction. But it seems that time is coming to an end. Truth is about to win another victory. He could not be more out of touch with most Pennsylvanians.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 22, 2022 09:17 AM (VpIIl)

293 Threats to Democracy: 21%

This could be people buying the J6 hoax, or it could be people concerned that Biden is arresting domestic political opponents.

You'd really have to break this down by "threats from the Biden junta" vs "threats from Trump/pro-American pols".

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 09:17 AM (ESjRY)

294 Did Joe Biden Reclassify the Russia Collusion Docs That Trump Declassified?

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Yes, with the new designation "For Chairman Xi's Eyes Only."

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 22, 2022 09:17 AM (BDDnd)

295 53 CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has admitted that her agency failed the public’s “expectations” in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and, more recently, the Monkeypox outbreak.

“For 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for COVID-19, and in our big moment, our performance did not reliably meet expectations,

Find your sword
Fall on it!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 08:11 AM (BRHaw)

Maybe I missed it, but did she say much of anything other than "we need to improve our messaging"?

Yes, you do, along with improving everything related to truly Following the Science. Good luck to us plebians on getting that whenever immoral politicians and political appointees (Fauci) have power over CDC management.

Posted by: Gref at August 22, 2022 09:18 AM (AMIL/)

296 dims define "threat to democracy"as someone else, other than them, having any power

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2022 09:18 AM (us2H3)

297 The point is NOT a 1 for 1 exchange.

There will be less cars. Where do you need to go, peon?
Posted by: blaster

Work.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 22, 2022 09:19 AM (KE2ea)

298 An incoming president can't reclassify documents that a previous president declassified.

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Would be kinda silly, wouldn't it. Horse, barn, etc...

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2022 09:19 AM (LVI60)

299 261 Can you still get an F150 V8? I thought they were all turbosupercharged 4 cylinders.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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As of two weeks ago, yes.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 09:19 AM (QrvWz)

300 >>But you double people's grocery bills in a year and they notice

And why would they get better under this administration? They have done this on purpose with idiotic policies and show no signs of reversing them. Just the opposite, they are doubling down.

Some are even starting to notice we are being invaded on our southern border despite an almost complete media blackout. The only way they win now is being stealing the election in bigger fashion than 2020. Maybe we shouldn't let them.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 09:19 AM (ZLI7S)

301 282 Perhaps the Dems messaging is getting through along with Jan6 investigation Keep this truth going. Voters need to hear more about overstepping republicans and how dangerous they have become!

Sitting With 8-9% Are Abortion, Guns & Climate Change That would make it seem like the Overturn of Roe did not elevate the issue. Nor did all the gun massacres, including Uvalde.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at August 22, 2022 09:15 AM (JCZqz)

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This poll seems like completely bunk. The economy #3? They split out cost of living to get it to #2? Combined they are #1, but still.

What is a threat to democracy? Is it Democrats stealing elections in Philly? Is it a protest goaded into a small bit of parading through the Capitol 1.5 years ago?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

302

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 22, 2022 09:19 AM (SWi3y)

303 DU references a different NBC poll that shows "threats to democracy" as voters' #1 concern.

Threats to Democracy: 21%
Cost of Living: 16%
Jobs and the Economy: 14% ...
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at August 22, 2022 09:15 AM (JCZqz)
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I call bullshit on this poll. I don't know of any of the details, but there's a seriously problem with it on its face. "Threats to Democracy" are a conceptual/philosophical question, even if the inputs are sane and reasonable. "Cost of living" and "the economy" are hard concepts. When there's pressure in hard-concept areas, the philosophical-concept areas take a back seat. When food is expensive, you're less concerned about vague things. The economy isn't in the shitter yet but it isn't good and the inflation is brutal. There's no way "Threats to Democracy" or "Climate Change" are actually ranking very high among normal people given that there are tangible problems at the problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 09:20 AM (WWh8n)

304 I don't think "the plan" is to have everyone in an EV. "The Plan" is to strip the citizenry of private modes of transportation.
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That's the ticket. The grid will never be able to handle enough EVs for the general population. Our betters will have theirs.
The rest of us are fucked.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 22, 2022 09:20 AM (dr4Q1)

305 Charlie Spiering
@charliespiering

53m
Joe Biden spending a third week on vacation, according to his schedule, returning to the White House briefly on Wednesday to do a DNC event in Maryland before leaving again for Delaware.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2022 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

306 Work.
Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 22, 2022 09:19 AM (KE2ea)

Your transportation to work camp will be provided.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2022 09:21 AM (6TxNR)

307 261

20 Matches

Within 10 miles of my house!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 09:21 AM (BRHaw)

308 Work.
Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 22, 2022 09:19 AM (KE2ea)
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Nah. Just hang out in the Metaverse and work virtually. It's just like being there!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 09:22 AM (WWh8n)

309 305 Charlie Spiering
@charliespiering

53m
Joe Biden spending a third week on vacation, according to his schedule, returning to the White House briefly on Wednesday to do a DNC event in Maryland before leaving again for Delaware.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2022 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

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Don't care. All I need to know is if he finished his plate last night.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

310 But...the Germans ended up losing because they couldn't match Soviet manpower numbers. Which, amusingly the Soviets could because we were sending them food and supplies.

We absolutely WERE the logistical arm of the Red Army. Without Lend Lease, they're simply the big, immobile mass that Hitler thought they were.

I'm surprised more emphasis wasn't put on Army Group North. They didn't have to take Leningrad, isolating it would have been just fine. But cutting off the link from Murmansk would have effectively shut down Lend Lease to the Soviets. The Germans didn't really even try. They assigned two corps in a couple different pushes, but it was obviously not a priority.

Posted by: Rinse and Repeat at August 22, 2022 09:22 AM (SOasU)

311 293 Threats to Democracy: 21%

This could be people buying the J6 hoax, or it could be people concerned that Biden is arresting domestic political opponents.

You'd really have to break this down by "threats from the Biden junta" vs "threats from Trump/pro-American pols".
Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 09:17 AM

That's kind of the case with all the categories. Some people are single issue voters on guns or abortion, pro or con, and this doesn't differentiate. It might still be useful in showing the issues with the most interest, just not which side is more popular. The poll was just what I typed in a tweet, so maybe the original article had more nuance? MSM source, so probably not.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at August 22, 2022 09:22 AM (JCZqz)

312 I don't think "the plan" is to have everyone in an EV. "The Plan" is to strip the citizenry of private modes of transportation.

The leftwing argument on guns: If you want to use a gun join the military/Stasi

The coming leftwing argument on cars: If you want to use a car become a chauffeur for the elites

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2022 09:22 AM (ESjRY)

313 Hearing tomorrow in New York regarding an injunction on the steaming pile of unconstitutional garbage that Democrats passed (once again as an "emergency" so the people could not see it in advance, or organize against it) in response to Bruen. Chances are very good it will be issued.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 22, 2022 09:23 AM (VpIIl)

314 This is absolutely incredible. Earn a B average in high school and you go to school somewhere - many somewheres - for free. Full ride. No questions asked. But nope, won't do it.
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This is not actually how it works. At the top end, an African American with great grades and high SATs is going to get admitted to all the Ivies and offered millions in scholarships.

But that is not where the vast majority of African American students are - they aren't the Huxtables. They are attending schools that are terrible. They are woefully unprepared for any level of college, and when they get admitted to colleges they often cannot cope. There is lots of blame to go around.
Posted by: blaster
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My point is that it's free. The rest is on them.

And it very much is how it works. B average and a black man can get free school around the country. It might not be his first choice, but it's free. I suspect a black woman can get even better offers.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 09:23 AM (/nf7B)

315 Get rid of your car, use public transportation.

Germany To Prioritize Coal Shipments Across Rail Network Over Passenger Trains Amid Worsening Energy Crisis

Doh!
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 22, 2022 08:59 AM (UuD2k)

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How do you say "Directive 10-289" in Austrian?

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 22, 2022 09:23 AM (BDDnd)

316 I call bullshit on this poll. I don't know of any of the details, but there's a seriously problem with it on its face. "Threats to Democracy" are a conceptual/philosophical question, even if the inputs are sane and reasonable.
...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 09:20 AM (WWh8n)

Yup. Threat to Democracy is "things are bad." Bad economy has never been considered a "threat to democracy" before. But that's all the words they have, so that is what they use.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2022 09:24 AM (6TxNR)

317 53m
Joe Biden spending a third week on vacation, according to his schedule, returning to the White House briefly on Wednesday to do a DNC event in Maryland before leaving again for Delaware.

*

Remember the video of his Executive Orders his first week in office?

"What am I signing?"
"Just sign it."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 09:24 AM (/nf7B)

318 What are we rootin' for? Rodman to spring Griner to embarrass Biden, or Rodman to get locked up just because he's Rodman?
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Lil Kim will ask for him to be released into Nork custody.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 22, 2022 09:24 AM (yikp0)

319 I forgot foreign vehicles. Toyota dropped the V8 in the Lexus but they have a big banger V6. Toy also has comparable SUV to the Lexus not sure but it may still come with the V8
Their Tundra has a big V8 (tough truck) and the bottom trim line Tacoma for an extra $1300 gets a big V6 and a generous tow package.

Don't know about the Nissan

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 09:25 AM (QrvWz)

320 Don't care. All I need to know is if he finished his plate last night.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 09:22 AM (LvTSG)
******
And had chocolate chocolate chip ice cream for dessert..

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2022 09:25 AM (NpAcC)

321 317 Remember the video of his Executive Orders his first week in office?

"What am I signing?"
"Just sign it."
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 09:24 AM (/nf7B)

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It doesn't matter which figurehead they have as president. It'll be the same under Kamala. The Politburo will be in charge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 09:25 AM (LvTSG)

322
Nice photoshop up top, JJ.

I laughed.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2022 09:25 AM (5NkmN)

323 >>> 303 DU references a different NBC poll that shows "threats to democracy" as voters' #1 concern.

Threats to Democracy: 21%
Cost of Living: 16%
Jobs and the Economy: 14% ...
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at August 22, 2022 09:15 AM (JCZqz)
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I call bullshit on this poll. I don't know of any of the details, but there's a seriously problem with it on its face. "Threats to Democracy" are a conceptual/philosophical question, even if the inputs are sane and reasonable. "Cost of living" and "the economy" are hard concepts. When there's pressure in hard-concept areas, the philosophical-concept areas take a back seat. When food is expensive, you're less concerned about vague things. The economy isn't in the shitter yet but it isn't good and the inflation is brutal. There's no way "Threats to Democracy" or "Climate Change" are actually ranking very high among normal people given that there are tangible problems at the problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 09:20 AM (WWh8n)

I think I see the problem...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 22, 2022 09:25 AM (llON8)

324 284 Thanks, Joe Mannix. That makes sense.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2022 09:26 AM (ggThQ)

325 My point is that it's free. The rest is on them.

And it very much is how it works. B average and a black man can get free school around the country. It might not be his first choice, but it's free. I suspect a black woman can get even better offers.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels

What if a white guy identifies as a black woman ?

I mean after he gets the shit kicked outta him ?

Posted by: JT at August 22, 2022 09:26 AM (T4tVD)

326 Every day when I come into work, I take several of the masks that are by the door. I then throw them away in other people's cubicles, just to drive up the money we're wasting on masks.
Real hero, or passive aggressive dick move?

Posted by: Wally at August 22, 2022 09:26 AM (Mpl8i)

327 Who had Rodman as international diplomat on their bingo card?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 22, 2022 09:26 AM (R8uWY)

328 >>Joe Biden spending a third week on vacation

Th Big Guy is fading fast. We might end up with a President Karmela yet.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 09:26 AM (ZLI7S)

329 Ram 1500 still has the 5.7 Hemi 395 HP

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2022 09:26 AM (BRHaw)

330 Threats to Democracy: 21%
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Our Dim friends don't seem to realize that could be 'pro or anti' both too. LOL.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 22, 2022 09:27 AM (yikp0)

331 I had a chance to see a Ford Shelby F-150. What an absolutely magnificent work of art.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 22, 2022 09:27 AM (VpIIl)

332 Every day when I come into work, I take several of the masks that are by the door. I then throw them away in other people's cubicles, just to drive up the money we're wasting on masks.
Real hero, or passive aggressive dick move?
Posted by: Wally at August 22, 2022 09:26 AM (Mpl8i)
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It's the latter but in bizarro world the two aren't mutually exclusive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2022 09:27 AM (WWh8n)

333 Joe Biden spending a third week on vacation

Th Big Guy is fading fast. We might end up with a President Karmela yet.
Posted by: JackStraw

that would suck .

Posted by: JT at August 22, 2022 09:28 AM (T4tVD)

334 It'll be the same under Kamala...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 09:25 AM (LvTSG)

Not exactly.

With Kamala there'll be 20% less drooling, but 90% more mindless giggling.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2022 09:28 AM (5NkmN)

335 Don't care. All I need to know is if he finished his plate last night.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

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Have you ever tried to eat a plate-full of melting ice cream?

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 22, 2022 09:28 AM (BDDnd)

336 Didn’t Rodman go to North Korea and meet with Kim, too? Or was that some other basketball player?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2022 09:28 AM (ggThQ)

337 My point is that it's free. The rest is on them.

And it very much is how it works. B average and a black man can get free school around the country. It might not be his first choice, but it's free. I suspect a black woman can get even better offers.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels

Let's assume that it's true - and its not - that any African American with a B average from school can attend college for free. Even still, those students are NOT prepared to attend any college. Free or not.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2022 09:28 AM (6TxNR)

338 Joe Biden spending a third week on vacation, according to his schedule, returning to the White House briefly on Wednesday to do a DNC event in Maryland before leaving again for Delaware.

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Dammit, I did not get my vacation last summer because all of the Media turned on me and portrayed my good bug-out from Afghanistan as a bad bug-out and riled-up the dummies!!! So now I'm taking last summer's missing vacation AND this summer's vacation!

Posted by: Joe COVID at August 22, 2022 09:29 AM (AMIL/)

339 McConnell thinks "success" means beating MAGA, so candidates he hates losing elections counts, to him, as a success.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at August 22, 2022 08:17 AM (GKfru)
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Except there is little he can do about it. He's going to get the Senate - the only question is by how much. And his comments are only going to lessen his support in the next congress.

Walker, Masters, and Laxalt are in. Oz has a better then 50/50 shot to hold Pennsylvania. That's 53-47. And with a surprise 54-46. And in front of a 2024 election where the dems have way too many seats to hold, and still have the anchor of Biden around their necks.

Mitch is going to have to fight like hell to maintain his leadership position in 2025. He's old, but the clock is ticking on him for an entirely different reason.

Posted by: Black JEM at August 22, 2022 09:29 AM (xWZcb)

340 Nice top meme now by J.J.

Is that Fauci the Flying Monkey?

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 22, 2022 09:29 AM (BDDnd)

341 >>that would suck .

Terrifying

Posted by: JackStraw at August 22, 2022 09:29 AM (ZLI7S)

342 Let's assume that it's true - and its not - that any African American with a B average from school can attend college for free. Even still, those students are NOT prepared to attend any college. Free or not.
Posted by: blaster
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I'm assuming it's free until it's proven otherwise. A bunch don't want to, clearly. Those that do can. And there are a sh*tload of scholarships at schools everywhere just waiting to pay for them to go.

Again, it might not be the school they want to attend, but they can attend college for free.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 09:29 AM (/nf7B)

343 > US natural gas prices hit 14-year record high.
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I had my propane tank topped off last week. $2.50/gal. Driver said there'd likely be service disruptions this winter.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2022 09:29 AM (BFigT)

344 >>> The only way they win now is being stealing the election in bigger fashion than 2020. Maybe we shouldn't let them.
Posted by: JackStraw at
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You mean, if we all go vote, we win?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 09:30 AM (QrvWz)

345 339 Mitch is going to have to fight like hell to maintain his leadership position in 2025. He's old, but the clock is ticking on him for an entirely different reason.
Posted by: Black JEM at August 22, 2022 09:29 AM (xWZcb)

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Mitch will need a bare majority of GOP votes to retain his leadership position, not a majority of all of the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 09:30 AM (LvTSG)

346 There is actually plenty of case law on the classification topic.

Any attempt to try Trump for possessing classified documents that he declassified is going to fail.

And after the last week, I don't think a show trial is a political win for the deep state

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 22, 2022 09:30 AM (7Usg6)

347 >>> 337 My point is that it's free. The rest is on them.

And it very much is how it works. B average and a black man can get free school around the country. It might not be his first choice, but it's free. I suspect a black woman can get even better offers.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels

Let's assume that it's true - and its not - that any African American with a B average from school can attend college for free. Even still, those students are NOT prepared to attend any college. Free or not.
Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2022 09:28 AM (6TxNR)

This guy knows.

Posted by: Dexter Manley at August 22, 2022 09:30 AM (llON8)

348 Threats to Democracy: 21%
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This could be people buying the J6 hoax, or it could be people concerned that Biden is arresting domestic political opponents.

Or, since it's a DU poll and the respondents are presumably Democrats, you could interpret "threats to Democracy" as "chances of Democrats losing" and suddenly 21% seems low!

Posted by: Oddbob at August 22, 2022 09:31 AM (nfrXX)

349 Nood. Manly art!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 22, 2022 09:31 AM (4p7Em)

350 Everyday Democrat voters could have their grocery bill triple or quadruple, no electricity from rolling blackouts and illegals squatting in their RV and they would blame it all on Trump or some other horseshit. Like a sports team fan half are do or die, or better yet ride and die for their party. The other half for them this is a religion.
Thinking these people are going to have an epiphany is the height of pollyannish stupidity. I could care less about these a-holes, the people we need to reach are the ones that do not vote.

Posted by: JROD at August 22, 2022 09:32 AM (0jZnq)

351 248 Or, since it's a DU poll and the respondents are presumably Democrats, you could interpret "threats to Democracy" as "chances of Democrats losing" and suddenly 21% seems low!
Posted by: Oddbob at August 22, 2022 09:31 AM (nfrXX)

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It's an NBC poll that DU are talking about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 09:32 AM (LvTSG)

352 Electric Dodge Ram due out in 2024. Same as all the other vehicles that communist China law has decreed we will buy - sorry, that American manufacturers will sell in China and it won't make financial sense to produce two separate lines, we've got ten years to buy gas ones.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Gas demand is below pandemic levels at August 22, 2022 09:32 AM (/nf7B)

353 What if a white guy identifies as a black woman ?
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Don't make me break my foot off in yo' ass!
-- My White Mama

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 22, 2022 09:33 AM (yikp0)

354 This guy knows.
Posted by: Dexter Manley at August 22, 2022 09:30 AM (llON

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\rgjiregj?

Posted by: Dexter Manley at August 22, 2022 09:33 AM (flINI)

355 You mean, if we all go vote, we win?

Posted by: Braenyard
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That ship has sailed. Voters are going to turn out in November. Might as well try to hold back the tide.

Election cancelation or massive in your face Venuzeusla fraud is the only thing that can stop it now.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 22, 2022 09:34 AM (7Usg6)

356 >>> Mitch is going to have to fight like hell to maintain his leadership position in 2025. He's old, but the clock is ticking on him for an entirely different reason.

Posted by: Black JEM
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That's the number one thing Trump wants from his endorsed candidates. - Get rid of McConnell.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 22, 2022 09:34 AM (QrvWz)

357
Walker, Masters, and Laxalt are in. Oz has a better then 50/50 shot to hold Pennsylvania. That's 53-47. And with a surprise 54-46. And in front of a 2024 election where the dems have way too many seats to hold, and still have the anchor of Biden around their necks.

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Dave in Fla recently said that Leora Levy is his dark horse candidate. Would be pretty stunning for an R to win CT ... but the exploding heads alone would be worth the entertainment value.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 22, 2022 09:34 AM (BDDnd)

358 What is a threat to democracy?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 22, 2022 09:19 AM

People not turning out in large numbers to support our latest, duh!

Posted by: Hollywood at August 22, 2022 09:36 AM (a3Q+t)

359 >>that would suck .

And not in a good way

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2022 09:38 AM (i0slg)

360 Lurch Fetterman is going to lose. Mark it down. Every contact he has with voters persuades them to vote for Oz, so as the campaign gets into gear post-Labor Day, he will lose votes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at August 22, 2022 09:39 AM (kT4OI)

361 360 Lurch Fetterman is going to lose. Mark it down. Every contact he has with voters persuades them to vote for Oz, so as the campaign gets into gear post-Labor Day, he will lose votes.
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Huck, we're talking about Philly. Those people are fucked up. And they get paid to be fucked up.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2022 09:40 AM (NsE9F)

362 253 Sorry Mollie. Mitch McConnell epitomizes everything that people hate about Washington, and that our party needs to rid itself of in order to reverse the current destruction.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Marcus, Mollie is now editor in chief of the Federalist and just displaced a GOPe apparatchik in that job. She knows what time it is but she is also telling official DC on the GOP side that McConnell needs to actually lead. She is setting him up for failure because McConnell has no intention of political leadership only grifting and ego.

Kurt Schlicter is the mean cop, Mollie is the good cop.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 09:41 AM (CXr4y)

363 Don’t They Know That Crickets Fart Too?

By jiminy, I didn't.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 22, 2022 09:43 AM (a3Q+t)

364 Philadelphia is lost because the Democrat election judges are completely corrupt and award elections as they are instructed. That will be in this election as was in the last one. But midterm elections draw fewer ballots, to the corrupt Philly influence can be contained. This is a turnout election, and if middle of the state voters turn out, Philly will not matter.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at August 22, 2022 09:49 AM (c9hwk)

365 Dave in Fla recently said that Leora Levy is his dark horse candidate. Would be pretty stunning for an R to win CT ... but the exploding heads alone would be worth the entertainment value.

Posted by: ShainS
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Contrary to the doomers, wave elections behave strangely as it often sweeps in candidates that would never had won otherwise.

For a true realignment to occur though, a party has to consolidate a majority through action in office over several consecutive elections. The Dems are simply no longer capable of it which is why they rely on election rigging as a monied elite class coupled with a welfare class is never going to appeal to a majority of voters. The GOPe is similarly situated as global corporations and the lagging and shrinking GOPe elite like the Mitt Romney's of the world are simply not capable of appealing to the working poor.

Essentially, the Dem and GOPe party establishments apparatus of candidates, consultants, and donors are directly opposed in both parties to a majority of voters which is feeding instability. Change in one or both parties must occur otherwise you get something like Venezuela and Chavez.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 09:49 AM (CXr4y)

366 350 Everyday Democrat voters could have their grocery bill triple or quadruple, no electricity from rolling blackouts and illegals squatting in their RV and they would blame it all on Trump or some other horseshit. Like a sports team fan half are do or die, or better yet ride and die for their party. The other half for them this is a religion.
Thinking these people are going to have an epiphany is the height of pollyannish stupidity. I could care less about these a-holes, the people we need to reach are the ones that do not vote.
Posted by: JROD
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Everyday Dems are voting off of the remnants of loyalty and believing that the Dems care for them. GOP voters, on the other hand, have had their noses rubbed into the fact that GOP officeholders hate their own voters. GOP voters though find Dem rule intolerable because all places become inner cities under their rule.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 09:52 AM (CXr4y)

367 Thank you, JJ.

Peace through strength.

Posted by: democrats: Raping The Children We Cannot Kill Since 1973 at August 22, 2022 09:57 AM (jV+aN)

368 The Biden Cabinet are so unfit that they would be rejected on the Island of Misfit Toys

Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2022 10:24 AM (RHGPo)

369 "Did Joe Biden Reclassify the Russia Collusion Docs That Trump Declassified?"

If Trump declassified docs and had them in possesion, they were not classified. If the Biden administration re-classified these unclassified docs while in Trumps possession, one could argue ex-post-facto--it was legal when Trump took them, so he should not be arrested if they were made illegal for him to possess without public knowledge or him being given notice that they were once again classified. This is basic stuff.
I would guess the Left would than say, "the Constitution only says that about laws, not executive orders",
Which the response would be "the Constitution says nothing about executive orders either", and the question would be if such an order was necessary and proper. One website wrote, "Any Executive Order that has any effect on individuals that are not government employees [is] a violation of Article I Section 1"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2022 10:36 AM (ynpvh)

370 ATF Shows Up at People’s Homes to Confiscate Rare Breed FRT-15 Triggers

The BATFE has all sorts of illegal lists, I'm sure, regarding who has what weapons. There are also plenty of states that have their own lists that would be more than happy to share info on icky gun owners with the BATFE.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2022 10:42 AM (ynpvh)

371 Sarah,
You don't have to turn on the red light...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2022 10:43 AM (ynpvh)

372 The usual MO is to seize the business records of the mfg to indicate retailers who sold the trigger. From there, they use CC information to track buyers.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2022 11:02 AM (CXr4y)

373 The roof the roof the roof is on fire we don't need no water.........

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at August 22, 2022 11:06 AM (ytSiK)

374 Making money is more than $1.50 just by licking subway toilets clean with your tongue

Posted by: Kelsey Holt at August 22, 2022 11:15 AM (GfXA+)

375 Fuck you, Kelsey. I can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch at half that price!

Posted by: Sarah at August 22, 2022 12:36 PM (inynS)

376 Speaking of the "long march" Pete Buttigieg's father was a professor at Notre Dame and translated Gramsci's writings into English, and then he headed up the research center dedicated to Gramsci.

The nut doesn't fall very far from the tree.

Posted by: Ultra pj at August 22, 2022 12:42 PM (G1dq6)

377

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Posted by: Lisa Logan at August 22, 2022 10:50 PM (z1+Gr)

378 Here's a link to the motion that Trump filed worth a read

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Posted by: Ron T Cop at August 23, 2022 12:35 AM (kNtJH)

379 I cⲟuldn't resist commenting. Well wrіtten!

Posted by: biller at August 24, 2022 11:29 PM (nJNEp)

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