The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/26/22

Good morning kids. The weekend is here and so Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants just decreed he was going to rob the treasury (which at this point is empty save trillions in IOUs going back to the New Deal as well as a lint-covered butterscotch once owned by John D. Rockefeller) of $300 billion in student loan debt "forgiveness" to make sure the one voting bloc still joined to the Democrats at the hip, the youth, aren't distracted by fake news like a tanking economy and stagflation and keep them in power come the midterms.

The egregiousness of this on so many levels is off the charts. The most galling thing about it is the reaction of those who are outraged that we, the ones who are going to take it in the shorts as well on top of everyone who worked their asses off for years to pay off their debts as responsible citizens, are expressing our outrage over it. If you want to read stories about the outrage and the counter-outrage-outrage, the links are chock full of them. One in particular stands out, as it also speaks to the much broader issue of the political struggle.

Biden’s handout to educated voters is the most naked form of political patronage you can imagine. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially if you happen to be a Democratic Party strategist. There is no confusion here about who ought to be rewarded and who punished. One will likely have to wait a long time before the Republicans counter with a similar sort of handout to their own putative constituents. Indeed, why not a family week? If the problem with “the libs,” as it were, is that they are all antisocial nihilists who refuse to have children in favor of pursuing hedonistic pleasures, then handing out state benefits to families with children, and making the childless pay for it, seems like a very sound way of rewarding one’s friends and punishing one’s enemies.
At the end of the day, though, the limitations of the right are illuminated fully in a moment of political controversy like this. The problem isn’t that the right is “stupid” while the left is “evil.” The problem is that the right has a contradictory and unworkable coalition, with various interest groups at odds with each other. On the left, by contrast, years of “cancel culture” haven’t just been an obnoxious social affair, but have cleared the deck politically, removing or marginalizing dissident political voices and ensuring that people pursue the same sort of politics. . .
. . . And so the Democrats pile on even more unsustainable debt to give out handouts to a social group that by and large doesn't need it, but that has significant overlap with the kinds of people who become pundits, consultants, and activists on the right. Is it really a mystery that the Democrats succeed in these sorts of battles? What is even the benefit of “winning” them, for the Republican activist class? It’s hard to escape the conclusion that however loudly they denounce this move, Republicans pundits don’t mind losing this battle.

Not just this battle. Every battle. That is who and what they are; a sham opposition that is every bit as responsible for the gradual, and now all at once, dismantling of America since the end of the Second World War. Seen in this light, is it any wonder that Mitch McConnell is now actively working to sabotage a potential GOP flipping of the Senate come the midterms? It's because he'd have to deal with Trump/MAGA-aligned Senators from his party whose mission is to dismantle as much of the grift and graft that has made his jowls Elaine Chao's multi-million dollar sex toy for lo these many years.

The more important story, which Mitch McConnell and most of the GOP have been silent about, is the incitement and actual acts of violence committed against members of his own party as well as constituents over the past several years. When James Hodgkinson opened fire on the GOP softball practice a few years ago, McConnell should have been doing everything to find out what Dick Durbin and Bernie Sanders knew and when they knew it. Instead, crickets and the let's-not-blame-our-colleagues-across-the-aisle-for-a-lone-wolf-nut-job usual bullshit.

Meanwhile, after Marjorie Taylor Green was SWATed twice in two days we have these two stories. Charlie Crist, a laughable failure of a ponce who's delusional enough to actually believe he can defeat Ron DeSantis, did his best to try and win over new voters:

“Those who support [DeSantis] should stay with him and vote for him and I don’t want your vote. If you have that hate in your heart, keep it there. I want the vote of the people of Florida who care about our state, good Democrats, good Independents, good Republicans. Unify with this ticket. Unify with Val Demmings and Charlie Crist. Unify with us. Those who are haters, you’re gonna go off in your own world. And you better get right.”

Way to reach out to people by defining those against you and your party as hate-filled and evil. But wait! There's more! Not to be outdone by Crist, Cuomo-with-a-dessicated-vagina Kathy Hochul (who was his lieutenant governor all throughout his reign and knew he was sexually abusing women and mass murdering the elderly via the General Tso's Sickness) made this declaration:

Gov. Kathy Hochul, who hasn’t proven shy about issuing orders, had one for the state’s Republicans this week — all 5.4 million of them: “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?” she said. “You are not New Yorkers.”
If you can move beyond the frankly disgusting political partisanship and intolerance, her message is fiscally irresponsible, even dangerous. The governor probably already knows this, but the state’s extensive public sector is heavily reliant on personal income taxes paid by residents, and with nearly $14 billion in projected budget gaps over the next five years, it can’t afford to lose any taxpayers, let alone 5.4 million of them. . .
. . . Hochul should worry less about her political opponents and more about what happens to this state as a significant portion of the tax base continues to leave. New Yorkers already know it’s inhospitable here; even before the governor’s latest order, New Yorkers were picking Florida — nearly 45,000 of them moved to the Sunshine State between 2019 and 2020.

What Hochul is saying is "Get out." What is unsaid but directly implied is "Or else." Leave it to the NY Post to focus on the fiscal aspect of New Yorkers fleeing the state, mostly to Ron DeSantis' Florida which Charlie Crist has delusions of turning into New York, and not the near-eliminationist rhetoric spewed by Hochul. Talk like that from politicians kills people. What's worse is the doubling down on the rhetoric and the ramping up of the volume is in direct proportion to the silence coming from the alleged political leadership of the constituents at which it is aimed.

So, if Marjorie Taylor Green, Ron DeSantis or Donald Trump is taken out, they must have had it coming. Right, Mitch?

Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"It is a model intended for government to manage the means of production by 'transitioning' the world toward increased regulatory control, social scoring, and communal property rights using the pretense of carbon emission neutrality—a model underpinned by socialist and communist principles, including a communal stake in for-profit companies and the development of a new financial system that directs capital flows to never-defined 'global goals.'”
The Malign Genesis of ESG - Part I
"There were two types of people in the Trump Administration: Those who thought they had to save the world from the president and those who thought the president would save the world."
Peter Navarro: How Jared Kushner and John Kelly Subverted Trump’s Agenda

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

Robert Spencer: "If he or she is caught, will there be any serious prosecution? Or will a Leftist judge who holds the same view of Marjorie Taylor Greene as that of the swatter himself dismiss these crimes as an innocuous exercise in political protest and release the offender with a slap on the wrist, if that? The larger question is: can a committed conservative, a genuine and effective dissident from the line of the political and media elites, get justice in America today?"
They Want Her Dead: Marjorie Taylor Greene Swatted for Second Night in a Row
"Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?” she said. 'You are not New Yorkers."
Kathy Hochul’s Call for 5.4 Million Republicans to Leave New York is Dangerous and Disgusting
Jeffrey Lord: "He oozes contempt for Floridians."
Charlie Crist: Florida’s Hater-in-Chief
". . . the FBI raided O’Keefe’s private residence in November 2021, looking for clues. O’Keefe said that Project Veritas was not involved in any theft, and obtained the diary legally. He also emphasized that Project Veritas did not publish the contents of the diary, but instead had delivered it to law enforcement. (Portions were published elsewhere.)"
FBI Sets Sights on James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas with Ashley Biden Diary Conviction
Julie Kelly: "Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are plowing new and dangerous ground. Meanwhile, the GOP is silent."
Republicans Don’t Get It
"The greatest threat to a dishonest regime is a citizenry willing to name its lies."
Rule Not by Lies
“Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss.”
Boomers, Failed Idealism, and the Triumph of the Ruling Class
RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO
The Government has met its burden of showing that its proposed redactions are narrowly tailored to serve the Government’s legitimate interest in the integrity of the ongoing investigation.” (pfft - jjs)
Mar-a-Lago Raid: Magistrate Accepts All Government’s Redactions of Warrant Affidavit, to Be Released By Friday Noon
"Trump once tooted Wall’s horn publicly. To his credit, who would have thought the swamp extended to the National Archives?"
Is This the Backstabber Behind the Mar-a-Lago Raid?
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"The ban, which becomes one of the first of its kind in the world, was proposed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in April to achieve Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s goal of reducing emissions by eliminating the sale of new gas cars by 2035." (like Crazy Eddie, "In-SAAAAANE!" - jjs)
California Regulators Approve Banning New Gas Car Sales
“Almost everyone on the energy committee came over and spent a few hours with me.”
Daniel Greenfield: Bill Gates Investment Fund Cheers Biden’s $350 Billion in Green Pork
"Biden’s reversal of Trump’s decision restored Bears Ears National Monument to its former size of more than 1.3 million acres and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to more than 1.8 million acres."
Utah Sues Biden Junta Over Aggressive Land Grab at Two National Monuments
"Mr. Steyer has the luxury of enjoying first-world problems because he can make people like you pay the freight. Rich man’s cause, working man’s burden. Did you ever notice how people who have money to burn always want you to do a little more? Yeah, me too."
Heh. A Leftist Billionaire Can’t Get an Electric Car
DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS
"Manchin is trying to include the permitting reform in a stopgap funding bill that must be passed by Sept. 30 to avoid a government shutdown. However, both Tlaib and Grijalva want Manchin’s reforms to be decided by a standalone vote, the American Prospect reported." (Way to go, Joe! You sold out to these America-hating traitors - jjs)
Some Democrats Are Ready to Torpedo Manchin’s "Dirty Deal" on Permitting Reform
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Meet the real co-ruler and Biden puppet master, my friends. Is she Biden's replacement in '24?
Susan Rice: People Who Already Repaid Their Student Loans? "That's Fantastic. That's to Their--to Their Credit"
"This is only a first step."
Democrat Raphael "Wife-Beater" Warnock Boasts About Leading Charge to Cancel Student Debt
“Is it really a mystery that the Democrats succeed in these sorts of battles? What is even the benefit of 'winning' them, for the Republican activist class? It’s hard to escape the conclusion that however loudly they denounce this move, Republicans pundits don’t mind losing this battle." (like every other "battle" - jjs)
Why the Right Lost the Student Loan Fight
"His relief plan comes under fire from even liberal economists who say it won't deliver on its promises."
Student Debt ‘Forgiveness’: Biden’s Illegal, Inflationary, Inequitable Attempt to Buy Votes
David Harsanyi: "PPP was passed with wide margins in Congress, not decreed by a [so-called quote-unquote "president"] approaching a midterm in desperate need of votes."
No, Biden’s Student Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Is Nothing Like PPP

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Former FEC Commissioner Brad Smith: “Yes, because if there’s any group that needs federal financial assistance, it’s Harvard Law Grads. (Speaking as one of Prof. Tribe’s former students who actually paid back all student loans).”
Harvard Law Prof Celebrates His Students Getting Loans Canceled. Social Media Trashes Him.
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s 'cancellation' of student debt is indefensible."
A Five-Figure Handout to the Educated
I'm tired of sub literate , criminal nepots lording over us.
Debbie Dingell-Berry: I’m "Tired of These Armchair Economists" Who Like "Attention" Criticizing Biden Loan Plan
"Democrats fighting for their lives in battleground states know exactly how this obscene giveaway to the rich will play among voters who do not make $125,000, who paid their student loans, or who never attended college. So they are openly criticizing and distancing themselves from this outrageous policy."
Battleground Dems Split with Biden’s Radical Student Loan Giveaway
"This is a rotten, despicable, and highly unintelligent plan."
Student Loan Forgiveness, the Revivalist Way
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"The news comes just a few years after the Trump administration tried to distance the U.S. from the W.H.O."
U.S. Funds Wuhan "Bat Lady" Report Co-Authored With China’s CDC Director Calling for EXPANSION of World Health Org Powers
"Fauci made the world dumber, baser, lonelier, and less free."
Anthony Fauci’s Reign of Terror Changed America Forever
"Of course, Novak Djokovic and U.S. Open fans are hardly the only victims of Biden’s anti-scientific [Chinese] COVID policies."
Biden’s Unscientific Decree Bars a Champion
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
What are the odds Bow Wow Wowzer will block them if they have no vaccinations against General Tso's Sickness, let alone every other communicable third world disease?
DC To Allow Illegal Migrant Students To Enroll In Schools
“Identity fraud is a common tactic used by TCOs to take advantage of migrants who do not know the legal consequences of their actions as they attempt to deceive authorities.” (Me llamo el Babyfaced Finster, esse! - jjs)
El Paso Sector Border Patrol Have Picked Up Hundreds of Illegal Immigrant Adults Posing as Children
"Not only are migrants breaking American laws, they are being rewarded with extensive taxpayer support for hotels and lodging when they arrive. Democrats say that isn’t enough."
Dems Ask Taxpayers to Fund More Living Expenses For Lawbreaking Migrants ("Ask?!" - jjs)
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Maybe they should stop electing Maoists. Nah, that's crazy talk.
San Francisco Shops Threaten Tax Boycott If City Doesn’t Address Crime
“Every single sign is pointing to it’s him. There’s nothing that says it’s not him right now. It’s just that we’re waiting on a positive identification,” Derby police told the Caller, adding that the body is “awaiting dental comparisons at the medical examiner’s office.”
Police Believe Decomposing Body Found In Apartment Is Most Likely Epstein Associate
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“Hey look, if the FBI, which, you know, I still view as a legitimate institution in this country, it’s a very professional law enforcement. They come to us and tell us that we need to be on guard about something. Then I wanna take that seriously,”
Zuckerberg: Facebook Throttled Hunter Biden Laptop Story After FBI Warned of Potential "Russian Propaganda"
The board was announced back in April, and was going to be headed by Nina Jankowicz. The board quickly came under fire, being dubbed the “Ministry of Truth,” with many saying that the objective of the board was to regulate free speech in the Untied States.
Biden's "Ministry of Truth" Officially Shuts Down
Robert Spencer: "As the DHS continues to work on ways to counter the 'threat' of 'disinformation,' will it ever deign to explain to us peasants how it plans to distinguish actual disinformation from genuine disagreement on the facts or how it intends to ensure that its efforts against “disinformation” aren’t just an attempt to silence political disagreement?"
The Disinformation Governance Board Is Now Officially Dead, But the Enemies of Free Speech Will Keep Trying
It's not really the parents. It's whoever is behind the parents, and I smell a container of rotten goulash and fondue.
Sandy Hook Families Demand Alex Jones Surrender Media Company Control, Accuse Him Of Funneling Assets
"It is the obligation of journalists to state these facts, to not accept at face value the propaganda a government agency like NASA doles out routinely. For the media outlets above, however, that obligation has long been forgotten. Each has been captured by the government, and now works solely for it, pushing its agenda blindly."
How SLS Reveals the Difference Between State-Run Propaganda and Real Journalism
"The efforts of Brandy Zadrozny, one of NBC’s “disinformation” reporters, in both cases follow a nearly identical pattern. First, identify a perceived right wing element online that is highlighting or covering a contentious, questionable or perhaps even criminal issue. Then, cast the subjects of the coverage as victims of 'harassment.' Source the public outrage, or 'harassment campaign,' to the coverage itself, rather than the contentious, questionable or criminal behavior of the subject. Contact massive tech corporations and alert them that these groups are operating on their platforms."
NBC "Journalist" Who Attacked Libs of TikTok Once Took Credit for Deplatforming Pedophile Sting Groups
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The video also claims police target "gender non-conforming folks and Muslims," and instructed students to "avoid the police," who "often treat victims as perpetrators of violence."
Denver Public School Tells Students Cops Are Trained To See Minorities as Criminals
Chalkboard Review shared an image of the post, which depicts a woman sitting on a bed with a sex toy. She is surrounded by “self love reminders.”
Texas High School Tells Students to Use Sex Toys to "Overcome Sexual Anxiety"
"How woke corporations aid and abet racism."
Big Business Enables Race-Based Discrimination in College Admissions
"Parental discontent with public education has sparked new momentum for alternatives."
School Choice Rising
"First lauded as the new thing, then dismissed as hype, Massive Open Online Courses may yet be part of higher education’s future."
Whatever Happened to MOOCs?
"Controlling education is the grand prize in today’s culture wars."
PEN Works to Destroy Education
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Maybe former attorney general Bill Barr is not a snake in the grass. He comes pretty close, though, to being a worm in the grass."
Bill Barr Returns to Make Every Conservative Seethe with Frustration
"Last year, PILF successfully got Pennsylvania’s Democrat state officials to remove thousands of dead registrants from its voter rolls following an initial lawsuit. In that case, officials were accused of keeping at least 21,000 dead registrants on voter rolls for the 2020 presidential election." (PILF has connotations - jjs)
Court Rejects Democrat Official’s Attempt to Keep 26,000 Dead People on Michigan Voter Rolls
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Anti-Israel Jew-hating front group.
Nazi Collaborator Soros Donates $1 Million to Liberal J Street Super PAC
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Surprise surprise. An ugly, classless goon is also a raging hypocrite. But that is SOP for Democrats.
Fetterman Opposes School Vouchers for the Poor. He Sends His Kids to One of PA’s Priciest Prep Schools.
"California has a long history of pretending to be tough on criminals. The media has a long history of protecting Democrats."
They Lied About Paul Pelosi’s "Jail Time"
"The elites need only declare to confirm."
How Paul Pelosi and Other High-Profile People Get Away With It
POLITICS
Bluster or boasting that Dao-Min Yen is warming up in the wings?
Malig-Nancy Pelosi: "Republicans Should Be Very, Very, Very Scared This Morning About Their Prospects"
"If Republicans resort to business as usual, then they will once again do what they do best: lose a winnable election."
SHOT: Yes, Republicans Are Blowing the Midterms
"The spin heading toward Labor Day is that Republican chances of winning a Senate majority are fading. A GOP takeover of the U.S. House hangs by a thread — Nonsense."
CHASER: The Senate is Very Much in Play for the GOP
"No president elected [or installed like Biden] to his first term has had a lower sixth-quarter average than Biden, although Jimmy Carter's and Donald Trump's ratings were only slightly better, at 42%," reported Gallup. "Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan also averaged below majority approval."
Biden Job Approval 38% – Disapproval 59%
"He makes an obvious point that McConnell seems to miss: an opposition leader should try to, well, lead some opposition."
Trump Is Not Wrong About Mitch McConnell
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"Putin’s decision could reflect intentions to continue prosecuting the war in Ukraine despite reports of worsening troop morale, high casualty rates and inability to make significant advances on the front lines, according to multiple assessments from the Institute for the Study of War."
NO END IN SIGHT: Putin Calls For 137,000 Fresh Troops
"Putin’s decree did not say whether the new troops would be contractors (more expensive) or conscripts (less combat-effective). There’s one other little catch: By Russian law, conscripts can’t be sent to fight in foreign wars like Ukraine without an official declaration of war. They can only defend the Motherland from invaders. Expanding the draft would be unpopular. . . Those draftees also wouldn’t do anything for the war effort in Ukraine."
Putin's Mobilization Push Is a Big Dud
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Israeli Prime Minister Lapid slams the emerging ‘bad’ Iran nuke deal, says the proposed arrangement violates even [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s own red lines."
As Biden Junta Finalizes Nuke Deal, Iran Launches Large-Scale Drone Drill
"Ditch the cruise-missile diplomacy and start fighting back against Iran."
Biden Brings a Butter Knife to an Iranian Gunfight
“'In order to fundamentally reexamine guarding and never to let this happen, we need to have a new system,' Nakamura said at a press conference."
Japan's Police Chief Resigns Over Abe Assassination
"A vile ideological tactic to malign Israel and Jews."
Mahmoud Abbas’ "Holocaust Inversion"
"Kim Jong-un’s political faith demands total devotion."
Religious Persecution in a Land Where the Supreme Ruler Is God
"Diversity not a strength in Nigeria."
Guess What This Country Did?
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
"Did they privilege political considerations over strategic ones?"
One Year Later, America’s Leaders Still Haven’t Answered for Afghanistan
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Salman Rushdie’s attacker likely knows little of the religion in whose name he acted."
An Islam of the Internet
Raymond Ibrahim: "Hindus get a taste of taqiyya."
The Mind-Boggling Lengths Muslims Go to to Deceive and Slaughter Infidels
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"They are ‘people who live outside.’"
LA Homeless Authority Doesn’t Want Anyone Saying the Word "Homeless"
"The mounting costs to taxpayers of Breed’s housing initiatives and removal of evictees, who often return to city streets, come as San Francisco experiences an unprecedented homelessness crisis."
San Francisco Spends Millions To House — And Then Evict — Its Homeless
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Officials say the disease is similar to parvovirus and encourage vaccinations."
Canine Parvovirus Has Killed Dozens of Dogs in Michigan
"Medically assisted suicide, a pet project of many progressives, is increasingly popular in Western nations and must be resisted."
No, Killing People is Not a Humane Solution for the West’s Epidemic of Despair
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"This is only the beginning. . . Webb is now a new tool in that effort. Combined with other telescopes looking at other wavelengths scientists will be able to identify a whole range of molecules in the atmospheres of these transiting exoplanets."
Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of Exoplanet (EPA to regulate it in 5, 4, 3, 2 . . . - jjs)
sFEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Where the fuck are the parents? Meh, WHO the fuck are the parents?!
Kids Pole Dance With Nearly-Nude Strippers at North Carolina Pride Event
"Why women can't have it all."
Lean Out
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"State Department proud to fund festival featuring incest, pedophilia."
‘Freedom of Expression’: Foggy Bottom Stands by $10,000 Grant to Queer Film Fest
“'Hell no. Hell no,' Goya Foods CEO Bob Unanue said at the time when asked if he planned on bowing to cancel culture mobs and apologizing for his praise of then-President Trump."
Democrat-Driven Anti-Trump Boycott of Goya Foods Actually Helped Sales, Cornell U. Research Study Shows
Douglas Murray: "Today this country is forgetting what we did, and so, of course, we are forgetting who we are. This, in turn, will lead, as Reagan warned, to 'an erosion of the American spirit.' That erosion is precisely what is going on today at schools and universities across this country."
UVA Students’ Efforts to Erase Jefferson From Campus More Than Just Tom-Foolery
"Brian Netzel, who lost his job in 2020 after 10 years at American Express, filed a class-action complaint against the credit card giant. He said he and other white employees faced discrimination because of the company's 'diversity' efforts."
American Express Discriminated Against White Employees, Lawsuit Alleges
"Members of the woke class turn on their own, and those in the crosshairs don't even realize it."
Corporate Wokeness Is a Joke, Even to the Wokest of the Woke
"An accomplished scholar has been brought down to the position of supplicant by someone who distorts American history for a living."
American Historical Association Falls Prey to "Presentism" Struggle Session
"NY Governor Kathy Hochul last week signed into law legislation that replaces the term 'salesman' with 'salesperson.' The latter is in no way a replacement for the former."
No, "Salesman" is Not a Sexist Term
"The mental gymnastics of following someone’s ‘declared pronouns’ disrupts communication by undermining the very purpose of pronouns."
Pronoun Police Are Playing an Unfunny Game of "Hu’s On First?"
"The bookseller wants to give shelf space to books that will sell."
Nonwhite Authors Are Claiming Barnes & Noble Is Racist
". . . But it got some things right."
The Da Vinci Code Attacked the Wrong Religion
HITHER & YON
Christian Toto: "It's a smart spin on the superhero genre, but one that doesn't live up to its potential."
Stallone’s Samaritan Shows Limits to Icon’s Screen Presence
". . . a title he has now taken over from his sister who was 19 when she finished her global flight in January, according to ABC News."
17-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Person to Fly a Plane Solo Around the World
"Around two-thirds of Europe is facing drought alerts and warnings, a report from the Global Drought Observatory found. The European Commission said the recent findings indicate 'the current drought still appears to be the worst since at least 500 years,' per the BBC."
Ancient Artifacts, Dinosaur Tracks, Nazi Ships Appear Around the World as Drought Causes Low Water Levels
"Curtis LeMay did what he had to do to defeat Japan in World War II."
The Man Who Won the War
"When utopias fail."
Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans in 1945

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:36 AM

Comments

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2022 06:36 AM (bVYXr)

2 How to frustrate a leftist: enjoy your life

Posted by: IanDeal at August 26, 2022 06:36 AM (MGjjz)

3 WTFO??

Happy Fricking Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 06:36 AM (BRHaw)

4

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 26, 2022 06:36 AM (SWi3y)

5 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 26, 2022 06:36 AM (GYIa4)

6 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 06:36 AM (1n+EO)

7 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the FBI approached Facebook warning the platform about "Russian propaganda" ahead of the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story leading up to the 2020 presidential election.

So to NOT interfere in the election the FBI INTERFERED in the election!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 06:37 AM (BRHaw)

8 Mornin', al, and happy Friday!

Good grief I have a full day ahead. I hope the end of the world waits for me to get the lunch one of my clients is buying today.

Everyone take Salty's daily advice, and thank you JJ!

Posted by: Catherine at August 26, 2022 06:38 AM (ZSsrh)

9 thank you JJ for this news main course, especially for the cheesy sauce.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 06:39 AM (0YrBk)

10 Willowed:

Zuckerburg would do it again in a heartbeat.

I look forward to all the stern letters and bukakke theater hearings a GOP congress will indulge in next year. Fun times.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2022 05:10 AM (AW0uW)

I'm looking forward to all the "Blue Ribbon Panels". Bipartisan, but of course!
That's the Gold Standard for doing absolutely nothing and stretching it out over a period of years.

"We can't be hasty. We must wait for the findings of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Voting Irregularities."
Can't you just hear the Turtle goobering that one out?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2022 06:39 AM (5NkmN)

11 “You are not New Yorkers."

I would take that as a compliment.

Posted by: fd at August 26, 2022 06:39 AM (sn5EN)

12 Morning all. Happy Friday!

Posted by: Mick at August 26, 2022 06:39 AM (PePXk)

13 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 26, 2022 06:40 AM (UDSQC)

14 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at August 26, 2022 06:40 AM (u7pQw)

15 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 26, 2022 06:40 AM (LsEU/)

16 Happy Friday is right

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 26, 2022 06:40 AM (EdnZ5)

17 “You are not New Yorkers."

Thank God!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 26, 2022 06:40 AM (LsEU/)

18 2 How to frustrate a leftist: enjoy your life
Posted by: IanDeal at August 26, 2022 06:36 AM (MGjjz)

"Yeah, we're working on that."

- - Soros, Fink, Wyss, Gates & Schwab

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 06:41 AM (x0n13)

19 Ha ha ha!

The Curse of the "x" strikes again.

I just saw Filipinos referred to a Filipinx.

They ought to be thrilled with that.

Well...maybe the ladyboys will.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2022 06:41 AM (5NkmN)

20 Could it be, fascism?

Posted by: fd at August 26, 2022 06:42 AM (sn5EN)

21 Maria Bartiromo just made a good point: Now that the junta illegally paid off gender studies loans once, future gender studies majors will expect Uncle Sugar to pay for their degrees too. A forever giveaway was just unilaterally created by the daughter rapist Resident.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 06:42 AM (0YrBk)

22 Glad my gas bill has jumped 80%. I guess it is worth it to ship that LNG to Europe.

Posted by: WiNO - Marriage Amendment Now at August 26, 2022 06:43 AM (EpDzw)

23 It's a bailout for lying universities that knowingly sell defective products. Sort of like Pfizer and ModeRNA. The universities have been lying for decades. This will blunt calls for accountability and truth in advertising.

Posted by: CN at August 26, 2022 06:43 AM (Zzbjj)

24
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 26, 2022 06:44 AM (ENBF0)

25 Well at least they are warning you up front to leave before the roundup.

You know the roundup is coming, once the dehumanization starts, the camps come next.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2022 06:45 AM (kOpme)

26 Why the Right Lost the Student Loan Fight

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They didn't even show up. They don't show up for any fight. They are silent as the grave while the country is being absolutely burned to the ground.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2022 06:45 AM (sVtYq)

27 This is a very costly and hence inefficient way to buy votes. And the backlash could be severe. Let us pray.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 26, 2022 06:46 AM (i0slg)

28 I still think indentured servitude would be a great way to handle student loans.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 26, 2022 06:46 AM (4olE8)

29 Maria Bartiromo just made a good point: Now that the junta illegally paid off gender studies loans once, future gender studies majors will expect Uncle Sugar to pay for their degrees too. A forever giveaway was just unilaterally created by the daughter rapist Resident.

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This is the end game for them though. Remember their plans to make college "free?" They're very happy with the ramifications that this will be just the beginning.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2022 06:47 AM (sVtYq)

30 NYT Comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted

Prosecutors said Mr. Kurlander agreed as part of a plea deal to cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigation into how the diary was acquired by Project Veritas, whose deceptive operations against liberal groups and traditional news organizations made it a favorite of former President Donald J. Trump.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 06:47 AM (BRHaw)

31 Why the Right Lost the Student Loan Fight

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They didn't even show up. They don't show up for any fight. They are silent as the grave while the country is being absolutely burned to the ground.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2022 06:45 AM (sVtYq)

Because Conservative Inc courts the same constituency as the Democrats.

Posted by: WiNO - Marriage Amendment Now at August 26, 2022 06:47 AM (EpDzw)

32 White Non-college is still the largest voting cohort, by far. Trump got them to turnout more than for Romney, which is how he won in 2016.

I believe that there's a Shy Tory effect going on -- they're not being honest with pollsters -- and that they will turn out. Let us pray.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 26, 2022 06:47 AM (i0slg)

33 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

The Hochul progressive cascade:
You cannot live in NY as Republicans
You cannot live in New York
You cannot live

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 26, 2022 06:47 AM (EZebt)

34
You know who gets punished the worst by Biden's policies? Not the poor, who can depend on being perpetually bailed out. Not the very rich, or even the upper middle class, who will just shrug their shoulders at higher taxes or energy costs.

No, it's those at the bottom fringes of the middle class. They have a clunker in the driveway, one major repair bill away from financial ruin. The live at the edges of ruin, and the left wants to destroy any dream of 'middle classness'. Remember Obama's preacher who ranted against 'middle classness'? That's not a coincidence.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 26, 2022 06:48 AM (jE276)

35 Food banks are struggling to feed the poor who can't keep up with food inflation. Maybe solar panels will help, as the Biden junta says.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 06:48 AM (0YrBk)

36 What Hochul is saying is "Get out." What is unsaid but directly implied is "Or else."

There's something about the minds of a whole lot of people that simply does not allow them to hear this stuff. History is full of such events. At least you listened. But I'd guess, at this point, most of those still in New York are either incapable or unwilling, and one's the same as the other for all practical purposes, of getting her point.

Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 06:49 AM (eqliw)

37 So, Legal Cuck is surprised the gov't got to redact whatever they wanted? They refuse to understand the game being played.

Posted by: WiNO - Marriage Amendment Now at August 26, 2022 06:49 AM (EpDzw)

38 Happy National Dog Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2022 06:49 AM (NpAcC)

39 @30

>>NYT Comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted

Well the FBI inveigled a RICO, extortion and conspiracy investigation out of a lost diary and got their two patsies now the are hunting for the crime boss.

I feel bad for James Okeefe, he's about to be put through the meat grinder.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 26, 2022 06:50 AM (kOpme)

40 The greatest threat to a dishonest regime is a citizenry willing to name its lies.

2020 was a fair and secure election

BULLSHIT

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 06:50 AM (BRHaw)

41 I'm waiting for California to ban air conditioners so there will be enough electricity to change cars.

Posted by: fd at August 26, 2022 06:50 AM (sn5EN)

42 They didn't even show up. They don't show up for any fight. They are silent as the grave while the country is being absolutely burned to the ground.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2022 06:45 AM (sVtYq)

If'n you stand for anything, you might not get a-l-l-l-l the dried flies you can!

And these Chinese dried flies are de-e-e-e-licious!

*nom nom nom nom nom*

Posted by: The Turtle at August 26, 2022 06:51 AM (5NkmN)

43 Woof!

Posted by: Squid at August 26, 2022 06:51 AM (Pflq/)

44 "What Hochul is saying is "Get out.""

Fuck her. I'm in the South Bronx and I'm not going anywhere.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 26, 2022 06:51 AM (i0slg)

45 You gotta kind of laugh at the predicament of the illegals streaming into the USA now. Thinking they've made it to the land of plenty and riches, just as the entire country is going down like the Titanic.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2022 06:51 AM (sVtYq)

46 Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 26, 2022 06:48 AM (jE276)

Oh the poor are going to get hammered. All of that money the gov't spends on the poor mainly goes to the people running the programs. The middle class usually makes up the difference with charity. Hard to do charity when discretionary income is gone.

Posted by: WiNO - Marriage Amendment Now at August 26, 2022 06:51 AM (EpDzw)

47 "Happy National Dog Day!"

Who cried when Old Yeller died.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 26, 2022 06:52 AM (i0slg)

48 Is it true that Hochul will require Republicans in New York to wear a yellow R?

Posted by: Ripley at August 26, 2022 06:53 AM (MxEKc)

49 It's Nice Of Santa Joe to Abolish Kollege Layabouts "Student" Debt....Wonder Where All That Money Went?

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 26, 2022 06:53 AM (kweYR)

50 Happy National Dog Day!
Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2022 06:49 AM (NpAcC)

We're celebrating with a BBQ.

Do you prefer poodle or dachshund?

OH, and we have Schnauzer Ribs over here!

*nom nom nom nom nom*

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 26, 2022 06:54 AM (5NkmN)

51 Is it true that Hochul will require Republicans in New York to wear a yellow R?
Posted by: Ripley at August 26, 2022 06:53 AM (MxEKc)
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No, it's going to be a scarlet R that they must wear at all times on their chest.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 06:54 AM (YIVH2)

52 Bite me has insulated the utes from the consequences of their bad deals. Moral hazard as public policy.

Posted by: 7man at August 26, 2022 06:54 AM (qwO6y)

53 Francis hasn't gone so far as to officially deny the divinity of Jesus, but it's now clear that the main thrust of his papacy is to convert Christianity into a humanistic religion focused on secular goals such as protecting the environment and promoting human fraternity.

From JJS story link on Dan Brown's attack on Catholicism.

The contrast between lefties attack on Christianity, versus reflexive protection of murderous Islam, has a purpose, to undermine western civilization even further. It is amazing to me how thorough the left is.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 06:56 AM (fweVu)

54 Given a choice between obeying his voters or Bill Gates, Senator Manchin picked him.

“You know, people say Joe likes coal or something like that,” Gates said. “That’s really not fair. Joe wanted a climate bill.”

I hope the People in WV have to eat coal this winter!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 06:57 AM (BRHaw)

55 How to frustrate a leftist: enjoy your life

By that metric, I must be making leftists ecstatic with joy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2022 06:57 AM (AW0uW)

56 Republicans raus!

Posted by: Frau Hochul at August 26, 2022 06:59 AM (Spr0s)

57 54 I hope the People in WV have to eat coal this winter!!
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 06:57 AM (BRHaw)

"Luxury!"

- - West Virginians eating tree bark

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 06:59 AM (x0n13)

58 Hochul is one step away from having Republicans wear R's on their outer clothing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2022 06:59 AM (sVtYq)

59 Hiya and thanks JJ ! AGAIN !

Posted by: JT at August 26, 2022 07:00 AM (T4tVD)

60 I gotta admit, the Navarro trial should be a spectacular shit show. But, if he makes it to the stand it might just be glorious. He's a wolverine who ran out fcks a while back and sharp as hell.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 26, 2022 07:01 AM (cupoy)

61 If you have that hate in your heart, keep it there. I want the vote of the people of Florida who care about our state,

They use the words but they don't know what those words mean. They only know that those sounds trigger emotions and by controlling the emotions they control the voters.

Where are the NeverTrump "Conservatives" who are conserving our conservatism to ask the Leftists to provide concrete examples of "hate" by their ideological opponents?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 26, 2022 07:01 AM (3hSHB)

62 Hiya Catherine ! Enjoy your lunch !

Posted by: JT at August 26, 2022 07:01 AM (T4tVD)

63 “Those who support [DeSantis] should stay with him and vote for him and I don’t want your vote. If you have that hate in your heart, keep it there.

Identify a target. Freeze it. Polarize it.

The next step is learned from Islam. God's heart is closed to the Jews forever. Just substitute God with State and Jews with MAGA. Dehumanize the right. Make it easier to implement the final solution while convincing the people that they are helping rid the country of the REAL Nazis.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:02 AM (hwoGt)

64 I hope the People in WV have to eat coal this winter!!
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 06:57 AM (BRHaw)

"Luxury!"
- - West Virginians eating tree bark
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 06:59 AM (x0n13)

I honestly don't know. What was their other option ? Is the WV GOP just as inept as in many other states ?

Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 07:02 AM (eqliw)

65 Anyway, like I was sayin', coal is the fruit of the hills. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, coal-kabobs, coal creole, coal gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple coal, lemon coal, coconut coal, pepper coal, coal soup, coal stew, coal salad, coal and potatoes, coal burger, coal sandwich. That- that's about it.

Posted by: Coal Connoisseur at August 26, 2022 07:02 AM (sn5EN)

66 Wow.

Sounds like Hochul may have developed an odd medical condition.

Did her symptoms also include growing a tiny black, postage stamp-sized mustache at the end of her speech along with a spasm that causes her right arm to extend into a Roman soldier's salute?

Hard to come back from that one!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2022 07:02 AM (5NkmN)

67 This is what happens when you allow an election to be stolen.

And, the FBI just admitted it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2022 07:03 AM (lTGtQ)

68 "Maria Bartiromo just made a good point: Now that the junta illegally paid off gender studies loans once, future gender studies majors will expect Uncle Sugar to pay for their degrees too. "

They will also expect guaranteed high paying jobs, which does not include Star Bucks barista. Govt agencies and corporate administrations already, swarming with these useless leeches, will be overrun.

Posted by: Ripley at August 26, 2022 07:03 AM (MxEKc)

69 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 07:03 AM (WWh8n)

70 Re: Charlotte "pride" day parade. The changes brought to formerly solid Charlotte over the last thirty years by Bank of America and Wells Fargo is astounding. Now, strippers perform in a downtown parade with children watching.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 07:03 AM (fweVu)

71 Raise your hand if you stopped funding your 529 yesterday.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:04 AM (/zWKu)

72 64 I hope the People in WV have to eat coal this winter!!
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 06:57 AM (BRHaw)

"Luxury!"
- - West Virginians eating tree bark
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 06:59 AM (x0n13)

I honestly don't know. What was their other option ? Is the WV GOP just as inept as in many other states ?
Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 07:02 AM (eqliw)

For whatever it's worth, they elected Shelly Moore Capito. But why they insist on retaining a D as some sort of Robert Byrd legacy is nuts. Especially in this political climate.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:04 AM (x0n13)

73 Matt Schlapp
@mschlapp

Big Tech oligarchs will publicly admit that they worked with the Deep State to rig the election for Joe Biden and then censor you for pointing it out.

Break up Big Tech and break up the FBI.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2022 07:04 AM (NpAcC)

74 They use the words but they don't know what those words mean. They only know that those sounds trigger emotions and by controlling the emotions they control the voters.

Where are the NeverTrump "Conservatives" who are conserving our conservatism to ask the Leftists to provide concrete examples of "hate" by their ideological opponents?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 26, 2022 07:01 AM (3hSHB)
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As rhetoricians, they are woefully deficient. Sure they seem to have mastered using Pathos to advance their arguments, which is a very powerful tool. But they are woefully inept at Logos, as their arguments fall apart with the slightest bit of scrutiny. They also lack Ethos because when they are in power, they are hopelessly incompetent at their jobs. That's one reason why they get kicked out when they can't steal enough votes to keep their jobs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 07:04 AM (YIVH2)

75 It's Nice Of Santa Joe to Abolish Kollege Layabouts "Student" Debt....Wonder Where All That Money Went?

So why does the FUSA even have a Congress if $300B programs can appear as a matter of dictatorial decree?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 26, 2022 07:04 AM (3hSHB)

76 They will also expect guaranteed high paying jobs, which does not include Star Bucks barista. Govt agencies and corporate administrations already, swarming with these useless leeches, will be overrun.
Posted by: Ripley at August 26, 2022 07:03 AM (MxEKc)
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I heard the IRS was hiring.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 26, 2022 07:04 AM (EZebt)

77 The great unifier Joe Biden just said on TV: "MAGA Republicans are a threat to our very democracy"

Demonizing Republicans is the Demofascist theme this election. (Kevin McCarthy says this isn't the hill to die on)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 07:05 AM (fweVu)

78
Sponge Brain Shit Pants says "...if you don't vote for me, you ain't black"

Hochul says "...if you don'd agree with me, you're not a new yorker"

I'm old enough to remember Ted Cruz making some remark during the 2016 campaign about being "...of the body" and the leftards and the MFM (BIRM) loosing their collective shit about Cruz wanting to implement a theocracy

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 26, 2022 07:06 AM (ENBF0)

79 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 26, 2022 07:06 AM (nyNes)

80 We call that a lying mutha fucker down here in Texas:

'75, 80, 85 percent' and '75 to 80-plus percent,'" the Times reported.

"In a telephone interview the next day, Dr. Fauci acknowledged that he had slowly but deliberately been moving the goal posts. He is doing so, he said, partly based on new science, and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks,"

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 07:07 AM (BRHaw)

81 ... On the left, by contrast, years of “cancel culture” haven’t just been an obnoxious social affair, but have cleared the deck politically, removing or marginalizing dissident political voices and ensuring that people pursue the same sort of politics
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That's certainly a take, but I think it's wrong - at least about the left. The non-left (I won't even call it the "right" because it isn't, really) is at best a confederation of internally competing interests aligning against a greater demon. This can work short-term, as it's like a war. You don't have to love your ally, but you need to rally behind your common hatred of the enemy. It's *after* the war that you settle your differences.

The left, however, is not monolithic. We see plenty of evidence for this. The ruling complex is riddled with infighting, empire-building and crossed purposes. They are not a unified bloc. They've won insofar as they control all institutions and the culture, and so now they've turned on each other. There is not one grand leftist ruling concept. They're internally disharmonious, too and this (combined with incompetence) is one of the reasons things are spinning apart.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 07:07 AM (WWh8n)

82 For whatever it's worth, they elected Shelly Moore Capito. But why they insist on retaining a D as some sort of Robert Byrd legacy is nuts. Especially in this political climate.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:04 AM (x0n13)

Fair point. I'll put my bet down where several others have suggested over the last couple weeks. Manchin is talking like a man that doesn't intend to run again.

Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 07:08 AM (eqliw)

83 The great unifier Joe Biden just said on TV: "MAGA Republicans are a threat to our very democracy"
...
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 07:05 AM (fweVu)
===

In all fairness, yes, I'm not the President, but I have been advocating for the liquidation of the Democrat Party for many years.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 26, 2022 07:08 AM (EZebt)

84 @75 Reuben Hick-I'm sure the left will be pointing that out here in the near future, "why do we even need a congress"

Posted by: JROD at August 26, 2022 07:08 AM (0jZnq)

85 Charley Crist is right about one thing. I do have hate in my heart for every one of these communist bastards that are trying to destroy our country and our way of life.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 26, 2022 07:09 AM (dr4Q1)

86 hey y'all

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at August 26, 2022 07:09 AM (PbwT0)

87 Hard to do charity when discretionary income is gone.

*

I'll admit that I've completely reconsidered tips knowing that people voted for $15 "living wages" driving us to this point.

I've seen the signs in front of the business. Now that you're making as much as a starting factory worker...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:09 AM (/zWKu)

88 For whatever it's worth, they elected Shelly Moore Capito.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

That's worth nothing. She voted to ban guns.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2022 07:09 AM (lTGtQ)

89 It's a payoff to the Marxist Seminaries Students and the Marxist Seminaries who get to raise tuition and get every cent from the taxpayers.

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 26, 2022 07:10 AM (EdnZ5)

90 They will also expect guaranteed high paying jobs, which does not include Star Bucks barista. Govt agencies and corporate administrations already, swarming with these useless leeches, will be overrun.
Posted by: Ripley

All corporations over 100 employees will need a chief gender compliance officer and an office of gender compliance which is tasked with identifying gender inequality and ensuring gender equity. This role will be outside of and in addition to the responsibilities of the Diversity Equity and Inclusion office.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:10 AM (hwoGt)

91 Almost everyone on the energy committee came over and spent a few hours with me.

I only need a few seconds of your time, Bill.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 26, 2022 07:11 AM (g1EEm)

92
OH, and we have Schnauzer Ribs over here!

*nom nom nom nom nom*
Posted by: Barack Obama

My little guys got something to say about this. Then again, schnauzers got something to say about EVERYTHING.

Posted by: Skeptical Schnauzer at August 26, 2022 07:11 AM (h+7ej)

93 De Toqueville knew from the beginning how this country would end, and now we are seeing it in action.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2022 07:12 AM (lTGtQ)

94 I saw yesterday they are calling us semi-facists, is that an upgrade or downgrade?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 26, 2022 07:12 AM (BOmIL)

95 "LA Homeless Authority Doesn’t Want Anyone Saying the Word "Homeless""

Cool. So we can call them bums or winos again?

Posted by: Ripley at August 26, 2022 07:12 AM (MxEKc)

96 The great unifier Joe Biden just said on TV: "MAGA Republicans are a threat to our very democracy"

*

I think this is probably true. Their democracy as it currently exists is very much threatened by exposure and American success.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:12 AM (/zWKu)

97 Never Forget!
Election Wizard
@ElectionWiz

40m
One year ago today, 13 American service members lost their lives at Kabul Airport during Joe Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2022 07:13 AM (NpAcC)

98 Biden is delivering for his constituents: college-goers with useless degrees.

Posted by: PlainJane at August 26, 2022 07:13 AM (8nIWT)

99 “Those who support [DeSantis] should stay with him and vote for him and I don’t want your vote. If you have that hate in your heart, keep it there. I want the vote of the people of Florida who care about our state, good Democrats, good Independents, good Republicans. Unify with this ticket. Unify with Val Demmings and Charlie Crist. Unify with us. Those who are haters, you’re gonna go off in your own world. And you better get right.”
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This is a stupid statement. DeSantis has majority support. If you want to win, you need a majority. In order the get a majority, you need to reduce the opponent's support and raise your own. To get there, you need to either knock out enough of the opponent's supporters or *convert* them and thus make them count for double. Telling members of the *majority* that you don't want them is almost unfathomably stupid.

Also, calling them bad is also a lousy way to move support. You can call their leader - DeSantis - bad. You should, if he's your opponent. But leave the base out of it. If I think DeSantis is right and I like him, saying I'm not a "good" citizen isn't a way to change my mind about him *or* you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 07:13 AM (WWh8n)

100 Good morning all. Happy Friday!

Posted by: jewells45 at August 26, 2022 07:13 AM (nxdel)

101 Every college in America:

*raises tuition $10,000* Sorry, no choice, economy and all. Just put it on your student loan.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:13 AM (hwoGt)

102 For whatever it's worth, they elected Shelly Moore Capito. But why they insist on retaining a D as some sort of Robert Byrd legacy is nuts. Especially in this political climate.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:04 AM (x0n13)

She’s a Mitch girl.

Posted by: 7man at August 26, 2022 07:13 AM (qwO6y)

103 94 I saw yesterday they are calling us semi-facists, is that an upgrade or downgrade?

95 "LA Homeless Authority Doesn’t Want Anyone Saying the Word "Homeless""

96 The great unifier Joe Biden just said on TV: "MAGA Republicans are a threat to our very democracy".

In consecutive posts, no less. Well, at least they got something right. Fascism has indeed went mainstream in the United States.

Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 07:14 AM (eqliw)

104 This is a stupid statement.

He thinks there is only a small core of trump supporters with a large penumbra who will reel at being called evil and jump to his side.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:14 AM (hwoGt)

105 Boomers, Failed Idealism, and the Triumph of the Ruling Class
_______

Nope, there was never any idealism, nor any revolt. At least, not from those recognizable as "Boomers", the ones talked about - endlessly - at the time. We were, in fact, the teachers' pets. Those teachers wasted our entire youth telling us how amazingly awesome we were. And most of my generation ate it up.

Naturally, this led to the sense of entitlement we've seen. And to the confidence which is absolute in the belief in one's competence as well as absolute in the utter absence of any such thing.

I am tired of hearing of how the Boomers "changed". No, they (we) were self centered little shits then, and remain so.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 26, 2022 07:15 AM (TgBWG)

106 De Toqueville knew from the beginning how this country would end, and now we are seeing it in action.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2022 07:12 AM (lTGtQ)

Concur. The Looters and Moochers Devouring The Producers.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 26, 2022 07:15 AM (kweYR)

107 Gov. Kathy Hochul, who hasn’t proven shy about issuing orders, had one for the state’s Republicans this week — all 5.4 million of them: “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?” she said. “You are not New Yorkers.”
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NY conservatives should take her advice. As JJ points out when the essay continues, there is a fairly typical end when this kind of rhetoric - and Crist's, for that matter - hits the mainstream.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 07:15 AM (WWh8n)

108 Zombie Hannah Arendt would be a great choice as next Biden Communications Director.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 07:15 AM (Wvwtw)

109 "Those who are haters, you’re gonna go off in your own world. And you better get right.”
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See, even though I'm NOT a hater (as I consider myself), I would still like to go off in my own little world. But they will not let me do that.

You think they're going to let the "haters" (as they define them) go off into their own world and leave them alone? Hell no, they're going to let them group together, then destroy them...quite literally wipe them off the face of the earth. Or force them into camps where they can do that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 07:16 AM (YIVH2)

110 The GOP will not accept or admit that the left wants them dead until they are actually kneeling down by a ditch with a gun trained at the back of their heads.

And even then, people like McCarthy will do their best Chaim Rumkowski imitation.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2022 07:16 AM (AW0uW)

111 Susan Rice: People Who Already Repaid Their Student Loans? "That's Fantastic. That's to Their--to Their Credit"
______

Yes. They'll get their reward in heaven.

What will that reward be?

Probably a bale of hay, jackass.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 26, 2022 07:17 AM (TgBWG)

112 The price of gas is down over $0.50! Woooo! I guess Biden isn't doing too bad. I fully support his agenda now!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:17 AM (hwoGt)

113 See, even though I'm NOT a hater (as I consider myself), I would still like to go off in my own little world. But they will not let me do that.

You think they're going to let the "haters" (as they define them) go off into their own world and leave them alone? Hell no, they're going to let them group together, then destroy them...quite literally wipe them off the face of the earth. Or force them into camps where they can do that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 07:16 AM (YIVH2)
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Yup. Your own little world is a pine box.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 07:17 AM (WWh8n)

114 Government bans guns outside of legislative process, tech giant CEO acknowledges he worked with unelected secret police force to stifle election material to protect preferred candidate, people discover after reading through the Inflation Reduction bill that they gave another unelected agency the ability to ban gasoline powered vehicles.

And then the next day they call the people who hold no power fascists.

This sounds familiar for some reason. I wonder if there are any history buffs here?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:18 AM (/zWKu)

115 Gov. Kathy Hochul, who hasn’t proven shy about issuing orders, had one for the state’s Republicans this week — all 5.4 million of them: “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?” she said. “You are not New Yorkers.”
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Maybe they should simply replace 5.4 million productive, tax-paying Republicans with 5.4 million unproductive and parasitic illegal immigrants.

Let me know how that works out for you, New Yorkers...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 07:18 AM (YIVH2)

116 The GOP will not accept or admit that the left wants them dead until they are actually kneeling down by a ditch with a gun trained at the back of their heads.

Some won't. They just won't move out of their fuzzy memory of 1980s America. They'll die before they accept that times have changed. It is what it is.

Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 07:18 AM (eqliw)

117 "I'll admit that I've completely reconsidered tips knowing that people voted for $15 "living wages" driving us to this point. "

The latest trend seems to be the adding of an automatic 20% gratuity to the total, and include it in the bill, with no option to decline the automatic tip.

I will not do business with those establishments.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:18 AM (1n+EO)

118 You can't run a Republic when people can vote themselves money, and the government is allowed to run unlimited debt.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:19 AM (hwoGt)

119 PILF’s lawsuit alleges that 25,975 dead registrants remain on Michigan’s voter rolls, including:

23,663 registrants who have been dead for five years or more
17,479 registrants who have been dead for at least a decade
3,956 registrants who have been dead for at least 20 years

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 07:19 AM (BRHaw)

120 Let me know how that works out for you, New Yorkers...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 07:18 AM (YIVH2)

See California

Posted by: 7man at August 26, 2022 07:19 AM (qwO6y)

121 Yup. Your own little world is a pine box.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 07:17 AM (WWh8n)
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I doubt they will even allow us that luxury.

Mass graves for everyone! YOU get a mass grave! And YOU get a mass grave! And YOU get a mass grave!...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 07:20 AM (YIVH2)

122 The latest trend seems to be the adding of an automatic 20% gratuity to the total, and include it in the bill, with no option to decline the automatic tip.

I will not do business with those establishments.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

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Nope. I'll walk right out if I see that. You can treat me however you want an automatically get 20%? Ha.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:20 AM (/zWKu)

123 "You can't run a Republic when people can vote themselves money, and the government is allowed to run unlimited debt."

Sure you can.

For a while.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:20 AM (1n+EO)

124 Comfort the Comfortable

Pelosi was actually given “summary probation,” which means no check-ins with probation officers at all or interaction with the probation department.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 07:21 AM (BRHaw)

125 We need a government subsidized, affordable electric car. Maybe give it a catchy name like "the people' car" or "wagon for the folks" or something.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:21 AM (hwoGt)

126 The latest insanity with Iran defies comprehension, as Biden ok's a nuclear Iran.

Israel cannot possibly survive this abomination. Not only Israel, but also Saudi Arabia will be a nuclear target of the mullahs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 07:21 AM (Wvwtw)

127 99 Crist is dumber than a bag of bricks. He seems to have forgotten that we’ve been “deplorable” for more than half a decade now.

Sticks and stones, mofo, sticks and stones…

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 26, 2022 07:21 AM (g1EEm)

128 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 07:13 AM (WWh8n)

With Hochul's statement, it appears they have had a strategy call that this is a base turnout election, and their base responds best to accusing other people of being sub-human, unworthy of anything but contempt.

Posted by: Frau Hochul at August 26, 2022 07:21 AM (Spr0s)

129 Pelosi was actually given “summary probation,” which means no check-ins with probation officers at all or interaction with the probation department.

Yeah, it was a favor. To ourselves. We just can't stand being around the prick.

Posted by: California Department of Probation at August 26, 2022 07:23 AM (eqliw)

130 "and their base responds best to accusing other people of being sub-human, unworthy of anything but contempt."

Almost like a life not worthy of life.

I seem to have heard that phrase somewhere before.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:23 AM (1n+EO)

131 MP4! I want to say (belated) congrats on that awesome review you got from Sarah Hoyt the other Sunday. Well-deserved.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 26, 2022 07:23 AM (gbzeC)

132 https://tinyurl.com/3n62ydzm
37 year old champion cyclist dies of heart failure. Unexpectedly

Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at August 26, 2022 07:23 AM (9a6SN)

133 Anybody who thought DiSantis would be Trump without all the turmoil and viciousness that surrounds the former President, welcome to our world! Crist and Hochul are sending you an unsubtle message.

Unite and fight. The two principals should join and proceed to ‘24 together.

Posted by: Karl Rove, Genius at August 26, 2022 07:23 AM (FZS3h)

134
The price of gas is down over $0.50! Woooo! I guess Biden isn't doing too bad. I fully support his agenda now!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:17 AM

The 'burn rate' on the Strategic Oil Reserve is such that by November it will be emptied and the price will 'naturally skyrocket' again. The student loan payoff occurs November first.

Is there something happening in November that I don't know about?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 26, 2022 07:23 AM (jE276)

135 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:23 AM (Zz0t1)

136 The latest insanity with Iran defies comprehension, as Biden ok's a nuclear Iran.

*

Okays a nuclear Iran built by Russia.

You know. The Russia we're supposed to be at war with.

It's all pretend.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:24 AM (/zWKu)

137 Had to laugh at that Barnes and Noble story. As a dabbler who probably isn't any good at writing, and as someone who doesn't fit the current publishing criteria, I love hearing the complaints from "underrepresented" and "marginalized" voices.

Maybe your writing doesn't sell because it's not very good, not because who you are or what you write about.

Fifty years ago all these books were published from "new voices" types. Why didn't they sell? Because they contained nothing good, right, or true. The new voices types wrote hate filled garbage that improved nothing and led to nothing good. None of it should ever have been published by mainstream houses.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 26, 2022 07:24 AM (7bRMQ)

138 Saw a MSNBC conspiracy about Trump people feeding information about Mar-a-Lago raid to Trump conspirators.

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2022 07:24 AM (RHGPo)

139 It sickens and saddens me how many Americans will listen to Hochul and Crist and buy their bullshit.

We're a dying country. We won't stand up till it's too late, because offending the libtards isn't what we do, unfortunately.

There are signs of hope with the conservative takeover of the school boards in some areas, but overall, we're still losing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:25 AM (Zz0t1)

140 Saw a MSNBC conspiracy about Trump people feeding information about Mar-a-Lago raid to Trump conspirators.
Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2022 07:24 AM (RHGPo)

You and seven other viewers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:25 AM (Zz0t1)

141 37 year old champion cyclist dies of heart failure. Unexpectedly

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Some other moron pointed out that the vaxxine sure does seem to have a negative effect on people with high metabolisms.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:26 AM (/zWKu)

142 "Unite and fight. The two principals should join and proceed to ‘24 together"

This is probably the best chance we have. They will need to get mean.

Posted by: fd at August 26, 2022 07:26 AM (sn5EN)

143 https://tinyurl.com/3n62ydzm
37 year old champion cyclist dies of heart failure. Unexpectedly
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at August 26, 2022 07:23 AM (9a6SN)

To be labeled as "Sudden Adult Death Syndrome."

They're murdering us.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:27 AM (Zz0t1)

144 My favorite are the fast food restaurants, who have a default tip of 40-50% on their CC machines,

so if you are just in a hurry and neglect to pay attention...Bingo Bango! you just left a 50% tip for some shmoe to drop a taco into a bag.

Sad.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2022 07:27 AM (5NkmN)

145 America will never be destroyed from the
outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2022 07:27 AM (NpAcC)

146 The latest trend seems to be the adding of an automatic 20% gratuity to the total, and include it in the bill, with no option to decline the automatic tip.

I will not do business with those establishments.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:18 AM

Ate at a place like this. They don't even explain it on their website. For 2 people. I understand parties of 6 or more, but wtf. Never.will eat there again.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 26, 2022 07:27 AM (7FozI)

147 If FJBs team was smart, they would have given the $10k as a tax credit and told people "make sure you apply it to your student loans" wink-wink. That way, they spend the money on pizza and beer and the student loan "crisis" continues.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:28 AM (hwoGt)

148 In all fairness, yes, I'm not the President, but I have been advocating for the liquidation of the Democrat Party for many years.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 26, 2022 07:08 AM (EZebt)

So you want to dismantle the single most historically racist major institution in our country's history?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 26, 2022 07:28 AM (cupoy)

149 "The latest trend seems to be the adding of an automatic 20% gratuity to the total, and include it in the bill, with no option to decline the automatic tip.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice "

What I am seeing a lot is 20% default on the device they hand you with other options you can pick from. But then it makes you feel like a greedy cheapskate if you lower to the standard 15% for standard service. If they really want to use this method it should default to 15% and you raise or lower depending on service.

Posted by: Ripley at August 26, 2022 07:28 AM (MxEKc)

150 There are signs of hope with the conservative takeover of the school boards in some areas, but overall, we're still losing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:25 AM (Zz0t1)

I think school board elections are the best indicator of voter enthusiasm and intent. They're up close and personal. Having them flip is huge.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 26, 2022 07:28 AM (45fpk)

151 137 Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 26, 2022 07:24 AM (7bRMQ)

The Barnes & Noble story perfectly illustrates the madness of the Diversity sham, affirmative action, etc. Meritocracy is to be destroyed so long as "marginalized" people get a seat at the table.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:28 AM (x0n13)

152 Fifty years ago all these books were published from "new voices" types. Why didn't they sell? Because they contained nothing good, right, or true. The new voices types wrote hate filled garbage that improved nothing and led to nothing good. None of it should ever have been published by mainstream houses.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 26, 2022 07:24 AM (7bRMQ)
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Goodness, rightness, and truth are all sadly lacking in much of contemporary literature. Now it's all about "muh representation" and checking off the correct diversity boxes in your story.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 07:28 AM (YIVH2)

153 99 This is a stupid statement. DeSantis has majority support. If you want to win, you need a majority. In order the get a majority, you need to reduce the opponent's support and raise your own. To get there, you need to either knock out enough of the opponent's supporters or *convert* them and thus make them count for double. Telling members of the *majority* that you don't want them is almost unfathomably stupid.

Also, calling them bad is also a lousy way to move support. You can call their leader - DeSantis - bad. You should, if he's your opponent. But leave the base out of it. If I think DeSantis is right and I like him, saying I'm not a "good" citizen isn't a way to change my mind about him *or* you.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 07:13 AM (WWh8n)

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It's only stupid if you think his point is to win the election.

What if his point is to attract out of state donors in a doomed election that he knows he cannot win?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:29 AM (LvTSG)

154 Sorry to interrupt the news with a prayer request. FenSpouse is being stymied by the NJ unemployment office. He's supposed to be paid when he's off from being a school bus driver. Unfortunately, the dopes at UE couldn't figure out that having worked two days during the entire year as a substitute (when the school system he drives for was on break) didn't mean that that had a second full time job as a teacher, and so he hasn't gotten any UE the entire summer. They also don't call back when the message says they will call back within an hour. He is calling now. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2022 07:29 AM (wvo9L)

155 Israel cannot possibly survive this abomination. Not only Israel, but also Saudi Arabia will be a nuclear target of the mullahs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

I have seen contradictory reports daily that the deal is on, then off, then on again. I suspect if it actually goes through, Israel and Saudi will cooperate to ensure Iran cannot succeed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2022 07:29 AM (lTGtQ)

156 Once it's mandatory on the bill, it's not a tip. So now you have to leave me a tip.

Posted by: Your Xaiter at August 26, 2022 07:29 AM (sn5EN)

157 Ny is going to need a lot of Illegals to avoid losing federal dough and seats in Congress

Governor Abbott, send them more buses!

Posted by: Mitch the Bitch at August 26, 2022 07:30 AM (FZS3h)

158 It's only stupid if you think his point is to win the election. What if his point is to attract out of state donors in a doomed election that he knows he cannot win?

Are you telling me the GOP would subtly work against a wildly popular sitting governor, in order to get a more controllable candidate down the road ?

Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 07:30 AM (eqliw)

159 If we've "lost" the student loan fight (actually there was never any fight at all, the Left just did it) then it happened when Obama federalized the student loan system, and was greeted with a collective shrug on the part of everyone. As I and many others at the time said, the only reason for doing such a thing was so some future Dem pres could all in the marker and forgive them all - which is what has now happened. So this is just the culmination of plans that have been in the works for a decade, at least.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 07:31 AM (r46W7)

160 158 Are you telling me the GOP would subtly work against a wildly popular sitting governor, in order to get a more controllable candidate down the road ?
Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 07:30 AM (eqliw)

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I know the opinion of the GOP is low, but I'm unclear how the GOP is managing Charlie Crist's campaign for him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:31 AM (LvTSG)

161 It's no secret that Mrs VIA and I continue to listen to Baltimore talk radio rather regularly, even though we now live in South Carolina.

And I gotta say, the go to station that we listen to, WBAL Radio (streaming) has Kim Klacik, the 2020 Republican challenger to Kwaise Mfume as the host from 10-2 on weekdays. She, as well as two other hosts have been HAMMERING the same topics that we discuss here on a daily basis, to include student loans, the odd pattern that the more violent crime that Baltimore suffers, the more Federal money rolls into the coffers, education and so on.

The only reason that I mention this is that there seems to be a grassroots movement of black voices that are slowly but noticeably taking the conversation back to what the real problems are, both in communities as well as State/Federal governance.

I wish them well in their efforts.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:31 AM (1n+EO)

162 Is there something happening in November that I don't know about?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 26, 2022 07:23 AM (jE276)

Well...those UFOs "not built by humans" that Congress is spending their time talking about,

are landing November 16.

At which time the aliens will emerge,

point and laugh at us, and especially Our Preezy, then get back inside their ships and leave.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2022 07:31 AM (5NkmN)

163 You're a Mitch girl, and you've gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
You can rely on the old man's money
You can rely on the old man's money
It's a Mitch girl but it's gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
Say money but it won't get you too far
Get you too far

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 26, 2022 07:31 AM (yikp0)

164 We're a dying country. We won't stand up till it's too late, because offending the libtards isn't what we do, unfortunately.

There are signs of hope with the conservative takeover of the school boards in some areas, but overall, we're still losing.
Posted by: Sponge

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We're already dead, sadly. Even if we gain school boards, changing minds through laws and legislation is impossible. Look at EVs. It's that same thing. You can't make people who are convinced that they should burn buildings when they're unhappy and beat up people they disagree as a set-up to cheat in elections for "the greater good" that they shouldn't do it, and you can't convince people who don't think it's a bad thing that they're wrong. It's generational. We got here over 50+ years and Democrats taking over academia, the government, Hollywood, etc. We aren't changing that by enforcing 4% of existing laws.

We can maybe have some states go in the right direction, but the only way the generational changes start occuring is if people start throwing groomers in jail and criminal politicians see justice. I don't see that happening.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:32 AM (/zWKu)

165 Hilarious exposure of Lurch Fedderman sending his children to an expensive private, secular high school. No doubt his parents pay the tuition, just like they pay for his vacations and everything else.

The hypocrisy is always right in your face with these socialists.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 07:32 AM (vDDdc)

166 It's only stupid if you think his point is to win the election.

What if his point is to attract out of state donors in a doomed election that he knows he cannot win?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:29 AM (LvTSG)
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Then it is comprehensible. Florida is a big, important state, though - and it seems like a lousy venue to run that play. Even if you think you can't win the governor race (and I suspect the Dems can't), you still want to snipe at margins and take other races. This kind of thing makes that less likely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 07:32 AM (WWh8n)

167 I know the opinion of the GOP is low, but I'm unclear how the GOP is managing Charlie Crist's campaign for him.

I'd like to know how much of Crist's campaign funding is coming straight from the GOP.

Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 07:32 AM (eqliw)

168 The latest trend seems to be the adding of an automatic 20% gratuity to the total, and include it in the bill, with no option to decline the automatic tip.

I will not do business with those establishments.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:18 AM

Miami has been doing this for years.

The excuse is that they have so many tourists that aren't accustomed to tipping, the staff is losing money in a grand scale because their salary is so low, they require tips to compensate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:32 AM (Zz0t1)

169 So Hochul is expanding the antifa nazi slur. Go figure. People agree to just about anything to avoid it, and be walked on. It was a very sly, clever propaganda usage.

Posted by: CN at August 26, 2022 07:32 AM (Zzbjj)

170 Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 26, 2022 07:31 AM (yikp0)

Nice one, andy!

Posted by: grammie winger at August 26, 2022 07:33 AM (45fpk)

171 Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Okay

Posted by: JT at August 26, 2022 07:33 AM (T4tVD)

172 Sorry to interrupt the news with a prayer request. FenSpouse is being stymied by the NJ unemployment office

*

Done.

Also worth noting: Our betters.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:33 AM (/zWKu)

173 I wish them well in their efforts.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:31 AM (1n+EO)
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As do I.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 07:33 AM (vDDdc)

174 Gov bureaucrats:
Hey, if I fail to solve your problem in this call, it gives you another excuse to call back and make me look busy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:33 AM (hwoGt)

175 "Obama federalized the student loan system, and was greeted with a collective shrug on the part of everyone."

What do you expect us to do? Repeal it? That is not who we are.

Posted by: the GOP, continuing the legacy of John McCain at August 26, 2022 07:34 AM (sn5EN)

176 MP4! I want to say (belated) congrats on that awesome review you got from Sarah Hoyt the other Sunday. Well-deserved.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 26, 2022 07:23 AM (gbzeC)

Thank you, vmom! It was all the more pleasing because she's under no obligation to do that. She could have just sent me a private note. But it did please me. And it helped me last Saturday, when I sat down with my dear friend and muse to sketch out a plot for the new book. I'm hoping to have a first draft by Christmas, but I can't promise that, even to myself.

And that's my GAINZZ / PLANZZ for this week.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2022 07:34 AM (AW0uW)

177 Price of crude oil is back at and above $100 again. About $12 increase in last ten days. Putins fault.

Posted by: Ripley at August 26, 2022 07:34 AM (MxEKc)

178
Also, calling them bad is also a lousy way to move support. You can call their leader - DeSantis - bad. You should, if he's your opponent. But leave the base out of it. If I think DeSantis is right and I like him, saying I'm not a "good" citizen isn't a way to change my mind about him *or* you.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 07:13 AM (WWh8n)

I'll put them over here, in this basket.

I'll tall it "the basket of deplorables."

Why am I not up 50 points, you ask?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:34 AM (Zz0t1)

179 166 Then it is comprehensible. Florida is a big, important state, though - and it seems like a lousy venue to run that play. Even if you think you can't win the governor race (and I suspect the Dems can't), you still want to snipe at margins and take other races. This kind of thing makes that less likely.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 07:32 AM (WWh8n)

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Democrats have been running it in Texas for over a decade.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:34 AM (LvTSG)

180
I'm certain the $10,000 student loan forgiveness is just a down payment to be lathered, rinsed, and repeated whenever necessary.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 26, 2022 07:34 AM (jE276)

181 Hilarious exposure of Lurch Fedderman sending his children to an expensive private, secular high school

*

And I'm guessing we could make list of what bullsh*t they don't teach or put up with that the same people insist occurs in public schools and is pushed on your kids.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:35 AM (/zWKu)

182 That last link, about Promise Me You’ll Shoot Yourself, is horrifying. I couldn’t finish the article.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 26, 2022 07:35 AM (cfHgC)

183 Fifty years ago all these books were published from "new voices" types. Why didn't they sell? Because they contained nothing good, right, or true. The new voices types wrote hate filled garbage that improved nothing and led to nothing good. None of it should ever have been published by mainstream houses.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 26, 2022 07:24 AM (7bRMQ)
++++
Saturday Night Live (from one of the brief periods when it was funny) - "Prose and Cons:"
https://youtu.be/6iCbK3ooekU

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 07:35 AM (WWh8n)

184 TRANS FIRST

Posted by: REDACTED at August 26, 2022 07:35 AM (us2H3)

185 165 Hilarious exposure of Lurch Fedderman sending his children to an expensive private, secular high school. No doubt his parents pay the tuition, just like they pay for his vacations and everything else.

He is Lt Gov. His kids pay no tuition because either the school or a benefactor are looking for favor from a high state official.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:35 AM (hwoGt)

186 So you want to dismantle the single most historically racist major institution in our country's history?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 26, 2022 07:28 AM (cupoy)
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Root and branch

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 26, 2022 07:35 AM (EZebt)

187 MP4! I want to say (belated) congrats on that awesome review you got from Sarah Hoyt the other Sunday. Well-deserved.

You think that's something ? The man's got a "date" with Dita von Teese later today. That MP4 is something else. Women want him. Men want to be him.

Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 07:35 AM (eqliw)

188 To all the black-pillers: compare where we are today with the end of last Republican admin pre-trump.

No question the left are vastly more insane. But the right are also vastly more awake.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 26, 2022 07:36 AM (g1EEm)

189 $10,000 is a great start, but there is so much more to be done!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:36 AM (hwoGt)

190 C. I. L. L. My Landlord!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 26, 2022 07:36 AM (EZebt)

191
At this point, I do not think Israel will allow the Iranians to go nuclear. With the GCC more or less openly allied with them, the Kaloramans giving Iran the green light is a signal for Israel and the GCC to attack preemptively.

And asymmetrically as well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:36 AM (x0n13)

192 Oh, and when you leave my tip, make sure you figure it on the total of your bill including the tip fee. Thank you.

Posted by: Your Xaiter at August 26, 2022 07:36 AM (sn5EN)

193 155. And the Israeli PM can't get anyone on the phone. Naturally everyone I know thinks that's a lie and that Blinken and company won't let Iran get nukes. I don't feel bad for people so locked in Trump hate. I feel a disaster is coming

Posted by: CN at August 26, 2022 07:36 AM (Zzbjj)

194 Ya know, maybe if those students up to their eyeballs in debt started working from home, earning $18K a month, they could pay off their own damn debts...Ask Sarah or Jennifer how it's done!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 07:37 AM (YIVH2)

195
It's only stupid if you think his point is to win the election.

What if his point is to attract out of state donors in a doomed election that he knows he cannot win?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:29 AM (LvTSG)

I think he's going for the Florida Trifecta, never done before - he's going to lose as Republican, lose as an Independent, and lose as a Democrat.

The fun part is that now all the prog supporters of Nikki Fried, who have hated Crist for his entire career, are being told they have to vote for him. It's like republicans in Pennsylvania being told they have to vote for Doc Oz.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 07:37 AM (r46W7)

196 So this is just the culmination of plans that have been in the works for a decade, at least.
Posted by: Tom Servo

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By the same people, I'd imagine. Joe doesn't know what time it is. I suspect Jarret-bama set this whole thing in motion.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:37 AM (/zWKu)

197 The latest trend seems to be the adding of an automatic 20% gratuity to the total, and include it in the bill, with no option to decline the automatic tip.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

You make it automatic, I line out the tip line.
Keep your grubby dick skinners out of my pocket.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 26, 2022 07:37 AM (nyNes)

198 Oh, and when you leave my tip, make sure you figure it on the total of your bill including the tip fee. Thank you.
Posted by: Your Xaiter at August 26, 2022 07:36 AM (sn5EN)
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My tip calculator is in the shop...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 07:37 AM (YIVH2)

199 "Obama federalized the student loan system, and was greeted with a collective shrug on the part of everyone."

I distinctly remember many of the MSM financial gurus that give expert advice and analysis to the LIV's were oohing and aahing about what a great move this was and would make college affordable.

Posted by: Ripley at August 26, 2022 07:37 AM (MxEKc)

200 What if you're just a low life scumbag who signed up for college so you could get a student loan, Pell Grant, and a couple weeks of student job raking leaves...and when the money came in you QUIT AND WENT AND GOT HIGH WITH THE MONEY?

I actually know such dirt bags having worked at a community college. They don't bother dropping out. Their dorm rooms reek of weed and unwashed clothes. They're trash. A they're Bi den's trash. Just a lower form of his son Hunter.

Posted by: torabora at August 26, 2022 07:38 AM (Y274z)

201 Sorry to interrupt the news with a prayer request. FenSpouse is being stymied by the NJ unemployment office

There's never a need to apologize for a prayer request.

I pray you get the service you need, and I also pray you can soon leave the dungeoness cavern that is New Jersey to greener pastures.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:38 AM (Zz0t1)

202 Sending prayers your way, Fen.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2022 07:38 AM (NpAcC)

203 "Medically assisted suicide, a pet project of many progressives, is increasingly popular in Western nations and must be resisted."
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When anyone argues for this, just reply "OK, you first."

Posted by: Eeyore at August 26, 2022 07:38 AM (TgBWG)

204 "The excuse is that they have so many tourists that aren't accustomed to tipping, the staff is losing money in a grand scale because their salary is so low, they require tips to compensate."

I thought tourism was way down during the Covid shutdown. And now, employees are enjoying the fruits of a higher hourly wage, as well as the math fact that when one increases the price of the base product that the tip percentage is calculated on, the tip amount goes up as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:38 AM (1n+EO)

205 Nice one, andy!
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I'm having Hall & Oates for breakfast this a.m., grammie!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 26, 2022 07:38 AM (yikp0)

206 The student debt issue won't resolve until universities are held accountable for their lies and overpromising.

Posted by: CN at August 26, 2022 07:38 AM (Zzbjj)

207 189 $10,000 is a great start, but there is so much more to be done!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:36 AM (hwoGt)

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I say we make college free for everyone. No college can turn away any student for any reason.

In order to fund this, colleges must run through their endowments. When they run out of endowments, the colleges become direct government entities and their entire operation becomes subject to regulation by state legislatures.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:38 AM (LvTSG)

208 Also worth noting: Our betters.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:33 AM (/zWKu)

Well, I don't know what it's like in other state offices, but in NJ a lot of them are not stellar employees. Someone in the congregation I serve is a contract employee who puts in some kind of data. She types very fast and is a productive employee. She says lot of others come in late, don't make up the time and laugh and talk really loudly with other employees during work time which is distracting or they actually fall asleep at their desks, but nobody does anything.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2022 07:39 AM (wvo9L)

209 Ya know, maybe if those students up to their eyeballs in debt started working from home, earning $18K a month, they could pay off their own damn debts...Ask Sarah or Jennifer how it's done!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

If your degree isn't worth it for you to pay for, it DAMN SURE isn't worth it for me to pay for.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 26, 2022 07:39 AM (nyNes)

210 191. The Obama 3.0 will not allow this.

Posted by: CN at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (Zzbjj)

211 Oh, and when you leave my tip, make sure you figure it on the total of your bill including the tip fee. Thank you.
Posted by: Your Xaiter

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That's like Biden's 2021 bill making people who sell $601 of merchandise on ebay, etsy, Amazon, etc. "self employed small businesses."

You could sell one boat anchor for $100 that costs $501 to ship, but the paypal transaction shows $601. You have to pay taxes on that shipping fee.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (/zWKu)

212
Is there something happening in November that I don't know about?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 26, 2022 07:23 AM (jE276)

Indigenous Persons Day. We had to ditch Columbus Day because he brought invasive species to America. No, that's not it. He infected the natives with gluten sensitivity. Wait. He lead to the destruction of the peaceful natives who lived in harmony with nature while they stacked the skulls of their human sacrifices into great big piles.

*sigh* I'll never get my degree. At least all this shit's free now.

Posted by: Taelor Smith, Sophperson and Ally at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (cupoy)

213 I know the opinion of the GOP is low, but I'm unclear how the GOP is managing Charlie Crist's campaign for him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:31 AM (LvTSG)

Checklist: Saying stupid things, yes. Doing stupid things, yes. Expecting them to help you win, yes.

Sounds like a GOPe run campaign to me.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (7bRMQ)

214 Morning peeps. Slept in. Mucho yard work yesterday and then pool time. Me was wiped out.

Regarding the "swatting" incidents; I do believe there will be political violence this election season. Real violence from the left. Likely with deadly conquences. IIRC many polling places are also "gun free zones."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (BFigT)

215 ========

I say we make college free for everyone. No college can turn away any student for any reason.

In order to fund this, colleges must run through their endowments. When they run out of endowments, the colleges become direct government entities and their entire operation becomes subject to regulation by state legislatures.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:38 AM (LvTSG)

It's why European countries are doing so much better than the United States. Their education is 'free.'

And they pay 75% taxes, but who needs money to live?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (Zz0t1)

216 195 The fun part is that now all the prog supporters of Nikki Fried, who have hated Crist for his entire career, are being told they have to vote for him. It's like republicans in Pennsylvania being told they have to vote for Doc Oz.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 07:37 AM (r46W7)

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It's like the 1872 election where Horace Greeley had to go back on more than half of everything he had ever written to run against Ulysses S. Grant.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (LvTSG)

217 200 You just described the classic Obama voter . . . . . .left over and now damaging the US through Sundowner "magic fingers" Joey Bidet

Posted by: H8 Marxist & DNC Marxist Rat Bastards at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (8m/Xb)

218 "in NJ a lot of them are not stellar employees. "

That's pretty much a job requirement here too.

Posted by: Your Xaiter at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (sn5EN)

219 Prayers sent, Fen.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (1n+EO)

220 A news chyron here thinks it's important enough to report the "U.S. President Joe Biden compares Republican ideology to 'semi-fascism' at a rally and fundraiser for Democrats" story.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 26, 2022 07:41 AM (yikp0)

221 "The excuse is that they have so many tourists that aren't accustomed to tipping, the staff is losing money in a grand scale because their salary is so low, they require tips to compensate."

Show proof that there are that many international tourists. Because home grown tourists ARE used to tipping.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 26, 2022 07:41 AM (nyNes)

222 215 It's why European countries are doing so much better than the United States. Their education is 'free.'

And they pay 75% taxes, but who needs money to live?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (Zz0t1)

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And college students often just shut down major cities to protest things. There are always prominent Soviet flags.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:41 AM (LvTSG)

223 The problem is that the right has a contradictory and unworkable coalition, with various interest groups at odds with each other.
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That is just as true of the MAGA side as of the pseudo cons. It's a mistake to assume that without the Never Trumpers we're all on the same page. Just contrast Compact with Claremont with Chronicles. Right now, AG is trying to accommodate all. I hope they can make that work.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 26, 2022 07:42 AM (TgBWG)

224 "Therefore, I urge you brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God- this is your true and proper worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is- his good, pleasing and perfect will."

Romans 12:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 07:42 AM (VpIIl)

225 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:38 AM (Zz0t1)

Thanks for the prayers, Sponge and everyone. We would have a lot to pack up and sort out to leave and I would like to stay until son finishes school in a nearby state. While it would be wonderful to move to a more conservative state I don't want to be hours away from him. Thanks, though, for the kind "decamping" thoughts, Sponge.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2022 07:42 AM (wvo9L)

226 Well, I don't know what it's like in other state offices, but in NJ a lot of them are not stellar employees

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Yeah, that's the joke.

They can ban guns, ban gasoline cars, and revoke a president Executive Privilege, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:42 AM (/zWKu)

227 Derek Chauvin moved from a MN state prison to an AZ medium-security federal prison.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 26, 2022 07:42 AM (yikp0)

228 With the story of John Kelley (a certifiable bonehead in my opinion) and Jared (or Javanka, is it?), we come back to the core issue: Trump allowed this to happen. The signal charge of a chief executive is to surround yourself with good and reliable people who support your mission -- or at the very least, not to draw in knaves and traitors (except perhaps, in Godfather terms, to "keep your enemy closer.") For whatever reason, Trump was unable to do this.

Of course, in Trump's defense, maybe the world has simply run out of good people.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 26, 2022 07:42 AM (H8QX8)

229 Ah, I uh, already told ya... energy prices will necessarily skyrocket.

Posted by: Baraka Obamy at August 26, 2022 07:43 AM (XiBR2)

230 210 191. The Obama 3.0 will not allow this.
Posted by: CN at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (Zzbjj)

It's not in their hands. Israel understands full well who is in control in DC. They also saw what happened in the Afghan as well as Ukraine.

That said, if it involves Jews watch how fast they react! But really, Israel is not going to listen to Biden's puppeteers.

Forgetting their military, Iran's society and economy are on the verge of collapse. Asymmetric warfare can accomplish the goal a lot neater than direct military action.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:43 AM (x0n13)

231 223 That is just as true of the MAGA side as of the pseudo cons. It's a mistake to assume that without the Never Trumpers we're all on the same page. Just contrast Compact with Claremont with Chronicles. Right now, AG is trying to accommodate all. I hope they can make that work.
Posted by: Eeyore at August 26, 2022 07:42 AM (TgBWG)

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All political coalitions are like this.

The ones that last are the ones that make the most of their power for as much of the coalition as possible.

Democrats are left with direct handouts and not much else to keep the coalition together.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:43 AM (LvTSG)

232 I use my UPC scanner app when I shop at the grocery store. That way I know I'm below $700 and can't be arrested for what I just stole.

It's not stealing at that point. It's reparations that I deserve for having to live in the oppressive shithole that is the United States my entire life.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:43 AM (Zz0t1)

233 And they pay 75% taxes, but who needs money to live?

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And they don't have to worry about defense budgets because taxpayers in the U.S. have got that covered.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:43 AM (/zWKu)

234 Crist is the spitting image of the old queens that frequented my shop

well, maybe the swallowing image

Posted by: REDACTED at August 26, 2022 07:44 AM (us2H3)

235 Cloward and Piven meet Fabian Socialism.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:44 AM (hwoGt)

236 The fun part is that now all the prog supporters of Nikki Fried, who have hated Crist for his entire career, are being told they have to vote for him.

You know I like my Nikki Fried
Abortin' kids on a Friday Night
A BLM mask that fits just right
And my riot fires u---u-u-u---u-u-up !!!

Posted by: The Florida Lib Band at August 26, 2022 07:44 AM (eqliw)

237 ... the grift and graft that has made his jowls Elaine Chao's multi-million dollar sex toy for lo these many years.

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LOL. Brain Bleach Stat!

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 26, 2022 07:44 AM (QbCrG)

238 Saying again thank Zuckerberg for admitted he is a Fascist working for the government dirty work

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 26, 2022 07:44 AM (EdnZ5)

239 Heh, Germany has a toilet paper shortage. Who cares, they don't have water to flush anyway.

Maybe they are stocking up to burn toilet paper once all of the trees are cut down to burn for heat.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2022 07:44 AM (lTGtQ)

240 C. I. L. L. My Landlord!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 26, 2022 07:36 AM (EZebt)
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great moments in prison poetry

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 07:44 AM (vDDdc)

241 Derek Chauvin moved from a MN state prison to an AZ medium-security federal prison.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 26, 2022 07:42 AM (yikp0)

Why? He wasn't convicted of a federal crime, nor was he tried in federal court.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:44 AM (Zz0t1)

242 ================
great moments in prison poetry
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 07:44 AM (vDDdc)

Take your knife and carve out a soap gun. But, if you've got a knife, who needs a soap gun?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:45 AM (Zz0t1)

243 You morons realize that your UTTER DISTAIN AND CYNICISM FOR OUR DEMOCRAT COUSINS IS OOZING THROUGH THE SCREEN OF MY PHONE AND ITS MAKING MY FINGERS STINK!

Posted by: torabora at August 26, 2022 07:45 AM (Y274z)

244 Why? He wasn't convicted of a federal crime, nor was he tried in federal court.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:44 AM (Zz0t1)

So he can be shot "trying to escape?"

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 26, 2022 07:46 AM (7bRMQ)

245 "...$300 billion in student loan debt "forgiveness" to make sure the one voting bloc still joined to the Democrats at the hip, the youth, aren't distracted by fake news like a tanking economy..."

The 2024 Democrat POTUS nominee will promise to cancel another $10K or more student loan debt. The Dems need to keep current students and new students since today hooked on the hope of getting the same drug hit.

Will it work? We are going to find out. Every real vote the Dems get in future elections means one less Dem vote to create and/or one less Republican vote to destroy.

Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2022 07:46 AM (AMIL/)

246 Saying again thank Zuckerberg for admitted he is a Fascist working for the government dirty work

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It seems like that would make those millions of dollars of political contributions and in-kind on-screen computer advertisements by posters contributions and illegal.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:46 AM (/zWKu)

247 235 Cloward and Piven meet Fabian Socialism.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:44 AM (hwoGt)

Frankie Avalon socialism > Fabian Socialism.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:46 AM (x0n13)

248 "Out of the depths I cry to you, LORD; Lord hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy. If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, LORD, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you."

Psalm 130:1-4

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 07:46 AM (VpIIl)

249 To all the black-pillers: compare where we are today with the end of last Republican admin pre-trump.

No question the left are vastly more insane. But the right are also vastly more awake.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 26, 2022 07:36 AM (g1EEm)
******
The Right may be awake, but their seems to be a lot of apathy on our side unlike the Left.

Everything the Democrats are doing is overwhelming, but that is not going to discourage me from voting against them in November.
I know what's at stake.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2022 07:46 AM (NpAcC)

250 What I Said: It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something — it’s like semi-fascism.

What I Meant: Everyone who voted for Trump, who thinks we should Make America Great Again, needs to be put down.

Posted by: Joe Biden, Uniter-in-Chief at August 26, 2022 07:46 AM (3+sv3)

251 I've never seen tipping in fast food restaurants. I do tip, and that seems to be a rarity in this part of the country. A kid working the register at Braum's, noticing the cane, helped me carry a couple bags to the car, without me asking. I handed her a couple bucks, just saying get yourself a pop on your break. She looked at me and said that was a first.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 26, 2022 07:47 AM (lz5hY)

252 *

It seems like that would make those millions of dollars of political contributions and in-kind on-screen computer advertisements by posters contributions and illegal.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 07:46 AM (/zWKu)

We're no longer a nation of laws, so it's fine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:47 AM (Zz0t1)

253 200 You just described the classic Obama voter . . . . . .left over and now damaging the US through Sundowner "magic fingers" Joey Bidet
Posted by: H8 Marxist & DNC Marxist Rat Bastards at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (8m/Xb)

Hope and Change Baby! Obama gonna be getting money from his stash and pay all my bills!

Hope and Change!

Posted by: Feral Obama Voter at August 26, 2022 07:48 AM (kweYR)

254 means one less Dem vote to create and/or one less Republican vote to destroy.
Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2022 07:46 AM

Barely an inconvenience anymore.

Posted by: Democratic Persons of Congress at August 26, 2022 07:48 AM (a3Q+t)

255 What I Said: “The MAGA Republicans don’t just threaten our personal rights and economic security..They’re a threat to our very democracy."

What I Meant: Everyone who voted for Trump, who thinks we should Make America Great Again, needs to be put down.

Posted by: Joe Biden, Uniter-in-Chief at August 26, 2022 07:48 AM (3+sv3)

256 Great roundup, as per usual, J.J. However, I do have one rather important question: How, after assembling all of this stuff, do you avoid day drinking?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (3/4dv)

257 What I Meant: Everyone who voted for Trump, who thinks we should Make America Great Again, needs to be put down.
Posted by: Joe Biden

Any time you feel froggy Skippy, jump.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (nyNes)

258 Crist is remarkably well-preserved.

Could be a zombie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (EZebt)

259 206 The student debt issue won't resolve until universities are held accountable for their lies and overpromising.
Posted by: CN at August 26, 2022 07:38 AM (Zzbjj)

Is there a simple place to find out which colleges have the highest default rates, and which majors have the highest default rate? If you were going to invest $50-$250,000 wouldn't you want to know the past performance of this investment?

This information is out there, somewhere in the bureaucracy. It would cost next to nothing to gather and release.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (cupoy)

260 Hochul seems nice, a charming and pleasant type.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (4I/2K)

261 #241
Derek Chauvin didn't do anything illegal. He's just George Floyd's last victim.

Posted by: torabora at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (Y274z)

262
Hope and Change!
Posted by: Feral Obama Voter at August 26, 2022 07:48 AM (kweYR)

Grope and Spare Change!

It's a Biden administration now!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (Zz0t1)

263 "If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, LORD, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you."

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 07:46 AM (VpIIl)

And there it is, my memory verse for the day. Thanks Marcus.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (45fpk)

264 253 Hope and Change Baby! Obama gonna be getting money from his stash and pay all my bills!

Hope and Change!
Posted by: Feral Obama Voter at August 26, 2022 07:48 AM (kweYR)

"Mitt Romney?! He sucks!!!"

- - 2012 video clip of black voter wanting "to keep Obama in prez-dint."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (x0n13)

265 258 Crist is remarkably well-preserved.

Could be a zombie.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (EZebt)

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Very orange.

I'm pretty sure that the orange man is bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (LvTSG)

266 The utter gall of a career criminal who stole an election to call his opponents a threat to democracy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (lTGtQ)

267 As for Zuckerberg, I would only refer to Matthew 7:16. He deliberately, with malice and forethought, and with out prompting by any law enforcement agency, helped undermine the last election. He is also poising to do it again.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 07:50 AM (VpIIl)

268 260 Hochul seems nice, a charming and pleasant type.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (4I/2K)

Looks like Cesar Romero in drag.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:50 AM (x0n13)

269 Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 07:42 AM (VpIIl)

Thanks, Marcus, and thanks St Paul.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2022 07:50 AM (wvo9L)

270 It's like the 1872 election where Horace Greeley had to go back on more than half of everything he had ever written to run against Ulysses S. Grant.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:40 AM (LvTSG)

And he died of shame a few weeks after the election.

I think Crist is an old-time grifter who has never gotten over the fact that he lost his seat at the table, and now he will do anything, say anything, try to be anything, to get it back. Like the malignant Arlen Specter trying to jump parties at the end of his worthless career.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 07:50 AM (r46W7)

271 Gotta tell ya, with all the money that Biden's handlers are tossing around, the cost of fully funding the wall on our undefended southern border would be like chump change.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:50 AM (1n+EO)

272
"Mitt Romney?! He sucks!!!"

- - 2012 video clip of black voter wanting "to keep Obama in prez-dint."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (x0n13)

"I ain't gotta pay my mortgage no more. I ain't gotta pay for gas no more....."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:50 AM (Zz0t1)

273 Joey Defrancesco, legendary B3 organist, has died, age 51.
What a shame, he was the best.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, praying for some rain at August 26, 2022 07:51 AM (jTmQV)

274 I was raised a poor Sponge boy.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 26, 2022 07:51 AM (yikp0)

275
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Very orange.

I'm pretty sure that the orange man is bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (LvTSG)

This.

All orange are bad. Unless the orange is green, it's bad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:51 AM (Zz0t1)

276 "And there it is, my memory verse for the day. Thanks Marcus.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 26, 2022 07:49 AM (45fpk) "

Amen and God Bless

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 07:52 AM (VpIIl)

277 Here is a quick summary of some of the things they said:

- They are afraid to come out publicly due to intimidation tactics such as loss of job and/or license to practice medicine.

- Unvaccinated healthcare workers are extremely upset with the medical community. They feel they have been treated unfairly.

- It is the vaccinated workers who are getting sick with COVID, but it is the unvaccinated who are punished with constant testing, restrictions, and threats of losing their jobs.

- The COVID shots are a disaster. Even for the elderly which is supposed to be the most compelling use case, death rates in elderly homes went up by a factor of 5 after the shots rolled out. Each time the shots are given, the deaths spike. Nobody is talking publicly about this. It’s not allowed.

- Doctors are seeing rates of injury and death increase dramatically in all ages of people. The injuries are only happening to the vaccinated. There is no doubt that this is happening but many doctors have so much cognitive dissonance that they don’t see it.

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2022 07:52 AM (RHGPo)

278 - One nurse with 23 years of experience says she’s never heard of anyone under 20 dying from cardiac issues until the vaccines rolled out. Now she knows of around 30 deaths.

- “I have been a nurse for 36 years. I have NEVER witnessed people in their 20s and 30s having strokes, atrial fibrillation, or cardiomyopathies until the Covid vaccines. I work in cardiology. When I mention that someone should look at the vaccines as a possible reason, I am immediately silenced and told, “It is NOT from the vaccine.””

- Doctors aren’t recording vaccination status in the medical records so that all the deaths are attributed to the unvaccinated.

- Doctors are deliberately ignoring the possibility that the vaccines could be the cause of all the elevated events. The events are simply all unexplained.

- Many doctors have either quit or will quit.

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2022 07:52 AM (RHGPo)

279 - Some doctors and nurses at top institutions such as Mass General Hospital have falsified vaccine cards. They publicly toe the line and encourage their patients to take the shot knowing full well it is deadly. They value their job more than the lives of their patients. The important thing is they are risking 10 years in jail for doing this. These highly respected medical workers are telling the world that these COVID shots are so dangerous that they are willing to risk 10 years in prison to avoid taking the shot. That’s the message America needs to hear. And if Biden were an honest President, he would call for full amnesty and protection from retaliation for all these cases if people admitted publicly they did this. He’d be amazed at the number of responses he’d get. But he won’t do that because it would be too embarrassing for his administration.

- Things don’t seem to be getting any better.

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2022 07:52 AM (RHGPo)

280 - The medical examiners all over the world are not doing the proper tests during an autopsy to detect a vaccine-related death. Without doing the necessary tests, it is very hard to make an association. There isn’t a single “guidance” document from any medical authority anywhere in the world to do these tests on people who die within 3 months of their last COVID vaccination. This is why no associations are found: they aren’t looking and it is deliberate. The mainstream press doesn’t call them out on this either.

- Doctors are being forced to take other vaccines so the hospital can meet their quota. This was admitted to them.

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2022 07:52 AM (RHGPo)

281 Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2022 07:52 AM (NpAcC)

282 Joey Defrancesco, legendary B3 organist, has died, age 51.
What a shame, he was the best.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, praying for some rain at August 26, 2022 07:51 AM (jTmQV)

Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.

Nothing to see here......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:52 AM (Zz0t1)

283 Of course, in Trump's defense, maybe the world has simply run out of good people.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 26, 2022 07:42 AM (H8QX

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Per the Talmud: "There are no less than 36 righteous people in the world who greet the Shekhinah [dwelling or settling of the divine presence of God] in each generation." -- Things I learned from Dennis Prager

Of course the great irony is that good people tend not to seek power, so those who pursue power over others tend to be bad. There certainly are rare exceptions, like #BadOrangeMan.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (QbCrG)

284 Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming
Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2022 07:52 AM (NpAcC)

Now do the WEF and the vaccine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (Zz0t1)

285 another 2 or 3 years like the last 3 and the Feds will declare a monetary emergency and install a full blown CBDC system

for most people but not for all

the feds increase the National debt by more than 50% in the last 3 years

Posted by: REDACTED at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (us2H3)

286 Zuckerberg knows his empire is on shaky ground, financially, which means he wants to remain in the good graces of those who have access to the public checkbook.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (3/4dv)

287 "Thanks, Marcus, and thanks St Paul.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2022 07:50 AM (wvo9L) "

Ha! Yes, can't forget Saint Paul.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (VpIIl)

288 The more I get into the third season of The Orville, the more tedious it gets.

This tranny episode is...booooooring...

It's interesting that it essentially undermines the whole tranny issue, but that's about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (LvTSG)

289 Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming
Posted by: redridinghood

Yeah, that's the point!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (hwoGt)

290 Yesterday was Thursday. Today it is Friday.

Posted by: Rebecca Black at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (XiBR2)

291 ""I ain't gotta pay my mortgage no more. I ain't gotta pay for gas no more....."

And it all started with the 'Bama-phone'

Remember that?

Woman yelling about getting her free Bama-phone on youtube, lo those many years ago?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (1n+EO)

292 Forgetting their military, Iran's society and economy are on the verge of collapse. Asymmetric warfare can accomplish the goal a lot neater than direct military action.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:43 AM (x0n13)
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Indeed. Just look at what China has been doing to America.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 07:54 AM (YIVH2)

293 When your opponents are fascists, what is off limits in beating them? Bribing voters, cheating at the ballot box, cancelling them professionally, keeping them in jail for offenses you don't even prosecute for your people? Not even a close call, of course this is the moral choice. The MAGATs aren't people, they're fascists.

Posted by: Joe Biden, Uniter-in-Chief at August 26, 2022 07:54 AM (3+sv3)

294 Why? He wasn't convicted of a federal crime, nor was he tried in federal court.
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Traded for two rookies and a lefthanded pitcher?

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 26, 2022 07:54 AM (yikp0)

295 Despite the Fibbies verifying the Ashley Biden diary is genuine, the news people seem completely uninterested in Joe forcing his young daughter to take naked showers with him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 07:54 AM (vDDdc)

296 I remember the good old days, mid nineties when Limbaugh used to crow about how CNN and Liberalism were going the way of the dinosaur and on their last leg.
Even he stopped doing that shit by the mid aughts.

Wish I had a hundred dollars for every time our side has proclaimed the left is on the ropes and about to breathe their last gasp.

Posted by: JROD at August 26, 2022 07:55 AM (0jZnq)

297 Forgetting their military, Iran's society and economy are on the verge of collapse. Asymmetric warfare can accomplish the goal a lot neater than direct military action.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:43 AM (x0n13)

Serious question, which societies and economies aren't on the verge of collapse right now ?

Posted by: The Florida Lib Band at August 26, 2022 07:55 AM (eqliw)

298 Woman yelling about getting her free Bama-phone on youtube, lo those many years ago?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (1n+EO)
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Interviewer: "Where's Obama getting this money?"

Woman: "I don't know...from his stash? We love Obama!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 07:55 AM (YIVH2)

299 The more I get into the third season of The Orville, the more tedious it gets.

This tranny episode is...booooooring...

It's interesting that it essentially undermines the whole tranny issue, but that's about it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (LvTSG)

It's Seth MacFarlane. He hates you. He only attempts to entertain you for money to use to destroy you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:55 AM (Zz0t1)

300 Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.

Nothing to see here......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:52 AM (Zz0t1)

Seems to be a bit of that going 'round nowadays. Hmm. How odd.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2022 07:55 AM (4I/2K)

301 “The MAGA Republicans don’t just threaten our personal rights and economic security..They’re a threat to our very democracy."

Good. Your democratocracy is a threat to humanity. Your economic security comes from taking our money.

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2022 07:56 AM (amJF4)

302 Forgetting their military, Iran's society and economy are on the verge of collapse. Asymmetric warfare can accomplish the goal a lot neater than direct military action.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:43 AM (x0n13)
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Oh, don't worry, the Iran deal has that problem covered.

Posted by: Cash on pallets. Lots of pallets. at August 26, 2022 07:56 AM (vDDdc)

303 Such childish comments from Hochul. You have a different political philosophy than me? Get out of my state!

A few moments later: Our tax base can't cover our spending. Raise taxes!

Posted by: Mainah at August 26, 2022 07:56 AM (B+qrE)

304 From deplorables to irredeemables to semi-fascists. Next stop, boxcars.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 26, 2022 07:56 AM (3+sv3)

305 *vigorous hand waving*

They probably got heart issues from the virus!

But they were vaccinated so...

The vaccine was never intended to stop infection!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 26, 2022 07:56 AM (hwoGt)

306 290 Yesterday was Thursday. Today it is Friday.
Posted by: Rebecca Black at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (XiBR2)

Posted by: John Madden at August 26, 2022 07:56 AM (us2H3)

307 303 Such childish comments from Hochul. You have a different political philosophy than me? Get out of my state!

A few moments later: Our tax base can't cover our spending. Raise taxes!
Posted by: Mainah at August 26, 2022 07:56 AM (B+qrE)

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Just continuing the tradition set out by her predecessor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:56 AM (LvTSG)

308
And it all started with the 'Bama-phone'

Remember that?

Woman yelling about getting her free Bama-phone on youtube, lo those many years ago?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (1n+EO)

https://youtu.be/tpAOwJvTOio

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:56 AM (Zz0t1)

309 I still fail to understand how some woman's diary is a Federal case.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 26, 2022 07:57 AM (UuD2k)

310 I say we make college free for everyone. No college can turn away any student for any reason.

In order to fund this, colleges must run through their endowments. When they run out of endowments, the colleges become direct government entities and their entire operation becomes subject to regulation by state legislatures.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:38 AM (LvTSG)

someone mentioned Europe, but that's also the Mexican system, exactly. And a degree from a Mexican school is just a license to be a low level bureaucrat for the rest of your life, nothing more. Anyone with ambition, drive, or actual intelligence goes to work for the Cartels. (with the government being the Cartel of stupid and incompetent people)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 07:57 AM (r46W7)

311 @elonmusk

Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming
Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2022 07:52 AM

Wait, what? Musk has always been a card-carrying climateschatologist. I mean, I always thought it was convenient BS, but this is surprising from him.

Maybe he's just trolling because he has a couple of hundred kids.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 26, 2022 07:57 AM (g1EEm)

312 I still fail to understand how some woman's diary is a Federal case.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 26, 2022 07:57 AM (UuD2k)

Who, whom?

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 26, 2022 07:57 AM (3+sv3)

313 Remember that one of the biggest groups employed by social media and intelligence agencies are people with degrees in psychology.

You are always being played and divided.

Remember that God, has told us not to let ourselves be divided against each other. You can figure out the rest.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 07:57 AM (VpIIl)

314
Joey Defrancesco, legendary B3 organist, has died, age 51.
What a shame, he was the best.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, praying for some rain at August 26, 2022 07:51 AM

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 26, 2022 07:58 AM (ENBF0)

315 Despite the Fibbies verifying the Ashley Biden diary is genuine, the news people seem completely uninterested in Joe forcing his young daughter to take naked showers with him.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 07:54 AM (vDDdc)

Meh. She's a dead lay.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at August 26, 2022 07:58 AM (Zz0t1)

316 312 I still fail to understand how some woman's diary is a Federal case.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 26, 2022 07:57 AM (UuD2k)

Who, whom?
Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 26, 2022 07:57 AM (3+sv3)

Doesn't matter. You don't gain some special status in the US because you are related to a politician.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 26, 2022 07:58 AM (UuD2k)

317 Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2022 07:52 AM (NpAcC)

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Forget electric cars & getting to Mars Elon -- and focus your considerable fortunes & genius on one word: ~~plastics~~ aphrodisiacs.

And maybe saving the unborn willingly murdered in the womb ...

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 26, 2022 07:58 AM (QbCrG)

318 Looking at the picture topside. Out. You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet. In. You have to break a lot of windows to make a Reich.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 26, 2022 07:58 AM (lz5hY)

319 The Right may be awake, but their seems to be a lot of apathy on our side unlike the Left.

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Apathy or shell shock? We all knew this stolen presidency would be very bad (and the Left's insanity and extremism growing exponentially). But even I didn't imagine this bad, this fast.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2022 07:58 AM (sVtYq)

320 Wish I had a hundred dollars for every time our side has proclaimed the left is on the ropes and about to breathe their last gasp.
Posted by: JROD at August 26, 2022 07:55 AM (0jZnq)

We don't have Mick in our corner, training us, reminding us that women weaken legs.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2022 07:59 AM (4I/2K)

321 Seems to be a bit of that going 'round nowadays. Hmm. How odd.

And it's all available in the CDC's reports, if you follow The Ethical Skeptic.

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2022 07:59 AM (amJF4)

322 Doesn't matter. You don't gain some special status in the US because you are related to a politician.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 26, 2022 07:58 AM (UuD2k)

Thanks, I needed a good laugh this morning.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 26, 2022 07:59 AM (3+sv3)

323 "https://youtu.be/tpAOwJvTOio"

Yup....that's the one.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 07:59 AM (1n+EO)

324 I still fail to understand how some woman's diary is a Federal case.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 26, 2022 07:57 AM (UuD2k)
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really?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 07:59 AM (vDDdc)

325 Musk has stated that he’s agin the whole depopulation thing. Thus, the many kids.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 26, 2022 07:59 AM (cfHgC)

326 299 The more I get into the third season of The Orville, the more tedious it gets.

This tranny episode is...booooooring...

It's interesting that it essentially undermines the whole tranny issue, but that's about it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (LvTSG)

I could never get into that show for the same reason. I tried, and to me it always comes off as some young fans cosplaying at a Trek convention. Amusing for 5 minutes, and then yaaawwwnnnn.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 07:59 AM (r46W7)

327 Barr is an asshole

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 26, 2022 08:00 AM (FHzKS)

328 Despite the Fibbies verifying the Ashley Biden diary is genuine, the news people seem completely uninterested in Joe forcing his young daughter to take naked showers with him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 07:54 AM (vDDdc)

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"Come on, man -- doesn't every father do that? Now if it had been Trump on the other hand ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 26, 2022 08:00 AM (QbCrG)

329 I still fail to understand how some woman's diary is a Federal case.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 26, 2022 07:57 AM

It's what is in the diary that is the problem for the democrats. The fib thinks that project veritas still has copies of the diary and might publish some of the juicer bits about biden, that's what is keeping this alive.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2022 08:00 AM (bVYXr)

330 Maria Bartiromo just made a good point: Now that the junta illegally paid off gender studies loans once, future gender studies majors will expect Uncle Sugar to pay for their degrees too. A forever giveaway was just unilaterally created by the daughter rapist Resident.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 06:42 AM (0YrBk)

the goal is universal college for everyone. so a college degree is the new high school diploma. you already have to have one for most jobs that used to only require a GED.

Posted by: SturmToddler (KdUK5) at August 26, 2022 08:00 AM (WhsXQ)

331 Thx for the prayers, folks. He did speak to a real person this time, but he has to call back next week. What a surprise!/s It's like the UE version of some Kafka novel where you don't get any answers and have to keep waiting. Unfortunately I think there are lots of other people in the same situation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2022 08:00 AM (wvo9L)

332 Doesn't matter. You don't gain some special status in the US because you are related to a politician.

--

Paul. Pelosi.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2022 08:00 AM (sVtYq)

333 I still fail to understand how some woman's diary is a Federal case.

Because the diary was real and they need it back.

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2022 08:01 AM (amJF4)

334 Doesn't matter. You don't gain some special status in the US because you are related to a politician.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Dude...

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 26, 2022 08:01 AM (g1EEm)

335 "Doesn't matter. You don't gain some special status in the US because you are related to a politician."

Paul Pelosi is laughing his ass off right about now.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 08:01 AM (1n+EO)

336 You're a Mitch girl, and you've gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
You can rely on the old man's money
You can rely on the old man's money
It's a Mitch girl but it's gone too far
'Cause you know it don't matter anyway
Say money but it won't get you too far
Get you too far
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 26, 2022 07:31 AM (yikp0)
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^^^Worth a repeat.^^^ Great job!

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 26, 2022 08:01 AM (MIKMs)

337 It's what is in the diary that is the problem for the democrats. The fib thinks that project veritas still has copies of the diary and might publish some of the juicer bits about biden, that's what is keeping this alive.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2022 08:00 AM (bVYXr)
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Goal is to close PV and send O'Keefe into the Garland Archipelago

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 08:02 AM (vDDdc)

338 "Doesn't matter. You don't gain some special status in the US because you are related to a politician."

Wait, what?!?

Posted by: Billy Carter at August 26, 2022 08:02 AM (Zz0t1)

339 Regarding COVID, it is easy to empathize with many people who were played, convinced, forced, coerced or otherwise compelled into either certain behaviors or taking the shot, provided they now retrospectively, and in view of material, substantive facts now regret it or, in the light of truth have changed their opinion.

What is inexplicable is the clinging to ideas, behaviors and opinions that are clearly, and easily dismissed as false. That is the action of a dishonest ideologue, cult member, or a person with a psychosis they simply cannot overcome.

There are material truths and there are lies. Much of what was said and done under the guise of COVID is the latter.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 08:03 AM (VpIIl)

340 > I still fail to understand how some woman's diary is a Federal case.
______________

I fail to see how investigating Hunter and his crimes along with rezident retards sexual perversions and corruption isn't a Federal case.

Yet, here we are.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2022 08:03 AM (BFigT)

341 Apathy or shell shock? We all knew this stolen presidency would be very bad (and the Left's insanity and extremism growing exponentially). But even I didn't imagine this bad, this fast.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2022 07:58 AM (sVtYq)

Well I did, and I expect much worse to come before it's over. Which is why I maintain that elections indeed DO matter. They won't change things in the near time, but we need to hold enough positions in the current power structure to stop the Gestapo from going door to door to pick us all up - or Stalin's KGB, pick your historical model, same difference. As soon as you have no voice at all in the power structure, that's what happens.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 08:04 AM (r46W7)

342 "Thanks, Marcus, and thanks St Paul.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 26, 2022 07:50 AM (wvo9L) "

Ha! Yes, can't forget Saint Paul.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (VpIIl)

Can't forget the Motor City!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2022 08:04 AM (AW0uW)

343 This.

All orange are bad. Unless the orange is green, it's bad.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 07:51 AM (Zz0t1)

(narrows eyes)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 26, 2022 08:04 AM (7bRMQ)

344 Gov. Kathy Hochul, who hasn’t proven shy about issuing orders, had one for the state’s Republicans this week — all 5.4 million of them: “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?” she said. “You are not New Yorkers.”

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What is the sound of 5.4 million New York Republicans saying in unison: "Your terms are acceptable?"

Oh please, oh please, oh please make it so ...

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 26, 2022 08:04 AM (QbCrG)

345 I never thought I'd actually live the inmates running the asylum. It's really rather worse than I ever imagined.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 26, 2022 08:04 AM (3/4dv)

346 This single DU post wraps up the TRUTH behind Republican opposition to student loan forgiveness:
Republicans don't like student loan forgiveness because they can see where we are headed: towards control of the House and Senate for the last two years of Biden's current term as President.

What does that mean?

Fixing Social Security funding, which means higher taxes for those with higher income.
Balancing the budget, which means higher taxes for those with higher income.
Addressing climate change, which likely means reducing the income of the fossil fuel industry.

Republicans woke the dragon when their politically stacked Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade. Once Democrats control both the House and the Senate they will be able to fix several huge problems that have been festering for a long time because Republicans are greedy and only care about using government to line their own pockets.

Throwing tantrums about the inequity of student loan forgiveness is one of their last chances to distract voters from what Democrats are about to be able to do after the Election in November: fix problems created by or made worse by Republican greed.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at August 26, 2022 08:04 AM (JCZqz)

347
Can't forget the Motor City!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2022 08:04 AM (AW0uW)

You asked for it.......

https://youtu.be/RyIQHEJTULQ

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:04 AM (Zz0t1)

348 At least Jimmy Carter’s relatives were eccentric and amusing, not criminal perverts like the Bidens.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 26, 2022 08:05 AM (cfHgC)

349 "Doesn't matter. You don't gain some special status in the US because you are related to a politician."

Exactly. You gotta earn it. 10%

Posted by: Hunter at August 26, 2022 08:05 AM (amJF4)

350 My son is halfway through a eight year commitment to the Army Reserves to pay back his college debt,
dangerous work, too. He's pissed about the loan forgiveness.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 26, 2022 08:05 AM (IakeZ)

351 Apathy or shell shock? We all knew this stolen presidency would be very bad (and the Left's insanity and extremism growing exponentially). But even I didn't imagine this bad, this fast.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2022 07:58 AM (sVtYq)

Apathy here. But remember, I live in Maskachusetts.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2022 08:05 AM (AW0uW)

352 So I guess the argument is that the diary actually was Ashley's.

But the events described in it were not true?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 08:05 AM (1n+EO)

353 Yesterday was Thursday. Today it is Friday.
Posted by: Rebecca Black at August 26, 2022 07:53 AM (XiBR2)

Posted by: John Madden at August 26, 2022 07:56 AM (us2H3)

***

You know what TOMORROW IS!!??!?!

Posted by: Bay City Rollers at August 26, 2022 08:06 AM (flINI)

354 "Doesn't matter. You don't gain some special status in the US because you are related to a politician."

*record scratch* Say wut??

Posted by: JFK, Jr. and all the Kennedy Clan kids at August 26, 2022 08:06 AM (4I/2K)

355 There are material truths and there are lies. Much of what was said and done under the guise of COVID is the latter.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 08:03 AM (VpIIl)

When they had Testing but no Treatment I knew it was a scam!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 08:06 AM (BRHaw)

356 At least Jimmy Carter’s relatives were eccentric and amusing, not criminal perverts like the Bidens.

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Billy Beer > Hunter Meth

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

357 Back during Obama's regime, there were radio ads for folks to sign up for food stamps.

I called the number and the nice smooth brained lady on the other end took my info and then told me I made too much money to qualify and asked why I called. I told her Obama told me over the radio to call her and get my food stamps so I called. She laughed.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 26, 2022 08:07 AM (kweYR)

358 My son is halfway through a eight year commitment to the Army Reserves to pay back his college debt,
dangerous work, too. He's pissed about the loan forgiveness.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 26, 2022 08:05 AM (IakeZ)

I paid off my student loans in the 90's, early ought's.

I'm pissed about this shit too. Everyone that pays for their education SHOULD be pissed. The freeloading generation will be the destruction of society.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)

359 I still fail to understand how some woman's diary is a Federal case.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 26, 2022 07:57 AM (UuD2k)

I never figured out how a cash gift in violation of NCAA rules, willingly given from a shoe company and freely accepted by the family of a ball player, could land anyone in the Federal Pen.

Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 08:07 AM (eqliw)

360 Once Democrats control both the House and the Senate they will be able to...

Does the DUnce realize that Democrats have both the House and Senate, and the White House right now? I mean, it was in all the newspapers.

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2022 08:08 AM (amJF4)

361 Billy Beer > Hunter Meth

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

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Ain't that a hell of a note?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 26, 2022 08:08 AM (3/4dv)

362 o I guess the argument is that the diary actually was Ashley's.
But the events described in it were not true?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 08:05 AM (1n+EO)
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If anyone thought it necessary to excuse Biden's behavior, they might say that.

But no one thinks it even necessary to try a fig leaf defense. It's more like "Yes, it happened. So what?"

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

363 What is a semi-fascist anyway? Kinda like bi-curious?

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 26, 2022 08:08 AM (3+sv3)

364 360 Once Democrats control both the House and the Senate they will be able to...

Does the DUnce realize that Democrats have both the House and Senate, and the White House right now? I mean, it was in all the newspapers.
Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2022 08:08 AM (amJF4)

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All they've managed is graft so far. Next time it'll be more than graft, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:08 AM (LvTSG)

365 340 > I still fail to understand how some woman's diary is a Federal case.
______________

I fail to see how investigating Hunter and his crimes along with rezident retards sexual perversions and corruption isn't a Federal case.

Yet, here we are.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2022 08:03 AM (BFigT)

hmmmm.... your papers, pleazzzz.....

Posted by: Joe Biden's Gestapo at August 26, 2022 08:08 AM (r46W7)

366 ==

Billy Beer > Hunter Meth
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 26, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

Billy whipped out his junk and pissed on an airport tarmac in front of reporters.

But there's no special treatment to relatives of politicians. Nope. Nothing to see here.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

367 Heres Ashleys Diary:

https://tinyurl.com/3jrcardz

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 08:09 AM (BRHaw)

368 @320 Count de Monet-What's your point?

Posted by: JROD at August 26, 2022 08:09 AM (0jZnq)

369 I paid off my student loans in the 90's, early ought's.

I'm pissed about this shit too. Everyone that pays for their education SHOULD be pissed. The freeloading generation will be the destruction of society.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:07 AM

You fvcked up, you trusted us.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2022 08:09 AM (bVYXr)

370 Is there a simple place to find out which colleges have the highest default rates, and which majors have the highest default rate? If you were going to invest $50-$250,000 wouldn't you want to know the past performance of this investment?

**

I'm not joking when I say that would be racist.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 08:10 AM (/zWKu)

371 My son is halfway through a eight year commitment to the Army Reserves to pay back his college debt,
dangerous work, too. He's pissed about the loan forgiveness. Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 26, 2022 08:05 AM (IakeZ)
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Big topic with the 20-somethings of my acquaintance. I mentioned that point to kidlet to add to their discussions.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 26, 2022 08:10 AM (MIKMs)

372 I don't understand this whole, "student loan forgiveness comes from a position of strength," idea.

Do they acknowledge that there is political risk in it? Like...it'll piss off the non-college educated? I know they don't care about that large subset of America, but do they recognize that it could be galvanizing for a part of America that's opposed to Biden's administration?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:10 AM (LvTSG)

373 My son is halfway through a eight year commitment to the Army Reserves to pay back his college debt,
dangerous work, too. He's pissed about the loan forgiveness.

What a great program. Can you imagine how that would cut down on the gender studies madness?

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2022 08:10 AM (6THwK)

374 Throwing tantrums about the inequity of student loan forgiveness is one of their last chances to distract voters from what Democrats are about to be able to do after the Election in November: fix problems created by or made worse by Republican greed.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at August 26, 2022 08:04 AM (JCZqz)
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I imagine that this guy passes a lot of time in salons and coffee shops, talking about the proletariat as he smokes expensive cigarettes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 08:10 AM (WWh8n)

375 Don’t be stupid, be a smarty,
Join the semi-fascist party.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 26, 2022 08:10 AM (cfHgC)

376 Gov. Kathy Hochul, who hasn’t proven shy about issuing orders, had one for the state’s Republicans this week — all 5.4 million of them: “Just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?” she said. “You are not New Yorkers.”

If I could talk to Ron DeSantis for five minutes, it would be to convince him to make this commercial. Yes, formally invite New York Republicans to move to the Sunshine State. And stick a rhetorical thumb in Hochul's eye while you do it.

Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 08:11 AM (eqliw)

377 Maria Bartiromo just made a good point: Now that the junta illegally paid off gender studies loans once, future gender studies majors will expect Uncle Sugar to pay for their degrees too. A forever giveaway was just unilaterally created by the daughter rapist Resident.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 06:42 AM (0YrBk)

Something like that is unheard of, historically! Even if it did occur, I can't imagine the ramifications would be too bad if we didn't pay the next group more, if at all.

Posted by: Praetorian Guard, waiting to see how big the new emperor's bonus will be at August 26, 2022 08:11 AM (JCZqz)

378 "The ban, which becomes one of the first of its kind in the world, was proposed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in April to achieve Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s goal of reducing emissions by eliminating the sale of new gas cars by 2035." (like Crazy Eddie, "In-SAAAAANE!" - jjs)

Also, recall that in 2024 California's ban of small gasoline engines, the ones used in lawn mowers, air compressors, etc., takes effect. That law or regulation has a delay mechanism in it, however, it says 2024 or based on an evaluation by a board or a state official. I think the odds for a delay are pretty low.

Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2022 08:11 AM (AMIL/)

379 374 I imagine that this guy passes a lot of time in salons and coffee shops, talking about the proletariat as he smokes expensive cigarettes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 08:10 AM (WWh8n)

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How does he find time to work and make his living and afford those cigarettes?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:11 AM (LvTSG)

380 55 How to frustrate a leftist: enjoy your life."

Jews in 1936 Berlin learned the flaw in that argument. The hard way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 08:12 AM (r46W7)

381 Republicans woke the dragon when their politically stacked Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade.

**

This is so mind-blowing to me.

The SCOTUS made people MORE free to kill babies, and to kill them in more inventive ways when they're older. Why does this confound the left like it does?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 08:12 AM (/zWKu)

382 Do they acknowledge that there is political risk in it? Like...it'll piss off the non-college educated? I know they don't care about that large subset of America, but do they recognize that it could be galvanizing for a part of America that's opposed to Biden's administration?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:10 AM (LvTSG)
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I don't think they do. It will also piss of a lot of college attendees or graduates who paid off their loans or worked them off, but I think they probably view those people as a small number of unwinnable deplorables anyway. Better to just needle and humiliate them while sailing over calm seas toward victory.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 08:12 AM (WWh8n)

383 Tshirt: My mortgage identified as a student loan.

Posted by: 496 at August 26, 2022 08:12 AM (VJsqe)

384 How soon till Student Loan Forgiveness becomes an entitlement program?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 26, 2022 08:12 AM (1n+EO)

385
I paid off my student loans in the 90's, early ought's.

I'm pissed about this shit too. Everyone that pays for their education SHOULD be pissed. The freeloading generation will be the destruction of society.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)

Total student loan debt is $1.6T. Unfunded SS liability is $20.4T.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (b2nrj)

386 I'm starting to think at this point it would be better for the Democrats keep control of both Houses.

The worse, the better. Apportez la révolution

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (3+sv3)

387 Maria Bartiromo just made a good point: Now that the junta illegally paid off gender studies loans once, future gender studies majors will expect Uncle Sugar to pay for their degrees too. A forever giveaway was just unilaterally created by the daughter rapist Resident.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 06:42 AM (0YrBk)
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Maria, baby, you just described "moral hazard."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (WWh8n)

388 Do they acknowledge that there is political risk in it? Like...it'll piss off the non-college educated? I know they don't care about that large subset of America, but do they recognize that it could be galvanizing for a part of America that's opposed to Biden's administration?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:10 AM (LvTSG)

They're betting No, based on past experience.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (r46W7)

389
Total student loan debt is $1.6T. Unfunded SS liability is $20.4T.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (b2nrj)

Your point?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

390 What is the sound of 5.4 million New York Republicans saying in unison: "Your terms are acceptable?"

Oh please, oh please, oh please make it so ...
Posted by: ShainS

Hochul couldn't provide better evidence that she cares about one thing and one thing only: power.

NYC is already going broke because the wealthy taxpayers (and businesses) are decamping to Florida. So Hochul tells those leaving "don't let the door hit you on the way out".

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (g1EEm)

391 the goal is universal college for everyone. so a college degree is the new high school diploma. you already have to have one for most jobs that used to only require a GED.
Posted by: SturmToddler

Makes me wish I was 18 again. I'd definitely learned a trade.

"Sure Mr. College Degree, I can unstop your toilet. That'll be $2,395.00"

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (nyNes)

392 Gavin McInnes podcast interrupted by police… Bizarre video…

Goose Stepping Nazi shit right there:

https://tinyurl.com/44ft8fz4

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (BRHaw)

393 Balancing the budget,
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ROTFLMAO!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 26, 2022 08:14 AM (yikp0)

394 I am thankful to have been mostly surrounded by intelligent people, some of them doctors, who cautioned against the COVID shot. They cut out the white noise, panic, hyperbole and politics to come to the decision. That was based on the fact that, not only did we not know enough about the shots efficacy or side effects, but that the risk for certain patients was not worth that chance. They became even more suspicious when natural immunity was being completely ignored- something that was never done before. Any doctor who went into panic mode, and is still clinging to their demonstrably wrong views on COVID, is not someone you want making life or death judgment calls for you and your family.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 08:14 AM (VpIIl)

395 381 This is so mind-blowing to me.

The SCOTUS made people MORE free to kill babies, and to kill them in more inventive ways when they're older. Why does this confound the left like it does?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 08:12 AM (/zWKu)

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Because the narrative has always been that overturning Roe v Wade would lead to hanger abortions in back alleys. It was never true, but it's been the narrative for longer than most of these people have been alive.

Does it matter that it's not true? Does it matter that Donald Trump didn't collude with Russia?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:14 AM (LvTSG)

396 382 I don't think they do. It will also piss of a lot of college attendees or graduates who paid off their loans or worked them off, but I think they probably view those people as a small number of unwinnable deplorables anyway. Better to just needle and humiliate them while sailing over calm seas toward victory.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 26, 2022 08:12 AM (WWh8n)

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As Insty is wont to say, being superior to the deplorables is one of the big reasons to be a leftist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:14 AM (LvTSG)

397 "The ban, which becomes one of the first of its kind in the world, was proposed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in April to achieve Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s goal of reducing emissions by eliminating the sale of new gas cars by 2035."
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meanwhile, California refuses to permit new power plant construction.

Gee, I wonder how this works out for Californians, even (or especially!) if the ban achieves its intended effect

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 08:14 AM (vDDdc)

398 386 I'm starting to think at this point it would be better for the Democrats keep control of both Houses.

The worse, the better. Apportez la révolution
Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (3+sv3)

As I said before, if they do, you can expect a knock on your door from the Gestapo soon after. Everyone who has ever posted anything anti-admin is electronically traceable, and they'll do it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (r46W7)

399 388 They're betting No, based on past experience.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (r46W7)

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Past experience being 2016?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (LvTSG)

400 It's nice to make people happy.

Reuters@Reuters
U.S. student loan forgiveness has borrowers hoping for vacations, medical school

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (FVME7)

401 How does he find time to work and make his living and afford those cigarettes?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:11 AM (LvTSG)

Obama Smokes! Reach For An Obama, It's Toasted! And Phree!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (kweYR)

402 "The ban, which becomes one of the first of its kind in the world, was proposed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in April to achieve Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s goal of reducing emissions by eliminating the sale of new gas cars by 2035."

**

Gosh, you mean the same CARB that mandated particular gas cans, and that's why people in Tennessee have to buy those gas cans in Tennessee even though it's a California rule?

Gosh, and here we just had the EPA given power to regulate CO2 in the Inflation bill. And the auto manufacturers, politicians (and China) are saying they'll be selling only EVs by 2035?

What are the odds?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (/zWKu)

403 Biden is very dangerous

Posted by: MAC V SOG at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (P4Pk9)

404 @320 Count de Monet-What's your point?
Posted by: JROD at August 26, 2022 08:09 AM (0jZnq)

Mick trained Rocky to go for the body, to never let up, keep pounding away until the other guy drops his defenses and only then to let go with the southpaw knockout punch.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (4I/2K)

405 "Once Democrats control both the House and the Senate they will be able to..."

Fix public schools so people can at least do simple math and keep up on current events?

Posted by: Ripley at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (MxEKc)

406 Also, recall that in 2024 California's ban of small gasoline engines, the ones used in lawn mowers, air compressors, etc., takes effect.

Stihl chainsaws, too? I wouldn't mind a few more.

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (amJF4)

407 I paid off my student loans in the 90's, early ought's.

I'm pissed about this shit too. Everyone that pays for their education SHOULD be pissed. The freeloading generation will be the destruction of society.
Posted by: Sponge

How about those of us that didn't even go?

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (nyNes)

408 389
Total student loan debt is $1.6T. Unfunded SS liability is $20.4T.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (b2nrj)

Your point?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

Bit of a stretch to call this generation in particular freeloading. Yeah they're stealing from the treasury but that's basically what Americans do as a whole. Moreover there seems to be a sense of entitlement from one generation to another (work to support my theft instead of doing your own theft!)

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 26, 2022 08:16 AM (b2nrj)

409 373 My son is halfway through a eight year commitment to the Army Reserves to pay back his college debt,
dangerous work, too. He's pissed about the loan forgiveness.

What a great program. Can you imagine how that would cut down on the gender studies madness?
Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2022 08:10 AM

Don't you worry, sweety! The Army has got your back, with mandatory transgender policy training for all personnel wrapping up soon! We're loosening uniform policy, too, for today's youth, with men now allowed to wear clear nail polish...we'll get equity with women soon. We also managed to get gender based scoring BACK for the physical fitness test! Some moron believed that "colorblind/treat all people equal" crap, and rolled out a single test standard regardless of age or gender! We stopped THAT crap!

Posted by: Army DEI office at August 26, 2022 08:16 AM (JCZqz)

410 400 It's nice to make people happy.

Reuters@Reuters
U.S. student loan forgiveness has borrowers hoping for vacations, medical school
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (FVME7)

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This doesn't sound like the oppressed getting out of debt and being able to build new lives free from the shackles of debt slavery.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:16 AM (LvTSG)

411 Shouldn't we be handing out College Degrees to every illegal as they cross the border?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 26, 2022 08:16 AM (tiR3O)

412
How about those of us that didn't even go?
Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (nyNes)

Righteous indignation.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

413 Any thoughts on who might actually have standing to challenge the student bribes?

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 26, 2022 08:16 AM (3+sv3)

414 In a subsequent tweet, Silver wrote that “liberal public health elites” pushed Pfizer to “change its original protocols” that govern its authorization of vaccines so that the decision would be put off until after Election Day two years ago.

Silver noted that Pfizer’s decision “had the convenient side-effect of delaying any vaccine announcement until after the election” and that the story “deserves more scrutiny.”

So in the middle of a published and defined and approved study at least 4 or 4 changes were made to add about 45 to 60 days to the study and move the release out after the election.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 08:17 AM (BRHaw)

415 This doesn't sound like the oppressed getting out of debt and being able to build new lives free from the shackles of debt slavery.
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Biden gonna put you back in chains!

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 26, 2022 08:17 AM (tiR3O)

416 They became even more suspicious when natural immunity was being completely ignored- something that was never done before.

I can barely open a Band-Aid correctly, and ignoring natural immunity sure as Hell caught my attention. You're trying to tell me my body can't fight this off - but somehow this synthetic shot will ? Sure. Pull the other one now.

Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 08:17 AM (eqliw)

417 Total student loan debt is $1.6T. Unfunded SS liability is $20.4T.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead!

What discount factor is used to arrive at $20.4T? That sounds awfully high, and sounds like it's extrapolated to infinity.

SS can be tweaked, particularly with respect to the age at which you receive full benefits (which they've already done).

Debt forgiveness is forever.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 26, 2022 08:17 AM (g1EEm)

418 Hop on the train and move to FL, NYS Republicans!

Because your next train trip might not be voluntary.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 26, 2022 08:17 AM (yikp0)

419 "Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming"

I worry more about depleting our helium supply than global warming

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 26, 2022 08:17 AM (i0slg)

420 407 How about those of us that didn't even go?
Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (nyNes)

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Be happy that the barista who spent $50,000 to get her gender studies degree responsibly, from the state college instead of Kenyon, is getting a reprieve from the slavery you forced upon her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:17 AM (LvTSG)

421 How soon till Student Loan Forgiveness becomes an entitlement program?

*

Yesterday.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 08:17 AM (/zWKu)

422 413 Any thoughts on who might actually have standing to challenge the student bribes?
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Congress? They sign the checks, rite?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 26, 2022 08:17 AM (tiR3O)

423 Biden: "If we elect two more [Democratic] senators, we got a lot of unfinished business we're gonna get done. Folks, look, we're gonna codify Roe v Wade. We'll ban assault weapons, we'll protect Social Security & Medicare, we'll pass Universal Pre-K

We will tax you worthless sons a bitches into the poor house!!

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

424
Bit of a stretch to call this generation in particular freeloading. Yeah they're stealing from the treasury but that's basically what Americans do as a whole. Moreover there seems to be a sense of entitlement from one generation to another (work to support my theft instead of doing your own theft!)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 26, 2022 08:16 AM (b2nrj)

Forced. I wouldn't be a part of social security if it wasn't forced upon me. Seems quite different from student loan forgiveness and the free shit bandwagon this newer generation is. They're socialists. I'm not.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

425 423 We will tax you worthless sons a bitches into the poor house!!
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 08:18 AM (BRHaw)

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"Also, Modern Monetary Theory means that government can print money forever with no consequence."
"No, it doesn't..."
"Shut up. We're going for power here."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:19 AM (LvTSG)

426 Any thoughts on who might actually have standing to challenge the student bribes?

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Too late. You could've challenged it when it happened. Now that it's over the money is already spent.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 08:19 AM (/zWKu)

427 Bit of a stretch to call this generation in particular freeloading. Yeah they're stealing from the treasury but that's basically what Americans do as a whole. Moreover there seems to be a sense of entitlement from one generation to another (work to support my theft instead of doing your own theft!)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 26, 2022 08:16 AM (b2nrj)

There's truth in what you say - Social Security is just as big a scam now as this college debt fiasco - so the only real solution is for it all to collapse in one great big bonfire of the vanities, and then (after a grinding 10 year greater depression) start to rebuild something more rational out of the ashes. I think I'll live to see the beginning of it, but don't expect to live all the way through.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 08:19 AM (r46W7)

428 413 Any thoughts on who might actually have standing to challenge the student bribes?
Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee

I asked this the other day. Consensus from those who know was no-one. (Well, no-one on the side of the equation that we need. You could potentially challenge if you missed out and are in some kind of protected class.)

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 26, 2022 08:19 AM (g1EEm)

429 What does the governor of New York have against Republicans?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, at August 26, 2022 08:20 AM (eGTCV)

430 417 Total student loan debt is $1.6T. Unfunded SS liability is $20.4T.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead!

What discount factor is used to arrive at $20.4T? That sounds awfully high, and sounds like it's extrapolated to infinity.

SS can be tweaked, particularly with respect to the age at which you receive full benefits (which they've already done).

Debt forgiveness is forever.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 26, 2022 08:17 AM (g1EEm)

Unfunded liabilities for public pension schemes are normally minimized by using very high discount rates(and they're pretty much all underwater), not that social security actually makes any investments unlike state pensions. State unfunded pension liabilities seem to be $8.3T, and they actually invest money and don't send money to the entire population.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 26, 2022 08:20 AM (b2nrj)

431 Would not the most free market way for college is make it a tax deduction as it is an investment?

And maybe a rich uncle would give you $20k and take a tax write off!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 08:20 AM (BRHaw)

432 It's pretty neat when the "challenge" is to sue so you can get yours.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 08:20 AM (/zWKu)

433 1 in 6 households in the US is at risk of having their power cut off due to non-payment. Have a great Friday everyone!

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 26, 2022 08:20 AM (flINI)

434 As I said before, if they do, you can expect a knock on your door from the Gestapo soon after. Everyone who has ever posted anything anti-admin is electronically traceable, and they'll do it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 08:15 AM (r46W7)

Good. Knock on my door, Heydrich. I don't give a shit about my own rotten life anymore; what makes you think I'll give a shit about yours?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2022 08:21 AM (AW0uW)

435 This is so mind-blowing to me.

The SCOTUS made people MORE free to kill babies, and to kill them in more inventive ways when they're older. Why does this confound the left like it does?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 08:12 AM (/zWKu)

Considering how politically tribal some people are, I'd guess it confounds them simply because it wasn't "their" side that did it.

Posted by: Mainah at August 26, 2022 08:21 AM (B+qrE)

436 The story about SLS and NASA propaganda is spot-on. Six years behind schedule, $40 billion over budget, and it's yet to fly so much as one single foot.

And NASA's PR department is conducting online polls for people to select their preferred lunar landing sites. This sounds for all the world like Christa McAuliffe redux to me.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 26, 2022 08:21 AM (sWM8x)

437 1 in 6 households in the US is at risk of having their power cut off due to non-payment. Have a great Friday everyone!
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 26, 2022 08:20 AM (flINI)

"Energy prices would necessarily skyrocket....."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

438 You are a sucker to save for your kid's college education. One of the things they consider when applying for financial aid is whether or not you, and your parents, have any savings.

At the end of this year my last kid will graduate and he will get anything left over in his college savings account that we started when he was a baby. Not only was he robbed of $10K, but he will also be paying off other people's loans. I pointed this out to him and he kind of wrinkled his nose.

Posted by: fd at August 26, 2022 08:22 AM (sn5EN)

439 Bit of a stretch to call this generation in particular freeloading. Yeah they're stealing from the treasury but that's basically what Americans do as a whole.

You can still find the photo, catching the sheer joy of Ida May Fuller as she accepted the first ever Social Security check back in 1950. Lets all give Ida a big hand, for letting Government rob from her neighbors to pay her.

You're right on this. Predatory theft by the older generations upon the younger, via Government, has been going on here for at least seventy years now.

Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 08:22 AM (eqliw)

440 I'm starting to think at this point it would be better for the Democrats keep control of both Houses.

The worse, the better. Apportez la révolution
Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 26, 2022 08:13 AM (3+sv3)
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Hell to the No!
Sending an exorcism via my USB port.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2022 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

441 @397 Huck Follywood-The 2035 thing has been kicked down the road to 2045 and gas powered plants that were slated to close are staying open. At Bidens request Diablo Canyon Nuke is staying open too. We have a power plant under construction right now near Oakland.

Posted by: JROD at August 26, 2022 08:22 AM (0jZnq)

442 "1 in 6 households in the US is at risk of having their power cut off due to non-payment"

They should have had solar panels installed.

Posted by: fd at August 26, 2022 08:22 AM (sn5EN)

443 There's truth in what you say - Social Security is just as big a scam now as this college debt fiasco.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2022 08:19 AM (r46W7)

Concur. All federal giveaway/ponzi programs are welfare and should be abolished along with the federals themselves.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 26, 2022 08:23 AM (kweYR)

444 373 My son is halfway through a eight year commitment to the Army Reserves to pay back his college debt,
dangerous work, too. He's pissed about the loan forgiveness.

What a great program. Can you imagine how that would cut down on the gender studies madness?
Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2022 08:10 AM (6THwK)

We laugh at the Gender Studies degree holders at our peril.

"So, why did you get that GS degree? To work at Starbucks as a barista?"

"No, I got that GS degree so I can run the world."

And here we are.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 26, 2022 08:23 AM (dxWhA)

445 (work to support my theft instead of doing your own theft!)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead!

The forced extraction of 15% of my income (up to the cap) for every working year of my life? So that I can receive a monthly payment in retirement far lower than what I would have earned had I invested that money privately?

You mean that "theft"?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 26, 2022 08:23 AM (g1EEm)

446 The Barnes & Noble story perfectly illustrates the madness of the Diversity sham, affirmative action, etc. Meritocracy is to be destroyed so long as "marginalized" people get a seat at the table.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 07:28 AM (x0n13)

eh... close enough...

Posted by: Zombie Mediocrities at August 26, 2022 08:23 AM (WhsXQ)

447 Do they acknowledge that there is political risk in it? Like...it'll piss off the non-college educated? I know they don't care about that large subset of America, but do they recognize that it could be galvanizing for a part of America that's opposed to Biden's administration?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The democrats actively hate responsible people. And that is not snark.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2022 08:23 AM (lTGtQ)

448 The states with the most unfunded liabilities are California ($1.53 trillion), Illinois ($533.72 billion), Texas ($529.70 billion), New York ($508.70 billion) and Ohio ($429.53 billion).

Texas is growing and may make it work. The others are fucked and far from home!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 08:23 AM (BRHaw)

449 We have a power plant under construction right now near Oakland.
Posted by: JROD at August 26, 2022 08:22 AM (0jZnq)
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Who in their right mind would finance a nuclear power plant in CA?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 26, 2022 08:23 AM (5pTK/)

450 Hochul is an unintelligent, pathetic joke. She's not even a good sycophant for the Left. Her delivery is unnatural and labored, that is, phony. She tries to rile the crowd with trite, banal bromides and platitudes only a mouth-breathing clodpoll could love. Abortion! Extremist! Guns!

Meanwhile, people can't afford food, gas, or much else. Crime is out of control. The state's infrastructure is falling apart. Taxes are the highest in the nation. Many public schools are failing and continue to get worse and woke.

But you go ahead, be distracted by the garbage this buffoon peddles and vote Democrat like it's a team sport. There is a very big fiscal reckoning coming for NY and in the next couple of years as things get better in other places, they will get much worse in NY with Captain Muttonhead at the helm

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 08:23 AM (VpIIl)

451 I got them late summer, drought-stricken, high-humidity, disconnected power blues.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2022 08:23 AM (4I/2K)

452 They Lied About Paul Pelosi’s "Jail Time"

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From the Bee.

Paul Pelosi Pleads Guilty, Sentenced To Return To Nancy Pelosi In 5 Days

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 26, 2022 08:24 AM (FVME7)

453 @404 Count de Monet-......and that applies in what context to my comment?

Posted by: JROD at August 26, 2022 08:24 AM (0jZnq)

454 8 in 10 Baltimore publik skool kids "graduate" as functional illiterates. Our future is BRIGHT!

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 26, 2022 08:24 AM (flINI)

455 Bush had a plan to fix SS over about 20 year buy letting people buy out by proving the had a retirement plan.

The GOPe killed it!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 08:24 AM (BRHaw)

456 Total student loan debt is $1.6T. Unfunded SS liability is $20.4T.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Total unfunded liabilities are ten times the SS number. It cannot be paid for. Period.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2022 08:24 AM (lTGtQ)

457
They should have had solar panels installed.
Posted by: fd at August 26, 2022 08:22 AM (sn5EN)

A friend's mother got panels installed on their house. The cost was around $30k. I do not know the financing terms, but that cost will replace the energy bill savings realized now that the system is in use.

Once that $30k is paid off, with interest, they'll start reaping the benefits of the system. How long before it pays back that $30k?

The world may never know.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

458 We didn't make the rules...

Posted by: older Americans at August 26, 2022 08:24 AM (jTmQV)

459 Would not the most free market way for college is make it a tax deduction as it is an investment?

Free market? I wouldn't even allow the tax deduction.

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2022 08:25 AM (amJF4)

460 445 (work to support my theft instead of doing your own theft!)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead!

The forced extraction of 15% of my income (up to the cap) for every working year of my life? So that I can receive a monthly payment in retirement far lower than what I would have earned had I invested that money privately?

You mean that "theft"?
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 26, 2022 08:23 AM (g1EEm)

That was the other guys stealing from you. Now your hope is to steal from the next generation.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 26, 2022 08:25 AM (b2nrj)

461 337 It's what is in the diary that is the problem for the democrats. The fib thinks that project veritas still has copies of the diary and might publish some of the juicer bits about biden, that's what is keeping this alive.
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 26, 2022 08:00 AM (bVYXr)
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Goal is to close PV and send O'Keefe into the Garland Archipelago
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 08:02 AM (vDDdc)

O'Keefe has a new book out - American Muckraker.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 26, 2022 08:25 AM (dxWhA)

462 "1 in 6 households in the US is at risk of having their power cut off due to non-payment"

They should have had solar panels installed.
Posted by: fd at August 26, 2022 08:22 AM (sn5EN)

And re-caulked their windows and doors.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2022 08:25 AM (4I/2K)

463 Biden yesterday:
“Trump and the extreme MAGA Republicans have made their choice – to go backwards full of anger, violence, hate and division,” he said, warning they "refuse to accept the will of the people."

Anger? You betcha. Angry that there is a two-tier justice system. One for the elites, one for the rest of us.

Violence? Huh? Only violence is from the left.

Hate? Hate what the left is doing to this country.

Division? Biden and his groupies have done everything in their power to sow division. It was Trump who was actually trying to unify people. Raise all people up economically and socially. It was the left tearing it down with Occupy Wallstreet, BLM protests, Code Pink protests, etc.

Refuse to accept the will of the people? If the will of the people was truly accepted - Trump would be president. But we are forced to accept the will of mail-in ballots and other fraud which threw the election.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 26, 2022 08:26 AM (N39Ws)

464
O'Keefe has a new book out - American Muckraker.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 26, 2022 08:25 AM (dxWhA)

O'Keefe will be murdered in federal 'pound you in the ass' prison within 5 years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

465 8 in 10 Baltimore publik skool kids "graduate" as functional illiterates. Our future is BRIGHT!

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 26, 2022 08:24 AM (flINI)

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That's okay, somebody's gonna have to cut the lawns and raise the children of the 50 million invading illegal aliens -- who go directly to the front of the welfare line now.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 26, 2022 08:26 AM (QbCrG)

466 "The states with the most unfunded liabilities are California ($1.53 trillion), Illinois ($533.72 billion), Texas ($529.70 billion), New York ($508.70 billion) and Ohio ($429.53 billion). "

Believe it or not, NY has a balanced budget amendment in it's constitution. However, as is usual, the state judges have allowed the legislature to subvert that amendment by hiding liabilities in obligations/agencies that don't get counted (see things like the PA). It gets even worse as there is a lot of "magic" in the budget. On paper, NY looks better then in reality.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 08:26 AM (VpIIl)

467 228 With the story of John Kelley (a certifiable bonehead in my opinion) and Jared (or Javanka, is it?), we come back to the core issue: Trump allowed this to happen. The signal charge of a chief executive is to surround yourself with good and reliable people who support your mission -- or at the very least, not to draw in knaves and traitors (except perhaps, in Godfather terms, to "keep your enemy closer.") For whatever reason, Trump was unable to do this.

Of course, in Trump's defense, maybe the world has simply run out of good people.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 26, 2022 07:42 AM (H8QX

There was no Trump Administration. There was only Trump.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 26, 2022 08:27 AM (dxWhA)

468 RE: Student loan forgiveness.

I find this whole fiasco a bit ironic. I'm teaching my students how to write personal statements to apply for scholarships and grants (not loans).

Why should they bother to apply for those if government is just going to throw "free" money at them through student loans?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 08:27 AM (YIVH2)

469 Notice how Schumer never runs down McConnell?

Posted by: torabora at August 26, 2022 08:27 AM (Y274z)

470 It's the first Friday of Friday Night Lights in Texas.

I'm driving a box truck for my kid's marching band tonight.

Gonna be a long day.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

471 I actually read the diary. It's pretty sad.

She was an attractive, bright, started halfway to home base young woman who traded it all to party and get laid.

She's seriously fucked up, just like her brother.

If she didn't have the most enormous safety net in the world she'd have a milf onlyfans site and bad tattoos.

Posted by: MJ at August 26, 2022 08:28 AM (zwDuR)

472 Once that $30k is paid off, with interest, they'll start reaping the benefits of the system. How long before it pays back that $30k?

The world may never know.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

At 19 years the panels need to be replaced. Cost: $20k more. Paid off first set, start paying on next set....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 26, 2022 08:28 AM (7bRMQ)

473 Notice how Schumer never runs down McConnell?
Posted by: torabora at August 26, 2022 08:27 AM (Y274z)

Butt buddies.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

474 he said, warning they "refuse to accept the will of the people."

The will of the people was for Trump to be president.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2022 08:28 AM (lTGtQ)

475 Get ready for the earworm of the decade with the Elton John/Britney Spears colab.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2022 08:28 AM (rJ48h)

476 Julie Kelly: "Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are plowing new and dangerous ground. Meanwhile, the GOP is silent."

They are waiting to see how this polls, especially in districts and states with close House or Senate races. Principles? It depends on circumstances to the GOPe cabal.

Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2022 08:29 AM (AMIL/)

477 There are roughly 30 different voting machines in use in Tennessee.”

Smith looked at eight counties in the state and said she “could not get any of those voter rolls and voter histories to match up to what was certified by the secretary of state. None of them. Not even down to the precinct level.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 08:29 AM (BRHaw)

478 8 in 10 Baltimore publik skool kids "graduate" as functional illiterates. Our future is BRIGHT!

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This came out and was discussed and quickly hushed up during the Saint Floyd conversations.

Democrat cities like Baltimore, Chicago, Birmingham, Atlanta, etc. have 2/3rd illiteracy rates. 80% high school graduation rates, but 2/3rd illiteracy rates.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 26, 2022 08:29 AM (/zWKu)

479 "I'm driving a box truck for my kid's marching band tonight.

Gonna be a long day.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:28 AM (Zz0t1) "

Well, I can't drink anymore. But three words; barrel proof bourbon.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 08:29 AM (VpIIl)

480 Interesting thing happening in Baltimore. The spanish speaking immigrants are moving into and taking over historically black neighborhoods and are setting up their very own communities. If I were black I would be pissed... Being marginalized in their own "hood". Embarrassing

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 26, 2022 08:29 AM (flINI)

481 450. Politics is a team sport

Posted by: CN at August 26, 2022 08:29 AM (Zzbjj)

482 74...But they are woefully inept at Logos, as their arguments fall apart with the slightest bit of scrutiny. They also lack Ethos because when they are in power, they are hopelessly incompetent at their jobs. That's one reason why they get kicked out when they can't steal enough votes to keep their jobs.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 26, 2022 07:04 AM (YIVH2)

Destroying education, there are not many people who know how to scrutinize or refute. Seems to me the Left is very competent at their jobs, at least that one.

Posted by: Flyover at August 26, 2022 08:29 AM (Rbu5d)

483 To the people running college tuition boards, bring down the price of education to reflect the actual cost of the degrees. Do it now. You don’t need to be raking in all that money!

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:30 AM (DvTYk)

484
Well, I can't drink anymore. But three words; barrel proof bourbon.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 26, 2022 08:29 AM (VpIIl)

I've got some bitchen moonshine that should do the trick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

485 480 Interesting thing happening in Baltimore. The spanish speaking immigrants are moving into and taking over historically black neighborhoods and are setting up their very own communities. If I were black I would be pissed... Being marginalized in their own "hood". Embarrassing
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 26, 2022 08:29 AM (flINI)

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This was great when black people took over white neighborhoods.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:30 AM (LvTSG)

486 Posted by: Ordinary American at August 26, 2022 07:42 AM (H8QX

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 26, 2022 08:27 AM (dxWhA)

Not aimed at you guys but it's amazing how we get a guy like Trump miraculously elected and then tear him to shreds for things that in some cases, or to be charitable perhaps too many cases, were out of his control.

Miracle he got in and what he did almost singlehandedly. But, he's human. Hopefully he or DeSantis or whomever will understand this. And perhaps the pooch was so pre-screwed no one can fix it.

AND.... Art is here.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 08:30 AM (x0n13)

487 Once that $30k is paid off, with interest, they'll start reaping the benefits of the system. How long before it pays back that $30k?

10 years at $250/month not counting interest, repairs, panel failures, and battery replacement after 10 years. Complete system replacement in 15-20 years. So, never.

Posted by: fd at August 26, 2022 08:30 AM (sn5EN)

488 A friend's mother got panels installed on their house. The cost was around $30k. I do not know the financing terms, but that cost will replace the energy bill savings realized now that the system is in use.

Once that $30k is paid off, with interest, they'll start reaping the benefits of the system. How long before it pays back that $30k?

The world may never know.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)
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I have a neighbor that never takes care of their pool and we figured maybe they were having financial problems. The other day they had solar panels installed.
Their pool still looks like crap.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 26, 2022 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

489 Discussions about unfunded liabilities, interest, debt, etc. when referencing the government's approach to monetary issues is laughable. One, the feds will continue to print money until there's no paper left. Two, they'll create legislation that "fixes" any perceived problems with whatever approach they take. Three, when all else has failed they'll strip the public of whatever they have and start over.

The rest is academic masturbation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2022 08:31 AM (BFigT)

490 Here we go agai'n

Posted by: JT at August 26, 2022 08:31 AM (T4tVD)

491 If we were a serious society everyone voting for this would be immediately arrested for theft and bribery - because that's what it is.

But we are most definitely not a serious society

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2022 08:32 AM (ESjRY)

492 @449 Blake-uuuh, it is not a nuclear power plant. The Natrium Reactor Bill Gates company is building that I have mentioned is being built in Wyoming. The one in Oakland is a co-gen.

Posted by: JROD at August 26, 2022 08:32 AM (0jZnq)

493 A friend's mother got panels installed on their house. The cost was around $30k.

Average electric bill in California is $88 a month. Did she really think this through?

Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2022 08:32 AM (amJF4)

494 This was great when black people took over white neighborhoods.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 26, 2022 08:30 AM (LvTSG)

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You mean when the whites fled? Happened all over the country

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 26, 2022 08:32 AM (flINI)

495
Can't forget the Motor City!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 26, 2022 08:04 AM (AW0uW)

Answer to the implied trivia question - "Dancin' In The Streets"

Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2022 08:32 AM (AMIL/)

496 That was the other guys stealing from you. Now your hope is to steal from the next generation.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead!

In a way. But in a way, not. Boomers got the best deal from SS. Increased life expectancy without increased payments. But that ship has sailed. Full benefit age is now 67, and that will increase over time.

Gen X (my generation) ain't getting any handout. We didn't get a handout on our student loans either.

But I do understand that Millennials are the whiniest generation in history and would rather pretend that everyone else is getting a bigger slice of the pie than to actually work for their living.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 26, 2022 08:32 AM (g1EEm)

497 470 It's the first Friday of Friday Night Lights in Texas.

I'm driving a box truck for my kid's marching band tonight.

Gonna be a long day.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

My daughter was in marching band. I do miss those days.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 26, 2022 08:32 AM (N39Ws)

498 Art is NOT up.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 26, 2022 08:33 AM (cfHgC)

499 Eldest daughter is in Army Reserves and not happy about this.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 26, 2022 08:33 AM (7FozI)

500 498 Art is NOT up.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 26, 2022 08:33 AM (cfHgC)

Yeah. It is now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 26, 2022 08:33 AM (x0n13)

501 I realize this will sound shallow, but what's up with Governor Hochel and her eyebrows??

Posted by: Chillin the most at August 26, 2022 08:33 AM (IAfb2)

502 ART

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 08:33 AM (BRHaw)

503 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 26, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

504 "Average electric bill in California is $88 a month."

That seems impossibly low. The electric bill for my 1000 sq ft or so of shop space is higher than that.

Posted by: fd at August 26, 2022 08:35 AM (sn5EN)

505 As usual, the Christian-hating Democrats are pulling their insincere Christian card and declaring Christianity is based on forgiving debt.

They're quoting the Our Father.

I'm quoting my Bible, which says, 'It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a college-grad deadbeat to enter the kingdom of heaven.' It's right there in my Bible.

Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2022 08:37 AM (RHGPo)

506 Total student loan debt is $1.6T. Unfunded SS liability is $20.4T.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

Total unfunded liabilities are ten times the SS number. It cannot be paid for. Period.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2022 08:24 AM (lTGtQ)

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This was true 9 years ago (per 2013 Congressional testimony by Prof. Lawrence Kotlikoff of Boston University).

My guess is it more like 15 times now -- likely over $300 trillion, but yeah, cannot be paid for.

Just rearranging deck chairs on the country formerly known as America ...

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 26, 2022 08:38 AM (QbCrG)

507 I have a neighbor that never takes care of their pool and we figured maybe they were having financial problems. The other day they had solar panels installed.
Their pool still looks like crap.

Posted by: redridinghood

The two are not unrelated.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2022 08:38 AM (lTGtQ)

508 I have often wondered why some seemingly very good to excellent conservatives get to DC and become RINOs. It almost seems as if when they get there, the FBI lays down a file in front of them and says this is what we know about you, now play ball or we release it. Could it be that Marjorie Taylor Green has nothing bad in her background?

Posted by: Bama Bubba at August 26, 2022 08:42 AM (XjZhF)

509 Quantum Mechanic - I'm 60 and the older I get the less I care what happens and I just pray I don't live to be 99 like my Grandmother. With regard to SS, at this point I'm going to get whatever I can when I can, it'll be fun to stick it to the whiny generations. Half kidding. I plan on working till late 70's anyway, I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I retired.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 26, 2022 08:43 AM (DBrN4)

510 Once that $30k is paid off, with interest, they'll start reaping the benefits of the system. How long before it pays back that $30k?

The national average rate is twelve cents a kWh. On Amazon, right now, I'm seeing $680 for a two pack of 320W panels. Use any solar estimating tool, and you'll find that best case for residential solar is 4 good charging hours a day. That's right, kids. If you install 1kWh of panels, expect to get no more than 4 kWh of energy per day out of them. Best case.

So, just for the panels above, ignoring the inverter and all the other goodies ? Together they'll get you 640W x 4 = 2.56 kWh. That'll make you 2.56 kWh x $0.12 = 30.7 cents a day. Panels pay themselves off in just over six years. Very, very best case. Real life ? More like ten years after install and inverters.

Posted by: Princeton Reverb at August 26, 2022 08:47 AM (eqliw)

511 Everybody acts like student loans are necessary and routine for all college students who aren't from real wealth.

I'm spitting mad about the loans because my family spent time and treasure with costs of its own, to avoid debt in the first place.

I don't see why people who worked saved and sacrificed aren't more deserving than borrowers who agreed to repay easy money on easy terms, who didn't save or sacrifice, deferring or altering choices and options based on what was affordable.
They got the school they wanted on the timetable they wanted without having to take jobs or do without. Why shouldn't they repay, especially those able to repay?

Cap interest, add bankruptcy protections for those in true hardship. but why make me and my kid repay these loans others took, on top of the inflated tuitions those loans caused?

You do NOT have to take a loan to get a degree.
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Posted by: Sarahw at August 26, 2022 08:58 AM (g1vnC)

512 I am just incandescent with rage about people who can repay just being handed a wad of cash to cancel out their tuition and expenses, as if people who paid their own way weren't hit by Covid or could just "afford" college without any burdens or sacrifices.

But wait til you hear about Pell Runners - including criminal rings recruiting straw students to scoop up Stafford loans and Pell Grant refunds with exactly zero intention of applying any of it to anyone's education.

Bidens EO will just cancel out the stolen loans.

Posted by: Sarahw at August 26, 2022 09:04 AM (g1vnC)

513 From the Navarro article:

"Because Kelly had no training in politics, he failed to understand the importance of trade policy in holding the high political ground of Blue Wall manufacturing states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan that Trump won in 2016."

Is he saying he believes Trump actually lost those states?

Posted by: Brett at August 26, 2022 09:07 AM (2ndRB)

514 /sock

Posted by: Oddbob at August 26, 2022 09:23 AM (nfrXX)

515 "The Government has met its burden of showing that its proposed redactions are narrowly tailored to serve the Government’s legitimate interest in the integrity of the ongoing investigation."

In other words, pages (almost) entirely blacked out...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 26, 2022 09:23 AM (ynpvh)

516 "If then-president Trump had ordered the FBI to raid the home of Joe Biden over Hunter’s laptop (which would have totally made sense), the Democrats would have exploded."

They never would have raided it...they would have waited out the clock, like they did with the laptop and all the other dirty on Joe, just like with Hillary.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 26, 2022 09:25 AM (ynpvh)

517 "California Regulators Approve Banning New Gas Car Sales"

California's streets will eventually look like Havana, with it's old cars, until gas is no longer sold in Cali and importation of it is made illegal.
One simple trick: Madate smog emissions from tailpipes must be 0%, and you automatically make all gas-powered cars illegal...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 26, 2022 09:27 AM (ynpvh)

518 Anything I could say about Gov. Nazgul at this point would be superfluous.

As for the silence of the congressional GOP: It's deliberate. They know their sinecures depend on their acquiescence. I expect they've been told so, in as many words.

Posted by: Rowsdower Believes Epps Is A Fed at August 26, 2022 09:27 AM (lkx+0)

519 With student load debt forgiveness, some of us went to...lesser educational institution...because of the price, and chose majors that were...more intellectually intensive due to their monetary upside. So basically not only forgiving debts, but to those who went to expensive universities. Totally NOT helping the elites...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 26, 2022 09:29 AM (ynpvh)

520 518 Anything I could say about Gov. Nazgul at this point would be superfluous.

As for the silence of the congressional GOP: It's deliberate. They know their sinecures depend on their acquiescence. I expect they've been told so, in as many words.

Posted by: Rowsdower Believes Epps Is A Fed at August 26, 2022 09:27 AM (lkx+0)

I wonder if we'd be better off with horses for Senators...scratch that, we had Kerry-Heinz in there, and he was a disaster...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 26, 2022 09:30 AM (ynpvh)

521 I am making 92 dollars per year eating Jerry Nadler's colostomy bag contents.

Posted by: Sarah at August 26, 2022 09:31 AM (YPoe9)

522 "Last year, PILF successfully got Pennsylvania’s Democrat state officials to remove thousands of dead registrants from its voter rolls following an initial lawsuit. In that case, officials were accused of keeping at least 21,000 dead registrants on voter rolls for the 2020 presidential election."

Maybe might be even more successful if they say they're trying to keep icky Trump supporters from cheating during elections in those states. That might get some sympathy from liberal judges. Nah, probably not; even judges know the dead vote Dem...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 26, 2022 09:36 AM (ynpvh)

523 521
Posted by: Sarah at August 26, 2022 09:31 AM (YPoe9)

"telecommuting". The new euphemism for working on Only Fans...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 26, 2022 09:37 AM (ynpvh)

524 LA: Not Homeless, "They are 'people who live outside'"

also LA

They're not dead, they just live underground and vote.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 26, 2022 09:40 AM (ynpvh)

525 So to NOT interfere in the election the FBI INTERFERED in the election!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 26, 2022 06:37 AM

I have to steal the Declaration of Independence to protect it from being stolen.

Posted by: Benjamin Franklin Gates at August 26, 2022 09:59 AM (Do5/p)

526 Maria Bartiromo just made a good point: Now that the junta illegally paid off gender studies loans once, future gender studies majors will expect Uncle Sugar to pay for their degrees too. A forever giveaway was just unilaterally created by the daughter rapist Resident.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2022 06:42 AM

Yup. Exactly like how illegal immigration has worked for decades. Never-ending amnesty legislation or simply never-ending non-enforcement of existing laws for past how many decades.

Same will happen with this. Just like no one gave a shit about the argument that the people who immigrated here the correct way get screwed by amnesty, no one will give a shit about people paying for higher education the right way getting screwed.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 26, 2022 10:04 AM (Do5/p)

527 "On the left, by contrast, years of “cancel culture” haven’t just been an obnoxious social affair, but have cleared the deck politically, removing or marginalizing dissident political voices and ensuring that people pursue the same sort of politics. . ."

Exactly right however, he does not ask the follow on question. were did those driven out of the party go? Well they went to the Republican party, decades ago these people would have been called "moderate democrats", now they are called establishment or RINO republicans, they are really democrats.

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