The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/29/22

Good morning kids. Start of a new week and, with all due respect to Spike Milligan, it's a goon show all the way down. And it starts right at the top. While Joe "Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants" Biden is turning into a vegetable so fast he's tripping over the tillers and rhizomes emerging from his trouser legs as he shambles lost on the White House lawn, it never ceases to amaze me how lucid he gets when he is hurling invective at the American people. When it comes to that, he doesn't need cue cards from Kalorama. He speaks directly from his pitch black heart:

Biden told a group of Democratic donors in Maryland Thursday that “What we’re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the – I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.”
Later, during a campaign rally, condemned “MAGA Republicans” who he said could not accept the results of the 2020 presidential election. Biden also proclaimed that “I respect conservative Republicans. I don’t respect these MAGA Republicans.” He noted during the same speech that “There are not many real Republicans anymore” though he did mention he liked the kind of Republican who Democrats “can deal with” (translation: walk all over) like Republican-In-Name-Only Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan. . .
. . . When he was asked the next day what he meant by “semi-fascism,” Biden demurred:
[Biden, smirking]: "You know what I mean."

Aside from the creepy, Aqualung-on-little-girls vibe and halitosis, project much, Joey? Here was an interesting observation:

For nearly two years now, the left has insisted that elections are safe and secure. Anyone who even suggested otherwise was a dangerous election denier—a threat to democracy! If you said the 2020 election was stolen or rigged, then you might have found yourself banned from social media.
So, why did Joe Biden say, during a rally Thursday, that Democrats have a plan to make sure no one ever steals an election “again?"
“If we elect two more senators, we keep the House and Democrats, we’re going to get a lot of unfinished business we’re going to get done. Folks, look, we’ll codify Roe v. Wade. We’ll ban, we’ll ban assault weapons. We’ll protect Social Security and Medicare. We’ll pass universal pre-K. We’ll restore the Childcare Tax Credit. We’ll protect voting rights. We’ll pass election reform and make sure no one, no one, ever has the opportunity to steal an election again,” Biden told the crowd.

Right after they steal it in '22 and '24 and probably forever. That is if 2020 wasn't the last election, legitimate/semi-legitimate or otherwise that we will ever see again. Rush Limbaugh of blessed memory, who spent a third of a century accurately predicting the future called it:

They resent the whole premise behind elections. Look, they don’t believe they should have to persuade anybody to agree with them. Therefore, they don’t believe in campaigns. They don’t believe in the free, open exchange of ideas. There aren’t any legitimate ideas outside of their own.
They don’t believe in giving legitimacy to anybody who is not already on their side. So if this is who they are psychologically — if they have no interest in persuading people, if they have no interest in acquiring power as a result of massive public support — then who are they? What are they? They want power simply to have it. They don’t want it to derive from the people. . .
[The Democrats] resent the hell out of it. And in their world, it’s the one thing standing in their way: This need, this requirement to win elections. And I’m just telling you: As soon as they can figure out a way to eliminate elections, they will do it, ’cause they resent the hell out of it. . .
. . . They’re doing it in front of our faces.” They really are. They are attempting to win elections without broad public support. That’s what they’re trying to do. That’s just another way of phrasing what they’re doing. How do you win elections without broad public support?
The Democrats got rid of elections by stealing the 2020 election for the President of the United States of America. President Trump had the greatest win in US history with 75 million votes, a record, and they stole it.

Rush always used to say, during the outrages we endured during the Obama reign of error (which now seem like a walk in the park by comparison to the events of the past two years) whenever he would talk a caller off the ledge, "I'll tell you when it's time to panic, and now is not that time." Well, if an in-your-face stolen national election, perpetrated with the willing help of everyone from local thugs up to the heads of our national security and law enforcement agencies doesn't give you palpitations, you have less brain function than Joey.

If that wasn't proof positive that we have crossed more Rubicon's than Orlando Cepeda crossed himself when he came to the plate we have actual political prisoners still rotting away in the Garland Archipelago since January of 2021 for the high crime of being duped into an FBI entrapment scam, and the even more heinous offense of exercising the now defunct right of free speech. And that's not even the half of it.

A lawyer for several of the January 6 political prisoners says his clients are being “tortured” by a system of “anarcho-tyranny” that considers them to be a “subhuman, sub-constitutional class of people.” In an interview this week, Joseph D. McBride said he is building a case to sue the federal government for millions of dollars over the abuses his clients have suffered. . .
. . . “They are gaslighting the entire American public,” McBride said. “They are calling these people extremists and terrorists, but the extremism and the terrorism lies with them! . . ."
. . . “For the first time in U.S. history, the political party in power is hunting down and jailing members of the opposition party for political dissidence, and not only that, they’re torturing them in jail,” McBride said. “This is the stuff of dictatorships.”
He said he has two clients who are both currently being tortured in jail: Ryan Taylor Nichols of Longview, Texas, and Christopher Quaglin of New Jersey.
The attorney explained that both of these men are routinely thrown in solitary confinement for long periods of time, which violates international norms, and when their advocates on the outside speak out against the abuse, they get treated even worse. . .
. . . “We have to fight and we’re made to look like outliers and nut jobs because we are advocating for the truth,” the lawyer told Horowitz. He said the reason the regime has been able to get away with so many violations of human rights is because they were able to label Trump supporters as subhumans.
“They were able to label an entire political class as problematic and they used the full prosecutorial apparatus of the United States government to descend upon them and their families to send ‘shock and awe’ into middle America, the Southwest, and the West,” McBride said.

As Debra Heine notes in her excellent piece, about the only politicians who are doing whatever they can to help these detainees are Louie Gohmert and Marjorie Taylor Green. Yes, that Marjorie Taylor Green was SWATed twice in two days. Do I really have to list the litany of attempted and actual attacks on what can now only be referred to as Enemies of the State? And then there's the Gestapo raid on Mar-a-Lago where the only thing not redacted were the spaces between words and the odd old fashioned pronoun.

Friend and friend of the blog Michael Walsh laments the shredding of our Constitution as well as ponders what can be done to restore it or if that it is even capable of being restored in his latest essay:

What's in our future? Civil War? Partition? Amicable divorce? In the meantime, let me leave you with this, from my debut novel, the controversial Exchange Alley, written after my return from Moscow in 1991 and published in 1997 but set in the period just before the end of the Soviet Union.

There is an unmistakable odor about socialist countries that pervades every public place. It is a strong animal smell, composed in equal parts of sweat and unwashed clothes, Russian cigarettes, cheap perfume, piss, disinfectant, and leaded gasoline; in the heyday of Communism, every socialist country smelled the same. But in the mother church of Marxism-Leninism, the reek was stronger, sharper, more pervasive. It was the ur-stench of the Soviet system, the stink of a dying animal and with each passing year it got stronger and more difficult for foreigners, even fellow travelers in the west, to ignore.
Smell that here at home now? I thought you might.

There are a few things in play that, for me, indicate that we are well past the point of no return. First, an entire governmental bureaucracy that the Founders warned against is now well entrenched and at the heart of our subjugation. To call it corrupt would be a misnomer since at this point it is doing exactly what it is supposed to do: repress our freedom and rob us of our wealth. Second, at least a third of the nation willingly supports or has been duped into supporting our own enslavement. Third, there is no political opposition party that has the power nor more crucially the desire to do what Donald Trump attempted virtually singlehandedly to bring about in his first and so far only term.

Finally, there's the question of compromise and common ground. You cannot have reconciliation or even accommodation with a political entity and its constituents who view you as an evil to be eradicated. Do those in power actually believe this or is it merely a dodge to preserve their power base? At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"For the first time in U.S. history, the political party in power is hunting down and jailing members of the opposition party for political dissidence, and . . . torturing them in jail."
Lawyer: January 6 Clients Are Being Tortured
"Eugenic leaders laid the groundwork for today’s abortion industry, the majority of which in the U.S. is conducted through chemical abortion."
Nazis and Eugenics Brought Us Chemical Abortion: Here’s Proof
Michael Walsh: "From at least the time of Woodrow Wilson, the Democrats have despised the Constitution—which they think let them down in the battle over slavery—and have sought to kill it by the death of a thousand cuts, some of which have been delivered by the Supreme Court, some by legislation, and some by sheer inanition."
What's the Constitution Among Friends?
"The Supreme Court ruined America. Here’s how.
Government Explained

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

"Video shows McInnes starting the live broadcast, with it being interrupted shortly thereafter by authorities. The livestream continued for at least thirty minutes after McInnes exits the frame, while police dispatch radio noises can be heard in the background."
WATCH: Gavin McInnes Arrested During Live Broadcast
“What we’re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the – I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.” – Joe Biden
Just Who Are the Intolerant Ones Again?
"I respect conservative Republicans," Biden said. "I don't respect these MAGA Republicans, folks." (funny how a demented vegetable suddenly gets flashes of lucidity - jjs))
Biden Slams MAGA Republicans for 'Destroying' the America Democrats Are 'Saving'
Lloyd Billingsley: "Immoral equivalence in the FBI’s jihad against Trump."
Resurrecting the Rosenbergs
"Colorado’s Secretary of State Jena Griswold is a very serious woman — except when she gets unhinged. And Griswold was in a full-on, hair-on-fire, bat-guano-nuts panic when she said in an interview with the radical left newspaper The Guardian that unless Americans vote for Democrats, they’re going to lose their democracy."
'The U.S. Could Lose the Right To Vote Within Months' Says Democrat Politician
"These recent events against conservatives suggest that the left is now making [swatting] a tactic in their effort to silence any opposition."
Today's Blacklisted American: Blacklisting is Not Enough – Leftists Now Aim to Get Conservatives Killed by Police
"The income tax system depends on trust."
This Is How Government Breeds Mistrust
"Today the FBI has morphed into a campaign arm of the Democrat Party, acting more like the East German Stasi or Soviet KGB rather than the premier law enforcement agency in the world."
The FBI: A Campaign Arm of the Democrat Party
"The book gives a first-hand narrative of the Russian Revolution and the desperate fighting that followed. The history is interesting in its own right, but Wrangel also illustrates many lessons that Americans facing an out-of-control government and new wave of leftwing political violence should take to heart."
Lessons From the Bitter End: What General Wrangel Means for Americans Today
RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO
"The few sentences made public in the affidavit, however, show the FBI was motivated to comb through Trump’s 128-room living quarters because of a CBS News article that a truck was present at Mar-a-Lago in the final days of his presidency."
FBI Is So Committed To Transparency Nearly Entire Trump Raid Affidavit Is Redacted
"This raid is only a part of an ongoing criminal conspiracy (RICO) or silent coup by the Deep State to take down Trump."
The Raid on Mar-A-Lago: A Desperate Act by the Deep State
So all the Post‘s sources — who it nebulously described as “‘people familiar with the investigation” and “experts in classified information” and “former senior intelligence officials” and “a person familiar with the investigation” who said there were nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago — were “the FBI” and the “government.” Please laugh. Then vote.
That Mushroom Cloud You See Is Another Trump Media Narrative Exploding Before Your Eyes
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Ridiculous edict."
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin Blasts California’s Gas Car Phase Out
"At some point, perhaps sooner than we think, today’s nonsensical hysteria on climate will be replaced by some other nonsensical hysteria designed to keep politicians in power and spending our money while reducing our freedoms. The thousands of eagles still will be dead. Their progeny never will have existed. We all will be the poorer for it."
Killing the Eagles with 'Climate Change' Malice Aforethought
DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS
"The 80% rise in the U.K.’s cap for consumer electricity and natural gas bills this fall will drive millions of households into energy poverty this winter as the worsening cost-of-living crisis stokes fears of recession."
UK “Passed Debt and Death Sentence on Millions” By Increasing Energy Price Cap By 80%
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Roger Kimball: "Work hard. Save your money. Pay your debts. Then get saddled with someone else’s debts because you didn’t have the foresight to be improvident at the opportune moment."
Biden’s Debt Transference and Enforcement Arm
"The estimate is even more than the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, which analyzed the budget model, expected. The foundation found that debt cancellation will cost the average individual taxpayer over $2,000, the Washington Free Beacon reported."
Biden Loan Cancellation Could Cost More Than $1,000,000,000,000, Says Penn Wharton Budget Model
"Biden’s vote-buying debt cancellation scheme is an insult to American workers."
Forgive Me
AAN’s brilliant ad encourages furious Americans to tell Congress to “Stop Biden’s bailout for rich kids.” Many legal experts have cast doubt on whether the president has the authority to wipe away debt, and furious Americans are looking to Congress to challenge the Democrats’ blatant effort to buy votes in the upcoming midterm elections.
WATCH: Sarcastic New Ad Rips Biden's Student Loan Debt "Bailout for Rich Kids"
"The cancellation of student debt has echoes of two other unwise political decisions, one made by a Republican President, the other by a Democrat President."
The True Cost of Student Loans
"The devastating cost of 'cancelling' debt."
How Warped "Compassion" Destroys Society

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"The report, published by the Reshoring Initiative, reveals that a record number of American manufacturing jobs have been brought home after being offshored and outsourced to foreign countries over the last two decades when China entered the World Trade Organization (WTO)."
Report: Re-Shoring of American Manufacturing Jobs at "Record High"
"When President Donald Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2017, the total federal debt was $19,947,304,555,212.49. By the time of Biden’s [installation], four years later, it had risen $7,804,591,681,202,28 to $27,751,896,236,414.77."
Federal Debt Has Now Climbed $3 Trillion Under Biden
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Slate publishes a piece that asserts Fauci’s credibility did not make it through the pandemic intact."
Does the Left Now Want to Chuck Fauci Across the Potomac? \
"The policy gangsters who imprisoned hundreds of millions need to pay for their crimes."
Death, Despair, and Lockdowns
“I’m uncomfortable that we would move forward—that we would give millions or tens of millions of doses to people—based on mouse data,” Paul Offit, an FDA adviser and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told the Wall Street Journal in a report published on Sunday.
Report: Chinese COVID Boosters Could Be Authorized For Use Before Human Testing Is Completed
". . . Which seems to be getting no coverage in the American Media. Wonder why."
The British Government Has Begun Paying $140,000 for Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine Damage Victims
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"In eight states, it could happen. And the rot is spreading."
What if Your Attorney Is an Illegal Alien?
Send them to Gracie Mansion and Hochul's house.
NYC Struggling to House Busloads of Migrants as Hotel, Intake Center Plan Falls Apart
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Even as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s largest city, struggles with increased crime, Fetterman has a radical dream for the state’s prison population."
John Fetterman’s Musing on Murderers May Be a Gift to Dr. Oz
"North Carolina congressional hopeful preaches bipartisanship after pledging support for group pushing 'progressive wish list.'"
Self-Styled ‘Moderate’ Wiley Nickel Partnered With Liberal Group Working to Defund Police, End Cash Bail
"After six years in Washington it's clear that Val is no longer the police."
Val Demings Says "I Am the Police." Florida Sheriffs Say That’s Ridiculous.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Daniel Greenfield: "The Big Tech monopoly has a new way to suppress conservatives."
If You Liked Big Brother, Meet Google’s Big MUM
"The network may stop programming the 10 to 11 p.m. time slots and give them to local TV stations instead, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Friday. No future plans on the matter have been finalized with NBC’s affiliate board, meaning the 10 p.m. time slot may remain."
NBC Considering Drastic Measure Due To Popularity Decline
"Elsewhere, Giuliani warned that My Son Hunter “is going to be censored as much as possible” by what he called 'the fascist elite of America, combined with the Democrat Party, Biden, and Pelosi.'”
Rudy Giuliani: We’re Going to Talk About My Son Hunter Every Day So "It Doesn’t End Around the Iron Curtain Censors"
"Babylon CEO Seth Dillon shared a screenshot of the 'hateful conduct' message the Libs of TikTok account claimed to have received."
Libs of TikTok Locked Out of Twitter – Again
ABORTION
"The director's denial of the churches' request for exceptions to accommodate their religious beliefs, based solely on the fact that those requests did not originate with a plan, was not narrowly tailored to serve a compelling interest," the court wrote.
Forcing Churches To Pay for Abortions Is Unconstitutional, California Federal Court Rules
Peter Michael Bleyer, M.D.: "Years of conditioning and lies have led us to not only accept this distorted vision of reproductive healthcare, but to become blind to the value of human life and the ethical role of a physician in a healthy society."
Reproductive Medicine's Ethical Failure
SECOND AMENDMENT
Biden's breath and fingers are assault weapons. Ask most adolescent girl who was unfortunate enough to be caught in his grasp for more than three seconds.
Biden: 'I'm Determined to Ban Assault Weapons in This Country'
Giffords posted a tweet Sunday, which said, “The shooters in at least 5 mass shootings have stockpiled guns & ammo using credit cards and killed 145 people. Visa, Mastercard, and American Express have the power to flag suspicious purchases and save lives. Call on them to act.”
Gabby Giffords’ Gun Control Groups Ask Major Credit Cards to Flag Gun, Ammo Purchases
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Charlie Crist taps Miami teachers' union president Karla Hernandez-Mats to be his lieutenant."
DeSantis Opponent Names Running Mate: A Teachers’ Union Head Who Fought to Close Schools, Compared Parents to Serial Killers
"Is this a case of religious and political discrimination?"
Tennessee School Boards and Unions Go Up Against Hillsdale-Affiliated Charter Schools
Thad McCotter: "Let us hope Governor Ron DeSantis and Florida’s legislature continue to expand laws to protect their citizens from compulsory woke indoctrination."
Constitutionally Protected Struggle Sessions?
"An Oklahoma teacher quit after she made books banned from the classroom electronically available to students and violated the states’ Critical Race Theory ban."
‘Find Another Job’: Oklahoma Officials Respond To Teacher Quitting Over CRT Ban
"Graduate from high school. Get a full-time job. Get married before having kids."
The Success Sequence — An Alternative to Radical School Indoctrination
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"So, why did Joe Biden say, during a rally Thursday, that Democrats have a plan to make sure no one ever steals an election '"again?'"
Whoa, Did Biden Admit Elections Have Been Stolen?
"In another move by the left to exert control over elections, several states are considering switching to ranked-choice voting."
Ranked-Choice Voting Failed to Make Ballot in Missouri — But Beware, the Left Will Keep Pushing It
"Transitioning from a traditional primary system to ranked-choice voting is like ‘going from algebra to calculus.’"
Ranked-Choice Voting is a Nightmare — And It’s on the Ballot in Nevada
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"The stunning significance of a revelation."
Did Zuckerberg Prove the FBI Created the ‘Russian Disinfo’ Narrative on Hunter’s Laptop?
Miranda Devine: "In his eagerness to ingratiate himself with mega-podcaster Joe Rogan, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg inadvertently revealed that the FBI had been more explicit than previously known in its private warning about Russian disinformation shortly before The Post published the Hunter Biden laptop story, which the social media company suppressed before the 2020 election."
FBI Put the Hunter Biden Story in Facebook’s Lap
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Laith Marouf can always follow his own advice to Israelis – and 'go back to where he came from.'”
The Anti-Semitic and Racist Tweets of a Canadian Government Consultant
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"Speaking on Joe Rogan’s podcast on Thursday, Zuckerberg said the FBI approached employees at the tech giant to warn that the laptop was a vehicle of Russian interference."
CONFIRMED: FBI Colluded With Big Tech To Prevent Voters From Learning About Hunter Biden’s Laptop
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Warnock made over half a million dollars in 2021—from book deals, outside employers, and speaking fees."
How Raphael "Wife-Beater" Warnock Doubled His Income Since Joining the Senate (with this one neat trick! - jjs)
POLITICS
Victor Davis Hanson: "Of the last three presidents, Trump was either the most indifferent or the most obstructed when it came to using government agencies for his own partisan political advantages or to neuter his enemies."
The Strangest Thing About ‘Semi-Fascist’ Trump
"Trump is "uniquely unsuited to office" because his very existence is a painful reminder of the 2016 referendum on the establishment GOP."
A Third Nomination of Trump Is What Conservatives Need Most
"If Ron DeSantis runs for president can he learn something essential from Donald Trump? And vice versa?"
MAGA and the Memory of America
Deroy Murdock: "Republicans must make these two votes, and the Democrats behind them, world famous. And they should not stop until the very last ballot is counted — sometime around Thanksgiving."
Democrats Handed Republicans Two Giant Gifts Ahead of November
"According to the left-wing media, Democrats may be able to defy the odds and keep control of both the Senate and the House in November. Not so fast . . . "
Democrats See Unicorns While the Red Wave Rises
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Netanyahu on Biden-Iran Nuke Deal: “This is madness! This is the height of folly!”
Netanyahu: Biden’s New Nuke Deal Will Be Iran’s “Golden Paved Highway” To Nuclear Bomb
"Uncoupling isn’t as hard as you might think."
It’s Time for Taiwan to File for Economic Divorce from China
"The challenge to China’s domination of these resources begins."
Canadian Rare Earths Processor Buys Mining Rights in Greenland
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
“We knew what he looked like. The CIA let us know; he looked exactly as they’d described him.”
Daniel Greenfield: What’s Behind the Cover-Up of the Kabul Suicide Bombing?
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
". . . the loss of agents is particularly troubling because there doesn’t seem to be a major intelligence leak. The problem is with the agents themselves."
CIA Admits to Losing Dozens of Intelligence Assets Around the World
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"The case for a Declaration-guided Constitution remains stronger than ever but Clarence Thomas needs help, and America’s Harvards are proving to be vicious enemies."
Escaping Laurence’s Tribalism Requires Thomas’ Constitutionalism
"Sen. Richard Burr (R.) says Biden [junta's] lack of oversight is 'unacceptable and baffling.'" (meh, Burr is a grandstanding kabuki-bukkake theater RINO stooge - jjs)
"Wholly Inadequate": Federal Agencies Have No System To Check Whether Remote Employees Are Actually Working
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"When euthanasia becomes the sixth leading cause of death in your country, perhaps it is time to rethink the real value of 'free' healthcare."
Canada’s Euthanasia Polices Under Scrutiny as Reports Surface of Euthanizing a Man for “Hearing Loss”
"What sort of big deal could have caused this?"
Falling Life Expectancy Driven By Flailing, Failing Federal Health Baloney-aucracy
"A flawed study spurs a retrograde trend in medicine that will lead to worse outcomes."
The Disastrous Push to Re-Segregate Health Care
"An onerous set of regulations is making it impossible for health care entrepreneurs to innovate. CON laws need to go."
The CON Game: Legal Tyranny Is Bad for Babies
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
". . . Carr said he was surprised to learn about the decision from a press release while he was on a work trip to Alaska, adding that it was made without a vote or authorization from the FCC’s Commissioners."
FCC Commissioner Questions Legality of FCC Cancellation of SpaceX's $900 Million Subsidy
". . . there are quality control problems at Boeing. For any 'debris' to get into the thrusters without notice means someone at some point wasn’t doing things right."
Starliner Manned Launch Delayed Until 2023
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"A case from Australia offers a more realistic view of the horrific realities of the medical procedures associated with the popular cause of 'transgenderism.'”
Transgender Regret Coming Out of Closet
"The dire cost of family breakdown."
Timeless Truths on Man, Woman, and the Family
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: "Show alum shreds NBC sketch show for its most embarrassing cold open — ever."
Rob Schneider on Saturday Night Live – "It’s Over"
"He personified the corrupt ecclesiastical culture that has damaged the Church."
The Legacy of Archbishop Weakland Is Not ‘Complex’ But Sinister
"The structure of a PsyOps project on a wide scale."
A Window on the Orwellian Dystopia of America
. . . in fact, “it is much easier to build a relationship with animals than humans,” said the man who brought his dog.
German Beastiality Buffs Demand Legalization of Sex With Animals
"Until the industry reclaims its allegiance to free speech over ideological orthodoxies, both readers and writers will suffer."
How Woke Put Paid to Publishing
HITHER & YON
"REVIEW: They Shouldn't Have Killed His Dog: The Complete Uncensored Ass-Kicking Oral History of John Wick, Gun Fu, and the New Age of Action."
Wick-ipedia

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 07:32 AM (BRHaw)

2 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 29, 2022 07:32 AM (bVYXr)

3 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 29, 2022 07:32 AM (GYIa4)

4 Nubes! Met Herschel Walker along with Ted Cruze yesterday. Much more enthusiastic about Herschel. Definitely not a politician, but should do fine.

Posted by: IanDeal at August 29, 2022 07:33 AM (MGjjz)

5

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 29, 2022 07:34 AM (SWi3y)

6 They have well and truly internalized the farcical notion that 2016 was stolen. That is part of their worldview now. A Fact about History that no sane person would challenge.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2022 07:36 AM (6FeV1)

7 "Definitely not a politician" Yes, that's a good thing.

Posted by: Case at August 29, 2022 07:37 AM (tmQgQ)

8 morning horde. happy bloody monday. but at least i'm home today.

coffee is ready. now on to the content...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 29, 2022 07:38 AM (KdUK5)

9 Mornin' Mo-tons!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 29, 2022 07:39 AM (MWknH)

10 Here are two articles that encapsulate the state of National Review and NeverTrump in general.

A Long Goodbye to Trump.
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Charles W. Cooke.

Where's the Republican's Agenda.
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The Editors.

These people are some of the stupidest f**king people going.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 07:39 AM (IcEKK)

11 Mo-rons! Gotta get those glasses on...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 29, 2022 07:39 AM (MWknH)

12 Read the content, now I am ready for a day of sobbing and weeping for the country that was!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 07:40 AM (hOUT3)

13 "Warnock made over half a million dollars in 2021—from book deals, outside employers, and speaking fees."

The latest iteration of the Jesse Jackson prototype. A lying and cheating race pimp demagogue "Reverend".

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 07:40 AM (sn5EN)

14 Second, at least a third of the nation willingly supports or has been duped into supporting our own enslavement.

The fatherless black family is a core constituency of those ideas. Irresponsibility is praised and hard work ethics are degraded.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 07:41 AM (BRHaw)

15 Coffee and then a walk before it gets too hot, since a heat index of 100 sounds like pool weather, except my community pool doesn't open til 4pm (dang back to school hours).

Posted by: Nova local at August 29, 2022 07:41 AM (exHjb)

16 These people are some of the stupidest f**king people going.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 07:39 AM (IcEKK)

Weaklings. Sycophants without a liege. Completely helpless.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2022 07:41 AM (0lUe7)

17
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 29, 2022 07:42 AM (ENBF0)

18 I keep asking, Is anyone yet ready to file for Divorce?

Short term, yes, go vote. But putting GOP back in power just delays the inevitable by a few years at most.

But for your future and your kids and grandkids, you have to detach from the tyrants and their supporters. Give them their shitholes and say Farewell

Posted by: Preznit Drooling Fascist at August 29, 2022 07:42 AM (Tc2CN)

19 @4

>>Definitely not a politician, but should do fine.

Listen, if a Republican can no longer be elected to Senator in f**king Georgia, and that the citizenry prefer two out and out marxist as Senators, then we are through the looking glass.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 07:42 AM (IcEKK)

20 With all the shit that's been happening lately and well beyond that, it seems like this moon launch was a spur-of-the-moment thing.

"Ah, hell, we haven't done a damn thing in two and a half years let's go to the moon today."

I had no idea this launch was scheduled until yesterday.

Posted by: Colonel Travis at August 29, 2022 07:43 AM (Cgo1x)

21 They have well and truly internalized the farcical notion that 2016 was stolen. That is part of their worldview now. A Fact about History that no sane person would challenge.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

But in 2016, the properly anointed person did not win, so there must have been massive cheating, QED!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 07:43 AM (hOUT3)

22 Usually, all the choices are rank.

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 07:43 AM (sn5EN)

23 Is Artemis still a go for launch this morning?

More coffee...

Posted by: dantesed at August 29, 2022 07:43 AM (88xKn)

24 Apparently the most important thing about this launch is it will lead to possibly including the first woman and first person of color on a trip to the. Moon. For that reason, I don't care if it ever gets off the ground in one piece.

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 07:44 AM (sn5EN)

25 Morning peeps.

The so called "red wave" has been recast as an attempted takeover of the country by MAGA fascists. Soon to be officially recast as domestic terrorists. Next comes the arrests and imprisonments.

We all know what happens after that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2022 07:45 AM (BFigT)

26
Re the mRNA injectable products. Some analysis of excess mortality for your consideration:

https://tinyurl.com/2m8jczhe

https://tinyurl.com/2f5gnppy

https://tinyurl.com/2g48t5sk

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 07:45 AM (Mzdiz)

27 Moon launch??? fucking unbelievable

Posted by: Preznit Drooling Fascist at August 29, 2022 07:45 AM (Tc2CN)

28 @23

>>Is Artemis still a go for launch this morning?

Reading the Tech Thread it seems that something is broken, it typically not a good idea to launch rockets with broken parts.

YMMV.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 07:45 AM (IcEKK)

29 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 29, 2022 07:46 AM (nyNes)

30 23 Is Artemis still a go for launch this morning?

More coffee...
Posted by: dantesed at August 29, 2022 07:43 AM (88xKn)
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Not sure. Leaks and cracks and fissures and fractures and clefts and crannies have it on hold while someone goes to look for a 30 million dollar screwdriver.

Posted by: Colonel Travis at August 29, 2022 07:47 AM (Cgo1x)

31
Intertank flange crack was not a thing. It was a faux crack caused by a air getting in the foam insulation. Made it look like a crack.

But, they've got a LH2 bleed problem on the #3 main engine. A valve is stuck or something, and they cain't get chilldown of the engine. That looks to be a showstopper.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 07:47 AM (Mzdiz)

32 Hm. Not really feeling semi-fascist today. Perhaps I missed a memo.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 29, 2022 07:49 AM (4olE8)

33 @31

>>But, they've got a LH2 bleed problem on the #3 main engine. A valve is stuck or something, and they cain't get chilldown of the engine. That looks to be a showstopper.

This sounds like the setup to an Infocom text adventure game.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 07:49 AM (IcEKK)

34 Every damn article has to mention multiple times that a woman and "person of color" (what a stupid damn phrase) might go to the moon. I don't care. I was enthusiastic about the space program untill the Shuttle became an antiquated relic just waiting for a disaster. It became apparent the NASA was no longer about space exploration and became a social program.

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 07:49 AM (sn5EN)

35 Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz)

Going to be really interesting when they are no longer able to suppress the actual statistics, but how long before an individual asking to see real death statistics across various states and countries will be considered extremist MAGA activity designed to foment unrest amongst the docile herd!

BRB, someone is knocking at the front door!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 07:49 AM (hOUT3)

36 "someone goes to look for a 30 million dollar screwdriver.
Posted by: Colonel Travis"

A local sourced free range non-binary screwdriver?

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 07:51 AM (sn5EN)

37 "For the first time in U.S. history, the political party in power is hunting down and jailing members of the opposition party for political dissidence, and . . . torturing them in jail."
***
"Well, let's wait and see how it plays out." Senator Tim Scott

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 29, 2022 07:52 AM (H8QX8)

38 I should call NASA's Mission Control and troll them about their used rocket's extended warranty.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2022 07:52 AM (BFigT)

39 "The income tax system depends on trust."
This Is How Government Breeds Mistrust

I recall reading an article once about how everyone in Greece cheated on their taxes because they "knew" that everyone else did.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 29, 2022 07:52 AM (GYIa4)

40 @36

>>A local sourced free range non-binary screwdriver?

It's a phased plasma sonic screwdriver in the 40watt range.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 07:52 AM (IcEKK)

41 Crap. NASA streaming coverage of the Artemis 1 launch....shitty video, no audio.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 29, 2022 07:52 AM (CCf67)

42 36 "someone goes to look for a 30 million dollar screwdriver.
Posted by: Colonel Travis"
A local sourced free range non-binary screwdriver?
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 07:51 AM (sn5EN)

Hmm, is a non-binary screwdriver able to screw everything?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 07:53 AM (hOUT3)

43 maple bacon donut from duck donuts is a good way to start the day.

that is all

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 29, 2022 07:53 AM (KdUK5)

44 I am at cape canaveral for the lsunch. Weather looks good. Hardware looks bad. Valve problem in one of the 4 liquid fuel engines. My engineering buddies in the control center in Houston say ut looks NO GO for today. No word yet on when the next attempt will be made. Could be Friday or Monday. Or weeks later.

Posted by: Gref at August 29, 2022 07:53 AM (ecfdA)

45 >> no audio.

The mouthpiece doesn't yak continuously. He comes on every so often with an update. Now usually about the "hydrogen team" needing more time to troubleshoot the bleed problem.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 07:54 AM (Mzdiz)

46 fd,

The gov/media has painted it as a "social program" as such to get support from the LIV. Meanwhile NASA has internally purged the stale/pale/males and is now a vey colorful and festive place to work. Most people don't realize that almost all the real work is done by contractors. NASA is just the boss.

Posted by: pawn at August 29, 2022 07:54 AM (wsHtO)

47 Two weeks!

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 07:54 AM (sn5EN)

48 "Well, let's wait and see how it plays out." Senator Tim Scott
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 29, 2022 07:52 AM (H8QX

To be fair, we really need McConnell in that Senate leadership role!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 07:55 AM (hOUT3)

49 I am at cape canaveral for the lsunch. Weather looks good. Hardware looks bad. Valve problem in one of the 4 liquid fuel engines. My engineering buddies in the control center in Houston say ut looks NO GO for today. No word yet on when the next attempt will be made. Could be Friday or Monday. Or weeks later.

Posted by: Gref at August 29, 2022 07:53 AM (ecfdA)

Of course.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 29, 2022 07:55 AM (CCf67)

50 Good morning morons and thanks JJ

Somehow, bail reform doesn't apply to some Americans held in pre-trial detention. Funny how the constitutional rights are furnished to some Americans, and not others.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2022 07:55 AM (EZebt)

51 Crap. NASA streaming coverage of the Artemis 1 launch....shitty video, no audio.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 29, 2022 07:52 AM (CCf67)
-

There's no audio because there's nothing to say at this point.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at August 29, 2022 07:55 AM (odVni)

52 WATCH: Sarcastic New Ad Rips Biden's Student Loan Debt "Bailout for Rich Kids"

It's a pretty good ad. Almost no one will ever see it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 29, 2022 07:56 AM (GYIa4)

53 Joe Biden Couldn't Spell "Fascist" If I Spotted Him The C And The A...

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More Coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 29, 2022 07:56 AM (kweYR)

54 @46

>>Meanwhile NASA has internally purged the stale/pale/males and is now a vey colorful and festive place to work.

Launch Celebrations of the past: Yeah's and Hi-fives.

Launch Celebrations of the Inclusive future: Coffin Dances and twerking.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 07:56 AM (IcEKK)

55 Hope everyone is having better morning than me. Time moving to fast

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 29, 2022 07:56 AM (eHb9Y)

56 Morning all and thanks for the news J.J.

Feeling depressed, only God can save this country now, if he even wants too.

Posted by: Spypeach at August 29, 2022 07:57 AM (gnwe5)

57 The post included audio that claimed that the Children’s National Hospital performed “gender-affirming” hysterectomies on minors, including those 16 years old and younger.

NO WRONG

The post played AUDIO of the HOSPITAL saying they would accept a 16 YO and had done surgeries on 16 YOs.

Moose out front should have told you Arbeit macht frei.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 07:57 AM (BRHaw)

58 @55

>>Time moving to fast

Almost as if it's slipping into the future.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 07:57 AM (IcEKK)

59 " Meanwhile NASA has internally purged the stale/pale/males and is now a very colorful and festive place to work."

I bet. They could redeem themselves if the first woman and person of color to go to the dark side of the moon is Kamala.

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 07:57 AM (sn5EN)

60 "I'll tell you when it's time to panic, and now is not that time."

The problem with that mentality was that, the whole time those folks were proudly displaying their hair not on fire, so much ground was given up as to make any panic too late.

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 07:57 AM (FVmN/)

61
Just send Slim Pickens to the bad (no smoking, Slim!), and have him climb up in the cowling of the #3 engine and start banging on the problematic valve.

He can ride that thing to orbit, waving his hat and screaming "Yee-Haw!".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 07:58 AM (Mzdiz)

62 36 "someone goes to look for a 30 million dollar screwdriver.
Posted by: Colonel Travis"

definitely not ValuRite based

Posted by: REDACTED at August 29, 2022 07:58 AM (us2H3)

63 Didn’t see it in the news dump but Antifa protected a drag kid friendly show with ARs over the weekend.

In Texas no less. Just lol.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 29, 2022 07:58 AM (YglAn)

64
There's no audio because there's nothing to say at this point.
Posted by: Biden's Dog at August 29, 2022 07:55 AM (odVni)

I'm spoiled by SpaceX launches. They discuss the mission, show the hardware during various stages of construction and assembly, etc etc.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 29, 2022 07:58 AM (CCf67)

65 Somehow, bail reform doesn't apply to some Americans held in pre-trial detention. Funny how the constitutional rights are furnished to some Americans, and not others.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2022 07:55 AM (EZebt)

Comrade SF, we are just returning to historical norms. That whole Constitutional Republic thing was clearly a wrong turn that deviated from the inevitable, and glorious, classical path to an improved future.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 07:58 AM (hOUT3)

66
He said the reason the regime has been able to get away with so many violations of human rights is because they were able to label Trump supporters as subhumans.

Ah, the old Nazi playbook. Trump-Anhänger als Untermenschen.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 29, 2022 07:58 AM (jE276)

67 If the current SLS issue an engine problem, they will probably have to roll it back to get access to that area.

I don't think they have work platforms at the Pad for access.

Maybe they can get some super duper man lifts like Elon's crew uses but they would need to lift 20 people at once to do all the paperwork.

Posted by: pawn at August 29, 2022 07:59 AM (wsHtO)

68 Those sex with animals people deserve no less than being chunked into the Atlantic Ocean in shark infested waters. At night. Exactly how does one go about getting "consent" from an animal???

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 29, 2022 08:00 AM (sVtYq)

69 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 29, 2022 08:00 AM (T4tVD)

70 To insanity, and beyond!

Posted by: Guy in a high heeled space suit at August 29, 2022 08:00 AM (sn5EN)

71 Feeling depressed, only God can save this country now, if he even wants too.
Posted by: Spypeach
___

Why should He?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 29, 2022 08:01 AM (8HfoY)

72 Space X vs NASA. Discuss.

Posted by: dantesed at August 29, 2022 08:01 AM (88xKn)

73 Time moving to fast

Almost as if it's slipping into the future.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

It keeps on.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 29, 2022 08:01 AM (nyNes)

74
Here's the funny thing. That exhaustive German mortality analysis shows the Coof itself didn't cause much excess mortality. It simply pulled expected deaths forward. That is, it killed off very old and sick people who would've died from something else in a few months anyway. That is clear from the data, for Germany at least.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 08:02 AM (Mzdiz)

75 Heya JT.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 29, 2022 08:02 AM (8HfoY)

76 {{{Spypeach}}}
How are you all doing?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 08:02 AM (hOUT3)

77 I've said for years that gay marriage will be the gateway to pet marriage. Marriage to 8 year olds of any gender not far behind.

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:02 AM (sn5EN)

78 Space X vs NASA. Discuss.
___

Don't care.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 29, 2022 08:02 AM (8HfoY)

79 This sounds like the setup to an Infocom text adventure game.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 07:49 AM (IcEKK)
----
Next step: Get eaten by a grue...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2022 08:02 AM (YIVH2)

80 IF the cheat works -- as they intend it to do and, tragically, are still well-positioned to do--for the DemMarxists in 2022 then it's time to join the Red State Refugee Program.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at August 29, 2022 08:03 AM (wReBR)

81 72 Space X vs NASA. Discuss.
Posted by: dantesed at August 29, 2022 08:01 AM (88xKn)

Proof that the government can fuck up a wet dream and private enterprise gets things done.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 29, 2022 08:03 AM (4olE8)

82 Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 29, 2022 08:01 AM (8HfoY)

There’s still good and decent people?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 29, 2022 08:04 AM (YglAn)

83 Why should He?
Posted by: SMH at what's coming

{{{SMH}}}
More and more I am coming around to your point of view!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 08:04 AM (hOUT3)

84 NASA vs. SpaceX

USPS vs F1 Pit Crew

Posted by: pawn at August 29, 2022 08:04 AM (wsHtO)

85 Hiya SMH !

Happy Monday !

Posted by: JT at August 29, 2022 08:04 AM (T4tVD)

86 There’s still good and decent people?
Posted by: thathalfrican
___

Guess we'll see, won't we?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 29, 2022 08:04 AM (8HfoY)

87 According to Paxton, fascism uses such propaganda to promote:

anti-liberalism, rejecting individual rights, civil liberties, free enterprise and democracy

That's the modern Democrat party platform.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 29, 2022 08:04 AM (g1EEm)

88 I dig space exploration and am happy NASA has refocused on the moon, but the constant references to women and colored peoples makes me think the actual mission might be doomed from the start. NASA's obviously fixated on the social constructs and not the mechanical constructs of their rocket.

I've seen this picture before. Won't end well.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2022 08:04 AM (BFigT)

89 I've done Holocaust education in 'post-Communist' countries. The biggest problem all of them had, and continue to have, is that the biggest threat isn't from 'Fascist Individuals', it's from Hard-Left Communists.
Like Eric Hoffer pointed out, the greatest threat to Communist outfits after their initial fuckwits get killed off, and many of those are 'Jews', usually, is the complaint not that it's Communist, but it's not Communist enough.
Do some research, and what you will find is the ComBlok spent the vast majority of their time fighting internal enemies trying to deny human reality and wanted it to MORE Communist.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 29, 2022 08:05 AM (U11/V)

90 . . . “For the first time in U.S. history, the political party in power is hunting down and jailing members of the opposition party for political dissidence, and not only that, they’re torturing them in jail,” McBride said. “This is the stuff of dictatorships.”
++++
You could make an argument that it is not the first time, and that some imprisonments during the War Between the States represented a similar condition, or that Japanese internment during WWII did. There is a major, key distinguishing characteristic in that both of those - if you want to make the argument - happened during periods of war and we are not in such a period now and that they were not purely political actions.

What's happening today is a purely political action and devoid of even a fig leaf of military justification. It's about domestic political power and social control. Nothing more.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2022 08:05 AM (WWh8n)

91
Oh, now the spokeshole has spoken up about the bleed problem. Seems they didn't get a chance to test something that needed to be tested. And the first test was the actual launch sequence.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 08:05 AM (Mzdiz)

92 Crap. NASA streaming coverage of the Artemis 1 launch....shitty video, no audio.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 29, 2022 07:52 AM (CCf67)

------

Looks like that primary mission under Obama of Muslim outreach has really paid off.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 29, 2022 08:05 AM (QbCrG)

93 I'm sure there were those in Sodom and Gomorrah who thought themselves good and decent also.

God, otoh, has much higher standards.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 29, 2022 08:05 AM (8HfoY)

94 I don't know about anyone else but I'm effing angry as hell that this illegally elected president of MY country is now calling me a fucking fascist! W T F. It's words like this that start wars.

Posted by: sidney at August 29, 2022 08:06 AM (Uy/WF)

95 Communists screaming Fascism again,
what am I in 1941 ?

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 29, 2022 08:06 AM (eHb9Y)

96 Remember when Trump's inaugural was called "dark" and "divisive"?

No word on what it means to call more than half the country "semi-fascists."

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 29, 2022 08:06 AM (H8QX8)

97 Avenge me!!!

Canada's women's hockey team beat Japan 9-0 -- the same score that Japan beat the Canadian Little League World Series team by!

I know you don't care but I just thought it was a funny coincidence.

BTW, we play Team USA tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the last game of general play.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 29, 2022 08:06 AM (yikp0)

98 @81

>>Proof that the government can fuck up a wet dream and private enterprise gets things done.

Well the prime driver of private enterprise is the profit motive, the prime driver of the new and improved NASA is, is the checklist gender neutral and is there sufficient BIPOC representation in engineering and mission control.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 08:07 AM (IcEKK)

99 Hunting down and jailing members of the opposition party and labeling everyone that supports MAGA as terrorists and pointing it out is just Black Pill doomer BS.
The left is panicking because they feel their power slipping through their fingers.
Court decisions like Roe v Wade being overturned is proof we are winning.

Posted by: JROD at August 29, 2022 08:07 AM (0jZnq)

100 Communists screaming Fascism again,
what am I in 1941 ?
Posted by: Skip's phone

I like that movie !

Posted by: JT at August 29, 2022 08:07 AM (T4tVD)

101 Posted by: sidney at August 29, 2022 08:06 AM (Uy/WF)
___

After awhile, you run out of outrage.

As far as being called names, that's nothing compared to what's in store.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 29, 2022 08:07 AM (8HfoY)

102 I've said for years that gay marriage will be the gateway to pet marriage. Marriage to 8 year olds of any gender not far behind.
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:02 AM (sn5EN)

Please we are not animals, 9 is the established proper age for marriage!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 08:07 AM (hOUT3)

103 y'all have a good one.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 29, 2022 08:08 AM (8HfoY)

104 They have well and truly internalized the farcical notion that 2016 was stolen. That is part of their worldview now. A Fact about History that no sane person would challenge.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2022 07:36 AM (6FeV1)

1. 2016, an election held while Biden was VP, was stolen by Trump.
2. During Trump's four years in office, the man who stole the election in 2016 ensured that the 2020 election was the freest, fairest election in the history of ever.
3. Biden, the man elected after the Trump Administration ensured the freest, fairest election in the history of ever, is now, after only two years, concerned that elections could once again be stolen.

Lunacy that they both believe that AND think Biden is the one to fix it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 29, 2022 08:08 AM (GYIa4)

105 Well the prime driver of private enterprise is the profit motive, the prime driver of the new and improved NASA is, is the checklist gender neutral and is there sufficient BIPOC representation in engineering and mission control.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 08:07 AM (IcEKK)

As long as the graft is untouched, I don't see the problem!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 08:08 AM (hOUT3)

106 What's in our future? Civil War? Partition? Amicable divorce?
++++
What is the difference between "partition" and "amicable divorce?" Level of peacefulness, with a partition being violent and a divorce being less violent? If that's the distinction, then what's the difference between a civil war and a partition? Is it that a civil war, properly defined, is when multiple domestic parties vie for control of the state apparatus whereas a partition would be akin to the War Between the States in that it would be a independence war resulting in two states (or more) upon success?

How long does "amicable" last? One of the problems I have with the "national divorce" concept is that I disagree that it will survive long-term. A "divorce" will allow redrawing of boundaries and arms production, but it is a stay of execution for a war. War is the inevitable outcome of divorce. That stay may be useful and valuable, but divorce is not a war-elimination mechanism, it is a war-deferring mechanism.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2022 08:09 AM (WWh8n)

107 y'all have a good one.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming

Same to you SMH!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 08:09 AM (hOUT3)

108 Hm. Not really feeling semi-fascist today. Perhaps I missed a memo.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 29, 2022 07:49 AM (4olE

just wait until the really snazzy uniforms arrive. I'm told you can't be a fascist without a uniform...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 29, 2022 08:09 AM (KdUK5)

109 98 the prime driver of the new and improved NASA is, is the checklist gender neutral and is there sufficient BIPOC representation in engineering and mission control.

And courtesy of the JEF, to boost Muslim self-esteem.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 29, 2022 08:09 AM (4olE8)

110 Progressives, DemoNcrats and other assorted lower 2% scum element types have blurred the lines so badly, on purpose, that their goal to have sex with any creature that stands up on two legs or four legs appears to them to be so close to fulfillment that they can not quiet down the fever that is fueling their TDS-infested minds.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Used Sodomite Progressives at August 29, 2022 08:10 AM (8m/Xb)

111 Little League World Series update: Hawaii wins the series beating Curacao 13-3 -- speaking of coincidences from the news chyrons here this morning.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 29, 2022 08:10 AM (yikp0)

112 Todays FOAD List:
Arizona’s Mark Kelly, Georgia’s Raphael Warnock, Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto, New Hampshire’s Maggie Hassan Tim Ryan and Florida’s Val Demings.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:10 AM (BRHaw)

113 Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 29, 2022 08:05 AM (8HfoY)

IIRC all the good people left that city with Abraham. That city was so corrupt and horrible less than 10 righteous people were found.

Sounds like DC

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 29, 2022 08:11 AM (YglAn)

114 Second, at least a third of the nation willingly supports or has been duped into supporting our own enslavement.

The fatherless black family is a core constituency of those ideas. Irresponsibility is praised and hard work ethics are degraded.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 07:41 AM (BRHaw)

That's part of it, certainly, but the entire power structure now exists to prevent people from seeing the truth. Until, and unless, something happens to you personally, which you survive, which causes you to wake from the encouraged slumber, people don't even START looking for the truth.

Assuming that they do start, roadblocks are put in place everywhere.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 29, 2022 08:11 AM (GYIa4)

115 That city was so corrupt and horrible less than 10 righteous people were found.

Sounds like DC
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One

DC only had one honest resident, and he left on 20JAN2021.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 08:13 AM (hOUT3)

116 76 {{{Spypeach}}}
How are you all doing?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Hanging in there, gonna be a grandma in January, but even with the joy of that, I can't help feeling depressed about their future.

Posted by: Spypeach at August 29, 2022 08:13 AM (gnwe5)

117 Coof itself didn't cause much excess mortality. It simply pulled expected deaths forward. [...] That is clear from the data, for Germany at least.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

That's been clear the world over from the earliest data on the coof. Your % probability of dying from covid hews remarkably close to 10^(age/20) / 2000.

That's 5% chance of death if you're 80, 0.5% if you're 60, 0.05% if you're 40, and so on.

If you've been vaccinated in the last 6-12 months it's roughly equivalent to subtracting 20 years from your age in that formula (i.e. reducing your death probability by an order of magnitude). (I am not making any statement about other potential side effects of the vaccine).

Unless this thing mutates milder, or we get vaccines that work long-term (seems unlikely to me), coof is going to be another thing to add to the list of major things that kill you when you're old: heart disease, cancer, and now coof.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 29, 2022 08:14 AM (g1EEm)

118 They fear Trump. They hate us.

That's what all this blustering is about.

Posted by: Case at August 29, 2022 08:14 AM (tmQgQ)

119 What is the difference between "partition" and "amicable divorce?" Level of peacefulness, with a partition being violent and a divorce being less violent? If that's the distinction, then what's the difference between a civil war and a partition? Is it that a civil war, properly defined, is when multiple domestic parties vie for control of the state apparatus whereas a partition would be akin to the War Between the States in that it would be a independence war resulting in two states (or more) upon success?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2022 08:09 AM (WWh8n)

Partition typically implies a third party (or multiple) doing the partitioning. Could be mediation, could be invasion.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 08:14 AM (b2nrj)

120 The most obvious reason was that during the Trump administration, the CIA had warned India that Al-Logari was planning to carry out a suicide attack in New Delhi. Indian authorities caught him and turned him over to the CIA which kept him in a prison near Bagram Air Base. During Biden’s disastrous withdrawal, Bagram was abandoned and the Taliban freed the prisoners.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:14 AM (BRHaw)

121 “For the first time in U.S. history, the political party in power is hunting down and jailing members of the opposition party for political dissidence, and not only that, they’re torturing them in jail,” McBride said. “This is the stuff of dictatorships.”
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Welcome to the HQ, Mr. McBride. Stick around; I appreciate your words and would like to hear more.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2022 08:14 AM (HD60s)

122 Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 29, 2022 08:11 AM (GYIa4)

Once you realize we live in the matrix and they put us in a hamster wheel it’s impossible to notice all the fraud everywhere

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 29, 2022 08:14 AM (YglAn)

123 the lawlessness of US jusice has always been with us

used to be they would give favored criminals a break

now they just freshened up a bit by jailing the unfavored

Posted by: REDACTED at August 29, 2022 08:15 AM (us2H3)

124 Todays FOAD List:
Arizona’s Mark Kelly, Georgia’s Raphael Warnock, Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto, New Hampshire’s Maggie Hassan Tim Ryan and Florida’s Val Demings.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:10 AM (BRHaw)

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By the time I finish with mine, it will be tomorrow.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 29, 2022 08:15 AM (QbCrG)

125 112 Todays FOAD List:
Arizona’s Mark Kelly, Georgia’s Raphael Warnock, Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto, New Hampshire’s Maggie Hassan Tim Ryan and Florida’s Val Demings

*******
That's a really short list when so many known enemies of the state need to receive their due recognition

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Used Sodomite Progressives at August 29, 2022 08:15 AM (8m/Xb)

126 Partition typically implies a third party (or multiple) doing the partitioning. Could be mediation, could be invasion.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 08:14 AM (b2nrj)
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Mediation is right out. Invasion is unlikely, though foreign intervention is not. If a war pops off in this country, it will be decided externally. With us distracted with each other, some external power is going to come to the conclusion that if they intervene - say a nuke or three on the capital city and major production centers on one side or the other - they can end it favorably for themselves.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2022 08:16 AM (WWh8n)

127 Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 29, 2022 08:14 AM (g1EEm)

That non-statement is a hell of a statement.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 29, 2022 08:16 AM (YglAn)

128 Assuming that they do start, roadblocks are put in place everywhere.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 29, 2022 08:11 AM (GYIa4)
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There are many new roadblocks now, entire streets have been closed off. Driving has become a total sh*tshow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 29, 2022 08:17 AM (EZebt)

129 Hanging in there, gonna be a grandma in January, but even with the joy of that, I can't help feeling depressed about their future.
Posted by: Spypeach

Good on being a future grandma, I am sure you will do it well!

In the meantime, I recommend you go to last night's ONT and scroll down to the comment of the day.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 08:17 AM (hOUT3)

130 That's part of it, certainly, but the entire power structure now exists to prevent people from seeing the truth. Until, and unless, something happens to you personally, which you survive, which causes you to wake from the encouraged slumber, people don't even START looking for the truth.

Assuming that they do start, roadblocks are put in place everywhere.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 29, 2022 08:11 AM (GYIa4)

I saw it happen to my wife. She believed that the medical system (she has been in all her life) was there to help. Then as the entire vax scam came out and she stated that we would NOT be getting boosters her whole thought process changed. She now trust almost no one!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:18 AM (BRHaw)

131 106>"divorce is not a war-elimination mechanism, it is a war-deferring mechanism."

So true.

Posted by: sidney at August 29, 2022 08:18 AM (Uy/WF)

132 Washington "Commanders" running back Brian Robinson Jr. is in stable condition after being shot in a robbery attempt. [I assume on him and not by him!]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 29, 2022 08:18 AM (yikp0)

133 Moon Mission is going to be scrubbed, they'll get to do it all over in a year.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 08:19 AM (IcEKK)

134 Exactly how does one go about getting "consent" from an animal???
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 29, 2022 08:00 AM (sVtYq)

Did you see what it was wearing? It was completely naked...just asking for it. -- German deviant (the vanguard of deviancy)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 29, 2022 08:19 AM (GYIa4)

135 Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:18 AM (BRHaw)

The damage the medical community did to itself will not be undone for at least 50 years.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 29, 2022 08:19 AM (YglAn)

136 In the meantime, I recommend you go to last night's ONT and scroll down to the comment of the day.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Thank you 😊

Posted by: Spypeach at August 29, 2022 08:19 AM (gnwe5)

137 Here's the funny thing. That exhaustive German mortality analysis shows the Coof itself didn't cause much excess mortality. It simply pulled expected deaths forward. That is, it killed off very old and sick people who would've died from something else in a few months anyway. That is clear from the data, for Germany at least.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 08:02 AM (Mzdiz)

Something which was known, but not permitted to be said, by May 2020.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 29, 2022 08:20 AM (GYIa4)

138 What's in our future? Civil War? Partition? Amicable divorce?

The Balkans. Oh, you've got plenty of folks on the Left, and Right that would gladly rid themselves of each other. You've also, however, got an extremely loud faction that view the United States as indivisible. They view the entire geographical entity as, somehow, "theirs". A suicide pact, if you will. And those people will not accept a United States divided up.

So, we'll be Balkanized after collapse. Repeats of stuff like the Kansas - Missouri Border War. And it won't be purely based on Left vs. Right. It'll be based on "You Can't Leave" vs. "Watch Me".

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 08:20 AM (rxfxK)

139 133 Moon Mission is going to be scrubbed, they'll get to do it all over in a year.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 08:19 AM (IcEKK)

Ah, so another graft acquisition success for NASA?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 08:21 AM (hOUT3)

140 Unless this thing mutates milder, or we get vaccines that work long-term (seems unlikely to me), coof is going to be another thing to add to the list of major things that kill you when you're old: heart disease, cancer, and now coof.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 29, 2022 08:14 AM (g1EEm)

It has mutated to milder strains like all viruses do. The problem is the jabs have damaged a lot of peoples immune systems. It makes you more susceptible to strains of the disease. It has happened when they used mRNA therapies in animals.

Really, age effects your ability to fight infections? I'm shocked by that revelation.

Posted by: WiNO - Amish Vampires in Space at August 29, 2022 08:21 AM (EpDzw)

141 Todays FOAD List:
Arizona’s Mark Kelly, Georgia’s Raphael Warnock, Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto, New Hampshire’s Maggie Hassan Tim Ryan and Florida’s Val Demings.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:10 AM (BRHaw)

We're gonna need a bigger list...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 29, 2022 08:21 AM (KdUK5)

142 Thank you 😊
Posted by: Spypeach

You are more than welcome!
Take care of your and yours and endeavor to persevere!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 08:22 AM (hOUT3)

143 Ah, so another graft acquisition success for NASA?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 08:21 AM (hOUT3)
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"We only need $100 billion to get it right next time! Pinkie swear!" -- NASA Mission Control

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2022 08:22 AM (YIVH2)

144 There was a "Fish" marathon on Decades TV last weekend. It was a pretty lame show. I guess people already marry fish. Mary Matlin married a snakehead.

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:23 AM (sn5EN)

145 49 I am at cape canaveral for the lsunch. Weather looks good. Hardware looks bad. Valve problem in one of the 4 liquid fuel engines. My engineering buddies in the control center in Houston say ut looks NO GO for today. No word yet on when the next attempt will be made. Could be Friday or Monday. Or weeks later.

Posted by: Gref at August 29, 2022 07:53 AM (ecfdA)

Of course.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 29, 2022 07:55 AM (CCf67)
*******

The parts were undoubtedly ordered from that piece of dogshit Hunter Biden's Chinese pals

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Used Sodomite Progressives at August 29, 2022 08:23 AM (8m/Xb)

146 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

This guy gets it!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 08:23 AM (hOUT3)

147 Three dead in OR grocery store shooting; and four shot, three fatally, in Detroit in 'random' attack -- suspect arrested.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 29, 2022 08:23 AM (yikp0)

148 There was a "Fish" marathon on Decades TV last weekend. It was a pretty lame show. I guess people already marry fish. Mary Matlin married a snakehead.
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:23 AM (sn5EN)
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Troy McClure was unavailable for comment....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2022 08:24 AM (YIVH2)

149 72 Space X vs NASA. Discuss.
Posted by: dantesed at August 29, 2022 08:01 AM (88xKn)

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My dad does consulting with NASA. He told me the contrast between Space X and NASA this way:

NASA presented Space X with a problem: They needed a way to hook up two free floating craft in the weightlessness of space. NASA's solution has always been a complex series of systems about getting one thing to slot perfectly into another (there's a scene that involves this in Apollo 13).

Space X used a hook. Developed it in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:24 AM (LvTSG)

150 VP Kamala Harris is at Cape Canaveral for the launch. Actually, she thought she's there is for lunch.

Posted by: dantesed at August 29, 2022 08:24 AM (88xKn)

151
Spokeshole spoke up again. More discussions of the bleed problem. Awaiting updates. Countdown on hold.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 08:24 AM (Mzdiz)

152 That is a lot on money just to send a couple of non-white not males to the moon to hit a few golf balls.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 29, 2022 08:24 AM (yj6ag)

153 "They have well and truly internalized the farcical notion that 2016 was stolen. That is part of their worldview now. A Fact about History that no sane person would challenge.
Posted by: Warai-otoko"

This, despite their precious Mueller investigation, not finding shred of evidence of Russian collusion. Or any of their beloved MSM in-depth reporting. Not to mention it was an obvious lie from the start that only a child could believe. Just what would it take to convince them otherwise

Posted by: Ripley at August 29, 2022 08:24 AM (MxEKc)

154 When the cancellation was announced, I wrote that my first instinct was that it was solely political in nature, and that it stemmed from the growing animus in the federal bureaucracy and in the Biden administration to Elon Musk, combined with a lobbying effort by SpaceX's competitors against Starlink. I think Carr's statements this week confirm my instincts entirely. The cancellation was purely political.

And, this is how they treat a previously good Democrat, Elon Musk, when he strays just a degree or two off the Stalinist line. The rest of us, obviously, will be in Garland Gulag.

Posted by: Beware of men bearing ice picks at August 29, 2022 08:25 AM (kP3zg)

155 The parts were undoubtedly ordered from that piece of dogshit Hunter Biden's Chinese pals
Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Used Sodomite Progressives at August 29, 2022 08:23 AM (8m/Xb)

To be fair, since we can no longer manufacture almost anything in the US, who else are we supposed to buy from?
And besides there's the 10% bonus for the Big Guy!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana! ~ at August 29, 2022 08:25 AM (hOUT3)

156 153 This, despite their precious Mueller investigation, not finding shred of evidence of Russian collusion. Or any of their beloved MSM in-depth reporting. Not to mention it was an obvious lie from the start that only a child could believe. Just what would it take to convince them otherwise
Posted by: Ripley at August 29, 2022 08:24 AM (MxEKc)

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They think Putin changed vote totals in machines in Michigan.

We think dedicated partisans ran the same ballots through machines repeatedly in Atlanta.

One of these is acceptable to say. The other is not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:26 AM (LvTSG)

157 "The parts were undoubtedly ordered from that piece of dogshit Hunter Biden's Chinese pals"

I was going to say earlier that that flange made from recycled scrap toasters probably was made in China. Who would be surprised?

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:26 AM (sn5EN)

158 Boeing sucks.

Just saying.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2022 08:26 AM (kP3zg)

159 Who started all this Civil War talk? Was it that Governor of New York?

Posted by: Case at August 29, 2022 08:27 AM (tmQgQ)

160 The Balkans. Oh, you've got plenty of folks on the Left, and Right that would gladly rid themselves of each other. You've also, however, got an extremely loud faction that view the United States as indivisible. They view the entire geographical entity as, somehow, "theirs". A suicide pact, if you will. And those people will not accept a United States divided up.

So, we'll be Balkanized after collapse. Repeats of stuff like the Kansas - Missouri Border War. And it won't be purely based on Left vs. Right. It'll be based on "You Can't Leave" vs. "Watch Me".
Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 08:20 AM (rxfxK)

Strong impetus towards unity and being divided into a bunch of tiny states(which is what Balkanization means) is kind of contradictory.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 08:27 AM (b2nrj)

161 There was a "Fish" marathon on Decades TV last weekend. It was a pretty lame show. I guess people already marry fish. Mary Matlin married a snakehead.
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:23 AM (sn5EN)

"Hello Larry" > "Fish"

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 29, 2022 08:27 AM (kweYR)

162
Curacao. When you sound it out, it's how you make prosciutto.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 29, 2022 08:27 AM (x0n13)

163 They have well and truly internalized the farcical notion that 2016 was stolen. That is part of their worldview now. A Fact about History that no sane person would challenge.

Just like in the workplace, when the boss repeats the lie long enough, loud enough, in front of big enough groups of people, and never gets called on it, the lie becomes truth. Smart bosses make a big deal about calling everybody together when they have a good lie to tell.

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 08:27 AM (rxfxK)

164 Artemis is bleeding? This gives me an idea for a song!

Posted by: Alice Cooper, babies at August 29, 2022 08:28 AM (sn5EN)

165 And, this is how they treat a previously good Democrat, Elon Musk, when he strays just a degree or two off the Stalinist line. The rest of us, obviously, will be in Garland Gulag.
Posted by: Beware of men bearing ice picks at August 29, 2022 08:25 AM (kP3zg)
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Yeah, but even before Musk started getting involved in the culture war, the government was often more than a bit obstructionist. That stopped under Trump, and now it's back and on steroids. There's a reason SpaceX is working on sea-based launch capacity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2022 08:28 AM (WWh8n)

166
Elon and SpaceX got the contract for the HLS, Human landing system, for the next planned Moon landing (the one that will get the first person of woman and person color on the Moon, vomit).

It's a modified Starship. The plan is a hybrid between Earth orbit rendezvous and lunar orbit rendezvous. Elon will launch the HLS. Other Startships will tank it up in orbit, and fuel it up for a lunar orbit insertion.

It will get in lunar orbit and loiter. The SLS will launch the Orion with a crew, which will get in lunar orbit and dock with the HLS, which will then land the crew on the Moon.

They'll do shit, then. Planned landing locations are at the lunar south pole. The Shoemaker Crater is an attractive spot. They think there's water lurking around there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 08:29 AM (Mzdiz)

167 @159

>>Who started all this Civil War talk? Was it that Governor of New York?

Talk of CW has been brewing for at least a decade, but a non-elected sitting Governor telling all of the members of her oppositional political party to leave her state certainly moves The Overton Window a tick.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 08:29 AM (IcEKK)

168 165 Yeah, but even before Musk started getting involved in the culture war, the government was often more than a bit obstructionist. That stopped under Trump, and now it's back and on steroids. There's a reason SpaceX is working on sea-based launch capacity.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2022 08:28 AM (WWh8n)

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"Man, regulation is awesome. It keeps my competitors down."
-Capitalist buying rope

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:29 AM (LvTSG)

169 Your morning ~~smile~~ vomit:

@Breaking911 · 13h
SCHUMER: "[Biden] eased the crushing burden of student loan debt for tens, tens of millions of Americans. [...] Rather than helping the privileged few, it's going to lift up Americans from all walks of life. Students of color. Poor Americans. Children of immigrants."

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 29, 2022 08:30 AM (yikp0)

170 The parts were undoubtedly ordered from that piece of dogshit Hunter Biden's Chinese pals

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & Used Sodomite Progressives at August 29, 2022 08:23 AM (8m/Xb)

Made from the finest Chinesium, in the dodgiest of Beijing's stunning sweat shops.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 29, 2022 08:30 AM (CCf67)

171 167 Talk of CW has been brewing for at least a decade, but a non-elected sitting Governor telling all of the members of her oppositional political party to leave her state certainly moves The Overton Window a tick.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 08:29 AM (IcEKK)

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Cuomo said it a few years ago himself.

Must be a New York values thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:30 AM (LvTSG)

172 Finally, there's the question of compromise and common ground. You cannot have reconciliation or even accommodation with a political entity and its constituents who view you as an evil to be eradicated.

That street runs both ways. The main difference is that many of us not of the Left can detail the long chain of abuses, specific instances of evil, and timeline their march from a Constitutional Republic to Lord of the Flies.

Often times, rather than going through this unending list, we use terms like "Communism", "Tyranny", "Totalitarianism", "Fascism" or some other historical label that fit a particular approach by The Enemy. We can back up those words and might even be frustrated that there isn't a word (outside of Scripture) that appropriately labels this evil.

OTOH, they just use those words to characterize us without even knowing what those words mean, and certainly without any substance or backing.

At the end, those words just motivate both bases to work to end this relationship.

For me: "Days of Noah" and "Maranatha".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 29, 2022 08:30 AM (3hSHB)

173 I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.”

Horde, Horde, Horde....we're getting too upset over this. Sponge Brain, with his ice cream fixation, obviously meant semi-fredo.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 29, 2022 08:31 AM (4p7Em)

174 Really, age effects your ability to fight infections? I'm shocked by that revelation.
Posted by: WiNO - Amish Vampires in Space

What's odd about coof is that exponential formula holds down to newborns. So a newborn has essentially zero probability of death from coof. That's not true of things like flu, which kills little kids at a significantly higher rate than, say, teens. (coof is also particularly deadly in the elderly compared to flu).

This is why vaccinating kids is such a scam.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 29, 2022 08:31 AM (g1EEm)

175 That is a lot on money just to send a couple of non-white not males to the moon to hit a few golf balls.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 29, 2022 08:24 AM (yj6ag)

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It's important that the first sexual congress on the moon be a lesbian affair. There will be cocktails named in its honor!

Out: Sex on the Beach.
In: Sex on the Moon.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 29, 2022 08:31 AM (QbCrG)

176 And, this is how they treat a previously good Democrat, Elon Musk, when he strays just a degree or two off the Stalinist line. The rest of us, obviously, will be in Garland Gulag.
Posted by: Beware of men bearing ice picks at August 29, 2022 08:25 AM (kP3zg)

Yeah, it's been kind of amazing to watch how various media-chumps fell into line and now Musk instead of being The Last American Genius!!! is now some lowbrow, troglodyte spewing horrible hateful garbage from his caviar-hole, thus endangering his company Tesla and SpaceX and four very Democracy itself!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2022 08:31 AM (5NkmN)

177 Talk of CW has been brewing for at least a decade, but a non-elected sitting Governor telling all of the members of her oppositional political party to leave her state certainly moves The Overton Window a tick.

Openly rigging 2020 didn't do anything to slow it down. Really, what are people going to do ? Say to themselves "Oh well, it's tyranny now - but dog-gone it, at least it's tyranny with great symbols and songs" ? Well, obviously, some people will. But only because those people are more in love with the symbols and songs than any notion of self-government.

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 08:31 AM (rxfxK)

178
The number 3 engine on Artemis ain't bleeding enough. That's the problem. Stuck valve or something. They've got to get the fuel plumbing cooled down enough. LH2 is at -423F temp. You don't just start that shit flowing wide open with piping at room temperature.

You've got to cool it down slowly by trickling in a little bit. They can't get that going. #3 engine ain't cooling down.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 08:32 AM (Mzdiz)

179 So, in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ."

Galatians 3:26

Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2022 08:32 AM (VpIIl)

180 176 Yeah, it's been kind of amazing to watch how various media-chumps fell into line and now Musk instead of being The Last American Genius!!! is now some lowbrow, troglodyte spewing horrible hateful garbage from his caviar-hole, thus endangering his company Tesla and SpaceX and four very Democracy itself!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2022 08:31 AM (5NkmN)

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In the first episode of Star Trek Discovery, the main character name drops Elon Musk as one of the great thinkers and visionaries of history.

I seriously doubt that line gets written today on that show.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:32 AM (LvTSG)

181 Future studies should try to quantify whether the trend of increasing usage of terms denoting prejudice and social justice discourse in academic and news media content has also spread to other influential social institutions such as political parties, think tanks, supranational organizations or the entertainment industry.

David Rozado Ph.D. in Computer Science found that out of 175 million news articles around 82% include social justice terms.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:32 AM (BRHaw)

182 Every time the Dems lose they start talking about splitting the country. The same for the other side. It's mostly sour grapes. It would take a really catastrophic event, possibly natural, for the US to split up.

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:32 AM (sn5EN)

183 You should be grateful he didn't call you full-on fascists, peasants.

Posted by: The Media at August 29, 2022 08:32 AM (H8QX8)

184 Curacao. When you sound it out, it's how you make prosciutto.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 29, 2022 08:27 AM

*rimshot*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 29, 2022 08:33 AM (4p7Em)

185 @171

>>Cuomo said it a few years ago himself.

Perhaps, but at least Cuomo was a nominally "elected"
Governor, this Hochel humunculous is a wickedly foul partisan, who hasn't even had the decency to actually be elected before spouting off lunacy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 08:33 AM (IcEKK)

186 Netanyahu on Biden-Iran Nuke Deal: “This is madness! This is the height of folly!”

Of all the insanity of the last year and change, this will have the most immediately violent result. I seriously question if New York and Washington survive the Biden Junta.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2022 08:33 AM (kP3zg)

187 182 Every time the Dems lose they start talking about splitting the country. The same for the other side. It's mostly sour grapes. It would take a really catastrophic event, possibly natural, for the US to split up.
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:32 AM (sn5EN)

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After 2012, there was talk that the Texas secession movement was real.

Ten years later, and...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:33 AM (LvTSG)

188 "Rather than helping the privileged few, it's going to lift up Americans from all walks of life. Students of color. Poor Americans. Children of immigrants.""

Now who's privileged?

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:33 AM (sn5EN)

189 A Civil War/divorce is as likely as voting our way out of this mess. Not going to happen. People will conform and adjust their lives accordingly. As long as we still get our online porn, video games and can complain on blogs we'll get our hit of dopamine and remain docile. Those that would fight will just move someplace they can mostly avoid the societal decay/crime and live out their lives peacefully and die with a lot of ammo and guns.

Posted by: JROD at August 29, 2022 08:33 AM (0jZnq)

190 This is why vaccinating kids is such a scam.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 29, 2022 08:31 AM (g1EEm)
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It's only a scam if they are injecting kids with saline and telling them it's a vaccine.

If they are actually injecting an experimental vaccine with unknown long term side effects into still-developing bodies, well, that's something else entirely...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2022 08:33 AM (YIVH2)

191 185 Perhaps, but at least Cuomo was a nominally "elected"
Governor, this Hochel humunculous is a wickedly foul partisan, who hasn't even had the decency to actually be elected before spouting off lunacy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 08:33 AM (IcEKK)

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To be completely fair, she's going to win by at least 20 points in just over 2 months.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:34 AM (LvTSG)

192 Every time the Dems lose they start talking about splitting the country.
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:32 AM (sn5EN)

But they won, and they're still calling for it.

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

193 Curacao. When you sound it out, it's how you make prosciutto.
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And how to make jerky if you don't know what a cedilla accent-mark is for!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 29, 2022 08:34 AM (yikp0)

194 Over the weekend, Mitch McConnell pulled all of the funding from Masters in Arizona and gave it to Murkowski in Alaska.

The single greatest threat to liberty in the senate is Mitch McConnell.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2022 08:34 AM (VpIIl)

195 192 Every time the Dems lose they start talking about splitting the country.
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:32 AM (sn5EN)

But they won, and they're still calling for it.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 29, 2022 08:34 AM (H8QX

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They know they're about to lose. Big.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:34 AM (LvTSG)

196 RNC Research
@RNCResearch
6m
Joe Biden has not done an on-camera interview with an American press outlet since February 10 -- 200 days ago.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 29, 2022 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

197 What we’re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the – I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism

*

Take note that the president of the United States is using the same language as antifa, the people who were burning cities, attacking, forming armed roadblocks, and murdering people prior to the 2020 steal.

So no is confused about what is coming, this statement by Biden is EXACTLY like the statements around this time in 2020 where the same people were telling folks not to believe it when Trump won because it wouldn't be true. Trump would lose weeks later, and it is a red mirage.

This is the same thing but worse. They are preparing you for what they are going to do when MAGA wins.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 29, 2022 08:34 AM (T6Z8O)

198 51 There's no audio because there's nothing to say at this point
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After I screwed around with my system for 10 minutes trying to figure out why no audio, I had the brilliant idea to try another site. Audio there.

I guess they figure that a banner that says "Launch commentary will begin after tanking commentary ends" should tell people that there's no audio right now. Maybe in NASAese it does.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 29, 2022 08:34 AM (peWy1)

199 @191

>>To be completely fair, she's going to win by at least 20 points in just over 2 months.

I rate this to be, sadly, true.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 08:35 AM (IcEKK)

200 182 Every time the Dems lose they start talking about splitting the country. The same for the other side. It's mostly sour grapes. It would take a really catastrophic event, possibly natural, for the US to split up.
Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:32 AM (sn5EN)
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The other day I asked a geological professor who knows a thing or two about earthquakes when "the Big One" was finally going to hit the Midwest. He said we are long overdue.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2022 08:35 AM (YIVH2)

201 Scrubby scrub

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 29, 2022 08:35 AM (CCf67)

202 199 I rate this to be, sadly, true.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 08:35 AM (IcEKK)

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This is all JJ's fault for fleeing New York, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:36 AM (LvTSG)

203 Scrub.

They discovered the diversity quota hadn't been met.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 29, 2022 08:36 AM (g1EEm)

204 Probably the only peaceful solution that has a chance for handling the country now is a hard federation. You end up with areas that are divided along ideological, ethnic, and religious lines. Those are semi-permanent geographic divisions. The Federal gov't then exists only for maintaining peace among the divisions and national defense. By national defense, I mean the borders of the country. Everyone else will have to figure out what to do on their own. You would see a real isolationist policy. Think Spain after their civil war.

Posted by: WiNO - Amish Vampires in Space at August 29, 2022 08:36 AM (EpDzw)

205 David Rozado Ph.D. in Computer Science found that out of 175 million news articles around 82% include social justice terms.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:32 AM (BRHaw)
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Is that contextualized? I wonder only because some "social justice terms" - outside of the social justice context - have meaning. For example, a non-trivial amount of the economic and market press output will contain the word "equity."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2022 08:36 AM (WWh8n)

206 Launch has been scrubbed for today

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

207 Yep, Scrub.

Posted by: WisRich at August 29, 2022 08:37 AM (G0vdT)

208 Curacao. When you sound it out, it's how you make prosciutto.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 29, 2022 08:27 AM

Gabagool!

Posted by: Sopranos pronunciation guide at August 29, 2022 08:37 AM (4I/2K)

209 As long as we still get our online porn, video games and can complain on blogs we'll get our hit of dopamine and remain docile.
Posted by: JROD at August 29, 2022 08:33 AM (0jZnq)

I've been watching a number of "public audit" videos lately, and it's somewhat encouraging to see how many people are producing and supporting them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 29, 2022 08:37 AM (H8QX8)

210 @202

>>This is all JJ's fault for fleeing New York, I guess.

New York Style Pizza>Deep Fried Cheese Curds

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 08:37 AM (IcEKK)

211 To be completely fair, she's going to win by at least 20 points in just over 2 months.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:34 AM (LvTSG)

It's amazing that NYC, with its absurdly low voter turnout can still drive the state into leftist hell.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 29, 2022 08:37 AM (XIJ/X)

212 "Space X used a hook. Developed it in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost."

A long time ago, they used to hang the Shuttle horizontally in the VAB and drop the landing gear as a last test before mating to the VAB. Well one day somebody wasn't paying attention and the Shuttle was too close to the floor and the gear ended up bouncing off the floor causing all kinds of mayhem and paperwork.

So there was a big meeting with the design engineers where NASA wanted to know what could be developed to keep this from happening again. Someone in the back said "Get a stick!". There was some very minor chuckling which gave way to embarrassment. Then after about an hour NASA settled on developing a sonic pinger/rangefinder much like the early Kodak cameras.

End cost for three units $50K each.

Posted by: pawn at August 29, 2022 08:37 AM (wsHtO)

213 Eeesh! Bon Appetit isn't even trying to be a cooking magazine any longer.

The headline article in their free email this morning is-

TA! DA!

How a trannie manages to eat in NYC on only $56K/year after having her tits chopped off.

What the...?

Literally, who cares about this?

'Splain me how this has anything to do with cooking or recipes?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2022 08:37 AM (5NkmN)

214 SCHUMER: "[Biden] eased the crushing burden of student loan debt for tens, tens of millions of Americans. [...] Rather than helping the privileged few, it's going to lift up Americans from all walks of life. Students of color. Poor Americans. Children of immigrants."
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 29, 2022 08:30 AM (yikp0)
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Since the actual numbers tell us a different story, and the illegal spending benefits only a few relatively wealthy people, predominantly women Democrats, we can only reach one inescapable conclusion: Objective data, numbers, are gaslighting America and must be stopped. Misinformation!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2022 08:38 AM (8vHeO)

215 They discovered the diversity quota hadn't been met.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 29, 2022 08:36 AM (g1EEm)

They need to take a page from women's sports, and just start recruiting men who identify as women.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 29, 2022 08:38 AM (CCf67)

216 We’ll pass election reform and make sure no one, no one, ever has the opportunity to steal an election again,” Biden told the crowd.

It is part of their lie that any election reform the republicans attempt is making it easier for them to suppress votes and steal elections. Not acknowledging that 2020 was stolen, but an assertion that limiting mail in voting, no excuse absentee voting, drop boxes, and requiring ID are all attempts to suppress votes of typical democrat voters.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2022 08:38 AM (Wrs74)

217 What the heck is a "semi"-fascist? Seems more like an all-or-none thing. As they sang in West Side Story;

When you're a Fascist, you're the top cat in town
You're the gold medal kid with the heavyweight crown
When you're a Fascist, you're the swingin'est thing
Little boy you're a man, little man you're a king

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

218 "To be completely fair, she's going to win by at least 20 points in just over 2 months.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:34 AM (LvTSG) "

Don't count on it. That margin is going to close and the polls are not reflecting the real mood of voters. Zeldin is woefully underfunded, but people are looking for a way out. I was with some people over the weekend who lean liberal. A few of them were lamenting they "never thought they would miss Cuomo". Hochul may very well pull it out because of the corrupt NYC unions, but Democrats are going to lose their super majority, maybe more. New York is going to hell and there is nobody else to blame except Democraps.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2022 08:38 AM (VpIIl)

219 211 It's amazing that NYC, with its absurdly low voter turnout can still drive the state into leftist hell.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 29, 2022 08:37 AM (XIJ/X)

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If Republicans in the city decided to turn out once...just once...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:38 AM (LvTSG)

220 Scrubbed for today at cape canaveral

Posted by: Gref at August 29, 2022 08:39 AM (ecfdA)

221 I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.”

Horde, Horde, Horde....we're getting too upset over this. Sponge Brain, with his ice cream fixation, obviously meant semi-fredo.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 29, 2022 08:31 AM (4p7Em)

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I was thinking the Lefty Oligarchs seem to identify more as "Demi-Fascists."

Curious to see if that term had already been coined or used, I did a Brave search and the top result was an article at deepdyve.com entitled: "THE DANGERS OF DEMI‐FASCISM" from -- get this -- Apr 1, 1934.

A subscription site, so didn't get a chance to read any more than a single sample page ...

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 29, 2022 08:39 AM (QbCrG)

222 That American Greatness article about the Supreme Court backs into the uncomfortable idea (for many) that we always run into when trying to see where it all began to go wrong - the original intent and design of the Constitution died when the North won the Civil War. The Government we've had since then is the one envisioned by the 14th Amendment, the amendment that rewrote the entire Constitution - Total Central Control, Birthright Citizenship, absolute Federal Supremacy in all things. One can argue that the North had to do what it did, but one cannot argue that the Constitution survived that war.

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

223 212 End cost for three units $50K each.
Posted by: pawn at August 29, 2022 08:37 AM (wsHtO)

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If they didn't spend that money, they'd lose funding next year.

Also, the director knew a guy at the vendor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

224 A Civil War/divorce is as likely as voting our way out of this mess.

Economic collapse. Similar, but not exactly, to what happened in the Soviet Union. Which would be pretty ironic. The last two super-powers, with bureaucratic inner workings much more alike than different, going belly up in like manner after a decades long ideological conflict.

My bet is what comes next, in post-America, will look similar to the current state of the former USSR. A few nations states, dominated by oligarchs, feeding the masses on the same old symbols and songs of the prior regime.

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 08:39 AM (rxfxK)

225 216 We’ll pass election reform and make sure no one, no one, ever has the opportunity to steal an election again,” Biden told the crowd.

It is part of their lie that any election reform the republicans attempt is making it easier for them to suppress votes and steal elections. Not acknowledging that 2020 was stolen, but an assertion that limiting mail in voting, no excuse absentee voting, drop boxes, and requiring ID are all attempts to suppress votes of typical democrat voters.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2022 08:38 AM (Wrs74)

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"Again."

When was an election stolen? I thought that was insurrection to even ask questions about our electoral system.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:40 AM (LvTSG)

226 Anyone see a pattern here for 2024?

Dems on MAGA: the party of hate, fascists," get out," election thiefs...

Elimination by any means necessary.

Posted by: Ziba at August 29, 2022 08:40 AM (4h9M3)

227
Launch has been scrubbed for today
Posted by: redridinghood

"We now return to your regularly scheduled program, 'Drag Queen Story Time', in progress ..."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 29, 2022 08:40 AM (pNxlR)

228 The Joe Biden "Unity" Tour continues. . .

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 29, 2022 08:40 AM (lf83v)

229 218 Don't count on it. That margin is going to close and the polls are not reflecting the real mood of voters. Zeldin is woefully underfunded, but people are looking for a way out. I was with some people over the weekend who lean liberal. A few of them were lamenting they "never thought they would miss Cuomo". Hochul may very well pull it out because of the corrupt NYC unions, but Democrats are going to lose their super majority, maybe more. New York is going to hell and there is nobody else to blame except Democraps.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2022 08:38 AM (VpIIl)

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You are not nearly cynical enough about NY electoral politics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:40 AM (LvTSG)

230 'Splain me how this has anything to do with cooking or recipes?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2022 08:37 AM (5NkmN)

I think it was Taste of Home who, about a year ago, stated that they would no longer print recipes that included beef. It was shortly after this that I dropped my sub to that magazine.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 29, 2022 08:41 AM (CCf67)

231

Mission scrubbed. They're "gathering data" on "where to go from here". The NASA feed is now signing off.

Right stuff, they did not have.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 08:41 AM (Mzdiz)

232 Fair voting ha:
MI still has about 40k DEAD people on the roles.
AZ had almost 400k voters vote in 2020 that do not EXIST. Meaning that check the first initial, las name, and last 4 of their SS# return NOTHING.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:41 AM (BRHaw)

233 The other day I asked a geological professor who knows a thing or two about earthquakes when "the Big One" was finally going to hit the Midwest. He said we are long overdue.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2022 08:35 AM (YIVH2)

eh, I know how these things work. They always come too late to do any good.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 08:41 AM (r46W7)

234 My wife asked me which, Fetterman or Oz, is better.
I said .. 'it's a choice between a doctor and a guy who probably can't tie his own shoes"

By the way ... Oz had his first commercial on last night that I really liked.
The others were purely negative, while this one gave actual reasons to vote for him.

Posted by: SMOD at August 29, 2022 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

235 If Republicans in the city decided to turn out once...just once...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:38 AM (LvTSG)

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If only Texas and Arizona would send even more naturally conservative illegal aliens to NYC ...

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 29, 2022 08:42 AM (QbCrG)

236 When discussion the possibility of a national divorce, partitioning and/or civil war I tend to think we're already going down the Balkanization route.

Sanctuary cities, selective law enforcement, preferential treatment of certain demographics, etc.

I mean, we're almost already there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2022 08:42 AM (BFigT)

237 216 We’ll pass election reform and make sure no one, no one, ever has the opportunity to steal an election again,” Biden told the crowd.
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What FJB really meant: "No one has ever stolen an election, but there have always been OPPORTUNITIES to attempt to steal an election. We'll be closing the loopholes that allow for those sorts of shenanigans. In the end, ALL elections have been free and fair, despite a few bad apples trying to manipulate elections in past. We'll be doing the same for assault weapons in the future, closing the loopholes that allow for even a remote opportunity to purchase one."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2022 08:42 AM (YIVH2)

238

Shrinkflation: Armor Vienna Sausages used to be seven per can. The one in the middle is now missing...

Posted by: Dick Hitzwater at August 29, 2022 08:43 AM (7DYli)

239
My bet is what comes next, in post-America, will look similar to the current state of the former USSR. A few nations states, dominated by oligarchs, feeding the masses on the same old symbols and songs of the prior regime.
Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 08:39 AM (rxfxK)

I've come to a similar conclusions. Recall that the USSR died not with a bang, but a whimper.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 08:43 AM (r46W7)

240 I'm going way off topic here but does anyone have any info on the J&J vaccine. All the really horrible news has been referencing the mRNA vaccines pfizer and moderna. I can't seem to find anything on the J&J a year plus after availability other than those initial 14 women who had a blood clot in their 30's.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 29, 2022 08:43 AM (DBrN4)

241 Also, the director knew a guy at the vendor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:39 AM (LvTSG)

Cousin Fred

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 29, 2022 08:43 AM (89T5c)

242 Literally, who cares about this?

'Splain me how this has anything to do with cooking or recipes?
Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2022 08:37 AM

This trend has been going on for years with every type of lifestyle magazine. Cooking, gardening, home repair, you name it. Especially around the holidays. There must always be a minimum of 10% ghey content. Five different couples profiled in the Christmas issue of Food and Wine? At least one will be fabulously ghey. Bet the farm on it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 29, 2022 08:43 AM (4p7Em)

243 The federal government today is corrupt, obsolete and broke.

Sooner or later it has to go away.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 29, 2022 08:43 AM (kweYR)

244 Unless this thing mutates milder, or we get vaccines that work long-term (seems unlikely to me), coof is going to be another thing to add to the list of major things that kill you when you're old: heart disease, cancer, and now coof.

It amazes me that there is a political party that actively seeks to reduce the human lifespan. This is what happens when you have a contest between Imago Dei vs Life-Unworthy-of-Life worldviews. The Enemy thinks that Social Security Benefits should be extended to illegal aliens and that to "pay for it", they kill off seniors.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 29, 2022 08:43 AM (3hSHB)

245 I'm surprised the Dems don't bring up Florida 2000.

Posted by: davidt at August 29, 2022 08:44 AM (oTZbj)

246 Mission scrubbed. They're "gathering data" on "where to go from here". The NASA feed is now signing off.

Right stuff, they did not have.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 08:41 AM (Mzdiz)

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Equity Participation Promotions for everybody!

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 29, 2022 08:44 AM (QbCrG)

247 Way back when I did back of the envelope math to show that Covid was only reducing life expectancy by a few weeks, and that the effect of Opioid deaths was larger.

That's because Covid deaths skew to the old, Opioid deaths to the young.

I believe this still true, if you use good data and are honest in your analysis.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2022 08:44 AM (i0slg)

248 "You are not nearly cynical enough about NY electoral politics.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:40 AM (LvTSG) "

Dude, I live it every day. But I've seen my county go from Obama-love to almost 60% for Trump last time around. There is still some hope, even through the toilet bowl that is NYC keeps backing up. People are leaving this place in droves and those left behind see the bus that's about to hit them. NYC is verifiably now a real crime shithole. It makes me wonder if we will get the effect of people lying about voting for Democrats and pushing the lever for someone new.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2022 08:44 AM (VpIIl)

249 I think it was Taste of Home who, about a year ago, stated that they would no longer print recipes that included beef. It was shortly after this that I dropped my sub to that magazine.
Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 29, 2022 08:41 AM (CCf67)
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So I guess you missed out on their tofu and mealworm special issue!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2022 08:44 AM (YIVH2)

250
12 men walked the Moon. The Moonwalkers. Only 4 remain on this mortal coil. They were men. Maximal toxically masculine. They were Americans.

They had the Rightest of the Right Stuff. The tails of the tails of the Gaussian. Salute them. That's what America was. We will likely never see their like again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 08:44 AM (Mzdiz)

251 Once you realize we live in the matrix and they put us in a hamster wheel it’s impossible to notice all the fraud everywhere
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 29, 2022 08:14 AM (YglAn)

I concur. Then you start looking back on the things that you used to think were real.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 29, 2022 08:45 AM (GYIa4)

252 Mission Control: We had a technical failure of a small thermal exhaust port right above the main port.

Posted by: WisRich at August 29, 2022 08:45 AM (G0vdT)

253 Shrinkflation: Armor Vienna Sausages used to be seven per can. The one in the middle is now missing...
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Mein Gott!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 29, 2022 08:45 AM (lf83v)

254 248 Dude, I live it every day. But I've seen my county go from Obama-love to almost 60% for Trump last time around. There is still some hope, even through the toilet bowl that is NYC keeps backing up. People are leaving this place in droves and those left behind see the bus that's about to hit them. NYC is verifiably now a real crime shithole. It makes me wonder if we will get the effect of people lying about voting for Democrats and pushing the lever for someone new.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2022 08:44 AM (VpIIl)

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The people leaving are more than likely to be conservative in the aggregate, while those staying are more likely to be progressive.

That's just a recipe for blue enclaves getting bluer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:45 AM (LvTSG)

255 I've come to a similar conclusions. Recall that the USSR died not with a bang, but a whimper.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 08:43 AM (r46W7)

And we've got a huge crash of the dollar, just waiting to happen. The only reason it's still alive is the globe can't conceive of anywhere else to go with their investments. My bet is a good and cold winter will sharpen their minds and focus. Yeah, I think I'll keep my bet on "collapse".

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 08:45 AM (rxfxK)

256 Will there be sizeable Red Wave?

The huge Known Unknown is whether there's a Shy Tory effect going on with pollsters.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2022 08:46 AM (i0slg)

257 They need to take a page from women's sports, and just start recruiting men who identify as women.
Posted by: Sticky Wicket

You really don't want trannies on your engineering team. Their every waking thought is devoted to their condition.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 29, 2022 08:46 AM (g1EEm)

258 @219

>>If Republicans in the city decided to turn out once...just once...

They did... For Giuliani, his elections featured the most people voting by a wide margin, since he left, Mayoral races seem to barely crack a million people voting in a city of over 8 million people.

Governor races barely crack 3 million in a state of 21 million people.

NY is a lost cause, which is why I left for....

New Jersey.

** Blinks rapidly **

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 08:46 AM (IcEKK)

259 I read an interesting analysis yesterday which, dovetailed with Dave in Fla's thesis that this will be a realignment election, not a wave election, put forth the idea that the America First group will actually be in much better shape if the GOP-e wins less seats in the House than they are hoping for. The idea is that if the GOP picks up, say, 50 seats, there will be so many GOP-e squishes swept along that McCarthy will be able to ignore the MAGA caucus and run things anyway he likes. BUT if there is only a 15 - 20 seat pickup, the MAGA caucus will hold the balance of power; nothing will pass unless they agree to back it.

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

260 His , " No one is going to steal a election again" is why I think head no idea of Mar-A-Lago because he can leave the cat out of the bag while in public.

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 29, 2022 08:47 AM (eHb9Y)

261 239
My bet is what comes next, in post-America, will look similar to the current state of the former USSR. A few nations states, dominated by oligarchs, feeding the masses on the same old symbols and songs of the prior regime.
Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 08:39 AM (rxfxK)

I've come to a similar conclusions. Recall that the USSR died not with a bang, but a whimper.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 08:43 AM (r46W7)

Oligarchs maybe. Restoration of the prior polity as a rallying cry probably (every warlord claimed to be restoring Han). But the geography of the US suggests a single powerhouse in between the Rockies and Appalachians, from where it would likely come to dominate the east and west coasts as well.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 08:47 AM (b2nrj)

262 I can't seem to find anything on the J&J a year plus after availability other than those initial 14 women who had a blood clot in their 30's.
Posted by: Jaimo at August 29, 2022 08:43 AM (DBrN4)

The US Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it is limiting the emergency use authorization of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen Covid-19 vaccine to people 18 and older for whom other vaccines aren’t appropriate or accessible and those who opt for J&J because they wouldn’t otherwise get vaccinated.

The FDA said in a statement that the change is being made because of the risk of a rare and dangerous clotting condition called thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) after receiving the vaccine.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:47 AM (BRHaw)

263
Shrinkflation: Armor Vienna Sausages used to be seven per can. The one in the middle is now missing...
Posted by: Dick Hitzwater

It was chopped off ... they're "transitioning".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 29, 2022 08:47 AM (pNxlR)

264 Im thinking the theft of the 2020 election was a really catastrophic event. Biden's rhetoric isn't leading us to a good place and the ass kicking they are going to get in a couple of months will only worsen things.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 29, 2022 08:48 AM (AaLDK)

265 Unity on your terms and none of mine is not unity, it is tyranny.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2022 08:48 AM (FBHdG)

266 252 Mission Control: We had a technical failure of a small thermal exhaust port right above the main port.
Posted by: WisRich

I usually blame that on the dog.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 29, 2022 08:48 AM (g1EEm)

267 259 The idea is that if the GOP picks up, say, 50 seats, there will be so many GOP-e squishes swept along that McCarthy will be able to ignore the MAGA caucus and run things anyway he likes. BUT if there is only a 15 - 20 seat pickup, the MAGA caucus will hold the balance of power; nothing will pass unless they agree to back it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 08:47 AM (r46W7)

=========

"We can't let this Congress be the least productive in history. We must appeal to moderate Democrats to pass the CR."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:48 AM (LvTSG)

268 PS J and J halted all vax production in Feb of this year.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:48 AM (BRHaw)

269 Demofascism is typical in their devotion to controlling the economy through endless regulation and close consultation on industrial policy. It is also typical in their reliance on propaganda and vilification of opponents, us, as the "Others" who must be identified, imprisoned, and expelled to make the rest of the body politic "pure".

Where it curiously diverges from the usual definition of fascism is it's devotion not to nationalism, but instead to globalism. But in this case "globalism" is really the WEF-inspired western European elites. Same, but different (as we used to say).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2022 08:48 AM (75nql)

270 Thanks Rhennigantx, I did hear that. If that's true how come they're not limiting the use of the other two because they are clearly causing myocarditis and other heart ailments killing thousands?

Posted by: Jaimo at August 29, 2022 08:49 AM (DBrN4)

271 Breaking News: Hibernating bats age 75% slower than non-hibernating bats.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 29, 2022 08:50 AM (yikp0)

272 BUT if there is only a 15 - 20 seat pickup, the MAGA caucus will hold the balance of power; nothing will pass unless they agree to back it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Is there a MAGA caucus?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 29, 2022 08:50 AM (g1EEm)

273 The Giffords group article made me laugh - anyone who doesn't think the government knows about literally every credit card purchase is asleep at the switch, Guns, alcohol, GOLO, they know it.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 29, 2022 08:50 AM (AaLDK)

274 Good piece by R Kimball in link above on college loan chumps and MAL raid.

Posted by: Ziba at August 29, 2022 08:50 AM (4h9M3)

275 252 Mission Control: We had a technical failure of a small thermal exhaust port right above the main port.
Posted by: WisRich at August 29, 2022 08:45 AM (G0vdT)

Dammit Luke quit trying to shoot those womp rats!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 08:50 AM (r46W7)

276 Mission Control: We had a technical failure of a small thermal exhaust port right above the main port.
Posted by: WisRich

Damn chili. With beans.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 29, 2022 08:51 AM (nyNes)

277 Speaking of "The Great Dictator", I was always struck by how hollyweird always poked fun at Hitler and Mussolini but never made a laugh riot movie about the commie bastards in Russia, Red China, North Korea or SE Asia.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 29, 2022 08:51 AM (kweYR)

278
Doritos is now working to put mealworms into your snack foods.

I'm just waiting for Frito Brand Jalapeño Worm Dip Now with Crunchy Bits of Cockroach Chitin!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2022 08:51 AM (5NkmN)

279 NYC struggling to house busloads of migrants as hotel, intake center plan falls apart

https://tinyurl.com/2p89vwkz

Posted by: redridinghood at August 29, 2022 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

280 Oh wow, they halted production completely? Well that's it then. That was the only vaccine we would even contemplate getting. We got one shot in May of 2021 and a booster in December because we thought they were going to make us switch to one of the other ones and I wasn't doing that. Neither me or my husband had any issues with the J&J either time but I will never put the pfizer or moderna one in my arm.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 29, 2022 08:51 AM (DBrN4)

281 I the highly vaxxed country of Israel more people have died thru July 2022 than all of 2021.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:51 AM (BRHaw)

282 For the first time in U.S. history, the political party in power is hunting down and jailing members of the opposition party for political dissidence, and . . . torturing them in jai

And meanwhile the Biden junta attempted to assassinate a SC justice, is swatting a House member, and just raided the former president's house for LULZ.

Let's see what our brave oppositional leader Mitch McConnell has to say! Paraphrasing from twatter, "Why these Democrats do spend a bit too much!"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2022 08:51 AM (ESjRY)

283 You know who else in Vienna had stuff missing…

Mornin’, Horde.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 29, 2022 08:51 AM (05wnl)

284 Is there a MAGA caucus?
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 29, 2022 08:50 AM (g1EEm)

I believe it's informal at this point, but I would define it as those who aren't scared to eat at the same lunch table as Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 08:52 AM (r46W7)

285 Doritos is now working to put mealworms into your snack foods.

I'm just waiting for Frito Brand Jalapeño Worm Dip Now with Crunchy Bits of Cockroach Chitin!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2022 08:51 AM (5NkmN)
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Coming soon -- Cheetos will be some sort of fried mealworm covered in Cheeto dust...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 29, 2022 08:52 AM (YIVH2)

286 Mars is where Space X will populate.

Posted by: sidney at August 29, 2022 08:52 AM (Uy/WF)

287 "That's just a recipe for blue enclaves getting bluer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:45 AM (LvTSG) "

They are losing more conservative voters, no doubt. But people with means who lived in the city but want to stay in the state are moving to the suburbs, and a lot of them have a brand new attitude. COVID was the last straw for some of these people who have finally realized that voting for one party like its a team sport took away their choices and their power to change things. They are ultimately losing population and representation. How that plays out in the end, nobody knows. I suppose some people are so far gone they will vote for their own destruction due to a blind fealty for a cult, and their accompanying aversion to the truth. But I wonder how far, and how wide that swath of ignorance will run. As you get poorer, you become less safe, and you have less opportunity to improve things, often your political shibboleths and sine qua nons quickly evaporate. Awareness of the truth can be a powerful motivator.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2022 08:52 AM (VpIIl)

288 I the highly vaxxed country of Israel more people have died thru July 2022 than all of 2021.

Then: If you just get the shot you can never get COVID

Now: Well, even though you died from COVID it would have been worse if you did not get the shot!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2022 08:52 AM (ESjRY)

289 The Giffords group article made me laugh - anyone who doesn't think the government knows about literally every credit card purchase is asleep at the switch, Guns, alcohol, GOLO, they know it.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

Do they know about "No Questions Asked" gun buy backs for grocery cards?

Because that's where all my guns went.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 29, 2022 08:52 AM (nyNes)

290 The President's Sausage is Missing

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

291 NASA presented Space X with a problem: They needed a way to hook up two free floating craft in the weightlessness of space. NASA's solution has always been a complex series of systems about getting one thing to slot perfectly into another
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Need bigger and better organizations with more funding. My only objection to NASA has always been using the pentagon-type organizational model. Same objection to ANY military-type running for office in that a bigger and better 'organization' will 'solve' any problems or issues.

Okay, off that old hobbyhorse.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 29, 2022 08:52 AM (MIKMs)

292 The Twelfth Imam.

The Seventh Vienna Sausage.

Seth Rich's Killer.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 29, 2022 08:52 AM (lf83v)

293 Remember when food plants tried to keep bug parts out of your food? Good times comrade.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 29, 2022 08:53 AM (AaLDK)

294 But the geography of the US suggests a single powerhouse in between the Rockies and Appalachians, from where it would likely come to dominate the east and west coasts as well.

Culture would dictate that only happens if one side has the strength, and wealth, to dominate the other. Because there is very little cultural commonality between the Great Plains and the SouthEast. And once these bonds are broken again, I don't see anybody going along with subsidizing Great Plains corn, or absorbing the NorthEast simply to protect their manufacturing via tariffs, ever again.

SouthEast will go its way. NorthEast will as well. As well Southern California. No idea about the Rust Belt and Great Plains. But they truly are five distinct cultures.

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 08:53 AM (rxfxK)

295
I think the people we should really look out for are the-

Semi-Demi-Hemi-Fascists!

They're scary, man!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2022 08:53 AM (5NkmN)

296 I've come to realize that there is no good "political science" term for the ideology of this junta, because they simply have no ideology. It's pure will to power with no thought given to what to actually do with that power once obtained. It is a vacuum of ideology. Rule by evil. Dysocracy? Dysarchy?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 29, 2022 08:53 AM (FBHdG)

297 *looks at top picture*

The Charlie Chaplin original is much better than this reboot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 08:53 AM (XZ7dY)

298 VDH with a solid Festivus list of grievances this morning at Am Greatness.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 29, 2022 08:53 AM (3+sv3)

299 281 I the highly vaxxed country of Israel more people have died thru July 2022 than all of 2021.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:51 AM (BRHaw)

I admire Israel for the things they do right, but their day to day government is still a hopelessly fucked up socialist abomination.

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

300 "Armor Vienna Sausages used to be seven per can. The one in the middle is now missing..."

In fairness, that middle one was a bitch to get out.

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:53 AM (sn5EN)

301 Out: Sex on the Beach.
In: Sex on the Moon.
Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 29, 2022 08:31 AM (QbCrG)

So now instead of all that damned sand, you get all that damned moon dust.

I don't see this as an upgrade.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 29, 2022 08:53 AM (906pl)

302 Single serve, 8 oz, yogurt went up 20 cents in a week. Not a single brand available at under $1.79.
Shelves are full, no one is buying yogurt.

Posted by: Ziba at August 29, 2022 08:54 AM (4h9M3)

303 Watari

Desperadoarchy

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 08:54 AM (XZ7dY)

304 *looks at top picture*

The Charlie Chaplin original is much better than this reboot.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 08:53 AM (XZ7dY)

The Three Stooges one too.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 29, 2022 08:54 AM (7bRMQ)

305 "The Government we've had since then is the one envisioned by the 14th Amendment, the amendment that rewrote the entire Constitution"

That wasn't inevitable. It's a more recent phenomenon.

I agree that the USA morphed after the Civil War. But we've also morphed a few times since. Industrialization, WWI, the Depression, WWII, the Cold War all changed the USA fundamentally.

The way that we use laws has also changed, mostly in my lifetime.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2022 08:55 AM (i0slg)

306 287 They are ultimately losing population and representation. How that plays out in the end, nobody knows. I suppose some people are so far gone they will vote for their own destruction due to a blind fealty for a cult, and their accompanying aversion to the truth. But I wonder how far, and how wide that swath of ignorance will run. As you get poorer, you become less safe, and you have less opportunity to improve things, often your political shibboleths and sine qua nons quickly evaporate. Awareness of the truth can be a powerful motivator.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2022 08:52 AM (VpIIl)

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I'm gonna doubt these people are going to change their lifelong, moral dedication to their partisan choices until they actually do it. These are people who voted for DeBlasio twice.

I doubt their ability to do the soul-searching required to make them go from, "Man it really sucks in NYC now," to "this is the fault of Democrats and I have to vote for the gay-hating Republican who hates gays."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:55 AM (LvTSG)

307 Mission Control: We had a technical failure of a small thermal exhaust port right above the main port.
________________

Damn exhaust ports will be the death of us.

Posted by: Darth Vader, The Death Star at August 29, 2022 08:55 AM (lf83v)

308 Doritos is now working to put mealworms into your snack foods.

I'm just waiting for Frito Brand Jalapeño Worm Dip Now with Crunchy Bits of Cockroach Chitin!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2022 08:51 AM (5NkmN)

Well in fact Doritos always has, which is why you don't want to look too closely.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 08:55 AM (r46W7)

309 Mission Control: We had a technical failure of a small thermal exhaust port right above the main port.
Posted by: WisRich at August 29, 2022 08:45 AM (G0vdT)

I got that reference

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 29, 2022 08:55 AM (KdUK5)

310 I turned on the NASA channel this morning in time to hear a commentator say that NASA had determined that there was a crack in the foam cover of Artemis that was causing the appearance of a leak and was not structural and was of no consequence. All I could think of was the Challenger.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 29, 2022 08:55 AM (RMX+Y)

311 In: Sex on the Moon.

Wasn't that a Fritz Lange movie?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 08:55 AM (XZ7dY)

312
Culture would dictate that only happens if one side has the strength, and wealth, to dominate the other. Because there is very little cultural commonality between the Great Plains and the SouthEast. And once these bonds are broken again, I don't see anybody going along with subsidizing Great Plains corn, or absorbing the NorthEast simply to protect their manufacturing via tariffs, ever again.

SouthEast will go its way. NorthEast will as well. As well Southern California. No idea about the Rust Belt and Great Plains. But they truly are five distinct cultures.
Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 08:53 AM (rxfxK)

Many countries are composed of fairly distinct cultures. France, Spain, Italy, Germany have their borders primarily determined by defensible geography. They also all have strong regionalist sentiment.

China also has fairly diverse internal culture, until recently not even having a common language.

I believe a successful conqueror will emerge from the South and unify the center, after which east and west are mostly a matter of time.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 08:56 AM (b2nrj)

313 8 in 10 Think Biden Laptop Cover-Up Changed Election

Proof positive 20% of the people are just plain old idiots!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:56 AM (BRHaw)

314 Shrinkflation: Armor Vienna Sausages used to be seven per can. The one in the middle is now missing...
Posted by: Dick Hitzwater at August 29, 2022 08:43 AM (7DYli)

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Haven't had those or Underwood Deviled Ham since I was a kid. My sis and I recently tried the deviled ham and it brought back memories of the Vienna sausages... for hours. Woof. I won't be buying either again for another 29 years.

Posted by: 496 at August 29, 2022 08:56 AM (VJsqe)

315 Ace: Your fold-jump ads are out of hand. It’s bad enough that clicking the “Continue Reading” link in half the entries on the home page open up a new window and load an ad into the window they leave behind—why would you send people away from the site, and fill the window with an ad no one will ever use—but this morning, on the Morning Report, the fold-jump opened the MR in a new window, and then the original window loaded a website named “Cunt Report.” Not a typo: Cunt Report, which was, of course, porn.

Bad practice and disgusting results too.

Posted by: David at August 29, 2022 08:56 AM (jVx4s)

316
Here's the thing. It has been demonstrated that all the Coof mitigation response has been all harm and no benefit. The lockdowns, "vaccine" poison have had no benefit, only harm.

Had we done nothing, but continued as normal, the result would've been, well, not bad at all. Everything they have done has made things worse.

This is Crimes agin' Humanity level stuff, here. Everything they did was all harm, and no benefit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 08:56 AM (Mzdiz)

317 313 8 in 10 Think Biden Laptop Cover-Up Changed Election

Proof positive 20% of the people are just plain old idiots!
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:56 AM (BRHaw)

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Perhaps some of that 20% know that the fix was in and nothing was going to get in the way of ballot drops, Dominion voting machines, and burst water pipes.

Posted by: 496 at August 29, 2022 08:57 AM (VJsqe)

318 Ann B memes again:
https://is.gd/Gex7Fb

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 29, 2022 08:57 AM (llON8)

319 In fairness, that middle one was a bitch to get out.
________________

Let me show you a little trick. . . .

Posted by: Pete Buttegeig at August 29, 2022 08:57 AM (lf83v)

320 Bad practice and disgusting results too.
Posted by: David at August 29, 2022 08:56 AM (jVx4s)

That doesn't happen on every platform - I'm using Opera on a PC and I never see that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 08:57 AM (r46W7)

321 313 8 in 10 Think Biden Laptop Cover-Up Changed Election

Proof positive 20% of the people are just plain old idiots!
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 08:56 AM (BRHaw)

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I'm part of the 20%.

It's not like Biden would have actually won enough votes with the news out. They'd still have cheated to his victory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:57 AM (LvTSG)

322 Breaking News: Hibernating bats age 75% slower than non-hibernating bats.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 29, 2022 08:50 AM (yikp0)

Lessee, according to this new data, my falling asleep on the couch should give me...carry the one...divide by pi...

a life span of at least 150 years!

The science is settled, baby!

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

323 8 in 10 Think Biden Laptop Cover-Up Changed Election

Imagine nightly lead stories about Hunter Biden smoking crack, having sex with underage hookers, and taking bribes for the big guy.

Biden might still have won CA, NY, MA, and HI but...that's about it. Yes, counting the fraud.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2022 08:57 AM (ESjRY)

324
When you're a Fascist you're a Fascist all the way
From your first show trial till your last dyin' day
When you're a Fascist if the shit hits the fan
You've got Hunter around, you're a family man

Posted by: Muldoon at August 29, 2022 08:57 AM (kXYt5)

325 SouthEast will go its way. NorthEast will as well. As well Southern California. No idea about the Rust Belt and Great Plains. But they truly are five distinct cultures.
Posted by: Vox

West of the Mississippi, east of the Rockies, from the Gulf to the Canadian border.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 29, 2022 08:57 AM (nyNes)

326 323 Biden might still have won CA, NY, MA, and HI but...that's about it. Yes, counting the fraud.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2022 08:57 AM (ESjRY)

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1 million fake ballots in PA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

327 I'm part of the 20%.

It's not like Biden would have actually won enough votes with the news out. They'd still have cheated to his victory.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:57 AM (LvTSG)

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Same here - see 317.

Posted by: 496 at August 29, 2022 08:58 AM (VJsqe)

328 So a crack in the insulation indicates some of the fuel is boiling off which means Artemis may either blow up or hit Empty before planned MECO or TLI.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 08:59 AM (XZ7dY)

329 Things are changing - in a startling sermon yesterday, Dr. Ed Young the pastor of Houston's largest Baptist church openly called his congregation to oppose the Democrats subjecting the city to a crime spike - Hidalgo was top of the list. We will see if he get the protection black churches get for politics and the pulpit. But God bless Dr. Young for finally speaking out.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 29, 2022 08:59 AM (AaLDK)

330 And we've got a huge crash of the dollar, just waiting to happen. The only reason it's still alive is the globe can't conceive of anywhere else to go with their investments. My bet is a good and cold winter will sharpen their minds and focus. Yeah, I think I'll keep my bet on "collapse".

I have a different form of pessimism. When war gaming out an EMP attack, the question is rarely asked "Why would anyone want to disable the mechanism for controlling people and things?" The same reasoning should be the first question about collapsing the FUSD. Who benefits? the WEF has already told us two things: they want to kill as many of us as possible, and those who remain suffer as slaves to the oligarchy.

But that only works when there is a currency they can control. I submit that the G7 nations are in a death pact that keeps their respective currencies within a rather narrow band of equity. When one goes down, the others are expected to enact a policy to similarly bring down the value of their own currency. Trump didn't play that game so he was forced into these Trillion Dollar Swindles (C19 Relief) to keep the FUSD from dominating other currencies.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 29, 2022 08:59 AM (3hSHB)

331 "Im thinking the theft of the 2020 election was a really catastrophic event."

Politically yes. I was speaking of a physical one, like Yellowstone blowing up or Artemis falling on DC or something.

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 08:59 AM (sn5EN)

332 325 SouthEast will go its way. NorthEast will as well. As well Southern California. No idea about the Rust Belt and Great Plains. But they truly are five distinct cultures.
Posted by: Vox

West of the Mississippi, east of the Rockies, from the Gulf to the Canadian border.
Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 29, 2022 08:57 AM (nyNes)

And if a single entity becomes that large and powerful relative to the others, it'll swallow them eventually.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 08:59 AM (b2nrj)

333 I think the people we should really look out for are the-

Semi-Demi-Hemi-Fascists!

They're scary, man!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2022 08:53 AM (5NkmN)

they're fast too...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 29, 2022 08:59 AM (KdUK5)

334 SouthEast will go its way. NorthEast will as well. As well Southern California. No idea about the Rust Belt and Great Plains. But they truly are five distinct cultures.

Posted by: Vox

At least.

I see PNW, SoCal, the Southwest, the Great Plains (excluding Great Lakes), the Rockies, the Great Lakes (incl. Rust Belt), Texas, Northeast, Florida, and two warring groups in the Southeast.

Good luck reunifying that...if anyone even would want to.

Posted by: Brother Tim...as the man said, the die is cast at August 29, 2022 08:59 AM (OUMaO)

335 >>> 316
Here's the thing. It has been demonstrated that all the Coof mitigation response has been all harm and no benefit. The lockdowns, "vaccine" poison have had no benefit, only harm.

Had we done nothing, but continued as normal, the result would've been, well, not bad at all. Everything they have done has made things worse.

This is Crimes agin' Humanity level stuff, here. Everything they did was all harm, and no benefit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 08:56 AM (Mzdiz)

*tee hee*

We're just getting started.

Posted by: WEF at August 29, 2022 09:00 AM (llON8)

336 I believe a successful conqueror will emerge from the South and unify the center, after which east and west are mostly a matter of time.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 08:56 AM (b2nrj)

aka the Greater Republic of Texas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:00 AM (r46W7)

337 Im thinking the theft of the 2020 election was a really catastrophic event. Biden's rhetoric isn't leading us to a good place and the ass kicking they are going to get in a couple of months will only worsen things.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 29, 2022 08:48 AM (AaLDK)

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After having blatantly stolen power, I assumed they'd do everything in (and beyond, because who's gonna stop them?) their power to never relinquish it.

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 29, 2022 09:00 AM (QbCrG)

338 Had we done nothing, but continued as normal, the result would've been, well, not bad at all. Everything they have done has made things worse.

Three things we should have done:

1) Lock down the nursing homes
2) Mail everyone a 6 month supply of Vit D
3) Suggest everyone start getting 2 hr of exercise a week (or hell just mandate it I mean why not?)

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2022 09:00 AM (ESjRY)

339 Many countries are composed of fairly distinct cultures. France, Spain, Italy, Germany have their borders primarily determined by defensible geography. They also all have strong regionalist sentiment. China also has fairly diverse internal culture, until recently not even having a common language.

Spain has its own secessionist movement - the Catalonians vote to leave at every opportunity. The Basques aren't far behind. Italy and Germany are only united recently, in the global scheme. Same as China.

You want the United States to continue as one country. You've made that extremely clear, not only today - but over the course of several years. Doesn't mean that's destined to occur.

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 09:01 AM (rxfxK)

340 Video of a Karen caught cheating off a guy's Tesla charger and complaining about being filmed.

https://tinyurl.com/btbuajjj

Fu*king people.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 29, 2022 09:01 AM (H8QX8)

341 So a crack in the insulation indicates some of the fuel is boiling off which means Artemis may either blow up or hit Empty before planned MECO or TLI.
_____________

It will likely hit empty so long as there is no chance that the fuel will come into contact with oxygen.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 29, 2022 09:01 AM (lf83v)

342 5 cultures? Count at least 6 as no way in hell Texas is making the alignment mistake again this go round.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 29, 2022 09:01 AM (AaLDK)

343 @259 Tom Servo-What's to keep the Democrats and their personal police force from removing every MAGA candidate elected in a red wave at some point down the line?
They are terrorists and the biggest threat to the security of this country. Or is this out of the realm of possibility? We call the left evil tyrants but really we don't believe it, its just lip service.

Posted by: JROD at August 29, 2022 09:01 AM (0jZnq)

344 The increase in hateful, eliminationist and genocidal rhetoric by Biden on down the line is intentional.
They are loosing their rabid dogs, intending one to snap and kill.

This is to justify "fire at will" ROE to stop/prevent retaliation. Whether or not there is reaction, they intend to act.

When even Lindsay Graham is saying there will be riots if Trump is indicted, there is your balloon. And they will arrest Trump, they have gone far too far down that deadly path to stop now ....

I expect them to arrest Trump; their brownies will kill at the protest rallies; those murders will be the excuse for full martial law; and the round up, and murder for resisting, of those on their list of leaders. Some of you here are on that list ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2022 09:01 AM (Zf0+a)

345 And if a single entity becomes that large and powerful relative to the others, it'll swallow them eventually.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

The United States of Flyover America.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 29, 2022 09:01 AM (nyNes)

346 Mission Control: We had a technical failure of a small thermal exhaust port
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This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 29, 2022 09:02 AM (75nql)

347 "I doubt their ability to do the soul-searching required to make them go from, "Man it really sucks in NYC now," to "this is the fault of Democrats and I have to vote for the gay-hating Republican who hates gays."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:55 AM (LvTSG) "

You have to separate the mouth-breather union voters who would vote for a shoe if it ran as a Democrat, from people who have means and may lean socially liberal. The former will probably never change how they vote out of sheer ignorance. The latter, given the right choices and exposed to the alternative more then likely will. We have people in the county now who moved from the city. They have kids in the schools and see that is the product of local politics and values, which are carried by the Republican officeholders. They actually realized they moved here to escape the city cesspool and have come to the conclusion that it is the product not necessarily of party politics, but social mores and values. We actually have a lot of true independents that vote issues instead of party. I frankly have no problem with that because it keeps the e-GOP down

Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2022 09:02 AM (VpIIl)

348 It will likely hit empty so long as there is no chance that the fuel will come into contact with oxygen.

Wasn't that what happened to Vanguard?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 09:02 AM (XZ7dY)

349 "12 men walked the Moon. The Moonwalkers."

Neil Armstrong got picked to be the First Man because he had several prior missions that went sideways and he managed to find a solution, cool as could be. X15, Gemini spinning out of control.

He went to a manual landing for Eagle, else it would have been an epic disaster.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2022 09:03 AM (i0slg)

350 Maybe the joke is on the Tesla owner that all charging stations are actually public - even the one is his driveway. And when he says, "I don't mind if you use it", WTAF?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 29, 2022 09:03 AM (AaLDK)

351 343 @259 Tom Servo-What's to keep the Democrats and their personal police force from removing every MAGA candidate elected in a red wave at some point down the line?
They are terrorists and the biggest threat to the security of this country. Or is this out of the realm of possibility? We call the left evil tyrants but really we don't believe it, its just lip service.
Posted by: JROD at August 29, 2022 09:01 AM (0jZnq)

As we've often noted, the shooting part of the Spanish Civil War began when the left began to openly assassinate Conservative political figures. Once that started, it quickly became open season on everyone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:03 AM (r46W7)

352 "I doubt their ability to do the soul-searching required to make them go from, "Man it really sucks in NYC now," to "this is the fault of Democrats and I have to vote for the gay-hating Republican who hates gays."

I know many, many lefty LIVs with this attitude.

"My current governor/rep/senator is corrupt! We need change and we need it now! Wait, vote for a Republican? I'm NOT A NAZI!"

And so they just keep voting for the same corrupt people getting the same results.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2022 09:04 AM (ESjRY)

353
Spain has its own secessionist movement - the Catalonians vote to leave at every opportunity. The Basques aren't far behind. Italy and Germany are only united recently, in the global scheme. Same as China.

You want the United States to continue as one country. You've made that extremely clear, not only today - but over the course of several years. Doesn't mean that's destined to occur.
Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 09:01 AM (rxfxK)

Are you missing the point that many countries exist for a long time despite longstanding regionalist/secessionist sentiment? Spain was once many kingdoms. Nationalism as a unifying force is relatively modern(though somewhat responsible for Italy and Germany unifying). The existence of states in France and Spain illustrate that the ability to lose a battle or war without being fully annexed is important.

At most there are 3 defensible countries out of CONUS, and most likely the middle one would eat the other two.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 09:04 AM (b2nrj)

354 Good morning Morons!
What fresh Hell awaits us this fine week.
It's not Vietnam but it's a varient.

Posted by: torabora at August 29, 2022 09:05 AM (Y274z)

355 A proposed new 2d Amendment - Anyone can own anything of military capability except nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 09:05 AM (XZ7dY)

356 350 Maybe the joke is on the Tesla owner that all charging stations are actually public - even the one is his driveway. And when he says, "I don't mind if you use it", WTAF?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 29, 2022 09:03 AM (AaLDK)

I didn't know that. Thanks.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 29, 2022 09:05 AM (H8QX8)

357 345 And if a single entity becomes that large and powerful relative to the others, it'll swallow them eventually.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

The United States of Flyover America.
Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 29, 2022 09:01 AM (nyNes)

Texas needs ski resorts. Bomb Denver back into the stone age. (it's already in the Stoned Age)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:05 AM (r46W7)

358 That speech by Hochul of NY channeling Mad Max Waters...unhinged hatred on public display. The "look" for 2024 campaigning. Ugh.

Posted by: Ziba at August 29, 2022 09:06 AM (4h9M3)

359 >>> 344 The increase in hateful, eliminationist and genocidal rhetoric by Biden on down the line is intentional.
They are loosing their rabid dogs, intending one to snap and kill.

This is to justify "fire at will" ROE to stop/prevent retaliation. Whether or not there is reaction, they intend to act.

When even Lindsay Graham is saying there will be riots if Trump is indicted, there is your balloon. And they will arrest Trump, they have gone far too far down that deadly path to stop now ....

I expect them to arrest Trump; their brownies will kill at the protest rallies; those murders will be the excuse for full martial law; and the round up, and murder for resisting, of those on their list of leaders. Some of you here are on that list ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2022 09:01 AM (Zf0+a)

Some? ...and you say "you" instead of "us"; I'm curious how you believe you are exempt? Anywho I don't think it's about lists at this point, it's about negative bazillionty social credit scores. To which I raise my two middle fingers.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 29, 2022 09:06 AM (llON8)

360 I live in the South Bronx, by choice, and I'm not going anywhere.

NYC was far worse in the 70s, and the late 80s/early 90s.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2022 09:06 AM (i0slg)

361 Seems the markets want to do some diving this morning. I wonder why?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 29, 2022 09:06 AM (2graF)

362 1 million fake ballots in PA.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

I think Philly always has about 150 to 200k. It built into the system. Precincts with 109% turnout!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 09:07 AM (BRHaw)

363 A proposed new 2d Amendment - Anyone can own anything of military capability except nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 09:05 AM (XZ7dY)

They could get me to go along with anyone can own anything that Federal, State, and Local law enforcement can obtain. So the AR-15 is a weapon of war ? Fair enough - take them out of the hands of your police. Seize the MRAPs and crew-fed weapons while you're at it. Weapons of war, right ?

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 09:07 AM (rxfxK)

364 The midwest states will always be followers, they'll spend all their time apologizing for their existence, and wait for someone else with true will-to-power to tell them what to do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:08 AM (r46W7)

365 360 I live in the South Bronx, by choice, and I'm not going anywhere.

NYC was far worse in the 70s, and the late 80s/early 90s.
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I've got to admit it's getting better (Better)
A little better all the time (It can't get no worse)
I have to admit it's getting better (Better)
It's getting better since you've been mine

Smile

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 29, 2022 09:08 AM (2graF)

366 >>> 357 345 And if a single entity becomes that large and powerful relative to the others, it'll swallow them eventually.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

The United States of Flyover America.
Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 29, 2022 09:01 AM (nyNes)

Texas needs ski resorts. Bomb Denver back into the stone age. (it's already in the Stoned Age)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:05 AM (r46W7)

Didn't the 1836 boundaries include part of what is now Colorado?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 29, 2022 09:09 AM (llON8)

367 So will there be riots when they turn off the power in the UK or will they just sit there and freeze?

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 29, 2022 09:09 AM (bVYXr)

368 meanwhile in Florida, Charlie Crist looks like he is intentionally trying to lose - but I think he's running a race designed to maximize financial contributions from the oligarchs, most of which he plans to pocket.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:09 AM (r46W7)

369 Ann B memes again:
https://is.gd/Gex7Fb
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 29, 2022 08:57 AM (llON

++++
The Hunter Biden cocaine redaction meme is truly excellent:
https://is.gd/z10Xgp

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 29, 2022 09:09 AM (WWh8n)

370 >>> 367 So will there be riots when they turn off the power in the UK or will they just sit there and freeze?
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 29, 2022 09:09 AM (bVYXr)

Probably some of both.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 29, 2022 09:09 AM (llON8)

371 364 The midwest states will always be followers, they'll spend all their time apologizing for their existence, and wait for someone else with true will-to-power to tell them what to do.
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This is normal for Yankees. They live within the tyranny of the religious polemic. That can't see the forest but for two trees. Been that way for a long, long time.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 29, 2022 09:10 AM (2graF)

372 360 I live in the South Bronx, by choice, and I'm not going anywhere.

NYC was far worse in the 70s, and the late 80s/early 90s.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 29, 2022 09:06 AM (i0slg)

O.....Kay.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 29, 2022 09:10 AM (x0n13)

373 Wasn't that what happened to Vanguard?
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Yes. But there was a breach of the tank. In the case of Artemis:

"NASA engineers found that the crack was actually in the insulating foam on the flange, not in the rocket's metal structure. "That ice that formed is essentially air that's being chilled by the tank that gets trapped inside of a crack in the foam but not the actual tank," Nail said."

So long as they contain the liquid hydrogen, they are good. I think they can extract it, or at least lower the tanks to a level where the temperature will not cause expansion and breach.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 29, 2022 09:10 AM (lf83v)

374 How is Germany faring now that Putin is enacting the Berlin Blockade Part II?

Will the Bundeswher panzers drive East again?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 09:10 AM (XZ7dY)

375 I think Philly always has about 150 to 200k. It built into the system. Precincts with 109% turnout!

Just as a point to consider if all of this was not fraud...

If the Census Bureau consistently finds fewer adult citizens in the big blue shitholes then the local election officials do it would seem that the Census Bureau people would need to *thoroughly* review the list of voters to improve their systems.

Note that is not happening...year after year, decade after decade those numbers to not agree. But only in the big blue shitholes.

Also, watch the videos of drug zombies on the street of Philly (there are dozens of such videos on youtube). The FNM/government is telling you those people are committed political partisans that vote in every election, and always D, never green, socialist, or whoever the local pro-drug party is.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2022 09:10 AM (ESjRY)

376 367 So will there be riots when they turn off the power in the UK or will they just sit there and freeze?
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 29, 2022 09:09 AM (bVYXr)

any with any fight in them either left or died off long, long ago. All of the "men" will either be chasing pre-teen girls or whining about how their dresses are too cold.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:11 AM (r46W7)

377 367 So will there be riots when they turn off the power in the UK or will they just sit there and freeze?
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Great time to go Hadji Hunting. Good jerkey.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 29, 2022 09:11 AM (2graF)

378 Didn't the 1836 boundaries include part of what is now Colorado?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

All the way up to Wyoming.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 29, 2022 09:11 AM (nyNes)

379 >>> 374 How is Germany faring now that Putin is enacting the Berlin Blockade Part II?

Will the Bundeswher panzers drive East again?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 09:10 AM (XZ7dY)

With what fuel??

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 29, 2022 09:11 AM (llON8)

380 Will the Bundeswher panzers drive East again?
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 09:10 AM (XZ7dY)

Yes! Both of them!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:11 AM (r46W7)

381 How many years behind schedule and how many dollars over budget is this NASA project anyway?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 29, 2022 09:11 AM (BOmIL)

382 So will there be riots when they turn off the power in the UK or will they just sit there and freeze?
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 29, 2022 09:09 AM (bVYXr)

Bad teeth, rape gangs and cold bums.

Churchill Spins In His Grave.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 29, 2022 09:12 AM (kweYR)

383

Moonwalker moments. Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt, singing, "I was strolling on the Moon one day...":

https://tinyurl.com/l7l9mus

Schmidt is one of the 4 still alive. Cernan has passed.

Here is John Young, giving the jumping salute to the 'Merican flag on the Moon:

https://tinyurl.com/yygzsm36

John Young has departed. Charles Duke there is one of the 4 still alive.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 09:12 AM (Mzdiz)

384 Are you missing the point that many countries exist for a long time despite longstanding regionalist/secessionist sentiment?

Are you missing the point that, sometimes, everything old becomes new again ? It is not predestined that smaller states much congeal into larger ones, anymore than it's pre-ordained that smaller companies must either grow or merge into larger ones. Technologies and societies change.

As you're seeing in Ukraine. How long is it going to take Russia to digest that meal, assuming they can even get it swallowed ? This notion that political states must stay large and stable, that they are destined to do so, is going to fade away as nations continue to lose their ability to make it so.

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 09:12 AM (rxfxK)

385 *imagines a Kraut solar powered panzer and giggles*

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 09:12 AM (XZ7dY)

386 Will the Bundeswher panzers drive East again?
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I would put Germany's tank force operational availablity around 20%. Mind you, they don't have the logistical tail to make them work beyond their own borders.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 29, 2022 09:13 AM (2graF)

387 Seems the markets want to do some diving this morning. I wonder why?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 29, 2022 09:06 AM (2graF)

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Not to worry; the Great Biden Depression will be transitory ...

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 29, 2022 09:13 AM (QbCrG)

388 28 seconds of fun! [That's what she said!]

Prison Mitch @MidnightMitch
Fun @JohnFetterman fact: If you play his speech in reverse it sounds the same.

https://twitter.com/MidnightMitch/status/
1564032186155663368

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 29, 2022 09:13 AM (yikp0)

389
Ann B memes again:

The best one was of the two guys, one unemployed college graduate, the other who finished his apprentice program and is now and electrician making 80k per year who disconnects the power of the college graduate with 100k of student debt.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 29, 2022 09:13 AM (jE276)

390 381 How many years behind schedule and how many dollars over budget is this NASA project anyway?
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High Speed Train scheduling.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 29, 2022 09:14 AM (2graF)

391 I think the people we should really look out for are the-

Semi-Demi-Hemi-Fascists!

They're scary, man!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 29, 2022 08:53 AM (5NkmN)

I'm an octo-fascist at best.

Posted by: Count de Monet, octo-fascist at August 29, 2022 09:14 AM (4I/2K)

392 but this morning, on the Morning Report, the fold-jump opened the MR in a new window, and then the original window loaded a website named “Cunt Report.” Not a typo: Cunt Report, which was, of course, porn.

Bad practice and disgusting results too.
Posted by: David

**

Pro-tip: Clear your browser settings and cookies before posting this stuff on a public forum.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 29, 2022 09:14 AM (Y5s+k)

393 The left would have never been able to steal 2020 without 100% buy in with the MSM.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2022 09:14 AM (Wrs74)

394 I wonder what Gavin MacInnes did to get arrested in the middle of his show? Other than be Gavin MacInnes, I mean.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2022 09:14 AM (7hYAh)

395 John Fetterman, Tacocat

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2022 09:15 AM (Wrs74)

396 Putin is proving the obverse of that Lenin saying "We will hang the last capitalist with the rope he sells us."

Here he is making the Socialists hang themselves because they became addicted to cheap Russian natural gas.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 09:15 AM (XZ7dY)

397
Are you missing the point that, sometimes, everything old becomes new again ? It is not predestined that smaller states much congeal into larger ones, anymore than it's pre-ordained that smaller companies must either grow or merge into larger ones. Technologies and societies change.

As you're seeing in Ukraine. How long is it going to take Russia to digest that meal, assuming they can even get it swallowed ? This notion that political states must stay large and stable, that they are destined to do so, is going to fade away as nations continue to lose their ability to make it so.
Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 09:12 AM (rxfxK)

It's not that they are forever stable. "The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been." to use a famous quote.

Geography tends to determine where long-lived polities have their borders. China goes through periods of being many regions and long periods of being unified.

Being hostile, the newly formed countries in the former CONUS will attempt to conquer each other. Eventually, one will succeed. The area where we're mostly likely to see a string of successes is in the center.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 09:15 AM (b2nrj)

398 393 The left would have never been able to steal 2020 without 100% buy in with the MSM.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2022 09:14 AM (Wrs74)

The Left IS the MSM.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:15 AM (r46W7)

399 If the Census Bureau consistently finds fewer adult citizens in the big blue shitholes then the local election officials do it would seem that the Census Bureau people would need to *thoroughly* review the list of voters to improve their systems.

Note that is not happening...year after year, decade after decade those numbers to not agree. But only in the big blue shitholes.

Also, watch the videos of drug zombies on the street of Philly (there are dozens of such videos on youtube). The FNM/government is telling you those people are committed political partisans that vote in every election, and always D, never green, socialist, or whoever the local pro-drug party is.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 29, 2022 09:10 AM (ESjRY)

Look at big city school built to house 2000 9-12th graders that now have 300 or 400 kids.

My guess is at least 3 Congress seats were cheated out of Texas and Florida. 1 from New England area, 1 from NY, and 1 from Penn or MI.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 29, 2022 09:15 AM (BRHaw)

400 >>> 330
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I have a different form of pessimism. When war gaming out an EMP attack, the question is rarely asked "Why would anyone want to disable the mechanism for controlling people and things?" The same reasoning should be the first question about collapsing the FUSD. Who benefits? the WEF has already told us two things: they want to kill as many of us as possible, and those who remain suffer as slaves to the oligarchy.

But that only works when there is a currency they can control. I submit that the G7 nations are in a death pact that keeps their respective currencies within a rather narrow band of equity. When one goes down, the others are expected to enact a policy to similarly bring down the value of their own currency. Trump didn't play that game so he was forced into these Trillion Dollar Swindles (C19 Relief) to keep the FUSD from dominating other currencies.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 29, 2022 08:59 AM (3hSHB)

Good point; I don't think the WEF-tards want the teewee and internet turned off. otoh it seems something so vulnerable may be a target for outside attack.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 29, 2022 09:16 AM (llON8)

401 #Riots and Lindsey Graham are trending on Twitter.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 29, 2022 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

402 The right wingers are fascist!

Whoa! Tone down the rhetoric!

Ok, the right wingers are semi-fascist!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2022 09:16 AM (Wrs74)

403 Being hostile, the newly formed countries in the former CONUS will attempt to conquer each other. Eventually, one will succeed. The area where we're mostly likely to see a string of successes is in the center.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 09:15 AM (b2nrj)

well if we're going to wargame it that way, the only real question is who ends up with the nukes, and who is most willing to use them on the rest.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:17 AM (r46W7)

404 I expect them to arrest Trump; their brownies will kill at the protest rallies; those murders will be the excuse for full martial law; and the round up, and murder for resisting, of those on their list of leaders. Some of you here are on that list ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 29, 2022 09:01 AM (Zf0+a)

*

Agreed. See #197

It's the same as their "red mirage" statements prior to the 2020 steal. They're calling their shots on what they're going to do when the wrong (R)s win.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 29, 2022 09:17 AM (EN2Lr)

405 344

At least Graham acknowledged that an indictment of Trump could have negative consequences.
Surely there are some Democrats who will not allow that to happen...

Posted by: Ziba at August 29, 2022 09:17 AM (4h9M3)

406 394 I wonder what Gavin MacInnes did to get arrested in the middle of his show? Other than be Gavin MacInnes, I mean.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2022 09:14 AM (7hYAh)

There seems a complete boycott on this story. The FBI interrupts a conservative individual broadcasting and hauls them away and the media isn't interested. I'd day "incredible," but I know better.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 29, 2022 09:18 AM (H8QX8)

407 403 Being hostile, the newly formed countries in the former CONUS will attempt to conquer each other. Eventually, one will succeed. The area where we're mostly likely to see a string of successes is in the center.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 09:15 AM (b2nrj)

well if we're going to wargame it that way, the only real question is who ends up with the nukes, and who is most willing to use them on the rest.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:17 AM (r46W7)

If we start seeing nukes deployed I think we'd see widescale foreign intervention playing out in an unpredictable fashion.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 09:18 AM (b2nrj)

408 Anyway speaking of panzers driving East, need to keep work on my model group build contribution. Really don't like this plane but oh well.

Applying decals to the 1/32 Trumpeter Ju 87B-2... then I get to weathering this beast. And then put it behind me.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 29, 2022 09:18 AM (XZ7dY)

409 Anna Puma

Good morning.

There is maybe, maybe a battalion of working Heer panzers. Probably in their 1st Panzer Division, 9th Panzerlehr Brigade.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at August 29, 2022 09:19 AM (u82oZ)

410 393 The left would have never been able to steal 2020 without 100% buy in with the MSM.
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The Church of Manhattan Media posits dogma daily. The Silicon Valley Inquisition discovers and cruxcifies heretics daily based on the Church's dogma. We live in very religious times.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 29, 2022 09:19 AM (2graF)

411 archetypal story out this morning - "long awaited Ukrainian offensive may have begun!"

and... it may not have. Who knows. That's 6 months of reporting on this war right there in a nutshell.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:20 AM (r46W7)

412 401 #Riots and Lindsey Graham are trending on Twitter.

Posted by: redridinghood

How much is Bot driven?

Posted by: davidt at August 29, 2022 09:20 AM (oTZbj)

413 The right wingers are fascist!

Whoa! Tone down the rhetoric!

Ok, the right wingers are semi-fascist!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

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I'd like to see the math on how the people who hold no power, who want a 50-80% reduction in total government, who want the remaining government enacted at the lowest possible level, who want government accountability, a budget, greatly reduced spending, and for government and the press/ corporations / academia / healthcare to be clearly and permanently separated are facists.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 29, 2022 09:20 AM (EN2Lr)

414 There seems a complete boycott on this story. The FBI interrupts a conservative individual broadcasting and hauls them away and the media isn't interested. I'd day "incredible," but I know better.
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Maybe the FBI wanted to give Gavin a helicopter ride?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 29, 2022 09:20 AM (2graF)

415 The left is looking for its Oswald. Joe's speech was an advert for that. He's openly demonizing/othering us and calling us out for a fight with his fortified government thugs.

The restraint we must have ....

Posted by: torabora at August 29, 2022 09:20 AM (Y274z)

416 Yes! Both of them!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:11 AM (r46W7)

Under union rules, though, only during business hours.

Posted by: blaster at August 29, 2022 09:20 AM (6TxNR)

417 404 I expect them to arrest Trump

Beyond doubt. Biden's recent remarks were a fortissimo tell.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 29, 2022 09:21 AM (H8QX8)

418 Surely there are some Democrats who will not allow that to happen...
Posted by: Ziba

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Only the ones with semi-fascistic leanings.

You don't want people to think that's you or your family, do you?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 29, 2022 09:21 AM (EN2Lr)

419 Being hostile, the newly formed countries in the former CONUS will attempt to conquer each other. Eventually, one will succeed. The area where we're mostly likely to see a string of successes is in the center.

By today's trends, from every major nation that's attempting to project power, you are absolutely incorrect. There is no indication that, after a collapsed United States, any of the resulting powers would have the ability to project power and subject another unwilling region.

Even assuming they would want to. It'll go similar to like I said, new versions of the old Kansas Missouri border war. Vigilantes who have it in their head that everyone has to re-unite. Most of the country doesn't want to. That's the ugly, unsaid truth. Hochul told New York republicans to leave. Most people outside New York wonder why they stay.

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 09:22 AM (rxfxK)

420 Obviously Ms Lindsay understood Michael Bloomberg's threat and is complying. Its what cucks do.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 29, 2022 09:22 AM (2graF)

421 @367

>>So will there be riots when they turn off the power in the UK or will they just sit there and freeze?

The indigenous Brits are vassals and wouldn't do anything that might affect their pensions or their NHS access, their imported muslim hordes on the other hand will tear the doors off of Buckingham Palace to heat their hearths.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 29, 2022 09:22 AM (IcEKK)

422 Gavin Miles McInnes (/məˈkɪnɪs/; born 17 July 1970) is a Canadian writer, podcaster and far-right political commentator. He is the host of the podcast Get Off My Lawn, on the online video platform Censored.TV, which he founded.[1] He co-founded Vice in 1994 at the age of 24, and relocated to the United States in 2001. In more recent years, he has drawn attention for his far-right political activism and his role as the founder of the Proud Boys, an American far-right neo-fascist organization[2][3] designated as a terrorist group in Canada.[4][5] McInnes has been accused of promoting violence against political opponents, but has claimed that he only has supported political violence in self-defense and that he is not far-right or a supporter of fascism

I wonder what end of the political spectrum the unbiased Wikipedia thinks Gavin is in?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2022 09:23 AM (Wrs74)

423 So Biden went semi-Godwin?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 29, 2022 09:24 AM (kXYt5)

424 394 I wonder what Gavin MacInnes did to get arrested in the middle of his show? Other than be Gavin MacInnes, I mean.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2022 09:14 AM (7hYAh)

Supposedly a PB rolled on him for organizing the attack on the Capitol. Though also supposedly he said don't go to the Capitol, and also, supposedly, he has long since been disassociated with the Proud Boys.

So, yeah, just for being Gavin MacInnes, I think.

Posted by: blaster at August 29, 2022 09:24 AM (6TxNR)

425 404 I expect them to arrest Trump

Beyond doubt. Biden's recent remarks were a fortissimo tell.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 29, 2022 09:21 AM (H8QX

*******
The Left want another J6 to destroy the Republicans forever. This is what the MAL raid was always about.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 29, 2022 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

426 There seems a complete boycott on this story. The FBI interrupts a conservative individual broadcasting and hauls them away and the media isn't interested. I'd day "incredible," but I know better.
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Yes. Where are the "persecution of journalists" liberals now.

(I'm looking at you, New York Times.)

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 29, 2022 09:24 AM (lf83v)

427 They want us to get violent. At the same time they are making it so that violence is the only option.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2022 09:24 AM (Wrs74)

428 The SLS is an expensive, useless, ridiculous pile of shit.

Posted by: spindrift at August 29, 2022 09:24 AM (h5TKJ)

429 Maybe if the J6 protestors wore pink pussy hats, they would be free today?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 29, 2022 09:25 AM (lf83v)

430 Isn’t every nation semi-fascist by definition?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 29, 2022 09:25 AM (g1EEm)

431
Gene Cernan, there, singing "I was strolling on the Moon one day" was the last man on the Moon. Harrison Schmidt had gone back in first, and so he was the last one.

You'll see Cernan in that clip doing the "bunny hop". You didn't walk on the Moon, you hopped in that fashion.

Much exhaustive research has been done on the best means of locomotion for humans in restrictive space suits. It has been proven that "bunny hop" was the most efficient means of lunar locomotion.

Ponder this: this was not studied or even contemplated. The Moonwalkers intuited this from the time they set foot. The Moonwalkers instinctively figured out the most efficient means of locomotion on the lunar surface.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at August 29, 2022 09:25 AM (Mzdiz)

432 >>> 425 404 I expect them to arrest Trump

Beyond doubt. Biden's recent remarks were a fortissimo tell.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 29, 2022 09:21 AM (H8QX
*******
The Left want another J6 to destroy the ~~Republicans~~ Americans and anyone who supports Western civ forever. This is what the MAL raid was always about.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 29, 2022 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 29, 2022 09:25 AM (llON8)

433 I see miss Lindsey is saying shit to try to mitigate his image as a quisling deeps state asshat.

When the chips are down, we know who you are Graham.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 29, 2022 09:25 AM (HJDAV)

434 The Left want another J6 to destroy the Republicans forever. This is what the MAL raid was always about.

The GOP wants another J6, to destroy Trumpism - for lack of a better word. They want their political party back.

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 09:25 AM (rxfxK)

435 Damn exhaust ports will be the death of us.
Posted by: Darth Vader, The Death Star at August 29, 2022 08:55 AM

That's the kimchee talking.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 29, 2022 09:25 AM (4p7Em)

436 428 The SLS is an expensive, useless, ridiculous pile of shit.
Posted by: spindrift at August 29, 2022 09:24 AM (h5TKJ)

Yes, but that is what we have chosen to send the first woman and person of color to the Moon!

What does that say about America?

Posted by: blaster at August 29, 2022 09:26 AM (6TxNR)

437 247 They actually realized they moved here to escape the city cesspool and have come to the conclusion that it is the product not necessarily of party politics, but social mores and values. We actually have a lot of true independents that vote issues instead of party. I frankly have no problem with that because it keeps the e-GOP down
Posted by: Marcus T at August 29, 2022 09:02 AM (VpIIl)

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I'm fairly optimistic about the GOP's chances in 2022, but I'm not this optimistic.

Cultural leftism is a virus that can only heal with fire. There were fires in 2020, and yet here we are.

I hope you're right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 09:26 AM (LvTSG)

438 Biden is right.

If they keep the house and gain one more Senator then it is almost certainly over.

They will pass universal mail in voting allowing them to cheat in every election.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 29, 2022 09:26 AM (ePX2z)

439 Driving from Houston to Cape Canaveral Sat-Sun I saw ONE Tesla. FYI

Posted by: Gref at August 29, 2022 09:26 AM (ecfdA)

440 368 meanwhile in Florida, Charlie Crist looks like he is intentionally trying to lose - but I think he's running a race designed to maximize financial contributions from the oligarchs, most of which he plans to pocket.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 29, 2022 09:09 AM (r46W7)

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It's a sign that FL is now as far to the right as TX.

All because DeSantis took Broward County's ability to cheat away from it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 29, 2022 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

441 So this whole "Make Sure We Charge Them In DC So Our Corrrupt Juries Can Convict Conservatives" sure is going to help DC become a state.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 29, 2022 09:27 AM (lf83v)

442 Yes, but that is what we have chosen to send the first woman and person of color to the Moon!

What does that say about America?
Posted by: blaster

They are sending Kammy to the moon? I can't imagine what her first words would be.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 29, 2022 09:27 AM (Wrs74)

443 >>> 434
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The GOPe wants another J6, to destroy Trumpism - for lack of a better word. They want their political party back.
Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 09:25 AM (rxfxK)

The GOPe want to go back to grifting without anyone noticing. The WEF-tards and friends want to destroy much more.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 29, 2022 09:28 AM (llON8)

444 That's the kimchee talking.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 29, 2022 09:25 AM (4p7Em)

man, kimchee sounds good. I might have to see if I can find some in the local asian store. haven't had any for a while.

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 29, 2022 09:28 AM (KdUK5)

445 434 The Left want another J6 to destroy the Republicans forever. This is what the MAL raid was always about.

The GOP wants another J6, to destroy Trumpism - for lack of a better word. They want their political party back.
Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 09:25 AM (rxfxK)

This was always part of my argument of why we needed to burn the GOP down to the ground and start over. As long as the various heads were still in power (and we have only limited effect there) they will still be able to steer things the way they want. They could still do that as long as they were elected (for those that are elected) but staying within the party also still gives them access to the revenue streams Trump is the lifeblood of.

It is not an easy solution and not without drawbacks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 29, 2022 09:28 AM (HJDAV)

446
By today's trends, from every major nation that's attempting to project power, you are absolutely incorrect. There is no indication that, after a collapsed United States, any of the resulting powers would have the ability to project power and subject another unwilling region.

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 09:22 AM (rxfxK)

Continual border conflict is usually addressed by invasion and then either forced vassalization or annexation. We had something similar happen with the American Indians.

I don't see it as likely that any of the new states will mount as much resistance as Ukraine's population, and there isn't much prospect for foreign resupply. But even if we were to assume there's strong desire for independence from Texas by Idaho, eventually it'll flag.

And the center US is just so wide and open that it doesn't take too much to establish a chokehold on any part of it.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 09:28 AM (b2nrj)

447 Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at August 29, 2022 09:19 AM

Mornin', Salty!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 29, 2022 09:29 AM (4p7Em)

448 @404 Moron Robbie-Between what the left says and their actions I'm taking them at their word. I'm seeing it the same way you are. They're telling us exactly what they intend to do and what the intended outcome is.

Still a lot of people here ignoring this.

Posted by: JROD at August 29, 2022 09:29 AM (0jZnq)

449 man, kimchee sounds good. I might have to see if I can find some in the local asian store. haven't had any for a while.
Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 29, 2022 09:28 AM

I just made a couple of quarts Friday.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 29, 2022 09:30 AM (4p7Em)

450 >>> 448 @404 Moron Robbie-Between what the left says and their actions I'm taking them at their word. I'm seeing it the same way you are. They're telling us exactly what they intend to do and what the intended outcome is.

Still a lot of people here ignoring this.
Posted by: JROD at August 29, 2022 09:29 AM (0jZnq)

We're feeling a bit ignored, too.

Posted by: WEF at August 29, 2022 09:31 AM (llON8)

451 Chuck Schumer is preferable to McConnell.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 29, 2022 09:31 AM (44ww/)

452 The most important thing is to vote in people that will save every child from sexualization/pick your gender ideology.
Protect the innocent.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 29, 2022 09:31 AM (NpAcC)

453 I don't see it as likely that any of the new states will mount as much resistance as Ukraine's population, and there isn't much prospect for foreign resupply. But even if we were to assume there's strong desire for independence from Texas by Idaho, eventually it'll flag.

Someguy, you always see it, in every discussion, every thread that the United States will remain one nation. Soon, you'll pivot this around to "its destined to be one nation, why even bother dividing it up". Its simply what you do.

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 09:31 AM (rxfxK)

454 man, kimchee sounds good. I might have to see if I can find some in the local asian store. haven't had any for a while.
Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 29, 2022 09:28 AM

I just made a couple of quarts Friday.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 29, 2022 09:30 AM (4p7Em)

do tell. i might have to try that one day. do you bury the pots? sadly, I'm the only one who likes it in my house so a qt would last me a while...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 29, 2022 09:32 AM (KdUK5)

455
Someguy, you always see it, in every discussion, every thread that the United States will remain one nation. Soon, you'll pivot this around to "its destined to be one nation, why even bother dividing it up". Its simply what you do.
Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 09:31 AM (rxfxK)

I didn't say anything about "why bother dividing it up." You love putting words in my mouth. The existence of a country is not a moral principle. You can disregard military affairs and geography but they're rather important to the determination of countries.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 29, 2022 09:33 AM (b2nrj)

456 Chuck Schumer is preferable to McConnell.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 29, 2022 09:31 AM (44ww/)
******
No... The death of Alito or Thomas.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 29, 2022 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

457 439

Driving 600 miles RT in the Northeast, spotted 5 Teslas, up 3 from the same trip I made in July.
An upward trend, what?

Posted by: Ziba at August 29, 2022 09:35 AM (4h9M3)

458 art

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 29, 2022 09:36 AM (yikp0)

459 You can disregard military affairs and geography but they're rather important to the determination of countries.

You seem to ignore that military capabilities of nations vary, as do the nations themselves. Frankly, you're working off a series of assumptions that are being disproven on the modern battlefield, for the last couple decades. Have you ever seen the amount of logistics it takes to move even a mechanized battalion ? I have. Only very wealthy nations can do that.

Now, imagine that same battalion, on foot, with only small arms and whatever logistics tail it can muster in trucks, as part of a recovering region in a collapsed nation. Then tell me again, just how easy it's going to be to subject these various neighboring populations. Hell, don't bother. You're wedded to the notion that it'll happen. Its a matter of faith for you. Arguing faith is a waste of time.

Posted by: Vox at August 29, 2022 09:38 AM (rxfxK)

460 421,367

Yes, the Brits will sit there and freeze. Just like the Americans will !

Posted by: Ziba at August 29, 2022 09:39 AM (4h9M3)

461 When fascism comes to America it will come in the name of "Hey guys, I'm fascism!"

And everyone will resume diddling on their iPhones.

Posted by: Zek at August 29, 2022 09:41 AM (OzNIz)

462 Warnock only cleared a half-million dollars in 2021?

He can up his game and I can explain it all to him!

Posted by: Fat Jon Tester, Democrat Senator from Montana at August 29, 2022 09:45 AM (xxG/v)

463 "Colorado's Secretary of State Jena Griswold is a very serious woman -- except when she gets unhinged. ... she said in an interview with the radical left newspaper The Guardian that unless Americans vote for Democrats, they're going to lose their democracy."

'The U.S. Could Lose the Right To Vote Within Months' Says Democrat Politician

Nothing but projection. Democrats and the Deep State have already eliminated the right to vote for Republican voters. That was evident to anyone paying attention in November 2020.

From the rigged election to the massive voter fraud (that has been happening for decades with zero consequences) to the ballot harvesting to the mail-in vote fraud to people voting multiple times to the massive illegal alien invasion intended to increase the Democrats' vote totals (since Democrats push for non-American citizens to vote). To the absolutely ridiculously stupid "Voter ID is racist" bullshit.

The fact that Democrats succeed with these tactics - and have been succeeding for decades - shows how ignorant and gullible is the American public. Accomplished by the Left's full takeover of American education system.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 29, 2022 09:47 AM (Do5/p)

464 451 Chuck Schumer is preferable to McConnell.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

Ass cancer > McConnell > Schumer

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 29, 2022 09:49 AM (nSdVr)

465 "These recent events against conservatives suggest that the left is now making [swatting] a tactic in their effort to silence any opposition."

Today's Blacklisted American: Blacklisting is Not Enough – Leftists Now Aim to Get Conservatives Killed by Police

Is *now* making? Hasn't the Left been doing this for years?

Also, isn't lying to the police a crime? How about a year in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for anyone "swatting".

Yeah, I know, never gonna happen. Just like antifa and BLM and every criminal in a blue city never get punished for crimes. "Space to destroy" and all.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 29, 2022 09:51 AM (Do5/p)

466 "So, why did Joe Biden say, during a rally Thursday, that Democrats have a plan to make sure no one ever steals an election '"again?'"

Whoa, Did Biden Admit Elections Have Been Stolen?

The Left thinks/believes every election they lose has been stolen. Look at 2000. Look at Stacey Abrams. Look at 2016.

When Democrats win, the elections are the freest and fairest elections in the history of the world. When Democrats lose, the elections were stolen.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 29, 2022 10:05 AM (Do5/p)

467 "Third, there is no political opposition party that has the power nor more crucially the desire to do what Donald Trump attempted virtually singlehandedly to bring about in his first and so far only term."

Well said like usual, JJ. Trump, DeSantis, Hawley, MTG, Gomert, etc. are but the few who even have the gumption.

The real cretin in the mix is McConnell who literally controls all of the campaign cash. When you have the chief legal counsel of the RNC - Justin Riemer - tell the Trump campaign in Dec. 2020 "We make more money when our guys lose.". Well?

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 29, 2022 10:05 AM (klw0w)

468 "Transitioning from a traditional primary system to ranked-choice voting is like ‘going from algebra to calculus.'"

Ranked-Choice Voting is a Nightmare -- And It's on the Ballot in Nevada

I need to read the article, but is ranked-choice voting like what they have in Alaska? I just read about the process there where they have to provide their top 3 choices, I think, for the election. The election I read about over the weekend was regarding a special election, I think, in which Sarah Palin was running.

If there are 3 (or more) candidates, the top 2 candidates with the most first place votes are considered. The rest of the votes who had someone else as top choice are then counted based on their second choice.

Definitely seems like a nightmare system.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 29, 2022 10:09 AM (Do5/p)

469 I refuse to forsake my country by not pursuing my heritage of continuing the struggle of my predecessors to ensure the Republic endures.

I will work to do this by political, peaceful measures until that effort fails, and then fulfill the oath I (and countless others) took that has no expiration date.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 29, 2022 10:18 AM (KATBx)

470 Apparently the most important thing about this launch is it will lead to possibly including the first woman and first person of color on a trip to the. Moon. For that reason, I don't care if it ever gets off the ground in one piece.

Posted by: fd at August 29, 2022 07:44 AM

So NASA has defined what is a woman? I thought the new term was "person with a vagina".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 29, 2022 10:18 AM (Do5/p)

471 Love the AAN ad. Finally reaching the people!

Don't know much about them, but they sound better than the GOP.

Posted by: Ultra pj at August 29, 2022 10:19 AM (G1dq6)

472 I dig space exploration and am happy NASA has refocused on the moon, but the constant references to women and colored peoples makes me think the actual mission might be doomed from the start. NASA's obviously fixated on the social constructs and not the mechanical constructs of their rocket.

I've seen this picture before. Won't end well.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 29, 2022 08:04 AM

Yep, every one of we Gen-Xers remembers watching on live TV in school when the narrative focus was on "the first school teacher to fly on the space shuttle!" and that ended with her blown up. January 1986, right before my 10th birthday. I was in 4th grade.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 29, 2022 10:32 AM (Do5/p)

473
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Posted by: Elizabeth Odonnell at August 29, 2022 10:59 AM (osIFE)

474 Wickard v. Filburn. What a shitty decision...you DON'T have the freedom to grow what crops you like in the quantities you want, because it MIGHT affect prices (as you aren't buying those crops) and that's interstate commerce, your freedoms be damned!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2022 11:13 AM (ynpvh)

475 Oh Lizzie, those websites are scams.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2022 11:16 AM (ynpvh)

476 424 394 I wonder what Gavin MacInnes did to get arrested in the middle of his show? Other than be Gavin MacInnes, I mean.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 29, 2022 09:14 AM (7hYAh)

Supposedly a PB rolled on him for organizing the attack on the Capitol. Though also supposedly he said don't go to the Capitol, and also, supposedly, he has long since been disassociated with the Proud Boys.

So, yeah, just for being Gavin MacInnes, I think.

Posted by: blaster at August 29, 2022 09:24 AM (6TxNR)

I wonder if he was given a copy of the arrest warrant. Probably not, just shown it from a distance with the particulars sealed. I've seen this done before to someone I know; even when showing up in court, the charges were sealed...absolute bullshit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 29, 2022 11:19 AM (ynpvh)

477 The names of the jailers and others who are involved and are part of the torture, their need names need to be leaked.

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