The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/31/22

Good morning kids. So Mikhail Gorbachev, the last premier of the former Soviet Union died yesterday at 91. Here's the headline from the NY Times:

“Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who transformed the map of Europe and presided over the end of the Cold War, has died at 91.”

If you didn't know any better – which sadly describes about half of the nation (and I'm being overly optimistic) – you'd think bit players like Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, Margaret Thostaer and Helmut Kohl had nothing to do with it and in fact were the bad guys from 1945-1990.

Even the NY Post got into the act:

Gorbachev, who helped stop threat of global nuclear annihilation, dead at 91

At least they ran this column from Steven Hayward: "How the media will get the Cold War wrong in covering Mikhail Gorbachev’s death"

Wait, Gorbachev helped stop the threat of global nuclear annihilation? Stupid me; I thought the Reagan economic boom and SDI as well as the abject failure of socialist/communist command and control economies eliminated that threat, and liberated over 80 million people trapped behind the Iron Curtain.

And here we are in 2022 and while the Iron Curtain fell, the bitterly ironic truth is that it fell on top of us. The evil in men who seek to control others, whether driven by greed, a lust for power or most dangerously, the desire to bring about a paradise on earth by "tormenting us for our own good" because "they do so with the approval of their own conscience," as the great C.S. Lewis warned us, will always be with us. Yesterday, the vegetable impersonating the President of the United States opened his maw again, allegedly to speak about crime while lying his ass off about the Second Amendment, but in no time flat, the raw hatred and incitement came spewing out:

Biden, yelling at the top of his voice, said that he is determined to ban assault weapons. After all, according to Biden, it isn’t about taking away guns, and responsible gun owners should be treated as examples. He “supports” the Second Amendment, but also invoked Antonin Scalia, to whom he attributed the phrase that the rights under Second Amendment are not unlimited. He added that right now, people cannot go out and buy automatic weapons or cannons. He also made a lame attempt at a joke by telling, and I quote, “those brave right-wing Americans who say ‘It’s all about keeping Americas independent and safe,’ if you want to fight against the country you need an F-15.” (sic) Insert rimshot here. Keep it classy, Great Uniter. . .
. . . Ideally, Biden could have come out with a plan or at least an appeal for people to come together on the issue of guns. Ideally, he could have brought people together or at least facilitated a real debate. But, he had to circle back to evil Republicans. He mentioned some of his “friends on the other team talking about political violence and how it’s necessary.” That may hold true for the fringe, but Biden sent the message that all conservatives are for political violence. He essentially said he never thought he would see the day, and that political violence is never appropriate. Someone forgot to tell Maxine Waters. Or the population of Portland. Or Kamala Harris, who backed a bail fund that recently released a convict who killed one of his enemies. Is that the kind of reform you are looking for, Mr. so-called quote-unquote "president"]?
Of course, no political speech from Uncle Joe from Scranton would be complete without a January 6 reference, and Biden did not disappoint. And I quote: “To this day the MAGA Republicans in Congress defend the mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6.” Name them, please. I have yet to see a member of Congress who has defended that behavior. In fact, every Republican legislator I have heard has condemned those activities. He also slyly worked in his opinion that the rioters killed two police officers. He said, “Think about what the world saw.” The world also saw Sri Lanka and Iraq, and the world saw Afghanistan.
To his “MAGA Republican friends,” Biden said: “Don’t tell me you support law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on the sixth… FOR GOD’S SAKE, WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?” But as I mentioned above, it was condemned. Sadly, the people in attendance and most voters probably won’t take the time to research that, which is just the way Biden and Co. want it.
And just like that, it became a stump speech.
Given the Democrats’ proclivity for ignoring and fomenting violence, one might well ask [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden: “For God’s sake, whose side are you on?” But I think you know the answer to that question.

We laugh at the yarns about Corn-Pop and being in the front lines of civil rights protests and the plagiarism and even is incoherent brain-bleeding, but this filthy criminal is deadly honest about his intentions, or at least the intentions of his puppet masters in Kalorama and Davos. They want us enslaved or dead. Period.

The most vociferous defenders of “democracy” are also the ones who sound suspiciously like they want a one-party state. Modern Democrats have stopped debating policy or accepting the legitimacy of anyone who stands in their way. They will pass massive, generational reforms using parliamentary tricks, without any input from the minority. And they don’t merely champion their work as beneficial, they claim these bills are needed for the survival of “democracy” and “civilization” – nay, the survival of the planet. Anyone who opposes saving Mother Earth is surely a fascist. There is nothing to debate. The villainization of political opponents isn’t new, but we are breaking new ground. We live in an era where a failed former CIA director, Michael Hayden—the man who was on watch during 9/11—says that he has “never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. . . ”
. . . It is curious, as well, that the same people who control basically all major institutions in American life—academia, media, unions, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, trade associations, public schools, publishing, the entire D.C. bureaucracy, Hollywood, Madison Avenue, not to mention the presidency and Congress—claim to be victims of budding authoritarianism. The only major institution free of progressives’ grip right now is the Supreme Court. And the left is engaged in a systematic effort to delegitimize the court for doing its job and limiting the state’s power.

The gall of invoking January 6th when it was the DOJ/FBI/Capitol PD using Antifa and BLM confederates who staged the so-called "riot" wherein the acts of violence they blood libel us with were committed by them. My blood has been boiling about that ever since. They are not only telling us who they are but from the abuse of power and lying from every bureaucracy to sabotage a duly elected president's agenda to stealing an election to oust him to sanctioning acts of political terrorism via riots and attempted assassinations to the collusion with media to censor voices of dissent to the labeling of citizens opposed to your agenda as potential terrorists.

The logical next step leads directly to the gulags. And worse. We have seen this movie time and time again but this time, we're in the picture.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"The presidency is a distraction from the real work of ousting the permanent bureaucratic regime."
Lame Duck Nation
"A mass die-off is still happening in the U.S. and reportedly around the world, and we have no idea what’s coming next." (the Malthusians are cheering but are they surprised by it - jjs)
Excess Deaths in America Are Still Excessive

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

“The @seminolegop will not be intimidated by the fascists posing as anti-fascists,” the group said in the aftermath of the vandalism. “The Republican Party is the party of life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness while putting #AmericaFirst.”
Florida’s Seminole County GOP Vandalized: "Eat Shit Fascists"
Timothy Thibault, the FBI’s former assistant special agent in charge who resigned Friday after Republican allegations of his political bias in connection to the Biden laptop investigation, was allegedly one of the agents trying to get FBI employees to bolster Domestic Violent Extremism (DVE) case counts to satisfy “performance metrics,” whistleblowers alleged in July, Breitbart News reported.
FBI Boss Who Quit After Allegedly Blocking Hunter Biden Probe Also Reportedly Pushed To Pad Domestic Terror Data

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In Biden’s speech, he stressed that the Second Amendment is “not unlimited,” and that there are weapons that are not allowed to be possessed in America today.
Biden Warns "Brave Right-Wing" Americans—"If You Want to Fight Against the Country, You Need an F-15"
Jeffrey Lord: "He’s accusing his opponents of what he does."
Joe Biden: American Fascist
“'Vote for Democrats or you’re dead' is kind of a silly campaign slogan. But it’s what Democrats have been saying for months — ever since it became clear that Biden had so trashed the economy and tarnished our reputation overseas with his incompetent botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that Democrats were going to get a huge shellacking in the midterms."
Biden to Warn that Republicans Will Destroy the Country in Prime-time Nationwide Address
"Extreme-Left Democrats [BIRM] should look long and hard in the mirror before calling others fascist."
Who Are the Real "Semi-Fascists?"
"Biden appeals to the worst impulses of his base, and the rest of us are supposed to just take it."
When Dirty Joe and the Democrats Turned Truly Dangerous
"A key portion of the [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] speech was aimed at the GOP, with Biden slamming the defense of January 6 rioters and calls by some within the party to defund the FBI following the raid on Mar-a-Lago."
Biden Ramps Up Rhetoric Against "MAGA Republicans" in Speech on Crime
David Harsanyi: "A rant."
Who Are You Calling a Fascist, Mr. So-Called Quote-Unquote "president?"
"Joe and Jill are bad people – and worse parents."
Joe Biden Has Earned Your Disgust

* * * * *
Is this fucking idiot for real? Does he not understand the fucking damage he did?
Gavin McInnes Staged Alleged Raid and Arrest – Admits in Text Message to Friends it Was a "Prank. Don’t Tell"
"Disinformation from Meathead and a sitting US Senator."
Reiner, Klobuchar and the Big Lie of January 6
Robert Spencer: "A harrowing glimpse into the Left's heart of darkness."
Hochul Wants All Those Nasty Republicans Out of Her Nice, Clean State
"They are waging a full-scale ideological war on anyone who doesn’t agree with their increasingly commie policies. Make no mistake about this: their endgame is one-party rule in the United States of America."
Democrats Are Lying and Everyone Knows It
RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO
"With Monday’s notice, the DOJ bypassed the judge now weighing a special master and announced that the DNI would go through all the documents in a “national assessment” to determine if they think it was okay for Trump to have the documents as a former president. That’s not their job. If you think that sounds like another investigation into Trump, you win a Joe Biden bicycle helmet."
'6 Ways From Sunday' Alert: Yet ANOTHER NEW PROBE Into Trump's Declassified Docs
Julie Kelly: "Will the trio of Susan Rice, Avril Haines, and Lisa Monaco get their target or will their exaggerated sense of self finally catch up with them?"
Obama-Era "Sisters" Circle Trump
Lloyd Billingsley: "The defender of the deep state can be no friend of the people."
Bill Barr — All-In With the Mar-a-Lago Raid
"We need to see the whole document in order to know the truth."
Release the Entire FBI Mar-a-Lago Affidavit
Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer (R-KY) and other Republicans wrote a letter to Debra Steidel Wall, the acting Archivist of the United States, regarding the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) response to the Oversight Republicans that it was “unable to provide a briefing or any documents in response to your letter.”
House Oversight GOP Questions National Archives’ Statement on Its Involvement in FBI Raid on Trump
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"The European Union’s Natura 2000 network, which mandates that the 27 member states must protect designated habitats in a 'sustainable manner, both ecologically and economically,' and therefore must cut nitrogen emissions — spurring widespread unrest among the Dutch Farmers — has now spread to the heart of the EU in Belgium, with farmers driving their tractors to the centre of Hoogstraten on Monday evening."
WATCH: Farmers in Belgium Attempt to Break Into City Hall Protesting Against EU-Inspired Green Agenda
"For years, liberal states in New England opposed gas pipelines in the name of combatting climate change, yet now that ideological opposition is coming back to haunt them as the region faces a fuel shortage months before cold weather even starts."
Dems’ Manmade Energy Crisis Hits New England: Granholm Begs Governors To Increase Fuel Inventories
Clarice Feldman: "Yes, the EPA may well try to use the IRA to regulate carbon dioxide from coal plants, although the agency should ultimately lose because it lacks specific Congressional authority to do so. Of course, the bureaucrats can cause a lot of damage in the meantime."
About that 'Greenhouse Gas' Provision . . .
"But remember, when it comes to EVs, it’s so simple! In the eyes of the left, who cares what it costs when you’re not the one footing the bill?"
More Ridiculous Electric Vehicle Advice
"Musk is pushing for continued, and more, fossil fuel use because he knows that the Biden plan is EV-unfriendly."
Elon Musk and Fossil Fuels
"The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change."
Larry Elder: Climate Change Forecasts
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Daniel Greenfield: "College for everyone is making everyone dumber. . . It’s not about the money, it’s about destroying America."
A Trillion Dollar Bailout for the Idiot Machine
"It further erodes the rule of law."
Biden’s Grotesque Plan to Pardon College Debt
"It's not hardworking Americans who get shafted the most from Biden's probably illegal student loan giveaway."
The Joke's on the Welchers

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"The state’s status as number one economically comes over two years after the Chinese coronavirus and over one year after [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s time in the White House, as inflation and gas prices soar and the country slips into a recession."
Florida Rated #1 in Fiscal and Economic Freedom
"Dem governor says she's created '25,000 auto jobs.' She's actually killed hundreds."
Tale of Two Gretchens: Whitmer Campaign Repeats Job Growth Lie as Official Office Backtracks From It
"Elizabeth Warren has the audacity to claim she’s helping average Americans."
The Economic Lies of Elizabeth Warren
"This is terrible news for [Fed fool Jerome] Powell, who has long been hoping that openings and the vacancy ratio would fall."
Surging Job Openings Foreclose Hopes of Labor Market Cooling
"Iraq is the world’s third largest oil producer, so disruptions in Iraqi oil supply could cause energy prices to skyrocket globally."
Violence in Iraq Could Throttle the US Economy. Here’s How
AMERICA, AND THE WORLD, IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Further studies are being conducted to ascertain more details about the impact of the vaccine."
UK Gov't Denies ‘Safe Use’ Recommendation for Pfizer Vaccine In Pregnant Women, Says Those Breastfeeding Should NOT Be Vaccinated
"Parents must seriously considering sending their graduates elsewhere."
Yes, Some Universities Are Still Requiring the Chinese COVID Shot
Wayne Allyn Root: "Does this seem normal to you?"
Seven Dead Doctors in 14 Days Don't Lie
LOCKDOWN 2: MONKEY POX MONKEY BUSINESS BOOGALOO???
"I’m…shocked. No panic like with [Chinese] COVID, where if someone who had [Chinese] COVID died, they all say they died *of* [Chinese] COVID."
‘Severely Immunocompromised’: Media Carefully Words Report of Person Dying With Monkeypox in Texas
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The concern over fraudulent passports comes as a surge of illegal migrants at the southern border overwhelms the immigration system."
Taco Taqqiya: Feds Pinpoint Nearly 30,000 Mexican Passport Holders With Middle Eastern Names in Fraud Investigation
The Aug. 11 ruling, which the FEC has not yet made public, concluded both Sanders’ campaigns broke federal law after “knowingly” employing three “foreign national” staffers from Mexico and Argentina who participated in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaigns Slapped With Fine After Hiring Illegal Aliens
"I wonder why CNN’s report didn’t mention Haiti."
‘Radical Shift’: Majority of People Traveling to the Border Come From Outside Mexico, Northern Triangle
Manuel Castro told CNN on Tuesday that he is an immigrant who crossed the border when he was five years old. "I had the same experience with my family," he said. (well, arrest him and deport him all the way down to the Ross Ice Shelf - jjs)
NYC Immigration Chief: "What We Actually Have Here Is a Right-Wing Political Extremist Crisis"
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Earlier this month, Fox News uncovered a clip where Fetterman asserted emptying the state’s prisons by one-third would not pose any more danger to the public than keeping the convicted criminals locked behind bars. He made the comments in a zoom call that was posted to YouTube in 2020, and he apparently cites former corrections director John Wetzel."
Democrat John Fetterman Plays Defense After Criminal-Friendly Record Exposed
"A few bad apples is turning out to be the entire orchard."
FBI’s ‘Supervisory Intelligence Analyst’ Arrested for Child Sex Abuse
"The city has become – I won’t even say, Gotham City is a little bit better, because you have Batman.”
‘Sitting Ducks’: Crime Forcing Chicago Women Business Owners to Leave Town
"Assessing progressive criminal-justice policies."
A Litany of Failure
"Dubbed ‘rainbow fentanyl’ in the media, this trend appears to be a new method used by drug cartels to sell highly addictive and potentially deadly fentanyl made to look like candy to children and young people.”
DEA Issues Warning Over ‘Emerging Trend’ of Rainbow Fentanyl Across U.S.\
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Hopefully the long, hard road Gibson’s Bakery has traveled in its fight with Oberlin College has come to an end. The Gibsons now can collect approximately $36 million."
Gibson’s Bakery Wins! Ohio Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Oberlin College Appeal
". . . the Times is awarding the deceased communist kudos for ending the Cold War and liberating Eastern Europe. Not someone such as, say, the anti-communist Ronald Reagan or other heroes of anti-Soviet resistance."
New York Times Continues Its Long History of Covering for Commies with Gorbachev Obit
A Google spokesperson has revealed that former President Donald Trump’s social media platform Truth Social has been kept from Android devices because the platform allegedly lacks “effective” content moderation.
Trump's Truth Social Banned from Google App Store
Chaya Raichik: ". . . and they will do anything to cover it up."
LIBS OF TIKTOK: Mainstream media isn't mad about gender surgeries on teens, they're mad you found out
"Some libraries are enticing young readers with easy access to sexually explicit books."
Parents Take On the Public Library
SECOND AMENDMENT
VERDICT: Mostly False.
Fact Check: Biden Claims Mass Shootings ‘Tripled’ After ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban Ended
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"University of Virginia student Emma Camp wrote in March that "strict ideological conformity" is the norm on college campuses."
Campus Conformity: College Students Say They Self-Censor Political Opinions, Poll Finds
"The reaction may have been severe and maybe even over-the-top in some cases, but parents who don’t want the pronoun protocol as part of their student’s education are being painted as mean while the opposition is full of gratitude and love. Angry calls and emails shut down communication but so does characterizing parents as problems."
Parents Against Pronouns
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
Margot Cleveland: "Zuckerberg’s admission reveals a deeper scandal: It was the FBI and not social media that stole the election from Donald Trump."
Zuckerberg’s Admission of FBI Meddling in 2020 Election is Even Bigger Than it Seems
"While election officials say the change was made to simplify the process, county election officials are concerned the new form will create chaos and undermine voter confidence."
Pennsylvania Abruptly Adds Mail-In Ballot Application To Voter Registration Form Mid-Election Cycle
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"A longstanding New York executive order that Hochul reissued on her first day in office prohibits campaign donations from state officials the governor appointed."
Gov. Kathy Hochul Under Fire for $475,000 in Campaign Donations from Cuomo Appointees
"Iowa Dem congresswoman criticizes opponent for taking money from Chinese company she toured, praised."
Cindy Axne Inadvertently Argues She’s in China’s Pocket
"Dem congressional hopeful's radical positions could cost her in a tight race."
Arizona’s Kirsten Engel Signed Anti-Cop Activist’s Slavery Reparations Pledge
"The media never questioned her refusal to accept responsibility for misleading a federal court."
Remembering Lori Lightfoot’s Legal Misconduct
POLITICS
"In between practically threatening half the country with fighter jets and rambling about inner-city basketball, the commander-in-chief relayed a story about a now-deceased woman who had feared for her life due to illegal activity occurring in the apartment below hers. Fear not, Biden visited her one night and sorted everything out."
Biden Tells the Tale of When He Helped an Elderly Lady Take Down a Gang and Lower the Crime Rate
"Biden has been performing poorly in the polls, with a newly released USA Today/Ipsos poll finding that 56% of Democrats think Biden should not run for re-election and that the party needs change. Just 44% think Biden should run for re-election."
Trump Beats Biden In Key States, 2024 Presidential Polls Show
“DeSantis lives rent free in that space between Newsom’s ears.”
California Gov. Newsom Donates $100,000 to DeSantis Opponent Crist
"Conservatives should not dismiss the potential national appeal of California’s governor."
President Newsom?
"McConnell would rather have another two years of a Democrat-controlled Senate where he’s party leader than a Republican-controlled one where he’s not."
Yes, Mitch McConnell Would Rather Lose the Senate Than His Leadership Status
Robert Spencer: "Other Democrat hopefuls may not be so sanguine about being puppets for the people who are really in charge. It is they who may decide to sign Joe on for another four years."
Biden Filed to Run Again in 2024 — or Did He?
Michael Goodwin: "So voters will have a real choice. They can get a full, honest picture of Biden’s long career of getting a secret cut. Or they can decide the soul of the nation is best served with the status quo, where the cash flows into the First Family’s pockets and the leader of the other party gets raided by the FBI and faces prison."
Lying Joe Biden is Unfit to Save the "Soul of the Nation"
"Emerson College has Walker leading Warnock by a margin of 46% to 44%. While that’s well within the margin of error, it shows a shift that benefits Walker."
New Poll Shows Herschel Walker Leading "Wife-Beater" Warnock
"Bolduc, a retired brigadier general and an Afghanistan veteran, claims former President Donald Trump won the election in 2020. Trump has yet to endorse Bolduc, but the former president has praised the Senate hopeful for his criticisms of Gen. Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."
POLL: Don Bolduc Leads By 21 Points in New Hampshire Senate Primary
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The latest drone situation comes after numerous Chinese drones, believed to be operated by civilians, have embarrassed the Taiwan military by shooting videos of Taiwanese military outposts with seeming impunity and posting them online."
Tensions Mount as Taiwan Fires on Chinese Drone for the First Time
"State Dept. plays defense for Abbas amid anti-Semitism row."
Biden Junta Mum After Abbas Claims Israel Commits "50 Holocausts"on Palestinians
"Despite lyrics literally advocating genocide of whites . . . "
South African Supreme Court Rules Anti-White “Kill the Boers” Song is Not Hate Speech
"Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for the UN Humanitarian Coordination Office (OCHA), said Tuesday that 500,000 people have been displaced and almost one million homes have been damaged. Damaged infrastructure, including 3,500 km of roads and 150 bridges, has hindered people’s ability to flee to safer ground. Many of the dead are children, she said."
"Monster Monsoon" — Flooding Kills Over a Thousand in Pakistan: Officials
"After years of official anti-Semitism, Israel reacts."
Norway’s Comeuppance
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER
Daniel Greenfield: "The Taliban are getting rich from the immigration business. And we’re paying for it."
Biden is Paying Osama bin Laden’s Old Airline to Fly Out Afghans
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Kuehl added that three years from now, she feels “confident” that the county program would be viewed as a “foundation stone” for every eligible American household to receive economic opportunity and stability. (except if they do not vote Democrat; and they'll inspect all ballots to make sure - jjs)
L.A. County Rolls Out Universal Basic Income Pilot; 1,000 Residents To Get $1,000 Per Month
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Dennis Prager: "For those who associate women with instinctively protecting children or with being supportive of a traditionally religious life, this era in American history has provided something of a shock."
Women Are Disproportionately Hurting Our Country
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“Hamid . . . has become a victim of the growing ideological sclerosis of the perspective he represents.”
The Reluctant Wokester
"Politicizing investment decisions was never a good idea—especially for public pensions."
The ESG Bubble Is Bursting
Robert Spencer: "Bowing to the woke – and burning incense to their gods."
Baseball Team Abruptly Cancels Family Night, Shuts Out Pro-Life Groups
Christian Toto: "Podcaster's political advice veers from Left to Right . . . depending on his mood."
Why Can’t Joe Rogan Make Up His Mind?
"Professional golf, as a force for good in the United States and around the world, can fully realize its potential through competition. That’s what the LIV Golf Tour is trying to do."
Why Is the PGA Afraid of Good, Old-Fashioned Competition?
HITHER & YON
"Gorbachev assumed office in 1985 during a period of growing confrontation with the U.S., when President Ronald Reagan had strengthened America’s anticommunist posture. The Soviet Union and its satellites were falling behind economically, as computers made the Western economy vastly more productive, and the Eastern bloc fell increasingly into debt."
Mikhail Gorbachev, Last Premier of Soviet Union, Dies at 91
"America is far more complex than the hollow sentimentalism of its blind champions or the chaotic cynicism of its perpetual detractors."
Good Country People
"In his new book A Man of Iron, Troy Senik recounts Cleveland’s unlikely career as one of America’s most popular chief executives." A Century Before Trump, Grover Cleveland Was a Bulldog Populist With a Comeback Term

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Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2022 06:32 AM (BFigT)

2 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's phone at August 31, 2022 06:33 AM (OxX1O)

3 There is a mass die off because we forced billions of people to get an experimental vaccine that does more harm than good.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2022 06:34 AM (bVYXr)

4 morning horde. shitty office coffee is ready so it's off to the content.

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 31, 2022 06:34 AM (WhsXQ)

5 Looks like a full day of yard work is waiting for me as soon as the yard dries out. Foggy and cool this morning here in the Bluegrass.

Should probably go and fuel up the tractor...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2022 06:35 AM (BFigT)

6 Bonjour JJS, and may your morning be a beautiful one. Thank you for your labors.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 06:35 AM (+Rpe6)

7 Good morning horde! Free the Sponge!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 31, 2022 06:35 AM (GYIa4)

8

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 31, 2022 06:36 AM (SWi3y)

9 Biden, yelling at the top of his voice, said that he is determined to ban assault weapons. After all, according to Biden, it isn’t about taking away guns, and responsible gun owners should be treated as examples.

And, by "examples" he means persecuted.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 06:37 AM (+Rpe6)

10 I just read Michael Goodwin's excellent editorial in the NYP excoriating Biden. Thanks for including it, J.J.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 06:37 AM (wvo9L)

11 Good morning dear morons and thank you as always JJ

I have managed a total boycott of President Apple Sauce Brains. I don't need to hear any more to understand they hate me and want me and my children dead.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2022 06:38 AM (EZebt)

12 Comment posting times are one hour behind the main post's time.

What's up with the clocks, and why does this keep happening?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 31, 2022 06:38 AM (nRMeC)

13 oh and i don't know if i'm the only one, but i was surprised to hear of Gorby's death.

i thought he died a while ago tbh...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 31, 2022 06:38 AM (WhsXQ)

14 They will never give any credit to Reagan, Thatcher or Pope John Paul for their work on this. They can't help themselves.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 31, 2022 06:39 AM (4olE8)

15 "Of course, no political speech from Uncle Joe from Scranton would be complete without a January 6 reference"

And a mention of his son Beau.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 06:39 AM (sn5EN)

16 " FOR GOD’S SAKE, WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?”
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Meat puppet is in full election mode, but his record is so bad he has nothing to run on. Needless to say, then, we are being "othered"; the Junta intends to give us the full Emmanuel Goldstein treatment.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 06:39 AM (+Rpe6)

17 "Should probably go and fuel up the tractor...
Posted by: Martini Farmer "

Can you gin up the energy?

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 06:40 AM (sn5EN)

18 Biden reminds me of the vast majority of people I've met from that upper Mid Atlantic. He's a product of his environment. Nothing unusual about him.

Posted by: 6L6 at August 31, 2022 06:40 AM (zql5x)

19 Gavin 'Moon Moon' McInnes. Dammit Gavin!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 06:41 AM (4I/2K)

20 Biden giving a prime time speech smells of desperation.

Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2022 06:41 AM (oTZbj)

21 for some reason, I thought Gorby was living in San Francisco, and had morphed into a think-tank supporter of Pelousi.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 06:41 AM (+Rpe6)

22 Sometimes I wander over to National Review just to see the devolution over time.

It really is a pointless operation at this moment.

I really can't believe they actually pay Kevin Williamson to write the turgid drivel that excretes from his dying mind.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2022 06:41 AM (74n0+)

23 10 I just read Michael Goodwin's excellent editorial in the NYP excoriating Biden. Thanks for including it, J.J.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 06:37 AM (wvo9L)

Surprised he didn't take a swipe at Trump, as his his wont to do.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2022 06:41 AM (x0n13)

24 ||In Spain’s western Extremadura region, the receding waters of the Valdecañas reservoir have revealed a prehistoric stone circle on an islet that is normally underwater.

Dubbed the “Spanish Stonehenge”, the circle of dozens of megalithic stones was discovered by archaeologists in 1926, but the area was flooded in 1963 when the reservoir was built.

The stones are also attracting tourists, who reach the islet on boats operated by several private firms. Officially known as the Dolmen of Guadalperal, the site is believed to date back to 5000BC.||
https://tinyurl.com/yzc9udsm
https://tinyurl.com/mtmuffb9

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 06:42 AM (yikp0)

25 "Camilo Guevara March, son of revolutionary leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, has died at 60."

Ice to see you -- it's also the anniversary of Trotsky's murder.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 06:42 AM (yikp0)

26 Lots of stories of young people dying suddenly. It's a mystery.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 06:43 AM (sn5EN)

27
They will never give any credit to Reagan, Thatcher or Pope John Paul for their work on this. They can't help themselves.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 31, 2022 06:39 AM (4olE

To do so would be to imply that the Strobe Talbott types of the time were wrong and the Jesse Helms types were right. This must not be allowed to happen.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2022 06:43 AM (1Nxff)

28 Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2022 06:34 AM (bVYXr)

Yes, but still, get it to protect yourself and others.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 31, 2022 06:44 AM (YglAn)

29 great writeup as always JJ. and just once i wish shit-for-brains' spleen would do the world a favor and jump up and throttle his brainstem.

there are those who say this has already happened...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 31, 2022 06:44 AM (WhsXQ)

30 So Joe is on the "angry" drug cocktail mix these days - Thursday should be a hoot. Who has eye bleeder or rage stroke on their Bingo card?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 31, 2022 06:44 AM (AaLDK)

31 Comment posting times are one hour behind the main post's time.

What's up with the clocks, and why does this keep happening?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 31, 2022 06:38 AM (nRMeC)

Wormhole fluctuations in this timeline.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 06:44 AM (4I/2K)

32 "Biden appeals to the worst impulses of his base, and the rest of us are supposed to just take it."

The assholes in congress are certainly taking it. Not one of them will step up to the plate and tell Stinkfinger to shut his treasonous mouth.

I think I'll probably stay off AoS until next week. Whatever that demented nickelfucker vomits out tomorrow will skyrocket my BP.

And assholes like Ted Cruz will applaud the bastard, blame Trump and praise Ashlii Babbitt's killers. F that scumbag in particular.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2022 06:44 AM (AW0uW)

33 @16

I love how the Donks are trying to jujitsu their Defund The Police initiative by claiming that because the GOP wouldn't vote for a 400 billion slush fund for cities that could have theoretically been spent on policing that they crammed into their bullshit climate bill, that they are the one that don't want to fund police.

It may work because the GOP seems to be content on running on nothing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2022 06:44 AM (74n0+)

34
FOR GOD’S SAKE, WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?

The Constitution's.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 31, 2022 06:45 AM (1Nxff)

35 >>>The gall of invoking January 6th when it was the DOJ/FBI/Capitol PD
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Makes you want to hall a buss load of Republican to the polls with you.

Vote, Vote, Vote

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 31, 2022 06:45 AM (bFHf8)

36 "FOR GOD’S SAKE, WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?”
the other one

Posted by: ontoiran at August 31, 2022 06:45 AM (nsLiT)

37 If that McInnes thing proves to be some elaborate stunt?

Guy just blew his credibility. Proud Boys will disband or oust him and they'd be right to do so.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 31, 2022 06:45 AM (YglAn)

38 Posted by: 6L6 at August 31, 2022 06:40 AM (zql5x)

And you haven't met everybody from the upper Mid Atlantic and neither have I.

58% of Warren County-a rural County in NW NJ -voted for Trump. Approximately 57 % percent of people in Warren County NJ-another rural NW County Voted for Trump. I am part of a conservative group in NJ.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 06:45 AM (wvo9L)

39 @18. Biden reminds me of the vast majority of people I've met from that upper Mid-Atlantic. He's a product of his environment. Nothing unusual about him.

You mean they are all ass-holes up there?

Posted by: Case at August 31, 2022 06:45 AM (tmQgQ)

40 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2022 06:44 AM (AW0uW)

Cruz has been a major disappointment. I 100% backed him in '16 too.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 31, 2022 06:46 AM (YglAn)

41 St. Raymond Nonnatus (1200-1240) was born in Catalonia, Spain. His life was saved by caesarean section after his mother died in childbirth, earning him the name 'Nonnatus' meaning 'one not born'. His father allowed him to join the Mercedarians, a religious order which ransomed Christian slaves from their Muslim captors. Raymond became Master General of the order and personally freed hundreds of prisoners. When he ran out of money, he ransomed his own life to release Christians held in captivity. St. Raymond was tortured throughout his imprisonment, yet he converted numerous people to the Christian faith. To prevent him from preaching Christ, his captors pierced his lips with an iron and closed them with a padlock. He was eventually ransomed by his order and returned to Spain. After his death there was a dispute over who had the right to bury his body. To settle the matter, his body was placed on a blind mule and set loose. The mule went to the country chapel where Raymond had prayed in his youth, and it was there that he was buried. Many miracles were attributed to St. Raymond Nonnatus. He is the patron of children, childbirth, pregnant women, infants, and midwives.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2022 06:47 AM (5laLd)

42 I am part of a conservative group in NJ.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 06:45 AM (wvo9L)

They do exist...just not in any real actionable numbers.

I grew up in NJ. I still have family in NJ. I will never go back to live in the state of NJ as it is now.

Posted by: Nova local at August 31, 2022 06:47 AM (exHjb)

43 He also made a lame attempt at a joke by telling, and I quote, “those brave right-wing Americans who say ‘It’s all about keeping Americas independent and safe,’ if you want to fight against the country you need an F-15.”

**

Unless you walk on the grass in D.C. while unarmed.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 06:47 AM (rySJ7)

44 " FOR GOD’S SAKE, WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?”

as a staunch america first small "c" conservative & vet, it really pains me to say this, but he doesn't REALLY want me to answer that question.

because it's not the one he wants...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 31, 2022 06:48 AM (WhsXQ)

45 They look us in the eye and say they want us dead. GOPe smiles like a dopey Aspergers kid and say "Yay! A friend! Let's work together!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 06:48 AM (Wrs74)

46 Biden reminds me of the vast majority of people I've met from that upper Mid-Atlantic. He's a product of his environment. Nothing unusual about him.
-
You mean they are all ass-holes up there?

Posted by: Case

*

(looks around NC over the last 20 years)

Nods

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 06:48 AM (rySJ7)

47 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2022 06:41 AM (x0n13)

Well, that's true, but whatever his issues with Trump whom I believe he said voted for during the Mark Simone show-conservative NY radio show-He really doesn't like Biden.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 06:48 AM (wvo9L)

48 *biden's Thursday "call to arms" address will be interesting. The media will go for it. His base will go for it. Will the rank and file Democrats heed the call for political violence?

Because that's exactly what the left is advocating against Republicans. Not just America First/MAGA Republicans but anyone who thinks the election was stolen, is against the reset, resists the green agenda...

IMO he's drawing a line (well, his handlers are.)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2022 06:48 AM (BFigT)

49 G20 officials gather in Bali, Indonesia for 'climate change' talks. I'm sure everyone walked there.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 06:49 AM (yikp0)

50 Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 06:47 AM (rySJ7)

Yes - a few weaponless goofballs are a complete and total threat to "democracy" so we must outlaw political parties.

Also, you can't be a threat to our "democracy" so give us your guns proles.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 31, 2022 06:49 AM (YglAn)

51 Ah... the wall of doom. How you don't all commit suicide before 8:30 every morning is a mystery. Go organize and do something.

Posted by: NipsyRussel at August 31, 2022 06:50 AM (Z5c3Q)

52 Posted by: Nova local at August 31, 2022 06:47 AM (exHjb)

I understand your feelings about and actually there are quite a few conservatives in NJ-I get emails from quite a few different groups. They just can't outvote the machine and the large cities.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 06:50 AM (wvo9L)

53 @37

>>Guy just blew his credibility.

Well, the guy has largely been unpeersoned and deplatformed and reduced to the equivalent of blowing hobos under a bridge for money to buy meth.

This is a cry for help.

I feel bad for the guy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2022 06:50 AM (74n0+)

54 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 31, 2022 06:50 AM (BRHaw)

55 Vote, Vote, Vote

Except that "vote, vote, vote" is going to be trumped (ha) this year by:

Steal, Steal, Steal

and

Shoot, Shoot, Shoot.

Change my mind.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2022 06:50 AM (AW0uW)

56 Mornin' Mo-rons!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 31, 2022 06:51 AM (8Gb7w)

57 Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2022 06:48 AM (BFigT)

Line was drawn a long time ago, I think, we're just now having it openly thrown in our faces.

Go check that article about Grover Cleveland. I think it spells it out there.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 31, 2022 06:51 AM (YglAn)

58 the Biden article about single-handedly stopping gang violence is another hilarity. TFG.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 06:51 AM (NOsn8)

59 Spanish city's tomato fight returns after 2 years of lockdowns.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 06:51 AM (yikp0)

60 Posted by: NipsyRussel at August 31, 2022 06:50 AM (Z5c3Q)

I have no interest in committing suicide and I am not on the doom bandwagon, because I put my trust not in "princes", but thanks for your concern

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 06:51 AM (wvo9L)

61
If you compare how many people died in America during the COVID era to how many people would normally have died based on six years of prior year CDC data on deaths from all causes, the excess deaths are 25 percent over normal.

But get your booster, prole.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 31, 2022 06:51 AM (jE276)

62 Two quick points before a morning of work.

1) Newsom has no national appeal. Poll in progress now, but raw data is showing Trump beats Newsom significantly. Like 20 points. Safe to ignore him as a threat.

2) Trump's new lawyer on the documents case is very tightly coupled to DeSantis. That would not have happened if there was friction between the two.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 31, 2022 06:51 AM (mwz0w)

63 "A mass die-off is still happening in the U.S. and reportedly around the world, and we have no idea what’s coming next." (the Malthusians are cheering but are they surprised by it - jjs)
*

I don't think it was one of the original plans, but I was watching the start of college football this last weekend and started thinking that all of the heart issues in males will be used to destroy their sports.

Women's will be fine. But men's sports will have to be canceled because of the myocarditis problems. You know, for safety.

And it's not men's college sports is some big societal thing or cohesive element in our culture and families and regions.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 06:51 AM (rySJ7)

64 Wormhole fluctuations in this timeline.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 06:44 AM (4I/2K)

yeah, well fluc you white guys too

-- just the punchline

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 31, 2022 06:52 AM (WhsXQ)

65 Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2022 06:50 AM (74n0+)

I DID feel bad until this.

This wasn't just a bad move from an optics stand point. The regime is really doing this, and this prank, really is damaging to pointing this out.

Unless there's some masterstroke move behind it and the brilliant punchline is coming I see this as all negative.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 31, 2022 06:53 AM (YglAn)

66 U.S. Army grounds fleet of Chinook cargo helicopters after fuel leaks caused "small number" of engine fires. [Scare quotes theirs.]

Coincidentally enough just yesterday afternoon I watched the Air Warriors episode on the Chinook.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 06:53 AM (yikp0)

67 I am praying for a complete screw up with Biden's talk-either than he can't read the teleprompter, or just sounds completely irrational so that even more people get clued in.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 06:53 AM (wvo9L)

68 52 Posted by: Nova local at August 31, 2022 06:47 AM (exHjb)

I understand your feelings about and actually there are quite a few conservatives in NJ-I get emails from quite a few different groups. They just can't outvote the machine and the large cities.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 06:50 AM (wvo9L)

It's part of why I wouldn't live there...but I'll be an Eagles fan til the day I die (yes, I haven't given up on the NFL b/c it was the 1st sport my dad shared with me at 5 - so, watching an Eagles game is my way to connect - I now just don't watch any of the other games, nor by the tickets/merchandise)...

Posted by: Nova local at August 31, 2022 06:53 AM (exHjb)

69 Thank you, JJ.
Is it just me, or has the man in the White House done nothing to change my mind over the last 40+ years that he is horrible by every measuring stick?

Posted by: democrats: Raping The Children We Cannot Kill Since 1973 at August 31, 2022 06:53 AM (jV+aN)

70 All according to plan.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2022 06:54 AM (ai/gj)

71 Hochul Wants All Those Nasty Republicans Out of Her Nice, Clean State

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Can Elon Musk build a one-way hyperloop (hypervector?) from the southern border to New York?

I would even be willing to subsidize this with my ever-increasingly-worthless-and-meaningless taxpayer dollars ...

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 31, 2022 06:54 AM (QbCrG)

72 by = buy. See, it's time for my walk to get blood flowing to my brain and typing fingers!

Posted by: Nova local at August 31, 2022 06:55 AM (exHjb)

73 Good digest, JJ.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 31, 2022 06:55 AM (rJ48h)

74 Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who transformed the map of Europe and presided over the end of the Cold War, has died at 91.

Gorbachev, who helped stop threat of global nuclear annihilation, dead at 91.

Adolph Hitler, the German leader who transformed the map of Europe, who helped stop the Nazi threat by removing its leader, and who presided over the end of the Third Reich, has died at 56.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 06:55 AM (4I/2K)

75 Michael Hayden—the man who was on watch during 9/11—says that he has “never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible than today’s Republicans. . . ”

I wouldn't characterize this necessarily as blood libel because I truly believe that Hayden doesn't know what "nihilistic" means. A simple reading of Romans 1 indicates that the reprobated mind willfully exchanges the truth for a lie... futile in their thinking... debased mind to do what ought not to be done.. full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness...

So basically Hayden, a Stage IV Reprobate, is both insane and desperately wicked. Should anyone be surprised that he would confuse what he sees in the mirror with the good people?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 31, 2022 06:55 AM (3hSHB)

76 Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 06:51 AM (rySJ7)

Bro - I'll try to find it and catch you, hopefully this morning if not later threads, the Big 10 had a crazy amount of athletes with heart issues? It was a twitter thread.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 31, 2022 06:55 AM (YglAn)

77 Two more quick points.

3) There is no shift to Walker. Walker has always been leading.

4) Biden is going to keep ramping up the rhetoric to denounce Republicans as evil fascists. I bet he goes so far as to use those words. Dobbs did not ramp up the Dem base like they thought it would. This is their next tact to improve their turnout numbers.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 31, 2022 06:56 AM (mwz0w)

78 For those interested in all of Biden's crap yesterday -- Kevlar vests; Corn Pop, although not by name; F-15s etc. -- Stephen Miller's twatter thread has them all, and a bunch of Fetterman garbage too.

https://twitter.com/redsteeze

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 06:56 AM (yikp0)

79 Rot In Hell Gorby The Commie, Good Riddance!

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 31, 2022 06:56 AM (kweYR)

80 I don't get the kerfuffle over Gorbs.

If your enemy owns the newspapers, don't expect a kind word.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 31, 2022 06:56 AM (mE7cY)

81 Trump was a powerful MRI revealing the rot that has infested the host organism. Every day, we see that it is deeper and more widespread than most of us ever imagined. Over the next decade and longer we will need to find and cut out the dead wood and replace it. Starting with the 2022 elections. Support your local candidates. That's where you have the most influence.

Posted by: IanDeal at August 31, 2022 06:57 AM (MGjjz)

82 *biden's Thursday "call to arms" address will be interesting. The media will go for it. His base will go for it. Will the rank and file Democrats heed the call for political violence?

Because that's exactly what the left is advocating against Republicans. Not just America First/MAGA Republicans but anyone who thinks the election was stolen, is against the reset, resists the green agenda...

IMO he's drawing a line (well, his handlers are.)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2022 06:48 AM (BFigT)

I've had this conversation on social media a few times, and it's interesting. lefty kids and family talk about how bad the republicans are and nazi this and nazi that and worst thing in the world, etc. and every time i ask exactly how far shuold they go to stop the evil that is the nazi gop, they blink. i can't decide if they are scared to admit it, or if they just haven't thought that far ahead.

but they always have a weird interruption when i mention that they're advocating for killing political opponents. i mean, what else are you advocating for when you say that you must stop the nazis at all costs...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 31, 2022 06:58 AM (WhsXQ)

83 Bro - I'll try to find it and catch you, hopefully this morning if not later threads, the Big 10 had a crazy amount of athletes with heart issues? It was a twitter thread.
Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at

*

I haven't seen it but I don't doubt it. I'll see if I can track it down. For some reason I've got the 50%+ number in my head but I don't know why.

If only we had an industry whose job was to research and document and tell people about these things. Maybe a daily TV show or printed "paper" or something similar. Even websites would work.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 06:58 AM (rySJ7)

84 4) Biden is going to keep ramping up the rhetoric to denounce Republicans as evil fascists. I bet he goes so far as to use those words. Dobbs did not ramp up the Dem base like they thought it would. This is their next tact to improve their turnout numbers.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 31, 2022 06:56 AM (mwz0w)

I don't think liberals will get out of bed for name calling. Haven't they already bought in on conservatives=rayciss/fasshis

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 31, 2022 06:58 AM (mE7cY)

85 @65

>>Unless there's some masterstroke move behind it and the brilliant punchline is coming I see this as all negative.

Oh there is no masterstroke genius behind this move, it's simply a guy at the end of his rope and doesn't know what to do.

At least Milo was able to land an internship with MTG .

The left has largely been successful at destroying the Alt-Right Gadflies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2022 06:59 AM (74n0+)

86 I'm going to guess that "Emperor Biden I" is going to go on primetime television tomorrow to declare that the Senate has given him emergency powers to use in these turbulent times.

Then he'll use those powers to dissolve the Senate and start building a mobile battlestation to instill terror into the hearts and minds of his subjects in the Empire.

But I could be wrong.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2022 06:59 AM (YIVH2)

87 Well, isn't it nice to know while we will be paying out the ass to keep our homes heated above sixty degrees this winter, Lois Lerner will winter on some Hawaiian beach thanks to her pension we are paying for.

Posted by: Case at August 31, 2022 06:59 AM (tmQgQ)

88 1) Newsom has no national appeal. Poll in progress now, but raw data is showing Trump beats Newsom significantly. Like 20 points. Safe to ignore him as a threat.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 31, 2022 06:51 AM (mwz0w)
===
I do not have that luxury.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2022 06:59 AM (EZebt)

89 "what else are you advocating for when you say that you must stop the nazis at all costs..."

Their righteousness will protect them.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 06:59 AM (sn5EN)

90 ...and who presided over the end of the Third Reich, has died at 56.
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...Vegan dog-lover, and committed anti-smoker...

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:00 AM (yikp0)

91 Is it just me, or has the man in the White House done nothing to change my mind over the last 40+ years that he is horrible by every measuring stick?

Posted by: democrats: Raping The Children We Cannot Kill Since 1973 at August 31, 2022 06:53 AM (jV+aN)

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"The only measuring stick that matters is who counts the 'votes', comrade."

-- Stuff Biden Plagiarized from Stalin, Vol. 1

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 31, 2022 07:00 AM (QbCrG)

92 Hochul Wants All Those Nasty Republicans Out of Her Nice, Clean State

For someone who wasn't even elected to be governor, she has confused a temporary stewardship position with being anointed as Dictator for Life and rewarded with title deed to the entire state and lordship over the chattel peasants.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 31, 2022 07:00 AM (3hSHB)

93 I don't think it was one of the original plans, but I was watching the start of college football this last weekend and started thinking that all of the heart issues in males will be used to destroy their sports.

Women's will be fine. But men's sports will have to be canceled because of the myocarditis problems. You know, for safety.

And it's not men's college sports is some big societal thing or cohesive element in our culture and families and regions.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 06:51 AM (rySJ7)

good thing that men are now taking over women's sports...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 31, 2022 07:01 AM (WhsXQ)

94 JJ thinks I'm chopped liver

yeah he does

Posted by: Lech Walesa at August 31, 2022 07:01 AM (us2H3)

95 I don't get the kerfuffle over Gorbs. If your enemy owns the newspapers, don't expect a kind word.

Same media that gave themselves a Pulitzer for celebrating how, in Stalinist Russia, every man had a job.

Posted by: 6L6 at August 31, 2022 07:02 AM (7CXBC)

96 Adolph Hitler, the German leader who transformed the map of Europe, who helped stop the Nazi threat by removing its leader, and who presided over the end of the Third Reich, has died at 56.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 06:55 AM (4I/2K)

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You left out "Best-Selling Author" ...

Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 31, 2022 07:02 AM (QbCrG)

97 94 JJ thinks I'm chopped liver

yeah he does
Posted by: Lech Walesa at August 31, 2022 07:01 AM (us2H3

Liver and cabbage maybe

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 31, 2022 07:02 AM (mE7cY)

98 and who presided over the end of the Third Reich, has died at 56.
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...Vegan dog-lover, and committed anti-smoker...
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:00 AM (yikp0)

Accomplished painter....

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2022 07:02 AM (ai/gj)

99 Families of Israeli athletes killed at 1972 Munich Olympics nearing compensation deal with Germany.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:03 AM (yikp0)

100 "what else are you advocating for when you say that you must stop the nazis at all costs..."

Their righteousness will protect them.
Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 06:59 AM (sn5EN)

yup. as mentioned above by the illustrious JJ, C.S. Lewis nailed it. and sadly we're going to live through it

or not...

Posted by: SturmToddler (WhsXQ) at August 31, 2022 07:03 AM (WhsXQ)

101 I'm going to guess that "Emperor Biden I" is going to go on primetime television tomorrow to declare that the Senate has given him emergency powers to use in these turbulent times.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2022 06:59 AM (YIVH2)

I hope he strokes out on live TV and expires in a pool of his own vomit, blood and feces.

A man can dream.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 31, 2022 07:03 AM (kweYR)

102 *biden's Thursday "call to arms" address will be interesting. The media will go for it. His base will go for it. Will the rank and file Democrats heed the call for political violence?

*

Don't mistake this for anything other than what it is. It's the same thing as the 2020 election:

""When every legitimate vote is tallied and we get to that final day, which will be some day after Election Day, it will in fact show that what happened on election night was exactly that, a mirage,"
Mendelsohn said. "It looked like Donald Trump was in the lead and he fundamentally was not when every ballot gets counted."
https://tinyurl.com/y6xlw2pz

This is exactly the same thing. They are setting the stage for justifying what they're going to do when MAGA candidates win.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 07:03 AM (rySJ7)

103 Revisionist history is probably the most dangerous thing there is.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 31, 2022 07:04 AM (mE7cY)

104 I hope he strokes out on live TV and expires in a pool of his own vomit, blood and feces.

A man can dream.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 31, 2022 07:03 AM (kweYR)
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I'm hoping for the same thing...He gets so worked up he has an aneurysm and just collapses on the spot...

ALL HAIL EMPRESS KAMALA I!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2022 07:04 AM (YIVH2)

105 Biden is going to keep ramping up the rhetoric to denounce Republicans as evil fascists. I bet he goes so far as to use those words. Dobbs did not ramp up the Dem base like they thought it would. This is their next tact to improve their turnout numbers.

Why do I get the impression that Biden's handlers spend their evenings rewatching "Der ewige Jude" (The Eternal Jew).

They seem to be quoting that movie like guys quote Monty Python, Blues Brothers and Caddyshack.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 31, 2022 07:04 AM (3hSHB)

106 Posted by: NipsyRussel

And that's just a weird, trollish thing to tell people to commit suicide. Stop doing that, and if you're a person of the Christian faith-which I doubt- go read the Bible study about
about what to do when the wicked propser #702 on the Overnight Thread or #74-on the Tech Thread about prayer when you're lost faith.

I also think the real Nipsy Russell was a lot funnier.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 07:04 AM (wvo9L)

107 Vote Democrats 2022: "Death to the Opposition!"

Posted by: Boswell at August 31, 2022 07:05 AM (+Cgut)

108 the Malthusians are cheering but are they surprised by it - jjs

They are not surprised. It was planned. Gates stated, years ago, that they planned to reduce the world's population via "vaccines".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 31, 2022 07:05 AM (GYIa4)

109 NY Republicans would probably move if it wasn't for the whispered cocktail party inside stock info

reason why it wasn't a big deal to Rush or Trump

neither played the market

Posted by: REDACTED at August 31, 2022 07:05 AM (us2H3)

110 Vegan dog-lover, and committed anti-smoker...
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:00 AM (yikp0)

You left out "Best-Selling Author" ...
Posted by: ShainS -- VDH-Endorsed-by-Proxy Connoisseur of Cruelty at August 31, 2022 07:02 AM (QbCrG)

Gracious host of the 1936 Olympics, visionary statesman, and aspiring painter . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 07:05 AM (4I/2K)

111 Gorbachev was a communist dictator. He tried to save the USSR and failed; that was his sole contribution, his incompetence. He failed and then watched his regime collapse as other people dismantled the evil empire.

People are praising him as a “hero.” They should explain that to the Lithuanians he had killed and wounded by the KGB and Red Army when they demanded freedom.

The bastard is dead. Good riddance.

Posted by: Durak Kazyol at August 31, 2022 07:05 AM (NIr9e)

112 Seems the DOJ is rolling out the "obstruction" gambit this morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2022 07:05 AM (Zux44)

113 Speaking of, if you didn't see the video JackStraw posted and ace promoted last night, you need to watch it.

"1943 Communist Directive Call all opponents of Leftism Nazis, Fascists"

https://youtu.be/ANcTNFM-Vco

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 07:05 AM (rySJ7)

114 If the FIB/DOJ were really after Trump's declassified docs that show their utter corruption during Russiagate, what happens to those documents now? Who is the rightful owner? Trump as President, who declassified them? IOW, what's going to happen to everything they took and will they be returned? Of course, I know the answer: they will not be returned. But what is the legal position here?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2022 07:06 AM (sVtYq)

115 @102

>>This is exactly the same thing. They are setting the stage for justifying what they're going to do when MAGA candidates win.

Meat Puppet: "We've built the largest vote fraud operation in the history of US elections."

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2022 07:06 AM (74n0+)

116 And that's just a weird, trollish thing to tell people to commit suicide. Stop doing that, and if you're a person of the Christian faith-which I doubt- go read the Bible study about
about what to do when the wicked propser #702 on the Overnight Thread or #74-on the Tech Thread about prayer when you're lost faith.

I also think the real Nipsy Russell was a lot funnier.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 07:04 AM (wvo9L)

Or Matthew. How many times must I forgive my brother's sin? Seven? No, seventy-seven times seven.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 31, 2022 07:06 AM (mE7cY)

117 Robbie - found it here's the thread; https://tinyurl.com/yc8nke7e

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 31, 2022 07:06 AM (YglAn)

118 Adolph Hitler, the German leader who transformed the map of Europe, who helped stop the Nazi threat by removing its leader, and who presided over the end of the Third Reich, has died at 56.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 06:55 AM (4I/2K)

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You left out "Best-Selling Author" ...

And he would certainly want everyone to know that he was a vegetarian.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 31, 2022 07:07 AM (3hSHB)

119 I hope he strokes out on live TV and expires in a pool of his own vomit, blood and feces.

A man can dream.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 31, 2022 07:03 AM (kweYR)
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I'm hoping for the same thing...He gets so worked up he has an aneurysm and just collapses on the spot...

ALL HAIL EMPRESS KAMALA I!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2022 07:04 AM (YIVH2)

A Scanners moment . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 07:07 AM (4I/2K)

120 WaPo: Among the disturbing statistics in the report is that since October, hashtags related to self-harm such as #shtwt,” which is short for “self-harm Twitter,” have increased roughly 500 percent, the report found.

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 07:07 AM (tpRIN)

121 Seems the DOJ is rolling out the "obstruction" gambit this morning.

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The only obstruction in this entire shameful mess comes from the FIB/DOJ and what they did to Trump, prior to his election, during his presidency, and during the campaign for reelection.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2022 07:08 AM (sVtYq)

122 not for sure they can do it but it seems they can

1st thing the house Republicans need to do is claw back the IRS expansion

make it non-negotiable

not a hill the dims will die on

Posted by: REDACTED at August 31, 2022 07:08 AM (us2H3)

123

Spring has sprung, fall has fell, it's the middle of July and it's hotter than,, usual

Posted by: Zombie Nipsy Russell at August 31, 2022 07:09 AM (SWi3y)

124 So now it looks like the DOJ will be focusing on "obstruction of justice" by Trump and his lawyers in the Mar-a-Lago raid.. Of course. Process crime since there was no actual crime. Just like the Russian collusion hoax.

What a bunch of hateful shits are ruling over us. And now the asshole Biden is going to give his American values speech to further demonize his opponents and inflame this base. Fine. Let It Burn.

Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2022 07:09 AM (MxEKc)

125 Robbie - found it here's the thread; https://tinyurl.com/yc8nke7e

*

Thanks

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 07:09 AM (rySJ7)

126 Hiya

Posted by: JT at August 31, 2022 07:09 AM (T4tVD)

127 Georgia GOP 2nd District Chair Brandon was at a political event and kicked the dog of the current GOP Treasurer of the 2nd District. Apparently, Phillips was angry at Tifani because she was asking questions about the proceeds of a big event the 2nd District had last Fall.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 07:09 AM (sn5EN)

128 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at August 31, 2022 07:09 AM (T4tVD)

129 Golfers Cameron Smith and Joaquin Niemann join the LIV Golf league.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:10 AM (yikp0)

130 Hiya JJ !

P.S. You write well !

Posted by: JT at August 31, 2022 07:10 AM (T4tVD)

131 > people cannot go out and buy automatic weapons or cannons

Wrong. And wrong.

There are way too many hoops to jump through, but you can, in fact buy both of those, and YouTube is full of videos of normal civilians firing them.

Of course, Dopey Joe probably thinks "YouTube" is a name for his flaccid penis.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2022 07:10 AM (bW8dp)

132 You left out "Best-Selling Author" ...

And he would certainly want everyone to know that he was a vegetarian.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

And only having one nut.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 31, 2022 07:10 AM (xJnZb)

133 JJ thinks I'm chopped liver

yeah he does

Posted by: Lech Walesa at August 31, 2022 07:01 AM (us2H3)

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I was going to mention you.

I was discussing a national strike this past weekend with a group of hardcore conservative friends and fellow preppers (who generally believe that resort to be a premature reaction at this time, whereas I wanted Trump to call for and lead one after The Steal) and your name also came up there, along with Gandhi and Galt.

[Of course, it's easy to call for a national strike when you're a prepper and -- until hyperinflation returns me to pauper status -- financially secure. After some rant I was on about a national strike last night ... a may have been drinking ... the wifey blurts out "Go Galt or Go Home!" Which has inspired an updated nic.]

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at August 31, 2022 07:10 AM (QbCrG)

134 @112

>>Seems the DOJ is rolling out the "obstruction" gambit this morning.

That's because they are trying to derail and prevent the appointment of a special master to look at the docs they seized.

It's more than likely the docs are the alleged Crossfire Hurricane/Russia Collusion Docs and the Junta does not want anyone finding out that they've already destroyed the docs in question.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2022 07:11 AM (74n0+)

135 Gorbs also fucked up Chernobyl.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 31, 2022 07:11 AM (mE7cY)

136 Like most dumb people, Gavin Newsom seriously overestimates his own intelligence.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2022 07:12 AM (EZebt)

137 the DOJ is gonna keep this on the front burner but they wont indict , yet

Brandon is still getting distraction mileage from the probe

they will wait to see the results of the midterms

if the GOP takes the house, they will trade a non-indictment for watered down hearings

yep, it's all bullshit

Posted by: REDACTED at August 31, 2022 07:12 AM (us2H3)

138 Seems the DOJ is rolling out the "obstruction" gambit this morning.
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The only obstruction in this entire shameful mess comes from the FIB/DOJ and what they did to Trump, prior to his election, during his presidency, and during the campaign for reelection.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2022 07:08 AM (sVtYq)
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Speaking of obstruction, seems the DOJ explicitly fired Thibault for obstructing two investigations. Arrest him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 07:12 AM (I+QKF)

139 Women's will be fine. But men's sports will have to be canceled because of the myocarditis problems. You know, for safety.
=-=-=-=-=-=
good thing that men are now taking over women's sports...

They are hoping that by identifying as a woman, the Clot Shot will only effect their menses and the occasional miscarriage.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 31, 2022 07:13 AM (3hSHB)

140 Vote Democrats 2022: "Death to the Opposition!"

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Sadly Boswell, that's a winning message with their crazies.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2022 07:13 AM (sVtYq)

141 ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome
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That's what I said!

Posted by: zombie Saint Peter at August 31, 2022 07:13 AM (yikp0)

142 Morning Joe and the gang never disappoint.

Now the DOJ says 'Trump team may have hidden & moved classified docs'.

Oh, now chyron has changed

concealed & removed is the new hidden & moved

HB JJ!

Go get'em lads.

Posted by: micky at August 31, 2022 07:13 AM (3byMq)

143 I saw Gorby speak at the local university in 1999.
All I could take away from it was "We all gotta do something about the environment".

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 31, 2022 07:13 AM (vuisn)

144 136 Like most dumb people, Gavin Newsom seriously overestimates his own intelligence.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2022 07:12 AM (EZebt)

I watched that Tucker piece where he simultaneously shuts down all the power producing plants and then forced everyone to use electric cars.

The stupid. It burns.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 31, 2022 07:14 AM (mE7cY)

145 . . . legendary orator, resilient survivor of multiple assassination attempts, WWI hero, ...

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 07:15 AM (4I/2K)

146 Gee, I wonder how hard-working taxpayers in LA County, who work and struggle to pay their bills and take care of their families, are going to feel about being on the hook for $1k a month free money to 1000 deadbeats. And that's for starters. If I lived there and had to get up every morning to go to my job M-F, I'd be enraged.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2022 07:16 AM (sVtYq)

147 Giving 50/50 odds Biden goes off the rails tomorrow night. He got wound up in Scranton and he thinks he's on a roll.

This could be good.

Posted by: creeper at August 31, 2022 07:16 AM (VEIET)

148 DOJ says 'Trump team may have hidden & moved classified docs'.
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oh, for crissakes...your illegal search didn't succeed and that is Trump's fault?

Did you look in the third drawer on the left? Under the pocket squares? I heard that's where he keeps the nuclear codes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 07:16 AM (I+QKF)

149 I don't follow soccer-football but... ugh!

"Drake is part of investment group that includes LeBron James that bought minority stake in AC Milan."

Maybe they'll have enough influence to get the club moved to Wuhan?

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:16 AM (yikp0)

150 From the morning thread and the discussion of the supply chain issues...

Essentially the masterminds that run the world decided Orange Hitler was an existential threat and decided destroying the West was an acceptable price to be rid of him, after dispatching him they decided to adopt the Bunny doctrine of, "Let's do this, LETS DO THE WHOLE F**KING WORLD!!."

AnciData: Apparently PA has decided to change their voter registration/mail in ballot request from being two separate forms to combining them on a single form, two months before the election.

They will not be stopped.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2022 07:16 AM (74n0+)

151 "Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care."

Psalm 95:6-7

Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:16 AM (VpIIl)

152 Rush got a lot of mileage out of Gorby...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 31, 2022 07:16 AM (gbzam)

153 Hmmm......I'm assuming that none of the worlds politicians got the death shot.

Just saline.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 31, 2022 07:16 AM (YglAn)

154 Giving 50/50 odds Biden goes off the rails tomorrow night. He got wound up in Scranton and he thinks he's on a roll.

This could be good.
Posted by: creeper at August 31, 2022 07:16 AM (VEIET)
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I'm still not going to watch it. FJB doesn't deserve even one second of my attention.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2022 07:17 AM (YIVH2)

155 They are not surprised. It was planned. Gates stated, years ago, that they planned to reduce the world's population via "vaccines".

And no one cared to bring up that insane threat when mandating the Kill Shot?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 31, 2022 07:17 AM (3hSHB)

156 ... legendary orator, resilient survivor of multiple assassination attempts, WWI hero, ...
--------------------
... keen art collector and architecture fan ...

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:17 AM (yikp0)

157 Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:16 AM (VpIIl)

Very nice. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 07:18 AM (wvo9L)

158 Biden had to announce a reelection bid in order to stop any hope of investigation by the democrat FBI and DOJ once republicans take over congress.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 31, 2022 07:18 AM (lTGtQ)

159 Battleship Texas being moved to Galveston, Live View:
https://youtu.be/-_6ySBECxmM

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 07:18 AM (4I/2K)

160 You want Nipsy Russell.
You'll settle for Gary Shandling.
You'll get Hannah Gadsby.

Posted by: HBO Comedy Specials at August 31, 2022 07:18 AM (JKfKg)

161 "Extreme Left Democrats should long and hard in the mirror."

Right, as if they're going to do that. Jeezus.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2022 07:19 AM (H8QX8)

162 AnciData: Apparently PA has decided to change their voter registration/mail in ballot request from being two separate forms to combining them on a single form, two months before the election.

*

The legislature decided that. Right? Right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 07:19 AM (rySJ7)

163
WaPo: Among the disturbing statistics in the report is that since October, hashtags related to self-harm such as #shtwt,” which is short for “self-harm Twitter,” have increased roughly 500 percent, the report found.

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 07:07 AM (tpRIN)

From 'The Hill" (last paragraph of course)

Researchers additionally found evidence that predators who claim to be minors have engaged with these online communities to further encourage self-harm, according to the report.

So a bunch of the increased traffic is people saying 'go ahead'.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 31, 2022 07:19 AM (jE276)

164 No one around here seems to understand that Gavin Newsom ended homelessness many many years ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2022 07:20 AM (EZebt)

165 Biden had to announce a reelection bid in order to stop any hope of investigation by the democrat FBI and DOJ once republicans take over congress.

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I'd agree with you...if I believed the useless R's would investigate him under any circumstances. They won't.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2022 07:20 AM (sVtYq)

166 Gorby knew the Russians loved their children, too!

Posted by: Sting at August 31, 2022 07:20 AM (I/doM)

167 Here's an idea: smash the mirror in their faces and make them eat the shards.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2022 07:20 AM (H8QX8)

168 Gee, I wonder how hard-working taxpayers in LA County, who work and struggle to pay their bills and take care of their families, are going to feel about being on the hook for $1k a month free money to 1000 deadbeats.

I'm pretty sure that LA County employs far more many deadbeats pulling down much more than $1k/mo.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 31, 2022 07:20 AM (3hSHB)

169 Good morning!

The only thing they give Reagan credit for is AIDS.

No, wait, they blame him for somehow causing it and making it worse, because a long-time Hollywood actor totally hated and had no associate with gay people.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2022 07:21 AM (I/doM)

170 @162

>>The legislature decided that. Right? Right?

Nope, straight up dictated by SOS.

Again, these bastards will not stop, ever.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2022 07:21 AM (74n0+)

171 It's more than likely the docs are the alleged Crossfire Hurricane/Russia Collusion Docs and the Junta does not want anyone finding out that they've already destroyed the docs in question.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2022 07:11 AM (74n0+)

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Two questions: Could Trump have, legally speaking, made copies of these (presumably all) declassified docs (digital and/or or physical)? And, if so, was he playing at least 2D chess & smart enough to had anticipated that need and done so?

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at August 31, 2022 07:21 AM (U8vl4)

172 "He added that right now, people cannot go out and buy automatic weapons or cannons. "

He's never been to Stone Mountain, has he. It's only about an hour from Scranton.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:22 AM (VpIIl)

173 Might as well jump.

Posted by: Van Hay at August 31, 2022 07:22 AM (gbzam)

174 I have no interest in anything Biden has to say.

Posted by: Case at August 31, 2022 07:22 AM (tmQgQ)

175 "Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care."

Psalm 95:6-7

Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:16 AM (VpIIl)

Fernando Ortega has a beautiful lovely song using this passage of Scripture. I'll have to look for it on YouTube.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 31, 2022 07:22 AM (45fpk)

176 "Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:16 AM (VpIIl)

Very nice. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 07:18 AM (wvo9L) "

You're welcome. Praise Jesus.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:23 AM (VpIIl)

177 163 So a bunch of the increased traffic is people saying 'go ahead'.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 31, 2022 07:19 AM (jE276)

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"I'm a tranny, so it's okay. If you ask me to stop, I'll kill myself."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:23 AM (LvTSG)

178 The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof;

*

Literally right there in the Constitution.

"No biggie, they're just trying to help."
- Republicans

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 07:23 AM (rySJ7)

179 "Comment posting times are one hour behind the main post's time.

What's up with the clocks, and why does this keep happening?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 31, 2022 06:38 AM (nRMeC)"

They turned on the Hardon Supercollider back on and it has created another Mandela Effect. This is the real reason there's an energy crisis in Europe.

Posted by: DaveX64 at August 31, 2022 07:23 AM (GeysU)

180 Battleship Texas being moved to Galveston, Live View:
https://youtu.be/-_6ySBECxmM

Posted by: Count de Monet

Its about time. I was worried about hull integrity, but it looks good.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 31, 2022 07:23 AM (lTGtQ)

181 "Fernando Ortega has a beautiful lovely song using this passage of Scripture. I'll have to look for it on YouTube.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 31, 2022 07:22 AM (45fpk) "

I would be interested in seeing that.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:23 AM (VpIIl)

182 >>Seems the DOJ is rolling out the "obstruction" gambit this morning.

Refusing to turn off the security cameras during the search?

Posted by: davidt at August 31, 2022 07:23 AM (oTZbj)

183 Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at August 31, 2022 07:21 AM (U8vl4)

I'm guessing yes he could have because he could have posted them to Truth Social as a gigantic middle finger.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at August 31, 2022 07:23 AM (YglAn)

184 The Soviet Union, the government not the people, hated Gorbachev. The commies in DC will weep and wail and sling snot over his death but the Russian people will not. Unless they are oligarchs, mafia thugs, or wistful true commie believers still in Russian government. Gorbachev was not of the same stature as Reagan, Thatcher, John Paul, or Walensa, but the'media' will slobber over him as they did in days past.

Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2022 07:24 AM (0OP+5)

185 "They turned on the Hardon Supercollider back on..."

...need moar coffeeeeeeee....

Posted by: DaveX64 at August 31, 2022 07:24 AM (GeysU)

186 Ortega? The dictator guy??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:24 AM (yikp0)

187 Gorbachev is the personification of failure. He was imprisoned by his own government for failing to protect the communist party, until it collapsed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 31, 2022 07:25 AM (lTGtQ)

188 >> No one around here seems to understand that Gavin Newsom ended homelessness many many years ago.

Me, too! Tee hee. . .

*PATH - People Assisting the Homeless (PATH), a nonprofit organization developing affordable and supportive services for the homeless in California

Posted by: Katie Hill - former Exec Dir of PATH at August 31, 2022 07:25 AM (I/doM)

189 182 >>Seems the DOJ is rolling out the "obstruction" gambit this morning.
***
What they really mean is obstruction of tyranny. They really hate when you obstruct that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2022 07:26 AM (H8QX8)

190 Marcus - Here:

https://tinyurl.com/2mhqrm2q

Posted by: grammie winger at August 31, 2022 07:26 AM (45fpk)

191 Gorbachev had as much to do with the collapse of Soviet power as a butterfly's wings fluttering in my garden.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2022 07:26 AM (EZebt)

192 Brandon's behavior reeks of desperation
they are worried that their base is demoralized
why everthing they are doing is playing to their base

may work in statewide races but not in congressional districts

they have many, many wasted votes in many districts
many dims run unopposed and another bunch win by 25+

if you only polled the battleground districts, the GOP would up by 10, if not more

however, there are not that many seats to pick off this go round
in 2010, the dims had a 79 seat advantage, so many opportunities for the GOP to flip, not so many this time

Posted by: REDACTED at August 31, 2022 07:26 AM (us2H3)

193 "He added that right now, people cannot go out and buy automatic weapons or cannons. "

He's never been to Stone Mountain, has he. It's only about an hour from Scranton.
Posted by: Marcus T

Or Knob Creek, Ky.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 31, 2022 07:27 AM (xJnZb)

194 The "People in Charge' are probably egging poor ol' Joe on, getting his BP up to where he'll save them a lot of trouble and time when he collapses and is rendered non-functioning.

Posted by: pawn at August 31, 2022 07:28 AM (wsHtO)

195 192 however, there are not that many seats to pick off this go round
in 2010, the dims had a 79 seat advantage, so many opportunities for the GOP to flip, not so many this time
Posted by: REDACTED at August 31, 2022 07:26 AM (us2H3)

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Could very well end up with a Congress as lopsided as it was in 2011, though. So, the net change in seats won't be as big, but the majority could be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:28 AM (LvTSG)

196 Ortega? The dictator guy??
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:24 AM (yikp0

No, the dictator is Daniel Ortega. Fernando is a Christian musician,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 07:28 AM (wvo9L)

197 You want Nipsy Russell.
You'll settle for Gary Shandling.
You'll get Hannah Gadsby.
Posted by: HBO Comedy Specials at August 31, 2022 07:18 AM (JKfKg)

Nipsey Russell > Nipsey Hussle > Dumb Ass Troll Nipsy Russell

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 31, 2022 07:29 AM (kweYR)

198 Fernando!

Posted by: ABBA at August 31, 2022 07:29 AM (oTZbj)

199 I read somewhere yesterday that the loan institutions that handle student loans were literally broadsided by Biteme's student loan giveaway. They've apparently been deluged with people contacting them on how to apply for debt cancellation. There is no mechanism in place to apply, to check qualification status, to start any process related to this mess. Biden just vomited it out of his mouth with no process in place and no consultation with anybody on how any of this will work.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2022 07:29 AM (sVtYq)

200 I don't think you can belittle the fact that what Reagan did brought down the Soviet Union. That's unquestionable. But I also don't believe you can underestimate the importance of Gorbachev. It takes two to make a deal, and it takes a bit of contrition to make the deal that Gorbachev did. In that respect, I believe he was indeed a great man on his own. He showed the true qualities of leadership and reasonableness lacking in the world today. That's not to take away from Reagan- I believe he was one of our greatest presidents, and that's demonstrable with his accomplishments. But Gobachev saw he could do much better for his people if they changed direction.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:29 AM (VpIIl)

201 Holy crap. I just heard a great point on the radio.

The FBI was monitoring Giuliani and the NY Post and knew about the laptop that way, which is why they approached Zuckerburg before the story broke.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 07:30 AM (rySJ7)

202 So remember when CDC claimed during the pandemic that life expectancy dropping one full year due to covid? Now they have upped it to three, although they do admit only two were from covid and another year from other causes. I have to wonder how they torture the data to come up with this BS . Or do they just make it up? I actually believe the year from other causes (like living in seclusion and not going to the doctor)

Posted by: Ripley at August 31, 2022 07:30 AM (MxEKc)

203 199 I read somewhere yesterday that the loan institutions that handle student loans were literally broadsided by Biteme's student loan giveaway. They've apparently been deluged with people contacting them on how to apply for debt cancellation. There is no mechanism in place to apply, to check qualification status, to start any process related to this mess. Biden just vomited it out of his mouth with no process in place and no consultation with anybody on how any of this will work.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2022 07:29 AM (sVtYq)

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Maybe the government can develop a website.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:30 AM (LvTSG)

204 Which reminds me, I've been trying to memorize more Bible verses. Music is a great way to do that.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 31, 2022 07:30 AM (45fpk)

205 "Extreme Left Democrats should long and hard in the mirror."

Right, as if they're going to do that. Jeezus.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2022 07:19 AM (H8QX

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Demi-Gods (Semi-Gods?) don't reflect much.

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at August 31, 2022 07:30 AM (QbCrG)

206 Battleship Texas being moved to Galveston, Live View:
https://youtu.be/-_6ySBECxmM
>>>

Its about time. I was worried about hull integrity, but it looks good.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 31, 2022 07:23 AM (lTGtQ)

The flotilla seems to have stopped forward progress. I hope everything is going well.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 07:31 AM (4I/2K)

207 I for one would feel a helluva lot better if wise men on both sides were discussing an amicable separation.

But there are no wisemen, on either side. So the crazies and lunatics on both sides are going to push us into a terrible conflict

Posted by: Random Dope at August 31, 2022 07:31 AM (YTBIQ)

208 200 Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:29 AM (VpIIl)

Gorbachev had no choice. The Soviet economy was on the verge of collapsing. He could have been a psycho and launched missiles. But I'm thankful for that much.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2022 07:32 AM (x0n13)

209 The "People in Charge' are probably egging poor ol' Joe on, getting his BP up to where he'll save them a lot of trouble and time when he collapses and is rendered non-functioning.
Posted by: pawn at August 31, 2022 07:28 AM (wsHtO)
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Or tweaking his meds....Then they can blame it on "natural causes."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2022 07:32 AM (YIVH2)

210 "Posted by: grammie winger at August 31, 2022 07:26 AM (45fpk) "

Thank you. Beautiful.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:32 AM (VpIIl)

211 @203

>>Maybe the government can develop a website.

And it will probably cost as much as the GDP of Guam to build it, 10 pct for the big guy of course.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2022 07:32 AM (74n0+)

212 I read somewhere yesterday that the loan institutions that handle student loans were literally broadsided by Biteme's student loan giveaway. They've apparently been deluged with people contacting them on how to apply for debt cancellation. There is no mechanism in place to apply, to check qualification status, to start any process related to this mess. Biden just vomited it out of his mouth with no process in place and no consultation with anybody on how any of this will work.
Posted by: Lady in Black

I wonder if I could get a $9500 loan for community college?

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 31, 2022 07:33 AM (xJnZb)

213 In the FSU, outside Russia, Yeltsin is thought of more highly than Gorbachev because it was under his watch the satellite states were given independence. Gorbachev, to his credit, played the hand he was dealt - sometimes you draw aces and eights.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 31, 2022 07:33 AM (AaLDK)

214 Holy crap. I just heard a great point on the radio.

The FBI was monitoring Giuliani and the NY Post and knew about the laptop that way, which is why they approached Zuckerburg before the story broke.

Posted by: Moron Robbie

The FBI has already admitted that they had the laptop and verified that it was genuine in 2019. They monitored Giuliani illegally to see if he would use it, since they knew he had a copy of the verified hard drive.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 31, 2022 07:33 AM (lTGtQ)

215 Maybe the government can develop a website.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:30 AM (LvTSG)

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"Please go to trilliondollarbaby.gov ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at August 31, 2022 07:34 AM (QbCrG)

216 The people still wearing masks to stop a cold virus want you to listen to them telling you about the Science of that cold virus.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 07:34 AM (rySJ7)

217 Instead,
counsel handled them in a manner that suggested counsel believed that the documents were
lassified: the production included a single Redweld envelope, double-wrapped in tape,
containing the documents.

Yes. He can deem the information declassified. And he can also treat it as though it contains sensitive information. Both can be true.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 07:34 AM (Wrs74)

218 Just heard on my AM radio that the DOJ is saying that classified documents were removed from from Mar-A-Lago to obstruct the investigation

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 07:34 AM (tpRIN)

219 199 I read somewhere yesterday that the loan institutions that handle student loans were literally broadsided by Biteme's student loan giveaway. They've apparently been deluged with people contacting them on how to apply for debt cancellation. There is no mechanism in place to apply, to check qualification status, to start any process related to this mess. Biden just vomited it out of his mouth with no process in place and no consultation with anybody on how any of this will work.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 31, 2022 07:29 AM (sVtYq)
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A mailing list I subscribe to sent out something this week pointing to a government link where you can check your eligibility. Of course, it's written in "governmentese" so it's hard to decipher. It's aimed at students who have worked or currently work for government (state, local, or federal) or non-profit NGOs.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2022 07:35 AM (YIVH2)

220 Music is a great way to do that.
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Albania. Albania.
You border on the Adriatic
And your chief export is chrome!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:35 AM (yikp0)

221 Ortega? The dictator guy??
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:24 AM (yikp0)

Taco.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2022 07:35 AM (ai/gj)

222 213 In the FSU, outside Russia, Yeltsin is thought of more highly than Gorbachev because it was under his watch the satellite states were given independence. Gorbachev, to his credit, played the hand he was dealt - sometimes you draw aces and eights.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 31, 2022 07:33 AM (AaLDK)

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So, Gorbachev and James Buchanan get their own special corner all by themselves in the afterlife?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:35 AM (LvTSG)

223 . . . legendary orator, resilient survivor of multiple assassination attempts, WWI hero, ...
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 07:15 AM (4I/2K)

It's a heavy read unless you are really into the Third Reich, but Thomas Weber's Hitler's First War is an excellent look at Schickelgruber's WWI service.

Short summary: Hitler wasn't popular, even among his fellow runners (front-line soldiers called them 'reear-echelon pigs'), showed no signs of anti-semitism, probably got his Iron Cross through a fix and may even have allied himself with the Reds during the early years of the Weimar Republic because it kept him from having to leave the army.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2022 07:35 AM (AW0uW)

224 The FBI has already admitted that they had the laptop and verified that it was genuine in 2019. They monitored Giuliani illegally to see if he would use it, since they knew he had a copy of the verified hard drive.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

*

Time-wise, did they get it before they were spying on Giuliana, or did they find out about it because of the spying?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 07:35 AM (rySJ7)

225 I believe that PDT is being persecuted by the hag from Chappaqua. I'm guessing that there are still those around butt hurt because she lost to him in 2016. Until all of the hillary toadies are purged they will continue to harass him. Add in that he threatened a lot of rice bowls in dc and her minions have lots of help. They knew he would try to drain the swamp when they listened to his inaugural address. From that day forward they have been trying to destroy him.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at August 31, 2022 07:35 AM (2NHgQ)

226 If bai-Din gets nudged off this mortal plane, his autopsy will never be disclosed. It will be more hush-hush than bin Ladn''s.

Posted by: Eromero at August 31, 2022 07:36 AM (0OP+5)

227 I for one would feel a helluva lot better if wise men on both sides were discussing an amicable separation.

But there are no wisemen, on either side. So the crazies and lunatics on both sides are going to push us into a terrible conflict
Posted by: Random Dope at August 31, 2022 07:31 AM (YTBIQ)

===
You get a pudding cup.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2022 07:36 AM (EZebt)

228 he had to circle back to evil Republicans. He mentioned some of his “friends on the other team talking about political violence and how it’s necessary.”
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Ah so now we know why Graham came out with his conveniently timed scripted lines about riots. Doing his friend across the aisle a solid. I imagine everyone sees by now how fucking fake everything is.

Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 07:36 AM (ZyCU9)

229 So, Gorbachev and James Buchanan get their own special corner all by themselves in the afterlife?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:35 AM (LvTSG)
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FJB will join them in the fullness of time...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2022 07:36 AM (YIVH2)

230 Posted by: grammie winger at August 31, 2022 07:30 AM (45fpk)

Good for you. I encourage the folks to also borrow a hymnal and sing the songs at home. In our hymnal we have at the bottom and in the index the scripture passages many of the hymns are based on.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 07:36 AM (wvo9L)

231 Families of Israeli athletes killed at 1972 Munich Olympics nearing compensation deal with Germany.
Posted by: andycanuck

Only 50 years later.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2022 07:37 AM (5laLd)

232 Who has eye bleeder or rage stroke on their Bingo card?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 31, 2022 06:44 AM (AaLDK)

Since it's prime time, extra cocktails and no "aviator Joe" will be possible.

Yelling should also be on the bingo card.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 31, 2022 07:37 AM (NW9xb)

233 Maybe the government can develop a website.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:30 AM (LvTSG)

Great idea!

Posted by: Crony ne'er do well family and friends of Big Gooberment at August 31, 2022 07:37 AM (4I/2K)

234 You can buy an automatic weapon. Mine was a Ford.

Posted by: Darrell Brooks Jr. at August 31, 2022 07:37 AM (JKfKg)

235 I for one would feel a helluva lot better if wise men on both sides were discussing an amicable separation.

But there are no wisemen, on either side. So the crazies and lunatics on both sides are going to push us into a terrible conflict
Posted by: Random Dope at August 31, 2022 07:31 AM (YTBIQ)

Amiable or not we are currently separated, we need to separate , and we will separate ....now that separation may be that some/lots of us are sent to camps by the Communists because we do not separate on mutually agreeable terms. .
But separate we must--hopefully in a peaceful manner.
There is absolutely no reason to continue on with the Communists. Nor them with us.
We will determine how to separate best we can soon or the Communists will separate us to camps.

Posted by: Voter theater. at August 31, 2022 07:37 AM (A/jI2)

236 Also a group of never-Trumpers who served as federal prosecutors asked to file an amicus brief in opposition to Trump. The filing lists the group as comprised of: Donald B. Ayer, Gregory A. Brower, John J. Farmer Jr., Stuart M. Gerson, Peter D. Keisler, William F. Weld, and former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman.

Did I do good, boss? Did I get the bad orange man good? Am I still your favorite?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 07:38 AM (Wrs74)

237 "Gorbachev had no choice. The Soviet economy was on the verge of collapsing. He could have been a psycho and launched missiles. But I'm thankful for that much.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2022 07:32 AM (x0n13) "

We will have to disagree, because that's not true. He has people in his circle who wanted to take other offensive actions. He could have controlled Eastern Europe and other through proxies and force. They still had a standing army and were not afraid to use it. Certainly, Gorbachev saw that and new the choices were not good ones. He could have decided differently, but in the end he did what he felt was best for the Russian people. Imagine that, it suddenly wasn't about power, control or conquest. I remember when Reagan took Gorbachev for a helicopter ride, I believe over the suburban DC area, and Gorbachev could not get over all the swimming pools. That's just one anecdote, but I believe he wanted more for the Russian people. To me, that sets him apart from a lot of others. IMVHO

Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:38 AM (VpIIl)

238 Gorby knew the Russians loved their children, too!
Posted by: Sting

Familiar with any kids from Russian orphanages?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2022 07:38 AM (5laLd)

239 Time-wise, did they get it before they were spying on Giuliana, or did they find out about it because of the spying?

My assumption is that they were illegally spying on Giuliani from the beginning of Trump's term, just like they were illegally spying on the white house the entire time.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 31, 2022 07:38 AM (lTGtQ)

240 > I don't think you can belittle the fact that what Reagan did brought down the Soviet Union. That's unquestionable. But I also don't believe you can underestimate the importance of Gorbachev. It takes two to make a deal, and it takes a bit of contrition to make the deal that Gorbachev did.

Yep, I agree.

Reagan would not have succeeded if, say, Stalin had been on the other side.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2022 07:39 AM (bW8dp)

241 There was a great deal of news about Tim Thibault, FBI Special Agent, resigning.

I seemed to have missed news that Tony Ornato, the former Assistant Director of the Secret Service who served PDT & figures in the J6 Committee probe, also retired.

Posted by: Lola at August 31, 2022 07:39 AM (NIYa7)

242 Through the looking glass we are:
Doocy: "Why is there a CDC [vaccine] requirement for people who fly here as opposed to people who cross the border?"

Jean-Pierre: "We have talked about Title 42."

Doocy: "You guys got rid of it."

Jean-Pierre: "Title 42 is very much in place."
https://tinyurl.com/2p98ha44

Open borders for the unvaxxed masses, but tennis champ Djokovic MUST be vaccinated to compete in the US Open.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2022 07:39 AM (I/doM)

243
Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?

Posted by: Zombie Nipsy Russell at August 31, 2022 07:39 AM (74Gk2)

244 I believe that PDT is being persecuted by the hag from Chappaqua. I'm guessing that there are still those around butt hurt because she lost to him in 2016.

*

The Clinton law office was the group responsible for changing voting laws outside of the legislative process to steal the 2020 election.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at August 31, 2022 07:39 AM (rySJ7)

245 Pant defecation gets the free square.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2022 07:39 AM (ai/gj)

246 'reear-echelon pigs'
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RearEchelonPorkinßFockers

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:40 AM (yikp0)

247 Dinesh D'Souza
@DineshDSouza
I love this! Bed Bath & Beyond canceled Mike Lindell and now the market is cancelling them

CNBC
@CNBC 46m
JUST IN: Bed Bath & Beyond announces plans for layoffs and store closures in its push to fix its struggling business.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2022 07:41 AM (NpAcC)

248 Battleship Texas is moving along again. Maybe they slowed to get past a tight spot in the channel.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 07:41 AM (4I/2K)

249 Is this fucking idiot for real?

Unfortunately, he is real and he is a fucking idiot.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 31, 2022 07:41 AM (nSdVr)

250 A mailing list I subscribe to sent out something this week pointing to a government link where you can check your eligibility. Of course, it's written in "governmentese" so it's hard to decipher. It's aimed at students who have worked or currently work for government (state, local, or federal) or non-profit NGOs.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Look. Just claim it. And if you are deemed to not qualify at a later date, the heavily armed Department of Education Quick Reaction Special Tactics unit will no knock raid you at 3am and burn down your house. Then fine you.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 07:41 AM (Wrs74)

251

The kids are saying 'Make Love not War' and I'm beginning to think they're right. For war cost millions a day and love,, just a few bucks a night

Posted by: Zombie Nipsy Russell at August 31, 2022 07:42 AM (SWi3y)

252 "Biden to Warn that Republicans Will Destroy the Country in Prime-time Nationwide Address"

We need to get this guy some bigger epaulets and one of those covers with gold braids.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:42 AM (VpIIl)

253 Anyone tracking AR prices?...shoulda' bought some shares.

Posted by: BignJames at August 31, 2022 07:43 AM (AwYPR)

254 CALM.

I Condone All Legal Means of political actions. And only legal means. What suggestions do you have? I vote. I talk to people at the gas pump in non confrontational positive ways, for example by asking them why they think gas is so high and just listening.

Today I am gong to call Graham and talk to them about his incitement to rioting and his calling for his constituents to be shot by the capital police. I will do my best to phrase it as quiet concern for his "mistakes" be positive to staff.

Is this wrong? What can I do? Looking for suggestion. Anyone can contact me, but South Carolina people especially are welcome

clockmath@protonmail.com or clockmath@proton.me (is that right too?)

Stay positive, be confident, and engage where possible without argument is my goal. Fenelon, if you are around, or any other Christians, are you familiar with the term "Christian witness" ? What does it mean to you?

Posted by: Dave in SC at August 31, 2022 07:43 AM (5r4XQ)

255 Good morning horde! Free the Sponge!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at August 31, 2022 06:35 AM (GYIa4)
********
This^^^^

Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2022 07:43 AM (NpAcC)

256 Interesting podcast by Bret Weinstein yesterday on whether Wokism threatens not mere civilization but the species itself. He says possibly, and makes a stronger argument than his guest Peter Boghossian (who comes across as an intellectual dummy, in my opinion).

https://tinyurl.com/ymhbwrcr

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2022 07:43 AM (H8QX8)

257 252 "Biden to Warn that Republicans Will Destroy the Country in Prime-time Nationwide Address"

We need to get this guy some bigger epaulets and one of those covers with gold braids.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:42 AM (VpIIl)

"Idi Gourmet shoppe"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2022 07:43 AM (x0n13)

258 I haven't been in BB&B in over 5 years.

More coffee...

Posted by: dantesed at August 31, 2022 07:43 AM (88xKn)

259 A Democrat is accusing Republicans of being awful and violent?

Is this better or worse than decades of calling Republicans Nazis?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:43 AM (LvTSG)

260 Good morning horde! Free the Sponge!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland
********
This^^^^
Posted by: redridinghood

He's sponge worthy!!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 31, 2022 07:43 AM (5laLd)

261 You can buy an automatic weapon. Mine was a Ford.
Posted by: Darrell Brooks

Don't worry, those automatic weapons are on the list too.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 07:43 AM (Wrs74)

262 > Newsom has no national appeal.

Isn't he related to Pelosi somehow (wow, talk about a PornHub video you DON'T want to see)?

Nancy is still in tight with the East Coast Mob. You don't need appeal if you've got the ballot boxes under control.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2022 07:44 AM (bW8dp)

263 The State has a lot of interest in seeing Trump hamstrung. That includes the bureaucrats like Wray at FBI along with rank and file criminals like the Clintons, Obama and the *biden camp (and those associated with them.) Picking one or the other as "responsible" for raids, eavesdropping, stealing elections is difficult.

They're all in on it. Coordinated or not.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2022 07:44 AM (BFigT)

264 @239

>>My assumption is that they were illegally spying on Giuliani from the beginning of Trump's term.

They have probably been spying on Trump since the 80's.

I believe the history of the laptop is that the Computer Shop Owner contacted the FBI about the laptop, the FBI came down took a look at it, determined it was legit and high tailed it out of the shop because they did not want to touch that thing with a ten foot pole, then the shop owner contacted Giuliani, several copies were made and ultimately I believe it was Giuliani who got the laptop to the FBI, who then sat on it because they did not want to legitimate it if they actually opened an investigation.

Then the Post reporter somehow got a copy and reported on it.

The rest is stray voltage and fog of war at this point.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2022 07:44 AM (74n0+)

265 >>Families of Israeli athletes killed at 1972 Munich Olympics nearing compensation deal with Germany.

Meanwhile, the grandson of the attack's mastermind has run for Congree in CA in hopes of joining The Squad.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2022 07:44 AM (I/doM)

266

I'm all for ERA. I want to see women equal to men- not so damn superior like they've been...

Posted by: Zombie Nipsy Russell at August 31, 2022 07:44 AM (SWi3y)

267 William F. Weld

Another worthless, treasonous nickelfucker I am ashamed to have ever voted for.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2022 07:44 AM (AW0uW)

268 General Pacepa in "Operation Dragon" has a chapter in his book entitled The Glasnost Swindle and Gorbachev's role. ..."the truth is that, like Peter the Great before him, Gorbavhv intended to save himself and his privileged circle in Russian's authoritarian structure from what they all knew to be communism's impending political and economic doom."

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2022 07:44 AM (4h9M3)

269 "Yep, I agree.

Reagan would not have succeeded if, say, Stalin had been on the other side.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2022 07:39 AM (bW8dp) "

Russian nationalists, a lot of the KGB and people like the pint size clown running Russia at the moment loath Gorbachev.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:45 AM (VpIIl)

270 > We need to get this guy some bigger epaulets and one of those covers with gold braids.
Posted by: Marcus T

Don't forget about 50 medals the size of dinner plates. It just wouldn't be a Generalissimo uniform without plenty of medals.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2022 07:45 AM (bW8dp)

271 I must have missed Fen being in the "kill all the Dems and RINOs and let God sort them out" crowd.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:45 AM (yikp0)

272 I seemed to have missed news that Tony Ornato, the former Assistant Director of the Secret Service who served PDT & figures in the J6 Committee probe, also retired.
Posted by: Lola at August 31, 2022 07:39 AM (NIYa7)

Tony Orlando > Tony Ornato

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 31, 2022 07:45 AM (kweYR)

273 The rest is stray voltage and fog of war at this point
*

Except for the part where it's unavoidable to understand that the FBI routinely spies on republicans solely for the benefit of the democrat candidates.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 07:45 AM (iKxI+)

274 > Russian nationalists, a lot of the KGB and people like the pint size clown running Russia at the moment loath Gorbachev.

I'm sure they do.

But I don't see that as a bad thing.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2022 07:45 AM (bW8dp)

275 265 >>Families of Israeli athletes killed at 1972 Munich Olympics nearing compensation deal with Germany.

Meanwhile, the grandson of the attack's mastermind has run for Congree in CA in hopes of joining The Squad.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2022 07:44 AM (I/doM)

PS: Mahmoud "Holocaust? What Holocaust?" Abbas - the president for life of this Palestinian Authority - was a mastermind of the plot as well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2022 07:46 AM (x0n13)

276 Oh, I cancelled my Dinsney+ subscription and let them know it was over politics; I don't want that in my entertainment.

I have banked with Chase for over 10 years now, and I am making a call to them today as well, for business reasons, but while I have them on the phone I will let them know I'd appreciate their staying out of politics.

Posted by: Dave in SC at August 31, 2022 07:46 AM (5r4XQ)

277 Someone remind me again what caused the USSR to collapse.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 07:46 AM (iKxI+)

278 you only polled the battleground districts, the GOP would up by 10, if not more

Posted by: REDACTED at August 31, 2022 07:26 AM (us2H3)

Agreed. Hence the speech tomorrow and Friday's jobs report.

I think their internal polling looks horrendous and this speech will get some attention tomorrow and Friday but with the holiday weekend, not much. It's to fire up the base before the proverbial election season kicks off on Tuesday.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 31, 2022 07:46 AM (NW9xb)

279 The good functionaries know what to do. They don't need specific instructions. Given a situation, they know the direction and will pursue the mission no matter how low their office.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 07:47 AM (Wrs74)

280 Posted by: Dave in SC at August 31, 2022 07:43 AM (5r4XQ)

Curious what part of the state you're in? I'm in Horry County. I do much of what you do but gave up contacting Graham or Scott. I was encouraged that our Rep (Rice) was routed by the Trump-endorsed Fry.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2022 07:47 AM (H8QX8)

281 I remember when Reagan took Gorbachev for a helicopter ride, I believe over the suburban DC area, and Gorbachev could not get over all the swimming pools. That's just one anecdote, but I believe he wanted more for the Russian people.

I forget where I read it (it may have been in the wonderful K Blows Top, about Kruschev's 1959 US visit), but Ike did the same thing, wanting to show K how ordinary American workers could afford houses for themselves.

K professed himself to be underwhelmed, saying there were plenty of houses in the USSR, and that while we were building houses, they were building missiles, and so would beat us no matter what.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2022 07:48 AM (AW0uW)

282 277 Someone remind me again what caused the USSR to collapse.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 07:46 AM (iKxI+)

A commie country got into an arms race with a free market country and went broke.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 07:48 AM (Y5qcH)

283 "Idi Gourmet shoppe"
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I love American tourists! I just had two for lunch.

Posted by: zombie idi amin, vc with bar at August 31, 2022 07:48 AM (yikp0)

284 Morning Greetings, from the middle of the continent and heart of the USA.

Walking the doggo this morning was nice. Scared up a couple of deer. Saw this huge orange glow that resolved itself into a blazing sunrise. The neighbors' rooster crowed. Beautiful blue sky with sunlit scattered clouds and puffy contrails.

So, life in the semi-rural can be peaceful. Sometimes I think about moving back to Chicago… hahaha, just kidding. Never think about that.

Guess I'll check out what JJ has collected for us. I'll bet there's not one headline about semi-rural roosters.

Posted by: mindful webworker - had worse moments at August 31, 2022 07:48 AM (pQoma)

285 Making your political opposition the enemy and using the auspices of the state to attack them leads nowhere good. That's third-world dictatorship stuff and apparently the sine qua non of Democrats.

Methinks this next election will be anything but normal. The only thing Democrats haven't done is declare some kind of national "emergency". That seems where these attacks are headed.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 31, 2022 07:48 AM (VpIIl)

286 Hey JJ Link for Mexican Passports:

https://tinyurl.com/2s44xnjn

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 31, 2022 07:49 AM (BRHaw)

287 267 William F. Weld

Another worthless, treasonous nickelfucker I am ashamed to have ever voted for.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2022 07:44 AM (AW0uW)

But he could read and quoted in Latin, don't you know!

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2022 07:49 AM (H8QX8)

288 commie country got into an arms race with a free market country and went broke.

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Thanks. I thought it was spending.

Probably nothing to learn from that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 07:49 AM (iKxI+)

289 McInnes.

smh

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 31, 2022 07:50 AM (/V9dp)

290 Someone remind me again what caused the USSR to collapse.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 07:46 AM (iKxI+)
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They didn't do communism right?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 31, 2022 07:50 AM (EZebt)

291 @273

>>Except for the part where it's unavoidable to understand that the FBI routinely spies on republicans solely for the benefit of the democrat candidates.

Pretty sure the LE/IC apparatus spies on all politicians, celebrities, business magnates and anyone with political or cultural significance.

They pick and choose who to bring the hammer down on based on threat assessments against their hold on power.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 31, 2022 07:50 AM (74n0+)

292 Biden does make an important point. The 2nd Amendment does mean parity in arms with the military.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 07:50 AM (Y5qcH)

293 They didn't do communism right?

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The right people weren't in charge.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 07:51 AM (iKxI+)

294 >>PS: Mahmoud "Holocaust? What Holocaust?" Abbas - the president for life of this Palestinian Authority - was a mastermind of the plot as well.

Naturally.
German apologizing late looks brave compared to this kind of thing - from 2018 when her ran:
"The grandson of one of the architects of the Munich massacre is running for Congress in California, and winning praise from members of the local Jewish community for his moderate positions on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

Ammar Campa-Najjar is set to be endorsed by the California Democratic Party later this week, ahead of the June Democratic Party primary for California's 50th District. His family background could become one of his greatest challenges if he makes it to the 2018 midterm elections in November."

Taqiyya and Maruna aren't tiki bar drinks. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2022 07:51 AM (I/doM)

295 Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 07:45 AM (yikp0)

Fen is NOT on that bandwagon. What would give you that impression? Because if we're going to kill all the Dems-I am one-a DINO . I'm actually a young and super sexy secret spy for conservatives. I go out to Governor Murphy's events or look admiringly at Tom Malinowski who is one of our Congress critters, and he is better looking than Murphy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 07:51 AM (wvo9L)

296 A thought occurs.Tomorrow, when Joe is healing the nation- he'll mostly stick to the same rhetoric. We'll be ultra Maga whatever. But, I bet he announces an intention to "pardon" President Trump for whatever crimes they made up, to "heal the nation and get this behind us." NYTimes et al are clamoring for indictment (probably at administration behest). But, there's no there, there, so this makes him look magnanimous while diminishing Trump. What say y'all?

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 31, 2022 07:51 AM (MSc9D)

297 278 I think their internal polling looks horrendous and this speech will get some attention tomorrow and Friday but with the holiday weekend, not much. It's to fire up the base before the proverbial election season kicks off on Tuesday.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 31, 2022 07:46 AM (NW9xb)

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But the public polls, that haven't been trustworthy in at least a generation, especially in August, show the race tightening and Democrats could hold the House!

In fact, Biden's approval rating in August is now in the mid-40s! (Don't look up Obama's approval rating in August of 2010. Just don't. Don't you do it.)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:51 AM (LvTSG)

298 > They didn't do communism right?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Yes, it wasn't REAL communism.

But somehow they never explain why it is that "real" communism has never happened, despite dozens of attempts.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2022 07:52 AM (bW8dp)

299 293 They didn't do communism right?

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The right people weren't in charge.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 07:51 AM (iKxI+)

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We were assured that Pol Pot was the right man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:52 AM (LvTSG)

300 Don't forget about 50 medals the size of dinner plates. It just wouldn't be a Generalissimo uniform without plenty of medals.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2022 07:45 AM (bW8dp)
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Maybe North Korea can raise some cash by selling the uniforms of generals who were executed for disappointing Kim Jong Un...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2022 07:52 AM (YIVH2)

301 "Biden is going to keep ramping up the rhetoric to denounce Republicans as evil fascists. I bet he goes so far as to use those words. Dobbs did not ramp up the Dem base like they thought it would. This is their next tact to improve their turnout numbers."

The Evil MAGA Fascists rhetoric from Joe and The Junta is also intended to de-legitimize everything the Republican House and (hopefully) Senate do, or do not do, beginning in January.

FBI, IRS, and DoJ budget cuts? "A War on Law and Order and Our Democracy! Oh, and Racist!"

The same will be said about everything Joe does not like.

Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2022 07:52 AM (S6ZRI)

302 Biden does make an important point. The 2nd Amendment does mean parity in arms with the military.
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Yeah, it's weird that it's the only amendment limiting the citizens and not the government.

Probably just an oversight by the founding fathers.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 07:52 AM (iKxI+)

303 First!!!!!

Proxy Sponge

Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2022 07:52 AM (Zux44)

304 Biden: “Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun?”

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Ban them!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 31, 2022 07:52 AM (FVME7)

305 A thought occurs.Tomorrow, when Joe is healing the nation- he'll mostly stick to the same rhetoric. We'll be ultra Maga whatever. But, I bet he announces an intention to "pardon" President Trump for whatever crimes they made up, to "heal the nation and get this behind us." NYTimes et al are clamoring for indictment (probably at administration behest). But, there's no there, there, so this makes him look magnanimous while diminishing Trump. What say y'all?
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 31, 2022 07:51 AM (MSc9D)
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I don't think "pardoning Trump" is on anyone's bingo card...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2022 07:53 AM (YIVH2)

306 Cat Ass Trophy is right about cars being on the list of Ban all the things Americans Love.

Road construction is one tool. Compare road construction times in Texas to Colorado...or Germany. All of Germany is road construction. It is a tool against drivers by government that they can claim is to HELP drivers. Careless driving laws where driving your car into the ditch is a crime. Colorado had that; SC has it. I call it the Warrent Buffet/Geico law. During the Pandemic I would sometimes say, and yeah we need to stop people from driving too, because it's even MORE dangerous than this, but then i stopped. Karen is not to be given ideas, though the idea is already there, as CAT says, and I agree.

Posted by: Dave in SC at August 31, 2022 07:53 AM (5r4XQ)

307 Biden: “Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun?”

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O_0

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 07:53 AM (iKxI+)

308 I know we have a few morons in MA - one of my MA coworkers asked for my opinion on the governors race apparently there are two candidates running on the R side to replace the current waste of flesh MA governor.

Deal and...someone whose name escapes me. Any of the MA morons have a favorite between the two?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2022 07:54 AM (ESjRY)

309 302 Yeah, it's weird that it's the only amendment limiting the citizens and not the government.

Probably just an oversight by the founding fathers.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 07:52 AM (iKxI+)

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"This constitution has no limiting factor on the ability of the government to grow and become super powerful. We demand an amendment to the constitution that makes it eternally more powerful than the people."
-The Anti-federalists, apparently

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:54 AM (LvTSG)

310 First!!!!!

Proxy Sponge
Posted by: Ben Had
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FREE SPONGE!

*holds up lighter*

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 31, 2022 07:54 AM (jwDzO)

311 Posted by: mindful webworker - had worse moments at August 31, 2022 07:48 AM (pQoma

Yes; Nature can be soothing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 07:54 AM (wvo9L)

312 Biden: “Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun?”

I thought it ripped a person's lung out or something.

Posted by: dantesed at August 31, 2022 07:55 AM (88xKn)

313 Good news, everyone!

Bad Economics: Biden Admin Claims Student Loan Bailout "Fully Paid for" Through Supposed "Deficit Reduction Already Occurring"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 31, 2022 07:55 AM (FVME7)

314 Disingenuousness Alert: "WHO Chief Scientist warns of rises in cardiovascular and neurological disorders due to COVID-19."

Posted by: zombie idi amin, vc with bar at August 31, 2022 07:55 AM (yikp0)

315 >>In fact, Biden's approval rating in August is now in the mid-40s! (Don't look up Obama's approval rating in August of 2010. Just don't. Don't you do it.)

Not anymore. A number of new polls show that whatever little bounce he got is gone and he's now back down near his all-time lows.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 07:55 AM (ZLI7S)

316 so either Gavin is retarded or a subversive

because wtf

also today's count of "people I know who died suddenly in their early 50s" is two. plus one more in their 60s. it's been like this recently, including one close friend who just dropped dead out of nowhere in his front hall - not ill, no autopsy. just something about Gen X I guess. we drop dead.

it's pretty much terrifying.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 31, 2022 07:55 AM (w0NJk)

317 312 Biden: “Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun?”

I thought it ripped a person's lung out or something.
Posted by: dantesed at August 31, 2022 07:55 AM (88xKn)

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"We don't see pictures of mass shootings because there are no bodies left!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:55 AM (LvTSG)

318 Unpopular opinion: the Biden people are actually getting their shit together prior to the midterms.

They raided Trump, which is manna to their idiot base who are just waiting for the wheels to come off for the 4892nd time.

They kept promises for the green new deal and student college debt.

They have a clearly mentally handicapped president who is throwing out pure red meat, which is his specialty.

All of these things suck but if the republicans don't get their shit together they'll fuck it all up. Midterms are about mobilizing the base first, wine moms second.

Posted by: MJ at August 31, 2022 07:55 AM (zwDuR)

319 Yeah, it's weird that it's the only amendment limiting the citizens and not the government.

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You know, this seems like the sort of thing that the nra could take to the SCOTUS.

Oh well, probably just an oversight by the nra.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 07:56 AM (iKxI+)

320 314 Disingenuousness Alert: "WHO Chief Scientist warns of rises in cardiovascular and neurological disorders due to COVID-19."

looks like they forgot a word there

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 31, 2022 07:56 AM (w0NJk)

321 The left: These republicans are *literal* NAZIs!

Also the left: Oh my Gaia these Republicans are actually worse then literal NAZIs they do violent things like send mean tweets!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2022 07:56 AM (ESjRY)

322 Do I understand correctly that a venal, corrupt, lying, stupid, angry, perverted, hate filled dementia patient is going to be shrieking at the people of the United States about the state of their soul?

Posted by: Jack Begley at August 31, 2022 07:56 AM (eGTCV)

323 Furthermore, a "well regulated" militia implies that the govt. should even assist in the arming of citizens in that militia.

Like helping buy those expensive F-15s.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 07:57 AM (Y5qcH)

324 > Maybe North Korea can raise some cash by selling the uniforms of generals who were executed for disappointing Kim Jong Un...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I'll have you know that Biden already has the Purple Heart, the Blue Max, and the Red Badge of Courage.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2022 07:57 AM (bW8dp)

325 EXPOSED: Greenwich CT Assistant Principal's Hiring Discrimination Ensures 'Subtle' Child Indoctrination; 'You Don't Hire' Catholics Because They Are More 'Conservative' ... 'Progressive Teachers' Are 'Savvy About Delivering a Democratic Message'

https://tinyurl.com/ykuj2u69

Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2022 07:57 AM (NpAcC)

326 All of these things suck but if the republicans don't get their shit together they'll fuck it all up. Midterms are about mobilizing the base first, wine moms second

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Not to mention Republicans don't know it's an election year.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 07:57 AM (iKxI+)

327 315 >>In fact, Biden's approval rating in August is now in the mid-40s! (Don't look up Obama's approval rating in August of 2010. Just don't. Don't you do it.)

Not anymore. A number of new polls show that whatever little bounce he got is gone and he's now back down near his all-time lows.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 07:55 AM (ZLI7S)

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You know my opinion of polls.

All are wrong. Some are less wrong.

It also doesn't help that those that are more wrong are intentionally wrong. Why don't we have polls that are way too skewed towards Republicans? Polls where the GOP is 50% of the supposed electorate? CNN does it all the time with Democrats.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:57 AM (LvTSG)

328 237 I thought the swimming pool story was Kruschev (sp?) when he was flying in from the USSR. Said something like “we’ve already lost”.

Then again, how would that leak? The leaker would have been risking their life. So probably apocryphal.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 31, 2022 07:57 AM (/V9dp)

329 Disingenuousness Alert: "WHO Chief Scientist warns of rises in cardiovascular and neurological disorders due to COVID-19."
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lol

They are determined to not blame the clot shot.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 31, 2022 07:57 AM (jwDzO)

330 "There is nothing to debate."

If that's their intension, and it certain appears to be, then they're not needed. Congress can take their hundreds of selves and thousands and thousands of staff members and exit the government for good for once the executive branch, the enforcement arm, has been built back substantially better and may be managed by a much smaller group of governmental 'administrators.'

As it stands, its doubtful Congress is actually proposing and writing law but rather that has become the task of the 'smarter' NGOs.

IMHO

Posted by: Lola at August 31, 2022 07:57 AM (NIYa7)

331 Do I understand correctly that a venal, corrupt, lying, stupid, angry, perverted, hate filled dementia patient is going to be shrieking at the people of the United States about the state of their soul?
Posted by: Jack Begley at August 31, 2022 07:56 AM (eGTCV)
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Are you implying the Dear Leader Biden, may he reign in glory forever, is NOT to be trusted?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2022 07:57 AM (YIVH2)

332 intention darn it!

Posted by: Lola at August 31, 2022 07:58 AM (NIYa7)

333 also today's count of "people I know who died suddenly in their early 50s" is two. plus one more in their 60s.

I know two people that died before hitting 50. Both clot shotted and boosted. One nominally from a heart attack, the other from an insanely fact and aggressive cancer.

Known side effects of the clot shot: heart issues and a reduced immune response to cancer.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2022 07:58 AM (ESjRY)

334 I will watch Fritz Lang's Indian duology, made when he returned to Germany in the late 50s, instead of Joe Biden.

It's on FeeVee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:58 AM (LvTSG)

335 MJ: Unpopular opinion: the Biden people are actually getting their shit together prior to the midterms.

Exactly right, I have been saying the same thing. The goal is to get close enough to steal. This work in common with the coordinated Republican Are Anti-Democracy is all designed to keep the House from changing parties. These guys take power seriously. My only quibble is with Republicans as the Stupid Party. Not stupid, just full of traitors and dysfunctional.

Posted by: Dave in SC at August 31, 2022 07:58 AM (5r4XQ)

336 > I thought it ripped a person's lung out or something.

Ripping out organs is yesterday's pravda.

Today's pravda is that an AR-15 bullet causes you to "literally explode".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2022 07:59 AM (bW8dp)

337 Meghan Markle Compares Her Wedding To Nelson Mandela’s Release From Prison

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A huge mistake?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 31, 2022 07:59 AM (FVME7)

338 336 > I thought it ripped a person's lung out or something.

Ripping out organs is yesterday's pravda.

Today's pravda is that an AR-15 bullet causes you to "literally explode".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 31, 2022 07:59 AM (bW8dp)

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This sounds misinformation-y.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 07:59 AM (LvTSG)

339 Do I understand correctly that a venal, corrupt, lying, stupid, angry, perverted, hate filled dementia patient is going to be shrieking at the people of the United States about the state of their soul?
Posted by: Jack Begley

Why is Hillary giving a speech?

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 31, 2022 07:59 AM (xJnZb)

340 Where did this idea that people need to be "protected" from lies come from?

I mean I know it's an excuse to lie... an operation based in popular control... and suppressing truth... but they repeat it so often it's supposed to be taken as some kind of standard dogma.

There is no such thing as protecting people from lies or "stopping misinformation". If anything you're supposed to stop the *belief* of misinformation by providing the truth to people, not by silencing lies. The truth is the way lies are defused, not brute force.

It's a weird thing that everyone has just accepted by default. That "dangerous misinformation" must be "stopped". And people can't believe there was a time when anything was ever different. It's strange to watch.

Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 07:59 AM (Fe2bk)

341 Known side effects of the clot shot: heart issues and a reduced immune response to cancer.

I'm starting to appreciate my Year of Rashes

maybe my body was trying desperately to get this garbage OUT of me

I also have two family members (younger than myself!) who had been in breast cancer remission until they got the shots. then sudden and very serious recurrence. fortunately for now they are doing well again.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 31, 2022 07:59 AM (w0NJk)

342 Today's pravda is that an AR-15 bullet causes you to "literally explode".

Scanners > Democrat fantasies about guns

Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2022 07:59 AM (ESjRY)

343 perverted, hate filled dementia patient is going to be shrieking at the people of the United States about the state of their soul?

The state of my soul is 'redeemed'. Nothing that Joe Biden says can change that.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 31, 2022 08:00 AM (45fpk)

344 going to be shrieking at the people of the United States about the state of their soul? Posted by: Jack Begley at August 31, 2022 07:56 AM (eGTCV)

Michael Goodwin in the NY-or the editors- described it as "Biden unfit for soul-o mission", which I thought was a pretty clever headline.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 08:00 AM (wvo9L)

345 Are you implying the Dear Leader Biden, may he reign in glory forever, is NOT to be trusted?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 31, 2022 07:57 AM (YIVH2)

If he reigns in glory forever, why does he need to address the nation??

Posted by: dantesed at August 31, 2022 08:00 AM (88xKn)

346 Can you imagine the outcry if PDJT commanded the nets to give him time to condemn the Democrats as entirely fascist dangers to America?

There isn't enough whiskey in the world to get me through this shit.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 08:00 AM (yvk+0)

347 Skewed polling results are both a weapon before and after elections. Before elections to excite the D base and depress R turnout, and after elections as evidence to paint Republicans as wild anti-democratic conspiracy theorists.

Posted by: Dave in SC at August 31, 2022 08:01 AM (5r4XQ)

348 The good functionaries know what to do. They don't need specific instructions. Given a situation, they know the direction and will pursue the mission no matter how low their office.

Which is why Hitler never needed to write down an order for the Holocaust.

"Working towards the Fuhrer," such an attitude was called.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2022 08:01 AM (AW0uW)

349 >>You know my opinion of polls.

>>All are wrong. Some are less wrong.

Well, yea. Polls are like predicting economic outcomes. They are imperfect by definition. But trends can be established with some of the more accurate polls.

I don't think polls are all that important from a macro standpoint right now. Anyone who actually believes Biden and Democrats are popular right now is either listening to the media way too much or is a troll trying to bring people down.

The left will always have a floor because those idiots will vote like zombies no matter but nobody else is buying it.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 08:01 AM (ZLI7S)

350 And you haven't met everybody from the upper Mid Atlantic and neither have I. 58% of Warren County-a rural County in NW NJ -voted for Trump. Approximately 57 % percent of people in Warren County NJ-another rural NW County Voted for Trump. I am part of a conservative group in NJ.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 06:45 AM (wvo9L)

Hi, neighbor! **waves**

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 31, 2022 08:01 AM (Zvtjl)

351 346 Can you imagine the outcry if PDJT commanded the nets to give him time to condemn the Democrats as entirely fascist dangers to America?

There isn't enough whiskey in the world to get me through this shit.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 08:00 AM (yvk+0)

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"You think you can stop my tax cut from passing? Well, we have F-15s. What do you have?"
-Trump in 2018, Mirror Universe Version

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 08:01 AM (LvTSG)

352 All this talk about democracy and republic and how to restore the latter overlooks the fact that most Americans at this point do not want a Republic or a restoration. They would and could not tolerate the required sacrifices and burdens. So it would seem that forcing it on them for their own good is the only way we achieve it.

Have tyrannical means ever been used in the pursuit of greater individual freedom and responsibility?

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2022 08:01 AM (H8QX8)

353 The push for banning 'assault weapons' is going over like a fart in church on the left.

All of the lefty sites are freaking out about it. They know its third rail politics.

Posted by: MJ at August 31, 2022 08:02 AM (zwDuR)

354 Where did this idea that people need to be "protected" from lies come from?
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common totalitarian propaganda starting point.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 08:02 AM (yvk+0)

355 Good news, everyone!

Bad Economics: Biden Admin Claims Student Loan Bailout "Fully Paid for" Through Supposed "Deficit Reduction Already Occurring"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 31, 2022 07:55 AM (FVME7)

Hmm. It must be hiding in the deep ocean with the missing heat. They're ninja stealthy like that.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 08:02 AM (4I/2K)

356 Biden: “Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun?”

15,000 feet per second? I'm smelling bullshit.

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 31, 2022 08:02 AM (xJnZb)

357 305- agree, and, if it was, most likely would have leaked. But, if it was, it's a good strategic move. Mar a Lago back fired. New judge seems hostile to them. No hope of success beyond DC Courts (and none there if Trump is rightfully granted a change of venue, which he won't get). Biden gets to look "statesmanlike" while painting Trump a criminal. LIVs will hear about pardon (and assume guilt) but not about any refusal to accept.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 31, 2022 08:02 AM (MSc9D)

358 Posted by: grammie winger at August 31, 2022 08:00 AM (45fpk)

Amen. That's one of your hymns-"My Hope is Built on Nothing Less than Jesus' blood and righteousness"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 08:02 AM (wvo9L)

359 Fen is NOT on that bandwagon.
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I know; I didn't like Dave asking you about a matter of faith in the same comment about how good people fight the Left with the ballot-box as if you don't.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 08:02 AM (yikp0)

360 >> Disingenuousness Alert: "WHO Chief Scientist warns of rises in cardiovascular and neurological disorders due to COVID-19."
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Oh, they've figured out that blaming it on climate change isn't working, have they?

Let me know when the get around to wondering how a new variation of a long-time virus akin to the common cold somehow magically mutated into such a killer strain.

Or maybe they'll just skip forward to admitting it's a result of the vax while dodging blame because "Trump forced us to get it out too fast, and it saved millions of other lives so you really should be thanking us, science-deniers!"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2022 08:02 AM (I/doM)

361 {155} And no one cared to bring up that insane threat when mandating the Kill Shot?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 31, 2022 07:17 AM (3hSHB)

It was mentioned, multiple times. In response, the social media companies quashed posts, and suspended or outright banned accounts, while search engines still return "fact checks" on clips from Gates' Ted Talk from 2010, claiming that he's been taken out of context.

So, here's the link to that Ted Talk, queued up to 3 minutes, 56 seconds where he starts talking about how to reduce CO2 and presents a multiplier of 4 factors that he wants to reduce, the first of which is people: https://tinyurl.com/4zhhuucs

At 4 minutes 40 seconds, when speaking about the "people" part of his equation, he says, "Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent."

Out of context? Watch the whole talk, decide for yourself.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 31, 2022 08:03 AM (nRMeC)

362 Someone remind me again what caused the USSR to collapse.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 07:46 AM (iKxI+)

"Dallas" TV Show. When the average citizen saw episodes on smuggled VCR tapes in Mother Russia, they couldn't believe the clothes, cars and homes of the folks on the TV show. Commies were doomed after their folks had a glimpse of the truth.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 31, 2022 08:03 AM (kweYR)

363 They are determined to not blame the clot shot.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 31, 2022 07:57 AM (jwDzO)

I'm happy to blame both. COOF was an intentional bioattack engineered by the same people who delivered and mandated the so-called "cure".

Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 08:03 AM (Fe2bk)

364 Today's pravda is that an AR-15 bullet causes you to "literally explode".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

The AR-banners are going to love it when the preferred mass-shooting caliber is .308.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 31, 2022 08:03 AM (/V9dp)

365 A Utah man, who is also an employee of the FBI, has been arrested on suspicion of child sexual abuse. Robert Alexander Smith, 65, was arrested at his home in Stansbury Park and booked into the Tooele County Jail after an investigation by the county sheriff’s office that included interviews with up to five minor girls who said they were victims of Smith. “He was booked on four counts of aggravated sex abuse of a child without incident,” court documents state.

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 08:04 AM (RHGPo)

366 Electric ambulances for monkeypox casualties.

Posted by: Butto O'Rourke at August 31, 2022 08:04 AM (JKfKg)

367 249 The left will always have a floor because those idiots will vote like zombies no matter but nobody else is buying it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 08:01 AM (ZLI7S)

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We found the right's floor between 2006-2008. It seems to be about 30% of the country, maybe a bit lower. Hell, they were pushing through amnesty, and McCain still ended up with 60 million votes.

We won't really find the left's floor because places like Philly and Baltimore won't allow for an accurate measure, but we could see something close to it this year.

Joe Biden is not the president to reverse the standard trend of presidents losing seats in their first midterms.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 08:04 AM (LvTSG)

368 Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 31, 2022 08:01 AM (Zvtjl)

Good morning! I don't actually live in Warren or Sussex, but I did have churches in Warren and Hunterdon Counties.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 08:05 AM (wvo9L)

369 I don't own a cannon? That's weird.

Posted by: 2nd Amendment Mother at August 31, 2022 08:05 AM (V6j8C)

370 By the way Trump just put out a comment on Truth saying all of the documents he had at Mar A Lago had been declassified including the ones now showing up in the pictures the DOJ took.

That seems to be where the fight is centered.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 08:05 AM (ZLI7S)

371 The AR-banners are going to love it when the preferred mass-shooting caliber is .308.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 31, 2022 08:03 AM (/V9dp)

Army is moving to 6.8mm. AR-15 will eventually not even be "weapons of war".

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 08:05 AM (Y5qcH)

372 I know we have a few morons in MA - one of my MA coworkers asked for my opinion on the governors race apparently there are two candidates running on the R side to replace the current waste of flesh MA governor.

Deal and...someone whose name escapes me. Any of the MA morons have a favorite between the two?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2022 07:54 AM (ESjRY)

Geoff Diehl and Chris Doughty. Neither one has a Chinaman's chance, since Maura Healey has the vote locked up in this shithole state.

I'd vote for Diehl only because he's a MAGA man.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2022 08:05 AM (AW0uW)

373 312 Biden: “Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun?”

I thought it ripped a person's lung out or something.

Posted by: dantesed at August 31, 2022 07:55 AM (88xKn)

I thought that was 9mm bullets. I think the bullet from an AR-15 completely disintegrates human bodies. Joe needs to get his lies right day to day.

Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2022 08:05 AM (S6ZRI)

374 Tonight, Biden is going to admit to causing the sex addiction of his daughter, and ask for her forgiveness. He's also going to admit to corruption - a 40 year grift - and step down from office begging the forgiveness of the country.

Just kidding...he's going to call half the county fascists and nazis and green light violence for his base.

Posted by: MJ at August 31, 2022 08:06 AM (zwDuR)

375 Hey JJ Link for Mexican Passports:

Passports? We don need no steenkin passports! Vamanos!

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 31, 2022 08:06 AM (xJnZb)

376 At first I too thought that the speech was taken out of context, but then I ADDED context by noting that Gates palled around with known pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and spent the night at Epstein's mansion. It is arguable that the statement is taken out of context. Not arguable is that Epstein was a monster and Gates knowingly spent time with him. Let the naysayers defend Gates association with Epstein. Publicly.

Posted by: Dave in SC at August 31, 2022 08:06 AM (5r4XQ)

377 He's going to Executive Order ban weapons. Maybe in October.

Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 08:06 AM (Fe2bk)

378 Mike Tyson Says Getting Older Has Made Him More Conservative: “It’s Common Sense”

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Mike Tyson > Big Mike

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 31, 2022 08:06 AM (FVME7)

379 Window is closing...

Go To Your Local Supermarket And Stock Up Now Because The Time To Get Prepared Is Almost Over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_3dIOxsUx0

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 31, 2022 08:06 AM (jwDzO)

380 BabylonBee: Trump Parts Hudson River Leading Exodus Of New York Republicans To Florida

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 08:07 AM (RHGPo)

381 Biden: “Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun?”

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"It'll rip your lungs out, Jim!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at August 31, 2022 08:07 AM (QbCrG)

382 Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 08:02 AM (yikp0)

O.k. Thanks; I missed that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 08:07 AM (wvo9L)

383 377 He's going to Executive Order ban weapons. Maybe in October.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 08:06 AM (Fe2bk)

Quite possibly. He thinks he can do anything, and he has very little reason to think he can't.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2022 08:07 AM (H8QX8)

384 Is that picture from that Star Wars episode?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2022 08:07 AM (HJDAV)

385 Note about polls being wrong - Dave in Fla and, I humbly note, myself, have been saying all year that Walker is comfortably ahead of Warnock in the Georgia Senate race, and that every poll that says different is just left wing agitprop. (and it's actually Bill Kristol and his gang of misfits who've been running more anti-Walker propaganda than anyone else)

Well, now the polls are coming around and starting to say "hey, Walker is starting to move ahead!" Well, bullshit. Walker has always been in the lead, and now it's so obvious that the poll runners are realizing "hey we better change the narrative or this one is really gonna make us look bad."

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 08:07 AM (r46W7)

386 Like helping buy those expensive F-15s.
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The government should at least cover fuel costs.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 08:07 AM (yikp0)

387 374 Tonight, Biden is going to admit to causing the sex addiction of his daughter, and ask for her forgiveness. He's also going to admit to corruption - a 40 year grift - and step down from office begging the forgiveness of the country.

Just kidding...he's going to call half the county fascists and nazis and green light violence for his base.
Posted by: MJ at August 31, 2022 08:06 AM (zwDuR)

He totally will...and then some staff member will lead him back to his room, thanking the one above that it's Wednesday, not Thursday, and no one saw that demented rant...

Posted by: Nova local at August 31, 2022 08:08 AM (exHjb)

388 "How In The Name Of God": Shocked Europeans Post Astronomical Energy Bills As 'Terrifying Winter' Approaches

https://tinyurl.com/ycx4xb99

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

389 Just kidding...he's going to call half the county fascists and nazis and green light violence for his base.
Posted by: MJ
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His base will have to travel a ways to my AO.

I assure you my neighbors will put up with no malarkey.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 31, 2022 08:08 AM (jwDzO)

390 The hardline commies realized they would never win a direct confrontation with the west militarily, so they decided to "break up" the Soviet Union and become friendly with the west all while continuing the communist march through the western institutions. Communism didn't collapse, it just found another way to get what it wanted.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:09 AM (Wrs74)

391 Trump FBI raid: Ex-NJ Gov. Whitman, other former prosecutors call request for special master a 'waste of time'

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 08:09 AM (RHGPo)

392 385 Well, now the polls are coming around and starting to say "hey, Walker is starting to move ahead!" Well, bullshit. Walker has always been in the lead, and now it's so obvious that the poll runners are realizing "hey we better change the narrative or this one is really gonna make us look bad."
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 08:07 AM (r46W7)

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It's narrative building? The trendline in bullshit polls don't mean anything because they intentionally screw things up early and then change the way they do things to try and reflect reality close to an election?

Weird.

I'm sure the polls in June of 2024 will be accurate, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 08:09 AM (LvTSG)

393 If Biden wants to treat Republicans like the Taliban, as the Demofascists often say, does that mean red states like Texas and Florida are going to get those F15's that Meat Puppet was going on about? Because I would be cool with that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 08:09 AM (yvk+0)

394 "hey we better change the narrative or this one is really gonna make us look bad."
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 08:07 AM (r46W7)

I'm not even sure they care if they look bad anymore. People have short memories. There's still a lot of people that think 538 can do no wrong.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 08:09 AM (Y5qcH)

395 Mitch the Bitch has got to go. That needs to be priority numero uno.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 31, 2022 08:10 AM (QSjkU)

396 The Republicans should ask Trump to provide the GOP rebuttal.

Ha, ha, ha.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 31, 2022 08:10 AM (H8QX8)

397 "How In The Name Of God": Shocked Europeans Post Astronomical Energy Bills As 'Terrifying Winter' Approaches

https://tinyurl.com/ycx4xb99
Posted by: redridinghood
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It's going to be catastrophic.
Just as intended.

There are many, many videos online of people losing their minds.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 31, 2022 08:10 AM (jwDzO)

398 OK, folks, I've got overdue training vids to wade through (including garbage on 'diversity' and 'sexual harrassment'), so I am out.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 31, 2022 08:10 AM (AW0uW)

399 384 Is that picture from that Star Wars episode?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2022 08:07 AM (HJDAV)

STAR WARS episode! INFIDEL DEFILER!!! Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe!!!

p.s. for many years my wife wondered why Conan was sentenced to hang on the Tree of Wool.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 08:10 AM (r46W7)

400 I am not predicting it as such but I feel PA, AZ and GA are all so hopelessly corrupt they can steal any race they want.

Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 08:10 AM (Fe2bk)

401 Just kidding...he's going to call half the county fascists and nazis and green light violence for his base.
Posted by: MJ at August 31, 2022 08:06 AM (zwDuR)
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and since they already burned own urban cores, I expect the violence to come will be focused on suburbs.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 08:11 AM (yvk+0)

402 Just kidding...he's going to call half the county fascists and nazis and green light violence for his base.

Posted by: MJ at August 31, 2022 08:06 AM (zwDuR)

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$1,000 bounties for each "semi-fascist" scalp. $1,000,000 if they currently sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Best part? Tax-free ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at August 31, 2022 08:11 AM (QbCrG)

403 Joe Biden, the most dangerous man in America.

Posted by: runner at August 31, 2022 08:11 AM (9jT0b)

404 Coof: China is the last country trying to maintain zero Covid.

What do they know that we don’t?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 31, 2022 08:12 AM (/V9dp)

405 After the GOP takes the house and senate, FJB is going to sign an executive order granting himself and anyone he assigns complete control and authority over the governments federal and state. The GOP will respond with a strongly worded letter, then complain that there is nothing they can do because they no longer have any power to act due to the executive order.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:12 AM (Wrs74)

406 It's going to be catastrophic.
Just as intended.

There are many, many videos online of people losing their minds.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 31, 2022 08:10 AM (jwDzO)

On the other hand, it's always nice to see people get what they voted for.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 08:12 AM (r46W7)

407 What do they know that we don’t?

Its a good way to eliminate dissidents

Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2022 08:12 AM (ESjRY)

408 395 Mitch the Bitch has got to go. That needs to be priority numero uno.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 31, 2022 08:10 AM (QSjkU)

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So, he's not up for re-election until 2026, so KY can't do much about it until then.

Regarding his leadership position in the Senate, the vote is different from the Speakership vote in the House. He doesn't need a majority of Senators in the Senate to win the majority leader position, he just needs a majority of GOP senators.

Assume a 54-46 Senate, he needs 28 GOP senators to vote for him (in a secret ballot, most likely, that we'll never know the exacts on). He's been funding Senators for a decade as leader. What are the chances he loses that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 08:12 AM (LvTSG)

409 If Biden wants to treat Republicans like the Taliban, as the Demofascists often say, does that mean red states like Texas and Florida are going to get those F15's that Meat Puppet was going on about? Because I would be cool with that.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Can we haz $80 billion in small arms & ammo?
--Thxkbye

Posted by: rickb223 Cruel ace is the best ace at August 31, 2022 08:13 AM (xJnZb)

410 >>At 4 minutes 40 seconds, when speaking about the "people" part of his equation, he says, "Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent."

There was a PBS interview of Gates years ago where he mentioned how his father was a trustee of Planned Parenthood and they would talk about overpopulation at dinner when he was growing up. Apparently, this has always been a concern of his.
Ghoul.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2022 08:13 AM (I/doM)

411 I got my electric rate locked in for 4 years. Let's see how that pans out.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:13 AM (Wrs74)

412 CNBC: "Should the nuclear deal be revived, 1-2 million barrels per day of extra oil could hit the market in a comparatively short period of time," one commodities analyst told CNBC.

.. now I understand why the Democrats are so eager to sign a deal - Gasoline price cut just in time for Mid-Term elections

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 08:13 AM (RHGPo)

413 404 Coof: China is the last country trying to maintain zero Covid.

What do they know that we don’t?
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 31, 2022 08:12 AM (/V9dp)

That they have fewer qualms about using covid as a pretext to eliminate any dissidents?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 31, 2022 08:14 AM (HJDAV)

414 Who was the Senate GOP leader before Mitch?

Posted by: grammie winger at August 31, 2022 08:14 AM (45fpk)

415 People live in downtown manhattan and think the entire planet is like that.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:14 AM (Wrs74)

416 404 Coof: China is the last country trying to maintain zero Covid.

What do they know that we don’t?
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 31, 2022 08:12 AM (/V9dp)

They're trying to maintain zero DISSENT from the people and Xi's rivals.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2022 08:14 AM (x0n13)

417 "How In The Name Of God": Shocked Europeans Post Astronomical Energy Bills As 'Terrifying Winter' Approaches

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Ahh. Sweet, sweet Schadenfreude.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 31, 2022 08:14 AM (FVME7)

418 414 Who was the Senate GOP leader before Mitch?
Posted by: grammie winger at August 31, 2022 08:14 AM (45fpk)

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Bill Frist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 08:14 AM (LvTSG)

419 O.k. Thanks; I missed that.
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That's okay.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 08:14 AM (yikp0)

420 Red Team, set your AR's to stun. We don't want to accidentally vaporize any inquisitive life forms on this planet.

Posted by: Captain Kirk at August 31, 2022 08:14 AM (4I/2K)

421 I got an email yesterday from a corporate "Affirmative Action & Immigration Specialist" probably by mistake because I have nothing to do with what he's talking about.

But I noticed he sent the e-mail to himself and bcc'd everyone else. Who does that shit?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 08:14 AM (UuD2k)

422 I live on 70 acres. I wonder how many are crammed into 70 acres of manhattan?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:15 AM (Wrs74)

423 and since they already burned own urban cores, I expect the violence to come will be focused on suburbs.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 08:11 AM (yvk+0)

I sure as hell hope so. Bring those fukkin commies to my area. Make them armed and mean business and intent on subjugation. To appropriate a line from Sin City; I love commie thugs, no matter what you do to them you don't feel bad.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 31, 2022 08:15 AM (QSjkU)

424 Thank you to Professor Jacobson and LegalInsurrection for following the Gibson/Oberlin battle so assiduously.

Great job of actual journalism.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 08:15 AM (yvk+0)

425 #373 9mm blows your lungs clean out, Gref!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 08:15 AM (yikp0)

426 400 I am not predicting it as such but I feel PA, AZ and GA are all so hopelessly corrupt they can steal any race they want.
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 08:10 AM (Fe2bk)

Pa is still questionable; but look at AZ, and the fact that the attempted steal from Kari Lake failed. Georgia also appears to have cleaned up, even though Kemp and Trump still aren't really on speaking terms.

It's not talked about much (probably because the MSM ignores it) but the school voucher plan recently enacted in Az is arguably the most serious conservative reform policy enacted on the State level anywhere in this country.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 08:15 AM (r46W7)

427 421 But I noticed he sent the e-mail to himself and bcc'd everyone else. Who does that shit?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 08:14 AM (UuD2k)

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People who know what happens when recipients on large emails start hitting the "Reply All" button.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 08:15 AM (LvTSG)

428 Bill Frist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 08:14 AM (LvTSG)

Thanks.

Posted by: grammie winger at August 31, 2022 08:15 AM (45fpk)

429 >>If Biden wants to treat Republicans like the Taliban, as the Demofascists often say, does that mean red states like Texas and Florida are going to get those F15's that Meat Puppet was going on about? Because I would be cool with that.

He doesn't have to do that when he's got 87k new IRS agents to harass them, ATF to take their guns, and all his cooperative big tech and finance giants to help deplatform/cancel all of his designated "enemies of Our Democracy(tm)!"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2022 08:15 AM (I/doM)

430 Frist. There was another one.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:15 AM (Wrs74)

431 430 Frist. There was another one.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:15 AM (Wrs74)

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But replacing McConnell will fix everything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 08:16 AM (LvTSG)

432 Hoping to avoid blackouts, the California Independent System Operator, which manages the state’s power grid, warned Tuesday that it probably will issue a series of Flex Alerts over the next several days. Flex Alerts are voluntary calls for conservation during the afternoon and evening hours, when energy use tends to soar. Residents will be asked to turn up their thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, avoid using dishwashers or other large appliances, and hold off on charging their electric vehicles, all during the 4-9 p.m. time frame.

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 08:16 AM (RHGPo)

433 Who was the last GOOD GOP majority leader?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:16 AM (Wrs74)

434 At CNN, news you can use:
"Machine guns wreak havoc across the US"

If you ever get a chance to go to the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot, grab it. That was the most fun I ever had for $15 admission. The vendor show is awesome.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at August 31, 2022 08:16 AM (qpX6U)

435 "How In The Name Of God": Shocked Europeans Post Astronomical Energy Bills As 'Terrifying Winter' Approaches
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Under my plan, electricity bills will necessarily skyrocket.

Posted by: President For Life, Barack I at August 31, 2022 08:17 AM (yvk+0)

436 U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins is the target of an investigation about whether she violated the Hatch Act after attending a DNC fundraiser with First Lady Jill Biden in Andover, while the DOJ on Tuesday announced new restrictions on political activities.

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel has launched the investigation into Rollins, according to a report from Reuters.

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 08:17 AM (RHGPo)

437 There are many, many videos online of people losing their minds.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming

Musicians ?

Posted by: JT at August 31, 2022 08:17 AM (T4tVD)

438 Bret Weinstein is a nice person, and smart on certain things, but he is terminally naive about things that wrecked his life.

His "unity party" 2020 is a desire to placate the insatiable and reward the thuggish. And not "knowing what time it is" as Reiboi says has become a quality of half of the "IDW".

Scare quotes on "IDW" because it was a NYT term put on people they want to capture.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 31, 2022 08:17 AM (44ww/)

439
But I noticed he sent the e-mail to himself and bcc'd everyone else. Who does that shit?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 08:14 AM (UuD2k)

having seen that before, I think he's trying to head off the clueless "REPLY ALL" recipients at the pass. The ones who REPLY ALL to any letter that says "Please do NOT "Reply All" to this letter!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 08:17 AM (r46W7)

440 Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 08:15 AM (r46W7)

I hope you're right, man.

Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 08:18 AM (9iae5)

441 426 400 I am not predicting it as such but I feel PA, AZ and GA are all so hopelessly corrupt they can steal any race they want.
Posted by: ...

PA just changed their voter registration forms to include a mail in ballot request. In the middle of an election. I am sure there is no bullshit there.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:18 AM (Wrs74)

442 Canada’s Liberals to Spend $100 Million on Action Plan for “2SLGHTQIA+” (And the Other Letters) Community

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"2SLGHTQIA+"? NNTAWWT.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 31, 2022 08:18 AM (FVME7)

443 Say what happened to the Forward Party? Wasn't that supposed to be a thing?

Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 08:18 AM (9iae5)

444 “For the first time in our poll, a majority (51%) of Virginians have a favorable view of Governor Youngkin, while 37% continue to have an unfavorable view. Again, that increase comes mostly from Republican feelings, but his rating is up slightly among Democrats and independents as well,” read the survey analysis.

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 08:19 AM (RHGPo)

445 414- Trent Lott, of MS, I believe

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 31, 2022 08:19 AM (MSc9D)

446 Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec

Documents so secret the DOJ threw them across the floor, took a picture, and posted it on Twitter dot com

Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2022 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

447 Biden: “Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun?”
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A tweet reply to that nonsense showed eight or so faster common calibres with their fps listed.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 08:20 AM (yikp0)

448 Window is closing...

Go To Your Local Supermarket And Stock Up Now Because The Time To Get Prepared Is Almost Over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_3dIOxsUx0
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 31, 2022 08:06 AM (jwDzO)

Yup. Watched that earlier. Gotta do the best I can in the next 2 weeks. Kroger "Low Price" stickers all show a 9/13 end date.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 08:20 AM (4I/2K)

449 >>Documents so secret the DOJ threw them across the floor, took a picture, and posted it on Twitter dot com

Because the DOJ knows they have been declassified. They are trying to fool people with the markings which are meaningless.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 08:21 AM (ZLI7S)

450 I think the idea is that the voter registration and mail in ballot requests are handled by different parts of the county election office. So you fill out and send in 1 form. The registration person does their part and sends the form over to the mail in section. The mail in person dutifully sends out a ballot whether your registration was valid or not.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:21 AM (Wrs74)

451 EU is shocked and winter is still months away.
Then what?

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2022 08:21 AM (4h9M3)

452 433 Who was the last GOOD GOP majority leader?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:16 AM (Wrs74)

Robert A. Taft?

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 08:21 AM (r46W7)

453 First must not have lasted long, I forgot him. Trent was forced out for saying nice things about Strom Thurmond (a former dem and klansman) on his 100th birthday, if I remember correctly.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 31, 2022 08:21 AM (MSc9D)

454 “Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun?”

You can slow it down a bit by sawing the barrel shorter. But he'd bitch about that too.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at August 31, 2022 08:21 AM (qpX6U)

455 Documents so secret the DOJ threw them across the floor, took a picture, and posted it on Twitter dot com
Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2022 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

Also, I've never heard of Secret/SCI before. I guess it could exist, but everything SCI I encountered was TS.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 08:21 AM (UuD2k)

456 451 EU is shocked and winter is still months away.
Then what?
Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2022 08:21 AM (4h9M3)

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Stay warm this winter.

Burn your local EU member of parliament.

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

457 453 First must not have lasted long, I forgot him. Trent was forced out for saying nice things about Strom Thurmond (a former dem and klansman) on his 100th birthday, if I remember correctly.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 31, 2022 08:21 AM (MSc9D)

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Up to and including saying that America would have been better off had the Dixiecrats won the presidency at one point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 08:23 AM (LvTSG)

458 By nationalizing the student lending industry, which previously had federal guarantees for private banks, Obamacare would raise $58 billion in revenue over a decade.

Some Democrats promised even more. “Part of the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010 will make key changes to the student loan industry,” Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) said. “This measure will save taxpayers nearly $70 billion over 10 years.”

.. so Biden just gave away a chunk of ObamaCare revenue

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 08:23 AM (RHGPo)

459 >>U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins is the target of an investigation about whether she violated the Hatch Act after attending a DNC fundraiser with First Lady Jill Biden in Andover, while the DOJ on Tuesday announced new restrictions on political activities.

Ah, Rachel "topknot" Rollins, what a peach!

I guess she'll have to find a way to threaten to prosecute whoever is reporting on this Hatch Act violation like she did the reporter who dared approach her outside her home a while back, or the dude she prosecuted for heckling her during a speech. Wanna know what a real fascist looks like? Rachel Rollins.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2022 08:23 AM (I/doM)

460 “Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun?”

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Subsonic ammo - it has more low range bass

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 31, 2022 08:23 AM (OgrpQ)

461 I think SCI requires access only in a designated SCIF or Hillary's bathroom

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 31, 2022 08:23 AM (MSc9D)

462
Yelling should also be on the bingo card.
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I'm laying my money down on 'whispering' threats.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 31, 2022 08:23 AM (MIKMs)

463 Fetterman saying he can't string a sentence together or understand complicated questions due to his stroke, and that's why he refuses to debate Oz, doesn't seem like he picked a winning strategy.

Also, he is running the most dishonest ads I've ever seen. They depict him talking clearly, when he himself says he cannot. Shouldn't big tech be censoring those ads as "disinformation"?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 08:23 AM (yvk+0)

464 The reasonable moderate we can work with, as the NeverTrump promised.

But, none of his speeches are distinguished in any way from the most radical fringe of the left.

But the best part? Commies always eliminate their useful stooges first. You hear that McCarthy, McConnell, NeverTrump-- we'll be fine-- you in office personally offend them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2022 08:23 AM (Zf0+a)

465 MacInnes: so his numbers are down or he has a book coming out? As pranks go, it was the stupidest

Good morning, all. Thanks for the linkapalooza, JJ.

Posted by: Flyover at August 31, 2022 08:24 AM (Rbu5d)

466 Because the DOJ knows they have been declassified. They are trying to fool people with the markings which are meaningless.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 08:21 AM (ZLI7S)

They had a copy guy who ran off 50 copies of that Top SeKrIT page so they could stage that picture.

Bongino actually made a good point on F&F this morning - a presidential travel/parade route is top secret before it happens (for example). After 100,000 people have seen it, it's no longer classified even if the stupid cover page is still attached to it. That photo was about as meaningful as the fake docs-in-the-toilet photo.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 08:24 AM (r46W7)

467 >>Also, I've never heard of Secret/SCI before. I guess it could exist, but everything SCI I encountered was TS.

Special Compartmentalized Information = sources and methods.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 08:24 AM (ZLI7S)

468 Taft? Taft was fat. Although, by todays standards he was probably normal.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:24 AM (Wrs74)

469 EU is shocked and winter is still months away.
Then what?
Posted by: Ziba

She, fan, some assembly required.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 31, 2022 08:24 AM (FVME7)

470 To go with USS Texas move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oJSRAFkJIs

Posted by: citizen khan at August 31, 2022 08:24 AM (ZWvKr)

471 465 MacInnes: so his numbers are down or he has a book coming out? As pranks go, it was the stupidest

Good morning, all. Thanks for the linkapalooza, JJ.
Posted by: Flyover at August 31, 2022 08:24 AM (Rbu5d)

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I'll always remember when his arrest was the sign of our times that free speech was dead in America.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 08:24 AM (LvTSG)

472 Here's to CA going completely dark so the rest of the country can finally grasp what's coming for them.

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2022 08:24 AM (4h9M3)

473 Also, he is running the most dishonest ads I've ever seen. They depict him talking clearly, when he himself says he cannot. Shouldn't big tech be censoring those ads as "disinformation"?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 08:23 AM (yvk+0)

It's up to Oz and his campaign to bring attention on that. If he can't or won't do it, then he doesn't deserve to win. Simple as that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 08:25 AM (r46W7)

474 Deal and...someone whose name escapes me. Any of the MA morons have a favorite between the two?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 31, 2022 07:54 AM (ESjRY)

you have to be a sooper dooper RINO to win in MA

and then you are justa figurehead cuz your veto don't mean squat

maybe Baker can move to U and become a senator

Posted by: REDACTED at August 31, 2022 08:25 AM (us2H3)

475 Fetterman saying he can't string a sentence together or understand complicated questions due to his stroke, and that's why he refuses to debate Oz, doesn't seem like he picked a winning strategy.

But make me your senator! Pity vote! I am disabled!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:25 AM (Wrs74)

476 UT

Posted by: REDACTED at August 31, 2022 08:25 AM (us2H3)

477 Army is moving to 6.8mm. AR-15 will eventually not even be "weapons of war".
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
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How close is that to ordinary 6.8 Remington SPC does anyone know?

Although it looks like competitors are looking at some type of fancy casing as for General Dynamics here:
https://tinyurl.com/4ehjhafb

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 08:25 AM (yikp0)

478 468 Taft? Taft was fat. Although, by todays standards he was probably normal.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:24 AM (Wrs74)

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Robert didn't look that fat. I bet he could have fit in the WH bathtub, unlike his daddy.

(No more dynasties!)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 31, 2022 08:25 AM (LvTSG)

479 Taft? Taft was fat. Although, by todays standards he was probably normal.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Svelte, even.

Posted by: JT at August 31, 2022 08:26 AM (T4tVD)

480 Shouldn't big tech be censoring those ads as "disinformation"?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 31, 2022 08:23 AM (yvk+0)

You know better than that.

Posted by: BignJames at August 31, 2022 08:26 AM (AwYPR)

481 {411} I got my electric rate locked in for 4 years. Let's see how that pans out.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 08:13 AM (Wrs74)

They'll probably invoke the exit clause in their existing contractual agreement with you, justified by some fine print their lawyers ensured was in there to legally cover their arses against this eventuality. At the same time, they'll invite you to sign up again with them under a new adhesion contract that offers no lock-in period, so that your "continuity of service" is maintained, and they'll word all this in such a way as to act as if they care about you.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 31, 2022 08:26 AM (nRMeC)

482 Fetterman is proving that you could literally be Hitler and win as a dim

Posted by: REDACTED at August 31, 2022 08:26 AM (us2H3)

483 Even Superman isn't faster than a speeding AR-15 bullet.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 31, 2022 08:27 AM (FVME7)

484 470 To go with USS Texas move
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oJSRAFkJIs
Posted by: citizen khan at August 31, 2022 08:24 AM (ZWvKr)

heh, good one. I'm amazed the hull hasn't rusted through, it's been sitting at the pier for so many years. (I toured it once, fascinating to see)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 08:27 AM (r46W7)

485 In remembrance of El Rushbo, prepare for the media “Gorbasms” in the coming days…

Posted by: Rex B at August 31, 2022 08:27 AM (Cxf2D)

486 Fetterman looks like he broke out of Chunk's house and left Astoria.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 31, 2022 08:27 AM (OgrpQ)

487 >>Fetterman saying he can't string a sentence together or understand complicated questions due to his stroke, and that's why he refuses to debate Oz, doesn't seem like he picked a winning strategy.

Unfrozen Caveman Senate candidate?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2022 08:28 AM (I/doM)

488 That 6.8 will be a flop for the Army. The new pussy/trans army can't handle the awesome recoil of the .223 now.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 31, 2022 08:28 AM (QSjkU)

489 6.8 spc- very close- designed either army- I think intent is +600 yard energy retention to maintain lethality. Apparently our boys can hit the targets at 600 yards with the 5.56, but it's not lethal st yhat range.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 31, 2022 08:28 AM (MSc9D)

490 Fetterman saying he can't string a sentence together or understand complicated questions due to his stroke, and that's why he refuses to debate Oz, doesn't seem like he picked a winning strategy

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Worked for Biden.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 31, 2022 08:28 AM (FVME7)

491 Biden is not getting his shit together. They are flailing for anything that will stem the bleeding. Probably hoping they can make politics so poisonous that people stay home.

If they were getting their shit together they would be making progress on the top voter issue.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 31, 2022 08:29 AM (HXXBa)

492 Or so I remember from an American Hunter mag a few years ago- check with Weasel

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 31, 2022 08:29 AM (MSc9D)

493 Special Compartmentalized Information = sources and methods.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 08:24 AM (ZLI7S)

It really just means access is on a need to know basis. You may have a Top Secret clearance, but if you don't need to know that particular information, it's still illegal for you to access Top Secret information on it.

It is typically designated with a code word and you have to undergo additional background checks and approval depending on the program.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 08:30 AM (UuD2k)

494 She, fan, some assembly required.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

Damn autocucumber ruined my joke!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 31, 2022 08:30 AM (FVME7)

495 Art is up

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 08:30 AM (4I/2K)

496 Secret SCI is very common.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 31, 2022 08:31 AM (HXXBa)

497 This time, cleverly, the donks are framing this as a preemptive strike against neo nazis. Trump, cast in the hitler role, and the white Christian nationalists as the goose steppers. I know plenty of people who believe any assault on maga is " never again"

Posted by: CN at August 31, 2022 08:31 AM (Zzbjj)

498 Monkees' frontman Micky Dolenz files a lawsuit against the FBI

The FBI bureau in Los Angeles investigated the men, Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones and Peter Tork, writing, "subliminal messages were depicted on the screen which, in the opinion of [redacted] constituted 'left wing innovations of a political nature.' These messages and pictures were flashes of riots in Berkeley, anti-US messages on the war in Vietnam, racial riots in Selma, Alabama, and similar messages which had received unfavorable response from the audience."

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 08:31 AM (RHGPo)

499 >>It really just means access is on a need to know basis. You may have a Top Secret clearance, but if you don't need to know that particular information, it's still illegal for you to access Top Secret information on it.

Which is exactly the kind of docs they found on Hillary's email server (and some of Blumenthal's emails).

Posted by: Lizzy at August 31, 2022 08:31 AM (I/doM)

500 Apparently our boys can hit the targets at 600 yards with the 5.56, but it's not lethal st yhat range.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 31, 2022 08:28 AM (MSc9D)
That rather depends on shot placement. A .22 rim fire is a short range cartridge, but it will pass right through your noggin at 100 meters. And in fact, my pellet gun will kill you at 10 meters if it hits center mass and misses bone.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 31, 2022 08:32 AM (QSjkU)

501 404 Coof: China is the last country trying to maintain zero Covid.

What do they know that we don’t?

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This is occurred to me as well. The usual explanation is that it's an excuse to increase control by Xi, but I don't discount that the virus could have much more serious future complications than we have been told.

Posted by: Dave in SC at August 31, 2022 08:32 AM (5r4XQ)

502 I think the current approved phrase is "white nationalist Christo-fascist" which is weird, because they usually seem to worship the Norse gods.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 31, 2022 08:33 AM (MSc9D)

503 >>It really just means access is on a need to know basis. You may have a Top Secret clearance, but if you don't need to know that particular information, it's still illegal for you to access Top Secret information on it.

For the purposes of this idiotic raid I think it means these are the people who were spying on Trump and these are the methods they used.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 08:34 AM (ZLI7S)

504 California Gov. Newsom Donates $100K to DeSantis Opponent Crist

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 08:34 AM (RHGPo)

505 502. Well Americans don't, so Christians it is. It's been pretty successful

Posted by: CN at August 31, 2022 08:35 AM (Zzbjj)

506 California Gov. Newsom Donates $100K to DeSantis Opponent Crist

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 08:34 AM (RHGPo)

Didn't his in laws donate to DeSantis? Maybe I miss read the headline.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 31, 2022 09:35 AM (OgrpQ)

507 496 Secret SCI is very common.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 31, 2022 08:31 AM (HXXBa)

I never saw any, didn't really encounter Secret that often. We had tons of Confidential and then the odd TS thing once in a while. But that might just be the nature of submarines. No idea what the DC nonsense factories have. I do know they leaked like sieves.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 09:35 AM (UuD2k)

508 Didn't his in laws donate to DeSantis? Maybe I miss read the headline.
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Me too.

Newsom probably made an offsetting donation.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 31, 2022 09:36 AM (yikp0)

509 404 Coof: China is the last country trying to maintain zero Covid.

What do they know that we don’t?

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This is Xi trying to prove he is in control.
All he did was delay the affects as they are still doing lock-downs that affect their exports.
It seems to be a distraction from the real estate market collapse.

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

510 >>Secret SCI is very common.

And that's a big part of the problem. It's way too common.

The intel community has been using over classification as a weapon to hide the truth from us for years.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 09:38 AM (ZLI7S)

511 482 Fetterman is proving that you could literally be Hitler and win as a dim

.. it appears to me that he is trying to repeat Joe Biden's 2020 strategy

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 09:39 AM (RHGPo)

512 #199 "...Biden just vomited it out of his mouth with no process in place and no consultation with anybody on how any of this will work."

Oh. Just like his Afghanistan debacle.

Posted by: A Grateful American MAGA at August 31, 2022 09:39 AM (uhWoa)

513 In remembrance of El Rushbo, prepare for the media “Gorbasms” in the coming days…
Posted by: Rex B
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Since I don't pay them any mind, no need to prepare.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 31, 2022 09:40 AM (W2XmH)

514 Citizens for Sanity billboards as seen on Tucker last night. An idea whose time has come. Would like to see these everywhere.

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2022 09:40 AM (4h9M3)

515 Quick litmus test for every politician: what do you love about America? And the answer can't be something that it might someday become.

Posted by: Zek at August 31, 2022 09:41 AM (OzNIz)

516 512. The Afghanistan debacle was planned and a weapons gift to islamists from Kalorama. Similar situation brewing in Iraq

Posted by: CN at August 31, 2022 09:42 AM (Zzbjj)

517 The intel community has been using over classification as a weapon to hide the truth from us for years.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 09:38 AM (ZLI7S)

We once had to wait for some flunky from Squadron to debrief us before we could leave the boat because of something we had been involved in. We had been at sea for 3 months straight.

He basically told us we'd be prosecuted if we talked about anything. After all that, I got to my hotel room and turned on CNN and saw a bunch of that information that I'd go to jail over being broadcast internationally. They screwed up a lot too, but a good bit was there.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 09:43 AM (UuD2k)

518 While speaking in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday President Biden said, “The bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun.”

Ironically, on June 30, 2022, Field & Stream did an in-depth look at the “Five Fastest Rifle Cartridges” and the two AR-15 rounds, .223 and 5.56, did not even make the cut.

..

The .22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer

If you’re looking for extreme, here’s your huckleberry. The .22 EL was the brainchild of gunsmith and wildcatter P.O. Ackley, who built it in the early 1960s with the express purpose of breaking the 5,000 fps mark. It was the apocalyptic .378 Weatherby Magnum necked down to .224 with, as nearly as I can tell, no other changes.

.. standard AR-15 bullet travels at 3,251 feet per second

Posted by: SMOD at August 31, 2022 09:43 AM (RHGPo)

519 I like Gorby's splotch on Joey's head in the pic...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 31, 2022 09:45 AM (ynpvh)

520 >>He basically told us we'd be prosecuted if we talked about anything. After all that, I got to my hotel room and turned on CNN and saw a bunch of that information that I'd go to jail over being broadcast internationally. They screwed up a lot too, but a good bit was there.

Of course.

And then there are issues like the Hunter laptop and some of the Russia collusion documents that were classified in such a way they were never meant to be opened again. They aren't doing that kind of thing to protect us, they are doing it to protect themselves.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 09:47 AM (ZLI7S)

521 {518} While speaking in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday President Biden said, "The bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun."

So Joe's just making shit up and telling lies again to support whatever narrative his handlers are pushing. Got it.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 31, 2022 09:50 AM (nRMeC)

522 President Biden's approval is also rising quite nicely, now that he's being more forceful.

Posted by: Sid at August 31, 2022 09:51 AM (OsXnJ)

523 519

Remember those Gorby birthmark stickers that came out during Glasnost comes to America?

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2022 09:51 AM (4h9M3)

524 It's become obvious that there are more communists in the USA than the former USSR.

Posted by: Leber at August 31, 2022 09:57 AM (TUdnY)

525 "and who presided over the end of the Third Reich, has died at 56"

patriotic war veteran

Posted by: Brett at August 31, 2022 10:07 AM (2ndRB)

526 Good morning! I don't actually live in Warren or Sussex, but I did have churches in Warren and Hunterdon Counties.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 08:05 AM (wvo9L)

I live one town over from you. I pass 5 Guys on Rt (insert number here) right around the corner from the site where you held the Moron Meet-up. (Trying not to give out our Sooper Seekret Location).

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 31, 2022 10:16 AM (Zvtjl)

527 Special Compartmentalized Information = sources and methods.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 08:24 AM (ZLI7S)

Sources and methods would make it TS/SCI. At least it was back when I was a 98C at Meade, anyway.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)) at August 31, 2022 10:28 AM (l7Kbv)

528 Even worse, they had a f**king CAMERA around classified?! Now there is a major violation.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)) at August 31, 2022 10:33 AM (l7Kbv)

529 "...die-off in US and around the world..."

Bill Gates and Bill Ayers (among others) said there's "too many people on the planet" and something needed to be done.

The mRNA experimental gene therapy injections advocated by our leaders, using gifts: donuts, lottery tickets, $100 cash cards, threats and mandates conveniently helped the process along.

https://tinyurl.com/2mhk8nwn

Posted by: Ju at August 31, 2022 10:40 AM (aTmM/)

530 Re: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Cold War: read Bukovsky's "Judgement in Moscow." He was a good little commie and had no intention of ending anything. The Central Committee's own documents show that.

Posted by: Patrick74 at August 31, 2022 10:57 AM (YWiVK)

531 I truly believe that the Dems have figured out that in the end, people aren't going to be willing to put themselves or their families in harms' way. We will just succumb to their wishes and gripe about it the whole way. There won't be any civil war because no one will fight. If we can watch people who gathered at the Capitol be subjected to solitary confinement, then what are we really prepared to do?

Posted by: Not Lily Tomlin at August 31, 2022 11:02 AM (QYuAC)

532 522 President Biden's approval is also rising quite nicely, now that he's being more forceful.
Posted by: Sid at August 31, 2022 09:51 AM (OsXnJ)

You know who also became super-popular when he rounded up his enemies and shipped them off "to the east?"

PS dummy: Biden is tanking big time. No Roe bounce, and no student loan bounce. He's bouncing along at the bottom with Val Jar and Susan Rice getting tangled in his marionette strings.

Hit the tip jar you cheapskate.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 31, 2022 11:03 AM (x0n13)

533 "I also think the real Nipsy Russell was a lot funnier.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

Hey retard I didn't tell you or anyone else to commit suicide. I was marveling at how you all read this nonstop doom and DON'T kill yourself. I then told you to get off your lazy asses and take some fricken action.

Posted by: NipsyRussel at August 31, 2022 01:13 PM (dMSus)

534
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