The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 9/13/22

Good morning kids. Tuesday and with only about seven weeks to go until the midterms, the fog of phony polls and the media disinformation psy-op to dispirit you is starting to lift and it certainly seems as if the Democrats are indeed going to be beaten. Whether they will be absolutely wiped out as was predicted months ago or lose one or even both chambers of Congress by a red nether hair's breadth is TBD. That said, do listen to Episode 2 of Season 2 of the podcast where our own Dave in FL gives you the rundown of what he expects will happen and why. It will be "interesting."

But, the one giant fly in the ointment as it were is going to be shenanigans at the polls as well as from Leftist controlled governments and courts that are even now doing whatever they can to sabotage whatever fig-leaf of a pretext of voter integrity laws that might exist, so as to "fortify" the results and preserve "our precious democracy" (*vomits*) from the greatest terrorist threat in history — the American people.

Case in point, from the junta itself that installed Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants in the Oval Office we have this:

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is concealing key documents related to [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s March 2021 order that directed executive agencies to develop plans for federal interference in state election administration.
On Sept. 8, the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) was scheduled to receive a series of government records from the DOJ that detailed how the agency is complying with Executive Order 14019. That order mandated all federal departments to “consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.” Among these included the DOJ’s 15-page “strategic plan” on how the agency intends to comply with Biden’s executive order.
Instead of releasing the documents FGA requested pursuant to federal open records laws, however, the Biden DOJ released only a few records pertaining to the order, most of which were heavily redacted. . .
. . . “The American people deserve to know if the Biden [junta's] unprecedented action is fair and non-partisan, or if it is designed to help one political party over the other,” said FGA President and CEO Tarren Bragdon in a statement. “Why are they ignoring public record requests for strategic plans on federal voter registration efforts? Why are they treating these documents like they are classified information dealing with nuclear weapons? Midterms are approaching, and the DOJ’s failure to disclose information raises troubling issues. They need to reveal these public documents to keep our elections fair.”

Over the years, we've all joked about things like "vote early and often," as well as the not funny at all observation of having to turn out in such numbers as to overcome the steal. It's not funny because it is a sad indicator of the fact that we know we have devolved into a banana republic and yet we're kind of resigned to that fact. Frankly, it disgusts me. That said, it's bad enough when corrupt districts can ballot dump at will and just get away with it. To the point that the ballot dumpers look upon what they do as just part of their job. How low we as a society have sunk.

And yet, we have people who state things like this:

. . . it is time we stop seeking reason from the progressive socialist left. So many articles, social media posts, and commentary have been published in the aftermath of Biden’s quite disturbing rant. However, the progressive socialist left fully believes it was a great speech. Never mind the ominous and eerie choice of color backdrop on Independence Hall, or the use of two US Marines standing in the background. Never mind the direct targeting of a portion of Americans and their demonization as fascists while declaring them a threat. Biden could have also directed comments towards groups like Antifa and BLM who have been responsible for some of the worst violence, destruction, and death in America.
Nope. . .
. . . The time has come when we must realize that we cannot reason with those who believe that their designed ideological ends justify any means they use.
The progressive socialists do not care that America has a drug, human, and sex trafficking issue–they want open borders. The leftists do not care that violent crime is out of control because of their bail reform agenda—they just blame Republicans. The leftists will starve our children of lunch if schools do not teach their gender dysphoria agenda–they don’t want to educate our children. . .
. . . Joe Biden crossed a Rubicon from which I do not know there is a reconciliation. Under the quite demonic aura presented on Thursday night he spoke not of unity, but of punishment for non-conformity. Hence why the federal government needs 87,000 new IRS agents who must be comfortable with being armed and the use of deadly force. . .
. . . Despots and dictators demonize their opposition to make their destruction more palatable. When you seek a discussion based upon truth, then again leftists do not believe in objective truths, and you’re only met with frothing screaming emotional invectives…there is no opportunity for reason.
There is no opportunity to seek compromise with those will not participate in good faith. They must be beaten at the polls. And then Republicans must have the guts to beat them back with public policy that promotes individual liberty.

That, gentle reader, is from none other than Lt. Col. Allen West. It is just striking to me that people like him can and do call it like it is, to one degree or another. And yet their only solution is "VOTE HARDER." How in God's name can you deal with people who won't act in good faith, and who control the election process, by casting ballots that they and they alone will count, or not, as the case may be? I suppose it's extremely difficult for most people to accept the reality of a situation when that reality is so utterly abhorrent and just a few short years ago, was the stuff of big screen political pot boilers. It Can't Happen Here, Seven Days in May, The Manchurian Candidate, and The Parallax View were supposed to be works of fictions, not documentaries. And yet, we have the intelligence and law enforcement communities eagerly working either directly with or with the tacit approval of politicians of both parties and corporatists to rig elections, arrest and prosecute/persecute political opponents and silence any and all opposition.

This is fact, not fiction. It can happen here because it did happen here and it's going on as we speak. Look, I'm not trying to dispirit you or, crazy as it sounds after my rant against Allen West, tell you not to vote. I think you have to vote, no matter what. But to believe that voting alone is going to change the trajectory of the nation when perhaps fully half the citizenry hate you and are being urged by the highest echelons of leadership to wipe you out because you are the moral equivalent of cancer, is ridiculous.

We are heading for an inflection point and a point of no return. That is unless we passed that point already, which I believe we did almost two years ago. Best thing to do is organize, stay active especially at the local school and community board level, and arm yourself to the teeth. That is, unless you plan on using a credit card.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"While the DOJ hides information about how the federal government is intervening in the upcoming election, guaranteeing that the results will be held in suspicion, Biden, his party, and their allies in the media are claiming that the midterm election is about defending 'democracy' from its opponents, and liken those who doubt election results to traitors and terrorists."
DOJ Refuses to Release Biden Junta Plan to Intervene in 2022 Election
Michael Anton: "America’s elites are neither bright, competent, nor qualified."
Elite, not Expert
Naomi Wolf: "Objects from a vanished world reveal rotten institutions."
Opening Boxes from 2019

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

"Funny how the authorities haven't caught the bomber yet. Some of the details may explain why."
January 6 Pipe Bombs Get Curiouser and Curiouser
"Softer on radical Islam than . . . Republicans."
Tulsi Gabbard Condemns Democrat Party For Attacking MAGA Movement
"Mob rule has become the law of the land, according to the results of the George Floyd hearing."
State Insists Chauvin Jury Was ‘Impartial,’ Mocks His Appeal
"Biden and the Democrats want to unleash Hell on Americans."
Who Will Save Americans From a Weaponized IRS?
RAID ON MAR-A-LAGO
Margot Cleveland: "The government’s latest motion strongly suggests the Biden administration is all-in on pursuing a criminal case against the former president."
Biden’s DOJ Doesn’t Want To Disclose ‘Classified’ Mar-A-Lago Documents—Except Through Selective Leaks To Leftist Media
"If Dearie is given the job, things could redound to Trump’s favor. Considering that Dearie was bamboozled by some of the same cast of characters now perpetrating Trump-is-a-Spy, Part Deux, he might do his job. Could he be a fair arbiter of what the former president has a right to possess at his home?"
Trump's Choice for Mar-a-Lago Raid Special Master May Be Brilliant — or Disastrous
“This investigation of the 45th President of the United States is both unprecedented and misguided. In what at its core is a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control, the Government wrongfully seeks to criminalize the possession by the 45th President of his own Presidential and personal records.”
Trump Response to Stay Motion: Special Master Needed, Feds Trying “to skip the process and proceed straight to a preordained conclusion”
"Whatever they amount to, FBI raids and likely indictments of the former president are political actions as bogus as the efforts to impeach him."
Trump and the Secret Documents
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
". . . Buttigieg argued that a rapid transition to electric cars is required to effectively combat climate change."
Peter-Puffer Buttigieg "Interested" In California Ban on New Gas Cars as He Weighs "A National Policy"
Maine's other US Senator, Angus King, dismisses Monterey Aquarium (home of “Seafood Watch") as ….an “arrogant fish zoo.”
California Eco-Activist Group Red-Lists Maine Lobster
"It's important to note that, when climate change hysterics use the word 'denier,' even as they disrespect the Holocaust, they are giving an important clue abut their own blind fanaticism."
Climate Hysteria: A Mass Delusion to Demonize Carbon Dioxide
"Green globalists are proclaiming a planetary crisis to camouflage an agenda of conquest dominated by white Westerners. Green imperialism is still imperialism."
Green Globalism is the Ultimate Expression of White Supremacy
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Overall, less than one-third of likely voters say support for student loan forgiveness makes them much more likely to vote for a candidate who supports it. So much for Biden’s attempt to buy votes."
POLL: Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness May Lose More Votes Than It Buys
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“They have seen nothing. They are not a border town. They don’t know what a border town is.”
"Welcome to Our World": Border Sheriffs Unload on Mayors for Complaining About Illegal Immigrants
“[T]he governors in the southwestern states there are dealing with about 7,000 people per day that they’re encountering, and because of the Biden [junta's] open-border policy, processing and dispersing all around this country.”
Ron Johnson: Obama Said Border Had a ‘Crisis’ When Numbers Were Less than 1/3 of What They Are Now
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Pennsylvania Senate race: Fund the police — but release the convicted killers?"
Oz Opponent’s Commutation of Convicted Murderer Becomes an Issue
"Moreover, the DOJ’s announcement about its refusal to prosecute is so cagily written about the offender’s sex that it really makes one wonder."
DOJ Won't Prosecute a Prosecutor Who Sexually Assaulted Someone
"Officers arrested as many as 160 individuals in connection to the operation. In addition to two Disney employees, and local teachers the list also included Georgia Deputy Police Chief Jason DiPrima." (it's a small hole, after all - jjs)
Disney Employees and School Teachers Busted in Large Florida Sex Trafficking Sting
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Brian Stelter lands new gig as Jeffrey Toobin and John Harwood test free agency."
Here’s What These Fired CNN Hacks Are Up to Now
"With the elections just two months away, the increasingly noisy and oppressive trans movement was becoming too much of a political liability."
Wow! Twitter Green Lights Anti-Trans Movement
“This is utter lunacy and arguably against the First Amendment–privileging media with Government revenues over others lacking such support,” wrote former New York Republican congresswoman Nan Hayworth.
Concerns About State-Funded Media Arise After California Bails Out Berkeley Journalism Program
ABORTION
David Harsanyi: "There’s little evidence the Dobbs decision is sinking Republicans."
Hell Yes, Dobbs Was Worth It
SECOND AMENDMENT
Democrats, including Sen. Warren, pressured the three payment processors to do this, calling it “an important step towards ending financial system support for gun trafficking, gun violence, and domestic terrorism.”
Visa, Mastercard, AmEx Categorizing Gun Sales in New Merchant Category
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Hobbs herself went to private school."
Private School Grad Katie Hobbs Releases Anti-School Choice Plan
"What do you do when your teacher is a pervert and no one will listen? You take matters into your own hands."
Sixth Graders Protect Their Fellow Students From a Creepy Teacher
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Senator worried that ‘voting irregularities’ cost John Kerry the White House."
Patty Murray Slams Opponent for Questioning Election Results. She Did the Same Thing in 2004.
In a 5-2 decision, the high court ruled that the Michigan Board of Canvassers must certify the petition presented to the board by the left-wing group, Promote The Vote (PTV), “as sufficient for placement on the November 8 general election ballot.”
Democrat-Majority Michigan Supreme Court Greenlights Democrat Plan To Take Over Elections
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Fetterman’s Braddock Collective featured a notoriously anti-Israel art exhibit amplifying slanderous claim that Israel is ‘apartheid state.’"
"Fester" Fetterman Says He’s a Friend of Israel. His Art Gallery Raises Questions.
". . . Francis is no outlier. He represents the logical consequence of the Vatican’s embrace of secular, materialist globalism, which began at the Second Vatican Council, held from 1962-1965 to help the Catholic Church confront the modern world."
The Catholic Church Abandons Its Fundamentals in Favor of the New World Order
"From Fiamma Nirenstein, a powerful jeremiad on Jew-hatred."
The Prejudice that Never Dies
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"Podesta in . . . Cash, profit."
Biden Quietly Loosens Tech Export Rules to Chinese Communist Firms Just Days After Huawei Lobbyist’s Brother Joins White House
POLITICS
"Sen. Maggie Hassan (D., N.H.), who is holding on to a narrow advantage in her race this November, according to the Cook Political Report, slammed Biden for failing to secure the southern border and called for tougher security and enforcement."
New Hampshire Democrats Take Aim at Biden
"Are you 'deeply grateful' for how things turned out under Biden? If not, what are you going to do about it?"
We’re ‘Better Off’ Under Biden? Who Is Obama Kidding?
Tiffany Smiley, WA US Senate candidate: “But because you won’t hold Patty Murray accountable, I will.”
GOP Senate Candidates Get Loud and Fight Back Before the Election
From the looks of recent polling trends, voters could dash Democrats’ hopes in November. Let’s start with the Senate race. Warnock held an advantage on college football legend Herschel Walker, whom conventional wisdom has called one of those “bad” Senate candidates. Dissatisfied with his original team, Walker shook up his campaign staff, and it’s starting to pay off.
November Is Looking Even Brighter for Georgia Republicans
"Georgians don’t want grievance politics. They want real solutions for real problems."
Why "Tank" Abrams Can’t Make the Sale in GA
"The fact that the RNC uses the same ad agency as the DNC says everything you need to know about the intelligence of the Republican politicians and the people running their PACs."
For the Love of God, Would You Please Stop Being Stupid?
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"The Ukrainians' strategy anticipated this possibility, planned on it, and when the Russians foolishly obliged immediately took full advantage."
Ukraine's Big Victory This Past Week Was No Accident
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Xi has not traveled beyond China’s borders since the [Chinese]] COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe after an outbreak in Wuhan."
Xi’s First Trip Abroad in Two Years Includes Meeting With Putin, Summit of Growing Eurasian Bloc
"Sweden Democrats in huge victory. . . Bombshell developments in the Swedish election, where it looks like the ruling leftists may finally face defeat."
The Swedish Election Bombshell
"Iran’s new armaments were publicly displayed as its leaders consider entering a revamped version of the 2015 nuclear accord, which will unfreeze millions in assets that Iran is expected to use to bolster its regional terror operations and missile arrays."
Iran Unveils Drone Designed For ‘Attacking Haifa, Tel Aviv’
"Louisa Lim’s book, Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong, tells the heartbreaking tale of the Chinese takeover of what was one of the world’s freest cities."
How Great Britain Lost Hong Kong is a Perfect Case Study for Protecting Taiwan
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Boondoggles of spending."
Military Personnel Are Struggling To Get By As Pentagon Budget Falls Short
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Lloyd Billingsley: "A tale of two novelists, at least one of whom would not have been surprised by the attack on Salman Rushdie."
Rushdie and Richard
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"As bureaucracies add complexity, they become ineffective—and society suffers."
Sludge Kills
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"The MNA is demanding a 30% pay increase over the next three years, in response to staffing shortages, but hospitals, who have offered around 10% raises, say they simply can’t afford that expense, according to Axios."
More Than 10,000 Minnesota Nurses Launch Largest Nursing Strike In U.S. History
"The declarations makes a nice distraction from New York’s covid and and monkeypox response."
New York Gov. Hochul Declares ‘State of Emergency’ After Polio Found in Another County’s Wastewater Samples
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.: "Are woke doctors necessarily the smartest? If they are thinking more about proper pronouns and social justice, are they thinking less about blood tests and MRI findings?"
When you are sick, do you want Dr Woke or Dr Smart?
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Blue Origin will not be doing suborbital flights now for a considerable time, pending an investigation into this failure."
Blue Origin Suborbital Flight Aborted During Ascent
"Firefly has yet to make orbit. Their first launch attempt last year of Alpha failed when one first stage engine shut down prematurely due to a loose connection."
Firefly Scrubs Launch of Alpha Rocket
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Former Republican National Committee chairman and President Bush reelection campaign manager Ken Mehlman, who has since revealed he practices homosexuality, led the effort to gain support for the bill and partnered with a new nonprofit group called Centerline Action, per The Washington Post."
GOP Establishment Leaders Call on Senate to Enshrine Same-Sex Marriage
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Inequality and unfairness cannot be eliminated without eliminating what is best in humanity."
Fair is Foul

NOTE: The opinions expressed in the links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:41 AM

Comments

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2022 07:41 AM (BRHaw)

2 I feel a little grey today!

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2022 07:41 AM (BRHaw)

3 What new farzrohr awaits us today?

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2022 07:43 AM (sn5EN)

4 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 07:44 AM (1n+EO)

5 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Verse for the day:

"Many are invited, but few are chosen."

-- Matthew 22:14

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2022 07:45 AM (LsEU/)

6 Morning.

A lot of nominal Republicans think "voting" is a cure all. The shock of finding out that's no longer true is only now beginning to register with them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2022 07:45 AM (BFigT)

7 Can't vote your way out of "our democracy "

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 13, 2022 07:46 AM (p/nbH)

8 6 Morning.

A lot of nominal Republicans think "voting" is a cure all. The shock of finding out that's no longer true is only now beginning to register with them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2022 07:45 AM (BFigT)

Always bad when the game changed on you and you DID notice, but figured it was to your benefit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 07:47 AM (5JqIf)

9 Also, people are fucking stupid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 07:48 AM (5JqIf)

10 Some union members of the New York Times and NBC News’s digital properties vowed not to come to the office this week and instead work remotely, defying their respective employers’ back-to-the-office plans.

WSJ: https://tinyurl.com/2zwasurs

Posted by: McCool at September 13, 2022 07:49 AM (BqBIh)

11 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

We can be sure of only one thing. The polls are wrong.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2022 07:49 AM (EZebt)

12 Good morning, one and all. The wife and i arrived in Cheyenne and we're going to have fun doing tourist things.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 13, 2022 07:50 AM (tdsvC)

13 I thought Joe was going to cure cancer when he was the dogeater's VP. Probably go as well as the covid vax.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2022 07:50 AM (sn5EN)

14 hiya

Posted by: JT at September 13, 2022 07:50 AM (T4tVD)

15 Good morning, JJ. Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at September 13, 2022 07:51 AM (53oGX)

16 Why West says "vote" is because there are so few realistic options right now that can be discussed publicly. One thing is clear, if you live in one of the rad left states you need to get out, now, no matter the cost. Other than that, organize and prepare on a personal level. And Pray. Pray a lot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 07:52 AM (1ow1X)

17 If everyone in the media went on strike, would anybody know it? Would they have to get the janitors to write news articles?

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2022 07:52 AM (sn5EN)

18 "Why haven't they caught the Jan 6 pipe bomber?"
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Because he/she has already been reassigned to another FBI entrapment case

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 07:52 AM (ouZ9A)

19 Coming train strike is starting to get real - main local news story about how the VRE and MARC would stop operating on Friday if the strike comes to pass (this is on top of freight trains not running).

This all sucks for me b/c I had plans for a 3rd DC museum trip this month on Friday while it's still free for the month. Oh well...if that's the worst thing that happens to me this month, I'll have been very lucky!

Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 07:52 AM (exHjb)

20 Mornin' Horde!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at September 13, 2022 07:52 AM (/BJ4/)

21 Good morning, one and all. The wife and i arrived in Cheyenne and we're going to have fun doing tourist things.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 13, 2022 07:50 AM (tdsvC)

That part of the country is beautiful.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2022 07:53 AM (Oa1Nr)

22 12 Good morning, one and all. The wife and i arrived in Cheyenne and we're going to have fun doing tourist things.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 13, 2022 07:50 AM (tdsvC)

A state on my list I have not visited - have fun and report back on what you did!

Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 07:53 AM (exHjb)

23 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 13, 2022 07:53 AM (zhLdt)

24 A person in Allen West's position can't openly declare "we're not voting our way out of this". He'd be in jail. We can get away with it, because we're largely anonymous chatterers and it's not worth going after any of us (yet).

Knowing that elections aren't viable, there's really only two options. Continue eroding the public's acceptance of this solidifying Gangster Progressivism and hope the gangsters realize the game isn't worth the candle, or... Type-Delete.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 07:53 AM (9SaeC)

25 Shut it all down. Everybody go on strike. Except ace. And the cobs and Pixy. And the folks who run the servers. But everybody else.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2022 07:54 AM (sn5EN)

26 West knows that we cannot take the bait.

Because if we don't take the bait they will stop baiting us. Or something.

Posted by: blaster at September 13, 2022 07:54 AM (6TxNR)

27
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 13, 2022 07:55 AM (ENBF0)

28 They're not fishing with bait. They're poisoning the lake.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 07:56 AM (9SaeC)

29 12 Good morning, one and all. The wife and i arrived in Cheyenne and we're going to have fun doing tourist things.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 13, 2022 07:50 AM (tdsvC)

The good news is that Liz Cheney will be 2,000 miles away from you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 13, 2022 07:56 AM (x0n13)

30 This all sucks for me b/c I had plans for a 3rd DC museum trip this month on Friday while it's still free for the month. Oh well...if that's the worst thing that happens to me this month, I'll have been very lucky!
Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 07:52 AM (exHjb)

Hate to tell you this, but there are going to be much bigger problems than this.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2022 07:56 AM (Oa1Nr)

31
I'm on FB (I know, I know) for hobby purposes. A woman posted a Tweet that suggested that if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault. It got me so angry I went through the list and unfollowed almost every woman on it so that I'd never have to see their posts.

Suddenly, my feed became peaceful. No angry rants, no stupid memes. It sometimes makes me think that if men were asked what they'd do if all women disappeared from the earth for 24 hours, they'd say, "Can you make it 48? How about a week?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2022 07:57 AM (1Nxff)

32 I've been to Cheyenne in June and there were snow flurries.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2022 07:57 AM (EZebt)

33 30 This all sucks for me b/c I had plans for a 3rd DC museum trip this month on Friday while it's still free for the month. Oh well...if that's the worst thing that happens to me this month, I'll have been very lucky!
Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 07:52 AM (exHjb)

Hate to tell you this, but there are going to be much bigger problems than this.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2022 07:56 AM (Oa1Nr)

Thus, my ending line. I'm pretty much canceling my plans today so the kids don't get disappointed...hopefully that's all I do.

Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 07:57 AM (exHjb)

34 Because no woman ever assaulted a woman before.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 07:57 AM (9SaeC)

35 You have to fight as dirty as your opposition or they will roll over you. Playing by the rules when there are no rules is foolish.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2022 07:58 AM (sn5EN)

36 If we confine our discussion to just voting then they won't consider us domestic terrorists and send the FBI and try to put us in jail. Or something.

Maybe we should just make VOTE HARDER a code word for type delete!

Posted by: blaster at September 13, 2022 07:58 AM (6TxNR)

37 That link for Ukraine is a very strong and realistic assessment.
Thank You, jjs.
I've been talking to people for the better part of a week trying to figure what, exactly, is going on, and that's the best work I've seen so far. Yandex, interestingly, has relocated a big part to Serbia and placed an IT hub in Dorcol with +/-700 Russian transfer employees.
I've thought since the beginning that the West was looking for an Operation Storm-type offensive. This is it.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 07:59 AM (U11/V)

38 Oh boy, Brevet Commodore Taint Huffer is here with the daily misspelled non-sequitur. What joy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 07:59 AM (9SaeC)

39 How should someone who has a small business go on strike - when the government wants to see them shut down already?

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 08:00 AM (1ow1X)

40 "if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault."

What about men that are womens?

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2022 08:00 AM (sn5EN)

41 "A woman posted a Tweet that suggested that if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault."

Um.....OK.

https://tinyurl.com/mpb7h8cm

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:00 AM (1n+EO)

42 Maybe we should just make VOTE HARDER a code word for type delete!
Posted by: blaster at September 13, 2022 07:58 AM (6TxNR)

Let us be going, Brandon.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:00 AM (9SaeC)

43 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2022 08:01 AM (5kCce)

44
But to believe that voting alone is going to change the trajectory of the nation when perhaps fully half the citizenry hate you and are being urged by the highest echelons of leadership to wipe you out because you are the moral equivalent of cancer, is ridiculous.

Imagine a rather short cartoon character, it is late in the day and his shadow is long and forbidding looking. But it is not a true reflection of his height or strength. This is the progressive group, thinking they are of that size. But it was only because of a 'fortified' election with enough of a stench that it will eventually become known to all.

A massive repudiation at the polls in November will reveal their real size, which is puny. It's the first step in many that will be required to turn things around. But a bloody nose has stopped many a fight from progressing further. Contribute your vote to the punch that bloodies their nose.

Posted by: Glen Cambell at September 13, 2022 08:01 AM (y3pKJ)

45 Voter fraud should be a capital offense. It destroys the social compact as well as traditions and norms of civil society. It offends our history and our constitutional governance. It is a tool of the current secular heresies.

Posted by: 7man at September 13, 2022 08:01 AM (qwO6y)

46 Forest Gump should be happy that DeSantis did away with the gerrymandered districts in Florida.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 08:01 AM (1ow1X)

47 "Whatever they amount to, FBI raids and likely indictments of the former president are political actions as bogus as the efforts to impeach him."

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Heard the always fantastic local host Tara on 106.3 out of IIRC Greenville, SC talking about this a little while ago while driving into work.

They've raided Trump and Trump's attorney's and associates, and I think some RNC folks. And the premise was asking the same question that Democrats had asked in 2016 and every election Republicans had been allowed to win prior. Free speech, protected by the 1st Amendment, but not anymore. Now it's the basis for search warrants and seizures.

This is a lesson for everyone else, same as January 6th was. Trump will have a hard time getting attorneys, much less campaign staff.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:01 AM (kE3DV)

48 "How should someone who has a small business go on strike - when the government wants to see them shut down already?
Posted by: Tom Servo "

Shut it down and get a college loan.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2022 08:02 AM (sn5EN)

49 "if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault."

What about men that are womens?
Posted by: fd

What about wimmenses that are menses?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2022 08:02 AM (5kCce)

50 What about men that are womens?
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2022 08:00 AM (sn5EN)
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You'll Do ok in the camps.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2022 08:03 AM (EZebt)

51 A massive repudiation at the polls in November will reveal their real size, which is puny...

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This is tied to the Trump and RNC raids, too.

There will be fraud. Lots of it. Fetterman will almost certainly win. And don't step out of line Pennsylvania Republicans, poll watchers, police, or poll watchers, or you're next.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:03 AM (kE3DV)

52 I would point out Operation Storm was against a very long, stretched out front, was a Blitzkrieg type assault against a depleted enemy the size of Kentucky, and while Serbian big-unit tactics were Russian and got rolled over, deep strategy was sit and wait, 100 years if 'we' have to.
Very good link, I Thank You for that.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 08:03 AM (U11/V)

53 There has never been any proof that our elections have been tainted by fraud in the last 50 years
Great claims (FRAUD!) require great proofs.

If yku don't have any shut the fuck up and stop insulting my country
Posted by: Forrest gump

Who the fuck are you? Fuck off.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2022 08:04 AM (5kCce)

54 "if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault."

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Should we tell them about the disproportionate numbers of violence between lesbian room-mates?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:04 AM (kE3DV)

55 Well, my weremate and I have just volunteered to be poll workers in still-majority-Democrat Palm Beach County. We'll be trained next week: me as a standard poll worker, and he will be put in charge of the machinery and data delivery for the site ... which means that if any crooked party operatives try to do the hanky-panky down here, they won't get away with it in at least one precinct! If anyone tries, in the words of a beautiful old song, "I will bite [their] torso and give [them] a disease!" Wish us luck and vigilance, mighty Morons!

Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 13, 2022 08:04 AM (SPNTN)

56 ""if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault."

Are there any statistics to suggest if any particular demographic suffers the highest spouse abuse/domestic violence in the United States?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:04 AM (1n+EO)

57 They did a day without illegals once, nobody noticed.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 13, 2022 08:05 AM (J+nFa)

58 ""if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault.""

After 24 hrs they would want us to come back to kill the spiders.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2022 08:06 AM (sn5EN)

59 Anybody notice how that California beheading, in broad daylight never really gained traction in the national news?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:06 AM (1n+EO)

60 There has never been any proof that our elections have been tainted by fraud in the last 50 years
Great claims (FRAUD!) require great proofs.

**

Here. Read slowly. Look for Secretaries of State (spoilers, it's not in there):

U.S. Constitution
Clause 1 Elections Clause
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof;

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:06 AM (kE3DV)

61 I did not know the DNC pipe bomb was planter after a Secret Service security sweep had been completed and a facility lockdown started (Kamala Harris was there). Obviously, it is impossible for a random person to walk in and place a pipe bomb in a secure area. That "bomb" (non-functional) was placed there by federal agents, as we all guessed at the time.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 08:06 AM (7A9EW)

62 Me: How long have you been standing on that chair?

Her: Since yesterday about 2:00.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2022 08:07 AM (sn5EN)

63 hey y'all

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at September 13, 2022 08:08 AM (PbwT0)

64 Wow... top flight troll there, Kurt. "My country". No sarcasm. Well done.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:08 AM (6FeV1)

65 Even AP recognizes it... "U.S. Senate Majority Leader propping up Democratic campaigns with $15-million transfer ahead of fall elections."

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 08:08 AM (yikp0)

66 "Anybody notice how that California beheading, in broad daylight never really gained traction in the national news?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice "

The guy is from Venezuela. Who are we to criticize their culture?

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2022 08:09 AM (sn5EN)

67 62 Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:06 AM (kE3DV)
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All these idiots claiming courts never found "evidence of fraud" are missing the point. And elections conducted outside of the rules established by the legislature are, by definition, fraudulent.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 08:09 AM (7A9EW)

68 Anybody notice how that California beheading, in broad daylight never really gained traction in the national news?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:06 AM (1n+EO)
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no sé

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2022 08:09 AM (EZebt)

69 If anyone tries, in the words of a beautiful old song, "I will bite [their] torso and give [them] a disease!" Wish us luck and vigilance, mighty Morons!
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 13, 2022 08:04 AM (SPNTN)
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Hmmm. I'm not sure I want a bunch of corrupt poll workers running around infected with lycanthropy...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 08:10 AM (YIVH2)

70
Nonetheless, Russia’s failure in this war has now clearly demonstrated it is no longer a strong military threat to Europe, or to the west. Its nuclear weapon capabilities are certainly a concern, but no one need fear its ability to invade and conquer any of its neighbors.

Makes you wonder about all those scenarios way back when of the Bolshevik hordes storming to the Rhine. If they can't achieve their aims against a penny-ante backwater like Ukraine that's right next door, how could they project force west into Europe proper?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2022 08:10 AM (1Nxff)

71 68 "Anybody notice how that California beheading, in broad daylight never really gained traction in the national news?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice "

The guy is from Venezuela. Who are we to criticize their culture?
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2022 08:09 AM (sn5EN)

Was that the guy using a katana? Sounds like cultural appropriation to me.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 13, 2022 08:10 AM (b2nrj)

72 Remember To Vote Early And Often!

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 13, 2022 08:11 AM (YScEb)

73 Nonetheless, Russia’s failure in this war has now clearly demonstrated it is no longer a strong military threat to Europe, or to the west.

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Tell me again why Ukraine - or Europe - needs our money, then.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:11 AM (kE3DV)

74 Good morning, JJ.

Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

75 we have devolved into a banana republic and yet we're kind of resigned to that fact.

I may be resigned to inflation, myocarditis, and eating bugs, but I will never accept that we're a banana republic!

Posted by: John Q. Normie at September 13, 2022 08:11 AM (amJF4)

76 'Brevet Commodore Taint Huffer'

That is a good turn of phrase, Warai.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 08:11 AM (5JqIf)

77 68 "Anybody notice how that California beheading, in broad daylight never really gained traction in the national news?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice "
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Were there any strange electrical disturbances afterwards?

"There can be only one" after all, you know...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 08:11 AM (YIVH2)

78 Lots to do today
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's phone at September 13, 2022 08:12 AM (Ipr7E)

79 we have devolved into a banana republic and yet we're kind of resigned to that fact.

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The crazy part is to remember that we were in the best economy in decades less than three years ago.

And they took it away on purpose. Because making America great again is a bad thing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:12 AM (kE3DV)

80 Morning, all. Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments from "Feds 4 Medical Freedom"--a legal group who's been fighting the pants-shitter-in-chief's clot shot mandate in the courts--and the Department of """Justice""" regarding maintaining the injunction against said mandate that's been in place since January. Regardless of how it turns out, rest assured that I won't get the shot.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at September 13, 2022 08:12 AM (DTX3h)

81 lets get em now Joe, while we got the muscle !!

Posted by: Merrick Pentageli at September 13, 2022 08:12 AM (us2H3)

82 ... “Why are they ignoring public record requests for strategic plans on federal voter registration efforts? Why are they treating these documents like they are classified information dealing with nuclear weapons? ...
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I mean, c'mon. We all know.

Take a page out of their book. If they are doing nothing wrong, they have nothing to hide. If they are hiding anything, they're guilty.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:13 AM (t0OGg)

83 Who the fuck are you? Fuck off.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2022 08:04 AM (5kCce)

Isn't this the point of the discussion where some weathered commenter says 'All trolls are Average Joe.'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 08:13 AM (5JqIf)

84 I had to reschedule a flight, because of all this, so have some Patrick Sweany:
https://tinyurl.com/3j9j57xr

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 08:13 AM (U11/V)

85 "Sen. Maggie Hassan (D., N.H.), who is holding on to a narrow advantage in her race this November, according to the Cook Political Report, slammed Biden for failing to secure the southern border and called for tougher security and enforcement."
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Now you criticize the junta? Now?

Maggie Hassan tried to avoid crossing the Junta for two years but now she wants to reassure voters that the WHOLE TIME she was, secretly, against their policies.

Fail.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 08:13 AM (7A9EW)

86 "There can be only one" after all, you know...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 08:11 AM (YIVH2)

There IS only one Highlander movie, at least.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 08:13 AM (5JqIf)

87 What about men that are womens?
Posted by: fd
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You'll Do ok in the ~~camps~~ cramps.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Fixed.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 08:14 AM (yikp0)

88 Happy National Peanut Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 13, 2022 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

89 ZZZZZ

Posted by: the Turtle at September 13, 2022 08:15 AM (us2H3)

90 There IS only one Highlander movie, at least.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 08:13 AM (5JqIf)

Well, one TRUE Highlander movie....

Posted by: blaster at September 13, 2022 08:16 AM (6TxNR)

91 It's Primary day in New Hampshire and Rhode Island today.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 13, 2022 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

92 Just waving hello before plunging into the funny papers.

*waves*

Hello.

Thanks for the work every weekday, JJ.

Posted by: mindful webworker - waiting for the sun at September 13, 2022 08:17 AM (dnlkv)

93 There is no opportunity to seek compromise with those will not participate in good faith.
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It's a bit worse than that. This statement is true, but it misses another point. Even if your opponent operates in good faith, you still cannot reach a compromise with him if you and he do not share certain basic, fundamental common rules or expectations. The man who puts a gun in your face and says, "your money or your life" is operating in good faith - he means what he says and he is upfront about it and is consistent in his pursuit - but you cannot compromise with him because you disagree on the root premises.

So it is with the progs. Many of them *do* operate in good faith, but compromise is impossible because there is no agreement. Not on nation-state government, not on public government, not on anything. There can be no compromise when there is no even basic agreement on the rules. You have to agree on *something* in order to agree on *anything.* The divergence is now so great that there is essentially no fundamental, basic agreement. Negotiation and compromise are impossible in such an environment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:17 AM (t0OGg)

94
Happy National Peanut Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at September 13, 2022 08:14 AM

You bastid! (jabs self with epi pen)

Posted by: Karen CheChe at September 13, 2022 08:17 AM (y3pKJ)

95 Maggie Hassan tried to avoid crossing the Junta for two years but now she wants to reassure voters that the WHOLE TIME she was, secretly, against their policies.

Fail.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 08:13 AM (7A9EW)

The good news is that tactic will NEVER work, right?

Right?

Posted by: blaster at September 13, 2022 08:17 AM (6TxNR)

96 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

97 Frankly, we all do bear responsibility for this shit; native New Yorkers like me above all. Yes, I fled the Peoples' Republic back in the 70s. It was hopeless then. I have a great-great uncle's journal. He was a Brooklynite - separate city, then - who attended the opening of the eponymous bridge. Politics? A sink of corruption already.

The attitude was that it was contained by our federal system. Up to a point, it worked. But the fact that we allowed these places to fester, and the rot to spread, well, we're paying for it now. I do not know the answer. But I admit my attitude was part of the problem.

Who cares about the Sudetenland, anyway?

Posted by: Eeyore at September 13, 2022 08:18 AM (TgBWG)

98 It really disappoints me that Allen West has become such a professional grifter. I had high hopes for that guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

99 We are heading for an inflection point and a point of no return. That is unless we passed that point already, which I believe we did almost two years ago.
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I think we are in the inflection point right now. What comes out the other end is going to be new, just like at prior inflection points like the War Between the States or the Depression/WWII Complex. It may be totalitarian tyranny from sea to shining sea or it might be something else, but the nature of inflection points is that it *will* be quite profoundly different.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:19 AM (t0OGg)

100 So Kurt... are you really, truly unaware that a stolen election is stolen from everyone? Perhaps this time around you're content because Your Team got away with it, but what happens when the day comes that this power mad, unaccountable junta decides to do something you finally find objectionable? What will be your recourse? Grin and bear it? Continue your Stockholm Summer Olympics of mental gymnastics to excuse away the dissonance? Don't you want Your Guy Who Won to have actually.... won?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:19 AM (6FeV1)

101 January 6th is worse than Kent State.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 13, 2022 08:19 AM (ybIRR)

102 More coffee..

Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2022 08:19 AM (88xKn)

103 our problem is we have no solid mechanism to rid ourselves of RINOs

the left has the MSM, who will soon dispatch anyone the dims deem unworthy

why so many so called moderate dims have ditched the pose and come out full commie

Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 08:20 AM (us2H3)

104 Oh boy, Brevet Commodore Taint Huffer is here with the daily misspelled non-sequitur. What joy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 07:59 AM (9SaeC)

Those are some pretty cruel things to say about JJ like that. Geez. Tough crowd.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

105 Perhaps we could convince leftists that the level of evidence required to claim rape or racism should be as high as the left's requirement of proof for the claim of election fraud in the case of a Republican candidate not being declared the winner of an election.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:21 AM (1n+EO)

106 Perhaps we can compromise with the Left. Like Taco Tuesdays in the camps.

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

107 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:17 AM (t0OGg
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I think this is the "Achilles heel" of our system. Laws without Morals are in Vain. We no longer share a common culture where the majority of the people voluntarily comply, so they must be made to.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2022 08:22 AM (EZebt)

108 I think we are in the inflection point right now. What comes out the other end is going to be new, just like at prior inflection points like the War Between the States or the Depression/WWII Complex...

*

I agree. And I think that's why they're trying their hardest to make sure Trump is either in prison, can't run because of "clear and present danger" or whatever, or can't hire attorneys and staff.

He represents the other fork in this road that Americans did, and are, overwhelmingly choosing, and that is not allowed by people who are controlling this from outside of America.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:22 AM (kE3DV)

109 our problem is we have no solid mechanism to rid ourselves of RINOs ...
Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 08:20 AM (us2H3)
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What they have been engaging in the past six or seven years *is* that mechanism, and it is fully engaged.

*You* are the RINO, as is anyone even remotely like you. Mitch McConnell is not. They are using every tool in their box to deal with the RINO problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:22 AM (t0OGg)

110 Thank you, JJ.
Thank you very much.

Posted by: democrats, Raping The Children They Cannot Kill Since 1973 at September 13, 2022 08:23 AM (jV+aN)

111 the dims observes elections as fan observes a game

if a bad call goes their way, well, that's good

to be a dim, you have to purge yourself of any sense of fairness

Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 08:23 AM (us2H3)

112 I wonder how many people dwell on January 6. Would it really be a factor in an election? If you asked the average person what is significant about the date 'Jan 6', what would be their response?

Posted by: grammie winger at September 13, 2022 08:23 AM (45fpk)

113 It's come out that of the money supposedly sent to Ukraine, over 2/3 went to NGO's and American defense contractors, who kicked back a lot to the polls who voted for it.

This of course doesn't justify any of it, but it certainly explains it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 08:23 AM (1ow1X)

114 I think this is the "Achilles heel" of our system.

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Something something made only for a moral and religious people inadequate something something.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:23 AM (kE3DV)

115 Great article by Naomi Wolf. She has not only had her eyes opened, been red pilled and converted but now is an ultra-MAGA fascist. The older you get the harder it is to admit your world view was based on lies and everything you thought you knew about politics was wrong. Better late than never. We need millions more.

Posted by: Ripley at September 13, 2022 08:23 AM (MxEKc)

116 These people, “my people”, who were once so erudite, so witty, so confident, so ethical, so privileged – the people of the elite world contained in the 2019-and-before boxes — pretty and well-spoken as they once were, turn out, with the twist of just a couple of years, and just a bucketload or two of bribe money, to be revealed as monsters and barbarians.

Must not say I told you so...

But anyway, the question the right should be asking - how do we wake more people up like Wolf?

Is it getting out of the city? Her Chad, Brian? Something else?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 08:24 AM (ESjRY)

117 Thing is that the political organization "republicans" don't understand tit for tat. If we just vote the right way, we won't have to endure their persecutions.

No. You have to exact revenge so they won't do it again. Otherwise they will wait for the prevailing winds to shift and do it again next time. And each time make it harder for the winds to shift.

I think it is is super important that we have tats for our tits.

Posted by: blaster at September 13, 2022 08:25 AM (6TxNR)

118 "Would it really be a factor in an election? If you asked the average person what is significant about the date 'Jan 6', what would be their response?"

Great idea!

Now try Jul 4.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:25 AM (1n+EO)

119 People like Alan West apparently feel they have a lot to lose if they speak out about fraud, stolen elections, the illegal activities of the feds and so on. These people have outlets that allow them to voice their opinions to thousands, if not more people. They're also afraid.

Some, like Trump and a few of his allies are probably "concerned" but not afraid. They have resources and visibility that to one degree or another shield them. That seems to be crumbling.

Some of the public has come to conclusion that it's better to remain silent or at least not antagonize the junta. Others, not so much.

I seem to recall that most banana republics were overthrown by the citizens when all the opposition voices were silenced, either by prison or death. The public was then required to do the dirty work their political betters couldn't handle.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2022 08:25 AM (BFigT)

120 Better late than never. We need millions more.
Posted by: Ripley at September 13, 2022 08:23 AM (MxEKc

There is no one so zealous as a recent convert.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:25 AM (6FeV1)

121 We are heading for an inflection point and a point of no return. That is unless we passed that point already, which I believe we did almost two years ago. Best thing to do is organize, stay active especially at the local school and community board level, and arm yourself to the teeth.

I'm not going to bother enumerating my predictions. You all know them by now.

Since I probably won't be around on Thursday, here is the lovely, tragic Fay Wray, born September 15, 1907:

https://tinyurl.com/35j4vbmk

https://tinyurl.com/2v5pn3xn

https://tinyurl.com/2f5k2zyp

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 13, 2022 08:25 AM (AW0uW)

122 The older you get the harder it is to admit your world view was based on lies and everything you thought you knew about politics was wrong

Two distinct problems here

1) The FNM hides the truth from LIVs making it harder to realize you were lied to.

2) Deficit spending allows the government hide just how much money we are wasting. If they had to take it out in taxes instead of longer term inflationary spending it would be harder to deny the impact government is having on people's lives

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 08:26 AM (ESjRY)

123 Apparently some German politician said something cryptic publicly that has a lot of people puzzled. "A day no one will forget" or something similar.

Will the world leaders be gathered for the Queen's funeral on that day?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:26 AM (syPV9)

124 They are using every tool in their box to deal with the RINO problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:22 AM (t0OGg)

It worked.

I'm Independent now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:26 AM (6FeV1)

125 ... The older you get the harder it is to admit your world view was based on lies and everything you thought you knew about politics was wrong. ...
Posted by: Ripley at September 13, 2022 08:23 AM (MxEKc)
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It's hard regardless of age and should be commended when it happens. It took me about six years to fully reject the globalist economics I was brought up on and understand that free trade is not a universal, inherent good regardless of reciprocity and that the model and theory were fundamentally flawed and unworkable.

It's hard. It takes work. It requires a lot of education, and it is almost always self-directed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:26 AM (t0OGg)

126 I believe that civil society, as imperfectly framed by the US Constitution, is about as good as it gets. Nothing is perfect, there is no Utopia, no Tikkun Olam. All civil society is to control natural human impulses and instincts.
There can be no imposed religion of any kind anyway, why try?
So I believe what I believe, in private, and adhere to a set of civil rules we agree on to keep a relative level of inevitable conflict.
Walk onto my property and tell me I have to 'believe' something, I'll blow your mother fucking head off.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 08:27 AM (U11/V)

127 to be a dim, you have to purge yourself of any sense of fairness
Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 08:23 AM (us2H3)
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Also any shame.

Oh, and any knowledge of history.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2022 08:27 AM (EZebt)

128 The older you get the harder it is to admit your world view was based on lies and everything you thought you knew about politics was wrong

*

I won't lie, it's been rough as heck on me. I always knew the Republicans wanted to be the perpetual minority party, but I never realized both sides actively hated America.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:28 AM (syPV9)

129 'Who is going too harm you if you are eager to do good? But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. "Do not fear their threats, do not be frightened". But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against you good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander."

1 Peter 3:13-16

Posted by: Marcus T at September 13, 2022 08:28 AM (VpIIl)

130 "if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault."

And WWIII would start over a slight about weight 12 hours later.

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 13, 2022 08:28 AM (sAmhv)

131 I'm Independent now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:26 AM (6FeV1)

Welcome.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2022 08:28 AM (Oa1Nr)

132 Walk onto my property and tell me I have to 'believe' something, I'll blow your mother fucking head off.
Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 08:27 AM (U11/V)

"You have to believe you're going to blow my fucking head off"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:29 AM (6FeV1)

133 I think I read somewhere showtime is making a 5 part seires on the Dispatch

was it here ?

Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 08:29 AM (us2H3)

134 It really disappoints me that Allen West has become such a professional grifter. I had high hopes for that guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:18 AM

If he had actually campaigned he had a real shot at winning the primary for Republican governor. Sadly he was just in it for the money. The only good thing to come out of it is he is done as far as politics go here in Texas, everyone sees him for what he really is, a grifter.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 13, 2022 08:30 AM (bVYXr)

135 "They must be beaten at the polls. And then Republicans must have the guts to beat them back with public policy that promotes individual liberty."

We still don't get it. We're not going to beat them with "public policy," not at this point of their propagandistic supremacy. We must beat them PERSONALLY. Take a page from Alinsky: make it personal. This doesn't mean replicating their viciousness or shrieking pitch. Study Kari Lake. She knows how to do it, attacking with unapologetic directness and fearless incision. She's making it personal (in a mutual identification of predator and prey) in a politically effective way.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2022 08:30 AM (H8QX8)

136 ""if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault."

In breaking news from the future, 13 Naval ships reported to have collided, as well as an entire battlegroup has run aground.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:30 AM (1n+EO)

137 133 I think I read somewhere showtime is making a 5 part seires on the Dispatch

was it here ?
Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 08:29 AM (us2H3)

I, for one, do NOT want to see that particular shower scene....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:30 AM (6FeV1)

138 What is needed is "the vision thing", as G. W. Bush once put it.

A vision of a more perfect union. A place where you can flip a switch at night and the lights go on. A place where you have heat during the cold, dark winter months.

Let's start by teaching AOC's (and Chuck Schumer's) voters why, they too, should support the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

Con Ed, New York City's electric utility is a co-developer of the $6.2B project. If it is never completed, their electric bills will climb higher with ZERO benefit in return.

Will this generation of New Yorkers have to learn from total blackouts, as past generations did? Or will they learn from the past and throw the bums out?

Vote for Joe Pinion and Tina Forte.

Posted by: Machias Privateer at September 13, 2022 08:31 AM (EMi53)

139 I think I read somewhere showtime is making a 5 part seires on the Dispatch

Have they cast the dancing boys yet? I'm sure they can find some former Disney/Nick producers with experience in this area.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 08:31 AM (ESjRY)

140 Too bad about West.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2022 08:31 AM (Oa1Nr)

141 ... woman posted a Tweet that suggested that if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault. ...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2022 07:57 AM (1Nxff)
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I strongly suspect that straight girls on college softball teams would question this assertion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:31 AM (t0OGg)

142 "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have."

This is where I have to lean on the Holy Spirit. I get all tongue-tied and flustered.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 13, 2022 08:32 AM (45fpk)

143 Hmmm. I'm not sure I want a bunch of corrupt poll workers running around infected with lycanthropy...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2022 08:10 AM

Aw, dang. Why the heck not? Can't I ever have any fun, Dad?! Gee whiz!

Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 13, 2022 08:32 AM (SPNTN)

144 Headline inflation rises 0.1%. CORE rises 0.6%.

Economists had expected a 0.1% sequential headline drop and a 0.3% core gain.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at September 13, 2022 08:32 AM (L9Ewk)

145 But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against you good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander."

1 Peter 3:13-16
Posted by: Marcus T at September 13, 2022 08:28 AM (VpIIl

For them to feel ashamed, they would need a conscience, to not deny the existence of their soul and a belief in Christ Almighty. The left has none of these.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

146 WashingtonTimes:

More FBI whistleblowers have stepped forward to Congress and accused high-ranking bureau officials of bringing unauthorized smartphones into top-secret facilities, a security breach that can expose classified materials.

This time, the FBI said it is investigating the complaints and “takes all security matters seriously.”

The alleged security violations occurred in a sensitive compartmented information facility or SCIF set up for the executive offices on the 7th floor of the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building, according to the whistleblower.

Posted by: SMOD at September 13, 2022 08:32 AM (RHGPo)

147 GM's self-driving car company announces plans to expand a robotaxi service into AZ and TX.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 08:32 AM (yikp0)

148 141 ... woman posted a Tweet that suggested that if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault. ...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2022 07:57 AM (1Nxff)
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I strongly suspect that straight girls on college softball teams would question this assertion.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:31 AM (t0OGg)

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Can you imagine the insanity complete safety would breed in AWFLs?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 08:33 AM (LvTSG)

149 If there was an opposition party they'd be heralding that all this Biden-flation is *permanent* and won't stop increasing until/unless Biden is neutered by congress in 2022.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 08:33 AM (ESjRY)

150 The 5 part series is even worse than you think. It's about the Lincoln man-boy love project. Apparently some oligarch paid them to make it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 08:34 AM (1ow1X)

151 ...The alleged security violations occurred in a sensitive compartmented information facility or SCIF set up for the executive offices on the 7th floor of the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building, according to the whistleblower.
Posted by: SMOD at September 13, 2022 08:32 AM (RHGPo)
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This might be true, but this "whistleblower" is engaging in damage control. This is another "few bad apples at the top" framing of the problem. It was the executives, not the ham-and-egg men in the rank and file.

I no longer buy it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:34 AM (t0OGg)

152 GM's self-driving car company announces plans to expand a robotaxi service into AZ and TX.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 08:32 AM (yikp0)

Why, better to murder conservatives with, my dear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

153 Daily Mail- REVEALED: Brave whistleblowers are exposing how the nakedly political FBI IS out to get Trump - now read TOM LEONARD's damning dossier on the chiefs who are plunging America's once proud Bureau into its gravest crisis ever

https://tinyurl.com/2a8x9fk3

Posted by: redridinghood at September 13, 2022 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

154 Can you imagine the insanity complete safety would breed in AWFLs?

Human sacrifice. The gods must be honored!

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 08:34 AM (ESjRY)

155 we are way past the inflection point

for a normalization, the dims would have to reveal many trangressions and this they will not do

the best you can hope for now out of the left is a feigned retreat

the cast has died

Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 08:35 AM (us2H3)

156 "It's hard. It takes work. It requires a lot of education, and it is almost always self-directed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix"

Clinton shenanigans and lies opened my eyes to the true nature of the Dems/left. Once your start to allow yourself to see things the whole facade starts to crumble. Slowly then all at once. Getting people just to believe their lying eyes is the first huge step.

Posted by: Ripley at September 13, 2022 08:35 AM (MxEKc)

157 Oh boy, Brevet Commodore Taint Huffer is here with the daily misspelled non-sequitur. What joy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Those are some pretty cruel things to say about JJ like that. Geez. Tough crowd.
Posted by: Sponge

I'm either a full commodore taint huffer or you can keep your battlefield promotion!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2022 08:35 AM (5kCce)

158 The 5 part series is even worse than you think. It's about the Lincoln man-boy love project. Apparently some oligarch paid them to make it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 08:34 AM (1ow1X)

"The Audacity Of GOPe"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:36 AM (6FeV1)

159 Consumer Price index hit 8.3% in August.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 13, 2022 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

160 Oh boy, Brevet Commodore Taint Huffer is here with the daily misspelled non-sequitur. What joy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

*

(adjusts epaulets)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:36 AM (syPV9)

161 "if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault."
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And what would they do when they jiggled the handle and it still kept running?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at September 13, 2022 08:36 AM (dr4Q1)

162 159 Consumer Price index hit 8.3% in August.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 13, 2022 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

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This is down from 9%. That means that inflation is over, peasants. Stop complaining and vote blue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 08:36 AM (LvTSG)

163 First monkeypox death confirmed! Lock down! Mask up! The time to panic and make irrational decisions is now!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Pennsylvania Dad, Defiant! at September 13, 2022 08:36 AM (t3/qz)

164 I saw Commodore Taint Huffer open for The Commodores at the Palace Ballroom in '74.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

165 Clinton shenanigans and lies opened my eyes to the true nature of the Dems/left. Once your start to allow yourself to see things the whole facade starts to crumble. Slowly then all at once. Getting people just to believe their lying eyes is the first huge step.
Posted by: Ripley at September 13, 2022 08:35 AM (MxEKc)
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That's the key point, I think. At least, it was for me. I lived in the postindustrial economic wasteland of upstate NY in the mid aughts and that made me question the globalist economics. That should not have happened had they been right. The industry may have died, but something else should have developed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:37 AM (t0OGg)

166 163 First monkeypox death confirmed! Lock down! Mask up! The time to panic and make irrational decisions is now!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Pennsylvania Dad, Defiant! at September 13, 2022 08:36 AM (t3/qz)

=========

The time came to an end?

Says who?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 08:37 AM (LvTSG)

167 It's hard regardless of age and should be commended when it happens. It took me about six years to fully reject the globalist economics I was brought up on and understand that free trade is not a universal, inherent good regardless of reciprocity and that the model and theory were fundamentally flawed and unworkable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:26 AM (t0OGg)

Economic texts on this are reasonably clear. Free trade will adhere to the most profitable arrangement, but doesn't take into consideration social structure or conflicts between countries. There's also labor mobility in a trade zone that isn't an economic union to take into consideration.

In terms of predictability of the model, it's pretty straightforward with things being produced where they're most efficient and then trading for the rest. It also tends to be easy to see how a policy change would alter a country's production decisions.

Pundits conflated most efficient and most profitable with best. Other than noting that commodity focused economies probably want to regulate trade to diversify, the books don't much comment about best.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 13, 2022 08:37 AM (b2nrj)

168 "You have to believe you're going to blow my fucking head off"

Well, if you knew my real name you could do a search and find it's true. Is what it is. I've never been a good guy. This is an interesting query/comment: "Is this threat credible?" Well, in fact, any threat is an effort to AVOID conflict. The things I've really done, came with no warning at all. Any threat is like a false charge: like an elephant putting on a show.
But this is a discourse, a blog or whatever. I know people read these comments, so this is exactly that. The real things I've done came with no threat at all. Why would I warn an enemy? That's stupid.
But this blog IS read, apparently widely. So since I can't donate through PayPal, which is a dumb company, I'll comment, and people need to see unedited speech. I'm about as close to a Free Speech Absolutist as anyone will ever meet. And I'm not hard to find.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 08:37 AM (U11/V)

169 The industry may have died, but something else should have developed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:37 AM (t0OGg)

Meth and oxycontin are things, right?

Posted by: blaster at September 13, 2022 08:38 AM (6TxNR)

170 First monkeypox death confirmed! Lock down! Mask up! The time to panic and make irrational decisions is now!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Pennsylvania Dad, Defiant! at September 13, 2022 08:36 AM (t3/qz)

Or, don't put your johnson in a dude's ass that has lesions all over it. Or, just avoid putting your johnson in a dude's ass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

171 GM's self-driving car company announces plans to expand a robotaxi service into AZ and TX.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0)

Why, better to murder conservatives with, my dear.
Posted by: Sponge

Autonomous car checks your social media score, locks the doors, and proceeds to immolate.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2022 08:38 AM (5kCce)

172 This is down from 9%. That means that inflation is over, peasants. Stop complaining and vote blue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 08:36 AM (LvTSG)

And gas is all the way down to $4 a gallon.

Biden Time, and the livin' is easy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:38 AM (6FeV1)

173 Well, of course the FBI is out to get Trump. Akshually an FBI who aggressively investigates and prosecutes opposing politicians is a good thing for democracy! We should encourage more of it!

-Vox explainer, probably.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Pennsylvania Dad, Defiant! at September 13, 2022 08:39 AM (t3/qz)

174 “The [Presidential Records Act] accords any President extraordinary discretion to categorize all his or her records as either Presidential or personal records, and established case law provides for very limited judicial oversight over such categorization. The PRA further contains no provision authorizing or allowing for any criminal enforcement,” Trump’s motion read.

“What is clear regarding all of the seized materials is that they belong with either President Trump (as his personal property to be returned pursuant to Rule 41(g)) or with NARA, but not with the Department of Justice.”

Posted by: SMOD at September 13, 2022 08:39 AM (RHGPo)

175 That's the key point, I think. At least, it was for me. I lived in the postindustrial economic wasteland of upstate NY in the mid aughts and that made me question the globalist economics.

Yes, we went from "overpaying" for Americans to do this kind of work, to paying people overseas less money and watching those Americans get a grift, die, or accept much worse career prospects.

Globalization was a failure from the aspect of the median American. Really good though for the CEO and governing classes.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 08:39 AM (ESjRY)

176 And I'm not hard to find.
Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 08:37 AM (U11/V)

... and here i was just looking for a chuckle at my Russellian absurdism...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:40 AM (6FeV1)

177 Australian man killed by pet kangaroo.
The kangaroo also kept paramedics from treating the 77 yr old man.

Bet a handgun sounds good right about now.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2022 08:40 AM (5kCce)

178 >>We still don't get it. We're not going to beat them with "public policy," not at this point of their propagandistic supremacy.

If that were true Democrats wouldn't have to cheat so much. Yes, Lake is a great candidate and in a fair election would beat Hobbs like a drum. She will probably still win but the only reason it is close is because everyone knows Maricopa County like Fulton County in GA, Philly in PA and on and on is a hotbed of Democrat corruption and election rigging.

One of the first things DeSantis did in FL after winning was clean up the election process in Miami-Dade and surrounding areas. This is the way. Because ultimately it doesn't matter how good the candidate is or the policy if elections can be stolen.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 08:40 AM (ZLI7S)

179 173 Well, of course the FBI is out to get Trump. Akshually an FBI who aggressively investigates and prosecutes opposing politicians is a good thing for democracy! We should encourage more of it!

-Vox explainer, probably.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Pennsylvania Dad, Defiant! at September 13, 2022 08:39 AM (t3/qz)

==========

"Except when the target is Democrats because Democrats are known to be purely moral and ethical in all ways. Any investigation of them is a witch hunt and should be met with political violence."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 08:40 AM (LvTSG)

180 GM's self-driving car company announces plans to expand a robotaxi service into AZ and TX.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 08:32 AM (yikp0)
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The parts of Texas that are dry, I reckon. They're picking the venues with greatest possibility of success: dry, clear places with decent roads, little to no snow and where it's unusual for roads to be blocked or for lane markings to be occluded.

C'mon, GM! Prove your worth. Roll it out in Alberta.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:40 AM (t0OGg)

181 When it comes to a national election, has the Left ever defined what 'Fraud' consists of?

Remember, two entities can not have even a simple discussion without both entities agreeing on the definition of words.

Make them define 'fraud' then move forward from there.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:40 AM (1n+EO)

182 Only the well off will get to ride a self driving taxi, everyone else will take the self driving bus.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at September 13, 2022 08:41 AM (J+nFa)

183 Is this something? WSJ reports US banks lost $400 billion in deposits last quarter. Things that make you go hmmm.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at September 13, 2022 08:41 AM (oWBc3)

184 Or, don't put your johnson in a dude's ass that has lesions all over it. Or, just avoid putting your johnson in a dude's ass.

All it would take is closing down the bathhouses for a couple of months to stop the progress of this disease. Looking at the two years we f*cked around with COVID this is actually completely reasonable.

But the government will not do it. Because this affects THEM personally, not us.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 08:41 AM (ESjRY)

185 Walking to my office at 3AM I've had crackheads approach all tough, recognize me, and then ask to purchase a loose cigarette.
"Mr. Sir..."
Yeah, come hang with me for a few days. We'll go walk around in the middle of the night.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 08:41 AM (U11/V)

186 This is down from 9%. That means that inflation is over, peasants. Stop complaining and vote blue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 08:36 AM (LvTSG)

And gas is all the way down to $4 a gallon.

Biden Time, and the livin' is easy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:38 AM (6FeV1)
********
They're going to raise interest rates again.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 13, 2022 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

187 "Yes, we went from "overpaying" for Americans to do this kind of work, to paying people overseas less money and watching those Americans get a grift, die, or accept much worse career prospects. "

Didn't the UAW have something to do with excessively high wages for relatively simple and repetitive manual work type jobs?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:43 AM (1n+EO)

188 Is this something? WSJ reports US banks lost $400 billion in deposits last quarter. Things that make you go hmmm.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at September 13, 2022 08:41 AM (oWBc3)
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There are probably a ton of reasons. One of them is probably (and it's probably a big reason) people dipping into reserves to deal with inflation. $400 billion is a lot of money, and most people aren't billionaires, so it isn't the whole story but it's probably a part of it and I'd love to see the internals. My bet is that the draw-down is mostly the middle class (formerly upper-middle-class, a few years ago) and among the ultra-huge depositors.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:43 AM (t0OGg)

189 *You* are the RINO, as is anyone even remotely like you. Mitch McConnell is not. They are using every tool in their box to deal with the RINO problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:22 AM (t0OGg)

Strictly speaking, this is actually true. I was never that interested in the 'Republican' title except in what it supposedly stood for. I always much preferred 'Traditionalist' to 'Conservative' although that might all just be the fact that I like to be contrary.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 08:44 AM (5JqIf)

190 "This is where I have to lean on the Holy Spirit. I get all tongue-tied and flustered.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 13, 2022 08:32 AM (45fpk) "

I always pause, breath and let the Holy Spirit take over. God and his son, Jesus Christ give us hope. They teach us to live beyond this world, and to live in the Spirit (Romans 8, et al) not in the things of this world. This life is ephemeral and what really matters it what lies beyond it, not within it. The teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible state this many times. Ergo, we have hope because we believe, and in the end Christ and the Truth always win. Always. He is the light and the way. He gives us hope. He NEVER abandons us. Our faith keeps that hope and truth alive.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 13, 2022 08:44 AM (VpIIl)

191
And I'm not hard to find.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 08:37 AM

Lighten up, Francis

Posted by: SGT Hulka Contractual Obligation Retort at September 13, 2022 08:45 AM (ENBF0)

192 RIP Ramsey Lewis. I saw him perform in Georgetown around 1987.

Posted by: gp Is Lit AF at September 13, 2022 08:45 AM (24fqN)

193 WSJ reports US banks lost $400 billion in deposits last quarter. Things that make you go hmmm.

That will cover about two weeks of groceries.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 13, 2022 08:45 AM (45fpk)

194
Yes, we went from "overpaying" for Americans to do this kind of work, to paying people overseas less money and watching those Americans get a grift, die, or accept much worse career prospects.

Globalization was a failure from the aspect of the median American. Really good though for the CEO and governing classes.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 08:39 AM (ESjRY)

And now the overpaid lazy bastards are quiet quitting, doing even LESS work. The CEO's and governing classes are going to regret some things in the near future.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

195 Didn't the UAW have something to do with excessively high wages for relatively simple and repetitive manual work type jobs?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:43 AM (1n+EO)

To this day i still don't fully understand what the hell NAFTA even was...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:45 AM (6FeV1)

196 Is this something? WSJ reports US banks lost $400 billion in deposits last quarter. Things that make you go hmmm.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at September 13, 2022 08:41 AM (oWBc3)

Reports last week said we lost $6.3T in net worth last quarter. So, yeah, I bet less money went in the bank.

Posted by: blaster at September 13, 2022 08:46 AM (6TxNR)

197 Inflation number out: 8.3%.

Posted by: Ziba at September 13, 2022 08:46 AM (4h9M3)

198 WSJ reports US banks lost $400 billion in deposits last quarter. Things that make you go hmmm.

*

That plus record (not using term trivially) credit card spending/debt AND Yellen admitting we're going to be lucky to not have a bad crash?

Yeah, we're on borrowed time.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:46 AM (syPV9)

199 There has never been any proof that our elections have been tainted by fraud in the last 50 years
Great claims (FRAUD!) require great proofs.
_____________

In Arizona in 2020, thousands more mail-in ballots were received by the state than had been mailed out by the state.

But that's not proof of fraud. No, it could just as easily have been unicorns or faeries who were responsible for the creation of those thousands of mystery ballots!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at September 13, 2022 08:47 AM (MvHI3)

200
To this day i still don't fully understand what the hell NAFTA even was...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:45 AM (6FeV1)

A transfer of wealth to southern shithole countries with the goal of shrinking America on the global power stage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

201 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
Basically the official CPI would be north of 10 percent had Biden not emptied the SPR, temporarily offsetting rising gas prices
zerohedge
@zerohedge

10m
CPI: "Increases in the shelter, food, and medical care indexes were the largest of many contributors to the broad-based monthly all items increase. These increases were mostly offset by a 10.6% decline in the gasoline index. The food index continued to rise, increasing 0.8%"

Posted by: redridinghood at September 13, 2022 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

202 "That will cover about 2 weeks of groceries".
I think that's the point, higher household savings rates are bad for the government as people are "more free". Much like JIT in business, people living week to week are much more prone to developing an Uncle Sugar habit.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at September 13, 2022 08:47 AM (oWBc3)

203 187 "Yes, we went from "overpaying" for Americans to do this kind of work, to paying people overseas less money and watching those Americans get a grift, die, or accept much worse career prospects. "

Didn't the UAW have something to do with excessively high wages for relatively simple and repetitive manual work type jobs?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:43 AM (1n+EO)

They still do. Though they're pretty much legacy at American car companies. Japanese car companies produce cars in the US more cheaply because they don't' have to deal with UAW.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 13, 2022 08:47 AM (b2nrj)

204 "To this day i still don't fully understand what the hell NAFTA even was..."

I think it is a solvent.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:47 AM (1n+EO)

205 they're giving the old girl the "George Floyd" send off

Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2022 08:47 AM (us2H3)

206 Inflation number out: 8.3%.

Posted by: Ziba at September 13, 2022 08:46 AM (4h9M3)

It will be revised down to 9.5% in 6 weeks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

207 The American car industry should have gone tots up in 60's.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2022 08:48 AM (Oa1Nr)

208 Elections aren't newsworthy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2022 08:48 AM (oINRc)

209 Michael Anton: "America’s elites are neither bright, competent, nor qualified."
Elite, not Expert
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Very good, and bookmarked to reread. (Not surprising, since it's by Anton.) But he made one common error, one Straussians are prone to. He kept referring to the elite's beliefs as "religious doctrines". No. He really should read Orwell - no believer, btw - on this point. Religious beliefs simply cannot be changed so quickly. Orwell points out that with religion, a man will die believing what he believed when young, while if you get up and go to the john, you may come back to find the party line has changed.

This is a blind spot for many bright people on our side.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 13, 2022 08:48 AM (TgBWG)

210 woman posted a Tweet that suggested that if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault. ...
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2022 07:57 AM (1Nxff)

But then who repair their washer/dryers, clean out their backed-up sewage or fix their flat tires?

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2022 08:48 AM (H8QX8)

211
RIP Ramsey Lewis. I saw him perform in Georgetown around 1987.

Posted by: gp Is Lit AF at September 13, 2022 08:45 A

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 13, 2022 08:49 AM (ENBF0)

212 The [Presidential Records Act] accords any President extraordinary discretion to categorize all his or her records as either Presidential or personal records, and established case law provides for very limited judicial oversight over such categorization.

Oh! I see where the misunderstanding is! You see, Trump is not MY president, so as far as I am concerned he is not covered by the PRA.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Pennsylvania Dad, Defiant! at September 13, 2022 08:49 AM (t3/qz)

213 ZH has a surprising story this morning

Denmark's Left-Wing Government Will Begin Sending Asylum Seekers To Rwanda After Groundbreaking Agreement

And yeah...even the lefties in Denmark are apparently tired of all the "diversity" they are getting and are just going to send the immigrants to central Africa.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 08:49 AM (ESjRY)

214 New insanity flavor. NY Dems pass legislation with "Standing is tiring" act. Not fair to have a job that requires one to stand all day.

More coffee breaks...

Posted by: Ziba at September 13, 2022 08:49 AM (4h9M3)

215 Yeah, we're on borrowed time.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:46 AM (syPV9)

as long as the worst hits after the election

I'm good

Posted by: BRANDON at September 13, 2022 08:49 AM (us2H3)

216 zerohedge @zerohedge · 13m
CPI: "Increases in the shelter, food, and medical care indexes were the largest of many contributors to the broad-based monthly all items increase. These increases were mostly offset by a 10.6% decline in the gasoline index. The food index continued to rise, increasing 0.8%"

@zerohedge · 11m
US Consumer Prices Blow Away Expectations, Rise For 27th Straight Month

@zerohedge · 7m
The food index increased 11.4% over the last year, the largest 12-month increase since the period ending May 1979.

@zerohedge · 4m
Shelter inflation just hit 6.24% Y/Y, surpassing the previous high from Aug 1990 of 6.1%

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 08:49 AM (yikp0)

217 I didn't understand the flaws of free trade until I saw the effect that NAFTA had on our manufacturing sector. And then realized that shutting down your manufacturing sector so that everyone can become life coaches and gender studies analysts was insane.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 08:50 AM (1ow1X)

218 213 ZH has a surprising story this morning

Denmark's Left-Wing Government Will Begin Sending Asylum Seekers To Rwanda After Groundbreaking Agreement

And yeah...even the lefties in Denmark are apparently tired of all the "diversity" they are getting and are just going to send the immigrants to central Africa.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 08:49 AM (ESjRY)

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4chan needs to get on this. I have no idea what they can convince the left to do in response, but it could be epic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 08:50 AM (LvTSG)

219 Negative inflation baby! Wait for it, that spin is coming.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at September 13, 2022 08:50 AM (oWBc3)

220 The look of shock then men pretending to be women did not disappear, then took advantage of the situation.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Pennsylvania Dad, Defiant! at September 13, 2022 08:50 AM (t3/qz)

221 206 Inflation number out: 8.3%.

Posted by: Ziba at September 13, 2022 08:46 AM (4h9M3)

I believe that like I believe the VAERS numbers.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2022 08:50 AM (H8QX8)

222 @zerohedge · 7m
The food index increased 11.4% over the last year, the largest 12-month increase since the period ending May 1979.
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Bullsh*t.

Go ask anyone who buys groceries for the family. Prices have doubled.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:50 AM (syPV9)

223 195 Didn't the UAW have something to do with excessively high wages for relatively simple and repetitive manual work type jobs?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:43 AM (1n+EO)

To this day i still don't fully understand what the hell NAFTA even was...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:45 AM (6FeV1)

It lowered (though did not eliminate) trade and labor barriers between Canada, the US, and Mexico. A fair amount of the trade is export and re-import as a finished product with Mexico. We refine their oil for their use, we send car parts to finish assembly there.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM (b2nrj)

224 We have decreased the rate of increase! It is an inflation cut for the middle class!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Pennsylvania Dad, Defiant! at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM (t3/qz)

225
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4chan needs to get on this. I have no idea what they can convince the left to do in response, but it could be epic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 08:50 AM (LvTSG)

I mean, if they can triangulate Shia Lebouf's location in the middle of nowhere, what CAN'T they do?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

226 Why do lycanthropes make such bad fashion models?

Because they can only wear wolf.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM (AJHCB)

227 191
And I'm not hard to find.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 08:37 AM

Lighten up, Francis

Well, I'm actually not hard to find at all. Weirdest thing about me, is people who read my utterings online and then meet me in person and find I'm quite personable and polite. Public gestures are important. Rona and the violations of that are really what set me off. I once went to meet a co-blogger who lived basically next door to Obama in Hyde Park, and for-real got followed around by a Secret Service female agent. 'Sarala', a petite Jewish psychiatrist, told me, "Your demeanor and personality is not at all what I expected."
What really did it for me, was the deliberate fracture of the social contract.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM (U11/V)

228 GOP Establishment Leaders Call on Senate to Enshrine Same-Sex Marriage
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No surprise that Tillis is among them. I promise that if I am still alive in 2026 (alas, that's a long way) I will vote for the most likely opponent to beat him. I am ashamed I voted for him last time. Next time, I don't care if it's Ilhan Omar, I will vote to get rid of him.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM (TgBWG)

229 Inflation number out: 8.3%.
Posted by: Ziba at September 13, 2022 08:46 AM (4h9M3)
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The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) rose 0.1 percent in August on a seasonally adjusted basis... Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 8.3 percent before seasonal adjustment.

The food index continued to rise, increasing 0.8 percent over the month as the food at home index rose 0.7 percent. The energy index fell 5.0 percent over the month as the gasoline index declined, but the electricity and natural gas indexes increased. ...

... The index for all items less food and energy rose 0.6 percent in August, a larger increase than in July. ...

Gas prices are the *only* reason it's a mere 8.3%. If you happen to eat, live in a structure or have to pay to heat, cool or light that structure, things are still getting meaningfully worse in real time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM (t0OGg)

230 We have decreased the rate of increase! It is an inflation cut for the middle class!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Pennsylvania Dad, Defiant! at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM (t3/qz)

Coming soon to a Wall Street Journal headline near you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

231 The food index increased 11.4% over the last year

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Addendum: Okay, "over the last year" might be the out. They've doubled since Biden took office, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM (syPV9)

232 Go ask anyone who buys groceries for the family. Prices have doubled.

Yep. And this is actually probably the biggest mistake the left has made in a while.

You can tell the LIVs things are great but...you are making them pay extra money they don't have for things like food.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM (ESjRY)

233 https://tinyurl.com/56bfdscv

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 08:52 AM (U11/V)

234 210

Camille Paglia, feminist extraordinaire of all people, warned about women wishing men would disappear.
Not only do they do the heavy dirty work, they keep the species going. There's that.

Posted by: Ziba at September 13, 2022 08:52 AM (4h9M3)

235 I've spent $1k at the store in the last week. Now, I was stocking up a brand new home, and had to throw out all my perishables in CO. So it's a much bigger shopping trip than normal, for me. But still... That's a whole lot of coin for some groceries and household items.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2022 08:52 AM (oINRc)

236 138 Con Ed, New York City's electric utility is a co-developer of the $6.2B project. If it is never completed, their electric bills will climb higher with ZERO benefit in return.
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Sounds ideal!

Posted by: Biden Junta Press Team at September 13, 2022 08:52 AM (vPFZB)

237 Not fair to have a job that requires one to stand all day.

More coffee breaks...
Posted by: Ziba at September 13, 2022 08:49 AM (4h9M3)

Which standing-desk manufacturer pissed Brandon off is what i want to know....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:52 AM (6FeV1)

238 "they're giving the old girl the "George Floyd" send off"

Reminds me, there was a long shot of the escorts walking alongside the hearse with the late Queen's coffin yesterday. And with the stinted gait they were walking at, they were all swaying left and right in step with each other.

And I suddenly thought of the Pall Bearers from Ghana.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:53 AM (1n+EO)

239 The America all of us grew up in its gone.

Do any of you think the losing side in 2024 will accept the outcome?

Why should we accept blatant cheating in major cities rigging the election?
Why will the left accept that rural hicks imposed Hitler on them?

Tell me why we should accept Biden's reelection or why they would accept Trump's election.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 13, 2022 08:53 AM (Zf0+a)

240 @177 rickb223-A kangaroo kept paramedics from treating the man(?)

Even not having a gun shoot the MF'er with the medic wagon, you know run it the fck over. It'd be the day a kangaroo one ups me.

Posted by: JROD at September 13, 2022 08:53 AM (0jZnq)

241 Did a little digging into GAs election in 2020. There were 1.8M more voters registered and the over half came from one 'non profit' that seeks to register young people, single women, and minorities.

This is where a lot of the Zuckerbucks went. They also helped these new voters get mail in ballots.

Posted by: MJ at September 13, 2022 08:54 AM (zwDuR)

242 RIP Ramsey Lewis. I saw him perform in Georgetown around 1987.

Posted by: gp Is Lit AF at September 13, 2022 08:45 A

another grim milestone for the biden administration
Posted by: AltonJackson

Preach it Alton !

Posted by: JT at September 13, 2022 08:54 AM (T4tVD)

243 We have decreased the rate of increase! It is an inflation cut for the middle class!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Pennsylvania Dad, Defiant! at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM (t3/qz)
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They tried exactly that after the most recent report.

Posted by: Biden Junta Press Team at September 13, 2022 08:54 AM (vPFZB)

244 Not to mention - as redridinghood quotes - that the gas price declines come in part from eating our seed grain (draining the strategic reserve). Another part is demand destruction, which isn't exactly a rainbows-and-unicorns reason.

We're going to tap out the SPR this Autumn at current rates, and then the buffer will be gone at the same time that we're starting to divert even more domestic production - production that is already inadequate - to Europe. Winter is probably going to be quite bad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:54 AM (t0OGg)

245 222 @zerohedge · 7m
The food index increased 11.4% over the last year, the largest 12-month increase since the period ending May 1979.
*

Bullsh*t.

Go ask anyone who buys groceries for the family. Prices have doubled.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:50 AM (syPV9)

Amen - if you count the packahe shrinkage, it's been about 100% increase over the last year-ish...

Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 08:54 AM (exHjb)

246 package - damn my spelling

Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 08:54 AM (exHjb)

247 126 I believe that civil society, as imperfectly framed by the US Constitution, is about as good as it gets. Nothing is perfect, there is no Utopia, no Tikkun Olam.

100%, LenNeal ... especially when one considers that the ONLY reference to "Tikkun Olam," i.e., "repairing the world," in the entire traditional Jewish liturgy expressly attributes that action to the Almighty Himself and none other. Ignorant Jews who use deliberately misunderstood concepts to reinforce stupid and destructive politics are my least favorite humans.

Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 13, 2022 08:54 AM (SPNTN)

248
"To this day i still don't fully understand what the hell NAFTA even was..."

Reagan had the 'Caribbean Basin Initiative' which somehow increased trade between a powerful nation and a few dozen poor islands. That didn't hurt the US economy at all, so the experiment continued with NAFTA - which hurt a lot of the manufacturing economy. But it was still kicking so the Senate approved permanent most favored trade status with China - a nation with at least three times our population. Until we put China back on a year to year basis we're screwed.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 13, 2022 08:54 AM (y3pKJ)

249 This life is ephemeral and what really matters it what lies beyond it, not within it.

Believing there really is something that lies beyond and that it is good is a high hurdle for me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 13, 2022 08:54 AM (AW0uW)

250 "they're giving the old girl the "George Floyd" send off"
___________

No gold coffin, though.

The queen would never have approved something as tacky as that.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at September 13, 2022 08:55 AM (MvHI3)

251 Manufacturing tends to be done where there is little else to economically recommend a region. If the land is good for cotton farming, they'll make cotton and trade for manufactured goods.

Saudi Arabia isn't a manufacturing hub despite plenty of relatively idle labor because it has a strong oil industry. The "Dutch disease" is a good example of what happens even in an existing economy when new natural resources alter what they are an efficient producer of.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 13, 2022 08:55 AM (b2nrj)

252 239 The America all of us grew up in its gone.
**
Like bankruptcy. Slowly over time, then all of a sudden.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2022 08:56 AM (H8QX8)

253 Glad I'm not a young serviceman just beginning.

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2022 08:56 AM (0OP+5)

254 Did a little digging into GAs election in 2020. There were 1.8M more voters registered and the over half came from one 'non profit' that seeks to register young people, single women, and minorities.
*

It recently came out that there were (iirc) 17K ballots certified in Fulton County that had absolutely, 100% no paper trail for. They don't exist. There is no possible way they could have been cast.

Biden won ALL of Georgia by 12K

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:56 AM (syPV9)

255 Well, I'm actually not hard to find at all. Weirdest thing about me, is people who read my utterings online and then meet me in person and find I'm quite personable and polite.

I used to think this about myself, but then garrett threatened to murder me if he ever meets me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

256 >>Gas prices are the *only* reason it's a mere 8.3%. If you happen to eat, live in a structure or have to pay to heat, cool or light that structure, things are still getting meaningfully worse in real time.

And the only reason gas prices have fallen a tad is because demand is down because of the high prices and because Biden has been draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at an unprecedented and dangerous level. The SPR is at the lowest level in decades.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 08:56 AM (ZLI7S)

257 Real and pretend coin collectors affect precious metals market!

zerohedge @zerohedge · 1h
Queen Elizabeth's Death Puts Squeeze On Already Tight Bullion Coin Market

The recent death of Queen Elizabeth II is squeezing gold and silver bullion coin markets that were already strained by tight supplies.

There was an immediate and dramatic surge in demand for gold and silver bullion coins bearing the queen’s effigy upon her passing. According to News.com.au in Australia, “Collectors are scrambling to get their hands on coins with Queen Elizabeth’s face as prices skyrocket after her death.”

The owner of a Melbourne coin shop called the demand for coins with the queen’s likeness “insane.”

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 08:56 AM (yikp0)

258 213 ZH has a surprising story this morning

Denmark's Left-Wing Government Will Begin Sending Asylum Seekers To Rwanda After Groundbreaking Agreement

And yeah...even the lefties in Denmark are apparently tired of all the "diversity" they are getting and are just going to send the immigrants to central Africa.

See the story in the Foreign Affairs section about the Swedish elections. Another shocker.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 13, 2022 08:57 AM (x0n13)

259 238 One of our senior enlisted died of a heart attack, and the family requested a detail for the funeral. That pace for funerals (60 Per minute?) took some getting used to. Sgt Major had a bunch of cassettes, and we drilled listening to La Boudin, French Foreign Legion march, which is at that pace.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2022 08:57 AM (lz5hY)

260 My kids' college has cut back all the free food they offered last year for events. It's too expensive (for the $3500 in fees the kids pay) to actually feed them at all the student-run events...

Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 08:57 AM (exHjb)

261 226 Why do lycanthropes make such bad fashion models?

Because they can only wear wolf.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM

I love you very, very much.

Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 13, 2022 08:57 AM (SPNTN)

262 232 You can tell the LIVs things are great but...you are making them pay extra money they don't have for things like food.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 08:51 AM (ESjRY)
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All the Democratic Party knows how to do anymore is message and poll. They don't know how to govern, but they can use Hollywood to tell people that things are great when they're bad and bad when they're good.

Their leaders don't achieve power anymore by being good at anything. They achieve power by having the right skin color and genitals (or adopting an extra fake oppression mantle) or doing things that appeal to internal politics of the party. Cleaning up streets, keeping the economy in good order through a light government touch, or managing foreign policy successes are simply not important for them anymore.

They are the worst kind of political machine, the kind that actively encourages destruction at the local level to increase political power. The problem is that they can drive people out of Chicago, but they haven't gotten to the point where they drive people out of the US. The number of people pissed about the situation is simply increasing and not really going anywhere nationally.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 08:57 AM (LvTSG)

263 Gasoline prices remain volatile. An oil trader friend of mine says oil is headed back up soon, and will remain high through the winter. Maybe she's right or maybe she's wrong, but she makes her living on this question.

Posted by: Biden Junta Press Team at September 13, 2022 08:57 AM (vPFZB)

264 RIP Ramsey Lewis. I saw him perform in Georgetown around 1987.

Of the Ramsey Lewis Trio? I didn't even know he was still alive. Good stuff.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 13, 2022 08:57 AM (AW0uW)

265 The owner of a Melbourne coin shop called the demand for coins with the queen’s likeness “insane.”
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 08:56 AM (yikp0)

....

Isn't her face on the copper penny?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 08:58 AM (6FeV1)

266 254 It recently came out that there were (iirc) 17K ballots certified in Fulton County that had absolutely, 100% no paper trail for. They don't exist. There is no possible way they could have been cast.

Biden won ALL of Georgia by 12K
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:56 AM (syPV9)

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The 2020 election was 100% clean.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

267 ___________

No gold coffin, though.

The queen would never have approved something as tacky as that.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at September 13, 2022 08:55 AM (MvHI3)

Is it wrong that I equate that to the Gold Cow moment for Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

268 How long before the coins and notes with King Tampon’s visage on them are issued?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 13, 2022 08:58 AM (AJHCB)

269 and had to throw out all my perishables in CO
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OMG! What's wrong with the food in CO, YD?!!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 08:59 AM (yikp0)

270 Go ask anyone who buys groceries for the family. Prices have doubled.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:50 AM (syPV9)
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Not according to what's in the basket of goods, I guess - but even the rollups don't make a lot of sense to me.

In the "Food at Home" category, here are some of the breakouts:
Cereals/Bakery products: +16.4%
Meat. poultry, fish, eggs: +10.6%
Dairy: +16.2%
Fruits/Vegetables: +9.4%

The cereals seem to be roughly in line with my experience, but the rest is not, especially meat and vegetables. Those are quite a lot higher than the printed figures in my experience.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:59 AM (t0OGg)

271 Fetterman chased down a black man and held him at gunpoint for a crime he didn’t commit in 2013. NBC News says the new Republican ads pointing that out are “an attempt to suppress black votes”. WTAF? So black votes are only legitimate if they’re (D)?

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2022 08:59 AM (zm+d5)

272 In supermarket news, we no longer touch baggies of dope that people drop everywhere. Seriously, I thought cops made that 'dropsie' ploy up, but it's true. People drop drugs all the time, totally by carelessness. In the aisles, on the conveyor belts, really. And, "That's not mine!"
We don't care. Take it.
The reason is fentanyl. We're scared to death of our own customers. Touch someone's clothes and you're dead? Uh-uh. And it's EVERYWHERE.
I easily dismissed Rona as a nothingburger, it was obvious, but this fentanyl shit, is fucking dangerous.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 08:59 AM (U11/V)

273 Sefton,

The Naomi Wolf essay is spectacular. Absolutely worth a read, even though it is long and written in her sort of odd style.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2022 09:00 AM (XIJ/X)

274 Do any of you think the losing side in 2024 will accept the outcome?

The GOP will, when they lose. You can take that to the fucking bank.

Why should we accept blatant cheating in major cities rigging the election?
Why will the left accept that rural hicks imposed Hitler on them?

Will you, your neighbors, your friends, your so-called 'representatives' riot in the streets and burn down buildings when you lose? The left will, the right won't.

Tell me why we should accept Biden's reelection or why they would accept Trump's election.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 13, 2022 08:53 AM (Zf0+a)

Because not accepting a Democrat steal is Not Who We Are.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 13, 2022 09:00 AM (AW0uW)

275 Reminds me, there was a long shot of the escorts walking alongside the hearse with the late Queen's coffin yesterday. And with the stinted gait they were walking at, they were all swaying left and right in step with each other.
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British-Commonwealth "Slow March".

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 09:00 AM (yikp0)

276 I used to think this about myself, but then garrett threatened to murder me if he ever meets me.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

That scamp!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 09:00 AM (5JqIf)

277 They're going to raise interest rates again.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 13, 2022 08:42 AM

Oh most definitely and they will raise them more than once or twice.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 13, 2022 09:01 AM (bVYXr)

278 271 Fetterman chased down a black man and held him at gunpoint for a crime he didn’t commit in 2013. NBC News says the new Republican ads pointing that out are “an attempt to suppress black votes”. WTAF? So black votes are only legitimate if they’re (D)?
Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2022 08:59 AM (zm+d5)

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I think that the effort can easily and accurately be described as trying to suppress black votes. The aim of negative ads is to prevent votes, not change votes.

However, suppressing votes is only good when it's directed at the white working class.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:01 AM (LvTSG)

279 especially meat and vegetables. Those are quite a lot higher than the printed figures in my experience.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 08:59 AM (t0OGg)

Who cares about wypipo food? My baby needs chips!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 09:01 AM (6FeV1)

280 It really disappoints me that Allen West has become such a professional grifter. I had high hopes for that guy.
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I think that this designation of 'grifter' has to stop. Realistically, are people with good ideas and the will to achieve them supposed to be 'above' mundane considerations like supporting their families?

If there is true evidence of such, after all Flynn was accused of 'grifting', then put it out there, but I am absolutely sick of 'Tea Party was a grift' and 'Palin is a 'grifter' and West as well.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 13, 2022 09:02 AM (MIKMs)

281 Even not having a gun shoot the MF'er with the medic wagon, you know run it the fck over. It'd be the day a kangaroo one ups me.
Posted by: JROD

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2022 09:02 AM (5kCce)

282 Dow futures are doing a Biden right now. Market is going to crater today.

I am honestly amazed. What expectations did Wall Street have? Whatever it was, it was for much lower inflation numbers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 09:02 AM (vPFZB)

283 I was wondering why the Pall Bearers seemed to be really struggling with weight of the late Queen's coffin, till Mrs VIA explained that the coffins for the royal family are actually lead lined.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 09:02 AM (1n+EO)

284 The owner of a Melbourne coin shop called the demand for coins with the queen’s likeness “insane.”
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 08:56 AM (yikp0)

Zombie Crazy Eddie?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 13, 2022 09:03 AM (906pl)

285 283 I was wondering why the Pall Bearers seemed to be really struggling with weight of the late Queen's coffin, till Mrs VIA explained that the coffins for the royal family are actually lead lined.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 09:02 AM (1n+EO)

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So that Superman can't peep on their undergarments in the ground.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:03 AM (LvTSG)

286 Also in supermarket news, I hear more 'Big Corporations fucking the little guy!" a lot more than I hear anything realistic.
A lot of people truly believe it's price-fixing.
"There ain't no shortages! It's just Big Companies fucking the little guy!"
While they drive to my store from Illinois, which has sales tax on food, which my State does not.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 09:03 AM (U11/V)

287 JJ, are you going to become a fan of Big Ten football now that you’re in the Midwest?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 13, 2022 09:03 AM (AJHCB)

288 Think of the absolute worst, most devious and blatant election illegalities and fraud. You will see them from Democrats on November.

Write this down, put it on your fridge. Whatever Democrats say about Republicans is what they are doing and will do themselves. It is their sine qua non.

They are talking about "Republicans" being election deniers because they are about to undertake one of the most blatant fraud operations in our history.

They have no boundaries. There are no lines they won't cross. They keep showing everyone that. But it's being ignored at our peril.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 13, 2022 09:04 AM (tU3dj)

289 Isn't her face on the copper penny?
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Yes, all the coins do but not mint uncirculated.

Mmm. Mint.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 09:04 AM (yikp0)

290 Hey, who wants to go to Disney World and hook up with some underage chicks? I hear they will suck your mouse good and plenty.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 13, 2022 09:04 AM (g/54t)

291 I think that this designation of 'grifter' has to stop. Realistically, are people with good ideas and the will to achieve them supposed to be 'above' mundane considerations like supporting their families?

If there is true evidence of such, after all Flynn was accused of 'grifting', then put it out there, but I am absolutely sick of 'Tea Party was a grift' and 'Palin is a 'grifter' and West as well.

Posted by: mustbequantum

If you profess "X", get paid to not do "X", and continue to profess "X", you're a grifter. Sorry.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2022 09:04 AM (5kCce)

292 Kareeenin' Jean Pierre on 8.3% inflation figure.

Look! It's down. It's not up. Biden worked hard to make that happen. He has put billions into Putin's war and now finally inflation is coming down.
Besides, people are finally getting used to paying more. I think most Americans will feel good about this number just like I do.

No, Peter, it's not your turn.

Posted by: Ziba at September 13, 2022 09:04 AM (4h9M3)

293 The Naomi Wolf essay is spectacular. Absolutely worth a read, even though it is long and written in her sort of odd style.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 13, 2022 09:00 AM (XIJ/X)
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The honest lefties who care about free speech (and the Bill of Rights generally) reassure me. Even across the divide, people like Wolf, Taibbi et al are proving themselves dedicated to America.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 09:05 AM (vPFZB)

294 "There ain't no shortages! It's just Big Companies fucking the little guy!"

I saw some Warlock ads from GA. He's claiming Biden-flation is actually caused by the evil shipping container monopoly.

And...checking lefty sites they publicly claim to believe this sh*t

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 09:05 AM (ESjRY)

295 The owner of a Melbourne coin shop called the demand for coins with the queen’s likeness “insane.”
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 08:56 AM

I have a 2019 2 pound one ounce uncirculated silver coin with QE II on it. Got it from Apmex on sale, I wonder what they are going for now.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 13, 2022 09:05 AM (bVYXr)

296 morning horde.

ate check in today. i had to call an 8 am meeting to discover that things are just as screwed up at work as i feared they would be...

it's amazing at how things manage to get done still...

second cup of coffee is going and off to the content. catch you all sometime around monkey time probably... lol

Posted by: SturmToddler (KdUK5) at September 13, 2022 09:05 AM (WhsXQ)

297 Also in supermarket news, I hear more 'Big Corporations fucking the little guy!" a lot more than I hear anything realistic.
A lot of people truly believe it's price-fixing.
"There ain't no shortages! It's just Big Companies fucking the little guy!"
While they drive to my store from Illinois, which has sales tax on food, which my State does not.
Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 09:03 AM (U11/V)
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This one makes me laugh particularly hard. "Trump hated normal people, was a racist, and like all Republicans was just trying to please big corporations. Also, these high prices are all because of big corporations screwing over the little guy, which they didn't do under Trump even though he loved them."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 09:05 AM (t0OGg)

298 283 I was wondering why the Pall Bearers seemed to be really struggling with weight of the late Queen's coffin, till Mrs VIA explained that the coffins for the royal family are actually lead lined.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 09:02 AM (1n+EO)

To prevent radiation and zombie monarchs?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 13, 2022 09:05 AM (b2nrj)

299 293 The honest lefties who care about free speech (and the Bill of Rights generally) reassure me. Even across the divide, people like Wolf, Taibbi et al are proving themselves dedicated to America.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 09:05 AM (vPFZB)

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I'm looking forward to them endorsing Biden over Trump in 2024.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:05 AM (LvTSG)

300 Perhaps we could convince leftists that the level of evidence required to claim rape or racism should be as high as the left's requirement of proof for the claim of election fraud in the case of a Republican candidate not being declared the winner of an election.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:21 AM (1n+EO)

So, evidence is not permitted to be presented and the lack of presented evidence proves the charges untrue?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 13, 2022 09:06 AM (zhLdt)

301 The cereals seem to be roughly in line with my experience, but the rest is not, especially meat and vegetables. Those are quite a lot higher than the printed figures in my experience.

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Serious question: Do you know if they are priced at a per-ounce or per-package or some other unit of measurement to come up with their magic?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:06 AM (syPV9)

302 If there is true evidence of such, after all Flynn was accused of 'grifting', then put it out there, but I am absolutely sick of 'Tea Party was a grift' and 'Palin is a 'grifter' and West as well.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 13, 2022 09:02 AM (MIKMs)

How they earn their supper doesn't much matter. We're just sick of hollow champions who think politics in a revolutionary era is a day job.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 09:06 AM (6FeV1)

303
I saw some Warlock ads from GA. He's claiming Biden-flation is actually caused by the evil shipping container monopoly.

And...checking lefty sites they publicly claim to believe this sh*t
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 09:05 AM (ESjRY)

There is one manufacturer of shipping containers and it's in China. This actually may be yet another cause of the Biden economy, but not the main factor.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

304 U.S. Banks Lost a Record $370 Billion in Deposits Last Quarter
Deposits at U.S. banks fell by a record $370 billion in the second quarter, the first decline since 2018. Deposits fell to $19.563 trillion ...

Jun 9, 2021 — Bank deposits have continued to surge this year. Between late March and May 26, they rose by $411 billion to $17.09 trillion

.. so bank deposits surged in the last 5 quarter by $2.5 trillion

Posted by: SMOD at September 13, 2022 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

305 297 This one makes me laugh particularly hard. "Trump hated normal people, was a racist, and like all Republicans was just trying to please big corporations. Also, these high prices are all because of big corporations screwing over the little guy, which they didn't do under Trump even though he loved them."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 09:05 AM (t0OGg)

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They didn't do this under Trump because they feared his fascist tyranny. They do this under Biden because he is weak and they do not fear him.

Vote Trump. Tyranny for the people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:06 AM (LvTSG)

306 Black and Hispanic families had strong gains in median net worth between 2016 and 2019, 30% and 64% respectively

https://tinyurl.com/2jnk3bp9

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I'll just leave this here for anyone who is interested.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:07 AM (syPV9)

307 How long before the coins and notes with King Tampon’s visage on them are issued?
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I'm guessing at the end of the official mourning year in time for the coronation, giving time to get artistic submissions, and dies and the like made. [Not that I know the details, Maybe there's a How It's Made about it?]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 09:07 AM (yikp0)

308 I wake up very early in the morning, so for me, the previous day's Morning Report is the last thing I read on AOSHQ, on a given day.
Last night's story about the CDC and an admission of the issue with Myocarditis? That's bald-faced obfuscation.
I am an actual scientist and I looked at the VAERS data last Spring, after my brother collapsed, post second Pfizer. At that time, I had heard there might be an issue with Myocarditis, because something needed to be said with healthy, young people dying. They didn't ever say it, but the huge issue is with Pericarditis in folks that are not young. The rate of the reported deaths was at least 10:1, last I checked, Pericarditis:Myocarditis. Myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle fibers. Pericarditis is the inflammation of the Pericardium, the sac in which the heart resides. Second Pfizer gave my brother's heart a nice, big hug. At least I can appreciate the thought.

Posted by: CJrun at September 13, 2022 09:07 AM (HKN1a)

309 282 Dow futures are doing a Biden right now. Market is going to crater today.

I am honestly amazed. What expectations did Wall Street have? Whatever it was, it was for much lower inflation numbers.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 09:02 AM (vPFZB)

Bid up the last week to try to screw the rubes...I'm sure the traders are gonna make money both ways...

Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 09:07 AM (exHjb)

310 Serious question: Do you know if they are priced at a per-ounce or per-package or some other unit of measurement to come up with their magic?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:06 AM (syPV9)
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In the "basket of goods," it is supposed to controlled across dimensions including weight (price per pound, for example) and grade (price per pound for choice-grade) and cut (price per pound for choice-grade skirt steak).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 09:07 AM (t0OGg)

311 The fake rally Wall Street has been kiting is gonna burst today. It would seem all the Tards Men and all the Tards Horses can't put the Tard back together again. High five for justice.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 13, 2022 09:08 AM (g/54t)

312 $400 billion in deposits last quarter. Things that make you go hmmm.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at September 13, 2022 08:41 AM (oWBc3)
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People dipping into savings.

But I also believe a small percentage is related to Canadian Castro freezing people's accounts. It served as a heads up.

And some personal transactions now being done in cash. Remember, there was talk of banks reporting on any transaction over $600. That's the 1099 threshold

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 13, 2022 09:08 AM (NW9xb)

313 Flynn I actually doubt was a grifter since he was pretty publicly persecuted and then ostracized by those I would describe as 'grifters.'

West I think is trying to play a balancing game-not too much and not too little- but he may not have a good handle on what the game actually is now. Of course, that goes for all of us.

Palin might well be a true believer, but actions and perception might have damaged her beyond repair, right or wrong (wrong imo, but what I think and $5 might get you a cup of coffee somewhere.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 09:08 AM (5JqIf)

314 >>Think of the absolute worst, most devious and blatant election illegalities and fraud. You will see them from Democrats on November.

It's happening right now right in front of our faces. The entire Jan 6th, raid Trump for documents he has every right to have, subpoena his supporters, call MAGA types fascists, etc. is all about shaping the electorate before the midterms.

It's not just election night vote stealing. It's about controlling the narrative. See Hunter Biden laptop.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2022 09:08 AM (ZLI7S)

315 Dow futures are doing a Biden right now. Market is going to crater today.

And the inevitable headline on Yahoo Finance is "Consumer prices unexpectedly rise in August"

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it does."

Posted by: Halfhand at September 13, 2022 09:09 AM (lr8Nw)

316 305 297 This one makes me laugh particularly hard. "Trump hated normal people, was a racist, and like all Republicans was just trying to please big corporations. Also, these high prices are all because of big corporations screwing over the little guy, which they didn't do under Trump even though he loved them."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 09:05 AM (t0OGg)

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They didn't do this under Trump because they feared his fascist tyranny. They do this under Biden because he is weak and they do not fear him.

Vote Trump. Tyranny for the people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:06 AM (LvTSG)

One Trump. One Orange People. One America.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 13, 2022 09:09 AM (b2nrj)

317
One Trump. One Orange People. One America.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 13, 2022 09:09 AM (b2nrj)

Charlie Crist is the monkey for that wrench.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 13, 2022 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

318 261. Wow, I don’t believe I’ve had a pun produce that reaction before.

Usually, it’s exactly the opposite.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 13, 2022 09:10 AM (AJHCB)

319 Jean-Luc Godard has died. 91 years old.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

320 Checking out at WalMart the other day, I had only two items. Both marked at around $5.98 on the shelf.

Both scanned at check-out for $6.49.

I had to show photos from my phone of the price stickers to get the posted price, instead of the scanned price.

Watch your scanned prices when checking out, folks.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 09:11 AM (1n+EO)

321 Charlie Crist is the monkey for that wrench.

He's the Bizarro to Trump's Superman...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 09:11 AM (ESjRY)

322 Dow futures are doing a Biden right now. Market is going to crater today.
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wow, futures dropping like an anchor.

Posted by: WisRich at September 13, 2022 09:11 AM (G0vdT)

323 313 Flynn I actually doubt was a grifter since he was pretty publicly persecuted and then ostracized by those I would describe as 'grifters.'
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And Flynn is still being persecuted. IIRC, Letitia James just threatened to sue his upstate church for being too political, because they are hosting some sort of education speaker series (and he is involved).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 09:11 AM (vPFZB)

324
We buy a fairly standard set of things every week at the store.

Bread: $3.49 to $4.79
Broth: $2.25 to $2.99
Soda: $5.99 to $7.99
Sausages: $4.99 to $7.99

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2022 09:11 AM (1Nxff)

325 Not going to argue the main point JJ is making.

But at the micro level I got more information to bolster my confident prediction that Walker will win in Georgia.

I got an optimistic text from Warnock about a CBS poll showing him "only" down 2 points to Walker. 2 points in the CBS poll is really more like a 7 point Walker lead.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at September 13, 2022 09:11 AM (wR9cC)

326 "Believing there really is something that lies beyond and that it is good is a high hurdle for me."

If you read the Bible and devote yourself to Jesus Christ as your savior you will find faith. It is inevitable. Easy? Oh no way. Life is largely a search for the truth. In it, there are many temptations and roadblocks to finding peace through a relationship with Jesus Christ. If you focus on the things of this world, none of it makes sense. If you focus on the Word, it does, or at least it gives you some perspective. Devote yourself to Jesus, every day. Work to uphold his statutes, precepts, principles and his Word. You will stumble, we all do. We are human. But he will always be there to lift you up. He will never leave you, even if you leave him. Trust me, if he can save me, anyone can be saved. YMMV.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 13, 2022 09:11 AM (tU3dj)

327 Interesting that the Euro is down on the inflation news. I guess the logic is faster rate increases so stronger dollar vs Euro.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 13, 2022 09:12 AM (b2nrj)

328 "Climate Hysteria: A Mass Delusion to Demonize Carbon Dioxide"

This is how I know these people are not serious, only political: their precious vegetables (or any other plant) cannot grow without CO2, as we all know. And CO2 levels are incredibly low right now, approaching the danger level. As Mr Sefton said in the essay, "by any means necessary" is their war cry.

Posted by: Flyover at September 13, 2022 09:13 AM (Rbu5d)

329 It's a funny thing...the whole "our democracy" thing brought to mind a music video from nearly forty years back...think I saw it once, maybe twice back then, but it stuck in my mind. Thought it was purely leftist claptrap then but...in retrospect...

Bruce Cockburn. "And They Call It Democracy".

Saddens me to admit he may have a point all along.

Posted by: Brother Tim...as the man said, the die is cast at September 13, 2022 09:13 AM (OUMaO)

330
ean-Luc Godard has died. 91 years old.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:10 AM

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 13, 2022 09:13 AM (ENBF0)

331 320 Checking out at WalMart the other day, I had only two items. Both marked at around $5.98 on the shelf.

Both scanned at check-out for $6.49.

I had to show photos from my phone of the price stickers to get the posted price, instead of the scanned price.

Watch your scanned prices when checking out, folks.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 09:11 AM (1n+EO)

Had that happen with the 2 basketballs I bought for my boys class - both rang up $5 more than listed on the aisle...my spouse almost paid it, until I pointed it out ($10 is still $10 for now)...it was a 25% rise in price on the balls, which was probably gonna be paid by everyone after me...

Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 09:13 AM (exHjb)

332 319 Jean-Luc Godard has died. 91 years old.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

Had to look this hamster up. From the wiki entry:
"After the New Wave, his politics were less radical and his later films are about representation and human conflict from a humanist, and a Marxist perspective."

That is just hilarious. Marxism is not radical. Who knew?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 09:13 AM (5JqIf)

333 I got an email ad from my health insurance company. It is advertising savings and has a picture of a lesbian couple.

What are they offering savings on? Electric toothbrushes.

Someone was having fun putting this together...

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

334 I saw some Warlock ads from GA. He's claiming Biden-flation is actually caused by the evil shipping container monopoly.

And...checking lefty sites they publicly claim to believe this sh*t
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 09:05 AM (ESjRY)

A shipping container, the shit inside it, and the cost to move it are a known constant cost. What changes is the value of the unit of trade to buy it. Same goes for a measure of wheat or corn. It may vary based on the year and growing season but the real change in prices is what value people place on the present value of a coin and what they believe that coin will be worth next month or next year.

Inflation is a 100% a government created problem.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2022 09:14 AM (BRHaw)

335 "301 The cereals seem to be roughly in line with my experience, but the rest is not, especially meat and vegetables. Those are quite a lot higher than the printed figures in my experience."

Cereal is a HUGE issue and UPC codes are a real nightmare. The packaging changes literally every truck. 12 oz, 12.6 oz, 11.6 oz, and it's the same brand. It's a pain in the ass. We genuinely ran out of certain brands for about a month and Oh Did We Hear About That!
Check the some-size packaging: I guarantee whatever is in there will be at least .5 oz less than a year ago. For at least $.20 more.
Saltines! Man, old people LIVE on saltines, as far as I can tell, and holy shit we've run out. We got one brand shipped in from Uzbekistan, I shit you not. Sold them all immediately.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 09:14 AM (U11/V)

336 I'm very interested in seeing how Colorado's Senate race turns out. Bennet has done his level best to stay below the radar and not make a public spectacle of his support for the Junta destruction of America, but even in an essentially blue state he might be sweating before this thing is over.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 09:14 AM (vPFZB)

337 Those are some pretty cruel things to say about JJ like that. Geez. Tough crowd.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

And on his birthday, no less.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 13, 2022 09:15 AM (M9XmQ)

338 Jean-Luc Godard has died. 91 years old.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

Load him in a torpedo and shoot him off the Enterprise.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2022 09:15 AM (Oa1Nr)

339
wow, futures dropping like an anchor.

Posted by: WisRich at September 13, 2022 09:11 AM

bitcoin is dropping, as well

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 13, 2022 09:15 AM (ENBF0)

340 I didn’t know that Jean-Luc Picard had even been born yet…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 13, 2022 09:15 AM (AJHCB)

341
Inflation is a 100% a government created problem.

Econ 101: Inflation is caused by the government printing more money

The Biden junta: Money printer goes VROOOOOOMMMM!!!

The FNM: And inflation went up again unexpectedly. Because the government isn't printing enough money yet.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 09:16 AM (ESjRY)

342 zerohedge @zerohedge · 10h
Armenia Requests Russian Military Assistance As Fighting Breaks Out With Azerbaijan

[andy: I think the Turks at least morally support Azerbaijan.]

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 09:16 AM (yikp0)

343 CPI came in very hot. That should not be a shock to anyone. Inflation is still way too stubbornly high where it is. None of that is good. All of this presages a continued recession. There is nothing positive on the horizon to change any of that. The SPR emptying will continue to have negative effects and substantial risks. Don't expect anything to get better until some material economic and tax moves are made.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 13, 2022 09:16 AM (tU3dj)

344 The White House has a victory lap planned today to mark decreasing inflation.

Word as a Biden.

Posted by: MJ at September 13, 2022 09:16 AM (zwDuR)

345 Jean-Luc Godard has died. 91 years old.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

As has Gerald Potterton, who directed Buster Keaton's last film, The Railrodder.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 13, 2022 09:16 AM (AW0uW)

346 Saltines! Man, old people LIVE on saltines, as far as I can tell, and holy shit we've run out. We got one brand shipped in from Uzbekistan, I shit you not. Sold them all immediately.
Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 09:14 AM (U11/V)
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My dad has a big bowl of what he calls "soup" (really a cross-point between porridge and stew) for breakfast. Saltines go with it. Supply has been so intermittent that he has learned how to make his own for when he can't get them. He prefers the store-bought product, but will sub in homemade when they're unavailable.

Saltine availability problems. And this country used to make fun of the USSR.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2022 09:16 AM (t0OGg)

347 341 The Biden junta: Money printer goes VROOOOOOMMMM!!!

The FNM: And inflation went up again unexpectedly. Because the government isn't printing enough money yet.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 09:16 AM (ESjRY)

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"Biden has nothing to do with inflation and Fox News controls the whole media."
-Leftist commenters

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:16 AM (LvTSG)

348 Those are some pretty cruel things to say about JJ like that. Geez. Tough crowd.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

And on his birthday, no less.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 13, 2022 09:15 AM (M9XmQ)

***

And adjacent to PRIDE MONTH!

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 13, 2022 09:17 AM (flINI)

349 341
"Inflation is a 100% a government created problem."

Econ 101: Inflation is caused by the government printing more money

The Biden junta: Money printer goes VROOOOOOMMMM!!!

The FNM: And inflation went up again unexpectedly. Because the government isn't printing enough money yet.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 09:16 AM (ESjRY)

Who knew Biden was serious when he said you've got to spend money to get out of debt?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 13, 2022 09:18 AM (b2nrj)

350 Saltine availability problems. And this country used to make fun of the USSR.

In my town everyone was out of Saline a few weeks ago.

Saline?!? Water...and salt.

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

351 In the "basket of goods," it is supposed to controlled across dimensions including weight (price per pound, for example) and grade (price per pound for choice-grade) and cut (price per pound for choice-grade skirt steak).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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I'd love to know for sure if they are measuring weight and cost or just taking a look at a one dollar 12 ounce can of soup that is now a 10.5 ounce can of soup that now costs $1.10 and they say "it's just ten percent inflation!"

I suspect the latter, because what people see in real life reflects 40-50% inflation. My wife commented that we're seeing 2019 gas station / convenience store prices for items at grocery stores in 2022.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:18 AM (syPV9)

352 The thing about "elections" is that the left has been working behind the scenes at the local, state and federal level to create an environment where they can openly alter the outcome via fraud, ballot harvesting, arresting or killing off the opposition, etc. There are states/counties where it's impossible for a free and fair election to occur, potentially ever again.

I'd like to see the left have their collective asses handed to them this fall. However I don't think they'll take that sitting down (pun intended.) They'll resort to those "laws" and "rules" they've bastardized to shoehorn in their preferred candidates under the guise of "election integrity."

And there's a reason the Republicans are being vilified by the junta ahead of the mid-terms. How unseemly would it be for a domestic terrorist to be elected to office? There should be a law about that....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2022 09:18 AM (BFigT)

353 Interesting that the Euro is down on the inflation news. I guess the logic is faster rate increases so stronger dollar vs Euro.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 13, 2022 09:12 AM (b2nrj)
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If Putin has demonstrated anything in Ukraine, it is the complete fecklessness of European governments. IMO, the Euro is reflecting that collapse in confidence. The winter is going to be cold and long, and Europeans are going to suffer.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 09:18 AM (vPFZB)

354 That Naomi Wolf article is pretty powerful. Also answers Hannah's question about who goes Nazi pretty well- most of the ruling class.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 13, 2022 09:18 AM (xDian)

355 >>>Look, I'm not trying to dispirit you

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Spirit status
[ ] Spirited
[X] Dispirited

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2022 09:19 AM (VJsqe)

356 353 If Putin has demonstrated anything in Ukraine, it is the complete fecklessness of European governments. IMO, the Euro is reflecting that collapse in confidence. The winter is going to be cold and long, and Europeans are going to suffer.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 09:18 AM (vPFZB)

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"As they should for thinking they deserve the comforts of modernity."
-Their leaders that the people of Europe largely voted for

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

357 Apparently some German politician said something cryptic publicly that has a lot of people puzzled. "A day no one will forget" or something similar.

Will the world leaders be gathered for the Queen's funeral on that day?

Posted by: Moron Robbie

Anonymous Conservative mentioned it this morning in his links. September 24 it was. Link goes to the twits.

https://tinyurl.com/2k697ek3

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 13, 2022 09:19 AM (M9XmQ)

358 "Inflation is a 100% a government created problem."

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Go talk to a leftist about this. It's incredible. They will literally blame hoarders and foreign powers like Putin. You can ask them who has the power to print U.S. currency, and it doesn't matter. They will return to hoarders.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:19 AM (syPV9)

359 Naomi Wolf was a smokeshow back in the day.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 13, 2022 09:19 AM (AJHCB)

360 ean-Luc Godard has died. 91 years old.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:10 AM

another grim milestone for the biden administration
Posted by: AltonJackson

Preach it Alton !

Posted by: JT at September 13, 2022 09:20 AM (T4tVD)

361 Usually, it’s exactly the opposite.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 13, 2022 09:10 AM (AJHCB)

My puns are usually two-thirds of a pun... P. U.

So the reaction they get is two-thirds of a hug... "ugh"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 09:20 AM (6FeV1)

362 In this "I want it now" world, inflation is going to be a bitch.

Volcker took 3+ years and a recession to cure 13% rate.

Youngsters are in for a surprise.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 13, 2022 09:21 AM (NW9xb)

363 "...Ken Mehlman, who has since revealed he practices homosexuality..."

Awkward...

Posted by: Flyover at September 13, 2022 09:21 AM (Rbu5d)

364 Go into any grocery store and really look at teh unit price portion of the price sticker.

Units of measure are all over the place, with pounds being compared to ounces, and quarts being compared to liquid ounces. Often within the same brand.
Makes price comparison shopping almost impossible

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 09:21 AM (1n+EO)

365 We are shocked, shocked!!!, to find our economic policies have real world effects. Sorry.

Did. Not. Know.

Posted by: Democrats at September 13, 2022 09:21 AM (vPFZB)

366 And dealing with the actual, public, real-time results of Democrat filth is why I will not even hesitate to cast blame where it belongs. Fen got all hot under the collar because I said 'Fuck old Catholic ladies' but I deal with this shit every goddam day.
"Oh, but my Medicare! And my Union husband's pension pays for my assisted living! I have to vote for Barnes, that nice Black boy! He seems so nice on the TV!"
Just like I don't give a flying fuck about American Reform Jews in Highland Park and Skokie, who vote Democrat at what, 70-80%?
Yeah, it's a demographic that is dedicated to my destruction.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 09:21 AM (U11/V)

367 .. so bank deposits surged in the last 5 quarter by $2.5 trillion
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If you missed it, Tard expanded the money supply by $13T and gave that money to the Wall Street Bankers to pump and dump the stock market, real estate market and kill small businesses. As if Fauci's spike protein flu lockdown wasn't enough. Whatever is good for China is our mission these days.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 13, 2022 09:21 AM (g/54t)

368 363 "...Ken Mehlman, who has since revealed he practices homosexuality..."

Awkward...
Posted by: Flyover at September 13, 2022 09:21 AM (Rbu5d)

Practice once and you're perfect.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 13, 2022 09:21 AM (x0n13)

369 It's nearly 6 hours until I can start drinking. I don't think I can take it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 13, 2022 09:21 AM (AW0uW)

370 Good morning, one and all. The wife and i arrived in Cheyenne and we're going to have fun doing tourist things.

Restaurant at the depot is pretty good. Recommend a drive out to Vidauwoo between Cheyenne and Laramie...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at September 13, 2022 09:21 AM (/BJ4/)

371 "...Ken Mehlman, who has since revealed he practices homosexuality..."
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Muh brother!

Posted by: The Lincoln Project at September 13, 2022 09:22 AM (vPFZB)

372 I'd love to know for sure if they are measuring weight and cost or just taking a look at a one dollar 12 ounce can of soup that is now a 10.5 ounce can of soup that now costs $1.10 and they say "it's just ten percent inflation!"

I suspect the latter, because what people see in real life reflects 40-50% inflation. My wife commented that we're seeing 2019 gas station / convenience store prices for items at grocery stores in 2022.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:18 AM (syPV9)

It is the latter - one can of "family size" soup is the same choice, no matter if the size shrinks. That's what the 60 minutes stories about "shrinkflation" hiding inflation were all about.

It's harder to do for meat and fish (and to a lesser extent produce/eggs), so you see trade downs in the "market basket" every so often for some inflation numbers, but not usually a shrinkflation effect...

Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 09:22 AM (exHjb)

373 If a price goes up because the thing is actually more expensive, that's not inflation.

Prices are going up because of shitty monetary policy AND scarcity AND logistics problems AND etc etc etc.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 09:22 AM (6FeV1)

374 If Putin has demonstrated anything in Ukraine, it is the complete fecklessness of European governments. IMO, the Euro is reflecting that collapse in confidence. The winter is going to be cold and long, and Europeans are going to suffer.
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Everyone must sacrifice for NATOstan.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 13, 2022 09:22 AM (g/54t)

375 365 We are shocked, shocked!!!, to find our economic policies have real world effects. Sorry.

Did. Not. Know.
Posted by: Democrats at September 13, 2022 09:21 AM (vPFZB)

And they won't know or admit until the guy in the colander face mask is grinding the face into the dirt- possibly not even then.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 09:23 AM (5JqIf)

376 More coffee...

Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2022 09:23 AM (88xKn)

377 My wife can always tell when I’m trying to come up with a pun. She says I always get this certain look on my face.

I guess it’s the expression one has just before a fart…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 13, 2022 09:23 AM (AJHCB)

378 Lighten up, Francis
Posted by: SGT Hulka Contractual Obligation Retort

Perfect. What I was thinking, too.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 13, 2022 09:24 AM (M9XmQ)

379 ...Ken Mehlman, who has since revealed he practices homosexuality..."

Amazing how much of our political leadership is gay.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2022 09:24 AM (ESjRY)

380 I think that the effort can easily and accurately be described as trying to suppress black votes. The aim of negative ads is to prevent votes, not change votes.

However, suppressing votes is only good when it's directed at the white working class.

Or LatinX, increasingly. Media delenda est.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2022 09:24 AM (ZGrMX)

381 34 Because no woman ever assaulted a woman before.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 07:57 AM (9SaeC)

Or a man, a child, an animal...

Posted by: Flyover at September 13, 2022 09:24 AM (Rbu5d)

382 366 And dealing with the actual, public, real-time results of Democrat filth is why I will not even hesitate to cast blame where it belongs. Fen got all hot under the collar because I said 'Fuck old Catholic ladies' but I deal with this shit every goddam day.
"Oh, but my Medicare! And my Union husband's pension pays for my assisted living! I have to vote for Barnes, that nice Black boy! He seems so nice on the TV!"
Just like I don't give a flying fuck about American Reform Jews in Highland Park and Skokie, who vote Democrat at what, 70-80%?
Yeah, it's a demographic that is dedicated to my destruction.

Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 09:21 AM (U11/V)

I don't think "Catholic" plays much into that...if it did, they wouldn't be voting that way. Those ladies are as Catholic as Pelosi is...

Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 09:25 AM (exHjb)

383 I guess I should have scrolled down further at ZH's twatter [although a bit exaggerated I'd imagine]...

Clint Ehrlich @ClintEhrlich · 11h
🚨🚨🚨 Armenia has officially decided to request military assistance from Russia against Azerbaijan.

The request will be made under their bilateral defense pact and the CSTO.

If Russia accepts, we could see a second NATO-Russia proxy war explode. 🚨

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 09:25 AM (yikp0)

384 >>Didn't the UAW have something to do with excessively high wages for relatively simple and repetitive manual work type jobs?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 08:43 AM (1n+EO)

In 1976, when I was in high school, my uncle, working for GM in Flint, MI, was visting my mother. I overheard him tell her that he was making $17 per hour.

He was a high school drop out and his union job was as a janitor.

That's right, an unskilled laborer was making $17 per hour at GM in 1976.

Posted by: bed head at September 13, 2022 09:25 AM (Y1sOo)

385 If Russia accepts, we could see a second NATO-Russia proxy war explode
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We don't need gas for something like that, do we?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:25 AM (syPV9)

386 Ken Mehlman, who has since revealed he practices homosexuality

Practice makes perfect?

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2022 09:25 AM (ZGrMX)

387 Flynn I actually doubt was a grifter since he was pretty publicly persecuted and then ostracized by those I would describe as 'grifters.'
West I think is trying to play a balancing game-not too much and not too little- but he may not have a good handle on what the game actually is now. Of course, that goes for all of us.
Palin might well be a true believer, but actions and perception might have damaged her beyond repair, right or wrong (wrong imo, but what I think and $5 might get you a cup of coffee somewhere.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 09:08 AM (5JqIf)
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Thanks for the sensible analysis. I am really tired of our own circular firings at any articulate messengers. No doubt there are more, but those are the 3 off the top of my head.

Posted by: mustbequantum at September 13, 2022 09:25 AM (MIKMs)

388 Today's market is gonna be brutal for the dupes they sold to stocks to last week. Jeebus, I almost feel sorry for them.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 13, 2022 09:26 AM (g/54t)

389 That's right, an unskilled laborer was making $17 per hour at GM in 1976.

That explains a lot about the cars GM was making in 1976.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2022 09:26 AM (ZGrMX)

390 Posted by: LenNeal at September 13, 2022 09:21 AM (U11/V)

Even by your own description the little old ladies are not the actual movers, but rather following blindly. I do not disagree with that part about it (that they are following rote patterns), but they are not the real problem.

Take every little old lady out of the equation and we would still be in exactly the same place.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 09:27 AM (5JqIf)

391 "Either way, the only two things they are competent at are self-perpetuation and societal destruction. And the latter is a direct threat to the former."

Anton ended his piece at the point it becomes most interesting. That is, is societal destruction really a threat to their self-perpetuation, or is it the key to invincibleness (at least as they see it)?

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2022 09:27 AM (H8QX8)

392 "We don't need gas for something like that, do we?"

Dude....electric tanks.

And field deployable solar panels.

We got this!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2022 09:27 AM (1n+EO)

393 who has since revealed he practices homosexuality

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I like this phrasing, honestly. Same as making sure you say "gay" whenever you note a gay marriage because it's not a real marriage.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:27 AM (syPV9)

394 383 I guess I should have scrolled down further at ZH's twatter [although a bit exaggerated I'd imagine]...

Clint Ehrlich @ClintEhrlich · 11h
🚨🚨🚨 Armenia has officially decided to request military assistance from Russia against Azerbaijan.

The request will be made under their bilateral defense pact and the CSTO.

If Russia accepts, we could see a second NATO-Russia proxy war explode. 🚨
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 09:25 AM (yikp0)

The west isn't involved in Azerbaijin is it?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 13, 2022 09:27 AM (b2nrj)

395 My wife and I ate a turkey two weeks ago, instead of buying chicken, and I went in to buy another yesterday. Up nearly 6 % in two weeks. I guess I'm not the only guy buying turkeys to save money.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 09:27 AM (GU4EX)

396 Who are we gonna support when Erdogan pushes Greece into war?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 13, 2022 09:28 AM (flINI)

397 I don't think "Catholic" plays much into that...if it did, they wouldn't be voting that way. Those ladies are as Catholic as Pelosi is...
Posted by: Nova local at September 13, 2022 09:25 AM (exHjb)

That's the root problem with scapegoating, isn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 09:28 AM (6FeV1)

398 They will return to hoarders.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:19 AM (syPV9)

and profiteers
and Jewish bankers
and black marketers

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2022 09:28 AM (BRHaw)

399 Jean-Luc Godard has died. 91 years old.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 13, 2022 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

Make it so!

Posted by: blaster at September 13, 2022 09:29 AM (6TxNR)

400 In 1976, when I was in high school, my uncle, working for GM in Flint, MI, was visting my mother. I overheard him tell her that he was making $17 per hour.

He was a high school drop out and his union job was as a janitor.

That's right, an unskilled laborer was making $17 per hour at GM in 1976.
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In college I met a guy who was making $19 an hour at US Steal sweeping out furnances as a summer job. I was running a framing/siding crew and made $4 an hour. Even at $4 an hour I couldn't get an after tax take home pay check over $100 a week. This guy told me they would take knaps inside the furnance.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 13, 2022 09:30 AM (g/54t)

401 Yes JJ, we have passed that point. Those who are just reaching that conclusion are late to the game. It's tough to fasten your seat belt in the middle of a car crash but better late than never.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at September 13, 2022 09:30 AM (jGuoF)

402 Nood art.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at September 13, 2022 09:30 AM (b2nrj)

403 and black marketers
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2022 09:28 AM (BRHaw)

Don't worry.

All my FUBU gear is knock-off.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2022 09:30 AM (6FeV1)

404 He outlasted the Queen.

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2022 09:30 AM (oRWDD)

405 398 They will return to hoarders.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:19 AM (syPV9)

and profiteers
and Jewish bankers
and black marketers
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2022 09:28 AM (BRHaw)

Wreckers
Saboteurs
Counter-Revolutionaries
Enemies of the People

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2022 09:31 AM (5JqIf)

406 That's right, an unskilled laborer was making $17 per hour at GM in 1976.

That explains a lot about the cars GM was making in 1976.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2022 09:26 AM (ZGrMX)

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GM. A healthcare company who make shitty cars as a side business.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 13, 2022 09:31 AM (flINI)

407 They will return to hoarders.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:19 AM (syPV9)

Lets say I hoard something. What is its shelf life? What did I pay for it yesterday and what is it worth today?

Lets say its a dollar! If I stick it in a sock drawer and need it next year do I get a dollars worth of value. Probably not!

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2022 09:31 AM (BRHaw)

408 Noodus gratia artis.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 13, 2022 09:31 AM (AJHCB)

409
The request will be made under their bilateral defense pact and the CSTO.

If Russia accepts, we could see a second NATO-Russia proxy war explode. 🚨
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 09:25 AM (yikp0)

all things considered, I think Russia is a bit preoccupied by other matters at the moment.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2022 09:31 AM (r46W7)

410 Regardling Gov. Hochul's outrageous "emergency" declaration in New York:

1. No one has been reported to have polio. Heath officials have found polio "samples" from wastewater.

2. This second "finding" is not a second person because there is no second or first person. There is only two separate samples from wastewater. The same person could have used two separate bathrooms on two separate days, etc.

3. The person may have been a foreign visitor from out of state or out of country. Orange County has a very large Hasidic Jewish population and the person may have been a visitor from the Middle East.

4. The strain of polio is actually created from a person who received the live polio virus. Polio is not being spread through nature, but through vaccines.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 13, 2022 09:31 AM (lf83v)

411 Stumbled across a good article here through one of the links:

How Lockdowns Broke Human Capital

https://tinyurl.com/2okpfplc

Quick and dirty: Why should people work or invest when they see that government employees and politicians can - and will - tell them those investments are not "essential" and destroy them on a whim when someone has the sniffles 3000 miles away?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:32 AM (syPV9)

412 Sat across from Naomi at a Libertarian dinner. She was genuine, another good example of a converted leftist.

Posted by: Ziba at September 13, 2022 09:32 AM (4h9M3)

413 Have you checked out the price of arugula lately??????

Posted by: kraken at September 13, 2022 09:32 AM (5Lgj9)

414 The west isn't involved in Azerbaijan is it?
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Turkey is.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 09:32 AM (yikp0)

415 But the important question is if Azerbaijan is a UN Member Nation.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:33 AM (syPV9)

416 There's a Turkey in every pot!!!

Posted by: kraken at September 13, 2022 09:33 AM (5Lgj9)

417 Thanks for the sensible analysis. I am really tired of our own circular firings at any articulate messengers. No doubt there are more, but those are the 3 off the top of my head.
Posted by: mustbequantum at September 13, 2022 09:25 AM (MIKMs)
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I'm not. Fire away!

Until the political leaders (and punditry) on the right reflexively demonstrate they cares about our values and not the uniparty values, I say "they are not of the body!" Too much "build the dang fence" theatrics and "shoot them, that's why you have a gun" in reality.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 09:33 AM (wV3kO)

418 Have you checked out the price of arugula lately??????
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Don't even mention Wagyu to me!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 13, 2022 09:33 AM (yikp0)

419
My wife and I ate a turkey two weeks ago, instead of buying chicken, and I went in to buy another yesterday. Up nearly 6 % in two weeks. I guess I'm not the only guy buying turkeys to save money.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 09:27 AM

At Aldi's - where I shopped earlier this week - I could buy both turkey breast and chicken breast at about the same price ~4.00 a pound. But I could buy chicken 'quarters' at 1.19 a pound. So I have a bunch of them in the freezer. Quarters are actually better tasting. But you gotta sous vide them for hours at 204 degrees F.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 13, 2022 09:34 AM (y3pKJ)

420 What, this is the first time they found polio samples in the wastewater since the 50s?

Posted by: Ziba at September 13, 2022 09:39 AM (4h9M3)

421 fecklessness of European governments. IMO, the Euro is reflecting that collapse in confidence. The winter is going to be cold and long, and Europeans are going to suffer.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

The EU is just our 21rst century version of the Holy Roman Empire. History repeats itself.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at September 13, 2022 09:41 AM (jGuoF)

422 414 The west isn't involved in Azerbaijan is it?
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Yeah we are. There's oil there and ut butts up against Russia. We built a Bio Lab there.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 13, 2022 09:41 AM (g/54t)

423 We built a Bio Lab there.

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GASP!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:43 AM (syPV9)

424 The major newspapers? The once-young journalists? The last two and a half years showed them to be shills for what have been revealed to be genocidal imperial powers. They became media versions of sex workers, scheduling time to deliver blow jobs to whomever would write them the biggest checks.

Wow. Wolf can write.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 09:44 AM (wV3kO)

425 67 62 Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 08:06 AM (kE3DV)
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All these idiots claiming courts never found "evidence of fraud" are missing the point. And elections conducted outside of the rules established by the legislature are, by definition, fraudulent.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 13, 2022 08:09 AM (7A9EW)

Aside from that.. there was plenty of actual fraud too...
I don't think we need to water it down. They took every angle they could.. and still had to stuff the boxes last min at the end.

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at September 13, 2022 09:44 AM (53oGX)

426 Aside from that.. there was plenty of actual fraud too...
I don't think we need to water it down. They took every angle they could.. and still had to stuff the boxes last min at the end.

**

Yep.

Trump won in a landslide.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - China is making you buy EVs, read to bottom at September 13, 2022 09:53 AM (syPV9)

427 426 Aside from that.. there was plenty of actual fraud too...
I don't think we need to water it down. They took every angle they could.. and still had to stuff the boxes last min at the end.

**

Yep.
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The only election ever reported on TV where the votes for one candidate went down while the News Repeaters were yacking at one another.

Trump won in a landslide.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 13, 2022 09:55 AM (g/54t)

428
130 "if all men disappeared from the earth for 24 hours then women could go around feeling safe from assault."

And WWIII would start over a slight about weight 12 hours later.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 13, 2022 08:28 AM (sAmhv)

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I’m just sayin’…

Posted by: RondinellaMamma Donald Trump is our duly elected president. at September 13, 2022 09:57 AM (l0Cy4)

429 Has the voting precincts, voter turn-out, of the suspected of "the over the top voter fraud" ever been published? I have heard rumors of over 100% turnout. TRUE?

Posted by: Paladin at September 13, 2022 10:21 AM (lhi1/)

430 13 I thought Joe was going to cure cancer when he was the dogeater's VP.
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Yep, that cannot be repeated too often! Mostly just a way to mention Beau more frequently, or maybe Hunter has a mole on his back that some prostitute said he should have looked at!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 13, 2022 10:29 AM (peWy1)

431 Sefton, who in the world says voting is enough? Maybe RINOs who can't deny the guy they let get in office is really F'ing things up, but MAGA knows full well "just voting" won't change anything.

You need to watch Bannon's War Room to see all the MAGA patriots all over the country who are fighting against the DEM-RINO election fraud machine. They'll get away with it here and there, but the days of cart blanche, of our naïve blindness to their evil, is over.

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Posted by: Jessica Robinson at September 13, 2022 12:58 PM (glQ58)

433 I'm voting with my middle finger this year. The G.O.P. will not get a single vote from me in 2022.
I'll write in Captain Crunch, Mr. Clean, General Zod... and on down the list. I'm doing this because the Republicans earned this by doing NOTHING to stop the steal of a presidential election. A party that does nothing, deserves nothing. Suck it, G.O.P.!

2020: NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE

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Posted by: Sarah at September 13, 2022 04:21 PM (9dr+x)

435 no fucking way HALF of the country is behind the potatus. only a very loud quarter. if that.

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