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Mark Hemingway: More Federal Bureaucrats Than Marines Are Now Authorized To Carry Weapons

Apparently federal bureaucrats are facing a larger, more dangerous opposing force than US Marines are expected to eve face.


When Congress authorized $80 billion this year to beef up Internal Revenue Service enforcement and staffing, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy invoked the language of war to warn that "Democrats' new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you."

A video quickly went viral racking up millions of views, purporting to show a bunch of clumsy bureaucrats receiving firearms training, prompting alarm that the IRS would be engaged in military-style raids of ordinary taxpayers. The GOP claims were widely attacked as exaggerations -- since the video, though from the IRS, didn't show official agent training -- but the criticism has shed light on a growing trend: the rapid arming of the federal government.

Here's that video. I don't understand the "fact" check here -- the video is in fact from the IRS, but it's not an official training video? Then what is it?

Sounds like a b***shit denial to me, which of course the media and "fact" checkers take as the gold-standard final word.

A report issued last year by the watchdog group Open The Books, "The Militarization of The U.S. Executive Agencies," found that more than 200,000 federal bureaucrats now have been granted the authority to carry guns and make arrests -- more than the 186,000 Americans serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. "One hundred three executive agencies outside of the Department of Defense spent $2.7 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between fiscal years 2006 and 2019 (inflation adjusted)," notes the report. "Nearly $1 billion ($944.9 million) was spent between fiscal years 2015 and 2019 alone."

The watchdog reports that the Department of Health and Human Services has 1,300 guns including one shotgun, five submachine guns, and 189 automatic firearms. NASA has its own fully outfitted SWAT team, with all the attendant weaponry, including armored vehicles, submachine guns, and breeching shotguns. The Environmental Protection Agency has purchased drones, GPS trackers, radar equipment, and night vision goggles, in addition to stockpiling firearms.

A 2018 Government Accountability Office report noted that the IRS had 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition in inventory at the end of 2017 -- before the enforcement funding boost this year. The IRS did not respond to requests for information, though the IRS' Criminal Investigation division does put out an annual report detailing basic information such as how many warrants the agency is executing in a given year.

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When asked about the need for such lethal materiel, agency officials typically speak only in general terms about security concerns. Agencies contacted by RealClearInvestigations from HHS to EPA declined to provide, or said they did not have, comprehensive statistics on how often their firearms are used, or details on how they conduct armed operations.


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"We can all understand the dangerous world out there," said Adam Andrzejewski, the CEO of Open The Books -- and thus, he said, the need for some heavy weaponry in the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice. "But some of these other agencies, like Health and Human Services, they've got machine guns?"

Andrzejewski said that when he asked HHS about its arsenal, the agency spoke only in general terms about the dangers employees faced. It did not detail an increase in threats or provide specific examples of cases where such weapons would be required.

Much more at the link.

Rep. Chip Roy highlighted Hemingway's article and suggested defunding these arm-the-angry-bureaucrats programs.

Jim Swift of The Bulwark, of course, immediately claimed that the Second Amendment is all about the right of federal bureaucrats to have the government buy guns for them, and that if you didn't believe that, you're not a True Conservative, Conserving Conservatism, like him and his Cruise Ship Swabbies at the Bulwark.

Below, "TIL" is an abbreviation for a sarcastic "Today I Learned."

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Michael Anton wrote about Bill Kristol and his Gang of Grifters for American Greatness yesterday. He included background on one of AllahPundit's favorite people to link, Damon Linker, who turns out to be, get this, a fake conservative who wrote for First Things briefly and then quit in disgust when he discovered that they were conservative religious Catholics. Now he's a "moderate" who fights tooth and nail for Biden's "moderate" Police State.

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1 Morning

Posted by: Beartooth at October 11, 2022 12:22 PM (IP9GB)

2 Gotta have the jackboots if you're going to put down a population.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 11, 2022 12:22 PM (N1tpc)

3 G'morning capital "a" Ace...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 11, 2022 12:23 PM (BgMrQ)

4
The Federal bureaucracy must be abolished in its entirety. To do that, however, is essentially to declare war on the State formerly known as the United States of America.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 11, 2022 12:24 PM (x0n13)

5 That Chip dude definitely went to Harvard Law with that excellent take on 2A. The Blue Checks know everything.

Posted by: Penfold at October 11, 2022 12:24 PM (Fbt5B)

6 When was the last time you saw a shoot-out with the IRS?

Anywhere?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:24 PM (lf83v)

7 Well, it's not like recruiting is up in the military.

Posted by: aelfheld at October 11, 2022 12:25 PM (Zy9Yy)

8 A 2018 Government Accountability Office report noted that the IRS had 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition in inventory at the end of 2017

Them's rookie numbers...

Posted by: quantum mechanic at October 11, 2022 12:25 PM (g1EEm)

9 Obviously Jim Swift also believes the First Amendment protects the "right" of government officials to say whatever they want without regulation and peacefully assemble, but not citizens.

Posted by: Thrawn at October 11, 2022 12:25 PM (Rl7KJ)

10 I get the feeling we're going to look back at the arrest of the 12 PP protesters in TN as the times the FedGov exercised restraint.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 12:25 PM (I/doM)

11 Meet the new Tyranny, same as the old Tyranny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 11, 2022 12:25 PM (CwQXo)

12 Ten years ago, the Department of Education had a SWAT team.

I assume that they still do.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 11, 2022 12:26 PM (I2/tG)

13 Yeah. They are preparing to put US down. The Federal Government ain't your friend, It is preparing to assault you.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 11, 2022 12:26 PM (QSjkU)

14 Is there any fed agency that doesn't have an armed department? I thought I read even the Dept of Ed has a police/SWAT department.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 11, 2022 12:26 PM (IP9GB)

15 UNDER 20!!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 11, 2022 12:26 PM (u4CEu)

16 I am saddened by what the future will hold for my children.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 11, 2022 12:26 PM (N1tpc)

17 Perhaps that equine dunce Hochul is correct. The era of a "good guy with a gun is over". But only because it's been replace by a bunch of armed partisan bureaucrats.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 11, 2022 12:26 PM (ZeDNp)

18 Well, the founder wrote "a well-regulated militia", but a "well-regulated Stasi" is practically the same thing!

Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 12:27 PM (krQz2)

19 Is there any fed agency that doesn't have an armed department? I thought I read even the Dept of Ed has a police/SWAT department.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 11, 2022 12:26 PM (IP9GB)
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There are more armed bureaucrats than Marines. Preezy Shit Midas told us what he and the left were going to do, they have almost accomplished that goal.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 11, 2022 12:27 PM (u4CEu)

20 Probably a good place to repost Obama's recent private comment:

“Sometimes it just turns out they’re mean, they’re racist, they’re sexist, they’re angry,” Obama said. “And your job is then to just beat them because they’re not persuadable.”

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (I/doM)

21 Wut?

Posted by: Agriculture Dept SWAT at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (sAmhv)

22 BTW. Wow. We're getting content today. 😃

Posted by: Marcus T at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (ZeDNp)

23 Bureaucracy Army

Posted by: Skip's phone at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (ABQRI)

24 I'm willing to bet these armed federal gov employees are allowed far more leeway to carry arms than your average Marine.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (5pTK/)

25 Send the Dept. of Education to Iwo Jima to raise the rainbow flag.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (63Dwl)

26 I'd wager the Moron Horde is more heavily armed than both, so we have that going for us, which is nice.

Posted by: weew at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (+m+uH)

27 One nice thing about armed gestapo drones, no matter what you do to them you don't have to feel bad.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (QSjkU)

28 Link to Obama's remarks: https://tinyurl.com/7x99h3ua

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (I/doM)

29 The NWO is proceeding as planned

Posted by: CN at October 11, 2022 12:29 PM (Zzbjj)

30 Good afternoon Ace.
Successfully survived my HS reunion. It was 3 days with my unrelentingly leftists relatives that was difficult.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 11, 2022 12:29 PM (Y+l9t)

31 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:29 PM (vf0Uk)

32 Yeah. They are preparing to put US down. The Federal Government ain't your friend, It is preparing to assault you.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 11, 2022 12:26 PM

Going to be a lot of dead fed police families because that is what humans do when their families are threatened.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 11, 2022 12:29 PM (IP9GB)

33 Huh. OT, but this came to mind reading the end of the last thread when someone mentioned Ted Bundy: What happened to serial killers? Were they a fad? Inconvenient?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 11, 2022 12:29 PM (CwQXo)

34 One nice thing about armed gestapo drones, no matter what you do to them you don't have to feel bad.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (QSjkU)
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Or lose a wink of sleep about it.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 11, 2022 12:29 PM (u4CEu)

35 I saw Eve Face open for Box of Frogs at The Catapult in '93.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:30 PM (vf0Uk)

36 prompting alarm that the IRS would be engaged in military-style raids of ordinary taxpayers
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Where have they been? The IRS has had shock troops for a long time. This is a marked escalation, but it isn't new. Most federal agencies have stormtroopers now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 11, 2022 12:30 PM (t0OGg)

37 Also OT:
Someone nuking fish again. At least they waited until after noon this time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 11, 2022 12:30 PM (CwQXo)

38 Abolish The Federal Government.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 11, 2022 12:30 PM (iLmHM)

39 They need more guns to help the FBI arrest more non violent Christians, January 6th grandmas and anyone else who disagrees with them.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 11, 2022 12:31 PM (ZeDNp)

40 I assume the FedGov and related rent seeking bureaucrats believe the sun is setting on them stealing secretly, so they'll have to steal more openly now.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 11, 2022 12:31 PM (w0NJk)

41 In a related bit of news, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is sitting on a stockpile of 4,487 bottles of scotch/bourbon/vodka/gin/value-rite, comprising approximately 5,062,006 rounds at the local BATFE tavern.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 11, 2022 12:31 PM (w9Wax)

42 I think they intend to use them in 4 weeks.

Paranoid? Maybe. But nowadays that means "prescient."

Posted by: Eeyore at October 11, 2022 12:31 PM (TgBWG)

43 >>Jim Swift of The Bulwark, of course, immediately claimed that the Second Amendment is all about the right of federal bureaucrats to have the government buy guns for them,


old and busted: You don't need a gun to protect yourself, that's what the government (police) is for

new hotness: They need a gun to protect themselves from you

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 12:31 PM (I/doM)

44 You bigoted haters. I watched that IRS training video. Downs syndrome people are just as much entitled to learn weapons skills and self defense as the rest of us. Shame on you!

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 11, 2022 12:31 PM (iFTx/)

45 I'm still wrapping my head around HHS having machine guns.

Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 12:32 PM (EcuD8)

46 So, you're sayin' Jim "Not So" Swift?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:32 PM (vf0Uk)

47 Imagine Jim Swift carrying a gun with a holster. it would take ten minutes for him to remove the firearm from his folds of fat.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 11, 2022 12:32 PM (bkUtD)

48 We're here for your audit!

*waves gun in the air like the Cisco Kid*

Posted by: The IRS at October 11, 2022 12:32 PM (ZeDNp)

49 Very disconcerting to see a police state morph right before our very eyes.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2022 12:32 PM (Xrfse)

50 Rep. Chip Roy highlighted Hemingway's article and suggested defunding these arm-the-angry-bureaucrats programs.
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Wrong approach. Pass a law that disarms all federal agencies except those committed to LE (that can wait, I suppose, and besides all federal LE needs to be dismantled and refactored anyway) and give the agencies six months to comply. Pass the law six months before the next budget process starts.

Any agency that doesn't comply, with evidence and subject to external audit, is fully and totally defunded.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 11, 2022 12:32 PM (t0OGg)

51 Send the Dept. of Education to Iwo Jima to raise the rainbow flag.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (63Dwl)


Send armed HHS, D of Ed, and the NIH officer to Yemen to teach the AQAP how to respect all gender pronouns and the proper use of pronouns

Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 12:32 PM (Z32m1)

52 Link to Obama's remarks: https://tinyurl.com/7x99h3ua
Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (I/doM)
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But he also said: "We’re so convinced that we’re right that we forget what we are right about".

And I believe that a lot of Dems could stand to hear this.

Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 12:32 PM (krQz2)

53 Is there any fed agency that doesn't have an armed department? I thought I read even the Dept of Ed has a police/SWAT department.
Posted by: Beartooth at October 11, 2022 12:26 PM (IP9GB)


The meme came from a story where IRS agents served a warrant on a guy's house, looking for his ex-wife over potential student loan fraud. A couple agents wore body armor, and showed up with local police as backup, as the people who engage in large-scale student loan fraud aren't always the nicest, or most cooperative. The guy was quoted in the newspapers as saying, "They showed up with a SWAT team!"

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 11, 2022 12:32 PM (wmDcS)

54 The Hydra grows stronger every day.

Posted by: kathysaysso at October 11, 2022 12:33 PM (m78jL)

55 >>prompting alarm that the IRS would be engaged in military-style raids of ordinary taxpayers


"Crazy, right?"
-- True the Vote and Gibson's Guitars

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 12:33 PM (I/doM)

56 When was the last time you saw a shoot-out with the IRS?

Anywhere?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:24 PM (lf83v)


IIRC, some years back, a fella flew a small plane into an IRS office in Austin. If they'd had AA installations they could have brought him down sooner.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 11, 2022 12:33 PM (zhLdt)

57 UNDER 20!!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at October 11, 2022 12:26 PM (u4CEu)



We're listening......

Posted by: The Man Boy Lincoln Project at October 11, 2022 12:33 PM (vf0Uk)

58 Take the vaccine or else!

*shoots an M4 on burst into the air*

Posted by: HHS at October 11, 2022 12:33 PM (ZeDNp)

59 The scariest part about that video wasn't the gun training, but seeing what an assortment of losers and rejects the IRS is hiring

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 11, 2022 12:33 PM (iFTx/)

60 Correction, Dept of Education investigators, not IRS agents.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 11, 2022 12:33 PM (wmDcS)

61 new hotness: They need a gun to protect themselves from you
Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 12:31 PM (I/doM)
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"Cuz those tea party nuts hung that guy for being a fed!"

Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 12:34 PM (krQz2)

62 Well, it's not like recruiting is up in the military.
Posted by: aelfheld at October 11, 2022 12:25 PM (Zy9Yy)


When you want to be able to shoot someone but not be shot at...join the FedForce today!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 11, 2022 12:34 PM (zhLdt)

63 >>>Very disconcerting to see a police state morph right before our very eyes.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Started in 2020 during the Saint George Floyd riots. That was the impetus.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 11, 2022 12:34 PM (bkUtD)

64 ---
But he also said: "We’re so convinced that we’re right that we forget what we are right about".

And I believe that a lot of Dems could stand to hear this.
Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 12:32 PM (krQz2)



"It's not that liberals are wrong, it's just that they believe in so many things that just aren't true."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:34 PM (vf0Uk)

65 18 Well, the founder wrote "a well-regulated militia", but a "well-regulated Stasi" is practically the same thing!

well, rumor has it that "stasi" is just austrian for "militia"

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at October 11, 2022 12:34 PM (oY6Yp)

66 M4 isn't a machine gun.

Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 12:34 PM (EcuD8)

67 Do your homework!!

*Uses a cardboard cutout of the school mascot for target practice*

Posted by: Department of Education at October 11, 2022 12:35 PM (ZeDNp)

68 The scariest part about that video wasn't the gun training, but seeing what an assortment of losers and rejects the IRS is hiring
Posted by: Elric Blade at October 11, 2022 12:33 PM (iFTx/)


No more than the losers and rejects who end up in the military.

The Best don't go into these jobs. They get cushy positions with investment banks or law firms.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 11, 2022 12:35 PM (wmDcS)

69 A lot of this armed bureaucracy shit started with Prohibition.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 11, 2022 12:35 PM (dxllA)

70 Second look at the Russian government?

Russia Adds Meta to List of 'Terrorist and Extremist' Orgs

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 11, 2022 12:35 PM (I2/tG)

71 "If you know that someone is coming to plant a bomb in your mother's house, plant a bomb in his mother's house first."

Posted by: Michael Savage 1998 at October 11, 2022 12:35 PM (l3SW6)

72 Started in 2020 during the Saint George Floyd riots. That was the impetus.
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Started long before that.

Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 12:35 PM (EcuD8)

73 56 IIRC, some years back, a fella flew a small plane into an IRS office in Austin. If they'd had AA installations they could have brought him down sooner.

good point. better update the omnibus spending bill.

Posted by: representative wossname at October 11, 2022 12:35 PM (oY6Yp)

74 IIRC, Gibson Guitars got raided by armed Feds for some BS about using endangered wood.

Personally, if they justify this BS on "general security grounds," that's my new justification for packing, and laying in ammo.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at October 11, 2022 12:35 PM (ViC0A)

75 Obama is making the dream of a Federal Politicized Stasi Police Force come true in his third term.

Can't wait for the mailman to try and cancel me with his AK-15 for receiving mailers from Trump ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 12:36 PM (fppa6)

76 63 >>>Very disconcerting to see a police state morph right before our very eyes.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Started in 2020 during the Saint George Floyd riots. That was the impetus.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 11, 2022 12:34 PM (bkUtD)
___________________

I would go back further. Waco and Ruby Ridge were the trial runs.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 11, 2022 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

77 Started in 2020 during the Saint George Floyd riots. That was the impetus.

Maybe so but my thought is that this has been in the works for quite a bit longer.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2022 12:36 PM (Xrfse)

78 If Jim Swift was to be precise about the purpose of the 2nd Amendment, I'd note that it wasn't to guarantee that the government can have guns, the Brits already had that.

Instead. it was to allow citizens to return fire when confronted by government actors with guns.

(I'm not "advocating violence," I'm just telling you what it says.)

Posted by: T C at October 11, 2022 12:36 PM (6aZ5k)

79 Probably a good place to repost Obama's recent private comment:

“Sometimes it just turns out they’re mean, they’re racist, they’re sexist, they’re angry,” Obama said. “And your job is then to just beat them because they’re not persuadable.”
Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (I/doM)


But enough about the Los Angeles City Council.

Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 12:36 PM (Z32m1)

80 Brunette on the firing line has an amazing ass.

Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 11, 2022 12:36 PM (wZdQy)

81 M4 isn't a machine gun.
Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 12:34 PM (EcuD8



ASSAULT RIFLE!!!!!!111!!!1!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:36 PM (vf0Uk)

82 No more than the losers and rejects who end up in the military.

The Best don't go into these jobs. They get cushy positions with investment banks or law firms.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile
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Spoken like a true lefty.

Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 12:36 PM (EcuD8)

83 I'm willing to bet these armed federal gov employees are allowed far more leeway to carry arms than your average Marine.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (5pTK/)


I've never been a Marine but, back when I was in the Navy, we weren't permitted to keep torpedoes in the barracks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 11, 2022 12:37 PM (zhLdt)

84 With the number of emotionally damaged young people out there, I'm not sure it's wise to recruit and then arm them. I'm sure the fedgov thinks highering these psychopaths in training is a great idea, because they think they're a weapon pointed only one direction: at us.

Imagine their surprise when one of their armed nutcase decides to take their rage out on co-workers.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 11, 2022 12:37 PM (5pTK/)

85 At my reunion on Saturday, there was an old classmate who lives in Israel. I remarked how no one batted an eye when someone would get on a bus carrying an AR when I was there many years ago. He replied that pretty much everyone is trained and carried. Because he moved there in his 30's, he was still drafted and had to commit and be trained even though he would not see combat in the job he had been assigned.
I dunno how pertinent this is but I think if more people were trained and carried, it would make it more difficult for the government to intimidate.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 11, 2022 12:37 PM (Y+l9t)

86 Serial killers are still out there. But the FBI is too busy busting anti-abortion protestors to look for them.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at October 11, 2022 12:38 PM (5HBd1)

87 Brunette on the firing line has an amazing ass.
Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 11, 2022 12:36 PM (wZdQy)



I thought comments like this belonged in the Art Thread.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:38 PM (vf0Uk)

88 IIRC, some years back, a fella flew a small plane into an IRS office in Austin. If they'd had AA installations they could have brought him down sooner.

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Tanks could have prevented Rush Limbaugh from blowing up the Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 12:38 PM (fppa6)

89 Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 12:28 PM (I/doM)

Obama said that recently?

Posted by: clutch at October 11, 2022 12:38 PM (9UmRs)

90 Not everyone getting shoot at shoots back.

Posted by: Archer at October 11, 2022 12:38 PM (gmo/4)

91 45 I'm still wrapping my head around HHS having machine guns.

good luck storming the tenement!

Posted by: mystery maxine from the princess bride remake at October 11, 2022 12:38 PM (oY6Yp)

92 Imagine their surprise when one of their armed nutcase decides to take their rage out on co-workers.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 11, 2022 12:37 PM (5pTK/)
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They probably have extensive training - I mean that non-sarcastically - so the employees learn to direct it outward. Routine operations will help ensure the pressure builds up too much. When you know you'll get the opportunity to shoot someone next week, you're going to be less likely to shoot up your own office.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 11, 2022 12:39 PM (t0OGg)

93 Oops Lizzy I see the link now.

Posted by: clutch at October 11, 2022 12:39 PM (9UmRs)

94 I lost my favorite Democrat today.

Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 12:39 PM (krQz2)

95 Disarm all fed agencies, except CIA field agents, Secret Service and as fo FBI (if not defended altogether) they could only arm a select handful of agents in each office with side arms.

I'm looking forward to a Rep candidate putting rhis on their platform.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 11, 2022 12:39 PM (Trg30)

96 M4 isn't a machine gun.
_________

It's a bus line in Manhattan. Broadway/5th Avenue/Madison Avenue.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:40 PM (lf83v)

97 A lot of this armed bureaucracy shit started with Prohibition.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 11, 2022 12:35 PM (dxllA)


THe FBI agents were originally unarmed investigators. One of J. Edgar Hoover's first wins was o get them the right to carry firearms.

Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 12:40 PM (Z32m1)

98 94 I lost my favorite Democrat today.
Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 12:39 PM (krQz2)

=========

Tulsi is Republican's favorite Democrat like Mitt Romney is Democrat's favorite Republican.

Neither have serious futures in their nominal parties.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

99 I thought comments like this belonged in the Art Thread.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:38 PM

Well that ass is a work of art.

Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 11, 2022 12:40 PM (wZdQy)

100 Imagine their surprise when one of their armed nutcase decides to take their rage out on co-workers.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 11, 2022 12:37 PM (5pTK/)

A highly likely scenario.

Posted by: kathysaysso at October 11, 2022 12:40 PM (m78jL)

101 Well well well. If this whole story about 1871 and the USA Inc is true and we abolish USA Inc, then we don't have to abolish all of DC. It just sort of stands there and screams and is defunded itself because all of it and all of the deep state was created after 1871, so it disappears.

Posted by: Mephitis at October 11, 2022 12:40 PM (LI2fK)

102 >>Obama said that recently?

https://tinyurl.com/7x99h3ua

President Barack Obama described his political opponents as angry, racist, and sexist during a private conversation with some of Europe’s elites this summer, according to a newly revealed transcript. . . Obama offered his candid advice privately to European leaders in June after speaking publicly at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit in June.
But he also warned attendees away from sometimes getting too “filled up in our own self-righteousness.” [sure, sure!]

“We’re so convinced that we’re right that we forget what we are right about,” he said.

Details of his remarks were revealed in a new CNN report about the former president’s political activities during the midterms.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 12:40 PM (I/doM)

103 96 M4 isn't a machine gun.
_________

It's a bus line in Manhattan. Broadway/5th Avenue/Madison Avenue.


it's a dessert topping!

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at October 11, 2022 12:40 PM (oY6Yp)

104 Serial killers are still out there. But the FBI is too busy busting anti-abortion protestors to look for them.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at October 11, 2022 12:38 PM (5HBd1)

-------

And you wouldn't believe how many reports of nooses come in daily that require Meal Team Six expensed travel, food, investigations, food, training, and food.

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 12:41 PM (fppa6)

105 M4 isn't a machine gun.
_________

It's a bus line in Manhattan. Broadway/5th Avenue/Madison Avenue.

it's a dessert topping!
__________

It's a floor wax.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:41 PM (lf83v)

106
Empty the jails of murderers and rapists and fill them with enemies of the state. Sure does seem like the plan. The new statist quo.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 11, 2022 12:41 PM (y3pKJ)

107 Swift looks like the owner of a comic book shop in a Lifetime movie original.

Posted by: Azathoth at October 11, 2022 12:41 PM (wb1YC)

108 Did Jim Swift take an extra dose of tard pills before he made that tweet?

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2022 12:41 PM (pFQ77)

109 Because behind EVERY law they make, is the thinly veiled threat of death, from the government, towards anyone that doesn't cow down and do as they're told.

Police love this.

Posted by: Derek Chauvin's Prison Romance at October 11, 2022 12:41 PM (pt7Ye)

110 The level of constitutional ignorance on the left is shocking. I mean, Obama was trained as a constitutional lawyer and HE was ignorant about the document in many ways, its like their lack of understanding goes so deep that filling the well still leaves it in the negative.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 12:41 PM (Ivdso)

111 28 "We’re so convinced that we’re right that we forget what we are right about,” [Obama] said....

...unwittingly describing leftist NPC's to a tee...



Posted by: quantum mechanic at October 11, 2022 12:41 PM (g1EEm)

112
I always forget about Jim Swift.

Another obese swindler who always looks likes he's fingering a boy just out of camera-frame.

ConInc sure has a type.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 11, 2022 12:42 PM (oINRc)

113 Bang, bang shoot em up like firing squad!

She's got the big guns!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 11, 2022 12:42 PM (cMXNt)

114 Tulsi is Republican's favorite Democrat like Mitt Romney is Democrat's favorite Republican.

Neither have serious futures in their nominal parties.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:40 PM

How sad is it that Tulsi who was a dem had more street cred than RINO Mittens?

Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 11, 2022 12:42 PM (wZdQy)

115 An armed force equal to the us military under political control...fucking Obama said out loud that's what his goal was..now they have it.

Gun up, make friends nearby and head on a swivel.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 12:42 PM (XvPQV)

116 Send these armed bureaucrats over to Ukraine to help in the war effort. That should make both the American left and right happy.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 11, 2022 12:42 PM (BJKQV)

117 Serious question.

Who is more stupid -- Taylor Swift or Jim Swift?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:42 PM (lf83v)

118 Jim Swift of The Bulwark, of course, immediately claimed that the Second Amendment is all about the right of federal bureaucrats to have the government buy guns for them,



When do they provide them to us?

Posted by: Gunnery Sgt. Hartman at October 11, 2022 12:42 PM (uL3gr)

119 And yes, defunding them would reduce the likelihood they are packing, by forcing them to make budget priorities. Train in the firing line and buy more bullets, or pay for the Boss's new yacht?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (Ivdso)

120 28 Obama is expected to limit his appearances on the campaign trail for the midterm elections, according to the report

Much as I loathe the guy, he has very good political instincts. If Obama is avoiding association with the midterms, it means he thinks it's going to be a bloodbath for Democrats.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (g1EEm)

121 But, Putin...

The United States doesn't have the moral or ethical authority to lecture ANYONE.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (12BUI)

122 The level of constitutional ignorance on the left is shocking. I mean, Obama was trained as a constitutional lawyer and HE was ignorant about the document in many ways, its like their lack of understanding goes so deep that filling the well still leaves it in the negative.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 12:41 PM (Ivdso)



"I don't like The Constitution because it tells the government what it can't do."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (vf0Uk)

123 120 28 Obama is expected to limit his appearances on the campaign trail for the midterm elections, according to the report

Much as I loathe the guy, he has very good political instincts. If Obama is avoiding association with the midterms, it means he thinks it's going to be a bloodbath for Democrats.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (g1EEm)

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But cheating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

124 Not IRS Agents
The video and images were taken in October 2017 as part of an IRS-sponsored college program, known as the Adrian Project, hosted for accounting students at Stockton University in New Jersey. The IRS conducts Adrian Project sessions for accounting students at universities across the country.

According to a press release from Stockton University, 24 accounting students participated in a day-long simulation of a mock criminal investigation that might be conducted by the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division.

Posted by: anon2020 at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (RqMDa)

125 The level of constitutional ignorance on the left is shocking. I mean, Obama was trained as a constitutional lawyer and HE was ignorant about the document in many ways, its like their lack of understanding goes so deep that filling the well still leaves it in the negative.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 12:41 PM

I don't know if it was ignorance so much as it was just not giving a shit about the law.

Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (wZdQy)

126 Well that ass is a work of art.
Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 11, 2022 12:40 PM


A crude reference, but thank you.

Posted by: Brie Larson at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (a3Q+t)

127 I don't think they're ignorant of the Constitution. They know it stands in their way and it has to be destroyed. It was made for the type of country that no longer exists here, and hasn't for decades (at least).

Posted by: brak at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (j5Tg0)

128
This the civil army that Oblabla referred to when he basically said we needed an armed woke contingent as big and as heavily armed as our military.

Like so many I thought no one would go for that.

And yet, here we are.

If we take the House, the Reps need to defund every single bit of this anti-American BS.

Will they? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Posted by: naturalfake at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (KLPy8)

129 Government employees have a right to be employed that is stronger than your right to have guns.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 11, 2022 12:44 PM (sX1BW)

130 In my experience, the government goobs who want guns so badly never served in the military.

Too fat or too stupid.

So now they are overcompensating for their personal failures.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:44 PM (lf83v)

131 Serial killers are still out there. But the FBI is too busy busting anti-abortion protestors to look for them.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at October 11, 2022 12:38 PM (5HBd1)

That's a whole 'nuther interesting discussion. At any one time they believe there are a thousand unknown serial killers operating or on pause .

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2022 12:44 PM (pFQ77)

132 Probably a good place to repost Obama's recent private comment:

“Sometimes it just turns out they’re mean, they’re racist, they’re sexist, they’re angry,” Obama said. “And your job is then to just beat them because they’re not persuadable.”



Amazingly, this is precisely how I feel about Obama and everything he and his Party represents.


You literally cannot talk to these people and try to persuade them. THEY are the ones that have shut down any civil discourse. And that leaves only one option.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 12:44 PM (O2Rtm)

133 I believe Big Green classifies the M4a1 as a carbine capable of fully automatic fire and Colt, et al often consider it as a "sub machine gun". At least that's what I remember form the NGSW decks.

Posted by: Department of Education at October 11, 2022 12:44 PM (ZeDNp)

134 Serious question.

Who is more stupid -- Taylor Swift or Jim Swift?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:42 PM (lf83v)



Mazie Hirono.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:44 PM (vf0Uk)

135 >>>I would go back further. Waco and Ruby Ridge were the trial runs.
Posted by: Elric Blade

Probably, but 2020 seemed like the first time the government said, "Screw you, we'll do what we want," and it destroyed most of the police departments in America. At least the blue cities, anyway.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 11, 2022 12:44 PM (bkUtD)

136 this began under the regime of He Who Will Not Be Named. SSA was one of the agencies acquiring a whole lot of ammo.

Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 12:44 PM (dCxaZ)

137 Serious question.

Who is more stupid -- Taylor Swift or Jim Swift?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot


Yes.
Just because you have Swift in your name doesn't make it so.

Posted by: Gunnery Sgt. Hartman at October 11, 2022 12:44 PM (uL3gr)

138 I don't know if it was ignorance so much as it was just not giving a shit about the law.

Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (wZdQy)
---
Bingo.

Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 12:44 PM (krQz2)

139 The same people who would blow an ovary at the mere mention of the name Blackwater fifteen years ago....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2022 12:45 PM (6FeV1)

140 The bitter icing on the cake here is that if we object to or protest this weaponization of the bureaucracy, our "betters" have clearly demonstrated their alacrity in quashing it. See J6.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2022 12:45 PM (Xrfse)

141 45 I'm still wrapping my head around HHS having machine guns.
Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 12:32 PM (EcuD

Has HHS provided a reason why they need them?

Posted by: clutch at October 11, 2022 12:45 PM (9UmRs)

142 someone next week, you're going to be less likely to shoot up your own office.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 11, 2022 12:39 PM (t0OGg)
----

I don't think Ezra Miller is an outlier in that demographic. Such people really cannot be controlled.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 11, 2022 12:45 PM (5pTK/)

143 Tulsi is Republican's favorite Democrat like Mitt Romney is Democrat's favorite Republican.
Neither have serious futures in their nominal parties.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:40 PM (LvTSG)


My bet is that Mittens will get his own "neutral" think tank or NGO with a vanilla name that will launder Lefty money to attack Republicans at all levels, and Tulsi is going to go try to carve a spot out in the Libertarian Party

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 12:45 PM (xhaym)

144 LOL Sponge!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:45 PM (lf83v)

145 Serious question.

Who is more stupid -- Taylor Swift or Jim Swift?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:42 PM (lf83v)
++++
Jim Swift, by a wide margin. Taylor Swift might be vapid, but she's smart enough to have not wasted all of her enormous wealth in short order. Even if that just means that Taylor Swift is smart enough to hire people who aren't stupid to take care of it for her, it's still a sign that she's far smarter than Jim Swift.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 11, 2022 12:46 PM (t0OGg)

146 Has HHS provided a reason why they need them?
Posted by: clutch at October 11, 2022 12:45 PM (9UmRs)

Because they're not Little People.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 12:46 PM (XvPQV)

147 A crude reference, but thank you.
Posted by: Brie Larson at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (a3Q+t)


You're welcome.

Posted by: Salvador Dali at October 11, 2022 12:46 PM (AiZBA)

148 Probably a good place to repost Obama's recent private comment:

“Sometimes it just turns out they’re mean, they’re racist, they’re sexist, they’re angry,” Obama said. “And your job is then to just beat them because they’re not persuadable.”

That closeted homo has more misdirected projection than his first pitch.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2022 12:46 PM (pFQ77)

149 Has HHS provided a reason why they need them?
Posted by: clutch at October 11, 2022 12:45 PM (9UmRs)


They have funding from Congress

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 12:46 PM (xhaym)

150 >>>but it's not an official training video?

No it's a video of official training, not an official training video. See they didn't lie they englished.

Posted by: mikethemoose at October 11, 2022 12:46 PM (ugvYV)

151 Excellent point bu Anton:

I’m also motivated to respond because, irrelevant or distasteful as one may think these people are, they are actually quite powerful. They, and many others like them, form authoritative opinion in our time. In an age, and a regime, in which propaganda and censorship are foundational sources of rule, the power to police opinion is quasi-governmental. They are information warfare specialists, backed by big money, and their role is to constrain what you get to hear in part by smearing and slandering dissidents. One may not pay them much heed, but others who also have power over what the public gets to hear do, hence their vitriol matters.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 12:46 PM (I/doM)

152 According to a press release from Stockton University, 24 accounting students participated in a day-long simulation of a mock criminal investigation that might be conducted by the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division.
Posted by: anon2020 at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM

I can see the NBC spinoff....queue the Law and Order Theme. Next on IRSCID....Larry Anderson claims a home office.....(door busts open) IRSCID with M4-s... FREEEEZE!!!!

Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 11, 2022 12:46 PM (wZdQy)

153
Well, it's not like recruiting is up in the military.
Posted by: aelfheld

When you want to be able to shoot someone but not be shot at...join the FedForce today!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland


Remember Obama's speech in 2008:

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 11, 2022 12:46 PM (63Dwl)

154 In retrospect, the fact that we ever took these grotesque, adipose, boy-crazy conmen seriously is a pretty bad indictment. One look at the assorted freaks of the Conservative Media Ecosystem™ should've been enough, but hope is blind and we Wanted to Believe, I suppose.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (oINRc)

155 Wrong approach. Pass a law that disarms all federal agencies except those committed to LE (that can wait, I suppose, and besides all federal LE needs to be dismantled and refactored anyway) and give the agencies six months to comply. Pass the law six months before the next budget process starts.

------------

I'd prefer to completely defund, but we are on the minority on that one. Passing a law to disarm them may be more palatable as it sounds more "reasonable." So I guess I'm for it, but it doesn't go nearly far enough. 5 years ago, I would say only a handful of government agencies need to be armed. At this point, I'd limit it to the US Marshalls and maybe a handful of SS agents.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (sX1BW)

156 and in worse news, yesterday a guy told me he went to his range this past weekend and was pissed because two of the target practice areas were booked, therefore unavailable. It was 80 - 100 Chinese.

This little factoid came to me about two hours after i discovered a clip from Epoch Times that stated the CCP was establishing police forces in the US, one of them in NYC.

have a nice day all

Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (dCxaZ)

157 Yes.
Just because you have Swift in your name doesn't make it so.


sometimes it does

Posted by: Jonathan Swift at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (j5Tg0)

158 Does NOAA have a swat team? Are they focused on "weather deniers"?

Posted by: BignJames at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (AwYPR)

159
Obama is expected to limit his appearances on the campaign trail for the midterm elections, according to the report

***

That's because the expected midterm results already look like he's been helping for the last year.

Frankly, I would love for Shit Midas to get out and start campaigning for the Dems.

Posted by: Azathoth at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (wb1YC)

160 Much as I loathe the guy, he has very good political instincts. If Obama is avoiding association with the midterms, it means he thinks it's going to be a bloodbath for Democrats.
/////////////////////////

It's very easy to have very good political instincts when the entire media does nothing but suck your ass. The only talent Obama ever had was Being Black.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (O2Rtm)

161 Has HHS provided a reason why they need them?
___________

Because if you don't take this vaccine? pew, pew, pew!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (lf83v)

162 My hope is that in aggregate, the Marines could take them on...and would...

Posted by: Parker at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (hJWil)

163 35 I saw Eve Face open for Box of Frogs at The Catapult in '93.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:30 PM (vf0Uk)

Box of Frogs was a pretty freaking good band. Their first album: I wore that cassette tape out.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at October 11, 2022 12:48 PM (pkTq0)

164 Does NOAA have a swat team? Are they focused on "weather deniers"?
Posted by: BignJames at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (AwYPR)


SPAAAAACE FORRRRCE.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 11, 2022 12:48 PM (AiZBA)

165 Serious question.

Who is more stupid -- Taylor Swift or Jim Swift?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:42 PM (lf83v)

Mazie Hirono.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:44 PM (vf0Uk)


Patty Murray

Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 12:48 PM (Z32m1)

166 143 My bet is that Mittens will get his own "neutral" think tank or NGO with a vanilla name that will launder Lefty money to attack Republicans at all levels, and Tulsi is going to go try to carve a spot out in the Libertarian Party
Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 12:45 PM (xhaym)

==========

He'll get a seven figure salary from some lawfirm in DC, I bet. He won't start anything new. Everything he'll do will be to advance Tagg Romney's grift.

Tulsi? Maybe she'll take over the LP. It's a limp party apparatus just waiting for someone with any kind of presence to take it over and mold it to their will.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:48 PM (LvTSG)

167 The government has become your enemy.

Posted by: wth at October 11, 2022 12:48 PM (v0R5T)

168 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (oINRc)

years ago I used to watch C-SPAN all the time, the Sunday News shows, like Meet the Press, etc. And Bill Kristol who was ubiquitous on those programs, always looked like he was trying to stifle a smirk, or even a laugh.

So when he showed his true colors it didn't surprise me much.

Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (dCxaZ)

169 i discovered a clip from Epoch Times that stated the CCP was establishing police forces in the US, one of them in NYC.

Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (dCxaZ)
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Somebody's gotta.

Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (krQz2)

170 146 Has HHS provided a reason why they need them?
Posted by: clutch at October 11, 2022 12:45 PM (9UmRs)

Because they're not Little People.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 12:46 PM (XvPQV)

=========

You're either cop or you're little people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (LvTSG)

171 Of course Republicans, since they will control Congress next session, and therefore the purse strings will cut all these agencies budgets for firearms and ammunition purchases and explicitly list that no funds can be used for that purpose.

Because they can do that, as Congress.

They do know that- right?

Posted by: Marcus T at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (ZeDNp)

172 Not IRS Agents
The video and images were taken in October 2017 as part of an IRS-sponsored college program, known as the Adrian Project, hosted for accounting students at Stockton University in New Jersey. The IRS conducts Adrian Project sessions for accounting students at universities across the country.

According to a press release from Stockton University, 24 accounting students participated in a day-long simulation of a mock criminal investigation that might be conducted by the IRS’s Criminal Investigation division.
Posted by: anon2020

So. Pre-training training.

Posted by: Gunnery Sgt. Hartman at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (uL3gr)

173
Box of Frogs was a pretty freaking good band. Their first album: I wore that cassette tape out.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at October 11, 2022 12:48 PM (pkTq0)



https://youtu.be/zywY7xXzenI

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (vf0Uk)

174 The government has become your enemy.
___

You just realizing this?

Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (EcuD8)

175 Does NOAA have a swat team? Are they focused on "weather deniers"?

Coming soon to a theater near you.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (Xrfse)

176 Buncha homos.

Posted by: Tulsi Gabbard - no longer D at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (v0R5T)

177 White House has just announced it will implement AB5 at the federal level. Anyone doing contract work is about to no longer have that work and must be classified as an employee.

JFC they are restoring the entire US business model.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (OalnH)

178 I worked for IRS CI and I'm familiar with the video. It's part of a recruitment effort for Criminal Investigation. The people in it are either criminal justice or accounting students at college - or maybe even high school level and were filmed when an IRS recruiter visited campus to provide some background on the agency and give prospective recruits an idea of the duties of a special agent. It's definitely NOT a training video and they're not being trained. A career, "Cop for a day" kind of thing. In fact, I think. they called it "Special Agent for a Day." I doubt it convinced any of the participants to go to work for the service, but you never know.
And for what it's worth, IRS CI did have (I think) 15 submachine guns, I think 9mm H&K MP5s. These were only issued to the special agents who were detailed to Baghdad and Kabul and were working on stolen asset recovery and terrorism financing cases. Where an SMG might come in handy.

Posted by: Mongoose at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (x7Gfw)

179 IIRC, Gibson Guitars got raided by armed Feds for some BS about using endangered wood.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at October 11, 2022 12:35 PM (ViC0A)


Wood whose use is not prohibited by US law but by Indian law, IIRC. Wood which was also used by another guitar maker - one who donated to the Democrats - and was not raided.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (zhLdt)

180 The only talent Obama ever had was Being Black.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (O2Rtm)

Even that was half-assed

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (6FeV1)

181 When the government is arming government loyalists, it means they expect to need to use them as an armed force. Imagine facing the 4th IRS division in Civil War II. Talk about catharsis.

Posted by: mikethemoose at October 11, 2022 12:50 PM (ugvYV)

182 >>>The government has become your enemy.
Posted by: wth


Always have been, but now they're gloating about it.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 11, 2022 12:50 PM (bkUtD)

183 146 Has HHS provided a reason why they need them?
Posted by: clutch at October 11, 2022 12:45 PM (9UmRs)

Because they're not Little People.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 12:46 PM (XvPQV)

HHS? Vax Deniers of course! We must protect the Vax'd who got Covid from the UnVax'd who did not!

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 11, 2022 12:50 PM (oHd/0)

184 I'd prefer to completely defund, but we are on the minority on that one. Passing a law to disarm them may be more palatable as it sounds more "reasonable." So I guess I'm for it, but it doesn't go nearly far enough. 5 years ago, I would say only a handful of government agencies need to be armed. At this point, I'd limit it to the US Marshalls and maybe a handful of SS agents.
Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (sX1BW)
++++
The law to disarm them is first. If they don't comply, defund the agencies. They're in violation of the law, so they don't get to exist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 11, 2022 12:50 PM (t0OGg)

185 You're either cop or you're little people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (LvTSG)

Damn good writing in Blade Runner.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 12:50 PM (XvPQV)

186 You just realizing this?
Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (EcuD
.......

I can no longer deny.

Posted by: wth at October 11, 2022 12:50 PM (v0R5T)

187 The government has become your enemy.
___________

As predicted in the Federalist papers.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:50 PM (lf83v)

188 Its staggering to me that someone would make a 2nd amendment crack about arming federal bureaucracy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 12:50 PM (Ivdso)

189 >>>You're either cop or you're little people.


In fairness, I'm both.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 11, 2022 12:51 PM (bkUtD)

190 The VA is probably armed to force their care on you. Because no sane person would ever do that unless under threat of duress.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 11, 2022 12:51 PM (ZeDNp)

191 It's very easy to have very good political instincts when the entire media does nothing but suck your ass. The only talent Obama ever had was Being Black.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (O2Rtm)

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Bares repeating ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 12:51 PM (fppa6)

192 How sad is it that Tulsi who was a dem had more street cred than RINO Mittens?
Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 11, 2022 12:42 PM (wZdQy)

She discovered that the frog treated her better than the scorpion.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 11, 2022 12:51 PM (44ww/)

193 185 You're either cop or you're little people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (LvTSG)

Damn good writing in Blade Runner.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 12:50 PM (XvPQV)

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There's writing? I thought it was just production design and the guy from Hack-O-Lantern.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:51 PM (LvTSG)

194 Of course Republicans, since they will control Congress next session, and therefore the purse strings will cut all these agencies budgets for firearms and ammunition purchases and explicitly list that no funds can be used for that purpose.

Because they can do that, as Congress.

They do know that- right?
Posted by: Marcus T at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (ZeDNp)
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You want: defunding.
You'll settle for: some cuts.
You'll get: another continuing resolution to spend.

Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 12:51 PM (krQz2)

195 >>>It's definitely NOT a training video and they're not being trained

Semantics. They *ARE* being trained. They aren't being trained for duty is what you are asserting.

Posted by: mikethemoose at October 11, 2022 12:52 PM (ugvYV)

196 Serious question.

Who is more stupid -- Taylor Swift or Jim Swift?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:42 PM (lf83v)
........

James Taylor?

Posted by: wth at October 11, 2022 12:52 PM (v0R5T)

197 To use the technical jargon employed in the DSM-V, Jim Swift is a Certifiable Retard.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 11, 2022 12:52 PM (ppBhU)

198 Its staggering to me that someone would make a 2nd amendment crack about arming federal bureaucracy.

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Jim Swift is not a very smart man.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 11, 2022 12:52 PM (sX1BW)

199
It's very easy to have very good political instincts when the entire media does nothing but suck your ass. The only talent Obama ever had was Being Black.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (O2Rtm)


Compared to Tapioca Joe?

President Obama has great political instincts, and is very err, ummm, eloquent too. It's a low bar to beat the senile husk that was his VP.

Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 12:52 PM (Z32m1)

200 You literally cannot talk to these people and try to persuade them. THEY are the ones that have shut down any civil discourse. And that leaves only one option.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 12:44 PM (O2Rtm)


to follow up on this, and Barry's mouthings, William M. Briggs discusses Scientism, as well as touching on Progressive and Wokism as a form of Gnosticism:

https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/42617/

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 12:52 PM (xhaym)

201 and just for fun, the points discussed as indicative of gnosticism are: A profound dissatisfaction with his situation.
[A] belief that the drawbacks of the situation can be attributed to the fact that the world [not just man] is poorly organized
Belief that “salvation from the evil of the world is possible."
A belief, and desire, that evil shall be vanquished via a “historical process”.
This historical process will be helped along by gnostics, because all problems have, and must have, a solution.
The secret knowledge, gnosis, to bring perfection will be discoverable and available to adepts.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 12:52 PM (xhaym)

202 194 You want: defunding. You'll settle for: some cuts. You'll get: another continuing resolution to spend.
Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 12:51 PM (krQz2)

=========

"We stand for nothing. You'd better follow us."
-GOPe

"I stand for something. Follow me."
-Trump

"We must destroy Trump. Follow us to destroy Trump."
-GOPe

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:52 PM (LvTSG)

203 i discovered a clip from Epoch Times that stated the CCP was establishing police forces in the US, one of them in NYC.

I think they are doing what the NYPD does (and probably LAPD) by butting into other nations and states' police service and acting as "advisors".

God knows the NYPD apparently need advisors, but not from freaking communist China.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 12:52 PM (Ivdso)

204 Has HHS provided a reason why they need them?
___________

Because if you don't take this vaccine? pew, pew, pew!
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM

OK that made me LOL.

Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 11, 2022 12:53 PM (wZdQy)

205 Off damn sock!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 11, 2022 12:53 PM (uL3gr)

206 181 When the government is arming government loyalists, it means they expect to need to use them as an armed force. Imagine facing the 4th IRS division in Civil War II. Talk about catharsis.
Posted by: mikethemoose at October 11, 2022 12:50 PM (ugvYV)

I remember years ago, when I was told HERE that I was crazy when I questioned the Army changing all of its training from Big Battle to counter insurgency... pointing out that there is ONLY two times counter insurgency training is needed... to occupy a foreign country, OR TO PUT DOWN INTERNAL REVOLT.

It's the same with taking Heavy divisions, and making them Light divisions... one you are taking on a first world Army... they second you are taking on third world OR using the for occupation or insurrection.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 11, 2022 12:53 PM (oHd/0)

207
Jim Swift is not a very smart man.
Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 11, 2022 12:52 PM (sX1BW)

He probably looks pretty smart if you're trying to find an impossibly well-hidden box of Ding Dongs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 11, 2022 12:53 PM (oINRc)

208 Damn good writing in Blade Runner.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 12:50 PM (XvPQV)
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There's writing? I thought it was just production design and the guy from Hack-O-Lantern.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:51 PM (LvTSG)

There's also production design. And casting, performances, even some directing...but ignore what the guy says about Deckard being a replicant. He can't write.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 12:53 PM (XvPQV)

209 Next up, nice new uniforms from Hugo Boss

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 11, 2022 12:53 PM (hZpI8)

210 Watched that segment on Tucker last night about the armed team of Glowies taking the preacher out of his house in front of his kids.

Looked like something I imagine the Brown Shirts, and later the Gestapo did. We are in deep shit and it doesn't appear that it's gonna be settled politely.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 11, 2022 12:53 PM (tBR6g)

211 President Obama has great political instincts, and is very err, ummm, eloquent too. It's a low bar to beat the senile husk that was his VP.
Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 12:52 PM (Z32m1)


That fvcker's eloquence is limited to his baritone voice and a teleprompter.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 11, 2022 12:54 PM (AiZBA)

212 Problem I see , just like with HOAs , is that conservative thinking people like to complain about the organizations but don't want to participate or get a job in those organizations. Makes it easy for the asshoes and Left to take them over.

Guilty as charged.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2022 12:54 PM (pFQ77)

213 M4 isn't a machine gun.
Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 12:34 PM (EcuD

According the ATF a shoe string is a machine gun...so YMMV.

Posted by: No Name Nobody at October 11, 2022 12:54 PM (fzUI+)

214 But cheating.


Yes, my state will steal,yet another election for the Dems with Wayne County leading the way.

Posted by: clutch at October 11, 2022 12:54 PM (9UmRs)

215 "We must destroy Trump. Follow us to destroy Trump."
-GOPe


Well at least they decided to at least stand for something, I'll give them that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 12:54 PM (Ivdso)

216 I don't know what y'all think of Tulsi Gabbard, whom I cautiously like, but I heard she called Democrats out for its new authoritarianism, weaponizing and otherwise arraying the government against the people and our God-given liberties, and left the party.





Posted by: Sarahw at October 11, 2022 12:54 PM (g1vnC)

217 Will the feds officially declare war on us or will they simply start killing us?

*glances at news*

Never mind. Both. Now.

Posted by: creeper at October 11, 2022 12:55 PM (VEIET)

218 Its staggering to me that someone would make a 2nd amendment crack about arming federal bureaucracy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 12:50 PM (Ivdso)

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I just got an idea for a book:

"An Authoritarian's View, Interpretation, an Weaponization of the U.S. Constitution Against U.S. Citizens."

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 12:55 PM (fppa6)

219 The only armed members of FedGov should be the DoD, SS, and Border Patrol.

If another agency wants a armed arrest make them go through state/local police.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 12:55 PM (ESjRY)

220 Riot squad show up at LA City Council meeting, where the bruthas have assembled to oust the Latinexes who uttered the horribly racist comments:

https://tinyurl.com/yc847hza

Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 12:55 PM (dCxaZ)

221 "Has HHS provided a reason why they need them?
Posted by: clutch "


Unless they are legitimate hunting weapon (and stored safely) I'm told they must not exist

Posted by: Ripley at October 11, 2022 12:55 PM (MxEKc)

222 12 Ten years ago, the Department of Education had a SWAT team.

I assume that they still do.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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How else will they be able to put down the threat of parents speaking at school board meetings?

Posted by: Furious George at October 11, 2022 12:55 PM (CkFy6)

223 Who is more stupid -- Taylor Swift or Jim Swift?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 12:42 PM (lf83v)


Have you ever seen them together?

More serious answer, however, would be Jim. Taylor has, at least, made a lot more money.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 11, 2022 12:55 PM (zhLdt)

224 Began big time during O's & Joe's 2nd term. (Forbes, Oct 20, 2017, "Why Are Federal Bureaucrats Buying Guns And Ammo? $158 Million Spent By Non-Military Agencies?")

Thereafter, a lot of that equipment and military-type vehicles went to civilian police forces nationwide, which then made it convenient to accuse 'some' of them of menacing & employing military tactics to terrorize citizens.
But at least a lot of that equipment was dumped before Trump the Mad had a chance to manage & direct it towards citizenry, especially around sanctuary sites. /sarc

Now we're blessed in that there's only full-scale training exercises taking place on occasion & in some cities.

Posted by: Lola at October 11, 2022 12:55 PM (NIYa7)

225 Jim Swift is the Forrest Gump of Lloyd in Dumb and Dumber.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:56 PM (vf0Uk)

226 Jim Swift is not a very smart man.
Posted by: SH (No more Roe)

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I'd like to apologize for mis-gendering him. That was very insensitive of me ... to all the men of the world.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 11, 2022 12:56 PM (sX1BW)

227 194 You want: defunding. You'll settle for: some cuts. You'll get: another continuing resolution to spend.
Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 12:51 PM (krQz2)

As long as I get my cut.

Posted by: Volodymyr Zelenskyy - Super Hero at October 11, 2022 12:56 PM (v0R5T)

228 I don't know what y'all think of Tulsi Gabbard...

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I don't.

She's just another politician.

Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 12:56 PM (EcuD8)

229 Well, it's not like recruiting is up in the military.

Posted by: aelfheld at October 11, 2022 12:25 PM (Zy9Yy)


No fitness standards (mental or physical), unfireable, no enemies trying to kill you, better pay, better bennies -- Which would you choose as a rational choice

Bureaucrat vs military? Sounds like a no brainer to me.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 11, 2022 12:56 PM (JOtiF)

230 There's also production design. And casting, performances, even some directing...but ignore what the guy says about Deckard being a replicant. He can't write.

Let's just say he's being a fool with his own story, as has been known to happen.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 12:56 PM (Ivdso)

231 Any pointers to a "So you've finally decided to buy a gun for personal protection" resource?

No reason...

Posted by: Parker at October 11, 2022 12:56 PM (hJWil)

232
The only armed members of FedGov should be the DoD, SS, and Border Patrol.

If another agency wants a armed arrest make them go through state/local police.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 12:55 PM (ESjRY)

I take your point, but at this stage of the game I'm going with "no armed members of FedGov, because it was deposed."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 11, 2022 12:56 PM (oINRc)

233 I don't know what y'all think of Tulsi Gabbard, whom I cautiously like,

I'd hit it. That was the question, right?

Posted by: brak at October 11, 2022 12:57 PM (j5Tg0)

234 Ten years ago, the Department of Education had a SWAT team.

I assume that they still do.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
___________

How else will they be able to put down the threat of parents speaking at school board meetings?
Posted by: Furious George


Because they sure as shit ain't showing up at school shootings.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 11, 2022 12:57 PM (uL3gr)

235 You're either cop or you're little people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (LvTSG)


Watch Soylent Green again. Charlton Heston the filthy, sweating cop was only a couple steps above the poor, destitute rabble the cops were scooping up and disposing. While he investigates the death of one of the elites, he timidly takes advantage of the amenities, like a shower and "The Furniture."

Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 12:57 PM (Z32m1)

236 Wow, armed IRS agents. This should be fun.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 11, 2022 12:57 PM (AEvJo)

237 Will the feds officially declare war on us or will they simply start killing us?

Hola!

I am Juan, and I want to work as your gardener for less then you would pay those "lazy" young Americans.

Oh, Maria? Yes she came for the welfare check.

Chico? Oh we don't talk about Chico, he killed gatos back home and we were always scared of him. And you know you should be too.

Posted by: The three faces of illegal immigration at October 11, 2022 12:57 PM (ESjRY)

238 No more than the losers and rejects who end up in the military.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 11, 2022 12:35 PM (wmDcS)
~~~~~

What a shitty thing to say, John Kerry.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 11, 2022 12:57 PM (3ImbR)

239
That fvcker's eloquence is limited to his baritone voice and a teleprompter.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 11, 2022 12:54 PM (AiZBA)



The fly was right.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 12:57 PM (vf0Uk)

240 217 Will the feds officially declare war on us or will they simply start killing us?

*glances at news*

Never mind. Both. Now.
Posted by: creeper at October 11, 2022 12:55 PM (VEIET)

Levoy Finicum can't be reached for comment...

unless you use go to Madame Wanda's Crystal Ball Emporium.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 11, 2022 12:57 PM (oHd/0)

241 Well that ass is a work of art.
Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 11, 2022 12:40 PM

A crude reference, but thank you.
Posted by: Brie Larson at October 11, 2022 12:43 PM (a3Q+t)


Calling Brie Larson's ass a work of art is like calling the canvas "Dogs Playing Poker" was painted on a work of art.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 11, 2022 12:57 PM (zhLdt)

242 I trust Tulsi Gabbard as much as I would trust any leftist ideologue who complains that her party is becoming unpopular like James Carville or Bill Maher.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:58 PM (LvTSG)

243
Problem I see , just like with HOAs , is that conservative thinking people like to complain about the organizations but don't want to participate or get a job in those organizations. Makes it easy for the asshoes and Left to take them over.


Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2022 12:54 PM


Here's a question for you, about freedom. My daughters HOA is all conservative people. They've decided NO to renting and NO to AirBnB. Good decision to maintain property values or anti-free enterprise?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 11, 2022 12:58 PM (y3pKJ)

244 I don't know what y'all think of Tulsi Gabbard, whom I cautiously like, but I heard she called Democrats out for its new authoritarianism, weaponizing and otherwise arraying the government against the people and our God-given liberties, and left the party.

Posted by: Sarahw at October 11, 2022 12:54 PM (g1vnC)

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First thing that came to my mind was: "Where has she been for at least the past 30 years?"

I mean, you could see where this Arc of History A Shit-Show was going since at least the day the Clintons first darkened The White House.

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 12:58 PM (fppa6)

245 Some of these trainees look like they could fill in for William Conrad on the set of the TV show "Cannon"

Posted by: SMOD at October 11, 2022 12:58 PM (RHGPo)

246 >> Its staggering to me that someone would make a 2nd amendment crack about arming federal bureaucracy.


He was trolling.
He knew exactly what Chip Roy meant but knew he could p#wn him with the 2A jab.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 12:58 PM (I/doM)

247 I don't know what y'all think of Tulsi Gabbard...
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She was my favorite Democrat.

But it's only a matter of time until somebody becoming my favorite Democrat isn't a Democrat anymore.

Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 12:58 PM (krQz2)

248 Not to worry, Kevin Luntz is working on this.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 11, 2022 12:58 PM (VaSD4)

249 Fox News reports that, at a meeting with other military leaders, Secretary Christine Wormuth responded to criticisms that the Army has gone “woke,” a term for race-based identity politics that systematically favor minorities and disadvantage White Americans. Wormuth also defended the Army’s DEI programs as “important."

https://tinyurl.com/ymcuh522

Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 12:59 PM (EcuD8)

250 I think they are doing what the NYPD does (and probably LAPD) by butting into other nations and states' police service and acting as "advisors".

I'm just wondering what the advisors were doing in Bumfvck, PA.

Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 12:59 PM (dCxaZ)

251
Some of these trainees look like they could fill in for William Conrad on the set of the TV show "Cannon"
Posted by: SMOD at October 11, 2022 12:58 PM (RHGPo)

Any of these ConInc grifters could, but for the fact that Conrad didn't have a face that made you want to punch him with a mailed fist.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 11, 2022 12:59 PM (oINRc)

252 i'm sure that when mccarthy and mccconnell are back in control they will make sure those 87000 extra irs agents are only going after people what need going after, like waiters and delivery guys who aren't paying taxes on all their tips.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 11, 2022 12:59 PM (kFrCu)

253 233 I don't know what y'all think of Tulsi Gabbard, whom I cautiously like,

I'd hit it. That was the question, right?
Posted by: brak at October 11, 2022 12:57 PM (j5Tg0)

Always is

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 12:59 PM (XvPQV)

254 The founders warned us against a standing army... and the feds got away with it by calling it police.

Posted by: DocMerlin at October 11, 2022 12:59 PM (jRh4q)

255 Totally off topic, but I have to say this.

Leonard Nimoy appeared in Star Trek as Spock and Mission Impossible as Paris. Both had only one name.

His boss in Star Trek was Jim Kirk. His boss in Mission Impossible was Jim Phelps.

In both series, federal bureaucrats had no need of guns.

Coincidence? I don't think so.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 01:00 PM (lf83v)

256 Tulsi probably is really moving away from the lefty plantation...but I want to see her get elected in a Dem leaning jurisdiction and do non-left wing things before I ever would think of voting for her.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:00 PM (ESjRY)

257 Because they sure as shit ain't showing up at school shootings.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 11, 2022 12:57 PM (uL3gr)


The %#$@&!! Cops don't show up at school shootings. The -deleted- School Resource Officer was off site and drove past the school shooter in the parking lot to apprehend a teacher smoking by an outside door.

Time to find volunteer teachers and staff to train and arm them.

Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 01:00 PM (Z32m1)

258 I don't know what y'all think of Tulsi Gabbard...

If I could somehow attach her pockmarked face to an orbital sander the hull of my boat would look much better.


Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (VaSD4)

259 256 Tulsi probably is really moving away from the lefty plantation...but I want to see her get elected in a Dem leaning jurisdiction and do non-left wing things before I ever would think of voting for her.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:00 PM (ESjRY)

========

She's going to be a media personality and move from that to running a couple of Super PACs that promise compassionate liberalism but has questionable results while her house coincidentally gets larger.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (LvTSG)

260 @117

>>Serious question. Who is more stupid -- Taylor Swift or Jim Swift?

Jim Swift's net worth is not 400 million dollars so I think Taylor is slightly more on the ball than Jim.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (up/3i)

261 Wormuth also defended the Army’s DEI programs as “important."

https://tinyurl.com/ymcuh522
Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 12:59 PM (EcuD


Didn't watch the video but I'll bet she pronounced "impor'ant".

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (AiZBA)

262 President 18-1 would use those 87K new IRS agents to "audit" all the assets of the illegals I'd be sending home. All assets in the US would be seized.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (ESjRY)

263 He knew exactly what Chip Roy meant but knew he could p#wn him with the 2A jab.

Except he followed up with how they shouldn't be defunded, either. I think he's just that ignorant and worshipful of federal government

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (Ivdso)

264 No more than the losers and rejects who end up in the military.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 11, 2022 12:35 PM (wmDcS)
~~~~~

What a shitty thing to say, John Kerry.
Posted by: IrishEi
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lol

https://tinyurl.com/2ybap4h6

Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (EcuD8)

265 I foresee all Americans digitally recording all interactoins with the state going forward.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (AEvJo)

266 Why does NASA have a SWAT team?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (2xlV3)

267 "A report issued last year by the watchdog group Open The Books, "The Militarization of The U.S. Executive Agencies," found that more than 200,000 federal bureaucrats now have been granted the authority to carry guns and make arrests"
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Make arrests?

Posted by: Javems at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (AmoqO)

268 To follow up on the Gnostic thought with how I understand Dr. Jordan Peterson's discussion of the snake in the Garden:

once the snake, which is the personification of the evil making the world wrong, is banished from the Garden, it turns out that the evil is actually in your neighbors, and once you get rid of them, is in your family - and in yourself.
This hunt to destroy evil will end up with the hunt to destroy ones' self and will result is destruction and victimization of everyone.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (xhaym)

269 I don't know what y'all think of Tulsi Gabbard, whom I cautiously like,
_________

I'd like to go surfing with her. I read that she's pretty good.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (lf83v)

270
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She's going to be a media personality and move from that to running a couple of Super PACs that promise compassionate liberalism but has questionable results while her house coincidentally gets larger.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (LvTSG)



"She just needs to write a book!"

- - Bernard Sanders

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (vf0Uk)

271 266 Why does NASA have a SWAT team?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (2xlV3)

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I'm not gonna say aliens, but...aliens.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (LvTSG)

272 I'd hit it. That was the question, right?
Posted by: brak at October 11, 2022 12:57 PM (j5Tg0)

Always is
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 12:59 PM (XvPQV)

I have to agree here. That is always the question

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (M+Lyo)

273 IT'S FUNNING BECAUSE THEY ARE ARMING FED BUREAUCRATS AT THE SAME TIME THE PUSH TO DEFUND AND OTHERWISE NEUTRALIZE LOCAL POLICE.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (I/doM)

274 Why does NASA have a SWAT team?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (2xlV3)



Global Warming.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (vf0Uk)

275 Any pointers to a "So you've finally decided to buy a gun for personal protection" resource?

No reason...
Posted by: Parker at October 11, 2022 12:56 PM (hJWil)

Try careers.fbi.gov

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (6FeV1)

276 TIL that gay superman comics don't sell.

Posted by: Fool Otto at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (DB16e)

277 So I guess the AA community in LA now "gets" where they stand with city government. They have a legitimate bitch about councilpeople, they exercise their constitutional right to free speech by showing up to protest, and the City Council calls the Riot Squad.

Not a good look for an entity that pushes the DEI gospel down errbody throat.

Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (dCxaZ)

278 i'm sure that when mccarthy and mccconnell are back in control they will make sure those 87000 extra irs agents are only going after people what need going after, like waiters and delivery guys who aren't paying taxes on all their tips.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 11, 2022 12:59 PM (kFrCu)
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... and Trump.

Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (krQz2)

279 Tulsi? Maybe she'll take over the LP. It's a limp party apparatus just waiting for someone with any kind of presence to take it over and mold it to their will.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 12:48 PM (LvTSG)


Plus, anyone in a leadership position will freak out that a girl speaks to them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (zhLdt)

280 Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 11, 2022 12:58 PM (y3pKJ)

Their responsibility is to maintain the value of the property. ( how do you know they are conservative? Though that rule sounds conservative to me)

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2022 01:03 PM (pFQ77)

281 Some of these trainees look like they could fill in for William Conrad on the set of the TV show "Cannon"
Posted by: SMOD


Loved the video of the dude in a wheelchair rolling up with gun drawn.

I'd have hit the stairs.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 11, 2022 01:03 PM (uL3gr)

282 TIL that gay superman comics don't sell.

Posted by: Fool Otto at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (DB16e)
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*writes that down*

Posted by: DC Comics at October 11, 2022 01:03 PM (krQz2)

283 Why does NASA have a SWAT team?
________

That's what I would like to know, Dave.

Posted by: HAL at October 11, 2022 01:03 PM (lf83v)

284 TIL that gay superman comics don't sell.

Gay superman is a real pain in the ass

Posted by: Gay superman's boyfriend at October 11, 2022 01:03 PM (ESjRY)

285 _________

I'd like to go surfing with her. I read that she's pretty good.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (lf83v)



Tube Snake Boogie was a song about surfing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 11, 2022 01:03 PM (vf0Uk)

286 Here's a question for you, about freedom. My daughters HOA is all conservative people. They've decided NO to renting and NO to AirBnB. Good decision to maintain property values or anti-free enterprise?

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Depends. What do you mean they decided no renting? Did they just add it to the bylaws? If so, bad. Did they just decide to now enforce an existing condition? People buy in HOAs for a reason. Not living near renters is typically one of them.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 11, 2022 01:03 PM (sX1BW)

287 Discovery Executive: "He does not have a place in the new CNN. He reminds us of the Zucker period we are looking to move far from. The only reason he is still on air was not to look like we were 'cleaning house' for political reasons right after the closing"

***

Place your bets. They haven't released the name yet but they're supposed to by the end of the week.

Posted by: Azathoth at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (wb1YC)

288 Riot squad show up at LA City Council meeting, where the bruthas have assembled to oust the Latinexes who uttered the horribly racist comments:

https://tinyurl.com/yc847hza
Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 12:55 PM (dCxaZ)
........

The gang wars are going to be epic.

Posted by: wth at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (v0R5T)

289 Why does NASA have a SWAT team?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (2xlV3)


You really have to ask?

Posted by: Fox Mulder at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (h5TKJ)

290
Plus, anyone in a leadership position will freak out that a girl speaks to them.


GIRLS HAVE COOTIES! Like at Bobert and MTG (shudders)

Posted by: Kevin McCarthy-Luntz at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (ESjRY)

291 And these are federal jobs, jobs that will never go away. Armed federal cable company agents forcibly installing vidscreens in all your rooms. Comrade.

Posted by: Eromero at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (zZ/aZ)

292 Why does NASA have a SWAT team?
Posted by: vmom


I'm not saying aliens, but aliens.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (uL3gr)

293 Leonard Nimoy appeared in Star Trek as Spock and Mission Impossible as Paris. Both had only one name.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Cher at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (a3Q+t)

294 Any pointers to a "So you've finally decided to buy a gun for personal protection" resource?

No reason...
Posted by: Parker at October 11, 2022 12:56 PM (hJWil)
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Try careers.fbi.gov
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (6FeV1)
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Was that cold? I think that was cold...

I do have a pair of khakis, though, so I would just need some good sun glasses...

Posted by: Parker at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (hJWil)

295 ‘Progressive Policing’ In Action – Criminals in Washington are Calling 911 as They Flee From Police Because the State’s Woke Laws Prevent Officers From Pursuing Them

Posted by: SMOD at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (RHGPo)

296 Of course Republicans, since they will control Congress next session, and therefore the purse strings will cut all these agencies budgets for firearms and ammunition purchases and explicitly list that no funds can be used for that purpose.

Because they can do that, as Congress.

They do know that- right?
Posted by: Marcus T at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (ZeDNp)


Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if they did. What they won't do, however, is mandate the divestiture of existing weapons and ammunition.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (zhLdt)

297 Leonard Nimoy appeared in Star Trek as Spock and Mission Impossible as Paris. Both had only one name.

Yeah budget Martin Landau;, not as talented but playing the same role.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (Ivdso)

298 Why does NASA have a SWAT team?
________

That's what I would like to know, Dave.
Posted by: HAL
___

Heh.

Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (EcuD8)

299 Problem I see , just like with HOAs , is that conservative thinking people like to complain about the organizations but don't want to participate or get a job in those organizations. Makes it easy for the asshoes and Left to take them over.

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Sarah Hoyt had a great essay about this recently arguing "At this point, the only way to fix this is to make parallel structures and start anew" (thanks to whichever moron linked it in the comments here -- sorry, forget who): tinyurl.com/mr2wcehy

Pull quote: "So, why are some fields entirely left? If the right didn’t abandon it? Because the right is meritocratic. And mostly we enter a field to “do the thing” and we try to be best at “the thing”.

The left while they might be attracted to the field because of their inclinations and talents (some of them are very talented) enter the field to “promote the revolution” by which they mean Marxism. They will not promote/support, they will outright sabotage/destroy anyone who doesn’t explicitly support them."

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (fppa6)

300 i'm sure that when mccarthy and mccconnell are back in control they will make sure those 87000 extra irs agents are only going after people what need going after, like waiters and delivery guys who aren't paying taxes on all their tips.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 11, 2022 12:59 PM (kFrCu)


Every Congress Critter their Family and staff should have a team of IRS Investigators assigned to them, just like the other billionaires and millionaires. To make sure there is no hanky-panky? Rotate the IRS agents assigned every 3-5 years.

Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (Z32m1)

301 293 Leonard Nimoy appeared in Star Trek as Spock and Mission Impossible as Paris. Both had only one name.

You say that like it's a bad thing.
Posted by: Cher at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (a3Q+t)

Cha!

Posted by: Sting at October 11, 2022 01:05 PM (PiwSw)

302 Demorat candidate Senate Alex Padilla and the LA Times Editorial page have called for the Latinx council people caught using racist language to resign.

But still they persist:

https://tinyurl.com/yutd4atk

Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 01:05 PM (dCxaZ)

303 Riot squad show up at LA City Council meeting, where the bruthas have assembled to oust the Latinexes who uttered the horribly racist comments:

https://tinyurl.com/yc847hza
Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 12:55 PM (dCxaZ)
........

The gang wars are going to be epic.
Posted by: wth


1,000 quatloos on Sinaloa.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 11, 2022 01:05 PM (uL3gr)

304 well, rumor has it that "stasi" is just austrian for "militia"
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at October 11, 2022 12:34 PM (oY6Yp)

I think more Prussian. Prussia was the largest Lande in the DDR.

Posted by: Fox2! at October 11, 2022 01:05 PM (qyH+l)

305 @277

>>So I guess the AA community in LA now "gets" where they stand with city government.

Eh, some community organizers will be thrown some midnight basketball and walking around money to quiet the brothers and sisters and everything will be tamped down.

The Donks have perfected the art of keeping their people in line.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 11, 2022 01:05 PM (up/3i)

306 Pull quote: "So, why are some fields entirely left? If the right didn’t abandon it? Because the right is meritocratic. And mostly we enter a field to “do the thing” and we try to be best at “the thing”.

I remember back in the early 2000s arguing that conservatives should only hire/promote conservatives.

And most other "conservatives" gave me the "that's not who we are!" response

Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:06 PM (ESjRY)

307 We were at an Ohio State University football game and the campus police were showing off their new tanks and SWAT equipment. Now, its a big school and but they're in Columbus Ohio with the most well equipped police officers in the state and 3 minutes from the highway patrol main offices with even more SWAT equipment. Why does OSU need tanks?

Posted by: Megthered at October 11, 2022 01:06 PM (zMjrO)

308 The gang wars are going to be epic.


Are the Bloods and Crips still a thing? I wouldn't be surprised if the Cartels took over the 'hood.

Posted by: Puddleglum at October 11, 2022 01:06 PM (sAmhv)

309 Was that cold? I think that was cold...

I do have a pair of khakis, though, so I would just need some good sun glasses...
Posted by: Parker at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (hJWil)

Ha! I was mocking the fib, not calling you a glowie.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2022 01:06 PM (6FeV1)

310 305 Eh, some community organizers will be thrown some midnight basketball and walking around money to quiet the brothers and sisters and everything will be tamped down.

The Donks have perfected the art of keeping their people in line.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 11, 2022 01:05 PM (up/3i)

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I don't know...keep it on simmer for another month and then spark the riots with this sort of thing. Blame it on Republicans.

Media irresponsibility...commence!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 01:07 PM (LvTSG)

311 Was that cold? I think that was cold...

I do have a pair of khakis, though, so I would just need some good sun glasses...

Posted by: Parker at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (hJWil)

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It'll be a hard-sell without the tiki torch.

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 01:07 PM (fppa6)

312 Why does OSU need tanks?
__________

Four dead in Ohio.

Posted by: Neil Young at October 11, 2022 01:07 PM (lf83v)

313 Can't have swarms of officers to eat out our sustenance without them being armed.

Consent of the governed and all that ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 11, 2022 01:07 PM (Z+Hdv)

314 Leonard Nimoy appeared in Star Trek as Spock and Mission Impossible as Paris. Both had only one name.

You say that like it's a bad thing.
Posted by: Cher at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (a3Q+t)

Cha!
Posted by: Sting


Cuchi cuchi!

Posted by: Charo at October 11, 2022 01:07 PM (uL3gr)

315 Given the rate at which federal law enforcement loses firearms constantly, are hardly endorse arming all the federal bureaucracies.

Besides, when the s*** hits the fan, I'm not too worried about an office full of people who just had a yearly refresher course on how to make a fist.

Posted by: Azathoth at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (wb1YC)

316 They will need fixed wing aircraft, helicopters and armor vehicles

Posted by: Skip's phone at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (ABQRI)

317 Breaking the country into competing racial tribes should lead to each tribe forming its own separate political structure.

How the left has kept Jews, blacks, hispanics, and Asians all on the SAME plantation is an amazing bit of propaganda work.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (ESjRY)

318 once the snake, which is the personification of the evil making the world wrong, is banished from the Garden, it turns out that the evil is actually in your neighbors, and once you get rid of them, is in your family - and in yourself.

This is Jordan Peterson's problem, he views everything as allegory and through a psychological lens rather than learning from fact and history. This entire analysis misses the lessons and events of the fall, and original sin, and turns it into an Aesop's fable with a morale and he even gets the wrong morale out of it.

We fight against evil on a spiritual plane, not physical. You cannot defeat evil by shooting someone, you just remove one person. He's right that removing the big evil just shows the evil in us, but that's because its inside all of us, and must be fought individually and with truth, not because you cannot fight evil.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (Ivdso)

319 >>Except he followed up with how they shouldn't be defunded, either. I think he's just that ignorant and worshipful of federal government


In Anton's article linked by Ace he specifically describes this Neocon shtick.

Bill [Kristol] is a great deal wilier than the average Swamp hack, and a genius at getting others to do his dirty work. One of his go-to attack dogs is a person called Christian Vanderbrouk who seems to be some sort of professional Twitter troll and goes by the handle UrbanAchievr. . . Vanderbrouk’s specialty is the deliberate misreading, the willful distortion tantamount to a lie. Would that we could excuse Vanderbrouk on the ground of poor reading comprehension. But he knows what he’s doing. His purpose is to harm. This is not discourse or disagreement. It’s a kind of information warfare deployed explicitly to destroy reputations and, if successful, lives. It is done out of enmity, and it is evil.

It is deliberate. We need to stop assuming these enemies are stupid. Their audience is, and they know their intentional mischaracterization will be consumed, repeated, eventually be seen as the truth.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (I/doM)

320 Gay superman is a real pain in the ass

You have no idea.

Posted by: Invisible Man interacting w/ Wonder Woman at October 11, 2022 01:09 PM (a3Q+t)

321 How the left has kept Jews, blacks, hispanics, and Asians all on the SAME plantation is an amazing bit of propaganda work.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (ESjRY)

They each think they're the ones inside the house.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2022 01:09 PM (6FeV1)

322 Place your bets. They haven't released the name yet but they're supposed to by the end of the week.
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Don Lemon?

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 11, 2022 01:09 PM (AEvJo)

323 Was that cold? I think that was cold...



That was cold.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 11, 2022 01:09 PM (uL3gr)

324 She's just another politician.
Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 12:56 PM (EcuD


SMH is wise. All y'all should listen to her.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 11, 2022 01:09 PM (zhLdt)

325 We were at an Ohio State University football game and the campus police were showing off their new tanks and SWAT equipment. Now, its a big school and but they're in Columbus Ohio with the most well equipped police officers in the state and 3 minutes from the highway patrol main offices with even more SWAT equipment. Why does OSU need tanks?

Posted by: Megthered at October 11, 2022 01:06 PM (zMjrO)

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The next Kent State is gonna be lit AF!

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 01:09 PM (fppa6)

326 Why does OSU need tanks?

Michigan is 5-0?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 11, 2022 01:09 PM (w9Wax)

327 Tulsi probably is really moving away from the lefty plantation...but I want to see her get elected in a Dem leaning jurisdiction and do non-left wing things before I ever would think of voting for her.


Nah. She'd still be a Democrat - like Manchin - and be a loyal soldier when called on by her leadership. If she really believes this shit THEN STOP BEING A FUCKING DEMOCRAT!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (O2Rtm)

328 >>>Problem I see , just like with HOAs , is that conservative thinking people like to complain about the organizations but don't want to participate or get a job in those organizations. Makes it easy for the asshoes and Left to take them over.


Yeah you let conservatives have free time and you get public service in the form of church service, fraternal orders, scouting, FFA, 4H, foster care, coaching etc.

You let progressives have free time and you get little tyrannies pooping up everywhere.

Posted by: mikethemoose at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (ugvYV)

329 Why does OSU need tanks?

The same reason all these feds need guns and the IRS needs almost 100,000 new agents.

Because they cannot hire enough cops to counter the mass of Americans with weapons and training, and they cannot yet rely on the military to consistently obey their orders to suppress and control citizens. So they are trying to end run around all that by arming up everyone else.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (Ivdso)

330 321 How the left has kept Jews, blacks, hispanics, and Asians all on the SAME plantation is an amazing bit of propaganda work.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (ESjRY)
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Jews are smart and stick together?

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (AEvJo)

331 Love the ad for "Recession-Proof Solar Generator." Looks like a siren, or possibly a belt-driven bullshit grinder.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (24fqN)

332 Katzingers in Columbus has delicious half sours

other than that, it sucks

Posted by: REDACTED at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (us2H3)

333 327 Nah. She'd still be a Democrat - like Manchin - and be a loyal soldier when called on by her leadership. If she really believes this shit THEN STOP BEING A FUCKING DEMOCRAT!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (O2Rtm)

========

To be fair, that's what she announced today.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (LvTSG)

334 How is Tulsi’s body?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (dxllA)

335 How is Tulsi’s body?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (dxllA)

336 180 The only talent Obama ever had was Being Black.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 12:47 PM (O2Rtm)

Even that was half-assed


one white cheek?

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (oY6Yp)

337 >Why does OSU need tanks?

Ever hang out on High St. after an OSU vs. Mich game?

Posted by: Fool Otto at October 11, 2022 01:11 PM (DB16e)

338 So. Pre-training training.
Posted by: Gunnery Sgt. Hartman at October 11, 2022 12:49 PM (uL3gr)

Grooming.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at October 11, 2022 01:11 PM (MkuC5)

339 Tulsi probably is really moving away from the lefty plantation...but I want to see her get elected in a Dem leaning jurisdiction and do non-left wing things before I ever would think of voting for her.


Nah. She'd still be a Democrat - like Manchin - and be a loyal soldier when called on by her leadership. If she really believes this shit THEN STOP BEING A FUCKING DEMOCRAT!
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (O2Rtm)

Um...she is. That's what started the whole Tulsi discussion.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 01:11 PM (XvPQV)

340
one white cheek?
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (oY6Yp)

Only after Reggie visits.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 11, 2022 01:11 PM (oINRc)

341 334 How is Tulsi’s body?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

335 How is Tulsi’s body?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

She's a 1.

She's a 1.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 11, 2022 01:11 PM (uL3gr)

342 Gay lawmaker sums up what everyone is thinking about Tulsi Gabbard in just 6 words:

"Wait, Tulsi Gabbard was a Democrat?" Malcolm Kenyatta wrote.

https://tinyurl.com/bd7csa63

Warning: link to msn

Posted by: wth at October 11, 2022 01:11 PM (v0R5T)

343 Four dead in Ohio.

Posted by: Neil Young at October 11, 2022 01:07 PM (lf83v)

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Dammit, Adirondack Patriot beat me by a couple of minutes. *well-played*

I just can't keep up with all you'all ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 01:12 PM (fppa6)

344 we have a HOA in the Berkshires

it's called Boston

Posted by: REDACTED at October 11, 2022 01:12 PM (us2H3)

345 233 I don't know what y'all think of Tulsi Gabbard, whom I cautiously like,

I'd hit it. That was the question, right?
Posted by: brak at October 11, 2022 12:57 PM (j5Tg0)

Dude, we're men. That's the *only* question.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at October 11, 2022 01:12 PM (pkTq0)

346 So I guess the AA community in LA now "gets" where they stand with city government.

Its not just that she (and others on the council, by implication from her statements) are anti-black, they're also anti-white. They hate everyone but hispanics.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:12 PM (Ivdso)

347
Here's a question for you, about freedom. My daughters HOA is all conservative people. They've decided NO to renting and NO to AirBnB. Good decision to maintain property values or anti-free enterprise?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 11, 2022 12:58 PM (y3pKJ)


It is possible to be both, you know. It is not binary like voting for President.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 01:12 PM (xhaym)

348 Meh, it's the same people that brought you Waco and other FedCo atrocities.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at October 11, 2022 01:12 PM (qZdIZ)

349 one white cheek?
Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (oY6Yp)

Only after Reggie visits.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice


ISWYDT.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 11, 2022 01:12 PM (uL3gr)

350 I remember back in the early 2000s arguing that conservatives should only hire/promote conservatives.

And most other "conservatives" gave me the "that's not who we are!" response
Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:06 PM (ESjRY)

I assume I hired conservatives by default without knowing their political views just by what I look for. On the promotions, I understand your point but I still can't get past promoting on merit only though.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2022 01:12 PM (pFQ77)

351 Why does OSU need tanks?

.. because people are so ungrateful

Posted by: SMOD at October 11, 2022 01:13 PM (RHGPo)

352
Place your bets. They haven't released the name yet but they're supposed to by the end of the week.
Posted by: Azathoth at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (wb1YC)

I've got my money on the tard. Lemon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 11, 2022 01:13 PM (oINRc)

353 'How is Tulsi’s body?'

I've researched it. Google sez: "Not many results contain naked. Search only for tulsi gabbard "naked"?"

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at October 11, 2022 01:13 PM (24fqN)

354 How the left has kept Jews, blacks, hispanics, and Asians all on the SAME plantation is an amazing bit of propaganda work.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (ESjRY)
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Jews are smart and stick together?
Posted by: Puddinhead at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (AEvJo)

Counterpoint: Seth Rogan.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 01:13 PM (XvPQV)

355 Marco Rubio is my favorite Democrat.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 01:13 PM (xhaym)

356 Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine

_____

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 01:13 PM (lf83v)

357 Oh, it looks like the Latinx anti-Black bias exists all over the state of CA.:

https://tinyurl.com/2d3ebkn8

But, but Gavin Newsome told us Black Lives Matter!

and Nancy Peelousy did this:

https://tinyurl.com/yc7kdven

So they're obviously not at all racist

Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 01:13 PM (dCxaZ)

358 Four dead in Ohio.

This was one of those events I always felt awful about until I started digging in more deeply, and the more I learned the less awful I felt. Its still sad that four college kids died, but from the super hype, you got the impression that 500 died, and all they were doing is handing out flowers when the crazed fascists opened fire.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:13 PM (Ivdso)

359 I'd like to go surfing with her. I read that she's pretty good.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (lf83v)


Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 11, 2022 01:14 PM (zhLdt)

360 I hire a lot of conservative wetbacks

Posted by: REDACTED at October 11, 2022 01:14 PM (us2H3)

361 Wormuth also defended the Army’s DEI programs as “important."

Wow. The SJW infection is fully pandemic.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2022 01:14 PM (Xrfse)

362 How the left has kept Jews, blacks, hispanics, and Asians all on the SAME plantation is an amazing bit of propaganda work.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (ESjRY)

Anti-white racism

Posted by: JoeF. at October 11, 2022 01:14 PM (mR6Gs)

363 The global economy is headed for “stormy waters,” the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday as it cut its projection for growth next year and warned that high inflation was worsening living conditions.

Posted by: SMOD at October 11, 2022 01:14 PM (RHGPo)

364 I've researched it. Google sez: "Not many results contain naked. Search only for tulsi gabbard "naked"?"
Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at October 11, 2022 01:13 PM (24fqN)

Easier to just p-shop an orange onto any random cheesecake photo you like.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2022 01:14 PM (6FeV1)

365 >>Gay lawmaker sums up what everyone is thinking about Tulsi Gabbard in just 6 words:

"Wait, Tulsi Gabbard was a Democrat?" Malcolm Kenyatta wrote.
- - - -

So much of the so-called news is really mean girling to signal who is or isn't part of the in-group (and can be attacked by the mob, please!).

Who cares what some rand-o legislator said about Tulsi's leaving the party? That is not news, it is gossip, and low-quality gossip at that.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 01:14 PM (I/doM)

366 word on the street is Hindus like butt stuff

Posted by: REDACTED at October 11, 2022 01:15 PM (us2H3)

367 Place your bets. They haven't released the name yet but they're supposed to by the end of the week.
Posted by: Azathoth at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (wb1YC)
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Anderson Pooper

Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 01:15 PM (krQz2)

368 Any agency that doesn't comply, with evidence and subject to external audit, is fully and totally defunded.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 11, 2022 12:32 PM (t0OGg)

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at October 11, 2022 01:15 PM (Bd3Qh)

369 Jews are smart and stick together?
Posted by: Puddinhead

Counterpoint: Seth Rogan.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards


To be fair, he got high and simply wandered off.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 11, 2022 01:15 PM (uL3gr)

370 Dude, we're men. That's the *only* question.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at October 11, 2022 01:12 PM


What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Where's the beer? at October 11, 2022 01:15 PM (a3Q+t)

371 "Easier to just p-shop an orange onto any random cheesecake photo you like."

I use DALL-E for that kind of work.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at October 11, 2022 01:15 PM (24fqN)

372 On the promotions, I understand your point but I still can't get past promoting on merit only though.

Promote your most competent conservatives.

Don't have enough to pick from?

Hire more conservatives.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (ESjRY)

373 276 TIL that gay superman comics don't sell.

never stopped the publishers before

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (oY6Yp)

374 Why does NASA have a SWAT team?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (2xlV3)


Serious Answer? NASA has a lot of facilities with very valuable equipment and other facilities with things that can go BOOM!

Nuclear plants have the private security company equivalent of SWAT Teams guarding them, because you do not want fanatics or crazy people damaging or taking over nuclear plants.

Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (Z32m1)

375 Any agency that doesn't comply, with evidence and subject to external audit, is fully and totally defunded.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 11, 2022 12:32 PM (t0OGg)

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Slow down. I'm taking notes.

Seriously.

*snort*

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (Bd3Qh)

376 The fact that Seth Rogan has a career demonstrates how insane and stupid Hollywood is. People keep throwing money at him to suck in movies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (Ivdso)

377 Quit condemning these brave patriots who serve in our federal agencies.

99.9 % of them are just ham and eggers.

Posted by: Sean Hannity on Autopilot at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (CkFy6)

378 317 Breaking the country into competing racial tribes should lead to each tribe forming its own separate political structure.

How the left has kept Jews, blacks, hispanics, and Asians all on the SAME plantation is an amazing bit of propaganda work.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (ESjRY)

It's not that successful with hispanics of late and asians had long tended to vary.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (eYoxG)

379 Demorat candidate Senate Alex Padilla and the LA Times Editorial page have called for the Latinx council people caught using racist language to resign.

But still they persist:

https://tinyurl.com/yutd4atk
Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 01:05 PM (dCxaZ)

That whole thing is hilarious to me. Fucking hypocrites exposed. hahaha. Then they try to ride it out acting like it was a one time occurrence

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (M+Lyo)

380 Shocker! NYT covers for Babbling Joe's bullshit. I know, that's not breaking news but the sheer audacity of this is breathtaking.

https://bit.ly/3TgpdWa

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (FVME7)

381 To be fair, that's what she announced today.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (LvTSG)



What? She became a Republican? I must have missed it.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (O2Rtm)

382 How the left has kept Jews, blacks, hispanics, and Asians all on the SAME plantation is an amazing bit of propaganda work.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (ESjRY)

Because they promise to destroy white, Christian and largely Republican America and turning their wealth over to someone else. And they are delivering on that promise.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (aGGj6)

383 word on the street is Hindus like butt stuff
Posted by: REDACTED at October 11, 2022 01:15 PM (us2H3)

Ain't no straight dudes dancing bhangra, I'll tell ya that much....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (6FeV1)

384 354 How the left has kept Jews, blacks, hispanics, and Asians all on the SAME plantation is an amazing bit of propaganda work.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (ESjRY)
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Jews are smart and stick together?
Posted by: Puddinhead at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (AEvJo)

Counterpoint: Seth Rogan.
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Moar reason to stick together. Seth, and people like him, are the super glue of klans. Seth still has a career, rite?

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 11, 2022 01:17 PM (AEvJo)

385 Was that cold? I think that was cold...

I do have a pair of khakis, though, so I would just need some good sun glasses...
Posted by: Parker at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (hJWil)
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Ha! I was mocking the fib, not calling you a glowie.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2022 01:06 PM (6FeV1)
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Thanks - but someone mentioned needing a tiki torch, as well - I'm surprised no one has outed any of these clowns by checking surveillance video from local hardware stores.

I can't think too many folk buy tiki torches in bulk, and you could probably filter out the Polynesian restaurants...

Posted by: Parker at October 11, 2022 01:17 PM (hJWil)

386
Time to find volunteer teachers and staff to train and arm them.
Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 01:00 PM (Z32m1)


Enroll the willing teachers as Medical First Responders / Search and Rescue members with the Sheriff's department. Tell them they can't arrest anyone or order around the patrol deputies, but pay their concealed carry permits and give them an ammo stipend.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 01:17 PM (xhaym)

387 This is all starting to sound a lot like National Socialism.

Posted by: Tex at October 11, 2022 01:17 PM (z9V4B)

388 Asking me who my favorite democrat is, is like asking me for my favorite brand of lutefisk.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2022 01:17 PM (Xrfse)

389 381 To be fair, that's what she announced today.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 01:10 PM (LvTSG)


What? She became a Republican? I must have missed it.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (O2Rtm)

=========

You demanded she stop being a Democrat. She stopped being a Democrat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 01:17 PM (LvTSG)

390 NASA needs breaching shotgun rounds for when the doors stick on the lunar module?

EPA uses the H&K out in the field to put holes in the ground so the dangerous chemicals drain better.

The IRS says a 9mm round makes almost the same size hole in paper as a paper punch and it's much more fun.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 11, 2022 01:17 PM (6VKyY)

391 Nuclear plants have the private security company equivalent of SWAT Teams guarding them, because you do not want fanatics or crazy people damaging or taking over nuclear plants.
Posted by: rd


That's not what SWAT teams do.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 11, 2022 01:17 PM (IyrhE)

392 I think they are doing what the NYPD does (and probably LAPD) by butting into other nations and states' police service and acting as "advisors".
==========================
Supposedly that "police" force is to keep tabs on (spy on) Chinese Americans.
Sovereignty was such a quaint custom, back in the day.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at October 11, 2022 01:17 PM (7Fj9P)

393 359 I'd like to go surfing with her. I read that she's pretty good.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (lf83v)

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?


puts the excitement back into skeet surfing

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at October 11, 2022 01:17 PM (oY6Yp)

394 The left while they might be attracted to the field because of their inclinations and talents (some of them are very talented) enter the field to “promote the revolution” by which they mean Marxism. They will not promote/support, they will outright sabotage/destroy anyone who doesn’t explicitly support them."
Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (fppa6)

Very good point, for example. the field of Academics today, with a very few exceptions such as Hillsdale. If someone with traditional conservative beliefs goed into that field, it will *Never* *Matter* how good of a job they actually do. They will be hounded to pay fealty to the Leftist's views, or they will be drummed out of their jobs. What rational person would even try to get into that knowing this is how it will play out?

Posted by: Obi Wan Kendobi at October 11, 2022 01:18 PM (trdmm)

395 347
Here's a question for you, about freedom. My daughters HOA is all conservative people. They've decided NO to renting and NO to AirBnB. Good decision to maintain property values or anti-free enterprise?
------------------------

I would say just enforce the HOA rules regardless...

Posted by: Haywood at October 11, 2022 01:18 PM (x6KpP)

396 It is deliberate. We need to stop assuming these enemies are stupid. Their audience is, and they know their intentional mischaracterization will be consumed, repeated, eventually be seen as the truth.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (I/doM)

---------

ShainS' Law: "Never attribute to ignorance, stupidity, loyalty, and/or incompetence what can be ascribed to evil."

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 01:18 PM (vxwQo)

397 Tulsi is still a gun-grabbing enviromental wacko, but it's amazing she brought up "anti-white" racism

Posted by: JoeF. at October 11, 2022 01:18 PM (mR6Gs)

398 Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 11, 2022 01:05 PM (up/3i)

No, it looks like the lid of this pot has been covering a simmering boil of discontent for a lo-o-o-ng time. The community organizers have already shown up at the Council President's house, blaring her racist comments back at her via megaphone.

Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 01:18 PM (dCxaZ)

399 She's going to be a media personality and move from that to running a couple of Super PACs that promise compassionate liberalism but has questionable results while her house coincidentally gets larger.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 01:01 PM (LvTSG)


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If all she ever is, is some talk-show Lorax to an America past rescue, I'm still gratified when someone visible notices and speaks up about what is slipping away.

Posted by: Sarahw at October 11, 2022 01:18 PM (g1vnC)

400 Sarah Hoyt had a great essay about this recently arguing "At this point, the only way to fix this is to make parallel structures and start anew" (thanks to whichever moron linked it in the comments here -- sorry, forget who): tinyurl.com/mr2wcehy
Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 01:04 PM (fppa6)


She's not alone in that. The Gab guy is trying to set up an entire parallel economy. At the moment it seems to be almost exclusively people selling soap.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 11, 2022 01:18 PM (zhLdt)

401 The fact that Seth Rogan has a career demonstrates how insane and stupid Hollywood is. People keep throwing money at him to suck in movies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (Ivdso)
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Sucking in movies has been very profitable work for some ladies.

Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 01:19 PM (krQz2)

402 word on the street is Hindus like butt stuff

Tulsi likes butt stuff? Hmm, I change my opinion on her.

Now where did I put Fang Fang's favorite strap on?

Posted by: Eric Swallow-well at October 11, 2022 01:19 PM (ESjRY)

403 Asking me who my favorite democrat is, is like asking me for my favorite brand of lutefisk.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
___

lol

Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 01:19 PM (EcuD8)

404 Posted by: Obi Wan Kendobi at October 11, 2022 01:18 PM (trdmm)

The ole catch 22.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2022 01:19 PM (pFQ77)

405 You demanded she stop being a Democrat. She stopped being a Democrat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 01:17 PM (LvTSG)



Wow. I didn't know I was that persuasive. Now I'm going to get a big head and be insufferable.


Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 01:19 PM (O2Rtm)

406 2/3 of all bureaucrats should be retired from the workforce and find meaningful employment in the private sector. Most of them should work in fast food as that is all they are good for.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at October 11, 2022 01:19 PM (WsJuq)

407 Regarding Tulsi, xHamster sez: "Fotogalerie nicht gefunden." Intriguing; call for foray into dark web.

Posted by: El gp De Los Vientos at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (24fqN)

408 On the promotions, I understand your point but I still can't get past promoting on merit only though.

Promote your most competent conservatives.
Don't have enough to pick from?
Hire more conservatives.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (ESjRY)


Heckuva Job Brownie! Most "Conservative" Bureaucrats are going to hire and promote people like them. Connected friends and family, fellow alumni, people from the right clubs.

Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (Z32m1)

409 Asking me who my favorite democrat is, is like asking me for my favorite brand of lutefisk.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 11, 2022 01:17 PM


Thorvald's Cream of Lutefisk Soup is the overwhelming favorite of The Horde.

This is known.

Posted by: Thorvald at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (a3Q+t)

410 Moar reason to stick together. Seth, and people like him, are the super glue of klans. Seth still has a career, rite?
Posted by: Puddinhead at October 11, 2022 01:17 PM (AEvJo)

Sadly. Guy's a fucking idiot too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (XvPQV)

411 Nuclear power plants have rapid reaction forces not SWAT teams. Very big difference in those two.

Posted by: Azathoth at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (wb1YC)

412 Not a good look for an entity that pushes the DEI gospel down errbody throat.
Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (dCxaZ)


Still hot enough for riots, I am afraid this is how they get started.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (xhaym)

413 She's not alone in that. The Gab guy is trying to set up an entire parallel economy. At the moment it seems to be almost exclusively people selling soap.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 11, 2022 01:18 PM (zhLdt)
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Now is the time to strike for a Paypal alternative, though.

Non-ideological services can offer what ideologically-swayed services cannot.

Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (krQz2)

414 "Why does NASA have a SWAT team?
Posted by: vmom stabby"



Flat Earthers are a serious threat.

Posted by: Ripley at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (MxEKc)

415 >>>The fact that Seth Rogan has a career demonstrates how insane and stupid Hollywood is. People keep throwing money at him to suck in movies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


He is galactically untalented. Not witty, not funny, just awful.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (bkUtD)

416 Jon Nicosia@NewsPolitics
SCOOP: Another "big name" about to exit @CNN. (Stay tuned)
. . . .
I agreed not to report the name until the end of the week.

-
[Fingers crossed] Don Lemon! Don Lemon!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (FVME7)

417 Sucking in movies has been very profitable work for some ladies.

I remain confused why guys like to watch women pleasure some other dude. Feels vaguely queer to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (Ivdso)

418 You demanded she stop being a Democrat. She stopped being a Democrat.

-------------

I'm sure there will be a post, so may be best to wait, but ...

I'm sort of with Jesse Kelly on this. Take the reinforcements as they come. Now perhaps, she isn't much of a reinforcement - maybe she is just more neutral for the moment. But leaving the Democrat party is a good first step. Not poisoning the MAGA side is a good second step. I don't trust her, but she isn't awful on some issues. Of course, easier to leave the party when you are not currently in office and have no say. Clearly she is looking for some additional grift. Doesn't mean she can't be of service. Time will tell.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 11, 2022 01:21 PM (sX1BW)

419 Heckuva Job Brownie! Most "Conservative" Bureaucrats are going to hire and promote people like them. Connected friends and family, fellow alumni, people from the right clubs.

Problem #1 - considering Shrub a conservative.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:21 PM (ESjRY)

420 410 Sadly. Guy's a fucking idiot too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (XvPQV)

==========

His appearance on Visual Effects Artists react made him sound like a barely functioning retard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 01:21 PM (LvTSG)

421 "Why does NASA have a SWAT team?
Posted by: vmom stabby"

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Space Mosquitos.

Posted by: NASA Chairperson at October 11, 2022 01:21 PM (krQz2)

422
Because they promise to destroy white, Christian and largely Republican America and turning their wealth over to someone else. And they are delivering on that promise.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (aGGj6)

Despite the fact that both Jews and Asians do very well generating income themselves.

Posted by: JoeF. at October 11, 2022 01:21 PM (mR6Gs)

423 Mark Hemingway: More Federal Bureaucrats Than Marines Are Now Authorized To Carry Weapons


There must be at least 30,000 Marines out-of-the US at any one time. Those armed IRS agents and all the other armed Civil Servants won't be stationed in Okinawa or on-board deployed amphibious assault ships. They'll be ready to roll out of a Federal building near you.

Posted by: Gref at October 11, 2022 01:21 PM (AMIL/)

424 ha, off obi sock

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 11, 2022 01:21 PM (trdmm)

425 word on the street is Hindus like butt stuff
Posted by: REDACTED at October 11, 2022 01:15 PM (us2H3)
.......

only with the changuitos.

Posted by: L.A. City Council at October 11, 2022 01:21 PM (v0R5T)

426 >>She's not alone in that. The Gab guy is trying to set up an entire parallel economy. At the moment it seems to be almost exclusively people selling soap.


"Hiya!"
-- My Pillow guy

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 01:21 PM (I/doM)

427 The IRS says a 9mm round makes almost the same size hole in paper as a paper punch and it's much more fun.
Posted by: AlaBAMA


Crazy Joe says it sucks a lung 🫁 out.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 11, 2022 01:21 PM (uL3gr)

428
How the left has kept Jews, blacks, hispanics, and Asians all on the SAME plantation is an amazing bit of propaganda work.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (ESjRY)

Not especially. They just said "it's all of us against the g-ddamned motherfucking whites."

But, not very long from now, after the current generation of decrepit politicians and business leaders passes away, they'll have successfully eliminated whites from public life altogether.

Then they're going to have serious problems holding that coalition together.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 11, 2022 01:22 PM (oINRc)

429 Plus, anyone in a leadership position will freak out that a girl speaks to them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 11, 2022 01:02 PM (zhLdt)


Oooh, sick burn. I bet Angela McArdle would think that joke is funny.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 01:22 PM (xhaym)

430 I remain confused why guys like to watch women pleasure some other dude. Feels vaguely queer to me.

If W > M: NOT GAY

If W =< M: Barack Obama at a bathhouse gay

Posted by: Math for the blog at October 11, 2022 01:22 PM (ESjRY)

431 . They've decided NO to renting and NO to AirBnB. Good decision to maintain property values or anti-free enterprise?

if you're in a border state or near a city where the govt likes to drop off "new arrivals" in the dead of night, it's a very good call

Posted by: brak at October 11, 2022 01:22 PM (j5Tg0)

432 Very good point, for example. the field of Academics today, with a very few exceptions such as Hillsdale. If someone with traditional conservative beliefs goed into that field, it will *Never* *Matter* how good of a job they actually do. They will be hounded to pay fealty to the Leftist's views, or they will be drummed out of their jobs. What rational person would even try to get into that knowing this is how it will play out?

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Exactly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 01:22 PM (fppa6)

433 Jon Nicosia@NewsPolitics
SCOOP: Another "big name" about to exit @CNN. (Stay tuned)
. . . .
I agreed not to report the name until the end of the week.

Tapper

Posted by: JoeF. at October 11, 2022 01:22 PM (mR6Gs)

434 The fact that Seth Rogan has a career demonstrates how insane and stupid Hollywood is. People keep throwing money at him to suck in movies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:16 PM (Ivdso)
---
Sucking in movies has been very profitable work for some ladies.
Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 01:19 PM (krQz2)


Men and Women both; and both in front of the cameras and far away from the cameras.

Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 01:22 PM (Z32m1)

435 Why does NASA have a SWAT team?
______________

Mars Attacks!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 01:22 PM (lf83v)

436 Still hot enough for riots, I am afraid this is how they get started.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (xhaym)


yep

if the guilty three don't resign, that's what's next

Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 01:23 PM (dCxaZ)

437 Still hot enough for riots, I am afraid this is how they get started.

Look at it as an early start on the Nov riots.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 11, 2022 01:24 PM (ESjRY)

438 Still hot enough for riots, I am afraid this is how they get started.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (xhaym)

yep

if the guilty three don't resign, that's what's next



I LOVE blue on blue kinetic action.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 11, 2022 01:24 PM (O2Rtm)

439 There must be at least 30,000 Marines out-of-the US at any one time. Those armed IRS agents and all the other armed Civil Servants won't be stationed in Okinawa or on-board deployed amphibious assault ships. They'll be ready to roll out of a Federal building near you.

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Can we send 8 division of IRS agents to the frontlins of Ukraine under the command of Col. Fatman.

There is probably a lot of unreported income in those parts.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 11, 2022 01:24 PM (sX1BW)

440 Is Swift signalling the True Conservatives are about to take a hard left against the second amendment?

Posted by: squid_hunt at October 11, 2022 01:24 PM (yG9XG)

441 You demanded she stop being a Democrat. She stopped being a Democrat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster

One doesn't just stop being a Democrat. An exorcism is necessary.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at October 11, 2022 01:24 PM (FVME7)

442 Jon Nicosia@NewsPolitics
SCOOP: Another "big name" about to exit @CNN. (Stay tuned)
. . . .
I agreed not to report the MY name until the end of the week.

Tapper
Posted by: JoeF. at October 11, 2022 01:22 PM (mR6Gs)


If ONLY!

Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 01:24 PM (Z32m1)

443 >>SCOOP: Another "big name" about to exit @CNN. (Stay tuned)


Don Lemon quitting now that he's been demoted?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 01:25 PM (I/doM)

444 Why does NASA have a SWAT team?

Let's put it this way: if you are a tyrant and are faced with a large, well-armed, surly population why would YOU be arming up all federal offices?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:25 PM (Ivdso)

445 I remain confused why guys like to watch women pleasure some other dude. Feels vaguely queer to me

It's a vicarious thrill. Don't look too much deeper than the fact that most guys like to watch women ( strangers, not their wives) on film ( not real life) get pounded by big dicks

Posted by: JoeF. at October 11, 2022 01:25 PM (mR6Gs)

446 Tulsi is no longer a democrat. Speculating she is trying to position herself as a GOP VP. No thanks. Still has the donk stink.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 11, 2022 01:25 PM (OMFQ5)

447 Riot squad show up at LA City Council meeting, where the bruthas have assembled to oust the Latinexes who uttered the horribly racist comments:
https://tinyurl.com/yc847hza
Posted by: kallisto at October 11, 2022 12:55 PM (dCxaZ)


The chanters are chanting in Spanish and don't look remarkably dark skinned.

I mean, I flunked "Identifying minorities visually" but I wonder at that.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 01:25 PM (xhaym)

448 Why does NASA have a SWAT team?
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Especially since we now have Space Force.

*cue Star Trek theme*

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 01:26 PM (lf83v)

449 446 Tulsi is no longer a democrat. Speculating she is trying to position herself as a GOP VP. No thanks. Still has the donk stink.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 11, 2022 01:25 PM (OMFQ5)

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"I can think of no one better to lead us than former Democrats."
-The GOP in the late 80s

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 11, 2022 01:26 PM (LvTSG)

450 SCOOP: Another "big name" about to exit @CNN. (Stay tuned)


Don Lemon quitting now that he's been demoted?
Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 01:25 PM (I/doM)

CNN squeezed all they could out of him

Posted by: JoeF. at October 11, 2022 01:26 PM (mR6Gs)

451 Don't look too much deeper than the fact that most guys like to watch women ( strangers, not their wives) on film ( not real life) get pounded by big dicks

That doesn't seem kinda homo to you? Like Ron White's joke?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:26 PM (Ivdso)

452 The chanters are chanting in Spanish and don't look remarkably dark skinned.

Don't judge

Posted by: Rachel Dolezal's OnlyFans at October 11, 2022 01:26 PM (ESjRY)

453 >>They will be hounded to pay fealty to the Leftist's views, or they will be drummed out of their jobs. What rational person would even try to get into that knowing this is how it will play out?


See Michael Adams, RIP.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 01:26 PM (I/doM)

454 I mean, I flunked "Identifying minorities visually" but I wonder at that.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 01:25 PM (xhaym)

Clearly Samí separatists.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at October 11, 2022 01:27 PM (6FeV1)

455 Nood Stormtroopers

Posted by: SMH at October 11, 2022 01:27 PM (EcuD8)

456 Remember tbe astronaut who put on a diaper to drive cross country and kill her lover? And you ask why NASA has a SWAT?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 11, 2022 01:27 PM (OMFQ5)

457 A lot of thrusting and counter thrusting going in the market. It makes me horny.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 11, 2022 01:27 PM (AEvJo)

458 CNN squeezed all they could out of him

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He's got no more juice at CNN

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:27 PM (Ivdso)

459 417 "Sucking in movies has been very profitable work for some ladies."

I remain confused why guys like to watch women pleasure some other dude. Feels vaguely queer to me.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:20 PM (Ivdso)

Ever flinch when seeing someone else get hit (in film or otherwise)? People get some degree of experience indirectly through empathy. It probably helps us "put ourselves in other people's shoes" and predict their reactions.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at October 11, 2022 01:27 PM (eYoxG)

460 Reagan was a Democrat. He left the party for basically the same reasons Tulsi listed. Some people do wise up.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 11, 2022 01:27 PM (QSjkU)

461 If Tulsi Gabbard is a 1, what are Nancy Pelosi and Rosa DeLauro?

I mean we getting metaphysical here.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 01:28 PM (lf83v)

462 NOOD

Posted by: Skip's phone at October 11, 2022 01:28 PM (ABQRI)

463 They've decided NO to renting and NO to AirBnB. Good decision to maintain property values or anti-free enterprise?

if you're in a border state or near a city where the govt likes to drop off "new arrivals" in the dead of night, it's a very good call
Posted by: brak at October 11, 2022 01:22 PM (j5Tg0)


Drop off New Arrivals? That is all fifty states.
Don't forget the need to "House the Unhoused" too. If you are in a blue city or a blue state, that is a non-trivial possibility.

Posted by: rd at October 11, 2022 01:28 PM (Z32m1)

464 >>Riot squad show up at LA City Council meeting, where the bruthas have assembled to oust the Latinexes who uttered the horribly racist comments:
https://tinyurl.com/yc847hza

Well, they have a legitimate concern!
What Nuny whatsherface said was outrageous and, yes, legitimately racist.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 11, 2022 01:28 PM (I/doM)

465 Chistopher R Taylor @ 329-
I rate this 100% accurate. The only reason for arming bureaucrats is to kill off most of us and enslave those who are left.

Posted by: Eromero at October 11, 2022 01:28 PM (zZ/aZ)

466 CNN squeezed all they could out of him

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He's got no more juice at CNN
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:27 PM (Ivdso)

Lemon iced at CNN

Posted by: JoeF. at October 11, 2022 01:29 PM (mR6Gs)

467 That doesn't seem kinda homo to you? Like Ron White's joke?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:26 PM (Ivdso)

Not unless you think seeing a bigger dick than your own will make you a queer

Posted by: JoeF. at October 11, 2022 01:30 PM (mR6Gs)

468 We fight against evil on a spiritual plane, not physical. You cannot defeat evil by shooting someone, you just remove one person. He's right that removing the big evil just shows the evil in us, but that's because its inside all of us, and must be fought individually and with truth, not because you cannot fight evil.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 11, 2022 01:08 PM (Ivdso)


If I understood his argument, the correct way is to fight on the spiritual plane, but the way great horrors have been created was to fight it on the physical plane. Which is what the camps and the midnight raids and the shooting civilians on the edge of ditches was all about, extirpating evil by getting rid of those evil people.

Look again at that list of gnostic tendencies and see where it leads, especially the part that leads to rejecting reality to create a preferred one that is easier to manipulate.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 01:30 PM (xhaym)

469 A number of former democrat politicians became conservatives. I don't understand this phenomenon since I've only had one way to think politically whatever it's named. IIRC there are a number of morons who were also once Democrats.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2022 01:30 PM (pFQ77)

470 Why does NASA have a SWAT team?
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Mars Attacks!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 11, 2022 01:22 PM (lf83v)

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When I saw that movie in the theater, a loud cheer went up when they blew up Congress. Same thing happened when they blew up the White House while watching Independence Day in the theater.

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 01:32 PM (fppa6)

471
You demanded she stop being a Democrat. She stopped being a Democrat.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October
11, 2022 01:17 PM (LvTSG)


Maybe she should sing the Aria from Aida, just be sure

Posted by: Kindltot at October 11, 2022 01:35 PM (xhaym)

472 A number of former democrat politicians became conservatives. I don't understand this phenomenon since I've only had one way to think politically whatever it's named. IIRC there are a number of morons who were also once Democrats.

Posted by: polynikes at October 11, 2022 01:30 PM (pFQ77)

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Dennis Prager was a lifelong Democrat (he jokes that it was assigned to him on his birth certificate, being a Jew born in New York City) until he heard Ronald Reagan say during his first Inaugural Address: "In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government *is* the problem."

He had an epiphany that virtually *all* of the genocides of the 20th century were perpetrated by governments ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 01:36 PM (fppa6)

473 old sock

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at October 11, 2022 01:46 PM (yikp0)

474 new sock

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at October 11, 2022 01:47 PM (yikp0)

475 -
Some of these trainees look like they could fill in for William Conrad on the set of the TV show "Cannon"

Posted by: SMOD at October 11, 2022 12:58 PM -
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You sure you're 29?

Posted by: irright at October 11, 2022 01:47 PM (SchQD)

476 Apparently federal bureaucrats are facing a larger, more dangerous opposing force than US Marines are expected to eve face.


That's not wrong.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) has drink taken at October 11, 2022 02:06 PM (yQpMk)

477 I don't know what y'all think of Tulsi Gabbard...
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She was my favorite Democrat.

But it's only a matter of time until somebody becoming my favorite Democrat isn't a Democrat anymore.
Posted by: Axeman at October 11, 2022 12:58 PM (krQz2)

She's a throwback to an age where Dems had some practical real world experience to temper their liberal ideas rather than be communist zealots. I think she would be foolish to get involved with the Libertarian party due to their leftist inclinations. She'd be better trying to create a "Whig" party out of the wreckage of the Dems. The Whigs were an 'anti Democrat' party rising out of the wreck of the Federalist party which was a loose alliance of people who disliked Northern Democrats in the north and those who disliked Southern Democrats in the south. This made it fracture when a real issue appeared - slavery as half were anti Slavery and the other half were super pro slavery.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 11, 2022 02:13 PM (eoQWY)

478 I wonder if this might be preparation for what the feds call "continuity operations" - just preparing for a different kind of contingency than nuclear war.

Continuity describes the federal government's plans to keep governing even in the event of Armageddon. I can't say it based on any first-hand knowledge, but I'd wager that part of what this entails is the "deputizing" and arming of virtually every federal employee who can carry a firearm.

Maybe some "wartime national emergency" might suffice to call up these legions-in-waiting to put down some Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy that threatens Our Precious Democracy. Maybe someday soon. That may be why the feds are stocking up on guns and ammo like they are.

Posted by: Taylor at October 11, 2022 02:14 PM (KN5M2)

479 He had an epiphany that virtually *all* of the genocides of the 20th century were perpetrated by governments ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 11, 2022 01:36 PM (fppa6)

You can leave out the 'virtually'. Genocide requires organization and a government wouldn't allow a rival organization to kill on the level of genocide normally.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 11, 2022 02:15 PM (eoQWY)

480 Scary sh!t there

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