The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 10/17/22

Good morning kids. Monday and on the latest episode of the podcast, our election and polling expert Dave in FL laid out the tantalizing possibility that beyond merely losing control of both chambers of Congress, the Democrats face a drubbing of such magnitude that the loss could see them out of power for a generation if not longer. Small wonder; the economy is in absolute freefall, the borders are wide open, a politically engineered crime wave is sweeping much of the nation, voices of dissent are being silenced and persecuted, while casual talk of nuclear war is bandied about as if it's no big deal. All of it is being lain squarely at the feet of the anti-American Left and the party it controls. The subpoenaing last week of President Trump not only did nothing to distract from this public sentiment, in point of fact, I would suggest that it only served to underscore it.

But during the podcast, we touched upon a theme that I've been bringing up for a while now: the zombie-like state of affairs in politics and government. Here we are, three weeks out from midterm elections and, besides the ever-present specter of tampering, interference and outright fraud that we have come to accept with a shrug of the shoulders as routine in the United States of America, the handlers of a puppet president put words in his mouth in an address to the nation that essentially indicted half the citizenry as "a clear and present danger." The idea of elections or even comity is ridiculous in that light. And yet, here we all are, going on with business as usual. It makes no sense.

As the midterms approach, the great unifier decided that it is a good time to start emphasizing his "unifyingness."
He put out a bizarre and delusional text that both bragged about his vision and achievements and claimed he is a president for every American and will not leave anyone behind.
This followed the White House's United We Stand summit in September, in which, in full Don Quixote style, Biden tilted against the phantom forces of white supremacy and hate, which from Bidentongue translates into anyone who didn't vote for him.
The problem for Biden is that after you have declared war on half of the country while power-charging the misery index, it is not possible to pivot to unity, even if your internal polls scream that you should.
From day one, he has acted as if he is a wartime president overseeing actions against the 74 million Americans who did not vote for him, even going so far as to say that "brave, right-wing Americans" would need modern fighter jets to stand up against him.
No administration in history has tried to pull off what his has done, which is to declare anyone who doesn't vote for a Democrat to be the enemy. . .
. . . While the Democrat media pretend Biden is talking about a small group, he isn't, and neither are they. On an MSNBC panel this week, a Brookings fellow, Shadi Hamid, commented to a nodding Jen Psaki, former mouthpiece of the regime, "So then we have to find a way to live with them (74 million Trump-supporters) even if we think they're bad people, even if we think they're a threat to everything we hold dear."
It is a small hop from language and thinking like that to some of the worst atrocities in history. Democrats are already doing all in their power to marginalize, demonize, and silence.

It matters not who the candidates may be in 2024 on either side. Given how the Democrats have rhetorically and now as we have witnessed via official governmental/law enforcement policy targeted anyone in opposition to them on a broad range of issues as literal threats to national security, how can there possibly be televised debates where for example, Gretchen Whitmer and Ron Desantis walk over to each other, smile, shake hands and then wait for George Snuffelupagus to ask the latter if he's stopped beating his wife?

Of course, Dave in FL predicts, and I agree, that there won't be any debates but it sort of misses my point as to the nature of our society as it is right now. If as it seems barring some black swan event of Quetzalcoatl-like proportions, the Democrats are on course for an epic once-in-a-generation ass-kicking, do you really think they're going to accept it? Already, the media is starting to crank out the stolen election line. One wonders if the Antifa/BLM street goons are already set to torch Portland or NYC if Tiny Kotex and Hochul are indeed ousted. And yet, we've had to endure the J6 kangaroo court farce wherein the players are all aghast at Trump for leading an insurrection based on "the big lie" that the 2020 election was stolen.

Friend and friend of the blog Michael Walsh had a terrific essay last week calling for the repeal of the 16th Amendment. This week, he follows on with the call to repeal the 17th.

Prior to its ratification in 1913, the same year as the 16th and a spectacularly disastrous year for our real democracy, senators were chosen by the various state legislatures, in order to keep them tethered and answerable to their state governments: they were senators from the Great State of Whatever, not interchangeable "United States senators."
Problems arose when individual states whose bicameral legislatures were split between Republican and Democrats had trouble on agreeing upon a choice of senator, which meant that states might go without a full complement of senators for months or in some cases years at a time. In others, normal human greed and lust for power took over, leading to complaints that "special interests or political machines gained control over the state legislature. Progressive reformers dismissed individuals elected by such legislatures as puppets and the Senate as a 'millionaires' club' serving powerful private interests."
The cure, however, has proven to be worse than the disease. In trying to solve a problem of "special interests," rather than the states having two powerful advocates for their interests in Washington, Washington got two powerful advocates of its interests in each of the states, greatly assisting what we now call the Swamp in cementing its control over the nation. The sinister Left, currently fretting about losing "our democracy" remains hell-bent on finishing off republicanism in both its senses; for them, only a government by national plebiscite will do. As any student of early-20th century "reform" knows, the cure for "reform" gone awry was and is always more "reform" rather than a return to first principles. . .
. . . A repeal of the 17th would largely remove mediocrities of no accomplishment like these from the scramble up the greasy pole. Men are not angels; no doubt corruption in their choice at the state level was very great, as it is in all human enterprise. But by returning the selection of senators to their now-nominal home states would elevate the importance of state legislatures and state elections, returning the power of republican democracy in D.C. back to the states and their residents, where it started and where it still belongs.

I can't argue with Walsh at all, in either of his essays. The problem is repealing these amendments requires, beyond the political will and majorities of states of the union to ratify the amendment to repeal, the willingness of the corrupt State (Deep or otherwise) that those two amendments helped to bring about to accept the legislation that would in essence lead to its dismantling. It won't. I think we are so beyond regular order, and worse, those in power are so bereft of morals and ethics, that I would say what's the point of trying this? Every institution we have relied on to keep us safe and within the boundaries that maintain the civil society is corrupt beyond redemption. Many are not even constitutional in the first place, but that's beside the point.

Starting with the midterms, the next two years are going to be "interesting times" indeed. Coincidentally, we're only 11 days away from the 100th anniversary of Benito Mussolini and his fascists seizing power in Italy.

Mussolini’s alternative to both free market capitalism and class-conscious socialism was corporatism -- the organization of a national society into sectors of activity under the overall superintendence of the government. Corporatism sought cooperation between classes, not conflict. With corporatism, a nation would reach its maximum efficiency through harmony among all its working sub-sectors -- business, agriculture, finance, family, and religion. . .
. . . To be uncomfortably frank, Mussolini’s precedent is not without its application in the United States.
In her 2016 campaign for the presidency, Hillary Clinton provided socially constructed criteria to distinguish between those who deserved to be included in the American “volk” and those who deserved to be excluded:

“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? …The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic -- you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
. . . Then, in his speech of September 1, 2022, President Biden distinguished between “good “Americans who follow their “better angels” and “bad” Americans who follow their “worst instincts.”
According to President Biden, only the former deserve to be part of the rightful “American” community and receive the blessings of God, saying “And may God protect all those who stand watch over our democracy”.
Those who do not deserve God’s blessing were, President Biden pointedly suggested, to be “canceled’, ostracized, and effectively expunged from all polite American society. Thus did Biden insisted that the American “volk” consist only of some citizens and not all:

Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic…
MAGA Republicans look at America and see carnage and darkness and despair. They spread fear and lies -- lies told for profit and power…
Ladies and gentlemen, we can’t be pro-ex- -- pro-ex- -- pro-insurrectionist and pro-American. They’re incompatible…
And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people…
MAGA forces… promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country…
This is inflammatory. It’s dangerous. It’s against the rule of law. And we, the people, must say: This is not who we are…
Given the current polarization among Americans, it would not stretch our imaginations too much to predict that those who identify themselves with the Make America Great Again movement association with former President Trump could easily decide to evict from their American “volk” those they disagreed with. Those nominated for eviction from that “volk” of traditionalists would likely be champions of Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion discriminations, gender fluidity, very permissive acceptance of abortions, free college education and health care, drastic elimination of fossil fuels, an end to toxic masculinity, and other identity badges of progressive points of view.

It's a good essay until that last paragraph. It's not that I disagree that what the author suggests should not be done if we ever achieve a level of political power as well as the will to use it that would be required. All of that garbage he frets about is exactly why we are on the precipice of becoming a totalitarian socialist/fascist police state. All of that crap must be expunged and anyone who promotes it never again permitted to be within a million miles of any position of power and influence.

Yet doing so would be beyond the purview of the very Constitution we seek to reinstate and protect. To wit, how do we deny the rights of those who hold those views to hold them or promote them, with the knowledge that allowing them to do so could and would lead to catastrophe?

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Michael Walsh: "The sinister Left, currently fretting about losing 'our democracy' remains hell-bent on finishing off republicanism in both its senses; for them, only a government by national plebiscite will do. As any student of early-20th century 'reform' knows, the cure for 'reform' gone awry was and is always more "reform" rather than a return to first principles."
To Save America, Repeal the 17th Amendment
"Children are moldable. Children are naïve. Children want to please their teachers. They can be more easily conditioned into accepting these concepts, especially when they are presented to be about “the greater good”. With Corporations starting to be rated on their Environment, Social, and Governance Scores (A businesses social credit score), the obvious next step is that they will want future employees that already accept and are accustomed to being rated based on a Social Credit System."
'Social Emotional Learning' is the New Social Credit System Being Implemented in Our Schools
Victor Davis Hanson: "The sharper wits of Silicon Valley know that if the public sees their products as toxic extensions of left-wing groupthink, the majority of Americans will shun them."
The Tentacles of the Social Media Octopus

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

"Federal law enforcement has too much time on its hands, can use vague and expansive laws to go after nearly anyone, and is too close to our ruling class in Washington, D.C. to restrain itself."
The Federal Government is Treating Pro-Lifers Like They’re Al Qaeda
"After you have declared war on half of the country while power-charging the misery index, it is not possible to pivot to unity."
Joe Biden: Wartime Leader of the Black Soul Brigade
"The Justice Department and courts apply free speech precedent selectively, depending on who and what cause benefits from the exercise of the right."
Justice Department’s War with the First Amendment
Miranda Devine: "There were several curious flights logged that month, in which the jet is recorded taking off from DC or Manassas en route to Atlanta and then circles around for a few minutes before returning."
Director Christopher Wray’s Use of FBI Jet Amounts to "Embezzlement," Current, Ex-Agents Allege
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Kirby’s statement came amid a diplomatic row between the Biden administration and the regime in Riyadh, which has pushed back on the [junta's] charge that the October 5 OPEC+ decision to reduce production by two million barrels a day was taken to benefit Russia’s war in Ukraine, and hurt U.S. interests." (jeez, what does it say when a middle-aged man wears the smart-girl glasses? - jjs)
Kirby Dismisses Saudi Defense of Oil Production Cut as 'Spin' and Deflection
Daniel Greenfield: "Bribing a foreign power to rig oil prices to keep control of Congress."
Impeach Biden for Saudi Election Quid Pro Quo
"A video posted by the Just Stop Oil campaign group, which has been holding protests for the last two weeks in the British capital, showed two women throwing two tins of Heinz tomato soup over the painting, one of five versions on display in museums and galleries around the world. They then glued themselves to a wall."
Who Throws Soup? Climate Activists Trash Van Gogh Painting With Tomato Bisque
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] and his entire party won’t abandon green extremism, but try to deceive the nation about it. (Heck, they just labeled their huge green-energy corporate-welfare bill 'The Inflation Reduction Act' when it did nothing to cut inflation.) That leaves any American who wants energy prices to stop soaring no choice but to vote for every Republican in sight in November’s elections."
Biden Wants High Gas Prices — He Just Doesn't Want Voters to Notice
"He who controls the weather controls the world.” These ominous words were spoken in 1962, at Southwest Texas State University, by then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Is the Climate Being Engineered?
Thad McCotter: "This is not the first time the Democrats have raised the specter of Armageddon to shamelessly try to pass off their failed policies."
We’re in the Climate Army Now
"Anyone for shooting the rabbit?"
Upper-Class Twit of the Year Goes Green
"The state’s new offshore-wind goal is an ill-conceived plan that will cost taxpayers billions of dollars."
California Tilts at Windmills
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"We’ve now had seven straight months of 8%+ inflation. A year ago we were assured by the White House economic wizards that these rapid price increases in everything from groceries, to rental cars, to gasoline at the pump, to health insurance were merely 'transitory.' Whoops."
Average American is Losing $34,000 and Everything Else on Biden’s Watch
"So much projection; so little time. Let's look just at the economy."
Trump Isn’t Dangerous; This Junta Is
“Our economy is strong as hell,” Biden claimed while going to town on his ice cream, before adding, “the internals of it.” What internals is he talking about? Historic inflation? Record gas prices? The weakening dollar? Economic contraction?
Brain Freeze: Biden Says Economy "Strong as Hell" During Ice Cream Stop
"So in what may be the best news to shellshocked bulls after the worst September and worst Q3 in generations, in a harrowing year for markets, and on a Friday which is set to reverse much of yesterday’s historic intraday reversal, the 5th biggest on record, central banks are starting to panic more with every passing day."
Cue Dollar Squeeze Panic: Fed Sends a Record $6.3 Billion to Switzerland Via Swap Line
"By exporting our inflation around the globe, Biden is violating a core requirement of the dollar being the world’s reserve currency—and countries around the world are not happy about it."
Enough of the B.S. Regarding Saudi Arabia
"You know things are rotten when even the mainstream press is admitting they're bad."
Biden Flunks Another Inflation Exam
"The benefits of urban agglomeration aren’t as pronounced in the post-pandemic era."
Remote Work and Urban Wages
"This will not end well for America or the world as the mother of all debt bombs is soon due to explode."
The National Debt Elephant in the Room
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Will concerns over record illegal immigration decide outcome of the 2022 election?"
As Midterms Loom, Voters Prefer GOP On Border Security, Support Building A Wall: I&I/TIPP Poll
"Three illegal aliens from Colombia — 20-year-old Brayan Alexis Ortiz-Ramos, 30-year-old Daniel Esteban Jimenez-Carrillo, and 33-year-old Gersson Jhoan Hernandez-Gomez — have been arrested and charged with second-degree burglary as a hate crime and conspiracy after allegedly burglarizing 20 to 30 homes in Long Island’s Indian American neighborhoods."
Illegal Aliens, Released into U.S. by Biden’s DHS, Linked to Robbery Gang in Sanctuary State New York
"Approximately 100 migrants will reportedly be distributed between the two states, according to the outlet."
DeSantis Intends To Ship Migrants To Delaware, Illinois
"Get a mirror, dude."
‘Music to the Smugglers’ Ears’: Mayorkas Blames Migrant Influx on Republicans’ ‘Open’ Border Rhetoric
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
“Would you take back what you said about masks?” [Jonathan] Karl asked. “Obviously, the guidance changed… but you were very definitive. You said there’s absolutely no reason for people to be wearing masks.”
Dr. Fauci: ‘The Misconception Is That I Was Misleading People’ About Face Masks, School Lockdowns
"In the face of abusive government mandates, social stigmatization, and gross disrespect for human rights, a firm few said, 'No!.'"
The Chinese COVID Cult Proved How Desperate Westerners Are for Meaning
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Among the 56 officers killed this year, some officers were killed by accidental gunfire, Breitbart reported, but ambushes or surprise attacks of police resulting in injury or death with “little chance to defend themselves” shot up (literally) since 2020. Such attacks account for almost half of the police officers killed in 2022.
11 Officers Shot in One Week as Violence Against Police Increases
“He was out hunting. We are sure we stopped another killing.”
Suspected Serial Killer Of Six Arrested In California, Police Say
"If one drug can be arbitrarily eliminated from the systematic and scientific federal statutory structure, how can the whole structure stand?"
Biden's Marijuana Power Grab
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Corporate media outlets are scoffing at Sen. Ron Johnson, who said during the senate debate that he had been ‘set up’ by the FBI. . . in the greatest twist of irony, it appears Barnes was the one used as a pawn for Russian disinformation."
Corporate Media Laugh at FBI Meddling With Republican Control of Senate in Attempted Entrapment of Ron Johnson
"Gisele Fetterman's attack comes as John Fetterman's lead over Republican Mehmet Oz has narrowed considerably amid attacks on his positions on criminal justice reform and questions about his health."
"Lumpy" Fetterman’s Wife Demands ‘Consequences’ for Reporter Who Asked About His Stroke Recovery
John Stossel: "The real - and best - antidote to ugly speech."
Twitter Secrets
SECOND AMENDMENT
The statement said, in part, “For the lives we’ve lost and the lives we can save, I took historic action to stop gun violence in our nation, including signing the most significant gun safety law in nearly 30 years. But we must do more. We must pass an assault weapons ban. The American people support this commonsense action to get weapons of war off our streets. House Democrats have already passed it. The Senate should do the same. Send it to my desk and I’ll sign it.”
Biden Pushes ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban After Juvenile Allegedly Kills 5 with Shotgun
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Rub the head of his cock."
North Carolina Mom Reads From Graphic Book ‘Found’ In Classroom, Slams ‘Pedophile’ Teacher Who ‘Grooms Children’
Roger Kimball: "Places like The Wharton School which, by placing the imperatives of wokeness at the center of their curriculum, betray their students by downgrading actual education to an afterthought."
Prodigies of Credulousness in the Ivory Tower of Utopia
"Since this is a public college in the state of Florida, whose government under Republican governor Ron DeSantis and a strongly Republican state legislature has not taken kindly to blacklisting and censorship, we should expect action, either by the school, or by DeDantis and the legislature, to make sure further censorship and blacklisting does not happen."
Pushback: Central Florida U Forced to End Censorship and Blacklisting
"It’s worth considering whether the current public-school monopoly offers a net good."
The Dysfunction of Big Education
"Racism is the exclusive explanation for any measurable gap in outcomes between black people and non-black people. It’s axiomatic: if there’s a gap, there’s racism. There may be other, more immediately observable forces at work. But racism underlies the rest. The task of the critical race theorist is to uncover that racism."
What If We Took Critical Race Theory Seriously?
ABORTION
McKinney went on to explain that due to her disorder, she experienced “excessively heavy menstrual period” that could last up to four months, while in other instances she would be sent to the hospital for “surgical intervention to tie off the” snapped blood vessels.
Boston Globe Contributor Says She Had Her First Abortion at Age 11 Despite Never Being Pregnant
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"This directive by Chapman will only result in more chaos and confusion for voters, poll workers, and election clerks, plus likely inconsistencies between how different localities handle erroneous ballots."
The Same Day SCOTUS Squashes PA’s Illegal Ballots, Secretary of State Tells Counties to Break the Law
"And no, it won't be patched before the midterms."
Election Integrity Experts Identify Privacy Flaw Affecting All ICP/ICE Dominion Voting Systems Across 21 States
Clarice Feldman: "Those paranoid election deniers True the Vote uncover a snake pit of Chinese electoral manipulation ignored by the FBI, the media, and everybody else."
Score One for True the Vote
“This legal victory protects the rights of poll watchers and underscores the Republican Party’s commitment to free, fair, and transparent elections in the Tar Heel State,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a press release.
GOP Wins Legal Challenge Against Restrictions on North Carolina Poll Watchers
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Margot Cleveland: "It was the final FISA deception, not merely the FBI’s reliance on the uncorroborated Steele dossier, that led to the illegal surveillance of Carter Page."
Why the FBI’s Last-Minute Change to a FISA Application is Worse Than Using Unverified Steele Dossier
"Durham has prove that the FBI and the DoJ turned a willfully blind eye to the dirtiest trick in the nation’s political history."
Durham’s In-Your-Face Danchenko Gambit
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"This, folks, is what we find crawling around under the rock labeled 'Black Lives Matter.'"
Republicans Missing an Opportunity to Tie Dems to their Support for Anti-Semitic BLM and Patrisse Cullors
"Pro-Israel groups want to know why these firms are driving Jew hatred."
Nation’s Top Law Firms Fund Anti-Semitic Campus Groups at Berkeley
"It is a left-wing lobbying operation subversive of the faith."
What Is Catholic About the "Catholic Health Association?"
"Does the Synod have a sinister purpose?"
A Hostile Takeover of the Catholic Church?
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"The American public was subjected to a campaign right out of the Soviet playbook designed to obfuscate the Biden family corruption."
Hiding Hunter’s Laptop
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is meddling in the Alaska Senate race between two Republicans instead of working to reclaim the Senate majority."
Alaska Republicans Call On Kentucky GOP To Censure Mitch McConnell Over Party Interference
"Charges of the favored language for the racinos come on the heels of Hochul being accused of pay-to-play schemes with donors — including a firm that won a $637 million no-bid contract to provide [Chinese] COVID tests kits while its founder and associates delivered nearly $333,000 in donations to her campaign."
Hochul Accused of Rigging NY Casino License Plan in Favor of Politically-Connected Slot Parlors
After anti-black comments by latino L.A. Council members, NY Time Columnist is worried: “with the browning of America, white supremacy could simply be replaced by — or buffeted by — a form of “lite” supremacy, in which fairer-skin people perpetuate a modified anti-Blackness rather than eliminating it.”
Progressive or Parody? Out: ‘White’ Supremacy / In: ‘Lite’ Supremacy
"The LA Council scandal is about far more than race, as it has pulled back the curtain and shown the public how LA (and much of government everywhere) actually operates."
The LA City Council Debacle is Not Just About Racism
POLITICS
"The battleground tracker found 65 percent of registered voters said the economy is getting worse."
Poll: Republicans Keep Lead in Battle with Democrats for House Control
“Former President Barack Obama is traveling to Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin this month to stump for Democratic candidates weeks before the midterm elections.”
Worried Democrats Send Obama to Campaign in Georgia and Other States
"The news raises questions for Warnock, who has campaigned as an ally of low-income Georgians and people with disabilities. It could also draw new scrutiny to Warnock’s compensation from the church, which paid him a $7,417-per-month, tax-free housing allowance last year—an arrangement that allowed him to circumvent federal limits on outside income for U.S. senators."
Pests, Filth, and Killer Elevators: Inside Raphael Warnock’s Secret Low-Income Apartment Building (I saw Pests, Filth, and Killer Elevators open for Emerson, Lake & Palmer at SPAC in '74 - jjs)
"I heard about [Warnock], I heard he was a neat talker," said Walker. "But did he not mention that there's a baby in that room as well? And did he not mention that he asking the taxpayer to pay for it? So he bringing the government back into the room."
Walker Hits Warlock on Abortion, Inflation, Church Evictions in First Debate
"By the way, for the record, Warnock’s opponent, Georgia Bulldogs and pro football great Herschel Walker, was emphatic in his assertion that the Braves don’t need to change a thing."
Warnock Swings and Misses With Debate Question About the Atlanta Braves
"Wisconsin Dem focuses on abortion in final weeks, ignores inflation and economy." (essentially, a massive in-kind contribution to the Johnson campaign - jjs)
Wisconsin Voters Press Barnes About Singular Focus on Abortion
"The appearances could fuel perceptions that Barnes's views are out of touch with mainstream voters." (gee, ya think?! - jjs)
Mandela Barnes Joins Russian State TV Alongside White Nationalist Richard Spencer
"Thanks to a well-run campaign and Democratic missteps, Oregon’s Republican gubernatorial candidate is in striking distance of victory in November."
Christine Drazan is In the Hunt

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“Remember, we have our challenges right now, but when the president took office, we were facing an economy that was at risk of going into freefall. The American Rescue Plan stopped that, and it went directly into easing the burden for Americans with those tax benefits that Americans got.”
Peter-Puffer Buttigieg Says Democrats Are Having a Hard Time Campaigning Because They’ve Been Too Successful
Just as Tulsi Gabbard was explaining that she was leaving the Democrat party because of its “cowardly wokeness” that “racializes every issue,” former President Barack Obama was speaking at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit and racializing the fact that many Republicans have the audacity to disagree with him,
Tulsi’s Declaration of Independence
Deroy Murdock: "It happens every time. While most Republicans proudly run for office as conservatives and then govern that way, Democrats typically conceal their liberal beliefs and pose as 'moderates' and 'centrists. Once elected, they swing Left and startle voters who sign up for compassion and get stuck with socialism.
MINOs: Dem ‘Moderates’ In Name Only Are Running for Key Offices Across America
"Indeed, even second and third-generation Latino voters who came from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, or other benighted socialist countries or still have family in those hell-holes know which side Republicans are on and where Democratic Party sympathies lie."
Democrats Are Shocked That Latino Voters Don't Like Socialism
Daniel Greenfield: "If elected, he promises not to work for the people he's working for now."
Evan "McMuffin Maguffin" McMullin, Funded by Top Dem Donor, Promises Not to Caucus w/Dems
Daniel Greenfield Part Deux: "Who benefits from having mentally incapacitated politicians in office?"
Zombie Democrats Run a Zombie Nation
". . . those halcyon days of Democrat power grabs are ending, and the apparatchiks are beginning to retreat like Nazis out of the Soviet Union. Let’s take a look at what was and what is, and how the truth is oozing out and killing the Democrats."
Pour Yourself a Drink, Patriot—the Democrat Party Is Crumbling
"Far from being a threat to American democracy, Trump and his movement represent an unvanquished pocket of democratic resistance to the bureaucratic tyranny of globalism."
The Establishment is Still Terrified of Donald Trump
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"Moscow will only take this as further evidence the Western military alliance is intent on expanding its military infrastructure right up to its border."
NATO Initiates 10-Year Plan To Rebuild Ukraine’s Military & Defense Industry
"Millions of lives are at stake in the largest European conflict since the Second World War."
Support for Ukraine Does Not Come From ‘Current Thingism’
"Is this list real? What’s the URL?"
Elon Musk Alarmed After Apparent Inclusion On Well-Known Ukrainian ‘Kill List’
“They’re tactical nukes — they’re just bigger versions of what a conventional attack would be,” said Neil deGrasse Tyson, a Harvard-trained science and “science communicator.” He said on the October 15 [Bill Maher] show.
Nuke War In Ukraine? No Big Deal, Says Biden Ally
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
“Pakistan on Saturday summoned the U.S. ambassador after [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden called it “one of the most dangerous nations in the world” and questioned the safety of the country’s nuclear weapons. The remarks triggered an immediate backlash from Pakistan, which summoned the US envoy in Islamabad to explain Biden’s uncalled-for remarks.”
Pakistan Summons U.S. Envoy After Biden’s Nuke “Gaffe”
Evin prison in Iran has been a symbol of repression and torture since the days of the Shah. Today, the facility is engulfed in flames, and shots are being heard by a crowd gathered on the perimeter of the prison who can be heard shouting, “death to the dictator!”
Huge Fire and Shots Heard at Notorious Iran Prison
"They're unlike their predecessors."
In Iran, a New Generation is Prepared to Fight the Mullahs
Dog, eat thyself . . .
Obama Says His Response to 2009 Iran Protests ‘In Retrospect…Was a Mistake’
“Complete reunification of our country must be realized, and it can, without doubt, be realized!”
‘Use Of Force’: Xi Threatens Taiwan Invasion As Chinese Communist Party Congress Kicks Off
"Biden, 79, perpetrated the gaffe during one of his classic ice-cream-slurping photo-ops in Delaware, after being asked about Prime Minister Truss’s current difficulties in government."
Foreign Interference: Biden Blunders Diplomatically by Criticising UK PM over Tax Cuts at Ice-Cream Parlour
"Just three decades ago, Armenians and Azerbaijanis lived side by side. Now, they’re on the brink of war."
Family, Faith, and Flag After the Soviets
Raymond Ibrahim: "The only 'grievance' Turkey and Azerbaijan have."
Why Armenia Will Never Know Peace from Surrounding Islam
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
". . . if Leftists are successful in turning the whole country into California, there will be nowhere left to flee to."
How Do We Stop California From Throwing Its Weight Around?
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"The bottom line is that Obamacare cost increases have been astronomical and underreported."
Fact Check: Obamacare Failed
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The cycle feeds on itself, and will only end when the full potential of space exploration is reached. And since that potential is literally endless, this growth for the human race is also endless. The only thing that could stop it is if human civilization decides to stop it, intentionally, either from willful ignorance or fear."
Russia Launches Military Satellite Using Angara Rocket, New Global Record for Launches
"The map to the right, cropped and reduced to post here, shows the dates and the path of both eclipses."
Two Solar Eclipses Coming to the US Next Year
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Big Non-Binary Brother is watching. . . "
LGBTQ+++© Police State: 'Trans Buddies' Now Assigned to Monitor Doctors for Transphobia
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
David Horowitz: "A heroic leader who should be supported by every patriot who loves our country."
In Support of Kanye West
Robert Spencer: "What bank does Farrakhan deal with and has it canceled his account?"
Kanye West, Louis Farrakhan & Leftist Double Standards
"At this point in an unfolding drama, should the right shun Kanye West? Perhaps. At the very least, his feet should be held to the fire."
Kanye West Shouldn’t Be Censored, But He’s Got Some Explaining to Do
“You know, they came into money through the lawyers, when uh, after Wall Street, when all of the, like the Catholics, they wouldn’t divorce people,” he continued. “So the Jewish lawyers came and they were willing to divorce people. That’s when they first came into money.” (ugh - jjs)
Ye West Turns Latest Interview Into Disturbing Anti-Semitic Rant
"Ulta may be regretting whatever marketing 'genius' came up with this idea." (Mish Mulvaney > Mick Mulvaney? - jjs)
Makeup Giant Ulta Goes Woke Highlighting 'Trans Girl' Dylan Mulvaney, Customer Base of Real Women Revolts
"REVIEW: Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition by Nicholas Eberstadt."
The Invisible Crisis
"The end of the aspirational sectors of culture—highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow—has come, with a kind of ubiquitous, bland, liberal populism to replace it."
Leftists Have Become the Toothless Rednecks in Deliverance
HITHER & YON
"A century on, the dead hand of the founder of Fascism weighs heavily on the global political culture."
Il Duce’s Long Shadow
"This sly 1987 thriller has plenty to say about the actor/director relationship."
Why Has Pop Culture Forgotten Dead of Winter?
"Where do we get such men? The Bridges at Toko-Ri revisited."
America’s Greatest War Movie Inspired by Actual Events ("greatest?" YMMV - jjs)

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

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

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 17, 2022 07:37 AM (BRHaw)

2 1st

Posted by: Skip's phone at October 17, 2022 07:37 AM (P4ODk)

3 Morning horde!

Posted by: IanDeal at October 17, 2022 07:37 AM (MGjjz)

4 Foggy. rhennigantx you go get them
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip's phone at October 17, 2022 07:38 AM (P4ODk)

5 Mornin', Horde!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at October 17, 2022 07:39 AM (CO3WZ)

6 Morning , JJ.

*Sips coffee*

Morning, Horde.

Eastern Kansas is now well supplied in Dole apple juice.

Posted by: Robert at October 17, 2022 07:40 AM (kqI/Q)

7 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 17, 2022 07:40 AM (ei6zE)

8 Present

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 17, 2022 07:41 AM (BFigT)

9 Outstanding essay this morning.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 07:41 AM (7oT5d)

10 morning horde.

it's a monday and work doesn't want to wait, but i think i got the fires out for the moment.

covfefe is ready, on to the content.

Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 07:41 AM (Mkvkw)

11 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 07:42 AM (uLr+K)

12 Evidently he thought the two scoops strategy was his best move as far as appearing popular. It probably IS better than speech in front of a a red drenched Reichstag backdrop calling for the persecution and execution of his enemies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 07:44 AM (CwQXo)

13 "the Democrats face a drubbing of such magnitude that the loss could see them out of power for a generation if not longer."

I'll believe it when I see it. Never underestimate the ability of the GOP to f' it up.

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2022 07:44 AM (sn5EN)

14 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 17, 2022 07:44 AM (Do5/p)

15 Good morning and superb essay, JJ.

I get the sense that President Tapioca Brain and the Kalorama Clowns hold the position that anyone not voting Democrat is not an American. Some unity message.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 07:45 AM (4I/2K)

16 Let California stop power plants from being built. Let them NIMBY desalinization plants. Do not stop them from banning internal combustion engines. If anything, demand their changes faster. And harder!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 07:45 AM (g8KqZ)

17 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 07:45 AM (zhLdt)

18 Monday, Monday
Can't trust that day
Monday, Monday
Sometimes it just turns out that way

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 17, 2022 07:45 AM (Do5/p)

19 The Junta would like nothing better than to have a large force to smother any opposition to its goals. Something you could move in quicker than you can say Das Reich Division, arrest and detain dissidents, and extract reprisals in any way. And behold, the FBI says "We're on it boss" and starts rounding up religious groups promoting pro life views.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 07:45 AM (lz5hY)

20 Bonjour amigos.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at October 17, 2022 07:46 AM (MkuC5)

21 16 Let California stop power plants from being built. Let them NIMBY desalinization plants. Do not stop them from banning internal combustion engines. If anything, demand their changes faster. And harder!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 07:45 AM (g8KqZ)

The problem is they consider the entire country their back yard and companies are rushing to oblige them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 07:46 AM (CwQXo)

22 *Sips coffee*

Morning, Horde.

Eastern Kansas is now well supplied in Dole apple juice.
Posted by: Robert at October 17, 2022 07:40 AM (kqI/Q)

Thanks for sending it on down the line. - Alabama song

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 07:46 AM (4I/2K)

23 "Biden Blunders Diplomatically" should be painted on a big sign and hung over the front door of the White House.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 07:47 AM (g8KqZ)

24 Pookette isn't up yet, so I'm going to have to inspect her room for the contraband that probably kept her up late last night. Ah, the joys of parenting a book addict...

Posted by: pookysgirl, aggressive librarian at October 17, 2022 07:48 AM (XKZwp)

25 Yes, the stupid and offensive ad with the ridiculous looking man LARPing a woman and the man with a beard also pretending to be one needs to be mocked and called out. The makeup company needs to lose lots of business. One of the best responses from someone from England:

https://tinyurl.com/shvbhzr5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 17, 2022 07:48 AM (vH/6k)

26 3 weeks and 1 day to election day...make plans now to vote b/c we're gonna need every one to beat all the potential frauds...

Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 07:48 AM (exHjb)

27 Ghislane Maxwell is giving an interview? I am surprised she has not committed suicide.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 07:49 AM (CwQXo)

28 "If as it seems barring some black swan event of Quetzalcoatl-like proportions, the Democrats are on course for an epic once-in-a-generation ass-kicking, do you really think they're going to accept it?"

No. They cant accept it, wont accept it and for sure have plans to nullify any election 'mistakes'--ie an election not going their way.

The FBI.DOJ are arresting and charging as a Federal 'Crime' a 87 year old grandmother and the father of 11 for singing hymns at an abortion clinic .You know without any doubt that the Dem Commies are going to use any and all means to silence their opposition.

Posted by: Voter theater. at October 17, 2022 07:49 AM (E9Och)

29 hiya

Posted by: JT at October 17, 2022 07:49 AM (T4tVD)

30 >>the Democrats face a drubbing of such magnitude that the loss could see them out of power for a generation if not longer.

If the GOP were a legitimate party this could conceivably happen.

What will more than likely happen is the GOP will take control for a while focus on corporate tax cuts, amnesty and the other goofy shit that animates and motivates the GOPe, the democrats will fake moderate and be back in control of congress in 4-6 years.

We've seen this tune before.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 17, 2022 07:49 AM (up/3i)

31 How many once in a generation defeats have the dems suffered? I can think of a few. How much changed?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 07:50 AM (CwQXo)

32 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

Winning elections is super-duper.

When there is actual opposition. What we have is a nersatz opposition that is only marginally less globalist in Appearances only.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 17, 2022 07:50 AM (EZebt)

33 ...the Democrats face a drubbing of such magnitude that the loss could see them out of power for a generation if not longer.

Okay, you lost me right here. I'm old enough to remember Rush Limbaugh and many on the right claiming this same thing during the Bush 43 years after the 2004 election. That was ridiculously stupid hubris.

And this is as well, especially when we have not even won any elections yet. And considering everyone's hubris going into the 2020 election and the results of that election, how about we stop with the ridiculously stupid predictions and focus on the hard work of winning elections AND getting our society, institutions and culture back on track to sanity.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 17, 2022 07:51 AM (Do5/p)

34 an ersatz opposition

There. That's better.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 17, 2022 07:51 AM (EZebt)

35 "do you really think they're going to accept it?"

It would be too bad if they burned it all down .

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2022 07:52 AM (sn5EN)

36 Meh, did not really want to contribute to the doom and gloom métier, more just posing the question. I can think of '94 and 2010. But is seems like we always talk about them facing consequences and yet the government itself has gotten worse. I think we are doing something wrong.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 07:52 AM (CwQXo)

37 I wonder what courtroom hijinks the inestimable killer-clown from Waukesha will pull today? The state is soon to wrap up their case, with testimony coming today about his arrest I believe.

The state also has planned a jury fieldtrip to see Darrell Brooks' mom's car. Sorry, the red Ford Escape SUV, not a car per Mr. Brooks and anyone calling it a car has misidentified his client and there the defendant is not guilty.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 07:53 AM (4I/2K)

38 If as it seems barring some black swan event of Quetzalcoatl-like proportions, the Democrats are on course for an epic once-in-a-generation ass-kicking, do you really think they're going to accept it?

No, I think the stupid evil psychos are going to fraud the shit out of everything, because when you think you are as SMAHHHHHHRRT as they do, you don't *need* any stinkin' feedback mechanism.

I also suspect that trying to turn back this tide may not give them their desired results, especially long-term.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 17, 2022 07:53 AM (llON8)

39 I'll believe it when I see it. Never underestimate the ability of the GOP to f' it up.
Posted by: fd at October 17, 2022 07:44 AM (sn5EN)
---
Heh. That's exactly what TFG said about FJB!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 17, 2022 07:54 AM (K5n5d)

40 Damn groomers have to describe everything about trans kids as "amazing". If my Jake wants to be called Jane today at school because that is who they are today, that is amazing!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 17, 2022 07:55 AM (ahox9)

41 Mussolini Could Have Only Dreamed Of Having The Fascist State Apparatus That Exists In Washington DC Today At His Disposal.

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Free Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 17, 2022 07:56 AM (UjXdZ)

42 Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic…

Yet they never explain or even articulate one example of "extremism" or "threat to the very foundations of our republic." Rather, we know that everything the D's stand for is extreme and tyrannical to its core.

MAGA Republicans look at America and see carnage and darkness and despair. They spread fear and lies -- lies told for profit and power…

The people who just want to be left alone to mind their own business, raise their children and lead a good life are characterized by those who lie, cheat and steal, whose lust for profit and power has them burning down cities, starting wars around the planet, demanding they live in penury, eating bugs while freezing in the dark - its these MAGA people who are the problem.

Projection isn't just a river in Egypt

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 17, 2022 07:56 AM (ceWUn)

43 Predictions of one party and then the other party being wiped out for a generation are becoming too commonplace.

Posted by: davidt at October 17, 2022 07:57 AM (oTZbj)

44 My little burg paper had that bit of trans kid nonsense, plus a "debate" about allowing LGBTQ books in a new liberry, plus the local kids pride out day event. It is a cancer.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 17, 2022 07:57 AM (ahox9)

45 Damn groomers have to describe everything about trans kids as "amazing". If my Jake wants to be called Jane today at school because that is who they are today, that is amazing!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 17, 2022 07:55 AM (ahox9)

'Amazing' and 'Awesome' have lost all meaning and impact from overuse on the most banal events. They are place-filler word like Sussudio. Anodyne.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 07:58 AM (4I/2K)

46 " could be that Wray has important FBI business in Atlanta, but it currently is the No. 1 most popular destination for the FBI jet — and Wray’s roots in the city run deep.
Wray’s wife, Helen Howell Wray, is from Atlanta, where her family has been part of the elite for seven generations. "

I did not know that, but it explains a lot. Atl is a lib squithole.

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2022 07:58 AM (sn5EN)

47 Good morning! I slept with the window open last and I slept like a baby! I love that cold air and snuggling under my blankie.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 07:58 AM (nxdel)

48 well I WAS in a good mood this morning lol!

but thanks JJ for the links and your thoughts.

meanwhile - Eagles won! Phils in NLCS! despite the killings, we're pretty happy in Philly today.

also McKinney thinks any D and C or D and E is an abortion?!?!?! that's ... the dumbest thing I've ever heard. by her count I've had three abortion! (no actual humans were harmed they were D and Cs)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 07:59 AM (w0NJk)

49 'Amazing' and 'Awesome' have lost all meaning and impact from overuse on the most banal events. They are place-filler word like Sussudio. Anodyne.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Awesome comment!

Posted by: fd, who is Amazing! at October 17, 2022 07:59 AM (sn5EN)

50
I'm getting political ads on Facebook now, with get this, no party identification. It's a real head scratcher.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 17, 2022 08:00 AM (y3pKJ)

51 The only violence they can point to is "Jan 6" or some mass shooting that had nothing to do with the right. Ask them for racism, they will invariably point to nooses and other proven race hoaxes or something that Trump did that is considered racist only if you look at it through the distorted, twisted lens of a leftist with an agenda.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 17, 2022 08:00 AM (ahox9)

52 So in even more local inside baseball news, Wes Moore, Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor during the one and only debate with Trump supported Dan Cox was talking about crime and safety.

He used an interesting phrase concerning crime and violence in Baltimore. People should feel safe on the streets, in their homes, and in their skin .

I wish he could explain that last part to me. Explain it to me like I'm five years old, and only use small words.

Cause I swear I hear a real high pitched whistle.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:00 AM (uLr+K)

53 Good morning! I slept with the window open last and I slept like a baby! I love that cold air and snuggling under my blankie.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 07:58 AM (nxdel)

Your joy put a smile on my face. Thanks for sharing!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:00 AM (4I/2K)

54 The people who just want to be left alone to mind their own business, raise their children and lead a good life are characterized by those who lie, cheat and steal, whose lust for profit and power has them burning down cities, starting wars around the planet, demanding they live in penury, eating bugs while freezing in the dark - its these MAGA people who are the problem.

well, we're making them look bad

can't have that

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 08:00 AM (w0NJk)

55 No contraband, just a really cold room because Pooky forgot to turn on her heater (even after I reminded him) and Pookette doesn't have enough sense to turn it on on her own. ><

Posted by: pookysgirl lives in the House of Low Wisdom Scores at October 17, 2022 08:00 AM (XKZwp)

56 Amazing' and 'Awesome' have lost all meaning and impact from overuse on the most banal events. They are place-filler word like Sussudio. Anodyne.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Awesome comment!
Posted by: fd, who is Amazing! at October 17, 2022 07:59 AM (sn5EN)

Fantastic!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 17, 2022 08:01 AM (RfgGG)

57 Hmmm, I wonder if you mapped out the most pervasive and worst of the totalitarian regimes (by oppression and pervasiveness) how the rankings would turn out? An attempt:

Pol Pot's Cambodia
Stalin's Soviet Union
Mao's China
Nazi Germany
North Korea
South Vietnam after we pulled out
Castro's Cuba
Khrushchev's Soviet Union

That is actually really difficult, I keep shuffling them around in the ranking as I consider different factors.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 08:01 AM (CwQXo)

58 meanwhile - Eagles won! Phils in NLCS! despite the killings, we're pretty happy in Philly today.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 07:59 AM (w0NJk)

It was a great week for Philly sports, and great games all weekend! Last night's game was awesome (except for the lull, but you know, lulls happen when you're up big)...

Next up is the Tuesday Phils game!

Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 08:01 AM (exHjb)

59 49 Absolutely!

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 08:01 AM (lz5hY)

60 From Book Thread, started reading Loba the Dread on the Soviet Union, another telling we are living the Russian Revolution just without that mass murderer Lenin

Posted by: Skip's phone at October 17, 2022 08:01 AM (P4ODk)

61 I bet Wray's wife is from Butthead. Which wants to separate from the City of Atlanta.

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2022 08:01 AM (sn5EN)

62 Fkin phone cucumber
Koba the Dread

Posted by: Skip's phone at October 17, 2022 08:01 AM (P4ODk)

63 I have read about the shameless lap dances that Evan McCuckan has given the Libs who live on the upper benches of Salt Lake City and in Park City . . . . . . . . ..they basically dress him up in a wig and pantyhose before the performance . . . . . .and that the (fake) Conservatives who are still pissed that Mike Lee outed and ousted old Bob Bennett a decade ago (another person who was dressed in a wig and pantyhose, but his lap dances were given to the Big 8 banks during the 2008-2009 theft of the US Treasury so that "Bobby" would make sure those azzwipes on Wall Street wouldn't lose their houses in the Hamptons). What magnificent tales these Progressives, Libs, Bill Kristols, RINO Rat Romney Bastards, and other lower-2-percenters weave. . . . . ! I can't imagine Mike Lee losing that election, but with this disease of Mass Stupid going around, who knows? I do know this: massive spending by the Left on this McCucksucker campaign all over the Rocky Mountain West is on a huge scale.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & RINO dogshit McMuffins at October 17, 2022 08:01 AM (8m/Xb)

64 'Amazing' and 'Awesome' have lost all meaning and impact from overuse on the most banal events. They are place-filler word like Sussudio. Anodyne.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 07:58 AM (4I/2K)

That's awesome!

The Horde will kill anything through overuse. Consider it stress testing. We wanna see what it can 'withstand'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 08:02 AM (CwQXo)

65 ... polling expert Dave in FL laid out the tantalizing possibility that beyond merely losing control of both chambers of Congress, the Democrats face a drubbing of such magnitude that the loss could see them out of power for a generation if not longer.

With all due respect to DiF, everyone on Twitter/Facebook/TikTok says that the Dems will win so you know that's true. Also, you'll get banned if you say otherwise. And possibly raided by the most non-partisan secret police organization in the history of ever.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 08:02 AM (zhLdt)

66 I would repeal the 17th, but replace it with:

1. Senatorial terms are unlimited. Senators serve and can be recalled by the state at any time. (No more lame ducks going out in a blaze of glory.)
2. If a bicameral legislature cannot choose a candidate after a month, the state governor will select from the two choices.
3. States are no longer required to apportion state senators by population. (Kill the stupid SCOTUS ruling)

Posted by: WiNO at October 17, 2022 08:02 AM (EpDzw)

67 Awesome comment!
Posted by: fd, who is Amazing! at October 17, 2022 07:59 AM (sn5EN)

Fantastic!
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 17, 2022 08:01 AM (RfgGG)

Doubly cromulent!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:03 AM (4I/2K)

68 "The Horde will kill anything through overuse. Consider it stress testing. We wanna see what it can 'withstand'."

What an amazing, awesome and wonderful idea!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:03 AM (uLr+K)

69 Schools cannot effectively teach subjects with hard rules like math, science and grammar to half the students. And they think the are going to teach and and evaluate a subjective topic like a students emotional health and well being? Of course SEL is just more indoctrination but even if it wasn't leftist agenda driven it would be an impossible task. No way teachers and school are equipped for this nor it is not their job or function. At least in a normal world long gone.

Posted by: Ripley at October 17, 2022 08:03 AM (MxEKc)

70 WiNO those are great changes

unfortunately we can probably only approach this via Constitutional Convention

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 08:04 AM (w0NJk)

71 Meh, did not really want to contribute to the doom and gloom métier, more just posing the question. I can think of '94 and 2010. But is seems like we always talk about them facing consequences and yet the government itself has gotten worse. I think we are doing something wrong.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 07:52 AM (CwQXo)

because we need to institute literal decimation of the federal bureaucracy when we take power?

Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 08:04 AM (Mkvkw)

72 Coincidentally, we're only 11 days away from the 100th anniversary of Benito Mussolini and his fascists seizing power in Italy.

And he's returned in the (sexy) body of Giorgia Meloni. Reeeeee!

Posted by: Hysterical Lefty Overreacting as usual at October 17, 2022 08:04 AM (ZJlxc)

73 68 "The Horde will kill anything through overuse. Consider it stress testing. We wanna see what it can 'withstand'."

What an amazing, awesome and wonderful idea!!!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:03 AM (uLr+K)

Let me see if I can find a picture of a busty redhead dual wielding a 9mm and .45 to punctuate and celebrate this idea!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 08:04 AM (CwQXo)

74 Breaking News: Kanye West will be buying Parler...

Not convinced the final sale will go through, but...

Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 08:05 AM (exHjb)

75 because we need to institute literal decimation of the federal bureaucracy when we take power?
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 08:04 AM (Mkvkw)

I would prefer to go beyond one in ten.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 08:05 AM (CwQXo)

76 One in two would be a good starting point.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 08:06 AM (CwQXo)

77 on SEL - my own kid's private Catholic school used to have a "free period" called Advisory for last period of the day. it was for clubs or meeting with teachers or study groups or (in her case) getting ready for your after school sport. they've done it forever, it was great.

I found that now (thankfully all kids are out of there) the nuns put in an "SEL Power Hour" or something in the middle of the day that is REQUIRED for all students, and took away advisory!

this is a very religious school. everyone is up in arms. but the Sisters do what they want I guess. sad!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 08:06 AM (w0NJk)

78 Do you know what is the most unsatisfying read? Any website that doesn't let you at least let you look at comments if you don't pay them.

Posted by: Jaimo at October 17, 2022 08:06 AM (DBrN4)

79 Thank you, Robert! I'm sure some of it will make it over to N KS too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 17, 2022 08:06 AM (uz3Px)

80 I am amazing because I figured out how to use 3 electric fuel pumps to get home yesterday. I maze myself sometimes.

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2022 08:06 AM (sn5EN)

81 "I would prefer to go beyond one in ten."

Three in five?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:06 AM (uLr+K)

82 "charged with second-degree burglary as a hate crime and conspiracy"

o brave new world, amirite ?

G'mornin' Horde !

it's only a Monday, we'll get over it ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at October 17, 2022 08:07 AM (8oyo2)

83 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)

84 {{Count}} hope you are doing well this morning.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 08:07 AM (nxdel)

85 81 "I would prefer to go beyond one in ten."

Three in five?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:06 AM (uLr+K)

Will someone give me five in seven?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 08:08 AM (CwQXo)

86 "Let me see if I can find a picture of a busty redhead dual wielding a 9mm and .45 to punctuate and celebrate this idea!"

Harumph...I didn't get a 'fantastic' out of that guy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:08 AM (uLr+K)

87 As far as biden trying to bribe the Saudi's on delaying the oil production cut by promising to buy oil at $75 a barrel to refill the SPR, Trump asked congress for money to do that when oil was trading at $22 a barrel.

nancy pelosi refused to even bring it up for a vote.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 17, 2022 08:08 AM (bVYXr)

88 Thinking about the Constitutional issues that have to be addressed if when we are in rebuild mode is useful only to a point. You have to have a plan for getting to rebuild, one that does not involve forcing the socialists to foreswear their priorities and accept ours.

But assuming we get to rebuild, the new and improved Constitution has to specifically address the bureaucratic state—as to which the current document is silent.

Posted by: Joe Shit for Brains at October 17, 2022 08:09 AM (FfArO)

89 two women throwing two tins of Heinz tomato soup over the painting,
+++++
Who Throws Soup?

********

It's those damned Bisque Separatists!!

Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 08:09 AM (kXYt5)

90 Good morning, Horde. Thank you, JJ, for your excellent essay and summary of the news.

Good to see you, {{{Jewells}}}

Posted by: Ladyl at October 17, 2022 08:09 AM (+4oV5)

91 The much-needed rain here has stalled just north of Houston and is now quickly sliding off to the east. On the southern fringe of the system to the west near Columbus, there's looks to be a clump of rain that may give us a wetting down as it passes to the east.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:09 AM (4I/2K)

92 "Will someone give me five in seven?"

79 in 11?

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM (uLr+K)

93 I know a guy that knows a guy that knows people in government places.

The next thing heading our way is a butter shortage......AYFKM?!?

Then there will be a 'nuclear scare' where Americans will be pressured into taking a 'magic pill' that prevents radiation poisoning developed by none other than Pfizer. The Biden admin has already purchased millions of doses.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

94 The economy is strong as hell. Hell yeah.

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM (sn5EN)

95 75 Yep. The left doesn't believe in one in ten decimation. Those that hate us will only be happy with every male in the village, between 14 and 60, gets on the truck.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM (lz5hY)

96 This election will be based on the economy. They want it to be based on ANYTHING else.

Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM (Vr12I)

97 two women throwing two tins of Heinz tomato soup over the painting,
+++++
Who Throws Soup?

********

Who eats Heinz tomato soup? John Kerry?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM (4I/2K)

98 the Democrats face a drubbing of such magnitude that the loss could see them out of power for a generation if not longer.

This is wish casting and will not happen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

99 I would repeal the 17th, but replace it with:

1. Senatorial terms are unlimited. Senators serve and can be recalled by the state at any time. (No more lame ducks going out in a blaze of glory.)
2. If a bicameral legislature cannot choose a candidate after a month, the state governor will select from the two choices.
3. States are no longer required to apportion state senators by population. (Kill the stupid SCOTUS ruling)
Posted by: WiNO at October 17, 2022 08:02 AM (EpDzw)

i've been a fan of repealing the 17th for a while now. and this seems like a sensible substitute for the current shit show.

Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 08:11 AM (Mkvkw)

100 Then there will be a 'nuclear scare' where Americans will be pressured into taking a 'magic pill' that prevents radiation poisoning developed by none other than Pfizer. The Biden admin has already purchased millions of doses.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

I'd say this is a joke or tinfoil nuttery, but I live here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 08:11 AM (CwQXo)

101 I mean, don't you think it would have occurred to ANYBODY on the marketing team at that makeup company that two men (One in a ridiculous parody of a woman wearing a stupid bow in his hair, and another one with a beard and who is wearing a dress and pearls) would not be the best way to sell make up to women, and that here are just not that many fake trannies who would make up from the drop in sales by offended women?!! Woke dolts!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 17, 2022 08:11 AM (vH/6k)

102 92 "Will someone give me five in seven?"

79 in 11?
Posted by: Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM

25, or 6 to 4?

Posted by: Chicago at October 17, 2022 08:12 AM (ZJlxc)

103 Who eats Heinz tomato soup? John Kerry?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM (4I/2K)

Progresso Basil Tomato with a bit of butter added is incredibly tasty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 08:12 AM (CwQXo)

104 Happy Monday!

>>it would not stretch our imaginations too much to predict that those who identify themselves with the Make America Great Again movement association with former President Trump could easily decide to evict from their American “volk” those they disagreed with.

Um, we're not the ones cancelling, the ones sending the DOJ/FBI/IRS out to investigate and harass those who disagree with us, demanding social media silence.

Talk about victim-shaming! My word. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:12 AM (I/doM)

105 "nancy pelosi refused to even bring it up for a vote."

Before or after she threatened to assault the serving President of the United States?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:12 AM (uLr+K)

106 102 92 "Will someone give me five in seven?"

79 in 11?
Posted by: Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM

25, or 6 to 4?
Posted by: Chicago at October 17, 2022 08:12 AM (ZJlxc)

10 from 6

Posted by: Bad Company at October 17, 2022 08:12 AM (CwQXo)

107 you can find literally ANYTHING Ulta (or Sephora) carries for way way less elsewhere.

and their makeup artists aren't all that either

I saw the ads with the guys. let those dudes pay the "mall space with shoplifters" premium for Ulta

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 08:13 AM (w0NJk)

108 Um, we're not the ones cancelling, the ones sending the DOJ/FBI/IRS out to investigate and harass those who disagree with us, demanding social media silence.

Talk about victim-shaming! My word. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:12 AM (I/doM)

Yeah, how many libs have been completely cut out of the banking system?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 08:13 AM (CwQXo)

109 JJ sez: "To wit, how do we deny the rights of those who hold those views to hold them or promote them, with the knowledge that allowing them to do so could and would lead to catastrophe?"

We don't deny them anything. And we haven't. Holding each individual to account for the abrogation of their Oath is the easy part, and the difficult part, because once this starts it will not easily stop. Which is what we on this side of the fence, chuckling, don't want, because we understand history. But the other side cares not what we want, they want the control and the violence that goes with it. So, there is no real option, except to wait for the future to be what it will be.

Posted by: Grog at October 17, 2022 08:13 AM (esAC9)

110 Yes, I will be pleased to see Democrats out of office.

Will that change government policy? Hardly.

Because Republicans.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 17, 2022 08:13 AM (EZebt)

111 {{Ladyl}}..bet you're getting excited!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 08:14 AM (nxdel)

112 Breitbart: "Chicago Man Choked Girlfriend, Hit Her with Baseball Bat While on Bail"

No more bail for baseball bats!

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 17, 2022 08:14 AM (24fqN)

113 because we need to institute literal decimation of the federal bureaucracy when we take power?
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 08:04 AM (Mkvkw)

I would prefer to go beyond one in ten.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 08:05 AM (CwQXo)

76 One in two would be a good starting point.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 08:06 AM (CwQXo)

bargained well and done.

now to institute it...

Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 08:14 AM (Mkvkw)

114 Yeah, how many libs have been completely cut out of the banking system?

they consider us not listening to their rants and not obeying them to be "canceling" them

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 08:14 AM (w0NJk)

115 I hate this new advertising trend where they say "Hurry now, only a few remain in stock" or "Buy now! Production is ending on this highly desirable item!"

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2022 08:14 AM (sn5EN)

116 {{Count}} hope you are doing well this morning.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 08:07 AM (nxdel)

I am, thank you. The anti viral and steroid meds started taking effect right away and my face is less frozen and less droopy. Still can't wink and whistle and smile at a pretty girl just yet, though.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:15 AM (4I/2K)

117 Get over it. Meloni is the best thing that could have happened in Italy at this time.

We could use some of that here.

Posted by: Ziba at October 17, 2022 08:15 AM (4h9M3)

118 Then there will be a 'nuclear scare' where Americans will be pressured into taking a 'magic pill' that prevents radiation poisoning developed by none other than Pfizer. The Biden admin has already purchased millions of doses.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM

When we lived downwind from the Nuke plant in Connecticut they would periodically send out those pills to all of the houses designated on a map from the DOE. You were supposed to take them in the event of an accident. I think they sent them out every three years or so. We just tossed them in the junk drawer in the kitchen and pitched them out when we moved.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 17, 2022 08:16 AM (bVYXr)

119 Jewells-- I'm excited to go but will miss you terribly.

Posted by: Ladyl at October 17, 2022 08:17 AM (+4oV5)

120 I don't understand why we should be confident that the Democrats are going to stay out of power? How many times have GOP congressional majorities messed things up before? I would say only once have they failed to, and that was briefly under Gringich's and Tom Delay's leadership.

Besides which, even if the GOP in Congress does everything right, the public will hate them for it. It is going to take extreme austerity to get us out of this inflationary mess, which means Republicans will take the blame for inflation or any attempt to correct it.

Hopefully they won't waste our time with investigation hearings that go nowhere. Hopefully they can force Garland's resignation, then get an AG who'll appoint a special counsel to report to Congress and do all the investigating rather than letting the Congressmen do it. Trey Gowdy and the like were just useless.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at October 17, 2022 08:17 AM (dQfJF)

121 How do you know you've found the right church?
The cookies in the lobby are provided/donated by Masterpiece Bakeshop

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:17 AM (I/doM)

122 Get over it. Meloni is the best thing that could have happened in Italy at this time.

We could use some of that here.

Ziba check the sock. it was sarcasm/parody.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 08:17 AM (w0NJk)

123 God is the only force that has stopped any Nuclear Missiles from being used since their creation after WW2. If one were ever used, it would be the opening of Pandora's box and the domino effect. The gates of Hell would open with India and Pakistan in Kashmir, Saudis and Iranians...

If that happens, hit your roof with the lawn chair, dont worry about the bills, grab the wine

Posted by: Jonah at October 17, 2022 08:17 AM (WY8d2)

124 Can there be any meaningful change as long as foxes are elected to be in charge of the chicken coop? And as long as foxes are in charge of the elections? And as long as foxes are in charge of information about the elections and the chicken coop?

Posted by: The Chicken at October 17, 2022 08:18 AM (oTZbj)

125 "Mitt Romney" is my deadname. Please respect my transition and now call me "Evan McMuffin".

Posted by: Boneless Pork Rectum (R-Utah) at October 17, 2022 08:18 AM (443jQ)

126 Yep. The left doesn't believe in one in ten decimation. Those that hate us will only be happy with every male in the village, between 14 and 60, gets on the truck.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM (lz5hY)

seems kind of jewish...

oh, EVERY male, more soviet then, never mind...

Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 08:18 AM (Mkvkw)

127 106 102 92 "Will someone give me five in seven?"

79 in 11?
Posted by: Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 08:10 AM

25, or 6 to 4?
Posted by: Chicago at October 17, 2022 08:12 AM (ZJlxc)

10 from 6
Posted by: Bad Company at October 17, 2022 08:12 AM (CwQXo)

One is the loneliest.

Posted by: Three Dog Night at October 17, 2022 08:18 AM (906pl)

128 I hate this new advertising trend where they say "Hurry now, only a few remain in stock" or "Buy now! Production is ending on this highly desirable item!"

I'll take FOMO over FUD any day.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 17, 2022 08:18 AM (ceWUn)

129 I think you mean "inverse decimation" where only one in ten is left standing

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at October 17, 2022 08:19 AM (8oyo2)

130 120. Valid point. Gingrich and the 1995 GOP House did of a great job of pushing Bubba to the middle and getting us out of recession. Sadly it got Clinton re-elected.

The 1995 GOP Senate was worthless though. RINO's. Boehner was a hack with no spine

Posted by: Jonah at October 17, 2022 08:20 AM (WY8d2)

131 Giselle Festerman has some eyebrows going, in addition to her fascist totalitarianism. She might consider trimming it all back, especially the threats.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 08:20 AM (443jQ)

132 So afterwards, when she says, "That was amazing! You're an awesome lover!", that's not so good then, huh?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:20 AM (4I/2K)

133 Republicans might win big in the elections, but as long as MSM/academia is controlled by the Left, what difference will it make?

Posted by: Ziba at October 17, 2022 08:20 AM (4h9M3)

134 Read some content -

At the end of the article - "Sen. Ron Johnson, who said during the senate debate that he had been ‘set up’ by the FBI..." , it states that the debate audience was packed with his opponents supporters. I have a lot of respect for Ron Johnson, but when are you going to learn and fight back against the Dems and their allies on the 'non-partisan' debate commission?

McConnell sucks.

Not looking forward to reading the articles on Catholic Health and the Synod.

Posted by: Gov Whitchmer at October 17, 2022 08:20 AM (fs1hN)

135 Bride of Fetterman

******

♪♫♫
Ah, sweet mystery of life, at last I've found you...

Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 08:21 AM (kXYt5)

136 >>> 132 So afterwards, when she says, "That was amazing! You're an awesome lover!", that's not so good then, huh?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:20 AM (4I/2K)

I think it depends on whether or not payment was involved.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 17, 2022 08:22 AM (llON8)

137 Latest ny times/siena poll show republican gains. I guess the question is are the young motivated to come out and vote Democratic?

Here's the problem: The biggest shift came from women who identified as independent voters. In September, they favored Democrats by 14 points. Now, independent women backed Republicans by 18 points — a striking swing given the polarization of the American electorate and how intensely Democrats have focused on that group and on the threat Republicans pose to abortion rights.

"I’m shifting more towards Republican because I feel like they’re more geared towards business,” said Robin Ackerman, a 37-year-old Democrat and mortgage loan officer.

Dobbs isn’t going to save us.

Unfuckingbelieveable Hey sell your personal rights away because they give tax breaks to the rich. What a dumb fucking person

Well I've been told Registered Voters is key not Likely Voters in the polling in the end.

Not much that can be done about inflation at this stage, and if people believe electing republicans in the midterms will solve that, they are very misguided

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at October 17, 2022 08:22 AM (ZJlxc)

138 Thanks to JJ and Dave in Fla, for their great work

Posted by: Jonah at October 17, 2022 08:22 AM (WY8d2)

139 Yes, I will be pleased to see Democrats out of office.

Will that change government policy? Hardly.

Because Republicans.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 17, 2022 08:13 AM (EZebt)
============
That about covers the issue.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 08:22 AM (443jQ)

140 Can there be any meaningful change as long as foxes are elected to be in charge of the chicken coop? And as long as foxes are in charge of the elections? And as long as foxes are in charge of information about the elections and the chicken coop?
Posted by: The Chicken at October 17, 2022 08:18 AM (oTZbj)

Where are the foxes?

Posted by: Yortuk and Georg Festrunk at October 17, 2022 08:23 AM (4I/2K)

141 Me too Ladyl.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 08:23 AM (nxdel)

142 "So afterwards, when she says, "That was amazing! You're an awesome lover!", that's not so good then, huh?"

Right up there with 'No Officer, the sex was the same. But I noticed the dirty dishes were stacking up'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:23 AM (uLr+K)

143 Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison

I was reading this post and then my neighbour came over and we read it together. He said that this post changed his life and touched his heart. I then went and read this post out loud to all my villagers they all said it changed their lives too. We all are so grateful.

Thank You for this post.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 08:23 AM (NlFlr)

144 "In you, Lord my God, I put my trust.
I trust in you; do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me."

Psalm 25:1-3

Posted by: Marcus T at October 17, 2022 08:23 AM (T0jQj)

145 Part 1.
Gun control laws are more than just unconstitutional. They represent the conspiratorial behavior of the people who proposed and enacted the laws to oppress the Constitutional rights of people. That is a direct violation of 18 U.S. Code 241 "If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same..." The prosecution of such a case could be won by a first year law student. It is as much of a slam dunk as a prosecutor could find, since the entire legal process is officially recorded and not in doubt, nor is the element of oppressing a Constitutional right even arguable.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at October 17, 2022 08:23 AM (CecP5)

146 Kanye West bought Parler?!?!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:24 AM (I/doM)

147 Part 2.

There is no exemption in that law for legislators, lobbyists, etc. In fact 18 USC 241 was specifically written to stop 1870's era legislatures from writing Jim Crow laws to take Constitutional rights away from former slaves. There is thus no question that applying that law to lawmakers is appropriate. One now has to ask, "Why is this law not being enforced?" The answer to that question is that prosecutors are offended that peasants like us even have rights, and won't lift so much as a finger to protect those rights. In behaving this way, prosecutors become accessories after the fact in the conspiratorial crimes committed by gun controllers.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at October 17, 2022 08:24 AM (CecP5)

148 If the left is unseated in large numbers I still don't think much will change. The GOP is pretty much "socialism lite" and every bit as entrenched as the left.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 17, 2022 08:24 AM (BFigT)

149 Very good article from "American Greatness" on "Deliverance" and leftists. I particularly enjoyed this bit:

While people like Wynton Marsalis and classical conductor Marin Alsop uphold America’s best artistic traditions and are practically ignored, rich, valorized elites like Cardi B grind around on stage and sing crude songs about their private parts to wild accolades. They have become the vile banjo players in Deliverance.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 17, 2022 08:24 AM (vH/6k)

150 hey y'all

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at October 17, 2022 08:25 AM (PbwT0)

151 122

Oops, got it.

Posted by: Ziba at October 17, 2022 08:25 AM (4h9M3)

152 Peter Buttegieg -
“Remember, we have our challenges right now, but when the president took office, we were facing an economy that was at risk of going into freefall. The American Rescue Plan stopped that, and it went directly into easing the burden for Americans with those tax benefits that Americans got.”

I get the impression he is given a script and he reads it with total conviction but no actual understanding. He's a psychopath.

Posted by: Gov Whitchmer at October 17, 2022 08:25 AM (fs1hN)

153 lol Ziba I didn't want you in a bad mood!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 08:26 AM (w0NJk)

154 /sock

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 17, 2022 08:26 AM (fs1hN)

155 China is struggling mightily, against economic malaise, increasing social dissatisfaction and demographics. But, no worries, the CCP has settled on a policy to fix everything! Time for a little war.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 08:26 AM (443jQ)

156 Personally, I will still vote Republican down the old ballot line, their flaws notwithstanding. The alternative, for me, is unthinkable.

Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 08:26 AM (Vr12I)

157 Thank you, JJ.
Even here in my little precinct in Illinois, I’ve actually got a couple candidates to vote for, not just democrats to vote against.

Posted by: democrats, Kidnapping, Raping and Mutilating the Children TheyCannot Kill Since 1973! at October 17, 2022 08:27 AM (4yAWv)

158 "Peter Buttegieg -
“Remember, we have our challenges right now, but when the president took office, we were facing an economy that was at risk of going into freefall. The American Rescue Plan stopped that, and it went directly into easing the burden for Americans with those tax benefits that Americans got.”

Reminds me of 'Jobs created or saved'.

How does one even quantify that retarded statement?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:27 AM (uLr+K)

159 Tra-la, yee-hah! It's MoMe Week.

And now to the content.

Posted by: creeper at October 17, 2022 08:27 AM (GdtZp)

160 while the GOP will have a good night, it will be like 2014, not 2010 or 1994 cuz the dims held an 82 seat advantage in 1994, which they had held for 40 years and a 79 seat advantage in 2020. There are far less pick up opportunities this year

we will probably win more house seats than 2014. Maybe 30-35

but we wont win 10 seante seats like we did in 2014 but maybe 4-5

in 2014, the Clintons campaigned for 11 senate candidates

all but one lost, the scrunt in NH won

Posted by: REDACTED at October 17, 2022 08:27 AM (us2H3)

161 Cute commercial for Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She pays a kid (actually her kid) a couple bucks to do a chore. Kid runs to the store to get some Little Debbie cookies, and the clerk tells him he doesn't have enough money because it's Biden's economy. Haven't seen one commercial for her opponent, known as the guy running for governor.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 08:29 AM (lz5hY)

162 “Remember, we have our challenges right now, but when the president took office, we were facing an economy that was at risk of going into freefall. The American Rescue Plan ~~stopped that, and it went directly into easing the burden for Americans with those tax benefits that Americans got.”~~ ensured that it went directly into freefall, no siderails, no brakes, just 'pedal to the metal' off the cliff!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:31 AM (I/doM)

163 Not much that can be done about inflation at this stage, and if people believe electing republicans in the midterms will solve that, they are very misguided
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at October 17, 2022 08:22 AM (ZJlxc)

wow, a bit of an honest statement from DU? someone find me a fainting couch

Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 08:31 AM (Mkvkw)

164 When Wynton Marsalis counts the tempo for the next song, he's like an atomic clock. All the Marsalises are amazing.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 17, 2022 08:31 AM (24fqN)

165 Morning, y'all.

Eldest daughter came down with food poisoning last night, after eating something at her neighbor's the night before (and after said neighbor's kid puked all over her bed).
She's supposed to be at work at 9, but I don't see her going in, she puked at least five times last night.
Even when your kids are grown, they're still your babies.
*sigh*

Posted by: SMH at October 17, 2022 08:32 AM (wjIgc)

166 When Wynton Marsalis counts the tempo for the next song, he's like an atomic clock. All the Marsalises are amazing.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 17, 2022 08:31 AM (24fqN)
___

This is true.

Posted by: SMH at October 17, 2022 08:32 AM (wjIgc)

167 "I'm going to read from chapter nine, 'The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex,' starting at page 201, part 1, 'Boy-on-Boy Sex,'" the mother said. "'Perhaps the most important skill you will master as a gay or bi man is a timeless class: the hand job. Good news is you can practice it on yourself. The bad news is, each guy has become very used to his own way of getting himself off.'"

"'A good handy is all about the wrist action. Rub the head of his cock back and forth with your head. Try different speeds and pressures until he responds positively,'" the book reads.

From a book found by a mother in her 12 year old son's public school classroom in North Carolina.

But Merrick Garland wants to arrest her.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 08:33 AM (tNDrr)

168 So now that 'Trans Buddies' are being championed in physicians offices, how seen till we get 'gay buddies' in there as well?

https://tinyurl.com/2s3pn5va

And can one be both 'trans' and gender fluid?

Bisexual?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:34 AM (uLr+K)

169 >>> 145 Part 1.
Gun control laws are more than just unconstitutional. They represent the conspiratorial behavior of the people who proposed and enacted the laws to oppress the Constitutional rights of people. That is a direct violation of 18 U.S. Code 241 "If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same..." The prosecution of such a case could be won by a first year law student. It is as much of a slam dunk as a prosecutor could find, since the entire legal process is officially recorded and not in doubt, nor is the element of oppressing a Constitutional right even arguable.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at October 17, 2022 08:23 AM (CecP5)

No standing!!!

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge #828 at October 17, 2022 08:34 AM (llON8)

170 No administration in history has tried to pull off what his has done, which is to declare anyone who doesn't vote for a Democrat to be the enemy. . .
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This is not true. See Woody Wilson's Logan Act (Espionage Act). Woody is the template for what we are seeing. You could add FDR and LBJ to this list.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 17, 2022 08:34 AM (ppL7t)

171 Gee thanks Huck. Not.

Posted by: fd at October 17, 2022 08:35 AM (sn5EN)

172 165 Morning, y'all.

Eldest daughter came down with food poisoning last night, after eating something at her neighbor's the night before (and after said neighbor's kid puked all over her bed).
She's supposed to be at work at 9, but I don't see her going in, she puked at least five times last night.
Even when your kids are grown, they're still your babies.
*sigh*
Posted by: SMH at October 17, 2022 08:32 AM (wjIgc)

Sounds like it could be noro as much as food poisoning, especially if the neighbor kid was puking separately from yours...noro is 12-48 hours after exposure...and it's VERY sudden, just like food poisoning tends to be...

Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 08:35 AM (exHjb)

173 SMH hope she feels better soon. I've had food poisoning and it sucks so bad!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 08:35 AM (nxdel)

174 Gee thanks Huck. Not.
Posted by: fd
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ikr?

Posted by: SMH at October 17, 2022 08:35 AM (wjIgc)

175 And yet, here we all are, going on with business as usual. It makes no sense.

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Yes it does. There have been decades worth of attempts to reform the corrupt regime. All failed. Each was more ambitious than the previous one, and each pushback by the regime was more forceful and nakedly corrupt and brazenly aggressive than the previous one.

There comes a point when people simply accept that the regime is unreformable and just carry on the best they can, and try to avoid drawing attention. The nail that sticks up gets the hammer. It's life in a banana republic, and it's like this in all of them, until the regime pushes back too hard, or collapses under the weight of its corruption.

That's where we are... It'll be business as usual, until it isn't. As I've said many times, I think it's got about forty years left in the tank.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 17, 2022 08:35 AM (oINRc)

176 As far as biden trying to bribe the Saudi's on delaying the oil production cut by promising to buy oil at $75 a barrel to refill the SPR, Trump asked congress for money to do that when oil was trading at $22 a barrel.

nancy pelosi refused to even bring it up for a vote.

*

I was recently reading about Stalingrad and something called Operation Blue.

Operation Blue was Hitler's attempt to seize/cut off the Soviet's oil fields and fuel supplies so that the Russians could not engage in a modern war. No fuel = no capacity for war.

Sound familiar?

Posted by: Gray Man at October 17, 2022 08:36 AM (oNEHE)

177 There's a lot of food poisoning going around. It seems like the food QC has gone to shit, literally.

My wife and I had a mild case of it last week after eating one of those pre-prepared salads that comes with toppings and dressing. Whatever it was it gave us some intestinal discomfort and all that goes along with that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 17, 2022 08:36 AM (BFigT)

178 Pete Buttplug lives in la la land.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 08:36 AM (nxdel)

179 "Kid runs to the store to get some Little Debbie cookies, and the clerk tells him he doesn't have enough money because it's Biden's economy. "

BAM!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:36 AM (uLr+K)

180 >>From a book found by a mother in her 12 year old son's public school classroom in North Carolina.

Sex Ed -> Sexworker Training

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:36 AM (I/doM)

181 SMH hope she feels better soon. I've had food poisoning and it sucks so bad!
Posted by: jewells45
___

jewells!!!

Yes, it does. But she doesn't want to miss work, so...
Hopefully, she'll decide to call in, but she kinda takes after her mom in the stubbornness dept.

Posted by: SMH at October 17, 2022 08:37 AM (wjIgc)

182 "It seems like the food QC has gone to shit, literally."

Lotta stuff doesn't taste right anymore, esp fast food.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 17, 2022 08:37 AM (24fqN)

183 Happy National Pasta Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 17, 2022 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

184 I apologize for offending everyone. Even if the Charlotte school district has not done so.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 08:37 AM (tNDrr)

185 Good Morning.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 08:38 AM (t0OGg)

186 Yes, it does. But she doesn't want to miss work, so...
Hopefully, she'll decide to call in, but she kinda takes after her mom in the stubbornness dept.
Posted by: SMH at October 17, 2022 08:37 AM (wjIgc)

Tell her it might be noro, as much as food poisoning, and she wouldn't want all her workmates to have to go through what she did...

Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 08:38 AM (exHjb)

187 SMH hope she feels better soon. I've had food poisoning and it sucks so bad!
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 08:35 AM (nxdel)

Akshully, it blows. Chunks, even.
(speedy recovery for SMH's eldest daughter)

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:38 AM (4I/2K)

188 "Not much that can be done about inflation at this stage, and if people believe electing republicans in the midterms will solve that, they are very misguided

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison"

The DU dolts actually got that one correct, accidentally though. A good time to have done something about inflation was two years ago when the govt started creating money out of thin air and passing it out to ease the pains of their idiotic shutdowns. In fact, a lot of people were warning about this but they were drowned out as haters that wanted to kill grandma and kids.

Posted by: Ripley at October 17, 2022 08:39 AM (MxEKc)

189 Yet doing so would be beyond the purview of the very Constitution we seek to reinstate and protect. To wit, how do we deny the rights of those who hold those views to hold them or promote them, with the knowledge that allowing them to do so could and would lead to catastrophe?
___________

Maybe the founding fathers had no idea that radical social justice would become the base for a governing body in the new country. Had they considered the most evil of men would rise to the level of President based on the underhanded dealings of corrupt politicians and businesses they might have made several allowances for it.

Following the Constitution as written has proven to be problematic for conservatives when the other side totally ignores it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 17, 2022 08:39 AM (BFigT)

190 Seems odd, but hey...it's Baltimore

https://tinyurl.com/5yxkv7zj

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:39 AM (uLr+K)

191 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 08:23 AM (nxdel)

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:15 AM (4I/2K)

I can guarantee some good vibes sent y'all's way from Texas this weekend.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

192 Report from NE Okla. I'm up. Dog is walked. Coffee is hot. Sky is getting light. Sun is struggling to escape the horizon and warm us up from a chilly 40°F.

And the icing on this morning cake - the Morning Report. I hope it's all good news!

Posted by: mindful webworker - YouTube cancelled my YT channel at October 17, 2022 08:39 AM (MvQqI)

193 Ugh. Power failure last night. I woke up to $500 worth of dead hard drives. Those are funny things. They can run continuously for years and years but powering off and cooling down can make them seize up when they restart - or expose latent issues a lot faster.

Fun start to the week!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 08:39 AM (t0OGg)

194 Pete Buttplug lives in la la land.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 08:36 AM (nxdel)

This is the story of the entire Biden administration.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

195 Who Throws Soup?

*******

The Moslem Broth-erhood?

Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 08:40 AM (kXYt5)

196
The biggest shift came from women who identified as independent voters. In September, they favored Democrats by 14 points. Now, independent women backed Republicans by 18 points — a striking swing given the polarization of the American electorate and how intensely Democrats have focused on that group and on the threat Republicans pose to abortion rights.

It's kind of interesting that the leak about the Supreme Court Roe decision occurred when it did. The outrage has simmered to nothing. More important issues like inflation and crime have pushed that away. As they should have.

If women aren't paying attention criminals being let out of jail, the uptick in crime, and embracing the concept of 'situational awareness' - there's a word for that - victim.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 17, 2022 08:40 AM (y3pKJ)

197 >>And the icing on this morning cake - the Morning Report. I hope it's all good news!

You're new around here, eh?

(Just kidding, MWW, creator of the AOSHQ info/tips page)

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:41 AM (I/doM)

198 Happy Mojito Monday, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 17, 2022 08:41 AM (BoUW6)

199 When Wynton Marsalis counts the tempo for the next song, he's like an atomic clock. All the Marsalises are amazing.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 17, 2022 08:31 AM (24fqN)

"Except veal marsalis!!!"

- - PETA

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 17, 2022 08:41 AM (x0n13)

200 Kanye West bought Parler?!?!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:24 AM (I/doM)
*****
I never realized that Candace Owens husband George Farmer was the CEO of Parler.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 17, 2022 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

201 From a book found by a mother in her 12 year old son's public school classroom in North Carolina.

*

And the Democrats are running on "Republicans want to ban books"

Posted by: Gray Man at October 17, 2022 08:41 AM (oNEHE)

202 "I hope it's all good news! "

JJ is channeling Monty today.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:42 AM (uLr+K)

203 Wray’s wife, Helen Howell Wray, is from Atlanta, where her family has been part of the elite for seven generations. "
__________________

Is she related to Thurston Howell III? He went missing in the South Pacific with his wife Eunice, actress Ginger Grant, some "professor" Roy Hinkley, and the rest, shady AF if you ask me.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 17, 2022 08:42 AM (fs1hN)

204 Ugh, looking at the picture at the top -- say, did I read correctly that bride of Fetterman was an illegal alien?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:43 AM (I/doM)

205 Have to disagree with the article saying that the Deep State is treating Pro-Lifers like they're Al Qaeda. The Deep State is arresting and imprisoning Pro-Lifers.

Posted by: Wally at October 17, 2022 08:43 AM (hpqjH)

206 Dave in Fla - he must feel like “ A Voice, Crying in the Wilderness” at times.

Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 08:43 AM (Vr12I)

207 Who Throws Soup?

*******

SDS

Stew-dents for a Democratic Society?

Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 08:43 AM (kXYt5)

208 >>I never realized that Candace Owens husband George Farmer was the CEO of Parler

Oh, now that is interesting. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:44 AM (I/doM)

209 Mad Joe really connects with voters on his evergreen 'kitchen table issues,' while eating an ice cream cone in a suit and tie, and essentially saying, "Not my yob, man!" about all US economic problems.

This image is an excellent illustration of the real Joe:

https://tinyurl.com/27vptftu

Posted by: Gref at October 17, 2022 08:44 AM (AMIL/)

210 Democrats now fretting over 2024 as well.

Bad election line-up for them (defending a number of Senate seats in MAGA districts) and, now, Mark Zandi (Obama's favorite economist) says the Biden recession will extend all the way through 2023.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 08:44 AM (tNDrr)

211 195 Who Throws Soup?

*******

The Moslem Broth-erhood?
Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 08:40 AM (kXYt5)

Pho-ntantastic.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 17, 2022 08:44 AM (RfgGG)

212 I can guarantee some good vibes sent y'all's way from Texas this weekend.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

Much appreciated.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:44 AM (4I/2K)

213 "Who Throws Soup?"

Esp Heinz Tomato Soup. Where do you find that? All I see is Campbells.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 17, 2022 08:45 AM (24fqN)

214 Had bad food at a restaurant as a kid..I think they tossed burning straw in to cleanse the hotel room

Posted by: A dude in MI at October 17, 2022 08:45 AM (/6GbT)

215
Holy eyebrows. Who does that?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 17, 2022 08:45 AM (y3pKJ)

216 >>Who Throws Soup?

Antifa

There's that antifa group, Riot Kitchen, that delivers "food and beverages" to the ~~troops~~ protesters, such as frozen bottled water and canned soups, which are then used as projectiles.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:46 AM (I/doM)

217 To be uncomfortably frank, Mussolini’s precedent is not without its application in the United States.
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To be frank, Mullolini's precedent is not without its application *anywhere.*

Whereas the Marxists were demoralized after WWI (after all, if *anything* was going to usher in the dictatorship of the proletariat, it was that conflict), the Italians dusted themselves off, reassessed their ambitions and means, and invented fascism. They got rid of Marxism, rejected it's class-based philosophy, made a nationalist philosophy to wrap around the socialist nucleus and permitted - even encouraged - private enterprise so long as it conformed with state and Party ambitions. They would nationalize you at the drop of a hat if you didn't toe the line, but so long as you did, you could play through.

The hybrid system the Italians invented is the most dangerous thing in political history *because* it works so well. It is bad for almost everyone, if course, but it is somewhat functional and thus more tolerable than the other socialist alternatives. It has applicability here, there and everywhere. It is a scourge that will never be fully vanquished.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 08:46 AM (t0OGg)

218 Butter would not melt in the mouth of the Bride of Festerman (top pic).

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:46 AM (4I/2K)

219 Who throws soup?

Well, if it’s in Spain, it’s one of those Bisque independence groups.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 17, 2022 08:46 AM (BoUW6)

220 Oddly enough, the Festerman's make a visually well matched couple.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:46 AM (uLr+K)

221 So Fetterman can't understand spoken speech. He has to read comments on a screen and wife thinks bringing this up is a bad, bad thing. Why don't we just hire bus drivers who are legally blind and EMT's who are missing all their limbs? We wouldn't want to be considered "ablelist".

Sounds to me as if Mrs Fetterman wants to be the actual Senator.

"Vote Fetterman. We already have a severely cognitively impaired President. He needs another Democrat match for PA Senate."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 17, 2022 08:47 AM (vH/6k)

222 143 Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison

I then went and read this post out loud to all my villagers they all said it changed their lives too. We all are so grateful.

Thank You for this post.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 08:23 AM

Lol. I'm glad you were so moved. I liked slow realization that:

Dobbs isn’t going to save us. I'd like to see a Downfall parody with Hitler thinking Roevember will the dems...

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at October 17, 2022 08:47 AM (ZJlxc)

223 204 Ugh, looking at the picture at the top -- say, did I read correctly that bride of Fetterman was an illegal alien?

correct

she's more monstrous than Uncle Festerman

ACTUALLY! it reminds me of what, Addams Family 2 or Addams Family Values? where Uncle Fester gets a hot (evil) girlfriend? that's Gisele!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 08:47 AM (w0NJk)

224 Looks like someone used an lawn edger on Fetterman's better-half's eyebrows. Sheesh. I don't normally comment on people personal appearance but this is just severe.

Posted by: pawn at October 17, 2022 08:48 AM (wsHtO)

225 Oddly enough, the Festerman's make a visually well matched couple.
================
Thank you. I try.

Posted by: Dr. Frankensteen at October 17, 2022 08:48 AM (tNDrr)

226 Is she related to Thurston Howell III? He went missing in the South Pacific with his wife Eunice, actress Ginger Grant, some "professor" Roy Hinkley, and the rest, shady AF if you ask me.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 17, 2022 08:42 AM (fs1hN)

I heard the First Mate had a history of sabotage.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:48 AM (4I/2K)

227 Breitbart has done great work this election cycle

Posted by: Jonah at October 17, 2022 08:49 AM (WY8d2)

228 >>Who Throws Soup?

Well, if you wanna start a re-boullion, you bisque be wielding effective weapons!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:49 AM (I/doM)

229 MAGA forces… promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country…
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It has been fascinating for me to watch Doublespeak - and indeed, for the stupider people involved, Doublethink - emerge and become dominant in real time. This is not just old-fashioned political projection, it is a perfect lie. Perfect in every way, utterly complete.

This is a description of themselves. They are dictatorial and violent, destroy law in the name of the goals of the moment, paint their opposition as monsters and all the rest. They, not their opponents. Not yet. Their assertions will become true, but they will be the ones who did it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 08:49 AM (t0OGg)

230 Lotta stuff doesn't taste right anymore, esp fast food.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 17, 2022 08:37 AM (24fqN)

and they continue to get every order wrong. stopped at hardees next to me last week for a quick and easy dinner. 3 orders. not a single one was correct. AND I had to wait for the food. you'd THINK the extra time would have been to ensure they got the food right.

I mean, who in the hell gets a plain double cheeseburger with NO cheese on it? it's in the bloody name...

and these idiots was 15+ per hour...

Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 08:49 AM (Mkvkw)

231 "Ugh, looking at the picture at the top -- say, did I read correctly that bride of Fetterman was an illegal alien?

correct "

A link...

My kingdom for a link!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:49 AM (uLr+K)

232 Me likey

Posted by: Michelle Obama's landing strip at October 17, 2022 08:49 AM (/6GbT)

233
There's that antifa group, Riot Kitchen, that delivers "food and beverages" to the troops protesters, such as frozen bottled water and canned soups, which are then used as projectiles.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:46 AM (I/doM)

Nothing says 'fighting for the people' and 'end world hunger' like destroying food in the name of your cause.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

234 if you read the transcripts from the Danchenko trial

you will come away with "why isn't this the biggest story of the times ?"

2 FBI agents working on the Mueller BS wanted to interview and
Charles Dolan, Cankles lawyer, but where both shot down.

and when on the stand, Dolan, one of Danchenko's main sources, admitted everything he fed to Danchenko and Steele was total bullshit

Posted by: REDACTED at October 17, 2022 08:50 AM (us2H3)

235 Lovey’s real name was Eunice?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 17, 2022 08:50 AM (BoUW6)

236 ACTUALLY! it reminds me of what, Addams Family 2 or Addams Family Values? where Uncle Fester gets a hot (evil) girlfriend? that's Gisele!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 08:47 AM (w0NJk)

A fun movie.

Fester: "Give me a kiss!"

Debbie: "Give me a twenty!"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 17, 2022 08:50 AM (906pl)

237 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 08:46 AM (t0OGg)

Don't forget that during that whole episode, Benny threw his old compadre Tony in a deep dark hole, where he wrote his Prison Diaries and devised the Gramscian March. That's worked pretty damned well on us.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 17, 2022 08:50 AM (oINRc)

238 Posted by: Michelle Obama's landing strip at October 17, 2022 08:49 AM
______

I think I threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 17, 2022 08:50 AM (fs1hN)

239 Culver’s is my “ most trusted” fast food operation now.

Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 08:50 AM (Vr12I)

240 >>Who Throws Soup?

Well, if you wanna start a re-boullion, you bisque be wielding effective weapons!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:49 AM (I/doM)

Racking and stacking cubes here!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:51 AM (4I/2K)

241 She looks fetid if you ask me.

Posted by: Ziba at October 17, 2022 08:51 AM (4h9M3)

242 228 >>Who Throws Soup?

the Dinty Moore was too expensive due inflation

so ....

Posted by: REDACTED at October 17, 2022 08:52 AM (us2H3)

243 Thank you Sponge.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 08:52 AM (nxdel)

244 Well, if you wanna start a re-boullion...
Posted by: Lizzy

******

Nice!

Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 08:52 AM (kXYt5)

245 Hi jewells. Looking at your nic, how are you doing?

Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 08:53 AM (Vr12I)

246 I mean, who in the hell gets a plain double cheeseburger with NO cheese on it? it's in the bloody name...

and these idiots was 15+ per hour...
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 08:49 AM (Mkvkw)

Ummm, me...at least til McDonald's put a double hamburger now on the menu. Of course, I put "allergy order" in, so it gets its own paper...

If the paper isn't there, I've got the wrong order...which always seems to happen if my spouse brings me takeout...thus, I now have to go to every fast food run (b/c I also notice when they overcharge us, like they did by $8 at KFC/Taco Bell Saturday...which took 10 minutes to fix, and I think explains why we got every sauce mix in the place - kid felt bad)...

Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 08:53 AM (exHjb)

247 Not much that can be done about inflation at this stage, and if people believe electing republicans in the midterms will solve that, they are very misguided
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at October 17, 2022 08:22 AM (ZJlxc)
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This is a fascinating statement either because it is profoundly ignorant or because they are making the argument time-bounded but not saying so.

Something can *always* be done about inflation. The Fed could keep raising rates. The Fed could start dumping its balance sheet to pull cash out of the system (and hopefully not crash the capital markets when they do). The US government could dial back the deficit spending. There's plenty that can be done, some of which is actually happening. It just can't be done by November and all of it will take at least 6 months and probably closer to 18 to actually bear serious fruit because inflation is a lagging indicator, not a leading indicator.

I don't know what that poster knows or if he thinks inflation is merely a political tool (and thus the timing isn't helpful) or if it is actually some magic force that cannot be countered. Either way, the assertion is intersting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 08:53 AM (t0OGg)

248 Oof food poisoning.

Something got me last night I haven't been so sick in a long time.

Posted by: blaster at October 17, 2022 08:54 AM (pwExq)

249 >>Nothing says 'fighting for the people' and 'end world hunger' like destroying food in the name of your cause.

Proving that if you consomme enough radical propaganda, you can justify such waste!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:54 AM (I/doM)

250 "Culver’s is my “ most trusted” fast food operation now."

Ever have they 'not on the menu' Pot Roast dinner? Real pot roast, sitting on a slice of sour dough bread, with real mashed potatoes, all smothered in gravy..plus steamed broccoli and a dinner roll. On a plate, with a knife and fork. Best fast food meal on the planet, IMHO.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:54 AM (uLr+K)

251 235 Lovey’s real name was Eunice?
__________

Yep. Others on this supposed 3 hr. tour were Mary Ann Summers (a nobody), the boat's skipper, Jonas Grumby and mastermind behind the plot (according to FBI sources), first mate William "Willie" Gilligan. I think he was more likely an FBI plant though.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 17, 2022 08:54 AM (fs1hN)

252 Norovirus is highly contagious

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 17, 2022 08:55 AM (EZebt)

253 and they continue to get every order wrong. stopped at hardees next to me last week for a quick and easy dinner. 3 orders. not a single one was correct. AND I had to wait for the food. you'd THINK the extra time would have been to ensure they got the food right.

I mean, who in the hell gets a plain double cheeseburger with NO cheese on it? it's in the bloody name...

and these idiots was 15+ per hour...
Posted by: SturmToddler

Went to Mickey D's. Got the order wrong. Got two miles down the road. Found out. Oh, FTS! Went back. Got it wrong AGAIN. Haven't been back.

And this was drive thru where they are doing it one order at a time. Not three or four wide at the counter.

Unlike Chick-fil A. That can run four lines at the counter inside AND TWO outside lanes at high noon and STILL not mess up an order.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 08:55 AM (NlFlr)

254 Don't forget that during that whole episode, Benny threw his old compadre Tony in a deep dark hole, where he wrote his Prison Diaries and devised the Gramscian March. That's worked pretty damned well on us.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 17, 2022 08:50 AM (oINRc)
++++
Yup. As much as I hate the French and their postmodernism, the Italians have probably done the most widespread practical damage thus far. The PoMo/Critical Theory crowd is catching up, though, and we have our only ourselves to blame for that because its current form is largely an American academic invention.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 08:55 AM (t0OGg)

255 Kraken.. oh hanging in there. Getting my port put in this afternoon so I'm sitting here starving sipping tea and ready to get this over with.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 08:55 AM (nxdel)

256 247 I don't know what that poster knows or if he thinks inflation is merely a political tool (and thus the timing isn't helpful) or if it is actually some magic force that cannot be countered. Either way, the assertion is intersting.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 08:53 AM (t0OGg)

=========

The latter. "Inflation is a global phenomenon and government policy has nothing to do with it."

They have no idea what's making inflation happen except corporate greed. They want to squash the private sector to prevent companies from taking awful profits. That's the only solution.

Of course, they never answer why corporations feel so free to do this under Biden and were too scared to do it under Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 08:55 AM (LvTSG)

257 Wegmans stores in Erie PA had a large section devoted to Campbell soups, and they make a lot of different ones. Their gazpacho is really pretty good chilled. There were a lot that would be suitable for throwing only.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 08:55 AM (lz5hY)

258 Who Throws SSoup?

******

Meh, just a couple of chowderheads!

Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 08:56 AM (kXYt5)

259 Culver’s is my “ most trusted” fast food operation now.
Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 08:50 AM (Vr12I)

wish I had them out here on the east coast.

Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 08:56 AM (Mkvkw)

260 250 "Culver’s is my “ most trusted” fast food operation now."

Ever have they 'not on the menu' Pot Roast dinner? Real pot roast, sitting on a slice of sour dough bread, with real mashed potatoes, all smothered in gravy..plus steamed broccoli and a dinner roll. On a plate, with a knife and fork. Best fast food meal on the planet, IMHO.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 08:54 AM (uLr+K)

The post roast dinner IS excellent, as is the Cod dinner. Their food generally is very good, the workers are polite and actually trained, the places are clean. None of this is to be assumed anymore.

Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 08:57 AM (Vr12I)

261 Yep. Others on this supposed 3 hr. tour were Mary Ann Summers (a nobody), the boat's skipper, Jonas Grumby and mastermind behind the plot (according to FBI sources),

first mate William "Willie" Gilligan. I think he was more likely an FBI plant though.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Ficus.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 08:57 AM (NlFlr)

262 Yet doing so would be beyond the purview of the very Constitution we seek to reinstate and protect. To wit, how do we deny the rights of those who hold those views to hold them or promote them, with the knowledge that allowing them to do so could and would lead to catastrophe?

The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Yet neither side here holds it in high regard.

Russia has a nice sounding constitution, which the leaders pay as much attention to as the screams of the Ukrainian civilians they routinely torture. South Africa has the bestest constitution, according to buzzard food RBG, with the "right" to free food, shelter, education etc etc etc.

I'm sure the incoming new Marxist gubmint there will honor all those promises.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 17, 2022 08:57 AM (JOtiF)

263 >>Getting my port put in this afternoon so I'm sitting here starving sipping tea and ready to get this over with.

Oh fun (not!), my husband went through that with his cancer battle. Sending prayers, Jewells.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:58 AM (I/doM)

264 Caption to top photo:

"My eyebrows shall crush you, puny human!!!"

Posted by: naturalfake at October 17, 2022 08:58 AM (KLPy8)

265 255 Kraken.. oh hanging in there. Getting my port put in this afternoon so I'm sitting here starving sipping tea and ready to get this over with.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 08:55 AM (nxdel)

Oh, sorry to hear that. May God bless you, and be with you through everything.

Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 08:59 AM (Vr12I)

266 The Pennsylvania Secretary of State instructs counties to count illegal votes. SCOTUS says "no". Secretary of State instructs counties to "ignore SCOTUS".

What happens next?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 08:59 AM (CMvgr)

267 Ummm, me...at least til McDonald's put a double hamburger now on the menu. Of course, I put "allergy order" in, so it gets its own paper...

If the paper isn't there, I've got the wrong order...which always seems to happen if my spouse brings me takeout...thus, I now have to go to every fast food run (b/c I also notice when they overcharge us, like they did by $8 at KFC/Taco Bell Saturday...which took 10 minutes to fix, and I think explains why we got every sauce mix in the place - kid felt bad)...
Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 08:53 AM (exHjb)

yeah, you probably said, no cheese. just saying plain should include the cheese. it's not really all that difficult.

maybe i just expect too much from the pot heads.

incidentally, how is it that NO ONE at taco bell can properly roll a burrito? i'd hate to see how they roll a joint...

Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 08:59 AM (Mkvkw)

268 266 The Pennsylvania Secretary of State instructs counties to count illegal votes. SCOTUS says "no". Secretary of State instructs counties to "ignore SCOTUS".

What happens next?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 08:59 AM (CMvgr)

========

Hopefully: sportiness.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 09:00 AM (LvTSG)

269 The eyebrows and the lump are the real powers in that marriage.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 17, 2022 09:00 AM (BoUW6)

270 Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 08:59 AM (Vr12I)

Amen!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 17, 2022 09:00 AM (vH/6k)

271 I'll stop and get a couple 2 for 7 (was 2 for 6) Arby's gyros every once in awhile. The ones around here aren't using pita bread, substituting with something resembling a pancake. And only one selection of meat, their so called original.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 09:00 AM (lz5hY)

272 Who Throws Soup?

*******

Miso-gynists?

Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 09:00 AM (kXYt5)

273 Lizzy, Kraken thank you. All prayers are much appreciated.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 09:01 AM (nxdel)

274 Do the Fettermans have any kids?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 17, 2022 09:01 AM (BoUW6)

275 274 Do the Fettermans have any kids?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 17, 2022 09:01 AM (BoUW6)

=========

The youngest they nicknamed Lumpy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 09:01 AM (LvTSG)

276 Went to Mickey D's. Got the order wrong. Got two miles down the road. Found out. Oh, FTS! Went back. Got it wrong AGAIN. Haven't been back.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 08:55 AM (NlFlr)

The only thing I will eat from McDonald's is the Sausage McMuffin, no egg. Period.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

277 Can you imagine waking up to Kathy Hochul in the morning?

Posted by: Caliban at October 17, 2022 09:01 AM (ni2c1)

278 274 Do the Fettermans have any kids?

they have three grade-school aged children

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 09:02 AM (w0NJk)

279 >>The eyebrows and the lump are the real powers in that marriage.

I'm starting to think the lump is the tech implant used to "interpret" speech for him (i.e. he's now a meatsuit being run by AI/interface w/someone else at the controls).

It's up to Fetterman to convince us otherwise. Really, what the heck is that giant lump???

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 09:03 AM (I/doM)

280 Since my wife and I have now had 2 bouts of food poisoning this year we have sworn off eating out, fast food and all processed/pre-prepared food... when possible. I wash more fruits and veggies with soap and water than I ever did before.

On top of the bacteria issues I've noticed that the "sell by" or expiration dates are mere days, not weeks down the road. I have a quart of milk that I bought last Friday that has a "use by" date of tomorrow. I've had one glass. With cookies.

The choice was that quart or nothing...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 17, 2022 09:03 AM (BFigT)

281 Can you imagine waking up to Kathy Hochul in the morning?
Posted by: Caliban at October 17, 2022 09:01 AM (ni2c1)

That's be amazing.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 09:03 AM (4I/2K)

282 "deleterious collateral consequences"

That's from Jon Karl's interview with Fraudci. Just wanted to be sure you didn't miss it.

Posted by: creeper at October 17, 2022 09:03 AM (GdtZp)

283 Caption to top photo:

"My eyebrows shall crush you, puny human!!!"
Posted by: naturalfake at October 17, 2022 08:58 AM (KLPy8 )

She must suffer through life waking up each morning with fuzzy caterpillars mating with her face.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

284 On top of the bacteria issues I've noticed that the "sell by" or expiration dates are mere days, not weeks down the road. I have a quart of milk that I bought last Friday that has a "use by" date of tomorrow. I've had one glass. With cookies.

yes! I thought it was just me! it's super annoying

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 09:04 AM (w0NJk)

285
yeah, you probably said, no cheese. just saying plain should include the cheese. it's not really all that difficult.

maybe i just expect too much from the pot heads.

incidentally, how is it that NO ONE at taco bell can properly roll a burrito? i'd hate to see how they roll a joint...
Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 08:59 AM (Mkvkw)

Yes, I do...I usually tell the cashier and the manager it's an allergy order, since I'm not always sure who "gets it" when you're at an McD's...

Allergies are helpful in one way - I can count on one hand the number of fast food places I can even theoretically eat at, so it does cut down on me eating any (I had my own home food Saturday, while the kids got their junk)...

Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 09:04 AM (exHjb)

286 >>Who Throws Soup?

>>Miso-gynists?

The Ramen Army!!

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 09:04 AM (I/doM)

287 Brand new fully electric Jeep just introduced. No real utility, but it might be the best looking golf cart on the course.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 09:04 AM (CMvgr)

288 I'm just flabbergasted that ANYONE can look at Fetterman, listen to him speak and say "YEAH man. That's MY GUY!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

289 288 I'm just flabbergasted that ANYONE can look at Fetterman, listen to him speak and say "YEAH man. That's MY GUY!!!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

=========

He'll vote right. What more do Democrats need?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 09:05 AM (LvTSG)

290 I have a crew in repairing the basement today. The dog has been barking for a solid hour now. You'd think she'd eventually run out of steam, but apparently not.

I think I've discovered the perpetual motion.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 17, 2022 09:05 AM (906pl)

291 >>Who Throws Soup?

>>Miso-gynists?

The Ramen Army!!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 09:04 AM (I/doM)

The Progressovists!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 09:05 AM (4I/2K)

292 276 Area Wendy's runs a special every couple months, sausage or bacon with egg and cheese biscuit for a buck. One neighbor makes the rounds to the stores, gets a dozen or so, puts them in the freezer for lunch at work.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 09:05 AM (lz5hY)

293 "wish I had them out here on the east coast."

Three of them in the greater Charleston S.C area, and I think one or two up in Myrtle Beach.

That's pretty coastal.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 09:05 AM (uLr+K)

294 I have a quart of milk that I bought last Friday that has a "use by" date of tomorrow. I've had one glass. With cookies.

The choice was that quart or nothing...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 17, 2022 09:03 AM (BFigT)

Time for a light version of a quiche...or french toast...

Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 09:05 AM (exHjb)

295 Yes, the Fetterman's have three children whose ages are 12, 10 and 7.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 17, 2022 09:06 AM (vH/6k)

296 Who Throws Soup?

*******

Chilean rebels?

Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 09:06 AM (kXYt5)

297 277 Can you imagine waking up to Kathy Hochul in the morning?

Posted by: Caliban at October 17, 2022 09:01 AM (ni2c1)

Ugh. My day is ruined.

Hochul in full public makeup looks to me like a combination of Wretched Whitmer and Nanzi P. Ugh, Ugh.

Posted by: Gref at October 17, 2022 09:07 AM (AMIL/)

298 274 Do the Fettermans have any kids?
they have three grade-school aged children
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 09:02 AM (w0NJk)
================
little Lumpy is mine

Posted by: Quatto at October 17, 2022 09:07 AM (CMvgr)

299 The term “ fresh” in grocery stores has become a term of ambiguity. “Caveat Emptor” indeed.

Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 09:07 AM (Vr12I)

300 59 49

Tubular!

Posted by: Valley Girl at October 17, 2022 09:08 AM (xxG/v)

301 136 >>> 132 So afterwards, when she says, "That was amazing! You're an awesome lover!", that's not so good then, huh?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 08:20 AM (4I/2K)

I think it depends on whether or not payment was involved.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 17, 2022 08:22 AM (llON

I have always preferred the goofy grin and exhaustion. As with many things, less is more and quiet appreciation is better than effusive praise.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 09:09 AM (CwQXo)

302 300 59 49

Tubular!
Posted by: Valley Girl at October 17, 2022 09:08 AM (xxG/v)

Mike Oldfield approves. Nevermind - too obscure.

Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 09:09 AM (Vr12I)

303 *glances at top picture*

Dear God in Heaven. It is like she laid down her eyebrows in a roll like grass sod!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 09:10 AM (CwQXo)

304 The Philadelphia Inquirer endorsed Fetterman today, since Stalin is not running, as "the best choice to represent Pennsylvania".

That is a terrible thing to say about Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 09:10 AM (CMvgr)

305 "Mike Oldfield approves. Nevermind - too obscure."

*Golf Clap*

No it's not.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 09:10 AM (uLr+K)

306 "Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at October 17, 2022 08:55 AM (nxdel) "

Never quit. You've got this. Beating cancer is a mindset. Look into techniques like combat breathing and meditation. It will help.

"Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are my God and my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long."

Psalm 25:5

Posted by: Marcus T at October 17, 2022 09:11 AM (VpIIl)

307 You have to watch the sell by on meats nowadays. With sales down, retailers will leave it out until the last minute, and sometimes a little beyond. A day or two won't hurt you, and sometimes you get a good markdown.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 09:11 AM (lz5hY)

308 300 59 49

Tubular!
Posted by: Valley Girl at October 17, 2022 09:08 AM (xxG/v)

Mike Oldfield approves. Nevermind - too obscure.
Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 09:09 AM (Vr12I)

I got that reference.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 09:11 AM (4I/2K)

309 I have to give credit to the "NY Post" which has endorsed Lee Zeldin and which keeps releasing Hochul's pay to play schemes. "Oh, I didn't know the people who just gave my campaign $60,000 dollars were the same people who just got approval to do a special project."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 17, 2022 09:11 AM (vH/6k)

310 I tend to think of them as MAGGOT Democrats

a soft-bodied legless larva, especially that of a fly found in decaying matter:

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

311
Mike Oldfield approves. Nevermind - too obscure.
Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 09:09 AM (Vr12I)

I understood this reference.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

312 Those eyebrows

********

Groucho & Lumoy*

Groucho needs your prayers it's true
Save a few for Lumpy too
He only did what he had to do...

(*apologies to Townes VanZandt)

Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 09:12 AM (kXYt5)

313 I'm beginning to think that '29' is more a meme than a statement of fact.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 09:12 AM (uLr+K)

314 Who Throws Soup?

>>Miso-gynists?

No, the pros use Minesthrowne.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 17, 2022 09:13 AM (KLPy8)

315 Kanye West claims George Floyd died by fentanyl; Floyd’s family considers lawsuit

.. this seems like a lose-lose situation

The Floyd family has more to lose if the myth is disspelled

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

316 If 6 Were 9.

Posted by: Jimi Hendrix at October 17, 2022 09:13 AM (bW8dp)

317 > Mike Oldfield approves. Nevermind - too obscure.
____________

We have one of his CD's for "background music"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 17, 2022 09:13 AM (BFigT)

318 I understood why Jackstraw did, but I never understood why Dave in Fla. took a hiatus after the 2020 election here at AoS.

If some people here are wrong, how long will they disappear for, especially if things go sideways after 24'?

Pretty bold predictions or "guesstimates" by people that have pretty much only recently discovered "conservatism" or shedding their liberal skin if I've read stories correct here. It's a very liberating and exciting thing and once you've discovered it, you are ready to spread the word and conquer all with sharing in your enlightenment. You see this type of behavior especially in new christians that have discovered the word.
I have no doubt the "mood" of the county leans to our side, for now. I 100% agree that the left politically at the pols stands to get a shellacking. I'm sure it'll happen.

We'll just have to see how much of a grip the left has on institutions like law enforcement and military and how far they are willing to go and if they are who they tell us they are very day.

Posted by: JROD at October 17, 2022 09:13 AM (0jZnq)

319 "Russian troops shot and killed an orchestra conductor who refused to perform at a concert Russia allegedly staged in the occupied southern region of Kherson"

Everybody's a critic.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 17, 2022 09:14 AM (24fqN)

320 It's a good essay until that last paragraph. "

JJ, you're right that it's mostly a good article. Why that paragraph you pointed is so wrong is that we do NOT need to "remove those people from society", as he would say. We just need to be able to prevent them from seizing control of the government and trying to force US to follow all their wicked ideas. As long as they do not have power, they can think any stupid things they like.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 17, 2022 09:14 AM (r46W7)

321 266 The Pennsylvania Secretary of State instructs counties to count illegal votes. SCOTUS says "no". Secretary of State instructs counties to "ignore SCOTUS".

What happens next?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 08:59 AM (CMvgr)

All mail-in votes in Philadelphia will be counted, then accidentally destroyed in a fire. Ooops! Gosh, SCOTUS, you cant void those ballots and disenfranchise 100,000 voters (99,999 for Lumpy, 1 for Oz)!!!!!

Posted by: Gref at October 17, 2022 09:14 AM (AMIL/)

322 Lumoy => Lumpy

Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 09:14 AM (kXYt5)

323 At least Mrs. Festerman hasn't shaved her eyebrows completely off, then drawn clown eyebrows Way. Up. High. using a magic marker.

How can anyone possibly find that attractive?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2022 09:14 AM (bW8dp)

324 >>Kanye West claims George Floyd died by fentanyl; Floyd’s family considers lawsuit

Pretty sure the autopsy claimed that, too?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 09:15 AM (I/doM)

325
We have one of his CD's for "background music"
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 17, 2022 09:13 AM (BFigT)

Mixed with the label on the album, a portion of Tubular Bells used to scare the holy hell out of me as a child.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

326 Despite using every dirty trick in the book, polls say Tudor Dixon is edging closer to Whitmer. An "Insider Advantage" poll even has them tied.

If Whitmer loses this election, I can't imagine who the Democrats can run to replace Biden as Figurehead in 2024. Who's left?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 09:15 AM (CMvgr)

327 You have to watch the sell by on meats nowadays. With sales down, retailers will leave it out until the last minute, and sometimes a little beyond. A day or two won't hurt you, and sometimes you get a good markdown.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 09:11 AM

I picked up a ham at Sams last week and the sell by date was last month. I put it right back. No sense in telling anyone as they would have put it right back after I left. That happened to us once at Walmart.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 17, 2022 09:15 AM (bVYXr)

328 I can't speak for DiF, but if I were taking some of the personal attacks that he was taking here after the 2020 crap was pulled, I would have either taken a break, or told a bunch of folks to Fcuk off.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 09:16 AM (uLr+K)

329 If 6 Were 9.
Posted by: Jimi Hendrix at October 17, 2022 09:13 AM (bW8dp)

46 and 2 just ahead of me.

Posted by: Tool at October 17, 2022 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

330 > Yes, the Fetterman's have three children whose ages are 12, 10 and 7.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Biden is probably hoping he gets elected before the oldest one "ages out".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2022 09:16 AM (bW8dp)

331 If Whitmer loses this election, I can't imagine who the Democrats can run to replace Biden as Figurehead in 2024. Who's left?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 09:15 AM (CMvgr)

Asshole in California. Newsome.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 09:16 AM (CwQXo)

332 326 Dennis Kucinich.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 09:16 AM (lz5hY)

333 326 Despite using every dirty trick in the book, polls say Tudor Dixon is edging closer to Whitmer. An "Insider Advantage" poll even has them tied.

If Whitmer loses this election, I can't imagine who the Democrats can run to replace Biden as Figurehead in 2024. Who's left?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 09:15 AM (CMvgr)

==========

I keeps sayin' it. Biden's going to run in 2024, and he's going to win the Democratic nomination. It will be a bruising primary with all the long knives, but Biden will win through his name recognition against a scattered field.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 09:16 AM (LvTSG)

334 " I can't imagine who the Democrats can run to replace Biden as Figurehead in 2024."

AOC.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 17, 2022 09:17 AM (24fqN)

335 Tom Harkin.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 09:17 AM (CwQXo)

336 If Whitmer loses this election, I can't imagine who the Democrats can run to replace Biden as Figurehead in 2024. Who's left?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 09:15 AM

Tanned, rested and ready!

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at October 17, 2022 09:18 AM (bVYXr)

337 You have to watch the sell by on meats nowadays. With sales down, retailers will leave it out until the last minute, and sometimes a little beyond. A day or two won't hurt you, and sometimes you get a good markdown.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 09:11 AM

I picked up a ham at Sams last week and the sell by date was last month. I put it right back. No sense in telling anyone as they would have put it right back after I left. That happened to us once at Walmart.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Sell By dates are lawyer speak. Little more important on fresh meats. But canned goods? Undamaged can? Good for up to a year after "sell by" date. I wish I'd kept old Y2k papers.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 09:18 AM (NlFlr)

338 Best part of The Exorcist was the music. Well, maybe that’s overstating.

Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 09:18 AM (Vr12I)

339 326 Hologram George Floyd.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 09:19 AM (lz5hY)

340 Pretty sure the autopsy claimed that, too?
--------------------
I thought heart attack with congenital heart problems but the megadose of anal fentanyl didn't help -- when does it ever??

[Unless the drugs initiated the heart attack he was susceptible to?]

At least we know it wasn't Covid!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at October 17, 2022 09:19 AM (yikp0)

341 What will more than likely happen is the GOP will take control for a while focus on corporate tax cuts, amnesty and the other goofy shit that animates and motivates the GOPe, the democrats will fake moderate and be back in control of congress in 4-6 years.
---
Defeatism is like coffee around here.

None of the incoming freshman will do this.

So how do you expect the dinosaur leadership to pull this off when 1/3 or more of their caucus is extremely against it?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 17, 2022 09:19 AM (Zf0+a)

342 "sometimes you get a good markdown."

The only baked goods I buy are off the day-old shelf.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 17, 2022 09:19 AM (24fqN)

343 > AOC.

Could be. She'll be old enough to be eligible by then.

Although I wouldn't bet on her against the Newsom/Pelosi machine, should little Gavvy choose to run.

Pelosi craps bigger than AOC.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2022 09:20 AM (bW8dp)

344 If Whitmer loses this election, I can't imagine who the Democrats can run to replace Biden as Figurehead in 2024. Who's left?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 09:15 AM

Tanned, rested and ready!
Posted by: Gavin Newsom at October 17, 2022 09:18 AM (bVYXr)

Greek homo cracker, please.

Posted by: Rev. Al Sharpton at October 17, 2022 09:20 AM (4I/2K)

345 Sell By dates are lawyer speak. Little more important on fresh meats. But canned goods? Undamaged can? Good for up to a year after "sell by" date. I wish I'd kept old Y2k papers.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 09:18 AM (NlFlr)

Some of the peel cans I wonder how well the oxygen barrier is, but traditional cans... stuff will get mushy but still won't hurt you as long as there is no can bulging from the inside.

Salted/cured meats like ham? I would think that these would be fine, but I dunno.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 09:20 AM (CwQXo)

346 Okay, I am veering out of my lane here on the EMT. Apologies, JJ. I’ll be quiet.

Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 09:20 AM (Vr12I)

347 I saw Anal Fentanyl open for Jane's Addiction at a rave club back in '92.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 17, 2022 09:20 AM (bW8dp)

348 Greek homo cracker, please.
Posted by: Rev. Al Sharpton at October 17, 2022 09:20 AM (4I/2K)

We're fresh out. How about Don Avgolemono?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 17, 2022 09:21 AM (x0n13)

349 262 Yet doing so would be beyond the purview of the very Constitution we seek to reinstate and protect. To wit, how do we deny the rights of those who hold those views to hold them or promote them, with the knowledge that allowing them to do so could and would lead to catastrophe?

The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Yet neither side here holds it in high regard."

To believe in Democracy is to believe that those with good ideas can convince a majority of their fellow citizens to agree with and to help enact those ideas. If that is not true - if a majority is hellbent on self destruction - then Democracy will fail, and some form of Dictatorship will take its place. The common South American "Auto-golpe" (self-coup) is where an elected government sees this happening and elects to install itself permanently as it does away with elections.

of course the history of South American govmt's shows that this really isn't a path anyone else should want to follow.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 17, 2022 09:21 AM (r46W7)

350 334 " I can't imagine who the Democrats can run to replace Biden as Figurehead in 2024."

Bill Clinton Jr. or Jrette will come.

Hear me now and believe me later.

The set-up is way too perfect for someone with a huge ego, who's a lying sociopath, and has little to no connection to all the Democrat/Biden Plan to Destroy America.

They will all fall in line as will the MSM touts BC Jr's new and unifying 3rd Way.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 17, 2022 09:22 AM (KLPy8)

351 348 Greek homo cracker, please.
Posted by: Rev. Al Sharpton at October 17, 2022 09:20 AM (4I/2K)

We're fresh out. How about Don Avgolemono?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 17, 2022 09:21 AM (x0n13)

Have anything in a Guido Sarducci?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 09:22 AM (CwQXo)

352 338 Best part of The Exorcist was the music. Well, maybe that’s overstating.
Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 09:18 AM (Vr12I)

"Your mother sucks cocks in hell" is actually in the Democrat Party platform.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 17, 2022 09:22 AM (x0n13)

353 337 A lot of stories about guys getting ww2 C rations. That never happened in Vietnam, as they weren't original c rations. They could be years old, may have sat on a pallet exposed to heat and weather, roughly handled. You were more likely to get sick from dirty mess gear (aka the spoon in your pocket) than bad canned food.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 09:23 AM (lz5hY)

354 Some of the peel cans I wonder how well the oxygen barrier is, but traditional cans... stuff will get mushy but still won't hurt you as long as there is no can bulging from the inside.

Salted/cured meats like ham? I would think that these would be fine, but I dunno.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

When people canned their own vegetables, those would last two or three years.
Do they really think their pressure canner and Ball jars are better than professional equipment?
Yet they'll toss a can of green beens three days after sell by date.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 09:23 AM (NlFlr)

355 Current Florida voting status:

Democrat absentee returns: 14% of all ballots
Republican absentee returns: 17% of all ballots

This is voting mode that will be Democrat's strongest in Florida. Republicans will dominate in early voting and election day voting.

These results are disastrous for Florida Democrats.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 09:25 AM (fllji)

356 Bill Clinton Jr. or Jrette will come.

Who are Bill Clinton Jr. and Jrette?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 17, 2022 09:25 AM (vH/6k)

357 On October 7, the US Department of Commerce expanded licensing requirements for exports of advanced semiconductors and the equipment that’s used to make them to cover all shipments to China and not just shipments to particular companies.

The share prices of companies expected to be affected had already dropped, discounting previously announced sanctions and the downturn in the semiconductor cycle that was already underway.

From their 52-week highs to recent 52-week lows:

Intel (INTC) was down 56%;
Micron (MU) was down 50%;
Nvidia (NVDA) was down 69% (its products having been directly targeted by the Biden administration); and
AMD (AMD) (also directly targeted) was down 67%.

.. Nike Inc (who call themselves a Chinese company) is down 54% and they aren't involved in the "chip war"

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

358 341 None of the incoming freshman will do this.

So how do you expect the dinosaur leadership to pull this off when 1/3 or more of their caucus is extremely against it?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 17, 2022 09:19 AM (Zf0+a)

=========

We're definitely going to get standard GOPe nothing burgers for the next couple of years. We'll also get some theater to make the rubes feel like this Congress is doing something, but nothing of substance will happen. We'll get some moral victories, but very few actual legislative victories.

That may (MAY) change with the election of a Republican president in 2024.

Any positive change we can only expect at the state level. Imagine if Whitmer loses in MI.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 09:25 AM (LvTSG)

359 You have to have a certain amount of moisture for shit to grow on or in stuff. I suspect that is the secret to the C ration longevity.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 09:25 AM (CwQXo)

360 "Who are Bill Clinton Jr. and Jrette?"

The ulitimate 'outsiders,' cuz nobody knows who they are.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 17, 2022 09:26 AM (24fqN)

361 ~~"Your mother sucks cocks in hell"~~ "Yo' mama sews socks that smell" is actually in the Democrat Party platform.
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Fixed.

For the HQ advertisers.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at October 17, 2022 09:26 AM (yikp0)

362 355 This is voting mode that will be Democrat's strongest in Florida. Republicans will dominate in early voting and election day voting.

These results are disastrous for Florida Democrats.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 09:25 AM (fllji)

========

Are you watching any other states like this?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 09:26 AM (LvTSG)

363 "Intel (INTC) was down 56%;"

PE 6, yield 5%. It's a buy.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 17, 2022 09:26 AM (24fqN)

364 Newsom is not competitive. He loses to Trump by 19 points right now.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 09:27 AM (fllji)

365 NYC Defies Supreme Court, Creates Times Square “Gun Free Zone”

A top election official in Pennsylvania says the state will disregard the U.S. Supreme Court's guidance on counting mail-in ballots

.. I'm seeing a pattern

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 09:27 AM (RHGPo)

366 re: Pakistan

Gaylord was right, Joey can screw anything up. G-d help us he doesn't screw up the nuclear war he is stirring up.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 17, 2022 09:28 AM (fWkSd)

367 364 Newsom is not competitive. He loses to Trump by 19 points right now.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 09:27 AM (fllji)

But, he is also relatively unknown. If he got the full court press bj? Against a different repub?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 09:28 AM (CwQXo)

368 Newsom is not competitive. He loses to Trump by 19 points right now.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Figured it would be higher. Only Californicators want Newsome.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 09:29 AM (NlFlr)

369

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 17, 2022 09:29 AM (vwCZJ)

370 I remember several years ago the Ft Meade commissary rolled out the frozen 'Butchers specials'.

All within a day of their best by date, and firmly frozen.
Each package was $1.00, no matter the contents.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 09:29 AM (uLr+K)

371 Bleh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

372 367 364 Newsom is not competitive. He loses to Trump by 19 points right now.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 09:27 AM (fllji)

But, he is also relatively unknown. If he got the full court press bj? Against a different repub?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 09:28 AM (CwQXo)

=========

It really means that Trump will be able to define Newsom, but Newsom won't be able to define Trump (that part is long since done).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

373
Art is up.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 17, 2022 09:29 AM (x0n13)

374 Welp, hub just took daughter to the urgent care clinic.

Her boss expected her to open, and that just was not gonna happen. Fortunately, one of daughter's friends is opening for her.
Her boss is asshoe.

Posted by: SMH at October 17, 2022 09:29 AM (rg2qM)

375 Hell, given the choice between FJB and Bill Clinton, I would take a 3rd term of Clinton

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 17, 2022 09:29 AM (ahox9)

376 A top election official in Pennsylvania says the state will disregard the U.S. Supreme Court's guidance on counting mail-in ballots

.. I'm seeing a pattern
Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 09:27 AM (RHGPo)

Continuing breakdown in governing order and social cohesion leading to power by force alone. Hmmm, where have I seen this before...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 09:30 AM (CwQXo)

377 I think we are so beyond regular order, and worse, those in power are so bereft of morals and ethics, that I would say what's the point of trying this?

-------

[In best Yoda voice:] Beyond the tipping point we are.

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 17, 2022 09:30 AM (K3TEc)

378 Mike Oldfield approves. Nevermind - too obscure.
Posted by: kraken at October 17, 2022 09:09 AM (Vr12I)

===
*fistbump*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 17, 2022 09:30 AM (EZebt)

379 What is UP with that woman's eyebrows?

Joan Crawford redux.

Posted by: SMH at October 17, 2022 09:30 AM (rg2qM)

380 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

381 Posted by: SMH at October 17, 2022 09:29 AM (rg2qM)

Will pray for your daughter.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 17, 2022 09:31 AM (vH/6k)

382 TJM - no, Florida is my wheelhouse. I like to watch how voting goes here since the system is so transparent.

But you can look at it as real-time results to guage how actual voting is going nationwide. Florida isn't magically different than the rest of the country. It's an R+4 state, just like Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 09:31 AM (fllji)

383 Thanks, Fen.

Posted by: SMH at October 17, 2022 09:31 AM (rg2qM)

384 "These results are disastrous for Florida Democrats.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 09:25 AM (fllji) "

Democrats need to be crushed and the party needs to become an anathema to the voting public for generations. They have attacked Americans, destroyed our economy, devastated our communities with crime, attacked the American family, flooded the country with illegal immigrants, attacked religious freedom, weaponized the justice system against the citizens, undermined our election system and made the world a more dangerous place for our families.

I have not seen a single campaign sign for Hochul in this area, and I've seen a large amount for Zeldin. That may be indicative of nothing, but it's highly unusual. When you talk to people they have had enough of this crap. I think there is a very good chance Hochul loses.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 17, 2022 09:31 AM (VpIIl)

385 Her boss expected her to open, and that just was not gonna happen. Fortunately, one of daughter's friends is opening for her.
Her boss is asshoe.
Posted by: SMH at October 17, 2022 09:29 AM (rg2qM)

Hope everything works out well for her, SMH.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 09:31 AM (CwQXo)

386 382 TJM - no, Florida is my wheelhouse. I like to watch how voting goes here since the system is so transparent.

But you can look at it as real-time results to guage how actual voting is going nationwide. Florida isn't magically different than the rest of the country. It's an R+4 state, just like Arizona and Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 09:31 AM (fllji)

========

Was just curious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 09:32 AM (LvTSG)

387 Joe Biden is a madman. Our Democracy has been around for over 230 years, but under his two year stewardship, it is fading away every time he opens his cockhole. That's like saying, "I can't find my way to the lavatory to go pee-pee."

Step down, Senator Joe. Retire.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 17, 2022 09:33 AM (z+OQR)

388 If Whitmer loses this election, I can't imagine who the Democrats can run to replace Biden as Figurehead in 2024. Who's left?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 17, 2022 09:15 AM (CMvgr)

.. Mayor Pete Buttplug

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

389 "Who are Bill Clinton Jr. and Jrette?"

The ulitimate 'outsiders,' cuz nobody knows who they are.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at October 17, 2022 09:26 AM (24fqN)

Essentially that's correct. Bill Clinton wasn't "Bill Clinton - Superstar!!!" at that time. He was the Southern goofball governor who made the lousy speech at the DNC.

BC Jr will most likely be someone who's governor of a small "fly-over" state or perhaps a major of a non-burning city. Still, I wouldn't totally bet against someone like a once popular actor/actress.

Time will provide the answer.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 17, 2022 09:35 AM (KLPy8)

390 One of the seniors told me this weekend that Hochul is Cuomo, with bigger boobs, worse makeup and worse policies.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 17, 2022 09:36 AM (VpIIl)

391 Durham’s In-Your-Face Danchenko Gambit

Durham has one hell of a task. First, there is lying Danchenko, then there is the FBI. Both of them are lying scum, but to make his case he has to hold the FBI 'pure', while pummeling them at the same time.

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 09:36 AM (RHGPo)

392 >>>One of the seniors told me this weekend that Hochul is Cuomo, with bigger boobs, worse makeup and worse policies.

>Don't forget she has the teeth of a squirrel.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 17, 2022 09:37 AM (z+OQR)

393 In short, Paul Ryan said Trump will not win the Republican nomination because his “unelectability will be palpable” by the time the party nominates its 2024 standard-bearer.

“We all know he’s much more likely to lose the White House than anybody else running for president on our side of the aisle,” Ryan said in the piece. “So why would we want to go with that?”

Has Ryan not seen the slate of Trump-backed candidates winning nominations across the country this year? Does he not see them lined up across the board, in an excellent position to beat their Democratic challengers in a few short weeks?

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 09:39 AM (RHGPo)

394 Cowardly U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) has backed out of a scheduled debate with her Republican challenger and political newcomer Don Bolduc, because she knows she will be shipping the floor..

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 09:40 AM (RHGPo)

395 @393 SMOD-There were people on both sides of the establishment isle that said Trump would not win in 2020. They were right. Maybe, like in 2020, Ryan knows something we don't.

Posted by: JROD at October 17, 2022 09:50 AM (0jZnq)

396 Good morning. Read a few articles over the weekend that temporarily pushed me to the edge. One about teachers being in short supply so states ease the job requirements. It's nationwide but for some states specifically mentioned - Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama - why is it a wonder? Where are the teachers certified in math, reading, other academically required subjects (retired if they were able & smart)& how can school districts with high-poverty areas &/or coupled with children learning English teach even their brightest to adequate levels? Which leads to the 2nd article, bail denied to suspect who paid for sex with 11 year old girl. Why? The child lived with her father who had no income other than from the young man who allegedly paid for sex with the child. (There's a mother, who after sometime reported the abuse & sought treatment for the child, but she doesn't seem to be residing w/the assaulted child.) Reportedly, the young man who is the alleged rapist of the child supports his parents by working full-time at a gas station & now he has relatives now charged for witness intimidation of the mother. In the meantime, bails & electronic monitoring become (con't)

Posted by: Lola at October 17, 2022 09:51 AM (NIYa7)

397 this is a very religious school. everyone is up in arms. but the Sisters do what they want I guess. sad!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 08:06 AM (w0NJk)

Be a damn shame if people pulled their kids out and the school went tits up like many of the Catholic schools in my corner of the world. And the nuns had to find an actual job.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at October 17, 2022 10:02 AM (Zvtjl)

398 ensured that it went directly into freefall, no siderails, no brakes, just 'pedal to the metal' off the cliff!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at October 17, 2022 08:31 AM (I/doM

Like Kirk's stepfather's car in the rebooted Star Trek?

Posted by: Rev Jonathan Swift at October 17, 2022 10:05 AM (kPLwB)

399 87,000 new, heavily armed IRSS agents. Who is going to admit anything to a pollster about supporting semi fascism?

Posted by: Leber at October 17, 2022 10:09 AM (91pi1)

400 It's going to be amazing how fast Blamtifa is back and burning cities and looting is the Democrats lose bigly.

Posted by: Welcome to Wokistan MFers at October 17, 2022 10:11 AM (bkf/+)

401 I'm just wondering how horrible the ops will be and the media lies which the left will throw out there between now and the election.

Posted by: Eromero at October 17, 2022 10:18 AM (0OP+5)

402 2/ issues and the court needs to find an interpreter.

The second article was from Pennsylvania, not from Philadelphia which actually pushes a great deal of immigrant population out of its boundaries, but a 'collar' county which has more than its share of bad press.
The area where it occurred is a large, diverse municipality with roughly 85,000 residents of which a quarter are foreign born and a quarter are also under the age of 18. Approximately, 17% of the population is represented by non-citizens.

There are over 60 birth countries and 70 home languages represented by the children of the school district. Only 10% of township residents have a Bachelor's degree (or higher). While there are some lovely properties in the township, there are also large areas of "section 8" housing & shopping districts that have seen better days - though they've been nicely revitalized more than once in recent times.

Every time a new group of non-citizens comes to the region, this is one of the prime areas they're channeled to for housing and education. Clearly "no-go" zones, such reported to exist in France and other areas of Europe, are being created.

Posted by: Lola at October 17, 2022 10:32 AM (NIYa7)

403 I’m reading on Chris Bray’s substack that Mrs. Fetterman is angling to replace her husband in the senate, once he resigns because he isn’t fit to be a senator. Supposedly she’s a dreamer who became a citizen by marrying Lurch.

Posted by: Advo at October 17, 2022 08:55 PM (LcnVR)

404 Wow. Mrs Festerman stole Groucho Marx's eye-brows. It's only a matter of time before she stars manifesting his mustache as well.

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