The Morning Report — 10/25/22

Good morning kids. Tuesday and once again, an incident has occurred that makes me ponder the question, how are we supposed to move forward as a nation when a significant percentage of its population either uses violence, approves of the violence and worse, represent the party/political movement that foments the violence to gain and maintain power?

A volunteer for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was brutally attacked while canvassing for the campaign in Hialeah, Florida, leaving him with a broken jaw and internal bleeding.

According to the senator, who is facing off against Democrat Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) in roughly two weeks, four individuals attacked the canvasser, allegedly telling him that Republicans were not allowed in their neighborhood. The man, who will also require facial reconstruction surgery, was wearing a shirt supporting Rubio and hat supporting Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). . .

. . . The attack comes several weeks after [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden identified MAGA Republicans as a major “threat to the country". . .

. . . Notably, Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL), who is challenging DeSantis in this year’s gubernatorial race, praised Biden, telling his supporters that he was “so damn proud” of Biden for demonizing millions of Americans:

"How many of you saw Biden’s speech last night on national TV? God love him. He told it straight... The president laid it out, he didn’t hold back and I am so damn proud of him for it.”

Charlie Crist is a joke. His praise for the demonization of half the country at the highest level – essentially a green light to commit acts of violence with the approval and at the behest of the junta in power – is not.

Ace had this yesterday in his Quick Hits post (do not comment on old threads!)

For those who have been living on another planet, or get their "news" from MSNBC, Kyle Rittenhouse was attempting to prevent the city of Kenosha, WI from suffering the same fate as several dozen other cities during 2020's Summer of Love 2: Mostly Peaceful Rioting Boogaloo when he was forced to shoot and kill an Antifa terrorist in absolute self defense.

The rioting itself, a Leftist-orchestrated terror campaign that went hand in hand with the lockdowns and sabotaging of voter integrity laws as the means to affect the 2020 election, was brought on by the regrettable yet understandable death of a black criminal at the hands of white cops while resisting arrest, and who most likely died because he swallowed his stash of crystal meth and had COPD.

Darrel Brooks on the other hand, hopped up on a BLM/LBJ speedball mainlined right into his brain mows down a crowd of innocent people at a Christmas parade (well, when you're white you're not really innocent, are you?) and is all but beatified in the media. That is, when they are forced to cover the story.

But I digress. It's madness. Here we are concerned, and rightly so, about elections and yet we are quite literally at the stage of being at each other's throats to decide the direction this nation will take. Check that: WE are not at each other's throats. THEY are at OUR throat, and there isn't a damn thing we can do about it lest we suffer the same fate that Kyle Rittenhouse almost suffered. And he acted in self-defense. The want us to lash out so they can use it as a pretext to cancel the elections, declare martial law, and you name it. We haven't, and it is an absolute testament to our civility and yearning to live and let live that there hasn't been an actual act of unprovoked violence aimed at a Leftist. Yet. That's why parents at school board meetings, a handful of drunken goofs up in Michigan shooting their mouths off entrapped by the FBI, ditto the J6 political prisoners, and the phantom armies of "white supremacist insurrectionists" all have to be created out of whole cloth to give the illusion that there is a "clear and present danger" to "our precious democracy" (*vomit).

That said, one day someone somewhere is going to snap, brought about by some outrage or circumstance that befalls said individual, as a result of the criminal actions of this criminal junta and its acolytes, enablers and allies in and out of government. Fired for refusing the Fauci Fix, objecting to drag queen story hour, DEI/DIE, "denying" climate change, the 82 million votes for the Delaware demento in 2020, savings wiped out due to said firing coupled with the cratering economy, etc. etc. It could happen. Is it inevitable? Perhaps not. Hence, the entrapment stings of the FBI up to and including the plot to take down President Trump via Russian collusion and now trumped up charges of insurrection on January 6, when it was those bringing the charges that are the real insurrectionists.

So, we win the midterms and even the whole shooting match (pun kind of sort of unintended) in '24. We are still divided into two irreconcilable camps. That said, thanks to Trump and the Democrat-Left and Deep State's complete exposing of who and what they are (mostly brought about by the coming of Trump), many people are jumping ship or at a minimum are having their eyes opened and not liking what they see.

It still leaves both a feral bureaucracy and corrupt system intact that will continue to lord over us and worse, a vast industry of mass brainwashing disguised as academia that will crank out obedient cogs in the machine of our own destruction.

Woke capitalism” is corporate America’s attempt to profit off of Millennial and Gen Z activism, often passive keyboard activism.

It exploits social-justice politics and transforms it into social-justice consumerism — and ultimately, investor profit. Companies purporting to care about “progressive values” are really doing nothing more than striking a superficial pose meant to signal virtue while distracting from any company’s true motive: financial gain for shareholders.

All of that is true. But there is more to it, in my opinion. . .

. . . But in the age of armchair, keyboard activism, woke capitalism lets consumers badge themselves as progressive activists without actually having to do anything. It’s magic!

There is, of course, another piece of the puzzle, largely hidden from the public — the degree to which these CEOs are influenced by their Gen Z offspring.

Many have kids who are attending highly woke private elementary schools and high schools — places like Children’s Day in San Francisco, Trinity in New York and Oakwood in Los Angeles. These kids have been coddled and inculcated into gender ideology and critical race theory while denouncing white supremacy at their mostly white — and rich — fancy private schools.

They feel guilty about being white and privileged because they’ve been told they need to, and maybe they do need to feel a bit of gratitude for their “born on third base” status, but they are out to prove their worthiness by putting a woke sheen on their desire to stay rich and privileged.

And so, they are all too eager to prove that they are virtuous and willing to “do the work” to have a raised social conscience. That means needing to virtue signal even harder to prove one’s seriousness. Usually “the work” entails not that much work at all, but necessitates ousting others for wrongthink.

Witches must be burned at the stake, after all.

The kids go on to college, and graduate after four years of building safe spaces and protesting “micro-aggressions.” Many believe that whenever they feel slightly unhappy, it is obviously the result of some grave injustice. And they feel justified in demanding punishment for anyone who offends them. They take this attitude with them as they enter the workforce. . .

. . . we better listen up, or they won’t visit us. Worse, they’ll cancel us. Many of us are desperate to prove that we do not deserve this dismissive “OK Boomer” meme. We are “with it,” serious-minded “virtue”-osos, too.

Today’s executives reared these kids with an “I’m not your dad, I’m your friend” parenting philosophy, and they chase their children’s approval. They want to impress their woke kids with their own progressive bona fides. They want to be cool — peers not parents — in the eyes of their offspring, valued not for the materials goods that they provide but for the values that they champion.

And now these young people are populating the companies led by “I’m not your dad, I’m your friend” CEOs. Surrounded by this cohort, CEOs are awash in approval and praise — but only if they can find a way to pander to the generation’s every shifting demand. . .

. . . These 20- and 30-somethings are ideological terrorists, policing their peers and elders relentlessly. They are “omnipotent moral busybodies” ridding the world of evil, and they will not rest until they exorcise immorality for the good of those being exorcised.

But as C.S. Lewis said, “I’d rather live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” Amen to that.

Why do they do it? Because, as author and economist Thomas Sowell has said, those “who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior.”

By doing close to nothing — wearing the right T-shirt, affixing one’s social media profile with the right badge (for example, “I am vaccinated” or “I stand with Ukraine") and by cancelling the “wrong” people by generating outrage with a finger tap, they are saved.

The author of that piece is "former Levi's brand president Jennifer Sey [who] was forced out of the company due to pressure to stop speaking out about [Chinese] COVID-19 school closures." She identifies the problem without specifically naming it: the brainwashing of our children from pre-school all the way through post-grad.

Aside from corporate executives, look at places like the DOJ, FBI, CIA and now the DOD and all the rest of the institutions that are supposed to be the impartial arbiters and referees that keep society on an even keel and keep us safe. They felt zero compunction about sabotaging Trump's campaign, then his administration and even our national security so as to remove him from office as quickly as possible "by any means necessary." They too are not only the products of American academia but its most elite institutions.

While voting is vitally important, we are so dysfunctional and unrecognizable to what we were even a generation ago, and those were the Clinton years mind you, that in the long run we are not voting our way out of it. Again, voting staves off disaster, and perhaps over time with enough MAGA candidates gaining traction mostly because of the catastrophes brought about by Leftists and RINOs, it will make a significant difference.

But unless and until we can deprogram and de-Nazify everyone from this Darrell Brooks all the way on up to the fools in the C-suites, there will be trouble in River City for the foreseeable future.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Michael Anton: "Why America’s foundation in natural right matters."
  Natural Right and Historicism
  
• Humberto Fontova: "Reflections on a great betrayal."
  This Week in History — A Cowed JFK Surrenders to Khrushchev During Cuban Missile Crisis
  
• "Why do they do it? Because, as author and economist Thomas Sowell has said, those 'who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior. . . ' Most CEOs lack the moral courage to hold their ground. Because they know, deep down, that they aren’t do-gooders, and they don’t want that curtain lifted. So they kowtow to the very vocal minority — the scant few employees marching outside of headquarters or emailing the head of Human Resources. These CEOs are frauds and have no actual courage."
  Jennifer Sey Op-Ed: Former Levi’s Top Exec Reveals How Woke Mobs Took Over Corporations

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• "Last night one of our canvassers wearing my T-shirt and a DeSantis hat was brutally attacked by 4 animals who told him Republicans weren't allowed in their neighborhood in #Hialeah #Florida," Rubio wrote. "He suffered internal bleeding, a broken jaw, & will need facial reconstructive surgery."
  Marco Rubio Canvasser Violently Attacked in Dem Neighborhood
  
• "America’s rule of law is dead, and Democrats killed it. But in its wake, Bannon’s political imprisonment is a call to action."
  Steve Bannon is Now a Political Prisoner, and the Rule of Law is Dead
  
• Julie Kelly: "The U.S. attorney for D.C. says he plans to double January 6 prosecutions in the coming months. Meanwhile, tone-deaf GOP politicians prepare to feed the hand that bites them."
  J6 Prosecutors Redouble Retaliation and Revenge
  
• Rep Jim Himes: “…we..at some point the United States is going to need to collectively decide that not only are we going to oppose Russians and Chinese and North Koreans and Iranians messing around with our elections we’re not going to allow the Republican Party to do it either.”
  Nicole Wallace Suggests Our ‘Friends and Allies’ Monitor Elections, Rep. Jim Himes Groups GOP With Dictators
  
• "If these people cannot win you over, they will run you over."
  Biden Wingman Merrick Garland Set to Announce Probe of 'Homegrown' 'Election Infrastructure Threats'
  
• "Reading about the principles of the American Founding is not 'extremist' activity."
  A Vow to Serve
  
• When threats reach a scale that cannot readily be processed, lethargy sets in. People begin to reject investigating calamities so big they cannot understand them, problems so large and so broad that even admitting their existence collapses the senses, and with them any idea, plan, or nascent strategy of dealing with the threat. It is far easier to just accept whatever it is the "experts" are saying and go along with the crowd.
  America 2022: Threat Level, Critical

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• Robert Spencer: "Fanatics always become more radical the longer they perceive that their demands are being ignored and that there are no serious consequences to their actions. But Last Generation, in the final analysis, is just a group of pawns. The entire climate hysteria is driven by the reckless propagation of pseudoscientific fantasies and fallacies by groups far larger and more powerful than the fanatics who threw mashed potatoes on the Monet.  And what is striking about those forces is their cynicism: they clearly don’t believe their own propaganda, as the big beachfront houses owned by Barack Obama and Old Joe Biden attest. Will the world’s artistic patrimony survive this madness relatively unscathed? We can hope."
  Climate Lunatics Throw Mashed Potatoes on Monet Masterpiece, and It’s Going to Get Worse
  
• "There’s no way anyone with basic social insight would believe these displays of neurotic, insular, detached-from-reality, self-indulgent 'protest' produce any tangential strategic benefit for the proponents of the ideology, which is ostensibly the entire point of a protest."
  Who's to Blame for the Damaged Adult Children Staging Sad "Milk Pour Protests?"

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "This is just one example, one of many, that shows how casually they lie about things that matter."
  5 Charts Expose 1 Big Malig-Nancy Pelosi Lie
  
• "One of the many reasons Thanksgiving turkey prices are set to soar this year."
  Bird Flu Deaths in U.S. Birds Approaching Record Numbers, Affecting Price of Thanksgiving Turkeys
  
• "Such a program could help bind Americans together while serving real national needs, including military recruitment."
  National Service for Student Loan Forgiveness?

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "Mayor Adams declares a state of emergency."
  Illegal Immigrants Glamping in New York Tent City at Taxpayers’ Expense

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• David Harsanyi: "Fauci tries - unsuccessfully - to erase his leading role in a crime against humanity."
  Fauci Can’t Whitewash His Disastrous Legacy
  
• “When the judge made his ruling I thought I would finally be getting my life back to normal and I would get to continue the career that I love,. With this I thought my financial worries were over as well.  However, the city’s refusal to reinstate me has brought me to the brink of foreclosure.”
  NYC Fights Ruling Forcing it to Reinstate Firefighter Fired Over Vax Mandate

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• Harris was convicted in 2012 of shooting 45-year-old Louis Porter to death and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. But in 2021, Krasner’s office vacated Harris’s sentence, claiming that his "constitutional rights had been violated at the time of his prosecution."
  Convicted Murderer Freed by Philly DA Larry Krasner in Custody After Deadly Shooting
  
• "Florida Dem Senate nominee has centered her campaign on her ex-cop status."
  Val Demings Says It’s Harder To Be a Politician Than a Police Officer
  
• "An exploding black market in states that legalized pot has sparked another government war on marijuana."
  The New Weed Whackers
  
• "Don't blaze me, bro!"
  [WATCH] Fleeing Felon Bursts Into Flames After Getting Tased
  
• "I have to wonder how George Zimmerman felt upon reading about the shooting death of Kansas City firefighter Anthony Santi, 41."
  The Real Reason Woman Who Killed Firefighter Went Uncharged

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "The Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act, which the Lone Star State enacted in 2009, prohibits technology companies from using data such as retina or iris scans, fingerprints, voiceprints, or records of hand and face geometry for commercial purposes without permission."
  Texas Takes Google To Court For Allegedly Harvesting Biometric Data Without Consent
  
• "Ottman believes this type of direct communication will lead to a better dynamic between creators and followers, in which both sides of the equation feel valued and respected. He feels it is a needed addition to membership forums such as Substack and Patreon."
  'Supermind' Removes the Gatekeepers and Offers the Democratization of Expertise

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "Even if the temporary block on the restriction becomes permanent, New York Democrats and Democrats in general will be back. Maybe they can’t keep concealed weapons out of houses of worship, but they can find ways to keep guns out of the hands of citizens. If you solve that problem, then the ban on guns in churches practically solves itself."
  New York Judge Temporarily Blocks State's Handgun Ban in Churches

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "How dare Republicans use 'devastating' results as 'political fodder' to 'relitigate the debate over how long schools should have stayed closed.'"
  NYT Warns: GOP Could ‘Seize’ on Record Drop in Student Test Scores During COVID-19 Pandemic
  
• "Classical education needs logos—and thumos."
  A Paideia for the Network State 
  
• Cardona blamed "decades of under-investment" for declining test scores. (Literally hundreds of billions, with never a cut and always an increase, and yet, this tired bromide gets spouted once again - jjs)
  As Student Test Scores Plummet, Education Secretary Proposes 21% Budget Increase

  THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH

• Furthermore, Freestone stated Democrat legislators appeared “poised to continue the expanded absentee voting provisions of New York State Election Law … in an Orwellian perpetual state of health emergency and cloaked in the veneer of ‘voter enfranchisement[.]'”
  New York Judge: Absentee Mail Voting Due to Covid Concerns Is Unconstitutional
  
• "So, in the same story in which Politico concedes a red wave is coming, they also admit that Democrats appear on the verge of winning a seat in a solidly red state for no other reason than its Ranked-Choice Voting system."
  Politico Says Quiet Part Out Loud About Ranked-Choice Voting
  
• "Georgia prosecutors are investigating the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. They hope to question Graham about his alleged communications with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in the months leading up to the election’s certification."
  SCOTUS Temporarily Blocks Sen. Lindsey Graham’s Subpoena from Georgia Grand Jury 

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Robert Spencer: "Opportunistic and politically motivated accusations."
  Trump Gives Deposition in Case of Woman Who Accused Him of Raping Her and Called Rape ‘Sexy’

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "Jews are not safe when those in power do not value the legal mechanisms to fight anti-Semitism emanating from their political flanks. Jews are not safe when elected leaders expect them to pay the physical and social cost for prioritizing false social justice narratives."
  American Jews Are Not Safe With Progressives

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "SLF’s stunning withdrawal from New Hampshire comes several weeks after the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) pulled nearly $3 million in ad buys in the state, with the GOP group redirecting the funds toward states such as Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania."
  SHOT: New Hampshire’s Don Bolduc Is The Latest Casualty In McConnell’s Crusade Against ‘America First’ Candidates
  
• "Emerson College’s latest poll shows that Hassan is polling two points under 50 percent, while Bolduc trails closely behind at 45 percent. One percent of respondents support the libertarian candidate, while another one percent will vote for someone else." (and Emerson is a reliably Leftist polling org - jjs)
  CHASER: Poll – Gen. Don Bolduc Surges Against Democrat Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire
  
• "Republicans fret Chase Oliver could play spoiler for Herschel Walker, send race to runoff."
  Meet the Anti-Police Former Democrat Attracting Votes as Libertarian in Georgia Senate Race

  POLITICS

• "Where are we going?"
  Biden Appears to Get Lost in White House Garden After Tree Planting
  
• "Biden’s eyelids drooped and he started nodding off, prompting Capehart to say ‘Mr. President…’ then ‘ope!’ as Biden’s eyes fluttered open."
  Joe Biden is Literally Falling Asleep on the Job
  
• “The “president” fell asleep on camera in the middle of a televised interview”
  Sleepy Biden Strikes Again While Discussing His “Intention to Run” in 2024
  
• “So far we’re running against the tide and we’re beating the tide,” he boasted about Democrat prospects in the midterm elections after taking the podium. The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] denied recent polling showing that Republicans were leading the polls.
  15 Days from Midterms: Joe Biden Struggles to Finish His Thoughts at DNC Headquarters
  
• "The Democrats need to make some hard decisions about what to do with their vacationer in chief."
  The Democrat Dilemma – What to Do about Joe
  * * * * *

• "This isn't John's format."
  ‘"Lumpy" Festterman Team Offers Preemptive Excuses Ahead of Debate With Dr. Oz
  
• "You know what he was doing during [Hurricane Ian]? He was hiding out in Puerto Rico. He wasn’t helping his community here. And then when he got back, what did he do? His campaign was soliciting campaign contributions from storm victims. That is unacceptable and that’s not what a leader would do and a time of despair.”
  DeSantis Nukes Crist In Fiery Debate
  
• "They now insist that split-ticket voters will save them in the midterms."
  Democrats Whistle Past the Graveyard
  
• "The election markets show buyers are bullish for the GOP, with Republican shares trading at 88 cents and Democratic shares at 13 cents on the question of which party will win the House in 2022, PredictIt shows. The platform showed that the fate of the Senate is less clear but still favors the GOP, with Republican shares trading at 61 cents while the Democrat shares were at 41 cents."
  A Red Wave Sign That No One’s Talking About
  
• "Biden is not a far left fanatic. He's actually a hollow man, unconstrained by any principles at all."
  Why Biden Went Far Left
  
• "Steyer and Bloomberg are not the only major Democrat donors who gave less in 2022. Hedge fund manager Donald Sussman has reportedly not contributed to Democrat candidates because the party was unable to federalize local elections. Likewise, pro-Israel groups have spent “next to nothing” this cycle, opting instead to attack radical Democrats."
  Report: Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer Rein in Political Giving by over $100 Million Ahead of Red Wave
  
• "On Friday night, with just over two weeks to go before the midterm elections, she could have spent time trying to make her case for why Georgians should let her ruin the Peach State. But instead, she appeared on stage at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena at the Lizzo concert alongside opening act Latto, holding up a sign that read “My Body My Choice" and hawking for abortion."
  Stacey "Tank" Abrams' Bizarre Stunt at a Lizzo Concert Shows How Desperate She Is
  
• "The depraved candidate would be the Deep State’s representative to Utah if he won."
  Evan McMullin: Democrat Wolf in Independent Sheep Clothing
  
• "As a perfect example of the mindless corruption that has now taken over the Democrat Party, witness [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s statement this past weekend throwing his full support behind the castration and mutilation of children in order to change their sex, as advocated by the “trans” movement — which in plain English is a movement of cross-dressers demanding more power over everyone else."
  Who and What to Vote For in Arizona in 2022
  
• Maloney is facing off against State Assemblyman Mike Lawler in a district that leans seven points towards the Democrat Party. An internal poll released by the Lawler campaign on Oct. 14 showed the Republican leading by six points. The Cook Political Report named the race a “toss-up.”
  Democrats Forced to Bail Out Their Own Campaign Chief With $605,000 as Race Tightens
  * * * * *

• Mollie Hemingway: "Separating Republican officials from their growing coalition of voters and the issues they care about has been the D.C. establishment’s goal for years — but it’s not working."
  Liz-ard Cheney’s Plan to Divide the Republican Party Has Failed
  
• "WPA officials said the poll used a verified voter Pew Research study of the 2020 Hispanic Vote where 38% supported former President Trump and 59% marked their ballots for Biden. Half of Trump’s Hispanic voters supported him in 2016, while the other half were from voters who either gave his Democrat opponent Hillary Clinton their vote — or did not cast a ballot."
  Hispanic Voters Believe Nation Heading In Wrong Direction: Report
  
• "They are only talking amongst themselves."
  The Danger of Bubble Wrap (Or, How Democrats Learned To Love Ignoring Voters)

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed in rare phone calls that included his counterparts from the United States, Britain, France, and Turkey that Ukrainian forces are preparing a “provocation” with a radioactive device. A Kremlin statement cited that he conveyed a warning over “possible Ukrainian provocations involving a ‘dirty bomb.'”
  Russia Warns Of ‘Dirty Bomb’ False Flag Plot In Flurry Of Rare Calls To Western Leaders
  
• "Congress should signal its readiness to invoke the War Powers Act, while demanding that the Biden [junta] broker peace."
  Playing at War in Ukraine
  
• "Israel has repeatedly declined to send military weapons to Ukraine but it has provided humanitarian aid."
  Israel's Netanyahu: If We Send Weapons to Ukraine, They Could End Up in Iran Facing Us
  
• "According to the Ukraine’s defense minister, they are now conducting direct negotiations with Elon Musk concerning the cost of using SpaceX’s Starlink constellation as part of its war against Russia."
  Ukraine officials in direct negotiations with Musk about Starlink
  
• "Militant defenders of Ukraine might be surprised by the country’s anti-democratic tendencies."
  Washington's Whoppers on the War in Ukraine

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• ". . . the Iranians are getting a bit annoyed with the Biden team’s constant behind-the-scenes pleading."
  Iranian Foreign Minister: Biden Secretly ‘in a Hurry’ to Revive Nuclear Deal
  
• "A tipping point for regime change in Iran?"
  Prager U Video: The Fight for Freedom Inside Iran
  
• "The handover of power from Liz Truss, who has been the leader of the Conservative Party for just 49 days including today, including both the Tory party leadership and title of Prime Minister, could theoretically all take place this afternoon or tomorrow. Now Sunak has the right to lead the largest party in Parliament, becoming Prime Minister is at this point a mere formality, contracted by Truss visiting the King at Buckingham Palace to tender her resignation, followed by Sunak being invited to form a government by the monarch."
  Coronation: Covid-Era Tax and Spend Rishi Sunak Makes it Through Leadership Challenge Unopposed, Will Be Prime Minister
  
• "How is the mother of representative democracy writhing around on the kitchen linoleum, screaming about the demons hissing in the fridge?"
  Notes from a Banana Republic Meritocracy
  
• “Mistreatment of Haiti by major powers … goes back to the days when it was a French colony.”
  Hands Off Haiti
  
• "For Israel, it may prove to be a hasty gamble." (WTF are they thinking with this move? - jjs)
  The Israel-Lebanon Maritime Deal Empowers Hezbollah
  
• "A nation finally responds to an intolerable state of affairs."
  Anti-Mass Migration Sweden Democrats Now Hold Key Role

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "For at least a decade, the individuals used the Institute for International Studies (IIS) at the Ocean University of China, which Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco described as a 'fake think tank,' as a front for their intelligence operations." (Lisa Monaco is a key conspirator in persecution of Trump and J6 political prisoners; she can go sit on a live hand grenade and spin - jjs)
  Chinese Officers Used ‘Fake’ Think Tank To Recruit Agents In America, DOJ Alleges

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "You don’t need nuclear weapons or even guns! If you have faith in Allah and a knife!"
  Daniel Greenfield: NYC Issues ‘Halal Guide” Featuring Terror Mosques

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "A ballot measure promises to transform the dysfunctional local government in Oregon’s largest city."
  Portland on the Precipice
  
• "Under Wheeler's mayoralty, more 700 homeless encampments have flourished within roughly 146 square miles and there are over 3,000 homeless people throughout Portland."
  Portland Mayor Bans Homeless Encampments, Citing 'Vortex of Misery'

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Reed Spaulding IV, MD: "Would it reassure you to know your physician scored a mere 'pass' in a major test that determined his or her career?"
  US Medical Licensing Exam Gets a Woke Makeover

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "Once astronomers thought the black area was caused by dust, blocking the light."
  A Hole in Space
  
• "I wonder, which is the better bargain? NASA clearly can’t figure it out, and NASA has the smartest, most brilliant people in the universe working for it."
  NASA buys 3 Orion capsules from Lockheed Martin for $2 billion
  
• Heidi Klessig, M.D.: "While the definition of death is being fiercely debated in the medical literature, the public has been kept in the dark."
  We Need an Ethical Definition of Death

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "England's NHS has proposed new guidelines advocating for a more cautious approach to treating gender dysphoria in minors."
  England’s National Health Service Abandons Gender-Affirming Model of Care
  
• "Our [so-called quote-unquote "president"] misses the point pretty regularly, but does he really believe that a 12-year-old should be able to get major organs removed, or even be put on puberty blockers (which also has lifelong consequences), without parental consent at least?"
  Why Did So-Called Quote-Unquote "president" Biden Just Endorse the Most Radical Trans Madness?

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• During his guest appearance on “The View” Monday, Cruz pointed out that while his interviewers are busy demanding former President Donald Trump and other Republicans swear that the 2020 election was “legitimate,” they have repeatedly failed to hold any Democrats accountable for rejecting Republican victories.
  Ted Cruz Forces The View Hags to Deny Trump’s 2016 Election and Mock 2020 Election Critics in the Same Breath
  
• Christian Toto: "The Way of Water continues James Cameron's crusade for the planet."
  Avatar Sequel Ramps Up Pro-Environmental Messaging (Already)
  
• "When the currency of identity politics comes down to elaborate lies." (meh, they ain't all that elaborate - jjs)
  The Era of Pretendians

  HITHER & YON

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  A Masterful Use of Analogies in the Service Of Freedom, By George

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 25, 2022 07:46 AM (BRHaw)

2 Morning!

Posted by: Ann at October 25, 2022 07:46 AM (O7tT3)

3 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 07:47 AM (uLr+K)

4 Happy Tuesday one and all. And thanks to JJ for providing us amusement and outrage.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 25, 2022 07:47 AM (4olE8)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 25, 2022 07:48 AM (FERyt)

6 morning horde.

and after a quick glance at the headlines, i can't help but paraphrase Jack Nicholson's Joker "This country needs an ENEMA"...

covfefe is ready, off to the content.

Posted by: SturmToddler at October 25, 2022 07:48 AM (WhsXQ)

7 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at October 25, 2022 07:49 AM (mPTzA)

8 I think its worth noting that the Dem's big Rheicstag Fire push, that they put 2 years of full time work into, can now be officially regarded as a total failure.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 07:49 AM (9rMHA)

9 Yonder Horde.

Saw the story about Rubio's canvassing volunteer being beaten. Political violence. Get used to it. And it'll get worse.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2022 07:50 AM (BFigT)

10 Why did that Republican provoke those poor residents of Hialeah? Republican like to talk about self-defense, except when a neighborhood has to band together and battle for it's very survival against a white supremacist attack, like this one!

Posted by: Karine Jean Pierre's Brain at October 25, 2022 07:50 AM (WpwS5)

11 The want us to lash out so they can use it as a pretext to cancel the elections, declare martial law, and you name it.

And when normal people realize "Welp, after the first killing the rest are free" it will get ugly very quickly.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 25, 2022 07:50 AM (4olE8)

12 The more the left succeeds, the more people understand how bad they are.

Posted by: IanDeal at October 25, 2022 07:51 AM (MGjjz)

13 Well now.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 07:51 AM (WpwS5)

14
Saw the story about Rubio's canvassing volunteer being beaten. Political violence. Get used to it. And it'll get worse.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2022 07:50 AM (BFigT)

It's the exact reason I don't show up at rallies and get togethers from the candidate I support. It may sound like fun but leftists see "Free Fire Zone."

Posted by: NR Pax at October 25, 2022 07:52 AM (4olE8)

15 You know what can fix all this and bring us together? Rap music.

Posted by: fd at October 25, 2022 07:52 AM (sn5EN)

16 Shirtless Darrow, through his tiresome antics yesterday, forfeited the remainder of his direct examination of his witnesses (no one showed, including his mom), and forfeited his influence on the Jury Instructions.

Today will be Closing Arguments (1 hour allotted to each side), then the lengthy reading of the Verdict Forms (?) and the Jury Instructions. Jury will be sequestered, it appears.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 07:52 AM (4I/2K)

17
Good morning, Hordians. Cold front passed through at high speed early this morning so it promises to be cool and crisp here in Brazoria County today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 07:52 AM (1Nxff)

18 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 25, 2022 07:52 AM (1Z8zZ)

19 when you're white you're not really innocent, are you?

Preach it, brother!

Posted by: Rev. Al Sharpton at October 25, 2022 07:53 AM (WpwS5)

20 "America’s rule of law is dead, and Democrats killed it. But in its wake, Bannon’s political imprisonment is a call to action."
Steve Bannon is Now a Political Prisoner, and the Rule of Law is Dead

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Someone - maybe you, JJ - linked an article recently making the case why conservatives shouldn't call themselves conservatives any longer. We aren't conserving this country. It's been overrun, and any "conserving" would be silly little bits and pieces of a forgotten age.

What conservatives have to do is recognize that we're the Alinsky side now, and help kids and young parents know that it's okay to not cut their genitals off, or to want to have good jobs, or that they should be able to live, work, and drive wherever they want.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 07:53 AM (qW2YF)

21 So James Cameron, happy with the success of Ferngully Ripoff One, is going to produce Ferngully Two - Electric Bugaloo. Why not, why not.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 07:53 AM (9rMHA)

22 "The[y] want us to lash out so they can use it as a pretext to cancel the elections, declare martial law, and you name it."

I still maintain that a major component of the 2020 BLM/Antifa riots was an attempt to bait Trump into having a "Kent State" moment, which, to his credit, he avoided.

Oddly enough, for someone who is supposedly such an authoritarian threat to democracy, Trump was the President least likely to interfere in a matter that should be left to the states in my lifetime, including even Reagan.

Posted by: can of spam at October 25, 2022 07:53 AM (7oNMO)

23 You know what can fix all this and bring us together? Rap music.
Posted by: fd at October 25, 2022 07:52 AM (sn5EN)

*Midnight Basketball has entered the chat*

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 07:53 AM (4I/2K)

24 Jury will be sequestered, it appears.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 07:52 AM (4I/2K)

Until the media gets information leaked to them and reporters show up at doorsteps to talk about their feelings about being on the jury.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 25, 2022 07:54 AM (4olE8)

25 Goede morgen dear morons and thanks JJ

Why do they do it? Because, as author and economist Thomas Sowell has said, those “who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior.”
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This is also why I like watching "Real Housewives of New Jersey"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 25, 2022 07:54 AM (EZebt)

26 Morning again all

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2022 07:54 AM (487vD)

27
when you're white you're not really innocent, are you?

And you'll never be forgiven either.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 07:55 AM (1Nxff)

28 At some point Testaments to Civility have to give way to the basic right of self defense. The kid Rittenhouse understood what most on the right still don’t

Posted by: Uncle Festermans Reverse Goiter at October 25, 2022 07:55 AM (FfArO)

29 20 Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 07:53 AM (qW2YF)


It was maybe in American Greatness last week, but check past posts. Easiest way is to go to CJN in my nick and scroll through there.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 25, 2022 07:56 AM (x0n13)

30 Just learned the new British PM went to Stanford for his MBA and then worked for Goldman for several years, before working for a hedge fund. Married a billionaire's daughter along the way. In short, he's the new Goldman partner in charge of the London office.

Posted by: Gov. Ferret Murphy, Goldman Sachs Partner in charge of NJ at October 25, 2022 07:56 AM (WpwS5)

31 @21

>>So James Cameron, happy with the success of Ferngully Ripoff One, is going to produce Ferngully Two - Electric Bugaloo. Why not, why not.

Unfortunately, this is going to do boffo boxoffice, especially in China, which loves that the West has bought into ACC/AGW nonsense.

They will sell us the solar panels that the West will hang themselves with.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 07:56 AM (up/3i)

32 Violence, rape, racism, sexual depravity, theft and more rape are Mother's Milk to democrats. I am always surprised at the number of smooth brained individuals who vote democrat but they are out there, looking for a handout or a government check.

Moochers and Looters All Of Them.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 25, 2022 07:58 AM (Yi4c0)

33 Sup.

Posted by: Redenzo at October 25, 2022 07:59 AM (aMIVD)

34 And in case it wasn't mentioned

Switzerland says it will fine, jail individuals who turn their thermostats above 66 degrees

https://tinyurl.com/26tzllw7

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This is happening all over Europe, and it will come here. Fetterman's Morgan Freeman romantic murderers will walk free with no bail systems put in place, and you'll go to jail trying to keep your children warm.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 07:59 AM (s4v0L)

35 Brooks also would not answer the judge's question about did he want to testify in his own defense or did he not. So the non-answer antics were taken as he would not.

Then Brooks built a fort out of document boxes and hid behind them from the camera like a 2 year old while ranting and gesturing. Judge had the bailiffs remove the box fort. Twice. Warned Brooks that a third removal of the boxes would place them far out of his floor-shackled reach.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 08:01 AM (4I/2K)

36 As much as I hate the View ladies and detest some of Cruz' weaselly attitudes, that appearance was tremendous. Hold your nose and watch a little of it. I doubt he penetrated their insular ignorance, but he made them into a spectacle of hypocrisy.

Posted by: Gov. Ferret Murphy, Goldman Sachs Partner in charge of NJ at October 25, 2022 08:02 AM (WpwS5)

37 Cardona blamed "decades of under-investment" for declining test scores. (Literally hundreds of billions, with never a cut and always an increase, and yet, this tired bromide gets spouted once again - jjs)
As Student Test Scores Plummet, Education Secretary Proposes 21% Budget Increase

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Seems all those $billions spent on top heavy, totally unnecessary bureaucrats like "inclusion and equity officers" and the like could've been spent more wisely. Not to worry. It's not the fault of the highly corrupt public school system. Just give them more money.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 25, 2022 08:02 AM (sVtYq)

38 The Military already uses loan forgiveness for recruitment and it isn't working.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 25, 2022 08:03 AM (bVYXr)

39 Oops. Sock change.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 08:03 AM (WpwS5)

40 Just learned the new British PM went to Stanford for his MBA and then worked for Goldman for several years, before working for a hedge fund. Married a billionaire's daughter along the way. In short, he's the new Goldman partner in charge of the London office.
Posted by: Gov. Ferret Murphy, Goldman Sachs Partner in charge of NJ at October 25, 2022 07:56 AM (WpwS5)

He's Harry Ellis from Die Hard:
Hey, business is business. You use a gun, I use a fountain pen what's the difference? Let's put it in my terms: you're in a hostile takeover, you snatch us up for some green mail, but you're not expecting some poison pill to be running around the building, am I right? Hans, *bubby*, I'm your white knight.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 08:04 AM (4I/2K)

41 Voting is fine so long as it is not in lieu of mid and long term thinking and planning for a rebuild, which includes redefining our borders and our sovereignty.

Posted by: Uncle Festermans Reverse Goiter at October 25, 2022 08:05 AM (FfArO)

42 That said, one day someone somewhere is going to snap, brought about by some outrage or circumstance that befalls said individual, as a result of the criminal actions of this criminal junta and its acolytes, enablers and allies in and out of government.

While payback would be awesome, I really hope this is not right. The Junta and their Propaganda Press handmaidens are praying for exactly this to happen. We will probably have to destroy them the old-fashioned way, through politics, law and financial destruction.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 08:06 AM (WpwS5)

43 Just learned the new British PM went to Stanford for his MBA and then worked for Goldman for several years, before working for a hedge fund. Married a billionaire's daughter along the way. In short, he's the new Goldman partner in charge of the London office.

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They have come so very far from the days of Churchill. The globalists are slurping up countries at a rapid pace. Pretty much unimpeded.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 25, 2022 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

44 Furthermore, Freestone stated Democrat legislators appeared “poised to continue the expanded absentee voting provisions of New York State Election Law … in an Orwellian perpetual state of health emergency and cloaked in the veneer of ‘voter enfranchisement[.]'”
New York Judge: Absentee Mail Voting Due to Covid Concerns Is Unconstitutional

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So, like when "gay marriage" was determined to suddenly be law, those elections decided under unconstitutional means are null and void, right?

Oh, no. It doesn't work that way. Because reasons.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 08:06 AM (s4v0L)

45 Education funding and academic prowess seem to enjoy an inverse proportion relationship.

Sort of like...Luke, I cut it three times, and it's still too short!

Well, take another inch off that end and see if it fits.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 08:06 AM (uLr+K)

46 Good commentary, JJ. Thanks as always.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 25, 2022 08:06 AM (tEGQX)

47 Good Morning, Everyone.

Are the breakfast tacos here yet?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 25, 2022 08:07 AM (zphNH)

48 Up top. Half the country is evil and or crazy. Believe the red wave when it happens, not before.

Posted by: Ziba at October 25, 2022 08:07 AM (4h9M3)

49 It will be a long time coming, if it comes at all, and it depends on what Trump has learned in exile but the only way any of this stops is for FBI agents, former Department Secretaries and many others to be successfully tried and convicted and sentenced for sedition and treason,.

Period.

There IS great value in deterrence and the only effective deterrence is legal punishment.

Posted by: Voter theater. at October 25, 2022 08:07 AM (m35QE)

50 If voting made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it.

Posted by: Mark Twain at October 25, 2022 08:08 AM (4I/2K)

51 That said, one day someone somewhere is going to snap, brought about by some outrage or circumstance that befalls said individual, as a result of the criminal actions of this criminal junta and its acolytes, enablers and allies in and out of government.

While payback would be awesome, I really hope this is not right. The Junta and their Propaganda Press handmaidens are praying for exactly this to happen. We will probably have to destroy them the old-fashioned way, through politics, law and financial destruction.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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I have been shocked at how well behaved conservatives / the right / Trump supporters / Republicans have been, especially after two solid years of goading and open attempts to get someone to go nuts and start the party.

It's pretty amazing how civilized Western Civilization is.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 08:08 AM (s4v0L)

52 The real politics behind Drag Queen story hour. Christopher Rufo comments:

https://tinyurl.com/4e9yhxwu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 25, 2022 08:08 AM (tEGQX)

53 The UK is almost a lost cause

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:09 AM (dO/0d)

54 Geez, those links are depressing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 25, 2022 08:09 AM (sVtYq)

55 We will probably have to destroy them the old-fashioned way, through politics, law and financial destruction.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 08:06 AM (WpwS5)
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And helicopters.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 25, 2022 08:09 AM (EZebt)

56 We will probably have to destroy them the old-fashioned way, through politics, law and financial destruction.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 08:06 AM (WpwS5)
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And helicopters.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 25, 2022 08:09 AM (EZebt)

And parades with 10,000 marbles and Death Mobiles and a pirate.

Posted by: Delta House at October 25, 2022 08:10 AM (4I/2K)

57 "Will the world’s artistic patrimony survive this madness relatively unscathed? We can hope."
Climate Lunatics Throw Mashed Potatoes on Monet Masterpiece, and It’s Going to Get Worse"


I submit that applying a vegetable layer to some art is often an improvement.

Posted by: fd at October 25, 2022 08:10 AM (sn5EN)

58 36 As much as I hate the View ladies and detest some of Cruz' weaselly attitudes, that appearance was tremendous. Hold your nose and watch a little of it. I doubt he penetrated their insular ignorance, but he made them into a spectacle of hypocrisy.
Posted by: Gov. Ferret Murphy, Goldman Sachs Partner in charge of NJ at October 25, 2022 08:02 AM (WpwS5)

He has a role for us - it's just not leading - it's outreach and message delivery...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 08:11 AM (exHjb)

59 The UK is almost a lost cause
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:09 AM (dO/0d)

It's been lost since WWI.
More coffee..

Posted by: dantesed at October 25, 2022 08:11 AM (88xKn)

60 "The UK is almost a lost cause".

Well thats what our Founders said.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 08:11 AM (9rMHA)

61 We will probably have to destroy them the old-fashioned way, through politics, law and financial destruction.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Also this is the required and best way, and any other way does a disservice to the Founding Fathers. We're a long, long way from the violence that Biden and the left keeps wanting to start in order to further their plans. We need to vote, charge with crimes, threaten with punishment, get people fired, win lawsuits, etc.

We're a long way from the other stuff. Sadly the left wants it BADLY.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 08:12 AM (s4v0L)

62 Then Brooks built a fort out of document boxes and hid behind them from the camera like a 2 year old while ranting and gesturing. Judge had the bailiffs remove the box fort. Twice.


Do you think he's going for the nuthouse defense?

Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 08:12 AM (45fpk)

63 But unless and until we can deprogram and de-Nazify everyone




I have noted here before that we will need a denazification program for virtually all democrats. There is simply so much brainwashing, it will take a major program to get them back to where they can participate in normal society.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 25, 2022 08:12 AM (lTGtQ)

64 I learned how to tell really big lies back when I was salesman of the month six times in a row at Ponce de Leon Used Car Sales in Broward County. Also got the Golden Manatee award for bullshitting my way out of a lawsuit. Got my first good tan there too, riding around the lot on a skateboard wearing a Speedo. I'll be glad when this bullshit is over and I lose. So what. I get to keep most of the campaign money except for the kicker up to Delaware.

Charlie Crist

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2022 08:12 AM (lz5hY)

65 Thanks JJ

Posted by: Jonah at October 25, 2022 08:13 AM (WY8d2)

66
Just learned the new British PM went to Stanford for his MBA and then worked for Goldman for several years, before working for a hedge fund.

First step: lay off half the country.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 08:13 AM (1Nxff)

67 @53

>>The UK is almost a lost cause

The UK has been a lost cause since Tony Blair, once the Panama Papers were revealed and nobody in power faced any repercussions but soldiered on and profited, it largely proved that our systems of government are largely a well crafted illusion.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:14 AM (up/3i)

68 > We will probably have to destroy them the old-fashioned way, through politics, law and financial destruction.
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The left has already destroyed much of the right's ability to retaliate using just these methods. They probably won't work a second time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2022 08:15 AM (BFigT)

69 59. Agreed the day Winston Churchill lost in a landslided in 1945, Britain went too. Massive Big Gubmint programs enacted at that time, made it impossible for any Tory Gubmint to make changes

Posted by: Jonah at October 25, 2022 08:15 AM (WY8d2)

70 Just say my first Obama for Wes Moore commercial here in B'More.

Supposedly, Wes Moore is beating Cox by something ridicules like 67% to 28%.

They're bringing out the big guns now!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 08:16 AM (uLr+K)

71 The Left is all about destruction. Why should museums be exempt (not to mention the little help that comes from within) ?

Posted by: Ziba at October 25, 2022 08:16 AM (4h9M3)

72 Boris Johnson was to the left of Joe Manchin. Major and Cameron also.

Posted by: Jonah at October 25, 2022 08:16 AM (WY8d2)

73 Then Brooks built a fort out of document boxes and hid behind them from the camera like a 2 year old while ranting and gesturing. Judge had the bailiffs remove the box fort. Twice. Warned Brooks that a third removal of the boxes would place them far out of his floor-shackled reach.
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 08:01 AM (4I/2K)
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I guess he doesn't recognize the authority of the court from "Fort Kickass"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 25, 2022 08:17 AM (YIVH2)

74 Do you think he's going for the nuthouse defense?
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 08:12 AM (45fpk)

No, he's just doing everything and anything to gum up the works. It won't make a difference in the verdict. It may influence the judge during sentencing.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 08:17 AM (4I/2K)

75 First step: lay off half the country.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 08:13 AM (1Nxff)

I believe that has already been accomplished

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:17 AM (dO/0d)

76 66. and his father in law is a global billionaire?

Posted by: Jonah at October 25, 2022 08:18 AM (WY8d2)

77
The UK is almost a lost cause
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:09 AM (dO/0d)

It's been lost since WWI.
More coffee..
Posted by: dantesed at October 25, 2022 08:11 AM (88xKn)

Even before that. We don't appreciate that the UK was in a whole lot of trouble in the years before World War I. Strikes, political unrest, a possible civil war over Ireland, a failing competitive position with respect to Germany and America; it was a mess.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 08:18 AM (1Nxff)

78 The "de-nazification" program in postwar Germany was a massive failure in its main purpose. Many senior Nazi leaders and bureaucrats continued to serve in the Bonn government.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 25, 2022 08:19 AM (EZebt)

79 "Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God."

Ephesians 5:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 08:19 AM (ZeDNp)

80 The man, who will also require facial reconstruction surgery, was wearing a shirt supporting Rubio and hat supporting Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). . .

well there you go. You can't run around dressed provocatively like that and expect to not get raped, uh, I mean, beaten to death.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 25, 2022 08:19 AM (8FjjU)

81 Woke capitalism" is corporate America’s attempt to profit off of Millennial and Gen Z activism, often passive keyboard activism.
It exploits social-justice politics and transforms it into social-justice consumerism - and ultimately, investor profit.
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That's a theory of it, but I think that theory is people trying to square the circle and find an answer that makes traditional sense. I don't think it's actually sensible. In far too many cases, it doesn't result in any of that investor profit. There are examples it working - like Nike, which has done quite well by going woke - but P&G probably isn't happy with Gillette's performance.

But the biggest problem is the internal wokeness. They aren't doing it for markets, they're doing it because their HR executives all went to college and learned to be woke busybodies. They're doing it because their executives and boards of directors are in the club, too. They want money from Wall Street or to stay in the good graces of fellow execs.

And it's a productivity destroyer. In the past, efficiency and often even revenues didn't matter. They're starting to matter again, and the woke shit is a poison pill.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 08:19 AM (EwScq)

82 The UK is almost a lost cause
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:09 AM (dO/0d)
It's been lost since WWI.
More coffee..
Posted by: dantesed at October 25, 2022 08:11 AM (88xKn)

We threw England outta here a long time ago. We don't want no more part of England. And for your information England is a fag country.

Posted by: Archie Bunker at October 25, 2022 08:20 AM (Yi4c0)

83 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Verse for today:

"Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness. I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work."

--Ecclesiastes 3:16-17

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:20 AM (LsEU/)

84 As someone who has traveled to Britain and France several times, I have no desire to go back. Lockdowns were a bad omen over there.

Rather take a drive to Yellowstone or the Badlands

Posted by: Jonah at October 25, 2022 08:20 AM (WY8d2)

85 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

86 The new British PM has all the right badges of the elite ruling class. The irony that he's Indian is sweet.

Posted by: Ziba at October 25, 2022 08:20 AM (4h9M3)

87 Just say my first Obama for Wes Moore commercial here in B'More.

Supposedly, Wes Moore is beating Cox by something ridicules like 67% to 28%.

They're bringing out the big guns now!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 08:16 AM (uLr+K)

Good morning, VIA! How are you today?

Posted by: Doof at October 25, 2022 08:21 AM (sX5nc)

88 The media is the enemy of the people. No doubt about it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

89 Ephesians 5:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 08:19 AM (ZeDNp)


'Dearly loved children'. Such assurance. Thanks Marcus T.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 08:21 AM (45fpk)

90 The Danger of Bubble Wrap (Or, How Democrats Learned To Love Ignoring Voters)

What if this is all an accident?

I was talking with some people at the World Famous TXMoMe about social media and their algorithms. Not the ones which censor, the ones which suggest content.

They were programmed, believe it or not, to be helpful... to suggest things you're likely to be interested in. The effect, however, it to guide you into ever narrower fields of view. If your interest is the news, or politics, you literally CANNOT see a differing viewpoint. No matter how much your personal observations may collide with your served digital narrative, everything you see online will point in the same direction.

These politicians/bureaucrats all talk to the same people, they all use the same sources. What if the Dems - even the leadership in DC - actually believe that Jan 6th was an attempted coup? What if they actually believe that they're saving America from a nazi horde.

As unlikely as this sounds, it's not impossible.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 25, 2022 08:21 AM (1Z8zZ)

91 @70

>>Supposedly, Wes Moore is beating Cox by something ridicules like 67% to 28%.

Well, looking at the demographics of Maryland and the overall composition of the legislature where the Donks have a large majority, that sounds about right.

Sucks, but that's the name of that tune.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:21 AM (up/3i)

92 It is great when a company is more than happy to sell you its software, but considers you too small potatoes to even make an account on their community support forum.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 25, 2022 08:21 AM (8FjjU)

93 God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work."

--Ecclesiastes 3:16-17

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:20 AM (LsEU/)


Thank you, Tonypete.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 08:22 AM (45fpk)

94 San Cox is on WBAL right now. I hope he wins. Wes Moore is an idiot and a fabulist

Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 25, 2022 08:22 AM (flINI)

95 We threw England outta here a long time ago. We don't want no more part of England. And for your information England is a fag country.
Posted by: Archie Bunker

And, as it turns out, Meathead wasn't acting. He is/was the exact asshoe imbicile Archie thought him to be.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:23 AM (LsEU/)

96 "Dearly loved children'. Such assurance. Thanks Marcus T.
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 08:21 AM (45fpk)"

Amen. You're welcome.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 08:23 AM (ZeDNp)

97 I have noted here before that we will need a denazification program for virtually all democrats. There is simply so much brainwashing, it will take a major program to get them back to where they can participate in normal society.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Liberal application of the element Pb.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2022 08:23 AM (487vD)

98 Woke capitalism is corporate America’s attempt to profit off of Millennial and Gen Z activism, often passive keyboard activism.
It exploits social-justice politics and transforms it into social-justice consumerism - and ultimately, investor profit.
______________

Da fuq?

A Ponzi scheme is better structured than this horseshit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2022 08:23 AM (BFigT)

99 Today is World Pasta Day
and National Fine Art Appreciation Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

100 "Good morning, VIA! How are you today?'


Everything in the right eye is twice the size of everything in the left eye.

Mid-day eye appointment at one of the well known eye eye physicians here. So....we shall see (Hopefully)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 08:24 AM (uLr+K)

101 Between 2002 and 2020 total education spending on employee benefits (such as pensions and healthcare) in the U.S. nearly doubled from $90 billion to $164 billion a year.

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 25, 2022 08:24 AM (BRHaw)

102 That trial in WI: I don't know if it has been said but 'The State of Wisconsin' is actually a shortened form of 'The People of the State of Wisconsin' so The People are his accusers. They have delegated that job to the AG who in turn has delegated it to the local DA. The DA's office is represented in court by three lawyers.

Posted by: Ciampino --- Java is needed right now Stat at October 25, 2022 08:25 AM (qfLjt)

103 A Ponzi scheme is better structured than this horseshit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2022 08:23 AM (BFigT)
++++
A Ponzi scheme at least works in the first place. It won't keep working, but it works up front.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 08:25 AM (EwScq)

104 Everything in the right eye is twice the size of everything in the left eye.

Mid-day eye appointment at one of the well known eye eye physicians here. So....we shall see (Hopefully)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 08:24 AM (uLr+K)


I'm curious to hear what your eye pressures are.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

105 Everything in the right eye is twice the size of everything in the left eye.

Mid-day eye appointment at one of the well known eye eye physicians here. So....we shall see (Hopefully)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 08:24 AM (uLr+K)

Continued prayers for you, brother. Please keep us posted.

Posted by: Doof at October 25, 2022 08:25 AM (sX5nc)

106 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 08:16 AM (uLr+K)

How are you doing today?

Posted by: Moki at October 25, 2022 08:26 AM (JrN/x)

107 "Today is World Pasta Day
and National Fine Art Appreciation Day.
Posted by: redridinghood "

*throws spaghetti at a Rothko*

Posted by: fd at October 25, 2022 08:26 AM (sn5EN)

108 Everything in the right eye is twice the size of everything in the left eye.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 08:24 AM (uLr+K)


Well that sounds sub-optimal. I hope you get some answers and some relief at your doctor.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 08:26 AM (45fpk)

109 These politicians/bureaucrats all talk to the same people, they all use the same sources. What if the Dems - even the leadership in DC - actually believe that Jan 6th was an attempted coup? What if they actually believe that they're saving America from a nazi horde.

As unlikely as this sounds, it's not impossible.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 25, 2022 08:21 AM (1Z8zZ)
---
I think it's very likely that is indeed the case. They are in their bubble, which is opaque to them from the inside. They literally cannot see anything outside of their own personal universe.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 25, 2022 08:26 AM (YIVH2)

110 So, was the man that did that to the canvasser arrested? Linked article at the top says nothing about it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

111 Cox won't win MD, but it won't be quite the epic rout that it's reported to be. In MD, you're gonna have the "shy" voter more than anywhere b/c Baltimore is a no go zone, and many parts of Prince George's County follow that lead...

And again - if you're a zealot fed, you live there, not VA, anymore...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 08:26 AM (exHjb)

112 99 Today is World Pasta Day
and National Fine Art Appreciation Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 08:24 AM (NpAcC)


How cool if it were World Mashed Potato Day or World Campbell's Soup Day?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 25, 2022 08:26 AM (x0n13)

113 I have seen that the Tech millionaires from India, in this country as well as the UK, all tend to be some kind of capitalistic socialists. They like the dysfunctional systems they grew up in.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 08:28 AM (9rMHA)

114 "Sucks, but that's the name of that tune."

On the other hand, if your candidate is winning at 3 to 1 numbers, do you really need to trot out Bronko Bama to get him over the line.

And Truck Monkey, sitting here on the edge of Baltimore City, the fear of a Wes Moore Governorship in this mostly liberal enclave is palpable.

I have never had as many old neighbors suddenly bring up politics in the middle of the 'How you been?" discussion before.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 08:28 AM (uLr+K)

115 I have noted here before that we will need a denazification program for virtually all democrats. There is simply so much brainwashing, it will take a major program to get them back to where they can participate in normal society.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

My oldest, whom I love dearly, is a big supporter of O'Rourke. Odd for a businessman whose firms live and die according to tax and regulation overreach (and the lack thereof).

By the way, Son and family are moving permanently to London. I kills me to admit he is a socialist - even if he doesn't see it or recognize it. I has the sadz.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:28 AM (LsEU/)

116
*throws spaghetti at a Rothko*
Posted by: fd at October 25, 2022 08:26 AM (sn5EN)


And just like that, shit art becomes better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

117 So when I call DELL support will I get the new UK PM?

Asking for a friend

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:28 AM (dO/0d)

118 "They literally cannot see anything outside of their own personal universe.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"

Their "reality".

Posted by: fd at October 25, 2022 08:29 AM (sn5EN)

119 Hey anyone know what time the Yankee game starts tonight?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:29 AM (dO/0d)

120 107 "Today is World Pasta Day
and National Fine Art Appreciation Day.
Posted by: redridinghood "

*throws spaghetti at a Rothko*
Posted by: fd at October 25, 2022 08:26 AM (sn5EN)


Throw it at a Jackson Pollack for zero net effect.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 25, 2022 08:29 AM (x0n13)

121 Link to Am Conservative article War Powers Act by MacGregor is a worthwhile read even though this Congress will never do what it should.

Posted by: Ziba at October 25, 2022 08:29 AM (4h9M3)

122 Been wanting a shelf rack for the garage. On an unrelated whim, I go to NextDoor early this morning and up pops a "free at the curb" post with a 3-shelf wire rack of the right size.

It was posted after sunset last night and it was just a couple of blocks away. So I chugged on over there in the pre-dawn darkness and voila!

Give us this day our daily bread.

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns—and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? - Luke 12:25

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 08:29 AM (4I/2K)

123 LIV. That is the point. When all of your news tells you that Jan 6 was a violent, deadly insurrection, all of the video is MAGA streaming through the Capitol and clashing with police, you are told that the right is literally the right wing Nazis of Germany, what else are you going to believe?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 25, 2022 08:30 AM (0lUe7)

124 Prayer list is super long today. You people need to do better.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 25, 2022 08:30 AM (EZebt)

125 Montgomery County is now, and has been, oozing up to Frederick County. In my 30 years here Frederick has exploded in population and is now filled with busy bodies and do gooders from the DC metroplex. West Virginia might be in my future soon

Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 25, 2022 08:30 AM (flINI)

126 Between 2002 and 2020 total education spending on employee benefits (such as pensions and healthcare) in the U.S. nearly doubled from $90 billion to $164 billion a year.
Posted by: rhennigantx at October 25, 2022 08:24 AM (BRHaw)
++++
Sure, but is it exceptional? Well let's see.

At the macro level nationally, total medical care expenditure during that same time period went up by 2.5x. Pensions are harder to find and I couldn't scare up a stat in under two minutes.

But my bet, given their nearly 2x combined increase and the 2.5x increase in medical spending alone in the wider market, is that they aren't meaningfully above average here. It's a ton of money and way too rapid a growth rate, but that may well come down to the medical system in general rather than mismanagement specifically in ed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 08:30 AM (EwScq)

127 Hell, even Ted Cruz calls us violent insurrectionist terrorists.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 25, 2022 08:30 AM (0lUe7)

128
My oldest, whom I love dearly, is a big supporter of O'Rourke. Odd for a businessman whose firms live and die according to tax and regulation overreach (and the lack thereof).

By the way, Son and family are moving permanently to London. I kills me to admit he is a socialist - even if he doesn't see it or recognize it. I has the sadz.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:28 AM (LsEU/)


It's hard to not feel like you've failed in some way, teaching the ways of the Founding Fathers and the freedoms they so desperately desired for Americans to your offspring.

I fear the public school system has taken my child from me and she will end up in the same direction and I fight it as often as I can.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

129 "I'm curious to hear what your eye pressures are."

Usually I run 32 in the front, 35 in the rear for highway driving.

Wait...wut?


Never mind.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 08:30 AM (uLr+K)

130 Prayer list is super long today. You people need to do better.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 25, 2022 08:30 AM (EZebt)


In what way?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

131 125 Montgomery County is now, and has been, oozing up to Frederick County. In my 30 years here Frederick has exploded in population and is now filled with busy bodies and do gooders from the DC metroplex. West Virginia might be in my future soon
Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 25, 2022 08:30 AM (flINI)

Come down to VA - it's pricier than WV, but townhomes aren't bad (since I live in one), and VA has the better weather and safer environs (thanks felonies are forever)...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 08:31 AM (exHjb)

132 Hey anyone know what time the Yankee game starts tonight?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:29 AM (dO/0d)

That's cruel. +1

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 08:32 AM (4I/2K)

133 Adidas cuts ties with Kanye West over 'offensive behavior'
German sporting goods maker Adidas ended its partnership with American rapper Kanye West, following a rash of offensive behavior.

Sigh, Look kanye is an idiot. But I am against these voiding contract crap. Don't want to buy his shit, fine, but how many left wing bigots and vile POS does Adidas also support? Fuckin Nike supports that kneeler.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:32 AM (dO/0d)

134 So when I call DELL support will I get the new UK PM?

Asking for a friend
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:28 AM (dO/0d)

***

*in my best pidgeon english*

Hello, this is Steve. How are you doing today?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 25, 2022 08:32 AM (flINI)

135 It's hard to not feel like you've failed in some way, teaching the ways of the Founding Fathers and the freedoms they so desperately desired for Americans to your offspring.

I fear the public school system has taken my child from me and she will end up in the same direction and I fight it as often as I can.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

--

It's hard not to, though. Same as asking flaming leftists to act like they believe in Global Warming, go ask most conservatives if they'd be willing to see a 10% cut in their own Social Security and they'll say no, even though it's a ponzi scheme no different than any other. Socialism is baked into the cake.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 08:32 AM (s4v0L)

136 Hey anyone know what time the Yankee game starts tonight?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:29 AM (dO/0d)


Right after the Packer game. Uff da.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 08:33 AM (45fpk)

137 The people in the Dem Bubble are listening to Howard Dean and Michael Moore, who are both currently shrieking that Dems will win everywhere. There's a big ready made market for that kind of idiocy. Easy to lie to people who want to be lied to, especially when they pay you to do it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 08:33 AM (9rMHA)

138
That's cruel. +1
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 08:32 AM (4I/2K)


And it is beautiful.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

139 Another problem we have is that there are far too many experts on things that are irrelevant. One of the impacts of the cancerous growth of universities as an industry has given us a large number of people educated on things like equity, or the study of failed societies.

There is no value to any of this. Those so called experts literally provide nothing of value to society.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 25, 2022 08:34 AM (lTGtQ)

140

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at October 25, 2022 08:34 AM (sGWK0)

141 These 20- and 30-somethings are ideological terrorists, policing their peers and elders relentlessly. They are “omnipotent moral busybodies” ridding the world of evil, and they will not rest until they exorcise immorality for the good of those being exorcised.

===

Snitches get stitches.

Posted by: runner at October 25, 2022 08:34 AM (08aYg)

142 WV might be in my future as well.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 25, 2022 08:35 AM (ajvaO)

143 Kancel Kanye is well underway. And do not doubt that they can get the job done. Money is not enough to save anyone, I truly believe. He sinned against the “ Party” if you will.

Posted by: kraken at October 25, 2022 08:35 AM (Vr12I)

144 @132

>>That's cruel. +1

The only thing crueler is what The Mets pulled on their fans.

Literally led the entire season until the last series against Atlanta, collapsed, lost the division and were essentially swept out of the playoffs by a wild-card team after winning 101 games.

I've witnessed some bad juju as a Mets fan, but that was particularly harsh.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:35 AM (up/3i)

145 "Those so called experts literally provide nothing of value to society."

Organs.

And Soylent Green.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 08:36 AM (uLr+K)

146 Won't be long now. The Left is getting violent even in Florida, now - one of the few places where there might actually be consequences for attacking a second-class citizen.

Very soon, this kind of stuff is going to be so commonplace it doesn't even bear reportage.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 08:36 AM (oINRc)

147 Tonight's debates:
Fetterman vs Oz
Hochul vs Zeldin
Whitmer vs Dixon

Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

148 In what way?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)
===
I would like to get some people healed and off my list!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 25, 2022 08:37 AM (EZebt)

149 I can't believe Lurch is really going thru with this

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 25, 2022 08:37 AM (w0NJk)

150 Today is World Pasta Day
and National Fine Art Appreciation Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

Hmm, non è male!

Posted by: Chef Boyardee at October 25, 2022 08:38 AM (4I/2K)

151 @147

>>Tonight's debates:
Fetterman vs Oz
Hochul vs Zeldin
Whitmer vs Dixon

Over-under on how much they "moderators" spend on Abortion, January 6th and other woke nonsense?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:38 AM (up/3i)

152 Unfortunately, the only denazification program that is truly effective is mass slaughter of academics, politicians, and CEO's. The programming just runs too deep for anything else.

Posted by: observer at October 25, 2022 08:38 AM (utTGw)

153
Hey anyone know what time the Yankee game starts tonight?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:29 AM (dO/0d)

__________

The Astros cheated! The umpires suck! The roof was open! It wasn't our fault, I swear to God!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 08:38 AM (1Nxff)

154 "I can't believe Lurch is really going thru with this"

If he's smart, he'll let the neck goiter do the talking.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 08:39 AM (uLr+K)

155 Literally led the entire season until the last series against Atlanta, collapsed, lost the division and were essentially swept out of the playoffs by a wild-card team after winning 101 games.

I've witnessed some bad juju as a Mets fan, but that was particularly harsh.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:35 AM (up/3i)


I feel badly about that.

Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 08:39 AM (45fpk)

156 Throw it at a Jackson Pollack for zero net effect.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 25, 2022 08:29 AM (x0n13)

cleaning crews throwing away modern art

About 107,000,000 results (0.72 seconds)

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 25, 2022 08:39 AM (BRHaw)

157 @132

>>That's cruel. +1

The only thing crueler is what The Mets pulled on their fans.

Literally led the entire season until the last series against Atlanta, collapsed, lost the division and were essentially swept out of the playoffs by a wild-card team after winning 101 games.

I've witnessed some bad juju as a Mets fan, but that was particularly harsh.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:35 AM (up/3i)


The Yanks, Mets, and Dodgers show that huge contracts and high payrolls are no guarantee of winning

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:39 AM (dO/0d)

158 @146

>>Very soon, this kind of stuff is going to be so commonplace it doesn't even bear reportage.

Political violence has been one of the founding hallmarks of the Democrat Party.

They are just reverting back to mean.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:40 AM (up/3i)

159 Also this is the required and best way, and any other way does a disservice to the Founding Fathers.
Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 08:12 AM (s4v0L)
======================
Pretty sure the Founders were cool with some violence.

Posted by: Jorge Washington at October 25, 2022 08:40 AM (443jQ)

160 >West Virginia might be in my future soon
Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 25, 2022 08:30 AM (flINI)
___________

We bought a place in West Virginia for "security" back in 2008. It sits on a small creek with access to the Ohio River. Secluded. Remote. But there are other homes nearby. The locals keep to themselves.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2022 08:40 AM (BFigT)

161
The Yanks, Mets, and Dodgers show that huge contracts and high payrolls are no guarantee of winning
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:39 AM (dO/0d)

And the Phillies show they help...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 08:40 AM (exHjb)

162
Unfortunately, the only denazification program that is truly effective is mass slaughter of academics, politicians, and CEO's.

__________

When the last Grievance Studies professor is strangled with the guts of the last Vice President for Diversity, Inclusion and Equity.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 08:41 AM (1Nxff)

163 Kanye made the mistake of pissing off *everyone*. I see no need to defend him, for example.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 08:41 AM (9rMHA)

164 One of the impacts of the cancerous growth of universities as an industry has given us a large number of people educated on things like equity, or the study of failed societies.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 25, 2022 08:34 AM (lTGtQ)

I would say credentialed rather than educated. If you were to ask Dr. Tiffani why the Olmec civilization failed, no doubt she/her would say western imperialism despite the fact that the Olmecs faded our before the birth of Christ.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 25, 2022 08:41 AM (1Z8zZ)

165 The New Weed Whackers

Does this mean that a formerly reliable indicator, even more reliable than Crocs, is about to lose its efficacy?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 25, 2022 08:41 AM (a3Q+t)

166 I've witnessed some bad juju as a Mets fan, but that was particularly harsh.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:35 AM (up/3i)
==============
Happy to take back our shortstop.

Posted by: Cleveland Trendy Morality-ians at October 25, 2022 08:42 AM (443jQ)

167 @157

>>The Yanks, Mets, and Dodgers show that huge contracts and high payrolls are no guarantee of winning

** singing **

Mr. We could use a man like Billy Beane again.

Can this guy get on base?
Yes, then he will have a place.
On the most boringest yet winningest team, you've ever seeeeeeeeen!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:42 AM (up/3i)

168 Kanye made the mistake of pissing off *everyone*. I see no need to defend him, for example.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 08:41 AM (9rMHA)

NOT defending him. Objecting to the seemingly random and partisain voiding of contracts and suspensions

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 08:43 AM (dO/0d)

169 ===
I would like to get some people healed and off my list!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 25, 2022 08:37 AM (EZebt)


Agreed, but you're implying we're failing somehow and I'm just curious as to what way we're failing those on the list?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

170 163 Kanye made the mistake of pissing off *everyone*. I see no need to defend him, for example.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 08:41 AM (9rMHA)

May take on him is that he’s crazy.

Posted by: kraken at October 25, 2022 08:43 AM (Vr12I)

171 As a Nationals fan I have an interest in the playoffs only insofar as which National Refugee does well. That being said, I HATE Bryce Harper so I need to Astros to humiliate the Phillies

Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 25, 2022 08:43 AM (flINI)

172 I've witnessed some bad juju as a Mets fan, but that was particularly harsh.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:35 AM (up/3i)

Yeah, as a Nats fan (stop laughing), I was hoping to see Mad Max get another WS win. Very disappointing.

Posted by: Manuel at October 25, 2022 08:43 AM (906pl)

173 "Javier Jesus Lopez, 22, was taken into custody for beating a man who was walking around the neighborhood “handing out fliers,” according to a Hialeah Police Department report obtained by The Epoch Times."
His mugshot does not look like a Javier Jesus Lopez.

https://tinyurl.com/59sdyusk

Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

174 Hochul has been subpoenaed to appear today in the NY Second Amendment case. Let's see if she shows up.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 08:44 AM (ZeDNp)

175
>>The Yanks, Mets, and Dodgers show that huge contracts and high payrolls are no guarantee of winning


The Texas Rangers spent 1/2 a BILLION in the offseason and finished somewhere south of 20 games below .500......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

176 Political violence has been one of the founding hallmarks of the Democrat Party.

They are just reverting back to mean.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:40 AM (up/3i)

Sure, but now they control every lever of power. Only a matter of time until some widespread Kristallnacht type event fully normalizes this. After that, it'll become quotidian. "Your honor, I only slashed his eye out *after* he said he didn't like President Harris."

"Oh, I see... Bailiff, remand the victim to custody."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 08:44 AM (oINRc)

177 171 As a Nationals fan I have an interest in the playoffs only insofar as which National Refugee does well. That being said, I HATE Bryce Harper so I need to Astros to humiliate the Phillies


damn son!

harsh

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 25, 2022 08:46 AM (w0NJk)

178 Furthermore, Freestone stated Democrat legislators appeared “poised to continue the expanded absentee voting provisions of New York State Election Law … in an Orwellian perpetual state of health emergency and cloaked in the veneer of ‘voter enfranchisement
==========
Like so many issues, lefties are ignorant of one obvious fact: If you want to change election law, or abortion law, or any law, pass it through the damn legislature.

You can't just seize on a "crisis" and "never let it go to waste", in our system, you propose it, debate it, and try to get the votes for it. These imperial edicts they like so much, suck.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 08:46 AM (443jQ)

179 Ted Cruz has a new book

literally, stop the presses

Posted by: REDACTED at October 25, 2022 08:46 AM (us2H3)

180 >>These 20- and 30-somethings are ideological terrorists, policing their peers and elders relentlessly. They are “omnipotent moral busybodies” ridding the world of evil, and they will not rest until they exorcise immorality for the good of those being exorcised.



Interesting view from the inside!
They seem like lil' witch-accusers from the Crucible just waiting to strike.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 25, 2022 08:46 AM (I/doM)

181 174 Hochul has been subpoenaed to appear today in the NY Second Amendment case. Let's see if she shows up.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 25, 2022 08:44 AM (ZeDNp)

My bet would be no. If she does though, she can be as dismissive, smug, and contemptuous as she wants. There will be no consequence in doing so.

Posted by: kraken at October 25, 2022 08:46 AM (Vr12I)

182 #twoweeks M@th+rf*ck%rs !!

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 25, 2022 08:47 AM (SJsWC)

183
My bet would be no. If she does though, she can be as dismissive, smug, and contemptuous as she wants. There will be no consequence in doing so.
Posted by: kraken at October 25, 2022 08:46 AM (Vr12I)


This is as it will be.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

184 It's political violence now. It will be "generic" violence tomorrow against anyone "on the list."

We're all "on the list."

We're also way past the provocation point. It's been a cool, simmering civil war but I think everyone with common sense knows it won't stay simmering much longer. The left want's to be able to say MAGA/conservatives started it, but it was kicked off years ago by the left. They need to be made to own it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 25, 2022 08:47 AM (BFigT)

185 Agreed, but you're implying we're failing somehow and I'm just curious as to what way we're failing those on the list?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)
===
I didn't mean to bust your chops. A lot of people around me are sick these days.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 25, 2022 08:48 AM (EZebt)

186 For the educational establishment, we need a program much like Henry VIII's Dissolution of the monasteries.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 08:48 AM (9rMHA)

187 Mr. We could use a man like Billy Beane again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

Billy Beane: He gets on base a lot. Do I care if it's a walk or a hit?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:48 AM (LsEU/)

188 You’d think that somebody with “Jesus” in his name would be hesitant to engage in violence.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 25, 2022 08:48 AM (zphNH)

189 Sounds like Hialeah is a nice neighborhood. Maybe not.

Posted by: kraken at October 25, 2022 08:48 AM (Vr12I)

190 ===
I didn't mean to bust your chops. A lot of people around me are sick these days.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 25, 2022 08:48 AM (EZebt)


State of the world, unfortunately. And we're praying, I promise you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

191 108 Everything in the right eye is twice the size of everything in the left eye.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 08:24 AM (uLr+K)

Well that sounds sub-optimal. I hope you get some answers and some relief at your doctor.
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 08:26 AM (45fpk)

I dunno. May help save on CQB optics...

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at October 25, 2022 08:49 AM (MkuC5)

192 @187

>>Billy Beane: He gets on base a lot. Do I care if it's a walk or a hit?

Peter Brand: No, you do not.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:49 AM (up/3i)

193 You’d think that somebody with “Jesus” in his name would be hesitant to engage in violence.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 25, 2022 08:48 AM (zphNH)


Most Mexican drug cartel members have a cross tattooed on their body somewhere.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

194 Marco Rubio Canvasser Violently Attacked in Dem Neighborhood

*******

For those who have been wondering what a second American Civil War will look like.

Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 08:50 AM (kXYt5)

195 Sure, but now they control every lever of power. Only a matter of time until some widespread Kristallnacht type event fully normalizes this. After that, it'll become quotidian. "Your honor, I only slashed his eye out *after* he said he didn't like President Harris."

"Oh, I see... Bailiff, remand the victim to custody."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 08:44 AM (oINRc)

Stwike him, Bailiff. Stwike him vewy wuffly!

Posted by: Judge Pontius Pilate at October 25, 2022 08:50 AM (4I/2K)

196 How can a small-market team from The Bronx hope to compete.

Posted by: Ignoramus at October 25, 2022 08:51 AM (SJsWC)

197 George Takei
@GeorgeTakei

Two things can be true:

1) GA GOP tried to suppress Black votes by new ID requirements and changes to laws, and

2) GA voters, especially Black voters, rallied despite these efforts to turn out in droves.

Don’t get it twisted. It’s still voter suppression, even when it fails.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

198 Good morning horde
The picture from Rubio's Twitter was on Bad Blue yesterday
Feel for the guy, yet the Leftists think it's Conservatives doing the crimes and its them trying to take over the country

Posted by: Skip's phone at October 25, 2022 08:52 AM (TINJO)

199 97
Liberal application of the element Pb.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2022 08:23 AM (487vD)
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Heh heh, it's banned in Kalifornia.

Posted by: Low IQ LIV at October 25, 2022 08:52 AM (qfLjt)

200 Here in Arkansas, running from a trooper is gonna get you hurt.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 25, 2022 08:53 AM (QSjkU)

201 Is it Takei Tuesday?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 25, 2022 08:53 AM (zphNH)

202 @GeorgeTakei
Two things can be true:
1) GA GOP tried to suppress Black votes by new ID requirements and changes to laws, and
2) GA voters, especially Black voters, rallied despite these efforts to turn out in droves.

Don’t get it twisted. It’s still voter suppression, even when it fails.
Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 08:52 AM (NpAcC)
++++
Pull the other one, George.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 08:53 AM (EwScq)

203 Here in Arkansas, running from a trooper is gonna get you hurt.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

I've grown old. What happens if I just sort of shuffle away?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:53 AM (LsEU/)

204
How can a small-market team from The Bronx hope to compete.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 25, 2022 08:51 AM (SJsWC)

____________

That's the amazing thing. A team rich enough to go out and buy anyone they want hasn't been to the Series in 13 years.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 08:54 AM (1Nxff)

205 Lawdy me! They’ve reduced the price! Lockheed Martin is only charging NASA three-quarters of a billion dollars per capsule on this new contract (after NASA spent about $18 billion for the development of the first six capsules– that’s $3 billion each). And Lockheed Martin will only charge about a half billion per capsule for future capsules! My heart be still.

What a fricking scam. NASA, I mean. Zimmerman nails this, pointing out NASA has given Lockheed Martin $20 billion for almost nothing in return, while SpaceX delivers the goods.

Now do Boeing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 08:54 AM (jmjZ+)

206 How can a small-market team from The Bronx hope to compete.
Posted by: Ignoramus at October 25, 2022 08:51 AM (SJsWC)

***

Sad really... Maybe that other team from the little burgh of Queens could team up and field a competitive team

Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 25, 2022 08:54 AM (flINI)

207 >>Pull the other one, George.

You sure you want George to pull anything?

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2022 08:54 AM (ZLI7S)

208 That being said, I HATE Bryce Harper so I need to Astros to humiliate the Phillies
Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 25, 2022 08:43 AM (flINI)

You may hate him, but he has had a storybook 1st playoffs appearance so far...he's carrying the Phils on his back and taking the pressure all on himself...and delivering...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 08:54 AM (exHjb)

209 @203

>>I've grown old. What happens if I just sort of shuffle away?

Arkansas State Trooper: DO NOT MAKE ME TASE YOU BRO, I WILL DO IT!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:54 AM (up/3i)

210 Here we go. Right wing extremist are going to rig the election.

They are all starting to say it, so the narrative memos have gone out.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 25, 2022 08:54 AM (UuD2k)

211 201 Is it Takei Tuesday?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 25, 2022 08:53 AM (zphNH)

I would say “Oh My!!!” but really, that’s all that creepy little homosexual is known for.

Posted by: kraken at October 25, 2022 08:55 AM (Vr12I)

212 A 7-page ballot, the longest in Texas, is Harris County's form of voter suppression.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 08:55 AM (4I/2K)

213 Now do Boeing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 08:54 AM (jmjZ+)
++++
Nah. we've got that one covered.

Posted by: Export/Import Bank at October 25, 2022 08:55 AM (EwScq)

214 Fetterman gets Covid at 3 pm today.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at October 25, 2022 08:55 AM (1aGAY)

215 Arkansas State Trooper: DO NOT MAKE ME TASE YOU BRO, I WILL DO IT!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:54 AM (up/3i)

Damn right they will. I've seen them do it. Better than the .40 cal anyway.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 25, 2022 08:56 AM (QSjkU)

216 In the past, efficiency and often even revenues didn't matter. They're starting to matter again, and the woke shit is a poison pill.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Sma quibble Joe. It always mattered. Because if you were taking care of efficiency and revenues, you had the capacity to "indulge" the woke BS.

As things tighten, even "charitable contributions " will decline. One may have to work harder to be woke rather than pay the ransom.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 25, 2022 08:56 AM (NW9xb)

217 Oooops!
I hit the wrong "comment" link and ended up on pixy's thread.

[Hello,Mr barrel...] [cries]

202 those “who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior.”

Dr Sowell sees clearly. My admiration and respect for the man is deep and wide.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at October 25, 2022 08:54 AM (Rbu5d)

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at October 25, 2022 08:56 AM (Rbu5d)

218 Liberal application of the element Pb.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2022 08:23 AM (487vD)
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We use Mg in our corner of the country. Produces a pleasing "cank" sound and the blood splatter cleans up better.

Posted by: observer at October 25, 2022 08:57 AM (utTGw)

219 Nicole Wallace Suggests Our ‘Friends and Allies’ Monitor Elections, Rep. Jim Himes Groups GOP With Dictators
_________

Take her up on it. Just be sure we go to Hungary, and the current Italian government. We KNOW we're not the one's messing around.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 25, 2022 08:57 AM (TgBWG)

220 @GeorgeTakei
Two things can be true:
1) GA GOP tried to suppress Black votes by new ID requirements and changes to laws, and
2) GA voters, especially Black voters, rallied despite these efforts to turn out in droves.

Don’t get it twisted. It’s still voter suppression, even when it fails.


But repeating a lie over and over fails to make it true, fag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

221 George Takei.

Lover of caak, rest stop glory holes and bad mouthing his country.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 25, 2022 08:57 AM (Yi4c0)

222 Did Takei actually say his famous “Oh my” on a Trek episode?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 25, 2022 08:57 AM (zphNH)

223 Arkansas State Trooper: DO NOT MAKE ME TASE YOU BRO, I WILL DO IT!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I've been electro-converted more than a few times. Having the AST do it is cheaper than seeing my cardiologist.

Just say'n.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:57 AM (LsEU/)

224 >>"Last night one of our canvassers wearing my T-shirt and a DeSantis hat was brutally attacked by 4 animals who told him Republicans weren't allowed in their neighborhood in #Hialeah #Florida," Rubio wrote. "He suffered internal bleeding, a broken jaw, & will need facial reconstructive surgery."


Absolutely horrid.
Have to ask: where was Rubio when people were beat up for simply wearing red MAGA hats since 2016?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 25, 2022 08:57 AM (I/doM)

225 mornin' y'all. Voted yesterday. Will again be out of state on election day.

Turn out seemed heavy and Republican heavy. The Dems only seem to be pushing hard on the race for sheriff and judges in my local area.

State wide they are still pushing for the US Senate but I will be shocked if a liberal judge even comes close this year.

Posted by: Nearsighted Cyclopes at October 25, 2022 08:57 AM (PbwT0)

226 Also this is the required and best way, and any other way does a disservice to the Founding Fathers.
Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 08:12 AM (s4v0L)
======================
Pretty sure the Founders were cool with some violence.


Posted by: Jorge Washington

-

They didn't jump right into it, though. They were deliberate and tried the non-violent approach first.

And again, violence is what the left wants. They control everything right now. If they can get the "MAGA terrorists" to get froggy, they get everything they want. That's the entire point of the January 6th planned event by Pelosi and the FBI. That's the entire point of Biden's Red Dumb speech.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 08:58 AM (s4v0L)

227 @204

>>That's the amazing thing. A team rich enough to go out and buy anyone they want hasn't been to the Series in 13 years.

Of the Core Four, the indispensable man was Mariano Rivera, without him they never would have won as many Championships and they haven't won any since he retired.

Coincidence, I think not.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:58 AM (up/3i)

228 Did Takei actually say his famous “Oh my” on a Trek episode?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus


He wasn't flaming then.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 25, 2022 08:58 AM (487vD)

229 George Takei.

Lover of caak, rest stop glory holes and bad mouthing his country.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Please don't use the phrase 'bad mouthing' when talking about Takei.

That mental image - *shudders*

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:58 AM (LsEU/)

230 215 Since I moved down here, even locals will say "aren't our state troopers nice?" and the ones I have met are. Until it's time to not be nice.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2022 08:58 AM (lz5hY)

231 Did Takei actually say his famous “Oh my” on a Trek episode?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 25, 2022 08:57 AM (zphNH)


I think it was Howard Stern that made that one famous.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

232 I predict that if elections continue to go badly, there will be a concerted move to go after churches in order to get them in line. I also predict that a substantial number of churches will knuckle under to the forces of RESET.

Posted by: kraken at October 25, 2022 08:58 AM (Vr12I)

233 The Cuban Missile Crisis article is interesting. Of course it ignores one key factor. Did we know that the Russians were bluffing and would remove the missiles without concessions? Also, the author somehow believes we had the right to invade or interfere in Cuba anytime we wanted. We have seen how well that works out.

Posted by: WiNO at October 25, 2022 08:59 AM (sGCGQ)

234 222 Did Takei actually say his famous “Oh my” on a Trek episode?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 25, 2022 08:57 AM (zphNH)

Don't know but those were Kirk's dying words in "Generations".

Posted by: Manuel at October 25, 2022 08:59 AM (906pl)

235 Absentee ballot returns in Florida.

Dem: 29%
GOP: 35%
Other: 26%

No improvement in rate of return for Democrats.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2022 09:00 AM (uqq3O)

236 hiya

Posted by: JT at October 25, 2022 09:00 AM (T4tVD)

237
No improvement in rate of return for Democrats.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2022 09:00 AM (uqq3O)


Because they're being suppressed, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

238 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2022 08:58 AM (lz5hY)

Ever notice how effin big those guys are. AST looks like an NFL line.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 25, 2022 09:00 AM (QSjkU)

239 Since I moved down here, even locals will say "aren't our state troopers nice?" and the ones I have met are. Until it's time to not be nice.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2022 08:58 AM (lz5hY)

Just like I instructed my guys.

Posted by: Dalton at the Double Deuce at October 25, 2022 09:00 AM (4I/2K)

240 JT! JT! JT!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 09:00 AM (LsEU/)

241 Kirk was a pussy.

Posted by: Gorn at October 25, 2022 09:00 AM (utTGw)

242 Fetterman gets Covid at 3 pm today.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at October 25, 2022 08:55 AM (1aGAY)



Their own internal polls must be so bad, they figure they have nothing to lose

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 25, 2022 09:01 AM (dO/0d)

243 George, please provide proof of any suppression without saying some variation of "trust me."

Posted by: NR Pax at October 25, 2022 09:01 AM (4olE8)

244 Dave in Fla previously said he thinks Walker wins in Georgia. Now it looks like Bolduc is only a hair behind Hassan, if he is at all, and Tiffany Smiley is closing on Patty Murray. The Senate elections are going to be interesting as hell. Meanwhile the GOP looks like they will pick up a few Governorships. Michigan is probably too much to hope for, but wouldn't that be fantastic?!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 09:01 AM (sPIzu)

245 Ted Cruz Forces The View Hags to Deny Trump’s 2016 Election and Mock 2020 Election Critics in the Same Breath
_______

"Denier" is one area we've dropped the ball. Our side came up with "groomer", and turned "fake news" against them, but not on this one. I wish someone would come up with a useful tag to show them as they are. The things I come up with lack punch, like "accomplish to theft".

Posted by: Eeyore at October 25, 2022 09:01 AM (TgBWG)

246 192 @187

>>Billy Beane: He gets on base a lot. Do I care if it's a walk or a hit?

Peter Brand: No, you do not.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 08:49 AM (up/3i)

But a walk won't score a run from second....though they'd prolly walk the guy to get forces at any base. That's the beauty of baseball. Simple yet complex.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at October 25, 2022 09:02 AM (0Qrr3)

247 By doing close to nothing — wearing the right T-shirt, affixing one’s social media profile with the right badge (for example, “I am vaccinated” or “I stand with Ukraine") and by cancelling the “wrong” people by generating outrage with a finger tap, they are saved."

Sey is correct.
I left the anti-social media when you had to have the black square on your profile, to trumpet that you support the BLM grifters.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at October 25, 2022 09:02 AM (Rbu5d)

248 Hiya TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at October 25, 2022 09:03 AM (T4tVD)

249 Rivera was the best pitcher I've seen in my lifetime. The dude just ate stress.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 25, 2022 09:03 AM (ajvaO)

250 Oh yea, the World Series. The Pirates were eliminated from playoff contention in May, so I haven't been paying attention. Phillies vs Astros are in the WS? Oh, ok. Go Astros! Don't cheat this time. I hate the Flyers with a red-hot passion of a thousand burning suns but the rest of those Philly teams I'm just meh about. So, Go Phillies! I'm flexible.

Posted by: Puddleglum is a Pitt Pirates fan at October 25, 2022 09:03 AM (sAmhv)

251 Son and family are moving permanently to London. I kills me to admit he is a socialist - even if he doesn't see it or recognize it. I has the sadz.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:28 AM (LsEU/)

He is going ro get a big fat dose of intrusive and pervasive government. His tune might change...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2022 09:03 AM (l8MKx)

252 New Trafalgar poll of Georgia Senate.

Walker is up 2.4% over Warnock but Walker is still below 50%. The independent is pulling 4.6%.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2022 09:04 AM (ZLI7S)

253 The NYC Bar Association is sending out frenzied emails that "due to the rising tide of attacks on poll workers and poll watchers since 2020" how they need to train more (Democratic) poll watchers to "protect our democracy."

I don't think there was even one "attack" on a poll worker by a Republican that I've seen in the news. They just talk
Fake Emergency Shit out their arseholes to justify anything. And their solution is always the same: more crackdowns by the left on free speech, free assembly and the right to self defense.

Posted by: Zek at October 25, 2022 09:04 AM (fsV7e)

254 Rivera was the best pitcher I've seen in my lifetime. The dude just ate stress.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 25, 2022 09:03 AM (ajvaO)


He was required to do one job for one inning. Was he good? No doubt. The best? I'll take a dude that can throw the shutdown innings to GET to the guy that throws for one as better.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

255 George Takei, Dick Blumenthal, and john Kerry must have all
used the same plastic surgeon

Posted by: observer at October 25, 2022 09:04 AM (utTGw)

256 Link to Shirtless Darrow's trial stream. It begins at 8:30 central time.
https://youtu.be/BWcEPCaVmns

Closing Arguments today.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 09:04 AM (4I/2K)

257 I hate the Flyers with a red-hot passion of a thousand burning suns but the rest of those Philly teams I'm just meh about. So, Go Phillies! I'm flexible.
Posted by: Puddleglum is a Pitt Pirates fan at October 25, 2022 09:03 AM (sAmhv)


But if the Phillies win, there will be a recession!!!! It's proven!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

258 251 Son and family are moving permanently to London. I kills me to admit he is a socialist - even if he doesn't see it or recognize it. I has the sadz.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:28 AM (LsEU/)

He is going ro get a big fat dose of intrusive and pervasive government. His tune might change...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2022 09:03 AM (l8MKx)

Moving to Airstrip One??? The looming presence of the Ministry of Love, I could do without.

Posted by: kraken at October 25, 2022 09:05 AM (Vr12I)

259 244 Michigan is probably too much to hope for, but wouldn't that be fantastic?!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 09:01 AM (sPIzu)

Michigan is horribly rigged and Tudor Dixon is not a particularly scintillating candidate. BUT, it seems to still be neck and neck and the momentum nationally is on our side.

That said, there may be some shocking results in Democrat strongholds like OR and CT even.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 25, 2022 09:05 AM (x0n13)

260 Closing Arguments today.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 09:04 AM (4I/2K)


What exactly is his argument? Mistaken identity? High on cocaine? Car malfunctioned? Hates dancing grannies?

Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 09:06 AM (45fpk)

261 But if the Phillies win, there will be a recession!!!! It's proven!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

And we can blame the Astros for it. Like that Todd guy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 09:06 AM (4I/2K)

262 Just watched Dr John Cambell's video on the gain of function research theydid in Boston. They tookthe original Sars 2 genetics and slapped the Omnicron spike proteins on it to make it more infectious. Killed 80% of the humanized mice they tested it on. The lab needs to be nuked.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 25, 2022 09:07 AM (uz3Px)

263 What exactly is his argument? Mistaken identity? High on cocaine? Car malfunctioned? Hates dancing grannies?
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 09:06 AM (45fpk)

He's a total wack-job. I'm sure his closing argument will be stupid and comical.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 25, 2022 09:07 AM (UuD2k)

264 He is going ro get a big fat dose of intrusive and pervasive government. His tune might change...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2022 09:03 AM (l8MKx)
++++
On the other hand, so are we. We're not as far along, but we're closing the gap quickly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 09:07 AM (EwScq)

265
What exactly is his argument? Mistaken identity? High on cocaine? Car malfunctioned? Hates dancing grannies?
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 09:06 AM (45fpk)

"Diplomatic immunity!"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 25, 2022 09:07 AM (906pl)

266 What exactly is his argument? Mistaken identity? High on cocaine? Car malfunctioned? Hates dancing grannies?
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 09:06 AM (45fpk)

A natural right for black men to run over white people. The guy is another Charlie Manson with less charm.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 25, 2022 09:08 AM (QSjkU)

267 The thing about it, it always starts out: if we can just get rid of this group (or force them to get with the Program) everything will be wonderful. However, as soon as you neutralize one group, another pops up who needs to be neutralized. And another. And another.

Friction between groups seems to be one of the things that moves societies forward. Once you pound everything flat, everything starts to collapse as there is no longer any forward motion. No conflict. The only shared purpose being the perpetuation of the party/ideology.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 25, 2022 09:08 AM (CwQXo)

268 254 One job for one inning. Joe Borowski, when playing for the Indians, said the mark of a good closer is to pitch well with a couple base runners aboard. No, Joe, of the double digit ERA, it's don't allow any base runners in the first place.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2022 09:08 AM (lz5hY)

269 Georgia is very likely to go to a runoff.

But the runoff will be Dec 4th, which guarantees Walker wins.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2022 09:08 AM (uqq3O)

270 Tucker Carlson calls the Democratic Party "a child sacrifice cult" Abortion politics is a total fixation of Democratic donors. It's the main thing they care about. Why is that, by the way? It's a religion. It's a child sacrifice cult.

They shovel this shit.... It's so nonsensical and the morons eat it upThere’s MAGA, Ultra MAGA, and Ronny MAGA: “They want to make this a fight of good v evil? Look at the garbage their pushing on our kids. Gender confusion stuff, they want to mutilate & chemically castrate our kids, teach them to be racists in school, support born-alive abortion.”

Trump and tucker killed a million people who is the fucking death cult.[i[ Fucker is an over powdered pretentious piece of shit.

Can the Democratic Party sue Fox?

um, that would be gun-humping repukes you know, the kind of people who approve of DNA kits in school in case of mass shootings but get hysterical over LGBTQ books

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at October 25, 2022 09:08 AM (SSX5J)

271 So is Diwali going to become a national holiday in the UK now?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 25, 2022 09:09 AM (zphNH)

272 They didn't jump right into it, though. They were deliberate and tried the non-violent approach first.
Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 08:58 AM (s4v0L)
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I'm guessing you mean the Founders rationale was well thought out and well-articulated, and they concluded "Dissolving the political bands connecting one people to another" was their only hope for change. We are not there, I agree.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 09:09 AM (sPIzu)

273
"Diplomatic immunity!"
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 25, 2022 09:07 AM (906pl)


Well then. We just need Martin Riggs to pull his house down.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

274 "There’s no way anyone with basic social insight would believe these displays of neurotic, insular, detached-from-reality, self-indulgent 'protest' produce any tangential strategic benefit for the proponents of the ideology, which is ostensibly the entire point of a protest."

This is exactly the same mindset that Dr Sowell spoke about. This is exactly the same kind of sheeple thinking that said to change your antisocial media badge to a black square, or the Uke flag, or whatever the latest manufactured crisis is.

The result of these so-called protests is..."I feel good about myself! I am righteous! I matter!

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at October 25, 2022 09:09 AM (Rbu5d)

275 Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at October 25, 2022 09:08 AM (SSX5J)


There's a lot of confusion in there........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

276 So is Diwali going to become a national holiday in the UK now?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 25, 2022 09:09 AM (zphNH)

***

Curry IS their national dish...

Posted by: Truck Monkey at October 25, 2022 09:10 AM (flINI)

277 Awful-Karen Kathy Hochul debates Charisma-Free-Zone Zeldin tonight in the NY Gubernatorial race.

I'm sure Kathy will have some focus-grouped "zingers" planned like : "Get your hairy man hands off my uterus" but will be interesting to see if some actual "debate" might could ensue. My guess is the MSM will submerge the event in a sea of non-coverage.

Posted by: Zek at October 25, 2022 09:10 AM (fsV7e)

278
neurotic, insular, detached-from-reality, self-indulgent

Hey, that's me you're talking about!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 25, 2022 09:10 AM (1Nxff)

279 Daniel Greenfield: NYC Issues ‘Halal Guide” Featuring Terror Mosques

How long before one of these valued visitors head chops a tranny? The intersectionality car wreck will be glorious.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2022 09:11 AM (zm+d5)

280 What exactly is his argument? Mistaken identity? High on cocaine? Car malfunctioned? Hates dancing grannies?
Posted by: grammie winger at October 25, 2022 09:06 AM (45fpk)

Unknown. He hasn't made a cogent point except to say in his Opening Statement (as he bawled like a baby) that there are two sides to every story and that jurors should keep an open mind. All he did with the state's witnesses and his own was to try and discredit them on very minor points of inconsistency and doubt.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 25, 2022 09:11 AM (4I/2K)

281
I'm sure Kathy will have some focus-grouped "zingers" planned like : "Get your hairy man hands off my uterus" but will be interesting to see if some actual "debate" might could ensue. My guess is the MSM will submerge the event in a sea of non-coverage.
Posted by: Zek at October 25, 2022 09:10 AM (fsV7e)


They don't debate anymore. They throw shit at each other and see what sticks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

282 251 Son and family are moving permanently to London. I kills me to admit he is a socialist - even if he doesn't see it or recognize it. I has the sadz.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:28 AM (LsEU/)

He is going ro get a big fat dose of intrusive and pervasive government. His tune might change...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2022 09:03 AM (l8MKx)

Wait for his use of the British healthcare system before you give up hope...reality has a way of opening eyes quickly...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 09:11 AM (exHjb)

283 So is Diwali going to become a national holiday in the UK now?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Diwaliween. Covers alot of the bases.

That Billy Beane's players get on.

That the relief pitchers couldn't retire.


*Any other sub-threads I can tie up?*

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 09:12 AM (LsEU/)

284 Curry IS their national dish...
Posted by: Truck Monkey

Nyuk-nyuk

Posted by: JT at October 25, 2022 09:12 AM (T4tVD)

285 But if the Phillies win, there will be a recession!!!! It's proven!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 25, 2022 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

So, since we're already in recession, the Phils are a certainty for the win in 4...

Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 09:12 AM (exHjb)

286 SHOT: New Hampshire’s Don Bolduc Is The Latest Casualty In McConnell’s Crusade Against ‘America First’ Candidates
________

I have a dream that the new Republican Senate will rise up and, with enough new MAGA Senators, demote the Turtle to being a back bencher.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 25, 2022 09:12 AM (TgBWG)

287 @277

>>I'm sure Kathy will have some focus-grouped "zingers" planned like

Like most Republicans, Zeldin will be fighting the "moderator" and their bullsh*t questions more so than the Democrat.

First questions will be about abortion, January 6th, Election Denialism and other nonsense and twaddle.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 25, 2022 09:12 AM (up/3i)

288 Sounds like DU has entered the anger stage

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2022 09:12 AM (uqq3O)

289 I thought Liz Herley was the UK’s national dish.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 25, 2022 09:13 AM (zphNH)

290 "So is Diwali going to become a national holiday in the UK now?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus"

Gurgle calendar autopopulates Indigenous Peoples Day, and Muslim Eid, but no mention of Yom Kippur. Go figger.

Posted by: Zek at October 25, 2022 09:13 AM (fsV7e)

291 Anecdotal economic evidence - I have a good friend who owns a small, local manufacturing facility. He told me yesterday that shipping costs had been going up and up all year - but suddenly began to drop dramatically about 3 weeks ago. He added that for most of the year it was difficult to schedule trucks to come pick up their shipments, but suddenly trucking companies have started calling him up and asking if they could schedule a pickup. Also, trucks coming in to be loaded used to be mostly full, but now all the trucks he is sent are empty of everything except the goods he loads on them.

He, and I, take this as evidence that a severe manufacturing slowdown began about a month ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 09:13 AM (r46W7)

292 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 25, 2022 09:14 AM (487vD)

293 Marco Rubio Canvasser Violently Attacked in Dem Neighborhood

*******

For those who have been wondering what a second American Civil War will look like.
Posted by: Muldoon

--

It's going to get really bad after the election since the left is going to view offices around the country - many in leftist areas - as being overrun by Nazis, and it will be perfectly fine to be violent against those Nazis. Solemn duty of the left to be violent against those Nazis, matter of fact.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 09:14 AM (s4v0L)

294 >>Wait for his use of the British healthcare system before you give up hope...reality has a way of opening eyes quickly...

I have a good friend who lives in Manchester. His father waited over a year for a relatively serious heart procedure.

But it was "free".

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2022 09:14 AM (ZLI7S)

295 288 What's Ducks Unlimited pissed about?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2022 09:14 AM (lz5hY)

296 I assume the Demoncrats are falling all over themselves apologizing for that vicious attack on the canvasser.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 25, 2022 09:14 AM (eGTCV)

297 This is why I could never be in politics. If I was DeSantis there would would be AC130 gunships leveling Hialeah Florida as we speak.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 25, 2022 09:14 AM (VwHCD)

298 For those who have been living on another planet, or get their "news" from MSNBC, Kyle Rittenhouse was attempting to prevent the city of Kenosha, WI from suffering the same fate as several dozen other cities during 2020's Summer of Love 2: Mostly Peaceful Rioting Boogaloo when he was forced to shoot and kill an Antifa terrorist in absolute self defense.
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Actually he killed two rioters and injured a third.

Posted by: Ciampino - Good job at October 25, 2022 09:15 AM (qfLjt)

299 286 I have a dream that the new Republican Senate will rise up and, with enough new MAGA Senators, demote the Turtle to being a back bencher.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 25, 2022 09:12 AM (TgBWG)

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Best case, realistic scenario is that there's a behind the scenes fight for leadership that leads to Mitch winning but nowhere close to unanimously. This gets followed by someone in the caucus refusing the final vote that would make it unanimous, and that news leaks out.

Mitch will be embarrassed and pissy.

That's the best, realistic scenario to expect, and it's not that likely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

300 Rivera was the best pitcher I've seen in my lifetime. The dude just ate stress.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 25, 2022 09:03 AM (ajvaO)
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I remember one playoff game where the Spankees led the Indians by a run in the ninth, but the Tribe had men on, or maybe the bases loaded and Rivera was warming up. The crowd around the bullpen was yelling abuse at him as the Indians fans could just taste the victory almost in our hands. Rivera looked up and calmly said "Check the score", and then he went in the game and struck everyone out. Game over.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 09:15 AM (8VDwQ)

301 233 The Cuban Missile Crisis article is interesting. Of course it ignores one key factor. Did we know that the Russians were bluffing and would remove the missiles without concessions? Also, the author somehow believes we had the right to invade or interfere in Cuba anytime we wanted. We have seen how well that works out.
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My read is both the Soviet Union and US wanted missiles out of Cuba. For the Soviets it was the realization that Castro was untrustworthy; he was bug nutz crazy. Methinks there was an agreement by both sides to remove the missiles and allow bug nutz crazy to continue unmolested. Both nations maintained face and continued to talk to one another.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 25, 2022 09:15 AM (uia9V)

302 Dave in Fla

Any thoughts on the South Carolina turnout for early voting?

Something, or nothing?

https://tinyurl.com/mr2yan92

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 09:15 AM (uLr+K)

303 It was a mostly peaceful beating. You know besides the beating part itself.

Posted by: The FNM at October 25, 2022 09:15 AM (ESjRY)

304 288 Sounds like DU has entered the anger stage
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 25, 2022 09:12 AM

I can't wait to see them go through all the stages again in a couple weeks, after they get stomped in the midterms. And maybe cling heavily to the one unexpected victory they get.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at October 25, 2022 09:16 AM (SSX5J)

305 A Republic if you can keep it.

Posted by: Infidel at October 25, 2022 09:16 AM (Ur3ox)

306 Actually he killed two rioters and injured a third.

And all of them were criminals. Go figure.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2022 09:16 AM (zm+d5)

307 Methinks there was an agreement by both sides to remove the missiles and allow bug nutz crazy to continue unmolested.

I've seen that theory elsewhere. And the Soviets got our missiles out of Turkey as well right?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 09:16 AM (ESjRY)

308 >>I assume the Demoncrats are falling all over themselves apologizing for that vicious attack on the canvasser.


Think that'll happen right after Hillary is convicted.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 25, 2022 09:16 AM (I/doM)

309 270: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison


That reads like a transcript of conservations I hear at work.

Posted by: Puddleglum at October 25, 2022 09:17 AM (sAmhv)

310 And all of them were criminals. Go figure.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 25, 2022 09:16 AM (zm+d5)

And what are the odds that 2 out of 3 were convicted pedophiles?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 25, 2022 09:17 AM (Y5qcH)

311 295 288 What's Ducks Unlimited pissed about?
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A limit on ducks?

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 25, 2022 09:17 AM (uia9V)

312 That's the best, realistic scenario to expect, and it's not that likely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 09:15 AM (LvTSG)
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What will happen then in the scenario you describe, though, is we won't get John Thune as his successor. Which is a victory not to be minimized.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 09:18 AM (8VDwQ)

313 Son and family are moving permanently to London. I kills me to admit he is a socialist - even if he doesn't see it or recognize it. I has the sadz.

Posted by: Tonypete

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Ask him if he notices how everything seems tired and a little run-down, even the really nice areas. We're headed that way ourselves. It's what happens when you fall and you're no longer the world powerhouse. You still have an okay standard of living, but everything is frayed around the edges.

Ask him to compare upper middle class to lower-wealthy folks' standard of living over there to country bumpkins with a high school education and factory job over here, too.

That's why we have to get rid of the factory jobs over here.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 09:18 AM (s4v0L)

314 312 What will happen then in the scenario you describe, though, is we won't get John Thune as his successor. Which is a victory not to be minimized.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 09:18 AM (8VDwQ)

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Rick Scott seems to be working very hard to be the next caucus leader. It won't happen in the next few months, but it could happen after the 2024 election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

315 258 251 Son and family are moving permanently to London. I kills me to admit he is a socialist - even if he doesn't see it or recognize it. I has the sadz.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:28 AM (LsEU/)

globalism/socialism, as practiced across most of western Europe today, is a fantastic system for the rich and politically well connected. Not surprising that anyone who is in that class supports it, they and their friends get to do whatever they want and the ignorant working class peons don't get any say in it at all. In reality, no different than the old Nobility/patronage systems that Europe has loved for centuries, just with a shiny new coat of paint.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 09:19 AM (r46W7)

316 It exploits social-justice politics and transforms it into social-justice consumerism - and ultimately, investor profit.
____________

Disney's pedophilia/grooming wokeness certainly didn't translate into investor profit. Share prices dropped 50% since they started the woke bullshit in Florida.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at October 25, 2022 09:20 AM (MvHI3)

317 Actually he killed two rioters and injured a third.

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It's crazy to realize that if he didn't have that jam (that he expertly handled btw) he would've gotten a third shot clean through the heart on the last criminal, too.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 09:20 AM (s4v0L)

318 The lab needs to be nuked.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 25, 2022 09:07 AM (uz3Px)

great radioactive covid death dust

Posted by: rhennigantx at October 25, 2022 09:20 AM (BRHaw)

319 307 Methinks there was an agreement by both sides to remove the missiles and allow bug nutz crazy to continue unmolested.

I've seen that theory elsewhere. And the Soviets got our missiles out of Turkey as well right?
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That was 1963, but yeah. The US was already building missile launchers known as submarines. The old days of Nike Sites was fast disappearing.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 25, 2022 09:20 AM (uia9V)

320 Gee, how could things escalate to the point that a Rubio canvasser is brutalized?

Oh:
@Mediate
Matthew Dowd Says Germans Who Elected Hitler Were Also Scared of Inflation: ‘They Lost Their Democracy’

Pretty sure Dowd is considered a "conservative" -- on 'our' side -- and he's calling people concerned about inflation Nazis.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 25, 2022 09:21 AM (I/doM)

321 294 >>Wait for his use of the British healthcare system before you give up hope...reality has a way of opening eyes quickly...

I have a good friend who lives in Manchester. His father waited over a year for a relatively serious heart procedure.

But it was "free".

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2022 09:14 AM (ZLI7S)
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Anecdotal evidence.
My Sister and BiL live there and he's had both knees replaced, no problem.
My younger daughter here in IL, has to see a particular cardiac specialist (insurance) and the earliest is December.

Posted by: Ciampino - Often it's hurry up and wait at October 25, 2022 09:21 AM (qfLjt)

322 251 Son and family are moving permanently to London. I kills me to admit he is a socialist - even if he doesn't see it or recognize it. I has the sadz.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:28 AM (LsEU/)

I have a native-born Londoner here in my home on an extended business-related stay. He despises everything about living in the UK and is astounded at the freedoms we enjoy here.

And BBQ, especially BBQ.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at October 25, 2022 09:21 AM (MkuC5)

323 "great radioactive covid death dust"

I saw them open for Iron Maiden at the palladium back in 93.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 09:21 AM (uLr+K)

324 Rick Scott seems to be working very hard to be the next caucus leader. It won't happen in the next few months, but it could happen after the 2024 election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

I would have more confidence in his attempt if I could name even one sitting Senator who has said they support Scott over McConnell.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 09:21 AM (r46W7)

325 309 270: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison

That reads like a transcript of conservations I hear at work.
Posted by: Puddleglum at October 25, 2022 09:17 AM

That's...terrifying. Hopefully you're not in some mainstream business, and are instead stuck working with Mary Cloggenstein at the women's health clinic in Brattleboro.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at October 25, 2022 09:21 AM (SSX5J)

326 320
Pretty sure Dowd is considered a "conservative" -- on 'our' side -- and he's calling people concerned about inflation Nazis.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 25, 2022 09:21 AM (I/doM)

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"Those who caused the inflation were the real heroes."
-Pretty much the entire left, especially after they fell in love with gender fluidity

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

327 Inflation Nazis.

I hate inflation Nazis.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 25, 2022 09:22 AM (zphNH)

328 Wikipedia has a surprisingly accurate account of the Rittenhouse incident.

From the article on Rittenhouse himself:

"After a man chased Rittenhouse into a parking lot and grabbed the barrel of his rifle, Rittenhouse fatally shot him. Rittenhouse fled and was pursued by a crowd. He fatally shot a second man after he struck Rittenhouse with a skateboard and tried to grab his rifle. Rittenhouse wounded a third man when he approached Rittenhouse and pointed a handgun at him."

(more)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 25, 2022 09:22 AM (bW8dp)

329 Pretty sure Dowd is considered a "conservative" -- on 'our' side -- and he's calling people concerned about inflation Nazis

In Germany the center-left was happy to allow Anti-fa to go beat/kill people in the streets.

The center-right was effective against them in the early years, but by the 30s they were like our GOPe.

Which made room for a new political movement that was willing to take the fight to the international socialists...the national socialists.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 09:23 AM (ESjRY)

330 324 I would have more confidence in his attempt if I could name even one sitting Senator who has said they support Scott over McConnell.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 09:21 AM (r46W7)

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Meh. It's not the sort of thing for press releases. He seems to have become the Senate face of Trump's money machine for new candidates in the upper chamber. Plus, it's about attrition. Mitch is old, and he has failed in his mission to clean the party of Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 09:23 AM (LvTSG)

331 I would have more confidence in his attempt if I could name even one sitting Senator who has said they support Scott over McConnell.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 09:21 AM (r46W7)

I'd have more confidence if he would just whisper the words "J6" once, in any context. I look forward to the opportunity of helping primary his arse at the soonest opportunity.

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at October 25, 2022 09:24 AM (MkuC5)

332 >>Pretty sure Dowd is considered a "conservative" -- on 'our' side -- and he's calling people concerned about inflation Nazis.

He's an MSNBC conservative.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2022 09:24 AM (ZLI7S)

333 Raheem J. Kassam
@RaheemKassam

NEW: An unknown number of Twitter employees are circulating an open letter to
@elonmusk
demanding they be allowed to keep all their jobs, pick journalistic and geopolitical winners and losers, and retain all their employment benefits.

The participation trophy generation.

https://tinyurl.com/ypf2yhuz

Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

334 329 Which made room for a new political movement that was willing to take the fight to the international socialists...the national socialists.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 09:23 AM (ESjRY)

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"Ignore the problems of the little people! Nothing can go wrong!"
-Just so many ruling classes across history

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

335 I'd prefer Johnson or Hawley over Scott as majority leader but...I guess you take what you can get.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 09:24 AM (ESjRY)

336 >I have a native-born Londoner here in my home on an extended business-related stay. He despises everything about living in the UK and is astounded at the freedoms we enjoy here.


did you tell him it used to be way more free here

Posted by: DB at October 25, 2022 09:24 AM (geLO8)

337 um, that would be gun-humping repukes you know, the kind of people who approve of DNA kits in school in case of mass shootings but get hysterical over LGBTQ books
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at October 25, 2022 09:08 AM (SSX5J)
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That one's new to me. Was this ever actually a thing? The normal conservative response - to my knowledge, anyway - was "teachers ought to be armed and trained so they can disrupt shooters" and often a bit of "schools need to quit protecting violent students at all costs." More recently, this has shifted to "get your kids out of school entirely" because of the tranny stuff, and that has changed the narrative around school shootings quite a bit because if you're not there, you're not a potential victim.

But "DNA kits in schools" for victim or perpetrator identification is new to me.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 09:25 AM (EwScq)

338
Absolutely horrid.
Have to ask: where was Rubio when people were beat up for simply wearing red MAGA hats since 2016?
Posted by: Lizzy at October 25, 2022 08:57 AM (I/doM)

It is; but you are right, and there were many of us who warned the cucks: "When they beat us, you turn a blind eye, and when they cancel us, you cheer them on... but you will be next, and soon."

That was all pretty predictable if you're not a dumb cuck, and the time is upon them.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 09:25 AM (oINRc)

339 Absentee ballot returns in Florida.

Dem: 29%
GOP: 35%
Other: 26%

No improvement in rate of return for Democrats.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

NYC residents who once visited FL: 100%

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 25, 2022 09:25 AM (0lUe7)

340 Reed Spaulding IV, MD: "Would it reassure you to know your physician scored a mere 'pass' in a major test that determined his or her career?"

1. He graduated med school in 2011 (a real grey beard in the field), and is essentially telling today's graduates to get off his lawn while moaning about how peril fraught and arduous his own basic sciences test was. Suck it up buttercup. Rich Levine graduated in 1983 and did it backwards and in high heels like Ginger Rogers.

2. Who the hell names their kid Reed Spaulding IV?

Kidding aside, I think he overestimates the importance of the standardized tests. More worrisome to me is the overall lack of rigor in teaching medicine and the watering down of the curriculum

Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 09:25 AM (kXYt5)

341 333 NEW: An unknown number of Twitter employees are circulating an open letter to
@elonmusk
demanding they be allowed to keep all their jobs, pick journalistic and geopolitical winners and losers, and retain all their employment benefits.

The participation trophy generation.

https://tinyurl.com/ypf2yhuz
Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

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That's hilarious. I can't wait for Joe Biden's administration to deny the purchase on shaky legal grounds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 09:25 AM (LvTSG)

342 "NEW: An unknown number of Twitter employees are circulating an open letter to
@elonmusk
demanding they be allowed to keep all their jobs, pick journalistic and geopolitical winners and losers, and retain all their employment benefits. "

Did they sign it?

Are their names legible?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 09:25 AM (uLr+K)

343 333 The first to go list for Elon, served up on a silver platter.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 25, 2022 09:25 AM (lz5hY)

344 Has the media spoken of how the canvasser's face violently attacked the fists of a peaceful Democrat?

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 25, 2022 09:26 AM (eGTCV)

345 I would love to see Shirtless Darrow taped to a wooden chair and then given two cattle prods to the neck every 2 minutes for an entire hour.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 09:26 AM (r46W7)

346 Raheem J. Kassam
@RaheemKassam

NEW: An unknown number of Twitter employees are circulating an open letter to
@elonmusk
demanding they be allowed to keep all their jobs, pick journalistic and geopolitical winners and losers, and retain all their employment benefits.

The participation trophy generation.

https://tinyurl.com/ypf2yhuz
Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

You'll get a pink slip and like it! Fresca?

Posted by: Elon 'Judge Smails' Musk at October 25, 2022 09:26 AM (4I/2K)

347 A question for Dave in Fla. Will you be here on election night with info on the races?

Posted by: dantesed at October 25, 2022 09:26 AM (88xKn)

348 Matthew Dowd Says Germans Who Elected Hitler Were Also Scared of Inflation: ‘They Lost Their Democracy’


This silly little twat waffle is still a thing? His grasp at history is tenuous.

Posted by: Puddleglum at October 25, 2022 09:26 AM (sAmhv)

349 did you tell him it used to be way more free here
Posted by: DB at October 25, 2022 09:24 AM (geLO

He knows.

He also admonishes "Do NOT give up your weapons!"

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at October 25, 2022 09:26 AM (MkuC5)

350 Wikipedia has a surprisingly accurate account of the Rittenhouse incident. ...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 25, 2022 09:22 AM (bW8dp)
++++
They have to. The trial is over and the verdict is in. If they get too lippy, they're exposed to libel.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 09:26 AM (EwScq)

351 >I have a native-born Londoner here in my home on an extended business-related stay.

Is his name Nigel, and was he just named head of a US sports betting company?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 25, 2022 09:26 AM (0lUe7)

352 Elon must be looking at this election with a lot of attention.

The junta has added him to their enemies list and minor gains or less by the Rs would embolden the junta to move against him formally.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 09:27 AM (ESjRY)

353 But "DNA kits in schools" for victim or perpetrator identification is new to me.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 09:25 AM (EwScq)

It makes no sense. The police bring all the "DNA kits" they need, which are essentially a Q-tip and a vial to keep it clean.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 25, 2022 09:27 AM (Y5qcH)

354 Eric Schmitt replacing Roy Blunt from Missouri will be a real improvement in the Senate. Blunt was a real squish, Schmitt, quite the opposite.

Posted by: kraken at October 25, 2022 09:27 AM (Vr12I)

355 How could Haiti still be in trouble? The Clintons were given billions and full authority to fix it!

For that matter, how can Chicago still have issues? Obama spent all that time organizing it at the turn of the century!

Posted by: JB1000 at October 25, 2022 09:28 AM (T0r1g)

356 Crazy Joe has been using a handheld microphone more and more the past month or two. Even when a lectern with microphones is set-up for him. I wonder what new or worsening physical/mental problem is the reason?

Posted by: Gref at October 25, 2022 09:28 AM (AMIL/)

357 In heritage America there were only a couple of mass shootings...in the whole time period...and they came at the end.

In Soviet America mass shootings are a thing.

So...obviously we need to continue to become even more Soviet to reduce the number of shootings

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 09:28 AM (ESjRY)

358 >>He's an MSNBC conservative.

Yup. Just like Michael Steele, who recently referred to half the country - Trump voters - as fleas, lice and ticks.

Posted by: Lizzy at October 25, 2022 09:28 AM (I/doM)

359 I enjoyed the clip of DeSantis on the hurricane response and about Crist hiding out in Puerto Rico. There no chance Dominion will be "working hard" to get Crist elected, is there?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 25, 2022 09:28 AM (vH/6k)

360 I would love to see Shirtless Darrow taped to a wooden chair and then given two cattle prods to the neck every 2 minutes for an entire hour.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 09:26 AM (r46W7)

At his sentencing when he acts up, may I suggest using your nightsticks, officers?

Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine at October 25, 2022 09:28 AM (4I/2K)

361 Eric Schmitt replacing Roy Blunt from Missouri will be a real improvement in the Senate.

Is that the guy that made some tawdry story up about him tying up his neighbor and raping her? Or am I thinking of another pol from MO?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 09:29 AM (ESjRY)

362 From the article on the incident per se:

One witness described Rosenbaum "very bluntly asking people to shoot him" saying "shoot me, n-, shoot me", using a racial epithet to which other protesters displayed "negative" reactions...Rosenbaum made threats to kill both of them, saying "if I catch any of you guys alone tonight, I'm going to fucking kill you!"...Rosenbaum then shouted "fuck you!" and "lunged" at Rittenhouse and grabbed the barrel of his rifle. Rittenhouse then fired four shots at Rosenbaum, killing him...Another protester, Anthony Huber, struck Rittenhouse's left shoulder, neck and head with a skateboard as the pair struggled for control of the gun. As Huber was pulling on the rifle, Rittenhouse fired once, hitting Huber in the chest, perforating his heart and right lung, causing his rapid death...Grosskreutz then pointed his handgun and advanced on Rittenhouse, who shot Grosskreutz once in the arm, severing most of the biceps of his right arm...At least 16 gunshots from other sources were heard on video during the time that Rittenhouse was on the ground."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 25, 2022 09:29 AM (bW8dp)

363 Posted by: redridinghood at October 25, 2022 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

How thoughtful of them to make sue Musk knows who to get rid of first. Although a truly diabolical mind would put in the names of those who are actually okay with the buy out.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 25, 2022 09:29 AM (nC+QA)

364 "Yup. Just like Michael Steele, who recently referred to half the country - Trump voters - as fleas, lice and ticks."

Name rings a bell.

Did he used to be a Lt. Governor someplace?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 09:29 AM (uLr+K)

365 361 Eric Schmitt replacing Roy Blunt from Missouri will be a real improvement in the Senate.

Is that the guy that made some tawdry story up about him tying up his neighbor and raping her? Or am I thinking of another pol from MO?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 09:29 AM (ESjRY)

Iam thinking that was Eric Greitens.

Posted by: kraken at October 25, 2022 09:30 AM (Vr12I)

366 >>Crazy Joe has been using a handheld microphone more and more the past month or two. Even when a lectern with microphones is set-up for him. I wonder what new or worsening physical/mental problem is the reason?

Keep his hands occupied so they can't be grabbing others or attempting to shake hands with a ghost?
Give them the option of shutting the mic down in a flash should he start meandering or revealing things he shouldn't?

Posted by: Lizzy at October 25, 2022 09:30 AM (I/doM)

367 >Did he used to be a Lt. Governor someplace?

MD

Posted by: DB at October 25, 2022 09:30 AM (geLO8)

368 353 But "DNA kits in schools" for victim or perpetrator identification is new to me.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 09:25 AM (EwScq)

It makes no sense. The police bring all the "DNA kits" they need, which are essentially a Q-tip and a vial to keep it clean.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 25, 2022 09:27 AM (Y5qcH)


One or more of the children murdered in Uvalde could not be identified by non-DNA means. It took some time for DNA samples to be collected from their homes, lockers, someplace.

Posted by: Gref at October 25, 2022 09:30 AM (AMIL/)

369 Is that the guy that made some tawdry story up about him tying up his neighbor and raping her? Or am I thinking of another pol from MO?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 09:29 AM (ESjRY)

I don't know the details of the scandal, but I think that was Greitens. He's out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 25, 2022 09:31 AM (r46W7)

370 Art Thread late.....AGAIN !

Posted by: JT at October 25, 2022 09:31 AM (T4tVD)

371 if Bolduc ends up losing (or winning) by a point or two, there should be hell to pay for McConnell pulling his support

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at October 25, 2022 09:31 AM (V6W16)

372 It makes no sense. The police bring all the "DNA kits" they need, which are essentially a Q-tip and a vial to keep it clean.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 25, 2022 09:27 AM (Y5qcH)
++++
Right. It's a weird thing all around.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 09:31 AM (EwScq)

373 "Teachers are heroes who look in the face of death every day to bring children joy and happiness with a rainbow! Also, teachers definitely can't be trusted with guns. Like, holy shit, think of the bloodshed."
-The Left

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 25, 2022 09:31 AM (LvTSG)

374 One or more of the children murdered in Uvalde could not be identified by non-DNA means. It took some time for DNA samples to be collected from their homes, lockers, someplace.
Posted by: Gref at October 25, 2022 09:30 AM (AMIL/)
++++
A process that would have been accelerated by zero seconds if we had "DNA kits in schools."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 09:32 AM (EwScq)

375 > Who the hell names their kid Reed Spaulding IV?

People like me.

And now you know everything you need to know about Reed Spaulding IV.

Posted by: Thurston Howell III at October 25, 2022 09:32 AM (bW8dp)

376 I love that this campaign is "MAGA Republicans want to ban books" while the ACLU has literally stated that they would ban books and try to prevent ideas from being heard

https://tinyurl.com/2c7h4dzv

Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 09:32 AM (s4v0L)

377 >Art Thread late.....AGAIN !



dude 10am ET give or take

Posted by: DB at October 25, 2022 09:32 AM (geLO8)

378 Son and family are moving permanently to London. I kills me to admit he is a socialist - even if he doesn't see it or recognize it. I has the sadz.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 25, 2022 08:28 AM (LsEU/)

He is going ro get a big fat dose of intrusive and pervasive government. His tune might change...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 25, 2022 09:03 AM (l8MKx)

Wait for his use of the British healthcare system before you give up hope...reality has a way of opening eyes quickly...
Posted by: Nova local at October 25, 2022 09:11 AM (exHjb)

If he's intelligent, he'll get red-pilled at some point.

Socialism has a great advertising agency, so to speak, but it's product tastes, smells, feels, and looks like poo once you buy it.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 25, 2022 09:33 AM (KLPy8)

379 >>demanding they be allowed to keep all their jobs, pick journalistic and geopolitical winners and losers, and retain all their employment benefits.

Impossible to know what's parody anymore.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 25, 2022 09:33 AM (ZLI7S)

380
Steele's real claim to fame is being RNC Chair during Obama's first term - he more or less oversaw the final subsumption of the GOP into the Dem party.

I can live without his opinion about me. Or anyone.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 25, 2022 09:33 AM (oINRc)

381 One or more of the children murdered in Uvalde could not be identified by non-DNA means

--
SHUT UP THE DOOR WAS LOCKED EXCEPT IT WASN'T AND ALSO LOCKS DON'T WORK

Posted by: Gray Man at October 25, 2022 09:33 AM (s4v0L)

382 > It makes no sense. The police bring all the "DNA kits" they need, which are essentially a Q-tip and a vial to keep it clean.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 25, 2022 09:27 AM (Y5qcH)

There was a case where the Euro cops thought they were on the trail of a super-criminal responsible for an incredible crime wave.

It turned out that the tech at the factory that made the swabs was careless, and got her DNA on every one.

Posted by: Thurston Howell III at October 25, 2022 09:33 AM (bW8dp)

383 >Son and family are moving permanently to London.


why

Posted by: DB at October 25, 2022 09:34 AM (geLO8)

384 There was a case where the Euro cops thought they were on the trail of a super-criminal responsible for an incredible crime wave.

It turned out that the tech at the factory that made the swabs was careless, and got her DNA on every one.
Posted by: Thurston Howell III at October 25, 2022 09:33 AM (bW8dp)
++++
Yup. Germany. For some time, German cops were treating it as the most prolific and far-flung serial killer ever encountered. I don't remember who tracked it to the materials (German cop, Interpol, someone else), but there was a lot of egg on a lot of faces after they figured it out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 09:35 AM (EwScq)

385 Art is up

Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine at October 25, 2022 09:35 AM (4I/2K)

386 374 One or more of the children murdered in Uvalde could not be identified by non-DNA means. It took some time for DNA samples to be collected from their homes, lockers, someplace.
Posted by: Gref at October 25, 2022 09:30 AM (AMIL/)
++++
A process that would have been accelerated by zero seconds if we had "DNA kits in schools."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 09:32 AM (EwScq)


I think it is a propaganda tactic to scare people into supporting assault gun bans and other useless gun control measures. "The poor children were shot over and over until un-recognizable, using a black gun!"

Posted by: Gref at October 25, 2022 09:35 AM (AMIL/)

387 382
There was a case where the Euro cops thought they were on the trail of a super-criminal responsible for an incredible crime wave.

It turned out that the tech at the factory that made the swabs was careless, and got her DNA on every one.
Posted by: Thurston Howell III at October 25, 2022 09:33 AM (bW8dp)

So how many years did she get?

Posted by: kraken at October 25, 2022 09:36 AM (Vr12I)

388 Oh, bless your heart.

"The greatest trick capitalism ever pulled was convincing you a job was part of your dreams"

The greatest trick socialism ever pulled was convincing you that you could continue to maintain your current lifestyle and live out your dreams while being supported by people working voluntarily.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 25, 2022 09:37 AM (0lUe7)

389 > An unknown number of Twitter employees are circulating an open letter to
@elonmusk
demanding they be allowed to keep all their jobs

LOL.

It turns out that having a long record of censoring your new boss, among others, isn't conducive to long-term employment.

Posted by: Elon "Shitlord" Musk at October 25, 2022 09:37 AM (bW8dp)

390 Did he used to be a Lt. Governor someplace?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 25, 2022 09:29 AM (uLr+K)
==============
haha! I vaguely recall he was national Chairman of the GOP too. Is that right?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 09:37 AM (WwX2Z)

391 > So how many years did she get?
Posted by: kraken at October 25, 2022 09:36 AM (Vr12I)

I don't think anything happened to her, though it probably should have. She probably didn't even get fired, bein' as how it was Euroland.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 25, 2022 09:38 AM (bW8dp)

392 The greatest trick socialism ever pulled was convincing you that you could continue to maintain your current lifestyle and live out your dreams while being supported by people working voluntarily.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 25, 2022 09:37 AM (0lUe7)
++++
All work is voluntary unless you're a slave. My lifestyle and dreams are supported by the voluntary labor of countless people.

But the key part of that equation is that they're supported by *my* voluntary labor, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 25, 2022 09:39 AM (EwScq)

393 I see the GOP candidates doing well in lots of races, so overall it looks like a "red wave".

But none of those races are polling big leads for the Republican. What level of disaster does it take for Democrats to learn their lesson?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 09:46 AM (WwX2Z)

394 This picture is from the rich part of town. Where all the effluent people live.

Posted by: Muldoon at October 25, 2022 09:53 AM (kXYt5)

395 Speaking of art, well loosely, I see Marlon Wayans is in the news opposing cancel culture.

He's best know for making the Scary Movie series and White Girls - the latter really a "problematic" movie from the modern leftist perspective.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 25, 2022 09:55 AM (ESjRY)

396 Climate Lunatics Throw Mashed Potatoes on Monet Masterpiece, and It’s Going to Get Worse

Let 'em drown in mashed potatoes. I mean, that's perfectly good food that's being wasted. Also, throw some potatoes at the administrators that allowed this to happen. It's all performance art.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 09:55 AM (ynpvh)

397 [ 42 That said, one day someone somewhere is going to snap, brought about by some outrage or circumstance that befalls said individual, as a result of the criminal actions of this criminal junta and its acolytes, enablers and allies in and out of government.
--------------
While payback would be awesome, I really hope this is not right. The Junta and their Propaganda Press handmaidens are praying for exactly this to happen. We will probably have to destroy them the old-fashioned way, through politics, law and financial destruction.

#HuckFollywood I am a not a violent man, but I know that only profound pain and suffering will recondition the hearts and minds of the mass of useful idiots to value once again a government of/for/by the people.

I consider the possibility that the whole thing degenerating into open conflict might result long term in a better Republic than an incremental political battle of attrition.

Posted by: Paul in Texas at October 25, 2022 09:57 AM (EG5bh)

398 JJ
Should Democrats be demonized?

[Kurt: They demonize themselves, Kurt and have done so since the serpent grabbed Eve by the mish. Everything you and yours do is demonic by definition - JJS]

Posted by: Paul [Kurt] at October 25, 2022 09:57 AM (ESkQW)

399 J6 Prosecutors Redouble Retaliation and Revenge

Yes, they are rounding up TWICE the number they would usually round up.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 09:57 AM (ynpvh)

400 398 JJ
Should Democrats be demonized?

Posted by: Paul at October 25, 2022 09:57 AM (ESkQW)

Dems demonstrate devilish demeanor. Definitely demonic.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 09:58 AM (ynpvh)

401 Actual Miami New Times headline:

Rubio Supporter, Alleged Former White Supremacist Brutally Beaten in Hialeah ...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 10:00 AM (FQVzs)

402 Monaco: "We are going to hold those perpetrators accountable no matter where the facts lead us"

in other words,

"Show me the man and I'll show you the crime"-Lavrentiy Beria

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 10:01 AM (ynpvh)

403 401 Actual Miami New Times headline:

Rubio Supporter, Alleged Former White Supremacist Brutally Beaten in Hialeah ...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 25, 2022 10:00 AM (FQVzs)

He looks brown. Must be one of them white hispanics.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 10:01 AM (ynpvh)

404 Meanwhile, while the regular people beat each other to death, the elites eat popcorn.

Posted by: Its easier for them if we kill each other at October 25, 2022 10:02 AM (UwhqN)

405 JJ has played the victim card again

[Kurt - stop gobbling semen from an absinthe drinker. And hit my tip jar, you cheap Democrat BIRM - jjs]

Posted by: Paul [Kurt] at October 25, 2022 10:04 AM (ESkQW)

406 Kidding aside, I think he overestimates the importance of the standardized tests. More worrisome to me is the overall lack of rigor in teaching medicine and the watering down of the curriculum
Posted by: Muldoon
==
TBF they think they can replace GP's with nurse practitioners.

NP "school" is not exactly medical school. The thing about medical school is that it is a Major Major weed out. It shakes out a lot of people that aren't going to give max effort. Getting a masters in nursing is not nothing, but its not exactly the same experience as medical school internship and residency. If you make it through all that, you have the type of personality that will pay attention to detail and follow through.

Posted by: but, all doctors are going to be govt employees by 2030 anyway at October 25, 2022 10:09 AM (erwOk)

407 All work is voluntary unless you're a slave. My lifestyle and dreams are supported by the voluntary labor of countless people.
==
Its a soft slavery system. They make bad decisions look attractive and pretty soon people are up to your neck in debt. A lot of those people then game the system with bankruptcy etc. The system is going to fail - it has already but inertia is keeping it moving.

Posted by: daily sunshine at October 25, 2022 10:12 AM (PWodd)

408 Is Paul related to that clown that used to come in here? Both seem a bit Fettermanish...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 10:23 AM (ynpvh)

409 Speaking of Orange Man Bad...
Christ looks pretty orange in that pic with the debate article. What is it about some white folks wanting to look orange?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 10:24 AM (ynpvh)

410 Who the hell names their kid Reed Spaulding IV?

It's supposed to just happen. By family tradition, I am the seventh generation of eldest sons to have the same first name. We've had the surname modified twice since we changed forenames.

I have a male child, who is entitled (sic) to be called Way-Way Downriver VIII. I don't think he ever does, though. It might look a little...mannered.

We very rarely have the discussion on what his son will be named. There is an understanding.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 25, 2022 10:31 AM (x61Im)

411 410 Who the hell names their kid Reed Spaulding IV?

It's supposed to just happen. By family tradition, I am the seventh generation of eldest sons to have the same first name. We've had the surname modified twice since we changed forenames.

I have a male child, who is entitled (sic) to be called Way-Way Downriver VIII. I don't think he ever does, though. It might look a little...mannered.

We very rarely have the discussion on what his son will be named. There is an understanding.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 25, 2022 10:31 AM (x61Im)

Of all my siblings with male children, I don't have any Juniors. One f'd up jim in Kali is more than enough in this world.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 11:00 AM (ynpvh)

412 408 Is Paul related to that clown that used to come in here? Both seem a bit Fettermanish...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 25, 2022 10:23 AM (ynpvh)


Jim:

Paul = Kurt. Same asshole.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at October 25, 2022 11:09 AM (x0n13)

413 Hey JJ, perhaps you don’t remember, but you were the la chatte who cried out when for the one time in a thousand Lindsey Graham said something true, that real American Patriots would riot in the streets if the Biden Junta took action, such as an indictment, to criminalize President Trump.

It is because of self-righteous, big meowers, no action, la chattes like you that Democrat enforcers feel they can physically pummel and kill with impunity average Americans exercising their Constitutional rights.

You need to stop your daily BS rants about America being in a non-constitutional state because you are not doing a damn thing about it.

You’re just here to rack up views but not to make a difference.

Posted by: Dummy #43 at October 25, 2022 12:24 PM (U2W4Y)

414 I am making $0.08 an hour working my mouth over the Fleet.
That is what I do.. www.Poofter69.com

Posted by: www.Poofter69.com at October 25, 2022 02:06 PM (QMeZr)

415
It's been lost since WWI.
More coffee..

Posted by: dantesed
Outlasted the US..

Posted by: General Giap at October 26, 2022 12:36 AM (Be4I4)

416 "and is astounded at the freedoms we enjoy here."
Hahahahaha.
Which specific freedoms does your imaginary friend admire?
The ability to shit in the street? Camp on the sidewalk in LA? Marry your sister?
You get arrested for smiling at a cop. You lose your job if you refuse to attend a diversity seminar.

Posted by: General Giap at October 26, 2022 12:46 AM (Be4I4)

417 Тhis articⅼe wiⅼl assіst the intеrnet ᴠіewers for setting up new webpage
or even а blog from start to end.

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