Federal Judge Vacates Biden's Loan-Cancellation Executive Order, Declaring It Unconstitutional

A federal judge in Texas on Thursday struck down the Biden administration's student-debt forgiveness plan, imperiling a key administration priority that would have canceled up to $20,000 in student loans for tens of millions of borrowers.
The Biden administration's plan is an "unconstitutional exercise of Congress's legislative power" that also failed to go through normal regulatory processes, Judge Mark Pittman of the Northern District of Texas wrote in a 26-page opinion.
"No one can plausibly deny that it is either one of the largest delegations of legislative power to the executive branch, or one of the largest exercises of legislative power without congressional authority in the history of the United States," Mr. Pittman, an appointee of former President Donald Trump wrote.
The Biden administration can appeal the verdict. The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The lawsuit is one of several brought by Republican officials and conservative groups. Another suit, brought by GOP officials in six states, is currently awaiting a ruling from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which put a preliminary pause on the program last month as it considered whether the states had legal standing.

The lawless tyrannical Biden Administration has stopped taking applications for their unconstitutional and illegal loan forgiveness bribery program-- almost as if they knew all along that this was unconstitutional and would inevitably be declared to be so, and almost as if it was all just an election-season stunt to Dupe the Progs.

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1 >>>just an election-season stunt to Dupe the Progs.

It was an lolgf.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 11, 2022 03:16 PM (yHsuS)

2 Pay up, suckers!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2022 03:17 PM (h2q0O)

3 Should not have stopped to read the content.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2022 03:17 PM (bVYXr)

4 The Biden admin spent almost two years resisting Dem calls for this, only to pivot and implement it in the most ham-handed way possible. My guess is that they'll quietly try to let it die and blame the GOP.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at November 11, 2022 03:17 PM (wmDcS)

5 almost as if it was all just an election-season stunt to Dupe the Progs
_________

WHAT!? It was just an illegal act to influence an election?

Hey.... didn't Trump get impeached by Democrats claiming that's what he did?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 11, 2022 03:17 PM (JMAcK)

6 Just finished paying my student loans off this morning.

I felt...nothing.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 11, 2022 03:17 PM (KbCG3)

7 There some big news about the arizona election on lakes Twitter. I cant put the link because I was denied.

Posted by: Genzconservativist at November 11, 2022 03:18 PM (pmoqr)

8 (minus the "illegal" part)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 11, 2022 03:18 PM (JMAcK)

9 Week after the election, huh? Weird.

Posted by: squid_hunt at November 11, 2022 03:18 PM (S/NWs)

10 I mean. It is obviously unconstitutional but it might have done its job of getting a few young idiots to vote Democrat.

This is just one of those "lets do it and dare the courts to throw it out" joints the Biden Administration promised us they'd do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 03:18 PM (Ivdso)

11 Gen Z, just remember to vote for us in 2024 so we can get this done.

Posted by: Ron Klain at November 11, 2022 03:18 PM (vN+oL)

12
Too bad you can't have repo guys for these delinquent loans.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 03:18 PM (MoZTd)

13 The funny part of that SNL horror trailer about Biden 2024 is that their lists of his accomplishments was so short, and one of them was this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 03:18 PM (LvTSG)

14 Two days after the election.

We knew the Democrats would never release the people from their usury obligations.

It was just floated for retarded millennials. And true to form retarded millennials and zoomers fell for it like the retarded retards that they are.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 11, 2022 03:19 PM (vwMFL)

15 The lawless tyrannical Biden Administration has stopped taking applications for their unconstitutional and illegal loan forgiveness bribery program-- almost as if they knew all along that this was unconstitutional and would inevitably be declared to be so, and almost as if it was all just an election-season stunt to Dupe the Progs.
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Ya mean dupe the generation that voted +30 for the Demoncrats:
Gen Z.

I can't help but laugh.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at November 11, 2022 03:19 PM (OCK3i)

16 Put fetterstein in charge of it

Posted by: Blue Hen at November 11, 2022 03:19 PM (JTRqZ)

17
But I already booked my vacation. How am I supposed to pay for it now?

Posted by: B.A. in Basket-Weaving, $250,000 Student Loan Debt at November 11, 2022 03:19 PM (sMiFr)

18 It worked, didn't it?

Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid. at November 11, 2022 03:19 PM (mR6Gs)

19 This is good news.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at November 11, 2022 03:19 PM (BdMk6)

20 Apparently this judge does not realize that Biden worked very hard to get this passed, and did by about two votes.

My word as a Biden quote rememberer.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 11, 2022 03:19 PM (KbCG3)

21 No... Stop... Don't... Come Back...

- Democrats

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (OLVeZ)

22 Well he duped the Gen Z idiots. Poor little snowflakes.

Posted by: IC at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (CQAPg)

23
"You f'ed up. You trusted us."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (MoZTd)

24 Not only the loans but now gas prices are going to jump.

Posted by: abbynormal at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (hN8XY)

25 Week after the election, huh? Weird.
__

Not even a week.

Three days.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (OCK3i)

26 The adults are in charge.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (g03CO)

27 Even funnier is that at least two clowns on FB are happy that fetterstein won, calling him a 'regular looking guy'. They cited that student load vote buying as a reason.

Posted by: Blue Hen at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (JTRqZ)

28 Called it since yesterday.

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (OLVeZ)

29 Texas judge >>> Hawaiian judge

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (2xlV3)

30 Its easy to bash on Gen Z because they make it so easy, but remember: every one of us, whatever generation, were idiots back at that age, too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (Ivdso)

31 Eh... Coney Barrett has already booted two virtually-identical suits on the basis of no standing. I don't expect this one to have a different fate.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (bW8dp)

32 17
But I already booked my vacation. How am I supposed to pay for it now?
Posted by: B.A. in Basket-Weaving, $250,000 Student Loan Debt at November 11, 2022 03:19 PM (sMiFr)

Better hope your looks are good enough to open an OF account. Oh wait, those are failing too ie too much supply.

Posted by: Thrawn at November 11, 2022 03:21 PM (Rl7KJ)

33 So soon after pride Month?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at November 11, 2022 03:21 PM (D+e7M)

34 Sundowner can't give away money?
How about those who voted for that bribe for votes?

Posted by: Skip's phone at November 11, 2022 03:21 PM (xhxe8)

35 Some great scholarships out there in running for Miss (insert state here) Pageants.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2022 03:21 PM (anj39)

36 Coney Barrett has already booted two virtually-identical suits on the basis of no standing. I don't expect this one to have a different fate.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (bW8dp)

This time it will come with the added bonus of frothing at the mouth mob and death threats...

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (OLVeZ)

37 "Dead, for now"

Dead, forever. This is just the first step to SCOTUS. Even the Twitter left seems to understand this and is bracing their followers that they ain't getting their money.
This should cause some riots.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (qH6FZ)

38 Half of our retarded populace has no idea they are being ass-raped.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (g03CO)

39 I'm guessing this is what the burning hair and underpants is all about:

https://twitter.com/KariLakeWarRoom/status/
1591149369331703810?cxt=HHwWhIDT
-fn68pQsAAAA

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (ZSK0i)

40 Great. Now when does the forbearance end?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (u73oe)

41 But I already booked my vacation. How am I supposed to pay for it now?
Posted by: B.A. in Basket-Weaving, $250,000 Student Loan Debt

Just add it to your loan as Study Abroad.

Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (CaJIi)

42 So, Gallagher turns up dead just weeks after Nazi Pelosi's husband is involved in a hammer attack.

Sussssspiiiiiciousssss!

Posted by: neurosis of the liver at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (48d9R)

43 Its easy to bash on Gen Z because they make it so easy, but remember: every one of us, whatever generation, were idiots back at that age, too.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (Ivdso)

The BIG difference is that those of us from older generational cohorts would get shot down by our parents if we got too uppity.

Posted by: JoeF. at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (mR6Gs)

44 Some colleges make over $100,000,000 per year in football revenue and some other colleges have over $10,000,000,000 endowments but lets get the plumbers and the electricians to pay for the bad loans that the liberal arts majors took out.

Most colleges funnel tons of money into democrat candidates while brain washing kids into voting for democrats. The democrats in turn make sure that these colleges have plenty of money to reciprocate the love with.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (h1jJh)

45 hiya

Posted by: JT at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (T4tVD)

46

Shtup the Progs?

Well, a few of the chicks are cute, but is it really worth the risk?

Posted by: Dirty Frank at November 11, 2022 03:23 PM (91+c5)

47 almost as if it was all just an election-season stunt to Dupe the Progs.

The Dems do failure theater too, usually aimed at their youngest, stupidest voters.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2022 03:23 PM (ZGrMX)

48 Now would be the time for Republicans to call the bluff of all liberals running colleges, and say that those colleges should just cancel that debt on their end and they can payoff the loan companies from their endowments.

Posted by: Rbastid at November 11, 2022 03:23 PM (Glq7j)

49
Texas judge >>> Hawaiian judge
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

How about a Texas punch?

Posted by: Fruit Juicy at November 11, 2022 03:23 PM (63Dwl)

50 > This is just the first step to SCOTUS.

Where, as I noted above, Amy Coney Barrett has already thrown out two very similar suits.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:23 PM (bW8dp)

51 Sussssspiiiiiciousssss!
Posted by: neurosis of the liver at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (48d9R)

That mystery was already solved Scooby Doo...

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 11, 2022 03:23 PM (OLVeZ)

52 The BIG difference is that those of us from older generational cohorts would get shot down by our parents if we got too uppity.

True, but that's pretty much Boomers or Silents and older, not anything after that. The cultural revolution turned kids into brats because old people don't know anything and should just die.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (Ivdso)

53 Veterans affairs has an office handling debts to the VA, such as prescriptions, home loans that defaulted, educational stuff that wasn't quite right. Far be it from Retardo to help out some poor vet on Veterans Day. Before they kicked my status up they were after me for $30 on a hospital discharge prescription.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (lz5hY)

54 BREAKING: We have more confidence now!

Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (CaJIi)

55 7 There some big news about the arizona election on lakes Twitter. I cant put the link because I was denied.
Posted by: Genzconservativist at November 11, 2022 03:18 PM (pmoqr)

You can't tell us in your own words?

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (BdMk6)

56 I was very dismissive on the political impact, but seeing how 18-30 year olds swung to the Dems, I'm thinking it did give them a big boost.

Would have been nice had a judge stopped it earlier.

And yea, I blame much of this on Trump for going down this road on no one having to pay their loans anymore because "Covid". He got the ball rolling.

Posted by: Blago at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (PwNLq)

57 Nice pen and phone you got there.

Posted by: Federal Judge at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (BaJYp)

58 Dems are gonna have to break some kneecaps, huh?

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (v0R5T)

59 > lets get the plumbers and the electricians to pay for the bad loans that the liberal arts majors took out.

You'd be surprised at how many delinquent student loans come from trade schools (hint: a lot).

They're not all Victorian Poetry majors.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (bW8dp)

60 Its easy to bash on Gen Z because they make it so easy, but remember: every one of us, whatever generation, were idiots back at that age, too.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Growing up in a homogeneous high IQ nation post WWII with zero competition along with a sound monetary and financial system (they are broken now).
Must be nice says the younger generations.

Posted by: Willie Jeff C at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (qu6IK)

61
It worked, didn't it?

Posted by: Zombie Harry Reid. at November 11, 2022 03:19 PM (mR6Gs)

That was my absolute first fvking thought at 5 am this morning when I read that news. Harry fvckin' Reid laughing from six feet under.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (y3pKJ)

62 Someone on Twitter had a good one about this, can't remember who.

"Biden slashes another 600 billion of deficit spending!"

Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (qH6FZ)

63 It's getting to the point that I don't recommend liberal-arts colleges to my nieces and nephews. Figure out what you want to do, get the training for it at a community college or an apprenticeship, and keep moving.

(Nephew #3 just bought a house. He was kicked out of the Marines for refusing the Clot Shot, apprenticed himself to a local plumber, bought a fixer-upper, and is proudly hosting my parents for Thanksgiving.)

Posted by: pookysgirl, the aunt with all the advice at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (XKZwp)

64 Dead, forever. This is just the first step to SCOTUS. Even the Twitter left seems to understand this and is bracing their followers that they ain't getting their money.
This should cause some riots.
Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (qH6FZ)

They'll resurrect the ploy in 2024, and the idiots will bite again

Posted by: JoeF. at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (mR6Gs)

65
It's amazing that bees and lizards have standing but not taxpayers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 03:25 PM (MoZTd)

66 Posted by: Lemmiwinks at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (h1jJh)

- Stadium
- Maintenance Crew
- Electricity Bill
- Supplies for concessions
- Staff for Concessions
- Broadcasting Booths
- Equipment for said Broadcasting
- Network Equipment
- Grass
- Water for Grass

Do I need to keep going?

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 11, 2022 03:25 PM (OLVeZ)

67 They totally played their base for suckers, and on cue, ever last one of the dupes is out there blaming Republicans for the loss of their freebies instead of admitting they were tricked by an obvious scam.

Posted by: can of spam at November 11, 2022 03:25 PM (7oNMO)

68 Our overlords are credentialed fuckups.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 11, 2022 03:25 PM (g03CO)

69 "Where, as I noted above, Amy ~~Coney~~ Con job Barrett has already thrown out two very similar suits."

I fixed that for you.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at November 11, 2022 03:25 PM (1DgE4)

70 BREAKING: We have more confidence now!
Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2022 03:24 PM (CaJIi)

That seems to be it in a nutshell.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (ZSK0i)

71 Posted by: Genzconservativist at November 11, 2022 03:18 PM (pmoqr)

Use tinyurl to post links.

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (OLVeZ)

72 It was just floated for retarded millennials. And true to form retarded millennials and zoomers fell for it like the retarded retards that they are.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 11, 2022 03:19 PM (vwMFL)

Half of our retarded populace has no idea they are being ass-raped.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (g03CO)

Yeah, it sucks. But I am taking this as a win.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (yHsuS)

73 almost as if they knew all along that this was unconstitutional and would inevitably be declared to be so, and almost as if it was all just an election-season stunt to Dupe the Progs.
----
Funny the judge waited until after the vote to kill it.

Posted by: dartist at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (9X/y4)

74 Going to take a nap, and hopefully avoid the next argument.

Democrats have got to be loving this. Their delay the counting strategy is working brilliantly.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (5p7BC)

75 Eh... Coney Barrett has already booted two virtually-identical suits on the basis of no standing. I don't expect this one to have a different fate.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

A single justice cannot boot a lawsuit.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (KAi1n)

76 "Conservative judges overturning our democracy" no doubt.

Posted by: Zek at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (fsV7e)

77 Got a free haircut today. Didn’t even know they were doing that for Veterans Day. Tipped the lady though.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (u73oe)

78 Half of our retarded populace has no idea they are being ass-raped.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Hello, Sailor!

Posted by: Shemp Smith at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (91+c5)

79 NBC had a poll on those who got student loan forgiveness and what they were planning to do with it.

Guess what they said?

Around 80% polled said "use it on a vacation".
I shit you not.

A plumber's taxes are being taken out so it can be used so some Sociology major can YOLO a trip to Cancun.

Posted by: Blago at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (PwNLq)

80
Funny the judge waited until after the vote to kill it.
Posted by: dartist at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (9X/y4)

_________

The font needed changing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (MoZTd)

81 "Where, as I noted above, Amy Coney Barrett has already thrown out two very similar suits."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:23 PM (bW8dp)

Because of standing of the plaintiff. That isn't an argument here.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 03:27 PM (qH6FZ)

82 Its easy to bash on Gen Z because they make it so easy, but remember: every one of us, whatever generation, were idiots back at that age, too.

Relative idiots, but in a sane(r) world. Oh, look, there goes Miss New Hampshire. Or is it the USS New Hampshire?

Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2022 03:27 PM (CaJIi)

83 The Dems do failure theater too, usually aimed at their youngest, stupidest voters.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2022 03:23 PM (ZGrMX)

and blacks, since the '60's

Posted by: JoeF. at November 11, 2022 03:27 PM (mR6Gs)

84
The corrupt and illegitimate DOJ has already filed an Appeal.

Since when does the DOJ do the White House's personal bidding?

Why would the DOJ have an interest in student fucking loans when it has nothing to do with the, you know, Purview, of the Department of Justice?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 03:27 PM (mwT4s)

85 I explained the Lake tweet at the end of the last thread, want me to bring it up?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 11, 2022 03:28 PM (5p7BC)

86 So, Gallagher turns up dead just weeks after Nazi Pelosi's husband is involved in a hammer attack.

Sussssspiiiiiciousssss!
Posted by: neurosis of the liver at November 11, 2022 03:22 PM (48d9R)
.........

Don't think it was Gallagher, he would have finished the job.

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 03:28 PM (v0R5T)

87
They'll have a hard time with stunts like this in '24, if Sanders decides to shake down the Party again. But if he doesn't run again, expect some other weird Marxist scheme to pop up and entice those voters.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2022 03:28 PM (oINRc)

88 This is dumb. Loan forgiveness and Defaulting on loans are deflationary. You literally wipe out billions if not trillions to fight inflation.

I wonder what the percentage is of people taking bailouts and emergency government loans being forgiven who are against student loan forgiveness. Quite high I would imagine.

Posted by: Willie Jeff C at November 11, 2022 03:28 PM (qu6IK)

89 How many Tesla's are going to get repo'd?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 11, 2022 03:28 PM (Q4IgG)

90 I mean. It is obviously unconstitutional but it might have done its job of getting a few young idiots to vote Democrat.

This is just one of those "lets do it and dare the courts to throw it out" joints the Biden Administration promised us they'd do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 03:18 PM

This along with roe v. wade abortion being cancelled is what may have cost us the Senate. younger democrats had multiple motivations to boost turn out.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2022 03:28 PM (bVYXr)

91 Funny the judge waited until after the vote to kill it.
Posted by: dartist at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (9X/y4)

Cause The Abortion Ruling totally have an effect already? The Polls got everything fucking wrong this election... maybe its time for people to start talking about that?

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 11, 2022 03:28 PM (OLVeZ)

92
And this bullshit loan "forgiveness" is Targeted to "public servants." A.K.A. as the Democrat-voter base.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 03:29 PM (mwT4s)

93 > "Where, as I noted above, Amy Coney Con job Barrett has already thrown out two very similar suits."

I fixed that for you.
Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at November 11, 2022 03:25 PM (1DgE4)

Quite possibly true, but when she throws two out without even granting them a hearing, it doesn't bode well for the chances of this one.

I'd guess that given that the Supremes are all Ivy Leaguers, they've all felt the student loan pain personally when they were young and hungry lawyers, and are thus predisposed in favor of forgiveness.

I'm not even sure I'd count on Thomas, frankly.

But we'll see.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:29 PM (bW8dp)

94 I want loan forgiveness on my education. Wait a minute, you went to Youngstown State? Wassamattayou, that only cost a buck fifty nine.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 11, 2022 03:29 PM (lz5hY)

95 > And this bullshit loan "forgiveness" is Targeted to "public servants."

Nope, that's a completely different program that's been around since the days of Obama.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:29 PM (bW8dp)

96 The corrupt and illegitimate DOJ has already filed an Appeal.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 03:27 PM (mwT4s)

It's part of the process, did you think they weren't going to appeal?

Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 03:29 PM (qH6FZ)

97 They (Dems) knew it would happen and they're joyful for their base is even more rabid. The planned trips and dinners out may be on hold for awhile. (not sarc)

For it was written by radicals who then encouraged their base to write the WH and also all their representatives that Joe MUST push that program via Executive Order before the mid-terms.

Posted by: Lola at November 11, 2022 03:30 PM (NIYa7)

98 The Biden admin had nothing to lose doing what they did. Suppose they lose all the way to SCOTUS?

"Hey, at least we tried."

A bit of failure theater for the Left.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 11, 2022 03:30 PM (cMXNt)

99 > Since when does the DOJ do the White House's personal bidding?

Err... since always? It's an executive branch agency, dude.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:30 PM (bW8dp)

100 Half of our retarded populace has no idea they are being ass-raped.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Things are so bad, people are forced into making a choice between who bussy-rapes them.

Posted by: Willie Jeff C at November 11, 2022 03:31 PM (qu6IK)

101 89 How many Tesla's are going to get repo'd?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 11, 2022 03:28 PM (Q4IgG)

How long can Tesla Batteries sit idle before they go to shit?

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 11, 2022 03:31 PM (OLVeZ)

102 "Quite possibly true, but when she throws two out without even granting them a hearing, it doesn't bode well for the chances of this one."

What the hell are you talking about? It takes 4 justices to vote for certiorari and if there are 4, it's not like a justice gets a "boot the case out" card to pull.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2022 03:31 PM (KAi1n)

103 Sotomayor rules forcing [some, non millionaire athlete] citizens to take an experimental vaccine as a condition of working to provide for your family to be totes constitutional, just as the framers intended.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at November 11, 2022 03:31 PM (NjAfK)

104
But if he doesn't run again, expect some other weird Marxist scheme to pop up and entice those voters.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2022 03:28 PM (oINRc)

Biden's plan was to *only* loan cancel $10,000 of debt. I'm sure a lot of snowflakes have amassed a whole lot more than that. Great issue to run on every four years.

I'm not sure I'd swap my vote for $10,000 - but I sure would think hard and long about it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 11, 2022 03:31 PM (y3pKJ)

105 BabylonBee: Selfish DeSantis Takes Entire Red Wave For Himself

Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 03:32 PM (u83p8)

106 I'm not sure I'd swap my vote for $10,000 - but I sure would think hard and long about it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 11, 2022 03:31 PM (y3pKJ)

Hell no, can't buy shit with $10,000 in Biden's economy.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2022 03:32 PM (Y5qcH)

107 I explained the Lake tweet at the end of the last thread, want me to bring it up?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 11, 2022 03:28 PM (5p7BC)

Please.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at November 11, 2022 03:32 PM (BdMk6)

108 Its easy to bash on Gen Z because they make it so easy, but remember: every one of us, whatever generation, were idiots back at that age, too. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I was crazy AF, but not an idiot. All of my friends and many parents thought that Carter was a great guy. Because he had a nice smile. Sadly, I was worried that his economic and foreign policy ideas were horrible. I voted for Ford. After I took 3 bong hits. Somehow, I managed to restrain myself from setting anything on fire or shooting anybody when I lost my first vote. I did get even 4 years later. Going to art school with conservative values gave me pretty thick skin.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at November 11, 2022 03:32 PM (zB/T/)

109 So soon after Pride Month

Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 03:32 PM (u83p8)

110 Do I need to keep going?
Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 11, 2022 03:25 PM (OLVeZ)

You forgot to mention that the revenue from those football tickets and television rights also pays for the stadiums, tracks, equipment, travel expenses, entry fees, etc. of the other 15 varsity sports that are revenue negative. Mandatory via Title IX to promote and provide equally to women's sports.
It's not just the stadium itself, it is the practice facilities, tutors, medical insurance,medical coverage and trainers, on and on. The Ohio State Athletic Department is completely separate from the university and operates as a 501c3 non profit. It has actually donated surplus revenue after paying all expenses, including interest on mega loans to build out facilities, to OSU 's general scholarship fund for regular ole students.

Posted by: Jen the original at November 11, 2022 03:32 PM (8IvgM)

111 Nope, that's a completely different program that's been around since the days of Obama.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:29 PM (bW8dp)

Same program they're dangling now, but with more oomf. Thats why the Judge is shitting all over it.

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 11, 2022 03:33 PM (OLVeZ)

112 Fetterlump needed a stroke to become a ruhtard but what's the average Democrats' excuse?

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at November 11, 2022 03:33 PM (OZjDX)

113 The Biden admin had nothing to lose doing what they did. Suppose they lose all the way to SCOTUS?

"Vote for us and we'll pack the courts!"

Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2022 03:33 PM (CaJIi)

114 Do you guys bitching about individual SCOTUS justices understand what those individual justices can and can't do? All they can do is grant an emergency stay to stuff in the circuit they handle. They don't have their own fiefdoms where they decide cases/appeals all by themselves.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2022 03:33 PM (KAi1n)

115 Let students who can't find work with their useless degrees sue their university trust funds.

We should promise to cut the DOE and give half the money to actual teachers.

We should cut the Pentagon and give half to actual veterans and combat soldiers.

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at November 11, 2022 03:33 PM (0SrVS)

116 “We will never stop fighting for hardworking Americans most in need—no matter how many roadblocks our opponents and special interests try to put in our way,” Ms. Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
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Uh, Topsy, what about the "hardworking Americans" who have to shoulder the debt for the "hardly working Americans" who took out loans to pursue degrees in, e.g., gender studies?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 03:33 PM (YqDXo)

117 > Because of standing of the plaintiff. That isn't an argument here.
Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 03:27 PM (qH6FZ)

Sure it is. I don't see how the "Job Creators Network Foundation" has any more standing than the "Pacific Legal Foundation" or the "Brown County Taxpayers Association".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:33 PM (bW8dp)

118
I actually kind of like Bernie Sanders.

He's the only person I've ever seen routinely beat the Democrats. He *always* gets them to pay his ransom. It would be nice to have a few savages like him on the Right.

That dude has been hustling those walking dildos (and the ones who vote for his cheesy old ass) for millions of dollars, for his entire life. It's amazing. What a con-artist.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2022 03:33 PM (oINRc)

119 San Antonio councilman hammered beyond belief:
youtube.com/watch?v=atlzwpVW9QM

Posted by: Very Quick And Superficial gp at November 11, 2022 03:33 PM (24fqN)

120 It's easy to bash on Gen Z because they make it so easy, but remember: every one of us, whatever generation, were idiots back at that age, too. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Yeah, but we didn't believe men could become women, or that men can have babies.
That's new.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at November 11, 2022 03:34 PM (OCK3i)

121 I explained the Lake tweet at the end of the last thread, want me to bring it up?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 11, 2022 03:28 PM (5p7BC)

Since you got willowed, it might not be a bad idea...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 11, 2022 03:34 PM (ZSK0i)

122 A massive crypto scam exchange company run by MIT educated Sam Bankman-Fried just went tits up.

Here's a short interview with his CEO of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison, who has a math BS from Stanford. Anyone with a day one education of investing or finance should be able to spot some issues here.

https://bit.ly/3UObXZp

Posted by: bonhomme at November 11, 2022 03:34 PM (eyxn4)

123 Its easy to bash on Gen Z because they make it so easy, but remember: every one of us, whatever generation, were idiots back at that age, too.

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Yes but our idoicy was personal to us.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at November 11, 2022 03:34 PM (sX1BW)

124 Well that sucks for bai-din. What's the use of stealing an election if you can't just break the law anytime you want?

Posted by: Eromero at November 11, 2022 03:34 PM (kjgzd)

125 96 The corrupt and illegitimate DOJ has already filed an Appeal.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 03:27 PM (mwT4s)

It's part of the process, did you think they weren't going to appeal?
Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 03:29 PM (qH6FZ)

The trick is letting it float around for about... ohhhh 9 months before landing a docket.

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 11, 2022 03:34 PM (OLVeZ)

126 > Same program they're dangling now, but with more oomf. Thats why the Judge is shitting all over it.

Nope.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:34 PM (bW8dp)

127 Dupe The Progs And Cucks
Joe And The Dems Whip It Out
Votes Lost USA Be Fucked

I weep...

Posted by: Godzilla at November 11, 2022 03:34 PM (R/m4+)

128 Eh... Coney Barrett has already booted two virtually-identical suits on the basis of no standing. I don't expect this one to have a different fate.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

A single justice cannot boot a lawsuit.
Posted by: SFGoth

No, but I can BOOF a lawsuit. Ha! Ha!

Posted by: Brett Kavanaugh, Da Judge! at November 11, 2022 03:34 PM (vcOmj)

129 07 I explained the Lake tweet at the end of the last thread, want me to bring it up?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 11, 2022 03:28 PM (5p7BC)

Please.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at November 11, 2022 03:32 PM (BdMk6)
*******
Yes.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 11, 2022 03:35 PM (NpAcC)

130 every one of us, whatever generation, were idiots back at that age, too. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Not all of us.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2022 03:35 PM (KAi1n)

131 I never took a student loan. I'd be in for a semester, out for a while, in again. Took a long time, but I didn't owe shit when it was over.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 11, 2022 03:35 PM (TgBWG)

132 We should cut the Pentagon and give half to actual veterans and combat soldiers.
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What the heck am I going to do with half of the five-sided nuthouse?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at November 11, 2022 03:35 PM (OCK3i)

133 So soon after Pride Month
Posted by: SMOD

During the St. Floyd funeral??

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2022 03:35 PM (OvB8Q)

134 Point is we always act like any money given to actual productive people is a net loss. False there is tons of money in dirty hands bankrolling this corruption and bullshit with our money.

Take it from them and give it to the actual workers and people.

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at November 11, 2022 03:35 PM (0SrVS)

135 >>>The lawsuit is one of several brought by Republican officials and conservative groups.

Thanks to them!

Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 03:36 PM (RtN13)

136 112 Fetterlump needed a stroke to become a ruhtard but what's the average Democrats' excuse?
Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at November 11, 2022 03:33 PM (OZjDX)

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Born that way. Half the population has below average intelligence who do you think they vote for?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 11, 2022 03:36 PM (cMXNt)

137 I saw someone ref Fetter man AS A Harvard grad.

If that is true, they have outdone The Bee.

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2022 03:36 PM (BaJYp)

138 So soon after Pride Month
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 03:32 PM (u83p

........

Juneteenth will never be the same.

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 03:36 PM (v0R5T)

139 @smh haha.

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at November 11, 2022 03:36 PM (0SrVS)

140 I was right. You can thank me later

Posted by: Polls are for Strippers guy at November 11, 2022 03:36 PM (o9gPs)

141 >>>to Dupe the Progs

How hard can that be?

Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 03:36 PM (RtN13)

142 Four hundred private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of ‘hypocrisy.’

I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves

Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 03:36 PM (u83p8)

143 A massive crypto scam exchange company run by MIT educated Sam Bankman-Fried just went tits up.

Here's a short interview with his CEO of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison, who has a math BS from Stanford. Anyone with a day one education of investing or finance should be able to spot some issues here.

https://bit.ly/3UObXZp

Posted by: bonhomme
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What's funny is NOVA's last episode was Crypto Currency and how awesome it was and that it could be the next big thing in financial products.

Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2022 03:37 PM (G0vdT)

144 almost as if it was all just an election-season stunt to Dupe the Progs.
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To be fair (couldn't resist), the judge waited till just atfer the election to drop the bomb. The courts were supposed to be the last bulwark against tyranny for the People. Sure seems like they're the final nail in the coffin.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at November 11, 2022 03:37 PM (coCgA)

145 What the heck am I going to do with half of the five-sided nuthouse?
Posted by: SMH

Turn it into a B&B with an indoor range?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2022 03:37 PM (OvB8Q)

146 I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves

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I'll never believe.

I guess we are saying the same thing.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at November 11, 2022 03:37 PM (sX1BW)

147 Dupe, dupe, dupe
Dupe, dupe the Progs.
Dupe, dupe, dupe
Dupe, dupe the
Barbara Ann ...

Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 03:37 PM (RtN13)

148 What's funny is NOVA's last episode was Crypto Currency and how awesome it was and that it could be the next big thing in financial products.
Posted by: WisRich

Electrons, backed by nothing, able to be turned off.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2022 03:38 PM (OvB8Q)

149 Doggy coin took a dump?

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 03:38 PM (v0R5T)

150
The FIRST WORD in crypto is CRY!

Posted by: Fired Head of Advertising for Crypto Firm at November 11, 2022 03:38 PM (y3pKJ)

151 Boebert led with 1,122 votes and 50.17 percent of the vote, with 99 percent reported, by 12:30 p.m. eastern.

Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 03:39 PM (u83p8)

152 Fox news beating war drums in both Ukraine AND over Tawain... right now... on Veterans day.

Well... this Vet gives you a hearty FUCK YOU.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2022 03:39 PM (oHd/0)

153 What's funny is NOVA's last episode was Crypto Currency and how awesome it was and that it could be the next big thing in financial products.
Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2022 03:37 PM (G0vdT)
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I'd love to see crypto do the credid card companies what streaming did to VHS/DVD rental, or what the Internet did to travel agencies.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at November 11, 2022 03:39 PM (coCgA)

154 What the heck am I going to do with half of the five-sided nuthouse?
Posted by: SMH
Turn it into a B&B with an indoor range?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2022 03:37 PM (OvB8Q)

Turn it into an AirBNB and rent it out to prostitutes.

That's how it's done around these parts.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 11, 2022 03:39 PM (R/m4+)

155 Good news. More for us.

Posted by: The Ukes at November 11, 2022 03:39 PM (Xrfse)

156 The Dem's Lucy yanks the ball away from the Progressive Charlie Brown again.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 03:39 PM (eoQWY)

157 2010 the Administration took over 90% of the student loans.

Most the foundations for future bedlam were laid during O&B's 1st Administration. It was refined and further defined during the 2nd.

Posted by: Lola at November 11, 2022 03:39 PM (NIYa7)

158 The King Is A Fink!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 11, 2022 03:39 PM (geVLo)

159 LOL Trump appointee get fucked. John Roberts told us there are no Democrat judges or Republican judges

Posted by: steevy at November 11, 2022 03:39 PM (yezA1)

160 Think I finally got this new computer up and running.

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2022 03:39 PM (BaJYp)

161 >>> A massive crypto scam exchange company run by MIT educated Sam Bankman-Fried just went tits up.
Posted by: bonhomme
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What's funny is NOVA's last episode was Crypto Currency and how awesome it was and that it could be the next big thing in financial products.
Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2022 03:37 PM (G0vdT)

I've read that SBF was a big-time lefty donor that bankrolled many D campaigns.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2022 03:39 PM (Nd9N3)

162 Electrons, backed by nothing, able to be turned off.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2022 03:38 PM (OvB8Q)

Only difference with the Dollar, is that the Dollar is backed up by the Largest Debtor in the History of Man.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2022 03:40 PM (oHd/0)

163 The fight erupted on Thursday when Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) reflected on his failed reelection campaign, lamenting to the New York Times how AOC did not contribute to the Democrats’ overall agenda this election cycle.

Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (u83p8)

164
I'd be in the "make colleges and their enormous endowments pay for it" camp, except that that implies living people would remain behind on these campuses with two pennies to rub together at the end of it.

That proposal doesn't go nearly too far enough.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (oINRc)

165 November is men's and boys mental health awareness month. Notice how all the wymyn are silent unless it's their health. (Wymyn started mental health awareness btw, they give them ketamine at home for depression ffs).

Posted by: Willie Jeff C at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (qu6IK)

166 You forgot to mention that the revenue from those football tickets and television rights also pays for the stadiums, tracks, equipment, travel expenses, entry fees, etc. of the other 15 varsity sports that are revenue negative.
______________

How many football programs actually make money? Sure, the famous and historically successful ones do, but the vast majority (outside of the, say, top 20 programs) are cost centers, not profit centers.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (YqDXo)

167 >>>A massive crypto scam exchange company run by MIT educated Sam Bankman-Fried just went tits up.

Here's a short interview with his CEO of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison, who has a math BS from Stanford. Anyone with a day one education of investing or finance should be able to spot some issues here.

https://bit.ly/3UObXZp

Posted by: bonhomme
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What's funny is NOVA's last episode was Crypto Currency and how awesome it was and that it could be the next big thing in financial products.

Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2022 03:37 PM (G0vdT)

Saw on the Twits that Jim Kramer was touting him as the next Warren Buffet.

I really need to start investing based on the Pelosi portfolio, or the opposite of whatever the hell Jim Kramer says.

Posted by: neurosis of the liver at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (48d9R)

168 164 The fight erupted on Thursday when Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) reflected on his failed reelection campaign, lamenting to the New York Times how AOC did not contribute to the Democrats’ overall agenda this election cycle.
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (u83p

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Good. Let's see some in-fighting on the Left.

Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (G0vdT)

169 Crypto currency: living in someone else's delusion.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 11, 2022 03:42 PM (DhOHl)

170 29 Texas judge >>> Hawaiian judge
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 11, 2022 03:20 PM (2xlV3)

Ha haha! Exactly what I thought!

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 11, 2022 03:42 PM (Rbu5d)

171 Went to YSU because the VA check actually left change in your pocket. A lot of fellow Nam vets, most of us taking dumb shit classes to get a little extra beer money. A few classes where you actually learned something useful. No loan. A few people (should have been one) said the Hell with being enlisted trash, next time I'm an Officer and went ROTC. Again, no loan.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 11, 2022 03:42 PM (lz5hY)

172 every one of us, whatever generation, were idiots back at that age, too. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Not all of us.
Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2022 03:35 PM (KAi1n)

My first political memory is standing up in rage at an ad for Jimmy Carter discussing how he would handle the mideast with lurve or whatever and saying 'YOU IDIOT'.

Was 1-0 on political assessments right there

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 03:42 PM (eoQWY)

173 Fox news beating war drums in both Ukraine AND over Tawain... right now... on Veterans day.

Disrespectful and stoopid to the max but to be expected. Anyway, everything is an op.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2022 03:42 PM (Xrfse)

174 I was very dismissive on the political impact, but seeing how 18-30 year olds swung to the Dems, I'm thinking it did give them a big boost.

I have two problems with that. Well 3, but the main two are:

1) Young people almost always are heavy democrat voters to begin with
2) this data is based on EXIT POLLS which are not just notoriously, but absurdly bad and inaccurate.

Plus: fraud. Many young people don't vote and are easy to "harvest" for fraud.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 03:42 PM (Ivdso)

175 Is it me, or is Jim Kramer the lovechild of Jason Alexander and Louis CK?

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2022 03:43 PM (BaJYp)

176 > A single justice cannot boot a lawsuit.
Posted by: SFGoth

She can if there are 4 liberal justices, she makes a fifth, and there's at least one other. Cert. denied. I would bet that she spoke with her colleagues before doing this.

Like I said, I think pretty much every Justice has a conflict of interest in this area. I wouldn't even count on Thomas.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:43 PM (bW8dp)

177 163 For those keeping track, we are on day three of the next batch will put Lake ahead. We are running out of batches.
Posted by: I've got bad news for you at November 11, 2022 03:40 PM (W6zui)

Its not the number of batches, its one specific batch they are counting on and its the 10 fold larger than any of the other batches. They are waiting on Day Of Maricopa. Its somewhere in the vicinity of 230,000.

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 11, 2022 03:43 PM (OLVeZ)

178 Framed as the Democrats have this is a win win for them and lose lose for us. We need to change the terms.

Gen z is going to pay into social security their whole lives and probably see none of it. They are also likely to be drafted in ww3 against china and Russia. I get the muh entitled kids and dependents and it's not wrong. But dismissing how institutionally fucked they are is also a shitty thing to do.

Wthey don't know how the world works, they only know the Bernie sales pitch. We can teach and help them that isnteabdof fucking taxpayers (whom they now are) we need to help them take in university endowments and the literal trillions if other woke dollars fucking all of us over. We can help them attacking the interst in these students loans.

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at November 11, 2022 03:43 PM (0SrVS)

179 Not all of us.
Posted by: SFGoth

I suspect you have grown in wisdom and understanding since when you were 19.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 03:43 PM (Ivdso)

180 What's funny is NOVA's last episode was Crypto Currency and how awesome it was and that it could be the next big thing in financial products.

Crypto, by itself, is value-neutral, with some possibilities of defenestrating the global surveillance state.

As I understand it, the guy who ran this FTX was an out and proud Marxist and he did Marxist things with other peoples' money. It was quite predictable, according to people who pay more attention to that than I do.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2022 03:44 PM (ZGrMX)

181
The whole thing is solvable, with my plan: The debt can be liquidated if the creditors are liquidated.

Toss every academic and university administrator in the US from a helicopter.

Done and done, and on the cheap.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2022 03:44 PM (oINRc)

182 >>> Four hundred private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of ‘hypocrisy.’

I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 03:36 PM (u83p

These people run their jets on biofuel provided by carbon-offset companies, so they get to put a nice big checkmark in the virtue box. They've been doing that for years now.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2022 03:44 PM (Nd9N3)

183 35 Some great scholarships out there in running for Miss (insert state here) Pageants.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2022 03:21 PM (anj39)

The boyz are gonna clean up.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 11, 2022 03:44 PM (Rbu5d)

184 173 Fox news beating war drums in both Ukraine AND over Tawain... right now... on Veterans day.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2022 03:42 PM (Xrfse)

Anyone seen Bolton lately?

Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at November 11, 2022 03:44 PM (OLVeZ)

185
Only difference with the Dollar, is that the Dollar is backed up by the Largest Debtor in the History of Man.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2022 03:40 PM

At this point they look at the value of everperson's IRA 401K etc as a positive on their balance sheet.

I've actually experienced the quickness with which the govmint can take your money and then return it - if you yell hard enough. Banks and other financial institutions are only branches of the IRS. If the SHTF your money is gone.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 11, 2022 03:44 PM (y3pKJ)

186
I'm pretty sure the it's the White House Counsel's place to sue/defend the president's personal policy bullshit.

The DOJ is supposed only get involved when laws are broken are or something "unconstitutional" is afoot (allegedly).

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 03:44 PM (myK0K)

187 Doggy coin took a dump?
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 03:38 PM (v0R5T)
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Who could have foreseen this? I mean, those pixels were backed by the full faith and credit - such as they are - of some malodorous computer nerds.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

188 Wait. I thought only Republican politicians betrayed their base.

Posted by: Emmie at November 11, 2022 03:45 PM (Emce2)

189 from the Evan McMullin thread:

"(I'm taking it easy today because it's Veterans Day -- I'm not a Veteran, just taking the opportunity to take a half day that better men have secured for me -- and because it was a tough week. Posts today are going to be very quick and superficial.)"

Hope you're o.k., ace.

Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 03:45 PM (RtN13)

190 Hold on. Since the court struck down Biden's action, if it's not heard by the Supremes, doesn't that mean that ruling stands?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 11, 2022 03:45 PM (TgBWG)

191 My first political memory is standing up in rage at an ad for Jimmy Carter discussing how he would handle the mideast with lurve AND SOME TOP SHELF ANTI SEMITISM or whatever and saying 'YOU IDIOT'.

Was 1-0 on political assessments right there

Posted by: Oldcat a

===

Fixed

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 11, 2022 03:45 PM (61hwE)

192 No problem, we'll restore it. Call it a public tax on education fulfillment.

Posted by: Army Colon-Barrett/Kav at November 11, 2022 03:46 PM (pb6ET)

193 Crypto currency: living in someone else's delusion.

I got a pretty good payoff for a book written for Hero Games, and threw a century at Crypto figuring if it didn't work out its not that much a loss and I can afford to just sit on it until its valuable. Immediately thereafter it became 50 bucks and has not crawled back out of that pit again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 03:46 PM (Ivdso)

194 I have two problems with that. Well 3, but the main two are:

1) Young people almost always are heavy democrat voters to begin with
2) this data is based on EXIT POLLS which are not just notoriously, but absurdly bad and inaccurate.

Plus: fraud. Many young people don't vote and are easy to "harvest" for fraud.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 03:42 PM (Ivdso)
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it's real. You know what the Left is doing on College campus in WI. Their setting up Polling places inside the all the Dorms and pestering every student resident as they come in and out to vote until they show up the voting rolls.

Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2022 03:46 PM (G0vdT)

195 174 "I was very dismissive on the political impact, but seeing how 18-30 year olds swung to the Dems, I'm thinking it did give them a big boost."

I have two problems with that. Well 3, but the main two are:

1) Young people almost always are heavy democrat voters to begin with
2) this data is based on EXIT POLLS which are not just notoriously, but absurdly bad and inaccurate.

Plus: fraud. Many young people don't vote and are easy to "harvest" for fraud.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 03:42 PM (Ivdso)

And at the end of the day it was R+6. The showing isn't terrible from that perspective, but the amount of wins gotten from it were. What should be viewed as discouraging is that it wasn't due to increased R voting, but decreased D voting.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 11, 2022 03:46 PM (eYoxG)

196 The latest faux outrage in Da Swamp: People who work in the French Quarter who can't afford to pay for parking every day have found a dodge. They remove their license plates and cover up the VIN at the base of their windshields. Result: The meter maids can't look the vehicle up, so they can't issue tickets for parking at an expired meter or in a No Parking space.

The local CBS outlet station blew the whistle on this today. The city council retards are saying they should have a parking lot where you'd show your city permit ("I work here"), and then a shuttle would bring you to your job. That's the sensible thing. Of course LaToya the Destroya's reign cannot be questioned or outmaneuvered, so they will probably give tickets anyway -- punishing people for working. Good luck trying to collect, City.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 11, 2022 03:46 PM (J2vNu)

197 169 164 The fight erupted on Thursday when Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) reflected on his failed reelection campaign, lamenting to the New York Times how AOC did not contribute to the Democrats’ overall agenda this election cycle.
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (u83p
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Good. Let's see some in-fighting on the Left.
Posted by: WisRich at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (G0vdT)

How is this in-fighting when he so clearly wants to date her?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 11, 2022 03:47 PM (KbCG3)

198 It's not the progs fault they're so easy to dupe.

Posted by: aelfheld at November 11, 2022 03:47 PM (Zy9Yy)

199 190 Depends on Florence.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 11, 2022 03:47 PM (lz5hY)

200 The fight erupted on Thursday when Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) reflected on his failed reelection campaign, lamenting to the New York Times how AOC did not contribute to the Democrats’ overall agenda this election cycle.

Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (u83p

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I am shocked by this assessment. Truly.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 11, 2022 03:47 PM (TNyrE)

201
Tim Dillon is always pushing crypto. But he at least makes sure to note that it's a fake business and he only dabbles in it as part of his personal scam-artistry.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2022 03:48 PM (oINRc)

202 Only difference with the Dollar, is that the Dollar is backed up by the Largest Debtor in the History of Man.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2022 03:40 PM
........

The bank runs are going to be epic, and a great place to meet chicks.

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

203 I'm not sure I'd swap my vote for $10,000 - but I sure would think hard and long about it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 11, 2022 03:31 PM (y3pKJ)

I'd take the 10K and vote how I want.

Even famous immovable rigor Ayn Rand told her people that taking grants and loans were ok, they were going to get it taken back later anyway in taxes.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 03:48 PM (eoQWY)

204 196 The local CBS outlet station blew the whistle on this today. The city council retards are saying they should have a parking lot where you'd show your city permit ("I work here"), and then a shuttle would bring you to your job. That's the sensible thing. Of course LaToya the Destroya's reign cannot be questioned or outmaneuvered, so they will probably give tickets anyway -- punishing people for working. Good luck trying to collect, City.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 11, 2022 03:46 PM (J2vNu)

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I think the better solution would be for people to stop working in New Orleans and to let New Orleans die.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 03:48 PM (LvTSG)

205 UN Peacekeepers in Congo made a 'Strategic Withdraw" from a key military base, losing ground supporting Congolese forces. (Reported around November 1st.) NG.

Posted by: Lola at November 11, 2022 03:48 PM (NIYa7)

206 Hey, we tried. Not by actually passing it legally like a law which wouldn't have been rulled unconstitutional like this was, but we tried. Trump judge blocked us from helping you.

Vote for us in 24!

Posted by: Dems at November 11, 2022 03:48 PM (HJ1A5)

207 Only difference with the Dollar, is that the Dollar is backed up by the Largest Debtor in the History of Man.
Posted by: Romeo13

Very true. But people can put dollars in their hands and hold them. Kinda like gold & silver. Which would you rather have? Physical gold or silver, or paper certificates saying a company in Lincoln, Nebraska is holding your silver?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2022 03:48 PM (OvB8Q)

208 Fox News and the Media is filled with warmongers who are happy with escalating to WWIII. It's a sick mindset. Fuck senile Joe Biden and NATO.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 11, 2022 03:49 PM (geVLo)

209 184. Was screeching about something and got someone thrown out on an event

Posted by: CN at November 11, 2022 03:49 PM (Zzbjj)

210 198 It's not the progs fault they're so easy to dupe.
Posted by: aelfheld at November 11, 2022 03:47 PM (Zy9Yy)

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Remember Obama et al laughing at the dupes in America who bought the idea of "shovel ready jobs" and "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor"?

He wasn't talking about us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 03:49 PM (LvTSG)

211 196 The latest faux outrage in Da Swamp: People who work in the French Quarter who can't afford to pay for parking every day have found a dodge. They remove their license plates and cover up the VIN at the base of their windshields. Result: The meter maids can't look the vehicle up, so they can't issue tickets for parking at an expired meter or in a No Parking space.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 11, 2022 03:46 PM (J2vNu)

Can't the meter maids call to get those cars towed?

Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 03:49 PM (RtN13)

212 Yes bankman was outdonating soros.

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at November 11, 2022 03:49 PM (0SrVS)

213
For instance, if biden makes a campaign promise to pay for all tranny freaks "surgery," and then steals the election and writes an executive order and a judge says fuckoff with that shit, it's not proper for the DOJ to take up that fight.

The (illegitimate) president's lawyer has to fight that in the courts. That's the way it should be, anyway. But now, anything goes, I guess.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 03:49 PM (myK0K)

214 204 TJM wishes bad things fo BiNO!

Posted by: Dems at November 11, 2022 03:49 PM (HJ1A5)

215 74 Going to take a nap, and hopefully avoid the next argument.

Democrats have got to be loving this. Their delay the counting strategy is working brilliantly.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at November 11, 2022 03:26 PM (5p7BC)
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That makes no sense. What are they getting out of this "brilliant" strategy?

Morons yelling at Morons?

Whoa! Doom!

Posted by: Eeyore at November 11, 2022 03:49 PM (TgBWG)

216 Hold on. Since the court struck down Biden's action, if it's not heard by the Supremes, doesn't that mean that ruling stands?
Posted by: Eeyore at November 11, 2022 03:45 PM (TgBWG)

It'll be appealed and work its way to SCOTUS. I'm not sure how many layers before then.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 03:49 PM (qH6FZ)

217 > I'm pretty sure the it's the White House Counsel's place to sue/defend the president's personal policy bullshit.

No, the White House Counsel gives advice to the President.

The Solicitor General (part of DoJ) represents the President in court matters.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:50 PM (bW8dp)

218 214 204 TJM wishes bad things fo BiNO!
Posted by: Dems at November 11, 2022 03:49 PM (HJ1A5)

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I was just channeling Kevin Williamson.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 03:50 PM (LvTSG)

219 Judge Vacates Biden's Loan-Cancellation EO >>> Biden Vacates Bowels

Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2022 03:50 PM (anj39)

220 208. War is very profitable for some people. Just like climate crisis

Posted by: IC at November 11, 2022 03:50 PM (CQAPg)

221 The loan forgiveness was obviously un-Constitutional. The Constitution explicitly gives Congress - not the executive branch - control of the purse.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 03:50 PM (YqDXo)

222 143 A massive crypto scam exchange company run by MIT educated Sam Bankman-Fried just went tits up.

The second largest single donor to the DNC behind George Soros.

> $40 million in 2022

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 11, 2022 03:51 PM (vwMFL)

223
The Solicitor General (part of DoJ) represents the President in court matters.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Yeah, that's the one.
The Solicitor General is part of the DOJ??
I didn't know that.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 03:51 PM (myK0K)

224 >>> I really need to start investing based on the Pelosi portfolio, or the opposite of whatever the hell Jim Kramer says.
Posted by: neurosis of the liver at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (48d9R)

An inverse Cramer ETF is coming. A capital management outfit has applied for two separate ones. The first inverses anything he says. The second goes long if he's short and vice versa.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2022 03:51 PM (Nd9N3)

225 It'll be appealed and work its way to SCOTUS. I'm not sure how many layers before then.
Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 03:49 PM (qH6FZ)

District Court --> 5th Circuit Court of Appeals --> SCOTUS

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 11, 2022 03:51 PM (906pl)

226 221 The loan forgiveness was obviously un-Constitutional. The Constitution explicitly gives Congress - not the executive branch - control of the purse.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 03:50 PM (YqDXo)

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You know, all those enabling acts Congress has passed over the decades combined with Chevron deference seem to disagree...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 03:51 PM (LvTSG)

227 216 Hold on. Since the court struck down Biden's action, if it's not heard by the Supremes, doesn't that mean that ruling stands?
Posted by: Eeyore at November 11, 2022 03:45 PM (TgBWG)

It'll be appealed and work its way to SCOTUS. I'm not sure how many layers before then.
Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 03:49 PM (qH6FZ)
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But don't they have to hear it to reverse it?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 11, 2022 03:51 PM (TgBWG)

228 We can help them attacking the interst in these students loans.

You have absolutely no idea what interest is or why it exists do you?

A plan to break contract law and throw investments and budgets away (attacking creditors) only makes additional risk when considering future loans - which reduces availability and increases cost.

And your plan is based purely on subjective feelings and emotions.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2022 03:52 PM (3hSHB)

229 Too bad you can't have repo guys for these delinquent loans.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 03:18 PM (MoZTd)
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Sell the debt to the Mafia, and let Guido Associates collect.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 03:52 PM (YqDXo)

230 Not hearing an emergency appeal is not the same as throwing out the suits. The Supreme Court almost never hears emergency appeals -- they wait until the record is developed in the lower courts. In this matter there may be a split between the Fifth and Eighth Circuits, which might be the kind of thing that the Court would take up after the appellate courts make final rulings. 2024 or 2025, probably. That's the way they roll, and why those lower court appointments are important, too.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 11, 2022 03:52 PM (7B5FA)

231 > The Constitution explicitly gives Congress - not the executive branch - control of the purse.

Yep.

But that's never stopped them before, has it?

Won't stop them this time, either.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:52 PM (bW8dp)

232 79 NBC had a poll on those who got student loan forgiveness...Around 80% polled said "use it on a vacation".
I shit you not.

Not surprising. I saw that article, gave me ex-gf flashbacks. Dec 2000, I was near 2 years after graduation (paid my way through), working as an engineer. The GF (at the time) was a modern dance student - just received her student loan disbursement check for the upcoming spring semester. Spent it on Christmas presents, charged her tuition to her credit card. Not for this reason, but we were done about two months later. Missed stepping on quite a few land mines there.

Posted by: MD_Mike at November 11, 2022 03:52 PM (BouEL)

233 May I also point out that for most endowments at universities, it isn't just a pile of money sitting there that the university president and board can play with, deciding how to split it up and take their ten percent. Rich people create endowments at a university typically to fund their own pet project in perpetuity.
There are endowments that are intended for the general use of the university and those could likely be pilfered to forgive student loans. But not legally. link to easy read on endowments
https://tinyurl.com/2p8ucsw2

Posted by: Jen the original at November 11, 2022 03:52 PM (8IvgM)

234 They remove their license plates and cover up the VIN at the base of their windshields. Result: The meter maids can't look the vehicle up
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In Chicago we have a towing company nicknamed The Lincoln Park Pirates that would tow those cars while you're standing there.

Posted by: dartist at November 11, 2022 03:52 PM (9X/y4)

235
How is this in-fighting when he so clearly wants to date her?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 11, 2022 03:47 PM (KbCG3

I'd like date her. Take her to an expensive restaurant.....then sneak away with her holding the check.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at November 11, 2022 03:52 PM (BdMk6)

236 I suspect you have grown in wisdom and understanding since when you were 19.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Not really. My 6th grade class was pretty fantastic. Teacher was an anti-communist, pro-refusnik, Jewish woman who made us read Ayn Rand.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2022 03:52 PM (KAi1n)

237 *and a great place to meet chicks.*

Always a redeeming feature.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 11, 2022 03:53 PM (DhOHl)

238 District Court --> 5th Circuit Court of Appeals --> SCOTUS
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 11, 2022 03:51 PM (906pl)

I believe you left out Hawaiian Judge.

Posted by: Wally at November 11, 2022 03:53 PM (FJYfm)

239
Too bad you can't have repo guys for these delinquent loans.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 03:18 PM (MoZTd

You could. Go to the students. Take away their cell phones. Pluck out their noserings. Take away their fake wee-wees and boobs. That sorta thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2022 03:53 PM (oINRc)

240 Why would the DOJ have an interest in student fucking loans when it has nothing to do with the, you know, Purview, of the Department of Justice?
Posted by: Soothsayer

Far be it from me to know what I'm taking about, but they are defending the dept of education.

Yes, I know. Six of one, half dozen of the other.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 11, 2022 03:53 PM (NW9xb)

241
Four hundred private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of ‘hypocrisy.’

I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves
Posted by: SMOD

*looks up COP27 location*

Yep, just as I thought. Sharm el Sheikh, my old stomping ground. Even 30+ years ago when I was stationed a couple of miles away, it was getting to be a swanky spot.

The base is still there, with about 1000 US Army troops, complete with small arms, helicopters and Italian Navy patrol boats.

I'm just sayin'.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 11, 2022 03:53 PM (n+4am)

242 District Court --> 5th Circuit Court of Appeals --> SCOTUS
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 11, 2022 03:51 PM (906pl)

There you go, thanks.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 03:54 PM (qH6FZ)

243 >>> I really need to start investing based on the Pelosi portfolio, or the opposite of whatever the hell Jim Kramer says.
Posted by: neurosis of the liver at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (48d9R)

An inverse Cramer ETF is coming. A capital management outfit has applied for two separate ones. The first inverses anything he says. The second goes long if he's short and vice versa.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2022 03:51 PM (Nd9N3)

What happens if Cramer backs these investments?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 03:54 PM (eoQWY)

244
What always confused me is how specific people (usually Always Republicans) get sued with bullshit lawsuits.

For instance, Rumsfeld was always getting personally named in big lawsuits for DoD policy. Bush, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 03:54 PM (myK0K)

245 Since they're mostly or all federal loans, why were they allowed to rack up such absurd payments and interest?

Posted by: Lola at November 11, 2022 03:54 PM (NIYa7)

246
Happy Veterans Day to all of you who served. We had breakfast out this morning and paid for a veteran sitting at the table next to us.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 03:54 PM (MoZTd)

247 234 They remove their license plates and cover up the VIN at the base of their windshields. Result: The meter maids can't look the vehicle up
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In Chicago we have a towing company nicknamed The Lincoln Park Pirates that would tow those cars while you're standing there.
Posted by: dartist at November 11, 2022 03:52 PM (9X/y4)

Exactly. Or tire-boot them.

Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 03:55 PM (RtN13)

248 Well, that explains why we cannot get through to make arrangements to start paying off our son's student loan. It's because everybody and their brother, sister , girlfriend or boyfriend or non binary person was calling about getting their loan paid off, and is now calling to complain it's not being paid off.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2022 03:55 PM (vH/6k)

249 164 The fight erupted on Thursday when Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) reflected on his failed reelection campaign, lamenting to the New York Times how AOC did not contribute to the Democrats’ overall agenda this election cycle.
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (u83p
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He just wants to date her, amirite?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 03:55 PM (YqDXo)

250 > Won't stop them this time, either.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:52 PM (bW8dp)

I mean, it COULD happen. Roe was overturned, after all.

But I wouldn't be optimistic. Presidents have been redirecting money more or less as they pleased since the days of FDR.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:55 PM (bW8dp)

251 Can't the meter maids call to get those cars towed? Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 03:49 PM (RtN13)

Only if "encouraged" by the tow truck drivers. Otherwise, the meter maids are government employees who get paid the same regardless of whether cars have parking spaces or not. They don't get a bounty on collected fines.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 11, 2022 03:55 PM (7B5FA)

252 An inverse Cramer ETF is coming.

Already exists, and the new report I read a few months ago said its overperforming compared to the average. Always bet on.. the opposite of whatever Cramer says.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 03:55 PM (Ivdso)

253 What happens if Cramer backs these investments?

Division by 0, total protonic collapse, that sort of thing.

Posted by: Methos at November 11, 2022 03:55 PM (kOpft)

254
There's a town near me where parking is a problem. So they forced people to buy parking permits. But the permit is for only two hours, before you must move your car again. So people who work in the town have to leave work, find another parking space. Three times a day.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 11, 2022 03:55 PM (y3pKJ)

255 244
What always confused me is how specific people (usually Always Republicans) get sued with bullshit lawsuits.

For instance, Rumsfeld was always getting personally named in big lawsuits for DoD policy. Bush, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 03:54 PM (myK0K)

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The big Bruen case was a case that named Kevin P. Bruen as defendant. He's the Superintendent of the New York State Police.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 03:56 PM (LvTSG)

256 Why would the DOJ have an interest in student fucking loans when it has nothing to do with the, you know, Purview, of the Department of Justice?
Posted by: Soothsayer

After checking their online photos, maybe they want to get in on the action of student fu*king?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2022 03:56 PM (anj39)

257 There's a town near me where parking is a problem. So they forced people to buy parking permits. But the permit is for only two hours, before you must move your car again. So people who work in the town have to leave work, find another parking space. Three times a day.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 11, 2022 03:55 PM (y3pKJ)

Once a day if they're government employees.

Posted by: Wally at November 11, 2022 03:56 PM (FJYfm)

258
Didn't that Cramer weirdo freak out about the unvaxxed and say they should be put in camps, or somesuch?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2022 03:56 PM (oINRc)

259 Presidents have been redirecting money more or less as they pleased since the days of FDR. Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2022 03:55 PM (bW8dp)

Actually, no. Back in the Nixon days Congress went to court to stop him and won. Remember the hoops Trump had to go through to redirect Defense funds to building the wall?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 11, 2022 03:56 PM (7B5FA)

260 244
What always confused me is how specific people (usually Always Republicans) get sued with bullshit lawsuits.

For instance, Rumsfeld was always getting personally named in big lawsuits for DoD policy. Bush, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 03:54 PM (myK0K)

Lots of left-leaning lawyers with money from left-wing billionaires and an ax to grind.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 11, 2022 03:56 PM (eYoxG)

261
The big Bruen case was a case that named Kevin P. Bruen as defendant. He's the Superintendent of the New York State Police.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

What movie was this?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 03:57 PM (myK0K)

262 258
Didn't that Cramer weirdo freak out about the unvaxxed and say they should be put in camps, or somesuch?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2022 03:56 PM (oINRc)

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I mean...a lot of people did.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 03:57 PM (LvTSG)

263 They remove their license plates...

That will easily get a person towed away since the State has the legal ability to remove unregistered vehicles from public roads.

Parking fees look a whole lot better than paying a tow operator and getting a vehicle out of impoundment.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2022 03:57 PM (3hSHB)

264 >>>What happens if Cramer backs these investments?

Division by 0, total protonic collapse, that sort of thing.

Posted by: Methos at November 11, 2022 03:55 PM (kOpft)

Bulls and bears living together.

Posted by: neurosis of the liver at November 11, 2022 03:57 PM (48d9R)

265 Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 03:41 PM (u83p

Did Sandy Cortez call Maloney a fascist yet? It's her favorite description for people wh disagree with her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2022 03:57 PM (vH/6k)

266 261
The big Bruen case was a case that named Kevin P. Bruen as defendant. He's the Superintendent of the New York State Police.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

What movie was this?
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 03:57 PM (myK0K)

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Starring a brave, black tranny as Clarence Thomas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 03:57 PM (LvTSG)

267 Do I get a picture of the student whose loan I am paying off?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 11, 2022 03:57 PM (DhOHl)

268 267 Do I get a picture of the student whose loan I am paying off?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 11, 2022 03:57 PM (DhOHl)

LOL

Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 03:58 PM (RtN13)

269 More calls for Senate leadership vote delay.

Now. Rubio, Lee, Hawley, Johnson, Lummis.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 03:58 PM (qH6FZ)

270
I've done some reading on who ends up in student loan default and the institutions. It's more complicated than Gender Studies majors from Harvard. In a good many cases, poor people are scammed with the government's complicity.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 03:58 PM (MoZTd)

271 Adventures in Clickbait …

MSNBC Panelist Floats ‘Exciting’ Liz Cheney, Stacey Abrams Joint Run in 2024

Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 03:58 PM (u83p8)

272 Crypto currency: living in someone else's delusion.

I got a pretty good payoff for a book written for Hero Games, and threw a century at Crypto figuring if it didn't work out its not that much a loss and I can afford to just sit on it until its valuable. Immediately thereafter it became 50 bucks and has not crawled back out of that pit again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 03:46 PM

I have a buddy that tried his best to get me to toss all of our savings into bitcoin when it was heading straight up, I said no and he ridiculed me for weeks when it kept climbing. He hasn't said a word about it in months.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2022 03:58 PM (bVYXr)

273 They remove their license plates and cover up the VIN at the base of their windshields. Result: The meter maids can't look the vehicle up

Isn't that what those boots are for?

Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2022 03:58 PM (ZGrMX)

274 Literally NOT trying to bring the last thread back to life here but I think it's a reference to "Chun King", fellow Einsteins.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) cancel your NY Post at November 11, 2022 03:59 PM (yikp0)

275 That's no student! It's the school's administrator!!

Posted by: Lola at November 11, 2022 03:59 PM (NIYa7)

276 Actually, no. Back in the Nixon days Congress went to court to stop him and won. Remember the hoops Trump had to go through to redirect Defense funds to building the wall?

Out of curiosity, did any of the elected federal representatives and senators file a lawsuit against the junta or was this exclusively done by a handful of State AGs?

IOW, is the GOP nothing but a bunch of worthless place-holders?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2022 03:59 PM (3hSHB)

277 Happy Veteran's Day and thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your work and sacrifice to all morons and ettes who served, are serving, or have family members in our military. May God bless you and keep you safe.

Posted by: Floridachick at November 11, 2022 03:59 PM (X8MxD)

278 Should we start a pool now to predict how quickly the Democrats turn on Liz Cheney ?

Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 04:00 PM (u83p8)

279 278 Should we start a pool now to predict how quickly the Democrats turn on Liz Cheney ?
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 04:00 PM (u83p

"Turn on" in what way?

Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 04:00 PM (RtN13)

280

My goodness. The Furry Purry Kittey Boy, who has been a bit short on cuddle time the last few days for various reasons, is purring so damn loud I think he could rattle the windows and paintings off the wall...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer no at November 11, 2022 04:00 PM (91+c5)

281 More calls for Senate leadership vote delay.

Now. Rubio, Lee, Hawley, Johnson, Lummis.

And another, Rick Scott.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 04:00 PM (qH6FZ)

282 These guys are tough …

The Houston Astros fired their general manager a week after winning the World Series...that's not something you're going to see every day

Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 04:00 PM (u83p8)

283 I've done some reading on who ends up in student loan default and the institutions. It's more complicated than Gender Studies majors from Harvard. In a good many cases, poor people are scammed with the government's complicity.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 03:58 PM (MoZTd)

Those getting most college degrees these days are getting scammed no matter the income level. As an employer a college degree on the resume is starting to look like a red flag.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:01 PM (eoQWY)

284 >>> An inverse Cramer ETF is coming. A capital management outfit has applied for two separate ones. The first inverses anything he says. The second goes long if he's short and vice versa.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2022 03:51 PM (Nd9N3)

What happens if Cramer backs these investments?
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 03:54 PM (eoQWY)

Crap, I never thought about that.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2022 04:01 PM (Nd9N3)

285 These guys are tough …

The Houston Astros fired their general manager a week after winning the World Series...that's not something you're going to see every day
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 04:00 PM (u83p

They get caught cheating again?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:01 PM (eoQWY)

286 Starring a brave, black tranny as Clarence Thomas.
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The first Black woman SC justice!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) cancel your NY Post at November 11, 2022 04:01 PM (yikp0)

287 Should we start a pool now to predict how quickly the Democrats turn on Liz Cheney ?
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 04:00 PM (u83p

"Turn on" in what way?
Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 04:00 PM (RtN13)

Like how American soldiers dying in 3rd World hellholes turns her on, or like how a $3.99 buffet turns her on?

Posted by: Wally at November 11, 2022 04:01 PM (FJYfm)

288 These guys are tough …

The Houston Astros fired their general manager a week after winning the World Series...that's not something you're going to see every day
Posted by: SMOD

They fired Dusty Baker? WTF?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2022 04:01 PM (OvB8Q)

289 Willowed, and slightly edited, from the last thread

Eh, that threat [e.g., Trump's blackmail of DeSantis] sounds like weak sauce to me. Remember, "Lock her up?"

Trump is belligerent by nature. But I think he channels that belligerence, for the most part, against his domestic political opponents.

Hell’s bells, the guy met with Kim Jung-un and didn’t cause WWIII.

Politics is a nasty business. But better that it should be nasty on the domestic stage and not the international.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 11, 2022 04:01 PM (atmen)

290 43 A massive crypto scam exchange company run by MIT educated Sam Bankman-Fried just went tits up.

The second largest single donor to the DNC behind George Soros.

> $40 million in 2022
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at November 11, 2022 03:51 PM (vwMFL)
______________

$40 million young Bankman-Fried probably wishes he had right now. Although he probably skimmed a boatload of money from the scam before it went TU.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:01 PM (YqDXo)

291 What method of cheating did the Astros use this year?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (DhOHl)

292 What happens if Cramer backs these investments?
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 03:54 PM (eoQWY)

Total protonic reversal.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (wmDcS)

293 More calls for Senate leadership vote delay.

Now. Rubio, Lee, Hawley, Johnson, Lummis.

Let me guess, Texas senators are silent (once again) when it comes to defending liberty and freedom. How damned hard is it to add your name to the delay vote?

Or does this threaten their grift by challenging the Micks?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (3hSHB)

294 I have a buddy that tried his best to get me to toss all of our savings into bitcoin when it was heading straight up, I said no and he ridiculed me for weeks when it kept climbing. He hasn't said a word about it in months.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2022 03:58 PM (bVYXr)

I set up an account for Coinbase, but didn't give them my bank account numbers on the 1st day. Immediately, I got a flood of "Urgent Attention Required" junk emails for my Coinbase account in broken English.

Said, screw that.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (Y5qcH)

295 291 What method of cheating did the Astros use this year?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (DhOHl)

=========

All of the ones that everyone uses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (LvTSG)

296 Vets Day rather subdued here but that can be attributed to the monsoon that started around 6:00 this morning and is showing no signs of abating.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (Xrfse)

297 284 >>> An inverse Cramer ETF is coming. A capital management outfit has applied for two separate ones. The first inverses anything he says. The second goes long if he's short and vice versa.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2022 03:51 PM (Nd9N3)

What happens if Cramer backs these investments?
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 03:54 PM (eoQWY)

Crap, I never thought about that.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2022 04:01 PM (Nd9N3)

But the Inverse Cramer ETF Volatility ETF

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (eYoxG)

298 "Turn on" in what way?
Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 04:00 PM (RtN13)

Ugh, I don't want to think about lizard sechs.

Posted by: Thrawn at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (Rl7KJ)

299
They remove their license plates and cover up the VIN at the base of their windshields. Result: The meter maids can't look the vehicle up

Just do what the illegal aliens do here in Clownifornia. Download a pdf of a CA Temp License Plate, print and tape it to the car where an actual plate is supposed to go. Still gotta cover the window VIN to be sure.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (n+4am)

300 The Houston Astros fired their general manager a week after winning the World Series...that's not something you're going to see every day
Posted by: SMOD

They fired Dusty Baker? WTF?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2022 04:01 PM (OvB8Q)
___________

Dusty Baker is the manager, not the GM, I believe.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

301 300

Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 04:03 PM (RtN13)

302 Out of curiosity, did any of the elected federal representatives and senators file a lawsuit against the junta or was this exclusively done by a handful of State AGs? IOW, is the GOP nothing but a bunch of worthless place-holders? Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2022 03:59 PM (3hSHB)

I'm pretty sure Missouri AG who was running for either Senator or Governor took the lead on it and everybody else is joining in.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 11, 2022 04:03 PM (7B5FA)

303 foiled again

Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 04:03 PM (RtN13)

304 Probably one of the cutest things about Bluey is a trio of male terrier boys who are fierce Scottish nationalists living in Australia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:04 PM (LvTSG)

305 I've done some reading on who ends up in student loan default and the institutions. It's more complicated than Gender Studies majors from Harvard. In a good many cases, poor people are scammed with the government's complicity.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 03:58 PM (MoZTd)

Gender studies majors weren't the target audience, black people were. Also, to an extent, rural poor who took out a couple grand for community college classes which didn't get them anything.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at November 11, 2022 04:04 PM (wmDcS)

306 They fired Dusty Baker? WTF?
Posted by: rickb223

Dusty was the manager, not general manager.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2022 04:04 PM (KAi1n)

307 296 Vets Day rather subdued here but that can be attributed to the monsoon that started around 6:00 this morning and is showing no signs of abating.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (Xrfse)

Same here. And now all the happy-fun dry leaves I was going to pick up tomorrow are now sodden, recalcitrant leaves.

Thanks, Nicole.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 11, 2022 04:04 PM (906pl)

308 268 267 Do I get a picture of the student whose loan I am paying off?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 11, 2022 03:57 PM (DhOHl)

LOL
Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 03:58 PM (RtN13)

And their address so you could become pen pals.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at November 11, 2022 04:04 PM (BdMk6)

309 $40 million young Bankman-Fried probably wishes he had right now. Although he probably skimmed a boatload of money from the scam before it went TU.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:01 PM (YqDXo)

Just another sign of bad judgement in investing. You can get way more push by buttonholing dudes one at a time than shoveling it to the DNC

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:04 PM (eoQWY)

310
What method of cheating did the Astros use this year?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM

Lean all the way over home plate and get hit with the ball. Not something I'd sign up for - getting hit with a 99 mph fastball, but a great way to get on base.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 11, 2022 04:04 PM (y3pKJ)

311 Starring a brave, black tranny as Clarence Thomas.

Clarita Thomas? So stunning, so brave?

Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2022 04:05 PM (ZGrMX)

312
All of the ones that everyone uses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (LvTSG)

____________

Yankeedom outrage is particularly rich.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 04:05 PM (MoZTd)

313 >>> Should we start a pool now to predict how quickly the Democrats turn on Liz Cheney ?
Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2022 04:00 PM (u83p

"Turn on" in what way?
Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 04:00 PM (RtN13)

No. On no account must it be interpreted in "that" way.

Posted by: Zombie Timothy Leary at November 11, 2022 04:05 PM (Nd9N3)

314 What method of cheating did the Astros use this year?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (DhOHl)

Teams have been stealing signs for a hundred years.

Only the method is wrong?

Posted by: Golfman at November 11, 2022 04:05 PM (jZc8c)

315 I have a buddy that tried his best to get me to toss all of our savings into bitcoin when it was heading straight up, I said no and he ridiculed me for weeks when it kept climbing. He hasn't said a word about it in months.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2022 03:58 PM (bVYXr)
______________

You were buddies with Charles Ponzi?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:06 PM (YqDXo)

316 Lean all the way over home plate and get hit with the ball. Not something I'd sign up for - getting hit with a 99 mph fastball, but a great way to get on base.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 11, 2022 04:04 PM (y3pKJ)

Worked for Ron Hunt

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:06 PM (eoQWY)

317 312 Yankeedom outrage is particularly rich.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 04:05 PM (MoZTd)

============

It's an open secret that every pitcher puts stuff on the balls. It's just an outrage when the Astros do it, or something.

Whatever. My A's sucked hard balls this year. I have no emotional investment in it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:06 PM (LvTSG)

318 Dusty Baker is the manager, not the GM, I believe. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

James Click was the GM. I believe that was brewing for a long time and they just kept it together through the end of the season, like parents staying together until the kids graduate. I think it has to do with how much the team composition and on-field activity is driven by Sabremetrics, and the owner tended to go with Dusty's judgment rather than the models. He was right.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 11, 2022 04:06 PM (7B5FA)

319 And their address so you could become pen pals.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at November 11, 2022 04:04 PM (BdMk6)

Aaaand, we'll send you this ADOWABLE blanket!

Posted by: That Shriner "Kid", now on Uncle's Payroll at November 11, 2022 04:06 PM (906pl)

320
Dusty Baker is mort?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 04:07 PM (myK0K)

321 Teams have been stealing signs for a hundred years.

Only the method is wrong?
Posted by: Golfman at November 11, 2022 04:05 PM (jZc8c)
__________

Yep. Stealing signs - if you can figure out the other team's signs - is part of the game. Using binoculars and radios to do so is not.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:07 PM (YqDXo)

322 Teams have been stealing signs for a hundred years.

Only the method is wrong?
Posted by: Golfman at November 11, 2022 04:05 PM (jZc8c)

Is it really even "stealing" signs if you're flashing them right out in public?

Posted by: Wally at November 11, 2022 04:07 PM (FJYfm)

323 >>> Should we start a pool now to predict how quickly the Democrats turn on Liz Cheney ?

Any minute now. It is hunting season, after all.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 11, 2022 04:07 PM (DhOHl)

324 Lean all the way over home plate and get hit with the ball. Not something I'd sign up for - getting hit with a 99 mph fastball, but a great way to get on base.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 11, 2022 04:04 PM (y3pKJ) Worked for Ron Hunt Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:06 PM (eoQWY)

Craig Biggio had the modern-era record for HBP and he's in the HOF.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 11, 2022 04:07 PM (7B5FA)

325 curses

foiled again
Posted by: m at November 11, 2022 04:03 PM (RtN13)

Posted by: Snidely Whiplash at November 11, 2022 04:08 PM (v0R5T)

326 Using binoculars and radios to do so is not.

Not to mention trash cans...

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2022 04:08 PM (Xrfse)

327 320
Dusty Baker is mort?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 04:07 PM (myK0K)

Choked on that damned toothpick. I always said he would.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 11, 2022 04:08 PM (906pl)

328 Lean all the way over home plate and get hit with the ball. Not something I'd sign up for - getting hit with a 99 mph fastball, but a great way to get on base.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 11, 2022 04:04 PM (y3pKJ)
____________

Pro tip: wait for an off-speed pitch to lean into.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:08 PM (YqDXo)

329 Lean all the way over home plate and get hit with the ball. Not something I'd sign up for - getting hit with a 99 mph fastball, but a great way to get on base.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Nope. Not a HBP if you don't make an effort to avoid the pitch.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2022 04:09 PM (KAi1n)

330
My A's sucked hard balls this year. I have no emotional investment in it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:06 PM (LvTSG)

__________

Looks like they're moving to LV.
Philadelphia: 1901-1954
Kansas City: 1955-1967
Oakland: 1968-Present

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 04:09 PM (JxUmb)

331 James Click was the GM. I believe that was brewing for a long time and they just kept it together through the end of the season, like parents staying together until the kids graduate. I think it has to do with how much the team composition and on-field activity is driven by Sabremetrics, and the owner tended to go with Dusty's judgment rather than the models. He was right.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 11, 2022 04:06 PM (7B5FA)

Sabremetrics was interesting when it started and a useful tool but seemed to flatten out when it became a new conventional wisdom.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:09 PM (eoQWY)

332 “Vote D and get $10k plus federally mandated abortions!” only to have the first tossed three days after the vote, the second one stillborn as unconstitutional from the jump. And yet, over 65% of Gen Z fell for it anyway?

Man, that’s gotta be the greatest ROI on campaign BS since “Build the dang wall…”

Posted by: MarkW at November 11, 2022 04:09 PM (Kn+LY)

333 As if there were any doubt that NeverTrumpers are raging scumbags...

@eScarry 2h

Oh wow, the wife of Lincoln Project leader Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES requested a RESTRAINING ORDER against her husband as they go through divorce. I wonder what threats he might have made??

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 11, 2022 04:09 PM (IyrhE)

334
jimmy carter is about to drop dead, in the next few days

just a feeling...

and dick cheney won't see the new year...

paul pelosi, too

Posted by: I See Dead People at November 11, 2022 04:09 PM (myK0K)

335 Should we start a pool now to predict how quickly the Democrats turn on Liz Cheney ?

I'm picturing Jerry Nadler scrubbing her penis-sized clitoris with a toothbrush.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at November 11, 2022 04:09 PM (KFhLj)

336 Yankeedom outrage is particularly rich.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 04:05 PM (MoZTd)

Eh...The Astros went far beyond the typical cheating.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2022 04:09 PM (XIJ/X)

337 Mark Rober came up with a program that accurately interpreted signs on a smartphone. (Junior loves watching Mark Rober, and he's now all in on Dude Perfect.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmlRbfSavbI

You can actually buy the app he developed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:10 PM (LvTSG)

338 An inverse Cramer ETF is coming. A capital management outfit has applied for two separate ones. The first inverses anything he says. The second goes long if he's short and vice versa.
Posted by: banana Dream

What happens if Cramer backs these investments?
Posted by: Oldcat

Crap, I never thought about that.
Posted by: banana Dream

A rip in the space-time continuum is formed?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2022 04:10 PM (LsEU/)

339
lol @ me hash!

Posted by: I See Dead People at November 11, 2022 04:10 PM (myK0K)

340 Yep. Stealing signs - if you can figure out the other team's signs - is part of the game. Using binoculars and radios to do so is not.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:07 PM (YqDXo)

We'll disagree.

Posted by: Golfman at November 11, 2022 04:10 PM (jZc8c)

341 What method of cheating did the Astros use this year? Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM (DhOHl)

Deflated the baseballs.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 11, 2022 04:10 PM (7B5FA)

342 301 300
Posted by: m
---------------
This is SPARTA!!!

Posted by: zombie king leonidas at November 11, 2022 04:10 PM (yikp0)

343 328 . . . Pro tip: wait for an off-speed pitch to lean into.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
_______

This is about my fastball, right?

Posted by: Jamie Moyer at November 11, 2022 04:10 PM (CkFy6)

344 Dusty Baker is the manager, not the GM, I believe.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

You're correct. Then it's no big deal.

It'd be a big deal if they fired the winning manager, but a front office knob? Pffffft.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2022 04:10 PM (OvB8Q)

345 Dusty Baker is mort?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at November 11, 2022 04:07 PM (myK0K)

***

Another grim Biden milestone

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 11, 2022 04:10 PM (flINI)

346 As if there were any doubt that NeverTrumpers are raging scumbags...

@eScarry 2h

Oh wow, the wife of Lincoln Project leader Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES requested a RESTRAINING ORDER against her husband as they go through divorce. I wonder what threats he might have made??
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 11, 2022 04:09 PM (IyrhE)

He threatened to take their son to a Lincoln Project mixer

Posted by: Wally at November 11, 2022 04:10 PM (FJYfm)

347 330 Looks like they're moving to LV.
Philadelphia: 1901-1954
Kansas City: 1955-1967
Oakland: 1968-Present
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 04:09 PM (JxUmb)

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Maybe. It would be what Oakland deserved for simply dragging out the process on the Howard Terminal construction. That should have started 2 years ago. They're still having votes on it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:11 PM (LvTSG)

348 Typical Dem plan.

Sucker people with an impossible promise and blame someone else when it fails.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2022 04:11 PM (r9WNo)

349 Back to McDonalds for dinner, kids.

Cancun will have to wait until you can pay for it yourself.

Posted by: Ultra pj at November 11, 2022 04:11 PM (G1dq6)

350
I got your comment right here!

\ o /

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 11, 2022 04:11 PM (myK0K)

351 Using binoculars and radios to do so is not.

Not to mention trash cans...
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2022 04:08 PM (Xrfse)
___________

That was the low-tech part of the conspiracy.

I wondered why teams don't use two-factor authentication. Some subtle gesture or posture of the pitcher modifies the signs the catcher will give. E.g., pitcher touches his hat, or holds his glove some way, adds one to whatever sign the catcher puts down, modulo however many pitches the pitcher has.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:11 PM (YqDXo)

352 From Last Thread - STL is not the sh*ttiest airport around. It's not modern but it's safe, and it's not located 20 miles outside of the city like many so-called city airports. We aren't a hub so no reason to steal from taxpayers to the tune of an additional billion+ so that your layover can be more cozy.

Go ding on your own crappy city.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at November 11, 2022 04:11 PM (CCcN5)

353
Eh...The Astros went far beyond the typical cheating.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2022 04:09 PM (XIJ/X)

__________

And Carlos Beltran works for the YES network.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 04:11 PM (JxUmb)

354 Craig Biggio had the modern-era record for HBP and he's in the HOF.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at November 11, 2022 04:07 PM (7B5FA)

Well Mr big had some other talents besides HBP. Ron Hunt was fairly mediocre aside from his HBP totals. So either he insulted a lot of pitcher's mommas or he perfected the lean in and get plonked.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:11 PM (eoQWY)

355 What happens if Cramer backs these investments?
Posted by: Oldcat

This assumes he isn't an abject moron. Objection denied.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 11, 2022 04:11 PM (IyrhE)

356 328 Lean all the way over home plate and get hit with the ball. Not something I'd sign up for - getting hit with a 99 mph fastball, but a great way to get on base.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 11, 2022
Pro tip: wait for an off-speed pitch to lean into.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November

I couldn't imagine being hit by a fastball let alone doing it on purpose.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 11, 2022 04:11 PM (VkEIW)

357
300, 301, ...

whatever it takes.

Posted by: Mr Mom at November 11, 2022 04:12 PM (myK0K)

358 I think Ace stepped out to get beer or drywall anchors or something.

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 04:12 PM (v0R5T)

359 >>> It's an open secret that every pitcher puts stuff on the balls.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:06 PM (LvTSG)

Gold Bond, the green bottle. Weeee hooo hoooooo. Exhilarating!

Posted by: Zombie Timothy Leary at November 11, 2022 04:12 PM (Nd9N3)

360 They remove their license plates and cover up the VIN at the base of their windshields. Result: The meter maids can't look the vehicle up

Just do what the illegal aliens do here in Clownifornia. Download a pdf of a CA Temp License Plate, print and tape it to the car where an actual plate is supposed to go. Still gotta cover the window VIN to be sure.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 11, 2022 04:02 PM

They do that here in Texas also. Saw a paper plate on a chevy the other day that expired in August that was registered for a ford. Nothing happens unless they get pulled over.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2022 04:12 PM (bVYXr)

361 358 I think Ace stepped out to get beer or drywall anchors or something.
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 04:12 PM (v0R5T)

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We're not even at comment 600!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:12 PM (LvTSG)

362 Off dirty hippie sock

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2022 04:12 PM (Nd9N3)

363 Lucky Tiger.

Posted by: Eromero at November 11, 2022 04:13 PM (kjgzd)

364 Sucker people with an impossible promise and blame someone else when it fails.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2022 04:11 PM (r9WNo)

The formula for success as a manager, partner or officer in most large organizations.

Posted by: Punish the innocent, promote the guilty at November 11, 2022 04:13 PM (pLSJi)

365 Going long on ramen and Vaseline.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 11, 2022 04:13 PM (pb6ET)

366 The Houston Astros fired their general manager a week after winning the World Series

I don't like Dusty Baker for a lot of reasons but he's the manager, not sure why they'd get rid of the GM.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:13 PM (Ivdso)

367 360 They do that here in Texas also. Saw a paper plate on a chevy the other day that expired in August that was registered for a ford. Nothing happens unless they get pulled over.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2022 04:12 PM (bVYXr)

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We bought a Mazda CX-5 from a dealership in Jacksonville 2 months ago. They delivered it right to our door, but with temp tags. We paid them the money to take care of the tags, and it just dragged out to the point where I had to call them and get 2 replacement temp tags.

We finally got the real tag today.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:13 PM (LvTSG)

368
Sucker people with an impossible promise and blame someone else when it fails.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2022 04:11 PM (r9WNo)

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This is called "Marketing".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2022 04:14 PM (JxUmb)

369 Oh wow, the wife of Lincoln Project leader Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES requested a RESTRAINING ORDER against her husband as they go through divorce. I wonder what threats he might have made??
Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 11, 2022 04:09 PM (IyrhE)

I'm as much of a NT hater as the next guy, but this is SOP for women in divorce proceedings. Sucks for her if it is actually necessary, but a request is nothing more than an allegation, which can be completely baseless.

I've seen a person spend over a million dollars through the course of litigation to defend against such baseless attacks, and Steve Schmidt would be my choice for someone having to do that.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 11, 2022 04:14 PM (yHsuS)

370
I don't like Dusty Baker for a lot of reasons but he's the manager, not sure why they'd get rid of the GM.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Bad Ju-Ju

Posted by: Mr Mom at November 11, 2022 04:14 PM (myK0K)

371 I think Ace stepped out to get beer or drywall anchors or something.

==

GAINZZZZ!

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2022 04:14 PM (V13WU)

372 343 328 . . . Pro tip: wait for an off-speed pitch to lean into.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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This is about my fastball, right?
Posted by: Jamie Moyer at November 11, 2022 04:10 PM (CkFy6)
____________

In Little League I had a buddy who couldn't hit with a guitar. As the pitch arrived, he used to straddle the plate - literally - and get hit in the back. Whenever I faced him, I used to muscle up and throw as hard as I could so he at least earned his base. One day an umpire denied him a base because he was literally blocking the entire strike zone.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:14 PM (YqDXo)

373 Going long on ramen and Vaseline.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 11, 2022 04:13 PM (pb6ET)

Solid advice. Don't forget cigarettes.

Posted by: Sam Bankman-Fried at November 11, 2022 04:14 PM (FJYfm)

374 The lawless tyrannical Biden Administration has stopped taking applications for their unconstitutional and illegal loan forgiveness bribery program-- almost as if they knew all along that this was unconstitutional and would inevitably be declared to be so, and almost as if it was all just an election-season stunt to Dupe the Progs.

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Wait 'til they find out that the SCOTUS didn't outlaw abortion nationwide -- ooh boy, they're gonna be pissed! Well, that and when they have to live on bug-food stamps for the rest of their short, miserable lives ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of The Kink at November 11, 2022 04:14 PM (K3TEc)

375 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah

sweet ride!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 11, 2022 04:15 PM (2xlV3)

376 You mean, it was probably just spoofing the Millenials and Gen Z for votes?? WHODATHUNK!

Guess all the abortion-loving AWFLs still owe on their loans. Pay up, suckas.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at November 11, 2022 04:15 PM (Qrct5)

377 Dr. gina loudon. Milf or Gilf?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 11, 2022 04:15 PM (pb6ET)

378 375 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah

sweet ride!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 11, 2022 04:15 PM (2xlV3)

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I don't like the windshield wipers.

Total fail of a car.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:15 PM (LvTSG)

379 I mean, the Astros took stealing signs (something EVERY TEAM DOES) to a whole new level and used it to help them win but... so did a lot of other teams. The Red Sox for instance were caught doing the same thing but nobody yells about them.

Its one of those things that makes me scratch my head in confusion.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:15 PM (Ivdso)

380 >>> I think Ace stepped out to get beer or drywall anchors or something.
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 04:12 PM (v0R5T)

|sed 's/or/and/g'

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2022 04:16 PM (Nd9N3)

381 In Little League I had a buddy who couldn't hit with a guitar. As the pitch arrived, he used to straddle the plate - literally - and get hit in the back. Whenever I faced him, I used to muscle up and throw as hard as I could so he at least earned his base. One day an umpire denied him a base because he was literally blocking the entire strike zone.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:14 PM (YqDXo)

Should have called him out for not being in the batters box.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:16 PM (eoQWY)

382 Can’t bullshit a bullshitter.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 11, 2022 04:16 PM (8Qoxs)

383 Going long on ramen and Vaseline.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Oh, so it's going to be that kind of party!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (LsEU/)

384 Four hundred private jets arrived in Egypt during COP27 as climate delegates are accused of ‘hypocrisy.’

Ray liotta laugh

Posted by: Rhenigantx at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (VAkti)

385 We're not even at comment 600!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah
.........

There's always elephant jokes.

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (v0R5T)

386 We bought a Mazda CX-5 from a dealership in Jacksonville 2 months ago. They delivered it right to our door, but with temp tags. We paid them the money to take care of the tags, and it just dragged out to the point where I had to call them and get 2 replacement temp tags.

We finally got the real tag today.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:13 PM (LvTSG)

I'm a big fan of Mazda. They are a tiny company compared to other brands, yet they still hold their own and produce quality cars. No one else has managed to do that.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (Y5qcH)

387 Yeah, Gen Z had a rough upbringing ... or maybe they had it too easy? idk, they are very informed, just wrongly informed, and raised by the state more than parents. Too much time texting or staring into screens, whereby "the globalists" captured their brains.

Not sure who to blame ... many of us fought the Marxist infiltration along the way. Not many superheroes in the real world to "save the day".

Posted by: illiniwek at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (Cus5s)

388 Should have called him out for not being in the batters box.

At least in real baseball you cannot move into the pitch or try to get hit. They'll generally call it a ball usually and tell you to rub some terbaccy juice into the bruise. Although not always.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (Ivdso)

389 Wellll, I headed a mock debate on the Republican side in 7th grade. My college roommate and I subscribed to the WSJ because there was no alternative source of news or a conservative viewpoint.

Only sources were of news were the 3 major TV networks (all liberal although we didn't really understand how much so entirely), the liberal city newspaper and the radical leftist college paper.

One of my econ profs told us about the only reason there were gas lines was because there were full tankers offshore that greedy corporate execs wouldn't allow to be unloaded.

I did more than my share of dumb stuff back then and since, but being a liberal was never one of them.

Posted by: RM at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (0eYOS)

390 I mean, the Astros took stealing signs (something EVERY TEAM DOES) to a whole new level and used it to help them win but... so did a lot of other teams. The Red Sox for instance were caught doing the same thing but nobody yells about them.

Its one of those things that makes me scratch my head in confusion.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:15 PM (Ivdso)

its supposed to be a hobby for the guys on the bench. Anything else is shabby, and getting busted doing it means you get the scorn.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (eoQWY)

391 In Little League I had a buddy who couldn't hit with a guitar. As the pitch arrived, he used to straddle the plate - literally - and get hit in the back. Whenever I faced him, I used to muscle up and throw as hard as I could so he at least earned his base. One day an umpire denied him a base because he was literally blocking the entire strike zone.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:14 PM (YqDXo)

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Back in my early 30's -- damn, that was (but doesn't seem like) a long time ago -- I joined a senior fastball league in The Bay Area. It was cool, a lot of ex-minor and some ex-major leaguers.

Anyway, because of my speed, they had me batting lead-off. I probably got HBP about 10 times that season, but half the time the umpire refused to award me first base because I made no attempt to get out-of-the-way of the pitch.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of The Kink at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (K3TEc)

392
I'm still trying to figure out how a casino can Forbid "card counting."

I can't do arithmetic in my head and make guesses??

Fuckyou, I can't.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (myK0K)

393 I'm as much of a NT hater as the next guy, but this is SOP for women in divorce proceedings.

Yep. Absent compelling proof, this kind of shit should be disbelieved from the jump.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (KFhLj)

394 385 We're not even at comment 600!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah
.........

There's always elephant jokes.
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (v0R5T)

What do you do to an elephant with three balls?

Walk him and pitch to the rhino.

(This joke ties together two comment strings, so I've done my part)

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 11, 2022 04:18 PM (KbCG3)

395 Going long on ramen and Vaseline.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Well, it IS Friday.

https://youtu.be/kfVsfOSbJY0

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 11, 2022 04:19 PM (DhOHl)

396 I couldn't imagine being hit by a fastball let alone doing it on purpose.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 11, 2022 04:11 PM (VkEIW)
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It hurts, but how much depends critically on where you get hit. Hit in the back, the shoulder, the butt, or the thigh - hurts, but not so bad. Getting in a joint (wrist, elbow, knee, or ankle) hurts like hell. Perhaps surprisingly, getting hit in the helmet hurts. And, of course, getting hit in the face - which, thank God, I've never been - must be excruciating.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:19 PM (YqDXo)

397 It worked for them. Vote buying always works.

Posted by: DeathSantis 24 at November 11, 2022 04:19 PM (CV5CH)

398
Nope. Not a HBP if you don't make an effort to avoid the pitch.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2022 04:09 PM

All I can tell you it was obvious he had moved way up on the plate from his previous at bat. He was over the plate, didn't move an inch as the ball closed in. The call was appealed, they looked at the replay and he took the base.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 11, 2022 04:19 PM (y3pKJ)

399 What do you do to an elephant with three balls?

Walk him and pitch to the rhino.

This joke wrong. Elephant with three balls cannot walk.

Posted by: Confucius at November 11, 2022 04:19 PM (pLSJi)

400 Anything else is shabby, and getting busted doing it means you get the scorn.

Yeah its not technically against the rules as far as I know but its low and shabby as you say. But they threw guys outta baseball or denied them records for using steroids when they were perfectly legal at the time.

My problem isn't people mocking the 'stros, its with mocking only the 'stros when several other teams got busted doing the same thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:19 PM (Ivdso)

401 322 . . . Is it really even "stealing" signs if you're flashing them right out in public?
Posted by: Wally
__________

I was at a game in County Stadium in Milwaukee on a cold day late in a season, and there were maybe 1,500 people in the stands. Some kid sitting near me would yell "he's going" before every steal or hit and run attempt while the pitcher was still in the set position. He was 100% accurate, and pretty much everyone was laughing by the 7th inning.

Posted by: Furious George at November 11, 2022 04:19 PM (CkFy6)

402 Dr. gina loudon. Milf or Gilf?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 11, 2022 04:15 PM (pb6ET)
.........

just plain ILF

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 04:20 PM (v0R5T)

403 What do you do to an elephant with three balls?

Walk him and pitch to the rhino.

(This joke ties together two comment strings, so I've done my part)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 11, 2022 04:18 PM (KbCG3)

***

I don't get it.

*merging the streams*

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 11, 2022 04:20 PM (flINI)

404 GAINZZZZ!

Please...no.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2022 04:20 PM (Xrfse)

405 Everyone understands what plan for Fetterman is right?

He will step down for health reasons and Gov appoints his wife to finish his term.

Sorry about the ot but not really.

Posted by: weirdflunky at November 11, 2022 04:20 PM (cknjq)

406 It occurs to me what really sucks for DeSantis right now is that he is being defined on the national stage by Trump, who is treating him as a political rival, and NeverTrump, who is presenting him as the anti-Trump(and would consequently kill his chances).

The byproduct of taking a wait-and-see approach to the 2024 primaries is he has to remain passive. If he announced, which would look bad to some degree because of just getting elected governor, he could then start trying to define himself to the country as a whole.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 11, 2022 04:21 PM (eYoxG)

407 I'm still trying to figure out how a casino can Forbid "card counting."

Casinos have the right to ban anyone from their premises.

If they think that you are card counting, they'll politely but firmly ask you to leave.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 11, 2022 04:21 PM (KCOCK)

408 407 If they think that you are card counting, they'll politely but firmly ask you to leave.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 11, 2022 04:21 PM (KCOCK)

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*shows off broken thumbs*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:21 PM (LvTSG)

409 Yeah, Gen Z had a rough upbringing ... or maybe they had it too easy? idk, they are very informed, just wrongly informed, and raised by the state more than parents. Too much time texting or staring into screens, whereby "the globalists" captured their brains.

Not sure who to blame ... many of us fought the Marxist infiltration along the way. Not many superheroes in the real world to "save the day".

Posted by: illiniwek at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (Cus5s)
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Yes, the reason I don't like the LIV designation (although that certainly applies to some) -- and prefer the more accurate phrase HDV: High-Disinformation Voter.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of The Kink at November 11, 2022 04:21 PM (K3TEc)

410 It hurts, but how much depends critically on where you get hit. Hit in the back, the shoulder, the butt, or the thigh - hurts, but not so bad. Getting in a joint (wrist, elbow, knee, or ankle) hurts like hell. Perhaps surprisingly, getting hit in the helmet hurts. And, of course, getting hit in the face - which, thank God, I've never been - must be excruciating.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:19 PM (YqDXo)

JV baseball, kid buckled my knees pretty good with a curveball. Next at bat, promised it wouldn't happen again.

And it didn't. Except this time, the pitch that started at my elbow was, in fact, a fastball.

Couldn't bend my arm for about two days.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 11, 2022 04:21 PM (KbCG3)

411 Same here. And now all the happy-fun dry leaves I was going to pick up tomorrow are now sodden, recalcitrant leaves.

Thanks, Nicole.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 11,

Nicole cost me a free trip to Busch Gardens yesterday.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 11, 2022 04:21 PM (n2xrq)

412
I'm still trying to figure out how a casino can Forbid "card counting."

I can't do arithmetic in my head and make guesses??

Fuckyou, I can't.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 11, 2022 04:17 PM (myK0K

Dealing from a shoe is very difficult even for the best counters. Card counters like single deck tables.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at November 11, 2022 04:22 PM (BdMk6)

413
You baseball simps know this but I'll say it anyway, the Manager is often telling Batters what to do with every pitch.

Also, the Managers is often telling some of their pitchers what to throw.

They're doing this based on signs/guesses, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 11, 2022 04:22 PM (myK0K)

414 I'm still trying to figure out how a casino can Forbid "card counting."

They are private businesses so they can refuse to allow someone back in who breaks their rules. Because they make so much money for Nevada, the usual discrimination complaints get ignored.

You can count cards all you want, but if it becomes clear you're doing so and you are winning a lot, the casinos will usually notice and ask you to leave. I mean, they're not going to crush your hand with a hammer these days, but you might get tuned up in the parking lot depending on how obvious you are about it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:22 PM (Ivdso)

415 Gen Z has crooked necks from always looking at their phones. Once you start noticing it, it's everywhere.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2022 04:22 PM (Y5qcH)

416 Gen Z is young enough to have school debt but not old enough to have meaningful investments, so a bad economy is not a motivator for them like it is for others. I've lost roughly a quarter of my 401k in 2 years. Not them though. And they've received the worst kind of soft, indulgent parenting imaginable, and not just from liberal parents. They suck cock by choice, but in fairness their parents taught them how.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at November 11, 2022 04:23 PM (KFhLj)

417 Casinos have the right to ban anyone from their premises.

If they think that you are card counting, they'll politely but firmly ask you to leave.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 11, 2022 04:21 PM (KCOCK)
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And if you're under 21 and winning, ask you for ID (but not if you're losing). Ask me how I know ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of The Kink at November 11, 2022 04:23 PM (K3TEc)

418 The byproduct of taking a wait-and-see approach to the 2024 primaries is he has to remain passive. If he announced, which would look bad to some degree because of just getting elected governor, he could then start trying to define himself to the country as a whole.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 11, 2022 04:21 PM (eYoxG)

He can do the defining regardless, as a citizen and party member. More pols should be speaking about what the believe in and what they would do.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:23 PM (eoQWY)

419 I'm still trying to figure out how a casino can Forbid "card counting."
____________

You mean legally, or how they can detect it? The latter is easy. I was a card counter in grad school, and I can spot another card counter in a minute. Most people play blackjack incredibly stupidly (e.g., splitting 5s, doubling down on 12, which I've seen people actually do). Someone whose bet size and play on a given hand is modulated by the count - which, of course, I was keeping - stands out like a sore thumb. It's obvious on after watching someone for a couple of hands.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:23 PM (YqDXo)

420 Oh wow, the wife of Lincoln Project leader Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES requested a RESTRAINING ORDER against her husband as they go through divorce.

So she got tired of him watching the Paolo pork her?

Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2022 04:23 PM (ZGrMX)

421 Casinos have the right to ban anyone from their premises.

If they think that you are card counting, they'll politely but firmly ask you to leave.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 11, 2022 04:21 PM (KCOCK)

Better that than the "Cheater's Justice" scene from "Casino".

https://tinyurl.com/3569kmsr

Posted by: Thrawn at November 11, 2022 04:24 PM (Rl7KJ)

422

Do I need TruGolf Vista C-Series MultiSport Simulator ?

Seems a bargain at under 17k ...

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2022 04:24 PM (V13WU)

423 In case it wasn't already posted/commented:

@IAPolls2022 2h

FLIP ALERT: ( red ): Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R) defeats Jamie McLeod-Skinner (D) in Oregon's 5th Congressional District
@OregonianPol

⦿ This seat is flipped from ( blue to red )
⦿ Biden won OR-05 by 8.8% in 2020

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 11, 2022 04:24 PM (IyrhE)

424 Gen Z has crooked necks from always looking at their phones. Once you start noticing it, it's everywhere.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2022 04:22 PM (Y5qcH)

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I see a bright future for chiropractors ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of The Kink at November 11, 2022 04:24 PM (K3TEc)

425 Casinos have the right to ban anyone from their premises.

If they think that you are card counting, they'll politely but firmly ask you to leave.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

They literally have a license to take your money issued by the state. They pay taxes on the money separated from you. They can't have anyone not providing them with what they think they are owed.

The state will not be denied.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2022 04:24 PM (LsEU/)

426 413
You baseball simps know this but I'll say it anyway, the Manager is often telling Batters what to do with every pitch.

Also, the Managers is often telling some of their pitchers what to throw.

They're doing this based on signs/guesses, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 11, 2022 04:22 PM (myK0K)

Most managers do call every pitch. They use signs. Stealing signs is fine if it's just a matter of figuring it out. The Astros were using cameras and such, and using tech for this stuff is forbidden.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 11, 2022 04:24 PM (KbCG3)

427 That Armenian family that likes to entertain, the Partians! "Partian Partian"

https://youtu.be/kfVsfOSbJY0

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at November 11, 2022 04:24 PM (D+e7M)

428 418 The byproduct of taking a wait-and-see approach to the 2024 primaries is he has to remain passive. If he announced, which would look bad to some degree because of just getting elected governor, he could then start trying to define himself to the country as a whole.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 11, 2022 04:21 PM (eYoxG)

He can do the defining regardless, as a citizen and party member. More pols should be speaking about what the believe in and what they would do.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:23 PM (eoQWY)

It's hard to get airtime as a candidate, even harder if you aren't one.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 11, 2022 04:24 PM (eYoxG)

429 That was actually the best elephant joke of the day and we had to wait hours for it.

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 04:24 PM (v0R5T)

430 I've encountered card counters at the same table, and our eyes meet knowingly. If they're in range, whispers of "Thorp or Revere?" have been known to take place.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (YqDXo)

431 WTF is Trump doing? From Redstate.

Donald Trump Moves to Attacking Glenn Youngkin in Extremely Odd Statement

First he goes after Desantis and now Youngkin? WTF buddy?

Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (yb11p)

432 In the last game in the WS an Astro (Maldonado?) stood right next to the home plate chalk line of the batters' box and leaned toward the plate to the point where anything inside would have hit him. He did get hit by an inside pitch which was huge in turning the game.

A TV shot from behind the catcher looked like his elbow (which was what was hit) might have actually been a bit in the strike zone.

Back in the day if Bob Gibson or Don Drysdale were pitching he would still be nursing a broken rib.

Posted by: RM at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (0eYOS)

433 Nicole cost me a free trip to Busch Gardens yesterday.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 11, 2022 04:21 PM (n2xrq)

"Going to Busch Gardens" always sounds like a sexual euphemism. Or I'm just broken.

Posted by: Wally at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (FJYfm)

434 The crisis sparked by the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto empire ensnared BlockFi, a troubled digital-asset lender once worth $3 billion but which has now limited activity on its platform.

It's a crypto holiday.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (pb6ET)

435 The suckers broke +28% for Democrats. Now they're stuck with the student debt, the national debt, the state debt, and no fucking jobs because millions of illegals are working under the table.

Gen Z can go to Russia. Their youngsters are fleeing. 💩 Tin needs soldiers.

Posted by: torabora at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (z0aPa)

436 There is an age for young boys (12 to 15) where they have tremendous speed on their pitches and most have very little control. Scary time to be a young hitter. If you don't wash out at that age you are good to go for high school ball. I can't believe how many kids are just not that interested in playing anymore. When I coached it was all I could do to get kids to show up to practice

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (flINI)

437 Card counting is how Mike Lindell funded his businesses. He gives away lots of copies of his autobiography and it's a fun read.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (5HBd1)

438 A's moving to Las Vegas.

If I was Las Vegas, I'd be looking at the trend in attendance and the future economy. I would say anyone building a 2-billion-dollar, 50,000 capacity baseball stadium needs to have their head examined.

Posted by: lowandslow at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (qH6FZ)

439
@IAPolls2022 2h

FLIP ALERT: ( red ): Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R) defeats Jamie McLeod-Skinner (D) in Oregon's 5th Congressional District
@OregonianPol

⦿ This seat is flipped from ( blue to red )
⦿ Biden won OR-05 by 8.8% in 2020

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 11, 2022 04:24 PM (IyrhE)

Whoa. Nice.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (yHsuS)

440 Yeah managers generally call the pitches, or the catcher if they are really good. Some pitchers are so good and so experienced they do their own work, which is why they tend to have preferred catchers, because they know what the other guy is thinking and wants at a given time.

There's a ton of work goes into being a good pitcher other than physical. The good ones (Christie Mathewson being the first of these) study batters, study tapes, keep notes etc so they know Joe Blow is lousy at hitting the curve ball off the plate and Sid Snow will swing at anything high and fast.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:27 PM (Ivdso)

441 Yeah, seats flipped red in Oregon and NY, but it's not a red wave, folks. The narrative has spoken.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2022 04:27 PM (Y5qcH)

442 You baseball simps know this but I'll say it anyway, the Manager is often telling Batters what to do with every pitch.

Also, the Managers is often telling some of their pitchers what to throw.

They're doing this based on signs/guesses, yes?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 11, 2022 04:22 PM (myK0K)

Managers/Pitching coaches used to go over tendencies and what usually gets a dude out before the game with the pitcher. Jim Bouton tells in the 60s how his coach told him to 'pitch around' the first 5 hitters noting "so now we are down 2-0 with the bases loaded...". Traditionally the catcher decides pitch and location but the pitcher can 'shake him off' if he doesn't like it.

I'm sure its more sophisticated now but the manager and coaches do sign plays out to the battery.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:27 PM (eoQWY)

443 When I coached it was all I could do to get kids to show up to practice

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (flINI)

Probably depends on the community. Here we had a great LL season this year, but not enough people willing to coach. I am looking forward to the next season and will coach again if necessary.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 11, 2022 04:27 PM (yHsuS)

444 Trump's mind might finally be breaking.

If FBI raided my wife's panty drawers I would be pretty unhappy.

Posted by: torabora at November 11, 2022 04:27 PM (z0aPa)

445 The cocksucker Bill Gates(RINO-AZ) that is holding up the vote count works for Ping Golf. Ping donates to R's very well. Let Ping know how you feel about this jerk.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 11, 2022 04:27 PM (pb6ET)

446 To me, card counting just sounds like playing well, playing thoughtfully, rather than winging it, or operating on hunches.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at November 11, 2022 04:28 PM (KFhLj)

447 You mean legally, or how they can detect it? The latter is easy. I was a card counter in grad school, and I can spot another card counter in a minute. Most people play blackjack incredibly stupidly (e.g., splitting 5s, doubling down on 12, which I've seen people actually do). Someone whose bet size and play on a given hand is modulated by the count - which, of course, I was keeping - stands out like a sore thumb. It's obvious on after watching someone for a couple of hands.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:23 PM (YqDXo)

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Indeed. The book I read as the basis of my card-counting (began when I was 17), "Blackjack As A Business," says to intentionally make stupid bets and decisions intentionally on occasion -- because not only are you being watched by the pit bosses, but the dealers and eye-in-the-sky are also watching.

I stopped playing when they went from one or two decks to eight -- and they started shuffling before getting halfway through, so you have a diluted, relatively non-accurate count before then (as I'm sure you know).

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of The Kink at November 11, 2022 04:28 PM (K3TEc)

448 We are going to see the old "Oh, lincoln project, gope, media really like Desantis, so we should nominate him! He is liked by the right people!"

Then as soon as he is nominated, the above names all take out the knives.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at November 11, 2022 04:29 PM (NjAfK)

449 Someone whose bet size and play on a given hand is modulated by the count - which, of course, I was keeping - stands out like a sore thumb.

Yeah, the trick to card counting is to be subtle about it. Of course, that reduces the return.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 11, 2022 04:29 PM (KCOCK)

450 If I were to attempt card counting, the casino would probably notice me taking off my shoes so I could count past 10. There's a reason I went to law school and not engineering school...

Posted by: PabloD at November 11, 2022 04:29 PM (X1JA2)

451 431 WTF is Trump doing? From Redstate.

Donald Trump Moves to Attacking Glenn Youngkin in Extremely Odd Statement

First he goes after Desantis and now Youngkin? WTF buddy?
Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (yb11p)

He's attacking candidates that people here view as potential political rivals for 2024. Trump has a large podium and the opportunity to start defining them before they're able to really respond.

Y'all think they're primetime material. Ok, here's their time to show they can play politics.

Can't be relying on Trump and then the Democrats to baby your candidates.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 11, 2022 04:29 PM (eYoxG)

452 There's a ton of work goes into being a good pitcher other than physical. The good ones (Christie Mathewson being the first of these) study batters, study tapes, keep notes etc so they know Joe Blow is lousy at hitting the curve ball off the plate and Sid Snow will swing at anything high and fast.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:27 PM (Ivdso)

yeah the smart ones could reportedly remember every time they faced a guy and what worked and what didn't.

And then there's the odd things like utility infielder Woody Woodward batting like .575 off of Tom Seaver. Big Red Machine would have him batting cleanup, but still lose a lot since the big hitters were usually lifeless.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:29 PM (eoQWY)

453 >>If I was Las Vegas, I'd be looking at the trend in attendance and the future economy. I would say anyone building a 2-billion-dollar, 50,000 capacity baseball stadium needs to have their head examined.

A whole lot of retirees live in the Vegas area with more moving in all the time. I'd rather spend my golden years watching a ball game than parked in front of a slot machine.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2022 04:29 PM (ZLI7S)

454 Yeah, seats flipped red in Oregon and NY, but it's not a red wave, folks. The narrative has spoken.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2022 04:27 PM (Y5qcH)
.........

That's right. It's a mandate for Joe.
You know, like Barry and Reggie?

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 04:29 PM (v0R5T)

455 #439
I'm sure crime in Portland had nothing to do with it.

I crack myself up.

Posted by: torabora at November 11, 2022 04:29 PM (z0aPa)

456 Casinos have the right to ban anyone from their premises.

If they think that you are card counting, they'll politely but firmly ask you to leave.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 11, 2022 04:21 PM (KCOCK)
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My buddy and I only got caught once. The pit boss came over in a slightly menacing fashion to give us a hard time (and to ask the usual question: "Thorp or Revere?"). But as we were talking my buddy and I were still keeping the count, and after a while, he was impressed, so he told the dealer to go ahead and let us play as long as we kept our bets low. Since we were broke-ass grad students (making $400/mo), we could hardly do anything else. The dealer was dead impressed: she'd heard about counters, and now actually saw two!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:29 PM (YqDXo)

457 I stopped playing when they went from one or two decks to eight -- and they started shuffling before getting halfway through, so you have a diluted, relatively non-accurate count before then (as I'm sure you know).

Yeah they really made it tough on counters to try to do it, which only makes sense from the perspective of the casino. Just playing smart can heavily tilt things abit more toward your favor but the odds are always on the casino's side. On purpose. They exist to take money from people, not pay out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:30 PM (Ivdso)

458 To me, card counting just sounds like playing well, playing thoughtfully, rather than winging it, or operating on hunches.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at November 11, 2022 04:28 PM (KFhLj)

In some ways, just the opposite. As Jay Guevara noted, they start suspecting you when you make a very unconventional play

Posted by: Wally at November 11, 2022 04:30 PM (FJYfm)

459 Wrestling is more believable than the news.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at November 11, 2022 04:30 PM (xGED9)

460 The meter maids can't look the vehicle up, so they can't issue tickets for parking at an expired meter or in a No Parking space.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 11, 2022
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Can't the meter maids call to get those cars towed?
Posted by: m at November 11, 2022

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The news story indicated no. Besides, there would be so many!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 11, 2022 04:30 PM (J2vNu)

461 It's not like Trump hit them before they won their elections. They get their seats, and now it's time to compete.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 11, 2022 04:30 PM (eYoxG)

462 436 There is an age for young boys (12 to 15) where they have tremendous speed on their pitches and most have very little control. Scary time to be a young hitter. If you don't wash out at that age you are good to go for high school ball. I can't believe how many kids are just not that interested in playing anymore. When I coached it was all I could do to get kids to show up to practice
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (flINI)

Ha, funny you say that. When I was growing up, my father told me to focus on learning how to throw hard, the control will come later. I never really thought about if others were thinking the same thing.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 11, 2022 04:30 PM (KbCG3)

463 Then as soon as he is nominated, the above names all take out the knives.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at November 11, 2022 04:29 PM (NjAfK)

They would never pull that one again, would they?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 11, 2022 04:30 PM (yHsuS)

464 I can count cards.

52.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at November 11, 2022 04:30 PM (NjAfK)

465
Now is Not the time for Inter-Porkrind war.

Trump needs to STFU.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 11, 2022 04:31 PM (myK0K)

466 Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R) defeats Jamie McLeod-Skinner (D
........

Battle of the hyphens.

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 04:31 PM (v0R5T)

467 He's attacking candidates that people here view as potential political rivals for 2024. Trump has a large podium and the opportunity to start defining them before they're able to really respond.

Y'all think they're primetime material. Ok, here's their time to show they can play politics.

Can't be relying on Trump and then the Democrats to baby your candidates.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 11, 2022 04:29 PM

I get that but his truth post said "Young Kin. Sounds Chinese doesn't it?" Seriously he said that. God just shut up here and there.

Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at November 11, 2022 04:31 PM (yb11p)

468 A whole lot of retirees live in the Vegas area with more moving in all the time. I'd rather spend my golden years watching a ball game than parked in front of a slot machine.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2022 04:29 PM (ZLI7S)
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I never played anything that blackjack, the only casino that even in principle can be beaten. We used to joke that the people playing slot machines were probably drill press operators on vacation.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:31 PM (YqDXo)

469 I'm a craps guy. Been one ever since 6th grade when the teacher taught us how to play (with M&Ms to study probability). Wrong way. Fun way. Get a few free drinkies and enjoy the evening.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 11, 2022 04:31 PM (KAi1n)

470 Casinos have the right to ban anyone from their premises.

If they think that you are card counting, they'll politely but firmly ask you to leave.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

They literally have a license to take your money issued by the state. They pay taxes on the money separated from you. They can't have anyone not providing them with what they think they are owed.

The state will not be denied.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 11, 2022 04:24 PM

Our son is what the casinos call an advantage player (AP). They use math to win at slots. Casinos hate them and are constantly looking out for them. He has been banned from multiple casinos.

The nyt did a big story about AP's some years back.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2022 04:31 PM (bVYXr)

471 When I coached it was all I could do to get kids to show up to practice

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at November 11, 2022 04:25 PM (flINI)

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Speaking of gambling, the best line from the Keanu Reeves little league coaching movie "Hardball:"

"What I've learned from you is that really one of the most important things in life is showing up. I'm blown away by your ability to show up through everything that's gone on."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of The Kink at November 11, 2022 04:31 PM (K3TEc)

472 He can do the defining regardless, as a citizen and party member. More pols should be speaking about what the believe in and what they would do.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:23 PM (eoQWY)

It's hard to get airtime as a candidate, even harder if you aren't one.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 11, 2022 04:24 PM (eYoxG)

This is the internet age, its free.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:32 PM (eoQWY)

473 Biden won OR-05 by 8.8% in 2020

Now I want Oreos.

Just kidding, I've never had a craving for those compressed-charcoal sweepings around DuPont-caulking filling "cookies" in my life.

Posted by: spindrift at November 11, 2022 04:32 PM (h5TKJ)

474 ||In Congress, Chavez-DeRemer would be a rubber stamp for the extremist Republican Party and their dangerous MAGA agenda. She refused to “give a clear answer” on whether President Biden won the 2020 election and questioned the trustworthiness of Oregon’s vote-by-mail system – which has been in place since 1998 – when she didn’t agree with the results. Instead, Chavez-DeRemer has chosen to align herself with Republican extremists who pushed Trump’s dangerous lies about election fraud, which spurred the violent January 6 insurrection that resulted in the death of 5 people, injured 140 law enforcement officers, and sowed extreme distrust in our nation’s elections.||

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) cancel your NY Post at November 11, 2022 04:32 PM (yikp0)

475 Yeah the slots will pay off big every so once in a blue moon but they're just money eaters. Casinos love the rare huge payoff because its advertising for suckers to try their luck. They do NOT like it when the slots pay off smaller amounts more regularly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:32 PM (Ivdso)

476 We bought a Mazda CX-5 from a dealership in Jacksonville 2 months ago. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, drinking whiskey and getting into fights with Sam Peckinpah at November 11, 2022 04:13 PM (LvTSG)

We got one, too, about 2 months ago. We really like it. It actually fits 6'3" Mr Flyover. It's really fun to drive. "My" car is a2002 Toyota Echo, which I will never get rid of. But, like I said, it's fun to drive the Mazda. Never had a brand new car, ever.

Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at November 11, 2022 04:32 PM (Rbu5d)

477
If Trump needs to make Republican Enemies to get the '24 nom, he will fail.

This isn't 2016 when he Lucked Into the presidency.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 11, 2022 04:32 PM (myK0K)

478 Once new Congress takes over, hopefully at least a majority of Republicans the Marxists will have no use for Lizzy Borden Cheney so probably then

Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2022 04:32 PM (xhxe8)

479 A's moving to Las Vegas

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The A's are on their way back across the country and are destined to become the Philadelphia A's

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at November 11, 2022 04:32 PM (sX1BW)

480 They remove their license plates...
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That will easily get a person towed away since the State has the legal ability to remove unregistered vehicles from public roads.

Parking fees look a whole lot better than paying a tow operator and getting a vehicle out of impoundment.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2022

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So I'd always thought. But here, who knows.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 11, 2022 04:33 PM (J2vNu)

481 It's a mandate for Joe.
You know, like Barry and Reggie?

"BARAAAAAAAAAAACK! I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING WITH HIM!" - Michael

Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2022 04:33 PM (ZGrMX)

482 52! is a really big number. So big that as long as cards have existed as a 52 card deck, no two shuffles have ever been the same.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at November 11, 2022 04:33 PM (NjAfK)

483 In some ways, just the opposite. As Jay Guevara noted, they start suspecting you when you make a very unconventional play
Posted by: Wally at November 11, 2022 04:30 PM (FJYfm)
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Unconventional, but intelligent play. Insofar as those two can be distinguished.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:33 PM (YqDXo)

484 I wonder, if the judge had rendered the debt cancellation as an unconstitutional grab of legislative power before the election, might not the Democrats have just said they need to remain the majority of both houses so that they could vote it in?

Posted by: Where are my ping pong balls? at November 11, 2022 04:34 PM (Yr4Df)

485 If you can dodge a wrench,
You can dodge a ball.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2022 04:34 PM (pi/ZK)

486 Supposedy there are more possible games that can be played in chess than molecules in the known universe but I cannot confirm or even guess if that's true or not. There are a ton of variables, for certain.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:34 PM (Ivdso)

487 52! is a really big number. So big that as long as cards have existed as a 52 card deck, no two shuffles have ever been the same.

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How do we know that?

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at November 11, 2022 04:34 PM (sX1BW)

488 >>I never played anything that blackjack, the only casino that even in principle can be beaten. We used to joke that the people playing slot machines were probably drill press operators on vacation.

I'm not much on casino gambling but I've spent a fair amount of time in Vegas for various trade shows. Whole lot of cheap hotel rooms in Vegas.

It always depresses me to walk through a casino and see older folks in front of slots pouring endless quarters into them for hours. Seems like the most boring existence possible.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2022 04:35 PM (ZLI7S)

489 A whole lot of retirees live in the Vegas area with more moving in all the time. I'd rather spend my golden years watching a ball game than parked in front of a slot machine.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2022 04:29 PM (ZLI7S)

I think you'd be surprised at how many locals in Vegas don't gamble at all. Most know the casino ALWAYS gets it's percent.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at November 11, 2022 04:35 PM (BdMk6)

490 [young boys] have tremendous speed on their pitches and most have very little control.
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Just ask the Lincoln Project DumpTrump team.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) cancel your NY Post at November 11, 2022 04:35 PM (yikp0)

491 How do we know that?
Posted by: SH

52! is the total number of possible shuffle combinations. It is also more than the number of protons in the universe.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at November 11, 2022 04:36 PM (NjAfK)

492 RM, yes, now you can see how this generation of leaders are a bunch of brainwashed zombies. It was just starting when I was in school. It def set me back a few decades.

Posted by: Ultra pj at November 11, 2022 04:36 PM (G1dq6)

493 Spindrift - I have a friend who will eat an entire bag of Oreos (double-stuffed) in one, maybe two, sittings. I have no idea how he's still alive. I can eat 2 or 3 Oreos, if I have enough milk to wash down the grit.

Posted by: PabloD at November 11, 2022 04:36 PM (X1JA2)

494 It always depresses me to walk through a casino and see older folks in front of slots pouring endless quarters into them for hours. Seems like the most boring existence possible.

The casino floor is one of the most miserable, depressing places I have ever been in my life, and I used to play piano at retirement homes for the patients back when I was a young student.

Nobody looks like they are having a good time, the cigarette girls looked like they would rather slit their wrists, it had this atmosphere of misery and depression. This was back when you could smoke on the floor.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:37 PM (Ivdso)

495 I get that but his truth post said "Young Kin. Sounds Chinese doesn't it?" Seriously he said that. God just shut up here and there.
Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at November 11, 2022 04:31 PM (yb11p)

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He's incapable, and that's part of the reason it's time for him to go as a candidate.

Posted by: ballistic at November 11, 2022 04:37 PM (oXNqT)

496 486 Supposedy there are more possible games that can be played in chess than molecules in the known universe but I cannot confirm or even guess if that's true or not. There are a ton of variables, for certain.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:34 PM (Ivdso)

It might be possible to math it out with some permutation-based math.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 11, 2022 04:37 PM (eYoxG)

497
NOOOOD

noodie kazooo!!

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 11, 2022 04:37 PM (myK0K)

498 Last night I stayed up late playing poker with tarot cards.

I got a full house and four people died.

Posted by: Steven Wright at November 11, 2022 04:37 PM (h5TKJ)

499 It always depresses me to walk through a casino and see older folks in front of slots pouring endless quarters into them for hours. Seems like the most boring existence possible.

A lot of people scratch that itch with fake casino gambling games on the iPad or whatever now. There's no money changing hands in either direction, but you still get the dopamine hit of matching up the slot machine reels or whatever. I'm kind of surprised the major casinos haven't tried to get Congress to ban those games.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2022 04:37 PM (ZGrMX)

500 💩 Tin needs soldiers
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My favourite Joni Mitchell song!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) cancel your NY Post at November 11, 2022 04:38 PM (yikp0)

501 Dead, for now.

That's not as limiting as you might think.

Posted by: Pennsylvania at November 11, 2022 04:38 PM (CaJIi)

502 Nobody looks like they are having a good time, the cigarette girls looked like they would rather slit their wrists, it had this atmosphere of misery and depression. This was back when you could smoke on the floor.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:37 PM (Ivdso)
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I dunno man, I've seen some people having a great time on the casino floor in Vegas at 3am.

Now, walking the same floor the next day at 10am you might have a point.

Posted by: ballistic at November 11, 2022 04:38 PM (oXNqT)

503 Comparing congressional districts in 22 vs 20 can be misleading since all CDs were redrawn for 2022. Sometimes way redrawn. For OR-05, the 22 version looks nothing like the 20 version. Google and compare a map of the two and you can see what I mean.

Posted by: DeathSantis 24 at November 11, 2022 04:38 PM (CV5CH)

504 Cramer and META stock, who thought that was a good Idea to spend that much money on the METAVERSE

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 11, 2022 04:39 PM (dKiJG)

505 Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R) defeats Jamie McLeod-Skinner (D
........

Battle of the hyphens.
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2022 04:31 PM (v0R5T)

Chavez-DeRemer did a great job as a mayor in a Portland suburb.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 11, 2022 04:41 PM (n2xrq)

506 I was always partial to the craps table back in my Vegas days. I found that the human interaction/comradery inherent in that game was fascinating. A bonus was that on occasion, I did quite well.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2022 04:41 PM (Xrfse)

507 Supposedy there are more possible games that can be played in chess than molecules in the known universe but I cannot confirm or even guess if that's true or not. There are a ton of variables, for certain.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 11, 2022 04:34 PM (Ivdso)

It might be possible to math it out with some permutation-based math.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 11, 2022 04:37 PM (eYoxG)

Well for the very first move you can move one of 8 pawns two moved, plus two moves for each knight so that's 20. So can the other side, so that's 400 positions right there. Then it gets worse and you have some 20-40 moves to go and more options per piece in each one until the captures start.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:41 PM (eoQWY)

508 Cramer and META stock, who thought that was a good Idea to spend that much money on the METAVERSE
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 11, 2022 04:39 PM (dKiJG)

I'm sure he honestly thought that was a go and wasn't given a handout or equivalent by META.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2022 04:42 PM (eoQWY)

509 If you can dodge a wrench,
You can dodge a ball.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2022 04:34 PM (pi/ZK)
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Uh, no. Pitches move laterally as well as longitudinally. The most obvious example is the knee-buckling curve ball, which is thrown right at the batter and - if the latter is lucky - breaks over the plate at the end of its flight. If the batter bails out, he'll never be able to hit. But some of them don't break ... plunk. Even fastballs (esp. two-seam ones) can move laterally by quite a bit. Pitchers are selected on the basis of their pitches moving laterally. Someone who throws straight as a string is easy to hit, even if he throws very hard.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2022 04:42 PM (YqDXo)

510 I get that but his truth post said "Young Kin. Sounds Chinese doesn't it?" Seriously he said that. God just shut up here and there.
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Sounds like "Chun King" food company.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) cancel your NY Post at November 11, 2022 04:45 PM (yikp0)

511 Only difference with the Dollar, is that the Dollar is backed up by the Largest Debtor in the History of Man.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2022 03:40 PM
........

No, it is mostly because it has name recognization and best possibility that it will hold value and be exchangeable for something.
A successful currency has to be recognized as a media of exchange, that will hold its value and be widely accepted.
With a novel currency, unless it shows better tendencies of maintaining value and wide acceptance, no one likes to risk it, which hinders the acceptance.

No market for it, means no faith it will stay around, even if the current currency is tanking.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 11, 2022 04:50 PM (xhaym)

512 I don't like the windshield wipers.

That is an Avanti joke, but I will leave it for AOP.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 11, 2022 04:59 PM (x61Im)

513 "Almost as if it was an election stunt"

Gen-Z voted D+28.

Paid huge dividends. For nothing buy hotair, water carrying, and some administrative paperwork.

The ability to bribe for millions of votes with the stroke of a pen is owned heavily by D's that occupy the WH.

Posted by: Gusmas at November 11, 2022 04:59 PM (cpVs2)

514 the State has the legal ability to remove unregistered vehicles from public roads.

Public roads? In my town, they once-in-a-while send a police officer around to make sure there are current plates on all the cars parked on your property. When challenged, they asserted that under state law, they could have gone right into the garages if they wanted to. Possession of an unregistered vehicle is a sort of crime.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 11, 2022 05:18 PM (x61Im)

515 453 >>If I was Las Vegas, I'd be looking at the trend in attendance and the future economy. I would say anyone building a 2-billion-dollar, 50,000 capacity baseball stadium needs to have their head examined.

A whole lot of retirees live in the Vegas area with more moving in all the time. I'd rather spend my golden years watching a ball game than parked in front of a slot machine.
Posted by: JackStraw
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The biggest future issue for Las Vegas is water. No water, no big Vegas resort or livable homes.

Lake Meade and other reservoirs are not looking so good and reaching historic lows.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2022 05:20 PM (CXr4y)

516 511 Kindltot is correct. We actually have a pretty good idea of paper currency in this country as in colonial times and post Revolution, that was about all that was circulating.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2022 05:22 PM (CXr4y)

517 From phrases.org.uk

"The phrase was originally 'to set on six and seven' and is thought to have derived in the 14th century from the game of dice. The meaning then was 'to carelessly risk one's entire fortune'. The earliest citation in print is Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, 1374:

"Lat nat this wrechched wo thyn herte gnawe, But manly set the world on sexe and seuene.""

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 11, 2022 05:23 PM (2xlV3)

518 Now will Biden abide by the Judges ruling or will he declare himself Emperor and enforce this upon all of America just about what all Democrats do

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at November 11, 2022 05:31 PM (FLiOE)

519 LOL

Googled:

"Thorp or Revere?"

And the only result was ... this column ... it had already been crawled and indexed.

Posted by: lurk at November 11, 2022 06:45 PM (MIODZ)

520 In spite of my mistake of placing X and not Z.

The youth vote was played like a cheap fiddle on the bases of Joe's illegal attempt to forgive student loans.

Suck ASS on that Gen Z...played like the simple stupid mommy wanting "What about me" oxygen sucking parasites' that you are.

Posted by: Nightwatch at November 11, 2022 10:50 PM (J00IM)

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