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SOURCES: McCONNELL BETRAYS US AGAIN; CAVES TO PELOSI AND SCHUMER, WILL PASS SPECIAL LAW ALLOWING LEGACY MEDIA COMPANIES TO FORM MEDIA CARTEL WITH ANTI-TRUST EXEMPTION

Of course. Of course.

The law would allow the media to form a monopoly cartel for purposes of negotiating with social media regarding the rules for carrying their stories.

The law would also allow legacy media to demand that social media not carry the stories of non-legacy media, or brand criticism of them "disinformation," or demand that social media companies limit criticism of them, or demand that criticism of them be banned altogether if the social media company wants to link their stories.

Or to demand that platforms exercise certain preferred censorship policies in exchange for the right of posting their stories.

Say goodbye to Twitter's brief period of relative free-ness -- this bill is designed to force Elon Musk to re-institute all the censorship policies that existed previously.

Attempts were made to add amendments to make it clear the bill should not permit that -- but Democrats blocked the amendments. Giving their legacy media clients/co-conspirators the green light to do all those things.

And McConnell just signed up for it.

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has caved to outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and will allow the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to include the highly controversial media cartel bill the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA), sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News.
Over objections from House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, the likely next speaker of the House come January 3 of next year, other congressional leaders acquiesced to lobbyist pressure and agreed to include the JCPA in the base text of the NDAA. McCarthy was the only member of congressional leadership to fight back against the inclusion, but was overruled three to one after McConnell caved.
The JCPA has absolutely nothing to do with national defense, so the move--a swan song of sorts for Pelosi, who just announced she is leaving congressional leadership but retaining her House seat after Democrats lost the majority to the GOP in the midterm elections--is an egregious step for an outgoing leader of the past against precedent as the NDAA has generally been reserved just for national security matters.
Proponents of the JCPA have been struggling for over a year to move the controversial proposal through Congress, hitting roadblocks every step of the way in committee hearings and fierce opposition from Republicans like McCarthy and others including Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise, Marsha Blackburn, Tom Cotton, and more.
That's why lobbyists supporting the bill on behalf of deep-pocketed industry interests zoned in on two must-pass legislative vehicles in this lame duck session of Congress as last ditch efforts to pass it before the GOP formally takes control of the House next year: the NDAA or a spending bill like an omnibus spending bill currently also being negotiated.
But because the NDAA is proving to be more of a lift than previously thought, the prospects of an omnibus spending bill to fund the government are dimming in recent days--leaders may instead pursue a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government at the year's end--which makes the NDAA a more attractive prospect for these leaders to attach unrelated proposals like this JCPA one to force them through in the waning hours of this Congress into federal law.
The JCPA, essentially a transfer of wealth from Silicon Valley to the discredited and distrusted corporate legacy media, is highly controversial. Beyond the financial payouts to media companies, they will be able to form a "joint negotiating entity"--a cartel, immune from antitrust law--to negotiate with Big Tech companies on the "terms and conditions" for carrying their content.
Censorship is sure to be a frequent demand of media companies. Despite provisions in the bill that purportedly stop media companies from negotiating the suppression of any one competitor, there is nothing to stop them asking their content to be prioritized over broadly-drawn categories that are used as pretexts for censorship, like "disinformation."
Breitbart News has closely covered how the bill continues to enable the censorship and sidelining of conservative media.

Democrats have been fighting to get McConnell to agree to an omnibus spending bill that would fund almost all of Biden's next year -- passed by a Democrat House.

Obviously, a Republican House would not deliver a spending bill on such generous terms. So Republicans have pushed for just passing a short-term continuing resolution to get us into next year, then undertaking the omnibus, when the situation is better for Republicans.

Sounds like the best plan, right?

Wrong -- Mitch McConnell wants the omnibus spending bill now, with maximum leverage for Democrats.

Why?

Because he's afraid that a Republican House won't fund Ukraine as lavishly as the Democrats would.

So he's prioritizing Ukraine over America.

Senate conservatives press McConnell to punt on omnibus
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 11/30/22 6:47 PM ET
Senate conservatives on Wednesday sent a letter to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) urging him to skip a year-end omnibus spending package and instead insist on a short-term stopgap funding measure to punt spending negotiations into next year, when Republicans will control the House.
"We believe it would be both imprudent, and a reflection of poor leadership, for Republicans to ignore the will of the American people and rubber stamp an omnibus spending bill that funds ten more months of President Biden's agenda without any check on his reckless policies that have led to a 40-year high in inflation," they wrote.
Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.), who challenged McConnell for the top Senate Republican leadership job earlier this month, signed the letter along with Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.).
The senators wrote that Republicans "must not accept anything other than a short-term continuing resolution that funds the federal government until shortly after the 118th Congress is sworn in."
Republicans will control a small House majority next year, giving them more leverage over the top-line spending numbers of an omnibus package, as well as whether to include earmarks in the legislation, which some conservatives argue are a waste of money.
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McConnell told reporters Tuesday morning that there was "widespread agreement" at a White House meeting between Biden and congressional leaders on the need to pass an omnibus.
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The GOP leader softened his comments somewhat after meeting with the Republican conference during lunchtime Tuesday.
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"It's a difficult choice, frankly," McConnell acknowledged. "If you're interested in reducing spending, probably the best way to do that would be a one-year CR."
"If, on the other hand, you're concerned about the defense of our country and the funding of the Ukraine war, you're somewhat hesitant to go in that direction," he said.

That's a difficult choice, huh, Mitch the Bitch?

And that's why he's giving the legacy media the power to demand censorship -- so he can get his Ukrainian funding in the National Defense Authorization Act.

I'm done.

I'm out.

Let it all burn.

I am officially out.

I've given decades to fighting for this miserable, piece-of-shit corrupt party. We make ourselves enemies of a vindictive state which harasses us, investigates, audits us, and imprisons us, and for what? So Mitch McConnell can make his little deals and sell us out every fucking time so the Democrats win anyway?

I'm done, it's over, fuck this, I'm blackpilled.

You win, McConnell. It's your party. It's all your party.

You go out there and you rouse the voters with your stirring speeches about... serving the corporate class, championing the corrupt government of Ukraine over the American people, and maintaining "collegiality" with your fellow corrupt plutocrat monsters.

You go out there with your electrifying band of vote-getters, your Lisa Murkowskis, your Mitt Romneys, your John Cornyns, your Richard Burrs.

You go out there and you win the Senate with your charm and your Murderers' Row of Millionaire Grifters.

I'm done.

I'll continue fighting the ideological/cultural war, but I'm done with the political one. It cannot be won, not as long as the Republican Party is just the controlled opposition of the Democrat Party.

I will not spend a single joule of effort fighting for corrupt, repulsive, China-owned McConnellism.

Posted by: Ace at 02:30 PM

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Posted by: RUReadingthis at December 05, 2022 02:30 PM (aQ25I)

2 vote harder

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2022 02:33 PM (1fFI4)

3 NOTHING is more important than supporting Ukraine!

Posted by: Raytheon! at December 05, 2022 02:33 PM (KCOCK)

4 Agreed, Ace. Me too. However, I kind of like being in occupied country circa 1770 A.D. as we now know who our enemies are.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 05, 2022 02:33 PM (klw0w)

5 Silver lining: McConnell is obviously not going to run again.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2022 02:34 PM (eOEVl)

6 Send the GOPe moar money citizens so we can fight.

Posted by: Archer at December 05, 2022 02:34 PM (gmo/4)

7 Does anyone know where I can get a prescription for Fucitol? The ads in the last thread coupled with this little gem have me interested.

Posted by: She Hobbit at December 05, 2022 02:34 PM (ftFVW)

8 Mitch is too busy helping a Republican win the Senate seat in Georgia.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 05, 2022 02:34 PM (lf83v)

9 No doubt Kevin Luntz-McCarthy collaborated in this political destruction.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2022 02:34 PM (1fFI4)

10 Republican party delenda est.

I came to that conclusion several years ago, and consider it Trump's biggest weakness that he never cut the GOP loose.

Posted by: Dark Force Thirsting For Power at December 05, 2022 02:35 PM (QY+6a)

11 he might have at least traded it for something, even if only for face-saving. Release the Jan 6 political prisoners? Nah, he's in favor of that too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2022 02:35 PM (1fFI4)

12 As Trump just said, massive fraud is what allows them to suspend all rules, laws, and articles- even the Constitution.

Posted by: t-bird at December 05, 2022 02:36 PM (CaJIi)

13 Politics will not solve this nation's problems but most hordelings know this. I guess I've never really left the Burn It All down camp. I don't want it to all burn, it's just going too. Prepare accordingly.

Posted by: Puddleglum at December 05, 2022 02:36 PM (sAmhv)

14 Will no one rid us of this troublesome turtle?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2022 02:36 PM (JTztk)

15 Yep. Just the GOP playing the Washington Generals to the Democrat Harlem Globetrotters. Been like this for at least 20 years.

Posted by: Scoob at December 05, 2022 02:36 PM (7rlWo)

16 Stephen Green notes that the US just announced that the US has limited the range of the HIMARS rockets supplied to Ukraine.

This is almost certainly a consequence of the Ukrainians striking Russia's main strategic bomber base at Engels, which is a long way from Ukraine. (Old Soviet-era drones were apparently used.)

Things may get sporty if the Russians think that NATO is starting to strike at Russia's strategic nuclear assets via its Ukrainian proxy.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2022 02:36 PM (KCOCK)

17 Silver lining: McConnell is obviously not going to run again.

Lead lining: he doesn't give a s***, and will do whatever suits his fancy until retirement.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2022 02:37 PM (eOEVl)

18 Welcome to the "fuck it all" club Ace. Not sure what took you so long to get here. I gave up my Republican registration in 2014 after they torpedoed the Tea Party.

Personally I'm just looking out for me, myself and my own. If you aren't family or friends (real friends, not made up online ones) then fuck off.

Personally cannot wait until the nest egg reaches the point where I can cash out of this house, buy the 45-55 foot catamaran, take the wife and the dog and leave this wretched hive of corruption to my sterns.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 05, 2022 02:37 PM (Xyz7R)

19 This really is the final straw. Even if Twitter exists - it will be destroyed by this cartel power to participate in the public debate.

Posted by: Iris at December 05, 2022 02:37 PM (foa6+)

20 Welcome to the party, pal.

Posted by: Fat Jonah of Krypton at December 05, 2022 02:38 PM (eDqf7)

21 Someone looking for me???

Posted by: Schumers Bitch at December 05, 2022 02:38 PM (FjlUt)

22 Is there a Supreme Court appeal to be had on 1st Amendment grounds?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2022 02:38 PM (JTztk)

23 >>>I am officially out.

Now you're just baiting Garrett.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2022 02:39 PM (hgD8w)

24 "McConnellism". LOL. It's not the fault of the entire putrid stinking mess that is the Republican party, huh? McConnel's the only thing standing between the R's and winning?

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 05, 2022 02:40 PM (BuI2a)

25 Well we might as well have WW3 and get it all over with.

Posted by: pawn at December 05, 2022 02:40 PM (kYVzH)

26 Unexpectedly!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 02:40 PM (+9tCE)

27 I've been out for a while.. The day Biden was installed I switched from republican to Independent as did my whole family

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2022 02:40 PM (bs+z0)

28 Would be nice to have the money to leave the country and let the Brownshirts have their way with everyone else, but... yeah.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 02:40 PM (UnA8+)

29 Did anyone here expect anything different? I still remember mccain passing the mccain feingold bill to specifically muzzle the NRA from making any campaign contributions and mocking the NRA after he voted on it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2022 02:40 PM (uNylN)

30 This is why I stopped voting. It changes nothing. Why vote for the GOP if they regularly enable the DNC and their policies? It is not black pill to say as much, it's just noticing objective reality, something most conservatives seem incapable of doing.

Posted by: TheLastPatriot at December 05, 2022 02:40 PM (CGKhG)

31 Is there a Supreme Court appeal to be had on 1st Amendment grounds?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2022 02:38 PM (JTztk)
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No way it occurs before 2024. This is a way to undercut any Trump campaign.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 05, 2022 02:40 PM (Nvteo)

32 Isn't this about as clear cut a violation of the First Amendment as you can find anywhere?

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

What part of this is so hart do understand?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2022 02:41 PM (YIVH2)

33 My straw broke years ago when that treacherous fucker destroyed the Tea Party.

This doesn't even move my needle. No money. No support.

People should have realized long ago that a vote for the GOPe was a vote for DNC.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 02:41 PM (XtkZj)

34 Its only Monday and that butt munch McConnell has already fucked us. WTF?

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 02:41 PM (C7jzY)

35 I hope he chokes on his own Adam’s apple. F the gop. And, F mcYertle. I’m out

Posted by: Linda Sina at December 05, 2022 02:41 PM (Yrvb3)

36
McConnell Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of the CCP.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2022 02:41 PM (enJYY)

37 >>>32 Isn't this about as clear cut a violation of the First Amendment as you can find anywhere?

no because they'll say "private actors," in the form of the cartel we authorized, forced them to do it, not the government itself, per se

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2022 02:41 PM (C1Zwz)

38 It's going to burn, regardless of what we do. Might as well warm our hands by the fire.

Posted by: Physics Geek at December 05, 2022 02:42 PM (CaTb6)

39 Fuck social media. Fuck the news. Samizdat works. Guerrilla newsletters. Leaflets. Posters. Stop letting "Them" pretend they control all speech just because some hatchet-haired genitally-confused freaks with a few websites do their bidding.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2022 02:43 PM (9UlRk)

40 Mitch needs the quietus put on him.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 05, 2022 02:43 PM (Mzdiz)

41 Legacy media sucks. Only fools believe their bullshit.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 05, 2022 02:43 PM (rJ48h)

42 >>>I'm done, it's over, fuck this, I'm blackpilled.

Welcome. l'd like you to meet Mohammet, Jugdish, Sidney, and Clayton. Grab a seat and make yourself at home.

Don't be shy about helping yourself to punch and cookies.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2022 02:43 PM (hgD8w)

43 Maybe Elon will see the magnitude of the treat from the status quo in DC and spearhead a third party? Crazy, I know.

Posted by: pawn at December 05, 2022 02:43 PM (kYVzH)

44 To my friends in DC who hate Mitch and company:

1. When you see them playing golf at the Army Navy Club, shank your drive straight at them. If they are ahead of you, drive right up their ass, but don't play through.

2. When they are at fundraiser or ball, follow them into the men's room and piss on their leg.

3. Call in a Coast Guard narcotics hotline tip when they are on their yacht. With their Chinese staffer. Who is not their wife.

Follow me for more tips.

Posted by: Thurston Howell III at December 05, 2022 02:43 PM (lf83v)

45 Oh, hey! It's been a while. How have things been going?

Posted by: Let It Burn at December 05, 2022 02:43 PM (S8KeN)

46 Also, I dumped the GOP when they foisted McCain on us as the nominee. Any party that thinks he's a good person to lead it is worthy of my scorn, not my vote.

Posted by: Physics Geek at December 05, 2022 02:43 PM (CaTb6)

47 I'm still happy calling the End of the Republic in June 2015.

I mean, okay, this is more End-of-the-Republic-y, true. But on the other hand, the main reason we fear a bill like this is how End-of-the-Republic-y we fear things can get.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 02:44 PM (krQz2)

48 I see excessive use of the Fair Use laws in the future for parody purposes

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 02:44 PM (XtkZj)

49 37
'no because they'll say "private actors," '

If this is all private actors, what does the law do?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 05, 2022 02:44 PM (JTztk)

50 "Congress shall make no law ...

What part of this is so hart do understand?

I think we're fine as long as this 'Congrefs' fellow doesn't try anything. Who is he, anyways?

Posted by: Congress at December 05, 2022 02:44 PM (CaJIi)

51 It's only a cabal. Not like it's a monopoly or anything.

Posted by: D. French at December 05, 2022 02:44 PM (GGoJR)

52 no because they'll say "private actors," in the form of the cartel we authorized, forced them to do it, not the government itself, per se
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2022 02:41 PM (C1Zwz)
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Sophistry.

The effect is an abridgement of free speech/press as a result of a law passed by Congress. In a just world, we all know what *should* happen. But we live in this world and they will get away with it.

Burn. America. Burn.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2022 02:44 PM (YIVH2)

53 It's going to burn, regardless of what we do. Might as well warm our hands by the fire.

Posted by: Physics Geek at December 05, 2022 02:42 PM (CaTb6)

Pro tip: Stock up on S'mores stuff.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2022 02:45 PM (hgD8w)

54 McConnell's loyalty is pure and intact.

Your mistake was thinking he owes any of it to you.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 05, 2022 02:45 PM (YV6PJ)

55 as we have always said, it's a happy old uniparty in DC. corrupt bastards all of them.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 05, 2022 02:45 PM (mnUzy)

56 "the Republican Party is just the controlled opposition of the Democrat Party."

They don't even pretend anymore. There is not enough fire in all of Hell to expunge the stench of these vermin. Just my opinion, mind you, but they've been traitorous vermin for a long, long time. Refer to pre-Constitutional founding documents for remedies, however unlikely of success.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 05, 2022 02:45 PM (aGGj6)

57 And this is where DeSantis would be a fool to not just be Trump's VP and let them be a real clear break between MAGA and GOPe. It's right fucking there, stop being idiots about it.

Posted by: UwU_Power at December 05, 2022 02:45 PM (cmkBV)

58 So Civil Rights for Billionaire Fascists. This is why America is so special.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 02:45 PM (C7jzY)

59 I'm done, it's over, fuck this, I'm blackpilled.

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I'm white-pilled.

Humans are garbage, our only hope is Jesus.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 02:45 PM (krQz2)

60 As I live in Maine - I am told that I'm a "bad Republican" for not voting for Collins.

Well, I'm sure she'll vote for this boondoggle.

Why would it matter if I vote for her or the Democrat? I'll get the same kind of result from DC.

Posted by: Defenestratus at December 05, 2022 02:45 PM (Xyz7R)

61 McConnell is one nasty little fu*ktard.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2022 02:46 PM (anj39)

62 LOL!

Posted by: Lucy at December 05, 2022 02:46 PM (cTCuP)

63 Oh, and Fuck Every One of You 'Republican' assholes who voted in this Hershey Squirt for leader.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 02:46 PM (XtkZj)

64 The law (including First Amendment) was intended as a protection of God given rights.
The problem is a majority of the country thinks the law is the source of our rights, so "no violation" = Well Alrighty Then.

Posted by: Zek at December 05, 2022 02:46 PM (5FPX4)

65 I object to the idea of them being "controlled opposition", because they're not opposition at all.

They're the Junior Partner, making sure they get their little cut of the money.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 02:46 PM (UnA8+)

66 42 >>>I'm done, it's over, fuck this, I'm blackpilled.

Welcome. l'd like you to meet Mohammet, Jugdish, Sidney, and Clayton. Grab a seat and make yourself at home.

Don't be shy about helping yourself to punch and cookies.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2022 02:43 PM (hgD8w)

I've got a work thing but please give Susan my best.

Posted by: turnout man at December 05, 2022 02:46 PM (CIcwn)

67 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2022 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

68 To make things even better I read they are working on a "Bi-partisan" amnesty bill...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2022 02:47 PM (bs+z0)

69 DeSantis is the old boss, same as the new boss, I'm afraid.

Posted by: pawn at December 05, 2022 02:47 PM (kYVzH)

70 Does this mean I don't have to go vote for Herchel Walker tomorrow?

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 02:47 PM (sn5EN)

71 Gee.....musta missed the nood call in the last thread..............

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2022 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

72 71 Gee.....musta missed the nood call in the last thread..............
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2022 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

This is one I wished I had missed

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2022 02:48 PM (bs+z0)

73 So Civil Rights for Billionaire Fascists. This is why America is so special.
Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 02:45 PM (C7jzY)
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Well, they'll have to rephrase that before they put it in the textbooks.

But, yeah.

It's our love of the free juggernaut of institutional press.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 02:48 PM (krQz2)

74 So what is Ace saying? That he's done?

Posted by: Weasel at December 05, 2022 02:48 PM (4jEJr)

75 payback should be shutting the government down 100% for the remainder of the new congress

Posted by: x at December 05, 2022 02:48 PM (ZC2go)

76 There's no possible way this can be constitutional

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2022 02:49 PM (iFTx/)

77 What is wrong with me. I am typing like shit today.

Posted by: pawn at December 05, 2022 02:49 PM (kYVzH)

78 Journalism Competition and Preservation Act

That sounds like something a lousy author would use in a lousy novel as a tool used by the government villains to harass and imprison the valiant hero. It also sounds unconstitutional about 47 ways from Sunday.

Posted by: Gref at December 05, 2022 02:49 PM (AMIL/)

79 Welcome to the "fuck it all" club Ace. Not sure what took you so long to get here. I gave up my Republican registration in 2014 after they torpedoed the Tea Party.

That was when I changed to independent too!

Posted by: Archer at December 05, 2022 02:49 PM (gmo/4)

80 The law would also allow legacy media to demand that social media not carry the stories of non-legacy media, or brand criticism of them "disinformation," or demand that social media companies limit criticism of them, or demand that criticism of them be banned altogether if the social media company wants to link their stories.
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That walled garden is going be rebuilt, one way or another!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 02:49 PM (t0OGg)

81 I still think this is in part a demographic battle with the older boomer side doing whatever it can to retain its wealth and influence. We won't see any significant change until they basically pass. The 4th Turning and all.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at December 05, 2022 02:49 PM (sX1BW)

82 There's no possible way this can be constitutional
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2022 02:49 PM (iFTx/)
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Huh?

Posted by: Judge from Hawaii at December 05, 2022 02:49 PM (krQz2)

83 I'm politically homeless.

I have McConnell on one side that's in the UniParty and Donald "suspend the Constitution!" Trump on the other.

Would have been nice had Trump pushed back on McConnell one time while he was in office. Instead he hired Mitch's ChiCom wife in his own Administration and just emboldened him.

Posted by: Blago at December 05, 2022 02:49 PM (Duuvr)

84 if you ever wan to know what is really going on in DC, just get Mitch's slant

Posted by: REDACTED at December 05, 2022 02:50 PM (us2H3)

85 CARTELIZE ALL THE THINGS!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 02:50 PM (t0OGg)

86 68 To make things even better I read they are working on a "Bi-partisan" amnesty bill...
Posted by: It's me donna

Y U P

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2022 02:50 PM (C1Zwz)

87 There's no possible way this can be constitutional
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2022 02:49 PM (iFTx/)
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We are so far into post-Constitutional America it will take us at least a couple of generations to get back to it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2022 02:50 PM (YIVH2)

88 If it weren't for BETRAYALS, the GOPee establishment eunuchs would have no-T at all ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 02:50 PM (dx3mo)

89 Does anyone know where I can get a prescription for Fucitol? The ads in the last thread coupled with this little gem have me interested.
Posted by: She Hobbit at December 05, 2022 02:34 PM (ftFVW)

Had a t-shirt for Rockamicin - Once a day, Twice if you're stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

90 But with the endorsement of Ryan, and the Bushies, DeSantis is pure. Lol

Posted by: CN at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (KISSh)

91 mitch is 80 fucking years old. retire already, bitch.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (mnUzy)

92 The fact that they are immune from Anti-trust laws as a group is also rife with problems.

Has that ever been granted to any group before? Wholesale protection from Anti-trust?

If I was a prosecutor, I'd look for anything I could prosecute on and employ RICO to take them all down.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (XtkZj)

93 Well, it seems like Mitch won. He beat Trump and everyone else. And now he's going to help the democrats, his true party, lock in spending to neuter the incoming GOP house.

The GOP senate already voted on gay marriage and gun control, so what else is there to do?

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (MLrvz)

94 I'm done.

I'm out.

Let it all burn.

Welcome to the dark side.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (9uCBG)

95 Ace. Will you fight for something new? Will you fight to start over?

At this point I want Trump or DeSantis to come in and fire everyone.

Posted by: Joe Fingerblaster at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (TaNL7)

96 Thank you very much, suckers.

Posted by: Zelenskyy at December 05, 2022 02:52 PM (v0R5T)

97 Mitch also made sure the GOP was unprepared for Ballot Harvesting in 2018, 2020, and 2022. It's been my belief that he also refused to support GOP candidates in every election since I've been paying attention to such things.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 02:52 PM (MLrvz)

98 The GOP senate already voted on gay marriage and gun control, so what else is there to do?
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (MLrvz)

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Hi there....

Posted by: Amnesty at December 05, 2022 02:52 PM (3OGFH)

99 mitch is 80 fucking years old. retire already, bitch.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (mnUzy)

And if they all really took the death jab, why are these assholes still sucking air?

Posted by: Archer at December 05, 2022 02:52 PM (gmo/4)

100 I'm done.

I'm out.

Let it all burn.

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I'm not quite sure I am there yet, but I suppose it is inevitable. And then the regrowth can begin.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at December 05, 2022 02:53 PM (sX1BW)

101 Elon should start his own media company and shut these homos out. who needs their gay fake news stories?

Posted by: x at December 05, 2022 02:53 PM (ZC2go)

102 Because he's afraid that a Republican House won't fund Ukraine as lavishly as the Democrats would.

So he's prioritizing Ukraine over America.
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That explains how Ukraine is such an urgent national security concern....

Because I won't be allowed to say it's not.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 02:53 PM (krQz2)

103 There are still conservatives who chide me for refusing to (re)register as a Republican. I officially left the party after Romney threw the 2012 election right out in the open.

I can tell you that the lack of fundraising calls has been nice.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 05, 2022 02:53 PM (3AR13)

104 I can’t even.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2022 02:53 PM (2nxs6)

105 37 >>>32 Isn't this about as clear cut a violation of the First Amendment as you can find anywhere?

no because they'll say "private actors," in the form of the cartel we authorized, forced them to do it, not the government itself, per se
Posted by: ace
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The caselaw is quite complicated here--private actors are not able to do what they want nor do organizations, especially those engage in commercialization of speech, have unlimited ability to do so.

Cartels are often subject to state regulation as well under mini Sherman acts and I am not sure that Scotus and lower courts will not treat allowing some media to cartelize speech under government authority would not make them state agents which is not permissible nor allowing viewpoint discrimination. Essentially, Scalia and Kennedy are gone that would probably allow it. Roberts will blow in the wind, but Alito, Thomas, and possibly Kavanaugh, Barret, Gorsuch might not.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 02:53 PM (bDjBG)

106 74 So what is Ace saying? That he's done?
Posted by: Weasel at December 05, 2022 02:48 PM

Guns and ammo

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at December 05, 2022 02:53 PM (YuQMU)

107 Because I am at a level of doneness typically reserved for the Food Thread.

Posted by: Weasel at December 05, 2022 02:53 PM (4jEJr)

108 Say goodbye to Twitter's brief period of relative free-ness -- this bill is designed to force Elon Musk to re-institute all the censorship policies that existed previously.
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If it happens - and it will - I'd like him to do the same thing I think he should do for the EU.

Censor nothing. If you tweet it, it's in the system. If a person is accessing the service from a censorship regime, refuse to display it and post message about why. Something like:
"The Tweet you are trying to access has been censored due to the laws or regulations of {Country Name}. If you disagree with {Country Name}'s censorship rules, click here to identify contact information for your {representative type}."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 02:53 PM (t0OGg)

109 mitch is 80 fucking years old. retire already, bitch.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (mnUzy)
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Not before he sells us out entirely.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (krQz2)

110 I'll say this: at least as the End Times arrive, I can get fantastic edible marijuana whereas when I was younger, during the young adulthood of Gen X, you'd get a bag of meh and have to pull the seeds out.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (KAi1n)

111 I felt liberated the day many, many years ago when I realized what a sucker I had been to ever support, serve and defend the federal government of the united states and I resolved I would work, hope and pray for nothing less than for it's abolition.

Keep going Ace...today the gop, tomorrow the federales!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (0ZEfs)

112 It was nice knowin' ya.

Posted by: U.S. Constitution at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (v0R5T)

113 I can't wait for the GOPe, Dems, government, social media and the MSM to unite in an unholy alliance to ensure Trump isn't elected in 2024...by any means necessary.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (JCZqz)

114 I'm done.

I'm out.

Let it all burn.

Welcome to the dark side.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (9uCBG)

Welcome to the party pal, glad you joined us!

Posted by: Archer at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (gmo/4)

115 The only difference between Schumer and Mitch is this :

-Schumer wants to shoot us in the face while laughing.

-Mitch wants to shoot us in the back of the head while laughing.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (UnA8+)

116 GOP always delivers to its true constituents. Conservatives are the RINOs. GOP was never about conservatism.

Posted by: brak at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (lO5WT)

117 And if they all really took the death jab, why are these assholes still sucking air?

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Here's a conspiracy. What if the jab was designed to get rid of young people but save old people?

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (sX1BW)

118 That's a difficult choice, huh, Mitch the Bitch?

Gawd what an idiot! The choice was clear as a bell. Mitch is just too corrupt to make the proper one.

These assholes really are provoking a response aren't they?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (anj39)

119 There can be now doubt that McConnell is on the Left's side, and probably always has been. I have to believe that McConnell is worried about what Musk (and Zelensky) may reveal about him.

Our country will soon cease to exist, and sadly, I will see it in my lifetime. My kids will live most of their lives this way.

Posted by: Lieutenant Duh at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (Ebr2D)

120 106 74 So what is Ace saying? That he's done?
Posted by: Weasel at December 05, 2022 02:48 PM

Guns and ammo
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at December 05, 2022 02:53 PM (YuQMU)

Acecoin! For all your post-republic spending needs.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (eYoxG)

121 I tried to read the whole thing but the guy on the sidebar brushing his toes keeps distracting me.

Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (sn5EN)

122 98 The GOP senate already voted on gay marriage and gun control, so what else is there to do?
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (MLrvz)

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Hi there....
Posted by: Amnesty at December 05, 2022 02:52
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Pack the Court.

Posted by: torabora at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (aGlce)

123 I'm not saying we should stop participating in elections (although I did refuse to vote for Tim Scott, Lindsey's little DC bitch). I AM saying that we should strive in ways big and small to be monkey wrenches in their Reset or whatever other bullshit they have planned for us.

Get out of debt and stock up on supplies, and I don't mean ammo (yes, you may stock up on ammo too). Food and other necessities. Imagine a world without your cellphone in your pocket. Those of you who are 29 have experience in the way things used to be before Big Tech. Prepare for that world. Use YouTube to teach yourself how to do things, and get some BOOKS that will be a reference library. If you have crap you don't need or use, sell it while there are people buying, and use the cash for something useful.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (Mzdiz)

124 Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has caved
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Related: Br'er Rabbit "Caves" to Briar Patch

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2022 02:55 PM (W4z6N)

125 Remember remember
the fifth of December

Posted by: DB at December 05, 2022 02:55 PM (geLO8)

126 112 It was nice knowin' ya.
Posted by: U.S. Constitution at December 05, 2022 02:54 PM (v0R5T)

Been dead for a while

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2022 02:55 PM (bs+z0)

127 Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 02:53 PM (bDjBG)

FFS, if we have to depend on SCOTUS to save us from this dumbassery, there's not much hope.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 05, 2022 02:55 PM (tBR6g)

128 You're not truly black-pilled until you are actively working to make sure that everything burns down faster. Stepping away is just stage I black-pilled.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 05, 2022 02:56 PM (3AR13)

129 There are still conservatives who chide me for refusing to (re)register as a Republican. I officially left the party after Romney threw the 2012 election right out in the open.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 05, 2022 02:53 PM (3AR13)
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I get a lot of Republican ra-ra here as well.

Nope, I'm an IC. I've been an IC since the Tea Party and I haven't used the term "RINO" seriously in years.

It's funny that neither the Democratic or Republican parties are for a democratic republic.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 02:56 PM (krQz2)

130 Who was the guy in the run up to the Civil War who basically kept selling out their own side and prolonging the inevitable?

Oh, wait, that was all of them. Nevermind.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2022 02:56 PM (9UlRk)

131 I'm going to need David French to give me the conservative case for this because I can't make one myself.

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 05, 2022 02:56 PM (eGTCV)

132 >>> Is there a Supreme Court appeal to be had on 1st Amendment grounds?
...

It's a tax
~ Dread Justice Roberts
...

Time to stop begging government to fix government. Anyone who still thinks that the Constitution still applies to anything or you are going to vote your way out of this... you're part of the problem.

Posted by: Damiano at December 05, 2022 02:56 PM (U46Me)

133 Government/media/tech is all one big party, and we're not invited

Posted by: DB at December 05, 2022 02:57 PM (geLO8)

134 I'll continue fighting the ideological/cultural war, but I'm done with the political one. It cannot be won, not as long as the Republican Party is just the controlled opposition of the Democrat Party.

I will not spend a single joule of effort fighting for corrupt, repulsive, China-owned McConnellism.
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They're not even really controlled opposition anymore. They're just coworkers. Same team.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 02:57 PM (t0OGg)

135 i'm not even shocked.

and someone please tell me again why i should bother voting GOPe?

luckily, i have a very small chance to worry about those cocksuckers ever being in a district I am in. otherwise, i'd vote for the dem. might as well vote for the asshole who TELLS me they're going to fuck me rather than the cocksucker who lies to my face...

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 05, 2022 02:57 PM (Mkvkw)

136 Fuck social media. Fuck the news. Samizdat works. Guerrilla newsletters. Leaflets. Posters. Stop letting "Them" pretend they control all speech just because some hatchet-haired genitally-confused freaks with a few websites do their bidding.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2022 02:43 PM (9UlRk)

If I was still flying and had a plane to fly I'd cover Kentucky from end to end with leaflets every night. Every fucking night reminding them of what their asshole senator is doing to all of us.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2022 02:57 PM (anj39)

137 There are plenty of non-traditional news outlets though. Can't Twitter just report on sites like OANN? Anyone who's not in the cartel.

They don't own the story.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 02:58 PM (XtkZj)

138 They always have a groin kick ready whenever anything looks like it might be going in our favor.

Reform is impossible. Trump gave us hope and they took care of that, and him. It looks like total, devastating collapse of the system is the only way to stop them.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2022 02:58 PM (H8QX8)

139 Let me guess -
The law will specify that Legacy Media, Non-Legacy Media, and Social Media entities will be determined by the Secretary of Commerce.

Or by a Bipartisan Commission, with the Commissioners appointed by the President, for 10 year terms. With no appeal of the Commission's decisions.

No politics involved, nope, none at all.

Posted by: Gref at December 05, 2022 02:58 PM (AMIL/)

140 "So he's prioritizing Ukraine over America."

To be precise, he is prioritizing Mitch and Madame Dog Chow over America.

"I'll continue fighting the ideological/cultural war, but I'm done with the political one. It cannot be won, not as long as the Republican Party is just the controlled opposition of the Democrat Party.

I will not spend a single joule of effort fighting for corrupt, repulsive, China-owned McConnellism."

All right. Welcome to the club. We need to be looking for ways to break apart the United States into pieces, too.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 05, 2022 02:58 PM (kJLpK)

141 Did Nazi Pelosi give Chinless Mitch sexual favors in return for his support?

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 05, 2022 02:58 PM (eGTCV)

142 > Guns and ammo

Is ace a gun guy yet?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2022 02:58 PM (eyxn4)

143 I'm going to need David French to give me the conservative case for this because I can't make one myself.
Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 05, 2022 02:56 PM (eGTCV)
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Watch it, unless you want to follow Dave's "Conservative Case For Being Anally Penetrated".

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 02:58 PM (krQz2)

144 Monopoly/antitrust exemptions are a good idea precisely never. It has never been a good idea, will never be a good idea. Any exemption is because of power, influence-peddling, bribery and rent extraction.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 02:58 PM (t0OGg)

145 and now, even Pravda looks at us a laughs heartily at our laughably compliant media...

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 05, 2022 02:59 PM (Mkvkw)

146 It looks like total, devastating collapse of the system is the only way to stop them.

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That's usually how things end.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at December 05, 2022 02:59 PM (sX1BW)

147
Welcome, Ace.

There's plenty of room.

Along with at least 74m more people the GOP's fucked over.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 02:59 PM (oINRc)

148 I knew they were going to bailout their failing friends in the press eventually, I just thought it would be a big handout.

But this is a handout and a hand job.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2022 02:59 PM (UuD2k)

149 Government/media/tech is all one big party, and we're not invited
Posted by: DB at December 05, 2022 02:57 PM (geLO

Don't forget the banksters/finance.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at December 05, 2022 02:59 PM (0chEi)

150 FFS, if we have to depend on SCOTUS to save us from this dumbassery, there's not much hope.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 05, 2022 02:55 PM (tBR6g)
........

don't worry. Jumanji Action Jackson will save us.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2022 03:00 PM (v0R5T)

151 Wow. Just wow. I've felt for a while now that the Republican Party is never going to change, and in fact, will only get worse. And they have done just that. There is no saving it. There is no saving this sad, sorry country. Because there's no way to do it short of a divorce from the Federal Gov't and secession by the states.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 05, 2022 03:00 PM (sVtYq)

152 McConnell is a straight up traitor. As is his Vichy Senate Coterie. There is simply no other way to view this.

The party should act in response to its voters. The senate under McConnell does not. It is a corrupt group of geriatrics and degenerate suckups like Ernst, who act purely against the interests of the people.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2022 03:00 PM (pIKd9)

153 "Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has caved to outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer."

Caved? That's a strange word to use, when the truth is that they simply agreed. Like saying my kids "caved" to my demand that we go see a movie instead of going to school.

Or perhaps this is just the flip-side action to republicans "pouncing" or "seizing."

Posted by: red speck at December 05, 2022 03:00 PM (gS3OW)

154 Gee.....musta missed the nood call in the last thread..............

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2022 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

The declaration of nood was just.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2022 03:00 PM (hgD8w)

155
Is ace a gun guy yet?
Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2022 02:58 PM (eyxn4)

Isn't he NY? Makes it really hard to be a gun guy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2022 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

156 Uh, Ace? Doesn't it say in the quoted text that Tom Cotton was fighting against this journalism cartel bill?

Posted by: pookysgirl, rereading for the third time at December 05, 2022 03:00 PM (XKZwp)

157 So what is the payoff? What's the payout? What is McConnell, the Masterful Tactician and Eminent Parliamentarian, getting in exchange for this? What concession is the "other side" giving up?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2022 03:00 PM (9UlRk)

158 The conservative case for this matter is simple:
Suck cock and eat jizz.

Posted by: David French at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (YuQMU)

159 This is why they couldn't let Trump in.

They would have to wait 4 more years to get us to the bug-eating stage.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (krQz2)

160 144 Monopoly/antitrust exemptions are a good idea precisely never. It has never been a good idea, will never be a good idea. Any exemption is because of power, influence-peddling, bribery and rent extraction.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 02:58 PM (t0OGg)

But isn't influence-peddling, bribery and rent extraction the natural state of man? And if that's the natural state of man, isn't that the natural state of the USA? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America.
-GOPe

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (eYoxG)

161 This isn't capitulation. This is the plan. Cruz was part of the design for the bill.

Oh, look. McCarthy pretending to stop. No, please, Mitch, too principled for this!

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (v5Hk8)

162 The country is going to hell, the political parties are fucking us....so let talk about movies!

Posted by: Archer at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (gmo/4)

163 Are we done with the "But Mitch gave us SCOTUS judges" talk? Look at what that has gotten us thus far. Sure we have Roe overturned. Sure we have another ruling in our favor on 2A.

Yet the left is out there flouting those rulings, mocking SCOTUS and the US Constitution and literally saying "I Dare you to come after us". See NY for starters. So this kind of negates the SCOTUS wins, doesn't it? There literally isn't any teeth to those rulings.

So Mitch betrays us, his wife (Former Trump Sec. of Transportation) gets richer in her consulting/PAC graft. And the USA circles the drain like a giant turd.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (N39Ws)

164
The conservative case for this matter is simple:
Suck cock and eat jizz.
Posted by: David French at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (YuQMU)

I LOL'd.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (oINRc)

165 Hey, Mitch: Hershel Walker says "hi," too.

This is EXACTLY what McConnell did in the 2020 Georgia run-off by calling the paltry Covid pay-outs "welfare for the rich." Pollsters literally watched the Republicans go behind in real time.

I would be open to a separatist/structural reform party. The GOP was going to be gone in a cycle or two, anyhow, at the national level, so Mitch is grifting fast as he can.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (kJLpK)

166 Get out of debt and stock up on supplies, and I don't mean ammo (yes, you may stock up on ammo too). Food and other necessities. Imagine a world without your cellphone in your pocket. Those of you who are 29 have experience in the way things used to be before Big Tech. Prepare for that world. Use YouTube to teach yourself how to do things, and get some BOOKS that will be a reference library. If you have crap you don't need or use, sell it while there are people buying, and use the cash for something useful.
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Hooah, Miley!

All this.

I thank God we have zero debt, and we've been able to do the above.

Unfortunately, too many people suffer from normalcy bias.

Posted by: SMH while cruising down the meme highway at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (I+3SI)

167 Obviously, a Republican House would not deliver a spending bill on such generous terms. So Republicans have pushed for just passing a short-term continuing resolution to get us into next year, then undertaking the omnibus, when the situation is better for Republicans.
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But only for the purpose of political theater. All of those short-term CRs to come (absent the omnibus) would end up spending more with even less accountability, and that would be the dramatic preference of everyone involved. The Republicans will not spend one dime less than the Democrats. Possibly - but only possibly - on different things, but not one penny less.

This isn't about money and it's not about budgetary politicking. Those are just excuses. This is about Mitch McConnell and the GOP giving one more gigantic "fuck you" to the American people. It's a "smell the glove" moment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (t0OGg)

168 Glad he was voted in! Way to go, senators. Also. I don’t want to fund the war in Ukraine, thanks anyway.

Posted by: Piper at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

169 Posted by: Blago at December 05, 2022 02:49 PM (Duuvr)

I'd have to check to make sure the sun came up if I didn't see this.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (hgD8w)

170 FFS, if we have to depend on SCOTUS to save us from this dumbassery, there's not much hope.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

The courts moved pretty fast on the Student Loan forgiveness preventing it from going forward.

Anytime the government gets involved in legislation involving the press either pro or con requires strict scrutiny even if spending is involved. Means that government must justify its spending and law by proof and supply evidence that it is not engaging in viewpoint discrimination.

We shall see but Mitch's betrayal would not have happened unless his rank and file wanted it in the caucus. The problem is broader than Mitch and it at least half or more of the caucus.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:02 PM (bDjBG)

171 don't worry. Jumanji Action Jackson will save us.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2022 03:00 PM (v0R5T)

Sharon Stone in her prime, in Action Jackson!

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at December 05, 2022 03:02 PM (0chEi)

172 The Conservative Case For Making Yourself The Bathhouse Party Boy.

Posted by: David French at December 05, 2022 03:02 PM (krQz2)

173 Might as well keep Nancy as Speaker

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2022 03:02 PM (bs+z0)

174 to negotiate with Big Tech companies on the "terms and conditions" for carrying their content.

The way Musk has been talking, I can see him hearing said terms and conditions and telling the MFM "bye, Felicia!".

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2022 03:02 PM (ZGrMX)

175 They save their best betrayals for right after a election, because they know we won't care enough in two years to make them pay. I'm actually willing to let the GOP die at this point. If it means Democrat supermajorities? In the words of Secretary Clinton "what difference does it make?"

We'll get an establishment-approved, "respected" republican in 2024. And he'll get 55,000,000 votes and be trounced in the general election by someone who can't speak, won't debate, or is clinically braindead. Or a trans.

Posted by: SMFH at December 05, 2022 03:02 PM (CEh/e)

176 As I live in Maine - I am told that I'm a "bad Republican" for not voting for Collins.

Well, I'm sure she'll vote for this boondoggle.

Why would it matter if I vote for her or the Democrat? I'll get the same kind of result from DC.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 05, 2022 02:45 PM

Ayuh.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2022 03:02 PM (4p7Em)

177 Or at least talk about mimosas and horse breeding. Oh, and restricting country club membership to the "right" people.

Posted by: Archer at December 05, 2022 03:02 PM (gmo/4)

178 For only $5 month you can help Sen. McConnell sell out the country.

Posted by: Sally Struthers at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (aGlce)

179 The GOP senate already voted on gay marriage and gun control, so what else is there to do?
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (MLrvz)

Nothing. Who knows what would have happened had we won more?

Posted by: WiNO at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (+4D1M)

180 Isn't he NY? Makes it really hard to be a gun guy.
Posted by: Sponge
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Just like here in IL.

Posted by: SMH while cruising down the meme highway at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (I+3SI)

181
The Conservative Case of Monkeypox: My Journey of Faith and Freedom and Butt Sores

Posted by: David French at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (oINRc)

182 "...the Republican Party is just the controlled opposition of the Democrat Party."

That's the money quote right there. Republicans don't give a damn about what the people they're supposed to represent want.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (pIKd9)

183 Remember. McConnell wouldn't pass a stimulus because it wasn't fiscally sound in 2020. But billions for that fruit cake prop in Ukraine.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (v5Hk8)

184 We shall see but Mitch's betrayal would not have happened unless his rank and file wanted it in the caucus. The problem is broader than Mitch and it at least half or more of the caucus.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:02 PM (bDjBG)

Rank and file as in Collins, Murkowski, Romney and the lot?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (N39Ws)

185 FFS, if we have to depend on SCOTUS to save us from this dumbassery, there's not much hope.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
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It's true. They command 0 regiments.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (krQz2)

186 Does someone need a Snickers?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (F98dM)

187 I am so hoping that quote is fake, but I know it's not.
"If you're concerned about inflation, you pussies might want a CR. But if you're concerned about the Ukraine war, the single greatest gift to grifters in the history of war, and you want to keep gas prices high and interest rates even higher, you will NOT go down that CR road."

Posted by: Wally at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (FJYfm)

188 I love the name of this thing. The "Journalism Competition and Preservation Act."

Feh.

I'd say "Orwell would be proud" of these guys, but they're what he was warning against.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (t0OGg)

189 Surprised McConnell didn't make them add some gun control in there too...

Posted by: Inogame at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (53oGX)

190 Here's a conspiracy. What if the jab was designed to get rid of young people but save old people?
Posted by: SH

Then it fucked up because it cleaned out nursing homes.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:04 PM (9uCBG)

191 The Deep State isord.
---David French the Apostate

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 05, 2022 03:04 PM (eGTCV)

192 176 As I live in Maine - I am told that I'm a "bad Republican" for not voting for Collins.

Well, I'm sure she'll vote for this boondoggle.

Why would it matter if I vote for her or the Democrat? I'll get the same kind of result from DC.
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 05, 2022 02:45 PM

Ayuh.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2022 03:02 PM (4p7Em)

+1.

Glad to see there are a couple of like minded people near me in the north east. I'm in southern NH.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 05, 2022 03:04 PM (N39Ws)

193 Is Lord

Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 05, 2022 03:05 PM (eGTCV)

194 So after the Supreme Court overturns this...

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 05, 2022 03:05 PM (v5Hk8)

195 I wonder if ol Mitch has always been a closet democrat or if the dems have some really interesting pictures?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2022 03:05 PM (anj39)

196 179 The GOP senate already voted on gay marriage and gun control, so what else is there to do?
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (MLrvz)

Nothing. Who knows what would have happened had we won more?
Posted by: WiNO at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (+4D1M)

The same thing?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 05, 2022 03:05 PM (eYoxG)

197 15 Yep. Just the GOP playing the Washington Generals to the Democrat Harlem Globetrotters. Been like this for at least 20 years.
________

But at least the Generals didn't pull their own shorts down.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2022 03:05 PM (fs1hN)

198 "OK, so we finally reached a deal with the prosecution. You'll be getting the chair, but in exchange they're gonna let me pull the lever. It's been an honor to fight for your cause, sir--- Ew, don't touch me, gross. Bye."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2022 03:05 PM (9UlRk)

199 195 I wonder if ol Mitch has always been a closet democrat or if the dems have some really interesting pictures?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2022 03:05 PM (anj39)

Yes

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 03:05 PM (XtkZj)

200 > Guns and ammo

Is ace a gun guy yet?

Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2022 02:58 PM (eyxn4)

Several years ago, Ace chided us about stroking our gun-dicks. He has come around, but I think this is a bridge too far, for the moment.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2022 03:05 PM (hgD8w)

201 So Disney gets a free DC hummer for fucking the little ones?

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:05 PM (ssJXH)

202 Here's a conspiracy. What if the jab was designed to get rid of young people but save old people?
Posted by: SH

Then it fucked up because it cleaned out nursing homes.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:04 PM (9uCBG)

No, Covid cleaned out nursing homes. While it was not a brutal virus, it was quited successful at killing the elderly. The jab, on the other hand, seems intent on getting the rest of us.

Posted by: Wally at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (FJYfm)

203 189 Surprised McConnell didn't make them add some gun control in there too...
Posted by: Inogame at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (53oGX)

It's coming

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (bs+z0)

204 Funding Ukraine in perpetuity.

If there's ever been a reason to root for Putin...

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (KbCG3)

205 "I wonder if ol Mitch has always been a closet democrat"

Have we gotten more or less conservative on his watch?

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (v5Hk8)

206 Rank and file as in Collins, Murkowski, Romney and the lot?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

All but about ten or eleven senators voted for McConnell to continue in leadership and not to delay the vote until the new senators could participate. That is the size of the hole.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (bDjBG)

207 "...the Republican Party is just the controlled opposition of the Democrat Party."
---
The roots are probably deep in the 4 terms of FDR, when members of his own party had to stop him from becoming a dictator, and 40+ years ruling Congress.

Nixon just wanted to use the phone-tapping facilities that his two predecessors used and "Watergate" was the result.

America was not vigilant. They were buying the Democrat name brand.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (krQz2)

208 The criminals are in charge.
How long until the country collapses?
Not as long as I'd hoped.
I'll still be alive

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (xEfm/)

209 We shall see but Mitch's betrayal would not have happened unless his rank and file wanted it in the caucus. The problem is broader than Mitch and it at least half or more of the caucus.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:02 PM (bDjBG)

He has ten in his pocket. And he's finished off Walker so he can do the same with nine next time.

It's freaking amazing.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (kJLpK)

210 I will say this, McConnell is nothing if not consistent.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (5026n)

211 The Republicans want censorship just as much as the Democrats. That's where we are as a "free" country. And they're getting it. What a burned out cinder of a shell of a country America has become.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (sVtYq)

212 I got confused reading this because I skimmed over the full name of the bill and just saw JCPA.

You know what else JCPA is? Does "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action" ring any bells?

That's the official name of the so-called "Iran Nuclear Deal."

They might not be able to be more offensive if they tried.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (t0OGg)

213 Welcome to the untethered world of those of us who have gone "no contact" with the Republican Party, Ace.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (sI15f)

214 GOP is done. DC is completely in the hands of the Democrats now.

National divorce is the only option. And that means a divorce from the national GOPe as well.

Posted by: Rock Doc at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (6I0gt)

215 Hooah, Miley!

All this.

I thank God we have zero debt, and we've been able to do the above.

Unfortunately, too many people suffer from normalcy bias.

Posted by: SMH while cruising down the meme highway at December 05, 2022 03:01 PM (I+3SI)

Yes m'am! I'm still paying off a credit card that I used for wedding stuff and prepper stuff this summer, but at least it's 4 figures and not 5. I reeeeally think Publius ought to get his parents to invest in some physical precious metals, but I doubt it will happen. Now that the interest rates are getting hiked up, I really need to prioritize becoming debt free. THEN I work on buying some coin.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 05, 2022 03:07 PM (Mzdiz)

216 I should slap someone from Kentucky for cause.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 03:07 PM (XtkZj)

217 I didn't drop by to see the waving of the white flag. Ciao.

Posted by: Victoria at December 05, 2022 03:07 PM (my56t)

218 Dan Gryder flays the hide off of CAF and their airboss Russ Royce:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prk0j8cveYY

Posted by: In Case Of Glass, Break gp at December 05, 2022 03:07 PM (24fqN)

219 All of this is aimed straight at elon musk and twatter. Amazing. They are reacting to his take over of twitter in abject terror and are deathly afraid of him and are willing to do anything to silence him.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2022 03:07 PM (uNylN)

220 I deleted "Tom Cotton" from the list of McConnell stooges because the commenter upthread is right, apparently he was resisting this.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2022 03:07 PM (C1Zwz)

221 Here's a conspiracy. What if the jab was designed to get rid of young people but save old people?

This is 100% my pet conspiracy theory. The vaxx mostly causes heart attacks in young/highly fit men. Exactly the kind of people you'd want in any military-type action against the WEF.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2022 03:07 PM (ZGrMX)

222 Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:02 PM (bDjBG)

Preznit Pantzshitten Retard just moved to delay repayment again. Nobody cares what SCOTUS says anymore, because we're post constitutional. Nothing short of prosecution and harsh punishment is gonna stop these fucksticks.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (tBR6g)

223 190 Then it fucked up because it cleaned out nursing homes.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:04 PM (9uCBG)

Why does anybody believe that the DC Cabal got the same jab that they pushed on everybody else?

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (UnA8+)

224 What if Elon just tells them to fuck off? If legacy media wants to destroy the thing keeping them relevant, let them. How many people are going to read the online NY Times without them.getting signal boosted on Twitter?

Posted by: Broseidon at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (icI8A)

225 When an irresistible grift meets and immovable signal.

Posted by: Three days of the Twitter at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (r+Hib)

226
Identify each option below to show as an example of either Subjective Case, or Conservative Case:

1.) I went to the store.

2.) We've been grabbing our ankles for fifty fuckin' years, and everyone knows we're as useless as tits on a bishop.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (oINRc)

227 220 I deleted "Tom Cotton" from the list of McConnell stooges because the commenter upthread is right, apparently he was resisting this.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2022 03:07 PM (C1Zwz)

Eh. Righteous shotgun spread.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (XtkZj)

228 195 I wonder if ol Mitch has always been a closet democrat or if the dems have some really interesting pictures?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2022 03:05 PM (anj39)

Bank statements, but who's keeping track? McConnell and Madame Dog Chow have been thieving their entire miserable lives. But, hey, what's a little nuclear war when you can by a fourth retirement cottage?

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (kJLpK)

229 Does someone need a Snickers?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 05, 2022 03:03 PM (F98dM)

lol

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (hgD8w)

230 32 Isn't this about as clear cut a violation of the First Amendment as you can find anywhere?

no because they'll say "private actors," in the form of the cartel we authorized, forced them to do it, not the government itself, per se
Posted by: ace at December 05, 2022 02:41 PM (C1Zwz)

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

That just sounds like government censorship with extra steps.

Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (8LP6B)

231 177 The Thoroughbred Racing industry is one of the reasons Kentucky politics is so corrupt.

And Soros and the ChiComs are getting in on that, too. Soros and the ChiComs were partial owners of Justified, the latest Triple-Crown winner.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (2nxs6)

232 Fucking traitors. I hope Turtle gets ass cancer.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (GwxCX)

233 Does Mitch the Idiot really believe there is a pathway to success in Ukraine? Does he really believe Austin and his fellow Pentagon dumb-asses have a clue what winning looks like?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2022 03:09 PM (anj39)

234 The same thing?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 05, 2022 03:05 PM (eYoxG)

They would have pushed through more Dem stuff so hamstring any serious majority.

Posted by: WiNO at December 05, 2022 03:09 PM (+4D1M)

235 Hmmm.

We know that big tech is a fellow traveler with the media. So I don't think muzzling Musk is the point (although they will certainly establish "standards"). So the real story is Tech is filthy rich and Media is almost bankrupt. Media wants a piece of Tech's pie.

I wonder if Tech is going to go along with this scheme?

Posted by: Dave in Fla (there is no path to 270) at December 05, 2022 03:09 PM (KEwpY)

236 Obviously the answer to all this is more elections.

Posted by: Methos at December 05, 2022 03:09 PM (kOpft)

237 2.) We've been grabbing our ankles for fifty fuckin' years, and everyone knows we're as useless as tits on a bishop.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (oINRc)
++++
I wish they were useless. Being useless would be a major improvement.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 03:09 PM (t0OGg)

238 I wonder if ol Mitch has always been a closet democrat or if the dems have some really interesting pictures?

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

I just think Mitch is cut from the wealth and power cloth of the GOP. His primary battles have been for corporatism ... started as low tax rates and is now just big business (in all its forms) protectionism. He has no ideological moorings. So here we are.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at December 05, 2022 03:09 PM (sX1BW)

239 What if FDR had actually been allowed to become Dictator For Life, everything inevitably went to shit, and we all came together, rebelled against the new fascism, and beat the shit out of the people who would go on to ruin the rest of the 20th century anyway?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2022 03:09 PM (9UlRk)

240 208 The criminals are in charge.
How long until the country collapses?
Not as long as I'd hoped.
I'll still be alive
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (xEfm/)

I pray it comes while I am able to move about without a cane. I much rather it visit me than my (future) grandchildren.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 05, 2022 03:09 PM (N39Ws)

241 There were a lot of people here after the 2020 election that said they were done. Only to see them raise the GOP pom-poms in 2022. I suspect we'll see the same thing again in 2024.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at December 05, 2022 03:09 PM (hXzdW)

242 What if Elon just tells them to fuck off? If legacy media wants to destroy the thing keeping them relevant, let them. How many people are going to read the online NY Times without them.getting signal boosted on Twitter?

Elon flat out said the other day he thinks Twitter can replace legacy news media, because it updates much faster. I don't think he's gonna play along.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (ZGrMX)

243 Regarding Ukraine and that petty little tyrant I too am pulling for Russia to get this thing over with

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (bs+z0)

244 I'm in southern NH.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 05, 2022 03:04 PM

Eyeballing property up there, meself.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (4p7Em)

245 "220 I deleted "Tom Cotton" from the list of McConnell stooges because the commenter upthread is right, apparently he was resisting this.

Posted by: ace at December 05, 2022 03:07 PM (C1Zwz) "

Add Jodi Ernst. She's been part of this cabal for some time now.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (pIKd9)

246 What if FDR had actually been allowed to become Dictator For Life, everything inevitably went to shit, and we all came together, rebelled against the new fascism, and beat the shit out of the people who would go on to ruin the rest of the 20th century anyway?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2022 03:09 PM (9UlRk)
++++
FDR, for all intents and purposes, was dictator for life.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (t0OGg)

247 You'd think by now Mitch would realize that Schumer isn't the kind to give a reach around.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (N39Ws)

248 Headline is ridiculous.

McConnell was never with us, therefore he could not betray us.

But keep voting, nonetheless.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (S6U7e)

249 Go Galt. Prepare for the worst to protect your family. Refuse to submit or participate as much as possible. Quit supporting any person, business or organization that works against the constitutional republic and the American people.

Posted by: Delilah at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (FK1Jm)

250 That seems like a silly conspiracy theory, killing off the olds has helped the Dems acquire more power and they're the party more in line with the WEF. And you don't defeat something like the WEF with a standing army - there's no battlefield where you engage with WEF soldiers. They can only be stopped by rending the entire post-WW2 international order.

Posted by: Broseidon at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (icI8A)

251 The Thoroughbred Racing industry is one of the reasons Kentucky politics is so corrupt.

And Soros and the ChiComs are getting in on that, too. Soros and the ChiComs were partial owners of Justified, the latest Triple-Crown winner.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM

Yep there are billions of $$$$ laundered through that industry.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (uNylN)

252 New tech to replace old tech.

New news to replace old news.

It's easier to start a news site than it is to play by their rules.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (XtkZj)

253 235 I wonder if Tech is going to go along with this scheme?
Posted by: Dave in Fla (there is no path to 270) at December 05, 2022 03:09 PM (KEwpY)

Bezos owns his own house press organ. It doesn't matter to him if his money's in AWS or if it's in WaPo.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 03:11 PM (UnA8+)

254
When dead people vote for you, but the living elderly don't...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 03:11 PM (oINRc)

255 239 What if FDR had actually been allowed to become Dictator For Life, everything inevitably went to shit, and we all came together, rebelled against the new fascism, and beat the shit out of the people who would go on to ruin the rest of the 20th century anyway?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2022 03:09 PM (9UlRk)

He was dictator for life(at least as much as Xi or Putin at any rate). Do you mean if he lived longer?

Idk if he gets overthrown tbh.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 05, 2022 03:11 PM (eYoxG)

256 No, Covid cleaned out nursing homes. While it was not a brutal virus, it was quited successful at killing the elderly. The jab, on the other hand, seems intent on getting the rest of us.
Posted by: Wally

Covid AND the jab. What Coof didn't get, the jab is. Al Roker, the chick from Fleetwood Mac, etc.

Actually, the jab is getting everyone. Watch Suddenly Dead on Rumble.com.

The "blood clots" are frightening.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:11 PM (9uCBG)

257 Thanks again, Kentucky. Fuck every last one of you.

Posted by: Mr. Fabulist at December 05, 2022 03:11 PM (aPSLh)

258 "You'd think by now Mitch would realize that Schumer isn't the kind to give a reach around."

Mitch is more of a Dirty Sanchez guy anyway.

Posted by: squid_hunt at December 05, 2022 03:11 PM (v5Hk8)

259 I suggest Musk pay close attention to any delivery man's shoes.

Posted by: Three days of the Twitter at December 05, 2022 03:11 PM (r+Hib)

260 244 I'm in southern NH.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 05, 2022 03:04 PM

Eyeballing property up there, meself.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (4p7Em)

We need a NE MOME.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 05, 2022 03:11 PM (N39Ws)

261 No matter how much you may hate Mitch, never forget, he hates you more. And, he enjoys using his power to prove it. He celebrates your suffering.

Posted by: EveR at December 05, 2022 03:12 PM (Tu0Nr)

262 There were a lot of people here after the 2020 election that said they were done. Only to see them raise the GOP pom-poms in 2022. I suspect we'll see the same thing again in 2024.

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

Let it burn is a fun thing to say. And it may be inevitable anyway. Perhaps it is the only way to save it. But it isn't something fun to go through, even if necessary. Certainly not when you have children. I think most of us hope to avoid it.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at December 05, 2022 03:12 PM (sX1BW)

263 The cluebat was when we finally had someone who tried to actually do what the Republican Party had openly promised for 30 years and they fought him every step of the way and then helped depose him.

That was a hint.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2022 03:12 PM (nvPT6)

264 Amazing to watch dems perpetrate this war with the full backing of the GOP, knowing full well that only the GOP will be tainted with the war hawk slander.

Of all the transformations spurred forth by Trump, the growth of the anti-war right may have been one of the most unexpected and welcome.

And notice how furiously the deep state began its military excursions after Trump left.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 05, 2022 03:12 PM (KbCG3)

265 At least the media isn't getting a direct bailout from the taxpayers, yet.

Posted by: Dave in Fla (there is no path to 270) at December 05, 2022 03:12 PM (KEwpY)

266 Funding Ukraine in perpetuity.

If there's ever been a reason to root for Putin...
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 05, 2022 03:06 PM (KbCG3)
........

all the $$$ we sent we should own the place by now.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2022 03:12 PM (v0R5T)

267 251
Yep there are billions of $$$$ laundered through that industry.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (uNylN)

Lot of money for Elmers glue and dog food.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 05, 2022 03:12 PM (N39Ws)

268 That was a hint.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2022 03:12 PM (nvPT6)
++++
Just a little one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 03:13 PM (t0OGg)

269 Bezos owns his own house press organ. It doesn't matter to him if his money's in AWS or if it's in WaPo.

Bezos is a unique case though. Google/YouTube make money purely through Internet advertising, so helping out legacy linear TV doesn't do anything for them. Or for Facebook. And Apple is actively competing with legacy TV with their Apple TV+ service.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2022 03:13 PM (ZGrMX)

270 FDR, for all intents and purposes, was dictator for life.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (t0OGg)
---
According to the crap they're advertising for CBS Online, FDR was an autocrat, because they couldn't remove him through elections. (That's how they are saying that Viktor Orban is an "autocrat")

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 03:13 PM (krQz2)

271 Not a surprise. I have met Mitch many times, along with his buddies Lisa and John C. They aren't like us.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 05, 2022 03:13 PM (oWBc3)

272 Regarding Ukraine and that petty little tyrant I too am pulling for Russia to get this thing over with
Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (bs+z0)

That's where the Neocons have us in a vice. If Putin starts to win, then that proves what a threat he is to western Europe, and so we need to fund Ukraine even harder.

Frankly, my response to "Putin is going to roll through western Europe" is to say, "I guess western Europe is going to have to man up soon." But I'm afraid I'm on an island on that one.

Posted by: Wally at December 05, 2022 03:13 PM (FJYfm)

273 Places TinFoil hat on head.

Russia is actually colluding with the west by playing the bad guy in this 'war' that is really just a massive transfer of wealth to the coming Globalist Government. Not only wealth. But massive amounts of arms from every country.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 03:13 PM (XtkZj)

274 Preznit Pantzshitten Retard just moved to delay repayment again. Nobody cares what SCOTUS says anymore, because we're post constitutional. Nothing short of prosecution and harsh punishment is gonna stop these fucksticks.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead

The case involved forgiveness, not deferring repayment. General forgiveness under the emergency act from 9/11 is not authorized, deferring payments is authorized under a statute. Neither have issues constitution wise as Congressional spending, borrowing, and taxing clauses are almost absolute (except when the Bill of Rights is involved).

Simply put, no one today really wants what Jefferson proposed as the standard for necessary and proper laws as would even arguably rule out veteran benefits as not being necessary and proper to providing for an army and navy which are specific clauses in the Constitution. That would also make the Air Force and Space Force unconstitutional among other things.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:14 PM (bDjBG)

275 98 The GOP senate already voted on gay marriage and gun control, so what else is there to do?
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (MLrvz)

-----

Hi there....
Posted by: Amnesty at December 05, 2022 02:52 PM (3OGFH)

Yo!

Posted by: Reparations at December 05, 2022 03:14 PM (cTCuP)

276 Welcome to the party pal!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2022 03:14 PM (cMXNt)

277 I suggest Musk pay close attention to any delivery man's shoes.

He's beefed up his security detail and posted multiple times that he's not suicidal.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2022 03:14 PM (ZGrMX)

278 Ted Cruz originally objected but caved so quickly, it was likely just for show.

Posted by: jeannebodine at December 05, 2022 03:14 PM (ddFzi)

279 Actually, the jab is getting everyone. Watch Suddenly Dead on Rumble.com.

The "blood clots" are frightening.
Posted by: rickb223
___

Died Suddenly is also on Bitchute.

Posted by: SMH while cruising down the meme highway at December 05, 2022 03:14 PM (I+3SI)

280 Where have you gone, Augusto Pinochet? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at December 05, 2022 03:14 PM (8LP6B)

281 256 mcVie was 79, that isn’t a rare age to die. What is frightening is the young set, the athletes, the students dying. We have a few physicians on here, was SAD even a thing before the last 2 years? I know people die, they did before these shots, but the rate we are hearing about this now seems alarming. Is it? And these clots seem pretty damning, what do you think about them?

Posted by: Piper at December 05, 2022 03:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

282 I've felt the same way for a long time- at least since the Rubio betrayal. Again, how would it be worse with Val Demings as a senator? At least the enemy would be to the front.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 05, 2022 03:15 PM (F0p6n)

283 271 Not a surprise. I have met Mitch many times, along with his buddies Lisa and John C. They aren't like us.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

I pity you. Meeting lizard people disguised as human politicians is always unpleasant.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:15 PM (bDjBG)

284 We need a NE MOME.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 05, 2022 03:11 PM

I missed the Book Thread yesterday, but Cool Breeze suggested a MicroMoMe. Haven't had a NEMoMe in years. I'm sure there are enough of us close enough.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 05, 2022 03:15 PM (4p7Em)

285 Where have you gone, Mr. Monty DOOM?
A weblog turns it’s black-pilled eyes to you,
Woo, woo, woo.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2022 03:15 PM (2nxs6)

286 Nothing Elon Musk has done can prepare him for the war he has engaged. I hope he understands this.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2022 03:15 PM (H8QX8)

287 woo-woo-woo

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 05, 2022 03:15 PM (yFgCz)

288 281 and to keep it relevant, Mitch is a jerk, he should go to a nursing home on NY.

Posted by: Piper at December 05, 2022 03:15 PM (ZdaMQ)

289 oh noes, elon won't be able to promote their fake news on his site.

anyway...

Posted by: x at December 05, 2022 03:15 PM (ZC2go)

290 286 he noted he has increased his security.

Posted by: Piper at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

291 And you don't defeat something like the WEF with a standing army - there's no battlefield where you engage with WEF soldiers.
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I think pretty much any nation's regular army would do wonders directly targeting the WEF crowd for destruction.

Posted by: Methos at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (kOpft)

292 How in the fuck is Putin gonna "roll through western europe" when he can't even convincingly beat a bunch of room-temp-IQ slavs fucking around with surplus weapons they have no idea how to use?

They need to pick a world to live in. Is putin a ridiculous incompetent fuckup, or the Biggest Big Bad there is in the world today? He can't be both just so that the movie can happen.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (9UlRk)

293 To be clear, Ukraine is both a money laundering operation for our politicians and a weapons delivery system for a restive world. So much easier dealing with Europeans than those folks in the Middle East.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (oWBc3)

294 The case involved forgiveness, not deferring repayment. General forgiveness under the emergency act from 9/11 is not authorized, deferring payments is authorized under a statute.

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Deferring repayment is actually the better way to go. They can defer forever at this rate. Forgiveness had a cap. Deferral does not. The loan is wiped away when you die. Why should we ever expect payments to resume.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (sX1BW)

295 On the bright side, since the incoming GOP House majority won't be facing a huge budget fight on day 1, they'll have plenty of time to launch all those investigations and impeachments they've been promising us.

Hey...stop laughing, you guys.

Posted by: The Fool at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (1dzqn)

296 I'm done.

I'm out.

Let it all burn.

Welcome to the dark side.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (9uCBG)

do we get cookies?

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (Mkvkw)

297 I hate repeating what others here have said on many occasions, but we're not voting our way out of this.

Posted by: Halfhand at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (E5Zud)

298 273 Places TinFoil hat on head.

Russia is actually colluding with the west by playing the bad guy in this 'war' that is really just a massive transfer of wealth to the coming Globalist Government. Not only wealth. But massive amounts of arms from every country.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 03:13 PM (XtkZj)

The China part proves it. China owns the American corporate and political classes lock, stock, and barrel. Nothing will be done that upsets Xi. Nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if D.C. and Beijing have allied quietly to lower the hammer on Russia, too.

This is a garbage tier police state.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (kJLpK)

299 Fucking traitors. I hope Turtle gets ass cancer.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (GwxCX)

That's racist. It's ACancer.

- - The WHO

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2022 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

300 The Thoroughbred Racing industry is one of the reasons Kentucky politics is so corrupt.

And Soros and the ChiComs are getting in on that, too. Soros and the ChiComs were partial owners of Justified, the latest Triple-Crown winner.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM

Yep there are billions of $$$$ laundered through that industry.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (uNylN)
***

Oh goodie! A new target to play on NukeMap!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2022 03:17 PM (anj39)

301 Preznit Pantzshitten Retard just moved to delay repayment again. Nobody cares what SCOTUS says anymore, because we're post constitutional.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
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Does anybody remember Obama lifting a pen about the "invalid recess appointments"?

I never heard anything about it after the SCOTUS decided that they were invalid appointments.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 03:17 PM (krQz2)

302 Died Suddenly is also on Bitchute.
Posted by: SMH

THAT'S the one. Have you seen the "foot long fibrous clots" they've pulled out of cadavers?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:17 PM (9uCBG)

303 Putin never intended to roll through anything. The idea was a faux war which gives reason to moving massive amounts of cash and weapons from all countries to be used by the WEF.

It's theatre. Do you really believe Russia couldn't pound Ukraine into submission?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 03:17 PM (XtkZj)

304 So does this mean Journalists get a badge and are armed agents of the state to destroy any misinformation that comes their way?

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:18 PM (ssJXH)

305 Welcome to the dark side.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (9uCBG)

do we get cookies?

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I was told there would be punch and pie.

Le Resistance!

Posted by: The Fool at December 05, 2022 03:18 PM (1dzqn)

306 Does Mitch the Idiot really believe there is a pathway to success in Ukraine? Does he really believe Austin and his fellow Pentagon dumb-asses have a clue what winning looks like?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2022 03:09 PM (anj39)

No one's worried about winning nuthin'.

The point is that a certain percentage of every dollar sen to the Ukraine winds up as graft for the enablers, and we're talking billions and billions of taxpayer dollars here.

Have we ever seen a clear victory against the crummy 3rd world militaries we've fought over the last 40 or so years. Nope, right?

So, a couple of 2nd world chumps like nuclear Russia and Ukraine are tailor-made for endless warfare of the very lucrative graft-producing kind.

The Gravy must flow, gentlemen!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2022 03:18 PM (KLPy8)

307 do we get cookies?

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (Mkvkw)
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How you like your bugs?

Posted by: Klaus Schwab at December 05, 2022 03:19 PM (krQz2)

308 Dissolution is the only answer.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2022 03:19 PM (cMXNt)

309 @294 - this guys gets it.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 05, 2022 03:19 PM (oWBc3)

310 At this point I want Trump or DeSantis to come in and fire everyone.

Posted by: Joe Fingerblaster at December 05, 2022 02:51 PM (TaNL7)

If you've seen Dave in Fla's full sig line, we ain't winning the preezyship again. So. An idle dream.

However, if ever there was a time for brand new MAGA type party, this may be it. We got nothing to 'lose', except traitorous cucksuckers like McConnell et al.

The GOPe is a spent force.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 05, 2022 03:19 PM (JOtiF)

311 If Elon has anything I suggest he dump it all now

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2022 03:19 PM (bs+z0)

312 266 well there is an idea! We buy Ukraine and let the dems set up a utopia there! I’ll start the go fund me…

Posted by: Piper at December 05, 2022 03:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

313 297 I hate repeating what others here have said on many occasions, but we're not voting our way out of this.
Posted by: Halfhand at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (E5Zud)

Maybe there is no way out of this.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 05, 2022 03:19 PM (KbCG3)

314 We've been grabbing our ankles for fifty fuckin' years, and everyone knows we're as useless as tits on a bishop.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 03:08 PM (oINRc)

Well, if one of our bishops has tits it's ok. After all, we hate the sin but love the sinner! Now, what they do with their tits is none of my business as let he who is without tits cast the first bra. Plus, I have bigger things to worry about like climate change and getting paid for bringing hoards of illegal invaders to your country.

Posted by: Pope Frankie The Breechloader at December 05, 2022 03:19 PM (0ZEfs)

315
Biden names "The View" panel to Supreme Court, McConnell reluctantly accepts.

Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2022 03:19 PM (j4U/Z)

316 Let it burn is a fun thing to say. And it may be inevitable anyway. Perhaps it is the only way to save it. But it isn't something fun to go through, even if necessary. Certainly not when you have children. I think most of us hope to avoid it.
Posted by: SH

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I have read what a lot of people said before the US Civil War or WWI. I suspect that the same could be said prior to the Spanish, French, or the breakup of Yugoslavia. The results of those situations should sober anyone jauntily wanting everything to burn. How many people are willing to sacrifice their children, parents, spouses, property, and themselves for something that might make Somalia look like a picnic.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:19 PM (bDjBG)

317 Yep there are billions of $$$$ laundered through that industry.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (uNylN)
***

Oh goodie! A new target to play on NukeMap!
Posted by: Diogenes

no horsing around.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 05, 2022 03:19 PM (DTZDT)

318 Does anybody remember Obama lifting a pen about the "invalid recess appointments"?

I never heard anything about it after the SCOTUS decided that they were invalid appointments.
Posted by: Axeman

Who appoints invalids?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:20 PM (9uCBG)

319 303 Putin never intended to roll through anything. The idea was a faux war which gives reason to moving massive amounts of cash and weapons from all countries to be used by the WEF.

It's theatre. Do you really believe Russia couldn't pound Ukraine into submission?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 03:17 PM (XtkZj)

Intriguing. I'd like to hear more on this.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2022 03:20 PM (H8QX8)

320 And you don't defeat something like the WEF with a standing army - there's no battlefield where you engage with WEF soldiers.

Antifa's made a cosplay show of protesting the WEF's annual meeting in Davos for years. What if they actually did something?

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2022 03:20 PM (ZGrMX)

321 Fvck fvck fvck...

Doomcock

Version of Indiana Jones Chronicles that is now streaming has erased all evidence of the elderly Indiana Jones appearing and narrating the show

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 05, 2022 03:20 PM (ymkqy)

322 Elon: Cool, I'll hire real reporters to work for Twitter. Better yet, I'll offer more money to stringers than legacy media and, well, you can negotiate with me about carrying stories I produce.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 05, 2022 03:20 PM (5pTK/)

323 Over objections from House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy,

House members observed McCarthy rolling over on his belly as he beat his little hands and feet on the floor.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 03:20 PM (dwYx+)

324 do we get cookies?

Yes, with elderberry wine.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2022 03:20 PM (2nxs6)

325
Oh goodie! A new target to play on NukeMap!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2022 03:17 PM

The only question left is air blast or ground burst?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2022 03:20 PM (enJYY)

326 So he's prioritizing Ukraine over America.

So in the US the Bitch is prioritizing "saving" Ukraine over saving America

And in Ukraine lil Z is throwing priests in jail. Cuz they are sooper sekret Russian agents you know.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2022 03:20 PM (ESjRY)

327

THAT'S the one. Have you seen the "foot long fibrous clots" they've pulled out of cadavers?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:17 PM (9uCBG)

That's just caused by stress from vaxx disinformation, silly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2022 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

328 You enjoy yourselves. It will be a lot of fun. I’m sure as soon as the election is over, your country will “improve” immediately. As for me, I’ll be home on that day, doing essentially the same thing as you, the only difference is, when I get finished masturbating, I’m going to have a little something to show for it folks.

Posted by: George Carlin at December 05, 2022 03:21 PM (J7SP/)

329 How in the fuck is Putin gonna "roll through western europe" when he can't even convincingly beat a bunch of room-temp-IQ slavs fucking around with surplus weapons they have no idea how to use?

They need to pick a world to live in. Is putin a ridiculous incompetent fuckup, or the Biggest Big Bad there is in the world today? He can't be both just so that the movie can happen.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (9UlRk)

I don't buy into the b.s. that Ukraine is winning or can ever win. It's all about money laundering so the creeps in congress can continue to enrich themselves.

Seems to me that Putin is running the show, and smartly. Time will tell, but if I had to place a bet, that's where I'd put it.

Not that I really care about that stuff in the long run. I'm focusing on my own back yard nowadays, like Dorothy in the WoO.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 05, 2022 03:21 PM (Mzdiz)

330 Not like journalists do any digging for stories other than reading Twitter all day. So I'm skeptical that journalism can even exist without Twitter.

So skeptical that this bill does anything regarding content in social media. Disfavored stories are already algorithmically disfavored. I think this is an attempt to find a way to force tech to pay media for content.

Not sure that media content is actually valuable to social networks though, so not sure all the political capital being expended here is worth it.

Posted by: Dave in Fla (there is no path to 270) at December 05, 2022 03:21 PM (KEwpY)

331 Go Galt. Prepare for the worst to protect your family. Refuse to submit or participate as much as possible. Quit supporting any person, business or organization that works against the constitutional republic and the American people.

Posted by: Delilah at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (FK1Jm)

Yep.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2022 03:21 PM (hgD8w)

332 Have you seen the "foot long fibrous clots" they've pulled out of cadavers?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:17 PM (9uCBG)
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Disinformation. Your agonizer, please?

Posted by: Legacy Media at December 05, 2022 03:22 PM (krQz2)

333 Can we declare War on Kentucky?

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2022 03:22 PM (eo2rU)

334 THAT'S the one. Have you seen the "foot long fibrous clots" they've pulled out of cadavers?
Posted by: rickb223
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Unfortunately, yes.

Posted by: SMH while cruising down the meme highway at December 05, 2022 03:22 PM (I+3SI)

335 I hate repeating what others here have said on many occasions, but we're not voting our way out of this.
Posted by: Halfhand at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (E5Zud)

Maybe there is no way out of this.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 05, 2022 03:19 PM (KbCG3)

America's Founder found a way out of the British Empire.

They didn't do it with speech or ballots.

Posted by: Methos at December 05, 2022 03:22 PM (kOpft)

336 The way Musk has been talking, I can see him hearing said terms and conditions and telling the MFM "bye, Felicia!".
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2022 03:02 PM (ZGrMX)

This is kind of how I look at this. He just turns Twitter into a media outlet with free-speech comments. There are probably several ways of getting around this pile of horseshit.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2022 03:22 PM (BdMk6)

337 Not like journalists do any digging for stories other than reading Twitter all day. So I'm skeptical that journalism can even exist without Twitter.

So skeptical that this bill does anything regarding content in social media. Disfavored stories are already algorithmically disfavored. I think this is an attempt to find a way to force tech to pay media for content.

Right. The media needs Twitter a lot more than Twitter needs the media at this point.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2022 03:22 PM (ZGrMX)

338 Elon flat out said the other day he thinks Twitter can replace legacy news media, because it updates much faster. I don't think he's gonna play along.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2022 03:10 PM (ZGrMX)

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A distributed amateur news aggregate service.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2022 03:23 PM (cMXNt)

339 Be the first to sign your son up in the Manhattan Grift Army!

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:23 PM (ssJXH)

340 THAT'S the one. Have you seen the "foot long fibrous clots" they've pulled out of cadavers?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:17 PM (9uCBG)

I was watching videos of those rubbery strings months ago.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 05, 2022 03:23 PM (Mzdiz)

341 Gonna' get me a big fat girl and we're going to lay up, eat and drink and watch this shit show all winter long.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 03:23 PM (dwYx+)

342 Senate conservatives on Wednesday sent a letter to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell

stern words incoming...!

"We believe it would be both imprudent, and a reflection of poor leadership, for Republicans to

boom.

Way to go, all four of you Senators who wrote the letter. We're saved

Posted by: Hands at December 05, 2022 03:23 PM (786Ro)

343 Don't forget. Covid was just the opening shot. Russia/Ukraine was round two.

There's more to come. Worldwide food/fuel shortages will kill way more than Covid and our government surprisingly will have slow feet to fix anything.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 03:23 PM (XtkZj)

344 Deferring repayment is actually the better way to go. They can defer forever at this rate. Forgiveness had a cap. Deferral does not. The loan is wiped away when you die. Why should we ever expect payments to resume.
Posted by: SH

There is an exception to wiped away when you die, NEVER consolidate student loan debt with a spouse. If held separately, it is cancelled for an individual if they die or are disabled permanently. If consolidated together, the remaining spouse is on the hook.

Same with those parental loans. NEVER take them out to finance education--never, never, never. Go to a cheaper school or military instead to pay for it instead of burdening parents or co-signers. Yutes with those loans have died and left parents on the hook for those debts.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:23 PM (bDjBG)

345 UniParty is Real (tm).

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 05, 2022 03:23 PM (7paKO)

346 I was watching videos of those rubbery strings months ago.
Posted by: Miley
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Yep, same here.

Posted by: SMH while cruising down the meme highway at December 05, 2022 03:23 PM (I+3SI)

347 335 I hate repeating what others here have said on many occasions, but we're not voting our way out of this.
Posted by: Halfhand at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (E5Zud)

Maybe there is no way out of this.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 05, 2022 03:19 PM (KbCG3)

America's Founder found a way out of the British Empire.

They didn't do it with speech or ballots.
Posted by: Methos at December 05, 2022 03:22 PM (kOpft)

We can all agree that it's a different world now, right? Factions and splinter cells notwithstanding, we're simply not going to rise up and overthrow the government.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 05, 2022 03:24 PM (KbCG3)

348 I have read what a lot of people said before the US Civil War or WWI. I suspect that the same could be said prior to the Spanish, French, or the breakup of Yugoslavia. The results of those situations should sober anyone jauntily wanting everything to burn. How many people are willing to sacrifice their children, parents, spouses, property, and themselves for something that might make Somalia look like a picnic.
Posted by: whig

No one wants it. We have just resigned ourselves to the fact that it is going to happen. Trying to stop it is what J6 did.

Seems to me they "sacrifice their children, parents, spouses, property, and themselves for something that might make Somalia look like a picnic."

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:24 PM (9uCBG)

349 THAT'S the one. Have you seen the "foot long fibrous clots" they've pulled out of cadavers?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:17 PM (9uCBG)
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They're not clots, per se. They are fibrous masses that fill the veins/arteries. The questions I have are:

Have these been sectioned and studied microscopically?

Do they actually have cells that contain genetic material?

If so, what is the analysis of that genetic matierial?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2022 03:24 PM (AuTCi)

350 Right. The media needs Twitter a lot more than Twitter needs the media at this point.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2022 03:22 PM (ZGrMX)
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Elon, to legacy media: I find your terms acceptable.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 05, 2022 03:24 PM (5pTK/)

351 334 THAT'S the one. Have you seen the "foot long fibrous clots" they've pulled out of cadavers?
Posted by: rickb223

I've avoided it because I got the "vax" .. The first 2 doses anyway.. If I knew now what I didn't then I never would have... My age and health made me do it... I am on blood thinners so I hope that will help

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2022 03:24 PM (bs+z0)

352 333 Can we declare War on Kentucky?
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Lets start with Philly and Atlanta and see how it goes.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:24 PM (ssJXH)

353 Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 03:13 PM (XtkZj)

That's the galaxy I've been roaming around in from jump. May not be exactly that, but anyone who doesn't realize we are on both sides of this thing is in for some rude awakening, if they ever awaken.

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2022 03:24 PM (nvPT6)

354 They need to pick a world to live in. Is putin a ridiculous incompetent fuckup, or the Biggest Big Bad there is in the world today? He can't be both just so that the movie can happen.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2022 03:16 PM (9UlRk)
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Democrat consumers regularly live in two worlds.

They live in one world where it's *terrible* to expose people to thuggery by public mention of their misdeeds, whether that thuggery comes or not, and the world where they snicker at Trump voters getting assaulted as they walk back to their cars.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 03:24 PM (krQz2)

355 If so, what is the analysis of that genetic matierial?
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Godzilla or Mothra. Take your choice.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:25 PM (ssJXH)

356 Trump should have went 3rd party as soon as he was betrayed Dec 2020, Mitch knew he went too far and started walking back... timing would have been the best in the past 100 years to go full tilt at a real 3rd party, or possibly smash the GOP to oblivion.
He was convinced to continue trying to turn the GOP instead... and they continue to stretch him along and slowly bleed him. Death by 1,000 cuts.

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at December 05, 2022 03:25 PM (53oGX)

357 >>Lets start with Philly and Atlanta and see how it goes.

We can't expect them to hand us McConnel's head when they sure for Peace, though.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2022 03:25 PM (eo2rU)

358 335 this is a very, very ugly option and every, and I mean every, last thing must be tried before this becomes an even remotely broached topic. Call me a wimp, simp, or whatever, but this is scary stuff. It’s all scary stuff.

Posted by: Piper at December 05, 2022 03:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

359 Still registered GOP, still vote GOP, but the last fundraising letter they sent me got sent back with no money and FIRE ROMNEY written across it in red sharpie

Posted by: hurricane567 at December 05, 2022 03:26 PM (ckm1a)

360 "THAT'S the one. Have you seen the "foot long fibrous clots" they've pulled out of cadavers?"

I stir-fry my crickets in the clots. Mmmm good.

Posted by: In Case Of Glass, Break gp at December 05, 2022 03:26 PM (24fqN)

361 Bull Moose Party anyone?

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:26 PM (ssJXH)

362
Antifa's made a cosplay show of protesting the WEF's annual meeting in Davos for years. What if they actually did something?

Davos has its own paramilitary security org.

If Antifa tried something it would look like the battle of Rourke's Drift

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2022 03:26 PM (ESjRY)

363 I asked my NPR-listening and NY Times-reading sister the other day what she thought of Elon Musk.

Oh, you mean the guy who's censoring and firing everybody?

Good Lord.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2022 03:26 PM (H8QX8)

364 Get rid of your foot long fibrous clots by eating this before going to bed!

(picture of some weird thing)

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2022 03:26 PM (UuD2k)

365 So I'm skeptical that journalism can even exist without ~~Twitter~~ "confidential sources".
Posted by: Dave in Fla (there is no path to 270) at December 05, 2022 03:21 PM (KEwpY)

FIXT

Posted by: golfman at December 05, 2022 03:26 PM (BLVc0)

366 When none of their priorities are your priorities then they aren't on your side.

I don't see the courts allowing this to stand. Cartels to halt the flow of information are about as unamerican as it gets, and it certainly does more than infringe 1A rights, it throws them on the ground and buggers them.

Posted by: Thatch at December 05, 2022 03:26 PM (A+k5G)

367 There's more to come. Worldwide food/fuel shortages will kill way more than Covid and our government surprisingly will have slow feet to fix anything.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Or will pretend nothing is happening.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 05, 2022 03:26 PM (DTZDT)

368 It's theatre. Do you really believe Russia couldn't pound Ukraine into submission?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 03:17 PM (XtkZj)

Intriguing. I'd like to hear more on this.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2022 03:20 PM (H8QX

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That's what I think too but Putin did it to fill Russia's coffers with oil revenue.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2022 03:26 PM (cMXNt)

369 Well at least we didn't make this turd MAJORITY leader.

Posted by: blaster at December 05, 2022 03:27 PM (pwExq)

370 McConnell is worse than Schumer. At least Schumer is honest about making the USA a fascist nation.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 05, 2022 03:27 PM (u4CEu)

371 357 >>Lets start with Philly and Atlanta and see how it goes.

We can't expect them to hand us McConnel's head when they sure for Peace, though.
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How hard is it to take a turtle's head?

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:27 PM (ssJXH)

372 They're attempting to excise *Twitter* from the world's consciousness and you think a third party is going to be allowed to get traction?

Posted by: ... at December 05, 2022 03:27 PM (nvPT6)

373 Same with those parental loans. NEVER take them out to finance education--never, never, never. Go to a cheaper school or military instead to pay for it instead of burdening parents or co-signers. Yutes with those loans have died and left parents on the hook for those debts.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:23 PM (bDjBG)
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My mom co-signed one of my student loans. Before she did, she made me sign a contract with her that, for the life of the loan, I would maintain life insurance at a level of at least 150% of the loan amount, with her as the beneficiary.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 03:28 PM (t0OGg)

374 America's Founder found a way out of the British Empire.

They didn't do it with speech or ballots.

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This may be best case option. Relatively speaking, the American Revolution was just a friendly divorce with some occasional battles.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at December 05, 2022 03:28 PM (sX1BW)

375 They're not clots, per se. They are fibrous masses that fill the veins/arteries. The questions I have are:

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2022 03:24 PM (AuTCi)
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They call out very clearly that "clots" normally appear in the veins only. These are appearing in arteries.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 03:28 PM (krQz2)

376
Oh, you mean the guy who's censoring and firing everybody?

The only area Elon is censoring is child porn.

But I guess most liberals don't like that idea...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2022 03:28 PM (ESjRY)

377 We can all agree that it's a different world now, right? Factions and splinter cells notwithstanding, we're simply not going to rise up and overthrow the government.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 05, 2022 03:24 PM (KbCG3)

Then we deserve to be enslaved or exterminated at their whimsy.

Posted by: Methos at December 05, 2022 03:28 PM (kOpft)

378 361 Bull Moose Party anyone?
Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:26 PM (ssJXH)

Third party... At least we will feel good when we are crushed

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2022 03:28 PM (bs+z0)

379 We're all gonna become beagles with eyes full of flies with our voice boxes cut out.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:28 PM (ssJXH)

380 How hard is it to take a turtle's head?
Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:27 PM (ssJXH)

turtle head: having to poo very badly

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 05, 2022 03:28 PM (UuD2k)

381 Seems to me that Putin is running the show, and smartly. Time will tell, but if I had to place a bet, that's where I'd put it.

Not that I really care about that stuff in the long run. I'm focusing on my own back yard nowadays, like Dorothy in the WoO.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
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I am afraid that Putin and his looters are about as competent as our elites from reading Russian sources on the debacle in Ukraine. It was simply a stupid idea to go to war over two economic basketcase provinces. France did something similar with its obsession with Alsace Lorraine to its sorrow after losing them to the Germans. The Arabs have been lamenting losing territory to Israel for decades and are just now realizing that they have ignored other enemies to their states.

Simply put, if your society is rotten and incompetent in believing what is not so; your leaders will be too.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:28 PM (bDjBG)

382 So, what happens when the NY TImes gets hit with a "cease and desist" when one of their "reporters" pulls a story from Twitter?

Does legacy media really want to go down this road?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 05, 2022 03:29 PM (5pTK/)

383 It's theatre. Do you really believe Russia couldn't pound Ukraine into submission?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 05, 2022 03:17 PM (XtkZj)

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It's not as simple as all that. Putin isn't the untouchable dictator everyone makes him out to be - he still has to consider public sentiment and his allies in government.

Russian law doesn't allow him to send unlimited amounts of troops onto foreign soil, hence his "Special Military Operation", much like George W. Bush's AUMF in 2001 allowed him to get his foot into Afghanistan and Iraq, and then use the sunk-cost fallacy to keep ramping up our commitment.

Once the LPR, DPR, Kherson and Zaporhizhia oblasts had their referendum to join Russia, NOW it's Russian soil, and he can call up as many reservists as he wants, as they're not technically being deployed abroad.

As far as their battlefield successes, they have now captured 20% of Ukraine's land mass, secured a land corridor to Crimea, as well as secured Crimea's water and power supply from the Dnieper river which Ukraine cut off in 2015. And they're also destroying Ukraine's military, which we built. That's not exactly an L.

Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at December 05, 2022 03:29 PM (8LP6B)

384 I don't buy into the b.s. that Ukraine is winning or can ever win. It's all about money laundering so the creeps in congress can continue to enrich themselves.

Seems to me that Putin is running the show, and smartly. Time will tell, but if I had to place a bet, that's where I'd put it.

Not that I really care about that stuff in the long run. I'm focusing on my own back yard nowadays, like Dorothy in the WoO.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 05, 2022 03:21 PM (Mzdiz)

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The media wouldn’t lie to us about that.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at December 05, 2022 03:29 PM (kLnfX)

385 >>How hard is it to take a turtle's head?

It would be wrong for us to do it.
But, his constituents have a unique standing. Doubly so if we start dropping bombs on Paducah.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2022 03:29 PM (eo2rU)

386 Btw, if I was a voter in Georgia, this shit would keep me home tomorrow.

What. is. the. point?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 05, 2022 03:29 PM (KbCG3)

387 At least Schumer is honest about making the USA a fascist nation.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 05, 2022 03:27 PM (u4CEu)
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You mean more obvious. Honest, he is not.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 03:29 PM (krQz2)

388 How hard would it be to cut all electricity to Philly? This is doable.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:29 PM (ssJXH)

389 Gotta love 80nothings still grasping on to the tendrils of power.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 05, 2022 03:30 PM (GukGU)

390 Now that everybody's blackpilled, time for the classic Jim Garrison cartoon:
https://tinyurl.com/yck9ve9a

Posted by: In Case Of Glass, Break gp at December 05, 2022 03:30 PM (24fqN)

391 356 Trump should have went 3rd party as soon as he was betrayed Dec 2020, Mitch knew he went too far and started walking back... timing would have been the best in the past 100 years to go full tilt at a real 3rd party, or possibly smash the GOP to oblivion.
He was convinced to continue trying to turn the GOP instead... and they continue to stretch him along and slowly bleed him. Death by 1,000 cuts.
Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at December 05, 2022 03:25 PM (53oGX)

Trump's biggest mistake indeed was not putting the GOP out of its misery. He still could do it, though, by either direct action or martyrdom, the latter of which is the only reason he hasn't been assassinated by the garbage tier police state. A peaceful, responsible separation or some deep structural reform along the lines of the Articles of Confederation would be nice but we are dealing with lunatics.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 05, 2022 03:30 PM (kJLpK)

392 Unconstitutional. Congress can't give legacy media the right to shut down everyone else's speech, its the same as doing it themselves.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA at December 05, 2022 03:30 PM (kfcYC)

393 I don't see the courts allowing this to stand.

It's 2022, almost 2023. Why does anyone still believe this?

Posted by: Hands at December 05, 2022 03:30 PM (786Ro)

394 and starting tomorrow 'mcconnell' and the others will start sending out emails telling you to donate so we can take back the senate in 2024.

the word judenrat comes to mind

Posted by: gnat's local 678 at December 05, 2022 03:30 PM (kFrCu)

395 It would be wrong for us to do it.
But, his constituents have a unique standing. Doubly so if we start dropping bombs on Paducah.
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They make good Bourbon in Kentucky. They make shit in Philly. Let's focus on the bad.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:30 PM (ssJXH)

396 Cutting the power to Filthadelphia would be funny.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 05, 2022 03:30 PM (DTZDT)

397
My mom co-signed one of my student loans. Before she did, she made me sign a contract with her that, for the life of the loan, I would maintain life insurance at a level of at least 150% of the loan amount, with her as the beneficiary.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2022 03:28 PM

That's one smart mom.

I never said my daughter couldn't ride on a motorcycle. I only insisted upon seeing that the driver of said motorcycle had two million dollars worth of insurance before she climbed aboard.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2022 03:31 PM (enJYY)

398 @386. THAT is the point.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 05, 2022 03:31 PM (GukGU)

399 Then we deserve to be enslaved or exterminated at their whimsy.
Posted by: Methos at December 05, 2022 03:28 PM (kOpft)

Put on your mask. Pay your taxes. Shut the fuck up.

Feels like we're already there.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 05, 2022 03:31 PM (KbCG3)

400 Relatively speaking, the American Revolution was just a friendly divorce with some occasional battles.
Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at December 05, 2022 03:28 PM (sX1BW)

It was pretty nasty and bloody.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2022 03:31 PM (H8QX8)

401 I don't see the courts allowing this to stand.

Its a tax

Posted by: John Roberts spanking it to his pictures from Epstein Island at December 05, 2022 03:31 PM (ESjRY)

402 Biden denies Florida emergency expanded Sheltering in Home Recovery FEMA funds

https://tinyurl.com/5n8wnxzt

Posted by: SMH while cruising down the meme highway at December 05, 2022 03:31 PM (I+3SI)

403 >>They make good Bourbon in Kentucky.

Spoils!

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2022 03:31 PM (eo2rU)

404 Unconstitutional. Congress can't give legacy media the right to shut down everyone else's speech, its the same as doing it themselves.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA

It's only unconstitutional when The Regime doesn't like it. Everything they want, is constitutional per se.

Posted by: Hands at December 05, 2022 03:31 PM (786Ro)

405 BTW. You're FrEndZ at News Corp, that is Foxnews and NY Post are all in on this scam.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2022 03:32 PM (pIKd9)

406 402 Biden denies Florida emergency expanded Sheltering in Home Recovery FEMA funds

https://tinyurl.com/5n8wnxzt
Posted by: SMH while cruising down the meme highway at December 05, 2022 03:31 PM (I+3SI)

Gotta save that money for Ukraine

Posted by: It's me donna at December 05, 2022 03:32 PM (bs+z0)

407 I'm done.

I'm out.

Let it all burn.

I am officially out.

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"The day the Chuy died ... and they were singing
Bye-Bye Miss American Lie"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 03:32 PM (Ca1yH)

408 I actually forgot that the Georgia runoff election is tomorrow. I guess I've already assumed Warnock will win it.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 05, 2022 03:32 PM (mnUzy)

409 385 >>How hard is it to take a turtle's head?

It would be wrong for us to do it.
But, his constituents have a unique standing. Doubly so if we start dropping bombs on Paducah.
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2022 03:29 PM (eo2rU)

McConnell could care less about the people of Kentucky whom he putatively "represents." He probably would encourage the bombing. The man is cashing out. A good guess is he lives a nice, comfortable life in Shanghai with Dog Chow.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 05, 2022 03:32 PM (kJLpK)

410 They call out very clearly that "clots" normally appear in the veins only. These are appearing in arteries.
Posted by: Axeman

Closest guess from unverified sources is that is some form of misfolded proteins like amyloid proteins accumulating as plaque.

The mechanisms by which the vaxx and Covid attack make it seem like it is the spike protein and the body's immune response to it that causes abnormal responses by attacking organs.

One explanation for the sudden death circumstance is silent covid and vaxx spike damage to internal organs leading to shutdown because the vaxx trained the immune system not to respond to the spike allowing it to flourish and reproduce in various organs to their detriment.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:32 PM (bDjBG)

411 They are already an oligarchy. I would think this flies in the face of anti-monopoly laws...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 05, 2022 03:32 PM (ynpvh)

412 I am afraid that Putin and his looters are about as competent as our elites from reading Russian sources on the debacle in Ukraine. It was simply a stupid idea to go to war over two economic basketcase provinces. France did something similar with its obsession with Alsace Lorraine to its sorrow after losing them to the Germans. The Arabs have been lamenting losing territory to Israel for decades and are just now realizing that they have ignored other enemies to their states.

Simply put, if your society is rotten and incompetent in believing what is not so; your leaders will be too.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:28 PM (bDjBG)

It's not primarily over the provinces, which as you note aren't that valuable. It is what they believe to be preemptive action to prevent NATO from using Ukraine to loop up into core Russian territory. Mutual misreading of intentions going on (though it doesn't help that the US was posturing at bringing Ukraine into NATO).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 05, 2022 03:32 PM (eYoxG)

413 " the stupid party" no, they were just never really on our side.

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2022 03:33 PM (yezA1)

414 Biden denies Florida emergency expanded Sheltering in Home Recovery FEMA funds

https://tinyurl.com/5n8wnxzt
Posted by: SMH while cruising down the meme highway at December 05, 2022 03:31 PM (I+3SI)

Of course he did. They must pay for re-electing DeSantis.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2022 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)

415 Unconstitutional. Congress can't give legacy media the right to shut down everyone else's speech, its the same as doing it themselves.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn DA

It's only unconstitutional when The Regime doesn't like it. Everything they want, is constitutional per se.
Posted by: Hands at December 05, 2022 03:31 PM (786Ro)

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"It's a tax!" -- Benedict Roberts

Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 03:33 PM (Ca1yH)

416 You know I am really growing to hate old people.

I mean, I adored my grandparents, but the old Silent Generation should just dry up and stop draining Medicare and Social Security

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 05, 2022 03:34 PM (GukGU)

417 Because he's (McConnell's) afraid that a Republican House won't fund Ukraine as lavishly as the Democrats would.

So he's prioritizing Ukraine over America.
-------------------------

He's doing his master's bidding.
China has a two pronged plan for the occupation of USA. 1. own us 2. starve us

War in Ukraine is part of China's plan to starve the free world. It also helps destabilize Russia which could be said their number 2 enemy.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 03:34 PM (dwYx+)

418 Trump's biggest mistake indeed was not putting the GOP out of its misery.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 05, 2022 03:30 PM (kJLpK)

His fatal conceit that he could change it, could re-shape it based on his success and schmoozing.

Sadly, he never tried to actively reform it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2022 03:34 PM (H8QX8)

419 Will the Japs save us?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 03:34 PM (dwYx+)

420 NYT writers are supposed to go on strike. How are we supposed to notice since their stories are written for them from govt sources anyway?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2022 03:34 PM (fs1hN)

421 "the old Silent Generation should just dry up and stop draining Medicare and Social Security"

I'm killing myself as fast as I can, hold your horses.

Posted by: In Case Of Glass, Break gp at December 05, 2022 03:34 PM (24fqN)

422 ALLOWING LEGACY MEDIA COMPANIES TO FORM MEDIA CARTEL WITH ANTI-TRUST EXEMPTION

At first I read that as "ANTI-TRUMP EXEMPTION"

tomayto tomahto

Posted by: Hands at December 05, 2022 03:34 PM (786Ro)

423 With Republicans like Mitch, who needs Democrats?

Posted by: Pooklord at December 05, 2022 03:34 PM (1agiE)

424 Will the Japs save us?

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Not if it comes down to penalty kicks.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at December 05, 2022 03:34 PM (sX1BW)

425 I don't see the courts allowing this to stand.
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1. A couple of Hawaiian judges uphold it.

2. The press and Washington come have a conversation with the Justices that they will be murdered and the press will publish stories against the "treacherous QAnon conspiracy that the Justices were murdered" which the free-lance press is not allowed to contradict.

3. It's the most Constitutional thing ever!

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 03:35 PM (krQz2)

426 Not like journalists do any digging for stories other than reading Twitter all day. So I'm skeptical that journalism can even exist without Twitter.

So skeptical that this bill does anything regarding content in social media. Disfavored stories are already algorithmically disfavored. I think this is an attempt to find a way to force tech to pay media for content.

Right. The media needs Twitter a lot more than Twitter needs the media at this point.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2022 03:22 PM (ZGrMX)

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So they're going to cede the entirety of Twitter's reach to Fox News and other new independent media?

Sounds like a fantastic plan. I'm excited to see it put into action.

Posted by: Random Internet Asshole at December 05, 2022 03:35 PM (8LP6B)

427 With Republicans like Mitch, who needs Democrats?

Posted by: Pooklord at December 05, 2022 03:34 PM (1agiE)
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Who has ever needed Democrats?

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 03:35 PM (krQz2)

428 I mean, I adored my grandparents, but the old Silent Generation should just dry up and stop draining Medicare and Social Security
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 05, 2022 03:34 PM (GukGU)

I have many who are clients. So many are just oblivious to what's going on. Hard to respect that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2022 03:36 PM (H8QX8)

429 Will the Japs save us?

/looks at cat girl anime

/looks at US

We'll get right on that round eyes.

Posted by: Japan at December 05, 2022 03:36 PM (ESjRY)

430 My mom co-signed one of my student loans. Before she did, she made me sign a contract with her that, for the life of the loan, I would maintain life insurance at a level of at least 150% of the loan amount, with her as the beneficiary.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

That works for some folks with a bit of luck but bad circumstances like disability can occur short of death that still require repayment on those parental loans. Plus, due to GOPe, they are very hard to discharge in bankruptcy for the borrower and the parent co signer.

Bad idea most generally as there are always other options usually involving cheaper schools.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:36 PM (bDjBG)

431 Good? I guess??

@NEWSMAX 20m

REAL ID UPDATE: Marking its third pandemic-related extension, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday it will push back the deadline for air passengers to use REAL ID.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2022 03:36 PM (IyrhE)

432 I don't get the flaming skull. This is not a surprise at all. Maybe a flaming turd would have been better.

Posted by: dantesed at December 05, 2022 03:36 PM (88xKn)

433 I expect Donald Trump and Elon Musk to be sent to prison in 2023

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2022 03:36 PM (yezA1)

434 mitch is 80 fucking years old. retire already, bitch.

If he retired today, the damage has already been done. This is muzzle over the (already strangled) free flow of information.

The Ministry of Proper Information Distribution, est. 2022

Posted by: DaisyB at December 05, 2022 03:36 PM (AbL8c)

435 So if a journalist is shot does that constitute insurrection?

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:36 PM (ssJXH)

436 I pray McConnell contracts ass cancer.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 05, 2022 03:36 PM (pb6ET)

437 the old Silent Generation should just dry up and stop draining Medicare and Social Security
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

dude, there is no lock box. it was already drained before it was put in.

Posted by: x at December 05, 2022 03:36 PM (ZC2go)

438 Will the Japs save us?

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Not if it comes down to penalty kicks.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at December 05, 2022 03:34 PM (sX1BW)

Too soon?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2022 03:37 PM (hgD8w)

439 The conservative position is now to defend this atrocity but fight tooth and nail to stop any further erosion of liberty.

Until the next time.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 05, 2022 03:37 PM (An9Yz)

440
I mean, I adored my grandparents, but the old Silent Generation should just dry up and stop draining Medicare and Social Security

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 05, 2022 03:34 PM

Thanks for naming the correct generation. 'Boomers' were too young to vote for or against Social Security when it was enacted. They *were* however the first generation to pay for the system from first paycheck to the very last.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2022 03:37 PM (enJYY)

441 Good? I guess??

@NEWSMAX 20m

REAL ID UPDATE: Marking its third pandemic-related extension, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday it will push back the deadline for air passengers to use REAL ID.

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We still have to take our shoes off though right?

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at December 05, 2022 03:37 PM (sX1BW)

442 Send whoever took out the NC substations to Philly.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 05, 2022 03:37 PM (2nxs6)

443 turtle head: having to poo very badly
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

I thought that was goose egging.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:37 PM (9uCBG)

444 I pray McConnell contracts ass cancer.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 05, 2022 03:36 PM (pb6ET)

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Yeah, well, that was cured recently. Beserker even had a most excellent rant about it, too.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 05, 2022 03:37 PM (5pTK/)

445 Despite all of this, one thing remains true: smoked salmon cream cheese on a toasted everything bagel is pretty tasty.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2022 03:37 PM (AuTCi)

446 "So if a journalist is shot does that constitute insurrection?"

That happens a lot in Russia, but nobody has surrected yet.

Posted by: In Case Of Glass, Break gp at December 05, 2022 03:37 PM (24fqN)

447 I only ask since I don't know..............
Is it AOK to link articles from here on ACE to Rumble & Truth Social?
Anyone?
Bueller?

Posted by: Katfish at December 05, 2022 03:37 PM (+Z2md)

448 We still have to take our shoes off though right?

And I still have to check your balls.

Ugh...I mean pat you down.

Posted by: Larry the creepy TSA agent at December 05, 2022 03:38 PM (ESjRY)

449
I thought that was goose egging.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:37 PM (9uCBG)

Etch-a-Sketch

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2022 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

450 What does Wash say in Serenity when he is playing around " Curse your inevitable betrayal !"

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2022 03:38 PM (yezA1)

451 Closest guess from unverified sources is that is some form of misfolded proteins like amyloid proteins accumulating as plaque.
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Karl Denninger's speculation is that they fucked up with the mRNA getting rewritten into DNA and convinced blood cells that they should be growing tendons instead of being blood cells.

Posted by: Methos at December 05, 2022 03:38 PM (kOpft)

452 "I'll continue fighting the ideological/cultural war, "

What make you think you have any better hope with that? The jackboots will be at your door if you even breathe wrong.

Posted by: SDN at December 05, 2022 03:38 PM (roWCJ)

453 Will the Japs save us?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman
.......

by nuking DC?

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2022 03:39 PM (v0R5T)

454 1. A couple of Hawaiian judges uphold it.

2. The press and Washington come have a conversation with the Justices that they will be murdered and the press will publish stories against the "treacherous QAnon conspiracy that the Justices were murdered" which the free-lance press is not allowed to contradict.

3. It's the most Constitutional thing ever!
Posted by: Axeman
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Easier for courts to say no than yes in such matters as Scotus does not even have to hear it but simply allow a court of appeals to uphold a district court injunction. The whole Hawaiian judge meme came from a judge in Hawaii blocking Trump from enforcing the plain letter of the law. Other district court judges allowed the enforcement to go forward like in Boston but were not reported.

I simply made a remark, not a prediction, that it will end up in the courts and it might not find favor with them depending on how the new Trump justices rule.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:39 PM (bDjBG)

455 The "Republican" party exists solely to provide the illusion that there is a "choice" between the two parties. There isn't. There is only one, permanent Government Party of, for, and by The Government.

Now go eet ze bugs peasants.

Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at December 05, 2022 03:39 PM (PWI4f)

456 451 At least we don't have Flood zombies.....yet

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2022 03:39 PM (yezA1)

457 If indeed a court strikes this down (trying to optimistic here) how long will it take and how much damage will happen in the meantime? By that point, as the HildeBeast said, "what difference does it make?

Posted by: Iris at December 05, 2022 03:39 PM (foa6+)

458 The case involved forgiveness, not deferring repayment. General forgiveness under the emergency act from 9/11 is not authorized, deferring payments is authorized under a statute. Neither have issues constitution wise as Congressional spending, borrowing, and taxing clauses are almost absolute (except when the Bill of Rights is involved).

I'm not clear on where the 9/11 point is drawn from. The point (I'm not making very well) is that drool bib wearing kiddie sniffer is ignoring existing contract law under the guise of 'emergency powers' invoked for an epidemic he has publicly stated is over and yet no one in congress has the stones to voice that, let alone bring it in front of the court. And even if they did, SCOTUS has generally shown itself to be weak and submissive to the other branches.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 05, 2022 03:39 PM (tBR6g)

459 How many times has Ace quit the Republican party and then dutifully backed pretty much whichever nominee the party puts up?

He just seems like a teen drama queen always saying, "I quit. I'm done," etc.

Posted by: Zerious at December 05, 2022 03:39 PM (8A3Oh)

460 408 I actually forgot that the Georgia runoff election is tomorrow. I guess I've already assumed Warnock will win it.
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 05, 2022 03:32 PM (mnUzy

Warnock has already been chosen by both parties' leadership. Of course he's going to win.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2022 03:39 PM (BdMk6)

461 442 Send whoever took out the NC substations to Philly.
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Obviously, these were the Proud Boys. New and improved goose stepping Legacy Media.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:39 PM (ssJXH)

462 The Japs are too busy sniffing used panties to save anyone.

Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 05, 2022 03:39 PM (mnUzy)

463 What does Wash say in Serenity when he is playing around " Curse your inevitable betrayal !"
Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2022 03:38 PM (yezA1)
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"Ah! Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 05, 2022 03:40 PM (AuTCi)

464 I have many who are clients. So many are just oblivious to what's going on. Hard to respect that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2022 03:36 PM (H8QX

I don't blame them too heavily. They are in their twilight years, and they have labored their entire working life under the same delusions that we have, except that we have the benefit of being plugged in to more and better information sources for longer.

It's hard to unlearn what you have "learned."

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2022 03:40 PM (hgD8w)

465 408 I actually forgot that the Georgia runoff election is tomorrow. I guess I've already assumed Warnock will win it.
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 05, 2022 03:32 PM (mnUzy)

If every member of Congress was replaced with a ghetto preacher, would we notice the difference? Aside from having better music, that is.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at December 05, 2022 03:40 PM (hdK5G)

466 Psssst.

1. You will own nothing
2. You will eat bugs
3. You'll be happy.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at December 05, 2022 03:40 PM (krQz2)

467 Outsurrection

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 05, 2022 03:40 PM (9UlRk)

468 My new default: vote against the Republican. Sure, the Democrats suck. But at least they're open about it.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2022 03:40 PM (TgBWG)

469 >Will the Japs save us?

Douglas MacArthur had less contempt for them then our leadership has for us.

Posted by: Bourbonchicken at December 05, 2022 03:40 PM (44ww/)

470 Yes " early voting" even for a runoff the fix is securely in.

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2022 03:40 PM (yezA1)

471 463 Right! Haven't watched it in years.

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2022 03:41 PM (yezA1)

472 Posted by: Zerious at December 05, 2022 03:39 PM (8A3Oh)
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Why is not nobody else's recollection, troll?

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 03:41 PM (krQz2)

473 Wake me when Ace starts supporting a splinter party or other third party. You want anything to change, then REALLY fight against the GOP.

Posted by: Zerious at December 05, 2022 03:41 PM (8A3Oh)

474 347 We can all agree that it's a different world now, right? Factions and splinter cells notwithstanding, we're simply not going to rise up and overthrow the government.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 05, 2022 03:24 PM (KbCG3)

We're a Smart Military Blog.

Surely at one point this means actually forming a Smart Military.

Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 03:41 PM (UnA8+)

475
Warnock and Walker each get 49% of the vote, yet polls show Warnock ahead by four points.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2022 03:41 PM (enJYY)

476 The Democrats need their Propaganda in the M.S. Media to Brainwash us all into voting for more Democrats

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 05, 2022 03:41 PM (FLiOE)

477 Nood I guess

Posted by: steevy at December 05, 2022 03:41 PM (yezA1)

478 Shit, the substation attacks are between Southern Pines and Laurinburg. I went to college in both these places. Must be the Lumbi Indians.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 05, 2022 03:42 PM (ssJXH)

479 Looking at the polling from GA, all the polls had Walker winning prior to the main election, now all the polls have Warnock winning.

So...if you believe it there are some number of people that were ok voting for Walker when they thought he'd be the 52nd to 54th R Senator, but don't want him as the 50th.

Posted by: Larry the creepy TSA agent at December 05, 2022 03:42 PM (ESjRY)

480 The Japs are too busy sniffing used panties to save anyone.
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 05, 2022 03:39 PM (mnUzy)

Concur.

While my genitals gently weep...

Posted by: Godzilla at December 05, 2022 03:42 PM (0ZEfs)

481 The "Republican" party exists solely to provide the illusion that there is a "choice" between the two parties. There isn't. There is only one, permanent Government Party of, for, and by The Government.
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That's been my thoughts when I started calling them the "Washington Generals", the paid patsies for the Harlem Globetrotters.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 03:42 PM (krQz2)

482 Thanks for naming the correct generation. 'Boomers' were too young to vote for or against Social Security when it was enacted. They *were* however the first generation to pay for the system from first paycheck to the very last.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2022 03:37 PM (enJYY)

Indeed.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2022 03:43 PM (BdMk6)

483 General Mitch ordered the shelling of our own positions!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2022 03:43 PM (fs1hN)

484 > mitch is 80 fucking years old. retire already, bitch.

I think he's sucking up every bit of graft he can before retiring next time, actually.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 03:43 PM (bW8dp)

485 But of course, we still need to send money.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2022 03:43 PM (TgBWG)

486 "I quit. I'm not a Republican anymore"

-- Ace, approximately a half dozen times (at least) over the last 10 years.

Posted by: Zerious at December 05, 2022 03:43 PM (8A3Oh)

487 > Warnock and Walker each get 49% of the vote, yet polls show Warnock ahead by four points.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2022 03:41 PM (enJYY)

It would help if Bitch and the Bois had actually sent Walker some money. Same with Kari Lake.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 03:44 PM (bW8dp)

488 And another door closes. I wonder where this hallway ends.

Posted by: creeper at December 05, 2022 03:44 PM (cTCuP)

489 Have these been sectioned and studied microscopically?
Do they actually have cells that contain genetic material?
If so, what is the analysis of that genetic matierial?
Posted by: Captain Obvious,

Dr. Drew has a podcast out that discusses these, and they are mostly ameloid. Here is the title to google is you want to watch:

"Foot-Long Blood Clots”From mRNA, Says Pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole"

No sections of the plaques that I recall, but lots of heart and brain tissues. John Campbell also discussed a German study of heart failures that showed sections of heart tissue with lots of evidence of damage.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 05, 2022 03:44 PM (r+Hib)

490 It's not primarily over the provinces, which as you note aren't that valuable. It is what they believe to be preemptive action to prevent NATO from using Ukraine to loop up into core Russian territory. Mutual misreading of intentions going on (though it doesn't help that the US was posturing at bringing Ukraine into NATO). Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

The initial incursion was because the Russians alleged mistreatment of their own plus ire in the overthrow of their client Ukrainian president. Essentially the whole Russian policy smacks of the 19th century rather than the 21st and instead of promoting civil society in Russia, Putin sought to build his foundation on oligarchs, resource extraction, and supporting mischief in the Mideast, Venezuela, etc. to promote high oil prices.

It is and was a foolish belief that Russia was a superpower rather than a decaying rentier state. So, Putin made a gamble that he could pull off what he did in Georgia and in 2014 with the seizure of Crimea and parts of the Donbass.

I think regardless of the final result, it will be a pyrrhic victory if any for both Ukraine and Russia along with the rest of the world.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:46 PM (bDjBG)

491 Warnock is counting the fraud votes to put him %4 ahesd

Posted by: Skip's phone at December 05, 2022 03:47 PM (iTmlc)

492 JCPA = Journalist Creation of Pravda Act.

Posted by: MartynWW at December 05, 2022 03:49 PM (Ur3df)

493 Warnock is counting the fraud votes to put him %4 ahesd
Posted by: Skip's phone at December 05, 2022 03:47 PM (iTmlc)
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Forget it, Skip, it's Democrat town.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 03:49 PM (krQz2)

494 482 Thanks for naming the correct generation. 'Boomers' were too young to vote for or against Social Security when it was enacted. They *were* however the first generation to pay for the system from first paycheck to the very last.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 05, 2022 03:37 PM (enJYY)

Indeed.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons

When you get into the war among the generations, no generation is safe from being thrashed by its succeeding generations and in turn tries to indict those generations as well.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:50 PM (bDjBG)

495 453 Will the Japs save us?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman
.......

by nuking DC?
Posted by: wth
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That was Henry Fonda's compromise with the Russians which, in that scenario, was stupid.
But today, a nuke limited to DC would be a blessing.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 03:50 PM (dwYx+)

496 Yutes with those loans have died and left parents on the hook for those debts.
Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:23 PM (bDjBG)

I decided a long time ago that I am only here on this Earth for my "yutes" - I would rather be burdened with their loans and their debts than them - after all, I forced them both to go.

I didn't take out very much in loans for their college educations because I could afford to pay for it, but what very little that is there is not for them to repay - I never had that growing up, I paid my way through college. But I spent a great deal of time paying for it rather than spending time on what college was for - it's a social status finishing school for young men and women - no trade is learned. You learn how to communicate and network. You will not learn a skill.

Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2022 03:51 PM (+Cgut)

497 I’m an old lady right now but I think that this song is more than priescent.

Good luck finding Don Mclane American Pie.

Posted by: Linda Sina at December 05, 2022 03:51 PM (Yrvb3)

498 Fas est hoste doceri:

And if you see anybody from that GOPe in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell Mitch he's not welcome anymore, anywhere.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2022 03:52 PM (TgBWG)

499 Can we ask the Brits to burn DC again? And this time do it thoroughly?

Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2022 03:53 PM (TgBWG)

500 What happened to "Congress shall pass no law.." they need to stay out of the speech regulation business.

Posted by: Sarahw at December 05, 2022 03:55 PM (g1vnC)

501 458 I'm not clear on where the 9/11 point is drawn from.

Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (HEROES) Act of 2003

There is no 'contract' law applying if one party decides that the other party does not owe what is paid. The debt is to the government and not to individual taxpayers. Since Frothingham, individuals have not been able to challenge federal spending decisions on the basis of being a taxpayer. Under the Flast exception, individual challenges are enabled for spending that violates the Bill of Rights. Student loan deferral does not but others may have standing to show the executive alone does not have a statutory or constitutional power to forgive it.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 03:55 PM (bDjBG)

502 Fully expect more of this and worse to happen before New Years. Dems know nothing will be repealed so all they gotta do is pass all their dream bills in the next few weeks.

Posted by: geoffb at December 05, 2022 03:56 PM (r//c2)

503 Your debt to the government is never full filled.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 03:57 PM (dwYx+)

504 There is no 'contract' law applying if one party decides that the other party does not owe what is paid.

The debt is to the government and not to individual taxpayers.

The only money the federal government has is individual taxpayer money. Anything they DON'T collect, affects us.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 03:58 PM (9uCBG)

505 I didn't take out very much in loans for their college educations because I could afford to pay for it, but what very little that is there is not for them to repay - I never had that growing up, I paid my way through college. But I spent a great deal of time paying for it rather than spending time on what college was for - it's a social status finishing school for young men and women - no trade is learned. You learn how to communicate and network. You will not learn a skill.
Posted by: Boswell

Depends on which colleges you go to and what major you do as to whether it is a finishing school.

There are better ways if a parent is bound to pay money for a kid's schooling which is a loan against assets rather than a family loan. Family loans are usually the worst of the bunch as far as legal protections versus std. loans.

And almost always, there are cheaper schools and opportunities around that provide an education with less debt than going to expensive schools and often the education at those schools is better than many of the premier schools in teaching one how to learn.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2022 04:02 PM (bDjBG)

506 And another door closes. I wonder where this hallway ends.
Posted by: creeper

One door opens and another door closes. One door opens and another door closes. One door opens and another door closes. One door opens and another door closes. One door opens and another door closes.

So much for my chocolate Advent Calendar. By my estimation, Christmas is Thursday.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 05, 2022 04:02 PM (9uCBG)

507 I join you with my blackpill. I have been a registered Republican since 1978 but no more. Time after time, the latte Republicans have sold us out, always with an excuse. In their little black hearts, they were thinking "who else ya gonna vote for?"

Well, no more. I may vote Republican if someone worthy is running but otherwise they get no further support from me, and I've contributed quite a bit to the GOP over the years. I'm changing my affiliation to Independent.

No more.

Posted by: Arnold at December 05, 2022 04:10 PM (cnZVb)

508 First I called Sen. McConnell to voice my displeasure and wish them Happy Holidays. Then I called Sen. John Thune and Sen John Barasso to voice my displeasure over JCPA and concern that Leader McConnell spends too much time in looney-tune land, kowtowing to Schumer and Pelosi to remain as Party Leader. Marxist Mitch needs to be replaced.

Posted by: william ferrin at December 05, 2022 04:15 PM (D9RrR)

509 They will rue the day when they choose to betray their constituents and pass a law to censor social media companies. I will not quit. I will not say I am done. I will annoy them until the cows come home. I have barely begun to make them justify their fascism.

Posted by: william ferrin at December 05, 2022 04:17 PM (D9RrR)

510 "I'm done.

I'm out.

Let it all burn.

I am officially out."

Welcome to the party. I unregistered to vote after 2020. My vote makes no difference in this shithole state and it doesn't matter who's in charge in DC.

Let it burn.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at December 05, 2022 04:26 PM (TU8Tj)

511 FYI to everyone, including Archer:

The Congress creatures are not dropping Dead from the death jab because they Exempted themselves from All of the mandates.

For some reason....

Oh by the way over 200 of them contacted America's Frontline doctors for hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin prescriptions on the down low, according to Dr Pierre Cory.

But just keep lining up in the stockyard, folks. Nothing to worry about!

Posted by: Beverly at December 05, 2022 04:34 PM (xeelq)

512 Bitterness notwithstanding, working for the enemy is hardly a solution. A third way is needed.

Posted by: Beverly at December 05, 2022 04:36 PM (xeelq)

513 I'm not a huge Trump fan, but it's a shame he didn't announce as third party. Whether or not he would win as 3P is less relevant than: would he have destroyed the GOPe? Probably. And it MUST BE DESTROYED if America is to survive.

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at December 05, 2022 04:57 PM (NX5U7)

514 Oh, hurry up everyone and get down to vote lest the will of the people be lost.

*UPDATE*

Fugetaboutit.

Posted by: Drider at December 05, 2022 05:08 PM (R/UH9)

515 The uniparty wins again.

Burn it all down or use the grid for target practise.

Posted by: Fred at December 05, 2022 05:54 PM (EcD5Y)

516 Anyone who hasn't seen it yet should go on Rumble and search for Zuckerberg telling his staff, his top people that is, in a leaked Zoom call to NOT get the covid shots because the mRNA will alter the DNA and "we don't yet know what the effects of that will be."

This was in late 2020. BEFORE the jabswere rolled out..

It's about a 15-second video so you should see it ... while you still can.

Posted by: Beverly at December 05, 2022 05:56 PM (xeelq)

517 The only answer is a movement to get repub voters to not vote in 2024. If 70% walk away, the establishment goes away and you start anew. Let the dems win. Force the next set of repubs to earn it.

Posted by: Mr B at December 05, 2022 06:08 PM (cTAmj)

518 Any Ukraine supporters left here? Are you happy khokhol Russian proxy war tools? I'll stick your nose in your idiotic fuckery till your dieing day.

Posted by: MikeN at December 05, 2022 06:13 PM (EGfE5)

519 I'm down the culture war Ace! It's a blast. I haven't missed Starbucks one day.

Posted by: Draki at December 05, 2022 08:22 PM (6Qsn1)

520 Here is Zuckerberg telling his staff to be careful about the covid jab:

https://tinyurl.com/2e9jy444

Posted by: Ju at December 05, 2022 08:35 PM (aTmM/)

521 Still cautious about desantis. Like what I have seen so far. Open to arguments about neocons and cons.inc influence.

2010 was last time I thought we could vote our way out of this.

45+ R voted should keep most guns safe. I literally can't think of any other reason to vote R.

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at December 05, 2022 09:10 PM (0SrVS)

522 A fairly large contingent of us former Republican base voters welcome you with open arms, Ace!
Granted, it is a bitter moment when you recognize that the political party you thought had your back (who asks you time and again to have their backs in elections), can't wait to multiply stab you in the back at the first chance . They are your enemy, even more so than Democrats. Let their party die. They deserve it!

Posted by: Tracy at December 05, 2022 09:18 PM (ias+u)

523 I know that McCarthy is against the JCPA, but conservative Congresscritters should tell him that this will cost him the Speaker job, as payback to McConnell.

One less McFailure in a key job.

Posted by: Occasional Commenter at December 05, 2022 09:45 PM (GXBIW)

524 "Because he's afraid that a Republican House won't fund Ukraine as lavishly as the Democrats would.

So he's prioritizing Ukraine over America."

Well, y'know, if the Republicans had shown any interest in WINNING THE WAR against the enemy that threatened to burn us all to cinders for more than 50 years, this might be a worthwhile argument.

Instead you keep trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

I can't say I'm fine with this - the media companies all need to burn to the ground, and they will, and this will delay the process a little - but if that is the price to be paid to make sure we, or Ukraine, or somebody, BREAKS RUSSIA, permanently - then, okay.

Russia, as a state, is something that is not capable of existing in a state of peace with its neighbors. It does not understand the idea of not attacking. It can't.

It has to be destroyed.

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