Lee Smith: The National Archives' Hyperpartisan Actions Regarding Classified Documents May Be Due to Their Major Donor, David Rubenstein, Being a Biden Ally and Gonzo Woke Leftist

At the center of the Biden document cover-up is the question of who blocked the National Archives and Records Administration from informing the U.S. public about the classified records found in the president's office in early November. The archives' general counsel told members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability that he couldn't divulge that information, but GOP House leadership concluded that only Attorney General Merrick Garland or Biden himself could have given those orders.
But there's a third powerful name in play, this one from outside of the government: David Rubenstein. Co-founder of the Washington, D.C.-based private equity firm the Carlyle Group, Rubenstein is one of the archives' most generous patrons. In 2013, the David M. Rubenstein Gallery at the National Archives was completed at a cost of $13.5 million. Rubenstein is also a major Biden ally. He has regularly hosted the Biden family at his Nantucket estate for Thanksgiving--in 2022, 2021, and 2014.
According to the chairman of the GOP-led House Oversight Committee James Comer, the archives' "inconsistent treatment of recovering classified records held by former President Trump and President Biden raises questions about political bias at the agency." And, indeed, under recently retired chief archivist David Ferreiro, the archives gladly joined forces with the Department of Justice-led anti-Trump campaign. As Trump's lawyers were negotiating last winter with archives officials over which documents constituted presidential records and which were personal, Ferreiro, his tenure winding down, struck his final blow for the resistance: He referred the former president to the DOJ for a criminal investigation that led to the FBI's August raid of Trump's Florida home.
For Americans wondering why, in contrast to its partisan activism last summer, the National Archives has suddenly gone silent during the Biden affair, Rubenstein's patronage may offer a clue. A spokesperson for Rubenstein said he played no role in this matter and a spokesperson from the National Archives responded that they have no comment.
Indeed, Biden's friend Rubenstein appears to exercise considerable influence over the staffing of senior personnel at the agency. Before Ferreiro was appointed by Barack Obama in 2009 to lead the National Archives, he was the university librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke University from 1996 to 2004, at the same time that Rubenstein was chair of the Duke Board of Trustees. The nominee to replace Ferreiro at the archives, Colleen Shogan, is also affiliated with Rubenstein. She is currently the director of the David M. Rubenstein Center at the White House Historical Center.
The National Archives is supposed to be above the political fray, an institution dedicated to preserving historical records. And indeed history is one of Rubenstein's passions. According to one profile focused on his funding of Washington, D.C., monuments and institutions, "Rubenstein has shaped the cultural landscape of the nation's capital perhaps more than any other private citizen in the past century." It seems that Rubenstein's historical mission is to turn U.S. institutions into platforms to promote contemporary progressive ideas. He donated $20 million to refurbish parts of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home in a makeover that recasts the founding father's legacy as an object lesson in systemic racism. Ibram X. Kendi's titles are available for purchase at the David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center, and the permanent David M. Rubenstein exhibit at the National Archives, "Records of Rights," focuses on America's disenfranchisement and mistreatment of minorities.

Like other top Biden allies, Rubenstein has long been bullish on the Chinese Communist Party. "China has a very bright economic outlook," Rubenstein told a Davos audience in 2022. "We will continue to invest there." A 2019 Wall Street Journal report showed that Rubenstein's Carlyle Group helped Beijing evade U.S. export controls to purchase satellites that help network People's Liberation Army troops, boost CCP propaganda broadcasts, and allow Chinese authorities to put down protests in Xinjiang, where the party has detained more than a million Muslims, mostly from the Turkic-speaking Uyghur population, in forced labor and reeducation camps.

As usual with Lee Smith, read the whole thing.

Posted by: Ace at 05:04 PM

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1 How TF does a government agency have donors??

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at February 10, 2023 05:04 PM (TIcXN)

2 Not surprised

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2023 05:04 PM (bs+z0)

3 First!

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 10, 2023 05:04 PM (eYoxG)

4 You know, at some point people are going to connect the same dots that Jesus Christ himself did. You can't ignore it forever.

Posted by: Laslof at February 10, 2023 05:05 PM (5exXP)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 10, 2023 05:05 PM (Zz0t1)

6 1 How TF does a government agency have donors??
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at February 10, 2023 05:04 PM (TIcXN)

Why does PBS need them?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:05 PM (zZu0s)

7 There's never any corruption in a Democrat White House. Ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 10, 2023 05:05 PM (Zz0t1)

8 Leftist bias in a government department? I shan’t believe it!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2023 05:06 PM (u73oe)

9 There is nothing as wonderful as hearing that someone with influence is a deep fan of the Chinese communist party. It fills me with delight to know that all the deaths, starvation, lies, murders, invasions, slaughter of civilians in sub-sahara Africa, poisoned animals and children, and traffic in human organs harvested from political prisoners are fully offset by the simple human value of, "At Least They Mean Well"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2023 05:06 PM (xhaym)

10 The horde scampers to a new thread.

Posted by: torabora at February 10, 2023 05:06 PM (FDUIz)

11 Why is the guy in charge of the national archives... you know what, nvm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:06 PM (zZu0s)

12 10 The horde scampers to a new thread.
Posted by: torabora at February 10, 2023 05:06 PM (FDUIz)

'scamper' is a fun word.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:07 PM (zZu0s)

13 Abolish The National Archives.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 10, 2023 05:07 PM (R/m4+)

14 I still think that the raid on Mar-A-Lago was ordered by the WH to the FBI, bypassing the DOJ. If a major Biden supporter has that much sway, it would explain how the WH knew about the fight between the archives and Trump, and perhaps why they chose to get involved.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2023 05:07 PM (wmDcS)

15 Fox has control of the hen house investigation on missing chickens

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2023 05:07 PM (xhxe8)

16 'scamper' is a fun word.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:07 PM (zZu0s)

Especially if it's puffy.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2023 05:08 PM (wmDcS)

17
'scamper' is a fun word.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:07 PM (zZu0s)

Tell us how you feel about 'moist.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 10, 2023 05:08 PM (Zz0t1)

18 Perhaps a couple of enterprising cops needs to stake out some event where David Rubenstein is attending and once he leaves, do a road side safety check.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2023 05:08 PM (anj39)

19 Why does PBS need them?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:05 PM (zZu0s)
****
What am I? Chopped liver?

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at February 10, 2023 05:08 PM (FDUIz)

20 16 'scamper' is a fun word.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:07 PM (zZu0s)

Especially if it's puffy.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2023 05:08 PM (wmDcS)

Ashley Judd's

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:08 PM (zZu0s)

21 You know.

It's interesting Hillary and her handling of classified information isn't being discussed at all.

Why are the Clintons getting a pass.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2023 05:09 PM (aTcwx)

22 'scamper' is a fun word.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

"Puffy scamper" is even funner!

Posted by: SFGoth at February 10, 2023 05:09 PM (KAi1n)

23 Whatever transpired they are going to have a tremendous lawsuit that us taxpayers are going to have to cover.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 10, 2023 05:09 PM (uNylN)

24 For Americans wondering why, in contrast to its partisan activism last summer, the National Archives has suddenly gone silent during the Biden affair, Rubenstein's patronage may offer a clue.

WTF does a government agency have a patron? That's like Disney sponsoring the FBI.

WTF?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2023 05:09 PM (SbJgO)

25 Why are the Clintons getting a pass.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Arkancide?

Posted by: SFGoth at February 10, 2023 05:09 PM (KAi1n)

26 Why does PBS need them?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:05 PM (zZu0s)
****
What am I? Chopped liver?
Posted by: Planned Parenthood at February 10, 2023 05:08 PM (FDUIz)
*****
What about me?

Posted by: Ukraine at February 10, 2023 05:09 PM (FDUIz)

27 So I just finished at the dentist. All good and the pearly whites are wondering if 2:09 is too early for day drinking?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2023 05:10 PM (anj39)

28 Why are the Clintons getting a pass.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2023 05:09 PM (aTcwx)

Gosh, darn. Would you believe that we let the statute of limitations run out on that?

Oh, well. We promise not to do that again.

Posted by: DOJ at February 10, 2023 05:10 PM (Y5qcH)

29 Barky staying low and out of sight in all these document hunts. And probably more than all of them by a long shot.

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2023 05:10 PM (xhxe8)

30 Why are the Clintons getting a pass.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2023 05:09 PM (aTcwx)

Because they are spent as a political force. Hillary may make some money speaking to groups of post-menopausal women, but the vast sums flowing into the Clinton Foundation have dried up as it's clear that they're never getting back into power.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2023 05:10 PM (wmDcS)

31 WTF does a government agency have a patron? That's like Disney sponsoring the FBI.

WTF?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2023 05:09 PM (SbJgO)
****
On it. Thanks

Posted by: Director Wray at February 10, 2023 05:11 PM (FDUIz)

32 'scamper' is a fun word.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

"Puffy scamper" is even funner!
Posted by: SFGoth

But a moist puffy scamper is where it's at.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2023 05:11 PM (SbJgO)

33 What about me?
Posted by: Ukraine at February 10, 2023 05:09 PM (FDUIz)

*checks pack of cigarettes*

Look dude, I appreciate the help in me cutting back, but I'd like to smoke at least half of the pack!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:11 PM (zZu0s)

34 Rubinstein and his ex-, wife IIRC are responsible for the ranked voting and other electoral crap in Alaska. If I'm wrong Alaska Horde please advise. I think he's also responsible for the woke at several historic sites

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 10, 2023 05:11 PM (StQQf)

35 Life in the Blue Zones:

Oakland baker Jen Angel dies of injuries sustained during attempted robbery

Angel’s family and friends noted her history as an activist opposed to “putting public resources into policing, incarceration, or other state violence that perpetuates the cycles of violence that resulted in this tragedy.”

Translation: the murderers shouldn't be imprisoned. At most, they should be subjected to the fraud referred to as "restorative justice".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 10, 2023 05:11 PM (1KEI6)

36 Let's see if I'm doing this right...

willowed: "the earliest version of Mickey Mouse comes out of Copyright next January"

Well, that explains the art style in the newest Disney video game that Nintendo just released a trailer of the other day.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 10, 2023 05:12 PM (k2o2s)

37 A smidgeon if you can keep it.

I was wrong about Joey being in crash mode. Lula the Brazilian commie thug now illegitimate President came to see shitshow Joe.

How are they doing this wonder of better living through chemistry?

Posted by: micky at February 10, 2023 05:12 PM (3byMq)

38 *cackling*

Posted by: Hildabeast at February 10, 2023 05:12 PM (FDUIz)

39 Pack your bags and get out.

Or stick around for the camps and hope they give you internet access.

Posted by: The Pilgrims at February 10, 2023 05:12 PM (vUNbA)

40 I am sure this guy is on at least one person's Pear List

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2023 05:13 PM (0hOvj)

41 Willowed:

F-22s and Sidewinder missiles are not fucking cheap.

Point of order. It was not a Sidewinder. Sidewinder's are infra-red guided, and the last time I checked helium balloons have very low heat signatures to track. The F-22 used an Aim-9X which is radar guided.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at February 10, 2023 05:13 PM (CecP5)

42 WTF does a government agency have a patron? That's like Disney sponsoring the FBI.

It's no different than the Smithsonian Institution, which receives both Federal funding and private donations.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2023 05:13 PM (wmDcS)

43 Scampering Horde was the working title for Our Gang. I mean it. I'm serious. Not a joke.

Posted by: My word as a Biden at February 10, 2023 05:13 PM (DhOHl)

44 Pack your bags and get out.

Or stick around for the camps and hope they give you internet access.
Posted by: The Pilgrims at February 10, 2023 05:12 PM (vUNbA)

—————

Ok, where ya headed?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2023 05:13 PM (u73oe)

45 Why are the Clintons getting a pass.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2023 05:09 PM (aTcwx)

Oh! I know a fun game!
Lets let it be known throughout social media that David Rubenstein MAY have evidence that COULD lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.
Let's see if anyone notices!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2023 05:13 PM (anj39)

46 44 Pack your bags and get out.

Or stick around for the camps and hope they give you internet access.
Posted by: The Pilgrims at February 10, 2023 05:12 PM (vUNbA)

—————

Ok, where ya headed?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2023 05:13 PM (u73oe)

Latveria!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:14 PM (zZu0s)

47

After reading Lee Smith's article, all I can say is, "and we're worried about the Chi-Coms???!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2023 05:15 PM (x0n13)

48 I was wrong about Joey being in crash mode. Lula the Brazilian commie thug now illegitimate President came to see shitshow Joe.

The hilarious thing is that Lula is completely and unabashedly pro-Putin. I hope someone asks him about that during his visit.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 10, 2023 05:15 PM (1KEI6)

49 I just can't get myself to link to that Luca song.

There is a song about Luca Brasi???

They remade the Godfather into a musical??

Posted by: Archer at February 10, 2023 05:15 PM (gmo/4)

50 Doctor Doom is the kind of high powered executive all freedom thinking people need!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:15 PM (zZu0s)

51 Ok, where ya headed?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at

We'll start east. And stay liquid in case we need to move again.

Posted by: The Pilgrims at February 10, 2023 05:15 PM (vUNbA)

52 Latveria!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:14 PM (zZu0s)

——————-

Or Lavernia, the land of milk and Pepsi.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2023 05:15 PM (u73oe)

53 it's clear that they're never getting back into power.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

Sounds like a Taylor Swift song.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 10, 2023 05:16 PM (KAi1n)

54 After reading Lee Smith's article, all I can say is, "and we're worried about the Chi-Coms???!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2023 05:15 PM (x0n13)

I wonder if it is all smoke and mirrors or if at the same time, they foresee a possible Taiwan invasion as the Ukraine boondoggle on steroids.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:16 PM (zZu0s)

55 Just another straight shooter, ham & egger federal employee with no political axe to grind.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 10, 2023 05:17 PM (17s+e)

56 When will this house of cards fall?

Posted by: redridinghood at February 10, 2023 05:17 PM (NpAcC)

57 24 Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2023 05:09 PM (SbJgO)

Like a lot of things the Repubican party had a pretty good idea that was passed into law as a 1/2 good idea then was so lazy in watching its execution the mules took it over time to a wholly bad idea.

The national museum system and archives both developed since the 70s a relationship with corporate interests to defray some costs. It started with the service museums and crept slowly to the national parks and archives in an effort to spare the taxpayers and defray costs. The thing is DEI type businesses demanded and got a lot more political influence than the "military industrial complex" at its worst.

The modern era business mogul has every vice attributed to the robber barons with none of the redemptive impulses.

Posted by: sven at February 10, 2023 05:17 PM (Lzpvj)

58 Doctor Doom is the kind of high powered executive all freedom thinking people need!

At least he loved Latervia and protected it. His people liked him a lot better than the dictator that preceded him.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2023 05:17 PM (0hOvj)

59 Motherfuckinghamsterfucker, please don't start taking your clothes off until AFTER I've left The room.

What is wrong with people?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2023 05:18 PM (Pr3nO)

60 >>WTF does a government agency have a patron? That's like Disney sponsoring the FBI.

That's a very good question.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2023 05:18 PM (ZLI7S)

61 Charles Mansion likes race wars too.
The elite use their citizens in human cockfights.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 10, 2023 05:18 PM (X/zGT)

62 Motherfuckinghamsterfucker, please don't start taking your clothes off until AFTER I've left The room.

*sheepishly puts his socks back on*

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2023 05:18 PM (0hOvj)

63 Staying liquid?
*hic*

Posted by: Former First Lady at February 10, 2023 05:19 PM (DhOHl)

64 59 Motherfuckinghamsterfucker, please don't start taking your clothes off until AFTER I've left The room.

What is wrong with people?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2023 05:18 PM (Pr3nO)

I have this problem all the time. Except the women don't know I'm there.

Posted by: DOJ at February 10, 2023 05:19 PM (UuD2k)

65 Oakland baker Jen Angel dies of injuries sustained during attempted robbery
===

It moved!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 10, 2023 05:19 PM (17s+e)

66 49 I just can't get myself to link to that Luca song.

There is a song about Luca Brasi???

They remade the Godfather into a musical??
Posted by: Archer at February 10, 2023 05:15 PM (gmo/4)

Suzanne Vega, 1987

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2023 05:19 PM (x0n13)

67 He donated $20 million to refurbish parts of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home in a makeover that recasts the founding father's legacy as an object lesson in systemic racism.
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Hmmm. Nothing like taking the home of one of the greatest Founding Fathers (despite his flaws, as all men are flawed) and turning it into a monument to Leftism.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2023 05:19 PM (YIVH2)

68 Just when you think they can't go any lower..

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2023 05:19 PM (bs+z0)

69 The National Archives is supposed to be above the political fray
-----------

LMAO anyone who believed this about anything 10 years ago was hopelessly naive.

Anyone who believes it now is in Terry Schiavoville.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2023 05:20 PM (BYhW/)

70 61 Charles Mansion likes race wars too.
The elite use their citizens in human cockfights.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 10, 2023 05:18 PM (X/zGT)

Manson/Manchin '24! Mansions of Glory!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2023 05:20 PM (x0n13)

71 So if Joey Choo-Choos address was the second lowest in decades, what was the lowest?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:20 PM (zZu0s)

72 Motherfuckinghamsterfucker, please don't start taking your clothes off until AFTER I've left The room.

What is wrong with people?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2023 05:18 PM (Pr3nO)

————

Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2023 05:20 PM (u73oe)

73 She could be my running mate.

Posted by: John Fetterman at February 10, 2023 05:20 PM (UuD2k)

74 Could be. May be.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 10, 2023 05:20 PM (lEVn+)

75 67 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2023 05:19 PM (YIVH2)

It is fitting to a degree given "jefferson" the Optimus Prime of the democrats...

if you were looking for the living embodiment of the schizophrenia of the left you could do worse than look at TJ.

Posted by: sven at February 10, 2023 05:21 PM (Lzpvj)

76 Carlyle Group again!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2023 05:21 PM (63Dwl)

77 So if Joey Choo-Choos address was the second lowest in decades, what was the lowest?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:20 PM (zZu0s)
===

Based on percentage of population Joey Shitshispants was 30% lower than whoever it was.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 10, 2023 05:22 PM (17s+e)

78 It is fitting to a degree given "jefferson" the Optimus Prime of the democrats...

if you were looking for the living embodiment of the schizophrenia of the left you could do worse than look at TJ.
Posted by: sven at February 10, 2023 05:21 PM (Lzpvj)

Eh, one- he's not living.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:22 PM (zZu0s)

79 I think it was James K. Polk.

Nobody really liked that guy.

Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at February 10, 2023 05:22 PM (vcOmj)

80 There is no agency, department, bureau, office, service, administration, or board of the federal government that is not now a wholly partisan leftist shitshow.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 10, 2023 05:22 PM (S7une)

81 79 I think it was James K. Polk.

Nobody really liked that guy.
Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at February 10, 2023 05:22 PM (vcOmj)

He actually delivered on his four main campaign promises.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

82 Nobody really liked that guy.

"Hey, we put him on a 1 dollar coin once!"
--US Mint

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2023 05:23 PM (0hOvj)

83 Bongino makes a very strong case that all of this crap, from Russia, Russia, Russia, to Mueller, to the impeachments, to the stolen 2020 election, to Nordstream, etc, is the same small group of conspirators who couldn't have Trump in office because he was going after their graft piggy bank in Ukraine, and they were afraid of going to prison.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at February 10, 2023 05:23 PM (CecP5)

84 78 Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:22 PM (zZu0s)

Forgive me it is the history guy in me. TJ was a little too in love with the worst aspects of the French revolutiuonary experience. Perversely in my opinion given his addiction to chattel slavery.

Posted by: sven at February 10, 2023 05:24 PM (Lzpvj)

85 Anyway, they've been found out and I'm sure everything will change at the National Archives now.

Whew.

Good thing we didn't have to endure mass firings there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 10, 2023 05:24 PM (lEVn+)

86 WTF does a government agency have a patron? That's like Disney sponsoring the FBI.

That's a very good question.
Posted by: JackStraw

More and more, we begin to resemble Rome after the end of the Republic and the times under the Julian emperors, or Caesars, as they were called.

Tiberius Joe Biden will give rise to Hunter Caligula.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at February 10, 2023 05:24 PM (vcOmj)

87 Loaded Aim -9s long ago in a galaxy far far away ( it seems anyway)
But looking at two sites seems a Aim-9x is still heat seaking.
Suspected when the Chinese Spy Balloon was shot down a Aim-9 would lock onto a Balloon array being metal and in the sun.
A Balloon isn't going to pick up radar but the array would.
Just a guess

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2023 05:25 PM (xhxe8)

88 81 79 I think it was James K. Polk.

Nobody really liked that guy.
Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at February 10, 2023 05:22 PM (vcOmj)

He actually delivered on his four main campaign promises.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

The dark horse delivered.

That was back when Presidents only served one term, out of tradition and fear of executive power consolidation.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 10, 2023 05:25 PM (lEVn+)

89 In the days after this scandal broke I was asking why the National Archives was mum. Seemed "odd".

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2023 05:25 PM (BYhW/)

90 WTF does a government agency have a patron? That's like Disney sponsoring the FBI.

Wait until you find out about all the government employee positions financed by leftists, including prosecutors.

https://tinyurl.com/bdw32bw3

Horner discovered that the “special assistant attorneys general” were placed at least in Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Washington, and the District of Columbia and that Pennsylvania and New Mexico thought about getting one but never completed their applications. The “special assistant” duties could encompass far more than litigation; the state of New York, applying for two attorneys, said among the tasks these attorneys could pursue were “opposing the Scott Pruitt nomination as EPA administrator, advocating the United States remain in the Paris climate accord.”

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 10, 2023 05:25 PM (1KEI6)

91 Forgive me it is the history guy in me. TJ was a little too in love with the worst aspects of the French revolutiuonary experience. Perversely in my opinion given his addiction to chattel slavery.
Posted by: sven at February 10, 2023 05:24 PM (Lzpvj)

Eh, fair. He was always one of the more leftist of the founders, but that is a weak charge to a very strong group.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:26 PM (zZu0s)

92 Wait until Joepedo gets a sniff of Lula's wife.

Posted by: torabora at February 10, 2023 05:26 PM (FDUIz)

93 As usual with Lee Smith, read the whole thing.

Posted by: Ace at 05:04 PM

This.

Posted by: Golfman at February 10, 2023 05:26 PM (BLVc0)

94 32 'scamper' is a fun word.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

"Puffy scamper" is even funner!
Posted by: SFGoth

But a moist puffy scamper is where it's at.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2023 05:11 PM (SbJgO)
----
You didn't work 'bustle' into the topic.

Posted by: Ciampino - hedgerows you know at February 10, 2023 05:26 PM (qfLjt)

95 After that terrible State of Confusion speech they sure have let joe loose... I'd think they would put him back in the basement but he's all over the place.. Literally... Slur and gaffe after slur and gaffe...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2023 05:26 PM (bs+z0)

96 I just can't get myself to link to that Luca song.

There is a song about Luca Brasi???

They remade the Godfather into a musical??
Posted by: Archer at February 10, 2023 05:15 PM (gmo/4)

Suzanne Vega, 1987
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2023 05:19 PM (x0n13)

She lives on the second floor.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 10, 2023 05:26 PM (lEVn+)

97 The Carlyle group...recall seeing there name on some PBS stuff in credits as I've channel surfed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 05:26 PM (ynpvh)

98 I thought this post was about the National Archives & the Smithsonian getting sued because the prolife kids were told to take off their hats and cover their shirts or get out

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2023 05:26 PM (fUnHJ)

99 79 Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at February 10, 2023 05:22 PM (vcOmj)

Polk was an Andy Jackson donkey groomsman basically.

I think George Washington had their number the best when he said wryly when confronted by Jefferson's feigned shock at the scandal he was feeding at the time with calumnies trying to declaim he was spending his mental energies on perfecting a manure spreder for a patent that that was the greatest testament to his intellect and industry.

Posted by: sven at February 10, 2023 05:26 PM (Lzpvj)

100 F'in Carlyle Group. We used to represent them. I have nothing else to say.

Posted by: LASue at February 10, 2023 05:27 PM (Ed8Zd)

101 Posted by: The Pilgrims at February 10, 2023 05:12 PM (vUNbA)

"The" Pilgrims? Speak for yourself, John.

Posted by: Priscilla Mullins at February 10, 2023 05:27 PM (D+F6R)

102 25 Why are the Clintons getting a pass.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Arkancide?
Posted by: SFGoth at February 10, 2023 05:09 PM (KAi1n)

CIA sponsorship?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 10, 2023 05:27 PM (lEVn+)

103 94 32 'scamper' is a fun word.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

"Puffy scamper" is even funner!
Posted by: SFGoth

But a moist puffy scamper is where it's at.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2023 05:11 PM (SbJgO)
----
You didn't work 'bustle' into the topic.

Posted by: Ciampino - hedgerows you know at February 10, 2023 05:26 PM (qfLjt)

I think there's on in the hedgerow.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 05:28 PM (ynpvh)

104 @81 He actually delivered on his four main campaign promises.

When you start gauging presidents by means other than those voted on in high school yearbooks, you come up with a whole different list of "greatests."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 10, 2023 05:28 PM (jYCXf)

105 > 1 How TF does a government agency have donors??

Wow, I had the same exact question? Does anybody know WTF?

Posted by: Spamf Roming at February 10, 2023 05:29 PM (Ntfez)

106 Did someone say heat seeking?

Posted by: BJ Clinton at February 10, 2023 05:32 PM (DhOHl)

107 48 I was wrong about Joey being in crash mode. Lula the Brazilian commie thug now illegitimate President came to see shitshow Joe.

The hilarious thing is that Lula is completely and unabashedly pro-Putin. I hope someone asks him about that during his visit.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 10, 2023 05:15 PM (1KEI6)

Funny. That was the knock on Marine Le Pen, as well.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 10, 2023 05:32 PM (/iWhV)

108 This Rubenstein fellow sure likes naming things after himself.

Posted by: Woke Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team at February 10, 2023 05:32 PM (ssESX)

109 You didn't work 'bustle' into the topic.

Posted by: Ciampino - hedgerows you know at February 10, 2023 05:26 PM (qfLjt)

Tanks have bustles.
Just saying.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2023 05:32 PM (anj39)

110 I think it was James K. Polk.

Nobody really liked that guy.
Posted by: Abraham Lincoln at February 10, 2023 05:22 PM (vcOmj

Don't believe it. The national tv ratings methodology was a joke back in those days.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 10, 2023 05:33 PM (BdMk6)

111 IDK. I can start to see the appeal of Anarchy versus Tyranny.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 10, 2023 05:33 PM (TXFi7)

112 Put on this gown she says. So I do. Then she calls me a motherfuckinghamsterfucker. Jeez. Also, I’m a sea otter so I’m not into chicks.

Posted by: A Sea Otter at February 10, 2023 05:33 PM (u73oe)

113 You didn't work 'bustle' into the topic.

Posted by: Ciampino - hedgerows you know at February 10, 2023 05:26 PM (qfLjt)

I think there's on in the hedgerow.

Should I be alarmed now?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 10, 2023 05:33 PM (Bd6X8)

114 When you start gauging presidents by means other than those voted on in high school yearbooks, you come up with a whole different list of "greatests."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 10, 2023 05:28 PM (jYCXf)

-------

Another reason we know Trump won in 2020 is because most people vote for the candidate with the best hair.

/

Posted by: ShainS -- I'm a Freeborn Man of the USA at February 10, 2023 05:34 PM (SDZJm)

115 >>> He donated $20 million to refurbish parts of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home in a makeover that recasts the founding father's legacy as an object lesson in systemic racism.

>Couldn't they just hire actual slaves to augment their exhibitions? There's something to be said for progressive, woke authenticity.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2023 05:34 PM (Jg7EG)

116 Yeah, and owning the Magna Carta, among other historical documents, and keeping it/them in his named gallery in the National Archives.

Posted by: Lola at February 10, 2023 05:34 PM (Wxlzw)

117 Don't make me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2023 05:34 PM (zbJ2L)

118 Woohoo!
Another shoot down of objects over Alaska.
I will sleep well tonight knowing that sleepy Joe is an ass-kicking warrior president.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2023 05:35 PM (anj39)

119 Yeah, but they weren't slave slaves.

Posted by: TJ at February 10, 2023 05:35 PM (DhOHl)

120 I hold hands with my bros, you see!

Posted by: A Sea Otter at February 10, 2023 05:35 PM (u73oe)

121 Don't make me.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2023 05:34 PM (zbJ2L)

Oooooooo......
Someone is in trouble!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2023 05:36 PM (anj39)

122 @76

>>Carlyle Group again!

Hey a certain Governor was the CEO of the Carlyle Group.

Hmm...

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2023 05:36 PM (up/3i)

123 Posted by: The Pilgrims at February 10, 2023 05:12 PM (vUNbA)

Now, just a minute, Pilgrim. What's the internet?

Posted by: Tom Doniphon at February 10, 2023 05:36 PM (D+F6R)

124 The Rubenstein family, generations ago, was implicated in the Lincoln assassination plot. David has made it his life's work to find the invisible ink map rumored to be on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Thought you'd all have seen this one.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 10, 2023 05:37 PM (jYCXf)

125 If you're a tycoon, I'm sure no one delivers the goods like the Chicoms.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 10, 2023 05:37 PM (CbT7b)

126 Wait... the National Archive takes donations? WTF?

It's going to hold a LOT of classified material, what the hell is ANY outside entity having ANYTHING to do with it?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2023 05:38 PM (oHd/0)

127
Maybe it's time Ace followed the utility companies and instituted 'peak hour' commenting charges. Keep the west coast riff-raft out of the picture until the ONT.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2023 05:39 PM (enJYY)

128 *Swims out of range*

Posted by: A Sea Otter at February 10, 2023 05:39 PM (u73oe)

129 123 Posted by: The Pilgrims at February 10, 2023 05:12 PM (vUNbA)

Now, just a minute, Pilgrim. What's the internet?
Posted by: Tom Doniphon at February 10, 2023 05:36 PM (D+F6R)

You get the fish to jump in ter Net!

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2023 05:39 PM (oHd/0)

130 So... they still dumping Joe and Kamala? Should be any day now...

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2023 05:40 PM (BYhW/)

131 That link is a good read.

Posted by: Skip at February 10, 2023 05:40 PM (xhxe8)

132 It's not in the contract.

Posted by: Unified Brotherhood of Filthy Rich Tycoons local #309 at February 10, 2023 05:40 PM (DhOHl)

133 Saw someone posted about R. Crumb on the last thread.

His illustrated Book of Genesis is excellent, and makes the arcane text come to life.

Also suits his smutty drawing style.

Posted by: Regular joe at February 10, 2023 05:41 PM (nnp+f)

134 9 There is nothing as wonderful as hearing that someone with influence is a deep fan of the Chinese communist party. It fills me with delight to know that all the deaths, starvation, lies, murders, invasions, slaughter of civilians in sub-sahara Africa, poisoned animals and children, and traffic in human organs harvested from political prisoners are fully offset by the simple human value of, "At Least They Mean Well"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2023 05:06 PM (xhaym)

This is about us, right?

Posted by: 99.9 percent of the US Media at February 10, 2023 05:41 PM (AMIL/)

135 129 123 Posted by: The Pilgrims at February 10, 2023 05:12 PM (vUNbA)

Now, just a minute, Pilgrim. What's the internet?
Posted by: Tom Doniphon at February 10, 2023 05:36 PM (D+F6R)

You get the fish to jump in ter Net!

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2023 05:39 PM (oHd/0)

Reminds me of the 3600 year-old Pharoah joke from Egypt:
"How do you entertain a bored pharaoh?

"You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 05:42 PM (ynpvh)

136 sea otter, just be careful where you swim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQTX0ED_U6k

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2023 05:42 PM (W2Pud)

137 There is no more Deep State organ in existence than Carlyle. It was founded specifically to wrap in government uniparty types and take advantage of their government connections to make money.

If ever there was an organization truly what jackstraw worries WEF is, Carlyle is it. They are wired.

Carlyle is my one big concern about Youngkin.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2023 05:43 PM (gRn/2)

138 Does the US government take donations?

Section 559 authorized CBP and GSA to accept donations of real property, personal property, including monetary donations, and non-personal services from private sector and government entities.

Also, donate to the National Park Service; donate to the Peace Corps, and more.

Posted by: Lola at February 10, 2023 05:44 PM (Wxlzw)

139 130 So... they still dumping Joe and Kamala? Should be any day now...

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2023 05:40 PM (BYhW/)

Is there any Democrat who has a good shot at the 2024 nomination who isn't owned by China?

Posted by: Greg at February 10, 2023 05:44 PM (AMIL/)

140 Kitty Carlyle > Carlyle Group

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2023 05:45 PM (XlE1Z)

141 126 Wait... the National Archive takes donations? WTF?

It's going to hold a LOT of classified material, what the hell is ANY outside entity having ANYTHING to do with it?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2023 05:38 PM (oHd/0)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:45 PM (zZu0s)

142 Trump says he will provide DNA in defamation case against E. Jean Carroll to see if it matches sample found on her dress after she accused him of raping her in 1990s: Ex-President to testify in his own defense

https://tinyurl.com/59spzuup

Posted by: redridinghood at February 10, 2023 05:46 PM (NpAcC)

143 Robert Crump, if you like your art a little dirty.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 10, 2023 05:46 PM (X/zGT)

144 137 There is no more Deep State organ in existence than Carlyle. It was founded specifically to wrap in government uniparty types and take advantage of their government connections to make money.

If ever there was an organization truly what jackstraw worries WEF is, Carlyle is it. They are wired.

Carlyle is my one big concern about Youngkin.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2023 05:43 PM (gRn/2)

Carlyle is on the foreskin of the deep state?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 05:46 PM (ynpvh)

145 Reminds me of the 3600 year-old Pharoah joke from Egypt:
"How do you entertain a bored pharaoh?

"You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 05:42 PM (ynpvh)

Why not. It all smells the same.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 10, 2023 05:46 PM (BdMk6)

146 142 Trump says he will provide DNA in defamation case against E. Jean Carroll to see if it matches sample found on her dress after she accused him of raping her in 1990s: Ex-President to testify in his own defense

https://tinyurl.com/59spzuup

Posted by: redridinghood at February 10, 2023 05:46 PM (NpAcC)

I'm betting it'll match Bill Clinton's.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 05:46 PM (ynpvh)

147 He actually delivered on his four main campaign promises.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

but not the 54-40 or fight one.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2023 05:48 PM (xhaym)

148 @142

>>Trump says he will provide DNA in defamation case against E. Jean Carroll to see if it matches sample found on her dress after she accused him of raping her in 1990s: Ex-President to testify in his own defense

That's... Not.. a good move.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 10, 2023 05:49 PM (up/3i)

149 Trump says he will provide DNA in defamation case against E. Jean Carroll to see if it matches sample found on her dress after she accused him of raping her in 1990s: Ex-President to testify in his own defense

—————

If they send it to the FBI lab, he’s fucked.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2023 05:50 PM (u73oe)

150 OT: Old joke I liked, about 2000 years old:

The Emperor Augustus was touring the Empire, when he noticed a man in the crowd who bore a striking resemblance to himself.

Intrigued he asked: "Was your mother at one time in service at the Palace?"

"'No your Highness", he replied, "but my father was."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 05:50 PM (ynpvh)

151 documents found with classified markings at Pence's house.
Fetterman may have permanent brain damage per his chief of staff.
LOL

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 10, 2023 05:50 PM (DB16e)

152 If they send it to the FBI lab, he’s fucked.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2023 05:50 PM (u73oe)

He'll have his own checks at this point I'm sure.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2023 05:51 PM (BYhW/)

153 Will E Jean soon get her wish to live in a cardboard box after Trump sues her and Toonces Pooper into the stone age?

Posted by: micky at February 10, 2023 05:51 PM (3byMq)

154
If they send it to the FBI lab, he’s fucked.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2023 05:50 PM (u73oe)

Agreed

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2023 05:51 PM (bs+z0)

155

Wait... the National Archive takes donations? WTF?

It's going to hold a LOT of classified material, what the hell is ANY outside entity having ANYTHING to do with it?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2023 05:38 PM (oHd/0)

So if I donate I'll have access to classified files?

*looks at the sawbuck sitting on the table*

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 10, 2023 05:51 PM (BdMk6)

156 With these classified documents scattered about the World, who would want to be an under cover agent?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 10, 2023 05:52 PM (X/zGT)

157 151 documents found with classified markings at Pence's house.
Fetterman may have permanent brain damage per his chief of staff.
LOL

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 10, 2023 05:50 PM (DB16e)

So that distingushes him from how many Dems in Congress?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 05:53 PM (ynpvh)

158 When you start gauging presidents by means other than those voted on in high school yearbooks, you come up with a whole different list of "greatests."
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 10, 2023 05:28 PM (jYCXf)

He did probably lie us into the war with Mexico, and was unable to quash Zachary Taylor enough to keep him from running and winning as the Whig candidate.

Also, I think he declined a second run due to health reasons not because of political beliefs.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2023 05:53 PM (xhaym)

159 >>Trump says he will provide DNA in defamation case against E. Jean Carroll to see if it matches sample found on her dress after she accused him of raping her in 1990s: Ex-President to testify in his own defense

LOL

In case anyone has forgotten, Carroll is a complete whack job who has already admitted she wasn't even raped.

https://tinyurl.com/5ytrc6k6

Posted by: JackStraw at February 10, 2023 05:54 PM (ZLI7S)

160 156 With these classified documents scattered about the World, who would want to be an under cover agent?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 10, 2023 05:52 PM (X/zGT)

Makes you think about the premise of say the Terminal List or any of a dozen other movies. The idea that our own government military or political guys would sell out our troops or let them get murdered... it does not seem as shocking as it should be, now does it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:54 PM (zZu0s)

161 At DM: "The Pentagon shot down an unknown object flying in U.S. airspace off the coast of Alaska on Friday on orders from President Joe Biden,"

If the object was flying on orders from Biden, why did the Pentagon shoot it down?

Posted by: It's OK To Be gp at February 10, 2023 05:55 PM (24fqN)

162 I just wish the Democrats would stop this play-acting with Fenstermonster already, and put his Brazilian puppet master in the seat.

It's annoying.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2023 05:55 PM (m2TMR)

163 151. The plan was always for the wife to take over.

And now the news is reporting the other PA Senator, Casey, has (prostrate?) cancer, and at the same time the PA state democrats have taken the state house, too.

Posted by: Lola at February 10, 2023 05:56 PM (Wxlzw)

164 162 I just wish the Democrats would stop this play-acting with Fenstermonster already, and put his Brazilian puppet master in the seat.

It's annoying.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2023 05:55 PM (m2TMR)

Hey, he made a month and almost a half. Better than that one guy in Missouri.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:56 PM (zZu0s)

165 Did this Rubenstein gal contribute seventy billion tentacle inserting dollars to these guys?

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at February 10, 2023 05:56 PM (ufFY8)

166 Gonna watch the finals match of the Men's Professional Tackle Football competition?

Posted by: Just Wondering at February 10, 2023 05:57 PM (DhOHl)

167 163 151
And now the news is reporting the other PA Senator, Casey, has (prostrate?) cancer, and at the same time the PA state democrats have taken the state house, too.

Posted by: Lola at February 10, 2023 05:56 PM (Wxlzw)

For a Dem, that damn close to their brain.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 05:57 PM (ynpvh)

168 Excellent idea about diluting the West Coast commentary.

Posted by: Man from Nantucket at February 10, 2023 05:58 PM (wrJpE)

169 Hey, he made a month and almost a half. Better than that one guy in Missouri.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:56 PM (zZu0s)
------------
He's got William Henry Harrison beat.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2023 05:58 PM (XlE1Z)

170 167. LOL. Thanks, needed that.

Posted by: Lola at February 10, 2023 05:58 PM (Wxlzw)

171 164 162 I just wish the Democrats would stop this play-acting with Fenstermonster already, and put his Brazilian puppet master in the seat.

It's annoying.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2023 05:55 PM (m2TMR)

Hey, he made a month and almost a half. Better than that one guy in Missouri.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:56 PM (zZu0s)

Or longer than President Harrison.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 05:58 PM (ynpvh)

172 Hey, he made a month and almost a half. Better than that one guy in Missouri.
=================
I wish I could remember the Goiterman Bingo Card bets...I know I didn't have February. It might have been March though...

Someone even more cynical than me picked February.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2023 05:59 PM (m2TMR)

173 Makes you think about the premise of say the Terminal List or any of a dozen other movies. The idea that our own government military or political guys would sell out our troops or let them get murdered... it does not seem as shocking as it should be, now does it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 10, 2023 05:54 PM (zZu0s)

Terminal List will become prescient when we finally find out the real story about the SEAL team 6 helicopter shoot down.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 10, 2023 05:59 PM (BdMk6)

174 Is there any Democrat who has a good shot at the 2024 nomination who isn't owned by China?
Posted by: Greg at February 10, 2023 05:44 PM (AMIL/)

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Oh Stop it!!!
You're killing me here!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2023 05:59 PM (anj39)

175 End the civil service system. Forbid political donations or activities by Federal employees. Fire all current Federal employees and ban them from ever having any further role in government of any kind.

It's the only way. I doubt it can happen peacefully, but I pray it can.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at February 10, 2023 06:00 PM (OUMaO)

176 Well, Aetius451AD, dig this old riddle.

Quick, what rhymes with political suicide and nuclear weapons?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 10, 2023 06:00 PM (X/zGT)

177 Insurrectionists!!!

Posted by: Chris Wray, America's Patriot Act Watchdog at February 10, 2023 06:01 PM (m2TMR)

178 Gonna watch the finals match of the Men's Professional Tackle Football competition?
Posted by: Just Wondering at February 10, 2023 05:57 PM (DhOHl)

—————

Sure am. Gonna enjoy it too.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2023 06:01 PM (u73oe)

179
And now the news is reporting the other PA Senator, Casey, has (prostrate?) cancer

They dribbled that news out, much like the late night urine flow of Senator Casey.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 10, 2023 06:02 PM (enJYY)

180 Terminal List will become prescient when we finally find out the real story about the SEAL team 6 helicopter shoot down.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 10, 2023 05:59 PM (BdMk6)

Such information provided on the Bin Laden raid, so much about his condition, his stash, his family.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2023 06:02 PM (xhaym)

181 And now the news is reporting the other PA Senator, Casey, has (prostrate?) cancer, and at the same time the PA state democrats have taken the state house, too.

Posted by: Lola at February 10, 2023 05:56 PM (Wxlzw)
***

Imagine my shocked face!

If PA doesn't burn when they steal the election in 2024, I will be saddened.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 10, 2023 06:02 PM (anj39)

182 Quick, what rhymes with political suicide and nuclear weapons?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 10, 2023 06:00 PM (X/zGT)

Silver. Even funnier it is a pun.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2023 06:02 PM (xhaym)

183 Point of order. It was not a Sidewinder. Sidewinder's are infra-red guided, and the last time I checked helium balloons have very low heat signatures to track. The F-22 used an Aim-9X which is radar guided.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at February 10, 2023 05:13 PM (CecP5)

AIM-9 is the Sidewinder. According to reports, the AIM-9X differs from previous versions by having multi-spectral and imaging capabilities.

The AGM-122 Sidearm converted obsolescent AIM-9C missions to a light weight anti-radiation missiles for use on aircraft that couldn't carry larger ARMs, such as the HARM.

Posted by: Fox2! at February 10, 2023 06:03 PM (iZPr8)

184 Gonna watch the finals match of the Men's Professional Tackle Football competition?
Posted by: Just Wondering at February 10, 2023 05:57 PM (DhOHl)

Naw. Gonna be looking at homes out of state. I am sick of Colorado.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 10, 2023 06:03 PM (UQUAY)

185 For the billionth time, WTF with a public institution taking private donations???? Probably not as damaging as the still-unbelievable private money in ELECTION ADMINISTRATION ACTIVITIES in 2020 (!!!!), but same same in principle.

Of course it's not just that public institutions have been weaponized, politicized - it's that they've been degraded (the people working in them are inferior intellectually, morally, and lack any public service mindset). So you have degraded institutions dominated by the dumbest people the country has to offer.

Also nice to see "American" "capitalists" (they're neither, really) helping totalitarian adversary regimes! Beautiful, really!

Posted by: rhomboid at February 10, 2023 06:03 PM (OTzUX)

186 You didn't work 'bustle' into the topic.

Posted by: Ciampino - hedgerows you know at February 10, 2023 05:26 PM (qfLjt)

Bustles are tight!

Posted by: Javems at February 10, 2023 06:04 PM (AmoqO)

187 The idea of factions of our government being behind 9/11 used to shock and disappoint me that anyone would even think it.

I was young dumb and full of... shit.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2023 06:05 PM (BYhW/)

188 182 Quick, what rhymes with political suicide and nuclear weapons?

Scamper?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 10, 2023 06:05 PM (DhOHl)

189 Gotta say, the Democrats are excellent at taking out strong candidates and pushing weaker ones forward. They did that in Pennsylvania and, to spectacular effect in Michigan (with the whole signature scan thing). Combine those skills with ballot harvesting on a national scale, per Biden's EO, and their go-for-the-jugular campaigning, it is hard to think they can be beaten near-term in a national election.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 10, 2023 06:05 PM (m2TMR)

190 182 Quick, what rhymes with political suicide and nuclear weapons?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 10, 2023 06:00 PM (X/zGT)

Silver. Even funnier it is a pun.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2023 06:02 PM (xhaym)

I DON'T GET IT

Posted by: BEN ROTHSLINGER at February 10, 2023 06:05 PM (ynpvh)

191 Wasn't the Carlyle Group a TV show of swinging dicks on PBS sitting at a roundtable opining about current affairs?

I believe they featured such luminaries as Kondracke Germond, Buchanan and Clift.

Morton! What say you?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2023 06:06 PM (Jg7EG)

192 Also nice to see "American" "capitalists" (they're neither, really) helping totalitarian adversary regimes! Beautiful, really!
Posted by: rhomboid at February 10, 2023 06:03 PM (OTzUX)

The main interest of large corporation is to maximize profits, reduce competition and extend the gravy train forever. This is done through coordination with competing corporations, and using the government to ensure compliance by all the parties agreeing to be part of it, and barring those that don't comply

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2023 06:06 PM (xhaym)

193 184 Gonna watch the finals match of the Men's Professional Tackle Football competition?
Posted by: Just Wondering at February 10, 2023 05:57 PM (DhOHl)

Naw. Gonna be looking at homes out of state. I am sick of Colorado.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 10, 2023 06:03 PM (UQUAY)

Seems like states which state with letter C are sucky...
California
Colorado
Conecticut

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 06:06 PM (ynpvh)

194 I DON'T GET IT
Posted by: BEN ROTHSLINGER at February 10, 2023 06:05 PM (ynpvh)

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THAT’S FUNNY!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 10, 2023 06:07 PM (u73oe)

195 Wait... the National Archive takes donations? WTF?
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It's all good, as long as the Big Guy gets his 10%

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2023 06:08 PM (fs1hN)

196 195 Wait... the National Archive takes donations? WTF?
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It's all good, as long as the Big Guy gets his 10%

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2023 06:08 PM (fs1hN)

Apparently that includes 10% of secret and confidential docs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 06:09 PM (ynpvh)

197 McLaughlin Group.

Posted by: Missed it by that much! at February 10, 2023 06:09 PM (DhOHl)

198 Ag? Me neither, too.

This a can't get there from here thing?

Posted by: micky at February 10, 2023 06:09 PM (3byMq)

199 Wasn't the Carlyle Group a TV show of swinging dicks on PBS sitting at a roundtable opining about current affairs?

I believe they featured such luminaries as Kondracke Germond, Buchanan and Clift.

Morton! What say you?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 10, 2023 06:06 PM

That was the McLaughlin Group. My dad and I used to watch every week and yell at Eleanor Clift.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 10, 2023 06:10 PM (Wnv9h)

200 184 Gonna watch the finals match of the Men's Professional Tackle Football competition?
Posted by: Just Wondering at February 10, 2023 05:57 PM (DhOHl)

Naw. Gonna be looking at homes out of state. I am sick of Colorado.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 10, 2023 06:03 PM (UQUAY)

Sure beats going to Castro street in SF to unintentionally watch the cornholing competitions...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 06:10 PM (ynpvh)

201 NOOD QUICK HITS

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 06:11 PM (ynpvh)

202 WTF does a government agency have a patron? That's like Disney sponsoring the FBI.
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*pound, pound*
Hey! Open up! This is the FBI! Sponsored by Disney....*sings* When you wish upon a star
*pound, pound* I said open up MotherF****R!!!!!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 10, 2023 06:12 PM (fs1hN)

203 Seems like states which state with letter C are sucky...
California
Colorado
Conecticut
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 10, 2023 06:06 PM (ynpvh)

Sucks, because just 20-some years ago Colorado was friggin' awesome. Even had a senator who switched from D to R (Ben Nighthorse Campbell). Job market was excellent. My salary doubled moving here from Montana.

Now look at it. Gawdam mess. Good thing I am less than a decade from retirement, and we paid off our house. Fuck this place.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wanting to Hang Out with Tom Bombadil at February 10, 2023 06:13 PM (UQUAY)

204 @199

Bye-bye!

That was a great show. Who was the little guy with glasses on that show? Oh -- Freddy the beatle Barnes

Posted by: micky at February 10, 2023 06:13 PM (3byMq)

205 Weekly Standard folks.

Posted by: micky at February 10, 2023 06:13 PM (3byMq)

206 140 Kitty Carlyle > Carlyle Group
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 10, 2023 05:45 PM (XlE1Z)

Belinda Carlisle >>>Kitty Carlyle > Carlyle Group

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 10, 2023 06:18 PM (CCSxw)

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