THE MORNING RANT: The Importance of Mockery as a Weapon in the Culture Wars

One of the most uncomfortable things for polite people is having to fight back when it’s appropriate, without becoming a person they don’t want to be. Those of us who would never mock a stranger, or someone of limited education, or someone based on his looks, must still be willing to embrace mockery as powerful weapon against those trying to impose their agenda on us.

Be it in the workplace or national politics, mockery and satire are important tools in the fight against the woke agenda. John Hayward often makes this point in his brilliant threads.

The point was also made in this piece (“The Power Mad Utopians” that both Weird Dave and I linked in recent days:

But the diverse members of the anti-progressive front can and should use every peaceful method, from voting in elections to lawfare (litigation) to peaceful protest and satire, in order to frustrate, delay, damage, cripple, divert, stall, and ultimately topple and dismantle the three lumbering juggernauts of green lunacy, equity lunacy, and gender lunacy.

Mockery and satire cause no physical harm, but they are powerful tools. The Washington Post has a corporate vendetta to cancel Libs of Tik Tok because it so effectively mocks the woke agenda, simply by exposing videos of woke evangelists to a broader audience.

Closer to home, a publicly-traded company that I work with (whose footprint is overwhelmingly in red states) recently surrendered to its ESG overlords at BlackRock and Vanguard and started to embrace the use of gender pronouns in email signatures. The employees’ backlash-by-mockery has been so intense that aside from the Chief Diversity Officer, none of my contacts there have seen a single employee listing xis pronouns. The derision is so widespread that employees are comfortable openly cracking jokes about “my pronouns.”

The middle managers who are often quick to embrace wokeness and stupid corporate fads – until those fads become the subject of ridicule – are already avoiding the subject of pronouns like it’s radioactive. The ridicule has been effective in stopping its implementation.

When America’s woke power structure tried to fetishize all Hispanics as gender-fluid with the ridiculous term Latinx, there was tremendous pushback, with widespread mockery of the term, and mockery of those white saviors trying to impose it. The trans-pronoun push is being similarly defeated in millions of small settings.

In the political sphere, any “trust the science” politician pushing climate communism or Covid authoritarianism has his scientific authority immediately refuted when presented with the fact that the politician “doesn’t know the difference between a man and a woman.”

I personally have more experience fighting these battles in the workplace than in the political sphere, but I have seen the power of mockery.

The “Who Moved My Cheese” business management fad of about 20 years ago was the first time I observed how workplace ridicule of a gimmick could have an effect on those in power who push this kind of nonsense.

If you were lucky enough to not have that silly book inflicted on you, I can explain it all in two sentences. “Who Moved My Cheese” is written at a childish level about mice who either adapt to change, and can find their cheese in a maze, versus mice who don’t adapt to change, and can no longer find their cheese. In other words, those who adapt to change will thrive, those who don’t will perish.

When I say childish level, I mean elementary school writing and storyline. By comparison, Charlotte’s Web is a complex, adult-level novel.

The book was so embarrassingly juvenile that it helped define the intelligence (or more specifically, the lack thereof) of the executives gushing about it.

Even worse, as simple as the message was, the message that many managers took from that silly book was that they should reorganize and rearrange all aspects of the workplace, not because change was needed, but to defy employees to get their work done in the face of change.

Employees openly mocked “Who Moved my Cheese” by joking that maybe we should also read “Encyclopedia Brown” to learn about problem-solving, or perhaps read “The Little Engine That Could” to learn about self-confidence and persistence.

The widespread employee mockery of this and a few other idiotic management gimmicks caused a collapse in confidence of certain executives, and a loss of respect for those managers who enthusiastically embraced the fads.

*****

Since this is President’s Day, I am going to rerun a story I first ran last year of how I used a President’s Day office meeting to mock the CEO of a previous employer on one of his silly management gimmicks.

Happy Presidents Day! I hope your holiday brings back warm fuzzy memories of Presidents Days of yore. Do you have any favorite memories of this holiday? I actually do!
About a decade ago I was hired by a struggling start-up to provide it some ~~adult~~ financial oversight and assistance. Its struggles were due in large part to its CEO’s megalomania. He embraced every idiotic motivational/management gimmick, believing he was changing us not only as individuals, but that in being disciples of his leadership, we would then change society. His gimmicks and craving for adulation didn’t leave many hours in the day to get any actual work done.
Believing his employees were worshipful of him, he thought I was simply slow in understanding and appreciating the concepts he was using to inspire us. As for me, I was amused at how slow he was to understand I was mocking him.
It was Presidents Day and we were having our Monday morning management meeting. We had to go around the conference room table, with everyone giving a “two-word check in.” With this gimmick, each person would say something banal using only two words, such as “Total commitment” or “Absolute focus.”
When it came to me, I said “James Polk.” The CEO looked at me with puzzlement, so I explained that today was Presidents Day, and I wanted to remember a significant US President who tends to get overlooked.
This generated a look of further puzzlement from him, to which I explained that James Polk went to war with Mexico, secured the southern border of Texas, and by adding half-a-million square miles of formerly Mexican land to the US, he completed the manifest destiny that finally extended this great country from the Atlantic to the Pacific…all in one term!
The company’s President gave a nervous laugh, afraid that I was mocking our CEO (which I was), but also unsure if I was simply an idiot who didn’t understand the concept of the two-word check-in, or understand that America’s manifest destiny might not play well in this crowd.

*****

Songs of the Season

How about a little music for this holiday? William Henry Harrison served as President for only 31 days in 1841, so he deserves a lot of credit for the damage not done during his presidency.

Pretty much the only thing I know about his brief presidency is that his campaign slogan against Martin Van Buren was “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” which referred to Harrison’s nickname “Old Tippecanoe” for his role in that 1811 battle.

For whatever reason, alt-rockers “They Might Be Giants” recorded a modern alt-rock version of Harrison’s campaign song, “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” and it’s fantastic.

Oh, who has heard the great commotion, motion, motion
All the country through?
It is the ball a-rolling on
For Tippecanoe and Tyler too
And with them we'll beat little Van, Van
Van is a used up man
And with them we'll beat little Van
Sure, let 'em talk about hard cider, cider, cider
And Log Cabins too
Will only help to speed the ball
For Tippecanoe and Tyler too
And with them we'll beat Little Van, Van
Van is a used up man
And with them we'll beat Little Van
Like the rush of mighty waters, waters, waters
Onward, it will go!
And the course will bring you through
For Tippecanoe and Tyler too
And with them we'll beat Little Van, Van
Van is a used up man
And with him we'll beat Little Van

Celebrate responsibly today.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Mockery. It's right up there with the 2nd Amendment and boobs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

3 If any group knows mockery...

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2023 11:02 AM (anj39)

4 Make mockery great again

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2023 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)

5 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2023 11:03 AM (Wnv9h)

6 AND I NOODlum'd.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)

7 "Who Moved the Cheese" < "Who Cut the CHeese"

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 20, 2023 11:03 AM (+Wcyp)

8 Yeah, the one thing ruling classes can't stand is being made fun of.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:04 AM (2tUFv)

9 >maybe we should also read “Encyclopedia Brown” to learn about problem-solving, or perhaps read “The Little Engine That Could” to learn about self-confidence and persistence.

Classic Beetle Bailey to learn about sexual harassment.

Seriously, Halftrack would never have made Brigadier today... Miss Buxley would have his hide for a doormat.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2023 11:04 AM (bW8dp)

10 It's something that needs to get wider, make fun of these clowns.

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2023 11:04 AM (yCVmv)

11 Those of us who would never mock a stranger, or someone of limited education, or someone based on his looks...

Sure we would.
Ol Joe is a doddering, drooling old dumbass.
I've never met him
He's an idiot.
He looks creepy.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2023 11:04 AM (anj39)

12 James K. Polk failed to annex Baja. Idiot.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at February 20, 2023 11:04 AM (Y90Az)

13 One of John Tyler’s grandsons is still alive.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 20, 2023 11:05 AM (DSB5h)

14 So, Biden unsurprisingly made a "surprise" visit to Kiev.

I guess US Presidents can't make surprise visits to Afghanistan anymore.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:05 AM (2tUFv)

15 I shan't believe the erudite commenters here at AoQHQ would stoop to mockery of the left and its demented beliefs...

And yes, that's sarcasm.

Mock away, my friends!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2023 11:05 AM (YIVH2)

16 on topic, the Harcles looking into suing South Park, Comedy Central is owned by Paramount. Go ahead, sue Paramount Global for satire.

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2023 11:05 AM (V13WU)

17 I guess US Presidents can't make surprise visits to Afghanistan anymore.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:05 AM (2tUFv)

The enemy has too many of our weapons.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)

18 Prince of Canada....

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2023 11:06 AM (V13WU)

19 Everybody was required to read 'cheese' prior to 'flattening the organization'...meaning layoffs and additional work for those who survived.

Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2023 11:06 AM (AwYPR)

20 Biden went to Kiev.

Trump is going to East Palestine.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:06 AM (2tUFv)

21 2 word check-in:

"comfortably numb"

Posted by: brak at February 20, 2023 11:07 AM (j5Tg0)

22 I regularly have made comments to my superiors that have gone over their heads. I think it says something about the selection criteria that got them where they were.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 20, 2023 11:07 AM (lTGtQ)

23 that South Park cracked me up- I lost it with MeAgain Markle and her sign 'STOP LOOKING AT US!'

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 20, 2023 11:07 AM (geLO8)

24 Biden went to Kiev.

Trump is going to East Palestine.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:06 AM (2tUFv)

One loves America and the other hates it.

Guess who's who?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

25 how retarded will they look going after a cartoon ? do they have any idea ? no , of course not. I hope there is another South Park installment.

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2023 11:07 AM (V13WU)

26 See: SABO

Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2023 11:07 AM (mqu1M)

27 2-word check in: "Blow me."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)

28 I think I will go back to model building.

Need to finish painting the camouflage on the RF-5E. Then gloss coat it. Put decals on. Flat coat. Weather. Then attach landing gear, drop tanks, and Sidewinders. Then call it done.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:08 AM (e/Ar7)

29 Axios:
||House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given Fox News’ Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 riot, McCarthy sources tell me. Carlson TV producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove, which includes multiple camera angles from all over Capitol grounds. Excerpts will begin airing in the coming weeks.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 20, 2023 11:08 AM (Vwz3I)

30 https://unsavoryagents.com/

Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2023 11:09 AM (mqu1M)

31 ||House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has given Fox News’ Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 riot, McCarthy sources tell me. Carlson TV producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove, which includes multiple camera angles from all over Capitol grounds. Excerpts will begin airing in the coming weeks.||
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 20, 2023 11:08 AM (Vwz3I)

This should get interesting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

32 2 word check in: dat azz

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 20, 2023 11:10 AM (ghk1f)

33 >This should get interesting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

it should trigger lawsuits from the Other Side
gotta protect the J6 narrative- that footage can never be seen

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 20, 2023 11:10 AM (geLO8)

34
This should get interesting.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)

Hopefully

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2023 11:11 AM (bs+z0)

35 Funny picture re: Biden in Ukraine

https://bit.ly/3YKGU38

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 20, 2023 11:11 AM (FVME7)

36 the Harcles looking into suing South Park, Comedy Central is owned by Paramount. Go ahead, sue Paramount Global for satire.
Posted by: runner

"the Harcles" sounds like a parasitic infection

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 20, 2023 11:11 AM (ghk1f)

37 Libs of Tic-Tok do it the best, showing the clowns

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2023 11:12 AM (yCVmv)

38 I agree with this post...I try to emulate the mockery of Libs of TikTok, posting lefty cringe for enjoyment. Today, we get a twofer!

National Review: "Biden's Secret Trip to Kyiv Took Guts" President Biden’s secret visit to wartime Kyiv is an example of America in its finest tradition...after a “trans-Atlantic flight to Poland, Mr. Biden crossed the border by train, traveling for nearly 10 hours to Kyiv.”

This is high praise, since the National Review is conservative!

Of course, Joe took the train! What a magnificent President. All the Republican whiners look very small today. While rest of the nation can be very proud.

And on President's Day, Washington's Birthday! This trip channels our greatest Presidents, and Biden is quickly moving into an elite group. It's not any one thing he's done. He's done them all, met every challenge with some appropriate response. He inherited a paralyzed, shrinking hulk of a government and knew exactly what to do.

Trump's going to East Palestine Ohio Wednesday, that is pretty brave considering, he helped cause the accident.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at February 20, 2023 11:12 AM (NCgXW)

39 Good news: They Might Be Giants also recorded "James K. Polk"! Now with more theramin!
https://youtu.be/StTiCU_fqCg

Posted by: Ms. Johnnie at February 20, 2023 11:12 AM (MVdQR)

40 So now Biden is brave to be walking the streets of Kyiv with sirens blaring... Funny, no one looked concerned about the air raid sirens.. One would almost think it was staged....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2023 11:13 AM (bs+z0)

41 Rabid Ukraine supporter, Paul Massaro, on Biden's trip:

Brave Biden

I wonder if Biden will claim that he came under sniper fire in Kiev, like Hillary claimed in Bosnia.

Biden was so brave, that he sent DOCTOR Jill to Kiev in May, just to make sure that it was safe.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:13 AM (2tUFv)

42
Trump's going to East Palestine Ohio Wednesday, that is pretty brave considering, he helped cause the accident.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at February 20, 2023 11:12 AM (NCgXW)

This is what's known as NPC sheep.

Mayor Butt shifted blame away from himself in a classic lib move.

Owebama blamed Bush for 8 years. It works.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:13 AM (Zz0t1)

43 Everybody was required to read 'cheese' prior to 'flattening the organization'...meaning layoffs and additional work for those who survived.
Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2023 11:06 AM (AwYPR)

Were you required to write a book report?

I joke but the managers at my company are just as idiotic and have mentioned the insights that they've derived from this.

I'm convinced that the way to advance in management is never to say anything to let your superiors know that you're aware that they're idiots. After a while it becomes ingrained to the point where you forget that they're idiots. Then you become part of the next generation of idiots.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2023 11:14 AM (z99Zw)

44 I'm coming around to the idea that being louder than the left is what beats them. Welcome to Stupidtown.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 20, 2023 11:15 AM (44ww/)

45 Funny picture re: Biden in Ukraine

https://bit.ly/3YKGU38
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 20, 2023 11:11 AM (FVME7)

That didn't take long.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2023 11:15 AM (anj39)

46

That didn't take long.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2023 11:15 AM (anj39)

And is funny.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

47 > Owebama blamed Bush for 8 years. It works.

The communists are still blaming everything that goes wrong in California on "Reagan", and Reagan hasn't been Governor of California for nearly 50 years.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2023 11:15 AM (bW8dp)

48 When America’s woke power structure tried to fetishize all Hispanics as gender-fluid with the ridiculous term Latinx, there was tremendous pushback

In part because "X" in Spanish is pronounced like "H" in English, so saying it correctly is already mockery.

They're trying again with "Latine" and it's not going well either because even native Spanish speakers who are bilingual immediately associate it with "latrine".

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2023 11:15 AM (X4R3E)

49 Not all heroes wear capes...

https://bit.ly/3IEFUrR

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 20, 2023 11:15 AM (Vwz3I)

50 Just as with the Twitter files, no bueno to give "exclusive" (or limited) access. That's kinda the point. Throw it open to everybody. No filters, no gatekeepers, no curators. Oh I'm sure there are reasonable-sounding excuses to limit access. Similar to the reasons that 98% of all government systems in history have limited speech, and other freedoms.

Nope. Just put stuff out there, like COVID data, and temperature/climate data, and every other kind of non-proprietary, non-security-related thing, and let the crowd do the work and defend it and explain it.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2023 11:15 AM (OTzUX)

51 Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at February 20, 2023 11:12 AM (NCgXW)
---
Man, you should be given a hero's reward for going into those sewers...

I threw up a little just reading about how "awesome" FJB is!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2023 11:15 AM (YIVH2)

52 It took FEMA two weeks to deploy to East Palestine. Biden makes a photo op in Kiev, Ukraine, because that's where the money is.

Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2023 11:16 AM (rj6Yv)

53 Years ago our newspaper CEO visited our corporate property and came around to shake hands and mutter something to every employee as he made the rounds.
What what it he said to each person?
"Think digital!"

The company has since sold off 90 percent of its media holdings and basically no longer exists.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 20, 2023 11:16 AM (X+Ku8)

54 I'm coming around to the idea that being louder than the left is what beats them. Welcome to Stupidtown.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 20, 2023 11:15 AM (44ww/)

Meh.....close enough......

https://youtu.be/97wvwuHUMCw

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

55 "the Harcles" sounds like a parasitic infection
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 20, 2023 11:11 AM (ghk1f)

the Harkles. which would be a true
portmanteau. let's go with that

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2023 11:16 AM (V13WU)

56 52 It took FEMA two weeks to deploy to East Palestine. Biden makes a photo op in Kiev, Ukraine, because that's where the money is.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2023 11:16 AM (rj6Yv)

Probably had to pick up his cut in person

Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2023 11:16 AM (bs+z0)

57 ... maybe we should also read “Encyclopedia Brown” to learn about problem-solving, or perhaps read “The Little Engine That Could” to learn about self-confidence and persistence.

*******

When I graduated from my Pediatric Cardiology fellowship program, one of my mentors presented me with a copy of Dr. Seuss' Oh The Places You Will Go".

It wasn't worth being offended over, just laughable. I was a grown-up man, had already been a physician for almost 10 years at the time. I think that book was the equivalent of "Who Moved My Cheese", only for graduates.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 20, 2023 11:16 AM (ykeLU)

58 I'm thinking *biden was looking at the situation in Ukraine with regards to his family's criminal activities and making sure Z-man is keeping things on the low down.

And picking up his cut.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2023 11:16 AM (Q4IgG)

59 *orders two 3D printed R-1820s for B-17*

Joey is about as brave as Hillary was dodging that 'sniper' fire.

*back to model building*

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:17 AM (e/Ar7)

60 How much more of a joke can you make of a guy who is already wearing a dress?

Posted by: DaveA at February 20, 2023 11:17 AM (FhXTo)

61 Two word check-in:
Deez Nutz

Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 20, 2023 11:17 AM (UC7s3)

62 Two word check-in:
Deez Nutz
Posted by: Hawkpilot at February 20, 2023 11:17 AM (UC7s3)

Winner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:18 AM (Zz0t1)

63 Only the truly psychotic believe Biden is a good president.

Since true psychosis is pretty rare, I'm fairly sure those articles praising Biden are paid for.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at February 20, 2023 11:18 AM (2YtOq)

64 As VIA said this morning, the vidscreen will tell you what to think.

Posted by: Eromero at February 20, 2023 11:18 AM (MF3yS)

65 National Google Review:

Biden’s Secret Trip to Kyiv Took Guts

LOL. Kiev has been turned into the official stop on the Globalist World Tour. It's about as dangerous as going to an environmental conference in Bali.

The Biden Administration did tell the Russians first that Biden was going, to make sure that the Russians didn't inadvertently lob a missile into Kiev while he was there.

Remember, Putin Is Just Like Hitler!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:18 AM (2tUFv)

66 How many of these books/concepts/buzzwords have caught on and then been discarded since the 80's?
50? 100?

Seems like a lot.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2023 11:18 AM (FCbAQ)

67 Tyrants are destroying civilization all around us and you want us to respond with mockery ? No. Trump taught us to go strain to taunting !

Posted by: Next2Nothing at February 20, 2023 11:19 AM (tA1/w)

68 There was another exercise along the lines of Who Moved My Cheese that had to do with a pickle. Anyone remember what that was?

Posted by: IrishEi at February 20, 2023 11:19 AM (3ImbR)

69 > Biden is quickly moving into an elite group.

Nah, there have been brain-dead Presidents before.

Edith Wilson was Woodrow Wilson's "Doctor Jill" equivalent after he stroked out.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2023 11:19 AM (bW8dp)

70 "Who Moved My Cheese" = "We Hate You And You Will Be Made Available To The Industry Soon."

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 20, 2023 11:19 AM (D25PY)

71 So is Joe taking the train ten hours back to Poland? Is he waving out the window as he goes through the little towns? Is he talking to the conductor?

Posted by: Jen the original at February 20, 2023 11:19 AM (FPw1R)

72 Two word check-in:
Deez Nutz

"Got eeeeeem!"

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2023 11:20 AM (X4R3E)

73 The Biden Administration did tell the Russians first that Biden was going, to make sure that the Russians didn't inadvertently lob a missile into Kiev while he was there.

Yeah, like I'm gonna take out THAT idiot.

Posted by: V. Putin at February 20, 2023 11:20 AM (eOEVl)

74 Is the Junta cynical enough to hope something happens to Biden so they can escalate the war in Ukraine?

Magic Eight Ball says: "Yes."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at February 20, 2023 11:20 AM (2YtOq)

75 Biden went to Kiev.

-
Should've gone to Hell.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 20, 2023 11:20 AM (FVME7)

76 Mockery is a good weapon, indeed

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 20, 2023 11:20 AM (lEVn+)

77 the Zelenskyy files ! A collection of recorded conversations he had with European and US leaders. Tucked away is some safe place. Maybe Switzerland. Guarantees my friends ! 105 billion dollars and counting.

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2023 11:20 AM (V13WU)

78 52 It took FEMA two weeks to deploy to East Palestine. Biden makes a photo op in Kiev, Ukraine, because that's where the money is.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2023 11:16 AM (rj6Yv)

Secret documents?
What secret documents?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 20, 2023 11:20 AM (anj39)

79 > So is Joe taking the train ten hours back to Poland?

He probably thinks he can take Amtrak back to DC.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2023 11:20 AM (bW8dp)

80 I'm convinced that the way to advance in management is never to say anything to let your superiors know that you're aware that they're idiots. After a while it becomes ingrained to the point where you forget that they're idiots. Then you become part of the next generation of idiots.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2023 11:14 AM (z99Zw)

Keep your head down and your mouth shut....never tell 'em what you really think.

Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2023 11:21 AM (AwYPR)

81 Tyrants are destroying civilization all around us and you want us to respond with mockery ? No. Trump taught us to go strain to taunting !

What about taunting a second time? Is that too much?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2023 11:21 AM (eOEVl)

82 I'm coming around to the idea that being louder than the left is what beats them. Welcome to Stupidtown.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 20, 2023 11:15 AM (44ww/)

Insom used to have some ideas about what beats them.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2023 11:21 AM (FCbAQ)

83 Mockery can be effective. Most mockery today is sort of dumb and brainless, and a substitute for argument. And there's no shortage, and I haven't noticed any fastidious avoidance of it by any non-racist-totalitarians (the only useful term for the least worst political figures and forces).

Mocking a "scientist" for their pernicious indefensible assertions on "climate" or viruses because they humor the idiotic gender crap is a good 7th-grader kind of mockery.

And doing this while not annihilating their fake science, and mocking their unscientific methods and attitudes, and refuting their idiotic and destructive policy recommendations, substantively, is as good as endorsing their positions.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2023 11:21 AM (OTzUX)

84 > Yeah, like I'm gonna take out THAT idiot.
Posted by: V. Putin at February 20, 2023 11:20 AM (eOEVl)

Right. He's pretty much Putin's dream presidential figurehead.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2023 11:21 AM (bW8dp)

85 So is Joe taking the train ten hours back to Poland? Is he waving out the window as he goes through the little towns? Is he talking to the conductor?
Posted by: Jen the original

Is he tooting the horn?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 20, 2023 11:21 AM (FVME7)

86 how retarded will they look going after a cartoon ? do they have any idea ? no , of course not. I hope there is another South Park installment.
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2023 11:07 AM (V13WU)

South Park needs to do a scene with lawyers in sneakers flocking to the Harkles as ambulance sirens fade into the distance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2023 11:21 AM (tkR6S)

87 Biden goes to Kiev. Trump goes to Ohio. DeSantis heads to Chicago. It's Dem Meltdown Day.

Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2023 11:22 AM (rj6Yv)

88 Biden’s Secret Trip to Kyiv Took Guts

==

Especially after letting Russians know of photo op visit.

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2023 11:22 AM (V13WU)

89 Yeah, like I'm gonna take out THAT idiot.

Hmmm... dunno. After all, Kamala is even stupider.

Decisions, decisions...

Posted by: Vladmir Vladmirovich Putin! at February 20, 2023 11:22 AM (2tUFv)

90 He probably thinks he can take Amtrak back to DC.

And while Biden's watching a live performance of Zelensky's dick-piano routine, the ChiComs are meeting with Putin.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2023 11:22 AM (X4R3E)

91 Is he tooting the horn?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 20, 2023 11:21 AM (FVME7)
------------

Most likely, Biden is tooting.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at February 20, 2023 11:22 AM (2YtOq)

92 Forget Jimmie Carter and Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Today I'd like to celebrate Hillary Clinton!

She paved the way so Kamala Harris could shatter the glass ceiling and have a giggle.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 20, 2023 11:22 AM (Jg7EG)

93 Never liked that Tippy Canoe guy. Woe is me, how many firearms I've lost!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 11:23 AM (6VKyY)

94 Biden goes to Kiev. Trump goes to Ohio. DeSantis heads to Chicago. It's Dem Meltdown Day.

I'll bet DeS ends up with the police union endorsement. This is gonna be great!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2023 11:23 AM (eOEVl)

95 "the Harcles" sounds like a parasitic infection
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 20, 2023 11:11 AM (ghk1f)

Given that they actually are parasites.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2023 11:23 AM (tkR6S)

96 Biden goes to Kiev. Trump goes to Ohio. DeSantis heads to Chicago. It's Dem Meltdown Day.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2023 11:22 AM (rj6Yv)
---
Weird how *actual* leaders (Trump & DeSantis) are keen on addressing AMERICAN issues...

While FJB just wants to get in on some more of that sweet, sweet Ukrainian graft...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2023 11:24 AM (YIVH2)

97 2 Mockery. It's right up there with the 2nd Amendment and boobs.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)

+2

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 20, 2023 11:24 AM (lEVn+)

98 Hey everybody. Have you heard?
Buck is gonna give us the mocking word!
And if that mocking word ain't cruel
Buck is gonna give us some lefty fools...

yeah, I got nothing.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 20, 2023 11:24 AM (ykeLU)

99 So, question: would you rather have Commie Lay or Skankles as President?

Yeah, I know, neither, but assuming you had to pick one.

I think I'd go with Skankles, largely because she's not, you know, semi-retarded.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2023 11:24 AM (bW8dp)

100 When I worked for the state my vicinage would hold a diversity luncheon once a year and via email would ask employees to donate a dish that represents their ethnicity. Because they were idiots, the emails were open to "reply all," so every year I would "reply all" that it might be nicer to celebrate what unites us rather than our differences since America is such a wonderful melting pot.

Naturally, my emails received no replies, and every year I would show up with cocktail franks studded with hundreds of tiny American flag toothpicks.

This went on for seven years!

Posted by: IrishEi at February 20, 2023 11:24 AM (3ImbR)

101 I agree that everyone should have access to the 41K hour of footage from J6, but CNN or MSNBC and the rest would either not show their viewers, or edit things in a certain weigh to make it look like it's Trump's fault.

Anyway, I'm thinking Carlson has exclusive access for a limited time before they all get a crack at it.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 20, 2023 11:25 AM (mR6Gs)

102 There's witty mockery that makes a point and then there is just juvenile name calling. Winston Churchill was a pro at witty mockery.

Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 11:25 AM (O4AMf)

103 Funny snark of the day winner...

https://twitter.com/RogueOle/status/
1627688259160530944

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 20, 2023 11:25 AM (Vwz3I)

104 So, question: would you rather have Commie Lay or Skankles as President?

Commie Lay. Let it crash and burn.

Posted by: JoeF. at February 20, 2023 11:25 AM (mR6Gs)

105 He probably thinks he can take Amtrak back to DC.
---
Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll accidentally board the Trans-Siberian railroad to Vladivostok...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2023 11:25 AM (YIVH2)

106 56 52 It took FEMA two weeks to deploy to East Palestine. Biden makes a photo op in Kiev, Ukraine, because that's where the money is.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2023 11:16 AM (rj6Yv)

Probably had to pick up his cut in person
Posted by: It's me donna at February 20, 2023 11:16 AM (bs+z0

They are a tone deaf bunch. Support for this blank check bullshit has plummeted but Biden thinks this will deflect from his catastrophic responses for the past few weeks.

Is he wearing a 'military like' jacket and his aviators?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 11:26 AM (6VKyY)

107 "There was another exercise along the lines of Who Moved My Cheese that had to do with a pickle. Anyone remember what that was?"

I love a good game of Hide The Pickle!

- Mayor Pete

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2023 11:26 AM (uLr+K)

108 Do not take Harkles if you or anyone in your family have had an allergic reaction to Harkles or a life-threatening infection in the skin of the perineum.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 20, 2023 11:26 AM (ykeLU)

109 There's witty mockery that makes a point and then there is just juvenile name calling.

What?

Posted by: Desanctimonious at February 20, 2023 11:26 AM (eOEVl)

110 Trump's going to East Palestine Ohio Wednesday, that is pretty brave considering, he helped cause the accident.

-
Uhhh. What?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 20, 2023 11:26 AM (FVME7)

111 osted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2023 11:15 AM (OTzUX)

I'm with you on this. McChumpy thinks letting a third party look through them is keeping his promise, and he's wrong.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2023 11:26 AM (FCbAQ)

112 Weird how *actual* leaders (Trump & DeSantis) are keen on addressing AMERICAN issues...

The very essence of "America First."

Posted by: JoeF. at February 20, 2023 11:26 AM (mR6Gs)

113 At the "Rage Against The War Machine" rally in Washington yesterday, a handful of people carrying new Russian flags briefly showed up, occupying prominent positions behind the speakers, so the media could take pictures of the anti-war speakers with a backdrop of Russian flags.

It's weird - it's just like people briefly showing up with new Confederate flags to Trump rallies, so that they can be photographed in prominent positions.

Whoever could be behind this?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:27 AM (2tUFv)

114 Two Word check-ins:

Day 1: "Same Shit."
Days 2+: "Different Day."

Posted by: mikeski at February 20, 2023 11:27 AM (/45sY)

115 110 Trump's going to East Palestine Ohio Wednesday, that is pretty brave considering, he helped cause the accident.

-
Uhhh. What?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 20, 2023 11:26 AM (FVME7

Trump put a penny on the tracks.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 11:27 AM (6VKyY)

116 "There was another exercise along the lines of Who Moved My Cheese that had to do with a pickle. Anyone remember what that was?"

********

"Don't Put Your Finger In the Pickle Slicer or You'll Both Get Fired"

Posted by: Muldoon at February 20, 2023 11:27 AM (ykeLU)

117 When I worked for the state my vicinage would hold a diversity luncheon once a year and via email would ask employees to donate a dish that represents their ethnicity. Because they were idiots, the emails were open to "reply all," so every year I would "reply all" that it might be nicer to celebrate what unites us rather than our differences since America is such a wonderful melting pot.

Naturally, my emails received no replies, and every year I would show up with cocktail franks studded with hundreds of tiny American flag toothpicks.

This went on for seven years!
Posted by: IrishEi at February 20, 2023 11:24 AM (3ImbR)

You should have brought half a potato to celebrate the famine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2023 11:27 AM (z99Zw)

118 106. A name tag that says “Hello, I m Joe”

Posted by: Jen the original at February 20, 2023 11:27 AM (FPw1R)

119 Me, I sort of like the kind of diversity that means you get to eat a lot of tasty food, and once a year or so, every group puts on their bizarre ancestral costumes and gets shit-faced drunk, while remaining firmly American the other 364 days.

The kind of "diversity" where you want to destroy the Constitution, not so much.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2023 11:27 AM (bW8dp)

120 WH cretins advised Moscow of the vegetable's visit beforehand. Zero chance of any "incident", and extremely unlikely anyway.

Moscow has sort of beclowned itself at home (speaking of mockery) by having Konashenkov (MoD spokesman) explicitly threaten retaliation against Uke leadership waaaay back after the first Uke strike against a Russian city (helicopter attack on fuel facility in Belgorod).

And of course there's been no such thing. A few hits on field command personnel, but not at all what was threatened ("strike at the heart of decision-making"). Kiev is rarely touched at all.

Just wondering, were there any plastic turkeys involved? Or is the "press" fainting with adoration over the "brave" visit to a perfectly safe place located near a war-zone of no consequence?

Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2023 11:27 AM (OTzUX)

121 Libs of Tik Tok did two things:

1) Shined a spotlight on things libs like to pretend aren't happening

2) Shined a spotlight on people libs like to pretend don't represent them

This isn't happening and those people don't represent us but I support what they're doing 100%! Now leave our creepy weirdos alone!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 20, 2023 11:28 AM (KbCG3)

122 How do we know Biden went to Ukraine? for that matter, how does Biden even know he went to Ukraine?

Biden and Zelenski could be in Detroit, for all we know. And, how could we tell the difference between bombed out Ukraine and Detroit?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at February 20, 2023 11:28 AM (2YtOq)

123 > You should have brought half a potato to celebrate the famine.

Irish seven course meal: boiled potato and a six pack.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2023 11:28 AM (bW8dp)

124 This is why the Polite Right, the Principles Right, the NeverTrump are as much-- or more-- an enemy of freedom as the left:

Because their first response, the one thing they will spill barrels of ink over, the one thing that will scramble them to the nearest microphone to portray indignation, is to take away our greatest weapon.

"Don't be rude. Don't mock. Don't insult. Don't humiliate. And above all: Don't have fun fighting back."
And on and on.
Ten thousand rules of proper conduct that never apply to the enemy. And will never ever gain victory.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2023 11:29 AM (5EnGD)

125 Uhhh. What?

The official excuse is that Trump gutted railroad regulations and that caused the accident. I don't know the details well enough to analyze that, but I assume it's not right.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2023 11:29 AM (X4R3E)

126 Biden’s Secret Trip to Kyiv Took Guts
===
Never have we had a president so concerned about the public's conception of his bowels.

I hate clownworld.

Posted by: Can you reverse the super collider and send us back? at February 20, 2023 11:29 AM (j4S8X)

127 I love a good game of Hide The Pickle!
- Mayor Pete
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2023 11:26 AM (uLr+K)
~~~~~

Weisenheimer!

Posted by: IrishEi at February 20, 2023 11:29 AM (3ImbR)

128 *orders two 3D printed R-1820s for B-17*

Joey is about as brave as Hillary was dodging that 'sniper' fire.

*back to model building*
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:17 AM (e/Ar7)

Do they have tiny 3D-printed Studebaker nameplates? Because they ought to, you know.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2023 11:29 AM (tkR6S)

129 > The official excuse is that Trump gutted railroad regulations and that caused the accident.

Ask them why Dopey Joe didn't put them back. Presumably if Trump could unilaterally negate them, Biden could equally as well unilaterally reinstate them.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2023 11:30 AM (bW8dp)

130 And, how could we tell the difference between bombed out Ukraine and Detroit?

The Ukes make an effort to clean it up.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2023 11:30 AM (eOEVl)

131 I love a good game of Hide The Pickle!
- Mayor Pete

"Uhh, uhh!" - Barack Obama

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2023 11:30 AM (X4R3E)

132 Anybody want to take a one question poll?

https://tinyurl.com/4au9ba34

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2023 11:30 AM (uLr+K)

133 Trump's going to East Palestine Ohio Wednesday, that is pretty brave considering, he helped cause the accident.

-
Uhhh. What?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 20, 2023 11:26 AM (FVME7

Within minutes of that explosion, the bots started blaming Trump, saying he "rolled back" Obama restrictions and braking systems on trains.
Just like Trump screwed up Covid by not using the 'Pandemic Handbook" Obama left him

Bullshit

Posted by: JoeF. at February 20, 2023 11:30 AM (mR6Gs)

134 109 "There's witty mockery that makes a point and then there is just juvenile name calling."

What?
Posted by: Desanctimonious at February 20, 2023 11:26 AM (eOEVl)

Yeah that was a good way to highlight that kitschy ad. It isn't Crooked Hillary but a succinct way to get the point across.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 20, 2023 11:31 AM (eYoxG)

135 The official excuse is that Trump gutted railroad regulations and that caused the accident. I don't know the details well enough to analyze that, but I assume it's not right.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2023 11:29 AM (X4R3E)

Another one of the Left's 10 common mental defects.

The.inability to determine cause and effect.

Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 11:31 AM (O4AMf)

136 The official excuse is that Trump gutted railroad regulations and that caused the accident. I don't know the details well enough to analyze that, but I assume it's not right.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2023 11:29 AM (X4R3E)

He also ordered explosives to be placed on tanker cars which would randomly detonate any time they were not upright.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2023 11:31 AM (z99Zw)

137
Chug, chug, chug went the engine
Bump, bump, bump went the brake
Thump, thump, thump went the freight train
When it derailed I could feel the car shake

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 20, 2023 11:31 AM (Jg7EG)

138 'America where are you now, don't you care about your sons and daughters?'

Posted by: Eromero at February 20, 2023 11:31 AM (MF3yS)

139 and the train it won't stop going, no way to slow down

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 20, 2023 11:31 AM (geLO8)

140 Second World War-style rationing of petrol, household energy, and meat could help to "fight climate change," British "scientists" now recommend.
https://t.co/HtNwOHIGEH

Posted by: Ciampino -- inebriated robots at February 20, 2023 11:31 AM (qfLjt)

141 Bullshit
Posted by: JoeF. at February 20, 2023 11:30 AM (mR6Gs)

Eh. It's all they got.

Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2023 11:31 AM (rj6Yv)

142 Anybody want to take a one question poll?

https://tinyurl.com/4au9ba34
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Currently 86-14 for the good guys.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 20, 2023 11:32 AM (Vwz3I)

143 Oh, Tucker has the curation task?
Why not put them on a publicly accessible site?
Release has a different meaning than, no worries Tucker has them all and no YOU cannot see them, to me.

Better than nothing is not the deal, bigK.

Posted by: micky at February 20, 2023 11:32 AM (3byMq)

144 Anybody want to take a one question poll?

https://tinyurl.com/4au9ba34

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2023 11:30 AM (uLr+K)

That didn't take long.

Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2023 11:32 AM (AwYPR)

145 Possibly timed to coincide with Biden's visit, the imprisoned Alexei Navalny issued a manifesto, where he called for the return of Crimea to Ukraine, and the payment of reparations to Ukraine.

Sounds like someone is positioning himself to be the Western figurehead leader after Nuland's coup in Moscow.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:32 AM (2tUFv)

146 and the train it won't stop going, no way to slow down

"It was a long train. We tried to tell you" - the Doobie Brothers.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 20, 2023 11:32 AM (X4R3E)

147 Second World War-style rationing of petrol, household energy, and meat could help to "fight climate change," British "scientists" now recommend.
https://t.co/HtNwOHIGEH
Posted by: Ciampino -- inebriated robots at February 20, 2023 11:31 AM (qfLjt)
---------------

They're getting desperate. Despite their best efforts, capitalism is still managing to feed everyone.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at February 20, 2023 11:33 AM (2YtOq)

148 Currently 86-14 for the good guys.

And those who took part can expect a deluge of political spam.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 20, 2023 11:33 AM (eOEVl)

149 Yeah that was a good way to highlight that kitschy ad. It isn't Crooked Hillary but a succinct way to get the point across.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 20, 2023 11:31 AM (eYoxG)

Well not a lot of second graders know the definition of sanctimonious so he upped his insults a little bit.

Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 11:33 AM (O4AMf)

150 So, everybody knew that Orange Hitler had rescinded regulations that would've prevented this train disaster, and Mayor Pete didn't immediately reinstate those regulations once Biden took command? Was he too busy chest-feeding to do his job?

Posted by: PabloD at February 20, 2023 11:34 AM (6+pFt)

151 Libs of Tik Tok did two things:

1) Shined a spotlight on things libs like to pretend aren't happening

2) Shined a spotlight on people libs like to pretend don't represent them

This isn't happening and those people don't represent us but I support what they're doing 100%! Now leave our creepy weirdos alone!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Truth to libs is like sunlight to vampires.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 20, 2023 11:34 AM (FVME7)

152 'America where are you now, don't you care about your sons and daughters?'

Posted by: Eromero at February 20, 2023 11:31 AM (MF3yS)

'don't you know, we need you now? We can't fight alone against the monster'

Posted by: BignJames at February 20, 2023 11:35 AM (AwYPR)

153 Visited Conservative Treehouse this morning. Boy, do those folks despise DeSantis.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 20, 2023 11:35 AM (DSB5h)

154 No need to "clean up" Kiev. It's barely been touched. Two of the worst incidents occurred in the first 48 hours, a Uke SAM that went astray and remodeled a high-rise residential building, and an Su-27 that went down (cause of crash unknown, AFAIK). There have been a few military-industrial related targets hit and one military command facility (not what are believed to be any of the main ones where top leadership actually might be located). And of course the electrical power system hits on transformers (mostly, not generating infrastructure).

Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2023 11:35 AM (OTzUX)

155 >>How much more of a joke can you make of a guy who is already wearing a dress?

You asked. . .

https://tinyurl.com/2p8m9ss3
https://tinyurl.com/ye2xptnj

Posted by: Lizzy at February 20, 2023 11:35 AM (mqu1M)

156 So, everybody knew that Orange Hitler had rescinded regulations that would've prevented this train disaster, and Mayor Pete didn't immediately reinstate those regulations once Biden took command? Was he too busy chest-feeding to do his job?
Posted by: PabloD

That and sucking cock.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 20, 2023 11:35 AM (+Wcyp)

157 In The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis quotes:

Martin Luther -- “The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.”; and

St. Thomas More -- “The devil ... that proud spirit ... cannot endure to be mocked.”

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 11:35 AM (wsx8x)

158 "Celebrate responsibly today."

I'm pretty sure our Presidents could give Delta House a run for their money.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 20, 2023 11:35 AM (cupoy)

159 Visited Conservative Treehouse this morning. Boy, do those folks despise DeSantis.

IT'S NOT HIS TURN YET!

Posted by: True Conservatives! at February 20, 2023 11:36 AM (2tUFv)

160 149 Yeah that was a good way to highlight that kitschy ad. It isn't Crooked Hillary but a succinct way to get the point across.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 20, 2023 11:31 AM (eYoxG)

Well not a lot of second graders know the definition of sanctimonious so he upped his insults a little bit.
Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 11:33 AM (O4AMf)

And moreover DeSantis supporters constantly remind people of the God's-champion ad.

That's an important Trump technique, get your adversaries to bring up something they'd be better off letting be forgotten repeatedly.

Complaining about Joe Biden being called Dementia Joe or Crooked Hillary being called Crooked Hillary just gets people to ask why they're called that.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 20, 2023 11:36 AM (eYoxG)

161 56
'Probably had to pick up his cut in person'
Jeez. I didn't think about that but you're absolutely right.
This is one of those "I'll give you your bribe but you have to get it in person, so my people will see how important I am" moments.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2023 11:36 AM (YohY1)

162 Compare it to liberals calling Trump orange.

Is being Orange disqualifying for a President? It's not even arguably a character flaw.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 20, 2023 11:36 AM (eYoxG)

163 I think we should give Zelenskyy tanks so he can roll on Moscow.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 20, 2023 11:37 AM (Jg7EG)

164 I almost met Tom Sizemore once. I was in Heidi Fleiss's double-wide about 4AM, and he showed up drunk, yelling and pounding on the door. I snuck out the back. I'd left my autograph book at home anyway.

Posted by: Filesystem /gp Rebuilding 8% at February 20, 2023 11:37 AM (24fqN)

165 Sounds like someone is positioning himself to be the Western figurehead leader after Nuland's coup in Moscow.
==
In this case "Nuland's coup in Moscow" = her strolling past Moscow constructions sites at quitting time, with a bottle of vodka sticking out of her purse.

Posted by: "Foreign Policy" is Nuland's idea of the dating game at February 20, 2023 11:37 AM (UIdWp)

166 I thought Libs of Tik Tok's whole deal was almost no commentary of its own, no mockery - just putting out the most lurid ridiculous crap to speak for itself. But I don't pay a lot of attention to all that stuff.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2023 11:38 AM (OTzUX)

167 I will call them Power Mad Utopians like that tablet article does

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 20, 2023 11:38 AM (Xlnez)

168 Two word check in -

deez nuts

Posted by: kalllisto at February 20, 2023 11:38 AM (6fvRe)

169 This isn't about "Climate Change". People in the Ruling Class don't give a crap about Gaia. They aren't giving up their oceanfront homes or their private jets, or their fleets of cars, or their yachts. Nope, none of that. What they want is more power. The Roman emperors declared themselves to be "gods". I mean, we have a ways to go before a Biden is accepted as a deity.

Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2023 11:39 AM (rj6Yv)

170 I thought Libs of Tik Tok's whole deal was almost no commentary of its own, no mockery - just putting out the most lurid ridiculous crap to speak for itself. But I don't pay a lot of attention to all that stuff.
Posted by: rhomboid

And that's all it is.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 20, 2023 11:39 AM (+Wcyp)

171 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 20, 2023 11:36 AM (eYoxG)

This is what happens when you yield your country to the lowest common denominator. Trump is anything but witty and why a lot of otherwise strong supporters cringe at this personality trait and thin skin.

Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 11:39 AM (O4AMf)

172 Alberta Oil Peon

The Eduard 1/48 Brassin set of four resin and PE R-1820 engines has a decal to be used for Studebaker built engines.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:40 AM (e/Ar7)

173 Democrats always point to some obscure or vague or imaginary regulation that Republicans let expire, or some office somewhere in DC that Republican closed down 8 or 10 years ago that would have prevented whatever disaster occurs under a Democrat administration. It's all bullshit, but it works because it's something the media and the twitter bots can point to to change the subject

Posted by: JoeF. at February 20, 2023 11:40 AM (mR6Gs)

174 I mean, we have a ways to go before a Biden is accepted as a deity.
Posted by: mrp at February 20, 2023 11:39 AM (rj6Yv)

Who was the Roman god of retarded jackasses? I think Joe's got an in there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2023 11:41 AM (z99Zw)

175 Oh hey

Jimmy Carter has entered hospice care.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:41 AM (e/Ar7)

176 168 Two word check in -

deez nuts
Posted by: kalllisto

stabby stab

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 20, 2023 11:41 AM (Xlnez)

177 Anybody remember the mad rush from the Left to remove ANY 'I did that!' stickers that were posted on gas pumps and such?

Yeh, the left can not stand being laughed at, nor mocked.

And it's easy and fun to do!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2023 11:42 AM (uLr+K)

178 I was between jobs and somehow 'Who Moved my Cheese' was suggested for me to read.

I think I read a page and a half of it before I realized it was be flexible and the basic gist of the book

Posted by: Blanco at February 20, 2023 11:42 AM (F0+HC)

179 126 Biden’s Secret Trip to Kyiv Took Guts
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Never have we had a president so concerned about the public's conception of his bowels.

I hate clownworld.
Posted by: Can you reverse the super collider and send us back? at February 20, 2023 11:29 AM (j4S8X)

Did he know he was going to Kiev?

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 11:42 AM (eGTCV)

180 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2023 11:42 AM (uLr+K)

That was awesome mockery as well as Let's Go Brandon.

Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 11:42 AM (O4AMf)

181 Jimmy Carter has entered hospice care.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:41 AM (e/Ar7)

He lived long enough to become only the third worst President in living memory.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2023 11:43 AM (z99Zw)

182 Hundreds of teenagers break into Texas family's home for Bring Your Own Weed 'mansion rager' party they promoted on social media without owners' permission
https://mol.im/a/11772027

Posted by: Ciampino - robots eat grease at February 20, 2023 11:43 AM (qfLjt)

183 Wasn't Harris just flown back from Germany? Didn't she speak to their minister of the economy and noted child's book author Robert Habek?

That must have been an exciting meeting. To be a fly on that wall.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2023 11:43 AM (xhaym)

184 171 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 20, 2023 11:36 AM (eYoxG)

This is what happens when you yield your country to the lowest common denominator. Trump is anything but witty and why a lot of otherwise strong supporters cringe at this personality trait and thin skin.
Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 11:39 AM (O4AMf)

Putin's declaration of causes for war in Ukraine is a satire of the US causes for war in Iraq.

That's basically entirely useless. Their values messaging is far more effective.

Trump is good at messaging and publicity. People are largely not going to read a modern rewrite of a Modest Proposal in PJmedia or something. Information has to get past the media barrier and trigger interest in the audience to dig even a little bit.

While the liberals don't need to be particularly clever, they do generate lots of smoke for R candidates to make people assume there is fire.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 20, 2023 11:43 AM (eYoxG)

185 "Did he know he was going to Kiev?"

Did?

He still doesn't.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2023 11:43 AM (uLr+K)

186 stabby stab
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 20, 2023 11:41 AM (Xlnez)

faccia brutta

Posted by: kalllisto at February 20, 2023 11:43 AM (6fvRe)

187 No need to "clean up" Kiev. It's barely been touched.

Yeah, for someone who is literally Hitler, Putin has been remarkably reluctant to Dresdenize Ukrainian cities. The Ukrainians had to make a big deal of one apartment building destroyed in Dnipro (almost certainly destroyed by an off-course Ukrainian anti-air missile), given the lack of Russian attacks on housing.

OTOH, Russia's taking out Ukrainian electrical infrastructure is the Worst War Crime Ever.

Of course, the United States has attacked electrical infrastructure in every strategic air campaign that it has ever conducted - Germany and Japan in WWII, North Korea, North Vietnam, Iraq (twice) and Yugoslavia. No matter.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:43 AM (2tUFv)

188 The Eduard 1/48 Brassin set of four resin and PE R-1820 engines has a decal to be used for Studebaker built engines.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:40 AM (e/Ar7)

Attention to detail. Nice work! The B-17 "Sentimental Journey" at the Mesa CAF museum has 4 Studebaker-built engines, IIRC.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2023 11:43 AM (tkR6S)

189 “Who Moved My Cheese” is written at a childish level about mice who either adapt to change, and can find their cheese in a maze, versus mice who don’t adapt to change, and can no longer find their cheese.

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It was ghost-written by Kamala?

/BTW, for those who don't know, somebody actually published a mocking version of that book called "Who Cut The Cheese?: An A-Mazing Parody About Change and How We Can Get Our Hands On Yours" by "Stilton Jarlsberg M.D., with a forward by Kenneth Bleucheese Ph.D." nee Stephen White.

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 11:43 AM (wsx8x)

190 181 - LOL, well said!

Sadly.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2023 11:44 AM (OTzUX)

191 Anybody remember the mad rush from the Left to remove ANY 'I did that!' stickers that were posted on gas pumps and such?

Yeh, the left can not stand being laughed at, nor mocked.

And it's easy and fun to do!
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It so inflamed his pride, and spotlighted his lies that he started selling of the oil reserve. He makes Obama look efficient, and reliable.

Posted by: its gotten worse every year - defying all odds at February 20, 2023 11:44 AM (UIdWp)

192 Remain calm! All is well!

Posted by: "Chip Diller" Biden in Kyiv at February 20, 2023 11:44 AM (Jg7EG)

193 172 Alberta Oil Peon

The Eduard 1/48 Brassin set of four resin and PE R-1820 engines has a decal to be used for Studebaker built engines.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:40 AM
The B17 (still flying afaik) Aluminum Overcast has a Stuidebaker inboard port side wing. Eromero has a picture of his self standing in front of that badboy.

Posted by: Eromero at February 20, 2023 11:44 AM (MF3yS)

194 Jimmy Carter has entered hospice care.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:41 AM (e/Ar7)

He lived long enough to become only the third worst President in living memory.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2023 11:43 AM (z99Zw)

I figured my stock would never rise higher than this; I'd better shuffle off now while the getting's good.

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at February 20, 2023 11:45 AM (bhRsz)

195 Wasn't Harris just flown back from Germany? Didn't she speak to their minister of the economy and noted child's book author Robert Habek?

She went to sample some bratwurst

Posted by: JoeF. at February 20, 2023 11:45 AM (mR6Gs)

196 195 Wasn't Harris just flown back from Germany? Didn't she speak to their minister of the economy and noted child's book author Robert Habek?

She went to sample some bratwurst
Posted by: JoeF. at February 20, 2023 11:45 AM (mR6Gs)

She likes the weinerschnitzle.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 11:45 AM (6VKyY)

197 "She went to sample some bratwurst"

Are we now back to phrasing?

Cause that sounds like phrasing.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2023 11:46 AM (uLr+K)

198 181 Jimmy Carter has entered hospice care.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:41 AM (e/Ar7)

He lived long enough to become only the third worst President in living memory.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2023 11:43 AM (z99Zw)
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Him and that piece of work Andrew Young.

Posted by: Ciampino - robots eat greasy nuts at February 20, 2023 11:46 AM (qfLjt)

199 Bidens trip to Kiev raised a question in my mind . Why haven't the Russians taken out rail links between the West and Ukraine? It would seem to me to be warfare 101 to take out rail lines which could provide your enemy with supplies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2023 11:46 AM (1YqTf)

200 Now go away or ah will taunt you a second time!

Posted by: Axeman at February 20, 2023 11:46 AM (krQz2)

201 181 All the Presidents in my lifetime (I was born during LBJ) have pretty much sucked, except Reagan and Trump.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 20, 2023 11:47 AM (DSB5h)

202 > Anybody remember the mad rush from the Left to remove ANY 'I did that!' stickers that were posted on gas pumps and such?
________________
I still have a wad of those. Been sticking them on empty shelves where stuff is "out of stock" and next to the eggs.

The woke employees hate me.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 20, 2023 11:47 AM (Q4IgG)

203 Employees openly mocked “Who Moved my Cheese” by joking that maybe we should also read “Encyclopedia Brown” to learn about problem-solving, or perhaps read “The Little Engine That Could” to learn about self-confidence and persistence.

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I had a manager once who gave "Who Moved My Cheese" to all her employees as a Christmas gift.

And given the level of analytic skills I've seen in my time, "Encyclopedia Brown" might not be such a bad starting point (He was a favorite of mine in my youth).

Now, in honor of President's Day, I give you the Mediocre Presidents, from The Simpsons:

https://youtu.be/r8N7BSsU5oo

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 20, 2023 11:47 AM (uPgE/)

204 If Jimmy Carter does shuffle off his mortal coil, will his funeral procession collide with John McCain's?

And will the scoundrels screech "Have you no shame!" when Carter's many failings are listed?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:47 AM (e/Ar7)

205 199 Bidens trip to Kiev raised a question in my mind . Why haven't the Russians taken out rail links between the West and Ukraine? It would seem to me to be warfare 101 to take out rail lines which could provide your enemy with supplies
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2023 11:46 AM (1YqTf

Fears of hitting NATO equipment or troops delivering all the goodies to Kyiv.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 11:47 AM (6VKyY)

206 I figured my stock would never rise higher than this; I'd better shuffle off now while the getting's good.
Posted by: Jimmy Carter
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You better go for cremation, because if you don't, we're coming for you . . .

Posted by: Neutria liberation army spokesrodent at February 20, 2023 11:48 AM (1Aedd)

207 To that idiot who wrote "Who Moved My Cheese?" I always thought a good response would be "Don't Move My Cheese Or I Will Kill You!".

Still waiting for someone to write it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 20, 2023 11:48 AM (z1bdm)

208 She likes the weinerschnitzle.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 11:45 AM (6VKyY)
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But not so much the schnitzel.

Posted by: Axeman at February 20, 2023 11:48 AM (krQz2)

209 Trump burned the chemicals from the train.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 20, 2023 11:48 AM (Xlnez)

210 Bidens trip to Kiev raised a question in my mind . Why haven't the Russians taken out rail links between the West and Ukraine? It would seem to me to be warfare 101 to take out rail lines which could provide your enemy with supplies

Too easy to repair.

Taking out electrical transformers and generators is much harder to repair.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:48 AM (2tUFv)

211 The widespread employee mockery of this and a few other idiotic management gimmicks caused a collapse in confidence of certain executives, and a loss of respect for those managers who enthusiastically embraced the fads.

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"If you’re considering being a Scrum Master in an organization where Agile, Lean, or DevOps concepts are practiced at a large scale, getting SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) certified might be what you’re looking for!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 11:48 AM (wsx8x)

212 FISH training. If you were given FISH training I pity you.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2023 11:48 AM (xhaym)

213 One of the world's most capable submarines is named after him.

Posted by: Just Sayin' at February 20, 2023 11:49 AM (VRzLW)

214 One of the world's most capable submarines is named after him.

The Navy has a sick corporate humor.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:49 AM (e/Ar7)

215

Hmmm. I uh. Hmmmmm

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at February 20, 2023 11:50 AM (vwCZJ)

216 214 One of the world's most capable submarines is named after him.

The Navy has a sick corporate humor.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:49 AM (e/Ar7

Have you seen any models of the US Milk?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 11:50 AM (6VKyY)

217 Winston Churchill had some great insults of his political opponents. Like calling a particularly weak man a sheep in sheep's clothing. Another one he referred to as the Boneless Wonder. Look up Churchill quotations and you will find some beauties.

Another witty Warrior was the Duke of Wellington. Look up some of his quotations! We can freely borrow these because most of our enemies are illiterate and know nothing of History so they won't know what hit them.

Also, Churchill and Wellington would approve.

Posted by: Beverly at February 20, 2023 11:50 AM (exS2V)

218 Fears of hitting NATO equipment or troops delivering all the goodies to Kyiv.

Remember, a key objective of the Ukrainian government is to get NATO directly involved in the war. The Russians are trying to avoid that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:50 AM (2tUFv)

219 The "pair-programming" fad is what finally drove me out of software development.

Reminded me of college labs where I was often partnered with a lazy idiot and had to carry him by doing the work of two. Parasitic Collectivism by any other name ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 11:51 AM (wsx8x)

220 186 stabby stab
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 20, 2023 11:41 AM (Xlnez)

faccia brutta

Posted by: kalllisto at February 20, 2023 11:43 AM (6fvRe)
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Chi chiami faccia brutta?

Posted by: Ciampino - xlations done tomorrow at February 20, 2023 11:51 AM (qfLjt)

221 I had to sit through one of those Who Moved My Cheese presentations back in the late 90s. My supervisor at the time was really all-in on it. I lost most of the respect I had for him after that.

Posted by: Zombie Chris Farley at February 20, 2023 11:51 AM (FQWHA)

222 'But tomorrow I shall wake up sober.
And you shall wake up ugly'

:Stuff Sir Winston once said to a lady, while drunk

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2023 11:52 AM (uLr+K)

223 >>>"She went to sample some bratwurst"

>The Secret Service looked the other way when Kamala was smuggling kielbasa.

Posted by: Gropey Joe at February 20, 2023 11:52 AM (Jg7EG)

224 Posted by: Beverly at February 20, 2023 11:50 AM (exS2V

My favorite Churchill insult is

He has all the virtues I despise and none of the vices I admire.

It sums up my feelings about the Left.

Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 11:53 AM (O4AMf)

225 In England would Kamala snogg a banger?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:53 AM (e/Ar7)

226 The widespread employee mockery of this and a few other idiotic management gimmicks caused a collapse in confidence of certain executives, and a loss of respect for those managers who enthusiastically embraced the fads.

Re-engineering, bitchez!

Posted by: TQM by any other name would smell just as bad at February 20, 2023 11:53 AM (zLJNe)

227 Never read Who Moved my Brie

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 11:53 AM (6VKyY)

228
>The Secret Service looked the other way when Kamala was smuggling kielbasa.
Posted by: Gropey Joe at February 20, 2023 11:52 AM (Jg7EG)

The whole sausage.

Posted by: Nipsy Cuomo at February 20, 2023 11:53 AM (Zz0t1)

229 Posted by: Ciampino - xlations done tomorrow at February 20, 2023 11:51 AM (qfLjt)

the #woke CEOs and managers

Posted by: kalllisto at February 20, 2023 11:53 AM (6fvRe)

230 Second World War-style rationing of petrol, household energy, and meat could help to "fight climate change," British "scientists" now recommend.
https://t.co/HtNwOHIGEH
Posted by: Ciampino -- inebriated robots at February 20, 2023 11:31 AM (qfLjt)

Wow. "This time we will get it right WITHOUT Thatcher's meddling"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2023 11:53 AM (xhaym)

231 LOL.

JackPosobiec
1m
They put a red spot on the ground for Biden’s photo op with fake sirens - 100% staged

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:53 AM (2tUFv)

232 In England would Kamala snogg a banger?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:53 AM (e/Ar7)

And mash!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:54 AM (Zz0t1)

233 England didn't quit rationing until the 1960s IIRC

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:54 AM (e/Ar7)

234 ">The Secret Service looked the other way when Kamala was smuggling kielbasa."

USSA Agent: Madam Vice President, that's not a kielbasa.

Kamala: That's OK, I'm not smuggling it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2023 11:54 AM (uLr+K)

235 One of the world's most capable submarines is named after him.

The Navy has a sick corporate humor.
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*Heh*
hold my beer

Adm'l Levine Class of Heavy Barge Concrete Ship converted to Tuna Cannery then back to cargo ship. (Formerly SS Peralta)

Posted by: Merchant Marine at February 20, 2023 11:54 AM (2aQ9H)

236 231 LOL.

JackPosobiec
1m
They put a red spot on the ground for Biden’s photo op with fake sirens - 100% staged
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:53 AM (2tUFv

With a note card that read 'Act Tough' like Charles Bronson a

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 11:54 AM (6VKyY)

237 In England would Kamala snogg a banger?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:53 AM (e/Ar7)

She'd be handling a lot of Stickey Wickets.

Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 11:54 AM (O4AMf)

238 two word checkin:

That's a fact, Jack.

Posted by: Brandon at February 20, 2023 11:55 AM (OUiUM)

239 Mayor Buttplug embodies the Peter Puffer Principle

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 20, 2023 11:55 AM (hRS2E)

240 "Putin's declaration of causes for war in Ukraine is a satire of the US causes for war in Iraq."

Not really (note: I may be misunderstanding the point of what I just quoted from Red Turban Guy). It mostly avoided the actual rationale, for the most part, which is practical and power-politics in nature, and fairly defensible in the historical Russian context, and sub'd in hot-button crap like "denazify". "De-militarize" was an exaggerated version of the key objective: no Ukrainian NATO membership or de facto integration in NATO military structure.

And of course the irredentist "ethnic" thing of Russian-speakers and their treatment by Kiev in Donetsk and Lugansk. This is real of course, and has involved actual fighting and death for 8 years already, and has real traction in Russian popular opinion. But there are (now, mostly "were") different views in Moscow on what the desired goal was there, reflected in Russia's formal diplomatic position in the Minsk process, which maintained that both oblasts were Ukrainian territory.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2023 11:55 AM (OTzUX)

241 99 So, question: would you rather have Commie Lay or Skankles as President?

I think I'd go with Skankles, largely because she's not, you know, semi-retarded.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2023 11:24 AM

Interesting question. If I thought Clinton was JUST about selling out for money, I'd pick her, but she wants to be a historical figure, and would try to enact all sorts of massive governmental change, and is smart (or cunning) enough to succeed. That's terrifying.

Kamala is retarded and ineffective. The government bureaucracy is efficient enough to deal with major, legitimate crises, while Kamala will slow and fuck-up any normal agenda items, so I guess she's the better choice for a less rapid decline of the US?

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at February 20, 2023 11:55 AM (NCgXW)

242 I dislike Mondays.

I dislike rainy mondays even more.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 11:56 AM (6VKyY)

243 227 Never read Who Moved my Brie

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 11:53 AM (6VKyY)
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I read that in a stilted voice.

Posted by: Ciampino - gouda, gouda gumdrops tomorrow at February 20, 2023 11:56 AM (qfLjt)

244 Hillary or Kamala?

So either the Side of Beef or the Side Lay...

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:56 AM (e/Ar7)

245 Did someone remember to pack Joe's tough guy aviators?

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 11:56 AM (eGTCV)

246 So, Biden unsurprisingly made a "surprise" visit to Kiev.

Campaign fundraising trip.

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist to the Stars at February 20, 2023 11:56 AM (Vu7A1)

247 Mockery is great if you're good at it.
I see a lot of third-rate mockery, attempted.
Don't do that.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (jYCXf)

248 I often go with Rodney's "It looks good on you, though /eyeroll" as a quick and easy mocking.

Posted by: Roy at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (ujnTl)

249 To that idiot who wrote "Who Moved My Cheese?" I always thought a good response would be "Don't Move My Cheese Or I Will Kill You!".

Still waiting for someone to write it.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 20, 2023 11:48 AM (z1bdm)

Behead those who insult the Prophet Mozzarella!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (z99Zw)

250 So, Biden unsurprisingly made a "surprise" visit to Kiev.

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[To reprise Sponge from the previous thread:]

"Now is the time for Putin to do the right thing."

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (wsx8x)

251 Mockery is great if you're good at it.
I see a lot of third-rate mockery, attempted.
Don't do that.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (jYCXf)

I apologize.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (Zz0t1)

252 "Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world."

Posted by: The Duke of Wellington at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (VRzLW)

253 One thing about Kamala, if as President, they give her the plan to destroy the United States.....

She'd Fcuk it up.

So we have that going for us.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (uLr+K)

254 Adam Kinzinger weighs in:

Joe Biden’s visit to Kiev is great, and sends a strong message that the US stands with #Ukraine.

There is absolutely no debate, Trump NEVER would have gone, because he would have been too scared and of course, Russia.

Yeah, going to Kiev is really, really scary, isn't it?

Of course, if Trump was still President, there wouldn't have been a war.

I expect Kinzinger to be denounced for referring to Kiev as "Kiev" (Russian spelling) and not Keev.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (2tUFv)

255 In England would Kamala snogg a banger?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:53 AM (e/Ar7)

She'd be handling a lot of Stickey Wickets.
Posted by: polynikes

And lapping up the treacle from the spotted dick.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (hRS2E)

256 Going back in time would you have rather Hillary won instead of Obama? ( the Presidency)

Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (O4AMf)

257 From the Art Thread comments this morning regarding the Battle Of Franklin TN.
Confederate Generals killed: Patrick Cleburne,S.R. Gist, Otho Strahl, Hiram Granbury, John Adams, John Carpenter.

Posted by: Eromero at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (MF3yS)

258 Two words:

"Proper fucked."

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 20, 2023 11:58 AM (DTX3h)

259
Behead those who insult the Prophet Mozzarella!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (z99Zw)

LMFAO.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 11:58 AM (Zz0t1)

260 >In England would Kamala snogg a banger?
Posted by: Anna Puma

She would go for the Spotted Dick

https://tinyurl.com/4x6hd982

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 20, 2023 11:58 AM (geLO8)

261 Poo Tin isn't hurting a plug on Jotatoe's head because he's Poo Tin's best chance of pulling off his Special
military Operation.

They're evenly matched.

Posted by: torabora at February 20, 2023 11:58 AM (OUiUM)

262 153
'Boy, do those folks despise DeSantis.'

Well, that's just stupid shit. We still don't know much about DeSantis but about 100% of what we do know is good.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 20, 2023 11:58 AM (YohY1)

263 Pro-tip - if you get upset by zingers then politics isn't your line of work. Nor is working retail.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2023 11:59 AM (e/Ar7)

264 >Joe Biden’s visit to Kiev is great, and sends a strong message that the US stands with #Ukraine.

why exactly do we stand with Key Eff

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 20, 2023 11:59 AM (geLO8)

265 A proper mocking is done so that the mockee isn't quite sure about it, e.g. that nervous laugh in the story above.

Posted by: Roy at February 20, 2023 11:59 AM (ujnTl)

266 256 Going back in time would you have rather Hillary won instead of Obama? ( the Presidency)
Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 11:57 AM (O4AMf)

That's a tough one but I'd take Hillary. She's a simple thief and a bunt, but I think she'd have been more towards the middle left. Obama was completely marxist and most of our woes today can be laid at his commie feet.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 12:00 PM (6VKyY)

267 Pennsylvania county to mail residents free condoms to combat rocketing STD rates
https://mol.im/a/11771991

Posted by: Ciampino -- gouda, gouda gumdrops tomorrow at February 20, 2023 12:00 PM (qfLjt)

268 or YouCrane

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 20, 2023 12:00 PM (geLO8)

269 "They're evenly matched."

Not hardly.

Right down to only one of them can find their way unassisted off of the stage after a presser.

(And it ain't Biden)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2023 12:00 PM (uLr+K)

270 William Gladstone told Benjamin Disraeli he was destine to either die on the gallows or of the pox.
Disraeli's response was "that depends, sir, on whether I embrace your principles or your wife."

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 12:00 PM (eGTCV)

271 Anyone want to buy a used election?

https://tinyurl.com/37635vpm

Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2023 12:00 PM (xhaym)

272
Stage Gate Process!
Total Quality Management!
ISO 9000!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 20, 2023 12:01 PM (Hb8gF)

273 The woke stuff isn't a fad, and the comparison to the silly management stuff isn't an apt one.

It's a bunch of complex political and propaganda techniques rolled together. If you do nothing - they win. If you push back, you skyline yourself for action, which they assume they'll win. Their dogma is SUPPOSED to be insane, that's the point.

"But the diverse members of the anti-progressive front can and should use every peaceful method..."

Fail right out of the gate. These people mean to kill a bunch of us and enslave the rest. They don't give a fuck about us hurting their feelings. You don't simply mock people forcing male pedos into your daughter's locker room.

Posted by: somedood at February 20, 2023 12:01 PM (GvumD)

274 240 "Putin's declaration of causes for war in Ukraine is a satire of the US causes for war in Iraq."

Not really (note: I may be misunderstanding the point of what I just quoted from Red Turban Guy). It mostly avoided the actual rationale, for the most part, which is practical and power-politics in nature, and fairly defensible in the historical Russian context, and sub'd in hot-button crap like "denazify". "De-militarize" was an exaggerated version of the key objective: no Ukrainian NATO membership or de facto integration in NATO military structure.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2023 11:55 AM (OTzUX)

There was a particular Putin speech early on iirc that was structured after certain language that was used in regards to Iraq. Trouble finding it at present as search engine is just bringing back unrelated stuff from the western media. Official Russian government output has tended to be rich in historical detail and analogy as well as highlighting western hypocrisy.

We can see by comparison though that it's their mocking of woke western values that tends to get through, particularly on social media.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 20, 2023 12:01 PM (eYoxG)

275 Dear Lord, but my company’s management team would be unable to function but for buzzword fads. So. Many. Fads.

Lost in the relentless application of the newest buzzword is get your job done. Instead we get wrapped around the hub with concerns about how the organization and processes failed the individual. Our processes are industry best-practices. They are gold plated, cost about that much, and weigh even more.

We try to manage losing workers with 20 to 30 years of experience by building that knowledge (or lack thereof) into procedures that then take hours to perform and need a small crane to take into the field.

Posted by: Advo at February 20, 2023 12:01 PM (VHN21)

276 LOL. Kiev has been turned into the official stop on the Globalist World Tour.

Most of the time in day-to-day business, the goons show up to pick up the week's protection money. But every so often, the Don of la famigilia himself wants to pay a visit.

Sows good will. "good" in this context meaning it reminds the little guys who's really in charge

Posted by: Hands at February 20, 2023 12:01 PM (786Ro)

277 267 Pennsylvania county to mail residents free condoms to combat rocketing STD rates
https://mol.im/a/11771991
Posted by: Ciampino -- gouda, gouda gumdrops tomorrow at February 20, 2023 12:00 PM (qfLjt)

They should have herd immunity by now. Do something for the farm animals though.

Posted by: Roy at February 20, 2023 12:01 PM (ujnTl)

278 Winston Churchill had some great insults of his political opponents. Like calling a particularly weak man a sheep in sheep's clothing. Another one he referred to as the Boneless Wonder. Look up Churchill quotations and you will find some beauties.

Another witty Warrior was the Duke of Wellington. Look up some of his quotations! We can freely borrow these because most of our enemies are illiterate and know nothing of History so they won't know what hit them.

Also, Churchill and Wellington would approve.
Posted by: Beverly at February 20, 2023 11:50 AM (exS2V)

One of my favorite stories of a Churchill insult is his appearing to be asleep while an opponent was delivering a speech in Parliament. The guy got annoyed and demanded, "Must you always fall asleep when I talk?" and Churchill replied, "No, it is purely voluntary."

Posted by: Dr. T (Google It!) at February 20, 2023 12:02 PM (bhRsz)

279 Russian official statements on relevant topics now and for some time have automatically included a line about all western military aid shipments to Ukraine being "legal targets" for Russian attack. AFAIK they've kind of wimped out on this, but there may have been some attacks on stuff in transit. There have been attacks on depots or training facilities where western personnel reasonably could be expected to be present, in western Ukraine near Lvov. But just a few.

And as ARC said, railroads fairly easy to fix - well, trackage. Just as in WWII (more B-26 pilot diary entries to come from me), marshalling yards and other key nodes are another matter. The first Russian electrical infrastructure attacks (pre-dating the Kerch bridge incident) were on electrical equipment for the railways in the east, which obviously are the logistics routes to the front.

And they also have hit the only major diesel locomotive service center (Ukraine's railways are almost entirely electrified), which is something you'd obviously do to impair a Ukrainian work-around of using diesel traction.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2023 12:02 PM (OTzUX)

280 272
Stage Gate Process!
Total Quality Management!
ISO 9000!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 20, 2023 12:01 PM (Hb8gF)

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I read that first one as Star Gate Process, and was kinda interested.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 20, 2023 12:02 PM (uPgE/)

281 Trump went to Ohio because he can't even find Ukraine on a map.

Posted by: Rick Wilson at February 20, 2023 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)

282 Cruz is a very good mocker. Half of the time the Left don't realize they've been mocked until their dim bulb turns on,

Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 12:02 PM (O4AMf)

283 "Inventiveness to Infinity!"

"Aim High in Steering!"

"Nixon's the One!"

"Whip Inflation Now!"

Posted by: Ancient Sloganeer at February 20, 2023 12:03 PM (wrJpE)

284 They don't give a fuck about us hurting their feelings.

Misses the point. It's not about hurting their feelings. It's not really about *them* at all. It's about sowing encouragement / keeping up morale, on your own side. Or even winning over people who might be on the fence.

Posted by: Hands at February 20, 2023 12:04 PM (786Ro)

285 Nood Biden Ukraine visit

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 20, 2023 12:04 PM (eYoxG)

286 I like a good mockery as much as the next person but I'd much rather see the application of tire irons and trebuchets

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 12:04 PM (6VKyY)

287 She would go for the Spotted Dick

https://tinyurl.com/4x6hd982

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 20, 2023 11:58 AM (geLO

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Is this the one in ebola sauce?

Posted by: Ciampino --- gouda, gouda gumdrops tomorrow at February 20, 2023 12:04 PM (qfLjt)

288 Bidens trip to Kiev raised a question in my mind . Why haven't the Russians taken out rail links between the West and Ukraine? It would seem to me to be warfare 101 to take out rail lines which could provide your enemy with supplies
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2023 11:46 AM (1YqTf)

I expect that to be the opening move of any large push by the Russians.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 20, 2023 12:04 PM (xhaym)

289 NOODlum.

Posted by: Rick Wilson at February 20, 2023 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

290 Shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 12:04 PM (Zz0t1)

291 That's a tough one but I'd take Hillary. She's a simple thief and a bunt, but I think she'd have been more towards the middle left. Obama was completely marxist and most of our woes today can be laid at his commie feet.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 20, 2023 12:00 PM (6VKyY)

Concur. Hillary and Bill would have raped, stolen, murdered and raped some more through her 8 years but they were not down with the sodomites like Barry Mugabe was and is.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 20, 2023 12:06 PM (z1bdm)

292 I figured my stock would never rise higher than this; I'd better shuffle off now while the getting's good.

Posted by: Jimmy Carter

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Your State Funeral is gonna have to wait until McCain's ends.

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 12:06 PM (wsx8x)

293 Posted by: Hands at February 20, 2023 12:04 PM (786Ro)

👍 Let's Go Brandon !

Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 12:06 PM (O4AMf)

294 Yeah I think Hillary wouldn't have fucked up Iraq as much as Obama . It would have been hard to do.

Posted by: polynikes at February 20, 2023 12:08 PM (O4AMf)

295 Polk was aw-ight I guess.

Posted by: The Van Buren Boys at February 20, 2023 12:08 PM (3OQb0)

296 She likes the weinerschnitzle. Posted by: AlaBAMA

"Ooh ah yoooo from the SAAAATH?"
Tell me you've never even seen a wiener schnitzel,
without actually saying it in words you can spell.

God damn, did that make you look stupid. JFCA.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 20, 2023 12:08 PM (jYCXf)

297 Red Turban as you know for some time Russian rhetoric has easily and logically mocked the idiotic shit in the US and the west ("woke"), but that's I think a sincere bit of bloviating, and pre-dates and is not related to the specific concrete (actual) objectives with Ukraine.

And it's kind of amusing, but also sad, the way the Russians unconsciously blend some sensible stuff (like the common sense rejection of these ridiculous western fads) with their inveterate butthurt and inferiority complex. And yearning to be a major power again.

Of course now there's an edge to it as US materiel is helping get Russians killed, etc.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2023 12:09 PM (OTzUX)

298 Pennsylvania county to mail residents free condoms to combat rocketing STD rates
https://mol.im/a/11771991

Posted by: Ciampino -- gouda, gouda gumdrops tomorrow at February 20, 2023 12:00 PM (qfLjt)

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Attached to election ballots.

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 12:10 PM (wsx8x)

299 I understand that change can be beneficial, say find a better way to do something, a more effective medicine, things like that, but change for the sake of change itself? Hard pass.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 20, 2023 12:16 PM (PABu2)

300 Reminds me of the idiotic safety fad about 10 years ago that I personally experienced, where a really shitty plant manager was convinced that the way to improve 'safety' was to have a 15 minute patronizing conversation demanding that the employee walk you through who was waiting at home, who would answer the call about them getting hurt, and how they would probably feel about it.

In her idiotic liberal mind she was 'making a connection' about how important safety was.

To all of us in the real world she was a patronizing bitch wasting a massive amount of our time with her nonsense and we all wanted to punch her in the face when she started with it.

She got fired less than a year later, btw, because she was utterly incompetent.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at February 20, 2023 12:22 PM (setIA)

301 Mockery is great for people that have even a small tendency for shame. The problem is that the left feels no shame. We may mock them and they might get upset, but they stay true to their agenda.

We lose because we don't fight.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 20, 2023 12:34 PM (BdMk6)

302 I'm convinced that the way to advance in management is never to say anything to let your superiors know that you're aware that they're idiots. After a while it becomes ingrained to the point where you forget that they're idiots. Then you become part of the next generation of idiots.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 20, 2023 11:14 AM (z99Zw)

Laurence Peter's The Peter Principal comes to mind. While written as a [fake] technical paper, the book has some sardonic comments on how bureaucracies select individuals for promotion. Bureaucracies use internal metrics, but ignore external metrics.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 20, 2023 01:13 PM (pJWtt)

303 Muldoon (#57):
Giving a copy of a Dr. Seuss book to someone finishing a medical fellowship isn't quite so bad if it's in Pediatric Cardiology. You could put it in your waiting room for your patients to read while they waited for you to heal them. Encouraging them with thoughts of "The Places [They] Will Go" after you heal them is a good message, too.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at February 20, 2023 01:31 PM (dwsby)

304 I'm with you on this. McChumpy thinks letting a third party look through them is keeping his promise, and he's wrong.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2023 11:26 AM (FCbAQ)

I disagree. I think having Tucker Carlson's crew combing through 41,000 hours of video is smart. TuCa is going to show who opened the doors and just let people stream in. I suspect most of the video shows most of the Jan. 6th "insurrectionists" behaved pretty innocuously. The 4(?) suicides by the Capitol Police suggests those people couldn't live a lie, and knew they were complicit in a huge propaganda campaign.

Just letting TuCa have the video at this time is going to prevent counterfeit video being marketed as the real thing. It's one thing for Joe Schmoe put out a video on Twitter with his deep thoughts, it's quite another for Tucker Carlson to put video on his commentary programs -- that just happen to have international reach.

Pressure is going to mount.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 20, 2023 01:32 PM (pJWtt)

305 "George Washington was an honest man
Bill heard a fellow say...
If so, said Bill Why do the banks
all close on his Birthday?"

Label: Victor – 19774
Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Country: US
Released: 1925

Posted by: TxMarko at February 20, 2023 01:48 PM (ocGF+)

306 71 So is Joe taking the train ten hours back to Poland? Is he waving out the window as he goes through the little towns? Is he talking to the conductor?

Posted by: Jen the original at February 20, 2023 11:19 AM (FPw1R)

You know who else rode a train through Poland?

Posted by: Come on, someone had to say it at February 20, 2023 01:54 PM (tu3iY)

307 Saw TMBG live at the Truman. They performed “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”. The story behind it was that they had gotten request for the old stuff enough times they decicided to play some.

Posted by: Ron at February 20, 2023 02:01 PM (gKEN/)

308 THERE WAS A MAN NAMED JOE BIDEN, OUT ONE FINE DAY HE WAS RIDING,A EAGLE SWOPPED DOWN,UPON THIS FOOL CLOWN, NOW ITS BACK TO THE BASEMEENT HE's HIDING

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 20, 2023 04:43 PM (FLiOE)

309 When will parents at college visits ask why should I send my kid to a college that doesn't know proper science or grammar?

Posted by: MikeN at February 20, 2023 04:57 PM (XygMV)

310 Just like Republicans and their brethen in Conservative Inc.
"Hey, let's join the fight in this Culture War thing," all the while failing to recognize that THE CULTURE WAR WAS ALREADY FOUGHT AND LOST BECAUSE YOU COCKSUCKERS SAT AROUND AND DID WHAT YOU ALWAYS DO WHEN THE BATTLE IS UPON YOU, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!

The Culture War is over. We lost. Just like when Reublicans and Conservative Inc. sat by while 2020 was stolen.

Fucking rot, Republicans! FUCKING ROT!!

Posted by: Tracy at February 21, 2023 06:38 PM (x58Cx)

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