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Poll: Most Americans fear expressing their real political opinions in the workplace.

A majority of Americans are afraid to express political or religious views in the workplace, according to an Ipsos poll released Tuesday sponsored by the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
More than 60% of respondents said that expressing political or religious views at work would result in negative consequences, while approximately 25% admitted to knowing someone who experienced negative responses for expressing such views, according to the results. The findings mirror data collected through the Viewpoint Diversity Score Business Index which rates "viewpoint diversity in corporate product and service offerings, workplaces, and in the public square," according to its website.
Respondents are also hesitant to post political content on social media and would prefer companies include a wide range of beliefs in its commitment to diversity, according to the results. A plurality supports companies adopting policies that protect viewpoint diversity.

The GOPe will continue championing laws that protect Democrat groups from non-existent corporate discrimination against them, but will scream that corporations must be free to discriminate against Republican groups.

Let's keep sending them money!

Wellesley College, allegedly a women's college, admits that men are better at womaning than women..

Wellesley College, an all-women's school that has long prided itself as a place for "women who will make a difference in the world," has truly lost the plot. Currently, the school's policy is that students who were "assigned female at birth who identify as men are not eligible for admission," but students who were "assigned male at birth who identify as women are eligible for admission."
So, in reality, Wellesley hasn't truly been an all-women's college since 2015, when it last updated its policy to accept applications from biological males who identify as women. But even that policy allowing biological men to attend wasn't woke enough for the student body, which, on Tuesday, voted in support of a non-binding resolution to allow "trans men and nonbinary people who were assigned male at birth" to be admitted as students.

The Discoverer of Peruvia himself, the circumnavigator of the toilet, MSNBC diversity hire and diversity failure Tour&eactue; says that "woke" is "jut a polite way of saying the n-word," but with the special advantage that it let you cover even more ground.

Touré
@Toure
At this point woke is a slur. The way the right uses it is an undercover way of saying "those people," or "non-white people." It's a polite way of saying the n-word but in this case the n-word includes Blacks, LGBTQ folks, and other marginalized groups.
NPR: Michelle Yeoh, who is obviously of Chinese descent, who has a Chinese name, and who was in fact born in Malaysia (which has a large population of Chinese descent), merely "identifies as Asian."

If she identified as a black man, presumably she'd be the first person identifying as a black man to win Best Actress.

Tucker Carlson: The financial industry made itself woker and woker since the days of Occupy Wall Street to insulate itself against the next leftist protest/Democrat legislative attack.

We are now living with the consequences of the Wokification of Money.

FNC's Tucker Carlson suggests the "woke-ification" of the financial industry was a defense mechanism against "Occupy Wall Street."
"Clearly, the bank had a lot of money because trans pronouns experts are not cheap at all, but Signature did have a lot of cash, of course, because the Federal Reserve was printing it and they got the first pass. That's what low interest rates for 13 years means. So, again, this was going on for years," he said. "Anything about economics was boring, because who cares about carried interest? What's that? What we really want to talk about, they told you, is racial oppression and your role in it, and so we got a lot of that, only for, like, 12 years now, an endless parade of lies about this or that."
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Now, that's the question you would have asked if you were paying attention both from inside SVB or from the federal regulatory agencies in Washington, but it turns out nobody was paying attention. Nobody thought to ask that or many other questions. Nobody thought to stress-test Silicon Valley Bank in the middle of a boom and of course, that turned out to be a grave mistake, but the remaining question is, what were they doing at SVB and at the other banks that have either failed or come close to failing over the last week?
Well, they were doing what you would do if you were a mediocre but highly credentialed, irresponsible person with a narcissism complex who talked a lot about your ultra-marathons and your commitment to climate change if the central bank handed you trillions of dollars free with no strings attached. You would party like it was 1999. Or to update the reference, you would virtue-signal like it was 2023. You would spend hundreds of millions of dollars bragging about what a good person you are and that, of course, is exactly what they did.
Consider Signature Bank. Now, Signature Bank was shut down by federal regulators this weekend on Sunday because it posed an imminent threat to the entire financial system. Its demise marked the third-largest bank collapse in American history. Why did Signature Bank fail? We could give you the technical, math-based answer, but here's the real reason. Signature Bank failed because it was corrupt. That's a strong charge. How do we know that? Well, simple. Its directors gave Barney Frank a board seat. That's it. Frank is the same person who was a member of Congress from Massachusetts, wrote the banking regulations imposed on Signature Bank and all the other banks by Washington after the collapse.
Barney Frank has never had a real job. He has spent his entire life in politics. He's elderly now, but he has no relevant experience or expertise. The only reason that Signature Bank hired him is because he once regulated Signature Bank. Now, if we were looking at a foreign country, we'd describe that instantly as what? A pay-off. The people who actually ran Signature Bank meanwhile, the so-called bankers, did not seem to spend a lot of time banking and of course, they didn't need to bank really because the Fed was guaranteeing them a never-ending torrent of cash in the form of free money.

So, what did they do? Well, here is Scott Shay, the chairman of Signature Bank, welcoming his employees to a meeting of the bank's critical Pride Council. This video is from last December, just months before Signature Bank slipped beneath the waves, and the Pride Council in question, as you will see in a moment, featured a self-described gender-queer, transmasculine person called Finn Brigham, who arrived to teach employees about pronoun use.

Read the whole thing. Video at the link.

He continued this theme.

FNC's Tucker Carlson examines the newly returned banking crisis as a panic in regional banks could become a catastrophe.

TUCKER CARLSON: It has been 15 years since the global financial crisis of 2008 -- a long time -- but it hasn't gone away.
Its consequences, in fact, still define our world. Why is the U.S. government so deeply in debt? How does Wall Street get so much money? What do they do exactly? Why are housing prices so high? Why do our leaders stoke racial conflict? Why have so many Americans concluded that their system is rigged? In every case, the answers to those questions is the same. It all began in 2008. Now, 2008 and its aftermath is a complex story, but let's just sum up in the broadest possible terms what happened.
Big financial institutions took foolish risks and nearly blew up the entire U.S. economy. We knew right away what had happened and who did it, but nobody was ever punished. The reckless bankers responsible got off; so did the politicians who encouraged the reckless bankers to be reckless. Nobody went to jail. Nobody was even banished from the industry. In fact, some of the wrongdoers even got their bonuses that year. So, we had an economic collapse, but it didn't hurt them at all.
Why? Well, simple. The government bailed out the banks. That was controversial, but bipartisan and at the time, they told us in bipartisan fashion that they were saving capitalism. But they weren't. In fact, they were inverting capitalism.
What happened next is very simple. Wall Street was allowed to privatize its gains but socialize its risks. That meant if things went well, the finance people got rich, in fact, richer than any group in human history, but if things went south, the government, you, would swoop in to save them -- pretty good deal. But for more than a decade, very few complained about this arrangement because things went very, very well. Wall Street boomed and the root of Wall Street's success, no matter what they tell you, was low interest rates, not new innovation, low interest rates. Low interest rates make a bull market inevitable.
So, in a normal, non-distorted capitalist economy, companies become valuable, more valuable, when they produce more goods and services that people want to buy. But in an economy controlled by monetary policy run by the Federal Reserve, companies become valuable when interest rates decline.
For 13 years, interest rates remained near zero. In retrospect, now that it's ended, this was crazy behavior. These were emergency measures declared by the Federal Reserve after 2008, but they never ended. And because they never ended for 13 years, the American economy was distorted beyond recognition in ways too numerous to count. Venture capital and private equity exploded, and so did cryptocurrency, so did asset prices, particularly real estate.
There was an ocean of money flooding the system, and the people who pay half the tax rate you do benefited most. They started buying third houses and flying private. But there was also a problem that you didn't hear a lot about with low interest rates. If interest rates were at zero, how do you get meaningful returns on your money? This was a problem that virtually every investor faced for more than a decade, very much including the banks. At some point, investors became tempted to make very risky bets. If they wanted to produce returns, they had to.
As they say on Wall Street, "Tina, there is no option." One of the risky bets that banks made was loading up on long-term Treasury bonds from the U.S. government as a surrogate for cash, though, of course, bonds are not cash. They're different from cash, as we're now learning, but that worked fine as long as interest rates remained low. But once interest rates rose as a response to inflation as obviously they were always going to do. (Nothing lasts forever, including zero interest rates). Once that happened, those bonds were worth less than the banks had paid for them and so the banks began to fail. You are seeing that right now.
You're also seeing, revealed for everyone to see, the other effect of 13 years of artificial Fed-driven prosperity, and that is a lot of silly, frivolous people in charge. They're like inherited money people: They think they earned it, but they didn't. Because when money is free from the Fed, you don't have to be a serious person to get rich. You can do whatever you want because there's no consequence. You can put BLM logos on your website. You can spend investor funds on female empowerment ski weekends in Tahoe. When interest rates are zero, you can do anything because making money is easy. Everybody is a genius. Anyone can do it, and unfortunately, a lot of very stupid people did do it.

Again, video at the link, and read the whole thing.

So if you're wondering why Biden just gave a random gun control speech out of the blue, it's so taxpayers pick up the tab for this trip. pic.twitter.com/PXQOYelqe2
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 15, 2023

MAGA, Inc. is accusing DeSantis of a similar scam -- but there's no way DeSantis is charging Florida taxpayers for his book tour. That's obviously a personal thing, and there's just no evidence he's charging Florida taxpayers for his travel on a book tour. MAGA, Inc. just asserts that's what's happening.

Posted by: Ace at 06:20 PM

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1 Darth Santis' accusers are the same retards who attacked Trump...

they are all blind in their left eyes and limp armed on the left side.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2023 06:20 PM (Lzpvj)

2 We are so screwed

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2023 06:20 PM (bs+z0)

3 Wouldn't surprise me if most Americans fear expressing their opinions at family gatherings.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 16, 2023 06:21 PM (OX9vb)

4 4th

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:21 PM (BRHaw)

5 and felling grey

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:21 PM (BRHaw)

6 Those who call NOOD are the best of us.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 16, 2023 06:22 PM (DcKNO)

7 Currently, the school's policy is that students who were "assigned female at birth who identify as men are not eligible for admission," but students who were "assigned male at birth who identify as women are eligible for admission."

The best gal is a guy!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:22 PM (BRHaw)

8 but students who were "assigned male at birth who identify as women are eligible for admission."

The best gal is a guy!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:22 PM (BRHaw)

You are not "Assigned" male or female at birth.. You are male or female

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2023 06:24 PM (bs+z0)

9 Touré @Toure
At this point woke is a slur. The way the right uses it is an undercover way of saying "those people," or "non-white people."

yes moar please. It is your G D word and we can use it now against you.

I label you the Wokeing Dead!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:24 PM (BRHaw)

10 7 Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:22 PM (BRHaw)

and not identifying as a chick means you are not one...

every mockery we made of this shit in the 80s has been made real.

Posted by: sven at March 16, 2023 06:24 PM (Lzpvj)

11 Anything ewe can do, I can dew better. I can do anything better than ewe ,,,

Posted by: Adriane the Oblivious Critic . . . at March 16, 2023 06:25 PM (jonTH)

12 Wouldn't surprise me if most Americans fear expressing their opinions at family gatherings.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 16, 2023 06:21 PM (OX9vb)

My family is pretty cool, but there are a couple of individuals I avoid talking about certain subjects (younger son, for one, alas).

As for work, I know that the folks I work with daily are very much on my side of the issues. Weird that it's the land survey department. The engineers are suspect.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, One Must Look One's Best, Mustn't One at March 16, 2023 06:25 PM (UQUAY)

13 Reign of Assassins. My favorite Yeoh movie.

Everybody is a RINO and traitor if they aren't in 100% agreement with DJT. So I've been told.

Posted by: Fool Otto at March 16, 2023 06:25 PM (DB16e)

14 You are not "Assigned" male or female at birth.. You are male or female
Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2023 06:24 PM (bs+z0)

I swear they had an assignment wheel when I was there for the birth of my so called daughter!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:25 PM (BRHaw)

15 *oh, no, no the grey stuff

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2023 06:25 PM (V13WU)

16 Isn't it good enough for Michelle Yeah to just simply BE Asian?

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 16, 2023 06:27 PM (eGTCV)

17 WAYYY early O/T... but...

Just rewatched the drone video... if you look in the background, you see 5 or 6 ships close together in the Black Sea... something non military vessels do not do...

Was the drone overflying Russian Navy Ships? Which, in a designated Air Exclusion Zone, is considered a hostile act?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 16, 2023 06:27 PM (oHd/0)

18 every mockery we made of this shit in the 80s has been made real.
Posted by: sven at March 16, 2023 06:24 PM (Lzpvj)

golden calf
Babel Tower
Sodom & etc

ha!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:27 PM (BRHaw)

19 Is this 2 or 3 gray days in a row now?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 16, 2023 06:27 PM (Xrfse)

20 You are not "Assigned" male or female at birth.. You are male or female
Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2023 06:24 PM (bs+z0)

I swear they had an assignment wheel when I was there for the birth of my so called daughter!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:25 PM (BRHaw)

I'd prefer a sorting hat.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:27 PM (eoQWY)

21 When I think "woke," the image I get is typically a danger-haired, tackle-faced, polyamorous, screaming lefty of the self-loathing white persuasion. Rarely do I think of a black person, even though I think that's where the term originated.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 16, 2023 06:28 PM (OX9vb)

22 It's dark in here,

Posted by: redridinghood at March 16, 2023 06:28 PM (NpAcC)

23 Toure' is right, woke is a slur and it is apt.

Posted by: huerfano at March 16, 2023 06:28 PM (dTFZY)

24 Is this brown or gray? Looks brownish to me.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 16, 2023 06:28 PM (hVoyT)

25 Said son and I argued about why I hate having to get my tuck tested for emissions every two years. he said becuz climate change.

I stopped arguing - I knew it was pointless, because he was not around in the 1970s, when emissions were way worse, as was casual littering. As Rush so wisely said: history begins on your birthday.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Angry Leprechaun at March 16, 2023 06:29 PM (UQUAY)

26 MAGA, Inc. You sound a bit sceptical of the movement.

Posted by: tubal at March 16, 2023 06:29 PM (PCK5/)

27 Imagine making excuses for a Skull and Bones man.

Posted by: Laslof at March 16, 2023 06:29 PM (TkueX)

28 When I think "woke," the image I get is typically a danger-haired, tackle-faced, polyamorous, screaming lefty of the self-loathing white persuasion. Rarely do I think of a black person, even though I think that's where the term originated.

So basically something from black culture that the leftist honkies appropriated?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at March 16, 2023 06:30 PM (Bd6X8)

29 Showing grays under pressure.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 16, 2023 06:30 PM (Vwz3I)

30 When I think "woke," the image I get is typically a danger-haired, tackle-faced, polyamorous, screaming lefty of the self-loathing white persuasion. Rarely do I think of a black person, even though I think that's where the term originated.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 16, 2023 06:28 PM (OX9vb)

I do like us turning their slogans against them - its a way of reminding them that we outnumber them and they don't get to redefine words, we do.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:30 PM (eoQWY)

31 You are not "Assigned" male or female at birth.. You are male or female
Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2023 06:24 PM (bs+z0)

Exactly. Not assigned, but observed.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 16, 2023 06:30 PM (OX9vb)

32 We are one human race, divided by single-nucleotide polymorphisms and culture. Mostly culture.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 06:31 PM (u82oZ)

33 But- a Chinese person born in Malaysia is Asian, right?

so what's this 'identifies as' shit

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:31 PM (geLO8)

34 You are not "Assigned" male or female at birth.. You are male or female
Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2023 06:24 PM (bs+z0)

Exactly. Not assigned, but observed.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 16, 2023 06:30 PM (OX9vb)

They have to say assigned because if they used 'are' their world comes crashing down.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:31 PM (eoQWY)

35 I swear I thought Michelle Yeoh was a 90s era figure skater.

Or whenever. She might be, as far as I know. All I do know is white people shouldn't expect any more Oscars for a while, just like actual chicks shouldn't expect to win high screwel and kollej girls track and field events anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2023 06:31 PM (L8rPW)

36 A lot of grey matter in here.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 16, 2023 06:32 PM (NpAcC)

37 At this point woke is a slur.
------------
Sure, groomer.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 16, 2023 06:32 PM (Vwz3I)

38 The Discoverer of Peruvia himself, the circumnavigator of the toilet, MSNBC diversity hire and diversity failure Tour&eactue; says that "woke" is "jut a polite way of saying the n-word," but with the special advantage that it let you cover even more ground.

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Really, isn't every word in English equivalent to saying the n-word and hence all should be bad?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (T+WxX)

39 I swear they had an assignment wheel when I was there for the birth of my so called daughter!
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:25 PM (BRHaw)

I'd prefer a sorting hat.
___

They now have to roll in a bingo console to the maternity room, with all the new genders and whatnot.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (fs1hN)

40 I dream of encountering someone who demands I use their pronouns. And does not like my use of woke and other descriptors.

So far --- nothing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (u82oZ)

41 Sporting are down a man with 10 minutes left.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (Eeb9P)

42
I won the Human Race last year and got a blue ribbon, a trophy, and a year's supply of pork rinds.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (L1tQx)

43 also, willowed:

1,2,3,4
We don't want your f***ing war

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (geLO8)

44 Your sex is set way before birth. Those people are crazy and should be treated as such.

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (iayUP)

45 I spent the night at Wellesley once.

Did not break any commandments.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (D7KiO)

46 I swear I thought Michelle Yeoh was a 90s era figure skater.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2023 06:31 PM (L8rPW)

Michelle Kwan

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (eoQWY)

47 Yelled just said we made SVB & Signature Bank whole. But others, we won't.

Welcome to we win / you lose.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (NW9xb)

48 Just like int the bible, He created them male and female and blessed them. And then said , if you don't like it you can chose whatever you like !

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (V13WU)

49 And for Pete's sake, if you go to Taiwan, ask to see the goods before you pay.

I mean, if you WANT to be surprised, that's your business, I don't judge, but if you don't? Show the fish, no franks and beans.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2023 06:34 PM (L8rPW)

50 I won the Human Race last year and got a blue ribbon, a trophy, and a year's supply of pork rinds.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (L1tQx)

you cheated your nick even says so

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:34 PM (eoQWY)

51 Politics and religion at work? The only thing worse is banging the VP's secretary in the executive supply closet.

When word gets out to the women in accounting, they'll make you wish viagra was available in liquid form.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 16, 2023 06:34 PM (Jg7EG)

52 Chuck Martel

We could do some sophisticated gene analysis at birth or before.

What would the Left's position be on a test for gay tendencies?

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 06:34 PM (u82oZ)

53 So if you're wondering why Biden just gave a random gun control speech out of the blue, it's so taxpayers pick up the tab for this trip. pic.twitter.com/PXQOYelqe2
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) March 15, 2023

I am not an expert on campaign finance law, but I believe that until Biden formally declares his candidacy all of his trips are on the taxpayer's dime. I believe this is one reason The Junta and Cheapskate Joe are delaying Joe's declaration. I think he did the gun control speech on that segment of his trip to give the Lapdog Media something to praise Joe for that day.

Posted by: Gref at March 16, 2023 06:35 PM (AMIL/)

54 Penalties

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 16, 2023 06:35 PM (Eeb9P)

55 Can someone explain. If you're "assigned at birth" who did the assigning?

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 16, 2023 06:35 PM (RqMSv)

56 You wanna be a carrot , be a carrot !

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2023 06:35 PM (V13WU)

57 Wokey = brokey

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at March 16, 2023 06:35 PM (u/nTb)

58 They are going to run out of "firsts" someday, right?

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 06:36 PM (xhxe8)

59 25 Said son and I argued about why I hate having to get my tuck tested for emissions every two years. he said becuz climate change.

I stopped arguing - I knew it was pointless, because he was not around in the 1970s, when emissions were way worse, as was casual littering. As Rush so wisely said: history begins on your birthday.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Angry Leprechaun at March 16, 2023 06:29 PM (UQUAY)

I car from Mexico with no tune up since 1999 is more polluting than every new truck on the average dealer parking lot.

In 1990 in Dallas County they found out they could buy and destroy 1 car and eliminate the pollution from 100 new.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:36 PM (BRHaw)

60 The state assigns gender, of course…

Posted by: tubal at March 16, 2023 06:36 PM (PCK5/)

61 >>At this point woke is a slur.

How about Nazi? White supremacist? Fascist?

Blow me you dishonest dirtbag. I'll use whatever words I want and I won't be lectured to by someone who routinely slanders me.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2023 06:36 PM (ZLI7S)

62 Can't trust anyone wearing green and white horizontal striped shirts

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 16, 2023 06:37 PM (Eeb9P)

63 Michelle Kwan
Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (eoQWY)

Gesundheit!

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2023 06:37 PM (L8rPW)

64 In 1990 in Dallas County they found out they could buy and destroy 1 car and eliminate the pollution from 100 new.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:36 PM (BRHaw)

Putting detector cannons on highway exit ramps and having a car pull over malefactors is massively more effective and less expensive at finding polluting cars.

But it was not really about finding the cars all along.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:38 PM (eoQWY)

65 Woke is perfect slur. I know it means idiot. You all know it means idiot. Best part is the Black people describe their WOKE friends as WOKE.

Its a kick in the nutz.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:38 PM (BRHaw)

66 ...If she identified as a black man, presumably she'd be the first person identifying as a black man to win Best Actress.

LOL Ace

Posted by: m at March 16, 2023 06:38 PM (lhS81)

67 F you (properly spelled out) is also a slur. If you want to consider it a racial slur, knock yourself out, I don't care. I just want to make sure you otherwise feel good and slurred.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2023 06:39 PM (L8rPW)

68 My workplace es is a FJB free fire zone. For those of you in repressive blue states get thee to a MoMe and remember what freedom feels like.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2023 06:39 PM (v0MSB)

69 > I swear I thought Michelle Yeoh was a 90s era figure skater.

Posted by: BurtTC

there was an Asian girl golfer that was hot for a while too

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:39 PM (geLO8)

70 47 Yelled just said we made SVB & Signature Bank whole. But others, we won't.

Welcome to we win / you lose.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 16, 2023 06:33 PM (NW9xb)

She's a liar.

Posted by: Gref at March 16, 2023 06:39 PM (AMIL/)

71 55 Can someone explain. If you're "assigned at birth" who did the assigning?
___

Some doctor who went to school for years and can handle all kinds of emergencies that could occur in delivery and save the lives of mother and child, but is an idiot at figuring out whether a child is a male or female and relies on total guesswork and often gets this wrong, apparently.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 16, 2023 06:40 PM (fs1hN)

72 BTW, this 'woke' shit is because leftist twitter is trying to attack normies over "not being able to define what 'woke' means" over the past day or two. [And that means normies are racists.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 16, 2023 06:40 PM (Vwz3I)

73 ...If she identified as a black man, presumably she'd be the first person identifying as a black man to win Best Actress.

LOL Ace
Posted by: m at March 16, 2023 06:38 PM (lhS81)

I care nothing about Oscars, but I admit I look forward to transwomen crushing them out of acting just like they are pushing young girls out of sports.

It will be just like in the time of Shakespeare then.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:40 PM (eoQWY)

74 Can the idiots at Wellsley explain why they are a women's only school in this day and age?

I've been assured by democrats for decades that discrimination is the worst sin ever! Especially sexual discrimination and this is why men's only facilities had to let women in.

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 16, 2023 06:40 PM (8RITQ)

75 "Hey woke thing. I have the allele for 2R monoamine oxidase A. Keep talking."

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 06:41 PM (u82oZ)

76 "Therapeutic" Day School, you say?

Brockton, you say?

https://tinyurl.com/45rt97z2

How's that working out?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2023 06:41 PM (Wnv9h)

77 At this point woke is a slur. The way the right uses it is an undercover way of saying "those people," or "non-white people." It's a polite way of saying the n-word but in this case the n-word includes Blacks, LGBTQ folks, and other marginalized groups.

Nah, when I think "woke" in Portland, I think of pasty-faced Antifa, or equally pasty-faced "advocates".

A typical pasty-faced advocate:

full stop, the american suburb is among the country's most destructive and dangerous ponzi scheme, and cities subsidize it heavily! even small policy reforms on the margins to make suburbs more economically self-reliant/urban with housing and transit will pay enormous dividends

suburbs are lucrative and nice because they are leeches on cities, enjoying proximity to nice things while avoiding footing the bill for greater regional needs.

that doesn't have to be the case!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2023 06:41 PM (2tUFv)

78 Of course woke is a slur.

It's not remotely racist though. We are all picturing AWFLs.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 16, 2023 06:41 PM (+oDTt)

79 Can the idiots at Wellsley explain why they are a women's only school in this day and age?

I've been assured by democrats for decades that discrimination is the worst sin ever! Especially sexual discrimination and this is why men's only facilities had to let women in.
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 16, 2023 06:40 PM (8RITQ)

Women's only things are fine, even mandatory. Because equality and equity.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:41 PM (eoQWY)

80 > Can someone explain. If you're "assigned at birth" who did the assigning?

Posted by: Ignoramus

I guess the doctor delivering the baby- he's right there and makes the catch- it's readily apparent to him whether the kid has a peepee or a hoohah

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:42 PM (geLO8)

81 Of course woke is a slur.

It's not remotely racist though. We are all picturing AWFLs.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 16, 2023 06:41 PM (+oDTt)

Yes, the blue haired Karens stole that word from you before we flipped the meaning on them.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:42 PM (eoQWY)

82 What would the Left's position be on a test for gay tendencies?
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ)

full bore anti abortion, with prison sentences and death penalties

Posted by: x at March 16, 2023 06:42 PM (ZBPE2)

83 full stop, the american suburb is among the country's most destructive and dangerous ponzi scheme, and cities subsidize it heavily! even small policy reforms on the margins to make suburbs more economically self-reliant/urban with housing and transit will pay enormous dividends

suburbs are lucrative and nice because they are leeches on cities, enjoying proximity to nice things while avoiding footing the bill for greater regional needs.

that doesn't have to be the case!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2023 06:41 PM (2tUFv)

Even the CITIES want to flee to the suburbs now!

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:43 PM (eoQWY)

84 I hope this ends quickly, I have dishes to do

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 16, 2023 06:44 PM (Eeb9P)

85 Late to the thread. What's with the gray?
Also, Yes, I no longer talk politics or religion at work, and I never (intentionally) use pronouns. Anything I say can be used against me by HR. I *will* from time to time, say, "I'd say something, but I don't want to get in trouble with HR".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 06:44 PM (ynpvh)

86 Putting detector cannons on highway exit ramps and having a car pull over malefactors is massively more effective and less expensive at finding polluting cars.

But it was not really about finding the cars all along.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:38 PM (eoQWY)

Please stop giving them ideas. Some of us already removed our catalytic converters so there's nothing for the thieves to steal.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 16, 2023 06:44 PM (+oDTt)

87 President Biden @POTUS · 6h United States government official
Look, I’m a capitalist.

I have no problem with companies making reasonable profits.

But not absurd levels on the backs of working families and seniors – it's about basic fairness.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 16, 2023 06:44 PM (Vwz3I)

88 74 Can the idiots at Wellsley explain why they are a women's only school in this day and age?

I've been assured by democrats for decades that discrimination is the worst sin ever! Especially sexual discrimination and this is why men's only facilities had to let women in.
Posted by: Darth Randall at March 16, 2023 06:40 PM (8RITQ)
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Because even ugly lesbians need post-secondary education

Posted by: ballistic at March 16, 2023 06:44 PM (oXNqT)

89 Yelled just said we made SVB & Signature Bank whole. But others, we won't.

Uh, huh. If Yellen were serious, she would have given the uninsured accounts at SVB and Signature a 5% haircut.

That would have indicated seriousness.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2023 06:44 PM (2tUFv)

90 > I swear I thought Michelle Yeoh was a 90s era figure skater.

Posted by: BurtTC

there was an Asian girl golfer that was hot for a while too

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:39 PM (geLO

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Michelle Wie. I think she won her first pro tournament at age 14 or something -- a big girl for her age.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 16, 2023 06:44 PM (T+WxX)

91 I care nothing about Oscars, but I admit I look forward to transwomen crushing them out of acting just like they are pushing young girls out of sports.

It will be just like in the time of Shakespeare then.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:40 PM (eoQWY)

They just gave Encino Man an Oscar for playing a fat gay guy. I see absolutely no reason why Hollowood isn't right now Oscarbating with Steven Segal and Tom Sizemore competing for the role of a trans Bea Arthur biopic.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2023 06:45 PM (L8rPW)

92 So some asshole teenager assaults Rick Allen, who is going on 60, and has one arm.

Kudos, you fucking punk.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Angry Leprechaun at March 16, 2023 06:45 PM (UQUAY)

93 Read the other day, Sundowner's daughter and granddaughter were on the trip to San Diego and more than likely enjoying the 5 star treatment.

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 06:45 PM (xhxe8)

94 >>> 77
==
A typical pasty-faced advocate:

full stop, the american suburb is among the country's most destructive and dangerous ponzi scheme, and cities subsidize it heavily! even small policy reforms on the margins to make suburbs more economically self-reliant/urban with housing and transit will pay enormous dividends

suburbs are lucrative and nice because they are leeches on cities, enjoying proximity to nice things while avoiding footing the bill for greater regional needs.

that doesn't have to be the case!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2023 06:41 PM (2tUFv)

Hey, Portland retard, how much food do cities produce?

It would probably tell me "all of it" because that's where the best restaurants are.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 16, 2023 06:45 PM (llON8)

95 Please stop giving them ideas. Some of us already removed our catalytic converters so there's nothing for the thieves to steal.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 16, 2023 06:44 PM (+oDTt)

Its not new, read it in a book in the 90s. They already know it works, but you don't get nice stations with large staffs with a truck and a pair of dudes per city, or even 10 pairs.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:45 PM (eoQWY)

96 Only labor pays taxes on its profit.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 16, 2023 06:45 PM (Eeb9P)

97 /starts to sing...

Woke thing...
You make my heart cringe
You make everything...
Shitty...

Woke thing.... duh duh da duh...

Woke thing.... I think I hate you...
And I need to know for sure..
Come on, over to the right....
I hate you....

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 16, 2023 06:46 PM (oHd/0)

98 So, one day, all Asian girls will be named Michelle

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:46 PM (geLO8)

99 Touré @Toure
At this point woke is a slur. The way the right uses it is an undercover way of saying "those people," or "non-white people."

Huh? Most "woke" are "educated" white folks. Don't be a snowflake, Tourrettes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 06:46 PM (ynpvh)

100 I think an important test would be if the doc can determine the sex of the person giving birth.

If the doc can't do that how can they tell the sex of the baby?

Posted by: TexasDan at March 16, 2023 06:46 PM (+oDTt)

101 Touré is a great example of why any conservative who tries to have a civil discourse with a hard leftists is a fool.
It doesn't matter what you say. The words that your write or that come out of your mouth don't matter. Someone like Touré will decide what they mean, and it will always be the worst possible thing.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 16, 2023 06:46 PM (Ldylv)

102 98 So, one day, all Asian girls will be named Michelle

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:46 PM (geLO

I happen to know at least two, personally.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 06:47 PM (ynpvh)

103 Martinelli stopped.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 16, 2023 06:47 PM (Eeb9P)

104 Michelle Wie. I think she won her first pro tournament at age 14 or something -- a big girl for her age.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 16, 2023 06:44 PM (T+WxX)

Yeah, just like the Lama. Big hitter.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2023 06:47 PM (L8rPW)

105 suburbs are lucrative and nice because they are leeches on cities

Translation: suburbs should have to help pay for the idiotic incompetence and terrible policies of cities, without having any ability to affect those policies or governance.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2023 06:47 PM (2tUFv)

106 Hey, Portland retard, how much food do cities produce?

It would probably tell me "all of it" because that's where the best restaurants are.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 16, 2023 06:45 PM (llON

Well to be fair suburbs probably contribute little to crop raising themselves.

I thought it was funny that the solution for suburbs 'parasiting' on urban blight was to move urban blight out there to join them.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:47 PM (eoQWY)

107
there was an Asian girl golfer that was hot for a while too

I thought half the women in professional golf were named Park.

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 16, 2023 06:47 PM (eGTCV)

108 90 > I swear I thought Michelle Yeoh was a 90s era figure skater.

Posted by: BurtTC

there was an Asian girl golfer that was hot for a while too

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:39 PM (geLO

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Michelle Wie. I think she won her first pro tournament at age 14 or something -- a big girl for her age.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 16, 2023 06:44 PM (T+WxX)

Michelle Kwan, the skater

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 06:48 PM (ynpvh)

109 Crashed out. Well, we can focus on winning our league.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 16, 2023 06:48 PM (Eeb9P)

110 It will be just like in the time of Shakespeare then.
Posted by: Oldcat

In his time, women weren't allowed to act on stage. Different thing.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 16, 2023 06:48 PM (KAi1n)

111 I work with some very nice people but when it comes to politics they all have their head in the sand.
I stay out of those discussions.

Posted by: Bosk at March 16, 2023 06:48 PM (ZVuYy)

112 So, one day, all Asian girls will be named Michelle
Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:46 PM (geLO

Wrong.

One day we'll ALL be Asian girls, regardless of name, age, or what some "doctor" assigned us at birth.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2023 06:49 PM (L8rPW)

113 Helena Handbasket

There are numerous patents on urban farming. Some have been built, even multi-story ones. But low publicity. C&E News periodically has articles on growing very special plant / soul mixes in large, climate controlled warehouses.

North of Topeka is a Missionary research group that combines hydroponics and aquaculture for installation in Africa. Neat set-up.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 06:49 PM (u82oZ)

114 Because even ugly lesbians need post-secondary education

Posted by: ballistic at March 16, 2023 06:44 PM (oXNqT)

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Likely gives Wellesley a big advantage when it comes to recruiting softball players.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 16, 2023 06:50 PM (T+WxX)

115 So, one day, all Asian girls will be named Michelle

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:46 PM (geLO

I happen to know at least two, personally.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 06:47 PM

We've got one in Boston playing at being mayor. Woke af. You can imagine how well things are going.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2023 06:50 PM (Wnv9h)

116 100 I think an important test would be if the doc can determine the sex of the person giving birth.

If the doc can't do that how can they tell the sex of the baby?

Posted by: TexasDan at March 16, 2023 06:46 PM (+oDTt)

Except for liberals, babies don't come out of assholes.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 06:50 PM (ynpvh)

117 >>It doesn't matter what you say. The words that your write or that come out of your mouth don't matter. Someone like Touré will decide what they mean, and it will always be the worst possible thing.

We didn't invent the term, they did. And they wore it proudly while it was working for them.

Now the term has lost it's luster and people are sick of the woke mob so now it's a slur. Just means I am going to use it more.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2023 06:50 PM (ZLI7S)

118 >Michelle Kwan, the skater

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

this is getting weird

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:50 PM (geLO8)

119 suburbs are lucrative and nice because they are leeches on cities, enjoying proximity to nice things while avoiding footing the bill for greater regional needs.

that doesn't have to be the case!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2023 06:41 PM (2tUFv)
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Hmm, way back when, I commuted from my suburb to my job as a welder in another suburb.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at March 16, 2023 06:50 PM (2YtOq)

120 Soil, not soul. Interesting typing finger failure.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 06:50 PM (u82oZ)

121 Also- fat people say that 'obese' is 'the N-word' to them

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:51 PM (geLO8)

122 fat 'activists', I should say

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:51 PM (geLO8)

123 It will be just like in the time of Shakespeare then.
Posted by: Oldcat

In his time, women weren't allowed to act on stage. Different thing.
Posted by: SFGoth at March 16, 2023 06:48 PM (KAi1n)

I'm just saying the effect of the trans craziness will be to drive out women actresses by social pressure.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:51 PM (eoQWY)

124 Yeah, just like the Lama. Big hitter.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2023 06:47 PM (L8rPW)

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LOL -- can't believe I missed out on that meme opportunity there ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 16, 2023 06:51 PM (T+WxX)

125 121 Also- fat people say that 'obese' is 'the N-word' to them
Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:51 PM (geLO

Sorry.. Fatty

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2023 06:51 PM (bs+z0)

126 112 So, one day, all Asian girls will be named Michelle
Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:46 PM (geLO

Wrong.

One day we'll ALL be Asian girls, regardless of name, age, or what some "doctor" assigned us at birth.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2023 06:49 PM (L8rPW)

This ain't bad...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0X3CLJVMJU

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 06:52 PM (ynpvh)

127 Also- fat people say that 'obese' is 'the N-word' to them
Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:51 PM

Not a joke, fat!

Posted by: Joey B at March 16, 2023 06:53 PM (Wnv9h)

128 Woke and Allah akbar have same meaning to me and illicit the same response and it ain't a kindly one

Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2023 06:53 PM (v0MSB)

129 Michelle Mybell

Oh wait she isn't Asian

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 06:53 PM (xhxe8)

130 > So, one day, all Asian girls will be named Michelle

Like Jennifer in the late 90s. I knew a couple dozen (Jen, Jenn, Jenny, Jennifer)s.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 16, 2023 06:53 PM (V1QHJ)

131 Evening.

Pray the gray away, we must.

Posted by: Robert at March 16, 2023 06:53 PM (BpCZ/)

132 Hmm, way back when, I commuted from my suburb to my job as a welder in another suburb.

Doesn't matter, suburbs wouldn't exist without cities!

If cities implode, the suburbs go away, like in Detroit or Saint Louis!

Oh wait...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2023 06:53 PM (2tUFv)

133 I live in the greatest city in the world. There is no way this dump could pay for itself.
Oh, and I see Arizona flamed out, also.
That leaves the Red Sox.
Sigh
Lets Go Mets!

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at March 16, 2023 06:53 PM (Eeb9P)

134 We didn't invent the term, they did. And they wore it proudly while it was working for them.

Now the term has lost it's luster and people are sick of the woke mob so now it's a slur. Just means I am going to use it more.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2023 06:50 PM (ZLI7S)

Well, Democrats pretty much invented the "N" word too.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 16, 2023 06:54 PM (oHd/0)

135 Ha. Biden picked 2nd seed Arizona to win the NCCA basketball championship. They just got taken out by number 15 seed Princeton in the 1st round.

He's the kiss of death.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2023 06:54 PM (ZLI7S)

136 In his time, women weren't allowed to act on stage. Different thing.
Posted by: SFGoth at March 16, 2023 06:48 PM (KAi1n)

That's not true, they were allowed to act onstage, they were typically just given roles like "2nd braying ass," or "boiling cauldron."

Or harlot, of course.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2023 06:54 PM (L8rPW)

137 Doesn't matter, suburbs wouldn't exist without cities!

If cities implode, the suburbs go away, like in Detroit or Saint Louis!

Oh wait...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2023 06:53 PM (2tUFv)

Los Angeles. Doesn't even have a Down Town.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (oHd/0)

138 Jennifer comes from the name Guinevere

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (geLO8)

139 118 >Michelle Kwan, the skater

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

this is getting weird

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:50 PM (geLO

Oh, Wiki says she's now the US ambassador to Belize...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (ynpvh)

140 NASA just allegedly launched a rocket from Wallops Island in Virginia, and I'm here to tell you I didn't see it go up. I'm calling shenanigans!

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (RG6z4)

141 > So, one day, all Asian girls will be named Michelle

Like Jennifer in the late 90s. I knew a couple dozen (Jen, Jenn, Jenny, Jennifer)s.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 16, 2023 06:53 PM (V1QHJ)

As a Christopher I just wonder what this Jenn is that they are all carrying over a river.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (eoQWY)

142 Sticks and stones can break my bones
But words are what really hurts me

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (xhxe8)

143 A new excuse...

@TheInsiderPaper · 31m
BREAKING: A new analysis of genetic sequences collected from the Wuhan market in China shows that raccoon dogs being illegally sold at the venue could have been carrying and possibly shedding the COVID-19 virus at the end of 2019, The Atlantic reports

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (Vwz3I)

144 Oldcat

Today's cities, under long-time Democrat governance, are zones of the dead. And the Dems want to spread that zone further.

The GDP from urban areas (90% of US GDP is in "urban" areas) is actually in suburbs or small towns in a metropolitan statistical area.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (u82oZ)

145 I have no problem with companies making reasonable profits.
But not absurd levels on the backs of working families and seniors – it's about basic fairness.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 16, 2023 06:44 PM (Vwz3I)

Well, hell, Joe...it's too bad we can't all make "reasonable profits" selling our influence with the US Government.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (OX9vb)

146 Project Veritas has Pfizer internal documents showing they had data suggesting an increased risk of Myocarditis following C-19 vaccinations dated early 2022.

https://bit.ly/3JgKriY

Posted by: bonhomme at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (V1QHJ)

147 >>> 146 Project Veritas has Pfizer internal documents showing they had data suggesting an increased risk of Myocarditis following C-19 vaccinations dated early 2022.

https://bit.ly/3JgKriY
Posted by: bonhomme at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (V1QHJ)

They had it on their fkn 800 NUMBER for some time.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 16, 2023 06:56 PM (llON8)

148 If cities implode, the suburbs go away, like in Detroit or Saint Louis!

The "advocate" is grumpy because people are fleeing Portland for the suburbs.

Portland's population dropped by 11,000 two years ago, and although we won't have the figures for last year for a few weeks, I'm sure that the population loss was even greater for last year.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2023 06:56 PM (2tUFv)

149 Ha. Biden picked 2nd seed Arizona to win the NCCA basketball championship. They just got taken out by number 15 seed Princeton in the 1st round.

He's the kiss of death.

Is Biden the reason UVA lost?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 16, 2023 06:57 PM (V1QHJ)

150 Like Jennifer in the late 90s. I knew a couple dozen (Jen, Jenn, Jenny, Jennifer)s.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 16, 2023 06:53 PM (V1QHJ)

one of my favorite lady person names. Good record for liking a girl named Jennifer.

Joy, on the other hand...

I knew exactly one young lady named Joy who actually lived up to the name. She said her name carries a heavy burden. And then she laughed.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Angry Leprechaun at March 16, 2023 06:57 PM (UQUAY)

151 Oldcat

Today's cities, under long-time Democrat governance, are zones of the dead. And the Dems want to spread that zone further.

The GDP from urban areas (90% of US GDP is in "urban" areas) is actually in suburbs or small towns in a metropolitan statistical area.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (u82oZ)

Sure, but that play is dead. The takeover of colleges with woke-dom will reduce other areas to dead zones of a different type.

You aren't going to entice anyone with mass transit these days. Or the force them into the 15 minute dead zone.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 06:58 PM (eoQWY)

152 The GDP from urban areas (90% of US GDP is in "urban" areas) is actually in suburbs or small towns in a metropolitan statistical area.

Almost all the big companies in the Portland metro (Nike, Intel, Columbia Sportswear, etc.) are in the burbs.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2023 06:58 PM (2tUFv)

153 140 NASA just allegedly launched a rocket from Wallops Island in Virginia, and I'm here to tell you I didn't see it go up. I'm calling shenanigans!

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (RG6z4)

Maybe it was a Chinese balloon they sent up...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 06:58 PM (ynpvh)

154 Define woke? Easy. American English slang denoting cultural Marxism.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 16, 2023 06:59 PM (oINRc)

155 > I knew exactly one young lady named Joy who actually lived up to the name. She said her name carries a heavy burden. And then she laughed.

Girl, you don't know pressure.

Posted by: Constance and Chastity at March 16, 2023 06:59 PM (V1QHJ)

156 And you know that Biden had someone else make his picks!

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 16, 2023 06:59 PM (RqMSv)

157 >one of my favorite lady person names. Good record for liking a girl named Jennifer.

it's also my favorite euphemism for a lady's, uh... endowment
yes- endowment

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:59 PM (geLO8)

158 101 Touré is a great example of why any conservative who tries to have a civil discourse with a hard leftists is a fool.
It doesn't matter what you say. The words that your write or that come out of your mouth don't matter. Someone like Touré will decide what they mean, and it will always be the worst possible thing.
Posted by: 29Victor

You are quite correct. The only way to debate a hard leftist is with pure rhetoric of insults to make them feel bad.

Posted by: whig at March 16, 2023 07:00 PM (r4qoG)

159 Don't care about the Oscars but Yeoh wasn't the first Asian woman to win an acting award. Merle Oberon was of Indian descent but hid her heritage. So ironically the academy is keeping actions taken because of prejudice hidden, thereby shooting the whole virtue signaling in the foot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 16, 2023 07:00 PM (dDBj4)

160 Maybe it was a Chinese balloon they sent up...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 06:58 PM (ynpvh)
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It's possible, but I'm still calling shenanigans!

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2023 07:00 PM (RG6z4)

161 suburbs are lucrative and nice because they are leeches on cities, enjoying proximity to nice things while avoiding footing the bill for greater regional needs.

Which is absolutely full of shit in Texas. The largest tax burden on a property owner is the school tax, and school districts often stretch across city boundaries. The next set of taxes that are levied on the property owner is the county tax - again, irrespective of city boundaries, the community college tax (dittos) and the county hospital.

Cities routinely dump their criminals and parasites on the county hospital, courts and jail system. Mass transit often knows no city boundaries either as DART means Dallas Area Rapid Transit. The housing authority and many other welfare systems are implemented on a county-wide basis.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2023 07:00 PM (YXHzG)

162 @TheInsiderPaper · 31m
BREAKING: A new analysis of genetic sequences collected from the Wuhan market in China shows that raccoon dogs being illegally sold at the venue could have been carrying and possibly shedding the COVID-19 virus at the end of 2019, The Atlantic reports
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (Vwz3I)

So we're going from blaming bats to blaming tanuki?

Buuuuuuullshiiiiiiit!!!!!

Posted by: Robert at March 16, 2023 07:00 PM (tToXn)

163 150 Like Jennifer in the late 90s. I knew a couple dozen (Jen, Jenn, Jenny, Jennifer)s.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 16, 2023 06:53 PM (V1QHJ)

one of my favorite lady person names. Good record for liking a girl named Jennifer.

Joy, on the other hand...

I knew exactly one young lady named Joy who actually lived up to the name. She said her name carries a heavy burden. And then she laughed.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Angry Leprechaun at March 16, 2023 06:57 PM (UQUAY)

For some reason, Gay has not been a popular girls name for a few decades now...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:00 PM (ynpvh)

164 BREAKING: A new analysis of genetic sequences collected from the Wuhan market in China shows that raccoon dogs being illegally sold at the venue could have been carrying and possibly shedding the COVID-19 virus at the end of 2019, The Atlantic reports
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 16, 2023 06:55 PM (Vwz3I)

So Wuhan was torturing dogs too? Fauci is serious on the final solution for dogs.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:00 PM (eoQWY)

165 A little grey cheer for you: (remove space)

https://babylonbee.com/video/ california-fleein-beach-boys-parody

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2023 07:00 PM (a3Q+t)

166
This ain't bad...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0X3CLJVMJU
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 06:52 PM (ynpvh)

She's really not very good looking, but good grief sometimes that just doesn't matter. At all.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2023 07:00 PM (L8rPW)

167 > Define woke? Easy. American English slang denoting cultural Marxism.

I usually say woke is whatever variant of the left's mind virus is active that day.

I like your definition too.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 16, 2023 07:00 PM (V1QHJ)

168 Ben Had, you've got an email.

Posted by: Gref at March 16, 2023 07:01 PM (AMIL/)

169 I think I've related here before that I consider myself very fortunate to be free to say whatever I want in my place of employment. Each and every one of us (for the most part) share the same socio-political views. It's certainly not cultish - we have civilized disagreement on things. Our last holdout was a gal who finally got red pilled over the tranny/drag crap.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 16, 2023 07:01 PM (Xrfse)

170 The Chinese are the Jews of Asia, and even the laid-back Malaysians resent them.

Posted by: Regular joe at March 16, 2023 07:01 PM (nnp+f)

171 Oldcat

Could be. Colleges are getting increasingly irrelevant. But with the right leadership, they can prosper.

One example is the decades long effort to make Manhattan, Kansas to Columbia, Missouri a powerhouse in animal welfare, breeding, and best practices. This is why NBAF is operational here, and not at Plum Island.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:02 PM (u82oZ)

172 You aren't going to entice anyone with mass transit these days. Or the force them into the 15 minute dead zone.

Do they call them "dead" zones because some one is going to die if forced to go into those areas?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2023 07:02 PM (YXHzG)

173 I identify as Michelle Yeoh.

Give me my money H8Tr$

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2023 07:03 PM (Q4IgG)

174 I usually say woke is whatever variant of the left's mind virus is active that day.

That will work, because to me it is indeed a virus.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 16, 2023 07:03 PM (Xrfse)

175 The Chinese are the Jews of Asia, and even the laid-back Malaysians resent them.
Posted by: Regular joe at March 16, 2023 07:01 PM (nnp+f)

Sowell has a whole book on those parallels..Conflicts and Cultures maybe.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:03 PM (eoQWY)

176 Los Angeles. Doesn't even have a Down Town.
Posted by: Romeo13

What is thought of as "Los Angeles" is an agglomeration comprising quite a number of cities and towns, some of which were incorporated into "Los Angeles" city proper decades ago. S.F., because of its topography, really doesn't have a downtown either. It's very neighborhood-centric.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 16, 2023 07:04 PM (KAi1n)

177 Oh, Wiki says she's now the US ambassador to Belize...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023
----

Belize it or not...

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 16, 2023 07:04 PM (8RITQ)

178 > I knew exactly one young lady named Joy who actually lived up to the name. She said her name carries a heavy burden. And then she laughed.

Girl, you don't know pressure.
Posted by: Constance and Chastity at March 16, 2023 06:59 PM (V1QHJ)

On the increasingly unlikely chance I ever have a daughter (or kids, really) I'm going to name her Slutbag HoBitch.

If she lives up to her name? Well...no surprises or disappointments.

Posted by: Robert at March 16, 2023 07:04 PM (al4Px)

179 170 The Chinese are the Jews of Asia, and even the laid-back Malaysians resent them.

Posted by: Regular joe at March 16, 2023 07:01 PM (nnp+f)

Not exactly. It's not like the Jews claim ownership of an entire continent and the surrounding waters...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:04 PM (ynpvh)

180 Reuben Hick

15 minute living is tribal living. Feudal living. Like city-states in Italy, estates in late Western Rome, down to heavily walled towns in Afghanistan.

Been done, found wanting.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:05 PM (u82oZ)

181 173 I identify as Michelle Yeoh.

Give me my money H8Tr$

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2023 07:03 PM (Q4IgG)

Oh yeah? *I* identify as the winner of the $billion lottery. pay ME money...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:05 PM (ynpvh)

182 The Chinese are the Jews of Asia, and even the laid-back Malaysians resent them.

Posted by: Regular joe

Not even close - the Chinese have no influence over the weather at all. Try as they might.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 16, 2023 07:06 PM (qoGsy)

183 178 > I knew exactly one young lady named Joy who actually lived up to the name. She said her name carries a heavy burden. And then she laughed.

Girl, you don't know pressure.
Posted by: Constance and Chastity at March 16, 2023 06:59 PM (V1QHJ)

On the increasingly unlikely chance I ever have a daughter (or kids, really) I'm going to name her Slutbag HoBitch.

If she lives up to her name? Well...no surprises or disappointments.

Posted by: Robert at March 16, 2023 07:04 PM (al4Px)

that not nice.

Posted by: Destiny Ho at March 16, 2023 07:06 PM (ynpvh)

184 Not exactly. It's not like the Jews claim ownership of an entire continent and the surrounding waters...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:04 PM (ynpvh)

But, if you want to buy one, they have a cousin, Murray, who can get you one for a very nice price...

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 16, 2023 07:07 PM (wmDcS)

185 You know why they use the "identifies as Asian" for Michelle Yeoh? So they can use the HISTORIC FIRST!!!!!1! headline.

Because an Asian already won an Oscar years back, Ronald L. Schwary in 1980 for Ordinary People. He just didn't identify as Asian, as in he didn't go around shouting it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 16, 2023 07:07 PM (0hOvj)

186 More than 60% of respondents said that expressing political or religious views at work would result in negative consequences

---

There's a clue there.

And Biden got 81 million votes.

Posted by: Remember when BBC reported WTC7 had fallen due to fire 20 minutes before it collapsed? at March 16, 2023 07:07 PM (yK9py)

187 Robert

!!

One sad benefit of the fighting in the Ukraine is the large numbers of young, fertile, attractive Ukrainian and Russian war widows. Shop now for the best deal. Remember, practice makes pregnant.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:07 PM (u82oZ)

188 Didn't Michelle Yeoh get killed in STD?

There were so many other films she was in that was more fitting, like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and playing super spy/kung-fu artist with 007.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:07 PM (AtRkB)

189 Not even close - the Chinese have no influence over the weather at all. Try as they might.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 16, 2023 07:06 PM

How 'bout them weather balloons!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2023 07:07 PM (a3Q+t)

190 15 minute dead zone.

Do they call them "dead" zones because some one is going to die if forced to go into those areas?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2023 07:02 PM (YXHzG)

The latest incarnation of the mythical urban cute living without cars fad seems to be to make a city so that everything you need to buy comes from a narrow zone around your area, 15 minute walk. So something bad has to happen if you leave your zone, or it all falls apart.

Having lived in such an area I loved when I could afford a car and drive to the suburbs to shop cheaper, with more selection, and less crime by driving out to a distant suburb.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:07 PM (eoQWY)

191 So Wuhan was torturing dogs too? Fauci is serious on the final solution for dogs.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:00 PM (eoQWY)

"Raccoon dogs" are neither raccoons nor dogs. They're referring to tanuki which are distantly related to dogs but also look like raccoons and are notable for having huge balls.

I mean like...*holds hands out*...huge.

Posted by: Robert at March 16, 2023 07:08 PM (al4Px)

192 I was going though biblical names with wife before first child was born. Came up with a humdinger of a name:
Idbad Madmannah.

Posted by: Destiny Ho at March 16, 2023 07:08 PM (ynpvh)

193 Ug. Off ho name

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:08 PM (ynpvh)

194 Israel could solve Europe's energy problems in a heartbeat if they weren't such antisemitic fuckwads.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2023 07:08 PM (v0MSB)

195
Wow, I actually fixed it. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 16, 2023 07:08 PM (x0n13)

196 Technically Vivian Leigh also qualifies, in 1930, because she's Indian-Armenian. But again, she didn't run about trumpeting that fact, so she didn't IDENTIFY as Asian

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 16, 2023 07:09 PM (0hOvj)

197 135 Ha. Biden picked 2nd seed Arizona to win the NCCA basketball championship. They just got taken out by number 15 seed Princeton in the 1st round.

Did he get a TV show?

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 16, 2023 07:09 PM (eGTCV)

198 At this point woke is a slur. The way the right uses it is an undercover way of saying "those people," or "non-white people." It's a polite way of saying the n-word but in this case the n-word includes Blacks, LGBTQ folks, and other marginalized groups

---

when I think of the woke the first image in my head is white liberal women, the next image is white liberal soy boy "men".

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 16, 2023 07:09 PM (h1jJh)

199 Ronald L. Schwary

Now that's an Asian name, if I've ever heard one. Heh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 16, 2023 07:09 PM (Xrfse)

200 One sad benefit of the fighting in the Ukraine is the large numbers of young, fertile, attractive Ukrainian and Russian war widows. Shop now for the best deal. Remember, practice makes pregnant.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:07 PM

Are there quantity discounts?

Asking for certain sects.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2023 07:09 PM (a3Q+t)

201 189 Not even close - the Chinese have no influence over the weather at all. Try as they might.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 16, 2023 07:06 PM

How 'bout them weather balloons!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2023 07:07 PM (a3Q+t)

As he said, try as they might...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:10 PM (ynpvh)

202 J.J. Sefton

Yeah! Our Web-fu hero to the rescue.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:10 PM (u82oZ)

203 Girl, you don't know pressure.
Posted by: Constance and Chastity at March 16, 2023 06:59 PM (V1QHJ)

tell me about it.

Posted by: Venice Poon at March 16, 2023 07:10 PM (V13WU)

204 Israel could solve Europe's energy problems in a heartbeat if they weren't such antisemitic fuckwads.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2023 07:08 PM (v0MSB)

Europe always comes up with new ways to act like a bunch of dumbasses. The prototype of our modern elites in the US.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:11 PM (eoQWY)

205 Ha. Biden picked 2nd seed Arizona to win the NCCA basketball championship. They just got taken out by number 15 seed Princeton in the 1st round.

I taught him well.

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at March 16, 2023 07:11 PM (Xrfse)

206 Anna May Wong really needs an honorary Oscar to redress her being slighted.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:11 PM (AtRkB)

207 Duncanthrax

This is analysis, not direct research. Because sleeping in my SUV under a bridge is not as good as a wife and a home.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:11 PM (u82oZ)

208 The reason woke is a slur now is because it is a despicable, small, and mean way to live and believe, so correctly identifying someone as such is definitely insulting.

Now that's an Asian name, if I've ever heard one.

Yeah its puzzling because he's Armenian and I don't see that as an Asian country but Wikipedia claims he is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 16, 2023 07:12 PM (0hOvj)

209 > I was going though biblical names with wife before first child was born. Came up with a humdinger of a name:
Idbad Madmannah.

They called me "An Anus" all through school.

Posted by: Ananias at March 16, 2023 07:12 PM (V1QHJ)

210 The Senator who wanted to censor news about SVB and other bank runs is Mark Warner.

Posted by: Venice Poon at March 16, 2023 07:12 PM (V13WU)

211 I just sat through one of the most intense hailstorm I've seen in years, golfball sized, lasted about 15 minutes (in fort worth) I was driving when it started, luckily saw a sonic right off and jumped into one of their covered stalls. Didn't even get anything, but nobody else was either. The employees were in a covered spot outside taking pictures of all the ice.

At its peak the din from the hail hitting the metal roof made it to even talk to someone sitting next to you!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2023 07:13 PM (q3gwH)

212 Historic Firsts are getting close to meaningless sports statistics. IDNK.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:13 PM (u82oZ)

213 *sigh

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2023 07:13 PM (V13WU)

214 135 Ha. Biden picked 2nd seed Arizona to win the NCCA basketball championship. They just got taken out by number 15 seed Princeton in the 1st round.

Did he get a TV show?
Posted by: N. Lurker at March 16, 2023 07:09 PM (eGTCV)

I remember a year Princeton was beating Georgetown by like 20 points until the refs decided that a 15 seed can't beat Patrick Ewing and decided to enforce it.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:13 PM (eoQWY)

215 207 Duncanthrax

This is analysis, not direct research. Because sleeping in my SUV under a bridge is not as good as a wife and a home.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:11 PM (u82oZ)

But maybe less CO2 emissions?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:13 PM (ynpvh)

216 ... and there was light.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 16, 2023 07:14 PM (Vwz3I)

217 Historic Firsts are getting close to meaningless sports statistics. IDNK.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:13 PM (u82oZ)

In a historic first, NaCly Dog is the first commenter to say such a thing that has a salty nickname.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:14 PM (eoQWY)

218 Historic Firsts are getting close to meaningless sports statistics.

Yeah its the kind of thing ESPN comes up with now to tout: best left handed batter to get more than 50 walks and over a 70% launch angle on all of his at-bats.

After a while the stats start to mean nothing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 16, 2023 07:14 PM (0hOvj)

219 Shop now for the best deal.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:07 PM (u82oZ)

Ah jeez, I dunno man. Criterion has another flash sale coming soon and I really want to add Citizen Kane to my collection.

Posted by: Robert, confirmed hopeless dork at March 16, 2023 07:14 PM (LnnOG)

220 209 > I was going though biblical names with wife before first child was born. Came up with a humdinger of a name:
Idbad Madmannah.

They called me "An Anus" all through school.

Posted by: Ananias at March 16, 2023 07:12 PM (V1QHJ)

Have an ancestor whose first name was Mariano. In his baptismal record, has his name as "Maria Anno"...ano means anus in English...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:14 PM (ynpvh)

221 Repost from the last thread. We will be sending megatons of wheat to Ukrsine because those war widows ain't out planting those fields.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2023 07:14 PM (v0MSB)

222 jim (in Kalifornia)

Probably. No more heavy breathing for me in a SUV.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:14 PM (u82oZ)

223 "The Discoverer of Peruvia himself, the circumnavigator of the toilet, MSNBC diversity hire and diversity failure Tour&eactue; says that "woke" is "jut a polite way of saying the n-word," but with the special advantage that it let you cover even more ground."

I wondered what Tour&eactue was supposed to mean. I guess it is pronounced "Tower, eh?" At least that's the way oilfield hands would say it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2023 07:14 PM (tkR6S)

224 Anna May Wong really needs an honorary Oscar to redress her being slighted.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:11 PM (AtRkB)

Ditto Annabel Chong.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 16, 2023 07:15 PM (wmDcS)

225 Tanuki?

Japanese shapeshiting animal spirits. But not quite as tricky as kitsune, more in your face stuff.

Also the Tanuki is the mascot of the US Naval Aviation's Mutha Award.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:15 PM (AtRkB)

226 They called me "An Anus" all through school.
Posted by: Ananias

Honest to goodness, there was a couple of kids in school with the family name of 'Rumplik'. The oddest thing was, no one ever teased them about it. To us, it was just their last name. No biggie.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 16, 2023 07:15 PM (qoGsy)

227 I've been out of the loop all day. Is there any further news about the Alien Mothership?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 16, 2023 07:15 PM (Xrfse)

228 Anna May Wong really needs an honorary Oscar to redress her being slighted.
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:11 PM (AtRkB)

Two Wongs don't make a Wright.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:15 PM (eoQWY)

229 ChatGPT came up with a pretty good Bill Burr joke.

https://bit.ly/42hqlxT

Posted by: bonhomme at March 16, 2023 07:15 PM (V1QHJ)

230 Michelle,
Ma Belle
Adakah kata-kata yang sangat baik digabungkan
Sangat baik bersama

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at March 16, 2023 07:16 PM (wzAuc)

231 212 Historic Firsts are getting close to meaningless sports statistics. IDNK.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:13 PM (u82oZ)

Especially those involving transgender women...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:16 PM (ynpvh)

232 Fiery riots breaking out in Paris. Macron's militarized thug cops beating heads.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 16, 2023 07:16 PM (DMyTF)

233 Repost from the last thread. We will be sending megatons of wheat to Ukrsine because those war widows ain't out planting those fields.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2023 07:14 PM (v0MSB)

breadbasket needs some bread ? they are now our wards. looks like forever.

Posted by: runner at March 16, 2023 07:16 PM (V13WU)

234 You're thinking of To Wong Fu

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:17 PM (AtRkB)

235 Repost from the last thread. We will be sending megatons of wheat to Ukrsine because those war widows ain't out planting those fields.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2023 07:14 PM (v0MSB)

And even more to third world countries who bought the wheat they exported last year.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:17 PM (eoQWY)

236 Ben Had
♫ Good evening! ♪

Wheat planting is way down. Plus, very few calves around, and this is after calving season.

World is going to be hungrier, and soon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:17 PM (u82oZ)

237 216 ... and there was light.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 16, 2023 07:14 PM (Vwz3I)

That's racist against the dark/black.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:17 PM (ynpvh)

238 Fiery riots breaking out in Paris. Macron's militarized thug cops beating heads.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 16, 2023 07:16 PM (DMyTF)

That's every week for years. Remember the Yellow Vests?

Is this about something new?

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:18 PM (eoQWY)

239 The Intersectionaly Flag by rights should be caller the Cultural Marxists Flag

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2023 07:18 PM (xhxe8)

240 Has Woody Allen been cancelled for What's Up, Tiger Lily yet?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:18 PM (AtRkB)

241 Europe could solve Europe's energy problems in a nanosecond if they weren't such total fuckwads.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2023 07:19 PM (q3gwH)

242 I car from Mexico with no tune up since 1999 is more polluting than every new truck on the average dealer parking lot.

In 1990 in Dallas County they found out they could buy and destroy 1 car and eliminate the pollution from 100 new.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 16, 2023 06:36 PM (BRHaw)

Probably not so much now. Even the 20 year-old beaters now have closed-loop EFI. They will likely not run at all before their emissions get as bad as a '70's car with a poorly-tuned carb.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2023 07:19 PM (tkR6S)

243 229 ChatGPT came up with a pretty good Bill Burr joke.

https://bit.ly/42hqlxT

Posted by: bonhomme at March 16, 2023 07:15 PM (V1QHJ)

LOL, not bad, not bad at all.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:20 PM (ynpvh)

244 The latest incarnation of the mythical urban cute living without cars fad seems to be to make a city so that everything you need to buy comes from a narrow zone around your area, 15 minute walk. So something bad has to happen if you leave your zone, or it all falls apart.

That is insane. Not everyone wants to live in a pod and have things that weigh more than a couple pounds delivered. For those who do, I would recommend try to live in the city of Guanajuato, MX. Its almost purely a walking town with the "backyard" being your roof. It works if you are a visitor or totally cool living day-to-day with whats in your dwelling. I spent a couple weeks there and probably had to hoof at least 20k steps a day in a town a mile in elevation and largely vertical. Want coffee? That is ten minutes to the nearest hole-in-the-wall. Want a taco? Five minutes. Want groceries for a few days? Now you have a problem because the nearest big box is up hill and twenty minutes on foot. Still have to lug it all back.

No Fucking Way especially as people age and mobility is an issue.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2023 07:20 PM (YXHzG)

245 Oldcat

This is an existential conflict with unions and workers, and the French State on the other hand. Very large protests. Supposedly over pensions taking 2 more years to earn.

The French chose ... unwisely to import unassimilated people in large numbers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 16, 2023 07:20 PM (u82oZ)

246 Fiery riots breaking out in Paris. Macron's militarized thug cops beating heads.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 16, 2023 07:16 PM (DMyTF)

That's every week for years. Remember the Yellow Vests?

Is this about something new?
Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:18 PM (eoQWY)

Pension Age raised 2 year. Those old people are pretty spry.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:21 PM (eoQWY)

247 Oldcat, I am really enjoying your perspective.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2023 07:21 PM (FOBrd)

248 Is this about something new?

Macron invoked a special rule to avoid having to get legislative approval for his pension reforms.

The opposition in the French parliament stood and sang the Marseilles in response.

https://tinyurl.com/2a3ndvs7

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2023 07:22 PM (2tUFv)

249 Pension age raised?

So what is the forecast for August this year in France? And will the doctors go on vacation again?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 16, 2023 07:22 PM (AtRkB)

250 No Fucking Way especially as people age and mobility is an issue.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2023 07:20 PM (YXHzG)

Old people aren't cute or trendy, outside of a few to play chess with or feed the ducks.

The rest are off to the camps.

Like most planning, Urban planning breaks up on the killer reef of the planner telling people what they should want rather than what they actually want.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:23 PM (eoQWY)

251 Toure' is still around? Thought MSNBC canned him. His recent take on Woke is the Wokiest of all Woke takes. Bless his dumb, retard heart.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 16, 2023 07:23 PM (LQjWA)

252 DeGaulle at least had to get a majority to do stuff. Apparently the WEF is a ideas program to do away with all that voting stuff.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 16, 2023 07:24 PM (xhaym)

253 great thread, I assume, but I am late, so any comment will be willowed.

So my summary statement ... Yellin says "yes, the MAGA cretins MUST be made to subsidize the WOKE people. So Banks that go Woke will be saved by the infidel Trump voters. The oligarchs will impose a new version of the China style control over their citizens."

Posted by: illiniwek at March 16, 2023 07:24 PM (Cus5s)

254 I thought half the women in professional golf were named Park.
Posted by: N. Lurker at March 16, 2023 06:47 PM (eGTCV)

If you have a threesome with two of them at once, would that be parallel Parking?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2023 07:25 PM (tkR6S)

255 Oldcat, I am really enjoying your perspective.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2023 07:21 PM (FOBrd)

Thank you for your kindness, Ben Had.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:25 PM (eoQWY)

256 Apparently the WEF is a ideas program to do away with all that voting stuff.

The WEF program:

1) Rig all the elections

2) Crush the opposition

3) Use executive orders to pass all the really important stuff

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2023 07:25 PM (2tUFv)

257 I haven't been reading today except in the Tech thread. I did think, however, that some people might be interested in this. It gets no reporting in the US. Party of farmers wins in Netherlands seats in recent Senate election. They are opposed to climate regulations on fertilizers which they claim will destroy farming. The wins are reported in this aritcle but elsewhere in Rebel news site is noted that leader of farmers protest has just been arrested by police in the Netherlands. What a surprise!!! NOT:

https://tinyurl.com/mpudker3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 07:26 PM (FUVRY)

258 DeGaulle at least had to get a majority to do stuff. Apparently the WEF is a ideas program to do away with all that voting stuff.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 16, 2023 07:24 PM (xhaym)

Well the new Napoleon lost his majority last election, and rather than try and find a compromise and all that, I guess just wants to ram it through.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:26 PM (eoQWY)

259 To be specific about what is making France pitch a fit - no more retiring at age 62, they gotta work til age 64.

The streets are filled with angry 61 year olds.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 16, 2023 07:27 PM (q3gwH)

260 I was going though biblical names with wife before first child was born. Came up with a humdinger of a name:
Idbad Madmannah.

They called me "An Anus" all through school.
Posted by: Ananias

They pronounced my name: Mal-ee-chee

Posted by: Malichi at March 16, 2023 07:27 PM (YXHzG)

261 Macron invoked a special rule to avoid having to get legislative approval for his pension reforms.

Its actually something I happen to agree with him on. Basically you only have to work 4 days a week a few hours a day then retire pretty young for huge pensions in France. Its not just unsustainable, its idiotic. He's trying to cut back on the expense and the French people are waving their baguettes in fury.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 16, 2023 07:27 PM (0hOvj)

262 Fiery riots breaking out in Paris. Macron's militarized thug cops beating heads.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

MOSTLY PEACEFUL!!!

Posted by: This is CNN at March 16, 2023 07:27 PM (LQjWA)

263 Ha. Biden picked 2nd seed Arizona to win the NCCA basketball championship. They just got taken out by number 15 seed Princeton in the 1st round.

He's the kiss of death.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2023 06:54 PM (ZLI7S)

I thought people were talking about sports. Got fooled for a moment.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2023 07:27 PM (tkR6S)

264 They say that the Mothership is akin to a gigantic cigar. I wonder if that may have been launched out of Weasel's potato cannon.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at March 16, 2023 07:27 PM (Xrfse)

265 To be specific about what is making France pitch a fit - no more retiring at age 62, they gotta work til age 64.

The streets are filled with angry 61 year olds.

Maybe we need to have another World War to get the First World re-based.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2023 07:28 PM (YXHzG)

266 Michelle Yeoh,

Yowza!

She could still probably kick her way thru the entire Horde's butts.

Posted by: DaveA at March 16, 2023 07:28 PM (FhXTo)

267 254 I thought half the women in professional golf were named Park.
Posted by: N. Lurker at March 16, 2023 06:47 PM (eGTCV)

If you have a threesome with two of them at once, would that be parallel Parking?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2023 07:25 PM (tkR6S)

Waiting for the day when someone with the name of Park gets a park named after them...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:28 PM (ynpvh)

268 Regarding ChatGPT....

I think it's a bunch of wankers behind some voice to text or whatever tech it is that allows shit like this to be spit out fast.

Smoking weed all day, riffing on bullshit idiots send in. Probably making $200K.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2023 07:29 PM (Q4IgG)

269 They say that the Mothership is akin to a gigantic cigar. I wonder if that may have been launched out of Weasel's potato cannon.

Did Weasel name the potato cannon "Monica" ?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at March 16, 2023 07:29 PM (YXHzG)

270 nood café

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 16, 2023 07:29 PM (Vwz3I)

271 The US raised the 'pension' / SS age and no one rioted. It was more of a covert raise since you still get it at the previous ages but just less.

Posted by: polynikes at March 16, 2023 07:29 PM (hg4Xf)

272 Maybe Macron thinks he's Napoleon and tall enough?

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2023 07:30 PM (MF3yS)

273 For some reason, Gay has not been a popular girls name for a few decades now...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:00 PM (ynpvh)

My childhood friend's Mom has that name. It was rare, even back in the '70s.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Angry Leprechaun at March 16, 2023 07:31 PM (UQUAY)

274 260 I was going though biblical names with wife before first child was born. Came up with a humdinger of a name:
Idbad Madmannah.

They called me "An Anus" all through school.
Posted by: Ananias

They pronounced my name: Mal-ee-chee

Posted by: Malichi at March 16, 2023 07:27 PM (YXHzG)

I once talked to a support person named Lasagna (assumed spelling). Why yes, she was black; how did you know?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2023 07:31 PM (ynpvh)

275 MAGA, Inc.

The Lesser Grey Scalp weasels.

Posted by: DaveA at March 16, 2023 07:32 PM (FhXTo)

276 Amazon's Voice command device for a while sent the sound it heard to operators who typed in the questions.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 16, 2023 07:33 PM (eoQWY)

277 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2023 07:26 PM (FUVRY)
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Once governments start overtly attacking the food supply, people tend to wake up.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 16, 2023 07:37 PM (fs1hN)

278 One day we'll ALL be Asian girls,

Wasn't that a Neil Stephenson novel?

Posted by: DaveA at March 16, 2023 07:43 PM (FhXTo)

279 33 But- a Chinese person born in Malaysia is Asian, right?

so what's this 'identifies as' shit

Posted by: DB - grabbing the bullhorn at March 16, 2023 06:31 PM (geLO

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Strictly speaking the country of your birth has no bearing on your 'assigned' nationality. Most sane and/or practically-minded countries assign a child the nationality of the father or, absent which, the mother. If you are looking for trouble down the road then do the irrational and say nationality=birth country.

Posted by: Ciampino --- red faces at March 16, 2023 07:53 PM (qfLjt)

280 Its actually something I happen to agree with him on. Basically you only have to work 4 days a week a few hours a day then retire pretty young for huge pensions in France. Its not just unsustainable, its idiotic. He's trying to cut back on the expense and the French people are waving their baguettes in fury.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 16, 2023 07:27 PM (0hOvj)

And these are the moments when folks like you, Chris, get left in wonderment as to why everybody simply doesn't see the brilliance in the Republican ethos.

Turns out - nobody likes it when they work under one deal, then the deal gets changed late in the game. Turns out, they like it worse when they get fucked, personally, by the change, late in the game.

Turns out - nobody wants to hear how they need to take it on the chin, for the good of the group, from somebody else in the group. That shit flies with exactly nobody.

Posted by: Some Things Will Never Change at March 16, 2023 09:02 PM (sH61M)

281 So... are the Democrats all-in for the 1%-ers, now?

Posted by: Another Anon at March 16, 2023 09:05 PM (hwP7U)

282 But- a Chinese person born in Malaysia is Asian, right?

Malaysia is different. Really different. I've been there more than once.

It's 50% plus 1 Muslim. And a third Chinese. Add in an eighth Indian and the rest South Pacific Whites - and you've got a really, really different joint. And exceptional food. Best food I've ever ate.

Miss Malaysia didn't want to identify as Malaysian. That's pretty obvious, if you've been there. She also didn't want to declare herself Chinese ... none of them there do. That's all it was.

Posted by: Some Things Will Never Change at March 16, 2023 09:07 PM (sH61M)

283 Am I the only one here who noticed Pug's complaint (#25) about "having to get my tuck tested for emissions" and thought "TMI! please keep that between you and your urologist!"?

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at March 16, 2023 09:35 PM (Vvnc2)

284 Tonypete (#226):
I went to high school with a Griesedick family, that also had a plumbing company with their name in big letters on the side of every truck. Yes, it was pronounced 'greaze a dick'.

Posted by: Dr. Weevil at March 16, 2023 09:40 PM (Vvnc2)

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