The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The vicious, rabid hatred of America's armed forces on the part of the Democrat/Socialist apparatus currently in control of the Pentagon is on full, proud display with its 2024 military budget proposal. Gutting the offensive power of an already diminished United States Navy, and decreasing the ability of the navy to move United States Marines to the battle seems like a post-modern fever dream, but it is fast becoming reality.

Perhaps the notion that they are nothing more than (not so)crypto-socialists should be revisited. Looking back at the various socialist governments than came to power over the last 100 years we see a pattern of military growth among the first-line of socialist penetration, and a pattern of disarmament among the second-line countries...those whose socialism came about in part because of infiltration of their political and social apparatus by the original socialist countries. The Soviet Union was maniacally militaristic for its entire history. Their expansion into eastern Europe would have been impossible to maintain without a huge military. Yet their infiltration of Great Britain's political and social institutions beginning in the 1930s was the catalyst for much of the country's current-day weakness.

Biden's Budget Cuts Funds to U.S. Navy As China Ramps Up Shipbuilding

President Joe Biden’s 2024 budget proposal would deal a massive blow to the already strained American Navy—the White House wants to prematurely retire eight ships and two combat vessels. By taking these ships out of action, the Navy would lose more than 600 vertical launch missile systems—a missile capability that serves as the primary deterrent to Chinese military attacks in the Pacific, according to congressional research provided to the Washington Free Beacon.

Biden’s budget would decrease the total number of active Navy ships, retiring at least 11 ships while only requesting the construction of nine new vessels. The Navy currently has 294 battle force ships, far short of the 355 it is required to have by law. Biden’s budget would further reduce this number, according to information about the White House’s 2023 budget proposal codified by Wicker’s office.

Is this the same process that occurred in Great Britain? Swap out the USSR for China and replace great Britain with America, the effects are almost identical. The infiltration of American academia is complete, and it was only a matter of time before Lenin's "useful idiots" entered the halls of government power.

But the difference is stark. The Soviet Union fought to protect itself and expand. That they failed is a function of the inherent flaws in socialism itself, and not their focus and drive to conquer their adversaries in the West.

In Great Britain, and now in The United States, the drive is for self destruction! Shrinking our armed forces benefits nobody but the Chinese and other unknown future enemies. There is no benefit to America other than freeing up more deficit spending for failing social programs.

So calling the Biden junta "socialists" may be giving them too much credit. They are the useful idiots who obediently follow the fairy tales of socialism, but are incapable of seeing its reality and even acting in the same manner as the Soviets and the Chinese...fighting to protect and grow their countries.

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 30, 2023 11:00 AM (T4tVD)

2 81 million votes, baby.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 30, 2023 11:01 AM (UAlCg)

3 >>By taking these ships out of action, the Navy would lose more than 600 vertical launch missile systems—a missile capability that serves as the primary deterrent to Chinese military attacks in the Pacific, according to congressional research provided to the Washington Free Beacon.

Having a corrupt president who is owned by the CCP has its downside.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2023 11:02 AM (ZLI7S)

4 Looonnngg way from Reagan's 600 ship navy.

Posted by: BignJames at March 30, 2023 11:02 AM (AwYPR)

5 Hey maybe we could get some famous actor to do voice-overs for our recruitment commer--awwwwwww fuck.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:02 AM (9UlRk)

6 The Democrats' plan is to demilitarize the military from within.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 30, 2023 11:02 AM (lf83v)

7 a US citizen can only serve 2 terms as President

but a cabal can rule forever

Posted by: Obama at March 30, 2023 11:03 AM (us2H3)

8 The democrats are communists. Full stop.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at March 30, 2023 11:03 AM (DMyTF)

9 It's bad enough he's one of the worst presidents ever, but he is doing his level best to disarm the country so China can waltz in and take us over.

This POS needs to be impeached.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:03 AM (d2bW3)

10 6 The Democrats' plan is to demilitarize the military from within.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 30, 2023 11:02 AM (lf83v)

They ain't trying to demilitarize shit. They just realize you don't need a Navy to stomp on people in Nebraska.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:04 AM (9UlRk)

11 If our foreign enemies were in charge, how could they be worse for America?

(psssst - I know the answer to this: they couldn't be)

Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2023 11:04 AM (qoGsy)

12 At this point, anything that weakens our military is good.

As they are now more likely to be used against me and my family, I'd prefer they not be competent.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2023 11:04 AM (JMAcK)

13 I'm torn on this... I don't know that I care that we have the biggest navy.
I mean... high time to get some of our "allies" in on this party.

I concede that I can be talked to on this.

But why should we continue to spend 100 times our allies to defend them? Just so we can launder more taxpayer money back to elected officials? Because that's all I see anymore.

Posted by: Inogame at March 30, 2023 11:04 AM (53oGX)

14
This POS needs to be impeached.

This is not who we are.

Posted by: Luntz's Butt Bud at March 30, 2023 11:05 AM (DMyTF)

15 Biden’s budget would decrease the total number of active Navy ships, retiring at least 11 ships while only requesting the construction of nine new vessels. The Navy currently has 294 battle force ships, far short of the 355 it is required to have by law. Biden’s budget would further reduce this number, according to information about the White House’s 2023 budget proposal codified by Wicker’s office.
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And with it, the death of globalization continues apace. America's actual defensive and force-projection needs notwithstanding, the USN serves another purpose. The basic assumption underpinning globalization is simple: "Security is a non-issue because the United States - and particularly the United States Navy - has security handled and trade routes will thus remain safe and open. You can count on it, and you can redesign your economy to depend on it."

US naval power is what underpins *everything* at this point. Global trade? Navy. Defense compacts? USN. Security treaties? USN. Trade agreements? USN. It has been the outsized power of the US Navy that has allowed this trade-centric, globalized world to develop. Without the USN, that world ends.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:05 AM (t0OGg)

16 But why should we continue to spend 100 times our allies to defend them? Just so we can launder more taxpayer money back to elected officials? Because that's all I see anymore.
Posted by: Inogame at March 30, 2023 11:04 AM (53oGX)

The biggest reason to own the seas is so our trade vessels can zoom around unimpeded and not need to carry half their cargo weight in countermeasures against piracy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:05 AM (9UlRk)

17 We are so screwed.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 30, 2023 11:06 AM (DSB5h)

18 >>>At this point, anything that weakens our military is good.

As they are now more likely to be used against me and my family, I'd prefer they not be competent.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian

That's a good point. Saw an article yesterday which claimed Garland told the U.S. Marshals to not arrest anyone who were harassing the Supremes after the Roe decision.

So apparently they were breaking the law, and the Marshals did nothing.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:06 AM (d2bW3)

19 It's not like I was planning to visit Taiwan anyway.

Posted by: blaster at March 30, 2023 11:06 AM (pwExq)

20 You win a kewpie doll! Chansley has just been released to a halfway house.
Posted by: IrishEi

Thank you

Posted by: Lola - free Jacob Chansley at March 30, 2023 11:06 AM (GshMh)

21 We can't pay for defense, which is specifically noted in the constitution, because we spend so much on transfer payments, which are not.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 11:06 AM (lTGtQ)

22 Wanton Destruction at every turn, in every department.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 30, 2023 11:07 AM (Cus5s)

23 Build the Navy and downsize the Army. If the Army can't find itself on our borders then we have no real use for it.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 30, 2023 11:07 AM (Z6LNn)

24 That's a good point. Saw an article yesterday which claimed Garland told the U.S. Marshals to not arrest anyone who were harassing the Supremes after the Roe decision.

So apparently they were breaking the law, and the Marshals did nothing.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:06 AM (d2bW3)

Garland claimed that the Marshals just chose not to arrest anyone and that he had nothing to do with it. That if they didn't arrest, then DOJ could not prosecute.

Just like that.

Posted by: blaster at March 30, 2023 11:07 AM (pwExq)

25 >>>This is not who we are.

Posted by: Luntz's Butt Bud

Yeah, that line is tattooed on my brain. But let's keep voting GOP, because they've been so good to us recently.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:07 AM (d2bW3)

26 16 But why should we continue to spend 100 times our allies to defend them? Just so we can launder more taxpayer money back to elected officials? Because that's all I see anymore.
Posted by: Inogame at March 30, 2023 11:04 AM (53oGX)

The biggest reason to own the seas is so our trade vessels can zoom around unimpeded and not need to carry half their cargo weight in countermeasures against piracy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:05 AM (9UlRk)

If our allies shared the burden why would that occur?

Posted by: Inogame at March 30, 2023 11:07 AM (53oGX)

27 22 Wanton Destruction at every turn, in every department.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 30, 2023 11:07 AM (Cus5s)

Racist.

Tasty. But racist.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:07 AM (9UlRk)

28 21 We can't pay for defense, which is specifically noted in the constitution, because we spend so much on transfer payments, which are not.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 11:06 AM (lTGtQ)

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"Stop all unnecessary spending! Except what's mine! Gimme mine!"
-99% of America

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:07 AM (LvTSG)

29 The decommissioning of the Guided Missile Cruisers (CG's) isn't as bad as it seems. The new Burke class Guided Missile Destroyers (DDG's) are every bit as capable and in some cases, superior to the older CG's. However, given the current situation with China and their ambitions with Taiwan I'd have kept the CG's around. They're still integrated with our nuclear carrier battle groups so it's not that big of a deal to keep them.

Short sighted IMO.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (Q4IgG)

30 We can't pay for defense, which is specifically noted in the constitution, because we spend so much on transfer payments, which are not.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 11:06 AM (lTGtQ)
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In part. Our defense budget is in large part non-defensive. We could spend a lot less on defense if defense is all the armed forces did, but they do much more. Our defense budget is in reality a global peacekeeping budget. Be it land, sea or air, the threat of US military engagement anywhere on earth at a moment's notice is what keeps the globalized pseudo-empire running.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (t0OGg)

31 If our allies shared the burden why would that occur?
Posted by: Inogame at March 30, 2023 11:07 AM (53oGX)

Because in reality there's no such thing as an "ally".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (9UlRk)

32 >>>Garland claimed that the Marshals just chose not to arrest anyone and that he had nothing to do with it. That if they didn't arrest, then DOJ could not prosecute.

Just like that.

Posted by: blaster

I totally believe that, because Garland would never order the Marshals to allow anarchy. He's a stand-up guy.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (d2bW3)

33 Let us return to the austere Federal budgets of 2019.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (yQpMk)

34 I'm torn on this... I don't know that I care that we have the biggest navy.
I mean... high time to get some of our "allies" in on this party.

I see that the Scandis are combining their air forces so as to provide a much bigger punch should the Russkis get (even more) frisky. It sounds good, but I worry about the ability to make a decision in time of war. Still, this would be one of Europe's largest air forces, and would consist largely of modern planes, especially F-35s.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (eOEVl)

35 The Navy really needs to understand White Hate.

Posted by: Field Marshall General Milli Vanilli at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (sWM8x)

36 Biden is owned by Beijing and I would expect his people to want to bring this country down anyway.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:09 AM (Zzbjj)

37 I get the feeling the only recognized "enemy" of the United States is *us*.

Biden and his DC pals (on both sides of the aisle) only seem interested in defending Ukraine's sovereignty from the Russians, and their power from the US citizens.

Interesting Times are officially here.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2023 11:09 AM (EdLEa)

38 32 I totally believe that, because Garland would never order the Marshals to allow anarchy. He's a stand-up guy.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (d2bW3)

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The press told me he was moderate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

39 33 Let us return to the austere Federal budgets of 2019.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (yQpMk)

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2007.

Pre-TARP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

40 I get the feeling the only recognized "enemy" of the United States is *us*.

Biden and his DC pals (on both sides of the aisle) only seem interested in defending Ukraine's sovereignty from the Russians, and their power from the US citizens.

Interesting Times are officially here.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2023 11:09 AM (EdLEa)
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The domestic population is always Public Enemy Number One in a tyranny.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:09 AM (t0OGg)

41 And with it, the death of globalization continues apace.

I fail to see the problem.

Posted by: The Dark Ages at March 30, 2023 11:10 AM (eOEVl)

42 >>>The vicious, rabid hatred of America's armed forces

-->The vicious, rabid hatred for America's armed forces

Posted by: m at March 30, 2023 11:10 AM (v0TzN)

43 35 The Navy really needs to understand White Hate.
Posted by: Field Marshall General Milli Vanilli at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (sWM8x)

Oh, bubbeleh, don't worry. i'd hate you whatever color you were.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:10 AM (9UlRk)

44 The goal is to make the Republicans own it. They'll reinstate this spending, of course (they don't care about deficits), but the goal is to claim that Republicans are also big spenders, so they are no better than the Democrats. Also, Republicans are warmongers who want to provoke China and get us into wars and don't care about the poor. Low-information voters will believe it (or claim to believe it, since they think Democrats are better anyway, because they are more caring and less racist).

Posted by: PG at March 30, 2023 11:10 AM (84jHt)

45 @7

>>a US citizen can only serve 2 terms as President

>>but a cabal can rule forever
Posted by: Obama at March 30, 2023 11:03 AM (us2H3)

And it would appear that US citizenship is largely optional.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 30, 2023 11:10 AM (up/3i)

46 40 The domestic population is always Public Enemy Number One in a tyranny.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:09 AM (t0OGg)

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"I saw we give the government more power to fix problems far from me."
-99% of America

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:10 AM (LvTSG)

47 US naval power is what underpins *everything* at this point. Global trade? Navy. Defense compacts? USN. Security treaties? USN. Trade agreements? USN. It has been the outsized power of the US Navy that has allowed this trade-centric, globalized world to develop. Without the USN, that world ends.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

Which means a return to piracy on the high seas. Recall that the country with the longest supply chains by far is China. What this leads to for the US is second tier manufacturing moving to Mexico, and the sea routes becoming less and less important to us, and China either funding a navy to protect its own sea routes, or collapsing. Although, based on the demographics of China, it will probably collapse as a power before their new navy could be built and deployed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 11:10 AM (lTGtQ)

48 In part. Our defense budget is in large part non-defensive. We could spend a lot less on defense if defense is all the armed forces did, but they do much more. Our defense budget is in reality a global peacekeeping budget. Be it land, sea or air, the threat of US military engagement anywhere on earth at a moment's notice is what keeps the globalized pseudo-empire running.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (t0OGg)
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Yep. Trim that down too much and things are going to get a might sporty in some troublesome spots around the world. Increase in piracy for sure.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2023 11:10 AM (YIVH2)

49 I totally believe that, because Garland would never order the Marshals to allow anarchy. He's a stand-up guy.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (d2bW3)

He wants to bring down Western Civilization as does Mayorkas. I don't see why anyone would believe this is being done by accident.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:10 AM (Zzbjj)

50 38 32 I totally believe that, because Garland would never order the Marshals to allow anarchy. He's a stand-up guy.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (d2bW3)

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The press told me he was moderate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

Mitch McConnell voted to affirm him. He also whipped 18 members of the Republican Caucus to join him.

Posted by: blaster at March 30, 2023 11:11 AM (pwExq)

51 So, umm, vote harder, yeah?

Posted by: blaster at March 30, 2023 11:11 AM (pwExq)

52 50 Mitch McConnell voted to affirm him. He also whipped 18 members of the Republican Caucus to join him.
Posted by: blaster at March 30, 2023 11:11 AM (pwExq)

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Kentucky gave him a 50 point victory margin...in his Republican primary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:11 AM (LvTSG)

53 Lotta Peter Zeihan fans here, I see.

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

54 But to be honest, Barr, Rosenstein and Rosen were absolutely no better

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:12 AM (Zzbjj)

55 Yep. Trim that down too much and things are going to get a might sporty in some troublesome spots around the world. Increase in piracy for sure.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2023 11:10 AM (YIVH2)

What's the problem? Have you seen our masthead?

Posted by: blaster at March 30, 2023 11:12 AM (pwExq)

56 To understand the actions of the top brass in our military, one need only ask what would be best for their Chinese paymasters.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 30, 2023 11:12 AM (yQpMk)

57 >>Garland claimed that the Marshals just chose not to arrest anyone and that he had nothing to do with it. That if they didn't arrest, then DOJ could not prosecute.

And yet in 2023 the DoJ plans to investigate/arrest at least 1000 more J6 rally attendees.

As we've seen for years, they Left protesters are rarely arrested and never prosecuted. It is a choice, it is policy. Biden, AOC and others encouraged the protests - they approved.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2023 11:12 AM (EdLEa)

58 and even acting in the same manner as the Soviets and the Chinese...fighting to protect and grow their countries.

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So what is this I'm hearing about Disney rope-a-doping Desantis and somehow getting more power out of his governance board and permission to expand and open new theme parks, with something about "until 21 years after the passing of the last descendant of King Charles III"?

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:12 AM (XSoJN)

59 Shrinking our armed forces benefits nobody but the Chinese and other unknown future enemies......

So calling the Biden junta "socialists" may be giving them too much credit. They are the useful idiots who obediently follow the fairy tales of socialism, but are incapable of seeing its reality and even acting in the same manner as the Soviets and the Chinese...fighting to protect and grow their countries.
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Or perhaps... and hear me out here... they are working directly for the Chinese.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2023 11:12 AM (IMmp5)

60 >>We can't pay for defense, which is specifically noted in the constitution, because we spend so much on transfer payments, which are not.

Sounds like you are trying to stir up anti-trans hate, citizen.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2023 11:12 AM (ZLI7S)

61 @52

>>Kentucky gave him a 50 point victory margin...in his Republican primary.

Was that margin from voters or ballots?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 30, 2023 11:12 AM (up/3i)

62 The Barbarians are within the gates.

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 30, 2023 11:13 AM (WmGrA)

63 Shrinking our armed forces...

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As always, it depends on the definition of 'us'.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 30, 2023 11:13 AM (ykeLU)

64 Which means a return to piracy on the high seas. Recall that the country with the longest supply chains by far is China. What this leads to for the US is second tier manufacturing moving to Mexico, and the sea routes becoming less and less important to us, and China either funding a navy to protect its own sea routes, or collapsing. Although, based on the demographics of China, it will probably collapse as a power before their new navy could be built and deployed.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 11:10 AM (lTGtQ)
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The entirety of the Pacific Rim depends on the USN. China, yes - and hugely - but also Korea, Taiwan, Japan and SE Asia. A fair amount of Mediterranean trade also depends on the USN. Piracy is virtually unknown along major trading routes because it's well understood that if you try it, the USN will destroy you. We haven't had to in a long time. The Navy itself is a hell of a deterrent.

But we also, as a country, have the massive benefit of geography. North America is more than self-sufficient. There is some stuff we don't have (titanium, for example) but relatively little. The US/Canada/Mexico bloc will remain powerful no matter what because of this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:13 AM (t0OGg)

65 Pence can't buy any Leftie love even after denouncing PDT...

Agolf Twitler Slayer @slayer_agolf
Pence, regarding his testifying to the Grand Jury.
"I have nothing to hide"

Then you won't be pleading the 5th, Right Mike???

H8m @jcp28940740 · 21h Replying to @slayer_agolf
If you have nothing to hide, Mike, then you don't have a problem testifying, right Mike?

Frank @Chisportsnut · 21h Replying to @slayer_agolf
Lol his memory will fail him. Expect "I can't recall."

Former Faithful Republican @FaithfulFormer · 21h Replying to @slayer_agolf
And answer every question, right Mike?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 30, 2023 11:14 AM (Vwz3I)

66
As we've seen for years, they Left protesters are rarely arrested and never prosecuted. It is a choice, it is policy. Biden, AOC and others encouraged the protests - they approved.
Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2023 11:12 AM (EdLEa)

Actually many of them were compensated, Including the rioters and arsonists at Trump's inauguration. IOW, on the payroll.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:14 AM (Zzbjj)

67 >>>He wants to bring down Western Civilization as does Mayorkas. I don't see why anyone would believe this is being done by accident.

Posted by: CN

It's happening in most of the blue cities as well. Our mayor is destroying Philadelphia - although that's been going on for decades - by defunding the police, allowing shooters to get probation, and destroying the economy.

I don't know why a mayor would want to destroy the city he runs, but here we are.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:14 AM (d2bW3)

68 67 I don't know why a mayor would want to destroy the city he runs, but here we are.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:14 AM (d2bW3)

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You drive out the people who would vote against you, cementing your power.

It's called the Curley Effect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:14 AM (LvTSG)

69 Which means a return to piracy on the high seas.

China will be quite happy to patrol the waters between Hawaii and mainland US, to help fight piracy, and in other parts of the world too.

If piracy isn't completely deterred, still it's the gesture that matters. I think China doesn't care so much about outcomes as it cares about making nice friendship gestures.

Posted by: PG at March 30, 2023 11:14 AM (84jHt)

70 There are two kinds of ships - Submarines and Targets. Keep this in mind. Imma not that sure of the future of Aircraft Carriers. Nice to have. Submarines are have to haves.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 30, 2023 11:14 AM (Z6LNn)

71 Piracy on the high seas. Imagine your embarrassment as a pirate when you finally seize a loaded container cargo ship. Due to supply chain problems, it has been at sea for a very, very long time. You report back to Pirate HQ that you have a two year production of fidget spinners.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 30, 2023 11:15 AM (lz5hY)

72 The press told me he was moderate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

A Republican moderate.

And the verdict is still out on that one, quite honestly.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2023 11:15 AM (DvYfj)

73 Is there any Biden policy that is not making the US weaker? or less Free?

Energy policy? Hey, lets destroy cheap reliable oil and gas.
Border? Lets import Millions of not well educated Illegals.
Military? Let's give all our shit to Ukraine, then underfund.
Fiscal? Lets keep overspending creating more inflation.
Economic? Lets destroy the power of the dollar.
Guns? Lets take guns away from Citizens and give them to foreigners.
Race? Let's divide people even MOAH!

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2023 11:15 AM (oHd/0)

74 It's happening in most of the blue cities as well. Our mayor is destroying Philadelphia - although that's been going on for decades - by defunding the police, allowing shooters to get probation, and destroying the economy.

I don't know why a mayor would want to destroy the city he runs, but here we are.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:14 AM (d2bW3)

Who's the D-bag nutsack running for mayor in philly with a commercial all about potholes?

I couldn't stop laughing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:15 AM (9UlRk)

75
I don't know why a mayor would want to destroy the city he runs, but here we are.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:14 AM (d2bW3)

You need an angry proletariat mob to bring down Western Civ. The oligarchs are probably not going to be happy with the finale they funded.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:15 AM (Zzbjj)

76 I don't know why a mayor would want to destroy the city he runs, but here we are.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:14 AM (d2bW3)
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All of those kinds of people I've spoken to - some in city governments, some residents who are lefties - don't believe that they are destroying anything. They're executing revolutionary programs to fix everything, and these are just growing pains. Once we come out of it, we'll have greater justice than ever.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:16 AM (t0OGg)

77 >>>As we've seen for years, they Left protesters are rarely arrested and never prosecuted. It is a choice, it is policy. Biden, AOC and others encouraged the protests - they approved.

Posted by: Lizzy

And if a GOP president is ever elected again - doubtful - they will do nothing about this, because that's not who we are.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:16 AM (d2bW3)

78 Old man yells at planes

Posted by: A dude in MI at March 30, 2023 11:16 AM (/6GbT)

79 There are two kinds of ships - Submarines and Targets. Keep this in mind. Imma not that sure of the future of Aircraft Carriers. Nice to have. Submarines are have to haves.

Long distance, long loiter underwater drones are the coming wave. See the Russian's Poseiden system as an example, although we might want ones that actually work.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:16 AM (eOEVl)

80 And if a GOP president is ever elected again - doubtful - they will do nothing about this, because that's not who we are.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:16 AM (d2bW3)

That's right, they're donks

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (Zzbjj)

81 And working for the Russians for that matter.

Oh yeah would it shock you to learn after years of made up accusations, that significant elements of the D party are still in bed with Russia, and it was projection all along?

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (DvYfj)

82 >>I don't know why a mayor would want to destroy the city he runs, but here we are.

You can't install a new system of governing without crisis and chaos. Crisis and chaos allows the implementation of new laws and restrictions that would not be possible in normal times.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (ZLI7S)

83 #7 - correction a Natural Born US citizen can be president for two terms.

Posted by: Jaimo at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (DBrN4)

84 Obama: I was actively undermining the United States while President.

Biden: Hold my ice cream cone.

Posted by: In your face at this point at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (Vvnuo)

85 "You report back to Pirate HQ that you have a two year production of fidget spinners."

I do love this place. That's awesome.

Posted by: IP at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (SDdI7)

86 ...far short of the 355 it is required to have by law.

Not much of a law then.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (z99Zw)

87 There's no "I" in Uniparty.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (9UlRk)

88 76 All of those kinds of people I've spoken to - some in city governments, some residents who are lefties - don't believe that they are destroying anything. They're executing revolutionary programs to fix everything, and these are just growing pains. Once we come out of it, we'll have greater justice than ever.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:16 AM (t0OGg)

========

Pol Pot. Cambodia. 1975.

(Channeling Kirk from Star Trek VI.)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (LvTSG)

89 I have to disagree. The politicians know they are socialists.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (sI15f)

90 But we also, as a country, have the massive benefit of geography. North America is more than self-sufficient. There is some stuff we don't have (titanium, for example) but relatively little. The US/Canada/Mexico bloc will remain powerful no matter what because of this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:13 AM (t0OGg)

Invite Canada to be part of the US. Invade and take over Mexico, and don't stop until you hit the damn canal we built. Stop messing around in the rest of the world, until we get our own shit straight again.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (oHd/0)

91 >>>All of those kinds of people I've spoken to - some in city governments, some residents who are lefties - don't believe that they are destroying anything. They're executing revolutionary programs to fix everything, and these are just growing pains. Once we come out of it, we'll have greater justice than ever.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Agreed. A woman called the division last night and said she can't get in tough with her detective. She started ranting at me and when she calmed down, I said, "In 2020 we were a 6,500 personnel department. We are now a 4,000 department. I'm sorry you cannot get in touch with your detective, but the city voted for this."

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:18 AM (d2bW3)

92 Oh yeah would it shock you to learn after years of made up accusations, that significant elements of the D party are still in bed with Russia, and it was projection all along?
Posted by: ... at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (DvYfj)

Some elements of Russia, the ones who want communism back. The day that Putin told Obama that communism was a bad road to follow, the bromance ended and the reset button tossed.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:18 AM (Zzbjj)

93 far short of the 355 it is required to have by law.

The law.

How quaint.

Posted by: blaster at March 30, 2023 11:18 AM (pwExq)

94 Who's the D-bag nutsack running for mayor in philly with a commercial all about potholes?

I couldn't stop laughing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

(there is a secret law in Pa. prohibiting road repair.....)

Posted by: JT at March 30, 2023 11:18 AM (T4tVD)

95 North America is more than self-sufficient. There is some stuff we don't have (titanium, for example) but relatively little. The US/Canada/Mexico bloc will remain powerful no matter what because of this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

Yes, and all of the SE Asian countries have the same transport problem that China has, Mexico and S America do not.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 11:19 AM (lTGtQ)

96 67 Wyatt, you know it, everybody here knows it. If the DA (with mayor's backing) would simply give the max to felons in possession of a firearm, the Philly crime rate would drop dramatically. It always seems to be the first charge thrown out.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 30, 2023 11:19 AM (lz5hY)

97 ..far short of the 355 it is required to have by law.

Not much of a law then.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (z99Zw)

It's really more of a guideline than what you would call a law.

Posted by: Hector Barbossa at March 30, 2023 11:19 AM (yQpMk)

98 Agreed. A woman called the division last night and said she can't get in tough with her detective. She started ranting at me and when she calmed down, I said, "In 2020 we were a 6,500 personnel department. We are now a 4,000 department. I'm sorry you cannot get in touch with your detective, but the city voted for this."

That's good. Even better would be: "Did you vote for a Dem in the last 20 years? If so, it's on you."

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:19 AM (eOEVl)

99 Invite Canada to be part of the US. Invade and take over Mexico, and don't stop until you hit the damn canal we built. Stop messing around in the rest of the world, until we get our own shit straight again.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (oHd/0)

I say the opposite. Dissolve the Union. 50 Completely Not United At All States. Any of them who decide to shack back up afterwards can knock themselves out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:20 AM (9UlRk)

100 There are two kinds of ships - Submarines and Targets. Keep this in mind. Imma not that sure of the future of Aircraft Carriers. Nice to have. Submarines are have to haves.
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Don't get me started on icebreakers.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 30, 2023 11:20 AM (MIKMs)

101 >>>You can't install a new system of governing without crisis and chaos. Crisis and chaos allows the implementation of new laws and restrictions that would not be possible in normal times.

Posted by: JackStraw

Good point, but Philadelphia has most of those policies already implemented. I cannot see what else they can do. I'm sure they'll find something.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:20 AM (d2bW3)

102 Keep your eyes on california, they could collapse before the country does. We are nearing the end and getting ready for the reparations recommendation in a few months. How does Newsome deal with this? He can't oppose it, the state will burn. If this 800 billion dollar package is authorized, where does the money come from? The wealthy will flee the state. As will businesses. How do you think this ends?

Posted by: It's happening at March 30, 2023 11:21 AM (/8VQT)

103 I'm thankful that Garland is not on the court but his defeat in that matter is waht's driving this craziness

Susan Estritch beat him out of the editor of the Harvard Law review

she said he did not take defeat very well

Posted by: REDACTED at March 30, 2023 11:21 AM (us2H3)

104 Biden's Budget Cuts Funds to U.S. Navy As China Ramps Up Shipbuilding
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No one wears hats any more.

https://tinyurl.com/knfzbrzc

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 30, 2023 11:21 AM (Vwz3I)

105 I just heard from Chris Plante they released America's Shaman.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2023 11:21 AM (iayUP)

106 97 ..far short of the 355 it is required to have by law.

Not much of a law then.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2023 11:17 AM (z99Zw)

It's really more of a guideline than what you would call a law.
Posted by: Hector Barbossa at March 30, 2023 11:19 AM (yQpMk)

Hector Barbosa? Became a Lawyer once he retired from the Sea.... Soros DA?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2023 11:21 AM (oHd/0)

107 Good point, but Philadelphia has most of those policies already implemented. I cannot see what else they can do. I'm sure they'll find something.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:20 AM (d2bW3)

Cannibalism?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 30, 2023 11:21 AM (yQpMk)

108 Long distance, long loiter underwater drones are the coming wave. See the Russian's Poseiden system as an example, although we might want ones that actually work.
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What we need is one of those underwater cities in the Pacific, from which we can deploy long loiter drones, service them, and deploy additional countermeasures in the event of an attack of Chinese origin.

Posted by: In your face at this point at March 30, 2023 11:22 AM (gD1S3)

109 I think the Navy ships that are being prematurely retired are the so-called Littoral Combat Ships, which are absolute garbage and should never have been built. The LCS's are so incompetently designed, badly built, and are so vulnerable in their proposed use that they are utterly useless to the Navy. They would be most useful as TNT-stuffed, remotely controlled suicide ships, and even in that role would probably be sunk far outside the theater of battle.

So, not a yuge loss. Otherwise, I'm sure Zhou Bai-den is doing his best to gut the Navy in the face of Chy-Nah's aggression and expansionist tendencies.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 30, 2023 11:22 AM (5BoQt)

110 102 Keep your eyes on california, they could collapse before the country does. We are nearing the end and getting ready for the reparations recommendation in a few months. How does Newsome deal with this? He can't oppose it, the state will burn. If this 800 billion dollar package is authorized, where does the money come from? The wealthy will flee the state. As will businesses. How do you think this ends?
Posted by: It's happening at March 30, 2023 11:21 AM (/8VQT)

it wil their fault

Posted by: REDACTED at March 30, 2023 11:22 AM (us2H3)

111 all I can say is, despite how sick and twisted Philly has become, there sure are a lot of new apt being built all over the damn place

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 30, 2023 11:22 AM (w0NJk)

112
Susan Estritch beat him out of the editor of the Harvard Law review

she said he did not take defeat very well
Posted by: REDACTED at March 30, 2023 11:21 AM (us2H3)

This is not anger over SCOTUS, it's why he was nominated in the first place.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:22 AM (Zzbjj)

113 >>>Wyatt, you know it, everybody here knows it. If the DA (with mayor's backing) would simply give the max to felons in possession of a firearm, the Philly crime rate would drop dramatically. It always seems to be the first charge thrown out.

Posted by: bill in arkansas

We has a Soros-DA, and for the most part, he either dismisses charges or gives them lenient sentences. We had 105 murders already, and the DA still lets shooters go, because who is going to stop him?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:22 AM (d2bW3)

114 Skyrocketing Crime? Rampant Carjacking? Roving Bands of Pharmaceutically-Degraded Homeless Reavers? Theft and Vandalism as far as the eye can see?

I know what the people want: Smooth roads.

Fucking hell, man.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:23 AM (9UlRk)

115 Yep. DM Says "QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley is released 14 months early from prison"

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2023 11:23 AM (iayUP)

116 And working for the Russians for that matter.

Oh yeah would it shock you to learn after years of made up accusations, that significant elements of the D party are still in bed with Russia, and it was projection all along?

Posted by: ...

The DemonRats started working for the Commies in 1917 and they've never stopped. Just as they've been racist totalitarian lunatics since 1840, and finally learned to hide their true nature in the 1960s.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (5BoQt)

117 104 Biden's Budget Cuts Funds to U.S. Navy As China Ramps Up Shipbuilding
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No one wears hats any more.

https://tinyurl.com/knfzbrzc

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 30, 2023 11:21 AM (Vwz3I)

Worse, After WW2 they created the mothball fleet... so they could quickly ramp back up in case of another large war.

For the last 40 years, we've been SINKING every US Navy ship that is decommissioned. Two ships I served on, USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2), and the USS Harry W. Hill (DD986) are both at the bottom of the ocean.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (oHd/0)

118 Long distance, long loiter underwater drones are the coming wave.

I am concerted about command and control of any autonomous vehicle when all our satellite communications get zapped, which is certain to happen in the event of a peer conflict.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (yQpMk)

119 Ok, the Shaman has been released to a halfway house. So he's free.
I'm 95% pessimist, so I'm 95% "this is great news, but it won't change anything"
But the 5% optimist in me say's, ' This is the first domino to fall...."

Posted by: JoeF. at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (mR6Gs)

120 That is great. It went on far too long, but at least for him, he's out.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (iayUP)

121 103 I'm thankful that Garland is not on the court but his defeat in that matter is waht's driving this craziness

Nope. He's a full on Leftist and always has been. If he was on the court he'd be crazy for life. At least as AG his term is limited.

Posted by: blaster at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (pwExq)

122 >>>all I can say is, despite how sick and twisted Philly has become, there sure are a lot of new apt being built all over the damn place

Posted by: BlackOrchid

We're getting a lot of Asians coming here from New York. It's a decent number, but I think we're still hemorrhaging people thanks to the violence and the awful economy.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (d2bW3)

123 115 Yep. DM Says "QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley is released 14 months early from prison"
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Will he be allowed to speak freely? One wonders.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (Z6LNn)

124 Reposting since we are over 100
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273 Tucker Carlson Responds After Dishonest Headlines Say He Called Trans People 'The Enemy' of Christianity

There is no such thing as "trans people". There are men and women with the mental disorder of gender dysphoria. "Transgender" is a made-up word and made-up "gender" that does not exist and will never exist. It is not possible to "transition" from one gender to the other. Period. That is biological fact.

If someone identified as a puppy, we would not call them puppy people, we would call them mentally disordered. The same applies here. Stop calling them "transgender" or "trans people". They are not. They are males and females with a mental disorder. And a sane society does not support or promote or celebrate mental disorders, it treats them.

This evil cult movement cannot be defeated unless people stop granting legitimacy to their nonsensical butchering of biological fact and the English language.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (dCyZm)

125 >>I don't know why a mayor would want to destroy the city he runs, but here we are.

Graft/to force implementation of of their policies.
Think: Obama's Fast and Furious, where he created an environment where one cartel was armed and killing many just so that he could then shutdown gun sales in border states and implement gun restrictions.

For every problem these mayors (and DAs and city councils) create there is an opportunity to receive federal funding to "fix" it, new laws to "fix" it.
For example, Lori Lightfoot told street vendors complaining about constantly being robbed of cash that the best solution was to convert to electronic payments (the Left wants a cashless society). ANd gun crimes in major cities -- made possible by letting violent criminals out on no-cash bail -- must be fixed by gun control.

The key is to understand that these mayors' goals are not aligned with their communities, they are in it for the graft opportunities (more funding to fix whatever!) and their radical agenda.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (EdLEa)

126 10 -- Sarah -- You'd be surprised how many Navy types you stumble across in the Omaha shells bus area, and they are not all recruiters.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at March 30, 2023 11:25 AM (k5jR3)

127 I am concerted about command and control of any autonomous vehicle when all our satellite communications get zapped, which is certain to happen in the event of a peer conflict.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (yQpMk)[/i[

SkyNet smiles.

Posted by: blaster at March 30, 2023 11:25 AM (pwExq)

128 113 We has a Soros-DA, and for the most part, he either dismisses charges or gives them lenient sentences. We had 105 murders already, and the DA still lets shooters go, because who is going to stop him?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:22 AM (d2bW3)

=======

The voters?

*bursts out laughing*

Sorry, I tried.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:25 AM (LvTSG)

129 Imma not that sure of the future of Aircraft Carriers.
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Both China and Russia have fielded hypersonic missiles, but the US doesn't seem able to build any. The Air Force just pulled the plug on Lockheed's hypersonic because it repeatedly failed in testing.

https://tinyurl.com/bdey3csj

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 30, 2023 11:25 AM (sWM8x)

130 Nope. He's a full on Leftist and always has been. If he was on the court he'd be crazy for life. At least as AG his term is limited.
Posted by: blaster at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (pwExq)

It doesn't matter which set of clothes gets crammed into which official function. They're all interchangeable. It's a cult.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:25 AM (9UlRk)

131 What we need is one of those underwater cities in the Pacific, from which we can deploy long loiter drones, service them, and deploy additional countermeasures in the event of an attack of Chinese origin.

Won't work. All the damn merpeople keep crapping all over the place so nobody wants to be deployed there.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:25 AM (eOEVl)

132 32
'He's a stand-up guy.'

Maybe the stand-up guy show be stood up. In front of firing squad.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 30, 2023 11:26 AM (YohY1)

133 121 103 I'm thankful that Garland is not on the court but his defeat in that matter is waht's driving this craziness

Nope. He's a full on Leftist and always has been. If he was on the court he'd be crazy for life. At least as AG his term is limited.
Posted by: blaster at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (pwExq)

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President Mike Pence will ask Garland to stay on as AG because the previous president's wishes should be honored.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:26 AM (LvTSG)

134 Posted by: Sharkman at March 30, 2023 11:22 AM (5BoQt)

Nope, the ships being decommissioned early are Aegis Class Cruisers... only early by a few years... but still early.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2023 11:26 AM (oHd/0)

135 It sounds good, but I worry about the ability to make a decision in time of war.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:08 AM (eOEVl)

Given that TPTB want us in a war with Russia, I worry about them "accidentally" engaging in some aggressive action against Russian forces... which will lead to a response... which will lead to TPTB deciding that NATO just has to get MORE involved.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2023 11:26 AM (z99Zw)

136 Keep your eyes on california, they could collapse before the country does. We are nearing the end and getting ready for the reparations recommendation in a few months. How does Newsome deal with this? He can't oppose it, the state will burn. If this 800 billion dollar package is authorized, where does the money come from? The wealthy will flee the state. As will businesses. How do you think this ends?
Posted by: It's happening at March 30, 2023 11:21 AM (/8VQT)
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They won't do it. The press will back off on the furious demands for it, CA will announce some run-of-the-mill and largely useless welfare program for blacks only, it will be challenged in court and the order will come down from on high for the judges to agree with the plaintiff that purely race-based welfare is illegal. CA can say it tried, they can direct the fury toward the federal courts, take their winnings from the graft lottery, and move on to the next thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:26 AM (t0OGg)

137 For the last 40 years, we've been SINKING every US Navy ship that is decommissioned. Two ships I served on, USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2), and the USS Harry W. Hill (DD986) are both at the bottom of the ocean.
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The Iwo Jima was a pig boat. I believe is was used for a while by the Navy as an Airborne Mine Countermeasure platform somewhere on the Texas coast.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 30, 2023 11:27 AM (Z6LNn)

138 >>We're getting a lot of Asians coming here from New York. It's a decent number, but I think we're still hemorrhaging people thanks to the violence and the awful economy.

How about illegal immigrants from Central/South America?
Biden is letting millions in, and they have to live somewhere.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 30, 2023 11:27 AM (EdLEa)

139 >>>The key is to understand that these mayors' goals are not aligned with their communities, they are in it for the graft opportunities (more funding to fix whatever!) and their radical agenda.

Posted by: Lizzy

It also pushes forth the Government Police Force that the left wants.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:27 AM (d2bW3)

140 Don't really see the logic here. The current regime is a bunch of Victoria Nuland-style delusional neoliberal warmongers who are trying their best to provoke WW3.

And to be fair the military has pretty much already been reduced to a glorified jobs program/laboratory for far-left social experiments--the DMV with missiles. The foreign mercenaries that constitute our late-Roman military are more likely to be turned against what remains of the American people at this point than any supposed foreign adversary, so perhaps it's better if this evil regime's ability to enforce its tyrannical will is curtailed.

Can we look at what the ruling class have done and are currently doing and seriously think that the military is going to be used in the service of our own interests? We can't even establish our own borders. Is there even a nation left to defend anymore?

Posted by: BunnyFooFoo at March 30, 2023 11:27 AM (0Uf+z)

141 136 Keep your eyes on california, they could collapse before the country does. We are nearing the end and getting ready for the reparations recommendation in a few months. How does Newsome deal with this? He can't oppose it, the state will burn. If this 800 billion dollar package is authorized, where does the money come from? The wealthy will flee the state. As will businesses. How do you think this ends?

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I maintain that the only rioting that will happen will be in the deepest of blue enclaves, and it won't last terribly long. It will do nothing to undermine Democrat power within the state, and they will win by larger margins next time ostensibly because Republicans stopped utopia, but mostly because of the universal mail in voting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:27 AM (LvTSG)

142 133
'President Mike Pence'

This is how I know you're joking.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (YohY1)

143 Long distance, long loiter underwater drones are the coming wave.

I am concerted about command and control of any autonomous vehicle when all our satellite communications get zapped, which is certain to happen in the event of a peer conflict.

This is true of any autonomous system, and I'm sure they're working on solutions. Perhaps ChatGPT?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (eOEVl)

144 Yep. DM Says "QAnon Shaman Jacob Chansley is released 14 months early from prison"
-------------------
Will he be allowed to speak freely? One wonders.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (Z6LNn)

Will he be allowed to file suit freely?
Because if he does, he'll be in bear skins for ever

Posted by: JoeF. at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (mR6Gs)

145 142 133
'President Mike Pence'

This is how I know you're joking.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (YohY1)

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Sometimes sarcasm doesn't come through written text. Gotta make it obvious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (LvTSG)

146 CA can say it tried, they can direct the fury toward the federal courts, take their winnings from the graft lottery, and move on to the next thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:26 AM (t0OGg)

The images of Grusome's democrat thugs turning the fire-hoses onto throngs of rioting black people are gonna be hilarious.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (9UlRk)

147
Lotta Peter Zeihan fans here, I see.
Posted by: Archimedes

Meh. He's pretty good about analyzing the past and present, but he's prone to some really stupid predictions for the future. Like one of his latest ones that a great famine is inbound in the next couple of years that will kill 500M people in China (or worldwide, the videos I've seen of him making this prediction are kinda vague).

That's hard to believe. The worst famine in human history is the Great Leap Forward, which was around 50-60M dead. It's tough to believe that a famine is inbound which is 10 time worse. Even Bai-Den and his merry men can't fuck up the world THAT badly.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (n+4am)

148 Keep your eyes on california, they could collapse before the country does. We are nearing the end and getting ready for the reparations recommendation in a few months. How does Newsome deal with this? He can't oppose it, the state will burn. If this 800 billion dollar package is authorized, where does the money come from? The wealthy will flee the state. As will businesses. How do you think this ends?

Posted by: It's happening at March 30, 2023 11:21 AM

Part of the covid lock down mess was an effort to keep California afloat by pouring billions of $$$ into the State under the guise of covid relief. That money went everywhere and managed to stop the bleeding for two years. Now that the extra covid money has dried up California is facing a $28 BILLION budget shortfall. Look for yet another bailout from the Fed for California soon.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (ncXxy)

149 Amazing how a British tabloid usually scoops the US crap media.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (iayUP)

150 I'll be honest, I did not have "Kevin McCarthy does more for 1/6 protestors in prison than any other Republican alive," on my bingo card.

I hate him slightly less now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:29 AM (LvTSG)

151 149 Amazing how a British tabloid usually scoops the US crap media.
Posted by: fd at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (iayUP)

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I don't think it's been amazing for more than a few years now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:29 AM (LvTSG)

152 Perhaps ChatGPT?

This was a joke, in case it wasn't clear.

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

153 >>Good point, but Philadelphia has most of those policies already implemented. I cannot see what else they can do. I'm sure they'll find something.

Soros has been a major player with the WEF for years. He stays mostly in the shadows like a true evil villain but his ultimate goal is to tear down the west and institute a more marxist order.

We are way beyond the point of referring to all of this as a conspiracy theory. They openly talk about their plans at WEF meetings and it's happening right before our eyes.

One party rule by the globalist, technocrat elite. No freedom and no rights for the great unwashed and no tolerance for dissent.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2023 11:30 AM (ZLI7S)

154 Amazing how a British tabloid usually scoops the US crap media.

Posted by: fd

The British tabloids don't have to wait for permission to publish from the DNC.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 11:31 AM (lTGtQ)

155 The British had perfected tabloid journalism before Squanto even knew what a smallpox blanket was.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:31 AM (9UlRk)

156 There is no such thing as "trans people". There are men and women with the mental disorder of gender dysphoria. "Transgender" is a made-up word and made-up "gender" that does not exist and will never exist. It is not possible to "transition" from one gender to the other. Period. That is biological fact.

If someone identified as a puppy, we would not call them puppy people, we would call them mentally disordered. The same applies here. Stop calling them "transgender" or "trans people". They are not. They are males and females with a mental disorder. And a sane society does not support or promote or celebrate mental disorders, it treats them.

This evil cult movement cannot be defeated unless people stop granting legitimacy to their nonsensical butchering of biological fact and the English language.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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AKSCHUALLY Gender is a schocial conshtruct.

Posted by: Danger haired, barista second class at March 30, 2023 11:31 AM (rhaDj)

157 That's hard to believe. The worst famine in human history is the Great Leap Forward, which was around 50-60M dead. It's tough to believe that a famine is inbound which is 10 time worse. Even Bai-Den and his merry men can't fuck up the world THAT badly.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (n+4am)
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A famine is very, very possible. Likely not a single monstrous famine in one place (like during the Great Leap Forward or the Ukraine terror famine or the Somalia famine), but reduced food production across a wide band that reduces food availability and increases expenses enough that marginal areas starve.

The agricultural system is quite heavily globalized and it has taken a *lot* of blows recently - from equipment (chip shortages, etc.) to inputs (fertilizers and seed) and the like. Will there be a single region that basically starves to death? I doubt it. Will be there broad-spectrum pressure with a tremendous amount of malnutrition and specific places that see literal starvation? I think that's a lot more possible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:31 AM (t0OGg)

158 Bonk bonk on tha head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 30, 2023 11:31 AM (X+Ku8)

159 Meh. He's pretty good about analyzing the past and present, but he's prone to some really stupid predictions for the future.

Agreed. Much of what he says is sensationalistic. However, his real skill is in making one think about things in a new way.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:31 AM (eOEVl)

160 It's not too early to begin drinking, is it?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2023 11:32 AM (qoGsy)

161 That's hard to believe. The worst famine in human history is the Great Leap Forward, which was around 50-60M dead. It's tough to believe that a famine is inbound which is 10 time worse. Even Bai-Den and his merry men can't fuck up the world THAT badly.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (n+4am)
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How else will they depopulate?

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:32 AM (Zzbjj)

162 160 It's not too early to begin drinking, is it?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2023 11:32 AM (qoGsy)

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You stopped?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:32 AM (LvTSG)

163 We're going to lose a major war.

What follows after that will be unpleasant.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 30, 2023 11:32 AM (2tUFv)

164 160 It's not too early to begin drinking, is it?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2023 11:32 AM (qoGsy)

By my reckoning it's about 23 hours too late.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:32 AM (9UlRk)

165 Time to rewrite all of the Pournelle/Niven CoDominium novels with Chinese names replacing the Russian ones.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 30, 2023 11:33 AM (Vwz3I)

166 There is a lot of graft in destruction.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2023 11:33 AM (uOhQn)

167 Agreed. Much of what he says is sensationalistic. However, his real skill is in making one think about things in a new way.

Exhibit one is the impact of demographics on a country's productivity. I've seen his numbers on China nowhere else, and if they're correct, the Chinese are in deep kimchi.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:33 AM (eOEVl)

168 166 There is a lot of graft in destruction.
Posted by: ... at March 30, 2023 11:33 AM (uOhQn)

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"My ears are burning..."
-Kathleen Kennedy

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:33 AM (LvTSG)

169 It's not too early to begin drinking, is it?

Posted by: Tonypete

It's ten am somewhere.

- old Russian saying

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 11:33 AM (lTGtQ)

170 The domestic population is always Public Enemy Number One in a tyranny.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:09 AM (t0OGg)

I was talking to a young army dude a few days ago. He made a comment about dudes in his unit doing yoga. I said we are sooo fucking screwed if thats the shit they got you doing. If we ever get invaded we're going to be in trouble. The kid says "if we ever get invaded its not the American military the invading army has to worry about, its the American civilians. Heavily armed and they don't have to follow rules of war."

Then it dawned on me. They can't use the military against the americans until they are disarmed. Gun control is their final step. Thats why they mention shit like nukes and f-15s, etc. Their "ground forces" would be annihilated, and they know it.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2023 11:33 AM (VwHCD)

171 Philadelphia has most of those policies already implemented.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2023 11:30 AM (ZLI7S)

*********

So, the cult has reached Philie...

(wait for it)

Posted by: Muldoon at March 30, 2023 11:33 AM (ykeLU)

172 I used to joke about the Chinese eating anything, but then realized they went through five separate famines in the twentieth century alone. Those poor fuckers.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 30, 2023 11:34 AM (X+Ku8)

173 Look for yet another bailout from the Fed for California soon.
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Its been a three way race to bankruptcy between CA, IL and NY. Only one of them will receive a bailout. After that, everyone is on its own going forward. Scary Times for Yankees.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 30, 2023 11:34 AM (Z6LNn)

174 I hate him slightly less now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:29 AM (LvTSG)

As long as we can all agree that Trump was stupid, egotistical and shortsighted for backing him.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2023 11:35 AM (uOhQn)

175 Mitt Romney
45s

The news this morning that one of the January 6 terrorists who stormed the Capitol in an effort to overturn the results of a legitimate election is very troubling to myself and most of the people with whom I serve in the Senate as well as in the lower House. That the person released was also one of the ringleaders of the rebellion is particularly saddening.
Those of us privileged to serve as representatives of the people should not be threatened with violence while carrying out the duties of our job and it is unseemly that there are so many misinformed people who are celebrating the release of the so-called J6 Shaman.
Shame on Shaman and his enablers!

Posted by: JoeF. at March 30, 2023 11:35 AM (mR6Gs)

176 Even Bai-Den and his merry men can't fuck up the world THAT badly.
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That's just great! Thanks pal. You know you jinxed us right?

Obama: Do not underestimate Joe's ability to fcuk things up.

Biden and his merry men: Watch this!!!

Posted by: Slaps Forehead at March 30, 2023 11:35 AM (FVLYz)

177 170 Then it dawned on me. They can't use the military against the americans until they are disarmed. Gun control is their final step. Thats why they mention shit like nukes and f-15s, etc. Their "ground forces" would be annihilated, and they know it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2023 11:33 AM (VwHCD)

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There are AT LEAST 400,000,000 guns in private hands in the US. It goes up by about 2.5 million every money...except in months following a gun tragedy that the media tries to take advantage of to advance gun control when it increases to 4 million or so.

Disarmament is a fantasy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:35 AM (LvTSG)

178 I was talking to a young army dude a few days ago. He made a comment about dudes in his unit doing yoga.

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Talk about our troops being stretched thin!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 30, 2023 11:35 AM (ykeLU)

179 There is no benefit to America other than freeing up more deficit spending for failing social programs.

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Not to mention "Reparations Today, Reparations Tomorrow, Reparations Forever!"

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 30, 2023 11:35 AM (+lwg5)

180 >>Ok, the Shaman has been released to a halfway house. So he's free.
I'm 95% pessimist, so I'm 95% "this is great news, but it won't change anything"
But the 5% optimist in me say's, ' This is the first domino to fall...."

Chansley got a new lawyer last year to replace the one who sold him out. The new lawyer is Bill Shipley, he goes by @shipwreckedcrew on Twitter and he also has a substack where he writes articles about the case(s).

He's actual working over a dozen J6 cases, almost 100% paid for by donations and money he raises with his articles. He's a bit of a unicorn, ex-DOJ but a conservative and he has really stepped up to help these people.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2023 11:35 AM (ZLI7S)

181 Then it dawned on me. They can't use the military against the americans until they are disarmed. Gun control is their final step. Thats why they mention shit like nukes and f-15s, etc. Their "ground forces" would be annihilated, and they know it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2023 11:33 AM (VwHCD)

Almost like the Founding Fathers, who had just fought the most powerful country in the world at the time of the Revolution... knew what they were doing.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2023 11:35 AM (oHd/0)

182 The worst famine in human history is the Great Leap Forward, which was around 50-60M dead. It's tough to believe that a famine is inbound which is 10 time worse. Even Bai-Den and his merry men can't fuck up the world THAT badly.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Konstantin Kiskin in his famous rant pointed out that over ten percent of the Chinese population is medically malnourished. If food is rationed there due to lack of fertilizer or imports, I could see a lot of them dying.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 11:35 AM (lTGtQ)

183 Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 30, 2023 11:24 AM (yQpMk)[/i[

SkyNet smiles.
Posted by: blaster
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Clearly a case of human error, blaster, just like the Barrell door will fail at 08:37 hours.

Would you like to hear me sing a new Queensryche song I just learned?

Posted by: HAL 9000 at March 30, 2023 11:36 AM (Vwz3I)

184 Amazing how a British tabloid usually scoops the US crap media.

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Signs you're living in a 3rd world sh*thole is when elections are stolen, the government wants to monitor your communication and location for activities that might indicate a disagreement with government, and you have to look to other nations to get news about your own country.

None of that is a joke, btw.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:36 AM (XSoJN)

185 181 Almost like the Founding Fathers, who had just fought the most powerful country in the world at the time of the Revolution... knew what they were doing.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2023 11:35 AM (oHd/0)

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Advancing racism?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:36 AM (LvTSG)

186 Anyone?

So what is this I'm hearing about Disney rope-a-doping Desantis and somehow getting more power out of his governance board and permission to expand and open new theme parks, with something about "until 21 years after the passing of the last descendant of King Charles III"?

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:36 AM (XSoJN)

187 There are AT LEAST 400,000,000 guns in private hands in the US. It goes up by about 2.5 million every money...except in months following a gun tragedy that the media tries to take advantage of to advance gun control when it increases to 4 million or so.

Disarmament is a fantasy.
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Which is why they went with biological warfare.

Posted by: No you see it, you can't unsee it at March 30, 2023 11:36 AM (FVLYz)

188 AKSCHUALLY Gender is a schocial conshtruct.

shuddup.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 30, 2023 11:36 AM (YohY1)

189 Nope, the ships being decommissioned early are Aegis Class Cruisers... only early by a few years... but still early.

Posted by: Romeo13

Yikes. Those are some of our most capable ships. Fucking DemonRats.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 30, 2023 11:36 AM (5BoQt)

190 >>>One party rule by the globalist, technocrat elite. No freedom and no rights for the great unwashed and no tolerance for dissent.

Posted by: JackStraw

I'm waiting for them to try and put a chip in my arm. They won't like what they see.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (d2bW3)

191 We has a Soros-DA, and for the most part, he either dismisses charges or gives them lenient sentences. We had 105 murders already, and the DA still lets shooters go, because who is going to stop him?
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:22 AM (d2bW3)
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Damn. This is the 89th day of the year. Philly is running at 1.18 murders per *day.*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (t0OGg)

192 I am more pissed off at the GOPe who thought this asshole was preferable to DJT. They are playing politics like it is 2004, and despite being inside the sausage factory still don't understand who Barack Obama was or is. Or they do. Which is worse still.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (R8uWY)

193 This is not anger over SCOTUS, it's why he was nominated in the first place.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:22 AM (Zzbjj)

People want fake soap opera explanations for what is transparent on the surface.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (uOhQn)

194 191 Damn. This is the 89th day of the year. Philly is running at 1.18 murders per *day.*
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (t0OGg)

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Reported murders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (LvTSG)

195 "Scary Times for Yankees."

And the White Sox and Angels too for sure.

Posted by: IP at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (SDdI7)

196 192 I am more pissed off at the GOPe who thought this asshole was preferable to DJT. They are playing politics like it is 2004, and despite being inside the sausage factory still don't understand who Barack Obama was or is. Or they do. Which is worse still.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (R8uWY)

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Biden advances their interests.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (LvTSG)

197 I think we are completely fucked.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (R8uWY)

198 I'm waiting for them to try and put a chip in my arm. They won't like what they see.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (d2bW3)

How do you keep an idiot busy?

Order them to put a chip in my arm.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at March 30, 2023 11:38 AM (uOhQn)

199 What has happened to the Navy is treasonous:

Retiring the Ticonderoga Class with no replacement
The money wasted on the LCS and Zumwalt programs
Cutting the LHD and LSD building programs
The new class of SSBNs and SSNs are way behind schedule
The Ford class CVNs are way behind schedule and full of problems
The Navy never developed a replacement for the roles the F-14 filled
The Marines have been stripped of their tanks and heavy artillery
The ready reserve doesn't have enough manpower to man the ships in the reserve fleet in a emergency - let alone some of the power plant technology of those ships is such that the age group of the sailors have never been trained to operate them.

I could go on.

Posted by: Archer at March 30, 2023 11:38 AM (gmo/4)

200 187 Which is why they went with biological warfare.
Posted by: No you see it, you can't unsee it at March 30, 2023 11:36 AM (FVLYz)

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Which mostly convinced their own side.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:38 AM (LvTSG)

201 So what is this I'm hearing about Disney rope-a-doping Desantis and somehow getting more power out of his governance board and permission to expand and open new theme parks, with something about "until 21 years after the passing of the last descendant of King Charles III"?

You're the one saying it, repeatedly. Do you have a source or not?

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:38 AM (eOEVl)

202 Then it dawned on me. They can't use the military against the americans until they are disarmed. Gun control is their final step. Thats why they mention shit like nukes and f-15s, etc. Their "ground forces" would be annihilated, and they know it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2023 11:33 AM (VwHCD)
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It's why - as we learned after the fall of the USSR - the Soviet Union had no serious war plans for invading the United States. They assumed they'd be ground into dogmeat by the army as they made their way across Canada, and if they made it to the US itself then there'd be a gun behind every blade of grass.

They always planned to fight us in Europe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:38 AM (t0OGg)

203 People want fake soap opera explanations for what is transparent on the surface.
Posted by: ... at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (uOhQn)

It makes the problem seem temporary, like the "bad candidate" and "mean tweets" explanations.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:38 AM (Zzbjj)

204 I think we are completely fucked.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (R8uWY)

One might say that we live in interesting times.

Also, in before the Trump War assholes!!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 30, 2023 11:38 AM (yQpMk)

205 155
'The British had perfected tabloid journalism before Squanto even knew what a smallpox blanket was.'

That shouldn't make me laugh...but it did.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 30, 2023 11:39 AM (YohY1)

206 I was talking to a young army dude a few days ago. He made a comment about dudes in his unit doing yoga.

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Battlefield intimidation using Warrior I and Warrior II poses.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 30, 2023 11:39 AM (+lwg5)

207 Then it dawned on me. They can't use the military against the americans until they are disarmed. Gun control is their final step. Thats why they mention shit like nukes and f-15s, etc. Their "ground forces" would be annihilated, and they know it.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 30, 2023 11:33 AM (VwHCD)

Almost like the Founding Fathers, who had just fought the most powerful country in the world at the time of the Revolution... knew what they were doing.
Posted by: Romeo13

When 6th century goat fuckers can beat the world's most advanced army...

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2023 11:39 AM (4IClK)

208 I used to joke about the Chinese eating anything, but then realized they went through five separate famines in the twentieth century alone. Those poor fuckers.
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Yes, but when we ate our neighbors in a village barbeque during the cultural revolution it wasn't because of famine. It was pure politics, and delicious too.

Posted by: Not so ancient chinese secret at March 30, 2023 11:39 AM (Uz0zO)

209 >>I'm waiting for them to try and put a chip in my arm. They won't like what they see.

I was watching one of the WEF videos on their website and some woman was giving a presentation about the wonders and benefits of this very thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2023 11:39 AM (ZLI7S)

210 I think we are completely fucked.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 30, 2023 11:37 AM (R8uWY

Not completely, not yet.

Destruction is a work in progress

Posted by: JoeF. at March 30, 2023 11:39 AM (mR6Gs)

211 This busty bikini blonde thinks navy men are handsome:
https://is.gd/1WYE7x

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:39 AM (t0OGg)

212 It's not too early to begin drinking, is it?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 30, 2023 11:32 AM (qoGsy)

**checks clock**

Not for me. But I have four hours to go yet.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2023 11:39 AM (AW0uW)

213 This is unsurprising. It's pure corporate class- the same shit that the Wall Street folks and MBA douchebags have been doing to American companies for decades.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 30, 2023 11:39 AM (wmDcS)

214 206 Battlefield intimidation using Warrior I and Warrior II poses.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 30, 2023 11:39 AM (+lwg5)

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"Not even their staff sergeant can do a warrior three. We'll be in DC by Thursday."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:40 AM (LvTSG)

215
If someone identified as a puppy, we would not call them puppy people, we would call them mentally disordered.

I am Napoleon!

Posted by: Guy who thinks he is Napoleon at March 30, 2023 11:40 AM (63Dwl)

216 The agricultural system is quite heavily globalized and it has taken a *lot* of blows recently - from equipment (chip shortages, etc.) to inputs (fertilizers and seed) and the like. Will there be a single region that basically starves to death? I doubt it. Will be there broad-spectrum pressure with a tremendous amount of malnutrition and specific places that see literal starvation? I think that's a lot more possible.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:31 AM (t0OGg)
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Yep. They'll distribute their wreckage around the world to make it less noticeable. They can then point to the marginal areas that are devastated as "proof" that we need their "solutions" to "fix" the problem.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2023 11:40 AM (YIVH2)

217 215 I am Napoleon!

Posted by: Guy who thinks he is Napoleon at March 30, 2023 11:40 AM (63Dwl)

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No! I am Napoleon!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:40 AM (LvTSG)

218 I'm Batman.

Posted by: Batman at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (yQpMk)

219 Mitt Romney
45s

The news this morning that one of the January 6 terrorists who stormed the Capitol in an effort to overturn the results of a legitimate election is very troubling to myself and most of the people with whom I serve in the Senate as well as in the lower House. That the person released was also one of the ringleaders of the rebellion is particularly saddening.
Those of us privileged to serve as representatives of the people should not be threatened with violence while carrying out the duties of our job and it is unseemly that there are so many misinformed people who are celebrating the release of the so-called J6 Shaman.
Shame on The Shaman and his enablers!

Posted by: JoeF. at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (mR6Gs)

220 I'm actually Napoleon II.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (9UlRk)

221 Disarmament is a fantasy.

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I think it would be fairly easy. Public health crisis and all that, and, same as COVID, anyone who didn't clap loudly and turn in their firearms to save someones grandmother would be an immediate big-time felon. A few televised hits on these insurrectionists' homes - oh gosh, would you look at that, they also had shild prawn on their computer!!! - and the public turning in neighbors who are being painted as revolutionairies and pro-Russia and what-not...

Would there be people who kept them? Yes. Would most people give them up? Probably.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (XSoJN)

222 218 I'm Batman.
Posted by: Batman at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (yQpMk)

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Do you feel anything emotionally, except for rage. 24/7, 365, at a million percent?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (LvTSG)

223 I saw Trump War Assholes open for GWAR at the Channel in '98.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (AW0uW)

224 This busty bikini blonde thinks navy men are handsome:
https://is.gd/1WYE7x
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:39 AM (t0OGg)
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I shoulda joined the Navy when I had the chance...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (YIVH2)

225 Not thinking we are totally fked yet, all out war hasn't started yet

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (oZwJ+)

226 https://tinyurl.com/5cfden2j
https://tinyurl.com/4eby4smv

The only question is what did DeSantis know about this and when?

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:42 AM (Zzbjj)

227 A good way to have a controlled famine is to have the government own land and prohibit planting. Then you confiscate forearms so there's no hunting and folks getting a bit uppity. Next on the list will piss off the Eagle Claw fish hook company.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 30, 2023 11:42 AM (lz5hY)

228 221 I think it would be fairly easy. Public health crisis and all that, and, same as COVID, anyone who didn't clap loudly and turn in their firearms to save someones grandmother would be an immediate big-time felon. A few televised hits on these insurrectionists' homes - oh gosh, would you look at that, they also had shild prawn on their computer!!! - and the public turning in neighbors who are being painted as revolutionairies and pro-Russia and what-not...

Would there be people who kept them? Yes. Would most people give them up? Probably.
Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (XSoJN)

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Well, except we have real world examples of things like gun registries and even efforts at disarmaments in places like Connecticut and Australia where they were all miserable failures.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:42 AM (LvTSG)

229 Posted by: JoeF. at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (mR6Gs)

IS that real, or parody? It's really hard to tell now.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2023 11:42 AM (oHd/0)

230
Susan Estritch beat him out of the editor of the Harvard Law review

she said he did not take defeat very well
Posted by: REDACTED

He was pissed that he was skunked by a woman who sounds like the bastard love-child of Harvey Fierstein and a graveyard-shift chain-smoking Waffle House waitress.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2023 11:42 AM (n+4am)

231 The images of Grusome's democrat thugs turning the fire-hoses onto throngs of rioting black people are gonna be hilarious.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (9UlRk)

Sorry for any members of the Horde stuck in Cali but anyone with anything to lose who hasn't already left gets few tears from me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2023 11:42 AM (z99Zw)

232 175
'Those of us privileged to serve as representatives of the people should not be threatened with violence'

Romney isn't threatened with violence frequently enough.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 30, 2023 11:42 AM (YohY1)

233 I was talking to a young army dude a few days ago. He made a comment about dudes in his unit doing yoga.

One of the problems the Army has always faced is losing soldiers due to injuries from overwork/overtraining. A lot of the poses are actually pretty good for stretching and working your core and secondary muscles, which can help with that. It's not a bad thing to add in some form to workouts, especially as a warm-up, or alternative on a rest day.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 30, 2023 11:42 AM (wmDcS)

234 Behind every blade of grass, there's usually just another blade of grass.

Posted by: Isoroku Yamamoto at March 30, 2023 11:43 AM (sWM8x)

235 227 firearms, not forearms, gotta prevent jokes.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 30, 2023 11:43 AM (lz5hY)

236 Just for laughs, Harvard's Pride complains of memes.

https://bit.ly/3lRoHmc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 30, 2023 11:43 AM (FVME7)

237 I think it would be fairly easy. Public health crisis and all that, and, same as COVID, anyone who didn't clap loudly and turn in their firearms to save someones grandmother would be an immediate big-time felon. A few televised hits on these insurrectionists' homes - oh gosh, would you look at that, they also had shild prawn on their computer!!! - and the public turning in neighbors who are being painted as revolutionairies and pro-Russia and what-not...

Would there be people who kept them? Yes. Would most people give them up? Probably.
Posted by: NISTdot gov:

That would turn deep blue cities into no go zones.

Because I have yet to hear how they planned to remove guns from thugs.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2023 11:43 AM (4IClK)

238 So what is this I'm hearing about Disney rope-a-doping Desantis and somehow getting more power out of his governance board and permission to expand and open new theme parks, with something about "until 21 years after the passing of the last descendant of King Charles III"?

You're the one saying it, repeatedly. Do you have a source or not?
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His bank account. It gets a deposit every couple weeks. There's a few shills operating. When you intransigently take a position before you have to, and can't be persuaded to keep an open mind, no matter what, it suggests a motive not based upon facts, but on some other motivation. could be emotion, or could be paid.

Posted by: Let's all jump on this bandwagon RIGHT NOW!!!! at March 30, 2023 11:43 AM (+n1PG)

239 @199

>>I could go on.

We could just tap into our Strategic Tranny Supply and send them to the front lines.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 30, 2023 11:43 AM (up/3i)

240 Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (XSoJN)

**fistbump**

I have said the same thing, very often.

400 million guns are worthless if nobody uses them.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2023 11:43 AM (AW0uW)

241 Posted by: JoeF. at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (mR6Gs)

Mitt is for Mitt and his fortune, and not taking blowback for selling us out to China. That's all he is.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:44 AM (Zzbjj)

242 It makes the problem seem temporary, like the "bad candidate" and "mean tweets" explanations.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:38 AM (Zzbjj)

It also potentially reinforces the idea that it was bad to fight his nomination because this is what came of it.

Instead of the truth which is that it was 100% correct to fight his nomination.

Posted by: ... at March 30, 2023 11:44 AM (rjIKj)

243 DHS Mayorkas STILL can't define an assault weapon despite being pantsed on that topic yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/54darfxj

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:44 AM (eOEVl)

244 It makes perfect sense when you understand that the aholes in power DESPISE America. They are engaging in asymmetric warfare (woke culture, monetary/inflationary crisis, international weakness, climate-change wealth redistributionism) to destroy it.

Posted by: Jimbo at March 30, 2023 11:44 AM (DGUZ5)

245 If someone identified as a puppy, we would not call them puppy people, we would call them mentally disordered.

*********

Old stuff: I want a pony!

New thing: I want to be a pony!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 30, 2023 11:44 AM (ykeLU)

246 Almost like the Founding Fathers, who had just fought the most powerful country in the world at the time of the Revolution... knew what they were doing.
Posted by: Romeo13

When 6th century goat fuckers can beat the world's most advanced army...
Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2023 11:39 AM (4IClK)
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Only because the world's most advanced army wasn't allowed to unleash its full might and fury against the goatfuckers.

That army will have no such restrictions placed up on it when it's turned against Americans.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2023 11:44 AM (YIVH2)

247 IS that real, or parody? It's really hard to tell now.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2023 11:42 AM (oHd/0)

It's a real parody

Posted by: JoeF. at March 30, 2023 11:44 AM (mR6Gs)

248 243 DHS Mayorkas STILL can't define an assault weapon despite being pantsed on that topic yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/54darfxj

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:44 AM (eOEVl)

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He's in power and there is no chance of him losing power. Why should he try to do better in this area?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:44 AM (LvTSG)

249 218 I'm Batman.
Posted by: Batman at March 30, 2023 11:41 AM (yQpMk)

Seems legit.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 30, 2023 11:44 AM (JMAcK)

250 Posted by: Let's all jump on this bandwagon RIGHT NOW!!!! at March 30, 2023 11:43 AM (+n1PG)

https://tinyurl.com/4eby4smv

Either Ronnie was played or he's been playing his fanboys

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:45 AM (Zzbjj)

251 Look for yet another bailout from the Fed for California soon.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (ncXxy)

I'd really like to see a Constitutional amendment (stop laughing) which states that any State which must be bailed out by the rest of the country reverts to territory status.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2023 11:45 AM (z99Zw)

252 "You're the one saying it, repeatedly. Do you have a source or not?
Posted by: Archimedes"

Once again, the Dail Mail has the scoop.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2023 11:45 AM (iayUP)

253 Julio Rosas@Julio_Rosas11
Charlotte Clymer: “God made me in her image. God made me transgender.”

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HOW DARE YOU GENDER ASSUME GAMECIRCLE D!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 30, 2023 11:46 AM (FVME7)

254 >>Ok, the Shaman has been released to a halfway house. So he's free.
I'm 95% pessimist, so I'm 95% "this is great news, but it won't change anything"
But the 5% optimist in me say's, ' This is the first domino to fall...."

Chansley got a new lawyer last year to replace the one who sold him out. The new lawyer is Bill Shipley, he goes by @shipwreckedcrew on Twitter and he also has a substack where he writes articles about the case(s).

He's actual working over a dozen J6 cases, almost 100% paid for by donations and money he raises with his articles. He's a bit of a unicorn, ex-DOJ but a conservative and he has really stepped up to help these people.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 30, 2023 11:35 AM (ZLI7S)
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Heard Shipley interviewed on some national radio show (maybe Gorka). He noted that Chansley, with good behavior and participation in some programs, was going to be released soon into the halfway house anyway (so not sure, JoeF, that this is any kind of concession by the Deep State thugs).

I hope Shipley sues the f*ck out of everyone he can though and wins. Maybe Chansley will end up like the Covington kid Nick Sandmann with hundreds of millions.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 30, 2023 11:46 AM (+lwg5)

255 Both China and Russia have fielded hypersonic missiles, but the US doesn't seem able to build any. The Air Force just pulled the plug on Lockheed's hypersonic because it repeatedly failed in testing.

https://tinyurl.com/bdey3csj
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist

I'm not sure about "hypersonic" missiles, either. At that high a velocity in atmosphere (even at high altitude), there is a plasma created around such a vehicle at that speed, which prevents targeting, data feed, etc.
How does this thing actually find a target? Does it slow down prior a strike to actually be able to get targeting or use sensors?
The whole thing actually doesn't make much sense. It does not seem like an actual practical effective weapon.

Posted by: A face in the crowd...... at March 30, 2023 11:46 AM (vcOmj)

256
He's in power and there is no chance of him losing power. Why should he try to do better in this area?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:44 AM (LvTSG)

Exactly. He's tearing down the country with a barbarian invasion. It will serve the West right, thinks he!

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:46 AM (Zzbjj)

257 The only question is what did DeSantis know about this and when?

Posted by: CN

The link you included answers your own question.

The new board handpicked by the Republican governor to oversee Disney’s special taxing district said Wednesday it is considering legal action over a multi-decade agreement reached between the entertainment giant and the outgoing board in the days before the state’s hostile takeover last month.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:46 AM (eOEVl)

258 Amazing how a British tabloid usually scoops the US crap media.
Posted by: fd at March 30, 2023 11:28 AM (iayUP)

They know that most US sheeple will never see it so they can publish the truth about us and then pretend that they publish the truth about the UK to fool their own sheeple.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 30, 2023 11:46 AM (z99Zw)

259 Once again, the Dail Mail has the scoop.
Posted by: fd at March 30, 2023 11:45 AM (iayUP)

And the Guardian, and CNN....

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:47 AM (Zzbjj)

260 >>>Damn. This is the 89th day of the year. Philly is running at 1.18 murders per *day.*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

When it gets warm, those numbers will skyrocket.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:47 AM (d2bW3)

261 I am thinking of lobbying the DSM to include a new diagnosis for the trans mindset.

Peter Pan-occhio syndrome. For women who simultaneously say "I don't want to grow up!" and "I'm a real boy!!!"

Posted by: Muldoon at March 30, 2023 11:47 AM (ykeLU)

262 Ace of Toenails...really...WTF?

Anyway,

The Euro was supposed to take over for the dollar...ha ha ha

The yuan and the ruble (rubble), in fact any currency supplant the dollar...ha ha

No matter how f*d up the dollar is traded it is still more reliable than any other currency.

Sure, the Swiss franc...imagine trillions of swiss francs as the reserve currency...it would destroy the swiss economy.

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at March 30, 2023 11:47 AM (roPuI)

263 Do you realize how many drag shows for kids we can have on military bases for the cost of one of those ships????

Posted by: Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III at March 30, 2023 11:48 AM (9p+PF)

264 I think the Disney thing is related to King Harv.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2023 11:48 AM (63Dwl)

265 257 The new board handpicked by the Republican governor to oversee Disney’s special taxing district said Wednesday it is considering legal action over a multi-decade agreement reached between the entertainment giant and the outgoing board in the days before the state’s hostile takeover last month.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:46 AM (eOEVl)

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That DeSantis hasn't already ordered the summary execution of Iger and everyone on the previous board is proof that he's a cuck.

Plus, the Nickelback issue

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:48 AM (LvTSG)

266
The new board handpicked by the Republican governor to oversee Disney’s special taxing district said Wednesday it is considering legal action over a multi-decade agreement reached between the entertainment giant and the outgoing board in the days before the state’s hostile takeover last month.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:46 AM (eOEVl)

Considering isn't doing, as we've seen from Bullshit Durham.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:48 AM (Zzbjj)

267 When it gets warm, those numbers will skyrocket.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:47 AM (d2bW3)
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Yeah. It's not peak season yet. Oy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:48 AM (t0OGg)

268 I say we just need one more boat. I'm thinking maybe something made out of gopherwood.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (cupoy)

269 "And the Guardian, and CNN....
Posted by: CN"

Of course CNN. They probably reported with glee.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (iayUP)

270 It does not seem like an actual practical effective weapon.
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E.M.P.

Posted by: you aren't targeting that tightly and you want to be higher up at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (VjEki)

271 When it gets warm, those numbers will skyrocket.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at March 30, 2023 11:47 AM (d2bW3)
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Turn up the heat and turn up the crazy!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (YIVH2)

272 Sen. Joe Manchin accused the Biden administration of not implementing the Inflation Reduction Act as intended, arguing it is “ignoring” the law’s provisions to expand fossil fuels for purely partisan purposes and undermining its ability to reduce the national debt.

“[I]nstead of implementing the law as intended, unelected ideologues, bureaucrats and appointees seem determined to violate and subvert the law to advance a partisan agenda that ignores both energy and fiscal security,” the West Virginia Democrat wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal.

Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (RHGPo)

273 HOW DARE YOU GENDER ASSUME GAMECIRCLE D!!!

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Wow! There is an autocorrect out of left field!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (FVME7)

274 The new board handpicked by the Republican governor to oversee Disney’s special taxing district said Wednesday it is considering legal action over a multi-decade agreement reached between the entertainment giant and the outgoing board in the days before the state’s hostile takeover last month.

Posted by: Archimedes

It's almost as if they are happy to subvert the legal system on their way out the door.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (lTGtQ)

275 So what is this I'm hearing about Disney rope-a-doping Desantis...
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You're the one saying it, repeatedly. Do you have a source or not?

Posted by: Archimedes
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No need to get testy. I saw it in JJ's morning report. I assumed other people kept up with the news, too.

Daily Caller
REPORT: Disney Secretly Conducted A Legal Maneuver To Undermine DeSantis’ Legislation, Protect Special Benefits
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ABC:
DeSantis' board says Disney stripped them of power
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Fox Business
Disney strips DeSantis' district oversight board of power
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There are probably others but hopefully this will do.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (XSoJN)

276 Of course CNN. They probably reported with glee.
Posted by: fd at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (iayUP)

Why wouldn't they? They're probably not tired of winning.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (Zzbjj)

277 Newsweek
Ron DeSantis' Board Rages Against Disney World After Legal Humiliation

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (XSoJN)

278
PBS
Disney World board picked by DeSantis says predecessors stripped them of power

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (XSoJN)

279 Once again, the Dail Mail has the scoop.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2023 11:45 AM (iayUP)

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"Disney trumps DeSantis with legal loophole that STRIPS his Reedy Creek oversight board of its power with King Charles clause that bans changes 'until 21 years after death of the last survivor of descendants of England's King'"

https://tinyurl.com/4xy2ws8s

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 30, 2023 11:50 AM (+lwg5)

280 272 Sen. Joe Manchin accused the Biden administration of not implementing the Inflation Reduction Act as intended, arguing it is “ignoring” the law’s provisions to expand fossil fuels for purely partisan purposes and undermining its ability to reduce the national debt.

“[I]nstead of implementing the law as intended, unelected ideologues, bureaucrats and appointees seem determined to violate and subvert the law to advance a partisan agenda that ignores both energy and fiscal security,” the West Virginia Democrat wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal.
Posted by: SMOD at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (RHGPo)

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I cannot wait until he's out of office. He's an idiot, and I'm tired of hearing about him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:50 AM (LvTSG)

281 Oh, sorry. I meant to post the "There are probably others but hopefully this will do. " here

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:50 AM (XSoJN)

282 What has happened to the Navy is treasonous:

Retiring the Ticonderoga Class with no replacement
The money wasted on the LCS and Zumwalt programs
Cutting the LHD and LSD building programs
The new class of SSBNs and SSNs are way behind schedule
The Ford class CVNs are way behind schedule and full of problems
The Navy never developed a replacement for the roles the F-14 filled
The Marines have been stripped of their tanks and heavy artillery
The ready reserve doesn't have enough manpower to man the ships in the reserve fleet in a emergency - let alone some of the power plant technology of those ships is such that the age group of the sailors have never been trained to operate them.

I could go on.

Posted by: Archer at March 30, 2023 11:38 AM

Wasting almost $2 BILLION dollars on a new pay/personnel system only to abandon it when they could not make it work correctly when all they had to do was copy the Air force system and tweak it a bit.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 30, 2023 11:51 AM (ncXxy)

283 A blade of grass is a poor choice for either cover or concealment.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 30, 2023 11:51 AM (ykeLU)

284 When I enlisted in the Navy, I was told that the letters N-A-V-Y stood for “Never again volunteer yourself.”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 30, 2023 11:51 AM (DSB5h)

285 There are probably others but hopefully this will do.
Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:49 AM (XSoJN)

This is like Mitch being "outmaneuvered" by those rascally democrats.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:51 AM (Zzbjj)

286 Sen. Joe Manchin accused the Biden administration of not implementing the Inflation Reduction Act as intended, arguing it is “ignoring” the law’s provisions to expand fossil fuels for purely partisan purposes and undermining its ability to reduce the national debt.

Stinkfinger is your president and your party, asshole. Choke on it and die.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2023 11:52 AM (AW0uW)

287 So what is this I'm hearing about Disney rope-a-doping Desantis and somehow getting more power out of his governance board and permission to expand and open new theme parks, with something about "until 21 years after the passing of the last descendant of King Charles III"?

You're the one saying it, repeatedly. Do you have a source or not?
==

His bank account. It gets a deposit every couple weeks. There's a few shills operating. When you intransigently take a position before you have to, and can't be persuaded to keep an open mind, no matter what, it suggests a motive not based upon facts, but on some other motivation. could be emotion, or could be paid.

Posted by: Let's all jump on this bandwagon RIGHT NOW!!!!

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hahahaha, oh man that's an awkward post.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:52 AM (XSoJN)

288 This is like Mitch being "outmaneuvered" by those rascally democrats.

Posted by: CN

It really isn't. MM pretends to be doing something, when what he wants is the opposite.

You have no evidence that DeSantis isn't anything but against what the old board did.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:52 AM (eOEVl)

289 It's Smart Power™, just like the Obama administration!

Posted by: War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength! at March 30, 2023 11:52 AM (0avLl)

290 Also at the DM. Murder Tranny was out to get the school's pastor, but couldn't find him so shot his kid.

Posted by: fd at March 30, 2023 11:53 AM (iayUP)

291 The new board handpicked by the Republican governor to oversee Disney’s special taxing district said Wednesday it is considering legal action over a multi-decade agreement reached between the entertainment giant and the outgoing board in the days before the state’s hostile takeover last month.

Posted by: Archimedes

Hard to beat Satan at his own games.

God needs to toss a few hurricanes Florida's way.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 30, 2023 11:53 AM (4IClK)

292 The Disney stuff is true - at the last moment, the Disney board members gave many of their governmental powers to Disney as an FU to the state. While it was open and public (and thus Disney claims fully legal), normally you can't give governmental powers away that hamstring the next government.

So, this will be fought in courts and cost Disney and the state a significant legal fee. It's the way Disney chose to fight, so good luck to them in (conservative) Florida courts. It's one of those "was it worth the short term win for the possible long term loss" - but Disney doesn't seem to be thinking far ahead these days...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2023 11:53 AM (exHjb)

293 You have no evidence that DeSantis is~~n't~~ anything but against what the old board did.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:54 AM (eOEVl)

294 Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:50 AM (XSoJN)

Ease up on the thread-jacking.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 30, 2023 11:54 AM (XIJ/X)

295 You have no evidence that DeSantis isn't anything but against what the old board did.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:52 AM (eOEVl)

You'll believe what you want, but he took lots of money from the likes of Murdoch, Griffen, and he's being aided by Rove and company. He's GOPe

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:54 AM (Zzbjj)

296 So, this will be fought in courts and cost Disney and the state a significant legal fee. It's the way Disney chose to fight, so good luck to them in (conservative) Florida courts. It's one of those "was it worth the short term win for the possible long term loss" - but Disney doesn't seem to be thinking far ahead these days...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2023 11:53 AM (exHjb)
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They had to do something. It might work. If it doesn't, then they tried. Disney had to try *something,* however shady or unlikely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:54 AM (t0OGg)

297 "Disney trumps DeSantis with legal loophole that STRIPS his Reedy Creek oversight board of its power with King Charles clause that bans changes 'until 21 years after death of the last survivor of descendants of England's King'"

If DeSantis really did get his dick chopped off by Disney and served back as garnish for his eggs benedict, Imma go out on a limb and say he's not presidential timber.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2023 11:54 AM (AW0uW)

298 What's happened to Bruce Jenner? I haven't heard from him in a long time. Is he not crazy enough for tranny world?

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 30, 2023 11:54 AM (eGTCV)

299 So, this will be fought in courts and cost Disney and the state a significant legal fee. It's the way Disney chose to fight, so good luck to them in (conservative) Florida courts.
Posted by: Nova Local

Disney is going to have to cut the few remaining non-woke employees to cover the litigation costs.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 11:55 AM (lTGtQ)

300 It's the way Disney chose to fight, so good luck to them in (conservative) Florida courts. It's one of those "was it worth the short term win for the possible long term loss" - but Disney doesn't seem to be thinking far ahead these days...

Sooo....you're asking if the juice was worth the squeeze? (j/k)

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:55 AM (eOEVl)

301 294 Ease up on the thread-jacking.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 30, 2023 11:54 AM (XIJ/X)

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So, ~~Star Trek~~...

Never mind...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:55 AM (LvTSG)

302 290 Also at the DM. Murder Tranny was out to get the school's pastor, but couldn't find him so shot his kid.
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She seems nice.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 30, 2023 11:55 AM (Z6LNn)

303
Ease up on the thread-jacking.

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(checks comment count)

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:56 AM (XSoJN)

304 Conspiracy theory confirmed!

John Hawkins@johnhawkinsrwn
The Nashville shooter picked that school because it didn't have as much security as others.
"Swope told The Post Hale had 'looked at' two other schools, both of which were public, before deciding 'the security was too great to do what she wanted to do.'

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Crazy ass right wing conspiracy theorist thinking gun free zones don't protect kids!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 30, 2023 11:56 AM (FVME7)

305 So, this will be fought in courts and cost Disney and the state a significant legal fee. It's the way Disney chose to fight, so good luck to them in (conservative) Florida courts. It's one of those "was it worth the short term win for the possible long term loss" - but Disney doesn't seem to be thinking far ahead these days...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 30, 2023 11:53 AM (exHjb)
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They had to do something. It might work. If it doesn't, then they tried. Disney had to try *something,* however shady or unlikely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:54 AM

It's not gonna work. They tried an end run with this ex post facto $hit but the courts are gonna say....nice try but no.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 30, 2023 11:56 AM (ncXxy)

306 If DeSantis really did get his dick chopped off by Disney and served back as garnish for his eggs benedict, Imma go out on a limb and say he's not presidential timber.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2023 11:54 AM (AW0uW)
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From what I'm reading, this was the outgoing board deliberately hamstringing the incoming board to give Disney what it wants and to fuck over the new guys.

The lawsuits will come hot and heavy. Can a government board bind a future government board? Is this a normal contract or not? Is the structure of the contract fraudulent? We're going to find out. It will probably take years to sort out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:56 AM (t0OGg)

307 "Disney trumps DeSantis with legal loophole that STRIPS his Reedy Creek oversight board of its power with King Charles clause that bans changes 'until 21 years after death of the last survivor of descendants of England's King'"

Good luck with that. I'm finding it hard to believe that is real, much less legal.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 11:56 AM (lTGtQ)

308 306 The lawsuits will come hot and heavy. Can a government board bind a future government board? Is this a normal contract or not? Is the structure of the contract fraudulent? We're going to find out. It will probably take years to sort out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:56 AM (t0OGg)

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I would expect injunctions that prevent the contract from taking effect, as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:57 AM (LvTSG)

309
I'm not sure about "hypersonic" missiles, either. At that high a velocity in atmosphere (even at high altitude), there is a plasma created around such a vehicle at that speed, which prevents targeting, data feed, etc.
How does this thing actually find a target? Does it slow down prior a strike to actually be able to get targeting or use sensors?
The whole thing actually doesn't make much sense. It does not seem like an actual practical effective weapon.
Posted by: A face in the crowd......

The last big Chinee hypersonic test that was carried out and touted in the press last year missed the target area by "a couple of dozen miles". Not the target, the target AREA.

It seems that the only way to actually do your targeting at those speeds would be inertial guidance, which is frankly useless for hitting something mobile like an aircraft carrier. But it'd be pretty decent for hitting a large city, especially if it's armed with a multi-megaton warhead. You don't HAVE to be super accurate on a soft target like a city when the blast radius is 30 miles wide.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 30, 2023 11:57 AM (n+4am)

310 300 It's the way Disney chose to fight, so good luck to them in (conservative) Florida courts. It's one of those "was it worth the short term win for the possible long term loss" - but Disney doesn't seem to be thinking far ahead these days...
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Bob Iger always has Larry Fink's checkbook to fall back on. Its a Manhattan thing.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 30, 2023 11:57 AM (Z6LNn)

311 "Disney trumps DeSantis with legal loophole that STRIPS his Reedy Creek oversight board of its power with King Charles clause that bans changes 'until 21 years after death of the last survivor of descendants of England's King'"

If DeSantis really did get his dick chopped off by Disney and served back as garnish for his eggs benedict, Imma go out on a limb and say he's not presidential timber.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 30, 2023 11:54 AM (AW0uW)
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How is this even enforceable? If it is, then any idiot can write contracts that will exist in perpetuity based upon the death of a line of foreign leaders anywhere in the world, which seems kind of stupid.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2023 11:57 AM (YIVH2)

312 and even acting in the same manner as the Soviets and the Chinese...fighting to protect and grow their countries.

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Sod did anyone notice how I even tied it to the topic back in #58?

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 30, 2023 11:58 AM (XSoJN)

313 CRISIS!!!

BioNTech stocks slide as drug corporation projects 70% decline in Covid vax revenue this year

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 30, 2023 11:58 AM (FVME7)

314 How is this even enforceable? If it is, then any idiot can write contracts that will exist in perpetuity based upon the death of a line of foreign leaders anywhere in the world, which seems kind of stupid.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 30, 2023 11:57 AM (YIVH2)

All it needs to do is hold up everything in the courts.

Posted by: CN at March 30, 2023 11:58 AM (Zzbjj)

315 Definitely too cleaver by half.

IIRC back in 2008 O called for civilian force to take some of the national security burden off the military. And 2014, he called for closer U.S. ties to civil groups overseas "to fight against attacks on human rights and freedom of expression." By this time, seems many are all in a "growing crackdown on civil society is a campaign to undermine the very idea of democracy."

Blinken's on the Moderization of American Diplomacy and helping to shape a new glocal economy in ways that strengthen the American middle class. IMO, they're working towards worldwide, "in the streets," engagement that they believe can be controlled by "civil society" without the big bombs to ruin real estate & stuff.

Federal civil service has been gutted, as have much of the states. Notice no more ranking veteran applicants as had been required for decades, or considering test scores & many other factors of other job applicants. While there had been quite a bit of underhanded "name selection" for jobs to beat certain legal job certifications ("certs"), with DIE, CRT, SEL there is no civil service in effect for much of government. Where's Congress? heh

Posted by: Lola - free Jacob Chansley at March 30, 2023 11:58 AM (GshMh)

316 I remember when DeSantis even making the board was the evidence that he had given up and turned tail and run in the face of the Mouse.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 11:58 AM (LvTSG)

317 298 What's happened to Bruce Jenner? I haven't heard from him in a long time. Is he not crazy enough for tranny world?
Posted by: N. Lurker at March 30, 2023 11:54 AM (eGTCV)

Recently shit canned when he said Biological Men should not play in Womens sports...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 30, 2023 11:58 AM (oHd/0)

318 Peter Pan-occhio syndrome
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Breadeye Dicks??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 30, 2023 11:59 AM (Vwz3I)

319 The lawsuits will come hot and heavy. Can a government board bind a future government board? Is this a normal contract or not? Is the structure of the contract fraudulent? We're going to find out. It will probably take years to sort out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I have an idea for those 87,000 new IRS agents, checking on the banking records of the old board members. Oh, who am I kidding? The IRS will target the new board members.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 11:59 AM (lTGtQ)

320 CBD-
I assume NistDot is really Scogg. Sorry I responded.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 30, 2023 11:59 AM (eOEVl)

321 199 What has happened to the Navy is treasonous:

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Sorry, but we need the money for more important things like reparations and subsidizing infinity 70-IQ Haitian illegal aliens to replace whites.

Anyway, haven't you heard that DiVeRsItY is, in fact, our greatest strength?

Posted by: BunnyFooFoo at March 30, 2023 11:59 AM (0Uf+z)

322 "Disney trumps DeSantis with legal loophole that STRIPS his Reedy Creek oversight board of its power with King Charles clause that bans changes 'until 21 years after death of the last survivor of descendants of England's King'" ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 30, 2023 11:50 AM (+lwg5)
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The way that's written, it's forever, isn't it? "Last survivor of descendants," barring a catastrophe, may well be "forever."

But what I find amusing is that England doesn't have a king yet. Charles hasn't been coronated. It would be very, very funny if that technicality is what ends up blowing up the deal, letting the lawyers and judges off the hook when it comes to more difficult decisions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:59 AM (t0OGg)

323 Damnit, we need those funds for more IRS agents!

- tax and spend Democrats everywhere

Posted by: Darth Randall at March 30, 2023 12:00 PM (6uw+t)

324 The lawsuits will come hot and heavy. Can a government board bind a future government board? Is this a normal contract or not? Is the structure of the contract fraudulent? We're going to find out. It will probably take years to sort out.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:56 AM (t0OGg)

Direct state police to regard and act as though it is invalid in the meanwhile.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 30, 2023 12:00 PM (eYoxG)

325 Nood Shaman.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 30, 2023 12:01 PM (psNWM)

326 What's happened to Bruce Jenner? I haven't heard from him in a long time. Is he not crazy enough for tranny world?
Posted by: N. Lurker

*******

It's like he's invisible.

Until tomorrow.

Posted by: Muldoon at March 30, 2023 12:01 PM (ykeLU)

327 I don't wanna bust out of here and find nothing but a lot of cold circuits waiting for me.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 30, 2023 12:01 PM (X+Ku8)

328 272
'Sen. Joe Manchin accused the Biden administration of not implementing the Inflation Reduction Act as intended'

This is why the other whores ask for the money first, Senator.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 30, 2023 12:02 PM (YohY1)

329 When was the last time a submarine was used in a combat operation (that we know of)?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 30, 2023 12:02 PM (63Dwl)

330 But what I find amusing is that England doesn't have a king yet. Charles hasn't been coronated. It would be very, very funny if that technicality is what ends up blowing up the deal, letting the lawyers and judges off the hook when it comes to more difficult decisions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

Even funnier when you consider that the king of England has nothing to do with anything in the US. They could have put down the descendants of Richard Nixon and it would have made more sense.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 12:03 PM (lTGtQ)

331 This is like Mitch being "outmaneuvered" by those rascally democrats.
Posted by: CN

Even a hare can outrun a dead tortoise.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 30, 2023 12:03 PM (FVME7)

332 When was the last time a submarine was used in a combat operation (that we know of)?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot

Nordstream II

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 30, 2023 12:03 PM (lTGtQ)

333 It's not too early to begin drinking, is it?
Posted by: Tonypete

It's Friday Eve!

Posted by: DaveA at March 30, 2023 12:05 PM (FhXTo)

334 IMO, like the old Soviet Union, our government will be picking career and/or technical education path for each and every school kid - but for those of the elites - if we don't pay attention.

Posted by: Lola - free Jacob Chansley at March 30, 2023 12:05 PM (GshMh)

335 Is it possible, after Orange County and other local jurisdictions in FL objected to the DeSantis move against Disney, that the outgoing Board (and local govts) decided to push back against the state move by making large concessions to an entity (Disney) that had been a strong community member for 50 years? Nah, not possible.

I get that Disney Corporate was stupid to weigh in, but DeSantis ignored 50 (really 60) years of strong community relations by WDW for a political move.

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at March 30, 2023 12:14 PM (roPuI)

336 335 I get that Disney Corporate was stupid to weigh in, but DeSantis ignored 50 (really 60) years of strong community relations by WDW for a political move.
Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at March 30, 2023 12:14 PM (roPuI)

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Translation:

"We should never rock the boat because we are conservatives. We must conserve progressive gains in every area."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 30, 2023 12:20 PM (LvTSG)

337 Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at March 30, 2023 12:14 PM (roPuI)

Okay Groomer.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 30, 2023 12:26 PM (yQpMk)

338 335
'I get that Disney Corporate was stupid to weigh in, but DeSantis ignored 50 (really 60) years of strong community relations by WDW for a political move.'

A 'political move' that was deserved and put WDW in its place.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 30, 2023 12:31 PM (YohY1)

339 As long as the borders are open, having any kind of military is a negative. Nothing is "defended" if you can't manage the basics.

If you're going around the neighborhood needlessly getting involved in a lot of domestic disputes and fighting with your neighbors constantly, the least you can do is lock the door to your own and your kids bedrooms.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at March 30, 2023 12:36 PM (PqujM)

340 It's why - as we learned after the fall of the USSR - the Soviet Union had no serious war plans for invading the United States. They assumed they'd be ground into dogmeat by the army as they made their way across Canada, and if they made it to the US itself then there'd be a gun behind every blade of grass.

They always planned to fight us in Europe.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 30, 2023 11:38 AM (t0OGg)

Along with an assist from their installed assets, China just needs to target our ever-diminishing ability to project force. The army that invades the US mainland will be the US Army, and they will isolate the civilian resistance into pockets and destroy it in detail.

Posted by: Advo at March 30, 2023 12:46 PM (VHN21)

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