The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 4/5/23

Good morning, kids. First, let me just express my "gratitude" to my fellow Wisconsinites for making feel at home – that is like I'm still in New York because, while making the fatal mistake of putting hope over experience, I wake up to find that this bloated Bolshevik in black, Janet Prostitutkavitch, or whatever the hell her name is has given my new home state a 4-3 leftist advantage on the state supreme court. This undoes 15 years of a conservative, or at least non-leftist, majority that has kept the state from the depredations of Madison, Milwaukee and all the other blue shit-hole areas at relative bay. The ouster of Scott Walker notwithstanding.

Meh. Wisconsin was one of the epicenters of the mass electoral fraud that installed Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants. Given the fact that Madison is also one of if not the historic spawning ground for American regressive "progressivism," and that Nazi-collaborator Soros and others poured a shit ton of money into the effort to take the court away, why am I surprised at this? Meh, I guess it's somewhat of a miracle that Ron Johnson survived a challenge from that Mandingo-berry Barnes clown. Tammy Baldwin is up in 2024 but what are the odds she gets the boot?

In any case, the local scene and especially the courts is where the real action is, so to speak. From a whole host of issues, and most significantly, how states run their elections, given what happened in 2020, this does not bode well for 2024. Not that Biden or whoever the ham sandwich du jour will be that they run is going to have any problems given that the electoral fraud of 2020 has now been institutionalized and given the Good House-Keeping (get it?) Seal of Approval. By the way, is calling someone whose own father rejected Judaism, raised him as an apostate and then went on to be an actual Nazi collaborator anti-Semitic? I guess it is. Of course, Leftism means always having to say I'm sorry. Let's pass over that (man I'm on a roll, or a matzo) and get to where the action is.

And speaking of courts being where the action is, one need look no further at the disgusting spectacle of what has been done to Donald Trump. The ramifications of this go well beyond our now nearly non-existent borders, and make us the laughing stock of the world. And I hate to say it, for good reason.

On Tucker Carlson's show, he highlighted a Tweet from the president of El Salvador, a nation noted for juntas and death squads, poverty, squalor and constant battles with communists for control of what is a Central American ash heap of a nation; the quintessential banana republic, if you will.

Think what you want about former President Trump and the reasons he’s being indicted.

But just imagine if this happened in any other country, where a government arrested the main opposition candidate.

The United States ability to use “democracy” as foreign policy is gone. https://t.co/svdFxtaf4q
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) April 4, 2023

Not that what happened to Trump is essentially a precedent given the fact that Barack Obama travelled around the world apologizing for the nation he led, and absolutely despised. Obama and his flea circus debased and dragged this nation through the mud. His most stunning act of betrayal and destruction was erasing almost a half century of real civil rights gains, comity and at least a modicum of tolerance between blacks and whites and turning us into a mostly peaceful Sarajevo circa 1992. In many ways, worse than that. But I digress.

Assuming for a moment that elections really can and will make a difference given all of the above, I'd be lying to you if I said what is being done to President Trump has not swayed my opinion of who to support at the top of the ticket. Then again, as I have been asserting for quite some time now, America as it was or as we thought it was is now gone. This is not about elections anymore. It is about national/societal survival and perhaps very soon now, our own personal survival.

We are in a pre-revolutionary phase, if we have not gone beyond that. The question is, a revolution that will bring about what? A revival and restoration, or, descent into some sort of totalitarian nightmare; what Churchill described on the eve of the Battle of Britain as "new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science." Boy, does that line just jump out at you, given today's context?

The arrest of Donald Trump in Manhattan Tuesday marked the end of the American republic in which citizens could trust that authorities were impartial and scrupulous in the administration of justice, and the dawning of an authoritarian and thuggish regime in which the full power of the legal apparatus is used to persecute the regime’s foes, no matter how much the laws must be twisted in order to achieve the desired result . . .
. . . The case against Trump is thus even weaker than it was expected to be. But Bragg and his handlers are likely calculating that the substance of the case doesn’t matter. Whoever is behind Bragg’s reckless and destructive persecution of Trump is apparently calculating that the prospect of a presidential candidate battling such a long list of felony charges will give distracted and indifferent voters the impression that Trump must have committed some terrible crime, and frighten them away.
There has never before been a presidential candidate under indictment, and Democrats appear to be banking on the proposition that most Americans are still unaware that the old republic has passed away, and that the criminal might not be the one who is indicted, but the one doing the indicting. . .
. . . The legal persecution of Donald Trump is a prelude to what this authoritarian regime plans to unleash upon law-abiding Americans if they dare to dissent from its sinister agenda. The feds have already sent this message by sending a SWAT team to arrest a peaceful pro-life activist, Mark Houck. Trump is the big prize, but his arrest is intended primarily to send a new message to the American people: fall in line, or else.

Much handwringing over the fact of whether or not we as individuals and/or groups should or should not have engaged in protest, be it J6 and afterwards has gone on both here and elsewhere in the blogosphere. Of course it is now a provable fact and axiomatic that the FBI, DOJ or name your other neo-Gestapo/Stasi agency of the junta will infiltrate it and be the instigators of violence to be used as a pretext for whatever "enabling act" they can conjure to outlaw us. And there are those angry at Trump for going after his accusers. But look at what he is saying, not his style, but the words he is saying and tell me he's wrong, misguided or even not within his rights, or what used to be his rights, to express.

No, my friends. We are now damned if we do and damned if we don't. So, is it better to sit on our hands for fear of being mischaracterized and blood-libeled, or have them invent "white supremacist terrorists" and dress them in MAGA gear and glowie-brand chinos and docksiders or speak up, and face the very real consequences? It is rapidly approaching a moment of not having anything to lose.

And that scares the shit out of me. Regardless of all of this, and it is a clunky segue if not appropriate, the Jewish holiday of Passover is upon us yet again. For all you non-members of Tribe or those unaware, it is a holiday commemorating God's deliverance from bondage and oppression and, more crucially, how in every generation, there are those who seek to put us in chains and oppress us; it is a warning to be vigilant and to trust in the Lord.

The revolutions of the past come and go. Nations rise and fall, and then fall further into the history books. Passover however was a remarkable revolt not just against an empire, but paganism, and it remains relevant even all these thousands of years later. In a recent poll, only 39% said that religion was very important to them. That’s down from 62% a generation ago.
When faith in G-d leaves, what replaces it isn’t some abstraction of ‘reason’: it’s superstition (37% of adults under 30 believe in astrology), cults of personality, conspiracy theories and the conviction that we are now gods who can destroy the planet and change gender at will.
The story of Passover is a testament of faith: it’s the account of an absolutely degraded people still continuing to believe for centuries and later millennia that their salvation, passed down by tradition, would come from a G-d they had never seen or heard, but it’s also the revelation that slavery is not just physical, it’s spiritual. Just as true liberation comes from G-d, true slavery comes when we abandon faith and degrade ourselves under the soulless tyranny of paganism. . .
. . . Passover immerses Jews in the tyranny of paganism and the liberation of G-d. It is not merely a memorialization of the past, or the anxieties of the present, but the promise of the future. Keeping the faith means knowing, as the Jews of Egypt or those in Auschwitz did, that there is more to the world than the power of any tyrant: to his chains, laws and social credit systems.

Keep the faith. Ziessen Pesach.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Seb Gorka: "There is no way back for the Democrat Party."
America’s Path to a Police State
“King’s family—of which I am a member—has never believed the official story. . . “The FBI has never truly been held accountable for COINTELPRO.”
Did the FBI Kill MLK?
Margot Cleveland: "In the days, weeks, and months ahead, the ‘get Trump’ circus will continue to dominate the news."
7 Serious News Stories Media Choked Out With Trump Indictment Buzz

SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

“I never thought anything like this could happen in America, never thought it could happen. The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it,” Trump said in a speech following his return to Mar-a-Lago after being arraigned on Tuesday.
Donald Trump: "Only Crime" Was to "Fearlessly Defend Our Nation"
"Per the judge’s orders, the media was not allowed to live stream the court proceedings. Photographers, however, were allowed to enter the courtroom to take photos before the proceedings began. The photographers captured images for a few minutes before they were seen leaving the courtroom."
Donald Trump Pleads Not Guilty to 34 Counts of Falsifying Business Records in the First Degree
We've had this discussion about falling into the trap of protesting, vis a vis, as a pretext to be used to crack down on us. At this point, screw it. They're coming after us anyway.
Judge Warns Trump To Refrain From Posting On Social Media, Claiming Messages Could Inflame Civil Unrest – Trump Posts Anyway
"Trump's team have alarming concerns over the evidence of political motivation by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg."
‘Political Persecution’ Evidence Mounts as New York D.A. Alvin Bragg’s Staff Leave Wildly Anti-Trump, Leftist Social Media & Job Trail
"Merchan ruled against the Trump Organization earlier this year, finding the real estate conglomerate guilty of 17 charges related to a years-long tax evasion scheme under which the firm distributed various gifts and perks to executives. He imposed a $1.6 million fine, the legal maximum, against the company."
He ‘Hates Me’: What You Should Know About The New York Judge Assigned To Trump Case
"If these trumped up charges were being used to disable a candidate in, say, Egypt or Russia, the U.S. State Department would condemn these tactics."
Seven Things You Don’t Know About the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case

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Robert Spencer: "The Manhattan DA has unleashed the whirlwind . . . [Trump's] arrest is intended primarily to send a new message to the American people: fall in line, or else. And so, for the sake of the flickering light of freedom here and around the world, we must not comply."
Donald Trump Has Been Arrested, And Now We’re In For It
Margot Cleveland: "The corrupt press’ effort to focus our attention away from Bragg’s case tells us they know just how weak that case is."
Why All the Other ‘Get Trump’ Cases are Just as Weak as the Manhattan DA’s
"Some have hid behind the idea that we have to wait to see the evidence, or that the judicial process must be allowed to take its course. That ignores the obvious fact that the process itself is part of Trump’s punishment . . . The left may celebrate today, but there will be a reckoning." (I'm not holding my breath - jjs)
Donald Trump, Political Prisoner
“Because I’m black and I like violence, I’m an animal, I’m a black animal!” (finally, one of them speaks the truth - jjs)
Leftists Riot, Scream Profanities Outside of Manhattan Court Ahead of Trump’s Arraignment
"For the Manhattan DA, prosecuting Donald Trump has a straightforward political logic."
What Is Alvin Bragg Thinking?
Jeffrey Lord: "The backlash begins as Trump is arraigned."
DA Bragg, New York Judge Would Rig 2024 Election by Silencing Trump

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"The act of leaking grand jury testimony is considered a Class E felony under New York state law. Whether it was Bragg, someone in his office, or a grand juror, we don’t know yet, and you shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for an investigation. But if Bragg is responsible for the leak, he could face as long as five years in prison." (he faces nothing – check that: promotion – because Democrat - jjs)
Could Trump Prosecutor Alvin Bragg Go to Prison? It's Possible
"Our country has a long and admirable tradition of determining that some 'offenses' are best prosecuted in the court of public opinion."
Trump Indictment an Attack on Constitutional Order
Ham 'n Egger McCarthy: “I think this indictment, even before you get to the statute of limitations and whether he’s got jurisdiction to enforce federal law, I would dismiss it on its face because it fails to state a crime.” (Lavrenty been Beria Beria good to Bragg! - jjs)
DA Bragg Begins Trying Trump in the Court of Public Opinion in Press Conference
David Harsanyi: "On exacting poetic political justice."
No One is Above the Law? Give Me a Break
"The U.S. devolves into a Banana Republic – with a deteriorating legal system."
The Frightening Precedent of Indicting an Innocent Former President
"As Rush Limbaugh presciently predicted, regardless of what happens to Trump, patriotic Americans aren’t going anywhere. In fact, we were here before Trump came down the escalator. And Trump isn’t going anywhere either. Our greatest battle lies ahead."
The Final Battle Is Upon Us: Sic Semper Tyrannis
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
“[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden is a lawyer — as a lawyer, is he concerned at all that a local DA indicting a former president could down the line open up the possibility, set the precedent that local DAs that don’t like former President Biden could indict him?” Doocy asked.
Doocy Asks Jean-Pierre Point-Blank if White House is Afraid of Potential Biden Indictment
Comer later posted a clip of the interview and issued an ominous warning to Joe Biden: “I now have access to the Biden family’s suspicious activity reports from [the U.S. Treasury],” he tweeted Monday evening. “I have also subpoenaed Biden family [bank] records. And Biden family associates connected to the schemes are talking to [the Oversight Committee].” “It doesn’t look good for [Joe Biden],” he warned. (not holding my breath - jjs)
Are the Walls Closing In on Biden and His Family's Corruption?
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"The Democrats-as-pedophiles charge might just stick."
Marjorie Taylor Greene May Have Finished Off Lesley Stahl on Sunday Night
"The left’s hatred of former President Donald Trump is so severe they’re willing to use the scourge of anti-Semitism to defend against a clear abuse of prosecutorial power."
WaPo ‘Fact-Checker’ Humiliated After Smearing Criticism of Soros-Backed DA as "Anti-Semitism"
"The fact that they accused me of fabricating the quote is absolutely absurd," Bruesewitz told Human Events. "Why wouldn’t they reach out to the reporters at NBC News for comment first? Community notes should not be so quick to act on behalf of the DeSantis 2024 campaign. Hopefully this will be a one time issue."
Prominent GOP Consultant Falsely Accused of Fabricating Quote After NBC Stealth Edits Article Calling Calling Trump Supporters a "Nuisance"
The subcommittee’s resources to inform their work included “misinformation” research from partisan organizations. The subcommittee also planned to recruit “progressive” researchers to “socialize” the committee’s work, and suggested enlisting a major Democratic donor to fund CISA’s efforts.
DHS Panel Courted Left-Wing Agents To Aid In ‘Misinformation’ Crackdown
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
". . . right now, I want to talk about you. What will happen when you get a knock on your door and find the feds on your front porch? What will you do when they enter your home, paw through your underwear drawer, seize your computer and cell phone, and throw you in jail? Trump has an army of lawyers and the money to defend himself, but do you?
Are You Ready for the Knock on Your Door?
Gumsy-boffer Strzok is right. The violence will come from the FBI against those who criticize it. Already is.
Video: Former Anti-Trump FBI Agent Claims GOP Criticism Of FBI Will Lead To Violence
"There is no issue that can justify blocking the legitimate business of the people or interrupting members in the process of performing their duties. Didn’t Democrats say almost the same thing about January 6? And aren’t Democrats sending a thousand people to prison for essentially doing the same thing?"
Tennessee Republicans Looking to Expel 3 Democrats for Demonstrating on House Floor for Gun Control
“'Shoot him! Shoot him!' – Democrat Steve Schmidt, to 'a cheering crowd' on HBO’s Bill Maher show, referring to 'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley."
Democrat Bloodlust
"The end of the Marxist-infiltrated Progressive Era isn’t happening with a whimper, but with bangs." (if this is the end, it's kind of hard to remember what the beginning was like - jjs)
Ready Yourself for the 2024 Storms
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Economic incentives in the president’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, in concert with stricter environmental regulations could lead to roughly between 50 GW to 80 GW in coal-fired power plants going offline by 2030."
After Pushing To Shut Coal Plants Down, Biden Shells Out Millions for Green Projects in Coal Towns
"Lithium, a key component for electric vehicles, is forecast to face shortages as soon as two years from now, according to a 2021 report from the International Energy Agency. Meanwhile, [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden has set a goal of 50 percent of new U.S. car sales to be electric by the end of the decade."
Biden Junta is Funding Overseas Lithium Projects While Shutting Down American Mines
State utility operator identifies 46 projects needed to support solar, wind, electric cars."
Green New Boondoggle: California's Power Grid Needs $9 Billion to Go Green
". . . the electric vehicle is in its experimental phase. It may be the wave of the future, but the future is not now."
Assault and Battery: Beware Those EVs
"Many of the environmental problems confronting the planet have nothing to do with CO2 emissions and, in many cases, are worsened by misguided steps being taken to curb CO2 emissions."
How Climate Alarmism Killed Real Environmentalism
"Are you ready to be a good leftist and do it?"
Prager U Video: Will Eating Bugs Save the Planet?
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon expressed confidence about the future of the American economy despite the recent banking crisis that gripped the nation and his pessimistic comments last year." (and Raymond Shaw is the kindest, most decent etc. etc. - jjs)
SHOT: "The Positives Are Huge" – JPMorgan Chase CEO Changes His Tune About the Economy
On other issues, only 2% of Americans said "Environemnt/Pollution/Climate change" was the most important problem facing the country, and only 2% said the "situation with Russia" was a top problem.
CHASER: Gallup – 83% of Americans View Economic Conditions as 'Poor/Only Fair'
"One way or another, Social Security has to be touched. The only question is: Who gets burned?"
Biden Fiddles While Social Security Burns
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"This is in part the result of a government that is so focused on filling the nation with potential leftist voters that it does not care about children’s lives and bodies. It is also the result of people who have realized there is big money to be made in 'activism.' And it is also the result of the behavior of bureaucrats who see people as numbers and consequences as inconsequential, so long as they successfully reach their retirement."
A Florida Grand Jury Accuses the Biden Junta of Abetting Human Trafficking
"Biden pivots to the center on immigration ahead of 2024 election."
Biden Wants the Public To Think He's Cracking Down on the Border. Critics Aren't Buying It.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"In 2022, violent crime in New York City rose 23 percent, with more than 126,500 arrests made for murder and non-negligent manslaughter, robbery, felony assault, rape, burglary, grand larceny, and grand larceny auto — the seven major crime categories . . . Bragg has built his reputation as Manhattan district attorney by dropping felony charges, decreasing felony convictions, downgrading felonies to misdemeanors, and failing to request bail for felony suspects."
Violent Assaults Across NYC Surge as Officials Exhaust Resources on Trump
"Chris Staples released offender with violent criminal history just two weeks after different judge denied his bail."
Biden Judge Released Man Accused of D.C. Hotel Murder From Jail in December
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Why the sudden change of heart about [Chinese] COVID?"
Timing is Everything …
"If public-health officials get their way, every healthy 12-year-old girl in America will get 70 [Chinese] COVID-vaccine doses in her average lifespan, with a risk of heart damage (myocarditis) after each shot. Instead of following the science, US officials continue to propagate old myths that vaccines prevent transmission and that myocarditis is more common after [Chinese] COVID than after the vaccine — not true.
The CDC Keeps Pushing Chinese COVID Boosters on Kids Despite Real Health Risks
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Robert Spencer: "While his disappointment is understandable, it’s really Perrone, and not the Easthampton Public School District, who has dodged the bullet here. Imagine having to work on a day-to-day basis with these woke harridans. It would be like living Kafka’s The Trial, in which the protagonist is charged with a crime but never told exactly what he is accused of having done."
Massachusetts School Official’s Job Offer Rescinded Because He Called Two Women ‘Ladies’
"Despite their elite reputation, Stanford and Yale produce garbage law educations>
Judges expand hiring boycott of elite law colleges that allow violent protests and censorship
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"The bill is a massive expansion of Democrat-backed election policies that blue states across the nation are intent on ramming through state legislatures."
Here’s Everything Wrong With New Mexico’s Incredibly Dangerous New Election Law
"Introduced by Republican Rep. Carrie Isaac, HB 2390 would bar Texas counties from operating polling places on college campuses."
Texas Bill Models How To Stop Dems’ Exploitation Of Colleges For Partisan Get-Out-The-Vote Ops
"With the current temperature of the regime, Republicans have no choice but to secure consent by all legal means."
The GOP Has an Obligation to Protect Its Voters
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"A threat to the core principles that make our country exceptional."
Why Critical Race Theory is a Danger to America’s Faith-Based Communities
"Profile of a failed Congressional candidate and rabid anti-Semite."
Huwaida Arraf – Terror Cheerleader
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
“Since the center was announced in 2015, median rents in the immediate vicinity have jumped a staggering 43 per cent, while house prices have risen 130 per cent.”
There Goes the Neighborhood: Residents of Chicago’s South Side Say Obama Presidential Center ‘Causing Harm’ to Black Families
POLITICS
Protasiewicz beat Kelly 55.8% to 44.2% in the most expensive state Supreme Court race since a 2004 Illinois election, the NYT reported with 63% of the votes in. The win for Protasiewicz, a Milwaukee county judge who said she “embraces” the progressive label, will alter the ideology of the court, changing the balance from a 4-3 conservative majority to a 4-3 liberal majority. (oh for fuck's sake - jjs)
Leftist Hack Janet Protasiewicz Wins Pivotal Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
One big reason to watch the results of the race is that it could be a bellwether for the mood of the country. Democrats have tried to nationalize the election by claiming it’s all about abortion and “the fate of democracy.”
The Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Isn't About Abortion. It's About Power.
"Trump support will only grow despite others' egos and fantasies."
Trump’s Republican Challengers Are Delusional
“I believe the whole affair will backfire on the prosecutor and Democrats . . . “I support a return to those policies and to President Trump’s effective leadership.”
Mississippi Senator Endorses Trump Right Before Arraignment
"It should be made clear that the image on the t-shirt was not an actual mugshot taken during the former president’s recent legal troubles. Instead, it was a manipulated image designed for the sole purpose of marketing the merchandise."
The Trump Campaign Is Already Selling 'Mugshot' Merch
"The same political partisans who pushed Fetterman over the election finish line are now doing their part to squeeze the most out of his feeble Senate seat."
Hospitalized or Not, Democrats Have a Plan for Lumpy Fetterman
Deroy Murdock: "Chicago voters have a rare and urgent opportunity to break with the left-wing, radical Democrats who have turned their once-great city into an urban dystopia."
Chicagoans: Vote for Vallas
A video interview, for those so inclined.
Vivek Ramaswamy Talks God, China and the 2024 Campaign
In a testy exchange with Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-described socialist, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz challenged them for frequently tagging him as a "billionaire" by reminding them that he grew up in subsidized housing, his parents never owned a home, and every penny he made he earned -- "No one gave it to me."
Starbucks CEO to Sanders-nista: "I Grew Up in Federally Subsidized Housing ... I Came From Nothing"
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin both have something in common as authoritarian rulers: their chief political opponents are both under arrest."
Putin’s and Biden’s Chief Political Opponents are Now Both Under Arrest
"Will voters compel a shift away from endless foreign wars in the upcoming election?"
Americans Must Choose
"The Kremlin also noted that one of the reasons why it invaded Ukraine in 2022 was to stifle a threat that would have seen the West using Ukraine as a platform with which to threaten Russia. Shoigu mentioned that Russia has now been taking steps to measure the nuclear strike potential of its close ally, Belarus."
Russian Defense Chief Says Belarusian Warplanes Fit to Carry Nukes
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Axios: Biden’s deal proposes “some sanctions relief in exchange for Tehran freezing parts of its nuclear program.”
Report: Biden Junta Working on a ‘New’ Nuclear Deal With Iran
"The friend of Israel that wasn't."
Biden Singles Out Israel for Criticism
"Do 'highly popular' politicians usually lead their parties to third place in elections?"
Finnish Election Results Show Voters Are Not Impressed With Sanna Marin’s Antics
Sohrab Ahmari: "An interview with M.P. Danny Kruger of Wiltshire."
A 'Red Tory' on Britain
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"The judges will remind the accused that they live in Austria – not in their Muslim lands." (we shall see- jjs)
About Those Six Muslims Charged in Vienna with Cruelty to Animals
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"Maryland’s corporate DEI mandates go even further than Golden State legislators dared."
Out-Woking California
"Maryland’s urban youth desperately need opportunities, and Governor Moore’s new program doesn’t deliver."
Maryland's Ill-Considered Jobs Program
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Based on this information, we should expect the FAA launch license to be publicly announced any moment."
FAA issues travel advisory for Boca Chica for April 10, 2023 Starship launch
"The answer to many questions about the geological history of Mars is locked in these ice cap layers. All geologists need to do is to drill some long core samples into the ice cap.
The outermost edge of Mars’ north polar icecap
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"We demand dicks done quick," one sign read. (get a strap-on from the Pleasure Chest and shut up already - jjs)
London 'TRANTIFA' Holds Direct Action Demanding Fast Access to Phalloplasty Surgeries
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“Anheuser-Busch works with hundreds of influencers across our brands as one of many ways to authentically connect with audiences across various demographics and passion points.”
Anheuser-Busch Defends Making Trans Activist Dylan Mulvaney a Spokesperson
"There can be no winners or losers in the Democrats’ world. This is a joke, Jill Biden."
‘A Joke’: LSU Player Angel Reese Responds to Jill Biden Wanting to Also Invite Iowa to White House
"The next in a series."
The Top Ten Woke Lies, Part 2
Christian Toto: "Affleck, Damon re-team for exhilarating look at the American Dream in action." (sorry, Chris, but I am not going near it for a plethora of obvious reasons - jjs)
Air – Nothing but Net for Crowd-Pleasing Ode to Capitalism
As you peruse the screed, note the subtle attempts — to the limited extent that the corporate media propagandists are capable of subtlety — to conflate drinking milk with “toxic masculinity.” She continues, likening dairy consumption to semen and vaginal discharge:
Vice Propagandist: Drinking Milk is "Unsettling Behavior"
HITHER & YON
Humberto Fontova: "Why no coherent plan ever fell into place."
Did the Diabolical CIA Really Try Repeatedly to Assassinate Poor Innocent Little Fidel Castro
FINALLY . . .
Daniel Greenfield: "The alternative to faith is slavery to the cults of the Left."
Passover’s Revolt Against the Tyranny of Paganism

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1 Its hump day

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 07:52 AM (BRHaw)

2 Good morning morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at April 05, 2023 07:53 AM (Sg9sH)

3 #BananaRepublic

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 05, 2023 07:57 AM (5u1+1)

4 I'm certain there a plenty of dumb Manhattanites on the grand jury, but these charges are so dumb there had to be some that balked, even if they hate Trump. I wonder what threats they were under.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2023 07:58 AM (fs1hN)

5 France has went through 5 republics and I dont know how many monarchies. If the old republic is so far gone as to be unsavable, it's time to start thinking about replacing it.

Honor our forefathers and do what they did.

Posted by: Fuck-you: War at April 05, 2023 07:58 AM (89Sog)

6 Fingerling Potato Republic

-Joetato large and in charge.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2023 07:59 AM (Q4IgG)

7 but it’s also the revelation that slavery is not just physical, it’s spiritual.

Amen to that. And JJ, on behalf of the state of Wisconsin, I apologize.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 07:59 AM (45fpk)

8 . . . The legal persecution of Donald Trump is a prelude to what this authoritarian regime plans to unleash upon law-abiding Americans if they dare to dissent from its sinister agenda. The feds have already sent this message by sending a SWAT team to arrest a peaceful pro-life activist, Mark Houck. Trump is the big prize, but his arrest is intended primarily to send a new message to the American people: fall in line, or else.

I said a version of this yesterday, and I will say it again: the Trump indictment has been a known thing for at least a week if not longer. That was plenty of time for the congressional GOP to game out a 'freeze congress' scenario where they would shut the government down in its tracks and zero out every federal agency.

It was plenty of time for red state DAs across the country to prepare indictments for Hillary, Pelosi, Schumer, Mayorkas, Obama or any high-profile Dem, ready to drop the moment Trump was taken in.

None of that has been done. It will never be done.

But please, tell me again how voting harderer next year makes any fucking difference at all.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 05, 2023 07:59 AM (AW0uW)

9 From Gorka:
The truth is that the Democrat Party no longer represents the “little man,” or the working class. Instead, it has become a bicoastal political class of elitists who see those who disagree with them as the problem, especially the 74 million who voted for a man who was never a member of the political class.

They have become “The Party.” And just as with the Party of the erstwhile Soviet Union, those who dare challenge their writ must be neutralized.

amen

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 08:00 AM (BRHaw)

10 I guess we know now why the sudden resignation...

Husband of former Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon arrested in party finance probe.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 08:01 AM (Vwz3I)

11 Judge Warns Trump To Refrain From Posting On Social Media, Claiming Messages Could Inflame Civil Unrest – Trump Posts Anyway
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This might be what they want to use to get Trump under a more serious crime of inciting riots, regardless of how peaceful the protests are.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2023 08:02 AM (YIVH2)

12 7 but it’s also the revelation that slavery is not just physical, it’s spiritual.

Amen to that. And JJ, on behalf of the state of Wisconsin, I apologize.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 07:59 AM (45fpk)

Meh, I kind of knew the score going in. It begs the question, where the hell is our state's GOP?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 08:02 AM (x0n13)

13 Well, we came to that fork in the road, didn't we.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2023 08:02 AM (1n+EO)

14
Wisconsin:

Turnout uninspiring. I have an idea for a 'poison pill' which would drive rural voters to the polls in numbers high enough to outweigh the cities (Madison was something like 83% to 17% D). The state GOP works to put poison pill tax issues on the ballot in as many localities as possible. Something totally frivolous, costly, and unnecessary like midnight pickleball courts throughout the town. Taxes would have to skyrocket. Drive the hard working taxpayers to the polls in high enough numbers to nullify the cities, where abortion access seems to be their single issue.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2023 08:02 AM (enJYY)

15 The Propaganda Press spent all of yesterday peeing their pants in excitement, but I don't think even stolid Democrat voters did the same. The Rubicon may only be fully visible in the rear-view mirror, but I think there is a disquieting sense we all just got wet.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 05, 2023 08:02 AM (xFtAU)

16 Fellas, I'm in love. The chick painted in white screaming "I'm a black animal!" is the girl I've been looking for all my life. Wish me luck!

Posted by: Crazy to be sane at April 05, 2023 08:03 AM (FckHj)

17 "But please, tell me again how voting harderer next year makes any fucking difference at all."

It doesn't but you don't have to throttle the subject all the time.

Posted by: Lighten up Francis at April 05, 2023 08:03 AM (89Sog)

18 4 I'm certain there a plenty of dumb Manhattanites on the grand jury, but these charges are so dumb there had to be some that balked, even if they hate Trump. I wonder what threats they were under.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2023 07:58 AM (fs1hN)

I doubt it - who actually wants to serve on a grand jury that lasts months and months? Not people that work or raise kids. So you are faced with a senior citizen and deadbeat group of folks. If you are a senior citizen in NY and haven't moved South, 99% likelihood you are liberal as sin...and if you're under 65 and not working or raising kids, you're also probably 99% liberal. In an area that already overwhelming votes liberal.

Nope, I'm sure they were happy to indict Trump on everything and being able to say they were finally the ones who sent the message. It will be a source of pride for them.

Note to others - this is why you should do everything possible TO serve jury duty, not do anything possible to avoid it. You know Dems want to be on them at all costs...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 05, 2023 08:03 AM (exHjb)

19 JJ - the state GOP is in good shape otherwise. District 8 republican won. A Knodl victory, once made official, will give Republicans the 22nd vote they need to have a supermajority in the Senate, and enough GOP votes to override an Governor Tony Evers veto in the Senate.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 08:04 AM (45fpk)

20 Think what you want about former President Trump and the reasons he’s being indicted.

But just imagine if this happened in any other country, where a government arrested the main opposition candidate.

The United States ability to use “democracy” as foreign policy is gone.
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Far from it. The US's official support of Ukraine is under the banner of "Democracy." Z-man has done all of this and more. Outlawed opposition, closed competing churches, etc. "Democracy" in Ukraine is just Z-man's dictatorship - and we pouring treasure into fighting for that dictatorship at alarming rates.

This is Current Year, where what is said in public is diametrically opposed to reality. Our Democracy (tm) is the same as Zelensky's Democracy. The same in spirit and, in essentials, the same in fact. We can - and will - continue to fly our foreign policy banner for it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 08:04 AM (t0OGg)

21 Mornin, Horde! Working on taxes today.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 05, 2023 08:05 AM (loRBL)

22 "Brandon Johnson, a progressive organizer backed by teachers union, wins Chicago mayor's race."

What is it with commie mayors having the stupidest names?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 08:05 AM (Vwz3I)

23 "Note to others - this is why you should do everything possible TO serve jury duty,"

The people around here take great pride in avoiding jury duty. It's like some kind of holy rite.

Posted by: RUFKM at April 05, 2023 08:06 AM (89Sog)

24 14
Wisconsin:

Turnout uninspiring.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2023 08:02 AM (enJYY)

WI state R party seems like it needs to undergo VA's overhaul from 10 years ago...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 05, 2023 08:06 AM (exHjb)

25 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 08:06 AM (Zz0t1)

26 Why did JJ. Not mention the big margin of victory in that Supreme Court race?

Mostly because we stuffed ballot boxes!

Yay! Now for more Nadler-flavored mother penis.

Posted by: Paul at April 05, 2023 08:06 AM (HUExg)

27 We are in a pre-revolutionary phase, if we have not gone beyond that. The question is, a revolution that will bring about what? A revival and restoration, or, descent into some sort of totalitarian nightmare; what Churchill described on the eve of the Battle of Britain as "new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science." Boy, does that line just jump out at you, given today's context?
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I think the descent into that new dark age is more or less complete. We live in a global panopticon where unchecked and unaccountable governments do whatever they want and the citizens are merely pawns on the chessboard. Like real pawns, they will be used as cannon fodder when the time comes, or as resources to be mined.

Slaves don't produce much, but that's okay. The fact of their slavery is the goal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 08:06 AM (t0OGg)

28 Trumps indictment only signalled the end of the republic in a signpost way - the sign may say "Welcome to Banana Republic", but we crossed the border a long time ago

Posted by: Deadrody at April 05, 2023 08:07 AM (BqWhS)

29 None of that has been done. It will never be done.

But please, tell me again how voting harderer next year makes any fucking difference at all.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 05, 2023 07:59 AM (AW0uW)
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Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community -- they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.

Their fear is palpable....and obviously justified.

Posted by: Chuck Schumer at April 05, 2023 08:07 AM (xFtAU)

30 "The end of the Marxist-infiltrated Progressive Era isn’t happening with a whimper, but with bangs." (if this is the end, it's kind of hard to remember what the beginning was like - jjs)

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Yeah, who's actually delusional enough to think the Marxists are anywhere near "the end?" From my vantage point, they are bulldozing everything in their path completely unimpeded.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2023 08:07 AM (sVtYq)

31 Margot Cleveland: "In the days, weeks, and months ahead, the ‘get Trump’ circus will continue to dominate the news."
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All the better to distract you with, my dear.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 08:08 AM (t0OGg)

32 19 JJ - the state GOP is in good shape otherwise. District 8 republican won. A Knodl victory, once made official, will give Republicans the 22nd vote they need to have a supermajority in the Senate, and enough GOP votes to override an Governor Tony Evers veto in the Senate.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 08:04 AM (45fpk)

And then whatever the issue is goes to the state court and BINGO! No standing.

Appreciate the cheer.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 08:08 AM (x0n13)

33 23 "Note to others - this is why you should do everything possible TO serve jury duty,"

The people around here take great pride in avoiding jury duty. It's like some kind of holy rite.
Posted by: RUFKM at April 05, 2023 08:06 AM (89Sog)

And this is how we get here...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 05, 2023 08:08 AM (exHjb)

34 The difference between the Democrats and "Republicans" could not be more striking.

If the "Republicans" actually stood for something.

I guess some say they do. Yet it's currently hard to tell the difference. A real opposition party would picking out drapes for the White House about now... but we have the GOP instead. Likely the last chance to stave off the coming collapse... gone.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 05, 2023 08:08 AM (Q4IgG)

35 I remember when people in this blog told me that off year elections wouldn't be stolen because it was too hard and the local elections made it difficult to fraud.

Seems y'all were full of shit.

We're dead. The world is dead. There is no freedom anymore.

And not one drop was fed to the liberty tree.

Bad men win when good men stand by and do nothing. We did nothing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

36 Not only Wisconsin, but the communist won in Chicago. I see no hope left for any electoral solutions. Bring on the crash, it's our only hope for a change.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 05, 2023 08:08 AM (r46W7)

37 Judge Warns Trump To Refrain From Posting On Social Media, Claiming Messages Could Inflame Civil Unrest – Trump Posts Anyway

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INQUISITOR warns heretic not to scream during torture as it may upset the crowd.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 05, 2023 08:09 AM (yu8eA)

38 So Chicagoans threw out Lori Lightfoot as she did nothing to attempt to curb crime, and have now elected a defund the police advocate. Makes sense.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 05, 2023 08:09 AM (F0jcH)

39 Did anyone see Melania at the event last night?

Posted by: Jaimo at April 05, 2023 08:09 AM (DBrN4)

40 Good morning, JJ. So disappointed for your new home state.

Very tough to accept where our country has gone. Is Trump's arrest finally the "straw that broke the camel's back", or "thousandth paper cut", or {choose your phrase} for us normies / deplorables? Who knows. But this quote keeps coming to mind...

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,"

Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2023 08:09 AM (iY8R7)

41 36 Not only Wisconsin, but the communist won in Chicago. I see no hope left for any electoral solutions. Bring on the crash, it's our only hope for a change.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 05, 2023 08:08 AM (r46W7)

That was baked in at the runoff time. And to be fair, they probably both were communists - it's just one wore it on his sleeve more...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 05, 2023 08:10 AM (exHjb)

42 Judge Warns Trump To Refrain From Posting On Social Media, Claiming Messages Could Inflame Civil Unrest – Trump Posts Anyway
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Judge Informs Trump (and Nation) That Freedom of Speech No Longer Exists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 08:10 AM (t0OGg)

43 Chag Pesach Sameach!

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 05, 2023 08:10 AM (flINI)

44 Mexico's president asks China for help in halting chemicals used by Mexican drug dealers to illegally produce fentanyl. [From reaching Mexico I assume.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 08:10 AM (Vwz3I)

45 But please, tell me again how voting harderer next year makes any fucking difference at all.

==

I saw a figure from the Pixy thread (I think) showing the pathetic % of people voting in that WI Supreme Court election. 36%? Voting harder (whatever that means) will never overcome that kind of grotesque apathy and the mountain of fraud the Democrats now feel entitled to.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2023 08:10 AM (sVtYq)

46 El Salvador had the notorious death squads in early 80's in response to a leftist insurgency and attempt to take over the country and impose Cuban style dictatorship. Very ruthless and bloody, of course demonized in the West by libs but it worked, the left was put in their place, ended their power grab and some semblance of normalcy was restored.

Not that I'm say that is what we need here, just saying these things (like helicopters) become more understandable when viewed from historical perspective.

Posted by: Ripley at April 05, 2023 08:11 AM (cUYo/)

47 All the minorities who die of ghetto violence in Shitcago every day deserve everything they get. They voted for it and I do not feel sorry for them. They want their children killed in the streets or they would actually do something like be a parent, or at least vote properly.

Posted by: Jaimo at April 05, 2023 08:12 AM (DBrN4)

48 Where to next, JJ? Lead the way. I'm ready to escape the "formerly decent" state of WI

Posted by: Pete Seria at April 05, 2023 08:12 AM (7ZQe3)

49 45 But please, tell me again how voting harderer next year makes any fucking difference at all.

==

I saw a figure from the Pixy thread (I think) showing the pathetic % of people voting in that WI Supreme Court election. 36%? Voting harder (whatever that means) will never overcome that kind of grotesque apathy and the mountain of fraud the Democrats now feel entitled to.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2023 08:10 AM (sVtYq)

No fraud needed with a 36% turnout. Rs wanted to lose that race b/c they didn't vote. That's not a "voting harder" scenario. That's a "voting at all" scenario...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 05, 2023 08:13 AM (exHjb)

50 Happy Birthday Jewells. It's my birthday too. We are the same age.

Posted by: Gwenn at April 05, 2023 08:13 AM (9Gr7n)

51 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 05, 2023 08:13 AM (T4tVD)

52
My biggest fear when the Supreme Court kicked Roe v Wade to the curb was that it was going to be a state issue and the (D)'s have an advantage there. Anything less then 9 months of abortion rights and your position is termed 'extreme'.

I saw it here in Pennsylvania last November and last night in Wisconsin.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2023 08:14 AM (enJYY)

53 It doesn't but you don't have to throttle the subject all the time.

Would you prefer I participate in blowing smoke up peoples' asses about a Trump or DeSantis victory? The national GOP and red state DAs had plenty of time to prepare a massive punch back at the Dems and they did nothing.

Sponge at 35 has it right on the nose.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 05, 2023 08:14 AM (AW0uW)

54 Seb Gorka: "There is no way back for the Democrat Party."

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This is entirely their goal. They are forging ahead with their Police State and couldn't be happier about it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2023 08:14 AM (sVtYq)

55 One of the problems with AGs from red areas indicting Dems is that the Dems almost certainly engaged in criminal activity in blue areas (even if they are from red states).

Look at how difficult it's been for the MO AG to get rid of that cancerous Prosecuting Attorney in St. Louis.

Thus, they are protected by the System and will never face the justice they deserve.

Trump's so-called "crimes" were conducted in a blue city in a blue state, so he unfortunately gets to be the victim of political prosecution until the day he dies.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2023 08:14 AM (YIVH2)

56 39. Melania was in NewYork at Trump tower yesterday.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 05, 2023 08:15 AM (F0jcH)

57 Happy Wednesday everyone. A network outage is pretty much keeping me from doing my job. I'm debating just calling it a day and using some PTO.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 05, 2023 08:15 AM (PvQcL)

58 Berlusconi has been hospitalized with respiratory problems.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 08:15 AM (Vwz3I)

59 Melania was in NewYork at Trump tower yesterday.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 05, 2023 08:15 AM (F0jcH)

I miss the days when Oregon Muse would post pictures of Melania on the Chess thread.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 08:16 AM (45fpk)

60 "Brandon Johnson, a progressive organizer backed by teachers union, wins Chicago mayor's race."

Why did Chicago toss out one pro-thug Marxist just o replace with another? Do they think a little lipstick will make the pig more appealing? They will get more of what they voted for (and blame Republicans/racism/Trump)

Posted by: Ripley at April 05, 2023 08:16 AM (cUYo/)

61
Sponge at 35 has it right on the nose.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 05, 2023 08:14 AM (AW0uW)

And this saddens me to no end.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

62 El Salvador had the notorious death squads in early 80's in response to a leftist insurgency and attempt to take over the country and impose Cuban style dictatorship. Very ruthless and bloody, of course demonized in the West by libs but it worked, the left was put in their place, ended their power grab and some semblance of normalcy was restored.
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In a modern surveillance state, and it is supremely important to realize we live in one now, it will be very difficult to pull off an equivalent movement.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 05, 2023 08:17 AM (xFtAU)

63
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,"
Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2023 08:09 AM (iY8R7)

Reminds me that I bastardize this quote every time.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

64 Gossip news!

Rupert Murdoch and Ann Lesley Smith have reportedly called off their engagement.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 08:17 AM (Vwz3I)

65 I remember when the people of Operation Rescue lost a huge civil case and each person was ordered by the court to pay a quarter million each to Planned Parenthood.

One of the defendants came forward and said the ruling was liberating because, he had absolutely no intention of giving the butchers any of the money and would forever live under the income threshold before the State would garnish the surplus and pay PP. It was liberating because there was no motivation to work hard and make money.

I feel sort of the same way with the direction We The People have chosen - that is, to once and for all destroy the Great Experiment and to bury to be forgotten American Exceptionalism. Why invest in beyond just getting through the day without getting murdered or looted?

It is no different than the Jews in the days of Samuel, when they rejected the federalism they had and demanded to be ruled by a tyrant - even when they were told about how life would be oppressive under one.

They demanded it anyway, and made sure that the light of freedom would never find its way among them again.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 08:17 AM (YXHzG)

66
I think in Australia voting is mandatory, no choice. Extreme as that is ~36% turnout with all that is happening in this country is beyond pathetic.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2023 08:18 AM (enJYY)

67 What happened in Wisconsin? Did Milwaukee go bankrupt or something?

Posted by: dantesed at April 05, 2023 08:18 AM (88xKn)

68 Hi MP4!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 05, 2023 08:18 AM (yu8eA)

69 You can expect stories saying that Melania not being at Trumps side for court and speech means she is divorcing him. They can't help themselves.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 05, 2023 08:18 AM (hoGSj)

70 The case against Trump is thus even weaker than it was expected to be.
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But they'll regroup. The upheavalists always do.

Posted by: Axeman at April 05, 2023 08:18 AM (krQz2)

71 I miss the days when Oregon Muse would post pictures of Melania on the Chess thread.

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Me too, grammie. His posts were always some of my favorites.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2023 08:19 AM (sVtYq)

72 I miss the days when Oregon Muse would post pictures of Melania on the Chess thread.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 08:16 AM (45fpk)

Same.
*raises coffee mug to OM's memory*
*again for our other "missing morons"*

Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2023 08:19 AM (iY8R7)

73 What's all this then? The colonies now have a legal system where kings and their courtesans may punish the peasants who insult them or don't show the required obeisance?

Ssssimply smashing!

Posted by: The Ghost of King George at April 05, 2023 08:19 AM (BEZ6U)

74 So last night we went to one of our many local food trucks for supper.

Sat outside at a picnic bench watching the sun begin to set, while eating breaded and fried pork chops with collard greens and deep fried okra.

Banana pudding for dessert.

Little slice of heaven, before returning to the sorry state the nation today.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2023 08:19 AM (1n+EO)

75 >>I saw a figure from the Pixy thread (I think) showing the pathetic % of people voting in that WI Supreme Court election. 36%? Voting harder (whatever that means) will never overcome that kind of grotesque apathy and the mountain of fraud the Democrats now feel entitled to.

The cute thing about "vote harder" is we don't. A small and in many places minority of people actually vote in most of our elections which is part of the problem. Complaining is easy and you don't even have to leave your couch but actually going to vote is akin to crossing the Alps for many people. The US is in the lower half of OECD states when it comes to voter participation.

https://tinyurl.com/mwkhzyec

Sure, there is a lot of corruption. At least as much apathy. One is easier to fix than the other.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2023 08:20 AM (ZLI7S)

76 Melania was in NewYork at Trump tower yesterday.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 05, 2023 08:15 AM (F0jcH)
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It's too bad that some women insist on staying with abuse men who beat them and put them in the hospital. Just because Trump had the power to cover up her hospitalization, it doesn't mean it didn't happen. She vanished for too long, too often for her to have been unabused by that monster.

[Hi, I'm George Soros and I approve of this message. Mostly because I paid for it. Penny per byte, same as downtown - JJS]

Posted by: Remember that one? at April 05, 2023 08:20 AM (t0OGg)

77 Hi MP4!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

(sniffs armpits....shrugs )

Posted by: JT at April 05, 2023 08:20 AM (T4tVD)

78 Reminds me that I bastardize this quote every time.

*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

But you bastardize it magnificently, you magnificent bastard!

Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2023 08:20 AM (iY8R7)

79 Sure, there is a lot of corruption. At least as much apathy. One is easier to fix than the other.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2023 08:20 AM (ZLI7S)
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Make voting mandatory. We did, and we have nothing but liberty-loving straight shooters at all levels of government.

Posted by: Australia at April 05, 2023 08:21 AM (t0OGg)

80 I think the descent into that new dark age is more or less complete. We live in a global panopticon where unchecked and unaccountable governments do whatever they want and the citizens are merely pawns on the chessboard. Like real pawns, they will be used as cannon fodder when the time comes, or as resources to be mined.

Slaves don't produce much, but that's okay. The fact of their slavery is the goal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 08:06 AM (t0OGg)
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Keep in mind that while we may be pawns of the State, we are also pieces on a cosmic gameboard that is much, much more important.

One pawn's sacrifice saved the entirety of Mankind, after all. Remember that...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2023 08:21 AM (YIVH2)

81 The case against Trump is thus even weaker than it was expected to be.
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He might even have hospitalized her again. We don't know.

Posted by: MS-DNC at April 05, 2023 08:21 AM (krQz2)

82 I live in NYC. I'm calling in an air strike on my own position.

An "I hate NY" boycott until Bragg is ousted.

No tourism, no business meetings. NYC and NYS are already going over a cliff once the Covid money runs out Subway ridership is down 70%, which is a good indicator of where things are going. If you need a cover story say it's because of rising crime, which is also Bragg's fault.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 05, 2023 08:21 AM (RqMSv)

83 Drive the hard working taxpayers to the polls in high enough numbers to nullify the cities, where abortion access seems to be their single issue.

Posted by: Divide by Zero

It isn't an issue of rural turnout, it is an issue of urban vote fraud. Look at the statewide races versus the regional races. The democrats are creating votes in the urban areas.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2023 08:22 AM (lTGtQ)

84 So last night we went to one of our many local food trucks for supper.

Sat outside at a picnic bench watching the sun begin to set, while eating breaded and fried pork chops with collard greens and deep fried okra.

Banana pudding for dessert.

Little slice of heaven, before returning to the sorry state the nation today.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2023 08:19 AM (1n+EO)

Hmm. You waited for last week's guest to leave before partaking in that little slice of Heaven. Interesting.

Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2023 08:22 AM (iY8R7)

85 Good morning, J.J.

"7 Serious News Stories Media Choked Out With Trump Indictment Buzz"

Was surprised Chicago electing Kwame Kilpatrick 2.0 wasn't on the list. His rule will make Groot's look like -- I don't know, I haven't had enough coffee to think of something benign and cuddly.

But this new guy will be Chicago's death blow. Photos of him and his entourage look like film villainy in real life.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 05, 2023 08:22 AM (iKBwy)

86 Good morning Horde and thx JJ. I posted on Pixy's thread an interesting story. The NY Post and Fox news are reporting that a tech titan named Bob Lee was knifed to death last night in San Francisco. We need common sense knife control.
It also cracks me up that when "let's go Brandon" is a meme , Chiraq actually elects a guy named Brandon. Bye bye Chiraq

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 05, 2023 08:23 AM (386ly)

87 But please, tell me again how voting harderer next year makes any fucking difference at all.

Its liberating to know that every single institution is utterly corrupt beyond any hope of repair or redemption.

One can then just focus on God, the family, their work and their immediate community.

Worrying about who gets elected is folly - they are all reprobates; they all possess the spirit of the Dark Tetrad.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 08:23 AM (YXHzG)

88 The cute thing about "vote harder" is we don't. A small and in many places minority of people actually vote in most of our elections which is part of the problem. Complaining is easy and you don't even have to leave your couch but actually going to vote is akin to crossing the Alps for many people. The US is in the lower half of OECD states when it comes to voter participation.

https://tinyurl.com/mwkhzyec

Sure, there is a lot of corruption. At least as much apathy. One is easier to fix than the other.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2023 08:20 AM (ZLI7S)

Amen. If you didn't do everything you could to bring every voter you know that votes with your side to the polls, you didn't do enough when you lost a race that only had 36% turnout. 64% of Wisconsin voters, almost a supermajority, didn't care...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 05, 2023 08:23 AM (exHjb)

89 Today is National Deep Dish Pizza Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2023 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

90 All around me the nation is burning to the ground, but I'm going to the Cleveland baseball home opener on Friday evening. Something I love to do.

Bread and circuses. Wow, even after a couple thousand years, it still works.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 05, 2023 08:23 AM (xFtAU)

91
Make voting mandatory. We did, and we have nothing but liberty-loving straight shooters at all levels of government.

Posted by: Australia at April 05, 2023 08:21 AM

Snark, I suspect. Australia locked its own citizens out of the country during covid.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2023 08:24 AM (enJYY)

92 I didn't think there was any way a white guy could win in Chicago. And...he didn't.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2023 08:24 AM (sVtYq)

93 I used to wonder why, historically, all democracies would only have a brief run and then collapse back into authoritarianism. Now I see why.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 05, 2023 08:24 AM (r46W7)

94 "Hmm. You waited for last week's guest to leave before partaking in that little slice of Heaven. Interesting."

Heh!!!

Last week wasn't the fried pork chop special.

May I offer you a brisket instead?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2023 08:24 AM (1n+EO)

95 In some happier news, Amazon reported that I received a refund of $0.02 on a recent order! Yay!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2023 08:25 AM (YIVH2)

96 90 All around me the nation is burning to the ground, but I'm going to the Cleveland baseball home opener on Friday evening. Something I love to do.

===

How do you think the "Guardians" will do this year? (That name still makes me chuckle)

Posted by: Pete Seria at April 05, 2023 08:26 AM (7ZQe3)

97 >>Make voting mandatory. We did, and we have nothing but liberty-loving straight shooters at all levels of government.

As someone who works for an Australian based company I can confidently say that Australia is much closer to the UK than it is to the US no matter what people learned in Crocodile Dundee. A lot of people like to think of Oz as the wild west of old cause they have kangaroos and sharks. It isn't.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2023 08:26 AM (ZLI7S)

98 Heh!!!

Last week wasn't the fried pork chop special.

May I offer you a brisket instead?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2023 08:24 AM (1n+EO)

I accept your terms!

Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2023 08:26 AM (iY8R7)

99 "In a modern surveillance state, and it is supremely important to realize we live in one now, it will be very difficult to pull off an equivalent movement.

Posted by: Huck Follywood"

This is true. With cameras everywhere, all your purchases tracked, communication recorded, mass data collection... I don't know how something like that could ever even get started. Stupid barroom talk led to the framing Whitmer 'kidnappers.' I've already said too much.

Posted by: Ripley at April 05, 2023 08:26 AM (cUYo/)

100 "A lot of people like to think of Oz as the wild west of old cause they have kangaroos and sharks. It isn't."

Bu what about the drop-bears?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2023 08:27 AM (1n+EO)

101 "Mitt Romney blasts Alvin Bragg's 'weak case'" (NY Post)
====================
when you've lost Pierre Delecto...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 05, 2023 08:27 AM (xFtAU)

102 JJ you should have moved to the Confederacy. Hell, that includes Ohio these days

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 05, 2023 08:27 AM (WTjVh)

103 "I accept your terms!"

Sounds like a plan!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2023 08:27 AM (1n+EO)

104 The funding includes $450 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to develop “clean energy demonstration projects” on current and former mining territory, which the administration projects will generate up to 90 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy, according to a White House fact sheet.

$2.6 – $4 million per average-sized commercial wind turbine Typical cost is $1.3 million per megawatt (MW) of electricity-producing capacity

1.3 x 1000 equals 1300 million or 1.3 Billion for a GIGAWATT.
90 GIGAWATTTS will cost around 120 BILLION. SO what does the $450 million buy??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 08:27 AM (BRHaw)

105 Today is National Deep Dish Pizza Day.

Also known as pizza casserole

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 05, 2023 08:27 AM (hoGSj)

106 It's also....
Peeps Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2023 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

107 I think in Australia voting is mandatory, no choice.
------------
Yes, and even with fines there's a bloc of 3% or so that refuses to vote; others fight back through the Donkey Vote, where you go out and get drunk and vote 1-2-3-4-5 etc. on the multi-candidate ranked-choice ballots.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 08:28 AM (Vwz3I)

108 Ciampino's Rescue kitties:

Scarlet finally has come out of hiding.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates"
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Posted by: Ciampino - shameless promotion at April 05, 2023 08:28 AM (qfLjt)

109 90 Huck, be sure to wear Chief Wahoo gear. Just because.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2023 08:28 AM (lz5hY)

110 39 Did anyone see Melania at the event last night?
___

She was there before Trump came out, Tucker had half the screen on the empty podium and she was walking around. I didn't see Ivanka, and Trump mentioned in his speech Don and Eric but not Ivanka.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2023 08:28 AM (fs1hN)

111 Sure, there is a lot of corruption. At least as much apathy. One is easier to fix than the other.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2023 08:20 AM (ZLI7S)
++++
It isn't entirely apathy. That is probably the dominant factor, but another one is the perception that it's irrelevant and pointless at best, or supporting an illegitimate and fraudulent system by participating in it at worst.

The problem as I see it is that this perception appears to match reality. One cannot overcome voter apathy - let alone active contempt - when the outcomes are always the same and there is no chance of actual change at scale. How many times can the same robots with different party affiliations after their names get into office and proceed to do the exact same things before people snort in contempt and quite participating?

What's needed is populism. In both parties. Let the Dems go after the hardcore leftwing populists and promise to wreck up the joint on their behalf. Let the Pubs go after the rest of the market and promise to wreck up the left on their behalf. Then actually do it. Give people something to vote *for* - and make that vote count - and people will crawl over broken glass to do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 08:28 AM (t0OGg)

112 I grew up in the Midwest. JJ, Wisconsin has been known as “The People’s Republic of” for at least 30 years or more.

Posted by: Advo at April 05, 2023 08:29 AM (VHN21)

113 Hello Darkness, My Old Friend....

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Abolish The Deep State And The democrat Party!

Free Donald Trump!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 05, 2023 08:29 AM (KaRdo)

114 The bus is here.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 08:29 AM (BRHaw)

115 "Mitt Romney blasts Alvin Bragg's 'weak case'" (NY Post)
__

Trump's going to slip off the hook again!

Posted by: Pierre Delecto at April 05, 2023 08:29 AM (fs1hN)

116 >>I didn't see Ivanka, and Trump mentioned in his speech Don and Eric but not Ivanka.

I caught that too. He also mention Baron. I wonder if it was just an oversight or if there is something more.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2023 08:29 AM (ZLI7S)

117 What kind of name is 'Guardians' for a professional baseball team? That may be the dumbest sport's name ever.

Posted by: dantesed at April 05, 2023 08:30 AM (88xKn)

118 What is wrong with the people in Wisconsin?

Posted by: Ziba at April 05, 2023 08:30 AM (4h9M3)

119 Today is National Deep Dish Pizza Day.

Also known as pizza casserole
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 05, 2023 08:27 AM (hoGSj)
++++
Sadly, it's also Passover. Is there a penalty for belated observation?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 08:31 AM (t0OGg)

120 Anyone who votes for a Democrat is a hateful, spiteful, ignorant traitor.
There are no good Democrat voters. When you vote for evil, you are evil.

I have long complained: There is no emotional basis for voting Republican. It rose on the emotional appeal of ending slavery (not the facts and logic and reasons why it was wrong).

There now is an emotional reason: Save America, save freedom.

Trump 2024: Save America, Save Freedom.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 05, 2023 08:31 AM (m9bzV)

121 105 Today is National Deep Dish Pizza Day.

Also known as pizza casserole
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 05, 2023 08:27 AM (hoGSj)

Also known as Not Pizza.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 08:31 AM (x0n13)

122 It's also....
Peeps Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Oh.

I thought you said "beeps".

Posted by: JT at April 05, 2023 08:31 AM (T4tVD)

123 I miss the days when Oregon Muse would post pictures of Melania on the Chess thread.
Posted by: grammie winger

Same here.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 05, 2023 08:32 AM (iKBwy)

124 I don't care what they call them, I'll always call them The Cleveland Steamers.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 05, 2023 08:32 AM (hoGSj)

125 Great photo above of Trump...captures it all.

Posted by: Ziba at April 05, 2023 08:32 AM (4h9M3)

126 Also known as Not Pizza.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 08:31 AM (x0n13)

hey now

Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 08:32 AM (45fpk)

127 Thanks JJ !

Posted by: JT at April 05, 2023 08:32 AM (T4tVD)

128 One interesting side note.

The USS Gerald R. Ford will finally deploy in May.

Interestingly, her big selling point to Congress that she would exceed current sortie rate of the Nimitz class by 30% will remain untested and unproven till after this deployment.

So.......here's to hoping, if the shit hits the fan.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2023 08:33 AM (1n+EO)

129 117 They came up with the name after much debate. They are named after the guardian statues on the Lorain Ave. Bridge, now Bob Hope Bridge. Locals referred to it as the longest bridge in the world, going from Africa to Puerto Rico.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 05, 2023 08:33 AM (lz5hY)

130
uh-,, m-m-mitch says uh,, hi er'body

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at April 05, 2023 08:33 AM (vwCZJ)

131 The funding includes $450 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to develop “clean energy demonstration projects” on current and former mining territory, ...

$2.6 – $4 million per average-sized commercial wind turbine Typical cost is $1.3 million per megawatt (MW) of electricity-producing capacity

Site selection usually looked for the best opportunities for sunlight or dependable wind. Site selection now appears deliberately to take known ore sites permanently out of production and has absolutely nothing to do with wind/solar efficiencies.

Even if they did consider the value of the site for producing power, all of the good locations have been taken and uses first generation equipment which effectively wastes the potential.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 08:33 AM (YXHzG)

132 What kind of name is 'Guardians' for a professional baseball team? That may be the dumbest sport's name ever.
Posted by: dantesed at April 05, 2023 08:30 AM (88xKn)

Well...

Posted by: Washington Commanders, Dumbest Sports Franchise Ever at April 05, 2023 08:33 AM (KaRdo)

133 Anyone who votes for a Democrat is a hateful, spiteful, ignorant traitor.
There are no good Democrat voters. When you vote for evil, you are evil.
____

My thoughts also. Very disconcerting to go to know that family members vote for D-Tyranny.

Posted by: Pierre Delecto at April 05, 2023 08:33 AM (fs1hN)

134 "Mitt Romney blasts Alvin Bragg's 'weak case'" (NY Post)
====================
when you've lost Pierre Delecto...
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 05, 2023 08:27 AM (xFtAU)

Words. Mere words. Eff off, Mittens. You have had many years to do something, ANYTHING, to stave off this kind of stuff. Eat shit. AND a bag of dicks.

Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2023 08:33 AM (iY8R7)

135 Hi MP4!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 05, 2023 08:18 AM (yu8eA)

**hugs**

Hi, vmom. I really shouldn't have posted what I did above, or at least made it somewhat more mellow. The whole reason I went back on antidepressants was to counteract the godless wasteland America has become.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 05, 2023 08:33 AM (AW0uW)

136 121 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 08:31 AM (x0n13)

Eh it may not be pizza but it is a good way to have a heart attack and die happy....

if you have not made it to Giordano's yet you owe it to yourself to go JJ.

We are off to get the wife's lumpectomy date-be well horde.

Posted by: sven at April 05, 2023 08:33 AM (Lzpvj)

137 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at April 05, 2023 08:34 AM (T4tVD)

138 Words. Mere words. Eff off, Mittens. You have had many years to do something, ANYTHING, to stave off this kind of stuff. Eat shit. AND a bag of dicks.
Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2023 08:33 AM (iY8R7)
++++
Stave it off? He actively participated in it. How is Alvin Bragg's fraudulent indictment any worse in essence than Romney's nakedly subversive vote in favor of conviction on a fraudulent impeachment charge?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 08:34 AM (t0OGg)

139 I'm not Jewish, of course, although half my family was, but I thought that was a very moving piece on Passover, faith and remaining vigilant. Thanks, J.J. You write so well! I liked Daniel Greenfield's comments very much too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 05, 2023 08:34 AM (FUVRY)

140 135 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 05, 2023 08:33 AM (AW0uW)

Makes you wonder if the whole thing is not a plot by Big Doctor and Big Pharma....

Kind of an endless game of top that coupled with "watch my dividends rise!"

Posted by: sven at April 05, 2023 08:34 AM (Lzpvj)

141 JJ - the state GOP is in good shape otherwise. District 8 republican won. A Knodl victory, once made official, will give Republicans the 22nd vote they need to have a supermajority in the Senate, and enough GOP votes to override an Governor Tony Evers veto in the Senate.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 08:04 AM (45fpk)
********
So all is not lost then?

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2023 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

142 Brandon Johnson is the best news Eric Adams has heard all year.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 05, 2023 08:35 AM (iKBwy)

143 Pierre Delecto and Zaza Demon sitting in a tree
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
First comes love , then comes marriage
The comes Carlos Danger in baby carriage

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 05, 2023 08:35 AM (386ly)

144 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 08:35 AM (45fpk)

145 "if you have not made it to Giordano's yet you owe it to yourself to go JJ.

"

When Little VIA graduated Boot Camp we took him to the one closest to Great Lakes.

It was OK.

Not great

But, OK

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2023 08:36 AM (1n+EO)

146 Interestingly, her big selling point to Congress that she would exceed current sortie rate of the Nimitz class by 30% will remain untested and unproven till after this deployment.

And after engagement with hyper-sonic missile capable militaries such as China and Russia, the Ford class carrier will only test how fast it sinks to the bottom of the ocean.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 08:36 AM (YXHzG)

147 Social Security has been running annual deficits since 2010, when it had a shortfall of $49 billion. Since then, the program’s annual deficits have totaled more than $1 trillion. This year alone, the shortfall will top $100 billion. By 2033, annual deficits will be more than $400 billion.

So the annual deficit will be as large as $274 B
Veterans Benefits and Services and $132 B Transportation combined.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 08:36 AM (BRHaw)

148 As to what's wrong with Wisonsin, Rev just said it's full of useless idiots who like to kill babies. Well, at least LaFollette resigned.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 08:37 AM (45fpk)

149 17 Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, “Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?”

18 And He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.” ’ ”

19 So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 08:37 AM (BRHaw)

150 Makes you wonder if the whole thing is not a plot by Big Doctor and Big Pharma....

Kind of an endless game of top that coupled with "watch my dividends rise!"
Posted by: sven at April 05, 2023 08:34 AM (Lzpvj)

Yeah, it was a bit of a struggle, sven. I don't like the prospect of someday having one of my tenuous freedoms denied because of antidepressant medication, but I was just drowning in a toxic sea of hate, sadness and self-loathing. And sadly, my faith is not strong enough for me to turn the burden over to Him.

I suppose, in that sense, medication is the coward's way out. So I'm a coward.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 05, 2023 08:38 AM (AW0uW)

151 Mornin’, All. Happy Waffle Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2023 08:38 AM (ffbyg)

152 16 Fellas, I'm in love. The chick painted in white screaming "I'm a black animal!" is the girl I've been looking for all my life. Wish me luck!

Posted by: Crazy to be sane at April 05, 2023 08:03 AM (FckHj)
----
I missed that, give me a link at last ....

Posted by: Ciampino - black, white, blue, yellow at April 05, 2023 08:38 AM (qfLjt)

153 Also known as Not Pizza.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 08:31 AM (x0n13)

hey now
Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 08:32 AM (45fpk)
*****
Deep dish pizza is the best kind of pizza.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2023 08:38 AM (NpAcC)

154 I suppose, in that sense, medication is the coward's way out. So I'm a coward.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 05, 2023 08:38 AM (AW0uW)

If you are, then I'm one too.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 08:39 AM (45fpk)

155 :piano music stops:

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 05, 2023 08:39 AM (iKBwy)

156 "if you have not made it to Giordano's yet you owe it to yourself to go JJ"
When Little VIA graduated Boot Camp we took him to the one closest to Great Lakes.
It was OK.
Not great
But, OK
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 05, 2023 08:36 AM (1n+EO)

Lou Malnati's > Giordano's

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 05, 2023 08:39 AM (KaRdo)

157 Morning, JJ, morning, horde.
Disappointed to hear about WI, but not surprised.
They've been perfecting the statewide "elections" since 2018.

Maybe JJ can correct me, but they have not really addressed the major security issues uncovered after 2020. If they have I'm not aware of it.

Posted by: Ben Sanderson at April 05, 2023 08:39 AM (53oGX)

158
So, a Knodl in Wisconsin, a knadel in my soup and a canoodle with Ann Margaret?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 08:40 AM (x0n13)

159 off old Nick Cage sock

Posted by: Inogame at April 05, 2023 08:40 AM (53oGX)

160 Lou Malnati's > Giordano's

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 05, 2023 08:39 AM (KaRdo)

This is the way.

Posted by: Inogame at April 05, 2023 08:41 AM (53oGX)

161 150 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 05, 2023 08:38 AM (AW0uW)

We've all been there brother. You are not weak because you sought help whether counseling or pharmacological you are strong. We live in an insane asylum and it causes by nature emotional and psychological stress.

Hang in there.

Posted by: sven at April 05, 2023 08:41 AM (Lzpvj)

162 157 157 Morning, JJ, morning, horde.
Disappointed to hear about WI, but not surprised.
They've been perfecting the statewide "elections" since 2018.

Maybe JJ can correct me, but they have not really addressed the major security issues uncovered after 2020. If they have I'm not aware of it.
Posted by: Ben Sanderson at April 05, 2023 08:39 AM (53oGX)

I just moved here. If I had to guess they have not done jack about it, mostly because Tony Evers is in the statehouse. Maybe with this new Knodl victory and an apparent supermajority to override a veto, then election reform can go forward?

Grammy? Mis Hum? Over to you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 08:41 AM (x0n13)

163 Be well horde, the missus and I are off.

Posted by: sven at April 05, 2023 08:41 AM (Lzpvj)

164 What is wrong with the people in Wisconsin?

As far as I could tell when I worked there ? A general belief that people are good and will do the right thing. The perfect cauldron to brew the current progressive poison.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 05, 2023 08:41 AM (iQE+/)

165 And while everyone is wringing their hands at the (genuine) injustice of Trump’s indictments—one guy has a genuine erection from it: Donald Trump. It has everything he gets off on; maximum escalation, chaos, maximum news-cycle oxygen consumption, and a greased track to a nomination that will finish us off with one more preventable loss.

Cast in in spiritual terms if you like, and I do. God gave us Trump. But not to save us. Trump is now a liability. It doesn’t matter that he is being railroaded. He’s the lifeguard with no fucking arms now.

Meanwhile, while the base is wating for their Mar-a-Lago Messiah to speak, Wisconsin elects a Marxist judge under near complete media embargo. And Trump will let you all degrade your health over his indictment-he’s got REAL fish to fry—like the true enemy to any narcissist: Ron DeSanis.

Posted by: MarleysGhost at April 05, 2023 08:41 AM (V2dVc)

166
But you bastardize it magnificently, you magnificent bastard!
Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2023 08:20 AM (iY8R7)

You are my bro and I love you for it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

167 There now is an emotional reason: Save America, save freedom.

News Flash: America doesn't want to be saved nor have freedom. They want to dare God to unleash His Holy Wrath.

When a people claim that they have power over life, death, sex, climate, disease and nations; they have called themselves "god". At some point you want to have that battle with God to determine who is boss.

Welcome to Babel 2.0

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 08:41 AM (YXHzG)

168 Ronna Fish Lips Romney , Executive Director of the RNC Spa , said that despite being outspent and defeated in every close, meaningful race at all levels the Spa sees a path to victory if Liv GOP voters will contribute moar to the RNC.

Oh. And Ronna Fish Lips asked GOP voters to vote harder...... though not so hard as to blemish her winless tenure as head of the RNC Spa..

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at April 05, 2023 08:41 AM (Obm+Q)

169 So, a Knodl in Wisconsin, a knadel in my soup and a canoodle with Ann Margaret?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 08:40 AM (x0n13)

Leave the gun, take the canoodle.

Posted by: Peter Clemenza at April 05, 2023 08:42 AM (PiwSw)

170 So the Mayor of our town so far has not cancelled the Township Committee meeting for Thursday. I don't know what her religion is. If anything, I think it's leftism, but it didn't occur to her that Holy Thursday, Passover and Ramadan are all being observed on Thursday night?!!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 05, 2023 08:42 AM (FUVRY)

171
Social Security has been running annual deficits since 2010, when it had a shortfall of $49 billion.

The Labor Participation Rate has been falling steadily since around the year 2000. A short uptick when Trump took office until covid, then started dropping again.

If the correct % of people work, Social Security works. Unfortunately it doesn't seem as if people want to work - and if they do, they're miserable. I heard on the news yesterday that more then 50% of people are looking to change jobs in this year.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2023 08:42 AM (enJYY)

172 One of my favorite parts of Passover is an almost adjunct part of it. During the Seder, there is the subject of The Four Sons, and how the Passover should be explained to them The Four Sons are the Wise Son, the Wicked Son, the Simple Son, and the Son Who Has Yet No Ability to Understand.

The Wise Son is to be answered completely, for he can understand the full answer. The Wicked Son is to be excluded - the salvation of the Exodus was not for his benefit, but for the benefit of the good. The Simple Son is to be given a simplified answer, and encouraged to find the rest of the answer himself to overcome his indolence. The Son Who Has Yet No Ability to Understand is to be given a similar simple answer because it is all he can know at the moment.

It wraps up four basic human conditions - the good, the bad, the indifferent and the unable - very nicely, and reinforces the story in the direct address of each archetype. This whole part of the Seder has grown on me over the years. It's actually very sophisticated, and is so simple that it's easy to miss it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 08:42 AM (t0OGg)

173 Grammy? Mis Hum? Over to you.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 08:41 AM (x0n13)

*sits in the corner with dunce cap on*

Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 08:43 AM (45fpk)

174 2/3's of Jews vote with the Party of Satan/Molach/atheism.
Passover's warning unfortunately is lost to them. I wish we could fix this.

Posted by: torabora at April 05, 2023 08:43 AM (NaVNg)

175
Also known as Not Pizza.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 08:31 AM (x0n13)

Or, the greatest, most flavorful pizza on the planet.

Lou Malnati's or bust.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

176 Bigots!

Posted by: Chicago Shallow Plate Pizza Warehouse at April 05, 2023 08:43 AM (BEZ6U)

177 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at April 05, 2023 08:43 AM (OMAGl)

178 Meanwhile, while the base is wating for their Mar-a-Lago Messiah to speak,

What delusional world are you inhabiting?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 08:43 AM (YXHzG)

179 Jack, Ivanka said after Trump left office that she was totally finished with politics and would not be involved with Trumps plans to run again. She has three)four?)little kids to raise and after what she was put through during his presidency I cannot blame her. She lost her businesses , was replaced out of necessity at Trump international, and endured constant criticism, threats etc. Melania has a 17 year old to protect. I am sure she is not thrilled at going back into the fray, but will do what she has to do.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 05, 2023 08:44 AM (F0jcH)

180 2/3's of Jews vote with the Party of Satan/Molach/atheism.
Passover's warning unfortunately is lost to them. I wish we could fix this.

Some cultures have a penchant for talking themselves into ovens.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 08:44 AM (YXHzG)

181 146 And after engagement with hyper-sonic missile capable militaries such as China and Russia, the Ford class carrier will only test how fast it sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 08:36 AM (YXHzG)

They won't fire a shot. The transexual captain will have PMS and hit the scuttle button when he/xe breaks a nail.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 08:44 AM (x0n13)

182 22 "Brandon Johnson, a progressive organizer backed by teachers union, wins Chicago mayor's race."

What is it with commie mayors having the stupidest names?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 08:05 AM (Vwz3I)
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Now we can say:
Whose your johnson?
Where's your johnson?
Keep johnson in your pants.
That brown johnson looks really shitty.
You lose a little bit of your brain every time you exercise your johnson.

Posted by: Ciampino - a blue & yellow = green johnson = you need a doctor at April 05, 2023 08:44 AM (qfLjt)

183 >>What is wrong with the people in Wisconsin?

Fighting Bob La Follette and the Wisconsin Idea.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2023 08:45 AM (ZLI7S)

184 A ZOD SIGHTING!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

185 As far as I could tell when I worked there ? A general belief that people are good and will do the right thing.

We're very nice here.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 08:45 AM (45fpk)

186 164 What is wrong with the people in Wisconsin?

As far as I could tell when I worked there ? A general belief that people are good and will do the right thing. The perfect cauldron to brew the current progressive poison.
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Its the Tyranny of the Yankee Religious Polemic. The two poles are Authoritarian Roundheads with the opposite pole held by the Crazy Quakers (What Would Jesus Do?) folks. They can't see the forest but for these two trees. Its very schizophrenic.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 05, 2023 08:45 AM (4og8o)

187 A question!

Since before your sun burned hot, I have awaited a question.

Walk the elephant and pitch to the goat?

Posted by: the guardian of forever at April 05, 2023 08:45 AM (Vwz3I)

188 Thank you, JJ.

The beatings against us continue and morale is not improving.

Posted by: democrats, Raping And Mutilating The Children They Cannot Kill at April 05, 2023 08:46 AM (jV+aN)

189 Posted by: MarleysGhost at April 05, 2023 08:41 AM (V2dVc)

I automatically tune out anyone who suggests that Trump supporters think of Trump as the Messiah or a Jesus figure or people who talk about the base believing that.

But hey, let's do the Trump/DeSantis slapdowns this morning. That's what you were going to get to, eh?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 05, 2023 08:46 AM (FUVRY)

190 Youz can call me Ray.

Youz can call me Jay.

Youz can call me RayJay.

But youz duzent hafta call me Johnson.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

191 MP4, I’ve been on an antidepressant for years. I can go without it for a little while, but after a few weeks of not taking it I can definitely notice a downturn in my mood. I felt ashamed when I was first taking it, but now I don’t care. My mother had depression, and I’m pretty sure some of my siblings do, too. It’s just the way our brains are wired. Nothing to be ashamed of.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2023 08:47 AM (ffbyg)

192 If the correct % of people work, Social Security works. Unfortunately it doesn't seem as if people want to work - and if they do, they're miserable.
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Kind of hard to work when Manhattan sent the jobs to China and India.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 05, 2023 08:47 AM (4og8o)

193 Social Security has been running annual deficits since 2010, when it had a shortfall of $49 billion.

Amazing that there is no money for Social Security, but endless funds to government pension and bank bailouts, welfare and fat conduits of cash to Ukraine and other corrupt nations.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 08:47 AM (YXHzG)

194 Lou Malnati's or bust.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

What size is the bust ?

Posted by: JT at April 05, 2023 08:47 AM (T4tVD)

195 If the correct % of people work, Social Security works. Unfortunately it doesn't seem as if people want to work - and if they do, they're miserable. I heard on the news yesterday that more then 50% of people are looking to change jobs in this year.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2023 08:42 AM (enJYY)

To get that %, you have to keep up a growth rate of kids...or a death rate of seniors...it's impossible to balance no matter how many people want to work with the age balance we have now...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 05, 2023 08:48 AM (exHjb)

196 In 2016, I took my at the time fiance' to the mag mile in Chicago. I've lived in Chicago suburbs the majority of my life, and I shared the wonder of downtown with my fiance', who is now my wife. 2 years ago I showed the chaos that is Chicago even on the Mag, and my wife cried because she had seen how great the place used to be, and how terrible it is now.

FUCK YOU DEMOCRATS! You took a city of the world, and turned it into a shithole.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at April 05, 2023 08:48 AM (uYcrO)

197 As far as I could tell when I worked there ? A general belief that people are good and will do the right thing.

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Interestingly, you described Heritage America. That was everywhere not too long ago. Then the evangelists from the cities began to spread their word unto the nation.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 05, 2023 08:49 AM (o/smN)

198 ZOD IMPERIAL.

**makes obeisance**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 05, 2023 08:49 AM (AW0uW)

199 What is wrong with the people in Wisconsin?

Pixy has a text length limit policy

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 08:49 AM (YXHzG)

200 You are my bro and I love you for it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

Back at ya, brother ~~Sponge~~ Spomnge!

Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2023 08:50 AM (iY8R7)

201 And after engagement with hyper-sonic missile capable militaries such as China and Russia, the Ford class carrier will only test how fast it sinks to the bottom of the ocean.

That's the question nobody seems to talk about. If we have another conflict - what should those weapons systems look like ? A smaller number of superior designs - or a larger number of weapons that a country can continue to manufacture.

One things for sure, even a cold war is going to change not only military design, but economies. In WWII - countries all held their own means of production. The global tension, in large part, came from a search for raw resources like oil, tungsten, and rubber.

Now ? It wouldn't matter if we had a direct funnel from God of all the raw resources we desire - we can't make them into much of anything on our own. China, OTOH, has access to all the resources she desires - but doesn't have the skill to use all the manufacturing built by foreign powers on Chinese lands.

Neither side can sustain a conflict - because neither side can replace their own losses. I don't think anyone can now.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 05, 2023 08:50 AM (iQE+/)

202 That any voter could think that politicians for the left are basically nice is beyond me. They apparently learn nothing from history. Our founding fathers were very wary of human nature and set up federalism, checks and balances, and the Bill of Rights to counter act it. The greatness of this nation has produced soft thinking and people

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 05, 2023 08:50 AM (386ly)

203 Happy Birthday Jewells. It's my birthday too. We are the same age.

Thank you! I celebrated by sleeping in

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at April 05, 2023 08:51 AM (wagHN)

204 Interestingly, you described Heritage America. That was everywhere not too long ago. Then the evangelists from the cities began to spread their word unto the nation.

Interesting. The Free Will Evangelists completely distorted the Scriptures which plainly states in a myriad of ways that the carnal man is in enmity with God, slave to sin, loves wickedness, hates righteousness, has no desire to please God.

How these people came up with "people are good and will do the right thing." apparently have never read the Bible.

Jesus didn't come to save the "good and righteous" but to save sinners.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 08:52 AM (YXHzG)

205
Kind of hard to work when Manhattan sent the jobs to China and India.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 05, 2023 08:47 AM

Tell me about it. I lost a business and livelihood during the Great Trade War years. We did score a solid second place finish, though - while the percentage of men working fell from 75% then to 70% now.

But abortion access decides elections. What male is driven to the polls by this issue? Call me a misogynist if you wish, don't care.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2023 08:52 AM (enJYY)

206 How can Trump plead when Bragg hasn't revealed what the underlying crime is?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2023 08:52 AM (EdLEa)

207 Picked up another major cold snow dump in the Rockies. . . . . . more than 3 feet in the hills/peaks. This winter is proving to be just like HildeBeast Arkancider Clinton. . . . . cold, bitter, windy, cruel. . . which simply won't go away.

Posted by: H8 Fat Ass Loudmouth Lying Bragging Marxist Rat Bastards at April 05, 2023 08:52 AM (5uy7A)

208 Long after Pharaoh had sneered, “Who is G-d that I should listen to Him?”, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev claimed that his astronaut had gone into space and not seen god. Both tyrants had a vested interest in convincing their slaves that there was no alternative to their regimes.

great writing

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 08:53 AM (BRHaw)

209 What in holy hell is #76 talking about?

Posted by: Jaimo at April 05, 2023 08:53 AM (DBrN4)

210 That any voter could think that politicians for the left are basically nice is beyond me.

Its the opposite, their personality dopes on the Dark Tetrad:

• Psychopathy
• Narcissism
• Machiavellianism
• Sadism

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 08:54 AM (YXHzG)

211 To me this puts the "shut up about the stolen election, stop living in the past, and move on" people in even more of what I would call - no offense - the Dummy Spotlight.

Trump has now been arrested by the people who stole the election from us but he should just "move on", eh? Because "people" don't want to hear about it?

Fuck me, some people need a good waking or two. I don't know what will do it.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2023 08:54 AM (QoA/l)

212 Happy Birthday Jewells !

Posted by: JT at April 05, 2023 08:55 AM (T4tVD)

213 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev claimed that his astronaut had gone into space and not seen god. Both tyrants had a vested interest in convincing their slaves that there was no alternative to their regimes.
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Interesting. Believe it or not, this is a significant plot point in Patrick Chiles' Frozen Orbit, where Russian cosmonauts travel to Pluto and make a discovery that would wreck the Soviet regime, if it wasn't already being destroyed (their voyage took place in 1991).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 05, 2023 08:56 AM (YIVH2)

214 Just a quick hit since it appears no one else is broaching the subject.

"Others" of us who have been grafted in may not know all the fine ins and outs of the subject BUT, we do know our Lord was crucified on Passover, becoming our Passover Lamb. He He laid in the grave during Unleavened Bread and arose on Firstfruits.
And His Holy Spirit, the Comforter, came on Feast of Weeks (Pentacost).
The 7 feasts God instituted are His prophetic calendar. The four spring feasts have been fulfilled.
Come on Feast of Trumpets.
Oh, and hello grammie, if'n your still around.

Love each other fellow babies. It's the 2nd great commandment.

Posted by: TeeJ at April 05, 2023 08:56 AM (E6cDv)

215 Margot Cleveland: "In the days, weeks, and months ahead, the ‘get Trump’ circus will continue to dominate the news."
7 Serious News Stories Media Choked Out With Trump Indictment Buzz

Welp. The Democrats have their "stray voltage" for the next year or so.

Every time the economy falls further, or trannies murder more children or Senile Joe jacks off in public, whatever -

we get a new breathless account from the MSM, the Dims, and the faithless GOPe, how Trump going into solitary tomorrow!!!!!1111111!!!!

Something along those lines.

Trump should use this pony to show us who in the GOP are warriors and who are feckless, faithless ducks.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 05, 2023 08:57 AM (mm6iK)

216 Interestingly, you described Heritage America. That was everywhere not too long ago. Then the evangelists from the cities began to spread their word unto the nation.
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Interesting. The Free Will Evangelists completely distorted the Scriptures which plainly states in a myriad of ways that the carnal man is in enmity with God, slave to sin, loves wickedness, hates righteousness, has no desire to please God.

How these people came up with "people are good and will do the right thing." apparently have never read the Bible.

Jesus didn't come to save the "good and righteous" but to save sinners.

Posted by: Reuben Hick

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You're stirring the religious and the social. My comment wasn't about souls, but about people.

Yes, people are as filthy rags. The end. People are good and will do the right thing is the way that folks SHOULD look at their neighbors and countrymen, and how people should strive to be viewed by their neighbors. The opposite gives us what we have now. Low trust, heavy-handed lawfare, stolen elections, 3rd world arrests of political opposition, etc.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 05, 2023 08:57 AM (o/smN)

217 Trump has now been arrested by the people who stole the election from us but he should just "move on", eh? Because "people" don't want to hear about it?

Reminds me of the "oh please, not another discussion about politics. Anything but politics" crowd.

You can't name me a single thing in today's society that doesn't absolutely reek of politics. Yet - that bunch just doesn't want to hear it, and passively-aggressively does their dead level best to make sure nobody else hears about it either. Bring on the cute kittens instead. They insist.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 05, 2023 08:57 AM (iQE+/)

218 Happy Birthday, Jewellz!!
Eat lots of cake

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2023 08:57 AM (EdLEa)

219 Kind of hard to work when Manhattan sent the jobs to China and India.

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But if they hadn't then a new truck would cost $50,000!!!

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 05, 2023 08:58 AM (o/smN)

220 What in holy hell is #76 talking about?
Posted by: Jaimo at April 05, 2023 08:53 AM (DBrN4)
++++
A little sideshow during the Trump administration. Melania was out of the spotlight for a bit, and some press idiots and their followers concocted a ludicrous story that she was in an isolated ward at Walter Reed recovering from Trump's physical abuse. The only explanation for her absence is that she was under lock and key to cover up Trump's secret abuse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 08:58 AM (t0OGg)

221
What size is the bust ?
Posted by: JT at April 05, 2023 08:47 AM (T4tVD)

A's to J's. I wanna see and feel em all.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

222 Hmmm.

ducks = cucks

Tnx AC!

Posted by: naturalfake at April 05, 2023 08:59 AM (mm6iK)

223 "News Flash: America doesn't want to be saved nor have freedom. They want to dare God to unleash His Holy Wrath.
Posted by: Reuben Hick"

Huge part of America, probably a majority, prefer to rule over the rest far more than they want freedom.

Posted by: Ripley at April 05, 2023 08:59 AM (cUYo/)

224 Sorry about wisconsin JJ. In the suburbs of Chicago, the marxist anti cop Black Panther won. city is gone like the Walking Dead.

Had friends in Milwaukee worried about that state senate race up there, the GOP at least won that by a hair

Posted by: Jonah at April 05, 2023 08:59 AM (Cw0fX)

225 Happy Birthday Jewells and Gwenn.
It's my nephew's birthday too.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 05, 2023 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

226 Thank you! I celebrated by sleeping in
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at April 05, 2023 08:51 AM (wagHN)

https://youtu.be/_Qw-h_yZ1ZQ

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

227 God bless Margot Cleveland apparently, who gets that the persecution of Trump is chiefly but not entirely a Narrative Boost that allows the media to easily determine the direction of Ness by never having to talk about anything else except in passing.

They did it with Russia Cooloooosion. They did it from Day 1 of his presidency.

Say how's that manifesto coming?

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2023 09:00 AM (HYH4V)

228 Hello TeeJ - so lovely to see you!

Posted by: grammie winger at April 05, 2023 09:00 AM (45fpk)

229 Yes, people are as filthy rags. The end. People are good and will do the right thing is the way that folks SHOULD look at their neighbors and countrymen, and how people should strive to be viewed by their neighbors.

Hell no. Look at your neighbors and countrymen for what they are. And if that means you no longer wish for them to be either neighbors or countrymen - so be it.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 05, 2023 09:00 AM (iQE+/)

230 206 How can Trump plead when Bragg hasn't revealed what the underlying crime is?!?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2023 08:52 AM (EdLEa)

It's bad enough that this grotesquery of a DA and his office put forth this laughable case. The problem is the judges and jury pools that do not see it as such.

We're gone as a society.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 09:00 AM (x0n13)

231 ++++
A little sideshow during the Trump administration. Melania was out of the spotlight for a bit, and some press idiots and their followers concocted a ludicrous story that she was in an isolated ward at Walter Reed recovering from Trump's physical abuse. The only explanation for her absence is that she was under lock and key to cover up Trump's secret abuse.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 08:58 AM (t0OGg)

Her next appearance should be at a courthouse filing suit against them for anything and everything.

Time to start lawfaring these assholes, IF you can find a judge that isn't bought and paid for, that is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

232 How can Trump plead when Bragg hasn't revealed what the underlying crime is?!?

==

They'll have to convict him to find out what's in it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 05, 2023 09:01 AM (sVtYq)

233 Kind of hard to work when Manhattan sent the jobs to China and India.

Look at the barely functional mental and physical defects graduating from government schools.

Employers have a very difficult time finding someone who will show up to work reliably and not high or hung-over. Many jobs require clean and sober and many people have criminal records and drug habits.

I imagine a huge reason why blue cities are reducing felonies to misdemeanors and dismissing most crimes is so that the young offender doesn't have a record that hypothetically keeps them from having a job.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 09:01 AM (YXHzG)

234 But how much of the apathy is driven by the lazy, stupid GOP that has not had a new idea since Reagan?

If the courts are a moral choice-- what's right and what's wrong--without knowing, I'll bet good money the GOP campaign was:
"I am the conservative conservative who will conserve the conservative. And rule of law or something. IDK, conservative!"

If 2022 was the swing voters voting against their economic interests, then that means their pocketbook was overruled by their emotions.

You beat apathy with emotion. Not tax cuts. Not tired old slogans. Not promises of bipartisanship or civility.

Trump brings emotion.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 05, 2023 09:01 AM (m9bzV)

235 media to easily determine the direction of Ness by never having to talk about
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Ness? news. FFS

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2023 09:01 AM (HYH4V)

236 After the elections of 2020 and 2022,Trump indicted yesterday and were really going to take people to task for not getting out and voting even at the state level? Guess we need to get the message out about “vote harder” better because the rubes might be a tad cynical.

Posted by: JROD at April 05, 2023 09:01 AM (IlL6s)

237 Deep dish "pizza" is an abomination and just another sign of our descent into third-world status.

Posted by: Mr. Tony Pizza Expert at April 05, 2023 09:01 AM (j+jCx)

238 > In a testy exchange with Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-described socialist, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz challenged them for frequently tagging him as a "billionaire"

Surely I can't be the only one who's noticed that Bernie's patented "millionaires and billionaires" catchphrase is now just "billionaires". I'm sure that has nothing to do with Bernie himself now being a millionaire, right?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 05, 2023 09:01 AM (bW8dp)

239 I'd be lying to you if I said what is being done to President Trump has not swayed my opinion of who to support at the top of the ticket...We are in a pre-revolutionary phase, if we have not gone beyond that. Post by JJ Sefton

My thoughts say were are enduring a full blown political and social Marxist insurgencies that would have been much closer to a full take over if PDJT had not blown up their momentum. It is because of this that PDJT has been under relentless attacks since he emerged. Yesterday was nothing new and at the same time a breathtaking escalation with more looming.

Our American culture has the odd ability to bring forth the right people at the right time such as our founders, Lincoln, or Reagan. As I mull over if Trump is one of those leaders, in spite of his short comings, I also ask if the other candidates are up to the task of being on that list. The binary choice I see is do I cast my lot with a warrior or administrators. Yesterday Trump showed his war face. Insurgencies are not defeated by administrators.

God speed PDJT. Give 'em hell.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 05, 2023 09:01 AM (9e/0I)

240 "What is wrong with the people in Wisconsin?"

The red/blue county map of WI shows the state is politically dominated by the urban centers, especially Milwaukee and Madison, and the electoral fraud thereof.

As is the rest of the country.

Posted by: davidt at April 05, 2023 09:02 AM (SYTee)

241 Posted by: Remember that one? at April 05, 2023 08:20 AM (t0OGg)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at April 05, 2023 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

242 Look at the barely functional mental and physical defects graduating from government schools.

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I still haven't figured out how cities have a 75% illiteracy rate and those same cities have a 70% high school graduation rate.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 05, 2023 09:03 AM (o/smN)

243 I agree. This won't stop until R legal starts going after Ds.

Tom Delay. Conviction overturned on appeal.

Sen Steven's. Conviction overturned on appeal.

There's a host of others. Time for pain to be returned.

Let's bleed Nancy. Let her enjoy semi retirement fighting indictments.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 05, 2023 09:03 AM (NW9xb)

244 Thanks Joe Mannix, I had not heard that story during Trump's admin. I just hadn't seen Melania and she's as tough as nails and she has a thousand yard stare. I would have liked her to be front and center because you know she's pissed.

Posted by: Jaimo at April 05, 2023 09:03 AM (DBrN4)

245 Deep dish "pizza" is an abomination and just another sign of our descent into third-world status.
Posted by: Mr. Tony Pizza Expert at April 05, 2023 09:01 AM (j+jCx)

I'm betting you've never had it, so in your liberal fashion, you're trashing something you have ZERO actual knowledge about.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

246 Wow, a lot of people share a birthday with JJ.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2023 09:03 AM (ffbyg)

247
Today might be a good day to go fishing and forget about politics for a while. Which reminds me of a cartoon I saw recently of two guys fishing while in the background two mushroom clouds are rising. The one guy says to the other, "Looks like size and catch limits are off the table today."

Gallows humor, I guess.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2023 09:03 AM (enJYY)

248 >>Employers have a very difficult time finding someone who will show up to work reliably and not high or hung-over. Many jobs require clean and sober and many people have criminal records and drug habits.

Well, maybe they should stop focusing on young employees? There are a lot of Gen Xers who've been laid off and can't get hired.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2023 09:04 AM (EdLEa)

249 I'm in the waiting room at the clinic and the food channel is on the TV. There is some chubby brunette chick who you can tell used to be cute. At first I thought it was Ina Garten then thought it was Rachel Ray. Holy crap it's Valerie Bertinelli.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 05, 2023 09:04 AM (lfHbI)

250 237 Deep dish "pizza" is an abomination and just another sign of our descent into third-world status.
Posted by: Mr. Tony Pizza Expert at April 05, 2023 09:01 AM (j+jCx)

Which is funny because pizza - the real kind, not deep dish - was born in a formerly third world nation.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 05, 2023 09:04 AM (x0n13)

251 At least the MFM chyrons here this morning are also reporting the $122K court loss for Stormy.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 09:04 AM (Vwz3I)

252 Yesterday Trump showed his war face. Insurgencies are not defeated by administrators.

Nor are they defeated in a court-room. Never. Not once, that I can find in any written record - as inaccurate as those records are, since they were all written by the winners.

I don't know what face Trump showed yesterday. To me, it didn't look very much like Franco or Pinochet - it just looked like Donald Trump going to a court-room again.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 05, 2023 09:04 AM (iQE+/)

253 Good morning dear horde and thank you JJ

The meaning of Passover is more relevant today than ever. Shall we remain slaves?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 05, 2023 09:04 AM (EZebt)

254 But how much of the apathy is driven by the lazy, stupid GOP that has not had a new idea since Reagan?

--

The 2022 mid-terms were one of the most eye opening elections for me.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 05, 2023 09:05 AM (o/smN)

255 >>A little sideshow during the Trump administration. Melania was out of the spotlight for a bit, and some press idiots and their followers concocted a ludicrous story

Brian "Tater" Stelter speculated he had beaten her so badly, or possibly killed her, that they were hiding her (or her permanent absence). It was way, way beyond the typical childish smears.

Also, Melania has sued the press and won, though I forgot what the defamatory story was about.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2023 09:06 AM (EdLEa)

256 Huge part of America, probably a majority, prefer to rule over the rest far more than they want freedom.

That is what happens when you have DIY morality. Under pseudo theocratic cultures (where there is a very dominant religious faith and transcendent moral code) you have appeals to a shared value system to uphold civilization.

Under a multi-cultural system that has a very large segment of their society that is estranged from transcendent moral codes (either ignorant or rebellious to) there is a tendency for people to make ad hoc value judgements and then demand that this is how others should behave.

Sort of like a whole society of Dunning-Kruger gods

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 09:06 AM (YXHzG)

257 EVERY pizza boils down to the sauce. If you don't have a good sauce, your pizza is shit no matter WHAT style it is.

Oh, and NY style pizza is greasy flopsweat shit in most cases.

One in 100 get it right.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

258 > The red/blue county map of WI shows the state is politically dominated by the urban centers, especially Milwaukee and Madison, and the electoral fraud thereof.

We really need to stick all the "urban centers" into their own state. They'd still get representatives, but they'd have to share two senators among them, and they couldn't pass any laws that affect the civilized regions of the country.

There's nothing in the constitution that requires a state to be contiguous -- and in fact, there are states that aren't. Michigan. Hawaii (and any state with islands, which is gonna be most of them). That weird piece of Washington state that's up in Canada. And so on.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 05, 2023 09:06 AM (bW8dp)

259 Huge part of America, probably a majority, prefer to rule over the rest far more than they want freedom.
Posted by: Ripley at April 05, 2023 08:59 AM (cUYo/)

Endless stream of illegals, inner city dwellers, and blue city progressive all demand a harsh big govt control over their (and others) lives so they do NOT have to make tough decision and the outcomes of their poor life judgements are not judged as hard as they should be.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 09:07 AM (BRHaw)

260 Posted by: Lizzy at April 05, 2023 09:06 AM (EdLEa)

I think reporting over and over that he supports Neo Nazis was a pretty low blow too. Trying to get him killed more like.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2023 09:07 AM (2Dt+o)

261 > Oh, and NY style pizza is greasy flopsweat shit in most cases.

Catsup mixed with beef and pork drippings, smeared on a saltine.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 05, 2023 09:07 AM (bW8dp)

262 the direction of Ness

Even Nessie has gone full-on libtard. She’s got tats on her flippers and pink scales.

And identifies as a sperm whale.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2023 09:08 AM (ffbyg)

263 That's why I'm not worried about ever being able to get a job. I am 60 and I intend to work well into my 70's as I was not very good at saving for retirement. Anyway, I show up to work, do my job well, never call in sick, and am at the beck and call of my employer. Anyone under the age of 40 isn't going to do that. It gives me purpose.

Posted by: Jaimo at April 05, 2023 09:08 AM (DBrN4)

264 But how much of the apathy is driven by the lazy, stupid GOP that has not had a new idea since Reagan?

They have seen behind the current and are still in a catatonic state.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 09:08 AM (YXHzG)

265 Gentlemen, all your cheese belong to us.

Posted by: The Communists at April 05, 2023 09:08 AM (yQpMk)

266 203 Oh I wish I could sleep in. I haven't slept well in years. i get 6 hours tops if I'm lucky.

Posted by: Gwenn at April 05, 2023 09:09 AM (9Gr7n)

267 Gentlemen, all your cheese belong to us.
Posted by: The Communists at April 05, 2023 09:08 AM (yQpMk)

...from my cold, dead hand......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

268 The 2022 mid-terms were one of the most eye opening elections for me.
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After 2020 I thought I saw enough. But in 22 the AZ gov. election was still a surprise. I had thought that the McCain wing R's wouldn't actively participate in cheating to make the Abortion Mouse the winner over Lake. But they did, and may they rot in the bed they crapped in.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2023 09:09 AM (fs1hN)

269 247. Happy for you. You go fishing while I go out and machine/shovel the driveway. . . . again. . . .

Posted by: H8 Fat Ass Loudmouth Lying Bragging Marxist Rat Bastards at April 05, 2023 09:09 AM (5uy7A)

270 @238 Bernie is trying to save his ass. The leftist revolution always do ats it's own and him focusing on billionaires is him hoping the crocodile eats him last

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 05, 2023 09:10 AM (386ly)

271 Did see the Montana GOP got some spine yesterday. Going after Tester with a jungle primary top 2, Tester always won up there with a soros funded liberterian

Posted by: Jonah at April 05, 2023 09:10 AM (Cw0fX)

272 We really need to stick all the "urban centers" into their own state. They'd still get representatives, but they'd have to share two senators among them, and they couldn't pass any laws that affect the civilized regions of the country.

A more fluid system that allowed counties to join a bordering state - without congressional approval - would help.

Consider Eastern Oregon. Why are those people bound to the will of Portland, just because of a political act in 1859 ? Same goes for anyone in the original thirteen colonies. Folks - the Founders weren't THAT brilliant, such that those boundaries should be etched in stone for all time.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 05, 2023 09:10 AM (iQE+/)

273 blessed Passover to you and yours, JJSefton.
I don't know what I'd do without all YOU do.
Thank you

Posted by: barbarausa at April 05, 2023 09:10 AM (uAuXI)

274 Eats it's own freaking hot dog fingers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 05, 2023 09:11 AM (386ly)

275 A revival and restoration, or, descent into some sort of totalitarian nightmare; what Churchill described on the eve of the Battle of Britain as "new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science."

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And how long 'til the suicidal war on carbon-based fuels has us paraphrasing Sir Edward Grey: "The lamps are going out all over America, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime."?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 05, 2023 09:12 AM (yVPr3)

276 "37% of adults under 30 believe in astrology"

This always makes me laugh. People are dog dick stupid.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 05, 2023 09:12 AM (pohLc)

277 Just in case you thought Trump would actually have a chance in this mess:

" A judge instructed Trump and the prosecution to "refrain from making statements that are likely to incite violence and civil unrest.""

They'll arrest him again shortly.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

278 Lou Malnati's > Giordano's

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No doubt. Although location matters.

Posted by: runner at April 05, 2023 09:12 AM (i4jdL)

279 According to government figures, about 100,000 IT specialists left Russia in 2022, or some 10% of the tech workforce—a number that is likely an underestimate. Alongside those exits, more than 1,000 foreign firms curtailed their operations in the country, driven in part by the broadest sanctions ever to be imposed on a major economy.

Seems the Czar is same as the old Czar.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 09:12 AM (BRHaw)

280
Happy for you. You go fishing while I go out and machine/shovel the driveway. . . . again. . . .

Posted by: H8 Fat Ass Loudmouth Lying Bragging Marxist Rat Bastards at April 05, 2023 09:09 AM

Move to the Philadelphia burbs. We had ZERO appreciable snowfall this year. Plus, we could use the votes. You can vote early and often I hope?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2023 09:12 AM (enJYY)

281 276 "37% of adults under 30 believe in astrology"

This always makes me laugh. People are dog dick stupid.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 05, 2023 09:12 AM (pohLc)

We Cancers do NOT!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 09:13 AM (BRHaw)

282 sorry late to the party - what happened with Vallas? is he still in the running for Chicago? I thought he'd lost the primary last night?

he's a good guy, btw

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 05, 2023 09:13 AM (w0NJk)

283 But how much of the apathy is driven by the lazy, stupid GOP that has not had a new idea since Reagan?

They have seen behind the current and are still in a catatonic state.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 09:08 AM (YXHzG)

Nah. This is mostly Karl Rove's doing.

He took GOP aside and basically, "Hey, assholes. Why don't we get in on the grift? Why is it always table scraps and stone soup for us? The Democrats scoop the big bux promising socialist bullshit so let's do the same...Onkly we';ll run things better and more efficiently.

That's the way we get a permanent majority. Oh, and fuck Reagan and fuck conservatives."

And the rest is history. Rove pretty much remade society.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 05, 2023 09:13 AM (mm6iK)

284 203 Oh I wish I could sleep in. I haven't slept well in years. i get 6 hours tops if I'm lucky.
Posted by: Gwenn

Izzat you Insom ?

You didn't get one o' them operations, didja ?

Posted by: JT at April 05, 2023 09:14 AM (T4tVD)

285 Trump should keep talking about the depravity of the Democrats and the stolen elections, fake impeachments, fake indictments, etc. etc. and talk about how he wants to restore/revive/rehab democracy in the US.

The tweet from the President of El Salvador is a good place to start: short and sweet.

Posted by: Ziba at April 05, 2023 09:14 AM (4h9M3)

286 I haven't slept well in years. i get 6 hours tops if I'm lucky.

Well, I take something to help me sleep. I've never been a good sleeper anyway. Nowdays it's even more difficult so I said screw it. I need help sleeping, I'll get help.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at April 05, 2023 09:14 AM (wagHN)

287 MFM reporting in brief shown in AP news chyrons:

Trump is accused of conspiring to illegally influence the 2016 election through a series of hush money payments.

Charges stem from a series of cheques that Trump or his company wrote during the presidential campaign to his lawyer. [Next one...]

Appeals court rules Stormy Daniels must pay $122,000 of Donald Trump's legal fees from her failed defamation lawsuit.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 09:14 AM (Vwz3I)

288 poll taken between March 31 and April 1. It showed that an overwhelming majority of Democrats (94%) were in favor of the indictment. A majority of independents (62%) also supported the move, followed by just 21% of Republicans. Overall, nearly two-thirds (60%) of those surveyed said that they supported the decision to indict Trump.

Independents are just (D) that will not admit it.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 09:15 AM (BRHaw)

289 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Verse for the Day:

"Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil. Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven, and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few."

–Ecclesiastes 5:1-2

Posted by: Tonypete at April 05, 2023 09:15 AM (qoGsy)

290 @282 Valles lost to the Marxist. Chiraq is eff'ed

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 05, 2023 09:15 AM (386ly)

291 Thanks for the birthday wishes guys!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at April 05, 2023 09:15 AM (wagHN)

292 290 @282 Valles lost to the Marxist. Chiraq is eff'ed

oh well I guess they don't want to come back from the brink after all

anyway it's Spy Wednesday of Holy Week. seems apropos.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 05, 2023 09:16 AM (w0NJk)

293 90 GIGAWATTTS will cost around 120 BILLION. SO what does the $450 million buy??
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 08:27 AM (BRHaw

Ten per cent for the Big Guy?

Posted by: Fox2! at April 05, 2023 09:16 AM (kPLwB)

294 Thank you redridinghood.

Posted by: Gwenn at April 05, 2023 09:16 AM (9Gr7n)

295 JJ, I don't know why you moved to Wisconsin in the first place, but it should be apparent that you should get the hell out, since it's no better than NY.

A ziesen pesach to you, and thanks for all your work which I relish each day. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to attend to my charoses.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at April 05, 2023 09:16 AM (WusEB)

296 Booze always helps me sleep.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2023 09:16 AM (ffbyg)

297 283 But how much of the apathy is driven by the lazy, stupid GOP that has not had a new idea since Reagan?

They have seen behind the current and are still in a catatonic state.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 09:08 AM (YXHzG)

Nah. This is mostly Karl Rove's doing.

He took GOP aside and basically, "Hey, assholes. Why don't we get in on the grift? Why is it always table scraps and stone soup for us? The Democrats scoop the big bux promising socialist bullshit so let's do the same...Onkly we';ll run things better and more efficiently.

That's the way we get a permanent majority. Oh, and fuck Reagan and fuck conservatives."

And the rest is history. Rove pretty much remade society.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 05, 2023 09:13 AM (mm6iK)

***&&***

IMHO, best post on the thread so far. Succinct, accurate, startling, real. Props. And fock Michigander/Massachusetts carpetbaggers, too.

Posted by: H8 Fat Ass Loudmouth Lying Bragging Marxist Rat Bastards at April 05, 2023 09:16 AM (5uy7A)

298 I didn't see Ivanka, and Trump mentioned in his speech Don and Eric but not Ivanka.
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I caught that too. He also mention Baron. I wonder if it was just an oversight or if there is something more.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2023 08:29 AM (ZLI7S)
~~~~~

He absolutely did mention Ivanka. See here at around the 20:25 mark:

https://tinyurl.com/bdvzfy4k

Posted by: IrishEi at April 05, 2023 09:16 AM (3ImbR)

299 wait jewells! it's your birthday!!! happy birthday!

for help sleeping, my friend at Bespoke Apothecary has a FANTASTIC "dream cream" I use every night. sleep like a baby.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 05, 2023 09:16 AM (w0NJk)

300 Much handwringing over the fact of whether or not we as individuals and/or groups should or should not have engaged in protest, be it J6 and afterwards has gone on both here and elsewhere in the blogosphere.

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One word: ~~Plastics~~ NationalStrike.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 05, 2023 09:16 AM (yVPr3)

301 " A judge instructed Trump and the prosecution to "refrain from making statements that are likely to incite violence and civil unrest.""

Why isn't this same order given to the persecutor and his allies who in words and deed routinely and purposely incite violence and civil unrest?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 05, 2023 09:16 AM (YXHzG)

302 I still haven't figured out how cities have a 75% illiteracy rate and those same cities have a 70% high school graduation rate.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am

and a greater than 90% voter turnout.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 05, 2023 09:17 AM (lTGtQ)

303 The state is a criminal enterprise and all politicians are frauds. The typical politician sounds like Yosemite Sam to me, promising that "there's plenty of fresh air and sunshine in this grrreaaat country of ours for everybody and if I'm elected, I'll see that you get your share."

Posted by: Oglebay at April 05, 2023 09:17 AM (wscPk)

304 Chicago Italian beef > Chicago style hot dog > deep dish pizza.

No hate for deep dish pizza, just prefer east coast hand-tossed thinner pizza with the kind of pepperoni that curls up into little buckets of grease.

Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2023 09:17 AM (iY8R7)

305 When I can't sleep, I find a double shot of 80 proof Rebel Yell greases the rails to unconciousness.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 05, 2023 09:17 AM (pohLc)

306 The meaning of Passover is more relevant today than ever. Shall we remain slaves?

A lot of the Hebrews wanted to. Remember 'the fleshpots of Egypt?'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 05, 2023 09:17 AM (AW0uW)

307 Deep-dish "pizza" has a Chicago connection and there isn't anything from there that should be emulated, honored, or copied. Just order lasagna and be done with it.

Posted by: Mr. Tony Pizza Expert at April 05, 2023 09:17 AM (j+jCx)

308 > It showed that an overwhelming majority of Democrats (94%) were in favor of the indictment.

I wonder what percentage of the Optimates were in favor of prosecuting Julius Caesar.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 05, 2023 09:17 AM (bW8dp)

309 But how much of the apathy is driven by the lazy, stupid GOP that has not had a new idea since Reagan?

Never forget, the GOP didn't want Reagan either. This always kills me when we talk all matters GOP. The GOP was a Northeastern dominated party before Reagan - the nominated the patriarch of a Northeastern family to be his minder (Bush the Elder) and they went with the son of the Northeastern patriarch at their first opportunity (Bush the Younger).

It's not that the GOP hasn't had any new ideas since Reagan. It's that the party never wanted the ideas of Reagan to begin with. The GOP has always been, and always will be, a big government party whose main goal is to protect established industrialists. Period. Full stop.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 05, 2023 09:17 AM (iQE+/)

310 therefore let your words be few."

–Ecclesiastes 5:1-2
Posted by: Tonypete at April 05, 2023 09:15 AM (qoGsy)

You can tell how much lying a (D) is doing by their words. Notice how Biden has to throw in an extra story into the teleprompter to get his lies in!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 09:18 AM (BRHaw)

311
for help sleeping, my friend at Bespoke Apothecary has a FANTASTIC "dream cream" I use every night. sleep like a baby.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 05, 2023 09:16 AM

Wake up every two hours crying?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2023 09:19 AM (enJYY)

312 One word: NationalStrike.

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Probably the only option that doesn't lead to set ups and jail time.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 05, 2023 09:19 AM (o/smN)

313 Ham 'n Egger McCarthy: “I think this indictment, even before you get to the statute of limitations and whether he’s got jurisdiction to enforce federal law, I would dismiss it on its face because it fails to state a crime.”

I believe Bragg is banking on no judge or appeals court in New York State being brave enough to dismiss the case. Judges would risk not being re-elected and far worse. If the case goes to trial, Bragg is banking that any Manhattan jury he helps select will convict Trump. For both Trump-hate political and personal safety reasons. For those reasons, Bragg must figure he can try and convict Trump on anything he can charge as a felony, with the flimsiest of evidence.

We will see what happens.

Posted by: Gref at April 05, 2023 09:19 AM (AMIL/)

314 21% of Republicans are in favor of the indictment?

I think I'm out of commentary. Not that I believe polling as such but anything I say will be insufficient.

Posted by: ... at April 05, 2023 09:20 AM (1LaZ0)

315 And fock Michigander/Massachusetts carpetbaggers, too.

Hey, I'm no carpetbagger. If I ever have the chance to move to America, I'll be first in line to have someone shoot me the first time I say, "That's not how we did it in Massachusetts."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 05, 2023 09:20 AM (AW0uW)

316 yes. Hobbs winning was a gut punch

Posted by: Jonah at April 05, 2023 09:20 AM (Cw0fX)

317 I hear Cleopatra got her start by working in the flesh pots of Egypt.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2023 09:20 AM (ffbyg)

318 I still haven't figured out how cities have a 75% illiteracy rate and those same cities have a 70% high school graduation rate.
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and a greater than 90% voter turnout.

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Yes, it turns out illiterate, apathetic drug and alcohol users are very politically active.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 05, 2023 09:20 AM (o/smN)

319 Bad Chicago pizza shouldn't surprise anyone, just look at what they do to a hot dog.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 05, 2023 09:20 AM (hoGSj)

320 Perfect Hair and natural fake are right btw

I know some of our vaunted R "leaders" here. when I say Paul Vallas is a good guy, I could name even a couple of good guys who are DEMS in city govt! but no Republicans.

here they are atrocious. they have personal foibles that are exploitable by the Left (which of course happens but they go whoring anyway). they don't care about me or any other sad citizen of this state. they just want in on the grift. OR they are crazy possible moles, like Doug M.

they are fun at parties tho, sort of, except Doug.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 05, 2023 09:21 AM (w0NJk)

321 Wake up every two hours crying?

touche!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 05, 2023 09:22 AM (w0NJk)

322 they are fun at parties tho, sort of, except Doug.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at April 05, 2023 09:21 AM (w0NJk)
++++
Freakin' Doug, man.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 09:22 AM (t0OGg)

323 321 Wake up every two hours crying?

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Brian Stelter at April 05, 2023 09:23 AM (PiwSw)

324 This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Brian Stelter at April 05, 2023 09:23 AM (PiwSw)
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No. The comment read, "wake up every two hours crying," not "wake up every two hours covered in gravy and regret."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 09:24 AM (t0OGg)

325 So sincere...

@Breaking911 · 11h
SEN. GRAHAM: "I have set up a website. I don’t get one damn penny. [...] But I want you to give money tonight to help President Trump. He's raised $8M since this legal garbage started. Don't stop now..."

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 09:24 AM (Vwz3I)

326 I saw Fleshpots of Egypt open for Hole at a Lilith Festival back in '97.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 05, 2023 09:24 AM (bW8dp)

327 190 Youz can call me Ray.

Youz can call me Jay.

Youz can call me RayJay.

But youz duzent hafta call me Johnson.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)
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Dick?

Posted by: Ciampino -- a blue & yellow = green johnson = you need a doctor at April 05, 2023 09:24 AM (qfLjt)

328 >>He absolutely did mention Ivanka. See here at around the 20:25 mark:

I stand corrected. I missed that.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 05, 2023 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

329 316 yes. Hobbs winning was a gut punch
Posted by: Jonah at April 05, 2023 09:20 AM (Cw0fX)

She got 250k out of 400k ballots that had to be adjudicated. Maricopa is about 51% (R) to 40% (D) registered voters.

Just a normal distribution would be something like 220 to 180 or 210 to 190.
250 to 150 is about 120 standard deviations off!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 09:25 AM (BRHaw)

330 therefore let your words be few."

–Ecclesiastes 5:1-2
Posted by: Tonypete at April 05, 2023 09:15 AM (qoGsy)
====================
good advice. I'm taking it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 05, 2023 09:25 AM (J5gTp)

331 Surely I can't be the only one who's noticed that Bernie's patented "millionaires and billionaires" catchphrase is now just "billionaires". I'm sure that has nothing to do with Bernie himself now being a millionaire, right?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 05, 2023 09:01 AM (bW8dp)

It turns out that being Tribune of the Plebs pays very well indeed.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 05, 2023 09:25 AM (yQpMk)

332 Mmmm…gravy…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2023 09:26 AM (ffbyg)

333 @Breaking911
SEN. GRAHAM: "I have set up a website. I don’t get one damn penny. [...] But I want you to give money tonight to help President Trump. He's raised $8M since this legal garbage started. Don't stop now..."
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 09:24 AM (Vwz3I)
++++
Pull the other one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 09:26 AM (t0OGg)

334 The cult of Kali revives??

@TheInsiderPaper · 10m
NEW - Indian police have arrested five men accused of conducting a human sacrifice, nearly four years after the discovery of the victim’s headless body at a Hindu temple left officers baffled

[Although the Thugs preferred strangulation IIRC.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 09:26 AM (Vwz3I)

335 SEN. GRAHAM: "I have set up a website. I don’t get one damn penny. [...] But I want you to give money tonight to help President Trump. He's raised $8M since this legal garbage started. Don't stop now..."

This is where we're at. One side is holding a political trial - the other side thinks they've got a golden fund-raising opportunity.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 05, 2023 09:27 AM (iQE+/)

336 192 If the correct % of people work, Social Security works. Unfortunately it doesn't seem as if people want to work - and if they do, they're miserable.
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Kind of hard to work when Manhattan sent the jobs to China and India.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 05, 2023 08:47 AM (4og8o)
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...... sent the jobs to China and India, and our GDP to Ukraine.

Posted by: Ciampino --- a blue & yellow = green johnson = you need a doctor at April 05, 2023 09:27 AM (qfLjt)

337 Until you understand that elections are rigged, you will never fully grasp why liberals always seem to win tightly contested elections.

It doesn't matter if it's POTUS or dog catcher.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 05, 2023 09:27 AM (JKaF3)

338 Ha. I just heard back from one of my (ahem) Republican Senators on the RESTRICT Act.

Paraphrase:

"China is bad. If it compromises the rights of Americans it will be quickly struck down by the Supreme Court."

Go ahead and accept that the RESTRICT Act is as good as passed, guys.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 05, 2023 09:28 AM (o/smN)

339 Looks like Republicans will now able to a draw a new map in NC

Posted by: Jonah at April 05, 2023 09:28 AM (Cw0fX)

340 Trump has children of whome he is proud. Biden has children he can trap in showers. And Leslie Stahl says she needs examples of why Democrats are pedos.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 05, 2023 09:28 AM (J5gTp)

341 "I have set up a website."

That's the new, up and coming thing, a sure winner.

Posted by: davidt at April 05, 2023 09:28 AM (SYTee)

342 "I still haven't figured out how cities have a 75% illiteracy rate and those same cities have a 70% high school graduation rate. "

That is because you haven't mastered common core math and stuck in the old math of hard rules and memorization.

Posted by: Ripley at April 05, 2023 09:28 AM (cUYo/)

343 Youngkin was our last big win in VA, off year

Posted by: Jonah at April 05, 2023 09:29 AM (Cw0fX)

344 PS the 400k adjudicated ballots were created by force a 19 inch ballot image to print to a 20 inch blank.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 05, 2023 09:29 AM (BRHaw)

345 She got 250k out of 400k ballots that had to be adjudicated. Maricopa is about 51% (R) to 40% (D) registered voters. Just a normal distribution would be something like 220 to 180 or 210 to 190. 250 to 150 is about 120 standard deviations off!

I stopped attempting to apply theoretical statistics to real life - as it applied to industrial measurement and control - as soon as I figured out that nothing outside of a fairly run game of chance happens at random. Nothing does.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 05, 2023 09:29 AM (iQE+/)

346 Chicago Italian beef > Chicago style hot dog > deep dish pizza.

No hate for deep dish pizza, just prefer east coast hand-tossed thinner pizza with the kind of pepperoni that curls up into little buckets of grease.
Posted by: Doof at April 05, 2023 09:17 AM (iY8R7)

I can easily be on this bandwagon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

347 Why the Fuck do the Trump's still own and run properties in blue state shithole's? why help their economies?

Cmon. Give up the profits, move the shit to red states

Posted by: Jonah at April 05, 2023 09:30 AM (Cw0fX)

348 >>When faith in G-d leaves, what replaces it isn’t some abstraction of ‘reason’: it’s superstition

Mutated.

Posted by: ZOD at April 05, 2023 09:30 AM (vpm59)

349 LOL

@TheInsiderPaper · 5h
NEW 🚨 Twitter labels NPR as US state-affiliated media

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 09:30 AM (Vwz3I)

350 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 05, 2023 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

351 Amazing that Ron Johnson won in Wisocnsin last year

Posted by: Jonah at April 05, 2023 09:31 AM (Cw0fX)

352 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2023 09:32 AM (ffbyg)

353 Go ahead and accept that the RESTRICT Act is as good as passed, guys.

Does it increase my power?
Does it protect my position?
Does it have the potential to pay me money?

These are the three questions GOP members consider when deciding whether or not to support a bill.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 05, 2023 09:32 AM (JKaF3)

354
I wonder about Ohio. It produced for Trump in 2016 and even better (iirc) for him in 2020. I wonder what their state GOP is like?

I can offer this story; shortly after my daughter moved into her current neighborhood in OH there was a knock at the door and a local political leader handed her a sample ballot, explained the ballot issues and which ones she should vote for or against. It was a (R) who did this.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 05, 2023 09:32 AM (enJYY)

355 >>No hate for deep dish pizza, just prefer east coast hand-tossed thinner pizza

I've never had deep-dish pizza. I hate deep-dish pizza. Thin crust imperial.

Posted by: ZOD at April 05, 2023 09:32 AM (vpm59)

356 Youngkin was our last big win in VA, off year
Posted by: Jonah at April 05, 2023 09:29 AM (Cw0fX)

And I still believe the Dems threw that one because McAuliffe was just too toxic.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 05, 2023 09:32 AM (AW0uW)

357 @TheInsiderPaper
NEW 🚨 Twitter labels NPR as US state-affiliated media
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 09:30 AM (Vwz3I)
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Well, it *is.* It is US state media. Just like PBS and Voice of America. Unlike the rest of the press - which is entirely state-aligned - it is actually directly state-owned and state-controlled.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 05, 2023 09:33 AM (t0OGg)

358 nood art Kris

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 05, 2023 09:33 AM (Vwz3I)

359 Go ahead and accept that the RESTRICT Act is as good as passed, guys.

Republicans around the country clapped like a group of retarded seals when the Patriot Act was passed. They'll clap equally retarded for this. And in a few years, less than a decade, they'll have the same retarded expressions of surprise and wonder when this act is also aimed at them instead of their assumed target.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 05, 2023 09:34 AM (iQE+/)

360 "China is bad. If it compromises the rights of Americans it will be quickly struck down by the Supreme Court."
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Senator, does the bill compromise the rights of Americans, yes or no? Shouldn't you know before you vote? Or do you think protecting the civil rights of your constituents is in not an essential part of your job? If you don't, resign and help put someone in your job that understands this.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2023 09:35 AM (fs1hN)

361 From this morning's Bible study, Joshua 24:

19 Joshua said to the people, "You are not able to serve the Lord. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins. 20 If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster on you and make an end of you, after he has been good to you."

Sounds familiar, even though we've imitated the Israelites:

21 But the people said to Joshua, "No! We will serve the Lord."

Posted by: pookysgirl has seen this before at April 05, 2023 09:35 AM (dtlDP)

362 317 I hear Cleopatra got her start by working in the flesh pots of Egypt.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 05, 2023 09:20 AM (ffbyg)
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I read that as 'the fish pots of Egypt' and it did make sense.
/LOL

Posted by: Ciampino --- a blue & yellow = green johnson, yoh that's infected at April 05, 2023 09:36 AM (qfLjt)

363
7 Serious News Stories Media Choked Out With Trump Indictment Buzz

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8. "U.S. Announces Another $2.6 Billion in Aid to Ukraine"

So another $0.26 Billion for "The Big Guy."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 05, 2023 09:37 AM (yVPr3)

364 NOOD art

Posted by: Ciampino --- a blue & yellow = green johnson, yoh that's infected at April 05, 2023 09:38 AM (qfLjt)

365 "I still haven't figured out how cities have a 75% illiteracy rate and those same cities have a 70% high school graduation rate. "
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City school systems almost entirely supervised and operated by blacks are racist against black students. Who knew?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 05, 2023 09:38 AM (fs1hN)

366 @242

>>I still haven't figured out how cities have a 75% illiteracy rate and those same cities have a 70% high school graduation rate.

That's because nobody is really voting.

Alvin Bragg won his election by 84 pct, he got a grand total of 212k votes.

Broken down into city blocks, Bragg got the votes of 3 city blocks worth of voters in a city that has nearly 120,000 blocks.

As has been said, our electoral system is, in the main, fraudulent, regardless of the locale or the parties involved, blue sh*tholes, doubly so.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 05, 2023 09:38 AM (XFPre)

367 You do know Hobbs was overseeing her own election right?

Posted by: Gwenn at April 05, 2023 09:52 AM (9Gr7n)

368 “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

Posted by: Hank_Scorpio at April 05, 2023 09:56 AM (42UsG)

369 Good morning, all, thank you, J.J.

(Passover) "It is not merely a memorialization of the past, or the anxieties of the present, but the promise of the future."

Sincere wishes to Tribe for a Happy Passover.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 05, 2023 10:05 AM (GshMh)

370 62 El Salvador had the notorious death squads in early 80's in response to a leftist insurgency and attempt to take over the country and impose Cuban style dictatorship. Very ruthless and bloody, of course demonized in the West by libs but it worked, the left was put in their place, ended their power grab and some semblance of normalcy was restored.
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In a modern surveillance state, and it is supremely important to realize we live in one now, it will be very difficult to pull off an equivalent movement.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 05, 2023 08:17 AM (xFtAU)

Nice electrical substation you have there..be a shame if something happened to it.

Posted by: Esperman at April 05, 2023 10:08 AM (pnZ8M)

371 319 Bad Chicago pizza shouldn't surprise anyone, just look at what they do to a hot dog.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 05, 2023 09:20 AM (hoGSj)

Easy there...

Posted by: Inogame at April 05, 2023 10:09 AM (53oGX)

372 פסח כשר ושמח מירושלים עיה"ק תותבב"א

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 05, 2023 10:12 AM (+EodL)

373 356 McCaulliffe was a bad candidate AND Dobbs was yet to be decided AND Youngkin was able to peel off parents and women especially who said to themselves “this one time” because of the Loudon county debacle and CRT overreach AND child-damaging pandemic excesses.

Youngkin was steady and stable and not too threatening.. He still got voters he may never get again.

It’s not popular here to say so, but Dobbs is huge, bigly. It does matter very much.

Posted by: SarahW at April 05, 2023 10:15 AM (g1vnC)

374 We wouldn't trade Dobbs for any amount of electoral success tho.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 05, 2023 10:21 AM (wscPk)

375 If Dobbs is so huge why haven't polls backed it up as a big deal?
I know that's the excuse... but it smells more like they can inflate the extra votes now that they have a reason.

Posted by: Inogame at April 05, 2023 10:22 AM (53oGX)

376 In these parts, a nonzero number of wealthy white <18 y/o girls have abortions and while their parents might not want to broadcast it, they are subsequently rock-solid pro-abortion votes.

Posted by: Oglebay at April 05, 2023 10:25 AM (wscPk)

377 What is wrong with the people in Wisconsin?
Posted by: Ziba at April 05, 2023 08:30 AM (4h9M3)
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Are they as bad as Kansas?

Posted by: Thomas Frank at April 05, 2023 10:31 AM (krQz2)

378 The Interstate highway system means everyone is within driving distance of the civil war.

Posted by: thesgm at April 05, 2023 10:32 AM (VhDvQ)

379 Trace Gallagher showed the breakdown of the CNN poll last night.

60% *approve* of the Trump prosecution.
But only 37% think Trump did something illegal.

Leaving 23% who think "Who needs a crime? Just throw him in jail".

I've already seen tweets that Bragg should not have allowed Trump bail.

What do you do when you're fascist and don't know it?

Posted by: Axeman at April 05, 2023 10:34 AM (krQz2)

380 @21

>>And yet Trump agreed to an 8 month delay before the next pleading.

It's about the process, Trumps lawyers only received the Indictment at the time of arraignment, they didn't even have enough time to fully digest and understand it.

And motions to dismiss as well as other motions need to be schedulued, you're not going to be doing that on the day you're indicted.

As we are all aware, the process is the punishment and the maniacs that are in control, want to punish Trump and keep on punishing Trump, and by extension, US, till the end of days.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 05, 2023 12:31 PM (XFPre)

381 I don't understand this election. I've lived in WI for the last 9 years. I live in the SE corner. If anything, it feels redder than ever, and then we have elections like this. No wonder people question the results.

Posted by: Katja at April 05, 2023 01:03 PM (CERuk)

382 They already took my career. My adult daughters paid to have their brains washed. I'm already at the point of nothing left to lose, and plenty of pay back to be gained. I'm all-in on the coming civil war.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at April 05, 2023 01:34 PM (IyUvw)

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