The Morning Report — 4/6/23

Good morning, kids. A couple of things on my mind this morning. First, there's no getting around the fact that the turning of the Wisconsin state supreme court into a 4-3 leftist majority is going to have repercussions there (here, in my case) and perhaps nationally. While it is a very safe assumption that some if not quite a bit of election thievery took place, the dismal turnout of conservative/GOP voters is a head-scratcher. To me anyway. This Janet Prostitutkawitch ran solely on the platform of Dan Kelly will keep women barefoot and pregnant even in cases of rape and incest. Kind of funny since this fat bint has a record of letting rapists and other violent thugs off the hook with barely a wrist slap, so I guess it balances out in the grand scheme of things, right ladies of the cheese belt? Sheesh.

Something doesn't add up with me on this score. If America (such as it exists) still is a majority conservative country, or at a minimum center-right if you still use that kind of dodgy paradigm, and if poll after poll over the years shows a clear two-thirds majority of respondents across party/ideological lines wanting at least some restrictions on state-sanctioned infanticide, how is it that that attitude is not reflected at the polls? That is, how does this issue or how it is even propagandized registering with people, especially in light of the fact that so many other issues, especially Democrat-caused crime and economic disaster, are hitting people where they live, literally and figuratively? I don't get it.

What I do get is, after losing 55-45, in a race that could have and should have been if not won, then a razor-thin margin, the fish stinks from the head:

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel described the loss of conservative candidate Daniel Kelly in Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election as “a messaging issue.”

“I will say something else. When you’re losing by 10 points there is a messaging issue. And abortion is still an issue. And we can’t allow the Democrats to define Republicans and put millions of dollars up in lies and have it go unanswered, because the lies become the truth if they go unanswered,” McDaniel said Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s  “America’s Newsroom.”

Janet Protasiewicz defeated Daniel Kelly in Tuesday’s election, securing 55.8% of the vote after liberal groups, philanthropist George Soros and Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois sank millions of dollars into the campaign. Republicans provided far less funding for Kelly, according to campaign finance reports.

“We have to put the Democrats on the defense on this issue, talk about the fact that they support gender selection abortions, and due date abortions,” McDaniel continued. “It was an issue in 2022. The RNC raised the flag. I’m a suburban woman. I know this is an issue. I hear it with my friends with my young daughter.”

No, you're a Romney. And a globalist stooge. But that aside, we knew that this race was happening the moment that IIRC Justice Patience Roggensack's seat was going to be vacant. From that moment, why was every damned resource not mobilized to get out the vote and get out the messaging? Would Harmeet Dhillon have made a difference? We'll never know, now will we? And as far as this suburban mom messaging garbage, basta cosi! I am sick to fucking death of these women bitching and moaning about everything collapsing in on them, while alternately complaining "but Trump said 'pussy'!" and "muh-bortions!"

Make up your fucking hormonal minds about what matters, wake the hell up to recognize that decapitating a human being in the womb is murder, and get over yourselves. As for the GOP, I hope to hell this loss is not a harbinger of shit for 2024 nationally and even for me personally (bad enough I have to live within smelling distance of Madison, Milwaukee and Chicago. But I left New York and don't want to see it follow me). And, the current nightmare notwithstanding, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the salient fact that Donald Trump endorsed Ronna Romney McDaniel.

And that of course leads me into the current issue of the death of the republic. Meh, we're now firmly in the dismemberment phase, but is it me or am I like the only one seeing that? Before delving into part B of my rant for the day, this came over the transom just a short while ago:

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio took the stand and testified in the federal trial of Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, founder of the hip hop band Fugees, and his alleged involvement in a money laundering scheme that included a huge — and illegal — donation to Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.

DiCaprio recalled a conversation with Malaysian financier Jho Low, who mentioned that he was looking to donate millions of dollars to the Obama campaign by giving the money to Michel and having him pass it to Obama’s people. . .
. . . “It was a significant sum, something to the tune of $20-30 million,” DiCaprio testified in court. “I said, ‘Wow that’s a lot of money!’”

Additional witnesses testified that they were wired money from Low and asked to forward it to the Obama campaign.

It should be noted that Low attempted to also bribe the Trump campaign but there is zero evidence that any money wound up there at all. Not that that would make any bit of difference to someone like Alvin Bragg, but I digress. Kind of.

Yeah, $20-$30 million is a lot of money, Leo. But it's peanuts compared to what likely came into the Obama coffers internationally – each single dollar would be a count in a federal case – in the form of massively laundered credit card donations (that we in fact know about) that are easily 10 times that figure, if not more. Funny how Barack Obama is free to travel the world with his bearded Wookie running down America for fun and profit, but mostly profit, on the lecture circuit. And yet sic transit Donald J. Trump.

As you peruse the links, you no doubt will see a bevy of intelligent and thoughtful pundits and commentators remarking that this case has zero merits, and should be thrown out immediately, let alone ever have been brought in the first place. Of course this is true, but it messes the point. It presupposes that there are jurists who will of course subsume their political persuasion/affiliation and elevate their fealty to the rule of law to do so. If that were the case, even a rabid dog like Alvin Bragg never would have entertained the idea of doing what he did. Meh, he never would have risen much above the level of ambulance chaser. And yet, look at the curricula and who is teaching it at our nation's most elite law schools. QED.

Even Alan Dershowitz gets it. Sort of:

Dershowitz went on to suggest that Trump’s case will likely not be dismissed, saying that “I don’t think that if you had the best lawyers in the history of the world, Abraham Lincoln and John Marshall, a New York City judge would dismiss this case because that New York City judge’s life would be over.” 

The lawyer said that the judge would be mocked if he or she were to dismiss Trump. Dershowitz continued by saying that he does think Trump will be convicted by “your jury who voted for Bragg.” However, he added that the case would “be reversed on appeal,” and it “will never be affirmed all the way up to the Supreme Court.”

By the time it gets to SCOTUS or wherever, the damage will have been done. And assuming it would be overturned is also something that I wouldn't necessarily bank on, Mr. Dershowitz.

It’s clear that, for the Trump trial, Merchan’s deep involvement with the Leftist elites is not a bug but a feature. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s case couldn’t possibly be thinner.  As Andy McCarthy, a former assistant U.S. attorney, stated, “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… This is the heart of the case. It’s not a felony unless he was trying to conceal another crime and if you don’t tell them what the crime is, how does that put him on notice and allow him to prepare his defense?”

The perfect judge for such a Kafkaesque case would be one who is so ferociously partisan that the weakness of the case hardly matters, because the outcome has been predetermined.

Is Judge Merchan that judge? He may end up being as impartial as the day is long, but if Bragg and his henchmen wanted to make sure that the judge in this case was as sympathetic to the prosecution as possible, Merchan’s donation history and daughter’s activities certainly made him an appealing candidate for the job. . .

. . . Here yet again, we are in uncharted territory. Many have observed that the indictment and arrest of Trump take us into banana republic territory, and it is precisely for that reason that supporters of Trump, and those who aren’t so fond of Trump but realize how dangerous this whole affair is, should not be so sure that the whole case will eventually founder. Stalin didn’t put his enemies on trial just to see them acquitted. Old Joe Biden’s handlers and their allies aren’t likely to do so, either.

Robert Spencer gets it. There's a terrific essay, yet again, from Victor Davis Hanson where he just lays out exactly what's going on. And then he gets to the last sentence. Four words that, after reading his entire discourse, you just shake your head.

Since 2020 and even before, in things great and small, pundits and others keep saying, "If they are allowed to get away with it, the damage may be irreparable." First, for far too long our leaders and those who have brought us to this point, and by all indications will not stop, have done irreparable damage to our nation and society in things great and small.

Second, and most crucially, the republic is already dead. This notion of damage being irreparable is idiotic. What's happening now is the political equivalent of gang-rape necrophilia on Mrs. Bates.

I wish these people would wake up and smell the covfefe.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "The most significant horrors throughout history followed this exact blueprint. Cultish adherence to the prevailing ideology, which creeps in slowly, almost unnoticed until it takes over, allowed the average citizen to justify atrocities in their own minds, or at least look away to avoid moral discomfort. But it always starts with the elevation of an aggrieved class over increasingly absurd charges of disenfranchisement."
  As the Chicago Mayoral Election Proves, Blue Cities Have Become Modern-day Jonestowns
  
• "As Soros provides the money and organization, an oblivious Biden provides the execution of his nefarious plans."
  America’s Geriatric Megalomaniacs
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: "America now has three potential futures and two are bad." (an outstanding essay and then you get to the very last sentence - jjs)
  Our French Revolution
  
• "Michel allegedly took the mad stacks from Low and used them to lobby Obama’s government on behalf of Low and the Chinese Communist Party."
  Leonardo DiCaprio Testifies Obama Received Billions in Stolen CCP Cash From Fugees Founder 'Pras' Michel

SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
• Miranda Devine: "When asked about Trump running for president again, he said he would make sure he never takes power again. "We just have to demonstrate that he will not take power if he does run, making sure he — under legitimate efforts of our Constitution — does not become the next president again." The next month, one of the top-ranking left-wing ideologues in Biden's Department of Justice, Matthew Colangelo, was sent to Bragg's office to run the Trump case." (hat tip to commenter MTF - jjs)
  Hunter Biden Flashes Cocky Smile as DA Goes After Trump in Legal Double Standard
  
• "Trump’s post came the morning after his address to a crowd at his Mar-a-Lago home following his arraignment, the latter of which occurred earlier in the day."
  Donald Trump Calls on Republicans to Defund the DOJ and FBI
  
• "No, I mean, it was Donald Trump, yesterday, was a very classy individual who — classy in this sense: he was subdued in court in the sense that he didn’t speak in court. He’s not supposed to, other than saying not guilty. He wasn’t that subdued when he said that. I mean, he was stoic. He sat there, he didn’t make any moves, faces, statements. He acted perfectly appropriately."
  Attorney Joe Tacopina: Trump's 'Knees Do Not Buckle'
  
• Robert Spencer: "Stalin didn’t put his enemies on trial just to see them acquitted. Old Joe Biden’s handlers and their allies aren’t likely to do so, either.."
  Conflict of Interest: Trump Judge Is Biden Donor, Daughter Worked on Biden-Harris Campaign
  
• “I don’t think that if you had the best lawyers in the history of the world, Abraham Lincoln and John Marshall, a New York City judge would dismiss this case because that New York City judge’s life would be over.” 
  Alan Dershowitz Tells Charlie Kirk He Believes Trump Will be Convicted — but Verdict Will be Overturned on Appeal
  
• "Alvin Bragg cannot wish away math." (this is woke math, because the judge and jury represent 13 Alvin Braggs - jjs)
  34 x 0 = 0
  
• “There’s a curious omission in the Donald Trump indictment and statement of facts – The specific federal law Trump violated.”
  "Underwhelming": Reactions to Trump’s Arraignment Shows It’s a Nothingburger
  
• If you recall, Isikoff proved his worthiness to the Deep State back in 2016 when he was the first “”” “reporter” ””” to break the news about the existence of the infamous and disgraced hoax known as the Russia Collusion Hoax by breaking the “”” “news” ””” that Trump campaign staffer Carter Page had “opened up private communications with senior Russian officials.” This was a lie. No matter, Isikoff trusted his “”” “sources” ””” enough to write the piece in such an authoritative way that it allowed the Obama administration to obtain the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant needed to spy on the Trump campaign.
  Of Course Bragg’s Office Leaked Trump Indictment to Deep State Stooge Michael Isikoff
  * * * * *

• Margot Cleveland: "So weak are the charges, Bragg may be abandoned by other Democrats as they try to avoid the fallout from the political targeting of Trump."
  Alvin Bragg’s Trump Indictment is Even More Pathetic and Partisan Than We Could Have Imagined
  
• "So if you want to know why Bragg is trying to smear Trump as a tax cheat without actually charging him as a tax cheat, now you know. It’s all smoke and mirrors."
  You Won't Believe the Most Outrageous Claim in the Trump Indictment
  
• William Jacobson on the Tony Katz Show: “It’s a gross manipulation of the Republican primaries…. they are not only going to raise Trump to martyr status so that he gets the Republican nomination, they’re also going dirty him up in the court case so that he can’t get elected president in the general election.”
  Political Prosecution of Trump “Tears at the Fabric of the Country” and is “a Master Manipulation by Democrats”
  
• "Some of Trump’s most outspoken political enemies are casting doubt on Bragg’s attempts to send the former president to jail."
  12 Anti-Trump Pundits And Lawmakers Who Think Bragg’s Case Is Terrible
  
• "Even the leftist stalwarts are backing away from this."
  WaPo Editor: Bragg’s Case Against Trump is ‘Disturbingly Unilluminating’ and ‘Unnervingly Flimsy’
  
• "Apparently there’s a difference between tweeting how bad the president is, and trying to shoehorn a legal fantasy into reality, making a joke out of the whole anti-Trump aesthetic."
  Alvin Bragg Needs a Friend (meh, he needs a polonium-based diet - jjs)
  
• "Can you guess what [Malig-] Nancy Pelosi just said?"
  Are Democrats Really This Dumb Or Just Evil?
  
• "If he is allowed to get away with it, the damage to our country may be irreparable."
  Bragg’s Lawfare Tears Apart a Thousand Years of Anglo-American Jurisprudence

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• “Hacked/stolen/deceptively obtained materials that are strategically leaked into the public sphere are technically malinformation – but unfortunately current public discourse (in part a result of information operations) seems to accept malinformation as ‘speech’ and within democratic norms,” Kate Starbird, University of Washington professor and committee member, wrote in an email.
  DHS ‘Misinformation’ Panel Dismissed Concerns Over Speech Crackdown as ‘Bad Faith’
  
• The fact that it is, and always has been entirely government funded means this is correct on the face of it, regardless of NPR's political leaning.
  NPR Now Labeled 'US State-Affiliated Media' on Twitter
  
• "It has received virtually no coverage in the Mainstream Media (MSM), but the Conservative Baptist Network (CBN) scored a potentially hugely significant victory this week in its efforts to roll back the growing influence of the Left’s woke ideology within the nation’s largest Protestant denomination."
  Conservative Baptist Network Chalks up Instructive Victory Versus LGBQT Woke Forces
  
• Offensive remarks? What’s an “offensive remark?” That’s a rather subjective standard when it comes to criminalizing behavior or speech. And what exactly is Wong-Tam proposing for those who make “offensive remarks” exactly? If you dare to say the wrong thing in this 330-foot safe space surrounding a Drag Queen Story Hour, you will be subject to “a penalty of $25,000 If prosecuted successfully.”
  Canadian Politician Wants to Criminalize 'Offensive Remarks' Near Drag Queen Story Hours
  
• Robert Spencer: "Imagine what America will be like once the Banana Republic has been in power for years."
  Trump Supporter Found Guilty, Faces Ten Years in Prison for 2016 Anti-Hillary Meme

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Soto’s tweet from 2018 resurfaced on the eve of the release of the summer blockbuster he helmed. At the time, Soto wrote, “The only thing I hope Trump has similar to Lincoln’s presidency is the way it ended,” Bounding Into Comics noted. The tweet was discovered by comics commentator Lofti Pixels.
  DC’s Blue Beetle Director Tweets Then Deletes Post Wishing for Donald Trump Assassination
  
• "How long will it remain secret?" (see also: Stephen Paddock, Las Vegas "motive" - jjs)
  Transgender Terrorist Shooter’s Manifesto Still Not Made Public
  
• "The tolerance for political violence from approved minority communities will only fuel more radicalism, and more left-wing extremism."
  Trans-Militants and Their Supporters
  
• "Note that this gigantic Republican majority reflects the wishes of the voters of Tennessee. If that majority fails to expel these three misbehaving Democrats, just because it is intimidated by the loud and almost violent actions of small minority, it will then prove not only how worthless it is, but that the voters themselves might not have the courage to stand up to these leftist thugs. As I say, the elected officials reflect the wishes of the voters. Weakness now in the statehouse will indicate weakness at all levels."
  Pushback: Republicans Move to Expel Democrats Who Gave Aid to Rioters in Tennessee Statehouse

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "Dimon discussed the need to quickly begin investing in solar projects and other green initiatives and suggested that the government should use eminent domain to seize property for those projects."
  JPMorgan CEO Suggests Gov’t Should Seize Private Property For Clean Energy Projects
  
• "What is there to say to that but 'Bravo!' A rare intrusion of sanity in the governance of Europe. England, France, and Ireland, take note."
  Italy: No Crickets, Real Meat per Favore
  
• "While hotheads are screeching about an impending doom, levelheaded observers point to data that clearly show a pause in global warming." (as if it's a problem that we can control or a problem at all - jjs)
  The Climate Madness of 2023

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "Under Joe, the rate of inflation has averaged 6.2 percent for the last two years."
  Inflation Your … Flation
  
• "A not terribly modest proposal for rebuilding the American future."
  Industrial Personnel Policy
  
• “The current system can easily be replaced by something less orderly and more chaotic.”
  The Dollar’s Decline—and America’s
  
• Margot Cleveland: "While the court likely won’t freeze the entire $1.7 trillion appropriation, the Texas AG presents a strong case for halting two aspects of it."
  Texas AG Just Threw A Glorious Legal Wrench In Biden’s Unconstitutional $1.7 Trillion Spending Spree
  
• "The more 'systemically risky' a bank is, the easier it becomes to bail it out."
  The Loophole That Sank Dodd–Frank

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "The Biden [junta] is using the considerable resources of the federal government to worsen the border crisis and, often, to reward its radical water carriers at the scene in the process."
  The Border Isn’t Just a Crisis, It’s Also a Grift
  
• How about a bill that deports any illegal alien, period?!
  GOP Bill Would Deport Any Illegal Immigrant Who Assaults a Cop

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "Officers arrived on the scene and discovered Lee suffering from numerous stab wounds. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he eventually passed away from his injuries. San Francisco police have not yet disclosed any suspect information or made any arrests."
  Cash App Creator and Tech Executive Bob Lee Fatally Stabbed in San Francisco
  
• "Chicagoans voted out Mayor Lori Lightfoot over surging crime. They replaced her with someone who called 'defund the police' a 'real political goal.'"
  Meet the 'Defund the Police' Advocate Chicago Just Elected To Deal With Its Crime Spike

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• Considering the death toll unleashed on Italy, a nation with one of the largest geriatric populations in the world, if I were Georgia Meloni I'd arrest this rat bastard fiend and string him up.
  Anthony Fauci Quietly Takes New Job as 'Strategic Adviser' at Italian Bio Lab

  LOCKDOWN 2: MONKEY POX MONKEY BUSINESS BOOGALOO???

• "How profoundly ironic is it that the Public Health™ authorities may ultimately sicken the entire planet and even potentially exterminate the human race? That the NIH is even in a position to possibly conduct existentially threatening gain-of-function research — with taxpayer money, no less — in complete secrecy is a testament to how far we have fallen into techno-tyranny."
  'Supercharged Monkeypox': House Republicans Charge NIH With Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "To make matters worse, the social worker told Lavigne’s daughter the school would not inform her parents about her transition and she would not need to tell them about it, either."
  Maine Mom Sues School Board For Hiding Her Child’s “Gender Transition”
  
• “At least nine progressive student groups condemned the event and called on other students to protest.”
  Columbia Law Students Throw a Fit After Members of Federalist Society Meet With Justice Kavanaugh
  
• J. Christian Adams: ". . . Chicago is another top-ten law school where students saturated in ideology are graduating ill-prepared to appear in court and represent paying clients. It is part of the extremist drift of our nation’s elite law schools, and is an important part of the story of how America has crept toward bigger government, diminished liberty, growing authoritarianism, and hostility toward American values that built civilization and rescued the world from dictatorship on at least one occasion."
  Chicago School of Law: EXPOSED
  
• The previous version of the style guide also cautioned communications staff against using the word “America” when referring to the United States. That warning has been removed in the most recent update.
  MSU Warns Against Using Terms ‘Female,’ ‘America,’ ‘Christmas Trees’ In New ‘Inclusive’ Style Guide

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Robert Spencer: "The party of self-righteousness is also the party of corruption."
  OMAR Act Would Stop Ilhan the Bro-Fo From Paying Campaign Cash to Her Hubby

  POLITICS

• "The change gives the Republicans a vet[o]-proof majority."
  North Carolina State House Rep. Tricia Cotham Switches to Republican Party, Gives Them Super Majority
  
• "A positive point of the night."
  Grassroots Education Orgs Pick Up Key School Board Wins In Battleground States
  
• Would it have made a difference if Harmeet Dhillon were chair? We'll never know.
  "A Messaging Issue": RNC Chair Reacts To Daniel Kelly’s Loss In Wisconsin
  
• "Most of the media fixated on his legal woes, but Trump had another message, and people had better listen up."
  Trump’s Massive Mar-a-Lago Speech Prophesied Dollar Decline, and Worse Times for America Under Biden
  
• "‘Arrest’ farce is galvanizing Trump’s support." (he will be imprisoned, regardless of the non-merits of the non-case - jjs)
  New Poll: Trump Surges Ahead of Biden Despite Indictment
  
• Robert Spencer: "That’s testimony to the power of propaganda: every day the establishment media behaves as if Biden were a reasonable president doing a reasonable job, and it doesn’t inform the American people about the threats to the First Amendment, or the Second, or to our freedoms in general. It’s only due to the nagging intrusion of ever-rising gas and food prices and all the other daily troubles that Americans must endure that Biden has scored so low in this poll: despite all the media propaganda, reality keeps breaking through."
  Oh, By the Way, Nobody Likes Joe: New Poll Shows Biden Near Record Low Approval
  
• "Joe Biden has been doing a lot of gleeful giggling about serious circumstances."
  Joe Biden is Now Creepily Laughing at Inappropriate Times, Just Like Kamala
  * * * * *

• "You're a sad old drunk!"
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi Heckled At Event With Paul Krugman
  
• "Should Kennedy make a formal announcement, a fair amount of his platforms will likely mirror that of Marianne Williamson, who also criticized pharmaceutical companies, as well as the Biden [junta's] relationship with big business." (He's been a champ on the Chinese COVID garbage, but beyond that - and it is crucial - forget it. That said, he strikes me as someone you can at least reason with - jjs)
  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Challenge Joe Biden in 2024
  
• "This is realignment with a vengeance. The GOP is going to have to find a lot of votes very quickly to forestall a Democrat party victory in 2024."
  Liberals Will Control the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the First Time in 15 Years
  
• "Brandon Johnson’s mayoral victory contains dire warnings for the city—and for both political parties nationally."
  Chicago’s Hard-Left Choice
  
• "Republican politicians should embrace, and learn to profit from, the inevitable future."
  Please, Let the Blue Cities and States Die
  
• "Ron DeSantis clearly knows where the real threat is coming from."
  DeSantis Unleashes the Truth About the Left in Pennsylvania Speech
  
• "Things may look bad, but take heart. There is room for optimism."
  America's Glass Is Half Full

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• "Michael Walsh: "This is how world wars start, with a series of minor blunders that eventually snowball into catastrophe. Putin insists that the U.S. promised not to push the limits of NATO (whose sell-by date occurred the day the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991) right up to post-Soviet Russia's boundaries. NATO denies it. Now it's there. Somebody, maybe all of us, will pay the price."
  How Long Must This Go On?
  
• The world might end before Trump even goes to trial, so there's that . . .
  ‘A Reaction Will Follow,’ Moscow Warns, After Finland Joins NATO

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Summit comes as the Biden [junta] seeks to defuse diplomatic tensions with Beijing over Taiwan’s status."
  As Tensions Rise With China, McCarthy Huddles With Taiwanese President in Show of Democratic Solidarity
  
• Had this been at any other time, I'd have serious doubts, just like the promises of Obamacare repeal pre-2017. But given McCarthy's actions in releasing the J6 footage and other things, maybe he means it. Too bad we don't control the government like we did between 2017 and 2019.
  McCarthy: China Should Lose Most-Favored Trade Status and We’ll Move to Revoke It
  
• "This is what happens when you make a deal with the devil."
  China Installs New Bishop in Defiance of Pact With Vatican
  
• "Mexico, China, and Fentanyl: Perfect Together."
  Lopez-Obrador Talking to China?
  
• "We are still in the embryonic phase of a new swing of the pendulum in Western history."
  A New Wave of Nationalism Is Coming to Europe
  
• "Finland, now a NATO member, could be in for a rude awakening."
  It is Finn-ished
  
• "Meanwhile the enemies who have sworn to wipe Israel off the map are courted and indulged."
  No Worse Friend: The West’s Treatment of Israel
  
• "Once a society begins to disintegrate, its enemies' ambitions are empowered."
  Insanity of Self Destruction: Reflections on the Impact of Judiciary Reforms
  
• "Officials in Brazil have announced that four children were killed and four injured following an axe attack at a day care in the Santa Catarina town of Blumenau."
  Axe Attack a Daycare Leaves 4 Children Dead, 4 Injured

  BIDEN BEIJING BALLOON-ACY

• CNN was one of a number of outlets to report earlier this week that despite the Biden administration’s claims to the contrary, the balloon was able to collect data and “was able to transmit information back to Beijing in real time.”
  ‘That’s Not True’: Doocy Corners Jean-Pierre Over Biden’s Spy-Balloon Claims, She Refuses To Answer

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• " Bureaucratic incompetence and arrogance is on display in a case where the errors of the administrative state are beyond question, even by a Democratic member of Congress."
  Navy Secretary Violates Due Process in Valor Award for Deserving Vietnam Hero 

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces heard appeal from Nidal Hasan, who murdered 13, including a pregnant soldier, and injured 32, at Fort Hood in 2009."
  Fort Hood Mass Murderer Appeals His Death Sentence

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "It retains the qualities that once made California the envy of the world."
  Golden San Diego

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Let’s hope that the “experts” manage to get this outbreak under control before the June 2023 Gay Pride Month starts.
  CDC Sending Team to Africa in Wake of Marburg Virus Outbreak

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "Scientists, using the data and rock samples gathered by the Japanese probe Hayabusa-2, have attempted to predict what what would happen if the rubble-pile asteroid Ryugu hit the Earth."
  Scientists to Model What Would Happen if Ryugu Hit Earth
  
• "Using a suite of telescopes on the ground and in orbit, astronomers have found the first galaxy made up of two quasars, supermassive black holes that are very active in eating material from around them."
  First Binary Quasar Found

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• "Transgender Rep. Brianna Titone claims 'nobody would want' to be transgender voluntarily."
  Colorado Poised to Become Haven for Youth Gender Reassignment Surgeries
  
• Meloni has pushed back against criticisms, suggesting that the “first victims of gender ideology” are women, who are often perceived as birthing pods. Minister for Equal Opportunities and the Family Eugenia Roccella supported Meloni’s sentiment, suggesting that surrogacy is a breeding ground for a “child market.”
  Italy Moves to Prevent Citizens From Using Foreign Surrogates
  
• "The insanity and consequence of creating one’s own 'truth' and reality."
  Changing Your Birth Sex: The Emperor’s New Clothes
  
• "Project includes definitions for terms such as 'anal fisting' and 'jizz."' (so, in Castilian Spanish, "jizz" is pronounced "heeth?" - jjs)
  Hola, Homosaurus: Biden Junta Shells Out Six Figures To Translate Gay Dictionary Into Spanish

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 07:50 AM (BRHaw)

2 Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 06, 2023 07:50 AM (1n+EO)

3 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 06, 2023 07:52 AM (z99Zw)

4 Carlson is joined by Luke Gromen who accurately notes the dollar as a global trade currency may continue, but foreign nations holding U.S. treasury bonds as an asset will likely start contracting. The result of U.S. treasury bonds returning after maturity with no repurchase, would be an inability of the U.S. to borrow against their sale. This could, perhaps likely will, severely diminish the amount of money the U.S. congress can spend.

Posted by: SMOD at April 06, 2023 07:53 AM (7g/Pa)

5 Biden ordered the balloon shot down only after it had passed completely over the US, made countless excuses to avoid angering Beijing, and now still can’t get Xi to return his calls.

Posted by: SMOD at April 06, 2023 07:54 AM (7g/Pa)

6 Hiya

Posted by: JT at April 06, 2023 07:54 AM (T4tVD)

7 The election in WI is a harbinger of what 2024 is going to be if the GOP doesn't get its act together and get behind Trump (or maybe DeSantis.)

Putting someone like Pence on the ticket dooms Republicans.

But, as we've noted before, that seems to be the plan.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 06, 2023 07:55 AM (Q4IgG)

8 Happy Birthday Cheesehead

Posted by: kactus at April 06, 2023 07:55 AM (Xt5oX)

9 Mornin, Horde! HB:JJ

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 06, 2023 07:56 AM (kkUAU)

10 "I’m a suburban woman. "

Oh, so now she's a biologist too. Well listen sweetheart, "suburban woman" ain't a positive type of description around here.

Posted by: fd at April 06, 2023 07:56 AM (iayUP)

11 Actor Leonardo DiCaprio took the stand and testified in the federal trial of Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, founder of the hip hop band Fugees, and his alleged involvement in a money laundering scheme that included a huge — and illegal — donation to Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.

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Don't worry, it didn't influence any elections.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 07:58 AM (c8IdU)

12 Developments with the dollar will likely reduce demand which will put upward pressure on interest rates. How much? Who knows, bu tit's another thing we don't need.

We're walking across a frozen lake and the ice is making strange noises.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 06, 2023 07:58 AM (RqMSv)

13 Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel described the loss of conservative candidate Daniel Kelly in Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election as “a messaging issue.”

Ronna has no fucking clue!
1. Oil baby
2. Close border
3. Deport illegal criminals
4. Do the crime do the time
5. Dereg anything and everytang

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 07:58 AM (BRHaw)

14 “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you."

John 13:13-15

Posted by: Marcus T at April 06, 2023 07:59 AM (IpdaE)

15 Obama easily got 100 to 200 million on his relection from foreigners.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 07:59 AM (BRHaw)

16 Thanks JJ !

Posted by: JT at April 06, 2023 08:00 AM (T4tVD)

17 CNN was one of a number of outlets to report earlier this week that despite the Biden administration’s claims to the contrary, the balloon was able to collect data and “was able to transmit information back to Beijing in real time.”

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I knew Biden was in on it. The part that was more disconcerting to me was realizing fully that the Pentagon was, too.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 08:00 AM (c8IdU)

18 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

The death and resurrection of Jesus is the turning point of history. During the three days of the Sacred Triduum (which begins this evening), Christians enter into the dying and rising of Jesus. Let this be our prayer:

O God, as Jesus did in his dying, I place myself entirely into your hands, to live as you would have me live, to do what you would have me do. I trust, as did your Son on the cross, that this is the path to life.
Amen.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 06, 2023 08:00 AM (qoGsy)

19 So Biden Junta is running the Trump case from the foul DOJ. What a shocker.

This is the sort of story the great Rush Limbaugh would read to his audience, complete with some audible newspapar shakes for emphasis.

Thank heavens, by the way, for Miranda Devine. Along with Julie Kelly, she gives hope for true journalism to somehow make a comback.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 06, 2023 08:00 AM (s9+KW)

20 "Obama easily got 100 to 200 million on his relection from foreigners."

In a nation without borders, are there really any foreigners?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 06, 2023 08:01 AM (1n+EO)

21
That is, how does this issue or how it is even propagandized registering with people, especially in light of the fact that so many other issues, especially Democrat-caused crime and economic disaster, are hitting people where they live, literally and figuratively? I don't get it.

Polls may show that people want restrictions on abortions, but that is self report (notorious for inaccuracy as my Psych prof said) - perhaps to appear as a more honorable and moral person to the person asking the question. But when they get in the privacy of a voting booth they tell the truth.

Abortion has become another third rail for Republicans. I saw it in PA in November and now in WI. The only way to keep from getting electrocuted by the third rail is to not touch it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 08:02 AM (enJYY)

22 G'morning

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:02 AM (t0OGg)

23
I knew Biden was in on it. The part that was more disconcerting to me was realizing fully that the Pentagon was, too.

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Addendum: Think about the level of lies. It wasn't a spy balloon. Then it was a spy balloon and they couldn't shoot it down because it was over rural Wyoming or something, but it's okay because it's not collecting any data. Then it WAS collecting data, but they were jamming it.

Everything was a lie.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 08:03 AM (c8IdU)

24 Well, looking at the numbers in Wisconsin, over 50pct of registered voters voted, so if elections are legit in Wisconsin, apparently Wisconsonites are gaga over abortion and aren't at all bothered by the Donks unholy agenda.

As the honorable Mayor Edward I Koch often opined, the people have spoken, now they must suffer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 08:03 AM (up/3i)

25 Soto’s tweet from 2018 resurfaced on the eve of the release of the summer blockbuster he helmed. At the time, Soto wrote, “The only thing I hope Trump has similar to Lincoln’s presidency is the way it ended,”

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Not by way of tweet, but I recall Johnny Dope Depp saying nearly the exact same thing, right down to the Lincoln assassination reference.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 06, 2023 08:03 AM (sVtYq)

26 "Posted by: Tonypete at April 06, 2023 08:00 AM (qoGsy)"

Amen.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 06, 2023 08:03 AM (IpdaE)

27 It presupposes that there are jurists who will of course subsume their political persuasion/affiliation and elevate their fealty to the rule of law to do so.

Considering that none of them were even willing to permit evidence of the steal to be aired...

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 06, 2023 08:04 AM (z99Zw)

28 Well, looking at the numbers in Wisconsin, over 50pct of registered voters voted


The number I saw was 36 percent, a record high over the previous high of 34 percent. Pitiful.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 06, 2023 08:04 AM (45fpk)

29 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at April 06, 2023 08:05 AM (T4tVD)

30 >>Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel described the loss of conservative candidate Daniel Kelly in Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election as “a messaging issue.”

Messaging issue??

I mean... It just... I can't even. I CAN'T EVEN!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 08:05 AM (up/3i)

31 Dershowitz continued by saying that he does think Trump will be convicted by “your jury who voted for Bragg.”

Convicted of what?
You have to state a law on the books.
175.10 Falsifying business records in the first degree.
A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second degree, and when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.
Falsifying business records in the first degree is a class E felony.

They have zero records, receipts, or emails including PDT. I guess they can get the person that wrote the check to say PDT made him do it.
But that would then be self incrimination.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:05 AM (BRHaw)

32 Good morning JJ. There is an assumption that is often made, here and generally, that America is predominantly conservative, and not socialist. I think that is only the case in certain areas of the country. Overall, I would say the country is indifferent and only interested in materialism and consumerism, the prevalent “ isms” of our time.

Posted by: tubal at April 06, 2023 08:05 AM (PCK5/)

33 Chief Justice Roberts of the SCROTUMS says, "You won't believe it, but justices are not political in the least. Now you won't believe it, but there are no republican or democrat justices." Why does the Head Scrotum keep saying I won't believe it? I believe it! I believe it.

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Abolish The SCROTUMS!

Free President Trump And Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 06, 2023 08:06 AM (KaRdo)

34 GOP Bill Would Deport Any Illegal Immigrant Who Assaults a Cop

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What a laugh. First off, any bill denying anything to any illegal alien will never get passed. Secondly, is this the best they could do? Of the 6 million alone that have poured across our borders since Biden stole the presidency, they want to kick out any illegal that assaults a cop. Mmm-kay. Great job, R's.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 06, 2023 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

35 We are not powerless. I'm repeating my call for 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.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 06, 2023 08:06 AM (RqMSv)

36 24 Well, looking at the numbers in Wisconsin, over 50pct of registered voters voted, so if elections are legit in Wisconsin, apparently Wisconsonites are gaga over abortion and aren't at all bothered by the Donks unholy agenda.

As the honorable Mayor Edward I Koch often opined, the people have spoken, now they must suffer.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 08:03 AM (up/3i)


Democrat and liberal though he was, Koch was no Marxist. The Reagan revolution helped NYC begin its rebirth and Koch did not, to my recollection, interfere. By the time Rudy took over in '93 and ramped up the renaissance, it was an amazing place to live and work.

Sigh. How I miss that New York so.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 08:06 AM (x0n13)

37 That is, how does this issue or how it is even propagandized registering with people, especially in light of the fact that so many other issues, especially Democrat-caused crime and economic disaster, are hitting people where they live, literally and figuratively? I don't get it.
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Two possibilities, JJ.

1. They are literally throwing away our votes at the same time they are manufacturing their own

2. Their psy ops have literally billions of dollars of research and endless manpower and media megaphone behind them, which makes them so "good" at emotional manipulation and propaganda that the Nazis themselves would blush.

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 08:06 AM (nH2om)

38 Today is Holy Thursday which commemorates the Last Supper of Christ..

Posted by: redridinghood at April 06, 2023 08:06 AM (NpAcC)

39 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at April 06, 2023 08:07 AM (xYJ/j)

40 "Joe Biden has been doing a lot of gleeful giggling about serious circumstances."
Joe Biden is Now Creepily Laughing at Inappropriate Times, Just Like Kamala
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So Kamala's neurological condition that causes her to behave that way is contagious?

Well, I think the only answer is to put both FJB and Harris in quarantine for the next 2 years, just to be safe.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 06, 2023 08:07 AM (YIVH2)

41 Oh, and one more because I clearly remember a poster chiding people who were saying it was developed with maneuverability because there were reports that it was lingering over certain military installations, and the "you say you're a smart military blog, so start acting like it. Balloons can't maneuver, they're at the mercy of the wind" or similar post.

"China was able to control the balloon so it could make multiple passes over some of the sites (at times flying figure-eight formations) and transmit the information it collected back to Beijing in real time, the three officials said."

https://tinyurl.com/2hnxufdx

conspiracy theorists are up what, 74 - 0 now?

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 08:08 AM (c8IdU)

42 ... how is it that that attitude is not reflected at the polls? That is, how does this issue or how it is even propagandized registering with people, especially in light of the fact that so many other issues, especially Democrat-caused crime and economic disaster, are hitting people where they live, literally and figuratively? I don't get it.
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Bored contempt is probably a big part of it. What do the Republicans sell? What do the conservatives sell? When those identifying themselves as one of those two, what happens when they get into office?

The brand is dog shit. They've spent a few consecutive decades lying about who and what they are, and every time they get into office they do nothing. The left has run wild and unhinged, doing whatever it wants while a bunch of limp-dicked "opposition" members participate the con.

Shocking that they can't can't people motivated to vote for them.

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

43 @28

>>The number I saw was 36 percent, a record high over the previous high of 34 percent. Pitiful.

I don't know, total registered voters in Wisconsin is 3.5m, together the two candidates got over 1.8m votes, so, again, who knows what the real deal is.

All I know is the Donks are on the march and seem to be winning where they need to.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 08:08 AM (up/3i)

44 Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel described the loss of conservative candidate Daniel Kelly in Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election as “a messaging issue.”

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She's such a useless POS. Can we not have one, not one, good RNC chairperson?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 06, 2023 08:08 AM (sVtYq)

45 What has happened to the " the indictment will only guarantee Tumps election" ?
Posted by: Paul

Tumps ?

is that a lumpy Tums ?

Posted by: JT at April 06, 2023 08:09 AM (T4tVD)

46 Posted by: Lady in Black at April 06, 2023 08:06 AM (sVtYq)

Sometimes they like to really show how fervently they play for the other team. At this point, who with a brain even wants to be the Party of Cops? The GOP does and it's not because they care about cops.

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 08:09 AM (nH2om)

47 21
Abortion has become another third rail for Republicans. I saw it in PA in November and now in WI. The only way to keep from getting electrocuted by the third rail is to not touch it.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 08:02 AM (enJYY)


So, for the sake of political expediency, we (as in our candidates) must accept infanticide if not promote it as a precondition to being elected? As if Democrat voters would even vote R if he/she supported it.

Feh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 08:09 AM (x0n13)

48 What has happened to the " the indictment will only guarantee Tumps election" ?
Posted by: Paul

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He's up 5 points over Biden since the indictment IIRC.

Up 98% with black males.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 08:10 AM (c8IdU)

49 While hotheads are screeching about an impending doom, levelheaded observers point to data that clearly show a pause in global warming



As a reference point, average US temperatures are lower now than in 1880, per official measurements.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 06, 2023 08:10 AM (lTGtQ)

50 The coming conviction of Trump, which is pretty much assured based on location, includes sentencing possibilities of prison time, correct? Overturned on appeal or no, they are going to throw him behind bars. Why would they not??

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 06, 2023 08:10 AM (sVtYq)

51 They have zero records, receipts, or emails including PDT. I guess they can get the person that wrote the check to say PDT made him do it.
But that would then be self incrimination.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:05 AM (BRHaw)
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Exactly this, I believe, since they are hinting Trump Organization's 72 year old former chief accounting officer will flip and testify, in return for a lighter sentence in a case where the D.A. accused him of misclassifying some of his own personal expenses as Trump business expenses, and thereby escaped paying state tax on the implied income. Or something.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 06, 2023 08:11 AM (c6bao)

52 I seem to remember a small number of times that the Chinese eye in the sky was referred to as an 'Air Ship'.

Distinctly different than a balloon, and designed to do strange things such as fly in figure-8 flight paths.

But then those references in reporting disappeared.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 06, 2023 08:11 AM (1n+EO)

53 @36

>>Sigh. How I miss that New York so.

Fun Fact:

My brother worked on Koch's first campaign, I attended a dinner with Koch and his parents with my brother.

Koch is also one of the only two Democrats I ever voted for.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 08:11 AM (up/3i)

54 “I will say something else. When you’re losing by 10 points there is a messaging issue. And abortion is still an issue. And we can’t allow the Democrats to define Republicans and put millions of dollars up in lies and have it go unanswered, because the lies become the truth if they go unanswered,” McDaniel said Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom.”
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No. It isn't a "messaging" issue. It's a competence issue. *Your* level of competence, Ronna. You and you ilk in the mainline establishment GOP. You're incompetent. You're unaligned with the base. You machinate and play political games, even going so far as to work against your own candidates. Your priorities are crap. You suck and you're surrounded by people who suck. Your entire establishment is an unserious, childish, petulant mess.

Look in the mirror, toots. And look through your offices. Look through your Rolodex. Look through your social calendar for the past twenty years. You'll find a lot of information about what the problems are that way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

55 But then those references in reporting disappeared.

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SHUT UP AND ACT LIKE A SMART MILITARY BLOG

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 08:11 AM (c8IdU)

56 Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 08:05 AM (up/3i)

You know who else thought everything was a messaging issue?

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 08:12 AM (nH2om)

57 Two possibilities, JJ.

1. They are literally throwing away our votes at the same time they are manufacturing their own

2. Their psy ops have literally billions of dollars of research and endless manpower and media megaphone behind them, which makes them so "good" at emotional manipulation and propaganda that the Nazis themselves would blush.

Posted by: ...



It is 1.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 06, 2023 08:12 AM (lTGtQ)

58 As a reference point, average US temperatures are lower now than in 1880, per official measurements.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Clearly, this is due to the fact that the NWS misstated the data from 1880. Standby for a 'modification' to be applied to the dataset.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 06, 2023 08:12 AM (qoGsy)

59 Funny how Barack Obama is free to travel the world with his bearded Wookie running down America for fun and profit, but mostly profit, on the lecture circuit. And yet sic transit Donald J. Trump.
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Well to quote the man himself, he won.

He actually did. He and his people. That "fundamental transformation" he promised? They implemented it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:13 AM (t0OGg)

60 She's such a useless POS. Can we not have one, not one, good RNC chairperson?
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 06, 2023 08:08 AM (sVtYq)

***

Hello...
*waves*

Posted by: Rinse Prewash at April 06, 2023 08:13 AM (flINI)

61 54 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:11 AM (t0OGg)


Bingo. From the nanosecond they knew the seat wold be vacant they should've jumped into overdrive to protect it at any cost.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 08:13 AM (x0n13)

62 If America (such as it exists) still is a majority conservative country, or at a minimum center-right if you still use that kind of dodgy paradigm. . .

With respect, JJ, I say it isn't and hasn't been for at least the last decade or more. Or if it is, then the majority is simply too lazy, beaten down or demoralized to correct course.

I always use Chik-Fil-A as an example: after Dan Cathy's loathsome vomitus that whites need to shine blacks' shoes, that company's stock should have cratered and every franchise abandoned. Pro sports has been spitting in conservatives' faces for years, and yet they still plop down in front of the teevee to cheer on MUH TEAM!

And I don't buy the, "well, these businesses have seen a drop in revenue" argument. A drop means nothing. Only complete and total bankruptcy gets attention. But, as I said before, the right does not have the will to boycott these places out of existence.

We are not the majority and never will be. Hear me now and believe me later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 06, 2023 08:14 AM (AW0uW)

63 @44

>>She's such a useless POS. Can we not have one, not one, good RNC chairperson?

Most reputed GOP are merely COSPlayers, and Ronna should lay of the plastic surgery, she's going to end up looking like Jocelyn Wildenstein at this pace.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 08:14 AM (up/3i)

64 Ronna has all the passion of Droopy Dog.

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 08:14 AM (nH2om)

65 59 Well to quote the man himself, he won.

He actually did. He and his people. That "fundamental transformation" he promised? They implemented it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:13 AM (t0OGg)


Given 2020, I would say I have my doubts. Then again, we had McStain and Defecto as candidates.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 08:14 AM (x0n13)

66 Carlson is joined by Luke Gromen who accurately notes the dollar as a global trade currency may continue, but foreign nations holding U.S. treasury bonds as an asset will likely start contracting. The result of U.S. treasury bonds returning after maturity with no repurchase, would be an inability of the U.S. to borrow against their sale. This could, perhaps likely will, severely diminish the amount of money the U.S. congress can spend.


End times for the Regime, that. For those looking for a silver lining.

Posted by: Ex-GOP at April 06, 2023 08:15 AM (2f9II)

67 Apparently, the Crazies want a damaged Trump to get the GOP nomination over Desantis because they think they will beat him. I guess we'll see.

Posted by: leber at April 06, 2023 08:15 AM (E7KPo)

68 62 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 06, 2023 08:14 AM (AW0uW)

Hence my beginning of the sentence with "if."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 08:16 AM (x0n13)

69 Given 2020, I would say I have my doubts. Then again, we had McStain and Defecto as candidates.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 08:14 AM (x0n13)
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2020 is prime evidence of his "fundamental transformation." As was the action of the executive during Trump's entire term.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:16 AM (t0OGg)

70 The coming conviction of Trump, which is pretty much assured based on location, includes sentencing possibilities of prison time, correct? Overturned on appeal or no, they are going to throw him behind bars. Why would they not??
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 06, 2023 08:10 AM (sVtYq)

To be honest I doubt the Secret Service would allow that. In the worst case, I expect "House Arrest".

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 06, 2023 08:17 AM (VnwPh)

71 Then again, we had McStain and Defecto as candidates.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

It will be to my everlasting embarrassment that I voted for that POS turncoat.

I guess some good came out of it - I will never trust the eGOP ever again.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 06, 2023 08:17 AM (qoGsy)

72 4
Timothy Nerozzi
Wed, April 5, 2023 at 7:17 AM CDT·1 min read
In this article:

Janet Protasiewicz
The Wisconsin Supreme Court election held Tuesday broke the record for voter turnout during a spring election not coinciding with a presidential race.

Over 36% of eligible Wisconsin voters participated in the highly-anticipated election, surpassing the previous high of 34% set in the 2011 state Supreme Court race.


1,021,370 Protasiewicz

818,286 Kelly

She won madison and Mil by 50 points.
The Red counties never showed up.

PS Kelly rejected PDT 3 or 4 times.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:17 AM (BRHaw)

73 @54

>>No. It isn't a "messaging" issue. It's a competence issue.

Yeah, it's not messaging issue at all, in fact message largely no longer matters.

The game is ballots, and Ronna and the RNC left ballots on the field of battle.

This is real and existential issue now, the Donks have infrastructure and manpower in place to harvest and collect millions of ballots and the GOP is stuck on candidate quality and messaging.

This is not going end well.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 08:18 AM (up/3i)

74 68 62 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 06, 2023 08:14 AM (AW0uW)

Hence my beginning of the sentence with "if."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 08:16 AM (x0n1

His point of the idea of America being a majority conservative country being incorrect is pretty spot on though.

Posted by: tubal at April 06, 2023 08:18 AM (PCK5/)

75 Haven't read the list of links, but I did see a story that the GOP has a supermajority in the WI Senate, and they almost have one in their House. So...couldn't they impeach the new justice and kick her out of office before she even takes it?

Of course, you cheeseheads would have to tell me as I don't live near there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 06, 2023 08:18 AM (Angsy)

76 This could, perhaps likely will, severely diminish the amount of money the U.S. congress can spend.


End times for the Regime, that. For those looking for a silver lining.
Posted by: Ex-GOP at April 06, 2023 08:15 AM (2f9II)

There is about 4.9 T coming in.
2019 we spent 4.4 T

There is plenty of money.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:19 AM (BRHaw)

77 How much did the RNC invest in that Court Election?

Inquiring minds want to know

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 06, 2023 08:19 AM (VnwPh)

78 The coming conviction of Trump, which is pretty much assured based on location, includes sentencing possibilities of prison time, correct? Overturned on appeal or no, they are going to throw him behind bars. Why would they not??
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 06, 2023 08:10 AM (sVtYq)
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Just to add insult to injury, they'll probably put him in the segregated population with the ped0s.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 06, 2023 08:20 AM (YIVH2)

79 How much did the RNC invest in that Court Election?

Inquiring minds want to know

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 06, 2023 08:19 AM (VnwPh)


I don't know, but I'm willing to bet that big fat Pritzker surpassed it.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 06, 2023 08:21 AM (45fpk)

80 @77

>>Inquiring minds want to know

Consultants and media, probably about 90pct.

Actual ground game and ballot harvesting, 10pct at most.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 08:21 AM (up/3i)

81 75 Haven't read the list of links, but I did see a story that the GOP has a supermajority in the WI Senate, and they almost have one in their House. So...couldn't they impeach the new justice and kick her out of office before she even takes it?

Of course, you cheeseheads would have to tell me as I don't live near there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 06, 2023 08:18 AM (Angsy)


I'd say on what grounds, but then again, Alvin Bragg. And Shampeachments.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 08:21 AM (x0n13)

82 ". . . Chicago is another top-ten law school where students saturated in ideology are graduating ill-prepared to appear in court and represent paying clients. It is part of the extremist drift of our nation’s elite law schools, and is an important part of the story of how America has crept toward bigger government, diminished liberty, growing authoritarianism, and hostility toward American values that built civilization and rescued the world from dictatorship on at least one occasion."
++++
They are going to perfectly prepared to represent paying clients in court, because the courts are going to work exactly like their classrooms. Ironically, this will make the issue of lawyer selection more or less irrelevant. As the rot continues to grow from the hard core of hopelessly corrupt judges and prosecutors and gradually becomes the norm, choice of counsel won't matter anymore. All cases will be decided according to "social justice" rather than evidence. With a predetermined outcome, whether your lawyer is competent or functionally retarded doesn't really matter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:22 AM (t0OGg)

83 I saw one Kelly yard sign.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 06, 2023 08:22 AM (45fpk)

84 Ronna cares more about her plastic surgery appearance on the big stage than she does about winning elections.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 06, 2023 08:22 AM (sVtYq)

85
So, for the sake of political expediency, we (as in our candidates) must accept infanticide if not promote it as a precondition to being elected? As if Democrat voters would even vote R if he/she supported it.

Feh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 08:09 AM

I think the only strategy is to stay away from the third rail until elected - then the gloves come off. Any candidate who gets recorded saying he would not allow abortion on any condition including rape or incest is going to lose. Period. Will be labelled as 'extremist' and that tag does stick on the issue.

My personal opinion on abortion is that there are so many methods, cheap, readily available that can prevent a pregnancy that to even have a discussion about abortion is a sign of how incredibly stupid some women have become.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 08:22 AM (enJYY)

86 There was a discussion yesterday about comments *biden made to the effect he was doing something to ensure Trump wouldn't be able to run for President again.

Now we have 34 felony indictments against Trump and a case that likely will go to trial even as flimsy as it is. A trial that probably won't be held until the election is underway.

I'm betting there's going to be an effort to rewrite the law about who can and cannot run for President that will make Trump ineligible. I think the Democrats have enough time to see this one through. Success is debatable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 06, 2023 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)

87 I doubt NYC will go over a cliff until everything does. It's not a Detroit or a Baltimore or a Chicago. It's one of the regime's two capitals. They'll prop it up by fleecing everyone in the country to keep their Manhattan solons shitting in tall cotton.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 06, 2023 08:23 AM (8czFn)

88 If you dare to say the wrong thing in this 330-foot safe space surrounding a Drag Queen Story Hour, you will be subject to “a penalty of $25,000 If prosecuted successfully.

Nice Dick
What are the words you can say within 100 metres of a Drag Queen child molesting Alex?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:23 AM (BRHaw)

89 O God, as Jesus did in his dying, I place myself entirely into your hands, to live as you would have me live, to do what you would have me do. I trust, as did your Son on the cross, that this is the path to life.
Amen.

Thank you for posting this. I especially need it today.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 06, 2023 08:23 AM (AW0uW)

90 The choice is ours.
===================
I don't think this refers to elections, by the way. It's bigger than that, as he says in his essay.

VDH is hoping the American public will finally rise up from its lethargy and expel the communist ideologues trying to take over every institution.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 06, 2023 08:23 AM (PFF1h)

91 Clearly, this is due to the fact that the NWS misstated the data from 1880. Standby for a 'modification' to be applied to the dataset.

Posted by: Tonypete




Don't laugh. NOAA did just that.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 06, 2023 08:23 AM (lTGtQ)

92 To be honest I doubt the Secret Service would allow that. In the worst case, I expect "House Arrest".
Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 06, 2023 08:17 AM (VnwPh)
++++
They might try to split the baby that way. Convict him and exclude him from running, but don't throw him in prison. There's little point in doing that - the DU crowd will hate it and so will everyone else, with fairly few people thinking justice was served - but it's the kind of thing they'd do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:24 AM (t0OGg)

93 I don't know the details because I just caught the tail end of it, but I just heard the United States was passed by other countries in the IMF's "Services and Goods" category.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 08:25 AM (c8IdU)

94 90 Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 06, 2023 08:23 AM (PFF1h)

Maybe it's the way I read it given the state of play.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 08:25 AM (x0n13)

95

Apparently, the Crazies want a damaged Trump to get the GOP nomination over Desantis because they think they will beat him. I guess we'll see.

Posted by: leber at April 06, 2023 08:15 AM (E7KPo)

Where is the idea that DeSantis even has a chance against Trump coming from? Trump owns the party for now and the only people who seem to not think so are the people who don't like him.

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 08:25 AM (gjkES)

96 Taking electoral advice from the RNC is the political equivalent of eating out of a hospital biohazard dumpster.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 06, 2023 08:26 AM (8czFn)

97
I-uh see-uh flashes of, uh, lights. that's uh-n-n-normal, yes?

yeah

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at April 06, 2023 08:26 AM (vwCZJ)

98 Taking electoral advice from the RNC is the political equivalent of eating out of a hospital biohazard dumpster.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 06, 2023 08:26 AM (8czFn)
++++
*snort*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:26 AM (t0OGg)

99 I believe we are a majority in this country, no doubt. I believe a majorly of that majority just witnessed in 20 and 22 elections get stolen, some with help from the GOP. That Red Wave that was supposed to put staunch MAGA/conservatives in office AND help take over the Republican Party didn’t happen. As Joe Mannix so eloquently put it, limp dicks. Good luck with that ballot harvesting too in 24’. Between the GOPe sabotaging that and antifa breathing down your necks in blue cities trying to kill you I’m sure it’ll go swimmingly.

Posted by: JROD at April 06, 2023 08:26 AM (IlL6s)

100
uh-d-d-damn it

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at April 06, 2023 08:26 AM (vwCZJ)

101 The brand is dog shit. They've spent a few consecutive decades lying about who and what they are, and every time they get into office they do nothing. The left has run wild and unhinged, doing whatever it wants while a bunch of limp-dicked "opposition" members participate the con.
----
No one believes they will do what they say they will do. That's why 2022 fell flat-- the party put no skin in to winning. What was it, like July and McCarthy came out with his pathetic, aspirational list of likes? Win, lose? Meh. And the voters saw that.

Then you have limp-dicks like Driscoll and the NeverTrump whining we must rid ourselves of this tiresome Trump; dump Trump for DeSantis. Trump is the only candidate with his life--litterally-- on the line. Any other candidate going to have that much skin into winning?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 06, 2023 08:27 AM (m9bzV)

102 Dimon discussed the need to quickly begin investing in solar projects and other green initiatives and suggested that the government should use eminent domain to seize property for those projects.

The federal government owns around 620 million acres of land (about 27 percent) of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States.

Dimon you idiot, it is not the land. It is not the cost of the tilting at windmills. It is the transmission.
Texas invest about $2 in wind and solar. The cost to move that energy will 4x or around $7.9 BILLION.

fucking idiot

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:27 AM (BRHaw)

103 Fun Fact:

My brother worked on Koch's first campaign, I attended a dinner with Koch and his parents with my brother.

Koch is also one of the only two Democrats I ever voted for.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 08:11 AM (up/3i)

Fun fact: Koch also co-authored a short series of mysteries in which he is - while perpetual Mayor of NYC - an amateur sleuth. I haven't read one in years, but as I recall, they were entertaining.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 06, 2023 08:27 AM (AW0uW)

104 "There's a terrific essay, yet again, from Victor Davis Hanson where he just lays out exactly what's going on. And then he gets to the last sentence. Four words that, after reading his entire discourse, you just shake your head."

At the risk of spoiling what the four words are at the end of VDH's excellent essay -- I immediately thought of lyrics to a Rush song (of course I did!).

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice".

Posted by: Doof at April 06, 2023 08:28 AM (iY8R7)

105 I'm on board with Tim Pool with charging the JEF for drone murdering US citizens - from another state that we have control of.

First and foremost. Go for the highest profile case. Many voters have no idea he did this.

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 06, 2023 08:28 AM (uQPen)

106
Imagine a candidate is only in it for the money and realizes that there are groups of individuals that see abortion for the evil it is and generously donate to his/her campaign. So he makes his extreme statement about abortion and people reach for the checkbook feeling it somehow absolves them of the sin. Sure, he can play that hand, lose my a fair margin, and keep a pile of money.

It's a lose/win situation.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 08:28 AM (enJYY)

107 The bus is here.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:29 AM (BRHaw)

108 I would like to take a moment to thank Ronna Romney for her insightful election analysis. It just goes to show one that, eventually, our elites sort of realize that which has been obvious to the average man on the street for a decade.

Bravo, Ronna! Bravo!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 06, 2023 08:29 AM (2YtOq)

109 Seen on a coffee mug
--
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Thanks for feeding me
And scooping my poo

Posted by: Ciampino - as long as you keep the hubcaps resplendent at April 06, 2023 08:29 AM (qfLjt)

110

Hiding the US dollar being destroyed. So much is going down, literally.

The dam is breaking.

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 06, 2023 08:30 AM (uQPen)

111 Let me lay this out for you. Rona McDaniel and her band of consultants are a big reason we continue to lose elections and underperform. I'll also remind you she was Trump's pick for all the wrong reasons. Trump believes the election was "stolen" and ergo McDaniel did a good job. She just could not beat the cheat. But that's only partially correct as we saw in the last midterm. The messaging is horrible and the GOTV strategy is stale and destined to lose. That before we get to electoral fraud and state voting issues, which McDaniel has done closedown to address. All that heavy lifting is being done by outside groups. Not Trump. Not McDaniel. Independent groups. So in short, Trump supports the current GOP establishment headed by Rona and acknowledges zero of the structural, GOTV, legal and constitutional issues. Zero. Because it was stolen and he's going to beat that dead horse. Which does zero to change things. Until someone acknowledges there is an issue and get rid of McDaniel and her consultants we will continue to lose. Not because of fervid. Because of incompetence and people like Trump yielding to vanity.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 06, 2023 08:30 AM (IpdaE)

112 Speaking of how the Left plans ahead (or has guidance from Satan who doesn't need to plan ahead as such), the idea of introducing "safe spaces" was so that they could eventually turn the entire country into one, eliminating freedom of speech.

While they play with the idea of eliminating guns, they have set us on a course to have free expression nullified and are almost there.

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 08:30 AM (9UxnR)

113 "24 Well, looking at the numbers in Wisconsin, over 50pct of registered voters voted"
Incorrect. 39.4% officially, less than half. 55% of those that voted went for P-Face Killa.
60+% of WI couldn't be bothered to show up.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 06, 2023 08:30 AM (UKCk3)

114 Courts have relied on the so-called Enrollment Bill Rule to hold that once a bill is “enrolled” in the official journal of the House (or Senate), challenges to the passage of the bill are precluded. According to Paxton, however, the Enrollment Bill Rule only precludes judicial review of “factual” questions, not “legal” questions. Because Texas’ constitutional challenge presents solely a legal question for the court, Paxton argues the Enrollment Bill Rule does not apply.

If the Enrollment Bill Rule were valid and enforceable in this case then no law could ever be challenged in court.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 06, 2023 08:30 AM (z99Zw)

115 The potential prison time for Trump I read is 130 years.

The intent is not just to stick Trump but brand all Republicans for supporting a criminal.

Wine moms won't want to support criminals or vote with people who support criminals.

Hunter Biden laughs at us.

Posted by: blaster at April 06, 2023 08:31 AM (pwExq)

116 The left has run wild and unhinged, doing whatever it wants while a bunch of limp-dicked "opposition" members participate the con.

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

Stylebook's been updated, Joe. It's "softcocks" now.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 06, 2023 08:31 AM (Angsy)

117 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 18h
NEW - Pennsylvania police arrest nude man after school bus stolen with dead deer inside, WTAJ reports

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 06, 2023 08:32 AM (Vwz3I)

118 We've been a banana republic for a while now. March 30th merely acknowledged that reality.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 06, 2023 08:32 AM (2YtOq)

119 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 19h
NEW - Governments should seize private land for wind and solar farms, JPMorgan CEO says

Seize private land for wind and solar farms: JPMorgan CEO
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, has proposed that governments should seize private land to construct wind and solar farms.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 06, 2023 08:33 AM (Vwz3I)

120 100 + rockets fired into Israel from Lebanon.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 06, 2023 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

121 Donald Trump Calls on Republicans to Defund the DOJ and FBI

he's screaming into the void
they are all cowards

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 06, 2023 08:33 AM (uQPen)

122 Then you have limp-dicks like Driscoll and the NeverTrump whining we must rid ourselves of this tiresome Trump; dump Trump for DeSantis. Trump is the only candidate with his life--litterally-- on the line. Any other candidate going to have that much skin into winning?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 06, 2023 08:27 AM (m9bzV)

The (R)s want their people to OBEY like the (D)s do. They want to cut tax, have semi open boards, cut regs, fight overseas for NADA, and play footsie with whoever is the Big (D) of the day. Think Turtle and Mittens.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:34 AM (BRHaw)

123 I'm on board with Tim Pool with charging the JEF for drone murdering US citizens - from another state that we have control of.

First and foremost. Go for the highest profile case. Many voters have no idea he did this.

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 06, 2023 08:28 AM (uQPen)

I get it but that has no emotional persuasion for the average citizen. It needs to be juicy and it needs to "fit". If people can't easily picture Obama murdering US citizens - and trust me they can't - it will carry zero weight and move no needles. It doesn't matter that he's guilty. Facts don't matter to people.

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 08:34 AM (9UxnR)

124 ... Wine moms won't want to support criminals or vote with people who support criminals. ...
Posted by: blaster at April 06, 2023 08:31 AM (pwExq)
++++
All evidence to the contrary. They vote for open criminals and crime-enablers all the time. That's not the problem. The left loves loves loves them some crime, the wine moms included.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:34 AM (t0OGg)

125 >>Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel described the loss of conservative candidate. . .


Well, there's a big piece of the puzzle on how Republicans keep losing.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 06, 2023 08:34 AM (EdLEa)

126 I'd say on what grounds, but then again, Alvin Bragg. And Shampeachments.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 08:21 AM (x0n13)

Of course now I can't find the story, but I thought one said she had done something that could be impeachable, but I don't have the proof.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 06, 2023 08:35 AM (Angsy)

127 @113
>>"24 Well, looking at the numbers in Wisconsin, over 50pct of registered voters voted"
Incorrect. 39.4% officially, less than half. 55% of those that voted went for P-Face Killa.
60+% of WI couldn't be bothered to show up.

All I know is I'm looking at Wisconsin's election commission website that show's 3.5m registered voters, I have no idea what would make one an eligible voter vs a registered voter in this election, and they don't list the number of eligible voters anywhere, so as far as I'm concerned, all numbers are bullsh*t and meaningless at this point.

YMMV

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 08:35 AM (up/3i)

128
Governor (Glenn) Youngkin describes himself as "pro-life" but says he supports legal access to abortion in cases of rape, incest, or protecting the mother's life.

And won in a blue state. Narrow win, but a win.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 08:35 AM (enJYY)

129 Ah, here we are:

https://tinyurl.com/258quebk

Fox News reported on it because I just heard the clip played on the radio, but I can't find the clip online.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 08:35 AM (c8IdU)

130 I'm too old to change my name to Winston Smith

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Free Jacob Chansley at April 06, 2023 08:36 AM (Wb8zJ)

131 For the sake of argument, Trump or DeSantis if either were to be nominated would be compromised and beholden to the GOPe. I believe Trump acknowledged that with his support of Ronna and McCarthy. Unfortunately I think it was Trump showing belly to them. Trump LIKE DESANTIS will and would be beholden to the GOPe machine. I don’t know how either of them could “go rogue” within the party successfully if elected(which I of course do not believe is going to happen). Too many within to sabotage.
Please spare me the doom BS that a few hurl whenever I post. Wake up, it’s unfortunately reality.

Posted by: JROD at April 06, 2023 08:37 AM (IlL6s)

132 I am sick to fucking death of these women bitching and moaning about everything collapsing in on them, while alternately complaining "but Trump said 'pussy'!" and "muh-bortions!"

The number of votes that get moved by abortion is actually quite small.

Most women for whom abortion is THE issue have been voting D since the 1980s.

WI was the state that claimed 90% of voters voted in 2020 and nothing has been done about the fraud since then has it?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 06, 2023 08:37 AM (lc5cP)

133 Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 06, 2023 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)

Why would they have to rewrite the law though? Putting him on trial should be quite enough to go along with the other ten things they will be doing to him. They underestimated him once, they are not going to do it again.

And that goes for anyone that even has a whiff of Trump's abilities. They stole it from Kari Lake to kill her in the crib. She was dangerous.

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 08:37 AM (9UxnR)

134 I sort of wonder if our propaganda ministries, MSNBC, FOX, CBS, ABC, had any say in the charging of President Trump?

I mean newz organizations need something to chat about and President Trump gives them the eyeballs they need in order to survive, so, why wouldn't MSM be involved?

Not like it's completely out of the question, these days, due to the completely incestuous relationship between the DNC and MSM.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 06, 2023 08:37 AM (2YtOq)

135 The survival of even pockets of freedom in this country relies
1) on states protecting their citizens. I don't mean lawsuits. Or tough talk. Or bills that nibble at the edge (despite the howling outrage of the lefty mob to the contrary).
I mean telling the federal courts "no, we're not following your ruling. This is a state matter and we don't accept your jurisdiction."
2) the rise of a national working class party. The Republican Party leadership has locked the tiller into a suicide run directly into the side of a mountain chasing after the miniscule AWFL vote while disdaining the 10 times larger working vote.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 06, 2023 08:37 AM (m9bzV)

136 >>NEW - Governments should seize private land for wind and solar farms, JPMorgan CEO says


Ah, just like they started seizing farmland in the Netherlands?

Something utterly disgusting about fat, rich JPMorgan CEO demanding the little guys' land be seized -- how about clearing out Greewich, CT (flatten all those mansions) and make a huuuuuge windfarm, buddy?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 06, 2023 08:38 AM (EdLEa)

137 Ronna McDaniel is a loser, and possibly a Leftist mole.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 06, 2023 08:38 AM (yQpMk)

138 > Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, has proposed that governments should seize private land to construct wind and solar farms.
____________

He should set an example by offering up his property(s) to FedGov for this.

Anytime some idiot suggests something as asinine as this they should be brow beaten into submission to do it first.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 06, 2023 08:38 AM (Q4IgG)

139 Political Prosecution of Trump “Tears at the Fabric of the Country” and is “a Master Manipulation by Democrats”

I understand the Uniparty argument. It's real. But I also believe that most so-called GOP have no idea just how evil the left is. Did they want the country to form a "left army" consisting of blm, antifa, leftover occupy, etc, versus our now depleted military (purposely being filled by freaks, while the good men stay clear and leave asap, and worthless generals). They have an underground army that is untouchable now. We have no one to protect the country.

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 06, 2023 08:39 AM (uQPen)

140 Dimon you idiot, it is not the land. It is not the cost of the tilting at windmills. It is the transmission.
Texas invest about $2 in wind and solar. The cost to move that energy will 4x or around $7.9 BILLION.


Posted by: rhennigantx



It is not about the land, and it is not about the windmills. It is about getting people out of certain industries and out of certain locations. Read Michael Yon with regard to replacement theory and smart cities.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 06, 2023 08:39 AM (lTGtQ)

141 Also for all the DeSantis people who are saying the Dems clearly want to run against Trump, the argument could be made that they are trying to make him so unpalatable as to end up running against the guy in second place.

They are both dumb arguments. This is Democrats doing what they do. Stealing things, crossing lines, and making shit up.

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 08:39 AM (9UxnR)

142 Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan, has proposed that governments should seize private land to construct wind and solar farms.

Isn't he the guy that just got scammed by some young woman out of a few hundred million because he bought her "the Amazon of college loans" service without checking if most of their users were false?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 06, 2023 08:39 AM (lc5cP)

143 ... Wine moms won't want to support criminals or vote with people who support criminals. ...
Posted by: blaster at April 06, 2023 08:31 AM (pwExq)

All evidence to the contrary. They vote for open criminals and crime-enablers all the time. That's not the problem. The left loves loves loves them some crime, the wine moms included.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:34 AM (t0OGg)

Great. So the electoral franchise is in the hands of idiot women who never got over their 'bad boy' fetish.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 06, 2023 08:39 AM (AW0uW)

144 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 2h
JUST IN — Japan military has lost track of a helicopter carrying multiple crew near Miyakojima island in the southwestern prefecture of Okinawa - NHK

@TheInsiderPaper · 1h
ALERT 🚨 Japanese military helicopter disappears from radar

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 06, 2023 08:39 AM (Vwz3I)

145 MOHAP!

Posted by: Admiral Womanpenis McFloppington at April 06, 2023 08:39 AM (BEZ6U)

146 This could, perhaps likely will, severely diminish the amount of money the U.S. congress can spend.
Posted by: SMOD at April 06, 2023 07:53 AM (7g/Pa)

Hahahahaha. When does your new comedy special come out?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 06, 2023 08:39 AM (z99Zw)

147 So conservative voters in WI were sparse. It occurs to me that there are two ways to steal an election. One is to pad your own vote count. The other is to rip off your opponent's voters.

Whatever. I'm past the point of believing anything a government agency tells me.

Posted by: creeper at April 06, 2023 08:40 AM (cTCuP)

148 While the international hotheads are screeching about an impending doom, levelheaded observers point to data that clearly show a pause in warming, which has been mild and as likely natural as it is human-caused, has now reached eight years and nine months. There has been no rise in global temperatures from July 2015 to March 2023.

This fact-based claim draws on satellite readings from the University of Alabama in Huntsville that measure temperatures in the troposphere, a much more accurate method of keeping score than the shoddy record produced by ground-based weather stations.

Every 200 or 400 years there is a record of cooling. They skated and walked over the Thames.
The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4-0.7 °C.
The same thing happened in 1766 in Europe. It may have been almost 3 C cooler.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:40 AM (BRHaw)

149 Ronna McDaniel is a loser, and possibly a Leftist mole.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 06, 2023 08:38 AM (yQpMk)
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I doubt there are many leftist moles in the RNC. Just a lot of open leftists.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:40 AM (t0OGg)

150 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday Eve.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 06, 2023 08:40 AM (XR5XV)

151 WI will be ok until the state legislative districts have to be drawn.. suddenly there will be need to have them redrawn to split up Madison and Milwaukee more equitably.... then a super majority becomes a simple majority.. until it becomes neither.
Then WI = IL

Posted by: Inogame at April 06, 2023 08:41 AM (53oGX)

152 I have no time for any of the NeverTrump softcocks who suddenly have a "come to banana republic" conversion and wake up. Yes, I'm looking at you, Andy McCarthy.

No sale. They encouraged the baying leftist mob to go down this road. I'm all out of forgiveness and, they best make their peace with someone far above my pay grade.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 06, 2023 08:41 AM (2YtOq)

153 While the international hotheads are screeching about an impending doom, levelheaded observers point to data that clearly show a pause in warming, which has been mild and as likely natural as it is human-caused, has now reached eight years and nine months. There has been no rise in global temperatures from July 2015 to March 2023. ...
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:40 AM (BRHaw)
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How dare you

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:41 AM (t0OGg)

154 Biden ordered the balloon shot down only after it had passed completely over the US, made countless excuses to avoid angering Beijing, and now still can’t get Xi to return his calls.
Posted by: SMOD at April 06, 2023 07:54 AM (7g/Pa)

Confucius say, "When one finishes drinking from a paper cup, one pays it no further mind." Your Joe Biden is a tool and I have used all of his value. -- Winnie the Pu

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 06, 2023 08:42 AM (z99Zw)

155 Seen on Insty: multiple red state AGs think they can use Bragg's alleged legal theories to prosecute both Brandon and Hunter, right now. That oughta be spicy.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 06, 2023 08:42 AM (X4R3E)

156 Morning Horde and thx JJ. The law school discussion is interesting but doesn't go far enough. The elite law schools have been indoctrinating students with leftist thought and behavior for years and it's gotten worse to the point that they are unable to appear in a court properly . I attended Albany law school in the late 80s and the traditional purpose of ALS was to train lawyers to practice in upstate NY. The agitation philosophy was starting when I was there and has grown much worse over the years to the detriment of the traditional role of ALS.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 06, 2023 08:42 AM (386ly)

157 @149

>>I doubt there are many leftist moles in the RNC. Just a lot of open leftists.

Yeah, as they pass each other they give a subtle and subversive, "Hail Hydra," salute.

We're in a tough spot, I really am having a hard time processing how we got to this point and how we get out of it, but, we're here.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 08:42 AM (up/3i)

158 Seen on Insty: multiple red state AGs think they can use Bragg's alleged legal theories to prosecute both Brandon and Hunter, right now. That oughta be spicy.

Talk talk talk.

Going to actually DO anything?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 06, 2023 08:42 AM (lc5cP)

159 Mood for this week-
Overwhelmed and discouraged.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 06, 2023 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

160 As far as messaging and propaganda, I think it has been extremely effective both in genuinely changing/forming people's minds and in brutally suppressing voters. In the last 20 years I've seen, in action, absolutely the biggest, most comprehensive, propaganda machine the world has ever seen. People consume it 24/7. It's immersive and all-encompassing. Most people rarely see anything else. Anyone who does, can now only see tiny, fleeting glimpses of what might be reality; and of those, many simply give up and wait for things to play out as they will.
I really believe that's a lot of what happened in WI.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 06, 2023 08:43 AM (UKCk3)

161 Seen on Insty: multiple red state AGs think they can use Bragg's alleged legal theories to prosecute both Brandon and Hunter, right now. That oughta be spicy.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 06, 2023 08:42 AM (X4R3E)

But we decided not to do it, because (insert multiple reasons here)

Posted by: Red State AGs at April 06, 2023 08:43 AM (Angsy)

162 That’s not necessarily the reaction with the so-called suburban women who sunk the campaign for Trump last time. So this really appears to be a master manipulation by Democrats.

So the suburban women need to be force-fed the truth? They cannot even think rationally. Most are ignoring the pedo and groomers attacking their own children AND taking parental rights away from stopping them chopping off their kids parts and shoving drugs down the little ones throats. The horror of these non-mothers and non-fathers abusing their own innocents.

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 06, 2023 08:43 AM (uQPen)

163 I feel like most of the country has no idea of the destruction the Democrats are doing.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 06, 2023 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

164 Under Joe, the rate of inflation has averaged 6.2 percent for the last two years.

So if you include this years (End Sept 2023) you have added about 35 to 40% to the money supply.

Lets use 36 for easy maths
36-6-30 30-6-24
So it will take at least 3 more years of this level $$ to actual goods and services.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:44 AM (BRHaw)

165 Axshually, while he has endorsed Romney in the past Trump did not endorse her this race, he remained neutral. Not that it makes any difference at all. The head of the RNC is chosen by state delegates who are in turn beholden to the money, if the GOP establishment. They don't give a shit what we want.

But Trump did offer to endorse Kelly and Kelly said he didn't want Trump's endorsement. How did that work out?

Posted by: JackStraw at April 06, 2023 08:44 AM (ZLI7S)

166 absolutely the biggest, most comprehensive, propaganda machine the world has ever seen.

When he catch the FNM and how they are covering the world it clearly isn't the one we live in.

The clot shots work, the inflation problem is solved, the economy is booming, crime is under control, there is no southern invasion and there are NAZI terrorists just waiting to overthrow the government.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 06, 2023 08:44 AM (lc5cP)

167 Lets use 36 for easy maths
36-6-30 30-6-24
So it will take at least 3 more years of this level $$ to actual goods and services.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:44 AM (BRHaw)
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Assuming there is no more major deficit spending or a major recession.

Count on neither of those things.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:45 AM (t0OGg)

168 Ronna McDaniel is a loser, and possibly a Leftist mole.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 06, 2023 08:38 AM (yQpMk)
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Probably not a leftist so much as a blithering busiess-as-usual grifter.

Harmeet Dhillon does more for the GOP in her court cases than the GOP does for itself with all its idiocy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 06, 2023 08:45 AM (whJr1)

169 "In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33

Posted by: grammie winger at April 06, 2023 08:45 AM (45fpk)

170 @TheInsiderPaper · 1h
ALERT 🚨 Japanese military helicopter disappears from radar
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 06, 2023 08:39 AM (Vwz3I)

Oooh, I have a theory!

Posted by: Don LeMon at April 06, 2023 08:46 AM (PiwSw)

171 ||According to authorities, a daycare center in Brazil was invaded on Wednesday by a man carrying a hatchet. The attacker jumped over a wall and killed four children while injuring at least five others. The suspect, who had no connection to the center, turned himself in at a police station shortly after the incident.

The children who lost their lives were all between the ages of 5 and 7 years old. The Cantinho do Bom Pastor, a private daycare center that offers various educational services, was the location of the attack. Police in Blumenau, a city of approximately 366,000 people, are investigating the incident and searching for a motive.

Weeping parents were seen outside the daycare center, which is located near the Atlantic coast. The attack occurred on the center’s playground, according to Globo’s local television affiliate NSC. The suspect, who had a shaved head, was captured in a photo shown on the network. Police have not yet verified his identity.||
Breaking911

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 06, 2023 08:46 AM (Vwz3I)

172 >>The federal government owns around 620 million acres of land (about 27 percent) of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States.


Mostly in Western states. Then factor in all the additional land that are Native American reservation land. People on the East coast really have no idea how much. We really don't need any more of these states' private property taken/owned by the government.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 06, 2023 08:46 AM (EdLEa)

173 Ronna McDaniel is a loser, and possibly a Leftist mole.

I don't think she's a mole. Just an incompetent loser, with a side of nepotism.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 06, 2023 08:46 AM (X4R3E)

174 How dare you
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 08:41 AM (t0OGg)

Listening to someone about as bright as Corky from The Wonder Years is no way to run a planet.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:47 AM (BRHaw)

175 And we need politicians who understand that funding is far more powerful that some rinky-dinky bill banning this or that.

A bill is easy to overturn by even the laziest liberal judge. But funding? Ordering the legislature on how they allocate funds?

For example:
Don't ban trannies in women's sports. Write the preamble that any can play. But the school that allows trannies loses 50% of their athletic funding since they are not separating male and female athletes anymore so they don't need all that money.
And this doesn't even need to be states, local school boards control the local budget.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 06, 2023 08:47 AM (m9bzV)

176
Posted by: grammie winger at April 06, 2023 08:45 AM

Did any (R) win a state wide race in WI on Tuesday? You mentioned a name yesterday but I've lost it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 08:47 AM (enJYY)

177 JUST IN — Japan military has lost track of a helicopter carrying multiple crew near Miyakojima island in the southwestern prefecture of Okinawa - NHK
Japanese military helicopter disappears from radar
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 06, 2023 08:39 AM (Vwz3I)

Don't look at me...

Posted by: Godzilla at April 06, 2023 08:47 AM (KaRdo)

178 Holy cow.

Trademark this and all money goes to the HQ

Menstrual show

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 08:47 AM (c8IdU)

179 Seen on Insty: multiple red state AGs think they can use Bragg's alleged legal theories to prosecute both Brandon and Hunter, right now. That oughta be spicy.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 06, 2023 08:42 AM (X4R3E)
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Hunter should be an easy target, low-hanging fruit. He's no doubt guilty of numerous drug-related crimes in red states (somewhere).

Whether or not that will put pressure on FJB? That remains to be seen...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 06, 2023 08:47 AM (YIVH2)

180 The Democrats won a prog mayor in Chicago, Wisconsin won a leftist judge. What city is up for grabs next? The gangrene continues to spread.

Posted by: Ziba at April 06, 2023 08:47 AM (4h9M3)

181 I feel like most of the country has no idea of the destruction the Democrats are doing.

They see the damage in their area and recognize it but since the FNM is blowing smoke up their asses presume everything else is fine. It is similiar to Gell-Mann Amnesia

Posted by: 18-1 at April 06, 2023 08:47 AM (lc5cP)

182 173 Ronna McDaniel is a loser, and possibly a Leftist mole.

I don't think she's a mole. Just an incompetent loser, with a side of nepotism.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 06, 2023 08:46 AM (X4R3E)

Washington Generals Power Forward.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 06, 2023 08:48 AM (PiwSw)

183 Every 200 or 400 years there is a record of cooling. They skated and walked over the Thames.

The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4-0.7 °C.
The same thing happened in 1766 in Europe. It may have been almost 3 C cooler.
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"Report shows the burning of coal for electricity and industrial uses went up in 2022 despite global promises to reduce it."

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 06, 2023 08:48 AM (Vwz3I)

184 Did any (R) win a state wide race in WI on Tuesday? You mentioned a name yesterday but I've lost it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 08:47 AM (enJYY)


An R won the 8th(?) Congressional district for the State Senate, giving the Republicans a super majority, able to overturn any Evers veto.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 06, 2023 08:49 AM (45fpk)

185 Thank you, Marcus T.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 06, 2023 08:49 AM (2YtOq)

186 172 >>The federal government owns around 620 million acres of land (about 27 percent) of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the United States.


Mostly in Western states. Then factor in all the additional land that are Native American reservation land. People on the East coast really have no idea how much. We really don't need any more of these states' private property taken/owned by the government.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 06, 2023 08:46 AM (EdLEa)

They DO have a high regard for some property rights, don’t they… just not our property.

Posted by: tubal at April 06, 2023 08:49 AM (PCK5/)

187 @181

>>They see the damage in their area and recognize it but since the FNM is blowing smoke up their asses presume everything else is fine. It is similiar to Gell-Mann Amnesia

When fuel hits five bucks a gallon again, things will get a little hectic, let's see if blaming Putin will continue to work for The Junta.

Probably will.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 08:49 AM (up/3i)

188 I'm betting the spy balloon was part of an intelligence op that China and the US previously agreed to. Whether the DoD/IC did this on their own without coordination with the White House or the other way around is debatable. But it was presumed nobody on the ground would ever notice a huge balloon floating overhead and if they did, would ignore it.

They assumed wrong.

The cover-up commenced the day it was noticed by the public.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 06, 2023 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)

189 Are Democrats Really This Dumb Or Just Evil?

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I used to express this thought as the Democrats arebeither that stupid or that evil but nobody could be that stupid or that evil. Now I know better. The Democrats are that evil.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 06, 2023 08:49 AM (FVME7)

190 @173

Ronna is too dumb to be a mole.

Posted by: Ziba at April 06, 2023 08:49 AM (4h9M3)

191 @165 Jackstraw-I stand corrected but you’d think Trump would have railed against her. I don’t know…..

Posted by: JROD at April 06, 2023 08:49 AM (IlL6s)

192 We really don't need any more of these states' private property taken/owned by the government.

Posted by: Lizzy



The land is needed for the replacement population, and especially so if the land is being used for food production or industries that are targeted for elimination. See Holland.

Oh, by the way, the leaders of Holland have officially asked their citizens to stop using the word Holland.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 06, 2023 08:49 AM (lTGtQ)

193 So apparently, Chicago wants to become Detroit II

Posted by: SMOD at April 06, 2023 08:50 AM (RHGPo)

194 Hunter should be an easy target, low-hanging fruit. He's no doubt guilty of numerous drug-related crimes in red states (somewhere).

Unless geolocation was turned off, all those videos of him using drugs and having sex with underage hookers are enough to prosecute and convict him. While many of the incidents likely happened in blue states, I would suspect that at least one video would be from Arkansas (remember that's where his baby momma is from)

Posted by: 18-1 at April 06, 2023 08:50 AM (lc5cP)

195 If Roe v Wade being overturned caused some “in the middle” swing voters to vote D in the next statewide election, is that a sacrifice we were willing to make. Of course it was.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at April 06, 2023 08:50 AM (6A79j)

196 184 An R won the 8th(?) Congressional district for the State Senate, giving the Republicans a super majority, able to overturn any Evers veto.
Posted by: grammie winger at April 06, 2023 08:49 AM (45fp

=======

"Democrat governors are kings and Parliament may not stand against the king."
-New WI SC jurist

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 08:50 AM (LvTSG)

197 RFK Jr is a typical Kennedy arrogant psycho but I'll give him credit for nailing Fauci . He pointed out Fauci did the same thing with AIDS, specifically pushing big pharma solution , that he did with COVID.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 06, 2023 08:50 AM (386ly)

198 Hunter should be an easy target, low-hanging fruit. He's no doubt guilty of numerous drug-related crimes in red states (somewhere).

Whether or not that will put pressure on FJB? That remains to be seen...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 06, 2023 08:47 AM (YIVH2)

Nah, I'd Cosby-him. Hunter, no matter how consensual, was providing drugs to those folks he was sleeping with, and that's textbook rape charges. The public are much more likely to support those types of charges than the drugs' ones.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 06, 2023 08:50 AM (exHjb)

199 Thank you, JJ.

Posted by: democrats, Raping And Mutilating The Children They Cannot Kill at April 06, 2023 08:50 AM (jV+aN)

200 But we decided not to do it, because (insert multiple reasons here)
Posted by: Red State AGs

"Ooo! Ooo! Mr. Kotter!! Lemme guess - "it's not who we are"!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 06, 2023 08:50 AM (qoGsy)

201
An R won the 8th(?) Congressional district for the State Senate, giving the Republicans a super majority, able to overturn any Evers veto.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 06, 2023 08:49 AM

Thanks, but ZERO statewide I assume.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 08:50 AM (enJYY)

202 "I will say something else. When you’re losing by 10 points there is a messaging issue. "

Ahhhh. Was this not known before the election?

Ever since Limp Lyndsay came out last Aug with a 15 week ban this was known. Christ!! Did you not read one fucking poll or article after 8-Nov?

Romney. It's what's for losing.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 06, 2023 08:51 AM (NW9xb)

203
An R won the 8th(?) Congressional district for the State Senate, giving the Republicans a super majority, able to overturn any Evers veto.

So nutty leftist judge won easily but the Rs have a super majority in the state senate?

Let me just note it is much, much easier to fix a state wide race then a bunch of races in different districts/counties...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 06, 2023 08:51 AM (lc5cP)

204 Travis Tritt boycotts Anheuser-Busch after Bud Light teams up with Dylan Mulvaney

https://tinyurl.com/b927p7wc

Posted by: redridinghood at April 06, 2023 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

205 Great work, as usual, J.J.

Thank you.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 06, 2023 08:52 AM (2YtOq)

206 I always use Chik-Fil-A as an example: after Dan Cathy's loathsome vomitus that whites need to shine blacks' shoes, that company's stock should have cratered and every franchise abandoned. Pro sports has been spitting in conservatives' faces for years, and yet they still plop down in front of the teevee to cheer on MUH TEAM!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 06, 2023 08:14 AM (AW0uW)

The vast, vast, vaaaaaaaast majority of the populace are unaware of any of these things. Where would they hear about them? The "regular" media doesn't report it, only the political media. Few people pay attention.

People don't even notice the "subtle" BS that goes on in "entertainment".

Our side runs away from the argument. Their side frames it as they please.

Basing beliefs, one way or the other, on the political opinions of the populace on their behavior is wasted effort.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 06, 2023 08:53 AM (z99Zw)

207 We really don't need any more of these states' private property taken/owned by the government.

Posted by: Lizzy

In Pennsylvania, there is a growing fury over local governments taking "open space" for government buildings.

The [Pottstown]Mercury recently reported that the Upper Pottsgrove Township Board of Commissioners voted to build a new municipal complex on farmland permanently preserved with township Open Space funds. While such action by the board may or may not be illegal according to Pennsylvania Code, it is certainly improper and, arguably, unethical.

Posted by: SMOD at April 06, 2023 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

208 "I will say something else. When you’re losing by 10 points there is a messaging issue. "


She can't be that stupid. Look at the data and tell me with a straight face that there was no ballot box stuffing going on.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 06, 2023 08:54 AM (lTGtQ)

209 The Red counties never showed up.

PS Kelly rejected PDT 3 or 4 times.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:17 AM (BRHaw)

I wonder if there was a connection there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 06, 2023 08:54 AM (z99Zw)

210 All one has to do is look at the impact of people like James O'Keefe (alternate investigative journalism), Matt Walsh (challenging the trans trend), Christopher Rufo (challenging CRT), Scott Pressler (cleaning up cities, GOTV) to see that so much could be done when there is commitment/willingness to push back vs. fear of MSM/Dem demonization.

Imagine how more effective the pushback would be if there were (real) conservatives in DC (elective office, fedgov, think tanks, etc.)?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 06, 2023 08:54 AM (EdLEa)

211 Let me just note it is much, much easier to fix a state wide race then a bunch of races in different districts/counties...

Posted by: 18-1


Precisely.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 06, 2023 08:55 AM (lTGtQ)

212 >>Jackstraw-I stand corrected but you’d think Trump would have railed against her. I don’t know…..

I would have preferred he did but it may have been a simple calculation of where the general election funds and support comes from. The RNC IS the establishment, so is Ronna. Much as I would've liked to see Harmeet win it was a total rigged game. But Trump is going to need the RNC in the general.

We have two opponents, the RNC and the left. We have to beat both of them.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 06, 2023 08:55 AM (ZLI7S)

213 Are Democrats really this dumb or just evil
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There is no excuse for anyone remotely politically engaged to be asking this question ever again.

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 08:55 AM (9UxnR)

214
If Roe v Wade being overturned caused some “in the middle” swing voters to vote D in the next statewide election, is that a sacrifice we were willing to make. Of course it was.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at April 06, 2023 08:50 AM

Two minutes after the elation of R v W being shot down I experienced the terrifying reality that it now becomes a nail in every state election for a long, long time. A nail that the left is gonna hammer at unmercifully every two to four years. Candidates have got to get smarter about what they say. See my cut and paste of how Governor Youngkin won, the wording he used.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 08:56 AM (enJYY)

215 My sympathies with the Frog rioters just went up.

@disclosetv · 2h
NOW - Protest at #BlackRock offices in Paris.

https://tinyurl.com/4dnp79f2

48-second video

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 06, 2023 08:56 AM (Vwz3I)

216 It's either Trump can't work with anyone because he's too abrasive or Trump sucks up to all the wrong people. Maybe his critics are right and it's both. But that would be a very neat trick.

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 08:57 AM (9UxnR)

217 "I doubt NYC will go over a cliff until everything does."

Strongly disagree. NYC is highly vulnerable right now.

Subway ridership is down 70% which is an important indicator of overall activity. The MTA has been propped up by Covid money which is about to run out.

NYC is taxed out. Until now it's worked because it's a 24/7 city with lots of activity.

It all comes down to commercial real estate values. Many empty offices. Same with retail space.

Hit NYC over tourism and business travel and it will hurt. The money people will turn on Bragg's pupeteers.

I hate NY! for the win.

I live here so I'm calling in an air strike on my own position.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 06, 2023 08:57 AM (RqMSv)

218 to see that so much could be done when there is commitment/willingness to push back vs. fear of MSM/Dem demonization.

While the Dems have more money (because they loot the treasury) the Rs mostly piss their money away.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 06, 2023 08:57 AM (lc5cP)

219 "Report shows the burning of coal for electricity and industrial uses went up in 2022 despite global promises to reduce it."

Greta needs to get her ass on a sailboat to China and lecture them about the perils of that country building new coal plants at the rate of two a week.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 06, 2023 08:57 AM (YXHzG)

220 You know small college could dress out 8 dudes as gals and be in the final 4 next March.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:57 AM (BRHaw)

221 @157 Thomas Bender-How did we get to this point? That’s easy. That GOPe jimmy ran deep and it feel real good. Though many here amongst us have railed against it for years now look at what some are suggesting we do to win in 24’. Sounds suspiciously like the same shit the GOPe has been preaching to us conservatives for years. Never mind who’s behind that curtain just get out and vote harder. This blog shook out the GOPe but it hasn’t shook some of it’s behaviors. It’s sad.

Posted by: JROD at April 06, 2023 08:58 AM (IlL6s)

222 Two minutes after the elation of R v W being shot down I experienced the terrifying reality that it now becomes a nail in every state election for a long, long time. A nail that the left is gonna hammer at unmercifully every two to four years. Candidates have got to get smarter about what they say. See my cut and paste of how Governor Youngkin won, the wording he used.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 08:56 AM (enJYY)

Yes, you said half of what he said...he also said he would work to put in place a 15 week ban...and he still has been working, since the Ds have thus far shot that down.

The Ds are so worried it may pass that the female D senate candidates have endorsed a primary challenger this spring to the one Catholic D senator who has started getting shaky and saying he wants to work with Youngkin making abortion a little harder...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 06, 2023 08:58 AM (exHjb)

223 Greta needs to get her ass on a sailboat to China and lecture them about the perils of that country building new coal plants at the rate of two a week.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 06, 2023 08:57 AM (YXHzG)

They would be selling roasted retard in the open air market within a week.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 08:58 AM (BRHaw)

224 Greta needs to get her ass on a sailboat to China and lecture them about the perils of that country building new coal plants at the rate of two a week.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 06, 2023 08:57 AM (YXHzG)
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You mean the sailboat which was supported by a fleet of evil carbon spewing vessels?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 06, 2023 08:58 AM (2YtOq)

225 Interesting that the general consensus is now, correctly, that the indictment is fatally flawed and wholly political. Even more interesting is the consensus is the judge will not dismiss and the jury will convict. Contra Dersh- I think the judge and the dems best play is to dismiss with prejudice. I'd do it with a scathing rebuke of Bragg, reminding him this is New York and America and we don't do this here (even though they clearly do). Would even add a referral for bar discipline. Guy would get huge props for being a statesmanlike and judicious man of good conscious while simultaneously pulling the dems fat from the fire.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 06, 2023 08:59 AM (iOTWL)

226 In 2022 Rs generally did WAY better then normal in no hope blue states - look at Zeldin in NY or Schumer's election where a normal loss of 40 points was...12.

If abortion was the big issue wouldn't that be reversed?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 06, 2023 09:00 AM (lc5cP)

227 Look, I'm down for positive Youngkin praise. I think he's one 2024 guy that can win the general, if he gets out of the primary season. That is the hard one...with Trump/DeSantis both in, he'd have no chance...

And Youngkin had to put down all his own people and grassroots in VA b/c we had none...so he's got that part down in a purple state...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 06, 2023 09:00 AM (exHjb)

228 Winning candidate in Wisconsin 8th:

Following last year’s Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson, our state’s abortion law reverted to a statute prohibiting all abortions save those performed to save the life of the mother. In the aftermath of this decision, state governments now bear the important responsibility to update and clarify our abortion laws.

The life of the mother exception requires clarification in the wake of medical advances, and wide majorities of both Republicans and Democrats support exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape and incest.

That's how it's done to keep from being labelled 'extremist'.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 09:00 AM (enJYY)

229 charting misspoken misspeak just heard reported from some auto show... ohmygard

"... five point two inch liter..."


that's like the phone number Chris Farley called in the opening scene of Tommy Boy -- wait was there a niner in there?

Posted by: micky at April 06, 2023 09:01 AM (3byMq)

230 197 RFK Jr is a typical Kennedy arrogant psycho but I'll give him credit for nailing Fauci . He pointed out Fauci did the same thing with AIDS, specifically pushing big pharma solution , that he did with COVID.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 06, 2023 08:50 AM (386ly)


I think he is very very LIBERAL. I do not think he's a full-on freak Leftist. Like Wolf, Taibbi, Greenwald and perhaps even Maher, now, you could have a civilized conversation with him.

I will settle for that, given all the rest of what's going on.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 09:01 AM (x0n13)

231 @216

>>It's either Trump can't work with anyone because he's too abrasive or Trump sucks up to all the wrong people. Maybe his critics are right and it's both. But that would be a very neat trick.

Trump is a singular individual, doing a mans job, it would be nice if he had some help, but he doesn't, so the NT's and COSPlayers will peck and peep beneath the feet of Colossus hoping he trips over his big, magnificent and luxurious feet.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 09:02 AM (up/3i)

232 >>In Pennsylvania, there is a growing fury over local governments taking "open space" for government buildings.


Here in Denver they've just defeated (again) an effort to convert City Park golf course into high-rise low income housing. They just can't pack people densely into the city fast enough. That was a win, but they'll keep trying. However, they're working on something that would give the state the option to buy any private land within the state within 90 days of a sale - truly Marxist.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 06, 2023 09:02 AM (EdLEa)

233 Guy would get huge props for being a statesmanlike and judicious man of good conscious while simultaneously pulling the dems fat from the fire.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 06, 2023 08:59 AM (iOTWL)
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These people play to their audience and their audience is hang President Trump. Think baying mob with power.

Judicial restraint and statesmen went out the window a few years ago.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 06, 2023 09:02 AM (2YtOq)

234 Depressing news of our nation's slide into tyranny and crime makes me wanna sniff some glue, but I don't have any small paper bags. Plastic ziplock just isn't the same.

Posted by: Rum Dum at April 06, 2023 09:02 AM (j+jCx)

235 The life of the mother exception requires clarification in the wake of medical advances, and wide majorities of both Republicans and Democrats support exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape and incest.


I suspect the Ds really don't like this compromise because when the middle aged D man shows up at planned parenthood with his pregnant 16 year old...friend...there is that awkward moment when they have to ask the girl who raped her...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 06, 2023 09:02 AM (lc5cP)

236 Ronna isn't a lefty plant just a cookie cutter like her uncle Mitt. You give Mitt a business to tear apart and he'll do it according to the regular formula. Ronna is the same way. She talks to the republican donor class and consultant class and goes by the the typical election formula and if she loses its blame the base for being out of touch. No self examination whatsoever and no ability to admit to being wrong or to fight a civil war

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 06, 2023 09:03 AM (386ly)

237 @221

>>Thomas Bender-How did we get to this point? That’s easy.

I was ant-GOPe before being anti-GOPe was cool.

Got the ban scars and everything.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 09:04 AM (up/3i)

238 There it is

Biden just said "AI" will be used to help fight climate change.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 09:04 AM (LMBN3)

239 230

I think he is very very LIBERAL. I do not think he's a full-on freak Leftist. Like Wolf, Taibbi, Greenwald and perhaps even Maher, now, you could have a civilized conversation with him.

I will settle for that, given all the rest of what's going on.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 09:01 AM (x0n13)

Put Gabbard into that group too. What they have is a platform and an audience… encourage them to keep talking…

Posted by: tubal at April 06, 2023 09:04 AM (PCK5/)

240 Two minutes after the elation of R v W being shot down I experienced the terrifying reality that it now becomes a nail in every state election for a long, long time. A nail that the left is gonna hammer at unmercifully every two to four years. Candidates have got to get smarter about what they say. See my cut and paste of how Governor Youngkin won, the wording he used.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 08:56 AM


Yep and it is going to be front and center in the 2024 presidential race and trump will be hammered 24/7 on it because he is the person who literally caused roe v. wade to be overturned.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 06, 2023 09:05 AM (ncXxy)

241 "Two possibilities, JJ.

1. They are literally throwing away our votes at the same time they are manufacturing their own

2. Their psy ops have literally billions of dollars of research and endless manpower and media megaphone behind them, which makes them so "good" at emotional manipulation and propaganda that the Nazis themselves would blush.

Posted by: ... "


#1 is was/is happening but could be overcome in the past. The real problem now, 90% IMHO is #2. I'm always amazed by supposedly intelligent hard working people that vote Dem and for their own destruction. But we live in a sea of coordinated lies and propaganda now 24/7 from the moment of birth.
,

Posted by: Ripley at April 06, 2023 09:05 AM (cUYo/)

242 How is it that poll after poll shows that abortion is basically a 50 - 50 issue with the voters in the US but every single time we lose an election it's because of abortion? Does that mean every race we win is also because of our position on abortion?

Or could it be something else. Like say the GOP blows as an organizing party for elections. Or that Soros and the left's dark money machine once against millions more than we did in WI to win a race. Or that the candidate publicly ignored the leader of the conservative/populist movement in the country.

Blaming every loss on abortion is lazy. We aren't as good as the left at winning elections it today's money and narrative driven environment.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 06, 2023 09:06 AM (ZLI7S)

243 Meanwhile how many even politically engaged people are remotely familiar with Trump's Agenda47.

It is such a hopeful incredible set of pro-America, pro-life, pro-commerce, and pro-success goals, it shows both parties (again) for what they really are.

It doesn't matter if it's realistic. It is a vision that trumps that of anyone in the political spotlight. It is forward thinking and filled with genuine hope for the future of this country and humanity.

It is a foundation for a campaign that is so far beyond anything we've ever heard in our lives, and so far removed from the Daily Demoralization Dirge and narrow-minded argument set the Democrats and Uniparty has us trapped in, that I don't even have words to describe it.

And no one knows what it is.

All they know is Indictments, Hush Money, and 34 Counts. And that includes most of "us". It's sad but that is the whole point of the Demcorats turning up the volume and never stopping.

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 09:07 AM (9UxnR)

244 119. Governments should seize private land for wind and solar farms, JPMorgan CEO says. Posted by: andycanuck

Indeed. Jamie Dimon turned out to be another gem, imo, but he wouldn't say it unless, and of course the government is pushed along by civil society.

Related article: Union of concerned scientists/USA, blog:
The Equation - How Much Land Would it Require to Get Most of Our Electricity from Wind and Solar? February 22, 2023

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 06, 2023 09:07 AM (GshMh)

245 >>Biden just said "AI" will be used to help fight climate change.


Wonder when the (stenographer) journalist class will figure out that AI can do their job better than them? They're already so coordinated there's little need for so many news outlets. Can't wait for the AI-generated "learn to code" stories

Posted by: Lizzy at April 06, 2023 09:08 AM (EdLEa)

246 JJ the conservatives in the US are ADULTS not kids, but the Demoncratic GOTV machine has whipped up college kids--who can vote though they mostly have chosen not to in the past--and gotten them to the polls. Abortion is HUGE with these kids, and since they are so indoctrinated by now against America, they have zero interest in the future, just the here and now. That's how places like Wisconsin are losing to Dems. Republicans need to wake up to this reality.

Posted by: Here in Italy at April 06, 2023 09:09 AM (VberB)

247 Or could it be something else. Like say the GOP blows as an organizing party for elections.

At one point I ended up on lefty mailing/contact lists and I was constantly getting reminded to go vote with offers of rides to the polling station, help getting a mailin ballot, etc.

On the R side all I ever get is requests for money.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 06, 2023 09:09 AM (lc5cP)

248 I suspect the Ds really don't like this compromise because when the middle aged D man shows up at planned parenthood with his pregnant 16 year old...friend...there is that awkward moment when they have to ask the girl who raped her...
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Chyron here this a.m. [unbiased for a change]

Idaho's governor signs bill that makes it illegal for an adult to help a minor get an abortion without parental consent.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 06, 2023 09:10 AM (Vwz3I)

249 Even WaPo.

WaPo Calls Bragg’s Trump Case “Disturbingly Unilluminating”, “Unnervingly Flimsy”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 06, 2023 09:10 AM (FVME7)

250
Yep and it is going to be front and center in the 2024 presidential race and trump will be hammered 24/7 on it because he is the person who literally caused roe v. wade to be overturned.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 06, 2023 09:05 AM

The truth of the matter from what I've read is that Justice Thomas asked, "Why are we still in the abortion litigation business?' The court was simply tired of the endless litigation and sicced it on the states.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 09:10 AM (enJYY)

251 @212 Jackstraw-yes, the same opponents RDS would have to deal with too even if he is the real deal. As I have been peeking in on that “debate” on occasion it seems to be a huge blind spot(among a few others) for the RDS surrogates. Baffling.

Posted by: JROD at April 06, 2023 09:10 AM (IlL6s)

252 There it is

Biden just said "AI" will be used to help fight climate change.
Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 09:04 AM (LMBN3)
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It will indeed. AI will be used to generate vast amount of propaganda in the pursuit of manufactured consent, while AI filters suppress any free speech.

Should work well.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 09:11 AM (t0OGg)

253 Biden just said "AI" will be used to help fight climate change.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 09:04 AM (LMBN3)


A day after reports of a dude being successfully persuaded by AI to off himself over the climate?

They really are laughing. Satan do love his death and destruction.

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 09:11 AM (9UxnR)

254 The life of the mother exception requires clarification in the wake of medical advances, and wide majorities of both Republicans and Democrats support exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape and incest.
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I'd love to know how many mothers lives have been at risk in the last 25 years. I'm guessing zero. If so, just deliver the child.

Related to zero, the pro abortion Gutmmacher folks did a study showing that rape and incest is tied to around 1% of abortions, so the real number is probably a dozen or so. If a woman is raped she is given the morning after pill and a dose of medication to prevent disease the moment she enters the hospital.

It's all based on lies, and Republicans promote it and help.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 09:12 AM (LMBN3)

255 Rockets fired into Israel, Israel jets scrambled. Perfect way to ramp up world chaos would be to set off another round of warfare in the holy land. Israelis are the best at protecting themselves, but with this anti-Semitic,anti-Israeli junta in place they better up their game . If any of those big missiles that Hezbollah has in Lebanon gets through, look out.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 06, 2023 09:12 AM (386ly)

256 A day after reports of a dude being successfully persuaded by AI to off himself over the climate?

They really are laughing. Satan do love his death and destruction.
Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 09:11 AM (9UxnR)
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Well, that would be one way for R's to gain voter ascendancy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at April 06, 2023 09:12 AM (2YtOq)

257 WaPo Calls Bragg’s Trump Case “Disturbingly Unilluminating”, “Unnervingly Flimsy”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 06, 2023 09:10 AM (FVME7)
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So the Party/LE paper is opposed.

What about the State/IC paper (the NYT)?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 09:12 AM (t0OGg)

258 251 @212 Jackstraw-yes, the same opponents RDS would have to deal with too even if he is the real deal. As I have been peeking in on that “debate” on occasion it seems to be a huge blind spot(among a few others) for the RDS surrogates. Baffling.
Posted by: JROD at April 06, 2023 09:10 AM (IlL6s)

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Don't worry. He'll convince Mitch McConnell to let rock-ribbed conservatives through the nomination process for cabinet level posts. It's not like Mitch is anti-conservative and has used his position of power over the past 15 years to stifle conservative gains and help progressives gains, all while feathering his own nest as one of the princes of the establishment.

DeSantis' sexual charisma will change Mitch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

259 There it is

Biden just said "AI" will be used to help fight climate change.
Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 09:04 AM (LMBN3)

Actually makes sense -- artificial intelligence should be applied to artificial science

Posted by: Doof at April 06, 2023 09:13 AM (iY8R7)

260
Even WaPo.

WaPo Calls Bragg’s Trump Case “Disturbingly Unilluminating”, “Unnervingly Flimsy”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 06, 2023 09:10 AM

The left-leaning Philly area radio station yesterday was also downplaying Braggs case. I think the word is already out that it's going to inevitably blow up and nobody wants to go full CNN.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 09:13 AM (enJYY)

261 Uniparty apparatchiks love to demonstrate their "fairness" at specific times.

Posted by: ... at April 06, 2023 09:14 AM (9UxnR)

262 Rockets fired into Israel, Israel jets scrambled.

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And China has three aircraft carriers circling Taiwan.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 09:14 AM (LMBN3)

263 Whoa! Who couldda seen that comng?

Parents Witness “Declining Mental Health” in Post-transition Children

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 06, 2023 09:14 AM (FVME7)

264 260 The left-leaning Philly area radio station yesterday was also downplaying Braggs case. I think the word is already out that it's going to inevitably blow up and nobody wants to go full CNN.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 09:13 AM (enJYY)

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I really expect that the sudden pause of a couple of weeks ago was because higher powers were telling Bragg to back off.

But Bragg, being kind of a dummy, thought he could make it work and rise to the top anyway.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

265 Actually makes sense -- artificial intelligence should be applied to artificial science
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Hahaha

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 09:15 AM (LMBN3)

266 I can hear the AI suggestions now...

Leftist - Suri... how can I help defeat climate change?

Suri - stick your head in the gas stove and light it. Both you and the stove will be used to defeat climate change.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 06, 2023 09:15 AM (Q4IgG)

267 263 Whoa! Who couldda seen that comng?

Parents Witness “Declining Mental Health” in Post-transition Children
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 06, 2023 09:14 AM (FVME7)

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"Only 1% of transitioners have any regrets! This is misinformation! You must be killed!"
-DU

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

268 I always use Chik-Fil-A as an example: after Dan Cathy's loathsome vomitus that whites need to shine blacks' shoes, that company's stock should have cratered and every franchise abandoned. P

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing"


Chick Fillet is highly over rated and pricey. Good but nothing that can explains the lines I see to get food. Only explanation I can come up with is conservative showing their support who are blissfully unaware much of the companies image is a facade and they have been submitting to the woke mob. (Sort of like the Boy Scouts) .

Posted by: Ripley at April 06, 2023 09:16 AM (cUYo/)

269 >>Even WaPo.

WaPo Calls Bragg’s Trump Case “Disturbingly Unilluminating”, “Unnervingly Flimsy”



Eh, I see this is about as relevant as when, after an MSM orgy of coverage of, say, Michael Jackson's death0, they pause for a nanosecond to say, "maybe we went too far," and then they go right back into doing it with the next big scandal/story. This lil' play at self-reflection allows them to absolve themselves of their excesses and never think of it again.

The MSM has been GETTRUMP GETTRUMP GETTRUMP!!! since 2016, actively assisting in any/all efforts to have him arrested, and now that it's finally happened, they pretend to neutrally analyze the specifics of the case. Has anyone in the MSM ever called the Russia hox, the two impeachments, or any other action against Trump (two scoops! overfed fish! missing Melania! etc.) "unnervingly flimsy?"
It's all a pose.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 06, 2023 09:17 AM (EdLEa)

270 There's a terrific essay, yet again, from Victor Davis Hanson where he just lays out exactly what's going on. And then he gets to the last sentence.

He's a smart guy. But smart folks are often the best at self-delusion - because they have all the tools to rationalize anything. Such as that example you pointed out. He outlines a political coup - then, somehow, talks himself into believing that it'll be stopped at the ballot box.

Why ? Easy. Because VDH doesn't have the fourth box.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 06, 2023 09:18 AM (iQE+/)

271 Biden just said "AI" will be used to help fight climate change.

Just another way to say that tax dollars will be routed to companies leveraging AI.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 06, 2023 09:18 AM (YXHzG)

272 Chick Fillet is highly over rated and pricey. Good but nothing that can explains the lines I see to get food. Only explanation I can come up with is conservative showing their support who are blissfully unaware much of the companies image is a facade and they have been submitting to the woke mob. (Sort of like the Boy Scouts) .
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Schnitzel on a bun is not that hard to do. First, you must pound the schnitzel with your meat hammer. Then give it an egg wash and bread it and fry it.

Posted by: Puddinhead at April 06, 2023 09:19 AM (bGkHK)

273 The splash of cold water to the face - and it shouldn't be at this point - is that the Republican Party could actually give a fuck less who's sitting on the courts in any state, be they a referred to as "moderate" or "progressive" or "Stalinist."
The G.O.P. looks upon their own voters as knuckle dragging bible clutchers with the intellect of apes, when it come to regulating baby murder [abortion] and curtailing all that BIG MONEY they can get for the sale of infant parts through Planned Parenthood. And at the end of the day, $$$ is really the only thing Republicans care about, the nation be damned.
JJ, you asked what happened to Republican turnout in Wisconsin and I've got your answer. Oh and it isn't Romney-McDaniel's fault. Republican base voters are abandoning the party. Why should ANY traditional Republican voter continue to support this bunch of liars and con men/women? WHY?!?

2020: NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE

Posted by: Tracy at April 06, 2023 09:19 AM (Myn/+)

274 The ultimate goal is to move various nationalities into western countries, making sure that no one group has any political power. They will use emminent domain to push these people into cities, and use slave labor to produce the food for them. That is your smart city.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 06, 2023 09:19 AM (lTGtQ)

275 @258 TheJamesMadison-Good Morning Sunshine!!!

Posted by: JROD (not always grumpy) at April 06, 2023 09:20 AM (IlL6s)

276 Posted by: Tracy at April 06, 2023 09:19 AM (Myn/+)

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I would like a subscription to your newsletter please.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 09:20 AM (LMBN3)

277 The life of the mother exception requires clarification in the wake of medical advances, and wide majorities of both Republicans and Democrats support exceptions for pregnancies resulting from rape and incest.
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Good morning all. WI resident son gave me the 'both sides do it' argument this am about election nonsense (IL kidlets tell me that as well). The most telling reality divergence was that one of son's (D) neighbors has a healthy 20-week born toddler.

The party of 'science' is not acknowleging the reality of scientific advancements.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 06, 2023 09:20 AM (MIKMs)

278 Chick Fillet is highly over rated and pricey. Good but nothing that can explains the lines I see to get food. Only explanation I can come up with is conservative showing their support who are blissfully unaware much of the companies image is a facade and they have been submitting to the woke mob. (Sort of like the Boy Scouts) .
Posted by: Ripley at April 06, 2023 09:16 AM (cUYo/)
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Speed and quality of service. When I used to go there, that was the key factor. It doesn't matter how long the line is, they move it fast, get it right and do it all politely. During busy periods they take orders in advance by walking up the line. Their model is heavy on manpower but works extremely well to burn the queue down rapidly. When I worked in the office and had a brief lunch break but wanted to leave the building, I could go there and be pretty well assured that I wouldn't be late getting back to the office. That was the draw for me. The product is fine (though I don't get the "best. sandwich. ever." stuff), but the speed and level of service were exceptional.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 09:20 AM (t0OGg)

279 And so in 2024 the Left will not be defeated, but so defeated so that it is utterly discredited.

The choice is ours.

We have not had a choice in anything since March 13, 2020, when the Plandemic was put into action. Then in November 2020, our choice of representative government was taken away with the rigged and stolen election.

"The Left will be defeated" and "the choice is ours" are statements not dealing with reality.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 06, 2023 09:20 AM (Do5/p)

280 States are the key moving forward.

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 09:21 AM (LMBN3)

281 "The Left will be defeated" and "the choice is ours" are statements not dealing with reality.

As I said above, VDH is a big believer in the soap box, ballot box, and jury box. I highly doubt VDH even owns a bullet box. Hence, VDH is going to believe - against all evidence - that he can vote his way out of all this. Because that's all he's got.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 06, 2023 09:22 AM (iQE+/)

282 Matt Walsh at New Mexico State University had a moment of high hilarity: "A trans EMT tried to use his medical training to prove that sex is not binary. He ran into trouble when I asked him how he’d respond to a patient with a penis who claims he’s having a miscarriage."

After of a long pause the answer to the the question was, never mind, the carnage was so great that rivers of mascara freely all the way to the Rio Grande River.

https://tinyurl.com/53nxn6ap

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 06, 2023 09:23 AM (LCgpa)

283 I saw that

Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again at April 06, 2023 09:23 AM (LMBN3)

284 ... JJ, you asked what happened to Republican turnout in Wisconsin and I've got your answer. Oh and it isn't Romney-McDaniel's fault. Republican base voters are abandoning the party. Why should ANY traditional Republican voter continue to support this bunch of liars and con men/women? WHY?!? ...
Posted by: Tracy at April 06, 2023 09:19 AM (Myn/+)
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That *is* a Party problem, and therefore a Party leadership problem. That includes the head of the Party.

This is essentially the same thing I said up there somewhere. The GOP gives voters nothing to vote for, and haven't for decades. The brand is shit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 09:23 AM (t0OGg)

285 275 @258 TheJamesMadison-Good Morning Sunshine!!!
Posted by: JROD (not always grumpy) at April 06, 2023 09:20 AM (IlL6s)

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I made you laugh yesterday. I'm still pretty proud of that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:24 AM (LvTSG)

286 @280

>>States are the key moving forward.


Exactly.

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GOPe whispering in DeSantimnonious ear, agitating for a Presidential run.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 09:24 AM (up/3i)

287 I said this yesterday. The majority of citizens believe that abortion is a personal decision and should be left up to the parties involved. They may be anti abortion personally but do not want government banning it. Romney is correct regarding the messaging. When you have a candidate who is on record saying no exceptions, that candidate is dead in the water. That is the reality of trying to get elected In today s world. There are not enough conservative ideologues to overcome the middle of the road voter. You have to have them comfortable with your position to win their vote, while overcoming the lefts constant lies.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 06, 2023 09:24 AM (F0jcH)

288 DC’s Blue Beetle Director Tweets Then Deletes Post Wishing for Donald Trump Assassination

Blue Beetle must really suck if they need this type of PR

Posted by: SMOD at April 06, 2023 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

289 Schnitzel on a bun is not that hard to do. First, you must pound the schnitzel with your meat hammer. Then give it an egg wash and bread it and fry it.
Posted by: Puddinhead at April 06, 2023 09:19 AM (bGkHK)

I saw Meat Hammer open for Tool at the TCCC in 1995.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 09:25 AM (BRHaw)

290 Chick Fillet is highly over rated and pricey.

Everyone's always known that, but the CFA pose is to target a Christian community, just like Black Rifle targets the pro gun, pro America demographic.

Its just a pose. Just like the woke pose that every company does in June to cater to the LGBT perverts.

Once we learned about how CFA's charity foundation actions didn't follow their rhetoric it gave people like me an opportunity to say "Nah, lets go to Rasin' Cane" because I would like better and less expensive chicken, not paying extra for signaling commitment to a tribe.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 06, 2023 09:25 AM (YXHzG)

291 278 The product is fine (though I don't get the "best. sandwich. ever." stuff), but the speed and level of service were exceptional.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 09:20 AM (t0OGg)

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Every brand has its mega fans. In n Out burger is another big one.

I've had it. It's a burger. Same with Chick Fil'A, it's a chicken sandwich. It's fine.

I don't get excited about much, though. You'll never find me crying while watching a movie trailer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:25 AM (LvTSG)

292 “We have to put the Democrats on the defense on this issue, talk about the fact that they support gender selection abortions, and due date abortions,”

That's your one fucking job, and you screwed it up.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 06, 2023 09:25 AM (Mw/Hv)

293 287 I said this yesterday. The majority of citizens believe that abortion is a personal decision and should be left up to the parties involved. They may be anti abortion personally but do not want government banning it. Romney is correct regarding the messaging. When you have a candidate who is on record saying no exceptions, that candidate is dead in the water. That is the reality of trying to get elected In today s world. There are not enough conservative ideologues to overcome the middle of the road voter. You have to have them comfortable with your position to win their vote, while overcoming the lefts constant lies.
Posted by: Jen the original at April 06, 2023 09:24 AM (F0jcH)

So - politics….

Posted by: tubal at April 06, 2023 09:25 AM (PCK5/)

294 288 DC’s Blue Beetle Director Tweets Then Deletes Post Wishing for Donald Trump Assassination

Blue Beetle must really suck if they need this type of PR
Posted by: SMOD at April 06, 2023 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

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Further evidence that Zaslav is rooting for Blue Beetle to bomb horribly to help justify his decision to wipe the DCEU slate completely clean.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:27 AM (LvTSG)

295 Turnout -- in the very mushy, LIV -- middle is heavily influenced by BS..... ie paid media of every type.
How many Republican candidates in high profile, close races that OUTspend their DEM/Commie rivals loose?
Methinks that number approaches near 0.

Whether we like it, understand or accept it the great majority of voters know little and have to be motivated and guided to the polls. The Dems spend to do exactly this and they win/- with shitty candidates and even shittier policy. Money talks.

And the Dems cheat quite effectively but the money buys their legit leads and they cheat in case the money lead is a little thin.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at April 06, 2023 09:27 AM (647J9)

296 @291

>>I don't get excited about much, though. You'll never find me crying while watching a movie trailer.

Except Wendy's Taco salads, those things are the bomb digity as the kids say.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 09:27 AM (up/3i)

297 238. There it is

Biden just said "AI" will be used to help fight climate change.
Posted by: Biden 2022: I am making sure he does not become the next president again
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Hopefully working for/in lieu of the EPA, the Bureau of Land Management and so many more. Imagine the full time employees and numerous contractors/consultants it might replace!

Kidding. The membership of the National Climate Task Force - one scary group imo - has its plans.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 06, 2023 09:28 AM (GshMh)

298 Whoa! Who couldda seen that comng?

Parents Witness “Declining Mental Health” in Post-transition Children
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 06, 2023 09:14 AM (FVME7)

Whaaat?

There is nothing healthier for a child to hear that there is something wrong with them.

Something so horribly wrong that they need to have parts of their bodies chopped off and give up any hope of a normal human life just to have a chance that they might be okay and acceptable to others and themselves.

I see no way that can possibly go wrong.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 06, 2023 09:28 AM (mm6iK)

299 293 Posted by: tubal at April 06, 2023 09:25 AM (PCK5/)



And yet when any of us even broach the subject of okay, lets compromise, 23 weeks (whatever) and after that it's illegal except the life of mother etc.

The Left REFUSE even that. They REFUSE when the baby is born alive and viable even after the abortion attempt.

Points taken though on the no exception ban at any stage. I don't agree with that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 09:28 AM (x0n13)

300 282 Matt Walsh at New Mexico State University had a moment of high hilarity: "A trans EMT tried to use his medical training to prove that sex is not binary. He ran into trouble when I asked him how he’d respond to a patient with a penis who claims he’s having a miscarriage."

After of a long pause the answer to the the question was, never mind, the carnage was so great that rivers of mascara freely all the way to the Rio Grande River.

https://tinyurl.com/53nxn6ap
Posted by: Lost in Space at April 06, 2023 09:23 AM (LCgpa)

Here is how sad medicine has become. I know of a UK incident and Germany incident where a pregnant woman pretending to be a man was treated for a upset stomach and then the baby was later stillborn.

STUPID

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 09:28 AM (BRHaw)

301 Every brand has its mega fans. In n Out burger is another big one.

I've had it. It's a burger. Same with Chick Fil'A, it's a chicken sandwich. It's fine. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:25 AM (LvTSG)
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I went to an "In 'n Out Burger" for the first time in maybe 2012 or so, long after its reputation preceded it. I friend took me there, very excited to introduce me to it.

I went there. I got my hamburger. I ate it. My reaction was, "it's fine." It is fine. It's good. I do not get the obsession with it. Maybe it's just because of availability. Colonists from California longing for the old country, maybe.

Regional fast food obsessions are something I don't understand. "Whataburger" in Texas is very good, but I don't get the obsession.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 09:28 AM (t0OGg)

302 Speed and quality of service. When I used to go there, that was the key factor. It doesn't matter how long the line is, they move it fast, get it right and do it all politely. During busy periods they take orders in advance by walking up the line. Their model is heavy on manpower but works extremely well to burn the queue down rapidly.
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Same with Portillo's. Local hot dog/Italian beef place with franchises around NorthIll. My favorite, so obviously it is going to be politicized somehow.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 06, 2023 09:28 AM (MIKMs)

303 Related to the Blue Beetle director's tweet:

Paul Schrader has a new movie coming out, and he's known for some straight to the point and occasionally based Facebook posts. His production company (a smaller, independent company) told him to cut out social media completely until the movie is out. He agreed.

It seems like something more productions companies should demand of their talent in the lead up to releases.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:28 AM (LvTSG)

304 I said this yesterday. The majority of citizens believe that abortion butchering innocent babies is a personal decision and should be left up to the parties involved.

And this is why the country is collapsing. A majority reject Imago Dei and accept Life-Unworthy-of-Life when evaluating a person's worth.

When the majority looks at an fellow human being like diseased livestock, you are a fucked up country that doesn't deserve to continue.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 06, 2023 09:29 AM (YXHzG)

305 296
Except Wendy's Taco salads, those things are the bomb digity as the kids say.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 06, 2023 09:27 AM (up/3i)

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*considers mentioning reaction to Firehouse subs*

*thinks better of mentioning reaction to Firehouse subs and does not mention reaction to Firehouse subs*

*does own part to keep thread reaction to Firehouse subs free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

306 The product is fine (though I don't get the "best. sandwich. ever." stuff), but the speed and level of service were exceptional.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 09:20 AM (t0OGg)

Fast and edible. That's all I want, and McDonalds and Burger King can no longer manage that.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 06, 2023 09:29 AM (Mw/Hv)

307
I'm a male, but I can imagine a rapist locking me up for weeks then escaping only to discover being pregnant. No possibility to end the demon seed inside me? There aren't enough rusty coat hangers I'd go through to get that out.

Any politician who won't concede that point may as well run with an (L) behind his name. No matter how rare the scenario.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 09:30 AM (enJYY)

308 I see no way that can possibly go wrong.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 06, 2023 09:28 AM (mm6iK)

Seem like we really never adjust to mentally ill kids.

We sterilized them in the 20s so they did not make more crazy.

We lobotomized them in the 40s and 50s.

No we kill them with chemicals and chop off parts.

See the trend!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 06, 2023 09:30 AM (BRHaw)

309 301 I went there. I got my hamburger. I ate it. My reaction was, "it's fine." It is fine. It's good. I do not get the obsession with it. Maybe it's just because of availability. Colonists from California longing for the old country, maybe.

Regional fast food obsessions are something I don't understand. "Whataburger" in Texas is very good, but I don't get the obsession.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 09:28 AM (t0OGg)

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Whataburger is better, I think, but I'd probably rate it at about the same level as a Burger King Whopper. There's only so much you can do with a thin meat patty in burger form.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:30 AM (LvTSG)

310 I don't get excited about much, though. You'll never find me crying while watching a movie trailer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:25 AM (LvTSG)

Even the trailer for "Prometheus"?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 06, 2023 09:30 AM (mm6iK)

311 Are you sure she won....or was she installed; like biden? We have seen elections stolen. We just haven't seen the need to tighten up security of the succeeding elections.
The only time I will be assured that a election is true....is when they use a paper ballot and I have to dip my finger into purple ink.

Posted by: Steve at April 06, 2023 09:30 AM (nt2nO)

312 299

And yet when any of us even broach the subject of okay, lets compromise, 23 weeks (whatever) and after that it's illegal except the life of mother etc.

The Left REFUSE even that. They REFUSE when the baby is born alive and viable even after the abortion attempt.

Points taken though on the no exception ban at any stage. I don't agree with that.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 09:28 AM (x0n13)

I am hard core right to life. Most people are not.

Posted by: tubal at April 06, 2023 09:31 AM (PCK5/)

313 ART NOOD

Posted by: Skip at April 06, 2023 09:31 AM (xYJ/j)

314 Every brand has its mega fans. In n Out burger is another big one.

I've had it. It's a burger. Same with Chick Fil'A, it's a chicken sandwich. It's fine. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:25 AM (LvTSG)
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I went to an "In 'n Out Burger" for the first time in maybe 2012 or so, long after its reputation preceded it. I friend took me there, very excited to introduce me to it.

I went there. I got my hamburger. I ate it. My reaction was, "it's fine." It is fine. It's good. I do not get the obsession with it. Maybe it's just because of availability. Colonists from California longing for the old country, maybe.

Regional fast food obsessions are something I don't understand. "Whataburger" in Texas is very good, but I don't get the obsession.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

New Mexico enters Blake's Green Chile Cheese Burgers to the discussion. Blake's loves to tell you they won an award for the best one ever. How do you argue with and award?

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 06, 2023 09:31 AM (LCgpa)

315 New Mexico enters Blake's Green Chile Cheese Burgers to the discussion. Blake's loves to tell you they won an award for the best one ever. How do you argue with and award?
Posted by: Lost in Space at April 06, 2023 09:31 AM (LCgpa)
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You can't. Pabst Blue Ribbon has been demonstrating that for over a century.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 09:32 AM (t0OGg)

316 Fast for is fast food. That is all.

It's not a Michelin star restaurant.

Posted by: Archer at April 06, 2023 09:33 AM (gmo/4)

317 Cash App Creator and Tech Executive Bob Lee Fatally Stabbed in San Francisco

This could be the straw that breaks the camel's back for the San Fransisco area.

Most likely beneficiary of this is Arizona.

Posted by: SMOD at April 06, 2023 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

318 315 You can't. Pabst Blue Ribbon has been demonstrating that for over a century.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 06, 2023 09:32 AM (t0OGg)

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Fuck Heineken.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:33 AM (LvTSG)

319 Small Businesses File For Bankruptcy At Record Pace, Surpassing COVID Crash

...one of the more underappreciated signs of distress in U.S. corporate credit is already emanating from the small- and mid-size enterprises sector

Posted by: SMOD at April 06, 2023 09:34 AM (RHGPo)

320 Regional fast food obsessions are something I don't understand. "Whataburger" in Texas is very good, but I don't get the obsession.

I tried to like Whataburger. I really did. Back in the stone-age when I had a television and saw a Whataburger advertisement for a particular specialty burger, I would go get it just to be burned on how plain and undifferentiated from Whopper King and Burger Mac the sandwich was.

Yet another chain cutting costs and buying crap ingredients that can be obtained at scale and having the same worthless derelicts and illegal aliens in the kitchen assembling the mess.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 06, 2023 09:34 AM (YXHzG)

321 French Pension Protesters Storm Paris BlackRock Headquarters

"Railway workers have taken over BlackRock's headquarters in Paris."

Oh, Darn

Posted by: SMOD at April 06, 2023 09:35 AM (RHGPo)

322
I am hard core right to life. Most people are not.

Posted by: tubal at April 06, 2023 09:31 AM

I support your position on right to life. But I would not vote for you if you said no exceptions. The Governor candidate in PA and the Court candidate in WI apparently both were reported as being no exception peeps. Like dropping a bar of soap in a prison shower, it's a very bad position to take.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 09:36 AM (enJYY)

323

33,425.12 -57.60 (-0.17%)
As of 09:36AM EDT. Market open.

Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at April 06, 2023 09:36 AM (yQpMk)

324 I tried to like Whataburger.

It's - a hamburger, like any other. But it was also my first intro to the Texas mentality. Everything is better in Texas, says any Texan.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 06, 2023 09:36 AM (iQE+/)

325 @285 TheJamesMadison-I certainly come here for the humor and yeah that shit was funny. I’m actually a happy go lucky cheery person. Politics I have a tendency to treat as a blood sport and I want scalps. So if I’ve ever accidentally clipped your ears or bangs…..sorry.

In that same thread you also asked DeSantis surrogate Archimedes how does he think DeSantis is going to win after he acknowledged that 20’ was stolen. That was comment #309. He never answered. They never do. IMO that’s the only question that should be asked of DeSantis surrogates. All BS aside I would genuinely like to hear it.

Posted by: JROD (not always grumpy) at April 06, 2023 09:36 AM (IlL6s)

326 320 Yet another chain cutting costs and buying crap ingredients that can be obtained at scale and having the same worthless derelicts and illegal aliens in the kitchen assembling the mess.

.. not to worry. Soon they will be assembled by robots, making the cleanup guy the most important (and only) employee

Posted by: SMOD at April 06, 2023 09:37 AM (RHGPo)

327 At least VDH admitted the country is collapsing and not just on the verge.

Posted by: Ziba at April 06, 2023 09:37 AM (4h9M3)

328 As I said above, VDH is a big believer in the soap box, ballot box, and jury box. I highly doubt VDH even owns a bullet box. Hence, VDH is going to believe - against all evidence - that he can vote his way out of all this. Because that's all he's got.
Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 06, 2023 09:22 AM (iQE+/)
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Having listened to several of his interviews the past few days, and having actually read this last essay in full, I don't believe he thinks we're going to vote our way out of this. In fact, I have never seen him so negative about our future.

Posted by: IrishEi at April 06, 2023 09:37 AM (3ImbR)

329 325 @285 TheJamesMadison-I certainly come here for the humor and yeah that shit was funny. I’m actually a happy go lucky cheery person. Politics I have a tendency to treat as a blood sport and I want scalps. So if I’ve ever accidentally clipped your ears or bangs…..sorry.

In that same thread you also asked DeSantis surrogate Archimedes how does he think DeSantis is going to win after he acknowledged that 20’ was stolen. That was comment #309. He never answered. They never do. IMO that’s the only question that should be asked of DeSantis surrogates. All BS aside I would genuinely like to hear it.
Posted by: JROD (not always grumpy) at April 06, 2023 09:36 AM (IlL6s)

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We might have bumped heads, but I don't remember. I don't hold grudges. We're all good. You just come across as grump sometimes, like a lot of people. MPPP is another, and I've met him in real life. He's actually a pretty nice guy. I never heard him curse, and yet, he comes here and...the curses fly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 06, 2023 09:38 AM (LvTSG)

330 New Mexico enters Blake's Green Chile Cheese Burgers to the discussion. Blake's loves to tell you they won an award for the best one ever. How do you argue with and award?
Posted by: Lost in Space at April 06, 2023 09:31 AM (LCgpa)
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You can't. Pabst Blue Ribbon has been demonstrating that for over a century.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

New Mexico slinks away muttering about never getting any respect.

Posted by: Lost in Space at April 06, 2023 09:38 AM (LCgpa)

331 In that same thread you also asked DeSantis surrogate Archimedes how does he think DeSantis is going to win after he acknowledged that 20’ was stolen.

He won't, unless the UniParty wishes it. Trump wears me out. Trump supporters wear me out. Neither of those realities change the fact that - after 2020 - nobody wins unless the UniParty says they win.

Posted by: Perfect Hair at April 06, 2023 09:38 AM (iQE+/)

332 Alabama has essential outlawed elective abortions. That is what I have voted for. Overturning Roe and Doe allows the various state residents to care less about what other states do. I need care no more about what New York does than I care what France does. I will never be visiting either again.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at April 06, 2023 09:39 AM (yQpMk)

333 Wisconsin Republicans also WON an important election: the WI Senate now has a GOP supermajority, which means they have the power to convict impeached state officials. The WI State Assembly has a solid majority 64% GOP, just 3 votes shy of a veto-proof majority.

Posted by: mrp at April 06, 2023 09:39 AM (rj6Yv)

334
My Dad's second wife's mother had to flee Nazi Germany as she was Jewish. She discovered she was pregnant and already had two children to try to escape with. Real world horrific situation. I won't be the final judge of people on the decisions they make, I can only try to understand their point of view a little. Infanticide is wrong wrong wrong. Abortion is wrong wrong wrong. But sometimes you have to put an asterisk next to stuff or you get an (L) behind your name.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 06, 2023 09:44 AM (enJYY)

335 Republican wins here and there is the grasping at straws phase. Paper straws, not plastic.

Posted by: Ziba at April 06, 2023 09:45 AM (4h9M3)

336 I should say Good Morning to all, and Thanks, J.J.

Press Releases: Connolly, Fitzpatrick introduce bipartisan Saving the Civil Service Act to Protect Federal Workforce from Politicization, Washington, Feb 14, 2023

Today, Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced the Saving the Civil Service Act to protect the federal workforce from politicization and political manipulation. The bipartisan legislation includes & builds on ... Preventing a Patronage System Act, which passed the House in September 2022.

"The former President's attempt to remove qualified experts and replace them with political loyalists was a direct threat to our national security and our government's ability to function the way the American people expect it to. Expertise, not political fealty, must define our civil service."

Worth a glance, especially the unions', management associations' etc. comments praising it. All nonsence. Be nice if Civil Service would simply abide by the Act. At this point in time & with nothing having to do with PDT, it's nothing more than a huge politicized & manipulated employment hole.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 06, 2023 09:47 AM (GshMh)

337

In a statement released Tuesday and in an interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters, Comer — chairman of the House Oversight Committee — announced that the picture previously painted, of classified documents being discovered by the Biden legal team in November (then kept secret until CBS News reported their existence in January), was wildly incorrect.

In fact, Comer said, testimony from Kathy Chung, Biden’s former executive assistant, showed that the Biden White House had been trying to retrieve the documents since at least May of last year — six months before the public learned about them.

“She said this dates back to May of 2022, that the documents were moved from the vice presidency to at least three different locations in a personal vehicle,” he said. “And why they were in three different locations, we don’t know.

“They weren’t stored behind any locks. One of the locations was in Chinatown. The other location was in the Penn Biden Center, which might as well have been Chinatown, by looking at where their money was coming from.

Posted by: SMOD at April 06, 2023 09:56 AM (RHGPo)

338 Harmeet Dhillon does more for the GOP in her court cases than the GOP does for itself with all its idiocy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 06, 2023 08:45 AM (whJr1)

Has she?
I mean, glossing over the fact that the RNC pays her and in my opinion she was there to distract from Lindell's challenge as the "acceptable" challenger.
How have her court cases gone?

Posted by: Inogame at April 06, 2023 10:05 AM (53oGX)

339 "If America (such as it exists) still is a majority conservative country, or at a minimum center-right if you still use that kind of dodgy paradigm, and if poll after poll over the years shows a clear two-thirds majority of respondents across party/ideological lines wanting at least some restrictions on state-sanctioned infanticide, how is it that that attitude is not reflected at the polls?"

No, no, and NO!!! This is a HARD LEFT country now. Prostitutewicz won BIG, and the fact that Johnson won at all simply confirm that. The GOP got hosed last fall, barely winning the House and losing a number of races thought to be in the bag (not that it matters anyway, they're mostly useless). And if the public is good with restrictions on abortions, they sure didn't show it in Kansas, Michigan, and Montana.

With each passing year the electorate lurches further in the woke direction. They are good with jailing and even exterminating people of whom they disapprove, and are putting a government in place to do precisely that. We are not voting our way out of this.

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at April 06, 2023 10:13 AM (WusEB)

340 Pope Paul VI's encyclical on the immorality of The Pill (and its consequent dangers) was correct. Every. Damn. Thing. we see now: the abortion cult, the Tranny Cult, Queer "marriage" --all a result of the 'sex without kids' pleasure-cult. And the biggest problem is just now beginning: the collapse of the US-born citizen population numbers. We got all the sex, no responsibility, and now, no kids!

It is useful, although extremely distasteful, to remember that all these Moloch-ian victories began very small, indeed. To attempt a 100% turnaround in the abortion culture in 2 years is NOT a path to victory.

Posted by: dad29 at April 06, 2023 10:15 AM (mzJmr)

341 333 Wisconsin Republicans also WON an important election: the WI Senate now has a GOP supermajority, which means they have the power to convict impeached state officials. The WI State Assembly has a solid majority 64% GOP, just 3 votes shy of a veto-proof majority.
Posted by: mrp at April 06, 2023 09:39 AM (rj6Yv)

This is great, until they have to redraw districts and the court appoints a "neutral" committee, that twists the crap out of it until WI = IL.
I give it 10 years till we talk about how crazy WI gov't is but 'they get what they vote for'.

Posted by: Inogame at April 06, 2023 10:23 AM (53oGX)

342 This is great, until they have to redraw districts and the court appoints a "neutral" committee, that twists the crap out of it until WI = IL.
I give it 10 years till we talk about how crazy WI gov't is but 'they get what they vote for'.
Posted by: Inogame at April 06, 2023 10:23 AM (53oGX)

That's fine. Now the GOP has the muscle to take on the court. It's time we put our "precious democracy" to the test.

Posted by: mrp at April 06, 2023 10:34 AM (rj6Yv)

343 Trump went along with 110 other RNC members who wanted Romney. I emailed all three of my states RNC members in support of Harmeet and only one responded saying he voted Harmeet.

That is it. 2/3 didn't even respond because they know they do not have to. They belong to donors who put them up at toney Dana Pointe.

That is the republican party other than a few such as Trump who are willing to push the establishment. Hell, even Thomas Massie appears to be gazing at Bitch McConnell's seat by siding with the donors.

The republican party has more than enough cash to battle any fight they want and they choose not to.

"We make more money when our guys lose." - RNC Chief Legal Counsel Justin Riemer.

Posted by: Danimal28 at April 06, 2023 10:34 AM (klw0w)

344 At least you now have a Senate super-majority, JJ.

Here in communist MN the takeover is in full progress.

Posted by: Danimal28 at April 06, 2023 10:47 AM (klw0w)

345 "GOP Bill Would Deport Any Illegal Immigrant Who Assaults a Cop"

Start by using the proper terms. There is not a designation of 'illegal immigrant'. That is already on the books as 'illegal alien'.
Why do we need a new law? There are laws on the books that say: an illegal alien, a non-resident alien or a resident alien shall be deported when convicted of a felony. No appeals, delays, etc.

Also an illegal alien is committing/has committed a felony by just being here, so no questions needed.

Posted by: Ciampino - I will survive at April 06, 2023 11:13 AM (qfLjt)

346 When I get high, we go Low...heh heh heh...Hey shout to Jho, Jho Low!

Posted by: B Hussein at April 06, 2023 11:16 AM (OMSdQ)

347 Perfect Hair is correct. Instead of a litany of articles decrying our current state, what would be more useful would be discussions about life apres le deluge: the realization that we can’t vote our way out, we are in a one party police state, and there are no political lifelines. What then?
What choices are left? how will Americans reorient themselves? What are the variety of reactions?

Posted by: LexisTexas at April 06, 2023 11:21 AM (MWeTv)

348 It was none stop ads over the last few months here in Southern Wisc and a very low % of them were Kelly ads. With her record of soft on crime, this should have been a slam dunk.

Posted by: Gerry at April 06, 2023 12:55 PM (OOjj5)

349 348 It was none stop ads over the last few months here in Southern Wisc and a very low % of them were Kelly ads. With her record of soft on crime, this should have been a slam dunk.
Posted by: Gerry at April 06, 2023 12:55 PM (OOjj5)


Yup. I saw them too. Sick.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 06, 2023 05:55 PM (x0n13)

350 Whine harder JJ. You’re a pathetic complainer with no plan other than to repeatedly note the republic is dead and implicitly advise your readers to all bend over and take it in the ass sober and with no lubricant.

Because if we did anything “effective” it would be “insurrection” and we can’t do that. Pfft.

Eff you.

Posted by: Dummy #43 at April 07, 2023 02:55 AM (8oC5M)

351 A couple of thoughts:
- Gotta give DiCaprio some thumbs up for his willingness to go on record about this. Many stars would have developed a shaky memory.
- It may be an indication that the Leftists in Charge are willing to dump the Big O. If corruption will be coming out, better to be on the side that exposes him early. It may also be a way of keeping Big Mike from running. I sense the not-so-subtle Hand of Clinton in this.
- If O's legacy is on the line, I expect that they are prepared to jettison Biden, and well before the primaries (or, maybe in the middle, with the New Chosen Dem receiving the votes by acclamation).

Posted by: Linda S Fox at April 07, 2023 07:20 AM (PS49u)

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