The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 4/17/23

Good morning, kids. Tomorrow is tax day, and so it's time to pony up and pay "our fair share." Whatever the hell that is. It's funny; despite the political kabuki-bukkake theater of debt ceilings and deficit spending, the Left nevertheless keep insisting that somehow the laws of economics don't apply to government, insofar as the government can borrow as much as it wants without any consideration to paying it back. Well, if that's the case, then why do we need an income tax if they can just print and spend at will?

They can't, of course. And one day, perhaps very soon now, it will be time to pay the piper, as it were. Of course, the ultimate goal is to wipe out the ability of the individual to earn as much as his God-given ability and drive allows him to and thereby make him a slave to The State. What better way than onerous tax regimes, fees and bureaucracies that allow those who've already made it big to pull up the ladder behind them and keep the last slice of what is supposed to be an ever-expanding pie to themselves and their protectors in government. It's a neat little racket that sort of resembles a Venn diagram of fascism and communism.

For my money – pun totally intended – there's no better example of this than what's happening in California, which nowadays has all but become the Democratic People's Republic of California. And remember, historically, as goes California, soon so goes the nation.

The state of California is implementing full Marxism before our very eyes under the guise of “equity.” And so now there can be no possible doubt if there ever was for anyone: instituting Communism has been what “equity” initiatives have been about all along. Now three of its most powerful utility companies are saying that they’re going to charge based not on how much of their product was used, but on how much money the user makes. . .
. . . If the California utility companies are going to make people who have more money pay more for the same goods and services they could get for less money if they had less, there will be several results: wealthier people will seek to hide their wealth through various means, so as to pay the lower rate. Some enterprising entrepreneurs will make a good living by helping them do this. So from the Marxism of the utility companies will come more capitalism.
Also, people will see that there is no point in working harder to try to earn more money, as the state will just confiscate it in various ways. Consequently, people will work less, and less hard. The standard of living will decline, because productivity will have declined. This is why Communist countries have always been economic failures: they block the capitalist incentive that people have to work hard, and thus destroy the only path to prosperity.

That last paragraph of friend Robert Spencer's article many of you with a proper education will find familiar because it is the actual story of what happened to the Pilgrims after landing in the new world, but I digress. Here's another great idea from Gavin Newsom:

The more tightly things are grasped, the more likely they are to slip through the fingers. Predictably, the elite who normally support progressive measures found themselves scrambling to sell their homes before the measure, known as the “Mansion Tax,” kicks in.
The real estate market might be cooling nationally, but among the multimillionaire set in Los Angeles, it has been red hot — so much so that some sellers are getting burned.
Sellers have been throwing in brand new Bentleys and McLarens and drastically slashing prices in order to incentivize a quick close.
That’s because a so-called “mansion tax” goes into effect Saturday in Los Angeles, adding a 4% tax for sellers on homes that sell for between $5 million and $10 million and 5.5% on amounts $10 million and above.
The change will add hundreds of thousands — if not millions — of dollars in additional new transfer taxes for sellers, which will go to support a homeless housing measure Angelenos passed last November.
Supporters assert that the tax will bring in $900 million annually for subsidized housing in an area in which affordable housing is a significant issue.
Of course, supporters of tax increases count on monies they don’t yet have and fail to consider all the unintended consequences.
[The] tax applies to every real estate sale within Los Angeles that is not exempt – including not just mansions, but apartment complexes, retail and industrial buildings and other structures, causing some in the real-estate business to warn that developers will look elsewhere to build.
. . . The once robust tax-base is now fleeing the state in droves. Fiscal experts are beginning to notice the state’s economy is on edge. . . But, hey, if the progressives feel good about their choices . . . isn’t that what’s really important?

Quit your bitching, Californians. After all, you've got all all that free, clean, renewable energy that's going to make everything groovy. Or not.

California’s headlong rush to replace its electricity grid with renewable energy has given the rest of the country a preview of the decarbonized future that Joe Biden and his revived Clean Power Plan envision for America. It isn’t pretty.
Before supply-chain woes and federal stimulus goosed inflation, California’s cost of living already ranked second highest in the nation. Enthusiastic efforts to rely more heavily on wind and solar power—touted as “cheap” sources of clean energy—have only made the state more expensive . . .
. . . California and clean energy seem like a natural fit. The state’s sunny coastlines, bright deserts, windy mountain passes, and deep river valleys should offer bountiful sources of cheap, all-natural solar, wind, and hydropower. Unfortunately, they don’t. Nightfall, droughts, and windless days take these renewable power sources offline. And when intermittent clean energy sources cannot keep up with demand, California power providers turn to natural gas and electricity imports that backstop the state’s grid, but which are now more expensive due to the insufficient storage and pipeline capacity created by the idealized rush to “cheap” clean energy.
Inefficient energy markets, unpredictable price spikes, unreliable power sources, and a hostile regulatory environment have all contributed to a 40 percent increase in the average California electric bill over the last five years. Retirees, low-income households, and middle-class families bear the brunt of the higher prices. Millions of Californians now stretch their already strained budgets just to cover food, fuel, shelter, and an ever-rising electricity bill. . .
. . . California’s seismic shift to cleaner energy tells a cautionary tale. The Golden State may someday achieve fossil fuel independence, but that dream remains elusive. And imposing the Biden Administration’s California-style emission reduction policy would be economically disastrous for states that rely on energy-intensive manufacturing and agriculture without California’s sun-kissed geographic advantages.

Well, we've covered taxes. Now let's talk about death.

The District Attorneys of Tulare County and Riverside County, Tim Ward and Mike Hestrin, respectively, and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and Riverside City PD Chief Larry Gonzalez, held a joint press conference on April 12, 2023 (See Video). These DAs are not radical Left Soros-supported prosecutors. Instead, they are at wit's end regarding the unintended consequences of Assembly Bill 109, the California Public Safety Realignment Act, for serial low-level felony offenders. . .
. . . AB109 released low-level felons from state prison back to their home counties for incarceration and supervision (AB109 local state prison). Riverside County DA Hestrin expressed his frustration “Frankly, all of us up here on stage have had enough…. We cannot protect our public; we are getting no help from Sacramento, the laws don’t back us up.”
. . . Riverside County, CA's chief law enforcement officers are not pleased with the unintended consequences of AB109's results and subsequent actions of the progressive-dominated California State Legislature (here) and Governor Gavin Newsom. However, social justice reform advocates quickly point out that in prison populations, minorities are disproportionally represented and assume this is from racial discrimination and deserve early release (a debate for a later time). . .
. . . Under the cloak of social justice reform, the radical Left decriminalized many crimes by selective prosecution and no cash bail releases before trial without considering victims and public safety in many states nationwide. There is a hidden political agenda of the radical Left with decriminalizing and no cash bail – to sow havoc and chaos to destabilize our local communities:
NGOs funded by George Soros and others dropped millions of dollars into local district attorney races to elect far-left prosecutors (as many as 70). Under the veil of social justice reform, these prosecutors implemented policies including no cash bail, which released violent serial offenders without regard for public safety. The released, ruthless, violent criminals commit new murders, rape, robberies, and mayhem before trial. Again, to wreak havoc and chaos within our communities, who then, in fear for their safety, will willingly relinquish their civil rights in exchange for totalitarian controls.

Should Joey "Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants" decide not to run, or have that decision made for him, one of the prime candidates being talked about is Gavin Newsom. Frankly, I don't see it because he's got the wrong melanin, wrong gender and wrong sexual orientation. But if you only look at the state of the State of California, in terms of Democrat-Leftist policy he's their ideal candidate.

Of course, the Democrat-Left abhor the concept of meritocracy, and yet Newsom has "succeeded" wildly. There's an irony in there that is chuckle-worthy, or would be if the consequences were not so horrifyingly catastrophic. California is, or at one point was the sixth largest economy in the world. When you consider its ports, its farmland, the non-ideological aspects of Silicon Valley, and many other things, its complete ruination -- driven by a Leftist-dominated statehouse and several of our nation's formerly great megalopolises within its borders -- was and remains a harbinger of things to come.

What a waste.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Can eating lab-grown meat – which is essentially a form of deliberately grown cancer – actually give you cancer? How can you convince the public that it won’t, when nobody has ever eaten it before? And is a man with a troubled business history – a history he’s done his best to hide – the right person to do it?"
The Lab Grown ‘GOOD Meat’ Company Has a Murky Past, and They’re Extremely Sensitive About It . . .
"J.P. Sears lays out with humor the horrifying reality that could be coming our way if this is passed."
Must See TV: J.P. Sears Explains the Restrict Act
Victor Davis Hanson: "The remedies are agreed upon, but the needed medicine is feared more than the disease. Because today, the government is the cause of our many crises."
Can We Do Anything About America’s Decline?
“Also ‘African-American’ is an insult. I don’t subscribe to that title. Black people have had different titles all the way back to the n-word and I do not know how these things get such a grip, but everyone uses ‘African-American.’ What does it really mean?”
Morgan Freeman Calls ‘Black History Month’ and ‘African-American’ Terms an ‘Insult’
"Documents . . . show a private company’s unprecedented effort to inject DEI into classrooms."
How Walmart Pushed Arkansas Public Schools to Go Woke

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

“A lot of people don’t understand how North Korea became this way. It resembles exactly what’s happening in America right now,” [Park] said, referring to her concerns with Critical Race Theory, gender ideology, and intersectionality seeping into the American Education system, which she said fosters a victim mentality. “Now thinking about (these ideologies), what an insult that is to all the students. They were on purpose making me a disabled person.”
Defector Warns That the U.S. Is Becoming More Like North Korea
"Here’s a roundup of the DOJ deploying federal resources to do Democrats’ bidding."
19 Times Democrats and DOJ Deliberately Politicized Law Enforcement
"Every public utterance, every policy move, every new regulation from today’s progressives is designed to further their ability to obtain and hold power and control the American populace."
Progressives Not Interested in the Good of the Country
"Nearly 80 percent of Americans believe there is a two-tiered justice system. This week’s courtroom episodes only validate the public’s perception."
Sam Brinton Avoids Jail Time For Stealing Women’s Luggage While Meme Creator Faces 10 Years Behind Bars
"The federal government's number-one worry is you." (meh, if they feared us, they wouldn't be doing this - jjs)
They Fear You
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"More surveillance justification."
Biden Junta Considers Increasing Social Media Surveillance After Pentagon Leaks
"All of us who value the integrity of our Constitution should hope and pray that this staunch warrior withstands the specious attacks on him."
The Vicious Media Attack Against Clarence Thomas
Michael Shellenberger: "The idea that governments worldwide are working together to censor their citizens sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it's not. It's increasingly clear that there is just such an organized effort involving, at a minimum, the US, Canada, UK, & New Zealand."
Twitter Files Journalist: Global Governments Coordinate to Censor Citizens
"Setmayer, a senior adviser with the [National Man-Boy] Lincoln Project, joined MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart on his “Saturday Show” — and she weighed in on the recent soft launch of Scott’s 2024 presidential campaign."
MSNBC Guest Calls Tim Scott a ‘Racial Pacifier’ and ‘Security Blanket’ for Republicans
"And to her malignant anti-Israeli views."
Time to Say Goodbye to CNN Producer Tamara Qiblawi
"So whether Parler returns as a social media platform — though surely not as 'a Twitter clone just for conservatives' — it might be worthwhile. But if Starboard uses Parler as the genesis for more opportunities within a larger, more right-friendly communications and business ecosystem, the future could be exciting."
Digital Media Conglomerate Buys Conservative Social Media Site Parler
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"Or will the growing list of family's questionable dealings lead to Biden abandoning 2024 run?"
Will Latest Revelations Of Corruption Get Biden Impeached?
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Clarice Feldman: "The climate change fairytale has lasted long enough -- forty or fifty years -- with no sound empirical backing."
Can a Discriminatory View of Legal Standing Stand?
"Despite their advocates’ urgent claims, renewable energy sources are still intermittent, unreliable, and far more expensive than advertised."
California’s Cautionary Clean Energy
"Let's see just how much energy we would need to get America to all-electric."
America's Coming Energy Crisis
"Pay attention to what global-warming Cassandras do, not what they say."
Thirty Years of Global Warming Prophecies
"Loose lips, however, sink not only ships, but also hard-earned reputations for ferocity."
T-Rex to Modern Science: Don’t Give Me Any Lip
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The annual humiliation ritual is here again."
The Taxman Cometh
"Increasingly, Americans aren’t working as teenagers, and it’s no wonder there’s a growing political movement that equates employment with exploitation."
Teen Employment Isn’t Exploitation, But it Might Keep You From Becoming a Helpless Adult
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Data analyzed by the Center for Immigration Studies’ George Fishman, a former DHS official from the Trump administration, shows the extent to which Biden has used the parole pipeline to massively grow the nation’s foreign-born population."
Biden’s Parole Pipeline Frees over a Million Migrants into U.S., Exceeding Populations of 6 States
“I am writing now to underscore how critical it is that health care providers take a wide range of considerations into account when working with people who are seeking asylum … The scope of this letter represents the scale of the need. It is incumbent upon us as a welcoming city to comprehensively evaluate and meet these needs.”
Half of Foreign Migrants Piling into NYC Not Vaxxed for Polio, Top Doc Warns
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The carousing began Wednesday night, only days after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chose Chicago for the site of its 2024 National Presidential Convention despite that the city suffers one of the nation’s highest murder rates.
Large Groups of Teens Erupt in Four Days of Violence Days after Democrats Choose Chicago for 2024 Convention
"Thus far, the tragic shooting in Dadeville appears to not involve an 'angry white man,' which the left is quick to blame for mass shootings . . . It’s all a ruse to take your guns. Leftists will gladly sacrifice thousands of lives to disarm We the People."
Brutal Mass Shooting in Alabama, Soon to Be Memory-Holed, Leaves Four Dead, 20 Injured
"New York Times Shines Spotlight on the Repeat Offender Problem in New York City: 'Collectively, they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times,' Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said." (second look at summary execution? - jjs)
“Nearly a Third of All Shoplifting Arrests in NYC Last Year Involved Just 327 People
"Democrats know the issue of crime is a loser for them, and yet, rather than protecting their constituents, they’ve decided the best strategy is to deny that the crime is happening at all."
Democrats Ignoring Real Crime in Favor of Targeting Trump
The very first of the American Bar Association’s “Special Responsibilities of a Prosecutor” admonishes that “[t]he prosecutor in a criminal case shall refrain from prosecuting a charge that the prosecutor knows is not supported by probable cause.” This is one such case, and shame on Gascón for pursuing it.
Los Angeles DA George Gascón: Menace to Society
"They are at wit's end regarding the unintended consequences of Assembly Bill 109, the California Public Safety Realignment Act, for serial low-level felony offenders."
Governor Gavin Newsom, These California Law Enforcement Leaders are Calling You Out
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
“You’re thinking of your health, and so that’s what I was thinking of when I got the vaccine. … The other thing is, people were saying you’re a horrible person if you don’t get the vaccine, so your character was questioned.”
Army Trainee Had Two Heart Attacks After Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine. Now, She’s Likely To Be Discharged
"Note, too, the locations of both these cases, Texas and Florida. Both states are considered very conservative, with their political leadership strongly dominated by Republicans. Yet, the health bureaucracies in both places are apparently very leftist, and quite willing to override the general policies of the lawmakers the public elected to rule, because these bureaucracies clearly are smarter and better and superior to those unwashed millions who stupidly voted for Republicans."
Today’s Blacklisted American: Licensing Authorities Use Power to Deny Doctors Freedom of Speech
"Arcturus has a new symptom that has not been prevalent in previous [Chinese] covid variants: Pink eye." (not falling for this - jjs)
WHO Now Tracking ‘Arcturus,’ a Highly Transmissible Chinese Covid Variant
SECOND AMENDMENT
"He noted that while Biden’s gun controls suppress the law-abiding citizen’s ability to exercise the Second Amendment, criminals are allowed to roam free and the controls do not prevent them from acting on their criminal desires."
Trump at NRA: ‘Biden Gun Control Agenda’ Weaponizes Government Against the People
David Harsanyi: " . . . I suspect that the self-reported thoughts of 1,271 people — answering a bunch of poorly defined questions about a highly emotional and politically charged issue 'online and by telephone' — should not be relied on with any certitude. And yet, there isn’t a single establishment media reporter writing about the report that exhibits a hint of skepticism."
That Kaiser Gun Study the Media Love is Garbage
Nancy Mace is fast becoming the Liz Cheney of Renee Ellmers-es.
Rep. Nancy Mace Accuses Her Own Party Of Being ‘Silent’ About Mass Shootings
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Would you like your tenth-grader to be instructed to write a sexual fantasy for school? It's not a hypothetical scenario."
What Is Happening in Our Schools?
"Should it become law, ECCA would enable millions of students trapped in unsafe, failing public schools to have a chance to enroll in private schools, without worrying about how to cover tuition."
Parental Choice is Proliferating Nationwide
"Unfortunately, some red states are pairing anti-woke legislation with bills that weaken or abolish tenure protection."
Abolishing Tenure Will Undermine Red-State Efforts To Reform Higher Education
ABORTION
In her remarks, Harris urged rallygoers to “stand up and fight,” describing the situation as a “critical moment” in U.S. history.
‘Attacking America’: Kamala Harris Says Pro-Life Policies Target ‘Our Democracy’ at Abortion Rally
Margot Cleveland: "The case is educating the public on the dangers of the abortion pill far beyond what Planned Parenthood has been doing for 20-plus years."
Why the Latest Abortion Pill Ruling is Both Good and Bad or Pro-Lifers
“Their smug civility was infuriating; their invitations for debate, inflammatory.”
Yale ~~Columnist~~ Communist Enraged by the Politeness of Pro-Life Students on Campus
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"What if the ham sandwich's name is Donald Trump?"
Can You Convict a Ham Sandwich?
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"The DOJ offered a plea deal earlier this week with no jail time to a transgender vandal that spray painted 'kid groomers' and 'woman haters' on a Catholic church and assaulted several members as well as police officers before being arrested, while opting to raid the house of a Catholic pro-life activist named Mark Houck in 2022 for an alleged assault of an abortion clinic worker."
‘A Grave Scandal’: The Junta of the Second Catholic So-Called Quote-Unquote "president" Won’t Stop Targeting the Church, Experts Warn
"The Founders would not have considered Satanism a real religion."
Originalists Against Satanism
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Five days earlier, members of the Special Victims Unit investigating the child pornography case reportedly broke down the door of Yergeau’s neighbor — and handcuffed the woman before realizing they had raided the wrong apartment."
Ex-Planned Parenthood Exec Commits Suicide After Botched Child Porn Raid in Connecticut
"Team includes Bush's husband and an anti-Semite who claims to be a 109 trillion-year-old psychic"
Cori Bush Showers Additional $53,000 in Campaign Funds to Crackpot Private Security Team
Judy Chu.
Dem Rep Listed as ‘Co-Chair’ of Yet Another Nonprofit With Ties to Chinese Communist Party
"Gayle Manchin aided an Appalachia-focused nonprofit in applying for and receiving $62.8 million in federal grant money, some of which was later dispersed to an organization led by Jack Rossi, Sen. Manchin’s longtime campaign treasurer."
Manchin’s Wife May Have Broken Ethics Pledge Advising On Grant That Benefitted Campaign Staffer: Report
POLITICS
Robert Spencer: "Does he have enough crayons?"
Joe Biden Says He’s Writing a Book
"Rather than stabilizing things as the moderate Democrat he pretended to be, at every crossroads Biden has made decisions that make the country weaker, more hated, more fragile, and less unified."
Biden Is Even Worse than Obama
"With the state legislatures now firmly in the hands of the GOP, the power of Democrat governors in the three states may be in peril." (if/when 2024 is stolen, they won't do jack shit to reverse it - jjs)
THE BEST IS YET TO COME: Republicans Gained SUPERMAJORITIES in 3 States In Recent Weeks
“The mandate for a strong America has never been clearer, and I look forward to working again with President Trump to help our great nation find its way back from the precipice to the exceptional role we can and must play as a nation.”
Sen. Bill Hagerty Endorses Donald Trump for 2024
"The former president has not publicly indicated who he’s considering to put on his ticket, and has even suggested he wouldn’t rule out Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, his primary rival. Those suspected to be angling for the VP position include Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Elise Stefanik of New York, presidential candidate Nikki Haley, Republican Govs. Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas and Kristi Noem of South Dakota and Kari Lake." (Lake, Huckabee or MTG, never the others - jjs)
Trumpworld Abuzz About Potential VP Pick — And the Qualities Trump’s Looking For
“The possibility of a well-financed third-party presidential campaign that could help elect a MAGA extremist president in 2024.” (inshalla - jjs)
Democrats Are Absolutely Terrified by the Possibility of a Third Party Run by ‘No Labels’
"Though 12 Republicans are running in the May 16 GOP primary, there are three clear frontrunners whose campaigns will largely hinge on issues such as education and crime while also targeting Beshear’s record on [Chinese] COVID-19. . . '
Here are the GOP Candidates Competing to Flip the Kentucky Governor’s Mansion Red
"Political campaigns, like marketing campaigns, will be won or lost by who can best profile their voters, inspire them to action, and get them out to vote."
Smart Senate Candidates Are Building Their Own Databases
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“The documents also detailed a lack of ‘strong senior’ oversight of the balloon surveillance program, according to the report."
Leaked Pentagon Documents Show up to Four Additional Spy Balloons
Through our committees, Congress will get answers as to why they were asleep at the switch.”
Speaker McCarthy on Pentagon Leaks: Biden Junta Has Failed to Secure Classified Information
This war-mongering fey fraudster can go to hell.
‘The Most Irresponsible Statement’: Sen. Lindsey Graham Rips MTG For Defending Pentagon Documents Leaker
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Robert Spencer: "Kyiv City Council set to name street after SS official."
Ukraine’s Nazi Problem Gets Worse
". . . a direct dig at the European Union, United Kingdom, NATO, and the United States – all of which have been fostering the conditions for conflict since prior to the Western-sponsored Maidan revolution in 2014."
Brazil’s Lula Tells America to "Stop Encouraging Ukraine War, Start Peace Talks"
The European Union said the bans were "unacceptable."
Hungary Joins Poland to Ban Grain Imports from Ukraine to Protect Domestic Production
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Kishida, who was campaigning in western Japan, was not injured in the attack, but a police officer did receive treatment for some minor injuries. Police immediately detained a young man — tackling him to the ground — after “the suspicious object” was thrown at Kishida.
WATCH: Bodyguard’s Quick Thinking Saves Japan’s Prime Minister From Hurled Explosive Device
"Iran police warns that 'technology will be used for the smart identification of people who break' the hijab law."
Iran Deploys “Smart” Technology to Track and Punish Islamic Dress Code Violators
The WSJ: The IRGC-Quds chief, “one of the Islamic Republic’s most powerful military commanders began rallying allies across the Middle East to launch a fresh wave of attacks on Israeli targets.”
Iran Building an Axis of Terrorist Groups to Attack Israel
"The French president last week joined the hallowed ranks of appeasers extraordinaire."
Macronizing Should Be Punishable
"The Bush Doctrine has largely ruled American foreign policy since his presidency."
Realigning American Foreign Policy
"The mask of moderation comes off."
Jordan Wants Holiest Site in Judaism to Be Free of Jews
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Muslim groups and the state of Florida embrace mosque/school led by terror-linked bigot."
The Mainstreaming of an Anti-Semitic Miami Monster Mosque
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Robert Spencer: "'The fixed rate could start showing up on bills as soon as 2025.' After that, watch for the wall to be built around California to keep those who are productive from escaping becoming slaves to 'equity,' unless the whole country has embraced Marxism by then."
California Goes Full Communist: Utilities to Base What They Charge on How Much You Make
"California’s entrepreneurs and citizens find themselves lost in a bureaucratic maze."
The Regulatory Labyrinth
"New tax likely to contribute to California’s ever increasing economic turmoil and affordable housing crisis." (you all voted for this, assholes, so enjoy it good and hard! - jjs)
Los Angeles Elites Scrambled to Sell Homes Ahead of New “Mansion Tax”
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Democrat Gov. Jay Inbreed has indicated he will sign the bill. Republicans have strongly criticized the bill for stripping parents of their rights as well as promoting child abuse."
Washington Bill Would Bar Parents from Intervening on Child Gender Transitions
“All I’ve seen her do is stand up for women’s rights to fairness and equality. She actually competed against Lia Thomas, and it was obviously unfair. Lia Thomas won one of the races in the NCAA championships by 50 seconds against a bunch of biological females who simply couldn’t keep up. That cannot be right. It cannot be fair.”
Katie Porker Gets Destroyed by Piers Morgan After Smearing Riley Gaines
“I stand by my words.”
I Was Canceled for Saying Sex Is Real
According to a report by the BBC, Omondi registered for the tournament under the name Millicent Awour. He first drew attention to himself when he won against "very strong players," Chess Kenya President Bernard Wanjala said.
Kenyan Man Dons Burka to Compete in Women's Chess Tournament (isn't this really the story of Barak Obama? - jjs)
Lloyd Billingsley: "The Delaware Democrat is possessed by trans ideology, a defiance of reality unprecedented in human history, with deadly consequences."
Biden Youth Goose Stepping to Trans Ideology
"We used to treat mental illness with the goal of helping people."
The Left’s Disposable Transgender Children
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Disney skipped a step required by Florida law in its 11th-hour agreement, according to those familiar with the proceedings."
Disney’s 11th-Hour Move To Evade DeSantis Oversight Is Legally Void, Per Source
"The RuPaul Bear Gift Set features a teddy wearing a blonde wig, the garish lipstick and eyeshadow synonymous with the drag scene, with a gold sequin dress and heels."
‘Build-a-Bear’ is Selling Drag Queen Teddy Bears.
"Anheuser-Busch has suffered a financial hit as calls to boycott its brands have spread across the country, with one Missouri bar owner telling Fox Business last week that sales of bottled Bud Light dropped 30%, while draft sales dropped 50%."
Budweiser Releases New Pro-America Ad with Iconic Mascot in Wake of Anheuser-Busch Mulvaney Controversy
Translation: Let’s all forget about this over a beer.
Anheuser-Busch Transitions Into Damage Control Mode – And People Aren’t Buying It
"Judy Blume, author of Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret, shared her affinity for the Harry Potter author in an interview with The Sunday Times. The highly-decorated author told The Sunday Times she also faced public backlash over her books’ approach to sexuality and puberty."
Beloved Children’s Author Announces She’s Behind J.K. Rowling ‘100 Percent’

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"Wokeness destroys everything it infects."
The Business of Wokeness is Bad Business
"The Left creates victims that, they say, can only be saved by Democratic and Marxist policies. Next up: Women and girls with facial hair."
What’s the Deal With Women With Mustaches?
"Edgy humor site gets into the movie business with seriously funny results."
Flappr’s French Revolution Doc a Conservative Game Changer
"Nefarious is a rare horror film worthy of being called art because of its ability to adeptly address truly existential cultural woes."
New Movie Nefarious Tackles the Horrors of Modern Secularism
Roger Kimball: "Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself."
We Can’t Have Nice Things
"Our abandonment of standards of dress means the loss of expressive potential and our sense of occasion."
The Fast Casual Society
HITHER & YON
“There goes the whole fucking war!"
Humberto Fontova: The Bay of Pigs 62nd Anniversary – What Really Happened
"Nearly a quarter century after Jim Garrison’s conspiracy case fell apart, Oliver Stone demonstrated that a fraud can have a second life in fiction, if not in the universe of fact."
The Jolly Green Giant and the JFK Mystery
"Robinson also had intense Christian faith."
Jackie Robinson: Anti-Communist Republican
"Branch Rickey was determined to break down the color barrier, out of idealism and business sense—because it made no sense to not promote the best."
Celebrating the Great Emancipator of America’s Pastime

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 07:21 AM (BRHaw)

2 Happy Monday, everyone! Remember to pay your taxes. Ukrainian pensioners are counting on it.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 17, 2023 07:22 AM (4olE8)

3 Good luck with the week, everyone.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 17, 2023 07:22 AM (nRMeC)

4 Boker Tov Patriots

I already filed an extension

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 17, 2023 07:23 AM (pVWRI)

5 I finished my taxes a couple of weeks ago. Gross income was up about 20%. Net was down about 25%. Once I saw the return I started sending out notices about rate increases.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 07:24 AM (iayUP)

6 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 17, 2023 07:28 AM (T4tVD)

7 "Morgan Freeman Calls ‘Black History Month’ and ‘African-American’ Terms an ‘Insult’"

He better get back on the plantation before someone accuses him of acting white.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 07:28 AM (iayUP)

8 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 17, 2023 07:28 AM (MBGMJ)

9
Snowing here in southern Wisconsin.

Feh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 17, 2023 07:28 AM (x0n13)

10 Going back to bed.

Posted by: Screw it at April 17, 2023 07:29 AM (DhOHl)

11 "Trumpworld Abuzz About Potential VP Pick — And the Qualities Trump’s Looking For"

I would pick someone who is good with a machete.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 07:30 AM (iayUP)

12 Twitter fights are often so mean girlish they aren't worth foolowing but Viva Frei was the humorous exception yesterday:

Stephen King: If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrement.

VF: Men can get pregnant, you bigot!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2023 07:30 AM (pEzhL)

13 Morning JJ. Thanks for the Morning Report and Happy Birfday.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM- not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at April 17, 2023 07:30 AM (b5vbz)

14 I can't say for sure... But I'll bet that, like "Latinx," "African-American" was probably cooked up by Professor Karen.

Professor Karen thinks of most of the stupid shit nobody asked for.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 17, 2023 07:30 AM (oINRc)

15 I would pick someone who is good with a machete.
Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 07:30 AM (iayUP)
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and already has a verifiable body count.

Kind of like a resume, of sorts.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2023 07:32 AM (pEzhL)

16 Twitter is bots.

Posted by: Ignore it at April 17, 2023 07:32 AM (DhOHl)

17 Good mourning, and fvck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Marooned at April 17, 2023 07:32 AM (kt8QE)

18 "Stephen King: If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrement.
VF: Men can get pregnant, you bigot!
Posted by: Huck Follywood "

I hope that shut him the fuck up like Nomad on Star Trek.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 07:33 AM (iayUP)

19
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 17, 2023 07:34 AM (ENBF0)

20
California Goes Full Communist: Utilities to Base What They Charge on How Much You Make

I think they have something similar here in PA. Philly peeps pay next to nothing in 'distribution fee' while it doubles the cost in the so-called wealthy suburbs.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 17, 2023 07:34 AM (enJYY)

21 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 17, 2023 07:34 AM (GYIa4)

22 Some days it just doesn't pay to wake up in the morning.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2023 07:35 AM (lTGtQ)

23 The Riverside sheriff should simply announce that, persuant to state order, arrests will no longer be made, and best of luck to the public.

Citizens who voted for this shit, sorrowly, must some hoe learn to connect their vote to the ensuing chaos.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2023 07:35 AM (pEzhL)

24 "Will Latest Revelations Of Corruption Get Biden Impeached?"

By who?

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 07:35 AM (iayUP)

25 Citizens who voted for this shit, sorrowly,
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meant to type "sorrowfully"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2023 07:36 AM (pEzhL)

26 >>The idea that governments worldwide are working together to censor their citizens sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it's not.It's increasingly clear that there is just such an organized effort involving, at a minimum, the US, Canada, UK, & New Zealand.

So Five Eyes. Imagine that, an international spy organization that was established to spy on our enemies is instead spying on us just like they did on Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 17, 2023 07:36 AM (ZLI7S)

27 Tax day.... I wonder what it would take for a couple hundred million taxpayers to just say fuck it.

I mean besides the end of civilization.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2023 07:37 AM (Q4IgG)

28 "Large Groups of Teens Erupt in Four Days of Violence Days after Democrats Choose Chicago for 2024 Convention"

It is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 07:38 AM (iayUP)

29 Morning, Horde!

Did you know that gender affirming surgeries have a very low regret rate? It must be true, because my daily crossword puzzle told me so!

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at April 17, 2023 07:39 AM (uPgE/)

30 Getting ready to kill the half of the planet that eats rice.

AFP News Agency @AFP · Apr 16
VIDEO: Rice is to blame for around 10 percent of global emissions of methane, a gas that over two decades, traps about 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide. Scientists say that if the world wants to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, rice cannot be ignored.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 17, 2023 07:40 AM (Vwz3I)

31 Possible a very loud noise in Texas this morning brought to you by Elon Musk. The first attempt to launch SpaceX's Star Ship is this around 9 CDT.

It's a monster!

Go baby go!!!

Posted by: pawn at April 17, 2023 07:40 AM (wsHtO)

32 >>Will Latest Revelations Of Corruption Get Biden Impeached?

Hah!

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GOP congresscritters whose only real concern is Ukraine funding and Kabuki.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 17, 2023 07:40 AM (jd8hg)

33 "Restrict Act" GOP sponsors:

Shelly Moore Capito
Deb Fischer
Jerry Moran
Dan Sullivan
John Thune
Susan Collins
Mittney Romney IV
Kevin Kramer
Chuck Grassley
Thumb Tillis
Lindsey Graham
John Boozman
Mike Crapo

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2023 07:41 AM (5yRhG)

34 We need to make a concerted effort to paint all of DC, politicians, agencies, federal employees, as the greediest and meanest people in the country. No matter how much money they take from us, they feel the need to borrow or print trillions more to slake their everlasting avarice.

Posted by: IanDeal at April 17, 2023 07:43 AM (W6Hd7)

35 Good interview with Douglas Macgregor.

Cold, firm slap of reality on Ukraine and the looming financial crisis.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=E6siPqYiz20

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 17, 2023 07:43 AM (Gf3mx)

36 "Joe Biden Says He’s Writing a Book"

Destroying America On 10% A Day

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 07:44 AM (iayUP)

37 "Joe Biden Says He’s Writing a Book"

In crayon?

Posted by: davidt at April 17, 2023 07:44 AM (SYTee)

38
"Joe Biden Says He’s Writing a Book"

He's someone who should have the book thrown at him.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 17, 2023 07:46 AM (enJYY)

39 15 and already has a verifiable body count.

Kind of like a resume, of sorts.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2023 07:32 AM (pEzhL)

If he hasn't killed somebody for looking at him wrong, he's neither tough enough, nor cruel enough.

We need Genghis Khan.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2023 07:46 AM (UnA8+)

40 The Democrats have suffered major reverses in North Carolina, Louisiana, and Wisconsin, with Republican legislators gaining supermajorities in all three states.
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The JJS vote must have made the difference!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2023 07:48 AM (uSUoA)

41 Screw your 'law of large numbers' crap! I'm psychic!

Last night I dreamt I was sleeping on top of a black bear, I woke up and noticed 'Holy crap! I'm sleeping on a bear!' and I gingerly got up and sneaked away.

And this a.m. I see the MFM pimping a video of a black bear coming onto some guy in N.C.'s porch where he was sleeping on a sun lounge-chair, titled "Close bear encounter in North Carolina" in Asheville, N.C.!

Either that or I'm an Ashehole.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 17, 2023 07:49 AM (Vwz3I)

42 144 "You Didn't Build That" was such a watershed moment in dropping the veil of the insane collectivists.

Yet he still kicked the crap out of Mittens.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 07:49 AM (slgIg)

43 how was the rocket launch this morning?

how is everyone? I did a LOT of work outside over the weekend and generally had a great time

the mustache ad is super annoying btw and everywhere. I don't find it uplifting at all!!! it's not a big deal, you deal with it, I have my whole life! mine was never that bad (it's gone now b/c of many many many waxings over the years). but not even a sore subject - it's just a non-subject. so many ways to deal with and not worry about wtf

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 07:50 AM (w0NJk)

44 "Can eating lab-grown meat – which is essentially a form of deliberately grown cancer – actually give you cancer? How can you convince the public that it won’t, when nobody has ever eaten it before? And is a man with a troubled business history – a history he’s done his best to hide – the right person to do it?"
The Lab Grown ‘GOOD Meat’ Company Has a Murky Past, and They’re Extremely Sensitive About It . . .

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This is very, very similar to the forcible push to EVs.

No one wants either, but that will be the only option.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 07:51 AM (9ULwW)

45 morning horde.

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 17, 2023 07:52 AM (nXhwP)

46 SpaceX showing 22 minute countdown now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5QXreqOrTA

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 07:53 AM (BRHaw)

47 btw I never read the MSM but last night in the ONT there was a tweet from them about a REALLY DUMB article on teen boys lifting and watching their macros too much, apparently?!?!

I went to find it on Twitter and saw their OTHER articles that I thankfully otherwise avoid.

Now I know why my family and friends are completely deluded and believe so much garbage!!! omg the Post is utterly depraved and insane (and inane). holy sheep I had no idea it was SO BAD.

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 07:53 AM (w0NJk)

48 thank you rhennigantx!!

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 07:53 AM (w0NJk)

49 "Joe Biden Says He’s Writing a Book"

Put down the sharpie and stop writing on the walls Joe.

Posted by: SS Agent at April 17, 2023 07:55 AM (BRHaw)

50 btw I never read the MSM but last night in the ONT there was a tweet from them about a REALLY DUMB article on teen boys lifting and watching their macros too much, apparently?!?!

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I'm so old and out of touch that I thought this had to do with a simple programming technique to perform repetitive tasks.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 07:55 AM (9ULwW)

51 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Verse for the Day:

"If you forgive others their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive your transgressions."

–Matthew 6:14-15

Ugh. Monumentally difficult for me. Working on it over here Boss!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 07:55 AM (qoGsy)

52 48 thank you rhennigantx!!
Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 07:53 AM (w0NJk)

It is the least I could do

well I guess I could do less

Posted by: SS Agent at April 17, 2023 07:55 AM (BRHaw)

53 33 "Restrict Act" GOP sponsors:

Vote harder.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 17, 2023 07:55 AM (Gf3mx)

54 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 07:56 AM (BRHaw)

55 Can eating lab-grown meat – which is essentially a form of deliberately grown cancer – actually give you cancer?

We fed it to a couple people once, and they didn't develop cancer within 24 hrs. So it is perfectly safe! Everyone must eat it. Including pregnant women. It is actually better for the baby! Eat it! Eat it now! Feed it to your children! Totally safe! It is so safe, we are shielding the manufacturers from lawsuits, so you don't waste their time with frivolous claims of harm!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 07:56 AM (slgIg)

56 Here's what gets me about California. It's easy to look at the policies that they implement and what a disaster it is for the state.

But far too many people look at the results, get all dreamy eyed and want all of that for the rest of the country. Now either they are willfully blind (most obvious answer), don't think it will happen to them because they can make it work or they think it's Not Fair that some places in this country are nice and we all have to be equally miserable.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 17, 2023 07:56 AM (4olE8)

57 I'm so old and out of touch that I thought this had to do with a simple programming technique to perform repetitive tasks.

I only just learned what "macros" are as well. it's a useful thing actually I'm trying to reduce my carb levels (out of total intake) but sort of stay semi-vegetarian so it's kind of difficult to do that - and thinking about food intake using macros does help

meanwhile I use the other kind of macros every day in Photoshop

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 07:57 AM (w0NJk)

58 OT- I am glad CBD is getting a vacation. He-as all the other cobs do -works hard getting everything together. When do you get a vacation, J.J?

BTW, Whenever I read, " Good morning, kids" for some reason I always think of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland putting on a show. I am trying to envision a ASHQ version of a musical. " Singular sensation". Please don't put me in a chorus line. I'm not a very good dancer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2023 07:57 AM (ik4R8)

59 Maybe you should fire up that Far Cry 5 game again and pay attention to what the characters are talking about.

Posted by: Joseph Seed at April 17, 2023 07:57 AM (LKwXS)

60 But far too many people look at the results, get all dreamy eyed and want all of that for the rest of the country. Now either they are willfully blind (most obvious answer), don't think it will happen to them because they can make it work or they think it's Not Fair that some places in this country are nice and we all have to be equally miserable.

it's the second thing NR Pax

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 07:57 AM (w0NJk)

61 Breaking911 @Breaking911
Husband Who Murdered & Dismembered Wife Of 30 Years Over 'Comic Book Store Dream' Gets Decades In Prison

Husband of Missing Pa. Mom Allegedly Strangled and Dismembered Her, Searched 'How to Get Away with Murder'
SELLERSVILLE, Pennsylvania – Stephen Capaldi has pleaded guilty to several charges including third-degree murder, possessing an instrument of crime, tampering with or fabricating physical evidence,...

According to the grand jury report, Stephen had “found someone (another woman) that he loved and who supported his dream of opening a comic book store with his brother while his wife did not.”

Stephen also had many curious Google searches, like: “How to get away with murder”; “DIY blacklight”; “how to delete Facebook messages”; “can you avoid police detection by turning off your phone”; “how to control your dark impulses”; “how to disappear and never be found”; and “FBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics.”

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 17, 2023 07:57 AM (Vwz3I)

62 Now the Environmental Protection Agency has piled on. The agency is proposing vehicle pollution limits for 2032 that are so strict that they will force roughly two thirds of new vehicles sold to be electric.

six impossible things and all before bfast

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 07:58 AM (BRHaw)

63 "SpaceX showing 22 minute countdown now"

The picture they are showing is static. I can't find any other stream that shows what's going on on the pad.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 07:58 AM (iayUP)

64 #61 Best reply tweet...

Shoney’s Enjoyer @Chef_Rill_Based · 16h
She probably thought all the marvel movies were gay. She was right

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 17, 2023 07:58 AM (Vwz3I)

65 Sorry about the wasted space. Did I mention that I hate cell phones?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2023 07:58 AM (ik4R8)

66 "J.P. Sears lays out with humor the horrifying reality that could be coming our way if this is passed."
Must See TV: J.P. Sears Explains the Restrict Act

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(buffs nails)

Hopefully this doesn't come as a big surprise to anyone here.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 07:58 AM (9ULwW)

67 Taxes are purely punitive at this point. They are used as a weapon to punish the productive. They are also used to fund programs that normal people would be against. If you object, you hate children.

Not sure if there is a solution to this problem, but eventually the system WILL crash and burn.

I don't think the Cloward-Piven types will get the Utopia they are looking to build...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 17, 2023 07:58 AM (YIVH2)

68 fd that's all that is showing on the SpaceX feed as well

https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 07:59 AM (w0NJk)

69 Today is 2nd Amendment Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2023 08:00 AM (NpAcC)

70 I have noticed that some of you seem hesitant to eat the lab meat. We will now enact a regulation which says any entity which gets government funding of any kind, or does business with an entity that takes government money must require its employees to eat lab meat once per day, or it will forefit all government funding. This is for all of our safety and the safety of our planet, and the teachers and first responders and children and moms and puppies and kittens.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 08:00 AM (slgIg)

71 "Today is 2nd Amendment Day!
Posted by: redridinghood"

Let's commemorate with a bang!

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 08:00 AM (iayUP)

72 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2023 08:00 AM (jEt6X)

73 "I have noticed that some of you seem hesitant to eat the lab meat.

Not me!

Posted by: Barky McDogeaterface at April 17, 2023 08:01 AM (iayUP)

74 As one who once, what seems long ago, enjoyed MLB among other sports, I appreciated the linked articles about Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey. It reminded me of times past, including my own, when sports served to edify us. Thanks JJ

Posted by: 7man at April 17, 2023 08:01 AM (qwO6y)

75 Now either they are willfully blind (most obvious answer), don't think it will happen to them because they can make it work or they think it's Not Fair that some places in this country are nice and we all have to be equally miserable.

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Heck, look at the Horde. We're literally watching ICE vehicles and the fuel for them being banned before our eyes, and half or more of us are saying "Nah, Imma keep driving mine."

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:01 AM (9ULwW)

76 Good morning

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:02 AM (t0OGg)

77 It's also....
National Crawfish Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2023 08:02 AM (NpAcC)

78 It's ironic that today's holiday in the District of Columbia is Emancipation Day and the next day is the day signifying the
District of Columbia's imposition of slavery to The State for everyone else.

Posted by: Minuteman at April 17, 2023 08:02 AM (LaNzR)

79 Thanks for the link in the sidebar, JJ.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 17, 2023 08:03 AM (zZu0s)

80 Leftys have this thing about just believing in something will make it work. It's Disneyfied thinking, just wish on a star and BELIEVE.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 08:03 AM (iayUP)

81 Purely coincidental that tax day and election day are as far apart as possible.

Posted by: davidt at April 17, 2023 08:03 AM (SYTee)

82 Joe Biden Says He’s Writing a Book

The book is entitled Joe and Jill.

Here's a leaked excerpt:

Joe send Jill up a hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jill came down
And Joe took 10%

I like ice cream

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at April 17, 2023 08:04 AM (uPgE/)

83 still over an hour in the countdown

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at April 17, 2023 08:04 AM (geLO8)

84 "It's also....
National Crawfish Day!
Posted by: redridinghood"

Do Crawdads get a day too?

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 08:04 AM (iayUP)

85 the launch was moved to 9am (ET)

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 08:04 AM (w0NJk)

86 How did people ever manage to kill their spouses before the internet, because not that criminals are always the brightest bulbs in the box, but doing searches for ways to carry about murder of your spouse seems to be incredibly stupid.

No; I am not planning to murder my spouse. He is a very wonderful man, but when twice in one overnight trip he refused to listen to me saying, " You're going the wrong way" ( and I was correct) did have some uncharitable thoughts.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2023 08:04 AM (HpEsA)

87 Cute kitteh photo:

https://twitter.com/mrfishtopher/status/
1647623030313558016

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

88 "still over an hour in the countdown"

SpaceX stream says 10 minutes at 8:15 but they are not showing live video.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 08:05 AM (iayUP)

89 80 Leftys have this thing about just believing in something will make it work. It's Disneyfied thinking, just wish on a star and BELIEVE.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 08:03 AM (iayUP)

I Think I Can, I Think I Can, I Think I Can...

Posted by: Little Red Commie at April 17, 2023 08:05 AM (SYTee)

90 Stephen also had many curious Google searches, like: “How to get away with murder”; “DIY blacklight”; “how to delete Facebook messages”; “can you avoid police detection by turning off your phone”; “how to control your dark impulses”; “how to disappear and never be found”; and “FBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics.”
Posted by: andyc, Alex??anuck (Vwz3I) at April 17, 2023 07:57 AM (Vwz3I)

What are books at the head shop for $1000?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 17, 2023 08:05 AM (r1ZRd)

91 Stephen also had many curious Google searches, like: “How to get away with murder”; “DIY blacklight”; “how to delete Facebook messages”; “can you avoid police detection by turning off your phone”; “how to control your dark impulses”; “how to disappear and never be found”; and “FBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics.”
Posted by: andycanuck

And is proof of nothing. Everyone's search history is going to seem pretty odd if published.

Which is the whole point of storing them. Bob@NSA, I'm looking at you.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 08:05 AM (qoGsy)

92 T-9 minutes -- watching the Launch of Starship/Superheavy at Robert Zimmerman's site.

Thanks for the link in the sidebar, JJ!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 08:06 AM (2oHWb)

93 Leftys have this thing about just believing in something will make it work. It's Disneyfied thinking, just wish on a star and BELIEVE.

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It's almost like conservatives voting.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:06 AM (9ULwW)

94 VDH : America is in a similar position to where it was in 1861, 1929, 1941, and 1968—only perhaps worse, given in all those cases, there was at least a president and Congress that identified and reacted to the crisis, whereas today our elected government is what caused the crisis.

So, America today is similar to America in 1775.

Posted by: Immortal Turtle at April 17, 2023 08:07 AM (qKnWc)

95 JP Sears, a comedian, is doing the job no Republican politician has done yet, which is warn about the dangers of the RESTRICT act. Great job, GOP!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 17, 2023 08:07 AM (fs1hN)

96 "It's also....
National Crawfish Day!
Posted by: redridinghood"

"Not craw, CRAW !"

Posted by: JT at April 17, 2023 08:07 AM (T4tVD)

97 You're going the wrong way" ( and I was correct) did have some uncharitable thoughts.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2023 08:04 AM (HpEsA)

Put MR FS on the line. I presumptively take his side

Posted by: 7man at April 17, 2023 08:07 AM (qwO6y)

98 sorry yes launch (on spaceX site) currently says launching at 8:15 ...but is that central time or eastern time?

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 08:07 AM (w0NJk)

99 And is proof of nothing. Everyone's search history is going to seem pretty odd if published.

Which is the whole point of storing them. Bob@NSA, I'm looking at you.
Posted by: Tonypete

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Yep.

The Company could bust into the home of anyone here and post nothing more than "frequented right wing extremist sites" based entirely on a visit to the food thread.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:07 AM (9ULwW)

100 "T-9 minutes -- watching the Launch of Starship/Superheavy at Robert Zimmerman's site.
Thanks for the link in the sidebar, JJ!
Posted by: ShainS "

They are showing live video there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpqULvjOMz4

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 08:08 AM (iayUP)

101 Stephen also had many curious Google searches, like: “How to get away with murder”; “DIY blacklight”; “how to delete Facebook messages”; “can you avoid police detection by turning off your phone”; “how to control your dark impulses”; “how to disappear and never be found”; and “FBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics.”
Posted by: andycanuck

How to delete your browser history

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 08:08 AM (slgIg)

102 And is proof of nothing. Everyone's search history is going to seem pretty odd if published.

Which is the whole point of storing them. Bob@NSA, I'm looking at you.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 08:05 AM (qoGsy)

*furiously deletes all of the atomic testing search results, proudly leaves 'busty XXXXX' searches.*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 17, 2023 08:08 AM (zZu0s)

103 Good morning, kids. Tomorrow is tax day, and so it's time to pony up and pay "our fair share." Whatever the hell that is. It's funny; despite the political kabuki-bukkake theater of debt ceilings and deficit spending, the Left nevertheless keep insisting that somehow the laws of economics don't apply to government, insofar as the government can borrow as much as it wants without any consideration to paying it back. Well, if that's the case, then why do we need an income tax if they can just print and spend at will?
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Because they can't. They can try, and then they lose it all. Print-and-spend is what leads to currency failure, which leads to economic failure, which leads to state failure.

Just ask France. Or Germany. Or any number of South American countries.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:08 AM (t0OGg)

104 Didn't Musk say that he expects the first Starship to fail? It's kinda how you learn stuff in the rocket biz.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 17, 2023 08:08 AM (+coCW)

105 Star Ship stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhJRzQsLZGg

Posted by: pawn at April 17, 2023 08:08 AM (wsHtO)

106 The new governance:

What policies should be enacted?

Those that are most opposed by normal Americans.

How soon should we enact them?

The more Americans oppose it, the more swiftly they should be enacted.

What if they won't comply?

Kill them. Jail them. Ruin them. Whatever is necessary.

What if they accept the rules?

Find something else they will not comply with.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 17, 2023 08:08 AM (Gf3mx)

107 Thx for the report JJ and a good morning to the Horde. I see Kamala is babbling about "our democracy" again. People on the left who spout that nonsense would not hesitate to put you in a camp or transition your child without telling you.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 17, 2023 08:09 AM (Uk8NJ)

108 It kind of looks like an upturned cruise missile

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at April 17, 2023 08:09 AM (geLO8)

109 Remember that trip Joe Biden took to Saudi Arabia to beg for increased oil production? While Joe was away, Gavin came to the White House and met with Jill Biden, Joe's COS, & Kamala (I think). Gavin was laying the foundation for getting the nod to be the next Dem president.

Posted by: hubcap at April 17, 2023 08:10 AM (Td99v)

110 Do Crawdads get a day too?
Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 08:04 AM (iayUP)
******
April 17th
Mudbugs as well as Crayfish.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2023 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

111 Siri... search for 'how to frame comment-board commenters for murder'.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 17, 2023 08:10 AM (Vwz3I)

112 Also, people will see that there is no point in working harder to try to earn more money, as the state will just confiscate it in various ways. Consequently, people will work less, and less hard. The standard of living will decline, because productivity will have declined. This is why Communist countries have always been economic failures: they block the capitalist incentive that people have to work hard, and thus destroy the only path to prosperity.
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Not true. It *redirects* those impulses and aggressively restricts those who are allowed to express them.

Communists will work *very* hard to achieve their goals. They will work tirelessly at all hours to climb the communist ladder. They don't let many people step on even the first rung of that ladder, but those who are on it will work very hard indeed. They will steal more, kill more, enslave more, lie more. Communism has no shortage of hard workers. It just incentivizes all of those hard workers to the tireless pursuit of evil instead of production.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

113 "It's almost like conservatives voting.
Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals "

Well, except that I always expect the worst possible outcome.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 08:11 AM (iayUP)

114 So, I am getting a portable timeclock set up at the site. It uses a tablet to access salesforce so people can clock in and out. I noticed the login is my mentee's login- instead of a generic one. I asked her about it and she said there was one, but everyone at the site had forgotten the info for it- three years ago and everyone was too afraid to ask.

*shakes head sadly*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 17, 2023 08:11 AM (zZu0s)

115 > Joe Biden Says He’s Writing a Book
___________

Someone is, but it's not him. Likely an attempt to portray him, his family and his residency in the White House as "clean." IIRC the JEF came out with a couple tomes, ghost written, to explain how great his administration was.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2023 08:12 AM (Q4IgG)

116 T-9 minutes -- watching the Launch of Starship/Superheavy at Robert Zimmerman's site.

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Apologies; no sound let me to search for more news -- and 8:15 AM EDT is beginning of 45-minute SpaceX webcast prior to launch, now scheduled for 9:20 EDT.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 08:12 AM (2oHWb)

117 108 It kind of looks like an upturned cruise missile
Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at April 17, 2023 08:09 AM (geLO

Huh. Imagine that. I would have preferred the USS Cygnus.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 17, 2023 08:12 AM (zZu0s)

118 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

119 DAMN I'm tired.....slept ok too. Just need more.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

120 "Millions of Californians now stretch their already strained budgets just to cover food, fuel, shelter, and an ever-rising electricity bill. . ."

I'm going to guess that POC (and women) are hardest hit by the Dems clean energy stupidity. Have we hear that from the MSM yet?

Posted by: Ripley at April 17, 2023 08:13 AM (cUYo/)

121 Meanwhile in Sudan...

@TheInsiderPaper · 35m
ALERT 🚨 Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum Monday as fighting between the army and paramilitary forces led by rival generals raged for a third day with the death toll surpassing 100

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 17, 2023 08:13 AM (Vwz3I)

122 "Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed. He will also keep you firm to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ."

1 Corinthians 1:7-8

Posted by: Marcus T at April 17, 2023 08:14 AM (IaTa3)

123 That’s because a so-called “mansion tax” goes into effect Saturday in Los Angeles, adding a 4% tax for sellers on homes that sell for between $5 million and $10 million and 5.5% on amounts $10 million and above.
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Stupid. If California is worried about its hyper-rich leaving the state and thus wrecking the state finances - and it is, because the state is entirely dependent on its hyper-rich - this is a lousy disincentive. Yes, it's a big hit and will cost sellers hundreds of thousands of dollars, but it will also depress the high-end real estate market (not too important, in the grand scheme of things) while being just one more reason for the big money guys to GTFO (a much bigger problem).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:14 AM (t0OGg)

124 It's a neat little racket that sort of resembles a Venn diagram of fascism and communism.

This makes me wet.

Posted by: Kumswala Harris at April 17, 2023 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

125 >Someone is, but it's not him. Likely an attempt to portray him, his family and his residency in the White House as "clean." IIRC the JEF came out with a couple tomes, ghost written, to explain how great his administration was.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

'...a never ending present in which the Party is always right'

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at April 17, 2023 08:14 AM (geLO8)

126 The LabPadre stream says 1hr 7minutes to launch. They have cameras watching the pad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpqULvjOMz4

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 08:14 AM (iayUP)

127 It's funny; despite the political kabuki-bukkake theater of debt ceilings and deficit spending, the Left nevertheless keep insisting that somehow the laws of economics don't apply to government, insofar as the government can borrow as much as it wants without any consideration to paying it back.

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For decades now, ever since "Mister Newt" caved to Bubba Clinton in the "government shutdown showdown" in the 90's, I've referred to it as the ever-exponentially-increasing "debt ~~ceiling~~ floor."

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 08:14 AM (2oHWb)

128 We're literally watching ICE vehicles and the fuel for them being banned before our eyes, and half or more of us are saying "Nah, Imma keep driving mine."

Posted by: They're lying,

I expect the entire system to collapse in CA long before it gets to the red states. It is impossible to do what they want.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2023 08:14 AM (lTGtQ)

129 The annual humiliation ritual is here again.

the are 6 child tax credit
there are 16 tuition tax credits

they could make this MUCH easier

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 08:14 AM (BRHaw)

130 ALERT 🚨 Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum Monday as fighting between the army and paramilitary forces led by rival generals raged for a third day with the death toll surpassing 100
Posted by: andycanuck

"Khartoum goes Kaboom!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 08:15 AM (qoGsy)

131 The behind the black stream is waiting to start up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 17, 2023 08:15 AM (zZu0s)

132 Meanwhile in Sudan...

@TheInsiderPaper · 35m
ALERT 🚨 Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum Monday as fighting between the army and paramilitary forces led by rival generals raged for a third day with the death toll surpassing 100

--

Color revolution?

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:15 AM (9ULwW)

133 Federal taxes. May as well flush the money down the shitter for all the good it does. Keeps the federal layabouts employed and the moochers getting their unearned direct deposits.

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Abolish The democrat Deep State!

Free President Trump And Buffalo Guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 17, 2023 08:15 AM (rUKH1)

134 Israel, take back the Temple Mount.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 17, 2023 08:15 AM (IaTa3)

135 Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum
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And again psychic me... I watched the original 1939 Four Feathers just last night during the gub thread.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 17, 2023 08:15 AM (Vwz3I)

136 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2023 08:16 AM (Y2tls)

137 It is in the Marxist theory that one should be able to do whatever they want to do all day, be it thinking only, play a instrument, doodle drawing or become a ramble rouser and get a living wage.
Just as Karl Marx was

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2023 08:16 AM (jEt6X)

138 Half of Foreign Migrants Piling into NYC Not Vaxxed for Polio, Top Doc Warns

well duh thats the plan crash the healthcare system

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 08:16 AM (BRHaw)

139 Supposedly 50% of Americans will be driving an electric car by 2030, less than 7 years from now. That has no chance of happening. What work has been done so far to upgrade the grid? How many resources, construction, electrictions, materials, are even identified yet? What about seemingly endless environmental studies required before a single shovel is driven into the dirt, are these waived? Another big lie from the font of lies in DC.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 17, 2023 08:16 AM (fs1hN)

140 We're literally watching ICE vehicles and the fuel for them being banned before our eyes, and half or more of us are saying "Nah, Imma keep driving mine."
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I expect the entire system to collapse in CA long before it gets to the red states. It is impossible to do what they want.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

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Yes, that's the plan. That is the entire goal. You can't find a car to buy, you can't afford one if you do, and you can't drive your old one.

That is the entire point.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:18 AM (9ULwW)

141 Put MR FS on the line. I presumptively take his side

Men! LOL Even he later admitted after recovering from his fatigue of driving the wrong way each time sort of admitted he was wrong but he said " WE got lost ." Technically
speaking" Yes, since we were in the same car, but I wasn't lost." Me -" Umm , we passed that
Same Turkey Hill market on the way here,. It was on the same side.Therefore we should be going the other way."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2023 08:18 AM (PF6le)

142 137 Just as Karl Marx was
Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2023 08:16 AM (jEt6X)

Marx sucked at everything he tried to do (except destroy things) and his entire family hated him.

Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2023 08:18 AM (UnA8+)

143 >>I expect the entire system to collapse in CA long before it gets to the red states. It is impossible to do what they want.

California had rolling blackouts last summer and sent out emergency broadcasts for people to turn off their air conditioners and not plug in the EVs during peak demand in the Summer. It's only going to get worse.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 17, 2023 08:18 AM (ZLI7S)

144 America is so fucked up that I find it hard to care about Ukraine or Sudan or pretty much any place else

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at April 17, 2023 08:18 AM (geLO8)

145 9:20 EST is the expected launch time.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 08:19 AM (iayUP)

146 Did someone ever blow it!

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper
NEW 🚨 Two tonnes of cocaine found floating off Sicily, Italy

Over 400 million euros worth of cocaine has been found floating off Sicily in packages likely left by a cargo ship for traffickers to bring

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 17, 2023 08:19 AM (Vwz3I)

147 Supporters assert that the tax will bring in $900 million annually for subsidized housing in an area in which affordable housing is a significant issue.
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A bit of context might be called for.

Per the LA Times last year, at least half a dozen "low-income housing projects" under construction right now are costing more than $1 million per unit built. That's high, but $750k per unit is not unusual.

So this new "mansion tax" will build - at current rates - between 900-1200 apartments per year. That's it. And that's only if, of course, it actually raises that much. It probably won't, at least not for very long.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:19 AM (t0OGg)

148 @TheInsiderPaper · 35m
ALERT 🚨 Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum Monday as fighting between the army and paramilitary forces led by rival generals raged for a third day with the death toll surpassing 100

completely lost their heads

Posted by: Jack Woltz at April 17, 2023 08:20 AM (us2H3)

149 I fully expect CA to sue God for not providing free energy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2023 08:20 AM (lTGtQ)

150 Inefficient energy markets, unpredictable price spikes, unreliable power sources, and a hostile regulatory environment have all contributed to a 40 percent increase in the average California electric bill over the last five years.
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One of these things is not like the other. What are the "inefficient energy markets," and how do they contribute to the problem? Unreliability and regulatory hostility make effective markets pretty damn difficult, don't they?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:21 AM (t0OGg)

151 The Boston Marathon is today.
It's been 10 years since the Boston Marathon bombings.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2023 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

152 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper
NEW 🚨 Two tonnes of cocaine found floating off Sicily, Italy

Over 400 million euros worth of cocaine has been found floating off Sicily in packages likely left by a cargo ship for traffickers to bring
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 17, 2023 08:19 AM (Vwz3I)

Fruitte di Mare.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 17, 2023 08:22 AM (ZqJGw)

153 The annual humiliation ritual is here again.
the are 6 child tax credit
there are 16 tuition tax credits
they could make this MUCH easier
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 08:14 AM (BRHaw)

A few years ago had a broodmare office cleaner named Beatty who had 6 chirruns by 7 baby daddies and when she got her tax return she was parading around with her ill gotten check for six grand. I told her that was my money I paid in that year and I want it back. She laughed. 5 of her earned income tax credits ended up in prison where they belonged.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 17, 2023 08:22 AM (rUKH1)

154 Mentioned earlier, but worth making sure everyone heard about the CIA agent running the Bud Light op:

We've been living under fascism for quite some time and haven't known it. It's probably why it's popular to call people who believe in freedom and smaller, less intrusive government "fascists" recently.

Everyone heard that the CEO of Anheiser-Busch is a CIA employee, right? Essentially went from ditch digger to CEO in seven years.

https://tinyurl.com/2yetnxmp

I'm betting there are FBI and CIA employees at the top of every corporation that was allowed to remain open during COVID.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:22 AM (9ULwW)

155 Yes, that's the plan. That is the entire goal. You can't find a car to buy, you can't afford one if you do, and you can't drive your old one.

That is the entire point.

Posted by: They're lying,

I don't expect compliance from anyone on that. They had better be building prisons as fast as they can, because people aren't going to comply.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2023 08:23 AM (lTGtQ)

156 . . . Under the cloak of social justice reform, the radical Left decriminalized many crimes by selective prosecution and no cash bail releases before trial without considering victims and public safety in many states nationwide. There is a hidden political agenda of the radical Left with decriminalizing and no cash bail – to sow havoc and chaos to destabilize our local communities:
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Of all the things these policies are, "hidden" is not one of them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:23 AM (t0OGg)

157 I see the new leftist goal is to get rid of justice thomas.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 17, 2023 08:23 AM (ncXxy)

158 Another week. . . . . . . more Leftist/DemoNcrat/RINO bullshit. . . . . .more foreheads to crease with a tire iron

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & UniParty who suck Barack Odildo's ass at April 17, 2023 08:23 AM (5uy7A)

159 I don't expect compliance from anyone on that. They had better be building prisons as fast as they can, because people aren't going to comply.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2023 08:23 AM (lTGtQ)
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Small number of really big prisons. Probably along rail lines. Camps are pretty cheap.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:24 AM (t0OGg)

160 Khartoum? Charlton Heston? Head ends up on a spear?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 17, 2023 08:24 AM (zZu0s)

161 And is proof of nothing. Everyone's search history is going to seem pretty odd if published.

Great; I think the Fibbies need to look at my search engine. I spent a lot of time recently looking at " The Gospel Tract and Bible Society" out of Moundridge, Kansas. You can read their tracts online . Fibbies need the Gospel

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2023 08:24 AM (3uNxH)

162 Re: looking up suspicious stuff, my recent search history will turn up, "What is a material witness subpoena", as while I'm in Europe a Sheriff's Department Deputy showed up at my house to serve me in a case I have absolutely zero recollection of at all. Like, I have no clue what I might have seen or have that would be relevant to a case. My sister was feeding my cat and I was like WTF!
I swear I have no idea. Really, seriously.
It's County, so it's local and recent, but I have no memory at all of witnessing a crime. I wonder if I'm not on a porch camera somewhere as I often walk to work.
Weird.

Posted by: LenNeal at April 17, 2023 08:25 AM (zfQcH)

163 “Their smug civility was infuriating; their invitations for debate, inflammatory.”
Yale Columnist Communist Enraged by the Politeness of Pro-Life Students on Campus

Yes, because lunatic screaming of emotionally held bias and scientifically-void opinions is the gold standard for persuasion.

Not calm logic involving fact.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2023 08:25 AM (RJQ8g)

164 . . . If the California utility companies are going to make people who have more money pay more for the same goods and services they could get for less money if they had less, there will be several results: wealthier people will seek to hide their wealth through various means, so as to pay the lower rate.

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In Soviet America, black market create YOU!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 08:25 AM (2oHWb)

165
Considering EV's contribute nothing in per gallon highway taxes, those taxes on ICE vehicles will 'necessarily' need to skyrocket if EV's become too prevalent.

Bend over.

Posted by: Ben Dover at April 17, 2023 08:25 AM (enJYY)

166 Yes, that's the plan. That is the entire goal. You can't find a car to buy, you can't afford one if you do, and you can't drive your old one.

That is the entire point.

Posted by: They're lying,

I don't expect compliance from anyone on that. They had better be building prisons as fast as they can, because people aren't going to comply.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

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How are people not going to comply?

Without fuel they won't have a choice but to comply.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:25 AM (9ULwW)

167 I'm betting there are FBI and CIA employees at the top of every corporation that was allowed to remain open during COVID.
Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:22 AM (9ULwW)

Hollywood.

Remember Cruise's blowup at the crew during filming of Maverick? The entire industry got a pass.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 17, 2023 08:25 AM (zZu0s)

168 142 137 Just as Karl Marx was
Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2023 08:16 AM (jEt6X)

Marx sucked at everything he tried to do (except destroy things) and his entire family hated him.
Posted by: XTC at April 17, 2023 08:18 AM (UnA8+)

He was outstanding at swindling Engels.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 17, 2023 08:26 AM (x0n13)

169 if the government woulda forked over 7500 bucks for buying a quadraphonic stereo, it mighta caught on

Posted by: REDACTED at April 17, 2023 08:26 AM (us2H3)

170 Great; I think the Fibbies need to look at my search engine. I spent a lot of time recently looking at " The Gospel Tract and Bible Society" out of Moundridge, Kansas. You can read their tracts online . Fibbies need the Gospel

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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That's even easier.

Religious extremist.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:26 AM (9ULwW)

171 155 I don't expect compliance from anyone on that. They had better be building prisons as fast as they can, because people aren't going to comply.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2023 08:23 AM (lTGtQ)

**&&&**

Yeah, and your prison guard will probably be either some lower 2% scum element from either Guatemala or China who just crossed our southern border illegally

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & UniParty who suck Barack Odildo's ass at April 17, 2023 08:26 AM (5uy7A)

172 10 year Boston Marathon bombing and one of them is still breathing oxygen and will be for a long time.

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2023 08:27 AM (jEt6X)

173 Speaker McCarthy on Pentagon Leaks: Biden Junta Has Failed to Secure Classified Information

Those docs were planted on the E3.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 08:27 AM (BRHaw)

174 157 I see the new leftist goal is to get rid of justice thomas.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 17, 2023 08:23 AM (ncXxy)

New?!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 17, 2023 08:27 AM (x0n13)

175 “Their smug civility was infuriating; their invitations for debate, inflammatory.”
Yale Columnist Communist Enraged by the Politeness of Pro-Life Students on Campus

Yes, because lunatic screaming of emotionally held bias and scientifically-void opinions is the gold standard for persuasion.

Not calm logic involving fact.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2023 08:25 AM (RJQ8g)

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It is "The Way of The Infant." The emasculation and infantilization of American continues apace and unabated (something else I've been saying since The Clintons first darkened The White House in the 90's) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 08:28 AM (2oHWb)

176 Yes, that's the plan. That is the entire goal. You can't find a car to buy, you can't afford one if you do, and you can't drive your old one.

That is the entire point.
Posted by: They're lying

"I don't expect you to drive, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die."
-- Goldfinger

Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 08:28 AM (qoGsy)

177 >>I don't expect compliance from anyone on that. They had better be building prisons as fast as they can, because people aren't going to comply.

Communists excel at destroying things, it's what they do. What the don't do well is build things as anyone who has ever visited a country that is emerging from years of communist control can attest.

Just because they have a plan does not mean it's achievable or they have the ability to pull it off.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 17, 2023 08:28 AM (ZLI7S)

178 California had rolling blackouts last summer and sent out emergency broadcasts for people to turn off their air conditioners and not plug in the EVs during peak demand in the Summer. It's only going to get worse.
Posted by: JackStraw

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Duke Power had "please don't charge your EVs" on their website during the fairly routine power outage after a storm last year.

Probably not even 1% of cars, and they'd collapse the grid.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:29 AM (9ULwW)

179 @147

>>So this new "mansion tax" will build - at current rates - between 900-1200 apartments per year. That's it. And that's only if, of course, it actually raises that much. It probably won't, at least not for very long.

On its current trajectory, the Junta will allowed 12 million illegals to invade the country by the end of its first term, a large portion of those illegals will end up in California.

900 units a year are a not going to cut it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 17, 2023 08:29 AM (y1L62)

180 Try not to laugh: Dr. Jill is writing a book.

Posted by: Ziba at April 17, 2023 08:29 AM (4h9M3)

181 Yes, that's the plan. That is the entire goal. You can't find a car to buy, you can't afford one if you do, and you can't drive your old one.

That is the entire point.
Posted by: They're lying

"I don't expect you to drive, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die."
-- Goldfinger
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 08:28 AM (qoGsy)
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Wait until the market for replacement parts for ICE vehicles is destroyed. They'll regulate those out of existence just like they are doing for fuel.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 17, 2023 08:30 AM (YIVH2)

182 How are people not going to comply?

Without fuel they won't have a choice but to comply.

Posted by: They're lying,

Exxon, Chevron, and the rest are pumping like crazy. They certainly aren't acting like they are shutting their doors. Exxon is offering to buy Pioneer, which owns about a third of west Texas, and is private land.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2023 08:30 AM (lTGtQ)

183 Good morning, Hordelings! Hello and thanks, JJ!

Was at a wedding on Saturday night. Beer selections were Bud Light, Michelob Lager (when did that rebranding happen??), and Yuengling. Approximately 85 people at the wedding. A lot of 20-somethings. Among those drinking beer, I saw mostly Yuengling bottles. A handful of scattered Michelob bottles, with maybe 1 or 2 Bud Light. Saw lots of Bud Light left in the ice tub at the end of the night.

Just one anecdotal data point. Or is it??

Posted by: Doof at April 17, 2023 08:30 AM (LLddH)

184 The Regulatory Labyrinth
California’s entrepreneurs and citizens find themselves lost in a bureaucratic maze.

What are things that do not apply to illegals Alex?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 08:30 AM (BRHaw)

185 Considering EV's contribute nothing in per gallon highway taxes, those taxes on ICE vehicles will 'necessarily' need to skyrocket if EV's become too prevalent.

Bend over.
Posted by: Ben Dover at April 17, 2023 08:25 AM (enJYY)
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Maybe. A lot of jurisdictions are trying to move to a mileage tax instead, and they way they're trying to do it is extremely sinister.

First, it will apply to *all* vehicles - so ICE vehicles will get taxed twice (once for fuel, once for mileage) whereas EVs will get taxed once (mileage).

Second, they want to do it through the expansion of the panopticon. A mileage tax is easy to do if you want to implement one: read the odometer. When you go to register the car, provide the mileage reading and pay the bill. Easy-peasy. This is, of course, not what they want. They want a GPS tracker in every vehicle instead.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:30 AM (t0OGg)

186
Just because they have a plan does not mean it's achievable or they have the ability to pull it off.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 17, 2023 08:28 AM

The desired goal will be addressed in the next five year plan, comrade.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 17, 2023 08:31 AM (enJYY)

187 George Soros: Nazi collaborator in Hungary in 1942, Nazi collaborator in Ukraine in 2022, currency manipulator, Coup-plotter, Islamist supporter, riot-funder, Crime-enabler--and Election Thief.

He's funding a Crime Wave through his pet D.A.s and prosecutors. He cracked the code; much better to buy the prosecutor than a hundred lawmakers.

FOX's talking heads will discuss this. But they will not discuss his other cracked code; better to buy one top election official with her CheatWare Voting Machines than convince millions of voters. As in Colorado, among others. And you get the crooked D.A.s thrown in free!

We can't have Honor System Elections with the Honorless any longer. Nor can we have fake armies of Ghost Voters Registrations, primed for Pushbutton Pluralities and Machine Majorities.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at April 17, 2023 08:31 AM (Ndje9)

188 Without fuel they won't have a choice but to comply.
Posted by: They're lying

Without fuel, the economy shuts down. We can't go back to bakelite, paper & glass.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2023 08:32 AM (Y2tls)

189 ... Yes, because lunatic screaming of emotionally held bias and scientifically-void opinions is the gold standard for persuasion. ...
Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2023 08:25 AM (RJQ8g)
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They are doing what they have been exhaustively trained to do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:32 AM (t0OGg)

190 Thank you JJ !

Posted by: JT at April 17, 2023 08:32 AM (T4tVD)

191 How are people not going to comply?

Without fuel they won't have a choice but to comply.

Posted by: They're lying,

Exxon, Chevron, and the rest are pumping like crazy. They certainly aren't acting like they are shutting their doors. Exxon is offering to buy Pioneer, which owns about a third of west Texas, and is private land.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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I don't blame them. Other countries are still going to buy our oil and gas.

I suspect there will be government exceptions here, too. I've said it before that I fully suspect oil and gas will be considered "national infrastructure" or some such thing as some point and operating with government funding.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:33 AM (9ULwW)

192 >>Also, people will see that there is no point in working harder to try to earn more money, as the state will just confiscate it in various ways. Consequently, people will work less, and less hard.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE BILLIONAIRS WILL FLEE CALIFORNIA. THAT FLORIDA LGBT GROUP NEEDS TO PUT OUT ANOTHER TRAVEL WARNING TELLING THEM FLORIDA WILL NOT WELCOME THEM, STAT!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 17, 2023 08:33 AM (EdLEa)

193 Just because they have a plan does not mean it's achievable or they have the ability to pull it off.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 17, 2023 08:28 AM

The desired goal will be addressed in the next five year plan, comrade.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 17, 2023 08:31 AM (enJYY)

Um, put in there that 'wreckers, Hoarders and Kulaks caused unforeseen and vicious inefficiencies'... you know the drill.

Why do I always want to add another s to 'vicious'? Must be the chemistry.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 17, 2023 08:33 AM (zZu0s)

194 commies have one thing in their favor

chaos is the natural state of things

Posted by: REDACTED at April 17, 2023 08:33 AM (us2H3)

195 Republicans in CA should be demanding a 30% mansion tax.
And a 40% wealth tax. A 70% millionaires tax.

It's time conservatives stop trying to save the public from themselves--they need to start demanding all these programs be paid for.
Where in the Law of Conservatives is it written "Thou shalt never raise taxes?"

There will never be a majority coalition to cut spending, not until Social Security is gone. So we need to stop with that stupid dead-end plan. And we had control of all three branches and did not end one single program and only got one minor tax change. It's not just Democrats that are the problem.

Get a coalition of 20 retiring Republicans and make them push tax increases to pay for all this. Then, in 5 years, when the pain is in full, start talking, "we can lower taxes if we get rid of some programs."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2023 08:33 AM (vQ4/Z)

196 Without fuel, the economy shuts down. We can't go back to bakelite, paper & glass.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2023 08:32 AM (Y2tls)
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We also can't go back to Bakelite, paper and glass without fuel.

Think 18th century, not early 20th.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:34 AM (t0OGg)

197 Without fuel they won't have a choice but to comply.
Posted by: They're lying

Without fuel, the economy shuts down. We can't go back to bakelite, paper & glass.
Posted by: rickb223

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Yes.

Now you're catching on.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:34 AM (9ULwW)

198 She laughed. 5 of her earned income tax credits ended up in prison where they belonged.
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At least LBJ and the Dims got what they wanted.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 17, 2023 08:35 AM (Vwz3I)

199 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE BILLIONAIRS WILL FLEE CALIFORNIA. THAT FLORIDA LGBT GROUP NEEDS TO PUT OUT ANOTHER TRAVEL WARNING TELLING THEM FLORIDA WILL NOT WELCOME THEM, STAT!
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 17, 2023 08:33 AM (EdLEa)
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FL should do everything in its power to keep those people out. Let California's disaffected billionaires - people who are uniformly progs with extensive power and influence networks - go somewhere else. Colorado would love to have them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:35 AM (t0OGg)

200 Religious extremist.
Posted by: They're lying

That's ok. I'd rather be called a religious extremist-and this outfit is obviously Mennonite- so not into armed conflict- than just about to be raided -except they got the wrong apt- D'oh !!) for being a former head of Planned Parenthood and having child porn.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2023 08:35 AM (SYJ8v)

201 10K NYers left the state to go to FL last year

seems a tad low

Posted by: REDACTED at April 17, 2023 08:35 AM (us2H3)

202 BTW, I would like to thank whichever moron at the end of last week linked to and turned me on to the substack "Postcards from Barsoom" and its author "John Carter" -- to which I've now subscribed after reading his recent newsletter about the 2012 Chilean movie "No" and its depiction of the 1988 national referendum on Pinochet.

Great perspective; here's the link for others interested:

https://tinyurl.com/4pzjuwe3

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 08:36 AM (2oHWb)

203 Think 18th century, not early 20th.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:34 AM (t0OGg)

We'll all be Amish soon.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 17, 2023 08:36 AM (Gf3mx)

204 FL should do everything in its power to keep those people out. Let California's disaffected billionaires - people who are uniformly progs with extensive power and influence networks - go somewhere else. Colorado would love to have them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:35 AM (t0OGg)

what the don't fuck up, they shit on

Posted by: REDACTED at April 17, 2023 08:36 AM (us2H3)

205 How much will it cost for ICE drivers to dispose of their gas guzzler?

Because we will pay for that, too.

Posted by: Ziba at April 17, 2023 08:36 AM (4h9M3)

206 We literally just watched the government shut down schools and private businesses - permanently closing half of them and wrecking our economy while destroying the lifes work of millions of people - while paying government employees to stay home, and we're already back to saying "that would wreck the economy if they shut the economy down!"

Yes. Yes it would. And they've tested it and know they can.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:36 AM (9ULwW)

207 > Just one anecdotal data point. Or is it??
Posted by: Doof
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Our little liquor store has a beer cave. It's small but the Bud Light stack hasn't budged in two weeks. There's warm Bud Light cases in a back room too. I doubt he's sold more than a six-pack this month.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2023 08:37 AM (Q4IgG)

208 FYI, SpaceX webcast appears to have begun (at least we now have sound & music).

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 08:37 AM (2oHWb)

209 Religious extremist.
Posted by: They're lying

That's ok. I'd rather be called a religious extremist-and this outfit is obviously Mennonite- so not into armed conflict- than just about to be raided -except they got the wrong apt- D'oh !!) for being a former head of Planned Parenthood and having child porn.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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FWIW, you'd have the latter, too.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:37 AM (9ULwW)

210 They have already proven to be able to lock down businesses. Why couldn't they simply close all the gas stations?

Make it a criminal offense to deliver fossil fuel and arrest a few using swat teams. That would scare off all the rest.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 17, 2023 08:37 AM (KiBMU)

211 FYI, SpaceX webcast appears to have begun (at least we now have sound & music).
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 08:37 AM (2oHWb)
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I'm watching it on NSF (I like the nerdy commentators), but SpaceX going live is a good sign. I hope it works!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:38 AM (t0OGg)

212 They have already proven to be able to lock down businesses. Why couldn't they simply close all the gas stations?

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EPA can do it tomorrow. The won't, of course, because that would be too quick.

But 2030? Yeah, that works.

Funny how that date keeps coming up.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:40 AM (9ULwW)

213 I've asked this before, but I'll ask it again.

Is it fair to say that the internet has been a net negative for humanity?

Or would we have reached this point anyway, even in analog America?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 17, 2023 08:40 AM (Gf3mx)

214 now show 30 minutes to countdown

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 08:40 AM (BRHaw)

215 179 @147

>>So this new "mansion tax" will build - at current rates - between 900-1200 apartments per year. That's it. And that's only if, of course, it actually raises that much. It probably won't, at least not for very long.

On its current trajectory, the Junta will allowed 12 million illegals to invade the country by the end of its first term, a large portion of those illegals will end up in California.

900 units a year are a not going to cut it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 17, 2023 08:29 AM (y1L62)

Well, to be fair-

The point of this is to dump crime holes into middle class neighborhoods to destroy the incentive to flee the urban centers.

In Texas, of all places we've seen this "thinking" under the lawfree and constitutionally-void rulings of asshole Democrat commie Judge "Barefoot" Sanders, who I believe is currently dead and roasting in hell.

Any time some place like the city of Dallas was going to build project housing, he would rule that it had to be built right next to the border of Dallas and next to middle class housing because those horrible middle classers had tried to "avoid the poor".

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2023 08:40 AM (RJQ8g)

216 195 Republicans in CA should be demanding a 30% mansion tax.
And a 40% wealth tax. A 70% millionaires tax.

when the US OKed the income tax 110 years ago

it was sold on the promise of never going over 1%

Posted by: REDACTED at April 17, 2023 08:40 AM (us2H3)

217 T-40min.

Soy boy narrator.

Posted by: pawn at April 17, 2023 08:40 AM (wsHtO)

218 And why are we always fighting against higher taxes on the ones who hate us the most?
The ones who literally fund the Democrats?

Because some dying geriatric might toss a few pennies to the R?
Great $100 million for the Democrats and $100,000 for the Republicans.
Big win there, quite a reward for that "lower taxes" principal (that never ever seems to find its way to the middle class).

It's not that Republicans are whores to the rich and corporate class-- it's that they are such cheap whores.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2023 08:40 AM (vQ4/Z)

219 Happy Monday!!

>> Supporters assert that the tax will bring in $900 million annually for subsidized housing in an area in which affordable housing is a significant issue.

. . . because no one, absolutely no one will change their behavior in response to these new charges, right?
I could star writing the article today to be published next year describing how supporters are shocked that this brought in far less than expected because, get this, CA citizens found ways not to be price-gouged for energy based on income.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 17, 2023 08:41 AM (EdLEa)

220 Gosh, would you look at that?

gov.uk

"Government takes historic step towards net-zero with end of sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030
Sales of new petrol and diesel cars to end in the UK by 2030."

https://tinyurl.com/y2l4xhcw

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:41 AM (9ULwW)

221 FWIW, you'd have the latter, too.

They could probably plant child porn. They cannot make me retroactively the head of Planned Parenthood.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2023 08:41 AM (SYJ8v)

222 Well, we've covered taxes. Now let's talk about death.

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One of my favorite bumpers stickers back from the DogEater Reign of Error:

"ObamaCare -- Death AND Taxes, Now in One Convenient New Package!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 08:42 AM (2oHWb)

223 Without fuel:

We are where we are because of oil.
What's in a barrel of oil?

46% gasoline
26% Diesel
3% Asphalt
1% Lubricants
9% Jet
15% bottom of the barrel. These bottom of the barrel petrochemical products include thousands of different items ranging from makeup to medicine.

Remove that 46% of gasoline and you don't need as much oil. When you don't need as much, it costs more to produce, which makes everything else cost more to produce.

It would sandbag the economy.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2023 08:42 AM (Y2tls)

224 Speaking of science - In true nerd fashion, I took the suggestion of one of the Horde yesterday and watched some of The Bell System Science Series films from the 50's last night. When I am elected King, they will be required viewing for our gradeschoolers.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 08:42 AM (qoGsy)

225 38 sorry

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 08:42 AM (BRHaw)

226 so some entity bought Parler and immediately shut it down

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 08:43 AM (w0NJk)

227 I've asked this before, but I'll ask it again.

Is it fair to say that the internet has been a net negative for humanity?

Or would we have reached this point anyway, even in analog America?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

--

Yes.

If a genie appeared and began a long, laborious speech about "If you flip this switch, it will be as though it never existed. BUT BEWARE! For..."

Click. And he'd just stare at me. "I didn't get to finish my speech!"

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:43 AM (9ULwW)

228 >>The point of this is to dump crime holes into middle class neighborhoods to destroy the incentive to flee the urban centers.

Agenda 21. Obama started pushing this years ago.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 17, 2023 08:43 AM (EdLEa)

229 btw I like watching the launch from SpaceX site bc I kind of hate YT

:-)

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 08:43 AM (w0NJk)

230 10 k people moved from NY to Florida last year? Has to be more. I personally know several people who left my county for fla. A few others have headed for the Carolinas. Unfortunately they are being replaced by leftists fleeing the hell that they made in NYC.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 17, 2023 08:43 AM (Uk8NJ)

231 It's not that Republicans are whores to the rich and corporate class-- it's that they are such cheap whores.

D-R-I-N-K M-O-R-E B-U-D L-I-G-H-T

Posted by: Donald Trump, Jr. at April 17, 2023 08:43 AM (Gf3mx)

232 They have already proven to be able to lock down businesses. Why couldn't they simply close all the gas stations?

Make it a criminal offense to deliver fossil fuel and arrest a few using swat teams. That would scare off all the rest.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 17, 2023 08:37 AM

Then watch what happens when there is nothing for the people with EBT cards to buy at the store.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 17, 2023 08:44 AM (ncXxy)

233 a LOT of New Yorkers have moved to Chadds Ford area

they're everywhere

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 08:44 AM (w0NJk)

234 Any time some place like the city of Dallas was going to build project housing, he would rule that it had to be built right next to the border of Dallas and next to middle class housing because those horrible middle classers had tried to "avoid the poor".
Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2023 08:40 AM (RJQ8g)
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Yup. It's social engineering, purchased inefficiently with stolen money.

And they aren't trying to avoid "the poor," they're trying to avoid crime-ridden hellscapes. There are a ton of poor people - that is, people who earn well under median - in those working-class and lower middle-class areas, and they're there because they spend a shocking amount of what little they make on housing. They do that to get their kids out of the hellscape.

This is code language, and it is really corrosive. Peaceful working-class and middle-class neighborhoods aren't afraid of poor people, nor do they hate poor people. They don't want to live in a crime-ridden, dangerous hellhole. When policy dickheads talk about "The Poor," they never mean it. They mean one specific kind of poor: the kind that don't mind living in violent hellholes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:44 AM (t0OGg)

235 Listening to the SpaceX Starship webcast, it still cracks me up everytime they refer to a possible explosive failure or crash as a RUD ("Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly").

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 08:44 AM (2oHWb)

236 Without fuel, the economy shuts down. We can't go back to bakelite, paper & glass.
Posted by: rickb223

--

Yes.

Now you're catching on.
Posted by: They're lying,

Te elites don't eat either. There won't be a two tiered system like the Soviet Union.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2023 08:45 AM (Y2tls)

237 Is CBD still on vacation ?

Posted by: JT at April 17, 2023 08:45 AM (T4tVD)

238 Is it fair to say that the internet has been a net negative for humanity?

Or would we have reached this point anyway, even in analog America?

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Clarification: Yes to the first. We'd never get here without social media, the internet, etc.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:45 AM (9ULwW)

239
Soylent boogers is PEOPLE!

Posted by: Paul [Kurt] at April 17, 2023 08:46 AM (pXnvX)

240 we had our first of three spring proms last weekend and all the guys looked awesome and I had some great conversations

interact with some Gen Zs (not the ones at Bowdoin!) and you will feel much much better about the future

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 08:46 AM (w0NJk)

241
FrancoMAGAmerican
@erskineallin

Elon Musk will announce tonight on Tucker interview that the US gov agencies had access to DM direct messages on twitter!
@elonmusk

The gov works for themselves and politics, not for America’s interest.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2023 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

242 Is CBD still on vacation ?
Posted by: JT

I believe the judge ordered him to work in a maple grove tapping trees for his community service.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 08:47 AM (qoGsy)

243 Listening to the SpaceX Starship webcast, it still cracks me up everytime they refer to a possible explosive failure or crash as a RUD ("Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly").
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 08:44 AM (2oHWb)
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Like when an IT company talks about "emergency unscheduled maintenance."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:47 AM (t0OGg)

244 Te elites don't eat either. There won't be a two tiered system like the Soviet Union.
Posted by: rickb223

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Sure, except there's no need to grow food here. And small farms can take care of whatever limited demand they need. We can have them too, I guess, with the appropriate permits.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:47 AM (9ULwW)

245 >>The carousing began Wednesday night, only days after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chose Chicago for the site of its 2024 National Presidential Convention d

Maybe a better event would be "only days after electing an new "defund the police"/soft on crime mayor?!"

Posted by: Lizzy at April 17, 2023 08:47 AM (EdLEa)

246 Part of decriminalization is to overwhelm local police forces.

Then to institute a "national" "police" force.

No more pesky local yokel police to contend with gun confiscation or disrupt " the narrative."

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 17, 2023 08:47 AM (NW9xb)

247 @erskineallin
Elon Musk will announce tonight on Tucker interview that the US gov agencies had access to DM direct messages on twitter!

@elonmusk
The gov works for themselves and politics, not for America’s interest.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2023 08:47 AM (NpAcC)
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1. Duh.
2. Double duh.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:48 AM (t0OGg)

248 when the US OKed the income tax 110 years ago

it was sold on the promise of never going over 1%
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Canada's was a temporary wartime measure. That war was WW1.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 17, 2023 08:48 AM (Vwz3I)

249 235 Listening to the SpaceX Starship webcast, it still cracks me up everytime they refer to a possible explosive failure or crash as a RUD ("Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly").
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 08:44 AM (2oHWb)

Famous Mark Martin (NASCAR) Interview:
Reporter Live: What happened?
Mark: It blowed up *walks off*.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 08:48 AM (BRHaw)

250 If you have to distill oil to get the other parts which are not gasoline or diesel, you still get the gasoline and diesel part, but have nothing to do with it except flare it off.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 08:48 AM (slgIg)

251 our Visitor From the Future is tiresome

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 08:48 AM (w0NJk)

252 In 2031 the average Californian's electric bill ess 123$ per month
Doesn't anyone else even bother to fact check him? Or is everyone else just accepting he has dementia ?
Posted by: Paul

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I love this post.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:48 AM (9ULwW)

253 It's hard to grow lots of food with out fuel and fertilizer.

Posted by: pawn at April 17, 2023 08:49 AM (wsHtO)

254 247 @erskineallin
Elon Musk will announce tonight on Tucker interview that the US gov agencies had access to DM direct messages on twitter!

Wait until he finds out what Google does.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 08:49 AM (slgIg)

255 Thank you, JJ.

Posted by: democrats, Raping And Mutilating The Children They Cannot Kill at April 17, 2023 08:49 AM (0q+t6)

256 Sure, except there's no need to grow food here. And small farms can take care of whatever limited demand they need. We can have them too, I guess, with the appropriate permits.
Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:47 AM (9ULwW)
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They are surely looking at what China has done, thinking that they can do it here, too. They might be right.

Most people don't know about China's state-controlled parallel agricultural system. There are farms, distribution networks, supermarkets, etc. that are exclusively committed to high-level Party men. They have an entire parallel supply chain and distribution infrastructure to Party VIPs. They get very good stuff. None of the fake food trash the rest of China has to scramble over.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:49 AM (t0OGg)

257 Then watch what happens when there is nothing for the people with EBT cards to buy at the store.

Posted by: Mister Scott

Exactly. The only possible outcome is to destroy the economy, and nobody eats, not even the elites.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2023 08:50 AM (lTGtQ)

258 CCP funds Woke and Global Warming as both allow for Progressivism and Big Govt.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 08:50 AM (BRHaw)

259 The SpaceX engine explanations are pretty darn fascinsating

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2023 08:50 AM (Y729n)

260 It's not that Republicans are whores to the rich and corporate class-- it's that they are such cheap whores.

D-R-I-N-K M-O-R-E B-U-D L-I-G-H-T

Posted by: Donald Trump, Jr.
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That was just amazingly stupid, his "reasoning."
Which is why I'm still not sold Trump realizes yet this is a fight for America, not just another inning in the never-ending game of politics an' stuff.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2023 08:51 AM (vQ4/Z)

261 By 2031, limitless, clean fusion power will be only 20 years away!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 08:51 AM (slgIg)

262
"Government takes historic step towards net-zero with end of sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030. Sales of new petrol and diesel cars to end in the UK by 2030."

To paraphrase Mark Twain, a bad idea can spread half way around the world before reality can put its shoes on.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 17, 2023 08:51 AM (enJYY)

263 there are 3 EV charging stations (about 12 plugs at each location) that are with 10 miles of my house which is located in a fairly rural area

weekdays, they are never used

weekends, occasionally some Euro trash with NY plates is charging his ride. Usually sitting on his car, talking on the phone

I aint doing it !!

Posted by: REDACTED at April 17, 2023 08:51 AM (us2H3)

264 Most people don't know about China's state-controlled parallel agricultural system. There are farms, distribution networks, supermarkets, etc. that are exclusively committed to high-level Party men. They have an entire parallel supply chain and distribution infrastructure to Party VIPs. They get very good stuff. None of the fake food trash the rest of China has to scramble over.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:49 AM (t0OGg)

The farm raised racoon dog and pangolin are the bestest.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 08:51 AM (BRHaw)

265 If you have to distill oil to get the other parts which are not gasoline or diesel, you still get the gasoline and diesel part, but have nothing to do with it except flare it off.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 08:48 AM (slgIg)
++++
Yup. Before cars, gasoline was mostly a waste product. They wanted the kerosene (diesel), but you get gasoline no matter what. You can tweak the distribution - a little bit - but you can't magically wish it away. They used to have to just burn it off. One refinery at least (I forget which one) would store it until they had enough, then dump it into the river and throw a match.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:51 AM (t0OGg)

266 Starship launch, T minus 28 minutes

SpaceX live

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L5QXreqOrTA

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 17, 2023 08:52 AM (iKBwy)

267 Remember when Elon wanted to buy Twitter then decided he didn't they Leftists forced him to buy Twitter.

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2023 08:52 AM (jEt6X)

268 The SpaceX guy has some lispy uptalk going on. NTTAWWT.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 17, 2023 08:52 AM (Dc2NZ)

269 Sure, except there's no need to grow food here. And small farms can take care of whatever limited demand they need. We can have them too, I guess, with the appropriate permits.
Posted by: They're lying

Where's the food coming from? China? On a sailboat? No refrigeration? How does it get delivered with no diesel? No refrigeration?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2023 08:52 AM (Y2tls)

270 If the California utility companies are going to make people who have more money pay more for the same goods and services they could get for less money if they had less, there will be several results: wealthier people will seek to hide their wealth through various means, so as to pay the lower rate.

No one says that gated communities can't form their own non-profit co-op power company that simply is an aggregator billing company buying electricity at wholesale from the very same suppliers, and then proportionately charging members for their share of the co-op's losses.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 17, 2023 08:52 AM (YXHzG)

271 268 The SpaceX guy has some lispy uptalk going on. NTTAWWT.

lol doesn't he realize he is IN DANGER?!?! He's in Texas!

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 08:52 AM (w0NJk)

272 Does congress have a say in the proposed EPA rules that will rule out any gas/diesel being used.
I read where California will ban 2 cycle engines. What will you do if you can't use a chain saw and you power is out because of trees knocking down power lines. Of course that includes weed whackers, lawn mowers etc. etc.

Posted by: Colin at April 17, 2023 08:52 AM (8p0Zk)

273 earlier there was a shot of SpaceX control room and I loved the guys

all the guys

thank you males

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 08:53 AM (w0NJk)

274 The Boston Marathon is today.
It's been 10 years since the Boston Marathon bombings.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2023 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

*swoon*

Posted by: Rolling Stone Magazine at April 17, 2023 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

275 "Low income housing" has been integrated into every subdivision and planned community for the last 30 years. Instead of a single family home the developer will build X number of duplexes and satisfy the requirement.

Now, the emphasis is on subsidizing the tenants and encouraging inner city urbanites to relocate and spread their brand of diversity into the 'burbs.

The tax games California is playing are cover for more graft and corruption. Most of the newly minted millionaires in the state are probably government workers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2023 08:53 AM (Q4IgG)

276 Just assuming--- and who wouldn't want to be in Don Jr's place for a whirl with Kimberly-- that some of Junior's thinking brain discharged with his jizz ?

You can bet a YUGE number of platinum quatloos that DJT Sr is wondering WTF listening to his son suck Transheur Busch corporate dick.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at April 17, 2023 08:53 AM (gbYAE)

277 Exactly. The only possible outcome is to destroy the economy, and nobody eats, not even the elites.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

--

I don't think your idea of "elites" and the actual elites is the same as mine. I'm reluctant to put a number to my notion of the actual elites, but it's not many people.

It's certainly not Joe and Hunter and Pelosi and the other schlubs that the elites are buying off for $10K.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:53 AM (9ULwW)

278 If you have to distill oil to get the other parts which are not gasoline or diesel, you still get the gasoline and diesel part, but have nothing to do with it except flare it off.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Seriously? You are going to flare off half a barrel of oil? It still costs the same to distill. Snd you aren't going to recoup the costs.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2023 08:53 AM (Y2tls)

279 By 2025 all gasoline engines must be a minimum of 6 cycles!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 08:53 AM (slgIg)

280 "Principal Integration Engineer at SpaceX" is probably a very cool and extremely high-stress job.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:53 AM (t0OGg)

281 Re VP- I'm fine with Lake, she's articulate and a fighter, and think Huckabee-Sanders would be a home run, she's both too, plus ugly, which will be a great opportunity to see the Dem feminist masks come right off. De Santis would be great too, but doesn't bring much (Florida's a lock) other than, maybe, folks like me who really like him (seems to be a lot of us). Don't understand JJ's "never." MTG brings nothing but negatives- she'll be painted as "stupider than Palin" and "crazier than Goldwater." Nay not be true, but will stick. Remember, they made Barry's first election all about Palin.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at April 17, 2023 08:54 AM (iOTWL)

282 By 2025 all gasoline engines must be a minimum of 6 cycles!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

All we'll be left with is bi-cycles.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 08:55 AM (qoGsy)

283 Does congress have a say in the proposed EPA rules that will rule out any gas/diesel being used.
I read where California will ban 2 cycle engines.

What will you do if you can't use a chain saw and you power is out because of trees knocking down power lines. Of course that includes weed whackers, lawn mowers etc. etc.
Posted by: Colin

You WILL charge those battery powered chain saw!!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2023 08:55 AM (Y2tls)

284 Sure, except there's no need to grow food here. And small farms can take care of whatever limited demand they need. We can have them too, I guess, with the appropriate permits.
Posted by: They're lying

Where's the food coming from? China? On a sailboat? No refrigeration? How does it get delivered with no diesel? No refrigeration?
Posted by: rickb223

---

Again, China, India, etc. don't have to adhere to the rules being put in place for us.

See also: New coal fired power plant being opened daily/weekly in those countries.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:56 AM (9ULwW)

285 That was just amazingly stupid, his "reasoning."
Which is why I'm still not sold Trump realizes yet this is a fight for America, not just another inning in the never-ending game of politics an' stuff.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2023 08:51 AM (vQ4/Z)

Well, I thought that AB/InBev was a foreign corporation, it does raise other questions about campaign finance.

Perhaps it is 'multi-national'. Or perhaps they donated to PACs.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 17, 2023 08:56 AM (Gf3mx)

286 Is it fair to say that the internet has been a net negative for humanity?

Or would we have reached this point anyway, even in analog America?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

It wrecked the antique importing business

took all the mystery out of it

Posted by: REDACTED at April 17, 2023 08:56 AM (us2H3)

287 "Principal Integration Engineer at SpaceX" is probably a very cool and extremely high-stress job."

You bet.

Posted by: pawn at April 17, 2023 08:56 AM (wsHtO)

288 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2023 08:51 AM (vQ4/Z

Not to say that Sr. Doesn't believe it too /although I find it hard to Think of The former President endorsing transgenderism and particularly for children/ but it was Donald Trump Jr who took a stand for Transheuser Busch. ( congrats to the moron or whoever came up with that terminology)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2023 08:56 AM (Ydkc0)

289 California is, or at one point was the sixth largest economy in the world. When you consider its ports, its farmland, the non-ideological aspects of Silicon Valley, and many other things, its complete ruination -- driven by a Leftist-dominated statehouse and several of our nation's formerly great megalopolises within its borders -- was and remains a harbinger of things to come.

---------

"Unexpectedly!"

-- ShainS ten years and two days ago on "2013 Tax Day" as he & wifey escaped Califzuela (and ever since)

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 08:56 AM (2oHWb)

290 Does congress have a say in the proposed EPA rules that will rule out any gas/diesel being used.
I read where California will ban 2 cycle engines.

--

California banned new gas powered cars by 2035.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:57 AM (9ULwW)

291 I don't know if it's [near?] the anniversary but MFM here pushing the "Matthew Shepard was killed in a hate attack in 1998" lie this morning.

https://tinyurl.com/2wx5n5c6

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 17, 2023 08:58 AM (Vwz3I)

292 The whole "drink Bud Light because they donate to Republicans" is tone deaf because it's saying "yeah, terrorism is bad, but most of the time, they help old ladies across the street."

It's the "...but you f*ck ONE GOAT" theory.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

293 California banned new gas powered cars by 2035.

I'm not sure we'll make it to 2035.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 17, 2023 08:58 AM (Gf3mx)

294 mass shooting in Dadeville AL

all but ignored by MSM

storyline unapproved

Posted by: REDACTED at April 17, 2023 08:58 AM (us2H3)

295 Again, China, India, etc. don't have to adhere to the rules being put in place for us.

See also: New coal fired power plant being opened daily/weekly in those countries.
Posted by: They're lying

So the elites are all going to move to the Port of Long Beach where the food can be hand delivered because there is no diesel for long haul trucks. No propane for the refrigerator units and 300 million guns sit silent?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2023 08:58 AM (Y2tls)

296 >>The Boston Marathon is today.
It's been 10 years since the Boston Marathon bombings.

When I lived in Boston we used to go watch some of the finish every year. We would usually go to the exact spot where one of the bombs went off, it is right in front of a building my sister used to work in.

I didn't go that years cause I had just moved here a couple weeks prior and my sister decided not to attend that year either. That was some fortunate timing.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 17, 2023 08:58 AM (ZLI7S)

297 "Is it fair to say that the internet has been a net negative for humanity?
Or would we have reached this point anyway, even in analog America?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger"

The Internet is an incredible thing, a peak of technology. Like a gun, it can be used for good or bad. People don't need technology to be tyrants though, so ultimately it probably makes no difference.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 08:59 AM (iayUP)

298 I love hearing the SpaceX peeps talk about sustainability

they are using the term in a USEFUL way!

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 08:59 AM (w0NJk)

299 It's worth remembering that California controls the decisions of other states (and the EPA) via their unelected California Air Resource Board. (think crappy gas cans - that's CARB touching your life, same as this will)

"California, the country’s most populous state and the center of U.S. car culture, is banning the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles starting in 2035, marking a historic step in the state’s battle against climate change.

The rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board on Thursday..."

https://tinyurl.com/2gsc968v

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 08:59 AM (9ULwW)

300 Is it fair to say that the internet has been a net negative for humanity?

Or would we have reached this point anyway, even in analog America?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

It wrecked the antique importing business
took all the mystery out of it
Posted by: REDACTED

Honestly, it did the same thing to sex. No, didn't ruin the market at all, but certainly removed the mystery and cheapened it.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 08:59 AM (qoGsy)

301 I think "48 hours in hell" might be a postive read from the Gospel Tract and Bible society" for some folks in the FBI.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 17, 2023 08:59 AM (Ydkc0)

302 Khartoum is one of those mythical places like Novdu, Shangri-la, and Sheboygan, right?

Posted by: Geographical Moron at April 17, 2023 08:59 AM (Nn3xT)

303 I don't tend to drink horse piss

and would never drink bad horse piss

Posted by: REDACTED at April 17, 2023 08:59 AM (us2H3)

304 "Climate Crisis" is a hoax.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 17, 2023 09:00 AM (fs1hN)

305 We're watching the Spacex launch coverage on NSF. Yeah, the nerds are amusing but actually are providing a lot of good information. And, frankly, their enthusiasm is contagious.

Can't help thinking back to a young JTB, nose pressed to the black and white TV, waiting for the Alan Shepard Mercury launch. They were worried about the rocket exploding on the pad then, too.

Posted by: JTB at April 17, 2023 09:00 AM (7EjX1)

306 Todays launch is powered by methane. An environmental catastophre!

Posted by: Eat moar chickin at April 17, 2023 09:00 AM (Y729n)

307 California banned new gas powered cars by 2035.

Posted by: They're lying,

They will ban white males by then.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 17, 2023 09:00 AM (lTGtQ)

308 > I read where California will ban 2 cycle engines.
_____________

They did that several years ago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2023 09:00 AM (Q4IgG)

309 305 We're watching the Spacex launch coverage on NSF. Yeah, the nerds are amusing but actually are providing a lot of good information. And, frankly, their enthusiasm is contagious.

it sure is! great morning and feeling optimism is nice

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 09:01 AM (w0NJk)

310 This might be the most ridiculous "Republicans pounce!" story angle ever:

@nytimes
Defeated on same-sex marriage, the religious right went searching for an issue that would re-energize supporters and donors.

Now, the pace of the campaign against transgender rights has stunned political leaders across the spectrum.

Why yes, it's not that the LGBT activists went from "it's just two people who want to legalize their love" tp "we will trans your kids, and if you tr to stop it - we will take them from you!!" in 10 years. Nope, those darn Repugs are just spiteful H8Rs!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 17, 2023 09:01 AM (EdLEa)

311 So the elites are all going to move to the Port of Long Beach where the food can be hand delivered because there is no diesel for long haul trucks. No propane for the refrigerator units and 300 million guns sit silent?
Posted by: rickb223

--

Frog boiling. It won't be an overnight switch. And guns will probably be taken care of in the next decade or so.

And like I said, I don't think Pelosi, Biden, etc. are the elites.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 09:01 AM (9ULwW)

312 I read where California will ban 2 cycle engines.
_____________

They did that several years ago.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2023 09:00 AM (Q4IgG)

4 stroke weed eaters suck balls.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

313 I applaud the retrofuturist lines of the Super Chubby.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 17, 2023 09:02 AM (Dc2NZ)

314 I applaud the retrofuturist lines of the Super Chubby.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 17, 2023 09:02 AM (Dc2NZ)

Do NOT image search.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

315 Might have been me. I've posted links to the last two Postcards from Barsoom Substacks. He's writing some great stuff. And the folks that comment on it are interesting too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 17, 2023 09:03 AM (u7leW)

316 304 "Climate Crisis" is a hoax.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Ooops, I forgot the social media footnote that gets added to statements like the above-

"Click here to see the specially curated sciency looking propaganda the government wants you to know at the exclusion of the mountain of evidence that supports the position taken above."

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 17, 2023 09:03 AM (fs1hN)

317 4 stroke weed eaters suck balls.
Posted by: Sponge

I didn't know that had that attachment.

Posted by: Bruce at April 17, 2023 09:04 AM (Zrzqo)

318 Guilds using licensing authority to restrict political speech have no legal defense against first amendment lawsuits, notwithstanding Frenchian attempts to argue they aren't government agencies. They plainly are, insofar as they are deputized to grant or deny professional licenses to individulas who legally need the license in order to earn their living.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2023 09:04 AM (Y729n)

319 >>I applaud the retrofuturist lines of the Super Chubby.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes

I like it too- very minimalist
it's like an arrow

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at April 17, 2023 09:04 AM (geLO8)

320 and Sheboygan, right?
Posted by: Geographical Moron

Chicago?
No, Sheboygan. It was very big in Sheboygan.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 09:04 AM (qoGsy)

321 The Internet is an incredible thing, a peak of technology. Like a gun, it can be used for good or bad. People don't need technology to be tyrants though, so ultimately it probably makes no difference.
Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 08:59 AM (iayUP)
++++
It makes totalitarianism and other tyranny much cheaper and easier, achievable with far fewer people. It lowers the barriers to entry and allows for more thorough control.

The Internet is something of a force-multiplier. It can be used for good or evil and is in fact used for both.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:05 AM (t0OGg)

322 "I didn't know that had that attachment.
Posted by: Bruce "

NOW I want a weed wacker!

Posted by: Pete Bootygig at April 17, 2023 09:05 AM (iayUP)

323 Here come the Quarter Century Since Matthew Shepard documentaries.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 17, 2023 09:05 AM (CZBWZ)

324 Watch a YT video yesterday about a news organization interviewing kids in a school lunch room about how they liked the food. Most hated it and brought their own. Wait until the government mandates bugs.

Posted by: Colin at April 17, 2023 09:05 AM (8p0Zk)

325 I wouldn't be surprised if the influx of illegals is a big part of the plan for making sure no-questions-asked workers are available for sh*tty jobs, too.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 09:05 AM (9ULwW)

326 4 stroke weed eaters suck balls.
Posted by: Sponge

I didn't know that had that attachment.
Posted by: Bruce

Turn the leaf blower attachment around.

What?!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 09:05 AM (qoGsy)

327 My usual check if HeyJackass shows that Chicago had 13 murders as of 7:05am for this weekend. Four higher than the same weekend in the worst of the past ten years. Mayor elect Worse than Groot said "don't demonize the children".

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 17, 2023 09:05 AM (Uk8NJ)

328 It's easy to look at the policies that they implement and what a disaster it is for the state.

But far too many people look at the results, get all dreamy eyed and want all of that for the rest of the country.
Posted by: NR Pax

Partially correct.

When things don't work it's not because they don't work. It's because " we didn't try hard enough or it's not the policy but the wrong person implementing it.

See Obama and single payer.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 17, 2023 09:06 AM (NW9xb)

329 No Internet, no Horde. That does offset some of the bad side.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 09:06 AM (iayUP)

330
I didn't know that had that attachment.
Posted by: Bruce at April 17, 2023 09:04 AM (Zrzqo)

"Hell, for that price, the thing should give me a blow job."

"SIR!!! That lawn mower is NOT going to give you a blow job. But I will......."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

331 14 minutes

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at April 17, 2023 09:06 AM (geLO8)

332 I didn't know that had that attachment.
Posted by: Bruce at April 17, 2023 09:04 AM (Zrzqo)

Its in the Health and Beauty aisle.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 09:06 AM (BRHaw)

333 Honestly, it did the same thing to sex. No, didn't ruin the market at all, but certainly removed the mystery and cheapened it.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 08:59 AM (qoGsy)

personally, I no problem with cheap

Posted by: REDACTED at April 17, 2023 09:06 AM (us2H3)

334 We paid an additional $1,200 to the federal criminals over an above the exorbitant amount of taxes we pay over the year from what the steal from my paycheck.

Posted by: Archer at April 17, 2023 09:06 AM (gmo/4)

335 If you burn methane, it is converted into more environmentally friendly green CO2.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 09:06 AM (slgIg)

336 The SpaceX webcast just noted that there is still one boat in the "restricted area" that the Coast Guard is attempting to force out of the area.

Jim, Sunk New Dawn, is that you?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 09:07 AM (2oHWb)

337 comedy alert

Hank Johnson on TV

committee on NYC crime

Posted by: REDACTED at April 17, 2023 09:07 AM (us2H3)

338 320 and Sheboygan, right?
Posted by: Geographical Moron

Chicago?
No, Sheboygan. It was very big in Sheboygan.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 17, 2023 09:04 AM (qoGsy)

She boy again? Dylan Mulvaney.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 17, 2023 09:07 AM (x0n13)

339 "Watch a YT video yesterday about a news organization interviewing kids in a school lunch room about how they liked the food. Most hated it and brought their own. Wait until the government mandates bugs.
Posted by: Colin "

It was the same way 50, I mean, 29 years ago.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 09:07 AM (iayUP)

340 *eyes leafblower*

Posted by: Your neighbor who fucks lawn equipment at April 17, 2023 09:07 AM (CZBWZ)

341 The SpaceX webcast just noted that there is still one boat in the "restricted area" that the Coast Guard is attempting to force out of the area.

Jim, Sunk New Dawn, is that you?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 09:07 AM (2oHWb)

LOL!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

342 We paid an additional $1,200 to the federal criminals over an above the exorbitant amount of taxes we pay over the year from what the steal from my paycheck.
Posted by: Archer at April 17, 2023 09:06 AM (gmo/4)
++++
Don't make a habit out of that or they'll sock you for more penalties because you underpaid too often.

I hate the IRS.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:08 AM (t0OGg)

343 there might be an issue preventing launch today (not that boat!)

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 09:08 AM (w0NJk)

344 How many of you are going to walk into a concentration camp willingly?

Posted by: Guy on the outside at April 17, 2023 09:08 AM (89Sog)

345 294 mass shooting in Dadeville AL

all but ignored by MSM

storyline unapproved

Posted by: REDACTED at April 17, 2023 08:58 AM (us2H3)

It's weird.

The first story I read listed Phil Dowdell as a victim.

The second story listed Philstavious Dowdell.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 17, 2023 09:08 AM (Gf3mx)

346 >>>The SpaceX webcast just noted that there is still one boat in the "restricted area" that the Coast Guard is attempting to force out of the area.

there's always one bonehead who didn't get the memo

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at April 17, 2023 09:08 AM (geLO8)

347 It is not advisable for you to park your boat here. You have been warned. Have a nice day.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 09:09 AM (slgIg)

348 >>The Boston Marathon is today.
It's been 10 years since the Boston Marathon bombings.
==================
a friend's son was peacefully sitting in his apartment smoking weed when suddenly the Fibbies burst through his front door. Imagine the surprise...

It turned out the brothers Tsarnaev lived next door and the federales were looking for an elevated firing position. They told by friends so to gather up his weed and go find someplace else, they weren't interested in drugs, only terrorists.

Shocked straight only begins to describe it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2023 09:09 AM (N1DZY)

349 It was the same way 50, I mean, 29 years ago.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 09:07 AM (iayUP)

Except now they get way less of it. Miniature portions. And somedays it's literally bread and milk.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 17, 2023 09:10 AM (45fpk)

350 The SpaceX webcast just noted that there is still one boat in the "restricted area" that the Coast Guard is attempting to force out of the area.

Nyet, ve vill not move, capitalist dogs!

- Soviet Submarine boat.

Posted by: Archer at April 17, 2023 09:10 AM (gmo/4)

351
T-10 to the StarShip launch...

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 17, 2023 09:10 AM (ENBF0)

352 Social Justice is a lie. Created out of whole cloth by people can't live by the standards of criminal Justice or civil Justice. It is a fraud.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at April 17, 2023 09:10 AM (aKXSP)

353 is the Coast Guard going to fukk this up?

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 09:10 AM (w0NJk)

354 Philstavious is an awesome name.

I'm guessing Irish.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 09:11 AM (9ULwW)

355 That "mass shooting" was weird. The shooter "Had to be out of there in 5 minutes", but was still stuck inside after 5 minutes, so he started shooting.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 09:11 AM (slgIg)

356 339 "Watch a YT video yesterday about a news organization interviewing kids in a school lunch room about how they liked the food. Most hated it and brought their own. Wait until the government mandates bugs.
Posted by: Colin "

It was the same way 50, I mean, 29 years ago.
Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 09:07 AM (iayUP)
---

T'was ever thus. The only good lunch day was Square Pizza Day.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 17, 2023 09:11 AM (Dc2NZ)

357 SpaceX audience is viewing from South Padre Island, so they can conveniently move from moring launch viewing to drunken afternoon revels. Well done, SpaceX.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2023 09:11 AM (N1DZY)

358 And somedays it's literally bread and milk.

Posted by: grammie winger at April 17, 2023 09:10 AM (45fpk)

Luxury! Why 50, er 29 years ago all we got was bread and water. And we were thankful!

Posted by: Archer at April 17, 2023 09:11 AM (gmo/4)

359 ok so the pressurization problem means no launch today

wet-dress rehearsal instead

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (w0NJk)

360 No launch today.

Sad...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (N1DZY)

361 Canceled.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (iKBwy)

362 Launch cancelled.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (MBGMJ)

363 Luxury! Why 50, er 29 years ago all we got was bread and water. And we were thankful!
Posted by: Archer at April 17, 2023 09:11 AM (gmo/4)
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You had bread? All we had was hot water soup - and it was usually cold!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (t0OGg)

364 California is doing exactly what it wants to do regarding the wealthy. The wealthy funded this and voted for it. Why? The consequences are not unintended. If all the wealthy leave Cali, are they to infect other states? Is that the goal? Don't laugh at Cali, everything they do is planned out.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (EDCMj)

365 >>Also, people will see that there is no point in working harder to try to earn more money, as the state will just confiscate it in various ways. Consequently, people will work less, and less hard. The standard of living will decline, because productivity will have declined.

*SHRUGS*

(It's not a user manual, d@mnit!)

Posted by: Atlas at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (EdLEa)

366 Launch delayed, they are making it dress rehearsal. Clock will stop a t-minus 10 seconds.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (iayUP)

367 Me: I wonder what the demographic of the shooter was?

Alabama, uh huh. Montgomery, uh huh. Philstaveous, yep.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (slgIg)

368 Launch cancelled.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (MBGMJ)

They couldn't just move the boat?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

369 If you burn methane, it is converted into more environmentally friendly green CO2.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 09:06 AM (slgIg)

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Reminds me of a great short animation (less than 30 minutes) entitled "Beyond The Reset" that I saw recently depicting our totalitarian future. #Soon.

[Some controversy as the creator showed plants releasing CO2 at night during respiration as opposed to all the CO2 that they're absorbing during the day -- which is exactly what happens.]

Well done, and highly recommended:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWkepoLUZfs

[P.S. SpaceX launch just cancelled for the day.]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (2oHWb)

370 no launch today it sound like

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (BRHaw)

371 ok so the pressurization problem means no launch today

wet-dress rehearsal instead
Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (w0NJk)
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Bummer. Tomorrow or Wednesday, then.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (t0OGg)

372 Why CANX'd?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 17, 2023 09:13 AM (Dc2NZ)

373 They couldn't just move the boat?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

-----------

LOL. Or just sink it?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 09:13 AM (2oHWb)

374 Starship launch reduced to a wet dress rehearsal due to a pressurization issue on the first stage

Posted by: SMOD at April 17, 2023 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

375 oh well! lol not the boat btw

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 09:13 AM (w0NJk)

376 @358 Mr lace curtain. Our bread was moldy and our water scummy. And we were happy to have it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 17, 2023 09:13 AM (Uk8NJ)

377 You had bread? All we had was hot water soup - and it was usually cold!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (t0OGg)

A cold bowl of steam

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 09:13 AM (BRHaw)

378 Launch delayed, they are making it dress rehearsal. Clock will stop a t-minus 10 seconds.
Posted by: fd

Space Camp vibes.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 09:13 AM (slgIg)

379 starship scrubbed for today

Posted by: Bruce at April 17, 2023 09:14 AM (Zrzqo)

380 Oh well. Bring on the art.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 09:14 AM (iayUP)

381 I'm watching this thing smoking and steaming on the launch pad and half expect it to go KABLOOEY at any moment

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at April 17, 2023 09:14 AM (geLO8)

382 First stage couldn't handle the pressure of a launch?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 09:14 AM (slgIg)

383 First stage couldn't handle the pressure of a launch?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 09:14 AM (slgIg)
++++
Performance anxiety...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:15 AM (t0OGg)

384 Autocucumber doesn't know how many Ls there are in canceled.

Both are listed. This is causing me consternation.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 17, 2023 09:15 AM (iKBwy)

385 I saw the D&D movie yesterday. It was ok, but the most likeable character was the gelatinous cube.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 09:15 AM (iayUP)

386 Sink the boat and launch the bitch.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 17, 2023 09:15 AM (CZBWZ)

387 362 Launch cancelled.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 17, 2023 09:12 AM (MBGMJ)

I am still seeing a countdown.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 17, 2023 09:15 AM (zZu0s)

388 comedy alert

Hank Johnson on TV

committee on NYC crime

Posted by: REDACTED at April 17, 2023 09:07 AM (us2H3)

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"If we don't release every murderer, rapist, other assaulter, and thief from prison immediately, Manhattan will soon tip over!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 09:15 AM (2oHWb)

389 >>If all the wealthy leave Cali, are they to infect other states? Is that the goal? Don't laugh at Cali, everything they do is planned out.

Yoohoo!
*waves at Jamaica NYC*

You're a little late to the party -- Californians did this to CO years ago, and there is a blueprint for it as it is being done to other states: "The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care)" - published in 2010.

Colorado's current governor claims to be from Boulder, but he grew up in CA and is a Californian in every way.

Posted by: Atlas at April 17, 2023 09:15 AM (EdLEa)

390 > T'was ever thus. The only good lunch day was Square Pizza Day.
____________

Yup. We also had square hamburger day. Like McDonalds, but not.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2023 09:16 AM (Q4IgG)

391 Autocucumber doesn't know how many Ls there are in canceled.

Both are listed. This is causing me consternation.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 17, 2023 09:15 AM (iKBwy)
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Both are acceptable. Single-l (canceled) is more typical of the American spelling, while double-l (cancelled) is more typical of British spelling. The regional expressions are not rigid, and both spellings are in common usage.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:16 AM (t0OGg)

392 @284 two L's means you are really, really cancelled

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 17, 2023 09:16 AM (Uk8NJ)

393 -----------

LOL. Or just sink it?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 09:13 AM (2oHWb)

Jim, you MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

394 383 First stage couldn't handle the pressure of a launch?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 17, 2023 09:14 AM (slgIg)
++++
Performance anxiety...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:15 AM (t0OGg)

Bob Dole has a suggestion for that.

Posted by: Bob Dole at April 17, 2023 09:17 AM (N3zMI)

395 311 So the elites are all going to move to the Port of Long Beach where the food can be hand delivered because there is no diesel for long haul trucks. No propane for the refrigerator units and 300 million guns sit silent?
Posted by: rickb223
--
Frog boiling. It won't be an overnight switch. And guns will probably be taken care of in the next decade or so.

And like I said, I don't think Pelosi, Biden, etc. are the elites.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 09:01 AM (9ULwW)

They'll set it up so that "waivers may be granted at the discretion of the Secretaries of Energy and Transportation." For a price, of course. Only big corporations will be able to afford them. And their entire corporation must be unionized. Prices for everything will increase. As intended. Trucks can haul a lot of bug protein.

Posted by: Gref at April 17, 2023 09:17 AM (AMIL/)

396 What happens if you are an academic whose research contradicts The Narrative™?

These days the answer is simple: you are canceled and your research is stolen and buried by the university.

That happened to Dr. Laura Favaro, whose research on the suppression of academic speech demonstrated that feminist scholars who dissent from gender ideology had been threatened and scared into silence due to their belief that biological sex is real.

Always email a copy of your stuff to private account and copy it to a jump dirve!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 09:17 AM (BRHaw)

397 >I am still seeing a countdown.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

narrator says the plan is to count down to 10 sec, then officially scrub

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at April 17, 2023 09:17 AM (geLO8)

398 Autocucumber doesn't know how many Ls there are in canceled.

Both are listed. This is causing me consternation.
Posted by: Taq

Fist bump. One doesn't look right, until you put in the second L. Then IT doesn't look right.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2023 09:17 AM (Y2tls)

399 Monica Lewinsky had a wet dress.

Posted by: Archer at April 17, 2023 09:17 AM (gmo/4)

400 I am still seeing a countdown.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at April 17, 2023 09:15 AM (zZu0s)
++++
Apparently they'll abort at T-10 seconds, since they're continuing countdown testing and other systems testing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:17 AM (t0OGg)

401 justice, CA rich libs to be taxed double for entering other states.

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2023 09:17 AM (xNg0H)

402 379 starship scrubbed for today
Posted by: Bruce at April 17, 2023 09:14 AM (Zrzqo)

grace is no longer easily achieved and it aint that slick

Posted by: Ms Wing at April 17, 2023 09:18 AM (us2H3)

403 They get very good stuff. None of the fake food trash the rest of China has to scramble over.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 08:49 AM (t0OGg)

We had to switch to a new dog food (yeah, I know, you're supposed to transition, but we didn't get to the grocery store in time) a few days ago and JT was throwing up for 24 hours. Pooky didn't get all those messes completely cleaned up, so when JT got a few of the chunks, he started throwing up again. We've got him back on a food he's had before and Bomgaars assures me that they get it in every 1-2 weeks.

All of this is to say that I'm suspecting the "new" dog food had components from Chy-na.

Posted by: pookysgirl has heard horror stories at April 17, 2023 09:18 AM (dtlDP)

404 They'll set it up so that "waivers may be granted at the discretion of the Secretaries of Energy and Transportation." For a price, of course. Only big corporations will be able to afford them. And their entire corporation must be unionized. Prices for everything will increase. As intended. Trucks can haul a lot of bug protein.
Posted by: Gref

Now put 300 million guns into the mix and daddy can't feed his daughter.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2023 09:18 AM (Y2tls)

405 SpaceX Starship delayed for 2 days. Unfortunate. But safety first.

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at April 17, 2023 09:18 AM (roPuI)

406 >>Colorado's current governor claims to be from Boulder, but he grew up in CA and is a Californian in every way.

Posted by: Atlas

and he is a communist & a sodomite

Posted by: DB - embracing the horror at April 17, 2023 09:18 AM (geLO8)

407 justice, CA rich libs to be taxed double for entering other states.
Posted by: runner at April 17, 2023 09:17 AM (xNg0H)

Californians vote for this shit over and over, therefore I say reap it, bitches. Reap it hard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

408 Did you know today
is National Haiku Day?
What ya got, Hordelings??

Posted by: Doof at April 17, 2023 09:20 AM (LLddH)

409 >>and he is a communist & a sodomite

He is repulsive - fat, sloppy - can't stand to look at him.

Posted by: Atlas at April 17, 2023 09:20 AM (EdLEa)

410 How would you know they are libs? Social Media , of course! They use soc media to harass and fire people , no? Should be good enough for taxation. hate has no hone signage? Double! Got a Uke flag? Triple!

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2023 09:20 AM (xNg0H)

411 SpaceX Starship delayed for 2 days. Unfortunate. But safety first.
Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at April 17, 2023 09:18 AM (roPuI)

If that's the attitude, they'll NEVER launch. Space travel is anything but safe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

412 Best pizza in Dallas is Campisis

rectangular pan

Posted by: Ms Wing at April 17, 2023 09:20 AM (us2H3)

413 We had to switch to a new dog food (yeah, I know, you're supposed to transition, but we didn't get to the grocery store in time) a few days ago and JT was throwing up for 24 hours.

No I wasn't !

Posted by: JT at April 17, 2023 09:21 AM (T4tVD)

414 My Haiku is poo
Stinks to high heaven
It is Haiku poo

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2023 09:21 AM (iayUP)

415 Six female teachers busted over the last two days for alleged inappropriate student relations.

It was not rape rape.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 09:22 AM (BRHaw)

416 Clown World ™ 🤡

@ClownWorld_
Yesterday in Los Angeles

https://tinyurl.com/bdfcv64a

Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2023 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

417 392 @284 two L's means you are really, really cancelled

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 17, 2023 09:16 AM (Uk8NJ)

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"Cancelled-Cancelled" -- similar to "Rape-Rape." [h/t Whoopie the Human Orca]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at April 17, 2023 09:22 AM (2oHWb)

418 Did you know today
is National Haiku Day?
What ya got, Hordelings??
Posted by: Doof

Hiya ku !

Posted by: JT at April 17, 2023 09:22 AM (T4tVD)

419 If that's the attitude, they'll NEVER launch. Space travel is anything but safe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
They know they have a problem that will cause launch failure and loss of the vehicle, so they're canceling. Makes sense to me. There's a known fault.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:22 AM (t0OGg)

420
@ClownWorld_
Yesterday in Los Angeles

https://tinyurl.com/bdfcv64a
Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2023 09:22 AM (NpAcC)

A well yielded baseball bat would cure a lot of this ill.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

421 Did you know today
is National Haiku Day?

I love Haiku! The speed, the passing, the hitting, the skill, the goal tending.

My favorite Haiku team is the NY Rangers. Followed them for over 29 yrs. They're in the Haiku playoffs this year.

Posted by: Archer at April 17, 2023 09:23 AM (gmo/4)

422 Yup. It's social engineering, purchased inefficiently with stolen money.

In he case of the Dallas Housing Authority and their quest under Alphonso Jackson to set outposts of ghettos in [then] prosperous Plano (far North Dallas).

They budgeted, ahead of time, more money to litigate the move, knowing full well the resistance to the idea, than they intended to spend building the projects.

People were defending their schools, neighborhoods and property values but the DHA knew better and used poor people as weapons against The Rich™

A few decades later the fruit of this sort of policy came when the feral hoodlums in the neighborhood jumped security fences to hijack a large pool party causing a disturbance so great that it ended up getting national attention.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 17, 2023 09:23 AM (YXHzG)

423 ++++
They know they have a problem that will cause launch failure and loss of the vehicle, so they're canceling. Makes sense to me. There's a known fault.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:22 AM (t0OGg)

They BOUGHT their tickets.
They KNEW what they were getting into.

I say, LET em crash......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

424 No I wasn't !

Posted by: JT at April 17, 2023 09:21 AM (T4tVD)

Sorry, meant to specify JT The Wonder Dog. Pooky was very worried about him over the weekend.

Posted by: pookysgirl, very good at giving scritches at April 17, 2023 09:24 AM (dtlDP)

425 Best pizza in Dallas is Campisis

rectangular pan
Posted by: Ms Wing

iFratelli's. Same way.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2023 09:24 AM (Y2tls)

426 A well yielded baseball bat would cure a lot of this ill.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)
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Maybe. That's a big crowd.

Mercenaries will be more common, especially as law continues to break down and the odds of private security being prosecuted declines.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:24 AM (t0OGg)

427 Done right:

Squares > Slices

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 17, 2023 09:25 AM (CZBWZ)

428 Now put 300 million guns into the mix and daddy can't feed his daughter.

--

That will help justify the push to round up the extremists and get rid of their guns. It's a no lose situation for them.

Plus, once the digital currency is in place (starts this June IIRC) and your income - everything you worked for for the last 50 years - can be frozen and locked or deleted/seized with the push of a button by someone monitoring your account in India per the terms of the federal contract, it will be easy to get 99% of folks to comply.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 09:25 AM (Emu9a)

429 "Can eating lab-grown meat – which is essentially a form of deliberately grown cancer – actually give you cancer? How can you convince the public that it won’t, when nobody has ever eaten it before? And is a man with a troubled business history – a history he’s done his best to hide – the right person to do it?"

The Lab Grown ‘GOOD Meat’ Company Has a Murky Past, and They’re Extremely Sensitive About It . . .

I have not understood the supposed popularity of the fake meat and fake food movement, considering the past anti-GMO movement. I would have thought those people would be sounding the alarm bells about this stuff.

Then I realized that they are likely being told to shut up or are being silenced or censored, just like those who tried to warn people about the Plandemic narratives, since this fake meat and fake food movement originates with the WEF and Deep States in every Western nation.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 17, 2023 09:25 AM (Do5/p)

430 ++++
Maybe. That's a big crowd.

Mercenaries will be more common, especially as law continues to break down and the odds of private security being prosecuted declines.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:24 AM (t0OGg)

I bet the crowd shrinks if the first 2 in the door have cracked skulls......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

431 Assuming, as a rough approximation, that the bonds it purchased pay an average rate of 1.75 percent, and the average rate paid on bank reserves and ONRRPs is 4.6 percent, then the Fed is paying about 2.85 percent per year more than it receives on its $8 trillion dollar securities portfolio.

That’s a loss of $228 billion per year!

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 09:26 AM (BRHaw)

432 They BOUGHT their tickets.
They KNEW what they were getting into.

I say, LET em crash......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
LOL.

That movie did so much so well. Oddly - though not intentionally humorously - so did Die Hard. That movie's cut-aways to the talking heads were brilliantly done satire.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:26 AM (t0OGg)

433 60 they think it's Not Fair that some places in this country are nice and we all have to be equally miserable.

it's the second thing NR Pax
Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 17, 2023 07:57 AM (w0NJk)

These are the kind of people that read Harrison Bergeron and thought it described utopia.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 17, 2023 09:26 AM (4olE8)

434 Californians vote for this shit over and over, therefore I say reap it, bitches. Reap it hard.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

Sponge, I don't want to pick on you, but do you understand that living in places like CA, NY, IL, makes any normal political participation obsolete? Kinda like living in the former USSR. There is elite that makes a mess, and normal people who hate it , but absolutely cannot so anything about it from the inside . Once socialism takes hold, IT IS IRREVERSIBLE.

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2023 09:26 AM (xNg0H)

435 The Lab Grown ‘GOOD Meat’ Company Has a Murky Past, and They’re Extremely Sensitive About It . . .

We're the Soylent Company, you can trust us.

Posted by: Archer at April 17, 2023 09:27 AM (gmo/4)

436
That’s a loss of $228 billion per year!
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 17, 2023 09:26 AM (BRHaw)

"WINNING!"

- - - The United States Postal Service

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

437 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

The idea of a Federal flat income tax rate is back; H.R.1040 - Flat Tax Act, 117th Congress (2021-2022), probably much the same as flat tax proposals touted in the '90s. But there's also VAT proposals/analysis in the works. See, CBO dot gov Impose a Tax on Consumption - Options for Reducing the Deficit, 2023 to 2032, Volume 1: Larger Reductions

Something has to give 'cause we're broke & the feds need to find the millions of gig workers (thus the unionize proposals hither & yon) while also trying to make independent contractors into employees of employers, excluding certain loftier positions of course.

More control over the financial system, still excluding the 1% of course, is needed. (The 1% require different plans but the feds and states will simply continue to pattern their proposals much like steps for slow dancing.) The IRS & states aren't employing legions of forensic accountants. They need 'specialists' with certain computer features to feed data in & get red light/green light readings out for the bulk of the quarterly &/or annual tax obligations for the 99%. Surely, the NGOs are on it.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 17, 2023 09:27 AM (GshMh)

438 Autocucumber doesn't know how many Ls there are in canceled.

Or if there is a space where it may not be:

"re sign". vs "resign"

completely opposite meanings

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 17, 2023 09:27 AM (YXHzG)

439 Deep-Dish, Square, Rectangular, or Sicilian Pizza are all an abomination. Unfit for human consumption. Chicago is a sick "culture" and the "pizza" is a big part of it!

Posted by: Mr. Tony Pizza Expert at April 17, 2023 09:27 AM (Nn3xT)

440 They BOUGHT their tickets.
They KNEW what they were getting into.

I say, LET em crash......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Two too many syllables in line 2.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 17, 2023 09:27 AM (iKBwy)

441 >>Californians vote for this shit over and over, therefore I say reap it, bitches. Reap it hard.

Oh, if only it stayed in California and only punished them!

However, we know that the state is the incubator for new policy ideas, so if they're pushing for it there today, then your local state Democrats will be pushing for it tomorrow.

And the crazy Lefties who voted for these policies for decades, who just now declare that 'they've gone too far, will not learn their lesson. They will move to a new state and declare it their responsibility to educate their new neighbors on how things should be run, progressive-style.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 17, 2023 09:27 AM (EdLEa)

442

Art is up.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 17, 2023 09:27 AM (x0n13)

443 @ClownWorld_
Yesterday in Los Angeles

https://tinyurl.com/bdfcv64a

--

You know, I'm finally starting to understand that "Diversity is strength" was one of those things that they were stating clearly.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 09:27 AM (Emu9a)

444 Square hamburgers were Wendy's

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at April 17, 2023 09:28 AM (roPuI)

445
That movie did so much so well. Oddly - though not intentionally humorously - so did Die Hard. That movie's cut-aways to the talking heads were brilliantly done satire.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:26 AM (t0OGg)

"I'm not the one that just got buttf*cked on national TV, DWAYNE."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

446 I have not understood the supposed popularity of the fake meat and fake food movement, considering the past anti-GMO movement. I would have thought those people would be sounding the alarm bells about this stuff.

Not just anti-GMO.

Organic, hormone-free, farm to table, etc, etc.

The entire food movement in the last 15 years or so has been about 'fresh'.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at April 17, 2023 09:28 AM (Gf3mx)

447 If there is a hardware and/or software problem, it is not a safety scrub. NASA never had pure safety scrubs. There were hardware- or software-caused scrubs, usually called vehicle or ground system scrubs, weather scrubs, and range safety scrubs (range tracking goes down, or a boat of plane or land vehicle is inside the pre-defined exclusion areas.

Posted by: Gref at April 17, 2023 09:28 AM (AMIL/)

448 The idea of a Federal flat income tax rate is back; H.R.1040 - Flat Tax Act, 117th Congress (2021-2022), probably much the same as flat tax proposals touted in the '90s. But there's also VAT proposals/analysis in the works. See, CBO dot gov Impose a Tax on Consumption - Options for Reducing the Deficit, 2023 to 2032, Volume 1: Larger Reductions ...
Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 17, 202
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You mean that the House is floating a flat tax when there is no chance it can possibly pass, even though they never do it when there is even a remote possibility that it could happen?

Why, I am shocked - shocked I say - to see failure theater in such an august body!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:29 AM (t0OGg)

449 439 Deep-Dish, Square, Rectangular, or Sicilian Pizza are all an abomination. Unfit for human consumption. Chicago is a sick "culture" and the "pizza" is a big part of it!
Posted by: Mr. Tony Pizza Expert at April 17, 2023 09:27 AM (Nn3xT)
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I prefer the term "pan-sexual".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 17, 2023 09:29 AM (Dc2NZ)

450 Deep Dish is a casserole.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 17, 2023 09:29 AM (CZBWZ)

451 Gavin came to the White House and met with Jill Biden, Joe's COS, & Kamala (I think). Gavin was laying the foundation for getting the nod to be the next Dem president.
Posted by: hubcap

Gavin the VP. Hence his multistate tour and attacking DeSantis.

Calm the Ds as the VP given Harris at top of ticket and the traditional VP attack dog.

They can't sweep Harris under the rug. She would have to volunteer to not seek

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 17, 2023 09:29 AM (NW9xb)

452 Deep Dish is a casserole.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 17, 2023 09:29 AM (CZBWZ)

A really good one when done right.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

453 Maybe. That's a big crowd.

Mercenaries will be more common, especially as law continues to break down and the odds of private security being prosecuted declines.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2023 09:24 AM (t0OGg)

I bet the crowd shrinks if the first 2 in the door have cracked skulls......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 17, 2023 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)
******
Their parents should be cracking skulls.
This would not happen if their parents didn't allow this kind of thuggery.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 17, 2023 09:30 AM (NpAcC)

454 Morning Report: JJ Sefton had a great lead in at the top this morning to mention Bitcoin to readers of AOSHQ. I'll provide a link here where interested Morons can copy and paste into your browser and begin learning - educating yourself. Have a great day!!
https://www.bitcoinpleb.com/

Posted by: Ring O' Fire at April 17, 2023 09:30 AM (J/pqx)

455 >>I have not understood the supposed popularity of the fake meat and fake food movement, considering the past anti-GMO movement. I would have thought those people would be sounding the alarm bells about this stuff.

Right?!?
The people pushing for this are the same ones who were freaking out about GMO foods 15 years ago.

If you're referencing the new article by "Raw Egg Nationalist," the lab-grown meat is scary AF. It is cancer cells.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 17, 2023 09:31 AM (EdLEa)

456 That will help justify the push to round up the extremists and get rid of their guns. It's a no lose situation for them.

No lose? Do the hood. And yes, you will have to pacify the hood.
Loss of life. Pretty soon, you won't have anyone willing to be first thru the door.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2023 09:31 AM (Y2tls)

457 Yesterday in Los Angeles

https://tinyurl.com/bdfcv64a
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Noted that a couple of the perps had to pull their pants up mid-loot.

Wear a belt if you're going to riot!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 17, 2023 09:32 AM (Dc2NZ)

458 I have not understood the supposed popularity of the fake meat and fake food movement, considering the past anti-GMO movement. I would have thought those people would be sounding the alarm bells about this stuff.

With enough fake drugs and fake vaccines being socially acceptable and the general population with near zero survival instincts a/o serviceable cognition, this isn't surprising at all.

God made the most efficient plant to meat processor ever. It eats junk plants that grow in soils not suitable for row crops and requires next to no energy or much in skilled maintenance. There is no patents, no royalties, nothing.

But we can't have that sort of efficiency and quality. There can't be an Almighty God, only lots of little gods.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 17, 2023 09:34 AM (YXHzG)

459 That will help justify the push to round up the extremists and get rid of their guns. It's a no lose situation for them.

No lose? Do the hood. And yes, you will have to pacify the hood.
Loss of life. Pretty soon, you won't have anyone willing to be first thru the door.
Posted by: rickb223

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Spoilers: They're already there.

Strong man groups will take over and deals will be made with whatever government exists, same as Mexico and other 3rd world countries.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 09:34 AM (9ULwW)

460 444 Square hamburgers were Wendy's
Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at April 17, 2023 09:28 AM (roPuI)

White Castle. Where the term "slider" originated. So greasy, they slid out of your ass.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 17, 2023 09:34 AM (x0n13)

461
God made the most efficient plant to meat processor ever. It eats junk plants that grow in soils not suitable for row crops and requires next to no energy or much in skilled maintenance. There is no patents, no royalties, nothing.

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Eggs, too. One of the most perfect food storage devices in existence. A literal gift from God to anyone who will look at it. Lasts for months in cool, dark places with the natural "bloom" left on.

And people want to try to produce fake ones from cancer. That isn't science. That's satanic.

Posted by: They're lying, the bulk of EVs aren't being sold to private individuals at April 17, 2023 09:36 AM (9ULwW)

462 You mean that the House is floating a flat tax when there is no chance it can possibly pass, even though they never do it when there is even a remote possibility that it could happen?

I think the Communists would love such a thing: A Flat Tax us a guaranteed method to absolutely collapse the economy with no hope ever for recovery.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 17, 2023 09:38 AM (YXHzG)

463
'State primaries 2023.' (Note to the many AoSHq Pennsylvanians, THERE'S ONE IN MAY.) If you haven't already, best to start looking in detail at state and your county operations, preparations, sample ballots, proposals for constitutional changes, etc.

State laws and expungement clinics & 'State Voting Rules that apply after a Criminal Conviction' will also be hot topics again (for voting and employment) in state and federal elections 2024.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 17, 2023 09:43 AM (GshMh)

464 Seen on the internet:

Please stop with the quasi-intellectual “anti-woke tech elite” word salad.

They are mediocre racists who have retarded real innovation and progress through their immoral and frankly stupid decisions. Legitimizing late boomer hate isn’t the move.

being anti-woke is pro-racism. There literally is no other definition. And Effective Alturism is just Gen-Z eugenics. It’s shameful how so many have publicly debased themselves for hate…

And mediocre: all born on third base but swear they hit a triple. Systematically and intentionally excluded Black, Brown, and women founders from the same stolen money for generations…even though every study shows how much money they lose for backing the same average children from families of I’ll gotten gains.

Posted by: SMOD at April 17, 2023 09:59 AM (RHGPo)

465 Bill Gates is heavily involved with Tetrick's projects

Posted by: CN at April 17, 2023 10:02 AM (Zzbjj)

466 Clown World ™ 🤡

Looks like organized crime to me.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at April 17, 2023 10:19 AM (CecP5)

467 Yes, you are not even safe in a state like Arkansas. The new gov has her work cut out for her to save her state.

A Lutheran church in Fayetville has a "trans closet" at their church so the trans kids can come and dress as the gender they want, and the church will not tell their parents.

Yes, this sickness is everywhere, as long as the money flows to these orgs.

Posted by: PJ at April 17, 2023 10:57 AM (G1dq6)

468 Unless it's a tax (thanks Dred Judge Roberts), it seems charging different rates like this is price gouging based on some characteristic of a customer. If that characteristic were skin color, sexual orientation, or being some protected religious group, the Gov't would jump all over it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 17, 2023 11:33 AM (ynpvh)

469 Morgan Freeman Calls ‘Black History Month’ and ‘African-American’ Terms an ‘Insult’

So, what word or phrase should we use, Morgan, to describe those peoples with more than a certain amount of melanin in their skin? I guess that makes White folks melanin-deficient or melanin-challenged? Black people are melanin-blessed?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 17, 2023 11:49 AM (ynpvh)

470 Arcturus has a new symptom that has not been prevalent in previous [Chinese] covid variants: Pink eye."

If they'd only stop licking each other's eyeballs. Oh wait, that's the Japanese...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 17, 2023 12:47 PM (ynpvh)

471 "The Founders would not have considered Satanism a real religion."

You know what religions were also not considered? Those that took the lives of their victims. So Aztecs and Maya had their own religions which hundreds of thousands to millions believed. Lots of followers of Molech too. Doesn't make them valid.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 17, 2023 12:51 PM (ynpvh)

472 "Increasingly, Americans aren’t working as teenagers, and it’s no wonder there’s a growing political movement that equates employment with exploitation."

By working as a teenager, you learn the value of hard work, you learn the value of earning your own money to spend on things you want, you learn the value of saving your money for things you want to buy, you learn about how much the government takes away they money you earn in the form of taxes, you learn responsibility, you learn discipline, you learn teamwork, you learn interpersonal skills.

If less Americans are working as teenagers, that means less Americans are learning these valuable life skills. And it also means more Americans have idle time to do things like join domestic terrorist and activist groups like antifa and Black-Lives-Matter.

All according to the WEF global plan to sew chaos and decline in Western civilization. And I wonder how much of this is a consequence of the $15 minimum wage, where employers don't want to pay $15 to teenagers and prefer to pay that to veterans who know what they are doing.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at April 17, 2023 01:37 PM (Do5/p)

473 JJ writes:
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Muslim groups and the state of Florida embrace mosque/school led by terror-linked bigot."

Applause to JJ for exposing this evil.

But then, WHY did JJ, a few links earlier, invoke Allah, and say, "May this please Allah," or "May Allah will it" ("inshalla").

It's a mystery.

Posted by: bradc at April 18, 2023 02:24 AM (4Nfhp)

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