The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 4/20/23

Good morning, kids. Well, it's official; RFK Jr. has thrown his hat into the ring for the Democrat Party nomination. Let's get this out of the way now before I go any further. I am in no way, shape or form endorsing him. Aside from his party affiliation which by itself is an instantaneous disqualifier, he has a lot of baggage, including a past bro-mance with, of all people, the Castros of Cuba which I touched upon in a previous column. That said, I was rightly chastised for omitting the fact that he is a radical environmentalist hell bent on eliminating fossil fuels. Here's his complete rap sheet at the invaluable Discover the Networks, which if you have not bookmarked as the bluebook to know your enemy, you should.

Now with that out of the way – and please do not construe that to mean I want you to forget or ignore it, because I do not – let me say that ironically enough, it is his candidacy that excites me even more than Trump or DeSantis. Again, not because I am endorsing him but because of the ire and the fire he will draw from the junta, their propaganda house organs and potentially the Deep State. That would be the same Deep State whose predecessors I have now come to believe had a hand in the assassination of his uncle and quite possibly his father. To paraphrase Robert Frost, "The rot is ugly, dark and deep . . . " But I digess.

Whether his historic blind animosity towards Big Pharma accidentally made hime a righteous crusader against it in its drive to inject everyone with the Chinese COVID concoction, or he, like we, smelled a rotten pangolin from the get go is irrelevant. He, along with Naomi Wolf, have been virtually the only voices from the Left, and sadly the Right, sounding the alarm over the past three years. Along with that, he has also correctly, or Wilton Parmenter-like done the same with the bank bailouts:

“I think that the general theme of my speech was this corrupt merger of state and corporate power which has gotten – which is turning our country into corporate kleptocracy, into a system of socialism for the rich and a cushy socialism for the rich and this kind of brutal, merciless capitalism for the poor,” Kennedy told Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a co-founder of the Daily Caller and Daily Caller News Foundation. “It keeps us in a state of war and bails out banks at the same time.”
. . . “Last month, United States government told 30 million people it was cutting their welfare checks, their food stamp checks by 90%,” Kennedy said. “It took 15 million people off of Medicare. The same month, it gave $300 million to the Silicon Valley Bank and tapped up the cost of the Ukraine war to $113 billion.”
. . . “We’ve printed ten centuries of money in the last 14 years, and that caused the inflation which raises food [prices], which is a tax on the poor. You know, we’ve raised food prices for basic foods like chicken, dairy and milk by 76% in the last two years and now we’re cutting people’s food stamps and bailing out banks the same month?” Kennedy asked. “It’s odd. It doesn’t make any sense.”
. . . “My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country,” Kennedy said during his announcement.

Yes, there are a few things in there that make me cringe like his defense of welfare, food stamps and Medicare, but he gets it right on the SVB bailout, the debauchery of the currency as well as Ukraine. Look, if we are to be honest with each other, much of that crosses party lines and sadly, previous administrations. Plus, whether he realizes it or not, as the emphasis on that last sentence shows, he just defined fascism, or crony socialism. In fact, his verbiage is almost Trumpian.

The other thing that is almost if not more important than what he said is where he said it. Tucker Carlson is about as big an object of hatred on the Left as Donald Trump and yet RFK Jr. eagerly sat down with him. You could for sure call it a political calculus to try and get a second look from an audience that would in years past never vote for him in a billion years. Perhaps after hearing him they'd never vote for him in a thousand years. More crucially, it shows someone who is for sure liberal if not leftist willing to not only sit down with someone on the other side but someone who does not regard the other side as a cancer to be eradicated.

Psaki-psircling back to Naomi Wolf, here is a woman who was as close to radical feminist and leftist as you can get and the past three years has seen here give a public mea culpa about her erstwhile allies. Will she change say on abortion? Will RFK Jr change on fossil fuels? Probably not. But that they are willing to debate the other side and confront their beliefs is what has been missing now going back decades, perhaps as far back as the nomination of Clarence Thomas. Ironically enough, it was Uncle Ted along with Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants who led the attempted high-tech lynching back then, and the rope has been brought out from the Left's reliquary in the hopes of getting it around his neck one more time.

All of this being equal, I think we have gone well past the point of elections having any consequences at all, even if we are able to beat the cheat and seat Republicans. For starters, look at what Mitch McChi-Com has done: push to continue the funding of the DOJ, a de facto Democrat Gestapo that is persecuting everyone from parents all the way up to a former President

Or Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins who just helped the junta by torpedoing the attempt to halt the VA from funding abortions

All things being equal, look at their words and deeds TODAY, as we stare into the abyss of a new dark age and those of RFK Jr.

QED.

The question is not whether RFK Jr. or reasonable folks like him will change their spots on issues with which we disagree. Likely not. The question is, are they willing to sit down with you to discuss them and given the scales that have already fallen from their eyes to one extent or another can they perhaps be persuaded to change? I'd cite Milton Friedman's quote of making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, but as I stated, we're beyond politics, at least in the traditional, business-as-usual sense of elections.

What we need is a great awakening before it is too late, if it isn't too late. And if it is, we still need that awakening to fend off the existential threat and even begin to dare hope of an American revival. To that, I cheer on RFK Jr. At least for now. Hopefully he doesn't devolve into a Bernie Bro which is a possibility that can't be ignored. But going on TuCa's show is a good sign.

If he does gain any traction, he'll have a target on his back from the DOJ, if he doesn't have one on it already.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Perhaps surprisingly, on the same question, Rasmussen discovered a majority of Democrat voters, 59 percent, believe it was either “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that “undercover government agents helped provoke” the incident.
Most Americans Now Suspect Federal Agents Provoked Jan 6th, Says Poll Data
"Felons are the Democrats’ newest constituency in the subversive crusade for social justice."
The Left Mines for Votes in America’s Prisons
Lloyd Billingsley: " . . . And will strike again if Congress fails to take down Faucism"
The AIDS Empire Strikes Back
Daniel Greenfield: "Sorry, wrong race. Try losing the love of your life while being black next time."
Biden Shows ‘White Lives Don’t Matter’

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

"Legislators Justin Jones (D) and Justin Pearson (D) were expelled earlier in March for taking over the democratic debate in collusion with gun protesters who invaded the Tennessee Capitol. Gloria Johnson (D), a third representative, narrowly survived an expulsion vote. Both Jones and Pearson were restored to their positions by their respective municipalities."
White House to Honor Three Democrats Who Committed Insurrection in Tennessee
"Jean-Pierre’s tone and the look on her face make me assume that she couldn’t believe Doocy asked about the victims of the Nashville school shooting."
Karine Jean-Pierre Stumbles When Asked if Biden Will Invite the Nashville School Shooting Victims and Their Families
". . . I suspect that there is far too much money and far too many egos, reputations, deals, and political ambitions involved to allow the information in the shooter’s writings to be published. And so the sin will remain unexpiated."
What are They Hiding About the Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto? Glenn Greenwald (and Others) Want To Know
Margaret Sanger and LBJ just called from hell to say "ROFLMAO!!!"
TikToker Goes on Racist Rant, Says She Hopes White People Become the Minority
"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called on Congress to beef up federal law enforcement after Trump’s arraignment."
After FBI Raids Republicans’ Last President, Mitch McConnell Wants To Increase DOJ Funding
"It’s time for a greater American opt-out." (in Soviet Amerika, government opt you out!, but if you take meaning of the second "out" in the title as "gone" as opposed to the direction, then that is more accurate IMHO - jjs)
This Time, the Only Way Out is Out
"It’s not your grandfather’s Democrat Party." (now look at the C-suites, the pulpits and most crucially the schools and tell me how we are going to turn this thing around and prevent a future that will make even 2023 seem like the good old days - jjs)
The Eyes of Totalitarianism
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Margot Cleveland: "The biggest concern is what GEC paid Park Advisors to do: fund and coordinate the censorship of Americans’ speech and our supposedly free press."
Meet the Shadowy Group That Ran the Federal Government’s Censorship Scheme
Boreing called out tech giants YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok for “capricious” fact-checks, demonetizations, and bans against the Daily Wire hosts. He also revealed that software companies HubSpot and JW Player have abruptly canceled service with his company from their platforms, as event management site Eventbrite did previously. Boreing’s thread also comes after Walsh’s Twitter and email accounts were hacked Tuesday night.
Daily Wire Co-CEO Reveals Secret Cancel Blitz Against Matt Walsh, Brett Cooper, Michael Knowles
"Journalists are transitioning from speech to censorship."
Elon Musk No Longer Bans ‘Deadnaming’ on Twitter, and the Media Is Angry
"Whether corporate media like it or not, conservative messaging on education resonates with voters and has done so for years."
Politico Pretends Culture War Doesn’t Win School Board Races, But Dozens of Pro-Parent Candidates Just Prevailed
"NBC News is remaining silent following revelations that network host Mehdi Hasan previously plagiarized another outlet’s published works early in his career."
After Spreading Conspiracy Theories and Denying Biology, Comcast Protects Plagiarizing MSNBC Host
In other past posts, Qiblawi has suggested that the Israel Defense Forces committed genocide and called Starbucks an “openly zionist corporation.” She also “liked” a post that referred to Israelis as “racist criminals and liars,” according to Honest Reporting.
CNN Middle East Producer ‘Agreed To Delete’ Anti-Israel Posts After Watchdog Report
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
The whistleblower — an IRS supervisor — alleges that he has overseen an “ongoing and sensitive investigation of a high-profile, controversial subject since early 2020,” which people familiar with the matter say is the ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden’s alleged failure to pay taxes and making false statements on a federal firearms application, according to the WSJ.
IRS Whistleblower Alleges ‘Conflicts of Interest’ In Biden DOJ’s Investigation of Hunter
Miranda Devine: "All the disappointed media operatives huddled at Wilmington’s Superior Court, like [Michelle] Goldberg and CNN’s crestfallen Oliver Darcy, could make themselves useful in the president’s hometown. They could investigate a story that is bigger than Watergate but which they have shamefully avoided or downplayed for almost three years: Biden family corruption and the associated coverup, including by the FBI and Big Tech."
The Left Ignores the Real Biden Delaware Drama to Satisfy Their Base
"Visits show TikTok's extensive clout inside the Biden [junta]."
TikTok Lobbyists Visited White House at Least 40 Times in Past Year
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"A judge rejected a major element of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s lawsuit against House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan Wednesday, setting the stage for former Special former Assistant District Attorney Mark Pomerantz to be deposed over Bragg’s investigation into former President Donald Trump."
Jim Jordan Scores Big Blow Against Alvin Bragg’s Lawsuit
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Biden pressed to take federal action after appeals court strikes down California city's gas stove ban."
Court Decision Puts Pressure on Biden to Reignite Gas Stove War
"A warmer planet is a greener planet."
Don't Cede a Thing to the 'Climate' Scaremongers
"Just Stop Oil strikes again."
Oh Look, Another Posh Twat
". . . the 'Follow the Science' crowd is always the first to change course when they don't like where the science leads."
Another Blow to the Climate Models
Plenty of lebensraum now!
Germany Shuts Down Final Nuclear Power Plant, Causing Power Bills to Rise by 45 Percent
Karol Markowicz: "Well, yes, all of us want to 'do something' as long as we don’t actually have to do anything. Her plea for the government to just pay for it is further proof leftists don’t understand how anything works. The government paying for it is … you paying for it."
The Awakening of Ana Kasparian — When the Left Meets Reality
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
“'Debauch the currency to overturn the basis of society.' The destruction of currency was the main component of the Bolshevik strategy."
Both American Political Parties Have Adopted Lenin’s Strategy for the Destruction of Capitalism
"The report said expectations for future growth were mostly unchanged from the prior report which showed businesses did not expect improvement in the months ahead. Two districts, however, saw outlooks deteriorate."
U.S. Economic Growth Stalls Amid Lending Decline, Fed Report Says
"Americans may still have time to reverse course if they learn from the mistakes the French have made on unfunded retirement programs."
What France’s Pension Protests Mean For Americans
"A labor union’s appeal may lead the California Supreme Court to establish legal precedent for the future of independent work nationwide."
As Prop 22 Prevails, Gig Workers Escape Big Labor’s Boot — For Now
"The Senate should take a long look at Julie Su’s record in California before confirming her as U.S. Labor secretary."
No Friend of Workers
"Socialism for the rich."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Rips Democratic Party Over Bank Bailouts
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Grandmother and granddaughter Maria and Emilia Tambunga were killed after they were hit by a human smuggler attempting to transport illegal migrants while driving in a Texas border town, according to San Angelo Live. Pfluger asked Mayorkas to turn to the victims’ family members that were in the hearing room and apologize to them."
GOP Rep Forces Mayorkas To Confront Family Who Lost Loved Ones After Smuggler Crashed Into Them
"Sadly, after the rapist was identified, the media dropped the plight of the ten-year-old almost completely. Only Telemundo, PJ Media, and Townhall have continued to follow the story. Every other network, after deciding that the story could not be used to bash conservatives and instead threw a spotlight onto illegal immigrants who commit heinous crimes against children, lost interest and never reported on Fuentes or the victim again."
Trial of Ohio Child Rapist Gerson Fuentes Delayed Again
"House Republicans savage Biden's embattled DHS secretary."
Congressman to Mayorkas: 'You Have Brought Generational Trauma Upon Our Country'
82 that they know of, or are willing to cop to.
CBP: 82 Individuals on Terror Watchlist Caught Crossing U.S.-Mexico Border So Far in FY2023
"The Biden [junta] has taken the relatively stable border it received from its predecessor and turned it into a killing field."
Elites’ ‘Compassion’ at the Border Leads to Enslavement and Death
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“We are seeing civilization break down in front of our eyes. It’s a willed and voluntary break down, and it will continue and worsen until we stand up against the phony charge of racism, whether directed at the police, at medicine, or the arts, and start defending America’s civilizational inheritance.”
Heather Mac Donald On Mass Acts Of Lawlessness: This Is What Happens When Leftists Call Police ‘Racist’
"It passed the House 229-189. Fourteen Democrats voted with Republicans in passing the legislation."
House Passes Legislation To Block DC’s Anti-Cop Law
Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson issued a statement pleading with the media (and Republicans) not to “demonize” these young people who have been been “starved of opportunities in their own communities.” What hope is there for a city led by someone like that?
Illinois State Senator Says Flash Mob in Chicago Last Weekend Was a 'Mass Protest' and a 'Political Act'
“The safety of our employees, members and customers is always our number one priority. In recent years, Portland has been dealing with increased crime in our neighborhood and beyond,” REI wrote in an email to customers.
Wave of Store Closings in Dem-Run Cities Continues as More Businesses Decide It’s Not Worth It
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Surveillance is the backbone of dictatorial regimes, and it was no different during the pandemic."
Pandemic and Panopticon: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
EPP files complaint with Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey: “We urge the attorney general to force MSU to make it right, to stop such conduct in the future, and to provide remedies for those excluded for being white males.”
Missouri State U ‘Business Boot Camp’ That Excluded White Males Challenged By Equal Protection Project
“Princeton’s diversity bureaucracy functions as an ideological surveillance system.”
How Academic Freedom Died at Princeton
"Over the past few years, parents have been beyond outraged that their kids are being taught garbage that completely contradicts their values and beliefs. And as if that’s not bad enough, these institutions have the audacity to deceive parents by lying about what their children are being taught and how it’s being presented. It’s a complete and utter disgrace. If this can happen in a conservative state like Indiana, it can happen anywhere."
Undercover Video Reveals Indiana Schools Hiding Critical Race Theory Curriculum From Parents
Christian Toto: "CCSU hands down 'sanctions' for students suppressing free speech on campus."
Candace Owens’ Greatest Lie Censored – with No Repercussions?
ABORTION
Murkowski and Collins? That's not "bungling." It's sabotage.
Senate Republicans Bungle Opportunity To Curb Democrats’ Radical Abortion Agenda
POLITICS
Robert Spencer: "But he will not get one from the media. The Leftist establishment will never line up behind someone who points out just how ghastly and wrongheaded the COVID hysteria was. They’ll be doing everything they can to make Robert Kennedy sound like some nut, a deep disappointment to his embarrassed and wounded family. But politics is full of surprises. Maybe RFK will be able to start a few much-needed national conversations. Vaccines and fascism would be two good topics to begin with." (too bad he is greener than the bastard child of Greta Thunberg and Kermit - jjs)
RFK Officially Announces Presidential Run, Vows to End 'Corrupt Merger of State and Corporate Power'
Is the country separating itself into two distinct camps? County-level census data provides revealing insights."
The Great Divorce? 2.6 Million Fled Counties That Voted For Biden
Suffolk County Political Research Center Director David Peleologos told USA Today that “[RFK Jr.], although a long shot at this point, starts in double digits and can’t be ignored.” Another five percent of Biden voters back Marianne Williamson, who in March became the first Democrat to enter the fray. She told Breitbart News over the weekend that Biden, who has not yet formally announced a reelection bid, “hasn’t done enough” for working-class Americans.
Poll: 32% of Biden Voters Back Another Democrat or Undecided in Primary
Victor Davis Hanson: "The new majority of radical Democrats allows the old fogies to bask in the limelight until they drop because these codgers mask their revolutionary intentions."
The Useful Veneer of the Aging Democrat
Greene was asked to retract her words about Swalwell and denied the request. GOP Tennessee Rep. Mark Green, the committee chair, then refused to strike her taunt from the record, and committee Republicans thwarted Democrats’ subsequent request to appeal the ruling. Prior to Greene’s remarks, Swalwell was questioning Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about a rise in antisemitic [sic].
Marjorie Taylor Greene Roasts Eric "Fang-Fang-Bang-Bang" Swalwell to His Face for Alleged ‘Sexual Relationship’ with Suspected Chinese Spy
"Fetterman chaired a hearing held Tuesday by the Subcommittee on Food, Nutrition, Speciality Crops, Organics and Research within the Senate Agriculture Committee. He struggled with reading through his prepared opening statement to kick off the hearing."
Lumpy Fetterman Bumbles His Way Through Opening Statement At First Hearing Since Senate Return
Robert Spencer: "What appears to be going on here is that Hillary is signaling that she can be a viable replacement for Biden if he finally gives up the pretense and retires to his taxpayer-funded, walled Delaware beach house. Will we see “I’m With Her One More Time” in 2024? Stranger things have happened. Move over, Kamala Harris! The original Cackler may be on her way to a startling comeback."
Is Hillary Running? She Just Dropped a Big Hint About 2024
"Everything else in politics is stupid, so naturally so is the GOP pre-primary squabbling."
That Irritating Trump–DeSantis Thing
"With the addition of Hunter as the fourth stooge."
Joe Biden’s Three Stooges
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"Ukraine is causing a food crisis, just not the kind some expected."
Pain and Grain in Central Europe
"Kyiv’s relations with Israel since Russia invaded Ukraine last year have been testy at times."
Kyiv Planned to Name Street After Ukrainian Nazi Collaborator Until Israeli Ambassador Intervened
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"While serving as the ambassador to Ghana, Sullivan had the pride flag displayed over the U.S. embassy, called for a Pride Month celebration for Ghanaians and condemned efforts by the Ghanaian government to regulate gender ideology."
Senate Democrats to Force Vote on Diplomat Pushing LGBTQ-Ideology In Africa
"At a bare minimum, dressing appropriately, showing up on time, and not breaking wind in front of the monarch do not seem like not too much to ask."
The Coronation and "Dr." Jill
"Obama was right when he stated that we should never 'underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up.'"
Biden Drives Even Israel into China's Arms
". . . all I can say to the good folks in charge of Taiwan Semi: Good job looking this gift horse in the mouth. But as much as we need your technology built on our shores, my advice to you would be to take a pass."
Biden's CHIPS Act and Taiwan Semi: What If They Gave Away $53 Billion, but Nobody Wanted It?
They're about 50-60 years too late.
Poll: 64% of French Citizenry Demand Stop to Non-European Immigration
"What kind of a people will the Americans choose to be?"
Filling Out the China Grid
"Tyrants in a panic."
Iran’s Mullahs Use Ramadan to Crush Dissent
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Mayor Ross and Commission shoulder blame for Nur-Ul-Islam’s continued fanaticism."
Cooper City Mosque Receiving Expansion, Minarets Hands Check to Terror-Linked Group
"The Dalai Lama isn't the only major religious leader in the tongue-sucking business."
If the Dalai Lama Goes Down in Flames, What Should Happen to Muhammad?
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Commercial pilots were encouraged by their employers to retire as worldwide lockdowns and public health mandates caused demand for air travel to plummet in the spring of 2020, worsening a previous trend toward a lack of available pilots. Elevated prices for airline tickets and a rapid return in travel demand are now prompting lawmakers to consider the problem.
A ‘Tsunami’ Of Commercial Pilot Retirements Is Coming, Experts Warn Congress
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"It’s tempting to shrug off the annoying pronoun questions from your doctor because they’re not hurting you. That’s where you’d be wrong."
Your Doctor Asking for Your Pronouns Isn’t Just Annoying, It’s a Sign of the Industry’s Decline
"It's time the agency addressed its well-documented shortcomings." (it's time the agency was abolished - jjs)
The FDA Needs Bold Reforms Instead of Kicking the Can Down the Road
"A new book considers speculative treatments to extend human longevity." (who the hell wants to live longer in the world the way it is now and where it's headed? - jjs)
Fight Aging with Drugs?
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The next few pictures give us a glimpse at the options people have for viewing future Boca Chica launches.
An Ordinary Person's View of the Starship/Superheavy Countdown
"I predict Congress will fund everything, by simply printing more money as it nonchalantly continues to grow the national debt to levels unsustainable. Meanwhile, replacing the present very complex return concept — involving a lander, helicopters, an ascent rocket, and a return capsule (from Europe) — with a much cheaper and simpler option that is now on the horizon, Starship, does not seem to have occurred to any of the these government wonks."
NASA's Mars Sample Return Project Now Over Budget
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Medical professionals appear to admit to treating children as young as eight years old for gender confusion they claim is transgenderism, recommending life-altering puberty blockers for a 10-year-old, and cross-sex hormones for minors as young as 14."
Project Veritas Releases ‘Disturbing’ Undercover Footage From Gender Clinics Advising 10-Year-Old
"If it can go on in Westerly, RI, it can go on anywhere, including your hometown. Be vigilant. Ask questions. Demand answers. Hold people accountable. Your safety, as well as that of your kids and grandkids, are at stake."
Boys In the Girls Room – Think it Can’t Happen at Your Hometown YMCA? Think Again
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"The bottom line of all of this is that Disney broke the law by having the RCID board pass these agreements — and internal emails that the CFTOD attorneys received proved that Disney was in on the whole thing."
A 'Caper Worthy of Scrooge McDuck': Behind Disney's Reedy Creek Maneuvers
"His honesty about owning a gun is unlikely to go down well with many of his contemporaries in Hollywood and the media, and may be seen as hypocritical given his propensity to back new laws while happily owning a gun under current legislation, especially if that weapon is owned in California."
Quentin Tarantino Says He Has a Gun "For Protection," But That "There Should Be Better Laws." Whatever That Means.
"The brainless absurdity of this can hardly be measured. In every single case, these sports nicknames were chosen to honor the indomitable courage and fighting ability of American Indians. Schools wanted their sports teams to exhibit similar traits when playing their opponents. None of the names were meant to denigrate anyone."
Today’s Blacklisted Americans: NY Bans Whites from Honoring Indians in school Nicknames
"This trend robs some very common words of all meaning – leaving us with no way to express the very basic concepts of singular and plural."
The War on Pronouns is Really a War on Language
"Ivan Provorov's stand rocks the NHL’s commissioner."
An NHL Hockey Player vs. the Rainbow Mob
HITHER & YON
One does not have to be an ascetic millenarian seer recording his visions in order to intuit that we inhabit a decisive historic moment full of portents. As Hamlet said, “O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.”
The Age of Insomnia
"We have a new battle for liberty in our own times, not perhaps with guns, but a war nonetheless."
The Shot Heard Round the World: The American Revolution Began This Day in 1775

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:49 AM (BRHaw)

2 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 20, 2023 07:49 AM (ncXxy)

3 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 20, 2023 07:49 AM (Wnv9h)

4 Lost by a micro second.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 20, 2023 07:49 AM (ncXxy)

5 *lights cigarette*

Posted by: tHE mARGINS at April 20, 2023 07:49 AM (Wnv9h)

6 Thank you, J.J.!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 07:49 AM (1n+EO)

7 *removes caps lock*

Posted by: The Margins at April 20, 2023 07:49 AM (Wnv9h)

8 I alerted the otters

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:50 AM (BRHaw)

9 Top 10

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 20, 2023 07:50 AM (r1ZRd)

10 Big Margin Day is always a good day

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 07:50 AM (huhcJ)

11 Good morning, kids.

GOOD MORNING MR SEFTON

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:50 AM (BRHaw)

12 I was honored to walk over North Bridge just the other day!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 07:51 AM (huhcJ)

13 Yonder Horde.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 20, 2023 07:51 AM (Q4IgG)

14 Kennedy!! He's a Kennedy!!

Posted by: Dem LIV at April 20, 2023 07:52 AM (SYTee)

15 Archaeologists in Mexico find 13 buries sets of human remains; eight appear to be men sacrificed [by decapitation] to sanctify a temple. Christianity least hardest hit. [No photos so I didn't bother with a link.]

||Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said the skeletal remains may be as much as 2,000 years old. Ceremonial offerings of hundreds of beads, arrowheads and rings made of shells were with the remains.

They were found at a Mayan ruin site known as Moral-Reforma in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. The site apparently functioned as a stop on a river trade route connecting the Mayan kingdoms of the Yucatan and Central America with other cultures on the Gulf coast.

The institute said the remains of the eight sacrificial victims appear to have been hacked up and dispersed in an area at the foot of the pyramidal temple, because the bones were found scattered.

Another group of bones was found at the same site that might come from hundreds of years later.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 07:52 AM (Vwz3I)

16 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 20, 2023 07:54 AM (1Z8zZ)

17 Well if Trump is the candidate, then RFK will get a serious look from me, I can tell you that.

Posted by: A lifelong Republican at April 20, 2023 07:55 AM (iayUP)

18 willowed -
263 I expect a rebuke from Pope Fiction -
The 2030 Agenda and the New World Order
by Bishop Manuel Sánchez Monge
The Sustainable Development Goals (“sustainable” is now a magic word that is used for everything) are for the most part laudable and acceptable to all: protection of nature, eradication of poverty and hunger in the world, water available to all, etc. All are formulated in a language that is sufficiently ambiguous to lend itself to the most diverse interpretations. But behind the Agenda 2030 lies an attempt to change civilization, a new world order that will change the beliefs of individuals. It is a globalist system – which has nothing to do with globalization -–aimed at establishing an unelected and undemocratic world government.
(much more in link in nic)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 20, 2023 07:55 AM (fs1hN)

19 I was rightly chastised for omitting the fact that he is a radical environmentalist hell bent on eliminating fossil fuels.

But he's just so.... dreamy. -- AWFLs

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 20, 2023 07:56 AM (1Z8zZ)

20 Production restarts today on Rust, which has been on hold since a cinematographer was killed on set in 2021.

MFM spin is "The gun Baldwin was holding went off, shooting Halyna Hutchins".

When will the U.S. finally pass anti "self-cocking trigger-pulling double-action revolver" legislation?! No one needs an antique-style self-shooting revolver!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 07:56 AM (Vwz3I)

21 I can see Kennedy getting a lot of young voters, who see the deep state corruption but like a little socialism in their lives.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 20, 2023 07:57 AM (lTGtQ)

22
I saw the Rutles open for the Dead Kennedy's at Che Stadium in '84. They then took the Concorde to play that night at Gennady Airport . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 07:57 AM (x0n13)

23 (iayUP)
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So close to Lay-UP!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 07:57 AM (Vwz3I)

24 Whether his historic blind animosity towards Big Pharma accidentally made hime a righteous crusader against it in its drive to inject everyone with the Chinese COVID concoction, or he, like we, smelled a rotten pangolin from the get go is irrelevant. He, along with Naomi Wolf, have been virtually the only voices from the Left, and sadly the Right, sounding the alarm over the past three years
*****
The fact that we have NO strong voices against regulatory capture and fake science is a big problem. Kennedy also sees the erosion of the Constitutional rights, and will attract a lot of independents. As for his animosity, it's not blind, the man can site study after study showing the duplicity of pharma. And yeah, the fact that Zuck cut him off during his speech, says they hate him.If they hate him, that's a ringing endorsement for me. Will I vote for him? Nah, but I'll support him to donks I know.

Posted by: CN at April 20, 2023 07:58 AM (Zzbjj)

25 Our politics are post-ideology. Everything done by the people in office, elected or otherwise, is about the concentration of power for its own sake. Positions and policies mean nothing in that environment. There is only the usurpers and the usurped.

Who gives a damn about someone's stance on the environment or tax policy when they work towards the entrenchment and calcification of unaccountable, unfettered raw power? Who gives a damn about such things when they work against it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 07:58 AM (9UlRk)

26 Despite, or because of uniparty acting as if they are hiding something -

Perhaps surprisingly, on the same question, Rasmussen discovered a majority of Democrat voters, 59 percent, believe it was either “very likely” or “somewhat likely” that “undercover government agents helped provoke” the incident.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 20, 2023 07:59 AM (fs1hN)

27 Kennedy sees government in the role of Provider… typical Socialist stance.

Posted by: tubal at April 20, 2023 07:59 AM (PCK5/)

28 Surprise! Miguel Diaz-Canel "reelected" as dictator of Cuba by "legislature", continuing the Communist Party's amazing streak of wins since 1959!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 07:59 AM (Vwz3I)

29 Good morning, JJ. Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at April 20, 2023 07:59 AM (53oGX)

30 perhaps as far back as the nomination of Clarence Thomas. Ironically enough, it was Uncle Ted along with Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants who led the attempted high-tech lynching

looks up playbook on finding woman at the last minute to come to confirmation hearings and lie like a rug.

nope it can never happen

again

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 07:59 AM (BRHaw)

31 I was a little surprised that even Canada fails to spend 2% of GDP on defense. The US, UK, Poland, Estonia, Greece, Latvia and Lithuania are the only members who meet the test, though I'd imagine Finland and Sweden will join that list. Obviously, few countries take NATO obligations seriously, so why should America?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 08:00 AM (9OIgf)

32
Don Lemon used the line, "when you have black skin, you can talk to me about black issues

This is like the people who say abortion is a private matter then can't stop talking about it.

Tell you what, Don. If I can't talk about it, then I don't have to care about it. When "the black community" has done everything it can to improve and reform itself, then I'll start giving a damn.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2023 08:00 AM (MoZTd)

33 It doesn’t seem as though RFK Jr wants me dead, nor does he despise the middle class. I won’t be voting for him but I wish there were more pols in both parties with his willingness to debate rather than exert raw power. The old GOP vs donks paradigm is dead…. People like Naomi Wolf, Greenwald, Taibbi…. We agree on hardly anything except the most important things like free speech and civil rights. The small debates that seemed to matter so much in the 90s (tax cuts and welfare) hardly matter anymore. Nuclear war and freedom seem so much more important

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 20, 2023 08:00 AM (0gs5e)

34
I'm certain that Biden cancelling the Keystone Pipeline on Day One was because of RFK's opposition to it, which dated back to 2017. 10,000 jobs eliminated with a stroke of the pen and not a care in the world. RFK has been opposed to pipelines for decades.

You also have to remember that junkies are master manipulators. Even after they detox the survival lessons learned stay with them forever.

The more research that people do on RFK the more they'll see he can don the sheep's clothing but underneath he is very bad news.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 08:01 AM (enJYY)

35 Singapore to resume executions after six-month pause by hanging man who attempted to smuggle cannabis in.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 08:01 AM (Vwz3I)

36
I was a little surprised that even Canada fails to spend 2% of GDP on defense.

I'm a little surprised that Canada spends anything at all on defense.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2023 08:01 AM (MoZTd)

37 22
I saw the Rutles open for the Dead Kennedy's at Che Stadium in '84. They then took the Concorde to play that night at Gennady Airport . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 07:57 AM (x0n13)

Did they close with The Fool on the Pill?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:02 AM (BRHaw)

38
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 20, 2023 08:03 AM (ENBF0)

39 You do know the Dead Kennedys in not just a band?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:03 AM (BRHaw)

40 Tellingly, on Twitter, Mike Lee can't imagine that anyone personally knows anyone injured by the vax. He goes on about BYU, but leaves the oligarchy alone. He's not alone.
Cruz is only marginally better. They will bury us before they give up their loot and power.

Kennedy said the govt is afraid of the people. That's why they're trying to control the narrative and mandate compliance. I wonder what would happen if the people found out that the BIdens are only the tip of the iceberg and that nearly all pols are on the take. Plenty of them have adult kids who could be playing Hunter.

Also protecting the Epstein list and sitting quietly while Gates funds pro-pedo groups and is trying to get perversion legalized tells us our politicians fear repercussions. I hope O'Keefe takes this on.

Posted by: CN at April 20, 2023 08:03 AM (Zzbjj)

41 RFKjr is a politician, a long time politician, thus not to be trusted.

Posted by: davidt at April 20, 2023 08:03 AM (SYTee)

42 It is still a good thing that Kennedy is slightly gumming up the Democrat machine. He best be careful.

Posted by: tubal at April 20, 2023 08:04 AM (PCK5/)

43 The assault weapons ban bill working its way thru the CO legislature may be falling apart

Colorado Politics
‘Assault weapons’ bill could be limited to bump stocks

Posted by: FB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 08:05 AM (geLO8)

44 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 20, 2023 08:00 AM (0gs5e

Yep. And how far will they go, our pols on both sides, to hide the truth?

Posted by: CN at April 20, 2023 08:05 AM (Zzbjj)

45 I want to see a fractured Democrat party at odds with itself. If RFK does that, fine. It doesn't mean he'll get the nod either. Same goes for Newsom and anyone else that runs.

The movers and shakers that are currently running the show will decide who occupies 1600 Penn Ave in 2024. Not the voters.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 20, 2023 08:05 AM (Q4IgG)

46 Kennedy!! He's a Kennedy!!
Posted by: Dem LIV at April 20, 2023 07:52 AM (SYTee)

He also calls out Kung Flu, which is verboten here in Maskachusetts.

He might be the first Kennedy to actually lose MA.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 08:05 AM (AW0uW)

47 I hope O'Keefe takes this on.
Posted by: CN at April 20, 2023 08:03 AM (Zzbjj)

he latest stuff make Frankenstein and Mengele

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:06 AM (BRHaw)

48 About 80 minutes 'til launch!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:06 AM (t0OGg)

49 RFK Jr is not a conservative.
He would be absolutely awful.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 08:06 AM (NpAcC)

50 About 80 minutes 'til launch!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:06 AM (t0OGg

Crap, i thought you said lunch.

*stomach growls*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 08:07 AM (9UlRk)

51 Damn- i misspelled my own handle
if anyone needs me, I'll be out back performing ritual seppuku

Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 08:07 AM (geLO8)

52 “I think that the general theme of my speech was this corrupt merger of state and corporate power which has gotten – which is turning our country into corporate kleptocracy, into a system of socialism for the rich and a cushy socialism for the rich and this kind of brutal, merciless capitalism for the poor,” Kennedy told Fox News host Tucker Carlson, a co-founder of the Daily Caller and Daily Caller News Foundation. “It keeps us in a state of war and bails out banks at the same time.”
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You're describing fascism, Bob.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:07 AM (t0OGg)

53 45

The movers and shakers that are currently running the show will decide who occupies 1600 Penn Ave in 2024. Not the voters.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 20, 2023 08:05 AM (Q4IgG)

Already decided, in my opinion. From now to election is just a diversion.

Posted by: tubal at April 20, 2023 08:07 AM (PCK5/)

54 “Last month, United States government told 30 million people it was cutting their welfare checks, their food stamp checks by 90%,” Kennedy said. “It took 15 million people off of Medicare.

*********

Is he talking about the termination of COVID bucks payouts? I may be wrong but I thought that affected certain Medicaid enrollees, not Medicare...?

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 08:07 AM (ykeLU)

55 The Keystone XK is designed to ship North American crude to the world market
Would that be good for American consumers. ?

Posted by: Paul at April 20, 2023 08:07 AM (+aysO)

56 51 Damn- i misspelled my own handle
if anyone needs me, I'll be out back performing ritual seppuku
Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 08:07 AM (geLO

As my Dad said when we were palying hard Please dont bleed on the carpet.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:08 AM (BRHaw)

57 We’ve printed ten centuries of money in the last 14 years, and that caused the inflation which raises food [prices], which is a tax on the poor.
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Well, it's a tax on everyone and everything, but it's regressive and hurts the poor most.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:08 AM (t0OGg)

58 Singer and guitarist, Otis Reding III, son and namesake of the legendary 1960's soul singer, has died from cancer at 59.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 08:08 AM (Vwz3I)

59 Morning again all.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 20, 2023 08:08 AM (OzJjC)

60 "But I digess."
-

Yeh. Sure. Next thing JJ will tell us is that he menstruates.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2023 08:09 AM (odVni)

61 Today is 420 day-

An international celebration during which people come together to consume cannabis and advocate for its legalization.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

62 More crucially, it shows someone who is for sure liberal if not leftist willing to not only sit down with someone on the other side but someone who does not regard the other side as a cancer to be eradicated.
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That's the key, I think. It might all be a lie, but it sure does look good to see a Democrat who doesn't exude malice and state bluntly that he wants me to die.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:09 AM (t0OGg)

63
That's the key, I think. It might all be a lie, but it sure does look good to see a Democrat who doesn't exude malice and state bluntly that he wants me to die.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:09 AM (t0OGg)

Reminds me of the old joke. The radical Muslim wants to kill you. The moderate Muslim wants the radical Muslim to kill you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2023 08:10 AM (MoZTd)

64 For starters, look at what Mitch McChi-Com has done: push to continue the funding of the DOJ, a de facto Democrat Gestapo that is persecuting everyone from parents all the way up to a former President
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Drawing a distinction between state and party is sort of an academic exercise at this point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:10 AM (t0OGg)

65 As my Dad said when we were palying hard...
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:08 AM (BRHaw)
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Hard palying. Kinky!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2023 08:11 AM (odVni)

66 Reminds me of the old joke. The radical Muslim wants to kill you. The moderate Muslim wants the radical Muslim to kill you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2023 08:10 AM (MoZTd)
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heh.

A real possibility.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

67 I've read his book (recommended) about Dr. Fauci. RFKjr is courageous in that he was a strong critic of Fauci's long before it was cool, going back to the AIDS era. The book is my only exposure to him or his policies.
As I've said before, he is a sane democrat, therefore he'll never make it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mere pawn in game of life... at April 20, 2023 08:11 AM (jTmQV)

68 Good morning JJ and horde

Gruesome is sill my odds on bet to get the Democrat/ Marxist nomination and so will win the WH.

Vegas taking bets yet?

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2023 08:11 AM (H8LpJ)

69 Crap, i thought you said lunch.

*stomach growls*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 08:07 AM (9UlRk)
++++
Sorry to disappoint you right out of the gate.

Now you know how the women I know feel...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

70 I am really getting tired of smelling the stench of weed while rolling down the interstate at 65-75MPH.

And at intersections.
In parking lots
Driving down Main st.
Riding the DC Metro.

Etc..

This crap is everywhere.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 08:12 AM (1n+EO)

71 Tyre Nichols' family files lawsuit against the officers involved in his death and the city of Mamphis. [AP not reporting 'Black' cops and 'Black' victim for some strange reason unlike...]

Andrew Lester, 84-year-old white [sic] man accused of shooting Ralph Yarl, a Black [sic] teenager, pleads not guilty in court.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 08:12 AM (Vwz3I)

72 Back around 2000, I had to drive RFK Jr and his whole clan around for 2 weeks to various left wing River Keeper commie meetings. He would read the New Yawk Times in the front seat, his kids would ask me riddles and his now dead exwife was pretty quiet in the back seats. Nice family actually. He likes to work out to stay off the horse so I took him to the gym a few times. He once asked me about internet pron. I told him once on your system it never comes off as he was getting ads and emails from pron sites for some "unknown" reason. He asked me how did I know this. I told him I know lots of things and threw a towel at him.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 20, 2023 08:12 AM (d4xYr)

73 In Massachusetts, Culshaw notes, all deaths of those testing positive for HIV are counted as AIDS deaths, “and this happens if the person died of liver failure, a heart attack, suicide, drowning, CMV infection, or car accident, or anything else, AIDS-related or no.” During the throes of the pandemic, deaths of anyone who had tested positive for COVID were counted as deaths from COVID.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:12 AM (BRHaw)

74 Sirhan Sirhan said he'll be right on over to the DNC for round two as soon as he loads up his black powder musket with a fresh ball and cap and Newsom gives him the green light.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 08:12 AM (V4X9X)

75 It's also...
Pineapple Upside-Down Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

76
The Keystone XK is designed to ship North American crude to the world market
Would that be good for American consumers. ?

Posted by: Paul at April 20, 2023 08:07 AM

Do some research on refineries, Paul. They produce a lot of products from oil. Some will stay here, some will be exported. Some we need, some we have too much of. Free markets do amazing things.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 08:13 AM (enJYY)

77 And the libertarian Moslem just wants to be left alone while the radicals kill everyone else!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 08:13 AM (Vwz3I)

78 Gruesome is sill my odds on bet to get the Democrat/ Marxist nomination and so will win the WH.

Vegas taking bets yet?
Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2023 08:11 AM (H8LpJ)
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I don't think they are. If they do, I'll bet on Gretchen Whitmer - at least for now. It's a long-odds bet this early, but my marker's on her at the moment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:13 AM (t0OGg)

79 Good morning horde.Thank you JJ for your tireless hard work.
May the Good Lord protect and defend you and all here who battle the forces of the Fallen.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at April 20, 2023 08:13 AM (vHIgi)

80
An international celebration during which people come together to consume cannabis and advocate for its legalization.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

They better advocate before they consume, otherwise it's "Hey, legalize... uh, what again?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2023 08:13 AM (MoZTd)

81 Most Americans Now Suspect Federal Agents Provoked Jan 6th, Says Poll Data
--

And we're maybe getting a little glimpse of why that date. oversight.house.gov:

"These included the headwinds created when a lab leak assessment was initially labeled and falsely reported with near unanimity as a “conspiracy theory” by conflicted scientists and mainstream press, while also being censored as “disinformation” by social media giants. Internally, national and electoral politics were also influencing analysis of our intelligence on
China within the IC, as reflected in the January 6, 2021 report by the intelligence community’s analytic ombudsman. As a career, non-political official tasked with refereeing internal disputes over intelligence assessments, the ombudsman found that “analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tend to disagree with the [Trump] administration’s policies, saying in effect, ‘I don’t want our intelligence used to support those policies.’

https://tinyurl.com/285c55wf

Wheels within wheels.

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:14 AM (ia0+L)

82 Black guy who shot a white six year old in the face as well as two others when a basketball rolled into his yard is still on the run from police. Hollywood will get right onto gofundme at any moment.

Posted by: NCKate at April 20, 2023 08:15 AM (d5Qya)

83 Sirhan Sirhan said he'll be right on over to the DNC for round two as soon as he loads up his black powder musket with a fresh ball and cap and Newsom gives him the green light.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 08:12 AM (V4X9X)
++++
Those guys had some good songs, though I think "Hungry Like the Wolf" is overplayed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:15 AM (t0OGg)

84 Re: 420
Thousands of years ago, a young and dumb DB attended a 'smoke-in' in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House. The crowd, as one, decided it would be fun to cross the street and climb the railings and shout rude things at the House. Cops on horseback riding three abreast are pretty good at clearing sidewalks.

Ah, youth...

Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 08:15 AM (geLO8)

85
a-a-all in-uh, in-uh flavor say, s-say-uh say-uh...

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at April 20, 2023 08:15 AM (vwCZJ)

86 It's also...
Pineapple Upside-Down Day!
Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 08:12 AM (NpAcC)
-

I flipped over our can of Dole slices. Save your time. It made no difference.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2023 08:15 AM (odVni)

87 I am really getting tired of smelling the stench of weed while rolling down the interstate at 65-75MPH.

And at intersections.
In parking lots
Driving down Main st.
Riding the DC Metro.

Etc..

This crap is everywhere.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 08:12 AM (1n+EO)
*******
I would expect today it's going to be lit and strong... very strong.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

88 Happy Thursday, everyone. Let us continue to be happy no matter how miserable others want us to be.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 20, 2023 08:17 AM (4olE8)

89 The walls are closing in and the wheels are coming off the Biden Crime Family. That's what people are saying. It's an op. Retardo retires, Kamala becomes prez, Hilary becomes VP with a lot of GOPe approving, and Kamala steps down, her work being done. Hilz wins in a landslide in 2024 without a smidgeon of cheating. Well, maybe a skosh. Running mate, Gavin Newsome.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 20, 2023 08:17 AM (lz5hY)

90 J.J. Sefton says

April 20, 2023 at 2:47 pm

Now look at the C-suites, the pulpits and most crucially the schools and tell me how we are going to turn this thing around and prevent a future that will make even 2023 seem like the good old days.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:17 AM (BRHaw)

91 The Age of Insomnia: "...we inhabit a decisive historic moment full of portents."

*******

Check out the streets of L.A., S.F., Portland, Seattle, Denver, etc.

We surely do inhabit cities full of poor tents.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 08:17 AM (ykeLU)

92 I flipped over our can of Dole slices. Save your time. It made no difference.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2023 08:15 AM (odVni)
*********
Don't forget the cherries.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

93 ... China within the IC, as reflected in the January 6, 2021 report by the intelligence community’s analytic ombudsman. As a career, non-political official tasked with refereeing internal disputes over intelligence assessments, the ombudsman found that “analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tend to disagree with the [Trump] administration’s policies, saying in effect, ‘I don’t want our intelligence used to support those policies.’ ...
Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:14 AM (ia0+L)
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I think that's probably a coincidence. The riot was on Jan 6 because that's when Trump held a rally. The schemers were working to suppress evidence of their schemes at the same time because Trump was otherwise busy and distracted, and it was coming down to the wire on his administration. I very much doubt the two events are directly related. They are distantly related (all Deep State destruction of Trump and his supporters during the waning hours of his administration).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:17 AM (t0OGg)

94 34 You also have to remember that junkies are master manipulators. Even after they detox the survival lessons learned stay with them forever.

The more research that people do on RFK the more they'll see he can don the sheep's clothing but underneath he is very bad news.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 08:01 AM (enJYY)

The gravamen of my discourse - which I yet again I suppose failed to get across - is that he is useful on our side to be used as a weapon with which to help attack his party.

I didn't say I trusted him. But surely going on TuCa's show will not endear him to the dogmatic automatons of the Democrat base and junta.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:18 AM (x0n13)

95 a-a-all in-uh, in-uh flavor say, s-say-uh say-uh...

yeah
Posted by: John Fetterman at April 20, 2023 08:15 AM (vwCZJ)
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Senator, has anyone ever told you that your comments always come up shorts?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2023 08:18 AM (odVni)

96 Thousands of years ago, a young and dumb DB attended a 'smoke-in' in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House. The crowd, as one, decided it would be fun to cross the street and climb the railings and shout rude things at the House. Cops on horseback riding three abreast are pretty good at clearing sidewalks.

Ah, youth...
Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 08:15 AM (geLO

++++
I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure that's racist.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:18 AM (t0OGg)

97 90 J.J. Sefton says

April 20, 2023 at 2:47 pm

Now look at the C-suites, the pulpits and most crucially the schools and tell me how we are going to turn this thing around and prevent a future that will make even 2023 seem like the good old days.
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:17 AM (BRHaw)

Hey, you read a link's comments. Good for you!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:19 AM (x0n13)

98 I'm staying out of the dollar store today, I don't want to get a contact high.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 08:20 AM (V4X9X)

99 Quebec Superior Court orders Google to pay $500,000 to a Montreal man over links to post calling him a paedophile.

||Google, which is headquartered in California and incorporated under the laws of the state of Delaware, argued that Quebec defamation law didn't apply to the case and that under U.S. law the company had no obligation to remove the link. The company also argued that even if Quebec law applied, under the Canada-United States-Mexico free trade agreement, it could not be held responsible.

The judge [Hussain] disagreed. Hussain said that while it is true that Google, under Quebec law, isn't responsible for the content it links to — and isn't required to monitor that content — the company has an obligation to act when it is informed that it's facilitating access to illicit material.

Hussain awarded the man — who had originally been seeking $6 million in damages — $500,000 in moral damages. However, the judge declined to award any punitive damages on the grounds that Google had a good faith belief it was acting legally when it refused to remove the links in 2015.||

https://tinyurl.com/prjnbv4u

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 08:20 AM (Vwz3I)

100 "Don Lemon used the line, "when you have black skin, you can talk to me about black issues"

Which he threw at a guy blacker than himself.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 20, 2023 08:20 AM (RqMSv)

101 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 20, 2023 08:20 AM (qoGsy)

102 I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure that's racist.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:18 AM (t0OGg)
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Horse races matter?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 20, 2023 08:20 AM (odVni)

103 He, along with Naomi Wolf, have been virtually the only voices from the Left, and sadly the Right, sounding the alarm over the past three years.

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This is what you might call a "trend," at least on the media side of things. There are a few voices in the Conservative Media Ecosystem™ who stand to the Right of the Democrat Party. But there are more Leftist media people who do, and that's very telling. For every Mollie Hemingway, there are two Tim Pools and Naomi Wolfs. It's a sad situation when Big Blue can count on "our" people more than their own.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 20, 2023 08:20 AM (oINRc)

104 From the "hmmmmm dept. All construction at the bitcoin site has come to a complete stop for 10 days now.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 20, 2023 08:21 AM (jpTnB)

105
Hey! Saturday is Earf Day! Don't forget to lock your dead girlfriend in a trunk.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2023 08:21 AM (MoZTd)

106 reliquary

*****

A perfectly cromulent word.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 08:21 AM (ykeLU)

107 So it just hit me.

What if the Chinese thru TikTok have invented Telefon?
I know this sounds cra cra but let us just stop and think about for a second. They get people to spend 3 or 4 hours a day in a trance, actually hypnotized.

Can they add in a control suggestion? Can they create a mental breakdown?

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:22 AM (BRHaw)

108 I think that's probably a coincidence. The riot was on Jan 6 because that's when Trump held a rally. The schemers were working to suppress evidence of their schemes at the same time because Trump was otherwise busy and distracted, and it was coming down to the wire on his administration. I very much doubt the two events are directly related. They are distantly related (all Deep State destruction of Trump and his supporters during the waning hours of his administration).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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Oh, I don't think it was the main driver. I think the main driver was switching the conversation from the very-real stolen election to the fake insurrection, and they did it flawlessly.

But I think that there was room for that to be caught up in the roar of the Feds causing the trouble on that specific date, too. Because the agencies certainly knew it was happening and the timing involved.

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:23 AM (ia0+L)

109 RFK already blamed Trump for the lockdowns. How original. Way to buck against his party.

Everything is a jape and an op.

Posted by: ... at April 20, 2023 08:23 AM (ghk1f)

110
Again, I cannot read RFK's mind or if he's just playing possum here.

That said, and it's no predictor, but some of the most strident conservative voices out there are all ex-Leftists. David Horowitz was an actual red diaper baby and moved in the same circles at one point as Billy Ayers et al.

Does this mean with "ontological certitude" (PBU Rush) RFK will become one of us? No. But for whatever reason he has to say the right things, I welcome it.

Also: Trust but verify

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:24 AM (x0n13)

111 Hey, you read a link's comments. Good for you!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:19 AM (x0n13)

Sometimes your links actually also have the position on the page that you copied.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:24 AM (BRHaw)

112 >>>"Don Lemon used the line, "when you have black skin, you can talk to me about black issues"

Which he threw at a guy blacker than himself.

Posted by: Ignoramus

>I wonder if his black taint smells like black brie?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 08:24 AM (V4X9X)

113 Again, not because I am endorsing him

So, JJ's endorsing the junior Kennedy; the question that remains is what is Tater's position?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 20, 2023 08:25 AM (a3Q+t)

114
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:18 AM

I get how you're trying to thread a needle (a device RFK has some history with) but my strategy would be to relentlessly attack, attack, and attack without letup - without consideration for any finer points he might have.

Exactly the same strategy the Democrats use with great success.

This is not only a Flight 93 election but the plane is seconds from impact with the ground.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 08:25 AM (enJYY)

115 ... Can they add in a control suggestion? Can they create a mental breakdown?
Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:22 AM (BRHaw)
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They don't need control suggestions to create mental breakdowns. TikTok is very good at the latter all on its own. TikTok is probably the most dangerous "social media" outlet, for a number of reasons. If Facebook is heroin and Twitter is Fentanyl, TikTok is Tranq.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:25 AM (t0OGg)

116 Thx JJ and good morning Horde. The fact that CBS is reporting that there is a whistleblower regarding the IRS and the Bidens shows that the Dems realize that Biden is used up and they want him gone. A propaganda ministry would not act like this without approval from the Dem powers that be. The knives are out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 20, 2023 08:25 AM (Uk8NJ)

117 109 Posted by: ... at April 20, 2023 08:23 AM (ghk1f)

Well, to be fair, I blame Trump for trusting Fauci and Birx and not standing up to them once the two weeks became more than that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:25 AM (x0n13)

118 Hey! Saturday is Earf Day! Don't forget to lock your dead girlfriend in a trunk.
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Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday dear me! Happy birthday to me!

Posted by: zombie Lenin at April 20, 2023 08:26 AM (Vwz3I)

119 I think it's refreshing to see sparks of disestablishmentarianism in the left. So, in the spirit of things, I will refrain from slagging RFK Jr. so as not to step into the realm of antidisestablishmentarianism.

Used in context! I think! Huzzah!

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at April 20, 2023 08:26 AM (wzAuc)

120 @22 the venue was named after the famous guerilla leader Che Stadium

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 20, 2023 08:26 AM (Uk8NJ)

121 The bus is early.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:26 AM (BRHaw)

122 The riot was on Jan 6 because that's when Trump held a rally.

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It would be interesting to know the details of why the rally was arranged and approved by officials on that date, the same day as certification, vs any other days before then.

Has anyone ever heard that the specific day was Trump's idea, or was it helpful staff and other government employees' helpful helpfulness that led everyone to that day?

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:27 AM (ia0+L)

123 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday Eve.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2023 08:27 AM (3V+d/)

124 113 Again, not because I am endorsing him

So, JJ's endorsing the junior Kennedy; the question that remains is what is Tater's position?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 20, 2023 08:25 AM (a3Q+t)

Did you fail reading comprehension or am I misinterpreting something? Where in my entire editorial did I endorse him? I stated unequivocally at least twice I do NOT endorse him.

Come on, now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:27 AM (x0n13)

125 The bus is early.
Posted by: rhennigantx

The chair is against the wall.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 20, 2023 08:27 AM (qoGsy)

126 Exactly the same strategy the Democrats use with great success

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Nah, in the reverse situation, the Left gasses up our most egregious cucks at strategic times. Think Maverick McCain.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 20, 2023 08:27 AM (oINRc)

127 The question is, are they willing to sit down with you to ~~discuss them~~ have a nice hot mug of Thorvald's Cream of Lutefisk Soup?

FIFY in the spirit of bonhomie and blatant commercialism.

Posted by: Thorvald at April 20, 2023 08:28 AM (a3Q+t)

128 Agree with JJ overall re: RFKjr.

RFK Jr is a Democrat. Stupid on so many issues and levels but an American. We can deal with Americans. Not happily or easily but we can find a way.

But CCCP bought and paid for Marxists masquerading as Dems and GOPe CCCP knob polishers canNOT be dealt with. These vermin are , at their core, anti Americans. Aka Traitors.

There WERE rules for traitors when Americans were ruled by Constitutional law. Pray to G*d we will once again be ruled by law and that we will have the stones to deal with The Traitors.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at April 20, 2023 08:28 AM (pTtoR)

129 103. Our side is ignoring a lot of problems. We may have a few soft voices, but largely we have nothing. Even the questioning of the odious Rochelle Walensky (who had extensive plastic surgery when she said she had covid) was milky and allowed her to get away with saying "the science evolved" about the vax and the origins of covid. The GOP in DC probably knew from day one that the vax was unsafe and ineffective, but donors are donors as we found out with Trump and A-B.

Kennedy, to his credit, has called out regulatory capture and has mentioned the problem with IC. Mitch wants more funding for the DOJ. How many of our brave conservative warriors will support him, again?

I hope Rand finds his voice on these topics

Posted by: CN at April 20, 2023 08:28 AM (Zzbjj)

130 DJT got played by the C19 crisis, he knows it now, but can't admit it.
It was an extraordinarily elaborate way to get rid of a sitting president short of assassination, you have to admit.
It's still my opinion that the C19 crisis would have hit regardless of who was in office. That was always the plan, in order to cement state control of the populace.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mere pawn in game of life... at April 20, 2023 08:28 AM (jTmQV)

131 120 @22 the venue was named after the famous guerilla leader Che Stadium
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 20, 2023 08:26 AM (Uk8NJ)

Hence my concoction of Gennady Airport, named after the famed Russian aviator Gennady Airport.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:28 AM (x0n13)

132 I am assuming vote fraud wi win no matter any vote counting, and Democrat/Marxist install not care who gets votes.

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2023 08:29 AM (H8LpJ)

133 Ana Kasparian, co-host of the left-wing show “The Young Turks,” recently found out.

Kasparian railed against the financial hardship of retrofitting her California condo to allow for electric vehicle charging.

ass meets pineapple gooder and harderer

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:29 AM (BRHaw)

134 I second J.J.'s endorsement of RFK Jr., comrades!

Posted by: zombie Lenin at April 20, 2023 08:29 AM (Vwz3I)

135 I saw Gassing up the Cuck open for Drivin' 'N Cryin' at the Meadowlands in '89.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:30 AM (t0OGg)

136
Has anyone ever heard that the specific day was Trump's idea, or was it helpful staff and other government employees' helpful helpfulness that led everyone to that day?

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:27 AM

The permits were secured by Alec Jones of InfoWars. Anyone with half a brain, which includes Nancy Pelosi, would know he would attract a contingent that would have to be kept under tight control. She knew he was bringing a match and she didn't want any fire to be extinguished. Even with half a brain she's a brilliant strategist.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 08:30 AM (enJYY)

137 The Dem Party will wreck RFK Jr's campaign just like they wrecked Bernie's, but it's going to be fun watching how open they are about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2023 08:30 AM (r46W7)

138 I still remember the young boys throwing their tighty whities at the Ruttles opening at Che Stadium.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:31 AM (BRHaw)

139 I saw the Egregious Cucks open for the Revolting Cocks at the Mammoth in '92.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 20, 2023 08:31 AM (oINRc)

140 Happy Thursday, everyone. Let us continue to be happy no matter how miserable others want us to be.

I'm not happy, per se - not after going through JJs links - but neither am I unhappy. I'm at a sort of neutral point. Which means that the antidepressants are working.

Which is, I suppose, a good thing.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 08:32 AM (AW0uW)

141 You’ve just described the mirror of the 2016 Donald Trump. The Leftist media talked him up because he was the disruptor who would never win an election but would give the other side shit fits.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2023 08:32 AM (AyCfd)

142 Sad that Netflix is tanking its DVD service. Has TJM ever done a "best places to shop for classic and obscure movies" post? I feel I may be in the market soon.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 20, 2023 08:32 AM (N3zMI)

143 Disclose.tv @disclosetv · 21h
JUST IN - Chinese app TikTok to remove "climate change denial" videos and direct users to "authoritative information" — Sky

Related: https://tinyurl.com/5n7bk59h

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 08:32 AM (Vwz3I)

144 55 minutes to launch!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:32 AM (t0OGg)

145
Well, if you're feeling depressed and miserable at the world today, here's something happier. André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra perform "Blaze Away!" by Abe Holtzman for a happy audience in Maastricht.

https://youtu.be/lHb62K6bANg

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2023 08:32 AM (MoZTd)

146 It would be interesting to know the details of why the rally was arranged and approved by officials on that date, the same day as certification, vs any other days before then.

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Addendum: It's comical how hard it is to search for information on the topic any longer. Thanks, gatekeepers. Way to do your jobs.

Say, anyone else old enough to remember the mayor of DC requesting National Guard on the 6th well in advance and then renegging on the request?

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:33 AM (ia0+L)

147
Kennedy!! He's a Kennedy!!
And sings his Daddy's threnody
He spoke against dread COVID
Like something out of Ovid
Now says, "Camelot, open sesame!"

Posted by: naturalfake at April 20, 2023 08:33 AM (RJQ8g)

148 Didn’t “Liquid Doorknob” open for the Grateful Death in Tulsa ?

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2023 08:33 AM (AyCfd)

149 As a No Party Preference voter in California, I will do my best to assure the nation can choose between RFKJr and Trump in November of 2024.

If my other NPP friends in California are any gauge, then they are also planning to do the same.

Posted by: Mutnodjmet at April 20, 2023 08:34 AM (sPJyv)

150 ... Addendum: It's comical how hard it is to search for information on the topic any longer. Thanks, gatekeepers. Way to do your jobs. ...
Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:33 AM (ia0+L)
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The Information Internet is dying. It doesn't have much longer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:34 AM (t0OGg)

151 The bus is early.
Posted by: rhennigantx

The chair is against the wall.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 20, 2023 08:27 AM (qoGsy)

The lunatic is on the grass

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 20, 2023 08:34 AM (0gs5e)

152 Boker Tov Patriots

Hey all Kennedy has to do is wound biden. Just like his uncle wounded Carter back in the day

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 20, 2023 08:34 AM (pVWRI)

153 >A propaganda ministry would not act like this without approval from the Dem powers that be. The knives are out

the walls are coming off, baby!

Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 08:34 AM (geLO8)

154 The permits were secured by Alec Jones of InfoWars. Anyone with half a brain, which includes Nancy Pelosi, would know he would attract a contingent that would have to be kept under tight control.

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And that's what I'm wondering if anyone knows any details about. Was January 6th Trump's idea? Or Pence's? Or some other helpful government person being helpful?

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:35 AM (ia0+L)

155 I understand and agree with JJ's take completely. Of course RFK Jr is badly flawed; but he's also the ONLY public figure who had the nerve to stand up and call Fauci out for being a liar and a fraudster from the very start. And now we know he was right - RFK jr has been wrong about a lot, but he's been Absolutely Right about that.

And I'm starting to believe that he's a lot more right about the medical establishment in general than most of us care to admit - that it's been corrupted by money and power for a long, long time now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2023 08:35 AM (r46W7)

156 "Socialism for the rich."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Rips Democratic Party Over Bank Bailouts

Socialism pays the poor and the rich off the backs of the middle class.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:35 AM (BRHaw)

157 Ironically, John F Kennedy couldn’t get elected in any blue state East of the Mississippi today

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2023 08:35 AM (AyCfd)

158 RFK Jr running presents a drag on the left in many ways. To older middle class left he's a Kennedy and therefore nostalgia. His treatment of women will rile the so called feminists. His environmental action could cause that faction to follow him. The Obama faction will want him dead. His anti corporate behavior will entice the socialist s, while his anti vaccination crusade will mobilize various Luddites. Split the bastards apart and watch them eat themselves

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 20, 2023 08:35 AM (Uk8NJ)

159 >>>Sirhan Sirhan said he'll be right on over to the DNC for round two as soon as he loads up his black powder musket with a fresh ball and cap and Newsom gives him the green light.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 08:12 AM (V4X9X)
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Those guys had some good songs, though I think "Hungry Like the Wolf" is overplayed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

>Was that cruel enough for a morning report? I'm working on upping my game before Kamala becomes president.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 08:36 AM (V4X9X)

160 We’ve printed ten centuries of money in the last 14 years,

I'm sort of curious how he got printed currency counts going back a thousand years.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 20, 2023 08:36 AM (YXHzG)

161 >>Don Lemon used the line, "when you have black skin, you can talk to me about black issues

When you have white skin you can tell me how much I owe you. Until then, fuck off.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2023 08:36 AM (ZLI7S)

162 The Information Internet is dying. It doesn't have much longer.
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"AI" will be the nail in the coffin.

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:36 AM (ia0+L)

163 J,J,

I had posted this earlier, but the State of Maryland has invented a new phrase when it comes to public school performance.

I give you....'Enhanced Deidentification'.

https://tinyurl.com/57fnk4ts

A perfectly cromulant word.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 08:36 AM (1n+EO)

164 Che Stadium and Gennady Airport.

JJ, sometimes your wordplay is so sublime that it slides right past us. We don't deserve you.

Well played young man. Well played!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 08:37 AM (ykeLU)

165 The Revolting Cocks covering a Rod Stewart song... this whole album is actually pretty cool:

https://youtu.be/VOq_D-iLQWM

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 20, 2023 08:37 AM (oINRc)

166
I saw Sirhan Sirhan open for Duran Duran, The The, Talk Talk and Mr. Mister at the Roberts Lounge in '79 with Frankie Two-Times who had to go get the papers get the papers. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:37 AM (x0n13)

167
I only found the information on Alex Jones involvement in Jan 6th on a YouTube video he had posted. I couldn't even tell you how I came across it in the first place. Sometimes YouTube roles up the next video based on something I've watched.

But he clearly and unambiguously takes credit for securing the permits for the J6 event.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 08:37 AM (enJYY)

168 The bus is early.
Posted by: rhennigantx

The chair is against the wall.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 20, 2023 08:27 AM (qoGsy)

The lunatic is on the grass
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

The penguins are in the freezer

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 20, 2023 08:38 AM (YXHzG)

169 Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., ignored multiple requests for comment when asked why she signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to engage in closed-door discussions about a Chinese battery company's proposed factory. Slotkin's office confirmed to The Detroit News earlier this year that the Michigan lawmaker and her deputy legislative director Austin Girelli signed NDAs to discuss the proposal from Gotion, a subsidiary of the Hefei, China-based Gotion High-Tech, to build an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Big Rapids, Michigan.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2023 08:38 AM (AyCfd)

170 164 Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 08:37 AM (ykeLU)

Che Stadium is from "The Rules." Gennady Airport was my invention.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:38 AM (x0n13)

171 “Well, that would depend on believing in the police’s authority, and the elites have done everything they can possibly do to discredit legitimate police authority by calling it ‘racist,’” Mac Donald responded. “We are seeing civilization break down in front of our eyes. It’s a willed and voluntary break down, and it will continue and worsen until we stand up against the phony charge of racism, whether directed at the police, at medicine, or the arts, and start defending America’s civilizational inheritance.”

It starts in schools and college. It is taught, unlike reading and maths.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:38 AM (BRHaw)

172 Which is, I suppose, a good thing.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 08:32 AM (AW0uW

Yes, that is a good thing and I am glad they have made some difference for you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 20, 2023 08:38 AM (Y1P+8)

173 The fact that CBS is reporting that there is a whistleblower regarding the IRS and the Bidens shows that the Dems realize that Biden is used up and they want him gone. A propaganda ministry would not act like this without approval from the Dem powers that be. The knives are out
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 20, 2023 08:25 AM (Uk8NJ)
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Wait for confirmation from other outlets. I don't know which orbit CBS is in.

Since we have a firm union of the state and the party (that is, the Uniparty) now, it always *looks* like a monolith but it isn't. There are no more external battles in the political space, but there are plenty of them within the structure. It is not all mutually aligned. Like any single-party tyranny, our government is heavily factional and they fight each other. There is surely at least one faction that wants Biden gone, but whether they are the faction in control is very much in question. I think they're not, because Biden is still here and not seriously threatened.

I look at the WaPo and the NYT. WaPo is the Party/LE paper and NYT is the State/IC paper. Until those outlets agree on a big issue, I consider it to be infighting without resolution.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:39 AM (t0OGg)

174 You're describing fascism, Bob.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:07 AM (t0OGg)
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Lefties focus on authoritarianism, when they talk about fascism, completely ignoring the economic system definition.

They think Trump was an incipient authoriartian, for reasons only they know, and so he is often called a "fascist". Meanwhile, actual fascism is spreading through our economy, which the left ignores. Curious.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 08:39 AM (DorX5)

175 169 Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2023 08:38 AM (AyCfd)

Forget the NDA garbage. The question should have been "How the fuck can you be making deals with the Chi-Coms?!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:39 AM (x0n13)

176 Clown World ™ 🤡
@ClownWorld_

Teacher wants every child to be gay.

https://tinyurl.com/2y46cbyv

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 08:40 AM (NpAcC)

177 An IRS supervisor has told lawmakers he has information that suggests the Biden administration is improperly handling the criminal investigation into President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and is seeking whistleblower protections, according to people familiar with the matter. A letter sent to Congress on Tuesday says a career Internal Revenue Service criminal supervisory special agent has information that would contradict sworn testimony by a “senior political appointee.” The supervisor also has information about a “failure to mitigate clear conflicts of interest in the ultimate disposition of the case,” according to the letter.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2023 08:40 AM (AyCfd)

178 163 J,J,

I had posted this earlier, but the State of Maryland has invented a new phrase when it comes to public school performance.

I give you....'Enhanced Deidentification'.

https://tinyurl.com/57fnk4ts

A perfectly cromulant word.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 08:36 AM (1n+EO)

I saw Enhanced Deidentification open for Moving Sidewalks and Chicago Transit Authority at the Astrodome in 1970.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:40 AM (BRHaw)

179 But he clearly and unambiguously takes credit for securing the permits for the J6 event.

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I have no doubt he was required to sign the papers.

There's no way to ever know how that date was decided, unfortunately. "Oh darn. Sorry, Mr. President, the 1st through the 5th are all booked up. Looks like the 6th is the only date we've got open."

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:41 AM (ia0+L)

180 I have a friend, older man who's gay, who absolutely believes (and has believed for a long time) that AIDS was engineered by a lab under the control of Fauci and released to create a class of desperate people who would always have to say dependent on Big Pharma, for thousand of dollars per year for each of them. I used to think this was a nutty idea. I now rate it Highly Probable.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2023 08:41 AM (r46W7)

181 Che Stadium is from "The Rules." Gennady Airport was my invention.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:38 AM (x0n13)
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I'm giving you full credit for "Transheiser-Bush" every time I use it. In my mind anyway.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 08:41 AM (DorX5)

182 167 Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 08:37 AM (enJYY)

The salient point here is the Trump rally - whoever organized it - was held about a mile and a half away from the Capitol. And at the end of it he told everyone to go home peacefully.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:42 AM (x0n13)

183
I would certainly wholeheartedly support a third party run by either RFK or Bernie Sanders. It might be our only chance to beat the cheat. Might even kick some money toward either one.

But I sure wouldn't vote for them myself.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 08:42 AM (enJYY)

184 >>They think Trump was an incipient authoriartian, for reasons only they know, and so he is often called a "fascist". Meanwhile, actual fascism is spreading through our economy, which the left ignores. Curious.

They have no idea what the word fascism means or the implications of fascism. Ask one of them, you'll see.

To them it's just a general purpose bad word. Above everything else leftists are very stupid.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2023 08:43 AM (ZLI7S)

185 181 I'm giving you full credit for "Transheiser-Bush" every time I use it. In my mind anyway.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 08:41 AM (DorX5)

I think I got that from one of the commenters.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:43 AM (x0n13)

186 Nextdoor makes me so happy I live a plain common life

I found a Rooster and I can't keep him. Does anyone want him or know where I...

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:43 AM (BRHaw)

187 The salient point here is the Trump rally - whoever organized it - was held about a mile and a half away from the Capitol. And at the end of it he told everyone to go home peacefully.

--

Yep. Even broadcast it over TV and internet.

And it was removed and/or prevented from being shown. I'm guessing 90% of the country has no idea he made the statement.

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:43 AM (ia0+L)

188 I second J.J.'s endorsement of RFK Jr., comrades!
Posted by: zombie Lenin at April 20, 2023 08:29 AM

Da!

Posted by: zombie Trotsky at April 20, 2023 08:44 AM (tmCvB)

189 ESPN will begin layoffs early next week as part of parent company Disney ’s cost cutting efforts, according to people familiar with the matter. Cuts will include some on-air talent and management, said the people, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private.

Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2023 08:44 AM (AyCfd)

190 "AI" will be the nail in the coffin.
Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:36 AM (ia0+L)
++++
I think it will be a big nail, yes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:44 AM (t0OGg)

191 The bus is early.
Posted by: rhennigantx

The chair is against the wall.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 20, 2023 08:27 AM (qoGsy)

The lunatic is on the grass
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

The penguins are in the freezer
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 20, 2023 08:38 AM (YXHzG)

The Manhattan is shaken.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 20, 2023 08:44 AM (RJQ8g)

192
I have a friend, older man who's gay, who absolutely believes (and has believed for a long time) that AIDS was engineered by a lab under the control of Fauci and released to create a class of desperate people who would always have to say dependent on Big Pharma, for thousand of dollars per year for each of them. I used to think this was a nutty idea. I now rate it Highly Probable.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2023 08:41 AM (r46W7)

Don't get poked in the butt by random dudes and you won't be dependent on Big Pharma for thousands of dollars a year.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 20, 2023 08:44 AM (MoZTd)

193 " I now rate it Highly Probable."
There are a lot of things like that to me.
While they may be weird, I always go back to my credo "you can't rule it out".

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mere pawn in game of life... at April 20, 2023 08:44 AM (jTmQV)

194 Biden could drop his pants at the podium in front of a room full of children, wave Mr. Willy around while laughing, and have it broadcast to the entire country and still no one would do anything. We are in the era where No One Will Enforce Anything - so saying something will come out that will make Slow Joe quit is ridiculous. Not gonna happen. No one in power cares - no one will do anything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2023 08:44 AM (r46W7)

195 "I am really getting tired of smelling the stench of weed while rolling down the interstate at 65-75MPH.
...
This crap is everywhere.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"

It is amazing how much more powerful than the stuff that was around a few decades ago. I know you could smell it but not from the other side of a parking lot or on the highway. Don't want to think what it is doing to their brains while driving.

Posted by: Ripley at April 20, 2023 08:44 AM (cUYo/)

196 "Deadnaming" is bullshit.

You are born, your parents give you an appellate, and you learn to fill up that name with deeds and failures, and wins. You are that name under law unless you petition a judge and change it. The trannys play games with their names in a self-delusory jedi mind trick that is sad and dangerous on the micro.

They now in a passive-aggressive cry-bullying act of evil demand at social gunpoint you humor their delusion or else.

That is dangerous and destructive in the macro.

Fuck you and your threats and go ahead and do it pussy-"kill yourself" you already have.

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 08:45 AM (Lzpvj)

197 Don Lemon used the line, "when you have black skin, you can talk to me about black issues
--------

Okay.

-Clarence Thomas

Posted by: ... at April 20, 2023 08:45 AM (KbZx5)

198 Clown World ™ 🤡
@ClownWorld_

Teacher wants every child to be gay.

https://tinyurl.com/2y46cbyv
Posted by: redridinghood

Touch my grandchildren and you will simply disappear.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 20, 2023 08:45 AM (OzJjC)

199
The salient point here is the Trump rally - whoever organized it - was held about a mile and a half away from the Capitol. And at the end of it he told everyone to go home peacefully.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:42 AM

Trumps words:

So we are going to--we are going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, I love Pennsylvania Avenue, and we are going to the Capitol, and we are going to try and give--the Democrats are hopeless, they are never voting for anything, not even one vote but we are going to try--give our Republicans, the weak ones because the strong ones don't need any of our help, we're try--going to try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 08:46 AM (enJYY)

200 They think Trump was an incipient authoriartian, for reasons only they know, and so he is often called a "fascist". Meanwhile, actual fascism is spreading through our economy, which the left ignores. Curious.

-

Fascism has been here for decades. We're just now learning about the relationships.

They're pushing "fascism" labels on people who want less/responsible government, separation of government/industry, etc. because they have control and can. And it works. Kids have grown up without a sense of privacy and with the innate understanding that only government can solve problems. The people in charge are comfortable doing this because they know it will work.

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:46 AM (ia0+L)

201 I have a friend, older man who's gay, who absolutely believes (and has believed for a long time) that AIDS was engineered by a lab under the control of Fauci and released to create a class of desperate people who would always have to say dependent on Big Pharma, for thousand of dollars per year for each of them. I used to think this was a nutty idea. I now rate it Highly Probable.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2023 08:41 AM (r46W7)

The last 3 years have been revelatory. All kinds of formerly nutty ideas I now rate as “probably true” (eg Deep State took out JFK). Trust in institutions is gone, and deservedly so…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 20, 2023 08:46 AM (0gs5e)

202 @173 I agree with most of your analysis but the fact that there was a propaganda ministry reporting this shows there is a crack in the monolith. Use the Obama administration as an example. The propaganda ministries would circle the wagons ina second to declare the hint of investigations racist or some other ist in a second. The Dems know Biden can't last till 11/24 and the battlespace is being cleared

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 20, 2023 08:46 AM (Uk8NJ)

203 Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 08:45 AM (Lzpvj)

You're a relic sven.

You're a Buddha scheduled for destruction by the Taliban.

Please don't read any of that the wrong way.

Posted by: ... at April 20, 2023 08:47 AM (KbZx5)

204 Court grants stay to Alvin Bragg's lawyers.
Pomeratz no longer has to testify today

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

205 199 Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 08:46 AM (enJYY)

I stand corrected. That said, he never said go storm the gates of the presidium and hang every Democrat in sight.

If I did, I missed that part. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:47 AM (x0n13)

206 " I know you could smell it but not from the other side of a parking lot or on the highway. "

I have actually been on I-95 in South Carolina with only one other car near us, about 150 ft ahead of us, watching the smoke coming out of the lowered drivers window, and the stench getting sucked into our car.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 20, 2023 08:47 AM (1n+EO)

207 I can't even watch the video of a "doctor" advising a fifth grader to get puberty blocker shots. Let me know when the executions start.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 08:48 AM (G0Ad7)

208 203 Posted by: ... at April 20, 2023 08:47 AM (KbZx5)

I'm a screamer.

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 08:48 AM (Lzpvj)

209 ESPN will begin layoffs early next week as part of parent company Disney ’s cost cutting efforts, according to people familiar with the matter. Cuts will include some on-air talent and management, said the people, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private.
Posted by: SMOD at April 20, 2023 08:44 AM (AyCfd)
++++
I wonder when the nibbles will become bites.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:48 AM (t0OGg)

210 via CSPAN

"In a video released by the White House, President Trump addressed protesters who breached the U.S. Capitol, saying “we had an election that was stolen from us.” He then went on to tell protesters “you have to go home now.” In the statement filmed in the White House Rose Garden, the president called the 2020 presidential election “fraudulent” but encouraged people to respect law and order"

https://tinyurl.com/bdf46tfy

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:48 AM (ia0+L)

211
The next and ending paragraph of what Trump said on J6:

I want to thank you all. God bless you and God bless America. Thank you all for being here. This is incredible.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 08:48 AM (enJYY)

212 I am glad RFK jr is in the race - I don't agree with him on most things, but he's on of a small group of *consistent* Lefties. He does not take-and-switch sides of each issue depending on who it benefits; he's not solely focused on getting power at any cost.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2023 08:48 AM (EdLEa)

213 >>>Cuts will include some on-air talent and management, said the people, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private.

Posted by: SMOD

This is like the White House Press Secretary saying Creepy Joe has no comment on pedophilia while in the middle of an "ongoing investigation."

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 08:49 AM (V4X9X)

214 Da!
Posted by: zombie Trotsky
-------------
Ice to see you, Comrade!

Posted by: zombie Lenin at April 20, 2023 08:49 AM (Vwz3I)

215 212 Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2023 08:48 AM (EdLEa)

THAT that piece of shit is the best turd I have ever seen, I will go pick it up by the clean end and chrome it to hold it as a thing of beauty for time immemorial....

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 08:50 AM (Lzpvj)

216 212 I am glad RFK jr is in the race - I don't agree with him on most things, but he's on of a small group of *consistent* Lefties. He does not take-and-switch sides of each issue depending on who it benefits; he's not solely focused on getting power at any cost.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2023 08:48 AM (EdLEa)

Privilege and wealth can be very liberating…

Posted by: tubal at April 20, 2023 08:50 AM (PCK5/)

217 I am glad RFK jr is in the race - I don't agree with him on most things, but he's on of a small group of *consistent* Lefties. He does not take-and-switch sides of each issue depending on who it benefits; he's not solely focused on getting power at any cost.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2023 08:48 AM (EdLEa)

Yes, American cannot be America if the Democrat Party is simply a relentless, solid Borg Cube of Insanity.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 20, 2023 08:51 AM (RJQ8g)

218 216 Posted by: tubal at April 20, 2023 08:50 AM (PCK5/)

It turns out being the sole survivor of a slumlord booze baron pump and dump artist grifter's fortune is a great gig.

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 08:51 AM (Lzpvj)

219
Trump did tweet out some stuff telling people to go home once he found out they were inside the Capitol. Buffalo Guy read it aloud to the crowd inside in a video I saw.

Within 24 hours his Twitter account was suspended and people could no longer see what he wrote.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 08:51 AM (enJYY)

220 I agree with most of your analysis but the fact that there was a propaganda ministry reporting this shows there is a crack in the monolith. Use the Obama administration as an example. The propaganda ministries would circle the wagons ina second to declare the hint of investigations racist or some other ist in a second. The Dems know Biden can't last till 11/24 and the battlespace is being cleared
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 20, 2023 08:46 AM (Uk8NJ)
++++
It isn't a monolith, not usually. They're monolithic on broad goals, not specific issues. Obama was building out that system and everyone was on board at all levels. He was the messiah. Obama's condition was not transferable.

He built the system out and finished the conversion into tyranny. Once he was out, the factional fighting began in earnest. It was limited at first (they were all united against the outsider in Trump) but that unifying hate object is gone now. They have only each other to fight.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:52 AM (t0OGg)

221 There is a lady on ESPN who just agreed with Riley Gaines on the tranny stuff, she will be laid off for sure.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 20, 2023 08:52 AM (+coCW)

222 I'd like to see who the media cartels get behind with regards to a contested Democrat party presidential candidate race.

There's been a love/hate relationship between the media and Kamala Harris. That's been interesting to watch. I want to see that play out again but with how ever many candidates take a shot at *biden (assuming he's still in office and/or alive.)

They seem to get their marching orders from various State entities anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 20, 2023 08:52 AM (Q4IgG)

223 Well I will disagree with some rons and ettes who I hold beyond utter respect and say that anyone with a D after their name is raw sewage and useless to me.

The R's are little better but at least in them their may be some small dash of hope they are not a totally lost demonic soul.

The D is the biggest symbol of hate and anti-American destruction and genocide in the last 50 years. To wear one after your name is to declare yourself a Judas. You are nothing to me.

Posted by: ... at April 20, 2023 08:53 AM (z65A/)

224 Dang it. I forgot to claim millions of Ukrainians as dependents on my tax return.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 20, 2023 08:53 AM (1huWu)

225 >>Trump did tweet out some stuff telling people to go home once he found out they were inside the Capitol. Buffalo Guy read it aloud to the crowd inside in a video I saw.

He put out a video telling people to remain peaceful and go home. Youtube took it down almost immediately.

The left wanted to be able to claim Trump did nothing and when you looked for his tweets or videos they were conveniently gone.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2023 08:54 AM (ZLI7S)

226 From the ONT, Quote II

“The lockdown was the biggest shift in wealth in human history. I blame President Trump for the lockdown.”

-Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Posted by: Candidus at April 20, 2023 08:54 AM (+B0EC)

227 The Awakening of Ana Kasparian — When the Left Meets Reality

I would be more impressed if Ana realized that this very expensive and destructive policy has no basis in law and is merely the demands of a dictatorial "Executive Order".

Who needs a legislature or any of the protocols of a representative government?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 20, 2023 08:54 AM (YXHzG)

228 What I see going on now with the Democrats is a Menshevik-Bolshevik sorting out process…

Posted by: tubal at April 20, 2023 08:54 AM (PCK5/)

229 226...and he would be correct.

Posted by: Jaimo at April 20, 2023 08:55 AM (DBrN4)

230 "I am really getting tired of smelling the stench of weed while rolling down the interstate at 65-75MPH.
...
This crap is everywhere.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"

Whiskey bottles Brand new cars Oak tree is in my way

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:55 AM (BRHaw)

231 They build rockets bigger in Texas

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 08:55 AM (G0Ad7)

232 First, they came for the cows but I was an oil tank so I did not care...

R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts · 8h
🚨#BREAKING: A Large oil tank farm has exploded from a lightning strike
📌#BethelAcres | #Oklahoma
Currently, numerous emergency crews are responding to a Large fire at an oil tank battery oil storage farm after being struck by lightning and exploded at a farm about 3 miles to the northeast of the Bethel Acres area with a large fire currently ongoing witnesses reported seeing the entire sky red.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 08:55 AM (Vwz3I)

233 Trump did tweet out some stuff telling people to go home once he found out they were inside the Capitol. Buffalo Guy read it aloud to the crowd inside in a video I saw.

He put out a video telling people to remain peaceful and go home. Youtube took it down almost immediately.

--

CSPAN link at 210

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 08:55 AM (ia0+L)

234 Dang it. I forgot to claim millions of Ukrainians as dependents on my tax return.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

You? I'm still listing millions of Mexicans, Guatemalans, Houndurans, and Venezuelans.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 20, 2023 08:55 AM (OzJjC)

235 224 Dang it. I forgot to claim millions of Ukrainians as dependents on my tax return.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 20, 2023 08:53 AM (1huWu)

Now do 40 million illegals

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 08:56 AM (BRHaw)

236 >>". . . I suspect that there is far too much money and far too many egos, reputations, deals, and political ambitions involved to allow the information in the shooter’s writings to be published. And so the sin will remain unexpiated."

No, it's likely more simple than that: her language and ideas are likely exactly in line with what trans activists say every day, thus proving that when they say things like "Kill the TERFs" and "If you say something about me entering the Ladies Room it will be the last thing you say."

https://tinyurl.com/nxhytme3

Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2023 08:56 AM (EdLEa)

237 The Awakening of Ana Kasparian — When the Left Meets Reality
++++
Hahahahha. What an optimistic headline.

Never. Gonna. Happen.

Ana Kasparian is the worst and she will never, ever, reform. She might piss and moan about something that hits her directly, but she's a dyed-in-the-wool monster for whom there is no chance of "awakening."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:56 AM (t0OGg)

238 I'm a screamer.

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 08:48 AM (Lzpvj)

I feel in some ways you scream for me even though we don't exactly agree on everything.

You still have the smallest sliver of hope for this God forsaken country and sometimes I wish I was still there...

Posted by: ... at April 20, 2023 08:56 AM (LGFTn)

239 227 Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 20, 2023 08:54 AM (YXHzG)

She and Chunk both are incapable of understanding that sometimes the other team gets the magic pen historically....

Chunk is a conman par excellance, he was a republican idiot instead of a communist one once upon a time.

I think the campus pooter patrol going on an embargo unless you were down with the struggle flipped the Ottoman so to speak.

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 08:57 AM (Lzpvj)

240
If RFK talks down socialism while Bernie talks it up, I have to lay in more popcorn. Bernie splintering off and making a third party run?

Damn, I hope everyone here would cut him a check. Personally I don't care if he buys his fourth (or fifth? lost count) beach house with the proceeds.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 08:57 AM (enJYY)

241 >>Whether his historic blind animosity towards Big Pharma accidentally made hime a righteous crusader against it in its drive to inject everyone with the Chinese COVID concoction, or he, like we, smelled a rotten pangolin from the get go is irrelevant.

RFK jr has been reporting on Gates' sketchy vaccine testing in India and Africa for years.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2023 08:57 AM (EdLEa)

242 Dang it. I forgot to claim millions of Ukrainians as dependents on my tax return.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 20, 2023 08:53 AM (1huWu)

Rats! I forgot too.

hahahaha

Posted by: Archer at April 20, 2023 08:57 AM (gmo/4)

243 There is a lady on ESPN who just agreed with Riley Gaines on the tranny stuff, she will be laid off for sure.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 20, 2023 08:52 AM (+coCW)
**********
The Democrat trans mob will have her out before the day is over.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 08:57 AM (NpAcC)

244 I watched RFK on Tucker Carlson last night, and yes, for a second or two I was thinking, yeah, maybe this guy deserves a lok. I almost got to the vote for them in a thousand years point. But then the social justice blather started and woke to read that he blames Trump for the lockdowns and masks, which Trump made painfully clear were LOCAL DECISIONS TO BE MADE BY GOVERNORS AND COUNTIES. He's found a way to blame Trump and by extension me for the subversive nature of his own constituents. I spent the better part of a year masked up on a non-air conditioned production floor in East Texas not because of Donald Trump but because of the barely literate county judge and the scientifically oblivious people at HQ in Atlanta. Nope, no RFK.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 20, 2023 08:57 AM (aGGj6)

245 204 Court grants stay to Alvin Bragg's lawyers.
Pomeratz no longer has to testify today
Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

do you have a source for this? As of 10 hours ago, the stay was denied.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2023 08:58 AM (r46W7)

246 237 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:56 AM (t0OGg)

She can't flip, she relies on Chunk for a living. She is there to set the acceptable maximum level of dissent and be strawwoman.

Chunk gaslit her to sell the idea that banning every technological advance of the last 250 years is okay so long as it is done in small bites.

Do note at the end of the Gas Stove gaslighting she whimpered "I just like my gas cooking."

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 08:59 AM (Lzpvj)

247 I would love to see RFK, Jr., if elected, finally expose the true story of the Kennedy assassinations (and MLK’s, too). It might be worth voting for him just for that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2023 08:59 AM (3V+d/)

248 The lockdowns was performed locally, by state and all across the world.

Trump mentioned "opening up" by Easter and was called an ignorant hell demon who didn't believe in COVID. Every single cough was blamed on him.

I'm getting sick of Trump myself but I'm more tired of the bullshitters who think they have a handle on how they would have acted under a bioweapon attack with no one around them they could even trust and the entire world aligned against them.

Trump had his bad moments in covid but he would have kept the economy open if he'd had the power.

Posted by: ... at April 20, 2023 08:59 AM (ICe/k)

249 About 80 minutes 'til launch!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 08:06 AM (t0OGg

Crap, i thought you said lunch.

*stomach growls*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 20, 2023 08:07 AM (9UlRk)

we've got donuts that someone brought in....

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 20, 2023 09:00 AM (nXhwP)

250 “The lockdown was the biggest shift in wealth in human history. I blame President Trump for the lockdown.”

-Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

You must remember who is RFK's primary audience: Those deeply afflicted with TDS.

The gospel group Bill & Gloria Gaither popularized a tune "There Is Something About That Name". In this neo-pagan world, "Donald Trump" has more power than "Jesus" when it comes to ~names~ in a culture that communicates in trigger language.

Any narrative can be immediately made acceptable if it is claimed Donald Trump had anything to do with it. There isn't even a requirement to rationalize the connection.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 20, 2023 09:00 AM (YXHzG)

251 ... No, it's likely more simple than that: her language and ideas are likely exactly in line with what trans activists say every day, thus proving that when they say things like "Kill the TERFs" and "If you say something about me entering the Ladies Room it will be the last thing you say." ...
Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2023 08:56 AM (EdLEa)
++++
There's a rumor circulating that one of the reasons they don't want to release the manifesto is because it will reveal that she was directly recruited into mass violence by one or more of a handful of influential instigators in trans social media, particularly the radical zones on Tumblr, Reddit and a couple of others.

Those rumors assert that in those circles, there is a hard core of recruiters who target and recruit unhappy or resentful trans people (target-rich environment, that) to commit mass violence - and those instigators got her and she said so in her manifesto. The downstream speculation is that those instigators are either in government or known and deliberately ignored by government.

Is any of that true? I have no idea. It strikes me as possible, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:00 AM (t0OGg)

252 >> The Awakening of Ana Kasparian — When the Left Meets Reality

I won't consider it a true awakening until she goes full Russell Brand, lol. She's looking more like Bill Maher at this point.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2023 09:00 AM (EdLEa)

253 No, it's likely more simple than that: her language and ideas are likely exactly in line with what trans activists say every day, thus proving that when they say things like "Kill the TERFs" and "If you say something about me entering the Ladies Room it will be the last thing you say."
=======================
Lizzy nails it, imo. The authorities are puzzling over how to release the manifesto, because redaction can't disguise how fully imbued her speech is with fairly standard language used by these radically mentally ill people every day.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 09:00 AM (G0Ad7)

254 do you have a source for this? As of 10 hours ago, the stay was denied.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2023 08:58 AM (r46W7)
******
Had F&F on and they broke the news during their broadcast.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

255 238 Posted by: ... at April 20, 2023 08:56 AM (LGFTn)

The country is not the government, the people are not one part of the tribe they are whoever cleaves to the ideals.

I have faith that eventually we will be okay, the Federal government as it has existed probably won't and I am more and more okay with that as time goes on.

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 09:01 AM (Lzpvj)

256 RFK Jr. Is running in the Dem primary - of course he will blame Trump, but his real target is Fauci, and his tactics confound the dems, because when they support Fauci ot looks like they're supporting Trump.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2023 09:01 AM (r46W7)

257 The bus is early.
Posted by: rhennigantx

The chair is against the wall.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 20, 2023 08:27 AM (qoGsy)

The lunatic is on the grass
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 20, 2023 08:34 AM (0gs5e)

There's a killer on the road.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 09:01 AM (AW0uW)

258 Mentioned a couple of days ago, but if you're not reading the journalist Lou Hohmann, you should start. He has a lot of big-picture pieces and links.

"MUST WATCH VIDEO: 33 years of history that led up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that you won’t see taught in U.S. schools nor hear anywhere in the Western mockingbird media

...Sachs ticks off the historical facts of the U.S. introducing more and more weaponry, missile systems, etc. into Eastern Europe. Putin has been warning since 2008 this would lead to confrontation.

So which country is the real aggressor? History reveals the answer."

https://tinyurl.com/u2ydty3k

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 09:02 AM (ia0+L)

259 Yep. Even broadcast it over TV and internet.

And it was removed and/or prevented from being shown. I'm guessing 90% of the country has no idea he made the statement.
____

In the trial of the State v Donald J. Trump for the charge of insurrection, the Defense submits a plea of not guilty. Evidence will be submitted showing Mr. Trump urging people to protest peacefully, and when the news of the Capitol breach was brought to his attention, to urge the people to go home, again peacefully.
Prosecution: We object to the submission of this evidence.
Judge: Sustained.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 20, 2023 09:02 AM (fs1hN)

260 Leo Hohmann, sorry.

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 09:02 AM (ia0+L)

261 Didn't Ana Kasparian get her clock cleaned at the chess world championships by Big Blue when he was transitioning from Big Pink?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 09:02 AM (V4X9X)

262 "Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love."

1 Corinthians 16:13-14

Posted by: Marcus T at April 20, 2023 09:03 AM (j32Ud)

263 I'm a screamer.
Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 08:48 AM (Lzpvj)
++++
Al Gore walked into the Oval Office on December afternoon and handed Bill a Christmas present. Bill looked at him and said, "What is it?"
Al Gore replied, "it's a present, Bill. It's a surprise. You'll just have to wait until you open it."
Bill responded, "Dammit, Al, I am the president. I am your boss. I *order* you to tell me what it is."
Al Gore said, "Fine. It's a damned sweater! Are you happy now?"
Bill replied, "A sweater? That's okay. I'd prefer a moaner or a screamer, but a sweater's okay!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:03 AM (t0OGg)

264 247 I would love to see RFK, Jr., if elected, finally expose the true story of the Kennedy assassinations (and MLK’s, too). It might be worth voting for him just for that.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2023 08:59 AM (3V+d/)

They'll do the same thing to him that they did to his father if he gets close. It's always been amazing that the deep state complex has been able to hide for 70 years the fact that RFK was murdered by a Palestinian jihadi. oh but "no one knows the motive".

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2023 09:03 AM (r46W7)

265 Over at Gateway Pundit there is ab absolutely crazy video of a woman in Chicago getting into fight with her boyfriend at a gas station driving away and flipping her SUV. Avoid Chicago

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 20, 2023 09:03 AM (Uk8NJ)

266 Finally, we are centrists!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 09:03 AM (G0Ad7)

267 There's a rumor circulating that one of the reasons they don't want to release the manifesto is because it will reveal that she was directly recruited into mass violence by one or more of a handful of influential instigators in trans social media, particularly the radical zones on Tumblr, Reddit and a couple of others.

--

I'm betting the same discord and the same fed groomer that we know was involved with the other two school shooters. IIRC the guy even kept reminding the shooter to mark the date and was counting down the days.

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 09:04 AM (ia0+L)

268 Starting May 1st, having a credit rating above 680 or making a down payment of 15% or greater will get you hit with additional fees from the gov't when applying for a mortgage. We must help the people with poor credit.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at April 20, 2023 09:04 AM (WVeiZ)

269 257 The bus is early.
Posted by: rhennigantx

The chair is against the wall.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 20, 2023 08:27 AM (qoGsy)

The lunatic is on the grass
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 20, 2023 08:34 AM (0gs5e)

There's a killer on the road.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 09:01 AM (AW0uW)

His mind is squirming like a Toad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2023 09:04 AM (r46W7)

270 Hey there space fags and space hags! Super Chubby set to launch on just over 20 minutes.

Will there be a separate thread?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM (Dc2NZ)

271
My sister is a typical hard core leftist and Bernie is her guy. Anyone heard a peep from him about running again? I doubt he's gonna let RFK take shots at socialism and stay silent.

Unless the fix is already in. I always loved when Ralph Nadar ran third party and sucked off *just* enough votes. Mister we could use a man like him again.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM (enJYY)

272 268 Is that for real?

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM (aGGj6)

273 Starting May 1st, having a credit rating above 680 or making a down payment of 15% or greater will get you hit with additional fees from the gov't when applying for a mortgage. We must help the people with poor credit.

Posted by: Crom Laughs

--

That's incredible. Literally 100% opposite of how it's supposed to work (for good reason), and on purpose in order to disrupt and destroy.

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM (ia0+L)

274 270 Hey there space fags and space hags! Super Chubby set to launch on just over 20 minutes.

Will there be a separate thread?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM (Dc2NZ)

Up top in the sidebar.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM (x0n13)

275 263 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:03 AM (t0OGg)

*wink*

https://youtu.be/dwTl_yMM8d4

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM (Lzpvj)

276 Deep Blue > Big Blue

Got my blues crossed.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 09:06 AM (V4X9X)

277 I saw Super Chubby open for MC 900 Ft. Jesus at the Ogden in '94.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:06 AM (t0OGg)

278 There's a rumor circulating that one of the reasons they don't want to release the manifesto is because it will reveal that she was directly recruited into mass violence by one or more of a handful of influential instigators in trans social media, particularly the radical zones on Tumblr, Reddit and a couple of others.
-------

I'm not much for rumors but her text to her friend that "one day [killing kids] would make more sense) had more than a whiff of having being recruited.

Posted by: ... at April 20, 2023 09:06 AM (RC7pY)

279 My sister is a typical hard core leftist and Bernie is her guy. Anyone heard a peep from him about running again?
===========================
Someone seriously expects him to run again, at 83 years old?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 09:07 AM (G0Ad7)

280 Unless the fix is already in. I always loved when Ralph Nadar ran third party and sucked off *just* enough votes. Mister we could use a man like him again.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM (enJYY)

The fix is in. They picked Biden last time. Bernie is just there to ensure the Bros hang around to vote in the general. That way they do not have to cheat as much.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at April 20, 2023 09:07 AM (WVeiZ)

281 272 Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM (aGGj6)

Yes, bad credit is now good credit.

There is no idea that was had in a pot induced haze in a HBUC like Southern that will not be "tried."

You are penalized for paying your bills now.

The communist revolution has happened.

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 09:07 AM (Lzpvj)

282 Judges love to give stays, it's their way of saying "I'm Important! Bow Down to Me and do Obeisance!!!" even when they have nothing of any actual intelligence or legal significance to say.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 20, 2023 09:08 AM (r46W7)

283 >>“The safety of our employees, members and customers is always our number one priority. In recent years, Portland has been dealing with increased crime in our neighborhood and beyond,” REI wrote in an email to customers.

Oh, they deployed the passive voice!
Not gonna take ownership of policies that the REI leadership (former CEO was in Obama's cabinet, right?) likely voted for has done to make Portland a crime-ridden sh#thole city.

LOLGF

Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2023 09:08 AM (EdLEa)

284 Is that for real?
Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM (aGGj6)
++++
It is. New FHA policy. To qualify for purchase by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, new fees (estimated to amount to about $40/month at the mean) will be levied on mortgage borrowers (purchase or refinance) with good credit scores and down payments. The levy will go to the FHA to help offset the risk of borrowers with poor credit scores and/or low down payments.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:08 AM (t0OGg)

285 No, it's likely more simple than that: her language and ideas are likely exactly in line with what trans activists say every day,

thus proving that when they say things like "Kill the TERFs" and "If you say something about me entering the Ladies Room it will be the last thing you say." ...
Posted by: Lizzy

1. If your swinging dick follows my wife into the ladies room, I Will identify as the tooth fairy and hand your teeth to you.
2. I carry. Make your first shot count. Because you won't get a second one.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 20, 2023 09:08 AM (OzJjC)

286 ok they're gassing up Elon's rocket

Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 09:09 AM (geLO8)

287 The Junta is not letting Joey Choo Choo go to England for Charles' coronation. You just know how sad President Poopie Pants is to miss it...He loves to hang with the fancy people.

But nothing can keep his gross wife from going.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 09:09 AM (G0Ad7)

288 >>There's a rumor circulating that one of the reasons they don't want to release the manifesto is because it will reveal that she was directly recruited into mass violence by one or more of a handful of influential instigators in trans social media, particularly the radical zones on Tumblr, Reddit and a couple of others.

THAT makes sense.
It would make it more like how they covered up the Pulse shooter's phone calls where he mentioned ISIS during the shooting.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2023 09:10 AM (EdLEa)

289 281 272 Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM (aGGj6)

Yes, bad credit is now good credit.

There is no idea that was had in a pot induced haze in a HBUC like Southern that will not be "tried."

You are penalized for paying your bills now.

The communist revolution has happened.
Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 09:07 AM (Lzpvj)

God damn, every time I convince myself that there's the faintest glimmer of hope, this sort of shit oozes out of the decaying corpse of what used to be pretty decent place.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 20, 2023 09:10 AM (z0DEK)

290 279 My sister is a typical hard core leftist and Bernie is her guy. Anyone heard a peep from him about running again?
===========================
Someone seriously expects him to run again, at 83 years old?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 09:07 AM (G0Ad7)

Article yesterday about how the Dems use the alta-cockers to appear affable and safe while the young Maoists pull their strings.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:10 AM (x0n13)

291 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:03 AM (t0OGg)

Obama walks off Marine 1 with a pig under his arm
Marine: Good Morning Mr President *salutes*
Obama: Good Morning *salute*
Marine: Nice pig Sir
Obama: I got it for Michelle
Marine: Good trade sir

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 09:10 AM (BRHaw)

292 Verse for the Day:

"How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save? Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails."

Habakkuk 1:2-4a

Wow, there's some honest prayer there.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 20, 2023 09:10 AM (qoGsy)

293 That's incredible. Literally 100% opposite of how it's supposed to work (for good reason), and on purpose in order to disrupt and destroy.
Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM (ia0+L)

Concur. Some folks should never own a house or property or have any children or pets.

They cannot handle getting out of bed in the morning and just washing their asses let alone taking care of property and or other living things.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 20, 2023 09:11 AM (d4xYr)

294 I rewatched the documentary "They Saved Hitler's Brain" last weekend. Today that brain is 134 years old. That's a good run for any brain, truth be told.

Posted by: Syd Synapse at April 20, 2023 09:11 AM (Nn3xT)

295 It was nice to see a blue-blooded for life Dem go on TC's show and not rant about how non-human Republicans are. The problem is, he's still an ultra leftist Democrat with lots of not-good-at-all baggage. I wonder what he thought of when 10k people lost their wages. Can't wait for the women to coming pouring out onto social media for their 15 minutes of fame. Ah, the circus show is just beginning.

Posted by: sidney at April 20, 2023 09:11 AM (Uy/WF)

296 It is. New FHA policy. To qualify for purchase by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, new fees (estimated to amount to about $40/month at the mean) will be levied on mortgage borrowers (purchase or refinance) with good credit scores and down payments. The levy will go to the FHA to help offset the risk of borrowers with poor credit scores and/or low down payments.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:08 AM (t0OGg)

from... to...

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 09:11 AM (BRHaw)

297 Is that for real?
Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM (aGGj6)
++++
It is. New FHA policy. To qualify for purchase by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, new fees (estimated to amount to about $40/month at the mean) will be levied on mortgage borrowers (purchase or refinance) with good credit scores and down payments. The levy will go to the FHA to help offset the risk of borrowers with poor credit scores and/or low down payments.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:08 AM (t0OGg)
----
I'm not if those of us with good credit are even allowed to make payments...I just signed into my online bank to pay my mortgage and credit card bills. When I clicked "Make a Payment" for each, I got an error message, as though the entire system had crashed.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 20, 2023 09:11 AM (YIVH2)

298 A Kennedy is a Kennedy is a Kennedy.

Posted by: Ziba at April 20, 2023 09:11 AM (4h9M3)

299 ok they're gassing up Elon's rocket
Posted by: DB

I could have gassed it up yesterday. IYKWIMAIKTYD.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 20, 2023 09:12 AM (OzJjC)

300 288
THAT makes sense.
It would make it more like how they covered up the Pulse shooter's phone calls where he mentioned ISIS during the shooting.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 20, 2023 09:10 AM (EdLEa)

Ditto Stephen Paddock who shot up Vegas after returning from Indonesia -- the world's most populous Islamic country.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:12 AM (x0n13)

301 Read that new FHA policy this morning. I almost dropped my coffee...almost.

Posted by: sidney at April 20, 2023 09:12 AM (Uy/WF)

302 Lizzy nails it, imo. The authorities are puzzling over how to release the manifesto, because redaction can't disguise how fully imbued her speech is with fairly standard language used by these radically mentally ill people every day.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 09:00 AM (G0Ad7)
++++
The trans movement is incredibly militant. They even have a war version of their flag. There are various manifestations of this, but this one is fairly common:
https://is.gd/KFcrTX

They make no bones about it. It's in the plain sight for anyone to see, it's just *very* loudly ignored.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:13 AM (t0OGg)

303 15 minutes 'til launch!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:13 AM (t0OGg)

304 Well, it's definitely swell, just swell, to be living in a swell democracy like this. Just fine. More Biden, please. we need more Biden.

Fuck.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 20, 2023 09:13 AM (z0DEK)

305 "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 20, 2023 09:13 AM (Dc2NZ)

306 Politicians demand bankers loan money to the unqualified.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, mere pawn in game of life... at April 20, 2023 09:13 AM (jTmQV)

307 "Sachs ticks off the historical facts of the U.S. introducing more and more weaponry, missile systems, etc. into Eastern Europe. Putin has been warning since 2008 this would lead to confrontation. "

I have said time and again I don't support the war in Ukraine. But I've also stated that Putin's Russia is not our friend. Furthermore and perhaps conversely I also believe the Democrats predilection to use them as a whipping boy has made the situation more dangerous and put distance between us. That said, what's being presented is one sided and a bit dishonest. Russia has not simply sat back and disengaged from the ebb and flow of conflict. They have actually made some provocative moves both in the nuclear and cyber threats. They've also been on a conquest March to regain territory as some type of nationalist distraction. Ergo this notion that we've been one-sided provocateurs by moving weapons into Europe or building relationships with Eastern European nations is demonstrable nonsense. In fact it's often been a response (some day overdue) to a nuclear or other offensive development.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 20, 2023 09:14 AM (j32Ud)

308 I reread Ecclesiastes on a fairly regular basis.. which usually has me segueing into Proverbs… very very timely writings.

Posted by: tubal at April 20, 2023 09:14 AM (PCK5/)

309

Too bad Elon and Bill Gates don't get along. If they merged, the company would be ElonGates . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:14 AM (x0n13)

310 298 A Kennedy is a Kennedy is a Kennedy.
Posted by: Ziba at April 20, 2023 09:11 AM (4h9M3)

But a Dead Kennedy is a band.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 09:14 AM (BRHaw)

311 Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 09:10 AM (BRHaw)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:15 AM (t0OGg)

312 We must help the people with poor credit.

Says who? Where is it written? By what authority?

Does this mental retard even know why "poor credit" is in our vocabulary?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 20, 2023 09:15 AM (YXHzG)

313 Fight Aging with Drugs?

*******

Hell, it's worked for Keith Richards, may be worth a try.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 09:15 AM (ykeLU)

314 309

Too bad Elon and Bill Gates don't get along. If they merged, the company would be ElonGates . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:14 AM (x0n13)

BillMusk would be the favorite cologne of Incels.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 09:15 AM (BRHaw)

315 Hey there space fags and space hags! Super Chubby set to launch on just over 20 minutes.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 20, 2023 09:05 AM

Are the women who hang around only for those dreamy space fags space fag hags?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 20, 2023 09:15 AM (a3Q+t)

316 306 I seem to recall some sort inconvenience caused by exactly that back around 2008. Here we go again.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 20, 2023 09:16 AM (aGGj6)

317 Too bad Elon and Bill Gates don't get along. If they merged, the company would be ElonGates . . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:14 AM (x0n13)
++++
Musk made a similar joke when he was buying Twitter.

He tweeted something like, "If there's ever a major controversy about me, I hope they call it 'Elongate.'"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:16 AM (t0OGg)

318 Anyone support Kennedy's run? I just can't, considering his anti-vaccine stance. A tragic descent from his father and his uncles. Such a pity.

He's on Tucker tonight spouting Russian propaganda. Talking about the altered classified document with Ukraine/Russian casualty numbers as if they were true. Definitely not supportive of Ukraine. You can't be a caring compassionate person and support Russia's War Crimes over Ukraine.

Fuck no! Has he ever held public office or is he just running on the name Kennedy?

No way! Republicans are looking for him to be the Jill Stein of the 2024 election. He's a KINO...Kennedy in name only.

MAGA friendly Democrats. Vallas almost became mayor of Chicago. Now Kennedy is running as a Dem. Once MAGA starts getting elected as Dems we are doomed.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 20, 2023 09:16 AM (RR8iF)

319 A Kennedy is a Kennedy is a Kennedy.
Posted by: Ziba at April 20, 2023 09:11 AM (4h9M3)
******
Mostly true... Unless it's Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

320 A Kennedy is a Kennedy is a Kennedy.
Posted by: Ziba

But a Dead Kennedy is a ~~band~~ start.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Posted by: rickb223 at April 20, 2023 09:17 AM (OzJjC)

321 Ya know... Cardi B thinks her wet ass pussy is so shocking and all, but with bands like 2 Live Crew and the Revolting Cocks, my generation did blistering profanity better and funnier than these idiots ever could.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 20, 2023 09:17 AM (oINRc)

322 I will never vote for a democrat, period.

Also, I don't like to talk about things like this as health is a private thing between a person and their doc, but RFK Jr. suffered from the Hep C if I remember right.

I think they can cure it nowadays but he did have issues with it from his drug using days and I don't know if it is still an issue with him.

More coffee..

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 20, 2023 09:17 AM (d4xYr)

323 Says who? Where is it written? By what authority? ...
Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 20, 2023 09:15 AM (YXHzG)
++++
New FHA rule. It strikes me as *probably* illegal, not that legality matters. This is an agency dictating for itself a new revenue stream that it will spend as it sees fit. Congress is supposed to be the legal source of all funding.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:17 AM (t0OGg)

324 Schadenfreudelish @aggierican · 18h
The sky was looking ominous so I asked Siri, “Surely, it’s not going to rain today?”

She replied, “Yes it is, and don’t call me Shirley.”

That was when I realized I had left my phone on Airplane mode.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 09:17 AM (Vwz3I)

325 Remember "poor credit" is part of the racist conspiracy, you know the one never proved that is so big and in the open the media can't find it?

The main operating condition of the deep state/corporate fusion right now is 13% of the public gets to be a make a wish kid forever and is entitled to a minimum of 50% of the income and wealth of America.

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 09:17 AM (Lzpvj)

326
The levy will go to the FHA to help offset the risk of borrowers with poor credit scores and/or low down payments.

I don't see how a quarter point redistribution is going to make much of a change in who can qualify and who can't. It sucks to be the person paying it of course.

But who says once they get the public acceptance it won't go to three points, even four? I smell a camel peaking under the tent.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 09:18 AM (enJYY)

327 Fight Aging with Drugs?

*******

So reading this article I gather that the key to living longer is not to die so soon.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 09:18 AM (ykeLU)

328 ... He's on Tucker tonight spouting Russian propaganda. Talking about the altered classified document with Ukraine/Russian casualty numbers as if they were true. Definitely not supportive of Ukraine. You can't be a caring compassionate person and support Russia's War Crimes over Ukraine. ...
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 20, 2023 09:16 AM (RR8iF)
++++
This might be the perfect comment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:18 AM (t0OGg)

329 319 A Kennedy is a Kennedy is a Kennedy.
Posted by: Ziba at April 20, 2023 09:11 AM (4h9M3)
******
Mostly true... Unless it's Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

Imagine spending a lifetime in politics with that name… like “ A Boy Named Sue”…

Posted by: tubal at April 20, 2023 09:18 AM (PCK5/)

330 Next ya'll be telling me Joe Biden marched with JFK and Robert Byrd at Selma.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 20, 2023 09:18 AM (V4X9X)

331 Politico Pretends Culture War Doesn’t Win School Board Races, But Dozens of Pro-Parent Candidates Just Prevailed
_____

Politico's goal is probably to keep the R leadership ignorant about the culture war's potential to bring victories, it appears to be working.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 20, 2023 09:19 AM (fs1hN)

332 Schadenfreudelish @aggierican · 18h
The sky was looking ominous so I asked Siri, “Surely, it’s not going to rain today?”

She replied, “Yes it is, and don’t call me Shirley.”

That was when I realized I had left my phone on Airplane mode.
Posted by: andycanuck

Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 20, 2023 09:19 AM (OzJjC)

333 Thinks about the video of the SUV crash in Chicago, decides not to type anything...but could.

Posted by: Archer at April 20, 2023 09:19 AM (gmo/4)

334 About ten minutes to SS launch attempt.

History in the making.

Posted by: pawn at April 20, 2023 09:19 AM (wsHtO)

335 327 Fight Aging with Drugs?

*******

So reading this article I gather that the key to living longer is not to die so soon.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 09:18 AM (ykeLU)

"Staying alive. That's the key to the benefits package."

- - Ex-CIA agent Vince Ricardo

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:19 AM (x0n13)

336
Ditto Stephen Paddock who shot up Vegas after returning from Indonesia -- the world's most populous Islamic country.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

--

Whose wife or girlfriend had something on paperwork just before the shooting about her employment with the FBI.

"When contacted Friday, one FBI source said the Bureau “might have made payments to Danley but it is above my level,” the source said referring to access to the FBI’s confidential informant participant and payment records. The source said “bosses are concerned” with the new revelations about Danley’s financial relationship with the FBI."

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 09:20 AM (ia0+L)

337 Has he ever held public office
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Paul comments at DU!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 09:20 AM (Vwz3I)

338 I don't see how a quarter point redistribution is going to make much of a change in who can qualify and who can't. It sucks to be the person paying it of course.

But who says once they get the public acceptance it won't go to three points, even four? I smell a camel peaking under the tent.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 09:18 AM (enJYY)
++++
It will extract a huge amount of money. Housing is *big* and a quarter point is significant. It will go up from here, but it ain't nothing by any means.

I suspect it isn't going to go directly to anyone. It will probably end up going to the mortgage owner (that is, probably Fannie, Freddie, USDA, etc.) to offset defaults by poor credit risks.

It strikes me as probably a banker bailout fund to encourage them to keep writing bad loans to keep the housing market propped up for another couple of years.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:20 AM (t0OGg)

339 ok they're gassing up Elon's rocket
Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 09:09 AM (geLO

***

Metaphor?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at April 20, 2023 09:21 AM (flINI)

340 A Kennedy is a Kennedy is a Kennedy.
Posted by: Ziba at April 20, 2023 09:11 AM (4h9M3)

That was just crying out for a Gertrude Stein sock.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 09:21 AM (AW0uW)

341 I smell a camel peaking under the tent.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 09:18 AM

Technically, the one-humpers generally depicted as crawling into the tent are Dromedaries, not Camels.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at April 20, 2023 09:21 AM (a3Q+t)

342 Is Elon a Stones fan? For this test of starship, I notice they decided to paint it black.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 09:21 AM (0Ktqq)

343 But a Dead Kennedy is a band start.
Posted by: rhennigantx
Posted by: rickb223 at April 20, 2023 09:17 AM (OzJjC)

Old Beatles Joke

Three more bullets

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 09:22 AM (BRHaw)

344 I don't see how a quarter point redistribution is going to make much of a change in who can qualify and who can't. It sucks to be the person paying it of course.
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Like taxes, it's purely punitive. It's not meant to help anyone, only hurt and divide.

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 09:22 AM (ia0+L)

345 6 minutes

Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 09:22 AM (geLO8)

346 Is Elon a Stones fan? For this test of starship, I notice they decided to paint it black.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 09:21 AM (0Ktqq)
++++
LOL

Those are heat shields. This is a high-altitude test.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:22 AM (t0OGg)

347 Thank you Marcus !

Posted by: JT at April 20, 2023 09:22 AM (T4tVD)

348 Remember "poor credit" is part of the racist conspiracy, you know the one never proved that is so big and in the open the media can't find it?

The main operating condition of the deep state/corporate fusion right now is 13% of the public gets to be a make a wish kid forever and is entitled to a minimum of 50% of the income and wealth of America.

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 09:17 AM

I had a single mom E4 hispanic in the Navy that received two separate no document mortgages right before the 2008 crash.

I asked her why the heck did she sign both contracts and she told me the real estate guy convinced her that she was going to make so much money selling the first house she would pay off the second one and not have a mortgage on it. They let her declare bankruptcy but she ruined her credit for decades to come.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 20, 2023 09:22 AM (ncXxy)

349
The first human who will live to 150 years of age will be born in the next two years. How many of us will live to see this come to pass?

Speaking for myself I would be 216 years old when that dude dies.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 09:22 AM (ykeLU)

350
Heat shields, Brooke Shields, what's the diff?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:23 AM (x0n13)

351 A Kennedy is a Kennedy is a Kennedy.

yep

Posted by: Marilyn at April 20, 2023 09:23 AM (BRHaw)

352 I gotta bad feeling about this

Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 09:23 AM (geLO8)

353 The first human who will live to 150 years of age will be born in the next two years. How many of us will live to see this come to pass?
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Ummmmmmm

Posted by: ... at April 20, 2023 09:23 AM (TLTQ9)

354 Heat shields, Brooke Shields, what's the diff?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:23 AM (x0n13)
++++
They're both hot, but one of them is black?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:23 AM (t0OGg)

355 Under five minutes!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:23 AM (t0OGg)

356 349
The first human who will live to 150 years of age will be born in the next two years. How many of us will live to see this come to pass?

Speaking for myself I would be 216 years old when that dude dies.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 20, 2023 09:22 AM (ykeLU)

He will live long enough for the Yangs to allow the public to recite the E Pleb Neesta.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:24 AM (x0n13)

357 >>It is. New FHA policy. To qualify for purchase by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, new fees (estimated to amount to about $40/month at the mean) will be levied on mortgage borrowers (purchase or refinance) with good credit scores and down payments. The levy will go to the FHA to help offset the risk of borrowers with poor credit scores and/or low down payments.

So now people with good credit will get to pay for banks loaning money to unqualified borrowers before and after the crash. Sweet.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2023 09:24 AM (ZLI7S)

358 Quote Tweet Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo · 17h
Dell Cameron, a leftist senior reporter for WIRED, used Twitter to solicit stolen information belonging to @MattWalshBlog, who was hacked last night.

EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince · 16h
Usually a bad idea to announce you’re committing a federal crime, a violation of TOS and willing to commit further criminal acts on social media.

[Wired asshole's twatter account suspended.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 20, 2023 09:24 AM (Vwz3I)

359 350
Heat shields, Brooke Shields, what's the diff?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:23 AM (x0n13)

Shields and Yarnell

Posted by: Marilyn at April 20, 2023 09:24 AM (BRHaw)

360 off siox

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 09:24 AM (BRHaw)

361 So now people with good credit will get to pay for banks loaning money to unqualified borrowers before and after the crash. Sweet.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2023 09:24 AM (ZLI7S)
++++
That's my read on it, yeah. It's a bailout fund to help banks offset writing mortgages to poor credit risks.

Gotta keep that housing market pumped up, y'know!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:25 AM (t0OGg)

362 MAGA friendly Democrats. Vallas almost became mayor of Chicago. Now Kennedy is running as a Dem. Once MAGA starts getting elected as Dems we are doomed.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 20, 2023 09:16 AM (RR8iF)
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I can live with that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 20, 2023 09:25 AM (YIVH2)

363 I guess I'd get even more upset if I wasn't already convinced that the actual hostile phase of things will begin soon enough. Not that I'm into initiating such things. Too old, too out of shape, and definitely too near sighted. But what we're seeing and experiencing rhymes quite well with the way the Bolsheviks operated and that is pretty clearly an in-play template for our soon to be Masters.

Rural, semi-self sufficient, fairly religious people are an inconvenience and will be eliminated.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 20, 2023 09:25 AM (z0DEK)

364 3 minutes

Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 09:25 AM (geLO8)

365 3 10 and counting

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 09:25 AM (BRHaw)

366 2.5 minutes

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:25 AM (t0OGg)

367 Technically, the one-humpers generally depicted as crawling into the tent are Dromedaries, not Camels.

You asked for it:

https://tinyurl.com/bddrp3mk

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at April 20, 2023 09:25 AM (AW0uW)

368 The bus is early.
Posted by: rhennigantx

The chair is against the wall.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 20, 2023 08:27 AM (qoGsy)

John has a long mustache.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 20, 2023 09:25 AM (Zvtjl)

369 359 350
Heat shields, Brooke Shields, what's the diff?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:23 AM (x0n13)

Shields and Yarnell
Posted by: Marilyn at April 20, 2023 09:24 AM (BRHaw)

Swear I was about to write that!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:25 AM (x0n13)

370 10 million lbs

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 09:26 AM (BRHaw)

371 The FHA ruling is a Tax. where is John Roberts when we need him?

Posted by: Erik In Texas at April 20, 2023 09:26 AM (aGGj6)

372 348 Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 20, 2023 09:22 AM (ncXxy)

That is just a lack of ethics and in a just world JAG and the Feds would have destroyed the guy not ruined the system to save her.

Yeah it sucks, but I blame the decline of home economics more than "the grand racist conspiracy that can only be fixed by having a Federal racist conspiracy" paradigm.

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 09:27 AM (Lzpvj)

373 "The first human who will live to 150 years of age will be born in the next two years. How many of us will live to see this come to pass?"

Are you asking how many of us will survive the next two years?

Posted by: man who lives as a pig at April 20, 2023 09:27 AM (iayUP)

374 I am freaking
this is like the SST

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 09:27 AM (BRHaw)

375 Odds that Musk rocket goes ‘splodey???

Posted by: tubal at April 20, 2023 09:27 AM (PCK5/)

376 Heat shields, Brooke Shields, what's the diff?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:23 AM

One uses ablative case.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 20, 2023 09:27 AM (a3Q+t)

377 1 minute

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 09:27 AM (BRHaw)

378 33 engines?

Cue the conspiracists.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 20, 2023 09:27 AM (iKBwy)

379 10 seconds!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:28 AM (t0OGg)

380
Art is up.

Musk?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 09:28 AM (x0n13)

381 MAGA friendly Democrats. Vallas almost became mayor of Chicago. Now Kennedy is running as a Dem. Once MAGA starts getting elected as Dems we are doomed.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at April 20, 2023 09:16 AM (RR8iF)
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I can live with that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 20, 2023 09:25 AM (YIVH2)
*******
Works for me!

Posted by: redridinghood at April 20, 2023 09:28 AM (NpAcC)

382 Damn. Hold in countdown.

It's like space blue balls.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:28 AM (t0OGg)

383 If RFK Jr. keeps it up, the corporate feudalists will ancillary him before he turns 70.

Posted by: Marooned at April 20, 2023 09:28 AM (kt8QE)

384 hold t 40

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 20, 2023 09:28 AM (BRHaw)

385 HOLD

Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 09:29 AM (geLO8)

386 I saw the Tucka interview with RFK Jr. He said something like we cut food stamps by 90% and that’s an outrage. Uhm no Bobby. We didn’t cut food stamps by 90%. We cut the extra Covid food stamp bonus by 90%. And we should have cut it by 100%.

He may say a few things we agree one. But he’s still a fucking Kennedy. No thanks.

Posted by: Montec at April 20, 2023 09:29 AM (TN8hM)

387 I wonder if we’ll get space art today.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 20, 2023 09:29 AM (3V+d/)

388 Way late but for Jan6 Rally information you can't beat Revolver coverage

Posted by: Skip at April 20, 2023 09:30 AM (H8LpJ)

389 SpaceX is busy determining pronouns for one of the engineers?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 20, 2023 09:30 AM (0Ktqq)

390 Grandson of our most famous mob family takes on the current mob boss, how apropos.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * of the Horde clan at April 20, 2023 09:30 AM (mDXyw)

391 EducatëdHillbilly™ @RobProvince · 16h
Usually a bad idea to announce you’re committing a federal crime, a violation of TOS and willing to commit further criminal acts on social media.

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That's Heritage America. If this person lives in a city he's fine.

Posted by: Biden: MAGA surrendered America to China at April 20, 2023 09:30 AM (ia0+L)

392 Johnny accidentally pulled the plug

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 20, 2023 09:30 AM (Dc2NZ)

393
So now people with good credit will get to pay for banks loaning money to unqualified borrowers before and after the crash. Sweet.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 20, 2023 09:24 AM

But if it's *only* going to cost the good credit person $40 per month, I don't see how the recipient getting a $40 per month subsidy is going to have a huge effect. Off the top of my head a mortgage on a median priced home is probably pushing $2,000 a month with taxes and insurance.

So a couple with $200,000 in earnings and good credit subsidizes a couple with $190,000 in earnings with shaky credit. Which I think once people figure it out there will be calls for a stronger redistribution. Camel, tent, some assembly.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 09:30 AM (enJYY)

394 Pressure issue resolved, likely going off hold soon!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:31 AM (t0OGg)

395 LET'S LIGHT THIS CANDLE

Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 09:31 AM (geLO8)

396 Way late but for Jan6 Rally information you can't beat Revolver coverage
Posted by: Skip

Revolver and Gateway Pundit.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 20, 2023 09:32 AM (iKBwy)

397 with bands like 2 Live Crew and the Revolting Cocks, my generation did blistering profanity better and funnier than these idiots ever could.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

+1

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at April 20, 2023 09:33 AM (NW9xb)

398 Nerdgasm!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 20, 2023 09:33 AM (Dc2NZ)

399 Fire!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:33 AM (t0OGg)

400 LIftoff!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:33 AM (t0OGg)

401 Five engines failed, but 28 still running. Unreal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:35 AM (t0OGg)

402
Five engines failed, but 28 still running. Unreal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:35 AM

Redundancy good, but how many necessary to 'break the earthly bonds'?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 09:36 AM (enJYY)

403
But if it's *only* going to cost the good credit person $40 per month, I don't see how the recipient getting a $40 per month subsidy is going to have a huge effect. Off the top of my head a mortgage on a median priced home is probably pushing $2,000 a month with taxes and insurance.

—-

There are more good good credit borrowers than bad credit borrowers though. So it’s more like 3 people paying $40 a month and one person getting $120 subsidy. And $40 is for a hypothetical $400k mortgage. So essentially $10 a month per $100k borrowed. In California a typical home is well into 7 figures meaning $100+ a month.

Posted by: Montec at April 20, 2023 09:36 AM (TN8hM)

404 403 Posted by: Montec at April 20, 2023 09:36 AM (TN8hM)

The best way to think of it no not mocking Judas Iscariot Roberts is "it's a tax!"

This is just a fuck you fee.

Posted by: sven at April 20, 2023 09:38 AM (Lzpvj)

405 Destroyed. Stage one separation failure.

Posted by: Archer at April 20, 2023 09:38 AM (gmo/4)

406 Spin, tumble, explosion. Rocket may have blown itself up for safety reasons.

Hell of a thing to see something that big tumble like that and try to get back on course. The control room doesn't look unhappy!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:39 AM (t0OGg)

407 The control room doesn't look unhappy!
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They seem to enjoy a spectacular ka-BOOM.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 20, 2023 09:39 AM (Dc2NZ)

408 Nerds crushed

Posted by: Archer at April 20, 2023 09:39 AM (gmo/4)

409 okay wtf was that

Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 09:39 AM (geLO8)

410 "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes (except for the Book Thread) at April 20, 2023 09:40 AM (Dc2NZ)

411 Space X could use a few more Nazi rocket men

Alas, they're all gone

Posted by: Archer at April 20, 2023 09:41 AM (gmo/4)

412 granted, I'm no rocket scientist, but tumbling end over end and blowing up is not ideal

Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 09:41 AM (geLO8)

413
Posted by: Montec at April 20, 2023 09:36 AM

I see your point but I can't see it making much of a difference. It is still going to take a shitload of earnings to afford the home and is only a minor bailout to the credit impaired.

Might buy some votes, and a candidate can always talk about extending the program by redistributing even more points from the credit worthy. Which is probably the end game.

I can hear it now... "Those evil Republicans want to end a program which has assisted tens of thousands afford their homes. Why are they doing this to the country?"

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 20, 2023 09:42 AM (enJYY)

414 Old Gus, did OK

Posted by: Yeager at April 20, 2023 09:42 AM (gmo/4)

415 ok they're gassing up Elon's rocket
Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 09:09 AM (geLO

Are we not doing phrasing?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 20, 2023 09:43 AM (Zvtjl)

416 okay wtf was that
Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 09:39 AM (geLO

++++
A failure. Well, a partial failure. It cleared the groundworks and everything survived. Something went very wrong, so now it's time for telemetry and fixing it for the next attempt.

It went well, overall, for an experimental flight. It lifted off, gained altitude, the protection systems worked, and SpaceX surely got a *ton* of data about what the hell happened through those tumbles and attempts to get back on course.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 20, 2023 09:43 AM (t0OGg)

417 looked like some of the engines in that cluster failed

Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 09:44 AM (geLO8)

418 The dumbfucks at SpaceX were cheering after Elon's big rocket blowed up. I get that they're happy that the first stage worked, and it flew as long as it did, but Jesus Christ, act like adults.

The 1960's NASA guys didn't cheer when one of their rockets blew up, they lit another unfiltered Camel and got to work figuring out what wrong.

Posted by: a.moron at April 20, 2023 09:45 AM (tu3iY)

419 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Jr. has some BIG 'issues' but they can be spun. I'm thinking he's at least the 'Biden approved' replacement. Joey can be the stately old man & the rest of the crime family quietly slip away. (The Claymont lifeguard street fighter is obsessed with the Kennedys, as he is with the DuPonts (real estate) and many others.) Left in spotlight will be the 3rd floor WH residents, oldest granddaugher & husband, who've been set up for the long haul. Dynasty matters.

BBC News, 4 June 2018, for example. Robert Kennedy: What if US presidential hopeful had not been killed? In part, "Americans were disillusioned and angered by the violence of the 1960s, and governments of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to take Vietnam to a successful conclusion." "What ended in the late 1960s and early 1970s was a set of policies of expanding rights, expanding government services and assistance for those in need, and the backlash against that was facilitated by the absence of effective figures like Robert Kennedy."

Sr was nothing less than a madman in the opinions of many of his time, but 50+ yrs have passed allowing old ideas to be new again.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 20, 2023 09:45 AM (GshMh)

420 The 1960's NASA guys didn't cheer when one of their rockets blew up, they lit another unfiltered Camel and got to work figuring out what wrong.

Yep.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 20, 2023 09:46 AM (Xrfse)

421 The 1960's NASA guys didn't cheer when one of their rockets blew up, they lit another unfiltered Camel and got to work figuring out what wrong.

Posted by: a.moron at April 20, 2023 09:45 AM (tu3iY)

A stark contrast, from then to today, wouldn't you say?

They lit another unfiltered Camel and got to work figuring out what wrong.

using slide rulers too!

Posted by: Archer at April 20, 2023 09:47 AM (gmo/4)

422 looked like some of the engines in that cluster failed

Posted by: DB - I like things that are great at April 20, 2023 09:44 AM (geLO

A cluster fuck

up?

Posted by: Archer at April 20, 2023 09:48 AM (gmo/4)

423 . . . and the SpaceX online broadcast crew all sound like faggots and Valley Girls. Where have you gone, Walter Cronkite?

(Yeah, I know he was an anti-American commie, and dead now, but he did OK on the early NASA broadcasts)

Posted by: a.moron at April 20, 2023 09:52 AM (tu3iY)

424 Well, to be fair, I blame Trump for trusting Fauci and Birx and not standing up to them once the two weeks became more than that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 20, 2023 08:25 AM (x0n13)

Trump went against Fauci as early as March 2020. He was between a rock and a hard place but he prominently disagreed with Fauci a lot even though it was a huge political risk in an election year.

Nothing was more important than his reelection, as we have been subjected to seeing, and he understood that and tried to walk a line to get there.

Posted by: ... at April 20, 2023 10:05 AM (Kieqn)

425 Yeah, I know he was an anti-American commie, and dead now, but he did OK on the early NASA broadcasts)
Posted by: a.moron at April 20, 2023 09:52 AM (tu3iY)

I was in the Army (Signal Corps) in 1969 when we landed on the moon. We had a direct feed from CBS to our site at the Television Division. I remember when the craft finally landed and they cut back to Cronkite, he was removing his glasses and wiping his eyes. He drifted far left later in life, but on that night, the pride of being an American showed on his face. Too bad, as he aged, his politics became so offensive.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 20, 2023 10:06 AM (Zvtjl)

426 "Now with that out of the way – and please do not construe that to mean I want you to forget or ignore it, because I do not – let me say that ironically enough, it is his candidacy that excites me even more than Trump or DeSantis."

Me too, JJ. For the same reasons.

Posted by: Danimal28 at April 20, 2023 11:08 AM (klw0w)

427 @31 I was a little surprised that even Canada fails to spend 2% of GDP on defense. The US, UK, Poland, Estonia, Greece, Latvia and Lithuania are the only members who meet the test,

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Romania was also supposed to hit the target (and had in recent past years). But apparently the Romanian economy grew faster than expected, and what was projected as 2 percent turned out to be slightly less.

Posted by: junior at April 20, 2023 11:15 AM (ZK7k0)

428 He will live long enough for the Yangs to allow the public to recite the E Pleb Neesta.

I think there is a money making opportunity in there.
"MAGA "MAGA
Yangs" Yangs Local 1776"
T-shirt and hats would be goldmine.

Posted by: Paladin at April 20, 2023 12:57 PM (7qvpm)

429 Whats up with Kennedy's voice? Sounds like it really hurts to talk.

Posted by: Ombudsman at April 20, 2023 01:16 PM (B1INZ)

430 Excited about RFK, Jr. too. Think he is brave and bold to do this. Bon Chance!

Posted by: jocon307 at April 20, 2023 08:34 PM (EuROc)

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