The Morning Report — 5/2/23

Good morning, kids. Well, it looks as if Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' Depends-changers and ice cream and word salad spoon-feeders over at Kalorama have evidently "caved" on the debt ceiling budget negotiations, at least insofar as they're willing to consider cuts in exchange for raising the debt. Perhaps their calculus is letting their propaganda machine go into overdrive with "wheelchair bound granny off the cliff" and "taking away Social Security!" agitprop out the wahzoo, hoping the GOP's propensity to cave will rule the day once they actually sit down at the table. Of course, there's talk of "officially" being in a recession just as the 2024 election season gets into full swing. Aside from begging the question, what the hell do you call the nightmare we're in now, I guess the calculus will be to blame Republicans for the mess, but then again, Biden did agree to whatever "cuts" there will be so they'll be spinning that during the debates. If there are any.

Meh, it's all kabuki-bukkake theatrics, as we all know. Spending never decreases. For all the Kurts, Karens and clueless low information folks who might have stumbled their way here, and refuse to believe that, let me put you some knowledge:

All one has to do is look up the chart for US federal spending, either with budgets (how quaint) or for the past nearly 20 years of "continuing resolutions" and debt ceiling raises and it's all there in bright, blood red ink with the curve almost going vertical. No grannies, children, illegal aliens, women, blacks or other convenient props the Left trots out from Central Casting will be or ever have been "hardest hit." With the possible exception of the most vulnerable and abused minority in history: the taxpaying American citizen. And we all know how they feel about them. In any case, we'll see if this is the new Kevin McCarthy who released the J6 tapes or if that was a one off and he reverts to being Frank Luntz's houseboy. Optics is optics so I guess it's something to give him kudos for. For now.

Meanwhile, I want to totally switch gears and get into something that has been bugging the crap out of me ever since this Janet Prostitutkawitch or whatever the hell this fat Maoist shmoo in judge's robes won a state supreme court seat here in Wisconsin – and now tilted the balance of the court 5-4 in favor of the Left. That and this subject no doubt have monumental implications here and nationwide come November 2024.

I'll back into it with this story that I found rather amusing, via friend and friend of the blog Christian Toto:

Dee Snider doesn’t fit into any neat political boxes.

He rails against GOP hero Gov. Ron DeSantis and has spent decades defending free speech. He couldn’t sustain his ’80s-era fame with Twisted Sister, but he’s remained in the spotlight via his bond with former free speech hero Howard Stern and by weighing in on culture war spats.

He did just that this weekend and the reverberations could be profound. And he did so by rallying beside a fellow rock legend.

Paul Stanley kicked over a hornet’s nest, and then stomped all over it, via Twitter over the weekend.

The KISS mainstay said parents should wait until their children are 18 before approving life-altering, irreversible surgery to “affirm” their preferred gender. Stanley’s note wasn’t vicious or blunt. He spoke eloquently of his beliefs in a way that hardly screamed rock ‘n’ roll.

“Some adults mistakenly confuse teaching acceptance with normalizing and encouraging a situation that has been a struggle for those truly affected and have turned it into a sad and dangerous fad.”

Snider agreed.

You know what? There was a time where I “felt pretty” too. Glad my parents didn’t jump to any rash conclusions! Well said.

Snider led the gender-bending aesthetic during the ’80s glam metal days and, apparently, that carried over from his teen years.

Snider elaborated on his beliefs in subsequent Tweets after followers raged against his opinion.

Elle. Parents need to be less reactionary; Right and Left. No need to steer the child in either direction. Let the kid figure it out for themselves knowing their family is supportive. I had a vet/cop hardass dad who, while he shook his head A LOT...let me do my thing.

That's why you're a confused asshole, Dee. Contra Chris Toto's assertion that Snider "doesn't fit into any neat political boxes," he sure as hell does. Leftist. Check that: Snider is more likely a liberal of the old school who, like so many others, still thinks it's the 1980s or even 1960s where hippies/counter-culture good and mom/apple pie/America as founded bad. And yet our old friend cognitive dissonance rears its head when the part of Snider's brain suddenly fires a synapse of sanity as it looks around like Alec Guinness in the last scene from Bridge on the River Kwai and recognizes child mutilation and rape for what it is.

I can't speak for Paul Stanley (although we have met on a couple of occasions due to a mutual acquaintance) but I suspect that he is, if not a conservative, then certainly not a dyed in the wool lefty like Springsteen or Bon Jovi. If he is, he's smart enough to keep his mouth shut and not alienate half his audience. As for Snider, you vote for this and so let your kids and you get it "good and hard."

This is such a winning issue, assuming elections have any real positive consequences for our side, that if a clueless lefty stooge like Dee Snider can see this is insane, there are a hell of a lot more out there who aren't nearly as clueless as he is who can see it.

I'm talking in particular about the so-called suburban moms and housewives. Psaki-psircling back to newly black termite-tented Wisconsin judge Janet Prostitutkawitch, she got that gig because, abortion!!!

Nancy Mace, who is rapidly devolving into the Renee Ellmers of Liz Cheneys is insisting that the GOP essentially embrace baby-killing lest we lose another election.

Well, I want us to find some middle ground. As a Republican and conservative, constitutional conservative who’s pro-life, I saw what happened after Roe v. Wade because I represent a very purple district, as purple as this dress, and I saw the sentiment change dramatically. And as Republicans, we need to read the room on this issue because the vast majority of folks are not in the extremes. And we just saw, you know, a fetal heartbeat bill signed in the dead of night recently in Florida. There are – in my home state of South Carolina, there was a small – a very small group of state legislatures that filed a bill that would execute women who have abortions and gave right – more rights to rapists than women who have been raped.

That is the wrong message heading into ’24. We’re going to – we’re going to lose huge if we continue down this path of extremities. And finding that middle ground, the vast majority of people want some sort of gestational limits, not at – you know, not at nine months, but somewhere in the middle. They want exceptions for rape and incest. They want women to have access to birth control. These are all very common sense positions that we can take and still be pro-life.

Wait one fucking second, saccharin-tits. Why is it that WE have to find a middle ground on this when it's the Democrats who have basically declared outright that it's completely kosher to kill the kid at any time "without apology?"

When the poor thing is born alive and even survives the abortion procedure to kill it, they say no!

IIRC Obama's own science adviser, John Holdren, once postulated that you could kill the kid up to two years after birth because it wasn't even at that point a fully formed human being! (not time to verify but some psycho Democrat Mengele in a lab coat is on record as saying that)

The issue is letting these people frame this debate, the language and who is good and evil. One guess as to who plays those roles.

Can not one person on our side turn the tables for once and demand someone on the left answer the question "At what point is abortion murder?" "At what point is a fetus a human being?"

Nancy Mace and other frauds and cowards of her ilk just want to surrender on this. I do not. I am not God. I cannot answer the question of when life – which "settled science" even tells us begins at conception – becomes human. But the cavalier attitude of abortion on demand and without apology is a non-starter in the extreme for me. Now, the ramifications and tactics in terms of the law are another matter, but no less crucial for us to take the high ground and hold it in terms of messaging and holding feet to fire.

Whether he realizes it or not, the devaluation of human life, of humanity, that's got Dee Snider and others freaked out is no less horrendous here as it is in transsexualism. He may beg to differ but I stand by that assertion.

The Netherlands will become the second European country that will allow children as young as one-years-old to be killed under the guise of “euthanasia,” a recent announcement by the Dutch government on “Late Maternity Abort and Life Termination [of] Newborns” asserts.

The Dutch government will expand pre-existing euthanasia rules first introduced in 2002, effectively expanding post-birth abortions at the discretion of medical staff and healthcare providers.

The amendments were added to the “Law Termination of Pregnancy and Life Termination of Newborns Regulations (LZA/LP),” which permitted the “termination” of children “suffering hopelessly and unbearably,” and who are “expected to die in the foreseeable future.” The law, which was restricted to up to one year, now permits children of all ages in what effectively amounts to post-birth abortion. . .

. . . According to the new rules, doctors need only consider previous cases in conjunction with the patient’s history, to determine whether “euthanasia” is suitable.

Belgium was the first country to remove the age restrictions governing access to state-sanctioned murder in 2014. Belgian law only requires children to be able to “understand” what the procedure is in a wider context, to be suffering from “chronic pain,” and have the consent of the parents.

Canada, too, is currently debating the introduction of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) for “mature minors” in its “Report of the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying.”

Unlike either Belgium or Netherlands, however, Canada’s new laws may only require parental consultation “where appropriate,” because the decision of a mature minor “ultimately take(s) priority.”

In response to these proposals, Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition argued: “The recommendations being put forth by [the committee] would give Canada the most permissive euthanasia law in the world. Given the current state of Canada, where vulnerable people continue to be pressured to euthanasia on a frequent basis, it is inappropriate for the government to consider these radical expansions to the euthanasia law.”

To all the suburban women out there who still shriek about "muh 'borshinz!" think on this, long and hard. Meh, if you still vote Democrat and you get raped by a thug who had a wrist slap from a Soros prosecutor, just lie back and think of Roe v. Wade.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "The way to a country that works is not just "little habits" but learning a business, the culture of business, the ways of business, figuring out how to make something that other people want, and moving on up."
  Now Progressives are Sneering at Economics
  
• "Woke ideology is the train. Total monitoring and control over money and energy is the destination."
  The Other Hills to Die On
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "New plan offers hiring quotas for criminals, billions in grants and jailed voter outreach."
  Biden to Make Sure Criminals in Jail Vote for Him

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
• "Biden’s ‘joke’ about Tucker Carlson may have been hilarious to people who hate the pundit, but it didn’t land with the American people."
  Biden: "Free Press is a Pillar of Free Society," Unless Your Name is Tucker Carlson
  
• Kurt Schlichter: "He's not unemployed, he is unleashed."
  Struck Down, Tucker Will Become More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine
  
• "Here’s my prediction, not limited to 9/11 conspiracy theories but Carlson’s rhetoric more broadly: wherever he lands next, perhaps on his own platform, Carlson is going to make the Fox News version of himself look milquetoast in comparison."
  Tucker Carlson Goes Full Rogue, Muses About Building 7 Collapse
  
• "The former Fox News host should announce that he is running for vice president, and force Trump to pick him—but only if the former president agrees to six key conditions."
  Tucker Carlson and the Silk Purse
  * * * * *

• Robert Spencer: "The Left doesn’t trust people to make up their minds and end up agreeing with them."
  ABC Censors RFK
  
• This is either genius or the stupidest move imaginable.
  Trump to Sit with CNN at New Hampshire Town Hall 
  
• "Fully 74% of U.S. adults say the news media is increasing political polarization – more than 12 times the six percent who say the media is decreasing divisions and four times higher than the 18% who think it has no effect."
  Three-Quarters of Adults Say News Media is Increasing Political Polarization – Today’s Headlines Show Why
  
• "The idea was never wrong, and the impression wasn’t false. The dinner — encased in back-to-back parties — is exactly what it looks like."
  Washington Media Drop the Charade Over Their Annual Dinner — Now They Want You to Know How Corrupt They Are
  
• "We are going to be wrestling with the ethics and benefits of artificial intelligence for a long time."
  Should You Be Concerned About ChatGPT4? We Asked ChatGPT4
  
• "For all its faults, a high standard for defamation protects controversial conservative speech. We shouldn’t assist our enemies in chipping away at it."
  The Conservative Case for Getting Sued Into Oblivion

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

• "Our system is no longer functional. There should never have been a political mob running an armed roadblock in a major American city."
  Daniel Perry and the New American Normal

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures that Blinken had falsely claimed to them that he had “never” emailed Hunter Biden, but that emails from him and his wife show otherwise. “He said he did not email Hunter Biden, and now we have those emails. We also know that his wife, using her private email address when she was an employee of the State Department, was basically a conduit between her husband and Hunter Biden as well,” Johnson said.
  Blinken’s, Wife’s Emails to Hunter Biden Draw Fresh Scrutiny as Lawmakers Examine His Role in Laptop Cover Story
  
• "Documents could complicate Hunter's efforts to negotiate lower child support payments by crying poverty."
  Hunter Biden's Hollywood Attorney Now Controls His Stake in Chinese Private Equity Firm

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

• ". . . even though SpaceX will likely be ready to launch in two months, as Elon Musk says, I expect it will be forced to sit on its hands, either in court or in the swamp in Washington. Such delays will make impossible the development of Starship/Superheavy in a timely manner. It might even make it impossible altogether, as long as SpaceX plans to continue testing it at Boca Chica."
  Environmentalists Sue FAA Demanding it Shut Down Boca Chica and Starship
  
• "EVs can often weigh thousands of pounds greater than comparable gas-powered vehicles, with the 2023 Hummer EV pickup clocking in at 9,000 pounds, with its 2,900 pound battery — which weighs more than an entire Honda Civic — helping make it roughly 3,000 pounds heavier than the 2023 GMC Sierra, Axios reported. Aging infrastructure, particularly parking garages, may not be ready for the significant deployment of EVs, while the added weight of vehicles may pose a significant threat to pedestrians in car accidents."
  Massive EV Battery Packs Could Exacerbate ‘Fatality Crisis’ On US Roads, Experts Warn
  
• "Global climate models are running hotter than reality>"
  Hot, Hot, Hot
  
• "Industry leaders in panic as Congress pushes to impose tariffs on Chinese solar panels."
  Green Energy Industry Admits It Needs Cheap Chinese Goods To Survive

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• You have to wonder if the Dem calculus is to blame the GOP when the inevitable economic crash happens next year. Then again, it takes two to tango and Biden caved. There's no spinning that, try as they no doubt will. Kudos to McCarthy, I guess.
  White House Caves: Joe Biden Asks Kevin McCarthy to Negotiate Debt Limit
  
• "Will Biden negotiate on debt in good faith?"
  Biden vs. McCarthy
  
• "Schumer wrote in a 'Dear Colleague' letter that the Senate would begin examining the bill, which passed in the House last week, in a Budget Committee hearing Thursday."
  Chuck Schemer Accuses ‘MAGA House Republicans’ of Risking Default with Spending Cuts Bill
  
• "Conservatives must distinguish between the science of economics and the art of political economy."
  The Importance of Political Economy
  
• "The United States’ finance policy is following in Greece’s footsteps."
  Murphy's Financial Law
  
• "The new schedule Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) schedule divides upfront fees on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage loans into 80 categories, increases overall fees by 0.04% points and creates a redistribution of costs to those with good credit, an analysis by Bankrate.com concludes."
  New Mortgage Fees Kick in, Saving Lower Credit Scores Thousands by Charging Higher Credit Scores More
  
• She's a radical Maoist who hates America, hates freedom, hates free markets, completely devoid of anything remotely approaching a clue. and could care less if we devolve into a totalitarian shit hole. In other words, a perfect candidate!!!
  Secretive Su: Biden Junta Won’t Release Records of ‘Transparent’ Labor Secretary Nominee Julie Su

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "The suspect, Mexican national Francisco Oropesa Perez-Torres, 38, was previously ordered to be removed by an immigration judge on March 16, 2009, ICE said. ICE removed him on March 17, 2009, the spokesperson said."
  Man Accused Of Murdering Five ‘Execution Style’ Was Previously-Deported Illegal Immigrant, ICE Says
  
• "Jean-Pierre also did not address what specific measures could have prevented the tragedy since there is no legal way that the suspect could have obtained the firearm."
  Karine Jean-Pierre Ignores Key Fact While Pushing White House Narrative On Manhunt For Texas Killer
  
• "TX Gov. Greg Abbott has sent illegal immigrants to so-called sanctuary cities since April 2022."
  Lightfoot Demands Abbott Not Send More Migrants to Chicago
  
• "While I can understand that Lightfoot and Adams are frustrated at the prospect of having to spend even more taxpayer dollars caring for their burgeoning migrant populations, it’s time for them to place the blame for their fiscal challenges where it belongs — not on Abbott or the Texas border towns on the front lines of this disaster, but on their fellow Democrat, Joe Biden." (the mayors and others who declare sanctuary status for their shit-hole Democrat dominions (pun?) are equally to blame - jjs)
  Dem Mayors: Stop Blaming Texas for Migrant Woes — It's On Biden!

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "In 2018, there were 148 carjackings in D.C., and 152 in 2019. However, following the death of George Floyd, the D.C. city council announced its intention to slash $15 million from the MPD’s annual budget. This resulted in an explosion in carjackings, amongst other crimes."
  How Many Carjackings in Washington, D.C. in 2023? Here are the Staggering Numbers…
  
• "Violent behavior is being marketed to the homeless through cultural tolerance and legal leniency."
  Homeless People Read Code
  
• "In a notice of claim alleging retaliation and unjust arrest, Lopiccolo — who retired from the NYPD in 2022 after 20 years on the job — said he was locked in a cell for more than seven hours and hit with charges because he told cops he wanted his attacker to get mental health treatment, and didn’t think it was worth having him prosecuted."
  Wild Video Shows Walgreens Security Guard Getting Hit by sHoplifter — and HE’s the One Arrested

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• Combining these finds with the fact that children’s risk from COVID is so low as to be negligible, one must wonder why the CDC continues to recommend the injections to all pregnant women.
  Pfizer Knew of Chinese COVID-19 Vax Risks to Breastfeeding Babies in April 2021
  
• "CDC to stop tracking [Chinese] Covid levels in communities and adjusts vaccine requirements for international travelers."
  Scientists Searching for Person Infected With Chinese Covid for Over 2 Years
  
• For months, various journalists, politicians and scientists have softened their positions on [Chinese] COVID-19 lockdowns, either admitting that the measures they advocated for were excessive or downplaying the actions they actually did take to “stop the spread” of the virus. Two names in particular, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Randi Weingarten, stand out for their attempts to deceive the public on just what role they played in shutdowns during the pandemic.
  Lockdown Leaders Scramble To Rewrite History
  
• "Paxton said on Monday that three companies that he is focused on are Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson and that he’s also investigating claims that the companies made about “the efficacy of their [Chinese] Covid-19 vaccines and the likelihood of transmitting Covid-19 after taking the vaccines in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.”
  Texas Attorney General Launches Investigation Into Gain-Of-Function Research, Claims Made By Vaccine Manufacturers

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Says “bans” on sexually explicit books are 'harmful' to children."
  Chelsea "Hubbell" Clinton Comes Out In Favour Of Porn For School Kids
  
• “Lawrenceville’s top priority is the physical, social, and emotional health, safety, and wellbeing of our students. We recognize that in Jack’s case, we fell tragically short of these expectations.”
  NJ Boarding School Admits it Failed to Stop Bullying of Student Who Committed Suicide
  
• "Will our elite universities and K-12 schools ever emerge from their self-imposed ideological traps?"
  Closing Young Minds
  
• "Under wokeness and incivility, college enrollments continue to decline."
  You’ll Never Woke Alone
  
• "Parent groups are trying to reverse the school district’s disastrous math education policy."
  San Francisco’s Algebra War
  
• "Peng’s course has been such a hit that state lawmakers are considering making it mandatory, statewide."
  Impossible: The High School Class So Popular Kids Sit In on It so They Can LEARN Stuff
  
• John Stossel: "The problems with 'labor-based grading.'"
  Marxian Education

  ABORTION

• This second challenge was brought in 2020 by Women’s Med Group abortion clinic, along with its owner, three anonymous women and two of the clinic’s nurses, who argue that the law compels women seeking abortion to agree that “an embryo is the ontological and spiritual equivalent of a person.”
  Supreme Court Declines To Hear Challenge To Indiana Abortion Law
  
• "Even former President Donald Trump has signaled that he is abandoning his seemingly short-lived pro-life stance."
  Anti-Christian Sentiment Rises Within the ‘Conservative’ Establishment
  
• Belgium was the first country to remove the age restrictions governing access to state-sanctioned murder in 2014. Belgian law only requires children to be able to “understand” what the procedure is in a wider context, to be suffering from “chronic pain,” and have the consent of the parents.
  Post-Birth Abortions Up to 12-Years-Old Normalizes in Europe and Canada Under the Guise of "Euthanasia"

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• We really need it in GA, WI and AZ.
  Court Rulings Give North Carolina and Florida Republicans Major Wins for Election Integrity

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "New York based talent agency Palette Management received $210,000 between August-October 2022 from the Democratic National Committee for 'Paid Media Advertising.' The payments were made by the DNC to the influencer agency to pay online Gen Z creators to promote Democrat policies, including pro-LGBTQI+ messaging."
  Trans TikToker Who Mocked Women Signs to an Agency That Took $200,000 from DNC for Gen Z Influencers to Promote Biden's Policy
  
• "New Biden official is worth up to $60 million, disclosures show."
  State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller Advised Chinese Crypto Exchange Under Federal Investigation

  POLITICS

• "We’ve all long known the real issue: his steady cognitive decline."
  Biden’s Age Is Not the Problem Here!
  
• "Lt. Governor Jeanette Nuñez – unknown to most Americans – was a staunch supporter of then-presidential candidate Marco Rubio in 2016, and used her platform as a surrogate to blast Donald Trump as 'the biggest con-man there is.'”
  Who Leads Florida While Ron Runs? A Rubio Ally Who Called Trump a KKK-Supporting "Con Man"
  
• "The kids are not OK."
  There's Something Wrong With Young Democrats: Poll
  
• "The longtime liberal Democrat is an environmental activist who must placate his party’s radical left-wing base to beat out Biden."
  Exhausted Republican Voters Should Be More Skeptical of RFK Jr.
  
• "But with almost a year left before the New York primary, there is still a possibility of someone else jumping into the race to challenge the incumbent."
  Titty Caca AOC ‘Not Planning’ to Primary Kirsten Gillibrand in 2024 NY Senate Race
  
• This has been ten years of dynamic success.” (Sasquatch just called from Palm Beach to say "LOL!" - jjs)
  Washington Dem Gov. Jay "Inbreed" Inslee Announces He Won’t Seek Reelection
  
• “I’m going to be working in Virginia this year,” Youngkin added. “And so our House and Senate are up for full reelection this year. We have a House that’s controlled by Republicans and a Senate that’s controlled by Democrats,” the governor continued. “I want to hold our House, and I’d like to flip our Senate. And I think we’re doing a really good job in Virginia, and I think this is a chance to bring that to voters.”
  Glenn Youngkin Announces He Will Not Run for President in 2024

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "The reform bill that will see the retirement age rise by just two years has solidified anger and frustration among those who feel that the French government’s concern for the general well-being of daily hardships is not being considered. However, the reform bill’s age for retirement is not unusual throughout Europe, with Euro News reporting that the average age of retirement for men in Europe is 64.3, while it is 63.5 for women."
  French Anarchists Attack Police, Set Fire to Vehicles During May Day Riots
  
• "Despite their differences, Pope Francis and Viktor Orban are the only European heads of state trying to end the Russia–Ukraine war."
  Francis in Hungary
  
• "Under Narendra Modi, economic growth and political illiberalism have advanced together."
  Will India Follow in China’s Footsteps?

  BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH

• "While many Republicans in Congress have focused on the bungled evacuation itself, the vetting deficiencies remain one of the most active and pressing national security concerns, particularly since these Afghan refugees are already situated inside the United States."
  Two Years After Botched Withdrawal, the Biden Junta Has Yet to Properly Vet 88,000 Afghan Refugees

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "The report comes after a Chinese spy balloon flew over the U.S. back in February after [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s [junta] failed to shoot it down when it first entered U.S. airspace."
  U.S. Military Releases New Details About Balloon That Flew Over Hawaii
  
• "CCP officers are getting arrested within our borders. What's next?"
  The Chinese Communist Party Takes Up Residence in America
  
• "The nation needs and deserves the very best warrior to lead the Navy into our threatened future."
  SHOT: Who Will be the Next Chief of Naval Operations
  
• And Fleet Week is just around the corner, ladies and lady-boys . . .
  CHASER: US Navy Used Drag Queen Influencer to Attract a "Wide Range" of New Troops as Recruitment Plummets

  OHIO DERAILMENT, TOXIC CHEMICAL DISASTER

• "Residents are taking it upon themselves to get tested, and do not seem to be getting answers or assistance."
  East Palestine Resident Experiencing Lesions and Other Health Effects 2 Months After Train Derailment

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "Say it again: government is too big, does too much, and makes many problems that it tries to solve worse."
  A False Savior

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "The large galaxy is thought to be 650 million light years away, which means it took light traveling at 186,000 miles per second that many years to get here. The surrounding galaxies are also all tens to hundreds of millions of light years from each other. Yet, their combined gravity, almost infinitesimal in strength, is enough to warp the shape of each."
  Galaxies Without End
  
• "It appears SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy is the only rocket available and is therefore almost certain to get the contract, a conclusion further confirmed by the timing of this announcement, just prior to that successful Falcon Heavy launch."
  Viasat Drops Launch Contract with Ariane 6

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

• "The new law isn’t just an attempt to control how qualified counselors and mental health medical professionals deal with patients; it’s an attempt to chill the speech of religious and rational voices who oppose the radical alphabet agenda’s reach. HF 16 means the end of free speech and the free exercise of religion for anyone who wants to fend off an identity crisis."
  Minnesota Democrat Signs Bill Banning Free Speech for Therapists of People Struggling With Sexual Distress
  
• "Claim it will lead to banning of drag shows and 'attacks' on transgender people." (forget abortion; if we can't win on this madness, then what's the point of running? - jjs)
  Colorado: 27 Democrats Vote Against Making Flashing Kids a Felony
  
• "Darren Glines, who goes by Rachel but has not undergone transgender surgeries, was charged with public indecency in December 2022 after three reports that Glines exposed his genitals on three separate occasions while using the women’s facility between 2021 and 2022— one of which underage girls were present." (this is how you get vigilantes - jjs)
  Trans Woman ‘Not Guilty’ Of Indecent Exposure Charges After Using Women’s Locker Room, Court Rules
  
• “I’m suing,” Zephyr said in a tweet on Monday. “The recent actions violate my 1st amendment rights, as well as the rights of my 11,000 constituents to representation. Montana’s State House is the people’s House, not Speaker Regier’s, and I’m determined to defend the right of the people to have their voices heard.” (go to hell - jjs)
  Transgender Lawmaker Sues Montana Over Censure
  
• "Demanding that our children go along with the transgender insanity is worse than just lying to them."
  A Woman is Not a Cat (Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, Lee Meriwether hardest hit! - jjs)
  
• “Identity theft can be used as a cover for abuse.”
  A ‘Trans’ Pedophile Stole My Name

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Christian Toto: "Bee, Noah, Corden are gone – will Colbert, Kimmel and Fallon follow?"
  FORBES: Writers’ Strike Might Be Late-Night TV’s Death Blow
  
• Gee, what a tragedy.
  Screenwriter Strike Could Grind Hollywood to a Halt This Week. Here’s Which Shows Could Be Hit.
  
• "The sad thing is that there are countless lists like this, nitpicking and scouring older movies for things that are problematic. The fact is that older films are often funnier than the current woke material. The current state of entertainment caters to the overly-sensitive minority, and that’s stifling creativity and humor. This overemphasis on wokeness will ultimately lead to the demise of comedy. One day, I fear we’ll wake up and find that comedy is officially dead."
  Buzzfeed Gets Roasted After Listing Problematic '90s Films
  
• "The humor police."
  Oi Mate, Got a License for That Offensive Joke?
  
• "The next two in the series."
  The Top Ten Woke Lies, Part 4
  
• "A hunk of glass does not belong on the roof, a giant metal spike does not belong on the side of a building, and a parking garage is not a museum."
  I Wish Modern Architecture Would Stop Assaulting My Eyes
  
• "The 'Real Men of Genius' at Anheuser-Bush have screwed the pooch in more than just one way."
  The Untold Story of the Bud Light Fiasco

  HITHER & YON

• “I saw the girl after it had happened, and I assume that she … had an orgasm because she was heavily breathing, and her partner was smiling and looking at her — like in an effort to not shame her.”
  ‘Loud And Full Body Orgasm’: Woman Allegedly Makes Sudden Outburst During Classical Music Concert (Ravel's Bolero? - jjs)

  FINALLY . . .

• Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died on Monday. He was 84. . . In the 1970s, Lightfoot garnered five Grammy nominations, three platinum records and nine gold records for albums and singles. In the more than 60 years since he launched his career, he performed in well over 1,500 concerts and recorded 500 songs. He toured late into his life. Just last month he cancelled upcoming US and Canadian shows, citing health issues.
  Canadian Folk Singer Gordon Lightfoot Dead at 84

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2023 07:55 AM (BRHaw)

2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 02, 2023 07:55 AM (z373n)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2023 07:56 AM (T4tVD)

4 First, they came for the Italicans but I was Canadian so I did not care.

Posted by: The Muldoon 5000 at May 02, 2023 07:56 AM (Vwz3I)

5 Clearly, a case of human error, J.J.

Posted by: The Muldoon 5000 at May 02, 2023 07:57 AM (Vwz3I)

6 Worst theater ever. And it never ends.

Yonder Horde.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2023 07:57 AM (Q4IgG)

7 Good morning JJ.
Back to report, links, and commentary.

Posted by: CapeFear at May 02, 2023 07:57 AM (PuDEX)

8 SCTV tribute...

Gordon Lightfoot Sings Every Song Ever Written

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vti4Ymo_toc

A tribute from one Canadian icon to another.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 07:58 AM (Vwz3I)

9 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2023 07:59 AM (1Z8zZ)

10 A great edit of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

https://tinyurl.com/2tze33bm

[Keep some Kleenex handy for allergies.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 07:59 AM (Vwz3I)

11 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 02, 2023 07:59 AM (BejKb)

12 Well crap.....I stopped to read the content again.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 02, 2023 08:00 AM (ncXxy)

13 ||unusual_whales @unusual_whales · 16h
BREAKING NEWS: Another Congressman literally traded banking stocks again.

Lois Frankel sold $FRC on March 16th, avoiding the remaining 80% drop.

She THEN BOUGHT $JPM, the bank buying FRC on March 22nd.

Matt Allen @investmattallen · 14h
Congresswoman Lois Frankel sold First Republic Bank in March before the stock dropped 80%

After she sold First Republic, she bought JP Morgan Chase which just bought First Republic. She clearly had inside information.

If me or you did this then we would be in prison.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:01 AM (Vwz3I)

14 Good morning horde!
This is the month of Mary.
A good month to learn to pray the rosary.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 02, 2023 08:02 AM (ttS0m)

15 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Verse for the Day:
"But to you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. To the person who strikes you on one cheek, offer the other one as well, and from the person who takes your cloak, do not withhold even your tunic. Give to everyone who asks of you, and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you."

–Luke 6:27-31

*Bangs head on desk* "But I don't want to!"

The Big Man - "Yes, I know. Strive for it anyway."

Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2023 08:02 AM (qoGsy)

16 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 02, 2023 07:55 AM (z373n)

Amen. That whole passage is one of my very favorites in the Bible.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2023 08:02 AM (45fpk)

17 Good morning JJ and horde
I have 🌞

Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2023 08:02 AM (BNQ3n)

18
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 02, 2023 08:02 AM (ENBF0)

19 then certainly not a died in the wool lefty like Springsteen or Bon Jovi. I

(psssst...."Dyed....)

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2023 08:04 AM (T4tVD)

20
Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown” and for songs that told tales of Canadian identity, died on Monday. He was 84. . .

another grim milestone for the biden & trudeau administrations

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 02, 2023 08:04 AM (ENBF0)

21 Thank you, J.J.!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 02, 2023 08:04 AM (1n+EO)

22 19 then certainly not a died in the wool lefty like Springsteen or Bon Jovi. I

(psssst...."Dyed....)
Posted by: JT at May 02, 2023 08:04 AM (T4tVD)


Autocorrect. Yeah, I blame that!

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

23 >>Struck Down, Tucker Will Become More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine

I don't know this is necessarily true, the venues and platforms that will be able to afford and host a Tucker Carlson are few and far between and can easily be cancelled.

As I said, his best bet is to join into a partnership with Elon to form a Twitter News Network venture, that is dedicated to free speech and the truth.

NewsMax is simply not big enough, nor has deep enough pockets or pull to host a Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 02, 2023 08:05 AM (up/3i)

24 Alright, I confess. After that horrific shooting of five people in Texas the other day, I think I am ready to have that conversation about common sense gun control. We need to get Congress to pass a simple law making it against the law for a person in this country illegally to own a firearm. Let’s start with that.

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

25 Well, I want us to find some middle ground.

There is no middle ground, bitch.

Abortion is murder. That's it.

You sure as fuck aren't a 'conservative,' but by God, you certainly are a 'Republican.'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 02, 2023 08:05 AM (AW0uW)

26 2 - Thank you, BC. I love the writings of the apostle John!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2023 08:06 AM (89L3N)

27 another grim milestone for the biden & trudeau administrations
Posted by: AltonJackson

LOL !!!

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2023 08:06 AM (T4tVD)

28 Well, I want us to find some middle ground

Why? The Democrats will never compromise on anything. So fuck you: War is the only answer we need to give.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 02, 2023 08:06 AM (4olE8)

29 Perhaps their calculus is letting their propaganda machine go into overdrive with "wheelchair bound granny off the cliff" and "taking away Social Security!" agitprop out the wahzoo, hoping the GOP's propensity to cave will rule the day once they actually sit down at the table.
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Well, it's a very solid bet and I expect nothing better than outcome. I expect nothing better to such a degree that I consider that to be the best possible outcome. More likely outcomes are that the budgets grow even faster, with specific carve-outs of new money for the IC and federal cops to oppress us further.

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

30 Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter known for “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown”


I think he'll be most remembered for the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2023 08:06 AM (45fpk)

31 The AA college admission cases could be momentous. Will we see a decision with the moral purity of Brown?

Alito says he knows who the Dobbs leaker is. I suspect he went public to prevent another leak by ... Sonia. If it wasn't another SCOTUS, the leaker would have moved on or quietly been pushed out.

Ironically the Left is pushing for SCOTUS ethics rules as part of its plan to discredit a SCOTUS it doesn't like.

SCOTUS just took a case for next term that could be the vehicle to overturn Chevron deference, where the courts defer to agency rule making when there's questions about statutory authorization, unless batshit crazy. This will be a huge deal inside the Beltway.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 02, 2023 08:07 AM (RqMSv)

32 Palestinian prisoner dies in Israeli custody after going on a hunger strike for nearly three months.

So the Israelis were trying to [force] feed him or he would have been dead within three days [IIRC] from dehydration; and that's sort of the point of a hunger strike if the authorities don't accede to your demands. See 'Bobby Sands'.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:07 AM (Vwz3I)

33 16 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 02, 2023 07:55 AM (z373n)

Amen. That whole passage is one of my very favorites in the Bible.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2023 08:02 AM (45fpk)

Good morning grammie. The gospel of John and the Epistle to the Romans are my go-to books in the Bible.

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2023 08:07 AM (PCK5/)

34
Tim Bachmann and now Gordon Lightfoot. Will Neil Young make it the trifecta?

Celine Dion sez "could be!"

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

35 One morning JJ should surprise us with only links containing good news. Just every feelgood news story he can dig up. That would be something to wake up to...

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 08:08 AM (SGGor)

36 32 See 'Bobby Sands'.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:07 AM (Vwz3I)


Bobby Sand-n(word).

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

37 Happy World Tuna Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2023 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

38 Quote from a story over at Insty:
"Good leaders with sound ideas and well developed plans will welcome hard questions and informed challenges.

Bad leaders with weak ideas and compromised plans will be defensive, flinty, and more often than not will resort to appeals to authority or credentialism. Those are your warning signs."

Seemed apt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 08:09 AM (zZu0s)

39 >>“Some adults mistakenly confuse teaching acceptance with normalizing and encouraging a situation that has been a struggle for those truly affected and have turned it into a sad and dangerous fad.”


Not sure if that was intentional, but that's the key point: in A LOT of cases it is not the parents leading, pushing this thing, it is a teacher, a social media star, a celebrity ("I am Jazz," actors).

Focusing on parents is playing into these ghouls' framing: they are actively declaring parents dangerous to kids, making laws that allow other adults to transport their kids across state lines to get drugged and mutilated without parental consent.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2023 08:09 AM (EdLEa)

40 35 One morning JJ should surprise us with only links containing good news. Just every feelgood news story he can dig up. That would be something to wake up to...
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 08:08 AM (SGGor)


If you wake up to that you'd have joined the Choir Invisible.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:09 AM (x0n13)

41 The gospel of John and the Epistle to the Romans are my go-to books in the Bible.

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2023 08:07 AM (PCK5/)


I like to read Revelation on a dark and stormy night. :-)

Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2023 08:09 AM (45fpk)

42 & trudeau administrations
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Shithead tweeted his condolences when he's been trying to complete the destruction of Canada [like the rest of the West] started 55 years ago.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:09 AM (Vwz3I)

43 Even the term “post-birth abortion” is sick. The twisting of language and hiding the truth with euphemism is disgusting. The Dutch went over the slippery slope awhile back. How could anyone even think about killing a one year old child? And Nancy Mace can get lost…. Why does SC attract the Lindsay’s and Mace’s and Scott’s and Nikki Haley’s of the GOP world??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2023 08:09 AM (89L3N)

44 ... we'll see if this is the new Kevin McCarthy who released the J6 tapes or if that was a one off and he reverts to being Frank Luntz's houseboy.
++++
The latter. The Jan 6 tapes were a sideshow that ultimately came to nothing, and McCarthy probably knew that would be the outcome. McCarthy should not be Speaker, and the minor, weak, vague hints of backbone he has shown are due entirely to a small group of reps who will not be able to block his treason on the budget - and he knows it. If the 15-20 reps hold out and refuse to pass the budget, enough Dems will fill in the blanks. If they attempt to hold McCarthy to the terms of their deal and try to oust him from the Speakership, they will fail.

This is going to go exactly the way the more cynical among us thought it would go. If I am wrong, I will happily - and loudly - eat crow.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2023 08:10 AM (t0OGg)

45 16 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 02, 2023 07:55 AM (z373n)

Amen. That whole passage is one of my very favorites in the Bible.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2023 08:02 AM (45fpk)


shiat

thought was "the Doors"

Posted by: REDACTED at May 02, 2023 08:10 AM (us2H3)

46 "It's not a spending problem, it's a paying-for problem".

Posted by: Famous Quotes From Your Pal, Nancy Pelosi at May 02, 2023 08:10 AM (B0Z3g)

47 I like to read Revelation on a dark and stormy night. :-)
Posted by: grammie winger

A clap of thunder rang out. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2023 08:10 AM (qoGsy)

48 I had a friend back in the early 80's whose mom, a fat pig of a woman, used to let Twister Sister sleep over at her place in Seaside Heights, New Joisey when they were doing shows in the area. She had a big crush on Dee who was also a slob and probably hit it. I was surprised when they hit it big but people will buy shit in a bag if it's the current fad.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 02, 2023 08:10 AM (MZjWj)

49 >>One morning JJ should surprise us with only links containing good news. Just every feelgood news story he can dig up. That would be something to wake up to...


Oooh, I like that idea!
What do ya think, JJ?!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2023 08:11 AM (EdLEa)

50 I once tried to get a job on the ore carriers because, living in Cleveland, the money those guys made was legendary. Then I heard the Lightfoot song and I rethought my summer work dreams.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 08:11 AM (PTkP3)

51 Most years, federal revenues run from 16 to 18% of GDP. We're just over 18% right now.

Federal spending tends to run from 18 to 20%, hence a growing deficit. It's now over 24%. A recession will cause a drop in revenue and an increase in spending.

Meanwhile, Team Biden is making him run again so they don't all end up in jail.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 02, 2023 08:11 AM (RqMSv)

52 The KISS mainstay said parents should wait until their children are 18 before approving life-altering, irreversible surgery to “affirm” their preferred gender.
++++
Thus removing the argument entirely. I don't know if that was on purpose or not, but it's the effect.

Once 18, the parents no longer have any legal say in it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2023 08:11 AM (t0OGg)

53 41 The gospel of John and the Epistle to the Romans are my go-to books in the Bible.

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2023 08:07 AM (PCK5/)


I like to read Revelation on a dark and stormy night. :-)
Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2023 08:09 AM (45fpk)

Hah!! It ends well at least ( for some)…

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2023 08:11 AM (PCK5/)

54 Analysis of what happened to The Edmond Fitzgerald on YouTube;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIg90sVSwSE

30 minutes

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2023 08:11 AM (Q4IgG)

55 I try to find common ground with lefty cowokers. One thing I say - what's the point of filing income taxes? They print their own money anyway without regard to how much they collect.
And the leftists always agree, adding "they know everything about my money already, why do I have to fill this papertout?"

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 02, 2023 08:11 AM (ttS0m)

56 Breaking: Not sure it's been mentioned, but Youngkin is officially OUT of the 2024 race...

https://tinyurl.com/2fpynsw9

Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2023 08:12 AM (exHjb)

57 Biden to Make Sure Criminals in Jail Vote for Him

Not every (D) is a criminal

But criminal is a (D)

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2023 08:12 AM (BRHaw)

58 It's also National Truffle Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2023 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

59 >> Even the term “post-birth abortion” is sick. The twisting of language and hiding the truth with euphemism is disgusting.


H#LL yes!
There are already words for that, including "infanticide" and "murder."

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2023 08:12 AM (EdLEa)

60 Isn't it a parent's job to "steer the child?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2023 08:12 AM (t0OGg)

61 Makes you wonder what the hell the stone masons of elder were all on about. Trump EO'd something about making buildings look spectacular again, but we're going to get orthagonal, flat roofed cement with the current thing flags.

Cheer up, it's going to get really ugly. That's the good news, for us. Still, any decent height is useful.

Posted by: micky at May 02, 2023 08:13 AM (3byMq)

62 56 Breaking: Not sure it's been mentioned, but Youngkin is officially OUT of the 2024 race...

https://tinyurl.com/2fpynsw9
Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2023 08:12 AM (exHjb)

Correction: Out for 2023 - ie - if other currently in candidates disappear, he'd think about a late compromise run...but this is still really him being OUT...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2023 08:13 AM (exHjb)

63 56 Breaking: Not sure it's been mentioned, but Youngkin is officially OUT of the 2024 race...

https://tinyurl.com/2fpynsw9
Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2023 08:12 AM (exHjb)


I've got it in Politics section.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:13 AM (x0n13)

64 A Woman is Not a Cat (Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt, Lee Meriwether hardest hit! - jjs)
----
"MEOW!"

Posted by: Maureen "Bastet" Ponderosa at May 02, 2023 08:13 AM (YIVH2)

65 Australia's tobacco tax will increase by billions of dollars over the next four years as government cracks down on smoking.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:13 AM (Vwz3I)

66 Good news everyone, the Jamaiacan Lesbian says illegal border crossing is down 90%....

Did they unilaterally declare it not illegal?

Posted by: sven at May 02, 2023 08:13 AM (X0I7i)

67 Good morning grammie.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 02, 2023 08:14 AM (ttS0m)

68 63 56 Breaking: Not sure it's been mentioned, but Youngkin is officially OUT of the 2024 race...

https://tinyurl.com/2fpynsw9
Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2023 08:12 AM (exHjb)


I've got it in Politics section.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:13 AM (x0n13)

See, this is why I should read the content, even if I only have 5 minutes...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2023 08:14 AM (exHjb)

69 Good morning vmom!

Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2023 08:14 AM (45fpk)

70 and with whining about WTC7 Tucker confirms that he is not to be taken seriously.

Posted by: sven at May 02, 2023 08:14 AM (X0I7i)

71 ... in my home state of South Carolina, there was a small – a very small group of state legislatures that filed a bill that would execute women who have abortions ...
++++
Citation needed. I seriously doubt this. I know nothing about it, but the premise is fairly absurd and I'd like to see the citation. I suspect, at worst, that the proposed bill would treat abortion as murder and in SC murder is a capital crime and thus a woman getting abortion could, conceivably, be charged with murder, tried, found guilty and be sentenced to death by a jury - something that will never happen (abortionists, though, would be possible).

Am I getting warm?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2023 08:14 AM (t0OGg)

72 Truffle Off to Buffalo

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:15 AM (Vwz3I)

73 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 08:15 AM (fjzHX)

74 >>It's also National Truffle Day.

What if I don't feel like traveling? I mean, I have a road trip planned for Memorial day, so why celebrate travel before then. And really, travel is so common in America, do we really need a separate day to celebrate it?

Oh. . . never mind!

Posted by: Emily Litella at May 02, 2023 08:15 AM (EdLEa)

75 Nobody Knows the Truffles I Seen

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:15 AM (Vwz3I)

76
See, this is why I should read the content, even if I only have 5 minutes...
Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2023 08:14 AM (exHjb)

Clearly we need an HQ AI, to do our post reading and summarize for us.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 02, 2023 08:15 AM (ttS0m)

77 "Abortion is murder. That's it."

Abortion isn't about civil liberties. It's about defining when infanticide begins.

Personally I'd go with a European 15 weeks, but nine months seems barbaric, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 02, 2023 08:16 AM (RqMSv)

78 Once 18, the parents no longer have any legal say in it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Crazy. Keeping it simple is a thing. Dee Snyder, too. Can Howard 'bobbabuey' Stern be far behind to arrive at the first reasonable thing he's never thought?

Posted by: micky at May 02, 2023 08:16 AM (3byMq)

79 Oh, please, why is everyone so upset at us again?

Posted by: Youth In Asia at May 02, 2023 08:18 AM (Nn3xT)

80 "Abortion is murder. That's it."


Exactly. You can't just go around killing people because they're inconvenient.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2023 08:18 AM (45fpk)

81 The amendments were added to the “Law Termination of Pregnancy and Life Termination of Newborns Regulations (LZA/LP),” ...
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At least they call it what it is, I guess.

This is why I have voted against "assisted suicide" bills at every opportunity. There is no limit to the damage that the state will do when it formally cheapens human life. "This person's life is not worth living and he should be killed" is a conclusion that the state must *never* be encouraged to draw.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2023 08:18 AM (t0OGg)

82 Although with Youngkin out, it does seem like another obvious sign that DeSantis is 100% in, even if still undeclared...and that Youngkin's staying out of that fight to continue to build the R party and his brand in VA (which is the smartest call for him, b/c he will still build popularity in VA the way he's going)...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2023 08:18 AM (exHjb)

83 >>Australia's tobacco tax will increase by billions of dollars over the next four years as government cracks down on smoking.


. . . and unexpectedly, the black market cigarette trafficking will skyrocket while the government is dumbfounded that jacking up taxes led to even, or even reduced tobacco tax revenue. Worse, they will wonder how they can get people to buy more cigarettes, because they were really counting on that money to fund their special projects. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2023 08:18 AM (EdLEa)

84 It must be election season already, the inbox has been filled with political money begs for the past couple of days.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 02, 2023 08:18 AM (Angsy)

85 Abortion is the wilful taking of a human life. It is hard to get around that fact, without using the most heavy handed sophistry.

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2023 08:18 AM (PCK5/)

86 in my home state of South Carolina, there was a small – a very small group of state legislatures that filed a bill that would execute women who have abortions ...

***

How many state Legislatures does South Carolina have???

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 02, 2023 08:19 AM (flINI)

87 Truffles. Right here in River City.

Posted by: Music Man at May 02, 2023 08:19 AM (DhOHl)

88 I started reading the "Tucker Should Run For Veep" essay with a negative attitude. After all, why should a talk show host overcome unemployment by running for a "bucket of warm piss" office? Still there, but now I understand the impulse, since the author is really trying to give PDJT advice on how to have a different outcome in 2024, and not lose again to Basement Biden. Good luck with that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 08:19 AM (592NS)

89 Brush up your Shakespeare:
https://tinyurl.com/4bt5fbvp

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:19 AM (Vwz3I)

90 Truffle Off to Buffalo
Posted by: andycanuck

When I took Tap lessons this was drilled into us:

"Truffle one, truffle two, step, step. . . ."

Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2023 08:19 AM (qoGsy)

91 >>This is why I have voted against "assisted suicide" bills at every opportunity. There is no limit to the damage that the state will do when it formally cheapens human life. "This person's life is not worth living and he should be killed" is a conclusion that the state must *never* be encouraged to draw.


THIS

Once you give someone that God-like power over life and death there will be no shortage of scenarios in which they desire to exert it.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2023 08:20 AM (EdLEa)

92 Clearly we need an HQ AI, to do our post reading and summarize for us.
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I am sorry but I am not programmed to respond in that area.

Posted by: The Muldoon 5000 at May 02, 2023 08:21 AM (Vwz3I)

93 Thank you, JJ.
Pray for America as founded.

Posted by: democrats, Raping, Trafficking and Mutilating the Children They Cannot Kill at May 02, 2023 08:21 AM (0q+t6)

94 @70

>>and with whining about WTC7 Tucker confirms that he is not to be taken seriously.

Well, with the recent revelations that at least two of the 9/11 hijackers were IC assets, why is Carlson's musings about WTC 7 out of bounds?

The current maniacs in charge brought the world to the brink of collapse in order to dispatch Literally Hitler, so I don't think anything is off the table vis-a-vis what these lunatics are willing to do in order to effect, "Fundamental Transformation."

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 02, 2023 08:21 AM (up/3i)

95 *Exactly. You can't just go around killing people because they're inconvenient.*

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Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 02, 2023 08:21 AM (DhOHl)

96 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2023 08:22 AM (T4tVD)

97 *Exactly. You can't just go around killing people because they're inconvenient.*

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Heh

Posted by: Pol Pot at May 02, 2023 08:23 AM (flINI)

98 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2023 08:23 AM (45fpk)

99 Green Energy Industry Admits It Needs Cheap Chinese Goods To Survive

and Middle Class Taxpayers Money

but mostly...

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2023 08:23 AM (BRHaw)

100 I want to see AI making inroads as news readers. Maybe radio and podcasts first where you don't see anyone anyway.

Then, migrate it to the cable and network outfits.

Bet it dies a quick and painful death before it gets too far.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2023 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)

101 Well, with the recent revelations that at least two of the 9/11 hijackers were IC assets, why is Carlson's musings about WTC 7 out of bounds?

The current maniacs in charge brought the world to the brink of collapse in order to dispatch Literally Hitler, so I don't think anything is off the table vis-a-vis what these lunatics are willing to do in order to effect, "Fundamental Transformation."
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 02, 2023 08:21 AM (up/3i)
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Two of the more common 9/11 conspiracy theories are "Made It Happen On Purpose" and "Let It Happen On Purpose." The first one is still very dubious because of the logistics involved.

The second theory, however, is starting to become more plausible....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2023 08:24 AM (YIVH2)

102 "At what point is abortion murder?"

Easy fo the Left. It's murder when a White male kill the baby through some "criminal" act. It's NOT murder whenr the mother doesn't want it.

(The other question: the gametes are human gametes and are part of a long line of living cells going back to The Origin, whatever that may be. So at conception we have a baby human.
My rescue cat Biscuits has had 6 kittens, as some of you may know, and they were always kittens from the day the vet said she was [regnant, not just tissue.
Those very people that argue about human embryos would never argue against the term kitten or puppy.

Posted by: Ciampino -- I'm really going to have a lot of cats at May 02, 2023 08:25 AM (qfLjt)

103 *Exactly. You can't just go around killing people because they're inconvenient.*

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Heh
Posted by: Pol Pot


Pfffft.

Posted by: Joseph Stalin at May 02, 2023 08:25 AM (fjzHX)

104 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:09 AM (x0n13)

Amen to that brother but there are sites that are filled with "nice" news. Just thought it would be funny one time. All this bad news is demonic. Not that I don't love you for it.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 08:25 AM (SGGor)

105
Mushroom truffles or the chocolate variety?

Macy's Herald Square had a chocolate shop in The Cellar and their chocolate truffles were to die for!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:25 AM (x0n13)

106 For some reason, I thought Gordon Lightfoot was older than 84 and already dead.

Posted by: dantesed at May 02, 2023 08:25 AM (88xKn)

107 On abortion:
I missed the book thread; read it though.
Just read Demonic Foes this weekend, by Richard Gallagher, a shrink who Catholic exorcists consult on cases of suspected possession (to rule out mental illness).
He mentioned at least two extreme cases where women who were possessed had earlier in life, had in some way used their aborted child in occult practice.
Gruesome, and I am hope rare, but I believe that any abortion causes a stain on one's soul that let's it easier to let evil in.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 02, 2023 08:26 AM (ttS0m)

108 The DOA would gut Medicaid for over 20 million Americans, rip away SNAP benefits for over a million recipients and eliminate Pell grants for tens of thousands of American students every year.

This was baked into the COVID aid and was set to expire by law!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2023 08:26 AM (BRHaw)

109 Doggie fun.

https://tinyurl.com/2f9zn55m

34 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:27 AM (Vwz3I)

110 >>The Netherlands will become the second European country that will allow children as young as one-years-old to be killed under the guise of “euthanasia,” a recent announcement by the Dutch government on “Late Maternity Abort and Life Termination [of] Newborns” asserts.


Incorrect. They've had their Groningen Protocol in place since 2004, which allow doctors to let sickly newborns die (withhold care) without the consent or notice to the parents.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2023 08:27 AM (EdLEa)

111 Macy's Herald Square had a chocolate shop in The Cellar and their chocolate truffles were to die for!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:25 AM (x0n13)

Send my regards to Herald

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2023 08:27 AM (BRHaw)

112
uhmmm,, I,, I-I-I like uh-uh,, apple-uh sauce

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at May 02, 2023 08:27 AM (vwCZJ)

113 > Nancy Mace

For whatever reason, she hadn't been on my radar before now.


Is "Resting Man Face" a thing?

> Wait one fucking second, saccharin-tits.

I'd say more like cyclamate-tits. 29 and over may remember that stuff. Banned due to a bladder cancer risk, IIRC (although to be fair, if you gave the rats as much sugar as they were given cyclamate, they would have dropped dead on the spot).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2023 08:28 AM (bW8dp)

114 *Exactly. You can't just go around killing people because they're inconvenient.*

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#MeToo

Posted by: chinese sparrows at May 02, 2023 08:28 AM (Vwz3I)

115 Two of the more common 9/11 conspiracy theories are "Made It Happen On Purpose" and "Let It Happen On Purpose." The first one is still very dubious because of the logistics involved.

The second theory, however, is starting to become more plausible....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel


It's not our fault! We didn't think they were ready. That hadn't learned how to land the planes yet!
Reeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
Posted by: The Intelligence Community

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 08:28 AM (fjzHX)

116 Mornin’, All.

Sorry to hear about Gordon Lightfoot. He was a great one.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2023 08:28 AM (7f/ne)

117 @101

>>The second theory, however, is starting to become more plausible.

The Trump years have ripped the veil away from a lot of people's eyes vis-a-vis the Deep State.

It's akin to those FBI agents tracking Muslim Terrorists, that they more than likely recruited to off Pam Geller.

The only reason she is not dead is because of two officers who were present at the event and prevented them from executing their attack.

As always...

Everything is an Op.
Everything is bullshit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 02, 2023 08:28 AM (up/3i)

118 101 Two of the more common 9/11 conspiracy theories are "Made It Happen On Purpose" and "Let It Happen On Purpose." The first one is still very dubious because of the logistics involved.

The second theory, however, is starting to become more plausible....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2023 08:24 AM (YIVH2)


I HATE 9/11 theories. That said, considering the CIA and FBI absolutely failed in protecting us, along with this Jamie Gorelick cvnt who prevented intel sharing across agencies and departments, then, and considering all we now know about them vis a vis Trump and J-6, I cannot just dismiss the latter "let it happen" theory out of hand. Sickening as it is to contemplate that. But the hijacking of the elections is more sickening and in your face undeniable.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:29 AM (x0n13)

119 Communists are always callous when it comes to human lives. It's all about the Holy State... individuals are no more important to them than worker ants in an ant colony.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2023 08:30 AM (bW8dp)

120 Few, if any, of these pontificators are big consumers of Bud Light. They didn't see themselves reflected in that brand--in fact they probably looked down their noses at both the brand and its consumers. Yet now they lecture loyal Bud Light drinkers to "get over it."

The condescension is palpable.
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What the professional marketers at Transhueser Busch, or Gillette, Disney or even FNC do not understand is that most of their customers don'tt need to be "sold" on using the product. Just don't screw with your customers and keep them happy. FNC has messed up just as radically as AB, and I hope they suffer the same fate. I hope all woke corporatists go broke and end up begging for work.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 08:30 AM (592NS)

121 Screenwriter Strike Could Grind Hollywood to a Halt This Week. Here’s Which Shows Could Be Hit.

I'm far more concerned with strikes that matter, e.g. American Airlines, etc.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 02, 2023 08:30 AM (ZSK0i)

122 Tucker Carlson and the Silk Purse

Trump will never again mention the 2020 election. That election was yesterday. Elections are won on tomorrow. Many people don’t believe that the election was stolen the way Trump says it was—even if a case could be made (it can) that the election was “stolen” because of the suppression by the woke media of relevant information (see, for example, Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s nefarious, and now exposed, disinformation-plot-quashing coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story—which plot has not yet been covered by the New York Times!).

This is why we lose. The election was stolen. Until/unless the issues which permitted that are addressed, nothing else matters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2023 08:30 AM (1Z8zZ)

123 Woke Left is like a gang - they want you to commit an atrocity to bind yourself to them.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 02, 2023 08:30 AM (ttS0m)

124 Youngkin is just standing aside giving wide berth to Crispy 'need to go in a different direction' Creme Christie and Asa 'I look strangely like Sam Donaldson' Hutchinson.

If we could lure these asshats away from power and give them their little game to play with worthless trinkets and give them applause for 'how cute is that' as long as it mattered not at all, sure, go for it.

But making stupid become required is right out. Out the door of a low hovering helo.

Posted by: micky at May 02, 2023 08:30 AM (3byMq)

125 Good morning from the Left coast. I am out here to visit family and play golf.

I brought my son a haul of flavored nicotine products. LOL The Newport cigarettes here do not have menthol.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 02, 2023 08:31 AM (JVCkA)

126 *Exactly. You can't just go around killing people because they're inconvenient.*

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Unless it's lunchtime.

Posted by: zombie idi amin, vc with bar at May 02, 2023 08:31 AM (Vwz3I)

127 > do not understand is that most of their customers don'tt need to be "sold" on using the product. Just don't screw with your customers and keep them happy.

Yeah, I just want products that work for a price I can afford. Work on your "causes" on your own time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2023 08:31 AM (bW8dp)

128 110 >>The Netherlands will become the second European country that will allow children as young as one-years-old to be killed under the guise of “euthanasia,” a recent announcement by the Dutch government on “Late Maternity Abort and Life Termination [of] Newborns” asserts.


Incorrect. They've had their Groningen Protocol in place since 2004, which allow doctors to let sickly newborns die (withhold care) without the consent or notice to the parents.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2023 08:27 AM (EdLEa)

Dear God.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 08:31 AM (zZu0s)

129 Snider is more likely a liberal of the old school who, like so many others, still thinks it's the 1980s or even 1960s where hippies/counter-culture good and mom/apple pie/America as founded bad.

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Those people were and are dumbshits of the first order. Any idiot could tell you that having a slice of pie with your mom is good, and getting twisted on dope with a chick who gives you hepatitis is... Not good.

But here, we gave the people too stupid to see that full command of the most powerful country in history, which they promptly and thoroughly ruined. And instead of knouting them all publicly like we should have, we instead release endless retrospectives about the Beatles and all the other dumb shit from their dumbshit youth, and Jimmy Buffett built them retirement homes where they give each other hepatitis in their dotage.

What a crazy chapter of history.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 02, 2023 08:31 AM (oINRc)

130 125 Good morning from the Left coast. I am out here to visit family and play golf.

I brought my son a haul of flavored nicotine products. LOL The Newport cigarettes here do not have menthol.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 02, 2023 08:31 AM (JVCkA)

Menthols are horrific. Never could develop a taste for them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 08:32 AM (zZu0s)

131 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2023 08:30 AM (1Z8zZ)

Easy with the boldface, sunshine.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 02, 2023 08:32 AM (ZSK0i)

132 113 I'd say more like cyclamate-tits. 29 and over may remember that stuff. Banned due to a bladder cancer risk, IIRC (although to be fair, if you gave the rats as much sugar as they were given cyclamate, they would have dropped dead on the spot).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2023 08:28 AM (bW8dp)

Considering the scientists who told us the Clot Shots were totally safe, maybe the cyclamate risk was some kind of sabotage. If someone shorted the company that invented it he made out like a bandit.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:32 AM (x0n13)

133 I asked my CEO contacts if their cost of borrowing were to decrease by some 25 basis points or more, how they would react. Would this induce them to spend more on expanding payroll or job-creating cap-ex? And the answer from 9 out of 10 was, you could cut the cost of borrowing by 1 full percentage point and we’ll use it to buy back stock.

Cheap Govt money encourages stupid people to do stupid thing and smart people to do smart things, but it does not really create new markets or ideas. It is just a transfer.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2023 08:33 AM (BRHaw)

134 Happy birthday JJ!

Posted by: blaster at May 02, 2023 08:33 AM (pwExq)

135 Let the kid figure it out for themselves

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Yeah, try that with your eight year old when he climbs up on the garage roof with a bath towel cape tied around his neck and declares he's Superman. Let us know how that goes.

There is a reason that sane people DO try to steer their children in paths of knowing right frrom wrong.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 02, 2023 08:33 AM (ykeLU)

136 Republicans and conservatives are not losing the culture wars except because so many refuse to even fight.

Most of the "leaders" offer bloodless, pro forma defenses lacking conviction then point to their inevitable failures as proof we must abandon the fight.

Opposing abortion, the trannie madness, the sexual conscription of children-- these are every bit the winning issues as ending slavery that drove the early Republicans.

But look at them, look at how far from decency they've fallen, where defending children from sexual depredation loses to the calculations of campaign contributions.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 02, 2023 08:33 AM (Xe4iI)

137 I HATE 9/11 theories. That said, considering the CIA and FBI absolutely failed in protecting us, along with this Jamie Gorelick cvnt who prevented intel sharing across agencies and departments, then, and considering all we now know about them vis a vis Trump and J-6, I cannot just dismiss the latter "let it happen" theory out of hand. Sickening as it is to contemplate that. But the hijacking of the elections is more sickening and in your face undeniable.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:29 AM (x0n13)
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I hate them too. But knowing what we now know about the Deep State and just how much they LOATHE certain people (like George W. Bush at the time), it would not surprise me if the IC discovered the plot and then chose to do...nothing.

"Sorry, Mr. President, it was too late to intervene by the time we uncovered their plan."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2023 08:33 AM (YIVH2)

138 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

139 > The Newport cigarettes here do not have menthol.

> Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 02, 2023 08:31 AM (JVCkA)

I don't get it. Isn't menthol the whole point of Newports?

> Menthols are horrific. Never could develop a taste for them.
> Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 08:32 AM (zZu0s)

My late career-Army friend always claimed he smoked them to keep other people from bumming smokes all the time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2023 08:33 AM (bW8dp)

140 Ok. I saw a story about climate activists smearing paint on a statue (a Degas) and about flipped out.

They only got paint on the case and pedestal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 08:34 AM (zZu0s)

141 "Sorry, Mr. President, it was too late to intervene by the time we uncovered their plan."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2023 08:33 AM (YIVH2)

We wuz... too late!

Posted by: The Bishop! at May 02, 2023 08:35 AM (ZSK0i)

142 I remember being so hopelessly naïve that I actually believed the national government was truly concerned about terrorism, and they would logically finally tighten up the borders. They had no choice, clearly.

See also: hordes of millions unvaccinated unvetted people with no paper trail whatsoever pouring across unsecured borders 20 years later. They've no idea who these people are, nor where they are. Sleep Well, America.

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Gordon Lightfoot hit the sauce pretty hard at some point, he looked pretty rough in later years. I saw a video of a cover band doing one of his tunes and he got up on stage with them to sing, and I got the impression they would rather he hadn't. They were polite, but it's kind of sad.

He was 70s AM Gold, back when radio was interesting, and not wall to wall commercials. Background music, in the garage, at work, poking along a gravel road in your Chevy or Ford.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 02, 2023 08:35 AM (j7VW4)

143 Is "Resting Man Face" a thing?
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Resting Butch Face??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (Vwz3I)

144 140 Ok. I saw a story about climate activists smearing paint on a statue (a Degas) and about flipped out.

They only got paint on the case and pedestal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 08:34 AM (zZu0s)


Thank goodness. That Degas statue is a treasure.

How in the hell are these fiends getting in? The security guards have got to be either ignoring it or letting them in.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (x0n13)

145 When I smoked, I loooooved menthols. But I only smoked them rarely, because you can straight-up *feel* those suckers killing you in real time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (oINRc)

146 Prayer request:

My father fell over the weekend and did a wonder on himself. 6 broken ribs, a partially collapsed lung and a fractured right arm. Some of the ribs splintered, so they're doing surgery today to insert a plate to stabilize them. He's not in the greatest of health anyway, so this is going to take a toll.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

147 My late career-Army friend always claimed he smoked them to keep other people from bumming smokes all the time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2023 08:33 AM (bW8dp)

That would work. I tried some of the camel varieties. Turkish Jade and another one I cannot remember the name of (it was in a tin and had... chocolate flavor?)

I stuck to the Camel Wides.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (zZu0s)

148 Are we all on UA Flight 93 now?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (ttS0m)

149 Sponge, prayers for your dad.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 02, 2023 08:37 AM (ttS0m)

150 Newport puts out a menthol cigarette and a regular cigarette.

Assuming the menthol version hasn't been banned yet.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 02, 2023 08:37 AM (z373n)

151 Yeah, try that with your eight year old when he climbs up on the garage roof with a bath towel cape tied around his neck and declares he's Superman. Let us know how that goes.

There is a reason that sane people DO try to steer their children in paths of knowing right frrom wrong.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 02, 2023 08:33 AM


Was that wrong? Because if somebody had told me that was wrong I would not have climbed up there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 02, 2023 08:37 AM (ncXxy)

152 Media decided that Celebrities were Important People.

Most of the artistically talented people I know have very little understanding of systems and how they work. They deal in abstractions. They try and superimpose these abstractions on complicated realities like systems and it doesn't work at all.

Posted by: pawn at May 02, 2023 08:37 AM (wsHtO)

153 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)


What an ordeal! Will pray.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2023 08:37 AM (45fpk)

154 more likely a liberal of the old school who, like so many others, still thinks it's the 1980s or even 1960s where hippies/counter-culture good and mom/apple pie/America as founded bad.

I went to a church meeting Sunday morning after the service and was pleasantly surprised at how well attended it was. The issue? Our denomination (whose population has declined by a third since the 1990s, when we let women serve in office) is holding its annual meeting in June, and it's going to be a doozy. A married lesbian was installed in a MI church, and the church is refusing denomination discipline. One of the rebels essentially stated that they are more enlightened than St. Paul, and THAT DID NOT GO OVER WELL, even though we're Protestant. The delegates from my church/region know they're going to have a fight on their hands in June and are requesting prayer.

Posted by: pookysgirl knows that "new" doesn't always mean "better" at May 02, 2023 08:37 AM (dtlDP)

155

"The Rectum of Ella Fitzgerald!"

Posted by: You can't stop yourself from singing along in your head at May 02, 2023 08:37 AM (7rfkM)

156 >>afety experts are increasingly raising concerns that the large weight of electric vehicles [EV] could pose serious risks to public safety, Axios reported Monday.

EVs can often weigh thousands of pounds greater than comparable gas-powered vehicles,


Yiiiikes, that's bad!
Add to it the wear and tear on our roads from the heavier vehicles, as well as when EVs catch fire, they burn hitter and longer, they are so much worse than normal cars.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2023 08:37 AM (EdLEa)

157 Tucker Carlson and the Silk Purse.

Why would Tucker want to be VP?

Posted by: Ziba at May 02, 2023 08:37 AM (4h9M3)

158
> Is "Resting Man Face" a thing?

https://is.gd/rkTyHP

That's a man, baby.

She looks like a "transgendered" Kennedy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2023 08:37 AM (bW8dp)

159 137 "Sorry, Mr. President, it was too late to intervene by the time we uncovered their plan."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2023 08:33 AM (YIVH2)


You have to wonder if 9/11 would have happened had Gore been president. Clinton knew who Bin Laden was and he had 3 opportunities to knock him off in the preceding 8 years.

We know he let him go when he was nabbed in Sudan IIRC. Hmm.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:38 AM (x0n13)

160 Prayers up for your father Sponge for a complete recovery.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2023 08:38 AM (qoGsy)

161 I never thought the "hearings" were anything but political theater and woul be ineffective. Not totally convinced yet, but I am impressed by both the House GOP investigation of the Biden Crime Family corruption and the Ron Johnson-led Senate investigation. Take the Junta Puppet down; he is a corrupt traitor.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 08:38 AM (2OT9V)

162 Yesterday in court Hunter Biden used as evidence of his poverty the fact that when he flew to Ireland in Air Force one he had to sleep in a cot in his fathers room.

I think he and his lawyers are simply flaunting it. They know he isn't broke. Him and his Porche EV and his half million dollar art sales.

Family courts typically are not happy at all with guys who try to hide income. If you fail to provide the info they can impute income and use that to dun you.

Posted by: blaster at May 02, 2023 08:38 AM (pwExq)

163 while Youngkin's decision makes sense, he's up to something

probably too late to mount a challenge to Kaine

he may be setting his sights on Warner who he can probably take

but Meatball is probably worried that Youngkin is looking at 2028

Youngkin is a far superior politician, smarter and has a better story than Meatball

ergo, 2024 is Ron's lane

Posted by: REDACTED at May 02, 2023 08:38 AM (us2H3)

164 How in the hell are these fiends getting in? The security guards have got to be either ignoring it or letting them in.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (x0n13)

At the tomato soup on Van Gpgh incident last year, the press was all around the brats ready to snap pictures beforehand.
Like everything else - an op.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 02, 2023 08:38 AM (ttS0m)

165 52 The KISS mainstay said parents should wait until their children are 18 before approving life-altering, irreversible surgery to “affirm” their preferred gender.
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Thus removing the argument entirely. I don't know if that was on purpose or not, but it's the effect.

Once 18, the parents no longer have any legal say in it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2023 08:11 AM (t0OGg)
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So at 18 you can't smoke, drink alcohol or, in some states, buy a firearm BUT you can decidentonhave your dick'n nuts chopped off! Really.

Posted by: Ciampino --- I'm really going to have a lot of cats at May 02, 2023 08:39 AM (qfLjt)

166 Wow Sponge. Praying for your old man

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 02, 2023 08:39 AM (oINRc)

167 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 02, 2023 08:26 AM (ttS0m)

I saw a YT of a woman testifying that she was being assaulted by demonic forces in her early 20s because she had celebrated and been obsessed with pedowood movies in her teens about witchcraft. Posters on her walls and everything. She blamed herself. Satan always wants an avenue in.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 08:39 AM (eh4B6)

168 161 I never thought the "hearings" were anything but political theater and woul be ineffective. Not totally convinced yet, but I am impressed by both the House GOP investigation of the Biden Crime Family corruption and the Ron Johnson-led Senate investigation. Take the Junta Puppet down; he is a corrupt traitor.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 08:38 AM (2OT9V)

So there will be consequences, right? Right?

Posted by: blaster at May 02, 2023 08:39 AM (pwExq)

169 Oh dear, Sponge, that's terrible!
Sending prayers for your dad's speedy and uneventful recovery.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2023 08:39 AM (EdLEa)

170 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

Of course, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 08:39 AM (zZu0s)

171 Why would Tucker want to be VP?

Posted by: Ziba at May 02, 2023 08:37 AM (4h9M3)
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He doesn't; the author is just using it as a literary device for giving "free advice" to Trump on how not to lose again.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 08:39 AM (2OT9V)

172 menthols - I did used to smoke them for a bit - the Virginia Slim menthol so, very ladylike lol

anyway women probably smoke menthols more than men do. for the smell and taste, and so you don't smell too "smoky."

basically the govt is (again!) saying that women and minorities are children or something! it makes me livid.

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2023 08:40 AM (w0NJk)

173 Sponge, sorry to hear that. Will include him in the evening prayer list.

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2023 08:40 AM (PCK5/)

174 156

Parking garages will need to be renovated to accommodate EV's, or make them park on level one only and when it's full, it's full.

Posted by: Ziba at May 02, 2023 08:40 AM (4h9M3)

175 Prayer request:

My father fell over the weekend and did a wonder on himself. 6 broken ribs, a partially collapsed lung and a fractured right arm. Some of the ribs splintered, so they're doing surgery today to insert a plate to stabilize them. He's not in the greatest of health anyway, so this is going to take a toll.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

Prayers up for Papa First.

Hope you and Mrs. First had a nice weekend away(ish).

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2023 08:40 AM (0dJLW)

176 Winston tastes good.

Posted by: Like a cigarette should at May 02, 2023 08:40 AM (DhOHl)

177 Sorry about your dad, Sponge. Good thoughts coming your way.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2023 08:41 AM (bW8dp)

178 probably too late to mount a challenge to Kaine


challenge for Senate?

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2023 08:41 AM (w0NJk)

179 I suspect that since Hunter is poormouthing, the fix is in. Nobody believes he's anything but filthy stinking rich. Dad almost certainly sewed up the judge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 02, 2023 08:41 AM (oINRc)

180 >>Parking garages will need to be renovated to accommodate EV's, or make them park on level one only and when it's full, it's full.


Oh, good point!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2023 08:41 AM (EdLEa)

181 Sponge your poor Dad! hope he recovers quickly and fully

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2023 08:41 AM (w0NJk)

182 Parking garages will need to be renovated to accommodate EV's, or make them park on level one only and when it's full, it's full.
Posted by: Ziba at May 02, 2023 08:40 AM (4h9M3)

Charging stations on upper levels. But a weight detector on the lower level which prevents them from ascending above level 1. Hilarity ensues!

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2023 08:42 AM (0dJLW)

183 She said once she found and accepted Jesus they left her alone. The last time she had woke up feeling choked in sleep paralysis and as loud as she could which wasn't loud, she called out Jesus's name and that was it. It never happened again.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 08:42 AM (W4z6N)

184 148 Are we all on UA Flight 93 now?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (ttS0m)


If we're all on Flight 93, then who and what is on the ground that we're protecting?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:42 AM (x0n13)

185 Prayers for your dad, Sponge.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2023 08:42 AM (7f/ne)

186 Sponge, may I ask how old is your father?

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2023 08:42 AM (PCK5/)

187 All I know is I just saw the ultrasound of our 2nd grandchild, due in November. It was taken at 8 weeks gestation, and there is no doubt whatsoever that that little "bean" is firmly attached to his mother's womb. That small tether is quite literally the lifeline between mother and child.

We need to put a very simple question to all of these women who are screaming "Abortions for all!" and "Pro Choice!" - just what "choice" is it that they are "for"?

Do they understand - really, truly UNDERSTAND - that the "right" which they are clamoring for is in essence the "right" of a mother to pull the plug on her own child?

We have to put it in those very stark terms so that women understand the reality of what they think it is that they want. And we absolutely cannot back down. If they want that "right", then they must be made to own it in all of its gory glory. They can have their precious "right", but they must acknowledge that it is wholly their CHOICE to pull the plug on that tiny little human who is completely dependent on them for its existence.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at May 02, 2023 08:42 AM (SRRAx)

188 Sponge Horde prayers up.

Posted by: blaster at May 02, 2023 08:43 AM (pwExq)

189 176 Winston tastes good.
Posted by: Like a cigarette should at May 02, 2023 08:40 AM (DhOHl)


Winston tastes bad
Like the one I just had
No filter, no flavor
They taste like toilet paper

Ah, second grade. The pinnacle of the modern bardic/saga oral tradition.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2023 08:43 AM (bW8dp)

190 94 Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 02, 2023 08:21 AM (up/3i)

If running an IC op to attack buildings was so easy we would have used it more.

His stupid mugging and emotive facials have never done it for me and going all Moose change in a snit does less.

Posted by: sven at May 02, 2023 08:43 AM (X0I7i)

191 You have to wonder if 9/11 would have happened had Gore been president. Clinton knew who Bin Laden was and he had 3 opportunities to knock him off in the preceding 8 years.

We know he let him go when he was nabbed in Sudan IIRC. Hmm.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:38 AM (x0n13)

*looks away and whistles a happy tune*

Posted by: Jamie Gorelick at May 02, 2023 08:43 AM (0dJLW)

192 Jimmy Buffett built them retirement homes where they give each other hepatitis in their dotage.
What a crazy chapter of history.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 02, 2023 08:31 AM (oINRc)

Concur. Can't stand Buffett. He sells the myth that old, fat, bald and drunk is the way to end up life on a beach in some 3rd world shit hole. He needs to go away already, far away.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 02, 2023 08:43 AM (MZjWj)

193 menthols - I did used to smoke them for a bit - the Virginia Slim menthol so, very ladylike lol


Did you use one of those extended cigarette holders?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 02, 2023 08:43 AM (z373n)

194 Good morning Horde and thx JJ. AOC saying she's not planning on running indicates that she is planning a primary challenge to Gillibrand. I live in Ulster county and it's become one of the mire leftist areas of upstate. Gillibrand even though she's from outside Albany has been captured by the left but she's a complete non-entity as a senator. AOC would run to her left and beat her in NYC, my county, Westchester and Rockland, Albany , Rochester Syracuse and Buffalo. The lure of power is strong in AOC

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 02, 2023 08:44 AM (eFaiq)

195 I sense a MFM theme upcoming...

Four people fatally shot inside an RV in a small Mojave Desert community in America's 19th mass killing of 2023.

[BTW, it happened on the weekend so no one cared about this local crime until someone thought to put the 'mass killing' spin on it -- note, not 'mass shooting', implying some of the mass killings were accomplished with other tools. Either that or it didn't officially become 'mass' because 'only' three died on the weekend and the magic-number four didn't happen until today?]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:44 AM (Vwz3I)

196 Yesterday in court Hunter Biden used as evidence of his poverty the fact that when he flew to Ireland in Air Force one he had to sleep in a cot in his fathers room.

I think he and his lawyers are simply flaunting it.
===================
His lawyer is Abbe Lowell. Probably charges $1500 an hour. Hell, his associates probably bill out at 750 bucks an hour. The Arkansas hearing probably cost Hunter $100K, including travel, preperation and local counsel.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 08:44 AM (2OT9V)

197 When I was in the Nav, I would use my cot to snort long rails of cocaine off of. Good times.

Posted by: Hunter Bi den at May 02, 2023 08:44 AM (HCqyx)

198 Tucker isn't a pol

more of an evangelist

Posted by: REDACTED at May 02, 2023 08:44 AM (us2H3)

199 A silly millimeter longer.

Posted by: 101s at May 02, 2023 08:44 AM (DhOHl)

200 Sending prayers for your dad, Sponge.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2023 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

201 Did you use one of those extended cigarette holders?


honestly I did sometimes! I don't have that but I have my pretty cigarette case still

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2023 08:44 AM (w0NJk)

202 Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 08:39 AM (eh4B6)

One thing in the book - exorcism is not a magic bullet.
It weakens the evil spirit, but the person under attack needs to work sincerely on spiritual growth to kick them out.
The author, being a dr, sees it akin to being medicine that weakens a disease so the patient can fight it off.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 02, 2023 08:45 AM (ttS0m)

203 Ciampino's Rescue kitties - LIVE STREAMING!!
https://www.twitch.tv/kittenwatch

BISCUITS HAS FINALLY GIVEN BIRTH.
SIX KITTENS.

There's another photo update at link below.
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Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
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Posted by: Ciampino - I'm really going to have a plethora of cats at May 02, 2023 08:45 AM (qfLjt)

204 Resting Butch Face??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (Vwz3I)

👍🏻

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 08:45 AM (n2Bhz)

205 > Four people fatally shot inside an RV in a small Mojave Desert community in America's 19th mass killing of 2023.

Was one of them a cancer-ridden high school chemistry teacher, or was this more illlegal-on-illegal action?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2023 08:45 AM (bW8dp)

206 Prayer request:

My father fell over the weekend and did a wonder on himself. 6 broken ribs, a partially collapsed lung and a fractured right arm. Some of the ribs splintered, so they're doing surgery today to insert a plate to stabilize them. He's not in the greatest of health anyway, so this is going to take a toll.
Posted by: Sponge


Prayers up. So sorry.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 08:45 AM (fjzHX)

207 Don't know how true it is, I read the Menthol flavoring isn't in the tobacco itself, it is applied to the paper. There are tinctures or extracts available.

I've seen those tailor-made "tubes" w/filters for people rolling their own, maybe those are sold in Menthol?

Posted by: Common Tater at May 02, 2023 08:46 AM (j7VW4)

208 > Resting Butch Face??
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (Vwz3I)

Excellent.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2023 08:46 AM (bW8dp)

209 Prayers up for you, Sponge.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2023 08:46 AM (t0OGg)

210 honestly I did sometimes! I don't have that but I have my pretty cigarette case still

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2023 08:44 AM (w0NJk)


Very posh!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 02, 2023 08:46 AM (z373n)

211 @174

>>Parking garages will need to be renovated to accommodate EV's, or make them park on level one only and when it's full, it's full.

An EV is roughly 1000 lbs on average heavier than it's Ice counter part.

So for every 10 ICE vehicles displaced by EV, you would be adding 2.5 tons of additional weight to support.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 02, 2023 08:46 AM (up/3i)

212
Her Majesty, Delilah and Diana are going to be returning from their latest sojourn Wednesday afternoon. Going grocery shopping today, then sweep and wash down the kennel. Making a pot of soup, washing the bedsheets and tidying the house tomorrow.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 02, 2023 08:47 AM (MoZTd)

213 It weakens the evil spirit, but the person under attack needs to work sincerely on spiritual growth to kick them out.


I read an interesting book once that equated one's soul to a glove with many fingers. you want good things/God/positivity filling up all those little pockets, or a demonic force can sneak in and slowly take over more and more "fingers."

and getting them out is not easy

was a very interesting book

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2023 08:47 AM (w0NJk)

214 His lawyer is Abbe Lowell. Probably charges $1500 an hour. Hell, his associates probably bill out at 750 bucks an hour. The Arkansas hearing probably cost Hunter $100K, including travel, preperation and local counsel.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 08:44 AM (2OT9V)


maybe pro boner

Posted by: REDACTED at May 02, 2023 08:47 AM (us2H3)

215 Joe Biden is the Mexican Cartels best friend.
Ever.
They are making more money now with human trafficking and drug smuggling than ever in their history.
At least Joe Biden will be remembered for something substantial. Like a lot of dead people.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at May 02, 2023 08:47 AM (i+mOk)

216 191 Posted by: Jamie Gorelick at May 02, 2023 08:43 AM (0dJLW)

Quite Jamie, we know what the conspiracy was and it did not involve controlled demolition and commando teams disguised as janitors moving tons of "nano-thermite."

Posted by: sven at May 02, 2023 08:47 AM (X0I7i)

217 > I've seen those tailor-made "tubes" w/filters for people rolling their own, maybe those are sold in Menthol?

Posted by: Common Tater at May 02, 2023 08:46 AM (j7VW4)

Possibly, though I don't recall seeing them.

The RYO tobacco brand I use comes in menthol flavor, so it's definitely in the tobacco there.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2023 08:47 AM (bW8dp)

218
Prayers up for Papa First.

Hope you and Mrs. First had a nice weekend away(ish).
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2023 08:40 AM (0dJLW)


It was wonderful. That bison ribeye is still orgasmic......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

219 Parking garages are getting renovated through "benign neglect" in NYC.

Posted by: sven at May 02, 2023 08:48 AM (X0I7i)

220 > His lawyer is Abbe Lowell.

$20, just like downtown.

Posted by: Downtown Abbe at May 02, 2023 08:48 AM (bW8dp)

221 Prayer request:

My father fell over the weekend and did a wonder on himself. 6 broken ribs, a partially collapsed lung and a fractured right arm. Some of the ribs splintered, so they're doing surgery today to insert a plate to stabilize them. He's not in the greatest of health anyway, so this is going to take a toll.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)
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Prayers up for Papa First.

Hope you and Mrs. First had a nice weekend away(ish).
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2023 08:40 AM (0dJLW)
================
Oh my! I second that, Sponge. God bless your Dad, and I hope he gets out of that terrible hispital place asap.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 08:48 AM (2OT9V)

222 My late career-Army friend always claimed he smoked them to keep other people from bumming smokes all the time.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 02, 2023 08:33 AM (bW8dp)
++++
I'm in the opposite camp. When I smoked, I loved menthols, especially the dark green Marlboro menthols and the dark green American Spirit menthols. The Spirits were extremely good (though I didn't much care for their regular cigarettes).

I didn't smoke menthols often, but they were a real treat when I did. They just always struck me as being *way* worse for my health than regular smokes. I dunno if that's true or not, but it sure felt that way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2023 08:48 AM (t0OGg)

223 Instead, they use “labor-based grading,” an idea promoted by Arizona State University professor Asao Inoue.
Labor-based grading means basing grades more on effort than the quality of work.

Marxism 101: Assumes all labor has the same value and deserves the same rewards.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2023 08:48 AM (BRHaw)

224 so some yutes stole a couple of cars and decided to play smash-em-up in downtown West Chester PA overnight

people are not happy

yay crime has officially arrived at the far end of the Main Line!

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2023 08:48 AM (w0NJk)

225 It was wonderful. That bison ribeye is still orgasmic......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

He got it in your eye??

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2023 08:48 AM (0dJLW)

226 Sponge, may I ask how old is your father?
Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2023 08:42 AM (PCK5/)


He's 77.

He just lost his mother last week who was a few months shy of 99, so he's had a rough one lately.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

227 Yeah, try that with your eight year old when he climbs up on the garage roof with a bath towel cape tied around his neck and declares he's Superman. Let us know how that goes.
--------
Boy, did I learn that lesson the hard way! Although to be fair, I was detoxing at the time.

Oh. And I'm a dickhead.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462220/

Posted by: gregory house m.d at May 02, 2023 08:49 AM (Vwz3I)

228 192 Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 02, 2023 08:43 AM (MZjWj)

Jimmy Buffet aptly named./

Posted by: sven at May 02, 2023 08:49 AM (X0I7i)

229
He got it in your eye??
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2023 08:48 AM (0dJLW)


I blinked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

230 > His lawyer is Abbe Lowell. Probably charges $1500 an hour. Hell, his associates probably bill out at 750 bucks an hour. The Arkansas hearing probably cost Hunter $100K, including travel, preperation and local counsel.
_________________

I doubt Hunter's paying anything. Unnamed donors are. But you're right about his high priced representation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2023 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)

231 Don't know how true it is, I read the Menthol flavoring isn't in the tobacco itself, it is applied to the paper. There are tinctures or extracts available.


Camel makes (made?) one with a tiny bead of menthol in the filter that you could burst by pinching it.

Thus, a normal cigarette when you felt like it, a menthol when you preferred it.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 02, 2023 08:49 AM (z373n)

232 maybe pro boner
Posted by: REDACTED at May 02, 2023 08:47 AM (us2H3)
================
That feels like it wouldn't stand up to a FEC violation complaint, doesn't it? Obviously I don't know, but I bet somebody is paying him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 08:50 AM (2OT9V)

233 Instead, they use “labor-based grading,” an idea promoted by Arizona State University professor Asao Inoue.
Labor-based grading means basing grades more on effort than the quality of work.

Marxism 101: Assumes all labor has the same value and deserves the same rewards.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2023 08:48 AM (BRHaw)

Hey Lama! How 'bout a little something - for the EFFORT?!?

Posted by: Carl Spackler at May 02, 2023 08:50 AM (0dJLW)

234 prayers sent, and I am out....

I'd rather cut horse trailer mats than cope with "Just asking questions!?!" pap from celebrities.

Posted by: sven at May 02, 2023 08:50 AM (X0I7i)

235 178 probably too late to mount a challenge to Kaine


challenge for Senate?
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2023 08:41 AM (w0NJk)

if he's able

Posted by: REDACTED at May 02, 2023 08:50 AM (us2H3)

236 You see honey, when two bison really love each other...

Posted by: Mommy Bison at May 02, 2023 08:51 AM (DhOHl)

237 Sponge , prayers to your dad and your family . Good luck and God bless

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 02, 2023 08:51 AM (eFaiq)

238 My friend texted me "if a 'retroactive-abortion' policy were allowed, and these procedures were performed on policymakers and/or influencers, who would be on your list?" The list will take a ream of paper to print.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat sluts & Country Club GOP cowards at May 02, 2023 08:51 AM (5uy7A)

239 So for every 10 ICE vehicles displaced by EV, you would be adding 2.5 tons of additional weight to support.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 02, 2023 08:46 AM (up/3i)

But the plan isn't a 1 for 1 replacement of ICE vehicles. Why does everyone need private cars? Transportation to the work camps will be provided.

Posted by: blaster at May 02, 2023 08:51 AM (pwExq)

240 Was one of them a cancer-ridden high school chemistry teacher, or was this more illlegal-on-illegal action?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia


ISWYDT

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 08:51 AM (fjzHX)

241 "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me."

John 17:21-22

Posted by: Marcus T at May 02, 2023 08:51 AM (x7plP)

242 Camel makes (made?) one with a tiny bead of menthol in the filter that you could burst by pinching it.

Thus, a normal cigarette when you felt like it, a menthol when you preferred it.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 02, 2023 08:49 AM (z373n)
++++
I remember those. They worked, and it was a neat and effective gimmick. They had other flavors, too, IIRC.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2023 08:52 AM (t0OGg)

243 probably too late to mount a challenge to Kaine


challenge for Senate?
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2023 08:41 AM (w0NJk)

if he's able
Posted by: REDACTED at May 02, 2023 08:50 AM (us2H3)

Golf clap

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2023 08:52 AM (0dJLW)

244 @190

>>If running an IC op to attack buildings was so easy we would have used it more.

WTC7 was not felled by controlled demolition, there are very precise and explainable reasons for why it fell, the larger question that Tucker is getting at is that there are certain lines of questioning and trains of thought are considered off limits.

Like that list of Saudi Nationals that was whisked out of the country post-9/11.

To paraphrase the Muppet Trey Gowdy, If you're not guilty, act like it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 02, 2023 08:52 AM (up/3i)

245 "The Alamoan"

Mayor Eric Adams plays race card, accuses Abbott of hurting ‘Black-run cities’ with migrant buses

https://tinyurl.com/3h5fv2hc

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2023 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

246 You all are the beautiful people. I thank you very much.

I am humbled.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

247 Yeah, try that with your eight year old when he climbs up on the garage roof with a bath towel cape tied around his neck and declares he's Superman. Let us know how that goes.


Didn't make it to the garage roof. Did make it to the top of the picnic table.

With an already broke leg. Talk about dropping like a rock.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 08:54 AM (fjzHX)

248 You all are the beautiful people....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

Man, that bison really did do a number on your eyes

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2023 08:54 AM (0dJLW)

249 SNL is long past actual relevence. Nor has it been funny in years. As the article speculates late-night TV will suffer the most, could the writers strike finally end the show?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 08:54 AM (2OT9V)

250 euthanasia ?

euthaneurope

Posted by: SMOD at May 02, 2023 08:54 AM (eEude)

251 There is a documentary called something along the lines of Come Out in the Name of Jesus that chronicles Pastor Greg Locke's ministry which involves casting out demons.

I think I'll go see it this afternoon.

I wanna go see Nefarious as well. Anybody see it yet?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 02, 2023 08:54 AM (z373n)

252
Man, that bison really did do a number on your eyes

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2023 08:54 AM (0dJLW)


The colors.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

253 Trump is not going to get the Pro-life votes. Not that voting matters anymore.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 02, 2023 08:55 AM (JVCkA)

254 "The Alamoan"

Mayor Eric Adams plays race card, accuses Abbott of hurting ‘Black-run cities’ with migrant buses

https://tinyurl.com/3h5fv2hc
Posted by: redridinghood


Biden is hurting Mexican American run cities with illegal immigrants.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 08:55 AM (fjzHX)

255 Note the "logic" of the Left. Or should I just call it their "premise":

While the kid is in your womb, it belongs to you. It is yours. You own it and can dispose of it without consequence.

Once it is born, you relinquish ownership and it belongs to the State.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 08:55 AM (wcDfX)

256 187
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at May 02, 2023 08:42 AM (SRRAx)
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"right", but they must acknowledge that it is wholly their CHOICE TO KILL, TO MURDER, to pull the plug on that tiny little human who is completely dependent on them for its existence.

Posted by: Ciampino -- I'm really going to have a plethora of cats at May 02, 2023 08:55 AM (qfLjt)

257
Gordon Lightfoot was a trip to the northwoods and a campfire.

40 years ago he was a source of calm after a stressful day without hitting the bottle.

RIP

Posted by: Auspex at May 02, 2023 08:55 AM (j4U/Z)

258 How in the hell are these fiends getting in? The security guards have got to be either ignoring it or letting them in.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 08:36 AM (x0n13)

Now do the St George riots!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2023 08:55 AM (BRHaw)

259 Far-left Vice is preparing to file for bankruptcy.

The company was once valued at $5.7 billion is struggling to find a buyer, the New York Times said.

Posted by: SMOD at May 02, 2023 08:56 AM (eEude)

260 Sponge, prayers for your dad.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

Seconded ! (except for the stabby part,,,

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2023 08:56 AM (T4tVD)

261 You own it and can dispose of it without consequence.


Just like slavery.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2023 08:56 AM (45fpk)

262 Youngkin is a better governor than I thought he would be, and a shrewder pol than I expected.

He said he is going to focus on winning the VA Senate which would allow his policies to be enacted.

I am sure he is ambitious but I think he thinks VA is where he belongs. The question is what other statewide Republican is a potential candidate. Maybe Winsome Sears (Lt Gov) or AG Jason Miyares. But there really isn't a deep bench.

Posted by: blaster at May 02, 2023 08:56 AM (pwExq)

263 If abortion is such a good thing why doesn't Crooked Joe award some birthing person a Presidential Medal of Freedom because she obtained an abortion despite evil Republicans?

Posted by: torabora at May 02, 2023 08:57 AM (HCqyx)

264 @259

>>The company was once valued at $5.7 billion is struggling to find a buyer, the New York Times said.

Someone will buy it for a buck simply for the name.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 02, 2023 08:57 AM (up/3i)

265 One thing that freaked me out about the Trump administration was that the mistress of disaster Jaime Gorelick was being consulted. Apparently she is a BFF of Ivanka and she was providing advice. Bad juju

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 02, 2023 08:57 AM (eFaiq)

266 Was that wrong? Because if somebody had told me that was wrong I would not have climbed up there.
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Teen has serious injuries after striking his head while trying to climb on top of a moving train at [Toronto's] Warden Station.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 08:57 AM (Vwz3I)

267 Yellen claims the Feds run out of money on June 1 but Biden can't find time to meet with McCarthy until May 9.

Yeah, that circle ain't squaring.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 08:58 AM (2OT9V)

268 Just like slavery.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2023 08:56 AM (45fpk)

You mean History's Greatest Atrocity which we must live and relive every minute of every day?

Yes it would seem it bears more than a passing resemblance.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 08:58 AM (wcDfX)

269 The race card is the main play of Cultural Marxists, don't expect anything less.

Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2023 08:58 AM (BNQ3n)

270 They can have their precious "right", but they must acknowledge that it is wholly their CHOICE to pull the plug on that tiny little human who is completely dependent on them for its existence.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at May 02, 2023 08:42 AM (SRRAx)

The GOPe will never allow that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 02, 2023 08:58 AM (Angsy)

271 NYC man wanted for 'hate crime' of defecating on Pride flag
The man allegedly defecated on one pride flag, drew a smiley face in his discharge, and then used the restaurant's second pride flag to wipe himself.

https://tinyurl.com/ada8r9zy

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2023 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

272 @264 I read that some group had offered $400m. Less than 10% of the highest value. Anyone surprised?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 02, 2023 08:59 AM (eFaiq)

273 I love Marlboro Menthol 72s. A four-minute smoke.

I buy a pack about once every 3 or weeks. It takes me at least 2 days to get through it.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 02, 2023 08:59 AM (JVCkA)

274 But at least abortion doesn't target black people.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:00 AM (1DwaP)

275 271 NYC man wanted for 'hate crime' of defecating on Pride flag
The man allegedly defecated on one pride flag, drew a smiley face in his discharge, and then used the restaurant's second pride flag to wipe himself.

https://tinyurl.com/ada8r9zy
Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2023 08:59 AM (NpAcC)


This man. He fights!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 09:00 AM (x0n13)

276 Can't stand Buffett. He sells the myth that old, fat, bald and drunk is the way to end up life on a beach in some 3rd world shit hole.

Fuck, that screws me over.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 02, 2023 09:00 AM (AW0uW)

277 267 Yellen claims the Feds run out of money on June 1 but Biden can't find time to meet with McCarthy until May 9.

Yeah, that circle ain't squaring.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 08:58 AM (2OT9V)

It does. They are going to fudge some books (already done that) or just redefine what the debt ceiling is and keep on spending. No need for the kabuki park shut downs.

Laws. Hah!

Posted by: blaster at May 02, 2023 09:00 AM (pwExq)

278 Youngkin is a better governor than I thought he would be, and a shrewder pol than I expected.
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Carlyle is the Deep State embodied, and he was president of Carlyle. I'm not surprised he's a good politico.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 09:00 AM (2OT9V)

279 Keep slavery safe, legal, and rare.

Posted by: Change My Mind at May 02, 2023 09:01 AM (DhOHl)

280 This man. He fights!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 09:00 AM (x0n13)
*****
Lol.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2023 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

281 @272

>>I read that some group had offered $400m. Less than 10% of the highest value. Anyone surprised?

I'm not quite sure why anyone would offer anything for it, it has no assets, has no tangible product and has nothing of value.

I guess a fool and their money will part.

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

282 Carlyle is the Deep State embodied, and he was president of Carlyle. I'm not surprised he's a good politico.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 09:00 AM (2OT9V)

I expected him to be King Cuck, he of the Deep State.

But not how it worked out.

Posted by: blaster at May 02, 2023 09:02 AM (pwExq)

283 There's a weird market for what are called "machine rolled" cigarillos. Most are flavored or infused. Cherry, vanilla, run, etc. You typically find them at vaping/cigar/tobacco stores and, of course, gas stations.

The demographic that buys them is not surprising. The popularity is.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2023 09:02 AM (Q4IgG)

284 This man. He fights farts!
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Fixed.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 09:03 AM (Vwz3I)

285 He doesn't; the author is just using it as a literary device for giving "free advice" to Trump on how not to lose again.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

This is the problem. Serious people can try to gloss over that whole cheating thing, but everyone knows. Using the denial of massive vectors of cheat as a starting point to advise Trump on the moving on thing only adds to the calamity. This is Christie, Hutchinson, et al hell Billy Barr and the longer list telling us to accept that because it was allowed (the coup) that we have to accept that the fraud never happened. It did.

Also why Trump is my guy, dick stepping and all. It's all a lie so make new orgs and donate, work on getting better candidates, blah, blah rings hollow. Oh, we're going to make elections super duper legit, you can count on us is piling lies upon lies.

Statistical anomalies exist and no one has attempted to explain them away. Biden's junta is illegitimate.

Posted by: micky at May 02, 2023 09:03 AM (3byMq)

286 Been looking for a novel, fiction, that has the story of the next civil war in America, left versus right, neighbors against neighbors.

And was written since Jan 6 2020.

Can't find anything. Anyone?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 02, 2023 09:04 AM (KiBMU)

287 This man. He fights farts shites!
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Fixed.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 09:03 AM (Vwz3I)

....

Fixed the fixed.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 02, 2023 09:04 AM (z373n)

288 176 Winston tastes good.
Posted by: Like a cigarette should at May 02, 2023 08:40 AM (DhOHl)

I was about to do the jingle- which was way before my time. There was foot stomping involved.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 09:04 AM (zZu0s)

289 283 There's a weird market for what are called "machine rolled" cigarillos. Most are flavored or infused. Cherry, vanilla, run, etc. You typically find them at vaping/cigar/tobacco stores and, of course, gas stations.

The demographic that buys them is not surprising. The popularity is.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2023 09:02 AM (Q4IgG)


Wasn't St. Mike "Hands Up Don't Shoot" Brown boosting Swisher Sweets after he punched out Apu at the 7/11?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 09:05 AM (x0n13)

290 Sponge a prayer for your dad's complete and speedy healing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 02, 2023 09:05 AM (EZebt)

291 Historic Vids @historyinmemes
A policeman issues a ticket to a woman for wearing a bikini, 1957

https://tinyurl.com/ye276jwk
[Still photograph.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 09:05 AM (Vwz3I)

292 Historic Vids @historyinmemes
A policeman issues a ticket to a woman for wearing a bikini, 1957
Posted by: andycanuck

Mom?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2023 09:06 AM (qoGsy)

293 Lawrenceville isn't the only school facing suicide. Exter had one this past term too. Our local public school had one. A friend who teaches at L'Ville says covid smacked them but good; kids are socially isolated and down in the mouth. All the BLM stuff hit them too, in the sense many kids are walking around convinced they are racists and are unsure how to overcome it. What a mess schools are in.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 09:06 AM (+NW8W)

294 Is the so-called Biden Administration even *acting* legitimate or do they seem more like thieves scampering under cover of darkness?

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:06 AM (N3BTF)

295 Now Progressives are Sneering at Economics

When they say things like "in the future you'll own nothing and you'll be happy" they're not screwing around. They intend the masses to own nothing. And they've convinced themselves the masses will be happy. Why would the powers that be not think such ? At least a third of the masses slated for future ownership of nothing also insist they'll be happy.

I remain convinced that we are caught at a unique moment in time, flanked by many problems all combining into this specific point. One of those problems, I still believe, is being caught in the death-throws of the two diametrically opposed paradigms held by the Baby Boomers. On one side, the leftist hippy driven Communist curious idea of communal living and minimal commerce that erupted in the sixties. And on the other - the equally farcical notion of happiness through complete Capitalist consumerism that sprang up in the eighties.

Those competing ideas, with apparently very little allowed in the the middle, will be with us long after the originators are gone.

Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at May 02, 2023 09:07 AM (eBD6b)

296 There's a weird market for what are called "machine rolled" cigarillos. Most are flavored or infused. Cherry, vanilla, run, etc. You typically find them at vaping/cigar/tobacco stores and, of course, gas stations.

The demographic that buys them is not surprising. The popularity is.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


They use tweezers to pull out the tobacco and replace it with ganja.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 09:07 AM (fjzHX)

297 Impossible! Oz banned all handguns!!

Tennis star Nick Kyrgios helps police catch a man who allegedly stole his Tesla at gunpoint in Sydney.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 09:07 AM (Vwz3I)

298 This man. He fights!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 09:00 AM (x0n13)
*****
Lol.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2023 09:01 AM (NpAcC)


Bud Light should put HIM on a can.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

299 Mr Gaga - you might like something by Kurt Schlichter

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 02, 2023 09:08 AM (S6gqv)

300 255 Note the "logic" of the Left. Or should I just call it their "premise":

While the kid is in your womb, it belongs to you. It is yours. You own it and can dispose of it without consequence.

Once it is born, you relinquish ownership and it belongs to the State.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 08:55 AM (wcDfX)

&&&**&&&

IMO, this is the best post so far in the thread. Succinct, Real, killer Accurate. Props. Stolen to diary.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat sluts & Country Club GOP cowards at May 02, 2023 09:08 AM (5uy7A)

301 > Wasn't St. Mike "Hands Up Don't Shoot" Brown boosting Swisher Sweets after he punched out Apu at the 7/11?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2023 09:05 AM (x0n13)
__________

I think so.

It's common among the aforementioned demographic to buy cartons of these smokes and resell them in areas where they're hard to find. Or use them to barter for other stuff.

I used to see it going down in the more urban areas that I no longer frequent.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2023 09:08 AM (Q4IgG)

302 Historic Vids @historyinmemes
A policeman issues a ticket to a woman for wearing a bikini, 1957

https://tinyurl.com/ye276jwk
[Still photograph.]
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 09:05 AM (Vwz3I)


VavaVOOM.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

303 And they've convinced themselves the masses will be happy
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No, that's just the lie to get it done because "you'll own nothing and be in mass graves" tends to stir up a populace. They don't want happiness they want compliance.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:09 AM (N3BTF)

304 So rainbow flag burning isn't free speech protected by the first amendment?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 02, 2023 09:10 AM (DhOHl)

305 • 49 percent said they felt "little interest or pleasure in doing things"

• 47 percent said they experienced "loneliness"

• 46 percent reported "feeling afraid as if something awful might happen"

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

Young (D)s think that their progressive ways and ideas will bring them hope and happiness. My guess is even if they get into a position of power or wealth they will still be bitter, resentful, lonely souls.
Living your life with the idea that your MUST TAKE from others to have pleasure, or worth, or a sense of belonging seems to be a long road to a miserable life.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2023 09:10 AM (BRHaw)

306 Biden offers $500K grant for English teachers in Pakistan that focus on transgender youth

https://tinyurl.com/ezfd54n4

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2023 09:10 AM (NpAcC)

307 I wrote about the guy who shit on the flag the other night. He is now being sought for a hate crime. Against who? The flag?
If it's a political statement to burn the American flag, isn't it a political statement to shit on and wipe your ass with LGBTmouse flags.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 02, 2023 09:10 AM (eFaiq)

308 They use tweezers to pull out the tobacco and replace it with ganja.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 09:07 AM (fjzHX)

Not always- although that may be how it starts. There was a guy I worked with who would tap out all of the tobacco. Remove the cardboard tube inside the cigar, then carefully repack the tobacco and then smoke the result (minus the cardboard.) It was a laborious process and I asked him why. He said he liked the taste better. I did not ask if he picked up the habit from more herbaceous pursuits.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 09:10 AM (zZu0s)

309 304 So rainbow flag burning isn't free speech protected by the first amendment?
Posted by: Just Wondering at May 02, 2023 09:10 AM (DhOHl)

and whatever you do do not shit on one!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2023 09:10 AM (BRHaw)

310 Tennis star Nick Kyrgios helps police catch a man who allegedly stole his Tesla at gunpoint in Sydney.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 09:07 AM (Vwz3I)
=====================
I wouldn't mess with Kyrgios; he's a big dude and has a bit of anger management problem

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 09:10 AM (+NW8W)

311 > They use tweezers to pull out the tobacco and replace it with ganja.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 09:07 AM (fjzHX)
____________

I shouldn't know this, but there are certain brands that are "better suited" for that than others. It's a tedious thing to do when you could, for less money, roll your own.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2023 09:10 AM (Q4IgG)

312 A policeman issues a ticket to a woman for wearing a bikini, 1957


He just wanted to get her phone number....

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2023 09:11 AM (T4tVD)

313 Ciggie ads.

Chesterfield featured 'not a cough in a carload'
Tareyton (sp) rather fight than switch featuring business collared shirt guy with lamp black under one eye (half a Brady as it were)
Lucky Strike LSMFT
Winston tastes good like a ch-ch cigarette should

wee doggies

Posted by: micky at May 02, 2023 09:11 AM (3byMq)

314 Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat sluts & Country Club GOP cowards at May 02, 2023 09:08 AM (5uy7A)

🤷🏻‍♂️

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:12 AM (rZsC8)

315 I shouldn't know this, but there are certain brands that are "better suited" for that than others. It's a tedious thing to do when you could, for less money, roll your own.
Posted by: Martini Farmer


True. But they don't look like left handed cigarettes.
I guess that's the whole draw.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 09:12 AM (fjzHX)

316 Scandi babe gets it done.

The Best @Figensport
How to wash clothes in northern Scandinavia [in winter]

https://tinyurl.com/6br3r6y9
58 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 09:12 AM (Vwz3I)

317 What if shitting on gay flags is his "sexual orientation"?

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:13 AM (rZsC8)

318 302 Historic Vids @historyinmemes
A policeman issues a ticket to a woman for wearing a bikini, 1957

https://tinyurl.com/ye276jwk
[Still photograph.]
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 09:05 AM (Vwz3I)
----------------------
VavaVOOM.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)
===============
He just wanted her name and phone number

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 09:13 AM (+NW8W)

319 Lucky Strike LSMFT

Lucky
Strike
Means
Fine
Tobacco

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 09:13 AM (zZu0s)

320 Bud Light should put HIM on a can.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)
******
This marketing strategy just might work.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2023 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

321 He just wanted to get her phone number....
Posted by: JT at May 02, 2023 09:11 AM (T4tVD)
++++
Or that "ticket" had just *his* phone number on it.

I can see it now, in my mind's eye.

Hot bikini babe on the beach draws the ire of some older ladies around her, who then go complain to the policeman. The policeman agrees to go issue her a citation, just to get them off his back. He has no intention of doing so. He walks up to her and whispers, "just play along" through his closed mouth.

He pulls out his ticket book, voids the citation, scrawls his number across it, and hands it to her.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 02, 2023 09:13 AM (t0OGg)

322 317 What if shitting on gay flags is his "sexual orientation"?
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:13 AM (rZsC

A Flagocorprofagic?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 09:13 AM (zZu0s)

323 Got news for you. No one believes in "hippy dippy communal living with minimal commerce". On the other hand, bartering may come back. And back to the land and raising your own food is not a bad idea right now either.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 02, 2023 09:14 AM (u7leW)

324 a few days ago on the ONT, their was an article making fun of Walmartians

I did , however, notice those dirty Walmartians were paying for their stuff

I'll take that any day over thieves and killers

Posted by: REDACTED at May 02, 2023 09:14 AM (us2H3)

325 James Lileks has a lot of old print cigarette ads on his site.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2023 09:14 AM (7f/ne)

326 If anyone is still on Twitter, take a walk through Chelsea Clinton’s feed. the Spawn of 2 Satans came out in FAVOR of allowing children access to pornographic books and the Twitterverse has been mercilessly and deservedly dragging her on all her tweets.

The snark/ backlash against her is epic. It warms my heart!

Posted by: RondinellaMamma Donald J. Trump is our duly elected president at May 02, 2023 09:14 AM (l0Cy4)

327 > True. But they don't look like left handed cigarettes.
I guess that's the whole draw.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 09:12 AM (fjzHX)
__________________

ISWYDT

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2023 09:14 AM (Q4IgG)

328 I blame David Bowie. Other than Ziggy Stardust most of Bowie's songbook basically sucked.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 02, 2023 09:15 AM (KY22T)

329 I remain convinced that we are caught at a unique moment in time, flanked by many problems all combining into this specific point. One of those problems, I still believe, is being caught in the death-throws of the two diametrically opposed paradigms held by the Baby Boomers. On one side, the leftist hippy driven Communist curious idea of communal living and minimal commerce that erupted in the sixties. And on the other - the equally farcical notion of happiness through complete Capitalist consumerism that sprang up in the eighties.


I think it's what I call Fauxst-Modernism.

That is, they've instructed young thinkers to question and dismiss all the standards and morays of society, with the notable exception the institutions that instruct and enforce.

For instance, we should rethink marriage to allow homosexual unions, but we shouldn't just get rid of state-sanctioned marriage altogether.

Or, we should rethink college tuition, but not rethink the professor's salary.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 02, 2023 09:15 AM (z373n)

330 And they've convinced themselves the masses will be happy
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No, that's just the lie to get it done because "you'll own nothing and be in mass graves" tends to stir up a populace. They don't want happiness they want compliance.

How many Millennials and Gen Z do you talk to, besides those in your own family ? Again, they don't have to lie, because for at least 30% of those populations - mass graves will not be necessary. They truly believe they can own nothing and be happy. Mass graves would be a tragic waste of less than stellar labor - but a waste of labor all the same.

Now, they might all starve to death - because I truly doubt, when we're talking broad brush concepts - that the Millennials and Gen Z have what it takes to survive at a basic subsistence level with only their own labor to sustain them. But that's another discussion. My point being, for a third of those groups ? Marches to the camps will not be required, because they'll willingly walk to the fields.

Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at May 02, 2023 09:16 AM (eBD6b)

331 The left does a neat trick. It says we want X for kids. The right then says X for kids that crazy! The left then says OMG you fascists want to ban X. And the media drives the narratives that the right wants to ban X.

Posted by: Montec at May 02, 2023 09:16 AM (c1w8a)

332 Writers strike? Just sign ChatGPT to write all the scripts. There's been no good writing done in 20 years, so coin toss says quality will improve.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 02, 2023 09:16 AM (S6gqv)

333 Interesting. I've seen folks here say that advertising is not effective. Yet mickey was able to reel off a bunch of advertising slogans from long ago. It's like everything else. The people writing ads today are not very good at it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 02, 2023 09:17 AM (u7leW)

334 @331 the gaslighting is part of the kink.

Posted by: blaster at May 02, 2023 09:17 AM (pwExq)

335 The snark/ backlash against her is epic. It warms my heart!

Posted by: RondinellaMamma Donald J. Trump is our duly elected president at May 02, 2023 09:14 AM (l0Cy4)
*******
She deserves it.
She's a pedophile.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2023 09:18 AM (NpAcC)

336 Interesting. I've seen folks here say that advertising is not effective. Yet mickey was able to reel off a bunch of advertising slogans from long ago. It's like everything else. The people writing ads today are not very good at it.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 02, 2023 09:17 AM (u7leW)


She sounds hideous.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

337 Funny baseball clip featuring a boy catching a pop-back...

https://tinyurl.com/2p9yxfna

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 09:18 AM (Vwz3I)

338 Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at May 02, 2023 09:16 AM (eBD6b)

I'll admit the ones I talk to are Christians and still want houses families dogs cars etc. I haven't done surveys.

I guarantee you regardless we are on the same side and your point I has not been missed.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:18 AM (rZsC8)

339 it's going to be hilariously transparent how friendly CNN will be to Trump at his town hall

they want him to be the nominee so bad

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at May 02, 2023 09:18 AM (V6W16)

340 I’ve noticed a lot of yuuuutes simultaneously preach how we need to stop muhClimateChange by any means necessary. Then also talk about how much they love to travel.

Yea, the kids are retarded.

Posted by: Montec at May 02, 2023 09:18 AM (c1w8a)

341 I attended the Democratic Women's Club of Florida annual convention this weekend. I wasn't looking forward to it. With all the atrocities happening in this state, I feared a fake "hope" atmosphere. I'm depressed and angry about our poor turnout.

there were low lights - a workshop on 2020 voting/demographics that made me want to cry.

I think about how, not too long ago, states like Wisconsin and Michigan seemed like they were gone forever. But they showed that it’s possible to turn things around, especially with Gen Z rising.

Fortunately the republican party is circling the drain. I do not see Americans electing a serial sex offender. He's racked up 23 offenses. Who knows who else could come forth if E. Jean Carroll gets a verdict.

I get discouraged with the constant "Florida should secede" OPs here. Like we aren't living the horror and trying to change it?

I see an opportunity for Florida to turn around once Desantis terms out and people realize the wreckage he's left behind.

Reaching non Cuban Hispanics is priority ONE in Florida for Dems.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at May 02, 2023 09:18 AM (u1wao)

342 hope your dad's OK, sponge

old people like Biden think they still got it, balance and all

including me

Posted by: REDACTED at May 02, 2023 09:19 AM (us2H3)

343 Test

Posted by: runner at May 02, 2023 09:19 AM (OVqT4)

344 Advertising doesn’t work on me.
- everyone

Posted by: Montec at May 02, 2023 09:19 AM (c1w8a)

345 Keeping the "log" in vexillology.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 02, 2023 09:19 AM (9UlRk)

346
Duh! The American flag is racist, so it's stunningly brave to burn it.

The Rainbow flag is flown from U.S. embassies around the world, which is illegal, so it passes. For now.

The Progressive Rainbow flag is inclusive and shall not be touched or commented on.

Posted by: Auspex at May 02, 2023 09:19 AM (j4U/Z)

347 Oh good, I accidentally posted on an old thread....

Posted by: runner at May 02, 2023 09:19 AM (OVqT4)

348 333 Interesting. I've seen folks here say that advertising is not effective. Yet mickey was able to reel off a bunch of advertising slogans from long ago. It's like everything else. The people writing ads today are not very good at it.
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C'mon, Cut Your Dick Off and Have a Bud Light is winning messaging not to mention bold branding.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 02, 2023 09:20 AM (KY22T)

349 I expect Trump to come out and say drag shows for kids are just fine with him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 02, 2023 09:20 AM (S6gqv)

350 hope your dad's OK, sponge

old people like Biden think they still got it, balance and all

including me
Posted by: REDACTED at May 02, 2023 09:19 AM (us2H3)


Heh.

"I'm infallible young man!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

351 If advertising wasn't effective they wouldn't do it. Same with the Left's constant bullshit marketing and propaganda. It even works on people here.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:20 AM (rZsC8)

352 Yea, the kids are retarded.
Posted by: Montec at May 02, 2023 09:18 AM (c1w8a)

Well, they always have been. It is just that people are staying kids forever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 09:20 AM (zZu0s)

353 About Trump being asshoe and trashing Kayleigh McEnany. Dumb, dumb man.

Posted by: runner at May 02, 2023 09:21 AM (OVqT4)

354 351 If advertising wasn't effective they wouldn't do it. Same with the Left's constant bullshit marketing and propaganda. It even works on people here.
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:20 AM (rZsC

588-2300 EMPIRE!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 09:21 AM (zZu0s)

355 With all the atrocities happening in this state

lol atrocities!

omg the next decade is going to be ROUGH for these kids

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2023 09:21 AM (w0NJk)

356 346
Duh! The American flag is racist, so it's stunningly brave to burn it.

The Rainbow flag is flown from U.S. embassies around the world, which is illegal, so it passes. For now.

The Progressive Rainbow flag is inclusive and shall not be touched or commented on.
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The Transinators have their own flag now - Pink and Baby Blue on White.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 02, 2023 09:21 AM (KY22T)

357 I mean, he is unraveling before our eyes! In real time.

Posted by: runner at May 02, 2023 09:21 AM (OVqT4)

358
Now, they might all starve to death - because I truly doubt, when we're talking broad brush concepts - that the Millennials and Gen Z have what it takes to survive at a basic subsistence level with only their own labor to sustain them. But that's another discussion. My point being, for a third of those groups ? Marches to the camps will not be required, because they'll willingly walk to the fields.
Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at May 02, 2023 09:16 AM (eBD6b)

The Left believes in very large levels of "population reduction". Wasn't very wise of Hitler to persecute all the Slavs but he did so anyways. Mass murder of people who would otherwise support them may not be rational but nor is a lot of their ideology.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 02, 2023 09:21 AM (eYoxG)

359 337 Funny baseball clip featuring a boy catching a pop-back...

https://tinyurl.com/2p9yxfna
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 09:18 AM (Vwz3I)
******
His parents raised him right!

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2023 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

360 He just wanted her name and phone number
Posted by: Huck Follywood

"What's in a name ?
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"

Posted by: JT at May 02, 2023 09:21 AM (T4tVD)

361 *Exactly. You can't just go around killing people because they're inconvenient.*

Communists, when they take over, kill people in a specific order:

1. Revolutionaries, (Antifa, Bolsheviks, etc.) These people proved they could overthrow a government.

2. Intelligentsia, because they trained the revolutionaries.

3. "StarTrek Socialists" i.e. true believers, who change from being useful idiots to being useless idiots. People who, when they see what socialism is really like, start saying "Hey this isn't what we meant."

4. People like us who have always seen socialism is really like.

This means we will, at least, have time to point and laugh.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 02, 2023 09:22 AM (CecP5)

362 6 year olds NOT getting their balls chopped off is an atrocity. I guess?

Posted by: Montec at May 02, 2023 09:22 AM (c1w8a)

363 Already mentioned but...

U.S. Surgeon General says widespread loneliness poses health risk as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily.

I guess I should cut back then.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 09:22 AM (Vwz3I)

364 What, Trump’s trashing Kayleigh now? About what?

I’m kinda getting to the point where I may be done with Trump.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2023 09:23 AM (7f/ne)

365 All those other ladies upset about the bikini babe are named Karen and while they spell it differently they are all frumpy no-good-nicks with awful taste in hair style.

If they are truly older you can bet your bottom dollar that they have chin whiskers, too.

Posted by: micky at May 02, 2023 09:23 AM (3byMq)

366 I expect Trump to come out and say drag shows for kids are just fine with him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 02, 2023 09:20 AM (S6gqv)

Were you a supporter during the primary in 2016? I doubt it. That's not an attack on you TS, I'm just still mesmerized that people don't "get" Trump after all this time. But I've noticed it's mostly among people who didn't support him until the wagon really got rolling. He's not a fucking idiot.

And all the people who talk about how he got "rolled" by this and that one (true) also were big Noem backers, Barr backers, Gowdy backers, Cruz backers, etc etc

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:23 AM (rZsC8)

367 About Trump being asshoe and trashing Kayleigh McEnany. Dumb, dumb man.
Posted by: runner at May 02, 2023 09:21 AM (OVqT4)
===================
I thought that turned out to be fake news yesterday.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 09:23 AM (+NW8W)

368 Fortunately the republican party is circling the drain. I do not see Americans electing a serial sex offender. He's racked up 23 offenses. Who knows who else could come forth if E. Jean Carroll gets a verdict.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at May 02, 2023 09:18 AM (u1wao)
----
Newsflash, idjit!

American's already "elected" a serial sex offender. More than one, if you count Bill Clinton and JFK. Oh, wait, they were Democrats, so they don't count.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2023 09:24 AM (YIVH2)

369 364 What, Trump’s trashing Kayleigh now? About what?

I’m kinda getting to the point where I may be done with Trump.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2023 09:23 AM

Me too! I fully supported him in the last two elections, but I now have some concerns about him in 2024.

Posted by: Concerned True Conservative who's not an op at May 02, 2023 09:24 AM (u1wao)

370 U.S. Surgeon General says widespread loneliness poses health risk as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily.
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So guys should cut their dick off to make friends? Sounds legit.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 02, 2023 09:24 AM (KY22T)

371 Trunpnhas so few Allies to begin with. Why would he go around trashing them? I’m at the point where I’m convinced he’s just trolling everyone now. He stopped being a serious person long ago.

Posted by: Montec at May 02, 2023 09:24 AM (c1w8a)

372 Funny thread at Twitchy about Anthony Weiner returning to politics. Every Weiner joke you can think of

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 02, 2023 09:25 AM (eFaiq)

373 I don't give a shit about "drag shows" for kids. Fuck your kids and fuck you too if you're that much of an idiot to want something like that. What I object to mandatory, state enforced drag shows for other people's kids. It's state mandated sexual assault of a minor, and it's making more children who are scarred and damaged and likely to grow up REALLY hating trans people, than it's making children who say "yay gropey adult in a silly costume".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 02, 2023 09:25 AM (9UlRk)

374 If advertising wasn't effective they wouldn't do it. Same with the Left's constant bullshit marketing and propaganda. It even works on people here.
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:20 AM (rZsC

**1-877-KARS4KIDZ has entered the chat**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 02, 2023 09:25 AM (AW0uW)

375 DC is completely out of control and beyond redemption. It like a light wave, self-propagating negativity as it moves along.

I am at the point where I think the only way people can expect to live a somewhat of a normal life these days is to support conservatives state governments and this most importantly means the state citizens removing all the state AG's that have been pushed though by funding from you know who.

DeSantis going to DC will just corrupt him, just like all the others.

Florida First, Ron.

Posted by: pawn at May 02, 2023 09:25 AM (wsHtO)

376 Climate scientist catches television anchor off guard, calls out climate change hoax during live interview.

https://tinyurl.com/5cnvr2u3

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 02, 2023 09:26 AM (z373n)

377 I'll admit the ones I talk to are Christians and still want houses families dogs cars etc. I haven't done surveys.

It's an eye opener. Not fun by any means, but certainly an eye opener.

Individuals you take on a case by case basis, of course. But if we're talking groups ? Gen Z is the one that will go off the rails, one way or the other. Either full blown Maoist camps or a Franco-style civil war. There won't be anything in the middle with that bunch, and Classical Liberalism will be dead and buried once they're in power.

Posted by: Hairy Handed Gent at May 02, 2023 09:26 AM (eBD6b)

378 Nice photoshop JJ.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

379 FL is gone away from the dims for one reason

they stopped the cheat

Posted by: REDACTED at May 02, 2023 09:28 AM (us2H3)

380 When I was growing up there was a local pizza chain that had a catchy phone number jingle. Decades later, having moved from the area when I was 18, I still remember that phone number and instinctively when I think pizza I think that chain.

So yeah I’d say advertizing kinda works lol.

Posted by: Montec at May 02, 2023 09:28 AM (c1w8a)

381 I expect Trump to come out and say drag shows for kids are just fine with him.

At this point, I don't give a rat's ass what he says. If he's the nominee, he won't be elected. Neither will DeSantis.

The only GOP clown who will 'win' next year will be an anodyne cipher like Pence who will apologize for wrecking the economy and host a White House drag queen story hour to show he's a 'good Republican.'

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 02, 2023 09:28 AM (AW0uW)

382 Chelsea Cliinton has had some top-notch plastic surgery. Some of the Hubbell crags and angles are gone from her face. A sure precursor to another Clinton run for office?

If AOC and Chelsea oppose each other for the Senate seat, how long before AOC is found tragically dead in some ditch?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 09:28 AM (+NW8W)

383 Worked with KISS back in the late 90's early 2000's. Gene is all ego and big lib (has his broken clock moments), Peter Cris is just a family man who happened to be a drummer, Ace is completely fried and working on muscle memory when it comes performing, Paul is an old school dem but a rational guy. He was approachable and sincere about creative and positive input regarding the projects we did.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 02, 2023 09:28 AM (OgrpQ)

384 It seems like the go to slight on Trump is to attribute something said by him that's patently false, but repeated by the media enough that people think it's true.

Every day there's a new one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2023 09:29 AM (Q4IgG)

385 "Man Accused Of Murdering Five ‘Execution Style’ Was Previously-Deported Illegal Immigrant, ICE Says"


He is still on the run, nearly two and a half days after he murdered five people. He has proven he knows how to evade The Man for extended periods. He may be back across the border already. I hope he's caught. The border situation is so far beyond a crisis there may not be a word to properly describe it

Posted by: Gref at May 02, 2023 09:29 AM (AMIL/)

386 Colorado: 27 Democrats Vote Against Making Flashing Kids a Felony

For perspective, this was a House vote, so"

Current make-up of CO legislature:
House: 46D 19R
Senate: 23D 12 R

So 27 of 46 = 59% of CO Dem legislators favor drag queens oveer children.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 02, 2023 09:29 AM (ykeLU)

387 If advertising wasn't effective they wouldn't do it. Same with the Left's constant bullshit marketing and propaganda. It even works on people here.
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:20 AM (rZsC

**1-877-KARS4KIDZ has entered the chat**
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing


*SNORT

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 09:29 AM (fjzHX)

388 Exhausted Republican Voters Should Be More Skeptical of RFK Jr.

.. it should seem obvious that RFK Jr is the Payback to the Democrats for pushing Trump in 2016. They both are/were supposed to be disposable, just that Trump didn't cooperate.

Posted by: SMOD at May 02, 2023 09:30 AM (RHGPo)

389 Kayleigh who I loved since her Red Eye days turned on Trump months ago. She works for Fox. She has small children.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:30 AM (rZsC8)

390 "Man Accused Of Murdering Five ‘Execution Style’ Was Previously-Deported Illegal Immigrant, ICE Says"


He is still on the run, nearly two and a half days after he murdered five people. He has proven he knows how to evade The Man for extended periods. He may be back across the border already. I hope he's caught. The border situation is so far beyond a crisis there may not be a word to properly describe it
Posted by: Gref


Sounds like a cartel hitman.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 09:30 AM (fjzHX)

391 Man Accused Of Murdering Five ‘Execution Style’ Was Previously-Deported Illegal Immigrant, ICE Says"

-

Yes the “Texas Man” according to the MSM.

Posted by: Montec at May 02, 2023 09:30 AM (c1w8a)

392 Grammie - To be fair, Trump is pro-tranny for adults (eg Bruce Jenner) but he’s been clear about minors. I heard him with my own ears within the last week condemning “gender affirming care” for children. He’s not in favor of mutilation of kids or puberty blockers.

In other words, he is now what he’s always been… a 1980s/1990s social liberal. And he appointed the justices who overturned roe…. Go figure
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Clicked the link. There's no quote or link to anything to support the claim that "Trump is attacking Kayleigh McEnany". That's kinda important stuff to support an assertion, no??
Posted by: Doof

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 09:31 AM (Vwz3I)

393 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 02, 2023 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

394 thought that turned out to be fake news yesterday.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2023 09:23 AM (+NW8W)

OMG that's even worse. Would figure though.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2023 09:31 AM (rZsC8)

395 I think he'll be most remembered for the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 02, 2023 08:06 AM (45fpk)

What I wouldn't give for one more time rolling down the road in the back of Dad's Pinto singing that song.. horribly off key with him again. That and The Day The Music Died were his favorites. We butchered both a lot.

RIP Gordon. Play WEFJ once (or a thousand times) for my Dad please.

Posted by: Reforger at May 02, 2023 09:31 AM (B705c)

396 For perspective, this was a House vote, so"

Current make-up of CO legislature:
House: 46D 19R
Senate: 23D 12 R

So 27 of 46 = 59% of CO Dem legislators favor drag queens oveer children.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 02, 2023 09:29 AM (ykeLU)
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Another way to look at is it that 59% of CO Dems favor sexually molesting children.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2023 09:31 AM (YIVH2)

397 Noodus gratia artis.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2023 09:31 AM (7f/ne)

398 One thing that the "Trans Movement" has done is remove every possible method to avoid the Selective Service Draft short of being an actual conscientious objector.

Posted by: SMOD at May 02, 2023 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

399 Sounds like a cartel hitman.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 09:30 AM (fjzHX)

Yep. If it was a family, it's almost guaranteed somebody in that family was fucking around either selling drugs where they shouldn't have been, or otherwise being a thorn in some very awful person's ass.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 02, 2023 09:32 AM (9UlRk)

400 Porn up!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2023 09:32 AM (fjzHX)

401 art nood
literally

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 02, 2023 09:33 AM (Vwz3I)

402 Colorado has a supermajority Dem state house? Wow. A mere 20 years ago it was a reliably conservative state.

Posted by: Montec at May 02, 2023 09:34 AM (c1w8a)

403 I’m kinda getting to the point where I may be done with Trump.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 02, 2023 09:23 AM (7f/ne)

Which may be the reason so many people are stirring crap.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 02, 2023 09:36 AM (zZu0s)

404 The irony if that "Texas man" on the run gets busted by Mexican immigration and turned over to the US because they didn't want him back in Mexico.

Posted by: pawn at May 02, 2023 09:38 AM (wsHtO)

405 So the January 6 videos have been released? Where can O go to watch them?

Posted by: O where, O where... at May 02, 2023 09:48 AM (RQDLq)

406 FL is gone away from the dims for one reason

they stopped the cheat

This.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 02, 2023 10:14 AM (CecP5)

407 That leak from Media Whores For America is a real hoot

Posted by: SMOD at May 02, 2023 10:16 AM (RHGPo)

408 I’m kinda getting to the point where I may be done with Trump.

So, what you are saying is that the Democrat propaganda is working. Good to know.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 02, 2023 10:17 AM (CecP5)

409 @329 dismiss all the standards and morays of society

You guys are great. There's really no reason to watch sit-coms any more.

Who among us has not dismissed a moray?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 02, 2023 10:26 AM (jYCXf)

410 Mace is right on abortion. Republicans ought to say, totally fine for health of mom, case of rape, or incest. Limit it to 15 weeks. Then, educate populace that it is a state issue. Red states do what they want, Blue and purple what they want.

In a state like NV, if the Republicans are hard liners on abortion they will lose consistently.

Posted by: jeff at May 02, 2023 10:40 AM (pvt9V)

411 "Nancy Mace, who is rapidly devolving into the Renee Ellmers of Liz Cheneys is insisting that the GOP essentially embrace baby-killing lest we lose another election."

The issue was always a trap; either you embrace baby killing for electoral success, or you flap around impotently and lose votes and lose, thus not being able to do anything about it.

What needs done is not losing your shit over THEM killing THEIRS while you focus on defeating them, THEN after you've defeated them, do something about it. It's not fucking rocket science.

Posted by: somedood at May 02, 2023 10:57 AM (N9SfE)

412 It used to be a gotcha joke to ask abortionists if they support abortion in the fourth trimester. Now they answer yes enthusiastically.

Posted by: hadsil at May 02, 2023 12:06 PM (dBI7o)

413 My high school friend's dad worked as an engineer on the Ford boats. Sometime in 1974, he was offered an engineer position on the Edmund Fitzgerald, but declined because it meant moving to Cleveland and having my friend adjust to a new high school. I've often wondered which of the engineers took the position he declined.

Posted by: Pippa at May 02, 2023 12:08 PM (nLcL8)

414 "Nancy Mace and other frauds and cowards of her ilk just want to surrender on this. I do not."

Same here, JJ. We are all practical people here... My position has always been to allow it up to 16 weeks or to save Mom. Most importantly to inform pregnant women of the other options like adoption.

Posted by: Danimal28 at May 02, 2023 12:21 PM (klw0w)

415 414 Posted by: Danimal28 at May 02, 2023 12:21 PM (klw0w)


My cousin's kid was born premature at about 5 months. She was tiny, weak, frail, sickly but she was fully formed. They did everything they could to save her but the poor thing passed after a month in an ICU incubator.

Anyone who claims it's their body and their choice and wants abortion "on demand without apology or exception" is either ignorant or just plain evil.

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